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Mothers' Day is tomorrow, so have you thought of what to get for your mum?

I do have friends who give presents and cards and all sorts of things to their mums, and also friends who don't give anything, like me.

Yes yes, nothing will ever repay the effort put in by our mothers. It's the symbolism and thought that counts. But there is actually a reason as to why I never gave presents on Mothers' Day after that day.

I still remember it was the Mothers' Day when I was still P2. So apparently I bought a pink fake rose for about 30c from the bookshop. I didn't know how to give it to her, but anyway I handed it to her and mouthed a word of "Happy Mothers' Day." And all she did was to tell me not to waste money on such things and told me to keep it myself.

Yes, it's just a sesamegreenbean matter (芝麻绿豆的小事) but in fact, it did leave an impact. I know many of you have experienced similar things like giving somebody a gift but in the end told not to waste money. If it didn't affect me, I wouldn't even remember it la.

Sometimes, it's not the monetary value that matters (since it's like my money instead of yours). It's about saying a word of thanks. Accepting it and appreciating it. And not telling the person not to waste a mere 30c.

PS: I know 30c can buy me like 3 fishballs but still, that's not the main point. It's just 30c.

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Updates!

With You

I've been waiting for this showreel since forever. Kind of disappointed because I expected more crying scenes in the showreel, but it's okay, Rui En's still as orh-shum as everrrrr. I hope With You would get her the BA award next year. Hmmm. Seems like I do need a bucket from 12 May onwards.

The best post-SA1 activity would be to stay at home from Monday to Friday at 9PM, and keep my eyes on the TV screen, and myself on the sofa.

Oh and she looks orh-shum in long hair too!

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Okay I shall end of my post with my favourite picture of Rui En.

I think it was for the lensing ceremony for the August drama, Unriddle. POLICEWOMEN! Whee.

P/S: It's currently the wallpaper for my iPod. So everytime I turn on my iPod I see her face. :D

Exam-mode? No.

EL Paper 1 and 2 down.

Seriously, even after the start of the first paper, I'm still not in the exam-mode. Probably because of my TV and my bed and definitely my iPod. I'm like reading Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare right now instead of reading my textbooks and worksheets.

I kind of wonder how I even got into Anderson and survived. Note that I used 'survived' instead of 'getting good results'. Because a part of me studies for the sake of studying. I honestly don't think that finding x in algebra questions and learning about how people plant rice in some other parts of the world would be useful unless you want to be a mathematician/maths teacher, or some geog teacher or even a farmer. Yes, certain things in maths like financial arithmetic/linear graphs, and knowing the places on Earth can be useful. Other than that I don't know why we want to know x.

I'd rather spend the time learning languages.

I digress.

So, as I was saying, I'm still not in the exam-mode because if I were, I wouldn't even be typing this. I shall continue my Shakespearian stuff. :/

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PS; My last paper will be on 12 May, which is a drama paper. And then I can watch With You 我在你左右, starring Rui En as pregnant mum. Remember to tune in to Channel 8 [Channel 103] at 9pm on 12 May! :D

I picked this picture because I like it a lot. Really captured all her emotions.

Speech Day 2010

16 April 2010

Things that happened are slowly slipping off my mind right now. Okay, before everything slips off and I don't even remember performing during Speech Day, I shall start my entry.

Was telling everybody that I was stressed. 'Cause I'm really afraid I'd screw up everything by saying the wrong lines or something. Hmm, then after having lunch we went to change and get makeup on. And I looked old. (Happy <--)

Erm, after that we went to get mic-ed up (that's what they say, which means to get the mike thingy on which I forgot the name). I mean the microphone was the coolest man. It's not like you get it stuck on your face all the time so yea. And on the way to get the mike I saw Mr Leong (P.E. teacher) and asked, "Hi Mr Leong, do you know who I am?" *smiles* Then he said, "You're Zi Lei."

I asked him because he always doesn't spot me during P.E. lesson even though I'm like the H.A. which stands for health ambassador who is also known as the P.E. rep. *breathes* He'll usually go, "Uh, where's my P.E. rep/HA?" Then I'll start waving my hands like mad before he spots me.

After getting the mike, we went back to Blackbox because there was nothing for us to do at the hall until quite late. Heh so I went around taking pictures of people and camwhoring with Meiyu. Y'know I seldom camwhore so... it's rare?! (It's 10.50pm on a Friday night and I think I'm going to play chess with 周公 already, hence the lameness. Ooops.)

A bit disgusting to see a Grandma doing this.

Let's just fast-forward all these teeny-weeny details to the performance, shall we? (Anyway you don't have a choice. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA.)

My legs were like "~~~~~~~~~" while doing the knitting on stage. I mean it's not my first time on stage but it's like the first time I've acted as a Grandma. Anyway, I almost screwed up about the Wa Zu girls part, or rather, I screwed it up but Sakinah, Praveena and Vinesha managed to save it. I totally forgot the sequence of everybody's lines and started saying my lines at the wrong moments. I was like damn sorry. :( And after that er, nothing much la. Oh, really thank Sakinah for helping me wipe my make-up off and removing my grandma costume outside my hiphop costume. But for some reason I think she didn't wipe it clean so I have a feeling that I still looked like a grandma during the hiphop dance. (I haven't seen any pictures of me dancing hiphop so I don't really know how I looked like then.)

Had some de-brief session after the whole thing and went to have LJS with some ATCians. Didn't really got to interact with the other seniors except for Darrick cos all of us were sitting in different tables. :(

I Y ATC.

Now you see it, now you don't

Was listening to some chinese songs on my way home and felt this gush of emotions rushing up to me when I heard the piano prelude of a song which sounded rather emo. Not really sure why but it just happens once in a while.

Anyway, my point is, I've always wanted to learn to play the piano. Since, a long time ago. I decided that I will learn to play it one day when I was around P3 I think. 'Cos I was in chinese orchestra, and the choir would perform with the teacher playing the piano during events. It just sounds so nice y'know.

My only music background was playing erhu and gaohu in chinese orchestra and also singing with my sis. So I've always envied people who could play the piano really well. And I especially hate it when people have a chance to learn to play the piano but don't like it because thereIamwantingtolearnbutdon'thaveachancetobecauseitcostsmoneyandmymumdoesn'tcareaboutpianos.

My mum used to think being able to play tunes (not chords for goodness sake) on my sis's donkey-year-old organ (those really small ones that you can change the sound of the keys, has about 20+ keys and without the ability to press than 2 keys at one time) is called 'playing the piano', which obviously isn't true.

I really admire Mr Chin (Ah Swee) for taking up piano at his age. My goal when I grow up was and is to learn to play the piano using my own money.

And then I'm not gonna care if I'm like the oldest person in the piano class.