JAE Posting Results!!!

This coming Monday. JAE posting results. My JC. My head is hurting now…

Anyway, January 30 (Monday) 8am is the time when the 2011 O level candidates in the whole Singapore (minus those who are planning to go overseas, hence did not participate in JAE) and those who are not 2011 O level candidates but participated in JAE (in short, everyone who participated in JAE :P) get to know which post-secondary course they are going to! I must double-triple-quadruple check my phone to make sure it is functioning perfectly, especially in receiving sms-es. For some reason it doesn't ring when I receive sms-es these few days…

For those who don't know what JAE is, JAE stands for Joint Admission Exercise. After receiving our O levels results, we have to log in online to key in our code (in which they already contain our results and our information) and then key in a maximum of 12 courses of our choice. From then on, everything is computerised (or so we're told). The system puts us into different courses based on our O level results.

I keyed in 10 choices altogether. Hopefully I can get into my first two. But, whatever JC I get into, I promise myself I will work harder. Study hard (and smart), play hard. Truthfully, I admit that I didn't study that hard for the past two years. I'm very sure I actually was a lot more hardworking back in Sin Min. And more of a mugger. But now, *coughs* "me" and "mugger" definitely do not exist in the same sentence. I'm not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing… I think one of the reasons of me being more non-mugger-ish/slack is I'M ONLINE A LOT!!!! Which is a bad thing. Because… I kill my eyes. But, now, since I don't stalk follow SJ that much, I don't know what I do online… Facebook? Youtube? Watch Simon and Martina? ... :(

My senior told me that JC life is definitely not slack-ish. So, I will try to manage my time better... So whatever happened in O levels won't happen in A's. My O levels results are... lets just say... not as good. I should have studied harder *sobs* NO REGRETS. I promise to work harder in the future, and promise is a very heavy word, that should not be thrown around carelessly, giving people false hope and then crushing them, hard, just because our definitions of the word "promise" is different...

I apologise for rambling again. *sheepish grin*

Guess it's time to really say goodbye to secondary school life, huh? No more making my seat all homey by leaving all my books and stationery in school, and stock-piling up food under my desk... And no more walking around in our classroom barefooted and creating my little world around my desk with my desk mate and friends around us... Now, it's gonna be all lecture halls and tutorial classes...After 11 years of classroom life, this is gonna take some time to get used to. Luckily we had some classes in lecture halls (Chinese :D and holiday classes)

Hostel. To be completely honest, the chance of me remaining in NYGBS is quite small...  Sorry to my friends who are still gonna stay there, I can't promise that I'll go visit, since you know that I'm quite lazy to go out sometimes... Make that, most of the time... Hopefully I get into a good hostel. I mean, I know that most hostels there are quite good, but after two years of being pampered (like literally, in hostel and in school) and LOL I hear "skyscraper" blasting from my neighbour's car. Anyway, after two years of being really pampered, I hope I get a good hostel, and good JC. Of course, all the JCs are good. I mean, there are only 17 JCs in the whole country, so we must be of certain standard to get into one, which also means that the education and facilities provided are of certain standard. (Oh, and Polys nowadays are really cool, they look so much like unis!!)

And, I am rambling again... *plays Rambling Girls*

Finally, to all my friends who are waiting for the posting results: All the best!! Hope you get the into JCs you want, and even if you don't, hope you enjoy your JC life!!! Stay in touch kay guys??

Ooh, and remember our source of coffee for A levels!!!! :DD Let's send someone to Kona Beans, and MEET THIS CASHIER!!!!

p/s: Let me ramble again? Do all younger siblings act older than their older sibling?? I mean, LOOK AT SUNGJIN. AND LOOK AT MY SISTER.


WHATEVER.


It just means that I am young at heart.


- end of ramble.

I really can't believe time is passing so fast. In a few years, we're gonna sit for A levels, then enter uni, then continue on to Master and Ph.D, then graduate, then work and get married and have kids and grow old. Whatever the case, KEEP IN TOUCH KAY???

~~ I wonder if I can still log into LMS...

Ooh apparently I can!! But I can't see any of our subjects anymore... :(

Here, Mr Soo's pets...

p.p/s: OMG WE GOT A NEW CAR!!!! ITS AWESOME and feels more like a computer than a car, BUT STILL.


This means the old car (not that old actually, but since there's a new car, it became the "old car") is mine :DDDDD


And I can paint it PINK!!!!


And get it banned within 1km from my house by my mother...


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PumpkinMelodies: 1. Reminisce - Super Junior K.R.Y.

1st of all, Happy Chinese New Year's Eve everyone!!!

I'm gonna start a series called "PumpkinMelodies", where I express my views and thoughts on songs! (which I think are gonna be mostly Super Junior, but I'll try my best to include others too)

Haha, I drew the pumpkin on Ms Paint. Actually, I drew another one, but posted this first. It looks quite simple though... Maybe I should get someone who draws chibi to help me... Anyone?

So, PumpkinMelodies #1: Reminisce - Super Junior K.R.Y.

It is the 1st song on my playlist here. :)

This song is one of the songs in composer Yoon Il Sang's 21st anniversary album, where he collaborated with top Kpop artists to remake his favourite hits. "Reminisce" is a remake of Turbo's song, December, by Super Junior's K.R.Y. (a subgroup consisting of Kyuhyun, Ryeowook and Yesung)

The first time I heard this song, the piano intro created a sort of sorrowful feel, it's as if someone is thinking of something bittersweet. Then, the starting made me a little dizzy (cuz the music moves left and right alternatively), but it created a dreamy feel that sorta pulls one into some other world, in this case, I assumed based on the title of the song, would be one's past.

After that, there's this slightly cheerful beat, signifying that one is already in his/her past, before some unexpected sad thing happened. One thing though, is it just me, or did anyone else hear Ryeowook going "ap" twice here? Anyway, up till this part, this song has been quite good, with the effects setting up the mood, making me expect some vocals to come in with at least a medium volume. However, when Kyuhyun starts singing, and Ryeowook harmonising, Kyuhyun's voice was covered by the background music... Luckily, it eventually became louder and clearer, and later, at Yesung and Ryeowook's part, their voices became more audible.

My favourite part was at 2:48, where Kyuhyun sings a low part effortlessly. It sounded really nice and relaxed, not forced or anything. And Ryeowook's octave-higher harmonisation was just right, enriching that part, yet not overpowering the main voice.

(Okay I've been biased, I like Kyuhyun's voice)

Moving on... Usually when I listen to a Korean song for the first time, I don't try to listen to the lyrics, unless it stands out, like in-your-face kind of stand out. For this song, the melody was beautiful, so I was too distracted to listen to the lyrics. I felt that the melody gives a sweet yet distant feel, as if one's trying to grasp at his/her memories, yet as time go on, he/she realises that whatever happened in the past can't happen again, and he/she has to accept that fact and move on, yet that "something sweet" stays in his/her mind. (Do I sound weird?) Okay, picture this: From where you are, you can see the beach (pretend you like the beach). You are not on the beach, and looking at it from where you are, it's so near yet so far. You want to go there, but for some reason, all you can do is sit and watch as the waves hit gently against the shore, creating white foams, then slowly but surely, returning back to the sea. There's this bittersweet feeling, cuz all you can do is to sit there and watch. It's sad, but you don't feel some heart-searing pain...

That's the feeling and picture I got from listening to that song. I don't know why I thought of the beach, maybe it's because I like going to the beach?

So, when I repeated the song, I caught a few words. I don't remember them all, but there's "wait, tears, white, gone".

After looking up the lyrics, and reading it while playing the song, the song became very heartbreaking. There are many images in the lyrics.

Here's the translation of the lyrics:

Can’t you see – she is behind me
Avoiding the wind and fast asleep
When the warm sunlight falls, she will wake, just wait a little bit


When winter came, we always went to the seaside
The cold wind and the white waves are the same as before but
Your bright and cheery nature that chattered next to me
Is now nowhere to be found


You said that the winter sea, that had no visitors, looked so sad
And said that we should stay with it and be the sea’s friend
When you hid behind me to avoid the wind, I heard your small prayer
Asking for us to always be together by your side


The rough waves asked me
Why did I come alone and where you were


Can’t you see – she is behind me
Avoiding the wind and fast asleep
When the warm sunlight falls, she will wake, just wait a little bit
I couldn’t bear to say that I can’t ever see you again
But without knowing, my shedding tears have been caught


I guess the passing wind told me that I can’t ever find her again
No matter where I go, I can’t find her
I guess the ocean spoke to me and asked me where she went
The ocean kept asking and eventually, it became tears like me


With the white tears that the ocean sent, I made your image
I lay by it and called out your name, in case you see


I guess the clouds were worried that it would melt -
The clouds covering the sun aren’t leaving


* An ocean without you will live just as tears
The rough waves, also despising me
Telling me not to come without you, tell me to bring you there


Even if I say I can’t see you, I know
The white snowflakes on my cheek,
Are actually your wet kiss and tears


* repeat

(credit: http://www.liriklagulyrics.com)



You can feel the pain in the lyrics... It starts off assuring someone that the girl is there, just behind him. The lyrics continues on to narrate the girl's actions and thoughts. Then out of a sudden, it reveals that the girl is gone(to me, it sounds like she passed away), that everything that once related to the girl "Is now nowhere to be found". The guy then goes to the seaside alone, to reminisce their past, and everything around him just doesn't seem right, as if asking where the girl is. Then, the reality that the girl is gone hits him again, hard, everything around him reminds him of that heart-wrenching fact, that even the ocean starts shedding tears, and the waves hating him for being there. At last, even though the girl has left, the guy still can feel her love, as if she's there with him, not physically...
(I tried to make this as short as possible)

On the whole, this is a great song, the only setback was the beat covering the vocals at the start... Oh! I haven't said anything about the instruments yet!! (other than the piano intro) Aah, but I have to stop this post here because of time... :(

This is my first time commenting (coherently) this much about a song, hopefully it wasn't too bad...

Lastly, all of these are my opinion only, I'm not saying that they are 100% correct or anything, nor am I saying that everyone will think the same way as I do.

My first song on PumpkinMelodies. Hmm... not too organised, stuff were thrown around everywhere. I guess it will be more organised over time...


Happy CNY Eve to all of you!!! Hope you have a great year ahead!!!

Lei Cha!!!! 擂茶!!!

Finally!!! After craving lei cha for quite some time, I GET TO SATISFY MY CRAVING!!!!!!!!!!!!

There used to be a lei cha restaurant in SP, but it closed down :( That was the best lei cha I have ever eaten till now...

I found a place in Singapore that sells lei cha too! It's on the 4th? 5th? 6th? or was it 7th? floor in Lucky Plaza. Well, SY and I always forget which floor it is on, so we always spend quite a long time in the lift :P

Anyway, the lei cha there is not bad, and I dragged SY out just to eat lei cha for quite a few times now, I think. XP Of course she doesn't eat lei cha, she'll just buy some bento box (speaking of which, I think the term "bento box" is quite weird, cuz since when do you say "I'm eating a 便当盒？") or some non-veggie stuff :)

Apparently lei cha is sold somewhere in Vivo too!! But all the times I've been there, I've never seen any... :( Maybe I have to search harder...

Finding lei cha this time was totally coincidental! We were in a shopping mall somewhere in Selangor (this is the best I could do, I don't know where we are), planning to have lunch, then for some reason I felt this weird attraction (okaay, I'm exaggerating) to this particular restaurant. There was this menu outside, and I just randomly flipped open a page (which is quite towards the end btw) and TA-DA!!! LEI CHA!!!! So, my mom and I insisted on having our lunch there :) And we both had lei cha! (to the horror of my dad and my sis :P)

LOOK AT THIS!!!!!!!!!! I FOUND YOU!! I FINALLY FOUND YOU MY BELOVED LEI CHA!!!!

THIS. IS. IT. And brown rice too :)

I miss you my darling... :)

Okaay, I'll write some things I know about lei cha here :)

Firstly, lei cha (擂茶) is a Hakka dish. Apparently it is called "Thunder Tea Rice" or something like that (when I saw the menu in Singapore). It was called "Pounded Tea Rice" or (something like that) when I ate it just now though... Actually, lei cha is supposed to mean "pounded tea" in Hakka, but maybe because the "lei" (擂) in lei cha sounds the same as "thunder" (雷) in chinese (also "lei"), so it's translated as "Thunder Rice". That's what I think though, I'm not really sure about it.

The whole dish is practically made up of vegetables and rice. So, my fellow carnivores may not enjoy it that much... As you can see from the picture, there are a few types of vegetables, tofu and some peanuts in the rice. Sometimes there's ikan bilis (anchovies) too!! And the green gravy? gruel? I'll just call it "soup" then. The green soup there is made by grinding green tea and some cereals (pumpkin seeds, sesame, peanuts etc). I think there are herbs too, cuz it tastes a bit herb-y. The "soup" tastes really rich and I TOTALLY LOVE THAT THING.

When I eat, I just pour all the "soup" into the rice and stir everything. :) (My sis was like *horrified face*) It tastes awesome like that. You can feel so many tastes at the same time. I like it most when the rice and veggies are soft, but the anchovies are super crunchy! It's like, you're biting soft and starchy (the rice) stuff, and then there's the crispy ikan bilis!!! (I better stop here before I go all ASDFGHJKL on lei cha)

Anyway, the serving was really huge (it is huge everytime I eat lei cha) and I'm super full, even till now... which is, hours after I ate that thing. Well, at least I won't feel as guilty as I would if I ate something fattening, like ice-cream... (lol that doesn't make sense at all)

p/s: HEECHUL HAS WEIBO??? OMG MY DEAD ACCOUNT HAS RISEN. His chinese, he wrote chinese characters, as in 汉字, not pinyin!!! I wonder who taught him that... most probably ZhouMi. Could it be Vic??

Bits of 2011 that will last~~ Part 3!! (last part)

Since I am such a picture-maniac :P (I really really really did try my best not to upload too many pictures), here's Part 3. Continued from Part 2

Still November - Family Trip!
After ROCs 3 where we had to take a 13-hour-flight (okay, we stopped at Dubai to transfer, thank you Mrs. Chan for being awesome and choosing a transfer flight) to and fro UK, and then right after that I had to take a flight back to Malaysia, then we went on a trip. I almost thought I had a plane-phobia. (I don't even want to count the number of hours I spent not on solid ground in the few weeks) Turned out that its just me being home-sick that led to me not liking to take flights alone (which I always have to do D;). Point is, luckily I realised it wasn't me having a plane-phobia, or else I will create a disastrous tornado or something along that lines.

BECAUSE (please ignore the fact that we shouldn't start a proper sentence with 'because') RIGHT AFTER I landed in Malaysia, I had to fly off to HK... :(

and I still don't like taking planes that much, after ROCs 3.

But at least I'm with my family, which makes the whole thing a lot more fun :)

and me a lot more... enthu/hyper.

back home. Now off we go!

Night view~~

OHOHOHOHO DISNEYLAND :DDDD I LIKE DISNEY

DISNEYLAND!!!!!!

I. Am. Bulied.

To Minnie J

Looking handsome?

THE castle

Lion King!

Space Mountain. I LOVE THIS :D

POOH!!

this is so sad… :’(

magical~~

Despite hearing many comments about HK Disneyland being not as fun as others, I actually enjoyed my time there J Well, maybe it’s because I went there with my family, or that I really like Disney and their music, or that we didn’t really spend much time there, our tour guide just brought us to the main attractions, OR, I’m just childish fun-loving. Yeah, that. *nods*

I like beautiful hotels J

Yes.

Macao casino

Mermaid J

First Show

It’s really pretty J

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IGreja de S. Paulo - St. Paul’s Church

Don’t. Even. Ask.

I think I know who’s the mature one amongst us…

Silkworms…

Seafood on the sea J

Beautiful toilets!!!!

I can’t help it, it’s really beautiful J

Look at those fishies fighting for food!!

They’re filming!!!

古色古香，and, an extra hand ==

LOOK AT THAT FISH JUMP!!

Canton Tower, yupp, we are going up there

on the way up :)

Don’t eat the crocodile!!! L

THIS IS THE PLACE.

Yup. It’s ALL food. There’s even more.

GIANTS :D

Those are REAL peacocks

*gapes*

“NO sharing my bear!!”

Balcony exhibition

STILL November (can you believe it?)- domestic trip J

So, the next day after we landed back in Malaysia, we went on a trip to Bukit Merah, Ipoh (or somewhere around there I think), KL, Muar and Genting. So we practically went from north to the south and UP.

FIRE!!! You got the FIRE,나의 가슴을 쿵쿵쿵

Taman Rekreasi Gunung Lang, also known as Malaysia’s Gui Ling

Genting

WHAT?? TALK LOUDER. I CAN’T HEAR YOU

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (my seahorse) and Si Expensive. There’s another one, Si Dear, at home

The very familiar…

The adventures of WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO and Si Expensive.

I CAN’T WAIT TO GET ON THAT.

Finally, December

Our cat!!!! <3 

There’s gonna be a moon eclipse tonight!!!!!!!

YAAYYY!!!

SY, this was what I was talking about…

John made this

I’m not good at this….

With Eliza at gym!

Awww cat J

MOA on newspaper :DDD

THAT CAT IS BRAVE. 

CHRISTMAS!!!

那些年，我们一起被喷尿的温泉……

“Untuk kanak-kanak sahaja”

while the guys…

And, FINALLY ITS FINISHED!!!!!!!!! I know there's something wrong with my fonts and stuff :( and HTML DOES NOT WORK!!! :(((( WHYYYYY


Phew!!! I think I abused my posts with pictures… Well, I guess getting me a camera is a good decision. I would like to thank my camera, which has been with me through my ups and downs, being thrown/dropped accidentally on many occasions, fell down some stairs during SS3, and many other adventures. And my phone too, actually (quite a number of them are taken using my phone)

I’m sure I’ve left out quite a lot of happenings on 2011, but err… I think this is enough to abuse my posts with… For now, that is. Who knows when I feel like picture-abusing my blog again, right? AND THERE’S STILL 2010, with all the school activities and ROCs trip to UK and family trips and stuff. (But let’s not think about that now)

Anyway, 2011 has been a GREAT year, and it’s time I embrace 2012 with open arms. It’s just a few more days till I find out my JC posting through SMS. I shall remember to set a SUPER LOUD SMS ringtone, not like my current one is not loud enough though... (속 썩는 일이 한 두 가지 아닌 세상에 우린 살아 그건 애도 알아!)

Lastly, all the best to everyone for all your future endeavors!!