merry christmas everyone!
ho ho ho.

gee as the years go by the number of presents i receive is dwindling.
sad to say, i got a sad amount this year.
and they're getting more and more boring too!
now its clothes clothes clothes.
SO SAD.
but nevermind its the thought that counts.
i should count myself lucky enough to even be getting presents right?
lol.

vietnam was kinda fun, if you ask me.
one thing really really interesting about that place is that the roads are so chaotic.
there are hundreds of motorbikes zooming around the place, totally oblivious of the traffic lights.
so crossing the road is really nerve-wrecking and scary but you get used to it.
all i did was just cross the road without looking because the motorbikes will just drive around you.
the feeling's really shuang! haha.
my dad calls it organised chaos because everyone knows what they're doing and so nobody gets knocked down or whatever.
its way cool too because there are absolutely NO aggressive drivers there.
but they all horn a lot but it means "don't budge i'm coming up behind/next to you".
whereas here in singapore a honk means "get out of my way you bloody a**hole".
HAHA.

okie dae. this week is a BUSY week.
i missed out on 2 friendly matches against sengkang sec and anglecan high.
but sad to say i won't be missing out against ang mo kio and kranji.
OHWELLS.
and they're both this week.
BAH! i want a break.
haha its so ironic since i've been having the most breaks from training i think.
OHWELLS.

i wonder
whether all big brothers are the same.
forever saying that they're so uber handsome,
forever thinking that their muscles are the best,
and forever putting down their little sisters.

Jesus said that if someone slaps you on your cheek, you turn your head and offer him your other cheek.

okay fine so i shut up when i'm put down, and take it with a laugh.
but to do it so many times can be really really hurting you know.
i know, he might not mean it but it still gets to your heart.
especially when you're sensitive.
it really feels like a knife through your heart, corny as it may sound.
and i feel so damn useless and worthless.
that's not a nice feeling, by the way.

don't get me wrong i love my brother to bits and i'll do anything within my power to make him happy.
he's awfully nice (at most times) and he's really cool.
but it gets on my nerves whenever he says something degrading to me.
although i keep telling myself that he probably doesn't mean it, it still cuts.
ohwell.
maybe that's what little sisters are for.
for their big brothers to bully.
*shrugs*
maybe i'm just too nice. HAHA.

okayy its off to vietnam tomorrow!
after being back from japan for less than a week.
man i think i'm really lucky to be able to travel so much.
but the part that sucks is that i don't deserve all this!
haha just look at my grades and my attitude in life.
i don't think i've been a good daughter, a good student.
darn i really should change my attitude.

i miss japan so much!
blah i want to go back there again.
sponsors anyone? :P

hoo boy!
i'm from japan!
though i never wanted to come back HAHA.

i saw mr micheal chia at the airport too!!
he was on the same flight as me to narita airport with his wife i think.
ooooh HAHA!

okay so i finally got to see snow for the very first time in my life at 12.44pm on tuesday at chitose airport.
SNOW ROCKS! whoohoo. (:
club med sahoro is so fun i tell you.
the GOs there are so funny and full of life!
although i only managed to ski for a day i kept myself entertained by snow trekking.
but everything was fun fun FUN!
i want to go back to japan again.
the people are so pleasant and polite they put us singaporeans to shame.

thanks for all the tags!
haha (:

i'll see you guys in 6 days time!
japan, HERE I COME!! (:

byee chrissy! try not to miss me too much. :P

oh my gawwd.
i'm leaving the sunny little island of singapore for the winter wonderland of hokkaido in 2 days time.
I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M GONNA SEE SNOW!!
oh whoopiee doo.
it'll be tiny bottles of melted snow for everyone!
if you know what i mean. *winks*

MY BEST FRIEND IS BACK FROM CAMBODIA!!
and contrary to popular belief she did NOT get married to some cambodian dude.
shucks.
hahaha but who cares you're back and that's all that matters! and i'm going to see you today at training!
YAYY!

anyway, badminton chalet ROCKED! omg so many fun things took place.
as usual, we sec3s canNOT organise thigs without screwing up.
which is not a bad thing, if you ask me 'cos everyone should screw up now and then
its just that we do that all the time HAHA.
yeah so firstly we mixed up the check-in time with the check-out time
and told everyone the come at the 10.30am when they should come at 4pm.
so it was a mad frantic dash of phone calls for huiyan and i the night before to inform everyone about the change in time.
thank the good Lord that everyone was contacted.

7 packets of gardenia hotdog buns
3 packets of frozen sausages
2 bottles of maggie tomato ketchup
1 bottle of mayo
that was what i had to lug to tampanies but thankfully my dad fetched me
HEHE.
hey it was heavy enough okay!
poor huiyan and sweeleng had to lug about 8 bottles of soft drinks and other stuff.
okay so maybe i am a little spoilt. :|
the sausages thawed on the bus29 and froze sweeleng's toes though.
HAHA.

okay the second screw up was that we sort of overlooked the "you have to be above 18 to check-in" rule.
so in the end i had to ask dear jae to come down and rescue us and help us check-in.
THANK GOD FOR HER if not there'd be no chalet at all!
she brought baby ethan along! and he drooled on me so many times UGH SICK.

i'm still wondering how xiwen and qiulin managed to locate us.

it was a looooong trek to the chalet.
well mainly because sarah ho led us in direction A,
stopped after say, 10mins of walking and made us turn back and walk in direction B.
then we stopped again and walked in direction C.
finally yusin and i managed to find our way to the chalet which was in direction A (yay for us) much to everyone's utter relief.

okay so by then it was kinda late, like around 4.40pm...
so the seniors chose their room and slammed the door.
at first i didn't think much of it until xiwen and qiulin told us that the seniors were angry.
OMG.
ying came out and confirmed that, much to our horror.
in the end we had to come up with a performance for them to ease the situation.
we ended up dancing to phua chu kang's SAR-vivor rap, can you believe that?!
gawd it was malu-ating.
my dignity level was -ve after that.
turns out that our dear sec4s were playing a prank on us and that they just wanted to humiliate us. WHAT THE FISH! fish fish fish!
ah well at least they weren't angry.
heh i think we sec3s have a gift for coming up with lame and i mean LAME dances.

ying, mich and ducky then gave us their presents which was a handmade CHICK.
it was so stupid looking i couldn't help but laugh.
but it was quite touching la. they were sweet enough to make those chicks for us!
aww.

yusin went off on a mission (with my phone) to save and locate sabby kwang who went on a crazy journey trying to get to the chalet.

hmmms. i think we went to make dinner after that, i can't really remember.
but the bbq was a failure, as usual. HHAHAHAHA.
i think yusin's right. we shuttlers can't bbq to save our lives.
stupid charcoal kept dying on us!
well actually the bbq would've been a success if not for the lack of fire starters.
but nevermind we should maintain our tradition of failed bbqs.
in the end we managed to cook a pathetic number of satays and sausages with that little fire we had before it died.
and my attempts to fry the sausages were futile.
i should've stuck to my spaghetti bolognaise.

all cooking attempts were given up and then we went into the sec3s' room to play games.
started off with ying's silly tiu-tiu-tiu game which is so darn dumb!
but fun. haha i enjoyed it cos it made me laugh.
played oo7-bang, the bloop game, concentration and some number game.
used the gardenia hotdog buns as a forfeit haha its a good way to get people to eat it.
ohyeah. yusin and jaslin's konnyaku jelly was a forfeit too.
i think it was the WORSE jelly i ever tasted! haha sorry you two! :P
luckily panda brought her m&ms i had to eat them to neutralise the jelly taste.

i got electrocuted so many times with huiyan's ipod speakers.
oww.

our water balloon fight was quite pathetic at first actually.
haha most of the balloons bounced off our bodies and burst on the ground.
i can't remember who threw a balloon at me and it hit me squarely in my stomach and kinda knocked the wind out of me.
AND IT HURT! a lot.
but nevermind round 2 of the fight was better.
if i'm not wrong everyone got wet.
unfortunately that meant me as well.
stupid panda threw so many at me. grr.
sarah ho didn't join us because she was scared of the cat that was nearby. -.-
haha inside the chalet we all teamed up and drenched huiyan with water from a basin.
and i tricked her again! whoohoo! :D
then froggie dumped water on panda and sab.
it was soooo funny cos it looked like they were being baptised.

i'm quite sad i didn't stay over at the chalet this year...
turns out that i missed out on quite a lot!
ohwells. at least i had fun with the seniors while i was around.
thanks for all the presents yeah!
i LOOOOOOVE the photoframe. (: which is my belated brithday present
hahah.

the end of the chalet kind of marked the closure of it all.
which is sad in a way.
will we ever see each other again?
will we ever have the same bond that we shared?
will we ever be as close?
i really hope so.
to the best team in the world: cedar badminton b div 'o6
i salute you.