Graduation 2013.

*Photo credits to my dad, my brother, Florence, Kathy and Aunty Tracy. 

THIS POST WILL CONTAIN TONS OF PHOTOS. :D

I have officially graduated from high school. 

The event started at 10 a.m. About five minutes before, my classmates and I lined up quietly outside the theatrette (it is NOT a legit word idk) and waited for the announcement. When we heard someone introducing the graduating class, we walked in. I don't know about anyone else, but I felt tingly and had butterflies in my tummy. I wasn't nervous; just extremely excited.

And now I shall narrate my photos.

We started off with a time of worship.

Worship leader: Zhuang Lin; Backup singers: Jade, Brian, Praise; Acoustic guitarist: David; Bassist: Jo-Vann; Electric guitarist: Joe; Drummer: Michael; Keyboardists: Rachel & Mae-Z

The emcees were Jade and Joe, and they did a pretty good job. *applause*

Address by Ms Katherine, our President

Devotional message from Pastor Steven, our college advisor

And then our juniors dedicated a song to us, "Follow Your Heart" by Anthem Lights.
Appreciate your efforts guys! :) I'll miss you all so much.

Now onto the graduation exercise! :)

Look! I've officially graduated! :D 

Then Pastor Prince prayed for us.

Then Ms Katherine announced one of my biggest achievements yet: 

I was Valedictorian of 2013! Praise the Lord! 

Happy moments like these. :')

I also made a speech! THAT was fun. :D

After that:

We sang the Doxology.

And had a group photo session with all the students, pastors, staff, teachers, and representative from the board of directors. :)

All glory goes to Him.

Now here comes the super fun but super nostalgic part. :')

My loving grandma who has attended almost all my awards ceremonies since primary school. :)

My amazing family. Thanks for all your never-ending support. :)

My fantastic classmates: 

Netanya

Sheralyn

Florence

Jynwaye

Carmen

Venessa

Zhen Yi

Kathy

Bryan

Keenan

Melissa

Sha-Mayne

Christian

David

Look at us, all grown up and stuff. :')

And now moving on to my amazing teachers. 

My adorable and sarcastic class teacher, Ms Joyce, my biology, add math and math teacher.

My funny and vocally-talented English teacher, Mr Eddy. 

My  super nice teacher who taught me English and Math in CERC, Ms Yen Li

My History and Geography teacher (for the first year in CERC) and bible teacher (for the past three years), Mr George.

My Malay and Business Studies teacher, Ms Jacinta.

The administrator of the school, Ms Suh Shian.

And the President of the school, Ms Katherine.

Sadly I didn't get to take any photos with Ms Stella (devotions and Critical Thinking Skills teacher) & Mr Phillip (Accounts teacher) because they left really quick. :(

And next, two of my seniors who came back to attend our graduation as alumni.

With Victoria, my "twin".

And Natasha.

Now for some of my juniors! :) 

Praise on the left and Jade on the right.

Zhuang Lin

Resha

The next two... "juniors" are pretty special, haha.

Le Chi, who is more of my cousin than my junior.

And Russell, who is sort of an ex-junior. He was my classmate in 2012 and one of my closest friends.

And of course, not forgetting... 

Vivien! Thanks for coming!

And here it is:

my favourite photo of the ceremony.

After the event, we decided to go to the Quiet Garden and attempt some jumpshots in dresses. After a number of tries... we did it! 

FREEDOM.

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Time for the after-party. 

 Or more like outing. Or excursion. Or whatever you want to call it; we had a lot of fun anyway.

We headed to Sushi-Q for some Japanese snack time.

Kathy and I after devouring our sushi "platter". Or more like sushi in a bento box.

Then we headed to the arcade.

Carmen and I at the dance game. We are clearly not very good at this. *cries*
We attracted quite an audience though. *hides head in hole*

We also had a five-person challenge at Daytona, a racing game. Y'know, the typical arcade racecar games.

After we tired ourselves out at the arcade, we went to watch Ender's Game. Watching the movie without having a single bit of knowledge of what it is about, I'm surprised I actually enjoyed it. The whole concept is pretty cool, and...

Don't worry, no spoilers here. :)

Anyway, after that we had a ginormous dinner at Chicago, the steak house. The spaghetti carbonara is AMAZING. Florence also set up a fry-eating contest between Carmen and I with all the leftover fries. Both of us withdrew at the same time, and Carmen won by two fries. I was so full after that; my dress was suffocating me. 

Then we took one of our last Strictly For Girls photos of the year. 

*the photo is pretty lopsided, but I thought this was the best one.

I'll miss you guys so much. 

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Phew. That was the longest blog post ever. If you have stayed till the end, you are either my mom or one of my closer friends. And if you are neither of those, then congratulations! I appreciate your curiosity to read on. :)

Bye for now; hopefully I have the urge to blog again. See ya!

Thomas the Frog

After what seems like FOREVER, I have finally accumulated enough motivation to BLOG AGAIN :D 

So hello everyone! 

Saturday, 17 Aug

After my dad's music school closed for the day, my family headed for some formal business dinner, so they dropped me off at Kathy's house. It was fun because we finally managed to record a long-awaited cover! ;D 

Click on the link to watch She Will Be Loved cover by Kathy and I :) 

http://m.youtube.com/channel/UCBbp5sP_BWIRHA_hKm7TB4w#/watch?feature=plcp&v=nAFf_oewq1I

Oh and btw, I was the first passenger of hers to sit in front ;) yay for driving friends! Haha. 

Yesterday (Thursday, 22 Aug)

LAB DAY

Warning: Disturbing pictures ahead. If you have a weak stomach, please do not continue reading.

My school made a trip to Sunway University for lab experiments. It was Biology & Physics experiment day, but I only take Biology. All of us (ok fine, MOST of us) were ridiculously excited to do something that we've been waiting for our entire lives: 

DISSECT A FROG!

Anyway, when we arrived at the uni, the physics students did their thing, while we non-physics students did our thing. We had fun teasing and laughing at our juniors who were in the lab for the first time, but I think the juniors this year didn't break any apparatus. Good for them. (Yes, I broke a couple of things last year.)

Das lab :)

Das test tubes from the food tests. 

After lunch, it was time to dissect the frog. Ms Joyce, our bio teacher, brought in an entire bucket of chloroform-ed frogs. She gave each of us a metal tray with a slab of wax in it, together with a bunch of equipment to slice up the poor frogs.  

And then she slapped a frog onto our tray. 

*cue squeals*

Apparently the frogs were bought from a restaurant. Yum. Name of frog: Thomas. 

Ms Joyce demonstrated the first steps of dissecting the frog, which was to slice the skin open and then cut through the muscles. Oh, and do you know that Thomas has EIGHT (very visible) ABS? Whut. 

Das frog, all cut open and gross. It's kinda cool though. Here you can see the heart, the liver, the stomach, the intestines, the gall bladder and the lungs. Yup. 

Fun fact: a frog's tongue is attached at the front, unlike a human's. That's why it looks so long! Deceived

And then we proceeded to flip it so that we could take out the brain. Unfortunately, the brain was too small, the skull was too hard, and we couldn't locate the brain. Seriously, the frog's brain is so small. 

BUT there was something kinda revolting that we found. At the end of the large intestine is the rectum, where poop is stored. THOMAS' RECTUM WAS ACTUALLY HARD AND FULL OF POOP. Poor thing! He didn't even get to shit before he fainted. 

Thomas is watching. 

And then in the process of finding the brain, we poked out the eyes. They're kinda pretty O: 

Das me with the frog. 

Unfortunately, I am unable to upload videos on this blog for some reason, so feel free to visit my Instagram profile to watch a video of the beating heart of the frog, even after all that dissecting. The coolest part was that the heart continued pumping like crazy even AFTER WE DETACHED THE HEART FROM THE FROG'S BODY. Dangggg. 

Here, something pretty-looking after all the gory pictures. Here's a test tube of all the food tests results combined, done by Michael. It was unintentional, apparently. But it looks cool. (Y)

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So yeah, those were the highlights of my week. Of course, I totally left out my vacation on a cruise, the SuperStar Libra, and in Phuket & Krabi, Thailand. I might blog about it in the posts to come. 

Stay tuned! :)