It's kind of weird to realize that it's SYF year and I'm not participating in it. I'm too old to. ): I've only participated in SYF for two times, once in secondary school and the other in JC, but those two times were unforgettable. From the preparation period, right down to the morning before SYF, to reaching the actual venue and to get up on the stage and sing.

I miss it all, actually. Every little part of it. 

Today's Dunman Secondary School Choir's SYF and I wish them all the best. A bit strange, coming from a senior that they would barely know, a senior who wasn't really a core member in the choir unlike other seniors I know who have been going back to help and held positions. I wasn't exactly very close to people in the choir besides my juniors, and things happened that made me distant from the choir. Strange when I've spent four years in this choir, as compared to my 2 years in MJChoir I consider as more close to me. But still, I do love Dunman Choir. I guess you could cal it my formative years in choir; if I never joined choir, never held on when I was told I should contemplate quitting, I would have never learned so much, never grown as a person, never went on to MJChoir and NUSChoir respectively, both of which have shaped me as well. I have never regretted joining choir, and I thank DmnChoir for being my first step to the world of choirs. I do look back on those days fondly and remember how much fun we had. 

 For some reason, I decided to back read my lj posts (after not posting in here for what seems like forever) and I've stumbled upon so many memories I have recorded here. Some are pleasant, some are not; but after all, what pushes me to write in here is because I am inspired by events. Whether they are happy or sad, they are part of my life, my experiences, and I look back on them fondly.

There are things I regret, of course. But they are also balanced out with the things that I have treasured and still do.

So many things have changed. For example, I used to loathe facebook and didn't like logging on into it much. But now, it's become a site that helps you communicate with your friends, keep up with those whom you used to know but not hang out anymore. My friend likes to say that it is easier to reach me by facebook messaging me than texting me. 

Things change. Thoughts change. I change. 

I've met great friends in this recent year. My opinions on certain matters are changing. 

I used to think it would be hard to love again because it took me forever to get over my last crush, but apparently not. It isn't easy to grapple with the realization that you like someone. There's so much uncertainty, doubt, and till now, I still don't know what to do.

I just know that you can't explain love. You can't explain why you like someone. You can't explain why you feel that sense of pain and hurt when you imagine their passing while interpreting a song, so much that you want to cry. And he doesn't know that you feel that way towards him.

 been playing birth by sleep lately, and now I have a new OTP which is goddamn adorable, ogod.
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FILLED

Two Daddies: Trucy has two daddies. One of them is Larry Butz. teagueful.livejournal.com/76919.html

IN PROGRESS
The Turnabout Room: You're tearing me apart, Dahliaaaaaaa! teagueful.livejournal.com/76919.html

 I am a big fan of the Phoenix Wright (or known as Gyakuten Saiban) game series created by Capcom as many of my friends might know. I first heard of the series on GaiaOnline, because a few of my friends had played the game and had made that fact clear to me. I was curious, of course, and borrowed one of the games from a friend back then to play and find out for myself.

The brief description of the game was interesting already, consisting of a defense attorney, whose name is Phoenix Wright, who you play as, defending your clients to make sure you get a not guilty sentence. It was a detective/murder mystery, which many of my friends will know is what attracts me, due to my little obsession with Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, but I digress. I've always liked this sort of mysteries, and to find out that there was a game like this? I couldn't pass it up.

The first game is Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney in the series, but I didn't play this game first.

Rather, I played this game first:

Which is the second one in the series.

Eventually, I did get to play all the games in order, which include the third game, Trials and Tribulations, which is one of my favorite games in the series (but that is being contended with by the new game):

And also, the sequel to the series, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, set 7 years after main protagonist in the previous games lost his badge and gained a daughter.

Needless to say, I had fallen in love with the series, and the characters as well. Over the span of four games, you encounter familiar characters which you slowly understand and delight in whenever they appear. One of these characters?

The prosecutor in the first game, Miles Edgeworth.


It's not much of a surprise then, that when the popularity of this character grew. And so, when it was heard that there would be a Miles Edgeworth game, Gyakuten Kenji, or Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, as the English version is released, fans were excited. Ema Skye was originally supposed to be the main character of the game, but she was replaced with Miles Edgeworth, seeing that the latter had quite a large fanbase.



And of course, we were excited! A game centering around one of the favorite characters of PW fans, Miles Edgeworth, letting us see things from a prosecutor's point of view, instead of a defense attorney's, as we have been in the last four games, and featuring not only old characters we have come to love and new ones as well? Hell yes.



The English version of the game took quite a while to come out though; the Japanese version was released in May 2009, while English fans had to wait until the next year, Feb 2010. It was an extremely long wait, but we waited. It was difficult to resist from reading spoilers from those who had played the Japanese games, but reading spoilers essentially spoils the gameplay for the player. If you know what exactly happens right before you play it, there is no novelty in playing it to find out for yourself.

So, I finally got it on the release date, and I was excited. I've just finished the game, and I think it was a worth wait, the graphics were beautiful and shiny, the characters were great, and the story, while confusing at first, all turns out to resolve itself in the end and solve all the misleading facts that you once had.

It is somewhat different from the previous games, of course; you are not playing as a defense attorney defending your client in court. The similarity however, is that you are investigating the scene of the crime to find evidence to find the real killer. Now you are playing as a prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth, and this takes place after PW2 and PW3, Justice for All and Trials & Tribulations respectively. This means that you get many little references to the cases in the last few games and it is a treat for a fan of this series to notice this all.

Like all Phoenix Wright games, the cases in this game are connected, and you will learn everything in the last case, which is also the longest and most tedious case. While the gameplay is different; you can now walk around the room with tiny sprites that represent your character to examine it, there is also one new special feature, unique to the main character. This is "Logic" and it helps you connect two pieces of information to come to a conclusion. This special feature replaces the Magatama in the Phoenix Wright games, and the Perceive in the Apollo Justice game, but is also very handy.

And now, we come to the discussion of the cases. There are a lot of spoilers here, so beware if you have not finished the game.

( SPOILERS AHOY )

I've realized I only come onto livejournal to post my feelings about really memorable events. And well, the same thing is happening today.

Two words. Farewell assembly.

Ms Lai started it off with her speech and clips from Finding Nemo (and to be honest, I almost cried because I love that movie oh so much. That and I'm an emotional retard.), encouraging us to swim on into the big ocean.

Really, I felt rather apprehensive, because I can't believe it's been 18 years since we were born and now we've come so far together. 18 years, and now we must become mature adults, and I don't know if I'm ready and want to leave this comfort zone. But I have to, because it's a part of life.

But of course, the highlight of this whole thing was the Teacher's concert.

The economics video was simply FABULOUS, and even though I don't really know the whole economics department, I thought it was simply adorable (and lin pei was funny too!) with the toys and the Bob the Builder theme song! And yes, Mr Hon, we all know you're handsome |DDD

The physics department prompted many laughs from me because I was so amused at seeing them all dressed up in the MJ school uniform! Mr Cha was really cute, looking so hardworking with brand's chicken essence on his table, Mr Ng with 3 calculators and tapping on them like he was playing a piano, Mr Chee being all 'boh chap', Ms Wong with her two ponytails and being the 'guai kia' and Mr GOHEL. I will never forget the look on his face while he was 'distracted' from his exam because he was staring at his wife with that infatuated expression on his face because it was simply HILARIOUS.

The Chem department as usual, put up a song number and though I don't take chem, it was really sweet. (((: It's the thought that counts after all! (even though the song was a bit screechy at some parts)

The Math department put their video up on YouTube, so HERE IT IS! (: I am now addicted to this parody of Nobody!


Next were the Fabulously Attractive Teachers, also known as FAT (HAHAHA) and even though I only knew Mr Gohel and Mr Yeo (Mr hing's good pal!), it was a really meaningful song and they sang really well! (((:

Also, I must give a big THANK YOU to everyone who gave me gifts because I honestly hadn't expected such a sweet and thoughtful gesture! to the school, to ms koh, to mr hing, to ashraf, to eunice, to nicole, to those that I may have forgotten, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 

What really did make me happy though, was the 08S501 class outing to Pizza Hut! :D Sure, we talked/gossiped/laughed A LOT and LOUDLY as well (and I swear people were staring at us as we did) but we had FUN and that's what counts, right? We had lots of fun teasing people, trying to dig up gossip, discussing some topics nicole brought up, asking mr hing about how he met his wife (and awwing as he explained), and basically just having fun! I don't think ren meng will forget this day anyway! ;D

We met this really nice lady who agreed to take a class photo for us outside Pizza Hut; she even asked to take another picture! Thank you nice stranger!

Then Rika, Nicole, Ren Meng, Qiyun, Chun Kang and me decided to hitch a ride on Mr Hing's car back to school and trailed him so that he could buy his bubble tea, and realizing only after that that we were complete retards for following him like a bunch of puppies instead of waiting for him at the carpark.

We had some trouble with the lift (because only one was working) and mr hing had to go down first because it was totally full. We attempted to try the service lift (but it didn't go down to b3) and tried to find the stairs, but to NO AVAIL, and took the lift instead. Also, Mr Hing apparently lied to us that he parked on b3; he was waiting for us at b2! tsktsk, mr hing!

Chun Kang took the front seat, and the 5 of us girls squeezed in the back, and it was no easy feat! Rika had to sit on both me and nicole's knees but she eventually took to the floor as Chun Kang pushed his chair in front. On the way back to MJC, we were laughing, talking, discussing anime (for some reason!) and hoping ms lai wouldn't catch us squeezed into mr hing's car hahaha :D Luckily, she wasn't in school when we returned!

I'm really really happy and grateful for the great day today, THANK YOU ALL.

08S501, ILU <33

THE TIME HAS COME.

06/2009	SAT Reasoning Test
	Critical Reading	600	79%
	Math	730	96%
	Writing	570	74%
	Multiple Choice	53 (score range: 20-80)
	Essay	10 (score range: 2-12)

I was refreshing the SAT page ALL DAY, waiting for my results xwx;;; Curse our timezone for being ahead of America's time! D8 *SHAKEFIST*
And when it came, I was just staring at it and wondering if my results=GOOD.

I'm actually not surprised at the writing section. because I crapped A LOT. Except for the fact that I got a 10 on my essay, WHICH WAS THE PART I WROTE LOTS OF WEIRD THINGS. The topic was about winning, and I wrote about "BLAHBLAH WINNING IS NOT IMPORTANT, IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER" and using examples like the mjc soccer match final and choir competition. So I am rather shocked that I got 10/12. o_O the multiple choice is expected though; it was really really hard OTL I should have left more questions blank! (they minus marks for those questions you get wrong :U )

Math isn't surprising either, because it was really EASY. I totally breezed through the math sections.

Ah well, I'm proud of myself for getting such results when I did NO PREPARATION AT ALL. No practice books (seeing so many people revising them at the test centre totally made me feel inadequate though), no preparation lessons. NADA. ZIP. ZILCH.

Wheee, I'm happy |D

I am going to RANT.

I won't lie, I'm pretty pissed off today by some events that happened today.

There WILL be swear words, I'm not as guai as you think I am okay P:

1. PEOPLE SKIPPING SCHOOL TODAY BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO WATCH SOCCER MATCH.
Seriously guys, the school gave us all a HALF DAY OFF so that we can go watch and cheer on the soccer dudes. And some lazy assholes just decide to skip school entirely just to "BE SICK"/ mug. GOOD LORD, GUYS. WHERE IS YOUR FUCKING SENSE OF SCHOOL SPIRIT. I'm incredibly pissed because a friend skipped it last year and I was begging her not to skip it this year, AND SHE DID SO ANYWAY. HOW RIDICULOUS. It's not a waste of time and all that lame excuses you want to pile on me; I admit I thought it would be boring when they said we had to go support the soccer dudes last year. But it's pretty cool that the whole school went to support (OR THE MAJORITY OF THE SCHOOL) and I discovered that it's really quite fun and exciting to be a spectator. Especially when you support a side (((:

Just....RAAAGGGEEE. you lazy bums are idiots. you missed today's complex number's lecture and we went through quite a lot of stuff anyway haha :c

On the other hand, it was really gratifying to feel a LOT of school spirit today. (:

( I must warn you, if you are a VJCian (WTF are you doing here anyway), this is simply the thoughts about the soccer final of a MJCian. It may seem harsh, but it is the truth, there were MANY witnesses that rage along with me. So yeah, do not read on if you're easily offended. )

So, MJCHOIR went to watch Distant Worlds, music from FINAL FANTASY today, at esplanade (:

One word can sum it up, AWESOME.

Firstly though, I must say I was surprised to know that the choir singing was Victoria Chorale+Vocal Consort, Mr Kwei's choirs, and that Mr Foong, Evan, Pei Hsin, Jude and Jian Yong was performing! You did a great job, guys, I enjoyed the concert A LOT! :D

Even the composer, awesome awesome AWESOME Nobuo Uematsu was there, in the audience! <333

I was so blown away when they started the concert, because apart from the beautiful music from the SFO and the choir, there was a screen showing which FF game the song was from and clips from the game itself. It was nice to see even battle scenes, endearing bits of FF that we all love, and the beautiful beautiful graphics that totally captured my attention. I was rather disappointed not to see One-Winged Angel on the programme, which was my most anticipted song.

It was an enjoyable concert, not just stiff and professional, but rather intimate as well; every two songs, Arnie Roth, the conductor, would turn and introduce the next two songs to us.

I loved all the songs, but I do have to say my favorite was To Zanarkand, one of the most famous FF songs, which is in FFX, a beautiful song. I did it on the piano before, and I love it, and it was wonderful to hear it performed by the SFO. I also liked Swing de Chocobo, because it was so jazzy and cute, a tribute to chocobos <3

Of course, after the concert, we shouted for an encore, and the conductor, of course, obliged. He went on to say that SIngaporeans liked surprises and they weren't going to perform what we think they would perform for an encore (ONE-WINGED ANGEL, the audience shouted) and instead, performed Terra's Theme. Leaving me rather dejected ):

Nobuo-san came on stage with him again after that song to do a poll for songs to add to the tour, and Jenova got most of the screams, a.k.a. votes. It IS Jenova after all :D

And then, the happiest part of the concert, NOBUO-SAN WAS GOING TO SING FOR US. WITH THE CHOIR. AND THE SONG WAS ONE-WINGED ANGEL!!! The conductor said he had tortured us enough, and oboy, he wasn't joking. I was exploding with glee when they said it!

I even saw Mr Foong laughing with surprise when Nobuo-san went to join the choir, standing behind him. It is my personal theory that Mr Foong is a fan of Nobuo-san (but who wouldn't be!!!)

I was glad to see Advent Children clips while they played One-Winged Angel <33

After One-Winged Angel, I turned to my juniors and said, "Now you know why I have been anticipating that song" and, they agreed. One-Winged Angel is my favorite song of that concert, HANDS DOWN.

my only regret is not going out during the intermission so that I could buy the CD, because it was completely SOLD OUT after the concert ;;;;;;

Ah well, I'll be raiding youtube to listen to FF soundtracks now =w= This concert has totally gotten me in the mood 8D