Thursday, November 17, 2005
HandWritten on; 11:35 AM
well, so far i am stuck at home unable to go to church thanks to my sickening mother.
i am so excited. can't wait to watch Harry potter.
I've been thinking.See how people can transform from a normal high school teen to a famous and well known actor. And i guess its pretty unfair that only some people get to be so famous. I believe there are so many people out there in the world who have the gift and talents in drama and acting. But only the lucky ones get the money, get the fame.
Daniel Radcliffe. Rupert Grint. Emma Watson. Consider yourselves lucky to have been picked to act in this film! haha.
i don't like band pracs. cos ms sia will keep saying bad stuff about me, and embarrass me by calling me a monitor lizard. uh, i guess i can't help it if i have a long tongue.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
HandWritten on; 11:30 PM
SKY HIGH ROCKS big time.
i love that show. it is so full of professional acting. haha. anyway that show really captured my whole attention it is one of shows i am truly happy i watched it. Will is so cute! oh god. I thought he sucked in the Sky High Poster but in the movie he is so cute and cool. I love him, and i also like Warren Peace :D He is like Ultra cool, with his attitude. And there's Layla, the sweetie pie who really speaks her emotions. And I thought this show was real nice. You must go catch it. REALLY.
I am still pissed with my mother for not letting me go to watch emily rose last night. and my dad too. and my grandmother. hmph. the only person who encouraged me to go was my brother. but anyway, i still didn't get to watch.
ELAINE! next thursday before band cannot! i got something on. so sorry!
I LIKE SKY HIGH :)
Sunday, November 06, 2005
HandWritten on; 2:28 PM
i have just came back from my
WONDERRFUL parables retreat!
well well, i think it was rather fun, and it was definitely worthwhile to miss tongxinyuan and yongbaomingtian on friday to go for this retreat.
i kind of miss everybody already! especially
joyce, julian, james, alan, kevin and gerri. they were so funny. they were really entertaining, comical & amusing.
i can't possibly narrate the whole camp cos there's really alot of things that happened and i can't remember most of them. i'll just try to narrate the more interestng events.
on friday we went to changi beach [?!] to play pepsi cola123 and also do one worksheet. the game was fun i had to tackle bryan but i lost because i was really slow. hmm and yes doing the worksheet was VERY BORING. so i was just sitting on the swing. and i got scolded by kevin.
we really wanted to go to the chalet already. i was so excited! after all, how often can we go to a chalet for a retreat?
my first impression of the chalet bungalow was that it was HUGE. there were 5 bedrooms [which was nearly the size of a classroom], a BIG kitchen, 2 spacious living rooms, an exquisite dining room, plus a barbecue pit outside, a table tennis table [on the second storey] and so many other things. the rooms was like at least 8 metres high from the floor to the ceiling. i really don't see why there was a need for that when the door was only around 2 metres tall.
games was next, each of us were either tied up by the hands or feet, or blindfolded, or fully masked by masking tape or some other way which made it hard for us to walk and talk. we had to find our way back home; and it is not so easy as it sounds. bryan was not allowed to stand up so we had to carry him up. i must say, i saw them struggle and i feel so bad cos i wasn't doing anything. i am one useless bum.
oh then after that it was just sharing sharing sharing. reflections reflections reflections. singing singing singing. crying crying crying.
BORING BORING BORING.
my favourite was definitely sleep time. we were just talking then soon one by one we fell asleep. it was a long and
COLD night i was quite cold, but it was bearable thanks to my sleeping bag.
woke up in the morning, we were late and scolded by alan. went to this ulu beach where we thanked god, and read out our psalms. oh, i must add, we did it in the sea. thank goodness my shorts were quite short or my whole pants would have gotten wet! we went into the sea to up to the depth of our knees, the tide started to come in and it went higher, to my thighs and almost to my butt! LUCKILY alan told us to move to higher grounds.
after breakfast, we talked about our strength and weaknesses. that wasn't very interesting.
what was interesting was what happened AFTER that.they call it the
"confidence fall" but i call it the trust fall. haha it came as quite surprise and i thought it was going to be very fun and funny but it didn't turn out to be so scary. oh partly because julian was saying what its a matter of life and death, and highly dangerous but so far i know nobody who has died doing a trust fall. HOWEVER, things started to get serious. we did a test on joyce. it was our first attempt so you know how scared we are. the atmosphere was very tense.
1, 2, 3. joyce fell. we caught her. we didn't hold on tight enough. we missed her. she fell. she hit the floor. her head hit the floor. with a "BONG".everybody was so worried. amelia started to cry. i felt scared for her as her head hit the floor in front of her. THANK GOODNESS nothing happened to her. it was just pain for a while and it went off.everyone was so afraid and so tensed. everybody was fearful and anxious. dorothy, amelia, charmaine and sandra went into the house as they were very shocked and traumatised. i could feel everything was just so tight. everybody was really serious now. i was worried, but not for myself, for joyce, for everyone else. i won't die, i know that. so julian asked for a volunteer, i volunteered. i wanted to do it, i COULDN'T wait to do it. [am i psycho or what? ]i knew i could trust my friends. i knew they could do it [despite my heavy weight], prevent me from hitting the ground. i climbed up the chairs and up onto the table. i started to worry a little because the flashback of what happened to joyce ran through my mind. but i know it was perfectly fine. i have done it quite several times. and i remembered jill ann once said to us, just drop and don't worry because we will DEFINITELY catch you[or something close to that].1,2,3. i dropped.and they caught me.i knew it.there was nothing to be afraid of. this gained our confidence i guess. slowly angela went up, and one by one everyone was brave enough to drop. it was easy. and it was fun. i couldn't wait to do it again! but i think the bases will have sore arms or broken arms.anyway the guys did it too! i told you it was easy! trustfalls are fun. okay!
oh yes, then we had lunch, which was stupid as it was roleplaying and i was suppose to play mother, joel as the father. wait let me type out the list.
joel - fatherme - motherbryan - grandfathergenevieve - grandmotherdorothy - godmafaith - uncleangela - auntiejoshua - eldest sonjoscelyn - eldest daughterjanice - daughtermagdelene - daughteramelia - daughterangelyn - youngest daughtergardener - charmainedora - maid [maria]sandra - maid [yati]we sort of
sabo dora , sandra and charmaine.HAHA. dora, sandra or charmaine, if you read this, so sorry!
so we cooked fried rice. at least it was rather nice! everybody's hard work, esp charmaine who did most of the frying of rice. lunch was kind of memorable. hehe.
after that, it was back to sharing sharing sharing. reflecting reflecting reflecting.singing singing singing. crying cying crying. BORING BORING BORING. everybody shared their family problems. and guess what. everybody cried while sharing their story. EXCEPT ME. well. YAYY. at least i know that i am
emotionally strong. erm. or rather, as i always am, stone hearted.
after that, it was show and tell. then dinner. then .. um.. oh yes. i have made a new family. PARABLES! my beloved family of sisters and brothers! after we "swore fracternity" , it was... oh yes.my hatest.
horrible terrible vegetable performing solo!everybody had no idea what to perform when we were given time to discuss. then james and julian really helped us alot by lightening up our really DOWN mood. sang this stupid song that goes 'shubabbab shubabbab' then 'burn baby burn'. oh anyway then we wrote our show title down on that piece of paper passed around. it was so last minute. i thought about it in 5 seconds then i wrote down the word "CONCERT" on the piece of paper. oh gosh. even though i wrote it down, i had NO IDEA what to perform.
i was thinking about it when my friends were performing. but it was so entertaining, i couldn't focus on my thinking and i kept laughing at my friends as they were HIGHLY ENTERTAINING AND GREAT!
my turn came. i was so DEAD. i had no idea what to do. i went up and i immediately thought of doing an introduction. "amanda" was the first name that came to my mind. i said my introduction. then? shit. what song to sing?? i thought of just now when james told me to sing the song "upsidedown". i sang. i had to make it funny as the theme was "COMEDY". now,next song. i thought of my blog. "Graduation day;friends forever". i sang. next song. i thought of wangling. simple plan's "perfect". i sang. last song. i thought of kelly's performance on the fame search. "stacie's mom". and i sang, as crazy as i could.at least i got the don't know what sth about personality or in person award. haha. i must say. JOEL YOU WERE HILARIOUS! WOOHOO! [oh, and i just found out sandra is really extraordinary]
night was cold. the whole of parables slept in room 3. 16 people squeezed into one room. and there was still space left. can you imagine how big that bedroom was? and its just a normal bedroom, not the master bedroom. so we slept. okay we didn't really sleep , we were talking , telling ghost stories. and then slowly we slept. the night was VERY VERY FREEZING COLD. i was freezing already when i woke up. we had breakfast. then it was BORING BORING BORING BORING REFLECTIONS! you know, that is the number one thing i hate in the retreat. REFLECTIONS AND SHARING. we were just listening to talks and talks and looking at our blue paper. i tell you, i almost fell asleep! god it was so boring. and we wouldn't have been late for mass if not for that boring session. it was kind of wasting time ? and we were late for mass.
anyway we went back to st. anthony's and were late for mass. after we went home.
HERE I AM.
i kind of miss the retreat. everything happened so fast. i miss my facilitators ALOT AND BIG TIME!oh please call them back here i miss them.i will miss them and i really hope to see them soon. especially joyce, james & julian. i am happy i went for this retreat. i have found a new family! [according to alan, cos we were suppose to treat everybody as our own siblings] i love parables! I LOVE PARABLES! I LOVE PARABLES! I LOVE PARABLES!
:))
