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ah. well:)
last tutorials of the year...mr chan's still going to be out civics tutor...but i do wonder about mr ho and mr lim...are they following us up too?:) mr lim's very nice...he offered to help us during the hols for repaper:) mr toh really went to buy us chocolates...hahaha:) so funny:D he said next time if we see him on the street, don't call him Mr Toh...call him leslie or pee lee (??) 'cos he doesn't want the people to know he's a teacher. hmmmm:)
had shepherding today:) it's always good to talk to junting:) thankful for my shepherd:)
still missing clover:) like this morning when i woke up and want to go pat clover's head, then i realised she's not there anymore...and after i come back home i'll always go and announce my presence to her, i can't do that anymore either. mum asked me if i want to buy another one...i told her not yet. ('cos i threw away the cage, the water bottle, the wheel... gotta buy new ones:). well.

lotsa changes coming up...
school's decided to start the house system next yr 'cos there's going to be the odd combinations in 2006. what with 3 H2s and 1 H1 being the minimum... whole messy business which i dun quite grasp...ah well:) we get to choose the house names since we're the first batch to have this change!:D some teacher suggested Gem, ruby... mrs chan suggested superman, batman... and thong kheng was talking in class about what would guys feel being in a house called Aphrodite (goddess of love?)... dominique suggested gucci, prada (hahha!) lynette suggested our OG names (special meaning) and i was thinking about the colours of the rainbow:)
another change came about just now...my dear hamster clover died at 10pm. dun think i'll quite forget the last few moments spent with her. buried her just now... ah well:(
heart's lighter now though. was singing songs to God just now...He truly is my pillar of strength when i am weak.

-who makes the sun light up my shadows
when the darkness tries to follow me-
*grInz* today was a day of drifting about:) (phrase suggested by Mr Lim) went through the lectures, tutorials... pace set by teachers are rather slow these days:) our class seems to be quite hyper during mr toh's class though. hahaha:) told him that since our class is the first official class he took, and since he's not teaching us next year, then maybe he can take us out to eat:D sort of as a last gathering. suggestion placed forwards included marche's (lynnette suggested it!):D i told him we can all go and eat, then pretend to lose the card, then we'll only need to pay $100:D *hehehe*
-who makes the air that brings me life
so i can breathe the love that's given to me-
feels this urge to apply to SMU for uni courses next time instead of our dear traditional NUS... 'cos the representative from SMU was so upbeat about life and in describing the college and what-nots about everyone will get a chance to go on an exchange programme and that sometimes, we have to love what we do:) cliched stuff but in comparison with what the other people said, it seemed more interesting:) i want to do bio!
-who makes the waters of my sorrow part
and leads the gladness into my heart-
cca's gradually starting once more:) discussing the details of hai cheng tomorrow:) can just imagine the amount of work we need to do for next year:D doing a production all by ourselves :D the work of 20+ people:D can we make it?:D yup!
-who makes the river runs that wash away
and cleans my soul to make a new start-
anyway, f.y.i, the song that has been running through this post is called 'You' by Jaci Valasquez:) quite a nice song:) liked it a lot when i was in sec4:) saw it again recently, like it even more now:D
-You make everything good, everything wonderful
You grace my days and heaven fills my view
let's forever sing
You make everything pure, everything beautiful
You make me see the only thing that's true
it's You-

oooh... i haven't updated for ... 4 days:)
ah wellz.
dun seem to have much fate with teachers and marks these days...there's been a severe mis-communication between me and the chinese teacher. 'cos my chinese marks were wrongly stated and i told mr chan, then mr chan told the chinese teacher. then the chinese teacher came to find me in the morning and proceeded to reprimand me for not checking the marks properly and what-nots. the funny thing is that i don't remember checking the marks at all:)
then during break she saw me near the toilet, then she started to ask in a very irritated voice where my answer scripts are and then she said that she has asked someone to tell me to pass it to her quickly (i didn't receive that message either)...then she accused me of skipping lessons and what-nots and didn't believe me when i said i attended every lesson after the promos ( i mean like, why should i skip? it's my best sub:P)
ah well. i admit i didn't really behave in an biblical manner (heh). hating to be accused (this is one of my two hates:( ), i retorted back that i didn't skip lessons and what-nots and that all the classmates can vouch for me and that i really didn't get a chance to check my marks. think i got a little emotional:P (really really dislike people accusing me of something i didn't do). trying to sing 'there is joy in the Lord' in my heart didn't seem to lower my emotions. (but it did cause me to remember to soften my tone)
was sitting in the general office waiting for someone (:D) when i just took out the book with all the teachings and happened to turn to the teaching on humility. then kinda recalled that proverbs 12:16 stated that 'A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult'. felt like a fool then. kinda shows some hidden aspects of my character i've gotta edit. ah well:D better to see it now than later:)
anyway, after checking with juncheng and peilee, it turns out they checked the results immediately after getting back the bio results. and on that day, after the bio results, me, steph and lydia went to talk to mr basil chan...and when we went for chinese lessons, everyone had finished and were already nicely seated. that's why we didn't get to check our results:) serious case of miscommunication. so coincidental too.

we saw Mr Hannis(nyjc econs lecturer:D) today! hahaha:)
'cos VJ had a friendly soccer match against RJ today, then OVA (we guess that it stands for Old Victorians Association) had a friendly soccer match against ORA (Old Rafflesians Association) too:D and apparently Mr Hannis was from RJ. hahha:) we called him and he saw us and waved to us.
OVA against ORA was quite amusing 'cos there're actually more people walking about than running...then Mr Tan was at the side commenting that they can't run anymore and what-nots. quite amusing:D Mr Seet played too! he's like...the most enthusiastic player already, but the ball doesn't seem to have much affinity with him:D hehe.

This certifies that I, xinying, Have Become Cooler Than I was Before

You too can Become Cooler at flooble

-still i would wanna be
someone who'd answer to me
someone, who sees like a child, gives like a saint, feels like an angel
nevermind the broken wings and
speaks like a picture, cries like the rain, shines like the star
as long as the fire remains-
those lyrics came from the song 'someone' by stephanie sun:)
hahaha:D feeling very happy. had some peace and quiet just now...whole house to myself! family's at some wedding dinner somewhere:) i'd much rather have the whole house to myself than the wedding dinner. extremely rare chance. haha:)
the night seems to be still young. i shall attempt vectors tutorial 2 without any notes. have a nice day:D

ah!:) had an inspiring testimony shared by Mr Lim today:D *grInz*
he had 236 for PSLE...then came into VJ...then got only 3 Os and a pass for his midyears...then he thought to himself 'hmm. not very good.' so he studied EXTRA HARD and then at the end of the year, he got A,A,B,B. took the S papers for maths and chem, following yr prelims, his S papers got a merit and a fail...*grInz*...BUT, at A levels, he got 4As and 2 distinctions. hahaha:)
now...if he, all of us can too!:D so, shall work EXTRA HARD from now on:) yup. oh forgot to mention. He was a basketball player, got the Colours award, learnt guitar too, had a girlfriend during then and is a christian too:D
rather amazing how his grades jumped SO MUCh. gracious. whole class was terribly amazed and kinda in awe. hahaha:) 'cos he doesn't look like that type of person:)
i guess one never knows what one can do with God's strength behind him:D

thank God i managed to scrape past. been praying and praying to just get promoted (can't really hope for too much looking at the stupid papers). really really really thankful:)
though for this exam, everything's that supposed to go wrong went alright, while everything that's supposed to be alright went terribly wrong. (with the exception of maths, gp and chinese:) i thought i've only attempted like a third of my case study for econs, in the end, i passed my case study. i thought i can do okaily for my econs essays, and in the end, they disappointed me greatly. haha:) quite amusing. and to think that i didn't much study for econs and studied like nuts for bio...and in the end, i got 9 marks higher for econs than my bio. not fun. not fun at all.
teachers were very nice today. especially mr ho. hahaha:) he was like...exceptionally nice. said that he saw people in some other classes crying, then commented that he just saw a guy crying nearby or something. then he said he was quite surprised 'cos it's a guy and all that. then he said that could be due to gp or something ('cos gp compre was very horrid this time and in some other classes, a lot of pple didn't pass ... they got less than 45 marks) then he said that in comparison with the other alphabet classes, he's quite okay with our marks (:P) he shared that there are students who got A in midyrs and got an O this time...then he said that there was a student who got 60++ for his midyrs but got 30+ for promos..and he told him straight in the face that the guy deserved it 'cos he had been sleeping in class. haha:) and he told our class at least no one in this class deserved him to say that to. at least that's something nice. he also asked if anyone of us is emotionally unstable. which was...relatively amusing:D
and mr chan was very sweet today too. promised to help me search for one more mark for econs (the impt of 1 mark!) and he talked a bit to us too:)
i think i'm just going to keep praying and praying now for u, steph:) if my prayer was answered, yours will be too!:)

can't remember how to sing the first part of this song...can someone help?

"Love song for a saviour" - jars of clay
In open fields of wild flowers,
she breathes the air and flies away
She thanks her Jesus for the daises and the roses
in no simple language
Someday she'll understand the meaning of it all
He's more than the laughter or the stars in the heavens
As close a heartbeat or a song on her lips
Someday she'll trust Him and learn how to see Him
Someday He'll call her and she will come running
and fall in His arms and the tears will fall down and she'll pray,

"I want to fall in love with You
I want to fall in love with You
I want to fall in love with You
I want to fall in love with You"

Sitting silent wearing Sunday best
The sermon echoes through the walls
A great salvation through it calls to the people
who stare into nowhere, and can't feel the chains on their souls

He's more than the laughter or the stars in the heavens
As close a heartbeat or a song on our lips
Someday we'll trust Him and learn how to see Him
Someday He'll call us and we will come running
and fall in His arms and the tears will fall down and we'll pray,

"I want to fall in love with You"

It seems too easy to call you "Savior",
Not close enough to call you "God"
So as I sit and think of words I can mention
to show my devotion

"I want to fall in love with You"

"my heart beats for You"

-let's talk about *cough cough* baby, let's talk about you and me, let's talk about all the good things and the bad things there may be-
let's talk about today, baby!:D
hahaha. okay. nvm. going a bit mad:) just finished reading one of agatha christie's mysteries... (yesyes i know it's primary sch material...but it's nice!!!) quite a nice twist at the back:) book is called 'why didn't they ask Evans?' ah well.
anyway. anyway. anyway.
some of the north sisters were wearing their secondary school uniform today:D hahaha. quite amusing. surprisingly, they still can fit in and still looks like they do fit into the uniform:D as if they're still sec 4 students. ah wellz:D
carrie's birthday today:) wanted to tell her thankz for bringing me to service. but never really got the chance to 'cos me, jits, huichun and christina (hmmmz:D) have got to leave to wash cups. mini cute lil' cups containing simple-looking drinkable liquid saturated with intense meaning. missed the birthday celebrations though:D was nice that all of us got together to celebrate her birthday:) *beamz*

yup. anyway. vj open house was yesterday!:D rocks!:D hahaha. theme of the year is Larc En Ciel...which means colours of the rainbow:) went to school early in the morning to practice taekwondo 'cos i didn't practice with them on friday afternoon and vanessa asked me to take her place 'cos she's gotta do ushering:) luckily we practiced...'cos i forgot the last few steps of the white-yellow stance. hahaha:) then rushed down to help chinese society with that booth, commented that it looks extremely chinese, bought kacang puteh from the Biz Club (they cheated my money. there was a buy 1 get 1 free deal in the goodie bag), then rushed back up.
actually was rushing about during the whole open house:) but it was fun:D did mass dance for two times throughout the day (for the first one, we thought that taekwondo demonstration was going to start already, so we didn't join in) mass dance rocks!:D it's like victorians will all gather together at the link bridge, then u have the whole group of us dancing in unison and cheering whilst everyone else looks at you. and surprisingly, mass dance steps that i can remember came fast and furious to me...and those that i can't, i just follow quite easily too:) wish we can do that everyday. hahhaa:D
let me go further back in time and talk about friday's farewell assembly:) it was quite interesting...we had the dance club performing a dance to the chicago music while a bat was flying above their heads (haha!), two pple singing their own composed songs (complete with music. hmm. think country rock style:D) and some other stuff i can't remember. then we had an ice cream eating competition where mr li shocked all of us by scooping with his hand and finishing 500ml in ... 22 seconds! hehe:) then school went nuts and asked us to sing auld lang syne (???) and you can really feel the school spirit when we all turned to the crest and sang the school song (last time for the J2s)....then after all that came... (what else but...)...mass dance!:D hahaa:) couldn't do couple dance 'cos lydia didn't know the dance and i had no partner:P anyway, saw alywin and kenneth doing the dance together. and they were mashing potatoes like nobody's business. looks so......... (hahhaa:) mad classmates. (yeah. for pple who don't know what mashed potatoes is... ehz. ask a vj person next time. not me though.)
ohohoh! i nearly forgot the very nice clips they showed. school made this wonderful presentation about the '03 graduating batch. hahaa:) said that they're the SARS generation. one of the S represents sexy, suave and something i can't remember either, A for 'ass-tounding', R for 'rebellious (very) and the other S i can't recall. and they had this clip that goes to the music of 'always look on the bright side of life' where they filmed teachers with their heads nodding to the music, and pretending to whistle. very amusing!:D

i feel like just going off to bed, snuggle my head into the pillow, hug the bolster and just sleep, not bothering to do anything else:D *grInz*
very sleepy:( too many sleep bugs trying to bother me. hahaha:)
went down to mj open house yesterday to help a bit:) think God knew that i don't really like going anywhere unfamiliar on my own...so He sent Jacqueline to me:D quite interesting. 'cos i went to the bus stop, then she came to the same bus-stop as me. then it happens that we're taking the same bus, then to the same place, same destination!:D took 31 to tanah merah 'cos she says it's less crowded there...then to pasir ris:) got to know her more too:D
oh dear. i need to go sleep. shall update next time:D ehhehehe:)

free ice cream tomorrow! whoooosh!:D anyway. going to watch pi1 li4 huo3, so no time to update for now:D something iso sent.

Even though I clutch my blanket and growl when the alarm rings.
Thank you, Lord, that I can hear. There are many who are deaf.

Even though I keep my eyes closed against the morning light as
long as possible.
Thank you, Lord, that I can see. Many are blind.

Even though I huddle in my bed and put off rising.
Thank you,Lord, that I have the strength to rise. There are many who are bedridden.

Even though the first hour of my day is hectic, when socks arelost,
toast is burned and tempers are short, my children are so loud.
Thank you, Lord, for my family. There are many who are lonely.

Even though our breakfast table never looks like the pictures in
magazines and the menu is at times unbalanced.
Thank you, Lord, for the food we have. There are many who are hungry.

Even though the routine of my job often is monotonous.
Thank you, Lord, for the opportunity to work. There are many who have no job.

Even though I grumble and bemoan my fate from day to day and wish my circumstances were not so modest.
Thank you, Lord, for life.

hohumm:D
watched 'so close' again this morning. there're definitely certain subtle elements in it. but nevertheless, it's a wonderful show:D got 'Lavender' from steph, shall watch it when i'm free:) the second disc of 'state of divinity' can't be read. so odd. (never touched the first few discs 'cos i watched from episode 10+ onwards) all chinese shows. haha:)
anyway, went to corinne's house to make earrings today:) made 7 pairs! we should really start selling earrings. maybe that can earn some money for the cbf too:) my blue 'dragonfly' earring dropped off though.so now only the yellow one is left. so disappointing...to think that's my only pair of different coloured earrings:P
very happy today:) 'cos i walked to corinne's house...then saw new places and a different route to get to the same destination. saw where cedar is too:) took one hour to walk from toa payoh to her house though:) walked past this church called the Calvary baptist church or something...then the song 'O mighty cross' popped into my mind:) actually, i kinda sang songs most of the way there...'cos got quite a long stretch to potong pasir is quite deserted. no human beings in sight. hahaha:)
i wish i have more times like this...exploring around:D *grInz* ah well. for now i can only make do with knowing how to walk to corinne's house, potong pasir and junction 8. well well.

A boy was sitting on a park bench with one hand resting on an open Bible. He was loudly exclaiming his praise to God. "Hallelujah! Hallelujah! God is great!" he yelled without worrying whether anyone heard him or not.
Shortly after, along came a man who had recently completed some studies at a local university. Feeling himself very enlightened in the ways of truth and very eager to show this enlightenment, he asked the boy about the source of his joy.
"Hey" asked the boy in return with a bright laugh, "Don't you have any idea what God is able to do? I just read that God opened up the waves of the Red Sea and led the whole nation of Israel right through the middle."
The enlightened man laughed lightly, sat down next to the boy and began to try to open his eyes to the "realities" of the miracles of the Bible. "That can all be very easily explained. Modern scholarship has shown that the Red Sea in that area was only 10-inches deep at that time. It was no problem for the Israelites to wade across."
The boy was stumped. His eyes wandered from the man back to the Bible laying open in his lap. The man, content that he had enlightened a poor, naive young person to the finer points of scientific insight, turned to go. Scarcely had he taken two steps when the boy began to rejoice and praise louder than before. The man turned to ask the reason for this resumed jubilation.
"Wow!" exclaimed the boy happily, "God is greater than I thought! Not only did He lead the whole nation of Israel through the Red Sea, He topped it off by drowning the whole Egyptian army in 10 inches of water!"

hmm. just realised that pple have been signing in my guestbook and i didn't know it:D hehee. htmlgear seems to have stopped sending me notices about pple signing my guestbook. ah well:) so odd. shall hafta check it up:D
went shopping today! with lydia, stephie, corinne and ruxuan:) only lydia was on time:( hahaa:) and while we were waiting for others, we helped a japanese guy and commented on the bunch of vj pple gathering nearby, with her telling me about how her church pple are at sentosa and that she's b-o-r-e-d:) oh. and her tale of how to kill corinne;) i didn't do much. i merely tried to teach her the cow song:D
yepz. then corinne came. walked around. went to kfc to eat, walked around somemore. looked at jewellary, clothes. (what else is there to look at?) even went to watson's 'cos we're waiting for steph and rux to arrive:) then lydia decided to not wait for them anyway and we went off to the second level:) corinne saw this shirt in projectBLOODbros that she thought rux will like... think that shop's quite ex. can find perfect substitutes in other places. hahaha:) looked around in warehouse, walked into topmen, then up to topshop, and steph and rux still haven't arrived:D (that is to emphasize how late they were. hahaha. kiddin'!) anyway, surprisingly, steph was earlier than rux:D rux joined us later:)
went to taka levi's later, saw nothing much in there...then we discussed our 'plans' for the day:) decided to go to far east, then back to wisma (i wanted to check out the price of this cross i saw at Le Coral (?) and corinne wanted to buy her tops.), then to taka (steph wanted to buy present for fren), then to heeren (someone needed to do something. can't remember), then to plaza singapura 'cos there're new shops there.
in the end, we couldn't go to plaza sing at all. hahaha:) not enough time:D feet were dying too.
spent quite a lot of time in far east looking at almost every possibly shop with clothing, or accessories, or goodness knows what. got this recommendation from steph:) this shop consists of one-of-a-kind items...and it's really one-of-a-kind 'cos u won't find a second one anywhere. so whatever u buy, it'll be the only one in the whole wide world:D hehehe:) shop is called Mazzario. go find it:) most items are handmade:) yepz:)
anyway, highlight of the day came when lydia and corinne decided to buy the turkish ice cream. super amusing:D anyone who goes to far-east should go and try to find it:D *grInz* chewy icecream!
second highlight came when we saw liling at taka!:D (while eating dinner) hahaha:) and third was neoprints!:D oh dear. i'm shortening everything. really too long:D but had a wonderful and delightful time with them today:D yepz:D

i've got 'chun ni' stuck on my mind now:)all jit's fault. hahaha:)
water bap today was cancelled 'cos of the rain...yup. might as well:) 'cos pple will be more free next time:) so maybe u all can go!:D
had shepherding in the morning at centrepoint macs...felt like it was night instead. hahaha:) 'cos all the shops were still not open and whole place was like ...dark...
had the last word for like class today:) think word for life class was quite interesting:D really built up my foundation and imprinted the truths in me. makes me more aware of all the false doctrines around and why they are false. lots more stuff as well:)
service today was about trusting God in tight spots!:D how applicable. ah wellz:) about finances as well. how apt:D
since water bap was cancelled, me, jits, xinyi and huiling went to Times to read:) actually went with the intention of looking for a baptize name for shuyi...but well. the comics were just too tempting:D read this book called 'the wish list' by Eoin Colfer (okayokay..children's book. but wellz). quite interesting:) kinda reminded me that every action, every word, every unspoken thought that i have will be judged by God in the end:)
going shopping with steph, corinne and lydia tomorrow:) think after tomorrow i won't be going out anymore:) yup:)

ah.
i miss watching hongkong serials:D recalling the times of 'my date with a vampire I and II', 'duo2 qiang1 shi1 jie3' and whatever nonsense with all sorts of pple including but not only chilam(!), hacken lee(!), joyce tang(!), marcus something (!)...hahaha:D and many many many many many more:D they dun seem to show much hongkong serials these days...mostly taiwan shows:) except for the channel u sat 7pm show with hacken lee(!!!):D and ehz. i can't remember the female's name:)
hahaha:)
think i shall go watch 'state of divinity' again. stupid movies:D ah. i forgot anita yuen:) actually, have i ever finished watching 'state of divinity'? hmm.