Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'll never end...

Just surfing youtube.. and started watching music videos of bands in my pri sch and sec sch days... Steps, Spice Girls, S Club 7, Boyzone, Backstreet boys.... all the music i used to listen to and still actually really love...

It really brings back the memories... some of the videos were just so cheesy that it kinda reminded me of how we were then too... didn't really care how we look... all the crappy hairstyles, T-shirt and waist straight jeans, all the high socks, small backpacks... shaun and leslie used to have matching ones...

All of us have changed so much... i can't go back to how i was then but i'm glad for all that i was... it's times that u can never get back and unlikely to repeat... hey... how likely r we to cheer, boo and scream at the top of our voice at a basketball match against Dunman High...? Ridiculous rivalries but until now, there's this feeling that i don't really like Dunman high... haha... Dance and Girl Guides definitely have a long seeded rivalry... one more was the combined hate of most other classes towards the sports class... haha...

I never liked wearing uniforms... all of them, primary secondary JC... but i somehow still miss them... and knowing that u can never wear them again with the same feelings...

Singing the national anthem during morning ceremony... doing the "attention!...." ya, i can't remember the commands they shout in malay... those in saint john's, ncc, girl guides, boy scouts, boys brigade will probably remember...

Doing morning exercises!!!! hahahaha...

Home econs... DNT.... i was bad at both...if not for Si Jia, I'd burnt all my food... she was my partner...i remember Song Yun made a yo-yo...

Being index number 11 and later 7 (in sec 3 and 4)... Caddie was 12, Si Jia was 13... (i think)...

Friday is ECA (later CCA) day... walking around school and sometimes seeing everyone else in their respective ECAs...

Leslie was trying to get out of choir in sec 1 cos they forced him into it.... think he wanted to go boy scouts.... but it became something he really wanted to do later...

Going to watch everyone's performances... Shaun, QL, Andrew at CDS performances, Leslie, Cliffton, Jasmine, Si Jia, Nga Chi, Yiwei for choir, Allan in EDS, Caddie, Song Yun in band...

It was so silly... but our teachers' day performance at kallang theatre... i think one of the best memories...

Just miss even having to go to the classrooms... dreading the classes that i dread... waking up early in the morning (too early) to go to school... walking to sch with my sister on laughing lane and scared rat way...

Going to swing at sunplaza park... the good memories and er the bad... sara, we got caught for vandalizing there lor...

Wan li chang chen... the super long stairway...

So many memories.... a little by little, they start to fade as new experiences and people come into my life... but some things i'll never forget and I know I will always have a special place for these memories...

Breathtaking...

People here always think that China is very ulu... well it's due largely to bad publicity here and sometimes from immigrants who don't really have etiquette in public places... their inability to understand the language just makes them an easier target for bullies..

But I was really proud yesterday when I saw the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics... they were really trying to prove to the world... what the nation is capable of... No matter what bad publicity they got here and probably around the world... I think they put up an amazing show... so spectacular that I, and many others, doubt another country will be able to duplicate...

It makes me so proud that I am chinese and that my heritage is there... even with all the political problems within the nation...

It's impossible to have good publicity of China here...so well, I am just glad that people got to see another side of China through the Olympics... the people, the richness and wonder of its culture...

No one seemed to understand when I told them how much fun I had and about all the developments in Shanghai and Beijing when I went there in 2006... well maybe they understood but they were definitely not convinced at the rate that China was developing... I didn't say but many parts of China are more developed than many parts in the US...

Just like I thought Thailand was a rain forest when my parents first wanted to bring me there... haha.. a private joke in my family even until now...

I hope that after organizing such a successful Olympic that China will be able to do it again soon... The Olympics does really bring nations together... For 16 days, the world is united as one... and that's why the spirit of Olympics will live on...

First week of school

This is strange but I never really liked going to school until coming here... not too much of a student so far... but maybe because I get to take so many interesting subjects that I feel more motivated too..

I really love the curriculum at City College... especially the dance classes... this sem, I am taking dance composition where I'll be choreographing my own dances... and I really excited about this class... so far, it has been a little weird and uncomfortable at times, cos I'm not too used to improvising... hopefully i'll feel more at ease so i can improv better...

Tomorrow, I will have to showcase my first study... it's about 1 min... i'm really nervous... i hope it goes well... if I choose the option of performing as my final exam (can write a paper... but a bit sian leh)... then hopefully can film it down and show u guys... =)

I love all my other classes too... taking a comparative govt class (from e same prof as last sem cos I really enjoyed his class), an English class, a Microecons (which is kinda the only one i dread), Asian Humanities and modern dance...

It's a full blown schedule this sem and so I know that it'll be a little overwhelming esp towards the end of the semester...

Wish me luck... =)


Rachel~

Borrowed words from an email

Dream what you want to dream

Go where you want to go

Be what you want to be

Because you only have one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do

Fooling around in the house...

Man... all I can say is... it is tiring to do this... But that was very fun... esp since I was alone in the house doing these silly stunts...