What happened?

"Why do you call us chao muggers even though we bathe DAILY?"

I just thought of that a few days ago.

Studied with Nina at T3 today... was doing mainly Chinese exam papers. The A level Chinese exam is coming right up this Thursday! Yaaaarrgh!

Gotta learn C++ with my centad friends soon. And I'm not confident about it, haha!

Really need to rant.

As abovementioned, this post simply consists of rantings, so I won't blame you for not reading it. =p


Complaint #1) SCREAM at school today.

Things didn't turn out like how I was hoping they would. In fact, I felt really anti-social today because I have been sleeping at past 1am since wednesday this week. So tired lah. And I'm disappointed in myself for being such an introvert today, you know?!

Dinner with the class was quite fun. And I think the way the guys share food is revolting!!! :/
(But very entertaining to watch. Haha! Especially how they fought over cheese fries, and how kenn siang's dessert got koped every everyone.)

The screening of the movie Shutter failed to get me in the mood for trail. Instead, I was actually laughing at the girls/Poon who were screaming away in disgust/horror during the movie. hee!

Unfortunately, I felt that the Halloween Trail was kind of a waste of my money because it also did not freak me out at all. I started off in the middle of our gargantuan 15-strong group with the girls, felt bored and strayed to the back to get a taste of it, went back to the middle with the girls, and finally proceeded right smack in front with the very adventurous chuankhim just hoping to get freaked out by something FINALLY. (hahaha) But it didn't happen lah. That is, until we were approaching the end of the trail in the LT, and ck opened the now-mysterious door, only to see everything pitch-black and barely visible. Haha that freaked me out, because it seemed like there was no exit.

Not trying to show off here, but I was not freaked out that much. You know what I mean? NO KICK!!!
(Sorry ShuHui, hope you are feeling ok now.)

Well... at least I learnt something new about myself today.

Haiya, I should have been born a guy.

Julia said that sometimes, girls have to act scared. But I can't act!!! Jen help me.

Nonetheless, the councillors have still done a GREAT JOB because majority of the people were zonked out at the end of the trail. I'm just an anomaly, ignore me.

Oh oh oh. I wasn't allowed to go for the maze today, so sad... =( I heard that it's really really scary. Parents wanted me to get home early. Can't defy their wishes, can I?


Complaint #2) my stupid stupid stupid dolt of a handphone

It's only been with me for 11 months or so, and today, it screwed up! For now, when it's turned on, only the keypad lights up, leaving the screen in a pitiful shade of dim, muted black. And not to mention that it just got repaired 2 months ago. ROAR it was such a waste of money.

$*^%$%*&^%$#@#$
(I do not like to use profanities and vulgar language, so there you have it. My anger and frustrations with myself all summed up in a line of commonly-used symbols, which make no sense whatsoever.)

My luck has gone for a vacation this entire week, I'm so miserable without it. Hope it comes back next week. =) And I sincerely apologise to everyone who has seen me with an acrimonious demeanour today. I did not mean to insult jingbin and junlin when I told them the pizza which they BOTH took a bite out of "bu shi ren chi de"/not for human consumption. Really meant it as a joke la, since it was quite a disgusting sight to me. (Heheh.)
Now, I have a habit of recalling every single thing that happened in each day before I go to sleep, so that I will be able to realise if I have hurt anyone unintentionally, or even what I could have done to make my day better. It's a long and tiring process, but I hope it eventually works out.

Will continue working on my personality flaws to become a better person.

Hmm must start chionging for centad very soon. C++, here we come.
and the building of the robot.
and the written report.
AND the much-discussed-and-fantasised-about SSEF next year.
SSEF MEDAL, HERE WE COME!!!

Enjoy your weekend, everyone! =D

OMG?

When I first saw this video, I was expecting to hear really great singing.

But this guy just blew me away, man.

I mean, I found myself on the floor after watching/hearing him sing. Must be the wind la.

For your viewing/auditory pleasure!!!

" A Whole New World" by Nick Pitera

"One Sweet Day" by the same guy.

note: original singers were mariah carey & Boys II Men. One of my favourite songs. =)

But this is just appalling.

"Part of your world" by the same guy AGAIN.

It's a song from The Little Mermaid, I guess?

Hmm disney songs are quite nice, ya. But this is sick!!! Oh my.

THIS IS JUST RADICAL!

AMAZING!

or even nauseating, if you abhor androgynous people.

Is this blog more popular than I thought?

When I started this blog in sec 3, I only told it to around 3 friends. Later, I told my blog address to a few more close friends.

My initial intention was for this blog to be... uh... only known to a very small, selected group of people. So that I would be able to post anything I wanted. Even secrets.

But for some reason, word has spread, and now a super whole big load of people know of this blog.

Crap lah. Thanks to my previous post, almost half of my class knows of some clandestine thoughts of mine.

If you're trying to figure out what it is, TOO BAD! I've deleted a section of my previous post which has caused a barely noticeable undercurrent of commotion among the girls (and some guys) in class.

Dang. Should be more careful in the future.

hahaha shuhui please don't feel bad! I'm not referring to you. But other people. K, cannot mention who, in case I offend YET ANOTHER person.

Really really hope jen's twin brother still thinks that his life is running as per normal.

On another note, I am going to feel very out of place in my grouping for the SCREAM halloween trail this saturday at 10pm.

there's going to be
-hongyao
-hongyao's girlfriend, jasmine
-chuan khim
-junlin



-the super uber don't-belong-here-xinyi

wahlau. Who am I going to clutch on unforgivingly to without any reservations when I see a fake councillor-ghost? None of the 6c girls are in my group la. Oh noooo.

not xmas yet, but it's time to give thanks

these 2 days have been horrible for me and my psychological health. (LOL GP compre.)
but some people have brought much-welcomed happiness/laughter/fun/ice-cream/butter toast into my life when I felt like crap... and I don't care if they have done it because they knew of my emotional state or simply out of nice-ness. I just want to thank them for making my life better this week.



In chronological order, thank you...



08S6C

for eating my cookies, haha. Hope most of you enjoyed it. And hope Shu Hui doesn't taste any more ghost raisins in them.


Chuan Khim

for playing Puzzle Freak on http://www.y8.com/ with me during PW after I got back the %$$%# physics paper. Hahaha hope you didn't get addicted!


Yi Ting

for... you know what you did on Monday. hahaha I don't think it will work out in the end, but thanks for your help. =D don't be too sad about what happened today k? I will try to help you when I can. Hee.

Mr How

For telling us that "it is not what you CAN achieve, it's whether you WANT to achieve it.". I will work hard next year and pwn the rest, man. Whoo! hope you will still be our CT in 2009.

Jen Lee

for consoling me and being by my side when I broke down in school today. And for the very long and enjoyable dialogue (ie bitching session, HAHA!) we had before our Chinese lesson. Thank you so much for being such a great friend!


Nina

for treating me to ben & jerry's and the hk cafe toast today at white sands,(which already cost a bomb) even though you had tuition at 8.30pm. And for window-shopping for hair accessories with me today. (even though I didn't buy anything in the end to save $)

I feel very bad for taking up so much of your resources... ie time and money. Thanks so much for what you did for me today, I really appreciated it, but I just couldn't bring myself to tell you how much I wanted to thank you just now, because I am really very moved. I'm actually sobbing out of happiness as I type this paragraph, you don't know how much it meant to me, even though I know I looked very dao when I was with you... and didn't have much to say. (was quite sian and disappointed with my grades) Sorry Nina!!! But I was forcing myself to NOT CRY in front of you just now. Thanking you was all I could manage without shedding a slightest drop of a tear.


As I walked past the ez-link gantry thingy in the MRT station, I couldn't bring myself to turn back and say bye to you again. And I regret that, for that, I am sorry. I was on the brink of tears at that instant.

In spite of the fact that I got A1 for O level English, I'm bad with words, especially spoken ones, for I lack courage and emotional strength to tell others how I really feel.

Hence, I wrote this post. So that I wouldn't have to cry in front of you.


And thanks so so so much for enlightening me about how our parents feel and think.

Our parents usually want the best for us.

I'm so immature. Sharks.

There is so much more to life than grades.

Our grades are not the only determining factor of our worth.



Wah biang, since when I become so emotional ah???


Still crying.



Wo hao gan dong.



There isn't really another word in the english language which can replace the word 'thanks', so I'm gonna use chinese!



Nina, XIE XIE NI!!! =') <-- smiling while crying, lol



I must also have done something very very good to the society in my past life to be worthy to be your friend.



aaaah the tears just keep flooding my eyes like the Niagara Falls.



hmm the rivers seem to have run dry now.



Oh ya, we must not forget my 2 seniors who have helped me pull through these 2 days with their smses. Hehe.



Jeannie

Thanks for your encouragement!!! Paiseh, I kept spamming you with sms rantings about my lousy promo results. Shall stop irritating you already, hehe. I failed to continue your legacy this year, but I will fight very hard to get a hc diploma next year! Jiayou for A levels!!!
DO TKGS PROUD!!!!! =D



Philip

Sorry for bugging you with smses everyday, haha.(hmm I doubt you are going to read this!!! I should really stop irritating you, too. =P) But it is really interesting to learn more about J2 from your smses. And not to mention your awe-inspiring hobbies! As you mentioned, it's full steam ahead from now until 20th November. Jiayou for A levels!!!


It's an arduous journey.

But I believe that the both of you have what it takes to complete it. =)

Press on, you can do it!

Can't blame anyone, can I?

Was expecting at least a B for physics, because I thought the paper was manageable. But I ended up with a measly 53/100.

WAHLAUUU

History repeats itself; the same thing happened for my math promos. (53/100 too.)

WAHLAUUU I am damn sad and angry at myself. I came into HC with big dreams and a good O level score, I wanted to do H3 physics/econs. That dream has now been obliterated by my laziness this year.

That's why... I only have myself to blame. Sorry Jeannie, I let you down.

I let TKGS down.
I let my PARENTS down.
I let MYSELF down.

You've heard about yo-yo dieting, right? Well, I perform yo-yo mugging. (ever since sec 1)

example:
term 1: slack
term 2: slack
mid year exam: study 2 weeks before
term 3: slack LESS
term 4: slack LESSER
final year exam: pia 2 weeks before

This method, which is EXACTLY what sane teachers and friends tell you NOT to use to achieve good grades, has served me pretty well... That is, until the O levels started looming over us. Ok, I usually do okay for internal exams. Not anything fantastic though.

Out of laziness, I have also employed the same tactic for JC1. Whoops, looks like it didn't work out!!!

*splashes self with ice water to remove steam fuming from ears*

Will emulate chuan khim's behaviour and start studying for some J2 topics as soon as I am done with OP and chinese.

Hobbies!

Started today morning with my P&C tutorial! (whee!) And I'm happy to say that I have completed half of it, considering that I usually wait till the last minute to complete them. :p

(ya lah ya lah, I bet the pros in 08S6C have already done tutorial 13 AND the supplementary exercises.)

By the way, I still dislike P&C. Heh. Old habits die hard.

Later, proceeded to carry out some cube maintenance... and *finally* give my cube a nice spa to reward it for having been very cooperative and friendly this week, when I brought it to school everyday.

Life has been tough on you, my cube, but at least you have a responsible and kind owner, right?

awww. Look at my cube's younger sibling innocently looking at the camera. :) How cute!

Process of cube spa:

1) Dismantling (or disrobing???) of cube

2) gentle exfoliation to remove cube dust with damp cloth

3) Moisturizing with a delightfully smooth spray of silicone lubricant

4) my mum stares in horror at my cube, asking "omg what did you do to your cube??!!"

5) Assembling cube!

Sounds really enticing huh. I wouldn't mind giving your cube the same spa treatments for $3 a session! (right. just kidding.)

My dad came back really early today, he was able to catch an early flight! =D

And I started to bake cookies at 8pm. The first batch actually came out smelling great but were ridiculously soft, so I baked them for another 10mins and ended up with huge coalesced lumps of jet-black soot. Very disappointing... and hard to clean. :P Well, we make mistakes in life in order to learn. :D

Wasted a whole load of cookie dough in the process! :(

My mum told me that cookies harden as you let them cool down outside the oven, so I heeded her advice (which did not come at an opportune time. should have asked her earlier, grrr I'm so silly) and ended up with some pretty nice cookies! Unfortunately, I forgot to use cookie parchment paper to line the tray, so the cookies were embarassingly stuck on the tray after baking.

*BLUSH*

I'm such a noob at baking!!! GAH. But I managed to salvage most of them in good condition with the help of a butter knife. =D Shall bake some more tomorrow!

Yep. Had a pretty nice chat with Yiting on msn today. Somehow I think that I have more to talk on msn. Is that bad? Or does it show my antisocial tendencies in real life?

And Jael, don't overthink things ok! =D Thanks for your adorable Garfield MMS. I liked it a lot, and it cheered me up after I saw my chao-da carbon cookies.

solitude.

those 3 sticks above remind me of one of the art exhibitions... a movie I saw at the Singapore Biennale yesterday. Have any of you visited it yet? Go check it out! It's pretty good.

Melancholic shadows of three Inuit men standing on icebergs in the sea;
with no form of communication.
Nary a sound nor a slightest hint of connection to each other.

Yet this predominating element of sadness was neutralised by the sheer beauty of nature;
the flawless reflections of human figures wavering in the diaphanous, rippling skin of the ocean.

And, for some reason, I felt calm.

ZzzzZzzzZzzzz...

Right... I have to be honest and admit that this exhibit did feel extremely boring at first. (ya lah, I am not so cultured.) But our patience paid off, because as time went by, the movie started to portray the scenes in different weather conditions. The scene taken in winter (it was snowing! :D), along with the eerily realistic sound effects, made our otherwise normal atmosphere feel ethereal. Neat!

Ehh not bad. I managed appreciate art!
TKGS art education department, I have not failed you!
(I had no idea that going to art exhibitions could be so enjoyable.)

Appreciating art was a difficult process which made me feel uneasy for some reason. Maybe Jael can explain the philosophy of art to us! Had to use the free handbook given to us quite often to understand the intentions of the artwork on display... But understanding an art piece doesn't feel like understanding gravitation or circular motion.

HOW TO SAY???
dunno how to explain.

It's just enjoyable! =D

Unfortunately, I still have so much work to deal with.
Hello, my true life.
-eom 2nd draft
-I&R 2nd draft (both by this friday!!!)
-OP powerpoint slides (BY this FRIDAY!!! ARGH)
-study at an intensity which I have never attempted... for chinese A Levels (30th october, 2 more weeks? Aaaaah!)

Must begin preparing for the SATs now, and study for it at full force after OP.
My promo results have been unsatisfactory so far, and I'll have to make up for it with the SATs I guess. =D I will never give up. Must...keep....going...

Oh yes. I just picked up my beloved cube again. Trying to slowly condition my brain and fingers to CFOP, starting from the F2L, which I am trying to perform intuitively. This is not much of a problem, except that I am excruciatingly slow at the intuitive F2L. I need more practice!!! Aiming to achieve around 30sec timings by christmas this year. =) But I am subconsciously over-contented with the working corner method, it has served me pretty well so far with averages of around 50sec. Oh wells, humans can never be contented. Especially women.

(hahahahaha! I remember someone said that to me some time ago.)

Did you know that the cross on the cube can always be done in 8 turns or less?
AND it should ideally be finished in 2 seconds if you're speedsolving. O_o
www.cubestation.co.uk
Had no idea that making the cross could also become an art to be perfected.


hmm.

And now, we should really get on with our lives. =D

please don't stop making me laugh

Came across this on a NeoBoards thread:

Politics - a compound word consisting of the Latin word poly, meaning many, and tics, meaning several of a type of small blood sucking creatures.

Therefore politics means many small blood sucking creatures.


heh heh heh heh heh

Wasting my youth... for just a weekend.

Hmmmm...

The promos are fading,
The JC1s are jumping;
The teachers are fainting.
What have I been doing?

(Oooh. Poetic.)

Why of course, I have been crapping!

Let's examine what I've done over the past few days...

Thursday (after physics paper): eat lunch with mum, splurge $30 on Brisingr (3rd book in the Eragon trilogy), Wii, Wii, Wii, Wii, NEOPETS!!! (especially plushie tycoon)

Friday: astro exco meeting, eat lunch with parents at Xin Wang HK Cafe (Kovan), more plushie tycoon

Saturday:
Melodramatic Morning- kena cheated of $3 on breakfast at Maxwell Food Centre! (2 egg tarts + 1 char siew puff, WTH?) My mum, who similarly got her money painfully ripped off, paid $2 for a cake-serving-plate-sized portion of cai tao kueh. Haiya.

Agonising Afternoon- Incinerate $100 for SAT books, combust another $29 for the delightfully witty "Mad About Physics" book, proceed to kallang airport hawker centre for lunch. I met the TKGS western stall's auntie and uncle there! =D BUT.....

Now, this is the part I want ALL TKGS GIRLS TO READ.

Auntie: "We just moved here recently."
Me: "Oh you moved to a new home around this area is it?"
Uncle: "No, we now have a stall here."
Me: *stunned* "What happened to the TKGS stall? Rental increased significantly ah?"
Uncle and auntie: *uneasy*

What happened is that the *most highly academically educated* person in TKGS right now decided to abuse her power in the school... and force the stall in the canteen with the best food and greatest following to leave the canteen without rhyme or reason... for the financial benefit of her own cronies in the canteen.

I tried my best to put it in a more..... GENERAL form of expression. The uncle originally did not wish for me to publicise this issue, but I felt that this is completely UNACCEPTABLE ACTION TAKEN BY SUCH A BLEDDY HIGHLY EDUCATED PSEUDO-ELITE IN TKGS. I CANNOT STAND SUCH INJUSTICES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you don't understand what happened to the western stall auntie and uncle, please feel free to send me a message/ask me on MSN. I'll be happy to explain to you the situation, even at 1am.

In the end, I told them that their food is good, so no matter where they go, they will be able to build up a pretty neat customer base. =)

Anyway, holding a petition to bring the western stall back to tkgs is unlikely to move the non-existent heart of a pseudo-elite, right? So if you love the auntie and uncle's food, (I know you do!!! Because I do, and all TKGians do!!!) visit their stall...

Name of stall: Holy Grill
Venue: Old airport road food centre
(opposite Broadrick secondary, you can take bus 10 or 31 from TKGS)

There, I've done my part! Join me in my mission of the promotion of good food! Copy and paste the above colourful text into your blog, and visit them whenever you can! =D

Sunday:
neopets, centad meeting, neopets, chatting with old friends. =D
note: Jiang Ying, get well soon! =) And don't walk about too much ah.


Shall end off with a nerdy joke. (can't get enough of them, can you? :D)

nerd: knock knock.
classmate of nerd: who's there?
nerd: thermos.
classmate: thermos who?



nerd: thermos be some way to make you laugh! :D :D :D