Hey guys sorry I haven't been writing much, but HERE'S AN UPDATE YO.
So school officially ended decades ago, nah our last day before we break for the year was 22 October. So I'm 3 weeks into my holidays, and all that's going on's just band band band and more band. We're preparing for a parents night concert on 25 Nov. Excited yo. But the schedule's reaaallly reaaally tight. Life isn't easy hahahahah alright I won't rant. I'll update you guys after it actually happens.

I'm really looking forward to the days out with my lovely seniors and friends after the concert, it'll be a hell of a time... spent together with homework. heh. I wanna drop by the Singapore Biennale at National Library..... hmmm

Anyways the amount of preparation for the concert is overwhelming I tell you .

 LET THE MIRACLES HAPPEN.

Oh oh and I went to Malaysia recently, visited my mom's hometown. hheheheh It was my first flight there and back . Guess what, our return flight was delayed. For almost 2 hours. and it was already a night flight, and to make things worse I had band the next morning and we landed around 1225. Well played jetstar. Your workers opened the counter late and by the time we entered the zone it was already 10 ( our flight's 1055, boarding at 1030) WHICH MEANS WE HAD LESS TIME TO SHOP. We actually booked our cab to the airport early so we could shop more. BUT NO. we had to sit there for like 4 hours before we can enter. sigh pie. 

On our way to Bentong, I came across this <3 Its been a long time since I saw a rainbow, maybe a few years back and I wasn't the one who discovered it. But I was the first to spot it in the car heheheha .

I actually saw the end before I saw this, its like a uprooted path but a very very tint one so I thought I my eyes was playing tricks. But look its real :) 

soo.... my greatly missed curry noodles and wonton noodles ahahahaha. awesome I tell you.

in the market.

My grandma bought like 3 kg of ikan bilis back . hahahhahaha

 With mumz over at my 3rd grand uncle's place

 HIS HUGE RAMBUTAN TREE. 

 Just look at the cloudds *.*

Bentong river :3

So, where is bentong? 

Bentong is both a town and a district in Pahang, Malaysia. The district covers an area of 1,831 km². It is located 80 km northeast of Kuala Lumpur, just across the main range, Titiwangsa Mountains. 

and I guess this means, MY MOM'S FAMZ HAS BEEN LIVING IN A VALLEY . how cool is that hahahahah 

its just earth, earth is cool , it's hot , its nice. 

Nighties!

xx sam

Before I get old? {Part 1}

Welll HEEELLOO

So, I was in the shower and I thought of writing this sooooo why not? ( I guess shower time's the most productive time. )

I wanna write this becauseeee, when I get old, and I read this anddddd.. yeah it'll be cool, I guess.
If you were to ask me, what I mean by old.. I'd say old in a sense of health. yeah health. ANDDD interest.

ok so here I go!


Before I get old I wanna.. Get Married. 
well duhhhh who doesn't? I guess I'm not the type of persons who likes to spend time alone, ok well it depends but of course I wanna share my life with someone else. but not for now, at least. Sometimes I feel that its good to be alone, be it shopping or something. I feel carefree . Hey you know talking about shopping alone, after my last paper a week or so ago, I shopped at supermarkets . I've developed this weird interest in supermarkets. I find it nice and its where I can buy food to cook (yes I've also developed interest in cooking idk why but its fun) and yeah. Anyways back to topic.

Getting married means I've found 'the one' and theres soooo many things we can do.
moving onnn

Before I get old I wanna... Have ChildREN. 
Maybe an older brother and a younger sister? Alright I don't wanna describe much.

Before I get old I wanna... Realise my dream career(s)

--> I would like to have like a small scale fashion line partnered with maybe 2/3 friends and by this I mean starting everything from scratch. Own designs Own ideas. That'll be cool . And I guess I'll be able to earn a living from it, so why not? ( well of course I know its not gonna be easy)

--> Mayybeee pursue in music?
To be a performer/composer/teacher/instructor
I have sooo many choices now and yeah I guess I would be happy if I'm able to succeed in any. BUT ITS NOT GONNA BE EASY. LIFE'S HARD

--> To be a designer? ok not in the fashion sense but like those events where you need to decorate/plan/create stuff. You get what I mean .

--> Maybe I could be something related to food. AHHAAH LOL I KNOW LOL.
yeah a baker/cook/food designer/food tester ahahaha ok not that. It'll be interesting. just imagine.

Before I get old I wanna... Get thrill
Ride on all those fun fun rides and enjoy the way of life. With treasured ones of course.

Before I get old I wanna... Swim
I wanna swim ( in a clean pool) in the night ( Yes its simple but I never get to swim in the night.)
I wanna have a beach body ( impossible)
I wanna own a pool . heh

Before I get old I wanna... GET A DRIVING LICENSE. and own a car. ( not easy i know)
yes I like car rides. and I wanna drive my own preferred car.
Becauseee I can drive all day long and blast my music and just sing along. Its fun.








OKK THATS IT FOR PART ONE. WILL WRITE SOON <3
XX SAM

Hey guys! Guess what, I GOT OVER AND DONE WITH EXAMINATIONS THIS YEAR!
but...... I guess I won't do well at all and, so im gonna work hard during the holidays ok.

I really really like this time of the year. ( Well of course after the big huu haa of the returning of slips is over. ) Because we can really really really enjoy cause we're "free" from academic syllabus and yeah. CCA ALL THE WAAAYYYYY. And of course the upcoming outings we're gonna have after my senior's Os'

Anyways talking about outings, ITS MARKING DAY TODDAAAY! Yup so we went to Universal Studios Singapore. Its not actually my first time there but it's my first time there with friends and its Fuz's FIRST TIME! I was reaaally excited (I know i've been using really like loads of time whenever I describe stuff but, I don't think anyone cares//meh). Yeah excited. LIKE DUHH who's not excited to a trip to RWS and to USS? And after exams before we get our slips back! yeah so . YOLO.

Yup so we planned to meet around 9 but the bus took horrendously long so I was late. :( We were all supposed to meet at de MRT station without tapping out and yeah I didn't get down and the rest came up . Oh yeeah so I went with H, Fuz and this guy, W. ( ok lol those who've seen my instaG knows who I went with, but I don't wanna reveal too much here and Imagine reading this 15 years later, maybe I'll spend the whole day in reminisce. )
Yeah so , I met up with the rest "crawling" through the somehow early crowds in the train. (embarrassing much //heh)

Anyways we reached there about 1020 I guess after travelling on RWS8 and thank goodness there wasn't any ridiculous queue for the Day-Passes. H & W had annual passes so Fuz and I spent $74 each for the DayP.

We rode the Elmo/Spaghetti/SpaceShip ride thingy first. It was under renovation when I went there the first time with my famz so I had no idea what it was and days before today, they were all keeping me in suspension in what it was. W once said " Oh not scary one laaa but I scared. " and " Very fast onee, Scary" or something around that line. But turns out...... OK. LOL, I don't exactly wanna say here cause it'll be a spoiler for others hheheheh. But yes its fun.

Then we rode the transformer ride, then the Revenge of the Mummy RC and yeah we rode both twice. But H didn't ride the Mummy. And F was so cute I tell you guys. hahahah

We walked down the path and yeah rode most of the rides I guess. Well I'm not gonna describe how every ride was just because ...... I'm lazy. heh

Anyways its a reaaaally reallllly great day thanks to my lovelies and thank you guys so much for reading!

Byeeeee
Xx, Sam

:(

Hey guyssss . It's been a long time yeah. Life's reeaaaalllly busy, and I don't even know why, I have this sudden urge of blogging. 

Wellll the HK trip's off. Due to some policy change in MOE and it affects us and we can't go. It's kinda unfair uh, we were all so so so excited and all the anticipation just.. Perished. But we can't do anything to change the outcome so, why dwell? 

There'll be our official JYSBAND camp coming up and I'm sure it'll be fun too! 

-

Yup so guess what. It's EOY period, and we've all stepped down from cca. Life's sad. You can say it's the most tiring, stressful, nerve wrecking, brain damaging, lonely, sleepy, shitty time of the year' we all have tons and tons of work to study and revise on and there's no time. Yes time and what's more I still have my prep work for art. 

Basically I can't remember most things that I learnt. It's brain dead moment I can't think properly, everyday I'm tired I don't even know why and my body aches. I never get energetic these days unless it's those random rushes when my friends and I do stupid actions or say stupid things tgt. 

Everyone's like that now and I don't get why, we need to go through something like this. Exams. Everything's so forceful and I doubt I can't perform my full potential . :(:(:( mind blank 23/7 

Whywhywhy the that one. 

But I can't go on like this right. One whole week left (and one day) . Before the school determines if I can be promoted to sec 4s.

Howhowhowhowhow why the hell am I blogging instead of sleeping. I should sleep. Night! 

Term 3 Week [10]

Well hey there! Time really flies. Well teleport maybe? It's already the LASTWEEK of term 3! Half of my leadership journey has passed, so quickly, so swiftly. And this week has been a reaaaallly hectic week. I'm gonna talk about how I spent my week heheeh. 

We ended school on Monday at 4, as usual. I really don't get why we must end lessons the latest on Monday. As if Monday blues aren't bad enough, and sometimes there's extra lessons on Monday after 4 too! SighTart. But ohwells this is life we're going through. 

On Tuesday, we had band as usual but it was the ONE AND ONLY rehearsal for the teachers's day performance. And it didn't go smoothly. Logistics were in a mess and plans kept on changing and fuz and I had to handle everything. Even to bring up chairs. There was even a badminton match going on, so we can't step in their court. Everything was squeezed and unplanned. And we only had once to run through. SighCake. This is life we're walking in. 

Well Wednesday was the actual performance. We all left lessons at 12, to prepare for the event which started at 1 . 

But plans kept changing, everyone was confused. 

When we went down, everything was alright, (we actually had to set up the chairs ourselves with the help of some classmates, thanks guys!) but suddenly the screw of the drum set's bass drum came out. And we were all panicking but luckily we were able to use the school's drum-set. Problem = Solved! 

But I guess the performance wasn't satisfying.. One song was cut and yeah.. Sigh it's hard to explain here . You'll understand if you heard us. 

But I wanna say that. I'm sure that we, JYSB, had done our best to bring this performance for our teachers, for the school. And our conscience is clean, no point talking bad about us and giving us rude comments because you don't understand what we're going through and what's going on. This is life. We're always having a war with time. 

ALRIGHTTTT so after the performance, I stayed back. To help out for preparation of the walking dot  ( I mentioned in the previous post )  and I was totally shagged when I got home. 

There were still loose ends we needed to tie up, so we reported to school at 630 on Thursday. 

We had personal land yards too! 

I'm reaaally glad to be part of this exhibition and to exhibit my first copyPainting of my life. Well is wasn't a work well done but hey! IT'S MY FIRST TIME . 

Thank you teachers for putting so much hard work and making this such a success. Thank you. 

I honestly enjoyed my time during the exhibition. Gained new experience yo. 

 

Yepyepyep the whole thing ended with the giving out of examination papers for paper 2. Andddddd they're quite some themes that I wouldn't mind doing but I guess I'll stick with Dreams And Reality. Some kind people kind enough to give me some inspiration? No. I don't believe in but in finding. Anyways, 

It's the last day of all intern teachers :( 

Sad, but Miss Thng who teaches us Math ( top ) got for us some yummy egg tarts! Reaaaallly good tarts. 

And here's a class photo! 

Oh oh and it was Mr Tan's birthday too! ( biology ) 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY & TEACHER'S DAY ONCE AGAIN! 

Moving on to Friday. Finally a break for me, so basically I just rested for the whole day and just. Nua . Until I had piano lesson that is. )didn't manage to prac over the week :( ( anyways I finally tried the KFC roasta rice yesterday! Awesome food. 

I had a reaaalllly good break, the weather was good too, and I still.need.more. But considering that I have piles of homework to be done, life insists that I can't. Ohwells sighpie this is life. 

"It isn't about the pain, but the gain" 

Oh oh and I made pasta again 

This time with crab sticks too! Fav yo. Hahaha alright food post coming up sooooonnnn I guess. Hehehe 

So SATURDAY!  Finally gotten my dose of Starbucks, After so long. 3 WEEKS! 

White choco mocha frappe with added javachip . Too sweet for me. But still nice though. 

There was a event last night (Saturday) for mid autumn festival and wifey performed with her friend,C,  singing just the way you are, Bruno mars. One word. Awesome. The harmony was superb ok! Sing more! Hahaaha I was invited to play my flute too but.. Nah it's been quite a week. Next time ok! Sorry guys. Oh and C also sang colours of the wind from pocohontas. AWESOMEEE. I wish I could sing that well to. But no, life isn't allowing my voice box to. 

ALRIGHT GUYS SO THAT'S HOW MY WEEK WENT! THANKS FOR READINGGG' HAPPY TEACHERS DAY AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!' 

Xx' Sammy

Comments. What comments?

HEY WORLD.
So I guess its time to update about my life yeah. LIFELIFELIFELIFE. no comments about it.
For all I'm going through now, I don't know exactly how to express myself, or simply, I don't know what or how I feel . And I don't want to. ManyMany things has happened recently and Sometimes I feel that, I don't have anyone to talk to now. Truly talk to , to rant all day long and just understands every single thing I do, everything I say. With all my mummering and  stuttering and incoherent voice . 
Yes I do have true friends and of course I cherish them.. but its just different. No one understands what I'm going through and honestly, I wish I'm not going through all these .

I know how inexplicably hard it is to actually LOSE a friend, someone who turns cold to you, never talking again. Imagine the same happy person, who laughs and smiles. But now it's not because of you and it's never gonna be the same. Broken friendships are hard to move on from, especially when you get to see them almost on a daily basis with no choice. And seeing your same friend, changing so drastically just in front of you, turning into a whole different you never knew. It's just, depressing, knowing that the same friendship will never be the same. No one wants this to ever happen but it's just.. Life I guess? 

I believe that life is never easy, and life is hard. But in the philosophy of hard work comes sweet success . It may not be hard work for now, but just endurance maybe? Endurance with life and just.. Move on. 

People come and go, true friends leave too, but to do something to make you happy. Make sense? Not exactly but yeah. True friends stay on and do what they are. As friends. 

You're happy as long as the people you care for are happy 

ok enough of those deep feelings.
Term assessment results are backkkkk( for quite some time alr haha) 

Kinda disappointed though, well not kinda. I am. So basically I didn't improve on anything at all.

 I dropped 4 grades for my history and barely passed English and Accounts. Mathematics & sciences remained Bs. oh and failed Chinese Language. And if im not wrong, 60+% of the cohort failed.

I was really excited about getting my History paper back, until wednesday morning when my teacher said. " Sam you could've done better" Those 4 words left me pondering the whole day . and yeah I dropped so much.

But I KNOW. That what has happened HAS happened and nothing can change anything.

SO, gonna start mugging next week and I truly hope everything pays off. SO I CAN FOCUS ON BAND WITHOUT REGRETS AND ENJOY THE TIME OF MY LIFE PRACTICING FOR THE HK TRIP.

Anyways, Aunt, Mom and I went out to town last last Saturday! It was my first time trying buffet Town and its really fantastic. FRESH SASHIMI YO. And its not really exorbitant considering that there's free flow of sashimi & oysters and other good fooooddd. I wish I stayed longer!
So after lunch we went shopping ( duh ) got some paper stock and some other random stuff. :D

Alright moving on, 

I don't know why but, I'm actually excited to get my themes for my end of year paper for Art. I'm not usually excited for art ( considering that it was copying painting for at least a month. ) but I guess this whole preparation thing for it will be.. Tedious but fun? I have a good feeling for it hahahhahah. 

We're getting our papers on Thursday, right after our school's art exhibition -The walking Dot. Eggcited 

Talking about it, we (Art students) are gonna be ambassadors for de art exhibition on Thursday. We're actually having some ACES ( all children exercise simultaneously ) activity for a period in the morning before having a big breakfast ( where the whole class have breakfast together ) 

But I'm glad that we're off as ambassadors . New experience yo. And I really really like the walking dot . 

Every art piece starts with a dot. You drag the dot as it walks and it becomes a line, the dragged dot then meets other of it's own friends then becomes a shape, from it, many experience, good bad happy sad, fills it out and other dots appear, just like life, to become a form.  

-interpreted from what my teacher mentioned.

I actually wanna talk about my experience of copy painting, but you know what, nah I shouldn't. It's too depressing hahjahahaahhaha well at least it's completed. 

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. 

Oh oh and guess what, TEACHER'S DAY IS ARRIVING AND THE BAND'S PERFORMING ! The whole school will witness ( or at least hear ) JYSB. -Create awareness yo. And the one and only rehearsal's tomorrow. I'm gonna conduct for the performance 。_  。WELL ANOTHER EXPERIENCE RIGHTTTTT. Haha . Everything's kinda messy, considering that we only have 70minutes together with so many other performers. No I do not mean that we need 70 minutes, 10 will be sufficient . But thing is, IT'S TEACHERS DAY WHY HAVE IT DURING CCE PERIODS? And participants & student councillors ( which is like half of the school i guess ) need to be excused from 2 periods of lessons to prepare. Like, what's the point? Other schools get to celebrate on Thursday together with ACES. B U T I understand that, we can't waste time for celebration. We need to S•T•U•D•Y ok. Sigh. Life is hard. 

Alright it's late and I've yet to charge my phone soooo, bye! Ps, the next post should be about fooood ;)

Xx, SammyyyT 

HAPPY SEPTEMBER! Follow me on instaG, @  MusicSpeaksLikeArt 

And on twitter, @ SammyyyT 

(Should I change both to SammyyyT? )

TA2 week .

Hey guys! 

Its TermAssessments for my school this week! I have been slacking so much after the semester break and revision's kinda last minute :/ . But I promise the next time, I WILL REVISE EARLY . I cannot afford to waste time . Well after all, End Of Years starts on 25 september. 

Buhuhu •que's in "wake me up when September ends" green day. 

Anyways. Monday's language papers weren't too bad. Just the fact that passing mother tongue's gonna need the help of a miracle. Which is impossible.. Tuesday's math and social studies' paper went okay. but some bumps came along, well mountains to be exact, which stopped my brain from functioning properly. My mind went blank for a few moments. 

Wednesday's history paper was... Tedious. Had to write non-stop for it. (Yes I know there's papers that require far worse than writing 1 hour). I'm looking forward to get it back! 

Thursday, today's combined science paper was.. No comments. I complete both papers within 35 mins? ( every paper is an hour long ) so I completed it very quickly. And I don't think it's gonna be fantastic. Well maybe the opposite. Extreme. Sigh. 

ButWHAT'S DONE IS DONE . 

These days I've been listening to the instrumental playlist on my phone. I guess it's a great way of distressing and the songs are not bad actually. 

They consist of Yiruma, Kevinkern, some random drama instrumental that my mom got which makes up most of it and ABRSM grade 5 piano pieces. They're all actually good and yeah nice. ( adjective toddler here ) 

I guess that's all for now!

Xx, sammyz

 

^ picture from the national day performance! Didn't manage to get a full band pic so here's the unglam me heh. 

SINGAPORE'S 48!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SINGAPORE! 

Alright I shall start out with this year's celebration with my school first alright :D

SO, as usual, parade was what kicked off every NationalDay. Band had to play music while the UGs marched. JYSS's parade's the most unique I've ever seen. Instead of having continents/companies ( idk what its exactly called but you get my point ) in front of the whole school, different UG will be marching on one block. So its like 1-2 UG(s) to one level. They will be facing the parade square so everyone has a good view. The parade's very grand and when everyone stomps after the music stops, its like the whole block's shaking. Awesome. And given that we're Sec3s this year, our fellow schoolmates were commanding and flag-holders. Everything went sorta ok, nothing was abrupt ( I guess ) but for my band, many many members were late, even the door was opened late. We were all rushing. But in all the messiness and rushing, I'm glad that nothing serious was wrong. But we didn't get to debrief the band and take a picture :( 

Anyways, One of my (new) Piccolo's spring was very weak and one of the Key was stuck, it must be sent for servicing and I didn't get to use it for any rehearsals. I had to use the old one which I'm not used to at all. The sound was so bad, so airy. BUT IM SO GLAD I MANAGE TO USE IT FOR THE ACTUAL PERFORMANCE. The sound was much more smoother. :) 

Right. So, after the parade we had some UpperSec traditional games interclass competition. My besties and I took part in scrabble. Lets just say that our score wasn't as fantastic but it wasn't the worse ok ? There was some time before the next event > Teacher's soccer match. So, HC, ZK, Vora and I sneaked up to the PA room to Jam out to our music. Amazing experience ! We didn't bother to go down to watch the match when it was time. FunRun seem more interesting. But I kinda wanted to watch it haahaah so yeah. After the match was some assembly performance. I wouldn't call it a concert cause the only performance was our choir singing to NDP theme songs :3 It kinda bored Hc and I heeheheheh. 

ALRIGHT MOVING ON TO TODAY'S CELEB! 

Mom's side Famz's gathering! :D SO MUCH GOOD FOOD I HAD. It was kinda like a pot-luck ( idk what you call it ) which means everyone had to contribute food! I've come to realise that, my family is so bonded and fun to be with. We often have gatherings that brings everyone fun joy and laughter! Adults enjoy time with their other half, kids go crazy with all the pressies they receive from others! Its always a beautiful sight to see everyone loved and happy. 

There were games today, organised by my dearest aunt ( and famz ) and my beloved grand aunt! It started off with forfeiting those who didn't follow the dress code> Red & White. They were told to dance to Psy's Gentleman. >:D

The first game's a "traditional game" which my family will definitely play every games session. >de Musical Puzzle< I guess it was inspired by musical chairs but for this, everyone has to pass around something-> be it a box or a cup of water. But today was the cup of water and when the music stops, the one holding the cup will have to pick a card. It may be a forfeit or a lucky one where you win a prize. 

It may be a simple game but it brought us much laughter. :D 

Next's >The best of the Best where we all get into different groups and for every round, a member will be nominated to compete in various theme for the best of the best. Great experience! 

After that was a few hilarious games which I wont exactly go into detail, SO here's some pictures! 

 The Sexiest CatWalk! 

WINNING TEAM!

HairTie game!

Today was fun, everyone enjoyed I guess. well, at least the food :) Had some catching up with my lovely cousins together with their girlfriend/boyfriend. Met my oldest cousin's boyfriend, Nicholas, for the first time :)

 OKK so I guess that's all for this year's celebration! :)
Xx, Sammyyy