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31st March
Poor little Jolene Bong who survived the car crash in Muar... her parents and brother died in the car accident, leaving her the only survivor. It is so dramatic... reminded me of a book called A lost childhood. It's about this boy whose mother died after being murdered by a Jack-the-ripper-wannabe serial killer. His childhood is haunted by the event, he's adopted but the news kept reminding him of the nightmare... how his relatives or friends never mention about the incident... how nobody else ever acknowledge that he was in pain.

Kinda bad for me to make a joke out of poor little Jolene... I was inspired by her story and narrated her life story to make it into a korean drama... she gets adopted by the uncle and thinks that the uncle is her father. At the same time, she is interested in her 'brother' but knew that they couldn't fall in love. Later she realizes that the 'father' is actually her uncle... and her brother is actually his cousin... but too late... TYPICAL rite, lolx. ok it jus kinda sparked off in my mind... no offence to her and her family.

Anyway, haven got time to really try tasty food these days, so here's a little change to topic to some of the places and sights I wanna visit in the future. Firstly...the Sakura blossom season in March/Apr in Japan.

It'll be so wonder to walk between the two rows of Sakura trees, in a cool weather where I'll be wearing cotton jacket. The sun shines upon my face but never scorches the skin. Every breathe of the air rejuvenates my body and refreshes my mind. Pure indulgence whilst submerged in the romantic environment allows me to enjoy every second and mumble to  myself "How wonderful life is..."

Next, I'm sure most of you have seen these two hands somewhere... maybe in books or movies or even on the MRT (I've seen an ad with this). No it does not belong to the a boy and an E.T. ! LOL. It comes from the Sistine Chapel, the famous painting my Michelangelo (who created the sculpture of David). This painting is called the Creation of Adam, the centre piece of the Sistine Chapel ceiling as shown on bottom right. The Baroque and Renaissance period created so many beautiful art pieces and music. It's like seeing the Mona-Lisa times ten thousand ba.

28th March
Just came back from the SCO concert, been such a long time since I watched SCO concert le. The last time was the Dick Lee one last year. This time it features scottish instruments starting with the bagpipe. I really like Irish music better (refer to the Riverdance tap dance video) but the bagpipe is really cool... they march out... sophia say is like funeral march o.0 faintz. ya it's sometimes used in funeral but they were playing auld lang syne. One of the song had repeating melody, which we claim to be the Scottish equivalent of Feng Nian Ji, haha! They also played a song very similar to You raise me up... very nice. The 2nd half was quite terrible... but there was the violinist and the 'shou feng qin' player... he play like he's rowing the boat, very funny. We made a lot of jokes la, so bad! So relaxing to watch the concert, hopefully I can catch another one soon.

28th March
March is coming to an end and I'm so glad to have attended 3 sectional practices so far. On Tues I was so depressed after failing the driving test on Monday, lots of negative thoughts in my head... the NS depression. NS caused so much of my life to be sacrificed~ Alex used to be so committed and enthusiastic, so passionate about his work, friends and lifestyle, so much in control of his own life. Now everything is so out-of-control, there is nothing to look forward to or aim for... life is dwindling into a less-worthy form... brain getting rusty. Kelly and Eve talked about some marketing terms which we learnt before but it was clean-forgotten until they refreshed my memories again.

Then I went for sectional practice and it was such a stress relief. Nothing about NS... just music and laughter. Lin lao shi even offered free tickets for the suona sheng section to watch the SCO concert this friday. And I could book out in time to watch it, yay~ Now life for me is just... watching Survivor and TVB shows... go to CO if i can, gather with friends and go out... just awaiting for the next phrase in life - NTU.

I can hear the primary school beside me practising Long teng again, haha. Oh now they're practising set piece bah... haha. Anyway, the most beautiful 7th Day (TVB) is a very nice romantic show. Then the new song that I've been listening to is 楊宗緯-洋蔥 from Taiwan One million stars. Enjoy.

25th March
Failed my driving test... the warm up was pretty okay but when I sat in the car and did the directional change, something was wrong... dunno if I turn too late or what, just wrong lah then mount kerb - immediate failure. After that on parking I strike kerb and a lot of other mistakes, ended up with 24 demerit points and 1 immediate failure lo. HAIX. When it comes to test always liddat... my legs were trembling lah. At sydney opera house oso not so stress lo, this one is haix, dun tok abt it le.



Nice song~ from Xing guang 3 ... she's the forerunner of the competition. Anyway, Saturday was suppose to go out with lots of CO peeps but one by one, they fly my aeroplane... angry lo. Say ok ok den on the day itself, after I sms then say cannot come. Afternoon was actually having lunch with Jeremy, Andrew, Boyang and Hin Yeung... den wanted to hang out more with them budden had to rush home and meet up with the CO ppl... then they fly my aeroplane like this. Means I have to miss something to stick to the original plan, then HAIX. Luckily weilin and xiao pang did come and we watched Step Up 2. Then xiao pang and I went to MOF to eat Mame Mitsu~!!! Said to have slimming effects... xiao pang jiu keep eating only the jelly and red bean, haha. Dessert lo, how to have slimming effect!?

19th March
Went to Sentosa with ZiCheng and Justin to relax at the beach which wasn't too crowded, i like. There were many Japanese there... the few times I went Sentosa also always see ni-hon-jin. We played beach volley... v. v. long time never play volleyball le, wrist all red now, whoaha. The weather was good manz.

Anyway teckie showed me one of the funniest auditions ever 'Ken Lee'~! A prequel of Tu-late-tu-a-po-luo-gize.



After that I went for sectionals, time passes SO FAST when it's orchestra time. We went through HK Love suite briefly, ignoring tuning and other technical aspects. Just go through the rhythm and get some impression of the songs. Then we realized Lin lao shi is sooo 'in'~ haha, Me and Shiying watched Rule #1, so did lao shi... but Taurus did not. Then halfway through the song we had a break, I asked... why they dun have Japanese Love suite. Then Taurus said where got nice love song... I defended by saying "Under the same roof" (Tong zai yi ge wu yan xia) the theme song.



I'm sure most of you would have heard of the song and the tv show title. Poor taurus didn't~ LOL Dai gou~! Then we talked about Xin Guang Bang 3 where Sugianto would be representing Singapore... I know, Shi Ying knows, Lao shi knows but Taurus didn't know who Sugi is. Even lao shi watched all the Superstar shows... kool~ Then lao shi say he watched '24', 'CSI', Heroes, Prison Break and sometimes Discovery Channel and his favourite is History Channel. Taurus says those DSC are so boring... I asked if he watched Meerkat Manor on Animal Planet. Lao shi agreed that was a great show. Taurus asked what's a meerkat, then I said its Timou & Pumba from Lion King that timou. I know, Shi Ying knows, Lao shi knows but Taurus didn't know who Timou & Pumba are, cos he didn't watch Lion King! AHHH! Dai gou~! Then I talked about Victoria's Secret Fashion show, he dunno ok nvm. The funniest part came when I said heidi klum hosted for Project Runway... Taurus say he knows... the show where starting there's an aeroplane and then people start walking out from the aeroplane. Then lao shi, shi ying and I burst out laughing~!!! That's apprentice, not project runway... Then lao shi ask him what he watch, he say he watches those CCTV de show... some China version of Xi Yuan Lu~ cos her mum forced him to watch, haha. so funny lahx. Taurus got dai gou~ haha.

17th March
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16th March
Went to Pitstop cafe with Firewire and we played the Pirates prison break game, strategy game. Then we also played something similar to stress and finally one of my favorite game - Imaginiff! There's always this question about which era would best describe me : 1. Biblical Era 2. Computer age Era 3. Old West 4. Decadent Rome 5. Stone Age 6. Victorian Era. So far only KK and Daniel Poh managed to get it right and that is Victorian Era! An era rules by Queen Victoria where there is political, economical and social stability... flourish of the arts and entertainment. Men dressed in tuxedoes and women in those grand gowns, the buildings are like Victoria concert hall, Queen Victoria Building. romantic and kool. Really had fun at the cafe, I got my member card~ heehee.

Then we went over to Kevin's birthday party via Maxine's car. Her driving was... scary, haha. she had such a hard time with parallel parking and at one point, she was talking on the phone and changing lanes. Had hard time figuring out directions and thus had to loop around many times, especially when trying to find parking space. It was such a funny and interesting and scary experience.

Kevin invited all his family and friends over to a party reception at his condo function room... he was standing at the door welcoming guest, ala Wedding dinner, haha. So i asked him, where's the bride? LOL The food was good, the cake was too sweet for me but Maxine loves it. Kevin then invited us to go to his mum's pub but Eve wanted to sing K, so we went to K-ster at Chinatown. Quite cheap la, cos we use student cards. They only checked Me and Eve, whoaha den assume all got the card~ quite cool hor. I jus hun pian using student card again, whoaha. We sang sooo many English songs which I usually don't do so it was rather fun.  sang until 4am ... whoaha, so fun. Then walked all the way to Clarke Quay and sat by the river and just chill... then waited until 6.30am to catch the train, I didn't catch the first one cos it's sooo crowded, took the 2nd one, haha.

More food which I ate recently, the xiao long pao was sooo ex, which li xin bought. The jiu cai pie was nice, Sophia ate the Qiu dao yu japanese set.



Activate to find that stupid JI guy... so not sure when I'll be back... I guessing at least 3 weeks away. please SMS me as and when to fill up my boredom. Haix, hopefully i can update soon, cya.

13th March


Alicia Keys always have that one big song each album and this one is really cool. Anyway I'm watching Victoria's Secret 07/08 now... quite surprised that a lot of people dunno about this show. It's one of my favorite each year, not just the models but also the production, lightings, stage design, backstage. There's no more Gisele Bunchen and Tyra Banks le... but Heidi Klums (pronounced Koo-looms, not clums) is still there and there's Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio. Heidi's finale costume is sooo stunning!



And this is the S.P.I.C.E Girls on the show. still wondering why they were sooo popular when we were primary 5... I even played the song Wannabe when I was in band... LOL. I'm sure you can name at least 5 of their songs. Wannabe, Spice up your life, 2 become 1, Stop, Holler.



Now watch the 1990s MV of Say you'll be there... now looking back at the MV, it's so funny and cheesy! Geri's hair ~ LOL. Victoria don't really look THAT beautiful leh... I can't stop laughing watching this MV now.

11th March
Mei cai kou rou Rice! $3 only.

Saw these 3 outlines of drum set, piano and guitar at Esplanade for the Mosaic Arts festival. Interesting hor, many people were taking photos of it. Anyway, I went to do my driving lessons today and it was superb! I made only minor mistakes like turning abit too late and once I move off in wrong gear. Well, the first time I did parallel parking I knocked down the poles but that was because the instructor kept asking me to go backwards... >.< Anyway, I saw a lot of people taking test and strike kerb, one even knocked down two poles during parallel parking... scary! It was raining very heavily today bah, haix. I hope mine will go smoothly.

FINALLY GOT TO TOUCH MY SUONA! I'm so elated and ecstatic... it's after two months la... and I got the NYP open house dry fit tee, very very nice! Finally they do something right for open house tees. Learnt Xia Si Qing Cao Di... there's A diao lahz! faintz, have to memorise a whole new fingering. But I played quite well la, despite the two months break. So it wasn't so bad, heheee. Tomorrow suppose to go combine BUT because of someone and something, I have to go back camp, ARGHZ. Next week bahz~!

10th March 


Lately, I have a strange habit of watching and listening to Western Classical music at like 3am in the middle of the night. The last week was Canon in D by the Czech Philharmonic which I posted in Feb's page. Earlier on, I was listening to Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons... I'm sure all of you have heard of its Spring's First movement. Then I was listening to Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1.

What I've featured here is New York's Philharmonic playing 'Arirang' in DPRK North Korea. This is the first time so many American's enter North Korea as a group, with about 200 media journalists. As an isolated country, allowing journalists in is a big concern. This is one of the very few piece of news about N.Korea which does not involve human rights abuses or nuclear weapon or Kim Jung Il. Hearing New York Phil playing Arirang makes the world seems so peaceful ... even the worst enemies may one day become friends. They played it ... so touchingly. especially the piccolo solo (piccolo is the mini black flute). OMG it's 3.40am now... I better sleep. Here's the other pieces during the concert.

Prelude to Act III of Richard Wagner's "Lohengrin."


"An American in Paris"

New World Symphony

9th March
I'm really enjoying my holiday break, nt to Zi cheng's house to play mahjong with Long Lao Shi & Justin. Even ZiCheng's mum can recognize Long as our CO teacher-in-charge. Funny hor, teacher-in-charge play mahjong with students, haha. This is really how CHSCO bonded~ :P The usual hak-boon topic came about. Long was really accurate with whatever she says... fortune-teller. LOL. And guess what, I never 'fang pao' or let anyone win any game... yet... I didn't win a single game! Today was super bad luck la, and I was abit blur blur also. Sunlight was directly shinning at me through the window.

Zi Cheng is working at Merrill Lynch... big US investment company orh. So the 3 of us were giving Justin advise on choosing his university degree. Very ma fan, we ended up telling him to go see a fortune teller. Talking about the 'interesting' things that still happens at Cat High, especially about someone la. His stories never seems to die off de. NJC cut-off point is super duper low this year, all thanks to IP.. I guess it's the same for all the other JCs.

8th March 
Do you guys know how hard it is to find a decent long sleeve cotton shirt in Singapore that is of reasonable price?! It took me 3 weekends to search through Orchard, Bugis and I finally found it at Marina Square's Muji. 50% discount so the shirt only cost $16.50! I was contemplating to see if I should buy another color. There's a lot more nice clothes over at Muji, really interesting.

Battled through the crowd of the IT show, where Angeline got a very quality headphone from Creative for only $49! The usual price which we saw few weeks ago, where Angeline was almost giving in to the price and almost bought it, was $79! That's $30 down... woo! And a 1GB thumbdrive cost $10 now, freaking cheap. I had a glance at the Macbook Air and it was super light and super style! However, there was no 'holes' except a usb port and a power plug. Minimalist but the design is so nice. Next year I shall spend some time researching and getting a good bargain.

I walked pass the Lenovo booth and wanted to see how their laptops are. Then I saw a female model posing beside a pseudo-sports car... the face is 'mo peng' de. Then I didn't want to look at their laptops le, seeing how they don't even have the QC to hire a proper model, it simply says a lot about their company and their laptops. LOL. *shake head.

I saw soooo many people with the NTU goodie bag... meaning they all went to the Open House. Intended to go today since we were suppose to celebrate Huiying's 21st birthday but her grandfather passed away, hence it was canceled. Quite sorry for her, she'll always remember her 21st as the day after her grandfather pass away. Then again, we can always celebrate it another day to compensate it.

My first time eating Mei Cai Kou Rou rice and it was really cheap and good - at Quick Bites Marina Square. They offer a lot of hand made dim sum at bargain prices too. It is opposite Qi-Ji... besides the Subway. Photos will be uploaded soon. After dinner, Angeline Sophia and I went to the Esplanade's Nokia Powerhouse (this outdoor performing tent) to watch a free Mosaic concert by an American jazz singer, female. Not bad la her voice, very typical lounge girl. But the arrangement of Bridge over troubled waters wasn't very nice. Seems like the Nokia Powerhouse always have free performances on Saturdays. Quite a cool place to sit by the river, enjoy the view (Fullerton hotel is really beautiful) and enjoy the music. I really love the esplanade area...

7th March 
Had such a weird dream, a nightmare last night. In the dream I was watching Cat High Chinese Orchestra for their SYF and then the news on the tv announced that they only got gold. Which made me super duper sad... Then Justin Kek (my CO junior) called to say that he only had one A for his A level result. Then he said he got 4 points.

The A level result releases today and WHY am I so anxious for Justin, Alvin, Derrick and the rest?! LOL. Okay la, equally anxious were Taurus and Zi Cheng. Anyway, when I woke up, my gut feeling was that the opposite would come true. That is usually the case for my dreams la, the opposite would come true, happened a few times le.  I immediately SMSed Justin and it made him pretty panicky. LOL. Then I thought about it... 4 pts would mean 3As and 1 B. Grade A is one point, B is two point, so 3A1B is 4 pts ma...

Guess what, IT'S TRUE!!! Justin got 3A1B... haha although I never managed to hear what he had to say about his GP result in my dream. So happy for him and hopefully he can choose a good degree course and not come telling me "I should have chosen poly!" while studying A lvls. Congrats to Derrick as well~ As for Alvin, I believe that you've already done your best, don't give up hope. As long as you get into a degree that you like, the results don't really matter.

Thankfully I've already decided and accepted NTU mass comm. The university fees have raised by so much this year! Absolutely crazy. Then I checked that the bank loans are at an interest rate of 5.88% per annum! SO HIGH! It'll probably take 4 years of work to repay the loan. Hopefully next year I can become a brightspark?!

I heard that last Wed de CO practice only had 10 plus person attend... back to a similar situation like when I was in  year 1. WHY?! Haix... As what Angeline said, any organization will have its up and downs, just that how long the up is and how long the down is differ. Every year this time, I would be so worried for recruitment because it means a lot for the orchestra. It won't be easy and the road ahead will be even harder given the cut in budget. Hopefully the new committee can work something out and solve the problem.

1st March
Been such a long time since I went shopping... and this time I did so at Orchard, late night shopping. Really exhausted because Sophia and Li Xin can REALLY shop until they close shop... which is 11pm! Angeline and I surrender le. I was hunting for a basic white long sleeve cotton shirt... t shirt material just long sleeve... or those cotton weaved ones... SO HARD TO FIND!!! It's either too thick or too expensive~ I wanna use it to layer my clothes but if it's thick, will die of heat exhaustion. Many times we see in ads or the mannequins, dressed up with 3 layers! collar shirt inside, then a long sleeve cotton shirt and then a huge jacket. o.0 WHO WEARS LIKE THAT IN SINGAPORE?!?! 

Went to TAKA and saw all the high end brands cos Sophia was hunting for formal blazers to wear to work. Then what I saw at the children section was sooo... exciting. DKNY kids (that's Donna Karen New York if you don't know what it means), Ralph Lauren kids, Burberry Kids, United Colors of Benetton Kids and the best one ... ARMANI JUNIOR. It is so stylo milo ~ But it cost 168 for a shirt... kid size! if there's an adult size I would sooo want to have it but it's gonna be super ex, but the designs are really really cool! Website here . I'm so amazed by the price and style these kids can wear. So jealous! Haha.

After that we went to chill at Starbucks, hehee~ Seems to be our weekly habit liaoz, to find a good coffee place and chill. Most important factor is the ambience of the cafe... must be cosy and have a good view. Too bad the one we went fulfilled this 2 criteria but it was a little noisy.

  

 Here are the pictures of the Korean restaurant which I ate with sophia xiao pang and meng shan at Liang Seah St. last week. About 38 bucks for the set meal, which mounts up to $10 per person. The side dishes are great, the ikan bilis were sweet, the kimchi are the best I've tasted so far (not that I've tried a lot) and the egg was decent. It looks small on the pic but the BBQ Beef and the steam boat were really HUGE! 4 of us almost couldn't finish the food. Sophia ordered the Korean Tea, didn't get to taste...ask her about it. I would definitely love to go back there again.