~xinliang~

. Me .

xinliang
~8th mAy 1991~

national junior college
08S06 '08'09
njc symphonic band

crescent girls' school
cgs symphonic band
1G3 2G3 3C1 4C1

nanyang primary school
1D 2E 3C 4H 5I 6I

~percussionist~

~~Strike~~,Italic,Strong,Big,Bold,Underline

. My Have-Nots .

♥ A Real Oven for Baking

♥ ~~A Digital Camera~~

♥ A World Tour

♥ A Library at Home

♥ Buy Back My Previous House at Bishan

♥ Let Daddy and Mummy Retire ASAP

♥ Design and Revonate My Own Home

♥ Take Up Professional Cooking

. Quotable Quotes .

♥ Obstacles are those frightening things that appear when we take out mind off our GOALS

♥ Slow down and live..find your true joy before the day closes

♥ When life doesn't give you the best, you have to make the best out of it

♥ No matter how bad the storm is, there's a RAINBOW waiting

♥ The BATTLE is not over till it is over

♥ Limits exist only in the mind

♥ At the end, it's not the years in your life that counts; it's the life in your years

♥ A setback is an opportunity to begin more intelligently

♥ However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and cal lit hard names. It is not as bad as you think. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise

♥ A smile is a curve that sets everything straight

♥ I love who I am because I am who I am

♥ When work is a pleasure, life is a joy; When work is a duty, life is a slavery

♥ When the going gets tough, the tough gets going

♥ Life is like riding a bicycle; you won't fall off unless you stop pedalling

♥ Life is a kaleidoscope

♥ When life hands you lemons, make lemonade

♥ He that is down need fear no fall

♥ 人生是没有草稿的；每一天就像张昂贵的上乘好纸；不能信守随便涂鸦；要惜心对待它

♥ 天将降大任于世人也
必先苦其心志，
劳其筋骨，
饿其体肤，
空乏起身，
行拂乱其所为，
所以动心忍性，
增益其所不能。

. Speeches .

. Sweet Escapes .

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NJC 08S06
carren
cheeshan
claire
daddy
elaine
evelyn
french-horn liew
geraldine
gloria
iezah
ivy
huiyi
jiaying
jinghuai
jo-lin
joyce
liwei
roslina
sam
shawn
shermain
shuhui
shuyi
wanqing
wani
xiling
yijing
zouyi
quanyifeng

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. Credits .

Designer : wen jun11
Cursor : DorisChuhttp:Doris Chu
Image Hoster:photobucket

Monday, November 13, 2006

passion of life

welcome me back to Singapore!! i reached singapore yesterday at around 9.15pm. xinyi and daddy was already at the airport belt 19 waiting for me. im so touched. mummy, hao and hong had chinese orchestra lessons and thus, they weren't able to come and fetch me. im sad to leave hangzhou but im also glad that i have returned to singapore.

seriously speaking, i missed singapore food, my family, friends, bed and the weather here. im suffering from post-china syndromes. i can't seem to get used to singapore's traffic, food, culture, language and the weather. singapore has such nice traffic wtat we do not need to worry about crossing the road. i had 9 dishes and 1 soup for lunch. it's so filling after my meals. i have surely gained some weight from all the eating. must go and exercise already. im so used to china's chinese accent that when i reach singapore and hear people speaking singlish and weird accent chinese with the 'meh's, 'leh's and 'hor's, i get BIG GOOSEBUMPS. singpapore has always been season-less and the temperature is always at around 29-32 degree celcius. however, hangzhou is experiencing late autumn and early winter. in the morning, the temperature can drop until it's 14 degree celcius. the afternoon can be quite warm. im always wearing a sweater there and only bathe once in a day. i don't even perspire. [pigs sweat]

though i shan't type it out specifically what i did everyday in hangzhou 'cos that will take me years for me to finish and i have tonnes of homework, but i shall summarise my whole trip. all in all, i really appreciate what Hangzhou 14th middle school had planned for us during the 10-day exchange programme. thumbs up for it!! they prepared cultural hands-on activities for us; calligraphy, mask painting, seal making, sword lessons and chinese painting. they were very enriching and i had learnt so much more about the chinese culture. before that, i always thought that the 5000 years of chinese culture is very boring and dry. it's until this exchange programme and these cultural acitivites then i realised the importance of knowing and having a chinese culture and being a chinese.

the homestay was fabulous! ruiyi and her parents were very welcoming. they really don't see me as an outsider, a stranger. i even become part of their family. ruiyi's father rushed back from another city on last friday just to pick me up from their school and bring me out to scenic places in hangzhou. he is very humourous and caring. ruiyi's mother is fantabulous. on the last few days of my stay in hangzhou, she insists on getting the bing1 tang2 hu2 lu4 and the li4 zi3 for me at at very famous eatery. she queued up for near 1 hour without complaining. oh my...im really very touched. when ruiyi had to stay in school at night for night study, ruiyi's mum brought me out to a quite famous restaurant to have our dinner. i had beef noodles. after that, we strolled back and we had a long talk. that was the first time i get to talk to an adult for so long. we talked about everything; singapore and hangzhou's education system, both countries' population policies, my family, her family, both countries' cultures and food.

on the first day of my homestay, it's a saturday, they brought ruiyi and me out to some hot spots of hangzhou [west lake and san1 tai2 shan1] we took a lot of pictures there. the scenery is really beautiful. it can't be easily expressed into words. we had 猫耳朵，炸臭豆腐，小笼包，虾饺子. they were tasty. at night, ruiyi's mum even went around to ask her friends if there's msn messenger in some lanshops. she's afraid that i will get bored. so nice...

last of all, i made many new friends in ruiyi's class. 马瑜，杨佳，汪 ming 昉, 叶荫，吴易佳，周梦舒，‘孙燕姿’。 they are all very nice towards me. heard from the people in the exchange programme that their buddy's classmates were very hostile. i didn't have this problem. i like them!! on the last day at hangzhou, i cried badly. i can't bear to leave them!! i promised to keep in contact with ruiyi, her parents and ruiyi's friends. i want to go back to hangzhou after my Os. they have been great friends during lesson time, 10-min break time, night studies and 'walking to the bus-stops'. i had so much laughter. oh man....bring me back!!

colour my life beautiful ♥
3:48 pm