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November 28 BUSY!!!Hello! Finally my weekend is coming again! This week, is my ever first time so busy with wushu stuffs. Currently we have 5 performances on hand. Each performance takes a lot of planning, music, contacting with the person in charge etc etc. I am still learning and adapting to all these stuffs, for e.g I just learnt how to issue invoice from Janice. I got the tendency to say out my bitterness to Arthur, he is like my mental support with all those admin stuffs and looking for Terence etc. So once he is gone....=( Without Li Yan and Janice, I think my work will be extra hard. Thanks to you two le. =) Last Tuesday, Eugene Coach, boy and I went to recee the place that we will be performing this coming monday for Storm Warriors World Premiere. Everyone is like so excited to see Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng. Haha! Too bad my Ah Sa did not come, if not, I will go crazy on that day. This morning went to meet up with Zijing and Shi Yan at JP and passed them our shared diary. We ate at the new korean restaurant at the new foodcourt. The food was so-so only. What should I say about us ne? We are like 3 different people with 3 different personalities from 3 different worlds. Maybe that keep us close and what people say, opposite attracts. There are so many things we have different views on and no matter how long we have been discussing about it, it wont change our own mindsets. Surprisingly, we still can get over with it quickly. After meeting up with them, I went to meet with my parents who were at JP at that time too. We shopped for around 2 hours then I felt that it was too early to go to clubhouse for training later at night. Hence, I went home and took a short nap after that.  ( The 3 of us! Shiyan made this love shape with her leftover rice! Last pic: I <3 U) Now a bit side track of what kind of person I am. I rmb during secondary school, everyone was forced to go for this talk about our personality types to know who we are. And mind you, that talk cost us around $100 and we did a MBTI personality quiz which took us around 1 hour plus. I was almost fainting after finishing the quiz. It is a quiz that involves professionals and psychologists to come to all sorts of results. I still rmb my results. I am a INFJ person. (Introvert, Intuition, Feeling, Judgment) " INFJs are gentle, caring, complex and highly intuitive individuals. Artistic
and creative, they live in a world of hidden meanings and possibilities.
Only one percent of the population has an INFJ Personality Type,
making it the most rare of all the types.
INFJs place great importance on havings things orderly and systematic in
their outer world. They put a lot of energy into identifying the best
system for getting things done, and constantly define and re-define the
priorities in their lives. On the other hand, INFJs operate within
themselves on an intuitive basis which is entirely spontaneous. They
know things intuitively, without being able to pinpoint why, and without
detailed knowledge of the subject at hand. They are usually right, and
they usually know it. INFJs have uncanny insight into people and situations. They get "feelings" about things and intuitively understand them. As an extreme example, some INFJs report experiences of a psychic nature, such as getting strong feelings about there being a problem with a loved one, and discovering later that they were in a car accident. This is the sort of thing that other types may scorn and scoff at, and the INFJ themselves does not really understand their intuition at a level which can be verbalized. Consequently, most INFJs are protective of their inner selves, sharing only what they choose to share when they choose to share it. They are deep, complex individuals, who are quite private and typically difficult to understand. INFJs hold back part of themselves, and can be secretive. But the INFJ is as genuinely warm as they are complex. INFJs hold a special place in the heart of people who they are close to, who are able to see their special gifts and depth of caring. INFJs are concerned for people's feelings, and try to be gentle to avoid hurting anyone. They are very sensitive to conflict, and cannot tolerate it very well. Situations which are charged with conflict may drive the normally peaceful INFJ into a state of agitation or charged anger. Because the INFJ has such strong intuitive capabilities, they trust their own instincts above all else. This may result in an INFJ stubborness and tendency to ignore other people's opinions. They believe that they're right. On the other hand, INFJ is a perfectionist who doubts that they are living up to their full potential. INFJs are rarely at complete peace with themselves - there's always something else they should be doing to improve themselves and the world around them. They believe in constant growth, and don't often take time to revel in their accomplishments. All kinds of people are drawn towards the INFJ. They are usually quite popular, although they may be unaware of it themselves, because they don't place a lot of importance on it. The INFJ is valued by their close friends for their warmth and consideration, their new and interesting ways of looking at things, and for their ability to inspire and motivate others to be the best that they can be. genuine article that they are. INFJs, making up an estimated 1% of all people, are the most rare type (males even more so). They are introspective, caring, sensitive, gentle and complex people that strive for peace and derive satisfaction from helping others. INFJs are highly intuitive, empathetic and dedicated listeners. These traits tend to act as a "tell me what's wrong" sign on their forehead, hence the nicknames Confidant, Counselor or Empath. INFJs are intensely private and deeply committed to their beliefs. " I find that the results is really true ( If it's not true, I will complain to the person who wasted my $100 bucks!) girl loves boy!!! November 22 Schadenfreude Hello! I came upon this article in Straits Time Lifestyle last Sunday and I finally got my answer that I have been pondering since childhood. When I was young, I always love to think a lot which I also have been doing every now and then in my life. Sometimes, thoughts just wander off to a state where you suddenly feel guilty and you do not wish to think any further. I believe everyone of us does at some parts of our lifes. What do I mean by that? Now I am going to give some real and open door into my thoughts: - I wish to have my own room. I always wanted to have my own privacy and I am still sharing my bedroom with my 16 year old brother. But how? My grandma and my maid need the other room as my grandma has to be taken care of. Guilty of myself: If some day my grandma just leave suddenly... ... - A very poor family who feeds on meagre monthy salary. They need money for their childrens' education fee, household fees etc. Their only old aged mum has left a mediocre sum of money in her will. Guilty of my thought: If their old aged mum just leave suddenly... ... - I am already very tired and I received this phone call from my best friend and she started to yap non-stop about her problems with her boyfriend, her family problems so on and so on and son. I have school the next day and I am already so tired. Guilty of my thought: If she could just stop whining and I can have my beauty sleep... ... - During IVP Ji Ti, we made a lot of mistakes that day during competition but we had put in efforts in practising for many days. The 1st position seems difficult to get now. Guilty of my thought when the other teams start to compete: If somehow one of them could just fell down or make mistakes too... ... Humans have such a complex mindset. They want to be nice people and yet they still have this bad thoughts in their minds. And what are all these evil thoughts that everyone of us has it now and then in our life? There is a word to it (which I have learnt from the newspaper article): Schadenfreude. It's the enjoyment that we derive from witnessing the misfortunes of the others or secret pleasure one may derive from another person's suffering, mostly happens when we do not have that particular thing and we could not get it. It is difficult to condemn this feeling within the framework of conventional morality. To me, it is just too light-hearted and cheerful that we experience only within ourselves or share within closed ones, not 'big' enough to cause real offence to others. It is a kind of insurance, we promise to be good and we want to be good. But at the same time, we have to learn to accept as a matter of fact the daily cruelties, whether big or small. They are part of our life. I feel so disturbed whenever I have this feeling in me .Am I that insecure, that spiritually untethered that I am actually able to find joy in someone else’s misfortunes reflexively!!?? Am I? sigh. In a nutshell, I come to a conclusion. All human is selfish in nature. However, that does not mean that we are bad just because we have experience schadenfreude as that is perfectly normal. You are not human if you do not experience that before. Instead, I feel it is fine with us to have this kind of thoughts sometime as it helps to curb with the urge to resort to violence and so now it only occurs in our own thoughts. So what shall we do when we always and ALWAYS experience this? I think somehow I have find a solution for myself which is happiness in another's good fortune. Honestly speaking, many of us experienced that to our closest ones, but how many of us do that on a daily basis, feeling happiness for anyone apart from our closest ones? It's not that difficult afterall. Things that I feel happy for my people around me are for e.g feeling happy for ShuLing who get GPA 3.4 which is higher than me when I put in more effort than her. Feeling happy when those IVP competitors win me in their traditional chang quan when I know they themselves put in efforts to come to this far too. Feeling happy that my class is getting closer even though sometimes I do not have the time to go out with them but I always treasure the fact that we are the most bonded one of all and they still bother to invite me out for outings. Feeling happy when Boy got 1st in Shuang Dao and Li Yan got 3rd in Lu Hua Dao when I did not get anything for my individual routines. Hence, I do not think it will be that difficult to find your particular someone and I know sometime it may be difficult to indulge in selfless joy of another's good fortune when especially if we are feeling not so happy at all. Well, it sounds easy but definitely I think it will take practice. At the very least we can do is to try those very true emotions of empathy, pity, and compassion. I feel happy at the end of the day. This is how life should be. Full Stop! =) And there is one thing we have to keep in mind and it is explained in this following quote. "To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish" — Arthur Schopenhauer girl loves boy!!! AND ALSO DEFINITELY MY GRANDMA! =) November 21 Weekend is here! Hello! Last Tuesday went out with class to celebrate WanQin and Chastine's 19th birthday! We went to Aston to eat and it was my first time there. Maybe partly because I was too hungry or the food was really delicious, I find that the food there is cheap and nice! No wonder there is always such a long queue. Looks like I probably have to come during weekdays to catch a seat. I like the fries and salad especially! Our class was assigned to sit outdoors and the sun was so sweltering hot. I was having slight giddyness due the stress that I had Contact Lens Fitting practical that morning and wushu till 11pm the previous Monday night. Went home and chatted with karin after lunch while the rest went to watch 2012. Contact Lens Fitting Practical was fine to me. =) Luckily I managed to insert and remove hard lens with only one attempt. Phew! You dont know how nervous I got before the prac test during BV lecture. I was shivering not only because of the cold lecture theatre, but mostly because of my nervousness. I told ShuLing that I wont even get so nervous for my wushu performances lor. >.< Last sem's Retinoscope Practical Test has caused me to have a little phobia of prac test that I may cork up suddenly especially when I am in this PMS period. Cos what happens practically last sem during the Ret's Test was that I did not know what the hell I was doing and thinking after the moment I got the feel that I did not neutralize the reflex with my ret, I just told the teacher I wanted to give up for the rest of my subjective refraction, JCC etc and swallowing my tears. Luckily Mr Sim asked me to continue doing, if not I would have to retest for the whole thing. So stupid right? I know it myself and I am trying to control my emotions sometimes......yeah...trying.....  (WanQin and Chastine the birthday girls! Me, Vanessa and Karin! Those who went for the birthday celebration!) I got this little surprise from my dear wushu friend! Li Yan!!! She brought this TCM which is made especially for women to regulate menstrual cycle and enhance blood circulation to reduce muscle aches! She got this from her brother as her brother's girlfriend has the same problem too. So I was given this precious gift from her and I will try out if it works for me or not.! =) Thanks girl for your concern! HUGS!  ( A LONG 'love letter' from her brother regarding on this box of TCM. HAHA!) This afternoon, I just accompanied my mom to NUH to remove her stitches. She has been at home resting for around one week after her surgery. She has to put pillows behind her back whenever she sits down as she could not get up when her back is completely lying down as her stomach area will ache a lot. After that, boy and I went to library basement to watch Big Momma 2. It was our first time to use the plasma tv in library. You just have to find an empty station and go to the counter and say you want to use that station and they will give you the tv controller. Spent the afternoon laughing away at the comedy with boy! =D Training afterwards. All of them played street soccer. I must admit that I have no knack in soccer AT ALL! I feel like I am an obstruction to them whenever they decided to play soccer. LOL! First, when the ball came flying towards me, I have this tendency to run away from the ball; I dont do that much when playing captain ball. Second, I got this tendency to use my hand to catch the ball. Third, my leg just couldnt control the ball or causing my leg to kick hardly into the empty air whenever I want to aim for the ball.  (Boy and me with headphones on!) I am currently carrying out this 'weekly routine' between my studies, wushu and boy. Monday to Wed : Long school days. Usually knock out once I reach home. Thurs : Afternoon usually will be doing recycling specs. Friday and Saturday will be mostly spending time with boy. Sunday will be the only whole day for me to catch up with my studies! =) BS loves BG!!! November 15 wushu meeting and 2012 outing Hello! Sunday is the only day that I can have rest and catch up with my studies for now le. Yesterday went out with wushu peeps to watch 2012 at Causeway Point. I find the effects of the movie are fantastic but the storyline is not very good. Ups and Downs in this movie. Really do not like to see heroic people dying in the movie which makes my heart hurt. After the movie, we went to Dhoby Ghaut and met up with Alvin, Janice with some other RP wushu people. Wanted to eat at Aston but the queue was super long. I shall try it out someday! So we went to Xin Wang Hk Restaurant instead!  (Lols! wads with all these covering faces! haha! and Yuan Qing's greedy pose!)    (group photos at cinema and dhoby ghaut) On friday night, everyone in wushu club was required to come down for this meeting at T1554 that is organised by the coaches. I can see that the coaches are very serious with our future planning. But honestly speaking, I still have doubts with myself and also the club now. Are we able to do what the coaches expect us to do? How many of us here will strive hard in wushu? How many of us are in this club just want to learn new things but not to stress one self? How many of us willing to compete and keep SP wushu up? Does everyone has the same goal in mind which is to improve oneself and work hard as a team for the grand performance at SP convention centre around Dec 2010? I really hope we have.  (giving of certificates to those who went for the China Trip)  (It was Alvin's birthday that day! Haha! Yilun, Liyan and I were rushing out to light up the candles and when ZY coach turned off the lights, we stepped into the classroom with the lighted candles. SURPRISE!) I am hurt when people do not ask questions to clarify their doubts and they continue to go and tell people their complaints with their misinterpretations in mind. I dont know they do this is to let others know that he or she is putting in a lot of effort or trying to show that they are right without clarifying the facts? When feedbacks come back to me that I realised they have been spreading this misunderstanding bigger and bigger or trying to say bad things about each other when actually it only boils down to one and only simple fact, I feel so #!#@!$#. So I beg you people, please, PLEASE clarify the doubts with me before you tell people why I or we dont do this and that. I am not going to be angry with you. Instead, I will really feel happier if you can say out rather than going behind peoples' back and spreading their bad. We are grown up people already, not kids who always complain to people without knowing what the other party is thinking for you. HAPPY 17th month to baby and me yesterday! <3 I am sorry yesterday. Both of us are in a bad mood with one another. I am sorry to SP wushu peeps too if I may have spread the bad mood in me to you guys. I really enjoy yesterday with you people. Alvin, Janice, LiYan, YiLun, WeiXiang, Arthur, SingHai, ShiMin, YuanQing, Ashley, BingLun, JianSiong, Saen, Fadhil, Raymond and boy. November 11 Monday and Wednesday: Tiring Hello! I am so tired now. I always want to have a short afternoon nap but worry that I cant fall asleep at night, I try to tahan until at night but end up sleeping at around 11pm. I have learnt something now. I must settle all my school work for Monday to Wednesday on Thurs to Sun because everytime I arrange stuffs to do on Mon to Wed, I end up pushing everything to thurs onwards. I feel so tired after coming back from lessons on these first 3 days of the week. Lessons starts at 8am and ending at around 5pm, with torturing practicals where I have to suffer trauma to my eyes by those hard lenses and tiring eye test. So I tried to do something relaxing on Monday to Wednesday night, besides training on usual Mondays. I just finished Harry Potter and The Order Of Phoenix last week and all the 5 movies. I still feel that the books are more exciting than the movies. Feel like fast-forwarding it whenever I watch the movie. Mum's surgery is postponed to tomorrow. Mum and dad already took leave for today. My mum even had to wake up and had her breakfast before 6am and ate the medicine to clear her bowels and when she went to NUH with dad and brother, lying in the ward waiting for the surgery, the person there told her that the doctor was busy today. What kind of reason is that. Mum's got many tumours growing in her uterus that it has to be removed in case they start to turn malignant. She starts to have heavy periods like up to 6 days ( gosh , I have period up to 9 days sometimes huh) and painful periods ( which I has it too). You know, my paternal and maternal sides have this history of illness. My maternal side, my third aunt does not menstruate as she does not have ovules. My paternal side, I have up to around 4 aunts who have their uterus remove surgically, because of the same reason as my mum too. So, I start to wonder if I have this 'bad gene' in me too. And I actually have decided to go for check up after china trip but the idea of queueing up so long in polyclinics and splurging money in hospital checkups after that just turns me off that I have decided to wait and see how is my next period will be like. Cousin Jasmine just posted some of our cousins' photos up in facebook:  ( Me- I was once single eyelid girl, Ming Kiat, Jasmine and then my brother. We all still had this baby fat in us. HAHA!) girl loves boy!!!! MUAHX! November 08 Winning Vs Self-SatisfactionHello!
(Arthur's Tong Bei)
(Sing Hai's Drunken Fist)
(Alvin's Ba Ji)
(Saen's Ba Ji)
(Li Yan's Lu Hua Dao)
(YiLun's Long tassel sword)
(Yuan Qing's Da Dao)
(Alicia's Pu Dao)
(Boy's double broad sword)
(Raymond and Jian Wei's Sparring)
(Jiti Finale) (Thanks supporters, helpers and coaches =D) After that, some of us headed home while some went to Jurong Point and had our dinner. We had a bad experience at LJS. The scenario was something like that. An auntie left her seat of 4 ppl. There were 10 over of us and we walked over thinking we had at least found a sitting place. 2 pairs of good looking couples walked towards us. I thought they want to walk through. I let them passed. Suddenly the female opened her mouth and screamed in hokkien, " KNB! CB! Snatch our seats ! @!##$@!#@!#!" Everyone around us turned around. Then Saen noticed her small little bag lying near the table that we sat. One of the guy pushed Sing Hai. Raymond replied calmly, "Cant you explain properly?" A "F- U" by that guy was shouted back to him. The lady continued " CB! #$!@#$@#! Who do you think you are to take our place?" Saen was already shaking with anger , "Then who do you think you are?" The couples continued to hurl us vulgarities while we left the place. Sometimes, even when we have reasons siding us, reasoning out to them and dealing with this kind of people is no use. They cannot understand reasons and the minds are used to only one thing " Fighting can settle everything." Being educated people as a whole, we chose not to argue with them and left the place graciously. girl loves boy and is proud of you! <333 What is traditional wushu? Hello! I am so frustrated upon one thing that everyone should have noticed today. I am not trying to say anything good or bad about traditional wushu or contemporary wushu or what. But since the competition already has stated there that it is traditional routines for most, it is so obvious that there is simply no rules or deduction of points when competitors do not obey the rules of a traditional routine at all. Traditional Routines:
Even Eugene Coach is stunned when he saw that people adding Xuan Fong, Hou Kong Fan etc could do away with the deduction of points. Still, we have to respect the judges. November 01 Harry Potter craze and wushuHello! Recently I have been spending my free time watching Harry Potter's movies and finishing the series of books. I know I am very late after this craze over Harry Potter has some sort of died down (this happens a lot of time, e.g Boys Over Flowers). Haha! I always think that Harry Potter is a very boring series as I watched the VCD twice when I was around P6 and fell asleep twice, never able to finish watching the movie. Thanks to boy, he has the whole series of the books and VCDs. I borrowed The Philosopher Stone and found myself addicted to this book ever since the first chapter. After watching the movie and reading the book, I find that the book is much interesting as compared to the movie. The book gives a more detailed description on the scenarios etc than the movie and I feel that the actors in the movie were not natural in the way they act, maybe it will get better in the last few series when the actors are older. I just got my wushu costume and it came out as light pink. The manufacturer has made a mistake as I ordered for light purple in the first place. -.-. What for do I need a light pink again when we had 6 pieces of around the same colour as it is? So I wore dark royal pink which is the same colour as YiLun on mock competition ytd night. Ytd no junior came up to support us. We had to carry the chairs and tables back to the original position after the tiring selection. I found my performance for the mock competition ytd quite stable and I hope it will be like this during the competition. I think I got 8.20 if I still rmb correctly. I would be happy if I can get 8.00 above for IVP.  (playing monopoly deal on MRT! Fadhil, boy and Yuan Qing)  (during briefing before the mock competition) Yesterday morning, 7 of us (Alvin, Yuan Qing, Raymond, Li Yan, Janice, Boy and me) went for the subway commercial audition. They actually sent us an email to our club that they are searching for sporty talents for the shooting of commercial. Met them early in the morning at Aljunied and headed towards The Reel Thing Pte Ltd. The company itself looks like a house and we were called one by one for audition. The girls, as well as I, had to act out a scene. Imagine a guy sitting in front of us, smile at him, take the Subway sandwich and eat with delight. Quite awkward though. Haha! Whereas the guys had to pretend he is looking at an enemy and walked towards him, then broke into a smile and said "Hey brother, long time no see." After that we went to Iluma and played at the arcade at the top floor there. Then after that went to ZhiYong coach's house. I was so tired by then. Zhi Yong coach's dog is the fiercest I have ever seen in my life. I wanted to sayang him but it bit me and and kept barking non-stop. His teeth were plucked away as he was too fierce. poor thing.  (Yuan Qing fillin up the form in the company)  (Li Yan, Raymond and Boy filling up the forms at the other side of the room.)  (bought a new adidas water bottle. The adidas cap is extra one.) .jpg) (playing some sort of quiz games at the arcade and the questions are super difficult that Janice came up with an idea which was to choose choice B if you do not know the answer and she ended up with the highest score for twice. HAHA!) I have to rest well this week and before turning in, I will lay on my bed and revise my Cha Quan routine every night to prepare myself mentally for this coming Sat IVP. girl loves boy! October 29 Another week has passed Hello! Training is taking most of my time now as IVP coming on next Sat. Training ended at 10.45pm yesterday and I was pulling myself through at the end of the training. At night did some research for clinical optometry practical until 1.30am then went to sleep. First time stayed up till so late since the new semester starts. The day before yesterday, boy and I went to accompany Yilun for Create Talent Interview. Waited for 1 hour just for the person to interview her. YiLun said that we are like her mao ba and mao ma. haha! sick also accompanied her to polyclinic. LOL! In the end when I reached home, I went to search the company and realised that many teenagers also have this experience like her who were spotted by talent scouts and went for model interview. In the end, the agency there requested them to take portfolio which they had to pay $500 over on it and said they would call them up if there were assignments. Not saying there are no successful case of those who are being spotted by advertisers and paid thousands dollars for one assignment, but the risk of paying up but getting nothing in the end is very big. In the end, Yilun chosed not to go for the agency anymore which I thought it is a wise move bahs. Last tuesday, we finally had our RGP lenses on. OH GOSH!!! The feeling is so irritating and my reflex tears kept flowing non-stop when I had those hard lenses in my eyes. The feeling is like having an eyelash stuck in your eyes but you could not take it out and you even have to open your eyes wide and try to feel comfortable in it. Inserting is easy but I still have some problems taking it out. Have to practise more next time. =D Yesterday, Xuan Bin's mum called me and she wants me to tuition her son next year. So fast already book me. lol! But I told her I will charge at least $10/hr and Melissa said it was quite expensive. Haha! The tuition rate in Singapore here is that for a Pri 2 student, it is at least $10/ hr already. Moreover I am tuitioning a Pri 5 kid wor. Later meeting some wushu peeps to collect costumes with Zhi Yong Coach at Dhoby Ghaut. Monopoly DEAL is addicting! haha! girl <3 boy! October 25 First week of sch and Sentosa TripHello! Finally got some extra time to blog. It feels great to have no tuition now as both of my students have finished their PSLE but I feel that I have the sense of insecurity more when I do not have the extra money to splurge on leisure stuffs anymore. When I got the flyer of tuition assignments for primary school kids, I realised how SUPER CHEAP my tuition fares is and I have decided to increase to at least $10/hour next time when I tuition others. School has reopened. I have made a decision to sleep before 11pm every night apart from the days that I will be having training which is on MON, WED, FRI and SAT. It's nice to be back to studying again at least for now. HAHA! First week of study seems to be relaxing for me. I thought inserting and taking out of soft lenses would be very difficult and challenging but somehow it's quite fun and I did it last week! RGP hard lenses for this week prac and I am feeling nervous as seniors have been saying that we will tear a lot when we first insert it into our eye. I love my timetable too as I got to 先苦后甜 with Monday to Wednesday ,very stressful and tiring days, and thursday and friday a relaxing one. =) For wushu, IVP is merely left with 12 days and our Ji Ti Quan has not done with the rhythmn for the movements to be synchronised with the music. My individual Cha Quan routine also has not been practising recently. Sadly, I felt my standard dropped a lot after China Trip especially my flying kicks. My flexibility increased a little though. It may due to the fact that my stamina has not regained fully yet. But something that I am very sure of is that the springy carpet at China there really KILLS me. My legs are so used to the springy carpet there that when I jump on the normal carpet in SP, it will lag on the ground for a milisecond before jumping, causing me to jump lower and with no 空感 at all. I was so depressed after last friday's training which was my first official training in SP after coming back from China. I TOTALLY LOST THE FEEL OF MY FEI JIAO AND BAI LIAN!!!!! AND I LEFT NOT EVEN 2 WEEKS FOR MY IVP! =((((((((((((((((((((((( We had training on friday till 11.30pm. GOSH! And the following day we even went to Sentosa and then at night training again!!!  (Buying some snacks at vivomart before heading to sentosa. Yuan Qing's dead body floating in the water.LOL! AND GROUP PHOTO!)  (Boy and I. First time we sat the skyride and LUGE. I thought it wasnt so scary and high but I was wrong. I did not know it was higher at the last part of the sky ride. My boy was afraid of heights and his palms were already perspiring A LOT even before we sat onto it. He did not talk to me throughout the whole skyride except for asking me to stop moving around and taking photos. >.< Both of his hands clutching onto the bar tightly. Seeing him nervous, I also got a bit nervous at the last and highest part of the ride. FUN AND THRILLING! The LUGE was not as exciting as skyride, it was like the flying turtle which I rode when I was young.  (Wei Xiang, Saen and Yuan Qing were behind us!)  (AHHH! Open mouth! Yuan Qing's funny pose of peeing. In the monorail with boy, Li Yan and Saen)  (we went to this HK restaurant at vivocity. The food there were cheap compared to other restaurant and their delicacies there are simply delicious!!! THANKS TO SAEN for introducing this restaurant to us. I swear I want to be back there dining soon again!) Apart from the scorching sun at the Siloso beach,, we managed to have some fun with frisbee and soccer there. Fadhil and Yuan Qing playing in the waters. Playing at the Imbiah Walk and then dining at a restaurant. Luckily everyone survived the training after that. LOL! BS LOVES BG! October 20 China Training Trip (10th June- 18th June)Hello! I am still recovering from my gastric pain. So just a short summary of what I had did at XIAMEN, JIMEI! Day 1 (10/11/2009) The hostel that I was sharing with Janice, Hui Ying and Li Yan was better than I have expected. I love its blanket the most. Cosy and warm. :) And we realised the distance from our hostel to 竞武馆 is half and hour walk. Imagined we have to walk 4 times a day during training days. Eating China Fast Food outlet after that. Boy and I thought we were ordering chicken satays when instead they were ostrich meat! The taste turned out quite delicious! Day 2 (11/11/2009) Had morning jog around the tracks for 5 rounds and I started to have pre-mense pain. The weather was chilling and imagined me jogging with a jacket over me and it was still freezing cold. Temperature must be around 20 degree celsius with the morning wind blowing so strongly. BRR! My perspiration evaporated off instantaneously. Afternoon time was spending in the hostel watching 喜洋洋 and 灰太狼 cartoon and do not forget the lyrics china version! super hilarious! Ate at a splendid restaurant for dinner and there was even a lady playing piano for us. Day 3 (12/11/2009) Training has started. We all like the male coach who taught us in the morning session more as he was always there to correct our mistakes. Unlike the female coach in the afternoon session who only sat down at the side. -.-. Ate Xiao Long Bao for lunch!!! We were training with the girls school team in the afternoon session and their standard were very good, especially their chao tian deng! They kicked their legs straight up and held it side by side with their head, standing on the other balanced leg. And this was their warm up!!! We all practically stunned there for a few seconds, not knowing how to continue. LOL! Worse to worst, their physical training was CRAZY! I think because of the physical training, it left me half dead for the rest of the days afterwards seriously. 3 sets of 40 原地快跑， 10 standard push-ups, 30 腹肌 and 背肌. Day 4 (13/11/2009) MUSCLE ACHE!!! DIFFICULTY CLIMBING STAIRS! LET ALONE RAN 5 ROUNDS! I thought I would give up halfway but the male coach kept pushing us on. Spamming myself with Counterpain became my daily chore at there afterwards! Wake up -> Breakfast -> Half and hour walk to school -> Morning Training -> Lunch -> Half and hour back to hostel and rest -> Half and hour back to school -> Evening Training -> Dinner -> Half and hour back to hostel -> Sleep. ( repeated for 5 days) Day 5 (14/11/2009) 16th Month Anniversary of Boy and Me! Muscle ached like hell lot now. When doing horse stance, I was already bearing the pain at my upper thigh. Trying to do deep breathing to stable my mood down but I think it must be PMS causing my mood to be so unstable that I could not control my tears from rolling down as waves of pain, muscle ache and disappointment in myself engulfed me intermittently. I did not practise for the evening session and just sat at the side doing stretching and counterpain!!! =( Day 6 (15/11/2009) Thigh muscles were not so pain anymore. It had turned to my buttock muscles. My muscles endurance is really super LOUSY! Hais. Day 7 (16/11/2009) Last training!!! Muscles were still aching and managed to pull through. At night went to the restaurant again and had my beef steak which I regretted so badly on Sat, the next day. Day 8 (17/11/2009) Woke up at night because of bites that I had at my right eye and my eye turned so swollen that I could not open completely. Foolishly, I even applied medicinal oil to my eyelid. What a stupid optometrist-to-be! I was tearing in the toilet alone and afraid of what to do when my eyes sting and hurt a lot! Managed to get coaches' help and thanks to their care, I was asked to sleep in their bunks as we assumed that my bed was dirty. Having gastric discomfort when I woke up first thing in the morning. Took public transport to boat quay to take a boat to Gu Lang Yu. Suddenly my menses came, and together with my gastric discomfort getting worser and worser, I could barely stand straight anymore. Together with Hui Ying who had gastric pain too, KY coach and his friend brought the two of us and boy who accompanied me to the hospital at the Gu Lang Yu. I vomitted outside the general consultation room with the guide of boy of teaching me how to vomit. It was all the beef steak that I ate last night. YUCKS! Shared bland porridge with boy and ate the prescripted medicine. Vomitted at the same place again and my porridge all came out. Felt better and Hui Ying and I decided to tour with the others. Unfortunately when we were having lunch, mense pain came over me this time with nauseousness. Second time having mense pain attack outdoors. Super unbearable and torturing. Could not sit still nor keep my mouth shut from groaning in pain. Panadol Menses had no effect on me. Took painkillers and I vomitted minutes after that. Surrendered and KY coach with Hui Ying, boy with I went back to our hostel for rest. All I could do was sleep and vomit again at the hostel while the rest toured outside. Hais. Day 9 (18/11/2009) Still had no appetite. Wonder how I gone through these 2 days with only few bites of food. Wished so much to be back home straightaway. Motion sickness on plane. ARGH. Overall, everyone still had their fun though except the day when I fell sick. I want my stamina back and chiong for IVP!!!  (on plane with boy!)  (Li Yan and me! Eating La Mian at Yi Si LAN JIAO restaurant! HAHA!)  (Mac "Fluffy"! MAI MAO MAO!)  (night scene after evening training. Their 6pm there is like 9pm here!)  (drinking milk tea!!! NICEEE!)  (plane view of Singapore)  (Me at the training grounds)  (Us with the male handsome coach!) BS <3 BG! October 09 A last goodbye to everyone before my China trip Hello! Yesterday had Laos briefing after our two student leaders were back from their recee at there. I was shocked when I heard about the accommodation, food and the places we will tour around at there. Shock not because it is bad, BUT it is AMAZING! First, our accommodation for 2 weeks there (12th June - 26th June 2010) will be in a hotel! They showed us how our toilets look like. WOW! It looks nicer than my house's one. Second, they said it just takes a 1 min walk to the cafe and pizza parlour beside and Laos was colonised by French in the past so their pizzas are much better than here! Third, the place where we are having eye screening is not some ulu village but a school with kindergarten, primary and secondary school! Quite a privileged school with all different levels of children and teens. Fourth, we have 4 days of Free and Easy! They had come up with many plans on where to shop, play and tour. Hope it wont disappoint me :) We thought this briefing was a short one but I left the school around 4pm after helping to pack and recycle those specs. Predict that there will be many times that we have to stay back to sort out those specs. It's tiring work. Today had wushu committee meeting. Went to boy's house after that. I practised my ckf at his playground while he practised all sorts of his flying kicks. Boy's back is straighter now when he kicked while I still have phobia and my hands kept wanting to touch the floor. Had his mum's fish soup plus rice as dinner and it was so delicious! Yummy! Went to Northpoint Starbucks and we ordered Dark Chocolate Mocha! I love that the most till now. Then we realised there is "Each a Cup" at the basement Cold Storage and if we had known it earlier, we would actually buy that. -.- .jpg) (not a good one actually. still far from Liyan, Yilun and Janice) Tmr I will be going to XIAMEN, CHINA!!! Second time taking plane and first time going to China! I do not dare to look forward this trip in the holidays cos that means that sch is reopening soon since the next day after I come back from China is school and training at night! I guess everyone will be anticipating on next next Monday training to see our standards for those going to China Trip. Worried that I may not have enough time to rest. Worried that my menses will 'kill' me at China. Worried that my muscle aches will be unbearable. I always have this unsafe feeling when I am on plane too. >.< Have to keep all these worries aside, if not I will not be able to turn in tonight. Waking up at 4.30am tmr and taking taxi to Changi Airport Terminal 2 at 5am. Meeting the rest at 5.45am to settle some stuffs and have breakfast together. Well, boy's parents and my mum meeting for the first time. Although it's not any formal meeting, I still feel bit of nervous. BYE EVERYONE AND SINGAPORE!!! October 07 Meeting with Sec Sch Friends! Hello! Last Saturday just met up with SiYing to have Ajisen Ramen and chit-chatting. Ordered original ramen at Causeway Point outlet and it was so salty!!! Gulped down lots of water after that. I still prefer the spicy one. Just now went to meet Zijing and ShiYan to have dinner at Jurong Safra, Ishimura. Had a bad experience at the Northpoint outlet as the food was sucky there. Wanna try out at Jurong Safra and still I find the food so-so only. After today's meeting with them and also telling me about how I will express my anger out if I am angry with them as I treat them as my best friends, they agreed and support my idea. =) I realised sharing some private things with them will somehow makes me feel closer to them. Thanks girls =) I will miss you girls.  (shiyan who did not want to be shoot and zijing)  (the 3 of us always!) girl <3 boy! October 04 Mid- Autumn FestivalHello! Alvin suddenly told me just now that Janice and him performing wushu at my house nearby, Taman Jurong Shopping Centre and I quickly went down to support them and shun bian gave Janice a panadol. Was wearing home clothes >.<. Got Zhang Qian and few others pro RP students and heard from Janice that the items that they were performing will be in IVP also so I recorded the whole performance which lasted 15 mins long! The performance stage for them is really damn small that one of the guy do xuan zi until fall off the stage but they still put up an amazing performance! CLAPS CLAPS! Yesterday went to WeiRong house to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival. Despite saying that the full moon yesterday night was the brightest in this century, we could only see little white shades of the moon as it just rained and the sky was cloudy. =(. The weather is very humid also that we felt sticky and uncomfortable especially in WeiRong's house. Yet we still had a lot of fun eating his mum specially cooked buffet and also playing of lanterns! I still rmb how we joked on Jian Siong prayed with joss sticks and jumping around like a hip hop guy, Jing Xiu praying with her "oh my god".  (the 6 of us preparing lanterns!!!)  (playing at the playground!)  (emo-ing with our lanterns)  (full shot with everyone! some had already left)  (boy and me with cool effects! lols!) girl <3 boy! October 03 Creamy chicken pasta and sushi Hello! Just now 's training while doing my routine, I could feel my right arm aching as I had a flu jab near boy's house today. Went to the job briefing for Tuas data entry at Bugis early in the morning. Boy is starting work this coming Monday while I still have to wait for the person to call me as I have written my mum's particulars wrongly. The day before today, boy came to my house and we cooked creamy chicken pasta! We finally able to make the sauce our own as I had bought the whipping cream from Carrefour! THE PASTA IS SO DELICIOUS!!! It tasted like we bought it from pasta mania! Found this recipe online with 700 over ppl saying its standard can fight with restaurants and I totally agreed to it! Today, I brought over my sushi cooking stuffs to boy's house and we made sushi together for the first time. The lesson I have learnt from today is that I should not add too much water for the sushi rice. Gave some to Liyan, SingHai, JianSiong and YuanQing to eat. Hope it taste edible to them cos we didnt care about the appearance of the sushi at the end that much after rolling nicely for the first few times.  (boy using a sushi mat to roll the sushi! Got this from Ms Pat's last year sushi cooking lesson!) I just found out something that people like friends who will work hard and chiong together with them. But not those who keep on saying how tiring or how will this thing will be better if it is like this, cos it will make the listener himself to feel discouraged and unmotivated. And the problem is the things that the person usually comments on is on things that could not be change, e.g like an order from a higher position. So instead of complaining how tiring or commenting on how it will be better when that particular thing could not change in the first place, people will really appreciate if that person can start to do the other way round - which is to motivate them and encouraged them to carry on. Participate in events together even though it may be tiring. this will toughen the friendship bonds too. These are what friends are for, motivating you but not discouraging you. Many times, too much opinions about something that could not be change will turn people off. Strive hard together and like what the chinese saying goes , 有福同享， 有难同当! girl loves boy! October 01 Zoo Excursion! Hello! Yesterday went out with 7 other wushu peeps to the Singapore Zoological Gardens!!! The weather was not too hot and sunny, just nice! We walked almost continuously from 10am to 5pm. Imagine how tired we were after that to go for training afterwards! Tired but loads of fun!!!  (meeting at CCK at 9am early in the morning. Saen and me! Saen tidying up his hair for the pose but too late!)  (waiting for bus 927 and raymond was being blocked by yuan qing)  (Me and LiYan! Dont dare to move too much.)  (YO! We Are Brothers! Including the hippo! Fadhil, Raymond and Yuan Qing)  (Just outside Ah Meng Restaurant! Boy and me)  (Imitating the flamingoes which were beside us. Standing on one leg!)  (WOO HOO!!! ELEPHANT RIDE! Costs $8 for one. very expensive! just took a short ride but we laughed throughout the ride as we tried to balance properly)  (Saen, Fadhil, Boy and me)  ('we should be accompanied by adult'. >.<)  (Imitating the goats' sleeping pose)  (In the rainwater kids splashworld! Row, row, row your boat!)  (Twist!!!)  (This Ah Ma scared me out as I was the first to enter this room.)  (Saen and I cooking in the kampong house)  (Biggest see-saw that we played! See Yuan Qing's butt shaking in front of the camera!)  (ROAR!!! T-REX!)  (Li Yan and me and her favourite animal, GIRAFFE!!!)  (In a cave-like exhibition!)  (Last but not least, Yuan Qing on this tortoise statue which I think is breaking into pieces soon! HAHA!) SO much fun we had yesterday! Everyone played as though we are lacking this in our childhood. It feels so good to be young, especially with a group of 志同道合 friends like them! =) September 29 PeiQi Belated Birthday Celebration Hello Just got back from Jurong Point after meeting up with Pei Qi and Chia Miang. We went to eat Ajisen and chit chat while eating. I ate a little at home so I just ordered a cup of strawberry soda and one matcha icecream pancake. In the end, the price that I paid is almost about the same as Chia Miang who ordered seafood ramen lunch set. I love their ramen! Although it's a bit spicy for me, I like the taste of it!   (Pei Qi brought her newly bought polaroid camera and we played with it. VERY EXPENSIVE ah! 1 photo costs around $1. And we used away her 6 films which are approximately $6. I think I will only buy that camera when I have too much money. >.< LOL) The next time I guess we can meet up will be after their A's le. JIA YOU! Wushu Training Camp 2009Hello! This year wushu training camp has ended successfully! Soon, I will be attending the last wushu training camp next year. =(. 1st day Everyone went to Bukit Gombak to have dinner and off we went to Laser Quest. It was the first time for most of us. We had to carry laser guns and a vest which send vibrations to our bodies if we are being shot by others. Then when the game ends, our individual and team scores will show on the tv. Although each game lasts around 10 mins, it is super tiring lar!!! Because we are running for that whole 10 mins! Everyone played around 3-4 games! Very fun but tiring!  (our first team to send off to play!) 2nd and 3rd day I could not sleep well at night because of the hard table. This 2 days passed very fast and it felt dreamy to me. Partly because I was very tired to think of other things but kept training, training and training. I kept applying counterpain to reduce my muscle aches. >.<  (drying my SP wushu tee)  (doing my cha quan. training, training, training...............)  (Janice is super good in her flexibility. She still can smile and put thumbs up when 2 ppl pull her leg while 1 stepped her leg! 0_0) 4th Day (saturday) KY coach treated us for dinner at Clementi KFC. Finally I got a nice sleep that night but it was already the last night of training camp. 5th Day (sunday) It was year 1 grading test. Happy to see that many of them improve and some have the potential to do much better in the future. JIA YOU JUNIORS! Our jiti quan still very chui to me. JIA YOU! Yesterday training I really couldnt find anymore energy for me to carry on. I bought a Nescafe coffee to boost my energy. Since last tuesday I had swimming and at night couldnt sleep well cos of exam results, all the way to Sunday after training camp and I had to rush to celebrate my mum's birthday, to yesterday waking up early to accompany my mum to Jurong Safra Kbox to afternoon with boy to accompany Yilun to Jurong Polyclinic to see doctor, I hardly had a good rest. Feeling much better now. I am going out soon to Jurong Point to meet PeiQi and chiamiang =). girl <3 boy! September 28 Mummy's 41st birthday celebration Hello! I am back from training camp!!! Shall blog about it once I got the photos from Alicia! I only slept for 1 hour just now after I came back from the camp and then dad and I went to meet my brother and mum at Manhattan Fishmarket at PS. I chit chatted with my dad throughout the whole journey there. I can say that it is the first time I have talked to him so much. Telling him about some events that I am having recently, some of my troubles and not all actually. Cos there are still some parts of my life that I preprared to share with him but he is not yet prepared. And I am a person who will share with you all about myself as long as you asked me to. I do not usually initiate to share things with my parents. And that's partly the reason why they have not realised that I have already grown up a lot, especially in thoughts. Next time when I grow up to be a parent myself, I am not going to learn from my parents in this aspect. I will be like a best friend and hopefully confidante for my children. I will have regular family heart-to-heart talk session on weekly basis. Back to Mum's birthday celebration! Dad and I went into fishmarket first and I told the staffs that we had a birthday person with us and I would inform them once we had finished our dinner. Brother and mum came and found us 15 mins later. They went to grandma's house to give mooncakes. It has been 3 months since I last saw my grandma. =( It is the first time I ordered flaming prawns. It tastes delicious! Even my dad loves it! The staffs will use some kind of bunsen burner and set fire on the prawns in front of us and it was sizzling hot when it was served on our table. Matched it with one spoon of their garlic rice. HEAVEN! After we finished our dinner, I asked the staffs to clear the plates for us first. Mum asked "how come need to clear first? are we ordering something else?" I replied her no and I winked at my dad. HAHA. Then the manager lighted the candle on the cake and placed it in front of mummy. MUMMY WAS SHOCKED! Then 2 staffs and 2 managers came over. Shook mummy's hand. The indian guy manager was the loudest of all and he and the other staffs sang HAPPY BIRTHDAY song to mummy! I guess everyone in the restaurant that time looked over to our table. Haha! I think I was more nervous than my mum that I couldnt eat much just now as I was worried something would go wrong. Luckily, there isn't. The brownie birthday cake was warm! IT IS DELICIOUS! Dad says even paying for $5 for that small piece of cake is worth more than its value! It is FOC somemore which I didnt expect. Dad asks Mum, "Are you happy tonight?" Mum replies, "Of course I am happy." Dad says, " Your daughter prepares all these for you eh." I was there feeling my face went red. It is the first time my mum celebrates her birthday in front of strangers like this. Really hope she has a memorable birthday this year. I love you Mum!  (mummy and me)  (daddy and brother)  (mummy with the birthday cake)  (Happy family! =) September 23 Feeling tired now Hello!!! I am back from Shuling's house! Feeling so tired now since swimming yesterday with boy. Havent take a good sleep as this morning, I was waiting for the results anxiously. Later I have to bring all my camp stuffs to Jurong West for tuition then go straight to school for 5 days 4 nights training camp. Went with boy to Jurong East Swimming Complex yesterday. I searched up and down in my house for my new swimming costume for 1 whole hour but couldnt find it! In the end, I wore my old one. It was so fun and relaxing. Especially at the lazy river as we rented a float so we took turns sitting on the float and floating around, talked and played. Boy mustered his courage and attempted the pink slide which is the second highest and he toppled his float over when he came out from the tube. HAHA! He said he would try the blue one which is the highest the next time. Then we were at the wave pool and stayed near the wall, flowing with the current. I couldnt sit on the float at the wave pool too long as I will get motion sickness. We played at the pool for around 2hours and we went to KFC for lunch. The servings at the KFC there were a lot! I find that JE swimming complex is much worth it that Wild Wild Wet. Lesser people and so much cheaper ($1.50 admission fee). Boy and I headed back to my house and took a small nap. Then we wanted to make milo smoothie but the ice were not ready yet. So we make orange and apple smoothie! It tasted quite nice just that we had forgotten to filter the froth. At night went to Shuling house. Watched 3 episodes of Bai Quan Nu Wang as her boyfriend bought the whole series. Then chit chat a while and knocked out at 12.30am. Kept waking up in the middle of the night as I am not comfortable with the mattress already. We thought there will be a sms send to us at 8am to tell us the results but dont have. Got the results at 9.30am. All grade B and above but no A except C+ for ophthalmic optics. Somehow it still reaches my target right? :) haha! At least it is still above 3. On Monday, all the IVP competitors had to go back for selection. Thanks coaches for your suggestions on how to improve on my routine better. All of your suggestions are very detailed and I appreciate it. I will continue to improve and dont think much about the fierce competitor from that NTU. Same to Yilun, Alicia and Li Yan since that NTU competitor is competing in 3 items. -.-. I still cant believe that how a qualifed coach is able to compete with students like us.  (boy's ce chuai)  (boy and me with my fringe clipped up)  (Selection Ends*. 11 claps, SP WUSHU!) I havent pack my bag for the camp yet. >.<. Still deciding whether to bring my laptop to camp or not..... BS <3 BG! |
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