Ling Jia Ying
05 April 1990

family, friends & dance

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let's chase the summer and forget the world.

It is at times like today when I ponder over whats the true meaning of life. A lil abstract i would say, but I guessed maybe I hang out with my friends as in people I'm really familiar with for a long time and we all know one another so well we are already beyond what we see. And we really do know alot about one another I guess. Sometimes it causes people to have preconceived expectations of how they want to see you behave, you to be the same someone all along. Which may not necessarily be a good thing, but to have friends knowing how you are and how your mind works is a real blessing i suppose. But as I said, it is at times like today when I ponder over life, I am suddenly exposed to its superficiality. It's kind of a little overwhelming as I tried to tell myself that it's not true, but I find myself realising and slowly accepting the truth for what it is. Even though it's disappointing. Many times at the end of everything it all boils down to whats on the mere surface. Human beings... I haven felt like this in a long time, I think years. But i guess real facts don't change.

this must be the most interesting quarantine ever.. OG mass convos at night hahah very interesting and very entertaining. i think i met the funniest group people i've ever met. :D

feels like being much more enthusiastic about stuff but again im feeling tired. for what i have no idea since i haven been schooling for a good couple of months now and haven been working as well. i think maybe i'm enjoying my current life a tad too much. which aint exactly a bad thing. since sch starts in like, 3 more weeks. and NUS has so many camps and orientation weeks and im crashing a couple and im so confused-.- no idea how to ..sort them out.

was at town with the dancers on thurs, friday. had class lunch at Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao at taka today. good food eh. :D then came back to cck where my mom fetched my couz and i to dinner at bukit batok. grandma wasnt in a good mood, kinda reminds my sis and i of the times we spent and the horrifying moments. bad memories. but i guess What doesnt kill you makes you stronger- one of the best quotes i ever heard. simply because i think it makes absolutely alot of sense. :)

OG steamboat tmr!! hope it will be fun. was kinda looking forward to it quite a bit, but now that it's tmr, i suddenly feel very tired. again. for that reason which i have yet to find out. i think i need more sleep.

Camp Flair 09 was a blast. :D it was not perfect and there were times when the 4 of us really wanted to return back home, but i must say i did not regret going for it at all. (yes, even with whats happening to us campers right now, which i'll elaborate later)

SLYTHERIN was THE BEST. with the BEST councillors and ogl you can ever find, they can hype up the whole group till you want to cheer your lungs out in a matter of minutes. :) they can create crazy silly sounding songs i'm ET from outerspace... and they can make you laugh like CRAZY. it was an incredible 5 days i miss my og so much!!! i think the programme wasnt exactly the best, and definitely could have been much better, but my councillors, definitely the best. haha. :D im SO glad i went for this camp, and now i can feel the enthusiastic spirit coming back up in me, something which has gone long dead since j1 and it feels good, happy and makes me more energetic definitely.

after experiencing this camp i realised how different university camps can be different from those in jcs and secondary schools, i cant pinpoint the differences but just that there seems to be much more freedom, much more enjoyment and much more interaction. and it really seems like they're treating us like real adults. haha. thank you to my ogl lawrence ang hahaha and the many councillors (we have 9 freshies and 18 councillors! LOL) for the fun and joy you guys brought us, im really super glad we got to know new people and made new friends it was a wonderful experience :)

cant wait for our many og outings to come :):):) ohhh yeah before i forget. my og's councillors took the time and effort to develop photos for us and attach them in a handmade photoframee awwww so touched!!!!! they must be the best grp of councillors ever. i miss all the laughter already.

another part of this extraordinary experience: this is the first time i've seen my inbox unread msgs jump 200 in 2 days, all from the tags and msges on fb!! and the no. of photos online have increased ..exponentially. hahaha. its incredible. every second something new happens. lol. :)




okay that was the happy part. here comes the other. cause this girl from our camp has H1N1, we are all under home quarantine for one frigging week till this sunday!!!!!!!!! omg :(

i just recovered from fever yesterday, which hit 39.1 degrees on sat morning hence freaked my mom out and she brought me to NUH. where i waited frigging long and fell asleep one million and one times before the doctor comes in and told me they dont do h1n1 tests for people like me, only for people with medical conditions or pregnant women. so he gave me panadols and cough syrup and told me to rest at home. 75% of my og has fallen sick!!!!!! we seriously think its H1N1. just that they probably treat it as a normal flu now. argh. but still, im well already!!! i dont wanna stay at home!!!

all of a sudden i don't know why i made the decision i made. but i have no choice now but to stick to it and work hard and hope i survive. i just know i have to put in so much more than other people. i don't know why i have been thinking more about this issue the past few days/nights its still worrying me but there's perhaps nothing much i can do at this moment but hope for the best.

going for NUS CAC camp tmr its (frigging) 5 days and IT BETTER BE FUN. demanding but yess, it better be worth it. the time and the money and the opportunity costs (many shows which i'll miss throughout the 5days). SLYTHERIN whoohoo??

OPTIMISM!!!!!!!!!!!!! like how it was in j1 come onnnnn jiaying :)

We were both young
When I first saw you
I closed my eyes
The flashbacks start
I'm standing there
On the balcony in summer air

See the lights
See the party, the ball gowns
See you make your way through the crowd
And say hello
Little did I know

That you were Romeo
You were throwing pebbles
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
And I was crying on the staircase
Begging you please don't go

And I said, Romeo take me
Somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting
All that's left to do is run
You'll be the prince, and I'll be the princess
It's a love story, Baby just say yes

So I sneak out in the garden to see you
We keep quiet cause we're dead if they knew
So close your eyes
Let's leave this town for a little while

Cause you were Romeo and I was a scarlet letter
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
Cause you were everything to me,
I was begging you please don't go

And I said, Romeo take me
Somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting
All that's left to do is run
You'll be the prince, and I'll be the princess
It's a love story, Baby just say yes
Romeo save me
They're trying to tell me how to feel
This love is difficult
But it's real
Don't be afraid, we'll make it out of this mess
It's a love story, Baby just say yes

I got tired of waiting
Wondering if you were ever coming around
My faith in you is fading
When I met you on the outskirts of town

And I said, Romeo save me
I'll been feeling so alone
I keep waiting for you but you never come
Is this in my head I don't know what you're thinking
He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said

Marry me Juliet
You'll never have to be alone
I love you
And that's all I really know
I'll talk to your dad
You'll pick out a white dress
It's a love story, Baby just say yes

Cause we were both young
When I first saw you

My p4 tutee Myat and i spent around half of yesterday's 2hr lesson listening to this song on my ipod and writing out the lyrics. :D and yes she was the one i introduced pet society and restaurant city to in fb. and she keeps pestering me to play fashion wars lol. i think i have interesting tutees.

Because my new p3 tutee (Zhixuan) lives very near my p school, everytime i walk there i'll pass by my dear p sch and feel like going in sooo much. but the security's so tight now and its rather retarded to walk in alone. sometimes i really wish that my p sch didnt undergo PRIME last time so it'll still look like how i remember it in my lower primary days. if thats the case it'll mean so much more going back. however it is, it's still the place i spent my most innocent, carefree, happy days. :) i was walking past my kindergarten as well that day i went to meisiew's house and the whole place is sealed already cause they closed it down ): i peeped in and everything suddenly looks so small! even the corridor which i used to skip down, one hand holding my mom and the other holding my pink school bag when i was 5 or 6. different from how i remember it. and i attribute it to i being short and small last time thats why the whole place looks so much bigger and wider. actually it's really a very small place. where i used colour pencils to fill in drawings, where i made my first friends.

At tuition, i was smsing serene about going back to p sch and Myat (p4 burmese girl) asked me
Myat: "Why do you want to go back to your primary school?"
Me: "Cause I miss it alot! You must treasure your primary school okay."
Myat: "Why?"
Me: "Cause that's where you spend the happiest moments of your life! Haha, but you will only understand when you grow up. When you go to secondary school and junior college it'll be different."
Myat: "Okaaaay. But how do I treasure it. It's not like I can have a treasure box and put my primary school into it. Hahaha."

...which makes sense. Hahaha. Sometimes i myself wonder what does it mean to treasure and how do you show it. Such that in future you won't regret.

Another tutor-tutee experience- I was asking Zhixuan to fill in the headings for classifications of animals. eg mammals, insects, fishes and birds. She filled in insects fishes perfectly fine, but when she came to the group with photos of cat, rat and rabbit, she stoned. So I asked her
Me: "So what's the heading for this group of animals?"*points to cat, rat and rabbit*
Zhixuan: "Er. Mammals."
Me: "That's right. Then why you wait so long just now."
Zhixuan: "I thought they were pets." *beams her sweet smile at me*

I was SO amused. Even though it's perhaps nothing much funny actually. Hahaha. I really have interesting tutees. :)

I ought to send in the above 2 entries into Reader's Digest: How Kids See It or something.

was talking to weilin (class mortal) on msn and he was complaining about As and since i have nothing to do i went to my blog archives and read abt what i was feeling/doing exactly one year ago.

many posts about how i am very very very very very tired of studying. of As. of the reading room. of the whole studying routine like how i wake up then go to sch to mug then lunch then go home and mug somemore and looking forward to waking up the next day to continue the whole cycle. i guess throughout these many months, we kinda forgot how we felt back then. i kinda forgot the whole torturous incredible experience. glad i blogged them down, not for anything but just for memory's sake. go juniorssss dont wish you're j1 cause they'll still have to go through everything like you, everyone's gonna pass through the same phase. work hard, forge your way through and it'll be over (:

i'm a fine person to say all that above since i was a horrible student i admit that and i had such terrible grades. i told myself to study hard in uni already and i will really try my best.

then as i was reading the archives, i came across posts regarding Prom, then all the gatherings and meetups with people whom i havent seen in a loong time eg my p sch mates. & then i feel guilty cause that was like the last time i really met them and talked. so now in the one and a half months before studying will begin once again, i have decided that i need to make more effort into planning outings and such, i can almost predict life is gonna suck once uni starts.

i think my MAD chalet post really documents stuff which happened during the chalet. i think narrative blogging style bores people out (even me) but im SO GLAD i wrote down what happened to jolt my memories. i suddenly miss the times in the RUA when i'll see dance ics choreo-ing their fac dances and i miss our dance camp and i miss seeing people laughing at one another and just.. have funn. (: MAD gathering?!

on a random note, h1n1 is really scary. not so much of getting the virus and about recovery, but more of the implications which come along with it. and to think we're at high risk. win already :(

I was looking through the hk photos & i miss being there all over again, and i miss the times the 5 of us stayed together and went crazy day after day night after night hahaha.. uploading photos is such a choreeeee but for memory's sake, tonight i shall tell the story of The Best HongKong Trip Ever- Day One :D
































View from the plane. Singapore is such a concrete jungle :) Anyway i did not know the airport is only so small until that day. hahaha






The plane was delayed for half an hour-.- and cause we took jetstar and the seat area is so frigging small i was suffocating in there hahahaaaaa somehow the trip back seemed better. probably cause we were not as excited and hence can sleep better. the next photo, when we reached HongKong! :D:D:D



Can you see how excited we are for our trip! Oh man i wanna go back to this time again.












































LIWEN! :D i think this was when i really felt like im in HK hahahah























Okay then we got off from the airport express bus and met sharon's uncle and aunty who stay in Hk! They are really nice to bring us around to our Guesthouse and argued with the woman there for us cause we cant understand canto haha. Or else we would probably have to pay more cause she insists she didnt get our deposit. They brought us to this super nice dimsum place to sit! A fantastic first meal in HK. Seriously gourmet heaven. Yes, more heavenly than sg.
























Yeah! after that sharon's uncle aunty brought us to H&M where we spent damn long inside and helen bought 600Hk dollars worth of stuff hahahah. Then they left and we went to Espirit Outlet store ourselves, nothing much there, but i bought 2 shirts for my brother! :) Then we walked around looking for a dinner place, on the way we went into some clothes shops and duh we bought stuff again lol maybe we felt too rich on our first day. Had dinner at this fab place cos we wanted to eat fried goose