Sunday, August 29, 2004

finally, we IBG for girls r over. we played hockey and handball today. and i'm pretty burnt. i mean, i'm burnt pretty. last game's gonna be sepak takraw. it'll all be over tmr. it has been really enjoyable, and sometimes really disappointing.

i'm sorry if i've ever snapped at u cuz i was having mood swings during the IBG period. but usually what i say when i snap at u, i mean it. i try not to be straightfwd sometimes. i can't help but be frank when my tolerance level for nonsense is reached. those who know me well should know that i hardly flare up. i bottle up a lot. my point is, i try to be nice. but do not take me as nothing. u know u haf ur responsibilities to fulfill, do it. dun be too selfish.

sacrifice isn't really the most appropriate word to use here. but i feel like i've really sacrificed my own personal time that i deserve to have sometimes. juz give me a break ok?

dun even ask me what i'm talking about here. thanks.

janet at 7:05 PM

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

do not look at me as though i am a freak. even though i look like one now.

usually i do not get 2nd looks from pple. today, i did. yea yea, i'm about 1 degree sunburnt. my face is peeling and i look horrible. my dad was trying to persuade me to stop doing sports out in the sun. he even told me to play badminton or table-tennis instead. wth. i don't wanna look this way too.

anyway, i'm home. nice dad fetch me from hall at 1 am in the morning and brought me to eat supper at changi. yo1 ji4 mee3 sua3. nice =) drank cough syrup b4 i left hall and now i'm like really drowsy. but since my pc is on (cuz my bro's BTing), might as well update this blog.

ok, i shall talk about sch work. let's see. erm. ok. i skipped a generel bio lecture cuz i wasn't feeling well. finance sucks. so does management accounting. the only 2 modules i enjoy are biz communication and operations management. anyway, i gave a mini-lecture in biz comm class and i was told that i'm monotonous, and that i should try to vary my voice more. i couldn't help it cuz my voice was partially lost. had to suck on 3 honey strepsils juz to get half my voice back. i sounded like a toad i swear. but that's the only bad comment i got, so that's pretty gd =) my tutor also said i was spontaneous cuz i gave a lot of examples. really, i'm not that spontaneous. i messed up my cue cards while i was up there and i thought it'd be really embarassing if i paused to look for the right cue card. so i juz stood there and talk but my mind was like in a blur.

i think i suck at talking to a crowd, especially at presentations. i get nervous, and u can tell cuz my voice will change and it won't be firm. and i'll even stutter =/ and sometimes i'll juz pause and try to collect my thoughts cuz my mind will go into a blank and i'll juz keep pausing till i laugh to relieve myself of embarrassment and still nothing will come to my mind. it's so sad, isn't it?

there's gonna be a tutorial presentation for me next monday. good luck to me man. someone pls buy me some confidence.

janet at 2:15 AM

Sunday, August 22, 2004

Inter-Blk Games aka IBG begun last thursday. IBG started off with the track event, which was super exciting cuz the runners were fast. my blk was pretty good, tho we didn't get first for any track event, but we had really good runners. i ran for the 4x100m females relay, and we got 4th. reason being i was IN that relay... hahahaha.

the new blk comm 04/05 was elected into office on friday. i'm the only blk commie in blk comm 03/04 that didn't step down. i got promoted. i'm looking fwd to working with lena, who is the blk head and the rest of the new blk comm members, including laggist (lounge ic).

anyway, back to IBG. saturday - played touch rugby and a lil bit of soccer. touch was fun! blk A spirit was way up high during the touch. our guys got 2nd! not sure about the girls, maybe we got 4th. but all of us really enjoyed ourselves even tho we were all being roasted in the morning and afternoon sun. soccer was on after touch, and we roasted ourselves further. the acers girls played well, and we put up a good fight with the other blks. i'm very proud to tell my blog readers that blk A soccer guys r the champs!!! woohoooo... it's the first gold for blk A this year!

woke up early today for volleyball IBG. the weather didn't look too good. there were dark clouds and i thought it would rain. but it didn't. so the game went on as planned. the vb girls had our first match with blk B. we beat them by a lot of pts and we won both sets. next we faced blk C which i felt was the strongest competitor blk cuz most of the team were made up of IHG (Inter-Hall Games) players. we lost both sets to blk C, but the points were all v close. wasn't upset, cuz losing to a good blk has nothing to be upset about. enjoyed the game with blk C totally.

well, we managed to get into the finals and met with blk C again. we lost the first set with v close scores. we won the next set by a bit too. the 3rd set was very stressful for all the acer girls cuz blk C was leading the the set at first. but we managed to overtake them and finally won them with a score of 15-13 at the 3rd set. i was so exhilarated.. i cried. i really didn't expect to win. the stress was on me and the rest of the players on the court. i did the last 3 services to reach 15 pts. thank goodness for the luck. 2nd gold for blk A!!!!

the guys did well. beat blk C and went into the finals to meet blk E. blk E were juz too strong to beat. so we're 2nd. which is a very good feat =)

volleyball rules. juz that playing in the hot sun really sucked. i'm very burnt. everytime i smile or try to make a funny face, my face will hurt. yea, i look pretty african now. but it was worth it man! gold for girls volleyball!! and i thot all the games that i take part in will nv get first cuz i'm in it. but this proved me wrong. as long as the players give their best, with good team spirit and communication, there'll be a gd chance for that gold.

oh i am very thankful to all the acer supporters who went down faithfully for every single game since thursday. couldn't have done it w/o them. esp the water boys and girls who will always be there to pass us iced cold water during half time and rest time. they were always cheering for the players whether we win or lose. u know who u guys r. u rock =)

i'm goddam happy i can't even describe how happy i am. juz really goddam happy =)

janet at 5:52 PM

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

the last supper prepared by blk comm 03/04 is the best supper i've ever helped to prepare. the food was good. i've heard some praises already. hehe. actually, i've cooked (or helped in some way or another to cook) so much supperssssssssss over the past 1 year that i can't remember what the other supperssssss were like. this one seems to be the best =P we had pizza bread, tom yam soup with tang hoon, brownies topped with ice-cream, banana with hersheys choco syrup, french toasts, and ribena! nice ok! =)

yes, we cook a lot of supperssssssssssssss. we, as in blk comm.

all the planning of menu, shopping at giant for ingredients and groceries, preparing and cooking, serving, and clearing up = lotsa fantastic blk comm supperssssssssssssss.

we rock.

oh! my blk has a new elected blk head - lena!! and blk comm 03/04 will be stepping down this friday!! i'm v excited about it. no more cooking of suppers, no more long or short meetings, no more jio-ing of pple to go down for events. i'm gonna be juz an ordinary blk A senior who goes up to rooftop for suppers and leaves when i'm done. =) yay!

spinning: at last by etta james



janet at 3:19 AM

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

it was an all water event. blk a freshmen are officially known as acers after the initiation "ceremony" =)

i was a water-bomber.

the new acers were the victims of flying waterbombs and buckets of ice cold water poured on their heads. plus the rolling in the mud really made the ceremony really enjoyable... for the seniors. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

i love blk a shalalalala!

janet at 1:45 AM

Sunday, August 15, 2004

im sitting in front of my desktop waiting for BT to finish d/ling the notebook. watched the trailer a few months ago and have been looking fwd to the movie. 20 more mins to go!

played volleyball last nite with my blk mates and i really enjoyed the game. the girls seem to be pretty good at the game. i think blk A may stand a chance to win vb this year. but we'll be playing against blk C where the power vb girls are. we'll c how it goes. i'll be contented if we could beat at least a block.

besides vb, i signed up for handball and netball for IBG (inter-block games). and maybe more sports, but i can't seem to recall now. i totally do not know how to play netball! ugh. and i dun really like handball cuz the game involves contact, which i realize i dislike. last yr's IBG, i played handball and when some blk C girl played contact with me and was pretty aggressive, i hurled some vulgarities. i didn't really mean to get angry, but i juz did. i still feel bad about it. wonder if she remembers me for that.

juz when i thot that i won't have any webcasted lectures this sem, i found out that general bio has! yippie!!

spinning: qi li xiang by jay chou

janet at 1:33 AM

Friday, August 13, 2004

i survived my first week of school. *cue to applause*

in case u r interested, i'm taking finance, managerial accounting, operations management, managerial accounting and general biology. sounds yucky?

shall blog more later. going for volleyball training for inter-block games! =)

janet at 7:48 PM

Friday, August 06, 2004

had a mini-outing with some of the orientation councillors at marina south today. first we went kite flying cuz hue won was super enthusiastic about it. i almost didn't go for kite flying but i'm sure glad i did. the last time i flew a kite was when i was in pri sch. it was really nice to watch hue won and shao kai trying to launch the kites. hue won was like a natural. she got the kite up high in juz a while. the other kite must be cursed or sth cuz it juz can't be launched. but after quite some time, wencong managed to launch the other kite and we were all happily fly kites. (this sounds so lame.)

ya and so we flew kites, till the string exhausted. 200 yards worth of string per kite. proceeded to tie the strings to some tiny trees and juz left the kite to soar on its own. juli was worried that the trees will get uprooted, and that was pretty amusing. then we decided we should juz leave the kites alone while we head to this lousy place called chong pang for steamboat. shd've eaten at jen fa huo seafood instead. the food wasn't fantastic. and i didn't eat my fill. but it's the company that counts.

we went to check out if the kites were still flying after dinner, and they were!! it was difficult to spot the 2 kites in the dark sky but well, we did la. =) so exciting.

bowling after dinner was quite fun. i didn't wanna bowl initially but i got persuaded. turned out i kinda enjoyed the game.

oh and i left marina with the blk A peeps, the kites were still flying =) hope the rest of the councillors from the other blks remembered to bring the kites back to hall so that we can try flying them on blk B's rooftop some day =)

councillors rock man.

too bad the blk commies had to rush back for meeting. or else could've hung around longer hitting pins.

i seriously haven't enjoyed myself that much in a long time.

janet at 2:04 AM

Sunday, August 01, 2004

i finally have the time for myself since orientation's kinda over now. the past week has been pretty good except for the lack of slp.

there's this freshie that reminds me of someobody i used to know. the way he looks at pple and the way he smiles and the way he blushes when he's being teased. yea, i guess he's the shy kinda guy.

can't wait for sheares hall initiation "ceremony". <--- sentence was edited @ 12.06pm on 02 Aug 2004.

got to know a guy from another block today cuz we both alighted at bedok interchange. first i met him at the bus stop outside sheares, but we didn't talk cuz we didn't know each other and we were sitting at different seats on the bus. juz happened to walk beside him at the interchange after we alighted and he suddenly turned to me and asked if i was from sheares. it's pretty weird cuz i didn't expect him to talk to me anyway. yar, so i kinda made an acquaintance in a strange way.

i like solitude sometimes.

still spinning: jet - look what you've done

janet at 7:30 PM