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Monday, July 28, 2008


WHEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

haha. i am currently on a something-high. probably sugar or caffeine since i just downed an entire can of pepsi.

but that's not the main point of this post.

ANYWAY. today after cross country we went out. duh. yeah well. a third of the class went out to have fun together!!!

the third of the class being (in no particular order) suzie, ee ning, ting ting, belle, kuan, hee ai, hui suan, li lan and of course, ME!!!

haha. we went down to plaza sing to hit the arcades!!! yup. we played ddr, time crisis, daytona, the basketball shooting thing, uh i think that's about it. yeah. and everyone had a go at the ddr machine. even me. the me who is hopeless at it. hahahah. yes. and i'm proud to announce that i survived it and was a better person because of it!!! hahaha. what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. that's definitely applicable to me in terms of ddr.

and to no one's surprise annabelle and ee ning trashed us all. eesh. i had shell-shocked expressions after each and every of their games. i was having problems with the beginner mode and they were hitting 150 combos on difficult mode? sick asses.

then we reached the highlight of our trip out where sadly two of the members of this outing decided to leave us as they had already watched the movie that we were about to watch.

THE DARK KNIGHT!!!

yup yup. and it's really fantastic. yes. seriously. if you haven't watched it please watch it. if you watched it you can watch it again. like ting ting. but then ting ting is loaded. oh i know! get ting ting to sponsor you. ahahaha. -runs away as ting ting comes after me with fingers extended-

oh and let me tell you why the movie rocks. don't worry. no spoilers as yet.

this movie has a fantastic cast.

BLOODY FANTASTIC you hear me?

first and foremost being that HEATH LEDGER is joker. yes. you did not read wrongly. heath ledger. THE heath ledger. THAT heath ledger that is on par with jude law and johnny depp and patrick dempsey and all the rest.

secondly, cause christian bale is batman. personally the first point makes up 99.99% of why this show is fantastic but li lan doesn't agree and i do not believe in propaganda. hence. (but anyone who watches the show will obviously realise that heath ledger MADE the show. the villian always makes the show. seriously. the heroes are always the same. saving the damsels whether they need to be saved or not. killing the bad guys or something along those lines and they are ALWAYS drop-dead handsome to most of the world. but the villians? they are so pliable. you can be sweeney todd, killing people like nobody's business or you can be like the joker, killing people like nobody's business. eh. yeah well. the methods vary. wait a minute. they both use knives. eh.... ah well. you get my point.)

thirdly, the plot is AMAZING. seriously. the show doesn't ever have a lull in it. every moment will have you on your toes and trembling in anticipation or nervousness (in belle's case). just when you think the movie's going to end then -wham- joker strikes again. HEATH LEDGER!!! -squeals- ahaha. ahem. that was er.. the sugar talking. yeah. but anyway. this movie is really worth a watch. so go watch it people!!!

and while you're at it stare at heath ledger and look past all that make-up and see the real charming and drop-dead gorgeous and amazing and fantastic and stunning and fascinating him. i assure you you will NOT be disappointed. ahahah.

that's about it. so yep. go watch heath ledger, er i mean the dark knight!!!


-joanne- loved 409 at 5:04 PM


Sunday, July 27, 2008

Yay I'm really glad that this blog is alive and we are talking about class bonding.

Yes it's time to leave soon, and although i still really hate n****** (oh man why are we using so much asteriks?! our blog is so censored!) I will miss my friends that pull me through hard times.

I still think our class is very wonderful. Frankly speaking, when I first came into 409, I was regretting like mad and hoped that I could probably transfer to another class. Which was impossible. Because all the people there didn't seem like those that can 'click' with me. But I don't know when all these change. I guess it was rather gradual. And the most amazing thing that I'm still puzzled over is our attitude change towards Mr Han.

And yes our 'birthday' month. I sang more birthday songs in april than I sang for my own birthdays. And Sukuang being so nice and sweet, wanting us to be part of her birthday memories. (: And by making Mr Han embarrassed by singing him happy birthday song right in the middle of the quadrangle where everyone was looking.

YA and the fact that Mr Han shared the same birthday as 409. Haha so fated man!

I guessed we have our 409 memories here and there. Graces camp, birthday months, funfair (I've never seen a class being so childish, playing with arrows and swords haha!). You know what? We should make everyone write their best memory of 409 down at the end of the year. Because everyone will find different things that are the most memorable to them, and through there we can recall much stuff that might not seem significant to us, but significant to others.

Haha so let's create more 409 memories in our 3-4months! Then we will be able to leave nanyang with no regrets! (ok at least for the 409 part)


heeai loved 409 at 10:35 PM




I'm not here to add on to the posts on how we can be better as a class and how we should treasure the class as we only have a few months left and whatever. To tell the truth, as much as I usually try to deny it, I am going to miss Nanyang. But will I miss 409? That's a matter I have yet to decide on.

ANYWAY (my favourite word.), here's an excerpt from one of the books of the Dresden Files written by Jim Butcher (Yes, those books you've seen me burrying my head in between block tests, when I'm not studying. And to tong and eening, yes, those books I've been searching for like a mad woman. Singapore libraries are so lousily stocked.) that really set me thinking. I hope it has some sort of impact on the rest of you. Is Nanyang really that painful? And what is pain?

(NOT BY ME NOT BY ME NOT BY ME (three times in case you don't understand the meaning of NOT BY ME)

Sure, we’d faced some things as children that a lot of kids don’t. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for dealing with pain. We still hadn’t learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you’re just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee. There’s the little empty pain of leaving something behind - graduating, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There’s the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expectations. There’s the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn’t give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your love, and taking joy in their life as they grow and learn. There’s the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand besides a wounded friend and help them bear their burdens.

And if you’re very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realize that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last - and yet will remain with you for life.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don’t feel it.

Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but either way, it’s part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you’re alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

- An excerpt from White Night, Book Nine of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher



sarahpor loved 409 at 12:39 PM




bwahs. jo told me to come here and post/tagg and when i saw those posts, the emo feeling coming.

i never reallie realize its a couple of months more to the end of being classmates together, even tho i know it subconsciousli. everytime i'd jus think, a few more months to end of ny life, to end of eoys, wdv. come to think of it, four nine is reallie going to go separate ways soon.

its reallie amazing, come to think of it. how we didnt seem to like each other and our tchers last yr, till ganging up "against" them, we've come a long long way. (cheesy but nvm)

eening and jo's alr talked abt the gist, so wad i reallie feel is tt, treasure these last few months, ok? together as a class, wdv. alot of ppl are trying to get the class to bond, and the onli way to help them is to participate. yeahh. kudos to those ppl.

enuf of these emo thoughts. i was watchng a sad video jus now. if not i reallie cant slp le lahh.

to bridge, maybe we shud all join bridge in hc. huhuh. esp some person who gets soo agitated over it. no names. xP

and the movie trip on monday!

oh wells, im random.

no comparison here, but i jus love four nine for what we are.


kuan loved 409 at 1:11 AM




goose. eening. now you've made me feel... pensive.

yeah. i agree with eening. sometimes i wonder if all of us feel that sense of belonging to this class.

this 409 which used to be under the scrutiny of the whole wide world. (aka. you know who.)
this 409 that played weird april fools pranks on teachers. like a mass sleeping session.
this 409 that had a random bridge craze last year which revived.
this 409 that held this huge-ass party on class birthday.
this 409 that has a form teacher who bought us macdonalds for class birthday.
this 409 which had a temporary cranium craze earlier this year.
this 409 that says cheesy stuff to mr han like 'we love you mr han' after a certain dance.
this 409 that has tons of unglam pictures shot by me sarah and mr han.
this 409 that got so excited about boggle and went wild about it.
this 409 that never listens when we do surveys.
this 409 where some people fell in love with a certain 'onion' song which i still can't appreciate.
this 409 that sings quite well if we try.
this 409 that is just 409.

i don't know if you guys feel the same way. but 409 means quite a lot to me. as much as 208 which is really saying something.
i know we have our differences and stuff but come on people. it's like what. 3 or 4 months left?
can't we like eening said put it all aside? start on a clean slate. revise your opinions of people. put aside the prejudices and 'hatred'.
cause it doesn't seem right to end the year off like this.

okay. i make it sound so serious. actually it's not really that serious. but it's still deserving of some attention.
so yeah people. if this class means something to you. make the effort.

jeez. that was a little depressing. never mind. i shall now post about bigger and better things.

as mentioned before, the bridge craze is BACK!!!!!!
and we all decided to meet online and play viwawa.
haha. we being me annabelle eening sheila and bee hiang.
yes. and i know there are a lot more viwawa players out there. so i shall post our player names here and those people can add us and we can play 409 bridge. ahahahaha.

the nice kind and wonderful ME --- faeriefrenz
eening --- Kaylee92 (must have the capital letter K)
annabelle --- bellyftw (stands for belly for the win. sheesh.)
sheila --- fuzzywuzzy28
bee hiang --- cloudd

yup yup. so you elusive bridge players out there add us!!!

oh and come on people. get this blog going. it's on life support. sheesh.

oh yes and eening. when i saw that mark in your post guess who i thought of. tsk tsk.


-joanne- loved 409 at 12:29 AM


Saturday, July 26, 2008



Nice song nice song! :D :D
Sad,emo.
But very nice :D

Ohoh.
And this.HAHA



Zomg damn xD but i prefer this version to rihanna's one.HAHAHAHA




Ooooh mark :D
Comfort's good in hiphop leh.

Ahh.

I am bored.


And i dont want to start on work ):

Cry.


I cant believe it's only a few more months till we start crossing over.
Or maybe not for some.
(wahlao lucky lor.early morning no need cross bridge liao.)
Somehow it's kinda sad.
That we didnt do a lot of things together.
I know there are internal conflicts and such.
But perhaps it's time to let go of certain hard feelings and accept others as they are.
Maybe they aint that bad as we think they are.
Cause once we see their flaws, their good points get blocked out of our sights forever.
..It can be that bad.
It's because our pre-assumption that they are who we think they are, we dont interact with them.
But others who are slightly more neutral, who perhaps did not really have a choice but to interact with them, gradually realise they arent that as bad as we make them out to be.
True, their flaws could outnumber their good points.
But that doesnt mean we have to shoot down whatever they have to say.
I dont know, but i think things shouldnt be carried out to the extreme.
Just think about it.
It's only like 3 more months till we part ways.
A bit sad to still carry on with the hatred huh.
Lighten up yooo.
Being too extreme aint good.
I hope our class becomes more bonded in ways.
I...really hope lah.

Haha okay i dont really have much too say but that.
Im quite sian still.
Boo ):


Kal loved 409 at 7:59 PM


Thursday, July 24, 2008

hey hey people.

i had a sudden random urge to blog.

and to state the obvious.

BLOCK TESTS ARE OVER!!!!!!

and permanently too. since it's our last year here in Nanyang.

huh. this blog is so dead. even the tagboard is pretty much comatose.

i shall include lots and lots of space in between my sentences to give this post some girth.

oh yes. does anyone have a camera that they can bring to school everyday? me and sarah have retired as class photographers. sarah's camera is with her sister and mine's dead i think. so yeah.

sigh. i suspect less than 10 will read this post. considering the number of people who seem to visit this blog. oh well.

oh yes. you know the ****** craze is back and alive in the class right. let me enlighten you about 5 interesting facts about 409 ******.

#1. we are a highly dedicated ****** club, relinquishing our recesses and lunches for the enjoyment of
******.

#2. li lan gets highly agitated while playing
******. (p.s. the trick is to ignore her. or shout back in her face. whichever you are more prone to doing.)

#3. i jinx #####. as long as i deal ##### you will have to wash at least one game in five. my record is 3 consecutive rounds of ##### being washed. and the 'washing' streak was broken only when someone else dealt the #####.

#4. i get the most interesting #####. i have had all of the 2s and 3s in one game. 8 out of 13 ##### basically useless. and my only redeeming point was an ace. and a few games later i had all 4 aces. then someone had to wash. i suspect i have a
****** jinx. after that extremely memorable game on a monday two weeks or so ago. which brings me to my last point.

#5. it's possible to win all the decks. as proven by me and li lan. she had 4 aces. i had tons of pictures. and i won the bid and i called for an 'ace of anything'. highly entertaining game.

and with that i shall conclude my post and move on to more productive and fufilling stuff. such as eating and sleeping.

NOTE: this post has been censored. ****** stands for you know what. and ##### stands for you know what too. hahah. this is so helpful isn't it?


-joanne- loved 409 at 10:26 PM


Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Annabelle found this: For all who struggle with Chinese.
SAY IT WITH A HONKY ACCENT :D


sarahpor loved 409 at 10:47 PM


Wednesday, July 2, 2008

I like :D









Jiayou for the funfair guys!

Im kinda worried for my nats.

Haha T-T


Kal loved 409 at 9:20 PM


Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Sorry people ):

For getting you guys locked out of the class.
)):

So sorrrrrrrryyyyy.

Boo.

T-T


Sorry haha :/


Kal loved 409 at 12:40 PM



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