Everyday should be Christmas.
a visit to the carmelite monastry.28th may 2006
1500hrs
well, i tried to blog yesterday so that the experience could still be fresh in my head. but since i had maths to drown myself in, i decided to blog today instead. here it goes:
blocked out from the rest of the world, the carmelite nuns wear brown and devote the rest of their lives to praying for others like you and i. there is one word i can use to describe them. "courageous". Even CHIJ nuns and priests have contact with the rest of the world, but the carmelite nuns don't.
After the visit to the monastry, it just set me thinking: it IS a dangerous world out there after all. the carmelite nuns have very good reasons to block themselves away from the rest of the world. The media influences the masses positvely and negatively. But most of the time, it is negatively.
How many TV programmes/newspaper articles/magazines/radio programmes are christ like? Then again, the camalite nuns stay in the monastry 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, surrounded by high walls and barbed wires, safe from the outside world. Do they watch tv? Do they talk? Do they listen to music? So they surf the internet? NO.
Therefore, i state my stand. carmelite nuns are courageous to dedicate their whole life to praying. How many of us can actually do what they do?
My mom's life was saved by their prayers. a friend of my mom's went down to the monastry to offer my mom up to the carmelite nuns' prayers. They appeared to my mom in her dreams when she was in a coma. and at that point of time, SHE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHO THE CARMELITE NUNS WERE! creepy? i'd say miraculous. i admire them.
I overheard a converstation between a carmelite nun and her visitors. We couldn't see her face, but i could still hear her voice from outside the room. i know it wasn't right of me to eavesdrop, but i couldn't help it. Her voice was too sweet.
My choir conductor mentioned that they were only allowed to talk an hour per day ONLY. (now i realise how talkative i am) So by now, you should have an idea of how courageous they are.
Feel free to go down to the carmelite monastry to ask them to pray for you and your loved ones.
Visiting hours: 0900-1100
1430-1630
truly, they are a gift from God.
hypnotized the marionette;
Everyday should be Christmas.
ahhh... had a lovely dinner at chomp chomp with meiping today. as usual, the 2 main dishes were sambal stingray and kangkong. wahahaha. calina stayed in our hearts then. both of us decided that we deserved such good food after such a hectic week. this week is by far the MOST hectic week of school since the beginning of the year.
starting clockwise from the bowl of rice: sambal stingray, HUGE glass of sugar cane juice, sambal kang kong, carrot cake and chicken wings! yumms!!
the focus during dinner: SAMBAL STINGRAY!!!
after dinner, meiping and i went to video ezy to loan some movies for the weekend. ahhh.. RELAX. guess what we saw...
LA BAMBA!!! Lester, this one's for you. couldn't resist the temptation of taking a picture of it. well the irony is that the guy in the pic looks so much like melvin and not lester. well, they both sing the duet for la bamba anyway. so it doesn't make a difference.
i know this is really random, but the lion on the school logo at the science block looks really fierce. took a pic from it while looking down from the library. i can't help but think the lion on nyjc's school logo's fierce. rah. [enlarge pic if you can't see the LITTLE FIERCE LION]
hypnotized the marionette;
Everyday should be Christmas.
i wish i was the person your friend thought i was. but we all know that it isn't possible. so i'll just keep wishing and dreaming...
my ultimate dream with you.
carry on dreaming, daphne.
hypnotized the marionette;
Everyday should be Christmas.
i'll update before i begin on physics revision. [mug, mug, mug!] i totally have no confidence for this coming thursday's physics test. so what if its the last week of the term? there's still a physics test to battle with before you start holiday-ing.
was tagged by borne, so i shall fulfill his wishes (:
i only reply tags that are in ENGLISH. unlike the last time when it was in chinese and i totally ignored it. haha.
10 random facts about daphne (:
1. Everytime i'm ill, i go to the same old clinic just because the gerneral practitioner's real cute! too bad he's married with 3 kids already.
2. my first crush was on a malaysian boy when i was in primary two (unlike mel who had his first crush in K1?!) its not my fault, i was in an international school in Hong Kong!
3. i used to love the power rangers (just like borne) just that i played pretend with my cousins. the youngest got to be the dorky robot called "alpha". i played the yellow ranger. hmm..
4. i'd like to see the 7 wonders of the world before i die. [think i'm left with 5 more to see]
5. when i was 2 years old, i was really proud of my bikini i wore with pineapple pictures printed on it. the bikini looks super cheesy. haha.
6. i don't mug as much as everyone thinks i do. [well at least i mug less than jia jie]
7. i HATE tur kua. i don't eat sotong, oysters, pig organs, char siew, kway chap.
8. i'll do anything for sambal sting-ray. yumms (:
9. i day-dream ALOT during physics lectures.
10. the citi-bank advertisement with Harrison Ford in it used to be my favourite advertisement UNTIL i heard the podcast about it. haha. [no more birds!]
i'm supposed to ask 5 other people to do this.
calina
clement
Teng Ming
Tricia
Hiang Suan
*one minute you can make me feel like i'm on top of the world. the other minute, i can feel like nothing to you. its the way you make me feel, spinning my world around. i just can't help my feelings.
hypnotized the marionette;
Everyday should be Christmas.
princess?! my foot. your teaching sucks. if u can't even handle 24 17-year olds, you think u can even be a princess? your taste on shoes sucks too. princesses wear pretty shoes. your shoes damn o-biang! stop ruining the good name of princesses.
you think you're always right. please la, you're not at all committed to your class. so what if your other classes don't ask you questions? it doesn't mean that our class is the only one who doesn't understand our work! reality is that they have no clue what the hell their doing during your freaking lessons. u think that they're a better class? go ahead and think that way. we'll see who does better at the end of the day. we ask questions because we BOTHER to study.
i will not pretend to like her at all man. if i don't like her, i'll show it to her. fine. i'll shut up during your lessons. you don't want us to ask questions? your don't want us to clarify stuff? fine. we'll all shut up during your lessons. go back to your dumb-ass palace and reflect la ok? you have no idea what the hell you're doing. get a life. you piece of shit. [i'm damn pissed.] you made me break down in school today. you happy?!
besides what happened today, we took our GP essay test papers back today. hah. got an a level pass. crap. i've actually lived up to obtaining an a level pass for all my subjects. i need to improve my grades. argh... well borne got 27/50 and he's damn proud he passed. we all are damn proud of him. haha.
borne and his test paper.
after chem SPA, the guys ran to the pull up bars as usual. this time, i managed to snap a pic of borne training. haha. [borne's featured in my blog today!!]
well, the only ones who were'nt really training their pull ups were melvin and lester. as usual, lester came up with a funny pic to pose for. this time the scenario was lester and mel carrying loadsa bags. they were's supposedly typical singaporeans back from a holiday.
hypnotized the marionette;
Everyday should be Christmas.
a day of fun, laughter and NO tutorials!! yeah. well, on my way to the toilet in school, i ran into 3 girls with orange bags. yes. 3 orange bags. 3 disciples of ren kai. those girls must be like heaven to ren kai. haha
well, the climax of today was when we watched the volleyball match between nyjc and hci. yes! ny dominated the whole tp sports hall.
nyjc's side of the sports hall.
haha. hci's side of the sports hall.
njyc emerged second in singapore. yay! lynette did a great job. lester was praising her throughout the match! hahaha. after the match, we went to BK. well, we started off like this:
after the meal, we ended up like this: we each had little crowns of our own!!
we ended off the day by going to popular to take a look-see. obviously, we ended up making a fool of ourselves there. we had lester and melvin pose with winnie the pooh and tigger bags. cute! but it looks as if they're wearing training bras in the pic. tight and eeww..
hypnotized the marionette;
Everyday should be Christmas.
yet another usual day in school. got out of bed this morning knowing that i would go to school n come back only with more tutorials to complete. this time, i was wrong. its zuo wen for today. how much better can the situation get? still got my dynamics tutorial staring at me. argh. i wanna do chem!
another usual day at school.
we mugged.
we played.
We heard the best news of the week this morning. school's letting us off early on wed so we can all support our vball team in the finals. tp sports hall. that place brings back memories. supporting the vball team is a much better option than having to stay for formal lessons for the whole day on wed! yeah.. heard that we'll be let off at 11.45. yippies! but then again, i can't help but think about the mid years that's starting 23 june. crap. i can't enjoy my holiday in the states!!! crap. well, gtg complete phy tutorial now. ~tired.
hypnotized the marionette;
Everyday should be Christmas.
daphne loves public holidays. daphne hates public holidays filled with tutorials and tests to study for. so yupps, yesterday was vesak day. didn't do anything much other than locking myself up in my study room. [yes, you guessed it right. i mugged. the whole day.] and yet, i still got chem tutorials 5 and 6, PW lit. review, maths tutorial 6b to complete. darn.
used up all my energy on extracting case studies from books in the national library. wahahaha. melody n i did some serious searching and got some good stuff! kudos to the both of us (: just what i thought i had all the information i needed for monday, i remembered that i had to analyse and do lit. review on the articles. darn. there's like loads. i don't feel like sleeping tonight. just wanna complete ALL my tutorials. i'm lagging behind. meiping, jj, mel and the rest of the gang are like at tutorial 7 & 8 for chem, and i'm only at 5 & 6?! flowers.
the result of mugging.
anyways, trimmed my hair yesterday. haha. couldn't take it fringe was like long. ugh. was supposed to keep it till it was a 'lil longer till i trimmed it. but oh well. i saw the hairdresser first. haha. snapped a pic of 'lil dominic and i. haha. me and my new haircut. dominic cut his hair, and so did i! haha.
i love my 'lil brother!!!
hypnotized the marionette;
Everyday should be Christmas.
the tile painting thing today was crap.. haha. melvin's cow ended up being the class symbol. [COWS?!] oh well. super tired now. don't think i wanna blog much tonight. falling sick. i've suddenly got the flu when i got home today. but here's the overall picture of our combined tiles. jia jie should be posting up the video when melvin drew the cow on the tiles. [jia jie, u better pay me for advertising!]
hypnotized the marionette;
Everyday should be Christmas.
right. i changed my template for the sake of osborne and teng ming. you guys ought to thank me! teng ming need not frantically cover the monitor when he reads my blog in school anymore.. haha.
well, nyjc had the rhythm masala over for assembly today. haha. according to melvin, this group actually won the guinness world record for playing the drums for a number of days non-stop. coolness. well, their car was parked outside C2, and 0622 happened to have PW in C2 then. so after lesson, we saw rhythm masala's car and started taking pics of it. as usual, i had voluntary models. [ i told u 0622 loves the camera ] this time, its melvin, lester and zi xuan.
during the show, they called students up stage to try out the instruments and to play a rhythm together. similarly, teachers were invited. mrs lim went up stage, 0622 cheered. poh went up stage, 0622 laughed their butts off their seats. immidiately, i shouted "take photo, take photo!!" jia jie volunteered to use his phone, and i took pics of poh playing on some traditional indian drum. hah. she looked wierd. well, if you're willing to see her pic, its gonna be posted up on jj's blog when he updates it. poh was in pink when the pic was taken. that was the ultimate performance of the day. wahhaha.
hypnotized the marionette;
Everyday should be Christmas.
maths - my nightmare.
chemistry - my murderer.
GP - my suicide.
chinese - my enemy.
physics - my silent killer.
econs - my back stabber.
PW - my energy absorber.
0622 - my life.
seriously, i don't find going to school so much of a chore because of the friends and all. but look at what my subjects have done to me. i've never studied so much in my life. never stayed up so late JUST to complete tutorials and catch up with my muggin' classmates. and yet, i'm only passing my tests like 50%. that's a 'D' grade. i'm no where near my dream.
just love maths the way it is. but its just really scary when u sit for exams. the questions just look like you've never seen them in your entire life even if you practised your ass off for the past few weeks. that's what i call real shit. (pls mind my language. i'm really pissed) there's 3 tests in a row tmr, and i'm still studying for them. someone please free me from this mental jail i've put myself in.
i loved chem ever since i took it in depth in sec 3. loving it even more now, but then again, teachers are super strict in marking and questions appear really tough in exams. you don't do it their way, you fail. simple as that. and how would i know what their way is supposed to be?!
GP - my suicide. i never felt english was a problem for me. just this time, we're banded according to our o level grades. apparently, i'm in one of the best classes. BUT the teacher teaching my class just doesn't do much. i literally STONE during GP lessons. there's gp essay test tmr. how am i supposed to cope? i'm freaking out now. don't learn much from gp teacher, and thrown in the sea to make ourselves swim for our lives. that's what i call life in jc.
hypnotized the marionette;
Everyday should be Christmas.
DO NOT leave a camera with me. seriously. when u get it back, u'll find that i've used up all the memory in your cam! haha. well instead, i used my OWN phone to snap pics today. haha. just felt the sudden adrenaline rush to snap pics with da gurls! haha. 0622 loves the camera. its in the genes! (:
3 darlings-calina, daphne & meiping (:
haha. more pics!
Melody, Meiping & Anna!
teehee! beloved meiping & i.
Well, i was having fun snapping pics before econs test today till the test came along and dragged my day down. what's more, i lost my cool during physics practical after that. argh. physics sucks. Then had PFT after that. proud of myself! i'm not as weak as i thought i was! yeah! haha. oh yeah. synergy pics are up on the college website and teng ming found my pic there while dancing the indian dance. haha. i shall post it up here too (:
yeah. its embarrasing. but we had loadsa fun on stage! 3 cheers for nanyang jc's college choir!!
hypnotized the marionette;