Me: Now I'll never forget the first group elements!
I don't know it just seemed funny at that time when we were all laughing about previous jokes. But weird Shahini din't find it so. SHe is abnormal. And Dhivyaal's cousins found her pretty!! Ha-ha Shahini. Really, we're not the only ones so stop critisizing your face ok! Even with you sweating around playing blow wind blow people can appreciate your sweaty face! haha.
now, also during SS I had a feeling put it me. I suddenly felt very dissapointed because I had a sudden daydream/vision of me getting prelim score of 20. I was opening my report book and I saw the number. The feeling was so real. And I thought "NO WAY! I'm not going to let myself get that! I am working hard! I won't get that kind of results" I really only have 7 weeks left. So..."SAFIAH ALL THE WAY!!"
Oh and Mrs Choo asked me to present my feedback on the i-portal in front of visiting principals. I have to tell them why I liked Cha-Cha! Haha! WHat's not to like?
ouch my muscles!Labels: school happenings
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8:32 pm
for fatmah, and charlene, and everyone who is queing for these photos.
At SPH, the press conference, with Aide Iskandar for the Straits Times Media Club Talk.
reading through the list of questions for him....three words to describe aide iskandar: disciplined, humble, polite!
piercing stare at the Asean Cups trophy
AT National Library Theatre to watch Titaodao. IT ROCKSSSSSS!!!!
SOUTH ZONE SEMI-FINALS MATCH AGAINST ST MARGARETS.
for the first time in i don't know how many years we finally beat them. Worth all my screaming lungs. WE WONNNNN!!!!!! we all got teary...and hugged each other....AWW....i'll never forget that. haha
our dear seniors
my juniors and st margs' supporters on the other side. with shin yeong especially, our voices were louder than theirs.
in action
our dear coach, Weili...SCOLDING! SCOLDING! and all stressed up.
the team boost. SEE WHAT??? CEDAR!!!! SEE WHAT??? CEDAR!!!! WE MUST WE CAN WE WILL!!!! CEDAAARRR!!! whoooo
and XIN YI SHOOTS!!!
our dear captain muu...and all the rest behind...agony on our faces...AGHH..the suspense man! we just want to WIN!!! ahaha
and our seniors agaim. j kok and shi wen...! popping in,,,
mrs low adds in a few words...
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4:05 pm
YES Raihan lied to me in the name of a joke. In the morning when I was walking to class with Charlene, she told me that Raihan and her lied to Wei Shan about the juniors scores. It was actually 21-7 and we WON!!! I screamed at Charlene and really woke her up that morning. Haha. But Wei Shan didn't even remember about the joke played on her. HAha. Blur morningstones.
Ms Chng was in a good mood today. But she insisted that it was us who were too happy. She kept the whole class in suspense when she wanted to choose someone to answer her question.
"How many Rachels in this class?"
"2!"
"Where are they"
we all point.
*silence* she looks through the class list up and down up and down
Some of us asks Ms Chng to hurry up and say whoever's name/index no. We all laugh
"ELIZABETH!" but the way she says it sounds like ElizaBERT. Haha. She says Liz's name again this week.
Our class board wasn't finished yet so all of us were scrambling to paint in some of the blank spaces. For History period, we touched up the class. It was BRILLIANT. If we don't win or get top 3 i'll be surprised. We worked damn hard lah. Especially Sharon. Drawing away and she wanted to get all the colours correct even though we had only the 3 primary colours to work with plus black and white and GOLD. It is wonderful. I will bring my camera and take pictures of it and post it here for the world to see. I love our class decorations so much that I can't help staring at it when the teachers talk.
After the physics lab remedial, i hurried to SPH for the Induction. Change is inevitable. Paul is leaving us for Tokyo for around 2-3 years. We had a cake for him and the song Tokyo Drift playing. I'll miss him. He was like a teacher and a father to us when we were in China. Mark is no longer the president but the newbie, Jessica. VP is Bryan and Mervyn. And I forgot who the exco was.
Asyikin, Mark, Krystal and Joanna came from the previous batch. Rajesh was interning there and Mark is just lepak-ing around for the first 3 months. Krystal DSA-ed into SAJC. Asyikin applied to ACSI (IB) and Joanna's at Milennia Institute. Samantha is at Serangoon JC. The rest I dunno.
We played "captain's ball", Wacko and twister. Good effort by previous batch to bond the new batch. I had to tell the new gang about my experience being in last year's batch and I told them about the BASKETBALL stint that I got to go on. HAha. THe presentation that they made had a lot of pictures of me in it. SHEESH. I miss it ALL.
Then, we had a professional group shot where for the first time I felt like saying "LIGHTS,CAMERA,ACTION!" haha. Bryan was being Cleopatra. Joe En the littlest one was hugged by him. We were pointing here and there and made a lot of noise even though we're not supposed to cos we were affecting the other journalists.
Then we had our own glamour shots taken. One happy one and one serious one. They said I looke emo in my serious one and made me laugh. Cos our NEW IN T-SHIRT IS BLACK!!! Woo hoo for the new shirt! I love my glamour shot. I didn't get to see it though.
I spoke to Hannah for the first time. And I got to know EVERYONE's names. I think Mervyn will really miss Rajesh and all the rest too.
Then Elsie blanja-ed me, Krystal and Joanna to Tampines Mall. Krystal went to take away a Vanilla at Coffebean. I went to buy new studs and we hugged each other in front of DMK. Gosh...the tears are falling away as I type. I LOVE YOU GUYS GREATLY.
I'll miss Asyikin for her funkiness and difference. I'll miss Krystal for her sisterness and her hugs and nudges which are really one of a kind. I'll miss Joanna for our talks together. I'll miss Sarah Ann cos we got closer during the trip. She told me about her family and her background. She is so unique and cool and her drawings which are so good are really what comes out of her brain and heart. I'll miss Mark for his lame-ness, his egoitism, his angmoh-mix chinese face. Rajesh for his food and his jokes. No one can get bored with him. His stories, his laughter, HIS HORRID face. haha...Samantha, I didn't get that close to her so I don't miss much. But her voice was sweet. And so was her face. I'll remember what that Chinese men in China said to her. "Beautiful and sweet was her name and face"
But it won't end here. We'll always go out together. Even though I missed a few outingsLabels: IN CROWD, school happenings
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2:09 pm
The cold woke me up today. The first of the raindrops had fallen. My sleep had been disturbed. My quilt had travelled far beyond my bed. I pulled it up around me. I checked my handphone. Time: 5.12 AM. Time supposed to wake up, 5.15. I went to snooze. Again and again. Actual time woke up: 5.45. But I was still EARLY! Yay. I have mastered the art of getting ready to school: Getting ready for school the night BEFORE.
Morning Assembly, I got my certificate for the Work Experience in front of the whole school. Haha. This is the second time in my Cedar life getting my name announced in front of the school. The first time was in Sec One getting a bronze medal for High Jump.
After E Math, the period before Jogging, it was still drizzling. Everyone was uncertain whether Jogging was still going on. Sec 4s were all uncertain. ALL of us didn't want to have jogging. We wasted so much time wondering that by the time we went down, the period was half gone. We still had to jog 2 rounds round the school. Anything lah. HAha. I feel good running though. Nowadays, I feel so good doing anything physical. Is this what it feels like to have muscles like Shi Wen? I miss her.
For History, we painted the class board. I got paint everywhere. There's a green smiley on my skirt and my arm. It's looking FINE, the board I mean with all the Samurais and Geishas. However, Ms Lizah changed our name to 4S-TRENGTH. So the samurais are going to represent strenght. The judging of the class decoration will be tomorrow. I really love 4C-LASSY and 4I-CE. I especially love 4I-CE. 4C has drapes and maroon backgrounds and ballerinas. 4I has a snowman and icicles and lots of snow. I feel really cold when I go in there. Whilst ours has a lot of colourful flowers so I feel kinda hot. Haha. 4N-OBLE is also really creative. They're doing the medieval theme. Theirs has a castle and a horse at the back. But they have to cover it with articles and notices soon. It's quite sad. 4Z has the Macbeth team. 4O has the retro theme. I think 4I, 4S, 4N stand good chances. 4C's one is not yet finished so I can't say anything. I really think this year's class deco is ALL very creative and well executed. May the BEST class win!!!
Oh, I PASSED MY A MATH DIAGNOSTIC TEST!!!!!! WEE HEE!Labels: school happenings
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7:13 pm
Happiness is permanent.
It is always there.
What comes and goes is unhappiness.
If you identify with what comes and goes,
you will be unhappy.
If you identify with what is permanent and always there,
you are happiness itself.
Papaji, 1910-1997
Aye, I can be happy by not being crazy. Yes. Because when I do get crazy sometimes I lose myself. I've been feeling rather grounded and quiet lately. More serious about school work. More determined to clear all the homework before I reach home.
During recess, I sat with Muu, Filzah and Syikin for the first time this year. I realised how much I missed Muu. Long time never see her cos she was sick for a while. And I never had a chance to catch up with her. Shahini told me she was not going for recess so I sat with them. But then I saw her, Germs and Varru. After a while they saw me and headed my way. Shahini poked me as usual but they didn't move away after that. They were all crowding behind me! May TOO! Filzah felt remas with so many people standing around her, blocking her view of the rest of the canteen. I felt touched. It may be little but it means a lot to me that y'all find me. THANK YOU.
Parveen keeps laughing at me. Apparently she finds me amusing. Even when I'm serious. Muu and me thinks she is weird. I finally told her NOT to laugh at me again. PHEW.
Today is the FIRST day that there is no A math homework. PHEW. haha. I finally handed in my NYAA. BIG PHEW. YaYY two more points to that CCA list. I finally got my certificate for attending the "I Am Gifted, So are YOU" course. It has Ramesh, Gary and Adam's signature on it. Haha. I got it late cos there was a spelling error on my cert. I will get one more point for my Enrichment due to my Work Experience last year. I'll also be getting a cert for that tomorrow! It is under Enterprise so I don't need to take another module of that. But I'll do it for fun and experience too. My PRINCIPLE: grab hold of opportunities!
I had to stay back today due to Media Club ex-co meeting. I think we need a secretary. A new one, since Charu is always sick. She needs to type out everything properly again. And I think Wei Ting shouldn't be too suicidal, OK. Tests tomorrow are not the end of the world.
After that, I felt that I badly wanted to finish my NYAA and hand it in TODAY so I promised Sarah and Yasmin that I would pass the books to Mdm Faridah while letting me copy the stuff for Physical Recreation- Netball and Adventurous Journey: Outdoor Adventure Camp as we all have the same experiences.
Geraldine asked me to go to the Family Centre so I went there and saw Dr Bibijan. I said "Assalammualaikum" to her which means "Peace be upon you" and she looked at me in shock. She said that no malay Cedarian ever greeted her in that manner. I was surprised really. Haha. She said she was proud of me.
By the time I finished, it was 4.25 pm. Dr Bibi asked me if I wanted to solat Zohor and Asar in the counselling room so YEAH there's a new place for me to solat now! I have a plan. Study in CFC until Asar, solat Asar there and GO HOME HAPPY! YeSSS! She even offered to give me a lift home. Haha. But Shahini was already waiting for me outside so I told her that. How can a malay Cedarian accuse her of being a MAKCIK KEPOH??? This is so sad man.
About Shahini, I told her at first that I wasn't waiting for her. But I didn't know the meeting and the completion of the booklets would last that long so I went to the Robotics Room and peeked through the shutters. She was giving a speech and her eyes were so wide when she saw me. HAHAHA. That was a good surprise wasn't it Safiah? haha
Met Muu and Raihan at the bus stop on the way back. They just came back from C Div's match. 7-21 Cedar lost to St Theresa's Convent. Nevermind dears, we will bounce again. I can't go tomorrow for B Div's match. I'll try to make it next Monday.
Muu took 65 and Raihan took 8 with Shahini, me and Afiqah who is Imran's primary school friend. She knows both my Cedarian cousins and Farah. The world is small indeed. And shrinking everyday. But that's besides the point. Raihan was spreading germs to everyone on the bus. But Shahini's hair got the worst. Hahaha. Poor her, sneezing all the way. She used up 8 packets of tissue and finished that so I gave her mine. She's really in a bad state. Also, Ms Poon is her form teacher. I thought Ms Poon don't do form teaching! She's very strict thought. Raihan has 5+ offences and she's been put on probation on being an OAC instructor. But Raihan WILL change! And Raihan is very cute with her sore throat voice. HAhahaha
I want to document each day of this year. I don't want to find that I slipped by and don't remember and treasure how each day went.Labels: school happenings
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8:58 pm
The first thing we did this morning was to to MAKE PRETTY GEISHAS. Even though they stand for being a mistress and sorts but they're still pretty high class and refined. Ms Lizah revealed to us that our theme for our class decoration is Japan. So that's why we have samurais and geishas and spring blossoms. We will be painting for the next SEL/ History period. Whee! Can't wait. But for today, we made origami geishas. And we had to name ours.
This is mine. I don't know what it's name is. Haha. But Geraldine had no trouble at all. That Geisha obsessed girl since that movie.
From left: mine, JING TING's and Rachel Tan's. I added that clip for her on its hair. Hahah. I still think mine's the best JING TING!!!
I can't stop singing today. This song is stuck in my head. Fly Away by Corrine May. My favourite local artist. After Taufik of course.
"When will you be home?" she asks as we watch the planes take off
We both know we have no clear answer to where my dreams may lead
She's watched me as i crawled and stumbled
As a child, she was my world
And now to let me go,
I know she bleeds
and yet she says to me
You can fly so high
Keep your gaze upon the sky
I'll be prayin every step along the way
Even though it breaks my heart to know we'll be so far apart
I love you too much to make you stay
Baby fly away
Autumn leaves fell into spring time and silver-painted hair
Daddy called one evening saying"We need you. Please come back"
When I saw her laying in her bed
Fragile as a child
Pale just like an angel taking flight
I held her as I cried
You can fly so high
Keep your gaze upon the sky
I'll be prayin every step along the way
Even though it breaks my heart to know we'll be so far apart
I love you too much to make you stay
Baby fly awayohh...
I love you too much to make you stay
Baby fly away
It's a nice song. Full of meaning which you yourself have to decode.
After school, Shahini had Bio remedial. So I waited for her for an hour by doing my homework with Geraldine and Fatmah. I FINISHED everything!!! And while I was so busy focusing on the homework, Shahini came and poked me at that area above my hips. And I shouted the loudest SCREAM that I think the WHOLE SCHOOL could hear. Well...maybe I'm exaggerating. Maybe only my junior netballers at the court, the trackers, the teachers in the staff room, the people in the canteen, the malay dancers doing who knows what on the courtyard, their lembut trainer, the people in the Sports Area... yeah that's it basically. HA-Ha. But still Shahini was not satisfied. She had to shock me again. And I really can't stand it when people do this to me while i'm "IN THE ZONE" cos I don't expect it. You can do the same thing to me all over again but I will still respond with SHOCK. AND while I was so busy being kuai and finishing my homework, Germaine and Shahini just HAD to make such a big racket, smacking each other, playing the scissors-paper-stone and the stretching game. Renuka said they acted like primary school children who had nothing to do. OF COURSE! haha.
AND GOOD NEWS: Sec 4S will be performing for Chinese New Year concert!!! YAY more points for US! WE rock! pebble! stone! boulder! and all of those formations. Haha. THis will be my second time performing for Chinese New Year, as an Earth Pig no less. Gosh!!! And...4C will be performing too which means, SHAHINI will be the Dragon. Something to do with why dragons are afraid of red. I think the storyline is very good! THeirs and ours. Good job to the scriptwriters!! And Germaine and Varruna will be acting too right?? I wonder which other classes got qualified...
Now after the tyra show at 6, I am going to study that two topics of Chemistry test I have left for tomorrow's test. I only did Periodic Table! I did a very nice mind map on it though. Ramesh will ask me to be proud of myself and he will be proud of me too....I hope. The last time I did mind map he scolded me! Haha. My heading was bigger than 2 50-cent coins and my sub-headings were too big and he emphasised on ONE WORD PER BRANCH. Alright I get it now. I love mind maps. I don't get it why Shahini doesn't.
I admitted to Varruna that I had I-MISS-RAMESH syndrome. But she says I'm obsessed with the guy. NO ok! The booster course for "I am Gifted, So Are You" was supposed to be today but Ms Ng didn't announce it this morning that it was cancelled. So everyone was asking each other but there was no one in the theaterette so WHEN will it BE!!!!! I NEED TO KNOW!!!
I submitted two ideas for IN. One will be an article on the Arena and the other will be a feature on the section for IN Thing or INSync (I HOPE) It will be discussed with Serene. Tessa said my ideas are FANTASTIC! Haha. YIPPEE!!!
I hope to contribute more than that one idea and two articles I did last year. So mere...
Ok...off to TYRA show. WOOHOO...and wtv Shahini, she's not behaving like Oprah. She's YOUNGER and more HIP and FUN okayy. And I love them both. ;)
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5:29 pm
I'm catching up on all my friends' blogs and I realised that I've been focusing a lot on emotions lately. So I'm going to remind myself on all the fun stuff I had with my friends.
stole this from Fatmah:
Tuesday, the word of the day was: THUMBDRIVE.
Filzah went wild and started wanting to stab everyone with her thumbdrive.
Now, the thumbdrive itself is pretty harmless but say this out loud,"I AM GOING TO STAB YOUR BUTT WITH MY THUMBDRIVE"
It sounds dangerous, very dangerous.
We usually have PE on Wednesdays now so I can remember easily that part of our biweekly timetable. The first session, we measured our height and weight. Nothing to be surprised about, my height was still the same and my weight increased due to the holidays. The second session was PICKLE BALL! I partnered Geraldine as usual. Pickle Ball is fun as Ms Poon is as drama as usual. I just measured my weight just now. I lost 3-4 kg. WHEEPEE! So all that holiday fat is gone. The gears of my stamina has been oiled. Surprised me that I took 1 PE session and 1 Jogging session to do so. Oh and 1 Netball Training.
On Friday too, I helped with out Sec One Netball auditions, leaving Media Club earlier. It was fun to point out all the better sec ones and argueing with our Head Coach, Wei Li. It was like stock market, or an auction, or a debate. Haha. We were discussing the good points and bad points and who we really think should be in.
Wei Li was really nice though. She told those who were not shortlisted that if they REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to join Netball, they should come and appeal. Like I did! Haha. And I have no regrets that I joined cos everyone's envious of our unitedness and bonding-ness and we really are only we seniors just want the juniors to observe the line during training times. But other than that, we love each other to bits and pieces and we will probably make a Cedar Netball Clubhouse one day.
Throughout the week, Fatmah, I noticed, is still interested in pointing out Mats and Minahs and telling me what they said. Some of the stuff I think was pretty cool but I forgot all about them.
Our class is going to be FOUR SAMURAI cos we are 4S. And our mascot is a cow in samurai gear cos he's a saMOOrai. Haha. The art-commitee has come out with pretty good decorations. I LOVE the NOTICE BOARD at the front of our class.
And I noticed that I keep nodding off in periods where the teachers talk in a droning kind of voice. I don't CHOOSE to sleep, they hypnotise me! Talking like that, who wouldn't? Charlene and me nodds off during a math. And our solution to that is: Jing Ting will poke me above my hips and Fatmah will SPIT at Charlene. EEEW gross lah Charlene dear! haha. And how do you know you'll wake up whereas Jing Ting will just shock me awake!
During my first Social Emotional Learning(SEL) period, Ms Lizah asked us to divide ourselves in groups of 3-4. We had to take 2 kinds of pictures, one sweet and the other one, crazy. There was a lot of chaos in the Computer Lab. Geraldine was determined in getting a group picture of us: she, me, Renuka, Amira, Joy, Fatmah and Rasyiqah too. Rachel Tan had wandered in back to the computer lab so she missed it but she didn't look so sad. Out crazy shots were modest but not...haha. Funny.
And I found this joke on Raihan's blog:
Student 1: What's ur name?
Student 2: Virginia. Virgin for short but not for long.
GOSH..dirty but funny.
Talking about jokes, Naif and Ayah War are the BEST joke tellers in the world. THey are so lame and crack me in the ribs from laughing!. Nadiah's ones are logical but since she's still young, we'll excuse her cos she doesn't really know what a joke is. Some of them are still funny though.
Netball tournaments have started. Am I so proud of our team for beating the rest! B Div against Henderson which was supposed to be good; CEDAR vs HENDERSON 29-16
and C Div against Crescent Girls; 16-0. WHOOPEE! we beat them man. Even though I do not participate physically, my spirit goes out to y'all! Continue the SPIRIT!
WE MUST
WE CAN
WE WILL
CEDAR!!!Labels: school happenings
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10:22 pm
piercing stare at the Asean Cups trophy
SOUTH ZONE SEMI-FINALS MATCH AGAINST ST MARGARETS.
our dear seniors
my juniors and st margs' supporters on the other side. with shin yeong especially, our voices were louder than theirs.
in action
our dear coach, Weili...SCOLDING! SCOLDING! and all stressed up.
the team boost. SEE WHAT??? CEDAR!!!! SEE WHAT??? CEDAR!!!! WE MUST WE CAN WE WILL!!!! CEDAAARRR!!! whoooo
and XIN YI SHOOTS!!!
our dear captain muu...and all the rest behind...agony on our faces...AGHH..the suspense man! we just want to WIN!!! ahaha
and our seniors agaim. j kok and shi wen...! popping in,,,
mrs low adds in a few words...
This is mine. I don't know what it's name is. Haha. But Geraldine had no trouble at all. That Geisha obsessed girl since that movie.
From left: mine, JING TING's and Rachel Tan's. I added that clip for her on its hair. Hahah. I still think mine's the best JING TING!!!