Don't Close Your Eyes

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CRYSTAL is thankful to have finally graduated from the Raffles family in 2009.
She is not so ready to embark on the new phase of her life and she still enjoying bumming around.
If being a slacker is an occupation, she'd be a millionaire(:

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Ailin
Claire
Charlene
Chern Ping
Crystal Lee
Davina
Enqi
Fadhilah
Fanglin
Fann
FourOhEight '07
Huiwen
Isabel
Jasmine
Jiahui
Jolene
Maryam
Munchin' Mamas
Natalia
Natalia
Peiting
Pingfang
Ruiling
Saniah
Samantha
Serene
Sheena
Sherry
Sipei
Sorna
Theodora
The Red Jewel
Yanqi
Yunting
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my dad is super lame! he just bought himself a guitar and is playing (attemping to actually since he never gets past the first verse) "dream dream dream", accompanied by his.. ah. dulcet tones.

instead of a classical guitar or a rock guitar (damn cool i want one!), he went to get himself a FOLK guitar. he thinks we live on a farm, seriously.

i asked him, "are you ever going to play a decent song? "

dad: " )): i forgot how to play already. i shall learn how to play in my retirement. and my fingers are really painful! )))): aiyar, i bought the wrong guitar, should have gotten a classical one instead."

so i said, "aww. leave it in the room! i wanna try it later!"

dad " cannot! i am going to ask for a refund tmr! "

my mum, hearing all the commotion came in and saw the brand new guitar. seeing the (semi)impressed look on my face she said "your father play guitar to woo girls last time only! and he whole day only know how to play this song! until now the song still haven't change."

Thursday. jiahui wanted to borrow my physics worksheets. so after principal's address, i saw her and wanted to pass my ws. but then, my lousy file just had to restrict me from getting my ws out.

me: "oh SHIT" (all the ws nearly fell out of my file! i was entitled to say it wasn't i!!)

deborah tan: (who suddenly materialised out of thin air and put an arm around me) "what did you say? did you just say the four letter s word?? do you have any better word to say??"

i just stood and stared at her with my mouth wide open. jiahui and yumin did not help matters by moving away and laughing their asses off. like thanks man, and i still lent u my physics ws?!

me: " i'm sorry, i'm sorry! "

so she went away, placated by my apology. hello, if it was yunting she would have just gotten expelled for inappropriate language?! shit is so mild ): i just know that my mouth will just cause my downfaill -.- i lost count the number of times i got into trouble because of my mouth.

Friday. before even ss started, yanyee and I got booked for submitting the RJ scholarship day form late. but the point is, i submitted it TWO DAYS AGO. phoned her so many times in the staff room but somehow she's always MIA -.-
and ss was just whatever. but all tests are all like that no?

went for lunch with qiuping arathi zhiying sipei claire yuxuan olly peiting, since we had hours to kill before in convo. peiting was in heaven when she went to the toy fair in taka. armed with ppg softtoys, she was extremely despondent when she found out they weren't 3 bucks each after all.

i kind of suspected Faizah Jamal was Faridahs Jamal's ( aka the ak conductor) sister, but it was until i saw her in the audience, did i confirm the fact. i ran away as fast as possible after in convo. i must say, after sec 3s took over, AK has been much more smooth sailing then ever. we sec4s are a really screwed up batch -.-

Saturday. went to school in the morning for class nat day prep. my dad was supposed to pick my up after my brother finishes his math in scgs, but due to some miscommunication, i was stranded in school. didn't have an umbrella since i lent mine to pingfang cos i thought i wouldn't need it and it was raining like crazy. my tuition started at 2.30, and i wouldn't be able to make it back in time unless i took a cab. so there i was, freezing, hungry, wet and cold, trying to hail a cab. there was this nice woman was saw my looking forlorn and offered me her umbrella though.

after tuition, went to meet qiuping, yunting, pingfang and yanyee for co concert. lousy yunting told me to "dress down".

"so i come in my pjs can ah?"

"YESYES COME IN PJS. i look like shit! my hair look like shit!"

since i knew pingfang yanyee will be in sch uni, and that yunting said she "looked like shit", i dressed down. when i met up with, yunting looked dressed up enough (albeit the slippers) and yanyee went to change.

ONLY I LOOKED LIKE I WAS GOING TO THE BEACH IN FBTS AND SLIPPERS. wow. i actually wanted to come in a sch t shirt but my mum yelled at me and said "noone goes to concert dressed like this!!! you are going to be kicked out! go and change!" and LUCKY I DID. glowers at yunting.

arrived late for the concert and had no seats. but we were smart enough to go to the gallery! luckily there were still loads of chairs in the gallery. i think we made a hell lot of noise while moving in the dark.

commendable effort for me to will myself not to fall asleep during CO concert! haha and the reason i came was not cos i loved co music ok! haha and i spent a bomb on flowers. no more money to eat for the next few weeks. anyway well done huiwen jiahui jasmine and yumin! not that i know about this stuff, but you all looked really pro while playing? hahaha

and PEITING. I READ UR BLOG. whatever woman! hahaha everyone will know u are an unreliable source anyway! tell all you want : DDD no evidence to back you up! hahaha i'll consider about the poohbear if you're nice to me hahaha

Warning: small part of hp spoilers ahead. (you can skip the conversation between my mum and me and proceed furtherdown!)

With all the harry potter furore and stuff, my mum decided to be in the know about harry potter too. so she stole my book while i was in school and read the epilogue of the book. when she picked me up after school in the car, she decided to show off how "in" she was 0.o

mum: so your harry potter? didn't die right? -sounds extremely pleased with herself-

me: uh. no. how do you know?

mum: oh CAUSE I READ THE LAST CHAPTER! and got that dumbell also right!

me: huh? where got dumbell??

mum: DUMBELL! YOU KNOW? dumbell?? that old man?

me: YOU MEAN DUMBLEDORE??

yunting and arathi didn't come to school today ): how lousy! arathi promised the duel with meeeee! i was super disappointed when she didn't come to school! i even had my wand ready and everything!! (well, during physics, we connected straws to simulate some DC motor, but it doubled very well as a wand. just that jasmine refused to take arathi's place and duel with me. nevermind arathi, you shall be my only duelling partner : DD)

i was supposed to give jasmine her "gift" (which she got excited thinking its some huge birthday present or something, but turned out to be a lousy scrap of paper. hey i painstakingly photoshopped and made you slimmer okay! thank me!) but yunting didn't come! so there was noone to be my dumb banana partner for the day ):

haha get well soon!

anyway, here is the dingdongs new album, bellisimo! feel free to invite us to gigs and events! we charge a minimal fee of 2 bucks per song.

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for ora or some other funraising event or whatever in jc, WE CAN SELL LOVE POTIONS! (kind of got this idea while talking about harry potter with jiahui online hahah)

see, on valentines day, guys will always buy flowers and decalre their undying love for their girl of their dreams right? that is so last century.

NOW, THEY CAN BUY LOVE POTIONS TO GIVE TO THEIR GIRLFRIENDS/BOYFRIENDS/LOVE OF THEIR LIVES!

copyright crystal! : DDD

(i think i'm a genius! )

HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS!
(no spoilers cos i haven't actually finsihed the book hahaha)

omg. after 7 years of waiting, it's ended. to think this whole saga had been 10 years in the brewing. i nearly died this morning waiting for the postman to deliver my copy of the book. i could have sworn right there and then that the postman died on the way in the rain. i woke up at 8 am in the morning cos i couldn't sleep. and those who knows me know that i would never ever have gotten out of bed willingly before 10am on a saturday morning unless school calls. (then again, if it were school, it most definitely would not have been willing.) when qingyun got her copy at 9am, i sreeched and hyperventilated. i was prepared to camp out outside the lift. to while away my time, i ended up reading history notes (i actually progressed another 5 pages wow) and watched doraemon. and thus, i spent my entire day, for the exception of the 2 hours having math tuition where my mind was thinking of ron being a complete ass in one part of the book, devoting to harry potter!

really sad the books finished! i don't think i've ever read anything as good as this before. you totally go into their world of magic. and i think the reason i like is to much is that harry grew up with me. if you start from book 1, you can really see how the characters changed.

alright, i'm going off to finsih the book and according to arathi the ending is really sad ):

speaking of harry potter, qingyun and i were at borders on thursday after school, there were some people dressed up as dementors, some random witch and hargrid. the 3 characters were going around cornering people, all while being filmed by some tv station. all for promoting the book i guess! so they cornered this poor woman, who absolutely looked terrified out of her wits.

the both of us decided if the dementor tried to corner us, qy will pretend to be harry and go "EXPECTO PARTRONUM!" with a flourishing wand and everything. i will be the stag, so i'll gallop around the deatheater. unfortunately, the dementor did not corner us ):

while we were walking out of the borders, qy went "did you see that woman just now? she looked like she was about to pee!" (and proceeds to laugh maniacally)

me "yeah? OH YOU MEAN THAT WOMAN IN FRONT?" i supposed i said it rather loudly since qingyun smacked me hard when she realised the subject we were discussing was indeed in front of us.

and she turned around to look at us. we ran away as fast as possible.

OKAY. I COULDN'T HELP IT ):
i just read the entire spoiler epilogue of harry potter 7. the temptation was too great to resist! and i'm pretty sure this spoiler is the real version! at least xx and xx ended up together, so i'm quite happy hahaha. anyone else interested to know? i'll love to share! if i keep it in any longer, i think i'll burst.

because of the avalanche of homework lately, i made another to do list. (actually there's not much homework, just loads and loads of history, ss, english notes. i think totally number of pages equals to a mini novel ): and i only read 5 lousy pages of history?!)

my oh-so-original dad added in a number 11 on my to do list. "remember to say i love you to daddy!"
like omg? is he going to keep writing that whenever i put up a new to do list? and i just can't figure out when he comes to my room anyway. and WHY. goodness, he must be damn bored to come into my room when i'm not inside/in school.

AKFAM : D

was extremely spastic, but fun nonetheless!

as usual, Puntuality Queen (i.e. ME. i realised i'm only late when i meet up with huiwen hahaha)arrived 10 minutes before meeting time, but ended up too absorbed in a magazine that I forgot the time and had Lisa ringing me up from the champagne section in carrefour. Got sparkling juice (thereafter will be referred to as champagne cos it just sounds cooler!) and chips. Nat joined us and we went to buy cakes from secret recipe, dinner from KFC. Took a train down to esplanade, with the champage bottle lying precariously in my hands.

Setting up by the river at the esplanade while waiting for mary, our only participant to arrive! late as usual -.-

Pretty (everyone's except mine) gift bags made by nat. No, don't ask my my gift bag has a dodo bird and question marks all over.

After dinner was certificate presentation ceremony!

Looking happy, after getting the graduation certificates presented by me!

As we were still ahead of time, we decided to light up all our tealights while waiting for the sun to set so we could pop the champagne! after 30 minutes (of listening to mary scream that we hurry up and pop the champagne so she could go) and of candle lighting, we decided to move on to our next activity! Lisa successfully stuck a matchstick, but before she could light anything up, she screamed bloody murder and threw the matchstick on the floot. the flame, instead of extinguishing, burned even brighter. We stared at it in horror while lisa tred to step the flame out. hahaha if i recall correctly.

Before I was about to pop the champagne! what's mary doing?. Lisa and I

Lisa the brave attempts to pop the champagne after my many failed attempts to do so ): champagne popping was accompanied by lots of screaming and shouting.

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... but we succeeded!

cheers!

According to our programme, we were supposed to have champagne and cake at night by the river, but mary the lousy had to leave before the sun even set, so we had to push forward our programme. notice that we're short of one champagne class? it burnt and melted while we were trying to light our tealights.

Mary took her cake and ran away. So it's the 3 organisers left! the candles represent the number of torturous years we endured. my chocolate cake was supposed to have 3 candles. but i lost the 3rd candle ):

Present exchange! Thanks lisa and nat for the gifts. HAHA i'm sorry my keyshirts are lousy. i didn't know you all were going to give such nice stuff! plus, i didn't know what to buy ): SORRY! shall give you all better things when i actually get to go shopping soon. and mary, do you feel guilty? hahaha : D

Next was sparklers time! i think we ended up contributing to global warming since the sparklers produced plenty of smoke.

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the smiley face took us ages to light up.

That about sums it all! operation cleanup: everyone ended up scraping wax off the floor (since we are so civic minded and everything) but instead of being awarded with the civic minded trophy, WE WERE INTERROGATED BY THE POLICE. we, as in lisa and I, since our fair weathered friend nat, who went away for a moment to throw away garbage, (she should hv threw herself away too for that matter), ended up hiding away in some secluded bush when she saw the policemen approaching. But they were very nice about everything, aft all we weren't damaging property. They wanted to check out what the hell we were doing to the floor or something.

while we continued scraping the floor, this guy approached us.

guy : can help take picture?

lisa: no, we're busy cleaning.

by then i already stood up.

lisa: no, sit down crystal!!

and being the obedient person i am, i sat down. apparently those were the people who brought the policemen according the lisa, saw the group of them arrived together. When we refused to take their picture, the guy was saying something like, "@$%^&* no lives la they all."

after cleaning up, we looked for a secluded spot to have our SING A LONG SESSION. we found that secluded spot under the bridge, and like "homeless hobos" we sang! it was quite fun, if not for the kaypoh people above who kept taking pictures of us. the guy had a professional camera on all. either we'll end up on STOMP, or we'll be next sunday's straits times. wonderful. the entire half an hour we were there, there were flashes all over. we got so annoyed that nat wanted to give the finger. but well. if we were photographed to be put on stomp and straits, nat will be expelled faster than you can say the word. LOL.

oh and i neglected to mention for the entire night, we were the centre of attraction. everyone was staring at us while we lighted candles, popped champagne, played the sparklers and even during the sing a long when we chose a deserted corner.

and that concludes the end of AKFAM! well, AKFAM part 2 will commence in september! where we will hv more fun activites such as a sleepover and bbqing marshmallows!

THANKS GUYS FOR BEING THERE THESE 2 / 3 YEARS. i totally can't imagine ak without you all. seriously. but it's been fun, not much the bamboo shaking, but the company! i shall continue this in the letter that i'm going to write! soon, i promise! WE MUST HAVE MORE GATHERINGS YEAH?

oh and lisa, remind me to pay you!!

i think our class is super.... undescribable. for no reason, we went out for class lunch at balmoral waffle town! during chinese period, whole every other class was either stoning/mugging/relatively quiet, 408 would end up playing stupid games. and i even hear us in the toilet. how cool is that 0.o

watched harry poter today with a bunch of super enthu audience. before the movie started, everyone was so noisy, in the end one angmoh women shouted "SHUT UP! SERIOUSLY!" then, silence in the entire cinema (cinema is huge mind you, so that was quite a feat) "THANK YOU!"

during the kissing scence (is was so not 30 seconds?! newspaper anyhow report!) everyone whopped and cheered. there were wolf whistles and one guy even shouted, "YOU GO, HARRY!"
and when fred and george flew out of hogwarts, everyone whooped too. LOL.

THANK YOU YUNTING FOR ACCOMPANYING ME TODAY!

hahaha yes thanks for waiting with me! XDD don't so stress about math ok. YOU STRESS ME OUT TOO. we suck omg. okay, when is math test coming back. MUST GO BINGE!

THANK YOU HUIWEN FOR HELPING ME DO ALL THE CONVERTING STUFF FOR HISTORY PT!

haha HI WENDY! yes thanks for helping me convert. HAHA but now tt i found out how to burn cds, you no need help me burn anymore cds forever! ((:

8 MORE DAYS TO HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS! (i want ron and hermione to have bushy red haired babies!!)

swim carn was super boring! i only signed up for it under the influence of my spastic group mates. and we were being stupid throughout the whole swim meet. well, yunting and i actually.

lazy to blog, so here's an excerpt from jasmine's blog!

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After that Chng went to get a drink from Macs and I was like moping around with her while waiting for JH. And then YT came to join us after she was so devastated when she realised she lost us! Below is a 30s extract from one of our typical conversations:

YT: I squirt ketchup at you! -picks up ketchup packet-

Chng: Then I squirt chilli at you ah! -picks up chilli packet-

Me: Later someone take picture of y'all and post at Stomp!

YT/Chng: Omg then DT will go -> I want to see these three girls!

Me: Yar she will be like I want to see your under the flagpoles. Then the three of us will start drilling!

YT: Ah?

Me: UNDER the flagpoles. (Mr CWF said that okay.)

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hahaha i was laughing like crazy. i thought that was very funny! about the drilling part hahaha.

right today was a rather crappy day. i totally embarassed myself in the morning ): but i think noone noticed eh?except for our class and jiahui who wasn't very impressed. humph, you go do it then!

later on, jasmine was being emo about nomenclature, olly was emo about chinese orals, claire started bitching about a certain teacher (oh GUESS who -.-) with me. and everyone else complaining that they screwed up chi orals while i'm 70% sure i'll get 5/6 over 10. so this whole gamut of emotions welled up inside me and i became emo too for the rest of the day. aw.

and math was just so pissifying cos i didn't understand anything since i missed math for swim meet yesterday. so all he did was recap for those who missed math for like, 2 minutes? 3 worksheets reduced to 2 minutes worth of a summary. how cool is that.

and when i asked jteo questions, he just stared at me half the time, like i can look at him and VOILA. become a math genius.

and i don't even know if i still get it. never going to miss math again.

yup. rounds up my crappy day. wonderful no?

BUSY BUSY BUSY!

Friday: attended my mum's cousin's wedding dinner. my brother is such a spas. his feet is growing like crazy, so he couldn't fit into his black shoes. in the end he went to the dinner in a suit with his track shoes. i was laughing at him like crazy. but i'm no better. seeing that i didn't own a dress and have nothing formal to wear, i went in jeans -.- oh but i think i wasn't that out of place hahahah, we reached at 7 pm and the dinner started at 830pm. i nearly combusted in the aircon-less tent in fort canning.

Saturday: woke up at 12pm, tuition and then guitar/handbells concert! the concert was pretty good(: HAHA i bet yunting and me are going to start harmonising la curumparisita (whatever the name of the song is) on monday. i'm so excited! i nearly died jay walking to taka, cos i was late and everything. yumin and i took 5 seconds to buy peitings birthday present, and then spend ages trying to decide what kind of chocolates to buy. and when we bought the chocs, we went out and saw SUPER NICELY WRAPPED CHOCOLATES which were even cheaper than what we bought.

i was in the toilet before the concert started, and ms lee walked in. i was so shocked i forgot my name and her name. so i went, "oh. HELLO!" and i ran out of the toilet. BEST la. but what was i supposed to do, say "good evening"?? yumin, outside was having the time of her life laughing at my misfortune -.-

Sunday: Lunch with Jas, YT, PT, PF, ZY, CLee. yunting and i ( the punctuality award goes to us of course) arrived first and waited. yunting came even earlier than me, and guess where she went to kill time? the toilet of course! (got mirrors you see) QP couldnt come in the end cos she was making ang ku kueh?? oh well.

Instead of seoul garden, we went to suki sushi. and the service was lousy ok!

number of stars * (out of 5)

( HAH. see! who says i cannot review! pingfang peiting and jas, i just did! hahaha) and i was in such a fluster cos i had to leave at 3 and we haven't even started eating at 2. (but i took a cab in the end at 330 -.- another reason why i'm super broke. ohoh the cab uncle was super nice! i mentioned that i needed to reach by 4pm. so during the whole journey, i could hear the bell in the taxi ringing. He charged me 40 cents less than the original amount. i wanted to tip him, but i had no 2 dollar notes ): and i only had like, 5 cents with me.)

and i have concret examples that the service was lousy! the waitress came to us with a plate of sushi, so i went " thank you! " she placed it on the table, than took it away without even saying anything. so i just gaped at her and went "NOT MINE??" i didn't think i was very loud. was i?everyone pretended not to know me. good friends, i have.

anyway it was damn fun! (: WE SHOULD TOTALLY BINGE AGAIN! and peiting is always super late omg. we should tell her to meet at 9am when we're actually meeting at 1pm. even worse than jiahui! hahaha

Monday will be transformers with jiahui, tues swim carn, thurs harry poter, the following monday AKFAM! haahah i am so excited about that. we intend to have champagne and cake, sparklers, ribbon cutting ceremony, sing alongs with a guitar, present exchange, pinatas, and graduation certs. all these by the river at esplanade at night! (:

and the week after that will be wendy's birthday. haha jiahui, wendy expects us to plan a birthday bash for her 0.o LET'S HAVE CHAMPAGNE AND CAKE TOO OK!! i love planning parties! i should go be a planner! hahahah

and i just know everyone's going to stone at us during history presentation tmr. oh well.

it's only june 8 and i hv no money left. omg?

JIAHUI WENDY, STILL HAVEN'T WATCHED FANTASTIC 4.

gosh, i seriously need to start doing homework. ORALS. faints. if the examiner asks me about organ transplant and terrorist, i think i'm just going to end up staring. i don't even know the differene betwen liver and kidney in chinese ):

i should be doing my chem spa stuff now but i really can't be bothered anymore -.-

anyway A CAPELLA/HARMONIZING IS FUN! hahahaha today has been one of the funniest day! yes and it kinda makes the next few days bearable cos i will be looking forward to more a capella practices! i was grinning to myself the entire day after school today because we are just so spastic.

to jasmine and yunting and dharsh (who is our manager): I THINK WE GOT A HUMONGOUS LOAD OF TALENT. we should go set up another hi5 version group! we can sing nursery rhymes and stuff! hahahaha. i think we would be a total sell out XDDD

and i should really try not to shriek so much ): it's yunting's influence. really. oh oh and yunting ah, i think we should be stand up comedians! will have bright future! the cc and yt show 0.o HAHA ok whatever. and i can't help tripping over myself all day long ): i tell you, IT'S THE TABLE'S FAULT ): my legs just somehow gets entagled with the table legs 0.o

BUT ANYWAY. I SHALL TRY TO SAY MORE INTELLIGENT THINGS FROM NOW ON.

no more conversations like,

mary: YOU ARE SUCH A DUMB BLONDE!!!!
me: ): but i'm not blonde!

(i neglected to say that i'm not dumb)

okay this happened eons ago, like last year. but i think it was the stupidest thing anyone could have said and i realised after i said it. awww.

anyway, i'm still feeling really high! let's do a capella tmr again! hahahaha. WE NEED NEW SONGS! heyhey LET'S HAVE A BAND NAME HAHAHAHA

omg i can't stand it. we are the most spastic group alive.