BEN'S 11th PARTY!

After so many days of consideration, i've finally made up my mind! :D had about an hour's talk with royston kor kor on the phone, and he gave me pretty much advice. he also made me realise that education is just like climbing a mountain, & now im only finding my mountain and i still have a long way to go before reaching the peak. For my results from O's, i could perhaps only climb Mount Faber! so i really got to work hard! (:

even though some schools may be far, but i shall just find fun in travelling! hahaha. anyways like what Ms Tan said, no JC is too far in Singapore. so im sure i can adapt to it =D the 3rd choice really made me hesitate very long, because it was between ACSI and NJC. in terms of distance, both are about the same, but the main problem is the difference between IB and A levels! i really had no idea how to choose.

royston kor kor also did some research on IB for me which i found it rather useful cause im not very clear about it either. i feel that its really tougher than A levels because its like a more rounded education. it don't only focus on books and syllabus, but it better prepares the students for education in uni. furthermore, the cohort last year did so well which proves that the system works :D & RJ is going to have IB soon too, so i guess that IB really does assures good results. they even had an average aggregate of 40.1! so yup, that's why i dont mind giving it a try :D

tadaaaa, here goes my choices! HC, RJ, ACSI, NJC, ACJC, SA, VJ, CJ, AJ, JJC, SP, NP! (:

today was pretty much fun yet tiring! we had benben's birthday celebration at aunt janice's house! :D jiejie & I went over early to do the deco & prepare the things we would need for the games we planned for the kids. tying the balloons was so tedious!!! we both do till our hands so painful! but well, its for our cute little brother! hahahah :D oh oh & i must say, while drawing on the balloons, it burst!!! it frightened me and it was so troublesome cause we had to untie those strings again and tie in another new one :(

Edwin helped us take things cause we both were too lazy to go downstairs to take lol =X

TADAA! after so much hard work! :D

yays! ((:

Played games like musical chairs, scavenger hunt, stepping of balloons, water & land with the kids & its really tough. children of all ages was hard enough to coordinate and plus alot of ppl talking made the whole place so noisy & we cant give instructions clearly. :( but luckily, the games still managed to carry on somehow hahaha :D

Presenting the pics when cutting cake! =))

benben's special request! chocolate cake with bananas from secret recipe (:

we find that benben's way of smiling is not counted smiling.. so...

jiejie helped! yupp thats smiling hahaha!:D

there he goes again, with that smile

HAHAHA. this looks better :D

benben with cousins! (not all though)

okay the help here don't really work lol

Next up, we had the PINATA for finale! xD yup though it was not cheap, but its an experience all the kids gained! :D i felt that i was like a person handling a funfair stall which is the whacking of pinata! cause i had to explain the rules, and help blindfold them one by one when its their turn, then turn them around and lead them to the place to start hitting hahahha.

really very fun cause all the kids and adults gathered there too :DD even yeye went to try to whack! he's so funny la hahaha! its something new cause i believe many of them have not seen such pinata before lol =) so after many whacks, guess who managed to break it!

Ryan! he whacked it open! :D

Through this pinata game, it made me realise the importance of having a goal in life. when we're blindfolded, we dunno where is our target. so even if we use our strongest force, we are charging forward aimlessly and it may even end up achieving nothing, and not a single hit. Whereas when they were not blindfolded on their second and third tries, they could aim for their target and eventually successfully hit till the candies were free for all to grab!

If you ask me now, i really am not sure of my own goal. since young, popo always asked me wad i wanna be in future. but she only gave me 3 choices: teacher, lawyer or doctor. so i chose to be a doctor. However since i like to be happy, the only happy part of a hospital would be where babies are born! :D hence since then i wanted to be a doctor who looks after the babies, or perhaps a gynaecologist. But is that really my interest? its time for me to consider it carefully. (:

difficult choice.

sighs, im really very frustrated over the whole JAE thing cause i cannot make up my mind to choose the schools. yes, though there are schools im more interested in, but it happens so that im at the borderline and im not sure i would be able to get in. so well, these 2 days, i've been to HCJC, ACJC, ACSI, RJC, NJC. i've seen SA too :)

in my opinion, firstly i dun think that ACJC is suitable for me cause somehow i dont quite like it. HC is very homely, which is great, but i may not be able to get in either cause there are only 150 places available. :( oh HC and RJ the feng very strong too hahahhaah! (inside joke! :D)

RJ is really very big and everything just seem so new :D the only bad thing is that its rather far from home, so transport makes a slight problem here.. furthermore the cut off is also 3. i was initially worried that it might be quite difficult for me to fit in cause im not from the raffles family. but the tour guides today were from SCGS so they said that in the beginning perhaps have, like during orientation. but after awhile it would still be fine cause the people are welcoming too. :D

ACSI is great too but the only concern is taking IB or A levels is better. its not that far too so its convenient :D oh ya and i only realised it ytd that im actually eligible for the edusave scholarship! so if i wanna go independent schools, its fine too cause the fees wont be that ex. yay :D

thanks to yuexi for bringing us around NJ today! cause its not open house actually haha, just that we wanted to see the school environment etc. but honestly, i feel that perhaps its not so good cause of the over-population. so im afraid those container classrooms might not be so conducive to study though i din see those classrooms. so im quite disappointed cause i have been aiming for NJ too.

anyway, im still very confused. however like what yuexi said, i should follow my heart and eventually there would be happiness wherever im. :D

i've been listening to the song "yong qi" cause right now, i really need the courage to make my own decision which i must not regret. (:

O levels results released

12 jan 09 finally arrived, the day that O levels results are released. the anxiety in the hall was not as much as those i felt last year, maybe im more experienced tat explains why. anyways super congrats to jesselyn and stephanie!!! they did our class and school so so proud :DDDD

really thankful to those who smsed me and gave me support to get my results! :D ppl like bedok green, gessy, aunt sharon and sandra, tracy, daniel, samantha, pearlyn, yuqi, felicia, ruiqi :))) oh and jie's friends, zhenzhen & jiahao. how nice of them to rmb! hope i din miss out anyone hahaha. xD and of course daddy and mummy who were as anxious as i was too :D & last but not least jiejie and biujie! they even came to my school to collect results with me (: it was the best excuse for jie to skip school lol!

so yup, jie and biujie accompanied me the whole day and we went out shopping too :) really initially, i was rather disappointed with my results because i didn't get the perfect score, my sciences actually did poorer than my humanities (which was not expected) and so, my sciences had A2. yeah so i cried abit but thankfully they were there to console me and biujie prepared tissue beforehand hahahaha.

though everyone said that my results were very good already, but somehow i felt rather upset that i didn't manage to achieve my own target score.. lol so according to biujie & jiejie, i "emo-ed the whole day". well im fine now! must be cause they treated me to warm chocolate cake and other desserts (which i cant rmb the names) at bakerzin @ vivo hahahhaa. :D i stoned all the way home on the bus and i din really shop cause my whole mind was about results today.

finally, im also sincerely thankful to all my family, friends, teachers, seniors & juniors! without my family's support, friends' encouragement, teachers' perserverance, seniors' and juniors' care and concern, i would surely not be able to hang on so long & eventually finished the O levels with quite okay results! :D so after one whole day, im finally willing to accept my results because its no point getting all upset about it now. i did my best and that is it :D

so as we all move on to our own paths, i will really really miss crescent! :(

anxious

Tmr is the day we have all been waiting for, & im really very anxious!!! Cant wait for tmr to come, yet im afraid of the results i see. Really hope that i won't disappoint anyone esp mummy and daddy! Bless me! :D