Rachel Quek

Nanyang so far!!!:)

2005-07-01T02:18:00.000-07:00

i havent been posting about the past few days in nanyang but it was good there was the maths challenge where i got lost and even at popular, jia ying and a few friends who saw me just said hi (acually only Chen Yi tough they all saw me) and then ran off saying to themselves" Aiyah!, going to be late already" but never mind they dint go with me.then i asked many ppl where it was but still couldnt find it because it was outside the builing of the scihool but in school compunds so i went round and round for a long time till i met jing jing...the good girl who brought mew to the assembling place...she even skipped her CCa after telling her instructor and then went with me to find them as we weretoo late and they had already left around the school...we searhed and finally after a while decided to stop and go and carry on doing othere stuff. but then she went up and i down to the library...however when she got up, she saw them and raced down to find me again...( SO NICE!:)) adn then we went together and since she skipped CCA joined us in the maths challenge after 2 left so that it would be the correct no. of 15 per class... thanx jing2!:) and we played the games...quite fun..very infact!!!!:) in the end we got third amongst the othere classes!!! YAY!!! so happy:)!!! today was good one of the best school days...though there was a test, i was exempted casue i am new...aiytah waste all my hard work of rushing to read the wholeanimal farm book till i was so tired in just 1 1/2 days... but i manged and she siad i dont need...but i still extremly HAPPy cause i dont need save me the scaredness for sngs never do the stuff they do about mood atmospgere stc.so i was called by her to do other stuff and i did an dread the notes plus the short story scarlet ibis ...so nice yet si SAD SAD SAD SAD SAD SAD in the end...feel like crying for the gril....her brother died...WAH!!!!!WAAAAAAAHH!!!! so saddening!!!:(...anyway l;essons were great and then there was IT where the teacher said that i would soon get my own account like the whole class for the com..though i am suyppose to get it earlier but he guessed the teacher have not done so yet..he said he would email her agasin to remind her to make an account for me...:) jing jing wastrying to help me log in..and she was so nice again spending the 3/4 of the time trying..thanx again...:) but sitl coulnt and i told the teacher and he said all the stuff said earlier...:)so again jing jign being and nice good girl let me sit with her to share the com with her...:) thanx again..you are a very nice girl jing jign!!!:)she is from china and came to singaporein pri 4...so amrt can catch up so soon and somemore hte smarter few in class..:):):) we cut a tomato and learnt biological drawings today in biology and we had to draw the cross-section of the plant tomato...sdince we were at the science lab...poster about some disgusting parts of the body was pasted behind and as my index no. is the last i was partnering wwith ling xue for tyhe drawings adn she told me not to look behind(and we were at rthe back of the classnot paying much attention to what the teacher was saying)...but she made me more curious that i did..ahha so funny..:)anyway...today wen trecess with trixie and went to popular...:) after school, we wen tothe library after jia ying had finshed copying othere ppl's answers for the sciencebiology ws(s) 1.1 and 1.2...tsk tsk bad example as a science rap...JiaYign...naughty girl...tsk tsk...played game with Chen Yi and Yihong and then went home by bus with Chen yi..we met caroline at the bus stop and as we were taking same bus...went together...she is a little irritating..you noe..( i mean caroline...) and the stupid bus uncle missed 3 to 4 bus stops from when i started pressing the thing9 button) to indicate that i wanted to stop atthe next stop...stupid...he waited for 3 to 4 stops later then stop lah..luckilystill can go home form there...r else i kill you are UNCLE!!! aiyoh so blur and sitll can be bus driver ah..you noe 4 stops uncle 4 stops!!!i went home an dthat is the end...BYE!~

First Day at NANYANG!!!

2005-06-27T01:45:00.000-07:00

Well, today was a great day, total slacking!! quite for me..hee hee:) thesa said mondays were very slck one, but it was stil fun. i met ythersa and trixie and the door( luckily we came at the same time, or else i would have to ask a complete starnger where i was to be seated) they brought me to my seat which was in between both of them and then started to ask me and introduce me to our classmates. thay were all friendly said Hi!! first was us assembling at the bitg space thingy place for the national anthem, the pledge and the school song...which was only sung on mondays...then we headed back to class after the announcements. after that was this speech trianing thingy where we were split to half...(by index no. i was just put at the back last index no. 36)the later half was to go for chinese speech training while the higher half for english. so i went for chinese was very scared cause my cinese very lousy..but was quite good in the end and a s i was not with the twins, they ask jing jing the assistant monitress to sort og take care of me...jing jing is a very nice girl:) the speech training thingy ended soon and was quite ok..good tough slitly boring. i heard all of them talking chinese and a lot and a china accent jing jing too...then back in class i found out that acually exactly 16 people in our class were from china..:):):) COOL!!!but their english very good too...then there was pe...we did general conditioning and played 2 games quie mini games especially the first one...quite fun and then chaged back to the hong zi like what ppl call the blouyse...very ma fan change in and then out of it. then recess and i met all the sngs ppl and vivien too!!!:):):)then was maths i think and science matyhs groups were suppose to present their SIA but the com got problem so wasted half and hour and the other half an dhour was for hertalking and the start of the class about this maths challenge thingy which i am going to go this thursday.and also about file etc.one whole lesson wasted. then next was science and since it was a new teacher for biology which they havent studied yet and i hvae, (they studied chem and physics already i hvaent learnt physics!!!:(...)i need to study physics!!! AHHH!!! but never mind shge said her rules about opuntuality in handing up work and she doesnt know i am new because she too is new...haha!!!:) i mean new to 101.so that was the lesson no teaching at all!!!:) then luch break again...:) one thing i noticed in nanyan gis that many breaks and very relaxed and learn quite little cause of the breaks unlike sngs where we sit learning nothing in class so boring...but nanyang we learn b\thoiugh got less time... and more fun too:) then after lunch was assembly in the auditorium where they always have their assembly so cool got air-con everytime!!!:):):)our form teacher Mr Mackintosh was there too all form teachers...we sang songs and did stuff an dthe end home..:) END~

2005-06-23T22:58:00.000-07:00

sorry i hvaent been blogging for a while...acually not really, only a few days..ok i am seriously being lame... alot of things have been happening recently, like my grandparents 50th aniiversary and my grandfather's 80th birthday...spent alot of time on preparation, all in all it went quite well. today I am going to some vatican museum thingy..!!! so excited i lovve museums!!! oh and there was a celebration dinner a treat from my grandfather for that day that it went smoothly and all who put in effort was invited...that was just yesterday. adn another great thing is i finally went ICE SKATING!!! yeah!!! but so many people, some were quite pro...when it was time for the 20 min resurfacing of the ice, it was already time for us to leave as our 2 hours were up..so just in time..:) anyway, i ogt the hang of it quite fast, and soon was oging round and round fast with my cousin!!1 so fun...it wasnt very cold i expected it to be freezing but it turned out ok..adn after that my legs were aching but who cares..???!?! it is worthwhile all the fun...then my cousin came to my house to play...acually there were many other fun stuff but who cares ok? oh adn we went to sentosa too..and the food was super delicious adn i love the beach!!!:0 if i say all thre actovities this holiday...i will be too loh soh...adn blabber opn like forever...
I LOVE NANYANG!!!
I LOVE NANYANG!!!
I LOVE NANYANG!!!
I LOVE NANYANG!!!
I LOVE NANYANG!!!
I LOVE NANYANG!!!
I LOVE NANYANG!!!
I LOVE NANYANG!!!
I LOVE NANYANG!!!
I LOVE NANYANG!!!
I LOVE NANYANG!!!
i am so excited for school to reopen!!! :) though a bit nervous and scared lah of corse...:/ but astill cant wait!!!:)
oh adn the gym there rocks!!! thougha bit slack for me..hee..hee hee
thats all ...BYE!~

FUN!

2005-06-10T20:42:00.000-07:00

Today was really fun, went out with theresa adn chia ern to watch madagascar! Well, i was a little late but who cares the movie was quite bad, dreamworks really cannot be compared to pixar. our neoprints were quite nice and theresa loved them alot, saying that it was her first successful neoprint. after everything i went home with chia ern taking bus and i bought this CUTE PIG!!! I LOVE IT!AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!:)...well nothing much to say so...BYE!~

Gymnastics

2005-06-09T02:03:00.000-07:00

Today was my first gym training lesson in Nanyang! WEll...went there at 9 like the teacher-in-charge told me too. But when i reached there...very few acually only 3 people (trampers)were there...playing on the trampoline..so i left to but my books from the popular there. that took about half an hour. My parents brought me around of course(becuase I am new). We then went to the gym adn started training. well, there were many of beginners but they were the other team, the tramspers for they are not experienced in gym. but i was placed in the other group, the experienced people group, the competing group,( tough i am not becasue the competition is very near and i havent learnt any of the routines yet) .the experienced people were very pro but the newbies were just playing around having fun. Well, it was quite ok, and after that i bought 2 new leotards for the older ones were all small... adding up everythin including the uniforms bought a few weeks ago and the books and the tight pants and new leotards and the gym fund and the gym track suit , in total it cost about..hm..wait let me calculate first...$800!?!??!?!!!! CRAZY!!! AAAAAAAAHHH!!! anyway, after gym my parents brought me to this jap restaurant you might call it.. near my home to eat. Oh and i saw ANt's mom talking to someone down there...but she dint see us. And after that, went home. BYE!~

2005-06-05T21:59:00.000-07:00

I take back what i said in my previous post about BORING school holidays bacasue today was really an enjoyable day. Well, since my parents were both not working as it was a Sunday, we went for breakfast together. We all went for mass on Saturday because I had this church retreat and part of the programme was going for evening mass, so my parents and siblings just came along for mass too. Then i suggested we go ice-skating as i had longed for ages to ice-skate. Suprisingly, my parents AGREED!!! YAY!!! We walked back home and got ready, changed into jeans and long sleeved shirts for warmth, adn set off. Since we never ice-skated before, my father only knew where the Kalang ice- skating rink was. The journey there was very long and finally when we reached, we were all so dissapointed becasue they were demolishing the whole place. We could not go to the Jurong one now, it was far to far away as Jurong is in the west while Kallang is in the east. SO SAd:( . However, my father suggested that since we were already here, we could go to East Coast Park to play. Well, i LOVE beaches:) It was very near and only 5 minutes drive away. My father and elder brother went bowling while my younger siblings and I went to play in the beach as I was not in the mood of bowling. My mother watched us from a bench as she was too tired and wanted to sit down. As we were all wearing jeans it was so hard for us to move especially me for mine was tight. My father siad we could only go into the water till it was waist deep. We played in the sand digging a gigantic hole and since the tide was high, water flowed in. The sand kept on crumbling in as it was so deep but in the end it was still standing well and filled with water. It was so deep that it was around half my sister's height when she stood in there! That took quite a short time and then we went to play in the sea. we sat on the ground without stretching our legs out as it would be too hard to cross our legs. Unfortunately that was a mistake as sand and water entered our jeans instead of just water. YUCK! we immediately stood up and went deeper into the water till it was about knee deep. bythen the tide was really getting higher and higher. my younger sister was really trilled when a gigantic wave came and nearly pushed us off balance. but none acually did until after a long time and very rough waves, one wave SUPER high and scary looking that before it came crashing down on us, i was so shocked. It covered my younger sister and brother with water and covered me till my shoulders. My younger sister even fell down and we had to help her up. We then played a bit more in the sand as we found a big gulp cup in the sea and no one was playing with it, sowe took it and dug a bigger hole than before and deep passage way leading to the sea, so that when we pured in cups and cups of sea water into the large, deep hole, the water flowed through the passage way adn back into the sea again. Finally we washed off all the sand by going back to the sea again. Then we went back to my mum who was so blur that she did not even see us when we were right in foront of her. haha. we were drench from head to toe from the gigantic wave and had no change of clothes. We headed to the toilet to cleanup by just washing oursleves from head to toe with our clothes on. when we finshed, my mum tried to get towels for us and new clothes for us to change into. There were no towels, only a small stupid face towel from the man who collected money for entering the toilet. It cost $1.50! well, since i was the oldest i had to give in to my oyunger siblings and get to use it the last. i was shivering like crazy. Acually my mum dint ask the man, it was the man who saw us drenched who asked us. then we went to some stalls looking for the cheapest clothes. We did but it was still VERY VERy expensive, but no choice, my mum bought them adn they looked really ugly and ridiculus. I was SO EMBARRASSED wearing them. i had a stupid spongebob ugly shirt not spongebob's colour and not even the correct shape of spongebob while my siblings got something nicer which was smaller but slightly more expensive their pants was much nicer too. I begged my mum for the nicer ones but she said mine was very cheap. AARGH! So i was a laughing stock walking around in stupid clothes. We meet my father and brother in the bowling alley and they finished their last game. We then went for lunch and went home. we tried paying my mum back the money but she wouldnot accept it at all. I volunteered to bathe first for the first time in my life andd applied shampoo adn body soap twice to free myself from the dirty disgusting sand! YUCK!:( then i watched 2 movies- the series of unfortunate events and robots, which was borrowed from my father's friend. My mother bathed and got ready for her performance of cantonese opera adn left at 4 something a little late. at night my father was so late that we dint get to eat dinner and had to go for thge performance at 7.30 we were ther at 7.10 and waited and waited. my older brother and I noticed that very veyr veyr few of the audience were children if there were thay were only young 5 to7 children, not tenns like we are...oh gosh! adn mostly were old folks and mostly women. In fact 9/10 of the audince were old folks. the performance was more interesting than the previous one i have been to, with all the stunts.:) we were starving as we did not have tea and dinner, so during the intermission, we went for dinner adn then went back to fetch my mum back. she went for 3 performances altogether already but i only saw the 1st and last which was this one. she stared learning only febuary this year!:) we got home super tired and now i am so falling asleep adn still typing such a long post!!! :O *yawn* Bye!~

School Holidays

2005-06-01T15:48:00.000-07:00

It is the beginning of the school holidays and I am really BORED to death at home! School holidays are not fun at all...they are utterly BORING! :o Since I am transfered to Nanyang, I don't need to do all their holiday homework because i don't know what homework they have for the holidays...that is the boring part, staying home allday lazing around and doing nothing but eat, drink, play computer, practice piano, ude the toilet and sleep...*yawn* my dad promised us that he would bring us out for some fun and I gave loads of suggestions, but we havent even went anywhere and I am DEAD BORED. That is the bad part about this school holidays, but unlike others I am free with NO HOMEWORK...YAY!!!:) So if I laze around playing com the whole day, my mum would not order me to do stuff like study, homework etc. FREEDOM! Thats is all for now...bye!~