Monday, December 27, 2010

2010

i might have the lone post of 2010.

Monday, December 21, 2009

I am dreaming, of a white, Christmas...

Hello everybody who actually comes to this blog, I am back again! haha considering it's been more than 6 mths since I posted anything, I am sureone or two of you missed my entries to entertain you guys. I am actually at the business school (in good old cold oxford) and I am supposed to be studying! But of course i m epicly failing at doing that, and it's ok! Because I am sian and bored and a tad lonely because i have to study alone, i miss my mugging buddies of rj :(

Ok enough of depressing me, How is everyone? will be nice if u can blog here, even better if u can write me an email to spice up my depressing December. Ok la it;s not thatt bad, seeing snow is always quite fun tho the post-snow damage is quite a disaster. I hope noone else (like dani/guanghao) is getting stuck at airports or getting flights cancelled. do u know that some ppl get stuck in a tunnel from london to paris for like, 6 hrs, just because the train couldnt move because the engine breaks down? tt'slike our dearest singapore version of london eye (cant rmb wad it's called) getting jammed for 6hrs, in the dark

hai global warming. i don really know much abt copenhagen other than tt it's an epic failure, as evidenced by 8% fall in carbon permits trading. see? u know issues through financial times, so econs is actually quite a good degree, minus the saving lives part i guess. there's a gd chance i will end up working for a bank so pls dont slam me for goldman's bonuses, i kinda wish i can get that too hahahaha ok this is getting lame so i shall stop here..

i just went to look through my email account (the one tt i don check but gets council mails) and true enough the absence of poon meant no makan noobs this year! how sad right, i guess medics jus finished their exams and have a one day break so there isnt much of a moood for food trails or major meet ups. on the bright side, i will be back in er, 9 mths! haha actually i will probably work in indonesia so yeah i will make at least mthly trips to singapore, then when zhang jun is free/back since she will b back in 6mths time too, we can have major gatherings at her place again! or wadever la, pls make sure tt u try to meet me when i do come by sg, considering most of u wouldnt have seen me for like, a year?

ok back to my notes for er 30 mins before lunch time :) i m damn sad la, eating cold sandwiches because they are the cheapest and readily available options, warm meals will involve going out into the cold, which kinda defeats the purpose right? okok ciao ppl, merry christmas and happy new year 2010!! :D

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Guess who's back :D

Not in Sg unfortunately.. haha it's a pleasant surprise to come to the blog once in a while to find a picture uploaded, or a short blog entry, at least we knoe this blog is alive to some ppl and yeah considering some of u guys r going to meet e 29ths soon, it's been 4 yrs since we survived the torrids of heaven n hell :)

It's past 12am in oxford now and I just spent the day trying to mug, quite successfully i guess considering i have been playing for quite some time. spent a week in Junli's place btw but too bad boss is away at a christian conference, but yeah boss apparently did the Ra Ra Ra Ra Ffles!! on my last night hahaha miss hearing the cheers and match supports, but I guess I shd b able to hear it once in a while in 2 yrs time..

That's of course, if I end up going back to Sg. Quite sad la, i think this summer is mostly spent in Indonesia and not Sg, though I will try to come back and as usual force u guys to accomodate me in council gatherings! Any days in mind anyone? I wont mind a short trip away to Redang or smthing if Guanghao or someone plans :D

I think it's been like half a yr or more since my blog entry, so contrary to Denise's and Nat's beliefs, the blog is not mine lol i like going to read Chinghui's blog once in a while, always looking out for familar names and pictures and being lucky at times :) Ok la I think I shall go to bed, this being a subdued entry lol take care everyone! Havent received an email from any of u in absolute ages, but then again everyone's busy leading their lives hah enjoy going back to council camp and all e mini reunions at Chompx2

Wish I can be there :)

Sunday, March 15, 2009

random blog update

hello guys! heres a rare blog entry on the council blog from me... :D

anyway im now back in rj doing relief teaching (together with chengchai) and there are many changes around school, so ill post them here to update everyone who misses school haha.

anyway, the house system is well in place, and now each house has a house crest with a house animal. i dont think this part is new, but the next part is. the house crest is printed on a house flag. once a week (or maybe twice, i never really pay attention), during flag raising, the house flags will be raised alongside the singapore flag and the college flag. yes, there are now 5 poles on the parade square to the left of the singapore and college flag poles.

announcements are also no longer made at the science labs, but instead, at the level 3 empty walkway, so the students wont have to turn 90 degrees to listen to announcements, then turn back to face the flags to sing the anthem. there is a proper podium-like area constructed there now.

the lockers in the whole school are all revamped too. and now the lockers are all nice and new and coloured, according to the 5 house colours. yes, that means lockers are categorised by houses. two of the houses (if im not wrong its MT and another house) have their lockers on the first floor, outside the council room area. the remaining houses' lockers are located on the fourth floor. this arrangement can be quite unfair, and it seems to be permanent since the lockers dont seem to be movable, so i dont think theyll do a house-locker rotation kind of thing.

theres also a newly opened pond, known as the raffles biodiversity pond. (doesnt sound very original to me). haha... theres a mini waterfall and also a small wooden bridge that allows you to get close to the pond. in addition, theres a small wooden pavillion just beside the pond, for those who feel that listening to the flow of water is therapeautic or a good form of destressing.

and heres a little update about whats going on in school right now.

in school, the elections for the 29th students council is ongoing. they have completed the peer/self nomination stage, and just concluded the interviews stage. prior to the elections, there was a board set up in the canteen (placed conspicuously), featuring all the 28ths, each having a column on their own to say what council means to them. i felt that it was quite a nice idea.

anyway, as a teacher, i get to, or rather, have to write comments for all the students that i teach, and evaluate their suitability as a councillor. i teach 5 classes, so theres actually quite a lot of students that i have to evaluate. im not sure how much the teachers' comments count but it was a nice feeling to be able to be part of the elections process and to have a say in deciding who some of our future 29ths will be. there are some potential candidates from my class so i hope theyll make it through and be my great grandbuddy haha.

when school reopens in a week's time, the list of candidates that make it for campaigning stage will be released, and then there will be campaigning and subsequently the 29ths will be elected. and so, that means council camp will be coming soon too! :D

haha... hope you guys are suitably entertained by this random blog update by me!

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Happy Birthday Kwan!







Just like a natural.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Happy Birthday Amelia!



haha

Koped off Amelia's facebook albums... =)

Sunday, February 01, 2009

Charmaine's 21st




Photos by datou

Monday, December 22, 2008

Christmas Gathering 2008


Photo by datou

Venue: Lizhan's humble abode

Friday, November 14, 2008

Inter-CCA Soccer

Just to keep you guys updated, Council will be represented in the upcoming Inter-CCA Soccer competition for our 2006 batch! Hope we don't get thrashed. haha -.-''

(We need our secret weapon Nat to play for us.)

And have a great time post-ord to those who have swopped their green cards for the fashionable pink ones.

Sunday, August 03, 2008

one year on...

With the rate of responses/entries to this blog, sometimes I do wonder if anyone actually knows of its existence. But I saw some 26ths today and they remarked about my entries in the blog so at least I know that there are still people around who reads my nonsense :>

A week on a year ago, I was at pre-departure/Uk bound at Suntec city. Unfamiliar faces of the seniors, new freshers, or just generally people going to UK from all over, boring talks, freebies up for grabs... and I know I am about to move on to a new big stage of life, where everything will be so different from the comfort of the council rm ( which till this day, has thankfully retained its charm :)

After UK bound that day, I went for rag day! it's nice to be a crasher, seeing people that I always see and feeling happy about seeing them. some councilors and ppl i know were involved in medicine dance so it was quite funny seeing them all painted up etc. ended off e day with taking pictures with soem of them..

In the blink of an eye, a year has passed

I went for UK bound today, as a more experienced 2nd-year-to-be, with my 35 copies of the freshers guide to oxford. seeing people coming up, introducing themselves, asking the funniest qns, trying to be as frenly and nice as i possibly could, playing a fool and rating the girls (:P). Not much has changed, has it?

I doubt e 25ths can ever expect another Josie-planned-trip to Tioman, that's one thing for sure. All the enthusiasm about organizing council gatherings, about mass meeting ups, soccer games, begging ppl to turn up, lol, i m afraid I don't have much of that left. Maybe it';s because I am tired, maybe because I am sian, or maybe because I have lost the passion. Don't get me wrong, I love seeing the 25ths on makan noobs two, altho e driving was quite tiring. I am looking forward to charles or gh organizing another gathering when I m back in a week's time. I enjoyed my soccer game and couldnt stop laughing when gh smashed the ball against the post at least 5 times. all these moments will always be special to me :)

but somehow, mabe I am resigned, resigned to the fact that many ppl have moved on in life, and when ppl move on in life, things of the past become memories, beautiful memories, but no more than that, not smthing tt they hope to retain and make it seem as though nothing's changed, tt life is as it was, outside the council rm in e mornings where everyone gathers for a nice chat before going to class, outside the council rm again in the afternn after sch where we do random things there..

Perhaps i was too free over the 10 mths of break, that I tried to act as though leaving JC jus means a physical separation from school.

1 year on, I know that my friends have moved on iin life, without me, and I should move on in life, and stop looking back to the past... because i did throughout my time there, as much as I could, with the emails back, and now i realize, i prob wont have e energy to sustain that, or that all tt is left of council, is a gathering once in a while, when I am back hopefully :)

hao2 ma3 bu4 chi1 hui2 tou2 chao3

perhaps not the right way to use the chinese phrase, but it's time to move on, and I think i have... but as ur welfare head (:P), wherever u r, if u r feeling down, welfare's here for u! :)

Monday, June 02, 2008

just thought i will say hi to the ppl back home or all around the world and tt i miss u guys :) and i cant wait for my ego to inflate when i go back in july...

OK I M SERIOUSLY KIDDING OK! ha oh wells, i shall b humble and ask ppl out when i go back rather than making egoistical statements and incur denise's wrath graaaarrrrr

and yeah, to all those in europe, hope u r safe n sound n havign fun :) i wish i can b holidaying now too! for now, it's bed time! 2am le.

hai.. i will b back most prob on 9 july, n i hope to see as many of u guys as soon as i can, u shd know who u r :)

till then, take care and god bless :)

Monday, May 12, 2008

Dinner

10th may 2008 evening
marina square ministry of food




this photo by datou

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

28th Council Investiture

Today was the 28th Council Investiture! Girls: Xin, Amy, Amanda, Kangya Guys: Me, Koo, Guanghao, Yowie, Ilman (for a while), Bto, Kwan, Abhi my favourite indian, Datou. 13/52! That's 1/4 of the council, which is pretty impressive. I realised the sudden increase in guys this year compared to last year (if any, aherm, Josie) because we were all stuck in army. Its no surprise then that amongst the 26ths only Iwan, Jun How Alvin could make it out. The rest of the 26ths were girls.

Anyway highlights of the investiture:

1. The company of your fellow 25ths!
2. Seeing the council teachers Ms Ong and Ms Hor and various juniors.
3. Listening to the "investiture" version of the investiture song, which is different from that on youtube. And seeing the co-composer in person haha.
4. Taking the council oath again even though we've a vague impression of half the words. Can you remember the peak of our council oath prowess on the rooftop 3 years ago?
5. Singing the college anthem
6. Doing random school cheers to get high.
7. Eating free food at the reception at the amphitheatre! :D:D:D
8. Crashing of the Hodge Lodge. I tell you it is an amazing place!!!
9. Jacking Josie even though he wasn't around (oh but he is! haha, check out your facebook soon.)
10. Admiring Abhi's swanky cool, flowing locks.
11. Sitting Yowie's car to J8. (Applies to me, datou and gh and obviously yowie only)


Meeting outside the council room




Before everything starts...


Our new Raffles Mascot! :D








27ths Batch video


28ths batch song


27ths. half of the 28ths went to match support...










Vending machine which sells fruits and vegetables?! Must be some healthy lifestyle campaign thingy.


Free food at the reception.


Playstation anyone?


Mini movie theatre. The show "Little Britian" was really retarded but funny nevertheless.


Karaoke?


In our time, we had board games. Now with karaoke, wii, playstation and a movie theatre, they're sitting quitely at the corner... datou was very nostalgic about the stuff he bought.







In summary, it was a great outing! :) 25ths FTW. Though we aren't in RJ anymore, we sure had our fun times and are still having them! thanks everyone for a great day!

p.s. datou you have pics! pls post them here ok? :)

Saturday, May 03, 2008

soccer/28th invest

heys. a few 25ths played soccer today at the RJ semi-d. Yowie, Lizhan, Chas, Matt, Koo, Guang Hao and Me. The aircon in the hall was good! :) We visited the hall because the 28ths were having investiture rehearsal.

Anyway we heard that the 24ths played soccer with the 28ths and the 26/7ths or something like that last saturday... where are we in all this?! We shall have inter-council challenges again mwahaha. And do what is right once and for all. :)

Invest is at 12.30pm on Wednesday, 7th May... Lets meet at say, 11.30am+? Then we can stone about and laugh at each other and visit the canteen vendors before invest. I don't know if everyone reads this so will spam the yahoogroups with the timing and the meeting timing. :)

Saturday, April 26, 2008

hello :)

Ok I dont understand yowie's comment. is tt ur brother running for mt captain? HAHA

anyway i m sorrrryyyy boss it was my typo error: U R GG TO TOP UCL PSYCHOLOGY OKAY? hahaha it's like e worst typo error ever lol anyway, if u guys bother to tag, why dont u post an entry n update on ur life?

haha ok since this is like my blog anyway, let me tell u abt my life story! week 1 of sch has passed, i have been back at oxford for 2 weeks already, somehow it feels tt i ahve been back for longer hmmm oh wells anyway i had collections which didnt goo tooooo badly so i wont fail. wheee i was talking to one of e 2nd yrs (lizhan's bro haha) n he was like how is term gg? shd b ok rite? (he meant, will get first class rite?) ><

yeah i will get stressed soon. then again i m damn slack now, not much motivation despite msn ban. ah wells life has been good to me so far la i jus came back from singapore christian fellowship jus now n they r plannign a singapore night at some church next fri so i will b helpign out with cookin lol

OH and i THINK i shd b gg italy n germany this late june. keepps fingers so badly crossed tt it will go jus fine. i m gg to book the stuff by late next week (maxmax) and yeah then hopefully can go roadtrip too then hopefully can come by latest mid july.WHEEEE

i heard med results r out? r they? hmmm noone emailed me abt med results n all u idiot med ppl out there, with the nice exception of chinghui :), never email me after ur exams r over! wa laooo so insincere rite tsktsk too busy having fun after exams lor this is seriously unacceptable grrr oh wells none of u r visiting oxf anyway so yeah wadever lor haha ok i m being an ass as usual, cant wait for mor ehome food! i m getting sick of uk food, again

ok la i m gg to do some bedtime reading n sleep liao. ok maybe i will jus sleep since it;s almost 1am. tomo my college got ball. it's like this massive event once every 2 yrs tt cost 80 pounds which i think is damnnnn ex n i m not gg but all my college frens r so by now, i m feeling kinda regretful abt it ah wells gg to camp at another fren;s place tomo so yeah i m gg to mug tomo! hahha ok mr mugger me needs to really live up to my name n pwn the other ppl here :P

okie good night ppl. stop tagging n start blogging HERE :)

Monday, April 14, 2008

till july..

I am on the bus to oxford now and some stupid van jus crashed the bus rear window hahaha ok it was really quite lame tho not too dangerous then another bus came to give us his mirror LOL anyway..

I muz say this visit back has been rather hushed hushed and rushed etc and yeah sorry that I didnt get to meet most of u muggers out there (doesnt help tt my break timing is one of the worst arnd eh) but yeah to those whom I saw/smsed, it's nice even to message ppl hahaha esp since it;s so ex to sms in uk (one sms costs 30cents :S) so yeah hope everyone is doing alright!

ok shall keep this one short because i m quite tired anyway oh I jus saw JUNLI! haha she's become more ditsy! (ok i don knoe how to spell tt but yeah) hahaha damn funny la our dear boss! Boss is gg to study harder than me so tt she cant top ucl psych :D:D anyway i m banning myself from msn this term so yeah always welcome mails to my inbox :D:D

TC!

Welfare!

Sunday, April 06, 2008

a light at the end of the tunnel (a mini one :P)

I have finally figured out what the stupid rumors were about....

On 20 march, presumably the day when the first year medicine councilors ended their first bout of exams, josie aka me went to meet up with a grand total of 1 person. i mean, ONE PERSON. surprise surprise, it's a girl! wohooo! just one on one le. he's self declared chairman of her fan club somemore n he's plannign to take it international u know.... ok enuff of the nonsense, I asked one of my closest frens out becuz she, who happens to be our prom queen, was only free tt day and i was gg back to indon the next day. don't any of u stupid guys have close female frens huh?

And now for the origins of the rumors which i don knoe came out from where ( SCH u better justify urself), on that fateful day, I took the bus down to borders library because dearest zain was looking at books there (thankfully i didnt find her at anatomy section lol) and at borders I saw licia and amy and random ppl here n there! AHA!! so after 2 days of jacking (even coming from jerry my classmate!!! how the hell does such weird rumors spread? n even if it';s the case-which i will jus to prove my point the next tiem i come back, wads wrong? HAHA) I FINALLY FIGURED OUT that only askign the medicine girls out = seeing the girls in borders...

so.. the grand total of councilors i have met goes as follows (met means seeing for like 5 mins on the streets lol):

Girls: zain, licia, amy, dani, charmaine, xinling
boys: guanghao, jonny, matt, senthil, poon, charles, wesley

haha guess wad, guys beat girls! lol even i m impressed by myself.

haha anyway! round 2 aka final round of battle for medicine is next week, in which unfortunately i will noe be there to wish u guys good luck becuz i will be slogging it out back in the cold SNOWY (WTH LA i come back then it snowed there ><) city before coming back again in july, where we must have our council outings n soccer games ok? so yeah, i will ban myself from msn other than maybe my bday AHEM AHEM and yeah drop me a mail or facebk message if u r vbisiting me, which i know u idiots wont. sians. kk i m off to do some studyign haha take care ppl!

Saturday, April 05, 2008

forgive and forget...

hello i think this blog has never seen such a flurry of activity and i think this will turn out to be a dialogue between 2 but i do hope not.

yes we shall be kind and forgive you la haha (i speak on behalf of the medicine guys who felt snubbed, especially on the 20th of march 2008)

have been thinking of organising one of those saturday morning soccer sessions as usual. but it'll have to be after the 17th of april and you'll have to still be in singapore! which you will have to confirm.

and to prove that this jacking game never ends...

"I have guai guio zi xin! (wait a min tt makes it sound like i m guilty but wadever la)" --> Its gai guo not guai guio! =P

A case for defence (a bigggggg casee)

OK let me start by saying this: I am sooo happy to see entries here! hahaha finally after maybe 10 times to clicking back to this site, i see an entry! :D:D:D hahaha ok as for my defence, and a bloody big one, I have met up with guanghao charmaine n xinling who bother to make e effort to meet me! Dr Sia, wad is the probability tt u will bother to meet me huh u r totally drowned in ur studies tt u prob don even knoe tt i m back before I sent u A MESSAGE! HA! DEFEND URSELF! haha n i have met kwan in church, meeting chas n hopefully matt after church, i have met senthil on a one-on-one date tooo! and opther than dat for the past 1.5 weeks, i have been an incredibly guai boy and been chauffeuring my parents arnd (and not getting excited over the p plate- in fact my 2nd sis got quite sian of the thing (my 5th sis uses it haha) tt she took off the triangle :P:P

Anyway i really hope tt the guys can meet up to play soccer, but what are the chances rite.. sigh see see I wanna meet up with the guys lor but u guys r just so busy n not want to meet me, what to do? hahaha and in college, i hang out with guys 100% of the time u know! even if got girls, it's a big grp le! I have guai guio zi xin! (wait a min tt makes it sound like i m guilty but wadever la) but u see, the moment i say this, u stupid idiots will go on the opposite extreme n jack me again, so why bother to defend myself against such blasphemy (ehh new vocab :P)

anyway as to all u muggers out there, i rmb abt 13 nus medicine students so to (starting from the guys) abhi bryon kwan hanloong jonny koo ced ilman sch zain xinyi amy licia (ok pls don kill me if i missed anyone by mistake) GOOD LUCK!!!! and special hi goes out to the ppl who will prob check this i.e KANGYA: too bad u r prob too busy to meet me but it's ok kbox is a must in july! to JUNLI: see u on sunday! to JUST (actually i m jus guessing becuz u posted smthing before haha): hope the next 4 weeks pass by sooon! to YOWIE: y did u run away to india???????? to WESLEY: hope army's not eaten u up too much! to DAtou: stop advertizing for ur agency all the time!

haha ok i m rambling. i m supposed to ahve slept at 633pm uk time i.e 133 am singapore time! if not i cant wake up tomo ><><) so yeah email me if u r free tho this time round I will be quite busy. if u r coming to oxf, which u stupid idiots wont >< loook for me :P i will have lunch with u! n if u r lucky, i will bring u to punting! that means rafting with a technique haha as long as u don fall into the waters i.e i collapse the raft, we shd be fine :P

yawns. ok good night.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Post 101

Yowie wrote the 100th post.

I was in school today, to play some soccer and I decided to walk around RJ and pop by the council room also. There were 2 people in it, people whom I didn't know but know now. Shu Ting and Genevieve, if that's how you spell their names. Today happened to be council camp dry run day and they were also settling council elections stuff. Council campaigning started last friday! Its going on next week too, so you can see groups of people putting up banners and destroying the school with posters.



Miss the days when we'd just hang around the council room doing nothing. You know, Hwa Chong has this students' council gathering thing organised by the current council. Its some event where all the councillors come together to meet up. As in many batches come together at once. I think its a swell idea. How can we lose out!! =)

Oh yes, council camp this year is from the 11th - 13th of April. It seems to have been pushed forward by one week compared to the past few years. (Two days before biochemistry!!! argh.)

To josie: rumour has it that you went out with the girl 25ths and not with the guys in when you were in Singapore!!! defend yourself.

Happy mugging my medicine friends, have fun at army to the guys and to the girls at school, um, happy mugging (includes josie).

=)