Monday, October 30, 2006
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, People may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, They may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
Mother Theresa
Saturday, October 28, 2006
I still can smell the powder on my palms and fingers. Pei Yun and me were the instructors for the rockclimbing session today for 56th Coy GB girls. Hah. They were shocked when I told them my age, as always, and when I said I was from 2nd Coy. Met a girl who is the same age as me. =] Anyway, jia you 56th coy! grow GB grow! Once a GB girl, always a GB girl. Seek, serve and follow Christ.
Take not to all. Every Tuesday night, there are rockclimbing sessions at emmanuel house. If you are interested, contact me. =] ct_js@hotmail.com
Thursday, October 26, 2006
TODAY. Oral presentation was quite smooth. In my point of view that is. Tomorrow will be better. Get in the mood, Cass!
Happy day. I received loads of crap from my housemaster. Darn! He is really lame. Sagittarius secret plans in progress. Not very secretive la, perhaps those that happen to know will get their heads chopped off etc. All the novel ideas and the enthusiasm. I am so excited!! Don't let it die down!!
Tomorrow is d-day for many of the Innovians. I don't know if what I know can be said, so better don't. All I can say is that the fate of many lies in the hands of the teachers that have been teaching us so far. I guess teachers do have compassion. I am quite sure of one. I don't know if the compassion is genuine or has a hidden motive. I shall give him the benefit of the doubt then.
I do hope 0632a will remain as it is. Yay. We have a class blog.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
I need a break from my OP.
Thanks man! I finally see the fruits of doing so many presentations in secondary school. Chairing the meeting with all the prefects, with the sea of faces doesnt seem to intimidate me anymore. Once you are an interviewer, you will never be as afraid of interviews as before. Perhaps still a bit nervous especially when you really want it but you will pretty well know if you get it since you were once in their shoes. After going through rounds of Q&A with Lim&Lim pte. ltd, you will find that answering questions dont scare you. But still after so many experiences, I still make mistakes. It is easy to pinpoint at others but I myself might commit the similar ones. I pray that the aura will be with me tomorrow. If an impromptu speech can be concealed as one that is prepared, then tomorrow shall be THAT day...
bring back some memories..
HT screwing up her interview by quarelling with Wong
Randall plucking my hand hair while interviewing the councillors
Kenneth will unacceptable hairstyle before interview
Daniel drawing on his paper instead of listening to the interviewee's answer
Eugene laughing his head off when they give a funny answer
Me, smoking my way through, as usual =]
just a thought: This is what I saw today: ''When god created Adam and Eve,..."
I was wondering why is God is small letters and Adam and Eve with the first word being capitalized? Since God created Adam and Eve, He should be greater than them isn't it? Ironic.
Monday, October 23, 2006
It shows the life of a barbie doll. From young till old. Everything is kept in jars to ferment her ''dead'' body. It is morbid but it shows the reality of life.
Music can be created using pots and pans.
Singapore Biennale Exhibition 2006! If you do have time, please go and take a look. Here are some of the pictures I took. Some places do not allow photography. Pardon me for my lousy skills. I was in a rush. Cant seem to upload the rest. Another day then.
I went to rockclimb after that and then to Teen games meeting. We had new people coming in like the not-bad looking Joshua from Raffles etc. Uncle Ngiap Tai was as usual super funny and always suan-ing me. Uncle Lionel was as quiet. Aunty Boon Jun was as noisy. My theory, anyone in YFC who is old or married gets the name aunty or uncle. Right now, I think I'm about the only one that calls them uncle. LOL. Had a great time at meeting. More importantly, I learned a lot of things. These include the utmost importance of planning, dedication from team mates, communication between teams and HOW TO ORGANIZE for a LARGE scale event like in thousands of people. Teen Games is brought to you by Singapore Youth For Christ and it is coming in march and june 2007. Watch this space for more info.!
P.S. It so sweet of you, LF, for telling me that you're going to NS.
99 ways of thanking him..
1. Laugh at him and not with him
2. Gloat as I see the shine on his botah head
3. Extort a treat from him
4. Constantly msg him on the weather outside camp
5. Remind him that he has to book in on sun night
6. Smile as I see girls and he doesn't
7. Update him on the latest serial and what he has missed
8. Accidently blurt out that I am enjoying ice-cream at swensens
9. Try to lend a listening ear when he is at camp
10. Do everything from 1 to 9 another 11 more times.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
JARS OF CLAY! New album out. Any sponsors?
The boulders hang tall as I throw a glance
The curves, crevices, loops and holes
I then look at puny little me at the bottom
Am I a conqueror or a coward?
With a little help and encouragement,
My feet lifts the ground to take the first step
As my hands fit into the spaces above,
slowly step by step I ascend.
Finally, I reach the summit
Leave my imprint I must
And coming down to the ground
The familar place my feet shuffles on
I think to myself
Lets do it again!
For it never fails to amaze me.
My love,
Rockclimbing.
Hey!! Found another love. Blading. Long time since I used my blades. Thanks to Nerf, I fell. But thanks to him, I shall master hockey stop and power stop. My passion is up again. Salom course here I come! Salomon Motion 7!
You can feel love by doing what you love even without having others loving you.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Whoopee. Ok. No more EMO sessions. Was not feeling very sane that day.
Dear Little Wayne, I hope you're feeling better. Hope you like the dangy pop-up card with a virtually straight rainbow with the colour scheme mixed up and the balloons. Sorry, Han Jin and I aren't really experts in art. Thank Sharifah and Amaluna instead. We're glad that you're young so the card can be plain and simple with loads of pictures. Han Jin thought that you would laugh your head off if you were probably much older and both of us still designing a card for you. You probably would want to question our intelligience. Thank God! Anyway, on behalf of Sagittarius, I wish you speedy recovery! Partly so that your dad can come back and teach PE. I know you're probably too young to ever read this and I'll never get to see you cause your dad deems me as a dangerous person. Boo! I reckon you'll find out 'the truth' one day. Jia You!
Yay. I get to be promoted. I got B B B D D U. Dang. I think you can jolly well guess what that U is. CHINESE. I have to and I will pass my chinese. Anyway for the other language, argghhh. I got a D for my GP. So sad. The subject that I love ( actually I love PE more ), but yes. I did badly. Time to hit the books and get my boyfriend back -- Mr Dictionary. Hopefully my summer test can pull my other subjects to an A (econs, hist, lit). IF you happen to have the same thinking, yes, I am a late bloomer. One thing's for sure, I need to practice maths. Daniel, you are my newly appointed tutor. In return, I will help you lose weight and be your love councillor. :]
I love writing Tan Jean Siew as my name for my exam. When teachers mark, they can be biase. It will be good if they like me but bad as I suffer from a massive heart attack when I get my A level result. It will be diasterous if they dislike me for they may pinalize me for minute mistakes. Few teachers know me as Tan Jean Siew, so it is to my advantage as I will just be another ordinary name. Other than my chinese teacher (like duh!) and Mr Chen who likes to call me by that when marking attendance. It means compete for the best. I find it so APT! Unlike the original name my parents bestowed upon prematured little Cassandra, BANANA. That was what they wanted to call me. Goodness gracious! (sounds familar?) I thank God for my grandfather who rejected that name. Next up was Coco. NOOOOOOOoooOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! Double relief. Imagine my face with these 2 names...Sorry, cant do it. I end up with Cassandra, the meaning of it in this temporal World is coming of disaster. Myth or fact, you decide...
stream of consciousness: a character's continuous and random feelings and thoughts, using long continuous pieces of text without obvious organization or structure.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Someone once promised me that the day he will stop loving me will be the day when the seas stop touching the sand. Another someone once said that we'll always be friends but broke my hear the next day. All these memories live in East Coast beach.
I want to go beach-ing again.
I want to go and fly kite. Watch the kite soar against the wind. Yearn for the similar freedom.
Bring my salomon blades and learn the hockey brake. Skate backwards and watch everyone advance except myself. Attempt stunts without my guards. Fly hair fly and breeze past my face.
smash, crash and burn into the sea. Swallow all of me till I see no one by the shadow.
Its time again of the year when I pour all my sorrows out and share the burden.
Care to join? Do we feel the same way?
I remember this cartoon and it etches in my mind till today. It shows a man sitting by the jetty, shouting. Somewhere out there in the ocean, there is a signboard saying " no fishing allowed ". The words that come out from the man's mouth is man's sin. The no fishing allowed implies that once you surrender your sins to Him (the ocean), He will never rake them up again. He has forgiven me. This is why I so love the beach, I know I am wanted, forgiven, clean and loved.
Friday, October 13, 2006
Whoopee. My results are coming out soon!! Sorry, have not been blogging. My com is down. Sigh. Suddenly, I miss it quite some bit.
YAY. Having so much fun after my exams other than the boring yet important PW. I guess I will only know if I get promoted next thurs. It seems like eternity. I failed my chinese. Period. Again. I shall start speaking in chinese. LIKE REAL. OK I've got a brillant plan. Start watching chinese dramas that have chinese subtitles etc. Yes, it sounds like a feasible idea. I shall start listening to JAY CHOU's songs more OFTEN. :]
I look forward to quite a bit of stuff like going back to GM, planning for school stuff, getting into the OGL group, ensuring SAGITTARIUS wins next year, etc..
I was wondering. Have you put in so much effort in something so much so that you think you would do a good job? What if all the effort that I put in for Sagittarius doesnt pay off? Actually, I dont mind. At least when I look back after my leadership stint, I can smile and say I have done my best. I really like Mr Khoo, the mountaineer's talk. I want to climb mount everest; even before he spoke. Kenny Chen, on boh?
School's cool! Love PE! Love INNOVA! Whee...the Singapore Sports school friendlies with INNOVA. It was so much fun. The handsome, lanky, tan swimmer dudes, the extremely nice and big facitilies, the playground on the ground floor ( in which I wonder who it is for ), cheering for the teacher's in their soccer game, laughing, sweating and RUNNING! These memories will stay; making Innova more exciting each day. Open House is tomorrow. So EXCITING. I guess the hype and the level of excitement depends on how we look at it and I want it to be great. It shall be marvellous. I guess thats something we are all very fond of. It is to be 'fortune-tellers'. We tend to foretell what will happen even before the outcome is out. Think about it...explicit examples will only provoke your mind so much so that you mind not focus on things.
Friday, October 06, 2006
Today! ultra, uber FUN. There is no need for me to type in proper english orleali. LOL. My exams are finally over. OVER!! Finally, Mitchell will stop asking me daft questions like what will come out the day before the exams and the deaf Wei Xing who keeps asking me to repeat myself. Sandran! He finally finished reading the book for the first time before the exam. Boy, you should have seen the proud look on his face. Gulp. Although I know I still have the gruelling and most bothersome PW to finish and the LAST time I shall take CHINESE exams in my whole entire life, it is still a relief to finish one part of it. It is just like the symbolism of freedom linked to a tie. Everyday, one who wears a tie will look forward to the time when one can loosen the tie and take it off. It represents freedom somehow. Amazingly, you feel so much more relaxed after the tie is taken off. When the tie is worn every morning, it signifies the load of work you'll be getting when you get to office. No wonder, man with loose tie dont look neat. LOL.
I went straight to my granny's house after my papers. YAY. She cooked 9 crabs for all of us to eat. Almost all my relatives were there. Each of us took a few lanterns and walked around the estate at Neil Road. I took a BARNEY lantern. SO CUTE. My brother took the circle shaped lantern that caught fire even before he stepped out of the house. GOSH, he is dangerous. My 3 aunts, 3 uncles, 2 cousins, my brother and I walked around the private estates. The people at the nearby coffeeshop were staring at us. My fattest uncle was carrying a PINK and HELLO KITTY lantern. My brother had to carry a PINK TRIANGLE lantern. How GAY. We were laughing and joking about what we would do if we saw our friends. Then we started to blow off each other's candles in the lantern. I didnt know Mid-Autumn festival can be so fun. After like 10 minutes of walk, we returned to the house. Because a few lanterns caught fire at their frontyard, we used the hose to spray the dirt away. MUAHAHA. Then thanks to my beautiful idea, almost all of them got wet. Yes and they all started to say that I am ingrateful for treating them this way. Man! I love my family. I know they might never read this. Oh well, maybe when I do pass away, someone please tell them about this. MY secret BLOG. ooOOooo
Thursday, October 05, 2006
A few more hours to the start of my final papers. Ok. I guess I'll be able to promote. LOL. I have that gut feeling. The confidence, the aura. I hope I'm not daydreaming. I love myself!! Adam Khoo style. Hwei Ting, Adam's subordinate, correct?
Talked to one of my bestie, cow dung, yesterday. This was what she said. She likes this guy. He is close to being the perfect one for her but the only flaw is that he doesn't like her. Ironic. Cheer up la. At least he treated you to the movies. Unfair! You want to go out with me and yet you dont want to pay, you dont allow me to pay. HOW? Any suggestions anyone? Not to mention she has to pay adult fare for travelling.
Another friend today made the girl he like, cry. CRY! So we were guessing why she cried. Apparently, she doesnt like him but she still cried when he made some hurtful remarks. He kinda stop talking to her for a while. He felt tired wooing her. We rationalized why she cried. We came to this wonderful conclusion -- We will never know. LOL. Guess she took him for granted. Come to think of it, I treated a guy for granted for a long, long time. I guess I am reminded again, not to take things for granted. So...
A BIG SHOUTOUT to all my FRIENDS. THANK YOU! You're treasured by me.
Monday, October 02, 2006
MY FAVOUTRITE ANALOGY!!!!
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
The moral:
It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.
Phew. 3 papers down. I have 2 more to go!!! I celebrated with Lisa and Sheryl today. Mini-celebration to congratulate ourselves. ECONS is over and so is the gruelling MATHS! I really do hope we will still stay as a class. I'm used to Lisa's nonsense, Sheryl's complains, May's frustrations, Darsha's attendance, Eugene's mouldy bag but not any more, Wai Chong's holey bag, Sharifah's poor malay, confusing Shi Ming and Shi Hui, kicking Yi Ting's bag, Ama's laughter, Jac's frantic hand gestures and many more....
If we do have to be disbanded. PUT ME IN SAGITTARIUS. period.
Ok. I have to go EOM-ing while HT goes mugging, Jasmine goes slacking, Daniel goes shitting, Randall goes eating and Kenneth goes losing. Anyway, happy children's day!! That's for yesterday. Yay! I can celebrate this every year, if fact every day for I am a child in God's Kingdom. Whoopee!! Nothing beats being in His Kingdom. WX jia you!!
