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woohoo!

wow charlene posted!

so i shall post one more entry!
our z'cove is dead (it seems). haha so there's more time to oversleep, mug for some test now. not all that bad, considering that it lasted for the whole of last year!

just to update, the og dinner is changed to thursday. so hope to see all of u guys there!

HELLO !!

hey!!

it has been ages since i blog( i noe) so i decided to do my part n contribute too! okie i went down for the first day if orientation and looking at the j1s and their OGLs juz reminded me of wad we went thru last yr. Time really passes by so fast! Gosh i m like j3?! Wah i feel old! N i saw yihui with her OG but i did not get the chance to say hi cos her OG n her were on the first level of the hall while i was seated on the second. Anw do treasure your JC life cos working isnt really tt fun.. my parents used to tell me tt studing was the most enjoyable and fun part of their lives and i guess there is some truth in it.

Let me assure you tt your JC2 yr will pass by really fast and b4 your noe it your will be graduating from rjc and gg on to uni and stuff. So do treasure the time you have wif your classmates and frens k!!

All the best in the year ahead and take care!!!:)


Charlene

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

happy birthday to us
happy birthday to us
happy birthday to x'peia
happy birthday to us!

mandre and yihui have gone on to have little OGs of their own.. i neglected to ask them for the OG names haha!

anyway, it's been such a long time but orientation 2006 really seems not so long ago. i don't really remember the order of events anymore, but there are really many episodes of orientation that i still rmb so clearly. blindfold shoe game, balloon-kiapping game, spaghetti strand game, shaving cream passing, candle blowing, getting sianned at macritchie, making fun of the 156 paedo, and who can ever forget ONIGHT. geeky stuff man..

but those are all memories, we live in the moment now. soooo. next week 10 january wednesday we'll be having an X'peia reunion dinner thing. charlene and i hope that as many of you as possible will turn up tt evening. sorry it's so rushed and we can't play around with dates, because i'm enlisting the end of next week so i don't have much time left!

anyway, i hope all of you have gotten the SMSes, pls reply and pls come!

<3 always
darren & charlene

omg a post!

ok i read the previous post so i shall blog.

if i remember several xpeia members also have birthdays in jan also (e.g. darren) so we can conveniently celebrate it for them haha.

well my hols have been not very fruitful in terms of academic studies.

1. holiday homework untouched.

2. dota every night.

3. xbox or outings in the day

haha hope yours had been more interesting.

ANYONE WHO READS THIS HAS TO LOG IN AND BLOG

bloody crap this place is deadddddd. must start a xpeia blog campaign. so anyone who reads this entry please log in and blog about something okay. please please please.

ANYWAY. been playing hard, time to kick it down a little and work my ass off and do my university and scholarship essays and what not. hope all goes well and my dreams come true. (:

ys your odac trip was damn freaking sick la. too fun, too unfair. one day i'm going to drag some ppl and do some hardcore outdoor stuff myself. in the meantime i will have to be content with our batch 21 gopeng trip.. lol. and i hope it pours monkeys and cows so the river will be bursting its banks and we will go nuts on the grade 4 river haha. hope hope hope! i just got a brainwave. will bring my $2 shitty lousy film camera in a ziploc bag and chiong down the river, see what happens hahahaa. exciting man.

charlene chua is having so much fun with some person, and is starting to forget about us. bfffft.

anyway. my prom photos are here: darren-leow.fotopic.net, check them out if you have the time!

andddddd x'peia is turning 1 year old soon. u guys free sometime in january to celebrate our birthday? have one motherbig outing before i shave my hair and get conscripted to protect our nation?

erm

whoo this post's gonna make this blog look not dead. or at least it can try! lolz.

odac just had a damn fun trip to australia! we went canoeing/paddling down the murray(pronounced MA-REE) river for 46 km(wooh longer than the whole of singapore), climbing on natural rock(haha laughs at those still climbing artificial rock walls in singapore)at Mt.Arapiles, and did some environmental cip in the grampians national park. And that's the summary of what we did. we did a lot alot more stuff, but i shan't bother explaining in detail, at least not yet.

haha since mel and beifen probably doesn't come here anymore, let alone blog here, i may just blog abt the aus trip here sometime later, after i received photos(damn it lah i dun hav digi cam so all the photos are like not with me).

so yea, that's all for now!

Whee enjoy ur hols!

Yong Sheng

lalala

gd luck for a levels, darren and charlene!

ok that came a bit late, but at least it still came! whoo! anyway this blog is like so dead. someone blog plz?

apart frm that, heex, we shld go lanning someday. if ur class going and still hav space ask me along k? thanks. very sian, hols i still can't play =( nvm, still better off than darren and charlene! really hope u guys pull through this safe. then u guys can relax le.

aiya nothing to blog about le. so yup signing off.

Yong Sheng

hey! promos are over!

hey everyone.

we survived the month of september again, and the promos are finally over!

so how about:
1. an OG outing since the last one was after common tests?

2. more people blogging plz

3. and keep our z'cove alive!

=) heex

The moments have passed. It's time to even the scales

"The sands of time are running out. War draws near,"

Wooh, well done darren, for surviving ur prelims. hope u did well. But even as our dear j2s complete their promos, the starting introduction of warcraft III:reign of chaos(above) now nicely encapsulates the feeling of the j1s. Draw your war swords, fellow xpeians, and prepare for battle. Battle against this dreaded promos. And may we come out victorious.

gd luck guys. and gd luck to darren too, for his remaining papers.

Regards,
Yong Sheng

prelims are almost overrr.

Tribute

I don't know whether i m accursed or not...


At the tender age of 16, i've been asked to attend 3 wakes, wakes of my friends, my peers. and those are excluding the 2 for my grandfathers.

One in p5, when at the young age of 11, my then classmate had her life snatched away by a rare disease contracted from the soil. Another one just 2 weeks ago, for my npcc junior. And now the most heartbreaking one. My friend of 5 years and classmate for 4 years.

In the course of 3 weeks, i've been made to face the loss of a life twice.They have not taught me how to cope though. the news of it just creates yet another void in the heart.

When i first got the news, i lost my ability to speak. I cried till my eyes are sore. They are still sore now. but they do not matter the least bit to me. What really matters cannot be repaired though. The damage is done.

I dunno y. but i had this feeling of uneasyness which i don't know how to explain back just month ago at the end of july. This feeling had first surfaced back when i was in p5, 2 days b4 my then classmate passed away. It has never appeared again, until it resurfaced recently. I was worried, so i told gerard about it. He didn't have much of a reaction or worry though, and merely told me i was worrying too much about my ct results. I waited 2 days, nothing bad passed, but the feeling had not disappeared, it still lingered. I told myself that i might have been worrying abt the ct results too much, though i knew full well that i was never the kind to worry abt the results of any test. Slowly, after a week, the feeling disappeared. And i tot that was the end of it.

Apparently not. Tragedy had waited. Waited for the right time to deal its hand. its hand of death. I fear myself now. What am i to do the next time i get this feeling again? Dismiss it again? If not what?MY mind and emotions are in a horrible atate right now.

But i've nicely put up a brave front in front of others. If i don't stay strong, what will happen to garry, hong rui and ernest, the other members of my clique with him, who have been closer to him than i have? If i don't keep on smiling to others, who will?

But deep down inside, i still need more time. more time to come to terms with this loss. more time to cope.

YF, you've always been a great friend to me. Your jokes in class, your jovial ways have always lit up my day. The way you, me and ernest have become well known to be the best slackers ever. Your dota kses frm me. Your "i'm sure" quotes. Your tremendous strength, your chinese proness, your dota abilities. They'll stay in my memory forever. You'll fill the void that was created in my heart. And you'll stay there forever. I'll never forget you. I'll miss you. But i'll stay strong. for you. I'll remember you even after eons have passed. and i'll tribute you. You can be sure of that.

Rest in peace, my dear friend.

MidKnight™

Regards,
Yong Sheng

mozart flute quartet in D no.1, k285

HEY GUYS!
i must reiterate again, that i really miss limericko. my cousin is helpg me get it up SOON. And then i can resume my indulgent blogging ways.

what a difference one person can make to ur mood. i tell u, i was in a totally different psyche a while ago b4 this person IMed me. and now i've lost the whole reflective me but i shall try nonetheless. :)

so lets proceed

sept hols 2006.

planned: mug mug mug operation mug. add sugar, add creamer, whatever. jus lock up in corfe place and studieeeeeeeeee

but major abberations to the .. page reproducing process (compare to phage reproductive process, okay bio. no idea? turn to 'transduction' page on bacteria and viruses II) actually resulted in some unexpected holiday plan B

it was one emotional roller coaster ride
pre sept week, felt really optimistic abt studying 'so much time!' and bishan library opening on sept 2. i think its too much like a mkt place, or a youth hangout place than a library tho. jus wondering if library actually came from 'libre' which means free in french which doesnt really make sense. ok no it came from libraire? which was a kind of book shop? library sounds nothing like bibliotheque which is the actual french word for 'library'.

okay i shall stop on the etymology thing there. am giving my sec2 bro a crash course on genetics b4 he goes for his bio pop quiz in ... 7h? alright.

ok BACK.

where was i. emotional roller coaster huh.
ok shall spare u guys the details. even i had a tough time placing them all out on the table to savour every one. lets see some memorable stuff i did this hols:
1.played for zhengyi's exam (my flautist senior! yup u guessed it, we played the flute quartet as u can see from the title. more on the piece later) on thurs, had fun praccing for the rest of the wk! i still want a chamber mugging group =( lol always thought it'd be very fun + productive if i cld alternate betw mugging and playing. definitely serves as great motivation for me!

2. lost my wallet plus a thousand other valuable things inside. got lambasted by parents who later felt guilty, i think, and began treating me nicer haha. was mugging the organic chem summary sheet on 156 and absentmindedly left wallet behind. i shldn have jus been lazy and stayed at home like lei and not go for chem rev test! sigh, house keys gone also! my whole family's security at stake!! plus i'd lost my ishuffle a while ago. eurgh, super heart ache. felt horrible horrible

3. and that friday, was positively the worst day of 2006, to cut the long story short. but i have so many pp to thank! and one of them whom i've really indebted to is leo hee xun, fellow xpeian! this guy rocks and totally deserves TWO cups of lemon tea from me. [this is to make sure i actually get down to treatg him] thank you for putting up w my psycho thoughts on the busride bac and even when i went bac on my promise to go home! thank you for jus being so tolerant of my very unpredictable self. and i really agree w the MBTI site on ur IFSJ personality.

yup guys go try it. ys' MBTI personality test. i think its rather accurate. but seems like i've changed. the first ever test that calls me an 'introvert'. i feel kind of amused, but upon deeper thought i think it jus might be true.

sorry for the very disjointed account.

gonna end off by talking abt the mozart flute quartet. i like it cos its really sweet and simple. jus the way i'd like this tumultuous week to end. which it did afterall, reminds me of the magic flute ending and how all the conflict and misunderstandings jus untangled itself naturally.

i cld categorise different stages of my life w different pieces of music. these songs/tunes/music are like a bookmark for me to mark a certain phase that i'd been going thru. so when i flip thru the book again, i cld easily flip bac to that page in time when xxxx happened. maybe its jus another way to help me organise that thing called my memory. like hei se mao yi, borodin string quartet, they're not jus nice music that i adore but more imptly, they symbolise a time of my life that can be so nicely 'characterised' by these tunes. its kind of abstract, but jus someth that i myself and only i can relish HAHAAH

flute quart in D means a great deal that im not able to describe to u all on this blog. i guess the quartet pp will never know either. its jus when things got horrible that i realised how impt it is to try as hard as u can (this is the main part, the trying hard part)to remain true to ur 'core', to stand on ur own feet and even if u have the best friends around, uve only got urself to depend on. some things jus have to be done. so quit those weak-ness.

thank you my friends.

smile

put a smile on your face, and make the world a better place

Studying's a bitch eh, darren? Good luck to our two marvelous OGLs. And to cheer them on, here's a motivational poster!



peace, yo
Baron von Wank.

Salute

My msn nick had two new additions in the last week, one of a tortoise, and one of a rose. They are not there for fun, they are tributes and reminders of two great people who passed away.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee
mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
for those whom thou think thou dost overthrow.
die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

One of them was a great famous crocodile hunter, who was struck down by a stab to his heart by a stingray. The other was a young boy, a rinpcc cadet in sec 3, whose life was snatched away by a virus that went for his heart.

from rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
and soonest our best men with thee do go,
rest of their bones, and souls delivery

You guys have probably read a lot about Steve Irwin, and will probably know more abt him than me, so it is the npcc cadet who i wish to highlight in this post.

thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
and dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell;
and poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
and better than thy stroke; why swell thou then?

Zh, i may have missed your wake cause i was sick that day. I may not have known you that well personally. But i'll will always remember u. The unit will always remember u. For having been a part of the unit; for having worked hard for the unit; for having strived to do your best for the unit. You have lived a life worth celebrating, and you will be remembered forever.

one short sleep past, we wake eternally,
and Death shall be no more;
Death, thou shalt die.

- john donne

Rest in peace

Regards,
Yong Sheng