Some pictures

Picture 328: Kato sensei was back in Singapore the whole of last week. So excited! Was literally bouncing in my chair before I went for Wed's training. He actually remembered me! Took this picture with him after training, cos he wouldn't be staying til the end of NUSKK's training the next day. He's wearing the NUS t-shirt!

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Victorian's Day on 4th March 2006. Pictures should be pretty self-explanatory.


Picture 329: The new (since I was a student there anyway) VJC "wall" right outside the (also new) admin office.



Picture 330: The student's council room has been converted to a student lounge, called the Igloo.



Picture 331: Another picture of the photos on the glass walls of the Igloo.



Picture 332: Pool tables and darts. There's also a room with a large TV for PS2.



Picture 333: Brand new tree-houses, three of them linked by precarious wooden bridges. I swear, going up is more scary than coming down.



Picture 334: View of the track where I spent countless P.E. lessons struggling through mock 2.4s. I spent half the time faking cramps to get out of P.E. too. Anyway, here's a view of the track from the treehouse.



Picture 335: My Baobei and me.



Picture 336: MichTeo and me.



Picture 337: Baobei and me with our year 2 Chemistry teacher, Roberty. Mich was off somewhere in the background doing mass dances.



Picture 338: Cher, Mich and me trying to do VJC. Obviously it didn't succeed.



Picture 339: VJC 01S16!



Picture 340: Taken at the end of the day, also something new that came up after I we left VJC.



Picture 341: Scandalous shot of the day! 

Valentine's Day 2006

I actually intended to attend two tutorials, but my first tutorial ended quite late, so I didn't go for the other one, cos it was all the way at Science. I know, I know... I should pull my ears and kneel on durian shells. >.< Yesterday, I gave roses out to some people. I made these roses myself! I'll take a picture of one if I can, and put it up soon enough.

Today, I got a very very very very adorable Vday gift!!!


Picture 319: What could possibly be inside this?



Picture 320: How perplexing this sweet-like object is...



Picture 321: Peekaboo! Say hi to my new piggy plushie, Ashley. Actually, I'm just gonna call it Piggie. I've been craving this piggy and going nuts over it ever since I saw it at the toy shop place at the basement of PS. Now I finally have my hands on one! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA.



Picture 322: I draped the ribbon over it...



Picture 323: And then I tied the ribbon around its nose...



Picture 324: And also around its tail. Side profile! It's ROUND! It's completely ROUND! That's the charm of this piggy! It's ROUND!



Picture 325: It is also a really cool Piggie.



Picture 326: In your face!



Picture 327: Me and Piggie Ashley. 

Chinese New Year 2006

Nothing much in terms of angbao money... Ate two reunion dinners (though I cheated on the first one, cos the rice wasn't ready when we sat down for dinner, so I just ate some fishballs). Took a few pictures with my sister, and then stoned around at home for the rest of the first day. My brother came over after we had lunch at our father's place, and he was so bored that he took a nap.

Here's some pictures of me and my sister:


Picture 309: My sister, Melody. She's starting to grow out of her clothes. See that tummy peeking through!



Picture 310: Trying to take a picture with her.



Picture 311: First day of CNY. Her eyes are squinty because of the flash. She happily obliged the big sister taking pictures by sitting down next to me without much fuss.



Picture 312: Another picture of her. Does she look like me??? Haha.


On the third day of CNY, a few of us Kendo people gathered at Enginger's house for angbao collection and some mahjong. Turns out that most of them either couldn't play, or aren't very good at it. Saizou finally learnt how to play mahjong, like the tai tai that she's going to be. Precious had surprisingly luck with tiles; beginners' luck, I call it. All I did was sit next to her and guide her. Haha. But no matter how skilled I am *coughcough*, I could never influence how much luck she had. Godspeed came later, around 7pm, I think. The moment he stepped in, he whined, "I don't want to walk the brown one. It licked my face." In the end he went dog-walking with Little Unwashed Body and Lawyer. I don't see the fun in walking dogs! So much exercise. As Little Unwashed Body said today, "Exercise??? What a foreign word!"

In the end, we left Enginger's house pretty late to have dinner. My seafood platter was sub-par! Not enough rice. Lawyer was disgusted at her fish. Saizou didn't finish her fries (what's new?). Godspeed and Enginger shared some fancy combo that Godspeed came up with.


Picture 313: Remainds of dinner at Fish & Co.



Picture 314: Godspeed and Enginger, talking 'business'.



Picture 315: Little Unwashed Body, Lawyer, and Saizou!



Picture 316: The guys, Godspeed, Enginger (with another weird look as usual), and Yasashii Man.



Picture 317: Me, Little Unwashed Body and Lawyer. Flash too bright larh.



Picture 318: Only I can take nice, clear shots without flash! 

Who else is opening house to visit this weekend?? Heh.

8th Kendo Youth Tournament

Held the Youth Tournament over the weekend at NUS. I'm proud to announce that we took home many team trophies, and one individual trophy! Had a lot of preparation work to do the day before, and we stayed til about 9pm. I went to sleep over at Twinny's house, cos it'd be quite disastrous to get Enginger to pick me up in the car overflowing with bogu and people. Also, I just wanted to spend a night at Twinny's house.

Was so tired after the whole event that I couldn't get up to go for my morning lecture the next day. When I met up with a few girls for lunch, three out of the four of us didn't make it to our morning lectures either. Haha. So much for not ponning lessons early in the sem. Watched the most terrible and pointless silent movie in my entire life during film lecture. Dr. Wee bruffed us!!! I decided to go to sleep forty minutes into the show. It was THAT bad. I applaud Precious for staying up the whole time to watch it. As though it being a silent film ain't enough... it had to be THAT bad. Even Broken Blossoms last week wasn't that bad.

Anyway, here are the pictures from the tourny.

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Picture 292: Trophies. We took home 17!



Picture 293: Really cute toilet sign made by Vixen.



Picture 294: Another cute toilet sign made by Little Unwashed Body. See the constipated looking man in the corner?



Picture 295: Meimei being a camera whore. d=



Picture 296: My trophy!



Picture 297: NUSKK Ladies Team A wth Damian sensei.



Picture 298: NUSKK Ladies Team B with Damian sensei.



Picture 299: Enginger with his haul of TWO trophies, one for team, one for individual. "Aiyah, why all brown brown one..."



Picture 300: Saizou and me, showing off our trophies.



Picture 301: Most Valueable Player and me! She had to win all three of her team matches in order to get her team the silver trophies. Well done, Meimei!



Picture 302: NUSKK Ladies Teams A, B and C. We're trying to act like gangsters here, so don't laugh, okay?



Picture 303: I forgot what's the purpose of this photo, but I think Twinny just wanted to pose with a picture of the really weird NUS lion logo. It looks like a baboon, I swear!



Picture 304: Eating left over bentos after the tourny. Precious looking cool, while LENG was just caught off guard.



Picture 305: Two of my favourite juniors, Vixen and Little Unwashed Body. =D



Picture 306: Group photo!



Picture 307: Casper, who willingly posed as soon as he saw my camera being pointed at him. Another camera whore!!!

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A few of us Easties went to Parkway Parade for dinner. We had Crystal Jade, then some ice cream from Scoopz. As the car was turning out of the multi-story carpark, we heard a funny sound coming from the car. So we stopped outside to check, and would you have guessed, we had a flat! We got out, and the girls just stood around looking at Enginger change the tyre. Okay larh, we got help a little bit. We all just got out of the car without making much fuss about it. I think we were all too tired to make comments.


Picture 308: Flat tyre! 

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Eventful!

Stupid Quiz.

Well, I knew I was somewhat stupid. This just proves it!

New bruises galore... another bruise upon a bruise. Thanks, twinny. -_-"

survey thingie

You scored as Journalism. You are an aspiring journalist, and you should major in journalism! Like me, you are passionate about writing and expressing yourself, and you want the world to understand your beliefs through writing. Journalism 100% English 92% Engineering 67% Art 58% Anthropology 58% Philosophy 50% Psychology 50% Mathematics 42% Theater 42% Sociology 42% Linguistics 42% Biology 33% Dance 17% Chemistry 17% What is your Perfect Major? (PLEASE RATE ME!!<3) created with QuizFarm.com

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Cos my friends are doing this. Sure I love to write, but I don't want to make it my career.

I don't know what to say leh, and Godspeed wants to see more pictures of "my midget". School's okay so far, it's been raining for the last three days, and I'm growing sleepy. I also have tutorials to do already, and I had a lecturer who told me this, when I mentioned that I can't attend any of his tutorials: "Don't go for tutorials then." And I was pretty sure he wanted me to drop his module, then I told him that I cannot not drop it, because I wouldn't be able to graduate. So I guess I'll just work harder (haha I say that every sem) this time and do decently.

I don't know what to say larh! I have no pictures also!

NTS Camp 2005

Yes, I have survived three days of intensive training. Yes, it was held over the Christmas weekend. I spent my entire Christmas doing Kendo. Do I have no life, or what?? I have learnt that when you hit a certain point during training, whatever hurts doesn't hurt anymore. I have learnt that you win when you either have nothing to lose or everything to lose. I have also learnt that when people tell you to "Have fun!", it is best to be slightly pessimisstic as well.

I hate to admit it, but yes, I did "have fun!" at three full days of training. It is by far even more intensive than NUSKK camp. Makes me wonder how I felt so weak and useless at NUSKK camp than at NTS camp. Must be the people involved. At NUSKK, you know you will never be the first one to fall out because of so-and-so reason. At SKC, if you fall out first, you are just weak. No one likes to be the first one to drop out, cos if one does, the rest will follow. What do you call it? The linch pin? Haha, nevermind.

And since the last few posts have been so bereft of pictures, and I had even resorted to putting up a comic, you shan't be disappointed this time. If you're eating, drinking, or just have a generally weak stomach, please skip the few pictures at the front.


Picture 286: Bruises received on day 1 of camp.


Just one bruise, actually. Had shiai with two people, and as I walked away to take a rest, I felt a painful tingle on my right upper arm. You know how you smack yourself, there's this lingering tingly feeling? Well, imagine that, but starting to bite into you and just won't quit tingling. I thought to myself, Shit, a bruise? So I lifted up the sleeve of my hakama and found It. It changed colour from light blue, to dark blue, to dark green, and then with reddish tinge. It was amazing how It changed colour over five hours.


Picture 287: Bruises received on day 2 of camp.



Picture 288: Closeup.


Second day, there was team shiai, so I was up against one of the strongest female players in Singapore. As we fought, she hit me in the same spot that was bruised the day before, and when we both came in for kote, she missed and her shinai jabbed me in the arm (hence bruise number 2). It didn't just like, hit and slide off. It hit and left a scratch mark of sorts.

When the match was over, I went over to Saizou, "I know who gave me the bruise yesterday le." Actually, I have no idea. It might have been the second girl, but well. I have another bruise from the second day on the outside of my right elbow. It's this big painful bit that's quite reminiscent of Lawyer's bruises. That one is LENG hit one lor. During keiko later, everyone loved hitting my arm. Four partners in a row proceeded to hit me in the exact same spot. At the end of it, I couldn't really feel much of my arm anymore.



Picture 289: Bruises received on day 3 of camp.


Today was another bad right arm day. During keiko, got hit on the second bruise very hard by one guy. My arm went numb for a while, and I had to stop keiko for a while. The poor guy was wondering what happened to me. Then he proceeded to give me the third bruise. -__-"

On to some better looking photos:


Picture 290: Saizou looks like some kind of gangster in this picture.



Picture 291: And the image is quickly shattered when she posed cutely for this photo. See the dead (tired) bodies in the background. How she gets her energy, I have no idea. 

I haven't mentioned the number of suburi we did. Nvm, another story for another time. I just want to sleep now.

Impromptu outing

Had to wake up earlier than usual on Sunday morning (at the unearthly hour of 10.30am) because someone was coming over to fix my kitchen/toilet ceilings. Something about leaky, plaster, toilet unusable and other profound adult words. I can't remember why I woke up either. I think it's because my alarm started ringing, and these days I can't snooze it for two hours like I used to. So I got up, bathed and then came online.

Saw Kimchi online, and in the midst of whining to each other that we were hungry, she suddenly popped the million dollar question: "Want to go out?" So we proceeded to call the "sweaty people", and finally managed to get a bunch of them out. Met up with Kimchi, and we walked about for a long time, because the Sweaty People were taking too long to arrive.

We finally went to Ajisen Ramen and waited some more for them. In the end we ordered first, cos they were stuck at the entrance of the carpark. Finally they arrived, and we had a good time chatting about that day's training. It seems like after joining Kendo, my whole world becomes just that. I go out with people from Kendo, I feel most at home with Kendo people, hell, I even start chatting about Kendo to other people.

Anyway, we all went to watch movie. Enginger and his sisters watched Hairy Porter, while LENG, Saizou, Kimchi and I watched Perhaps Love. Like Darren who aptly put it, came out of the movie wondering, wtf? At least it wasn't as bad as 2046, where I completely caught no ball. But I'd like to watch Perhaps Love again (and no, it's not for Takeshi however-you-spell-it). There was this Korean guy who popped up at really random intervals of the show. I thought he was like, Puck in Midsummer's Night Dream, but he was absent most of the time. Really weird. Did they put him in just for eye candy? But the soundtrack's good. Jacky Cheung sure can sing still.

Ah, I forgot to mention that I bought two new shirts. It's the end of the year! I can indulge a little! Then this morning I got an sms from my mother, "I just got 50% discount coupons from U2." That woke up me right away, cos I bought the shirts from U2 as well. -_- Talk about timing, man. Anyone wants to go shopping with me on Wednesday?

We all met up again after the movie, and had Mos Burger for dinner. Haha there were two funny quotes of the day:

1/ At Bravissimo (ice cream counter), and Lawyer asked LENG why she doesn't want ice cream. LENG replied, "I'm going StarBucks for coffee..." Lawyer says, "StarBucks? Boring person." And then stalked away.

2/ After movie, we were trying to decide where to eat. So someone said, "Fast food?" Lawyer: "No! I don't want fast food..." Then I said, "How about Mos Burger?" And the sister covered her mouth, looked at Lawyer from the corner of her eyes and said, "OKAY!" I tell you, we couldn't stop laughing at the expression on Lawyer's face.

All in all, a really nice day. Here's how much I spent: $14 (Ajisen) + $6.35 (Coffee treat for Kimchi) + $59 (U2) + $9.50 (Movie) + $6.70 (Mos) + $3.20 (ice cream).

Okay, just kill me now. I don't want to total it up.

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College Roomies from Hell!!! 

Kendo Camp 2005

Sorry, no pictures this time. Cos my camera ran out of batt (forgot to charge the batteries), and I was too lazy to take any pictures. Camp isn't so exciting when there are people around whom you are not close to. Last year was more fun, cos I was close to most of the people. This year, the rooms are so far apart, and there's just something missing. I don't know what, and I'm too tired to come up with a long essay about just exactly what it is.

I'm achey. I'm sleepy. I have tons of stuff to read through online. I have bruises on the weirdest places, like the little and fourth finger of my LEFT hand. My right foot hurts. My left forearm hurts. And I'm still contemplating going for training on Sunday, because I really wanna sleep innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

Survived all the training sessions, not really well, but hey, didn't take off men unneccessarily. Food was good. And I'm just randomly putting points down because I don't know what else to say le.

So tell me

So tell me people, all of those who know me in person (not virtually), what was your first impression of me? I was talking to someone last night and I was slightly surprised, although it wasn't the first time I've heard it. So please leave comments? That means you, Boon, Darren, Twinny, MadMat, Godspeed, etc. Heck, as long as you know me in real life, just tell me. Alternatively, you can choose to MSN me.

Just take it that I'm nutty because of exams, and I need to "find myself" in the midst of losing myself in my papers.

little quiz/survey thing

Because I'm still in a crappy mood, and I'm doing this before I go to sleep.


WHEN YOU LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR, WHAT'S THE FIRST THING YOU LOOK AT?
My face in general. What else should I look at?

HOW MUCH CASH DO YOU HAVE ON YOU?
Enough.

WHAT'S A WORD THAT RHYMES WITH "TEST"?
Rest.

FAVORITE PLANT?
Cactus. No, I'm just kidding.

WHO IS THE 4TH PERSON ON YOUR MISSED CALL LIST ON YOUR CELL PHONE?
My stepmom, on 29 October at 6.19pm.

WHAT IS YOUR MAIN RING TONE ON YOUR PHONE?
Currently it's some midi I composed for my Science of Music module two sems ago. At home, it is Final Fantasy something's theme song. Or when I'm studying and don't want loud noises, it's just a series of sharp beeps. And I'm not really answering the question.

WHAT SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
Racer back. BECAUSE I CAN.

DO YOU "LABEL" YOURSELF?
No. Stupid question.

NAME THE BRAND OF YOUR SHOES YOU'RE CURRENTLY WEARING?
Not wearing any shoes now. My Bata sandals got fixed, so it's Bata. Last few days out, I've been wearing my Nike shoes. Then today I wore Fox slippers. Oh wow, all branded.

BRIGHT OR DARK ROOM?
Bright room to do work in, dark room to sleep in.

WHAT WERE YOU DOING AT MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT?
Online, not studying.

WHAT WAS YOUR LAST TEXT MESSAGE YOU RECEIVED ON YOUR CELL?
"Yup..Plus e summary 4 ma3220..Thanks so much! I'll juz call ya when i get my ass down 2 skool tmr n see how la.." -from my MA3220 tutorial mate.

DO YOU EVER CLICK ON "POP UPS" OR BANNERS?
Only by accident.

WHAT'S A SAYING THAT YOU SAY A LOT?
I don't really want to rack my brain right now.

WHO TOLD YOU THEY LOVED YOU LAST?
I don't recall.

LAST FURRY THING YOU TOUCHED?
My squashy pillow.

HOW MANY DRUGS HAVE YOU DONE IN THE PAST THREE DAYS?
No clue, why don't you tell me?

HOW MANY ROLLS OF FILM DO YOU NEED TO GET DEVELOPED?
In this modern age of technology, I don't use film cameras anymore. So there.

FAVORITE AGE YOU HAVE BEEN SO FAR?
Seventeen.

YOUR WORST ENEMY?
I could say something really intellectual like, "Myself, because I am my worst enemy," or I could just put down someone's name. But I don't feel like doing either, because both ways, not really an answer.

WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT DESKTOP PICTURE?
A background I made using photoshop, with some brushes of forgotten origin.

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU SAID TO SOMEONE?
"Bye."

IF YOU HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN A MILLION BUCKS OR TO BE ABLE TO CHANGE A MAJOR REGRET?
Regret. But then again my life wouldn't be the way it is now, would it? Aiyah, all these questions that however you answer, it just seems so damn lame.

DO YOU LIKE SOMEONE?
Another trick question.

THE LAST SONG YOU LISTENED TO?
Currently listening to Seasons of Love from the musical RENT. Who wants to watch it with me?

This is possibly one of the most silly surveys I've done in a while. But I need to type before I go crazy. So there you go.

Oh yeah, before I forget, FENDY!!! OI! Oi OI!!

So completely random

If my tracker is accurate, then why would anyone want to search for http://animatedstar.blogspot.com via Google? Or things like nus kendo singapore blog define (where 'Define Your Life' is the title of my blog)? People confuse me.

Just in case Godspeed says that I don't update again, but I guess he wouldn't bother me because he's probably busy with his own exams these few weeks. Eh, grading in November, take care of your injury and come for grading!

In about two weeks, I hope that I can get the letter announcing my acceptance into the National Institute of E********. People have been asking me why I applied so early, and honestly, I don't know why either. People on Teaching Awards, Teaching Scholarships, have said to me, "You are signing your life away!" Aww, I wish I had their TA/TS's. At least I don't need to pay back my mother's CPF upon graduation. And I have spending money without resorting to giving tuition to five different kids. But ah well, we shall see next June.

You know the list of Proofs I listed a couple of entries down? I realised that I have a copy of it lying somewhere, and that I have actually seen it a few months ago. Talk about having so much online junk that you don't even know what you have.

I believe this blog is due for an image overhaul pretty soon. Perhaps one day when I get tired of studying. Do you know what's the most taxing part? It's the editing of the html. I know close to nothing about programming, and all I've done is plagarised and tweaked the html until I am somewhat satisfied with the outcome.

A good parting one-liner might be: "I need a life." However, looking back on the past few weekends, I realise that, hey, I DO have a life, just that when I'm sitting down at home, alone, on a weekday afternoon, with my damp hair turning frizzy, I feel like I have no life.

I need to start preparing to go out soon.