Senior's Banquet Pictures Pt.1

The Graduates
L-R: Rachel Newsham, Dawn M., Shannon, Carter, Fon, Josh Chipman, Amy Walton, Momo Onishi, Micah Beckwith

The Quinley's are one of the sweetest families I've ever come across.
L-R: Caleb, Mr.&Mrs.Quinley, Carter, Coleman, JohnJohnJohn Hurley Quinley the III

Beautiful Carter Quinley

The After-Party - KARAOKE!!! hahahah 2nd time in my life. We went crazy, as you can tell..

L-R: Tak Onishi, Richard Wise, Josh Chipman, Josh Walton

Ps. MATTHEW TALLEY (was a pro boxer)!

Carter Kae Quinley and Joshua Robert Walton who shouldn't have shaved his head!

Carter, Momo Onishi, Dawn Mekunwattana.
If you look reeeeal close, you can see a strip of white hair on Momo's fringe - it's NATURAL. syiokness.

Carter (haha, I took these pictures from Carter's facebook, obviously) and AMY WALTON who looks absolutely GORGEOUS in this picture!!

Senior Banquet

Friday we had this Senior's Banquet at the Royal Benja Hotel. Basically, all the high school graduates from my Bangkok church, ECB having a nice little dinner. It had the usual criteria of banquets - baby pictures, slideshows, teary eyed parents, a few performances, good dinner, oohahh-ing at dresses, photography & cam-whoring (two diff categories, although i must say we may have merged the borders into one,hehe)..

I sang two /three songs. One was a duet with Lucia the girl I'm staying with. I wrote the song specifically for the banquet and thankfully, they seem to have loved it. A dad cried. (still amused by this fact)

The second song was a solo, a cover song - Rachael Lampa's 'Blessed'. Extremely tricky, this one. I'm still not sure if I hit the notes right, it all went by so fast. haha -_-

But I think we succeeded with 'This Far', the duet. I always said personalization is the best - everyone can appreciate it.
So you want pictures eh? I promise I'll put them up as soon as I get them. Can't figure out how to save pictures with the Mac mouse. sheesh.

More updates SOON!!!xoxo
p.s. oh ya, the Jesudasans were here on holiday and we spent half a day together.

Chatbox Censored.Youtube Censored. What else lah aiyoh.

So you all know they censored Youtube here in Thailand right? Yeah. And then I discovered that in some places, even my blog's CHATBOX is censored? I lack the courage to voice out my thoughts on the um, government here. People get jailed/banned/dismissed/beat-up here for voicing out opposing thoughts.

Anyhow.
You know how they say 'who you hang out with influences your character' (or something like that lah)..well, what about the things you read. I mean, let's say I read this magazine about the latest music technology and they write their reviews as realistically as possible, whether it be praise or downright disgust. Will I in turn learn to "review" other products that I see in a shop in that same way? Does one pick up and practice another person's way of thinking just by constant reading of the other's writing?

Extremely random thought: Does anyone remember Shon Leong? Where is he ar??

Truth is.

The difference between you and me is that I love you without conditions.

GO SUPPORT THEM AT CINELEISURE THIS SUNDAY!

LOOK! My sister and 3 GRC friends are Central Region finalists of DigiCelebriteen and will be performing at Cineleisure THIS SUNDAY 27th MAY. Go support them, okay. It will be at 2p.m, I believe.

TWO P.M. SUNDAY, 27th MAY 2007, at Cineleisure, Damansara.

(taken from News Straits Times)
Klang Valley Streets:20 minutes to stardom
By: Karina Foo

MEET THE QUARTET: (Clockwise from top) Joelle, Tammy, Joshua and Michelle of 20 Minutes.

What does it take to be a CelebriTeen? KARINA FOO finds out. IMPRESS the judges, work the music magic and give an awesome performance— and do all that in 20 minutes. When you’ve got so little time to get your act together in a singing audition, you’ll feel the pressure too, just like this teenage quartet called... 20 Minutes!

Tamara Jayne Nagaratnam (Tammy), Joelle Regina, Michelle Ooi and Joshua Paul Jesudasan, who had auditioned as soloist in the DiGi CelebriTeen singing competition, were told that they were good, but they would be better off if they came back to audition as a quartet.

In the ensuing 20-minute scramble, these school friends found out that the easy part was to perform as a regular quartet; the hard part was to polish up their singing....[click HERE to read the rest..]
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And from The Star newspapers...

The Klang Valley regional finalists for Digi Celebriteen 2007.

30 Random Things I Love

1. I love being kissed on the forehead.

2. I love looking at old/new photos.

3. I love to try new/ambitious/challenging things.

4. I love to dress up.

5. I love exploring.

6. I love watching friends perform on-stage.

7. I love receiving random sms-es.

8. I love finding clothes that fit perfectly physically and financially.

9. I love staying up all night.

10. I love being able to hold my alco. (erheh)

11. I love having a wonderful dream and REMEMBERING it the next morning, so that I can share it with Pet or Sarah.

12. I love to eat.

13. I love Maybelline's Volum Express TurboBoost waterproof mascara and Fruity Jelly lip gloss.

14. I love the career path I'm on.

15. I love talking to one person, in a moving car, with no particular destination in mind. (sorry,Pet, I know you mentioned this too)

16. I love making people laugh.

17. I love meat.

18. I love jazz bars, and being familiar with a few.

19. I love it when guys have a piercing that actually looks good on them.

20. I love picturing the future.

21. I love having enough credit to make just-saying-hello calls.

22. I love good massages.

23. I love discovering I have more money than I thought I had.

24. I love the concept of interdependence; but I also love independence.

25. I love eating ice cream with Sarah, and watching movies with Pet in her house, and getting Arielle presents she can use.

26. I love discovering my attempted cooking is edible.

27. I love being manja-ed by someonesomeone.

28. I love cheesecake. (yea, had to throw some regulars in this list)

29. I love trying out new musical instruments.

30. I love having a heckload of music and knowing which songs you'd like to hear.

A TRAGEDY

Remember I said I lost ALL my music last week? Well, this week after waiting for my laptop for THREE days while it was in for a checkup, they tell me my hard disk had issues. So they said they'd change it, and asked if there were any important data I wanted to keep.

Of course, to me, my MUSIC/recordings are my data, but I love my pictures and videos and other stuff like study links and bookmarks!! Anyway, they wanted to charge me RM80 to BACKUP only. Of course I refused, I said I'd come backup myself.

So I backed up whatever I thought was necessary, anti-virus setup..my pictures/videos..college transcript..firefox....etc etc.

HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT THEY WEREN'T GONNA PUT MICROSOFT WORD back in!??!?!?!?

Babi. I booted the laptop to discover NOTHINGNESS. It wasn't JONI'S LAPTOP anymore. It's horrible!
The sadness I feel is deeper than last week's. *emodramalion*
Anyway the moral of the story is......................

Always backup your **** and show Joni some LURVE by sending her stuff she'd want in her laptop. Thank you amillionmillion i love you gnite.

Mind distractions - thanks to Pet. -_-

To all those who have wondered......

You Are Straight

There's not much queer about you. So let's just say you're straight... but not narrow.

What's Your Sexual Orientation?

they came up with that conclusion after a mere 7 questions. wow.

and look at this..

Your Quirk Factor: 62%

You're so quirky, it's hard for you to tell the difference between quirky and normal. No doubt about it, there's little about you that's "normal" or "average."

How Quirky Are You?

much to my mother's dismay....sorry mom..

You Probably Couldn't Be a Vegetarian

The truth is, you really like your meat - a lot more than you like animals. For you, being vegetarian is hardly even a choice. You'll take steak over tofu any day. A vegetarian lifestyle is not in the cards for you. You're just not going to go there!

Could You Be a Vegetarian?

I think people are gonna protest about this one..

You Are 32% Cynical

Generally you give people the benefit of the doubt. But there are exceptions. You buy into many of the things that mainstream society believes, but you're not anybody's fool.

How Cynical Are You?

"oh really" is what i thought when i got this coz this week i think it's SO not true..

Your Intrapersonal Intelligence Score: 83%

Your Intrapersonal Intelligence is Very High You've spent a lot of time introspecting, and it's really paid off. You are comfortable with who you are, and you have a life philosophy that you are happy to live by. And you're always re-evaluating what you believe. Because you learn something new about yourself each day!

How Does Your Intrapersonal Intelligence Rate?

Poyo.

Your Interpersonal Intelligence Score: 64%

Your Interpersonal Intelligence is High You are definitely a "people person." You enjoy spending time with others. You instinctively understand people, and you are both a good counsellor and mediator. However, there are definitely times when you've had enough. And that's when you cherish being alone.

How Does Your Interpersonal Intelligence Rate?

and "okayyyy"....

Your Celebrity Boob Twin:

Geri Halliwell

Who's Your Celebrity Boob Twin?

To add to the previous post: I developed a rash today.

A sucky week.

I want to say something happening, or nice, or sweet, but all I have is a heckload of disgusting mucus up my nose, a swollen throat, and my insides are aching. in more ways than one.

I don't think I'll even try to describe my week. It was so mentally disturbing, unexplainable and downright sucky.
Firstly, with no apparent reason, I woke up on Thursday to discover that all my music had disappeared from my laptop.

ALL.

Every single audio file I had, including personal recordings, live recordings, unreleased music collected from artist friends.
Even if it WAS a virus, though I seriously doubt it, how can 2,850 files=24GB just disappear like that?! and ONLY my MUSIC folder!

I don't get it.
My precious music, please come baaaackkkkk.

Then, the weather caught up with me and I developed a swollen throat, the type where swallowing anything hurts. Then it was a slight fever. Then it was a runny RUNNY nose. That's the stage it's at right now. Feverish runny nose dry cough. *sniff.swallow.yuck*

And the biggest issue of the week - people. I hadn't even recovered from That One Incident a week ago, and already another has topped it. Ok, there won't be explicit gory details here. But I'll try an abstract, as usual.
Let's say we're all playing an extremely complicated version of Monopoly. Well, I just made a bad move/investment/buy. And it's one of those where your next move is gonna bring you down. No matter what move you make.
I learnt my lesson the very hard way this time. God, I won't do that ever again. I want to make me better.

I need medicine. Or a magic clock.
At least so far I can use the physical sickness as an excuse for the emoness/lacklusterness/lack of friendliness. It helps prevent questions I don't wanna answer.
Although, at the same time, I want to just GET OUT of the house coz I can't stand having all the space to THINK AND THINK AND THINK. That's why I went out today and stayed out despite the awful flu.

Ok I'm done. If I saw you today, and you catch the flu bug from me, I'm so sorry!
Remember my weird fact about smelling my hair for comfort? I can't even do that now coz my nose is stuffed!! ugh.

with burning eyeballs,
joni.

White&Gold

That was the theme at Brando and Kevan's recent birthday bash. So with a little unease at having to wear the bloating-color, I dressed up with Bernice and Eunice at their home, and we headed to Tropicana. Our arrival was announced by MC Jiggie, and a camera clicked in our faces, but I have yet to receive those pictures. =D We arrived at about 10:35pm (transport issues), had some food, played some booty-shaking games, and then just about everyone had a turn to squish up on the dance floor. It's been awhile since I've gone to a dance party, so I had fun.=) I especially missed dancing this week after watching Dirty Dancing:Havana Nights (which is pretty sexy, btw)

Here's Kevan with his perfect girlfriend Khing Wei - the one with the beautiful rainbow eyes. Kevan turned 19. And Brando, the kid who used to run around asking me what my name was and then naming me Jonanananannananaaaaa, turned 16 this year. Here's to an AWESOME year ahead, good memories, and minimal hangovers. *clink*

Who shaped your thoughts?

A friend of mine recently posted this up and I wanted to share it:

What does society value, if anything at all? How I wonder. Is it true that morals are deteriorating? Or simply a notion put in our faces by self appointed 'police' ? The universe is a large large space.. perhaps the concept of relativity is inescapable after all, even to those who would deny it. What separates 'good' from 'evil' , 'justice' from 'injustice'. According to Socrates, justice is wisdom and injustice is vice. So do we group justice with good, and injustice with bad? While certainly Sunday school answers are ingrained into our consciousness..have we ever stopped to ponder why? Who shaped our minds? Who decides what 'society' is, functions as, and concerns itself with? Who made up 'morals'? No.. Of course I believe it is still right to do right.. but we must constantly question the world around us..seek answers and push for them when it is withheld. So what is 'right'?

?

Fear

Seriously though. Do I really have what it takes to be a producer? And one who makes an impact too?
It's one thing to be able to coordinate a performance or two for little events here and there. It's another thing to make money out of it. And I'm just wondering what makes me think I can do that.

Featuring...Pt. IV : Sexy Lucia.

So I had four days of class last week in Bangkok, and no, while I have nothing much to say about that, I do wanna show you who I stayed with.
Introducing Lucia, the beautiful Thai girl who let me stay with her in her pretty room for the week.
You may wipe that drool off now, pleasethankyou. But yeah, she was a real sport, and I had a good time staying with her, both of us keeping each other company ..I shall refrain from the..um..details. Moving on,The white chick in the pic above is Kristina who is another character of her own. I love this picture, it's got so many potential titles. Lucia named it "Ragdolls". I'd put something a lil darker, though. heheh I love their expressions!

Oh did I mention she dances and sings too?

here's a good one of the mini Lucia @ Pompeii. Another beauty. If only it was a little clearer..
Summary:
Lucia, pretty Thai girl, contains complex infrastructure of the female mind and isn't afraid to speak out, studies in prestigious Chulalongkorn University of Thailand, lived in Italy for six years, will make you eat her coffee-flavored jellybeans. =)

There's a new poll on the right...

I'd like your opinions on that question, so yeah, feel free to mention anything in connection to the blogpoll anywhere here too. =) gracias

Look at this hottie here

I'm not the only one who thinks she should keep this grooming thing up, right?=) Looking good this way, woman!
P.S. For those who couldn't recognize, it's BERNICE JESUDASAN!

While at Suvarnabhumi Airport...

For the first time in a LONG time, I wasn't looking forward to going to Bangkok, and I'm so excited to get back to KL now. No idea why.

I feel like cheesecake now.
And running in rain.
I tried nice perfume just now at the Duty Free. mMmmMMmmm. hahhaha.
yes i'm just blurting out thoughts as usual.
I'm happy.
which might be a lil strange coz it's just been a day away since my last post which probably sounded emo. heh.sorry 'bout that. i know i made that don't-be-emo-in-blog thing, but...yea now and then can lah hor..

"By day you'll feel the what-ifs run over you
By night you'll wish you knew what you wanted and
all that you'll want to picture, to think about is if maybe I could be
all that you want all that you need, everything you hoped for
sooner or later you will see it, honey
I could be.
I could be."

-joni-

"Too deep for my superficial lil mind"

or was it the other way 'round? I don't know what's gonna come out in this post. One minute I was in class, learning Aristotle, feeling superficial and not really following the lecture. Then Max popped in, remember my lecturer from the diploma course? It was good to see him after so long. *random mention*
Then I was happier for some reason. and it rained magnificently. I wanted to soak in the rain.
Then I got home after wading through floodgustingwaters, and chatted online.
And I start to wonder about the functionality of online messages. Isn't it hard to describe what's really on your mind through conversation-style typing? Sometimes you don't want to feel/sound stupid/emo/upset/toohappy/excited, so you add idiotic little things like emoticons and lols,hahas and hehes.

I don't appreciate the confusion MSN causes.
potentially can cause.
has caused.
yea whatever.

I wish you could sometimes turn psychic and read me openly.
I wish you'd ask how I am, and mean it.
I wish you had the guts to stop avoiding my point.
I wish you weren't so caught up in your heartbreak coz then maybe you'd see mine.

This week I've missed..

Petrina Thong Beng Ching - i miss your listening ear. and your sympathy. like, face to face. u've been listening to my nyeks this week, THANKYOUUUUU muahhhh, but yknow, i miss our regular sleepover nights where we'll just mumble stuff to each other now and then, or get really into a particular topic and all the expressions that come with it. Even the other day when i stayed with you one night, hardly talked..

Nelvie Reuel Ng - who has been consistently making sure that I'm still alive in my house while completing my assignments, and not overdosing on stuff. But I haven't seen him in a while. ["him" instead of "you" coz I doubt he'll ever read this.]

[evil eyes pic. =D]

Reena & RT & Kanu- it's been SOOOO LONG since I saw my cousins. when we're together, we are...well..noisy, to say the least.

But most of all, I miss...

Sarah Lim Shu Yi - I miss the happyhappyrandom days like when she picked me up and we got lost in ShahAlam/Puchong..
and when we had NZN cravings to satisfy and we'd go "mMmMmMmMM" at the same time when it entered our mouths.
and munching at 3am on the kitchen floor.
and begging each other for massages coz we seem to be the only ones who can.
and just talking about ...stuff. just anything at all.

Melinda Doolittle

I don't usually get all fan-ny about artists/singers/actors. But this Melinda chick, from American Idol 6, is.
so.
good.
She makes me wanna do the whole DearMelindaI'mYourBiggestFan thing and put in my 2cents' worth into her mailbox together with heartshaped chocolates in shiny paper.





I love her most for her humility.
She is so humble and sweet and yet, on the stage she's a powerhouse!(apologies for the cliche)
I will probably stalk her online for a bit. I just wanna HUG and KISS her!
and LOOK! even Simon Cowell kissed her!



Oh, and i thought the following video was ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS.
Simon Cowell kena marah by an 86yr old granny?!priceless.

Adlee's wedding

It was actually a "renewal of vows" coz Adlee & Owen got married in UK 15th April '06. Nevertheless, it was a very pretty garden ceremony.This is Adlee's sister - Tiffany Fay (and that's her daughter Arianna's lil hand in the picture)Beautiful Dr.Genevieve Teoh was there too..Yea we had to take bathroom pictures.Here we are trespassing in their chalet - it was gorgeous.
But I'll let Pet blog about that.
'Til then.