Stevie. Here

2007-09-01T12:19:00.000+08:00

Got up really early yesterday to bake muffin-esque cakes for the teachers in Swiss. Lesson learnt, buy good batter, that way the lack of baking skills won't be obvious.
P.S: Waikit, your house has lotsa ants. Wonder if any of them got into the batter.

At Swiss, most of the teacher's had gone to lunch since we were rather late, so we waited for them to arrive. Boy, MsAnnieTan sure can talk a lot. But she was really nice, offering to drive to MrsKoh's house to pass her the stuff we'd baked because MrsKoh was going to Penang.
MdmTang wasn't so pms-sy yesterday, I wonder why.
I didn't get to see MrsChan.): Why's she always having babies??
-Just because I didn't say anything doesn't mean I'm not annoyed at you. I told you repeatedly not to touch it, because it's not like you'd pay if it's spoilt, but you still kept on grabbing at it. Now it's spoilt, you think a simple 'sorry' suffices. It's not all about the money though. I kept warning you, but you wouldn't listen.-

Being the ~~bimbotic~~ Heroes fangirl, i rushed off to Vivo with Waikit. We were late for half an hour but they hadn't even turned up. ERM. Joined Vanessa to squeeze with a gazillion other fanboys packed along the red carpet. Well actually, they were on the carpet instead of along. After listening to the emcees rile the crowd into shrieking, sceaming 'Yatta' for the upteenth time, and many false alarms, they finally arrived. The scene was quite chaotic, with people surging towards them with cellphones, cameras, camcorders and the like. Trying to squeeze past the rest, I realised how short I really was. Since I couldn't see what was going on, I had to look at other people's cameras to see if they really were approaching.
Then Masi Oka walked past. I swooned.
Greg Grundberg is tall, really tall. I had to supress the urge to yell "Officer Parkman, Officer Parkman!" when he walked past.

We didn't get to see anything at all when they went up the podium because everyone was so tall. I didn't even know where the podium was, so I got them to go up so I could be the obsessed fangirl i was, and snap pictures. Was a long time before I managed to find a spot behind some kid, but I still couldn't see them at all...so I did the next best thing -stick my arms out and snap with wild abandon, hoping I'd get a few decent shots in.

I snapped...

past heads,

between arms,

under elbows,

and the ceiling by accident.

Because I wasn't carrying one of those humongous camera's ~~like some kiasu fans~~, my shots were a bit pixelated. Attempts on the photo-editor didn't help much.

Click on the thumbnails for the enlarged version.

Thank you to Vanessa and Waikit for making my day!(:

Went to Comex after that, I didn't know Vanessa was an IT noob!:D
"Why can't this be switched on??" *presses button furiously.
"It's a dummy."
ROFLMAO.
Heehee okay, please don't smack me.
I want the Creative Zen! It was bundled with aurvana earphones yesterday, wonder if it still is today. Or I'm gonna wait for the Apple's new ipod release (purportedly) sometime next week and hope the price of the Zen falls.

Tell me how this isn't hot.

The one about the fun GP lesson.

2007-08-15T22:50:00.000+08:00

It's not everyday that GP is fun, and it's definitely not everyday that you get to play an online game during the lesson.
mcvideogame.com
It's a simulation about managing the McDonald's Corporation where cows are burnt to ciders by a gargantuan torch if they've disease, employees spit in the people's food, and you get to corrupt important people to avoid lawsuits -what fun!
Five minutes into the game, the room was filled with a chorus of
"Zomg, where aren't there any cows??"
"Hahaha, my employee just spit into the customer's food and smiled!"
"HUH, my cow just turned green"
"Let's go corrupt another official!"
"My cow just turned into a skeleton, wth???!"

Now tell me how GP can't be fun.

The one about OneACS Day.

2007-08-12T22:20:00.000+08:00

So last Wednesday was national day celebrations. You cannot imagine just how boring it was. If not for Mr Ngoei's amusing commentary, the whole thing would've been a total mess.
People were strolling in late, even while the marching band..marched. After the guest of honour came and we sang the anthem, and then watched the uniform groups march in. Since it was a OneACS thing, there were guys from secondary and primary ACS schools. When the primary school scouts marched in, people kept 'Ooohing' and 'Aaaaahing', because the 'lil guys looked so cute attempting to march(I say this, because their march resembled more of a casual stroll. But it was a CUTE casual stroll.)
Anyhoo after a looong time (and having a little boy collapse from the heat) they finally started and we sat there watching other people play games. Excuuuuuse me. I don't really see how we're celebrating by sitting impassively, watching a bunch of boys roll about on the field.
An hour into the event, people started heading (in droves) to the canteen near the pool. Peishan and I got bored, so we walked about trying to find a way out, but all the gates were being guarded. I suggested to Peishan that we use our feminine wiles and trick the primary school kids at the gates into letting us out, but she rejected the idea. I wonder why.
After some more pointless searching (getting desperate), I suggested going to the back of the toilets to see if there was a hole in the gate. We hurried there, sure that such a thing only happened in movies, but alas, there a hole was! After lots of deliberation, it was agreed that we would slip out if 1) I was able to squeeze out 2) I was desperate enough to.
I tested the limits that the fence would stretch because there were many rusty bits that I did not want stabbing into my face while I tried squishing myself out. After a looong period of deliberation and being interrupted by a fellow ACsian (outside the gate, and was amused by us!), I was finally about to try squeezing out unglamly, when some ACS International guys came over. Being small and skinny, they slipped through easily. After the second one slipped through, a pair of IB student councillors came over and spotted the whole, exclaiming. I swear it was so cartoon-ish.
In case you were wondering, we got locked in till the end of the event because the hole was spotted. Darn.

The one about the Meizu M8 miniONE phone.

2007-08-11T12:31:00.001+08:00

Okay, I'm only putting this up so I can remind myself not to rush out to get a new cellphone.
Presenting, the Meizu M8 miniONE:

Sure it looks like a knockoff of the iPhone, but it has much better features, and a more reasonable price tag. If only it'd come out now.

The one about Heroes

2007-08-10T09:43:00.001+08:00

Okay so it's finally out who the cast of Heroes are coming to Singapore, and it's gonna be held on Friday 31st August at Vivocity. Thank goodness for the school holiday given by acjc (to make up for the open house on the following saturday methinks), but I am majorly pissed because Zachary Quinto (Sylar) and Hayden Panettiere (Claire) aren't coming. It's a good thing they're sending Masi Oka here or it's be pointless to go.

It's stuff like this that makes Masi so lovable.

The one about TEH COOL GAMEZ.

2007-08-07T12:06:00.000+08:00

Okay, I really have no idea why I decided to type like a nitwit.

Anyhoo, I want the game Overlord, because I derive a great satisfaction from sending my minions to terrorise villagers and fluffy sheep. Played the demo, and the whole idea of doing evil instead of the usual heroic shtick is actually quite refreshing. Moreover, worshipping minions always tickle the narcissist in me.
Though I'd have to get a better pc because the lag on my current one is just excruciating. Darn.

-I'm obviously not a very wealthy Overlord, my minions have to make their own helmets out of pumpkins.

On top of that, I want a new handphone. Damn the iPhone, now I want a touchscreen one .. Just not the (overated)iPhone mind you.
And ooh, oooh! An mp3 player! Unfortunately, Creative's newest offering is a revamped 16gb Zen V Plus ~~Staring at the tiny screen for an entire episode of Heroes, Oh the wonders it does for the eyes!~~. Apple's Nano Red is kinda hot, but it only supports the mp3 format and can't play video's. On a brighter note, there's supposed to be a revamped Nano out this week, but the price is astronomical.

Note to self: Surround product with lots of hype and proceed to sell it at prices (that products with better and more features) are sold at. Don't worry, the ~~nincompoops~~consumers will still lap it all up shrieking i have the i<_____>!! then buy (equally ridiculous) accessories like this

Now how in the world am i supposed to scroll with that on??

The one about the Polyclinic doctor.

2007-07-06T23:07:00.000+08:00

And finally back, and to rant about my visit to the polyclinic.
Went there the other day because I had pain in my gastric/chest and a creaky joint(yes, there is the occasional 'crack' when I move my leg).
Apparently, the gastric-itis was because I overeat at night. Sure, half a bowl of rice is considered overeating, I must be bingeing during lunch.
I then asked her about my creaky joint and how to stop the noise, and she gave the most awe-inspiring reply I have ever heard-
"It's natural, the lubrication in your joint has worn out due to frequent use. Not to worry, you aren't experiencing any pain yet. If you do, that means your joint is destroyed."

I wonder if it ever occurred to her during that 10minute consultation that the reason I went to the polyclinic, was to prevent such a thing from occurring?

Her bloody antacids aren't working btw.

My usual start-of-school rant.

2007-04-19T20:50:00.000+08:00

Okaye, so school's barely started and i'm drowning under the deluge of assignments i'm given. It doesn't help that i take history and am given thick compilations of word-filled notes. FYI i'm an arts student now, though i still take math and physics. Yes, i am a masochistic individual who likes to inflict despair unto myself by taking h1physics, h2math and h2history. Econs is bearable -for now. The major problem i'm facing is TIME. The lack of it. Having lessons till four almost everyday, then going for orchestra practice on mondays, tuesdays, wednesdays and saturdays does wonders to my schedule. I've been submitting substandard homework (even for someone as lazy and complacent as myself) and not reading my notes before lectures. The horror.

Time to teacher-bitch.
Econs lecturer: There're 2. Both are lame. In fact, i feel a part of my brain degenerate every time they crack what they define as a joke. The woman likes to act cute too. At the age of 45? My eyes.

History(SEA) tutor: I so cannot stand her. She calls people who scream a 'failure in life' and discriminates against appeal students(i.e. me) calling us 'people who came in through the backdoor', and that we have to 'act like the deserving ones who came in through the front door with integrity and discipline instead of showing our true selves' (she stopped short of calling us hooligans). The bloody sod. I swear her bum is so big, it's like an entity of it's own.

Math tutor: Sheeee speaaaaks liiiiike thiiiiiis. Has short, curly, grey hair, and owlish spectacles. She has a penchant for wearing a-line skirts way past her belly button and blouses with amazingly low collars...when her assets aren't much to shout about. Must be really breezy up there.

Physics tutor: He just cannot pronounce.
Rachel = Ray-shel
MingLe = Mingle (yes the english word)
ShanMao = ShaOMao (where the heck did the vowel come from?!)
He got my name correct though when so many others didn't. AMAZING.

Okaye, enough of ranting. Now for amusing incidents.

Amusing incident 1:
Was having sectionals the other day and a senior couldn't make it cos he had tuition. Halfway through the sectional, the section leader looked out the window and saw said senior. She was of course, not pleased. Another senior then interrupted saying,
"Oh, he's flirting. Let's not interrupt."
*pause*
"Haven't you heard? GohChokTong said 'Go forth and multiply.'

Amusing incident 2:
*An extremely vocal classmate stands up abruptly during econs tutorial and walks to the door saying:
"Wah, I can't tahan anymore.'
*Puzzled teacher asks:
"What's wrong with you?"
"Stomachache. Like you said, i'm full of shit."

Amusing incident 3 (i wasn't present though):
*Asked to give his view about JC's, classmate said:
"JC is crap."
*Asked by straight-faced teacher to elaborate why
"Poly students learn practical and useful stuff. JC students have a higher chance of going to university cos we learn useless things."

There are a few more, but i'm sleepy.
Byeworld.

I hate the rain.

2007-03-15T10:02:00.000+08:00

And it happened to rain yesterday as clarrissa and i were ~~rushing as we were almost late~~ heading to ac from buona vista mrt station, and i realised that i'd forgotten to bring a plastic bag to keep my wet umbrella in. Not wanting to get my bag and erhu wet, i remarked at how tempting it was to just flag a cab. Just as we walked past the taxi stand, a cab drove down the lane. We flagged for it and got into it. (On an absolutely irrelevant note, erhu's are oh-so cab-unfriendly.) The cab fare cost us $2.80, of which $0.80 was the actual amount incurred travelling on the road.

When i got home after practice, my dad was packing for his trip to China. I went on with my life, having dinner and doing homework. After awhile, i noticed him looking out the window repeatedly, muttering to himself. NOT wondering if he was peeping at the neighbours, i asked him what he was doing. With a pensive look on his face he said "There aren't many cabs out right now, maybe i should go down earlier to wait by the side of the road instead of hailing one and incurring an extra $2.50."

You wouldn't believe how ashamed i was of myself then.

This is a man who slaves away in the office, tolerating shit from customers, and annoying me by asking me how to do up a powerpoint presentation (simple to me, but obviously not to him since he didn't grow up with computers), and he's still has to think twice about calling a cab. Yet extravagant little me comes along and spends $2.80 with only a fleeting moment of guilt.
Okaye, i'm at a lost at how i should conclude. I shall be off then.

Back.

2007-03-13T08:37:00.001+08:00

Okaye, so i went to appeal to acjc last tuesday.

The next day in pj, i found that i couldn't change a subject from the fixed subject combination (Computing, Math, Physics) so i decided to appeal over to the arts stream. Couldn't find the teacher-in-charge and i hadn't gotten my call from acjc by then, so i figured that i'd better get used to pj ~~and not understanding people speaking in their rapid mandarin, about their chinese pop stars, and their extremely cheena chinese orchestra that would soon be flooded with cck members.~~

Only managed to find the teacher-in-charge on thursday, and he agreed (after humming and hawing) to my appeal. That was not before he commented cynically 'We're not a charity you know.' What a nice man.

Went for the China Studies in English profile test, and was subjected to mcq's about china like:
-What is the population of China?
-What is the size of China?
-What is China's official religion? (It's Atheism btw, not Buddhism. Yay i got it right)
-What is China's largest/longest river? (I thought it was Huanghe. It wasn't. Darn.)
-When did Hongkong (return? rejoin?) China? (1997/1998/1999. How am i sposed to know, i was in primary school then.)
-Who is the president of China?
You'd be surprised at the number of people who don't know HuJintao. Isn't he such a charismatic personality? Well anw someone who took the test didn't know who he was. The horror. I had to suppress the urge to tell her not to bother taking the subject.

After that, they played wet&dirty games. I decided experiencing it during the first orientation was quite enough and excluded myself from it. We were taught the same Fun and Mass dance again, but at an accelerated pace. Those who weren't in pj during the 1st 3months didn't quite catch the dance steps, and bumbled about. I still didn't like the mass dance, and my new dance partner seemed hell-bent on exhibiting his height by lifting his arms up high when we were supposed to so a cha-cha-cha, causing me to stretch up awkwardly.

After the horrid dance, we went down for war games. I sat impassively by the side and watched people run about shouting, shrieking and squealing. Bored, i took and my cellphone and saw a missed call. I didn't recognise the number and called back, smiling cynically at my fellow og member saying very dryly, "what if i'ts from acjc, haha" I almost tumbled off my seat and rolled down the bleachers when i heard "You have reached ACJC, press 1 for-"

I pressed 0 for assistance, and asked stupidly "Erm, i think someone called just know but i don't know who." I was redirected to another number, and repeated the question (stupidly again). After hearing the shuffling of papers coming from the other end of the line, he announced that my appeal was accepted. After thanking him, i sat numbly and was surprised by the strong feeling of ambivalence that swamped over me. After all, i really did want to take China Studies and ac wasn't offering it (in english anyway), and pj's just a ten minute drive from my home. But the thought of having to converse continually in mandarin irked me. Not to mention their orchestra room that -with the green floor and short yellow curtains- so did not provide the ambiance for playing music.

Ultimately, i decided i liked the ac uniform better ~~and pj's pe was really too much for me to bear~~.

Just to tell the world.

2007-03-09T21:20:00.000+08:00

I'm still alive. Shall blog in awhile.

I am NOT pleased.

2007-02-14T15:49:00.000+08:00

Firstly, there's my annoying german teacher, who has to jet back to germany to settle her own problems, when i've only three frickin lessons left. the reason i withdrew from Pj was to learn german, now she leaves me with 3weeks to sit at home and stone, since no one will hire anyone to work for a miserably short period of 3weeks. Then she had the cheek to insinuate that it's my fault and that i could've arranged for lessons on the tuesdays and thurdays when i was free (she only comes on mondays, wednesdays, fridays). Excuse me, you only informed me that you had to go return to germany the following week, this week. Hell i wasn't aware i pay your sorry, skinny arse 50dollars an hour to admonish me -for your lack of responsibility.
Next, i am terribly annoyed at the admin woman in swiss. I called the school on mstan's advice to ask mstay for help to appeal. I asked if i could get an appointment, then she proceeded to raise her voice and me, repeating over and over again that mstay wasn't in. Puzzled, i asked if she could help me leave a message, then she began to rant and rave again that mstay wasn't in for me to ask for an audience with her, leaving out the most important phrase which would be 'you need to ask her personally.' Annoyed, i said 'Oh, you mean i've to ask her in person ah?' to which she confirmed my statement as if i were some imbecile. Well I'm not the one here with a ~~non-existent~~poor command of english. I swear she shouldve been given the sack a long time ago.

2007-02-10T22:33:00.000+08:00

I looked at the results slip and saw only A's and B's. I sighed inwardly with relief. Then i began to calculate my l1r5 ( i didn't have the sense to open my FormA where the results would be pre-calculated in there). Glancing quickly through the list, i was amused to see that i didn't get a C for chem and bio. Suddenly, i noticed that B3 sitting inconspicuously at the top. Tracing my finger left, towards the 'Subject' column, i realised it was English. I gasped 'Omg,' sat numbly for a second. Then, something within me just snapped.
And I dissolved into tears.
How terribly, absolutely, tremendously embarrassing. Crying is unglam. I didn't even cry when i got an l1r5 of 36 during sec3. To complicate matters, i missed the 10points required for getting the scholarship in Singapore poly by 1point. I am very much disturbed by that repugnant grade for english, especially since it was the same mark i had for chinese.
At least, i -no wait. I can't seem to see the bright side of my current situation right now. Though i got B's for bio and chem (which is of course, terribly unexpected), i'd already intended to use physics since i was rather confident i'd get b3 for it. But my abysmal performance for english has just screwed my l1r5.
Nabeh la.

Total Randomness.

2007-01-31T16:21:00.000+08:00

Excuse me, but_
Omgzomgzomgzomgz.
Will someone be a dear, and please buy me this?? *asks brazenly as irrational lust for object takes over self.
http://www.bettyjoy.co.uk/catalog_item.aspx?Group=toys&Item=Buster%20Mouse

The one about the German Tutor.

2007-01-29T17:58:00.000+08:00

Okaye, so i had my first lesson with Ulrike(pronounced, Oool-ree-kay) last friday. She arrived at my doorstep, and the first thing she did was ramble about her medicinal stockings and such. Not yet used to her strong German accent, i just smiled and nodded, pretending i understood. Suddenly, she whipped out a pair of bright purple stockings from her bag, and wore them over her stockings, all the while announcing that the stockings were expensive. The lesson was alright, fun(Spaß!) in fact. We had a little exercise at the end of the lesson and since I'm taking conversational german, we practised errr..conversing.
Had another lesson today, and I finally found out what a schnitzel really was. We had another mock conversation, but it really consisted of her speaking really quickly in German, and me(mostly) trying to recall the phrases which were actually learnt by heart, and replying(not so quickly). I had trouble with a particular word 'Worum', where she kept emphsising i had to pronounce the 'r'(and went RRRRR). Problem was, i didn't hear an 'r' when she pronounced and i was basically copying her, so she was only satisfied when i added an exaggerated RRRRR. Other than that, she says i have good pronunciation. Whoo. Btw joyce, you are supposed to be a Verkauferin.
Wonder if she'll teach me german expletives, she used 'shit' in front of me. Heh.

Grade7.

2007-01-15T15:23:00.000+08:00

That''s the grade of the current j2 erhu players in ACCO, and I'm trying to appeal in. When i don't even have a grade. Whoopee whee. No wonder whatever they played was pitch-perfect. Methinks their band of 8players are louder than SCCO's 20+strong strings section. Oh dear. Nowhowamisupposedtogetin.
Crashed AC on friday, the food at AC is so much better. PJ's canteen food is inedible. I've been reduced to dining at the cafe everday or not eating at all. No wonder i seem to be running low on allowance earlier than usual. Walking to school everyday doesn't help since my transport fees aren't incorporated into my allowance. Oh i loathe the tutorial system. It's senseless to sit around and waste periods, then have to stay back later than other students just because of the subject combination i chose. Minus the horrible food and lack of interesting cca's, i really do prefer PJ to AC. A lot. ~~AC seems rather pretentious to me.~~ Of course, i'd rather head to poly and do something interesting, but i 'm facing opposition from my parents. Gah.
And mean jasmine, don't poke fun at my junior! *bashes your head in.

It's the time to DISCO.

2007-01-08T20:16:00.000+08:00

I can't believe I'm saying this, BUT. I love the dance learnt today, because it's disco. And i love 70's disco. WHOO. Saturday Night Fever! *cue in finger pointing and hip gyrating. Sexaye. The best part is, there isn't any contact required between partners, therefore, no groin smacking. You damn sicko's, so excited over my little booboo. I so do not enjoy smacking other people's bits okay. Ya'll are just jealous.(:
Well anw my new dream: taking business in poly. Problem is, my dad is so against it cos he was from poly and says people will look down upon me if i take it and all. Darn. I so do not wanna go JC and study science there.
On a totally different note, the pj orientation shirt is so stylish.

People have two left feet.

2007-01-04T21:41:00.000+08:00

I have three.
Well ok the movements are pretty okay, but i'm terribly butter-brained. Spent my time at the Mass Dance half a beat behind others, squeaking 'Oh!', because i forgot the next move. It's funny how the initial akwardness of holding the hand of an opposite sex (a stranger no less) is forgotten once complicated dance moves involving twisting and twirling of both parties are forcedd upon us. Halway through one of the said complicated twirls, i accidentally whacked my partner. At the groin. I don't know who felt more violated and embarrassed, him or me. Probably me, because he didn't seem to realise it, so i feigned ignorance. I didn't know his name throughout the dance. It was only till the end of the day, i thought his name was Alvin. I was so proud of myself for remembering something.
The next day, i found out it was Eugene.
My partner's quite good-looking though. Kinda resembles that guy called nic from MiLuBing. Kinda. Any takers? *smiles sweetly at Jasmine.

The first day at a new school,

2007-01-03T19:48:00.000+08:00

And i'm reminded of the fact that i'm socially-inept, from the fact that i spent the whole day at PJ, and didn't make a single new friend, choosing instead to hang about with Swiss people. So while the other people were (forced t because they had no schoolmates there) making friends, i stood at one side and stuck with Caroline. Oh dear. It's not my fault i find it hard initiate a conversation. I just can't stand small talk. I did try on one occasion, but it failed miserably.
Me (to girl in same group): Hi, which room are you going to?
Girl: Oh, MP4
Me (trying desperately to think of something to say which wouldn't make me seem spastic): Oh, ok great, what school are you from?
This lasted for a few seconds, till i felt that whatever that came out of my mouth was truly and utterly ridiculous so i decided to shut up and go find a familiar face instead.

JC life is boring. With the exception of the lit lecture i sat for, i zoned through the lectures. I got a whole chunk of combinations (a lot mroe than others anyway) but couldn't take half of them because they had chem (i feel disgusted just saying thinking of the word). I need an option with H2 math, phy, econs and H1 lit to appear thankyouverymuch, because the only combination resembing that right now is H2 lit and H1 econs, and history seems ridiculously hard. Oh i am highly annoyed by the fact that lit is restricted to people with A2 and higher in english or C5 and higher in pure lit, because now i can't ~~coerce~~cajole anyone i know into taking lit. Gah. This is infuriating. It's really time for me to consider going poly and that oh-so interesting course called Experience Design at Singapore Poly. I might be able to design toys if i take that course. I think. Nevertheless, it seems so cool.

So here goes, the long post.

2006-12-14T09:20:00.000+08:00

(These events are not recorded chronologically as i really can't remember what happened on each day.)

I got on the plane, thinking it would be a 7hour flight. It turned out to be 16hours. SIA seems to have really sucky games now. I mean, Pokemon?! They had a horribly, brain-damaging selection of movies too. Who would want to see GongLi baring her cleavage in Miami Vice. No wait, pretend i didn't say anything. Got down the plane in Milan cos the plane was in transit and saw a football store selling *shriek, Juventus stuff. Problem was, it was 5am in the morning there and the shop was closed, so i could only stare forlornly into the shop.

We did some sightseeing during the next few days on an open-top bus called the Bus Turistic. It was so nice to have cool wind whip into my face and the sun shining down at the same time. The air in Barcelona was kinda dirty though, much dirtier than the air in Singapore.
Went for tapas, and the owner of the tapas bar was this (funny) man who seemed like he was on a sugar high. He performed a magic trick for us, shouting Energy! Energy! and balanced an empty glass bottle at the slanted edge of a table. Anyone could have done that, but we clapped anyway to humour him. He thought we couldn't speak English, when he didn't even understand us when we asked for the menu. He spent the rest of our meal doing another two tricks, which i found rather irritating because i couldn't eat in peace without having to indulge in clapping, smiling politely, or winking for his tricks. The food was exorbitantly-priced though(maybe because we were tourists), 60+euros for a few small dishes which seemed more like appetisers.

Went to the Sagadra Familia, it was under renovation, so i had to crop a lot of the photos to remove the unsightly cranes. there were supposed to be three different facades, but i can only remember 'Passion' right now. One of the facades was supposed to be influenced by animals or something, cos there were frogs and snakes on that section of the building. Found a turtle carved at the base of a pillar. Not sure if i posted that picture though. After paying an entrance fee, we had to pay another 2euros each if we wanted to go up and elevator to a tower 65metres up. I didn't know it would be so high, and frankly, didn't know what i was going up for. When i reached the top, a bunch of jaanese tourists were helping (to the extent of urging) me out of the lift going 'Des, Des!'. I went past them into a narrow, winding staircase and almost fainted, because there were vents in the wall where one could peek through, and look at the ground, 65metres down. i finally stumbled to a sort of tower-thing and forced myself to take a picture. Apparently, my whole family has altophobia, so we decided to go down right after i took the photos.

Got down the Bus Turistic at Camp Nuo, the stadium of FC Barcelona. Found out there was a match that day, but my parents didn't wanna watch, so we just went to the boutique and got souveniers. Didn't really get anything there though. Wanted to get something with Zambrotta, but i couldn't find any. Aw. Walked out of the boutique with only a nice pen. My mom bought a load of things. She doesn't even like football. Walked past a booth that allowed visitors to take pictures with the players. It was photoshopped of course, but i couldn't resist the opportunity when i saw that zambrotta was there. Was supposed to look like i was holding on to his arm, but the lady made me look like i had my arm at his waist. The horror.

Walked about the Gotic Quarter of the city and found a market. It was so clean. I was most amused when i saw pieces of pork thighs hanging from the ceilings of the butcher stalls. The cured ham is called jabugo btw. Shall elaborate how i know later. They were selling dragon fruits for 2euros each. It costs less than a dollar in NTUC.

Got bored on the third day because my mom and i are not the look-at-monuments-and-go-ooh-and-aah type, and started asking my dad if we could go back to Singapore the next day. Turns out it was already night in Singapore, so we couldnt call to get tickets and were stuck there for another 3days.

Over the next few days, we were typical Singaporeans and went shopping. Some of the stuff there was surprisingly quite cheap. I got a bag from Bershka for 11euros. Wasnt of every good quality, but it can't be found in Singapore. Got a pair of shoes for 63euros which wouldve cost around S$200 here. Saw a very unique sling bag that cost 200euros but i didn't get it cos it was too expensive. Got another bag which for 20+euros because of some 1-for-1 discount. It's yellow and brown. omgomgomg.

Went to the Museu del Erotica. My parents are open-minded. I didn't take any pictures though, so too bad. Heh. It was a waste of money anyway, because for 7.50euros, we got to see a few interesting contraptions and a few rooms of erotic art which could have otherewise been accessed online. Oh japanese eroticism (i don't think im'm spelling it right) is sick la.

Visited the Picasso Museum. I didn't know how to appreciate his genre(i've no idea what it is) of art though, so i didn't realy enjoy it. Give me surrealism by the likes of Dali anytime. I got rather grossed out by his drawing of a women having her monthly visitor. It seemed more crude to me than artistic, but then again, what do i know about art?

On the last night, my dad's spanish business associate(this sounds so mafia) brought us to dinner at some seafood restaurant. We waited in the hotel lobby for him, and he was late. How rude. He swept into the lobby, and started gesticulating in a rather broken-wristed manner, which was quite funny because he had this rather manly look. He's short though, shorter than my dad, though my dad isn't very short himself. Most spanish i saw were rather short, but had very pretty eyes -long, curled eyelashes and all. We got into his car, and he promptly volunteered the information that the car was small(a renault) because it was a 'ceeety car' and kept stressing that he had another car, tucked somewhere else. When my dad asked how much the car cost, he said '1million in your money,' i promptly burst out laughing, albeit rudely. He realised his mistake and gave another sum. Apparently, their mid-range homes cost around $2000-5000 per square foot in our money. Hah. We don't use the renminbi, you know?
In the restaurant, i found him particularly annoying so i decided feign interest in a particular picture hung on the wall. It consisted of a fish and several varieties sea anemone. Oh well. At least it was colourful. We sat and ate so many courses, we barely touched the main course when it came. Halfway through the dinner, my mom suddenly asked 'You spanish people aren't very big-sized are you?' to which he replied 'No, not at all, we are not like Germans, the men are beeeg,' then promptly added 'Dey women too.' That mustve been the only time anyone gave a sincere laugh.

On the way back to Singapore on and SIA plane, i met the son of the nice lady that took care of me last time. It was one of those 'Hey! Good to see you!' things, just more sincere since he was more like a korkor to me. I hadn't seen him in ages, and despite being in an air steward for so long, i hadn't met him on a flight before. He was a chief steward too, cool. Suddenly, we got extra good treatment from the rest of the staff on board. Heh. Apparently, busniess class people not only get better seats and treatment, even the packets of peanuts are larger. They get whole fruits too like oranges, apples, and plum.
We weren't supposed to get down during the transit at Milan, but due to some technical error we had to, and i got to visit the shop selling football stuff. Juventus really needs better designers for their memorabilia. AC and Inter have such nice products, but most of Juventus' stuff seemed rather obiang. While in the shop, i overheard this Singaporean teen saying 'Juventus', 'relegation' and 'sucks'. I felt like walking over and saying that Juventus were at the top of SerieB despite their 8point penalty, then smacking him in the face. Of course, i didn't. I am after all, very civilised. : D
Spent the rest of the trip watching movies and playing Pokemon. I found Kirby's Dreamland and SuperMario highly annoying.

Went back home, and puked and had diarrhea simultaneously that night, then fever the next day. My dad had diarrhea only, but my mom didn't. Must be the oysters i had which the business associate had assured were very safe. My mom didn't take any. Bull. I sure hope he had an even worse time than i did.

Yay.

2006-12-11T11:54:00.000+08:00

Managed to fix my phone. Was apparently some common bug found in the n73. I ah, upgraded the firmware of my normal n73 to the music edition. That makes my warranty void i guess, but I'm much happier with the new music interface. Tralala.
Spent the entire day resizing the pictures till i got sick of doing it. Shall blog another day.
I will kill myself if I've to upload the rest of the pictures.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/50449795@N00/

Screw this.

2006-12-08T23:58:00.000+08:00

There's apparently something very wrong with my n73.
I can't sms or make calls, and neither can i receive any because of some 'SIM card registration failed' error. It even switched itself off on two occasions, rudely, while i was calling and texting someone.
With Nokia's notoriously ~~non-existent~~ poor customer service, I'm afraid i won't be able to use my phone for at least a month. It doesn't help when I hate to talk on the phone and communicate largely by text messages.
Damn you Nokia, you'd better get my phone fixed soon. I didn't buy the n73 instead of Sony Ericsson's k800i to stare at it.

Shall blog about my Barcelona trip later on.

Of all the things to inherit,

2006-11-24T09:53:00.000+08:00

I get this:

Others get money and property, i get weird eye disorders.
Got to know this yesterday, when i went to make contact lenses from my optician. Incidentally, being caused by weakness of eye muscles, I've got another problem which causes my eyes to get tired easily, making me sleepy when i read or study. Ok. This is highly annoying, because i only found this out after i sat for the O's, and i spent the entire period before that feeling sleepy whenever i tried to mug.
I complained to my mom. She laughed and said that i was freakish. I'd to supress the urge to launch into a long talk about Genetics and whip out my biology textbook. She said i should be happy cos I'd get double eyelids if i went for surgery. But, i like my singlelids thankyouverymuch. People with single lids are unique okaye.(:
Now that my ACJC dreams are dashed, i shall cross my fingers and hope that i get into AJC or it's straight to PJC for me.

Finally.

2006-10-05T15:46:00.000+08:00

I get to lay my hands upon the Scissor Sister's cd, Ta Dah, and I can't stop listening to Kiss You Off and Ooh.
Love the design of the cd, it's brown and gold! Brown, okay.

Anw, got the n73. Mocha/FrostWhite. Plum only looked good on tv, and there was no red. Now i can't join merv's (and previously also waikit's) k800i club.
Apparently, it can't take proper pictures in the dark though the one's taken during the day are pretty much similar to that of a digital camera. Darn. Was fiddling with it for less than half an hour and the battery went down by three to four bars. Goodness. So much for me making the comment that it's battery was superb. Hm, so listening to my mp3's on it ~~at it's lowest volume~~ doesn't drain much of the battery.
Am extremely peeved at the fact that i can't watch video's pulled from YouTube on it though i've converted it to mpeg4 format. How am i supposed to amuse myself on long and boring bus journey's in this way.
The phone's pretty slow since it is Symbian-based, but it's a lot faster than my dad's Symbian, so i'm not complaining. The keypad's puny and hampers me from typing rapidly anyway.
My biggest grouse though, is that certain songs cackel when played on both the headphones and through the speakers. Like wth, it's one thing to have sucky bass, but quite another to hear cackles while listening to Franz Ferdinand.

MsTan gave out essys written by students from last year's cohort. After reading it, I can understand why the english teachers think we, to quote MrTerenceGoh, "all suck." Ok, so I've only read Jason's essays so far, but i'm already bowled over. Extremely. 26marks for both parts of paper1, like goodnessgraciousme, if i got those results i really wouldn't have to bother about comprehension.

p.s. vanessa, i think Borat's legs are sexy! HEH.

I swear,

2006-10-01T17:37:00.000+08:00

I just cannot fathom why Clarrissa and Joyce are into guys who look like this.

Yes, they look pretty, but doesn't pretty often go with the word girl?
And this is the least feminine one of the lot.

Isn't he just the epitome of macho-ness? I wonder ya'll don't go for guys like that.
Time for me to get slammed. Heh.

I wonder neither singetl, starhub nor m1 have the red nokia n73. Mocha is boring, and plum is so common. I wanna get an n73 but looks like i might have to settle for a k800i instead. This is so infuriating.

Okay so it wasn't so bad.

2006-09-29T14:40:00.000+08:00

So my L1R5 improved by 10points from the 25points i got for SA1. I guess it's not too bad since the target I'd set was 13. Was lucky enough to scrape an A1 for humans even though what i studied for history didn't even come out at all. Heh. Hope luck doesn't run out on me during the O's.
Amath was a surprise -B3. Bahahaha. So was Emath, A1. Hm. Maybe my tuition teacher who always goes "Oh yes, oh yes, you're right, sorry ah," every ten minutes is of use.
Am slightly annoyed i got A2 for english. All because of compre. Got only 1/5 for vocab. How appalling. Only thought of a better description for compulsory(mandatory) after the exam, in the loo. Goodness.
Interestingly enough, i got C's for all my Science. Now will someone please tell me what i'm doing in a triple science class. Shall go Pioneer and try out what Lit and History is like.
Oh this picture is so intruiging. Kinda like Willy Wonka(Johnny Depp) gone gothic. Minus the whole eeek!-my-nose-is-gonna-fall-off! Michael Jackson feel though.

This is highly annoying.

2006-09-28T23:23:00.000+08:00

I just spent an age trying to get into Blogger to re-edit my skin, and now i'm not in the mood to edit anymore. Shall leave it like that for now. Oh well.
It's gonna be Gloom&Doom tomorrow getting back Bio and Amath.
Shall wish Jasmine happy birthday, 40minutes in advance. Be honoured. Heh.

ARGH.

2006-09-25T08:24:00.000+08:00

Enough said, waikit shall DIE. Be prepared for an onslaught of verbal abuse later on.

Well Golly!

2006-09-20T21:48:00.000+08:00

Would you look at the time! It's 9:45 and I've only completed 2 out of the 22chapters of Biology! Whoopee! Now it's time for me to return to cramming. I swear, I've developed the sudden urge to say TOODLES. Good. Frickin. Gosh. What has stress done to me.

You know it's time to go to bed,

2006-09-18T14:12:00.000+08:00

When you start wondering to yourself why there are lasers going by the name of hee-hee.
Physics was nothing short of a tragedy, guessed my way through the paper. The horror. Can't believe they omitted the break between papers, it must be some insidious plot concocted to banish us last-minute people to f9's. To top it all off, i'll prolly get and e8 or f9 for chem even if i get an a1 for practical.
Hooray, my l1r5 for prelims just got screwed over. I don't see the need to study for the other subjects anymore.
On a brighter note, there were no hee-hee lasers in today's physics paper.

I don't feel like DANCIN'.

2006-09-12T14:45:00.000+08:00

Heh. This song from the Scissor Sisters is highly addictive.
Oh btw, NABEH.
I really should've listened to my gut feeling like i did during sa1 for social studies. Reached school yesterday to find that everyone was cramming for merger/industrialisation/education. I had only studied industrialisation among the three, because i was very, read very confident that sustaining singapore in the 21st century would come out and has studied that. Naturally, i freaked out and crammed along with the rest of the class. Went into the hall, wondering if i'd understand the seemingly foreign questions for industrialisation. Flipped over the question paper and saw the words Sustaining Singapore in the 21st Century. I felt like i had been slapped in the face.
Mrs Heng's well-set paper today was surprisingly do-able. Managed to do it without wondering Will someone please tell me what the hell a (insert choice of math-word here) is?!. Wouldn't say i'd get a great mark, but at least i knew what i was doing. Oh, once again i shall reinforce that Probability is a topic to be loathed. I spent the remaining forty minutes i had left trying to figure out 3 probability questions, each worth ONE. FRICKIN. MARK. And got it wrong in the end. Probability ranks way up on the reeking list with P&C and Differentiation/Integration.
Was listening to timberlake's Sexyback and gosh it sounds so dirty. I feel like i'm listening to porn or something. If that's possible. I wouldn't know. Heh.
Managed to set up the dvd recorder all by myself, and my dad couldn't do it. I'm proud of myself, although i got scratched so many times i lost count. Ohwaitaminute. Why in the world did i spend an entire day fiddling with that when i was sposed to be studying for emath? Oh well, time to mug for chem...not before i watch House though. Heh.

I guess it was

2006-09-09T13:14:00.000+08:00

Time for a major overhaul. The words were too squished up for my liking and so were the photos. Hm. I seem to have a fetish for guys who sing in falsetto's.

This has got to be the Lmao-est thing I've ever read.

2006-09-07T12:54:00.000+08:00

Horrendous English, but the story was just so hilarious. Don't they ever have moderators to check the quiality of these things? This came from the official Incredible Tales site btw. No wonder people don't take Singaporeans seriously.
...... I want a Siew Mai!

Crikey!

2006-09-04T18:21:00.000+08:00

Guess i'll never get to hear Steve Irwin anymore. He's dead, fyi. Killed by a stingray. How ridiculous. I was expecting him to get trapped between the jaws of a croc.
Cynical as I may sound, I do actually like him a lot. I still remember the times when i tuned in to Animal Planet just to watch him prance around, catching wild creatures. Him being dead, it all seems rather surreal.
I do feel sad, for him and his family. My condolences.

Oh dear.

2006-09-03T21:57:00.000+08:00

I just wasted half a day at Comex. Went to Suntec at first because I'd apparently read everything on the advertisement but the venue. Had to travel down to the Expo and walk a reaaally long way over from where the car was parked (illegally of course).
Wanted to get an mp3 player and a vcr. To put it nicely, I'm an impatient shopper. To put it not so nicely, I shop like a man. I probably spent a lot more time getting swept away by the crowd from my intended destination than trying out the products.
Didn't get my mp3 player in the end. Darn it. Wanted an iRiver, but it was way too expensive and the salesman annoyed me. A lot. I've no idea why, but he was just so ever reluctant to let go of his damn mp3 players. It's not like there was much space for me to dash away with it. And I'm beginning to wonder if watching too many Chinese programmes and speaking too much chinese is beginning to affect the way i look, because the damn salesman kept playing some song by Elva Hsiao when i was trying the mp3 players. Despite repeated attempts at to hint to him that I'm not into Chinese songs by speaking in English, the damn man just kept playing the same song, over and over again. However, i must pause here to add that the iRiver mp3's don't have very good sound quality because i couldn't hear a thing despite it being adjusted to a volume of 26. And this, comes from someone who listens to a Creative player at a volume of 9 in a crowded area.
Waiting for the price of the 30gb Creative Zen Vision:M to fall. The Zen V Plus is so puny, it's pointless giving it a video function. Did get the vcr, so i'll not have to stay up till 11 just to catch House or quan ming da men guo, yay!

What we accomplish during english lessons.

2006-09-01T12:38:00.000+08:00

Seems like merv's characters come from Kids Central and mine come from the Land of the Androgynous. I shall help mervyn say that his lil robo-man is nice. In case you haven't noticed, the explicit/obscene picture from merv's paper is supposed to be the template (as mrs heng would say) for drawing the cat.

Extra features and drawing added, courtesy of Shinyun. Hm. Why are there notes sharing the same space with my drawings?
I know! Because i don't refer to them! *smiles oh-so sweetly.

Why do i return to my blog...

2006-08-28T16:01:00.000+08:00

When prelims are about to start?!
Well anw, would you wanna be Superman, Batman or Spiderman?
Hm. As much as i think that Batman is cool, i'd be Spiderman. Then i'd be able to have a gay relationship with Batman. Bahaha. Stress is obviously taking it's toll on me.

Now i just can't understand why he has to dress as a woman to judge a competition. Ah well, at least he's hilarious as hell.

*Edit: Apparently he was trying to dress up as Fei Xiang, not a woman. Oh well, kudos for the tuft of chest hair sticking out from his shirt though. it was amusing and a huge turn off at the same time. Heh.

I can't stand Mrs heng because...

2006-07-05T19:46:00.000+08:00

I get scolded for apologising to her when i came late for remedial, yet the people i came with (who didn't even acknowledge her presence), weren't scolded at all. I don't care if this get's me demerit points, but i am like so very, very annoyed with her. Think PISSED.
On a brighter note...

ITALY WON.

How gracious of merv to acknoledge Italy's skill wahahaa.
Oh, Mrs koh noticed my glasses today and commented on how flashy they were. LOL.
Ah well, time to get back to homework. Darn.
On a totally irrelevant note, the taps in the bio lab remind me of brazil's flag. Odd.

Um...

2006-07-03T16:28:00.000+08:00

Excuse me for a moment but...

Forza Azzurri.

Goodness knows if that's grammatically correct in italian, but screw that, because Italy's into the Semi-finals. Allow me to gloat and point out the fact to merv that England didn't get past Portugal. See la, you people see Portugal no up. I should've asked my mom to place a bet for me. Damn.
Oh, and i think US Virgin Islans is not a bad name ok.
Now to sit here and wait for Italy to beat Germany. Tralalaa.

2006-06-24T21:48:00.000+08:00

4E6 Class Video: S-Men

Okaye, i just had to add this cos it was really too hilarious. x)
Now back to homework.

Ambivalence.

2006-06-23T08:01:00.000+08:00

Italia-Rep.Ceca 2-0 goals CZECH REPUBLIC 0-2 ITALY

I like both the czechs and the azzuri, so bah. But yea, i think Marcello Lippi's so amusing. Too bad he left Juve. The commentators sound ridiculous repeating word over and over again, but then again, what do i know about italian?
......
Oh what am i babbling about, i should be completing my homework.

An Ordeal.

2006-06-22T08:01:00.001+08:00

If i were ever given an essay to write with that title, I'd write about my horrible 6 hours I had to endure at the library.
Note to self: Never ever shelve books in the Chinese or Younger kids' section.
There are just so many weird men in the Chinese section. Met one the other time i went for Cip, and met another Saturday. Was sorting out the books when i suddenly hear this man speak rather loudly. Turned to look and realised that his pisses were meant to be misses. Anw he was like "Do you hear the weird sound?" *Pauses like he's conspiring. And yes, there was a sound but it was coming from the speakers. I was like "Ummm... yes..." and returned to sorting the books. He went on going "Weid hor?", and i decided to ignore him. I mean really, what did he exect to do? Dismantle the speaker and check for a bomb?
Was shelving books at the kids' section when this lil kid came up and started pushing my trolley around, going "GAHHHHHHH!". It was cute at first, but it got rather annoying later when he started messing up the books that i had sorted out on the trolley. And goodness me, but kids nowadays have no courtesy (nor do their parents). There was this pile of books at the toddler's section, all spilled on the floor. This librarian went over and remarked casually, "Wah, tsunami ah?" making me burst out laughing.

Shall blog about the class movie later if i can be bothered to. Jasmine, i need pics of zenkyn and mervyn!!

2006-06-16T21:31:00.000+08:00

Now can someone tell me why the HECK taylor dyed his hair?? Huh?! Darn, i think his grey hair made him look more uncle-ie, which is how he should look -.- Bloody hell, since when did he conform?! *reaches for frying pan to whack him over the head
Anyhoo, was reading this book called the Rape of Nanking. Sick, gruesome, perverse, nothing can describe it. I mean, really, there was a picture of a poo lady, nude waist-down, with a bayonet stuck in her privates. This apparently, wasn't a rare sight during the Rape(of Nanking). Like wth??
Well anw, am having this totally weird conversation with jasmine, vanessa, her bro and sis. weird. dum de dum.

Few.

2006-06-16T11:29:00.000+08:00

Yes, that's apparently what waikit like's to use ~~just to annoy the hell outta me~~. And yes waikit, you should be honoured(:
Anyhoo, someone please visit me today or tomorrow at the library at Lot1 or i shall die from boredom cos i'm doing cip by myself. You stupid people who don't wanna do it with me-.- Jasmine's nice and says that she'll visit me today... IF SHE REMEMBERS.
Well.
Guess i shouldn't be so fussy.
Now waikit, be nice and come amuse me too, since i know you'll be the first to read this post. Heh.

Singapore Idol, Season 2.

2006-06-15T08:54:00.000+08:00

Yes, it is once again time for me to bitch and criticise about the talent(or lack of) in Singapore Idol.
Was watching yesterday night's piana show, and i wasso very appalled by the standard's of this year's contestants. Didn't catch last weeks episode, but i don't think the girls were any better. They were all so bad. Bad singing, bad stage presence and most of all, bad PRONUNCIATION. If you haven't already noticed, bad pronunciation's one of my ultimate pet peeves. I mean c'mon, this is Singapore Idol, if you wanna sing with a chinese accent, you should've joined one of the Superstar competitions. Oh wait. Those cheena wannabes in this season's Idol must've been wannabes who got booted from Superstar and decided to try for Singapore Idol. What's more disgusting is that they actually got in. Now, don't get me wrong, i'm not embarrassed of being a chinese, but i really think us viewers should be spared the agony of having to listen to a horribly mispronounced version of 'This Love'(throw in a cheena lilt too). Likewise, we shouldn't allow people like me who can't even speak mandarin without sounding weird to all then Superstar competitions.
Now back to mispronounced words. I really cannot stand it when people pronounce feel as few, like that how the guy from the music school did last night. And goodness me, but his actions were so robotic ~~and repititive~~, i kinda thought he was gonna break into a robo-dance, Peter Crouch-style.
And, i've no idea what people find appealing in that guy who sang 'Geek in the Pink'. I mean seriously, his dance moves were not slick ~~in fact, it resembled that of a deranged monkey~~, and his singing was not even half of Jason Mraz's standard, and i can't stand mraz.
Then, there are the poseurs. I thought that tengku(or however you spell it) guy was pretty presentable ......until he opened his mouth -he just made my hair stand on ends(in a bad way). And excuse me for saying this, but the eyeliner kinda reminds me a Taufik, no?
Bottomline is, i still like Paul Twohill best. HAHA.

Ps: I won't bother to argue with vanessa cos taylor hicks is already THE american idol. bahahaha. i must sound obnoxious. *smilesmilesmile.

The Dreaded Pink Form.

2006-05-25T14:44:00.000+08:00

Hm. Well i got it. Surprise, surprise. The silliest thing is, I'm going to meet an HOD (just so you know, 'H' is pronounced as aech, my grammar was correct. heh.) who doesn't even know me. How retarded can this get? Seriously, if I'd gotten a teacher that knew me and how i behaved in class, it would be worth attending. I really doubt that Mr Kamal will have anything to say about me. Shall blog about it if it's as colourful as the meeting i had last year.

On to more IMPORTANT matters.
......
Taylor Hicks won American Idol!! Bahahahahaha! Apparently, people DO recognise that he has talent instead of condemning him for looking like an old uncle (unlike people like huitong, jasmine and waikit).(:

Goodness. He looks like a priest.
You can see him going Wooo! on this. Bahahaha.
Wth was this doing on there??

Please do not go to this site if you hate cliffhangers:
http://www.goodybooks.com/ibelieveyou.htm
Ok, so i went to this site on a recomendation by a total stranger on friendster. Read 17 chapters, before i was told that i had to pay $8.10 for the book, just to read the reamining three chapters. Wth. Anyhoo, the storyline was really quite ridiculous. It seemed like one of the idiotic chain mails you recieve about this guy liking a girl, only to have her die of cancer.
Have a look at this sms which has a secret code(akin to that of the da vinci code) embedded within:
I'm sorrie if I say anything wrong... u will still come for the appointment, won't u? Let me fetch you on that day, okie? Only you can help yourself. come on, reply a yes...Vent your thoughts to others please... it's the only way out. Ease your illusions! let me help...You've gonna come for it! Only you... yourself can help yourself... Understanding yourself is most important...
......
Apparently, this was one of the ways they made you feel like purchasing the book.
Hurhur, i must have the intelligence of a snail not to know that the so called secret message is 'I LOVE YOU'. Eurgh. A lil more creativity would be appreciated.

Anyhoo, missed the first episode of Project Runway 2 yesterday! Boohoo!):

The Guru.

2006-05-20T10:59:00.000+08:00

And this, is why i am one.

This of course, is further proof.
......
But guess what? I passed chinese.
Fwahaha. I actually failed both paper1 and paper2, but managed to pass because i got a (relatively) high mark for oral.
31.
This proves the responses i gave were highly intelligent. Heh. But really, i think Cheng lao shi kinda pitied me and thought that i was just too nervous. I was reading throught the passage and forgot how to read jing(the first part of police), pausing for many seconds. And i read mang se(err.. python?) as ben se because i saw the word ben and had no idea to read the word.

Ooh i am terribly annoyed that i only got a meagre pass for physics despite the fact that i spent all my time memorising all the damn formulas and only had and hour or so to study for history. As for history, it's freaking screwed. i can't believe that an hour of studying gave me 17/25... For SEQ, but i failed the damn SBQ. Single-digit score for that. Bloody hell. It totally dragged down Social Studies. Am very surprised that i got a B3 for biology. English was horrible. Just passed comphrehension and only got 17 for the report. Only got 21 for my composition, but i wasn't really expecting very much for that because i wrote it in half an hour. Oral saved me. Like, a lot. The conversation part was quite ridiculours though, because i had to discuss what i thought about snakes. I didn't really bother with regurgitating facts about snakes cos many people would have said that already, so i chose to babble nonsense about snakes being misunderstood and deemed evil and vile (oh, i just noticed that both words are spelt backwards. hm.) Ran out of things to say. Stared at her for a moment, and started to make comments about the soundbox of the erhu being made of snakeskin. The next question was about knowledge. How silly, i kinda contradicted myself on that one. Oh well. What matters is that i got quite a nice mark, thanks to the reading of the passage.

Anw, i just changed my layout, and apparently, this layout is kinda glitched cos you've to move your cursor realllly slooowly to get the hyperlink. The tagboard's also kinda whacked. But, all that can be solved with the magic of the "Tab" command. Oh the picture at the top is kinda obscene, but it's oh-so artistic, no?

P.S. only those who are more of a guru than i am are allowed to complain. Those who obtained much higher marks are hereby stripped of all rights to whine about their results. You can instead, talk about how the lady looks, how much cellulite you can see on her thighs, and other inane matters like that.

I should be studying damnit!

2006-05-08T13:47:00.000+08:00

Ok. So my blog is getting dusty, but do you ppl have to be so rude? Nvm. This proves that I've a fanbase which cannot live without regular doses of my narcissism. Fwahahaha.

Allow me to worship the ground that (ms/mrs??) sally yu walks on. thanks to her moderately-difficult chimistry paper, i think i'll finally be able to pass chem. And yes, that's meant to be an achievement.
Anw, the exams were pretty much alright. With the usual careless mistakes, accompanied by exclamations of OMG. or WTF!

Ok, so i've been asked to blog about Taylor Hicks, but i'd just sound like a bimbotic poodle, so i won't.
......
Oh holdon a minute:

Yes, he does look so very spastic in that, but he moves in a very spastic manner anw. but i still think he should be the american idol ~~despite the fact that he loooks old enough to be my grandad~~
*dopey grin

Oooo, time to study for emath ppr2, off i go. lalalaLA.

lalalaLA.

2006-04-27T14:54:00.000+08:00

Ohmygoodness wth am i doing on the computer when i've social studies and amath part1 tomorrow?! Okay, so now that i've managed placate waikit and joyce, in shall be off. Will return after the examination to rant about how i screwed up for english paper1. lalalaLA.

I got told!

2006-04-07T21:04:00.000+08:00

Okay, so i got scolded by Mrs Heng.
Was sitting there doing homework and speaking to jasmine when Mrs Heng walked past and said something along the lines that she had been watching me and was giving me fce and speaking to me instead of shouting as she would normally do in 4e3. Was actually kinda annoyed and wanted to reply that if she had been watching (which she had not) she would have noticed that it was actually jasmine who had initiated the conversation (and no, im not blaming you jasmine). of course, i decided against it and just nodded since she gave me face. Kept quiet after that and she suddenly walked back and screeched at me for only writing down the equation, when i was in fact thinking of the differentiated answer. Got very annoyed and said that i was still thinking of the answer, but she didn't buy it and nagged on. Decided that she wasn't giving me face anymore so i turned mny face down and did my work dutifully, ignoring her in the process. Decided to keep quiet throughout the lesson afterwards. Hmm. Shall remind myself to answer her in monosyllables from now onwards.
Also kept quiet (quite quiet anyway) during today's lesson. She didn't really single me out as much as she did previously. Hmm. Coolness.

Anw, i have placed a tagbaord here, so ppl please tag there. Shall leave the comments function here for lil jasmine so she won't have to make a blog ~~due to her inability to make one. HAHA. okayokay jkjk.~~
P.S: DO NOT write essays anymore cos there's a 200-word limit for each post, and i do not enjoy having my tagbord spammed.

Poverty.

2006-04-03T19:17:00.000+08:00

OMG. I'm gonna be so broke. Just got my allowance, and I've got three money-draining activities to attend.
1) Ice Age 2
Supposed to catch it on the day of the band concert, which is a sunday. SO, ticket prices are higher. Oh and jasmine is such a fickle woman, not wanting to go, wanting to go, THEN not wanting again -.-
2)VJC CO Concert
Apparently, I have been coerced into travelling across Singapore just to accompany Clarrissa to the concert so she can ogle at *CoughXLCough* OhMyGoodness she's gonna have to reimburse me for the ticket or something.
3)AJC CO Concert
Yet another concert. It'll be kinda cool to watch them since i aspire (omg this sounds so much like ms tay) to go to ajc, BUT. It's still gonna set me back by $10. Omg, i'm gonna live like a pauper this month.

Went to my friends concert at MGS, it was quite an interesting experience. Like really, the people there were so different from people from our school. I mean, the people there were really ang-moh-ish. if i'm a banana, they're a bunch of mashed ones. Anw, they were really speaking with accents, but i got kinda annoyed by the fact that they HAD to punctuate the end of every sentence with a high-pitched squeal/shriek. It was actually kinda draggy. Was really intruigued by the handbell ensemble and the violist. The highlight of the whole concert was pobably the performance by Electrico. The area in front of the stage suddenly transformed into a mosh pit full of teenage girls with raging hormones err...moshing. The whole auditorium sounded as if there were people getting ummm..violated or something. Wasn't really a fan of Electrico's, so i didn't go down to mosh. Anw, leaping up and down would do wonders to my shirt which was threatening to fall off my shoulders -.-

Okay, so i was ~~instructed by jasmine~~ asked to blog about something which mervyn and waikit could reply to, but i've no idea what so i shall end here.

oOps!

2006-03-30T18:56:00.000+08:00

Okaye, so i prolly broke swiss cottage's record of having destroyed the most labratory equipment in a day. Was doing titration and everything was going just fine. In fact, I've never broken any lab equipment before. Anw like i was saying, titration was alright, except for the start where my pipette suddenly flew out of my hands and drived itself at jacqueline's pencil case. it didn't break though, so it was no big deal. Went on to do Qualitative Analysis later and placed the boiling tube and two test tubes in the test tube rack. Managed to mix this red-brown powder and a pee-like liquid successfully and got a nice green solution ~~very much unlike jacqueline's luminous green one~~. Realised that i'd forgotten to take an extra conical flask so i went to the sidebench to get one. That was of course when the most horrid thing happened -i knocked the WHOLE rack of tubes over. Was like -OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG- cos the solution (and gless bits) were all over the floor. Ms Seah didn't realise it at first, until she went over and saw the mess on the floor. Of course i had to clean it up. Thank goodness with a broom and not some dirty, balding mop. I was very traumatised by the fact that i broke three things in one second, and was very very careful after that. Did abit of QA and went to wash the stuff. Oh and guess what? Yup. I broke something -a beaker. Was washing the beaker and at the next moement, it was lying at the bottom of the sink. Of course, the whole class erupted into their usual 'OHHHHHHHHH'.
Anw i didn't finish the QA and had to record my name in this book. Meryl also broke something, but her item (a white tile) was kind of a silly object to break, but HEY, at least she didn't break FOUR items ~~unlike yours truly~~. Anw, Ms Seah highlighted my name.
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OMG. How embarrassing. I must be the only swiss student that has her name highlighted or smth. i swear, the only things i've ever destroyed were the ovaries of a poor flower. okay, i have officially developed a phobia for everything in the chem lab -.-

Had a parent-teacher meeting on saturday. Upon stepping out of the hall, the first thing my mom said was
"Do you know how many lights there are in your hall?"
LMAO. Okay, so the vp was so boring that my mom derived greater pleasure from looking at the spotlights. HEH.
Anw, was looking at the subjects for jc and really... I SO DO NOT WANT TO GO TO THE SCIENCE STREAM. I mean seriously, math, physics, bio, chem, computing... Like OhMyGoodness, all the regurgitation this year is killing me, and the mere thought of memorising ~~a hundred more~~ tomes really sickens me. Don't think i'd do very well in arts though. Oh well.

Talking about subjects, the CA report is obviously not a very reliable source to gauge one's subjects. I got 79 for physics, i meant WTH?! And i got this really pathetic score of 65 for english. Like OhMyGoodness, this is ENGLISH leh. Oh and i scored 76 for amath, like HELLO, this is AMATH for goodness sakes, and it's even higher than my emath. Wonder of all wonders, i passed chem. I did fail my chinese, but only by two marks. I swear, i'll be so happy if i get this result for exams -.-

On a completely irrelevant note, i think Mrs heng officially hates me; she keeps calling on me in class. ARGH.

Last Night's Concert.

2006-03-27T15:56:00.000+08:00

It was alright. Just very tiring, got a bit high (not as high as joyce was though). Think i played alright. At least i had tai feng, fwahahaha.
The only thing i had to gripe about was the fact that i got pushed so far in. Heck, my friend even texted me, exclaiming how come the arrangement of the co was so messy that a pp had to sit all the way inside ~~and complained about the fact that she had to crane her neck so much~~. Was very annoyed at the sudden change in the seating arrangement at first, but i kinda got over it later cos i realised that people wouldn't be able to notice it if i made any mistakes.
Had a blister on my index finger and thumb, but they only made their appearance during co practice. Exerted too much pressure during the rehearsal yesterday and a blister on my blister. Rushed to joyce right before the concert started to get a band-aid and she called me a ding-brain -.-
(For the uninitiated, ding is a universal term which can be used for anything and everything. i.e:
Don't be such a ding!
Will you stop ding-ing away?
I got ding-ed!
You are such a ding-ie
On the hindsight, the pronunciation of the term dingie is not to be confused with that of the word dingy.)
P.S: I think joyce and jasmine were quite amused reading the above. ~~That shows their level of intelligence....or the lack of. HEH.~~
Anw, lotsa people said that the atmosphere 'was there', and that they could sense some sorta teamwork-chemistry-thingamajig going on.
My mom said that i had a very short attention span cos my eyes seemed to be travelling around during a few songs. One of them must be tian long ba bu cos i was in the zone, sitting there contemplating about life. When all of a sudden, i realised that the people around me had started playing -.-
Was Mr Chua's last night, was kinda shocked cos i thought it would be the coming saturday. Guess i'll probably not go back. Hmmm. Oh and Mr Chua, i hope you weren't offended by the "I didn't write my message there cos i didn't want it to be under your armpit." comment, hahaha. We'll miss you.
Didn't get to do that whole tea ceremony thing with jasmine and the two gong-gong's ))):
Oh and i am so not amused by the fact that wk and merv didn't know that i was a pp till yesterday. bah.

The Annual School Cross Country.

2006-03-21T21:30:00.000+08:00

Otherwise dubbed as The Swiss Cottage Big Walk by waikit. Okay, so it's happening next friday and i am really not looking forward to it (even though i'll definitely be one of the strollers). I shall have to brave the sweltering heat and hope that i don't get another allergy outbreak. NO, i'm not allergic to the sunlight. Just went to the doctors yesterday cos i've angry-looking, rash-like patches at a few parts of my hands and feet. And before you jump to conclusions ~~like the very ignorant auntie behind the counter~~ it is most definitely NOT the HFMD, OKAY. I mean for goodness sakes, the hmfd doesn't even itch and mine itches so much i'm almost beginning to scratch myself like a dog with fleas. Anyway, the doctor (who was of course much more informed), said it was probably an allergic reaction from some insect bite.
......
Liew. The insect must be rabid.

On to other stuff. I can't believe i'm gonna step down so soon. it seems almost surreal. Clarrissa, joyce and i were discussing about the ugly black co tee we were wearing on saturday, when joyce suddenly said that it would be the last time we were gonna wear it. The darn tee=shirt suddenly seemed so appealing. Which made me wonder how i'd react on the last day of co practice. I mean yeah, being sad is one thing but the only emotions i ever show are happiness or angst (whicih i happened to be showing alot today, but shall elaborate later). Anw, i'm the least likely person to cry. I mean seriously. Hmmm. Guess i shall wait and see.
Oh btw, lotsa people are quite sad by tha fact that Mr Chua's leaving. Funny how people take things for granted. Oh well, i'm sad too but we really can't do anything about it ))): Think the sec4 strings' members won't be returning all that often since it'd be rather weird to face the new teacher.
Had Co today. It was not a good practice. I was ~~pms-ing~~ having one of my very extreme moods swings and looking all sullen, and unintentionally diao-ing a lot of people. This affected the sound from my erhu A LOT. I became rather violent and was kinda rough with my erhu ))): Had another mood swing halfway into the practice and was really chirpy. Was even holding hands with yongmei and swinging them back and forth. I mean, omg, it was just so weird.

What a Motley Bunch.

2006-03-15T21:33:00.000+08:00

This refers to jacqueline, jasmine, vanessa, mervyn, waikit and myself.
Met merv and wk at Cck bus interchange and took the 190bus to town. Was supposed to call jasmine to let her know that we had boarded the bus but i forgot. Only remembered at the first stop, and jasmine coincidentally called me. Jasmine wasn't at the stop so we had to get down -i shall hereby clarify, that the time the bus took to travel between the interchange and the first stop would be barely long enough for jasmine to dash from her house to the polyclinic, before she pushes the blame to me. fwahaha.
Anyhoo, we got down at the next stop and walked back. Feeling not too comfortable with the numerous akward silences, i casually remarked that there was a lot of bird poo (both dried and fresh) on the ground -there really was. i mean, the whole ground was spattered with white splotches. A few steps later, mervyn and i were hit with bird poo. Naturally, we weren't too happy about the liquified missiles, but we continued walking to the next bus stop ~~with me screeching in rage~~. Found jasmine and we got up the bus. Someone (wk/jas?) cheerily announced that bird couldn't control their bowels, hence the gift from the gods.
Jacqueline was nice and went down to the bus stop earlier ~~unlike certain individuals~~ to prevent us from having to alight because of her.
Went to Cineleisure. We had actually intended to watch Final Destination, but chose Date Movie instead. Date movie was really enjoyable cos there were lotsa spoofs of other movies like Kill Bill and Mr and Mrs Smith. The parody of the advertisemet Paris Hilton did for Carl's Jr. was funny too. ~~It was also full of perverse jokes.~~ But seriously, i'd rather it be boobies galore than the blood&gore-filled scenes of fd3. Lest you accuse me of being horny -which i most obviously am not (didn't you hear that angelic ding of a halo?), i'll make it known that i just can't stand mindless massacreing and blood-spattering.
After the movie, we met vanessa at Marina Square. Spent a long time contemplating on where we would have lunch. Finally decided on having buffet at a japanese restaurant. The food wasn't really nice, but we had fun playing with the food. vanessa wasn't supposed to be eating anything since she wasn't paying but she did anyway. After the meal, we found one of those questionnaire-thingies at the side of the table. Incidentally, there was this part asking us to grade the Attentiveness of the staff. I promptly gave them the lowest possible for not noticing that vanessa had filched some food. Of course, i think they were just being nice and keeping an eye closed.
Went back to orchard after that. We didn't really do anything except walk about the stores. Decided to unlease the geek within and visited a few bookstores. Wanted to buy a few books from Kinokuniya, but i wasn't carrying enough cash on me. Couldn't find the book i wanted at Borders. pah. For such a large bookstore, they have even less books ~~that i like~~ than Kinokuniya.
The highlight of the day: Courtesy of mervyn
I kid you not. This was taken at Topshop, not some random picture i googled off the net. Forgot how much it cost. There were other interesting products too. Hmmm.
Being very full cos of the buffet,we decided to have a late and light dinner. Walked around for ages before we decided on where to eat ~~with mervyn recommending us to eat curry puffs from Old Chang Kee. Gee, what a great sutggestion.~~ Settled for NYDC cos Billy Bombers was really expensive. After we were seated, everyone suddenly realised that the food was just a costly. Jasmine suggested that we leave. We didn't want to in the beginning, but after a short moment, six figures strode out of the cafe ~~hurriedly~~. Went to Swensen's after that. The price was about the same too [-.-] Vanessa, mervyn and wk shared a plate of fish and chips. They also shared two ice creams with jasmine. Yup. That was how pathetic we were.

The Three Horrors.

2006-03-03T20:59:00.000+08:00

Jasmine: Sits in front of me. Has a tendency to just grab my hole-puncher (is there even such a term??) and hog it for ages. Can never walk stairs without almost tripping. Says that i am short though she's only one cm taller. Is therefore, almost as vertically-challenged as i am. P.s.: I swear she must be infatuated with her dance instructor. heh.

Mervyn: What did i do to deserve to sit next to him?! The self-proclaimed 182cm-guy is an auntie sorry, i meant lady-killer *ChokeGaspDie* Has the female teachers swooning at his feet. eg. Ms Seah, Mdm Tang, Mrs Heng (okay, maybe not her). His head is a whirpool of perverse notions. Can you believe that he can even construct a disgusting sentence with the word 'Hoick'?

Waikit: Sits diagonally behind. Has thick skin. Just called merv and himself attractive. eurghhh. Takes great pleasure in correcting Mrs Heng's english. Another pervie, though he always denies it. Waikit, we know your secret! Has no qualms about reminding me of the fact that i my pituitary gland doesn't secrete much hormones.

I wonder what i did to accumulate all the bad karma that caused me to end up with these goons. Bah. I swear now they're gonna pick on Jacqueline and I cos we aren't as aye-mah-rish (ah-mah-ish) as them.

GAhhhhhhh.

2006-02-28T20:48:00.000+08:00

OhMyGoodness, i just spent so much ink printing the CO poster-thingiee. 20pages, WTF. Shit, CO owes me a whole cartirdge of ink. Okay, no I'm being nice and not chargning them for anything except the metallic yellow paper. And yea, I am privy to the word metallic yellow instead of gold ~~which is oh so obiang~~.

Somehow, Jasmine has coerced me into watching Final Destination3 with Waikit and Mervyn. Okay, so she didn't exactly coerce me into it, but still... Anyhoo, the shows nc16 and the first thing Waikit said was "Are you sure you'll be able to get in?" HEY. That's unfair, I'll stick out like a sore thumb (incidentally my thumb is sore, but mroe about that later) with the towering giants Mervyn and Waikit. Darn, I wonder what'll happen if I get caught:(((

On to my thumb. My thumbnail got ripped out today when i bent over to pick my erhu up. It collided with the wall and broke. What weak fingernails I have.
(to be continued)

Chemistry is Interesting.

2006-02-28T20:35:00.000+08:00

Pikachu
Shocked
Charlie's
Male
Anatomy.
Zombies
Invented
Thermoflask,
Letting
Hot
Coffee
Maintain
Super
Good
Potency

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Okay, these are just Mnemonics for chemistry, I'm not some pervert. Anyway, this was made up by Mervyn, Vanessa and Zenkyn so no surprise here.

(shall continue mypost later, i've no time now.)

Orchestra Nite 2006

2006-02-25T22:24:00.000+08:00

Please view this post in Unicode.
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Date: 26 March 2006 (Sunday)
Time: 5.30pm
Venue: Singapore Conference Hall
Tickets (free seating): $10 nett. Purchase from any Orchestra member.

This year's Orchestra Nite is our Orchestra's third ever concert. We will be playing numerous well-known pieces including 春, 丰年祭, 天龙八部 as well as our SYF piece -喜讯传边寨. The concert will feature the various sections with their ensemble pieces such as 战马奔腾 and 大理情风, while our dizi soloist, Ruiguang, will be playing 收割. The concert will not just consist of Oriental music as the cello/bass section will be presenting Canon in D.

Join us on the 26th of March for a nite(sic) of wondrous music and be enthralled by the melodious tunes of the Swiss Cottage Chinese Orchestra.

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This was supposed to be for the noticeboard, but Ms Lim said that no one would be able to stand there and read the whole thing :((( so I decided to put it up here instead ~~as a form of free advertisement~~.
Just edited it, the paper is in a nice shade of matallic yellow :)))

Chose my new pair of spectacles. They're really really unique. Can only get them next week cos my mom made contacts too. Wanted to get contacts cos I look ummm.. less daow without glasses, but specs are so much funkier. My specs are seriously getting more expensive by the pair, paid 360bucks for this pair. Like OMFG, the person didn't say till i chose the specs. It's supposed to be a designer piece handmade in france, but HELL, who really knows? It's really nice anyway :)))

Can't. See.

2006-02-21T15:10:00.000+08:00

My spectacles broke today. I couldn't find my other pair of frameless glasses and had no intention of putting on my oh so obiang full-framed ones, so I spent the whole day squinting away - not the most enjoyable thing. Had to play for the concert preview and I couldn't see the scores at all. Yu Zhou and Feng Nian Ji were alright, but Tian Long Ba Bu was horrendous. The number on the scores were just a tangle of squiggly lines to me. Messed up a lot - shall not elaborate.
Am at home right now instead of at CO cos I'm going to get a new pair of spectacles and repair my old ones. Okay, so I feel guilty about not going to CO, but I can't see the scores anyway so it would be a waste of time.
......
Bah. What excuses I make.

bRank's are IN.

2006-02-17T21:40:00.000+08:00

Us students of 4e6 have developed a unique style of speaking. Thanks to teachers like Mrs Koh and Mrs Heng, our articulation has improved tremendously. Gone are the days where the word class is pronounced as it is spelt.
All hail 4e6; they perfect spoken English!
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Yes I am being terribly ridiculous, but to hell with you, I've decided to list down the words which are unique to 4e6.

The Revolutionary Words
.aphids: aye-fids
.class: cRass
.blank: bRank
.english: eeng-gRish
.multiply: mau-tee-pRy
.semicircle: seh-my-circle
.simultaneously: sy-maal-tay-neas-lee
.pyramid: pee-rah-mid (with odd sing-song lilt)
.violent: vee-yeo-len

Oh and this is not some lame-assed thing I made up. In fact, we make it a point to use them every lesson. Even during Mdm Tang's, there will be sudden outbursts of 'Aphids!'. Mdm Tang was somewhat amused by our cheem pronunciations.

Cry-fest.

2006-02-10T22:17:00.000+08:00

For those of you who were have been festering under rocks, the O Level results were out today.
Clarrissa shook Zhiyin's hand and wished her good luck. I did the same, except i said 'Congratulations.' oOps. Of course they pointed it out so in jest, I ressponded that it was because I knew she would be getting great results. What a great remark -.-
Mr Yoong approached our class and talked about the standard of English deproving and that we had to be the batch that got better results. This of course was responded with blank stares, nonchalant faces and at worst, got no response at all.
Poor him.
There were the usual torrent of tears, hugs from friends and congratulatory remarks from teachers. A certain teacher said that the default mark which most people would get would be a B3. Wowzers.
Saw Shiwei. When she saw Clarrissa and I, she promptly wrapped her arms around us ~~what long arms she has~~ and squished us up in a huge embrace. Gee, you could feel the love emnating from her. Awwww. Also met Kaishin, who wanted to go poly and do Mass Comms. Coolness.
The seniors made it look so easy, there were so many distinctions for both math. Ohmygoodness, i am so inspired to get a distinction in math too!! Bleargh. Who am I kidding??

This reeks.

2006-02-08T22:46:00.000+08:00

Ohmygoodness, I hope I haven't gotten myself into English remedial. Ms Annie Tan asked me to name verbs(or whatever they're called) in the form of past tense form, present tense form, past participle and present participle. I couldn't answer it on Monday. She then asked me again on tuesday and being the butterbrain that I was, I promptly my brain of the contents of yesterday's lessons when i reached home yesterday night. Ya la, of course cannot answer -not by myself anyway. So there I sat on my seat, repeating answers from the people around me. She is of course neither deaf nor blind, and casually made a remark about attending extra remedial on Monday evening. I really really hope she was kidding. I think I shall die with an incredulous look on my face if I'm forced to attend English remedial. I've been living the past 15years of my life without the knowledge of verbs, nouns, and whatnot and my English is passable lor. Bah. What nonsense.

Mother Tongue lessons are a waste of time. Cheng lao shi spends at least 15minutes every lesson, shouting, threatening and collecting homework from the 4e4 students. Now I'm not saying that's bad in anyway since I get my much needed rest during these intervals, but it's really...inefficient. We are always left with only 40minutes to complete our essays, and for a person(me) that has difficulty in phrasing the sentences and writing the write word, it's like asking me to ~~stampede~~run around the school compound in a minute. The school should really separate us if they want to improve our Mother Tongue grades.

Mdm Tang had an accident and has been rewarded with a crack on her spine. OW. I really wouldn't wish that on anyone. Not that I'm one of those anti-mdm tang yahoos, but still. You get what I mean.

Was reading this article in the newspaper about choosing between polytechnics and jcs.
Sure, the number of people who are studying in polys and getting to universities are increasing.
Sure, people from polys graduate with a degree from university in a shorter amount of time.
Sure, and increasing number of people are opting to enter a poly even though they qualify for a jc.
The sad fact remains, that many will be prejudiced against these individuals and think that they are the students who "Didn't make it", or are "Not quite as good".
What a sad, stereotypical world we live in.

Six Ladies and a Man.

2006-02-03T21:05:00.000+08:00

That's the name Mr Shashi gave our group since the only name we came up with was Sushi. Before you close this window and call me nuts, I shall explain.
We were supposed to come up with a modified/totally new game for PE lessons. My group was kinda quiet so i ended up crapping with Jasmine and Jacqueline. In the end, we had this weird idea of having a game similar to captain's ball, except we we going to use a tennis ball......and the goalkeeper was supposed to use a cone to catch the ball, contributed by your's truly. Running four rounds make me give nonsensical suggestions. Nevertheless, we decided to get over with it and use that idea.
We had demonstrations from two groups yesterday.
The game by the first group was almost like captain's ball except we were supposed to let the ball rebound against the ground before our teamates could catch the ball. How troublesome.
The second game was quite fun ~~because we won~~. It was like captain's ball, except you had to pass the ball to your teamates using the volleyball method.
Obviously, many people have not passed a ball that way before because when the game started, most of us were throwing, kicking, whacking, dodging the ball with alacrity, and to everyone's amusement, hurling the ball high up in the air but not sending it in any particular direction. Thankfully, i wasn't one of those even though I've never played volleyball before.
After that game, i finally realised what Jasmine meant when she said the capillaries on her wrist burst during a previous game; my wrist hurt like hell.

Anyhoo, the sec1s came today for sectionals. I was assigned to this girl called joanna/joanne(??). She was quite nice, and was easy to teach beacause of her music background(piano). Found out that she listens to English music. Yay. And she knows Franz Ferdinand. Double Yay.
After awhile, we were supposed to pass our juniors to the sec2s. Don't know what the reason was, maybe they were slacking? I wasn't paying attention. Anyway a i think kahhwee got a bit annoyed at wanxin because she didn't want to teach a junior and kept moaning and whining. I got very annoyed and decided to get away from her before i blew my top and started getting sarcastic with her. Bah. As if teaching a junior is so hard. Hell, even Jingkai made an effort even though he kept asking me what he should teach. Which brings me to the next part of my post.
He was totally clueless as to what he should teach the sec1 guy and asked me what he should teach. Being as clueless as he was since i didn't have the lian xi qu's, i told him offhandedly to teach him the basics like the different parts of the erhu and stuff like that. AND HE REALLY DID. He even demonstrated how to apply rosin onto the bow of the erhu, which was actually quite hilarious.

Oooo and i think Da Li Qing Feng is a really nice song, as nice as Chun. :)))

2006-02-01T21:45:00.000+08:00

OhMyGoodnessIAmGoingToSmackMyselfSilly.

I passed the Bio aptitude test without studying much, and got 67marks. That's so much higher than the 54marks i got for sa2 (and lets not talk about the sa1 paper that i failed). I am so very shocked.
Took the amath trigonometry aptitude test today by myself. Apparently a few of them decided they weren't prepared and asked mrs heng to postpone the test (again). Having no wish to stay till 6.30 the next day just to finish the test, I dutifully did it today. Got around 36-38/40. It was okay, considering the fact that i didn't really study sketching of graphs. Then again, I've prolly done enough trigo questions to last me a lifetime, so I should be scoring a high mark. Am really pissed with the fact that i made a stupid careless mistake; I forgot to divide the answers by 2 when the left-hand-side was 2x.
......
*Tears self into strips.

Oh and CNY was quite a boring. The only interesting event was buying books from Borders. What and eventful life i lead.

CNY's Eve on the other hand, was slightly more interesting. Went to Marina Square to catch Memoirs of a Geisha. It was almost sold out and the remaning seats were at only 2 rows away from the screen which would mean that we would have to crane our necks like giraffes just to catch the sight of the shoes of the actresses. So we ended up watching I Not Stupid Too. I thought that the first movie was better cos I preferred the plot. The second movie was rather...touching though. By touching, I mean that i actually cried during the show ~~something which the wooden block -stevie- has never done before during a movie~~. Well okay, so it was just a few tears or two during a few scenes, but making me shed tears is still quite a feat.

OOooooo I've just bought myself the Franz Ferdinand cd!! YAY.

eihfnsmakuwjq.

*Intermission: Steven is currently in an extremely euphoric mood and will have to stop here lest she starts babbling incoherently or starts singing to the tune of "Do You Want To".

2006-01-20T21:32:00.000+08:00

Advertisements are useless, boring and annoying.
......
What a boring topic. There is seriously no way I'm gonna be interested in writing this essay.

OhMyGoodness I passed my chem aptitude test but was asked by Ms Seah if I wanted to drop the subject. Obviously, I said no. Heard that Mrs Koh told someone that she had to drop biology. OhDearOhDear.

I am a very careless person. So careless that after spotting a careless mistake and changing my answer, I could still make a careless mistake a few steps down. And yes, it was basic differentiation.
Us math remedial students were told that we were going to have the trigo (aptitude?) test next friday. Then Mrs Heng realised that dismissal time was at 12.40pm sharp that day. That means that we'll have to have the test on thursday. Big. Frickin'. Liew.
Being exposed to Mrs Heng for long periods is rather unhealthy. Was chatting with KuanYee about nothing in particular when i suddenly pronounced 'blank' as 'bRank'. GreatGosh. Shall throw myself off a cliff if i start pronouncing words her way.

I. Hate. Playing. Xiao. Bai. Nian.
......
It must be the most annoying Chinese New year song ever. It's so silly repeating the song twice, and the tune is just horrid. But of course, that's my opinion.
Was one of the people who had to audition the sec1s. The first guy i auditioned was... odd. I know people who play the piano find it hard to get a proper grip on the erhu, but the guy really could not grasp the hu. Being the compulsive-obssessive self that I am, the fact that he wasn't holding the erhu properly between his thumb and index finger bugged me so much that I kept pointing it out to him. Most of the sec1s wanted to join percussion. OhMyGoodness the next generation of CO members might be a group of i-wanna-join-percussion-or-i-quit people. I swear i thought I only saw three people on the list who wanted to join strings. Jiamin managed to cajole this girl with funky spectacles to joined strings, Yay!
Anyhoo, didn't have enough time to decorate the noticeboard today so i just changed to background. It currently has a green and orange background. Retro-ness; I like. =))) it just lacks the polka dot element. heh.
Oh and thanks to JiaMin, we now have Chinese Orchestra written in a very nice font. Heck, there's even the oh-so-abstract mandarin version; Rui Shi Chun Hua Yue Tuan. I love abstract and retro stuff =DDD
*Cue in retarded grin.

The mere thought of the upcoming holiday is making everyone act even weirder than they usually do.

Anyone interested in buying tickets to our concert? Tickets anyone?

2006-01-17T22:41:00.000+08:00

The CCa recruitment drive was boring. Boring, boring, boring. We didn't really have to bring so many erhus there cos we didn't even have to play anything. We were only required to drag the sec1s to our booth. The band was so grand, marching in and having people sing. But their songs got boring during the second half of the first day. The costume worn by the chinese dance was nice, but rather amusing ~~it made them look like a row of asparagus~~. The only bearable part was the malay dance's modern dance which made use of missy elliot's 'lose control'.
While i was wandering around the hall watching members of the performing arts CCA pounce the poor, unsuspecting sec1s, this sec3 girl suddenly approached me and asked
"Do you want to take a look at choir?"
Of course, i was most amused by this, and started giggling madly, and Joyce asked her whether she would like to have a look at the CO's booth. One of them who was sharper suddenly noticed that this sec1 of hers had low socks and a shirt which was half untucked (not to mention fringe which most definitely did not belong on a sec1s head).
Okay, so I am short, but i most certainly do not think that I look like a sec1. Hmphh.

Ms Xu asked me to decorate the noticeboard for Chinese New Year. Just in case ~~you have been blind for the past few months~~ you haven't noticed, the noticeboard has been looking extremely pathetic due to the fact that both yiting and I are extremely uncreative. Went to Popular to buy the materials. I was most appalled when Clarrissa and Joyce suggested that we use red, orange and yellow. As if the CCA Chinese Orchestra doesn't make you think "Ooooo, cheena-dom!!" That colour scheme is so gonna resemble the logo of a certain bah kwa company in Singapore. Decided break away from tradition and use yellow and tan (both metallic). Couldn't find a tan-coloured vangard though, so I had to settle for this orange background and a metallic yellow (gold actually border). OhMyGoodness, that so does not match. Luckily i found some red packets at home which were almost the shade of tan. Haven't actually thought of how to decorate the board though.

Was caught by Mdm Tang today cos of my fringe, so i had to clip them up. After clipping them up, Vanessa suddenly exclaimed that I looked cute & girly.
...... OHMYGOODNESS.
I think the word cute really cannot be used to describe me, and most definitely not the word girly. And believe me, she wasn't the only one who gave that comment. Only Clarrissa said i looked stupid. Hell, she's just jealous that I'm more cute & girly than she is =DDDDDD Naw i'm just kidding.
But seriously, I looked quite alright. It was only after recess, during biology that the puny clips couldn't hold up my curtains-for-fringes and everything tumbled down. Then I looked like some disheveled punk. That carried on till CO when i got kinda annoyed by the strands of hair tickling me so i took them off.
Oh, and i absolutely DETEST the chapter on eyeballs. It is so boring. Though i would really love to do the practical and cut up the eye of a sheep/cow?? =)))) Yes, i am a morbid person.
Mrlee forgot to practice the NewYear songs with us. OhMyGoodness. So we're gonna practice it thia friday. OH GREAT. Now i've to stay back after CO to decorate the noticeboard. Bah.

Wanted to blog about Project Runway, but it's late and I have to sleep ~~cos i have to wake up early tomorrow to copy homework~~ and like they say, the early bird catches the worm. Pah, since when was I into such mumbo-jumbo. Bleagh.

2006-01-08T12:27:00.000+08:00

Just finished my powerpoint presentation ~~for the ninth time~~. The holiday destination i chose was on Italy, and omg, i so wanna go there after seeing all the pictures of italy. It looks like it belongs to some mystical world of faeries. Totally picturesque. To save myself from the embarrassment (of sounding like a bimbotic poodle), i shall shut up now.

Anyhoo, my im supposed to be doing the emcee script for concert (the english version of course). I must either be using the wrong keywords, because it is almost impossible to find the synopsis for almost all the songs ~~in fact, my current count is zilch~~. The synopsis is the least of my concerns, since i can translate it from the chinese script. It's the name of the songs I'm more concerned about. Found out that Fei Tian is called 'Flying Apsaras'. I mean, wth does apsaras mean? I can't even find it in dictionary.com.
OhMyGoodnessThisIsEvenHarderThanIImaginedItWouldBe.
Oh and i just found out that Shuqing and I would be demonstrating for the Sec1 CCA recruitment thingie. Now I wasn't really perturbed because I thought we would only be required to stand around and propagate the greatness of the erhu. Obviously it's not as simple ~~or i wouldn't be complaining in this post~~. Was told by Joyce that we've to play a short tune. I don't think Shuqing is aware of that yet.
OhMyGoodness.

I hate rainy days. My mom has this annoying habit of shutting all the windows when it rains. Therefore, we are enclosed in a house without fresh air, breathing in each others body gases. Mighty spiffy isn't it? *Gasp*Choke*Die
Speaking about breathing in toxic fumes produced by fellow homo sapiens, i must get this off my chest:

I HATE THE AIR-CONDITIONED CLASSROOMS.

The air is always so stale, and the sound of whispering is magnified tenfold, hence allowing teachers to be able to hear what we say (with the exception of Mrs Heng).

Anyhoo, shall go do my other assignments now.

2006-01-06T23:45:00.000+08:00

My laptop is fried. It's cooling fan-thingie malfunctioned. Am using my Dad's laptop right now and I can't read a single freaking system message. My Dad has this annoying software that converts English to Mandarin. So here I am, sitting in front of his laptop trying very very hard to figure out the damn chinese words. I swear my father is not sending my laptop for repair for the sole purpose of forcing me to read Mandarin.
Oh and i found out that Yongmei's back. Which is great. (((=

My Mother Tongue teacher is hilarious. She has incredibly poor taste. Her choice of dresses, skirts and blouses beat Pat Lau's flat, and her hair resembles that of a bird's nest. What's more, she acts (and looks) a lot like Hsu-Chun-Mei. But i kinda like her, even though her Mandarin is oh-so cheemnologised. She's kinda cool too, revealing her age and admitting that she's more than half a century old, terming herself as "half-an-antique". Oh, her English is rather good too. She managed to get the attention of the 4e4/4e6 class. Kudos to her. Heck, i even remembered one of her cheem phrases. But i don't think she'll allow me bring my composition home to finish =((( Oh wells, she's cool anyway.

After my first Math lesson with Mrs Heng, I have realised that my face is waaay too expressive.
The first lesson was on Differentiation. She gave us notes and wasted 5minutes talking about Isaac Newton and some other guy with the name Leibniz and about the petty dispute that their supporters had with each other due to some inane calculus theory. Then she went on to talk about tangents, emphasising repeatedly that the phrase had to be 'Tangent to the curve', and our tenses had to be correct. After babbling some more stuff, she was only left with ten minutes to teach Differentiation. Efficient, no? Oh and she has a knack of making things so much more complex than they actually are. She was doing the whole limits thing and all, and i had no idea whatsoever as to what she was babbling about. Went back to read the textbook and understood everything perfectly. No wonder i didn't understand in class. You tell me, right hand side of the equation how can suddenly divide by (dx) without showing the same on the left hand side of the equation? No wonder in I so blur lah.
Yes, Math makes me speak Singlish.
Anyhoo, back to my over-zealous facial muscles.
Was spotted by Mrs Heng as being 'uncomfortable' with Differentiation. Jasmine told me after that, that my the expression on my face when i didn't understand the lesson was incredibly obvious. OhMyGawd, first lesson leh. You tell me how I'll survive the rest of the year. YOU TELL ME HOW??!!
But seriously, Mrs Heng is quite a good teacher...During remedials anyway. In class, she's like a machine gun, words spitting out so quickly that my brain doesn't even have time to absorb the information.
]Note to self: Arrange myself a botoxing session before every Math lesson.

Was reading the book which Swiss Cottage publishes annually to showcase students essays and artwork. As expected, i only read the English essays. There is a reason why Biology students are in Bio class -for the simple fact that they cannot write great essays. Reading their essays (well not all, but most of them) are akin to reading reports. Repetitive and monotonous. The use of connective phrases hardly vary, and they don't have that certain feel which makes you think 'Great gosh! This essay is beautiful!'. Well, i guess that's why Bio students are in Bio class.
*Suddenly thinks: OMG. Aren't I from a Bio class?!

Oh i think weizhe shall one day have a fit while trying to make us play zhanma. We had to practice it today, and it was so not-together that he asked a few of us up to the front to listen to how we sounded. And truthfully, it was rather messy.
OhMyGawd, there're just 3months to the concert.

2005-12-31T11:05:00.000+08:00

Yum.

Ethereal, no? I am highly infatuated with this picture (((:

I'd originally typed out a whole post, but my computer crashed and i can't be bothered to retype everything so i shall end here.

2005-12-29T22:45:00.000+08:00

I'd want my money back if i were that guy.

2005-12-28T07:49:00.000+08:00

Watched Narnia yesterday. It wasn't all that nice, just a load of special effects. I thought the lion seemed kinda mangy.
Went Orchard after that. Dragged my friend to Isetan -Scotts to look for a bag. Didn't find Mambo there though. I was sad. =(((
Decided to go to Ngee Ann City. The underground pass was so crowded. I've no idea why people were walking so slowly there when the only things of interest along those passageways were posters. Passed by Isetan in Wisma. Went in there in hopes of finding Mambo. Found it. Saw this really nice bag which was grey and had all these weird symbols. The salesgirl didn't bother about us one bit, but she was eyeing us out of the corner of her eye, cos she did respond when my friend and i waved the bag at her. On the way to the cashier, my friend suddenly said -is the gst included yet? Upon rapid ~~and wrong~~ mental calculation, i found out that i had enough money anyway. Good thing the $69 was the nett price, cos i only had $12 left.
Shall end here and go back to to cooing at my bag.
P.S. I am terribly infactuated with it's chrome-like zips.

2005-12-24T18:55:00.000+08:00

Bah, just found out my new template didn't show on other people's computer's so I'm using this this old one.
Realised that I've a lot of homework undone. Oh dear. Then, I realised that I'll be going out with my primary school friend next tuesday. Oh well, I'll just have to do my homework more quickly then. Have to get a new bag too, my old one reeks of sweat. Eurghh. Shall get a Mambo bag, their designs are so nice and hardly anyone carries that brand. Can't stand having a Billabong bag ~~that's similar to half the teenage population in Singapore~~. Of course, I'm hoping that there'll be post-Xmas, post-BoxingDay sales. heh.
My mom got me a Billabong pencil case cos I'd complained that my current pencil case was too small. Darn, wanted to get something unique. At least it's big ~~in fact, it's around 33cm wide~~.

2005-12-19T15:29:00.000+08:00

15th December

Went to the bus interchange to meet Clarrissa -who was as usual, late. Having to carry a heavy bag when you've an extremely heavy erhu cover is not a fun task.
Mr Chua came really really early so we didn't have much time to practice ZhanMa. Thank goodness he allowed me to play with Shiyun and Shihui. Got 26/40, think Shihui was disappointed or something. When we walking going down to watch the videos of certain songs, the three of us were busily taking the blame upon our own shoulders. Yes, we are odd people. But seriously, if I hadn't played with them they would've gotten a higher grade since having a pp in the group would mean playing better, but I wasn't much help at all. Think I kinda messed up their beat or something.
Watched Mo Li Hua in the AVA Room and realised that Clarrissa and I had played that song before in YewTee CC, just that it sounded...... rather different. ~~In fact, it sounded more like a withered plant than a Jasmine.~~ The video version was really nice though.
Lunch was horrible. I only enjoyed the potatoes.
The rest of the day was quite mundane. Practice, practice, practice. The games at night were stupid. Blindman's Trail was a really annoying. Talk about walking at the snail's pace, can you imagine walking from the basketball court, up and down in the sec1 block and all the way to the AVA room. We were left blindfolded in front of the AVA Room for quite sometime until I got annoyed and decided that we should go back to the CO room. Turned out that they didn't realise that they had missed left our group there. The next game was even worse. Scavenger hunt.
The first clue for my group was:

A place where Ms Tay says "Good morning colleagues, boys and girls."
Obviously it was at the parade square since we weren't allowed to use the hall.
While finding this clue, I learnt that Ms Tay addresses us whilst:
- seated amongst the branches of a pot of flowers
- hiding under a pot of flowers
- standing in an uncovered drain
- squished in between the planks of a bench in front of the D&T rooms
Gee, I know people always joke about Ms Tay being slim and all, but this is ridiculous.
Anyhoo, our very first clue was put in an envelope of the wrong colour. They didn't even bother to put a group number in front, so we spent eons searching for a clue which we had supposedly found a long time ago.
After that, they had this clue which was a math question, rather like the question I came up with during the previous Star Search. That proved to be another annoying hunt since we couldn’t find it and had to ask Junda for help again. In the end, Junda was the one helping us find our clues.
When we were at our 6th clue, we found out that a lot of groups had been sabotaged and their clues were missing so the game was called off. All that running around like imbeciles and sweating like pigs for nothing. What a waste of time.
Couldn't sleep until 12+ since WingSan kept striding in and out of the room repeatedly. Clarrissa got extremely annoyed and yelled at her to stop it. But she still kept on zooming in and out of the room anyway. Couldn't get to sleep cos the floor was really hard. When I finally managed to fall asleep, I suddenly woke up because someone had switched on the lights. Opened my eyes to see two figures standing at the door staring solemnly into the room. Was kinda freaked out cos I didn't have my glasses on, then I realised that it was Ms Lim ans Ms Toh who had caught Cixian sneaking out of the room. After that, managed to catch a few winks until I was awoken, yet again, cos Cixian needed to use the loo. Clarrissa must have a really comfortable sleeping bag, cos she managed to sleep through all that.

16th December

Woke up in a bad mood cos I only got 4 hours of sleep. Decided to go down for breakfast resort-style (in shorts and slippers). Another horrible round of food. The oil used to fry the noodles tasted like it had been used over and over again. By then, everyone was pretty desperate for coins so they could get a drink from the vending machine. Managed to borrow some from Clarrissa. Had Pepsi Light for breakfast even though I hate Pepsi. Proves how desperate I was for a sugar boost.
The sec3s were practising their own songs for the Internal Music Exchange later that day, and JiaHui came. Almost all of us had abit of coaching from him. Was sitting next to Shuqing so I got to hear him play SaiMa, and gosh, it was nice. His LiangXiao was also really nice. After that he played it with Zhiyin, and I was like –oh darn, that's so much better than mine.
Half and hour before the Internal Music Exchange, every strings member was pretty much freaking out, busily scrubbing their rosins against their bows, re-dotting, tuning their instruments, and what must be the first time they've ever done such a thing, cleaning the rosin away from their erhu's.
Wasn't really scared at the beginning of the Music Exchange, just slightly nervous. It was only until Natalie’s turn when Shuqing said that it was her turn next, did I start to feel fear. When it was my turn, I was really freaking out.
Went up to the seat trying to control my expression, hoping that I didn’t look too freaked out. I basically screwed up the whole song from the start cos I was so scared that my beat went awry. At the second bar, I knew that the whole song was messed up, but I didn't wanna restart so I carried on playing. The more I played, the more nervous I got, and my ying zhun was really not the least bit zhun at all. Especially the notes at the bottom of my erhu, they sounded disgusting. Only when I reached the part of the song which I really liked, did I calm down a little, but I was still terribly off-key.
After the song ended, I stood in front for a few seconds but none of the instructors said anything. Was wondering –did I do so badly that they had to take so long to think of an opinion? Rushed off to my seat and Mr Chua made fun of me for being so eager to sit down. Relaxed a bit after that, but I think I was quite rude cos I sat down on the floor while listening to their comments. The comments I got mostly about my beat and my ying zhun.Mr Yeo said that my erhu's ying she was good. Doesn't that mean that my erhu's good but I'm not? [O.o]
Clarrissa and Joozhi's comments were quite amusing though. They were described as playing really stiffly, almost like being forced to work. LOL. Clarrissa's expression looked really like she was being forced to play though. wahahas.
And gosh, Mr Poh used the word sheepish. I’ve never heard anyone use that word even though I've seen it before. Coolness.
A lot of people said I didn't looked afraid. In fact, I seemed to have this slightly annoyed look on my face. Clarrissa said I looked really frightened though. Gee, she knows me too well.

P.S to the whom this remark concerns: Yes, I shall try perfecting LiangXiao since I'll probably get crappy results for my L1R5, therefore I'll need it to get in a JC.

The POP wasn't really exciting, just lots of words. The Strings section were asked to return to the 3e2 classroom. Shiyun was asking me how to pronounce the word grotesque. And yes, I do know how to pronounce it -> grow-tesk. Then she started asking me what schizophrenia meant. And after that we started babbling about other ultra-cheemnologised English words. She said that my English was good. I gave her an incredulous look and directed her to Jason's blog. Anyhoo, found out that it was cos Mr Chua had ordered a log cake. It had all these cute little figurines on top. I mean gosh, there was even an axe! So nice of him, but I still think our log cake made of paper was better. wahahas.
After having cake, we went back to the co room. Everyone was in a pretty crabby mood since it was so late. Was hoping that Ms Lim would forget about the clean-up thingie, but no, she didn’t. Had to clear up all the trash in the canteen. You wouldn't believe how messily some people eat.
Couldn't really sleep for the whole night cos for some reason or another, my arm hurt like hell. Think it was rheumatism or something. Woke up one time and saw the trio of Xueli, Shanice and Wanxing huddled together at the tables. They had this freaked look on their faces and told me that they’d just heard someone knock on the door and it had flung open. Must have told each other too many ghost stories. I just gave them a bored look and huddled back under my sleeping back trying to keep my arm warm to lessen the pain.

17th December

Woke up in the morning to someone poking my arm. It was Joyce. How rude. She blabbered to me about how easy it was to open the door despite the fact that it was locked. That explains why the door had flung open the previous night. Found out that my arm didn't hurt anymore, so I was I a much better mood. Had noodles and a pathetic-looking few rolls of chee cheong fun for breakfast. Was in dire need of bread. I cannot function without eating bread for more than 1day. Found out that Clarrissa had food poisoning so she wasn't coming. Oh well, there goes my root beer.
Went to the CO room for full orchestra. The pain in my arm suddenl came back. Was assigned to sit next to BoonYun. Got really annoyed at her. She didn't look at my direction when I asked her if she was unclear about any parts of any song, and just continued gazing straight ahead. Now that was totally unlike her sprightly self when she was with her friends. While I was busily wondering if she had even heard me, she suddenly shook her head at the air in front of her. I was rather annoyed and the pain was eating at my brains, so I asked her to play Feng Nian Ji. Her melody was passable at it's best. Her plucking was rather weird. She placed her fingers at the position where the notes were on the outer string when we were obviously plucking the inner string. Does she think we’re playing a damn guitar? She didn't even know where some of the notes were. Decided to listen to her Tian Long Ba Bu cos I couldn't take listening to her Feng Nian Ji. I swear, blood almost spewed out of my mouth when I heard her Tian Long Ba Bu. Her beat was totally wrong. I really reek at counting beats, but hers was really fantastic. How she could count out such a beat truly amazed me. Until that point of time I was thinking –Hey, maybe she's just a slow learner. Then I asked her to play other parts of Tian Long, and it was so freaking obvious that she ~~never~~ seldom practices. Heck, she doesn't even know her scales. She doesn’t even know the difference between a La with a dot below, and one without. WingSan might be a pain when it comes to teaching scales, but she is really hardworking, she really goes home and practices her stuff. Now I truly understand why Shiyun felt so sad when she had to teach her. Honestly though, I don't care if she reads what I've just blogged, cos I really think that she’s got wake up. She can hate me and flame me for all I care, but hell, I'm speaking the truth.

18th December

Got dragged out of my house by my mom to look for new furniture. Went to this place called the Melandas or something and found out it had closed down. Well. Anyhoo my dad insisted on going to Castilla (or however you spell it). The furniture they had were definitely the most old-fashioned and un-artistic pieces of wood and leather i had ever seen. Even the stuff at Courts and Vhive were better. Went to Ikea, but the stuff there wasn't really stuff that would make you gasp and go -gosh, i want that in my house! Headed on to IMM and my mom found her perfect couch there. It was kinda olive-beige in colour and the seats were pinstriped. After taking measurements and all, my dad went to Harvey Norman to get a printer. Then we went to Giant. Met Calvin (the zhuonghu guy) who was working there there. He was wearing this extremely orange tee. Didn't really stop to chat though, his boss was there heh.

19th December

Had Chemistry aptitude test today. I overslept. Intended to wake up at 7.30, but woke up at 8.35. Stared at my alarm clock through bleary eyes and freaked out. The test was gonna start in half an out. Rushed out of my home without bathing or eating breakfast. Did last minute revision in the Mrt. Can you imagine trying to cram 3chapters into your brain between the stops Choa Chu Kang and Bukit Gombak? Ran into Fengling when I was walking to rushing to school. I was really not in the mood to smile and be nice, but Fenglin's usual toothy grin made me wave back anyway. Rushed to school and found out I was missing my calculator. Went to the staffroom to beg Mrs Chan for one but she wasn’t even in school yet. Decided that I'd just leave out the chemical calculation questions. When I reached, they made us wait 15minutes before starting the test. Was rather annoyed, cos I could've borrowed a calculator in that span of time. There were a few chemical calculations in the test, but they just required good skills in long division and trial and error (thing which I am okay in), so I didn't really freak out. What I did freak out, was at the last page when I didn’t know a single answer because I didn't memorise the damn chemical equations and raw materials for making sulphuric acid. So in the end, all my raw materials and equations turned out to be adding sulphuric acid to more sulphuric acid.
On the way home, I had a chat with Shiyun classmate. Funny how I can be so sociable with some people yet totally stand-offish with others. Hmm.

2005-12-13T09:14:00.000+08:00

The light in my bathroom is faulty. At one moment, I’d be happily using the bathroom, and at the next moment the light bulb flickers and the room plunges into total darkness.
……so that’s what the manufacturers meant when they put the words energy-saving on the package of the bulb.

Due to a certain reason, Yongmei will not be able to play ZhanMa. That means I’ll probably have to solo.
Of course when I received her text message I panicked. My whole brain buzzed with activity ~~and believe me, that doesn’t happen unless I’m doing math~~ Started to panic and went into super-organising-mode, and I started clearing my table, thinking:

“Omg, wh..”
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
“But h..”
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
“Won’t th..”
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
“What i..”
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

After a few text messages, she assured me that I would have to solo.

Great.

Exactly what I need. Something to worry about when InternalMusicExchange is just this week and the damn Chemistry and Biology aptitude tests are next week and most importantly, ZhanMa is on Thursday.

This would really be the right time to use the word “Shit”.

I swear that if Yongmei’s having me on, I will smack her so hard she won’t even feel any pain.

2005-12-05T09:10:00.000+08:00

Came back from Vanessa’s chalet the other day, lookin like I’d been in a brawl.
After goofing around on the ~~seaweed-ridden~~ beach, we decided to head on to old Changi Hospital (yes, the one which is supposedly haunted). We had to climb up some pretty steep steps. When we walked up to the top, we found that the guard wasn’t there. A few of them walked into the hospital but didn’t dare go further in. Lihui was plucky enough to mess around with this bashed-up-looking table hahaha. We decided to walk about the outside of the hospital. Chanced upon this bunch of teenagers, and there was this girl who was sorta hunched over unmoving. Some of us got pretty freaked out and decided to leave. As I was going down the stairs, I tripped and fell. Since the hill was sloping down, I slid down ~~on my boobs~~ extremely unglamourously. Must’ve seemed like a huge flying squirrel catapulting down. Talk about dramatic, but I could really hear the shrieks coming out from the people behind me as I slid down. When I thought I was about to stop, I started sliding down again. Miraculously, I stopped right behind Vanessa’s brother, who was scared stiff. He stood rooted in front of me with clenched fists. Wanted to get up, but my whole body couldn’t move at all. Had the wind knocked out of me, felt like I’d been rammed into by a bull. Gosh, it was scary lying there, not being able to move. Even though it was prolly less than five seconds, it seemed like I’d lain there for eternity. Finally managed to stumble up with help from Jasmine and Lihui. I was fine ~~other than the numerous cuts and bruises and a deep gash on my leg~~. I’ve had really nasty falls, but this was by far, the worst. Was more worried about my Bermudas, which were covered in muck, ewww.
After that, we went back to the chalet and played cards, and everyone was kinda freaked from the incident. Found out that I my leg had gotten caught on this green wire. Couldn’t really concentrate when they were playing cluedo, I was in some kinda daze. Must be post-traumatic stress. A delayed one, hahaha.
After awhile, they started speculating why I had fallen down. They seemed more freaked than me even though I’d been the one to fall hahaha. During the night, a few people got injured and they got paranoid and started to think that all of them were going to get injured too. Was kinda like [O.o] but I didn’t say anything.
Shuffled to orchestra practice on the next day with bruises on both kneecaps (which I promptly christened “Twins”) while balancing my erhu on a sprained neck.

2005-12-05T09:07:00.000+08:00

Havent's been able to blog for ages cos I'd forgotten my username. Bleagh-ness.

I’d like to thank:

Jacqueline
Jasmine
KahHwee
Lihui
Meryl
ShinYun
Si’en
Vanessa

For my birthday present. Especially Jasmine who was the one who picked out the childish- oh wait, I mean nostalgia-inducing, horsey pecil case.
Waiting for Clarrissa and Joyce to give me one too *taps foot impatiently*. No I’m just kidding, haven’t gotten them present either. Unthoughtful me.

Went to ~~terrorise the computer geeks and lao ah peks with donation bags~~ do CIP at SITEX on Thursday with Jasmine and Jacqueline. Gosh, it was like Moses parting the Red Sea (okays, so I’m exaggerating), people were avoiding us like the Plague. Got really annoyed with the people who pretended not to see us. I mean c’mon, will acknowledging our presence with a smile and a shake of your head kill you. How annoying. The computer geeks are stingy. It was the lao ah peks (okays, so they weren’t that old) who donated more. The highest amount donated went to Jasmine. The guy was pretty good-looking, in a geeky-i-wear-braces-and-sit-at-my-computer-all-day sorta way (what? it’s a computer exhibition). The pathsways were crowded with people who were so eager to stuff the flyers into our faces that we waved our bags around, threatening to direct our pleas for donations at them.

Teachers next year:
English: Ms Annie Tan
Chinese: ?? (doesn’t matter, not like I’ll pay attention anyway)
Biology: Mrs Koh
Chemistry: Ms Seah
Physics:Mr Lim
Social Studies & History(elective): Mdm Tang (contrary to popular belief, she’s nice)
Emath & Amath: Mrs Heng

OHMYGAWD *shrieks in horror*. As if Math weren’t boring enough, now Math lesson will be conducted in monotone. Oh man, Mrs Chan is so mean, ta bu yao wo men le! Thank goodness I didn’t get Mdm Sathiya, I can’t stand her.

I failed my Amath restest. Surprise, surprise. The passing mark was a B3 so that means I got 20+/60. GOOD. FRICKIN. GOSH. And I thought I’d scrape a C6. Mrs Chan seemed somewhat amused when I called her to ask my grade. How evil. Oh wells, shall comfort myself with the fact that out of the 7 people in my class, only 1 passed. Yes, I love making excuses.

Thank goodness I was too ~~lazy to find a song online~~ old-fashioned, and chose Liang Xiao for music exchange. Saved me the trouble of having to find a new song, cos Ms Lim didn’t allow us to play modern songs. Wanted to play A Diao of Chun, but Clarrissa pointed out to me that the words Chun, A Diao weren’t going to be very impressive on the vcd ~~in fact, it would be downright stupid~~. Not very good at Liang Xiao. Can’t even find where some of the notes are, but at least it’s a relatively slow song so I won’t have to struggle like Saima. Shuqing is brave.

2005-11-04T15:07:00.000+08:00

Haven’t been blogging for ages due to the fact that I’ve been ~~busily fiddling with the new game i bought~~ very hardworking, revising for my three aptitude tests. eEk. It’s like an SA3 for me. A Math, Biology and…… CHEMISTRY *cue in exclamation of choice*. And I still can’t differentiate my atoms, molecules and ions. Good. Frickin. Lord. After the aptitude tests, my brain shall henceforth be referred to as that mushy grey puddle of iCk, and I shall start speaking ~~like an absolute moron~~ incoherently and type iN thIs FreAkin mAnnEr, littering my blog posts with incessant lehs, lors and lahs .

I passed all my subjects. OhGoshIAmSoAmazed. Well actually, I failed chemistry by half a mark but I got that mark somehow. Even passed my Chinese. 32 for chinese oral OhMyGoodnessIHaveTurnedIntoACheena-yKid.
Oh and I’ve found another thing to bitch about. I really really really cannot stand the fact that Mdm Sathiya gave me such friggin low marks for oral examination. 28/40. Was kinda like HolyFrickinShit, when I received my results. What an absolutely pathetic grade. Can’t believe my grade was so much lower than Clarrissa’s (35). Wonder how much I would’ve gotten with Mr. Terence Goh. So I’m not a great conversationalist and pretty much screwed up with the conversation part (10/16) because I showed little initiative, but seriously, what the heck is there to say about a trip to the supermarket. And 9/12 for both reading aloud and picture discussion is plain ridiculous.
*note to self, always include a song-and-dance routine during oral examinations.
Getting higher marks for Chinese oral than English oral…… the irony of it all. Oh
woe is me.

Finally gonna get my hair rebonded, due to the fact that ~~my hair is so dry and frizzy that rebonding it too often will cause it to snap off like twigs and ricochet into the eyes of the hairdresser~~ I think rebonding is expensive and want to help my mom save money.

What I want for my birthday:
. a pair of black D&G spectacles with a tinge of orange at the sides
. the new Sony Ericsson W900i in white and orange
. a desktop computer that has a good gaming system
All this will add up to $4,000, max. Not much whaaaat =DDDDDDDDD
Any sugar daddies/mommies reading this right now willing to sponsor me? heh heh.

Not much difference during full orchestra. Once again, everyone forgot the stuff that the conductor/instructor had told us. Practice on Friday was refreshing though, there wasn’t junior orchestra and the Sec2 & 3’s had to come to play Chun. OhMyGawdILoveThatSong. One whole practice dedicated to Chun, total yay-ness =))))
It was really nice ~~other than the fact that we couldn’t play half the song~~.

2005-09-27T20:32:00.000+08:00

I do my chinese jian bao’s by reading english newspapers. All I do is to choose an article in english and one in mandarin (articles that are rather similar of course). Saves me a lot of time, since I take up to half an hour trying to read one column of a mandarin article. Ingenious isn’t it? My mom says im incorrigible. I call it creative.

Anyhoo, got the highest for my English essay and letter-writing. 45/60, Yay! (As you can see, modesty isn’t one of my strengths)
BUT.
Not before getting suaned by Mr Yoong. ‘Surprisingly, the person that got highest this time doesn’t usually get high marks.’
WTH.
Not to be obnoxious/disrespectful/haolian, but bear in mind that he was suaning someone who:
a) managed to score 26/30 for an essay (ok, so that was in sec1, but nevertheless, it’s no mean feat okay?)
b) is able to spell the word ‘violent’
c) does not pronounce the word ‘english’ as ‘ENGRISH’

He had to read out my composition to the whole class too. Now to say that he didn’t do justice to my essay is just a nice way of putting it. Don’t know why he even bothered since no one was listening to him.
Well….. either that or my classmates don’t understand the sentence:
Like it or not, clothes are here to stay. That is of course, unless we return to our primordial ways.
Vanessa must’ve been the only one ~~with good english~~ paying attention since she asked whether I was referring to people prancing around nude.
*note: the topic was ‘Dressing’. im not some kinda pervie who fantasises about people ‘returning to their primordial ways’.

Oh my, ive just gained a whole lot of bad karma dissing so many ppl =(((((((((

2005-09-23T23:34:00.000+08:00

Funny what people do to be cool. Was walking towards lot1 and saw this guy holding a cigarette in his hand *note: underaged smoker here.
Was observing him for a while and noticed that he kept the stick wedged between his fingers and only took a puff once in a very long while. Apparently, he was trying to be cool.
What i can say is
....................
Does he know that the cigarette actually burns itself out (albeit at a slower rate as compared to puffing on it)?
Think it's sad that his mindset has diminished to thinking that smoking=cool.
And btw, i think he looked extremely silly standing at the traffic light with the cigarette hanging limply at his side -________-

2005-09-23T23:17:00.000+08:00

Ohmygoodness. I'm going senile. Just spent a good five minutes trying to recall what day it was *note: day not date. Finally gave up and checked the calendar. Bloody hell, all those math questions have finally made my brain go kaput. All thanks to Mr Yoong and his powderful english, i'm starting to use singlish in my essays. Without realising it too. Heck, i even forgot how to use a word as simple as encroach.
Shiat, my brain is really degenerating. Think i'll turn into a babbling fool even before the exams start.

2005-09-22T23:23:00.000+08:00

.............
Now there's a lot of angst.
You wouldn't guess who the author is (well at least i couldn't).
*Hint, it's jasmine*
Wonder what went wrong /= Heard that she's already submitted her letter to quit co so oh well.
Liew, she really has an attitude problem. Heck, it's even worse than mine. All the posts were condemning one person/group/cca.

Speaking about co, i've only managed practice my erhu two times this week. OMG. Damn, don't think i'm gonna be able to play saima. Maybe i should be more realistic stick to simpler songs. Bleagh.

2005-09-22T23:01:00.000+08:00

Can't stand it when people keep buggin me to go to their blogs whenever i'm online. And when i go tag, they reply and make me tag again. Wth, there's something called instant messaging y'know?
The worse scenario is when i have to scroll down after every five words. For goodness sake, my screen is so big and your blog entry barely occupies 1/4 of it.
And please, I don't wish to know about your preference of music so do away with the hidden media players. I get really annoyed when i'm listening to James Blunt and suddenly, the words *Ding-Ding* (Crazy Frog) starts blasting from my speakers. It's not that i have anything against the song, but can you imagine how weird it is?

Now try reading this.

See what i mean?

And the blogs which i really really hate are those which contain hidden links.
The worst types are those that make links out of only one alphabet. Seriously, who the heck's gonna spot one puny alphabet among the mass of words on the screen, especailly when they're of the same size. Isn't a blog a place to air your comments and views, not play this inane game of hide-and-seek? It's really not fun pressing the tab button repeatedly, trying to find those practically-invisible links.

2005-09-16T21:54:00.000+08:00

When you're bored at home during the holidays and your dad has bought a camera, you tend to get a weeee carried away snapping the most inane of pictures....

You get a bit obssessed with your erhu...

You start taking food which looks funny...

You bother to spend ten minutes just to do this...

This is just too good to eat. Can't believe it's actually chocolate. Tastes as good as it tastes too. Too bad it's not dark chocolate )))=

2005-09-16T20:56:00.000+08:00

Had chemistry presentation today. My slide contained so many cheem words.
Try reading the words:
Bacterial bioremediation, Degradation, Metabolism, Assimilated, Innocuous, Recalcitrant, Concomitants (hell, i don't even know what this means, let alone be able to read it in front of 38 people x.x)
Man, there were hardly and monosyllabic words. Realised that i have a problem with the word excavation. Kept reading it as evacuation. Could manage the really cheem words but messed up on a such a simple word.
.............
This is so whacked up.

Had math remedial. Mrs Chan was late by more than 30minutes. Liew. Anw, saw the teachers playing frisbee. From that scene, i could conclude that teachers in our school are not quite right in the head. Mr Raavi was playing frisbee in his long-sleeved shirt. Mdm Zainab, in her.. err.. i have no idea what you call it.. the traditional malay costume for females? Ms Tan (Pui San) and Mrs Lee (Siew Chin) were in their skirts. Mr Lim (Yiu Tian) was wearing a very very short pair of shorts (which exposed his sexy legs -i didn't say that).

Geez, almost got a heart attack listening to the phantom of the opera's main theme. Wasn't really paying attention when the last ~~note~~ shriek froze the blood in my veins (yes, terribly cliched but that's the only phrase i could think of at the moment).

Oh i am so besotted with this:
........

No, i don't play Maple ....At least not until exams are over.

2005-09-16T19:54:00.000+08:00

My old layout was so boring and gloomy so i decided to change it. Would much rather have this weirdo layout, the previous was was so depressing i didn't have the mood to blog at all.
I like weird stuff ((((=

2005-09-15T20:55:00.000+08:00

Took the initiative to attend math remedial since joyce had to wait for wanling to do duty. Realised that i know nuts about quadratic equations .______.
Went back and saw clarrissa and joyce waiting in class. Found out that wanling had already gone home.
Headed to lot1 to buy stuff and when we were coming out, we saw wanling with other people. Was like LOL, she sure was unlucky. Maybe she should think twice about which shopping mall she goes when she decides to fib. Specially when........

we live near lot1.

2005-09-15T20:52:00.001+08:00

Saw this teacher from my primary school on the bus. She was this really pms-sy teacher who liked to pick on my friends and i. Can you imagine finding fault with my socks for being too high. Mind you, the socks were just around my ankles. WTH, i thought teachers only had trouble with socks which were too low. Ridiculous man.
Everyone in my class was dashing about the canteen laughing and screaming away. She was holding remedials for her students. The lady got pissed and stomped up to me and my 2 friends and screamed at us for being noisy, inconsiderate, ill-mannered hooligans, all in her lousy godforsaken english.
Well my friends went all teary and one of them even started to cry. Me, being my usual ILL-MANNERED self (as she insinuated), gave her a very very kiam pa look. No way was i letting someone like her intimidate me. Anyway, isn't there something called a CLASSROOM?
I got might pissed and had this really rebellious look on my face. She see's my face and gets all riled up cos i wasn't guilty/remorseful at all, and threatened to call my parents to come to school. LOL. She should've tried to do that. My mom would've screeched at her for asking her to come all the way when there were so many other people running around.
Was really really tempted to trip her and let the bus run over her or something. Heh. Yea, i'm evil.

2005-09-15T20:52:00.000+08:00

Ever noticed how some people eat their food, saving the best for last?
Shouldn't it be common sense to eat your favourite dish first? I mean if it's eaten last, won't your food go all damp and runny ~~and taste like crap~~? Anyway, won't you be too full to finish it? I dunno. Maybe I'm just funny in the head.

Joyce has gotten addicted to Maple. She's been driving on and on about snails, mushrooms, pigs with ribbons, gloves, etc. Talk about taxi's and she'll launch into this speech about how much a taxi ride costs to go to a certain place in Maple. Was like ...........

2005-09-11T19:56:00.000+08:00

Found out that my aunt and uncle play the erhu. And my uncle, being his usual eccentric self wakes up at 5am

and starts playing the erhu in the corridor. LOL. i didn't know my aunt liked music x.x
Apparently, the ~~plastic-like~~ erhu that i got from one of my relatives was previously my

cousin's. who was (as her mother claimed) the previous chairman of river valley. knowing that her mother

~~always talked lotsa crap~~ had a tendency to exxagerate, i asked around. found out that her

daughter was actually the vice-chairman. Liew. Like that also wanna sian. Honestly, as if

being vice-chair wasn't pro enough ._______.

2005-09-07T17:23:00.000+08:00

Walao. couldn't log online cos the wires of my phone line were fried. so i just moped about at home

and decomposed.
I really wonder why Mcdonald's lunch starts at 11am. Which same person with a normal digestive system

has lunch before 11???!!!! Hell, my neighbours have breakfast at 11 (unless they eat pancakes for

lunch).

2005-09-06T16:22:00.000+08:00

Was looking at the people decorating the booklets to be given to the instructors, and the designs were so

nice. Read some of the comments and there was this funny one which wrote something like 'Mr so-and-so,

you rawk, you're a great instructor! i love you! MUACKZ!'
OMG. LMAO. Wahaha this person is so damn funny xD
People who usually complained about instructors wrote stuff like 'i think you're a great instructor!', 'you are

the best!', 'you rawks!'. WOW. i could've sworn they didn't say such a thing the day before. hmmm..
what a bunch of hypocrites. not to mention the horrendous grammar. WTH, it's 'you

rock/rawk', not 'you rawkz'. Please, if you wanna change the spelling, the least you could do is

to phrase it correctly. i really couldn't be bothered with the way you spell your words, what i really

loathe are people try to act cool but end up being foolish.

2005-09-05T21:22:00.000+08:00

Man, the dizi is so hard to play. I can't even get the embrochure right (-_-") Spent an age before i could play

the actual note and not the fan yin. brought home joyce's dizi to play and after fifteen minutes, all i

could play was xiao mi feng. and a very lou feng version too
............
BAH. promptly gave up after that. i still love my laogong better ((((=

2005-08-27T20:31:00.000+08:00

My grandfather died on friday, but i don't really feel anything since i've only seen him 3/4 times in my life. My mom got sick after coming back from the funeral-thingie and she's still sick. So sick that she didn't go to the funeral today and she has been sleeping 24/7. She's so tired that she doesn't wanna say much. Don't think she's really that depressed or whatever since she didn't really know her father too. I'm getting very irritated by the fact that she has spoken less than 5 times to me since i got home from CO and she doesn't wanna tell me how my grandad died. Heard that his hands turned black or something before his death. Freakkky.

Shihui is mad la. I borrowed from her this book full of erhu scores so i could find a song for the music exchange. Saima sounds really nice and the book had it so i asked her how hard it was and she said 'it's easy'. was trying it out and this part sounded odd to me so i asked her how to play it and she said 'it's pao gong'. WA LAO. the front part was rather easy but pao gong???!! eEp my pao gong is so half-past-six, i'll think i'll screw up if i play that in during the internal music exchange. Pah, think i'm better off with this weird song about melons.

2005-08-27T20:13:00.000+08:00

Man, some people are so desperate.
This guy who i added on friendster recently added me on msn. After asking me what school i'm in he asks me out to watch the maid. So what if i know him (so he claims. though i don't have an inkling of who he is). I decided not to be my mean self and said that i had cca. He doesn't get the message, and asks me which day i'm free. i get annoyed and give monosyllabic replies. He still doesn't get the vibes and continues to pursue the matter. I was playing Conquer at that time, and i absolutely loathe it when people interrupt me when i'm at it. Got so irritated so i typed 'Do I even know you that well?'. He replied 'Lol... Wa lao...'. I didn't bother replying and a while later he was offline. Heh. Finally made him emarrbassed enough to go offline/block me.

2005-08-25T20:12:00.000+08:00

Had this speech by two sec4's about the O' level oral examination during assembly.
Passage reading was kinda boring (isn't it always?) so i wasn't really listening, though the girl's (shu lin is it? i dunno) pronounciation was nice.
Then came Thomas Kwang (who wouldn't know him? /=) doing the picture discussion. Was bombarded with ultra-cheemnologised words like 'cameraderie' and 'paraplegic' he even hao-lianed a bit and used the word 'quasi-paraplegic', while us people with small minds use simple words like 'chemistry' and 'partially disabled', or even 'bai ka' (lame/spastic). Bet hardly anyone in the hall understood what he was talking about, could see the blank looks.
The speech by shu lin was really dramatic, really interesting but there were people who kept hooting whenever she drama-ed the animals behaviour, how irritating.

Was playing with Yongmei's erhu when i realised that...
My erhu is so damn soft.
I've no idea why, maybe it's not seasoned or something but the volume is really pathetic. The new bow i've got makes it worse. Bleagh.
Anyhoo, i used to like full orchestra, but now it just seems oh-so tedious. It's annoying having to wait for everyone to settle down between parts of songs. Everybody seems to be treating the practices as time for socialising, chittering away when the conductor is asking other sections to play, taking ages to quieten down before we play. And the percussion seem to have problem organising themselves. There's always either that missing clash of the cymbals, the kwaang of the gong reverbrating through the room or some other instrument. So we have to start over and over again just because of that one missing part. They must have weak bladders too because i seem to see some of them slinking in and out of the door regularly.
A certain member there really has an attitude problem. The conductor is speaking to you and there you are, talking to someone else or living in your own little world, completely oblivious that he's speaking to you. Seriously, you're the only one holding on to that instrument, of course he's referring to you. And even if you do look at him, it's with that kaopei look. Maybe you don't mean to give him that look, i don't know, but even i get pissed of looking at you. And i'm not even the conductor. Seriously, it's not as if you play so well, you're in percussion and you can't even count your beats properly.
So have a guess, who am i referring to? (((((((((=

2005-08-24T20:11:00.000+08:00

Went to the school dentist the other day. Can't stand it when dentist's speak to you while they're doing up your teeth. How are you supposed to respond with so many things sticking out of your mouth? I really don't fancy the idea of having my mouth widen by another six inches. The dentist ~~insisted on~~ offered to redo a filling for me and took out this syringe filled with a blue liquid and jabbed it into my mouth. Tasted horrible. Suddenly he said 'Relax, don't be so tense'. Then he stuck this HUGE device into my mouth. Would've screeched wa kao if i didn't have that thing sticking out of my mouth. Bloody hell, how not to feel tense. He knocked something over and went 'oOps!' hahaha how cute. Thank goodness he didn't bend over to pick the thing up and leave that device stuck in my mouth.

2005-08-14T15:34:00.000+08:00

You know...
- you've done too much science homework when you start using words like 'increase', 'decrease' and 'thus' when answering your english comprehensions
- you've exerted too much strength while writing when your index finger cramps up suddenly and you sit there blankly wondering how you're gonna copy stuff when Mrs Koh is speaking so fast
- you're terribly uncreative when all you can come up for the noticeboard is four pieces of coloured paper with the words 'Swiss Cottage Chinese Orchestra' (hint hint* i know lots of you read my blog but dont tag. Now give your suggestions please)
- you've been speaking too much Mandarin when your English sentences don't make any sense. not even to yourself
- the music on Singapore radio sucks when you choose to listen to 'Crazy Frog' on repeat instead of tuning in to the radio when you switch on your mp3
- you've never had a proper childhood when you start watching shows like Yugi-Oh, the Justice League and the Fairy Oddparents (oh yeah, i just love the Fairy Oddparents! (((= )
- the person you're talking to is ~~incredibly thick~~visual when you say 'You're momma's so fat, when she walked past the tv.... I missed my episode!', and the only response you get is
...a blank stare
- you shouldn't nod your head so much (especially in Mdm Tang's class) when it only makes your group have to do a presentation waaaaay it's your turn
- the reason why you avoid asking Ms Seah questions even though she seems to be speaking in another language during lessons on 'Oxidation' when you see her lose her temper whenever the guys ask questions

2005-08-13T11:31:00.000+08:00

Changed my bow on Wednesday. Used it for ten minutes, gave up and changed it back. Apparently, i could hardly pao gong with the other bow. Guess i'll have to live with the scraping noise from my Shanghai (oh wait... is it Beijing?) bow. Got reminded about the Music Exchange again. eEk. I get the jitters even when Erhu II is asked to play together. Wonder how i'm gonna be able to play then.
Wing San wasn't so shy today. She even initiated a conversation with me haha. Even though it was about nothing in particular (so inane that i forgot what we chatted about hahaa), it's better than nothing. Got kinda freaked out when i saw that the side of her erhu had split. She seemed to be worried about having to pay for it being damaged so i just a whole load of crap about expansion and contraction causing it to crack. Obviously, i've no idea why it cracked. Seriously though, i was wondering if she prances about at home, waving the erhu around wildly.
Her bowing is still kinda whacked up despite having copied the directions onto her scores. Weird. Seems that she doesn't look at her scores when she plays. She seemed so pressurised when Mr Chua asked her whether she knew how to play. I was like uh-oh i haven't taught her that part yet(cos i was trying to teach her the earlier part) but she said 'yes', so was I kinda surprised. Wonder if she really knew or she was just trying to help me cos i really couldn't hear her play and her bowing was wrong again.
Oh, i am not happy. This part of 'Chun' got changed by Mr Lee during full orchestra cos we couldn't play that part. Even though it's a very small part, i think it sounds ridiculous. Just because lots of people didn't try it out on their own, it got edited. Bah.

2005-08-12T18:33:00.000+08:00

WTF. Got 24/50 for the chinese test. Bloody Hell. Could've gotten outta remedial if i had gotten one more mark. Was supposed to get 26 but this answer got changed. Arghh. Oh well, at least Joyce failed along with me so we can go for remedial together again heh.
Oh and Vanessa, You Study! *points accusatory finger* well either that or you copy Meryl's work hahahaha how come you get so high only when there are the filling-of-the-words-with-hanyu-pinyin-given type of questions? Hmphhh. Why didn't you let ME copy? wahahaha just kidding.

LMAO. This guy just called asking whether i'd been to restaurants along Lucky Beach. Now where the hell is that? Anyhoo, he suddenly realised that i wasn't 'Ms Wong'. Bet he'll never try to call a girl like that again. Guess he either dialled the wrong number or the woman didn't really fancy him heh.