That is naomi
with her scribbles of life.
That is ME.
My name is lanliNaomi
DOB: 10 Jul 1989
School: Ngee Ann Poly
Environmental&Water Technology
Love & Hates;
[[L.O.V.E]]
God.music.piano.band.choir.
books.puzzles.movies.french
fries.dark chocolate.skittles.
daydream.interior designs.
children.spirited away.green.
classic disney.killer whale.
[[H.A.T.E]]
nuts&seed.carrot.alarm clock.horror movie.
soya beans.
Twitter;
Talk to Me;
Escape;
hazel
beverly
nicholas
joyce
yi zi
meixian
felicia
jon jon
junlin
khairul
Elaine
lloyd
jaslyn
Kian Seng
Nigel
Wee Hsien
Yong Sin
nicholas(andy's friend)
Sissy Joyce
Music;
Credits;
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
11:43 PM
11:43 PM
University Application
9 January 2010, Tuesday
I'm confused. I found myself losing myself. Lowly enough that I started selling my dreams, passion and talents - to just whoever who would open their wallet and feed me with a golden spoon. Yes, that's what I felt like at the moment. An opportunist.
I was no longer sure of my dreams. Welcome to college, a place of reality. Dreams are free, but reality costs. Reality involves risks, costs money and age. I had none of it. Left only with $8 bucks in my account, wasted a year in primary school and another in polytechnic, certainly I could not take any more risk.
My God my Lord, where exactly do you want me to go? It is true that I love both.
Teaching is something that I enjoy. Moulding and impacting life in a direct manner, visible appreciatable form is something that would give me the sense of satisfaction and acheivement. Children is a group of people whom I can work with freely becuase of the absence of inferiority and fear. School is one conducive environment to exercise creativetiy and put behind boring routines. A vibrant and soul touching job. Then, I thought of kok guan and Mr Chua and Mdm Yap.
Environment is another thing I enjoy. Nature- trees, forest, valleys, ocean, water, ecosystem, energy. What was the very first job that God had given to the very first human being, Adam? To rule and care for his creations. And this is it, it's like returning to the Garden of Eden to continue our job. But the world is so different from the Garden, it is polluted, sick and dying. Doctors are for sick human, Vets are for sick animals and who are for the sick environment? I don't mind working with the sewage, oil spills and foulings but can I really find joy and satisfaction in the corporate world ladder. We are not working with nature here now, we are working with engines, machines and people, adults. Then I thought of National Geographic.
I'm confused. I found myself losing myself. Lowly enough that I started selling my dreams, passion and talents - to just whoever who would open their wallet and feed me with a golden spoon. Yes, that's what I felt like at the moment. An opportunist.
I was no longer sure of my dreams. Welcome to college, a place of reality. Dreams are free, but reality costs. Reality involves risks, costs money and age. I had none of it. Left only with $8 bucks in my account, wasted a year in primary school and another in polytechnic, certainly I could not take any more risk.
My God my Lord, where exactly do you want me to go? It is true that I love both.
Teaching is something that I enjoy. Moulding and impacting life in a direct manner, visible appreciatable form is something that would give me the sense of satisfaction and acheivement. Children is a group of people whom I can work with freely becuase of the absence of inferiority and fear. School is one conducive environment to exercise creativetiy and put behind boring routines. A vibrant and soul touching job. Then, I thought of kok guan and Mr Chua and Mdm Yap.
Environment is another thing I enjoy. Nature- trees, forest, valleys, ocean, water, ecosystem, energy. What was the very first job that God had given to the very first human being, Adam? To rule and care for his creations. And this is it, it's like returning to the Garden of Eden to continue our job. But the world is so different from the Garden, it is polluted, sick and dying. Doctors are for sick human, Vets are for sick animals and who are for the sick environment? I don't mind working with the sewage, oil spills and foulings but can I really find joy and satisfaction in the corporate world ladder. We are not working with nature here now, we are working with engines, machines and people, adults. Then I thought of National Geographic.
11:19 PM
Presley & Mary's Wedding
7 February 2010, Sunday
Presley & Mary's Wedding! I love attending weddings for their wedding montages, special items and a time of fantasizing on my own wedding. (though the groom's face is always a grey figure head with a question mark right in the centre. The kind they use for people who are lazy to upload photos to their profile).
It was followed by a buffet dinner and dances. Presley's Dad dress as Elvis Presley and had an awesome performance just like a rock star. Then the newly-wed couples dances. Then invites the rest of us for dance too.- LOL. guess what dance? CHICKEN DANCE! LOL. Still, I think it's much cooler than banquet dinners(:
Sissy Joyce, I'm right! People don't play the ten-ten-ten-ten weddings song nowadays.
I love this painting!!!! I like it very much! 
10:52 PM
Alex 21st Birthday
6 February 2010, Saturday
We went to Alex's 21st birthday chalet @ Fairy Point Chalet. We played Hide-and-Seek. Pointing finger>> Chong. She suggested it. I couldn't believe we are playing hide-and-seek at this age. When was the last time I played it?? Probably primary school.
Aunty Jac taught us a new game. The opposite of of Hide-and-Seek called Sardine. Hide and seek goes like this- everybody hide, 1 person will find and when a person is found, he will help to look for others. Sardine goes like this- 1 person hide, everybody go around looking for that person, and when somebody found the hiding person, he's to hide with that person and others will continue to find them. And the game will end spookily when you slowly see your friends one by one disappear, only you are the one left looking for the rest.
Yea, it's suppose to be interesting but some stupid fellows spoil the game.
Alex's mum had hand-baked a strawberry cheese cake which taste fantastically good! I want a home-baked cake too. The class will know what cake to bake- Strawberry shortcake, our class's signature cake.
Happy Birthday Alex
I hope that you will grow strong and faithful in the Lord.
I hope that you will always be our friends. Always.
I hope that you will be a master of all computers, lights and sounds!- maybe singing too??
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
11:59 PM
11:59 PM
Sunny Side Up
29 January 2010, Friday
Sunshine Club! The goldfriends' return to the crib. Friends, siblings, teachers and students gathered back for a meal of pizzas and KFC! It's interesting how friends and siblings are inter linked. Cherry is a good friend of Jia Rong, Cherry's sister is a good friend of Jia Rong's brother. I'm a good friend of Charlene, my brother Andy is a good friend of her brother Clarence. Just in the photo itself, we have 4 pairs of siblings. Families know families. Oh, unknowingly, I have grown a decade with them!
Everyone must have said this at least once or more in their life time" 10 years down the road, xxxx year xx month and xx day. yy hour yy min. Let's all meet back under this oak tree"- the feeling was exactly like an old promise. ( Just that we didnt' really make such a promise)
Monday, February 01, 2010
11:54 PM
11:54 PM
Hazel Birthday Part I
26/27 January 2010
Happy Birthday to my Dear Hazel!!! We had an alfresco dinning @ Punggol Park, the Bliss- Restaurant with our 2B classmates. We were actually sitting at a candle-litted table by the lake, enjoying cool breezes of night wind. Too bad that the photo was too dark to see any of these. And it was a pet-friendly restaurant! Owners bring dogs to dine with them(: LOL! Still all of them weren't the main star. The main star was her, my best girl friend.
We spent the first minute of her birthday together, perfect evidence! 
And so the day started with Dom's surprise cake to her house @ 12a.m 27 January 2010(: 
Happy Birthday to my Dear Hazel!!! We had an alfresco dinning @ Punggol Park, the Bliss- Restaurant with our 2B classmates. We were actually sitting at a candle-litted table by the lake, enjoying cool breezes of night wind. Too bad that the photo was too dark to see any of these. And it was a pet-friendly restaurant! Owners bring dogs to dine with them(: LOL! Still all of them weren't the main star. The main star was her, my best girl friend.
This is by far the most pretty birthday card I have made for anyone!! Even I laugh to myself with this sometimes too.
We spent the first minute of her birthday together, perfect evidence!And so the day started with Dom's surprise cake to her house @ 12a.m 27 January 2010(:Happy Birthday Hazel
I wish that we will always be such a good friends forever.
I wish that you will get into your desired univeristy with your desire course.
I wish that you will last forever with Dominic.
I wish that you will get into your desired univeristy with your desire course.
I wish that you will last forever with Dominic.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
12:16 AM
12:16 AM
favoritisim
29 January 2010, Favoritism
I seen it all the while. Just that I took it positively, as freedom and independence.
Why did you just bring her to meet your so called "high-class" friends? While they never even seen him before. Busy is not the true reason, just a facade. I know what you are really scared of, a disgrace to your image. Like what most of us do when an unexpected guest visits , secretly push our dirty clothes under a bed, show only the branded.
In secondary 2, go to work, go to work. You start pushing me to the work force, to stop the nagging and have peace in my ear, partially getting away from you. I landed in a job with MacDonald as the youngest worker. Want to bet? You wouldn't even get her to do that till after secondary 4!
"Don't go JC. Don't study university. Just go poly. Get a job!"take the SAF scholarship!", " take the NEVY scholarship!", " take the Chinese teaching scholarship!". Oh, please. You didn't even bother about what I want, you didn't even bother ASKING what I want. All you are interested in is to go to wherever that don't require you to pay.Yay. Wherever is the perfect word. So I went to a polytechnic, pick up a course WITH A SCHOLARSHIP that appealed to me the most. EWT. And I remembered, being overly-truthful I told the panel of interview judges that if not for this scholarship, I would not even pick this course. Phew, I was still granted a scholarship despite my blunder statement! Thank God, if not for it, I'm sure that I would be forced to quit school half way through! Now, you wanted me to go to work instead of college. Same reason of course. But, don't worry. I understand you full well. I will get a sponsor myself and would not spend a single cent of yours.
But if money was that important to you, what I do not understand was why would you encourage her to go Raffles girls. Independent school that charge $300 per month instead of our normal school that charge at least 10 times lower. Why do you want her to get into a school with direct route to A levels? What's with that change of thinking?
And you too. Happily indulging yourself in a game of masak-masak. You get to pick who to be your child, who you want to fetch home and who you want to leave out of the game. The only difference will be that the food is edible this time round, and that knife is real.
I know she must have find it ridiculous, even I myself thought so too.For no apparent reason, I ignored her. And her coughing. But I just don't feel like talking to any of them. I felt so eaten up by the word, favoritism.
I seen it all the while. Just that I took it positively, as freedom and independence.
Why did you just bring her to meet your so called "high-class" friends? While they never even seen him before. Busy is not the true reason, just a facade. I know what you are really scared of, a disgrace to your image. Like what most of us do when an unexpected guest visits , secretly push our dirty clothes under a bed, show only the branded.
In secondary 2, go to work, go to work. You start pushing me to the work force, to stop the nagging and have peace in my ear, partially getting away from you. I landed in a job with MacDonald as the youngest worker. Want to bet? You wouldn't even get her to do that till after secondary 4!
"Don't go JC. Don't study university. Just go poly. Get a job!"take the SAF scholarship!", " take the NEVY scholarship!", " take the Chinese teaching scholarship!". Oh, please. You didn't even bother about what I want, you didn't even bother ASKING what I want. All you are interested in is to go to wherever that don't require you to pay.Yay. Wherever is the perfect word. So I went to a polytechnic, pick up a course WITH A SCHOLARSHIP that appealed to me the most. EWT. And I remembered, being overly-truthful I told the panel of interview judges that if not for this scholarship, I would not even pick this course. Phew, I was still granted a scholarship despite my blunder statement! Thank God, if not for it, I'm sure that I would be forced to quit school half way through! Now, you wanted me to go to work instead of college. Same reason of course. But, don't worry. I understand you full well. I will get a sponsor myself and would not spend a single cent of yours.
But if money was that important to you, what I do not understand was why would you encourage her to go Raffles girls. Independent school that charge $300 per month instead of our normal school that charge at least 10 times lower. Why do you want her to get into a school with direct route to A levels? What's with that change of thinking?
And you too. Happily indulging yourself in a game of masak-masak. You get to pick who to be your child, who you want to fetch home and who you want to leave out of the game. The only difference will be that the food is edible this time round, and that knife is real.
I know she must have find it ridiculous, even I myself thought so too.For no apparent reason, I ignored her. And her coughing. But I just don't feel like talking to any of them. I felt so eaten up by the word, favoritism.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
12:35 AM
12:35 AM
Dialogue in the Dark
26 January 2010, Tuesday
I went to Dialogue in the Dark(DID) with my WISP class. This is what it looked like, pitch black, zero trace of light. An hour experience of blindness.
I went to Dialogue in the Dark(DID) with my WISP class. This is what it looked like, pitch black, zero trace of light. An hour experience of blindness.
It's about senses, imaginations and teamwork now. Personally, I like market the best! They had a wide variety of textures and fragrant. It is the first time I hold and examine a cabbage so closely with my nose. I like brushing my fingers against the refreshing waterfall, and crossing that shaky bridge and climbing over the bicycle wheels. I like the way our hearts pound together with the increasing speed of the beeping traffic light. I like the way we swing our walking stick so hard that annoyed the people in front, the way we got lost and scream for names across the room, and finally finding back the familiar smell of the jacket that belong to my dear fly, my security. We would sit down at the cafe with our drink and start fumbling over the tiny silver hole to poke the straw. Finally, our tour guide, Angeline, who is visually impaired (all of the staff in DID are visually impaired, just of different degree) would lead us back to the light. She never get to see us, neither do we. What remains of her in us are her breath and voice, friendliness and cheerfulness. It is a unique experience(:
Sunday, January 10, 2010
1:31 AM
1:31 AM
POP EXCEL meeting
9 January 2010, Saturday
We had a POP EXCEL meeting from 2 to 4 p.m today. 2010 marks my first decade in POP EXCEL! I will be taking Sec 1 Mathematics for the time being(:
My first goal in POP EXCEL this year is to be more committed and punctual! I want to be someone who can be depended on to take a class or maybe just to do anything. Being consistent.
Second goal will be to remember names! I really suck at remembering names and faces! Ehh?..Ermmm. FINE. I suck at remembering ANYTHING. I am famous for my goldfish memory. Just yesterday, Cherry mentioned that Aunty Imm wanted to find a day to meet all of us. It's like OMG, we were her students more than 10 years back! And she remembers our faces and names. Not just that, she even remembers our siblings! *Clap Clap*. To be honest, I can't even remember the names of my favourite kids in POP EXCEL. I can ask their names every other weeks for like 4,5 years or more!
And seriously, POP EXCEL should last forever! It's one thing that allow me to safely take up other courses like environment, water and energy because I know that even though I may not have a career to do with children, but I will never lose touch and connection with them. I am still able to teach and play with them in POP EXCEL. Children is one thing that I think I would not want to give up.
Anyone who wish to volunteer in a church tuition group??
We had a POP EXCEL meeting from 2 to 4 p.m today. 2010 marks my first decade in POP EXCEL! I will be taking Sec 1 Mathematics for the time being(:
My first goal in POP EXCEL this year is to be more committed and punctual! I want to be someone who can be depended on to take a class or maybe just to do anything. Being consistent.
Second goal will be to remember names! I really suck at remembering names and faces! Ehh?..Ermmm. FINE. I suck at remembering ANYTHING. I am famous for my goldfish memory. Just yesterday, Cherry mentioned that Aunty Imm wanted to find a day to meet all of us. It's like OMG, we were her students more than 10 years back! And she remembers our faces and names. Not just that, she even remembers our siblings! *Clap Clap*. To be honest, I can't even remember the names of my favourite kids in POP EXCEL. I can ask their names every other weeks for like 4,5 years or more!
And seriously, POP EXCEL should last forever! It's one thing that allow me to safely take up other courses like environment, water and energy because I know that even though I may not have a career to do with children, but I will never lose touch and connection with them. I am still able to teach and play with them in POP EXCEL. Children is one thing that I think I would not want to give up.
Anyone who wish to volunteer in a church tuition group??
Saturday, January 09, 2010
1:02 AM
1:02 AM
The pre-teen's first inch of the wing.
8 January 2010, Friday
After school, I met my goldfriends, Beverly, Charlene, Raishun, Sophine, Cherry, Fiona and Teressa for dinner @ Dhoby Xchange, Just Acia ( Pronounce it with me, "Ah. Cai").
It's the end of my sissy Joyce first week of school in Anglican High School. She' s really tired and won't be back home till tomorrow): I miss her! I want to know what CCA she joins, I want to know about her teachers, friends and the school, e.g the ultra long staircase, I want her presence, I want her to walk round the house telling everyone " i'm bored" a thousand million times. I want her to beg me stay for lunch at home. I want her to beg me to play badminton with her. I want her to off my alarm button in the early morning. I want her and I miss her.
I think it is the fear of losing her. Just like how we lose Xuan Hao in the beginning. A good school suck him away, totally. Study study study, test test test. First week this, 2nd week that, 3rd week,4th week, one month, two months, three months, not a pause. Time passes and he typically vanished out of our lives, out of the cell. Maybe that's what will happen to my sister too?? First week, Friday cannot come back, next week need to do project, next next week going out with friends, next next next week having exam etc etc, and just like that, a pre-teen expanded her first inch of the wings. I will miss her. 2 more years, it will be me begging her to stay home for lunch(: