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Friday, 31 January 2014 || 6:51 pm

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

30/1/14
Chinese new year celebration in school! But we had to jihe like at 7?????????? Good thing dad drove us to school though. And Yini bought us Krispy Kreme!!! So we had delicious doughnuts early in the morning hehehe. Thanks Yini many love to you! ♥♥♥ so we put on our foundation first and then put our bags in the AVA room before heading back to the parade square for flag raising. Saw Ms Lim while making our way to the AVA room so I took a polaroid with her! We sat at the back of a random class HAHAHA. And after flag raising and announcements we auto went back to AVA room and proceeded with our warmups and makeup. Warming up early in the morning. Gah. Feel so stiff man. And then Yini put my make up and my eye looked like it got punched its so swollen HAHHA and we had to tie two ponytails. When we were ready, we camwhored. LOL. Typical dance people LOLOLOL. We practiced by counting, and did a cheer before we headed up to the MPH. The performance had already started! And before we knew it, it was time for our performance. It was my laat performance in CCHY, and it was time to forget about everything else and just dance. And I guess our item went well. :-) the countings were alright, the horses went well, the gaoqiaos did great and we received a loud applause at the end of the performance. YAY! Good job dancers! Afterwards we went back to the AVA and back up to the MPH again to watch the rest of the performance. We were on time for the CO and choir performance. So we down there like zihigh along with the choir and we also took more pictures hehehe. After the concert ended, we headed back to the AVA. Saw Ms Lim outside the MPH and talked to her for awhile with Zixuan and Desheng, took a picture (Because teacher said I was in my costume) with her and gave her a hug. Dang I'm gonna miss her so much. The only chinese teacher whom we can speak english to. :( then headed down to the AVA room where we took somemore pictures and videos. We took for probably an hour or almost an hour LOLOLOL and then headed to Causeway point with Joeyer Yini and Faith. Had lunch at yoshinoya with the mum and sissies. Saw Yijing who was alone (sigh Yini why no pei your sister) HAHAHA then we went home and um slept. Cos school for the past month had obviously taken away a lot of my sleeping time. Slept until like 5+ and then we prepared to go to reunion dinner at the cousins' place. They were as cute as they had always been man. Erica was like "play with me or I will take your voice foreverrrrrrrrr" and Enver was like idk man following Erica? They are very hilarious hahaha. Dinner was steamboat and ahma cooked rendang! The best rendang ever! Then played with the cousins awhile more before going home.

31/1/14
Day 1 of CNY! Woke up at like 10.30??? And headed to the grandparents' place to bainian. We saw first uncle (Jolene Joanne John) at the carpark and um it was awkward especially in the lift when 10 of us squeezed in it. Then everyone was already there. And it was more awkward. I could tell Wayne Warren and Winnie. But I could not recognise Joel I'M SERIOUS. Because he wasn't wearing specs? And Joshua. LOL. Umm..... yeap it was awkward. We had lunch and all. And John differentiated me and Joey by our bag colours because I was carrying a white bag and he was like "white is w, so w is joween la." That made me laugh for no apparent reason HAHAHA. So we ate the really good food. And the adults talked. And we were there so awkward. Times like this I wished we weren't as awkward, like last time we used to talk and play games and all. Oh well. And it's been 2 years since we met them, cos we were in India when they had a gathering last year. Sigh. We were the second last to leave. And da gu talked about studies omg. Yeap Wanyan is studying overseas in America and she called back. And Kelvin is overseas in Bangkok with his wife (he's married?!!!?!?!??!?!?!) . Ahaha. Anyways I was seeing the cousins picture we took a few years back and wow a lot of things have changed since then. Then we went home. Didn't go to ahma's house today cos nobody was at home. So we straight away went back home.

1/2/14
Day 2! Woke up at 11+ HAHAHA what a good sleep we had. And went to Ahma's house which was Jamie's house. And yup Jamie had friends so awkward. And we played with Nicholas and his girlfriend's dog hehehe so cute I took a selfie with her HAHAHA what. And basically my whole day was like that. We also took some ootd photos and stuffs. And had dinner there too. And yup my day was basically just like that.

Why this year CNY feels so different. I feel so distant from my cousins. Is this how cny is supposed to be like? Sigh. Wish I was closer to my cousins. Wish I am not awkward. Because CNY gatherings at the grandparents' place might get lesser and lesser in the future. I really hope that if there's a chance to get closer with my cousins, I will grab that opportunity and foster the bond. Because what's a family if we don't feel close?

Last few dance days

Wednesday, 29 January 2014 || 7:49 pm

We had our second chingay practice last saturday at the f1 pit! Didn't have lunch with the clique though, and I was really really early. (omg ps I oovoo-ed eliana, andrew and richmond before we left house) so to kill time, I skyped Jiah! Talked to her for awhile :'''') omg I miss her so much. Yup yup so we gathered in the sports hall to get our make up done. And well I was (unfortunately or fortunately) in charge of blusher. Basically I blush everyone up. And for the first few dancers (I'm so sorry guys) I blush them really really red. And that was a joke because Xueqi who was the "advisor" beside me kept laughing /cries/ but then I improved ok. :D ANYWAYS MAX'S BLUSHER AND MAKEUP WAS SUPER THICK IT WAS SO FUNNY. So when Xueqi said "max looks like mrs potato from toy story", the whole sports hall erupted with mine, Xueqi and Joeyer's laughter LOLOLOL hahahaha. And then we camwhored too cos that's what we do. ;) we were super noisy in the bus teasing Danny and just being retarded like we always are hahahaha. We didn't have a first rehearsal before the NE show though, but it went well, better than last week. It was also, really tiring. So difficult to dance in our costumes which are so gigantic. But I'm so glad we managed to survive. Saw many many primary school kids!!! Hashtag relivingndpdays ok. HAHAHA. JIAYOUS CCHY BALESTIERHILL AND PEICAI SAMBA HORSES DANCERS. Left a few more practices before the final day! Hope that everything will go smoothly! P.s. guys remember to watch your tvs ok :D hahahaha
We had cny rehearsals on monday and wednesday, which were made perfect with the dance clique :) yayyyyy we just practiced and all that and hoping everything will go well tomorrow. It's the last performance in CCHY! But not the last performance of the year; we still have chingay! (But it's gonna be over really soon so i cry). And we were zihigh-ing and dancing with the choir people hashtag cos we can. :D hehehe. YAY come on siaozharbors (i mean literally) let's be crazy tomorrowwwww!
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Back to School

Saturday, 25 January 2014 || 11:16 am

Well week 3 of school was a really really loooong draggy boring week of school for me (as always). We had Physics test, Amath diagnostic test and so on so forth. So much for being a secondary 4 student. AND plus the fact that Ms Ng have changed my seat to RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE TEACHER it's really time for me to be a mugger. Do you feel the stress whenever you sit right in front of the teacher and when she asks you a question what fills your mind is:??????. Yup that's me every single day.

Dance clique celebrated Joeyer's birthday on the 13th which was a monday. A really failed short celebration in class during recess. The presents are mostly Jason-related HAHAHA. And went to mac to try to study with Joeyer Xueqi and Yini on the 22nd after school. But it was meh cos I still CANNOT DIFFERENTIATE. So guys, if you think differentiating me and my twin is hard, Amath differentiation is harder. We sang birthday song to Felicia Koh during dance like twice on the 23rd during dance and she was there being shy and all. HAHAHA. And her birthday gift we bought for her are THE BEST man. You can go see her instagram caption what we bought for her. ;) oh during assembly that day my group went to 2G to teach the kids there about energy conservation and stuffs which they are going to do for VIA. LOL And in my group there's these 2 guys who are really funny??? They were like "eh you have one sister jo something right?" And when I asked them how they know, they simply answered with a: STALK LA. LOL I just cannot. Laughed quite a bit during that period.

Yesterday, 24th January we had a really really short dance practice. Like after the Amath diagnostic test which killed me. YUP. Just did a bit of warmup, practiced CNY dance twice, and voted for next head. #teamketing !!! anyways it ended at 4.30+ and so afterwards we went to one corner and study and chat with Joeyer Xueqi Jiajun Yini Hengjie Faith. :-) Well once again I had trouble differentiating the numbers but I did manage to answer a few questions! Not bad for a student who missed out the lesson on differentiation hor! Then we also spammed pictures because its a dance clique thing :) left at 6 sharp to go to meet Tricia for dinner at church. SHE WAS LATE THOUGH. HAHAHA. But we were still early for church. And we fellowshipped with those who were early. Like Clement who just finished his course and kept doing the PDS(?) Thing in NCC which Ze Jian also always does in school. And then there was Nigel and Ray and Donavan la. Combined worship with the Campus and the songs we sang were like what we sang in HYC and OMG HYC FEELS. Okay hahah. Anyways we had prayer night tonight. And the Cloud9 sisters were all there. :) There were 6 of us in total-- Me Joey Theo Kiara Xuan Ning and Tiffany. Yup and we also talked a bit. Then went to fellowship with the others. Like Andrew who is Dylan's friend whom I am 85% sure we met him before but I just have no idea when. Then we talked some more to Clement Donavan Ray and Nigel LOLOL and it's really funny. Because Donanvan was like "how is it like seeing the same face everyday?" and I just be like LOL NO WE ARE SO DIFFERENT. And we tried remembering Clement's chinese name because we forgot because he told us that like 2 years ago. HAHAH. And we said that Ray had a gangsta face LOL he said his classmates also say he look like a gangsta. Talked to Rozanne a little too. Anyways it just felt really great to be able to go back to church after a really long week of school. Like just being able to see the familiar faces and talk and laugh. HAHAHA. <3

AND I'm missing HYC okay. I'm just so sorry because after a trip or something, I'll just miss that trip for a really long period of time. And as for HYC, it was really really memorable. All my schoolworks are doodled with something related to HYC. Just one month ago, it was christmas. And we spent the day at the AIDS Home. I will never forget the smile on the childrens' face as they welcomed us wishing us all merry christmas. I'll always remember the two friends I made during lunch, Ajid and Dibad, who cracked all of us up by introducing themselves with the others'name, and also imitating Vanessa's actions! And the little girl's story which cut my heart. They are the strongest people I've ever known. And it'll soon be one month since HYC. I miss the fellowship. Waking up to 20 other sisters beside you. In the dining hall and wherever you look, it's someone you know. Having devo and looking around, knowing that you're connected to them through Christ. Those random bus rides when we started meeting new people. The fellowship with 120 other disciples was simply amazing. So glad to be part of the ICOC Family. And then the visits to the HOPE school. Meeting Ashitha who always wants a piggyback ride from me. She's my favourite kid. <3 I miss everyone so much right now! HYC 2013 has got to be the best thing that happened to me in my past 16 years. Missing Indiaa.

CHINGAY PRACTICE (1)

Sunday, 19 January 2014 || 4:31 pm

So we had our first full dress rehearsal for Chingay Parade 2014 at the F1 Pit yesterday, 18/1. We had to jihe in school at 1.45. So some of us went to have lunch first. Xueqi faith joeyer yini keting jolene met at 12 and ate at BBQ chicken. I joined them late and had KFC LOL #hobo #cheapskate #aunty anyway yup I was wearing contacts and my eyes were really really tiny so they kept laughing at me gahh. And we talked about a lot a lot of stuff like seniors and juniors and cohorts and even the guy who was working at bbq chicken hahhah and laughed a lot too. Jiajun joined us later. After they had their fill, we went to popular cos JJ wanted to get her Amath TYS (mugger) and then we went to get starbucks. We thought we were gon a be late LOL but we were on time. In fact, 2 minutes early! Then we had free time so we stretched and talked some more. And soon, we were on our way to the F1 pit! NDP FEELS MAN. In the bus, we started camwhoring LOL and we took a lot of photos and talked and laughed throughout the wholeeeeeee trip there. We even took more photos when we alighted the bus(?!) And while waiting for instructions (?!) LOLOLOL typical girls mah. And then we got changed to (for the people) our "school" skirt and belt amd leg gear and for the horses, into their taekwando uniform. JUST KIDDING their costumes look like that. And they had a blue belt hahaha. Afterwards we walked to where our costumes were stored in a container, put our stuffs in there, and then got changed into our FULL COSTUME. We had a cape thingy attatched to our arm gear, a big feather thing and a warrior's headgear and pompoms. And the horses, they had wings. Literally. And a big horse LOL. We took almost half an hour or so to get our costumes on. Andddd we had a lil bit of trouble doing our actions. Hhahha. We were laughing at one another and crap. Then we had our first rehearsal where we marked our postition and stuffs. But we had a lot of free time at standby so we just sat on the floor and a lot of people wanted to take pictures and I'm just like ....... yup. So after the first rehearsal we got the approximately 1kg costume off and AH SO COOLING cos our costumes blocked the wind and stuffs and we took more photos while waiting for our dinner to arrive. Had dinner and after dinner, we took even MORE photos until we had to prepare again for the next rehearsal. The second rehearsal was with lights and stuff and it was when me and Joey laughed because of one of the guys from Peicai/Balestier Hill and that's when we learnt that there's a girl called Xueqi from that school too. HAHA. Anyway the practice wa umm i have no idea how to say the people in front were moving so slowly and we were all so confused and stuff but anyway we had to take a long route back to container area which was really tiring and hurt my feet cos of the pretty silver boots. Bla. We immediately got our costumes off and packed them up before we headed to the bus and back to school. In the bus we were looking through the photos and laughing at unglams. And back at school, there was a group that wanted to go into the school LOL but I stayed outside. Tompang Faith's car to Yishun mrt with joeyer Hengjie and yini and then we separated ways. In total, I think we took like 100+ photos HAHAHA looking forward to more chingay practices!

Welcoming 2014

Monday, 13 January 2014 || 7:54 pm

So we reached Singapore at 6am and we parted ways with the Jakarta and Australian HYC members. Had breakfast at burger king & the australians came. Jared brandon and aaron came to our table and aay hi LOL. Yup homed Then we slept for like 8 hours before heading to church for countdown party! It was themed HEROES, and I just wore my HYC tee shirt cos I miss HYC so much. Ah. The australians and talula were there already so we took the time to fellowship and take pictures and polaroids! I wished I brought the polaroid to HYC though. :( anyways the event started at 9pm and there were people who were really dressed up. Sat on the floor with Mayde and Chanel joined halfway because there weren't enough seats, and they had other Indo friends. First was like the performance segment where there were dances and skits. And some kiddos danced to ONE THING I was like jumping on the floor?????? Hahahaah 2 cute. And there were games and the best dressed competition and so on. I think everything ended at like 11 or something then we stacked up the chairs, fellowshipped more and took more photos and polaroids. And we had the last prayer of 2013 by uncle John and aunty Karen. And the final song we all sang before counting down was Auld Lang Syne. We just had our hands around each other and just yup sang. I was like in the middle of the Australians and Singaporeans LOLOL. And we countdown! I was so so so excited to be celebrating New Year with my new friends made from HYC. Me and Mayde even took a selfie during the countdown. And as midnight got closer, we shouted louder and MIDNIGHT! We all just started cheering and going around wishing one another happy new year! I was so excited and like going around like a broken tape recording saying "happy new year"! Took a twin-cousin picture with Nick and Nathan (cos last year's photo was blurry) so yay! And also took a picture with Sean. Oh how fast that boy grows. He was shorter than me during 2012 Young teens retreat and now he's taller than me I just can't. And we danced the two dances that we danced during HYC christmas eve special dinner bonfire and also banquet nice. HYC feels man!!! I miss HYC so much. :( I was happy and sad at the same time to dance that with a few of the HYC friends :): oh well. So we stayed at the second floor and I wrote Mayde and Chanel's card for the whole 5 hours hahaha. They were leaving that night. :( And I took a really long time to write their cards cos I talked and laughed and used phone a lot too. Oh well. :P typical Joween. And there was a point of time me, Joey, Robbie (the guy one) and Vanessa posted a photo of ourselves on Crish's instagram at like 3am in the morning and it still got almost 30 likes in 30 mins????? But then she realised it and deleted the photo. :( And we laughed at inside jokes hahaha. Ah well. My first foods of 2014 were chips and macdonalds which we ordered and took more than an hour to come.Some people slept. Some people talked. Some people danced. Some people walked around. And I can't explain or describe how funny Jared was because he was wearing some indian clothes (or something???) and then he wore a hoodie over it and apparently the hoodie was too small for him so his shirt kinda popped out at the bottom and the sleeves reached like half of his hand that kind of thing. HAHAHA. And I learnt that Australians call snapping, clicking. uhhuh. And basically that's how I spent the first few hours of 2014, and last few hours of 2013.

Soo..... it's only right to have a dedication post for a new year right? Like people who have made 2013 a really really awesome year. 2013 was indeed a great year for me. So. :D

1) THE FAMILY.
(dang I can't find a fam photo from 2013) but a family with 3 girls can be really crazy. We have disagreements and fights, quarrels and many many conflicts, but I pray that we can grow closer together this year. Thanks for just being always there during my high and lows.

2) SAIKANG WARRIORS.
My fave bunch of people in SC. They are the ones who allow me to enjoy SC meetings and SC times.

Photo was taken while celebrating our birthday! (I obviously cropped Kaiwen in) :) They never fail to make me smile with lame jokes and stuff.

3) BANANANANANAS.
THE BEST DANCE CLIQUE EVER. People who light up my world like nobody else. <3 LOL they make my dance days la. We got the weirdest people and I'm so glad they are part of my CCHY journey. I'm gonna miss them so so so much when we step down in dance. :( SO MUCH MEMORIES MADE WITH THEM even though we began clicking last year or something.

Taken during farewell!

4) CHURCH PEEPS.
The ones that I meet every Sunday mornings and Friday evenings. The ones who make me look forward to church. The ones that I can be myself with and not afraid to get judged. SO grateful for ya'll for being in my life, tolerating my crazy moments and all my crap. I know lately a lot of things have been happening, but I hope our friendships will grow stronger in the Kingdom. I'm so glad to be able to call you girls my bestfriends, my sisters-in-christ.

5) HYC 2013 PARTICIPANTS.
My overseas family. The 120 of us gathered in Chennai with the same goals, spending 2 weeks in India, missing Christmas with our physical families, some even missing celebrating their birthdays. I'm so glad to have met all of you during my journey. Even though I didn't talk to all, but I feel so close with everyone here. I miss you all so much. I'm so grateful to be able to meet all of you. I miss HYC.

So glad to be able to meet brothers and sisters from all over the world. Presenting to you, my ohana. <3

6) CAMBODIAN TEENS.
Being able to spend a few days with ya'll was so much fun. I still remember the activities we did together and I am so glad that we are part of the ICOC family. And we still keep in touch though it's almost a year already. I miss you guys so much and I hope to see you all soon.

AND THERE ARE SO MANY MORE. So grateful to God for allowing me to get baptised on 9 June last year. SO grateful for my SC family and Central Christian Church. And so so so many other things. I hope that 2014 will be a better year! (And I miss 2013). O levels this year, we all gotta work hard! I can't wait to see some familiar faces during ILC later this year. I'll update about Retreat, HYC and S1OC soon!

much love, Joween.

Updates!!!!!!!! :-)

Sunday, 12 January 2014 || 9:05 pm

Hi guys! Sorry for the lack of updates. I know I have not been posting for like A MONTH and I doubt people are reading this but..... yeah some updates!
I came back from HYC Chennai 2 weeks ago. It was an amazing experience, serving the people there, making new friends from all around the world, doing quiet times by the beach. It was incredible. I got to ride on a bullock cart, and play with many little children. They were so happy that we were there! And I even painted a wall in the HOPE school. The most emotional day for me was the last night of AICC after we watched blood brothers. I teared a little during the movie, learning about Surya's story, and remembering how I met him at the AIDS home before that. Then when the bus which sent Ryan, Andrew, Sarah, Bryan, Eunice and Kimberly left for the airport, I just broke down. I have no idea why. Quite a number of us got emotional. I was just tearing abit, but when the bus drove off, I just said "I'm gonna miss HYC so much" and the tears just started streaming down. I started thinkinh about everything that happened throughout the two weeks in India.....
Well the Australians and Indonesians joined us for year end party in church! And for the first time, I stayed in church just talking and writing cards and laughing and having chips and macs for my first foods of 2014. Oh well hi fats.
School has started. Week 0 and week 1 are over. Week 2 is about to start and I'm gonna get my O level chinese results tomorrow. I'm feeling so so nervous omg. And I have to lead the pledge tomorrow (again) AH SWEATY PALMS. Anyways we had S1OC which went pretty well. Kudos to all facils and teachers in charge and organising committee for just everything that you have contributed throughout the 3 days of S1OC.
I will update more in details when I have the time. Please be patient and read up for more updates!
Anyways. Happy birthday to Isabelle (10/1), Xuan Rui (11/1), Jared (12/1), Joeyer (13/1), Eecheng (14/1), Kaiwen (15/1)!!♥
And I'm still having post-HYC depressions/ India withdrawls. So I apologise if a lot of my tweets are about India, okay? I still love ya'll my followers and readers.