Saturday, December 31, 2011

Chapter 30 : Last Chapter for 2011

Happy New Year's Eve!

Today's the day, the last day of 2011 and I've only written 30 chapters for about 6-7 months which is kind of disappointing cause I expected to have written a lot like 50 chapters by now, but it's alright I'll do better next year with more interesting and fun chapters to read about! 2011 has been a good year, filled with good and bad memories but when the clock strikes twelve, it'll be a new year and these memories would be of the past.

So, for this last chapter of the year, I would like to a highlight or summary of things that happened in the year 2011 for me.

January

During the beginning of January this year I was still using onsugar till I stopped during March.

January started out fine for me, if I remembered correctly (I have bad memory). It was the beginning of Sec 4, not much of a big difference from Sec 3 cause I was still learning the usual stuff from Sec 3 except more detailed or more specific or just two or more new chapters to cover for the year. Nothing much went on during this month, it was only till late January when my grandfather got a stroke and was sent to the hospital, that was kind of a new experience when an emergency pops up last minute and we had to rush to the hospital and having lived 16 years, I've never visited a hospital since my birth till this year, so it led me thinking that health is still the most important compared to everything else.

February

February, which was also the beginning of Chinese New Year, the Year of the Rabbit as of 3rd February. Hmm, I would honestly say that this month was a very productive month for me because I was visiting grandfather at the hospital after school everyday, so yeah, so my schedule then was, school, cca/remedial/extra classes, hospital, do homework, sleep early. I still can't believe I was that productive for once in my life! It was also a very quiet Chinese new year for me, I didn't really "celebrate" nor did I do much visiting other than to the hospital and it was also the month where I got to sit on a wheelchair for once (hospital wheelchair) :P and I remember that mom would be too tired to cook by the time we got home so she'll always make me eat at the hospital's food court or have take aways there and the food there were all healthy and there weren't much choices... Valentines Day was also in February, didn't celebrate it with anyone, cause I didn't even have the time to celebrate nor did I have anyone to celebrate with.

March

March was more or less the same as February, busy with school and visiting the hospital. So yeah, nothing much happened during this period of time.

April

Had a switch of hospital for grandfather other than that nothing really much happened too except mugging for Mid Year Exams.

May

Took Mid Year Exams, guessed the result wasn't as what I expected it to be ;x Oh yes! This month was also an important month because it was also the start of ChaptersOfMarcus.blogspot.com without it, there wouldn't be this post today, haha. It was also the month where I got my Lumix Camera!

June

Holiday Period! The holiday was rather short although it was like a month long, took part in the AlphaKidz Programme as a student volunteer! Still miss those kids, if you don't know what I'm talking refer to this post. Other than that was preparing for N Levels, doing up a timetable to manage my time! This month was also the premiere month of "Something Borrowed" great movie.

July

This was an interesting month I guess, cause a lot of things happened in this month. So yeah, I know you can refer to my archives for these but I'm still going to type it out anyway.

- National Youth Business Challenge
- The closure of the railway tracks
- Announcement of Glee The 3D Movie
- Preparation for Prelims and N Levels
- Did my first blog post for N.E.mation 6!
- Took part in Dell's Inspiration Blog Competition

National Youth Business Challenge was different for me this year, instead of a participant, I am a supporter! Took some time to go down to the railway track by the rail mall to take some pictures! A great experience, it isn't like everyday you get a chance to walk on a railway track with lots of other people there too. Found out that Glee was having a 3D Concert Movie, was excited about that to the max. Prepared for N levels and prelims, it was also the beginning of prelims in this month. Sent in my first blog post to Dice Studio for my N.E.mation 6! Ambassador Competition and I also took part in Dell's Inspiration Blog Competition too!

August

In the month of August, after referring to my archives, I took part in the Cars 2 Competition, I also watched my first IMAX 3D Movie, which is Cars 2 too! I also found out that I got selected to be in the Top 8 of N.E.mation 6! Ambassador Competition. Celebrated Ivy's birthday, visited Cold Stone Creamery for the first time and Prelims ended in this month as well. It was also the month I watched Glee The 3D Concert Movie, awesome max!

September

After reviewing all the things that happen this year I start remembering things better! This was the month where I started my N.E.mation journey as an Ambassador, I also visited H&M on the day of it's opening and bought a thing or two and I also had my birthday barbeque during this month, the process of planning and going through the behind the scenes part of creating the birthday barbeque was memorable cause it's not like everyday you get to host a barbeque party, I felt that it was quite successful overall, everyone was happy (I guess). Oh no, how could I forget, this was also the month N Level Social Studies started for me too!

October

October was a very hectic month cause I was doing last minute studying and catching up with all the remedial I've missed and getting all the information and knowledge into my brain immediately cause this was the month of the real N-Level Examinations! Terrifying month. Didn't celebrate Halloween though... N Level was already thrilling enough :D

November

N Level is over but I still have to do a little bit of studying for English and Mother Tongue, I take English O Levels and Chinese Language Basic so yeah they both happen to be in the month of November, I had confident for English though, I kinda predicted the composition topic and when the exam paper came out, the topic was the exact opposite of what I predicted. Chinese Language should be fine I guessed, didn't really had a problem with it at all. After those 2 papers, it was more of relax time for me as I could say I won't be taking another exam till next year. Not to forget continuing my journey as the top three ambassadors of N.E.mation and attending Prom Night!

December

The final month, the final moment, I pretty much guess I love this month the most cause it was mostly having a good rest. I was into my last week of N.E.mation production during the first week of December, attended the wrap up party as well as Dice Studio's own Christmas gathering. I also attended Wicked The Musical! on Christmas Day, there's no other place I rather be on Christmas Day now than the theatre hall :P I also sent Christmas presents to my friends, spent a lot of $. Got my N Level result too, got promoted to Sec 5! & last but not least I'm here typing this post!

Wow, looking back at all these things that happened, it was really a good year for me I guess, I couldn't have asked for more (maybe, but yeah it's been a good year) and all the best for the next one! Have a Happy New Year if you're reading this! :)

Friday, December 30, 2011

Chapter 29 : Christmas Presents

I know it's kinda late to be talking about this now, but hey, there's 12 Days of Christmas right?





Just another one of my short chapters I would like to share, and no, don't get me wrong! I didn't buy all of these presents for my friends, otherwise I would be broke...

Met up with Chelsea and SinYee on Wednesday to pass them my gifts to them and the others for their belated Christmas Party they're having today, probably by now they would have opened it up already! It's hard to tell you which gifts are mine and which gifts are from chelsea and sinyee cause we put it all together to make it look like we spent a fortune on these gifts.

I bought everyone's gifts based their likes, so for example since Chelsea likes Care Bears, I bought her 3 small care bears for christmas and since SinYee likes biscuits, I bought her Hello Panda!

I know I might sound strange when I say this but, when it comes to christmas presents, the fun part isn't about buying the gift, neither is it giving as well, I just like the gift wrapping part, where you get to choose nice wrapping paper and wrap the present and it'll look nice no matter how you wrap it because the nice wrapping paper covers the gift so even if the present inside is not all that fantastic at least the wrapping paper makes up for it! That's all for today!

Monday, December 26, 2011

Chapter 28 : Wicked! Experience

As I said I would be blogging the day after Christmas and it is the day after Christmas, commonly known as Boxing Day, I still have no idea what it is for, so I went to google and google directed me to Wikipedia and I found out that.........

"Boxing Day is a secular holiday that is traditionally celebrated on 26 December, the day after Christmas Day, which is also St. Stephen's Day, a religious holiday. However, when 26 December falls on a Sunday, Boxing Day in many places is moved to 27 December. In the U.K., where Boxing Day is a bank holiday, if Boxing Day falls on a Saturday, a substitute bank holiday is given on the following Monday, but if Boxing Day falls on a Sunday – which means that Christmas Day, another bank holiday, fell on a Saturday – then the Statutory Holiday for Christmas is moved to Monday 27 December and the Statutory Holiday for Boxing Day is moved to Tuesday 28 December."
See, you learnt something out of reading this blog post, now you won't wonder what Boxing Day is about and you can go around telling people what boxing day is and feel smart!

Here's just some pictures of what happened yesterday on Christmas Day!






I bought Wicked Merchandises too!





The musical was awesome, for a few reasons. I just feel that everyone should go and watch it, you'll be amazed, I never really watched a show like this, especially live, so the feeling would be different compared to watching it on television or in the cinema cause it's live so it's like an uncut version, where everything just goes smoothly. It's not an easy job having to sing and act and remember your lines all at the same time, but I guess after some time of experience, you'd get the hang of it, therefore they really did put up a great musical performance, really shows how professional they are when it comes to performing and if I had a chance to go back and watch it, I definitely would, no doubt about it.

 Took a cab home despite the long queue at Marina Bay Sands, and the taxi driver wished me a Merry Christmas when I was alighting, seldom taxi drivers do that and it was special cause I lived in Singapore for 16 years and it's my first time hearing it from a taxi driver!

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Chapter 27 : Christmas Time is Here!

I know, it isn't "officially" here yet, but with the atmosphere and decorations along orchard road, it does feel a little bit like Christmas and yes I'm going to say it again, time goes by very fast, before you know it New Year will be over and Chinese New Year will arrive and another year begins!


How will I be celebrating christmas this year?
Well, this year I decided to do something different for Christmas this year, by different I mean, something I've never done before, which is to watch a Musical! Which Musical? Wicked! I doubt people my age really know of it but basically if you've watched "The Wizard of Oz", Wicked is just another side of the story of how the story is being shown from another angle, which is rather interesting to be able to see another view of the story that you used to know and what's more it's a LIVE MUSICAL! I would want to count this as my first musical but I can't cause I've been to my school's Animal Farm Musical play, but Wicked would be my first Atas (High Class) Musical. The moment I found out Wicked was coming so Singapore, I wanted to ge the tickets as early as possible cause I knew tickets for Christmas Day would be sold out if I bought it nearer to the date, and being the typical Singaporean, I bought the tickets in August! (Kiasu-ism) and prior to the musical, I even bought the books as there is a series to it! Shows how much I want to know about the entire story...

Alright, I guess I bore you enough with my wicked christmas story, haha. The next time I blog most probably will be on Christmas Day or the day after!

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Chapter 26 : Updates, Updates & more Updates!

Hey all, I will do my best to update this blog more often! Just wanna share some awesome news, for those of you who don't know and are wondering about whether or not I managed to continue my N.E.mation Journey as an Ambassador and made it into the Top 3, Yes I have, although it's kind of late but it's better late than never, right?

Secondly, as most of you should know by now, today is the release of the N level results and I am qualified to enter Secondary 5! Awesome right, which also means I will have lesser posts next year, but don't worry I will still do my best to keep this blog alive by boring you about my senior year!

Currently working on giftcards to give to my friends for Christmas, I'm such a nice person (self-praise). Will post more updates about how Christmas went for me soon!

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Chapter 25 : Prom Night 2011


The title says it all, had my Prom Night (Graduation Night as most of you call it) on 22 November at Bukit Batok CSC.



The theme was Rainbow though, weirdest theme, hard to make it look formal cause usually when you mix colours in an outfit, it looks more casual than formal.


Sat at Table 8.









And the night ended off with a bang with people partying around the stage with loud music all around.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Chapter 24 : Hiatus

I guess the title of this chapter pretty much says it all. I will be taking a short hiatus from blogging, a lot of stuff had happened recently, so yeah, I guess I will need some time to get back to blogging. I'm writting this post so that it doesn't feel like I'm missing in action.

I will be back with more interesting chapters!

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Chapter 23 : Break Free from Reality.


Short Update: My glasses broke because I dropped it on the floor acccidentally. Cheapo glasses...

Although N levels have ended, I'm still two papers away from getting a break from reality (breaking free from reality includes sleeping at anytime, waking up at anytime, doing almost anything I want without being nagged, empty schedule for two months & more time to blog!) Can't wait to get these papers done and over with. Next week will be the last week of school + Sports Day, wonder how it'll turn out.

Before I forget, I have good news to share, will share it soon once everything is confirmed, so keep checking back if you want to find out !

I don't know what to do I'm always in the dark.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Chapter 22 : Barbeque Birthday

I celebrated my birthday last week! Yes, I know this post should have been done a week ago but it's still never too late to blog about it right?

I'll just let the pictures do most of the talking.







































I was wearing:
H&M Top
Topman Shorts
H&M Green Boots


Now we've arrived to the presents section!


A mug from Mellody and Sharmaine.


 At first when I was unwrapping the gift I was silly enough to be fooled that it was a book but when I held it, I knew it couldn't be a book cause it was rather light, so I thought it was a book game or something but....




 It's a safe-keeping book! I would have never guessed. This gift was from Tessa.



 A mini-massager from Yuan Zhang and Xing Yee, it's so cute right? The good thing about this present was that batteries were included!


And we've come down to the last and final gift which I felt it was the most unique present that I received.

A specially designed paper bag for me, if you're thinking the paper bag is my present you're so wrong.



Inside the paper bag, there was a box and in the box, it was a ....

Jar full of water babies with birthday wishes inside :)

 Still got decoration on the jar.

That's all I have for today, shall update another day. Remember to vote for me too okay?! :)