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Past. Present. Future

Monday, January 30, 2006

first dae back

first dae was.... afternoon went to visit da jiu’s house, chatted wif cousins until abt 4, then sae bye bye to them father send me to katong holy family to rehearse for chinese new yr mass. this yr got alot of songs. by the time reach there abt 430+ n shortly after aunty n sean came. sean sit sit listen awhile then went to sacristy to prepare his stuff as altar boy. mass was scheduled to start at 6, but i had to check n double check all my chord sequences for all the songs wif her, n choirmaster last minute made some change of keys, so basically despite going so early, we didn’t have time to rehearse much, n so when the time came to play entrance hymm at 6, we were all keeping our fingers crossed.

surprisingly hor, everything went beautifully n the mass was really enjoyable, for once. this time, there was not a single glitch. personally, i’m quite proud of myself n my playing. n by now ar, already seasoned fit, so i don’t feel nervous anymore

both piano n organ played as one n the choir for once became dam enthu. everybody was unbeat. they sang the post-communion hymm, qian nian wan nian, extremely well n their vocals really soared. n for once i actually can believe that the lao tus choir is actually better than nj’s but well, i’m digressing. thar post-communion hymm is probably the most powerfully enduring n memorable hymms we ever performed. i at least, will remember it for long long time to come. i still hear echoes of it in my head.

this year’s chinese new year mass is the most memorable one i ever participated in, if not the best.

after mass had dinner at baiduri. me n sean both wore exactly the same outfit todae. cute. then me n sean both got high trying to confuse shu-en thru sms. WHUAHAHAHA dam funny la. haha. haha.

first dae was.................fun. was gd stuff. just gets better n better every yr. later after lunch will visit san jiu’s house, probably’ll b there til dinner.

alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 8:52 AM 

Saturday, January 28, 2006

happy cny! gongxi gongxi

haha well happy chinese new year to all. let us enjoy this short holidae song song while we still can.

yesterdae's cny celebration at nj was i think better than last yrs, there's a better atmosphere somehow, n we all had a gd laugh when the lion in lion dance spewed some nonsense things out of the blue on stage. must have choked on yesterdae's dinner. overall, concert was ok, though i was quite dissappointed wif co n choir. only gd item was chinese dance....n maybe nj superstar.

this year cjc end cny celebrations at 1, so chances r that most won't b goin back to sji, which was y the josephians of 05ao3 decided to go for class outing instead. it was fun la...n the girls were their lively selves as usual. it was lunch at suntec, then bowling at marina square superbowl n a movie. n i regretted not joining qing lun and frois for pool afterthat coz when i went home, i seriously felt like doing nothing at all. in the end, go home ended up practising the songs for chinese new yr mass. was a gd n happy dae la, generally.

n todae was novena wif sean n my godparents as usual, then go for lunch at suntec.. where after that i bought this dam cool red shirt to wear for second dae of cny. looks ex but i got it at a super super discounted price...$18. after that go home laze around, sleep, then evening wake up for reunion dinner..

n for the first dae, i shall stick to my tradition of wearing The traditional blue mandarin outfit....u noe the one wif the long n baggy sleeves? ya once again looks ex, but i got it for a super zai price from sji. sean also will b wearing same thing as me on the same dae so we'll look like twins haha.

its funny, but the only thing i'm looking forward to this new yr is playing for cny mass...pray hard for no screw ups...

alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 11:14 AM 

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

its another perfect day, another perfect day

i’m already in cny mood already. i have declared this week serious slacking week. ya so despite my dazzling performance in mon’s econs test, todae’s econs class retest was a total flunk...ok la coz i wasn’t concentrating so i got all my calculations wrong.

our classroom tb11 looks simply terrific. n we even have bookshelves, n the most dazzling is the noticeboard at the back wif all the colour n our class baby photos n class event photos (mostly taken last year). it feels gd learning in such a warm, welcoming n cosy environment. n its very satisfying for me, considering the fact that ahem, i humbly proclaim that i was the ic for this operation. ya but that does not mean that i deserve all the credit. i think the girls, despite my initial misgivings, did a very very very gd job of the backboard. their vision which they brought to reality really surpassed my wildest expectations n wildest dreams. the feeling u get when u step into the classroom is like...wow.

one of these daes i shall take some pics of our classroom n post them up here.

todae had as usual one of those combo free periods. imagine 2 periods n a lunch break wif absofuckinglutely nothing to do. so i took the opp to chat wif rouyin abt our pri sch, reminiscing abt those daes when we were so small, innocent n had so much fun. (well we still have fun now, but thats besides the pt) suddenly all those memories come back. in fact, i’ve never actually sat down n tried to remember wad i did in pri sch. all that nonsense of purposely staying back in classroom wif my 2 buddies weijie n zuotong during recess just for the fun of it, n then playing hide n seek wif prefects who tried to chase us out, those really fierce n strict teachers, those multi-purpose teachers that teach everything under the sun except for chinese, seeing ms chee sway n conduct like a beansprout during morning assembly...i even laughed when rouyin suddenly mentioned abt the thing where the class monitor have to write on the board the names of pple who were talking during lessons, n if u talk twice monitor will put a times 2 on ur name n u’ll plead for clemency wif the monitor n so on. now it all seems so funny la. n this last memory almost slipped of the edge of my mind, until rouyin mentioned it.

it was fun talking abt pri sch. the first time i actually cross-talked wif someone who as shared the same experiences in rulang as me. looking back i feel deep affection for rulang. n somehow, it feels different thinking abt ur pri sch...n suddenly when u think of sji, u get another very different set of emotion.

thats me in pri 2. rouyin’s in the back row. i’ll let u guess where i stand, sdn’t b too hard ba. my face hasn’t changed much.


when we were small

alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 7:09 PM 

Sunday, January 22, 2006

-+the world as i noe it is changing+-

yesterdae as usual went for the saturdae excursion wif sean. met him n his mother at 1030 for novena then we went for long lunch at src. n as usual me n sean chit chat chit chat...until 3. there must haf been a trillion conversions we had n i cannot think of any stuff we’ve not touched on. yesterdae talk talk...n dong noe how talk until bout our baptism name. oh ya if u all dong noe, my baptism name is john.

the name alvin’s kinda like an ‘official’ name that my parents gave me. according to them, alvin is not a christian name, coz unlike many other names which haf names that have their origins stemming from bible characters or famous saints, alvin means in old english, “elf-friend”.

todae morning as usual. church, then lunch at boon lay wif mother. father not in s’pore, went kl. rest of the dae was napping n in the waking hrs, translating the scores for the coming chinese new yr mass from the numbers form to the tau gay form. very tedious. but this kinda thing has to b done. i just don’t feel safe playing straight from the number’s version...not used to it still. but i have to sae this yr’s hymms r quite nice, n i’m determined to to my best n make the music component of the mass the best yet. i hope.

father tou, the only celebrant for chinese mass, is leaving holy family for another parish. so this yr’s cny’s mass will b the last one we’ll have wif him, this chinese mass thing which has been going on for yrs will probably b discontinued after father tou leaves coz the other priests there cannot do mandarin. sad huh. but anyways, since this chinese new year’s mass will b the last chinese mass in holy family, i’m determined to do my utmost best to give father tou n the chinese mass itself the sendoff it deserves. make it a memorable experience for the chinese-speaking catholic community that attends this chinese mass.

alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 10:29 PM 

Saturday, January 21, 2006

morning passages

its been a long while since we said j-o-s-e-p-h-s together as a whole cohort. i remember, every sch celebration, there will always bound to b a spontaneous outburst of j-o-s-e-p-h-s. be it renaisance, national day, founders day....n even graduation. ya....graduation n farewell dae was our last j-o-s-e-p-h-s cheer. such was the sense of affinity we felt for our alma mater. even now, i seem to talk as if i’m still i’m wearing the while collar, long pants n the green striped tie. sighz.

yesterdae the aep pple/artclub wadever u want organized the art club orientation for the j1s. as usual, like any other art club activity, it was carried out very disorganized n messy. i as a member saw all these n made no effort to do anything to change this so i shall not criticise it any further. but i seriously think huan gia’s got to b more sensitive to other pple. i think she had that dae, unintentionally insulted n put off some of the j1s from ever attending art club again. i won’t go into examples. it doesn’t change anything. n as usual, she was bossing pple around again. personally i cannot affirm that i can do a better job than her so i wipe my hands n take orders. but overall, i wd still sae that the camp went ok, one reason coz the j1s were very sporty n enthu in participating in the games. so we had some laughs also...

it made me finally appreciate how difficult it was to organize a proper camp. n i give kudos to the pple who organized LLTC 3 yrs back. its probably the most well-executed n emotionally-charged camp i’ve attended, ever.

its me feeling all nostalgic again. u never treasure the things u have until u’ve lost them.

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Look at this photograph
Everytime I do it makes me laugh
How did our eyes get so red
And what the hell is on Joey's head..
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alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 8:35 AM 

Thursday, January 19, 2006

-resolution-

forget abt what i said last yr. this year, i’ve made a mental resolve to b a committed ART CLUB member, from this dae forth. yes wad a surprise u all might sae, n u all might also sae ahya after this is all rhetoric. he’ll grow out of it. sae all u like but listen. this guy’s serious. i’ll b honest. i’ve been looking around n thinking, n i realized that everybody IS committed to a cca, whether i like it or not. jon is obviously very welcome in college pub, lun actually goes for his chess, gloria goes for soccer training, n so on...kexin n wang zi this type no comment. so i haf to make sure that i turn up 4 art club meetings from now on. sacrifice abit of time....coz it dawned on me. its scary not having a cca at graduation. u noe u get this strange feeling.....

so there. u’ll see my face at every art club meeting from now on. this i promise.

todae finally had my consultation wif mr lee. well i burnt the images of my solo exhibition paintings for him, n so we had a little chat. mr lee is a very dedicated, hardworking, committed teacher who wants to inspire his students to look at the world n say. hey, i can change the world.

alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 9:26 PM 

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

a wednesdae afternoon post

rain again....supposed to go swimming todae after sch but since like that cannot go. yesterdae ran TWELVE rounds for pe.....so ran wif qing lun...after a while we started pacing one another n was keeeping up wif each others momentum. n it feels gd overtaking those girls esp that GLORIA....haha wooty woot. so 12 rounds actually not that bad la.

these daes its been slacking n slacking in terms of sch work. i swear i’m going to die in integration. actually died already le. n next week got econs test.....haiz. just don’t feel like mugging these daes...oh n yesterdae i finally completed puzo’s The Sicilian. whoa i have to sae it one of the best stories i’ve heard of all time. n there r many poetic n memorable moments in the book that form concrete images in ur mind, as though u actually saw it... very inspiring...for all u noe it produce another 20k painting. huahua.

n todae was another one of those birfdae celebrations the girls in our class just love celebrating. as usual they pass round those cards where u have to like those gdwill messages inside.. huiyi even baked an oreo cheesecake just 4 this....whoa so thoughtful of her n the cake was very gd....n just in case i end up like another wang zi case, i shall take back my comment that the cheesecake looked like sleeveless koh’s armpit...insensitive of me. so no offence. no hard feelings.

n reading cj's post on the night bus, i haf to agree wif him. ya its therapeutic... i had a similar experience last december when we were traveling tour bus crossing from spain to portugal. it was already night, u look out, n everything is black there r even no streetlamps along the highway. only the moon n the stars.

n experience of a lifetime. the spain trip had many once-in-a-lifetime firsts for me. ..... n listening to bon jovi in the tour bus n seeing those huge mountains n the wide rustic landscape whizz slowly past is way cool.

alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 5:35 PM 

Monday, January 16, 2006

A Good monday

yes todae’s mondae’s wad i considered relatively ok or relac 4 a normal sch dae. ok la all mondaes on my timetable r quite relac. only impt thing is econs lecture. no maths but got that malay history teacher. so how? shiok la. then todae all chinese ao pplez haf to go chinatown or cow car water for chinese immersion (i think). they sae go then go lor. actually the trip not too bad. i quite enjoy. just didn’t catch any ball that chinese teacher was saying. chinese teacher not bad leh...buy us all the bing tang hu lu (ice sweet gourd). not bad leh. my first time eating it. sua ku right? anyways its preserved plum (in china they sell wif iced sugar so its supposed to b crispy on the outside becoz of the ice on the outside, n soft in the inside of the plum)...its a very unique taste...abit like sweet cherry. n teacher also buy 4 us the muah chee. so tummy feel shiok shiok. overall the chinatown experience was gd. gd stuffz. :)

n todae while talking to gilbert lee awhile then he ask me whether i’m 100% singaporean. i sae of course la. (its like asking the uncle at the coffee shop whether coffee shop can see chio bu or not. same thing la.) then mr gilbert lee sae really meh?..like i dong sound local leh... more like INDONESIAN. ahyo. indonesian leh. i’ve decided to take this as a complement. song bo INDONESIAN. actually gilbert lee’s not alone....apriyanto b4 got ask me whether i’m peranakan. this boy has an exotic voice. its like telling a filipino maid she look like ms venezuela.

ok bad example. ignore the last analogy. hope tmw will b as slack as todae...n tmw will b meeting art teacher mr lee (another mr lee. different from gilbert lee. gilbert lee’s my civic tutor) regarding my A level art coursework. Hmmm....WELL. haven done any thinking for coursework yet so i’ll just show him the work i’ve done so far, that is, the development of ideas for my solo exhibition paintings. n i’m quite sure of doing painting for a level art (yes we can choose to do anything ranging from sculpture to installation art to graphic design.) so perhaps after seeing my stuff he’ll b able to give some comments n steer me into discovering exactly what i’ll b looking for. looking forward to it.

i’m currently re-reading mario puzo’s The Sicilian. a masterpiece worthy to b a literary classic. the plot is superb yet complex n puzo does a superfluous job in giving atmosphere to the descriptives. thruout the book there’s this rustic, village countryside, timeless air to it n it adds rigour to the already superb narratives. he’s also a master at giving his characters depth....so much so that u seem to delve into the psyche of the various pple in the epic, n u find urself anticipating wad the pple wd do next. n u find urself telling urself, “no so-n-so won’t do this. its not like him, he’s more likely to....” n puzo engages u. there’s abit of everything in this book. romance, history, action, treachery....a very inspiring book. one of the better novels i’ve read. mario puzo’s also the author to another famous book called the Godfather. this one i’m sure u all have heard this one. but somehow i like The Sicilian better.

alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 9:00 PM 

Sunday, January 15, 2006

useless post. y am i posting this anyway?

what an unproductive weekend. probably coz i just dong feel like doing anything at all. watch tv also dowan. do hw also dowan. do drawing also dowan. read book also dowan. so wad to do? sleep lor. i think its probably coz this week was long, buzy, so weekend come just feel like wasting away.

yesterdae went to novena wif sean. it was packed as usual so we ended up standing at the sides....gives a new perspective of the goings on.. ur eyes have a wander around so u don’t get bored. then after that went to jalan besar to see his father’s new concept store. some of u MIGHT have seen it. there was this huge ad on the home newspaper...half a page...megaman concept store. the man in the ad (cannot miss it. there’s only one face in that ad) is his father lor. n i’m not jk. megaman’s the real name.... n if ur wondering, megaman’s doing energy saving bulbs.

after that laze around the store. went opposite to eat a very very tock gong wanton noodle. then after sean took me on a personal tour of his father’s store, laze around more...n help his mother pack up some of the flowers.....then had lunch at shenton way down there wif his parents. lunch was bar gut teh....woah super tock gong. n the soup was soo tasty that i didn’t believe that they didn’t put any msg inside. well after that didn’t feel thirsty so probably that tasty soup was really that tasty. the seller didn’t cheat our feelings haha.

went to his home help him do up some stuff then left at abt 5......... ya la nothing special abt yesterdae....or todae. this post is just taking up space.

alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 6:28 PM 

Thursday, January 12, 2006

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNG day

haiyo wad a long long day. the dae shd have ended at double bp, but to my horror no...it was only still 2. there was still maths....n art. maths teacher really give us so much wk to do la. shes supposed to go thru integration tutorial tmw already....n i still dong noe head or tail of wads goin on in maths. haiz...n feeling too tired to revise todae.

art lesson was surprisingly gd. all we did was watch movie song bo. its a documentary on mr lee’s ou xiang, a famous art-maker called bill viola. he’s very pro at making these thought-provoking video sequences n installations, n he’s quite inspiring. at least i felt i learnt something.

u noe i always asked myself wad distinguishes great art of the masters from just art done by a student. i always told myself that art is subjective so there’s no real difference in art produced by a pro when compared to some wadever joker. then it took me some while to realize that there is a difference. theres a way to tell bet a work of a student n that of a mature artist. i think my this theory applies to painting, at least. subject matter or technique of the painting doesn’t matter. what matters, is the artist’s ability to arrest n engage the viewer. one glance n the person will sae, hey this shit is not superficial. n he’s interested to identify the unspoken quality the work n his emotions when seeing it. now that maketh a masterpiece.

below is a detail of one of my fav paintings. the artist is this spanish painter called el greco.

el greco:El Espolio


wa lau really beginning to sound like senile old man. probably a result of seeing too much of that grey toot. n kudos to the rain la. dong noe where can get so much rain one...raining continuous for like the whole day already la. now outside it seems to have stopped awhile but probably will start raining again later tonight. feel like sleeping.

alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 7:36 PM 

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

lucky no sch todae

Yesterdae was so tired all I thought abt was listen to music n sleep. So was lying on bed n listening to spiderman n pirates of e caribbean soundtrack………then dong noe how, go dreamland le. Zzzzzz.

Sch yesterdae was basically crap. Ok la econs was quite ok, an improvement from seeing koh’s voice. N for the first time I cd catch wad was goin on. Gilbert lee kept on pestering abt my sch batch which I forgot to wear again. Then gp. ahyo somebodie pls tell me how the hell COLLAGE has anything to do wif that stupidmotherfuckeduppieceofshit known as gp? was more like art lesson la. waste my time.

history under that clever malay teacher wad can i sae? she’s probably in hari raya mode since weekend. her lesson was supposed to give us some kind of overview but at the end i catch no ball. since when i catch any of her ball anyway? oh n she announced that she’ll b organizing a trip on her own accord to amsterdam in june. one week. anybody interested can join. i’m not going. of all the major capitals in europe, amsterdam’s one of the most EXPENSIVE . BORING n UNORIGINAL. no i haven’t been amsterdam yet but december in my spain trip, we transited at amsterdam airport on the way to madrid n we had some time to shop around for 8 hrs as our flight was delayed. (is not sq so wad du u expect) my general impression of amsterdam was that it was the s’pore of europe. prosperous, safe, but there’s a plastic feel to everything, as though culture only serves touristic purposes. there’s no authentic feel to it. n the architecture there’s not really fantastic. n the language sounds so horrible. worse than german la. in fact german sounds really gd compared to dutch......well shan’t continue offending pple anymore. garmen sae u talk nonsense can go jail one.

art under mr lee was ok. its a normal art lesson minus the painful crap u haf to endure while waiting for chia to go round n round n round n round the point. but lessons still end late...haiz but mr lee also did not plan for such disgusting extensions of lesson hrs so i won’t blame him.

n i just realized that girls r very very particular when it comes to deco. i just don’t get it. i shan’t venture into this territory just in case i end up like wang zi.

i’ve insulted alot of pple todae. must b my mood. morning crankiness.

alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 8:47 AM 

Saturday, January 07, 2006

lazy saturdae also

Lazy lazy lazy Saturday. Parents said no to going out wif sean sae must stay at home n rest so whole dae was spent slacking away. Of not slacking then is sleeping. Kuenny came over to our house todae to see the paintings. Came wif her daughter who is super hyper n run around the house everywhere …so much energy. So kuenny gave generally gd comments although she did pick on a few details….ah ya but now I feel so anti-art that I’m not goin to touch my paintings anymore la….sch start already n my hands r starting to get full. So no. I’m not making any amendments. After all art IS subjective. For my first painting 4 eg, chia picked on the moon, but she didn’t have any probs wif it. N those details that she pointed out disturbed her weren’t very major areas so….can close one eye bah.

Whole afternoon was spent reading harry potter order of the phoenix. Still working my way thru it. Gd story n its interesting how the author manages to keep the reader perpetually interested throughout, especially in sections where the plot slows down.

N yesterdae evening finally got the opportunity to watch les miserables the musical (the 25th anniversary version, which is said to be the best production so far). my copy’s still on the obiang dua liap laser disc format which used to b very happening in times of old…. Still in gd condition anyway. It totally changed my perception of broadway musical. Watched the full thing at one sitting..abt 2 ½ hr long. But when u get to the end, u can’t believed u actually sat on the sofa watching for so long. the show was spectacular la. The singers were top class. Everything was delivered just right. n for the first time, I actually paid attention to the co-ordination bet the orchestra n the singers, something which I had always took 4 granted til I started playing in church then I realized how difficult it was to get the co-ordination right while making sure that u dong compromise on the musical expression. N I have to say the orchestra did an excellent job in balancing the 2.

The whole musical was gd from beginning to end. I cdn’t find any section which was musically weak or poorly pulled off. But some highlights of the musical r “I dreamed a dream”, “who am I?”, “castle on a cloud”, “master of the house”, the most famous being “Do u hear the pple sing?”

Personally, I was really moved by “on my own”, sang by lea salonga playing eponine. Yes. Not ashamed to say that. I rarely ever shed tears but on hearing her this one really left me wif red eyes. Another excellent musical number is “Stars” sang by Philip quest playing javert, a policeman. Unbelievable power in that song. Michael ball playing marius also did a superfluous rendition of “empty chairs n empty tables”. His voice alone ar, can put pple like tao tse n michael buble to shame. Yes he is that gd.

Les miserables is 100 times the power of any Andrew Lloyd webber musical. Phantom of the opera not excluded. N I feel tempted to watch it again.

alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 9:43 PM 

Friday, January 06, 2006

lazy but satisfying dae

2 daes of staying at home can b alittle boring. Just alittle. N 2 more daes await. The weekend is coming. Yesterdae has been sleeping most of the dae, n doing numerical sols in my waking hrs. todae was feeling better but still sian to go to sch. So stay at home n holidae. Still woke up early though. Abt 7+ n parents haven gone to work yet. surprisingly they didn’t kick up a fuss of me not going todae altho I was feeling better n the fever completely no more. last night when I told them that I wasn’t going to sch todae, they just said ok. just like that. This is new la!

This whole morning was trying to do that history holidae essay. Probably the only productive thing I did todae related to hw. But I don’t feel guilty abt it. History took up the whole morning n alittle of the afternoon. Song bo. This is the longest I ever spent on planning ANY history essay ever. Ok la question was also quite challenging. So had to read n re-read the lecture notes again n again to squeeze their tits dry of all relevant gd stuff. N didn’t regret spending so much time on it. Crisis of c’nism in china’s probably one of the most interesting topics for me. n no its not coz I’m a fan of mao or whatever. I’ve almost grown out of my mao obsession anyway. But ar spend so much time on this essay ar…its SEVEN pages long by the way ar,….n still fail or just get 16, 17 region I can go n suck my tits.

So after that sense of satisfaction. Lynette lim can read my essay until her tits go dry. The longer she takes to mark our essays, the less hw they can throw at us. So clever right? ;> ok la we never get much hw for history also anyway…its like 1 essay one term?

Felt groggy after that so sleep like a pig again. Then woke up n remembered hey its been a while since I’ve seen my first sketchbook so took it out of my cupboard, on music n slowly sing shang. After that can feel inspired somemore…wha lau i really ar dong noe wad to say to myself. See my own past drawings n can get inspired somemore…My drawing must b quite zai. i'm inspiring myself!

Feeling much better. But staying at home all dae is so sian. Now I noe how it feels like for pple who spent their entire hols wif absofuckinglutely nothing to do. I must need to make myself feel useful. will try to get out of the house tmw, meet up wif sean 4 lunch…if my parents permit.

alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 6:59 PM 

Thursday, January 05, 2006

sickness

Fell sick. High fever, headache n cough n flu. Combo la. first time I really fell sick in a very very long time. ya la so now u noe all the times I was absent for the whole of jc1 was me ponning sch. Moral of the story, u get to hear a lot of confessions on my blog. If koh reads my blog, I’ll b a piece of dead shit, esp if she reads the entry…oh nvm.

So todae went to see doctor. He said cause was my lungs. Sae I got weak lungs n its hereditary. He said I probably been having cough for quite some time but its just that yesterdae my condition got worse, n that’s when the fever and all his best friends come in n have a big party. N he gave me 2 daes mc……..thinking of not going tmw also so I got solid 4 dae holidae. Song bo. September holidae like that….but see what my parents sae first. n I have a feeling my mum is going to strongly object. Will try my best to persuade them.

Here at home, everything flows at a slower pace compared to sch. Like countryside retreat like that. N feels gd skipping art.

alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 4:16 PM 

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

first dae back

how sian is it to see that stupid grey piece of shit again? ok la this sianess may partly have arisen from the bleak fact that holidaes r over n i have to start my engine, i.e do holiday hw, or at least those i have to pass up to teacher.

today was slack slack slack.................n slack. went for our first gp lesson n realized that our gp teacher's dam cocked up. looks like some lousy, soft teacher that also cannot teach. ok la i confess to ponning maths tutorial by leaving sch at 1+...but when the opportunity comes to ponn lessons must gan gan lai, or it'll never come again, especially when art lessons start, sch hours will drag to the graveyard shift.

but gilbert lee's solid. he's our new econs tutor and ct. how lucky we r to have him. he says he always get the lousiest classes for econs, n happened we were the lousiest so ya we got him. a blessing in disguise.... n stupid koh is still stuck wif ct-ing jc 1. kerna retained haha HAHA.

n todae's ade's last few days in nj as she's going to temasek poly to learn visual communications. i wish her all the best in her decision n also that she'll strive for greater heights in her art. see i'm so nice :)

n i found out that chia's went to RJ to start the art programme there. this rj suck all our gd teachers....well not all's lost. we still have mr lee who's equally gd n nice....n w/o chia maybe our lessons will end alittle earlier as our art teachers that stayed in nj r not as long-wionded as chia n they go straight to the point.

lazy to start holiday hw...especially since i found out that MATHS GOT ALOT TO DO.

alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 6:28 PM 

Monday, January 02, 2006

welcome 2006!

I’m back. Happy new year to all, although this is coming alittle too late.

I had a wonderful new year celebration at baiduri, though I think last year’s countdown was alittle more lively, this year’s gathering was equally gd. We and cousins all played taboo, formed into two teams, sji and ij, and of course sji won la. But I acknowledge the girls were gd too…see this is sportsmanship. Winning gracefully :)

Then stayed the night at sean’s house again. Played monopoly til 2am first. the s’pore version. Nao hia I lose until like siao. He bought over the most expensive property, u noe the one wif the blue bars…in the s’pore version they’re called asian civilizations museum and parliament house. n he build like 3 houses on each somemore. Everytime u step on it u pay like 3000 over..i stepped on it 3 times suay suay first 2 still survive, mortgaged half of my property the last one was killer, n altho still got chance to survive, I declare myself the loser b4 I die a slow painful death n have nightmares after that…..imagine losing ur first game on new yrs dae…dam bu ji li right? Ya 2006’s goin to b tough. Painful, stressful..just hell.

Sunday woke up at 8 then both of us changed n went to mass at olps. Wha lau Sunday whole dae rain. The signs r all there man. 2006’s goin to b bad…but I shd b more optimistic. If I keep on saying bad that it will really b bad. So anyway…olps was very very nice. the design and the mass and all is sui sui tock gong. So much nicer than holy family. Even I also heard that the parish priests there r very warm n friendly….ya cd tell.

After that went next door there (but still at siglap) to eat the mee pok wif sean and aunty justina and uncle gerard . Dam solid. The kick is in the chilli and the chilli’s hot. Really hot. But very gd stuff. Pleasurable pain. Then went suntec to buy food like the pie and the ice cream for later.

After that went back, rehearsed the baptism songs and me n sean and all his relatives were off for the baptism. N just outside holy family there saw lynette lim. What a surprise. Ahya but baptism goin to start soon and I need to rehearse the songs so didn’t bother talking to her.

The baptism was ok in general. though I think I screwed up my playing…though everybody said that it was gd/not bad/ok. but they said I cdn’t hear my own playing..so must b a sign that the co-ordination was bad….from my side cdn’t hear them sing anyway. So generally, musically speaking it was bad.

Then went back sean’s grandparent’s place ate abit of their bee hoon, sit around awhile, chat wif sean’s cousins….the brownie that sean’s aunty made was solid stuff…n me n charmaine got really engrossed in talking abt spain…think she got a better impression of me after that. N sean’s grandpa even gave me hongbao….thank u so much. Really appreciate it. Well I appreciate their company too.

After that daddy came to pick me up from baiduri there while stopping over at sean’s place to grab my stuff, n we were off to dinner at nearby the joo heng tze char stall there. Waited quite long…apparently they extend and extend their number of tables until the cook cannot cope. But eventually when the food came, the wait was worth it. Excellent food. Especially the tau hu. Came back dam tired….but bathe already didn’t feel so bad…slept at 11+

N today was lazing around. Re-watched pirates of the Caribbean. Excellent show. Soundtrack’s awesome. The plot’s gd too. Really enjoyed it. First time I saw it I felt it wasn’t as nice. my taste probably has improved. Also was doing the write-ups for solo exhibition catalogue. finished it already. n scanning in some of the remaining sketches from my sketchbook to include in the catalogue

So solo exhibition preparation is truly complete after I tied up all these loose ends. All that remains is burn them into cd and pass to uob.

N holiday hw is still untouched….dam la so fast sch reopen already. And our new ct sent us a mail telling us the timetable for tmw n that we must prepare for lectures “which go at breakneck speed”….the thought of it is dam sian la. Hope they at least relax a while for just the first week to give me time to complete my holiday hw. I dong even noe what hw we have to do lar. How jia lat is that. Nvm tmw go to sch n ask jon.

Off to pack my back and sleep. Night night.

alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 11:19 PM