Monday, April 09, 2018

It surprised me that I had a post on Darren not too long ago, despite how long it's been since I've heard or seen from him. Recently, I bumped into him at Serangoon MRT station. He said hello to me, else I wouldn't have realised, and in that split second I realised that despite all the hate I had and all the anger that was built up had subsided. James explained a few incidents that occurred to Darren, and how it brought him to where he is today, and asked if I pitied him. It's true - time heals all wounds.

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When the Sea Falls From the Shore; 12:00 pm

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Monday, December 07, 2009

I am very sorry if you see your name in this email, but if you are mentioned,
  1. either your selfish disgusting act deserves to be mentioned,
  2. or I feel that your selfless act was not appreciated by selfish people.
Yesterday, June sent an email to the 29th to ask if they'd be free to attend Joseph's birthday party (Don't worry June, he won't find out about his surprise birthday party through my blog). Then, instead of politely declining, Sebastian replied "that day is already reserved for council event. whether for joseph or lester. so, we just need to confirm all the details. =D"

I might not be the most updated person regarding outings, but in terms of council outings, I would think that they would have at least mentioned it in gmail, and yes, I do read my gmail. So what's this special outing for Lester? Oh, ok, apparently it was his parade.

So I assumed it was the "invited-only" people that were going. But to call it a council outing, and to tell it to June who is trying to create a birthday surprise for ANOTHER of our council friends, aren't you being a little too much?

Perhaps I was being over-sensitive. Then later Ren Kai came with an email, saying, "it's a weekday for NSFs". You know, Ren Kai, thanks very much for telling June that you PRACTICALLY DIDN'T READ THE DETAILS THAT THE BIRTHDAY WAS ON A SATURDAY. Unless army has clearly made you unable to differentiate between a weekend and a weekday.

Then I talked to Wei Hao, and I realized how much effort he's been putting in to keep his promise of ever-lasting friendship with the 29th. And you know, it's funny how this reciprocity works, because it seems pretty one-sided to me.

Honestly, 29th SC, you disappoint me. You announce to the world how happy you are when seniors tell us that we are a super bonded council. Just who were they looking at? The 29th Council? Or the Council Clique?

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When the Sea Falls From the Shore; 9:30 pm

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

kat` (: once upon a december says:
actually.. this is a little random a qn..
kat` (: once upon a december says:
do u rmbr how come we stopped talking?
Juxuan 矩玄 says:
i duno
Juxuan 矩玄 says:
i guess i was really really busy last sem
Juxuan 矩玄 says:
my final yr proj was killing me
So yeah, I chatted with Chee Sen online yesterday, and well, it felt nice talking about the old times. You know, old times where he would ask me what I was doing, and I would always reply that I'm packing my room, and how he'd comment that it would be much more efficient if he'd just pack it for me (and yeah, he said the exact same thing yesterday). Or his multi-colour wardrobe that has more pink shirts than most girls, how his favourite colours were lime green and pink, and that I loved blue and always wore black. Basically the itsy-bitsy details about each other which we surprisingly still remember. It was a good warm chat though (:

Mamma mia, now I really know.

29th Christmas Party over at Jo'An's place today. TELL YOU SOMETHING REALLY FUNNY THAT HAPPENED. We were playing Taboo, so the word was Diving, so Bing Liang said,
"Urm.. Katrina went to Tioman to do what?"
"[jo'an] Fishing."
HAHA I didn't know that! =P Plus, I had a great laugh watching the rest trying to use masking tape to wax Benjamin's leg hair out. And I had a great catching-up session with Annaling ((:

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When the Sea Falls From the Shore; 11:00 pm

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Friday, November 28, 2008


"Hey, you want anything from Indonesia? Things are very cheap there."
"Like?"
"Everything."
"Okay, get everything lah."
"WHAT?!"
Don't worry Monica, I was just kidding. I want you back in Singapore in December so that we can all go out and chill and have fun okay! (: Had a super great time chilling with June after that (: Love you girls (:

P.S. awaiting our snorkelling trip, or a trip overseas together =P

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When the Sea Falls From the Shore; 12:30 am

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Sunday, September 28, 2008

CORALSINTHEOCEAN IS BACK TO THE SEASHELLS TEMPLATE! (: Okay initially I was thinking of another template, but I switched to this instead. I thought a calming and peaceful background would make me feel less stress as the workload builds up over the next few weeks in school. Besides, I like the oceanic idea better than the sky view =p

Speaking of stress earlier, yah I've made the most amazing discovery this week of a strand of white hair on my head! So don't question how stressful university life is, let the evidence show.


That's the 29th at Germaine's birthday by the way (:
I'm really sorry to the poor girl who had to give me a kiss on the cheek
Nevertheless, I had fun playing four rounds of taboo
and watching Ben lose all of them! ;)

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When the Sea Falls From the Shore; 10:30 am

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Mid-Autumn Festival with the 29th Student Council.
29SC
Heart-shape
*LOVES ((:

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When the Sea Falls From the Shore; 12:30 am

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Saturday, June 28, 2008

She'll never believe me, but thank you anyway for letting me off on the last day of LTC camp. Thank you Ms Chiew.



"Haha. I know la. You miss me right. Tsk. Dont shy. Haha!"
So there I was typing back to Jillian.
"Miss u many many. Aiyah see u then okay, loves ..."
And I hadn't even typed finished when Hui Xiang peeked over and went,
"OH Katrina! Messaging Boyfriend right?"
HEH?
"Messaging Girl!"
"Oops."
So there I went to complete my message to Jillian.
"loves u. Haha someone thought i msging bf when he saw this msg."
"Hahaha. Crazy. Lol. Yaya. I'll be your new boyfriend :)"

After lunch, a group of people ranging from eighteen to twenty-three years old went over to Sylvia's house to chill. Got to know new UNCLES cum seniors, hee. Anyway, I haven't received all my photographs from Taiwan (I'm left with Connie's collection), but I'll blog about my trip as soon as I've received them. Til then, I'm back to Puzzling! I bought a new Lilo and Stitch Puzzle, hee =P Anything important, CALL. SMSes and nudges don't work when I'm puzzling.

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When the Sea Falls From the Shore; 6:30 pm

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Friday, June 27, 2008

June says:
gal ah.. u stil busy puddling ur boat?
Monica says:
is paddling ah june taitai
Monica says:
abit
Monica says:
haha
June says:
LOL!
kat` (: says:
PUDDLING!
kat` (: says:
lol
June says:
typo
June says:
hahahahaa
Monica says:
lol!
Just to inform everyone, Monica and I are in the same boat!
"And we're sinking!"
OH okay. Not a good thing then, GAH!

Talking with Monic really made my day (: June too! (: Love you girls ((: Thanks for spending today with me! Hee Hee Hee! ((:

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When the Sea Falls From the Shore; 12:15 am

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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Forgive me if I slip away.



Welfare Committee of the 29th and the 30th met up yesterday at Sakura Restaurant at Far East. No, it's not the Japanese Sakura, it's some Thai version, but I must admit the atmosphere there was just good enough for an outing.

Meeting with the Welfare Committee was something I never expected upon stepping down from Council, much less meeting with the 30th. And guess what? The outing clashed with my Airport Guides last minute Taiwan Trip planning, so guess what those mischievious little people did to me? They kidnapped me -.-" Forced me to take many many pictures with a smile on my face in their cameras. And of all things, everyone seemed to be whipping up a better model of each camera as the number of photographs progressed. Unfortunately, my dear boss Qi Xiang who's taken almost all the photographs intelligently booked into camp without leaving the photographs with anyone of us, so I can't post them here ):

After a long while, I was set free to flee to my airport friends (: That'll be Abigail, Szeming, Connie and Yong Sheng. Joel is sadly busy with his charity stuff I think. Anyway, the 30th gave me the above before I left, don't you think they're such sweeties? (: I think they'll make great boyfriends and girlfriends in future, OMG, thank you 30th welfare (:

We have conveniently appointed Connie the leader, since she's in charge of everything; Abigail the Safety I/C, since she's always worried about everything; and Yong Sheng the Accomodation I/C, since he's the one with the debit card (ie. he's I/C by default).
"[sm] We sleep in Quad lor."
"[ys] Eh, quad you know how small or not?"
"What you complaining about? We're the ones suffering, not you."
"Although I'm the accomodations manager, I still look after your welfare okay."
"Eh, we're helping you save money you know."
"I never say you all have to save for us."
"Ungrateful."
"Okay, it's my fault, I'm sorry. (there ys goes again -.-")"
"[me] Okay okay, Yong Sheng, please turn around, and turn back. AHH okay okay SHHH.. Haiyo, the both of you ah, don't argue when I'm sitting in the middle. In the plane, make sure I'm not sitting between you both, HAIYO!"
Tsk tsk, the poor me. Plus I'm going to be flying on a plane with TWO JINX RABBITS Yong Sheng and Joel. God Bless Us. An additional reason for the need of a travel insurance when flying -.-"

Spent today at Sentosa with Annaling. I'm super sad, and so is she. Piangs, what kind of standard are those guys man. I've walked an entire beach to see.. many many things but cute guys or girls. I can't even be Lesbian even if I wanted to ): Like, we only saw two or three cute guys in total? That's not even including those at the hunks and babes panel. At least I spent a day with Annaling (: That's good enough (: Hee.

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When the Sea Falls From the Shore; 8:00 pm

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

June and I at Underwater World (:

Guess who we saw at Sentosa beach? Hui Min[28thSC], and Michelle [27thSC], and Serene [27thSC]
"[hm] Who's from NY raise up your hands!"
In short, about five within sight ;) Pre-Camp for NUS ARTS camp I heard. Perhaps it's just me, and my perception, but it seems alot of NYSC people always go NUS FASS. Even my 29th, it's like alot of them told me they're going there. Mmm...

After chilling out at Ben & Jerry's, June and I went over to GV to watch Kungfu Panda! Guess who I saw sitting in the same row as me? Lol, you'd never guess anyway, so it's JoshuaSng, the guy who went on the Turkey trip. Small world I tell you. The show was good too anyway - laughed the entire time.

June and I popped by at Candy Empire (like always), and guess who found us heard me there? Xuewei (:

Anyway, I've been seeing this commercial twice and I think it's super cute and funny =P

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When the Sea Falls From the Shore; 8:00 pm

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Sunday, June 08, 2008

Welfare Committee set a record in today's Council outing! =P Therefore Qi Xiang insisted we took a picture to capture this moment.
Crap Amal and I got into the way of their undying love :X
LOVES ((:

Gary, Bing Liang and Benjamin went up Xtreme Swing, SUPER FUNNY. And yes, Darren did something DAMN LEGEND. Anyway, had a great day today (: that's all for the blogging scene today.

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When the Sea Falls From the Shore; 12:30 am

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Everything is nothing
when you throw it away.



"SMURF!"
"Why am I a Smurf?!"
"They're short, blue, happy people."
That was what JonathanGoh used to call me in JC.

Speaking of blue, that reminds me. Last week back at Investiture, both Annaling and I carried a Pink bag back, so there was this random bag left on the table.
"Eh who's bag is this ah?"
"[bentan] Annaling's. Can't you see the bag is mainly pink? If it's Katrina's bag then it'll be mainly blue."
"[me] (walks over) What I heard my name?"
"[bentan] NEH YOU SEE (*points over to my bag) EH, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CORALSINTHEOCEAN COLOUR?"
UH, OKAY, it has a new name for the colour, cool!

Since we're on the topic of blue, I felt I better say something before JonathanGoh goes on about pursuing dreams. You know how they always say you should follow your dream, work hard and study what brings you to your dream job? Everyone asks me if Business is really something I want, and I can tell you very frankly and honestly, no. Deep deep down inside, the truth is that I always had passion for marine biology, which would, well therefore explain again the CORALSINTHEOCEAN. I really wanted very much to study the ocean, take up oceanography, or maybe some marine science module in university, whichever brought me to my destination.

But I can tell you that as much as I want to very much, two pracical factors have been my barrier from pursuing such a dream. The first barrier would be the very fact that the Singapore environment doesn't support the career in oceanography, except maybe in Pulau Ubin, St John Island, etc. That'll mean travelling to another foreign country for my source of income, and as we all already know, Katrina cannot live overseas, because she will die of the weather and climate (NO JOKE). And then there's another reason, because my hand allergy does not permit me to pursue science as a profession, and I've learnt that quite some time ago. I don't have steady fingers to handle equipment, nor do I have the patience to repeatedly conduct experiments to either prove myself right or wrong.

Since Science is out and Arts isn't my thing, the next best alternative was business. Although I must add, I must thank Adrian alot for introducing the idea of Business and Finance in my mind. If it wasn't for him, I definitely won't be the least bit interested in Business.



Just to add a little to this entry to make it less BLUE, I met up with the 29th to celebrate Jo'An's birthday at Swensens in Vivo. Had a great chat with them, as always (: Can't wait to meet up with them next Saturday (:

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When the Sea Falls From the Shore; 11:30 pm

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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Happy 2nd Birthday 29th ((:
I gave all of me
For the world to see
And I would do it all again
I'd go the extra mile




After work, I met up with Yong Sheng and Joel first. Joel's replacing Qian Wei for the Taiwan trip. He's Yong Sheng's Marist classmate, and my Nanyang JC senior! (: Small world eh? Taking to him was indeed an eye-opener to what nyjc was during his time.

The rest of us met up later when Joel had left at KFC for dinner before proceeding to discuss and plan for our Taiwan trip. We had to move over to MacDonalds for the internet though. Nevertheless, I had a great time chatting and finding information with them, lol.

Took a train over down to Serangoon, where my initial intention was to board a bus near Yong Sheng's house to get home. So we walked and talked alot on the way to his house. His house was like, SUPER FAR from the MRT lah, I can't believe he bothers to WALK. But before we reached the bus stop in front of his house, he just said, "Since we're already near my house, I can drive you home." Alright man! Boarded the car, and VROOM, we drove off to my house, yay! ((: For an P plate, he's quite a good driver =P

And apparently,
Yong Sheng says:
u my 1st passenger w/o any adults
Yong Sheng says:
on board
Yong Sheng says:
normally its either i drive alone
Yong Sheng says:
or with my parents or siblings on board
kat` (: cause i keep on falling as i try to get away from this crazy world says:
haha so i shld be honoured?
Yong Sheng says:
u should be happy u r alive
kat` (: cause i keep on falling as i try to get away from this crazy world says:
haha ur siblings old enough to be parents can
kat` (: cause i keep on falling as i try to get away from this crazy world says:
WTH
OKAY, I'm SUPER HAPPY to be ALIVE then! ((:

On another happy note, Jillian's going SMU Business with me! ((:

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When the Sea Falls From the Shore; 12:30 am

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Yesterday evening was spent well with Yong Sheng and Sze Ming.
"[sm] Ok i can too! So we meet 6 for dinner? Or 630?"
"[ys] think meet 6 better la
must give time for sm to be late"

And mind you, she only SMSed us to push back the timing at 5.45pm, when Yong Sheng and I were already out of the house. But really, "we're sorry Sze Ming, we should have SMSed you at 4pm to confirm that you wanted to push back the time. It's all our fault. We should also have ordered the food earlier since you were late. Our fault too." =P I know, we're both so evil to her. But dinner was okay only lah, we ate at Cartel. We not only eat alot when we're with each other, we eat expensive =X

We watched WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS, and yes, it was a movie worth watching, because the three of us were laughing non-stop! Abit hungry, but I can't blame Sze Ming for being late so we couldn't get popcorn or drinks? ;) LOL. Good day with them nevertheless, as always ((:



Timeline for today:
10am - breakfast at Serangoon Macs
11.30am - 31st Investiture
1 pm - mingling with the juniors
3 pm - lunch at far east
5 pm - Gelare
6 pm - shopping
7 pm - DRILLBIT TAYLOR

Drillbit Taylor was good! (: Sat beside Shuen Lin, and I was quite surprised to hear her laugh in the middle of the movie. Xue Wei sat on my left too, and she just randomly shouted something in the movie. Lester was busy drinking up all my Ice Lemon Tea.

Otherwise, much of the day was spent photo-taking with the 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st. There was this super cute photograph where we had the four batches together, so when they asked what should we shout, Lester said, "All shout our batch name, see who shout louder." ;)

I wish to talk more, but let me spam this entry with photographs instead. Anyway Xue Wei and Lester complained about how grandmother-story-like my blog was =P

Presenting the photographs of today.
Tweety Bird aka Guo Hao
He called me shortie!

JonathanNg!
He who had to remove a mask before he came for investiture
(dots, what mask? face mask? are you gay?)

Stevenn!
The poor boy's pointing to the injury he got from Level Camp;
That's LONG ago! Poor thing, *hugs (:

Hui Min
My direct junior, Welfare Secretary.
I bet she makes a zillion million times better a secretary that I do.

Pin Ru
Her campaign material is still on Wen Rong's backpack til now.
Go Figure.

Tze Kai

Eugene

Javier

Shun Kai

Kuang Wen!
Level Camp Buddy! (:

Yong Cheng
DAOster; I haven't forgot how you DAOed me okay!

Yi Long
Yes yes, he's tonnes happy he's taller -.-"

Lynn

Uncle Kwek
Or that's what they called him during my time

Random Welfare!
Actually although my arms are behind the guy beside me, I actually don't know who he is, and I still don't know -.-"

Lilan!
She's so cute lah!

Zulhafiz

Cun Zheng

Merrick
o1 adhoc treasurers!

Zhi Yuan!
This boy! He forced me to do run to MACs in the rain -.-"
PITY ME! How long has it been since I last ran 2.4 km!

Bao Zhu

Amanda!

Zhiyi
Thanks for complimenting the self-taken photo ;)

Nina
For the many times she was DAOed by me and the TALK-TO-MY-HAND.

His name is Chun Leong
That's all I know about him.

Poh Yih
He's actually a really friendly person who kept waving at me during campfire even though I didn't know him.

Ms Amy Chiew!
She's my everything, literally, and I think everyone knows why by now

Lester
This is my fake father.

Yvonne

Angie

Yoga
My first question right after seeing him was, "Hey, going fieldcamp ah?" Look at that huge backpack!

Mr Alvin Tan!
Mr Tan ALERT!

Mr Tonny Lim!
One year later, and he's still wearing his PJs to take a photograph with me in the same pose.

28th and 29th!
The batches which start with TWO (:

Four Generations of Welfare
Don't ask me who's on my left, I don't know who she is either.

Chuxian

Chuyi
She writes the best speeches ever - those that are short and sweet.

Chun Fui!
Hello Vice President!

Jinfa!
Don't you think he looks like some plumber or technician in this outfit? LOL.

Jiaying

Annaling!
How could we forget a photograph with each other each time!

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When the Sea Falls From the Shore; 10:30 pm

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Katrina Chew
22 October 1989