a long update

well, it's been a really long time since i've last updated. i've been rather lazy. heh.

for those who are interested to know, my life is centred round rugby, studies and music right now. i kinda like it this way except for the studying bit of course!

firstly, rugby has been a blast! contact rugby sessions are definitely in full swing and to think the competition is in 3 days. it's pretty scary. but friendlies have gone pretty ok so far. we've had a total of 4 friendlies and i must say, they are totally different from trainings! during trainings, i'm so afraid to bring people down because they are my team mates after all, so it's natural that i feel quite reserved. on the field, however, all that hesitation and fear just dissolves and i become a totally different person. someone who only sees the ball. someone who will do whatever it takes to get that ball and prevent the other team from scoring. it's scary really, but it's fun! in a way, i'm excited about the competition. of course, i'm scared, especially after seeing the freak accident on friday. i hope the 2 rp girls are recovering fine! well, at least it's coming to an end on wednesday! but still, i think i'll miss contact! at least there's still touch to look forward to :)

speaking of touch, the touch training we had last week was horrendous! i can't believe myself! i seemed to have flushed whatever i've learnt down the toilet bowl! it sucks, really. i'm really disappointed with myself and i'm sorry for letting the team down. i really need to and want to work hard to ensure that my skills don't rot any further and improve! competition's at the end of the month. that leaves me about 3 weeks to regain whatever i had before. scary, no? it's alright. must keep positive and we'll pull through together! we must! as for now, we shall be fearless and go go for contact! we can do it girls!

on a lighter note, team bags have arrived! :) yay! it's huge but it's good for training and camps and what not! for now, let's focus on moulding our mouth guards! heh. oh well, pictures!

team bags :)

after friday's friendlies :)

i'm actually quite excited! my parents have become members of modesto! yay! :) discounts galore! :) yay! i love the food there! their special pasta is so good! it's really fresh and smooth! the chicken they have is so juicy and soft too! ahhhh :) their deserts are heavenly! best crepes i've tasted! and the soup! MY GOD! the tomato is thick but not too rich and they're not stingy with the seafood! so much clams, mussels, prawns and squids! wow :) and the coffee there! it's chocalatey and sweet! just the way i like it! wheee :) alright, shall stop before i drool. haha!



i've begun listening to queen again! i think they're the best band ever! their backups are amazing! they enhance the emotions of the song and it's real good! it's a pity Freddie Mercury passed away. my only regret is not being able to see them live in concert. i'd think it would be a blast! arctic monkeys are great too! their guitar solos are awesome! wow. at least my music life is looking up! zee! songs please? :)



alright, that's an update of my life! take care all and have a good week ahead! shall be back for an update after the competition!

3 days away!

preeetttaye?

mama huayshan has a lesson for all of you out there.

nod your heads, all of you out there who are guilty of:
a)complaining about how you're not good looking enough
b)wishing that you could in some way change the way you look

HA.

i'm so going to change your life.

i ate something wrong yesterday, or perhaps i got bitten by some super monstrous insect, but anyway whatever it is that injected venom into my bloodstream,it made me swell up into a human balloon. ugly i tell you, UGGGLLLEEEEHHH.

i went for a run first. and boy did i feel good. until i stepped into the lift and caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. i saw like at least twenty mosquito bite-lookalikes scattered all over my face, like onions in an omelette. can u imagine? they were red, and swollen, and blistered, and sore! i got a fright and headed straight for the toilet as soon as i set foot in the house. i looked like, ugh, some diseased person. then i started wailing and moaning and laughing at the same time, cause it was really quite hilarious. finally i settled on the couch and watched in amusement as more ugly spots popped out of my hands, my legs, my EARS, my TONGUE, my fingers and my TOES. it's like colonies of mosquito bites having insect-world-war-one in every part of my body. it was repulsive. yucks. even my lips were swollen. worst part is i still don't know what gave me the allergic reaction. so i can't avoid having this shrek-makeover again.

anyway i'm back to normal now, just that my upper lip is STILL swollen, and i have no idea when it's going back to normal, or IF it's gonna get back to normal, cause my brother insists that im scarred for life, and that i should be thankful cause i look better now. ha.if im still like this tmr, u guys can see it when i get to school but no laughter please.

SO.

well, the first thing that crossed my mind when i saw my spots were, oh crap i should totally have appreciated how i look normally. as in i don't really know how to say this, but no matter how you feel about yourself, be it you're too flabby, your eyes are too small, you hate your pimpled face, you don't like the way you look, blablabla, be thankful please. cause it's only when you start having angry looking spots erupting out of your body like hyper active volcanoes that you realise how good you actually look. please don't wait till that happens before you appreciate yourself.

so, to all you people out there who think you're God's gift to mankind, i'm sorry for thinking you guys were arrogant egomaniacs before. good for you, way to go, two thumbs up for you!

hoho

the world is at its prettiest between 6 to 7pm. the sky isn't pitch black,nor is it blindingly bright. it's simply amazing how peaceful one feels at this hour. well,that's my opinion at least.

on a lighter note, i just discovered, that i have unknowingly become a student council president nominee! yea! you read it right! i went to the website to vote for the student coucil president and the screen said "sorry candidate can't vote" hmmmm, i must be pretty amazing ah, to be nominated president. please vote for me guys, i promise to scrap that whole no-fried-food thing and i promise that i will close one eye when it comes to gate crashers during music fest :p

dingg

EH! it's mei HWA marianne, not mei hua. -_- ha.

okay first off , my baby was naked in that picture, i assure u she's a thousand times prettier in her pink dress now :P

here are some snippets of my life in the past few days:

"let's take photo! corrine, i feed you, you feed me, come faster, marianne take photo!"
- crazy, no DOWAN! u take yourself!
"eeeyeer why you like that, HUAYSHAN come lets take photo! i feed you come!"
-- errrr okay.
-(stuck in the middle) i'm not taking part in any of this!
--you got no choice ure in the middle!
*camera flash*

"marianne u should try this, it suits you"(holds up ugly orange dress)
-no!! crazy!(slaps dress away) go away!
"suits you really!"(advances aggressively)

"huayshan you look so old in the photos in your blog, you should dress more wildly"
-ha?what's wrong with how i dress? i shy lah. eh wait how to do this question ah?
"nooo ure body not bad wad must flaunt what you got! you got tube or not?"
-gottt... bought it during a sale. ten dollars.
"what colour?'
-brown.
"eeee siao ah?? u should wear make up too"
-crazy ah? what's wrong with my face? i like looking sweet.
"sweet not enough mah, must look hot!"

aren't my days just sooo interesting : D
thanks to corrine, cherlyn,wong and wanyun for providing me the material for this post.

what makes me happy

what makes you happy?

for me, well there's the obvious, food. however, on top of that there's something much deeper -- friends. there're many friends that make me happy but for yesterday, these 4 stole my heart. ever felt that surge of warmth in your heart when you meet someone? for me, this surge came when i met these 4. although we haven't met each other for some time already, we're still able to tell each other stuff, no awkward moments. i think that's one of the most fantastic things about our friendship :) i really thank god for blessing me with friends like them :) i don't know what i'd do without them :) thank you so much chang shan cher cor for a wonderful afternoon which was well spent stuffing ourselves and catching up :)

i think this is a beautiful picture :) we all looks so happy! :)

this is for you huayshan! haha your mei hua

on a last note, happy birthday chang!! :) thanks for being the wonderful person you are and the many many things you've done for me! i love you plenty!!

[for more photos, please visit the link on the right to my photo gallery.]

i've just finished reading mitch albom's new book, for one more day. i reckon it's a fantastic book. it speaks of redemption. sometimes we feel lost, but i realise that our answer is right in front of us. our mothers are the one person who'll always be there for us, loving us unconditionally and always there to stand up for us. it's a shame we neglect her sometimes because mothers deserve so much more for what they've done. that's what this book has taught me.


well, this week'll be quite busy. let's hope i stay focused and happy. take care all and have a wonderful week ahead! :)

mmmph

i hate it when you suddenly realise that while you were within a 10m radius of someone you really wanted see, you missed seeing that person.

i have had only TWO teachers in my entire education, that really deserve to be called teachers, that aren't just random people becoming teachers to make a living. i can't believe i missed seeing one of them today ahh! if only i had taken a closer look at the math competitors today.

MR ERIC TAN
my sec 4 math teacher and class teacher. yeah, often he had his off-moments, but i think it's only cause he cared too much for us. I'ld never ever forget the night when he and ms teo listened patiently to us during self-awareness camp! i really enjoyed his lessons in school cause he always managed to infuse just the right amount of work with the right amount of fun. and when prelims drew near, i remember having night remedials every night, and we would all(THE ENTIRE CLASS) willingly stay back and those lessons were both useful and fun. the whole class really stayed back. willingly. no complaints. that's how good he was. he boosted my math grades from the low Bs to the high As in half a year. i remember how immersed i was in everything he taught. i never went out of his class feeling confused. i went out feeling more secure.he was the best math and class teacher i have ever had. he's the reason why i'm in vj today.

MR JAMES HO
ooh my cute lit teacher! all of us are just crazy about him please. it's been only 4 months but i already worship the ground he walks on. besides being an exact replicate of the laughing buddha, he actually makes me dread the end of his lessons,can u believe that. thursday lessons end at 2.30, and i often wish that the clock would go slower. he knows everything, oh man, from all the ancient greek mythology to random facts like all the kings and all their hanky-panky. you can really see that twinkle in his eyes when he teaches. and you can't help being hooked onto every single word he says. everything he says is useful and insightful, and i couldn't ask for a better lit teacher.

i also have teachers that make my blood pressure rise to an alarming level and i wish they would just resign if they can't find it within themselves to be passionate about imparting their knowledge onto us. bio,gp and math would be so much more stimulating if only i had different teachers.i get so mad sometimes when they don't teach well and are unaware of it. teachers like mr tan and mr ho are so, so rare. they are the kinds that ensure u leave their lessons feeling satisfied and well, smarter.they are the ones with that spark in them when they start talking.

i really dislike bio,math,and gp tutorials. i get so angry, and when i get angry, i feel hot, and i don't like that cause the weather is so hot already. ah. i'll never forget those two teachers though. when i'm married and working, i'll visit them and bring along some goodies like paus and chwee kueh for them. i promise:)

moohoo

moooo, fellow earthlings!

one thing to anticipate: the arrival of my baby yuen mei hwa!! i'll take a photo of her when i get her this saturday and post it here. i shall also try to buy some clothes for mei hwa on saturday. wondering who mei hwa is? wait and see :p

newsflash: huay shan now reads the newspapers every night! i want to talk about the stuff about emo-teens. seems like adults, namely our parents are racking their brains over our emo behaviour. WAHA so FUNNNEHH man. when i read the article i was like picturing some old ah pek parent with huge thick glasses peering suspiciously at a my chemical romance cd. though i got to admit those mascara-model-wannabes do look scary when they're gallavanting about swinging microphones and guitars all over the place, hollering undecipherable lyrics. as you all know, huay shan digs POP. i have hilary duff,lindsay lohan, ashlee simpson,bsb,westlife,busted, mcfly, click five, and m2m songs. feel free to ask me for songs! contrary to popular belief, HILARY DUFF IS PRETTTAYYE GOOD. anwyay, back to emo-teens.

first off i think kurt cobain really made a huge mistake in ending his life. suicide is a NO-NO. i know everyone keeps threatening to kill themselves when the silliest things happen, like how ruiyi would start plotting ways to end her life when she sees a missed call from mr tan, MWAHA. but to really end ure life. it takes guts man. i read abt a man who wanted to drown himself, then changed his mind and swam out cause he needed to pee. by the time he was done, he decided to continue living. crazy man. and i marvel at the whole hype over the emo fad. man, i think i myself am affected than it. i mean, cmon. scroll down a bit and ull see evidence of huayshan being emo, or rather being an emobo(short for emotional bimbo). but being emo is damn inevitable lah! rain+darkness+solitude=emo! i think emo-ing brings no harm. in fact it's good, as it CLEANSES THE SOUL. trust me if i had kept everything in me for 18 years, i'ld be pregnant with emotions right now. 18yrs pregnant. man that must hurt real bad. i'ld look like balloon woman. anyway i keep going off tangent. what i meant to say was, hrmpphh, emo-ing is good. so continue to emo, everyboDEH! emo awayyyy.

silly post ah but im trying to kill time while my roommate uses the toilet. okay i shall go clean up now. BYE!

i'm back

well, it's been a really long while since i've last posted! well, that's because my computer had a virus and it was sent away for repair. now, i'm back to civilisation! :)

well, contact rugby training has been quite fun, but i must admit i am scared of tackling! all the talk about dislocating your shoulder once the tackle is made wrongly, has definitely got me scared. but contact is definitely fun with all the new drills :) and i think this will improve my fitness since the pt is killer! oh well, it's good to have a new experience once in a while :)

i've recently made a new discovery! cafe iguana has so much to offer! i'm so intrigued by the smoked tomato soup! too bad i haven't had the chance to try it yet but it certainly sounds interesting!! :) someone please take me there!! i've been pretty happy since yesterday! reason being i finally bought a tub of dublin mudslide! it's such a difficult flavour to find!! i love that flavour! there's just something about it that makes it so delicious and so different from all the other flavours! it's not too rich and yet, it satisfies your tastebuds all the same :) definitely highly recommended for euphoria :) :) oh my, this weekend has been absolutely fantastic! (in terms of food, that is) :) wow. singapore is really a food paradise! :)

alright, it's time to return to my much dreaded econs essay. i really hope i survive this week! especially the presentation on tuesday! sigh. yet another week of the hectic term. thank god for food and music! check out david crowder band's forever and ever and butch walker's mixtape, real good music aside from fall out boy's infinity on high :) what would i do without these? have a good week all!