went for OPSS staff meeting today at 0830. so early. when school starts it'll be even earlier. yawn. so daddy dropped me off at AMK and i made my way to khatib then walked to OPSS. i was freagin early and just sat around like some spare idiot while everybody else was hee hee ha ha - ing around me. that's what u get fer being new. PLUS all the relief teachers already seemed to be like friends..so left me la. spare like shit. and i got communication prob with people. pamela, the other art teacher was chattin with me, and i'm like mono answer : "yes" , "no". what the hell is wrong with me. it's quite farnii..

yes the meeting dragged on for FIVE HOURS. hallelujah!

after that went to NY to see ms lye. waited fer her to transfer portfolio pics into my thumbdrive and to print out my SYF prep to check. sat around and chatted with xinli fer a while...lalalala....waited fer him to finish uppp....fer a long time...then finaly left at round 1545 or so. andre was still there when we left. he was very quiet and looked down. cheer up man...can confide in me lurh.

yea. then went to see janice, sara, yingle and winnie at cineleisure!!! oh...long time since i've seen yingle and winnie. they look the same. =P that's good. i dun like change. but they looked good and were stilll extraordinarily friendly. shall tag along on all field trips with them from now on. =) it was fun...though at time there were 'LONG AWKWARD PAUSES' (as quoted from..somebody). ate dinner and went home at 1815 around there.

twas a long day. plus my shoes were killing me.









christmas really din feel like christmas this year. and i wonder why people keep saying 'Xmas'. i mean, it's CHRISTmas rite? i duno whether it's cos of some atheist thing, or for people who celebrate christmas with the tree and everything but yet dun believe in god. personally, i feel that when people say 'Xmas' it's like cancelling away the 'christ' in christmas, so it becomes like 'X'mas. *shrugs

papa. struggling to open his gift.

eldest gor got a shirt.

second gor got a shirt.

it's just so hard to get stuff fer guys lor. seriously. so just buy em clothes.

mama got a check from my dad! wonder how much?!??!?!

haha. my brother said it was super unromantic. haha. dad's reply? try getting present for the same person for 30 years and u'll noe how hard it is to be creative. in all honesty...i think the check fer a gift was pretty creative. =)

dad finally got his present open. ARSENAL JERSEY!!!!! woot!

ok, this picture really has nothing to do with anything. just thought it was damn gross and unglam. =)

my bro is playing santa claus this year. he bought fer a whole bunch of ppl. spent like 100 dollars plus on an arsenal jersey fer my dad. =) i think my dad will like it. haha. wonder what he got fer me...that's probably the only gift that he'd have to wrap himself. since i'm not allowed to look at it.

so time to make a christmas wish:

that i will get accepted into goldsmith college in the UK and that i'd get the MOE teaching scholarship fer art.

i think i've caught on to god's plan fer me. like, when i had no intention of taking up relief teaching this hols and was waiting to get into DBS, god was like all "NO!!! you have to get experience in teaching so that u'll have more to say for the scholarship interview and they'd have more reason to give it to u! so here, i'm forcing u take this job at OPSS whether u like it or not!" so yes..i'm going to be a relief teacher through god's handywork. and he'll help me be good at it. it kinda makes sense to me. an overseas art course really seems like the best education option fer me right now. cos i really have no clue what i'd do if i stayed in singapore. so yea...i hope i'm right.

really looking forward to studying aboad, get away from singapore fer a while and from other bothersome things. it's suffocating just thinking bout all the SHIT that has been going on lately. need to get away. need to forget. need to breakaway. completely. forever.

i reached farrer park mrt station and to my horror saw 2 ppl there that ii did not expect. i was under the impression the whole time that itt was a bbq just fer the J2s, but well. guess not. wonder why it was not mentioned to me at all. but i guess it was more a farewell party fer ms lye so all had to be there i assume. to tell u the truth i would have NOT come at all if i had known. fer certain reasons which i'm sure lots of u all already noe about, but which of course i'm not at liberty to put down in black and white.

there were already PEOPLE there when we reached. we were bloody late. waiting fer xinli and all. haha. a bit awkward at first when certain AAs, well, were AA-ing. but integrated smoothly later on. =) my ability to ignore is stronger than i thought! what can i say bout the bbq, we sat, we ate, we drank, and we cooked. we then spent a lot of time sittin around chattin. elvis was playing some lame question game with us. kinda fun actually. it went like, someone would ask another something like:

would you rather sleep with an 80 year old man or wear only lime green fer the rest of your life?

of course i chose lime green.

yea, so there'd we a series of these kinda crazy questions. and u had to choose one or the other. elvis asked most of em. really couldn't think of anything to ask at the time. but of course when the question, ''if u were a les and had to date any of the J1s, who would it be?", came out, i swear i puked a little in my mouth. wonder if that was some kind of test.

so anyway. some pics of the bbq so enjoy.

precious J2s

went up to ms lye's house at the end of it all. very minimalist. haha. but nice. saw some of her art work. super pro. some of the sketches in her sketchbook really remind me of esther's work. hmmmm.....prodigies are all alike. very nice. we then took a group photo. couldn't get everybody's eyes to be open at the same time so we just took one where all of our eyes were closed! but of course, one person still managed to have his eyes open. great group shot! need i say why i think it's so great?






















during our meal, i got 'xinli possessed' and started taking lots and lots and lots of shots of sL and sY, cos it was convenient. (since they were sittin opposite me) managed to get bunch of super unglam ones. so now i dedicate this next section to sL and sY...enjoy. =D

bian tai sL wants to grab somebody's...(fill in the blanks)

no comment.

my favourite unglam shot fer the day

ain't it great to catch all these candid moments of ppl. and then blackmail them with em. no wonder xinli likes it so much. so after seoul garden we walked round marina square a bit till all the shops started to close. sad...saw lotsa nice stuff that i would've bought if i weren't so freagin broke. *cries

at least shang bought herself new shoes cos the ones she was wearing broke. she said another pairs of hers broke not too long ago also.

i think her feet has teeth.

went ta phuket, thailand, from 11th to 14th dec. just came back yesterday. i have a problem saying phuket now, cos if u just twist the pronunciation a lil' bit around, cos u all noe that 'ph' can be pronounced as an 'f', so u noe, it turns a lil' wrong. if u noe what i mean. 'phuk'-et? *winks. it's all russel peters fault. he influenced me with his stupid video on the tsunami.

so anyway we started off to CHANGI AIRPORT at around 6 in the morning. i love changi airport. it smells nice and is so clean. it's soooo puuuuuurty. smack!

hammock - NOT comfortable

played a lil' pool on a snooker table.. -.-''

a lil channel thing which we went through on the ferry. sooo purrrtty.

stupid shot with my brother at sunset

mama, papa. inspirational hor..

view of the hotel at night

outside the rooms

rode the jet skis!!! me and my bro's fav. activity. they allowed you to go as far out as u want and anywhere. as long as u came back in the specified time. we rode all the way to the otherside of the lagoon. the water was so clear u could see right through it.

pool

i think we drank cocktails every single day. i got a lil' high from drinking my 'maitai' too quickly

spaghetti at the hotel's italian restaurant

view from the plane on flight home

touched down in singapore at rround 2030 singapore time. we saw the A380 sky bus!!! is that what it's called??? duno. but dun matter. it was HUGE. would really really really like ta sit on that plane. it's gigantic. so cool. once again, i'm totally biased towards singapore airlines. =)) haha. at arrival hall, my brothers got called aside to have their bags checked. security so tight and apparently they look like possible terrorists. probably cos of one if their bags which seriously looked like a bomb bag. like those commercials u see on the mrt where they say if u see this kinda bag lyin around must report. ya, his bag looked like one of those bags. super hilarious. he got stopped in phuket also. lol.

anyway. glad to be home.

all she needs to do is wear some sunglasses and dye her hair blue and she'll be all set. also had her carry around the PINK and white bag that came along witht he shirt. she looked damn girly fer once. =)


after that we went to watch enchanted. again
i was the only one who had watched it, so since there was nothing better to watch, it's ok. just watch again lor. i just bought lotsa stuff to eat to entertain myself. during the movie there was this damn rude person behind me and sihui please. she took off her shoes and put them on the arm rest there. goodness lo.


so after movie we then made our way down to clarke quay to meet the rest of our class. we were late and they were all waiting. i think they were pissed with us or somethin. lucky it was one big group of us who were late. if not sure gana beaten up. we went to 'mindcafe' where u can go and eat and play board games together. what i dun like bout the place is the seats. they are bloody uncomfortable, specially for people with long legs please. like me. lol. not funny. and it's super hard to find a game that all 18 of us could play together. firstly because the tables were arranged laterally, so couldn't really see what was going on in the middle fer those at the side. second, there aren't many games which can cater to 18 ppl.

zinc sucking

examining sihui's mole

super super unglam

it's a girl? it's a boy? it's shiuzee

the outing was fun, but pretty bust. not really close to the rest of my class other than my clique. dun actually talk to them actually. i think i might be antisocial. *shrugs. but anyway, had my share of laughs fer the night. our clique left earlier cos i had to get home early, same with po and shiuzee. i love my clique. <3

leaving for phuket tomorrow morning

bye everybuddy.

my gor is home from Osaka, Japan. he left late on tueday night (while i was at grad night) and came home in the evening today. he went with his supposed 'gf', her family and a nother friend. i think it's so weird that he's going on holidays with her and her family when we haven't even seen or met her b4. so yea. parents finally met her today anyway finally. she's pretty i think. and slightly shorter than my brother so that's good. cos he's kinda short as well. shorter than me anyway. poor guy. he brought back tond of stuff too. mostly food. jap crap. but he did bring back sake and ice wine. yum. i'm all alcohol crazy.

watched 'enchanted' today finally. with shangyi and seow ling. was rummagin around the house with my mum ta find daily bread and christian books and stuff fer sara's mum. was almost late for our 1130 meetin, but made it in good time bah. =) the show was acceptable. not one of those type that i'm like all hyper over, but not as bad as how my mum advertised. she absolutely hated it. and sL and sY kept laughin at it the whole time and i really din get what was so funny. mebe they were laughin at how overly drama and lame it was. *shrugs

so after the movie we waltzed around looking fer presents fer certain people, whose birthdays are coming up soon. *snigger. until 3 o'clock! which is when we can get BUFFET at sakae! that was our idea of lunch AND dinner joined together. but of course i got hungry at around 2100, so we went for supper at chomp chomp. ate fried oyster, my favourite...but it sucked there.



After sakae, sL and sY came back to my house ta play sims. haha. so lame. we created a family consisting of sY and the mama and me and sL as the kids. i was the girl kid and sL was the boy kid.

cathleen

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turning 20 this 12th July

ARTIST

desperately seeking
FREEDOM
PURPOSE
LIFE

lament.

maybe in some other time
some other place

inspire.

though we travel the world over the find the beautiful
we must carry it with us or we find it not

the sky.

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a perfect paradox of constancy and change
always there but never the same

i love.

family
buddie baby
precious friends

LONDON

i must down to the seas again
to the lonely sea and sky
and all i ask
is a tall ship and star
to steer her by

talk to me.

i carry your heart.

e.e. cummings

i carry your heart with me
i carry it in my heart
i am never without it
anywhere i go you go,
my dear;
and whatever is done
by only me
is your doing,
my darling

i fear no fate
for you are my fate,
my sweet
i want no world
for beautiful you are my world,
my true
and it's you are
whatever a moon
has always meant
and whatever a sun
will always sing
is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
here is the root of the root
and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky
of a tree called life;
which grows higher
than the soul can hope
or mind can hide
and this is the wonder
that's keeping the stars apart.

i carry your heart
i carry it in my heart

angels.

cheng hong
claudyne
esther
inn poh
janice
joan
kai ying
mandy
seow ling
sara
serene
shangyi
sook chan
tze yin
xian min
xinli
zhixin

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Love is patient,
love is kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast,
it is not proud.

It is not rude,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes,
always perseveres.

love never fails


Corinthians 1:4-7

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