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Born in Sg, survived seven years of IJ, escaped to canada for the miraculous rebirth.. likes to say she found self there, But well when can we reach self actualization? now a waterloo student. 110% horse mad, was practically born on the back of a horse ( or rather wishes she was) horses are my favourite thing.




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Thursday, April 10, 2008
The One year anniversary post

You guys know i'm bloody nostalgic sometimes and love to remember anniversaries..... This being no exception, today, the 10th of April 2008 marks the one year anniversary of me first starting classes at Bronte. So what if i make a big deal of it, it;s just i didn;t forget the date that i started.

SO DAMN MUCH has happened in the last year, my life has changed in ways unimaginable, and i am utterly grateful for the opportunity to study overseas and that my life has taken this path. Where do i start? i guess i would describe my life here in phases.

First there was the april-june semester, my very first one here. Pretty amazing really, i did 3 courses namely Challange and change in society, math data and english all in about 2 1/2 mths, oh wait cos of the 2 HOUR lessons!!! having 2 hrs of math at 8.15 am every morning.... It seems long ago, actually i guess it is, maybe it;s because of all the people i met and the things that happened. First semester, i first met jackie and peggy, my first friends at bronte. I had to daringly but myself out there and make friends. Then i met ameen, trung, duc, disha, kriya, rodrigo and peter, siew ming, gerald and saiful. All these friends who made my experience a memorable one. Going down to toronto with gerald, peggy and jackie. Then in may, going to wonderland with gaya! that crazy girl is so fricking brave, she dragged me on the roller coasters and YES got me hooked on them. Then there was PROM, boy THAT was fun lol!!!! a prom with guys.... ( at least i did albeit with some regrets) but anyway. Dressing to the nines, i wouldn't forget it, but i;m a bit tired of proms now. All the amazing friendships forged........ ok that sounded lame but who gives a damn i don't. Oh wait !!! then the NEw york trip with gerald and the china ppl, going on BROADfrickingWAY for the first time. I honeslty want to go back again......
HAHAH, i still miss being called bubugee, machu pichu or carolina law AHAHAH.

Oh i remmember shovelling gravel for the courtyard during challange and change class for MR cristello, working up a sweat.

Watching 4 movies in a day!1 for challange and change,1 for english and 2 at the cinema ! ( shrek and pirates i think.......) then getting back to school at 2am !

AHh and summer school, spending the mornings in a fucking refridgerator, wearing 3 layers and knee high socks under school pants when it is over 35 degrees outside and freezing your ass off in dr ahmed's econs class. Oh and babysitting crazy mexican kids for the summercamp , making friends with ben, going to Toronto island for the first time, and suffering through the UNBEARABLELY hot nights where the only way to sleep is to take a cold shower.

Then returning home for a month

Back to Bronte in the fall, hooking up with Josh, and entering phase 2 of my bronte life. Studying biology, law and fam studies. The next 5 mths of my bronte life, a very differenet one, not jus cos of the people the classes became shorter and so did my days and the weather started getting cold. That's when me and rodrigo found out about the Royal winter fair and bought tickets to go, i was fricking over the moon! October came and my 18th b'day which i celebrated by going to hardrock cafe in toronto with gerald, saiful and sara, it was a blast and i visited a sex shop for the first time in my life ( and got a pair of fishnet stockings ) Halloween came around, and gaya lent me her indian punjabi suit and i think i looked pretty good in it, along with a ton of make-up, felt like racial harmony day, just that i never actually wore an indian costume on racial harmony day in singapore at all..... A whole bunch of other ppl wore pajamas to class, the only time of the year that you can wear striped flannel to class. Embrace it..... Then there was the whole freaking out over bio thing, i was going insane and stressing out like crazy, there were moments when i wanted to give up, but thanks to the ppl around me, i didn;t and i'm quite grateful i didn't. Cos even though bio was hell sometimes i'm glad i stuck it out with a 75!!!!

After that was the Royal winter fair, boy that was AMAZINGLY FUCKING AMAZING FUCKING FANTASTICALLY fricking out of mind going mental inside amazingly mindblowing. I got beezie madden's signature...... MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH and saw Jos lansink and Ian millar warm up their horses...... Ok sorry diverting, should be talking about bronte.....
I did get pissed of at ron though, he irritated me.

Oh and there was drama! all that hard work and dedication to our project paid off, i wrote my first play ( ok co-wrote with gaya) and had acted as a bimbotic bitch who learns her lesson. Me and gaya didn[t think we could do it, but we actually managed to pull it off despite the constant arguments, disagreements and then all the freeking rehersals. We actually did an excellent job and everyone loved us, i couldn't have been more pleased with it ( ok so maybe after i watched myself act i cringed) but hey getting up on stage wasnt as hard as i expected it to be ! i actually had a great time doing my self-written monologue.

Things i will/ now miss
- Hanging out a tim hortons with gaya after school
- Hanging out with gaya, faith and shamala after school/ during 2nd period
- walking to lakeshore ( this is will miss)
- Having a starbucks at 11.45 pm
- ALL THE AMAZING PEOPLE i've met here
- Having dinner in the caf , whining pathetically about the food whic sometimes really isn't that bad
- Watching movies in G-1
- Eating cookies and milk at 9.30pm
-gossiping stupidly about the latest hook-ups/ break-ups
- watching movies with ben near the fishtank ( in which all the couches have been removed for fear of hormonal teenagers copulating or mimicing copulating on the)
- Going out to dinner with ben and todd during the week
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Things i will not miss
- academics
- PP
- the rules
- curfew
- 11.30pm, or any fire alarm after 1am!!!!! esp if it is -20 degrees outside......


All in all, a fantastic year in which i have had so many enrinching experiences i don't where to end, words can only say so much and i sound fucking lame so i am going stop here, in other words....... one of the best damn fucking years of my 18 ( nearly 19) years.