Worth Fighting For.

It's been an eventful week. Last thursday, we played captain's ball in the hall after we finished pe early, and that was damn fun. I saw Dhevy's twin brother later in the day. Yesterday, we had our first cricket training of the year. It didn't go like i'd wanted it to, but i guess it wasn't too bad, except for the ache in my right shoulder muscle and legs. [actually, that means we played a lot, which is good.] This, year, we ain't gonna be just a slack CCA. This year, we fight and win. Or have fun trying to. After cricket, i went for violin rehearsal at my music school in Serangoon road. so now my shoulder blade's aching real bad.

ICS is so happening this year. During a three-period break some day this week, michelle and i were in the canteen, and soon we were joined by dhevy, amoudtha, akanksha, simran and serena, which was very nice 'cos we were all from diferent levels, IP2, IP3, JC1 and JC2. And there's a dance practice tomorrow at serena's house. See? We're really involved this year. Nothing's confirmed yet, but we just may register for MusicFest as well.

Today was a fun day. After going to my music school [again] i went to chinatown to meet shakura, olivia and rachel for dinner at a really cool vegetarian restaurant, whatever. yea, that's the name of the restaurant. shakura was teaching us some games that were so typical of her we named one of them the shakura game. haha!

you guys probably won't read this, but thanks for your gifts and for treating me. thank you once again to everyone who made me feel like i'm really 17.

i wanna join some other CCA in addition to the two i'm in now. any suggestions, people?

sometimes i regret not even trying out for SC. but other times i feel i won't have time for anything else if i'm in SC, like cricket, which i will never compromise. but i'm definitely going to try out during the OGL selections.

what do you think of this template?

Perspective.

you know the way some books describe how beautiful autumns are? how soft and white snow is? how beatiful spring dawns and dusks are? how green summer fields are?

sometimes i wonder, just how orange and yellow and pretty are those leaves? how fun is building snowmen? how breathtaking is the appearance and disappearance of the sun? and just how green are those grassy expanses?

the sunrise and sunset i see everyday from my house windows are different. and they look different when i'm at the beach. so they've got to look different in other places. someday i wanna explore, and see these sights books always tempt me with.

someday.

Feel no different.

Dear

mia, shylu, shalini, shakura, olivia, dhevy, nive, eileen, diane, pearlyn, audrey, ser en, subra, simran, prema, reema, akanksha, serena, may, jia xin, michelle and preeti,

thank you all for your wishes. you're all wonderful people.

I decided to stop french and take lit instead. it's really sad, and i' already starting to miss french.

and give shakura your support for SC, y'all!

Don't forget the prettier picture behind you.

Reply Tags:

Simran: oops you know i'm not going right? no time. pity.

Wilbur: Hmm it's a kinda feeling i get when i find something very familiar but can't remember what it is. perhaps a part of the brain can register these fast-passing thoughts and though memory can't recall them, they are there. I know they're there because sometimes i find something stangely familiar. this is kinda hard to explain and im sorry i cant explain it properly, but if you still aren't convinced i'll find another way to explain. =]

TC: I mean, change it from tc to something else. haha. well i think we're having a spell of sunshine now. u should like, encourage the girls in your school to start a girls' team! hahaha.

Cleaven: haha yup. whenever you and wilbur talk on a tagboard it's almost always something science-y. and it's nice having you as a classmate!

So much has been going on, and CCAs are starting to pressurise now. thank goodness for a great class, to help teach you your tutorial questions and suggest the wackiest class outings, and to play games in lessons!

So it's french tomorrow, OG outing on thurs and OG BBQ and ICS gathering on friday. I think i'm gonna join Writers' Circle, and Diane and i are joining inter-house Captain's ball. There's so much to do, so much to remember, so many birthdays it would be a crime to forget, and school work to catch up with as well. I hope i can still manage after PW starts, KI reserach starts and work gets heavier.

I'm gonna change this skin soon. it gets boring after a while, doesn't it?

Essence of Survival

"Every morning in Africa a deer wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest deer or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a deer. When the sun comes up you better be running."

-As seen on a bookmark.

School's been good so far, despite not having a classroom and having a wierd timetable. There are lots of things going on though, which makes things very confusing. I'm missing many people already, but my new class makes up for that. We are, i'd like to say, very interesting people. So's our senior class.

Do you sometimes get the feeling that you want to say something but don't know what it is, or how to say it? I call these feelings thoughtlets because i think they arise when a thought passes through my head too quick to be remembered, but long enough to make an impression. Sometimes I transfer these thoughtlets into poetic form because this form revolves around an idea, but doesn't exactly reveal the idea, which is exactly how it feels to have a thoughtlet.

On a side-note, i like my shoes very much. They're white and blue aasics shoes, and i like them because they've been with me up Mount Fuji, into the mangrove swamp, and are very comfortable indeed. AND they're really durable, considering this is the third year of my using them, and that i wear my shoes out very fast.

I've got PE tomorrow, and I hope we do more than just run. Not that I mind running. Hey, i've just come back to the same topic i started out with. Guess i'd better start jogging then. I'll have to jog before i can run.

I may be a grave man yet.

So it's 2007 already. I can't imagine a CT starting with 07_ _ _. I still don't feel like the people in orientation are our age. I keep forgetting i'm not younger than them. But otherwise, orientation is good. Maybe it's some kinda barrier between me and others, maybe it's just some kinda starting problem; this orientation doesn't have the feel Orientation '05 had. Things got better today though, after we managed to dunk three of our four OGLs. I still haven't gotten outta the IP mentality. Today when i heard that tomorrow we would meet our Ct groups, i was thinking that we would have free time 'cos we already have CT groups. I was jolted again when people in my OG were asking me what I wanted to do University. They seem so focused, but i haven't given it much thought.

So, tomorrow we'll know our new classes. My OG mates are nice, and I hope my class is too. Today [2nd day of orientation] was fun, partly because I was involved in the CCA walkabout and also because we did mass dances =] I left the hall at 11.30 or so, before Friendship Dance. I don't regret missing that, it's Neutron I wish i could have stayed on for.

VJ seems to be full of people I know this year. Everywhere i turn, there's a familiar face and i'm glad my primary school friends remember me and i them. When I was P3, i had a Canadian classmate named Allison. She migrated after that, but we saw each other today. It's good we still remember each other after 8 years. She used to call me "Cheryl", because she couldn't pronounce my name, and today she asked if i was Cheryl Gopi. =D I said "Shreya Gopi", but she seemed a bit unsure after that, so i left her with the impression that my name is Cheryl, because she's more comfortable with it.

I've got more to say, but things always sound funny and formal when i put them down in words. This is why i hardly ever blog about what i did or what i think about an event. Even as i reread what i've typed, i feel like deleting everything. It's a good thing my fingers don't act on such sudden impulses.

Oh, and Happy Birthday to Subra! Have a great year ahead =]

Nowadays i don't feel like studying anymore. Not that i've ever studied to death before, but suddenly I feel rundown. I hope it's a passing flattener.

I shall stop here before I'm embarrassed the next time i read this. Cheers to a great IP3 and IP4 or JC1 and Jc2 or whatever else we're known as now.

Vertigo

Halfway across the tightrope, and i had to look down.

I'm back. Just returned yesterday.
reply tags:

ganesh: thanks for your friendship! ah shucks you should have been at prom. but nevermind, there's always SDD =]

simran: haha you know now.

amelia: hey there! yep t'was great and i'll reply later on your blog!

subra: yes i did, thanks!

chunhan: haha ok =] yea thank goodness for photographs!

simran: hahaha yea that's sweet, thanks!

dhevy: thanks dearie! the attempt wasnt lame and yes i'll miss not having lessons with you too! maybe i'll quit french and join tamil lit if the distance from bishan tires me too much.

simran: i'm back!

dw: you're welcome!

I'm scared. I dunno what to expect next year. And i haven't heard from my ogl, which means i dunno what og i'm in and what's happening at all. Shoot.