29th of Feb!!!!!!!!!! :)

Today's LEAP DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D The day that comes only once-in-every-four-years!!!!!! :) It's a special day!!!!!!!!! :)

Wouldn't it be quite exciting to be born on the 29th??? You get to have a big celebration every four years.. :) But on the other hand, I don't think I'd like to have a birthday only once every four years. :P

So I think I'm quite glad I was born 19 days earlier.... :)

Charissa

CONCERT!!!!!!!

My teacher always organizes an annual concert for her students. Also including her sister's students. Her sister teaches violin, and my teacher teaches cello. Oh, and both of them also teach piano. So the yearly concert will usually have cello, violin, and piano performances. :)

This year, their annual concert was at the beginning of the year. It was last Saturday, 25th of Feb. :)

The whole reason why my mum told me to be part of the concert and perform is not to show off but for me to gain more experience playing in front of an audience. I always suck at that. I always get sooooo nervous, I will be shaking and make mistakes. And because I have an upcoming cello exam, my mum wants me to play infront of people more often so I will get used to it. Which I agree, but I really hate playing infront of people. I'm not the performer type of person.

Anywayz, I performed Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor for the concert, I was 2nd to perform. A little boy performed a violin piece just before me. :P The whole time before I went up to play my piece, my hands were sweating, and shaking, and my face was as soooo WHITE my mum said it's like as though I just saw a ghost. I was very very very pale.

And I totally sucked!!!!!!! My fingers were shaking, I could hardly play, I had to keep telling my mind to control my fingers to be steady...it was difficult, and not to mention I was really really really very pitchy. :( My mum recorded me peforming so I could hear myself after that, and oh man, it really sounded horrible. Even when I was performing, I cringed everytime I made a mistake and went out of tune. :(

When I play at home it's so much better, because??? No audience. *sighs*

I NEED TO GAIN MORE EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Ah well, at least I know I did better than 2 years ago.. :)

Charissa

V-day Youth Activity!!!!!!! :)

The committee organized a VALENTINE'S DAY activity today!!!!!!!! :D

IT WAS SUPER DUPER AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

I've never laughed so much and so hard in my whole life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was practically laughing the 2 and a half hours I was there.. :P

First of we started out with the game called "Honey, I love you". It's a silly game, but it always makes all of us laugh.

Then we had a balloon game, which ended up kinda of like a three-legged-race. :D

Since we had to sit in two rows facing each other for the "Honey, I love you" game, (means girls sitting in one row facing the guys in the opposite row), we had to partner whoever is infront of us. :D If you are a girl, you partner with the guy sitting infront of you, and vice versa. :D

And with your partner, you have to tie one of your legs together just like in a three-legged-race, except that, you have to tie a balloon to that leg too. :D

So the goal of the game is to burst the others balloons, as many as you can, and protect your own one so that it doesn't get burst by the others. :P

It was such a crazy game, me and my partner decided to play safe first and stay in one corner and slowly venture out. We managed to get two balloons I think??? And we ended up being the last two "couples. So we had to compete with the other "couple." Now that was really crazy, the other guy tried to use his leg to step on our balloon from the front and my sister(she partnered the other guy), she tried to come from behind, it was such a tangled mess!!!!!!! :P I was trying to push them away, and Nicholas, he was my partner, he was trying to burst their balloon at the same time and tried to push them too. It continued for like 1 minute and finally my sister was so vigorous she managed at last to burst ours, but she ripped her pants while doing so.. :P

We were all sweating after that, so hot.. :P But it was fun la...it was so weird having your leg tied up with another person's leg, we could hardly walk.. :P

Next activity was, we still had to stay with our partners and we were given a piece of paper, and basically we had to create a story. So the guys all started first so they will have to write down a sentence on the paper including the random word the gamemaster gives. For example, let's say the random word is "flower." Then the guy can write a sentence like, Jane, do you like my flowers? Or, The flowers Jane was holding look so pretty, something like that. Anything random that comes to your mind. :D Then it's the girl's turn to write her sentence down, then it's the guy's turn again and so forth. :D But whatever we write our partner can't see it. So that after we created our little story, the gamemaster reads out the whole story and we will see if it makes sense. :D You will win if your story makes the most sense and also have some random-ness in it. :D It's a hilarious game, especially when the stories are all read out later. :D Some of it totally doesn't make any sense!!! :D

The last game we played was called Balderdash. I presume it's a game Sam made up. :P He was the one who introuduce the game to us today.. :D It's kinda of funny, still staying with our partners, Sam gives us a bombastic word, and we are supposed to become our own dictionaries and write our own definition of the word he gives. Practically all the words we have never hear of, because for a smiple reason, we don't have a wide range of vocabulary. Those like Sam, will know what all those words mean. Trust me, they are so bombastic they don't make sense! :D

Oh the words he gives can be things, an acronym, people, etc. :D But he will tell you if it's a person, a thing or etc...so that you can roughly get on the right track. :D

None of us got the right answers... :P And it's not only just writing definitions, we have to vote and stuff, but I'm too lazy to explain.. :D

Anyway, altogether it was a totally AWESOME DAY ever!!!!!!!! I had so much fun!!!!!!!!

Charissa

Anyone for Sky-Lifting????



See the picture??? That's me with my dad and a "ninja turtle" in a SKY LIFT!!!!!!!!!!! :D Have you ever seen those really cool sky lifts at construction sites or buildings in progress and wanting to have a ride in it? I have!!!!!! :D I've seen sky lifts so often, and always wished I could ride at least once in it. :)

AND MY WISH CAME TRUE!!!!!!!!! :D Since my daddy is a painting contractor, he deals with all this kinda of stuff. He had to rent a sky lift for 3 days to do some painting on the facade of  a building. And since it's rented on a whole day basis, I told my dad I wanted to ride in it, and my dad said, no problem. Since it's already paid per daily basis, why not??? :)

So my sister went on it first, all the way to the top of the roof of a 3-story building??? I think it's a 3-story. :D Then it was my turn. It was kinda of scary at first, going so high up, but after awhile I was ok. :) It was fun!!!! Eventhough it went real slow, it was still fun to reach above the roof!!!!!!! :D

Now, you might think I'm so "kampung-ish" but I don't care. I've always wanted to ride in one and I finally did! :D

It was totally awesome!!!!!! ;)

More pictures.....

Daddy, Me, and Ninja Turtle. :) That's one of daddy's workers acutally, but we decided to nickname him ninja turtle since he looks like one. :D This was at ground level still.

We're moving!!!!

Going up higher!!!! :)

Higher even!!!!

Almost reaching the roof!!!! :D

Up in the SKY!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Charissa

P.s. Anyone wants to know how much is the rent per day for the sky lift? It's RM 350!!!!! Very expensive!!!! :P So if any of you ever want to go in one, just pay RM 350 to ride in it all day!!! *winks* :P

First Day of BSF 2012!!!!!!!

Today was our first day of BSF for the year!!!!!!! :) It's been so long since I last saw all my BSF friends, it was good to see them again today. :)

This year I'm in Senior Level (2) which means we have to meet outside in the heat. :( So-not-awesome. :( But the good thing is we get to change with Senior Level (1) after 6 months. ;) Looking forward to that. I'm sure all my classmates are too. :D

So we get our winter later in the year. :( But ahh well, I shan't complain, it's not that bad once you get used to it, although we have some unwelcomed members in our class. Also known as, BIRDS AND MOSQUITOES!!!!! :(

The mosquitoes are more annoying compared to the birds, I just hate mosquitoes!!!!! They are always biting me!!!! :(

One other sad thing this year, they separted JOO YEE FROM ALL OF US!!!!!!! :( Because BSF has this rule that a father can't teach his daughter in class. So since we have Joo Yee's father as our teacher this year, they had to put her in Senior Level (1). Which is most annoying!!!!!!! As Samee says, we are all ONE PACKAGE. You can't separate us!!!!!!! But they did.. :( And she's like been with us for the past 4 years and now she's in the other class. Sobsssssssss...

Charissa

SWEET SIXTEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Both me and my twin are officially 16 now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P My twin, (whom you might have read a little about her in one of my previous posts) and I have SO MUCH IN COMMON. Our birthdays are just one day apart!!!!!!!!! :P

Elise, that's her name, she turned 16 on the 9th of February, and I turned 16 on the 10th of February, which was yesterday!!!!! So now we are officially twins again!!!!! :D Because we had to wait until my birthday before we can be called "twins" again since she turned 16  first. :D

We are both the same age, have almost the same birthdays, and have many other things in common. That's why we call ourselves "twins." And it's really scary how each time we talk to each other we find out even more things to add to the list of things we have in common! It's really very creepy. :D One of these days I'll just blog about she and I, and the list of things we have in common. ;)

As you know, usually people say when you turn 16, it's "sweet sixteen." Since I usually don't have parties, and I thought it would be nice to have one to celebrate my "sweet 16th", I thought of planning one. But when I thought about having a party, that was like maybe 1 week ago??? Which is too late to plan one. So in the end I had to forego that idea. Sad. :( But anyway, I still had fun I guess. :)

My family has this tradition that when it's one of our birthdays, the birthday girl/boy gets to pick the place he/she wants to go for dinner. :) I didn't really know where to choose, so we ended up at Sunway Pyramid. I wanted to try a German restaurant there but in the end I changed my mind and we ended up at Italiannies. :D We actually usually end up there for birthdays. :P

Ah well, next year I'll pick somewhere else. :)


So there's nothing much else to report about, so I guess this is it! :)


It was still a lovely 16th!!!!!!!! :) And THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WISHED ME!!!!!!!!!! :)

Charissa