What a difference a day made
Twenty-four little hours
Brought the sun and the flowers
Where there used to be rain
My yesterday was blue, dear
Today I'm part of you, dear
My lonely nights are through, dear
Since you said you were mine
What a difference a day makes
There's a rainbow before me
Skies above can't be stormy
Since that moment of bliss, that thrilling kiss
It's heaven when you find romance on your menu
What a difference a day made
And the difference is you
What a difference a day makes
There's a rainbow before me
Skies above can't be stormy
Since that moment of bliss, that thrilling kiss
It's heaven when you find romance on your menu
What a difference a day made
And the difference is you
My favourite song in the whole album. Double bass and Piano(i think).
Saturday, August 07, 2004
Friday, August 06, 2004
National Day Celebrations
National Day celebrations always come with early dismissal, something that I simply love. The celebrations this year seemed rather inferior to the ones in the past 2 years. Somehow the entire "National Day" spirit was dampened throughout Singapore; I mean I used to see literally every household with one flag up.
This year, I'm not sure why, nobody seems to have the mood for Patriotism, as I can safely say that roughly 40% or less of the average number of units have the national flag up. Furthermore, in the past years there used to be a new national day "theme" song every time we celebrate. This year, there seems to be none of that. The marching contingent this year was not too bad, but not spectacular either, with the NCC being the point of attention, with their disjointed and messy marching during the initial march pass. Got a good laugh out of that. Nothing special worth mentioning about the performance.
Went to coronation to eat lunch with velden and the two nicholas'es, walking from the NY bus stop all the way to coronation, probably the most tiring part of the day(lol). After lunch we initially intended to go to the lan shop in coronation, but as we all know, there are always people who are more kiasu and more kan cheong than us, and the lanshops were packed like sardines.
Proceeded to take a bus ride to HMV to browse around, and saw zijing there(ahhhhhh yeong keONG).
But that's besides the point. =)
We were there actually to look for gifts to buy for the seniors(I suggested that we use the budget of $10/sec4 to buy 20 chaptehs for each and every one of them, but they said no), decided that we would buy some high-class wallets and pencil boxes as our budget was not very high, and we could not find a common interest amongst them besides chapteh. Although so, we managed to hold on to nicholas'es lobang because famous "The Wallet Shop" in Singapore is actually his family's business! And thanks to him we were able to obtain a whopping 30% discount on all purchases. Velden bought a wallet that said "China rawks". LoL.
The rest of the day was pretty boring, with nothing much accomplished. Did we play LAN? no. Did we go and bowl? no. Did we watch a movie? Cheng did, but for us, another no. So, we were just wondering around in Cine. Saw many people I knew in Cine, including JinYu(P6), Timothy(Gepper), and Shawn(Kensington).
Also bought Jamie Cullum's album, really relaxing music. I could lie down, close my eyes and just doze off listening to his music. For those uninformed, he sings Jazz music, something that many people of my age in Singapore don't appreciate. Felt heartened when I found out that Nicholas and Kevin Cheng like him too.
This year, I'm not sure why, nobody seems to have the mood for Patriotism, as I can safely say that roughly 40% or less of the average number of units have the national flag up. Furthermore, in the past years there used to be a new national day "theme" song every time we celebrate. This year, there seems to be none of that. The marching contingent this year was not too bad, but not spectacular either, with the NCC being the point of attention, with their disjointed and messy marching during the initial march pass. Got a good laugh out of that. Nothing special worth mentioning about the performance.
Went to coronation to eat lunch with velden and the two nicholas'es, walking from the NY bus stop all the way to coronation, probably the most tiring part of the day(lol). After lunch we initially intended to go to the lan shop in coronation, but as we all know, there are always people who are more kiasu and more kan cheong than us, and the lanshops were packed like sardines.
Proceeded to take a bus ride to HMV to browse around, and saw zijing there(ahhhhhh yeong keONG).
But that's besides the point. =)
We were there actually to look for gifts to buy for the seniors(I suggested that we use the budget of $10/sec4 to buy 20 chaptehs for each and every one of them, but they said no), decided that we would buy some high-class wallets and pencil boxes as our budget was not very high, and we could not find a common interest amongst them besides chapteh. Although so, we managed to hold on to nicholas'es lobang because famous "The Wallet Shop" in Singapore is actually his family's business! And thanks to him we were able to obtain a whopping 30% discount on all purchases. Velden bought a wallet that said "China rawks". LoL.
The rest of the day was pretty boring, with nothing much accomplished. Did we play LAN? no. Did we go and bowl? no. Did we watch a movie? Cheng did, but for us, another no. So, we were just wondering around in Cine. Saw many people I knew in Cine, including JinYu(P6), Timothy(Gepper), and Shawn(Kensington).
Also bought Jamie Cullum's album, really relaxing music. I could lie down, close my eyes and just doze off listening to his music. For those uninformed, he sings Jazz music, something that many people of my age in Singapore don't appreciate. Felt heartened when I found out that Nicholas and Kevin Cheng like him too.
Thursday, August 05, 2004
There is Hope...
Feeling rather happy today because I scored a 75/100 for chinese test, which is, to be frank, very good for me. I can still remember in term two I never had an a1 for any assignment. Besides that, I also scored a 19/25 for my Sing Lit assingment, which is totally unexpected. I mean, at the moment of submission, there was no confidence at all. Heck, I even wrote below Clarinda's suggested word number. Hehe. But that's besides the point. The point is, there is still some hope in my results. I am not totally useless. At least not totally. lol.
Monday, August 02, 2004
SMS
Something is seriously wrong with our relief maths teacher, in that the way she teaches IMO sucks badly.
What's up with the rushing through of our lessons? Don't you ever give your JC students some time at all to even digest what you just taught? We are at least two topics ahead of the other classes, because apparently Soi Moi likes to rush through topics without even making sure we get our basics right.
Another thing is her incessent appeal for us to "try out the questions ourselves". Does it ever occur to her that we cannot start to "try" until she stops writing out the solution even before we read the question? Whats the point of thinking, of analysing the question when the teacher has already written down everything on the board?
I used to think that well maybe I need to give myself a chance to do well in maths.
I tried giving SoiMoi a chance to teach.
However I can safely say that she has lost the respect of 3K through her bad teaching and poor listening skills.
They say abscence makes the heart grow fonder. I couldn't agree more.
Mdm Tham we need you. This is an emergency.
What's up with the rushing through of our lessons? Don't you ever give your JC students some time at all to even digest what you just taught? We are at least two topics ahead of the other classes, because apparently Soi Moi likes to rush through topics without even making sure we get our basics right.
Another thing is her incessent appeal for us to "try out the questions ourselves". Does it ever occur to her that we cannot start to "try" until she stops writing out the solution even before we read the question? Whats the point of thinking, of analysing the question when the teacher has already written down everything on the board?
I used to think that well maybe I need to give myself a chance to do well in maths.
I tried giving SoiMoi a chance to teach.
However I can safely say that she has lost the respect of 3K through her bad teaching and poor listening skills.
They say abscence makes the heart grow fonder. I couldn't agree more.
Mdm Tham we need you. This is an emergency.
Sunday, August 01, 2004
Soccer match
Played soccer at St Wilfred's Sports Hall today. There was a match going on at the time we reached there, Orange Vs White. The portion of the match I watch saw the domination of the Oranges on the pitch. I could only see them playing in the White half. Everytime the Orange people managed to penetrate the defences, they lacked the finishing touch. So the White players would send a clearance out far far away, and return possession to Orange.
Kinda like when Portugal played Greece in the finals.
Anyway, on to our match.
Junming jio'ed his friends from the soccer team to come and play with us. Initially felt rather enthusiastic and managed to at least satisfy my own demands. However, as the game went on, I couldn't help but feel abit left out because the two soccer boys from my team were nearly taking on the whole team by their own shoulders. Even so, they still managed to play well, and I did not really feel involved in the play that much. Probably because they didn't know me and thus did not trust me that much.
Felt abit pissed halfway into our match. I had to defend so much but in the end I did not really get to help in the attack. Four of us there were 3 who were form the soccer team, and they played a Triangle formation, leaving me out of the equation. Felt really terrible. At that time I promised myself that in the future I will pass to Gabriel and Daryl more in Kensington. Feels really bad when you run like mad to get him to pass to you and he leaves you out of the play completely.
Despite that, I still managed to enjoy myself quite abit. Managed to make a good run to cut a defender and shoot for goal. Even though Mingde saved it, I still felt good about it.
Can't say the same for the rest of the rym guys (except for Junming and Mingde). Seemed to me that the gap in skill level was to great for them to really enjoy the match. On the whole the rym people(including me) did not really touch the ball as much as the soccer boys did.
Still, good fun.
Kinda like when Portugal played Greece in the finals.
Anyway, on to our match.
Junming jio'ed his friends from the soccer team to come and play with us. Initially felt rather enthusiastic and managed to at least satisfy my own demands. However, as the game went on, I couldn't help but feel abit left out because the two soccer boys from my team were nearly taking on the whole team by their own shoulders. Even so, they still managed to play well, and I did not really feel involved in the play that much. Probably because they didn't know me and thus did not trust me that much.
Felt abit pissed halfway into our match. I had to defend so much but in the end I did not really get to help in the attack. Four of us there were 3 who were form the soccer team, and they played a Triangle formation, leaving me out of the equation. Felt really terrible. At that time I promised myself that in the future I will pass to Gabriel and Daryl more in Kensington. Feels really bad when you run like mad to get him to pass to you and he leaves you out of the play completely.
Despite that, I still managed to enjoy myself quite abit. Managed to make a good run to cut a defender and shoot for goal. Even though Mingde saved it, I still felt good about it.
Can't say the same for the rest of the rym guys (except for Junming and Mingde). Seemed to me that the gap in skill level was to great for them to really enjoy the match. On the whole the rym people(including me) did not really touch the ball as much as the soccer boys did.
Still, good fun.
Should I?
Everytime I go to church I keep telling myself I should invite him to church someday. Somehow, I can never get myself to do it. Even during the last prayer meeting I think god is trying to tell me to just go ahead and invite him to church. In the end I still don't. My conscience is constantly nagging for me to get on with it, however I still manage to procastinate on this duty, this obligation.
Why don't I dare to invite him over?
Am I being lazy, god?
Why don't I dare to invite him over?
Am I being lazy, god?
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