Okok ill update. Sigh it's hard trying to recall the rest of the days of the trip, after such a long time. Sch's a wreck now. Gd thing i just managed to catch the speed train everyone else is on. Havent had the time to start much on revision yet, stress levels rising, wads new. All talk and no work wastes energy. Still owe a few assignments here and there. There's hope.

Germany Part 2
Here's the part of the trip where all the serious stuff comes. The true emotional rollercoaster. Ups and downs. Highs and lows. Climbing and falling and climbing back up again. Sweat. Tears. More tears. Happy tears. Not so happy ending.

Day 3:
Thx to hs for waking me up. In fact hes always the one waking me up. Gd ol' trusty alarm clock. Went to the public loo, heard gay karaoke over in the cubicles. Hmm i wonder who those ppl singing were o.O? Lol. Dilly-dallied here and there, then went down for breakfast together wi grp9. Lamed around at the table, funny how our table always makes the loudest (n most spastic) laughter in the whole dining house. Spent so much time talking that we had to shove our food down our mouths to make it for practice. Half an hour for breakfast definitely isn't enuf, considering how unused i am o eating breakfast, considering how late i always wake up.

Hmm cun remembered how practice sounded. I guess it was alright. All the practices were made to be alright anw, so our moral wouldnt be dampened. And we would be high and gd-spirited all the time. Well we were. Oh yah, we were supposed to have our acoustic checks for both categories today. And so we practiced only for a while n then made our way into the buses and rushed to the competition venues. Jam on the road. Sweet. Ok nvm. Yupz so we were abt half an hr late, but turns out the whole schedule was pushed back half an hour. Lucky~

The first acoustic check was at our sacred competition venue, the Church of somelongnamewhichicunanddunbothertorecall. *breathes* It was terrible. The voices, blending, wadeva. But the place was beautiful. Blame it on ourselves for not being able to adapt well to different kinds of environment. Cos we did fine at the next venue, Die Glocke, which looked like Victoria Concert Hall we're familiarised wif.

The rest of the day was practices practices and more.... yea u get the picture. Had to settle lunch and dinner at the train station again. Oh this time grp8 n 9 combined to eat lunch tgr. Ate at some bread restaurant. The food there was actually quite nice, 2 plus euro for this mushroom pizza thing. Yum. Cun remember wad i ate for dinner. Think it was some kind of bread thing again. Oh well. Din eat much dinner cos kinda full. Oh hs was gonna conduct sectionals in some corner of the convention hall, and we had to stick wif our grps, so promptly bought some food and rushed back. Kinda pity the altos, always gotta be on al-tos, brushing up all the time, in case Ms Lim gets cranky again and starts blaming them. Get the joke. *Chuckle?* Anw, the way huishan teaches sectionals is fun. But it always the same old ti-li-li frog part.

Curfew was super early today. Cos of tmr’s competition. We din really practice sacred, cos contemporary was the first competition in the early morning. So unsafe, which may contribute partly to the downfall. Hmph. Anw no time, so wadeva la. Oh and had to pack all our blazers into one big bag for the grp, so was house hopping and walking to and fro the rms of our grps. Finally shoved all the stuff in my red nike bag, brought one camera only, a few water bottles, makeup and other girly whathaveyou, umbrellas, wallets, passports and our participation passes. Went to bed after that. Oops we broke the curfew. Impt business anw. Oh plus I had to iron a few costume pieces that were a bit crumpled. Gd thing my mum helped me iron them b4 packing them in. And I was thinking of getting everything done only in Germany. Nice thinking mom. Plus the iron super sucky. I can probably put my hand on the iron and not get burnt. Hmm then ill get iron fists yay.

Competition the next day, yet throat alrdy dying out on me, but must persevere. So gulped down PiPaoGao and ate Vit. C. Fell asleep as soon as I got into bed. Sad, only had the time to chat wif honseng on the first night. The rest of the days curfew was too early to do anything else toehr than prepare.


Argh im lazy to continue day 4. Another day perhaps. perhaps. perhaps.

Germany
10 days of wonderful experiences. Encrypted memories. Bittersweet moods.
All kinds of emotions felt during this journey.
love. hate. jealousy. envy. happiness. shock. dismay. regret. sadness. disillusion. tired. inspired. joyful. relaxed.
No regrets.

Day 1:
Pre-trip was disastrous. Everything was so last minute. My dad had to settle some stuff before sending me to the airport. So things dilly-dallied and i ended up being late. Reached at 615 i think. And i kinda regretted not bringing my phone. Couldnt contact xw my grp leader. And wouldnt be able to msg or call when i would return to Singapore on 21st. Was so pissed off at my Dad we had a lil heated argument. In the end the quarrel was for nothing since the waiting time was horrendously long anw and ppl was just standing arnd interacting.

My mum stayed to see me off. Stupid bro din come. Oh and i wrote my letter to princess on the car, was so flustered cos the car was jerking like crazy. Hmm was kinda sad when i had to leave my mum, walking thru the customs. Hugged her goodbye, and then started getting excited together with grp8. Tis' gonna be so fun, sticking wif half of my clique the whole time. Too bad jh hc becks and sr are in grp9. But im sure there'll be times when we combine grps.

The first half of the plane ride, from Singapore to Bangkok stopover, then to Helsinki, everyone was hyper. Who wouldnt be. I liked my seat arrangement, wl was in front of me, honseng diagonally across, and serene and mich and stan on the left of me. And jaime, hs, leeting and xw diagonally behind. That is after some changing of seats la. The J1 couples were all paired up nicely at one corner beside the windows, and some unlucky fellas had to sit beside them and brighten up their lives.

Suddenly there was this photo snapping frenzy. Everyone walked arnd and took photos of everyone in all kinds of poses. Haha stan cmi in act dao poses, and most of his pics the eyes so small, blink or dun blink still look the same. Hmm then we started singing, disgustingly, during the boring stopover at Bangkok. Irritated the air stwardesses yea. They had to remind us like 5 times to sit down n be quiet. Yupz then aft tt it was more food and then sleep generally. Oh i was playing Uno with a whole grp of juniors and I was last to end after a long long time of struggling with stan. Cos both of us refused to let each other win, so we keep tapping on each other's weak color.

Wrote a postcard entry and then chatted a bit wif mich, then went to sleep. Woke up the next day wif aching neck. And couldnt really sleep well either, cos not really tired at all. Gd thing i had my mp3s for company.

 
Day 2:
Still on the plane. Still more food. They practically served us meals every 3 hours. And the food wasnt fantastic either. I was lucky enough not to eat my fill in Singapore before i took off. And to think i took extra bread for the first 2 meals. Ew. We landed in Helsinki airport to change to a domestic flight to Hamburg. More customs. Urgh my hand luggage stuff was so bulky and heavy it always put a strain on my shoulders whenever i lug them .

Slept more on the domestic flight. Couldn't walk around much, since there was only one aisle and it was so narrow. After a few hours, finally touched down at Hamburg. Yay! Now we take another coach ride to Bremen. Wad de. And the groups were seperated into 2 coaches. Sob.

Basically lamed arnd in the bus with the juniors. The 156 ppl. Oh and was trying desperately to take good shots of nice buildings while on the moving coach, but guess it was too tough for my miserable photography skills. Always blocked by trees or couldnt capture the entire building.

Stopped at some chinese restaurant for lunch. Called Shanghai Tan. There we got blasted by Mr Ang cos we kept labelling the couples together. Poor huishan being traumatised by Mr Ang twiced already, and this time she only muttered a word. Oh well.

Food was alright i'd say. Din noe abt the cost, so cun judge. But sounds weird coming to Germany to eat chinese food that we find everyday in Singapore? After that we went to the convention hall. The teachers were supposed to register our choir for the olympics there. We met Ms Lim there too. The weather outside was windy and cold, the kind i like. Woohoo. But we were told to stay in our buses to avoid falling sick. But the bus was so hot and stuffy our grp always tend to get out for strolls. Had a small reunion wif grp9, jh n co. Took a few photos, then waited aimlessly. Oh we had to settle dinner ourselves at the train station nearby. Within 20 mins. Dismayed at the prices of the food there. Everything was so freaking ex. In the end i bought a chicken n lamb rollos, smth like a huge popiah wif huge chunks of meat n vegetables in it, as wad mich the wise one describes =P. I tot it wasnt enuf, but i was dead wrong. Gd thing i din buy more food. Had no time to eat it straight away tho, had to bring it back to the hotel before eating. By then it was more like some cold dish. And it was so filling.

We then headed to the hotel. Ok so it wasnt really a hotel. The choir occupied 2 houses of rms. House 2 had attached bathrooms in each rooms, while house 1 didnt. I remembered i pouted and whined when honseng, my roommate, n i were assigned to house 1. But later i realised how fun house 1 was. Oh and each house had a common bistro where u cook and stuff, and a large dining room equipped with a TV. And in between the houses there was a music room for us to practice in.

I barely used the bistro at all. I only entered it once when i was bored at night wif nth to do. And the shared bathrooms lol. The guys, including me, would all rush to use the shower cubicles everytime we're dismissed in the evening. Running all the way back to the house  to open the door, rushing to get our bathing clothes and toiletries, and heading straight to the shower. I nvr got to bathe first. It was always jh, hc and edwin who used the only 3 cubicles available. It was a fun time in the showers alright. Not in the dirty sense. Singing, chatting, even spraying extremely hot/cold water at each other. Shower wars, that's wad u call it. Heh.

Had practice at nite wif Ms Lim. Voices sucked. Some ppl were suffering from jet lag. I was kinda tired myself. Obeyed curfew, and slept soundly. The pillows were a lil too soft for my liking tho. Slept in berms and tee. Woke up freezing the next day. Oh and throughtout the stay there wl was my nice cute generous blabla boiling water/warm water provider. Cos the electric kettle honseng brougth was pathetically small and had a crack in it. And it would bubble like a volcanic reaction when it boils. Scary. And her bowl noodles are super yummy. Really really nice XO sauce seafood noodles. Slurpz.

 
Ok thats the end of my recount for 2 days. Written long enuf. Now its time to do work and catch up wif life. Shall update more next time. Until then, hope u readers out there are satisfied with this 'meagre' chunk heh.

Sorriez im backdating my entries, so dun be surprised to see this here. Oops. Anw, went to watch Spiderman 2 with the royal family today. Was the latest. Hmm i can nvr seem to cure my bad habit of being late for appointments. Im beginning to act like a big boss or CEO. Oh well.

Dun feel like commenting on the movie. Its good la, as wad everyone else says. Ending a bit stupid tho. And i havent caught Spiderman 1 yet. So i wanna go watch. Feels weird missing the first one then goin straight to the 2nd.

Overall today was fun. In the end the clique gathering at xw's place was cancelled cos too little people. Oh i spent money again. Wad a sin it is to shop. But quite worth it i think. Bought a pair of nice jeans at only $20. Cos the shop having moving sale. Just right can bring it to the Germany trip. Yay.

Ok i havent talked much abt today have i. Basically just talked cock at some stupid coffee bean which i never knew existed, window shopped a lil, then went home. Doesnt sound v fun does it. Aiyah its the kind of relaxing and free kind of outings lor. Simple pleasures normally are the best there is in life.

2 more days to Germany. Woot. Cun wait.

Hmm missed school today. Gave myself an extended school holiday. Ok i noe im screwed when i come back, ah well. Just enjoy wads coming up ahead first. Couldnt wake up again sigh. Mayb its a gd sign that im adapting to Germany time liao. Ok why am i giving myself such a stupid excuse to skip school.

Anyway went shopping again today. Walked around Orchard for 2+ hours, managed to get a sports wallet at 20% discount. Cheap, cool. Ok i think i sound like a typical uncle now. Hmm in fact i've been spending lotsa money buying n shopping for stuff. Pampered myself with a windbreaker, a wallet and a shoebag. Spent about $40 just like that. Oh but i bought the windbreaker for the trip so not counted =P. But today i nearly spent another 20 bucks on an OP shirt. They had 20% discount some more. But not enough cash reserves. So had to resist the temptation.

Damn shopping is addictive.

Oh and Becky n i saw smth interesting today, after dinner wif the clique. Involves scandalicious stuff. Yum. Muahaha. Shant say no more. But the show was really enjoyable lol.

Got back chem today. Damn i tot i would pass. Turns out i was too overconfident of myself. The marking was stricter than i thought. Theres this common trend that i always get pissed off at myself after receiving every test. Cos i noe i can do better than the results shown. And i always let the opportunity slip by, giving myself some convenient excuse, giving myself an escape route to tell myself i have more potential than that. And after a while i start forgetting the goal i set for myself and start slacking again. Then the whole cycle repeats itself. Urgh im disgusted with myself.

Mrs Lim our econs tutor talked some sense into us. Now really motivated to study. And Mr Bek too. Man im happy to have such great caring teachers. Now i feel i can catch up and still make it for the As. I shldnt disappoint them n myself anymore. Well but i'll be missing lessons during the Germany trip, but alrdy made the nexcessary arrangements. Just hope i'll be determined enough and have a strong mind to cope with all the stress when i return.

Until then, i shld just escape reality and have a time of my life there. Its like staying over in a foreign place together with all the choir buddies. So cool, cun wait. 3 more days. 72 hours. *starts counting the minutes and seconds*

Man bathing with two wound dressings on both hands is painful. Real troublesome. Since the dressings cun touch water, gotta wrap my hand in plastic and wear gloved for my left hand. Try scrubing urself and wash your hair with gloves. Just feels weird.

Life in plastic,
Its fantastic

Digression lol. Anw today's prac was awfully short. We weren't at our best standard imo. Anw Ms Lim left for Germany today, so the next few practices will be without her...

Got back some results today. Dun wanna tok abt it. Was utter trash. Can throw into the rubbish bin kind of papers. Worst CT ever. 6 more days to escapism. Catching up with reality after being in a dream is gonna be hard.

Sleepy. First day of school sux. So freaking boring. And gotta face up with your terrible results. Well some people who think they did well might be anticipating to get back their papers la. That was my case in primary n lower secondary. No its the reverse. You'd rather not get back anything. Even though you noe you din do well, you dun wanna prove yourself damn right by getting back the papers with marks that horrify.

Argh pissed off wif myself. Disappointment, anger, depression, supression, disgust, aspiration, contemplation all mixed into one.

Complicated.

Ok late update. Today's practice was fruitful. Mainly cos it was short. So attention span could withhold until the end of practice. Oh well part of the reason was oso cos Ms Lim was in a gd mood.

Anw din start off well today. Was late by 20mins cos of some stupid accidnet along the PIE. Sidegate wasnt even open, and the time I arrived it had to rain, heavily. So i called hs to ask if he had an umbrella. Wad i didnt nid was a blasting, saying I was late and bla. Hello I can read the time. Pissed off walking the long way in right into LT5.

Oh well first half of the practice was slack anyway. After that there was lunch break. Was intending to climb the side gate to go coro to eat. Bad luck, slipped on the wet wire with my sandals and hurt myself. REAL bad. My lil finger was bleeding like mad, couldnt feel it, tot i was gonna die....Nah. After a while of compressing it the pain started overwhelming me, the stinging and burning sensation. Got long cuts on my other hand too. Gah scarred for life. Makes a man rugged =S.

Received first aid from OAC who aparently just came back from Pulau Ubin excursion. I was lucky to get hurt on tha day I guess. Getting hurt isnt lucky tho. After that had to trudge out the long way, through the main gate. Had hs for company, forgot abt being pissed alrdy. Oh well.

The bill came out to a hefty sum. Gd thing frens were around, or I would've been stuck there. Wounds got dressed, got a Tetanus jab, rejected an MC heh. I wanna claim insurance manz. By the time we went back, we were alrdy late for choir. Chanced upon Ms Lim tho, so we din miss anything. She kindly gave us a lift to school, saving us the long walk back.

Had a touh time explaining wad happened to everyone. Oh and thanks for the tags, and the concerns from fellow peeps. Will recover soon. The wound is freaking itchy. Thats a gd sign, I hope.

Havent had a blogging urge for a long time. Explains the infrequent update. Hmm choir is taking a toll on the 4 day break given to us after Commons. Gah like sr said, we're practically married to choir. Seeing it 24 7. Thinking abt it day n night. Same music all the time. Getting sick of some peices alrdy. Esp the impossibly high Nata Lux urgh.

Plus the conductor always getting jumpy when the comp gets nearer by each day. The past 2 days of practice didnt go well, ending on a bad note each time. Then today Hwachong choir said we were quite gd. Everything becomes so contrasting that you dunno wads real or surreal anymore. Like today tenors were suddenly criticised as being covered, when the past 2 days we supposedly were gd. Oh well i always thought......nvm.

Well she walked out on us on Friday. Well it was 15 mins before choir ended anw, so not much harm done, on the practical side. Then Saturday she invited another conductor to come in to listen, then she got pissed off that her face was thrown, well she chose to be angry in the first place.

Emotions is such a dangerous thing. Overdependence on it is risky. Unless you are happy all the time, and thus make others happy always. But life isnt made that way. When you are pissed, and you become emotional, you affect everyone around you, making hem worried and giving them unwanted stress when all u may be pissed at is yourself. Making yourself run on everchanging unstable emotions make you a very volatile person, causing you to break down. Isnt it better to just bottle them up and solve them on your own? Or settle yourself down before being critical, facing the music and dealing with it.

Then again, you gotta have self control of how much to bottle. Unable to express yourself freely sometimes derives a lunatic. Bottle too much and one day you'll erupt like a volcano. And changing your emotions to suit occasions isn't hypocrisy, its flexibility. You nid lotsa control and supression to do tt tho.

But some things are really better left unsaid. Those evil evil thoughts.

Speaking of evil thoughts, I cun really stand tt shit of a blabla anymore. If anyone, could be a fan of him, if tts even possible, pls dun read any further. Singing so loudly thinking he owns the world of high notes, and reserving his capacity at easy parts, and blasting without an inch of common sense, is irritating. Dunno how I lost my cool today, just couldn't take him any longer. Even a capable singer with a wrong attitude doesn't get anywhere. Figures for the low popularity. Oh well, so sorry you're now in my suckers hate list. I'll probably mumble single word syllables if you ever talk to me again, tt is if you can ever get near me.

Ok enuf of evil thoughts. Muahaha feel so much bitchier. Darn I wanna catch Mean Girls. Oops.

The closer you get to light, the darker your shadow becomes.

Knightz At The Square Table: The Saga
And so he rode of on his mechanical horse that runs on an ez-link card, equipped with his black ink sword, a morning star faked as a water bottle and lotsa tomes of knowledge. The gallant knight set off on his way to the series of boss battles he will face.

Day 1:
Boss:GP Transposing Tramp

Easy crap. Knightz whipped him with his ink. Though he casted a few deadly spells like Runny Nose Frenzy and Essay Passage A Confusion. Status ailments suck.

Day 2:
Boss Combo: Maths Maniac and Econs Empath

Worst combination. The two freaks compliment each other. One drains your brain, reducing your wisdom and intelligence. The other saps your energy by sucking your lifeforce and ability points. Plus the fighting environment.....a permanent Blizzard spell.
Knightz had to deal with Maths first. That horrifying junk casted Unidentified Calculations, causing confusion and lowering concentration, sapping life out of Knightz at the same time. Knightz had to use his ultimate move, Unravel Solution and Siphon Marks to be able to defeat it.
Next came Econs. Before that Maths left a nasty pre-death spell: Gastric Pain. Knightz couldnt equip himself wif more knowledge before the next fight. So his tackling ability to Econs was very limited. Econs was atking with Endless Wordflow. It was a long battle. 3 hrs 30 mins to be exact. Knightz's stamina was decreasing with each blow, and his ink was depleting and his strength was decreasing.
Alas, he won the battle, with lotsa items used up, and HP in single digits. Finished Econs off with the Writing Frenzy, with the death countdown slowly ticking to 0.

Triumphant. Knightz returned to rest and recuperate, and shop for items, and play some mini games on PS2. He totally forgot there was a final obstacle to chear, the Chem Boss.

Day 4:
Final Boss: Chem Catastrophe

Knightz was totally unprepared. He used his passive skill: Quick Wisdom, to quickly suck up notes to defeat Chem on his ez-link horse. Oh well Chem wasnt such a catastrophy, Knightz managed to finish it off with the average spells and skills.

Finally, Knightz has won the battle? The ending. There is no end. Its just a beginning. Thats life.



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