TRAUMA TRAUMA TRAUMA TRAUMA

Guess who?? I'm back. And with yet another anecdote of yet another injury i have sustained to amuse you all in this time of stress! So go ahead, take pleasure in my pain. You officially have my permission to do so.

So tonight, after dinner, i was being nice and decided to bring my plate to the kitchen. However, the dear chair decided it hadn't caused me pain for a rather long time, (It usually does this every other day at least, so having refrained from doing so for about an entire half-week, is considered a quite an achievement) and felt it time to revert to its routine. I guess again, that you can guess what happened! But with encouragement from mu, i have decided to share my tragic experience with you. So, very predictably, i walked into the chair. Interestingly, i did not get any cut or bruise from this. But this, in turn, (i conclude) upset the chair, and so it became determined to cause me some misery. It toppled onto my poor toe! At first, it was kind of numb but after a while, the pain started to come and i started screaming and screaming! It was SOOO painful, i tell you. And this was the sharp edge of the chair, mind you. So much for being responsible and bringing my plate to the kitchen! Subsequent to my screaming, of course, as usual, nobody came to my rescue as they all think i'm crying wolf again! Huh! But they started to believe me when a pool of blood accumulated on my toe. I repeat, a POOL!! It was gigantic, almost the size of a five-cent coin! Yuck. And because so much blood was oozing out, it turned from light pink to light red to dark red to darker red, and eventually to an almost black! This was seriously gross. I would have fainted if i wasn't so experienced and used to the sight of my poor self bleeding (thanks to countless wounds, cuts, gashes, lacerations i have chalked up over the years).

After this, my mother, with good intentions of course, came and started dabbing it with a tissue. This sent me into immense agony. I shall kindly spare you the gory details. Next, i waited quite a long time and endured much pain, so that a clot would form or something, and after a while, i examined it, and deemed it time for me to start moving around again. BUT, as i started climbing the stairs, i hit the injured part of my toe on the edge of the stairs!! (The stairs again! Refer to previous traumatic post, regarding the ankle) What luck, you say! Yes i agree completely! Needless to say, the rather fragile clot, or whatever it's called, over the cut was broken and there was blood all over the stairs. Double gross. Okay, you get the picture. I shan't paint it all explicitly for you, or you'll all probably faint! (You're not as experienced as me, you see) And so i have obviously pulled through my hour of trauma with resilience and survived to finally hobble here to tell this little tale of my great misfortune tonight. See, i just provided you all with many reasons to be happy! 1) I'm not nicole. 2) I don't get injured like nicole. 3) Pieces of furniture and stairs don't hate me like they hate nicole. Oh, these are but three! Well, i guess you're all in luck, because i've got to go figure out a way to shower now, in order to suffer the least possible pain, and can't rant on and on and on and on and on...

Till next (traumatic) time,
Cheerio!
nic

PS. DID I SAY IT WAS THE SAME SIDE OF ME AS MY ANKLE?!!

TRAUMA TRAUMA TRAUMA

Hello everyone!

Hasn't it just been eons since i last wrote something here! Anyway, the reason I'm doing this now at this weird hour is because i'm at home! No, crystal, i'm not skipping Chinese again. I have turned over a new leaf! Actually, I'm at home because yesterday i sprained my ankle in school!! Oh the trauma! Let me amuse you (and maybe evoke a little sympathy) by recounting my terrible experience. It was this stupid lit classmate's fault, who i will kindly decline to name, because he was saying something at the top of the steps at the North Lodge and i was looking at him, instead of where i was going! I concede that perhaps i am a tad uncoordinated, but still! He should know better than to talk to somebody when they're going down a rather steep filght of steps, no?! So i guess you can guess what happened? I missed a step and, quite unglamourously, might i add, twisted my ankle! We're talking seriously twisted here. As in, I had the absolute horror of hearing my ankle bone crack! Please bear in mind, I am not exaggerating, although some of you are probably quite skeptical at this point. I promise you, it went C-R-A-C-K! I can't tell you how freaked out i was! Can you imagine, considering how my poor ankles are all the way down there and my poor ears are all the way up here, how terribly distraught i must have been to hear such a loud crack?? It was louder than any other bone crack i have heard throughout my 17 years of existence. Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

However, very unfortunately, nicole's misery did not end there! Oh no, it was not to be! Even after twisting my ankle, and hobbling very awkwardly for quite a distance, my dear good classmates still believed that i had sustained no injury whatsoever! Preposterous i say!! They called me the girl who cries wolf!! It was only after lit, and i said it really really hurt, that they started to have the slightest, remotest idea that maybe i AM injured! So one of my classmates, being ever so helpful, thought he was some exotic bone healer or whatever, and took it upon himself to fix my ankle. He took my foot and began pressing it at all places! This had, to his surprise (for he genuinely thought he was a professional), and my extreme unsurprise, aggravated it. So poor me was left to limp around school in agony for the rest of the day until my mum came to pick me up. Even then, i was not to be left alone to wallow in self-pity! My mother brushed it off like it was nothing at all and said it was a 'simple sprain'. Well, i don't know what's so simple about nicole (her only daughter, mind you) in pain! And the icing on my cake? My dad was laughing at my new way of walking and hopping around. Oh wait, there's a cherry on top! I was in the doctor's office for TWO short minutes, after which he concluded that it was nothing serious. I'll tell you about serious. Being stuck awake the whole night in bed, because you can't find a suitably comfortable position to fall asleep in! That's serious. Did i mention that i can't even move it now?

Okay i shall stop boring you with graphic details of my anguish. Moral of the story: nicole in the North Lodge is like a bull in a china shop. I just realised i wrote two huge chunks. It's like an essay. I bet i now hold the record for longest post! At least something good came out of it! Well, what do you expect me to do having noone to talk to all day except the maid, when i'm stuck at home? Actually, to be precise, i'm stuck in my chair since i can hardly go anywhere, thanks to my distressed ankle. If you've made it this far, you're either really concerned about me, or you take pleasure in my pain. Let's hope, for my sake and yours, it's the former. And if it is, heaven forbid, the latter, at least i've cheered you up! But then again, you all probably didn't make it till here. Anyway, i've got to go read Great Expectations now. See you guys!

Lots of love,
nic

i have smart friends!

eh sarah! howd you know, that i won't be the famous one when you grow up! there's time yet! hahahaha!
okay right, its more likely that i'll be famous for toppling over the campbells mushroom soup pyramid in cold storage than for anything credible like acting. however, i know MING MIGHT BE FAMOUS TOO! today she had her piano exam, oh, what a prodigy! haha. i don't know why though, but her examiners were trying to gouge each others eyes out with a blanko halfway through her piece hahaahha. okay anyway my point is, CONGRATS CHARRRRRRRRR! i'm so proud of you! which is more than i can say for myself, seeing that i topped math for the level, FROM THE BOTTOM! (probably)
moving on, LETS STUDY TOGETHERRRRRRRRR!:D:D:D somebody organize pls. and pick a day when nicole's not free, if not, nobody will get any studying done. hahaha, just kidding nic. you know we love you.
ITS ALWAYS BETTER WHEN WE'RE TOGETHER((O:
much love, mu
ps: YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT MING'S NEPHEW ONE DAY!! SOOOOOOO CUTE! be warned though. he tends to puke, when you least expect it.

WOW an A! CHARR!!! youre too prola
i always knew i'd grow old to know someone famous.. that would be YOU char! inventio was great by the way even though i was really sleepy and tired. good value for money. ten dollars to watch a STARRR perform!
hahahaha. hmm no one seems to update anymore. our blog went for a vacation. can we bring it back to life? actually the only reason im updating is to avoid reading my malay. eck.
and yes char, i suppose i kinda miss the exam period in mg. i think even if we do study together now that it wont be like before. sigh. that makes me sad. :(
my bio text book rocks too! its got nice nice messages and drawings of . ehem, stuff. ahah mostly by that eliza. i wonder where our quote book is. we should bring that back to life too.kinda hard to do since we're not in the same class anymore! GAH now im getting sad. :(

-sarah!

hey guys. wow no one has posted for so long.

anyway, i miss you guys. so much, you know. ): i just studied with debbie and jessie yesterday, and the fact that i was just hanging out with them made me so happy. when debbie was in the void deck and jessie eliza rachel wang ethel were all together for a while and i suddenly felt this surge of joy. cos.. its so rare for all of us, or even some of us, to be together. that makes me sad. thanks for coming for Inventio.. i hope you guys had a good time together. you guys must treasure these times okay.. exams are coming, and well i hope that we can use this to spend time together again. even if its just studying. i loved studying with ya'll last year. (: i remember how we'd stay in the canteen till late, or study in random places like Venezia or people's houses or something. and it was fun.. well i don't know about you, but whenever i think about the prelim/o level studying period, i remember it being fun. its like when i'm with you guys, i don't have to try, you know? i can be the most boring person in the world, i don't have to try and be interesting. and i can be quite boring hahaha ok but that's not the point. you know what. i think my favourite textbook from last year would be my bio book. haha. i spent so long on that book, trying to remember everything. wahlao. but anyway, its not cos i love bio, but cos in it there are so many scribbles from you guys. haha. they're all retarded. but i love them. (:

i know we all have new friends and stuff.. but we shouldn't forget each other and we should try. to me you guys still feel like home. i don't know if you guys want to try.. but i want to try. i hope some of you even come here, and read this.. and do something about it. but oh well. i give up our friendship to God. God does work. like for Inventio and my IS. (Individual Skill for DEP, we all need to have one for A levels.) my teacher, Mrs Creffield, told me i would do very well if i did straight (pure) acting. yup so i didn't have to be worried over whether i was good enough, or well i just didn't have to worry much about it, cos God gave me an answer before i needed to panic. and Inventio went well, i got an A! so that's almost like a guaranteed A for promos. so God will do His stuff.. and God will do something for us. like i said, i really miss you guys. i love you.

There's no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard
No song that I could sing
But I can try for your heart
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
Like a shoebox of photographs
with sepia-toned loving

Love is the answer
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Like why are we here?
And where do we go?
And how come it's so hard?
It's not always easy and
Sometimes life can be deceiving
I'll tell you one thing
It's always better when we're together

Mmmm, It's always better when we're together
Yeah we'll look at them stars and we're together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah it's always better when we're together

And all of these moments just might find their way into my dreams tonight
But I know that they’ll be gone
When the morning light sings
And brings new things
For tomorrow night you see
that they’ll be gone too
Too many things I have to do
But if all of these dreams might find their way into my day to day scene
I'd be under the impression i was somewhere in between
With only two, Just me and you,
Not so many things we got to do
Or places we got to be
We'll sit beneath the mango tree, now

Yeah It's always better when we're together
Mmmm, we're somewhere in between together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together

I believe in memories
They look so, so pretty when I sleep
Hey now, and when I wake up
You look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is not enough time
There is no, no song I could sing
And there is no combination of words I could say
But I will still tell you one thing
We're better together


- char.

i n v e n t i o class of 2008
a presentation of group performative skills by first year DEP students
6 September 2007
Thursday7.30 pm
DBS Arts Centre - Home of the Singapore Repertory Theatre
$10
invent me. invent you.
Tickets obtainable from me
90606545



come k. (:

oh and pls try and tell me by fri! if you wanna come.


love, char.

IT'S AUGUST ALREADY.
sighh time flies.
makes you think whether how you're living is really worthwhile sometimes.
many times i just dont feel that i'm living purposefully-im just living day by day with temporal goals in mind, hardly seeing the eternal.
i am a flower quickly fading
here today and gone tomorrow.
if i were to die tomorrow i dont think i'll have much treasure stored up in heaven:/ yet it seems so logical to focus on temporal stuff since like WR and EOM and econs test and promos..and you're not even sure if you're gonna die tomorrow, so why focus on eternity? (if you dont hand up EOM, you also die. but its another type of death so its not counted)
we're like half living in this temporal world and half in eternity..but God says we're supposed to live for eternity right.
"Set your hearts on things above, not on earthly things." -Col 3:2
i guess that's where faith comes in to believe that if you 'seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, all these things will be given to you as well'. BUT its really not easy. especially in the competitive world we live in today. boohoo.
all these things:
1) God-given wisdom you need to study to do well
2) ability to get into a good university
3) ability to find a secure job
4) a stable income
5)
6)
i'm sure there's lots more but i cant think of anymore now..
anyway hope to see you all soon!!!
teachers day YAY(:
but hc's celebrations are on friday and thursday's a normal school day for us):
booo.

have a nice day everybody.


GOD LOVES YOU NO MATTER WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TODAY <3

love
cheryl

HI GUYS!
WHATS SUPP!!!:)
We're sleeping over at crystal's house! this boy who is next to me says hi. you dont know him! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. alright. JAMES CANNOT BE A CRAPBAG. his gender forbids it. HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH, but i guess if dee wants him to its okay. AHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA
alright. it is 1:23am and im going to do my history! today was such a hot day. and one acs rocks! YAY go ACSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS


<3 SARAH, CRYSTALLLLL, SMELLY KELLY! & the boy next to me!

your guardian angel was stuck in my head too! my favourite line is "i'll be there for you through it all", not the others, cos when i thought about the lyrics "i will never let you fall, i'll stand up with you forever" i realised that well sometimes we have to fall. we gotta fall so that we can learn to stand up again. and we will inevitably fall time and time again, because life is never always peachy.

God never promised that He will never let us fall, cos He does. He lets us fall for a variety of reasons, which all aim to draw us closer to Him. He did promise, however, to never leave us nor forsake us, and that He will be our comfort, our strength, and our solid rock. He never promised we wouldn't fall, but He promised He'd pick us up! in our weakness, He is strong. it is at our most vulnerable moments that we can look up and marvel at how awesomely powerful our God is in comparision. we become strong by leaning on Him, not by standing up on our own.

ironic, isn't it. (:

i've fallen many times, especially this year. but i've learnt from each scrape or bruise, and i can say that i've become stronger. so although those times weren't the best, i'm not looking back with bitterness, but with the knowledge that He carried me through, and that all He did was for a purpose, which is slowly unravelling itself. its quite cool when you abide in Him and see His plan for you unfold before your eyes, and amazing to see His hand guide you in your every step. God will never give us more than we can bear. He is forever faithful. so take heart, all you guys who don't seem to see any light at the end of this dark long gloomy tunnel that you see yourself in. you Will be fine. God says so. (:

i'm so thankful for you guys. i thank God that us being friends was in His plan for my life. you guys are so special, i'm so proud of you, in your own special way. see you soon!

like a new born baby, don't be afraid to crawl. and remember when you walk, sometimes we fall. so fall on Jesus, and live.


- char.

even if saving you sends me to heaven

When I see your smile tears run down my face I can't replace and now that I'm stronger I've figured out how this world turns cold and breaks through my soul and I know I'll find deep inside me I can be the one I will never let you fall I'll stand up with you forever I'll be there for you through it all Even if saving you sends me to heaven it's ok. It's ok. It's ok. Seasons are changing and waves are crashing and stars are falling all for us days grow longer and nights grow shorter I can show you I'll be the one I will never let you fall I'll stand up with you forever I'll be there for you through it all even if saving you sends me to heaven cause you're my, you're my, my true love, my whole heart Please don't throw that away cause I'm here for you please don't walk away, please tell me you'll stay, stay..use me as you will pull my strings just for a thrill and I know I'll be ok though my skies are turning gray I will never let you fall I'll stand up with you forever I'll be there for you through it all, even if saving you sends me to heaven..

i love this song..

please kindly pray for 1. me to let God be present in my life again 2. strenght to get by everyday 3.for strength to take in all the hurt and still be happy

guess none of you really know what it's like being in a relationship (unless you evil meevils never told the crapbags bout your boyfriend). but here's dee with some advice! hoorah.

love isn't always a pleasant thing, you get up you get down you get hurt beyond hurt you get crushed you get so frustrated and you even feel like you should just quit on life.. but deep inside you know it's worth it all.. when you're happy it's probably one of the happiest times in your life so that keeps you going. just make sure you pick someone who wont give up on you no matter how much shit happens.

it's like God's love. he probably gets hurt when things with him suck. and really glad when our faith is strong and burning. yet he'll never leave us no matter how far we stray away or how much hurt we might cause him as his child.

so pray you can learn to love like God does. not just with some guy you're with but with each other. then maybe the crapbaggang can be a happy crapbaggang again.

you- be strong. it'll be okay. love you(:

the other you- change back to your old self please. dont let jc life ruin who you were. love you too.

CAN JAMES BE A CRAPBAG??????
















just kidding. just realised he knows most of you. haha. and talks to you all more than i do): he can be my substitute. wow. haha. love you guys.

-i will never let you fall
i'll stand up with you forever
i'll be there for you through it all
even if saving you sends me to heaven


happy seventeeth birthday kelly cowy kwan!

hi guys(:

















a couple more on my blog. CLICK!

so there, dee.

top one reason (i don't need more than one to justify my cause) why muriel is mean to james:

it was in self defence.

much love, mu

10 reasons muriel is mean to james

1. she splattered black sauce on him and told him he needs white sauce to get whiter.
2. she calls him a cockroach
3. she draws on him
4. she says james is obligated as the best friend's boyfriend to buy rabbit sweet for her
5. she calls me knowing i'm on the phone with james when she sees him in school to interrupt our call.
6. she makes james help her in gp after jacking him so much
7. she pokes james with her whole bunch of zig markers which hurt him=(
8. she laughs at james after he gets barbered and is very sad.
9. she accuses james of breaking her little green thinggy when the beads were already falling out and he was trying to help her fix it back. ingrate.
10. she not only is mean to james alone, but has reinforcements. e.g. getting liza to help draw on him

sigh.i guess she just is that way.
muriel ruth manning you better be nicer to him from now on.
but its okay i still love you(:

hello!!
why doesnt anyone update regularly anymore? :(
we should take turns. should i draw out a timetable someday for everybody to follow?
whoever doesnt will have to do a forfeit!! :D
let's see. you can..
1. plan the next crapbag outing
2. update twice the next round
3. down 20!
argh ok i think my brain's not working well enough to come up with better forfeits. any suggestions??
hehe.
block test results were BAD. getting back bio tmr i think. die die i just hope i dont get U! i've got a C A and E so far. i just need an S.
then i'll be GONE CASE.
hahahaha.
school's been ok so far..its just kinda hard sometimes. to live the Life that's truly life.
but anyway. cant wait for fday next week!! i have to rush back to school right after that though..to boil eggs for chem prac!! sighh. would have liked to stay longer:/
oh i was thinking, do you guys wanna do a service learning project together?? (:
um my school calls it service learning..AKA self-initiated CIP.
yay!
it'll be so fun if we could!
ok i gtg now. bro needs com.
TAKE CARE PEOPLE(:

LOVE
cheryl

hey all(:

hows everyone been. the blog is dying! noo!thats why denise is here to save the day and update the blog with a pathetic post.
anyway, early bye to zai, thanks for hosting the gathering yeah(:

love everyone very much!

-dee

haha this is rather funny(: not that i'm implying anything bad but yeah. erm. it's funny!

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRISON AND WORK:

IN PRISON...you spend the majority of your time in an 8X10 cell.
AT WORK... you spend the majority of your time in a 6X8 cubicle.

IN PRISON...you get three meals a day.
AT WORK...you only get a break for one meal and you pay for it.

IN PRISON...you get time off for good behavior.
AT WORK...you get more work for good behavior.

IN PRISON...the guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
AT WORK...you must carry around a security card and open all the doors for yourself.

IN PRISON...you can watch TV and play games.
AT WORK...you get fired for watching TV and playing games.


IN PRISON...they allow your family and friends to visit.
AT WORK...you can't even speak to your family.

IN PRISON...all expenses are paid by the taxpayers with no work required.
AT WORK...you get to pay all the expenses to go to work and then they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.

IN PRISON...you spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out.
AT WORK...you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars.

IN PRISON...you must deal with sadistic wardens.
AT WORK...they are called managers.

(:
cheryl

p.s. HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICOLE!!!!!

HELLO

hey guys!
guess what?
i bumped into nic at vivo today! haha how cool right. and i met liselle also , if you remember her

anyway, i feel so distant from you guys of late. i'm slow, i know, because i'm never around i should have realized this eons ago, but i guess it sunk in properly only recently.

thanks for all the kind emails and words of concern you guys left at my journal, i really genuinely appreciate them ; they surprisingly made me feel stronger and simply put, better, i guess.

i know i hardly put in conspicuous effort to keep in touch and do all that shimmy buddy stuff and sometimes when people take a stab at catching up i sound like a bucket of insoucience; stoic, spasmodic and detached. admittedly i sometimes am passive (sorry), but it is not because i disregard your efforts or our friendship or am pmsing because i am bleeding from my gina but merely because i more often than not am consumed with weariness and would prefer to mope around in my own world of doldrums and listless ennui.

either way, i will try my best to find a balance with everything, and cope with all the muddling issues of life from studies to love to rowing in a boat and be around, if you want me to be, and not be so detached from my friends.

in other news, nationals are coming up in a week so maybe this will take effect from after the 13th of july

sorry i am a sucky friend

much love friends

ps: WELCOME BACK ZAI!

ming

random stuff off my class blog:

DORMITORY: When you rearrange the letters: DIRTY ROOM
PRESBYTERIAN: When you rearrange the letters: BEST IN PRAYER
ASTRONOMER: When you rearrange the letters: MOON STARER
DESPERATION: When you rearrange the letters: A ROPE ENDS IT
THE EYES: When you rearrange the letters: THEY SEE
GEORGE BUSH: When you rearrange the letters: HE BUGS GORE
THE MORSE CODE: When you rearrange the letters: HERE COME DOTS
SLOT MACHINES: When you rearrange the letters: CASH LOST IN ME
ANIMOSITY: When you rearrange the letters: IS NO AMITY
ELECTION RESULTS: When you rearrange the letters: LIES - LET'S RECOUNT
SNOOZE ALARMS: When you rearrange the letters: ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S
A DECIMAL POINT: When you rearrange the letters: IM A DOT IN PLACE
THE EARTHQUAKES: When you rearrange the letters: THAT QUEER SHAKE
ELEVEN PLUS TWO: When you rearrange the letters: TWELVE PLUS ONE
MOTHER-IN-LAW: When you rearrange the letters: WOMAN HITLER

yayy exams are over(: and lovemg was awesome yesterday!!
im gonna die for chem bio and econs. its hard to tell for gp but my AQ and summary were rubbish to me:/ and maths? the 3h long paper practically killed half my brain cells.
never mind. quote my senior: 'block tests are meant to block you. promos are meant to promote you.' i dont wonder why they call it block tests. sigh.
going back to mg yesterday was sooo good. i miss the environment. cant wait for founders!!
gst hike begins tomorrow! i hope you all have bought what you wanted and won't be taxed on the extra 2%. hahaha.
have a fun weekend everyone(:

cheryl

DENISE TAN.

in the midst of exams, we are all in need of some good cheer.

thus, i am posting up the funniest thing i've heard all year:


denise. says:
IM TOUCH RUG CAPTAIN
denise. says:
HAHAHHAA
denise. says:
i bet
denise. says:
yorue like
denise. says:
HUH!???!
denise. says:
DEE??!??!???!?!
stop craughing! says:
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA
denise. says:
i knew you'd laugh
denise. says:
hahaha
stop craughing! says:
HAHAHAAHAHA
stop craughing! says:
AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA


go dee!! kick some *beep*!
HAHAHA.

--mu