Spawned from the depths of my cluttered mind, this space narrates the little bits of niggling grouches in my memories, and as a ranting pad. Laughs, sobs, emptiness, blurts, let it echo through from within…
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So here I go, National Service, to serve my country and men, to sweat and bleed. May we meet again. Blog will be updated, albeit on a more inconsistent basis. Do feel free to message me since phones are allowed. I will try not to scare all of you with pictures of the bald me...
This has been a crazy weekend, first there was prom on saturday, then class chalet on monday, which I truly regretted for not being able to go and spend an awesome night of fun with my class on sunday. But anyway, I am just really tired now.
Prom was awesomelicious, with the good food (which I made sure to make all my money worth), and of course, meeting up with friends in their most suave and beautiful looks. Everyone was dressed up real neat (some girls were nearly unrecognizable...) but all in all, it was great fun. Not to forget, some pics...
Class photo
I could only go for chalet today, when everyone was shagged from a long night of madness and fun, which I missed (arghzzzz...) We ended up kind of slacking around, playing a little bit of soccer and bridge. But it was a really cool chalet, I felt almost at home. I guess 7A is just that awesome.
3 days to enlistment, when I will take long irregular breaks from blogging, do read on weekends ( I will try to post...). Will miss my friends, family and civilization altogether. Till then, we shall part...
Went for my first ever SNYO concert as an audience yesterday, my am I impressed. We actually sounded really good. Nice to see the viola section clearly, since we usually sit on the inside. And Yousuke Kawasaki is brilliant. Had a masterclass under him for principal quartet, which he was really good and detailed, but his playing is gosh, he made it look so easy. Effortless, yet amazing. It truly made me feel like playing it all over again. I will definitely try to find time to play in SNYO during NS, but not sure about the march concert though, coz god knows how long before I will get weekend breaks during BMT. We'll see, really missed all you violists....
Honestly, I should be prepping for prom now, but I don't really know what the big fuss is about. The so-called "prom mood". I wonder what is that. Oh wells, I am going there for the dinner (hopefully it has good food...). Well, till next time then...
Freedom beckons (in approximately 17 hours time). Hard to imagine that all 12 years of kiddy-teenage school life is leading up to this moment. The thought of it is just so awesomely cool, with a tinge of longing... (Hmm lemme fish out some class photos... random...)
Primary 6 (I look really nerdy...)
Secondary 2 (Gosh I think shorts look weird)
Secondary 4 (Long pants still better)
JC2
Nice to hear how some girls are already prepping for prom. Me, I am no fashionista, my wardrobe is filled with T-shirts and jeans, and the fact that the only decent formal attire I have is my usual concert attire, quod erat demonstradum... Anyway, guess I should go find a long sleeve coloured shirt at the very least... In fact, I can't even remember when is the prom, gosh...
Found this random excerpt on very random search topics on search engines on a blog (http://psgels.blogsome.com/)...
anime girl with 5 different personalities - Schizophrenia, anyone?
anime in which a star turns into a skateboard? - Oh god, please no!
anime were can i buy paprika - at the local supermarket?
how to blog anime - Go to wordpress.com, register and start writing
how to make an anime with you as the star - You really don’t want that to happen.
sky bolg of nice girl - Even though this is a typo, I have no idea what this guy was trying to find with this term…
what does 3 year anniversary mean - That something is three years old, idiot.
what season is august in - You seriously needed to search for this?
26 + 74 = one hundred - Erm… thank you for this piece of information…
japan, producing of the worlds weirdest shit since 1952 - Certainly!
a 13 to 15 line paragraph on how i betrayed my best friend - Write it yourself, how should I know about that friend of yours?
a anime where you can see girls - You’re going to have to be a bit more specific than that. ;)
i will force that reasoning aside with my unreasonableness - I like this one.
when did june start 09 - Um… on June 1st, 2009?
a letter to have good first impression from a nice girl - Again, write one yourself.
at the beginning, to begin with, afterwards, finally, after a while - Get on with it!
i have a great idea for an anime but don’t know what to do with it - Here’s my advice: just go sit in a corner, and wait until the idea goes away.
i’m not fully understood - Who is?
interesting metallic thing - I really wonder what this guy was hoping to find when he typed this in…
what’s the weird anime that anne is not telling me about - … no comment.
A levels are nearly over, and I am already starting to miss JC life. As all my "last" papers whooshed by (maths, history, GP...), I don't even know what to feel already. Revision for A levels is feeling so pointless and surreal, I am more like toiling and dragging my feet pass, rather than hyping up for the next paper with fervent revision. The papers feels totally sub-standard (not sure if it is the difficulty of the paper or just me...) Maths was fine, Chem pretty good, Hist is more about hoping for some IHist salvation, Econs is just crap (lost motivation and my train of thought halfway through the paper), I don't even know what kind of planning is going thru my mind and ideas were just coming out in a mush (like lack of paragraphs...) I give up, it will be bad. Econs case study is like 30% prep will help only, and chem MCQ (honestly can't care anymore...)
I finally got the dreaded enlistment letter. 11 december, that is when I will say farewell and embrace my new abode, Pulau Tekong. So yeah, sayonara to freedom then, garhzzz...
Pretty uneventful day besides going for viola lesson and doing June and November 2007 Chem papers, exams are boring....
Getting hooked onto J-pop again. But I guess my favorite band now is still Stereopony, a 3-member all girls band from Okinawa. Love their new single, Tsukiakari no Michishirube, which is also the new OP for Darker Than Black II. Their previous singles include Namida no Mukou (Gundam 00 OP4) and Hitohira no Hanabira (Bleach ED15). Here are some links to their PVs...
And so as the ceremony ends, the streamers have fallen, the curtain falling one last time as we make our final bow on our own stage, leaving our footprints, we approach our destinies in the A levels, and whatever our future may await... Though I had not the chance to go up on stage in a blazer blazed in all glory, thanks to the oh-so-commendable efficiency of the school, I count myself blessed for having got the chance to get my Commendation Award and being able to stand where others will yearn for, although a tinge of sadness still overcomes me.
To my teachers, thanks so much for everything. Over these two years, I really came to appreciate how teachers are just so important to our lives, and where would we be without them? I will never forget Ms Chia's cheerfulness yet caring style of teaching, Ms Ng Mei Sze's ng-mei-szing and wittiness, with sarcasms and intelligence so perfectly blended that I guess nothing will ever beat it, Mrs Tan's constant encouragements and how she tolerated with the nonsense our class offered, Ms Ng Siew Cheng's systematic and detailed approach to teaching, though she can be over fussy and critical at times, Mr Kwok's quirkiness and the constant exasperation we feel sometimes over our confusion, and of course, Mr Faizad, who truly brought sarcasm to a whole new level... Thanks for all your patience and care, I will never forget...
And to my classmates, what would JC be without them. I really liked my class, hanging out with them was never a boring moment. While I may have had to put up with the nonsense nicknames they throw at me, I guess without it, 7A just won't be 7A. We are really "cool" people, I mean how many people will take 2 humanities and 2 science subjects?? There are the muggers, like the trio and the ever famous Puahzz.. that just made me admire in awe, the really vocal ones like Sam and the Abigails, the guys who never fails to come up with something quirky and wacky, Timothy with his endless barrage of jokes, the other girls who I don't really talk to much but so integral to what 7A is, and friends like Samantha, Vionna, Sabrina, Zhefei and Yik Sin whom I could confide in and talk to. 7A rocks, and nothing beats us...
But now I face 23 days of mundanity, like the incessant chemistry mugging (which I finally completed my crazy 102 structured qns and 176 MCQs today) and the rest... oh spare me the agony. But this is our calling, a puzzle which unlocks the gates of the unknown beyond, a mountain we must scale, a sea we must sail, in order to get to the greener pastures (can see the jokes coming in already...) on the other side. After all, as we Rafflesians believe in and stand firm by, Auspicium Melioris Aevi, the hope of a better age...
“Without music life would be a mistake."
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
What defines me? My name XueQian is nothing out of the ordinary. I was born on the 19th of September, which isn’t really some groundbreaking eventful day. My life isn’t one with great achievements. My life could be said to be a touch too mundane. But regrets are not a part of me. I study in RI(JC), and I am a member of SNYO. My life is far too ordinary for my liking, but I can’t really help it.
“Without music life would be a mistake."