Advanced Christmas!

Advanced Merry Christmas everybody!

As you can see, I am addicted to the Pic Collage application on Iphone and it's so much more convenient to upload one photo (with many photos in it) than to upload tons of photos individually. Save so much time.

So December is here and it's the month of Christmas!

Presents, food and laughters :D Ooo, I am looking forward to it already!

I have so many things that I want to do and am inspired to work hard on. Let me just share my thoughts with you guys...

1) I am inspired to improve on my flexibility and dance well

2) I am planning to teach piano when i graduate to pass on my knowledge to kids as well as to earn some money

3) I want to improve on my photography skills and not leave my DSLR one side. Hence, I have scheduled a photography outing with Avelyn to the Botanic Gardens :)

4) I want to travel around the world, snapping photos and taking in all the wonderful sceneries. That would be awesome. *_*

Yeaps, that's all for now. I really want to accomplish all that I have stated!!!!! And i know it will come true!!!!

Family

They are the most important people in my whole life. My family.

I thank god for giving me the best parents, the best cousins, the best aunties and the best uncles i could ever ask for. We are such a close knit family that gatherings would be at least once a week. They are the people who have supported me through the rough times and reassured me that all will be fine. Thank you all for being there and I am sure we will stay united as one up till the day when our heads our filled with white hair.

On a side note, I am planning to post a photo everyday. Even though the photo might be insignificant or MEH but I am still gonna do that. So watch this space :)

P.S Oh man, it's only 10.32AM.. Ive been doing random stuffs that felt like ages but only an hour and a half have passed and another hour and a half till lunch. Oh my poor tummy :( Gonna catch up on my Amazing Race to while away the time.

Just came back from Mnet awards and I would say it was truly an experience. Why? Because it was my first time going to a concert ALONE, and I will
never wanna go to one alone anymore.

It's so sad to have no one to talk to or hyperventilate with :(

About the awards ceremony, like I said before I'm not a huge ass k-pop fan. Wait, I'm not even a k-pop fan, I'm only a big bang fan. I only listen to their music and can't be bothered with the others. So, I didn't really enjoy myself there and my aching legs didn't help as well.

Honestly, just a year ago, I would diss people who listen to k-pop music. I take back my mean words because everyone should be allowed to listen whatever they want to.

SSO, Tricia's Advanced Celebration & Grandma's with Niro

Welcome to another chapter of Jul's story..

This is the group of guitarists when we went for Singapore Symphony Orchestra open rehearsal.

I still miss band a lot, and typing about band makes me sad because Mr Lim, the brilliant conductor who brought our band up from a bronze standard to a GOLD standard, left us yesterday. Though I am no longer in Hougang Wind Symphony anymore, my batch mates and I had been through so much under Mr Lim.

We were reprimanded countless times, we were being compared to the other schools (which made us motivated to play harder), we had tetra IV (where bonds were forged and until now, I still have fond memories of that camp. and that horrible solo of mine grr), Mr Lim's WAKE UP, SYF 2007 where we will have night practices *sniff*

Band days were truly one of my happiest times. I made the best of friends and although there were really really really sucky times for me, I do not regret being a part of HS wind symphony :)

Moving on...

The recent sat (26th Nov 2011), we celebrated Tricia's 14th advanced birthday! So, while I was roaming around the house, guess what I found!

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Neoprints of me and my cousins! When we were god knows how old. Neoprints were the trend back in 2005/2006 and I clearly remember taking at least once per week :O Think of how much I could have saved!!!! $_$

Went to Grandma's (a restaurant at Nex) with Rochelle, my friend of almost 10 years. This outing took years to plan and we finally managed to meet up, ALTHOUGH she was just staying two floors down.
The rare days when I leave my house without eyeliner. Ever since internship started, I have to leave my house with eyeliner if not I feel bare. Sigh, I am becoming so vain.

Anyway, I have news to share! This morning, my senior colleague suddenly came to me asking me if I wanted to watch the Mnet Awards and that she wanted to give me a free ticket. Of course i said yes, without the thought of going alone... and now, I have the ticket in my hand and am going alone. How sad yar, but I am still going to get the feel of it and hopefully hopefully, see BIG BANG!!!! Please let me see all 5 of them on stage <3 But, I'm going to reach there around 7pm and 1) I would either be all the way back or 2) I would have missed Big Bang's performance :(

I should more than happy to receive the free ticket, but it sucks to go alone!!!!! No one to high with :( Ok, shall just enjoy myself later on and pray that I reach home alive.

Relieved band memories at the Singapore Symphony Orchestra open rehearsal. I really miss going to such concerts, just appreciating classical music. The last I remember, whenever I went for such concerts, I would either end up sleeping or get bored out of my wits because such concerts were so frequent during my band days.

But now, it's just so rare. I just wished I wasn't at the open rehearsal but at the concert so that I can listen to the whole piece without stops because it's so beautiful.

So basically im pretty excited for my upcoming events!

Tmr, I'm going to Strictly Pancakes with Rochelle for dinner.

She is my friend for about 10 years now and well, although we hardly meet up or have phone calls, whenever we meet it's as though we meet every single day and chat without awkwardness at all. (That was what she wrote in my birthday card too)

And after that, I might be going to Zirca for the 8 days shirtless guys event (prays hard momma lets me but I hardly doubt so :() But, i shall keep praying.... cause it's free and there's hot bods for everyone to see!

And next week, there's gonna be a band BBQ. So, during my work, I was watching old band videos, missing the times with everyone and hola, an event for a band gathering was created!

Woo, time to catch up eh?

SIDETRACK: Im at munch just chilling and there's this three dude figuring out the score and melody for haru haru. I have the score on my laptop and i have this urge to share it with them or even play for them lol)

Ok im kinda done with my post. see you guys!

Gah, just got my feedback from supervisor about my interim assessment (which is a form filled with different elements; creativity, attendance etc and she has to give me a grade from 1-5). I was just one ONE oneeee mark away from an A. If only I had been more consistent on my attendance, that would have saved me and I would have gotten an A.

But well, i have only got myself to blame.

This habit of mine really disgust me and I am so desperate to change. Why can't i wake up on time, get out of my house on time and stop procrastinating? Eventually, i will always end up sleeping more and get really frustrated with myself. Sigh, this has got to change.

I tell ya, my blog is really going to be filled with posts during the period of my internship.

Well, at least i seem as though I'm busy typing stuffs for my work when I am furiously blogging this post.

Some updates about my life... I have a new found interest, dance.

WHAT??? JULIE DANCING?!?!??!!?!?!

That's right.

I have always had a keen interest in dancing since secondary school but never had the guts to try. I loved watching dance videos and would admire people with flexible bodies, shaking them to the music. It seemed so fun and I would secretly dance awkwardly at home. (well, i guess it's no longer a secret huh)

So, i decided to stop wishing and dreaming to dance well and get out there to learn!

Last October, I took up hip hop classes at Studio Wu and I can proudly exclaim that i have no regrets at all. Of course, we are not doing choreography yet and are solely concentrating on the basics but that is more than fun already.

Who knew i could actually move? Honestly, dancing really requires tons of practice. I have been giving my all to practice every night no matter how tired I was and boy, there was really improvement :) Not that Im self praising myself, but I'm really glad that I ventured out into dance!

My ABC (absolute beginner course lol) is gonna end soon and it's a three weeks break before the next course. I am planning to join some other course that offers K pop dance. I wanna try it out! Please don't hate me anti kpop people, i'm not a huge kpop fan but I dont hate kpop either. It's always good to learn something new right? *winks*

Chinese Garden

As i said earlier on, today is a typical boring day at Mediacorp. So.. I opened random folders on my desktop and looked through all the photos in my iPhoto, as i reminisce about the good ol' times.

Then, I came across my folder that has tons of photos shot when i was out for my

photo essay assignment, which inspired this post. I was the photographer, Avelyn was the writer

and I swear that was one of the hardest assignment to accomplish ever.

With no photography skills prior to the shoot, the DSLR was my worst nightmare.

Coupled with the lack of time and a heavy rain, my initial shots were horrible.

Boring shots with no angle, we were not happy with that.

However, we stayed positive and made a second trip back. Despite arguing over the most

trivial things, things turned out well.

Take a look at the end result :)

Some were used for our assignment and there are more shots that are not up here cause they are in my hard disk. We wrote about how Chinese Garden is more than just a tourist spot and

they are many activities that one can do throughout the entire day.

This assignment is 1% words and 99% of sweat, blood and tears. We stayed till late surviving on a bowl of shrimp wanton, which was simply not enough for our poor stomach. We had to stomach rejections from passers-by and I had many many many many many many many failed shots. But.... there is of course a happy ending. After the bad, comes the good right? *winks*

Our marker was apparently very pleased with what we had done and we managed to obtain an A+! How fulfiling.

Eating alone?

I wonder why it's such a big deal to eat alone?

I've heard of people stating that it is a big nono to eat alone and that it is their worst nightmare. Yeah, I mean it sure is sad to have a meal alone.. People will look at your with their sympathetic and beady eyes thinking how loserish you are. That's what most people are afraid of; to be assumed by people that they have no friends.

But hey, its actually perfectly fine. Im heading to amk hub alone for my lunch and thank god, for the blogger app that I'm blogging via iPhone!

Reason why I'm lunching alone is because I would rather have some peace and quiet time than try to fit in with people that I have no common topic with.

"A Song to Remember"

And so once again, it's another boring day at Mediacorp.

Took a short break and went to take a stroll around the make up unit area, in the hopes of spotting some celebrities. Unfortunately, I saw none, not even calefares. But, on the good side, I saw the olden street and props set up for the "A Song To Remember", a blockbuster drama which is currently airing on Channel 8.

(oooo, blogger changed its photo upload system. Now, we can see the progress of the upload and the speed is much faster! That's awesome.)

I took a video of the place as well but I am rather embarrassed to post it up because of my nonsensical ranting so photos will do. Hmm, I have this thought of taking daily videos of my random doings and uploading onto this space. That will be quite interesting and my blog is going to be lively with photos and videos.

Anyway, im sure this post would conclude how bored I am. See ya folks.

Shucks, I am having a very uneasy feeling now all thanks to an email.

As part of this internship, our Liason Officer (LO) is supposed to visit our company supervisor numerous times during this 5 months. But, after two months, my LO has not even met us once. I have no clue how she looks like at all. Well, so i happily informed Mr Bangras, our internship head about it and what we should do for our interim assessment(note the word: INFORM- I had no intention on letting my LO know about it) and Mr Bangras happily forwarded her the mail i sent him.

Now, im in big trouble because my LO is not happy that I didn't consult her first and the only thing that is running through my mind now are my grades.

It better not suffer because of this stupid mail.

I have to also mention one incredible feat that I achieved yesterday.

I stared at an excel sheet for 16 hours straight. Props to me!

Two solid months at Mediacorp has flown by. Although I still have no idea what I want to do in the near future, I do know one thing. What I will not want to do.

Shots taken when i visited Hort Park for the first time ever. Pretty typical shots that most aspiring photographers will take but it was worth a try. Although the main purpose was to shoot pretty flowers, we managed to catch a glimpse of the beautiful sunset.

This does not taste as good as Rochor's beancurd or LaoBan at Old Airport Road. It's just another Tau Huey from the typical neighbourhood. However, it was bought with love from my mother when I asked for it, despite the heavy rain. That is mother's love.

Say hi to my best friend of 10 years.

Always had a blog but never knew the real purpose of having one. I would occasionally post random thoughts but after reading storyofbing.com, I was very inspired to have an online journal where i will be able to jot down anything and everything about my life and have a place for my photos to be stored.

So, let the story of Jul begin..