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-Saturday, May 31, 2008-10:45 PM Y

I was at Church of st vincent de paul doing the fides parish outreach. twin came with me n we attended mass. was so fascinated n impressed by the choir! there were 3 pianists altogether n they took turns to play. very zai! Beautiful piano music coupled with the huge choir's angelic voices with many different parts really makes my day. We sat just beside the choir so i cant help but just to have glances at them. ~lalala

Tmr on leave. no need to play. *wee* cos my parents want us to attend the 9am mass with them at svdp. mum says the choir fantastic. maybe even better than today's one? im excited. anyways.. hope i can wake up cos supposed to be there by 8am to catch those people from the earlier mass.

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-Monday, May 26, 2008-10:52 PM Y

Today was CT scan at TTSH to check from lungs to pelvis. hope his lung is alright! There was a concert performance by an overseas choir and handbell ensemble. All the pretty angmoh ladies dressed up in long black gown. But mum and i only caught a few glimpses cos we need to go kopitiam and have lunch while dad get to watch some of the performances. He said there was a fantastic piano duet. went back home around 4.30pm and i chatted with my sisters till i got so tired that i actually fell asleep till 7.30pm. wonder if i can ever sleep tonight?

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-Sunday, May 25, 2008-9:32 PM Y

Unfilial as i may seem.. i m glad that by talking out and clarifying, both my parents gave me a clear assurance that this is not 'unfilial'. Friday morning got a scolding from mum such that it resulted in a 2-day cold war. But yesterday she was the first who talked to me first-- apologetic. of course i knew i was also in the wrong and i really regretted what i ve said in the fit of anger. sorry mum. Well just when everything was fine today, another issue arose and i thought it hurts me greatly. But of course i never suspect the love my father had for me. Just wondering why others' father will 'defend' their child why mine chose to go the humble way and in the process i felt was hurting me. While he apologizes, his interpretation made me see things in another way. Sometimes, to us sensitive bunch of youngsters, do we ever consider that something which we felt was putting us down was actually a 'complement'? Now no longer a kid, I ask them if im being infilial by 'talking back'. I know when i was a kid, i dont do this at all. Glad that u both know.. that we r no longer kids. I really love my dear parents lah!! Cos i know my family is a
'talk-it-out' family. Everything is above board. healthy..

Who doesnt care about words?

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-Wednesday, May 21, 2008-7:03 PM Y

Bird feather's appointment with the oncologist at TTSH. This doc is very caring and my parents like him alot.. he will explain details in very clear manner and welcome questions asked by us. But we had a mini shock when he mentioned that there's something small in his lung, so gotta do some scan to confirm it is not cancerous. And this is not told by dr tay previously.. perhaps is nothing serious la.. that s why he kept it from us.. knowing that bird feather will be worried.

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-Tuesday, May 20, 2008-11:18 PM Y

This morning was the starhub interview, at Haw par centre. The building is just opposite stansfield university. hehe so now i know where my are frens studying in. The interview was okay.. i was not nervous at all, unlike the uni interviews last year. But whether or not i 'll be notified that i m hired is really insignificant to me because i'll be happy if my best fren wendy gets the job.

Yesterday was equally nice as well.. cos i went to watch movie, dance of dragon with geraldine n gerard. did some shopping too. in cineleisure. We ate at pasta mania and i ordered a plate of ham n sausage baked rice. yum yum. And here's my point. my twin was actually at bugis- pasta mania, at the same time, and the best thing was- she ordered the same thing as me. how 'twinny' that was. hahaha. bird feather was laughing all the way...

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-Saturday, May 17, 2008-10:27 PM Y

This afternoon was in school for the ocip info session to sikkim-india. i decided to go cos i just wanna clear my overseas project this year. execution from dec 3-19 but throughout the term will be weekly meetings for planning. There s interview i think. Also i got a job interview next tues! was very happy.. ok but whether i can secure the job is another thing. Hope it will be a successful one so that i have $$ to fund for the ocip. bird feather's first chemo starts next wed. i believe he's all geared up to fight!

And i had a wonderful time today. Parish outreach for fides oriention camp was at immaculate heart(ihm). I went in to attend the evening mass and was very amazed by the choir. About 20 members.. and a professional organist and conductor. Altogether they produced beautiful music. 'Business' wasnt good. There were't a single freshmen signing up for either camps. I ended my day with dinner together with 4 nus peeps. was so hungry during mass especially when having communion. Eating jesus reduced my hunger pangs. buahaha.

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-Tuesday, May 13, 2008-4:50 PM Y

I m kinda lost on where to start blogging hehe because these few days were the days i felt what i did was at least meaningful. Weekends was spent at Nativity church with people from nus and ntu's catholic societies.. and it was fun trying to 'promote' the camps to people. I bumped into my few of my sec sch teachers too. Sunday was mothers' day. My family had dinner at heartland mall.. a simple one just to get together outside. We are a strong knitted and united family!! Hope our perseverance can help dad to tide over his 'crisis'. Im very sure all these will be over soon because god is with us. And sorry mum... this yr mothers day to me is very chui cos no present for u.. though u never spell out.. cos recently didnt go shoping at all and never see any pianos or any music-related stuff.

Yesterday i went out with wendy.. tagged along with her to international plaza and chevron house to for job hunt. Im also in search of jobs. but didnt let my parents know cos mum doesnt allow me to work with things like that at home. Anyway, let s see how things go. whether i ll get a job is still unknown. In return, i got wendy who accompanied me for staring smu briefing at 7.30pm. so in between we had lotsa time to do our shopping.

Starring smu gonna be a heavy commitment i guess.. 8,9, 19,20,25,26,28,29jul, 2, 8aug. A strings of dates spells our responsibility. we r facilitators to freshmen.. doing what seriously im not sure.. must wait for another briefing. hehe but at least can get near 100 cip hours to finish up the 80h requirement. After that i can start considering overseas project.

Meanwhile.. i wanna just enjoy my summer holidays. i know can never be so relaxed after 18aug when year 2 starts and all the econs major modules start rolling in. and i ll be doing 5 modules onwards otherwise cannot graduate on time. Looking at articles yesterday from straits times, today, my paper, newpaper, biz times, channelnewsasia regarding the recent smu employment survey, i m just so envy.. cos i think i m real below the line. Nonetheless, i just hope to enjoy everything in sch... have fun, quickly graduate and get a job with a decent pay so that i can give dad a good life. mum also la. jiayou!! gonna raise my gpa to 3.00 from year 2 onwards!!!!

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-Friday, May 9, 2008-11:03 PM Y

A day of long-waiting. Dad has his appointment at TTSH @3.30. We ended up waiting for exactly 2 hours! There was a male patient who was also pissed off by the long waiting time that he went to confront the front desk. From what i see, there seems to be shortage of nurses. Only one nurse was given the task of seeing so many patients. And she said she was supposed to knock off at 5pm however by the time it was our turn to enter the room it was past 5.30.. and she said there's few more patients behind the line. By the time we have dinner at kopitiam , took cab and reached home around 7.45pm.


Tmr and sun will be at Nativity church 'promoting' fides. aha! it's a yearly affair, where the catholic societies from the 3 unis come together in churches to spread knowlege about the clubs as well as the up-coming freshmen orientation camps. Im helping for nativity, ihm, svdp and st anne..those churches in the serangoon district.

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-Tuesday, May 6, 2008-12:06 AM Y

Last week whole week i was sick. I felt zero sense of achievement. like doing 'nothing' (except usual housework, errrands etc). Today had dinner outside with mum and twin. mentioned the word job. then in a very nice way, she disallowed. I felt very stuck in between.. because i cant imagine staying at home for 4 months. BUt then, *slaps to myself*, i cant simply leave all the work to my sis and mum. mum has to cook for dad everyday almost 3 meals, (though ah ma will also help), and the rest is up to us. haix.. chemo haven start and what s wrong with me? here i m complaining bored? so it means staying at home with parents is bored? gonna whack myself.

I realised how important is health. Cos last week really sucked. when i was ill. I felt so 'jelly' while doing housework. ~wee. glad that this is over. and mei mei was also sick last week but she s now on her road to recovery. Bad news is this.. twin is getting sick now. Yupp, actually staying at home to me isnt that bored. i can do many things. reading, playing piano. so far only these 2 things give me the minimal sense of 'achivement' that i yearn for.

All in all, I SHALL NOT COMPLAIN (of boredness). dad is above everything else k.. what ever i do. i can spend all my time watching tv with u, sharing fruits, 'smuggle' food for u, drain etc..

But good news is that, mum let me do cip! ~lalala. im emo today. because this is the first day of my actual recovery. buahaha

Looking forward to tmr. i m attending mass! ya i love to attend mass. can ask god to psyche me to be more obedient. oh ya. tmr 's special cos father andrew kooi ( i know him thru facebk) is having his thanksgiving mass at st vincent de paul church for his priesthood ordination which took place on 13apr. since i didnt attend his ordination due to exams, i 'll go tmr. well if i can get to c him even better. then twin and i also planned to go shopping before that...

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-Friday, May 2, 2008-10:29 PM Y

Im finally on the road to recovery. This week was really a bad one for me. 'yi shi wu cheng' surely is so appropriate to describe me cos ever since mon when i was down with this flu thing, the consecutive days had been suffering from sore throat and a bad blocked and runny nose, which leads to headaches and fever. Apart from wed(church) and yest(doc), i never step out of home. And even at home was just doing those non-productive stuff like sleeping, tv etc. But because i ve my whole family at home practically for the whole day, time were mostly spent together. It s really rare for the whole family to be together in front of the tv / on the sofa chatting, in the day. workaholic bird feather now gets his fair share of lazing together with us at home.

The next thing which i m quite 'xian' about is my results for this semester. i really didnt expect everything to be B- this sem. In fact a positive me thought that this sem's results serves to offset last sem already poor results. Though i ve to admit that during the study week i wasnt that focused and also have not much time, given that it was bird feather's most painful and crucial time in hospital. All in all i still wont be that bothered about my grades. as long as smu doesnt kick me out ok. Let s see what is my gpa..

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-Thursday, May 1, 2008-9:59 PM Y

Today is may day cum ascension day. We attended mass last night, so we dont need to wake up early to go to church. whereas mum and dad has to. hehe. i passed the germs to my sister! she's having a bad sore throat, so both of us went to see doctor. she has got literature exam tmr. so with her mc, she can get to skip school in the morning and just sit for the paper in the afternoon.

Have been busying following up those emails on bgs grades. Because of her flawed grading system which produces many c s and d s, many students from her 2 classes are trying to have this 'appeal'. The matter was even brought forward to the dean of students and tmr each of the 3 class reps will have a meeting with the prof and the dean to discuss.

This issue really kept me thinking that it s true of what my seniors said. smu is getting more competitive with students getting more and more grades-conscious. That's why we have more students come knocking on professors' door to ask for grade review. (hoping to get higher grades). whatever it is.. i ll never do that. I always believe in accepting what s given to me. Though seriously this time my gpa will be again dunno where. perhaps even lower than last sem?! Sometimes i really have that weird feeling when everyone seems to think im smart. just because they ask, hey so now where are u? studying what? then i say econs. where? smu. the next word is, WA! Last week when shopping with my mum, this sales lady lorr.. kept singing praises of smu and saying that she's very proud of me being in smu. My teachers in srjc and HI also think i m that smart hehe..

Well... that s only the outside. the surface. seriouly with my these kind no a type of grades i really dunno what sort of degree i ll get when i graduate. ok, saying that smu system cant be compared to the standard type of honours system. nus and ntu. even so, not to mention the lowest honours which is cum laude, merit has to have at least a gpa of 3.00. arh.. where am i now???

Having said that does not mean that i will go all out to strive towards beautiful grades. No doubt, i used to super obsessed about marks in the past years. But I vow never to revert back to that type of mugger life. I m so happie now. ~wee..

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