Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Alright. I haven't updated in a few days.
My tagboard is spammed.
First up, today!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SOFIA!
Looking at her enjoy herself makes me SO EXCITED for my birthday!
Anyway, today after school we went to LJS to celebrate Sof's birthday. Took many camwhore pics. SHQ sort of crashed in, and later Athan joined in.
Athan and I went to walk around Hougang Mall, then spent some time at Macs where he ate fries and Coke, which he calls "appetizer". Sheesh, guys have really big appetites.
Walked to MRT with Athan, then I went home.
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Yesterday!
I visited the Singapore American School.
It was downright awesome.
Early in the morning, Ryan C came to Ang Mo Kio, then we took a cab to SAS. Reached there a tad too early, so we walked to a nearby coffeeshop and waited till around 7.30? Went in and met Jiawei, and later Heather. The SAS campus is hugeeeee.
We then met the Principal, a rather friendly guy who warmly welcomed us. Then after that we were told that we were going to have three different buddies. Ryan went with a guy called Alex, Jiawei went with Heather, and I went with a really cute Irish-Indonesian guy.
SAS uses the homeroom system, which means the students move around for their classes, instead of their teachers. As such, they have a half-hour break after each lesson. The number of students for each class is also about half of what we have in local schools.
First lesson,
Spanish.
One and a half hours of "WHAT!?" and "ler gong si mi?" got me really really confused. Fortunately, they spoke in English sometimes. Plus the teacher was rather friendly too.
Their morning announcements are reported live and broadcasted on TV, just like newscasters you see on Channel NewsAsia. Unlike the SL who stands up there every morning, reading from a book, pronouncing mass as "mehse", which in the case of Music Ministry and Chapel, I suppose it would be pronounced as "marse". I am still quite offended by that, and would suppose that just goes to show how ignorant that guy is.
Next lesson,
Psychology.
I shall be honest and admit it wasn't really to my liking. Psychology was dry and hard to absorb. But I learnt that people can see a person's behaviour by their body language and all. Also, horoscopes are spoofs.
And then it was lunch!
I wanted to buy the SAS shirt which costs $17, and that was all I had, therefore I had no money for lunch. Willow was nice and offered to pay for my lunch. Their cafeteria has two storeys, and there's Subway in there. Oh man.
After which, it was
English.
The lesson was really interesting. They learnt seven new vocab words, which are rather.. profound. They will learn twenty vocab words over a few lessons, and at the end, they have to write a creative essay using ALL the twenty words.
Prior to this lesson, they had done a mindmap on Heroes. So during this class, they discussed and exchanged ideas. Then the teacher gave them ten minutes to work in groups to coem out with three skits, "Traditional Hero", "Modern Day Hero" and "An Act of Everyday Heroism". In short, it was really fun.
Last lesson,
Choir.
Their choir is really small in numbers. Around 20-odd strength?
But the voices of the baritones are really deep, so it strikes a perfect balance between the higher, middle and lower voices. I had fun learning with them, and it made me want to join the Ngee Ann Choir. I'll see if I have the time.
Yup, then after school we went around the campus to get the shots we needed. And then it was farewell. I'll miss you, SAS!
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Sunday!
Went for 9.45am mass, then catechism class.
They tried to encourage more people to join the various church ministries.
I left early cos I had youth mass practice. Rather fruitful, I liked singing my best for God. [:
Went for lunch with Josephine, Lenny and Adrian at Junction 8 after.
Regretful that I bought KFC. It was SO FREAKING OILY. Ugh!
Youth mass this Saturday, very very excited!
Saturday!
Went with mom to Hougang Mall, cos she hasn't been there in a long time. After that, we decided to go to Suntec walk walk. The bus 107 was a Nokia CWM with special seats and all. Sounds cool? Far from it. The chairs were placed sideways, and it was so low you couldn't lean your head on the back and sleep. When we reached Millenia Walk, I had a horrible headache.
Anyway, there's this shop that sells really good chocolate. It's called Ch 'C' Late Research Facility. Not only is the layout of the shop attractive, the chocolate box covers make it irresistable and appealing. For example, I bought a box of chocolate with CHEESE flavour [and it was really good]. The chocolate box cover was printed with the cow's skin, symbolic for the cheese that came from the cow.
The chocolate is really really good, though expensive. Mmmmm.
Okay, that's all I have for now.
And I don't type nonsensical things like "I breathe in oxygen",
contradictory to what someone by the name of Athan said.
What I type is what I think is interesting.
Which, basically, is everything.
