DISCLAIMER: Wordy and boring long paragraphs of my ramblings and thoughts of this year.

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With the last day of 2013 comes a mandatory end of year blogpost! This year has been.... whewwwww so many changes.

Just to name some: Entering a JC, friends you see almost everyday become friends you see once a week/month/year, new faces, x100 workload, becoming more mature, getting to explore the circle/purple line a lot more, spending 2 freaking hours on the train everyday, lesser sleep, watching a new movie every month thanks to obsessed friends, learning to be a lot more confident about public speaking thanks to pw, learning how to not be so awkward with new people anymore plus lots and lots more, the list goes on.

DETAILS

Entering a JC
I still remember how I was so adamant about going to poly during sec 4 but due to peer pressure, I told myself that if I got below 10 raw I would go to jc and if I got above 10 I would go to a poly. I never knew that I would get freaking 10 on the dot HA so all that thinking and decision making gone down to a drain cause it's neither below or above 10... In the end, I ended up in Nanyang JC hahhahaha.

Initially, I was really sad and nervous about coming to NY. Sad because none of my close friends came here with me and nervous because... yea same reason also HAHA. Came to ny without knowing how it looked like and everything because I didn't come for the open house! I just heard that it was pretty nice and all so I put it as my third choice. Totally regret my second choice LOL what SJI sia... what was I even thinking lucky I didn't get in!

Anyway, after one whole year in ny, I have to say I really like this school a lot! Got so many freebies from the school this year (magnum, m&ms, thermometer, any drink from the drink stall that one day, biscuits, apples whatnot haha). Plus many empty noticeboards in classrooms for you to vandalise, deep art paintings around the sch, the high elements which I still have not tried damn awesome bookshop aunty, pretty infrastructur, damn lax discipline blabalbla. I sound like I'm advertising my school HAHA but no I am not getting paid for this. 

Peoplewise, I've met some reeeeeeeally great people! In order:
Chanan 3 (aka my OG group)

Taken sometime during the first few hours of orientation hahahaha look at our poses> hands on knees, nobody putting their hands on each other (except for the 3 at the back bc they alr knew each other). And all the white shoes HAHA I didn't know coloured shoes were allowed on the first day but I threw away my white shoe alr so I wore my blue shoe! I was so scared I would get scolded for that or smth lol.

Subsequent days:

I still remember my OGL telling us that it's very hard for ogs to maintain their bond, like the longest one lasted till august only! I was motivated to beat that month when I heard that haahhahah. Happy that we're still remained pretty close for quite a long while! Though only some of us bc the others don't really come the outings :( I think it was the fixed weekly og dinners on fridays that maintained the bond! Plus other random outings hehhee
Some photos: (pictures mostly stolen from Pearlie's insta teehee)


Nanyang Netball
Was pretty undecided on which cca to join at first.. I was actually deciding between handball or netball but I went for the handball trials and realised that the people there didn't seem fun haha so bad hor FIRST IMPRESSIONS but anyway I joined netball in the end! I must say it's really different from nanhua netball though. The trainings are much slacker and since there isn't any coach, it just feels different. But I still love my teammates a lot! It's so much easier to bond with smaller groups of people.
 Sorry for the awkward white space haha there's actually a white border surrounding the photo! Us at the start of the year. Ann Chee(the girl beside me) left for np though but Amanda joined later so there's 8 of us still! Damn I look so young in this photo though it's only been less than a year?? SOBS

Joining netball back in secondary school was a darn good decision haha if not I think I would be a fat blob now or some nua shit. I've always wanted to learn dance though it's so cool! And piano. And guitar. hahahahha maybe after As!!

My Class
Hmmmmmm with 18 girls and 6 guys in the class it really feels different from the 21 girls 21 boys in 403! Personally I feel that it's much harder to bond a class with a lot more girls than boys because well.. girls are just so complicated haha. Nevertheless, I still met some awesome people in 1333! But results wise we are really behind haha second last in level!! During midyears we were last LOL. Also, being in Novus made me realise just how sucky my results really were. The average rank point there is 60 plus 70 plus?? And then here I am with a 39 rank point SIGH I really need to buck up. But the problem with me is that I have too many distractions man. I would choose an outing over staying at home to do work anyway even if its close to exams plus even if I do stay at home I just end up on the computer like now.... I NEED SOMEONE TO PUSH ME!!! But I'll just be a burden to that person. Friends play a really important role in my life! Even during 2.4 for napfa, if the netballers hadn't pushed me to keep running and not stop I wouldn't have gotten my A haha so THANK YOU FRIENDS FOR BEING HERE FOR ME ILYASM. Ok I'm going out of point here I'm supposed to be talking about my class.



 Novus
Last but not least, my OGL group! I didn't really want to become an OGL at first but all my friends just told me to fill in the form first so I did! Really didn't expect myself to get in but in the end, I did haha. The other two in the same interview slot as me got in too but we're all in different groups though so sad :(

Anyway, I'm really glad to be in this team! Even though so many people look down on us idkwhy but it feels good to be the dark horse ^__^ Our first few meetings were mainly bonding sessions and it's only recently that we got down to serious work but I think our progress is great! Though all these dancing makes me feel so sore haha. Half the time now I'm humming the dance songs or recapping the moves in my head ermagawd.

Also, the gossip level in novus is HIGH there's so many things happening in the school that I don't know about am I living under a rock??? Half the time I don't know all the names being mentioned but it's still pretty interesting to hear haha.

Many other things I wanna say but I shall say it in the post about the Novus Xmas party hahaha or probably when orientation is over. Damn I still have to do the nh netties xmas party post too.
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Yup so this is it! My new friends in jc (: Not so new anymore I guess. There are definitely other friends I've made but to mention them one by one here is kind of long BUT I love you all equally ok! Well no perhaps not equally HAHAHA. Friends mean so much to me I can't even fathom how life would be without them.

Old friends
It kinda sucks to only get to see the people you hang out without almost everyday in the past only once a month/year?? :( Some nights I get all sentimental and shit looking through my fb photos and reminiscizing about the past.

You know what, I'm kinda lazy to dig out photos just look at my facebook man 9000+photos and 9/10 of it is with my nanhua friends haha we are all camera crazy people. AND THIS POST IS ALREADY LATE so no pictures. All I can say is, I hope all my secondary school friendships will last forever and ever.

Lessons learnt
1) Prioritise: Always choosing fun over work, that's me. I mean, if I was naturally smart and didn't need so much time to study then that's fine but NO I'm slow as hell yet I still don't find time to go and do my work. 

2)  Positivity: Results are horrible as always (I seem to be only able to do pretty satisfactorily in major exams) but no use sulking over it right? Gotta get up and TRY and try and try (song lyrics)

3) Consistency: Every damn time I start on something new (keeping a diary, diy stuff, STUDYING OUTSIDE etc) I can never continue it gosh I MUST KICK THIS HABIT

Ok, lazy think already but OVERALL, 2013 was pretty satisfactory. Love my school, love my friends, still in contact with most of my sec sch friends. Definitely some negativity in the year but what's over is OVER it's 1 Jan 2014 guys and I know this year is gonna suck at times because.. ALEVELS but in the little time I have not spent on studying I'm gonna have a BLAST and make the most out of 2014.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERBODY AND GOD BLESS.


(Realised I'm a very people-orientated person lol 3/4 of the post is about my friends)