The song we'll be playing for Teachers' Day: I'M YOURS (CLICK FOR THE SONG!) by Jason Mraz. I've sent everyone an email of it, do check and do practice! If i can find an opportunity, i'll get a video of King playing, haha so everyone can clarify stuff from the video. And yes we can have it there. Heh heh heh, it's good we're putting aside SYF for this. Add oil everyone! :D

&oh yes! The noticeboard is done up! Many many thanks to those who have helped out: Shangfa/Ivan, Songyang, Wesley, Crystal and people, thank you so much. You must understand there's only one publicity ic, haha!

But the photos aren't up yet. Anyone who has things to contribute, do! Contact me and pass me the stuff we can put up on our board.

For those who haven't seen our new noticeboard, it's here:


Last saturday, 19th July 2008 was an important day! We had our first public performance! At Pasir Ris Park. I didn't get a picture of us playing though but here are some pictures of the carnival.


Some childhood game, brings back memories, huh? Both Max and Jieyang gotten something, not bad! But they were so childish, fancy competing over who'd get something.. .__________.


Jieyang, get well soon! I can kinda feel your pain.


Haha, a secret shot i took of Kristie.

One person to thank(especially cos we all did a good job!):

Safiah! Thank you so much for making it possible. Your carnival's a big success, we're all proud of you! Continue to smile girl cos you look prettier smiling, haha.

The others, w/o you all, it wouldn't be possible too!

OUR FIRST (PUBLIC) PERFORMANCE COMING UP ON 19TH JULY, PARIS RIS PARK!

Sorry i haven't been updating. Okay, this post is with the special request of King and Safiah and the others! :D I realise you all don't realise that pictures are already uploaded onto our photobucket. Nevermind, i'm gna post some pictures of our outings: Seoul Garden, East Coast Park and other random stuff!

Seoul Garden!

Girls look sweeter in pictures. Really, check the photos! :D


Our ex-conductors, Csquare and Eugene. Aww, now we only have one conductor, Max. Don't you all miss Csqure's signature tap-table move? But Max is doing a good job too.


Zhiyong and Arvin! Don't be cheated by Zhiyong's decent appearance, he can be a cam whore(like most of us).


Darren and his gay partner, LeDung. I remember on Darren's shirt, it says 'RenRen'. It gave me goosebumps!~


Okay, and they were quite funny.


The whole of JC2 exco. Wish em all the best for As, add oil and do guitar proud! Do come back to visit us, we haven't been slacking! Love you all and mug.. :)


Now the J1s have taken over, it's up to us to get that gold with honours for syf next year. Great expectations come great responsibility(yeah i made it up). Let's work hard. ;)


Now, pictures of the J1s. This picturet took some time, we squeezed so many people into one!


And more pictures. That's Zhengxiang and Natalie and Takshun(i remember your name alright)!


Wesley, the quasi-metrosexual according to Safiah and Krissy, girl on skates. Hahaha. The image of Wesley cooking his beef slices with so much time precision just keeps popping up.. And lucky Wesley cos he sat in front of me, there's a lot of photos of him but i'm not posting em here, waha. :)


Mao, can you smile for goodness' sake and the well-being of man kind? You can try making Mao smile for a dollar. Maybe he'd smile for you. :D And that's me, Safiah and Crystal!


Joanna and Krissy. They look real cute there. :D


Last picture: Timothy and Szehow with their what's-up expression.

ECP FAREWELL BBQ

Before we set off for ECP, we were to meet at Bedok MRT. And waiting time implies picture time, haha. That's King and Shenna. Heh, they look sweet together. Don't get the wrong idea, i didn't say anything. /blinks blinks.

Kudos to King, Safiah, Joanna, Wesley who practised for the performance night! Labamba(sp?) and the other songs. Because we're GEM, even our bbq's tied up with guitar.


That's King and Wesley playing the guitar! Mmm, King's most charming when he plays the guitar. But ha, i've complaints from someone from his hostel that he plays the guitar everyday. Mmm, should i say fortunate/unfortunate hostelmate? :D


Awwww, Safiah looks so sad. Don't emo alright! You've us! :D Next to Saf's Rachel, Zhengxiang and Xinyi. There's some resemblence bet. Zhengxiang and Xinyi! The cheekbones, teeth and fringe. Especially when both of em are smiling real brightly.


The wheel on the bus goes round and round, round and round, round and round.


Oh yes, those we didn't get to see our door-gift! Here it is! Yeah, we're collecting funds for door gifts. It's pretty nice, isn't it so? We spent one afternoon at Ikea doing this! Anyway, Le Dung isn't pronounced as Lay-Dunk but Lay-zonk. :)


Our dear quarter mistress and quarter master. Seriously they have a lot of work to do! Haha, blow wind blow.


The girls and GEM on sand. It rhymes! ABAB. Okay, enough of literature. Nice picture with our colourful flops. :D

Emo Safiah caught on picture again. Awww, who is she missing? Just kidding, she's actually posing for me!~


People stop emo-ing. Shot of emo Crystal, awww~

Oh yes, we took pictures of boy-band poses, here goes:

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Last time, people stop emo-ing!


Squeeee, hug. :D


Another silly shot, haha. Sorry the photos are just limited to my phone cos i'm updating from the sch lib. You all can stalk the GEM members' blogs for more pictures. The links are just above!


Before the night, we had a game of monkey. You should be able to tell who's the monkey. Fill in the blank. Sz_ H_w. :D Obvious enough, hahahaha.


Wesley and Safiah practising for their song, Bubbly for later. Maybe it's the eyebags, Wesley looks like he's wearing eye shadow or eyeliner. Haha, Saf's right abt this. Metrosexual!


Alright, illegal gambling and illegal gathering. Michelle, Mao, they all(all the guilty ones in picture) were playing cards and they didn't ask us along! Just kidding. Mao, your head is HUGE.


The bbq's jam-packed with fun. I think everyone(almost) had a good time. XD


The J2s. They were practising for performance too. A sweet note: Ledung's concerned about Darren who hadn't eaten lunch and asked for food to be sent over to him?! (I don't even rmb Ledung being so nice!) Ultimate sweetness. Let's all cherish the friendships and bonds forged in GEM, alright? /winks.


Everyone, check King and Cystal's 'viola' pose and that's us. It was a fine sunny bright day. :D And no, we weren't skivving while the rest prepared for the bbq!


We took a lot a lot a lot of photos. Do check the GEM photobucket. It's here.


Personally, that's one of my fave pictures taken that day. GEM takes a stroll along the stretch down the beach and finds hearts on the washed up sands.


JJ and Rachel. Oh yes, we've JJ to credit for our bbq fire, thank you. :)


Ledung and me. Mmm, i think it's the smoke. Okay, sorry to Ledung cos i've bin feeling him raw food. Thrice.


Darren and Safiah! Haha, Darren, our ex-chair, looks so boyish here! Mmm, he looks like my little brother.


Songyang, Wesley and the ashes in the air. As i type, my legs are going numb. Ahhhhh. Bbq-ing's kinda fun except the part about eating raw food(sorry Ledung!)


Zhiyong and Songyang. Haha, this picture is funny.


Hakim and Shenna. Marshmallow is love. Especially melted ones.


And we have the J2s chilling out on the beach. I think they're having a good time? ;D


And the night falls.. :D Means it's time for performance!


Thanks to the hard work of everyone. Finally, it's the performance! And the end product is tada, below! Ah ha, the performers. Haha, Joanna seemed stoned out! I thought we're saying no to emo-ing.


GEM stands for Guitar Ensemble of Meridian!


Seniors~ Do work hard for your prelims and As. I recall the ex-ex-president, Darrell saying that the top student would somehow come from GEM! :)


The whole of the J2s. Thank you for the hard work and effort you all have put into GEM. I can still remember tiny details of orientation to every single practice we had. Although there wasn't sufficient time to get to know every single J2 but every GEM member counts.


Alas, the performance. That's a picture of the J2s waiting [insert word: anxiously] before the performance started.


King and Safiah. A take-away point: Smile when you perform. It's contagious. Your audience would rub off some of the spirit and gradually you make their day. :)


At the end of the performance, we celebrated the birthdays of the june babies and that meant cake and birthday song. Gah, Safiah's face is cut. Picture to be replaced when i can find the other one! Major hint to Safiah's admirers: She likes her cake in bigger chunks.

It was for a personal use, a snapshot i got from Shenna, but people who are interested in how to play happy birthday, it's below. Well i didn't know it's only two chords and they so happen to be the first two chords i've learnt. /laughs.



To end off this post, here's a picture with Shenna and my imagined bubble speech: I LOVE GEM!

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To be updated! Watch this space.