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hectic year!
Friday, November 2, 2012
Another year is about to pass.. It's too fast! It seems too fast for me to even catch up on what I've done this year and get a chance to really sit back and reflect. Well, thinking back on the start of this year, I cannot believe that I managed to come so far. In the beginning of the year, first entering into MJC, probably one of the worst times of my life, esp the first two months. I felt really vulnerable for once, being thrown into a foreign environment with absolutely no one to hide behind to. I'm glad that I managed to overcome that dark period of my life and it is definitely better now. I really cannot believe how much I've grown in this short period of one year. Comparing myself this year to last year, it is really a huge contrast. I've gained more confidence in myself, believing in myself more and becoming more independent. Reflecting on whatever that has happened, I really have many things to thank God for. Firstly, getting to know great friends from 12S414. They're really nice people and I'm glad to be able to know them. Times are much better now than only having my dmn friends which we rarely meet in school. Secondly, having nice teachers. My class got some pretty nice teachers and I thank God for that :) Although they cannot be compared to dmn teachers (they are really fantastic), they are good teachers too! Thirdly, having AWESOME pw mates. I've heard from people how their group mates will always quarrel or not do any work, etc etc. I'm SO glad I didn't have to have this experience at all! It was.. pretty much a breeze cos we share the workload and do them EFFICIENTLY. hahaha, and the experience of the interviews with Mr Chia really brought us closer tgt. Really thank God for them, which made pw more enjoyable and relaxing! Lastly, the most recent thing that has passed which was promos. Promo prep was a tough period of time. Having to keep myself awake to study was definitely difficult. Thank God for getting me through that, and clearing to JC2. :) There were three highlights of this year for me so far, with a fourth one coming soon. :) First one was watching the Philippine Madrigal Singers (MADZ)! OMG, they were so brilliant! Never regretted at all going to their concert (and spending $50 for a ticket)! They really blew my mind hahah! A small group of about 20 singers, managed to fill up the whole Esplanade Concert Hall with their beautiful music! The sound that they produce, is really magnificent and unlike no other choirs (well in sg). Top notch, I would say. I still remember them singing their last song, Circle of Life (with solo sang by this handsome singer hahahah), which brought tears to my eyes. I miss singing this song, with DMNCHOIR. This really brought back many many many memories and touched my heart. :) Second one, well the one big event of 2012, the olympics! Unfortunately, the time the olympics were held were close to my promos so I had to prioritise and didn't really spend a lot of time watching though. Obviously the two events I was looking forward to was Men's 10M Diving and Women's Gymnastics. Tom Daley and Viktoria Komova were the two atheletes I was really rooting for. Hm, end results were that Tom Daley got a bronze (amazing achievement), and Viktoria Komova got a silver (hm, a bit disappointing). Such a pity that Viktoria lost to Gabby Douglas by 0.3 pt. If she hadn't screwed up her vault, she would have won. She is one of the most elegant gymnasts I've ever seen. Tom Daley, had a shaky first round and he protested to the judges and requested for a re-dive, which he did. Pretty dramatic actually hahah. The rest of the rounds, he dived brilliantly and the scores were tight. Besides him, there was David Boudia and Qiu Bo also whose scores were close. Quite surprising that Qiu Bo's performance wasn't up there like he used to! I could tell he was pretty nervous and he didn't dive as perfectly as he used to. Hm, it seems true that the Chinese do crack under pressure. David Boudia, he really trained hard and every dive he did was PERFECT. He truly deserved the gold. (i'm glad that the chinese didn't take the gold this time round) Tom Daley, his entry into the pool wasn't as clean as David or Qiu Bo so well it was quite expected that he would take the bronze. oh yes! Such a shame Matthew Mitcham didn't even qualify for the semi finals, who was the gold medal winner in 2008. :/ Third one, well it was really amazing to hear from my sister about a friend who achieved whatever I want to accomplish. It was exactly the same! Oh my, I was so shocked and surprised. His name is Rayner, and he left Uni to go to France to study baking. He came back and opened his cafe about one year plus ago? It was one time when my sister decidede to bring me there with joanne (her friend) and I was like just blown away. His cafe's name is called de la creme, and it is located at siglap. It's a small cafe, pretty cosy with nice ambience. I entered and it was like inspiring hahaha. All the desserts.. WOW. We tried the sea salt caramel and earl gray chocolate macaron. I absolutely loved the sea salt caramel macarons!! It was just toooo good. This cafe is going to be my secret hiding place, because it is quite ulu and not many people knows about it. It's a great place to just catch up with friends over nice desserts. :) Fourth one, coming! I shall update more about this when it's over. :) Ah, almost forgot. One major thing that happened in my life - happened in march. I FINALLY REMOVED MY BRACES!! hooray, after putting countless of dentist bands, I can finally remove it and feel my smooth teeth again hahaha. I still remember it felt so weird right after the dentist removed my braces. My dentist also returned me my model of my teeth before I put on braces. It looked horrible. Also, he returned me my pictures that he took of me of my teeth. Oh my, it actually brought tears to my eyes when I saw those pictures, I don't really know why. I remember thinking, "How could I have been so happy with my teeth like that?" hmm. June church camp! I'm glad I joined the planning committee for this camp although I know I should have been focusing on my studies hehe. From this camp, I've certainly gotten to know some people better.. like qh! and now, we're super close hahahh. Overall, this camp was an extremely tiring one. Sleeping at 2 every night, waking up at 7 to prepare breakfast for the campers, then also got lunch, dinner and supper. With just me, qh and ginelis, 3 girls, we really lacked manpower. But we manage to handle everything rather well! Some conflicts here and there with some people but ignoring that, it was definitely a great experience for me. :) Just two weeks ago, my sister invited me along with her friend (minghao) to karen's concert. hahahh, it was pretty funny because I saw almost the whole econs department there to support her. At first, I turned back and I saw miss neo, I was taken aback. Then after the whole concert, I suddenly saw mr tam, and even miss loe, my teacher! hahha. and many other teachers were there too. Such a pleasant surprise! And a little weird too hahaha. Well, it feels weird joining a different cca other than choir. It has definitely let me learn much more and it is pretty much like the outside world. So, developing the skills now would probably give me an edge in the future? Hardest part of my cca would be handling people. It is so hard to manage people and get them to do what you say, people usually play politics and push things around which gets on my nerves at times. I've started planning on how to deal with this kind of situations to prevent this kind of shitty things from happening again. I'm no pushover. This year, it seems that my emotions have gotten a bit out of hand at times, which rarely happens. Stress, I believe that is the main reason. Perhaps the stress from hw, revision and cca combined to produce this fatal attack on me. I remember not really having a person to share my feelings with because most of my friends were busy with all their stuff and I would just bottle up all my emotions.. till about June? I broke down. Recently, there was one day where I was in a terrible mood. Probably because it was the day that I got back most of my test results and it was not up to standard and I was pissed off with myself. Plus, pw was getting on my nerves so I just exploded. It was so not like me to do that but sometimes emotions do get the better of me, although quite rarely. I'm always cool about things, taking it all in. Gotta keep my emotions in check. For now, my life is all just about pw. Although a bit sian at times but my life is definitely easier than when I was studying for promos. Definitely more relaxing! Left OP and I&R. Just two more weeks and I'll be done! Can't wait for everything to be over really. :) Posted by wen xin at 12:20 AM
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