Johnny B. Goode

"Between fashion & food, there was no contest. When something suited me I had to have it, no matter what I needed to sacrifice to get it. It was a simple case of self-esteem economics: once I looked good, I would feel good."

Hey guys, missed me?:D
I'm supposed be doing lit, but I keep digressing. So I felt called to post, maybe that'll get my mind off the net. Yknow how like, way before exams come, you're like, I'll prepare myself really well for exams because by the time exams come I'll have clarified everything and have memorised everything needed because, hey, it's not that hard, not that much, it's possible.
Well,
That's not the case.

I'm totally unprepared. I'm not even sure how to go about learning everything needed. Haha.

Was watching MTV Dancelife just now. & it seemed so easy for these dancers to get gigs. Two of them got a JLo concert job as her back-ups, and Blake's gonna be choreographing for Janet Jackson's tour. Wow. Success. The two of em doing the JLo concert had to learn three numbers in two days. OMGOSH RIGHT.

K, Imma continue notes now.

It's 2am & I'm cursing your name.

Byebye LJ,
Peace out, A Town.

Hello bellos.
Jia has said she misses reading my 'Peace out, A Town' so I'm back to give a 'Peace out, A Town.' Haha. Okay well, a lot has been going on lately. Let's start with this week. Apart from shocking incidences, it's been rather happy on the personal level. But there's the aggravating stuff too. The happy part is that SIREN is too cool for you can. Haha, we started our first impromptu practice last week, finished our item today. Really satisfying. Hopefully we'll get the crowd crazy with our debut at fiesta. So that's something to look forward to. 

Results were eurgh. Yeah I improved for some, but those that I did badly in, I did REALLY badly. However I've found that having a goal really gets your hopes going but it doesn't help you much in the preparation, well at least for me, even if the goal was set by someone else. Cause I was given the target of 15 points & when we were receiving our papers I kept counting my L1R5 & checking back to see if the goal was attained, but it never really hit me how I was going to go about reaching that target when I was preparing. When I realised I overshot, I was kinda disappointed. I think, if it was my own goal, I won't be so bummed, but because someone gave that goal to me, so it was all a matter of proving myself, which actually'll give me more drive because of pride. & also, a way I find not to be disappointed is: Aim high, hope for low.

Been spending most of my time with friends, & rehearsals. Life is nice.

Okay I know I said 'let's start with this week'', but I've become lazy. Haha, yubbers. Aiight, I'm gonna find some self-entertainment.

Byebye LJ,
Peace out, A Town.

Hi. I really don't know where to start because I haven't blogged for a pretty long span of time. Well, now's the dreaded mid-years period. After today's papers it actually felt like O's were over. Ha, dream. Yknow everytime weeks before, I'll be thinking that I'll be really prepared for any upcoming exams, that I'll definitely find the time to really understand everything & make sure I'm ready, but weeks later when the exams' just a few days away, I'm still at the same spot I was weeks back. Funny how we assume. Time's pretty insensitive, don't you think? Well it's also a matter of self-discipline.

Oh yes, I haven't mentioned it here but everyone already probably knows, GOLD W HONOURS BABY! The feeling when the announcer continued talking after saying 'Gold', indescribable. It was really like, omgosh guys, we did it omg hahahaha. First came a scream, then a disbelieving laugh, then finally & inevitably, the waterworks. Of course it got to our heads which blew up a million times bigger for the next few days, they're mostly deflated back to normal humble sizes by now. One of the happiest days of my life:)

Okay I'm bored.

Bye bye LJ,
Peace out, A Town.

 

Hey readers.
There was SYF today. Very tiring, cause Ms Wee & Zaki came & we were sweating buckets. I tried incorporating breathing into my steps this time, I think it helps quite a bit. But sometimes I got confused when to breathe in & out so I ended up breathing really fast hahaha. We rated ourselves about around 6 upon 10. There's 4 weeks left, so we gotta go one notch up per week. Come on Celestial!

Went to Macs for pre-dinner (I had dinner waiting at home) with SYFers. Had a good time laughing because we were on a roll of jokes. I think we're quite good at it. Haha, let us take you on a walk through toa payoh. You'll laugh your ass off, or maybe you'll just keep giving us the what the hell face. Ah, I gotta write our jokes down.

Took 157 home cause it was around 830 when Chels & I parted & I was supposed to be home by 9 so I decided to take the longer ride. Nearly missed my stop because I forgot I could stop before Adam Road for a shorter walk. My scary walk through the tall dark bushes seemed shorter than normal today:) I stopped for a second to see if I could spot the Orion. At first I saw the three stars in a row, then the four that were supposed to be around it seemed more parallellogramish than usual. Anyways, I really wish the holiday was longer. There's so many things I was planning to do.

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Sup.
Buddies & I went around TP trying out different body mists and sprays so we went home smelling weird.

Dear readers, hi.

Today we had SYF self-prac. My mind really wasn't up to it. With the heavy skirt and all, I wasn't motivated today. My body just didn't feel like pushing itself to lock all my arms and hit every accent and so I let myself down. Maybe because we've been doing the same dance everyday. Then I came out of myself and thought, it's not as if we're doing very very tiring runs today, we're doing just this section, and if I put in my all and full out for this practice, I'll feel contented later, instead of shitty. I want myself to want to put everything into all my practices. But I think I just disappointed myself today. After practice I played with Chels and Su by doing some of the hip hop choreos, which cheered me up, but made me realise it was only because I had the wrong mindset earlier during practice. I want to work for the Gold with honours. I will work. Yes I will.

4/4 had the Inter-class Lit Drama Competition today with 4/2 and 4/8. We did the scene where Walter is drunk and he and Beneatha were singing, then George walked in and was an assimilationist. Meishi played Beneatha, Joce played Walter, Gloria played Ruth & Nicolette played George. The whole thing was really really well done I must say, everything went smoothly from my point of view. I only catched a little bit of 4/8's play, & it was quite well put up. 4/4 emerged with overall the best production & so our class will be engraved into the challenge plaque and go down in history...   :D

Okay that's all. I want to sleep.
Byebye LJ,
Peace out, A Town.

Hello one & all. Yesterday was Danceworks! 2009 Cat III Prelims. Fluid clinched the most supported team award ($300 cash:D) while fan kidz got into finals. Really happy for them. & I can't wait for finals! Of course, for Fluid, the disappointment kicked in, but I guess for our first competition as a group we did ourselves proud, mostly. I had that really high feeling after we performed, like the satisfaction that I gave it my all, so that's a reason for contentment. Even though some things didn't quite flow as planned, but hey, things happen for a reason. Now that the whole danceworks hooha is quite over for me, I think I'll find myself with slightly more time on my hands. Yknow what that means? Studytime!

Next week there's Robertson Rocks! Haha, performing Kill the Lights.
Click here for more details.


Bye bye LJ.
Peace out, A Town.

Hey lovelies. I just finished studying for chem test. One of the few tests I've actually, really studied for. Can't wait to get back our unseen lit test.

I remember Mrs Drysdale -haha, how I miss P1- saying that, 'We are never wasting time.' Up till now I still think it's true.
I mean, everytime we do something irrelevant, it's taken as wasting time. However even if it is irrelevant, we're still doing it to like, maybe rest a bit. So I think even stoning isn't wasting time, because we're kind of giving ourselves time not to think. Maybe if you take a long time to realise something, you haven't wasted time because you've just benifitted yourself by taking the time to understand it. So whatever we do, we're not wasting time:)

Here's some visual evidence of 4/4's SAC
 

Hihiyallzers.
Just came back from Chels' house. Was doing danceworks props. It's in less than two and a half weeks. PANIC. Details are as follows:

Date: 7th March 09, Saturday
Venue: Open area outside Plaza Singapura (I'm not sure what it's called)
Time: 3pm - 7pm
Team to support: FLUID!!!
Bring friends, placards & your screams:D

cnb-danceworks.blogspot.com/

Anyway, after school -which was not that bad because we had three periods of cheena. Which is really quite slack- we had technique with Ms Tan! Okay, fine, Jenna. Haven't seen her for super long & she kept calling us few her backsides. Warm-ups were really good; work those inner thighs man. Learnt two new terms:

1. Hip flexors: the muscles in front of your hips on each side
2. Gluteus maximus: your butt muscles

After that we did the chair dance, which I think looks real cool if everyone were synchronised. I enjoyed today's training(:
Next week and the following 5 more weeks, most of the Sec 4s will have to come late for friday's technique cause of the new Structured Remedial Programme. I was chosen for Chem remedial. Haha, no surprise. They'll be going through preparation of salts and qualitative analysis, which I really need.

What we have is rare,
Perhaps a lucky find, or brought together by fate
I often wonder if it is unique
or does everyone have something like that to hold on to
It is often cliched, but nonetheless a hundred percent true
Because yall make it real for me.
I'll love yall forever.

 Hi guyguygirgirs. 
I'm having AEP now, but I just talked to Zailee about dropping. I think it came kind of sudden on her because I went to see her right after Keely did. Should have waited for me girl, we could have stood up for each other:) Anyways, she was trying to convince me why I shouldn't drop while I was reasoning why I need to. So I got to know the main reason why they make it so hard for us to drop the subject. It's because the school and ministry have invested a lot in the programme. But come on, what's the point of investing if it costs us our O's? 

Yes she asked why is it that I'm only telling her now. Well, Hillary appealed last year but got rejected, but today we got to know that Agnes got apporoved. So now I'm trying. I mentioned that if I'm not doing well in AEP now, what makes her think I'll do well in it for O's. & since I'm already not doing well in the subject, why not let me concentrate on my other subjects. I told her that I wanted to focus on my sciences because I do not intend to take art in JC, then she said that even if I do not intend to take art, it might still help my aggregate, so I replied that, it might impact my sciences, of which I'd rather do in the future over art. So, if I do well in AEP and screw up chem, my choices are so much more limited. She said that wanting to concentrate on sciences is what they always say, but, have you ever thought why they always say it? Because it's true. It may not be a unique reason, but nonetheless true. Geddit. So in the end I told her I'll ask my parents to write in and I'll pass her the letter tomorrow, because no matter what I bring up, she'll always find something positive in her view to shoot it down. 

Seriously, why is it teachers keep persuading students to drop to combined science but make it so hard to drop art. Pause to ponder.

Byebye LJ,
Peace out, A Town. 

Hi guys, I'm in the mood to narrate my recent catastrophes.

We finally finished Total Defence Day banner! Put them up today, got it off my hands. But before you can say chill, there's still the house banner. Gotta get started on that asap. Well, the classes who were supposed to do the Yellow House TDD banner were 1/2 & 1/6. Was quite impressed actually, when I saw more than a handful of them gathered around the banner on monday. Except that a certain classmate of theirs totally didn't display any respect when she smugly supposedly spoke on behalf of her class that they wanted to redo the whole banner, when later I asked the class if the design was okay & if they could continue from where the house comm had left it, they were completely agreeable to my enquiries. Ironic. Same girl who disrespected Joce during auditions. This batch hm.. Okay I shouldn't assume about the entire batch, but from what I've seen from different accounts, maybe it's not such an exaggeration to do so. But surely there's gotta be potential in them.

I feel slightly more relaxed, now that I've got a few things over & done with. I love hanging with the usual few, talking about what happened in class and laughing so loudly the Kopitiam lady has to tell us to shuttup. It's times like these that you'll always look on the brightside of life, dudum, dudum dudum dudum :D Don't know what I'll do without them. Got to see Jang & Nut on monday. Miss them lorry loads:(

Oh yes, Julvian's tooth fell out yesterday at lunch. At first I thought it was a prawn.



I'm satisfied with myself. I did two chapter's worth of bio notes tonight. Continue at this rate & I'm good to go.
Self-awareness is this Friday! According to Nat, it's AWESOME.

Alas that love, whose view is muffled, still
Should without eyes see pathways to his will!

Question:
Green Mike & Ike packet or purple Mike & Ike packet?



Bye bye LJ,
Peace out, A Town.

Hello dear readers, how have you been?
I've been feeling really stressed these past few days & I find myself not being truly happy. It's because there's so many things to do, so many deadlines and short notices. Everything just keeps coming, it's really tiring. Tiresome everydays take away oneself. Tomorrow there's supposed to be Ninesome outing, but I can't go because of AEP. Su, omg, Su told me to pon. SU. Haha, I miss my favourite friends.
I've seen so many people in a rush lately. Teachers rushing us to meet deadlines, one of the adjudicators during the debate on friday, & because of people who push others to rush, everyone around them end up strained & agitated. Shouldn't we just slow down & take things as they come, & not create pressure? Just pause & think what are we doing & why the hell are we doing it for. Some things just don't make sense. Some frustration unnecessary. All hassle man-made.

A lot of things have been happening lately.
Yesterday there was fluid rehearsal for danceworks and also jazz technique and hip hop/mtv. We finished our kill the lights choreo, & I must say, I love the choreo. After that, we had a surprise for Fut & Syaril. Ewan pretended to be damn fricking pissed off with the fan kidz and made Fut sit away from them. Chels & I were laughing behind the wall outside the room. Then he switched off the lights 'walked out' and we sang Happy Birthday to Syaril & Belated to Fut. Ha so fun. Happy Birthday Syaril! Happy Belated Birthday Fut!

Another incident,
SS Group work-
XYXY really blew it. She went over the line. Yknow I thought she was better than that.
Ignorance should not have a mouth.

There was hip hop practice on thursday for Saturday performance. The recently recruited sec one joined us for the first time to get a feel of IJ Dance, swim around the waters for a bit. I lost my IKPF T-shirt that morning, because some of us left our shirts in the toilet during photo-taking & when we went back, they were gone. So I didn't have any T-shirt to dance in, & Mr Tang said if I don't have a T-shirt, I don't dance. So I ended up wearing some gross shirt I found in the cupboard. Not gonna let something like that get in the way of my passion:)

Performance at The Frontier in Jurong on Saturday was okay. The audience consisted mostly of the people working at the library, which was quite a bummer. One of them was a popper, I spotted. Anyway, SP has the video. Shall upload it soon.

Now, I'm off to read my newly borrowed book, Romeo & Juliet.

Question:
Lyrical or contemporary?

Bye bye LJ,
Peace out, A Town.

Hello everyone, it's the sabbath day.
So firstly, there was mass. Was like, 2 minutes late, found Nat, Bern, Luke & Andrew sitting at the seats just outside the cry room. Had fun making faces at the kids & laughing at their cute apparel. After mass, went to the canteen to chillax for a bit. Took photos, then went up to 03-10 for YL session. Luke Yap tried to look nerdy with my specs, but CMI la Luke. We learn something new every week, it's quite enriching. 'Ask & you shall receive.'

After that, me, Nat, Luke, Bern & Vanessa took 151. Yay, one of my favourite buses. Luke & Vanessa went home, Bern, Nat & I went to Serene to study & eat. My beloved Island Creamery! Whoo. Today I had Double Scoop: Teh Tarik + Cookies & Cream. Nat had Reverso. For some reason Nat feels like camwhoring a lot today. & I mean a lot. Haha, we also saw a cool guy with Jason Castro dreds. So after we studied - well I did A Maths homework, so it's not really counted as studying la - we went outside to play with the kiddy ride things. We saw the cool guy with Jason Castro dreds again.

Omg guys, my right eyebrow is twitchy.

Pretty okay day today. Though not really a smooth start.
Went for danceworks briefing with Chels, Jia, Joce & Mars. Chels, Jia & I cabbed while Joce & Mars trained. At first we thought they reached before us because when they called it seemed as though they were already in the building. But actually, we got the venue at 3.40 & they reached at almost 4. Another point that proves: Cab rules all. 

Managed to spot reps from Tanglin & (I think) Juying. Phat nuts are right after Voltage. But it's okay, IJ WE CAN DO IT!
FLUID WE ALSO CAN DO IT! WHOO.
Later we went to Cheenatown Macs to eat while we reminisced all the fun times during Kindred. If only it was annual & not bi-annual. 

Okay, I feel like listening to my newly uploaded into iTunes songs & doing my work.

But before I disappear,
Question:
Chip or Dale?

Okay,
Bye bye LJ,
Peace out, A Town.

Okay, I just received a message to mention her in my LJ. FINE ASHOLE. Haha. Ash is not as cool as Ange. Kay, love ya Ash. See you tomorrow. Don't kill me.

Hello lovely readers.
Well, what have I done today? Firstly there was school, of which there were some ups and downs.
Downs were

1. Farzizm dino
2. Chem test
3. Bloody long recess queue
4. Chem tuition cancelled
5. Practicing SYF in canteen

Ups:

1. Lit was as exciting as ever, still loving Mag Low, but got lit test tomorrow, hm.
2. Got to go home earlier

That's about it. So it wasn't a very good day one might say. I've still got an unacceptable amount of outstanding homework that has already been due. Well for starters I did my CNY E math graph homework earlier :) So now I can strike it off my journal. Feels good to do so, sense of satisfaction. When I was doing my work I saw the clock on my com, which showed only 8.33PM. Quite a surprise, because I though it'd show like, 9.45PM. Coming home early has it's benefits. So here I am now, online, (tsk tsk no self discipline), but consider it as a reward to myself for starting my work. Teehee. I just spent like, a good half hour correcting the song names and artists on my iTunes because after importing the songs from the CD it all became confuzzled. How I spend my time is really contrary to how I should be spending it. I guess I don't feel the sense of urgency yet because the weekend's coming up and I assume I can catch up with all the overload of work then. 

I'll go read my TKMB now.
'The folks did a lot of running that night. So you say you ran into the house, ran to the window, ran inside, ran for Mayella, ran for Mr. Tate, during all this running, did you run for a doctor?'
Yay, proud of myself. Hope it's correct. Haha.

Question:
Munchy Donut or Donut Factory?
Think hard.

Tata LJ,
Peace out, A Town.

I'd go hungry
I'd go black and blue
I'd go crawling
Down the avenue
No, there's nothing
That I wouldn't do
To make you feel my love