Saturday, May 30, 2009
omg harmoc concert is over alr omg omg so fast! ): omg ): anyway, AloHaMonica was great! (((: and thanks so much, margaret, jin ning, xian wei and shing for coming for the concert! (: and yu ze for being our wonderful guest player haha! :D
and i'm really so glad that the concert was a success yayy! :D and i'm especially proud of the j1s yayy haha cos you all managed to put everything together in such a short time (: and when i was backstage listening to you all playing intermezzo for the last time ever, i really really felt so proud of you all! i remember the first time i heard you all playing intermezzo, it was during the sl auditions, and i remember our sl nominees couldn't get past the first few bars because there was soooo many mistakes! and haha you all have really come a long way since then! in a short span of less than one month, you have managed to learn the piece and put up a good performance on stage, and you have all really touched my heart with your music ((: and i wish i could have listened to your small groups songs as well, especially titanic omg! (: it's my favourite song out of the j1 small group songs haha (: and i know you all only had a very short period of time to practise, but you all managed to make it in the end yayy haha so pro (: and i'm sorry i almost lost my temper at the slavonic dance group and snapped at you all rather exasperatedly ): but i'm glad you all bucked up and practised so hard after that (: you all sounded much much much better by concert eve alr (: haha but though i didn't manage to hear it for myself on the concert day, i heard that you all sounded good, so yayy! (: and haha a few hours before the concert, a friend of mine heard you all practising backstage, and he said that if he were part of the audience, he'd feel really touched ((: and i really can't express how super happy i was to hear that (((: heh having been in performing arts for like 6 yrs alr, i have really learnt and experienced for myself how important it is to touch the hearts of the audience with your music ((: [quote ms ku when we were practising respighi for strings syf 05: "you must be able to move the judges with your playing. when you have moved them to tears, that is when you know you've succeeded" haha see i still remember these words till today haha amazing right (: ]
and yayy our syf pieces sounded good on stage too! or at least it sounded better than during post-syf pracs haha! (: and although i think our standard has dropped since syf, considering the amount of concert pracs we had, i think it was still a good job (: so yayy haha (: and haha we literally ended the concert on a good note with chicken pickin rag! :D like haha we sounded mess-free (: and the mood of the song was great yayy haha! :D great job everyone! (:
and i liked our j2 batch songs too (: air and all i ask of you (: and yayy omg sharon and jon loke's chairpersons song sounded really pro too omg haha you both have a lot of mo qi ((: and sl song was nice! :D goodness i'm really so glad we sounded synchro and nice and haha so many people liked our song omg i'm so happy (:
and thanks so much clement hong for being my page turner haha you're a wonderful page turner seriously (: and haha i'm so glad you were right next to me on stage haha it really helped calm my nerves haha (: and thanks for your comforting words right there and then when i played that super obvious wrong note haha omg how did you manage to know that i was going to freak out alr haha :D thanks kayy it really helped me not to panic even more haha! (((: and yayy evee and yinghin, you all sounded so super pro too yayy haha (: it feels so nice performing with you all! (: and considering we only had a few days to prac our song, i think we really really did a great job out of it ((: and haha i will never ever forget this special item, and haha i think this rendition of way back into love is the best ever! :D :D :D
and i'll never forget our practice sessions also haha and our many failed inital attempts to play the song nicely together haha! :D haha like i remember how we initally started out with evee playing the melody, ying hin playing bass harmoc, and me playing the chord harmoc! and haha i think the sounds coming out from the bass harmoc and chord harmoc were so funny that ducky couldn't stop laughing everytime we tried to play it haha! and i remember our many practices at the amphi, and how we always forgot to DS al Coda, and how we were always super laggy in realising that we forgot to do so haha! and how we kept complaining about the faint printing on the score, me whining about the out of tune amphi piano, and yinghin complaining about how hot it was, and ducky laughing everytime we sounded so terrible haha! :D heh (:
and when we played our last note for chicken pickin rag, and the curtains closed and we started clapping for ourselves behind the curtains, all i could think about was that harmoc was really really over, and that would be the last i'd ever play on the harmoc ): the last time i'd be making music with all these wonderful people, the last time i'd ever be performing on stage ):
and after concert we had handover! sharon and jon loke made their farewell speech and omg i felt so emo listening to them ): and then we watched the video that clement made, and haha it was quite nice yayy (: and omg looking at all the photos and the quotes from our batchmates, i really really felt so super sad at leaving harmoc ): i really do miss those times omg, our delicious dinner date and alife cip and concert last year! and syf this year and everything else like all our normal prac sessions etc! and i like jon loke's message haha it was really quite meaningful (:
then we had exco handover haha omg the j1 sls are super sweet omg they made such nice photoframes for us ((: i'll post the pic when i have time haha (: jiayou dorcas, fiona and natalie, our future sls! (: i truly believe you will all be able to lead the ensemble well and help everyone to shine (((: all the best! :D and after handover we were happily taking pics and eating and everything (: and ooh haha our j2 batch present is really nice haha it's a mini harmoc on a chain! and so cute lah omg the harmoc can actually be blown leh haha omg! :D though it's only 4 notes lah haha! and mr yew gave all the exco members a special harmoc! :D haha it's a yew hong chow harmonica with 10 holes haha and the box was autographed by him! (: good keepsake indeed haha ((: and thank you weiling for your note and oreos! :D haha i never knew i was always so cheery even during prac haha, cos i remember being told not to smile so much when i first became an sl haha or else you all wouldn't be scared of me heh, so i made an effort not to smile so much hehe, but yayy yepp i'm just really glad i could brighten up harmoc pracs for you all ((: and haha even though harmoc is over, we'll still have many opportunities to joke around together kayy no worries (:
omg i really feel so sad at having to leave harmoc omg ): harmoc has made up a really significant part of my life in rj! possibly almost 50% of my time in school is dedicated to harmoc stuff omg! and harmoc was the reason for my busy-ness and fatigue, especially this year during the months leading up to syf! and i guess i used to whine quite often about how sleepy i was, and how i often wished we could go home earlier after prac because i was just so tired omg ): but now, when i realise how all this will be gone, and replaced by endless months of shitty mugging, i know i'm really really really gonna miss everything ): like on tues and wed afternoons when i'm facing my homework, i'll prob be wondering to myself what i'm doing here, and why i'm not in lt 3 or lt 5 practising my harmoc and taking prac and whatnot! omg ): now there's this void in my life that's waiting to be filled omg and i don't know what to fill it with also omg ): technically i'm supposed to fill it up with mugging but argh sighhhh i really wish i didn't have to omg ): i guess i've come to be so used to spending so much time on harmoc, that it's just gonna be so so weird for me not to have anymore harmoc-related stuff to do anymore omg ):
and i'll really miss our batch so much omg! all of you have been so so nice and so kind and cheerful (: and we make such nice music together omg! :D i miss all our fun outings and gatherings and events and performances! ): we've really come so far together omg! i still remember when i first joined harmoc, and we were all still struggling with our notes! and i remember i used to sound like a cow when i played the low notes, and then somehow along the way, we all got better and we put up Harmonix XI that was such a blast omg (: i still remember our super cute storyline haha and our nice nice concert songs from last year (: like i still remember our ensemble songs, phantom of the opera and voice of spring! and our batch song, canon! (: and my small group song, beauty and the beast! ((: and haha i remember our alife cip also haha working with all the small kids was really fun (: and busking and project highlight and open house and everything else (: omg we've really created so much memories together (((: and i'm really thankful to you all for all these wonderful times and all the nice memories (: and thankyou for being such wonderful batchmates (: you've all really made my time in harmoc so enjoyable (: i love all of you! (((((:
and i must especially thank my fellow sls yinghin and evee for this journey together (: thank you for being my fellow sls and for sticking through all the tough times together with me (: all the long and exhausting pracs and all the mistakes we had to correct, and everything (: thanks ducky for being my fellow stoning partner during prac, when we just got so so tired that we couldn't anything else but stone together, and for all our pigging out sessions when we went to buy food and munch together haha, and our note-typing sessions together and everything else (: and thanks yinghin for being my whining partner haha, and for our bitching sessions also hahaha i still remember our bitching session about the photocopying aunty hehe, and thanks for being such a funny sl haha! and hahaha omg i still remember evee accidentally calling you yinghan hahahaha really super super funny omg! and haha i must say that the 3 of us really managed to work together very well yayy yayy i'm so glad for that! (: love both of you lots too! (:
and j1s, all the best for next year kayy! (: i'm sure you will all make the next concert a blast (: jiayou jiayou i can't wait to come back and watch you all (: and i shall come back and visit your prac sessions when i'm free too okayy! (: i'll miss you all so much too omg ): i still remember teaching you all how to play the harmoc, and listening to you all during all the auditions, and i really really think you all have made so much progress (: you've all done me proud yayy! :D keep up the enthusiasm and passion for harmoc okay! (:
haha omg that was one really long post hehe! shall reply tags now (:
shing: haha yepp thanks lots kayy! :D and thanks for coming for concert kayy i'm glad you enjoyed yourself! (((:
clement: haha i just did! :D ahhh yeahhh omg really so sad omg ): i miss harmoc so much omg ):
Sunday, May 24, 2009
yayy haha shall blog about yesterday! ((: haha haven't had this much fun in quite long omg! (: anw yesterday was godma's bdae celebrations yayy haha! :D and we went to gold coast seafood restaurant at hotel grand central! (: haha the place kinda sucks, but the food was nice lah at least haha! (: super nice in fact haha! :D all the seafood omg haha! (: and haha there was so many crab dishes omg? but me and mel didn't know how to eat crab haha so we ended up eating damn lot of mantou while the rest were eating the crabs haha! omg lah somemore the mantous were like deep fried omg?! good job nicole omg! and i ate a lot of other things too haha omg by the end of dinner we were all like bursting alr lah haha! and omg omg i had 3 bowls of mango pudding haha but it was really damn nice omg ((: still feel like eating somemore hehe oops! :D
and after dinner there was cake! (: haha which was a combined present from val, mel and me yayy haha! (:
here's the pic! (:
group shot haha! (:
the 3 cousins and our godma haha! :D and the cake! (:
and oohx haha this is totally my favourite pic of the nite haha! :p val's expression rocks lah srsly! :p
okays and this is the proper pic haha! (:
me and val! (:
me and mel! (: haha val said we look like angels haha cos of the background lighting omg hahaha! :D
and haha after dinner we went to the hotel lounge of holiday inn parkview for drinks haha! (: i had a mojito yayy haha it was super nice! (: and val had cosmopolitan heh i think it's quite nice too omg! (: and mel had fruit punch hehe awwww poor girl! :D nvm next time when you're 18 we can go drinking together kayy haha! :p and by then i'll be like 24? omg haha! :D and so funny haha my mom and my aunties all had mai tai haha! :D damn nice too yayy! :D and hahaha they served tapioca chips and carrots and celery sticks along with the nuts haha! (: i liked the tapioca chips omg really damn nice lah haha! (: and lol we just sat there and talked for like super long haha! (: really so fun omg! (: late night outing hahaha! :D and yayy val it was so fun catching up with you haha we should totally do this more often! (: (:
haha and today we celebrated my dad's bdae haha! (: we went to zhou's kitchen for dim sum high tea haha woohoo it rocked too omg all the nice dim sum yum yum! ((: haha so as usual i ate till i felt like bursting hehe oops! had 4 bowls of dessert omg! and lots and lots of fried food omg oops again! and then we went home to cut cake! and the pro me ate like 3 slices of cake! o.0 somemore it was durian cake omg super high cholesterol! and add today's cholesterol to yesterday's cholesterol from the seafood, you'll have a nicole whose arteries are about to burst alr omg! so oops haha again, well done nicole! :p must really exercise more alr omg (:
aha now i'm so full omg serve me right haha! shall not eat so much over the next few days haha i think my stomach needs a rest! (:
and hehe time to get back to mugging! (: and omg next week is gonna be hardcore harmoc prac again haha! (: can't wait for concert omg i seriously think we need lots more work hehe we must play well and shine on stage kayy! (((:
haha reply to tags:
shing: haha yayy yayy yepp thx kayy! :D
yitao: haha yayy thx thx! (: i bet yours got renewed also right! :D hehe so congrats too kayy! (: and haha no lah a*star not 4A1B right, it's just A for sci subjects and GP! haha or dunno how many % of the cohort haha! yayy anw yepp thx kayy haha i'm crossing my fingers! :D
Thursday, May 21, 2009
OMG i am a happy girl! :D :D haha my a*star scholarship got renewed omg omg omg! this totally makes my night woohoo haha , after like dunno how long feeling so bleahhh about sch, this is totally a new motivating force man haha yayy! :D :D :D $1000 more omg omg yayy yayy! :D and haha omg i thot i wouldn't get it cos of gp bleah but haha yayy i'm happy now!:D haha crossing my fingers now for dsta scholarship haha omg omg pls pls renew it too okayy so that nicole can be doubly happy yayy haha! :D :D
haha it's really so amazing omg, sometimes when you think you've reached a pit, or when you're at a low point in your life, something will always come along and make things better yayy ((: like this piece of good news omg! :D goodie haha (: this totally gives me renewed confidence in the fact that life never ever leaves you feeling down all the way (: when you're stuck in a valley, it probably just means you're gonna reach a peak after some time yayy yayy :D :D omg haha i sound so optimistic woohoo yayy ((:
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
ahhh so sleepy haha! ):
omg yayy so excited haha harmoc concert is coming up really soon yayy! ((: ahhh i just wish it could be longer though, and i wish we had more invitation cards omg! 3 is totally not enough can omg there are like so many people i want to invite, but only 3 invitation cards zomg! ): omg i wish we could have a normal concert this year lah goodness omg it's our last year here leh! ): ooh and haha i like the sl song yayy haha we're playing way back into love! :D so cool haha and just nice we have all the instruments we need for playing it haha i hope it sounds nice yayy yayy ((: omg i just need to go find a chord harmoc haha, either that or i'll have to play the super super long chord harmoc that is like 2/3 my height or something hahaha goodness omg i can't even imagine myself playing it hehe! :D and haha i wish we were playing canon omg i like canon a lot lah haha it's totally one of my favourite classical pieces((((:
yayy anw let's jiayou for concert kayy! (: i'm sure it'll be great yayy haha! :D
and omg today we played table tennis during pe haha and it was like some non-stop laughing session lah haha cos we kept doing stupid things and playing super noobily hehe but nvm it was still fun hahaha! :D and i think i laughed so hard i prob grew some abs hahaha! :D
hehhh ahh so bored! ): shall go back to mugging h3 haha! omg h3 is so sian help omg!
shall reply tags first ((: i'm so touched haha i see a lot of nice tags from all my nice friends yayy :D i am really feeling much better alr (: thx kayy! :D
daniel: haha omg yeahhhhh i totally remember telling you about my dream of living on a farm or in a church or sth right hahaha! :D yeahh lorh omgggg haha i wanna go play with all the cute sheep omg! ((: hehe :D anw thx kayy yepp i'm waiting for all the torture to be over yayy! :D
shing: haha yayy yepp thx kayy haha shall try to get even tougher yayy haha! ((: thx for the support kayy! ((: jiayou too! ((:
clement: haha hello clement hong! :D heh ok ok thx lots kayy haha (: chilled alr haha! (: no worries i shall flash you a big smile tmr haha! :D
yitao: haha hello! ((: yayy yeahhh omg thx thx kayy! ((: haha yepp i will, no worries! (: you jiayou too kayy! ((: haha i think the feeling's going away alr whew (:
shing: haha thx thx! omg really can't wait for h3 to be over haha there's really so much to mug omg! ): hehe and yeahh i am super pro in the chem lab i know haha thx kayy! :p
Sunday, May 17, 2009
OMG i really have nothing to say now except that i am super stressed alr and super tired of having to meet people's expectations all the time OMG.
and now i only wish that i was born with a super low IQ or sth so that at least people's expectations of me wouldn't be so high and i wouldn't have to pressure myself so hard just to meet people's wants, which most of the time is not even something that i dearly badly desire or whatever anw, so i don't even see what's the point of me trying so hard you know? like, it's srsly very tiring you know?
omg i just wish i could fly away to some far far far away place omg just throw me to some random deserted island lah pls, there's totally no stress there and i will just go pluck coconuts everyday and drink coconut juice or whateva to get by. srsly lah, no need to stress about my future or working hard or whateva, don't need to have to cram so much stuff into my already-bursting brain. all i need to do is learn how to climb coconut trees, and maybe swim. isn't it?
SIGH.
or i should just go some ulu place that still practises farming. and i'll just tend to my animals everyday. i think it's a very nice life also what, so peaceful and don't need to stress about so many things.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
yayy harmoc photo! (((:
haha anyway omg i shall blog about my super retarded h3 lab session yesterday hahaha! :D and omg i think ntu is really super super ulu omg! had to cab there in the morning, and somemore the taxi driver himself got kinda confused too omg hahaha! ): but at least i got there on time woohoo (: oh oh and i think the ntu labs are really damn nice omg (: it's like so hi tech and the whole place is airconditioned and there are super lot of fume hoods omg! (: so cool haha and all the equipment look quite cool too lah!
and haha omg the whole lab session was just retarded lah omg luckily i had sharon next to me omg if not i think i would have died big time lah really hahaha! :D had to keep asking her a lot of stuff hehe, mostly involved her repeating the experimental steps over and over again haha! and omg our teacher was damn funny lah haha, he said that if we didn't know what to do, then just "monkey see monkey do lah" haha which was precisely what i did i think hahaha! :D hahaha thanks lots kayy sharon haha you were a big help omg! :D
and haha omg i was so so sad can omg i spilled my extracted product onto the table top! ): omg so clumsy right, cos i poured the stuff into the separating funnel and didn't realise that the tap at the bottom was open! ): so the stuff just went in from the top and came out through the bottom almost immediately omg smart nicole right! ): haha then after that i couldn't stop whining about how my product was not in the flask but rather it was on the table HEH omg! ):
and haha then when we were supposed to go evaporate the solvents using the rotary evaporator or sth, si hui and i were like damn worried that we wouldn't have any products left in the flask cos we both spilled our stuff on the table heh omg! and lousy yen joe omg! haha sometimes so gentlemanly but sometimes so bad to me haha tsk! :p omg lah haha he was quite nice at first lah haha, he helped me with the heat gun yayy! (: and also pulled a chair for me to sit down while waiting for the stupid evaporator haha, but then immediately after i sat down, he was like "ehhh there's nothing in your flask lah! look, it's empty! seriously! look! there's nothing inside!" haha and ahem, there was stuff inside after all kayy! :D though there wasn't much lah haha oops! ):
hehhh and then! omg i forgot to weigh the empty flask, so the person told me to go weigh the flask with the stuff inside first, then go scrape off the stuff inside, then weigh the empty flask! so i was like, huh how to scrape, then she said use a spatula! so i smartly decided to wrap the spatula with a piece of filter paper first then scrape the flask haha so the spatula won't get so dirty mah! haha which was a big mistake i see haha cos the filter paper was so fat and thick it didn't help much with the scraping at all, and worse still omg, when i tried to take the spatula out of the flask, the spatula came out, leaving the filter paper behind omg damn pro lah seriously! and haha the worst thing was that the flask neck was super narrow lah then the filter paper couldn't come out omg! ):
and then! reynard informed me that i should have used acetone instead omg just pour inside, then the stuff would dissolve then can just pour the whole solution away! means i didn't actually need to scrape lah omg! ): all that trouble for nothing omg, somemore i succeeded in getting the filter paper stuck inside bleah! ): hahaha so anyway i happily poured the acetone and prayed very hard that the filter paper would dissolve inside also haha then can take it out haha, but no omg the filter paper stubbornly remained inside omg stupid filter paper! haha so i was like struggling to remove the lousy filter paper, and reynard was damn super nice omg haha he helped me take out the filter paper hehe damn pro leh seriously! (: takes a lot of time and skill and patience lah haha must align the filter paper and then slowly pull it towards the mouth of the flask, but he did it omg yayy thanks kayy! ((:
haha and omg, my yield was like, 18.5% omg! haha and sharon said someone had like 90 plus % yield omg omg feel so zibei haha! luckily this wasn't some graded thingy or some practical exam or whatnot omg if not i think i would have failed horribly lah haha! lousy lab techniques and lousy yield haha omg!
so anyway after the horrendous lab session, i went for lunch with sharon yayy! :D haha i think it's super nice to be able to spend quality time with close friends yayy haha! (: anyway we took the mrt all the way from pioneer station to novena haha! (: then we went to urban pantry for lunch yayy haha i seriously love that place lah the food is all so nice omg (: and they added more items to the menu omg yayy! (: hehe anw i ordered my favourite tom yam seafood pasta and macaroni and cheese! and sharon had macaroni lasagne haha it's quite nice too haha yayy (: hee then after that we had glazed donuts and iced mocha too haha yum! (: and omg we just sat there and chatted non stop lah haha omg so nice! :D i think we must have chatted for like almost 4 hrs in total, including the train ride to novena hahaha! :D yayy yayy omg (: i love talking to you sharon tan haha! (: you're really super nice to talk to, i can just tell you anything under the sun omg (((: thanks for being so nice to talk to, bitch to, rant to and whatever (: and for being such a great and concerned friend haha (: a bit naggy at times lah haha, especially about the newspapers horh, but haha i understand hahaha thanks lots kayy darling! ((: luv you lots and lots and lots! ((((: hehh and like i told you over lunch, i'll always have time for you kayy no matter what! (:
hehe and omg it's now may haha (: i think time passes so so slowly omg it's like crawling past lah seriously! ): can't wait for all this torture to be over omg (:
haha anw reply to tags:
daniel: yes yes we are playing that haha! (: must come and watch our concert kayy haha we're playing a lot of nice songs too haha (: and yes yes pavane is really very very nice! (: it has such a beautiful melody omg (((:
shing: haha powerpuff papaya! (: haha thx thx kayy! (: you jiayou for everything else too kayy! (: and haha yayy yeahh omg they all look so nice lah haha yayy yayy thx kayy! :D
group shot haha! (:
the 3 cousins and our godma haha! :D and the cake! (:
me and mel! (: haha val said we look like angels haha cos of the background lighting omg hahaha! :D
yayy harmoc photo! (((: