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Saturday, December 30, 2006
I pray you all enjoyed yourselves as much as I did, even if I left for a while. Yep. Oh, please do thank Aaron for the lovely room. (It was quite nice, no?) He paid for it. I didn't pay a cent. So thank him, yea. Here's the guy who made this thing possible or else staying over would be hell. Thanks lots dude!  Here's Rachel cam whoring a lil.  Here's a lil of me. Ha. No comments please. (I didn't take this picture. Rach did)  Here's Yi Wen, in his Playboy-eqsue bathrobe outfit. What a sight for those who just came then.  Ying Qing in her "I've made it" outfit and also looking Jap-ish.  I'm adding one of Rachel and Nivi here, cos Rachel's complained the one up there's crappy.  Myself, Nivi and Jishun.  Group shot!  Playing Upwords...  Some later fell downwards... while playing twister. (Yes. Pun intended. Upwords followed by downwards)  Here's Ying Qing making a new butty...  Later on, it was my turn as well...  Ok... So MAYBE, just MAYBE I got to know the butty better...  Of course Twister involved some twisting...  I shall add this one of Rachel twisting too...  Another group photo! (With the two who won Monopoly. Yes. It was only after merging. Haha. Kk. Whatever. Don't matter. Had fun.)  There. That was some of the fun we had. Finally, to end this post, just a thought. I wonder what Marcus was doing here...  THANKS 07AO1D, YOU ALL ROCK. I STONE. posted by Lau Wen Loong at 4:50 PM Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Regarding 29th./30th Hi there to one and all. I pray the shout-out was appreciated yea? I'm back once again to do a short lil write-up on 29th/30th. So here goes. Since we will be staying over at a hotel, please do dress nicely, people. The dress code should be minimally smart casual. Yes, that's minimally; I will refuse to stop you should you wish to dress yourselves in a suit for the gents (I feel tempted to do so cos I have one that's just fitting and have never worn it since there is no occasion to, but I won't. maybe I'll just wear the top. hmmm) or a cocktail dress or even gown for the ladies. My advice is against that, however, since we won't be staying in the hotel the whole day, unless of course you wish to leave the suit in the room. The room will be a Grand Room as it is so termed by the hotel, which probably is just a fancy name for 'slightly-larger-than-normal-room'. I am unsure as yet how many of you are staying over, but form what I gather, it will be Aaron, Yi Wen, Ying Qing, Enli, Marcus, Jishun and Nivi. I know that possibilities are Rachel, Wei Ren, Michelle, Alison, Grace and Zhao Feng, of whom the last two afore mentioned are turning up late due to a CCA party. I myself will also be staying over, despite the party-pooping fact that I need to sleep early as I do have training the next day unfortunately or not. The remaining individuals not mentioned above, I have not heard from regarding their appearance,but should they do a Chris Angel and magically appear, they are more than welcome. As to the stayover itself, the girls will get the bed and guys, they have our word we'll leave them alone, don't they? +looks hopeful+ That should put many of the girls' parents' minds at ease, I hope. So anyway, I'm thinking that when I go to snooze you all could catch a late-night movie and party the night away. Before that in the day of course, we can find a nice place to have lunch either before or after check-in at 2pm. We can have a nice long tete-a-tete over lunch and dinner. In between, we could all go to play pool or find a nice place to bowl. Please don't make things hard by disagreeing, afterall, it's the company that matters in these actitivities, not so much the actitivities themselves and I trust that we all love each other's company. I think that we all might wanna utilise the facilities like the pool too? So bring your bathers along. I think that's quite a gd suggestion since the beach is kinda far away so the pool would have to make do till another outing to Sentosa or something. There's no need to be too self-conscious, since we're all able to laugh at and with each other so yea, chill and relax. Ladies and gentlemen, there's no need to bust your gut to try get yourself into some shape (if you're round, it's a shape too, so what the heck anyway. ha) by doing several hundred crunches (unless you really wanna) and push-ups yea? We're just gonna be there to relax and enjoy ourselves before we become the seniors of the school next year, so there. Alright, finally, just bring along what you think necessary. On the day before, I'll call some of you to settle F&B and stuff. Yea. Here's a list of perhaps some items you might wanna bring: An extra set of clothes A pair of PJ's (keep them clean pls, no babydolls and what-have-yous though they're kinda hot) A pair of thongs (i mean slippers, unless of course you favour thongs over tangas or something) Playstation Game Console Money (you could bring for me if you wished Cellphones Bag DVDs Cards A boardgame Alcohol (???) Oh yes, Presents for each other. What we could do without -A midnight police raid, so pls keep the drugs at home, druggy. -Arrests, so underworld bounty-hunter, if you're coming, a low-profile please. -Fights, so don't stare at that couple down the hall fumbling with the keys to their room and walk away if smokers annoy the crap out of you. Just walk away, even if you're Awesome Arms and will surely win. -Insanely-high extra bills, so keep away from the mini-bar,unless you're footing the bill (which is so not worht it), as well as from the phone (the phone rule applies to bimbo. Use your cellphones -Strippers, so please, refrain from calling them. -Toilet-hoggers, so please be considerate when using em. Others might be waiting. Alright. That's all from me for now. Till the 29th! (or my next post, if I have more updates... so pls check back for the meeting time and stuff...) posted by Lau Wen Loong at 2:00 PM Monday, December 25, 2006 Has Christmas been shitty this year?  =) anyway, i'm just being insane. hope everyone's having or had a nice smelling christmas. and if you haven't gotten enough presents, count that smile that ventured onto your face about 8 and a 1/2 seconds ago as a present from me. i'm so nice, right!! see, presents for everyone :)))))) anyway, besides being insane, i also happen to be bored. i don't want to go online, because i'll be simply tempted to annoy anyone i'm talking to...so speaking to a blank slate, well, isn't that bad. that's all, besides that, it's great weather for snugging up to your bedsheets (or for some, your loved ones). so here's wishing everyone sweet dreams, and for those who believe in santa claus (however true it is that rubbish chutes are more common here), may you hear santa's sleighbells twinkling outside your window tonight. posted by Lai Ji Shun at 10:07 PM Put the Christ in. Haha i'm wayy to lazy to do something like what Loong did even though i sorta want to, so Merry Christmas to everyone all the same. God bless all of you and i hope to see all of you at Loong's hotel thingo. Take care everyone. posted by Moca at 12:32 PM Lil Shout-out Here's a lil shout-out to all you peeps! Aaron: Hey big guy! Thanks for this great year. It's such a good thing to have you at RJ with me, catching up with you all over again since we met at RJ on O! day (that's orientation in case you didn't know, Aaron. ha) and I thank you so much for all the lil things you've done. Thanks for a techical 5-years of friendship (although for the in between, we didn't really talk for bout nearly 3 years) and I'm looking forward to a many good ones more! God bless you and your family with love this coming year and yourself with wisdom and discipline! Darn. Doing this in alphabetical is HARD. I'll go by groups (whose members will be alphabetical if I don't get lazy). OK, so means I'm starting with me class. K. Now to put a 'CLASS' header. Alison: Thanks for being a good OG mate and being fun and bubbly, always smiling and being cheery. May all your relationships be filled with joy and may you love those around you always! Chen Xing: Even though you don't read this blog, or maybe you do but I don't know, thanks for studying with those of us who were there during the hols and stuff. I know it can't really be counted as studyin but yea. Thanks for helping out and stuff. Enli: Thanks for being the lil vulture of the class. For being enthu when there's class outings and enjoying my company. Thanks for being funny and knowing how to laugh with me and also at me. God bless with faith in Him. Jishun: Thanks for all your one-liners and the basketball tips (even though I still am really bad at it) and for working that extra day with me at Conrad. Thanks for letting me bunk at your place that time after work at Conrad and thanks for the bringing Ying Qing and I for duck rice that time and for treating me to Wan Ton Mee that time. God bless with knowledge and trust. Grace: Thanks for your being more open to me and planning the class outing to the zoo, which was really quite fun. Thanks for being fun and quirky and adding your zest to the class. Thanks for all the fun. God bless you with focus on your studies and may you achieve what you set out to do. Marcus: Thanks for all the times you let me over to your place, for the allowing me to mess around at your place and to stay over. Thanks for all your interesting comments and thanks for you sarcasm, which is really, in retrospect, quite amusing. God bless with a love for others and discipline. Michelle: Thanks for playing my 'Ask-and-Answer' game where you were quite open to me and allowing me to get to know you better. Thanks for the intelligent remarks that you make sometimes and for being amusing and putting up with my teasing. (Yes, that's actually to everyone too, since I like to tease everyone.) God bless with the grades you pray for and with renewed faith in Him. Nivi: My wonderful new-found good friend! Thanks for being the PW mate that pushes the rest of us in the group and helping us meet deadlines. Thanks for the encouragement and the opening up to me. Thanks for the times where you played soccer and bball with the guys even though it's only yourself and Ying Qing there sometimes. Thanks for all you've done. God bless with the grades you want and with trust in Him. Rachel: Thanks for being a bubble of fun during GP classes when they get boring sometimes (sorry Mr Hau) and all the amusing things we've done (shut up Yi Wen, not everything I say has a sexual connotation despite your claiming it has.) Thanks for all the good times. God bless with a close walk with Him! Sarah: Thanks for sending me those songs you did and thanks for being the loudspeaker for laughter in GP class together with Grace, creating the much needed 'upper' that is needed at times in the class. Thanks for everything. God bless in your studies and relationships! Sophia: Thanks for being a blessing to me through your blog and being exemplary as a fellow sister-in-Christ. Thanks for not losing your temper at me despite your being the chinese rep and my being the chinese-rep's-responsiblity-that-causes-her-much-headaches. Thanks for your insights in our Faith and all. God bless to walk closer to Him and to love greatly. Wei Ren: Thanks for inviting me to your network's soccer thingum that time. Sorry I played really badly and stuff. Thanks for being so diplomatic and exemplary in your conduct towards others. Thanks for being a blessing. God bless to shine as an example to others and to get to know Him better. Ying Qing: Haha. Nearly forgot her. Was counting and counting and was like eh? How come not enough people in the list yet. Lol. Thanks for being a wonderful blessing to me and learning to open up to me, despite all the issues you have with trusting people. It means a lot then, for you to open up to me. Thanks for being great fun and the girl (other than Enli) who's there to hang out with us when the others can't or sometimes, just won't. Thanks for putting up with me crap and for believing in me. Thanks for the encouragement. God bless with love for your family and those around you and a renewed faith in Him! Yi Wen: Thanks for being the intellectual one with the interesting insights. Thanks for the experiences we shared and the fun times in RJ. Thanks for being the guy whom provides much humour. Thanks for being such an inspiration and thanks for putting up with my utter rubbish too. Thanks for the really smart comments and insights you have provided and the care and concern. God bless with wisdom and renewed faith in Him! Zhao Feng: Thanks for being a good class rep and you intelligence. Thanks for that evening when Yi Wen and I had dinner with you where I had the chance to get to know you more. Thanks for the entertainment and the wonderful singing that time at Victoria Concert Hall despite my falling asleep and drooling after your items were done and making a huge fool of myself. God bless with continued excellence in your studies and to find faith in Him. posted by Lau Wen Loong at 10:48 AM Monday, December 18, 2006 A Day In The Life How's everyone doing? I've been in front of the computer for the bulk of today, looking at colleges..college reviews...trying very hard to plan my future far too quickly in advance. And I'm still torturing my pupils and my old old motherboard. I'm also trying to decide if I should finish up the toast (topped with milk jam and traces of margarine) which lies between the monitor and the tips of my keyboardtyping fingers first, or should I finish writing this first? Banana-flavoured milk jam wins the battle. Yes, I know it's still pretty early to look at colleges now. But I am quite worried for my future - probably paranoid, I don't know. Then again, I think I'm just curious - about college life and also the prospects of the my college life - and trying not to think about all the more urgent matters like the lit. h3 reading and SATs [I'm not sure whether there's actually much to study. I don't know! Sigh.]. So anyway, I narrowed down a few of them: 1)Rice University (I hope I can make it there. The college life seems pretty cool - at least, according to The Princeton Review, and the StudentReview comments are really favorable. The financial aid's good. And just check out it's wiki. All those aside, I think getting in would be tough.) 2)Georgetown University (Alright, I can't really remember why. But one thing I do remember is that it's got a law school. More on that later) 3)Carnegie Mellon (I have a cousin studying there. And so far, he's "so far so good". The reviews mostly brooded on the student body being really nerdy/studious. Which can't be that bad. Anyway, it's easier to cause chaos than to stop chaos.) 4)Yale (Alright. This is pretty far-fetched. That's one reason why it didn't go on top of the list. I'll be quite amazed if I could make it there. The first thing that set my sights on Yale was watching Gilmore Girls. Rory's a witty and pretty girl. Rory goes to Yale. Yale kept her still generally witty and pretty. So Yale is... Anyway, I got cut off from the series... and yeah that's that. But hey, Yale's good.) I also took a 'career-matching' test on Princeton Review. And I was quite surprised when I saw what I had in mind was also what they had in mind for me. I'm thinking of majoring in accounting and doing accounting/auditing stuff in the future. I have an impression that it pays well and pretty much ensures that you'll be employed. Which means I can feed myself. And if it really pays well, I'll have money to do other things that doesn't read work. I was also seriously considering law. But there are some problems here. One, I really want to go abroad for my studies. Not that I hate Singapore or anything, but probably because I haven't gotten out to see the world enough. The Internet is not enough. If I go to the States, however, they have different qualifications for practising law. And it wouldn't be that big an issue (actually, I'm not sure if it really is a huge one, but for a kid thinking bout his undergraduate future, it's really quite annoying) if it only differs with Singapore and not the whole Commonwealth. Juris Doctor VS Legum Baccalaureus. For JD, which means going to an American Law School, I can only go after I get bachelor's degree in anything (so that means 4years+++?). I don't really want to study law in Singapore. For one, I heard the faculty's (NUS) cramming students and there seem to be a lot of issues. And I have an impression - tell me if I'm mistaken - that maybe the States will offer a more diverse scene with the profession. So yeah, I'm going to just leave it at that for now - and see I'll hold out my interest in this. Anyway, Aaron, any opinion? Sorry if I bored you guys with that. But I'm wondering if any of you have really thought through all this already, or even if you've been halfway there or just started wondering...I think it'll be nice to discuss here. Granted, I'll be more obsessed with my own future, but it'll be interesting to see what you guys have in mind. Right now, let's see, I know Ying Qing wants to go for anthropology, Wenloong wants to go to Boston (I'm tempted to insert lyrics), Moca doesn't want to go to the States, Aaron wants to be a lawyer, Wei Ren wants to be a diplomat, I think I heard Michelle wants to go to Sweden?, and Yi Wen would have what it takes to be pro wrestler except that he also has brains (yes, I'm using a social stereotype at the expense of its victims to poke fun at Yi Wen - who however cannot deny the truth of my very apt description of him - and at the same time harmlessly attempting to project myself as a very witty and longwinded individual). So yeah..your future, anyone? I decided to blog here, so I won't self-obsess at my own blog. I had some nice alone time for the past week and it's been great actually. Everything seems to be slowing down now, as we're approaching the end of the year. It's been raining the whole day and even now, I can still hear rain drops outside. And.......yeah. I want to say that there's that lazy and peaceful feeling, but right now, I'm thinking of my bed more than anything. That's all from me now. Hope you guys are having fun out there, wherever you are. posted by Lai Ji Shun at 1:04 AM Sunday, December 03, 2006 This is getting too personal It's starting to get awkward for me to blog here. Try as i might to treat this blog like my own it obviously just isn't the same. I dunno. I can't make a new blog now without informing Booth/Mr. Leong/Hodge because they all want to keep tabs on my blogging exploits, so i'm stuck here. I even considered for about 5 seconds the other day keeping a personal diary, before i managed to banish such feminine thoughts from my head. (Not that i have anything against anyone keeping diaries, they're fun to read) For now i'll just try to write a post like i normally would on my 'Blog of Shame'. I havn't been sleeping properly for the last few nights. My eyes itch before i go to sleep, so closing them makes it sort of painful. Rubbing it, running water through, putting eyedrops doesn't work. I'll eventually drift to sleep a couple of hours later because exhaustion in the eyes overrides the itchy feeling. During this few hours my mind stays as active as always, and i get really screwed up thoughts when my mind wanders. (No, it's nothing sexual... Most of the time) Most of my day is spent playing games, so my mind's kept occupied then. At night though, it becomes worse. (duh) I THINK i am feeling lonely. It has little to do with Elizabeth though, but it's just this general sense of... nobody to talk to, for the last few weeks. Sometimes i'd rather not let her know that i'm troubled about stuff so she doesn't have to worry about me. Xinrui's in Penang now, and Weiren just came back from France so at least next week i can call a whole band meeting and keep around company for awhile. My other outlets for talking are all busy with their own church stuff (lol irony) and it wouldn't do for me to pull them away from that at all. 1 soul's bad enough. I havn't DotA-ed for... almost 3 weeks. My new comp keeps giving idiotic errors with the game, so i've stopped trying. I can sort of feel all the l337 skillz slowly dissipating day by day. Luckily i have had FF12 to take up my time, else i might have actually gone and done something useful with my life (shock!). I've been taking up poker and mahjong to keep my mind sharp, because FF12 is pretty mindless. (Yes, DotA does keep my mind sharp too) I'm running out of people to play both games with though. Random sidetrack : 1 advantage of writing this here is that my parents don't read it. So no nagging and worrying about my psychological well-being. Elizabeth doesn't come here either, i think. Dammit i need an outlet. Like right now. My bro's watching 'Gladiator' on the tv so i can't play PS2. No DotA. I lost all my poker.com chips for the day because my internet d/c-ed halfway through a game and made me 'all in'. I think i'll go look for old games to install or something. Don't really feel like typing anymore because i don't know where this post is going. I think i started with a point to get my mind to, but somehow i can't even remember what that was. Ending sidetrack : Pearly said she might still be teaching us econs next year. She gets to keep us or her other class. She says she prefers us (so sweet) but it's up to Lagman to decide. posted by Moca at 11:04 PM |
    
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