a story worth remembering\\we skip the goodbyes *sometimes its hard to express in words*

Yuda at 12:00 PM

Friday, December 29, 2006

hello people!! feeling bored yesterday, i did a video for ODACers on the things we did this year. Pls go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_psrWXOt6I and have a look! Remember to leave a comment too (: enjoy~!

Yuda at 9:12 PM

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

its raining cats and dogs outside now. Today's boxing day! everybody open your christmas presents!! anyway, i just woke up. Made up for the 2 hours i slept yesterday, Went out with ODACers on Christmas day but many people p.s us. In the end, there were only about 7 people who went for dinner and the others joined us to chill later at esplanade roof-top terrace. The chilling session was filled with different emotions; sad because of something that we hoped would not be the truth, happy because we really enjoyed ourselves playing truth or dare. The girls really thought of very "vicious" punishments for dare.. hahah... especially xiuhui and minqi. While yumin had many questions to ask for truth. And there was weihao who started talking even though we haven ask him any questions about truth. But.. the mood was brought down by the downpour which started at around 2300. Had to go home as i was too tired to continue for the night already. Sorry for p.s-ing you all to go yumin's house. AND.. stupid ziyi didn't call me when i asked him to. So, overslept on the bus until i reached ANG MO KIO!!! it was like still raining when i reached and there was apparently no bus back!! So, had to look like an emo boy and walked in the rain back home. Learned my lesson not to wait for the bus for half an hour before walking a bit and taking a cab. So, managed to reach home at around 0115? and slept... till now.

-we really hope you were kidding yesterday; pls do not leave us. We really need our full strength next year!

Yuda at 12:54 PM

Monday, December 25, 2006

FUN!!! wad a christmas eve night. Went over to zihao's new renovated house for christmas eve "celebration". But first, me, yongwei, ben chong, shiyi, teetong and lester went to west mall to buy a "gift" for zihao. So, managed to buy a box of chocolates and a very nice poster for him. After that, went to a chinese cuisine restaurant to eat dinner. HUH?? so weird rite?? eat chinese cuisine on christmas eve. Never mind that, so we decided to buy a turkey to eat but could not find it. Came up with many ideas as a substitute though.. like roasted chicken, ham etc. Never buy anything in the end except for 6 cans of beer and 2 bottles of alcohol. And not forgetting the LAYS and CALBEE potato chips that i never even touched at all!! OH... i missed out the highlight also!! the log-cake which was so NICE!!! His new and renovated house is like so nice la.. with a 37 inches LCD TV in the living room and X-box 360!! Spent a few hours playing x-box and waiting for midnight to send the Christmas greetings!! M1 rox!! managed to send out at least 80 msgs today. The real fun began with Indian Poker cum truth or dare. Hahahah.... many things came out from the conversation and many prank messages!! sorry to those people who received my crap msg!! i kept losing at first. But i shall not blog about the content of the conversation as it was meant to be secret. Just came back after lunch!! slept like only 3 hours?? going overnight today with ODACers again!! i think i will be fast-asleep tonight!! shall rest a while later. Bye and MERRY CHRISTMAS!! BEST WISHES FROM YUDA

Yuda at 12:42 PM

Sunday, December 24, 2006

This is the first update of top 3 songs of the week!! as this week is christmas week, i chose all christmas theme songs!! do take a look and if you wan the songs, you can ask me for it!! HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVE (:

Yuda at 1:23 PM

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Hello again!! 2nd time i am blogging today!! NEW INCLUSION IN MY BLOG!!! My Top 3 Songs this week has been included at the side of my blog! i will update every sunday (: hope you all will like the new inclusion.. and maybe know more about my taste of songs!! ok. that's it for today. GO CHECK IT OUT IF YOU ALL ARE FREE!!

Yuda at 2:49 PM

Finally!! no more maths!! after chionging the stupid stack of maths hol assignment for 3 days, i finally finished most of the work yesterday. Chionging overnight yesterday till 6 this morning; took breaks in between though, ate fishball noodles at around 0200. Just woke up!! not a very healthy lifestyle i must say.. its like working night shift but no choice, less distractions at night = easier to study. Its 2 days before Christmas!! programme for next week is chem hol assignment, 3 ODAC proposals!!

Yuda at 11:26 AM

Friday, December 22, 2006

What a memorable day yesterday!! woke up at 9 and went out with my parents before wanting to go to the christmas concert ben was performing in. I am so sorry ben for not going!! (nobody else was going except me, feels a bit weird). So, went to lester's house to play before joining the rest at VIvo later. So, we decided to watch a movie, preferably the holiday but there was only the front row seats. Decided to look around and roy suggested this 4 star show. Had no idea what the show was about but bought the tickets anyway. He told us it was a horror movie!! oh.. we didn't see this picture yet before we bought the tickets. Anyway, caught this poster before going into the cinema then we were like, any english subtitles?? hahah.. went into the cinema and looked around. We were like the only teenagers around and more specifically, chinese teenagers. Once the show started, we started laughing!! it was suppposed to be an indian somewhat cultural show. So, we had to read the subtitles during the show and occasionally some english words were blurted out. hahahah.. it was like the most memorable show we had so far!!! After the movie, the time was 2330 and we ran to take NEL. Should have followed lester to change at Dhobby Ghaut but no.. i went to potong pasir to take 13. I reached pp at around 0000. Should have the last bus of 13 until i felt that something was wrong when i waited for nearly like 30 mins and all the other buses went off. Shit man.. missed the last bus. When i was deciding if i should take the 45 mins walk home or take a cab, many empty cabs came by. Deciding to look like a lost and emo boy yesterday and started walking home until i felt tired then took a cab home. The cab fare was like 7 bucks!!! anyway, a memorable day (:

Yuda at 9:53 AM

Thursday, December 21, 2006

when i looked into the mirror, i saw a pair of bloodshot eyes and bloated eye-lids. Not because i cried just now, but i just came back from mugging. The time now is 0655am; i am like dying now. Just happen to gather enough energy to type this entry. Mugging at AMK macs with yong wei and tee tong. Only managed to finish HCI final year paper. Just give me one day more and the entire stack of irriating maths questions will be completed!! gtg now before i really lie dead on the computer table. Oh.. before i go, i found this very meaningful song when listening to my zen yesterday. The lyrics are here, hope you like it!! bye and nites (:

Key to my life (Boyzone)

You're the key to my life...

Rain on the window covers the trace
Of all the tears that I've had to waste
And now I'm missing you so
And I won't let you go away
Stain on the desktop where coffee cups lay
And memories of you forever will stay
And the scent of your perfume
And the smile on your face will remain...

And I never gave up hope when things got me down
But I just bit on my lip and my face began to frown
Cos that was just my pride and I've nothing else to hide
And now the way is clear and all I want to say is..

All of my life the doors have been closed now
And all of my dreams have been locked up inside
But you came along and captured my heart, girl
You're the key to my life
Yeah

Year after year, was blaming myself (blaming myself..)
For what I'd done, just thought of myself
I know that you'll understand (you'll understand...)
This was all my own fault, don't go away..

And I never gave up hope when things got me down
But I just bit on my lip
And my face began to frown
Cos that was just my pride and I've nothing left to hide
And now the way is clear and all I want to say is...

CHORUS

Girl you know that I feel for you
There ain't nothing that I wouldn't do
Stop the thunder and the pouring rain
You're the one that's going to stop the pain
Girl you know that I feel for you
There ain't nothing that I wouldn't do
Stop the thunder and the pouring rain
Listen to me can't you hear what I say...

CHORUS

-i am still finding the key to my life; the reason i live for. But now, studies first....

Yuda at 6:55 AM

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

OMG!! i just received the term 1 schedule from yumin. Thanx a lot for all the inspiring words!! i have like 3 proposals to do now before the submission dateline on 7th Jan. Guess i will have to clear all my homework and settle my studies first before ODAC. So, i have decided to go overnight studying tonight. I know its kinda silly to start overnight studying now but its a necessity for me. I still have about 3 maths papers and a stack of organic chem worksheet to do. So, i must finish at least 2 maths papers today. Anyway, about the ODAC proposal thing, have to give it all we have. 2 very important events - Kayaking orientation for the school which means that if we do not do it well enough, our reputation would be at stake. I guess this is definitely not wad ODACers wan. So, we will put in our best effort to make it successful!! The next activity is the most anticipated activity since i joined ODAC - night cycling. A very tricky project that involves a lot of planning!! exciting and challenging though. We will aim to do a better project than the J2s last year and make mr lam eat his words. We are definitely going to do it!! Got to go now!! going to AMK macs to study later at 11!! bye!!

Yuda at 7:40 PM

its raining again. The time that i would let my emotions flow and more simply, being emo again. Feeling bored today, i browsed through all the pictures i have left in my computer. There was not much pics left though; after my computer had to be re-formatted. But mostly was ODAC photos, ODAC proposals, ODAC activities. Come to think of it, my life in J1 is filled with ODAC. Except for the CCA days on wed and fri, we still have our chilling sessions, mahjong-ing sessions and outings. Devoted all my time on one of my best group of buddies in school nowadays. I can never imagine my life without ODAC in school nowadays; ever since my best cat high buddies are in different class as me, a lot of my PAE classmates are either in different classes or in different schools and there is not many people in my current class that i can click with. Back to studies, i have done awfully bad in this year of studies. Got distracted by a whole lot of things!! maybe that is what happen when you simply can't concentrate in class. I guess i do not have to say why but i got to really pull myself together next year!! i even made a bet with my mum. That means i am not getting my "ang pao" money until after the next block test!! haiz.. but i am like fighting a losing battle. Less than 2 weeks before school re-opens and i haven even completed half of my holiday assignments :/ got to really chiong on studies these few days or else i definitely would not have time to finish. How to get into the study mood?? i just can't be like the time i studied for common test. Having the mentality to just sit down there and study for 5 hours straight. Someone pls help me get into that type of mood!! Anyway, i really have to thank those people that helped me brighten up my dull life this year and supporting me through in the times when i am down. I sincerely dedicate this song to all of you.

Thank God I Found You (Mariah Carey & 98 Degrees)

I would give up everything
Before I'd separate myself from you
After so much suffering
I've finally found unvarnished truth
I was all by myself for the longest time
So cold inside
And the hurt from the heart it would not subside
I felt like dying
Until you saved my life

Thank God I found you
I was lost without you
My every wish and every dream
Somehow became reality
When you brought the sunlight
Completed my whole life
I'm overwhelmed with gratitude
Cause baby I'm so thankful i found you

I would give you everything
There's nothing in this world
I wouldn't do
To ensure your happiness
I'll cherish every part of you
Because without you beside me
I can't survive
Don't wanna try
If you're keeping me warm each and every night
I'll be all right
Cause I need you in my life

Thank God I found you (I'm thanking you)
I was lost without you (so lost without you)
My every wish and every dream (every dream, every dream)
Somehow became reality
When you brought the sunlight (brought the sunlight)
Completed my whole life
I'm overwhelmed with gratitude
Cause baby I'm so thankful I found you

See I was so desolate
Before you came to me
Looking back I guess it shows that we were destined to shine
After the rain to appreciate
And care for what we have
And I'd go through it all over again
To be able to feel this way

Thank God I found you
I was lost without you (lost without you baby)
My every wish and every dream
Somehow became reality
When you brought the sunlight
Completed my whole life (whole life)
I'm overwhelmed with gratitude
Sweet baby I'm so thankful I found you

Thank God I found you I
was lost without you
I'm overwhelmed with gratitude
My baby I'm so thankful I found you

I'm overwhelmed with gratitude
My baby I'm so thankful I found you

Yuda at 12:39 AM

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

it had been raining since yesterday; feeling bored.. so i made a collage for krabi 2006!! take a look at it!!

-one family unbroken, the bonding just gets stronger and stronger!!

Yuda at 2:17 PM

Monday, December 18, 2006

The time now is 0120am. Just finished reading all the ODACers posts of their feelings and reflections on the krabi trip. It is so sad that the trip had to end on a sad note; it was really a pity. My view on people really changed. I am sorry to say that, mr lam , you really disappointed me. How could you pluck up enough courage to say all those words to us?? Don't your heart hurt at all when you said all that after all that ODAC have been through with you this year. I don't know. I must say you have a lot of courage to say that. Because, even if you give me a million dollars to say all those words, i know i just cannot do it. Have you ever thought about other people's feelings when you said all that?? the worst thing of all is there was not even a single sign of remorse or even bother to say sorry to us after that outburst. Maybe for a guy, its hard to say sorry in front of so many people, but this is really a serious case. Do you know that you heard the feelings of so many in ODAC?? even the guys i must say but we did not show it. So, to all ODACers, strive on man!! we can definitely succeed as a club and i am very confident of that. We will once again prove him wrong for giving up on us!! You people really made my life more enriched now! thanx (:

a song dedicated to ODACers (sorry seems to be the hardest word)

What have I got to do to make you love me
What have I got to do to make you care
What do I do when lightning strikes me
And I wake to find that you're not there
What do I do to make you want me
What have I got to do to be heard
What do I say when it's all over
And sorry seems to be the hardest word

It's sad, so sad
It's a sad, sad situation
And it's getting more and more absurd
It's sad, so sad
Why can't we talk it over
Oh it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word

What do I do to make you love me
What have I got to do to be heard
What do I do when lightning strikes me
What have I got to do
What have I got to do
When sorry seems to be the hardest word

Yuda at 1:20 AM

Friday, December 15, 2006

KRABI (10/12/2006 - 15/12/2006)

Day 1 - Singapore - Krabi

Taking the budget airline, Tiger Airways to Krabi!!!

On the way up to the waterfall

no whining needed!! WET!!!

First taste of food at Krabi (:

Day 2 - Kayaking!! (no pics)

Someone pls send me the pics for kayaking!! i forgot to bring my cam out that day ):

Day 3 - Rock-Climbing

On the boat to rock-climbing area

Climbing in progress (pls do not disturb)!!!

Aftermath of rock-climbing

Day 4 - Island Hopping & Snorkelling

SAME SAME.... but DIFFERENT

Island Hopping!!!

Volleyball and the SWING!!

And of course.. Snorkelling!!

Day 5 - Free and Easy Day (:

Our lovely bedroom and shades!!

SHOPPING!!! and makan!!

Day 6 - Farewell Krabi :/

Meeting in the room!!

Climbing up the 1237 steps!!

Finally!! a sense of accomplishment

Checking in at the airport

Bidding Farewell to Krabi!!

Happy faces but sad hearts leaving krabi :/

Looking outside the window, beyond the horizon

Singapore, our homeland

more pics at http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2098030637

this trip was supposed to be like any other ODAC overseas trip but it turned out rather differently, both postively and negatively. It helped me think of many things in life; many lessons learned, many friendships established, many doubts cleared and many other things to think about. Definitely, through this trip, ODAC bonded better as a whole. The strength of our bond arosed together throughout this short span of 5 days; caring for each other when people got injured, caring for each other's safety, caring for each other feelings and caring for each other when they are down. Many ups and downs in this trip really which helped me improved as a person. No one is perfect, everyone must strive to improve everyday. Mr Ho's quote is really very true. "Winners make things happen, losers wait for things to happen". Various turning points in this short trip; we may be happy one day, sad another or even combining both feelings in one day. The feeling of hatred even came to mind. Feelings are always uncontrollable when you see people getting hurt, not physically but mentally. It just hurts my heart when i see people crying and sobbing over things that they didn't do. I wanted very much to cry that day when you see so many people getting hurt emotionally. It was just mean and unreasonable for saying those words after all that we have done and strived as a whole club. It was just one wrong step before we fell back to square one. We have put in some much effort in trying to make this club a successful and accomplished one but after all those words, how could we get the recognition we deserved after this year of hard work?? But, those words are not going to put us down as a club. We will work even harder and push on even without the support given now. CCA team-building, Orientation 2007, OEC 2007, LTC 2007 are all going to be successful events that are going to organised by ODAC. We are still going out there to prove that one wrong move can never change the strength of our club as a whole. We are definitely not going to let his words affect us! strive harder to make this club recognised! Learned many things throughout this trip; the quality of friendship that could last forever. i am going to try my best to make SAINTSODAC06 to be the most united club ever because i believe that a club can only be successful if all their members all strived at a common goal, that is to make ODAC the most successful club ever! My perspectives of people has also changed throughout this trip. I can say that throughout the whole of this trip, various people who had not open up throughout the year has started opening up. There are of course people whom i became disappointed in, not understanding what we feel and about the things we do and being insensitive towards people's feelings. I shall stop writing about all these now or else all my feelings will start flowing out and this entry will never end. I love all of you ODACers, all of you are among the few things that i cherished in my life now. You all gave me the strength to carry on in this school. I LOVE ODACers (: thank you all so much in this year. Hope you all can help me fulfill my wish of making this club the most successful one!! Strive on!!

-i am missing krabi :/ 6 days of fun is over and it's back to the stressful life of Singapore. Homework is piling up and i am racing against time to complete them or rather start doing them. I have made many wrong decisions this year and i don't want to make it again next year. Must start studying real soon.. less than 2 weeks left.

Yuda at 11:57 PM

Saturday, December 09, 2006

Busy packing my luggage for the trip tomorrow!! KRABI!!! should be fun (: 6 sets of clothes and pants and all the logistics the taskforce have to carry!! Luckily my dad is sending us to the airport tomorrow. Lester is coming later!! must sleep tonight though. Chelsea VS Arsenal tomorrow LIVE at Krabi!! hahah.. the flight is 0730 tomorrow but we must be at the airport at 0515!! ok!! enough of talking!! will be back on friday!! so this blog will probably be out of duty for a week!! take care and cya in a week's time with plenty of pics!!

Yuda at 8:24 PM

cheers man!! feeling a little bit tipsy now because of all the drinking during the wedding dinner! had a fun but tiring day today. Woke up at 5 to prepare to go to my cousin's house for wedding ceremony. A ride to the bride's house before playing some games the "sisters" prepared for us (not quite us actually). Then, rushed back to school for ODAC. It was like so tiring; but nevertheless, ODAC never really bores me except for all the de-briefing and the games we played before. As i once said, its the company that matters! rushed to beach road with lester to buy booties for Krabi which is in 2 days time!!! so exciting (: Went home to sleep before going for the wedding dinner. Congrats to cousin Winston!! blissful marriage!! Saw many cat high teachers there and talked to some of them as well. Anyway, fun and enriching day today. Got to pack my stuff for Krabi!! Goodnight (:

Yuda at 12:22 AM

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

A funny show

contributed by mel

ice-skating today wif ODACers at Fuji Ice Palace (Jurong East)!! ziyi, xiuhui, cheryl, minqi, mel and i went ice-skating which was soooo fun (: we started first and then later, mel joined us wif the 4 Macdonalds Student Meal in her bag!! There were like so many ppl there when we reached but we continued skating! hahah.. so proud of minqi!! never fall on her first time skating!! that's real pro. Still remember that time i fell down once i tried to get up!! then took the veri veri veri.... long 52 bus-ride which was so boring!! made me late!! so sorry guys!! i will be early for the next outing (: veri tired now, shall go to bed. Goodnight!!

Yuda at 10:27 PM

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Courtesy of mel

Hello again!! yesterday was kayaking "exam". It was fun; learning rescue work but in the end, capsizing ppl on their kayaks.. even the instructor. The sun was burning hot yesterday and the tide was realli low in the afternoon that all the mud covered our feet.. disgusting!! Kayaking ended early, so we decided to walk to Marina Square. It was quite a long walk and as usual, serene joined the guys gang.. hahah. We ended up eating at Marina Square food court and taking pics there. Anyway, WHO HAS PICS?? (to ODACers and 08 ppl) my irritating com crashed and all my pics are GONE!!!! Remember to send me!! Ok, back to the day's acitivity. After that, we went chilling at the roof terrace of Esplanade and talked a lot of ODAC stuff like the OEC days and wad the OEC 07 will be like. Then, there was the shooting star that some of us saw and made a wish upon the star!! hahah.. the others were so jealous!! Many things to look forward to in ODAC!! but first, KRABI ON SUNDAY!!!

Yuda at 12:44 PM

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Finally found time to blog!!! yesterday was fun!! had CCA team-building dry run in school at around 9. Played all the games we are going to have during the activity itself. To all the ppl from rugby, touch-rugby, cheerleading, water polo (guys and girls), Chinese Drama Club, Malay Cultural Society, Volleyball, Track and field, you all are going to enjoy this CCA team-building activity!! Its going to be held on the 20th Jan. Anyway, wad was fun was the ODAC 5 generations BBQ. As expected, we had to help set up all the pits. Hahahah.. we prepared a lot of "high quality" charcoal and had plenty of firestarters just in case (from past experience). We onli started barbacueing the food like 1 hour later. We had fun doing silly stuff like pouring coke on the fish and eating it. Walked around the track after the meal and spent time talking and chilling!! Never expected BBQ to be so fun. Everyone was helping with the BBQ, no one was like slacking or doing nothing. ODACers ROX!!! sorry but no pics yet. Will get from mel very soon; my cam is still under repair. Hope to get it back by krabi (next sun)!! Tomorrow's kayaking exam!!! yay!!! Next week is full of ODAC activities. Mon-> Kayaking Exam, Tues-Thurs-> Tinkle Friend Camp at GES Pri, Fri-> CCA Team-building Dry Run 2

Yuda at 9:35 PM