Posted on Sunday, December 12, 2010, at 9:36 PM
I'll be off to Switzerland in a couple of days, and next year I'll be moving to Melbourne. This will be my final post here, because this blog is past it's sell by date, because it's a new beginning and a fresh start in my life, because I'm lazy. But I'm not going to delete it, I think this encapsulates my past four years very nicely and serves as a good reminder of where I came from, and of a previous life where I had the time to blog every single day. Heh.
This year has not been the year I would have liked it to be. A good 9 months of it was spent apart from my friends and people who love me, and apart from God. I was pretty miserable, and pretty caught up in my studies and with the world. But I'd like to think it all wasn't wasted and that I've learnt things from it.
I've learnt how to strike that delicate balance, between being reliant on my friends, being reliant on God and being reliant on myself. I've learnt that there are some things about myself I can't change and I've got to accept. I've starting to live with myself, so that I can live with others, and being satisfied with my lot.
I've stopped perpetuating the mentality that the grass is always greener on the other side. It lingers, sometimes, but in the areas where it truly matters I have grown to see how I am so blessed. I finally see, better late than never, that I don't need anything other than what I've got, because what I have now in my life is just more than enough, I am surrounded by so much love.
And I've learnt one more thing, and I think it is a lesson I will continue to learn, and it is that God is everything. He really is everything. He just fills up all the crevices, all the emptiness. He gives me joy. He causes all things to fall into place, He makes everything better. He's planned my future for me. Most of the year was spent without God. Now that I am trying once again to walk with God, I realise how much was missing from my life. God is everything, He really is.
I can't believe I'm leaving Singapore. I'm scared, and I'm excited. Time waits for no man and is thus sweeping me along with alarming alacrity, to whatever awaits me next year. There are periods where time ebbs and flows, and there are periods where time just hurtles along and I think right now it's the latter. I'm just going to go with it and I know that I'm going to be okay. It's a new season (:
And I guess this is for closure. As corny as it may seem I think I'll dedicate this last post to Elaine. Because all through the years I've known her she's never given up on me, in spite of, well, everything. And I think she taught me how to live with myself. In every sense of the word, she truly is my sister. ♥
Posted on Monday, August 02, 2010, at 8:22 PM
As the deer panteth for the water, so my soul longeth after thee...
What heights of love, what depths of peace, when fears are stilled and strivings cease
Sometimes I wonder whether it's just me. Sometimes I wonder about what I believe in. Sometimes I grow pensive. Sometimes I feel like maybe it's all just cold and fruitless and it's not worth it to keep the faith. Sometimes I'm grumpy and stressed and tired and I feel like I'm never going to reach the finish line.
Then I listen to these old hymns and my tired spirit is revived and I know, somewhere out there God is still watching over me and all will be well in His Time
Posted on Sunday, June 06, 2010, at 6:35 PM
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run
and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
I like this quote a lot(: I'm trying to do SS. Screw the factors for the rise and fall of venice. Anyway.... I'm not attempting to go in chronological order here, yesterday Val slept over. Glee sing and dance along, Wii in the wee hours of the morning, funfunfun. SingFest the past two days, its been quite an experience performance and making new friends and hanging out with old ones in Vocalogy. On thursday, had dinner at Holland with Elaine. Needless to say, it was a definite thumbs up. Friday, everyone came to school looking pretty and professional in work clothes. And the dance off was HILARIOUS. And our class singing My Love and tong hua and I'll stand by you during recess was awesome too. But the best part was when we all stood up in the middle of class and burst out into Don't Stop Believing, Glee-esque. Love 4E5 ((:
Oh. I think its stupid to dream. I know it makes me sound so jaded when i say you are setting yourself up for disappointment but it's true. Wasted yearnings. (and i hate how you can put me down so easily)
I guess I'm really tired and need something new, something fresh. I know where I stand. I'm not happy about it...but its easier like this for now. Different things mean different things to different people. And the heart has reasons that reason cannot fathom. I'm so out of it. Feel so of the world, so worldly. And how we all love our little games of pretend. Keep pushing those boundaries and see how long we can keep the act up.
cos we're cool like that
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010, at 6:58 PM


I was just telling Elaine I haven't blogged in forever! So i shall blog about yesterday now:D
Had a really good day with elaine yesterday:D met her at one, allllll the way to eleven at night. I likey. We grocery shopped and baked yummy brownies and cookies! The day was spent just basically lazing around and throwing pillows at each other and painting nails and taking retarded funny pictures. Because we watched a sleepy boring movie, we even slept in the car on the way to Harlems Gospel Choir and it was so funny and cute heehee. It was a nice, easy day and i love elaine a lot cos she makes everything seem so comfortable and i feel so at home((: and there was plenty of good, random conversation. And while watching the choir, we rocked out on our own cool air band. She was on the keys and i was on the drums and felix was the vocalist. Haha! Oh and we were dancing around too, trying to be like the singers.
But we were both really tired during the Harlem Gospel Choir thing. It was real cool though, their vocal runs and dancing were really something else. Because we couldnt find the Worship Min I we sat with the grads. Which was a tad odd hahaha. And it ended pretty late like, 11ish at night!
Yay yesterday was an awesome awesome day:D I love elaine gay(Dear-E)
Grace Concert 2010
Posted on Sunday, April 18, 2010, at 6:05 PM


Its over. My response is somewhere between finally! and already? Heh.
I miss it all. Like, on the first day, how me and char came to school at 10 and I got booked and she didnt(wth) and we did the rehearsal for the finale and we played a fool, doing Indian Dance and Malay Dance and forming our own awesome shizzzz choir. All the helium breathing in and singing and heyapple and furrruit baskets.
And being so scared of the make up brush in Ms Poh’s hand and the long line for Ms Fong and rushing around rubbing glitter on the rest of the other CCA groups, like BAND. Hehe. And the picture taking and the freaking out backstage and sleeping on each others legs in a circle during tech run. Running outside finding our friends and getting flowers from Hannah, Nainika and Priya((: And the high before and after the performance and eating in between and playing unblock me and taptap in the dressing room.
Wanting to cry, just before our very last dance. “This is it.” It held so much meaning for all of us. It was it. The last, the very final 3 minutes of our dance career in secondary school. Last time we were dancing as a team. And onstage I think all of us felt it. The energy, the smiles. It was AWESOMEEEE.
Then after debrief, where everyone started hugging and crying, hahah and laughing while crying and the stupid “I will miss you *kiss*” to rub off our lipstick on each others faces. Xin Tian was wailing. Literally. Then, supper at Macs with Char and Nicole and Yun Hi and XinTian.
I will miss everybody so so much. I’ve made such good friends over the past 3 plus years, and all the drama and ups and downs and funny quirky things we do…no one has fun better than us dancers. Oh darn I’m missing everyone so much la. Modern Dance has been such a big part of my life. Without it, I would be sad, lonely, no life and fat. Honest.
Posted on Sunday, April 11, 2010, at 2:23 PM
Keep your face to the sun, and you'll never see the shadows. That's what sunflowers do.
(just to clarify. i do know the flower in the picture i posted above ain't a sunflower)
sweet sixteen
Posted on Friday, March 26, 2010, at 4:46 PM

I had the most awesome sweet 16. Last Friday, the full fleged H2H girls, Becs, Jing, Lynn, Gideon, Felix and Elaine surprised me at Marble Slab for my birthday(: Aww much! What wonderful friends I have. Okay, in truth I wasnt all that surprised cos of AHEM. Hahaha:D But Elaine and Felix surprised me the most methinks. And later on Sunday I was surprised (successfully) by my school friends, and one lone sec 3 braving the throng of seniors, XinTian! Heehee. They were so sweet and decorated the place with pink and purple helium balloons. On the day itself, I watched Alice In Wonderland with Vally. I have two new favourite quotes from the movie, first being,
"You're mad, utterly bonkers ... but I'll tell you a secret: All the best people are."
and second being, "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
I think that is an excellent practice and we all should try it. :D Off to church later for empowerment. Three cheers for good friends and a good birthday!
(ps. jelly i saw your photo collage fr me on your blog, TOUCHED TTM)
i shall now tell you my life story!
Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2010, at 10:46 AM


Okay, last friday was flag day at Bugis and I saw Adam Lambert!! My first time seeing any celebrity in the flesh! Hahah. And on Monday after training, Charmaine, Sarah and XinTian and I went for ice cream at Marble Slab and it was so nice we had it twice. Then we watched half of Jennifer's Body and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs at my place till 10ish at night. Loads of fun with the "family"!
And yesterday we had our second last performance at Orchard Road! Us sec 4s (minus nicole and rachel) went to Wisma Atria food court to sit and chill and pig out on whatever we fancied. Char, Cherish, Sarah and I lazed there for two plus hours, haha, good stuff. Fabulous company and food!
Afterwhich, I headed down to Cluny to meet Elaine! We went to Taste Matters for atas ice cream (again!!! I'm gonna grow fat shucks) hehe the shop is really cute. The people there talked about very...interesting things. Like how there is a saying that goes "You can wait for the souffle, but the souffle won't wait for you" I have never heard that in my life before and I have no clue how to insert the phrase into everyday conversation. So I won't. Hahah and we tried chilli lime sorbet! We are adventurous and brave kids. Yay and then we went to the 2nd floor Serene's at around nine-ish and already everything was in semidarkness and we just sat and had meaningful talks till almost ten then I had to go home because of my mother's imaginary drizzling ahhaa. Really made my day. I love elaine heaps and heaps(:
I think one of my favourite things to do is chilling with people dear to me...like just sitting (and eating!) and laughing and heart to hearts with the odd intervals of comfy silence. I like that.
Mini YOG 2010
Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010, at 9:11 PM

Cooke House Comm 10'

Cheerleaders!

Val the pepsi mascott

Everybodyy who made it work! :D
It's been awesome.
Being in cheer, being in the comm, getting ready for this Denmark Mini YOG thing that actually wasn't that bad cos you could wander around school and get free milo if it got too boring.
Staying back late and almost getting locked in school, running around in a big chaotic mess trying to get everything done in time, waking up at five am in the friggin morning cos I've got to get make up done and meet val, who in turn left me chasing after her bus!!! and dancing around with pompoms doing weird things and laughing my ass off and meeting our SOUL SISTERS in the shadow comm and drawing on each other and having tons of fun with the cheerleaders and the rest of the comm.
I'm glad my last year of being in school was spent in a house comm with these wonderful people, especially charmaine, karishma, priya and val. It was crasy stressful but totally worth it. The camwhorring and blowing whistles incessantly and cheering till voice gone, all worth it. And we only got second placing because we were too cool for school, okay guys!
C IS FOR COOKE AND ITS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME
okay everybody
Posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010, at 9:16 PM

I have a few things to say. DEAR JOHN really wasn't that bad you know. OH and LSB punished the class and made us stand for one and a half hours because a student borrowed his chair cos there weren't enough chairs. GRRR. And. COOKE IS GONNA WIN IT. And...chem o level spa is tomorrow and cheer practice till say 9.00 plusplusplusplus at night? And everybody is cranky. Yupp.
ARIEL GO TO YOUR HAPPY PLACE. NOW. HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY
Posted on Saturday, March 06, 2010, at 9:03 PM

It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, the moon’s never bigger than your thumb.
-Dear John
Sometimes I think we're not as wise as we think we are...everyone knows, and everyone doesn't know and for every lesson we learn there's plenty more that we need to stumble through. We need to stop, and we need to maybe look back to the time where everything held us in a childlike sense of wonder. I'm sixteen, and already I just feel old and tired. Remember how it was like when we knew nothing of the world and everything about God and love and life held us in thrall... I guess we can truly be wise when we've seen the world and yet retain that sense of wonder, maybe?
I really don't like feeling so stressed, like I have a million and one things to do, cheer, chem SPA, Biology and Amath tests, Modern Dance, my SBs, and cell planning and everything. All I really want to do is stop. Stop trying, stop working and just...seek God. Yeah.
on the shore of the wide world I stand alone
Posted on Saturday, February 20, 2010, at 8:32 PM

on the shore of the wide world I stand alone