A day of choir recollection today! from 9-4pm. I never go for mass which was at 8am. cos too early, can't wake up so went church at 9am. had breakfast with my fellow choir mates. ate porridge. so from 10-12 was a talk by fr carey. a bit dry, but meaningful. I was trying my very best to be awake becos my fren's sleeping in front of me.'Do not worry over what to eat, what to wear, etc...' what to study haha. this was what i saw on my sis' blog. true. math and ec or just econs only. whatever. Do not worry. yup so after the 2 h of 'hypnoptization', we had our one whole hour of lunch. yeah!!! I did't eat with my choir mates. instead with my lector frens. there's this pair of fraternal twins that i know. One of them currently studying at ntu-sch of communications. so i asked her for some tips.

So after lunch, was, Holy Hour. alright i have to admit that i wasn't paying attention at all. cos i was queitly praying to god. asking him to choose for me. but all in my mind was smu. so weird! perhaps god says choose smu?! dunno la.. continue. after holy hour was fr kenny's talk. which was interesting. then tea time before we go home. the food was fantastic! sandwhiches, spring rolls, hot dog bread.

At night, i had practice with stephen at my house. He 's going to conduct this sat. becos the conductor is not available. so we went through the hymns then after that his wife jenny came and practice responsorial psalm which she gonna sing this sunday.

I was reading the strait times. then under home-forum, i came to this article,' A,B,E, but no place in local varsities'.. where the mother was saying that her gal got rejection letters from all 3 local Us based on her good grades.. ok, some reflections from my side.. i'm lucky. thank god that while ppl have no place to study, i've got all the 3 offer letters with all of them giving me my FIRST CHOICE. with my mediocre grades. actually very lan to me. so i should't even complain, of the torture of choices right? quite shocking, that even abe also can't qualify. haix. It can be seen that this year's application to local varsities is super competitive. But whatever, i believe it's not the end, for those who can't qualify for unis. there is always other alternatives. as long as we're willing to work hard, going anywhere doesn't matter, becos we will still be likely to succeed =)

I'm luck anyway. My buddy, shaun actually have a fren studying at smu-econs. haha so he could gave me first hand info of what's the course about. I spent like 1h plus talking to nicholas on the phone. and i could asked him any questions i want. I think he really gave me sufficient info.. but i think ultimately the decision still lies in me. It's no use listening to others becos i'm the one who's going to study. not my family, my realtives and friends.

Sigh how i wish i get an 'experiment' in smu. like trying out what it means by class participation. i regret what i did in dec 2005. was actually accepted into smu's advanced placement prog for jc2 econs student, but yet without actual consideration, i went to reject it. can actually do a module from jan-march. Well, but no use crying over spilt milk, anyway. Perhaps this shows that i never dream that i'll study at smu right?

At church today, ppl from the 3 respective varsities were promoting their catholic ccas: the nus catholic students' society, ntu catholic students' apostolate and smu fides. Each of them have their own camps la.. so they were approaching youngsters finding out if they are entering the U this coming aug. I was at the organ when this guy from nus gave me the flyer. we are asked to sign up for the camp, indicating which uni we belong. stunned. i was totally erm... i left it blank. cos i've not made up my mind yet. well i asked esther, who was from smu, about her experince at sch. she was saying that the class participation thingy was actually not that intimidating.. then there was this coincidence, the gal who's from ntu is actually our senior from srjc! haha. chatting.. the bad thing is that after talking from 1h, ive still no idea where i wanna go =( HELP!

tmr supposedly meeting mr neo one. but gonna change plan cos he's got something on. so i guess i'll use tmr to look at smu instead.. just take a look.. no harm.. then maybe go og sight-shopping or what..then maybe wed i need to test out the travelling from ntu to woodlands as well as my place. see whether i can take the long journey or not lor. haix.

June holidays is here! Althogh practically everyday's considered holiday to me, i'm happy for my siss cos they at least have a break.. im just home from chinese mass.. got a long choir practice today, to go thru hymns which will be sang for a priest's mass. in celebration of his golden jubilee-50yrs of priesthood.

Today during homily i wasnt really paying attention to what father was saying.. u know.. i was just thinking about that matter again. one which determines my future.. kinda stressed recently. especially when night comes.. many thoughts come to mind.. i just hope i get a decision soon.. hoping..cos there's only a week left.

After this, i got to prepare for tmr's mass. prac the organ. then must go and iron my choir gown.. i'm so lazy to press that gigantic piece of cloth..so big..

ok.. i gonna iron it now.

I had a nice day today! acted as a parent.. haha.. lynette's parent.. so we went to school today. our appointment with the form teacher whom i dunno was at 10.15am. unfortunately there was this girl in her class whose parents actually had an hour's talk with ms koh. so long.. waited for until 10.50 before i could talk to the teacher. i mean not ms koh, but the co-form teacher, mrs susan tan. my bio tcr last time.. great! better to talk to someone i know.. spare the nagging. hee. ok my sis results were actually not gd. 5B4s and 2C5s.. furthermore she's the 9th in class lor.. can u imagine.. haha then mrs tan still rmb we both used to get 1st and 2nd in class.. sorry.. for haolianing.
well, luckily got mr goh, also called adrian.. my math tcr.. who chatted with me.. helped me passed through the long waiting time.. met my sec 3-4 chinese tcr. mrs ng. still as pretty as ever. i love her.. still kept all the presents she gave.. as in every month, she awards students who score 90<..then saw my sec 2 form tcr- mrs koh! she actually remembered me without much hesitation. well can u believe? ever since i graduated from hi since 2004, this is the first time we met.. very thankful to her, cos she had always stood by me during the worst times.. still remember i skipped sec 2 mid yr exams due to stress.. etc long story.. well ya.. met mrs geraldine tay too.. my purpose was to apologize for not being able to play for ascension mass last thurs.. end up she asked lynette to play. one song.. only (she doesn;t expect much) for nxt mass. then ask me choose the hymn..for her to play. Before leaving sch, i saw mr Er!! yup my sec 2 history tcr. although i did not do history elective in upper sec, i knew him well cos he's a catholic.. the latest we met was at father lu's wake in march this yr.. he's in favour of me choosing smu.. saying that smu is hip.. so on.. u think i dunno meh.. employers seek graduates who are more articulate and confident.. and smu trains us to do so.. sigh.. so the bottom line is that i have to choose what i want. not what he or she want. follow MY heart.
ok.. enough bt teachers.. i thot of mr neo now.. the one who helped me get my dream grade for econs. was telling corlis we wanna visit him in raffles.

What to choose!!!Any idea from anyone?? my parents and actually including myself.. are psycho-ing me to accept smu.cos they felt that it's god's will. How come this letter suddenly apppear after so many days and weeks after i received from nus and ntu on 2nd may? Maybe god knows that i have to play for his church even during the weekdays so he gives me somewhere nearer to go. reasonable yea? this reason. They both were quite surprise that i'm being offered into smu.. where ppl with 'big mouths' are required.. How??? the cca which i wanna join is in ntu. i don't see any plus point of smu except that it's near my place. it's very near- direct 15mins mrt ride to dhoby ghaut. compared to 50mins to boonlay mrt then 20min of bus ride..timing arg 1h30min-45min. haha if i dare to be late for any paper again in ntu, i gonna be dead, and no one will even know. meanwhile.. just pray more. god bless me! grant me a wise decision!

oh no!!! why must smu choose to offer me now?? somemore is my first choice lor.. I thought i've already made up my mind on 2May. The first day of the acceptance of university offer..but I 'm being shaken now. the fact becos it's not nus vs ntu. but smu-econs vs ntu-math&econs. This 'sudden' offer does not make me happy, only a few minutes of surprise. most importantly, is it 'hinting' that my math is not really good such that i'm not worthy of ntu?? goodness... in the letter they claimed how competitive is the uni, only choose one in eight applicants. i wonder how come they chose me. haha my interview was quite sucking la. although i'm kinda impressed how fluently and confident i could speak during that interview, i felt that i'm beating about the bush.. and i was good at beating about the bush!! Please give me confidence in my math and i''ll stop thinking about anything else! I don't ask for anything. only a course that i hope to do well in it, and please.. don;t make it so stressful cos A levels i already bua tahan le. I shall leave it to u, lord, to determine my destiny =)

Shopping again yesterday!with mum and lydia. lydia's with bad company, cos she has 2 sun you. haha and that's the 2 of us.. who told her to skip school to go shopping with us. But rest assure.. this is the first time! well.. at taka i bought this converse sling bag.. very cool one.. grey and pink.. bought it on a 20% discount for $31.92.

What about today? as usual la.. went to 'babysit' the 2 kids. fighting today. i wonder why boys are so violent nowadays, they love to bully girls, make them cry. I guess it's what i learnt during gp lesson- kids' violence due to the mass media. the tv programs that kids are exposed to, without any parental guidance.. so i scolded him for violently pulling his sister's hair. Then there was an interesting situation: somewhere, somehow, a small cockroach with a green body and orange legs was found crawling on his schoolbag. not only him.. i'm also afraid. so i use this chance to preach.. you see lah, must be u are so naughty that the cockroach wants u.. after that it seemed that he became more obedient, becos i told him that if he does not pay attention in class, the thing may creep out.. haha i very mean hor? no choice.

I have been always going out recently.. seldom stay at home. tmr gonna bring the kids to popular again.. yup and also a bit shopping with ah ma.. she's going on a europe tour at the end of may.. so much buy some tidbits and dry food for her. then this fri.. parent-teacher-meeting again! the second time that i gonna meet my sec school teachers on behalf of mum regarding lynette's academic performance.. she's gotten lotsa B4.. haha last time i all As one.. hee. lame. ok i look forward to meeting my teachers. at the same time i need to apologize to my teachers.. for not being able to play on ascension day.. sorry..

As usual after church, went to ah ma's place. My cousin's back from the US studying. She came back on thurs and so today is the first time we met this year.. chatting..
Slept for an hour, i accompany my mum for shopping. we went heeren, then centrepoint. At heeren, i met sihui! She's now working at 77th street, where i bought a skirt. ya and did a bit of chatting. haven met for like more than 2 years ever since we graduated from sec school.

We had our dinner at delifrance-centrepoint. we both were kinda disappointed with their service.. u know having worked before in the F&B industry, i tend to be sensitive to such issues, as in how the waiter/waitress fare in serving customers. I ordered a waffle ice-cream which on the menu, it shows vanilla ice-cream with strawberry sauce. so i requested that i want choc ice cream with strawberry sauce. She said, 'there's no choc, only vannilla.' Then i asked,'is the choc sold out?' Then she replied, 'no, there, is vanilla' at the sametime pointing at the menu. omg, can't she be flexible?! I told her the last time when i came i was able to get a change. with this, i thot she should say she go and check with her manager right?, if she's not familiar.. not just saying 'oh is it?' luckily i can understand that she's inexperienced.. although u know in the end what she gave me? choc ice-cream with choc sauce.. then my mum ordered a peach tart she didn't serve.. or the kitchen staff never do their job. whatever..

Alright, then went to coral isle, the favourite spot of my mum. She loves the clothes there.. a regular customer. of the sales person, called auntie coral. haha she liked my bag alot, which i bought last week from rip curl. we went home around 9pm. dad fetched us home after his work.

A fun trip to nus today! with the accompany of chunyan and esther. We met around 10 plus at habourfront mrt then took 97. The journey was short, compared to how i used to go there: mrt to buona vista then 95.
We attended a short talk about japanese studies. the lecturer was telling us alot about jap cuisines. yup not bad la, cos they treated us to some bread and drinks. After which we went for this sociology tutorial. The topic is about dating. Quite lame to me.. cos we were given 4 guys and 4 gals, with their profile included. then we're supposed to pair them up together, by providing reasons. most of us looked at religion and race as the main criteria. But however, some mentioned height. true right? actually it does matter to a certain extent.
Then i attended the academic talk for psychology and econs. The econs prof was interesting.. he created something like an auction to bid for an item.. through it we understood more about marginal benefit etc.. Follow up was social work.. i spoke to 2 seniors about that..
yup that's about the trip to nus. my last time going there. cos ntu then is my place!

Hi i'm back! today i was supposed to tutor the kids but i actually forgot. The actual days were tues and thurs but i can't make it, so i changed it to today. They kept pestering me to bring them to popular cos they wanna buy storybooks and whatever games. I just bought them a book each on monday. Nowadays mr midnight and mr mystery books are in fashion..when i asked them what they like, they immediately rushed to this stand where books of the same author were placed.

And so i failed again.. remember i had this goal that i must start bucking up on my math and econs? that's like a week ago, yet can u believe i haven get started? gosh, why am i so lazy? I rather read the papers and go online view news video than do something which reminds me of the most difficult part in my life: 2006 GCE A levels. Later what i'll do is that i gonna draw up a study plan to start my revision. at least finish by 1st aug.

Yesterday i managed to call mrs chan( for your info, she's my p4 math teacher and p6 form teacher).. ya i updated her on my uni application. The last time we had lunch together was dec last year, and we're planning to meet again in the coming june holidays.

Tmr going to nus for this fass fair. they are going to showcase all the subjects they provide. so i'll just be kapoing. I am pro-ntu now.haha.

Nothing special today, though it's mothers'day. my family doesn't really celebrate..because we believe everyday is mothers day. In fact, we should be fillial to our mothers everyday right? I even sent an sms to mrs goh, wishing her a happy day. we same choir now.. last time our geog teacher from sec 2-4. haha long history.. ya but i regard her as my godmum la, though i already have one..
And as usual this morning church.. then i just came back from grandma's place. had a mini celebration for mothers' day.coz there's fruit salad. yummy. i guess it's very effective in tackling constipation.. coz after eating so much fruits i went to relief myself.
I wonder what i gonna do tonight. kind of rotting.. on sunday nights. After this i'll be reading the papers, then perhaps revise my math ba.. then prac piano lor. That's about it.
Not forgetting today is mercy's birthday.. happie bdae to u!

What a tiring but MEANINGful day!!! ntu today. free lunch-cum-interaction with seniors and profs. Today confirmed that my choice is correct.. i spoke to a yr 2 senior whose in math and econs for like 1andhalf hours.. clear a lot of doubts.. then i also talked to prof ling san!! He was the one who interviewed me and i thanked him for admitting me.. becuz seniors say this course is highly selective since we're considered the pioneer batch. What a nice and humble prof.. haha then i told him i accepted ntu on the day i received the 2 offers. very sincere ba?! Then why i say tiring? it's because of the 'extensive' travelling. 1h45mins. my legs gonna break! but today is first time la. I guess i will get used to it. can't stay in hostel anyway.. if not what's gonna happen to my piano?
Well, anyway, i believe that whatever we do, god will make our way..blessed me through A levels.. can't believe now uni.. And next sat will be the nus-arts and social science day.. where we can discover more about the subjects offered at nus.. maybe i just go for fun..anyway got esther and yanyan going too..not sure if there's some others from my class as well.
So starting from next week, i'm going to start picking up my maths again. almost forgotten everything.. hope that i will have the motivation to start everything again!!

Suspecting that i 'm having pre-uni tension. This period (2 may - 4 June) is the acceptance of university offers. I was quick- accepted ntu over nus on the night that i received both offer letters on the first day 2nd may. However, come to think of it, what is my career in future? What future will this degree hold for me?? Although i have a rough idea of what jobs are available, I 'm not very sure if I'll like it.
Well, the true fact is that apart from my passion for economics, i chose this course because i wanna prove that my math is good. got a B in A levels. Most ppl will say that getting b is also a quality grade, not bad already. But actually I aimed an A. Math is the subject that must score A one!!! I guessed it was due to diarrhoea that day. ok, i don't feel like mentioning it. Otherwise why not talk about chemistry instead.. the day when i was so 'smart' to be so late.. half an hour lor.. can do 2 out of 10 qns.. haha but better late than never. It's something never i will forget in my life. Thank u, mr tan kim koon. And so back to the math topic, ya i ask myself honestly, do i really like this course, as in got math? or is it because it's cool to study a NEW ( 2nd batch) combined Degree? I think entering this course is quite competitive.. otherwise why i'm called up for an admission interview right? Actually, i'm really happy to get accepted. at least i know i did well during the interview..the way i described individually why maths and econs suit me..
Maybe i shouldnt even bother about the future..enjoy studies first, do what i like then see again when graduate? Seriously I should already be glad that given my this calibre, i managed to 'squeeze' into the U.

Hello! I haven been blogging for the past few days. Anyway tmr 's our next class gathering.. again at clarke quay's pitstop cafe.. the place to socialise and play boardgames. And i 'm looking forward to it. We ( around 10 of us) met up just last friday. at the cafe until about 6.30, then had our dinner at plaza singapura. It was really a day of fun. In fact, i feel we should have more of such gatherings.. after all, where can we find such fantastic friends again?? Actually apart from friends I hope to see my tutors too.. (eg adrian couldnt make it that day cos of his mum's birthday. So that's forgivable..) esp those who helped us pulled through the A levels.. thanks alot.. mr neo.

Meanwhile, my this saturday's gonna be packed. got a welcome and presentation-cum-free lunching by the maths school of ntu from 11 to 1pm. then i shall take some time to explore the school.. evening there's church mass at st anne's. promised my mum that i would help her to play. no choice, cos it's Mother's Day. got to exhibit some of my fillial piety. haha. Then of course sunday morning, as usual. st anthony's choir. yup and that reminds me: mamas' day. I have to start doing something!

Today is as usual. Life has been real slacking. relaxed, i would say, because this is the first time,perhaps also the last time that i'll be having such long break. 10 months. wow. 2 months last year, 8 months this year. Come to think of it.. it's a kinda 'reward' for us, to reward us for our 2 years of hardwork that lead to our A levels. So is quite reasonable la.
Still tutoring my 2 cousins. p1 and p2. nowadays you will be amazed that kids no longer play with toys. They are so handphone-savvy and video games-savvy. Last time I won't know anything about what playstation, counterstrike etc. shi dai bu tong le. haix.
So at about 12pm when the two kids got changed and were ready to go to school, I set off to St Anne's church- to play for a funeral mass at 1245. Not bad. Quite a lot of chinese choir members turned up. The songs were changed and chosen on the spot by chairman. None of them were the traditional funeral hymns that we usually use for funeral masses. Anyway, those songs were the newest and nicest that our choir had learnt. The deceased must be very happy! haha next time when I die, I must also get the choir to sing my favourite hymns. Then must have organ combined with piano. Organ must have rhythm to make the mass 'happy'. Most importantly, my mass must be bilingual so as to make it special. Haha..

I just went to my mailbox. after finishing my first post. I saw this 2 envelopes. Big one: from NUS. small one from NTU. Peeping into the ntu one, i saw my first choice: the combined math and econs degree! haha must be during the interview i kept pestering the 2 profs to admit me into their faculty. I never receive any letter from SMU so far. Anyway never mind.. at least i paid $15 (online application fee) for an interview.. haha thank u lord!

Here's my acknowledge to my dear sis LYNETTE, who professionally created this cute blog of mine!! Thanks! Hmm.. first time possess a blog. Actually should have done so long ago. at least before i 'produced' my gp essay during last year's A level prelim exams. I wrote this topic on blogs.. haha who knows i could have pass even better if i knew more about blogs by having one last year.
Well, basically i chose this blogskin (see the big piano?!) to inspire myself. Last year my aim was nothing but a levels. Then this year.. piano. haha seriously a lot of ppl (esp church frens) thought that we both would have finish our grade 8 long long ago. But actually.. true fact is we taking our prac exam later this year. stopped playing since sec 1-the time when i learnt organ cos need to play for masses in church. Thinking back, studies had been tough..guessed that's the main reason that i gave piano up temporarily. Now under professional guidance by Mrs Sze (mummy), of course must pick it up again and at least score a pass for her to see. Bye! I gonna start practising..

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