MARIA SHARAPOVA LIVE!!

HEYHEYHEY, EVERYONE! GUESS WHERE VAL JUST CAME FROM?

maria sharpova live exhibition.

WOOHOO! That's what I'm talkin' about, babyy! Gosh, it was soooo cool. Like ever seen the ball go swooshing back and forth in a split-split-split-split-split second? SO SCARY, no kidding.

No, I did not buy a ticket. Jie got it free cause their B Div' won first, and there was extra, so I got one! YAY (: You people are jealous, I know ittt. But don't be, I'll try to show you pictures! Well, except I have no idea how to load them in here. Sorry :(

Anyway, the score was 6-0, 7-6 (11-10) :O :O :O to Sharapova of course. But I wanted Chakvetadze to win (actually I just wanted her to win the second set so that we could stay longer and watch moreee!) Up to now, I still can't pronounce Anna's surname right. Hahaha.

You know right now, I'm still so overwhelmed. I still can't believe I watched sharapova live! Did you know, did you know that ...

a) Chakvetadze was robbed in her own home a few days before she was due to arrive in Singapore?

AND THAT.

b) Sharapova's luggage was missing (I'm thinking some one stole it and is selling it on Ebay for billions this moment), and Nike at wheelock had to open their shop for half an hour for her, just so she could pick out an attire? (And her clothes today were sort of EWW. Her skirt was high and it looked a bit 1970's-ish, and her top was a plain dark purple collared shirt. ARGH, is Singapore's Nike that sad?)

Mann, Anna could have won the second set okay! There were like 3 or 4 matchpoints = 3 or 4 chances for her to level :( But no, she decided to let sharapova beat her up. Oh well, well done Anna Chakvetadze! And I still love you sharapova :D

Today was an incredible day and shimin was a good linesman, shouting so loud! and there were no corrections, hahaha! I really hope sharapova and chakvetadze enjoyed Singapore and come back every year! When will Federer ever comeee? HAHAHA, in my dreams. The cheapest ticket would probably be ten thousand dollars or something, hahaha.

I LOVE TODAY! And tomorrow is new years eve! AHHHH! so scary. a whole new year, a whole new 365 days! WHOOOO, SPOOKAY. So just in case I don't blog in the next 2 days, I'd like to wish y'all a

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

- filled with love, peace, joy happiness, and whatwhat - prosperity and fortune? Haha. Have a fabulous ohEIGHT, everyone!

be my escapee.

Ooh, just had my shower - in darkness. Yup, literally - dark (well, accept for the candles). One of the bathroom's lights is sort of spoilt - it keeps flickering non-stop, which hurts my eyes. And I can't off that one and turn on the other, cause they're both controlled by the same switch -.- So I had to bathe with candles lighted by the bathtub. Though I can't really see much, I'll admit it is pretty cool to bathe in the dark ;)

Yes, I could have bathed when there was sunlight. But I was out the whole afternoon. Clique outing today! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE! To Escape!! Gosh, it was fun!

So I met Lisakoh at Toa Payoh Hub. Well actually, we met in 105 (not scheduled). The real schedule was to meet at twelve at TPH. But I guess we were both a little late. What good (and exact) timing we have! Hahaha. We lunched at Sakae which cost a lot though we didn't eat pretty much - 35 bucks for the two of us (service charges + GST was 17% in total :O).

We met the others at the platform (and Grace + Kelly were late.. they blamed band, haha). So Grace, Kelly, Natasha, Ping En, Pearlene, Lisa and I set off for City Hall station before changing line to Pasiris.

Finally reached our destination at three (an hour behind schedule). & we only started queuing up for rides at four cause the queues (to enter) were loooonggg (though today's a Thursday). So we got 'warmed up' with the spaceship-shuttle-cup thing, while I quite unsuccessfully told Lisa, Natasha, and Pearlene my (very funny) joke.

Next stop, the Inverter :D:D:D We queued up for one hour, or more? We lost track of time. It looked really scary, and Nut and I were freaked out. In fact, we had half a mind to jump out of the queue and take the less scary rides, but we didn't (thank goodness!). After waiting for what seemed like eternity, we were all pretty restless, having been chatting, constantly sitting down and getting up, chatting, playing the thumb game, chatting, armwrestling, and chatting, it was our turn at last.

We climbed into our seats, Nut and I feeling nervous and uneasy, and sat down reluctantly, awaiting our doom. Much to our surprise, the ride was a blast! It wasn't as scary as Space Mountain! As that gigantic machine made those 360 degree turns, we screamed at the top of our lungs, which made us feel gooddd (: And when it turned upside down, hanging downwards, parallel to the ground, I felt my feet lift off from the floor of my seat and for a moment I thought they were going to fall down due to gravity and hit me square on my face. Thankfully, the safety bars did a good job in preventing that from happening (phew!). I stopped thinking about that, and focused on the upside-down view. It was so cool, I could see the trees and lots of colourful little things. That 5 seconds lasted a pretty long time. Even as I recall the ride, I begin to feel just a teensy bit dizzyish. The Inverter was awesomeee. Thrilling, freaky but fun (: It was the highlight of my day :D

To Lisa: I guess I don't have to kill you. It was indeed worth the wait (:
To Kelly: Maybe I'll give you part of my money in my will; for keeping your promise that Nut and I would live. HAHA :D & I didn't get your joke this afternoon but it made me laugh when no one laughed. Tell me the joke again next time cause I didn't really hear it, haha :D

After that, we took our last ride - some kiddie roller coaster ride, that was still really fun, though not as fun as the inverter of course! The queue was much faster cause it was much shorter, and the ride was pretty short too.

We collected our stuff from the lockers and bought food from BK before Lisa, Pearlene and I cabbed to TPH (Nut and Pinkie took MRT and Kelly and Grace left earlier).

I had a lovely day today, and it's all thanks to you guys! YOU MADE MY DAY!

CHRISTMAS 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO

EMMANUEL(God-with-us),

OUR LORD, JESUS CHRIST!

Hey, hey, hey everyone! It's THE DAY, the day we've all been waiting for!

I'd just like to say a great, big, ginormous, fantastic, wonderful, delightful, enjoyable, awesome, lovely, spectacular, beautiful

HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL :D

Wheeeeee! So, so, so excitingggg... Waiting for the guests to arrive! & I'm coughing cause of all the funny(but yummy)-smelling mixture of all the delicious [FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD!]

It's such a pretty day! When I look out of my window at botanicgardens, I see many malay and indian people who are hopefully enjoying this bright, sunny day! Hahaha, guess they aren't Christians.

Last night, we were supposed to go for midnight mass at St. Ignatius. But my sister and I were so against it, cause we wanted to go to our own parish - ST. BERNADETTE!! We were having dinner at crystal jade (Holland V.) at like 10.30, and then I (VERY SMARTLY) went to call up 100 and asked for the st. ignatius number. & guess what? Turned out christmas mass on christmas eve was 8.30pm and 11pm. Yes, so we got our wish! To St. Bernadette's it was :D (thank you, thank you, it's all thanks to mua! kidding..) We were enterntained by the children's caroling and that solo girl was pretty good - the all I want for christmas is you song. Went back home to open christmas presents and finally turned in at three.

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Party's over, folks :( Christmas at our place was lovely, though I'm still really used to christmas at Porpor's. The "kids" (most are above 12) were like playing boardgames in my room, while the adults were (I don't know what they were doing, cause we were too caught up in our life) I guess, doing whatever adults do. After our game of life (which was sooooo funnnyyy and jie won >:( whateverr), it was kid's lunch (the adults eat first), and then opening presents timeee (: Pretty much to my satisfaction, I received new brown birks, wallet, women's secret floral bag (I use? haha...), books, vouchers, don't remember what else..

Had dinner downstairs earlier, and am watching CLICK which is really funny and not to mention beyond weird. Hate the part when it all turns out to be a dream, but it's true they couldn't leave it ending so terribly. Whatever it is, the show's real good. Still have Devil Wears Prada <3.

Aww man. I'm so sad, I just saw the cable tv clock; it says 00:00 :( nooooo, christmas is over. Wow, just a mere 365 days to the next christmas. But true enough, despite the fact that that was said in sarcasm, I bet christmas will be here again practically tomorrow, just how it feels like each year. Still, thinking about all this,

WHYWHYWHY? Why must time whizzz past ever so fast? We don't even have the time to remember, to store those happy memories in our heads, before it's all taken away from us, before it's all over! School's starting in a week, and I'm one unhappy kid. I mean, just look at it this way, and maybe you'll understand;

We've been lighting up the pretty-in-purple advent candles at each eucharistic celebration for the past month, looking forward to christmas since - forever, putting up the gorgeous christmas tree, doing christmas shopping, wrapping gifts really beautifully, preparing everything for sooo long! And now, after 24 fun-filled BUT short hours, christmas is gone? Yes, I know there are 12 days of Christmas. But 25 December is officially over! Right now, it's the 26th!

If only Christmas day lasted 9829734089145 hours :) That'd be really wonderful. But it's not, so I'm just moving on, getting over the 'horribleness' of it all, accepting the saddenning fact, that christmas is O.V.E.R. Though thinking about it now, when I feel slightly calmer, I realise what I really don't want to be over was that lovely family gathering, when all of us were together, all happy-happy.

To those who were in good moods before reading this: Sorry I might have destroyed that mood, and left a dark, black, overhanging cloud above your heads.

And to those who were in not-so-great moods: Sorry if I had taken away what little happiness was in you, and it's nice to know there are some who feel the same way.

I MISS CHRISTMAS :(

back from shanghai

GREETINGS, PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. I AM SO BACK (:

Okay, I shall talk about Shanghai -

Yup, it's winter there now - COLDDDD. brrrr.

& I so need to report this: Shanghai is like ultra dirty. and dusty. All the cars were coated with layers and layers of dust - GROSS :( & the people there kahpui-ed all over the streets. Plus, their roads are so disorganised - cars, motorbikes, bicycles and people, all moving together on the roads. And all these were supposedly much better improved than before. That just makes me wonder how much worse it could have been..

Besides that, I guess there's nothing else bad about the place. All their famous places for tourists to visit were really nice (at least those areas were cleaner) like their gardens and water villages and the Bund.

But whatever. It sure is great to be back in Singapore (: (except it's frickin HOTTAAA :O)

Oh yes. I bought souvenirs for the clique :D (they're all pretty cheena but I was in China so sorry if they're not your kind of thing, hahaha.) And WHAT THE. YOU GUYS ARE GOING SENTOSA TOMORROW?! - I doubt I can go :(:( I got that from Lisa's blog (I read every post I missed (: ) - & speaking of chrismas cards, I'm not done with mine :O

Oh dear. Is it too late to send them?? I'm so dead. Only finished SIX :O Whatever, I'm still sending them. Better late than never right? Whoopsiedoo. I forgot about addresses. Okay, I'd better finish up with my cards FAST.

It's been quite a hectic day and I know I am exhasted but it's not affecting me much. I have to go to bed in 15 minutes (lest I kill myself in training tomorrow) but then again, I know that is pretty unlikely to happen.

1. I woke up in the morning and helped my sister paint her toenails, and then painted my own.
2. Left the house at 12.30 for school, with my sister accompanying me, where I collected Flowers for Algernon from the bookshop, and then walked to Toa Payoh Hub.
3. Had a very snappy Subway sandwich before I had to leave my sister and go back to school.
4. Was walking awfully fast (and I know all that meatball sandwich was jumping around in my stomach). Finally reached the fourth floor of the science block and entered the computer lab, only fifteen minutes late.
5. We watched the 5-minute video and then tried starting on something (in vain). Tsi Yuan ended up showing us weird youtube videos like the Thai Cheers adverts and the bangla singing In The End.
6. Walked to the interchange with Crystal and took two buses to Balmoral Plaza for chinese tuition. Finished up that zuo wen with Wei Chi (:
7. Got back home and watched tv, had dinner. & now mum and dad are back home!

Another busy day ahead. Still have yet to pack for Shanghai, but it's so difficult to, only because I don't really want to go there. And by the time I get back, it'll be Christmas. And it will be the beginning of another school year.

OH! A rather scary thing happened today - I nearly lost my phone :O And very coincidentally, my sister just lost hers yesterday at that Japanese restaurant. & so I was thinking how we would both be in such deep, deep poop when mum and dad came back. But really thankfully(xie tian, xie di), I had left it at the lab and Ms Nee had kept it for me. PHEWW.

You pretended you didn't see.

i am not in a very blogging mood now.
i shall keep this one really simplified.
i shall type in randomly whatever comes to my mind.
i love porpor forever & ever.
i need to find my place in this world.
i feel like weaving.
i am trying to make myself look forward to shanghai.
i can't wait for christmas.
i don't like the weather now.
i hope jiejie recovers soon.
i realise i am in a thinking-about-thinking mood...
ooh! i just realised i started every line with an 'i'
AHH. except that one, and this one!
i am making myself weird.
i wish for peace and love especially in the season of christmas.

i am sorry if the colours annoyed you.
i just felt like brightening this boring post.

THE JOY. Come, sing, rejoice with me!

Val's done with math homeworkeee (: Finally. One of the lasts to complete it but heck, what matters is that it's done and I can probably put it away till the end of the holidays (except I got like four questions wrong :O - I think it's the answers..) & I used only 9 sheets of fullscap! (considering I squeezed & squashed my working, but it's still pretty neat anyhow!)

Though it's such a depressing day (not me, it's the weather), I am unusually free, floating, joyous HAPPY (: I guess it's the feeling-accomplished sort of happy, which often disappears as quick as it comes. LIKE ZAP! & now, I feel the happiness slurped out of me, zipped-zapped and a POOF! --- gone. Hah, oh well. I guess I shall have to think of more self-satisfying jobs to do to get that wondrous feeling back in me (;

Oh yes, one more accomplishment, though not as big as math - completed book: Warriors - Starlight, my love. What a great ending.. Mudclaw - DEAD! & what's more, he didn't die as a loyal warrior, fighting to his death to protect his clan. Oh no, he died more spectacularly in fact - struck by lightning (indirectly). I never liked him - that rude, ignorant, power-thirsty brat of a cat >:( & wow, I never thought Leafpool + Crowfeather clicked a bit! Who would have guessed. Such a pity, pity, pity - Leafpool being a medicine cat (can't get into that sort of relationship) & an excellent one, too.

Okay now, on to Warriors: Twilight. & I'd better get Sunset quick. Can't wait for the new series! the Power of Three :D

Wow val, it's been ages since you last posted but whatever. I'm posting now, aren't I? Okay, stop talking to yourself! Gah, I really have to stop talking to myself. I bet if Pinky were reading this now, she would hammmer me (cause I talked to myself too much in Perth already). Anyway, I'm currently listening to this song on 98.7 and I promise, promise, promise I hear that lady singing: won't you come over, Valerayayayay, Valerayyy (over and over again) - like that's the chorus. Boy, it's such a catchy song and she keeps saying my name :D:D Okay rewindd a littleee...

So I came back on thursday. & Mum and Dad and Jie were there waiting for me at the arrivals (: Had dinner at Delifrance & then home. Aunty Margaret & Uncle David visited us that night before returning to Melbourne & we had another dinner - home-made fried rice - the stickyish way I love (:

Friday was chinese tuitionn for really longg & Dad picked me up to go to toapayoh, where Grace was going to pass me my band concert ticket. & after I collected my ticket and we were on the way home, Dad asked why I had bought the band ticket before telling him, which stunned me a little & for that moment, I thought Dad was pissed at me for not asking permission first. Instead, he asked whether I could get any more tickets. Wah, so phewww. & I had to call Grace to ask if she knew anyone with more tickets. So we got 3 more tickets (:

Stayed home the whole Saturday afternoon, where I started Math homework - very slow, I know (that totally rhymes!) Mum wanted to visit Porpor before going for the concert & Dad was taking a nap. So we (Mum, Jie and I) took a cab to Porpor's place.
Dad picked us up from there at 7 and we went to school for the band concert. IJ main band was awesome! I was smsing Lisa and we agreed to meet during the intermission. So later on, we all sat together (Peiqi, Melissa, Lisa and I). The junior band did a great job too and I recognised like half of the junior band - cheryl, kelly, beatrice, grace, chienwen, chinyen, grace a, kimberly... We were so boiling in the heat and Lisa and Peiqi kept passing Lisa's jacket back and forth. & Melissa and Lisa were constantly passing messages to each other through me (when they could already hear each other well enough). Lisa did not have enough uh, emotion, according to Melissa. hahaha. What idoits :D HAHA & Melissa missed me and my singing awww. All in all, the concert was a blasttt. Well done both IJ BAND & St. Margs band :D

Went for 11am mass on Sunday. Had lunch at Great World. I shall not talk about the old man with the pram HMPHH >:( Went home, where Godma & Godpa were dropping Porpor off. We drove to CentrePoint with Porpor cause she wanted to shop with Mum. Had dinner with Porpor and Gonggong (Chilli Crab was good and HOT!) & I ate too much.

This morning, Dad left for Clang (spl?) Sad :( & Mum'll be going to KL on saturday morning :( & when they come back on monday, we'll have to get ready for Shanghai :(:(:( on wednesday. Not quite looking forward to Shanghai - it's CHINA! & have I not mentioned, Shanghai for TEN days? AND it's winterrr (minus degrees to 12 degrees I think). Not only that, it's so cold and there's not even going to be snoww :(:( Like what's the point of winter if there's no snow?! Wish me luck. Chinese tuition later. Awman, no one to fetch me :( Why am such a poor, depressing child? :(

Home alone on a gloomy monday.

Can't stand it! Someone come comfort my poor lonely and depressed soul.