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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:29:11 GMT

You probably won't see this, but I'm sorry I did that to you. You didn't deserve it

I screwed up Emath today. And even though I knew how bad you felt, I just had to do that. Had to.

Chooch Mel, what's wrong with you these days

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:28:50 GMT

I am making the effort to keep this alive!

Really :)

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Past few days have been...alright. Not bad at all I guess. Sunday was good, Monday was alright, today was...okay. SC's swimming DSA trials went alright, hopefully all of them weren't lying when they said SC's their first choice because there're some really good swimmers. And we are in dire need of those next year hahaha.

I was the only person at training after that, what happened to my beeyootiful friends huh ): Slackersssssssss.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:26:47 GMT

Something I've forgotten, which I shouldn't have. At all.

060708

Happy Birthday Cel :)

I can't remember a trip without her :)

Chongqing 06.

Nanjing 06.
(It was just the two of us at that point, before Min and Keziah came. When are we going back!!)

Malaysia 06.

Jakarta 07.

Japan 08.

Thank you for being there every single time I wanted to cry, laugh, grumble, and everything else in between. I guess we've had ups and downs but I'm glad that at the end of it, we're still okay :) I haven't been able to talk to you much lately because we can't at training and now that you stay so far away, we can't go for breakfast anymore, but knowing that I can call you at anytime is pretty good enough :) Thank God for you Cel, what would I do without you :)

"Cel says if you two room together, you'll fight all the time"
"If we're fighting and shouting and screaming at each other, you'll know everything's okay. When there's no noise, then you know something's wrong"

I love you Cel!

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:24:27 GMT

The Dentist

"Why do you hold your floss like that! It's so...barbaric!"
"Eeee don't be such a snob"
"You act like you've never flossed your teeth in your life! You're a floss virgin!!"

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My posts have been lagging badly. Oh well, time's kinda tight these days. First service on Sunday was good, Ariel was there :) The sermon was..I don't know. I'm not ready, I guess.

Tuesday and Wednesday night were spent mugging for Amath and Chem; Amath was pretty easy and Chem was...not good but not entirely bad. Hahaha, balancing equations suck, I got stuck at two questions and I was scribbling on my paper trying to find the right numbers and simultaneously saying in my head "God please give me the answers please please please" over and over again and Mr Sim said "LAST 15 SECONDS" and I got the answers for both

My God is amazinggggg

Training on Thursday and Friday night were okay, pretty good in fact. Tiring, and I'm aching today but I hope it pays off haha. I gained like 3kg from not training for one week -.- Ah well.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:30:05 GMT

I am lagginggggg in posts haha. It's getting tiring, and my life is getting more boring than it usually is, so there isn't much point posting I guess.

Mm well Thai Open is off for us because Cel has her exams and Ping dropped out for some unknown reason and they decided there were too few of us going so now we're all not going! Which is just as well I guess, since I've got an ear infection and I can't swim /: Which is also kinda good because CJL is going crazy with the swimming sets, they did 3x(4x200) yesterday omg. And I was timing the small people which is extremelyyyyy boring. (I think coaching is the most boring job in the world) Ah well, did core strengthening on Thursday/Friday (BY MYSELF ON THURS THANKS) I am aching all over now.

(On a side note, Kelly and I are awesome squatting partners heehee)

Amath&Chem block tests next week, cry cry cry. And I no longer have my iPod to study with me since it got stolen at Nationals It was special grrrrrr. So, no more iPod until Christmas/My birthday next year. Mmmph at least everything's backed up in my computer.

I NEED TO STUDY.

(Haha, Benavon Lee - "The more people say they need to study, the more you know they're not studying!")

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:41:17 GMT

Woah okay I just realised I haven't posted in like over a week hahaha. Oh well, haven't been terribly free lately so yeah. Bio block test today, geog block test yesterday, it was quite..stressful haha. Plus nationals in between.

Anyway nationals has been fun, I dont really have any pictures. Swimming is fun because there's not much pressure :) I'm too lazy to recount everything that happened but it's been nice seeing Jan Oy, Rainananana, Beatree (Who grew from a Gym Seed) and Yvonne Makkity Mak Mak, ACSI's most cultured girl. (ACSI is in trouble) Aaaaaaand Daph&Carrie :D (Super funny hahahaha)

In any case, God got the team through :) So praise Him for that :) I think we were quite worried about the 4 x 50 Free relay, especially after the Medley relay but everything came through in the end :)

Dinner was good, completely stuffeddddd haha. I had no idea the swim team had such weak eaters, apparently I have the biggest stomach hahahaha :D Stupid Yvonne Mak kept singing during dinner, embarrassing to the maxxxxxx.

Coach: Eh Rachel, just because you serve someone doesn't mean you're a maid right?
Julia: No it means you're a prefect

HAHAHHAHAHAHA.

Monday, June 30, 2008

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:50:25 GMT

Haha, pictures from Nationals. I'm only putting up the ones that make us look pro HAHAHA, none of the parts where we completely screwed up. Only pictures from duet and team though, cos my dad didn't bring the camera on the first day.

^ I love this picture haha it's cool

^ Lol I figured out why they managed to lift me so high, I lost 1kg from the stress of nationals hahaha. I look gay but CJL told me to CHIN UP so I did hahaha. Better than getting scolded anyway

^ Awesome pattern (:

^ Yay Baby Audrey!!!

^ Kelly&Karon yayyyy :D

^ Cel&Jodie :)

^ (Only by Your Grace)

^ First prize for managing to all be (nearly) the same height!

^ Well done SC

^ APSC

^ Karon!!!

Oooh I have pictures from solo day!

^ Guess who brought sexyback this year!! (L I T E R A L L Y )

^13-15 Solos

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:24:38 GMT

Oh, and catching up with Karon was fun! I missed her ):

"...Omg see now I'm like chaotahh already, nearly as black as you!"

(Pause)

"OEI!!!!!!!"

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:23:05 GMT

So, a lot's happened the past few days :)

Choir concert was yesterday, went, watched, laughed, cried. You girls were beautiful up there :) The funny thing about every choir concert is that it's always such a great show that no one realises how much the teachers/students panic before the concert because they think they haven't practiced enough/haven't been doing well enough. Haha and I've never watched an SC Choir concert before but I can see why people come to watch every year :)

Sec 3s, you all were...amazing. Watching all of you made me wish I'd done the concert (even though I hate practices but still) and made me wish I could stay on next year even though I know I can't. I'm really really proud of all of you (Esp you, Char! I cried and cried and cried hahaha. And Jessie too because she was so pretty ) because I remember being in Sec 1 and all of us being told we were expressionless and now you guys are the role models for the juniors (And very good ones too) So next year, Gold Honours for SYF yeah? :)

Mmm so the main reason I wasn't in the choir concert was synchro nationals. I guess in the end giving up the choir concert was more or less worth it because nationals went pretty well for me, and I only have God to thank for that :)

Training for nationals wasn't easy because there were many many times where I just felt so inadequate and I started to give up on myself because I didn't want to just go in there and do what I was supposed to, I wanted to do it well. And even despite that there were times where I lost focus and let other things take priority over training, which had its consequences, believe me.

That's where God began to intervene, and I guess in the end, it all comes down to trusting in God and believing in Him. It took me awhile to completely let go of what I wanted, but when you trust and believe in what God can do for you, His love never fails :)

I didn't get the top 3 for solo, but I'm happy with the results I got, even though at one point I did feel pretty disappointed in myself. But I was just constantly reminded to trust, and I did. Honestly, I was pretty surprised with the scores for my solo&figures but it's by God's grace that I got the placing I did :)

Min&I won 3rd for duet, out of 8, which we were really quite...shocked by hahaha. We completely screwed it up (C O M P L E T E L Y) and we were pretty disappointed after that, cos we could've done a lot better and probably have gotten a better placing if we'd done it well and after the routine when we saw everyone's scores we were thought it was allllll over for us. But praise God, our figures pulled us up and...third

(Yeah but of course we got punished for messing up so badly, 500m double ballet leg at 1pm which explains my now blackened and burnt state)

I've got alot to thank God for: Teammates, who cheered like crazyyyy (Especially one who's been there every single time I wanted to cry and give up), Min (The duet partner who puts up with my mood swings heh and who I do a lot of stupid things with), friends who messaged everyday to ask how it went/sent me verses (Which really kept me going)/prayed/wished me all the best, CJL who screamed at me wayyyy too much but I've kinda realised that she spent a very large percent of training time with me rather than the others, parents who took time off to spend the whole day at the pool in the hot sun and above all, His neverending love that gave me strength :)

After all, it's not my success, it's His :)

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:54:22 GMT

2 days ):

"Orhhh you see, you laugh at me and now I can do and you cannot do and it came out, serves you right!!"