hey ho!

ahh I went ice-skating yesterday(: my bum-oley hurts): Haha! if i cannot count the number of times i fell down..the most i've ever fallen down in 2hrs i guess. So i thank God for giving me a big bum(: and i think i lost my earpiece there!! D: D:

Hahah you naughty Mandz.. tsktsk! You know i was a bit sad my tr didn't tell us abt the bio workshop thing, but then now you explain I am so happyXD but it is sad you missed trg today! It was FUN!!

Heh i'll tell you about our first game okay? My group and nat's group were the only ones who ate the apple from the pail so we got the entertainment:D the other two groups didn't manage to pick up the apple): okayokay. they weren't allowed to use their hands so they had to use their mouths and then feed other ppl...so as the apple got smaller and smaller, they complained that they were KISSING! hohoho it was really funny. especially if you look at it at an angle, it really seems quite wrong..like a video Ande took:P you must see it sometime. Amanda and Jiwon looked um, romantic?? haha Natasha! you lousy bird. you didn't except Jiwon's apple offer. But i guess it saved ur skin on the cam huh(:

We played quite a few other games but the more fiery ones were when there was contact with each other, like the untangle game(: whoo. well i guess i'm really happy that it all worked out. I just hope the atmosphere will not change in the next trg. oh, ms chng praised us(: she said that the planners did a great job and she felt the whole attitude had changed the moment she stepped in XD so WELL DONE ANDY, AINSLEY AND SAM!

When we call on God, He bends down
His ear to listen, as a father bends down
to listen to his little child.
~ELIZABETH CHARLES

hello! yay nat you finally posted again! what about our dearest kat?

haha my final day of bio stem cell workshop!!! woohoo! although i dont think i can call it a workshop. there were no experiments at all! mrs chaiw said there would be many but all we ever did day to day was to research present research present research present. haha PBL somemore!

i heard of some of kathleen's 'plans' for friday's training while on a random trip to our blazers blog. apparently you wanna plan some water bombing or what? whats with the extra shirt thing huh? gosh im jealous now. pls tell me what happened kay? *pleading voice*

ok i gotta admit just this once.

I LOVE ANA IVANOVIC!!!
She just rocks so much yeah? Oh man i really hope she wins the french open!
i've got a rival in emily! haha but its ok though. cos she insisted she was straight. well i am too even though hardly anyone believes it. haha and i like nadal and footballers too ok!

ok i got nothing much left to say actually. haha yeah thanks natasha, i sure hope that i can finish all my homework on time! wish me luck yeah? and have fun in training!! hope to be back in training with you guys on monday!!

mandy=)

heylo :)



Im very sry for not blogging for like ages dudettes:( Well i couldn't make it for wed's training cause i was invited to attend a bbq at east coast park with the alumni from ccps (my ex-primary school). It was great catching up with some ppl whom i hadn't seen for ages:D OOO and we even flew kites:) Tho our kite was vibrating vigorously (that's a whole other story) and getting pretty out of hand. HAHA. Anyways, i've been trying VERY hard to do my hw. And i must say it's not going all that well. Haha. Dunno bout u guys but i find it really hard to STUDY during our well deserved break. I mean, it's supposed to be HOLIDAYS. Like rest & relaxation. Hiaya:( Training so far has been pretty okay i guess. Just that there were some things and ppl tt we weren't very happy about..Yeah. Tell you more Man when i see ya again.



nEbO was SUPER DUPER. hehe. Im so happy with our team:0 WELL DONE GUYS:D Well Mandz did quite a detailed review of what happened already so i shall not repeat it again and bore you'll with words.



So. SORRY KAT, fro not being allowed to join you for ice-skating:( I really wanted to you know.

Shall we go somewhere else then?



Oh and Mandz!! Dont be too stressed out about finishing hw on time and revising for tests and all! You've still got time:)

Alright i gtg now.

See you'll soon i hope.

hello just a random post. this is because i am like slacking during my bio stem cell workshop when i should be doing research and worksheets. oops! anyway, got not much to tell you guys but i just wanna say im really down...cos maria sharapova lost to dinara safina in the french open 4th round last night! crap. when i watched the first set, she won. but when i went to sleep, then she lost. haix...now i hope ana ivanovic wins the french open or im really gonna be angry/upset. why does maria always do this to emily and i? huh? you tell me! oh wait...but you guys probably dont know what im talking about anyway right? never mind then.

i was just listening to 'swear it again' by westlife. i know it is a really old song but i think old songs=gold songs. well at least some of them. i really like the lyrics they have. like in 'swear it again' it says:


"Swear It Again"

[Shane:]
I wanna know
Who ever told you I was letting go
Of the only joy that I have ever known
Girl, they were lying


Just look around
And all of the people that we used to know
Have just given up, they wanna let it go
But we're still trying

So you should know this love we share was never made to die
I'm glad we're on this one way street just you and I
Just you and I

All:
I'm never gonna say goodbye
Cos I never wanna see you cry
I swore to you my love would remain
And I swear it all over again and I
I'm never gonna treat you bad
Cos I never wanna see you sad
I swore to share your joy and your pain
And I swear it all over again

[Shane:]
All over again

Some people say
That everything has got its place in time
Even the day must give way to the night
But I'm not buying
Cos in your eyes
I see a love that burns eternally
And if you see how beautiful you are to me
You'll know I'm not lying

Sure there'll be times we wanna say goodbye
But even if we try
There are some things in this life won't be denied
Won't be denied

[All:]
I'm never gonna say goodbye
Cos I never wanna see you cry
I swore to you my love would remain
And I swear it all over again and I
I'm never gonna treat you bad
Cos I never wanna see you sad
I swore to share your joy and your pain
And I swear it all over again

[Mark:]
The more I know of you is the more I know I love you
And the more that I'm sure I want you forever and ever more
And the more that you love me, the more that I know
Oh that I'm never gonna let you go
Gotta let you know that I

[All:]
I'm never gonna say goodbye
Cos I never wanna see you cry
I swore to you my love would remain
And I swear it all over again and I
I'm never gonna treat you bad
Cos I never wanna see you sad
I swore to share your joy and your pain
And I swear it all over again

yayees! fantastic song. next time i shall post elliot yamin wait for you alright? oh yeah go check gvv's blog fractured-memories.blogspot.com . her blog post on 3rd june 2008 is fantastic. the one where she blogged about the rjc fashion parade mcs and their hilarious jokes. guranteed to bring a smile to your face.=)

mandy

p.s. rafael nadal and ana ivanovic to win french open! and and, can't wait for euro 2008 to start this friday! ich liebe deustcheland (i love germany...silly prab is there now!) and vamos espanol! (go spain...nadal is from there!)

hey everyone!

haha guess what i am actually blogging in school!! wow cant believe it. yes it's break time during day 1 of my bio stem cell workshop! haha. we were actually doing PBL just now. about organ transplants, after-effects and all that. just learnt a lot of technical terms like antigens, pathogens, etc. but it's a RELAXING type of learning atmostphere, very unlike what we're used to in school. i call that the 'pressure-cooker' learning style man. but we had to write 2 journal entries on today's lesson. haha. ok i can seriously say i just crapped about it. but its a good kind of crapping ok?

and kat, you wanna know more about what happened during THE QUEST on sat? haha i thought natasha would have told you already! anyway i try and type as fast as possible ok? before i kena scolding from the teacher..

we assembled as one huge mass of orange people outside the cathay open plaza. yeah and we got our passbook of locations to travel to. our first location was....*drumrolls* orchard youth scape park. basically, what we did was to piggyback each other like 5 laps up and down maybe 20m or something? yeah i carried lemo(is that how you spell her name nat?) twice, nat's sister also was the piggy twice. natasha attempted to piggy back felicia but they fell down TWICE. haha laughing like crazy baboons too! i think kat would have loved to do this right? eh? and we didnt abandon you...you didnt wanna commit in the first place right?

oh,...and we took the wrong person's passbook. so we had to run back and collect our own passbook. seriously, i think it was the woman in charge there who passed us the wrong book. Pfft! we next headed off to fort canning park. where we so easily clambered up the many many steps leading to the top of fort canning park. note the sarcasm? haha, we were like so tired and out of breath man. this reminds me of bukit timah hill. but anyway, once we reached there we were supposed to do SKIPPING. haha i wished skipping was brought back to training. (hint to kat...although i wont be there for wed training) well, we were horrible actually.we didnt manage to do this task. haix...skipping practice anyone?

we then travelled to tampines mall where we sang for 3 people a song about NTUC. erm...i think two of them were kat's classmates? caroline and charlene if im not wrong. another one was a random person. but yeah we threatened them into giving us 10out of 10 marks! (i was like,' hey i know kathleen ok! your monitress right? hehe...*evil eyes*) then we went to pasir ris park. we ran from the chalets there all the way to the playground. i wouldnt recommend doing that yeah? 3some tip: just take bus 403 from interchange if you wanna go playground!or risk feeling super tired.

over there, we did a variation of caterpillar on the grass. we were quite fast actually. hehe. and nat's sister said she felt like she was going birth! haha....preparation for the inevitable in maybe 7-10 years time? hehe i bet the next time she sees me, she'll smack me into oblivion!! ok then we went to white sands and did our final task. finding 5 ntuc house brands. yup and thats the end of our noble quest. haha. we went to the end point ( downtown east) where we received our goodie bags consisting of vouchers, drinks, food, seventeen mag, notebook,pen ,etc. and nat said we got 27th position. which is not bad actually, considering there were 200++ teams taking part.

as part of entertainment, we were treated to two local bands music. no offence yeah, but the first band was totally WHOA!! the lead singer was screaming like crazy. dont even understand a thing. i suppose its not my type of music. the 2nd band was from CJC ex students so nat's sister and lemo knew them. well, sort of anyway. i thought the the 'angel' song was really nice. after the prize presentation, which we didnt win anything anyway, we went off to our free entry to escape theme park! well it was at about 5 pm already. so i only managed to take three rides. thanks to the silly decision of queueing up for go-kart racing instead. about half an hour and still 40 people in front of us. haix. so i only took the inverter, viking ship and silly turnaround turn around ride (cant remember the name)before i left for home!

alright thats saturday in a nutshell. sorry its so long and uninteresting. i am currently getting pressured into finishing this as quickly as possible. so yeah, you can hear real life action from nat on wed's training then!

mandy=)

i can't concentrate on math):

hahaha SPINELLI!!!!!!!!!!
I MISS YOU GIRL!! And don't worry, I won't miss our date for the world(:
I didn't know you could be so mushy. Must've it picked up from you're new school eh?

And you've reminded me..with all this chaos going on, how i wish you were here with me! You'll be the coolheaded one who's brain would never fail even when mine did, and we'll pull through everything..now, i'm at a lost. ): ): ): ): ):
But you're still here helping me even though you aren't 'here'..
I LOVE YOU(:

heello(:

ahh can somebody tell me what you did on saturday!! I'm feeling very sad you left me out of the team ):):

Eeeee I need to start doing hw. D; and start planning for wed's trg. Ms Chng says I have to plan the whole schedule for that day...nyeh. oh wells I hope it works! She says that she doesn't like the atmosphere of trg, mandz. Says she's not used to the dullness. haha told us that other coaches used to say,"cedar netballers are very cheerful, united girls huh".

But it's different now.
I guess you both don't know what happened yesterday.
I do not want to relive it here cos even I am not sure of the details...
I was heart pained though when i heard it.
This is what has become.

oh well.i will still prefer this position to the one in the classroom though..i think. i am confused..guide me lord,i need Your help.
I guess He has helped me loads already. Haha! By relieving me of my burdens(:(:

Oh! natasha. I've been having dreams lately..and almost all concerns you:D
hahaha! I vaguely remember them now but one of them was on how you did for the saturday contest(: I dreamt you guys got 4th or 5th! but you were sad bcos you didn't get anything):

ahh. I better start on work now.
cheerios!

hey everyone im back again!

erm...well seriously i've just been to the blazers blog and i really do not get what is going on. just one week....and i have missed out on a whole big deal of stuff. fantastic. someone pls enlighten me! argh..

ok so basically what i've been doing for the past 3 days was attending RMUN. it's a pretty freaky and scary experience. i didnt speak up much, but then again, i wasnt from a big country but rather libya, so i think i did rather well anyway. wearing the cedar blazer was weird. but i got used to it. considering the coldness of the lecture theatres we were in, the blazer was so very welcome. the food i have to admit, is absolutely delicious! double thumbs up! i was in GA2 and we're just about the only council who did not pass a resolution. can you believe it? 2 and half days of debating about the status and resolution of kosovo but achieving a stalemate too? haha. amazing.

lots of funny stuff (and scandalous too) happened throughout this RMUN, but im just pretty glad its over. so now i can refocus and concentrate more on my holiday homework. although next week, the whole cycle will start all over again, if not worse, because i committed myself to the bio stem cell workshop which is like, all 5 full days gone. WOW. this is my busiest june hols ever.

and actually i dont know what else to say, considering i have been away from cedar netball civilisation for a week ( but should i say a rather BIG and TRYING perhaps? week for sec 3 netballers) i dont really know whats happening so when i see you guys again, maybe its not too long to play catch up. yeah?

love,
mandy(:

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften
and purify the heart.
~WASHINGTON IRVING

I did it.
I felt the Lord's presence as I talked to you last night.
My hands were shaking.
My body was trembling.
And my soul was bursting to tell you.
You don't know how much i wanted to shout out.
"********!!! THE LORD WANTS TO BE YOUR FRIEND, YOUR SAVIOUR! FOR YOU, HE DIED, DID YOU KNOW THAT?! HE LOVES YOU SO SO SO MUCH.." and so do I. That's why i share with you the most important truth of the world.
I couldn't contain myself.
It was, how you say, exciting.
I never felt like that before..
I don't know when it got to me.
But it was ever so strong last night, that i felt it so very important..

When i saw him last night, I saw pain.
even though we nvr spent much time tgt
even though i knew he knew about the lord..
did he know the Lord?
Then it struck me.
The hurt i felt inside, wasn't for the pains he would endure.
It wasn't for the time he had left or when he would go..
But it was where he would go after leaving, and the comfort he would receive through these times.
my grandfather has cancer.

I prayed that he will come eventually to seek Him.
that he would find peace and joy in Him, for the Lord is our refuge and comforter.
With open arms He'd welcome you like a Father..
oh how i wish this love would never end.

I went to watch Prince Caspian yesterday(:
It was okay i guess..the most interesting parts were the battle ones though i admit they were a bit draggy.
Why couldn't the producers follow the book!! it would have been so much nicer.
even though the story in the book may be short, it captures so much more interest and holds so much more understanding than the 2hr+ movie.
I guess what upset me was that they didn't use some of the powerful speeches from the book.
they did use them for some of it, but the more heartwarming ones they failed to use. D:
there was no emotion in the words or actions i guess from the movie..
and they left out the more impt scenes from the start and the end.
I'm glad i read the book or else i wouldn't have known what was going on in the beginning!

But I guess it was fun going out with my classmates(:

went with sherilyn, amanda and lousy snail:P

"I Miss You"

Gimme a reason
Why I'm feeling so blue
Everytime I close my eyes, all I see is you
Gimme a reason
Why I can't feel my heart
Everytime you leave my side, I just fall apart

And when you're fast asleep, I wonder where you go
Can you tell me, I wanna know

Because I miss you
And this is all I wanna say
I guess I miss you, beautiful
These three words have said it all
You know I miss you
I think about you when you're gone
I guess I miss you, nothing's wrong
I don't need to carry on

Gimme a reason
Why I can't concentrate
The world is turning upside down
Spinning round and round
Gimme a reason
Why I now understand
The beauty and simplicity of everything surrounding me

You got a way of spreading magic everywhere
Anywhere I go, I know you're always there
It sounds ridiculous, but when you leave a room
There's a part of me that just wants to follow you too

It's such a hard life in most of the time
I'm just surviving
That's why I want you to know
In the world where sincerity has lost its meaning
You fill my world with so much hope

You know I miss you
And this all I wanna say
I guess I miss you, beautiful
These three words have said it all

You know I miss you
And this is all I wanna do
I know it doesn't sound too cool
But maybe I'm in love with you

You know I miss you
And this all I wanna say
I guess I miss you, nothing's wrong
I don't need to carry on

I just miss you
Yeah, it's true
I miss you, baby
And when you're walking out that door
I know I miss you
You make me wanna ask for more
I just miss you
Yeah, it's true
I miss you, baby

Hmm this is the first darren hayes song i've heard. His voice is quite nice(: (thanks sher for the song(s) XD
haha I was listening to it in the mrt stn and when i came out into j8 i heard the busker singing the last line of the song..
ahh better go now, or else will be late for trg.

seeyou later!

My God is changeless in his love for me
and he will come and help me.
~PSALM 59:10 TLB