10 December 2009
Came back from Taiwan...

I went for a 6-day trip to Taiwan and just came back yesterday. Let me just briefly describe my 6-day journey...

Day 1
This day is all about going to the airport and you know... Flying... 4 hours and 20 mins of flight... During the entire journey I slept and ate and watched movie from the tiny little screen in front of me... I think I need to change my glasses after all that... I reached Taipei at around 8+pm and needles to say, by the time we reached the hotel, it was already 10+pm... And so, the day ended there...

Day 2
We started off early in the morning after breakfast to 台中 in a bus ride that took approximately 3 hours... We were going to see the famous 日月潭 which was a lake that was said to look like the sun and the moon... It was rather cold there as the ground was higher... We also went to this temple, and I forgotten what was it called but there was one very amusing thing in this temple (temples are rarely amusing...) There was a terracotta warrior at the side of the temple, and I saw people taking pictures... All was normal until it starting moving lol... It was actually a person in there, and I think he was rather successful in getting attention and donation from the public...

Lets see, later I bought this sausage from a small stall near the temple which cost only NST 30, it was quite delicious and a little sweet... Haha, this was the beginning of tasting Taiwan street food (other than the breakfast lunch and dinner)...

Later on, we went to several places which I cannot seem to remember at this point in time... But I think it was quite fun for the first day with the cooling weather and all... Nearer to nighttime, we headed to the hotel which was some sort of a resort on the mountains... We sang karaoke till 10pm and went to bed (after taking a nice hot bath in the hot spring which was available in each room)...

Day 3
I woke in the refrigerator... Brrr... It was just so cold! And we went for a morning cycle around the little town... This was probably the longest cycle I have ridden for about 5km? I'm not sure how far we went but I'm positive that it was rather challenging to go up hill... But of course, after going up hill, you have the immense pleasure of going DOWN hill... weeee~~~ haha... I have long since forgotten what perspiring feels like since coming to Taiwan, but after the cycle... Whoo...

After a short rest and some breakfast, we headed even further uphill to a place called 埔里... Yet another small and even colder town... I feel like some frozen product...

Here, we were given the privilege to walk up the hill for a short distance... The tour guide told us that we were going to climb at least 400+ steps at one point in time... And while we walked and climbed and made short visits to the little stalls nearby, I was sure there were already more than 400+ steps we have taken... But to our horrid surprise, we came to the mouth of a tall and long flight of steps which was called 499 steps, signifying 步步高升... I was like OMG! SOMEMORE?! So we started the long climb up... And proud to say, I reached up 1st yay!

When everyone arrived, we walked for another few minutes while enjoying the surrounding scenery of Maple trees (I plucked a few leaves hehe) and soon arrived at a ticketing booth in the middle of nowhere... weird huh? Well it's true... beyond it was a short (maybe not really that short) stretch of road which led to a sheep farm... You can guess already, we had a chance to "interact" with the sheeps... hehe...

That's about all for today... We then proceeded to our hotel for the night...

Oh, did I mention that we bought some super long fire sticks... I do not know what it is called but it gives out this sparkles when lighted up and you can hold it... It was really very long... And we had a great time playing with in out in the cold at the top of the mountain... Brrr...

Day 4
Today was all about traveling back to Taipei... So it was not really a very interesting day... The ride back was about 4hrs or so and I basically slept through it all...

At night, we had dinner at a really special restaurant which was uniquely designed by a designer(who was the owner of the restaurant) It was well just special... It was not normal, and asthetically pleasing... That's all I can describe... I might post the photos on facebook if I feel like it...

Then we went back to the hotel which was really grand and just beside Taipei 101... Cool huh! It almost felt like a 6 star restaurant but it was only a 4 star restaurant... I really could not believe it at first... it was sooooo nice!

Day 5
After breakfast, we went to some place which sells pottery and like porcelain or clay items... I bought some sweet potato balls here haha... It was quite nice, but I prefer those in Cameron highland which are bigger in size and sweeter^^ My mum bought like 6 tiny teacups to go with the tiny teapot at home... Lol, the teacups were cute!!!

After that we went to this place called 五分铺( not very sure about the name)... This place is like a warehouse retailing kind of place which have a surprisingly large amount of little shops selling huge amounts of clothings at a very low price... Not really my kind of place or my family, so we ended up just looking without buying...

For dinner, we were left on our own at this place (shi ling ye shi ~I do not know how it is written) which sells food food and more food... It also has a games corner which attracted lots of teenagers... Like shooting and throwing darts or something along that line... I did not think the food here was particularly good but we HAD to eat and so we bought this huge piece of chicken fillet as big as your two hands opened wide and another oyster omelete (o jian in hokkien)...

With dinner done, we went back to the hotel for a short rest and for the first time during the trip, enter Taipei 101... It's a little like KLCC and maybe ION Orchard, whichever best gives you the idea on how the interior feels like... All the branded goods and overpriced things... But our main point was not to shop... So we went up to the 89th floor which gave us a view on the city's night scape... as well as to explain how Taipei 101 was build with the largest damper on earth... (a damper helps to stabalize and balance the building during strong winds... and usually it shifts ever so slighty so you cant see the movement) We went up to the 92nd floor (I think it was 92nd) to the outdoor observatory where the cold wind hit us even harder... It was windy and cold, multiplying the freezing effect...

After this experience, we went back to the hotel in preparation for tomorrow's flight home at 4am in the morning... YAWNS!!!

Day 6
Took the plane and arrived safely back home shortly after noon... ^^
28 November 2009
Has been lazy to update this blog...

I'm back! Though I must admit I've been spending too much time on Maple Story^^ And busy leveling my Aran character to level 50...

Alright, we had a "class" gathering today and 12 turned up for it... Quite a pathetic sum if you put it upon near 50 in a class... Somehow class gatherings do not seem to work very well in Malaysia... I guess it is because in Singapore, you are more confident about public transport and your parent's schedule do not really bother you that much as compared to Malaysia where you rely on your parents to send you there and back...

Anyway, I have to say that the idiotic boys are being total jerks! This gathering was supposed to mean that everyone sort of get together and talk about stuff (I don't care what stuff)... And they keep wandering off in their own gangs and we keep having to find them! Why can't we just sit down together and just talk like normal days during primary school? This gender barrier is getting more and more sensitive! But I think that's part of growing up... Still, it would have been so much better if the guys are not so shy...

We went for a movie, New Moon that is... It was rather slow paced than what I have expected and there were mushy parts where I simply hate... But overall it was quite nice and I especially like the transition between human and wolf... It's just so cool!

After the movie, we parted... The guys as usual, wandered off on their own almost immediately and the girls went home one by one... That's all to the gathering... I really hope the next time we meet, we can lower that stupid barrier and TALK!!!
28 October 2009
Drama Fest TOMORROW!!!

Oh yay and Oh NO for tomorrow... I dunno what to say about the drama fest... I have mix feelings about it... I feel that we are not that prepared, but when I think deeper, I realize that other classes are also facing the same fate and then I feel confident... I just hope more people come to watch our performance...

On the other hand, exam scripts have just been given back... ALL!!! And I'm happy I got A1 for everything except for LA... Sometimes I hate exceptions... I got a B3 for LA which hopefully, will NOT put me in remedial classes next year... Remedial can be so useless at times...

One other thing is that my phone has no money again cause i bought the one that splits 30 for global and 100 for local calls... And now I used all the global call money and my mum cannot reach me... Luckily internet nowadays makes communication so much easier...

I'm also going back to Lai Meng this Saturday for the 8oth anniversary... So see you guys there man!!! Oh.... I'm so excited!!!
25 Sept 2009
Friday!!!

After school and stuff, I did one hell of a research session with Lin Hui for our HSSRP proposal... Since our topic was Urban Geography, which was supposed to research on megaprojects in Asia and how they affect our lives, we decided to just choose the ever almighty PETRONAS TWIN TOWERS!!! (since it's so so so near to my house!!!) But nevertheless, we had some difficulty trying to phrase our proposal nicely... Sighs...

Anyways, I went back to BS and had to rush to this Mid-autumn Festival at RGPS... It was kinda erm... fun... In a sense that we robbed a lot of prizes from the people (mainly OREOS and M&Ms)

Firstly, we did the Lantern riddles which were like so easy for us and managed to win a nice foolscap... We all discussed anyway and managed to get like 17/20... Haha we actually rejected the Gold prize ( a notebook and pen) and exchanged it for the Silver Prize instead...

Lets see, in Don't Forget the Lyrics English version, they had HSM Now or Never, and Taylor Swift's Love Story + some other songs which I don't really know much about... Then we were singing Love Story when one of the other primary school kids were trying to guess the lyrics later on, and then, when it really was the time to guess, we continued singing and singing until the end of the chorus... Then the girl got her prize (like duh how would she not get it when we already sang the entire part for her...) So, my roommate challenged Now or Never instead and like duh we also got the prize ^^ In the end, (my roommate knows the whole song of Love Story) we asked her to sing the whole song and we got the entire box of OREOS!!! haha, so easy...

Then we went over to the Chinese one... The songs there were quite old... so we still tried out one of the songs anyway... And we managed to get it RIGHT!!! LOL!!! (though I was not the one guessing) and got more OREOS and M&Ms... Our teacher came later on (the Miso) and we asked her to guess... She called her hubby... And they guessed together... Awww how sweet... zzz... Then we got the prizes instead haha... Oh and not to mention we got a lot more OREOS and M&Ms in rearranging the Chinese poems... And the teachers there actually thought we were RGPS or former RGPS students, since she thought our Chinese were not so good (oops sorry Nanyang... Guess we are not up to standard)But too bad we were from Malaysia and our Chinese is NOT THAT BAD and we managed to solve all the poems^^

So in the end, we got loads of OREOS and M&Ms... Yay!!! It's still on my study table now... haha... Can't help but laugh...^^
17 Sept 2009
Whee~~~

I finally finished watching Shakugan no Shana II yesterday... I WANT MORE!!! But I guess I should stop being so lazy and focus more on the upcoming-oh-so-important-and-not-fun-end-of-year-exam... Whoo, the name is kinda long...

Anyways, I was really pissed during Chinese lesson... At first, the teacher went through the "lian xi" paper, at the same time giving exam tips... Alright, that was fine... Then she went through yet another "lian xi", and I was like "okay, learning more is better and practicing is good..." Then, at the last 10 mins, she gave us a stack of notes (you are supposed to "tian cong" fill in the blanks with words from the 3 "ke wen" she was going to teach... And you know what, after she finished reading the 1st one out loud for the class, the bell rang, and she left... Great it's CME now... Then like in the middle of CME lesson, she suddenly appeared and told us to finish up the worksheet by today... "Hello??? CME is the last lesson and what you expect? Sneak doing the worksheet during lessons just to hand it up to you in like less than half an hour??? That was totally ridiculous..."

Fine, enough talking about such stupid stuff and I shall now bring you into the world of DRAMA!!! Haha, since we are going to have a drama assessment next week... Everyone in the entire level is preparing and rehearsing for it... Our play is rather normal I think, though I would have wanted it to be more fantasy-like but I'm not the only person in the group so we came up with a very "cute" play... if you want to know more about our play you can always visit our drama blog at http://201dramatick.blogspot.com/ yay!!! So, I am Cara, a tomboyish girl... Kinda suits me I think... Anyways, we had an absolutely insane time rehearsing... haha...

Oh and one more thing I am happy about is that CCA IS GOING TO STOP AFTER TWO MORE TRAININGS!!! cheer for me yay!!! I'm getting a little excited now... haha... Oh ya and today's training, we practically played soccer for the entire 2 and a half hour... So cool!!! But the remaining 10 mins we did physical training which really got my leg numb and I almost could not walk down the stairs... But luckily, I managed to somehow drag myself up to my room... Phew~~~

I think this post is very very long as compared to my previous few posts, haha... Oh and before I end of, I would like to recommend you to go and read my friend's fanfiction at http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5349772/1/Bittersweet_Butterscotch...

I feel like I'm promoting a lot of websites today... ^^
15 Sept 2009
Long time since I posted... Sorry bloggy...

Anyways, holidays ended a day ago and I'm currently adjusting back to school life... There will be a Chemistry test tomorrow, how sickening... I really really feel so lazy to go to school...

I had debate today and guess what we LOST!!! YAY!!! NO MORE DEBATE... Haha... Can finally focus on my "studies" haha... I seriously am getting sick of debating on rather useless topics... Precisely! Debate has no point at all...

Haha, better go study for my Chemistry test now before I flunk it tomorrow...

Sorry bloggy for such a short post... Will post again some time later maybe...
3 September 2009
Going home tomorrow!!!

Weeee~~~~~ SO HAPPY!!! I finally get to go home...

Shall keep this post at here... Haha...
25 August 2009
It's been a long time since I posted...

I am really sorry for not updating for so long, but I was really very busy... I had to prepare for things like the debate competition as well as all the worksheets and assignments... Sighs, I did not even have much time to play the piano... Not that I can't if I really wanted to, but I just feel so tired whenever there is free time... And I think things will continue on like this until the day End-Of-Year exams are over...

As of now, my class just won the debate competition between 212 and us... Just to let you all know, it is an inter-class Chinese debate and the topic is 青少年犯错应由父母负责for 正方, which is us and 应由自己负责for反方... Personally, I think we were at an advantage since it was 212's first debate session and the topic was also not very easy to debate on for them... But nevertheless I think we did much better as compared to the first round of competitions... Therefore, I'll have to prepare again for the next round of debate which I think would be held next Thursday... The topic is still quite unclear now...

Next would be my academic stuff... Like I mentioned earlier, my homework are still piling up and there would be a Chemistry SPA(Science Practical Assessment) tomorrow... I hope I can remember what I am supposed to remember... Art is fun for this term since we are doing on fashion design... It is probably the most enjoyable lesson besides PE and Dance...

And of course, this Thursday would be the Handover day in which our Secondary Four seniors would pass down their current positions to the next batch of Committee members... Training would end earlier at 4.30 and then we'll have food and snacks and sort of a small ceremony... My level are supposed to buy fingerfood which I think we will be buying tomorrow after school at Coronation plaza...

Also, recently I really feel quite stressed out since so many tests are coming up soon... The very next one would be my Chemistry test which would be the first week right after holidays and the almighty EOYs somewhere around October... I think I am just going to break down anytime soon... But luckily there's still holidays to look forward to which I can finally go back home again eat HOMECOOK food!!!

Alright, I think that's all for this post... It's getting a little too lengthy... I hope I can find the time to post something soon...
6 Aug 2009
Block Test OVER!!! YAYS!!!

Haha... block test is just over and I am currently damn happy... It's a slacking day with some form of CCA stuck in between my time slot...

Okay, that is not the main point...

The main point is that:
THERE'S A SERIOUSLY VERY @#$%^&*! IN THE BOARDING SCHOOL.... FILL THE NICE LITTLE SYMBOLS WITH YOUR IMAGINATION:P

DURING PREP TIME (7.30 - 9.30 of solitary study "supposedly")...
It was after exams, and any normal person would slack right? Would you? you would right. And therefore, I played this very nice game of mine (no internet connection!) called "Zoo Tycoon"... It is a very educational game and to tell you the truth I used it to revise my Geography... Those of you who played should understand what I am talking about...

However, there is just some @#$%^&*! WHO DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF WANTING TO SLACK AFTER EXAMS AND SCOLDED ME FOR PLAYING SUCH AN EDUCATIONAL GAME!!! DON'T YOU THINK SHE IS SERIOUSLY VERY "QIAN BIAN" (Chinese)... /TIDAK DIPUKUL CUKUP (malay)/KIAM BA(hokkien)/MEI SEI GOH (cantonese)...

Okay, let me tell you what happened...
1) I was sitting near the window (screen facing window so you can see what's on my computer screen if you looked through the window)
2) I heard a knocking on the window somewhere over the other side ( not me yet )
3) She knocked on my window
4) I was asked to go out and I did (sorta wish I did not even hear the knocking)
5) She was talking to two other of my Nanyang senior about them watching movies during prep
6) I knew she was gonna say something about my game
7) She spoke to me saying "What were you doing? Do you know that you shouldn't be playing games during prep?"
8) I replied her "Erm... It's to help me revise Geography (whatever la, I don't know what to say so just crap la even though I know exam's over)
9) She told me "Which part of it helps you to revise? You show me!"
10) So I went back into the prep room and open the game again (my friend kindly helped me alt+tab)
11) I opened the window and showed her some stuff like "It tells you about the animals' habitats and how they live, where can they be found..."
12) She stared at me (I guess she was speechless)
13) So I continued explaining "We were learning about natural vegetation and this is the savannah, decidous, coniferous..."
14) She called Mrs Ho (our music teacher who was on duty tonight)
15) She said " this girl claims that her game is educational. She shouldn't be playing games right?"
16) After Mrs Ho came she walked away (I guess she was too embarassed and did not know what to do so she asked another tutor to take over the situation)
17) I began to explain what I said the HER before to Mrs Ho (I somewhat knew Mrs Ho wouldn't scold me)
18) Mrs Ho was like "You seriously shouldn't be playing games during prep"
19) I said "But it's after exams!"
20) She told me " Aiyah, why must you sit here and play? Sit somewher like over there and play ma..."
21) And then I was like OMG so funny!!!

So now you know the whole story... Do you not agree with me that she is a @#$%^&*!?
29 July 2009
Choir Limelight concert at Esplanade...

Tonight, at around 5.30 pm, I made my way to City Hall... As I had mentioned earlier, I was going to my school's choir concert at the Esplanade to watch my friend perform... I went there a little earlier in hope that I can find some food to eat... I manage to find this cute little stall selling some sort of snack in the shape of a fish... I do not know what it is called, but it is made out of some sort of dough with ham and cheese in between... It was nice actually...

Then, at around 7.00pm, I went to Esplanade to be seated at the concert hall... Soon, the performance started... I must say that this performance is unlike band or dance performance in which you get to see more action... But it was enjoyable alright... The songs were all very nice, especially Shinjiru... A Japanese song...

It ended at around 9.00pm and I waited for my friend to come out so that we can go eat something together... (the fish thingy was not filling) And we ended up in Mcdonalds eating burger... And so, at around 10.05pm we left City Hall and reach the BS at around 10.40pm...

It was a tiring day indeed...
23 July 2009
Friday again!!!

Amazing!!! My group actually got into IVP show!!! I got to know it since yesterday during IVP session... At first, we thought it was going to be another normal IVP session where we were going to show our teacher our poster and get feedback from her... We really put in effort to do this poster although I still prefer our previous poster!!! But since our teacher says the previous one was too messy(words were handwritten) so we had not much of a chioce but to redo the poster...

Then, she suddenly said "You are confirmed to be in IVP show."

And me and my faithful group members were like "HUH?!"

Neither of us actually thought we could make it this far... Not to mention that we are the only group chosen in the entire Nanyang... I am NOT boasting but just saying how I feel... To us, we did not really put in that much effort as compared to other groups... Our idea is merely a very simple solution to spillage of can drinks... Our prototype was no way like the other groups... Our's was simple and we can remake it like anytime we need to (can you tell how simple it was?) while the other groups had complicated prototype which required so much effort... I guess we were just lucky to have our idea liked by the expert mentors...

Now, we are required to make a short video so that we can present it during the show... I do not really have an idea on how to do it but I guess we will pull through somehow... Just like how we somehow came up with the crazy idea... I hope for the best and JIA YOUs to my group!!! =)
20 July 2009
Exams are drawing to a near...

Talking about exams, I really hate them... Again, which student in this world in their right minds would like exams?! Anyways, we cannot deny the fact that we still have to go through many many more exams throughout our life... Be it literally or a test everyone is soon to face at least once in their lifetime...

I have started preparing for my upcoming blocktests... I am still at the early stage of going through my notes once and hopefully being able to understand them... I finished the 1st round of revision for my Physics and Geography and is currently working on History... I do not know why a young country such as Singapore has so much to read about... Imagine if you actually lived in China?

Again, I am doing a few questions of Math when I have the time... I really hope I can do well in this block test and then look forward to a happy and slackish year ahead till End Of Years... End Of Years is still a "long" way to go and I am refering to the near future where the September holidays are coming and I will be able to go back home again and hopefully meet up with my friends again...

Harry Potter is out in the cinemas, I really wish I could watch it now but I guess not since exams are so near and Singapore tickets are so much more expensive as compared to Malaysia...

On the 29th July, I am going to a choir concert by my school... My friend is performing in it... It is entitled "Limelight" at the Esplanade concert hall... I look forward to a good and interesting performance by Nanyang Choir... I seriously wish more people would come and enjoy it with me but I do not really think that is possible... Most of my friends in the boarding school has remedial classes then and cannot spare time to go with me... But nevermind, at least I will be coming back with my friend who is performing...

CCA has resumed and how I wish it would continue to be suspended... I am looking forward and NOT looking forward to CCA tomorrow... Sighs...

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