Flu and rice wine

Yo pPLe!

i am sick again.. dunno why, i think i getting weaker,.. cause i every now and then will fall sick and dun heal as fast as i used to..

maybe that's growing old..

then though the running nose keeps me busy, even in class and quizzes(which i dun think will get good grades), I HAVE A PIECE OF GOOD NEWS..

well , at least for myself..

i dun need to re-do my essay #2 cause got a B.. haha.. kinda happy.. so my 4900 words immediately becomes 1900 words.. only left with essay #3 and the two music reviews to do.. but the essay #3 will need to be handed in on Monday.. so i got to crap out a 1500 words essay on social problems in a cause and effect template... but i only got now to sleeping time to do.. cause tmr will need to help my parents at work cause my cousin went into army le..

haiz.. da jun wen (today morning) and Aw (on black Friday) has also become botak like my cousin.. wonder if they will meet.. haha..

i am actually here to share a story ..

well, haven done that for some time le.. hope you enjoy..(helps me to get start my writing engine since i haven decided on which social problems to write on...)

THE VILLAGE'S CELEBRATION

In a very simple village that consist of farming families growing padi, lies a little something we can learn.

one harvest season, when harvest was one of the best in the past recent years, the head of the padi village decided to get the whole village involved in an harvest celebration.. due to the few resources they are able to get, their celebration was simple. the head of the village ordered each family to provide 2 items for the celebrations; rice flour for the rice cake they were going to make for part of the feast and one pail of rice wine brewed in their own homes..

after the announcement, families spent their days not only harvesting but also preparing the rice flour and the rice wine.. the males in the village took turns to go to the village head to grind their rice into flour wile the females worked on the rice wine with occasional help from the neighbours.. everything was going smoothly..

the day of the celebrations arrived, all the females villager took the rice flour to the village head's house and started making rice cakes.. by dusk, they finished making the rice cake and hurried home to change and soon headed for the celebrations ground with their families with the pail of rice wine.. the atmosphere was most happy..

the village head got ready with a big vat in the middle of the grounds near a fire.. the fire was to warm up the wine and the villagers as well as provide light..the sun went down and the stars came out.. by then all families had filled the vat with the rice wine as ordered by the village head.. the village head asked every adult in the village to get a cup of the wine from the vat and they toasted.. after the first sip, the happy expression on the villagers turned into disappointment..

some began to comment on the rice wine they had provided. the wine tasted very bland, as if mere water.. and fingers started pointing and arguments started.. the village head asked all to quiet down as he had words to say..

" everyone, listen.." he said,not surprised abt the wine that all the wine tasted bland, "pls, stop arguing.. the problem with the wine is not the person beside you but the person dressed in your clothes.. ask yourself of you really provided rice wine to this celebrations or water from the well.. i asked everyone to help in the celebration to remind ourselves of what we own today.. isn't it the teamwork and contributions all of us gave in wholeheartedly that we own to our harvest and village?" everyone silents down and only the sound of fire and insects far away could be heard.. the head continued," if you don't give your best contributions to this celebrations,what you get is a outcome that achieves nothing.. then this kind of spirit is not worthy of celebrating.. now , pour away the bland wine in the vat and return to your homes and take the rice wine to fill the vat.."

with those words, all the guilt-filled villagers went home and took not the rice wine they brewed this season but the best rice wine they had been keeping aside for the important occasions..

the vat was filled once again and all the adults have a cup of wine in their hands.. the smell of hot rice cakes and aromatic warm rice wine filled the air.. everyone tasted the wine and smiles was shown.. "with this sip of rice wine, contributed by all the villagers, let's start the celebration!" the village head said.. song and dance carried on the to the dawn, everyone was drunk on the celebrations ground, dreaming of the simple yet happy celebration they went thru.. constantly reminding themselves to give in their best of best to the village..

the harvest got better and better in the years after the simple celebrations..

THE END!

Ong LAi

"when you want to achieve something in life, you gotta give in your best..

or else, the rice wine will be bland.."

YO PPLE!!!

good morning to all out there.. cause i am early at school..

my enGLISH teacher ran out of time on monday then i got to see her today earlier than class to 'go thru' my second essay.. well, just say that the others had 4 more days than me to re-write their essay.. and she said tat i gotta read more to catch up with my classmates in writing.. HAH

then today will get the third essay question.. so i got 2 essays to finish over the week end.. plus the music reviews which i had not been able to motivate myself to do.. arHH!

quite a lot of work.. 3 mutiply 5 pages(agar 1500 words) plus 2 mutiply 400 words.. so in total, i have 4900 words to type lar.. ahha.. so if you dun see me online or blogging, then you know wat i am up to..

haha

this little quiz i did.. for all coffee addicts out there, pls try it out!

What Your Latte Says About You

You are very decadent in all aspects of your life. You never scale back, and you always live large. You can be quite silly at times, but you know when to buckle down and be serious. You have a good deal of energy, but you pace yourself. You never burn out too fast. You're addicted to caffeine. There's no denying it. You are a child at heart, and you don't ever miss the opportunity to do something playful. You are expressive and friendly, but you are never pushy.

What Does Your Latte Say About You?

haha, gotta start on my 4900 words le..

ONg LAi

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage - Anai's Nin

80% True

LEO MAN

He likes to comb his hair backward, open his forehead showing a dignify facial expression. His eyes is sparkle, but slightly showing laziness. He walks firmly and slowly like a lion, confident and ego proud. Outside, you may think he is kind and gentle person, but inside he is a strong and secure person. If he is frighten, he will re-act and respond right away. His words always seem normal but mostly imply "order and demanding". He will not talk fast, or can not talk fast, neither walk fast. In a crowd or at work he will act normally, but not for long you will see him standing out of the crowd and be a center of attention with his words, or his action.

You might think he is a shy guy, but deep down inside he wants to power over his family and his friends. He just waits for that right moment. Do not take what is his, and do not order him, or else you will see a fierce lion. He respects elderly and senior, but will never bow down and accept like a looser for he will rather die than loose his dignity.

He talks bluntly even on an occasion that he should not say such thing. He is a compassionate guy and always look at other people on a bright side. He likes people to listen to him. Even he has such a blunt and bold personality, he could easily reach his goal without making any enemy.

Once disagree with him on something, he can be very up set like a rainy storm on a summer day. It will only last a short time, then he will be back a cheery merry person again. He is a bright and witty guy, and he will not put any efforts on something that he thinks it will not work and waste his energy. He is a good planner and can well manage his job assigned. When he gives order, he expect them to be carry out exactly. He is the leader type that the followers love.

He can give other people advice and solve problems for other people well, except his own mess. He can be easily hurt by other people especially if you do not trust or respect his ability. You could compliment him sometimes and make this lion be your kitty with no difficulty. He is not a good judge for he listen to many people and tend to belief all sides.

You can hardly see a Leo man with no woman by his side. If you see him alone, he could already have a love one in his heart, or just broken up with one. Because he is very proud, he can change many girl friends. He will do many things for the woman he loves, but loosing his face is not one of them. Leo man can not live without love , because for him Love is a ray of Light.

He likes people to rely on him, it's make him feels "in power". He may complaint if he is asked for favor, but deep inside he is happy that you asked him. If you offer to help him , he will refuse you right away.

When he is broke , he can find money still. He is not careful with his way of spending for he has fun with spending money and happy to buy what he likes. He lets other people borrow money from him easily even if he has no money, he will run to his friend to borrow money for you. He likes first class , first quality of everything.

He can work hard like a mad dog, and sometimes can be lazy like a lazy sleepy cat. When he works, he is very serious. When he parties, he can be a party animal. If he ask you out, you will sure have a fun and jolly time.

He will take chance with his love life, so if you know how to handle him, you will win. If he is your love one, it won't be a romance novel. You have to be ready to calm him down when he over reacts to small matters because your cool stability will control and ease his mood. If you can not handle or understand him, your relationship will be like a demolition zone, a on and off relationship till all your friends tired to hear about your breaking up and making up.

Beauty is always in the eyes of the lion. You have to be dignify to walk with the lion king. Your looks is part of his image and ego and he is very proud about it too. If you want his attention the first time you meet, you better be astounding attractive. If you have a first conversation with him, you have to show him how much you adore his thinking. He likes to talk and not knowing that he likes to talk about himself.

got this from a friend..

http://danachow.tripod.com/zodiac.htm

YO pPLe!

might be making myself sound pityful or wat eva,

but then i finally go see doctor abt my injuired heel since the SYF performance..

abt 1 week delay le.. haha..

then the chinese sin seh was like, wat?! you after 1 week then come see..

but then nvm him..

and i dunno if it is my friends who are superficial or i am really good at hiding my injuries, they only noticed it today with the bandage..i hope it is the latter...

it looks something like this..

so i look more like an ba-zhang.. haha

ONg LAi

everything is illusions, when in another setting, everything changes...

YO PpLE!

waiting to leave home..

cause need to be at somewhere else later on...

and for those who wants to know abt my drum activities, sry, i guess today is the last time i will put up drum notices here..

cause time to time, people get tired of stuff and wants a change.. AND that is happening to me.

this blog should be my own life and not drum activities :]

ONg LAi,
The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost.

i dunno if this is fair to you, but then i hope i can get a reply real soon.

all these waiting can really dilute feelings..

show me signs and say ok..

i actually planned to typed this post after midnight but then seems like i need to sleep le..

after 12, it will be 07.07.07 .. the special day of this year..

everyone pls wear green to support the green event tmr ok?

thanks a lot...

ONg LAi

congrats to myself,

for being stuck with the 'being-hated-while-doing-the-jobs" situation AGAIN since secondary school...

i know i am doing the right thing but then there is a little something that irritates me..

ONg LAi

yo pple!

today is youth's day holiday..

a pity poly students and university students don't get to enjoy the hloidays that the secondary students are enjoying..

today has another meaning for myself.

it has been one year(and maybe plus one day) since the drum league concert was held at kallang theatre ..

but then seriously, who bothers to rmb this day other than me? no one else i guess..

then those people whom i had only met 1 year back, how are they doing now?

are they still into drumming or not? i guess it is the latter..

but i still got my ZingO companions who are still into drumming.. that's something to be glad about i guess..

feeling so lonesome.. dunno why dunno how..

just a little pissed with the waether and the entropy of life..

entropy is so like an devil..

lubricated(as said in transformers) ONg LAi

"clouds forms and disperse, just like all of us, we meet, make friends and part, leaving some footprints in others life"..

syf over.

suddenly a lot of pple add you on msn and frienster that you are confused by the random and yet mysterious pple who added you..

then you really need to become a full itme student and part time performer and not the full time performer and part time studemt you are now..

then you need a gal to prevent you from turning gay with the lots of guys(like the one in yckss) you see in festival drums. joking to you only..

you will wait and wait..

you will put more time into clearing your homework..

you like the female lead actress in transformers and a little like how mervin described you as.. horny..

you will sleep now cause there is school tmr.

you are ong Lai..

YO pPle!

finally finished with my re doing of my English essay..

then at ruo han house as my house is smoke filled.

not forgetting to mention the noise level which will affect my concentration..

well his place is quite good other than the fact that i am sitting beside his piano and using his piano seat as a table and need to adjust my sitting position again and again..

then later gg to see the art fest losing ceremony celebrations and performances at jurong mrt there.. meet sx and the others later...

then because next week got SYF de performance, gg to miss two days of lessons.. hence, i need to do another essay abt preconceived notions people have by tmr and hopefully she sees it.. and i dun miss out anything on Friday..

ok lar.. bored but still have to do work..

ONg LAi

try this.. i got 'paper'..

http://www.blogthings.com/areyourockpaperorscissorsquiz/

Yo PPLe!

went out of the house early.. actually planning to attend the morning English class.. then maybe because of fatigue, i slept til 0830hrs.. then couldn't attend this 9am class i had planned to do so.. so landed in school earlier and took laptop to chat and blog. hence you see this post.. sometimes, i really like SIM de atrium. it is a fully air-conditioned block.. so you can just sit down and just enjoy the air con..

in a dilema right now.. after class, which ends at 1pm, i can be at two places. 1)at YYSS to see those students there and cheer them up and raise morale.. hope they will be at their best during SYF.. or 2) go to SRJC to lend a helping hand,oops, lend a pair of helping arms to move the drums from SRJC to CCHY in preparation for SYF.. hard to choose.. cause i know moving drums will be more meaningful.. but then the students at YYSS wants me to be there when they practise..wat to do? maybe i would just flip a coin and hope that it will show me the direction..

on my way back ytd from my dad's worknig place, i heard the song 'wo huai nian de' by sun yan zi..dunno why, a surge of feelings came up into my head, felt a tingling sensationin my nose and my tear glands were active again.. but i stop the tears from coming out.. cause my dad and sis was around..

lessons gg to start soon.. gtg

ong lai..

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haha .. took the test after seeing julie's and sarah blog.. think sarah is getting attached real soon.. but then, this is the results...

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Yo PPLE!

performance at art fest was a sucess..

both performances were well like by the audience..

the response was not bad. some other performing group said we did a good performance..

then got to gloat over it until we reached school and and reality hits slightly..

we lack a lot of things in our performance..

1) the right 'state of mind' to perform..

2) no specific theme to perform..

3) no efforts seen to do perform well..

then from mel's mouth (phone actually), she said that we looked bored doing the same thing (perform) over and over.. which is quite true.. then the advice she gave us was to perform like you never performed before..

" the arms can learn the rthyms, the legs can learn the steps but only the heart can learn the performance" mel told me a similar phrase and i edited it to be wat it is featured now.. well, this phrase have an great impact on me.. i think i have been treating drum wrongly since i graduated from CCHY drum group i guess.. need to figure it out.. haiz..

tmr got english exams, but my class thinks we are gg to fail or best get a D or better C.. cause of our teacher.. but i dun wanna worry too much...

just figured how to use Excel to do the SYF drum formation thingy.. so i think i can finish it.. but it depends.

need to get stuff for SYF.. damn, it is hard.. yet i am gg to do it.. i know wat drives me forward ,i guess.. to let ZingO grow and not disappoint my friends(strictly in my category of friends, not superior or anything like that..)


haha..

ONg LAi!

examz week, tired by performance, tired being of being pissed by him, tired of working so hard for no results..