thanks for the memories.
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Days passed by with me living without Rehana and Aunty Minah.. It has been okay but an incident happened that I will never forget throughout my life.. I can't even believe it even happened... (This doesn't have anything to do with my kuz and aunt though there would be a diff. if they were here coz' I could share it with 'em... I usually talk a lot about my probs or worries or wadeva with Hana..)
It all started with my Design and Technology teacher being absent from school and my class being taken over by a clerk from the DnT department. The clerk was a guy around his thirties or forties.. He always seemed nice to me but not anymore...
When he came to my class, he let us decide what to do for the three free periods that we had and our decision was to stay in class and do our own things... He was fine with it though he suddenly started to call people to the front of the class to talk about their ambition soon after everyone was moving around, chatting with friends..... (no one was listening to him.. we couldn't even understand what he said in the first place...) So, many sort of ignored him and others giggled at the sudden topic...
He soon realised that no one was interested so he went around the class to see what each of my classmates were doing and after a while, he had asked three boys to stand on their seats with their hands on their head because they had been making noises. Other classes passed by my classroom and saw the punished ones and they were soooo "amused".. It was sooo obvious that the clerk was pleased with himself for punishing the boys as he "made others laugh".. He thought he was some big person... (I did not think this way about him at the actual moment but now I do as the incident made me change my thoughts about him...)
After quite a while, this dnt guy let the boys down and continued to observe the rest of the class... He soon came to my friends(Frederick and Diana) and I. We were singing She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5 happily... Laughing and giggling along... But when he came, the three of us went silent almost at once which made us more giggly... What happened next was, the clerk sat down with us after Frederick, with an unknown reason, told him that we were doing our project. (Fred had a poem on history with him at that point of time and shove it towards the clerk.)
After reading the poem, this clerk went and talked about the world war 2, about the killing of the chinese in Singapore and suddenly his topic jumped to the government and then foreigners living in Singapore, and HDBs and condominium... Throughout his meaningless "speech", Frederick, Diana and I were giggling... I am not sure of the reason till now... I think it was because of our giggling mood when we were singing or the clerk's pointless speech but definitely NOT because we looked down on him!) So this guy here suddenly talks about how gangsters would have misunderstood us laughing and bashed us up... And then he goes on to how well he brought up his children... And his "great great" life story... During his grandfather stories, Frederick and Diana were stepping on my foot which made us laugh much harder...
And all of a sudden, this clerk jumped to his clever clever conlusion that we looked down on him and were laughing at him. Frederick immediately stood up for us and said that we were not looking down on him at all but the guy thought he was the cleverest person on Earth and stuck to his conclusion. He was practically shouting about how he brought up his children, one of them was already working or sumthin and the other taking pure science... He was so IRRITATING.. I tried to tell him again that we were not laughing at him but he didn't care... He went on and on and it was so obvious that his voice was cracking and could break down any minute though he didn't.. (THANK GOD...)
When Diana tried to tell him that we weren't laughing at him, he cut her short and shouted to the whole class to return to their seats... The three of us felt very very irritated... How could a person just jump to a conclusion without knowing the truth..?!?!
The clerk went on to lecture the whole class about how "we didn't know how to respect our elders...." how "he was in the same position as our operation manager and not just a clerk in the school..." He was telling us all sorts of nonsense... He said just because he wasn't a teacher doesn't mean we didn't need to respect him... The rest of the class probably didn't have any idea what was going on except for those who heard him shout...
The three of us were VERY fed up.. Especially because he ACCUSED us FALSELY.. and spoiling our fun, joy and laughter... We were having fun singing our favourite song but the happy moments were all DESTROYED!
The dnt guy said that he would remember our faces.. O wow.... Many ppl remember our faces and all of them like us except for him!!!
kkz.. i'm sorry if i've been a lil' bit harsh on this post but it is really frustrating to be falsely accused.... My day will be spoilt if I come across him during school again...
n tat's about it...
buaixz!
10:37 AM
My cousin is gone..... She's in London... Preparing for a new life there... Starting skool on Wednesday...
It was a really really sentimental day at the airport yesterday when our family sent the two of them there.. It all started with my grandma who went crying at my Aunt's shoulder saying that nobody's there to hug her anymore... (Aunty Minah is a very very very nice aunty who luvs to hug!!!) My eyes went all watery and so did the rest there... Aunty Minah was gonna cry too and I couldn't take it anymore... I burst into tears and did not manage to stop... Rehana was beside me and when she saw me cry, she started crying too and so did Naqia and Nazia... We were all crying but I could not control myself.. I was flooded with tears.. Hana hugged me and I burst into more tears... I was gonna lose one of my beloved cousins and the best aunt anyone can ever have!!!! I could not take it even though I knew it wasn't the end of our relationship... but it was still different not having you two of your really loved ones with you... Aunty Minah is like my second mother and Rehana, my sister... I love them a lot!!! But I can't do anything now.. They're far far away in London and I'm here.. Though I'm planning to work and save up to go there... I know, ambitious rite? but I really want to.... I'll try my best.. Bubye for now!!
10:52 AM
On Friday, my family and I went to J.B for a very short holiday(we stayed for only one night... )
Since, Aunty Minah and Rehana are going to go back to England in a week's time, we might as well spend as much time with each other as possible...
We stayed in a three-star hotel ,which did not seem 3-star, called The Grand Continental...
The hotel wasn't a big deal.. the best part was shopping!!! I bought many many things...! I bought a shoe which I never thought I would buy...(it's black and has a chain and thumb tacks on it...), i bought two t-shirts(one very lame and the other quite nice..), i bought something that covered my hand(not a glove), and I bought loads and loads of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings stuff... hehehez, as usual... I bought a Harry Potter keychain, two posters (one, 10 ringgit(S$5) and the other 4 ringgit(S$2))(so cheeap!!!), an LOTR mousepad,one LOTR calender and one Daniel Radcliffe calender, a Hermione postcard, mmmm, wadelse...?, wait, i go n see... o tat's all.. I still haven't unpack yet but I don't plan to do it now... I must go and study coz' common test is TOMORO...!!! okie dokiez... buaixz...
4:14 AM My cousin, Rehana, had a farewell party on Tuesday at Coasta Sands Resort. She'll be going back in about 2 week's time. She had invited all her friends and as usual, family turns up too.. hehez... It was fun especially because of the great barbeque food.. hehehez...
Like always, there were interesting things that happened...
My kuzzin found a lil' sparrow under a drain.. It might have had fallen out of its nest as it could not fly.. It was really helpless... So, we took it back to the chalet... I tried giving the bird mashed cereal made by my kuz but it did not eat.. I made other attempts to make it eat or drink but I was left hopeless...
The next day, I went to school on Aunty Minah's bike... It was a wonderful feeling as it had been a long time since I rode my bike to skool...(i used to cycle to skul..) but let's not change the topic... When I returned from school, I found out that the poor lil' bird had died.... I looked at its lifeless body, still cute and... cute! It was juz sooo cute but I did not react to its death... I didn't know how to... Aunty Minah took it away soon after that to go and bury it... So sad...
I would have tried to bring the sparrow back home if it was still alive... thougit would have been really hard to separate my lil' devil at home with it... I have a psychotic kitten at home which would not have given the sparrow a chance to even breathe... It would have been a sylvester and tweety situation... hahakz..
I found this crazy but really really adorable kitten in the band room... It was mewing along with our music, abandoned by its mother.. Now, I am tortured each day. I always get at least one scratch a day... but I still love her.. I named her Coral as I found it at Coral but I call it Kitty... I'm juz full of nonsense so nvm...
Juz now there was junior band and I went to help out.. It was also the celebration of Mr Wong's(band conductor) belated birthday.. There was pizza and cake... I came back from skool at about 7... Now I gotago do my homework....!!!! buaixz.....
2:40 PM The performance at Merdidian Junior College was really funny or maybe even lame... The band did not play what we were supposed to.. We played part of what we were supposed to.. It was so sad... We did not play all the songs that we practised hard to play there. I expected a much better show than what happened just now... Some of the percussion instruments that we brought were not even used because of the cancelled songs.. And the lamest thing that happened there was..., we played a really nice marching song for kindergarten kids to "march"!!
Alrite, alrite, enough of moaning... I'll share the fun moments of the performance though it does not have anything to do with us performing...
Me and my junior band member had fun copying the choir from Coral Primary... We were desperate to entertain ourselves so what the heck... The two of us followed their steps and it turned out that we were entertaining some of the band members too... We laughed at ourselves... It was just so lame....
After the band had played four pathetic songs( supposed to be 'bout 10), we went to the waiting area or sumthin' and there, we had fun... We had a group photo and we were united :)
We chatted among ourselves until we were called upon to join the r.c members in singing "Stand Up For Singapore..." after which we packed up and went back to school to put back all the instruments.. There, we were each given a goody bag and a pack of rice and then most band members headed outside school to eat.... Our band teacher was so kind that she bought for those who wanted ice-cream one each, after we had finished eating... We then headed home.....
Now, I'm in front of the comp., recalling the whole performance before I get some sleep and forget about the most boring performance throughout my band life so far....
8:17 AM The band performance at school's national day parade wasn't that big a deal... I felt like as though it was a full dress rehearsal but I still had a little bit of hair standing as I had to play the bass drum... The snare drum and bass drum were the two most main intruments for a parade... The bass drum has to give the beat for the people to march... I am not that good at following my conductor's beat precisely... Sometimes I go faster than him and sometimes slower... but I got it done and over with.....
Now it is Meridian Junior College....
I don't really feel the excitement and nerve-wrecking feeling that I am supposed to feel... Even my friends are just going with the flow and performing when the days come... We have gone past the 'feeling nervous to perform in band' stage....(IMPROVEMENT!!!) We are now cool.. hehez..
Btw, I am not sure what songs we are gonna have to play at Meridian... darn...
My friends and I thought that Meridian would be the last of the busy band period but nope... Our band teacher just surprised us with a new performance location for us.. We're gonna go to Chimes, somewhere in City Hall, I was told... But we were the ones who agreed with the performance eagerly as all of us enjoy performing... We would become better and better and then later when it comes to SYF, we can just say "Bring it on!"
I'm Dyna Bagginz and thanks for reading the post! Catch the next post when I slip on the One Ring again... Dyna, Out! (idea taken from ryan seacrest's lines...)
6:25 PM Life
hMmMmM.... Now, my life is getting better but very slowly.... I just got to know what class I might be streamed to based on my mid-year results and the result is.... (drumrole)......
3e2 (Group B which is Principles of Accounts instead of A maths)
LOSER...!!! hehehez...
My target is 3e1.... I'm not working hard enough.... I want to study like crazy.. Half of me does not have any idea whatsoever why I really want to go to 3e1 but the ohter half.... not sure... nvm...
Band
Paragon is over and now we're preparing for School Parade this Friday not forgetting the performance at Meridian JC tailing close behind on Sunday.... I can't really figure out how I feel about the upcoming performances... I can't tell if I'm nervous or excited... They're totally mixed up...
That's all for now...
11:38 AM
The Paragon performance was so fun and cool!!!! I want to go back there and play forever!!! nolah...
It was really really kul!! I was enjoying myself like crazy but then I played tambourine for most songs but my favourite part was when I played the timbales... (a kind of drum for those who don't know...)
I had a solo all to myself!!! Kul Kul Kul!!! I played my best and when I watched it over and over again on the video camera tat was recorded by my kuzzin, I was so happy!!!! People were actually listening..... I half expected them to walk away when I started playing..... hehez... no faith.... I love my solo... I am playing it again at Meridian Junior College... Can't wait...
And the best part was... after playing the song..., I overheard someone behind me saying "They're very good ah?" to another person... woooooooooooohooooooooooo!
When the whole band reached our skul back again, our teachers were very happy with us... One of them gave us three cheers... And she also told us something she overheard... I'll tell you the conversation...
person A "They're very good! Do you think they are from Tanjong Katong Girls?"
person B " Nolah! Got guys wat...."
person A " Then might be Tanjong Katong Sec. I heard they won the marching band competition..."
hehehehehehez... I am from Coral Secondary Concert Band and our band only got a silver for SYF last year.. (I didn't play yet) That's why our band is very happy now... We are being praised... with such great comments...
tat's it for now... feel free to tag me 'bout my band...........
5:16 AM
It all started with my Design and Technology teacher being absent from school and my class being taken over by a clerk from the DnT department. The clerk was a guy around his thirties or forties.. He always seemed nice to me but not anymore...
When he came to my class, he let us decide what to do for the three free periods that we had and our decision was to stay in class and do our own things... He was fine with it though he suddenly started to call people to the front of the class to talk about their ambition soon after everyone was moving around, chatting with friends..... (no one was listening to him.. we couldn't even understand what he said in the first place...) So, many sort of ignored him and others giggled at the sudden topic...
He soon realised that no one was interested so he went around the class to see what each of my classmates were doing and after a while, he had asked three boys to stand on their seats with their hands on their head because they had been making noises. Other classes passed by my classroom and saw the punished ones and they were soooo "amused".. It was sooo obvious that the clerk was pleased with himself for punishing the boys as he "made others laugh".. He thought he was some big person... (I did not think this way about him at the actual moment but now I do as the incident
After quite a while, this dnt guy let the boys down and continued to observe the rest of the class... He soon came to my friends(Frederick and Diana) and I. We were singing She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5 happily... Laughing and giggling along... But when he came, the three of us went silent almost at once which made us more giggly... What happened next was, the clerk sat down with us after Frederick, with an unknown reason, told him that we were doing our project. (Fred had a poem on history with him at that point of time and shove it towards the clerk.)
After reading the poem, this clerk went and talked about the world war 2, about the killing of the chinese in Singapore and suddenly his topic jumped to the government and then foreigners living in Singapore, and HDBs and condominium... Throughout his meaningless "speech", Frederick, Diana and I were giggling... I am not sure of the reason till now... I think it was because of our giggling mood when we were singing or the clerk's pointless speech but definitely NOT because we looked down on him!) So this guy here suddenly talks about how gangsters would have misunderstood us laughing and bashed us up... And then he goes on to how well he brought up his children... And his "great great" life story... During his grandfather stories, Frederick and Diana were stepping on my foot which made us laugh much harder...
And all of a sudden, this clerk jumped to his clever clever conlusion that we looked down on him and were laughing at him. Frederick immediately stood up for us and said that we were not looking down on him at all but the guy thought he was the cleverest person on Earth and stuck to his conclusion. He was practically shouting about how he brought up his children, one of them was already working or sumthin and the other taking pure science... He was so IRRITATING.. I tried to tell him again that we were not laughing at him but he didn't care... He went on and on and it was so obvious that his voice was cracking and could break down any minute though he didn't.. (THANK GOD...)
When Diana tried to tell him that we weren't laughing at him, he cut her short and shouted to the whole class to return to their seats... The three of us felt very very irritated... How could a person just jump to a conclusion without knowing the truth..?!?!
The clerk went on to lecture the whole class about how "we didn't know how to respect our elders...." how "he was in the same position as our operation manager and not just a clerk in the school..." He was telling us all sorts of nonsense... He said just because he wasn't a teacher doesn't mean we didn't need to respect him... The rest of the class probably didn't have any idea what was going on except for those who heard him shout...
The three of us were VERY fed up.. Especially because he ACCUSED us FALSELY.. and spoiling our fun, joy and laughter... We were having fun singing our favourite song but the happy moments were all DESTROYED!
The dnt guy said that he would remember our faces.. O wow.... Many ppl remember our faces and all of them like us except for him!!!
kkz.. i'm sorry if i've been a lil' bit harsh on this post but it is really frustrating to be falsely accused.... My day will be spoilt if I come across him during school again...
n tat's about it...
buaixz!
10:37 AM
My cousin is gone..... She's in London... Preparing for a new life there... Starting skool on Wednesday...
It was a really really sentimental day at the airport yesterday when our family sent the two of them there.. It all started with my grandma who went crying at my Aunt's shoulder saying that nobody's there to hug her anymore... (Aunty Minah is a very very very nice aunty who luvs to hug!!!) My eyes went all watery and so did the rest there... Aunty Minah was gonna cry too and I couldn't take it anymore... I burst into tears and did not manage to stop... Rehana was beside me and when she saw me cry, she started crying too and so did Naqia and Nazia... We were all crying but I could not control myself.. I was flooded with tears.. Hana hugged me and I burst into more tears... I was gonna lose one of my beloved cousins and the best aunt anyone can ever have!!!! I could not take it even though I knew it wasn't the end of our relationship... but it was still different not having you two of your really loved ones with you... Aunty Minah is like my second mother and Rehana, my sister... I love them a lot!!! But I can't do anything now.. They're far far away in London and I'm here.. Though I'm planning to work and save up to go there... I know, ambitious rite? but I really want to.... I'll try my best.. Bubye for now!!
10:52 AM
On Friday, my family and I went to J.B for a very short holiday(we stayed for only one night... )
Since, Aunty Minah and Rehana are going to go back to England in a week's time, we might as well spend as much time with each other as possible...
We stayed in a three-star hotel ,which did not seem 3-star, called The Grand Continental...
The hotel wasn't a big deal.. the best part was shopping!!! I bought many many things...! I bought a shoe which I never thought I would buy...(it's black and has a chain and thumb tacks on it...), i bought two t-shirts(one very lame and the other quite nice..), i bought something that covered my hand(not a glove), and I bought loads and loads of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings stuff... hehehez, as usual... I bought a Harry Potter keychain, two posters (one, 10 ringgit(S$5) and the other 4 ringgit(S$2))(so cheeap!!!), an LOTR mousepad,one LOTR calender and one Daniel Radcliffe calender, a Hermione postcard, mmmm, wadelse...?, wait, i go n see... o tat's all.. I still haven't unpack yet but I don't plan to do it now... I must go and study coz' common test is TOMORO...!!! okie dokiez... buaixz...
4:14 AM My cousin, Rehana, had a farewell party on Tuesday at Coasta Sands Resort. She'll be going back in about 2 week's time. She had invited all her friends and as usual, family turns up too.. hehez... It was fun especially because of the great barbeque food.. hehehez...
Like always, there were interesting things that happened...
My kuzzin found a lil' sparrow under a drain.. It might have had fallen out of its nest as it could not fly.. It was really helpless... So, we took it back to the chalet... I tried giving the bird mashed cereal made by my kuz but it did not eat.. I made other attempts to make it eat or drink but I was left hopeless...
The next day, I went to school on Aunty Minah's bike... It was a wonderful feeling as it had been a long time since I rode my bike to skool...(i used to cycle to skul..) but let's not change the topic... When I returned from school, I found out that the poor lil' bird had died.... I looked at its lifeless body, still cute and... cute! It was juz sooo cute but I did not react to its death... I didn't know how to... Aunty Minah took it away soon after that to go and bury it... So sad...
I would have tried to bring the sparrow back home if it was still alive... thougit would have been really hard to separate my lil' devil at home with it... I have a psychotic kitten at home which would not have given the sparrow a chance to even breathe... It would have been a sylvester and tweety situation... hahakz..
I found this crazy but really really adorable kitten in the band room... It was mewing along with our music, abandoned by its mother.. Now, I am tortured each day. I always get at least one scratch a day... but I still love her.. I named her Coral as I found it at Coral but I call it Kitty... I'm juz full of nonsense so nvm...
Juz now there was junior band and I went to help out.. It was also the celebration of Mr Wong's(band conductor) belated birthday.. There was pizza and cake... I came back from skool at about 7... Now I gotago do my homework....!!!! buaixz.....
2:40 PM The performance at Merdidian Junior College was really funny or maybe even lame... The band did not play what we were supposed to.. We played part of what we were supposed to.. It was so sad... We did not play all the songs that we practised hard to play there. I expected a much better show than what happened just now... Some of the percussion instruments that we brought were not even used because of the cancelled songs.. And the lamest thing that happened there was..., we played a really nice marching song for kindergarten kids to "march"!!
Alrite, alrite, enough of moaning... I'll share the fun moments of the performance though it does not have anything to do with us performing...
Me and my junior band member had fun copying the choir from Coral Primary... We were desperate to entertain ourselves so what the heck... The two of us followed their steps and it turned out that we were entertaining some of the band members too... We laughed at ourselves... It was just so lame....
After the band had played four pathetic songs( supposed to be 'bout 10), we went to the waiting area or sumthin' and there, we had fun... We had a group photo and we were united :)
We chatted among ourselves until we were called upon to join the r.c members in singing "Stand Up For Singapore..." after which we packed up and went back to school to put back all the instruments.. There, we were each given a goody bag and a pack of rice and then most band members headed outside school to eat.... Our band teacher was so kind that she bought for those who wanted ice-cream one each, after we had finished eating... We then headed home.....
Now, I'm in front of the comp., recalling the whole performance before I get some sleep and forget about the most boring performance throughout my band life so far....
8:17 AM The band performance at school's national day parade wasn't that big a deal... I felt like as though it was a full dress rehearsal but I still had a little bit of hair standing as I had to play the bass drum... The snare drum and bass drum were the two most main intruments for a parade... The bass drum has to give the beat for the people to march... I am not that good at following my conductor's beat precisely... Sometimes I go faster than him and sometimes slower... but I got it done and over with.....
Now it is Meridian Junior College....
I don't really feel the excitement and nerve-wrecking feeling that I am supposed to feel... Even my friends are just going with the flow and performing when the days come... We have gone past the 'feeling nervous to perform in band' stage....(IMPROVEMENT!!!) We are now cool.. hehez..
Btw, I am not sure what songs we are gonna have to play at Meridian... darn...
My friends and I thought that Meridian would be the last of the busy band period but nope... Our band teacher just surprised us with a new performance location for us.. We're gonna go to Chimes, somewhere in City Hall, I was told... But we were the ones who agreed with the performance eagerly as all of us enjoy performing... We would become better and better and then later when it comes to SYF, we can just say "Bring it on!"
I'm Dyna Bagginz and thanks for reading the post! Catch the next post when I slip on the One Ring again... Dyna, Out! (idea taken from ryan seacrest's lines...)
6:25 PM Life
hMmMmM.... Now, my life is getting better but very slowly.... I just got to know what class I might be streamed to based on my mid-year results and the result is.... (drumrole)......
3e2 (Group B which is Principles of Accounts instead of A maths)
LOSER...!!! hehehez...
My target is 3e1.... I'm not working hard enough.... I want to study like crazy.. Half of me does not have any idea whatsoever why I really want to go to 3e1 but the ohter half.... not sure... nvm...
Band
Paragon is over and now we're preparing for School Parade this Friday not forgetting the performance at Meridian JC tailing close behind on Sunday.... I can't really figure out how I feel about the upcoming performances... I can't tell if I'm nervous or excited... They're totally mixed up...
That's all for now...
11:38 AM
The Paragon performance was so fun and cool!!!! I want to go back there and play forever!!! nolah...
It was really really kul!! I was enjoying myself like crazy but then I played tambourine for most songs but my favourite part was when I played the timbales... (a kind of drum for those who don't know...)
I had a solo all to myself!!! Kul Kul Kul!!! I played my best and when I watched it over and over again on the video camera tat was recorded by my kuzzin, I was so happy!!!! People were actually listening..... I half expected them to walk away when I started playing..... hehez... no faith.... I love my solo... I am playing it again at Meridian Junior College... Can't wait...
And the best part was... after playing the song..., I overheard someone behind me saying "They're very good ah?" to another person... woooooooooooohooooooooooo!
When the whole band reached our skul back again, our teachers were very happy with us... One of them gave us three cheers... And she also told us something she overheard... I'll tell you the conversation...
person A "They're very good! Do you think they are from Tanjong Katong Girls?"
person B " Nolah! Got guys wat...."
person A " Then might be Tanjong Katong Sec. I heard they won the marching band competition..."
hehehehehehez... I am from Coral Secondary Concert Band and our band only got a silver for SYF last year.. (I didn't play yet) That's why our band is very happy now... We are being praised... with such great comments...
tat's it for now... feel free to tag me 'bout my band...........
5:16 AM
Dayana, 19