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"Every Time a Bell Rings, An Angel Gets Its Wings"
Carillon. we managed to pull off a decent performance. the bells didn't lose their magic! (: though i really bdoubt any of them read this, i'd like to congratulate and thank the current choir for their effort, and i must say i'm really proud to be part of the alumni - the resonance ringers! it felt good to be back to play, ringing with much less baggage than before.. yeah maybe that was why we were able to be more focused and engaged in our music, like what mrs deborah tan said. but i realised that i miss ringing, more so than i thought.. and the ringers! very much.

handbell ringing is a collective effort. must remember that whatever you do, you do it together. when shit happens (and really it does), you’re in it together; when something good happens, share it with the others.
watching them, nostalgia just started to overflow. last-minute rushes before the concert, stressing really badly, pre-concert butterflies in the stomach, post-concert highs and euphoria. memories.

Ancalima – exceedingly brilliant and shiny. i will always remember (:
and the past week i'd been attending the onedegreeasia youth leaders conference at SMU.


maybe it would suffice to say that i would rather have stayed in school. well some parts of onedegree were relevant, and really really insightful… but not enough to convince me that the hefty fee was worth it. okay let's just put it as that i really missed everyone at school! and it was IHC week! so much i missed out on! can’t wait to return on monday, but on the other hand i don’t wanna face the heapful of WORK. ohwell.

prior to onedegree, there was IHC rockclimbing last monday. at rg. i haven't climbed in eons and i'm really itching to ): ohyes good luck to everyone taking part in national climbing competiton, uhh tomorrow! (:

even before that.. was tapestry2006. which was quite a lot of fun, i really wish i had time to help out more. and last sunday we took part in the SMRT challenge! I it was, for the lack of a more appropriate word (or because i only slept 3.5 hours last night and can’t really think now), SUPER FUN(: if you averaged out the timings we were probably like the 11th/12th team. which got us pretty pissed off because the top10 had prizes. haha. and which also left my dear teammates whining/bitching (think: SHAWN TAN) the whole journey home about how we should be the rightful winners of the challenge. though uh we didn’t exactly play by the book either heh xP


oh what a week it been(:

whoa.

the past few days i've seen things unfolding like a mega motion picture. the type whereby ticket sales hit a record high at the box office. the type where i'll usually eagerly drag a friend downtown to catch.
except this time, i have somehow become the lead lady of the drama.

silly stuff

publicly posting silly/unglam pictures of myself is really so not me but ohwell. so there my dearest cousin these are the pictures you've asked for since our fateful outing. and yes you are very troublesome! xP

watts in

surprisingly, this time round the :D mood has managed to hold for quite a bit. and today was :D because there was training! not because of training itself, but more so cos i haven't been involved in batch stuff for quite a while (due mainly to cell-cutting - or so the guys like to put it :/, but it really means like uh my SRP attachment at NUS during the holiday - i'd missed like storewash, the unofficial outing thing, macritchie trng) and i really miss seeing us as a batch. so today felt good even though a considerable number of people did NOT turn up. mel my dearest (haha i keeping using this phrase. sounds nice what) please get well soon! :D ohhh and after trng we ran extra rounds with yingzi so i feel especially proud of myself (:

and on monday (r)achel wong passed me this wristband that they got during the clique outing (which i missed ):) it's DIRRTY YELLOWISH GREEN, and it says WIMP. (!!) but then i realised the other had ones that said total bitch, control freak, antisocial yadayada. i kinda miss the life. though rj has been great, but back in rg we had our share of fun stupid times when we did silly things like pose with straws between our noses and lips. haha. and i miss calling rachel "ah-chel" and sherri "chiamster" and bongs, uh, bongs. though we weren't all that close, and this year we've drifted even further, it kinda comforts to know that there's still this bunch of people you can discuss the "old times" with. so when's our next outing? (:

missing out on bits and pieces of fun has really reinforced the idea that,

in life, you win some, you lose some.
you can't have all at a time.

oh. and on a side note, everyone loved my earrings! yay biaojie are you reading this. and i had conveniently named the shop where i got them as my entry title. it's at fareast.

:D:D:D:D:D

just can't help but grin
don't come asking why
incomprehensible- this glee
but i somehow feel much joy.
:D:D:D:D:D

if only everyday could be as such.

and so... it's the start of a new month. my SRP fulltime is over (but haha im not done with the project yet). the CTs are over. we're ushering in the quarters of the WC. time passes too darn fast. like before you can even come to terms with what's happening, before you know it, everything just passes you by. what say you!

hmm i think it'd be right to say that i've pretty much enjoyed myself these 4 days of post-CTs more than anyday during the june hols. besides JEX, of course. but this where it all ends, and the work starts piling up again. cos you know what, school starts again tomorrow. GAHHH NOOOOO i haven't had my fun, really i haven't. ohwell. but weird as it may sound, i feel kinda guilty for the fact that the fun i'm having (or have had, if it really is the case that it all ends here for now) is disproportionate to the amount of effort put into preparing for my CTs. because that 'effort' really wasn't much, this time round. muchly because i haven't had time, but also because i have wasted some time. and i shall end the ranting portion of this entry here, because i can foresee what some people will start to say. things i absolutely detest to hear.

alright, so! post-CTs. after the exco meeting on friday, i lunched with hui at manhattan fish market. pretty good food if you ask me. value for money if you get the weekday set lunch. then we met bongs at marina for shopping. the first time i'm patronizing the malls since the GSS. but i wasn't really prepared for shopping so didn't bring much cash. roamed around for hours and when i finally had to go (for spsb dinner), i still haven't got anything! and the knowing bongs understood perfectly how exasperating it was to not get anything after shopping for hours dragged me into URS and the knowing bongs (again) found me a pair of heels that suited me quite well. (I HATE BUYING SHOES COS MY FEET ARE SO FUGLY.) so i was contented(: then headed to orchard and caught up with spsb for like 30mins, had dinner at scotts and off to james' for sleepover. (i think his room is 2.5 times mine.) watched the germany vs argentina match. okay lar excitement quotient not very high. haha. and i didn't sleep a wink that night so went for flag day feeling groggy and GRR. (germaine inez tan im so so kind right!). was supposed to do supervising with rng at people's park. and the tins came like 1.5 hours late and the secondary school students were getting pretty damnit restless and we both felt quite helpless. 'the van met with an accident' I'M SO SURE. but was quite entertained my rng's caricatures of odacians and me trying to guess who each of them was (supposed to be). went for alumni prac in the afternoon. i think concert this year will be fun! (:

and that day.. i lost my handphone. i have no idea really really absolutely no clue how i could have lost it because i distinctly remembered putting it back into the bag after the last time i used it. sheesh. was pretty annoyed. but thanks shiyun for hunting around with me for it and having to lift up the dustbins haha. but we still didn't find it ):

so i got a new one yesterday. and as a result, burnt a hole in my pocket. got a 7360. yesterday i ran + shopped + swam ! but came down with a very sore throat. yikes. and it got worse today because of all the food i ate. think: murtabak, nasi lemak, fish&chips. sorry i couldn't resist. (but. i am not a pig. :D)

so today! caught just my luck at cine. which was very very very funny. (or maybe because i hadn't watched a show in five months so i kinda lost touch with romantic comedies, but still). then headed down to holland v for odac outing! at settler's cafe. haha it's quite a cool place actually. with interesting board games that can get us pretty high. and i like holland v!

phew what a long entry. and my throat is dying.