Ohayo from Japan!!!!

Sorry haven't been able to blog... having a good break from everything. Japan has been great! Especially the toilets! I enjoy every toilet experience...hahahaha. And i've been having such good food i think i've thrown the diet plan out of the window. Or i'm leaving it in japan.

alrite! gotta go! will update when i am back.... meanwhile you peeps study hard ok? and take care!

later!

A good end to the week!

Its been a stressful week yeah? But the good news is everything ended really well. =)

My boss forgave me. The naughty car is working again. And I'm going for a holiday!!!!!!!

BUt i shan't tell you peeps more than that. TO keep the suspense.

I'll blog on the trip when i get back.

WHen do i get back?

Don't tell you.

When do i go?

Don't tell you either.

heh heh heh.
ANyhows! It'll be a good break for me before i start school in NTU yet again. Actually i am looking forward to going back to school although i would look forward to it alot more if i had a car and did not have to take a one and a half hour journey via train and bus just to get to school. Sigh. Any willing sponsors for a car? I'm very into cute jeeps now... or a nice volkswagon beetle or actually i think the mini cooper is really nice.

Did a bit of googling again just now, and found out that we're on wikipedia! Project Superstar 2 has an article on wikipedia! That's really cool because wikipedia's like an international site that provides information for people doing research. GO check it out, it is a very very detailed article on the happenings during PSS2. Way cool...

Oh yes. And while doing the googling thing, many blogs popped up and i went blog surfing for a bit. And i saw something that shocked me a bit... Someone commented on her blog that "Diya smokes. Eww."

?!@?!?@!?@!?@
Hahaha, then i realised it was all a misunderstanding. This particular blogger was at the THK charity show that night... and must have seen me in the back alley with daren and alot of other peeps. Its an alley where people smoke because now the government has designated places for them to smoke right? Anyway, to this particular blogger. I don't smoke. I was just there because I was chatting to Daren.

Ok got that cleared!

Whee holiday!

Blistering Barnacles!

in SHORT,

Drove a particularly old car for the first time to work.

Didn't touch it again until about to leave workplace.

Car refused to wake up.

Pleas for help turned into anger and frustration because no help was rendered but instead was blamed for getting car spoilt.

Very determined to get car working all by myself or return home in shame.

Car was not very obedient.

Car had to spend night in mediacorp car park.

Car was towed to a work shop the next afternoon.(which is today)

Very sweet Uncle B B gave me the support i needed by calling his friend to help me with the car. And even came down personally to see if i needed help and eventually shoo-ing me off when the car was fixed and settled the payment for me.

Sigh. What an experience. Thank goodness my parents were very understanding and i had such nice uncle and aunties... I feel loved.

But i felt bad because afterall, Car fell sick under my care. So i texted my uncle and asked if i could pay him to which he replied rather adamantly "I am your uncle!"

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I FEEL SO LOVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My mother called him to ask how much it cost. ANd he said "Three dollars."

AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Car is now sitting obediently in house's driveway.

Am not touching naughty car unless necessary.

Boo.

sidenote: on the way back home in the once again healthy car... a pigeon almost got me killed. Stupid pigeon landed in the middle of the road and had no sense of danger. Had to jam my brakes... the pigeon was too fat. It needs to go on a diet. Like me. hahahahaha....

Capital 95.8FM 拯救地球大行动！




I recently recorded a very meaningful song together with the 95.8DJ's that talks about doing our bit to save the earth we live in! The lyrics are written by Carrie Yeo and Cheezi(93.3 part time dj)....



Alot of effort was spent into producing this song(Carrie and I are the producers!)...so i'm very proud of it! But this was also the reason for my crisis this morning... came into office(LAte!) and was told that i had missed out one of the Dj's 感言in the song. But we had already sent the Cd down for printing and producing...



Sigh. And i'm very thankful to have been given the chance to 亮声in this cd so i'm overwhlemed with gratitude and guilt all at the same time. Its not just this cd but some other thing that happened that makes me feel like a 千古罪人。



I don't have a recording contract, i won't have an album coming out in the stores anytime soon neither do i know if i will ever get the chance in the near future to do so. So i am very very proud of this cd... SO the whole point of this. Is to call out to all of you out there to please help and support this campaign. Its all for a good cause... and i really really hope to see this all turn out successful to redeem myself.



Help me to help me to help the earth to help yourselves?



check out this link : 为地球加油！



In order to get your hands on this single (which i spat blood, dropped tears, racked brains, almost murdered carrie to produce)... you need to do your part for mother earth by recycling old newspapers and bottles and cans!



Either: 10kg of old newspapers/old clothes

Or: 50 drink cans/plastic bottles/glass bottles



With the collected recylable items...money will be raised and will then be passed on the charity beneficiaries... (oh and you'll get a reusable bag as well as the very very valuable single which i spat blood drop tears, dripped sweat...ah you get the point.)

So start keeping all your old recyclable stuff today!

Do spread this message to your friends out there! Any effort is greatly greatly appreciated... SIGH. That's all for now then... woah third post for the day.

I am very very inspired and very very emo. SIGH.

Self-Encouragment and Motivation

I'm someone who can't accept failures easily. Which is bad. Which means i take very long to pick myself up again... and often. I need like the whole world to give me a pat on the back and tell me "its ok" before i can get on again.

However, the good thing about me, is that after i get on, i tend to forget about such things very easily. Until.... I repeat my mistakes again. Shit shit shit.

I am super careless. I don't think i'm dumb. Just very careless. From my first mathematics test till working here at mediacorp. I'm still careless. Shit shit shit.

Anyhow, i read xieshun's blog just now...(while waiting anxiously for an important email to arrive. so i'm not slacking ok.) And he's very cute... he had a blog entry that said "I will i will i will" Its an attempt to WILL himself to be punctual for his classes...

Very good. I think i shall attempt that here in my blog too. Here goes.

I will be punctual for work. I will be careful at work.

I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will.

there. type evern more than him so this better work.

As an ending note... i hope my dance yesterday at the charity show brought your homes laughter. haha... it sure brought guffaws and belly rubbing laughs to my aunty and uncles' homes. I think my mum was just shocked for words. Hahaha... Sigh, have a good day peeps, and keep my day in prayer if you can. Boss, don't be angry and please give me another chance.

Bad day at work

My day today started off badly. Was really late for work. Hai. Really bad at waking up in e mornings... And when i came to work all apprehensive and guilty. I found i had even worse stuff waiting for me... Did something wrong at work, so now i'm trying to make up for it. Seems a bit hard though, have never seen my boss so angry. I feel kinda stupid. And a little hungry... Ha so i'm thankful for e sandwiches. Very sweet. :) thank you!..

Harry Potter and the curse of "muffin tops"
(inspired by the recent 8days cover of Radcliffe)

You know what's the downside of being in this industry?

There are so many things you need to keep up with! YOu need to keep up with style and fashion... and you need to make sure while you're doing that your wallet doesn't go flat and broke. And while all that is going on, you gotta try to remain/become thin. And also convince yourself that being short can sometimes be a really good advantage(although stats prove otherwise. I think Ezann has great potential...but she always ends up with cutey youngish roles. Wasted la.)



Need to try to lose a few pounds before the SPD show this sunday. Haha... I've put on quite a bit of weight since the grand finals. Gotta try to lose a little bit just in case i look like a blob on television alongside the nice longish, tallish, curviyish female artistes on Sunday. Hahaha...

This dance doesn't require too much force or energy...it requires skill, flexibility and alot of FEEL.

Neither of which i think i have achieved. My boss, my aunty, my mum have all had a good chuckle from the picture of us in dance poses on ..."Xin Ming wan bao"? My mum says i look stiff and weird. My boss cannot imagine doing such a girly dance..... My aunty just can't wait to laugh her socks off at me i think.(but i know she'll call the hotline to donate...)

Think its going to be quite an experience. Oh boy oh boy. And we'll be wearing tight tight stuff. Tight. Real tight, which explains the last minute ditch attempt at trying to shed a bit of my "muffin tops" ...hee hee hee. Quite futile actually, but at least i feel as though i've tried.

Lunch today was good. Mussels Vongole, a bit of carrie's fish and chips, some of Huiwen's fettucini and a nice portion of Boss' Lamb chops. Yummay.

Ooooops.

Watched Harry Pot yesterday...a little bit disappointing. There wasn't really a climax to the movie. But i think it was already a job well done... "Order of the phoenix" is possibly the LOR-SOH-est of the Harry pot books. So it must have been really hard to translate it to the big screen in 2 and a half hours.

Think the script writers must have read the book over and over... you know. With certain lines highlighted in different colours, and pencil markings all over. Very much like our textbooks. Haha.. That must take all the joy out of reading the book man.

Ah well, I'm very tempted to re-read the book though cuz i found myself very lost during the movie yesterday. Had to keep turning to the side to ask my cousin "eh, who is that ah?" and "why does voldemort need the prophesy huh?".

Maybe after SPD on sunday... then i'll have time to chew up the book.

Jiastin Harnee is flying back to West Point tomorrow. Sigh.. Sorry i haven't got more time to spend with you! But i'm really happy you always make it a point to come back and visit! Thank you!!!!! I will.... TRY to write. Heh heh heh.

And to dear Audrey, I'll see you tonight!

p.s will be on "good morning singapore" tomorrow morning at 7.30am. Pray my face doesn't look like a swollen tomato with slits for eyes tomorrow... haha...I'm craving for a get-away....HK,Aussie, Japan...Genting?

Today's sudden random thought of e day.

When i was young... I always had an ambition to either become a plain clothes super seh police woman or become a fire woman. As i was walking along e corridor today... I suddenly hoped for a chance to act as super seh police woman in some drama. Ha... Just a thought. Sigh. Oh and if you could peeps, leave me messages under e 'comments' link under each post? That way you can type more and i can read more too! :)

Memories...

I have a favourite pastime. A rather stupid bo liao pastime... haha.

I like to google people's names.

I googled my brother's before and found his name appearing on some RJ website that named him as one of their 57 top scholars of the year and also one of the names on some NASA satellite dish that was sent to space(?!??). And then when i googled mine... i realised mine was on that dish too. AHhaha...

I once googled another friend's name and found that she had previously joined some Mediacorp competition that required her to do tough sports. HAhaha... and it even had a picture of her in a swimsuit looking all garang!

So i say, i have this weird pastime which can be actually rather fruitful.

Which leads me to this post... I ended up in our old PSS2 website.
And ended up watching the videos of our times in superstar... those that rosemary and team spend countless sleepless nights working on.

I watched the final portion when the results was announced, and watched myself tear and eventually break down while thanking all my supporters.

This is the first time i'm watching this. Ever since the Grand finals... I've never actually sat down and took a look at my performance from a third person's perspective. Haha... Weird right. Even during the competition... i never looked back very much at my own performances. Maybe i was a little afraid... because i think i'm my worst critic.

but after watching scenes after scenes of happy people poking fun at each other...scenes of me and daren practising backstage, jabbing fun at each other...carrie yeo being her silly self...Veron saying she thinks i'll win while daren stands beside(big eyed!) haha... and finally watching my own thank you speech.

I started crying. IN THE OFFICE.

aRGH! I am a cry baby. But i really miss those times... it was all worth while.

THank you all for those moments.

Thank you sheila my besty partner for always sending me those sweet sms-es! I miss you too!

Thank you Daren for being the best competitor i could ever have and the not so good daddy to me (because you still haven't brought me to macdonalds... -_-")

Thank you Lingyi for being so talented! (I'm always amazed by your creativity and talents... and at the same time so DAMN PROUD that you were once my junior!)

Thank you Shiyu... just for being Shiyu. Don't give up ok! I know i'm quite the MIA kinda person right now... but no matter what, I'll always support you in all your music endeavours!

Last but not least, Carrie Yeo. For being that mature, intelligent, experienced and extremely forgetful guardian angel to me. Always helping me out with my performances and taking care of me...

and of course, all of you. My fans, my friends, er... foes. haha, thank you all. Weee!

Harry Potter tonight! I can't wait!

Let's go green!

Today marks e beginning of a nation wide world wide campaign to saving our mother earth, and in fact our own asses. Ha... So i and carrie decided to do our part in this campaign by wearing green today! Actually i think its really important. We don't have to do too much. Just a little bit, like urn of e lights when you're not using them... Reuse plastic bags or better still don't use plastic bags. Capital 95.8 is also playing their part to raise awareness and I had the honour to sing and co-produce a theme song that 95.8 will be using to promote e campaign. Yay! Not easy but definitely a good experience for me... Hopefully it turns out good! The song will also have the dj's voices... So its a whole stations' effort. We will be producing 3000 singles and giving them out free at spc... So do give your support! Pick up e cd and wear green! Help yourself by saving e earth ya...?

If only you knew...

Don't.
jump to conclusions if you haven't been in our shoes, been there or done that.

Don't.
claim to know the competition better than any of us.

Please Don't.
say Zijie is using any of us to garner votes.

Thank you "hey diya!" for bringing this up... =) this post isn't directed at you but directed at anyone else who might feel the same way as you do.

If you only you guys knew... but no matter what i say, what i do. Somehow it'll never be enough to prove it to you. Who's using who? If you look at it the other way... I've also had people leaving stuff on my tagboard telling me that me and carrie are just using zijie to stay in the news.

Haha, kinda ironic how this world works.

During PSS2, we had people throwing criticisms at both me and carrie saying we used each other to garner votes. And now, you peeps think Zijie's using us... IF ONLY YOU KNEW.

HOw much love we shower on him, how much expectations we place on him, how much effort we put it in helping him with his studies and helping him to simply pursue a dream.

IF ONLY YOU KNEW.

HOw much he helped us during our journey in PSS2, how much time and effort and money he spent helping me with organising my friends and family members who gathered week in and week out for my recordings.

IF ONLY YOU KNEW.

How many of you who put in the effort and sacrifice to vote for the person you support? So i say if you're just a bystander, standing on the sidelines lamenting how much better YOU would be doing if you were in the competition and how sucky it is that this particular person has got in with his unscrupulous ways. I only have 4 words for you.

IF-ONLY-YOU-KNEW.

Zijie does his best on stage. True, he might not have done well this week... but why don't you give him another chance based on his past performances. The week where he got 22 points, higher than even marcus or shawn(the top favourites). I'm proud of him. Which is why i voted for him, like mad. And i'm not afraid to admit it. I'm proud of it.

He told me before not to waste my money on voting for him, but i remembered something helena once told me, the week i said the same thing to my friends ...

"You play your part and do your best on stage, and we'll play our part and be the best friends we can be, which is to vote for you."

I voted. Did you?

我觉得。。。很骄傲。。。认识了饶梓杰。梓杰加油！不用管别人怎么说！只要对得起自己，对得起一直默默支持你的朋友，的fellow contestants，就不会有遗憾。

thank you ting, ivon, lucas...each and everyone of you for defending Zijie. 我相信大家的眼睛是明亮的，看得出水值得去支持，谁不值得去支持。

its not like you don't have a choice. HOWEVER, if really there are people who support zijie just because they support either me or carrie, i am truly honoured and thank you all for giving zijie a chance.

and hope this clears up any misunderstanding.... i only have thank you, and just thank you left to say. SO.... thank you. Without all of you, i don't think any of us could have made it this far anyway. Thank you for watching us perform.... it means the world to us, even if you don't make a choice and vote. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Cheers.