I have failed countless times to update this blog, and I have a feeling no one really reads anymore. However, since this was where I started writing it always feels most comforting to return to write short bit about my life here

I was browsing today this article where a number of individuals had submitted pictures or scans of their teenage diaries. I have hardly graduated out of teenhood myself; once a very interesting character told me that you don't truly stop being a teen until you've passed 25 years of age. Sometimes not even then. Yet I can't help but look at (the now hidden) entries that used to chronicle my life in secondary school and then in junior college. I was a very different person then, and yet, not so.

As I write this now, I am waiting for myself to fall asleep, for the memories in my head to die down so I may just tumble into a nice dreamless sleep.

Yet sleep evades me, as it naturally does when you need to wake mere hours later for the most important task of school. It feels so new all over again, because people just come and go and come back again.

But enough of my rambling, I should really try to at least close my eyes and lay down, and hope that eventually sleep will take me.

To all those people who left my life, I miss you. You know who you are

<3 M

sunnuntai, huhtikuuta 23, 2006

band

sat was a very nice day! a whole lot of new experiences at that.

anyways, we had sectionals in the morning, and yirong and pang yu joined us. went through jericho, and i decided to record the "celebration" part of it (without vincent's knowledge). wanted to threated him by saying that he is terribly mean to us in sectionals and that i recorded it as proof! didn't succeed. that's because A. vincent was not mean during that sectionals and B. vincent is never mean during sectionals.

after that i was searching for someone who was going to the syf central judging for marching and display band at national stadium. finally found out baya was going, so i thought i would go with her. was a teeny bit indecisive as to whether i should have gone or not. BUT i don't regret going at all.

initially i thought we were going with cliff and co, cos that's what baya said. but turned out there was a change in plans along the way, cos it was only cliff and not co. who was aware that we were tagging along. so they decided to meet their tkss friends, and me and baya had each other.

took the mrt to kallang, and then a bus to the area where there was the kfc and mcdonalds drive-in. i had so little cash on me, so i was worrying about lunch cos i didn't was to borrow from baya. luckily i had around three dollars in coins. baya was quite funny cos she wanted to upsize the drink, when the place actually had free refills. haha.

the place was absolutely packed with tkss students who were going to support their band. baya was rooting for them as well, so i did as well. i'm quite new to this you know, my only acquaintance from a marching band prior to mj is marcus from states. he told me alot about marching bands in our correspondance, but since that has ceased i wonder if he even remembers me now. the next few marching band members i knew came from mjcsb. wenqi and charity and lisa and shahneeza. other than that i knew nothing.

so anyways, we walked from kc to the stadium, and i really needed to go to the toilet. so we went in to one of the toilets that really sucked, and i didn't use it cos the toilet was fallign apart. then being irritating as i am, i decided to go to a different toilet. then something out of twilight zone happened.

we found a "good" toilet (well, comparatively good, since none of the toilets there can be called good in the first place), but it had no paper. so there was this door to what i think was a store room, and baya tried to open it to see whether there was paper. it was locked. so we went back down to the other toilet to get paper. then we walked back. just as i entered the toilet...

baya : this isn't the toilet we were in just now.
me : it is whaat, look at the walls (looks blur)
baya : no its not! the toilet we were in just now had a door.
me : oh ya! (looks at the wall and starts) then where are we?
baya : omg, thats so freaky.

we practically ran out of the toilet lar! so we saw another toilet

baya : THIS is the toilet we were in just now.
me : NOOOO, there's no door. look.
both : aaaaah. omg omg omg this is so freaky.

this time we ran out of the toilet. i grabbed baya's hand, and told her i'm scared. so we wondering where we were, and i ALMOST thought about foregoing the whole toilet thing and darting out of the stadium totally. i even had goosebumps. i thought we were in this twilight zone thing where the toilet with the door disappeared. talk about TERROR. finally we came to the toilet with the door. here's the thing, it was SO DARN FAR AWAY from the toilet where we went to originally, and we didn't even recall walking that far. in fact, it seemed exactly the same as the first time we walked to the toilet with the door. FREAKY.

quickly went about with my business and then we went and scouted for seats. we watched the marching band assessment, and hwa chong was REALLY impressive. they played the "celebration" from jericho and a bit from merry widow during formations. haha.

after (a very long while after) came the display band competitions. TKSS was super impressive can. i gasped everytime the drum major threw the mace into the air. it was sooo nice. i also liked the cowboy band, and bowen, with its female drum major. thought the colour guards were super distracting though. but they add up to the whole thing. some bands were so big, they looked like an army!

as predicted, TKSS, Deyi and Bowen got into the finals. now i have to rush off cos my pesky brother is DEMANDING to use the com for no good reason. i hate being rushed.

btw, a great thank you to baya for making my day so nice! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox. what would i do without you!

marlz

sunnuntai, huhtikuuta 23, 2006

band

4/23/2006 11:36:00 ap.

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