as tradition dictates, every significant event/date calls for a blog entry so here goes the one to close the term - farewell assembly entry, before i slip into oblivion and perhaps return with an oath to mug which worked in secondary 4 and saw it being copied and pasted over a couple of blogs haha. But yes, before i return to study, here's the entry to remember farewell assembly.

there's nothing much to remember really for farewell assembly. the plaque award is really a coin with the words plaque award engrave on it, but i am not complaining because it does look pretty (and) classy. i preferred the sec4 farewell video. and as for the speeches, hodge's speech was somewhat different cos it did veer away from his usual stuff although i am peeved that he did not thank the house committee. and the guest of honour has seriously impressive credentials and a nice vibe too. haha.

nothing much happened yesterday. Compared to RI's grad ceremony, this was somewhat bland, without much of an atmosphere although I would not want to go through 1000+ shaking of hands to receive the grad cert. But nonetheless, photowhoring is always fun haha and we later went to j8 and swensen to have ice-cream (: with snee, navjote, ajit and suhas who keeps spoiling the fun by insisting that we have to go back and study soon. pfffffffffft he keeps making us feel guilty. haha i can say anything i want cos he has deleted internet explorer - above msn messenger. very hardcore individual who is going to get his 4As+2Ds+1A1.

o and i met ms grace ytd! how totally unexpected but yes at the supermarket haha. it was good catching up with her and she thanks the moor team for having motivated and inspired this year's batch of leaders to fight hard and lead the house to victory. FIRST PLACE AGAIN (: twice in 3 years, impressive eh. yes it is good to catch up with teachers and i wished i had gone back more the past year. =( nvm, after As! gosh what a lot to do after As!

anyway, 2 years in rj have come to a close - now all we are left with is revision lectures, A levels and more pleasantly grad night. and honestly, i never knew what to expect when i came into rj. i had a lot of apprehension at first, i was thinking if i wld do better in another college - considering if i shld go hc or vj maybe, and later 2 things that made my rj life special was the same 2 things that made me choose rj over the other colleges - house, and more importantly, the people.

and i am glad. because not only have i made more friends in rj, i have also gotten to know a lot of people better over the past 2 years. and house was a joy - though i still live with regrets of not having done enough, thinking back, it was perhaps a blessing to have been rejected from council for it gave me an opportunity to explore a different dimension of myself and initiate stuff. I begin to understand how i enjoy taking on new things. I have written all i had wanted about house previously so i shant dwell on that, only to say that if given a chance, i will pick house over council, no doubt about that, though there will be many things i will do differently.

and so the people. 2 years ago, I would have never thought that i would be friends with certain individuals. and it nv fails to amaze me how i hv come to get to know them a lot better over the years. and the diverse group of people that they are. and i am still amazed by how sometimes you can know a person for more than 1-2 years, but u only get to know him/her better only in the last year of school. sometimes i dont even know how it happens! haha. though i may not b the most popular person around, i am just pretty thankful that they are there when i'm down or need to bitch. there's just so much i would love to say to each and everyone of them individually, but i guess when i can i will just do so in the form of cards or notes or something after As. and the class haha, it was a great time with s03w, and mr chan is right, we pulled through despite tauntings from other classes! haha.

o well, academically it has been terrible the past 2 years. i have definitely slackened and perhaps grown even stupider, but whatever the case is, there will not be any regrets for the coming As! and i am going to ace it. hopefully. but hope is dangerous. so it's time to not hold anything back. and go full steam ahead.

and how much have ppl changed too. most definitely. so anw, to mark the end of the last proper post in many days and perhaps weeks, i shall provide some pictures (:








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more to come as i deem fit haha and to a levels.

junyi! posted at 11:11 pm.

at this point of time i m really tired, i dont noe y, it is not like i have done a lot of work but what the heck. but maybe it is the damned haze. damn sumatra. damn those hotspots. the haze is back.

anw since 30 minutes ago it was the last day of school (technically since there r no more proper lessons after ytd) i thought it deserves special mention. that 30 minutes was the last minute of the last day of school. though if we count it another way we prolly will go 8 hrs 30 minutes cos we have to mean last minute of the last hr of lessons of the last day of school. ok i m not making sense.

anw nothing much happened since the last entry. except for a teacher who reads through students blogs and calls hope dangerous having serious anger management problems, venting his anger on the microphones and wondering why the mikes were sounding so bad.

and yups i got my plaque award. which is a cause of jubilation really, since i had really wanted it when i first applied but i later convinced myself last week before it was announced and in the midst of being depressed over my prelims results that perhaps i din deserve it and i wont get it. and m now increasingly convinced that perhaps i didnt deserve it and that there r other more deserving applicants who didnt get it. i mean if plaque is meant for a true leader, was there truly a leader in me as i spearheaded and organised events? Have I truly inspired others and made a difference to their lives in college? and in a sense i cant answer these qns myself because it's up to others to decide. in a sense.

at the same time i feel a gross sense of injustice done as certain individuals fail to get their awards and feel kind of bad cos i think dani deserves a plaque too - perhaps more than i do. and that's the problem with these awards, different yardsticks, unclear criteria and too many people getting the same award. the presence of bands while making the inadequate substially more adequate puts the most outstanding in the band on the same level as those inadequate. and i m wishing there's something i could do to help.

perhaps what they can do is to cap the percentage of recipients per cca and besides having teachers nominate they can have students nominate too. that way perhaps it might end up becoming a popularity contest and take up loads of time so i dunno.

i m having very distorted ideas all over the place. so i think perhaps i will write down my thoughts of rj in general after farewell assembly.

i dont mind lessons ending really. but i guess if anything i'm going to miss the people and it also means that a levels is drawing nearer.

and i m freaking out.

junyi! posted at 12:04 am.

yay i m in a happy mood cos i just completed an essay and feel very accomplished (: and since it was about blogging, i shall return to blog.

i have stopped moping because it is time to move on and because lowering expectations does wonders. so my prelims results arent anything impressive or even average. But whatever i have decided that what matters now is the A level examinations, afterall even if there are individuals looking at my prelims it is too late now and i truly truly do not want to come to the point next year where I start regretting and because one is better than nothing. there is no more next time after a levels.

congrats to those who did well this time round (:

lky's letter to badawi was impressive, although it was not unexpected. what i found interesting was really the way he defended what he said and gave what seemed like an apology. what i really found interesting in today's news was how the p65 mps are making an effort to put up an item for chingay. while it is impressive how they are trying very hard to look hippening, perhaps it is a case of trying to hard to be cool, like what they call of those nerds who try so hard to fit in. because honestly, i find it difficult to believe they actually feel that we will vote a HIP mp, when all people really wants is an mp who remains fair, is efficient and respond to their needs. and is above all charismatic and can connect with the people. i mean if it is for charity or something i can understand, but is this not a case of trying to hard to rebrand yourselves - er through chingay? but whatever it is, you have to give it to them for making an effort to put up a performance.

ok i havent been talking much sense anw. i was just thinking abt it and maybe it's time to uninstall msn in the next couple of weeks. it is after all the last lap. in the next 2 years at least.

junyi! posted at 11:27 pm.