Two Stories Far Apart.

   Hey guys, and to start off my post, I will briefly say my 2 stories. We headed to Melaka to have a wonderful christmas/birthday celebration with all my other cousins and relatives. Days later, we got news about my grandfather(father's side) passed away, which was really tragic and we rushed to Johor for his funeral. I will illustrate on the happy story and only give a summary on the unlucky story. Because I'm not too keen to describing and keeping those kind of memories. We need to always look on the bright side.
  There was a Christmas event and a birthday event for anyone born at December. For the Christmas event, we did some fun activities organized by our relatives that were on the 20+ side(means younger adults) and we kids also had to perform on our own effort get presents bought by my mom. The adults just needed to exchange presents by picking a poker card to see the number you get. The activities were really similar to the Children's Day Games we created at school when we were young, mostly about teamwork and unity.
Example- Blind Ball Catch (1 person from the team will throw ping pong balls backwards, for the other teammates to catch them with their perspective baskets and cups, then throwing it onto a basket. Team with the most balls win.)
Slide,Drop,Throw ( Using 2 sides of strings to support the ball and letting it slide onto a cup for it to be thrown onto a basket once again. Same concept to victory.)
Telephone [Drawing Version] (If you dont know Telephone, is which someone sends you a                                                                          message through your ear, and you are suppose to repeat that to the next listener and the last listener will have to say the message out and see if its correct. Well, this is the drawing version, but this time we guess Chinese Proverbs( 成语). So we just do Telephone the drawing way, the first guys chooses the proverb and it goes on until the last guy guess out the proverb drawn by the guy before him. Team with most proverbs guessed wins.) If you guys think Im a bad explainer, well too bad, its my blog.
   For the performances, I will start with mine. I mean ours, which is because Jack wanted to partner with me. Because he had no clue what to do. So I was actually going to do a lame 10 second magic trick myself. But with him, we actually can do a fun 30 second magic trick with 3 different tricks. But when we were praticing, I lost a prop which is a fake thumb supposedly for the Vanishing Cloth trick. (Google it yourself)
But Jack wanted the magic tricks to fail just for laughter of failure for the crowd, which was a good idea. And we tried to make it as lame and fake as possible, because seeing a serious magic trick is not always entertaining. But we didnt made it to the Top 3(Because it wasnt about Christmas I guess.) But me and Jack felt pretty proud to make the crowd laugh. My mom is those mom who eat snacks and junk food with their kids, and she was in charge for the prize providing. So she provided hampers with delicious food and snacks. She even made the 3rd prized a bag with snacks in them. She didnt really want me or my sis to get the prize. But turns out my sister got 1st place for her singing, and won the hamper with the most snacks and food. (Majority cannot hear, only the judges could hear, but she was cute singing it.)
  After that, we reveal the best birthday cake Ive seen from my mom, which was a big chocolate+banana cake surrounded by KitKat and MnMs as topping. It looked so unhealthy and sweetness overload, but it was just a slice per person which was fine. Here is a picture for even more jealousy.

  Well, that is all for happy side of this last part of the year. Now for the devastating part, but since its such a sad and tragic thing to happen, I decided not to share out the events we done in his funeral, because its not a memory I like to keep. That is it for this last post of the year, the end post for the finale of 2013 will be posted after My Europe Trip :) (Im going to London and Paris, my dream places :3 )

Farewell.

  Hey guys, and we just ended Form 2 and our 2nd Appreciation Day, which was a relief and a bummer at the same time. When you end something really great, you feel really down and sad that its all finally over. I created a word when I was small about that feeling which is a "Miss-ick". Its quite childish, but its the only way to describe that feeling.
(Here is the post for that word I created: http://blmjrocks.blogspot.com/2011/05/miss-ick.html)
  But Im going to type about Appreciation Day first, and then about the final day of us being together. We spent about a month on our dance for Appreciation Day, and Tr. Yuen Shin which is one of the head organizers (also my physics teacher :3) for this event said that most of the performances were dancing and the storyline were very similar. But we were lucky to be one of chosen ones once again, just like last year.
  We personally thought that our performance was MUCH better than last year's. Because it was more meaningful and more effort put in. Most of all, more watchable. Our drama act was such a joke, that even all of us, after looking at ourselves, we thought: "How the hell, we got chosen?" Too random, too noisy, too weird, and too blurry, as in not understandable.
  We felt quite happy and proud in the full dress runs, because the teachers said we were cute.(Most of the teacher there were girls) It may sound kind of weird, but its a positive feedback which we will always take. Its was also easier and not so nervous to dance in front of so many people, not like last year, it was a sketch, which needed to walk around and to remember the lines, and not to worry about the mic issues. Plus we do this entire thing together, so if we forget some steps, just look at your friends, easy.
  So, lets finally skip to the moment when it was our time to shine. It went great and expected. Not like making jokes and saying your lines more exaggerating, dancing is both fun and catchy, and hard to get tired of. The full dance is on Youtube posted by most likely Jing Shen's Mom, we were all so surprised who posted it, ON YOUTUBE! Here is the video and try not to laugh at my skinny self. (Try to spot me too.)

  The best performance I think that day, would be one of the Hip Hoper's dance session (Horror). There are 6 dance sessions by the Hip Hopers's; Introduction, Love, Funny, Horror, Action and Finale. It was the best for me because it was the coolest with the coordination, that dance made me wanna join Hip Hop even more next year. But sadly we dont have a video for that. :(
Teacher Dylan(Hip Hop Tr and Battleground Runner, no joke here) and Teacher Amos(Maths Tr and also a good dancer) also danced before the Horror dance session, and what made it so cool as both of them did it very well timed with the beats of the music.
  Now we head on to the last topic, which will be our last day of school. This day was tough, and it was a challenge not to shed a tear at the end of the day. And main part WILL be the end of the day. We played games and songs(mostly by Jonathan), but until the end, it all was going to end. One by one, we all started to burst into tears. It was just natural. Some of us tried to hold, but we just couldn't. We took about a billion photos that day. While we were in deep sorrow, Tr Yuen Shin and Tr Bernie came in to say their goodbyes and to encourage us to be strong and we would still meet next year and so on. But they have to admit they did drop down a tear or two. We all hugged each other and just really couldn't stop the tears flowing down our cheeks. There was just countless of fun and memories we had, it was just such a fun batch of friends. They were always there for me when Im down, and always beside of me when laughter. This may have sounded cliche but sometimes its just necessary. 
If any of my 2 AMBER 2013 friends see this post, I dont care who you are, You will be remembered. (Now this will be cliche for sure...)  Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this very deep post and have a good holiday!