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haven been posting for a while.. almost a month.. haha..
school life haf been really dull except for the fact that i have a fantastic class of crazy people..who are never tired of teasing each other, sharing stupid jokes, helping each other, and making lessons more meaningful.. though i've thought of withdrawing from mj since i'm not gonna stay.. but they are the reason i'm still attending those long lectures and boring tutorials that never fails to send me off to dreamland.. they are the reason why i'm still making an effort to wake up at 5 plus in the morning to get to school while i can actually choose to give myself a break from school before the JAE posting results are out..
i'm sorry guys.. that i hafta leave you all.. even after all that persuasion to stay.. and thank you for making my short stay in meridian such an unexpected and wonderful experience.. thank you for making me feel so comfortable in a brand new environment in such a short time.. i'll never forget you guys and the mind-blowing times we all had together as CASTOR V, as 06S303.. orientation, campfire, road race, chingay, trips to the cinema, our cg outing, our first neoprint experience which didnt turn out veri nice but was ultra FUN, the times we all stayed back together and played lame games in the canteen.. i promise i'll always keep in touch with you guys and never forget you all.. and in return, you all must do the same and i wish all of you best of luck and may the CASTOR/06S303 spirit never die..

ALL RIGHT.. enough of my thoughts.. a few things happened after the last post.. that is CNY, chingay, release of results, JAE registration, valentine's day and the lastest 4 COURAGE reunion dinner...

apparently.. i cant remember much about cny..haha.. but this is one of the most quiet cny i ever had because many of my relatives were overseas.. so ya.. haha.. got less hongbao this yr.. went to my mum's colleague's hse for dinner during one of the cny public holidays.. and her colleague's wife who works in the soon-to-be-opened museum near plaza singapura ( you noe the place which had this shocking pink graffiti wall with "history, present" written on it? yea... that damn cool graffiti..), she gave me her name card and asked me to contact her if i wanna work during the hols.. =D that'll be an experience.. oh.. and she's expecting a child in early may!!! hopefully she'll give birth on 4th may.. hahaha...

watching chingay 'live' at ngee ann city was definitely an experience.. though we were kinda cheated..( we were told that we'll be cheerleaders.. but in the end we juz sat there.. beside the ROAD on the floor... but we had first-class view.. so no complains..haha) and coincidently, bee kwee and the PA youth chinese orchestra and malay orhcestra performed at the ngee ann city station before the actual show.. and i'm proud to say that she was one of the lead and even had a solo part..haha.. =D

on fri the 10th.. which was the day when our O LVL results are released.. went all the way to meridian in the morning for a final briefing thingy... they showed us a slideshow of our 3 mth stay in meridian.. my eyes were sorta filled with tears but managed to control myself from crying.. took some photos with the class before i left to meet zhaoting and CR pple at macdonald's in parkway.. we were all so tensed n worried.. karyn actually cried when she saw her aunt.. i was also dead worried and actually had butterflies in my stomach lik 3 hrs before our results are released.. we went back to cchs at 11 plus and did the traditional "walk"..haha.. we paraded all the corridoors, searching for our teachers to disrupt their lessons.. anyways.. as the hour draw closer.. i got more worried.. and the teachers didnt help by not telling us anything and keeping us in suspense.. argh..haha..
so there we were.. the 2005 secondary 4 cohort all gathered in the grand auditorium.. eagerly anticipating our results.. from the slides shown to us.. our batch didnt perform as well as the 2004 batch.. finally it's the time.. 2 were called each time to go in front to collect their result slip from our form teacher.. when it's almost my turn, zhaoting came to me.. in tears.. my heart skipped a beat.. she hugged me and remained silent..

"fran..."

"yea?? how?? did you do well??"

she nodded a yes...

"really?? how much did you get???"

my heart beating even faster...

"twelve...."

"REALLY?? CONGRATS!!!!!! i told youyou can get 12!! but you didnt believe me...!!

she nodded again.. and i cried as well..
now.. you guys might think twelve is not a very good grade.. but i disagree.. zhaoting never expected to get below 15 for L1R5.. and she got 19 for prelims.. and above 25 for sec 3 end of yr.. (hope she wun kill mi from saying all this.. o.O..) and i've seen her slack in sec 3..haha.. n how she've started revision in june 2005.. and i 'm proud of you gal..=D

"francesca!! mrs yeo calling you.. it's your turn!!!" someone shouted..

i went to the front of the hall.. still in tears.. mrs yeo was puzzled to see mi crying before i even got my own results..haha.. n i told her coz my fren did well n i'm crying for her..hahaha... kinda dumb but true!! so she handed me my result slip, the yr book and some other papers... turning back, i stared at the small slip of paper with pink prints..zhaoting came over... and the rest of the world seemed non-existent.. i could onli hear my own heartbeat..

"so how?"

"i dunno.. counting.."
i stared at the slip.. desperately trying to count.. but couldnt.. my mind was blank..

"gal.. no need to count.. it's printed here.."
zhaoting pulled out another small slip of paper with purple prints and tons of codes n numbers from the stack of paper i was holding...

"you got eight.... eight, gal!!!!"

"huh?? really?? where??"
my eyes scanning all the damn codes on the paper...

and she pointed to mi... L1R5=08..

more tears flowed down my cheeks as i hugged her again..(sounds lesbian.. but we're both straight.. so dun get the wrong idea..haha...) didnt believe my eyes.. i cried.. cried really hard.. they were tears of joy.. all the hours and hard work i put in really paid off.. so i msg mi mum to tell her.. and she called.. didnt sound v thrilled.. coz she thought 8 was after deducting 4 bonus points.. but when i reassured her it's the raw score..the tone in her voice changed completely.. haha.. so ya.. victoria is my 1st choice.. my dream school.. hopefully it'll no longer be a dream but a reality.. calcy, zhaoting, me, tiffany and jia qing went to have dinner at jack's place in orchard.. as we had dinner really early at 6 plus.. we had time to shop around after dinner..

on sat 11th feb, zhaoting's mum invited me to have dinner with them!! haha.. we ate at crystal jade xiao long bao in suntec.. after which we caught the short firework display and went kbox, together wif simin!! zhaoting's mum can really sing la.. haha.. her voice is quite powerful....damn cool..haha.. she sang a couple of old songs n guess wad.. she asked zhaoting to choose SHE's "bu xiang zhang da" for her!! hahahahaha.. she actually knew how to sing the chorus..haha.. we had so much fun n laughed lik nobody's business..haha.. had a great time.. thanks aunty!!

valentine's day was a pleasant and quiet day for me.. coz i stayed at home as there's no school for all J1s.. i finally got a break from helping my frens get presents for people..haha.. n i actually managed to finish my GP essay outline which was due the previous thurs..

last fri, 17th feb, 4 courage had our very own reunion dinner!! =D.. we had steamboat at marina.. laughed so much.. had lotsa catching up with all of them.. mr so and miss gan joined us as well.. it all felt so familiar.. the people.. the ambience.. suddenly i missed the 2 ys i spent with this bunch of pple so much.. in my head.. for once i wished that the clock would tick anti-clockwise and return to last yr.. but i know that's impossible so yea.. lets all face this new chapter in our lives bravely and let these characters that once appeared in your life, continue leaving footsteps in your story..

cheers...
fran

IMPORTANT... it's the revival round of campus superstar this coming monday.. PLEASE help support beekwee( gao mei gui) by voting for her!!

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