school's likely to get busier as time goes by, but at the same time it's becoming extremely fun.

10S03N and HH06 <3! really really enjoyed the last few days with all of you, sitting around and joking and having fun and really warming up to each other a lot more.

tomorrow promises to be good too! after youth got heart i have to go for 2 dinners!

and thanks lots for the cards! you guys are all 3 years early though. =)

and of course happy birthday to my fellow o'utofideas friends, the very special ojisan and obasan! hope both of you had a great time too! (together!! xD)

Two roads diverged,and I-
took the one less taken...

back from interact camp!

well i guess it was pretty fun for some parts, definitely very meaningful for others (and our group had the most heart(s)!), but talking to some of the other interactors really put things in a different light.

and i guess it shows something about me as well, because my way of thinking about the issue seems to be rather too simplistic. where other people try to make sense of what's going on, i seem to just accept things at face value and move on.

and the world doesn't work like that. i know that, but i just haven't been able to "put it into practice".

i guess that's why i feel so confused sometimes about life and where it's going for me (i took that quiz on someone's blog a while ago. and i'm most concerned about that apparently). when things don't work according to my simple understandings, i don't have much of a response. i don't really see the whole picture, just scattered parts (or worse, a concentration of parts).

something tells me that i've really got to develop some kind of critical awareness if i'm going to survive the tough life out there.

if it was the thing which got me in here in the first place, it's going to have to be the thing which gets me out.

Two roads diverged,and I-
took the one less taken...

ok school's been slightly more hectic than usual, but it's still a far far cry from the peak of ri (i haven't yet felt an irresistible urge to fall asleep during lectures and tutorials).

it should get more packed though. interact commitments already seem to be taking up the spare time in between lessons and stuff.

we had a headstart on school work, but now school work's catching up with us, and sooner or later it's going to overtake us, and that's where all the energy is going to go i guess.

and yes, it does feel extremely weird going back early (at, say, 3pm?) and just sit at home reading lecture notes and attempting the odd tutorial question.

i think school's going to become a second home, more than ever before, if that's even possible.



and before i leave for the comforts of my bed (at least this lull in schoolwork offers me a slumber time before midnight =D), i must say this:

OUR GP TEACHER ROCKS. TOTALLY. (MRS UMA CHONG FTW!)

Two roads diverged,and I-
took the one less taken...

writing a poem in 1 hour is extremely easy.

writing a good poem in 1 hour is extremely hard.

and since i had to squeeze this one in for valentine's day, you know which of the statements holds true for this one.



Sunset on the Beach

As we sit here on secluded, soft sands,
My fingers dancing through your silky hair,
We watch the sun set as we hold hands –
Quiet thoughts of love fill the evening air.
Your skin is dreamily supple and smooth,
Dead gorgeous right down to your heart,
Your kiss has the power to calm and sooth,
So much that I fear the day we part.
Then slowly, silently, I put my face near yours
To make magic with that special connection,
Loves like ours could go on for hours,
For it produces the strangest sensation.
So even when I look in your lifeless eyes,
I still believe love has not passed me by.




now wasn't that a fitting end to v-day?

and now that the twisted poem is out of the way, let's go back to a more innocent time of "emo poetry" shall we? (another day of course. no more gas in the tank for tonight.)

edit: valentine's day celebration on friday was really good.

girls are so so sweet, so much so it puts me to shame for not preparing anything for friday. i must make up for it next year.

og lunch at pizza hut! where we pretended the 101 roses jolyn got was a real person and gave it pepsi and soup to drink (liquid diet you see). =)

also funny because we saw leon's ez-link card, talked a lot of rubbish (and even more after i had to leave. for math soc urgh ><), and had a lot of syrup added to leon's ice lemon tea. (among the other things which happened along the way, such as having to carry those 101 roses. people looked at me like never before, i can tell you that.)

love you guys at HH06! have a happy valentine's day! although this will be too late. ><



not too much work this weekend. just a math tutorial and an econs article to find, thankfully. (must remember.)

but seeing how the new timetable goes, more work will come next week.

but that's school for you. heh.

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took the one less taken...

at least now i can say that i'm just about as irritable as my throat.

hopefully it gets better soon. i'm feeling teribly light-headed and tired in the early afternoon, and nothing seems to be staying in my mind very long. bio lecture was the worst, but yeah afterwards it wasn't so bad.

first econs lecture tomorrow. hope that's not going to be as bad as it's been made out to be.

yeah it really is back to the daily grind now.

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took the one less taken...

it's been 2 days since orientation ended with a bang at o'nite.

and honestly, i don't really feel like giving a summary. it's really just vomitting out facts that happened to everyone.

but i must say that in these last 5 days, i've really enjoyed the company of outofideas. su fen's occasionally violent tendencies, xinqi's high moments, dancing with wan ting for batch dance (and we did it! =D), weirong's jokes and laughter, and many many more.

it didn't start off terribly fantastically, like perhaps every other OG, and at the end of it we may not have been the best enthusiastic with things like cheering and outings, but i think all the same it's been a great way to kickstart jc life.

and so for the next few months we'll always look back fondly at the times we:

sat in the open space at J8 to play games and do forfeits.
disobeyed the teachers and stayed out late.
shouted back "what's your problem?" in hokkien when our group was called.
played the many games of concentration and that hand-slapping game.
played the actual scheduled games in the programme.
cheered for fun during the waiting times in the MPH.
cheered with the house during the house competitions.
cheered for raffles.
simply sat down and talked about everything under the sun.

and to our remarkable OGLs: thanks for bringing it together and making it happen.

it's a shame that orientation couldn't be longer, but all good things have to come to an end, and sometimes you don't want things to drag on for too long, till it loses its meaning.

no pictures yet, but i'm sure there will be (i see plenty on facebook already i've been tagged in).



so now, in about 12 hours, my JC school life will be starting.

it's a terribly important time. terribly, because now's the time when every single decision i make will almost certainly have a consequence down the road i'll eventually take. nothing much can be taken for granted or treated indifferently now.

important - well, it needs no explaining. another major exam, and it looks like it'll prove to be a tough one.

time?

there's never enough time, it seems. never.

but more on that another time. (pun not intended, but it just shows you how much time features in our lives eh.) for now dinner, and a new day tomorrow beckons.

Two roads diverged,and I-
took the one less taken...

today's quote of the day can only go to aaron goh.

aarongoh: "aaron (tiong) is like a silent _________ (i forgot. crusader?). when you look one way, he's there, but when you look the other way, he's gone. and then when you look the other way, he's there again, but when you look back, he's not there anymore."

me: "well isn't that supposed to be right? because if you look this way, i'm here, but then you look the opposite way, and i'm not there because i'm still here!"



orientation's ending tomorrow night! it's been a blast over the last few days, and unfortunately it has to come to an end. but oh boy it's been a good way to get the year started, for real.

and can we has the peekzhurrs for o'utofideas please! haha anyone who has them upload somewhere. =)

Two roads diverged,and I-
took the one less taken...

there's absolutely no doubt that this dance is awesome.



the only part i have real trouble with is that crazy stomping thing to "lollipop"! must perfect it over the next few days. =)

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took the one less taken...

i'm really not in the mood for blogging now.

but if i thought the sec 1 orientation had the potential to be superb, J1 orientation has the potential to be utterly mind-blowing.

i think that'll sum it up nicely. it's been that good for me.

don't feel like typing anymore now!

because I'M O'UTOFIDEAS.

when i say "out of" you say "eye"!
when i say "out of" you say "deers"!

let's go o'utofideas! (if any one of you even knows i exist in this corner of the web) we got the potential to be moving and grooving, so let's do it. =)

and i think the batch dance we have is also rather cool. awkward at first, but yeah, it's cool. =)

in fact i have it grooving away in my head now. and am also on the verge of standing up and doing the dance myself, at the risk of looking extremely spasmodic.

but yes it shall be all. maybe next time around i'll let some pictures do the talking!

first day of orientation today! (yesterday, actually)

and it was pretty awesome. =)

oh no wait.

make that O'RHSOME.

(unfortunately that's not my OG!)

haha i can't quite seem to put a finger on it, but yeah it's been a good start. and it makes me look forward to the rest of the week!

rather tired now from all that activity though so it's time to turn in. =)

Two roads diverged,and I-
took the one less taken...