Alain Delon

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June Holidays (or more accurately, the adventures of Belinda and Crystal)

Ahh backlog of stuff. Okay I'll try to do it in chronological order:

• 30 May (Monday) Transcendance at HC with Crystal (and their auditorium looks creepily like a lecture theatre, same chairs and tables and everything), was quite shocked that they sold out like 3 shows of 1000+ capacity each. People were standing up because there weren't enough seats :O Saw Tey Guan (hahahaha last person I'd imagine I'd see at HC Dance tbh!) and spoke for a very short while with Sam before leaving. Had Sogurt in the morning, found the score for Koshkin's The Fall of Birds (!!!!!!!), ate at some densely HC populated place, sat around at Starbucks for 2 hours while they turned off their air con z.z
• Fell pretty sick over the next few days ):
• 5 June (Saturday) My dad called SPCA to rescue a kitten he had been feeding for the past week or so who dropped into the basement of the abandoned house she'd been playing at. Then we went to SPCA (where we played with cats a lot nicer than Nike :P) to rescue her and bring her home. We put her in my parents' bathroom, which is sort of Nike's territory. Nike, being the stupid cat that she is, freaked out about the puny little kitten and ran away from home z.z So now George is living in my room.
• 8 June (Tuesday) Dragged Crystal to Furama Hotel to have lunch where Bernice was having her job attachment as a waitress. Her boss was nice enough to give us a 2 for 1 offer :) Which was great because it was $35 per person before GST. After that we went to try on stuff in F21, which is better than I remember haha, especially from when it first appeared at VivoCity, blergh. I was too cheap to buy anything though (despite a few really really cute dresses) but I ended up buying The Avalanche by Sufjan Stevens (which I love love love love ♥) and a Segovia CD
• 9 June (Wednesday) PW consultation in the afternoon, went pretty much crappily. Went to buy cat litter and a larger litter box for George
• 10 June (Thursday) 4G class outing! ♥ Well we were supposed to have our "half yearly blood drinking ritual" (Crystal's lovely nickname for our sleepovers :) but thanks to having to rush for the deadline on Friday for PW and Abii getting sick from OCIP, we decided to move it to Tuesday/Wednesday instead. We were supposed to eat at the sushi buffet at first, but then it didn't open until 3p.m., so we decided to go Marina Square and try Seoul Garden, which was full, so we ended up at Billy Bombers. Got stressed out by PW so Crystal and I left after lunch. I did buy my ukulele though :)
• 11 June (Friday) Last minute PW meeting with Mr Koh. By last minute I mean I finished complied our new GPP at 2a.m. and the consultation was at 10.30a.m. And we got a good! Finally finally omg, it put me in such a relieved/happy state for the day. Proceeded to Crystal's house to bake cupcakes for my dad's birthday. Bought too much flour so we decided to make star-shaped scones as well, which were basically pretty much tasteless :3 I overwhipped the whipped cream as well and they turned into little curdles and I had to scoop them out of the basin by hand. Grossest thing ever z.z Modesto's for my dad's birthday, which was as good as ever. Although I couldn't finish my food, which was sort of odd because it seemed fine when I went with Brenda and Yiling
• 15 & 16 June (Tuesday/Wednesday) Sleepover! Went to Thomson Plaza with Crystal to buy guitar strings and then Brenda G arrived at my house, so she spent like half an hour talking to my grandma haha :3 When we came back we tried to lure Nike out from underneath my dad's bed, then Crystal found the single most disgusting worm on her leg. So we freaked and jumped on the bed while Brenda G, being the brave woman she is, trapped it underneath Crystal's water bottle. THEN THE STUPID WORM FOUND A WAY TO WORM ITS WORMY WAY OUT FROM UNDER THE BOTTLE ): We were only saved by my maid who bravely killed it. Spent the next few hours playing Mambo de Chocobo which Crystal arranged for a duet and found out exactly how bad my timing/rhythm is :3 Crystal also pro-ly deduced chords for beautiful Jason Mraz songs for ukulele and/or guitar. Then we Youtube-d for ages, mostly for Lady Gaga hahahah ALEJANDRO :3 Then Abii finally arrived and we proceeded to watch How I Met Your Mother! Dinner was hor fun and yi mee, and Crystal and I played Plane on guitar and sang while Abii tried to learn to play I'm Yours on the ukulele. I love having friends who are musically talented hahahah makes hearing them sing a real treat :) Then we tried to learn Alejandro hahahahahaha Abii was Gaga and Crystal and I were the prancing dancers. Bathed while watching My Girl and fell asleep while watching True Blood. (All the while laughing at Bill/Sam: Would you care to join me? I hear the water in Arkansas is... very hard (y) Woke up, ordered McD's delivery because it was raining while watching I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant (which is the best show ever btw) then Youtube-d more on stuff like Will It Blend? and a guy who did 200 different voices in like 10 minutes. Abii left for school, then George decided to have diarrohea and walk all around my room ): So we had to wash, mop and change bedsheets. After mugging while watching House, we went for a very incredibly late lunch at 4p.m. then Crystal left. I love sleepovers :3

I should really get to mugging

Prince of Persia + Capricco XXV

Friday was sushi + Prince of Persia with Crystal :) Prince of Persia was actually a lot better than I expected it to be, since I kind of went in with the mindset that it would be like Clash of the Titans... or worse. If you want some mindless entertainment with an easy to follow plot and pretty graphics (especially if you like video games) it's really quite okay! Jake Gyllenhaal looked as gorgeous as always, despite the greasy long hair, and I actually liked him and the princess together! Sometimes it's as cheesy as hell (ahem Clash of the Titans) but this one was nice :3 The soundtrack was good too. Plus we watched it for free at The Grand Cathay, thanks to some promotion Crystal's dad got with some bank :)

Today was HC Band at VCH with Abii. We ate at the coolest McD's at Boat Quay (because we were broke hahaha stupid concerts + flowers :P) then met Sam and one of Crystal's classmates. It was quite cool because Abii and I know Sam in different ways. Sam was Abii's primary school classmate and I know Sam from Chinese tutition in Sec 2. And now she's Crystal's classmate! I never though I would see Sam again after I stopped Chinese tuition, so this was really cool haha. HC Band was quite good (but I wouldn't know otherwise, since I don't know much about band) and the acoustics were wonderful. The sound doesn't just hang in there like it does at RP and it felt like we were being wrapped and surrounded by the music (Y) My favourite piece was probably Nobody hahaha it was so cute :3








Pooh balloon :3

Guitarra!

Rehearsal at PAC right after GP Common Test (which I just hope I don't fail D: I thought it was damn sad that Ravins had to sit for it on his birthday. He was showing me his baby photos, which were really quite adorable. So I asked him, “What happened?” [as in what happened, why aren't you as adorable anymore?] Then he replied, “What do you mean what happened? I just got more and more handsome” Damn funny omg) on Wednesday was incredibly long because we were practising J1 Batch Item at LT6 from 3.30p.m. to 5.30p.m.before dinner + rehearsal. So effectively practice was from 3.30p.m. to 10p.m.

At least I had Joy to keep me entertained with her going around proclaiming her love for everyone.

Joy: I love you Joel!
Joel: Well I don't mind

After saying that Armaan was handsome, she asked me to pass on to Kewei that she admired his dedication to his instrument since he was practising nearly every moment he wasn't on stage (Y) He took quite long to get the compliment though hahaha. An example of how dedicated he was was Haolin and I deciding that it would be unfair to include Kewei in the comment that Haolin made about us being unfocussed as an ensemble. (During the concert itself Haolin told Kewei not to quit Guitar no matter how busy he gets, with his Asian Physics Olympiad :O)

The buzz in the canteen before we left for DBS Auditorium after we were given the permission to pon the last day of school after 2 hours of lessons was quite palpable. Tey Guan was talking to ~Markie~ (the nickname he created for Marken lol); Joy and I were being high and talking about crappy stuff while eating.

(Marken takes off his specs)
J: Omg he looks better without his specs!
B: No he doesn't he looks the same z.z

Then Hankun sat down and we decided that Marken and Hankun made such a beautiful couple~ So much love was emanating from their interaction that Joy decided that even Crystal and I aren't as disgustingly in love. (Too bad for Joel, his girlfriend was swept of his feet and stolen away by someone else. [Oh the irony and incongruent pronouns!] But Hankun and Marken broke up on the bus ride back to school after the concert anyway haha)

Once again Kewei was practising guitar when we moved to the GO to wait for the bus. I stole his guitar when Haolin got him into a discussion about Machiavelli's The Prince x.x Halfway through we heard Ji Heng and Delwyn play Hanuman so Joy and I went over to listen to them being amazing. :)

Rehearsal at DBS Auditorium was slightly awkward because the space we had was a lot smaller than the PAC's. But it the acoustics were a ton better, so that made up for us having to climb up a spiral staircase wearing skirts :P There wasn't a corridor behind the stage for us to cross from stage left to stage right so we had to walk across the lobby if we wanted to switch sides z.z We saw Marken run across the lobby in between the main ensemble's and the junior ensemble's pieces with the guitarron (which Joy affectionately nicknamed Ron Ron, although Momo calls it Ronnie) and the stick fell out so we told him to take good care of our darling Ron Ron~ I can't remember if this was before or after Joy exclaimed that I was right about Marken having girly hands when he was playing Ron Ron in the corridor backstage. "Omg you're right he has girly hands! So feminine! So pretty!" Ruined by the blister Ron Ron gave him though hahaha. I don't really remember why we were talking about hands but I know I said Ji Heng has beautiful hands. :3

Crystal came around 5.30p.m., which was during our break so we were hanging out backstage~ My favourite part of the entire concert was probably listening to Marken and Joel play Explosive in the corridor backstage while Crystal was helping Joy and I put on makeup in the handicapped toilet (where Joy told me I look pretty only when I have my hair in a French braid and when I'm not wearing my specs z.z I think she has something against spectacles). They sounded absolutely amazing in the confined space, I wish that was how people heard it, because it felt like we were being enveloped in the music and it was such a warm fuzzy feeling. Especially since their small group was really really really good :)

Crystal was the only one I saw before the intermission, during which I walked across the lobby with Joel's alto and saw Debs, who only just arrived thanks to some miscommunication with Abii z.z The best part was giving/getting hugs with the guitar still clutched in one hand :) So good to see everyone again omg :3

One of the most amusing things for me was cringing over ties. Cutting the price tag off Hankun's newly bought white tie? (Y) Just because I couldn't stand it hahaha :3

(Before Explosive)
B: Omg your tie. Fix it, I'll hold your guitar.
M: (shifts tie a bit) Okay done
B: Will you button your shirt properly?!
M: No! Give me back my guitar!
(tussle over alto ensues)

Then I gave up and said that the more I looked at Marken the more pain my eyes would suffer so I went upstairs to watch Hanuman and Explosive :) I think the only real regret I have is not being able to see the concert myself (even though we all heard the auditions and the rehearsals a few times before the real concert) because I thought we were awesome. The Show, Usher Valse, Love Me/You and I Both, Hanuman and Brazilian Street Dance (amongst many others) -- the variety was so great and I think for people who don't play guitar, it was an eyeopener to see the all the different kinds of sounds you can create with a guitar :) Mas Que Nada was especially amazing since we only got the piece roughly a week before the concert, but I think we pulled it off quite effectively, all things considered. The rhythm was infectious and I was bobbing in my seat while playing :)

After the concert it was a mad rush to go around giving flowers and finding friends. Kewei actually went on stage to receive stalks of roses from a ton of people and a Pooh soft toy hahaha, Tey Guan also got a huge bunch of flowers. Azira came to pass me a sunflower, which was incredibly sweet because I know she doesn't like flowers all that much :) She also passed Marken chocolate since she knew he didn't want flowers :3 Then I went outside to find Abii, Brenda, Crystal and Debbie for pictures and hugs :) I passed them all flowers because my sister bought so many extras z.z We saw so many SN people, it was great! I just wish I had gotten pictures with everyone but it was this huge incredible rush to pack up all the guitars and load them on to the truck back to school. On the bus ride back to school Momo was playing the guitar and we were all singing along~

All I can say is, it was so so so much fun. ♥












(I wish my skin looked this pink and glowy all the time z.z Thanks makeup)

My mom mixed up the time we had to be at the temple so we missed the prayers for my great-grandmother, and Beatrice and I forgot that there isn't guitar today. So essentially we left the house at 9.30a.m. and stoned at Starbucks for an hour for nothing. x.x And I was looking forward to guitar lesson as well, I'm learning Usher Valse :) Coolest song ever



In the end met Crystal at Woodlands because she wanted to pass to me her Newsweeks instead of throwing them away :3 Went to study at Woodlands library after eating lunch at Long John's Silver, where Crystal lost her pouch. We thought we were screwed because we had a bunch of tickets in there (if she had lost the Guitarra ticket I don't know what we could have done) but the chicken book saved us :) The service counter people had a different mental image of pouch from us (semantics! ELL knowledge coming into play again :) and they only realised we were talking about a purse when they realised we lost a book too.

I haven't really studied for GP, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to study for GP anyway. Ah well.

Jubilate VII

It was beyond wonderful to see everyone again, especially all together like this. Such a rarity nowadays :) We were kind of late since there was a jam and we underestimated the time it would take to get to RP from Woodlands MRT and thus missed Band, which made Crystal sad because there was a song they were playing she wanted to hear. Thanks to the assigned seating, we were at the very last row on the second floor, but the sound was actually really really good up there. SO and Choir were especially good, and I really liked the Vivaldi and the Stand By Me + I'm Yours. Brenda, Debbie and Crystal were singing along to Jubilate Deo at the end (Y)

The LD skit was unexpectedly good, and it had a lot of references to SN that were damn funny. "I am officially mentally disturbed. Father Barre is standing in my room." There were dancing nuns and trip science muggers and cheerleaders and bimbos and councillors and they had singing. Halfway through the "Wherever we go, the St. Nicks spirit lives on" banner came out (Y) I miss my school (the day right up until Jubilate was crap (N), it seems the number of crappy days have been increasing exponentially. Maybe I'm just cranky and need more sleep).

The only thing I'm looking forward to now is guitar concert (after GP CT whooo although I haven't studied x.x). There is a shortage of tickets! So exciting :) I think I have to kick someone from my family out so Brenda can come.