This is my dear dear clarissa who's turning 22 this year.. though we've only met a very pathetic and miserable TWO times this year, i know our friendship still holds strong. May the good Lord continue to guide and bless her in everything she does... Blessed Birthday my dear girl, i love you! :)

misses

a short post before i go to bed, on the things i miss

i miss rg band days, playing with my seniors, making prsents, pre-concert high and post-concert blues. footdrills, band camps, band chalets and all band related events.. band bbq! all the awards and dunking of pple. lao shi and his dog lucky. the tears the disagreements the waves... and the bonds that resulted.

i miss guo bao zhi guo xiao po. zhu ming jie nd his adorable sister. dont know if i'll ever see them again in this lifetime/ have any contact with them. or even if i do, whether it'll be awkward and weird. and so i miss those simple interactions back then, short, but which will stay with me always.. but there'll be that part of me that'll keep wondering how they are and how they'll grow up and turn out to be..

ok right now, i guess these are the 2 major categories of things that i miss most.
i do miss rj band days too, but somehow rg band days are more poignant and more nostalgic. maybe cos they lasted 4 years. and they were longer ago, so when i start rmmring things... it comes back in torrents. how we've grown, up and away from what used to hold us together, and how things have changed..

cadenza i-donno-how-many-already was great fun. worth playin just for the sake of... everything. stress free cos just 1 not-hard piece. maybe the best part was seeing denise and getting to talk to her and crap and all.. really, she prob is the direct batch junior that i'm closest to. and which in a way therefore i like the most, aka my favourite. i dont know where those 3 quiet pple of ours went.. qiao qi constance and charis. they prob evaporated or something. oh but nothing beats our direct seniors. now, THEY are the ones who have truly disappeard. gone. vamoose. to think of how much we loved/idolized them before, and what a huge part of our lives they played/ the tremendous influence they had over us. ok, i think i may just be speaking for myself.

i think, growing older means missing more things as the years go by.. i also miss my goldfish whom i havent interacted properly with in ages and someone else who brushed me off hahahaa so nvm.

guo bao zhi guo xiao po zhu ming jie xiao feng....

hais.

want to cry already.

busy days. which would be perfectly fine with me if only i could control that dozing off everywhere anywhere thing. during yesterday's tutorial from 2-4pm, i was basically asleep the whole lesson.. so embarrassing, considering the teacher asked me several times if i'm ok, and i went to wash my face once, plus also went for a short walk then returned to the classroom.. but all to no avail, i still kept dozing off. such is the severity of my sleep debt...

got back AST results. i can;t believe i got marked as pronouncing LOVE wrongly.. shuchks la, must have been too anxious or something, i knew it didnt go well. haha. but this love thing is so.. lose the mark for nothing lor! i Know it is pronounced laf, not lerve.. :( heh

have weird eating habits these days too. reach home late then eat ard 12 midnight while watching War and Beauty.. lol. last night feasted on my soggy but still yummy chichken terriyaki subway, the night before was black chicken soup and veg!

these days, feels like i've re-establish contact / gotten in touch with many people who were part of my 'past'. heh. met seng teck with liang yuan that day in bishan. met chifeng after a million years. bumped into pri school friend shaun. called cherlyn's house out of the blue some weeks back. met up with amanda and ginny and alison (finally!) :) and erm, faceboked a lot of pple.. lol. like, added wenni, then saw Jane Koh in his friends and added her.. was tempted to send a random msg to jane.. lol.. always only knew her as the chiobu senior.. hahaha.

going for rg alumni prac and rwinds.. seeing seniors and juniors and all. it's a bit tragic, but i believe my favourite junior is denise.. and not my own 'directs'. totally not close to them at all. then again i realise everyone doesnt keep in touch with everyone (seniors n juniors)anymore after leaving band. sad!! i rmmr all those chalets.. concerts.. etc. makes me wonder, what would it be like if C.A.T.S had a dinosaurs outing? hee. and also an rg batch 02 outing.. and oh of cos, the RJ batch 04 gathering!

Sunday 20 July 3pm onwards at Sentosa for an afternoon of games..
who can make it??? :)

happenings

i wish i had more time, so i can vomit out everything thats bubbling inside me waiting to be expressed... heh. but time is prescious; of the essence. i know i need to rest more, but dont ask me why my body clock is so cranky... take last night for example, i reached home at ard 12, and was pretty awake so was doing stuff, and slept at ard 2 am. and a few hours later, i AUTOMATICALLY awoke at ard 6 plus. so yes. it's not my fault if i doze off in church or in class.. i really have no inkling why i ca survive the days with so little sleep. but. it's not good. it's been going on for weeks now..

anyhow, yesterday was great :) playing farmiliar band favourites, like phantom of the opera, oregon (!!!), etc... a pity didnt try highlights from chess cos the scores werený complete. and yest being the first rwinds prac of the year, there was games to erm, encourage bonding (ok la i think it did help me get to know more pple and just feel more comfortable.. i realised that xh's brother is such a joker, and his batch is quite friendly and nice. SHUEN!!! where art thou.. i wish u were in singapore and playing for rwinds too... :( not forgetting Cadenza on the 19th, 3 pm at singapore conference hall. it's really strange that for once, cadenza is on a sat AFTERNOON - queer. if u were here, i know u would play! it's sad how our batch is so terribly un-enthu... for now there's only xh and myself. we're playing beauty and the beast! a nice and simple piece that's nontheless pleasing on the ears.

so yes. i shall not advertise for it or ask pple to come cos really, there isnt a need to... alumni only guest playing 1 item after all.

as i was saying before i digressed... yest was girl's night chilling out after rwinds prac, games and delicious catered food (practically all cleaned out lol.. and i didnt get to try an eclairs!!! haha). RG mini batch gathering.. 6 of us there. let the pictures do the talking. suffice to say, it was just really really nice... :) and i certainly hope the 31st dec new year eve's batch thingy does come to pass.

we are the clique that formed because we were clique-less... lol... in shuen's words, we were the loner's club. now if only we could photoshop shuen in or something. i wonder when the 4 of us will get to meet up... don't we all look so beautiful? tee hee hee. next up, pics from rwinds prac :)

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but unfortunately, jacjac's head is being obscured... so here's a close up of her lovely face :)

jacjac and me~! :)

9 of us in different colours/shades... pretty! may the turnout from our batch always be this good or BETTER :)

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triple dating at settlers :) fun fun fun! tho it was a putoff having to sit outside - hot la! no air con leh.. but it was quite alright in the end. i was pretty high... as usual. and it was very funny playing the various games. like the voting one - which person was definitely NOT a teacher's pet and was sen to detention the most times... our answer was pretty unanimous. LOL.

long live friendship! :) this is so special :)

us and our other halves... :)

on friday, late lunch appointment with rixin :) that funky girl is going to india for missions on the 23rd this month! and staying there for many months.. wow.. but unfortunately that means can't play in rwinds for CODA this year with her. ah wells!we started off our meals with... donuts from J.Co of all things. shared 3 only and already felt pretty full.. still had 3 more to go! oh but they were good. just that really sinful as well :P
my lobster spaghetti from V8! sadly, no 20% off cos it's a promo item.. they should have stated so explicitly lor, so misleading. in which case i would have probably chosen the black pepper sirloin. heh. i'm a very meaty person!

i really like the ambience and decor in V8... there's attention paid to details, though why on earth they have so many tv sets built into the walls boggles my mind. - waste $$$. waste electricity, killing the earth!!! hurhur. look, both of us were so green that day... :)

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Last but certainly not the least... happy brithday ah-y! u are muchly missed in sing-a-pore... i still rmmr how fun it was celebrating ur bday with u last year :) doing ur bday card, and wrapping ur present in *interesting boxes with tasks for u to do as u peel off each layer of wrapper :D

And... TWW!!! Happy Happy 22nd birthday babe :) am very honoured that i got to spend pat of ur special day with u.. watching u eat ur yellow noodle laksa muahaha. this time round, got to see u many more times and so in a way, made up for only seeing u once in jac/feb. hee. take care ya, and gambatte for your final year!!! 你行的 :)

More pictures..

Asher is so so soooooooooooo cute!!! :) he's grown over the 6+ months that i havent seen him. hee.

Photo update!

just for the record- i did NOT pee in my pants ok. it's just that i tend to persipre a lot.. sigh. and NUS indoor badminton hall is like a sauna can.

trying on lothes in bugis junction... but we resisted and didnt buy in the end. lol

3 happy friends... just keep swimming... :)

an afternoon of HOTEL... muahaha.

we rock :)

bird park excursion to recce the place!

the birds like me ok... se they're eating from my hand! :D