yay! got another acceptance from University of Buckingham.
But because this is a private uni, it isnt ranked, which is frustrating really. But apperently this uni was founded by Margeret Thatcher and her husband, so it isnt bad i guess. pretty high profile.
Anyways, school didnt start off with a "BANG", as i had hoped. Just kinda got into the gear of 'last 2 months of school' which really didnt inspire many of us grads. Instead, its was 'enjoy the last few months of school by SLACKING-OFF'. haha. But i know i gotta work because my condition of Nottingham is another 4 and 5 for my APs, but more like a 5 and 5. Thankfully Buckingham is a breeze. the condition is like B+ average for 5 subjects, not a tuffy.
i really gotta start planning my trip back. I'm hoping brian can come back to singapore with me and i can stop by korea with him, but i'm not sure anymore. the itenerary (spelling?) is kinda tight. Michelle's wedding is on the 8th of july, and my last paper is on the 29th of june. AH! nightmare!
Michtng: I dont wanna practice law, only wanna study for the degree! anyhoo, How r u?
Jo: Erm. Jo, the Griddles family who invented it is canadian..Haha kidding, yes we do have McGriddles. We arent detached from the rest of the world, u know! Besides, the maple syrup used in it is from canada. haha
Melisa: Haha, yes it was! lets do it again!
Thank u God!
ANOTHER GOOD NEWS GUYS! OMG
But before i can say anything, i have to Praise God for all of this. If it wasnt for Him, this would not have been Possible...
I've been accepted into University of Nottingham, Law!
Yay-zer!
Now i'm awaiting my other uni replies. This has been the only one so far to have replied. So yeah! Praise God!
yesterday (or rather this morning) was a rather interesting day. really different actually.
So its 330 am and i'm up chatting with melissa on msn. and this other weirdo, whose story i will tell later. So I'm in the room with aaron and adrian, but i'm the only one awake. the other two were sound asleep. Then adrian's cell rang and i picked up. Brian was on the other line , and the next thing i know, i'm driving across vancouver at 4 in the morning to get breakfast and watch the sun rise with 3 other guys. Haha, it was really an adventure, cuz i;ve never been to the ends of richmond. William brought us to the sea side for a potentially great view.
Potential being the key word.
After we got our MacGriddles, hot choclate, tea, orange juice and hash browns, we waited patiently by the sea side, awaiting the arrival of the glorious sun. So much for glorious, the only thing we managed to see for an hour was the brightening of a grey ominous sky with no sun in sight.
So we decided to go searching for the sun by driving along the sea side. This was the good part.
We entered a little town which didnt look any different from Elizabethtown and it was as charming as charming could be. Then, we entered into the park and took a long stroll down one of the most undescribable routes i have ever been on.
It was a 5 km long gravel path no wider then two arms length. It was closely accompanied by a little river next to it with ducks and tiny fountains built conspicuously by the charming villas and old oak trees who's leaves reached down for the river like long drips for water. And to the left was a vast field of farmland, which brown dried wheat reached high for the grey sky, while providing a little balancing-act for the tiny birds. But the sight of the sea was not covered by the wheat as its splendor boasted itself with colossal ships travelling toward the mystified mountains which looked like where the gravel path would finally end. I didnt bring much to warm myself with, so i wrapped myself in the blue Winnie the Pooh blanket which william brought and enjoyed the outstanding scenery and the mighty breeze, complemeted by the gloomy grey sky, whose clouds acted live seives allowing only few rays of sun light thru.
my words cannot bring justice to how beautiful it was.
Haha, then we started to head home at only about 815 am. I had to drive because benson was dead asleep and he was probably too tired to drive. But i too was so tired from my lack of sleep that i sprayed myself in the face perfume! when i picked it out from the door pocket, it looked so much like the face spray that my mother would carry with her! i feel like an idiot, cuz a little bit of it got into my eye and i've been carrying a red left eye for the entire day today.
Spring Break begun awhile ago. Last week to be exact.
it was pretty good. Shopping at seattle was nothing short of awesome. I got plenty (actually not half enough) of clothes from the malls and factory outlets. Plus, i have officially found my favourite store - Hollister. It not as rugged and Aryan as Abrecombie and Fitch and not as colourful and stereotypical as American Eagle. I think putting on weight paid off too, because i think i can actually where some of their stuff and not look homoseckssual. haha.
Another really awesome thing that happend in seattle was that William Chen, one of my friends who i invited to come with us, actually accepted Christ into his life at the sunday service there. it was pretty cool, cuz it really was coincidance that he came with us to seattle, since i'm not actually close to him. It was only a few days before that we suddenly became close. all in His Plan!
byebye sister ;(
My dearest sister went back to malibu yesterday. *sniff sniff*
But on the UP side, she left me her laptop! HAHAHA, my plan worked! (pinkie pointed to the bottm left side of evil grin)
but really, i think i'll miss her. but it'll only be a couple of months till i see her, so no worries.
My mother pulled out a very VERY interesting article cut from the singapore straits times a few nights ago. it was entitled "Student, 17, saves man" or something like that. and a very familiar face was splashed across the article, haha. it was ESTHER! my cousin! OMG!
haha! like i would not have ever guessed that something like would've happened, it was extremely unexpected! so, if i got this right , the story goes something like this:
Esther was with her friends in Crystal Jade at Holland V., when she heard a loud scream at the nearby mama shop across the street. she dug through the petrified crowd only to find an elderly indian man lying on the ground, motionless. She then ran the CPR procedure that she learnt a number of years ago quickly, but surely thru her mind before boldly performing it to him. Peramedics arrived promptly and speed the elderly man to the nearby hospital. if it were not for the brave act of Esther, the man's heart would have stopped and would indefinitley be beyond help. Thus, Esther, has in effect, saved a man's life.
WOW! like crazy man... Apparently this news is circulating around the media like mad and has even been mentioned in Parliament... twice! (if ur reading this Esther, I'm really proud of u :))
so yeah, this is all i have time for now.. spring break is comin'! cant wait!
So the entrance to the new month of MARCH wasnt greeted with anything more interesting then the arrival of my report card. Of course, the interest subsided with a single glance of the paired numbers. I didnt do too too badly, i still got into honour roll yet again. But of course, that wasnt the best i couldve done and i know that.
I got a disspointing 77% for History, one of the subjects i actually like and am respected for. Its really disgusting. I'm distinguished in school as an MUNer and i know that i'm a good history student. I thought i didnt get anything under a 80%, but when i went to check with my teacher, i realize that i actually did get many high 70s... because my teacher absolutely LOVES to heavily penalize me for being late. He actually took off a 15% for one of the major essays, leaving me with a dissapointing 73%. Blah...
But on the UP side, i actually topped my class with a perfect score on my recent math test. And yes people, beating simon and adrian. But i can assure u, this is once in a life time. haha.. But at least i can feel some barker rd pride over the triumphant defeat of acsi. Plus, i topped my Human Geo AP class in our research essay, scoring an astounding 95%, and yes people, beating Nathan Chan. And NO, this will not be a once in a life time thing.
Anyhoo, enough about marks. The new month was also marked with the arrival of two very special people, my dear mother and sister. Arrving from singapore and LA respectively, it was awesome meeting them again, and being reminded of home. But i have yet to spend enough time with them. This weekend it will be.
Also, i got a call from alexadria choi not too long agon, and apperently Richmond Model united Nations is in desperate need of a competent director for the coming conference. They received a very unpredicted over-load of delegates and openned a couple of new committees. So i stepped up to the plane in undertaking yet another committee.
How fun! another confernce before i graduate! God sent!haha...
So yeah. I'm directing the first committee of the general assembly this time, DISEC. Disarmament and International Security. So i had only one crummy night to find topics, cuz the conference is pretty soon and the delegates need to get crakin.
so tis is it:
a) the UN, Rogue Nations and the International Response.
b) the Nuclear Situation in Iran.
I'm really hoping the delgates will be prepared for the confernce I have high expectations for this committee.
Anyways, praise God! He really comes thru with so manythings. Most eminently in the things i dont deserve.
You came in from the everlasting,
to the world we live.
Father's only son...
Hallellujia, for all You've done!
