Japan, New World, New Life.

Hi Everyone!

It has been a real long while since I have posted anything but I have been busy with packing and traveling and stuff. 
So as most of you know that this year was my last year at UWC sadly, because my Dad has a new job at Yokohama International School, Y.I.S., as the new heap of school. 

I recently arrived in Japan a few days ago and it's interesting here. I don't really have a complete opinion on it yet but I will soon. Its different to home but I'll have to get used to it. We are going to move into our new house tomorrow and start unpacking and getting everything together. I'm kinda looking forward to unpacking my room and organising everything to make it look the way I want. It's gonna take a while, but I've got time cuz school doesn't start for 4 weeks (end of August)!  I've already been to see the school and it is very different to UWC. A lot smaller, different numbers and stuff like that. It'll be interesting. The house is nice too. But I still miss home. I'll get used to it eventually. It's summer at the moment so thats good considering I was in South Africa for 2 weeks, winter, and then New Zealand for 3 weeks, winter as well. So its nice to be in shorts and tank tops again. I miss everyone terribly and leaving is having a big impact on my life and a lot of things. 

This is something that I found that was suppose to be posted around July 5. Sorry.
I really want to blog more and hope to get time to do it <3

Singing Inspiration

When I was in grade 4, I performed at the esplanade theater with Global Voice, the primary school choir. It was one of the best if not the best performances. I love singing and I loved singing in choir with Mrs. Hess, A former teacher at UWCSEA. Performing there was amazing and I got to perform there with my friends that were also in choir which made it even better. The crowd was full of people that were waiting to hear us sing. One of the songs we did that night was "Heal the World" by Michael Jackson. Myself and a couple of the other kids in choir had a small solo. We sang the first verse of the song. I was really nervous but I loved every single second of it. Ever since I joined choir in grade 4, I new that I wanted to sing. So from then I performed in assemblies a couple of times singing a Maori song and Somewhere Over the Rainbow. I loved it. Singing in front of people. Although I was a little bit nervous I knew this was something I really wanted to do. But for some reason around before grade 6 started when we moved from Ang Mo Kio campus to Tampines campus along with everyone else I didn't really want to perform in public outside of choir anymore. I don't really know why but I have been really shy about singing in front of people. In a way I hated it but I wanted to so badly. I guess I was scared of what people might think. I don't know, I never figured out why I'm scared but I know it's something that I want so who knows, maybe I will perform in public again soon. But even now I'm still shy about it. I don't have stage fright. I love acting on stage and performing just not singing for some weird reason. I do hope to get over that soon and even maybe perform? I don't know what the future holds.

Anyway, Mrs. Hess started working at the school when it first opened at Ang Mo Kio in 2008. I started at the school after the easter break that same school year. Before that I went to UWCSEA dover campus. I was in choir there but for some reason I didn't enjoy it as much as I did then and as much as I do now. Mrs. Hess got me back into singing and in grade 4 I joined choir. She is one of my inspirations for singing. From then on I have been in choir every single season since grade 4 and I have been singing since then. Show tought me a lot about myself and was always encouraging to do my best and to go for what I wanted. She helped me when I wanted to perform and when I was nervous before performing. She always looked out for me. So I spent time in the classroom and in choir with her learning more about singing and how to become a better performer. 3 years I spent with her, getting to know her and learning from her. I am so glad I met her. Sadly she left at the end of my grade 6 year, the first year UWCSEA tampines campus was opened. It was hard to say goodbye, but I knew it wouldn't be forever. Since then I have taken on vocal lessons with the wonderful Mrs. Stirrat who now does choir and I'm working on choir pieces, exam pieces, and a couple for fun with a friend of mine, Avni who also does vocal lessons. 

In a way, this is my story of the time I performed at the Esplanade theater and one of the amazing people that inspired and influenced my singing. I thank her for that and for everything she did for me. 

Christmas Holiday Round-Up, Day 8 & 9

Day 8 & 9, December 22th/23st 2012

So today is a day I have been looking forward to for a long time. My friend Caelan and her family are visiting from Hong Kong for 5 days! They are staying over for Christmas with us. When she got here we basically did a catch up session and talked a lot. We painted our nail and just hung out together. 

When she arrived

On Sunday we got up a little earlier so that we could go swimming at the school pool. The main pool was closed so we went to the infant pool. We also played football and went out for drinks afterwards. It was really fun. 

In the car on the way to swimming

The pool

Swimming, looking fab....

Swimming side by side

After swimming and football

Caelan by the school sign

3 girls side by side walking for drinks

This is what we did for the first half of the day. Around 1pm we went to NEX mall for lunch, movies, timezone, shopping and frozen yogurt. To get there we took the MRT.

MRT Station

At the mall we had Subway for lunch then went to the movies. We saw the movie Wreck-it Ralph. It is a really good movie. I enjoyed it. If you like comedy, animation movies then you'll love this movie. After that we went to timezone. Although timezone is a lot of fun it can be a waste of money depending  on how much you choose to spend there. After that we went to a cheap type of place that sells nail polish, show laces and socks, fake nails, junk earrings and so on. I bought a couple of things there. Then we went for frozen yogurt. The place we went to is a do-it-yourself type of place. You choose your cup, get as much frozen yogurt as you want, put as many toppings on as you want, then weigh it and pay. It can be really expensive though. Next stop, Diva! Diva is one of my favorite accecory placeses. Lucky for us they were having a sale. A lot of it was still expensive until the lady pointed out and opened a $1 box! We rummaged through the box for like 20-30 minutes! I found earrings that used to be $18, $11, $20 and all of them are still new and undamaged. I got 9 things in the end. A mustache ring, a heart ring, 3 feather earrings, gold hoops, hot pink peace hoops, and 2 pairs of 6 pack earrings! The lady was about to put them in before she offered them to me! the total coast was $9. If the stuff wasn't on sale, it would of been over $100!

Overall it was a great day and I had a lot of fun. 

Hope you guys are having a great holiday wherever you are!

2 Days til Christmas!