Haven't gone swimming in a long time, what's better than having an impromptu pool party with friends?

It was great fun splashing about in the water under the hot sun (desperately trying to tan at the same time) and doing stupid stuff you won't do in public pools for fear of embarrassment or appearing on STOMP the next day. Hahaha.

That day, I realized how photogenic my condominium's pool is and the wonders of the jacuzzi pool I always walk past on the way home from school. 

Photo credits to Song's wonderfully HD camera and Lim's awesome photo taking fingers and brain.

You gotta admit, it looked like our private resort in Bali. Hahahaha.

Always wanted to try out the hair flip - couldn't resist breaking out in "I whip ma hair back and forth". SUCCESS.

Us sporting our new punk rock hairstyles and the infamous fringe.   

More fooling around in the water.

"Paint me like one of your french girls"

*artist shuq looks on, drawing inspiration.*

These people didn't bring swim wear so I guess they had to miss out on hanging out with the cool kids. *shrugs* 

Sleeping beauty and gorilla wannabe.

Looking like enthusiastic seals in the blue waters.

Finally, lo and behold, your underwater Queen in her private chambers accompanied by her marine servants/companions!

It was a really fun and exciting day, after which we had to rush to catch the DramaFest encore night. Need to have more of such water-related activities! Guess who's gonna be visiting the pool more often now!! (•̀ᴗ•́)و ̑̑

Hola I'm back again for more updates in the months of August and September! Those two were my busiest months of the year with concurrent comps and concerts and school assignments. Quite glad I don't exactly have anything planned in November-December after our finals for once, just means I can take a breather and build up on my repertoire. (⁎⚈᷀᷁ᴗ⚈᷀᷁⁎) Essential, since I can't keep performing the same works for 2 years, not very exciting huh. 

Anyway, we celebrated NAFA's 15th anniversary concert in August and I played Saint Saens' Concerto in G minor no. 2. I had an enjoyable time working with my wonderful and so awesomely talented accompanist, I really need to work harder to play even better and never to let the nerves get the better of me! 

I like this photo, it has this motivational power somehow. Haha.

Look at me being surrounded by all these super talented musicians. Damn. 

Nafa invited the press to take some photos for the Straits Times. Doubt my face can be spotted in the sea of people though. 

This person here has been continuously encouraging me and pushing me to believe in my own abilities. From all those heartfelt phone calls and pep talks, I really cannot express how grateful I am for having her as a mentor in my life. She never once gave up on me. :")

With the sister and popo!

Dad, the Ong family official photographer, called me from behind to catch me by surprise, and I turned around, smiling in time to pose for a photo to be taken hehe. Nice one dad.

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Two days after, I had a cello concert at the Arts House again!

This was my first debut as a cellist. Hahaha. The setting was more cosy and casual, just a family cello concert. :)

This was more large scale though, being open to the public and I met so many people I knew who never knew I played the cello. It was mildly embarrassing when they got a shock seeing me with my cello case, sigh.

With da crew. HAHA. Just kidding. Wonderful cello juniors who came to watch me and huixin. #supportive

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That's almost about it, I haven't gotten pictures for other events yet but this should suffice. Better days to come yay!

bye

nic

Finally brought myself to consolidating everything that happened these two very exciting roller-coaster months. To sum it up, lots of hard work, tears, joy and fun.

(Events not necessarily in chronological order. They are arbitrarily added as I deem so.)

Cross-country was cancelled yesterday (much to the extreme joy of us who fervently prayed to the weather gods that it would rain). And voila, it rained! The cooling weather was a much better retreat from the scorching sun anyway.

Dayum, we really wanted this picture to work, even risked the stares of fellow commuters to shamelessly capture this photo. But this X-ray effect looks kinda fine too.

We decided to embark on an adventure inside marina bay sands while experiencing the atas and luxurious life — For absolutely free of charge!! 

It was fun exploring the area since I never got the chance to, especially peering into the casino-goers from the 2nd level, occasionally hearing glorious outbursts of the lucky ones. It was certainly a sight to behold. (But at the same time, that place reminded me how broke I was. HAHAHA jk, was more tempted by the sight of DTF than the luxury stores.)

TADAAAA. (this is only 1/3 of the view; I thought it made things look more artistic. maybe.)

Coins in the wishing well that look like glitter in the water. I swear it looked 10x better in reality. I blame my camera. 

As future leaders of Singapore, we thought it appropriate to explore the posh business area of marina bay sands to experience some busy office life (tccch, just kidding. We just wanted to rest.). Eventually we settled for this very cosy couch in a very cosy corner and proceeded to take more shots and hoboed around without being public nuisances. 

Photo credits to ming.

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Floorball madness.

Champion Team High-Hockey - eh, no kid. We clinched the title okay.

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Council Farewell Party

Who's got sass? ZEUS.

Really did not expect the awesomepossum bag from jing wen (my mentee), the lightning bolts were really cute hehe.

Flexing our facial muscles. 

And more mid-week Polaroids! (we tried to act like tumblr people. we tried.)

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Will be back with more updates, too many pictures to share! ˚‧*♡ॢ˃̶̤̀◡˂̶̤́♡ॢ*‧˚

We went to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital on Wednesday for the Singapore Memory Project where memories of Singapore in the past will be documented in the form of an oral history interview. Had a nice chat with a nurse managers who very animatedly told us about his childhood and healthcare then.

After one hour of recording, taking down notes and finding out snippets of Singapore in the 1980s, me, lim and song decided to explore the beautiful garden beside the block we were at. The lush and coastal-ish area nearby made everything so refreshing and relaxing hehe. (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤

Group shot yeah!

Unglamness101 but yay, captured their faces (´ ▽｀)

More selfies :>

And the real photoshoot in the gardens begins!!

BUT FIRST, LET'S TAKE A TOILET SELFIE. totes vogue material gurrrrrrl.

"Reveling" in the lush greenery (more like scrambling to take photos).


Took forever to take this because everyone just decided to walk into the photo just when we were about to capture that moment. U__U

Let's play a game of "Spot the Song".

Awkwardly sitting on this very oddly shaped rock. Failed at being a graceful mermaid .ू(ʚ̴̶̷́ .̠ ʚ̴̶̷̥̀ ू)

Song looks like she's modeling for an organic posh spa ad.

“Relaxing, soothing and comfortable. Providing quality spa services since forever.”

Candid shots on the stairs!!

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