Graduation

The title of this post is actually inaccurate because we won't be graduating until we've completed our 'A' levels and confirmed that we don't need to retake them. Sad but true. Today was just our farewell assembly but it felt like we were going to school for the last time. :'( I really can't imagine not waking up before the sun rises every morning and not seeing my classmates everyday. I've become so used to the routine that I have taken for granted all the people who make my days brighter than they otherwise would be. Picture spamming time!                  

With Bel!

We got free Red Bull haha!

Candid polaroid taken by Kelvin lol

Farewell cards for Bel and Rena. (Don't judge my artistic talents k)

With Cheryl!

        With Van and Rou Hui!

The Tenacious Turtles!! DARE6 was one of the most fun and fulfilling events that I took part in in VJC and I'm so glad that it allowed me to grow closer to Cheryl, Vanessa and Ginkee. It's definitely an experience I'll never ever forget! (Apologies for the blur photo)

With my beloved PW group! Really really miss working with them! Thank you guys for all the hard work you put into the project and for never complaining, you're the best group I could ask for :) [Again, sorry for the blur photo ): ]

With Bel and Rena eating our FREE ice cream yay #cheapskate haha

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To my classmates: If you're reading this somehow, I want to thank you and say that I really love you guys. These 2 years have not exactly been the best years of my life, but they were made so much better because of such a friendly and fun-loving class. Let's work hard for A's and reap the benefits of all that we've been through together these 2 years!                   

To my fellow dancer girls Jie Ying, Evelyn and Belinda: our journey together during dance has made us so much stronger and I'm so proud that we never gave up even though we faced so many obstacles and felt so much emotional and physical pain. I love you all! Continue to dance beautifully no matter what anyone says!

            

With Rong and JT! So glad I joined PAWS this year because I got to make so many wonderful friends like you guys. PAWS days are always great days because talking to you guys really makes me feel at home and like I belong somewhere in this school. :') I LOVE EVERYONE IN PAWS! 

Anyway for farewell assembly, dance and wushu collaborated to perform an item, it was really good! I'm really impressed that the people from wushu managed to learn the dance and were able to dance as well as the dancers. *applause* But it was quite disappointing that that was the only performing arts item. Admittedly, the videos and speeches were really entertaining and I never fail to marvel at how creative and IT-savvy some Victorians are. The last item was the teachers band, it was really super fun jumping and singing along haha. And we got goodie bags! Stuff inside: 

             

Spot the stress management booklet haha

After assembly we had a CT session and we took lots of photos. The class then proceeded to play soccer monkey in the classroom in which I got a forfeit and had to share chocolate with Anthea. -_- At least it wasn't a guy? Then we went to Parkway for lunch. We sat in this open area in Parkway that I never knew existed, I was quite amazed because it was actually in the building. Haha then Belinda called me suaku.

          

It's actually on the 5th floor!

But after awhile, the security guard pooped the party and told us we couldn't sit there. :( so we just said our goodbyes and parted... It wasn't exactly very emotional because we'll still be seeing one another next week.

Yesterday the SC announced the prom king and queen nominees! Which was completely disappointing actually. Not one of the five couples was exceptionally good-looking. I don't mean to be appearance-obsessed and superficial but I think that the prom queen should be pretty and the prom king be handsome #sorrynotsorry haha. Belinda suggested that there may be a plot twist, like one of the couples breaks up. Not to be sadistic, but that would be interesting (and also very awkward).
BTW, completely loving my pretty new eye drops!

Countdown to A's: 27 days

Mummy's birthday

Mummy's birthday was on Sunday and I feel quite upset? guilty? sad? that there was no cake or singing of happy birthday for her. I merely wished her happy birthday in the morning and we went for lunch with my grandparents. And that was it. My family doesn't have the habit of making too big of a deal out of birthdays, especially mummy and daddy's, but sometimes I think that we should make the birthday boy/girl/man/woman feel a little more special on at least one day in the year. That way they have something to look forward to no matter how bad life is at that point in time. But I guess we don't have to wait for that one day every year to show how much we love and care for them, and try to make them feel special and that life's worth living every single day. I love my parents THIS much but sometimes I find it extremely hard to show it. I hope they know how much they, and everything they've done, mean to me. Anyway here are some pictures from our lunch at TCC (we got 50% off because of mummy's birthday)         

In the car after church

Raspberry mousse! I think it's my favourite dessert from TCC.

I can't post a picture with my parents because they're very particular about privacy and not having their picture up on the internet. :o

Anyway today we got to choose our class table for SDD (aka prom). It was on a first-come-first-serve basis and we got a super lousy table even though we went to queue 5 minutes early! Okay I'm guessing you have to be half an hour early to get a good table. But it wasn't Belinda's or my fault, we really didn't know that there would be so many people... At first we got the cue number 13 and still thought, "Hey that's not too bad!" Little did we know that the people in front of us each had 2-3 tables per cue number. T_T So we were only left with less than 10 tables to choose from, and these tables were in the weirdest positions i.e. squashed beside the wall, practically right beside the stage etc.. I don't even know why they put tables in such nonstrategic places..

Today I went for my first econs tuition session with Cheryl and Vanessa! There were a lot of snacks at the tuition center including Reese's peanut butter cups! Plus this is the first tuition center I've come across that gives commission to existing students who bring new students in! (We split the commission hehe) But obviously that's not the reason I joined. *nervous laugh* The class itself was quite good! I honestly think that if I had joined earlier, I wouldn't have done so badly in prelims :( But it's too late for regrets now and all I can do is look forward (and heavenward) and just keep pushing on till A's!  The class was from 6.30pm-9.30pm  (3 hrs?!) and I'm completely pooped now so goodnight!
Countdown to A's: 31 days

TGIF!

Here's a conversation I have with myself almost everyday

Me: Omg how can you even think of buying a snack when you didn't finish your target amount of work today?!

Me: But...

Me: No buts! You just sit quietly and wait for daddy to come fetch you.
      

Yesterday was an extremely disappointing day because I got back econs and GP. I got an S for econs :( Even though I admit I was somewhat expecting it, I was still hopeful... but that's not the worst part... I actually got D for GP!! D: GP is one of my best subjects and I have consistently gotten B for it over the last 2 years! Though I did get a C for CT2s... oh gosh I hope this isn't going to be a downward trend. I knew it was a mistake choosing that question on fame! ('Fame comes at a heavy price.' Do you agree?) But it was such a deceptively easy question! T_T And today I got my chem paper back. *drumroll* I got a B which is 1000x better than the U grade I got for CT2s! Ok fine so maybe I did drop to H1 but I think it's still a commendable effort!

                     

Despite my seemingly endless complaints about my results, I think I finally realise and accept that it is not academic grades that define a person but the strength of his/her character and faith. As I pray more, I feel like I am moving closer to the path that God wants me to take in life and I feel more at peace with myself. Even though I will still try my best in everything I do no matter what, I am less concerned with the outcome now because I know that whatever happens, it will happen in my best interest. *peaceful smile* 

I finally went to check and found out that I've had Hazel (my rabbit) for almost 2 years now! She's 2 years and about 3 months old now. Honestly I panicked a little because I can't imagine taking care of her for another 8+ years (if she lives to be that old), washing her cage every weekend and changing the bedsheets every time she pees on them haha. I also realised that she will see me through my major transitions in life like entering uni, going out to work and possibly entering a relationship. Then I realised that it's going to be hard when she passes away :'( Here's a picture of Hazel to brighten your day!
             

Countdown to A's:  34 days

Back to school blues

Yesterday I just spent the entire morning writing my personal statement for physiotherapy. I wrote one for vet science some time ago but then I realised I am not cut out for vet science so I just copied some parts from the vet PS and put them into a new one for physio. It took the whole morning because I was totally sidetracked haha I kept reading Sophie Willocq's blog and turns out her grades in JC weren't superb either, which gives me some hope... anyway my back-up plan will be to study physiotherapy in poly or go to NUS FASS, I haven't decided yet.
     
Then I went to grandma's house for lunch, after which I did some math for the whole afternoon and I still couldn't finish a paper *cries*
   

At night I made a card for Ant for her birthday, which was like in August -_-... Ok I know I'm a bad friend! 

       

Yes I got her a minion thumbdrive haha.

     
Anyway today was really quite sian going back to school but I think it would be more depressing staying at home alone. Our math and physics scores were revealed to us today and I can't believe I got an A for math! My paper 2 really pulled me up. God really answered my fervent prayers haha. But physics was just meh, I got a D. I'm just happy that I passed because my physics has never been good. Everbody said it was a difficult paper but I'm trying not to use that as an excuse for my poor grades :(
         
And Anthea said my eyebags were very big today :O which is weird because I've been sleeping so much lately. On a side note, how I try to memorise chemical periodicity:

Countdown: 36 days to A's           

Le Petit Prince

On Sunday my family went for out weekly Sunday lunch at The Little Prince Café. It's a small, pretty café within walking distance of City Square Mall. The theme of the café is based on the storybook The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (no idea how to pronounce his name) and most of the things in the café like the menu and wall designs are painted by the owner. Mum suggested it because she saw it in the newspaper but we were a little apprehensive about eating lunch there at first because they seemed to only serve sandwiches and snacks, but in the end we decided to try it because it was just too cute.      Some pictures of the café:

Blur but it's the only picture I took of this wall. The prince and birds are painted on :O

The staircase and pictures are painted onto the wall too!

There were many copies of The Little Prince book in different languages

The menu! All the pictures of the food were painted on with watercolour.       Moving on to the food:

I had a pot of berry tea ($4.50) which was very good (and not to mention very pretty), you could actually taste quite a strong berry taste, not like other kinds of tea where you can only smell but not taste the berry flavour.      

I had an otah ciabatta sandwich ($8.90), it was very interesting because there were also pineapples in the sandwich. It tasted surprisingly good together with the otah, and very satisfying.

My mum had a mushroom quiche ($7.90) and she was gushing about how good the pastry was and how the egg taste did not overwhelm the mushroom taste, so I'm guessing it must've been good. 

Even the empty plates were pretty:

     

So that concludes my post, have a great week ahead! One more day of holiday before it's back to school for me! To be honest, I'm actually looking forward to school haha

Post- prelim

Yesterday was an extremely enjoyable day despite the disastrous physics paper in the morning haha, don't even care anymore. I met Bel at around 3.30pm at Flock Café in Tiong Bahru and we had tea there. It was one of those small cafés with cute decor and a cosy interior. There are many of these kinds of cafés around the Tiong Bahru area to be explored, can't wait for A's to be over so I can go café-hopping!        

Me on the left and Bel on the right :)

Bel had a latté ($5.50) and a lemon tart ($6) which I didn't get to try because I forgot to ask her for some and she forgot to give me... :(

I had an orange-banana smoothie ($7) and it was pretty good! I enjoyed it even though it got quite gelat after awhile :x

We borrowed an Australian magazine from the café called Frankie because Bel's friend said it was good, and indeed it was! It's an art and photography magazine and is quite interesting :) Bel was glued to it (probably why she didn't offer me any of her lemon tart)

Art on the wall

Then after eating, we decided to walk around the Tiong Bahru area to look at all the cute and quirky shops and cafés.

Saw a kitty along the way!

Found a nice white wall so we decided to camwhore haha.

Some of the sights along the way:

The famous Tiong Bahru Bakery!

A random clothes shop

    

And that concluded our walking around. Bel went home and I went for ballet.

    

After my class, I went to meet up with Gen, Su Lynn and Xin Hui at Wisma Atria for dinner. 

         

We ate at some sushi place which I don't even know the name of haha it's like that when you're with good company, it doesn't even matter what you eat :') 

      

After that we walked around and shopped for awhile. Then we stood outside some shop to take pictures lol. They're all in Gen's camera :( But I managed to snag this one from Gen's instagram hehe

     

Have a lovely weekend all!