A THOUSAND CROSSINGS X

Dear Diary...
The killer has spoken.
dimanche 31 mai 2009

More secrets are beginning to unravel in today's episode.

The Sheriff is hiding facts. He knows Wakefield personally. Wakefield came for revenge.
In today's episode, we also saw what happened 7 years back. An explosion happened at the Marina in the morning. Abby rushes home, only to find her mother missing. Sheriff calls home to ask her to lock up and stay at home. She does. She hears a woman's screams and runs out of the house. She sees a man killing another man with a shovel. The she finds her mum hung on a tree. :/

It's like...everyone is hiding secrets. :/
Malcolm died today while trying to burn the dirty money. :/
Madison got kidnapped after going into a room. He has spoken. If anyone leaves the island, Madison is dead. :/

Dam creepy now. Only 6 episodes left.

But I like the kissing scene can. Was quite funny. :/

Jimmy: hey look, I'm covered in fish. (he's a fisherman. suave one too. he was slicing some fish)
Abby: *looks* *grabs jimmy's head* *tongue-tying...*

LOL. should go see it for yourself. very funny.

Au Revoir

yongliang

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Dear Diary...
calling all non-CHS peeps

Hellos everyone!

CHS Homecoming day is around the corner.
It'll be on the 4th of July!
This year's theme is OHANA. The teachers say that OHANA means FAMILY in Hawaiian
And to us, family means no one gets left behind. :D So there'll be activities to satisfy everyone.
It'll start at around 8 in the morning, and can end anytime between 3-4.

Coupons are in a set that is worth 10 dollars. :) They'll be on sale on the day itself!

Anyone interested in coming please leave a tag :D:D

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yongliang

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Dear Diary...
Downfall.

My Chinese enrichment teacher showed the class a picture today. A picture of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, dated at least a decade back. In the picture, The Oriental Pearl was standing oh-so tall, and there were no other skyscrapers in sight.

Then he talked about working near the building, and how he could see the tall towering, intimidating building right outside his window. He also told us that the area used to be a 农村 (village), farming and all that kind of agricultural stuff. Right then he said something interesting, that set me thinking. "突然间,那里冒出了这么多大厦,农村都不见了.哪我想,我们吃什么?" (translated: Suddenly, skyscrapers started appearing in the area and the rural area disappeared. Without the farms what are we going to eat?) and he laughed.

I thought, what he said is quite true. Our lofty ambitions are going to kill us. All of us wants to be successful, to have our own office and all. New companies are being set up everyday, more farmers are evicted so that their land can be developed. Things as such are happening every day. One day, there'll be nobody who is willing to dedicate his life to agriculture. Our selfish development and industrialisation and expansion is going to kill us all.

Argh. Just look into the future. So bleak.

Development will kill us all.

When will we learn to be content? sigh.

Furthermore, expansion, development and industrialisation causes one big and common problem. Pollution. Humans are in a development frenzy. Look at how high our carbon footprint have shot up. We humans, are the champions of the blame game, believe me. I read and article last year in The Straits Times. In Australia, the Australians were encouraged to consume more kangaroos, because they have a relatively high methane/carbon footprint.

There's no way I can conceal my shock. How much methane can a kangaroo release. Anymore than us humans? No way.

Cars, electricity, damned smokers, campfires, incinerators, war, construction, blahyadablah. All of that consumes resources and turns them into smoke. Like, literally.

When are we ever going to wake up. :/

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yongliang

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Dear Diary...
oh my god

Oh my god. How old are these. :D

They bring back fond memories of the days when Senior Wei Liang was around and forever joking and fooling around with us. :)

hehe. I'm in it. :D Bottom right of the picture . Wei Xuan the robocop on my right. hahahaha.
We were all smiling then :)
Very comforting. I bet we'd all prefer these times when we were all smiling and having fun as a Part, rather than after the time we were given various appointments, setting us apart.

I see WEI KIT in this one. Try to find him. hinthint: find a mushroom.

I'm in the middle. Hui Yang on my left. Yonghwee on my right. Senior Qian Sheng has his hand on my head. (ohh, mind control). And Senior Wei Liang (like, the short one) has his hands on the backs of Yonghwee and mine.

I think I'll always remember this PT session. Right after this Hui Yang had to crawl under me and yonghwee. Yea, pluck the bananas from the trees. :/

And who'd knew we'd make the 3 UDIs.
Fate is an amazing thing.
Disgusting at times.
And at other times. Incredibly fun to be with.

I forgot what happened here. But look at Hui Yang's face. :p

I love old pictures like these. haha. :D

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yongliang

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Dear Diary...
Speaking of Conspiracy...

Oh. and we were talking about conspiracy... Take that.

That was 1 evil old woman. Honestly.
And that corrupt cop.

But hilarious.

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yongliang

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Dear Diary...
Have I handed them in, or have I lost them?
samedi 30 mai 2009

My mind is in a mess now. My world is in a whirl :/

So have I handed in the Hill-Top Villages Comprehension and the Physics Class Test 1, or have I lost them both? Couldn't find them anywhere. :/

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yongliang

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Dear Diary...
tired.

It has been entire day of math for me today. An as usual, I finish my math dejected. I always try so hard to get them right and get them in my head. But they never do. :/

I'm always in a fog.

I can make no sense of the equational logical nonsense.

Sigh. I really don't think I will ever do well for my math.

Like never. ever. ever. never.

Feel damn useless. *yawn*

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yongliang

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Dear Diary...
Sorry. I'm Late.
vendredi 29 mai 2009

Super memorable quote from the movie: Sorry I'm Late.

The ending was like...nice twist to it. You think it was all going to end like that when....

Spoilers ahead.

andandand. congrats to the Nlanders who have finally passed out today. They're the last Uniformed Group in our school to step down. :/

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yongliang

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Dear Diary...
Should I Just Drop It

A super random thought.

Additional math simply isn't my forte. I've tried, I've failed, I've tried again and failed again.
I know I'm not the kind who can jumble cos sine tangents and x-values and y-values in my head freely. And I think it's really very taxing on my mind now.

I mean let's see. If I drop A math, poof goes my dreams of 10A1s. But then again, even if I don't drop, do I think I can get 10A1s? I can only wonder.

Sigh.

I really really don't like A math.
Now, I'm like doing A math for the sake of doing it, and getting 10A1s. It seems like it has zero purpose in my life. :/

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yongliang

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Dear Diary...
Run

so baby run~

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yongliang

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Dear Diary...
The Days Ahead

Here comes the term break. Note that in our school, the final year students' June 'vacation' is called the term break. No surprise, since we have to make our way back to school early in the morning on most days in June to get back to our lessons.

And there's so much work to do and so much revision to cover. The O levels are still creeping towards us at an astonishingly fast pace.

Mental note of upcoming lessons and homework to be done and blah yada blah.

Saturday (tml) 30/5
must finish Math tuition homework tonight.
A math 0830 . Bring Pass With Distinction Assessment Books.
Math Tuition itself. :/

Sunday
phew.
Better finish up all the comprehension passages. Pace myself with math. So I do not need to rush it out later on. :/

Monday 1/6
Chinese in school. Going through the Prelim 2 Chinese paper.

Tuesday 2/6
Free day?

Wednesday 3/6
Wake up early in the morning at 6. Reach school asap in school uniform. Oral examinations.
Physics after Oral (Bring along all the Physics worksheets, class test 1-3)

Thursday 4/6
Physics again. Same stuff. 0830 in the morning.
Geography after physics. Wonder what we have to bring...

Friday. 5/6
Humanities. Probably with Mr F. Bring along black file and testimonial.

Saturday 6/6
English 0900 in the morning. Probably should have done my comprehension passages by now. Bring along Hill-Top Villages comprehension.
A math right after. Bring along pass with distinction books. Should have finished Exercise 3.
Math tuition.

Sunday. 7/6
?

Monday 8/6
Chemistry in LT. Think I'll bring the revision package, textbook etc.
Physics right after. Specimen paper. Better study for it.

Tuesday 9/6
Math. Doing A math and E math exam papers. Totally brain draining. Prepare to die.

Wednesday 10/6
Physics in LT again.
Chem/Bio.
Bio testing chap 10-20 All MCQ. Do Ten Year Series.

Thursday 11/6
Math entire day. Bring PWD and all.

Friday. 12/6
0830 Math. A math PWD exercise 4 to be done.

Saturday 13/6
0830 Math again. PWD and stuff.

Week 3. Self Study at home. (my foot)
Mr Leong still wants to see me for an additional 6 sessions of math. (only have got myself to blame for my poor math.)

Week 4 prelim 2 examination.

Okayy. So...where's the time for revision?

Sigh.

I feel so tired.
I always feel tired.
The holidays gives us false hopes of rest.

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yongliang

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Dear Diary...
All In A Day's Work
jeudi 28 mai 2009

I was so out of time today that I decided to skip Chem tuition to finish up my English Reflection on The Third Wave, my A Math Pass With Distinction (as if.) Revision Exercise 3 Paper 2 (was the worst assignment of the day. I hate math the same way Nathaniel Ayers hate smokers and drug junkies) and my Physics worksheet.

I wanted to clear alllll my work so I'd have time in the evening to do some revision for my Higher Chinese Prelims tomorrow. But look at the time now. I have just finished all my work and taken my bath. So much for sleeping early.

And mum and dad is going overseas this weekend. Attending dad's friend's daughter's wedding. It's the THIRD wedding I've missed. GAH. How am I going to wake up the following days!!!

Prelim 2, you'd better give me good results this time. I worked so hard this time, so many times more than Prelim 1 you better give me what I deserve.

And I think my revision/homework regime is getting incredulously straining on my body. Both mentally and physically. Although my fatigue might be partly caused by the medication for my allergic rash. Still, it's damn tiring.

And all the teachers breathing down my neck isn't helping. My dreams of having 10A1s and landing my ass into NJC is siting on my shoulders and you bet, it's heavy. ARGH. I really feel like screaming right now can. But cannot. :/

Math. my greatest nightmare. I'm just glad it has not found its way into my dreams yet. (hohoho. an oxymoron?)

Sigh. Here's a clip from Music And Lyrics to lighten the mood before I get back to work.

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yongliang

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Dear Diary...
Don't Write Me Off
mercredi 27 mai 2009

(up your volume the music widget is pretty soft.)

Hugh Grant
Don't Write Me Off

It's never been easy for me
To find words to go along with a melody
But this time there's actually something on my mind
So please forgive these few brief awkward lines
Since I met you my whole life has changed
It's not just my furniture you've re-arranged
I was living in the past
But somehow you've brought me back
and I haven't felt like this since before Frankie said relax
and now I know based on my track record
I might not seem like the safest bet
All I'm asking you is
Don't write me off just yet

For years I've been telling myself the same old story
That I'm happy to live off my so called former glories
but you've given me a reason
to take another chance
now I need you despite the fact
that you've killed all my plants
and now I know
i've already blown more chances
than anyone should ever get
all I'm asking you is
don't write me off just yet

don't write me off just yet

The reason why I intend to pick up piano (and guitar) after the Os.

Au Revoir

yongliang

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Dear Diary...
Music and Lyrics
mardi 26 mai 2009

:D Finished the show.

Really really nice. No time to do a synopsis here, but you can check Wikipedia's one out here.

And Drew Barrymore in the show looks a lot like somebody...

is it just me, or does Drew Barrymore really look like someone...

Andandand! I got these weird rashes. So itchy :/ Irritated me the entire weekend. And kept scratching at my right ankle the entire days despite Wei Xuan telling me to stop scratching. :/ So my right ankle is like, swollen :/

Just seen the doc. Most probably an allergy. That's weird, my Health Booklet says I'm free of allergies. :/ I guess it's the ginseng tea I have been drinking since the start of the new school year. Doc said the 'poison' can accumulate in the body, so maybe it has just started to break out. :/ So I'll have to stop my ginseng diet for a while now. haha.

Physics tuition :/ Sigh. I feel drained.

Au Revoir

yongliang

I'm an artist.
The world is what I perceive it to be.
There are no rules to colours
or lines, or words or phrases or notes.
be it sketches, pictures, photographs, poems or melodies.

No one can dictate my colours
No one can dictate my strokes
No one can dictate my style
No one can dictate ME.

The rain can wet my clothes.
But it cannot dampen my soul.

:) Felt inspired.

I'm gonna paint the town yellow.

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Dear Diary...
Ferrari back on Podium
dimanche 24 mai 2009

:) Ferrari is getting back in shape. First podium in 6 races. Kimi got 3rd place, Massa is in fourth. The Brawns are on a 1-2 again :/

Massa! you must win this season!

Just finished watching Harper's Island. They just found Uncle Marty's body. More like, the two halves of his body. :/

Richard died this week. I think it was a harpoon gun. The blood he spit out...disgusting.

Abby and Henry dug open Wakefield's grave. They did find a skeleton. But whether it's Wakefield's skeleton or not...we don't know.

It's getting more and more mysterious. Cal and the sheriff seem to be hiding something. And today's episode ended off with J.D running away, into a hut owned by a man with half a face. The same man that set the dog after Trish and her father Richard (who died in the last episode under a modified guillotine).

CREEPY.

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yongliang

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Dear Diary...
His Date With Drew (Barrymore)

For those who are wondering if he got that date, he got it.

Let's face it. That's one of the coolest documentary's I have ever watched. I would even think it beat An Inconvenient Truth flat.

Let's see, a totally ordinary guy, who has probably no link to any celebrity. He has no job, no immediate connections, but he has got a bunch of good friends, and Eleven hundred dollars. How's that?

So, from the documentary, I guess we can learn to be more daring and brave when it comes to chasing our dreams. After all dreams are like kites, (well with no strings attached), and they go with the wind. And not all the time, the winds blows in the direction you want it to. So you want the kite, chase it.

Till now, I can't help exclaiming in my head how crazy the entire thing was. A date, up close and personal with a celebrity you do not know personally, although you probably have read her entire bio on wikipedia, her fanclub websites and her official websites. Totally crazy and unreal.

Gosh, but he did it.

How about this... : MY DATE WITH SWIFT

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yongliang

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Dear Diary...
Mary's Song

Taylor Swift
Mary's Song (Oh My My My)

She said, I was seven and you were nine
I looked at you like the stars that shined
In the sky, the pretty lights
And our daddies used to joke about the two of us
Growing up and falling in love and our mamas smiled
And rolled their eyes and said oh my my my

Take me back to the house in the backyard tree
Said you'd beat me up, you were bigger than me
You never did, you never did
Take me back when our world was one block wide
I dared you to kiss me and ran when you tried
Just two kids, you and I...
Oh my my my my

Well, I was sixteen when suddenly
I wasn't that little girl you used to see
But your eyes still shined like pretty lights
And our daddies used to joke about the two of us
They never believed we'd really fall in love
And our mamas smiled and rolled their eyes
And said oh my my my...

Take me back to the creek beds we turned up
Two A.M. riding in your truck and all I need is you next to me
Take me back to the time we had our very first fight
The slamming of doors instead of kissing goodnight
You stayed outside till the morning light
Oh my my my my

A few years had gone and come around
We were sitting at our favorite spot in town
And you looked at me, got down on one knee

Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle
Our whole town came and our mamas cried
You said I do and I did too
Take me home where we met so many years before
We'll rock our babies on that very front porch
After all this time, you and I

I'll be eighty-seven; you'll be eighty-nine
I'll still look at you like the stars that shine
In the sky, oh my my my...

Au Revoir

yongliang

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Dear Diary...
busy weekend

Clocked more than 16 hours of studying yesterday! :/ math remedial in the morning, math tuition homework and math tuition in the afternoon, geog essay + physics ws + bio worksheet in the evening :D. Overkill.

At least I have managed to do most of my work. Here's what's left. math PWD Exercise 2 (will theoretically take 4 hours), 2 Chinese Comprehension Passages and VS Chem Paper 2 and Anderson Sec Chem Prelim.

Here comes the larger pieces of homework. Save me?

Has anyone got a life to offer me, something less crazy about studying?

Sigh.

And I need an iPod Touch/ Creative X-Fi,(hinthint, mummy I can wait till Sept, no worries, O level haven't start yet. :/) cos I just found out Creative doesn't have a dedicated dock for my Creative Zen. :/ The 2gb memory is also very small. :/

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yongliang

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Dear Diary...
Finale.
mercredi 20 mai 2009

Omigod. 3 years have past. Had been a prefect for 2.75 years. It had been a bumpy road trip, full of ups and downs but definitely enjoyable!

I think I'm gonna feels so weird when I get back to school tomorrow. No more morning duty, recess duty, Wednesday assembly duty, and saikang (extra work). Throughout my 'career' as an ordinary prefect, I spent my time at the General Office, doing the Latecoming administration. :)

Back then, Eugene, Alwin, Adrian and Mr Yeo (who has returned to teach mandarin in XinMin Sec) taught Rong Xian (who is now in the IP programme in NJC) and I the ropes. When Rong Xian later left, I was joined with Mitchell. :) That smart guy who always teaches me something new every morning. haha.

Soon, Mr Teo replaced Mr Yeo. :) Time flew, and then came our first investiture. Eugene suddenly disappeared from the General Office, leaving only me and Mitchell. New prefects joined us. Martin and Cody. :D Our turn to show them the ropes. :) (here's the reef knot, and that's the sheepshank..)

Time just flew faster and faster and I myself disappeared from the general office, being given new duties. EXCO.

Still remembered my interview. :) I made everyone in the room laugh.

Ms Hua asked, "So why did you come for the interview today?"
"Erm, because I like being interviewed?"
"laugh laugh laugh, Next time we'll interview you everyday!"
"Ok la. I came for the interview because I thought, 'since I have already spent so many years in PB. It wouldn't hurt to come for the interview to see if I can be of any more help to PB."

:) Was very honest also. "Choosing between NCC air and PB, sorry but I have already promised my CCA, NCC air first."

Still, I made it. Here, I would like to thank Mr Goh, Mr Teo, Mrs Chua, Ms Tan, Ms Hua, Ms Davora (who allowed me to become a prefect in the first place) and all the seniors and fellow prefects :D.

Rewinding back to the Prefect's interview. :) Only one in my class to have made it through. Fond memories. I could have been in the Student's Council, haha. But I still ended up in PB haha. My thoughts then were very simple. I wanted to be a prefect because I had never been a good student in primary school, and never managed to experience the life of a prefect. So I wanted to try it out myself.

Back to the present. The past week has been very eventful. Martin had faced a lot of problems in the short span of four days. We'll always be behind you Martin!

Today's investiture was well, a success to a large extent. :D We didn't really screw up yay! Sigh, but I didn't step down the way I expected myself to. This year, I had been picturing myself helping Martin put on the blazer. But it's a pity he could not join us on the stage. Nevertheless, he is still the de facto 'fourth exco', Programmes Coordinator. Do a good job guys.

So this year, we have 3 official Excos, and 2 official members of the Middle Management.

Kwong Chang Jing (CJ7) Head Prefect
Daniel Chee (CHAR.....) Vice-head Prefect (also the Part B spec haha)
Siow Zheng Qian (man who never smiles) Vice-head Prefect (also the Chairman of NPCC)

Martin Tan (the admin guy)
Tan Zheng Yee (The fun and games guy)

All In all, everything was really fun today. :) although I really felt a bit 尴尬 during blazer exchange, but I was so nervous and anxious to take my seat that I forgot to STARE at that lady. sigh.

The dance was very well done in my opinion. Again, a sharp learning cuirve for them. Really nice. I liked the solo done by aloysius. haha. :D Good improvement Aloysius :) Keep it up. haha!

this marks the end of my PB career. Looking forward to dinner, (which the bills be foot by the new excos) :D

peektures!

Farewell Speech in the morning :D

Stop rolling, Jacob...

"wait, my tie..."

OMG. CHANG JING, JOEL! WHAT ARE YOU TWO LOOKING AT. JACOB IS FULLY DRESSED!

There's like this super tall guy at the back row. LOL

eh head prefect, you've been surrounded by blood-thirsty prefects and you've still got time to send SMSes.

Chang Jing is in the right mood now. :D protecting the correct place with his hands, I see.

OMG, THEY'VE DISAPPEARED!

wow.

Student Leaders from FOURoNe '09!
L-R (Tan Wei Lun, PB Vice head, Alan, CMC Projects Manager, Me, PB Prog Coordinator, Kenneth Ong, FOURoNe's Asst Class Chairman :D)

Prefects...

MITCHELL. Meritorious Service Award Recipient of the Prefectorial Board. Our de facto secretary and photographer. :D

Thanks iMedia peeps!

Sigh, not in sync!!!

Irwin and Nobel. Nobel is the short one. haha

Johnervan and I :D
Both of us were from Ms Davora's class!

yoohoo sec 4s!

(Kelly) Phoon Jun Jie :D

Duo Geng and Yeung Kai. Yeung Kai is speaking into the mic.

Nobel thinking of bel. lol (insider joke)

Irwin and I :D

Aloysius (PB) is the lead dancer :D I loved that solo Aloy! :D Good job there!
sidenote, I just noticed the 2 persons in the background. MARTIN AND XIANGKAI. LOL! Funny mirrored hands in the air action.

wei kit playing with the camera. haha.

Wei Kit still fooling about...

me and Alvina Low Wei Kit :D
I heard that if you change lvin with 4 other letters, you get his girlfriend's name! haha. :D
My face looks so swollen. :/

MARTIN AND I :D

Now joined by Elgyn...

The Emcees

Ms HUA! (flower) I couldn't help but laugh while doing that pose. And, wow nice optical illusion. I look so thin. :/

This year's gift to guest schools. Container filled with sand and a paper crane. Supposed to suit the theme SOAR.

Card from Martin. :)

:) Don't let you see what he wrote! haha

This year's gift to the graduating Student Leaders.

okayy..... :/

The tie, tiepin and Prefect's badge will always bring back fond memories. :)

The New EXCOS will mysteriously disappear..

Thank god those were only his shoes and not his clothes.

Dance Video :) Good job Aloy!

Invest video: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3141508&id=727276689#/video/video.php?v=108440652728&ref=nf
(I'm at 0:15, 0:33 :D)

andandand, I think happiness and sadness is something that is hard to hide. we all know that our dearest Mitchell always goes,"aiyah inefficient!", "could've done it better la!", and all that. He always 'appears' like he doesn't really give a damn about PB, but, he always gets the job done :/ 口是心非 in a good way. :D And earlier on he said that he felt the award is stupid. Nevertheless, he went up to recieve the award, and after the entire ceremony, he had a weird look on his face. I don't know if I saw wrong, but it looks as if he was sad that we were all going to leave PB, and he's happy he recieved the award despite him 'not wanting' it. :D

Expressions gives us away. :D

Mitchell is a totally cool person. :)

sian, i still think the invest theme this year should have been "Swift". Then the SC can have fun painting a super large banner of the FEARLESS cover. LOL. :D Then I'll probably lug it home.

*due to popular demand, the post had been published first. This post will later be updated. Stay tuned for the videos and more photos*

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yongliang

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