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2006-03-10T06:27:00.000-08:00

Practically nearly the entire horse community should know this by now, bobby died. It;s sooooo saadddd WHY did he have to go ? he was one of the best school horses that saddle club ever had, no other horse could replace that wonderful smooth, comfy ride. I mean know saddle club would never be the same without him. That grumpy old boy who made fences when you approached him in the stable. Who was the perfect angel to ride........ * sigh * I didn;t know the last time i rode him would be the last time i would. Then again you never realise the last time you would see or do something. Like Sentosa riding centre, the first place i learned to ride properly i didn;t know the last time i would ride at that place, i never really got to say goodbye, though i did come back after it had closed down and the horses were for sale. Or the last time i would see my old school at Thomson, i simply rushed off never realising it would be the last time i would ever see the school again. Such things............ time can only heal the wounds..... what we have to do is grieve his loss and remember him.
It would definetely be a gross insult if his body was chopped up manged and served to the carnivores at the zoo....... i hope that he is buried or cremated and his ashes kept somewhere special were ppl and can go and remember him, remember what a great school pony he was.

RIP Bobby you will be forever missed

2006-03-01T02:08:00.000-08:00

For some reason, the last two lessons, horses have been good to me ( well in the walk and trot anyway )
I had smint on tues, he was surprisingly good when i got on him to start warming up. He actually did everything i asked him to do and even was nicely rounded and collected for the most part of the lesson. Except that the pace was a little slow. As well as little fits of rage he kept throwing at me when i asked him to do something non-textbook or orthodox like suddenly turning a 10m circle into a turn to the track on the opposite side. He would swing his quarter violently to the side and buck or just stop and buck. Either way he would be rewarded with a tight slap from my pathetic, tassleless,handicapped-looking, cane-for-the-blind looking white whip as well as a good shove in the ribs.
Other than that ( except the canter ) he was a complete angel.
In the canter, he tried a skip-t0-my-lou, neither-here-nor-there canter which was sooo annoying. He refused to canter properly for long stretches at a time. In the end i never did get him to canter properly for one full 20m circle. The skip-to-my-lou canter reigned supreme, and failed to please the rider and instructor.

2006-02-24T07:04:00.000-08:00

Oatie was SOOO good with me today !!! when kath told me i was taking her i was like " Oh nooooooo that nightmare ride !" why couldn;t i have taken someone else ??
To my utter surprise she was a ANGEL ! she did everything i asked her to do i was bloody pleased with her ! We worked on flexing and getting the horses rounded by squezing outside rein and leg, oatie got on the bit !! or at least it seemed for the most part of the lesson. Which was mostly in a 20m circle at E , I think she;s just super MOODY

Had like 2 CAs in a ROW bio and Geog , i was exhausted by then, but had an INTERESTING history lesson ! i always find learning history really fun and NOT boring at all....
Erghh gotta study LOADS this yr, we have SOOO many tests ! O levels !

2006-02-22T00:49:00.000-08:00

One thing that i have now come to realise about riding, i mean i knew that i occurs in my chosen sport ( sadly ) Snobbiness it; soooo annoying !!! people can be so condescending and rude sometimes and such busibodies ! ok now please accept the fact that there are people not as lucky as well off as you and don;t look down on them, didn;t anyone teach them good manners ??

Like the fact that not everyone can make it to a JC doesn;t give you the authority to see them in a different light, just because they perhaps go to a Poly or something SO WHAT ??? in the end a person with a poly diploma can still go out to get a degree or even further on to a masters or PhD ! In the end when we go into the working world does it matter ?? Like if you bomb in A levels and can;t go anywhere and try to work or a person who has a Poly diploma, who would an employer most likely hire ? A skilled worker or a person with just a general education ? i think the former.

ERGHHH

2006-02-17T03:14:00.000-08:00

GOT SOOO SOAKED IN THE RAIN today !!!
Rode for `10 minutes in the POURING rain !!! well at least i got to canter bobby. I was leadfile you see. We did serpentines mostly, the first time i did i thought i TOTALLY screwed it up. But actually it was correct i had the turns at the correct places and sue actually paid attention to me ! It was quite a good lesson in spite of the rain which just got heavier and heavier, then the thunder came i felt bobby spook slightly so i slowed him to a walk. Sue told then told us to stop and dismount to lead the horses back to the stable. LOL it was a good thing me dawn and vivienne had the foresight to wear dark colours ! kath unfortunately didn't and was soaked in white ( thankfully nothing could be seen ) After untacking bobby , the three us trooped as fast as we could to the changing rooms . We gave dawn her present ! it was a really HILARIOUS horsey book called Hold your Horses. SOOO FUNNY only horse people would understand !!

2006-02-13T02:13:00.000-08:00

Racism in Singapore, do we talk about it ? or do we even want to talk about it ?
It still exists in tiny pockets, snippets of conversation, even well-meaning-would-never-hurt-a-fly people are racist. Don;t disagree that people aren't racist

while it is easy to simply gloss over the, often-thought factor that Singapore is very racially friendly, it's is not. It may seem that way on the surface but That are small cracks. They may be small and still rather undectable but still prominent and could well someday blow up into something bigger or disastrous. I myself am not racist, I don’t judge people by their skin colour, however there are people around me who do. I have no qualms about dating a person of another race, I have done so in the past. However I would have objections if it were a different religion such as Islam or Hindiusm as I am a catholic but only if these relationships became very deep and serious.
I think that people should be more tolerant of other people’s races and religions. Before critizicing people of another race we should stop and think, would we like the same thing to be done to us ? How would a Christian like it if a non-christian blasphemed or laughed or made fun of his or her faith ? If so, who are we to question or laugh at others’ beliefs ? It is all just due to a lack of understanding and respect for others. So before you decide to crack another stupid racist joke, stop and think would you like people to make fun of and ridicule your skin colour or faith ?

2006-02-11T01:35:00.000-08:00

I had a GOOD lesson friday........ arrived at saddle club quite early, though i was disappointed i didn;t get to stay long in school to see my friends get their results. I wish i had covered the event !!!!!

I was on bobby, kath on songlka and dawn on you-know-who ( we are on) Sue had a nice challange for us, try and keep a stone between your boot and stirrup ( under the boot ) It was actually easier for me then for anyone else !! cos bobby is sooo obedient! Even sue called me Little miss perfect ( harhar) though i lost in the canter or rather asking him to canter. It is a good excercise to strengthen lower leg which i need !

Kath fell of Songkla too, he suddenly took off and she fell ( second fall ) luckily nothing happened to her.

After riding rushed to Four seasons for the canadian study fair, i'm thinking oafter O levels to go to canada to study........ probably do Tourism and hospitality management

Its four in the afternoon
I'm on a flight leaving LATrying to think about my life
My youth scattered along the highway
Hotel rooms in headlights
I've made a living with a song guitar as my companion
Wanting desperately to be belong
Fame is filled with spoiled children
They grow fat on fantasyI guess that's why I'm leaving
I crave reality

2006-02-07T03:27:00.000-08:00

I was originally supposed to be riding SMint, yeah i did ride him. He was terrible in the beginning, utterly refusing to trot. So i let Kath take him and i got on watercolours who was umm no better sadly. Or maybe it;s jus me being a crap rider.

In the end, once i got her going she was ok. But i could NOT get her to canter at all !!!!!!!! mares, ( ergh ) The last 15 mins we did drill rides, it was quite fun actually, must have been cool to watch as well.Though it wasn;t entirely perfect.

2006-02-04T08:44:00.000-08:00

Celebrated Shu ping's b'day at her hse with joyce her bf ( from my church but i never know him ) and ant ( i was invited to her hse for a birthday dinner ) we went out to watch a movie before that, watched Fun with dick and jane was quite funny !!! Had a cool time at her hse, had dinner and fooled around in the park.
Ok Self-awareness canp. My hope is that whatever we've planned to do during the camp will carried out and wouldn;t go to a waste. It was really really good. One of the first sessions was values. Everyone had to list out 12 things that were of value to them. Then dwindle it down to 2, and then everyone including the teachers had to talk about these two values. ALMOST everyone cried ! i did. Since our class is rather disunited we were made to tackle the problem head on and really change to get away from our cliques and talk to others. So during mealtimes no-one was allowed to sit in their cliques. At night i played truth or dare for the first time in my life ! ( ok i know that sounds sad ) it was fun !!!!! saesha did a dare that i can;t mention here , all i can say this it involves a dog and a pregnancy hotline. But it was sooooo baddd !!!!!1 and soo funny ! i also discovered stuff about people that i NEVER expected or knew ! so it was a good experience for me. Ppl also found out stuff they never expected to come from me !

Now something that i;ve learnt about myself how i think i've now grown and matured more as a person. Last time i used to get filthy upset whenever i thought about myself not having a boyfriend and really longing and wanting one , well perhaps cos people around me had so it was peer pressure. Now , i feel i;m fully contented with being single for now, i don;t stress about it even more. Now that i;ve had 2 relationships i feel i can learn from it, i know what a relationship invloves and that i don;t think at the moment it;s what me or my parents can handle, at least for this yr ( next yr i;m going to allow myself to date ) and i know i shouldn;t have a bf just for the sake of having one, why search for love outside the home when i have love right here at home ? Ok although after the truth or dare session i've had regrets abt not having enough , well action if u know what i mean ,with my exes ( when i was together with them lah ! ) but i dun really mean to go so far as to do anything sexual at all ! ok i suppose not like i haven;t kissed before. But well now there is nothing i can do abt that so i;ll jus accept it.

One day, i;ll eventually have a happy, allowed, meaningful, loving , wonderful , understanding, caring relationship with a someone i can be with for a long time.

2006-01-29T03:00:00.000-08:00

Last night was Fuuun........ i didn;t really expect it to be that interesting but it was.
Went for the annual tower club dinner with my grandparents, i wore a white , floral-print top with a golden-orange tube top inside and white skirt, the same thing i wore the neighbours son's wedding a few weeks ago. We didn;t dine on the usual floor, we also noticed that there were a lot of people loitering around, turns out Lee Kuan yew and his ENTIRE family including the prime minister were having dinner there ! So we were ushered into a small glass panelled lift to take us to the bar floor by this Photographer guy ( if you ask me he looked kinda hot and cute and the same time) The bar floor had a jazzy feel about it, the walls were all brownish and boxes of big cuban cigars were in enclosed in glass cabinets. We sat at a table at the end of the room , the first dish usually the one with the vegetable and raw fish wish needs to be tossed was different this year. If you ask me it tasted a lot nicer than last year, everyone gave me their raw fish.
Usually a highlight of the tower club dinner for me and my sister is to use the bathrooms there !! it is like the HIGHEST CLASS toilet i;ve seen ! ( ok maybe it pales slightly in comparison to the one at the fullerton ) they have sinks in the toilet cubicles !! monogramed towels and mouthwash ! last yr my sis dared me to use the mouthwash ! two words " never again " it's too disgusting ! even a mint-lover like me has her limits !
So this year i dared pamela to do it ! anyway the toilet on the bar level was less grand and didn not have sinks in the stalls. But it still had monogramed towels and mouthwash. Ha ! pam couldn;t STAND the mouthwash !!!
When we came back we decided to take photos of each other on the couches nearby, i have a real problem with flash and the place was quite dimly lit so we had to use this special feature which allows you to take photos in dimly lit areas without flash but you have to hold the camera for 12 seconds. I;ll upload the photos by tmr evening promise. There was one which someone said made me look like a seductress or something but it got deleted.

After dinner we went back to the same floor that we had to take the lift from and saw a bunch of people in the lounge area ! a man in a bright red top was walking around i peered more closely, eek ! it was the prime minister !! So we quickly took the lift back down to the first floor so as to avoid the HUGE entourage that would follow later ! we went down, wow there were at least 3 cars in the porch area with up to 5 or 6 secret service agents walking around, we HOPED the valet would drive faster to get us the car before the entourage came down. In the end we were in the car when we saw LKY and his wife get into his car. My parents commented on how frail Mrs lee looked.
We decided to take a walk along clarke quay, at first i wasn;t that keen but it turned out to be bettet than i thought. We parked near the nightclub Ministry of Sound it wasn;t like super packed. There wasn;t even very long line to get in. ( from october 2007 it'll be legal for me ) There was soo much life and energy walking along clarke quay !! plenty of pubs and bars were open i should definetely come here someday with my friends. We went to watch people on the G-force bungee ! it looke QUITE scary !!! i think i would go on for a dare or if someone paid me a large sum of money ! Later me and father walked ahead, my sister and mum and grandparents then caught up. The monkeys had been reading dirty jokes of a screen at the crazy elephant bar ! imagine YOUR GRANDPARENTS ENJOY DIRTY JOKES !!!!!!!!!!!!! aparently they got it faster than my mum did ! lol that tells you a lot.... Want me to elaborate on somke jokes mentioned ? thought not ok moving on !

We finally reached home at like midnight i was so dead tired i just went up to my room , changed and collapsed on the bed.

2006-01-20T02:07:00.000-08:00

Ha !! yay !!! joining POLO CLUB !!!!!! at LONG last !!! yahoo ! Ok got that out of my system...... I'm just soo happy !! ( maybe can learn to play polo hehehe )

I'm sorry that i hurt you
I took for granted all that u gave so freely to me
I pray it's not too late
To save me from a broken heart
To promise you i'll make a brand new start
Don't leave me when i say that You're all that i need
The treasure that seek, the air that helps me breathe
I fall down on my kness, i was blind but now i see
You're all that i need
I know i'm far from perfect
Like a child who needs a guiding hand can you stay here with me
I finally understand you've always been the missing part to complete the jigsaw puzzle of my heart
Please hear me when i say
You are all that i need the only treasure that i seek
The air that helps me breathe,
through the darkest night when i fall down on my knees
i was blind but now i see
You are all that i need,
please let me hear your voice again
Let me hear you say your love will never end
that whatever it takes u'll b there
Cos You are all that i need

2006-01-12T01:35:00.000-08:00

Ok it has been called to my attention that i haven;t been updating and therefore i have to.......

Excpet i;ve run out of things to say..... things to blog abt exactly ? School ? a big sodding rush around, trying to find the correct room and more often than not coming in late , thank you homeroom system. but i have to admit it's pretty darned fun ! And having your own locker and all...... erghh sec 4 year........ i'm already scared........ O's in like 11 months time that is just 44 weeks away or maybe slightly less than that.
My horselife ? could be better but there are somethings beyond my control. Like no more lessons on sundays !( poor dawneh ) and least i ride on tues and work at RDA on saturdays ( it;s my saving grace ) and i hope my father agrees to get the paperwork ready so we can join the polo club.

2006-01-03T03:32:00.000-08:00

First day of school today, i walked in alone and stood around in the canteen till i saw someone familiar and willing to talk to me. Finally kath come, she told me how she had her first fall ( about time !!!) fell off pip as we walked up to the hall. There i found my class 4/9, and jo and val and shu ping, grace was no where to be seen. Sat in front of stephanie and we had assembly....... shit now the song don;t funk with my heart is so intuned in me such that i can;t play the bloody song without thinking of IAG ( whereupon i had to get up on stage and dance to it ) anyway........ irrelevant ! found out who our form teachers where , ours was Mag Low, everyone was a bit shocked. She saw my belt and was like " too loose !" i was " What the......?" anywhow after sitting through some more talks by the teacher and principal we made our way into the canteen for some " explore the school " game. I jus sat and read my book.

Then came recess, bought some chilli macaroni and cheese which wasn;t terribly nice and joined the 3-mile long drink stall queue. After recess we where shunted back up to the hall and then shown to the courtyard for " assembly Simulation " standing in the hot sun in wierd slanted alignments. Finally we where shown to our Homerooms, mine is G404, Gabriels block, 4th floor, room 4. It was spacious and airy, sat next to stephanie. Then we where given our timetables. Got same teachers for accounts, physics and history, the rest where changed.
Still haven;t fully explored the school yet though....... then we had to go back to the hall for some cheers with the prefects, sorry Councilors now. Damned boring and no-one was in the mood to cheer.

Riding at polo club, was half-bad half-good. I was ons smint, he was a devil in the beginning, determined to give me a hard time and refusing to go near the ground poles laid out. Finally Tommy got on him and straightened him out. He was quite ok after that, but he did run away with me twice, once spooking at some creaking sound and the other i dunno why.......

2005-12-18T06:05:00.000-08:00

Woo hoo !!!!! WOOOT !!!!! got my boots today ! FINALLY they fit PERFECTLY yipee ! finally my first pair of long boots ! Soo happy........

Anyway today went to saddle club after spending the day out shopping at isetan, ( courtesy of free vouchers ) Got a black skirt from mango and a tank top.
I've had such a BUSY week !!!!!! mon-thurs i had the " I'm gifted so are you " course it;s REALLY REALLY GOOD i highly recommend to those who, well aren't doing as well as they should be in, academics or in like the way they seem themselves ( eg low self esteem ) It was INTENSE 8am-11.30pm for those 4 days, but SUPER Fun at the same time ! It's soo great to see how everybody changes sooo much during the camp, we all come out of it with a more positive outlook towards ourselves , the sort of " I can handle anything thrown at me " kind of feeling or the feeling of Empowerment , that you can ACHEIVE anything you set your mind to. I HOPE that comes true for me ( fingers crossed )

2005-12-10T18:49:00.000-08:00

Damn depressed........ it's like i try and try to ride to always get a good score in dressage but i always end up with fucking lousy one ...... yes like this time, i have honestly only gotten a score above 55 % once !!! once !!! ( that was probably a fluke 73.33 % 2nd place ) i consistenly get 2nd last or last place I DUN KNOW WHY !!!!!!!!!!!!! i must SUCK as a rider. I mean all the other riders ALWAYS seem to get placed somehow and i don't ! i never do ! Not like i don't try , one of my wishes would just to get placed at the next competition that i enter, honestly i need and want that.

Rushed home after the comp, had lunch and then showered , was late to meet grace, shu ping and anthony in lido. Damn new shoes were killing me, i know they look soooo faaab and all but they frigging hurt !!! Went to watch my FIRST nc-16 movie !!! LEGALLY MUAHAHA , sctually kingdom of heaven was my first.We watched Saw II it;s honestly GRUESOME, bloody but somehow House of wax freaked me out more. I had to stop to buy some plasters, bloody feet were killing me. Then we went to taka, walked around then took the lift up to the carpark level, i think i sort of knew what they were going to to do ( starts with an s and ends with an e ) feeling a little uncomfortable and ( i;m soo out of this ) i told them i would be in the bookstore downstairs, so i went, bought a copy of Practical Horseman. The queue was DAMN long but it didn;t take all that long . THen waddled back slowly to shaw house were i waited for my father to bring me for tennis.

2005-12-08T04:07:00.001-08:00

Found out Mr Ng is leaving IJ, he's just like quietly slipping away, he never told anyone before school closed ! soo sad ! he was a great ss/his teacher. He created a blog for his unborn child, hilarious, lame , but also kinda cool.

I have strangely gotten an attachment to super force ( horse i grazed at riderslodge ) i think it was from grazing him 3 times in a day, dunno now he; s my 3rd fave horse at rl along with diamond and AVC, strangely all geldings. Actually the only mare i like is patch, dun get me wrong i dun discriminate horses colours or breeds or genders ( really stupid to do so ) i mean a judge shouldn;t mark down a pinto horse in a dressage class ! ( i've ridden a pinto pony in a prelim class and got ovedr 70 %) That's jus what i think though it;s really rare to see a pinto horse in like international show jumping or dressage, it's a bit sad but true.
People also say they prefer geldings to mares, but actually i dun really care cos i;ve seen geldings more flighty than some mares, though mares go into season and things there is no reason to discriminate ! So i think it just really boils down to personality, not gender.

Alright so i went a little out of point and carried away sorry........

Ok i think i have finally mastered a GOOD jumping position.

Jumping ! at Pony Club !

2005-12-06T05:47:00.000-08:00

i almost couldn;t believe it myself, but YES we jumped at polo club ! in Zuk's lesson ! The first part of the lesson me and kath could do a self-ride , walking and trotting to warm up. I took Ecce c, acutally jun's ride but she didn;t come so she was free and i wasn;t about to take sam. Kath was riding buckay.

It seemed REALLY tirring to get ecce to MOVE. 15 mins into the ride i was already panting and sweating like a pig. Then Zul put up some poles and we at first attempted to canter over them ( at least i tried ) then he put up a miniature cross pole, ecce just trotted over it happily and zul blamed me for not going into 2-point seat ( jumping position ) Buckay jumps so well, ecce just trots over it when she can !

Then he put up a small vertical about 60cm at least she JUMPED over it. Zul corrected my jumping position, i have to move my hands up and move my legs forward. We jumped it like at least 5 or 6 times !
But i got a feeling this will be like a once-in-ablue-moon sort of thing. Too bad elizabeth and jun missed it !

Comp at RL !!!

2005-12-04T02:53:00.000-08:00

Ok so i didn;t do that well..........
Considering i;ve been riding for 5 yrs...... anyway enough wallowing i did my best either that or my lucky stock.

I rode pip squek for novice 2.1, i didn;t expect to do that well cos i can't like get her on the bit. Her trot is really fast after the canter and when you turn down the centreline it's like bleaghhh bounce bounce bounce.

My next class was jumping , 30-60cm. i was REALLY stressed and nervous for this!!! more than for dressage !! i was jumping AVC, just wanted to finish the course !! it was just a clear round course and........ I GOT CLEAR !!!!!!!! well it wasn;t a perfect clear cos i didn;t go through the cones and had to canter back to them.

The next one was jumping, clear and time 30-50cm. i HOPED to go clear, didn;t though.. he refused 2x at a corner jump and then knocked down the 8th jump. So needless to say i wasn;t in the running at all.

Dressage the next day , i was on AVC for novice 2.2. I stupidly did an extra circle but luckily the judge overlooked it. Got 57.2 %. My last event was prelim 1.2 on buster, i hoped to do well and tried my best..... but only gor 56 %, i hoped to do better but oh well i tried my best ( i didn;t wear my lucky stock )

Nat and annabelle did well, they both won an event. And accumulated like $200 prize money. i only got $25 sing

Then rode sonny for lesson today. Practiced 1.3

2005-11-30T06:49:00.000-08:00

Isn't it strange how, you feel you wanted to hold on to something as long as you could, you felt you would break if you no longer had it, you felt it could just go on forever.
And now, when it;s gone, you've actually lived through the pain and torment, strangely feeling hey, maybe it wasn;t as bad as you thought ( not that it wasn;t easy to forget )You've let it go and, perhaps it wasn;t sooo bad after all. One thing you can think of is it was great while it lasted, such an lasting experience you don;t think you would forget it anytime soon, now there is closure, better than before.

2005-11-27T16:27:00.000-08:00

I rode patch yesterday.... the only problems i face with her are
a) She;s a little small for me
b) She's a terror first 5 minutes

So got on her, walked her forward and then when i try to turn her around a bit she starts bucking ( typical )Dawn rode oatie and the other 3 people for some reason didn;t turn up........
So it was like a semi-private, just 2 riders.We gotup to the arena, warmed up in trot and canter and then practiced the prelim 1.3 test. i sort of remembered some of it but sandra halped me remember it. So the first time i did it it was quite ok, and i did manage to get her on the bit !!! so nicely rounded !!! that is after the first canter and she kept it that way for a while, then her head came up again. Then i went to do it again, this time i managed to keep her sooo well rounded after the first canter again, until the end of the test ! sandra said it was the best she had seen me ride her ( i didn;t say anything about a 73% i had scored with her last yr )
Then got her showered myself and hand grazed for a while before sending her back to the stable. Nat came, so the 3 of us hung around for a while.

2005-11-22T17:39:00.000-08:00

Ok i am such a copycat taking this from dawn's blog but nevermind

Ten years ago i was..........
Graduating from kintergarten

5 yrs ago i.........
Changed schools to IJ Toa Payoh primary from overhyped RGPS, and started riding lessons !!!

1 year ago i
Had to accept the fact that i was getting retained

5 snacks that i enjoy
Umm Cheezels, chicken twisties, apples, cheese and crackers, dark chocolate

5 songs i know all the words to
Katy Rose's i like, aladin's I can show you the world ( i still cringe when i hear it ) Summertime, umm i can;t think of the rest right now !

5 Things i would do with a 100 million dollars......
Buy some horses, donate some of it charity, Buy land and build my own livery yard, Go on a riding vacation in either Mongolia or Ireland or Spain.

5 places i would runaway to
I don;t run away, it doesn;t solve anything

5 things i would never wear
Clothes that would make me look like a bung, a black garbage bag, anything that is TOO revealing, ultra-ultra minis ( YUCK ) bare-midriff tops

5 favourite TV shows
AMazing race, lost, Charmed, Who's line is it anyway, 8 simple rules for dating my teenage daughter

5 bad habits
I have messy handwriting, i'm messy, i procrastinate, biting stationery, Straightening my arms too much when i ride !!!!! honestly i need to ride with a whip stuck between my arms.

5 biggest joys
Having horses in my life, My friends, Family, God, Someone special

5 favourite toys
Don;t really play with toys much now

5 fictional characters i would date
That hott soldier from Mulan ( her love interest i think ) Harry or Ron ( harry for the looks, ron for the humour ) ok... can't really think of anymore

2005-11-22T06:19:00.000-08:00

Heyy sorry i haven't blogged much. I;m writing a story, Angel letters, i;ll post excerpts when i can. Anyway riding today......... I was on buckay.She was really nice in the warm-up did everything i asked. Then when it came to canter, in the beginning she was terrible, refusing to go properly and generally being very irritating. Then zul got on her to school her. Later when i got back on she was a LOT better. I managed to canter her down the ENTIRE long side of the arena ! it was good. Towards the end of the lesson , the girl in the other classin the arena fell off when her horse suddenly bucked. She was howling away.
Then about 5 minutes later, JUn got bucked off Ecceh! she sat on the ground for a long time............ even until the chief polo club instructor saw her and said " Eh ? what you doing there ? sunbathing ? this is not a beach ! get up" she was luckily ok.
Alright now a short excerpt from the story - THis is from the mindset of one of the main characters.

She hadn’t really expected to do well in the Primary School Leaving Examination, at least not this well. But now that she had finally achieved her targeted score of 247 points, she was eligible to apply for Holland Grove Girls’ School, the school she had been secretly aspiring to go to for two years now, since Si Ying…
It just felt so new and fresh to her, something that someone like her would never have the chance to experience. She looked at the starched white and brown uniform, hanging on the rack in the corner of the room. It used to be where her sister would hang the uniform. Gingerly she removed the white blouse from the hanger and put in on, before she slipped on the skirt, zipped it up and secured the buckle. She remembered putting this uniform on before, playing dress-up with her Si Ying’s uniform, how she had wanted to be just like her. She remembered the time Si Ying discovered her wearing the uniform and instead of getting pissed at her, just laughed, for the blouse at the time had been much too big and the bottom of the skirt reached her ankles. She gazed at her reflection in the mirror. She could almost see herself in that too-big uniform and hear the ringing of her sister’s laughter in her ears…
But that was so many years ago. Tears suddenly sprang to her eyes. She wiped them away hastily. No, her sister wouldn’t like to see her getting all upset on her first day of secondary school.

2005-11-16T05:48:00.000-08:00

Heyy sorry for the absence......... jus haven;t felt like bloggin much, spilling my guts out for the world to see,it's a bit like putting your whole self on display for the everyone. Depends on what you blog about i guess, and how as well.

Anyone sooo saaaddd the bangkok trip is over !!! it seemed not long ago we were counting down the days to go and now........ * sighs * oh well that;s life, we never now how quickly it;ll past before you know it you'll be on your deathbed..... ok that was really morbid but it's true.
Ok so how did horses move to death ? enough of that stuff about talking about death it;s a little depressing.

Ok something else, last night i was watching The life of David Gale with my dad, it was about an advocate for anti-capital punishment who ened up on deathrow for rape and murder, the story was about a journalist who was going to write an article about him.
she felt he was guilty at the start but as the story unfolds she throws herself emotionally into what happens in the next four days slowly discovering what REALLY happened. See the guy David;s life was practically falling apart before he even was sent to deathrow. He was falsely accused of rape from one of my students who threw herself onto him then accused him of rape, that cost him his job , his wife also left him and sold the house, there for he became distrusted by many and jobless and homeless, and lost custody of his only son. His friend and colleaugue and also fellow deathwatch member ( the anti-death penalty organisation they both headed ) called constance took him in , she was him good friend.
she was the one found raped and murdered. A video tape was found of her murder, by suffocation. Well the smart journalist managed to uncover the HUGE twist and secret ! ( better than the village ) that * spoiler alert * constance had actually staged her own death, ( she was dying of leukemia actually ) and taped the whole thing with help of yet another member who was following the journalist bitsey when she was investigating the case. She also had david's semen in her as she had consensual sex with him earlier, therefore making it look like a rape. David; fingerprints were on the bag that used to suffocate herself with, he had actually placed his own fingerprints on it purposely ( this you see in a video scene at the end of the film ) So she and david had done intentionally to prove a point that non-guilty " criminals" do get exucuted, there were even willing to sacrifice themselves to the cause, the cause and saving others was more than their lives were worth. Quoting the film " what;s one murder if it saves thousands ?" the video tape constance staging her death was then realised after david's execution.
Quoting my dad " That is something singaporeans would never undertand " sacrifing your life for a cause which you think is greater than your own life, that is something truly great, martyrs.

2005-11-15T00:15:00.000-08:00

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Look at this ! this is joker the pony stallion

this is me riding mescall, my arms shoudl be more bent

2005-11-11T21:40:00.000-08:00

Omg this was SUCH a WONDERFUL GREAT wish-it-would-never-end trip !!!! I thought my riding wouldn;t really improve but i think it did ! i've learned to keep my hands down, sit back more, bend my elbows.
Oh and i rode 2 stallions !!! both pony stallions and grey, both total opposites ! one was REALLY lazy so lazy that if he had been gelded he would have probably be a half-dead dull severely bombproof ( and literally bombproof as in if an explosion went off under his tail he wouldn;t even flinch ) His name is joker and he is only easy to canter from a walk, don;t bother from a trot. The other one was at helena gabrielsson;s yard, his name is chess, he;s 22 and is so sound he can still jump and is really FAST, i um came off him after a jump, leaned too much to one side. Me and nat rode at her yard.

Day 1

2005-11-04T06:57:00.000-08:00

SOrry i haven't blogged a lot recently ! i know i should but........

Ok went out yesterday with annabelle and nat, i actually arrived at lido first, and met shu ping and grace...... Sat down with them for a while waiting for anna and nat to arrive. Talked with them for a while then about 20 minutes later finally met annabelle !!! after soooo looong it is sooooo gooood to see her again !!!!!!!! nat found us about 10 minutes later !
We went to have lunch. ( i had subway) afte rthat we decided to walk to cine to try and catch the 1.45 pm movie but then when we got there they had SOLD OUT !!!!!!! so we had to WALK all the wayy back to lido ( my feet got blisters ) it was good though, we got to talk and bitch it was soo fun!!
We MANAGED to get tickets for the 2.25pm show !! jus in the nick of time ! we then bought popcorn and drinks and made our way into the cinema.
Zorro's horse is sooo amazing !!!!!! he;s sooooo gorgeous ..... all black, long mane........ feathery feet ( drools ...........) It was quite a good movie, loads of sword fighting and Catherine Zeta Jones is sooo pretty ! It was rather long though but never a dull moment .
YAY 2 days left to bangkok ! woo hoo !!!!

2005-10-31T06:35:00.002-08:00

I met Jun at polo club today, we were 1/2 an hr early. Jun said i was on mimo ( again ) she is the horse i have ridden the MOST. I think 8 times or more...... Jun was on cocoa and Elizabeth rode that sam.
We had to ride in RDA again........ we actually wanted to ride outdoors cos it's pretty warm in the RDA arena. But the riders from the tuesday lessons were also having lessons on monday..... so we had no choice. She was ok at first, then started backing up really quickly for no reason, had to put cocoa in front but it didn;t really work. She would still stop and suddenly back up..... annoying. Finally when zul asked me to canter then she stopped doing that and concentrated on trying to buck before the canter. Dunno why she does it....... but i did manage to get her to NOT do it about 3 or 4 times.

2005-10-31T06:35:00.001-08:00

2005-10-27T22:29:00.000-07:00

Hahahah i'm getting promoted !!!!

First found out through Seashaa, she said nat told her tha tALL the retainees were promoted !!! i was like " Oh my gosh.... really ?? " i knew i would get promoted but it wasn't like 100% confirmed yet. So we went down to the canteen hung around for a bit.....Grace wasn't sure if she was going to retain or not....

Finally at about 10.30 miss lim came in to deliver the report books. SHe said that 4 girls would be retained.... 2 girls out on appeal. I went up to miss lim to ask if i passed, she said i did and i would be promoted !!!!!! I was VERY pleased !!! But i couldn;t get my report book back. Stupid me had forgotten to get some form signed in order to get the reporst book back. Like no signature no book. THANKFULLY my mum was coming to fetch me so i could get the form signed so i could get the book. I went to call her to find out if she was on her way and met belle, in fact belle was the one who found out first ! she said she asked how the retaitnees did and it turned out we all managed to go up !!

But.... there would be retainees..... And i think from my experience i can sympathise with them it isn;t easy to leave your class, your friends and leave your comfort zone but perhpas it's for the betteryou never know. For me it was difficult, hell no-one said i would be easy ! i was almost TOO scared to enter to my class on the first day of school

2005-10-23T03:46:00.000-07:00

Riding today was better than i expected. I was on penelope, i thought Shit she;s gonna be a real handful, but surprising i was wrong. She started out ok, then tried to turn in but i PUSHED her out she went out onto the track again and went like an angel. We did trotting poles and then cantering. Dawn was on " pocket-sized " patch ! i think patch is 12 something hands ! that's sooo small compared with penelope who's like supposed to be 14hh !!

The first canter i got was waaay fast i was off the track and going into the middle. So i got that pony out and we got the canter again but on the wrong leg. It felt quite wierd lah..... so i had change got the correct leg and half-halt halft-halt slowed her down nice and steady..... It wasn't that difficult surprisingly......

After the lesson we all went for a hack on the heath track damn fun !!! i haven't gone out for a hack in ages !! me and dawn talked for for a while and she was sooo surprised that the bangkok trip was just 2 weeks away ! that's right 2 weeks ! can't wait

Towards the end of the heath track patch started giving penelope the " evil eye " i steered cleared of patch but i could feel penelope coiling up like spring....... ready to bolt or spook or whatever. Probably cos patch was starting to kick and buck...... i certainly didn;t want penelope to try and dash out on the road !! hello !!! traffic !!! so i kept steering her toward the heath track..... finally she calmed down and i lead her across safely.

Sandra asked me, dawn and surina to lead 3 riders from the next lesson for a walk on the heath track cos she had to change a saddle . So i led sONNY, dawn lead patch. The ride was quite ok, like leading a pony ride a bit !! Finally we handed the riders over to sandra, patch refused to go up to slope to the arenas...... naughtly girl she ALWAYS takes advantage of kid riders ! needs bigger sized riders like me and dawn to tell her who;s boss !

The next best thing to riding !

2005-10-16T21:12:00.000-07:00

It rained sunday afternoon, as a result the 4.45 MOUNTED lesson was cancelled. It was really a little funny, me and dawn saw sandra coming out of the office and i asked " Is the lesson cancelled ?" she replied " You wish ah ! " i quickly fumbled a reply that i had just said it as a cancelled lesson was the worse case scenario. So anyway we were going to watch the farrier work on Hank , he was supposed to apply a poultice. Hank's feet looked quite well terrible, he's flat-footed, normally a horse's hoof in concave, but his was completely flat. He couldn;t even be shod! and he was bruised there so the farrier showed us how to apply a hot poultice. Dipped the poultice bandage in hot water and put it on top of the hoof and bandaged it up, it was to be changed daily.

Later, after the lesson, the 5.30 lesson didn;t go out as well so sandra was teaching them about feed. All the feed was in the buckets, chaff and bran. They have PINK electrolytes ! strawberry flavoured ! then i followed them to go and feed the horses hay. We pushed a trolley along to feed them we were GODs to them !!! all soo impatient to get their feed ! we wher like soo powerful ! I got to feed biscuit boy hay since he;s my fave. It;s sooo satisfying to see them eat...... but we left a " trail of destruction " in the yard !! hahahah hay everywhere !!

2005-10-15T18:39:00.000-07:00

Ok this is a little excerpt of something i wrote, not sure how to continue it

She could feel the swish of the wind, her hands buried in the warm mane of her beloved horse, she dropped the reins and leaned up his grey. She felt like jockey in a race. She whispered in his ear " Faster boy, faster" and immediately she felt him lenghten his stride, she lauaghed rejoicing in the cool, salty breeze and occasional splashes of seawater. She could ride like this all day

How did you find this ? any ideas how to continue ?

2005-10-12T03:00:00.000-07:00

MY EXAMS ARE OVERRRRR muahahaha
Sorry i jus had to say that to all of you who doing O levels...........

Report of ride yesterday
Horses: Smint ( me riding ) Mimo ( jun riding ) Cabriole ( Elizabeth riding )

Smint- The male version of mimo, bucks like her ( more though ) Not as fast as her. He was ok, excpet whenit came to canter. He bucked when i asked to move off onto the track, his canter is bouncy, mimo's is nicer.......
I didn;t want to get thrown off him as he bucking so f***ing much i decided to stop after going 2x on both reins. He was seriously starting to scare me.......

Ok onto today !
Bought the book, The Fourth Queen, and got a new pair of blue jeans and a brown top and some mascara. Now i'm just RELAXING at home..... gonna go out jogging soon....... gotta start working out again.........

2005-10-09T20:04:00.000-07:00

I had oatie on sunday........... The beginning of the lesson was spoiled by a large group of IGNORANT people ............... I was walking oatie up the heath track toward paradise and there was this golden retriever off leash and running around barking at the horses !!! oatie stopped...... her ears all pricked..... and she was snorting a bit , i CERTAINLY DIDN:T want her to spook !!!! they didn;t even bother to put the damn dog on a lead !!! could have scared songlka who was in the lesson as well !!! it was SCARY . That;s NOT all, later we were walking round to warm up in the arena and MORE people came with MORE dogs offleash !!! what;s more ( here;s the kicker ) a dog even wandered into the arena where we riding in !!!!!!!!! Could having f***ing scared the shit out of the horses ! and caused mayhem!!! So damn inconsiderate !!! dogs aren;t even allowed off-leash at btsc!! and they were not even members ! i'm surprised sandra didn;t give them a good shelling for that........ i would have...... then again they ARE ignorant........ but that;s NO excuse for endangering rider's lives !!!

Others can streaming across the pathway and some stopped and stared at us for a while before walking off, after 15 minutes they were all gone .

Sandra put two poles parellelly down the centreline, we had to trot, and then canter on a chosen lead by the time we exited the small tunnel she had create with the poles. Oatie was good, she ACTUALLY did canter on a straightline SOME of the time ! i was quite happy. Then we did walk to canter, only directly got it once, the rest it was like Walk-two strides of trot-canter

2005-10-07T05:26:00.000-07:00

2 papers left.................
I was totally resting today, did zero work at all....... but went out shopping before coming back for lunch...... i gotta do my bio and f****ing accounts, maybe i shouldn;t have taken accounts, no wait..... i had no choice.

If i fail i;m gonna fail out of IJ into god know;s where...... wish me luck

2005-10-05T04:14:00.001-07:00

Ok people .......... New blogskin !!! Ok it;s gonna take me a while to get everything up and running again ( links, tagboard ) but pls be patient it will be all done by the 14th of oct i promise !

Ok this new blogskin is a sweet 16th birthday to myself !! ( ok that sounded lame but i don;t care )

2005-10-02T21:37:00.000-07:00

Hey all............. I've been super stressed and busy cos of the m*****f****ing exams sorry about that......... Jus had to get it out of my system.............

Ok now that i'm done with that let's move on to horses !i was soo stupid !!! i took out bobby instead of taking out biscuit to ride !! I read the board wrongly and thought that i was supposed to ride bobby ( it was only when i was mounted that i realised the mistake )
Biscuit was pretty good yesterday. When i led him out he was DEAD slow even with taps from whips. Undersaddle in the trot he was fine ! and he's sooo responsive and obedient ! ( if only every horse were like him ) In the canter he did go a bit fast , sandra kept telling me to " Steady, whoa " use more outside rein. But he was quite ok, very forward though.

2005-09-29T02:39:00.000-07:00

I really don;t see why soooo many btsc horses have to be put down....... They are strong, healthy not-too-old............. * sighs * Well maybe duck cos he is 27 but Aeoulis ?? He's in good shape and he;s fine to ride ! Alberts nice too, dunno why all the older horses have to be put to sleep !!! What;s wrong with them ?

Ok i'm ranting........ anyhow i gtg and get back to the stupid World of diplmacy and deterrence in Social Studies and the " Industrial Development " *yawns * bye all

2005-09-28T02:20:00.000-07:00

The band Ronin came to my school today...... Last thing you would expect, a rock band in my convent girl's school !!!!!! At first it was a little well shocking but REALLY entertaining and cool !!! I want to get their album. Ok i sound impressionable and irritating but heck care...........

My clique abandoned me........ but i stayed behind to listen......... it's sooo rude to just sit or walk out ! Sara had to interview the band later so i decided to stay to help her. Must say they are VERY entertaining to watch !!! Great stage presence !!! got me hooked . I want to get the cd .........

After the performance me and sara TRIED our hardest to try and get an interview, there were girls everywhere getting autographs and stuff ....... i got one too !
We finally got an interview with vocalist Levan and guitarist Sean Cheng

When did you come together to form a band ?- End of 2002, Were all from Victoria school

What inspires their music and lyrics ?- Overcoming obstacles in life, never giving up on your dreams

Advice to asprising bands in Singapore ? - Work really hard !

Plans for the future ? - To tour overseas next year , Malaysia, Thailand, maybe Australia.

2005-09-24T19:37:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was soooo fun !!!!!

Ok went for RDA in the morning and then walked to school for maths remedial until 12 , it was quite a productive 2 hr session.

Went home for lunch ( chicken rice ) and then studied till 3, actually supposed to leave by 3 but got delayed. Changed into blue tank top, blue knitted cardi and black jeans. Arrived at church 40 minutes late .......... but we had like 3 free hours till 6 Elizabeth was there ! hadn't seen her in ages ! Vanessa, Chriselle, george, Peter, julian, Sondra , christine and Kristy and Andy were all there ! It was really fun sitting around " talking trash " as Julian would put it ! we were supposed to be hosting the 6pm mass and singing in it, Christopher and Andrea were both lectors.
We went in to try practicing at abour 4 something but it was problem with the seating arrangement, no-one wanted to sit in the front ! We finally went outside for a while cos the primary 2 catchecism were practicing for first holy commuinion. So we sat around " talking trah " for 15 minutes before going back in for REAL choir practice , this time people had already started to arrive.
I think i rather liked singing in the choir, it was pretty enjoyable , for me at least.

Singing in the choir during mass was a whole new experience for me ! i saw mass from a whole new perspective i must say i would do it again no questions asked ! ( julian was probably the only person lip-synching the whole way through *tsk * *tsk * ) It was probably the most enjoyable mass i had in a while. Most people from the entire sec 4 patch came. Nathania came !!! so did lynsey ! ( she joined the us in the choir )

Haha , jus a thought, must have been really wiered to see the entire choir hugging each other at the " peace be You " but that;s just what we do !
After mass, talked to nathania for a while ! i was soooo glaaad to see her !!!! exchanged numbers with her and elizabeth ( elizabeth somehow found my blog..... through dawn ..... RGSS ) After mass also saw jevon.

Decided to go out for dinner with Chriselle, Andrea, vanessa and george, we crossed illegally all the way to the bustop near gallop gables to take a bus to Holland Village for dinner , I hadn;t visited Holland village for a while........ it had changed ....... somewhat.The magazine stands were not as great as before..... i couldn;t find all the magazines i was looking for . Anway i was terribly low on cash i had a $2 and a heck of a lot of coins. We decided to go to Thai express for dinner, me and chriselle shared a dish in the end. This was the first time i actually went out with friends......... at night ! ok maybe not counting EVENING but that was for IJ hearbeat. It was pretty ok although the 3 girls were all SCGS so me and george were a little out of place. It was cool though.
At about 9 we decided to head back, i walked out to the cold storage to wait, on the way out i was a corgi puppy .

Finally went back home, showered, watched Saturday night live while talking to julian on the phone, Gwen Stefani was performing which was why i stuck aorund till 12 to finish watching it

Ok now i have to go and study
bye !!!!

2005-09-21T06:59:00.000-07:00

Rode buckay ! she was super nice to me, i've forgotten how fun she is to ride, sooo smooth........ Reminds me of mimo a bit, but mimo is more fiesty and kicks and bucks more ! Anyway we did canter work, as usual zul always picks me first , i managed to get her into canter then she stopped cantering and i had to ask her again and whip her and REALLY PUSH her to keep her going ! that my friends is exhausting i was sweating and panting by the end of of 2 rounds on both reins.
By the end of the lesson i had cooled down enough and got mimo untacked myself and then went off with Jun to get a drink and wait for our parents

I got an mp3 player finally !!!!!!!! It's a zen neeon, and can hold up to like 2,500 songs . So far i got 76 + and it's great to go jogging with ! keeps me motivated to run !

Losing You

2005-09-17T19:38:00.000-07:00

losing you
made me cry
Shattered my heart like a stone thrown at glass window
i thought i might die
Those years of love
had i wasted my love on You ?

You only ended hurting what's closest to you
And you just turned away
with you arm around the other girl
Where was you heart ?
My love warmed you did it not ?

You made my day bright
You love kept me alive, afloat
Without you........... i just broke down and cried
But you were too busy with her to care

But now
I realise
Why did i bother ?
Base my happiness on you
Make you my sunshine
Feel like i was in heaven when i was with you
But now i've seen you true colours
You're no Knight in shining armour
or My prince charming
You're just a regular cheater
So
Thank you for changing my life
I kissed a frog
But you made me realise you're really no prince for me
Losing you
Was the best that happened to made
I was freed

2005-09-16T23:27:00.000-07:00

Today was the first RDA session of the term, me and Han Yin were assigned this 48 yr old woman or Auntie Jing leng ( tee heee ) she was supposed to be Downs but didn't really look it. She was assigned paint, and was very euthiastic about riding. Only thing she was didn't always hold the reins correctly and her leg was too far forward and had to remind her to sit up straight and tall. Maybe she can trot........... next week we can try that

Celine was nervous today....... her mother was there which didn't make things any better. She rode laurie again, ren hui was leading laurie and cheryl was side walking and so was i. Today she simply did not want to lift her hands from the saddle and hold the reins correctly, even though we tried coaxing her to, at this rate we'll never get her to a trot !!! That's my aim by the end of these ten weeks. At least she was a bit better with the games.

Ok i'm bad........ i'm not even 100% sure of her disability ! i think it's cerebal palsy.

That girl Siti had real potential to be a great rider...... i hope she comes back again.......

A private issue ...........

2005-09-14T01:08:00.000-07:00

There's the rule of no other-than-white-beige/nude-toned -grey bras in my school, i mean it;s really perfectly acceptable.......... multi-coloured ones can be seen through our white blouses or PE t-shirts. So no modesty........ but then again...... shouldn't we have a choice of what coloured underwear that we want to wear ? Even something such as THAT even needs to have a rule, or are students so irresponsible so as to wear the kind of visible underwear, i mean i think we're lucky panties don;t have a rules !
But i guess since we're a convent school things are just that way, strictly-enforced rules for a school with a reputation for " havoc " girls.

One thing Teo Ching ling ( Head of CCA ) was saying.......... how she felt it was sad that women could just change t-shirts ( wearing a bra ) in the open. i quote " Underwear is meant to be worn on the inside " What the heck is the big deal ?? if a woman/girl jus wants to go out jogging just wearing a sports bra on top ? It's her problem if she gets raped/murdered/ molested and we are lucky to live in a country where that is not a very common occurance. I personally DO NOT think that just changing t-shirts out in the open is sad ! it's their choice ! we should NOT be condemning them for such acts ( She showed us her bra oooooooh tsk tsk tsk ) If guys can just strip off shirts to change why can't we ? ( i mean with bras on duh ) Isn't wearing a bikini worse ? i mean wearing a skimpy string bikini top we are showing off more than sports bra would ! What about Lingerie adds ? pictures of semi-naked women we are bombarded with daily ? I really don;t think girls stripping off tops to change in public should be considered upsetting or sad, it's about time we are able to do something like that in public i mean they ARE still wearing clothes .

2005-09-12T02:45:00.000-07:00

I got the monster tikki on sunday............ and i had to NOT bring a whip of ALL days so he had his way all the way up to the arena ( he didn;t want to go up the hill so the instructor had to drag him up ) Dawn rode oatie and nat was there too .

Actually once i borrowed dawn's whip he was fine and actually decided to listen to me and do what i asked of him. We did work without stirrups but i could feel the metal stirrup buckle poking into my leg ( hurt like shit ) in the sitting trot.
Then canterwork, i for some reason i was tipping forward too much, , i dunno i started that bad habit ( maybe it;s that mimo..........) But tikki's canter is quite ok . In the end returned dawn her whip and tikki was fine, he jus needed to be whacked during the warm up.

2005-09-10T16:23:00.000-07:00

Hi !!! i'm back people !!!! and no i didn;t get to ride cos the stable was too full, and i was supposed to watch this BIG horse show called " All the King's horses " but NO it HAD to be canceled !!!! Talk abt my luck eh ? But i did get to see the Curly horse and clysdales !!

Looking forward to riding today !!! oh and if i missed anything exciting that happended during the week please tell me ! I probably can go to Bankok in december, i asked my parents already. Anyway i gtg now so i'll post more later k ?

2005-09-02T04:38:00.000-07:00

Last post b4 i leave in about 8hrs time........... So i;ve told enough ppl where i'm going, i'll be back by saturday night ( next sat ) and i'll come bag with pics and will probably go riding there.
Take care everyone !
byez

2005-09-01T04:28:00.000-07:00

Ok i didn;t do as much studying as i should have today, but whatever i did was productive.

I was supposed to go out with annabelle today, but she cancelled last minute last night........... should have known, you're always busy annabelle !!!
So i went out shopping in orchard myself, bought moisturiser, eye liner, shampoo, CLEO, walked around Books kino their equestrian range IS HUGE i wouldn;t be sooo mad if half the books weren;t wrapped ! but anyway i have Sylvia Loch's " The classical Rider " to read it;s REALLY good, my only recommendation is that it should be paper-backed. I;ve started reading PD James mysteries, they are great reads.
So now i have .......... 5 books to read by 16 sept
1. Cover her face by PD James
2. A perfect arrangement
3. Heat
4. Shroud for a nightingale
5. Sylvia loch's classical rider

Oh and i was having lunch on my own near the mc cafe at shaw centre with my DELICIOUS beef rice burger from MOS burger , and there was an ash tray on my table so i jus instictively pushed it away to anothe corner of the table, some guy comes up, he;s gonna sit at the table opposite mine and asks me if i need the ash tray ......... ok maybe it sounds normal to you but to me have i reached an age and look like i smoke ? ( ok i kno ppl my age who smoke ) i was wearing a rather tight fitting lime green collared t-shirt and my jeans with diamond earings..... dunno it jus seemed to me " did i look old enough to smoke ? or the sort to smoke ? Quoting from My Fair Lady " I'm a good girl i am ! "

2005-08-26T21:05:00.000-07:00

Went for Leader training at RDA today.......... It was grooming and tacking up basically, i was assigned Blossom, she was supposed to be really grumpy but she was actually ok with me !!! i was quite happy with that, we practiced tacking them up with head collar 0n, my only BIG difficulty is the bit part. It is difficult to slot in her mouth plus with people watching my every move !!
It's a good thing i'm already familiarised with horses, but it was a good refresher course.......
Then we had to try and tack the horses up in 5 minutes !! with the experienced leader assigned to help us Richard watching. In the end i think i managed to do it in about 10 minutes ! Oh and i also applied hoof oil !!! a first for me !
Next week was supposed to be arena training ( i had a bit of that actually ) but i have to skip it.......... Going to Canada , anywayz logging out now bye !

2005-08-25T02:10:00.000-07:00

Sorry i haven;t blogged in a week............ Rode johnny on tues, i actually walked from school to polo club !!! i carried my gear in a black bag, i got questions on why i brought it and gladly showed off my gear hahaha all the " wows " when they saw my helmet.......... i'm bringing my whip next week..............

Johnny was lazy at first, he didn;t want to trot, even though i whipped him a lot. he finally did though after much persuasion ( and kicking ) the canter was HEAVENLY he has one of those, smooth, never-stopping kind of canters, few horses have such canters ( eg Winning glory ) so i was really enjoyed cantering him and go to work on positions not tilting forward so much ( a bad habit of late ) and sinking my heels down.
Had fun at the photo exhibitions at the national library yesterday ! even though i;ve seen the exhibitions it was fun viewing it again with my friends........ I feel so much more included now then i did last yr, i neva really fit in last yr

ok i gtg now ! gtg walk the dog ! byezz

2005-08-16T06:28:00.000-07:00

My 4 week fling with mimo is over, i rode smint today. Jun Yin was on Johnny, Jasmine on buckay and elizabeth on coco .He was quite ok, nice and forward going. I was slightly late cos went to out to taka and got
a) A nice brown top
b) Flats ! ( i almost chose some pointy shoes )

We were first SQUASHED in the RDA arena cos the sky was dark and everyone huddled in the arena. About 4 lessons in 1 arena ! so after being squashed in, told off for going beyond the invisible boundry ( being leadfile ) nearly knocking and cutting into the path of the girl on the hotshot thoroughbred ( who was having a private lesson ) on more than one occassion we headed outside cos the weather had improved. I was first to canter , he was quite easy, though i had to push and push to get him to do so.

ok i gotta cut short this....... being my ever push-over-self i have to give in and let my sister use * sighs *

2005-08-13T23:04:00.000-07:00

Erghhhh i think i'm getting sick........... sore throat, checked my temperature , 37 degrees, my normal temperature is rarely 37 degress and above so i know i;m definetely coming down with something. Well i can;t skip riding today or school tomorrow or riding on tuesday either. * sighs * i need to ride !!!!!!! at least i got a dose of horses yesterday at RDA but i can;t lead till october when i turn 16. Luckily Zul said he would consider letting me try excercise-riding the horses next yr !! YAY !

2005-08-09T18:04:00.000-07:00

Ok i know this is looooong overdue
Ride on sunday
Sue didn;t come up so me and dawn , i was on duck, she on songkla had to join sandra;s class, where we did canter poles. Duck was rather slow at first ( considering he is um 28 yrs old ) When he saw the poles he pricked up his ears and lengthened his stride, wow thats the fastest he's ever gone ! i even had to half-halt him ! dawn was afraid that songkla would kick but he didn;t and was very good !

It was a pretty good lesson, but i think the sunday 6.15 lesson is in danger........ there is only me and dawn in it and if Mr Chew can;t find ANYONE to fit into our class.......... we might be split up ( NOOOOOOO ) i don't want that to happen!!! so if any pony clubber of intermideate level experience, can walk, trot and canter confidently and looking for a new class to join, PLEASE JOIN OUR CLASS !!!!!!!!!!

2005-08-04T02:42:00.000-07:00

Don't you think Animals, Children and Women are the most mistreated ?
Firstly animals........ How many ppl would say they hate cats or dogs ? a lot. Ok cos some girls brought a kitten in a bag down to chinese class today..... It was soo tiny ans sooo cute ! but there were a few ppl who said " ewww i hate cats , yuck !" ( rolls eyes ) What poor innocent creature > what did they do to you ?
We have to remember we are not the only species on this planet ! we share it with OTHER SPECIES so before we get caught up in our own world , let;s think of how we are slowly but surely wrecking the planet, driving some animals to extinction.

Children- I know young children can be a bit annoying sometimes, but that is no reason to abuse them ? i get sooo angry when i hear about kids being abused sexually or physically , or like kids getting canned, if carried too far it gets abusive. How can parents hit their kids till they bleed ? or whipping them with a belt ? how could they do such a thing ! to their own flesh and blood ? That just aggravates me.

Women- Women are humans too............ All females better take their hats off to those brave women who stood up for women;s rights and allowed voting and for those Missionaries who set up schools for girls ( ie IJ ) Otherwise we would still be living second class to males. In the past in was unheard of , of women to go to work or school. But now she still has a problems, jugging roles as a working mum or just a stay-at-home mum. It may be hard to be a women always, but somehow i'm happy i'm female and not male.
Oh wait one thing that just kills me is honour killings , sometimes she is not even guilty ! and it still goes on today !!! in this day and age, a council sentenceing a women to be gang-raped or stoned to death........... really * sighs *

Aeoulis !

2005-08-01T03:46:00.000-07:00

I just HAVE to blog about him !! at first i was a bit scared i had to take him ( he is BIG ) We were all on horses, dawn was riding gold ridge, brenda hank and samuel was on citi garden.
His trot was like " whoa " bouncy to rise to ! even but is sitting trot was lovely !!! maybe it was the saddle i dunno. We practiced bend and flexion but i;m not sure if i was doing it right.

His canter was NOT easy to sit to ! it was big and rather rocky and unbalanced or at least threw me off balance ! but it was controllable ( not sure about circles though !)
I think i would like to try novice dressage at BTSC soon, i mean we have been doing prelim for a yr already.......... i want to move up...........

The offical Pooh bearer !

2005-07-29T20:27:00.000-07:00

I thought i was late for RDA this morning, but i really wasn;t. The session itself hadn't even started yet. Me and ren hui side-walked this girl called Siti, she is blind but not bad on a horse. She was riding fraggle. Who is rather forward going,she was quite good today, she wasn't very spooked when Fraggle started going a bit fast sometimes. She didn;t really use her voice as much as i saw last time though.
At the second session i actually wanted to do some " leader-training" leading around the most lazy horse at RDA, but instead was forced to be the " Pooh bearer " as in hold up a giant Pooh bear for this boy called Benny who has Muscular Dystrophy ( i think ) and so he is very floppy and can;t sit up straight. the bear was to attract his attention. My arms hurt but i only had to go around for about 25 mins.
In the end they said i should have been more enthu, but i don;t really want to be the pooh bearer !!

2005-07-27T04:18:00.000-07:00

Another riding post............
i got mimo AGAIN yesterday !! it did start out well as she was freaking out in her stable due to the noise of the grass cutter outside her stall. Then she got loose, the syce caught her and i brought her up to get mounted.
Once in the arena i was afraid she would try to spook again and held her on a tight rein, well try not too tight lah but i fell off her last week. For once i was trying to not let a horse go to fast ( you see i have an electric bottom and work best on slower, less active horses, eg Biscuit ) I was almost too afraid to canter her fearing she would try to run away, but zul forced me and in the end she was fine !! i was really happy with her performance for the day.

Ok onto today........... i guess the Photography instructor wasn't as annoying as we though he was.......... last weeks lesson was really enjoyable we actually got to go outside to take shots.
Today he took pictures of us using studio lights he brought and told us how light affects your subjects etc........ And i got into the CCA commiteee !! so did Kath, i was secretary. Sara/siti was the President and Yi ning vice president.

So now i have to 3 photography contests to enter, one to do with nature ( thinking of taking a pic of Champ ) and another one " Vitality and You " supposed to showcase the " vitality " of the elderly. ( thinking of photographing my grandfather and his golfing kaki in action ) Also a special project Ms Lau asked the " ex com " a project to " sell " singapore t0 bring out the theme " Uniquely singapore "

2005-07-25T02:28:00.000-07:00

Rode bobby on Sunday, he was good with me. Sue let us warm up on our own which was fun, but we coudn't change rein, dawn suddenly left 1/2 way through, only later i found out cos she had to change horses, GoldRidge was lame.

Little Red was being fresh with sam, little red was like that to me a few weeks ago so i could sympathise with him, red was jumping and cantering about the place wildly with too much energy. Bobby was a little angel, he only spooked once when little red suddenly jumped at something.

Then we practiced simple changes across the diagonal, bobby was very good, did whatever i asked him to do, Sam didn't want to do it with Little red so he just stood in the middle. The second time round, bobby didn;t canter right when i asked him too and i couldn;t really get him to trot at x, he just kept cantering. Sue said it was because he knew the excercise and was trying to get away with how he wanted things done. He went on the wrong leads as well.
So i tried again with him, asked for the correct leads, REALLY slowed him down at X and managed to get it right !

2005-07-23T22:50:00.000-07:00

Spent the most of the weekend at riderslodge, left STRAIGHT after sch on friday and managed to reach there in time for the 4 pm lesson. I was on diamond ( YAY ) he was really nice, sooo rounded and on the bit nearly the entire lesson ! i was soo proud of him. His trot was rather rhythmic but surprisingly i could still sit to it. It was only towards the end of the lesson he started freaking out and spooking at whatever chester was spooking at.
At 6 i had AVC for jumping, i have started becoming more aware of my jumping position now somehow. He was quite ok to jump, didn;t refuse or knock over anything. Nat, tanja, phoebe and katie all stayed in the same room, Annabelle was supposed to go but didn;t in the end which was a shame as i would have liked to room with her, but instead had to with my father which was ok i guess. We stayed in for dinner as they had this " Christmas in July " thing so the food was cheaper, riderslodge food is ALWAYS delicious.

Next day afternoon after the morning lessons , ellesse, nat, p and katie and me went to nat's room and started making prank phone calls to adverts in the newspapers ! it was SOOOO funny!!! the guys on the other line were sooo gullible i think some of them actually believed Ellesse.. like

Ellesse(calling a property advert) : I have four children and they are very fat. Do you think you have a house that they can fit in ?
Ong ( guy answering the phone ) : Yes, we have many, perhaps a bungalow ?
Ellesse : Oh and they like to chew on wood, do you have a property that can withstand their chewing ?
Ong: I assure you they will not be able to chew on wood, the house is made of concrete
Ellesse : Hold on for a minute i have to get my child off the balcony
( screams loudly) " Velma GET YOUR ASS OFF THE BALCONY NOW !!!!!!!!!! "
ellesse : Sorry about that, what were you saying ?
Ong : Err i think you are a bit fierce ah with your children...............

hahah that was just an example !
We didn;t jump very high this time, but we did manage to do some interesting jumps. We also tried leg-yielding but didn;t really manage to do it somehow, i was really doing it well at Il Paraetaio, maybe cos the horse was trained to it.

Then after dinner last time we watched House of wax !! it was pretty scary but not the scariest i have watched, it was definetely REALLY REALLY gory though ! probably one of the goriest. And how Paris Hilton dies....... haha a stick goes through her head.

Then left rl at like 6.30 this morning to come back to watch Keegan in his first Agility competition and help with the pony Rides which was right next it. Zul actually saw me and told me to come in and help. After standing around for about 15 minutes i got a job leading a pony called Penelope, it was loads of fun i must say and i saw ppl from school who were in charge of the ticket collecting, they were doing it for CIP. Keegan looks SOOO GOOD jumping !!! he was great a first but then ran off 1/2 way.
I met a girl who also rides ! she's sec 1 and goes to rl as well, goodness maybe there are more IJ girls who ride than i know of !
I was just disappointed i didn;t get to help load the ponies onto the the box , i wanted to see what the inside of a horsebox looked like. But it was soo cool to lead a pony through a park !!!
Oh did i mention the president actually dropped by to see the horses ? cos it was this Presidents Star Charity / Team Singapore thing. Should have had a riding display or something, there were a lot of Team singapore riders helping out !

2005-07-20T04:49:00.000-07:00

Disected a heart today........ you don't really get to do the everyday. The left side of the goat's heart was full of iced blood ( a popsicle for a vampire ) SOOO gross....... everyone was like " Yuckkk , eeeee !" But we got to see all the valves and arteries and veins and stick our fingers into them , Shu ping who was actually sick but for a while refused our requests that she go home said that sticking your fingers into the holes was like fingering......... okkkkkkk didn't particarly need to know that

After that everyone washed their hands at least 2 or 3 times to get rid of the smell and the blood and everything. But it was kinda cool and fun

We had Physics after that ( miss lim who mysteriously disappeared to Japan with the ARC girls came back ) and Assembly , after which was the Sec 4 farewell party. I helped kath set up everything and by the time i had one slice of pizza there was no-more left. I was damn disappointed ! the garden veggie one looked good !!!
Anyway we had games after that, the tug of war was a disaster the rafia ended up breaking and both teams fell down hahah
Next was one where we used spoons to scoop scittles out of cups of Coke . NOT easy, my team lost. Then we had a ping-pong ball hunt in the 2/1 and 2/2 classrooms ! damn fun ! i only found one....... stuck to the bust of a beyonce poster........
In the end my team found 11, anita counted and the other team had at least 2o

sorry i gtg cut-short this thing i;ll complete this later k ?

2005-07-18T23:02:00.000-07:00

Heyy everyone, sorry i haven't blogged in ages !! and haven't gotten all my links up yet, my com has been down and internet access has been cut off so yeh..... Anyway i will try and get everything up ASAP ok ? I'm doing this in sch so i have limited time..........

Ok i'm using the laptop now....... fell off mimo today, she suddenly zoomed off with me, the first time i could slow her down and not fall off but the second time she just went faster and i just fell off i mean i thot i could hold on but obviously could not so let myself fall. It was just my butt which hurt the most ( that goodness that part of me is fleshy ) I was a bit winded though

Zul got on her for me, he re-schooled her and after jun and elizabeth had gone i went again, i was a little apprehensive she would take off but she didn;t and i kept a tight rein with her and sat still. She was ok

Went to club for dinner, my 2 sisters are both ill

First post !

2005-07-14T02:43:00.000-07:00

Hi !! my first post here ! i dunno if this will show up........ here goes nothing