How to train a Dragon

Secret War Journal[2 April 2010]

This post is seriously overdue! XD

Oh well, don't blame me, blame the school for depriving me of free time. Hahas. I was joking. Okay, let's make this post short because I'm running short on time. ;)

Went with:

1. Beatrice
2. Wei Ting
3. Jia Pei
4. Siew Yan
5. Pei Si
6. Pei Wen
7. Yi Cheng
8. Darren
9. Lloyd
10. Benjamin

Sorry if I missed out anyone, it was too long ago...:p

Met quite a few people that day. Saw Yong Liang, Jun Yu, Vivian. O.o

[Actually, on that day, keller and Qi Xiang were at Plaza Singapura too. Coincidental much?]

We wanted to watch the movie during the afternoon but being a public holiday that day, it was fully booked already. So we booked the next one, which would be close to evening.

And, this is perhaps my first time watching a movie in a cinema at the first rows(which are normally reserved for serious movie fan. O.o) Hahas.

Talked with friends to kill time while wandering around the mall and eating stuff. One highlight during this period of time, avoiding Siew Yan's sinister DSLR camera! (okay, not sinister but stalker-ish ^^)

But it was fun and enjoyable talking with Beatrice, Wei Ting, and Siew Yan. Really had a great time that day. ^^

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Now the movie review! (No, not really)

The movie's nice, if you hadn't watch by now, you just missed a extremely nice movie! Go grab the DVD and watch at the comforts of your home! Yeah! (Sorry, I a bit hyper from the boredom arise from studying. :p)


The movie is funny and also touching (Pei Si was crying non-stop after that, I was sort of teary during the touching part too. I guess everyone is, it's really a nice movie. ;)

Finally, like all good movies, it has a nice storyline. Yay! Epic!

Sadly, after the movie, I had to rush home for dinner. Haiz...

Most Random Ever

Secret War Journal[14 April 2010]
It's taking too long to post about the outing. So meanwhile, let's entertain you with random photos. LOL.

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First up...

I choose D. Like not very true though...

Done by Lera.

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Re-ordering of Rooms...

Before moving of Desktop and Desk.

After Shifting the Desktop

Another shot of my desktop. =)

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During CNY Celebrations...

Here with Jaytii, Chris, and Lai Yin for some early dinner. It's been a long time since we chat then...

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Textbooks??? Getting more random...

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Marcus and I group Study

Studying! Mugging with fellow MJC-ians! =)

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Physics Project

While doing Physics Project with my fellow Classmates, we tried to connect our thumbdrives to every available USB ports available on this laptop. >=D

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When I was emo...

What keeps me calm...Emptiness.

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Until the next post then! =]

Outing Day 2010

Secret War Journal[17 March 2009][Long Post]
One week of school just fled by without me realising. On one hand, it's ONLY one week, I had so much tests and quizzes that I thought a month had gone by already. On the other hand, it's already one week gone, Mid-Year examinations are 1 week nearer, hardly went out with friends, spent the entire week doing economics.

As of now, I'm spending more time on economics than any other subjects. Well, I hope I will fix that. Today(27/3/2010), I done Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics. There is another test on Economics, so tomorrow the focus would return back to Economics. *Sigh*

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First Outing: Mostly 4D People Gathering

Poster for Alice in WonderLand

Met up with the 4D-ians people first at Compass Point first.

This was pretty much my idea to watch a movie. Since most of them are busy during the afternoon, we decided to watch the first movie that would be screened on that day!(which is rather early)

I must admit, it's very early, but I was determined to have a outing. (I mean it doesn't make sense that I have a 'holiday' and I don't even go out for some leisure activity, right? Don't say no.)

Johnston would be joining us at Plaza Singapura.

In fact, the rest all came pretty much in time, (with me 3 minutes late. LOL!)

And Jie Sheng was sms-ing me: "I will be late"

Then I was thinking, "I would be late too. Hahas"

Sadly, our schedule was really packed so we went to Plaza Singapura, meet Johnston, and buy the tickets.

Shortly after that, we bought our snacks/lunch and off we went into the Cinema!
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Movie Review

This sounds a bit radical but I'm comparing this movie to an anime based off from Alice in Wonderland too.

Anyway, the movie was not bad(since I was the one who recommended it in the first place!!!) :p

I especially like the character: Cashire Cat though I liked the Mad Hatter more in the anime.

How do I decide which is my favourite character? The strongest character.

In this movie, the Cashire cat, the master of dreams, can vaporise into thin air at any moment(and of course, create illusions)

Which makes him a but over-powered because he's virtually invincible.

Meanwhile, in the anime, Mad Hatter can instantly destroy anything from the Abyss(Alice-related Characters)

The white queen is a bit scary, in my opinion. I don't know, I think it is partly because she's dressed in white but her lips and nails are black which seems to suggest that she isn't as kind as it seems. (I almost thought she would be evil later in the movie. :p)

One more thing would be that her hands are always up though I realise later that week that it's easier to keep your back straight when you do that. Cool, learnt something new from the movie. :)

Cool, huh?

It's defect would be that the movie seemed a bit draggy halfway, probably due to the lack of action.
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Lunch(Sort of)

After the movie, Wei Ting, Cynthia, Siew Yan, Jie Sheng, Pei Wen, Clarissa went for lunch while Johnston and I went shopping for a box for Emelia.

But it's hard to buy storage box, it seems that no one sells them after all. Hahas, we tried to get some free one from the department stores but they needed it for storage as well. Oh well. Sorry, Emelia!

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P6/5 Outing!

After they finished lunch, they headed off to school. So sad right? Hahas. Johnston went home while I headed off for my next outing planned for today! LOL!

Actually, there wasn't suppose to have an additional outing(which is why I organised one in the morning) but just one night ago, they decided to hold this outing on this same day. Hahas. Just nice, after my movie too. ^^

Best of two worlds indeed! =]

It's been a long time since we last met up, so we spent the rest of the day talking and playing ice-breaking games. ^^

Now just let the photos steal the limelight...

Taken during the Class Outing that day. Guo Siong is not inside because he arrived at a later time.

Okay, this is a bit no link, but it is part of my KHS Class Photo Collection. ^^

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6/5 Class Photos provided by Jackie. Many thanks. ;)

What? You want to know what we talked during the class outing? Sorry, as promised, I would not talk about it since some are too private, too dark, too sensitive to be discussed in the public. :)

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Side-notes

Okay, this is totally no link from the post but...it's about the blog in general.

I feel like posting some rather sensitive stuff again. I don't know. I may need to organise my thoughts efficiently(as if the purpose of this blog in the first place).

One way is to limit the number of readers who can access. Yeah just that, don't worry, it's not racist nor religious discrimination comments just some stuff too private to let risk that some people who should not be reading this blog read it. Yeah, you get what I mean. ;)
Back to that, I may enforce the word "Secret" in the Blog Title and restrict access soon. I still have not decide on it yet. But in the event I do, the current plan is to only allow my best friend and close friends to be able to read but then again, it is not necessary because they don't need to read my blog to know what's happening in my life. ;)

So yeah, time will tell....

Everyone has secrets so dark that no light can pierce through it...

Chinese New Year Celebrations

Secret War Journal[12 February 2010]
Taking a break from my hectic lifestyle now, hahas.

Since I have insufficient time to post the Orientation(Once again), let's talk about something much more recent, shall we?

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NCHS Reunion

Met up with fellow NCHS-ians after the MJC Chinese New Year Celebrations.

Took some time for 4E people to assemble.

It was amazing that we all manage to squeeze in one small Bus 109. Hahas. We're all getting high.

We were in the same bus as the Ximin Secondary School(if I remember correctly)

And we were saying which which school was better. Hahas. Kind of embarrassing because we're in public but it was fun. Really memorable. (and like I said, we're all freaking high)

If we thought we're high, think again...O.o

Path to School

Okay, to be honest, this was the first time I am walking from that Bus Stop to my secondary School.

Did I mention I walk to school when I was secondary one to four?

So not bad, I pretty much used all forms of transport to school in my lifetime. :p

Car, Bus, Walk , Bus, maybe next time would be MRT. Hahas!

Along the way, we started cheering, doing MJC cheers. Starting with O. Hahas!

Can't wait to see how people would react back at Secondary School when they see us cheering for our JC. Hahas...!

Cheering Competition!

Make our presence known by cheering, though we did not head towards the hall to look for teachers. We went looking for our fellow peers first.

Interestingly, we spent so much time talking with our friends that the teachers had already left. LOL

That defeated the purpose of coming back to the school (or does it? ;)

Anyway, I manage to meet Mr Goh, Mr.Rahim and Mrs Sim.

Actually, I met Mrs. Sim at Compass Point. LOL...

Ms Tan already went home. Aww......

Since we were cheering in the Canteen (yes, we're still rather high), other JCs also started cheering. And thus, a friendly competition began....:p

Happy to say that MJC was the most united. Hahas.

But the rest were not bad too, I think we had an unfair advantage because we already warmed up while walking to school. XD

TJC reached school earlier than expected. I though they had some Road Race?! Oh well, glad that they reached earlier, don't need to wait as long. Hahas!

Thanks Beatrice, Wei Ting and Jia Pei for buying us sweets! But how come only got one cola-cola favour? Hahas, joking joking!

Mr Rahim treated us to drinks. Ya da best! :D
All in the name of Total Defence Day. Hahas!

Some photos that had me inside. LOL (hey, I'm camera-shy! LOLS!)

This picture was taken before I was ready! So unglam! LOL!

Ah, much better. LOL...
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Did not attend the class outing though,...too tired from the Cheering and have to clean up my room later so I could not return home late.

Went ahead to Compass Point to return the books which was going to be overdue. And yes! I finished reading the book during the MJC Chinese New Year Celebrations! Opps? >=D

Met up with Chris and Jaytii and co. for Lunch Pt2.

Then went home. *Pant* *Pant*

4D Outing [Tooth Fairy]

Secret War Journal[25 January 2009][Long Post]
Didn't realise I had not posted about this until I was writing on my next post. :p
Of course, not doing anything injustice to Class 4D, I stopped writing that post and started on this. :)

See? Clap for me! Hee!

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Meet up!

The agreed timing was 12 noon at Compass Point and the organiser, Ying Ying, told us to eat lunch.

Personally, I wish to say "WTH?" because what's lunch before 12? Hahas.

You know what's the cute thing? Ying Ying was late. Zzz. :p
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Anyway, I went to Compass Point early that day to visit the library and borrow some books(will write a review of the books here when I have the time in the future. XD)

Finding the books took a bit too quickly than planned so I stayed in the library for a while, reading books before leaving to head for lunch.

Met up with Cynthia but turns out that she was at the Library. Ironic that I just left Library like 3 minutes ago?

Anyway, went for lunch (Cynthia wasn't hungry so she did not eat, LOL, she on diet ah? JK! :p) before going back to Compass Point to meet the rest of the Class.
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In fact it was amazing, just half an hour ago, there was hardly anyone at the meeting place but now, around 12, almost the entire class is here already.

Glad to know most of us are on time. :p

But like I said, Ying Ying was late. :p

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Tooth Fairy

When all those who were supposed to meet at Compass Point are here, we headed for E!Hub, which is just next to Downtown East.

Arcade!

The Movie did not start right away so we went for Lunch. (Ying Ying never eat lunch before coming and she asked us all to eat lunch first! =.=)

Went Burger King to have Lunch. I did not eat there since I already ate Lunch beforehand. lol.
So we chatted while our fellow classmates eat their lunch.
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After our long lunch break, we still had lots of time to go for...Arcade! (Okay, so the heading gave it away...)

Ended up playing some arcade game with Wei Ting, Jia Pei, Bao Lin, Darren.

For some funny reason,we are able to keep playing, there is a lot of credits in the game that allow us to play again. I think we accidentally scan the card one time too many.

So we ended up playing this game for the entire duration and got ourselves wasted.
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The Movie(Finally)

Sorry, if you were expecting the movie itself, too bad. I'm not a pirate! :p

So to make up for that, here's the trailer. :)


The movie's nice. Though that may be a bit bias on my side since I love comedies. Hahas.

But hey, let's take it this way, I won't recommend you a comedy movie unless I think it's funny. ;)

So that's your cue to watch the movie! Hahas.

In fact, it's so nice that Bao Lin watched it twice. (okay, though that may not be the reason but still...:)

The storyline is not bad though the beginning was rather confusing in the sense that I do not see the link until it all connects together later.

I think my favourite character would be the professor-looking guy who gave the useful tools such as shrinking paste, catAway, etc to the Main Character. :)

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Pool & Dinner

Alright, after the Movie we took some pictures so without further ado...

Too tired to list every single one in the picture. So yeah..just look at their cute faces can le. :p

After the cam whoring, we went to the Bowling Galley. but not all of us wanted to play Bowling so the rest of us go play Pool.

My second time playing Pool, still as sucky but it was fun! :)

It's nice to play with friends. Hahas...

Played for one or two hours before I got very hungry.

Dinner! Dinner!
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But the unexpected happened, (okay I should had expected this but still the chances were sorta low), my fellow classmates who played bowling came up and started playing Pool!

LOL, this is going to drag for hours and I'm hungry!

So Bao Lin, Cynthia and I left the Class and went ahead to eat dinner. (after paying for the Pool, of course)

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After that, Bao Lin went back to the class while Cynthia and I headed to the Bus stop.

The Original plan was to take bus 89. But hor I still think very funny, Cynthia can just take bus 3. XD

So! Change of plan, either bus 3 or 89 (so much more practical, not for me though)

If I take bus 3, I need to change bus. Zzz?

So I rather take bus 89, so praying hard for bus 89 to come first.

But Bus 3 came first. Zzzz.

Since it was troublesome to take Bus 3, I did not accompany her. I rather take bus 89! :D

Bully for me. :p

MJC Open House 2010

Secret War Journal[13 January 2009]
Okay, before I start on this post, I, myself, will need some serious recap. LOL!
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The Original Plan

I was supposed to follow Johnston and friends to SAJC. But it was too inconvenient for me to go there and go back to Meridian JC. So here's another plan I thought out on this day itself.

The Improvised Plan

Remembering Wei Ting was also going to MJC, I asked her when she would be going to MJC Open House.

So yeah, that's pretty much how I ended up going with Wei Ting, Cynthia, and Bao Lin to MJC.

There was a secret clause, I plan to meet Johnston and Jackie there. Johnston would be heading for MJC after SAJC. Jackie would be going TJC first before heading for MJC.

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Adam Robinson, founder of The Princeton Review:

No one bothered to teach you the most important academic skill: how to learn. Your teachers (and perhaps you) assumed that the ability to learn in a school setting was a natural gift -- either you were born with the knack or you weren't. This belief is entirely wrong. Learning is a natural ability, but learning in school is another matter. If school were structured in a way that better conformed to how you learn naturally, you wouldn't need me or anyone else telling you how to learn.

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Random Quote, yeah. But I think it's cool.

Instincts

I walked all the way to my former residential area and took bus 89 to MJC, only to realise that bus 109 could reach MJC too.
I can board Bus 109 at a nearer bus stop. I could save way more time. LOL.

Let live and let learn. :)

Despite spending so much time walking to that further bus stop, I reached MJC earlier than planned. Hahas.
(Hey, the frequency of Bus 89 is way better than of Bus 109)

Oh! Before I forgot, I reached MJC's back gate and its back gate doesn't write "Meridian Junior College" in big font size. I almost missed that blue-coloured school campus if not for the fact that my instincts told me to alight.
As I was alighting, I was thinking, "if this is not Meridian JC, I'm going to scold somebody"
I think I probably going to scold myself. (for being an idiot) Hahas.
Thankfully, that's the school and I did alight. Phew! It's good to trust your instincts sometimes. :)

Since I was so early, the back door of the MJC was still closed. Gah!

Walked to the main gate. (yes I had that much time to do so) while waiting for the rest to show up. (No, not the magical way, silly)

The Meridians (see their names so cool, so much better than Nan Chiau-rens!) student leaders led us to take the goodie bags. I always feel strange when I take the Goodie Bags first when I enter another school's Open House because it gives me a feeling that I just came for the Goodie Bag. Hee...

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Our funny tour guide. :D

Our tour guide is a student leader and he's pretty funny. Hahas

I remember this part of the tour...

Him: This is one of the most important facility, the toilet
(Walk a few more steps)
Him: The Toilets again.

LOL.

I know in MJC, there is one part where there is a lot of toilets(which was the part he showed us) and there is another section in MJC where there is a lot of water-coolers. Talk about clustering. :)

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The Principal's Speech

The Principal was not bad. She's pretty good at cracking jokes too. Finally! A principal who can make students laugh(in a good way)!

One thing about her is that she's pretty realistic(yay!) which I'm sure would cause much confusion during her speech because she seems to imply that we should all go Poly instead. Hahas.

One thing sad about MJC is about the retainment rate. Haiz...
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During the Principal's Speech, Johnston(using dalton's phone so I did not know who was calling me) called me but as I was in a lecture(sort of) I hung up.

Opps?

Hee Hees

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The Game Club

Okay, that's short for Intellectual Game Club but I'm lazy to type. (okay so, I typed in full in the end, but I don't think that's the point. I think)

Spent a few hours playing in there.

Bao Lin is very pro in Blorkus! ( I hope I spell correctly)

Played some advanced version of Tic-Tac-Toe and Stress.

:D

Earned myself a scar there. Thanks Wei Ting/Bao Lin for the plaster. Hahas...
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Cutting a lot of parts because I'm short of time so here we go!)
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Lunch and Shopping!
After the games, with Johnston not anywhere in sight, we met up with the rest of the 4D Girls (wonder where the boys went to...)

After talking and sharing what had happened at the Open Houses, we headed off to White Sands for Lunch since the canteen at MJC was running low on food supply. :p


Upon reaching KFC, I received a call from Dalton again, this time I picked up and realised that it was Johnston. Hahas.

John: Emm, where are you now?
Me: White Sands
John: And where is that?!

John told I meant the White Sands Resort. LOL!

Sorry, my bad for the double meaning. It was unintentional!
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After that, I tagged along with Eunice, Wei Ting, Clarissa, Cynthia, Bao Lin, and Siew Yan to go shopping before we all headed for Library and homed!

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With that, THE END! :D:D:D:D

P.S: Told you I'm going to cut a hell lot of parts. Hahas!

"O" Levels Results!

Secret War Journal[11 January 2010]
First post about Year 2010! Woots!

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Got my Results from School today!

L1R5: 9
English Language: A2 *Insert Evil Laughter here*
Comb.Humanities: A2 (Oh god no!...T.T)
Pure Geography: B3
E.Mathematics: A1 (yay!)
Add.Mathematics: A1 (yay!)
Pure Physics: A1 (YAY!)
Pure Chemistry: A2 (NO!!!!! *Emo face*)
Chinese: B3 (Rolls eyes)

>=D

Did I mention my target was 11? So obviously, I was hopping with joy because I scored better than expected.

Woots! Who's your daddy?

Okay, finally a happy post. Okay, not really finally but hahas...

(Turns heads to see if any friends are throwing eggs at him)

Okay...anyway...let's start from the beginning...

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Class Meeting before Results

Organised a class meeting before the release of results, you know the sort of celebration since I doubt anyone would want to celebrate after the release of results.

Which was quite true(Duh?)

There was some confusion a few days ago during the planning, with the proper attire to get the results and spreading the message to the rest of the class.

Thankfully, with the help of Darren(thanks! ;), most of the class turned up(with the rest genuinely cannot make it)

Cool. Not bad for my first initiated class meeting (though I passed the natter over to Darren after Saturday.) Hahas!
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Met early on that day to return books. Chanced upon Bao Lin who sneaked up behind me. Met up with Wei Ting and went shopping around for Yvonne's Birthday Gift.

HAPPY (17th) BIRTHDAY YVONNE! ;)

The class sang happy birthday to Yvonne. Wonder if it's a good thing if your birthday falls on this day though. Oh well.

Had lunch at Mac's

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The taking of Results

After lunch, we headed for school.

We went looking for teachers(which were kind of a bad move)

Mr Goh and Mrs Hay played a cruel trick on us. (and it was so obvious!)

Gahh!!!

Oh well, most of us did well for Os with our school becoming Band One school this year.

Average L1R5: 10.9

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Epic-ness! So sad I lost to Lai Yin and Jaytii. (!@#$)

Anyway, tomorrow, I am going to meet up with 6/5 clique to discuss our options. See ya!

Christmas Celebration

Secret War Journal[28 December 2009][Long Post]
Yo! The king is back, as promised. Hahas! (dont' ask me why I said that. :p)

Technically, this should be Post-Christmas Celebration. O.o

See the date? It screams, "28 DECEMBER 2009!"

Yep, so hold your asses before you scold me 'idiot' (though I think you would still do so anyway...)

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To be frank, this outing required major planning because I could not bring handphone(my second last day of no-Handphone out day!)

Well first off:

1. I need someone to help me take care of my younger sister (my original plan was to bring her along)
2. We need to decide on a decisive meeting place or else we all get lost. (Double bad for me because I am not bringing handphone! But of course, I'm not telling anyone. XD)
3. We need to decide on a place to watch movie(my plan actually, will explain later) but it was settled later anyway. ;)
4. We need to decide on a time to meet without reaching late for Lai Yin's Church Event(will explain later)

>>Okay, stop!

Information over-load? Maybe not. Let me clarify things one by one...

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How this pretty outing all started...

True to her name, Lai Yin is a good liar.

Why? Well...

She 'claimed' that this was a class outing. You know me, I wouldn't attend any event church-related (especially since Jian An's Church Aggressive Preaching then)

Brr...*Shiver down my spine*

Back to the point, so why did I attend the outing, because I was told that the class was going. Zzz..

Oh well, thankfully, that lie shattered from within(I mean yeah, when the truth just plain stands out, the lie is so obviously...a lie. :o)

Just F.Y.I., the event is at night so I had nothing on for the whole of afternoon. Great.

Well...unfortunately, I found out too late. I already arranged things to make sure I can definitely head outdoors that day. (And hell no am I going to let my efforts go to waste.)

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Okay, PLAN B!

I already assured(I'm not going to use the word 'promise') my dad that I would take care of Lera so I can head outdoors without getting slammed by "No one is taking care of Lera" crime at home.

Due to the above-mentioned twist of events, there is no really little people coming for the event.

I think that's where the Background Information kicks in...(a bit random but...)

After the outing where we watched the movie, "Bodyguards and Assassins", I wanted to watch Sherlock Holmes and Alvin and Chipmunks. Since I was going out for Lai Yin's event anyway, I might make use of the remaining free time to organise a movie outing beforehand.

Well, the movie outing was supposed to be a class outing too, I mean since the class supposedly would be heading out for the Church later anyway.

That did not went well. Hahas.

Right, PLAN B. Not exactly, plan B actually but let's just call it. ;)

I intended to invite Johnston and his sister to the outing as well but I'm not sure if the class would not mind.

With three-quarter of class out of the picture, calling Johnston over shouldn't be a big problem. Hahas!

So we can say, everything went according to plan.
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Latest twist of events, Yan Zhi is coming as well. As soon as I'm aware of that fact, I invited for the movie.

In the end, he could not make it for the movie since his cousin was 'one month old' which is very important for us, Chinese Race. ;)

So I don't blame him. Just a bit disappointed. That makes even a few of us going for the movie. Oh well.
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Finally, with the discovery of the Cathay Coupons in the Nan Yang Polytechnic Book(you gotta love their advertisement. Hahas!)

We initially wanted to go to Cathay, but the nearest Cathay Cinema(as shown on their website) airs movies at night, which is too late for us to make it.

No matter, we decided on Plaza Singapura, Golden Village. (Well I did, because everyone said anything which wasn't very productive, no?)

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The Big day, yay

Did you notice I had not confirmed the time? (Actually we did, I regretted giving her the option of 12 noon or 1pm. I wanted 12 noon! The earlier the better!)

This morning is going to be super busy, if everything went according to plan. Without telling anyone, except for my aunt, I had decided not bring my younger sister along. To compromise, I asked a favour from my aunt if she could help me take care of younger sister while I was away.


Thank you, Aunt! If it wasn't for you, I may well could not go out at all! ;)

So I was out in the morning, bringing my younger sister to my Aunt's House.
After that, I headed towards the 1st Meeting place: Compass Point.
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I just realise bus 83 is actually very fast. (I thought it was only quite fast, guess I thought wrong) (then again, someone said it was slow...O.o)

I mean, it took me less than 10 minutes for me to reach back to Sengkang from the Punggol Bus Stop. Too fast!

Shocked, because I'm officially very early. The time now at this side is 12:14PM.

*Shake head*. On the bright side, we're meeting at 1PM. I guess!

I was getting bored to tears so I decided to eat lunch myself (since they weren't eating lunch and Johnston is eating beforehand)

After eating Chicken Rice(Mmm!), the time now is 12:30PM+

Gah! Another half-an-hour!
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Actually, not quite. Saved by some miracle. LOL

Before that, thank you for your wonderful present! ;)

(This is directed towards Cynthia, ;) Okay, despite being a super late present. Hahas!)
Can't believe I would live until this day to receive it. (Kidding!)

Back before the randomness...

I was wandering around the Bus Alighting area when Cynthia arrived. (care I mention that she's half-an-hour early?!)
Looks like I'm not the only early-bird here...lols.
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I guess she was rather shocked to see me so early there too. (I mean hell yeah, I don't expect myself to be this early too...You can thank bus 83 for that...)

Since I had nothing else better to do, I followed her. (Unlike me, she's early for a reason)

Well, I'm going to tell you what's she early for, the pattern is intriguing. (Will explain later)

She

1. Went to top-up EZ-Link
2. Went to her workplace to collect something
3. Return library books

Nothing special, right? The fun part is later.

After all that, we went back to the Bus Alighting Area to wait for Wei Ting. (She missed a bus. Oh my god...)

Reminds me whenever I was returning home from Aunt's Home after work. (Miss Bus 75% of the time)

Oh well...You know what's the cool part? Wei Ting arrived but did not see us. (okay not exactly cool, but call me childish...)

I sneaked up behind Wei Ting, waiting for her to turn her head. She was exactly shocked. Haiz...she was just curious where I sprouted from. =.=

Now let's do some comparison. Wei Ting also had a few stuffs to do:

1. Claim stored value of faulty EZ-Link card at Ticket Office (seeing something?)
2. Had to return books. (Still negative? Nevermind...)

Well, since it was getting late and I didn't want Johnston waiting there, Wei Ting decided to return the books later. Meanwhile, Bao Lin came when we were queueing up at the Ticket Office.

Now that all those that's supposed to gather here is here, it's time to head towards Plaza Singapura.
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Turns out that I gave vague information to Johnston, he had no clue where to meet there. So I had to borrow a phone and call him. (Thanks for letting me use phone!)

While I waited for Johnston, the girls went ahead to shop for the Christmas Presents (which was a must for the event later).

A few more things to clear up:

1. I found out that morning that Guan Hui was coming too(though she did not turn up in the end)
2. The cinema at Plaza Singapura was flooded! And the Alvin and the Chipmunks was fully booked til at night! ZOMG!

Well, here comes our saviour! Johnston Tang! :D

Hahas~! Turns out that the website gave wrong information about the Cathay and it's showing Alvin and the Chipmunks around 2:30PM. (wait, was it 3PM? Forgot.)

Having said that, I think I'm in trouble for giving them wrong information. (Lesson Learnt: Cathay website cannot be trusted)
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Found them at DAISO and done the introduction. But the girls very mean(okay, I meant shy!), don't dare to show their face. Ok....?

:?

Well, as we walked towards the Cathay, the topic was: We forgot your friend's name. What's his name again?

Hahas! I'm sure Johnston don't mind. I mean, you can't really expect people to remember names so easily, right? (I mean, even Johnston couldn't yet. ;)

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Movie: Alvin and the Chipmunks 2

Woots, bought the movie tickets!

As the girls accompany Wei Ting to put on her Contact Lens, Johnston and I chatted.

(Random time! Wei Ting and her number 12 *Roll Eyes*)

We were late for the Movie because the snack bar had this really long queue!

It's definitely a must watch, not that you need me telling you anyway. Hahas!

Well, first of all, it's funny (and cute! As I'm sure many would say ;)
The graphics is not bad too. Hmm...

Sad to say, the plot isn't very engaging. Though the twist were a welcome. Too little singing (AKA Action)? Perhaps that's what is lacking. Hahas.
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Yeah, until now, I have not watched Sherlock Holmes. T.T (I will...one day...)

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Lai Yin's Church -- Victory family Centre?

No offense, but that doesn't sound like a church name. Then again, CityHarvest doesn't sound like one either...

After the movie, we bought the presents (for Yan Zhi, Johnston, and me) and went to Yishun.

Met the tall guy and the liar there. Hee...
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The event turned out to be nothing that I expected. Perhaps I was thinking of something as grand as the CityHarvest celebrations.

So there was no Christmas Carol Singing. So I'm kind of glad that I did not bring my younger sister after all. There's really hardly anything to do.

Frankly, if my friends weren't there, I would be bored to tears. Thank you, guys. Yeah! I'm not alone. So there was laughter. Ironic that I paid $6 for laughter. I could had gotten the laughter part without the $6. (Lesson Learnt: 50% Chance that what's Lai Yin is offering you is a rotten deal. Wait, make that 25%. Wait...)

And I was promised by Lai Yin that there won't be aggressive preaching. =.=

What's with the "no maybe will make it next saturday but MUST"?

What happened to freedom of religious view?
Well, I doubt anyone went next Saturday anyway. (Definitely not me nor Johnston)
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Well, for the sake of memory, we had some games, food and some talk that we hadn't a slightest clue.

Oh and, Johnston won the "Guess the Lyrics: Christmas Edition" and was awarded a Post-it Notes. Zzz...

Well at least, that's as near as Christmas Carolling as it can get.

P.S: And you can know somehow that Lai Yin did not intend this to be a class outing. The venue was so small, it was close to full with just a few of us + the rest of the church members. If the whole class came, there won't be space to breathe. The lie becomes obvious now, huh?
At this aspect, I thoroughly disappointed. What happened to the good old Christians that I used to meet? (like Marcus?)

Tsk Tsk

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Our unlucky journey home...

I mean can you believe? Everytime we reached a bus stop, we miss a bus!

Sad that I couldn't accompany Johnston home, guess the Gods had something else planned for me.

Watching Johnston walking back to the MRT Station made me guilty.
Several thoughts came. "Did he regret coming?" "Was he sad?"...

*Shrug* But he had that sad face look for quite a number of days. It's scary. (Note to Johnston: Cheer up!)

After missing around 2 buses, we decided to wait on one bus stop and wait for the bus to arrive.
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Walked home with Yan Zhi and had a heart-to-heart conversation. (Must more in-depth than the first time. Shocking news indeed)

Of course, the contents are personal so you won't see it here. (yeah I know this is supposedly the 'Secret War Journal' but the contents will only be at the Top-Secret War Journal. So I guess you lucked out, kid.)
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Reached the Lift Lobby at around Midnight and saw my father stationed there.

WTS?!

What was he doing here? He's supposed to be asleep!

Turned out that he needed my help in moving some stuff from the shop back home. (He tried calling me, only to realise I did not bring out phone. Hahas, makes you think twice before not letting me bringing it out. *Insert Evil Laugh here*)

Being the good kid I am (*Puke* I heard that!), I helped.

Slept at 4AM on the next day. Boy was today a busy day. *Snores*

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On the other hand

Sorry peeps, I forgot to talk about 27 December 2009 (I noticed).

On 27 December 2009, two main events happened.

First, I received my Merit Bursary Award from the Ministry of Education. The ceremony was rather dull but the time invested was rather worth it. ($.$ Money Face! LOL..joking)

Secondly, Aunt Michelle came near my house to give my younger sister her Christmas Birthday!

Thank you Aunt Michelle!

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~Finito~

NCHS Prom Night 2009

Secret War Journal[20 November 2009][Long Post][Photo-Heavy]
Sorry for being so late for posting this. I was waiting for the pictures to arrive(and BTW, they still hadn't arrive :p)

Oh well, we will make do with whatever pictures that I currently have.(Though I will update this post whenever I receive new pictures though I doubt it because those people seldom go online. O.o)

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Verdict

Well..overall the Prom Night was a joy to attend. :D

The only thing I hated about it was rather personal. My father wore the shoes that I intended to wear for Prom Night to work, so I had to wear his other pairs of shoes but all of them were all too small. As a result, I got blisters on my foot after Prom Night. Pain Throughout! Ouch!

You have no idea how glad I am from the fact that the food is edible! Woots! Hahas...I was so worried that the food would just taste bad and I would go home with a overturned stomach. :p

Lastly, I had fun there. Did not really took much pictures of myself (You know I don't really like to Camwhore. :p)

All right, enough beating around the bush, it's time to draw the curtains and start the...

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Still at home (Opps?)

Okay...I know this is way random! XD

But anyway, I'm just trying to tell you that I left home rather late that day. I left house at around 3:51PM. (and this picture what taken really really long ago but never had the oppportunity to use it. :p)

Wanted to take a picture of myself after wearing the clothes for Prom Night but the lighting during that period of time wasn't very ideal.

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Waiting for the Sun to set?! (Literally)

Jaytii called to ask when I was reaching(since we were supposed to reach Compass Point by 4PM. Opps?
Hey, Lai Yin told me that she was going to be late so she changed the meeting time to 4:30PM but I couldn't contact Jaytii(until just now).

Of course, by then it was too late, so I walked my way towards Compass Point (Bear in mind that I could not walk fast because of the stupid shoes. :o)

After what seemed like an eternity, I finally reached the meeting area. YES!

Bought plasters. (Though it proved to be of little help later since I got more blisters during the night. Hahas)

We waited for half an hour for Lai Yin to show herself.

We stayed another half an hour for Guan Hui to be visible. (okay, no offence intended.)

So yeah, we waited a total of 1 hour to finally set off for Singapore Flyer(the Venue of the Prom Night)

So you can't say I'm late, right? :p

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Uber Chaos

I wonder why I chose such a title heading but I think it fits.

Heading to the nearest MRT Station leading to the Singapore Flyer was easy but  reaching to the destination is actually easier said than done.

The original(or not-so-original) plan was to take the public transport to the destination and that includes reaching there via buses.

For some reasons unknown to me, Chris decided to walk from the MRT Station to the Singapore Flyer.

Did I mention that my foot hurt? Nevermind...

I wonder why Chris never knew of our plans to board a bus to Singapore Flyer
(oh wait, maybe I know why...;)

Oh well, so begins our great and painful journey from City Hall MRT Station to Singapore Flyer...

Lesson Learnt: Never, never walk to Singapore Flyer unless you feel like running a marathon.

During our slow and tormenting walk, we passed the Esplanade. Opps, my bad. We entered it as well. Hahas!

Things changed quite a bit since Emelia's Performance here. Okay, I know that's a long time ago(months ago) but must you remind me time flies so fast?!

(I feel old. =.=)

Walking further, we reached the Singapore Flyer! (At Last!)

It was amazing that we reached there 10 minutes early.

Walked around with them since Ms Pey did not allow us to enter yet. (Yes, I can't believe such a thing can happen too!)

Night is befalling on us but it's still rather bright here. While waiting for Ms Pey to finally allow us entrance, we spotted Pei Si and Co on the Flyer already. (boy, are they early...)

That's when I started wondering if we could board the Flyer despite having boarding it once already. But it was during the day! Johnston told me the views were rather good during the night.

Hence, I'm curious to see how nice it is. Ha!

Keller informed me that there's currently a promotion for students. Just (wonder why we need to use the word "just" since it's still not anywhere cheap but still...) $10 and we can board the Flyer!

Nevertheless, we did not go to board the Flyer(yet) because the Prom Night is starting!

And the fun begins~!...

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Prom Night Part 1 (With Teachers)

More photo time! (Did I mention that we were early? :p)

Behold! The Stage! Okay, the teachers hadn't arrived yet (except Ms Pey. :o)
Notice that there are balloons everywhere??? LOL!

Our Dinner is at the sides of the Event Hall!

Isn't it amazing that just two rows of Buffet Table can make so many people full?
(okay, I was joking! The waiters would re-stock the food every time the food supply ran low on the tables. But the sad thing would be...the food's cold.)

This is the table that we (Bao Lin, Cynthia, Dolly, Chris and Jaytii, Guan Hui, Wei Ting, Lai Yin, Vanessa, and Me) were sitting.

Did you realise you could not really see the projector screen properly because of the balloons???....
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From Guan Hui:

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I wish I could show you the videos that were shown during the Prom Night(they supplied the videos in our CDs) but the school said they are retaining the copyrights. It's like.,..WHAT?! How come pictures of ourselves cannot be distributed by us? It just does not make sense. (I mean I don't recall selling the licenses of my face to the school. Hahas!)

So...sorry! No videos to see for this.
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As time passes, more and more people arrived!
(okay, until Jaytii and the others pass me the pictures next time, I think we would move on to the 'games' that the organising committee so KINDLY organised.)
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The 'games' we played during Prom Night

The first game was really challenging. The DJ would play six songs and we need to identify the songs. After the second song, we gave up.(Because we could not identify the first two songs. XD)

The second game was just plain EPIC FAIL. (okay, cannot be so critical, I meant LAME/boring. Okay, that wasn't of much help...)
We were suppose to use the first letter of our Christian name or Family Name to form a sentence: "NCHS Hooray"

=.=

You know this game is very discriminating and unplayable?

Just look at my Christian name and family name: Leroy Lim

Is 'L' needed? =.=

Praise the BRIGHT guy who suggested this game...

Nevertheless, one group(coincidentally, all boys) managed to form the sentence and the best part was..there was no prize.

=.= I guess they wasted their efforts and they had to lead the singing of the School Song. Hee...
Dinner Time!
After the games, we went for Dinner. Obviously, I'm not going to let anyone take pictures of our unglam-ness. (Not that anyone was free to take pictures anyway :D)

We had Fried Rice, Noodles, Peking Duck, Fried Prawns, Oysters, Chicken, Satays, etc

Not to mention, we had salads and Chocolate Fondues! Mmm!

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Intermission

After dinner, we went aboard the Flyer! (the pictures that we took of ourselves during the trip are mostly with lai Yin and others, I guess we just have to wait. :p)
I do not have many pictures since our cameras, save Lai Yin's, could not take nice pictures in the dark. O.o

That's me walking towards the Singapore Flyer. Looks cool, no?

I must agree that the landscape is much nicer during the night but it's rather hard to take pictures of them during the night because the flash from camera would reflect from the glass walls of the capsule, creating a bright spot in the pictures.

Update: Received More pictures from Guan Hui

This picture is so blur that I almost wanted to remove it. :p

Shucks, another failed attempt.

Note: Funny, how come Guan Hui sent me photos that do not have my face? O.o

Now for some Group photos!

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Prom Night Part 2(Without Teachers)

We missed the Farewell Video during the Intermission, but I had watched it when I reached home. Since I missed the opportunity to do it there, I would like to say a BIG "THANK YOU" to Ms Tan, my form Teachers!

Update: Kay Wei 'dared' to upload it! So here's the video. :)

When we returned to the Event Hall, the lights were dimmed as people danced (since the teachers had left. Woots?)

Separated from Chris, Jaytii and Lai Yin and the rest of us changed tables to some where near the drink bar. Hee!

Lots of  people already started 'harvesting the balloons'. Wonder why people like balloons???

Anyway, Wei Ting, Bao Lin and Cynthia also wanted balloons.
In the end, Wei Ting and Cynthia managed to get balloons. (Cynthia got one of each colour) while Bao Lin got none since she arrived late. :p

P.S: Who says being tall is good? I ended up helping them taking the balloons that were high up. LOLs...Just joking!

Some random photo when we were sitting on our new table. :p
From Left: Me, Vanessa, Angeline.

Taken by request from Yvonne. =.=
From Left: Cynthia, Me.
(My eyes went missing in the picture?!)

This was taken when we were talking. We only realise(I think, if I recall) after the photo was taken, which was of course, too late.

I had no idea when this photo was taken! Answer me, Vanessa! LOLz...

Don't look at me, Guan Hui sent me these. >=D

Our new table. So empty...

We got bored, so we were playing with the flowers.

Surprise shot. No idea how to react to this.

Isn't this picture similar to Vanessa's one?

This is like the most clear picture among her collection?

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HOME

It was getting late and they had to go home.

Jaytii, Chris and Lai Yin went home without us. (We were suppose to pool a cab!)

Oh well, I ended up hitching a ride on Bao Lin's Sister's Car to a bus stop near her house so that I can go home. Thanks, Bao Lin!

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Acknowledgements: Singapore Flyer, Vanessa, Yvonne

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Hopefully by tomorrow, I would get the pictures from Johnston and I will post about AFA which I when on 21 November 2009. ;)