Hmm, shall update my blog on previous performances after Japan Trip. (:

July 3rd (Tuesday): Singapore Youth Festival Ensemble Presentation

haha! Just when we thought Japan trip was the last performance, there came SYF's ensemble presentation. Our handbell ensemble represented our school. (:

Although the rehearsals were filled with much anger by ahem ahem, and much laughter (imitates camera guy), we still focused on our performance that night.

Hiccups did happen along the way though... We forgot to unlock the bell boxes after coming back from japan (Good thing Mrs Wong brought her set of keys) , we also forgot to bring our trays to carry the chimes... ): But oh wells, Mr Fong brought in his trays.. haha! Such a hero as usual...

Our alumni made it to the performance!! Not only did they support us with their presence, they gave us a standing ovation! haha! How sweet is that?!

Yep, in return, we gave them a lift back to sch... sadly we were too busy moving everything to the handbell room that we totally forgot to say gdbye to our ever-supportive alumni...

Oh wells, that day sure was tiring for us...

July 21st (Saturday): Music Connection 2007

Our school played host to the music connection and hey!! Yet another performance from God! (: But yeah... Mrs Wong confirmed that this would be our final performance with the sec 4s until Nov...

Yep, after practicing our pieces once, we started shifting the load to the backstage of the AGAPE concert hall. Yep, then we rushed back to put on our make-up and all. Haha, we took 1/2 hr to do that... Hey! We're girls! xD

After all the rushing from the seniors, we finally moved out and got into our places at the backstage. We waited for abt 1/2 hr, listening to 3 people speak one after another... But yep, it was fun playing with Zi Qi , ling cyen, lee xuan and christabel at the backstage... haha.

Our performance was great, as usual, however we all felt that the sound effects weren't as great as kaleidescope ): Must be the curtains.. oh wells! Lenggang Kangkong was awesome! All the dynamics really came out perfectly! (: But yep, i admit, i played one note wrongly :X

But crazy lil thing called love!!! Woohoo! It was mistake-free for me! haha! But yeah, chimes section had little space and yep, we were rubbing each others' shoulders when we moved.. haha

Yep, guess thats all i've to blog...

Ohoh! Common tests and quizzes are coming up soon, so yep! Jia you pple!

haha! Heya folks! Sure has been long since i've updated my entries huh?

Haha, shall continue with my unforgettable japan trip!

The 4th day!!

June 15th (Friday) : Tezukayama School Classes & Instant Ramen Museum!

After waking up from our japanese night experience, we folded back our sleeping mattresses (Forgot the real word) , and yep!!! We headed down for breakfast at the dinner hall once again. We had quite a meal actually. There was rice, soup, sausage, egg and some coffee jelly. haha... mrs wong especially loved the coffee jelly! (:

After taking photos outside at the garden (grp photos), we headed back to Tezukayama High School. The journey there was a long one. While the handbellers were playing Uno in the bus, my bus partner and i took loads of scenery photos... haha... A great time to admire God's works, since the outskirts of Japan wasn't congested with buildings and all, like Singapore... So yeah! Loved the view and the wind! haha. Cheryl opened the bus window to give us some face lift!

Anyway, at the school, we were immediately splitted into 2 grps. Mrs Wong led my grp. We went to the flower arrangement class first. There, we were taught to arrange an interesting japanese flower arrangement! Haha... hands-on man... Yep, we were allowed to take back our flowers too! Next, we headed to the japanese calligraphy class. There, we were allowed to practice writing the chinese words. It was fun! Since practically all the sec 3s were remembering our sch's chinese calligraphy classes last yr... haha... but amazingly, japanese calligraphy is different to chinese calligraphy. Rmb how our chi teachers say that the thinner the better? Well, here in Japan, they practically soak the whole brush! HAHA! Cool huh! And believe me! The outcome is awesome! Sensei taught me! haha

After all that, we were given time to give out all our last min presents! and my oh my, weren't they touched!! haha!! After spending much time there, we left for lunch! Lunch was at a local restaurant...Finally some sushi! haha! Oh did i mention that the home-stay acs boys were back? So yeah... our bus was crowded once more. But oh wells, nothing stops handbellers from playing Uno! haha!

After lunch and much ice green tea, we headed to the Instant Ramen Museum! That was the place filled with the most instant noodles i've ever seen. From ceiling to ground, it was instant noodles! haha! We bought a ice apple drink from the vending machine, and Mr Fong was sporty enough to join us! haha, he even took many cute photos while posing with the juice bottle! haha!

After ramen ramen and RAMEN, we went for some shopping at the streets of shinsabashi! haha, we didnt buy much though, we just walked around, trying to plan what to buy for the next day's shopping-frenzy! (: After shopping, we headed for dinner at a chinese restaurant...

The dinner was a reunion with all the schools that went. ACJC, MGS, ACS (B) and PL!!! haha! Our special guest was the man who made the cultural exchange possible. (sorry, i forgot his name)! Oh wells, (: It was really touching when we heard his passion and proudness of the success of this yr's cultural exchange between the methodist schs in sg and Tezukayama high. We prayed for his eye cancer surgery and yep! Im sure God blessed that man (:

After leaving much left-overs at my table, we headed to Ana-tower hotel. (: We would be spending 2 nights there. Our last 2 nights ): After leaving our luggages inside our rooms, we headed to Christabel's room for Vaspers. Joyce opened us with prayer and i shared God's word, with all of us closing with many prayers individually (: (Lim xi closed us officially)

After planning our Uno meeting at Lee Xuan's room, and inviting Mrs Wong, we headed back to our rooms to bathe and all (: At the "Uno Room" , we played 2 rounds of normal Uno. Mrs Wong then said that we should be more "High" , so she taught us to play "Germ". First Round, the theme was "Flowers". Mrs Wong picked "Vanda Ms Joaqim"! haha! For the 2nd round, the theme was "Car brands" and she was honda! lols... she really showed her fun side (:

After laughing our heads off that night, we closed our "stall" and went to finish up our instant noodles. Lim Xi bunked in our room (: We played "passport" with poker cards while eating our instant noodles and boiling loads of water! haha! When we were abt to slp, we watched some tv and my oh my! We saw a really funny japanese reality show! haha! It was a joke!!! haha! Anyways, that night sure was fun!

Oh wells, that was Day 4! (:

June 16th (Saturday) : Universal Studios and Shopping!!

When we woke up, we headed for breakfast at the 6th floor. It was buffet breakfast. By that time, we were quite late.

Yep, we then headed to the train station not far away. It was connected to the hotel, so yeah, it was just a 5 min walk. After buying our tickets from the ticket machine, we waited for the train for quite a while. We spent our time singing the Phantom of the opera song (too addicted), sang christian songs, and took LOADS of photos! haha!

When the train finally arrived, we headed to Universal Studios of Japan!!! Ahhh! We were all so excited! (: Sadly, Mr Fong didnt want to join us ): I believed that he went shopping instead... haha! But Mrs Wong did (:

After taking our entrance tickets, passed the entrance check, we headed straight for the "Jaws" ride... haha... it was a long queue. After finally making a 45 min queue, we made it into the boat of the ride. It was quite fun to see the japanese guy act and having to make out what he was saying. We just kept laughing ! haha! The effects was quite alright, but the burnt shark part was quite fake.. haha... we were laughing at it like mad... haha!

We then headed to the long-waited ride, "Jurassic Park"!!!! Oh... we stopped for snacks along the way.. haha.. while queueing up for approximately 1hr+, we listened to mp3, fan ourselves, ate sweets and even gossiped... haha... We then finally got on! I sat next to Charlene. haha.. she kept scaring me with all her predictions of when the dinosaurs would appear -.- And her prediction came true once, which was that there was the huge T-rex at the end of the ride -.- Wow... .lols... But yea, had much fun grabbing her and all..

After the ride, we split up into smaller grps. Some wanted more rides, while pple like me, christabel, Zi Qi, Lim Xi, Debra and Ling Cyen, all we wanted was to SHOP!!! haha! We went around shopping for stuff and we came across Snoopy's Land!!! We went in and took loads of photos... and Christabel managed to convince me, zi qi and ling cyen to take the snoopy ride.. haha... quite fun actually... but it was really short ):

Anyways, after more and more shopping, we finally got Zi Qi and Lim Xi to get lunch for us.. haha.. we ate mos burger (if i rmb correctly).. and yep, waited for the rest of the PL girls and ACS (b) guys to come...

We left USJ ): ... We then headed for more shopping at.... Shinsabashi Street once more!!! haha! This time, we had time to shop and do our own dinner from 5-9 (i think)!!! haha! My shopping grp was Christabel, her brother, Zi Qi, Lim Xi , Ling cyen and me! Christabel (a.k.a Speedo) and her brother was known for their speed of walking... The 4 other girls (sec 3s) were chasing after them... literally... =.=

After catching up with them all the time and more and more shopping, we (the shopping grp) , had dinner at a local ramen shop. (: Was really filling. And me and lim xi would never forget Zi Qi and her hot octopus balls... -.-

Then, we rushed for more and more shopping. Yep, we practically shopped till we dropped. And guess what? We were the last grp to assemble... Opps! haha

We then headed back to our hotel! (:

Once back, we did vaspers as usual (:

After vaspers, we had no fun night because all of us were busy stuffing our luggage with our new-bought presents.

Yeah! then it was the end of the 5th day (:

June 17th (Sunday): Flight back to Singapore

After leaving the hotel with our luggages and all, we headed to the airport and it was Goodbye Japan (:

Yep, thats all for the trip! My photos are in my webshots. Do ask me for my user and all... (: CIao!

"It takes years to build up trust, but just seconds to destroy it."

Trust is definately hard to build up once its destroyed. But it isnt impossible. Although trust is destroyed more than it is built, it still gives us hope.

When friendships or even family matters go wrong, it is hard to build up trust within those involved. The greater the trust, the harder it is to build up again once its destroyed.

A world that is filled with distrust is an ideal world for the devil, and that is definately not a world that we would want to live in.

Building of trust requires forgiveness and willingness. The willingness to gain the trust back is important, like attitude. I know that building back once again is a hard thing to do, but to those who yearn to gain back trust like me, are you willing to take my hand and walk down this path?

Are you willing?

Adios my readers...

"It takes years to build up trust, but seconds just to destroy it."

Trust once destroyed sure is hard to build up again. But nothing is impossible. Yes, trust can be destroyed more than it is built. But that still gives us hope.

Sometimes when friendships take a turn, or when we just forget to help close the windows when it poured , even when we promised we would, it is hard to build up that trust within the people involved.

But a world without trust is just the ideal world for the devil. And that is something that we must not let the world come to. The greater the trust built, the harder it is to build again after it is destroyed...

I'm yearning for trust to be built again, between those that also yearn to gain back trust. So will those take my hand and walk down the difficult path ahead?

It's all your choice...

Adios my readers...

PL Pri & Sec
ACJC
Angklung (Pri)
Handbeller(Sec)
26 Aug 1992

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