Friend

A friend is a person
to laugh and cry with,
An inspiration,
Someone who lends a helping hand,
though friends may not be forever,
And they may not end up together,
the memories of a true friendship will
last forever.
A friend is not a shadow nor a servant
But someone who hold
a piece of a person in his heart.
Someone who shares a smile,
Someone who brightens up your day
What makes a person a friend?
Is by saying your Love will stay.


"Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty."
- Sicilian Proverb

"What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someone with whom
you dare to be yourself."
- Frank Crane

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend,
as you will always find me yours."
- Ludwig van Beethoven

Friends are born, not made."
- Henry Adams

"Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life."
- Unknown

"He who searches for friends without faults,
will never have a friend."
- Unknown



enlightening eh? (:
friendship is precious

so dear iowans, as you embark on the journey towards the future,


May you be blessed with good friends.
May you be a good friend to yourself.
May you be able to journey to that place in your soul
Where there is great love, warmth, feeling and forgiveness.
May this change you.
May it transfigure that which is negative, distant or cold in you.
May you be brought into the real passion, kinship and affinity of belonging.

May you treasure your friends.

May you be good to them and may you be there for them;
May they bring you all the blessings, challenges, truth and light That you need on your journey.

May you never be isolated.

jiamin

Hey guys. Ok i've finally got the unit number for the chalet. This is the address:

101 Elias Road, Singapore 519886
Unit number: 02-06
On the board thingy that shows you where the units are, its written as 2-6

Oh and the holiday flats are actually very near the pasir ris park that playground. Its right beside it. The flats are painted beige and purple. Shouldnt be hard to miss.
So, for those who are NOT planning to meet up early to go shopping and just want to go there on you own at the check in time, please take note! By the way, the check in time is 4.00pm. We'll have to go shopping for the bbq food and stuff before we check in. I'm not sure where we're gonna shop though...Tampines Mall or sth? Cuz my mum offered to make a few trips to send us to the chalet cuz like its rather inconvenient to walk there by ourselves, with the bbq food and all. I mean like UNLESS you people want to take like a half hour walk from the costa sands chalet there to the holiday flats la. Your choice. Please remember to bring sufficient money along besides the chalet+bbq money of 12 dollars. Yep. More details will be posted at a later date.

-Eunice Lee (:

yay im back. almost teary from reading all the emotional blogposts that esther and siyin posted about 21..

somehow its just like a flower which grows from a bud... opoening up.. blooming..
and it's gotta wither too. ):

well..
ITS OKAY WE STILL GOT THE CHALET TO LOOK FORWARD TO! (:

here to announce the results for the previous blogpoll [MR GOOD LOOKING of 21] !

marcella got 27 votes
yijie got 10 votes
alex got 7 votes
keechin got 5 votes
limkhan got 4 votes, which tied with hanlin
zixuan tied with leslie with 1 vote each


so, the winner of the mr good looking 2I beauty contest is....

MARCELLA WONG!
*clapclap*

and the second mr good looking is..

YIJIE!
*clapclap*

and coming in third is..

ALEX!
*clapclap*

those who didnt win, dont get upset.
there's a new blogpoll coming up..

its..

MR SUNSHINE OF 21!
(hey it rhymes)

and

MR PHOTOGENIC!


lol if u got any wildcrazywackyideas for blogpolls please put them up too!
cya at class chalet

love,
jiamin


psst yijing next yr im gonna poke u to death! ^^
and daniel lim khan is still gonna reign the mongolian empire for another year i guess..

C A R R I E says:
YOU KNOW MY CLASS
C A R R I E says:
GOT YANG SHEN
♥/ { e sther } says:
o.o
♥/ { e sther } says:
WARRIOR YANG HAHA!
C A R R I E says:
yarh
C A R R I E says:
heng
C A R R I E says:
i
C A R R I E says:
no
C A R R I E says:
aircon
C A R R I E says:
OR
C A R R I E says:
I
C A R R I E says:
WOULD
C A R R I E says:
DIE
♥/ { e sther } says:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
C A R R I E says:
2J SAY HE FANS HIS ARMPITS IN CLASS
♥/ { e sther } says:
x.x
♥/ { e sther } says:
so bad huh.
C A R R I E says:
so disgusting
C A R R I E says:
so i should be thankful.
♥/ { e sther } says:
yeah XD

(okay lah, i koped this from my own blog. i suppose it looks better on the classblog! :DD)



2I's canon in d, the performance we put up for teachers' day.
remember how we stayed back after national day celebration to compose everything, zixuan, yihui, grace? :D
haha we used like dont-know-how-many-pages of manuscript!
(which we realised the guzheng dont need to read ahem, 'towgay' hahaha!)
and jovina and jiahui and jiamin whom we met up with at eastpoint afterward!

we took time out to rehearse, and choreograph dance steps,
there were tears, there was laughter, there was tension, there was anger.
there was the treat of twenty cups of milo that came delivered in a box! :D
there was the freezing lecture theatre,
the jokes, the sarcasm, the auditions,
there was the dark scary-looking behind-the-lt-place,
there was the big lollipop keechin bought for jiamin that everybody had taken a bite out of,
there was keechin playing the violin, wanli too,
there was me forgetting to bring the scores and us improvising on stage (haha sorry!)
there was us, doing us the teachers' day video afterward (and we really touched the teachers huh)
there was commitment, there was sweat, there was makeup.
we looked great on stage though the mikes pretty much screwed up the goodness of it.

ahem the pro dancers,
the pro instrumental people! XD

more than half of the class was involved,
we quarrelled, we got back together, we pulled it off.
then we cheered so freaking loudly after the performance that everybody looked up to the gallery.

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murder of our class pet (the water balloon from bio experiment!)
DONTKNOWWHO and DONTKNOWWHO were throwing the poor pet outside the classroom corridor and they missed and.

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rest in peace.
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remember that time!
WE (you know who you all are!) were filling up the water balloon.
then the freaking tap's knob dropped off.
water kept filling the red balloon till its diameter reached like what, 25cm?
(go measure on your ruler)
then zixuan our hero went to pop the knob back to turn the tap off!

THEN. the teacher came and we had to write reflections haha.
like, what would happen if the omgggg-big water balloon burst.
hahaha!

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biology lesson by miss anne chua!
she brought condoms in during birth control lessons.
six people to a packet haha. (strawberry flavoured!)

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keechin opened it and blew it up like a balloon.
(pictures anybody?)

and instead of organism, the teacher said orgasm.
tadah, she went red! haha.

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dearest mr siva with a cone over his head in the rain.
(supposedly to shelter him from the rain, i think it helped you know!)
'aiyo! my grandmother can run faster than you leh.'
'if you cant run like the wind, roll like a ball.'
'what style is this! row sampan ah.'

XDD

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zixuan and wenyi aww!
yes, zixuan our ahem, as he calls it, 'music prodigy'.
our star! (somebody go create some fanclub or something as suggested.)
we'll always sit around and form a crowd.
he'd start playing his concert/competition set piece,
or play pop-song improvisions (yes damn pro one. it goes by octaves and octaves.)
then people would stop by to listen,
and 2I'd be so proud of him hahaha!

his all-known-too-well by 2I rachmaninoff prelude op. 23 no. 5.


(sorry couldnt find a better version!)

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and there was the class chalet, uncooked chicken wings, burnt fishballs, teary eyes from the smoke.



watching the sunrise together, not sleeping for the entire night..



miss ngau playing uno cards with us..



AND! the stalker at the bowling alley (bokchong from bgps yahlah my ex-classmate grr, currently vs) who insisted on throwing two balls at one go!
in the end it got stuck at he had to walk all the way to go get them back.

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and we started off as strangers.



amazing how feelings for one another could grow in such a short time huh.

aww ):


love, esther.

YIJING!!!! NOT FAIR!!!! I WANNA GO TO 3G!!! GAHHH... zao zhi dao i dun so pia for the exams, then can be same class. HAHA. Haiz. I hope a miracle happens. Hahaha

Ok well anyway, would like to inform those reading this post that the chalet price has increased. yep sry about it. My mum called up to confirm again and now its 148 dollars for 4 days. Yep. My mum will help us check in cuz we can like check in in the morning, dump our stuff first there and go do whatever we want. Yup yup. So now one person needs to pay about 12 dollars for the chalet plus bbq food. ---NOT INCLUSIVE of the other dinners and lunches on the other day. We need people to volunteer to cook cha bee hoon or fried rice on the other days. Novia says she can marinate the chicken wings and get the fried bee hoon. So FRIED RICE ANYONE? Please tell me if you can. The other meals will either be maggi mee or we go out eat la. Yup.

Eunice Lee (:

its been a wonderful time.







these are the very wonderful memories, truly.

there's been tough times, and of course, wonderful times. we're all splitting, and i cant really bear to. because the love that we have is irreplaceable, whether we show it or not. but bear in mind that i'll still quietly relieve the memories that we had, because ive learnt so much from each and one of you.

we're moving on.

maybe its the start of another chapter of your life, maybe its the start of another book; i dont know; but the only thing i'll know is that i'll miss all of you. i really will.

the spirit of iowa will always carry on. just like how love never dies.

i still remember the time we started out. remember the 'pursue your dreams, the funky iowa spirit'? haha its nice to think about it, and surely, something or someone will bring this smile to your face, really. the time we got pissed off during level camp 06' screaming our heads off and crying and all that quarrelling. of course, we became more bonded, as a class.

perhaps we're often seen as a noctorious class, infamous, maybe? but once you see the true us, you'll realise that we're just a bunch of kids who love to have fun.

maybe we're all heading into different directions now, but we all came from the same direction.

call me sentimental, anything you want. i just cant seem to let go of the time we had. it all seems so short now, especially when i wanted the year to end faster, now i want time to rewind. if only life was a movie, then perhaps i could play my favourite bits time and time again. that'll be so wonderfully fantastic i wouldnt trade anything else in the world for it. because i love you guys so.

i love iowa so much the love's overwhelming.

remember the time we stood idling around at parkway argueing what colour mr bean's car was? and the dinner of burping and laughter. our teacher's day preparations that got us sometimes frustrated but we enjoyed the process nevertheless. the times we tried tricking teachers into doing stuff to our advantages. priceless i should say.

the times we laughed til our stomachs were awfully painful; the times we cried til we looked like the worst thing in life had happened to us.

we did the silliest things of all times; and no matter how crazy or silly we were, everyone's there to encourage each other, to cheer one another on, to laugh at how silly we could be. maybe innocent is not the words to describe us, but this class is as wonderful as it is; i doubt anything else can replace it.

perhaps other stuff might mean more to you, but it doesnt matter, because nothing else can replace iowa 06' 07' and that's the truth, a fact that we cant change.

i'll miss everyone who has made a impact in my life, every single one of you in iowa.

i'll end the post here because its been rather wordy i wont continue to bore you. and guess what..?

[to the YOU reading this] i dont care if you're gnna miss me, because im gnna miss you alot.
-siyin

cheers :D

3A – Leslie, Kee Chin
3B – Chenye, Samantha, Carrie, Han Lin
3C – Eunice Tan, Karis, Yi Hui, Zi Xuan
3D – Jessica, Wen Yi, Alex
3E – Yen Chen, Wan Ting
3F – Si Hui
3G – Yi Jing, Wan Li, Wei Qi, Jillian, Jia Min, Daniel
3H – Cheng Ting, Yi Jie
3I – Eunice Lee, Rebecca
3J – Siyin, Jia Hui, Grace, Marcus
3K – Esther, Jovina
3L – Felicia
3M - Brenda

STREAMING! OMG... Haha. But I heard there may be plenty of changes.. (:

Those who are appealing.. GOOD LUCK TO YOU! Come my class (: Haha, the one with the most people!

I'LL MISS YOU ALL! IOWA 万岁！

yijing-

heyhey. What about we have a barbeque?? Haha. At east coast or sth. Just a suggestion. Anyway, that aside, i'll update on the chalet details soon. Once i get the unit number and everything, then i'll make a trip down to see where exactly it is, and then i'll get back to you guys. Oh and for those, rare visitors who actually read this blog on a regular basis, and are going for the chalet, PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING THE SEVEN DOLLARS WHEN U GO TO THE CHALET ALRITE? tyty (:

-Eunice Lee

greetings to iowa :)

i have an annoucement to make today. i have $2.30 from the class fund to donate for the chalet.. lol

so how's your holiday? Good luck to everybody and hope you all will get the subject combination you want. and by the way, i agree with esther. we should organise a class outing before the chalet. but please don't do it next week coz im not in singapore.

so that's all. :)

OH BTW, CAN SOMEBODY ORGANISE A CLASS OUTING SOMETIME SOON? :D

AHEM AHEM THEY GOT MIXED UP. JIAHUI SUBMITTED TWO APPLICATIONS! I DIDNT SIGN UP FOR BSP. MISTAKE MISTAKE.
there's absolutely no way i think i'll ever survive bsp sessions and overseas trips goodness me.

LOVE, ESTHER.

hiya... weiqi here... enjoyin ur hols? XDXD anyways... congrats to e peeps who got into bsp...

-jiamin
-feli
-esther
-jiahui

n jy to all e peeps tt nid to go for e sap interview... go make iowa proud... XDXD