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Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2008 // 3:10 PM

It's year 2009 in less than 9 hours!

Really, this year passed very very quickly.
Many things happened in 2008, be it unhappy or happy events. But mostly were rather unhappy events. There were disappointing moments, painful moments and at one time of the year, I had to face with a major changing point, to decide whether to study in JC or poly.

I was totally at a loss of what to do at that point, because I didnt think my score was good enough to struggle through jc life, yet I was afraid if I chose the one way and no turning back life in poly, I would regret my choice. After much thinking and seeking for opinions, I finally decided on poly, and to study something that im interested in, rather than all the 'useless' stuff in jc.

Yep, and I dont regret my choice till now, because im doing rather well, at least I think better than how I will fare in jc. And if I didnt went to poly, I wouldnt have met so many great friends here.

So, we will bid goodbye to 2008 very soon, goodbye to all those unhappy memories(: And start a new year ahead!

Here's my new year resolutions:

1.REALLY STUDY HARD FOR THE MAJOR SEMESTRAL EXAMS.
2. Get myself more clothes to wear to school
3. Gain a few more kg.
4. Start to save.
5. Work during the hols at acer again.
6. Put the money to good use ( I spent 1000 over bucks of my entire salary during april without realising it)
7. Be good to my younger sister. HAHA.

Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 // 10:33 PM

Tiring day today.

Reached mediacorp at 11 plus today, only to get informed that the timing had been changed to 1.30pm-.- Ate lunch at the mediacorp canteen and stoned for 1 and a half hour before going to get my clothes at the wardrobe. It was like very weird cause I didnt know what to do next, and no one was with me. I was only told to get my clothes and to get make up and my hair done.
So I just figured my way through and stuff.

Took a mini chartered bus with a few other actors and actresses going to act in the show to nyjc. It was super duper stuffy there! No aircon or fans, plus the doors were all closed. Then I just sat around for a while until the photographer asked me to do some moves like serving and smacking.

Best thing of the day was, I GOT TO PLAY WITH DAI YANG TIAN(: Cause he wanted to practice and also because the photographer wanted to take some shots of me while playing, so I stroked with him. I had to act very fierce because my role in the show is cool and filled with 杀气 but I couldnt help but am-chio.

TMR'S CSAS IMPROMTU PRESENTATION! and I havent started preparing:(

Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 // 5:19 PM

My cds(cross disciplinary subject) choices
1. Freehand Drawing
2. Colour and composition
3. Introduction to Law
4. Entrepreneurship
5. Understanding art

Hopefully I can get into either one of the first two choices(: Not because Im really really interested in them, but it's just that I dont want more assigments in my hols when I supposedly should be at home slacking.

Heading for photoshoot at mediacorp tmr, and thankfully it wont affect me much cause I dont have school tmr(: While most of the other tp team members have already starting filming and waking up in the wee hours, at around 5am just to get to mediacorp at 6am, Im still enjoying the days of waking up late. Not very late actually, but at least better than 5am.

I guess I will only starting filming in feb, I dont have as much scenes as the others. When I told Qiyun and Shuyi I was gonna act as a Japanese competitor, they practically laughed their heads off and said I can go there and shout all my 'eto eto eto' finally. Eto is a nice word(:

Lectures ended at 2pm today cause Mr Paul Cheong was kind enough to let us off early, unlike achem (lloyld), who often bore us with his lectures. I pray hard that he wont see this.

Yep, so here I am, waiting for the arrival of 6.30 before trng starts. And I just did the profit and loss statement of our basic fa project, almost went bonkers. BUSINESS IS NOT FUN.

Uh oh, I just realized I havent hand in an ez link card my father found somewhere which belongs to someone called LIM WAYNE, but not WAYNE LIM XIANFENG. haha.

Posted Friday, December 26, 2008 // 5:50 PM

I did nothing for christmas.
I received no presents.
Dont ask me why, but I just didnt feel like going out.
Yeah, and I didnt have any dates with friends:(

Been bloghopping a lot recently, and i realised a lot of things happened to my old friends. So much that I dont think I understand them. All of us hardly talk to each other ever since we went to different schools. It's just that, I really want to talk to them, but the thought of running out of topics made me gave up on that thought.

Mayb what we all really want, is the old us. Us back in cchms, where we only have one another, where everything wont look so foreign to us in each other's blog.

Well, we all have our own lives now. And all my old friends are like strangers to me. Is it really possible for best friends to remain this kind of relationship even if we go separate ways? I would rather go back to those times we had in sec school. Those wonderful memories that cannot be compared to those in poly now. Can we please, not grow up?

I guess it's just me, always living in the past, preventing myself from moving on. Is it finally time to let go?

Posted Wednesday, December 24, 2008 // 10:29 PM

Sigh, what a great way to spend christmas eve.

Discussed HPI project with Qi Yun and Shu Yi at my house and we spend quite a few hours on it, figuring how we should put the info and answer the question at the same time. I was late when I met Qi Yun and Shu Yi at sing post cause I was sweeping and mopping the floor before that and my mother forced me to finish a ba zhang (肉粽rice dumpling) before I leave.

Already planned to go to Leck Hui's house for caroling and stayover yesterday but after doing the project, I was kind of lazy to get out of house. Sorry Leckhui!

Okay im finally going to change my blogskin after months of using it.

Posted Tuesday, December 23, 2008 // 11:07 PM

Had lunch at a japanese restaurant in raffles city today!
The food there was awesome and the restaurant is something like marche. You get a card, and when you order your food, you give them your card. At the end, you surrender the card to pay for what you ordered.

The card I was talking about

The shop in changi airport which gave me my name, Presto!

Went for imaging at mediacorp after going home.

I saw lots of artises(: Dai Yang Tian who acted as Jeanette Aw's japanese husband in little nyonya was also doing imaging. He's very shuai(: Somehow, I think he's quite similar to Takeshi Kaneshiro, the kind of impression that he gives me. Mayb cause his voice is quite identical to Takeshi Kaneshiro.

I saw Lin Xiang Ping on the way in, and Tang Yu Shu, Zeng Shi Mei , and many more. All very pretty or handsome in person.

What I did for imaging was to try on clothes meant for me to wear during the shooting and to take photos. The hairstylist styled my hair, which I think looks quite nice. He trimmed my eyebrows to cause the director said that it looked funny.

Again, the hairstylist is another person to say that I dont look chinese:(

Im supposed to act as Li Tong in the show, a competitor that looks rather cool. Fits me to a T. Haha. My team members always comment that I dont show any expression when Im playing. Maybe cause I dont want to show my fear or happiness easily.

Posted Monday, December 22, 2008 // 4:28 PM

Check out my other photos during HK trip. It's kinda disorganized cause they were taken from 3 different cameras. One from my elder sis, one from mine and another from my younger sis.
http://s112.photobucket.com/albums/n173/jiajiesim/hk2008/

I LOVE PHOTOBUCKET(:

8 days 7 nights in Hong Kong

Posted Sunday, December 21, 2008 // 1:40 PM

Im finally back(: The HK trip was overall quite fun, just that it was really free and easy so we had to walk A LOT. Of all countries I've been to, SG is still the best when it comes to comparing the air pollution. The air is rather polluted in HK, mayb due to the high number of smokers there.

But after one week in HK, I realised that 'hey, the commuters in the trains are way better than those in SG' Well, except for the pushing part, they were very 'automatic' when it comes to giving up seats for those who need it more than them.You dont usually get to see this in our mrts right.

Sigh, how should I start describing the one week long vacation in HK?
Mayb I should just start with day 1, day 2 so on and so forth.

Alright, it's gonna be a super super long post with many many pictures( we actually took more than 1200 pictures) so grab yourself a cup of coffee to keep you awake.

We stayed at HK disneyland for the first 2 nights! Second time that we went to disneyland cause we previously went to the disneyland at france.

Day one 13th Dec

We took mrt to the airport cause we have like 5 pple in the family

At the airport checking in our baggages

Haha, this reminds me of people talking to their family members in jail

The plane we're gonna take~!

At hk!

Long queue

The hotel we stayed at for 2 nights

The hk minibus

They were putting the fish outdoors! Imagine how much microorganisms there are on the fishes

Our sumptuous meal

Taking neos. In fact, we took 5 times of neoprints within a week

Us with our HK friends! The daughters of my mother's friend( will be introduced later). They are pretty! I guess most HK girls are pretty

Day two at disneyland 14th dec

We took the mtr to tung chung to shop at the factory outlets

The Nea family ( acquainted with my family)

At espirit

Our dear little jie xi

Trying out his photography skills

What a spree!

Then we went back to disneyland

To infinity and BEYOND

Our parents having their go too

Some funny virtual shooting game

Small eyes

My mother joined us too!

Im posing as santa

The start of the parade

Seven dwarfs! June, does this remind you of our play in kindergarden? June was sleepy and I acted as doc cause I was the only one with specs at that time

Nea parents

stoning?

Jungle ride

Dont worry, those people are not for real

Pretty!

Trying out the 'congos'

On the 'train'

Fastening our seat belts for the drive

Jie Xi taking the wheel

The magnificence of the cinderella palace

We were hungry and tired so we took the mtr to some shopping centre for supper

The famous dessert shop

Yum Yum

We were supposed to act as if the food was incredibly awesome, but somehow, it looks like we're in pain

Day 3 15th Dec
( charlie's angels?!)

All together!

Woah. funny expression

And we went back to HK in mongkok. And off we go to shenzhen for a one day trip

Their 'ticket' for mtr

Our parents with the uncles from HK who brought us around! Thanks a lot for their help! The uncle on the far left is the father of the two girls mentioned earlier.