I'm currently located at Changi Airport, Terminal One, Gate D37. It's 9.47am.
Just checked in and I still can't believe I'm doing this alone. Thankfully, the guys will be meeting me at Taoyuan International Airport. Haha, I wonder where all this courage came from. In less than 2 weeks, and hardly any prior discussion, Yijie, Junwei, Junqi and I are going for our informal grad tripv to Taiwan.
Will continue to update whenever we're free. Or when we get back to SG.
I'm missing my family, friends and comrades already..
Although I'm on a vacation, my mission for kosen-rufu will not pause here. I've brought with me the new SSA YWD english publication, "The Vow of Ikeda Kayo", Feb-April 2010 CL issues, SSA Times issues regarding the SYM (SSA Youth Muscial) and also the original soundtrack of the SYM to share with the members there. :)
GTG!! Boarding soon.
SEE YOU ALL IN A WEEK's TIME!! PLEASE TAKE CARE!!
:D
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
School's out. What's next?
Time seems to fly by SO SO fast..
School has ended...weeks ago. :/
"Am I the only one slacking? :/ :/"
That was probably one big question mark in my mind every single day since the semester ended. Even if i act dumb, my mum would voice it out religiously every evening.
I'm glad a few friends of mine shook me out of dreamland. Time to face the world. Even though they needn't say much, or might not even have the intention to, their actions constantly sent me to another level of guilt.
What am I doing?
Everyone else's either sending out university applications, looking out for scholarship interviews or finding work...any work.
Finally decide this wouldn't do. No matter how far-fetched my dreams seemed to be now, if I do not even take a single step towards reality, nothing can be realized.
SO...
I found myself a job today!! :) And I really look forward to it~
Plucked up my courage to call Pang, boss of a production company and he offered to fetched me from wherever I was, and drove me to his office! Nice man. Not much paperwork to do and I'm just getting a basic salary, but this is one big actual proof - chanted really sincerely for a breakthough!
Never thought the interview to be this easy. I got the job almost right away and we spent the entire car journey discussing what I could possibly learn and contribute to the company. Can't wait to start~
Of course, we both anticipate possible working temperaments. I guess its unavoidable, so I look forward to a rewarding and strict training. First call starts Friday!! - Mayday concert. Hope I can pick up the skills asap... >.<
-=-
PLUS~
NPSD's orientation and graduation's coming!!
OMG!! Really excited!! Though I'm graduating, I can't wait to see the result of all the efforts of everyone else!! :D
xyn - our chief chereographer. :)
PLUS PLUS~~
May's coming in a few weeks.. really hope I can brush up my dancesteps soon. Don't wanna pull the team down. We are lighting our props in May! :S
School has ended...weeks ago. :/
"Am I the only one slacking? :/ :/"
That was probably one big question mark in my mind every single day since the semester ended. Even if i act dumb, my mum would voice it out religiously every evening.
I'm glad a few friends of mine shook me out of dreamland. Time to face the world. Even though they needn't say much, or might not even have the intention to, their actions constantly sent me to another level of guilt.
What am I doing?
Everyone else's either sending out university applications, looking out for scholarship interviews or finding work...any work.
Finally decide this wouldn't do. No matter how far-fetched my dreams seemed to be now, if I do not even take a single step towards reality, nothing can be realized.
SO...
I found myself a job today!! :) And I really look forward to it~
Plucked up my courage to call Pang, boss of a production company and he offered to fetched me from wherever I was, and drove me to his office! Nice man. Not much paperwork to do and I'm just getting a basic salary, but this is one big actual proof - chanted really sincerely for a breakthough!
Never thought the interview to be this easy. I got the job almost right away and we spent the entire car journey discussing what I could possibly learn and contribute to the company. Can't wait to start~
Of course, we both anticipate possible working temperaments. I guess its unavoidable, so I look forward to a rewarding and strict training. First call starts Friday!! - Mayday concert. Hope I can pick up the skills asap... >.<
-=-
PLUS~
NPSD's orientation and graduation's coming!!
OMG!! Really excited!! Though I'm graduating, I can't wait to see the result of all the efforts of everyone else!! :D
xyn - our chief chereographer. :)PLUS PLUS~~
May's coming in a few weeks.. really hope I can brush up my dancesteps soon. Don't wanna pull the team down. We are lighting our props in May! :S
Sunday, March 21, 2010
MARCH is here.
MARCH 16. Kosen-Rufu Day.
Time to renew our vow. Time to start afresh.
School's over and it's time for all of us to move on to our greater mission in life, wherever that is. Kinda disappointed by myself. I'm surprised and ashamed I have no concrete plans.
After the recent chalet, (Junwei's 21st) I really pondered hard about it. Where do I go from here? Rochelle and Yingting are working hard to try out different routes. (be it job interviews or university applications) Christine's got a job. The guys are waiting for NS. Some of the girls are already hard at work. Where am I? What have I been doing? Only I know better.
Fortunately, SYM (SSA Youth Musical) and YOG (Youth Olympic Games Opening Ceremony item) came timely. Every comrade is striving hard towards a common goal. To create value in their lives and others. And I don't wanna be just a spectator. Thanks to every single one who has been encouraging me thru showing actual proof in your lives. :)
My Comrades. My 'Pork Soup'.
Watched 4 musicals in a single weekend and I try so hard to engrave every line, every word in my heart. As if Toda Sensei and Ikeda Sensei are speaking to me personally, entrusting the mission for kosen-rufu (happiness for all people) to me.
To Vanessa, I'm really indebted to you. After writing and recording New Dawn, thanks for writing such an inspiring theme song for SYM too. It has been a huge source of motivation to me and I'm sure, to many many others too. And the songs written by the music team for the musical are really encouraging. Hope the OST and DVD will be out soon..
To all the cast (mandarin and english) and the stage crew, logistics, costumes, props, makeup and admin...thanks for all the efforts!
After watching the audience laugh at the love confession scene, cry when we can relate to the experiences of the SGI leaders and the mentor and disciple spirit of Toda & Shin'ichi..every single effort put into the musical has been paid off. You've accumulated good fortune for yourselves, infuse joy and hope in the lives of all and shown the greatness of Soka's M&D spirit by your own actions!! :D
YOG. At first, I grabbed this opportunity to join, plainly for the fun of a cultural performance. Then, at the first audition, the youth coordinator shared with us our mission for this item. As one of the opening acts for such a grand-scale event, we will be watched closely by all international media. Which means our families, friends and comrades around the world will be watching it. It also means my beloved mentor will be watching us too. I want to be his pride. We will do our best, Sensei!
Our item's Playing Fire. The core SSA group is made up of hundreds of upper primary, secondary to tertiary students holding fish props. It's really no easy feat carrying the fish poles, especially the younger kids. Besides moving into their formations, they have to depict a beautiful school of carefree fishes - gentle, yet vibrant. Another hundred of us are going to take up another form of challenge, fire. At the last training, professional trainers came and show us an awesome display of fire props - fire poi; fire staff and fire fan!! I can't wait for the next training!! :D
Yea...Action. I need to take some concrete action for my life, with a fully laid-out plan.
>.<
NEED MORE DAIMOKU!!
Time to renew our vow. Time to start afresh.
School's over and it's time for all of us to move on to our greater mission in life, wherever that is. Kinda disappointed by myself. I'm surprised and ashamed I have no concrete plans.
After the recent chalet, (Junwei's 21st) I really pondered hard about it. Where do I go from here? Rochelle and Yingting are working hard to try out different routes. (be it job interviews or university applications) Christine's got a job. The guys are waiting for NS. Some of the girls are already hard at work. Where am I? What have I been doing? Only I know better.
Fortunately, SYM (SSA Youth Musical) and YOG (Youth Olympic Games Opening Ceremony item) came timely. Every comrade is striving hard towards a common goal. To create value in their lives and others. And I don't wanna be just a spectator. Thanks to every single one who has been encouraging me thru showing actual proof in your lives. :)
My Comrades. My 'Pork Soup'.Watched 4 musicals in a single weekend and I try so hard to engrave every line, every word in my heart. As if Toda Sensei and Ikeda Sensei are speaking to me personally, entrusting the mission for kosen-rufu (happiness for all people) to me.
To Vanessa, I'm really indebted to you. After writing and recording New Dawn, thanks for writing such an inspiring theme song for SYM too. It has been a huge source of motivation to me and I'm sure, to many many others too. And the songs written by the music team for the musical are really encouraging. Hope the OST and DVD will be out soon..
To all the cast (mandarin and english) and the stage crew, logistics, costumes, props, makeup and admin...thanks for all the efforts!
After watching the audience laugh at the love confession scene, cry when we can relate to the experiences of the SGI leaders and the mentor and disciple spirit of Toda & Shin'ichi..every single effort put into the musical has been paid off. You've accumulated good fortune for yourselves, infuse joy and hope in the lives of all and shown the greatness of Soka's M&D spirit by your own actions!! :D
YOG. At first, I grabbed this opportunity to join, plainly for the fun of a cultural performance. Then, at the first audition, the youth coordinator shared with us our mission for this item. As one of the opening acts for such a grand-scale event, we will be watched closely by all international media. Which means our families, friends and comrades around the world will be watching it. It also means my beloved mentor will be watching us too. I want to be his pride. We will do our best, Sensei!
Our item's Playing Fire. The core SSA group is made up of hundreds of upper primary, secondary to tertiary students holding fish props. It's really no easy feat carrying the fish poles, especially the younger kids. Besides moving into their formations, they have to depict a beautiful school of carefree fishes - gentle, yet vibrant. Another hundred of us are going to take up another form of challenge, fire. At the last training, professional trainers came and show us an awesome display of fire props - fire poi; fire staff and fire fan!! I can't wait for the next training!! :D
Yea...Action. I need to take some concrete action for my life, with a fully laid-out plan.
>.<
NEED MORE DAIMOKU!!
Sunday, February 28, 2010
LOFTy moments
Author's Note: This space has not been abandoned. I'm back. (:
If there's one word to describe my January and February, it would be 'LOFT'.
I will never forget the days and nights spent over at the cosy 4-room apartment with my dearest classmates.
It had been fun and almost blissful. It had been tough to live together too. In the class DVD, i din have the luxury to write everything down. So, a warning in advance. The following is a long entry.
MY PERSONAL TOP TEN
THE WAIT
the hour-long queues for the bathroom (read: May Mon & Junqi, hogging both toilets)
THE SINK
unwashed cups, multiple-time-reused 'disposables' and the few drops of diluted detergent.
THE SMELL
the regular stench of instant korean ramen and >.< 男人味!! (ohh..how much i had to scrub my clothes to get the smell out of my clothes before dumping into the washing machine.)
THE DRINKING SESSIONS
countless empty bottles of POKKA white chrysanthemum and ice lemon tea are displayed at the bar table daily. and yea la, we too have some other 'restricted drinks' at times.
THE GREEN WALL and the RATTAN BASKET
i'm sure everyone has seen camwhoring sessions and video clips of our famous green canvas and the favourite photoshoot prop, our rattan basket.
OUR LIVING ROOM
Spacious to the max, all we need is just to pull our our sofa beds and mattresses, it could fit almost the entire class to sleep over.
AL AZHAR
Indian-Asian HALAL Cuisine. Almost a nightly affair for many to dine here. Situated opposite Beauty World. Affordable and good. Believe me. :)
OUR STUDIO
AVT's second home. First's the LOFT. (we were REALLY hardly at our own homes.)
Equipped with industry-standard audio recording & effect processors, plus stuff that can't even be found in the local audio scene! Though I personally still can't fully appreciate everything there, we spent days and nights perfecting our audio mix and music video.
EXAMINATIONS
On such rare periods, you will see us gathered at almost every room of each apartment unit mugging. (NOTE: we had 3 units=12rooms to ourselves.) And at times when we are on the brink of madness, people would be prank-ringing each other's doorbells, ordering McD at wee hours and singing pokemon theme songs for entertainment.
THE PEOPLE!
Last but not least. Of course, we are tightly woven in this social fabric where human dramas take place every single moment. We disagreed, argued, fought, and then make up again. Seen each other's ugly side of life. Tolerated with one another's nonsense and weird habits.
At a point of time, i almost thought a few friendships were almost un-amendable. Thankfully, we have been thru that and now, we see ourselves clearer and bond better as one class. Thanks for all the love and hate these months, ppl. I know in many many ways, I lack a lot. Thanks for accepting me and letting me into your world. haha.
Yea la.. i may be the old auntie. But thanks for going thru some of my most embarrassing moments and bearing with the nagging. <3
-=-
My sister was telling me how much she miss my smiles. I missed it too and more than anyone else, I'm acutely aware of how little I have been smiling. It's to the extent sometimes I find myself typing apology SMSes when I fake my enthusiasm to my friends. How ugly.
Give me some time. I will be back.
If there's one word to describe my January and February, it would be 'LOFT'.
I will never forget the days and nights spent over at the cosy 4-room apartment with my dearest classmates.
It had been fun and almost blissful. It had been tough to live together too. In the class DVD, i din have the luxury to write everything down. So, a warning in advance. The following is a long entry.
MY PERSONAL TOP TEN
(It differs from person to person. Plus, i'm not exactly a full-time loft patron.)
THE WAIT
the hour-long queues for the bathroom (read: May Mon & Junqi, hogging both toilets)
THE SINK
unwashed cups, multiple-time-reused 'disposables' and the few drops of diluted detergent.
THE SMELL
the regular stench of instant korean ramen and >.< 男人味!! (ohh..how much i had to scrub my clothes to get the smell out of my clothes before dumping into the washing machine.)
THE DRINKING SESSIONS
countless empty bottles of POKKA white chrysanthemum and ice lemon tea are displayed at the bar table daily. and yea la, we too have some other 'restricted drinks' at times.
THE GREEN WALL and the RATTAN BASKET
i'm sure everyone has seen camwhoring sessions and video clips of our famous green canvas and the favourite photoshoot prop, our rattan basket.
OUR LIVING ROOM
Spacious to the max, all we need is just to pull our our sofa beds and mattresses, it could fit almost the entire class to sleep over.
AL AZHAR
Indian-Asian HALAL Cuisine. Almost a nightly affair for many to dine here. Situated opposite Beauty World. Affordable and good. Believe me. :)
OUR STUDIO
AVT's second home. First's the LOFT. (we were REALLY hardly at our own homes.)
Equipped with industry-standard audio recording & effect processors, plus stuff that can't even be found in the local audio scene! Though I personally still can't fully appreciate everything there, we spent days and nights perfecting our audio mix and music video.
EXAMINATIONS
On such rare periods, you will see us gathered at almost every room of each apartment unit mugging. (NOTE: we had 3 units=12rooms to ourselves.) And at times when we are on the brink of madness, people would be prank-ringing each other's doorbells, ordering McD at wee hours and singing pokemon theme songs for entertainment.
THE PEOPLE!
Last but not least. Of course, we are tightly woven in this social fabric where human dramas take place every single moment. We disagreed, argued, fought, and then make up again. Seen each other's ugly side of life. Tolerated with one another's nonsense and weird habits.
At a point of time, i almost thought a few friendships were almost un-amendable. Thankfully, we have been thru that and now, we see ourselves clearer and bond better as one class. Thanks for all the love and hate these months, ppl. I know in many many ways, I lack a lot. Thanks for accepting me and letting me into your world. haha.
Amirr. Wani. Siti. May. Rochelle. Wilson. Chu Lee. Jun Wei.
Yi Jie. Christine. Justin. Ying Ting. Kenneth. Ben Chan. Norman. Jun Qi.
Yi Jie. Christine. Justin. Ying Ting. Kenneth. Ben Chan. Norman. Jun Qi.
Yea la.. i may be the old auntie. But thanks for going thru some of my most embarrassing moments and bearing with the nagging. <3
-=-
My sister was telling me how much she miss my smiles. I missed it too and more than anyone else, I'm acutely aware of how little I have been smiling. It's to the extent sometimes I find myself typing apology SMSes when I fake my enthusiasm to my friends. How ugly.
Give me some time. I will be back.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
31.12.09
"Tomorrow, I shall do this."
"Maybe, I will leave it til I'm free."
How many tomorrows do we need to wait til the deadline draws nearer? How can we stop procrastinating and get to do what's important and urgent?
Well, I'm glad I had the determination to stop leaving tasks at hand til 'tomorrow'.
In SGI, we marked 2009 as the Year of Youth and Victory. On the last day of this year, I don't want to leave any regrets and disappoint myself.
Went to the studio this morning to set up for vocals and guitar dubbing, but our dearest songwriter/composer/vocalist/guitarist o.v.e.r.s.l.e.p.t. Haha, in the end, the girls spent a few hours learning what's essential for the recording, and Issac & Benchan came to discuss about our Live Sound project. We were able to complete a huge portion of paperwork today.
After last night's NPSD25 daimokukai, I thought of sending all my ywd members the SD exam study materials for the week. But when I got to the school library to photocopy the Rishho Ankoku Ron notes, realised I didn't have enough cash in me. Thankfully, the auntie let me owe her 10cents, so I was able to print for 6 members. That 10cents was so important to me at that point of time! One more life could be inspired because of that coin! :D
As we walked back to the studio, I saw some AVT juniors and managed to pass the notes to Yeeteng!! Then I went round Singapore to pass the copies to Dawn, Vivien, Serene and Rui Zhen. By dinner time, when I met Rena, Hysen, Sam, Angela and Huimin, I felt really accomplished.
Today, I worked hard!
Even though, there was a tint of regret that I didn't have enough time to catch up with everyone, but at least, I was glad I made the effort to do this.
2010, here I come!!
"Maybe, I will leave it til I'm free."
How many tomorrows do we need to wait til the deadline draws nearer? How can we stop procrastinating and get to do what's important and urgent?
Well, I'm glad I had the determination to stop leaving tasks at hand til 'tomorrow'.
In SGI, we marked 2009 as the Year of Youth and Victory. On the last day of this year, I don't want to leave any regrets and disappoint myself.
Went to the studio this morning to set up for vocals and guitar dubbing, but our dearest songwriter/composer/vocalist/guitarist o.v.e.r.s.l.e.p.t. Haha, in the end, the girls spent a few hours learning what's essential for the recording, and Issac & Benchan came to discuss about our Live Sound project. We were able to complete a huge portion of paperwork today.
After last night's NPSD25 daimokukai, I thought of sending all my ywd members the SD exam study materials for the week. But when I got to the school library to photocopy the Rishho Ankoku Ron notes, realised I didn't have enough cash in me. Thankfully, the auntie let me owe her 10cents, so I was able to print for 6 members. That 10cents was so important to me at that point of time! One more life could be inspired because of that coin! :D
As we walked back to the studio, I saw some AVT juniors and managed to pass the notes to Yeeteng!! Then I went round Singapore to pass the copies to Dawn, Vivien, Serene and Rui Zhen. By dinner time, when I met Rena, Hysen, Sam, Angela and Huimin, I felt really accomplished.
Today, I worked hard!
Even though, there was a tint of regret that I didn't have enough time to catch up with everyone, but at least, I was glad I made the effort to do this.
2010, here I come!!
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