practicals are over and well, preparations are on the way.. quite looking forward for the start, then what will come, will come. and before i know it, it will be over.
so hang in there!!! i can do it!
physics practical was okay. biology too, only that an unexpected came out for the drawing part.. usually it will be fruits or flowers. but a prawn came out this yr! got a real shock. but i guess it was alritey. just a little hiccups here and there..
our sch's open house was kindda dead. little ppl, maybe coz of the little publicity.. drama put up an awesome haunted house. they did it in just few days! cool.. enthu juniors we haf. miss the times. drama rocks!
christopher is out for spore idol. i will be missing tv and com for a while till the exams end.. oh and it's gonna be the first anniversary since i started blogging! hehe.
blessings // *
trying to work hard. and i guess i am. doing practices and stuffs. shld be a while before i come online again.
chemistry prac was sort of a disaster. VA i got 25.3! hope it's correct. den the calculation part! i pressed my calculator wrongly! arrggh! from 0.0169 to 0.169! big diff! no wonder i couldn't do the remaining parts! den QA was hard to test for the gas! damn! must work doubly hard for the other papers den. wish me luck!
tmr is our sch's open house for the p6-ers. it's the first time! to think i haf long past those young days in amkss. well going to 'visit' our sch tmr wif faridah and pamy.. funny. amksians visiting amkss?
maia is out of spore idol! wth! hhmm i think i now only support leandra and daphne.. olinda not too bad. it will most prob be an all-girl finals eh?
wish me luck for my 'O's!
blessings //*
finally.. well it really was time he left. guess now spore is finally starting to realise dat talent is inclusive too.
next to go: chrissy-poo christopher!
hhmm, the study break is starting.
and i really haf to study. but i dun seem to be focused.
focus, come on focus! monday will be going to sch to study wif joanne and grace.. den wednesday wif cleo, shinye, jiayu, yixuan. thursday is chemistry practical!!!
yooohoo! so better run now.
blessings // *
i noe, it doesn't really concern me, but i didn't wan to be labelled as pangseh.com so just went wif them.. hehe.
quite cool, they have a new building wif nice facilities. we were forced into a lecture theatre wif an ongoing speech. got quite boring and we left halfway. den walked arnd.
den left the place. overall it wasn't dat bad. at least better den anderson jc's open house last yr. rmb dat we feigned we were sec 4s back den. haix memories..
den me, jiayu and shinye went to j8 and met edwin there. edwin was going for erm, a date.. lol. so just pulled him out a little earlier and went to take neoprints, again!
me. edwin. jiayu. shinye // taken @ j8
hhmm i guess i better go do some maths..
den will be dinner and the results for spore idol!
wHooaaah!!! =p
it's finally over. i'm no more a secondary sch student.
well at least in name, but i still feel like one though.
yesterday, went to sch early for the rehearsal. but in the end i chose not to practise but just present my speech naturally as it shld be.
went back to class to prepare for the big moment, and when the ppl came coming in, little farewell gifts were being exchanged. gawd, i feel guilty for not preparing any.. maybe before i leave spore. a big thnx to..
jiayu- for the wonderful test-tube of stars
shinye- for the cute little sega seed bottle
ryan- for the cool name gel cup
melissa- for the self-made postcard
ms ng- for the arty sponge note
and others who presented something in one way or another.. blah blah blah, etc etc etc..
the farewell assembly started wif the principal and vice-principal giving speeches. den was the 'alternative amksian awards' presentation. first time our sch came up wif this idea. sunshine award went to shehnas, arty-farty to cleo, golden voice to faridah, and haoren got gift of the glib. there were others too.
the video presentation showed past photos. was cool as we compared now and then. the sad thing was the clip was short wif little pics. the teachers did something like a farewell mtv, and recorded their farewell msg. the teachers later put on a singing performance. not bad, to think they can sing! haha!
i went to give my speech after that. guess it was okay, got positive feedback like during the sc investiture. hhmm i did nearly shed tears on stage, paused a little.. one was because i lost track of where i read till! a little teary-eyed as i left the stage. lol.
my vote of thanks
Good afternoon to our principal Miss Tan, vice-principals Mdm Cheong and Mr Tan, teachers and my fellow schoolmates. I am Ho Chi Hoe from class 4/1. It is truly an honour to be given this opportunity to deliver this year's vote of thanks on behalf of the graduating students.
What an unbelievable time I had in AMKSS! Even without our realising, four, five years have passed us by, and we are now one step closer to our dreams. Well, maybe not just one step, but our journey in AMKSS really seems like an infinite number of steps. Though tough, it was definitely fruitful, enjoyable and worthwhile.
Remember that day when we first walked into AMKSS? We were like Martians arriving on planet Earth. Wide-eyed and eager to get a taste of secondary school life, we sat in rows in the school hall that amplified the chatters of our parents and teachers. Inside us, we were awaiting the start of what was to come. Though we donned different coloured uniforms then, we now have a shared identity.
Then, upon spending time in secondary school, we find ourselves surrounded with friends, whom we studied and played with, shared our thoughts and happy moments with. We chatted and gossiped about 'scandals' in our class or level, laughed at one another, got scoldings and of course compliments from teachers. There is just such a long list of happy, sad, angry moments that we shared with our friends. Also, our wonderful and persevering teachers were there for us in good times and bad. They are like our 'second parent' who will always be there on the look out for us, ensuring that we studied and gave us lots and lost of homework. There were also many, many tests and exams that came flooding in with our homework. Not to mention workshops, courses, and our CCAs where we were given a chance to excel in a different avenue that we were interested in. Have I yet to mention the amount of homework we were given? I am sure all of us can relate to these experiences that have come our way in our four, five years in AMKSS. It is with sheer determination and motivation that has brought us this far.
Of course that isn't all. We enjoyed and even organised various events. The Millennium Carnival, though some of us couldn't enjoy and could only hear of the exciting happenings from our seniors; The Musical 'The Place For Us', which was held at SCGS Khoo Auditorium; the high-spirited day when we first stepped foot into this building; NOMAD, and the most recent Silver Jubilee Carnival, just to name a few. It was during these events that we were able to come together as a team. Though it wasn't always easy, but with all the problems we faced, it only made us stronger and better as a team. It is all these experiences that will carry us through in our future. It is all these memories that will definitely be impossible for me to forget.
So, today as we gather in this hall for the very last time for our Farewell Assembly, we are hit by the fact that we have come to the end of our secondary school journey. Once again, after nearly four, five years, we are at the crossroads of our lives. In one special way or another, we have excelled. The years in Ang Mo Kio Secondary School are ours to hold on to and make full use of what we have learnt as we embark on the next phase of our journey.
On behalf of the graduands, I would like to express our heart-felt gratitude to our alma mater. Thank you...
-- AMKSS
- for moulding us to what we are today and instilling moral values in us
- for motivating us to 'Always Strive For The Best'
-- Our principal Miss Tan, vice-principals Mdm Cheong and Mr Tan
- for always encouraging us to take up new challenges, and reach for the horizon and beyond -- The whole long list of teachers like my form-teacher Mrs Chung who never once stopped supporting, encouraging and believing in us, Mrs Anand, Ms Ng Kae Pheng, Mdm Tong, Mrs Rama, Mr Guang, Mrs Ismail, Mr Goh, Mrs Lee, gosh and so many others
- for understanding and guiding us in our pursuit of our dreams
- for being there to motivate us and seeing us through good and bad times
- for always showering care and concern that makes such a big difference to us
- for constantly ensuring that we are on track academically
-- Mr Ong, our fearsome Discipline Master
- for always maintaining discipline and drilling in us the familiar where-is-your-collar-badge, tuck-in-your-shirt lines
-- The school administrative staff, lab attendants, cleaning attendants, canteen vendors, all whom we cannot do without
-- The organizers for today's Farewell Assembly
- for this memory that we can hold on to
There are just so many people who have made a difference to my journey in AMKSS, so much so that it is so hard to thank each and every one of them right now. I cannot imagine how secondary school life will be like if not for my good friends, teachers, and all the events and experiences that we went through that make Ang Mo Kio Secondary School even more vibrant and colourful. It will be the times that we spent together, like with 4/1 doing our Haunted House, putting up our class play, and being all stressed with one another, with the Student Council Board organising events, camps and having fun, with the Drama Club playing games and practising hard for major performances, that will truly remain in my heart no matter how long it will be from now.
Graduands of 2004, we have reached yet another 'pit-stop' of our journey. For now,
blessings for the coming challenges. Bear in mind that overcoming any obstacles is in the power of the mind and soul. Keep the indefatigable spirit in you going, believe in yourself, and wonders will you achieve.
Thank you.
there was singing lead by haoren and the rest. it was sort of pathetic, no one sang along wif them. my grp did ans their call to stand up, but after a while everyone ended sitting again. anti-climatic!
they started pulling teachers and students up. haoren called and pulled me up. so pissifying. haoren, i hate you! hahaha just joking. =)
the farewell assembly ended like dat. our class went to take a final class photo at the stage stairs of the hall.. sad i will miss 4/1 sooo much! despite the cliches we still worked together when in need. and i guess it was how we behaved and worked that made the class even better and more colourful.. coz if everyone was just to be good wif everyone den where will the sparks be? at least we had differences and made the whole class even more exciting and interesting.. gosh really love 4/1 so much now! we rock!
den walked out the aisle lined wif teachers. dat was the part most cried. at least i did. saw maha and mrs rama hugging and crying. den when it was my turn, couldn't help but cry too! the teachers really made a big difference to my journey in amkss.
reception and photo time!
went arnd taking as many pics as possible.. redklass.2/1 2002 gathered for pics wif mrs anand. it was cool but i dun tink we got everyone in. den took some wif buddies joanne, grace, joshua. wif shinye, jiayu, yixuan, cleo, joseph, ryan, shaoxun, edwin, keith, lester.. and so many others!!! it was all about cameras, smiles, and happy moments dat i didn't touch the spread laid for us.
went for dinner wif ex 2/1 ppl. at first wanted just wif joanne, grace and josh. but nvm.. went j8 and chatted all the way wif joanne and grace. gosh, realised how long it's been since i crapped wif them. i miss the time when me, joanne, joshua, grace went out.. you guys rock!!! den went to take some neoprints:
me.joanne.grace.joshua // taken @ j8
me.joanne.joshua.jiayu.shumin.yien.derek // taken @ j8
well met my parents and sis at j8. they ate sakae sushi w/o me! den we headed home and i practically sat the rest of my thursday in front of the tv.
gotta mug! must strive for the best!!!
the farewell assembly, where i guess all the memories and sadness and happiness and all the different different emotions will come flooding in.
there will be the sad speeches, the sad songs, the sad faces and the sad souls. well, maybe not that depressing, but i guess in a way or another everyone will feel an unbearable tug at their hearts as we walk out the school hall, with the teachers forming a passageway.
tears are inevitable tmr!
unknowingly, 4 yrs have past. funny sometimes how i feel that i wan to grow older faster, but now when i'm going on to my next phase of journey, i actually feel reluctant and cannot bear to let go of this teenhood thing. coz it means parting with friends, with memories..
in sec 1, i'm like "ok, who bothers. i still have a long way ahead in amkss.. so i can just go with the flow and chill."
in sec 2, i'm like "cool, another yr and no more just a junior. but still long before i graduate."
in sec 3, i'm like "hooray, long pants! i'm a senior senior! new subjects, new friends. but i miss my sec 1 & 2 yr.. stress with so many stuffs!"
in sec 4, i'm like "ooops. so fast? u sure? i'm about to graduate? with 'O's on the way? damn, hard to accept!"
at times i really hate going to school.
but den thinking, wherelse but school?
it's like slowly, i started to love schooling, especially meeting all the great friends, teachers, and then having to mug and pull my hair during exam periods.
despite having stress and homework, tests, exams, activites, i find myself accepting school-life to be like that. coz it was through such stuffs that i managed to grow and change.
memories...
1/1 2001:
rmb myself sitting in the sch hall wif ppl i barely know.
rmb myself being a little kid learning the ropes of becoming a secondary school student.
rmb trying to get use wif more hmwk, tests..
rmb myself catching a movie wif new friends (grace, joanne, joshua, pamy) for the first time.
rmb watching the school's first musical in awe.
rmb joining drama and student council.
2/1 2002:
rmb moving to a new building.
rmb spending time wif grace, joanne, yixuan doing our ipw in the sch's com labs till late.
rmb performing in my first stage play during Drama Nite in the opening scene being the kinder boy who felt sorry for bullying a tortoise at scgs.
rmb overly flooding ms ng's inbox wif cleo about stress and math wif long emails.
rmb watching my friends play 'diexian' in class asking about our future sec 3 classes.
rmb deciding where to go from then.
rmb a teary-eyed me on the last da of sch.
3/1 2003:
rmb coming to a class i felt lonely in and missing 2/1.
rmb being my sis's class 1/3's orientation-group-leader.
rmb the fun time wif 3/1 at the sec 3 adventure camp.
rmb getting to know ppl like cleo, shinye, maha, jesmine, joseph, ryan better and calling ourselves the 'gundoo club' and going out together.
rmb going to maha's house playing 'truth or dare'.
rmb going to joseph's house playing pool and swimming, losing my nokia 7210 in the process.
rmb sitting outside the student council rm wif michelle, geraldine, kianann discussing if we shld run for student council exco elections.
rmb taking over the helms of student council & drama.
rmb performing the lead role at the drama syf judging.
rmb particiapting at NOMAD at scgs.
rmb doing duty at farewell assembly 2003 and grad nite 2003 and realising it will be our turn soon.
4/1 2004:
rmb feeling the pressure of being a sec 4 student.
rmb having to mug and still do badly.
rmb staying late and having fun in sch at the music rm having to build a maze out of scrap cardboards that we carried to sch from far away for our Haunted House.
rmb having a blast at the Silver Jubilee Carnival.
rmb coming in tops for games stall.
rmb stepping down from student council with a totally awesome gang of ppl who put up such a great dance which ended in cheers and tears.
rmb having a wonderful time at drama's farewell party.
rmb baking cookies wif cleo, shinye, jiayu, yixuan for teachers' day and sitting in front of the oven crapping as we await our masterpiece.
rmb catching movies, taking neoprints, going bowling wif buddies like ryan, joseph, edwin, shaoxun, lester, keith, cleo, shinye, jiayu, yixuan.
OMG! i'm so gonna miss everyone and everything..
they made such a BIG difference to my life and i'm so totally grateful for everything. i really cannot imagine life w/o amkss and the ppl and stuffs that come together wif it. i'm thankful i got posted to amkss and stayed on, if not i would never have come to know such fanta-bulous ppl and get to go through an experience of a lifetime!
and now, it's like there will be something missing after i graduate. something that has been wif me for such a long time and not knowing about it, until there is an emptiness in the place that was once filled wif things that money cannot offer.
what does the future hold? i really wonder what will happen to me and the rest when we turn 25? will they still be alike or be different when we even get to meet one fine day.. and that is if we even still rmb each other. coz life will not be the same as before, or for anyone of us. life is just so unpredictable. will..
shinye be a loving mother or pinky-fashion designer, and still remain cute, bubbly and chatty? cleo be a model as some magazine cover girl or biologist, and still remain photogenic and vocal in english but not too much in chinese? jiayu be a banker or insurance agent, and still remain sweet, mature and cheery? yixuan be a punggol park nature conservationist, and still remain demure and all giggly? ryan be a business tycoon, and still remain bombastic? joseph be an athelete, and still remain in la-la land? edwin be a bowler or sms-er, and still remain self-conscious and funny? shaoxun be a professor or doctor, and still remain tops? keith be a national badminton shuttler, and still remain lame? lester be a top photographer, and still remain buggy but helpful?
me? i will be somewhere in canada, hoping for the best for myself and everyone else. then attend U, and surely still rmb that very fantastic mad bunch of ppl!
i have to stop. or else i will just start being all lame-O and crappy as i go on and on about life and memories, and get all touchy and emotional.
which i think shld be left for tmr..
i'm gonna cry on my graduation day.
and i will miss everybody.
And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives
Where we're gonna be when we turn 25
I keep thinking times will never change
Keep on thinking things will always be the same
But when we leave this year we won't be coming back
No more hanging out 'cause we're on a different track
And if you got something that you need to say
You better say it right now
'Cause you don't have another day
'Cause we're moving on and we can't slow down
These memories are playing like a film without sound
And I keep thinking of that night in June
I didn't know much of love but it came too soon
And there was me and you and then we got real blue
Stay at home talking on the telephone with me
We'd get so excited, and we'd get so scared
Laughing at ourselves thinking life's not fair
And this is how it feels
As we go on we remember
All the times we had together
And as our lives change come whatever
We will still be friends forever
So if we get the big jobs and we make the big money
When we look back now will our jokes still be funny?
Will we still remember everything we learned in school?
Still be trying to break every single rule
Will little brainy Bobby be the stockbroker man?
Can Heather find a job that won't interfere with her tan?
I keep, keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly
And this is how it feels
As we go on we remember
All the times we had together
And as our lives change come whatever
We will still be friends forever
La, la, la, la...
Yeah, yeah, yeah
La, la, la, la...
We will still be friends forever
Will we think about tomorrow like we think about now?
Can we survive it out there? Can we make it somehow?
I guess I thought that this would never end
And suddenly it's like we're women and men
Will the past be a shadow that will follow us round?
Will these memories fade when I leave this town?
I keep, keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly
As we go on we remember
All the times we had together
And as our lives change come whatever
We will still be friends forever
As we go on we remember
All the times we had together
And as our lives change come whatever
We will still be friends forever
As we go on we remember
All the times we had together
And as our lives change come whatever
We will still be friends forever
den stayed back for the farewell assembly rehearsal. haoren, kenneth, silin, yawen, boonee are leading in the song section.. gonna groove and weep to the tunes of "i'll be there for you", "say goodbye", "graduation (friends forever)", "goodbye"..
can't wait in a way for thurs, but once again hoping it won't come too soon..
no school tmr. guess i will mug and type out my 'goodbye' msg thing.. den tune my feelings for thurs.
hhmm will see about that.
well, at least dat is what i'm feeling now.
and it just feels so terrible!
the last official school bell for us rang today, signalling the end of our lessons and time in secondary school. the graduating part has finally hit us. how far and fast we have arrived at this very moment...
cleo wrote a farewell thing on her blog. read it today, gosh it is touching. got so emotional wif some tears moisturising the side of my eyes.
guess i will leave mine till wednesday..
thursday is the farewell assembly!!! boohoo!
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last day of school. what else den to enjoy it wif the company of friends? went to yixuan's house to celebrate her birthday (which was on sunday) and joel and shaoxun's birthday (which is tomorrow)..
ate pizza, crapped and swam.
the swimming part was pissifying. some idiotic security guard stopped joseph, edwin and shaoxun from swimming coz they did not have appropriate swimming attire.
in italics? well, theirs are swimming attire in a way, but the management just didn't accept it, so they were chased of the swimming pool. wth.
well, then spent most of the time at yixuan's house under the tight scrutiny of security guards. we have made a name for ourselves at her house!!! ahhhahaha!
hhhmm, america's next top model is on soon.
gotta catch it, quite interesting eh..
bye!
the sec 4s and 5s are now coming to the end of our secondary school life journey.. coming monday is the last day of lessons, thurs will be our last official school day with the farewell assembly.
got back our report books. bleh, the prelims L1R5 doesn't reflect our 'O' level chinese.. so i have L1R5 12 not 10. but the L1R5 wif chinese will be shown on an official paper when we apply for our first 3 mnths jc.
doesn't really affect me. guess i haven really mentioned about it in my blog before, but i'm going to canada (toronto) start of next yr for studies. yea, i'm heading there for my pre-U and U.. my bro is there anyway.
hais, will miss everyone and everything here.. =(
hope that time or distance doesn't make a difference to friendship.. though it is inevitable that friends are sometimes meant to be there and then slowly forgotten until u stumble upon them once again.
then, memories will all flood back.
spore idol again saw someone leave yesterday.
david yeo, the beng. i didn't really like or hate him before, so it didn't matter to me. christopher and david was the bottom 2, ah well, the latter got booted out.
leandra was great on the rock 'n' roll theme on thurs. maia, daphne, olinda and taufik wasn't too bad. the rest under-performed.
got lots of chemistry worksheets, blah blah, so gonna go complete them!
sometimes it just hurts seeing how fast time has past.
what's worse, is you don't even know it has done so quietly. and that is what has happened to me, and i guess to many others.
but when the time comes, then i guess it is time.
time to say goodbye. and that time is coming...
real soon.
farewell assembly --
14 oct 2004
baffled now. jeassea and beverly were kicked out.. in the bottom 4 were 2 of them, daphne and jerry. but why did jeassea go instead of jerry? damn. jeassea has the looks, the poise, the vocals of an idol! haix. jerry is like jasmine trias: can't really sing but haf the support of many. talking about this, next wk there's the american idol finalists coming on the show as there are in spore for a concert! cool. & embarassing. american idol standard seems better. the show is much more interesting..
now there's only maia, leandra, daphne and christopher to look out for.. candice has opted out of the finals.
funny how ppl sooo much wanted to get in, and when she did, she chose to leave in the end.
went bowling again today. fun!
ended sch early so me, edwin, ryan, shaoxun, cleo, jiayu, yixuan and shinye went to heartland mall and took some neoprints first.. den joseph and keith joined us.
played 4 games.. my thumb is aching now. ryan hurt his finger. and there were some really funny parts like jiayu's fingers slipped out of the holes of the ball even before she could bowl! some of them was even trying to curve the ball like the pros..
me.ryan.edwin.shaoxun.cleo.shinye.jiayu.yixuan
// taken @ heartlandmall
i'm missing survivor now..
better go now.. dunkos!
a totally big improvement from mid-yr's LiR5 of 18.
here's a low-down of my grades..
english- B3
chinese- A1
emaths- A1
amaths- B4
biology- A2
chemistry- A2
physics- B3
combined humanities- A1
could have gotten a single-digit L1R5 if not for english.
overall, still quite pleased though. only a few glitches and deprovements in english and amaths.
the 'O's are drawing closer and closer. 34 days more!
den there is the coming farewell assembly. gosh..