Holy Innocents' had a memorial service for Gabriel today. I managed to write something on the book to him. I wrote in chinese! becos we 'grew up' in chinese catechism class at Nativity church. yepp. There was offertory of candles as part of the service where we go on stage of the hall(where the altar is) to place of lighted candles on the table. sigh. so the feeling of 'crying aftermath' was terrible cos i think i had sore eyes when i attended class at smu in the afternoon from 12-5pm. This is the timing every mon. Then plus it was so sucking to me la. Last week my fren never passed me the thick stack of readings, and i also didnt know abt it so didnt bother to look for her to collect it. I felt so miserable during the seminar. cos if dont read, then cannot speak up in class. I think I 100% know nuts about what prof is talking about.
I did not attend the funeral mass which was at 2pm Nativity cos of class. But on hindsight come to think of it, maybe it'd be better if i didnt go..save some sadness. Just hope that everyone who is affected by this will brace up be strong and move forward. especially his parents. I think i really dunno what to say to them when i meet them in church.

was at Gabriel's wake just now.. met my HI teachers. chatted with mrs wong also..the principal. The news came out. read article from lianhe zaobao and the strait times. funny sia.. both articles each had a mistake. lianhe zaobao said one of gabriel's elder bro is 16. straits times showed a pic and mentioned that the person beside his father was his uncle.

I felt sad..his death is so sudden. His parents look so shagged and haggard.. crying their eyes and hearts out..

Today is a painful day for Holy Innocents' High, because they have lost a precious student, weixiang. But i guess nobody will be as sad as his family. I heard he was on his way to school when he was hit by a double-decker bus. The accident took place around 7.05am. principal mrs wong made the annoncement which sent the entire school in shock and pain. Haix.. unspoken sadness that i feel.. especially when i put myself in his parents' and 2 elder bro shoes. thinking of the past when his was my group member in a catechism camp. I was his leader. and recently met him at popular few months ago.. he was choosing ten year series for his up-coming O level exams. Life is unpredictable. A young, tall and handsome guy has gone to heaven. Please pray for him.

First day of school. Had technology and world change at 12pm. prof, Dr Ted Tschang is a nice and humble person. I somehow enjoy his lesson today, but there were many things i didnt understand. lots of cheem things la.. partly never do our readings becuz it was the first seminar. gotta write our names on a card and place it in front of us. for class participation. which i never speak today. formed project grp also.. no wonder ppl say smu got lots of projects..hmm.

ok.. after the 3 hour seminar, had to take brisk walk..really walk very fast through the cold basement concourse for like 10mins to reach school of econs for my acad writing class. I was shivering while walking cos the air-con was darn strong. I dun like acad writing class! have to submit 2 essays.. very long ones, about 3-5 pages.. and..the worst is yet to come. cos the final 'product' is actually the research paper. We have to come up with our own topic, then produce a 10 page research-based report. lol.. My classmates are all very nice. The gal who sits next to me is 25, and she is an air stewardess. very tall and pretty. should be the cream of crop of SIA bah. haha.

School starts tomorrow! excited. mon seminars from 12-3.15pm, then followed by 3.15to 5pm. That's the only long day. The rest from tue to thurs 12-3,15pm. I'm joining fides as my confirmed cca which is wed 7-9pm. The other cca which i'm super duper interested will be the investment interactive club. Then ambitious me also want join a community service club... but shall see how many i can cope with la. Too ambitious also no use..
Have been down with some kind of pre-uni depression i guess. probably because i heard (my frens from other unis told me) and read from their blog entries about adjusting and tuning up for university life.. sometimes it's really best not to hear others say. just have an open heart and open mind to accept and adapt to what's ahead of u. right? just like in the beginning i never never even expect that i'll land in smu. thought of doing social work first, that;s in nus. then. thought of doing math and econ in ntu. IF I HAD KNOWN, that's what us humans always think and say, dec 2005 i would have accept the offer of smu advanced placement prog and now apply for that module exemption. Even if i cant get exempted, i would have gotten a taste of smu life. and i dont even need to go through the beginning which i've said earlier on- which uni to choose. The bottomline is that we definitely wont know what s all about in the future, but we can take things in our stride, walk one step at a time and aim for our target. TRUST IN THE LORD!=) because HE will make a way.

My day starts from st anne's and ends with st anne's again. Wedding mass at 11am. Then after that rushed to suntec city convention centre for..convocation! A very formal event where we have to appear in white top and black bottom. The programme started with watching video shots of all the 4 runs of ftb camp, then got speech by provost, dean etc.. some awards and scholarship presentation, performances put up by the various ccas.. The whole thing ended with a tea-reception where we ate and took photos with friends. I was very surprised when my primary school classmate, mingling approached me. she's in soc sci faculty. ya it was overall a fun event, except that the food kinda shucked.. sandwiches with thick layer of margarine and a thin layer of tomato and cucumber.. taste was plain. and there were so many counters, but all the same food. boo.. left the hall around 5pm then i made my way back to church.. tired.. but who ask me to promise my mum to help her play the offertory hymns?. Had mc donalds supper after choir practice. my first time eating ms flurry. cool! so yummy..

Today is the assumption of mother mary. I attended 2 masses. One in the morning, in holy innocents'. no guitar, no keyboard, end up i played everything. a bit stressed, cos early in the morning lah.. my mind haven really open up yet.. the other one in church 6.15pm. also kinda 'stoned'. i wonder what's happening in me.. perhaps i didnt sleep well last night. just couldnt sleep.

I was at home for the whole afternoon, trying to bid for my prefered slot for academic writing. I wanted the mon 3.30pm one. idiotic server...gave me a blank page when i pressed the icon 'add'. the bidding time for the day was from 9 to 3pm. so i started to panic at 2 plus.. waited and waited.. then a miracle happened. At 2.58pm, i was able to bid. so happily without wasting time, i just anyhow put in e$16. And i got it! =)

Muahahaha!!! My academic timetable rocks! Shi'en msged me to say our timetable are out on oasis, let me introduce: it stands for Online Access to Student Information System. I'm only pre-assigned 4 modules this semester. haha. seminars from mon to thurs everyday 12-3.15pm slot. no lesson on fri but that day probably use for lots of project meetings. heehee.. afternoon slot not bad. no need to squeeze mrt with people. can use the whole morning for piano. yay!

These are my modules for the up-coming 15 weeks: Technology and world change, introductory statistics B, intermediate math for econs and lastly, leadership & teambuilding. So based on my timetable, tmr need to bid for slots for another module, academic writing. there are 16 slots to choose and bid for, for academic writing, and my wonderful timetable actually allows me to bid for any timing i want, except for 1 slot. But i want to attend class with shi'en and she's taking different modules so i've to see what slots are available for her to bid.

Whatever... before 27sept, i'm going to be a very good gal whose butt constantly sticks to the piano chair! (as if... i'm still so lazy..) I hope i'll be disciplined even when school starts next week. hahaha Thank u lord for my timetable. cos i am happy with it! =)

lunch at Vivo-Marche today with my FTB mates! shi'en, linghui, huixin, agnes, seok,dingxiang and fauzi. We met at habourfront station around 12pm, ate till 3 plus before we left. It was raining when i reached kovan and i was on my way home..when lydia called to say she had no umbrella. so i had to 'pick her up' from srjc. so guess what in the end.. 'low-profily' (ya, i created this word), we went to the cafe for ice-cream! cool! $1 for a big scoop of strawberry ripples. initially i wanted to eat the ice-cream crepe at marche.. but after eating the whole plate of rosti, felt very full. But it was digested after a few hours. okayss. luckily never bumped into any tutor whom i know, cos otherwise i know i will sure chat like mad.

Wow..I haven been updating this blog for days. ok, Let's start from national day.Singapore's birthday. We the 3 sisters didnt had chance to catch the ndp on tv as we were busying shopping at tampines. hee but saw some fireworks. damn beautiful.

The next day, which was fri was fides camp where i got to know the catholic community of smu. I had lots of fun! There's praise and worship, and some sessions conducted by external speakers. the games were super fun! first day was some treasure hunt thing.. second day was the amazing race, where we had to run from church to church. those in proximity with school eg st peter and paul, the cathedral and st joseph's. the last destination we actually had to take bus to st teresa's church. The place where grandpa is rested. so i took the chance to look for him at the colombarium. This was the second time i visited him ever since he passed away 2 yrs ago on 16dec.

Then through this camp i got to know joshua who played the kleyboard for mass and praise and worship sessions. He actually belongs to peter low's choir. omg! the very pro choir! My st anthony's choir had an outing few months ago to the cathedral to listen to peter low's choir. And they said it was fantastic; the conductor and organist etc.

National day good news: I passed my ELW test! yipp. so can be excuse from the waiver test tmr. can now proceed to bid for academic writing on wed. first time trying out boss. kinda excited for it. another half good half bad news: good in the sense that my piano exam date is 27 sept! which is very very late i guess. late sept. bad is that the recital room is super small. according to my sis, i think it is just nice to put in the piano, a table for the examiner, the examiner himself and myself.

Lastly, 12 aug today. Happy birthday to my sec 1 math teacher, mrs cheong, who had been safe in God's arms for 4 years!

Congrats to lydia! who had 'graduated' from piano grade 8! good lor.. left me and nette..today lots of thoughts came to my mind. back track to 6 years ago. In 2001, 20th aug, we both had our grade 5 exam. Vividly iremembered that i cried after coming out of the studio and kept thinking that i would fail. i was too nervous at that time..till my fingers were totally stiffed, partly due to the strong air-con. thus the entire exam was screwed up. I had a mental block when i started playing my first piece, entittled rondo. haha i even remember the tune la., except that i've long forgot how to play.

So now, i'm just worried if history would repeat itself..probably yes. but also probably not. consider that for the past 6 years i'd been playing in church. Doesnt that sound even scarier? scarier that playing for just only one person- the examiner. in church, how many pairs of ears. i wonder.

I realised as i grow up, my mentality differs. I love piano very much actually. really regretted stopping it after 20aug2001. I should continue playing. maybe i can even get grade 8 before sec 4? I know my piano skills will be even better had i not stop for that number of years. At least sight-reading will be better. I admit that i cant even read bass clef notes properly! condering that in organ, left hands are just use to press chords. No use thinking about the past i know. But even if i fail this exam, I WILL NOT GIVE UP. I want to do the new syllabus, which my mum says the pieces are even tougher. I want to get my theory grade 8 before stepping out of smu.

Last year, my wish was to learn guzheng after completing my piano exam. I wanted to buy a guzheng and climb the ladder, just like what we did for piano. But i realised i have too many dreams. It s not that easy to cope with organ, which every week need to play, my piano, maybe who knows if i'm tired in the coporate world one day may switch to that to become my rice bowl, and lastly guzheng, which i've to learn from the basics. so i dropped the thought.

Life without music sucks. But life without god sucks even further.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADwn_oBVqx0

check this out. video on my FTB camp.

Academic briefing today at school of accountancy. received a thumbdrive, nicely placed in a black box:) and a handbook on what is boss. oh for your info that's just an acronym which stands for bidding online system. the entire program include speech by the dean, associate dean, chairman of econs society, office of student life, office of international exchange, IT service and helpdesk etc. there was also a tea reception in between. so the whole thing lasted approx 2h.

I'm so nervous. about the overall ELW results. will know if i needa do the test by 10aug. I think if get below B must sit for waiver test next mon. then if that one fail, cannot bid for a module called comm 005. 10aug is my camp..hope i wont receive the bad news!

woohoo! ELW is finally over! i've tolerated the whole thing for consecutive 5 days, 9-5pm everyday. And everyday lessons' just about grammar. I've made 3 very good friends. We were split into groups for all presentations and two of them, karin and sei yin are my team mates. Today's post-test was damn difficult. plus because i was tired.. reached HI at 7am for friday mass. so after a whole day of lesson, we were given the test at 4pm. My energy level had already plunged to dunno where.. Whatever.. just hope to score a B or above., because otherwise have to sit for a waiver test.

Today is Day3 of ELW.. sigh.. hope friday comes as soon as possible, to just end the whole thing. The workshop is not exactly boring. maybe due to long hours, and can u imagine, our total break time is just an hour. However we do get a few presentations everyday, thus it is not just sitting on the comfortable office chair and be a 'sponge'. Ms teo gets us students to teach. She then silently awards us marks for class participation. hmm..learning basic grammar can be quite refreshing at times. I remember that in my past schooling life eg pri and sec school, i wont bother to know what is a verb, noun, pronoun, gerund etc. But i get to learn it now. through the textbook. To say the truth, for the 3 past days, 5pm is what i look forward to everyday.. well...2 more days. *excited*
Next thing: first friday mass this friday. I promised to help out, but no matter what, whether the mass ends or not, I'll just have to leave at 8.30am. The rule is that after 915am, we'll be considered absent for the day. worst still, got to attend it again in the next run of ELW.

Lysias
SMU

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