MUSIC

2009-06-14T08:23:00.000-07:00

IVE MOVED!

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2009-05-30T09:38:00.001-07:00

It's so sad and painfully ironic when you realise that you have morphed into a person you once despised. All the self-righteous debates with classmates, the poems and songs you wrote that convey your individualistic thoughts, the self-empowerment you get when you realise that your ideals and opinions are so different from others, (that you feel special, brave and proud of yourself) are all gone when pragmatism and expectations intrude. But what you thought will happen after you forsake all that you stood for did not, instead you're stuck in the worst situation ever, and left to wonder if all that you've done is worth it.

Then you have to face your family and friends who thought the best of you, who thought all will come naturally to you just because you're the 'smartest in the family', when in actual fact you come far too short when you're out the house. You see your closed ones trying to avoid you so that they don't have to confront about the situation, you hear your closed ones trying to console and even attacking the shortcomings of the system so you will feel better, but you know they don't really feel that way, they are as pessimistic as you are. Then you try not to say anything because when you do, you will start crying. And you don't want to appear any more vulnerable than you already are. But you have to say something, so you start saying things like how you should have gotten a place, how the competition is way too tough, how you almost made it, how there must have been a mistake, how your teacher said that "you will get a place.", in short- things you say when you're in denial when deep down, you know that you're simply just not good enough.

The most painful thing is when you're writing all of this, you're referring to yourself and all of these are happening right now, right here, to you.

and all you can do now is hope. Helplessly.

2009-05-27T05:31:00.001-07:00

Love his accent.

Sitting beside you in school
While we'd paint I'd make you laugh
Mine was never very good
Yours looked exactly like the photograph
Looks like I'm growing, I'm growing up beside you

I don't always get the way you feel
But now I've learned to live with that
It's like I'm a part of something real
I was hitting the bottle, now I've broke the seal
Looks like I'm growing, I'm growing up beside you

And the sun sets the scene
While the rain misses me
And all the time I'll be growing, growing up beside you

2009-05-11T09:17:00.000-07:00

He's more than the laughter or the stars in the heavens
as close a heartbeat or a song on her lips
someday she'll trust Him and learn how to see Him
someday He'll call her and she will come running
and fall in His arms and the tears will fall down and she'll pray.

Someday, someday.

2009-05-10T01:24:00.000-07:00

Update: OMG AND THIS!!!

Unforgetful You- Jars of Clay

I remember I loved this song so much in Primary 4 and thought it was so awesome that I wished I wrote it. HAHA.

I miss songs from this era:

You're an Ocean by Fastball

These 2 months are the worst months of my entire 19 years of living.

2009-04-23T06:47:00.000-07:00

John, we can't wait.

Half of My Heart

I was born in the arms of imaginary friends
Free to roam, made a home out of everywhere I've been
Then you come crashing in
Like the realest thing
Trying my best to understand all that your love can bring

2009-04-17T01:07:00.000-07:00

Maybe Life is a Song,

but you're scared to sing along.

2009-03-30T06:05:00.000-07:00

So, this year, I had TWO BIRTHDAY SURPRISES! hahaha.

First time in my 19 years of living. Though I sorta guessed the Thursday one only because my mother is such a lousy actress. Saturday was really a surprise haha on the pretext of sending me a guitar video online then "hey Jaime, WE ARE OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE" only they got the wrong house HAHAHAHA. Thanks sooooooo much guys! Didnt have to go to that extent but you all still did and Im grateful. (:

Especially to my brother and mother and her attempt at acting all natural. I dont know if my brother planned it just cos' he loves planning such things though. Hahahaha so mean. Just kidding...

Relief teaching besides giving me a near hoarse throat and forcing me to wake up early every weekday morning, also gave me blisters. Stupid 2 for $25 cheapo Cotton On shoes. But Cotton On really sells cheap and comfortable clothes that I got all my teaching clothes there. Today one of my students asked "Teacher, you really like Cotton On ah?". HAHA.

It had just occurred to me what deep shit I am in that Ive screwed up my SMU Social Sciences interview. I was quite okay and whatever about it on that day (which conveniently happens to be on my birthday), but now that Im reflecting on it, IM IN DEEP SHIT. Its my only shot at Uni and Ive screwed it up. And peers who are receiving acceptance letters from NUS isnt helping.

2009-03-11T10:15:00.000-07:00

Holy shit. He performed this song impromptu! Hears a couple of notes and writes such an amazing song, the melody, the words, ON THE SPOT.

Anyone would be BLESSED to have even a quarter of Jason Mraz's talent. He is amazing.

2009-03-06T05:14:00.000-08:00

Today, the taxi driver said to us, "12 years of studying and in the end, all you get is a piece of paper."

How true. Not even a piece, half a piece of paper with words determines where our future lies.

I dont know how to feel. Im not happy, but Im not devastated either.

I think it is because deep down I know I asked for it, I was too complacent on the subjects that I did badly in. And I believe in "What you reap is what you sow." I certainly did not reap much, therefore what I sowed is not ideal. But Im trying to be contented because at least FASS in a local university isn't too far out of reach, (but then again, you'll never know.)

I know mum is not too happy even though she says she really is because at least I can (PROBABLY) make it to a local Uni, but my peers did so much better and she knows. That upsets me the most I guess, not with her but with myself.

So my old friends Regret and Disappointment are here to visit me for a loooong time again.

ANYWAY.

Im really happy for Siew, Jo, Vic and Robs (: hard work really really pays off.

2009-02-28T07:43:00.001-08:00

So the class outing picnic was a flop. Oh well. As Mok said, it is a 'clique-nic' hahahhaha. But keed, jared, jerrald came, (: all they talked about were army stuff hahaha.

This was what took place in the bus:

-Victoria all flustered because she doesnt know how much to pay for the bus fare-

Vic: "Uncle, how much to IMM?"
Bus Uncle: "This bus doesnt go to IMM"
Us: "No la V, we stopping near Cheryl's house!"
Vic: "Oh oh oh, then Uncle, how much to go to Cheryl's house?" (WTH, Vic thinks the bus uncle is Cheryl's neighbour or what.)

Bus uncle actually replied to Vic's stupid question: "$1.40". As if this isn't funny enough, Vic replied, "Uncle! How you know where Cheryl stays????"

HAHAHHAHAA.

Okay, I guess you have to be there to find it funny.

Yes, Im not working and yes, I don't plan to, Im just going to remain lazy and disgusting.

Doomsday is cominnnnnnnggggg. Borrowing the words from Dashboard Confessional's Currents, I hope the End is where it Begins.

I want a kid like that.

2009-02-11T06:26:00.000-08:00

I want a kid like that:

"then you can start to make it berrer berrer berrer BERRER BERRER BERRER ARGHHHHHHHH!!" HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA. Berrer! How cute is that, seriously.

2009-01-27T07:44:00.000-08:00

This guitar piece by Kotaro Oshio makes me feel peace and serenity.

(Oasis-Kotaro Oshio)

It's a pleasure to learn and play this piece, fortunately, it's not a killer like You Are The Hero. Im beginning to appreciate what alternate tunings on the guitar can bring. Like this song. FREAKIN' BEAUTIFUL.

CNY has been good. Though I lost alot of moolah on Blackjack hahahahaha. Robs, Vans, Andrea and Rachie came by today, we had fun, miss the times we had in SJC :(

I need a guitar amplifier. Random thought.

Bye.

2009-01-23T03:00:00.000-08:00

Schindler's List is a disturbing yet impactful movie, it is a true story. I love the scene in which Oskar Schindler blames himself for not saving enough Jews (he used up his entire fortune to 'buy' over 1,100 Jews from the (inhumane) SS Commander, Amon Geof) when he had to flee the country after the Germans surrendered. It was so touching how he cried and scolded himself; how he apologised to the Jews he saved for not saving their families and friends; how he blamed himself for not earning more money, for not selling his car, his Nazi badge (Yes, despite being a German and a Nazi, he saved the Jews) to come up with more money so he could 'buy' more Jews. And he broke down, all the Jews he saved crowded over him, hugged him. I cried like crazy in that scene and replayed it for like 4 times. I think that scene is so impactful because Oskar Schindler is portrayed as a ruthless businessman, a war profiteer, a womaniser but he is still capable of doing something so great-risk his businesses and his life and used his fortune to bribe SS officials and to provide food and shelter for the Jews he saved. Yet, he blames himself for not doing enough.

This is the scene:

I think the main message of the movie is that one man can indeed make a difference. Oskar Schindler did not just save 1,100 lives(even though it is a great deal already) he saved much more than that because that 1,100 lives will live on to make more differences because of what he did. Like what was engraved in the ring the workers gave him, "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire."

Adolf Hitler is a sick, inhumane and immoral bastard. I dont care if he is a great leader and all that crap that can potentially vindicate him, HE IS A SICK BASTARD.

I love the movie, everyone should go watch it at least once.

2009-01-17T07:15:00.000-08:00

Long live female singer-songwriters.

Breakable-Ingrid Michaelson

Sophia-Nerina Pallot

Are We Different-Priscilla Ahn

My days of being confined to listening to male singer-songwriters are over! (I still do like them though.) I used to wonder why I only come across male ones and now my answer lies in Youtube.

2009-01-13T07:30:00.000-08:00

(Dream by Priscilla Ahn)

This song makes me want a loop pedal. But there's no use for me to have it because I dont do gigs and stuff. She has a beautiful voice, and this is a beautiful song. And she did the whole looping thing in this video, so cool.

So, I got the CDs i wanted from Borders! Whoo. I called and they told me they don't have them but being the skeptic, I went down to Borders to see for myself and they have them!! And all at reasonable prices. They don't have Ingrid Michaelson's Girls and Boys though, but I got Be OK, which is okay for me. So yay! Be a disbeliever my friends. Hahaha.

2009-01-11T04:51:00.001-08:00

I really like this song:

(Keep Breathing-Ingrid Michaelson)
I dont care if its overplayed, overrated cos of Grey's Anatomy, I LOVE IT. Its such a beautiful song.

I cant find Ingrid Michaelson's, Priscilla Ahn's records and Joshua Radin's first record anywhere in Singapore, damn it. They are so bloody good and brave in what they do that it makes me very very envious. I shall work to buy them off online. After CNY or something. I think.

Ive forgotten how awesome Jack Johnson is until now when my Itunes is playing him. His best has got to be In Between Dreams, i started to un-like him when I bought On and On(one of my many impulse cd purchases), all the songs on In Between Dreams are awesome. It's hard to find a record like that you know where all the songs are so damn nice. Joshua Radin's Simple Times and Damien Rice's O are such too.

Bye now.

2009-01-04T10:44:00.000-08:00

JO AND ROBYN WATCH THIS!

Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson- Winter Song

yes yes, a bit late for a christmas kinda song but! its not a typical christmas song that both Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson wrote, it's quite depressing actually but very relevant to alot of questions we've been asking, especially in the face of the problems we face as an entire human race, together.

um bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum bum

This is my winter song to you
The storm is coming soon
It rolls in from the sea

My voice, a beacon in the night
My words will be your light
To carry you to me

Is love alive?
Is love alive?
Is love...

They say that things just cannot grow
Beneath the winter snow
Or so I have been told

They say we're buried far
Just like a distant star
I simply cannot hold

Is love alive?
Is love alive?
Is love alive?

This is my winter song
December never felt so wrong
'Cause you're not where you belong
Inside my arms

Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum bum

I still believe in summer days
The seasons always change
And life will find a way

I'll be your harvester of light
And send it out tonight
So we can start again

Is love alive?
Is love alive?
Is love alive?

This is my winter song
December never felt so wrong
'Cause you're not where you belong
Inside my arms

This is my winter song to you
The storm is coming soon
It rolls in from the sea

My love, a beacon in the night
My words will be your light
To carry you to me

Is love alive?

2008-12-30T10:24:00.001-08:00

You know when someone says "wow time passes really fast" (im guilty of that haha), you'll probably roll your eyes and go, 'cliche.' But i have to say, this cliche has never been as applicable and appropriate as for the year of 2008. Maybe because so many things happened this year that created such an effect.

The Happy:
Two new cousins added to my family,
Min Jun
Wei Jun/Wesley

Finding friends that i know will last for life,

Still being assured that distance/the lack of time doesnt affect friendships(and they will also last for life),

Discovering great music(and being awed at the musical genuises of these musicians,):
Damien Rice

John Mayer

Ray LaMontagne

Joshua Radin

Getting the Taylor 214CE,

The Wretched:
dont think i have to elaborate on that.

The Sad:
The Sichuan earthquake,terroists attacks, betrayals by the people I once trusted, becoming a person that I once despised,

The Lessons:
But I learned, grew and found (part) of myself.

This year, I gained the affirmation of my love for music. Ive never been as certain and sure of my passion in life as this year-I took my hobby of songwriting to another level by learning how to record music on a more professional level (digital audio workstation and the works), got over the fear of singing alone and playing in front of a live audience by taking on an item in the guitar concert this year. Maybe this new found affirmation is accrued to the experiences lived and learned this year, what with the pressure and stress of the Alevels, and the ups and downs experienced at home and in school, with the family and friends that music became a form of comfort or maybe, escape, a sort of my personal reverie... and i thank God for letting me go through all that i have this year because it is precisely these experiences that taught me to appreciate things that i once overlooked and taken granted for.

Im not sure if 2009 will be as good as 2008 because im 99% sure that ive flunked the A's (no matter what they all say about how it will end up better than i expected it to be,) but i guess, while it is hard to be convinced or to be assured by, everything happens for a reason...right?

I wish 2009 will be a year that i'll regain my faith and find my true calling in life. While i am very certain Music is the one thing i will choose to pursue if i have the choice, i know it's not pragmatic, hence the lack of courage from me to pursue it...so let 2009 be the year that will give me the courage that ive always needed.

But most importantly, let the year 2009 be a year which is minimised of both natural and man-made disasters. Natural, we cannot control, but man-made, we definitely can, so as cliched and cheesy as it sounds, let there be (more) love in 2009. (:

Long post, I dont have alot of blog-readers but this post is essentially for you, Jaime, to keep.

Happy New Year everyone.

2008-12-29T06:21:00.000-08:00

Ray Lamontagne- Shelter

guess you don't need it
I guess you don't want me to repeat it
But everything I have to give I'll give to you
It's not like we planned it
You tried to stay, but you could not stand it
To see me shut down slow
as though it was an easy thing to do
Listen when
All of this around us'll fall over
I tell you what we're gonna do
You will shelter me my love
And I will shelter you
I will shelter you
I left you heartbroken, but not until those very words were spoken
Has anybody ever made such a fool out of you
It's hard to believe it
Even as my eyes do see it
The very things that make you live are killing you
Listen when all of this around us'll fall over
I tell you what we're gonna do
You will shelter me my love
I will shelter you
Listen when
All of this around us'll fall over
I tell you what we're gonna do
Hey you will shelter me my love
I will shelter you
If you shelter me too
I will shelter you
I will shelter you

Joshua Radin- Today

Shoelaces untied
You can dry your eye
Perfect shadows lie behind us
And this is the day I make you mine

The way your hair lies
Sometimes unrecognized
All the way from Nice today, on a train
Nothing to say but there's still time

You are the one I've been waiting for today
And here comes the sun, its been baiting 'morn today

Lately I've lost my tongue
Today you found my song
Unknown our love, has grown
And I thank god you came along

You are the one one I've been waiting for today
And here comes the sun, it's been baiting 'morn today

You looked right through me, there was no one else
I sat beside you and became myself, today
Today

You are the one I've been waiting for today
And here comes the sun, its been baiting 'morn today

Thank God for good music like such. (the Jonas Brothers should just go drown themselves.)

2008-12-27T05:20:00.000-08:00

Matthew Perryman Jones- Save You

I wanna rock-n-roll
I wanna give my soul
I'm wanting to believe I'm not too old
Don't wanna make it up
Don't wanna letcha down
I wanna fly away
I'm stuck on the ground

So, help me decide
Help me to make up
Make up my mind
Wouldn't that save you?
Wouldn't that save you?
Wouldn't that save you?

Watched all go by
Was it really true?
Is that what it was?
Was that really you?
I'm looking back again
Tracing back the threads
You said it was a mess
Or was it just in my head?

Somethings gotta break
You gotta swing the bat
Too many years of dying
Why is that?

(Thanks Marc for intro-ing!)

2008-12-17T09:57:00.000-08:00

THIS KID IS SICKENINGLY(is there such a word) AMAZING:

All You Need Is Love by THE ONLY 11 YEARS OLD Sunga Jung.

2008-12-05T06:49:00.000-08:00

In a short span of 5 days, my mother bought me a Taylor 214CE acoustic guitar and suprised me with a Macbook. all in 5 FREAKING DAYS.

And they are not cheap.

My mum is too good to me that it makes me guilty cos' I certainly did nothing to deserve all of these.

2008-12-02T09:31:00.000-08:00

I used to wonder why people like to club. As in go clubbing. Cos to me, the place is just plain noisy, disturbing, full of dubious people(MEN) who just go to clubs to get laid, music sucks cos its hip hop this, hip hop that. Okay. Im biased, dont like hip hop. ANYWAY,

Yesterday was my first time in a club cos it was the post prom party at The Arena, it was everything I expected(not good things.) There I was, sitting on the stool, drinking my pepsi, watching people dance, got egged on to dance which I did because I didnt want to spoil the fun, only that when i 'dance', it's really just bopping my head to the music and maybe give a clap or two to make myself look livelier. Anyway, the experiece was very deep. How so?

I observed and realised people who club, who dance, who drink are really, not happy inside. Of course this doesnt apply to all but to many people, especially the young ones- Doing all the clubbing stuff gives them a temporary high, temporary happiness, they dont have to worry when they are dancing because the heavy basses, the people around them, the high volume of the music- the loudness of it all, numbs and overwhelms their worries and sadness. But when the music stops or when they get tired, when they get back to their seats, everything rush in and they remember why they are clubbing in the first place. Then they remember the break ups they just had, the quarrels they had with their family or friends and the tears come rushing in, the smiles disappear, the high fades and all is back to normal.

But this is just my perspective, I was sober because I hate liqour and I cant dance, maybe when you are able to fit in that scene which I don't, then one can understand the whole joy and purpose of clubbing. But in my opinion: clubbing, no clubbing, doesnt make a difference to your life.

By the way, a club is NOT the place for feminists. Seeing girls high on liqour dancing on a podium really seem like they are asking for it.

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PROM WAS BORING. so not worth the heels and make up and being uncomfortable because of the a dress. But it was fun with friends.

Yes, so i wore my sec sch prom dress to my JC prom. hahahahha, want to make worth the money cos at least now, I wore it TWICE.

More characteristic of me...

Haha.

Amanda's birthday the day before! GREAT FOOD. and company la of course. haha.

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BUT THE HIGHLIGHT WAS FINALLY GETTING MY TAYLOR 214CE!!!!!

What a beauty eh!

2008-11-22T05:28:00.000-08:00

It feels weird not having to study. I have these sudden bouts of guilt and then realise that there's no need to.

Lit Paper 5 was a baaaaaaaaaaad way to end the A's. Stupid Cambridge. or CAMBITCH for that matter. Moving on,

Had a stayover at my place yesterday it was sooooo bloody fun. Especially when we started writing nonsensical songs in the wee hours of the morning about gay love(Sam and his cute ass which John loves), Mok going to a gay club, the free-rider problem and monopoly and Boey Kim Cheng.

This is what Mok hugs when he is sleeping:

Thats right. The Guitar Hero Guitar. "wah Jaime, your guitar very nice to hug to
sleep eh." -Mok. Siew was like "look at Mok trying to have a rock star dream."

Then I slept the whole day away.

My life right now is directionless(so lit) I dont know what i can do to kill time besides watching Grey's Anatomy and One Tree Hill online(HEROES NEXT) Maybe i should go learn something. Or take up the relief teaching job.

Im not optimistic about the results. i have no idea what to expect but i know it will definitely be bad. I packed all my JC notes in files to prepare for retaking of the A's next year. yay me.

I love John Mayer by the way.

2008-09-30T07:12:00.001-07:00

today ms k gave us a pre-grad farewell speech. it was quite touching. i was particularly affected when she said if we define ourselves by the results of our Alevels, they(as in Ms k and the school) have "failed us."

Oh and she had a relaspe of her back problem again. she was crying. and i was like 'huh maybe she cried cos shes touched and stuff cos its farewell." then i thought again "no leh, ms k leh wont cry because of stuff like these." then after a while i was like "OH. right."

so embarrassing.

anyway.

Eagle Eye is really nice!! Please go watch it. And Mamma Mia too! watching it again for the 2nd time tmrw.

When i should be studying.

2008-09-21T05:17:00.000-07:00

CANT WAIT FOR JAMES MORRISON'S NEW ALBUMMMMMMM.

You Make It Real by James Morrison

And here is another very nice song i came across. Beautiful by G. Love and Tristan Prettyman. I love G. Love's voice!

And another one, The Man Who Cant Be Moved by The Script. Love his voice too! Cant find a vid with the embedding thingy though. Only the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW6F_g3upKA

2008-08-30T08:14:00.000-07:00

TO SAGE:

okay, im not very good at writing emo emo stuff(and when everytime its imperative for me to do so, i feel damn grossed out at my mushi-ness.) BUT! I think its necessary for me to tell u guys this:

JC was a foreign and shocking environment for me till I made some friends and made the Muslim food my favourite, but most importantly, JC was fun and enjoyable when i joined guitar, when i met you guys.

i knew i was going to join guitar before i came to JC because it is like the love of my life and i remember being very disappointed during the orientation because theres only eliz, yiqi and me present. with myself being the last person to leave. can u imagine?! one freaking person representing the juniors. it was sooo awkward and then after i wasnt hyped abt the CCA, so i didnt go for the camp either. and skipped a couple of official practices cos of House Council ah! Not cos i want to pon (not like Liyan, HAHA.) anyway, i remember during the first prac i went for, Mr Wan was sooooo fierce, (haha i rmbr Wilson trying to appease him) and he wanted everyone to play sth on the guitar, so i played "more than words". that wasnt the point. the point was, i wasnt all enthu as i thought i would be for guitar. i actually dreaded going for pracs.

Till i made friends with yall. as Yiqi, Eliz, Joel, Liyan and Jannah as the group got smaller. (and smaller, and smaller, and smaller.)
I thought Yiqi, Eliz and Joel would be very un-fun AT FIRST IMPRESSION but after learnt that they were super talented and nice and damn hilarious.
I thought Liyan was Liyan without the "Y" but found out shes funny and nice and can speak Korean! Plays the guitar really well somemore. (she cracks me up with her habit of self-praising. Haha.)
I thought Jannah was quiet but then found out she can be really witty, and its damn funny when she gets all worked up when she sees the messy guitar room.

Then we got Des and Tim, Leonard and Eugene(but dont have to say much cos they were practically not there for guitar pracs. ANYWAY,)

Then Marc who came and go but was nice of him to sing for the concert.

Then KJ and Matt. HAHA. Guitar wouldnt be as funny or nonsensical without them.

Then we stayed at 8 people.

I remember my friends and Leonard would always laugh when i tell them theres only 8 ppl in the ensemble. and i remember laughing with them at some point cos it was funny, u have to admit. 8 ppl in an ENSEMBLE?! its a joke. but then time passed, we bonded, went through crap together, got stressed up, got worried, got angry, practiced in sch till damn late etc...and then slowly, i forgot the fact that SAGE had only 8 ppl.

Because in the period of time we served in SAGE, we've accomplished more than what 8 people could.

SAGE partly defined me as a person in JC, its like part of me. You guys are part of me.

I never thought much of SAGE before, i admit, i felt it was just a CCA, i almost wanted to quit cos of House Council. AND IM SO GLAD I DIDNT. because i would have missed out making friends with such great people, missed learning so much from the same great people and missed having fun and enjoying my time in JC.

I will miss you guys so much, it is like a template that people say when they part but i want you all to know that i really really mean it. (:

wah damn mushy ah. haha bye all (:

2008-08-04T05:31:00.000-07:00

Ive noticed something about the guys in my school.

When they are pissed or annoyed with another guy, they say "F**k la, he can suck my balls!" or "You tell that f**kface to come and suck/lick my balls."

Okay, how is that threatening? i always ask them "and why would you want him to do that?"

i asked my classmate who is really fond of using that phrase and he said it's to imply that the guy is gay. so i said "oh, so its not gay-ish of you to tell him to do gay stuff on you? i dont know, but you ordering him to suck your balls seems more gay to me. And kinda perverted I might add."

Just a thought.

Prelims in 3 weeks. Tension is runningggg high. How like that.

Oooh! Rapture last Wednesday. Amanda got standing ovation all siool.

O7A10.

Rachel!

We got the Hello Kitty balloons for the boys. They loved it.

Amanda.

I don't want to forget come daylight.

2008-07-07T09:34:00.000-07:00

I shall share some really good music with yall.

Ane Brun and Nina Kinert with "Hey, ho, My Love Will Go" and "Rubber and Soul"

I like the fact theres just 2 really good voices and harmonising and an unplugged acoustic guitar. And they did the songs in an elevator! So cool.

Joshua Radin & Schuyler Fisk with "Paperweight"

Beautiful song! Really really nice melody and harmonising.

Amazing what some gifted musicians can do with just an acoustic guitar and 2 voices huh.

Thanks Jo for recommending!

Enjoy! (:

2008-06-29T21:36:00.000-07:00

You know who i hate in today's Hannah-Montana, Zac Efron, HSM, Vanessa Hudgens infested age?

THE JONAS BROTHERS.

BE ANGRY/LAUGH/RIDICULE AT THEIR SINGING.

THEY.CANNOT.SING.FOR.NUTS.
not even HOLD A TUNE. They really should stop attempting to harmonise. not working hello.
they go out of tune throughout the whole song, who can beat that i mean seriously, okay maybe joakim and paul twohill. but still, the brothers are alot more popular than them which makes even lesser sense unless of course duh, its because they are cute. i mean what else could possibly be the reason for their success?

i mean really, when they sing 'when you look me in the eye' they act emo all know, one brother plays the acoustic guitar (which he doesnt play WITH the song. i wonder.) another plays the piano in which HALF THE TIME HE ISNT PLAYING AT ALL. you get my point. and the last brother sings terribly, and hes the best singer. and then the brother who 'plays' the piano kinda just decides to be extra and songs to, adding RnB riffs to it which sucks because its all out of tune, then all the brothers decide to walk together towards their female fans who adore them just because they are cute (and the sad part is they know that, they kept going 'WHERE ARE ALL THE GIRLS/LADIES IN THE HOUSEEEEE?? LET ME HEAR YAAAAAAA.." or "THIS FOR THE LADIES IN THE HOUSEEEEEE..." )and the best part is, the piano is still playing even though the brother is away from the piano, wow. i dont even think the guitar is plugged in. I conclude that the root of the Jonas Brothers Problem is: oh right, cos they cant sing. and whats with the nasal voice!? its annoying. Especially annoying when they try to do all the vocal acrobatics.

How do people like them be so popular and earning loads from it? its cos they are cute! according to the americans, cos personally amanda and myself concluded only the longer hair brother is cute. anyway it's sad that music has been reduced to this stage that you just have to be cute, just cute, you dont even have to be talented or,as ridiculous as it sounds, hold a tune for that matter, to be successful. it is really sad. how can they ever be proud of themselves? that their looks are the reasons whay they are successful.

We need more Damien Rice-s, John Mayer-s(but less of a player,) and Jack Johnson-s(on top of that he is an environmentalist!)!!!

I sound really bitchy i know, cant help it cos i got so mad watching the Hannah Montana concert on Disney Channel and they were the guest performers (they ride on her fame on top of not being able to sing! terrible.) and the only reason why i continued watching was so i could laugh at them.

2008-06-18T11:16:00.000-07:00

White Guitar 18th June 2008

White guitar sings to the world,
White guitar plays notes that are queer.
White guitar is all that I can hear and
I hear the truth that the strings whisper.

White guitar strums but no one else would hear.
But I’ll believe in you
Cause’ I get your tune.
Your melody cautions me,
All the cruelties that are surrounding me.

Is there anything whiter than the white guitar?
Is there anything purer than the white guitar?
And is there anything truer than the white guitar?
No, yeah, it’s alone.

White guitar stands at a corner
Collecting dust, no one picks it up.
Sometimes, it sits on the bed,
with no one to embrace.

Is there anything whiter than the white guitar?
Is there anything purer than the white guitar?
And is there anything truer than the white guitar?
No, yeah, it’s alone.

White guitar sings to the world.

But the world wouldn’t listen.

Besides studying, the June "holidays" enabled me to write a couple of songs but this is the one im most pleased with. It all started when I saw the lomographic Diana+ camera that i bought from Japan sitting on my bed then i turned from the computer and i saw it like that and "White camera sitting on the bed" came into my mind, but then i did not go any further than that until just now when i was studying at Macs (i know right, people get their inspiration from walking in the streets of Venice, or drinking coffee at some street cafe in France or when listening to the breeze and watching the sunset at some beach and i get mine from studying at Macs.) anyway 'white guitar' came up suddenly and i hurried to write the first verse on a piece of post-it that i also used to kill a baby cockroach crawling on the wall next to me(new piece of course). damn Macs. the first thing i did when i got home from 2 hrs of unproductive studying was to write the whole thing with my guitar. i was so tempted to record the whole thing on my DAW but i stowed it away in view of the A levels, it's a form of distraction you see. but looks like keeping it away did not work.

This is an attempt to sound all Damien Rice-ish but it's not something i just write for the SAKE of writing it, it holds alot of meaning for me.

if Vannee is reading this, she would be like 'EMO SIOLLL.'

Counsultation with Ms K toms. i am sooo looking forward to it.

and i dont think im prepared enough for BT2s.

2008-06-17T12:12:00.001-07:00

Back from Japan-land of the rising sun, or something like that.

the best thing ive gotten out from the trip besides the harmonica and DisneySea is a song- Tegami or Letter by Angela Aki.

I was about to sleep then i thought i should watch abit of Tv first and this programme showed with Angela Aki apparently touring schools to sing this song to students:

This is not the exact video that i watched, it is the only one i can find on youtube.

Anyway, when she started singing and playing the piano, i was completely mesmerized and arrested by the melody and the emotions she put out when singing. i dont understand a single word of it(besides 'keep on believing) yet i felt so touched and emotional like the students in the video. In this video, she actually cried at the end after singing it. To me, thats real music, you dont have to understand a word of the song to relate to the song, just pure melody, the sound of the instrument and the emotions within that song that are delievered by the singer are enough to arrest and captivate the listener. And that's good music. Music has no language/ethinic barriers! This song, to me, reminded me the basic simplicity of Music because I didnt know what she's singing, but i was affected by it. That's big.

Just like Damien Rice!

(not some senseless hip hop shit that sings, actually not even sing, just repeated beats, heavy basses, some dumb, irritating effects riffs and mumbling of 'yos' and 'Yeahhhs'READ:EGOISITIC AND THEY-THINK-IT'S-COOL-IF-THEY-WRITE-IT-IN-THE-SONG LYRICS about Sex, Booze and Drugs. I actually wrote a poem about this 'culture' in the music scene in sec school, i suddenly recall hahah. PERSONAL OPINION EVERYONE.)

2008-05-19T07:32:00.000-07:00

i just want to blog abit about the myanmar and china disasters. Watching the news, all i can do is cry and i dont even know what to say to describe how i feel now, its indescribable. sad and sorry would be understatements. even though i am not a very devout christian, i do hope that anyone who is reading this will pray for the victims. especially the children those who lost their lives and those who lost their parents to the cyclone/earthquake, its unfair that they are faced with situations like these.

AND SAJC SHOULD START PRAYING FOR THEM IN MORNING PRAYERS BUT NOT OUR REALLY TRIVIAL ALEVELS DAMNIT.

A TRIBUTE TO THE BEST SINGER-SONGWRITER OF ALL TIME.

2008-05-19T03:05:00.000-07:00

Damien Rice.

"I used to have a feeling that I had to spend a long time at the song, work at it til it got better, like building a house or something, you've got to spend loads of time doing it and putting in the foundations, but recently I discovered that the better songs I have written are the ones that come really fast, where I stop trying to be a songwriter, stop trying to be anything, and just live, experience and be free. When it comes, it calls and when I know there's a song coming out, there's a huge urge in me to just grab a guitar and write and a whole song could come out in 15 minutes."

-Damien.

How true. Damien Rice is really an epitome of how a true songwriter should be like. Spontaneous but sincere and truthful. And he is a great singer, theres this struggle and rawness when he sings that expresses so mucn emotion. its unbelievable what is in his mind. his lyrics are so simple yet complicated, the words coupled with simple guitar riffs, telling melodies and Lisa Hannigan's harmonising are so damn arresting, its like you're sucked into his thoughts and feelings when he is singing.

Even watching him perform on youtube touches me so much that i get goosebumps. and im not exaggerating. He is so real and sincere and emotional that you are compelled to admit that "yeah, i feel that way sometimes too." And the relevation scares and touches me, that sometimes i have the urge to even tear.

But thats what Damien's music is. It expresses feelings, thoughts and emotions that we sometimes cannot. But he does it for us through his music and i love love love him for that. No one could ever have the kind of impact and influence Damien Rice has on me, no one.

And he is not dead yet. Just spent these few days watching and reading about him, thought i should proclaim my love for him. hahaha.

ENJOY. He really makes you wanna cry.

Elephant

"When you think you're safe
You fall upon your knees
But you're still within your picture
you still forget the breeze,
and she may rise if I sing you down
And she may wisely lay claim to the ground."

Rootless Tree (Piano Version)

"What I want from you is empty your head
But they say be true, don't stay in your bed
We do what we need to be free
And it leans on me like a rootless tree .

What I want from us is emty our minds.
But we fade the forests, fracture the tide
We go blind when we needed to see
And it leans on me, like a rootless..."

Yes i know, explicit language in chorus. But who cares, Damien makes it sound lyrical and tasteful. Haha.

2008-04-27T07:49:00.000-07:00

i dont even know what to blog about right now.

my stupid flu?

my atrocious BT1 results?

how worried i am for the guitar concert on 9th may?

how worried i am for i have to sing?

how worried i am for the A levels?

how i think im really pathettic for not having the courage to do WHAT I WANT AND WHAT I LIKE.

how ive succumbed to the societal conventions. (something Austen would disapproved.)

and how i think myself as a freak for applying that to Literature.

2008-04-14T08:41:00.000-07:00

the musical 'We Will Rock You' was, just two words.

BLOODY AWESOME.

it made me love Queen even more. it was soooooo good.

and there was this part when they sang 'No One But You' in tribute to Freddie Mercury and great musicians like Lennon and Hendrix who died and i actually teared. hahahah emo.

i want to watch it again.

Queen, I LOVE YOU.

2008-03-26T07:22:00.000-07:00

the 'big' 18th has alot of implications to me.

1. A levels. (hahaha such a jaime thing ah.)

2. Drink alcohol and smoke legally (which i will so not do, obviously.)

3. Watch M18 movies legally. (doesnt really matter to me. not a big fan of horror and *ah-hem* obsence movies anyway.)

4. Go clubbing and actually feeling like an adult and in place cos i think underaged parties are really lame for underaged people who wants to feel like an adult and pretend to be 'mature' (no offense) dont they know its a marketing strategy for those clubs?!?!! "free drinks and entry" they go to the underaged parties, dance, have fun, drink and this will keep them coming back for more when they are of age. But the whole feeling like an adult will come easily to me cos i AM 18 already hahaha!No la, not a really big fan of clubbing, hate the smoke(but i heard they banned it already) and loud music. BUT i might just go like once for the experience with my brother or something and not dance or drink. ill just sit there and drink my coke, eat the peanuts. hahahha my mum was the one insisting that i should go..oh, the irony.

5. Can drive (but i wont this year cos of the As.)

6. Officially an adult. (all the responsibilities...sigh.)

7. Feeling old.

so apparently, turning 18 is really a big deal. amanda and all were like 'omg jaime! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! YOU'RE SO OLD!' hahah thanks ah. and they were making fun of me the WHOLE FREAKING DAY COS IM 18. ill say something like sacarstic or do something like laugh and they will be like 'oh, so now yr 18 u can do that la?' huh, wheres the link. BUT THEY ARE SOOOO SWEET, MY CLASSMATES TOOOO. ahhahah they bought me a piece of cake and sang me a bday song TWICE cos mok and roy came late and mok sang really really loudly, like shouted it, his wholeeeee face turned red all la. it was funny. i love 07a10!

saturday was fun. rockband, laugh at vanessa (hahaha so mean) cos shes so funny and introduced my jc frns to sec sch frns and vice versa and we bonded bcos of vanneee hahahahahah oh, and making fun of me and my voice and all the embarrassing stuff i did in sec sch.

thanks to robs, vans, anan, rash for the rose, 'savin up for a new guituh' saving bank(and with money in it at that!) and the vest(:
amanda, siew, jo and V: thanks for the really nice beatles tshirt! love it love it love it.
Nad: thanks for the choco! (:
Mok and roy: thanks for nothing. HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAH NO LA. thanks for er..singing really loudly for the bday song. (they dont read blogs, so its okay hahah)
O7A10: thanks for the bday card! i really appreciate it. i mean it.
Amanda and Siew: thanks for the cards, touching much.
Robs, anne, audrey, suyin, lulu, jojo, siew, pat, jda and all: THANKS FOR THE BDAY MESSAGE! APPRECIATE THEM AS WELL (:(:(:
and all who wished me today! (:(: thanks alot alot alot.

i hope this yr would be a good year. good results, go to Uni in spore, go to a good course and come out of Uni being a good member of the society. hahahahahha i always laugh when i say that even if i really meant it cos it sounds so funny. get a good job, earn alot of money, buy a biggggggg house for my family(i really meant it, , its not like some stupid wish we make when we're 5) a nice car, build a fully-equipped music studio in my house, complete with soundproof walls and the works(ya know, guitars, drums, piano, recording equipment..)and buy all the taylor guitars in the world. do charity work, donate loads of money to make poverty history, save the earth (the day after tomorrow really scares me.) and to woman and child rights. hopefully have a happy and healthy family of my own, retire and be a part time guitar teacher. BUT FIRST, I NEED TO GET PAST THE DAMN ALEVELS. hahahhahaha i am totally dreaming arent i.

on my 18th birthday, i resolve to:
1. stop being rude to mr randy
2. pass my NAFA run on the first attempt.
3. stay awake throughout the whole day in school.
4. be nicer to people
5. be less blunt.
6. think before i speak.

2008-03-08T00:15:00.000-08:00

well this sucks.

i got a B for A levels chinese.

ego is pretty busted right now.

a B.

if i got a C or D or E it would have made me feel better BECAUSE IT DOES NOT MAKE A FREAKING DIFFERENCE UNLESS YOU GOT AN A.

yes thats right, unless an A is achieved, you will not gain bonus points to the final score of the A levels.

so a B or a C or a D or E doesnt make a difference.

SCOREEEEE JAIME.

its just like a few freaking marks!! must be that wretched composition.

im gonna retake, go for chinese lessons, do somemore stupid zhuo wens and zhuo yessleep during lessons(hahaha) or study for other subjects.

JUNO WAS DAMN NICE. funny la that one, they say all the funny stuff with a straight face. and Ellen Page is soooooo cool. shes pretty, she sings well, acts well, is funny and just really really cool. michael cera's shorts in the movie were waaaaaayyyy toooo short.

2008-03-03T06:24:00.000-08:00

Ode to My Master

Disappointment
Is a pain
Is a torture
Is a reminder of cruelty

In this reality.
Inevitable,
Disappointment is.
Confronted by it everyday,
Unable to escape in any way.

Thus I let it take over me,
Wallowing myself in self-pity.
I impose my own confinement
Lugged with this sick, sick emotion.

Alas, I cannot let it be.
I am pathetic, I admit.

on a lighter note... A FREAKING BEAUTIFUL SONG.

cant wait for the movie.

2008-02-14T06:26:00.000-08:00

all you need is LOVE.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone. Thanks Jo, Vic (eaten already.) Amanda, Siwekhim, Nad, Mok and Roy!!!!

especially to the guys, they r sooooo sweet, they probably went to school early to put a rose on the chairs for every girl in class, SO SWEET AH. okay, partly because we kinda forced them to buy roses for us today. HAHA. BUT THEN, after chapel, they ran alllll the way to the canteeen to suprise us. they got yiqi to keep us back, we kinda know they are gonna give us a suprise la,(but we still thought it was very sweet) then like put somemore roses,jars of sweets, note frm roy and poem frm Mok on the bench and said 'eh girls, i think some guy was trying to suprise u all.' and we turned look and there they are!!! AWWWWWWWWW. it was a really sweet gesture i gave them pats on their backs HAHAH. i dont do hugs for guys la huh. hahaha but i really really appreciate it (:

thanks guys!

2008-02-04T08:09:00.000-08:00

the sweetest, most adorable, most sincere and the simplest BUT real video ive seen in a loooooong time. JUNO (:

2008-01-27T05:50:00.000-08:00

I LOVE JEFF DUNHAM, okay, peanut actually. but technically je fah fah(haha peanut) cos hes the ventroliquist, but hes so good that his puppets come alive, i mean seriously. pls do wtch it pls pls pls, u all will die of laughter.

Peanut: "you wanna kill me."
jeff: "no i dont."
Peanut: "yes u do."
Jeff: "no i dont."
Peanut: "yes."
"no"
"yes"
"no.
"SEARCH YOUR FEEELINGSSSSSSSSSSSSS JE FAH FAH."

hahahhaaahhahahah!

p: "what do u do for a living terry?"
Terry: "a buisness analyst."
p:"a-a buisness analyst... fascinating. how the hell does that work anway? go to buisness and go 'hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm.' 'you're a buiness.'"

HAHAHAHHAHAH. I HEART PEANUTTTTTTT

2008-01-21T02:08:00.000-08:00

i have no social life.

i mean seriously. my life now consists of King Bumibhol,Marcos, Sarit Thanarat, Sukarno, Ne Win and Gorbachev. and the best part is what i studied for SEA didnt come out! how great. i sacrificed my social life to fail my exam. life rocks.

i did not touch anything on Asian Financial Crisis, i cant even crap it through. so i wrote a note to mrs ram. "Mrs Ram, im not going to attempt to write anything for this question because it'll aggrevate you even further as i'll be writing rubbish if i do so. i admit i did not study this part of nation building and i'm very sorry and am regretting it. :( i deserve a big fat U grade." i hope she doesnt faint from anger or something. but i really cant even write something on the paper. a valuable lesson on how you shld never ever spot a question for an exam. i learnt it in a hard way.

anyhow, i dont know if mr randy really knows my blog add, if he really does, HI MR RANDY! if he doesnt know it, Mr Randy, you're scaring me.

haha.

today, everyone jacked me in class. -_- firstly, mr randy was talking about how there are politics in class so he decided to prove his point and asked why we, 07A10 doesnt talk to those in s16. so he asked this guy if he knows my name and he does. and mr randy decided to be funny and said 'uh...youve been paying attention to jaime ah.' and then everyone started to do those annoying 'ooooohhhh' sounds and ask why am i blushing which im so not. blushing i mean. (i dont even know his name pls.) anyway i was like 'mr randy, u call me in every class to answer questions, pretty impossible that he doesnt know my name right.' but like every annoying teacher and classmate who is into making fun of a student/fellow classmate, they conviniently ignored the point i made and continued doing those wretched 'oooooh' sounds.

then when we were on the way to Macs, Amanda got a call that said everyone in class was waiting for us so i suggested we should just run there. as a joke. cos i hate running. nways, nadrah then dared me to run so i said we shld all run then they were like 'okay okay' then i counted 1,2, 3,ran and like every friend who wants to sabotage another friend, they did not run. and i ran, looking like some dumbass. i always fall to ppl's tricks like that. like that time mr R asked what the first sentence of every paragraph called, i knew it was 'topic sentence' but them mok was beside me chanting 'hypothesis! hypothesis!' and i stupidly said 'er, hypothesis.' and they all laughed. very loudly. much to my embarassment. oh well, its okay though cos i hit mok really hard for like the next 10 minutes. haha

then at Macs when we were celebrating Neha's bday, Amanda decided to ask Neha a somewhat lesbo question like 'what are you doing tonight?' she meant to ask what is she doing for a bday tonight but then i decided to be funny and say 'ew, so lesbo' then rachel was like 'ha! coming from you?!' then everyone started to do the 'ooooooh' sounds again and laugh really loudly. i was like doesnt mean got short hair means les okay. then rachel made it even more suspicious by saying 'how could u say that, rmbr the times we had in UK...'cos thats how rach is like, funny. i was like OMG U SO DIDNT JUST TRY TO MAKE EVERYONE BELIEVE IM HOMO. (not that theres anything wrong with that, im okay with gays and everything.) cos we were at UK for the lit trip okay. and rach's comment prompted me to proclaim very loudly in MACS that im 100% straight and i like boys.how embarassing.

its an embarassing day.

but its funny la, the comment that mr randy made to roy was even funnier(and more embarassing)and i cant say it here, a bit explicit la, HAHHAHA.

anyhohow, im glad hist is over. but theres still econs. -.-

2008-01-19T06:43:00.000-08:00

my brother is such a loser hahaha, i met him in the bus just now and he was all dressed punkish with tie, sneakers, board shorts all(like avirl lavigne gone wrong, in my opinion) and when i asked if where is he going after dinner and grandma's he said "er, nowhere." i was like "then u dressed like this for what?!" cos its just my grandma's house, like 10 mins away frm home, and its not like a formal dinner. he said very shyly, 'aiya! let me dress nicely can not ah! come here(granma's) also go out what." so loser.

MSA is 2 days. oh my freaking gosh. so fast! and im not prepared!

2008-01-04T07:39:00.000-08:00

Let This All Go (Delusions and Illusions)

Eyes well up with tears.
She waits for his safe return.
For pride, for love, for this illusion.
She knows that nothing is real.
All she knows is,

He’s not coming home,
And why is that so?
He’s not the only one,
Who wants to let this all go.
He feels helpless,
Desperate,
Desperate for hope.
He wants to let this all go.

Pulls the trigger,
Deadly sounds,
Conscience got hurt.
As we march forward.
I’m living in a well-disguised delusion,
I know that nothing is real.
All I know is,

I’m not going home,
And why is that so?
I’m not the only one,
Who wants to let this all go.
I feel helpless,
Desperate,
Desperate for hope.
I want to let this all go.

Eyes well up with tears,
She waits for his safe return…

GP was enlightening today cos mr randy showed us a docu directed by michael moore about the truth of the iraq war. "farenheit 9/11'. it was really sad but really really enlightening which then inspired me to write this song. bush is just so !!!! what the hell is wrong with him. its all a damn conspiracy u know. its so dumb and cavalier and unnecessary.

i hate softwares. everything uses softwares now, unfortunately. thus i have problems with using my DAW and midi keyboard controller properly.

i totally misinterpreted philip larkin's 'lines on a young lady's photograph album'. and to mrs tan, there is such a thing as 'wrong analysis of a poem' which i so disagree to. poety is subjective, there are many sides to it, isnt that the whole point of poetry, of liteature? isnt that the beauty of it?? damnit.

ms k is nice, contary to what some ppl say in sch, (okay, the whole of sch.)

siewkihim and i are like the biggest fans of the beatles in sch. we've been singing and discussing abt them for 3 days now, much to the intolerance of the rest. we are like groupies! minus the sleeping with the band members part of cos. i mean 2 are dead and mccartney and starr are not really on our hot list.

ANYWAY,

this weekend is like the only chance we can have a life this year cos next week is the 'serious week'. we have so much stuff going on, its scary.

ive resolved not to sleep in class this year and to pass NAFA in the first attempt.

i think im gonna break these two resolutions.

2007-12-31T04:30:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR MY FRIENDS!

this year has passed really really fast. maybe its cos many things happened, O levels results, new school, new environment, new people. its been a fairly good year...i think. aside from the fact that i had a nervous breakdown(s) in the middle of the year cos i couldnt adapt to JC life. haha! and this year i found out that i couldnt handle stress, i would feel so miserable and just want to sleep my life away. hahaha. BUT, good stuff happened too, like i met good friends in school. joanne, victoria, siew khim, nad and amanda. thanks for making JC life endurable! haha, u guys r the only upside of school...besides the teh bing and mee soto. HAHA. i love u guyssssss

TIGHT LIKE SPANDEXXXXXXX haha.

and to robyn, vans, rach and anan, im glad that we did not let the fact that we r in diff schs affect our friendship i love u guys too and i hope it stays this way!!!(:

OKAY. its gonna start sounding like im gonna die or something.

TOP 10 SONGS OF YEAR 2007
1. Bubbly- Colbie Caillat
2. Colours- Amos Lee
3. I Am the Walrus(Beatles Cover)- Bono/Secret Machines
4. Great Escape- Boys Like Girls
5. Love Story- Katherine McPhee
6. Farmer Chords- Benjamin Gibbard
7. Carolina- Benjamin Gibbard
8. The Way I Am- Ingrid Michaelson
9. Larkin Step- Ling68(youtube girl haha, super talented, by the way.)
10. How Far We've Come- Matchbox Twenty

as u can see, i havent been listening to much radio this year.some artists and songs are local radio-free. which is quite sad. hahah its allll damien rice, the beatles, damien rice again, john mayer, death cab, benjamin gibbard and damien rice...again for me.

as for the top 10 worst songs of Year 2007, plenty man. count in all the hip hop and pop crap that were produced every year. maybe except 'umbrella' by rihanna. u gotta admit that its terribly catchy. haha

SO, TOAST FOR A BETTER YEAR AHEAD. my resoulutions are:
1. Stop sleeping in class/lectures. seriously.
2. GIVE IT MY ALL FOR THE BIG As.
3. Be a better person, better friend, better daughter and better member of the society(HAHA, sounded quite funny.)

OH. SIEWKHIM AND I WATCHED ACROSS THE UNIVERSE TODAYYYYYYYY AND ITS DAMN BLOODY GOOD. the best movie ive wtched this year. hahah. just in time. its good not just bcos they used beatles songs okay. as it is a good movie itself. SO PLEASE DO WTCH IT. only at cathay.

k, long post ah. HAPPY NEW YEARRRRRRRRR(:(:(:

2007-12-24T04:37:00.000-08:00

This Christmas,
I wish for
No presents,
No cards,
Not even a christmas tree.

Last Christmas
has been,
too commercialised,
too overrated
and too insincere.

This Christmas,
I wish for
Poverty to be gone,
blessings to be bestowed,
them knowing that they're loved
and Christmas will always have a place
meant just for them.

This Christmas,
what will you wish for?

Feed the world, let them know it's Christmas time.

2007-12-09T07:49:00.000-08:00

back frm koreaaaa

its been fairly fun if u minus the fall my grandma had on the first day. she fell flat on her face. there were wounds man, it was scary. and it pains me greatly by looking at her, tears just well up in my eyes and i couldnt look at her without having the urge to cry. im serious. not being dramatic. and im partly responsible cos i didnt hold her and if i had accompanied her to the restroom i would have held her and prevent her frm falling. it was damn painful for me for the first few days cos i felt very guilty and like sad that shes in pain so i couldnt enjoy myself AT ALL. but then she got better on the fourth day, like alot better cos of the miraculous skin cream my cousin provided(a bit late ah.) and it snowed!!

so beautiful. first time experiencing it. its like ice kachang ice but its still nice.

2007-12-01T08:52:00.000-08:00

hello world.

top on my playlist is currently oasis. they are really not bad. i love british bands like them. radiohead all. champagne supernova is one of their best. and plenty other songs are great as well.

and it helps that they name their biggest influence THE BEATLES. yay. its no wonder, the chord progression of champagne supernova is similar to 'i am the walrus'/'while my guitar gently weeps' by the beatles. changing of basslines. haha british bands thing maybe. and other oasis songs are very alike to beatles music, the chord and melody progression, arrangement(alot of clapping), beats, random guitar riffs. they are all very beatle-like. and style too, champagne supernova is very psycedelic just like some of the later songs by the beatles, think 1970s maybe?(when they are over the pop cutesy era of 'she loves you, yeah yeah yeah' and 'i wanna hold your handddddd' haha) like 'lucy in the sky of diamonds'...'in the champagne supernova in the sky' hahah, nonesensical,weird,on-drug kinda lyrics.

KYLE XY IS THE BOMB. its the deepest and most meaningful series ever. it just provides so many different perspectives and insights about life and purposes and so on. thanks marc for recommending!!

flying off to korea on mon. im kinda sick of travelling hahaha cos ive just been back frm malaysia(bore bore bore)and two weeks ago, hongkong. but its winter there, so am still looking forward to it. hopw everything goes well cos see, i have a slight fear of planes haha newly discovered phobia. i always feel like im gonna die or something when theres a tremour or when the plane turns or lowers.

2007-11-13T09:53:00.000-08:00

hello, im back frm hongkong.

basically, i bought alot of stuff.

and basically, im a stupid dumbass.

cos i stupidly accidentally deleted all the photos we took in hongkong.

the photos we took at MADAM TAUSSAD'S WAX MUSUEM? gone.

the photos we took at victoria peak? gone.

the photos we took at the fishing village? gone.

the very artistic(haha)photos i took with the SLR cam? gone.

i can just die. literally.

i feel so stupid and dumb and..just dumb and stupid and dumb and stupid.

i mean, i took photos with the BEATLES for god's sake. okay, just their wax figurines, but still!!! and i manage to point a gun at hitler's temple! and pretend to be scolding george bush! and HUG BRAD PITT.

omg omg omg. i just want to DIEEEEEEEE.

2007-11-05T06:09:00.000-08:00

OMG SOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!

look out for the part when she sings wrongly and pretended that nothing happened hahaha and the end!!

From robyn's blog.

2007-11-04T04:10:00.001-08:00

omg, i cant believe i forgot to mention that im going to wtch chitty chitty bang bang the musical on the 23rd!!!!!!!!

k, im done.

oh not really, i bought one tree hill season three today!!! it was on sale baby. haha

2007-11-02T09:11:00.000-07:00

hello yellow..follow.

anyhohow, i realised i have a damn sad life. haha like what jo and vic and amanda and nad and siew khim..damn thats alot of people, say, 'jaime! u have a damn sad life la! yr life revolves around food, sleep and your guitar.' and today, i called my bro and asked if he needs dinner he said 'its a friday my god! can u PLEASE go out?!' then i was like 'er, i have no friends to go out with at this moment' and he gave me the greatest and biggest 'sigh' ever and said solemnly, 'you, my dear sister, have a very sad life.'

i know right.

but its not my fault!!! the whole studying for O levels thingy kinda killed my whole shopping and going-out-to-have-fun instinct. i am serious. and now its JC, it is not making it any better. for all thats worth, i have to study like ten times as hard as i did for O levels to go to the university. and thats, like my ultimate goal. go to college, get a degree and strike it rich. and i what im studying now its the ultimate arts combi and so in order to reach that goal, the best course i can go to in a U is like law. and 49 rank points sure as hell aint getting me there. oh my god, i can just die thinking about it.

ms k is my h1 lit teacher next year! shes like the fierciest teacher ever in the history of SAJC. just reading the instruction sheet frm her alone scares the shit out of me. can u imgine that? yes, shes THAT scary. her homework is due next sat but im doing it now. haha planning to do drafts and stuff. and yes, im THAT scared of her. the plan at the moment now is im gonna wear a wig during her lessons to cover my supposedly unacceptable hairstyle in ms k's rule book.

HAHAHA.

by the way! this is such a feel good song! though he looks really really funny. like literally see-only-will-laugh kind. hahaha.

BY THE WAY, AGAIN, I LOVE THE BEATLESSSSSSS

2007-10-19T09:17:00.001-07:00

life's a bitch.

i have to go back to school tmrw! ON A SATURDAY. for PROJECT WORK. i can just die. what a bummer, this whole week has been as stressful as promos cos of pw and i still have to lug myself out of my comfty bed at 8.15am to go to SCHOOL. argh. so annoying!

these few days have also been really tense cos of pw pressure. DAMN PW. i just found out it was SAJC 's teachers who suggested to MOE abt PW. im ashamed to be part of this damn conspiracy.

on a happier and pw-free tone, i would like to proclaim that DAMIEN RICE is one of the best performers of our lifetime. he is seriously seriously really really good. his voice is amazing, he writes heartfelt and sincere songs. i adore adore adore him. everyone should seriously go listen to damien rice or i would say you're missing out on alot of GREAT AND REAL MUSIC. here's one of his amazing songs that is played live(it sounds as good as the record by the way.)

2007-10-09T05:20:00.001-07:00

hello.

i got busted by ms zhou today cos i walked while the national anthem was playing. HAHAHA. cos i was almost reaching to where the class was, so i was like 'heck, just walk la' and i walked really quickly when it played. but it looks like ive committed a cardinal sin cos after the prayers, ms zhou stormed towards me and yelled 'JAIME! WHY DID U WALK WHILE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM WAS PLAYING?! DO U KNOW THE WHOLE SCHOOL WAS STARING AT YOU?! ITS COMMON SENSE! DONT DO THAT EVER AGAIN!" whoa, she must really love our country..and the use of hyperbolic language. SO. ive learn my lesson, NEVER WALK WHILE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS PLAYING!

haha today was equally useless. i was just listening to my ipod alllll day and talking to jo and wtching matches. but half the time i was sleeping. we had HC meeting today though and after much delibearation and prompting frm the rest, i volunteered to play the guitar next week for morn announcement. and now im thinking, WHY ON EARTH DID I VOLUNTEER?! i must have been really sleepy.

i love hellogoodybye! their songs r so cute. haha

even their music vids r cute. like this one called 'dear jamie...sincerely me'

Dear Jamie, I've got a letter I would like to send.
It's lacking strings of words with punctuation at the ends.

But should I trust this dialect,
To convey the right effect?

Dear Jamie, I've got some things I'd like to set in pen.
I would have used a pencil but leads just not permanent.

But should I trust my printer's ink,
To express the things I think?

Every page I tried my best to think of something to contest;
With inside jokes and other folks who've got much more to say.

Dear Jamie, this envelope will represent my heart.
I'll seal it send it off and wish it luck with its depart.

And this stamp will be every action that carried my affection:
Across the air and land and sea.

But should I trust the postage due,
To deliver my heart to you?

Every page I tried my best to think of something to contest;
With inside jokes and other folks who've got much more to say.

Every page I tried my best to fill with something to contest;
With inside jokes and other folks who've got much more to say.

I'll give you all I can,
A flower and a hand.
I hope this helps you see.
Signed, sincerely me.

how cute right?! and its not cos it has my name k. hahha

PW shld bang its head against the wall and die.

2007-10-08T07:23:00.000-07:00

PROMOS R OVERRRRRR.

but somehow, the stress is not. i have a really really superrrrrrrr STRONG FEELING THAT IM GONNA RETAIN. i mean SERIOUSLY SERIOUSLY SERIOUSLY RETAINING. i keep haveing nightmares of me getting like minus something marks for my papers. how sad is that?

i feel weird not having to study. like im not doing anything, know what i mean.

sch was useless today ok. all we did is, hmm, lets see, nothing. LITERALLY NOTHING. NADA. except to eat, talk and wtch a rugby match which paused halfway cos of the rain which then gave me a flu.

but jo, amanda, nad and i went to vivo after 'school' to walk around and wtch 'balls of fury' which is an ABSOULTE WASTE OF MONEY. DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT WATCH IT. i slpt halfway through the movie la, i mean come on, which comedy results in the audience slping? bad one, definitely.

thursday was fun. we went to amanda's house to have a movie marathon after math paper. not really marathon la, only 2 movies. hahaha but we had fun.

the bali part of amanda's house. haha

then fri was movie marathon at robyn's house (: i missed them soooooo much. okay, not really a marathon again, only 2 movies. mean girls and my best friend's wedding, which totally sucks k, its soooooo slow and cheesy and annoying. i was slping la. and criticising it, much to the irritation of the rest.haha and i wanted to wtch sskeleton key! but no one was interested. and i couldnt wtch it at amanda's cos of jo. and im not gonna wtch it alone cos i know it will freak me out. it was sooooo fun at robyn's with vans, rash and anan, plus, van fell down. HAHA. in the most aminated way ever. then after dinner at gardens we went bck to robyn's and emo-ed in her room. k only vans, she was looking through all of sjc' yearbooks and reminiscing our sec school days. good times good times.

and pics we took with anan's mac!

with aly(robyn's lil sis) as well! (: she is like part of our gang alr ah, haha.

AWWW.

2007-10-02T23:51:00.000-07:00

I SCREWED UP HISTORY. MAJOR.

i can just die. really die.

and theres econs and lit and everything else. i can say bye to my promotion.

then ill probably go commit suicide. either that or il just hide in my room forever and ever and never come out. i shld really start stocking food in my room. cos ill be too ashamed to face everybody.

HOW CAN THEY DO THIS TO US?! ITS PROMOS! CANT THEY JUST MAKE THE QUESTIONS EASIER SO ALL OF US CAN GET PROMOTED?!

ok, im hyperventilating.

i never thought that i would put math in the backseat. it just seem so much easier and lighter than our other subjects. and in sec sch, i used to fret abt math like how i fret abt lit and hist now. funny. math initially was not in the context. as far as im concerned, today's the end of promos. but since i screwed up history, i have to do bloody well for math to make up for it. so bye, i have to make notes for math.

2007-10-01T04:21:00.001-07:00

U HAVE TO WATCH THIS!!!

2007-09-28T06:04:00.000-07:00

hey anon, its public affair by jessica simpson haha.

im so dumb. i was sooooo convinced that rene won ANTM8 cos stupid ch 5 keep playing that stupid ad that said 'SHE has what it takes to be america's next top model' and they showed rene's face, interviews, end with her face somemore. so i was so convinced she won, i wanted to confirm cos jo didnt believe me so i went to wikipedia and guess what!?!?!? RENE DIDNT WIN ANTM8. why oh why did i go confirm my doubt? ifi didnt check and am in denial that rene won, the ending will be damn good for me. but noooooooooooooo..i have to go prove jo wrong. ARGH. can u believe it, i have not wtched a single cycle of ANTM that without not knowing who the winner is beforehand. because of some kpohs spoiling it for me. only this time round, i spoil it for myself. well done jaime.

the winner is soooooooooooo unexpected man. really. im not gonna say cos if i do, ill probably be murdered by jo, amanda and siew khim. so there.

2007-09-27T06:11:00.001-07:00

my nuggets have all gone cold. how annoying.

i bought the fray's album! isnt 'look after you' just the sweetest song that came out this year. the album is not bad. have to listen to it more often to like it.

been studying.not sure if its enough.

2007-09-26T07:23:00.000-07:00

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA THIS IS SOOOOOOO FUNNY.

the funniest part is the guy behind playing computer games.

2007-09-15T05:15:00.000-07:00

hello yellow.

cant wait for promos to be over. benn trying really hard to study. ive conquered Antony and Cleopatra!! YAY!!! that book is so annoying. hhahaha lit class was funny ystd. mrs ho gave us an extract frm A and C and asked what we feel abt enobarbus and agrippa(hahahah what a name)'s criticism of lepidus, who is this major loser in the triumvirate. and no one answered so i was like 'er, i feel that they r really mean.' and right after i said it i was like 'shit,i so shldnt have said that.' then the class started laughing and jo was like 'HAHAHHAHAH BIMBO MOMENT!' man, i was so embarrassed. ahhahaha why did i say that?! i shld have said sth really intellectual sounding. and there i was, trying franctically to rephrase what i said. but i kinda made a comeback hahahhahaha cos we were talking abt how girls like older men and mok was like 'eh, im older!' and i replied 'well, yeah, but yr mentality is like that of a 5 yr old'. HAHAHA. so mean. but funny la.

now im thinking if anyone in their right mind would ever name their kid agrippa, enorbarbus or lepidus.

EVERYONE IS HOOKED ON FACEBOOK!! its like the new friendster. but only muchhhhh cooler. hahahah damn fun la that one. i made one cos my guitar teacher wanted us to have a group.

k this sounds lame but the high school musical song is so nice!! 'you r the music in me' nice ah. but i suspect that vanessa anne hudgens and zac efron sang a bit of the song only with the difficult parts of the song sang by some other ppl. its quite obvious if u listen carefully. big difference. either that or they really mixed the song by ALOT.

but its still a nice song. very catchy. lame lyrics though.

OH!! i felt a tremour on thurs!! i was talking to my frn and then i felt myself swaying, i thought i was just feeling dizzy but then the whole caf started like shouting and exclaiming and i was like 'cool! tremour eh!' HAHA. everyone was damn excited. then we evacuated to the gallery. we were standing on the grass patch and singing to HSM songs. HAHA. no sense of urgency.

la dee da

im going korea for dec hols! it will be snowing ahhahha nvr seen snow before. so yeah quite exciting ah.

2007-09-13T07:29:00.000-07:00

HARMONICA NEVER SOUND THIS GOOD!

yuri lane babeh. SO COOL RIGHT. I KNOW.

wow wow, im still awed.

life still sucks.

2007-09-07T10:07:00.000-07:00

this may sound weird..coming from me. but...

How can anyone be THAT good looking?!?!

it just scares me hahah he is better looking than most girls, u know, that kind of look that is just so, beautiful? AHAHHAH EW. but i mean, he is just TOO good looking to be believable. like he is a robot or something. and he is actually like nice and down-to-earth, his car was given by his grandfather, like those old 2nd hand ones. and he is a perfect gentleman, hahaha he holds the door for the girls and stuff. i know cos i 'came across' several of his candid shots.

OKAY. I THINK THATS ENOUGH. im scaring myself. i dont do GUSHING over male tv/movie stars but yeah, i wtched hairspray and the whole theater was just like 'sighhhhhhhh' when he comes on the screen (joanne was the loudest, haha) hahaha hes really really cute to be true, its weird man.

but he looks dumb when he is younger. like this:

and this:

HAHAHAHAHHA. how funny is that. lucky he is this now:

dont get the wrong idea. i am not like those crazy fans of zac efron who has alllll his cds, posters all over the walls, dvds bla bla bla. he is just purely pleasant to look at. hahahhahaha.

his acting kinda sucks though.

OKAY. ENOUGH OF THE ZAC EFROM RANT.

promos in 2 weeks!! just kill me. seriously i shld spend the time studying instead of talking abt, of alllllllllll people, zac efron.

2007-08-31T01:15:00.000-07:00

hello

TGIF TGIF TGIF.

its teacher's day!! yay. hahahahhaha wth, like it is any of my buisness. went to sch, ACES day workout was STUPID. it was very cheerleader-ish i mean duh, they cheroegraphed it, but how can they expect us to follow!? its so difficult la. so me, jo, nad, cheryl just stood there and laugh at ppl. hahahhaha mok was damn enthu though, he was dancing and integrating his own dance steps in.mok is the funniest guy in class la, not lame but funny. hahaha he sang an rnb vesion of our anthem during morn assembly la, the system had some prob and the song kpt jumping and he was like 'yeah man! REMIXXXXXXX!!' hahahahaha. like really loudly . i was trying damn hard not to laugh. he doesnt know the words la, he sings the start of every sentence with 'sama sama.' HAHA.

the concert was okay. SAJC CHORALE ROCKS!!! small group, but they r really GOOD. the harmonising was wow. SAJC DANCE ROCKS TOOOOOO!!! they danced hip hop and it was damn hot. hahahahaha mok was being funny again everytime ms ong's name came up, (who is this really really hot teacher in sch, dresses well and is really nice.) he will be like 'yay!! ms ong!!!!! ms onggg!!! i love u ms ong!!! marry me!!!' HAHAHAHHA.

then rushed back to SJC only to be faced with a DISASTER. it was DAMNNNNNN stupid. i dont know y the hell they r so strict abt this. is it a crime to want to see our teachers!?!?!? they bloody LOCKED the gates la. and we have to plead with that security guard and that stupid fungi. he didnt want me to go in cos of my HAIR. of alllllllllll things, HAIR. how stupid is that?!?!?! so i was damn pissed and said really loudly 'oh, so now yr DISCRIMINATING me cos my hair is short!?" and i told him to call my sch if he has any problems with me. argh the look on his face......i just want to slap him la k. pissed the shit out of me. then they only let ppl in uniform in then what abt those in poly?!!?!? its damn unfair. i was damn angry la. i just wanted to like climb over the gates and give them hell. its soooooo stupid i laughed. and my frns have to PLEAD him to let me and andrea and rash in, which he blatently ignore and told them to go away. TOTAL DISCRIMINATION. they didnt want any 'butches' and 'ah lians' in to influenece their students. we r like bad influence, apparently if we have short hair and dress in outside clothes. i just wish i can tell them that it doesnt work this way. doest mean u prevent us frm going in, u can stop stuff like students becoming butches and ah lians. thing is, SJC is already full of ppl like that!! so much for these rules,sorry, but they do not really work.argh, damn pathetic.

anyway,some teachers then came down then let us in. THANK GOD. i bet they themselves find these unreasonable rules stupid. then wtched a bit of the performance, not really fantastic la. i miss the whole sengkang's next top model thing!!! cos of the stupid encounter. mrs tan was in it and was funny!!! WALAOEH.then went to find mrs tan.I MISS HER SOOOOOO MUCH. she is seriosuly the BESTEST teacher i ever had. she made me love literature and taught me soooooo much. sigh. she cried la when she saw us and hugged us hahahhahahaha. shes pretty emo today. but still funny (: glad to know that some things never change. okay im beginning to miss her again. hahahaha. saw mrs soh and mr yeo too (:

then we went to cp and stuff. we walked there!! HAHA, relishing our old memories(wah action.)cos we used to walk to cp under the hot sun almost every day after school. and i rmbr we always argue whether to take the bus or walk. HAHA. and we talked abt the funny things that happened in sch...good times good times.

oh!! jo, amanda, cheryl and i wtched hairspray ystd!! it was supposed to be a 'class outing' but only 4 of us ended wtching hahahaha so much for a class outing. the movie was DAMNNNNNN GOOOOOOOODDDD!!! havent wtched such a good one in a very long time. the music is good, the dancing is good, visual's good, props are good, even the dressing is GOOD. loveeeee it. everyone shld go wtch it. zach efron really looks good in that movie, so much better than he was in HSM.and hes quite funny in the movie. amanda bynes is soooo damn funny in the movie la. HAHAHHAHA. and she can actually sing la. omg, elijah kelly is DA BOMB. look out for him, he plays seaweed.
that guy CAN sing AND dance man. that james aka cyclops guy is good too! he can sing well. queen latifa as well!!! her voice is wow. but elijah beats them la, he can relly sing. the plot is not bad too, besides having cool dancing, singing and stuff, the movie actually ahs SUBSTANCE. and the kissing scenes are actually REAL. like hard core. hahahhahaha so yeah, kinda cool. GO WATCH IT, ITS REALLY GOOD. the music is really really good, go buy the soundtrack!!

wah, this post is damn long hahahah sorry.

2007-08-25T07:11:00.000-07:00

hello.

life sucks, deal with it.

im so bleddy whiney.

I MUST DO WELL FOR PROMOS.

I MUST DO DAMNNNNN WELL FOR A'S.

im so feeling the pressure of A levels. a bit too early? i think its a good thing.

i think im gonna try for a scholarship? like what my uncle said, 'no harm trying'. and its so bloody diificult to get a job these days, even if yr a undergraduate. thus, getting a scholarship will make things easier. IM GONNA TRY. therefore i must really really extremely Xinfinity hard. it seems really far away from me, given my lousy ranking pts. if i asked ms zhou for advice on getting a scholarship, she is gonna laugh at my face. its that bad. but STILL, i must at least try. right?

ooooo im feeling the rubik's cube craze in school. ahahhaa nad is teaching me. havent got the hang of it, im borrowing the cube frm my cousin and shall attempt to solve it.

and im gonna attempt to play kotaro oshio's 'you are the hero' DAMN DIFFICULT LA. tapping, slapping, fingerstyle all wrapped into one. bu its so nice i just HAVE TO learn to play it. and i managed to find the tabs!!! yay. been trying to get it for a long time.

something bad happened ystd in school. kinda affected me. and i realised how much friends mean to me. cos i was really sad abt it. hahhahah damn emo la. i wasnt like that in the past, like i dont really get affected by stuff like that. but i was damn upset ystd. or maybe its cos im PMS-ing.

2007-08-15T06:35:00.000-07:00

so many embarrassing things happened to me today. okay, only 2, but still.

1. a teacher blatantly pointed out sth embarrassing abt me that is too embarrassing to be posted here. there WERE ppl around.

2. i missed a step at the stairs in school and fell on my knees with me yelling and 2 strangers standing around there looking at me.

and i have a history test tmrw, and gp compre to hand in on fri.

therefore, my life officially sucks now.

jo and vic suggested i go to SGH's sleeping disorder department to seek treatment for my excessive sleepiness. HAHAHA. im slpy everyday! i slpt a bit during lit lec and couldnt wake up. like seriously. my mind is awake, i want to wake up but my body.just.couldnt.wake.up.

2007-08-03T08:48:00.000-07:00

helloooooooooooooooooooo. TGIF.

i got a bronze in nafa and mr soh said i dont have to take the test again, which means no more 2.4km runs this year.YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but i kinda think that mr soh kinda gave up on me hahahaha, he made me promise to get a silver nxt yr though. i am so freaking glad im not a guy cos if i am, i would sure have to enlist early. mr soh is like the funniest PE teacher ever, hes kinda old but his mannerisms r of a little boy. hahah he loves to act hip la, citing greenday as his 'favourite band' hahaha. oh i just recalled sth, i bet him to do 10 pull-ups and if he wins, ill buy him watermelon juice, he gave up at the 8th one. hahaha.

have i mentioned my results suck? lucky my mum doesnt like to go to PTMs and stuff(it was today) hahaha the first thing she asked when i asked if she wanted to go was 'huh..got buffet not?' HAHAHAHHAHAHAH WTH. then she said 'aiya, dont want la.' hahaha. shes in taipei now nways.

i am freaking slpy today, but then again, im slpy everyday. today was H1 math exam, it was okay la, manageble, helps alot that i took amath for Os. but i screwed up anway.

met up with robs and vans today. had alot of laughs hahahahhaha we kept doing annoying stuff and annoyed people. hahaha but its funny la. quite eventful, today cos vans alomost got hit by a car TWICE bcos of a stupid rugby ball she and robs were tossing on the PAVEMENT NEAR THE ROAD. omg, are they tired of living or what.

HOMEWWORK OVERLOAD!!
1. GP presentation
2. intl history shit
3. SEA history essay outline
4. lit poem
5. econs essays
6. PW Written report.
WALAOEH.

PW is officially my most hated subject. i do not learn anything k or benefit frm it, it just adds on my stress.ms zhou is really strict but i know its cos she wants us to do well. i pity her know, having to teach atrocious students like us. she as really high tolerance level by the way. though she is really not a bit fierce when she says she is.

SPOILER ALERT! (jo, u dont want to read this)

i finished reading HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS!!! after a week hahahah yeah, i take very slow to read it cos i have this habit of re-reading the page like at least twice. hahaha i love it, its really good comapred to order and prince. the first 4 nooks r of cos the best ones. the last one is comparable though. i love the ending..a bit corny la, but so sweet. hahahah ron and hermione got married with 2 kids in the end!! how cute is that hahhaa

2007-07-19T07:21:00.000-07:00

omg, i failed my nafa run, AGAIN. walaoeh. i improved quite a bit tho. im such an ass, walked all. my classmates r the sweetest k, they ran with me la! even those wearing the sch U. so nice of them. im touched. they sprinted with me at the last part too. :) and cheered me on hahhah u can hear 'JAIME GO JAIME!! DONT WALK!! DONT WALK!!' all around the gallery. but i still walked. -.- i know right. its always like this i'll fail by like 10 secs and lament y i walked, then ill do the test again, run and think 'oh! thats WHY i walked.' its damn tiring, i seriously hate running. u have no idea. i feel like dying whenever i run my 2.4 and have like flashbacks of my life, like what kind of person ive been, who i let down, the ones i love...hahaha im not exaggerating k.just like a dying person. oh wells. i feel bad cos i kinda let my classmates down, they were so sweet, kept spurring me on. i broke my promise with nadrah!:( she made me do a pinky promise not to walk. but i did. i seriously would have passed if i didnt walk at the last round. GOSH.

i love my class more each day know. hahaha so emo. quite united, my class. and we treat each other really well, we laugh at the same things, are loyal, have fun together..etc. like today's run is a good example. and when roy and siew kim had to do 10 freaking essays each to be handed up the next day, almost the whole class helped out and distributed the questions among ourselves to do and stuff. its really sweet. there's warmth in the class. HAHAHHA. wth, warmth. so YAY! 07a10!

my common tests results sucked man. i failed lit la!! omg my ego is like busted big time.

met up with robs, rach and anan. hahaha had dinner and walked around. laughed alot as usual. only vans wasnt there :( she la, who day dont answer the calls and msgs.

! havent do my GP compre yet. shucks. mr randy made me join this essay competition oraganised my ah hem, LAND TRANSPORT AUTHORITY. WTH. i so dont want to join la, cos hello, i scored a lousy 25/50 for gp?i dont want to embarrass SAJC.he said we dont have to hand in the gp compre if we r doing the essay, so plan is, im gonna do the compre and hand it in tmrw to get out of the essay competition thing.

i love love love JACK JOHNSON. hes good. really really good. everyone should go listen to his music.

2007-07-14T05:32:00.000-07:00

hellooooooooooooooo

im wtching haarry potter tmrw!! how exciting:)

i think the learning festival in sch is so cool. we get to learn so many stuff la. though i dont learn many cos i signed up for the pop guitar course purely cos i dont know what else to sign up for. all the cookery ones r taken up, 'who killed mr x' which is the coolest of the lot(CSI eh!!), is full and im determined not to take up any sports ones. which left me with dancing(HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA CAN U IMAGINE ME DANCING SALSA OR BOLLYWOOD)and guitar and balloon sculpting which i signed up for!!! sounds fun hahahah. they called me a loser. they being jo, vic, borge and amanda. they also made me sign up for kickoxing!!! wa lao eh, which breaks the whole me being determined not to sign up for any sports ones pact. they practically forced me to sign up, with vic pulling me back on my chair, jo and amanda shouting at me, borge laughing really loudly(alot of help, borge)and amanda registering for kickboxing on the computer for me. i think they r trying to make me like sports. oh wells.

i rotted at home today. woke up really late, wtched tv, ate, dozed off for like 15 mins, tidied up my room cos ppl r coming later, did my history essays while listening to music. ive decided to do the whole essays instead of the outline only cos like what me yoong said 'its all abt practice!'

2007-07-11T06:14:00.000-07:00

im aching alllllll overrrrrrrrr. cos i did my nafa 5 batt ystd and then ran 2 rounds around the track to train for tmrw but now i dont think i can run the 2.4 cos im aching all over. ah, the irony of it all. see? thats the result when u exercise suddenly and u havent been exercising on a regular basis.

hahha i was trying to teach borge(BOBO!)how to sing ystd. ahhahaha cos hes TONE-DEAF!! hahahaha seriously. atrocious, his singing. ahhahah he can rap only la. but its not very good too. hahaha.

man, my results are as atrocious as borge's singing(haha) grade D for history, i think an E or S or even U for lit. (which is very very extremely disappointing.) econs, hahah i dont even need to get bck the script to know my grade, U for sure. GP not known. only A is chinese but i think pu ye ye(who is our teacher hahah) is really lenient in marking, thats why. which concludes, THAT IM DEAD. how am i gonna get into NUS like that?! im really very scared.

i dont know if i shld go for OCIP. i really need more guts man. i shld get out of my comfort zone and give help to those who really need it. i must stop being so selfish and self-centered. i need THE guts!!! my mum kinda disagrees with me going cos she thinks its dangerous. god, give me a sign pls.

2007-07-07T10:13:00.000-07:00

ANSWER THE CALL.

these 3 mere words mean sooooo much. there are so many methods we can use to actually save the Earth. Global warming, the greenhouse effect, pollution..just by doing simple things like using recycled paper napkins instead of virgin pulp ones, switching off the powerpoints when not in use and recycling cans can do and contribute so much in sving this Earth. all we have to do is just answer the call and play a part.if everyone would just reflect and realise that the place that they are living in is diminishing and start doing something, then the Earth would be saved.

to come and think abt it, this whole global warming thing is so ironic. Man for centuries have spent so much money, effort and hardwork to industrlize the world so Man can live better lives. but now, because of that ideal world, we are putting our future generation in great danger. it is like we Man are doing ourselves in. can u imagine us living in an underwater world(literaly) can u imagine that all these are actually happening? it is damn scary.

k im not being emo. im really serious abt this whole global crisis.

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THE AMAZING RACE IS OVERRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

i would call the event a success though there are a few hiccups here and there, but they are inevitable in every event ever organised right?

i watched transformers ystd!!! it was really coooool. jo was being an annoyance asking me a whole lot of questions in the movie, i was like 'have u been wtching the movie?!?!' the best part was she gave me an annoyed look when i told her i may talk alot in movies. and it turned out that SHE was the talkative one. hahaha.

went to the youth day thing today with robs, rash and vans. it was okay. alot of ppl were being really annoying. so obnoxious. have no respect at all in front of God. it was really irriatating.

have tons of homework man. and uk lit project can kill me.

so rmbr friends!! ANSWER THE CALL. :)

2007-06-29T06:13:00.000-07:00

wozaaaaaaaaaa

went back to MCS today :) mdm khoo and ms goh look the same, talk the same, act the same. and they remember us!! and apparently, we are the best students they ever taught. and ms goh, being really unfeeling and strict in the past, confessed she missed us!!! hahah. sigh, its nice to know that some things remain unchanged. haha ms goh was like 'wa, last time u guys were so blur and now u all know how to think abt the future, very good.' makes me wonder, its just 5 years since we graduated but so much have changed.for example, i got my first handphone in p5, its the non-colour kind, 3310 or something, and we saw this little p2/3 girl listening to her mp3 phone in loudspeaker hahaha it was avirl lavigne, so it really makes me wonder. wah emo ah.

after MCS, and taking a photo outside school, pissed off a grumpy old lady, we went town and ate, walked around then went to my grandma's house.

by the way cts were disgusting k. especially literature. the poem was damn difficult. econs was argh. okay, im gonna flunk, full stop.

im kinda into this chinese show on ch 8 currently. ahhahaha its quite nice. though jeanette aw's character pisses me off. shes such a b**ch in the show. hahaha but that proves she acts quite well right cos she convinces the audience. fann wong's character is such a pity whore hahahaha but shes quite funny in the show. k why am i discussing abt the show here. oh no, they are eating thai food to celebrate fann wong's bday and i have a sudden craving for thai food now.

2007-06-24T05:52:00.000-07:00

hi.

studied for 4 hrs oday woo hoo!! did econs and hist. realised ive been studying only for 5 days for the common tests. its not enough obviously. oh no. im gonna die. chinese is killing me!! why is it so hard? i dont rmbr studying for chinese before, cos really u dont have to. its all comprehensions and essays. even GP! we have to study beforehand, though not as intensive as chinese. and literature, omg im scoring Ds and Es currently. disappointing. really disappointing.

okay i typed a whole lot of stuff just now and it just got deleted. now i have to so it all over.damn irritating.i shall do it in point form.

-i realised i get scared really easily when im in deep thought. cos i was studying and maureen saw me and came to say hi. i couldnt hear her cos my earphones are noise-cancelling. so she waved at my face and i got the shock of my life. i JUMPED. how embarrassing. she got a shock too. hahaha.

-spongebob squarepants is really funny. slap-stick comedy that one. little kids wont get the humour in it la. its like 'my name is earl'.

-my laptop is fine!!! though it costs me 300 bucks. k not me, my mum.

-im such a bad kid. hahaha.

2007-06-21T06:21:00.000-07:00

ssup.

went back to SJC today with robs rach and vans to collect cert and see mrs debbie. haha, debs is still the same la, as funny as ever. i miss lit lessons with her!!! she is seriously the best lit teacher i ever had. haha i rmbr robs, vans and i were the front row suck ups(i was the suck up of the front row sucks ups. haha) we were the ppl who laugh at everything mrs debs says, does and acts and answer every question. basically sucking up to her la. and now that we are gone, she doesnt allow anyone to sit at the front 3 seats in rememberance of us!!! AWWWW...how sweet right.aha, i miss sjc days, MEE SOTO. omg. hahah. k after that, we went to rivervale mall where we just laugh at everything van did.

then went to MOS burger at CP to study. i went there ystd to, studies for like 3 hrs today and 5 hrs ystd.pretty productive.what i do is buy a medium sized ice milk tea and stay there and drink REALLY slowly. hahahaha. talking abt food, ive been eating alot these dyas!! been gaining weight. !! but i still eat as much as ever. haha. y liddat.

history is killing me!! so is chinese. JC chinese is so difficult la. idioms all. and im failing lit!!! oh no.

the band 'the feeling' is really good. though the lyrics can be quite dumb. james morrison is good too!! his voice is so captivating.

2007-06-12T08:58:00.000-07:00

Title: I Cry(for this world)

If you look hard enough,
you'll find that this world,
is not what it looks to be.

These beautiful things,
are just a facade to fool you.
Please dont be in denial.

The people in here,
just care for themselves,
how about those selfless ones?
But i guess you dont care,
you're just like them,
you dont give a damn.

Oh, i cry for this world,
oh, i cry for this Earth,
oh, i cry for Father who wished we werent like that.
Oh, i cry for this world,
oh, i cry for you,
i cry for us.

Tell me the truth,
do you feel the pain?
That our world is one selfish place.
Can we be as one,
one in mentality?

Oh, i cry for this world,
oh, i cry for this Earth,
oh, i cry for Father who wished we werent like that.
oh, i cry for this world,
oh, i cry for you...

I cry for us.

haha john lennon much. wait this shit cant be compared to john lennon.cos john lennon IS john lennon.

k anyways,

I HAVENT BEEN STUDYING. argh. im so distracted by many things. im tempted to spot for history cos there are soooooo many freaking chapters. and my econs is gone case. oh no, im gonna retain. im still suffering from mild jetlag. ahhah excuses ah.

2007-06-07T08:25:00.000-07:00

i stupidly stepped on my laptop by accident and now the screen is spoilt. OH MY GOODNESS!! IM SO DUMB! my bro said 'how many times have i told u not top treat yr laptop as a weighing machine?!' hurhur.

man im really sad la, its a good laptop. now i have to go allllllll the way to jurong to get it fixed. its gonna cost a bomb. mum said to get a new one but i dont really see the point. if it can be fixed then fixed it. but if the fee turns out out to be really high and close to the price of a new laptop then yeah. argh im really pissed off at myself.now i have to use my bro's mac.

im bck frm UK!!! WAS REALLY GREAT FUN! if u minus the teachers endless scoldings. great experience. really enriching. i got myself a guns n roses wallet!!! its damn nice. and a pair of lonsdale shoes which is going at 70% discount!! hahahha and 2 guitar mags. the rest are all gifts for ppl. went to wtch plays and stuff. the musical was damn hilarious though it made antisemeitic views, was pissed off at that.i didnt clap or laugh at that. its really mean la. and we went to the holocaust exhibit before that. but overall its okay. oh my god, londoners are sooooooo rude la!!!! i prefer birmingham where the ppl are really friendly and nice. im lazy and too pissed to write everything down ahahaha and im too much of a tech idoit to post the pics here. im such a failure, stepping on laptops and dont know how to post pics up.sigh.

have to go bck to sch for amazing race dry run tmrw. common tests are 2 and a half weeks frm now. bummer.

2007-05-18T05:22:00.000-07:00

k im blogging for ms joanne lo. hahahha.

gosh, im busy too this week. like last week. like the week before. like 2 freaking weeks before. man this sucks. im so tired this entire week la. TGIF TGIF TGIF!!!!!!!! im so glad tmrw is the guitar concert cos it means ill be a free soul starting on nxt mon. but then again, theres house council and amazing race. after amazing race, there is racial harmony day concert. warao. great.k ill take this as a challenge. however i just realised a fact abt myself, I CANT HANDLE STRESS. i really cant.i need to loosen up, according to v and jo.and i really should stop slping in tutorials and lectures. super bad habit. argh, im irritated with myself. i must change that.

mika is really good.

k random thought.

went for the rugby match SAJC vs RJC on wed. we lost. but i must say SA put up a GREAT fight. i resented going initially cos we were practically forced to go cos of house council. but when i was there, i felt school spirit and cheered like mad. SAJC has good sportsmanship man, compared to RJC. u would think students from a top JC will be cultivated and mature. MY FOOT. they kept shouting rude and offensive stuff to SA ruggers when they were trying to score la, to agitate and distract them. and when RJ scored, they came over to us and made those annoying and beatable signs. man i wanted to punch that guy's face. well done RJ, thats REALLY mature. nways, im still proud of SA we were losing but they caught up and were leading at some point of time. So GO SAINTS GO!

today was student council elections. hahaha my class is so irritaing la. nad asked the nominees this: "which one do u think came first, the egg or chicken?" HUH?!?!?! ahahhahaha it was so funny la, i mean if yr there. hahahah. then theres this guy who looks like Yao Ming, the basketballer. when he spoke, Jmok exclaimed loudly "EH! THAT GUY LOOKS LIKE YAO MING LA! HEY YAO MING! WASSUP YAO?!"HAHAHAHHAHA. wassup yao!!!! and we were at the 2nd row la! hahah bugger la that one.

ohh!! im going UK next week! So fast! cant wait:)

2007-04-28T00:07:00.000-07:00

hey.

argh this week has been equally tiring with the last. what with the campaigning and elections stuff. hahah we flooded pictures of ourselves all over school using double-sided tape and mr soh reprimanded us cos he and other teachers have to go all over school to take them down cos mrs lim was unhappy abt it. hahahaha damn funny la. he was really pissed and said 'wah! and the tape u all used ah! wa lao eh!' hahahhaha. so.. vic jo and i sang a song as part of the elections! we changed the lyrics of 'wanna grow old with you' by adman sandler. it goes like this:

we wanna make u smile, whenever you're sad.
cheer with you at the champion stand.
all we ask of you,
is to vote for us.

we'll get your golden trophies,
when theu shout 'romanis!'
show them we're the best in SAJC.
so all we aks for you,
is to vote for us.

we wanna lead you, guide you.
but you know we cant do it without you.
so vote for us, support us.
joanne, jaime and victoria.

so here we are for the arts faculty.
singing with the utmost sincerity.
so all we ask of you,
is to vote for us.

HAAHHA so cheesy right. the lyrics. oh well. at least ppl enjoyed it.

damn have to go for the play later. it better be good.

2007-04-21T11:24:00.000-07:00

ssup.

it has been a bad bad week. i was feeling low and depressed for the entire week. maybe its because of the lectures, the tutorials, the homework, school, house council and stuff. i just couldnt laugh naturally and whole-heartedly.and i think i kinda ruined robyn's birthday on thurs cos of my depression. oh well. im just tired and sleepy and having major feelings of regrets. which are all too late. guess i just have to, according to robyn, SUCK IT UP.

sports day was...okay. was kinda disappointed romanis was 2nd instead of 1st cos i really think we did a great job. both of the joannes, adeline, victoria and i worked our butts off for the identity and cheer shits,we only had ONE freaking ass day and a lousy 50bucks budget for the whole house of 300ODD PEOPLE.so i say we did a great job if u ask me. i am proud of what we came up with in just a few hours.i think we lost cos we have a lack of good sportsmen in our house cos we really was enthusiastic in terms of cheering compared to the other house.sometimes im glad that SAJC octracised the arts fac people, putting them all in one house like trying to separate sci fac and us, cos we r really united. well of cos there r buggers who JUST.REFUSED.TO.CHEER. but still, we were better than the other houses. so yeah, YAY TO ROMANIS! and i learnt that in the future, when im asked to cheer, I.WILL.CHEER.

im just glad sports day is over, the whole process was kinda stressful on us. but then there will be the interviews and campaigning shit. damn.

i just want to stop pmsing and get on with my life, i really hated the person i am this week.i miss SJC days, i really do.

2007-04-18T06:06:00.000-07:00

i am so freaking stressed. and tired. and slpy. and regretted joining house council. hope i dont get in in the end. cos im really afraid i cant cope, and i cant back out now. omg...JC life can be so tough.

oh my goodness, i water bombed a teacher today. ahahhaa by accident, i wanted to hit that guy la but he "whole day come" (inside joke) skinny so i missed and hit the teacher's trousers. she was kinda pissed hahah opps, all eyes were on me. was kinda embarrassed.but i waa sorry! i didnt do it on purpose, i swaer.

i miss robyn and vans. alot. i miss hanging out with them with rash and andrea. good times good times. i miss SJC, really weird. i miss mrs tan. shes the best lit teacher ever.she has all the qualities of a lit teacher, lit teachers here kinda suck. they r too technical that made literature not fun anymore. how can lit be technical?! its just wrong. i miss the past.

the 'whole day come' series of jokes came from vans. hhaha it started when we were studying bio for the O's and we kept revising on the yoghurt and fermentation shit so vans couldnt understand why cheryl ann kept studying that chapter so one day vans couldnt tolerate anymore and yelled at cheryl: "YOU WHOLE DAY COME YOGHURT, U THINK YOGHURT THE ONLY FOOD IN THE WORLD AH!?" HAHAHAHAH! she said it in the funniest way ever. hahahah its so funny la, i guess u have to be there. ahahha and how can anyone forget the maht rap!!!!!!! ahhahaahhah good times good times.

hahah that came from vans too.

2007-04-02T06:52:00.000-07:00

rachel de SILVA- RDS

RDS -hey, r u free now? dont tell anyone but i just left home after i fought with my mum. ive got nowhere to go.

me-omg, r u ok? what happened? where r u now? im waiting for my mum at home, where r u?

RDS-i just got really frustrated with my mum n left. she really irritated me. its ok lah, ill find a way around this.

me-r u sure?im sorry that i cant meet u cos i have this fam thing later. what happened?maybe u should try talking to yr mum again?

RDS-yah i guess so. but not ready to just yet. i fought with my mum n got really irritated. so i picked up the calender, which was the nearest, n flung it a her. den walked out. btw, have you checked yr calender recently?

-k, here comes the best part-

me-oh my goodness, check my calender? haha no. (IM SUCH AN IDOIT!) eh! do u have any money with you not?

RDS- OMG jaime its APRIL FOOL'S DAY!

the above exchange was rachel's april fool's day joke. NOT FUNNY. i was so worried la, i wanted to go pass her money all. argh, seriously, im such a dumbass.im so gullible and stupid. she HINTED at me la! a major hint. 'hello jaime?!?!? calender?!!?!" duh! i thought she was just being random asking if i checked my calender recently cos shes really random.and all this while, 1st april was on every msg! oh my goodness.i can just die frm my stupidity.

ok, she tricked me, AGAIN. she said a bird combusted on her window. AND I BELIEVED. ONCE AGAIN. i asked her what colour is its blood. then 'haha no bird actually burst you know.' OH MY GOODNESS. its a wonder how im able to survive secondary school.

sch's been boring. i felt like sleeping in every tutorial today la. argh. i hate it. PE tmrw. im.not.looking.forward.to.it.

been listening to the beatles alot these days. they r really good y'know. love them love them. john lennon was soooooooooo good looking before he had the long hair. the long hair was just wrong.so wrong.

damien rice's voice is so therapeuthic.

ooooh!!! i just took this colourgenics thingy. hahah frm marc's blog.this is what it said about me:

You have always longed for tenderness, love and a sensitivity of feeling into which you would like to blend. You are a very gentle warm person and responsive to 'All things bright and beautiful'. This personifies a caring person, a person who 'needs' and indeed 'needs to be needed'.

You are a true extrovert, frivolous and outgoing. You need to feel in control of any situation. If matters are not proceeding according to plan you tend to get extremely irritable and perhaps become difficult to live with.

The way things are, you feel that you are stuck in a rut and there is not much you can do about it. You feel frustrated and inhibited but if you can find a way to let yourself go, you may find that things aren't quite so bad as perhaps you thought they were. One consolation is that since you are an extremely emotional individual, with the right person you may be able to release some of that frustration and tension with some mutual tender loving care.

You are being unduly influenced by the situation that is all around you. You do not like the feeling of loneliness and whatever it is that seems to separate you from others. You know that life can be wonderful and you are anxious to experience life in all its aspects, to live it to the full. You therefore resent any restriction or limitations that are being imposed on you and you insist on going it alone.

You wish to be left in peace... no more conflict and no more differences of opinion. In fact you just don't want to be involved in arguments of any shape or form. All you want is for 'them' to get on with it - and to leave you alone.

its really quite accurate at some parts. im amazed.

2007-03-30T08:33:00.000-07:00

i was damn shagged today ahhahaha(jared's word) kept wanting to sleep in class la. and i didnt even know i dozed off until the person beside me nudged me. man,i wanted to just sleep and get detention. was looking forward to go home and sleep during the last lesson until rach wong msged me and told me she got 2 extra tix for LIFE CON!! hahaha of cos i had to go. so we stayed in sch and studied, or at least i attempted to do so but was closing my eyes half the time hahaha. the concert was fine, but the sound system really sucked. mics too. and these two people in the band can sing la! was very impressed.and i felt so exhaulted today(is this the right word?) and i felt like crying at some point of time, during the pastor's talk and during this song.it went something like 'grace so undeserved but yet You gave so freely' very nice words. it really triggered me inside. and oh, i accepted christ last week hahahah :) so was super enthusiastic during worship. but didnt jump like the rest cos my thighs hurt frm ystd's PE(which was a total nightmare)

after life con, borge, jared, rach wong, jessie, issac,borge's frn and i went to have dinner at this thai restuarant near sch. oh!!! i did sth really naughty today ahhahah cos the concert ended at like 9pm so the back door was closed. and it is really a long walk to the front gate so all of us and alot of other people climbed over the fence!!!! ahhahaahhahah and i didnt have my fbts on at first until i rmbered i bought another one today, so i wore it like on the spot so i could climb over the fence(of cos with rach wong and jessie covering me ahha) it was such a funny sight la!!!! alot of SAJC people did that. but i think its like accepted cos this teacher saw us and one of the students said 'oi mrXX want to climb over not?' then he just smiled and walked away hahaha didnt scld us.it was really very amusing haha and all the guys were like standing down the bridge and helping the girls down hahaha. i felt like a pai kia and i told them that that was the naughtiest thing i ever did in sch and they just laughed. all of them think im a major pai kia la! until i told them i hate people who swear and saw how enthusiastic i am during lecture("eh!! faster la! we r late for lecture, we will be locked out la!!"). hahah they still cant accpet the fact that im absolutely opposite of what they think of me.

nways..where was i? oh right, dinner. hahah so we went to the thai place and the boss was damn enthu la ahha cos they dont have buisness so when he saw us he like invited us in immediately.hahaha service was good la and food is good too.price is very reasonable. and i just found out that jared, borge,jessie, rach wong and i have the same kind of humour!! YAY AT LAST!! hahaha cos jared is really very slow in thinking. hahahahha supernatural was showing on tv and after like 10 mins he was like 'eh!! its not prison break what!!!!!" HHAHAHAHHA and it was after the credits all la hahaha damn funny then borge was like "this is like those comedy..after 10 mins.."eh! i thought its prison break?!?"" hahaha dan after that, borge told us abt how jared went to his house and ate the whole packet of coconut rice. jared was like 'huh!! its coconut rice meh!! i thought its white rice!!!" HAHAHAHHAH! then we laughed like crazy and borge was like "thatwas six months ago la! six months later..."eh!! its conconut rice meh!! i thought its white rice!" HHHAHAHA.

another funny thing happened. yew keed came in and said hi, it was akward la, like got nth to say. so he was like 'hi' dan we were like 'hi' dan after like 10secs, yew keed went 'heh heh, bye' HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

k, i guess u have to be there to find it funny.

anyhohow, im just very glad that ive found funny friends and very nice people. AND a nice GP teacher! hahah mr randy gill! hes so funny la, he makes GP super interesting. he always make us feel impt like kpt telling us that we r pre-U students and he will treat as like such. :) hes just really nice and humourous. im really glad i have him for GP.

oooooh! im going for the UK lit learning trip in may!!!!! UK leh!! first ang moh country that ill be going to. but its not confirmed as in my sch, cos alot of people confirmed with my lit teacher alr, but havent give her the cheque, so she said if by mon, no one gives her the cheque, she will let me fill in the spot.im like the first in the waiting list la. hahaha rach wong is like the 5th :( i really hope she can go. cos she also confirmed alr with the cheque written and everything. im lucky la, my mum was encouraging.

stupid marc toh made fun of me like major today. ahaah iiiiiidddooooiiiit.

hahah borge told me not to say 'damn shagged can'(jared's pet phrase) anymore cos hes afraid that ill get used to it. hahaha he thinks its stupid haha but i like to say it to make fun of jared. hahah

so yeah, schs been great so far. but econs and math have not.

2007-03-26T06:57:00.000-07:00

thank you time!!

to yuting, qi hui and rachel wong: thanks sooooo much fo the electric guitar encyclopedia!!i really appreciate it!! :)

to rachel de silvia, melissa, jessie and marc! thanks for the super bimbotic pencil case and bday card(thanks clarisse too! for writing in the card)..hahah u guys r so funny la hahaha im still contemplating abt taking it to sch hahaha

to shinyi, amy, angeline, sheila, angela and karen! thanks for the topshop gift card!! so sweet :)

to lucia, lijun and suyin: thanks for the dinner!!!! and laughs hahaha great catching up with u guys! thanks lucia for the letter!! touching :)

to yuyan, audrey, lucia, shinyi, amy, suyin, rachel de silvia, gina, robs, andrea, qi hui and many many! thanks for sms-ing me and wishing me happy bday early in the morning!!!!sorry if i missed out anybody:(

THANKS SOOO MUCH GUYS!!YOU MADE MY 17TH BIRTHDAY MEMORABLE!! seriously, u guys r soooo sweet and to my jc mates, even though u guys know me for less than 2 weeks, u treat me as if we have known each other for so long, i really appreciate it:)

I LOVE U GUYS TOOOOOO MUCH:):):):):):):)

i would have posted the pictures of the gifts u guys got me if i wasnt such a tech idoit.

man, i feel old.hahahah 17 leh!! its scary. next yr, i can learn to drive. oh wait, heard that the govt increased the minimum age to 21. darn!

omg, spore actors suck. 'after hours' is showing now and they all cant act. its a torture watching them act, lousy script, lousy dialogue and lousy directing! at least there's utt, who is an eye candy, but his acting!!! or lack thereof.need i say more?

jc's timetable suck. so many break times la. damn slack. ahahah waste of time. we have PE at like 3.30pm! and im certainly not looking forward to it. i hate sports.

i learnt'yesterday' by the beatles today hahahhaha okay, kinda random there.

close your eyes, dry your tears,
cos' when nothing seems clear,
you'll be safe here.
when nobody hears you scream,
i'll scream with you,
you'll be safe here.
when the world's insincere,
you'll be safe here.

2007-03-20T03:50:00.000-07:00

omg i think i will fail my freaking guitar grading!!!! i screwed up the sight reading!! i kinda forgot abt crotchet and stuff and the whole thing was out of beat. :( im really sad. i kinda knew ill screw that section up..cos i suck in sight reading. AND my power/barred chords!!! i think i left an entire section out. :(:( the examiners were really kind, giving me another chance all and hinting to me, but i still screwed it up. man, im tramautised. ill be so embarrassed if i fail this. grade 10 leh! the easiest one. if i fail this i swear i wont be touching the electric guitar for a long time. i tried enjoying myself in playing 'roxanne' by the police and the exam piece in the book though. tapping my feet all and the examiner asked 'wow, u like rock huh?' hhahahah.i think i didnt screw up the scales..but still!!!!!! i failed the note reading all!! :(its gonna lower my percentage greatly, THEN, im gonna fail.

so..i got the subject combi i want..lit, hist, econs and H1 math.(which is like amath.just kill me.)econs is so freaking hard. cos i didnt go for first 3 months all, so im pretty behind the rest. i tried understanding though, reading the lecture notes privately and paying my upmost attention in class.its interesting, no doubt. but kinda hard to grasp the concept. and they are kind to give us AN ESSAY WHICH MUST BE 3 PAGES LONG, DUE TOMORROW, ON THE FIRST FREAKING LECTURE. go figure. so the plan is, im gonna call lucia later to ask for guidance.hahha.

hmm..im turning 17 like next week and i dont feel excited at all.hahhaha like i dont really care?omg im really old huh, in 3 yrs time, ill be 20. make that 4 yrs time, ill be freaking 21. an freaking adult. wow. its a scary thought.

everyone is like in love nowadays.hahahhahha im not naming anybody ah. i cant imagine myself being in love hahaha cos i find it hard to like actually have romantic feelings for somebody hahaha, so yeah, its confirmed, im gonna die a spinster.

2007-03-09T07:50:00.000-08:00

so today was the last day of orientation, i love my group. fun bunch of ppl in it. its like only today then we started to bond hahahahha, ya late right. but its still cool. :) i am so freaking glad i chose arts fac instead of sci, cos arts fac are SO MUCH MORE enthusiastic and fun then sci fac ppl. ahhah not offense, but its true. and my house, SAVERDO!!! best house ever with the best leaders. we won the best overall performance and cheering competition! apparently, saverdo(all art fac ppl)wins almost every year for cheering competition(see what i mean? hah) so luckily we didnt break the chain.

shit, i think my OGleader thinks im lying about me being sick ystd. ahahha cos apparently many ppl skipped orientation ystd and shes damn disappointed cos all the j2s leaders skipped 3 days of lesson to give us the programmes and they will be having their block tests right after march hols.i know she doesnt believe me cos she asked me this morn in the coldest way ever 'r u feeling better?' like ya know, somewhat sacarstic. hahaha and then i said 'yeah, but my throat is hurting real bad' she just nodded her head and walked away. hahahahahahah, man i was really sick la. now that explains why she didnt reply to my msg telling her i couldnt make it for orientation. AND i sent it twice just so to make sure she recieved it. hahah must be the other idoits la, send the same kind of excuse 'im sick' so she couldnt care less. oh well. and everyone in my OG gave doubtful looks too, when i told them i was sick. ahhahaha had to reassure them.

argh, my throat is hurting real bad again, and my voice is gone cos of the cheering thing. and we had dance night too! and yes, this girl here did dance. ahhahaha, shocking right. well if u consider jumping and putting arms in the air as dancing, then yeah, i sure did. the band was ok, but not mosh kind of ok. they played like googoodolls, snowpatrol stuff. not really mosh-material. so we just act emo la. hahahha and sabo ppl to dance.

actually, its totally UNTRUE that SAJC students are 'paikias' we had like idoitic guys dancing in suggestive poses, if u get my drift, and the councillors immediately ran up to them and broke them up. cos its kinda vulgar. and we did moshng stuff la, like pushing each other and again they immediately pull us apart cos they were afarid we will get injured. and they had those stamps on us that can only be seen under UV lights cos they were afarid outsiders will bring in liqour and stuff to us. all the councillors stood guard at all the doors like bouncers. so its totally un 'paikia' right.and again, alot of j2s were studying today. and SAJC ppl are efficient in doing thngs, their presentation all very professional. really quick and efficient. something SJC lacks.

do i really have a 'sporty' face? haha cos everyone thought i am good in sports. HAHAHAHHA sports and jaime is an oxymoron k. hahah they will be like 'so u joining netball/basketball/canoeing/outdoor adventure club as yr CCA?' then ill be like 'er no, i suck in sports.' then 'huh!! no la, u look like ur good in sports' hahahahh i have the lowest stamina ever la. and when i finished dancing the first song during dance night, i panted like crazy! just one song!

so now im officially a 'saint' ahhaha thats how they addressed us after everything was over at the finale. 'now, all of u guys are saints. welcome to SAJC.' hahahhaha emo much.

argh its frustrating that OG3 ppl will not be together cos we will be separated to diff classes once sch reopens. :( ahh!! really very sad. they are really a fun bunch of ppl know. kinda felt irritated that i didnt go ystd cos it means i miss a day with them.

realised i kinda like SAJC. :)

2007-03-07T20:06:00.000-08:00

sick on the first day of school, how great is that?

so im home on the 2nd day of sch, sick and i discomfort. this happened to me at sec 1 know, on the first day of sch as well. only during that time i was sick for a WEEK. im feeling better now, so might be able to make it to sch tmrw.argh its like routine.

ystd was fine i guess. i was like dead in the morning, during the talk. so a new friend that ive made, yuting, made me sleep during the chinese immersion thingy.hahaha and i did. i felt so much better, but when i was on the way home, the fever came back.nways, we did the gp paper and stuff and did the mass dance. my god. do u know how akward was that? this guy and i rfusedo hold each other so we ended up talking instead ahahhahaha. and like walk around in circles when we're supposed to hold each other and do the country dance, hahaa

and we have to do it tmrw again! wah shit. it was really akward, believe me.

and we did cheers for ur house, saverdo. we had like bimbotic cheers, ahhahah! funny la. our house captains or whateverthey call them are so funny.

SAJC is huge man, but the canteen, or cafe, as they call it. (canteen is canteen what, what cafe all.) is kinda small. but food is good. ooh! we have a popular bookstore in our sch! hah, i found that cool. uniform is really nice. ahhaha

one of the J2s told us that it is really up to us to want to study or not and its not true that ppl in SA slack only. she said that its the same in other schs, hahah and she asked if we have any questions to ask her, i asked 'is is true that ppl in SAJC always go club?" hahahah so out of point right. her answer was 'i know some ppl who do club, but i dont club and so do my frns.so must see which kind of ppl u hang out with' how true. its a matter of self-discipline la. ppl say taht SAJC students are like all abt playing and all, but i see alot of students studying ystd.

vanee msged and said that her teacher said 'accebit' (exhibit) and no one laughed. HAHAHAH. and then the teacher said 'if u want to choose anythign under the sk-sun." still. no one laughed. HAHAHHAHAH omg, only vans, drea, robs and i have the same kind of humour. ppl do not laugh the things that we laugh at. i miss them. alot. :(

2007-03-06T05:48:00.000-08:00

back frm thailand, man its been fun. hahha shopping spree all, bargaining even though the stuff r cheap already, but thats what u gotta do in thailand right? bargain..and buy fake goods. haha

so..got posted to St Andrew's Junior College, am damn scared cos i kinda suck in making new friends. hahah and im just not good in meeting new ppl la.

im sad that vans, rash, drea vans and i got posted to different schools. i will miss them so much. i dont really show it cos i dont know how to, and when i attempt, they think im just joking.hahaa but they do not know how much i will miss being around with them. :(

so, well its like a brand new environment and all starting frm tmrw. so work hard guys! :)

2007-03-01T06:07:00.000-08:00

omg, i swear queen and the beatles are the best musicians ever. just bought both of their greatest cds, damn good. freddie mercury's the best, so is brian may.

nways, i quit my job hahha cos going overseas.hahaha oh well, earned enough alr. hahah! it feels weird not working.haah my colleagues were so emo ystd abt me leaving la, presents and cards all.so nice of them:) i kinda felt sad.

realised i didnt blog for sucha long time that u guys dont bother to go to my blog cos it will be the same post. so if u r reading this, HI!

im thinking of getting a takamine acoustic in thailand, cos its cheap there. i heard.that would be my 6th guitar.hahahha but i aint complaining.hahaha using my salary, of cos.

omg, the idols in america idol r so good. lakisha is soooooooooooooooooooo good. shes the best man. its like when u hear her sing, goosebumps much.shes GOOD.the guys suck la. america has so many good singers la, the 7th season alr and theres still good singers. spore is sad man. talent-deprived.its like if taufik and hady r contestants in AI, the will be out in the 2nd audition. now you know how sucky paul twohill and joaquim are.sad case.

another thing, with a name like joaquim, how can u ever be famous? sheesh.unless yr a national flower.

hahah feeling bitchy. ahhhhaaha

so im superrrr free now.its weird.

im scared of JC!!! cos i suck in making new friends, argh.scareeee

2006-12-31T06:34:00.000-08:00

hello yellow, shit, its a new year already!! talk abt how fast time flies. literally.hahah so this yr has been a pretty busy yr, what with the big O's and all, 2006 is also a year when my faith in God kinda became stronger which im grateful for.and its also been a productive year if im talking abt writing songs!! im pretty happy with them hahah. but the end of yr 2006 also means we will all be embarking on new paths, JC and poly stuff..its sad. but i guess its sth we all have to go through right?

every end of the year i will lost my top 10 best and worst songs(in no order of merit, haha.)its probably lame but its all for fun!

Top 10 Best Songs of Year 2006:
1.dont feel like dancing-the sicissor sisters
2.i write sins not tragedies-panic!at the disco
3.you give me something-james morrison
4.you'll be safe here-rivermaya
5.sexyback-justin timberlake
6.here it goes again-ok go
7.no tomorrow-orson
8.the adventure-angles and airwaves
9.dont wait-dashboard confessional
10. never be lonely-the feeling

Top 10 Worst Songs of Year 2006
1.money maker-pharell and some other guy
2.something in the way-christian batista
3.tokyo drift-the teriyaki boys
4.lights and sound-yellow card
5.geek in the pink-jason mraz
6.that song by vanessa anne hudgens(what baby V all)
7.that first single by cassie
8.i dont need a man-PCD
9.public affair-jessica simpson(still dont understand john mayer's move)
10.what's left of me-nick lachey(WHINER!)

2006-12-24T09:24:00.000-08:00

yellow!!!!! hahahha can u imagine if hello is yellow, like when u want to say hello, instead, you say yellow!! hahah and like bye is blue. gosh im rolling my eyes, at myself! ahhaha im so lame.

so...im working at giordano marina square, its been reallyyyyyyyyy busy. like really b.u.sy. haha esp now, the peak season, what with all xmas and new year then chinese new year, man, i couldnt catch my breath. but it means commission!!! ahhah thats like my drive and motivation. its kinda fun, i can like fold clothes in record time now, learn new stuff, suggest to customers diff outfits they can match with our apparel and it really helps that my colleagues are nice and funny.we get to constantly make fun of the guys and make them do tiring and then we girls gossip.hahaha and when customers like praise, thank, smile and even shake yr hand wishing you merry xmas, u feel that u actually matter.and it feels damn good.ahahha and when their children high-five you, blow u a kiss, it just makes the day feel brighter and gives u drive to work harder.ahahha im sounding friggin' emoish right.

i realise i actually like doing service. ahahha funny, cos i am kinda impatient and have a bad temper.hahah so yah, i guess this is like training.

so, went to mrs debbie's place on fri for her xmas gourmet dinner, mrs tan CAN cook man.it was awesome.vany entertained us with her maht rap, action all.hahahahha it was good entertainment.

vany's parents are so cute together, i went for their anniversary and they r just so sweet together la, i envied them cos i kinda wish my parents r like them but its y'know,its impossible but i guess its also a fortunate thing i get to witness an exmaple of a successful marriage. i mean 15 years!!!! come on. vany did her MJ dance, one word: AWESOME, she CAN dance. it was great!

tmrw's is out family xmas thing, man i miss my fam, hahaha cos work and all, dont really get to spemd so much time with them anymore.ahhaha tahts the down side of working.so, im kinda looking forward to it :)

till then, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! :) pray that in this season of giving, there will be less pain, less hurt and less poverty.

2006-11-22T05:47:00.000-08:00

so....the o's r over!!!!! finally!!!! man i suffering frm post-exams withdrawal. constantly catching myself opening my txtbook and studying..what?! hahah what is wrong with me

prom is over, it was great,im gonna miss all my frns and teachers.oh well, all are over. my hair is so dyed right now! im not used to it.and i dont like the colour.i look like a freaking ah lian.

omg , my contact lens solution is contaminated!!! what..im gonna get my money back la, i will get it back.i think its very bad that they r so irresponsible y'know. i mean, that brand holds like 50% of the market!! many ppl r using that brand.u would think they will be more careful.

2006-10-09T05:49:00.000-07:00

ya hi hello,jaime? sorry but uh..WHY R U ONLINE!? AND NOT hmmm..lemme see...STUDYING SINCE THE BIG O'S R LITERALLY 2 AND A HALF WEEKS AWAY!? how bout that jaime?

k this is really bad, im talking to myself.

saw a couple of idoits just now, i think they were high or sth, or even drugged, nways they r like the black gang, all wear black tshirts and this guy is like with arms outstretched and said hes flying, what an idoit. yeah man, carry on 'flying' on the road, very soon, u will be flying yr way to death.

seriously, act human and not a bird, stop taking drugs and do underage drinking COS IT MAKES U DO STUPID STUFF LIKE 'FLYING' ON THE ROAD.

k i really have to try studying, im soooooooooooo scared but im not studying.yeah i always say that, can almost hear u go 'yeah yeah WOTever.'

2006-09-22T01:41:00.000-07:00

MOS burger did not give me MILK for my iced MILK tea! oh my god, pissed off i am. how could they? i need my milk. but ya know, i have the tea..BE CONTENTED JAIME!! PPL R DYING IN AFRICA EVERY 3 SECONDS.

k, but i am so going bck tmrw and tell them that they did not give me my milk

TGIF!!!

if the sch would so graciously deduct cca pnts for prelim, i will get 24? and if they would be so gracious again and moderate, MAYBE i can have that remote chance of going to a JC for first 3 months. but if i cant, then i cant.. what am i talking abt? hahahhha but i did improve la, my middies were like 34 la! gosh, im so dumb.

jamie cullum is so cool. he looks like a geek right, but he is really cool and straightforward, and hes kinda cute u know hahah and hes like all abt the music. he really loves MUSIC and thats rare. i like him

2006-09-16T06:45:00.000-07:00

so my results: ATROCIOUS. i passed science at last, but ya know we're not suppose to aim for a pass now, we're supposed to aim for B's and A's, but these grades just seem so far away. i kinda lose the strive to work hard, i feel so stupid. im really scared but im not doing anything.

2006-09-03T04:51:00.000-07:00

im bck frm genting it is soooooo BORING. i cant stand it.but i bought like 4 shirts frm FOS and some other shop. ahahhahahha

failed SS by friggin two marks. i didnt write purpose of sources for all the sourced-based questions that cost me like 10 marks? if i did write good conclusions and purposes, i would have passed!!!!!!!!!!!! so annoying. but ya know, its my fault too, for not taking the test seriously.

so JOAKIM IS OUT! FINALLY!!!!!!!! k im being mean cos IT IS commendable that he went through all the crap and all but the singing? gotta go.

2006-08-31T05:09:00.000-07:00

teacher's day rocked today. we had like sucky mics and sound system but we managed to pull through hahahha had generally good response recieved, at least we made mrs soh and mrs tan cry.hahhaha. went to staff room and played the song agn for mrs lim then mrs tan made us play for her agn and she cried!! at the first line la, and dan merissa cried cos she cried and i almost cry cos all the thoughts of us not being able to see her and other teachers much after this year start flooding in my head, so i looked away. ahhahhaha i love today.

thanks y'all for the compliments and all.

2006-08-25T05:57:00.000-07:00

PRELIMS ARE OVER YAY!!!

went town with them, i was having my period, i was aching all over, dont have any shopping mood. which is good la.

mrs tan practically forced us to go to NJC tmw for a poem thingy, which is kinda cool, dont get me wrong, but its at like 8.30am. drats.

im friends with big bullies.

2006-08-19T08:03:00.000-07:00

prelims sucks cos the teachers all wanna scare you into studying super hard for the big O's so they set the paper reallyyyyyyyyyyyyyy hard. damn it k. they lead us on k, LEAD US ON, talking shit bout how merger and sep is gonna come out, everyone mugs hard for it and when we see that damn paper, BANG!!!! NO FRIGGIN' SIGN OF MERGER AND SEP!!!!!! and everyone thought blast furnace is going to come out for chem cos they emphasised it so much and it come out everytime, we memorise the damn equations like hell and then BANG AGAIN!!!!!!!! do we see a question on it?!?!?!! how about a NOOOOOOOOOOOO?!!?! to make things worst they gave us a PURE BIO QUESTION!!!!!!!! FOR A SUB BIO PAPER. go figure.

so im gonna do very badly for my prelims and go work for first threemonths cos THE SCHOOL FRIGGIN' DIDNT LET US PASS and so we cannot go anywhere for that 3 months. damn.

k im being annoying. but u cant blame me!

sometimes i hate singaporeans because:

1.they stand in front of the escalator and stand there discussing abt stupid things like who looks the cutest in spore idol at the previous night show and they do not notice ppl r actually TRYING to go up the esclator.

2. they just have to push their way in the MRT, afraid that they couldnt find a seat and in the midst of it, pushed other ppl and is actually being EXTRMELY rude.

3. and some passengers in the mrt will like stare at u and when u look at them, they turned away immediately like they NEVER stared at u and they r NOT being rude at all.

4. they cut queues.

5. they JUST HAVE TO vote for Joakim(cannot sing)Gomez.