I miss Chinese Class

And so, on the 17th July, Xin Fei finally graduated from her Chinese Classes. 2 weeks later, and I still miss my chinese class =( Honestly, every lesson was enjoyable. The teacher said I improved the most (but I think it is because I have the biggest room for improvement =X).

Will the 10 lessons be enough for me?? I can never know till I'm there in China...
Countdown to the test of my Chinese: 31 days

Looking for a friend (II)

A second part to the post about looking for my friend.

I have seen this long-lost-friend look alike for a few times in the past few weeks. I might actually go up to the junior (i presumed, because i have never seen him in Year1 and 2) and ask, "Do you have a brother called ...?" They look so alike!

But i think i wouldn't dare, would i? I might actually. Today, after the IA&F paper, at FoodCourt 6, the junior walked passed me again. He was like right in front of me!! And i got a close look at him and they are like a total replicate!! I was so tempted to asked. Could it be the same person?? I am 98% sure that they are two diffferent people, but they might be related, right? No harm asking, right? He might think i'm a stalked or some sort.

Countdown to days left to gather my guts and asked: 33 days

Heritage Fest'08 - the people

The people of the Kids Zone[althought not all of them]. Crazy Yi Zhen and Crazy Me. I have worked with her during the last Children's Festival.
This is a drawing done by my niece, Melissa^^
There was this kid that saw my tag and asked what does "crew" meant. He told me he knows what a ship crew is. I explained that the crew is people that help faciiate the operation of something and that if this exhibition was a ship, I am part of the crew and that Ruby was the captain.

Some interesting that happened:
1) People were coming up to us and asked where this is and that is, even when the service counter is right beside us!!
2) We were giving out some free drinks such as Banana Flavored Bandung, Lychee Flavored Bandung, and i still feel gulity about it (just kidding). People kept on asking if it was free or not.
3) Children was calling us "JieJies" and I had 2 boys calling me "Teacher!" and they are ike shouting across the exhibition calling me "Teacher!" (Where should I hide!!) But when the adults come in, they will tell their children, "Ask Aunty teach you how to do", "Give to Aunty." Haiz...

P.S. Isnt anyone curious how i took so many photos when i am suppose to be working??

Countdown to flight: 35 days

Heritage Fest'08 - the art

This year's Heritage Fest Theme is "Who is your hero?"
So, Who is YOUR Hero? Batman? Superman? Power Puff Girls? Winx Club? Lim Bo Seng? The Police? The Fire fighter? Your Mum? Your Dad? These are some photos of what the children have drawn and paste on the Hero's Tree and some patch work.






The above one is done by me and YiZhen^^ Can you guess who is our hero?

Love Calculator

The love calculator is such an interesting software, it managed to distract 4 guys from their projects and entertain them for about an hour. I have to agree that it was kinda fun while it lasted. We were mixing and matching our classmates and ourselves. We found out some combinations that gave us 90+% and even 1% (lol).

The love calculator was created to calculate the probability of a successful relationship between 2 people by using their names (There is some kind of maths formula to it). But can you really calculate love by using a standard formula?? Do people really rely on this system? It makes me wonder if anyone uses the love calculator at home like some psycho, looking for their 100% soulmate based on some calculation that someone came up with. Or is it just another harmless internet joke? Whatever it is, all i can say is that it's actually quite fun once in a while.

Perhaps when you're bored, you could check out the love calculator and calculate the love relationship with that special someone. But one thing you must rememeber is that don't ever rely on the system. If you want a relationship to work out, you got to do more than just pray that your names matches and the love calculator gives you a high probability...

Last Presentation as a Group

This is my project group^^
A bunch of crazy people that can laugh at anything and everything...We always joke about failing our project..
"Dun wanna do izzit, dun do la. Fail la! Fail together lor! Forward Module la!"
They never fails to bully me and ignore me when i am talking. Furthermore, they are the reason why i say i need more female friends =X

Oxford graduate Kian Hui aka Brilliant Scientist

Crazy Game Host Andy aka Is-This-Your-Final-Answer

Harvard Bookworm Xin Fei aka The Weirdo

Owner of Hotel XM Xuan Ming

Top Master Chef Fu Weng

That was the last presentation i will have with them. I truly enjoyed the "STUNTS" we did for our presentations over the last 2 years. From dumb role play to crazy slideshows, High School Musical Songs and Lilo &Stitch Video. Even thought some stunts wasnt good enough or was too short, i really had fun^^ Arigato (and.....you may cry right about now [cause you have "filling"])

Countdown to the time left to spend with you guys: 37 days

Bus 185

For some reason, everytime i walk towards Dover MRT, 185 would jus drive pass me. And it is not only once that it happen. 185 would pass by me almost every night after Chinese Class. Destined??

But it really gets on my nerves. If the bus was to come every 5 to 10 mins, i wouldnt be that irritated. But the thing is that 185 usually comes 20mins later and sometimes 30mins plus. Taking 185 is worst than a roller coaster ride, you never know when your journey will start...

Countdown to flight: 37 days

Alien?

You Are an Alien

You're so strange, people occasionally wonder if you're from another world. You don't try to be different, but you see most things from a very unique, very offbeat perspective. Brilliant to the point of genius, you definitely have some advanced intelligence going on. No matter what circles you travel in, you always feel like a stranger. And it's a feeling you've learned to like. Your greatest power: Your superhuman brain Your greatest weakness: Your lack of empathy - you just don't get humans You play well with: Zombies

What Kind of Monster Are You?

An alien.. how interesting..

Countdown to flight: 42 days

Cinderella

What do you get when you combined cinderella and sleeping beauty together?
You will get someone who falls asleep everyday before midnight.
I got to admit, i still sleep at 9pm each night, if i do not have any projects to rush. But i do (at least i try to) wake at 6am to 8am each day.

Every now and then, some friends would randomly asked "You're still awake?", if i'm on msn after 10pm. They are those that know that i am THE SLEEPING QUEEN.

I reached home yesterday night at 12am and i got to tell you something i woke up at 12.30pm today, which gives me a total sleeping time of 12 hours. My mum woke me up and asked what time i have school today, i just gave a random answer of 10am (class was at 9am), and went back to sleep. The next time i woke up, it was already 12.30pm, classed ended half an hour ago... =X

Countdown to flight: 46 days
>It is getting scarier to countdown each and everyday<

NVP phrase One

This is the China Gang. The first 2 pix was taken on the 3rd while the other two were taken on 4th of July, we were suppose to have a presentation, but it was postpone, due to the shortage of time.

>Jun Sheng, Yeah Hooi, Li Ying<
>Jun Sheng, Li Ying, Me<
>The one in Black is Yeong Whee<
>I do look like a Secretary, don't i?<

I'll give a introduction for each of them next time^^ On who they are and how i met them, since they WILL be the people that i will be cohibiting for 4 months.. =X

Countdown to flight: 49 days

Looking for a Friend

Friends say that i have to do all the things i want to do before i go to china. I do wish to go out, enjoy the warmth of tropical Singapore(i have 6 sentosa tix^^), eat laksa(sudden craving), go to my class outing and my group outing(make the guys wear pink shirts) and some other things i can't think of now...

One thing for sure is that i am looking for a primary school friend... It have been 3 months since i last saw my friend at Jurong East (18th April). That day, i was on the mrt with my mum, heading towards Bouna Vista, but feeling unwell, i headed back home alone.

At JE, down the escalator, i noticed(w/o my specs) some people distributing flyers and some people doing surveys. Normally, you will try to avoid all these people right? So i did avoid them. But i felt that someone was following close behind me. I heard someone call "Xin Fei", turning around, i saw my "long-lost" friend.

We had a little chat and I regret not exchanging numbers. We departed and headed our own ways, not knowing when we'll meet again.

I have always like JE, it is where you will meet people whom you know especially when you least expected, it's like a small village. I might know where the person is right now, and the chances of meeting the person again is very slim... but i am willing to search. The only trouble is that i only know a single english name. That isnt going to help much is it?

Sometimes, on the bus, i will stare blankly out the window, wishing that there might be a chance that i will see the person again...

~*~ You know me as me, and yet i was talking only about myself. So the next time i see you, i would definiately asked, "How are you?" ~*~

Chinese Oral Class

Today's chinese class is crazy.. we were asked to have a conversation and the topic i got was "success is the fruit of failure"... a common topic in both english and chinese oral. But after 3 years, i think i have lost touch to chinese...

dont ask me about what i said in chinese class... even though it was just less that 3 hours ago, i cant really remember.. =X

But just for practice and because the thoughts keep running in my head, i decided to pen down what i wanted to say in oral just now...

Another crazy thing is that when i got home, and switch on my labtop, i saw a document that was so distinctively singled out on my desktop. One closer look and i knew what exactly happened. The chinese teacher had left a composition question for me when i went for a break and left my labtop on in the classroom. The question this time is what is singapore's early childhood education like and what are my views on it. Early Childhood, i should have asked Yazid or even Hui Wen...
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失败是成功之母。

每个人都有失败的经验。但我觉得失败不是代表不完美，因为人是不完美的，也不是一种结束，因为还有明天。失败对我来说是一种学习的过程。可能听起来很虚假，可是这就是我的看法。

我不想说大道理,也不想说关于古文的故事，只想说说自己的失败，自己的不完美。很多人都认为失败就一定要是在人生重大的事物，如考试成绩不理想，面试失败，失业，失恋等.而成功就要立下大功，要是一种伟大的成就。上课所说的面试失败就不提了。我要说的是每个人每一天都有的小失败。

我好像每一次上华文课就会出错，出丑，失败。 不是用错词，音调不对，不认字，不会读，就是乱说话，句子不完整，没头没尾，让人听了也会烦吧。真对不起。

可是，我在这些失败中得到了不少就像今天又学到了“面试考官”。虽然每一堂课都有出错，也很不想上华文课但我还是要勇敢地面对。我相信你们从我的错误上也会学到东西。好多朋友对我的华文没信心，这我能够理解。可是报名参加这个中国交流，就代表我肯给自己失败的空间也代表我许要你们给我失败的机会，在我失败的过程中帮助我。。。

我不怕失败只是怕没有失败的机会。所以对我来说不管是孔融让梨或是孔子让梨，只要有学到东西，我就成功了。。。

Countdown to flight:54 days

奥运会对城市有怎么样的影响

I did this composition on tue during the 3 hour break. For some reasons, my friends and classmates were interested in what i was writing. 10 of them actually read it and 9 of them edited my composition in one way or another...I even joked that the acknowledgements would be longer that the essay itself.

Ackowledgements and Credits

Andy
Fu Weng
Melissa
Li Ying
Jacelyn
Jin Hong
Joyce
Kevin
Kian Hui
Wendy
Xuan Ming

Below is the final results...

奥运会是四年一度的国际运动会，各国会派出选手前来主办国。主办奥运将会的城市会是各国的焦点。虽然这个盛大的运动会有利与弊，但奥运会带来的利比弊多。

首先，能够主办澳运会是城市的光荣,主办的城市会在国际的舞台上得到一定的肯定。各国的媒体会报道奥运会的幕前幕后的过程，这能提高国家的知名度。

其次，奥运会制造很多的工作，包括旅游业，餐饮业，服务业，交通业等等。这些行业需要很多人力来招待各国选手和前来观看澳运会的游客。有了工作国民会加强经济能力，因此提高生活水平。

各国选手和前来观看澳运会的游客消费能力大，在城市居住时的消费，能够促进国家经济的增长。

即使奥运会 结束后，主办国为奥运会所建的建筑物可能会成为国家的旅游景点。这些建筑物会吸引游客前来主办国观看奥运会所留下的美景，认国家有不断的游客消费。

很多人认为奥运会只有好的一面，但是奥运会也会带给城市负面的影响。

随着前来观看澳运会的游客增加，交通流量也会因游客量的增加而变大，容易造成空气的污染。交通流量大，容易引起交通阻塞，影响当地居民的生活环境。

一旦游客量增加，城市的治安也有可能成为严重的问题。当人潮多的时候，意图不轨的歹徒会比较大胆。前来观看澳运会的游客可能会成为他们的下一个目标。
除此之外，为了建设体育场，国家可能需要拆除到原本的景物，以及造成一些厉史文物的损失。

奥运会能使城市成为世界各地的焦点受到一定的肯定。奥运会也能够增加国家和国民收入，带动经济能力的增长。举办奥运会也会带给城市负面的影响，包括环境污染和治安的问题。虽然奥运会带来的问题不多，但国家也不能忽略这些问题。国家要在利于弊找到适当的平衡才能享受奥运的利益。

So, how was it?? That bad? It makes me wonder if i am truely ready for the trip. Right now, i am connfused; Whether the decision was the right one to make.

I have been oh-so-busy this few days...I spent almost 13 hours in school from tue to fri for some freaking project that my groupsmates seem like they never even turned up.And they never seem to be on time (even on occasions that i try to be late)...

Countdown to flight: 56 days

The Chocolate Oracle

What Your Taste in Chocolate Says About You

You are sophisticated, modern, and high class. Your taste is refined, but you are not picky. You are often the first to try something new. You are down to earth and lovable. A true friend, you're very tolerant and understanding. In fact, your friends' biggest problem is that they don't like each other! You love being around people. Friendships are important to you. You feel lost when you're by yourself... so you tend to avoid being alone.

http://www.blogthings.com/thechocolateoracle/

Trial Picture

some of you might ask why i hv changed from blog.com to blogger, the answer is that i cant seem to upload any pictures in blog.com.

this post is jus for trial... i took this picture at vietnam ha-long bay^^