Saturday, October 28, 2006: my life this week
phew, its been a really hectic week and there was so much to do and so much things to be at! okay, i'll run through the list really quickly!
monday, 23rd october (also known as my brother's birthday)
well, the yr 11s threw us a customary yr 12 farewell formal dinner, and it was AWESOME. oh my mudder, you should see the decoration and everything! they turned the rec' room into a dreamy heaven, and then we had a really good dinner. we got to dress up really pretty once again, and well.. lets just say we took a really long time after school to get ready for the dinner which starts at 6.30pm and went on till like about 9 so i didnt get any studying done besides the ones that i did in school. heh. *apologetic grin* the dinner was really cool though. (: they made such a pretty slide show for us, our whole journey from when they were yr 6 to this year. (: its been really cool alright. and they gave every yr 12 an award, lol, every yr 12 was like a goddess, and they came up with really pretty funny ones. HAHA, mine was like goddess of sleeping and the reason why? "i dont know how this yr 12 boarder does it but, she sets her alarm really loud, and when it goes off she wakes EVERYONE in the boarding house except HERSELF." lol.. hello, abit too exaggerated right. hahaha, i so do not wake up everyone else in the boarding house! :/ how embarrassing.
tuesday, 24th october
we had the last boarder chapel service.. chapel service isnt really like chapel chapel.. its really different to the mg chapel.. well in chapel that day we had like slideshows, poems, stories of boarding and stuff. it was quite cool and some yr 12ves got really emotional.. and it just reminded me again of last year at bacculaureate svc ): when we saw the mg vid that the teachers made for us, kinda like that scene. heh. was really sad. didnt take any photos cos i forgot to put my sd card into the camera.. -.-"
wednesday, 25th october
again another customary thing in the boarding house - we went out for dinner with mrs freitag (she's the BH mistress) and went to king's park! :D it was really cool. before we left for dinner we had this like mini farewell assembly thingy in the rec room.. we got flowers and we reminisced about the funny incidents in the boarding house. LOL! there were really funny stories that were accumulated over the years, especially for those who stayed in the BH since yr 6.. pooey! thats like.. SIX whole years! BH is like their LIFE man! it must be so sad for them to leave (despite all the complaints about being a boarder. :P) anyway. so yeah, the yr 12s shared about the funny moments, and then we went to this thai place for dinner. PHOA. yummm. hahaha, it was really goood... man i ate so much! (not to mention we had like an english party earlier in the day, PLUS we got cake in calc.. arghhh!. i can just feel the calories.. regretttt. -.-""""")
so anyway, after dinner we had ICE CREAM (yes i know. how much do i eat man! i prob like accumulated 5000 calories that day just eating so much junk! :/ i had a giant sandwich. was too irresistable, so i had to. :P after that we went to kings park. hoooboy. you should see king's park at night. so pretty! its already so pretty in the day. and the great thing is, it's on a hill overlooking the city, so at night, when all the lights are on, the scenery is soooo pretty. and the wind caressing your face... no wonder so many couples flock there like in the middle of the night. like seriously. we saw random couples sitting at like hidden, dark corners, and you dont really realise until you take a closer look.. oh my mudder, what on earth are they DOING!?! (man, i tell you, listening to the boarders' talk you start to think dirty tooo.. :S)
when we got back to the BH.. sadly we couldnt have muck up night (its like a crazy night where we wake them up in the middle of the night and torture the kids in the BH.. i've heard such horrible stories like making them run around in their pjs when the sprinklers are on, banging on their doors while they sleep, pour maple syrup on their beds, steal their shoes.. and alot more worse stuff) sadly we couldnt have muck up night cos of the possibility of parents complaining and people getting hurt, so we had to resort to other nicer means. blah, i was so looking forward to it. but oh well. (: we should be nice people right. hahha. anyway. so we just rang the chapel bell (and it is VERY loud) like a million and one times until like everyone else in the BH was scared that something would actually happen. like seriously, you could see the lights turned on in the rooms.. anyway, so we had a sleepover thing instead in the rec room.. watch dvds till like 4 am (only 2 dvds actually)- "step up" and "the devil wears prada" but i kinda slept halfway thru DWP cos i've already watched it on the plane.. and i was really tired anyway. so yeah.
thursday, 26th october
it was planned that the yr12s go to HJs (hungry jacks - kinda like burger king in sg) in the morning for a y12 boarders brekkie, but no one wanted to go after like sleeping for 3 hours during the sleepover.. so like 7 out of 30+ of us piled into the bus to go to HJs to take away some breakfast, so that we could go back and have our BH breakfast picnic.. (yes, sadly we had a pinic INSTEAD of muck up night.)
WE MADE ICE CREAM IN CHEM! THAT WAS SO COOLLLLL! :D :D :D I love liquid nitrogen. :D
then came valedictory.. HOOOBOY. came and went so quickly. ):
we had the chapel svc, and we got inducted into the old girls' assoc. which is pretty cool, cos its free, i think. to be in the mg alumni you have to pay $70 and thats alot of money in kristi terms. hahaha. oh well. (: anyway, valedictory. what can i say? we've practiced so much walking into and out of the PAC that we got SO sick of it and we knew the whole routine inside out. we spent every lunch period since last fri practicing for the valedictory chapel svc, singing the song "together we are one", holding candles, sitting up straight, being prim and proper with our hair, getting the sequences and order of events right, etc. it was ALOT of work and lunch hours okay. and we had like a whole run through in the last 2 periods of this day. super big loss, it was private study and religion. thats alot of study time mann. but anyway, so we sat on our seats, straight and tall, running through the whole svc.. feeling really hot cos the spotlight was on us.. feeling really tired from last night. not very excellent i must say.
after school the yr 12 boarders blew balloons up - we're giving mr chidgey (our year coordinator, kinda like year teacher i/c) a surprise! :D we're filling up his office with balloons right to the top! and we blew and blew. my mouth was and is still SORE okay. i think my glands are inflammed. it was really gross and my mouth felt all rubbery. and actually the only thing i really wanted to do was get some sleep before the valedictory svc&dinner came. no time anyways, so after blowing up like more than a 1000 balloons (seriously, not kidding) among like around 15 of us (yeah, i dont know what happened to the other half of our year grp in the BH) it was time to get ready for valedictory. anyway, so valedictory was really cool. (: and sad really. if you think about it. all these girls have been together for like a really long time, no more school forever. uni.. all of us taking different paths. ): we wont see each other anymore, no more BH to complain about, no more instant clothes when you need it and dont have it in your own wardrobe, sisters that make you want to laugh, cry and be mad at, but after a few seconds you cant help but love them for their wackiness. its been a really awesome year with these girls in the BH and yeah. (: its cool. a really cool experience that literally only comes once. so far.) so yeah. dinner. it was so prettily decorated! :D made me feel like i was in Harry Potter.. we sat at like LONG tables in our HOUSES! was so cool okay! and like the atmosphere was so mystical and everything.. was pretty cool. only no see-the-sky ceiling. well i was seated at the end beside ms petrie (she's my link teacher. and yes, the seats are assigned, so i cant just change even if i want to) and casey magee's mom, facing mr starcevich. not exactly very fun. (i mean ONLY refering to mr starcevich, not the other two, they were infact quite interesting) ahahhaa, andrea's favourite teacher hey!! but yeah. (: the dinner was really good fun and they showed yet another slide show which brought about another bout of tears and awwwws.. (: it was really quite sweet!
Friday, 27th October aka LAST DAY OF SCHOOL EVER!
Leavers assembly was pretty cool. (: we dressed up In our costumes (I was supposed to be wendy, so I just wore tashy's bathrobe. Haha. Dunno why but yeah. I should get the prize for least effort put in.) and we danced
1/ era dance. we were all grouped into eras and each era had a dance. pretty cool. (:
2/ ball dance – the mass dance we danced at the ball
Was fun. (:
Then was the formal assembly where we had the change over of leadership roles to the year 11s. haha, so proud of the year 11s, although I don't really know them at all except for a few, but seeing their happy faces and the loud cheers from their year group, I feel that they will do their job well and lead the school into yet another successful year.
Man. I think I will really miss st marys. Seeing people in my year group tearing made me feel all the more sad that I didn't get to know them any better, otherwise I probably would have felt some kind of rush of emotion that I finally am leaving the school for a different life, and I will never get to hang out with this awesome bunch of people again. You know, now I kinda wish I had another year to spend there, although I don't really know if life would be the same as if I were a yr 11 kid now gg into yr 12. I wish I came here last year now, but then again, looking back, I wouldn’t have met jeannie, and then I wouldn't have met subi church and I certainly most wouldn’t have met OCF. So, I really thank God for His wonderful plan in my life, albeit a short time in st marys, but a year worth spent. (: kinda feel bad for complaining in the first half of the year now. I wasted half a year complaining so much that I failed to see the beauty of God’s hand in my life. Yeah. So its pretty awesome now that I've graduated, and I look forward to uni! I guess a new part of my life is just beginning; God's opening new doors for me, and I can proudly say that, yes, God has played a crucial role in the planning of my life.
ps, i'm too tired to wait for the pictures to slowly load up. hehhheh, so i'll put them up tmr or something. yupp. got discipleship lesson tmr..and library study again. heh. so looking forward to studying. :S okayokay, goodnight.
a shout of praise.
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