Hello, welcome. :)
I'm Glennda, 19 going on 20 this year!
Came into the world on 5th August 1990.
I have a passion for long distance running, sports, reading, music, writing and many other things, and blue-myfavouritecolour is an avenue for me to share my muses, thought and whatever's been going on.
Eventually I want to run Adidas Sundown Full Marathon and Standard Chartered Full Marathon!
I love my family, friends and my cell group, W398+N385! :)
Through God, I can do anything, and nothing is impossible. For God loves us and will never forsake us.
Oh and I'm a big fan of Westlife and Jay Chou, and would love it if I can get the chance to meet Westlife in person one day! :D
I think this video is familiar to most of jay's fans and to those who have watched 'secret'. =) no doubt the piano battle was really exciting, and their skills are enough to make many people's jaws drop. it's really an amazing one. =) and yay I got hold of all 3 versions of the battle! =D
band camp tml until saturday, and I haven't packed yet. whee. anyway it's fairly easy. just grab whatever you need, stuff it in your bag and voila. it's done. =D
now I have more work to catch up on. so that's all for now! will update once I get back from band camp. =)
random note: I'm craving for swensens' ice-cream. I'm craving to go out to sakura and eat really soon. =D
oh yeah june hols are finally here! =) though it's definitely not the time to slack off since it's the only june hols we'll have to do all the revision that need to be done and do that extremely large pack of holiday work that awaits us.
let's see.
-chem tutorial: group VII elements -june organic chem quiz -chemistry periodicity SATT -physical chem revision exercise pack -MJC gp prelim 2007 paper 1 -econs holiday assignment -econs tutorial 7: macroeconomic policies -maths tutorial+assignment 20B -maths tutorial+assignment 21 -maths tutorial+assignment 22 -physics revision pack
I don't envy the lot of work that needs to be done. and in the midst of all these work that needs to be done, there's still the intensive amount of revision that has to be done, not only for pure maths block test, chem common test and physics lect test, and it's also for prelims and the actual 'A's.
go girl. you can do it. 2+ more months to prelims. 5 more months to 'A's. you can do it!
went to school yesterday morning for band room 'revampment', only it was sorting out the astonishing number of scores we have. the worse thing is that there are so many missing scores. and it was tough to arrange the scores in chronological order, as neatly as possible and putting back the scores in their respective boxes. the smell was so musty and dusty that I couldn't help sneezing so many times. and it was pretty obvious that the scores had probably not been taken out of their boxes for ages, and even the paper looks abit coloured due to age. =\ I wish I had come to school around 9plus instead, because it was raining so heavily in the morning that I was almost totally drenched despite having an umbrella. =/ and my shoes and socks will soaked through as well! regretted not wearing my flip-flops to school that day. and I had to go around the band room barefoot because it was really uncomfortable to wear wet shoes throughout.
shiva returned me the luggage that I lent to her for the chengdu trip yesterday, and I took a break from arranging scores to chat with her and walk out to SPC to buy something to eat. we started talking about the sichuan earthquake, and about how terrible it was. since on sunday, china was hit by a 6.4-magnitude aftershock, leaving a few people dead. I wonder how high is the death toll going to rise. and the actual quake was 7.9-magnitude strong. since the time when the quake struck, 60000 people are dead, 20000 people are still missing. seeing china in ruins and the general sense of despair among the earthquake survivors is really heart-wrenching. shiva told me that the rural school that they went to when they were in chengdu collapsed during the earthquake, and the other school had its roof falling in. luckily the students managed to escape from those buildings in time. what was even more shocking was that the period when they went to chengdu was actually the earlier period. apparently the timing when they were supposed to go was around the time when the earthquake struck. at that point when the earthquake struck, I was mentally thinking, 'thank god the council elects came back from chengdu already and are away from this terrible disaster. I don't dare to think about what would happen if they were there when the quake struck.'
however, it seems that more attention is focused on the sichuan earthquake victims, while the victims of the myanmar cyclone don't seem to receive much attention from the world. =\
I know I've been posting up somewhat emo song lyrics these days, and there are 2 reasons why I'm doing it. one, because I really like the song and it's nice. two, I've been feeling tired, stressed and abit emo the past few days.
I feel almost powerless these days, there are so many things that I want to say out but it's hard to find the really perfect person to confide it, either because they wouldn't understand how I feel, or they would probably blab it to the whole wide world to know. and that's part of the reason why I keep myself at an arm's length distance from some people, and don't let them know what I'm really think. it's an incredibly upsetting feeling, and there are only so few people whom I can actually confide in.
maths lect test and gp common test. I'd be happy if I get through my gp, I wasn't entirely sure if I managed to answer to the question in paper 1. and paper 2, once again AQ was omg. knew what to write, no time to write a proper conclusion. -.-
wednesday was career and scholarship fair. the NTU talk was good, the NUS talk was.. I don't know what to say. the speaker was an ex-jjcian and he didn't give much info on the courses available -.- the exhibition was more exciting as we actually could know more about the courses we were considering. and I realised that counselling, psychology, and sociology are 3 totally different things even though they are under social sciences. =o and the laselle option was wow as well, since if I do go into laselle, I want to go into music. but they require grade 6 practical and grade 6 theory if I'm not wrong, then you can go up to the first level of honours instead of starting at foundation level. though if I do get there I have to start at foundation level because I have grade 8 practical BUT grade 5 theory. =(
I seriously don't know what to consider, I want to go into social sciences, whether it's NUS FASS or NTU HSS. but music is good in the sense, after all I've been learning piano for 12 years already. but it's both tempting in so many ways. =\
and lately I feel so run-down, no thanks to sleeping at 12am+ almost everyday. it's hard on the mental state. really.
hung around at the hall after gp common test cos there's westzone line camp going on today. initially I was considering going for line night, but since I'm already meeting tab for dinner, so I decided to give it a miss. anyway there would probably other camps coming up as well, considering that jj has so many camps every year. and I talked to benny, one of the j1 juniors I know who's an F4 camper for 01 this year. and he was really funny when I told him that he looks like one of my commonwealth juniors, namely padey. lol.
me: you know, you really look like one of my juniors in commonwealth. benny: who's he? me: you don't know him lah. my school one mah. benny: who's better looking? haha me: erm.. o.O I don't know lah. about the same I think. benny: the model answer should be me. LOL.
LOL I couldn't stop laughing at that. ok, the conversation didn't exactly go that way, as my memory sucks. but get the general picture? =D
talking to tab really is a relief and a comfort for me, she's one of the very few people whom I can really confide in, and I felt much better after talking to her.
I feel like I'm drowning in schoolwork, revision, extreme stress, frustration and loneliness these days. it's amazing how you can feel lonely even with people around you. seriously.
sometimes I can't help but glance at someone in between lessons.
yeah and june hols are finally here! it's time to catch up on very much-needed sleep and more revision, common tests after june hols end. =\
Monday, May 19, 200812:53 PM
boredom.
life seems really boring these days. nothing but study and schoolwork.
what a life. NOT.
went out to je library to study yesterday afternoon, and once again I saw alot of jj people there mugging. and haha, I met anliang and saw hongyang as well. and the truth is that I can't quite remember how hongyang looks like even though he's my camper, because he didn't stay over for the camp. the only time I talk to him is online LOL. and I only knew it was him in the library because of his jersey. x) got really tired plus COLD in the library and I was on the 3rd floor sutdying, so I went up to the 4th floor, and I met yingming, jinhwee and a few other jj juniors there, and voila. we ended up talking. at least I managed to get some stuff done. =)
it's vesak day, the weather is good, I really want to go out. but revision beckons. =\ I was at IMM yesterday evening after study session and I passed by this particular watch shop, where both TV screens there were playing one of jay's live tours. and I've been trying to find the DVD for so long, yet couldn't find it. =( what a drag, and it probably means the next time I go to orchard I'd have to go and search through every single CD shop that I pass.
that's jay's song for beijing olympics 2008! =D and it's really a nice one as well. what's even better is that I found the piano score for it online so I can play it as much as I want. =D
Friday, May 16, 200810:20 PM
sports meet '08
sports meet today! once again, an exciting event, especially for rono, since we were in 2nd place and were battling for first place with bikila this year. what a great surprise, especially since last year rono was last. =\ what do you expect when bikila is ahead by at least 100+ points?!
the running events were exciting, most of us screamed ourselves hoarse. to sum up, OWNAGE is by bikila. meaning, they swept away majority of the medals and needless to say, they were champion house this year, and it's the second year running. =) rono did quite a good job too, second place is quite good considering that we were last place last year. bannister owned the cheering competition, again, it was like last year. kind of predictable in a sense. =) there was mass dance as well! =D though I sat out 'pump it' as I wasn't sure if I should join in. in the end I did join in, and went a little crazy with 5 colours and oh my darling. hahaha! though I wish there was geeks get the girls as well. =\
had band meeting after that, had a long discussion about what we wanted to do for band camp and to bond the new batch of j1s together. and I have to plan out abit more on the games component, for one of the stations. o_0 I hope I do a good job of this, it sounds easy but in fact it probably isn't that easy. it's tough luck when you aren't a gamer, it's abit harder to plan out something like this. shall rack my brains to elaborate more on this plan, luckily I have the long weekend ahead.
went off to IMM on my own after that, being unable to find someone to have lunch with. =( I nearly fell asleep on the bus on my way there, I was so tired. and I messaged sabbie cos I was feeling really down over something, and she called me. =) haven't chatted with her for ages lah, this is one of the many problems of JC life, especially when you're J2. seriously. we chatted for nearly an hour before I told her I had to go eat. =) walked around abit after that and ended up reading in popular. somehow I always do that.
I walked to JEC after that, and in a way, walking alone is really good. not listening to music or anything, I was just walking, and feeling the very strong breeze across my face. it's comforting and helped soothe my confused and troubled mind. and also, talking to sabbie on the phone really helps. you never fail to cheer me up! =D
so yeah, basically that's about it. nothing really much as well.
Thursday, May 15, 200810:21 PM
28th students' council investiture
28th students' council investiture! ok, it wasn't as grand as last year's invest, but still, I like the simplicity to an extent. except that the simplicity was bordering on bland. =\ the theme for this year is unique too, last year's was 'rise with faith'.
theme for this year's council invest in valeo, meaning valiant and strength in latin if i'm not wrong. 27th students' council before they stepped down. aiksong's the 28th students' council president, he's leading the councillors in their pledge. me grace and mayching. =) with cherie this time! =) really treasure the friendship between us and all the stuff that we've talked about. =D and not to mention the good times we had as leaders+councillors xinyi! =D fellow scdc shadows for 02'07. =D dominic! bannister captain. =D I'm so not used to seeing him without his white-framed specs LOL xD shiva! =DD one of my dear adorable css-jj juniors. she's also my indirect camper in 01'08 cos she was in OG17 while I was OG19 OGL, but still same family 4. =D teekai and me, with grace being abit extra LOL pretty celisse! =) another fellow css-jj junior. she's celeste's younger sister. =D natalie! from tuition buddy to schoolmates. =D some of the councillors released the balloons that were used for decor after investiture was over. in a sense, it's like releasing all the burden when you let the balloons fly away.
syafiq gave me this on tuesday when I was studying in school at the benches between lt2 and lt3. I just called hi to him, the next moment I got this. =D such a nice camper I have. =D leaders photo. I look.. alright, I guess. =)
econs common test today. disastrous in the sense that I didn't manage to finish it. on the whole I guess it's alright. I felt as though my hand was going to fall off by the time I handed in the paper. and we were requested to help shift the chairs and tables backstage after the test(H2 econs people had the test in the hall), as we were shifting the things backstage, I overheard someone remarking about us being free labour. =\ stayed back to slack for awhile, saw owens people making pom-poms for tml's sports meet, so I hung around with cherie for awhile, talking and shredding those raffia string. it seriously is no easy task, but it takes your mind off things and is a good distraction-cum-stress reliever. and now I'm incredibly tired as well, no thanks to sleeping past 12am everyday this week to rush through econs revision. seriously, I felt that my brain's overloaded with econs. now that econs common test is over, it's time to take a short break from econs and focus on other subjects for now. and this afternoon after school, I went into cookie house to buy waffles to eat since I wasn't particularly hungry and didn't want a full meal. and miss wong(rouisanna), one of the j1 econs teacher and also a senior in jj saw me studying econs and asked me about it. she wished me all the best after chatting for a few minutes regarding econs. =) those few words might not be much, but it really made a difference to me. thanks miss wong! =D well, this is one long, photo-laden and wordy post. ending off already! =)
Sunday, May 11, 200812:16 AM
jj talentime!
jj talentime today, I enjoyed the performance tremendously. maybe it's because I'm in performing arts myself, so I enjoy watching various kinds of performances, regardless of whether it's singing, dancing or playing instruments. admittedly I'm more of playing instruments since I'm in band from secondary school days, but now seeing the dances makes me want to go more into dancing too. =D
vocal group champ: basket(beatboxing!) =) vocal english champ: denise(oh boy I'm really shocked. I was expecting jingni to win.) vocal mandarin champ: jowell =D dance group champ: sizzling sense(modern dance) =)
the finale performance was really nice as well. =D
with shihui, before the performance started. =D
so that's about it for jj talentime, in a nutshell. and some of the guys were extremely noisy as well, but extremely funny. and we kept screaming for encore for beatbox. oh yeah, and yihao(24th batch senior) was guest performer, accompanied by gabriel, another 24th senior on the guitar. and yihao's singing is really(x1000000) amazing! =D the cheering that came after that was really wow, from the 24th seniors who came for talentime. =)
Saturday, May 10, 200812:42 AM
rugby match
jj played against cj today for rugby in plate division finals. sadly, we lost. =( it's really disappointing to see your own school team lose in the finals, but it's even more heart-wrenching to see the rugby guys cry. seeing them cry makes me want to cry as well. syafiq asked me to go down for the match, so I told him I would see how first, since I was undecided whether I should go watch the finals or watch soccer in school. in the end I went with shihui to the rugby match. I didn't tell syafiq that I would come down though. in a sense, it probably meant alot to him and shengda when I came down, as they were like 'thanks for coming down' to me. seeing their red and watery eyes really made me feel very sad for them, and for an instant, I wanted to cry with them and share their sorrow and misery. I'm not a sportsperson myself, so I might not be able to fully understand the whole thing about sports in general, but what I do know is that losing is a sucky feeling. (since when has losing been a good feeling anyway?) but it really is extremely heart-wrenching to see the guys cry. it's one thing for girls to cry, but it's a whole different issue when guys cry.
there was something that happened earlier that got me and many other people really pissed off, and it's an extremely sensitive topic to some people, so I'm not going to post it up here. ask me if you really want to know.
about normal school today, I felt quite alright for most of the day until chem lect test was over, considering the fact that I'm sleep-deprived once again due to constant revision. right after chem test, I felt almost totally brain-dead for econs tutorial and econs make-up lesson. funny, I'm not really brain-dead in most lessons, but I feel it for econs and physics a number of times. got back maths vectors class quiz today, surprisingly, I passed. and my comment from mr sia seemed a bit more positive compared to the others, which was quite ironic, considering that my maths is not exactly my best subject. we got our class jersey, and it's really nice! =) my jersey number. the reason why I put 19 simply was because, OG19. I couldn't decide between 5, 19 and 27 at that time before we printed the jerseys. and the colour is unique as well, maroon. =) today was also photo-taking session for the j2 leaders, even though actualy timing stated was 4pm, it got shifted up to 2pm, but some of us took our photos in the morning, right after morning assembly. I took it with shihui, baoxian, james and renwei. lol I hope we all look good in the photo, it's going to be hanging in the school walkway for a week, during the investiture period. oh, and yesterday's pc was really fun, though extremely tiring. we girls played soccer with 3 of the soccer girls', then yongcheng and zhihong joined in, and the number just seemed to grow LOL. weijie, yihao and another senior(24th batch seniors) were pc teachers in jj and they joined us in playing. wow I seriously felt tired from all the running, yihao runs damn fast! =D just watching him run around in the D-court with the soccer ball is enough to make many people's jaws drop, seriously.
going for talentime tml, can't wait. =)
Wednesday, May 07, 200812:05 AM
testimonial!
I seriously can't believe how hard it is to write a good testimonial about yourself. really. -.- and it's really difficult to praise yourself, especially if you're the kind of person who plays down the significance of your roles and just treat it as though what you do is second nature. and I fall into that category. =\
though shihui did warn me about it beforehand, and that I ought to start doing my PQ asap, I just didn't do so as I really got caught up in that great pile of tutorials that I've been lagging behind by a good bit. especially for econs, that's one thing that I perpetually lag behind in for tutorials. and I don't seem to find much problem with catching up with maths and chem.
so right now, I'm doing my PQ, and shifting my undone econs tutorial to one side again, since PQ was popped onto my class on tuesday, AND mr sia wants it on wednesday. well done indeed. -.-!! I guess I'll have to rush part of my tutorial during whatever break I have, after all getting part of the tutorial done is better than not getting any of it one.
what a drag, seriously. I'd be really glad when friday comes, since after all friday's the day that most people look forward to, and it means I can catch up on some much-needed sleep once again, and talentime on saturday evening at NTU auditorium! =D
Sunday, May 04, 20081:49 PM
busyness
back after 1 week's hiatus. =)
this week was relatively ok besides GP TCA 4 and chem SPA skill A. I swear my hand was about to fall off by the time I finished both papers. and GP TCA was right before SPA skill A. omg. thankfully, not that tired this week. =) although there's vectors class quiz tml and electrochem lect test on friday. chem which I haven't studied for yet. =\
regarding class jersey, I finally chose number 19. =D and nobody battled with me for that number. =) maybe it's because numbers like 5 and 7 look much nicer. =D
talentime finals coming up, council investiture 2008 coming up, maths vectors lect test coming up, econs common test coming up.
woohoo.
found this quiz on renwei and qiaoyi's blog, for the fun of it, just tried it. =)
What Glennda Means
You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life.
You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone.
Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don't appreciate them trying to interfere in your affairs.
You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow.
You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily.
Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is.
You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone.
You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together.
At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together.
You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.
You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.
You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.
You are balanced, orderly, and organized. You like your ducks in a row.
You are powerful and competent, especially in the workplace.
People can see you as stubborn and headstrong. You definitely have a dominant personality.
You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection.
