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2009-04-13T22:21:00.001+08:00

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TRAIN CASES FOR EVERYTHING!

2009-02-01T22:01:00.009+08:00

I am in love with train cases! I love the tissue box shape, the convenient handle, and the HUGE WHOLLY SPACE inside them :D I was so very prepared to purchase this tissue box in rasant and crystal, all USD 75 and hefty shipping charges, UNTIL I found out that juicy doesn't do international shipping >:(

Then I decided to do more research and found this outlet that does international shipping anywhere any item for a flat rate of USD 10! But woe is me, the train case was not available there. Then I found this similarly gorgeous square train case in candy colours, forgot to add it to bag and went out to the park...

Came back to find it already out of stock! SOB SOB.
But I refuse to relent and mobilized eight search windows for pritty train cases. Billabong women's had train cases but they're cake-shaped and the rest were far too professional. It's so difficult to look for train cases even online! Meh ):

Then I discovered these on David&Goliath USA! Bright pretsy coloured train cases among other adorable notebooks and tees HOHO placed my order already (: I feel so accomplished!

Why I would fail art

2009-01-31T11:12:00.003+08:00

1. I procrasinate drawing (this was due on 14/01)
2. I can't draw a decent fairy
3. My most fairy-like fairies are those blue and pink things.
4. R says they look like butterflies with stunted human bodies (!)
5. There are no male fairies but I still draw them.
6. Can you even tell that the central thing is a female fairy?
7. The wings are placed too low on her body
8. THE HANDS SUCK I KNOW I KNOW ):
9. Her legs are sticking out at the wrong places
10. The rose she is holding looks like poop on a satay stick to the general unemotional population.

DISMAL DISMAL I shall go and die now.

I could be a supermodel or Norman Mailer

2009-01-30T22:17:00.007+08:00

I feel optimistic, and happy even though my listed weekend homework spills out of the daily column in the organizer. Because hollyhoque released a super chio new collection; I didn't get caught for not doing my tutorials because i didn't have math lessons AT ALL THIS WEEK :D; I met Felicia Chin at cold storage with weilin & bravo annies who ran after her while I cowered at the fruit juices compartments; melted cheese binges with wooytie and my classmates at LJS; because laulau is back at school and I get to witness a certain bio teacher's extreme affection for my male classmate. What reason is there not to be happy?

OH YES THERE IS: Interval training. I haven't been flushed like this for a whole year already and even when I run thinking that I'm going to trip and fall on my face and every step continually whacks at my pathetic lung capacity, I still make under 2 minutes on the clock but my bloody heart rate is ONLY 136 wtfwtf. I got my head pounding and muscle aches to look forward to and I still miss the 142 training rate?!?!

Maybe my heart is like naturally calm or something. smiles smugly at everyone with palpitating hearts and sweaty palms

morbid curiosities

2009-01-24T19:19:00.005+08:00

I can feel one of those metal brackets on my upper right molar going loose, but I LIKE GUAVAS SO VERY MUCHLY! and weikai is already on his retainers!

Slept at 2AM the past two days primarily because I was headed for the flower patch everyday after school, pushed pebbles into the soil, wrote in the back of the organizer (now you know where to raid) for as long as the sun took to set, for reasons that elude myself, maybe for somebody or some things. Then headed home via the back way, put dinner into my tum, walked around the house with the phone to my ear and only started writing my CWE at 11PM. Which turned out to be a horrible piece of work because I ended it "abruptly", as tuyan comments, in an effort to go to sleep early. Early being 2.15AM, after going on MSN and finding nobody but a few owls.

Dickson ~~went~~ said he was going offline and disconnected me! Okay he didn't, it's just my computer. Now he's asking me school related q

Stopped writing cos I had to go out to dinner. Had pepper lunch for the first time with squaddies at taka after cny celebrations yesterday and unleashed my inner noob onto yueting's food by cooking it for her and leaving the middles of the chicken raw. Yeah, thats me, the next martha stewart. Then I dragged the poor things to go shopping for a wallet with me and saw some pretty ones at rafflescity that i might go back to get.

Met laulau at the library today and looked through her photos of the HC Science camp thingy on her new phone. So prettay! I also want a new phone gee (: But I can't seem to find any pretty ones by nokia and SE so I might be veering toward LG gags at memory of first phone.

Life in a half mess now, rapidly growing backlog of work and still CNY to go, people to keep in touch with, with things like enunciation and speed of thought to improve on, and thank goodness, jokes to laugh at (:

Holiday friends
retreat back into the photo albums they came from
the december sun
could only hold so much in its embrace,
and has shied away
behind looming school buildings
and its charges.

Sand pulled like a rug from under your feet
then returned to the shore, and
children, not unlike us, frolicking in the sea
mouths engulfed by
slow, large, foamy waves bringing
the salt
that gatecrashed your words,
framed the corners of your smile;
but the aftertaste left
_______________your
tastebuds; expectations; perspectives
never the same.

We all want to get kissed in the rain,
lie in the grass
and catch planes with our fingertips
_______onto
___jump____lilypads
and walk to the end of a rainbow

time and again
only to find the pot of gold
is on the other side
and the rainbow,

vanished.

I think, therefore I am

2009-01-18T17:04:00.002+08:00

Hi you people who read but never comment (unless someone is playing with the counter), I fell asleep in bio lab last week, woke late and missed the anniversary celebrations altogether, called my history teacher the wrong name and I've only been to two days of formal school this week.

Not to mention the stack of notes that I am told that I have to lug around everyday, and I am not very excited about lab because i suck at drawing every kind of table other than the real one. sighs loudly why did I not take humanities?

All this note-reading and hour forty lab sessions better land me somewhere earning big bucks tsk.

I'm sorry you guys (sqdmates and leong who organised the movie outing) cos I left my phone home and went to my aunt's house to eat like every kind of cny cookie that left me feeling a whole lot better, never mind that I'm prolly flabby all over already :)

高级华文！

2009-01-12T22:26:00.002+08:00

I would like to thank: Hester Geraldine Eileen Jun Yi Jhosy Winata Lydia Rachael Kaylene Tu Yan Dong Qi Tie Hong, especially ANGHUISHAN & MS. LOO ; everybody who helped or attempted to help with my ~~atrociously bad~~ chinese these whole four years because

I HAVE PASSED MY O LEVELS HCL WITH SUPER HAPPY YELLOW BANANA COLOURS! In the omg-now-i-really-have-to-jump-over-the-moon way.

Be it offering your chinese spelling answers within my eyespan, patiently explaining to me the meaning of the commonest four word phrase ever, reading out the compre questions to me, constantly telling me what every blardy term in zonghetiankong meant (tiehong!) or just forwarding your completed duhougan to me, my chinese intellect has apparently grown under all ye gracious tutelage and I haven't forgotten (:

ANGHUISHAN Thanks for trying to and successfully communicating to me in chinese, you have been a great help I never expected to have, and reading the shaonianwenzhai magazine so enthusiastically (haha now everybody knows!) so that I have the motivation to look at the captions below the pictures for every issue. Thanks a mil for giving me the-chinese-mood before the papers cos the relief teacher couldn't do shit to help me :D

MS. LOO Everybody says you've been slacky and you probably burnt all our zuowens that you never returned to us but I think you are fantastic. Thanks for simply looking at my essays from another perspective and letting me know my chinese was not a lost cause (: You have no idea how much it helped compared to the feedback i had from my other chinese teachers narrows eyes. I am glad I went for the last year of chinese remedials (yes darlings i've been on the list for chinese remedial since the first week of sec 1, i think i've got the gold membership already) cos I learnt so much more there than during class.

Well people, this has marked the end of my academic chinese life and no, I am not making forays into this area of study any time soon.

So Charmaine and her A walked happily into the sunset.

完

2am - 11am

2009-01-08T22:20:00.007+08:00

I think I did it.

I found the dress that will "take me through a date, a work meeting, a girls' night out and a tea session with the Queen of England" :D It's imported from London because my mom thinks Londoners dress very sophisticatedly and sensibly. It's black with a pleated bottom and two cute faux straps at the waist with big white cloth buttons. And it matches the beautiful necklace laulau gifted me! The only thing I dont quite like about it is that it's sleeveless. Otherwise it would be perfect. (:

Anyways I went to Raffles Town Club: The Dunearn Ballroom sometime back for my gorgeous model cousin's wedding and I loved the place + service! They had cute guys handing out drinks and serving the food ehhe. Nat and I took pictures with the Edward Room and Victoria Room HAHAH. We attended the cocktail reception, but before that my sisters followed the wedding entourage around for the photo shoot and two huge lunch buffets while I was earning moolah -.- Chelsea is the flower girl for this wedding, along with another cute little boy in a tux and they got to throw rose petals!

Their whole wedding theme was amazing. The organizers did up a wedding poster that resembled the "Coming Soon" billboards in theatres right outside the door, which was really impressive. Typical nine-course dinner and souvenirs aside, I loved every single one of her gowns and I would like one with a corset! The toilet at the Club is so grand, the sinks area is bigger than the size of my bedroom with marble tiling, huge ceiling-to-floor mirrors and gold autotaps with autosoap. Good for camwhoring i say ;)

Squad chalet was like well, all the squad chalets in previous years. Just a whole lot cosier and uh picked up loads of card games this time round thanks to leong who kept jumping in clarine's face to ask her to play bridge. Tried my hand at barbequeing chicken wings and lets just say they didn't turn out very nice so I decided to stick to buttering everything and leave the food cooking to the pro people (: We all watched the finale of The Little Nonya together! Horrible ending though. Squaddies still have the bad habit of renting horror movies so I sat through The Strangers with a pillow and zimin's chinese doggy book. I felt the plot was very absurd and outlandish but being the gutless person that I am I was still freaked out. Weikai Edward beside me let out a huge shaky gasp when he thought the masked men were going to appear and I totally screamed. Glad next door didnt kick us out!

K I still owe brytan 6 reflection essays sigh.

hello, oh nine!

2009-01-02T01:03:00.000+08:00

Keeping late nights are a bad habit. scowls at monitor

Hmmm lets see. I went back to school the second time this hols for debates training with Joshua. I remember feeling frustrated, hurried, frazzled in the morning because I could not find some linkages I needed. After which I had my first lunch at the sky garden in Vivocity with the el peeps, fairly pleasant and was thoroughly amused by an sms with horrigible spelling! Yijin weilin jeremiah joshua spent the rest of db8s playing bridge while I stoned and picked up a few things. I sincerely apologize to Yijin for folding paper flowers out of his stats sheet and eating all the important numbers! ):

I spent New Year's Eve sleeping in and went for a family lunch at Jack's Place. I only liked their seafood chowder soup! Actually I like seafood chowder soup everywhere, period. The fish and chicken were very average (for the price we were paying!!) and they replaced broccoli for sweet corn that I am very unhappy about because I like having greens on my plate. Yeah to all you veggie-haters, eat dust! I came home, slept some more and had Teochew cuisine for dinner, threw some stuff out and watched Maid In Manhattan after the new year craze was over.

I'm beat because I bulldozed through the twilight saga this week and no doubt I have complains, esp. her theory about vamp killing and the fact that I simply cannot comprehend why Edward Cullen has legions of fans. The age issue should turn one off already!

I like Alice the best and well I admire Charlie the most. Thrown unsuspecting into the heat (or rather, the cold) of the whole vamp wreck, he is unperturbed by Bella's hatred for Forks, submitting to her crazy demands, accepting her ancient boyfriend, sudden marriage and pregnancy; not asking ANY questions the whole time and being sane. I could not have done that.

Hmm while on the topic of self-control, here are

My new year resolutions:

1. To manage my finances and control my expenses.
A rough gauge of how much I've spent this holiday would be close to four hundred dollars. Funny how money disappears so quickly when I go out *rolls eyes* And I didn't even go on a shopping spree!

2. Exercise regularly, vigorously.
I've been feeling very unhealthy, and I must have been through about a gallon of coke, fries and what not, with all that fast-food. The occasional run does not seem to do any good.

3. Read more non-fiction.
I can't tell you how much I abhor non fiction and how quickly I'd embrace even the lousiest story when placed between both. SO PICK UP THEWORLDISFLAT AND FINISH IT CHARMAINE! It'll prolly be my last book because I'm going to face a lifetime ban from the library when school reopens :/

Glass Hall, Singapore Arts Museum

2008-12-29T11:57:00.001+08:00

Camwhore attempt #82975928

Wedding cake = Adorable tiers of cupcakes

My favourite items of the whole menu:
Fresh prawns, crispy salmon in Hong Kong style,
Sauteed Broccoli with Enoki Mushrooms topped with Wolfberry

I finally found out the name of the red ditty things in my soup - wolfberry! IMHO they taste great and should be eaten with everything :)

lace up your shoes AYO AYOO

2008-12-27T21:37:00.005+08:00

The lead singer isn't the least attractive but it's

RUN BABY RUN
dont ever look back
they'll tear us apart
if
you give them the chance

all the anti-depressants in the world!

my radar under blizzard, hailstorm, snowflakes

2008-12-23T22:46:00.002+08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS IN ADVANCE TO ALL! :D
Few events:

YSP Camp during YVIP attachment exchange prog!
Station Games @ ECP with ACJC organisers:

Gavin - winata's stalker, Chinyang, Junyi, Calvin
Winata, Lihui - the object of affection & I

Because we are all closet paedophiles (except for junyi who is very open about it!) and Zona who is decent is not in the photo ;D Everybody was all smiles because we treated the kids to ice cream!

Then Zona turned slightly paedophilic at night gasp!

I had a sudden urge to go vegan after that meal!
But not anymore heh.

Lunch Outing w/LAULAU: My sandal strap tore off while I was walking in puddles from MYMCA to payalebar mrt so I was half barefooted on the train till bugis where I got a new pair of flats :D And we went shoppinggggg! Tried on loads of clothes, was very fun despite all the crowds!

Club Med JNR CLUB outing:

BABY PINK NO. 4! + Esmond's hand

Being pool addicts (blame clubmed!) we went to this super ulu mall in katong to play pool at like, 11am, while Dawn & I sat and froze.

Mike calls this imba thing a spyder

Which works well for everybody except sean, because the white ball likes to evade him :O

Can vaguely see all of them acting emo by the sea

Then we walked ECP w/o dawn because she was on Mission Romantic and rented bikes! We passed by the Bougainvillea Garden (from YSP station games!) and I suggested dragging our bikes up and spiralling down and it was super fun until I jammed my right brake first(and ivan was consistently reminding us NOT to) and FLEW OFF MY BIKE ): Tore a hole in my pants and got suaned by mike:
"What are those things in front of you?" "Brakes?" "Use them!" "I know I pressed the wrong one!" "T.T"

Ivan's trident ice cream cone!
Was pretty jealous of Isaac's chocolate sundae because I can't eat the chocolate syrup & had to get the strawberry flavour!

Uber cool packaging (for a beanie) that I found in Mike's bag of gifts while we were on a cab (again), then I watched half of Wall-E on Mike's X-fi while on train ride from Kembangan which is fricking far but made a lot better by staring at cute robots (:

Would like to say THANKYOU SO VERY MUCH to Dawn, Sean, Michael, Ivan, Isaac, Eugene & Esmond for the X'mas gifts! Not going to open them till Christmas morning so... will update when the time comes =D

-

2008-12-15T15:02:00.001+08:00

Well it's been long. Really long, in fact.

(if you read the prev. post), this is my 3RD-day-to-sit-at-home, and only because I'm down with ~~a really bad sore throat~~ it was actually food poisoning from the steamboat gasp i had all kinds of different coloured stools and so im missing another day of attachment at MYMCA ;_;

Anyway I sort of left my com tucked somewhere under my pile of reading material (which i'm proud to say i'm done with half of!) for this.. 3/4 month? And only realised when Kay & Angel asked me "have you seen _____'s facebook profile??" yesterday at the steamboat outing. Well RAH no I haven't been on fb and msn in eons!

That reminds me, I had loads of fun at YV camp, made a new bunch of friends, and um spent a huge amount of time with Winata, including waking up beside her every morning and sharing the same bathing cubicle to the horror of.. everyone else :D I had this guy TF named Shawn as my mortal in the angelandmortal game and for DAYS my peg was empty and miserable but his gift was so cute! There was this huge box of tiny panda biscuits that I couldn't resist opening and shared it with my buddy group =D Oh, had Edmund for my TF so you can imagine how full-of-shit my camp days were, and eh the gross rotten banana + mudslides + waterbombing + jianqin's split pants + spartanshizz at station games! Can you believe our TFs made olivia, me and leong mutes during the disability challenge? They must think we talk too much :( That was three hours of torture!

The Sunway Hotel was marvellous. 5 minute walk to Pyramid Shopping Mall with all the retail goodness and Christmas trees EVERYWHERE! I took photos with green, white, auburn ones and this CLASSY BLACK tree :D But the sony tseries handbook is unexpectedly un-user-friendly so >:( no pics!

Oh and my room view was the entire theme park ^^ Spent one day shopping, we were hoping to get loads of cheap stuff but looks like they revamped the place since 10 years ago, so we got stuff from all the expensive places. Took photo with Santa and went on a earring spree (bought really pretty dangly ones that I'm prolly never going to wear) because they were on sale: 4 pairs for RM10!

The next day spent at the theme park turned out to be an exhilarating experience? My sister dragged me onto the worst rides at the amusement park. I have NO IDEA why they call it an AMUSEMENT park it should be fricking called DANGEROUS FOR PEOPLE WITH NO GUTS. Like me. I suppose it should ring an ALARM bell when the ride's called Pirate's Revenge? Wtheck the woman at the gate told me, no, not scary la, they go very slow one. What bull i tell you. I regretted it the very moment I sat in that brown seat, tucked my head in and screamed for my life when the thing went 180 degrees, then the full turn on me. The worst thing is they hold you there for 10 seconds at that 180 degrees position, "to let you see the world in another way", well, no i decided I do not like looking at things upside down, much less facing a plump, happy and screaming Filipino woman. Couldn't see straight when i got down x.x Went for the water park after that, de jevu at the man-made beach with the currents, awesome fun at the water playground, horrible water slides that I had to go on with my sister the daredevil -.-

Hmm yeah and right the next day I was back for attachment, went for this xmas celebration at Trinity Paya Lebar and interacted with many elderly people, including this granny who told me like, everything there was to know about her ever since the minute I sat down. I might have missed a few lines here and there but yeah fun experience! Can't get over the fact that Amos thinks my winter tree stencils look like ph-ll-s-ses, but snow-painted onto the doors of MYMCA nonetheless (:

Mmm yeah Survivor Gabon is on now so bye yall!

a very, long, recount

2008-11-26T18:28:00.016+08:00

Loads of people are on gpp now so i shouldn't really have anyone to go out with and since i don't have to go back to school AT ALL like omgyayness technically i should be spending my holiday pigging out at home with my telly + books.

BUDDEN NO :(

05/11 learningsymp prepwork till laaaate

06/11 learning symposium

07/11 report card day, lunch with 4D girls, shoeshopping with laulau

08/11 SL BBQ dinner

09/11 earn moolah

10/11 - 14/11 CLUB MED <3>

15/11 earn moolah

16/11 jr clubmed outing at which i blew 42 moolahs

17/11 FIRST DAY I GOT TO SIT AT HOME OMG spent it catching up on lost sleep and wordchallenging

18/11 thimun-sg registration, madagascar II then dinner with jrecl

19/11 - 22/11 THIMUN! fit in a breakfast + very late dinners + gossip sessions + tuitionclass bbq + D&D

23/11 earn moolah

24/11 SECOND DAY TO SIT AT HOME! spent the whole day packing my room so i could finally walk through it without tripping over something

25/11 jr clubmed outing #2 details later

26/11 lunch w/laulau and evil twin tees! (:

27/11 - 28/11 VR Classroom exhibit @ Suntec

29/11 earn moolah

30/11 pack for camp & travel

Continued from prev. post about thimun-sg, DAY FIVE:

sirui priscillia shuhui ruolan grace rachyee
winata charmaine wayne rachwong xueqiang

Wayne Rachel Charmaine

ECOSOC ftw!

At KAP for dinner

Olivia & I with fading rainbow in the background

Anyways on 25th Nov, JNR CLUB went ICESKATING @ Kallang Leisure Park!

Issac Sulin Christina Dawn
Sean Michael Ivan Charmaine

T'was a superb experience and I'm pretty sure the rest will agree :D After free braking and speedskate lessons from mike (who got a speeding ticket HAHA for going too fast!) and constant help from sulin I can zip around the crowded rink and swerve :D I think dawn learnt to iceskate pretty damn quick and isaac & sean only have their high centre of gravity to blame ehehehe! But that point isn't proven cos ivan's screams (that shook the rink like every 5 minutes!) stand evident of his instability on ice lol (: But we all learn!

We are probably the only people in the arcade at like 11am in the morning

They have an unusual fetish for rubber swords i swear

28-29th Nov: PSL21 Learning Convention

Miss Pan Rita Charmaine
Hester Qiyuan Guokai Edwin

Mmm place was not bad, we had direct access to this small dark carpeted alley behind the convention hall that we used for coffee and breakfast breaks heh! Now after ushering and talking to like 50 people over two days, I can tell you tons about anaglyphs, virtual reality, polarising filters, superimposition and yeah loaaaads of other sciencey stuff that I learnt from the prozai people there :D

I had this one caucasian man to take around our booth and so our conversation went like this:

Me: Hello, would you like me to take you around our 3D immersive classroom?
Man: Why not?
Me: That's great, how can I address you?
Man: Oh, just call me Dominic (wa so casual)
Me: Okay, so we have this 3D movie screening inside... Begins to talk about techy stuff like I did to all other patrons.
Man: So what about the cost of this project?
Me: I'm not too sure but I can refer you to my teacher, Mr. Chow.
Man: Sure.

Man: Hello, I'm Dominic.
Mr. Chow: Hello, I'm Mr. Chow and where are you from?
Man: I'm from the PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE *smiles*
Me: *gapes big-time*

We asked for two helium balloons at the other booth and the woman gave us the whole bunch! :D

Laulau & I with the X'mas tree (and AYCS I'm taller than her alr wee!)

Laulau was lecturing me for borrowing Lolita from zhixiang because I have five other thick intelligent reading materials that I haven't really started on yet ):

So yeah i'll be off to YV camp the day after tomorrow and therefore missing rmun bbq :/ and back for like maybe 6hours before going out of town. Then I have several small ditty outings/events after and things like dental appointments and workout days... then x'mas! Reminds me of the gayswans proj last year let's do doves this year jrecl! (: mm k jo's here, bye!

P/S: I am not planning to get a tagboard anytime soon so, dont be lazy and COMMENT! Because our msn convos revolve around my blog post too often.

WE LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT!

2008-11-18T21:09:00.011+08:00

THIMUN was funnnnnnnnnnn (:

DAY ONE: After Registration

We went to Plaza Sing for lunchand watched Madagascar! Delegation: Madagascar
@ rachyee's place playing pool

rachwong & i were happy on the seesaw.. until

waynechum decided to come and stand on it blearghhh!

DAY TWO: OPENING

Met Mike @ kap for breakfast (okay in a not-so-nice way it's something like dragging him out? heh!) and we had time to talk about a few things over ice milo then he saw my entry pass and he was like "OH SO YOURE MADAGASCAR? HAHAHAH!" before trying to guide me to HCI then brytan called to hurry me eh.

I met a really nice group of people (yes considering the fact that I was a whole hour late into lobbying and that rachwong eloped with my reso) and had a lot of names and faces to remember by the time it was opening ceremony.
We are SOOPER efficient cos we sent our reso to the approval panel like, before lunch, so we spent lobbying time after that socialising and I schmoozed with a few fun people!
We camwhored but not with my camera so (:
OMG I just realised that I don't have any photo of rachwong & wayne & me although we're in ECOSOC tgt x.x MUST TAKE TMRW!

DAY THREE

Above from left: Sirui Winata Rachyee Xq Wayne Grace Pris Ruolan Shushu xD
Bottom from Left: Olivia I Rachwong

ECOSOC's location was the HC Drama Centre, pretty place with comfortable seats (: I didn't quite like our Chair because he was being anal and rigid about like, everything oh but I loved our Deputy Chairs we do underhanded things tgt! I made a speech, it was supposed to have like a dramatic beginning, impactful ending, and content in the middle but I got cut-off halfway and so I only managed the start and end. Everybody told me they felt very convinced but I was wondering, what exactly were they convinced of since I didn't mention ANY content at all! Either way, Resolution 3-1 on Mercury Pollution: PASSED! :D

I kindof slept through the others, abandoned rach and migrated to Wayne @ UNHCHR and met this Venezuelan-Japanese-Spanish-Chinese beauty (mental note: must take photo with her tmrw!) representing UNFPA, and two Taiwanese guys representing UK and we watched movies on MUTE on his laptop =D

DAY FOUR: DEBATES + D&D

It was veryvery sian today and I fell asleep like 3 times but rach was very alert so =D Check out the above, cos apparently someone was extremely bored as well! "Your newest movie is so funny!" Haha yes, our movie. Now lets MOVE IT!

The D&D was at Orchidville, this ulu place with a huge dining area and dancing hall + stage and we had fabulous dinner and this was taken before the lights dimmed and people started jumping onto the stage and wagging their booties off.
I & the overdressed/wronglydressedforpartying Winata + Grace
Laura Parish & I! (Btw her chinese, is OWNAGE)

I & Xueqiang! (I posted this cos both of us look pretty good innit!)

Then we got onto the dance floor while Olly pushed everybody to make space and we started partying with all the crazy people, there was this occasional circle where people like Akilan & Other Breakdance Pros did their crazy moves and handstands, headstands while people screamed. It was wild all right. It reminded me greatly of Crazy Signs @ Club Med, just a lot darker, ten times louder (the music) and fifty times more packed. Oh yes this is with flash.
Miki Kobayashi & I! Ooooh yesyes namesake of the Kobayashi Japanese food outlets in SG!
rachyee & I camwhoring with the entrance sign while waiting for the shuttlebus (:

K it's an obscene hour and I have to wake at like, 745am tmrw morning so I won't be late because the admin (whom I got to know today) is going to lock me out of the first debates session tmrw if I am x.x

放手了，后悔了，幸福呢

2008-11-17T22:09:00.002+08:00

Hey.

Thanks, for walking in the rain with me today. Actually, thanks for noticing i wasn't okay yesterday night. I feel reassured now, because I know it's okay to take time to grow up, and that I don't have to be seriously and maturely sixteen once I turn it. And that it's okay to say something wrong, and it's okay to ask, okay to blurt because everyone does it some point in life "no matter how geezy old they are". Thanks for telling me about childlike and childish, and watching me emo like, the whole time. And letting me call you when no one else was awake, so that I would write these four other messages for these four people.

Then you.

We were supposed to meet but council and school stole you away >:( But it's cool, cos we're taking the same combi next year and thanks a mil for counselling me through these four rollercoaster-like years, handling all the crazy class politics and accompanying me to my first MUN. Going to miss seeing you at THIMUN this year :( And thanks for coming with me to all those subject advisories, and listening to my far-fetched concerns and helping me come to a conclusion. Thank you for always being so nice, and so fast to shoot me down when I'm being unreasonable and watching my back when I'm out of control. You ALWAYS save me when I'm in shit, love ya (:

And you.

Are we drifting apart? Our schedules keep freaking clashing and we can't even catch a movie tgt; I've almost given up entirely. I was supposed to bring you back seawater but it didn't make it back with me, and I've only got sand left to give you. I don't know what's going on if your life right now, and I'd like to know, if you'd like to tell me. I think you're occupied with other things, and you probably think I'm doing the same too. I might, but have we ran out of common topics? Maybe you changed. The things we knew changed. Or I did, will you tell me? I don't know, I feel very confused.

A different you.

I guess sixteen means a different thing in Perth doesn't it :/ So many things I haven't heard of, you've already been experimenting with. I've got so much to tell you, that they'd never fit in one long email, which is why I haven't been writing you any. But you seem to know everything. Thanks for giving me advice on clothes books shoes contacts life bestfwens boys, reading every single word of my rantish emails and replying to them, thanks for encouraging me everytime I screwed up something big and wanted to hole myself up. Thanks for making me feel I can do it, always.

Unexpectedly, you.

Hey. Thanks for emailing me one year after the-bad-experience to apologize and clear things up. And I'm sorry for not replying to your yearly birthday message, because I didn't know what to say. I'm really glad to hear that you're doing the things you like and doing them well. Thanks, because of that I can safely say that I buried this hatchet, this uncomfortable feeling I get everytime I pass by your campus is gone. And your things? I've still got them. Thanks for helping me move on (:

Can I have a worm please?

2008-11-17T01:00:00.007+08:00

(edit: more pictures!)

I'm going to have muscle ache at my tummy area and my cheeks cos I laughed too damn hard today!

Wrestling with acuvue lenses 10am
Homeless juveniles sitting at tanahmerah mrt 11am
Squealing at Miss Whatever, bought earrings! at 12pm
Having pasta and discussing weight gain from club med at 1pm
Noticing sex innuendoes while shopping at 2pm
Eating cheap icecream and photo exchange at 230pm
Buying bags of candy at 3pm
On the Sentosa Express 4pm
Hitting sleeping people accidentally w/volleyball at Siloso Beach 430pm
Enters wrong toilet :O 4.55pm
Bought a family package at the Luge, on my first skyride with Ivan & Mike 5pm
Listening to Su Lin screaming 5.10pm
On the Luge! at 5.15pm
Helmet threatens to fall off 5.15-5.20pm
Crashes into Ivan who crashes into Isaac at Luge exit 5.20pm
Hogged two benches on the tram and bought two crazy mixed super big gulps 5.30pm
Took the Sentosa Express three rounds (i think!) and Indosat 5.45pm
Queuing at Sushi Tei 6pmPick up Dawn, watch Isaac Sean Mike do retarded stuff at Toys R Us 6.30pm
Orders food at Adjisen Ramen 7pm
Gets suaned again for twirling my noodles (!), watch sulin laugh like crazy 7.30pm
Played zhongjimima with diluted miso soup 7.45pm
Sat down at Ben & Jerry's, changed our minds and went to Earle Swensens' instead 8pm
Spent 15mins talking war strategy using the icecream menu 8.15pm
Sick, like really sick jokes and vocabulary A-Z (thanks to eugene) 9pm
HOMEWARDBOUND! 930pm
iSketch 11pm

On Sentosa Express

Sean Isaac Sulin Esmond

Us the tram hoggers
LUGE!

Indosat -.-

ACT CUTE!

0% resemblance!

bowls and bowls and bowls of ramen

Su Lin can laugh AND eat at the same time wth!

PEEKCHURES!

2008-11-17T00:18:00.007+08:00

HIHI!

Had a blast @ Club Med, especially with the Junior Club and Loges (our G.O.)!

We had waterpolo games, water fights and gossip sessions in the pool, kayaked and swam in the sea, played volleyball & truth/dare on the beach, billard at the table in one of the four bars, drank countless honeymoons at the Santai Bar, did archery and had sooper violent basketball games at the sports center, went through a screamy circus training session at the trapeze, won medals, had many meals together at the long high table in the Waterfall Restaurant, pranked the staff at the boutique, had taupok sessions and PARTIED tgt EVERYNIGHT after the show at Crazy Signs!

I miss the partying the mostest! Xishuashuaxishuashua (:
K, pictures!

PEOPLE:

Vogue Fashion show: Finale
Dawn & Charlotte Taupok Mike

WE <3 LOGES!

Lunch Photo!

I Connie Su Lin EEEEEKS

Mike Sean Dawn I Charlotte

Eugene Mike Ivan Isaac Sean + LogesCAMWHORE!

After pool games

Another lunch table photo

DROWN MIKE!

Charlotte I Christina Sulin Dawn
Sean Eugene Mike Ivan Isaac

I'll upload the food and professional pictures another day!

Where happiness means the world

2008-11-08T13:58:00.004+08:00

So. I'm going overseas in like, 1.5 days and I have no idea what to pack except "sunblock, sunblock and a lot of tank tops" as quoted from the Club Med Bintan Island review. From what I read I could very well be justified in saying that I'm going to live in paradise for a week and I must leave my phone and tech gadgets and the tv *sniff* at home so I can detach myself from the world properly.

Wonderful idea don't you think. The bad thing is, unlike all the other holiday-sightsee-shop-your-ass-off places I've been too this one is most probably not going to have shops selling underwear. I ALWAYS end up buying underwear overseas (I've got at least a pair for every place I've been to, don't you dare tell me it's a nice souvenir or i'll buy some for you next time) cos I don't bring enough. Oh and I'm super excited about their bathroom goodies from CRABTREE AND EVELYN!!

I've got this really low threshold for scents (even if they smell good) and while I'm on that, do you know that some of those terrible developers decided to dig up the pavements at the bottom of my hill again, and fill the ditches with foul smelling fertilizers?! I am really quite piffed because:

1. The palm trees DO NOT look like they are dying
2. I smelt enough ammonia in the lab this year and I am NOT going to subject myself to such lung torture everytime I have to walk out
3. They are not replacing the grass that they cut off so there's nothing to absorb the ammonia and it just stinks up the whole hill
4. I am unaware of the project end-date

Horrible planning. Idk why all of them can't plan together and dig it up once, put in all the stuff they want to and leave us alone -.- And grow back the grass.

Now I have to go and find packing guidelines online, bye!

End of school

2008-11-07T20:10:00.004+08:00

This last day didn't feel like a last day at all.

My form acted like he was going to see us next week, everybody was all oh yeah bye! and I brought home a certain XM's english paper by mistake. I sort of, i mean, very much fell in love with the JC lit texts and I think life sucks only because I can't do Bio Chem Math Hist AND Lit together because my school doesn't allow it (my friends know).

I like bio hist & lit ALOT but math & chem are painful, and guess what? EVERYBODY takes math & chem. Proven: Life can suck.

Oh but then life's great because my daddy bought me a new iPOD:

Classic (white)! Because I refuse to watch videos on the puny screen of the chromatic (no matter how enlarged it was from the prev. gen) I shall watch all my Beverly Hills 90120 vids there! And it fits 30 gig, so take that, chromatic! I have plans to scour the Borders @ parkway for skins to dress my new toy muahahahha.

Went to Jack's Place with huishan lydia rachael had great soup, great ice cream (salty x.x) and not so great fish and CAMWHORED! Not going to upload because I want to watch telly full-time tonight, any shitty show will do fine :D

Went shoe-shopping with laulau @ lot 1 and bought my first pair of flats, riea was like how can you have five heels (they were all bad choices btw) and NO flats?! Well yeah, I can. And laulau found out that her feet fits most of the shoes on display in mondo perfectly so she had a hell of a time trying on ridiculous things and I had a hell of a time picking them out for her to try on x)

AND I have to go back to school tmrw to CLAIM my report card cos wong refused to let me bring it home cos I didn't hand in the 46 dollars miscellaneous fees. They should do a GIRO system or smth I'm like the only person who doesn't have her report card grrr -.-

I've got this super screwed holiday schedule because I have no idea when I am going overseas (yeah so my travel declaration isn't entirely accurate), which means I haven't packed and I have a lot of things clashing tgt on the same day argh.

the wonders of sternestmeanings

2008-11-07T01:35:00.000+08:00

it's obscenely past midnight and im awfully exhausted from learning symp, a very very long keynote address and the show at UCC but i've finally made it past the 10K mark on Word Challenge and am about 2K behind the godly winata and some mad men who are like, at 30K?!?!! shakes my tired booty

but i think i'll settle for bed first (:

WHEEEE

2008-10-26T19:00:00.004+08:00

I ran my first 5K ever today with Zhiying without any stopping at all and it was superb, partially because it wasn't very warm at all and the energy level of everyone there (all femme) was real high. There was this adidas photographer who took this professional shot for us and printed it as a namecard sized keepsake AND it was complimentary! Lovely (:

Had oysters, expensive apple juice and carrefour shopping for rather obscene amounts of sushi with Beaver, Chlorine (who ran the GE 10K!) and Leong (whom i saw at the starting line lol) and we convinced Anty to come out and watch HSM 3 with us.

Well DONT CATCH IT unless you like awkward scene changes/Vanessa's new bouncy curls/rather un-catchy tunes/extremely clinche and predictable scenes, ugh "flop" as Leong calls it. Despite my determined picture of skepticism, -warning spoiler ahead-

Troy Bolton: My prom is wherever you are.

I MELTED. Like right then and there in my seat between Leong & Chlorine awwww omg so sweet! replays scene in head and melts again Oh and they made use of a lot more CG animation so yeah those parts were pretty good. One thing that kept going through my head was that Efron was the cause of Hudgens' nude photo circulating on the net, and now she has to act all lovey dovey with him on-screen?! I know acting is acting but I probably wouldn't be able to put that aside myself.

And yes darlings that thick pile of receipts up there used to be about sixty fresh crisp $$$$ notes before friday. Oh my moolah ):

These are the two potential emokias sitting outside a shoe shop while Chlorine & I were enthusiastically browsing through Zara, Miss Selfridge & Topshop x)

Best I've Ever Had

2008-10-24T22:26:00.011+08:00

THANKYOU ALL FOR MAKING MY SIXTEENTH BIRTHDAY SUCH A LOVELY ONE!

so many people this year:

To sharman, kelly lau and geri for their extra early birthday wishes!

To jhosy, yiling and hester for staying up till midnight and being right on the dot (12AM)!

To clarine and jiehan for staying up PAST twelve (like, wow!)

To ANGhuishan for the first message in the morning saying she's sorry that she succumbed to sleep!

To peixian for her enthusiasm and encouragement for me watching my first NC16 horror movie (i.e. the coffin) and xiuhan!

To yingci, yinkuan, andie and geoffery(yes CAP next year!) for sms-ed birthday wishes during class time that I managed to reply to during Suria's lesson!

To riea, jo, leon, and edsome the handsome (-.-) for your lovely cards and lovely COOKIES! edible right? =D

To leong for these more than pleasant gifts:

Hot pink NON-IN-EAR earbuds, a nice long birthday message AND the album of my new favourite band (and we are still warring over the best part of the man who can't be moved) : THE SCRIPT!!! Hello, I've died and gone to heaven AHHH~

To hester for giving me something very initimate which shall be kept in a box hehe:

No, it's not lingerie HAHA

To eileen for coming down with shermian in the morning to give me these gorgeous cakes:

So pretty!

To edmund (who made a poor attempt at trying to sign me up for chicky kids club for my birthday -.- but let me borrow the world is flat first so thanks!), leon, jonathan, calvin tay, lim junjie, dongqi, tiehong, jinjing, shihui, sarah, xiumin, sirui (who gave me a big hug!) for their birthday wishes!

To ALL MY FUNKY GIRLFRIENDS (huishan lydia winata kay rach) for being absolutely retarded in trying to distract me from the cake while they were lighting the candle it's SO HILARIOUS you wont believe it:

lydia: why is the box so small, can put meh
huishan: babble babble
me: what about?
huishan: gives lydia a look
lydia: AYEEE TODAY GOT WHITE CARROT SOUP HAR! what's white carrot? stands up on tiptoe to block my view
huishan: neh, bai luo bo la
winata: fights her way in and exclaims to me Rach's hair is so nice today! I LOOOOOVE the waves, you know, like, you know, the huge waves, SO PRETTY!
rach: suddenly appears and I tried to turn her around to see her amaaaazing hair when-

kaylene and everyone else bursts into song!

Adorable cake!

Thank you all for remembering that I liked the cards from Bloomingdale's! =DDD it's being hung on my wall with blu-tack <3

Then they decided to prank me by telling me that watermelons grow on trees when I insisted that they grew on the ground and kaylene was all "you know, at the nature park they have this sign: beware of falling watermelons" I was like NO those are durians and they all didnt believe me and huishan was laughing like mad =.= shan't mention my literal embarrassment in front of everybody hah!

I am so terribly gullible x.x

Anyways we had a pizza treat from mdm. ong after school for racial harmony day efforts yeaaaaah (: then we went for debates, equally hilarious examples of (wrong) statistical application

out of all the divorced couples in singapore, 50% are women.

GEDDIT? i laughed so hard i snorted and weilin started laughing together with me xD
then you have winata's illegally blonde moments:

weilin: zhengzhang stop speaking like a chicken
winata: takes up weilin's pencilcase cover with presumably a chicken on it and places it in front of zhengzhang's face and goes PHARRRKPHAARRKPHHHARRRK
somebody: isn't that a duck?
winata: OMG it's a duck ?!?!?
everybody dies laughing. END.

& KUDOS TO RVNP FOR CLINCHING 1ST POSITION @ TODAY'S SPORT HEATS! So proud of all you running people heheh (:

My mom made curry and loaaaads of finger food for my birthday and I found these pigs already eating when I got home.

YES wonderful thankyou thankyou thankyou all I shall try very hard to remember all your birthdays next year!! =D

I <3 MARC JACOBS BAGS!

2008-10-20T10:48:00.002+08:00

I FELL OFF MY CHAIR LAUGHING AT THIS (emailed source):

This is the actual radio conversation (released by the chief of naval operations) of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October 1995.

CANADIANS: "Please divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision"

AMERICANS: "Recommend YOU divert your course 15 degrees to the north to avoid a collision"

CANADIANS: "Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision"

AMERICANS: "This is the captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course"

CANADIANS: "No, I say again, you divert your course"

AMERICANS: "This is the Aircraft Carrier USS LINCOLN, the second largest ship in the United States Atlantic Fleet. We are accompanied by three Destroyers, three Cruisers and numerous support vessels. I DEMAND that you change your course 15 degrees north. I say again, that's one-five degrees north, or counter-measures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship."

CANADIANS: "This is a LIGHTHOUSE. Your call."

Kidnapped by the weather

2008-10-19T19:51:00.003+08:00

I was driven in a metal trolley by the ever so handsome Anty this morning in Giant, Vivocity to gather a load of junk food to bring to Sentosa. And experienced my first tram ride into Siloso Beach (because we always drive in) together with the other arrived squaddies on which Wooytie and I fought over the colour of the sea LMAO and we came to a compromise that it was blue-green.

We found a nice coconut tree to put our stuff under and immediately started on the sandwiches that Sharman and Liting brought and then we found the guys burying Peekuai alive in sand! Then everyone joined in and he probably swallowed a lot of sand because they were all very aggressive while I was taking pictures HOHO.

Aye then they all ran into the seawater when Peekuai decided to stage his one-man uprise and I couldn't go in because I didn't bring an extra set of clothing (for which I was sarcastically ticked off by an exhausted I-ran-15-effing-kilometers Leong)!!! and Wooytie and I resorted to looking at hot babes play volleyball while the squaddies had fun on the court.

It rained a heavy-thunderstormy-the-sky-is-falling kind of rain after that and we were all quite drenched and hiding in the beach shop that sells bath towels at exorbitant prices I swear ($23 for a printed towel!) We found some white tents so we settled there and played Liting's set of UNO which has this damned card that allows the holder to swop his cards with anyone else and EVERYTIME i got sooooo close to UNO game, mingjie/wenjie/weikai decided to swop cards with me =.=

Nevermind that, then we watched Wooytie and Leong (Liting at first, who gave up aft that) try to fly a Minnie Mouse kite in the slight rain and it was hilarious! By that time, I was half wet, covered in salt and sand for the most part and eating Chickadees with Beaver & Loo (they sound like a company name! Like Beaver & Loo PTE LTD xD) so I left with Min Ee & a few others to wash up and leave for Ben & Jerry's. Min Ee & I shared this blissful sinful caffeine filled large Belgian Chocolate drink from the Coffee Bean and the cashier spelt my name on the receipt as "CHAMIN" zzz and we ended up having bolognese at Pastamania because the ice cream shop was darned crowded for a rainy day, at this.

I walked past this group of little boys walking behind their mommies on the way up the hill and this 5 year old kid asked the boy beside him: What car does your daddy drive? He cocked his head to the side a little bit and replied: A mazda.

Oh a Mazda? Mazdas are slow, the kid answered and the boy looked very rattled.

Five year old boys comparing real cars? That says something about car commercials nowadays.

If you drive a real car/suffer from ERP gantry overdoes/are a History student/are just bored, YOU ARE GOING TO LAUGH YOUR ASS OFF AT THIS. Watch it with volume for full effect (:

THE VERY END

2008-10-17T23:14:00.003+08:00

Say hello to post-IP-exam-life!

The very first thing I did after the last paper was to make my (quick) way to IKEA with Kaylene Lydia & Winata for POACHED SALMON WITH BAKED POTATOES AND BROCOLLI! Did you hear that? Poached salmon! Horribly high mercury content but to hell with brain destruction, I can concentrate on doing brainless and fun things already! Extremely delicious, proper food that restored my, um, long-delayed euphoria.

Then we went for retail therapy across the street and I saw this really pretty maroon suede strappy heels from Charles & Keith that were REALLY NICE but the heel was far too high ): I'm not about to kill my feet for nice looking shoes, unfortunately. We walked and walked and found these $69.90 Club Marc white & black long sleeved shirts (for THIMUN!) on sale and selling at TEN DOLLARS omgwtfbbq and many other outlets doing the same. Not going to disclose the name of the place in case it gets flooded x)

And i got this pair of pretty shoelaces that have green and yellow fat stars printed on them to tie onto my green sport shoes! =D I am so very very glad. Kaylene and I roamed, literally roamed the whole of West Mall like I've never done before and mind you I've been going there for the past eight years! Sans Bookshop was replaced by a Korean supermart, to my absolute horror and to Kaylene's extreme joy. My lovely bookshop removed for a place selling cute files and all sorts of jajiangmyan? UGH :( my only consolation is that the stationary is simply adorable (:

OH MY IDIOT BOX, HERE I COME! <3

understand cram apply score

2008-10-10T21:50:00.004+08:00

Went out for a long-course dinner to celebrate Dad's birthday today, and this marks my latest foray into chinese cuisine, from Yunnam. Not exactly a joyful experience because the Yunnamese (are they called that?) apparently take a liking to adding wasabi and spicy sauces to the dish and successfully robbing it of the original flavouring -.-

I was really pleased by the individual servings and the chic way that the sauces are arranged on the plate although I didn't touch them:

Genuine shark's fin soup with dollops of the fin
Oh, the controversies; high mercury levels, endangered sharks..

In actual fact the fin is no specialty, I like the soup base a lot more. Too bad their prices are the other way round ):

Tiger prawns in some soy + ketchup concoction

Cod, of which only makes up less than half of that miserable piece on the plate
But look at the sauce decor, so pretty!

Yam paste pudding which I dug into already

And a few more normal looking normal tasting commonly seen ones.

Isn't this supposed to be the time of high stress levels, tightening social outings and boosting the brain? I guess whatever stays in your brain stays and whatever doesn't will be really hard to force in so dumdums really wish I had stayed awake last year when they were teaching coordinate geometry because those lines just dont get together in my brain!

TEN MORE PAPERS! then indulgence (:

(will reply to comments afterward)

1L of mucus

2008-09-18T19:54:00.002+08:00

Everything looks different when you're suffering from mooncake withdrawal symptoms, i.e. a really bad throat that blossomed into a fever and blocked nose. (Blame the paste! says Rachael) When you breathe slow, you move slower and everything else seems so much more fast-paced. Faces magnified, sounds amplified, tires you out a lot quicker. It's like looking at this continuously moving, blown-up protrait and having to respond to most parts of it.

I would have liked to spend my sick leave sitting in bed in pyjamas and woolly socks the whole damn day reading a legal thriller but no. Yesterday was used for cramming physics definitions, giving up halfway and reading the BP issue on Education for a double test today. Did I mention that I have to redo that physics past year EOY because the whole stack went missing from LLM's pigeonhole? If I find that rat who took it he's going to get it from all of us grrrrrr.

world's your oyster
but the pearls ain't free

married the jostle yesterday

2008-09-14T20:01:00.002+08:00

Zonked out from mooncake festival potluck yesterday, several spicy prawns and about 1 L of grass jelly. Killer food. Met a lot of new expats, one British teen who flung himself in the pool voluntarily during games (like o.o) and a tiny-eyed Korean girl & her papa. Then we played Cheat in Willyn's house with Leon Chengkan & Gilford till very late.

Ooh I had a slice of this pink skinned mooncake with a hard chocolate core and strawberry icecream! Unusual :D

I put down 2 eights and got busted by Gilford who went mwahahaha. Gilford proceeded to put down four eights and he got busted by Leon, cos Leon had all four of them -.- Then we all laughed at him. The games took really long because they were glued to the Barclays Premier on telly.

Tomorrow we get the lengendary LLM for physics lessons because Suria got called away on National Service again. And I havent done the EOY paper yet D:

I saw this somewhere: IMPOSSIBLE JUST TAKES A LITTLE LONGER
Kewl stuff!

five faces, seven things

2008-09-12T22:33:00.005+08:00

The general office called me (while i was in school yesterday) so my phone rang like shizzzzz and I happily thought it was someone else until Tie Hong pointed out that the ringtone seemed to be coming from my bag -.-

Never mind that, debates cracked me up properly today. Funny thing is, I cannot seem to remember what exactly I was laughing over. But I can remember the tears in my eyes, the happy beads I haven't had from school in a while. Tears from laughter always taste sweet, for some reason I suppose you can fathom.

After building another condominum on the hill, they've opened up a nice large grassy patch in our backyard stretching all the way to the other hill, up, up and away on a long white staircase all little girls want to walk down, not unlike the wedding aisle. These changes happen suddenly, like an appearance overnight, the displacement of the main staircase from a flowery, non-existant palace. I like the road up best when the skies have just done raining, the gravel is wet and scrunchy, the light spills in uneven proportions across the land and its ten floor towers. The dark, evening, surroundings have this strange inexplicable warmth from the fresh wetness, the grass on its own bending upwards and the power houses, dripping, dripping.

MORE FOOD

2008-09-07T00:04:00.003+08:00

Another food event that um, survived the rain. We moved into the ballroom after that so it was okay. My parents suggested that I join the waiting (waiters) service for part time work. I told them they'd have to pay THEM for the dishes I break. Then they took that suggestion back. This makes another entry into our extensive family food log.

No pictures of food because I couldn't really see what I was eating properly. We had one romantic, tiny candle at a table of eight under a large tree that was shedding its leaves, so... I wonder what I ate hmmm.

Chung Cheng High (Main) Calligraphy Club at work

Tea Tasting

one of those days

2008-09-05T23:42:00.004+08:00

I watched Camp Rock today heehee. It had an extremely predictable storyline but gave me a very healthy dose of cheese and tweenyboppyness (: I think Demi Lovato's a good fresh change to the whole HSM-pwned channel and I actually liked her clothes! I have no idea why she got dissed because of that -.- Okay I shall cut down on the spoilers :D

I attended the chemistry lecture today which was great for ego inflation because everything was about C-H (note: my initials) so I left that in a floaty mood that unfortunately did not encompass homework-doing ): I shall try that properly during the weekend then. I've had oreos and milk so I'm going to bed!
Theme song stuck in my head as usual.

this is real, this is me
this is exactly where im supposed to be, now
gonna let the light - shine on me

[edit] my sms count restarts in 3 minutes woohoo :D [/edit]

my mommy's green dress

2008-08-31T00:42:00.003+08:00

Nobody takes away my Sunday mornings. Sunday mornings are for sleeping in and religious classes!

Umph another day spent on my feet. I bought six fat red roses, the auntie gave me nice fat blooming ones :D For huishan zihao lydia louisa & jinjing. I went out with Mr. Self-Proclaimed Bored to watch WALL-E @ Cineleisure Orchard! The animation was FAB (partially because we caught the digital version) and the characters were all sooooooo adorable! As usual Mr. Bored ate his jumbo hotdog and claimed the movie was quite sian. The thing is we walked through the entrance to the movie halls without having our ticket stubs taken, meaning we could simply have watched the show for free. Tsk tsk so both of us have the full portion of our tickets to keep for the first time ever!

The WALL-E movie has every scene hand-drawn and layered six times to create the marvellous effect that I usually take for granted. His eyes has every single damned expression you can never create from a pair of old binoculars, and I love his container home with all the tinkydinkys he collects! I didnt quite like Eva though, I didn't figure she was female until Wall-E fell for her. It's very worth watching for the technical aspect but the plot's climax didn't get to a large audience, unfortunately. It sends a pretty serious message about how we are all killing the Earth and we could end up like bulging pugdy bigoted humans zipping around on automated chairs in the Axiom. One good, practical and forward looking movie from Pixar :D

Mr. Bored and I walked to Taka where the sole of my flats came off and i threw them away and by the time I reached Tanjong Pagar the shoe had a large silt that evidently showed that it was going to fall apart anytime. Being the resourceful person that I am I bought a large box of plasters (the woman at Cheers must have thought I was mad) and attempted to stick the shoe together. Hansaplast does not work on anything other than human skin -.- Then Winata came and saved my ass by paying for a new pair of wedges from a random stall for me! We bought it fully on impulse. Like grab-try on-suitable-buy! It was a five-minute business and I had spent 40 bucks but I was saaaaaaved. Thank you Winata in the low-cut green cleavage showing dress! =D

This is becoming a very long entry o.o

The CO concert was in essence very interesting! I have avoided dull classical performances at best these few years but the pieces that they played tonight were lively! Except for a glitch in the second piece everything else was great and the pudgy conductor had hilarious moves. I loved the encore piece by Richard Clayderman (Rhythm of the Rain) because I've never heard it played by an orchestra before and Richard Clayderman's pieces are AWESOME. I can totally appreciate that kind of classical!

We met the CO people after their performance and saw zihao in his pretty pink colored lipstick, congratulated them with the fat roses and the rest packed up and went to eat.

The new shoes are surprisingly comfortable, I'm terribly glad they are worth the price (: The bed is calling me, bye y'all!

I <3 6AA'04!

2008-08-29T22:32:00.003+08:00

Snooze count this morning: 8

But I got to school on time! Today was lovely. We had large cakes, about a ton of chips, fruit and a lot of green tea for the classparty thing and we did this hilarious game of musical chairs! :D

Then Kaylene, Angel & I went back to KPS and thronged with all the other lians and bengs at the front gates to enter the school. Maybe they have a school policy for locking their ex-students out :O We met up with the HC + NY + ACSI + VS + FMSS people and celebrated ms.kho's belated birthday with a mango fruit cake and took pictures! All the guys that came back shot waaaaay up, and Ivan is Person Who Changed The Most this year! Head count was something close to 20, although declining but still pretty good (:

We went to have lunch, have some big gossiping session and play bball at an estate near the school where we were talking and Ying Ci voiced that the SAP sch people had a drop in language abilities. Then I realised that after four years in RV I have picked up this undesirable skill of inserting chinese words into my english sentences and vice versa! Mental note: Make a conscious effort to speak properly.

The bball session was partly a PT session for us girls because the ball went in sequence from somebody in my team to the Fat Boy - Yangjim/Dexter (who throws the ball all the way across the court) - Lands in Abdul's embrace - Then he shoots -.- So much so that at one point YingCi and Yinkuan gave up and started giving commentary for the match! The only time when I got hold of the ball was when Jeffrey's amazing dribbling skills led the ball to go btwn his legs and land at my feet HAHAHAHA. Then I was laughing so hard Ivan had to come and get the ball from me. We didnt have enough people on the teams so a few strangers joined us and everybody started calling everybody else by their shirts. Dickson was Cottage, Jiehan was Hwachong, Adidas Boy was Adidas Boy and Andie was Waterpolo HAHAHHA. Kaylene and I were in charge of giving each other hi-fives when our team scored a goal lol.

That paragraph is short of many other cheek-cramping moments though (: It is rare that we all still go back to visit after four whole years, most probably thanks to ms.kho's arranged commuter lunches ha!

Mmmm it's late and I should go to bed because I have to go get fresh roses tmrw for the RVCO concert at night. The SCH looks like a really plush place! :D

clocks

2008-08-23T14:36:00.004+08:00

I killed my physics paper! Sigh. Okay im finally blogging after CT (you have NO IDEA how many starbucks i had throughout that horrible week) because it's been really busy and I havent had time to sit down and read Foxmask ): I'm waiting for my egg to boil. Do eggs boil? Okay it's the water (:

I went for EL (my first session) yesterday and we went to Australian Intl to watch friendly debates between the year ones from both schools. Debates looks fun but pressurizing, a girl from AIS froze up while it was her turn to speak and and she stood there for a full minute going 'er..', must have been embarrassing! We saw cute little caucasian children that jesslyn was obssessing over xD It was interesting and really fun although I havent gotten round to interacting with the rest, thank you all (:

I woke up blardy early (for a Saturday morning) and went for a lecture today with ariel, winata and eileeneo amongst other HISSOC people and the speaker was the author of our history textbooks! DHS is terribly like RV except that they have vending machines (!!!), a Sakae Sushi stall and their bookstore is a Popular franchise. But I nearly dozed off during Q&A so..

Then I'm going out again in a while to meet Ah Lau (as everybody calls her HAHA) to have dinner and buy flowers before we go to UCC for the CLDDS performance. I heard they had gruelling training that lasted throughout the whole CT period, the show tonight must be really good, their stage actors transcend my chinese deficiency, i can understand them perfectly well :D

Next week will be used for homeworking, I havent touched a bit of my weekend work yet :O Bye!

P/S There have been all kinds of people living in my block recently. There's a angmoh punk rocker teen cum chain smoker on the first floor who plays LP at 2am in the night, a Japanese anime-looking boy that owns a large, fat woolly dog on the 3rd floor and a couple of Danish and Caucasian-marries-Philippine families on the 10th floor. How very multiracial!

Food for Empty Spaces

2008-08-12T17:00:00.006+08:00

Feel much better after talking to hest, thank you (:

I picked up the free bilingual newspaper from yesterday to read about Phelp's new record and in a miserly side column sat one heading which made me nearly spit out my tofu:

KRISPY KREME OPENING IN KL NEXT YEAR! And my first thought was: I'm so going to apply for a regular visa to Malaysia lol.

For all of you who haven't heard of Krispy Kreme (you cant because it was so flamboyantly featured in sex&thecity) it pawns your dunkin'/dippin'/missy donuts entirely even before the first bite because the label is spelt: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. Not donuts but doughnuts ahhh <3.

Simply Fabulous

Can you believe that it's got franchise all over the world (even in Africa!) BUT not in SG. Krispy Kreme doughnuts are in second placing (after Disneyland) on my list of Ten Best Things I Love About The States :D I might just cut class to get a snack across the causeway next year. How exciting.

I wonder if they'll do home deliveries! Will get my hands on more details after bloc tests (:

Status: One day to History paper - haven't made significant progress yet.

R.O.D. @ 08.08.08

2008-08-09T14:45:00.004+08:00

(National Day celebrations)

I would say it was one of the best school organized events as it didnt involve a string full of boring speeches but we had a loud rock band that we could actually sing along to and community singing was a hell lot of fun (:

(End National Day celebrations)

While you were at home in front of your large-screen HD tv set oogling at the Beijing Olympics Opening, thirty people were being ROD-ed in the school hall but it was nonetheless amazing! We had an awfully formal parade on the tracks at 5PM and witnessed the changing over of I.C.s. Sad stuff. Last time wearing full uniform and I didn't feel too stiff after a while, I might just miss it. Then we crashed the preparation scene and demanded food at 7PM and the Sec 3s had to guard the doors and ended up locking the Sec 2s out as well. But being the nice people that we are, we left them to their devices and did the red carpet walk (without the red carpet haha!) fifteen minutes later into the dimmed and fan-less hall (which reminds me about that feedback form i have to write about our school's sickbay) in our almost woollen jackets.

We were seated at the front centre of the hall and started on the drinks placed before us. Yueting went back six times to refill her cup so i suppose it we were really thirsty (or maybe the drink was nice). The American Boy dance was first on the line-up and I think we did really well! Nobody screwed up and it was pretty well-coordinated ^^ I think Yiling had to put a lot of effort to lift me because my legs were all wobbly x) Then we ran off to change and returned to watch the Sec 2s dedication followed by the Sec 1s dance and the Sec 3s dance(s) which were all really cute and sincere and left quite a few sqdmates tearing!

Then we had a nice video (packed with our pictures) that I srsly suspect to have come from the 60GB publicity harddrive and it was our dance finale! Which turned out really well too because I didnt fall on my ass while turning and the thrust fall went smoothly (: Then we got humongous load of gifts (which filled one huge bag that we lugged home) and the plagues were spiffy and glamorous =D A few of us stopped to get drinks at JE and sat on the steps with our large bags and uniform covers and we probably looked like runaway children judging from the passerbys' discerning looks.

No pictures as of yet because we were busy rushing, running around and doing stuff the entire day. Four years seemed to have just flown past and I could still remember vaguely our first orientation session, clearly our pumping in the rain and marching in puddles, and vividly our mt K trip and the summit climb and one ROD after another. This is ours and now even this is over. Going to miss the sweaty RVNP days now that we are offically retired :/

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koped from min ee's blog =D

(click to enlarge)

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YRVNP!

and the time will come when we have to move on

hello august!

2008-08-05T21:39:00.003+08:00

This place is so very dead, because I am inclined to falling asleep very often for no apparent reason. And I stay asleep fairly long, long enough to miss the television shows and homework -.- Which is why my knowledge of vectors is zee terrible.

I fell asleep in Chemistry today, tuned out on morning announcements and missed something important, and did History homework during Biology the umpteenth time (as Tu Yan will tell you).

One hilariously blurred class photo from ages ago after Explorers and Connectors (:

I've got a memory-card packed with photos but no appropriate time to upload them. That, and my laziness. Sigh. I have an unhealthy craving for murder & gore loaded fiction. There must be a lack of violence in my life somewhere.

blast from the past

2008-07-13T10:29:00.004+08:00

There's this heavyweight flu going on my head and I can't do anything productive except sit down and watch sitcoms all day. When I laugh, there's this hoarse nasal choking sound. I was doing Disk Clean Up when I found these photos from a really long time ago.

The Ultimate I've-Struck-The-Lottery Look

The view out Eileen's & my window

School trips are actually the thing that makes school fun :D
MATH TEST TMRW ZOMG
BLOC TEST IN 5 WEEKS!

only as bright as you wanted me to be

2008-07-10T16:26:00.003+08:00

It's thursday! Which means one more day till the end of the week! Which also means a smiley stack of triple sci assignments. You know, the sleek Citibank advertisement? I'll tell you something, my homework never sleeps. It has a great sense of timing. *cringes*

But yeah it's been busy.

It reminded me of when Alexa and I first entered the USA. We'd laugh at
those green forms you have to fill out, with tough questions like 'Have you
ever been, or are you currently involved in terrorism or war crimes?', 'Are you entering the country with the intention of committing a felony?' and 'Are you a total crackhead?'

I mean, is anyone stupid enough to answer yes to these things? I could just
imagine the fleeing dictator, with a fake passport and half the country's
GNP in his luggage, chewing nervously on his airline pen and inadvertently
ticking a 'yes' box. 'Damn', he'd think as the customs men dragged him on the plane to The Hague, 'I knew I should have said no to genocide.'

Now, this cracked me up real bad.

Oh gosh I really hope they slash the prices for Singfest, I want to watch Jason Mraz! ):

the tough gets going

2008-07-05T17:41:00.003+08:00

While this place was closed, I

Finished learning half of Jackson's Street Blues.
Ate 3 IKEA hotdogs in a week.
Slept an average of 5 hours each night.
CLEARED MY HOMEWORK WOOHOO.
Read the whole first edition of Agnes: I have tampered with the divine plan.
Had my last day of NP activity.
Went rollerblading.

I still need to

Learn how to serve a bloody shuttlecock by next Tuesday.
And finish my new weekend homework x.x

im bored and refuse to do homework

2008-06-12T21:15:00.001+08:00

Instructions: Remove one question from the above below and add in your personal question to make it a total 20 questions. Then tag 8 people in your list. List them out at the end of your post. Notify them in their chatbox that he/she have been tagged. Whoever does the tag, would get a blessing from all.

1. WHO IS YOUR FAVOURITE PERSON TO CHAT WITH ON MSN?

Hester/Eddy/Rajiv because they are all hilarious people :D

2. WHO IS THE PERSON YOU DO NOT TRUST THE MOST?

Oh, you know yourself.

3. DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE ENOUGH CONFIDENCE?

Well I think I have enough to handle the shit that life throws at me every now and then :)

4. WHO DO YOU CONFIDE IN?

Hester & JRECL i guess

5. ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH YOURSELF?

I think so, except that maybe you could vanish my tan lines, get me a botched nose job, some botox there... -.- Obviously I am satisfied with myself.

6. WHAT ARE YOU MOST AFRAID OF LOSING?

The original me.

7. DO YOU BELIEVE IN ETERNITY LOVE?

Thanks to reality, no.

8. HAVE YOU BROKEN SOMEONE'S HEART TO THE EXTENT THAT HE/SHE TRIED TO COMMIT SUICIDE?

No.

9. WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF?

That I'm beginning to be able to converse meaningfully with strangers.

10. WHAT ARE YOUR REQUIREMENTS FOR YOUR OTHER HALF?

Boys with ear/body piercings need not apply. (That was half of the modern world guy population out, huh)

11. DO YOU CHERISH EVERY FRIENDSHIP OF YOURS?

For most of them I do :)

12. WHAT DO YOU LIKE THE MOST?

Nice lazy, rainy afternoons. oh, and good food :D

13. WHO DO YOU WANT TO ALWAYS BE THERE FOR YOU?

I don't know, because nothing I say is going to be possible.

14. WHAT KIND OF FRIEND DO YOU HOPE TO BE IN YOUR FRIEND'S EYES?

Able to listen and have fun with.

15. DO YOU LOVE YOUR FRIENDS?

Yes!

16. WHICH DATES IN THE CALENDAR DO YOU LIKE THE MOST?

Whichever that happens to be "Last day of the School Year"

17. IF YOU HAD A DREAM COME TRUE, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

To read and eat (with no financial worry) for the rest! of! my! life~!

18. IF YOU COULD TRAVEL IN TIME AND RETURN TO A PHASE IN YOUR LIFE, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

Year 2007, December 12, Disneyland Park, USA

19. IF IT WERE THE END OF THE WORLD IN 24 HOURS, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Tell all the people that I love how much I love them, then do the things I've been meaning to do.

20. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO RIGHT NOW?

finish RMUN + STEP reflections

i tag anybody who wants to do this. c'mon you know you want to! xD

merde happens!

2008-06-11T20:40:00.004+08:00

The CCA selection deadline is 15th June which is FOUR days away and if I hadn't read Jhosy's blog and REALISED that such a survey existed -.- I would be doooooomed.

Can you imagine:

CHAN CHARMAINE CCA FOR TWO YEARS, (that's 2 x 365 days) VENTURE SCOUTS?!

Yes. It is perfectly possible because without the survey, they would have taken my default gender to be male (no offence to venture scouts, it was a random pick). Nobody'd bother, least of all the school clerk who is working overtime to compile the darned Excel sheets for three hundred and what, eighty eight students. I wouldn't be jolly enough to check through smelly paperwork for somebody's gender if I lived on cheap 3 in 1 coffee packets every morning for a week. But I'd give a sick orgasmic growl while jabbing the mouse pointer at any random alphabet choice and -clicks enter- ooo, venture scouts. Mwahahaha.

SCARY!
This is the epicentre of a bad dream T.T

Alritey, lets go click the survey form. If you see me in library club next year you'll know what happened. The school clerk became more creative.

P.S. My homework is this lovely highgrounds with a nice plateau that sways with tiny willow trees. It also says: Deadline 24th June Monday.

THIS POST IS ABSOLUTELY FICITIOUS WITH EXCEPTION OF AUTHOR'S NAME

SIMILARITIES IN SCHOOL PROCEDURES ARE PURELY COINCIDENTAL

THE SCHOOL CLERK IS NON-EXISTANT

THANK YOU (INSERT CIVIL SMILEY FACE)

cloisewounds

2008-06-08T17:11:00.003+08:00

Perhaps it is easier to deal with being out of step with the world around you
than it is to find the creative impulse if you can only see the world in narrow,
preconceived ways.

I sat up late last night with my torch and diary and wrote. Furiously wrote, till I lost sense of time, lost touch of how far away I was from myself, only intent on getting there to see the answers to the questions burning all the while.

Young, I sat near windows.
Watched the day as it walked past me
And waved hello to the night.
I used to think,
Oh the broken-backed moon, where do you go
after the week you grow thin.
Do you die?
Where do they put you then,
will your soul be folded twice and placed
gently in a flowered vase
and covered with embroidery?

They come to fetch me, it said.
Who, I ask.
I'm sorry, some things we never know
Till we get there ourselves.
But you will, you will put mine in a vase for me,
won't you.

I still point to the moon, save for
cuts on my earlobes
as mothers have always warned.

It's okay if you don't understand, sometimes I find more questions than answers by writing.

So, that's my Saturday

2008-06-07T23:32:00.002+08:00

Amphibious DUKw Tours Ride

SG Flyer, $10K per capsule

That's the place i wanna live :D

Inside the capsule

At the very top

Pictures and Recounts

2008-06-06T14:20:00.009+08:00

Hello you all! I'm back from Thailand after six hilariously fun days :D

I not only met but bonded with the Thai students and guess what, talked with rv people that I've never spoken to before in this whole 4 years.

And did a lot of shopping!

[edit] 40.5 KG HURRAH! after sixdays on study-vacation [/edit]

PEOPLE PHOTOS

@ Kanchanaburi War Cemetry

KEMING went to Thailand!

Me & My Buddy, POPO

This has to be the gayest thing on earth xD

RVNP went to Thailand!

Geri and I under that terrible 34 deg celsius

Yanni & I!

Mattayomsuksa 2/10 B

Group Photo :D

Haha it reads: R-M-U-N

FUN FACTS

1. Mr. Bryan Tan takes an average of 3 shots per group photo, and he always takes a few pictures away from our direction while we are stuck in a pose.

2. The Samsen students love DBSK & Super Junior lol

3. Some people actually bargained for toilet fees! (3 people for 2 baht)

4. I made prankcalls in the hotel and 75% failed because Geri & ChihYun were laughing away xD

5. We played Catching with the Thai girls in our full school uniform (aka in a skirt)

6. People like Daniel and Zeming like to walk into people's photographs

7. The boys forced 3 transvestites to take a photo with them at the mall :O

8. They serve non-spicy Tom Yam soup in Thailand!

9. I spoke to a brown bug to convince it to stay under the basin while I bathed

10. I learnt to play my first poker card games, Bridge and Tytee on this trip (thanks to Zeming)

11. Chern Yi brings his entire luggage into the toilet with him when he bathes! Hahahaha!

12. The gathering in room 601 drank 5.6% alcohol in something on the last day (including Geri) and there were several red faces in the room.

13. We played cards and watched MTV till midnight and woke at 5AM everyday!

14. Yu Hui cut himself while shaving and walked around with a plaster on his chin for the rest of the day.

15. We ran half the time while shopping :D

16. Pooping/Dietary fibre became a hot topic with rooms 611 & 612.

17. The thai women/girls are mostly very pretty (including the transvestites!)

18. I was literally condemned by everybody when I lost my phone.. and found it in my pocket T.T

That, and many more later (: Yay I found Horton Hears a Who! online, off to watch the ending :D

motions

2008-05-31T14:00:00.004+08:00

CHARMAINE IS IN THAILAND.

& will not have access to the web, nor the Thai King, unfortunately. I'll be on a school trip for six days and - my laptop battery is running flat - you can all pray hard for me that I am allowed a non-chilli choice of meals, like how the vegetarians are allowed their vegan meals. I heard about the Thai weather which is as hot as their chillipadi, an FRIGGING average 34 degrees celsius. The choices stand, either melt or contract skin cancer.

This is crazy. I'm going to arm myself with my heavyweight boxing camera, yeah yeah not the recent wimpy ultraslim ones (i'm only criticizing because I don't have one? xD) and snap everything Thai (: I'm excited about the palaces and the cheap shopping mwahaha!

So long!

llamas, taupok & superlatives

2008-05-30T21:50:00.003+08:00

I Y ECOSOC III & IRAN !

RMUN 2008

and AHEM too, who shall not be mentioned here for the sake of discretion.

angmoh revisited

2008-05-20T19:45:00.005+08:00

DOUBLES UP AS SOUVENIRS HOHOHO

Aaaah gorgeoux!

These drink machines dispense unlimited amounts of anything, from green tea to sapporo beer!

Waikiki

We actually had more Korean meals than Western ones, because the Chinese takeouts were all horrible and hey the Korean side dishes are really good (large portions)!

Pineapple Ice Cream for all'f you!

My Favorite Place on Earth!

2008-05-17T15:16:00.004+08:00

Wahaha check this out:

My Bug's Land photo of Mister Catapillar has been "chosen" to star in the Schmap California Guide (2nd Edition) for Disneyland Park and is published! Fun stuff eh. And all I did was to leave my photos on Flickr and they found it (:

CLICK TO ENLARGE, PHOTO @ TOP RIGHT

And no it is not by THIMY. Some link error -.- To view more photos, search Squoshye on Flickr! (:

Of course there are other more professional ones that offer you much more insight into Cali attractions as compared to a fat green catapillar eating some peach-looking thinggy.

Just check out the photos included for the Golden Gate Bridge! Mine probably pales in comparison. They managed to get the waves and all for it! Well considering that there were throngs of Japanese crowding around the viewpoint and the pigeons kept trying to get into the picture, those weren't easy to take at all.

After reading the descriptions you'll feel like flying right there too ^^

Clandestine

2008-05-14T16:26:00.003+08:00

DIFFERENT, JUST DIFFERENT

Had a lovely time with jhosy the grass-plucking, posh beaver yesterday during tent pitching and I decorated anty with some twine (transformed her into an awkward mother earth -.-) after peekuai stopped being a moron with my watch. Well, that was wonderful and i know im going to miss everysingledaaaaamned one of those squaddies after rvnp s3o7 goes into oblivion.

You put a basketball in my face and grinned at me while i was a walking zombie that afternoon from mourning for my math paper (er, which came to life again after that) and that totally made my day (: After so long, the gaps simply fill themselves in, the ground becomes even and the air above it nonexistant. The voices so clear, the roads, the other people blend into a fulfilling, insignificant blur, and your words sit in my head comfortably and remain there long enough for me to replay them like aural scenes. Talking to you has made me realise how much I've moved along these few years, while you chided me for my-bad-experience. Half the people that are/were in my life you know personally, and the other half, it's as if you knew them as well. You're like my personal shrink -.- Things will clear up for you like it did me, my friend :)

It's been sooo long that I wrote something not for the sake of education, so here it is, nicely short and simple but if you can visualize it, that's going to be marvellous for you cos I saw it going on in my head while I wrote! I personally love the first two lines of each stanza so youre not allowed to criticize those or I'll bite you (:

I feel fortunate that the rhyming ends came to me absolutely naturally while I was tapping on the keyboard and this was completed in a record ten minutes woohoo. Okay I know poetry writing is about the feeling and all but the time taken definitely shows that height of inspiration I had!

Enjoy ^^

Life(line)
A runaway thread catches the light
falls to the ground and waits to be tried
A thousand and one patterns
from the same stitching needle,
little runaway white sits on the meter.

Hewn from his sole he hangs from a blade,
then put through machines and the mud man's trades.
He sings the same song, and wears the same dye
stands strong and curved in a short-lived arc
on an overly expensive Hallmark card.

I have made a literary offering today! Am going back to Sleuth now.

Hello (Again,) World

2008-05-09T15:50:00.003+08:00

This is scary alright. All my papers are finaaaaally over and now I still have to burn midnight oil for rmun ppt tomorrow aaaaaaaaaah~ My working paper is this piece of unbaked pie I tell you -.-

Anyway I feel totally released from the exam mode =D We ended at 930am (lovely time in the morning, nobody at the cinema) and we ditched the idea of doing rmun and went to vivo to catch Dance of the Dragon instead. I liked the literary references but the storyline was in bits and pieces so... yeah. Hester & I were holding this huge book (length is twice our waists when opened) about the whole damn analysis of the Mona Lisa painting including the nature of the CRACKS ON THE CANVAS. Cool right =D They had horizonal and quadrangular cracks lol!

And I found some overly expensive international fashion magazines but they had pretty good stuff in them (: Now I'm going to go and indulge in the wondrous world of RPG (!) oh, and do my working paper & visual aid ehhhh.

I'm totally looking forward to days of sufficient sleep :))))))

The Brevity Series

2008-04-19T21:58:00.002+08:00

Borders USA sent along their daily comic (I'm so getting their wall calendar series!):

Wow. Is this blatant refusal or what?

Headstrong, crazy days

2008-04-19T20:44:00.002+08:00

Hello people! It's been a rough week.

Been sleeping at 2am, waking at 6, and getting home at 8pm. Leaves me little time for idling around ): The teachers have been dishing out self-study topics (very generously -.-) and doing the here's-your-assignment-hand-it-in-on-Monday line and I read about a 100 pages on a paper on the Issue of Small Arms and Light Weapons. Think my eyes are about dead.

Oh that totally reminds me about Peekuai who took one look at my research papers and started yelling about Charmaine turning Islam (!) because my delegation country's Iran and he was going "Ooooh, so you gonna plant a bomb in my house?" and I said (chidingly of course) "Yeah that's exactly what im going to do!" and he went "YOU TERRORIST!" and the whole thing went on for like, the entire CCA act lol. And Min Ee actually caught on and played along.

Been doing fun things with squadmates (when I'm not catching some cadets with their shirts nonchalantly tucked out) and the trip to P.Semakau this week was fun! Things I do these days, I felt I wouldn't be doing them justice if I put them on paper. Those things should be left for a little surprise when I see something normal and everyday that reminds me, a little exclamation to the people around me, a nice feeling when it means something else.

I found this song called Fidelity by Regina Spektor (a really long time ago, but still) that has got voice quality that good *points to neck level* and the music video really queer but fresh in a good way (: Too bad the radio hasn't gotten to it yet.

LOVE THIS PLACE!
i took it myself, wasn't torn from a postcard lol

Long Returns

2008-04-12T11:14:00.004+08:00

I was bored and decided to try a few new techniques (obviously amateur) with the brainless christmas mouse.

This one's with surrounding light, no white balance and no flash.

This one's my first attempt at shrouding darkness on lighted object, (although you can still see a weeny patch of the floor), in darkness, indirect flash and set up under my bed :D

Well its a mirror image, with a fleshy part of hand at the side.

First attempt at reflection. Done at night, because I haven't found how to do it in daylight. No surrounding light, illuminated object, taken from above.

This one was taken in the midst of limweikai threatening to confiscate my phone, and successfully built with adnalim after erm, many falls.

Long absence wasn't it? Been out a lot (until the bruises on my foot decided to surface) then I hadn't had energy for anything else except sit in bed and read. Did 3 paperbacks in that period of time O.O Picoult has a new book which I.am.itching.to.get. and I have a lot of weekend work to finish particularly because I haven't started on RMUN research yet ):
The MATH TEST!on monday!!
Oh, and tv is getting more interesting nowadays (:

quite dreadful

2008-03-26T19:43:00.005+08:00

RAINY DAY BY FREDERIC D.

"Now, that looks pale in comparison."

"The love of a family is life's greatest blessing." Oh dear Lord, it had better be. Why did I even feel compelled to write on something too deep to explain, and MY POINTS WERE TRIVIAL! I felt I was revolving around the nuclear family, the parents, the children, the adverse effects, the widespread feeling and I didn't write the stuff that I wanted to write UGH.

The thought that "is it really life's GREATEST blessing" came to me far too late into the essay. (Well it is, by the way. You don't make a family as you want it, you get what you get.) So many things eluded me while writing. My memory is failing.

I was sniffing and choking on my own noxious runny nose substance throughout the whole paper and at some point my brain liquid must have started flowing in the wrong direction. It must!

I could have chosen the one on the topic of education in films, but I didn't. I like things that I can explore, look into and write about but I didn't cover very much ground and I think I was just chipping the tip of the iceberg the whole way, which is digusting and sloppy behaviour and ugggggggggh my writing is going on the downward plunge like the sub-prime crisis is doing to the US dollar!

And I am quite positive that I spelt juvenile deliquency in a queer manner.

I am such a whiner aren't I. Never mind, I shall go and look for a nice, loving mountain hole to hide myself in.

Easily Contented

2008-03-20T21:39:00.003+08:00

NO SCHOOL TOMORROW! :DDD

I have never felt so glad to see this particular public holiday although I don't partake in Good Friday. It gives me great comfort to know that I am at least a quarter of the country away from the stale air-conditioned classroom.

And the fact that I can sleep in, then walk out to buy coffee and sit in a small shophouse bookstore and read. Mmm then we can have more recent photos (: Wonderful, wonderful.

I don't think I am very coherent but I can't be bothered anymore. I need bed. Now.

Semi-patriotic, Full-time self-critic

2008-03-16T14:18:00.005+08:00

I re-read all my posts (bad habit #101, explain later) and I'm like Hey this girl is whiny. Come to think of it, I wouldn't be able to write about what a gorgeous, peaceful day I had (unless I had one) and half your life as a Sec 4 student is hair-pulling chaos. My full-stops don't seem to be serving their purpose because it sounds like (go on, read a paragraph out loud) I'm saying all this in one breath. Unhealthy.

I was talking to Winata during a chinese compo-writing lesson. The context here is that 45minutes into the lesson and I had only a few miserable lines of words written while Winata's paper looked like it was on a diet. So I asked her, if she had a habit of reading and re-reading the lines she wrote to ensure that they are coherent and mull over the next line and she nodded. I continued, "When I write an especially good line I'll sit there and read it about 50 times and think to myself, what a genius I am!" and she exclaimed YAH YAH.

This is called easily inflated egotistic nature. [ There was a five minute pause here because I was praising myself for coming up with that sophisticated term grins]

Oh anyway to curb the whining, I shall go walking in more er, interesting places and bring back photos! Those large scale professional looking ones, yes. The only camera I own is the 2megapix one in my handphone but mind you it takes superb shots.

DISNEYLAND USA - FLOWERS BY CITY CAROUSEL

Beat this, baby!

Wasabi Attack!

2008-03-13T16:03:00.003+08:00

Fourth Day into the March Hols and I haven't really done any work, except sit on the couch and -

STOP EATING THAT SEAWEED/(fill in the blank) CHARMAINE! YOU'LL GROW FAT!

-I can't stop eating to save my life. When my sister went to Melaka on a supposed study trip, all she brought back was humongous packs of wasabi-flavored seaweed (what was on her mind??) and a few plushies. So I'm actually pretty hydrated despite all that junk food because I have to down something like, 3 cups of water after 10 pieces of the spicy thing.

I've been telling myself, in a really serious tone that I have to be work-oriented and complete all my work by this holiday, but I'm already having trouble trying to locate my homework. Like, I can't remember which folder I put my SBQs in. OCD means to be very very organised but somehow I just cannot get organised enough.

The past few days have been some kind of torrential downpour and my mother insisted we should get some fresh air and walk to lunch. Brilliant ideas that mothers have sometimes, no? Barely halfway on the way back when we were all fat and drowsy, the rain started pelting like dinner plates and blew a hole in my umbrella. When I reached home and wringed my t-shirt i think it put a glass of water to shame heh.

This seaweed packet says: Oil-Free. How do you fry anything without oil anyway! As Riea was telling me, "If all else fails I shall be a cook, and I will have to have hired help to handle the knives and all that fire. NO WAY am I going anyway near those fires!"

"Right. So you can be the first microwave oven cook. o.0"

"How much do you think I'll earn?"

Sometimes she can be such a dunce =D

Sad Textbook Noises

2008-03-01T23:02:00.001+08:00

Hey.
I don't feel good. Today at least, I think my voice is irritating. It irritates myself! How can your voice irritate yourself -.- Anyway I spent the night on the living room couch because there was some bloody fast-flapping-wheezing fly in my bedroom which I couldn't chase out. I threw my A Math textbook onto it and I swear it was trapped under the book for like 10 seconds, then I took the book back up, thinking there, sticky things have sticky ends, when the damned fly flapped its wings right up and disappeared above my head.

It was quite slow-moving that day anyway, most probably cos it didn't get to suck my blood for quite long now. Dang fly.

I had to wake up at 7am this morning for the CC Comp (not that I'm complaining) but we went there for nothing because it was pouring so heavily the grass looked like SEAWEED. In the sense that it was like, swimming in the smelly water already. And the most of the bashas looked like sunken botox-injected boobs. Multiple pairs! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE THE RAIN. But that love is only confined to sleeping time, or Tuesday phys ed lessons.

So yeah, wasted morning. And we were all drenched because nobody (that's including me) had enough sense to open an umbrella (I didn't say "bring" because BFF decided to only open his when we reached the bus stop x.x)

I went for my monthly dental appointment today and I got really tight chains on my braces this time round which hurts so bad! BFF chose lime green and boy it looks kinda weird, especially if I smiled at you from about 5m away you would have though my mouth was full of luminous algae.
Anyways this screwed up my dinner successfully.

We went shopping at night and I saw this pair of GORGEOUS sport shoes (I don't know, I dont find anything gorgeous about girly shoes, the word for them is instead: painful) that were ON SALE. $29.90! Newsflash: TWENTY NINE NINETY! ONLY! But my dad refused to pay for them, and instead made me purchase a pair of egyptian looking slippers painted silver with a mickey mouse jewel seated in velvet cloth which was about $24.

Honestly! You could give, no, just loan me five bucks and I can get that spiffy pair of ON SALE running shoes instead of some sandals that make my feet look overly exposed and naked. I can so predict the pain when people step on my little toe that is left hanging vulnerably from the slipper ZZZ!

And I saw a corporate looking dress I like! I found the lovely Sony Ericsson clamshell Z series phone is actually still selling (wonderfulwonderful!) and I'm so going to get it HEH.

But I'm worried about my math paper on Monday. Like really really worried. MATH!!!!!!!!!! I've covered the Addition, Double A, R and Factor Formulae today already but I haven't tried the Revision and Misc Exercise AND I havent started on Sin/Cos Rule AND I haven't touched my homework AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

I can envision the dominatorix MATH paper wearing my dream running shoes and running away with my marks in tonight's dream.
SAVE ME!.

HAPPY LEAP YEAR!

2008-02-29T16:45:00.000+08:00

That reminds me, I need to watch The Leap Years and (i know stop giving me the zomg-i-thought-you-had-good-taste look -.-) ignore the newspaper ratings because baby THE RAIN SCENE BEATS THE HOLLYWOOD STUFF! Trust me, that $9 is worth it just for that gorgeous dripping wet Wong Li Lin in a wedding dress scene :D

Oh my video's done loading =D
-returns to indulge in unhealthy drama serials-

Fail-tality

2008-02-18T20:07:00.000+08:00

I think I'm going to fail my math test.

Note: No exclamation marks, no question marks - MARKS! I NEED 17 out of 25 MARKS! - just this funny looking detachedness.

I was careless, unprepared, blurred-eyed (all thanks to the stupid chilli sauce in the hokkien mee) and argh. I usually do better off in tests where I hold my breath throughout (not literally). This time I took about 3 breaths. Not good.

I managed to hold my tear ducts until I ran upstairs and confronted Hester and CRIED. I am so very disappointed with myself ): And then I became totally detached from the world.

I went to a local bookstore to get my physics practice papers and found this whole display table of tons and tons of revision guides and assessment papers and TYS. The last time I checked, they sold next to nothing of pointless Geography assignments, puny math books and chinese idiom books the thickness of your thumb. No, not your thumb vertically. Your thumb HORIZONTALLY.

Then Eileen approached me while I was still dipping my toe into the fascinating realm of revision guides to everything-and-anything the GCE O levels test (the rest of my body was still continuing its sink into the dark abyss of math doom) and jabbed a finger at the Longman Additional Mathematics guide I had open.

She asked "What are you doing with this?" And I took about two seconds to look up and say "Hi!" in a happy falsetto before registering her question - wrongly - and asking her "So what are you doing here?" She replied that she came to get a green pen and I must have looked a bit startled, because she returned me a look and rephrased her initial question. I mean, why, when you are about to FAAAAAIL your math test, care about trivial things like buying a green pen? TRIVIAL! This time I attempted to answer her question using a long and loud "oooooooh" before saying "I came here to get my TYS, cos Suria wants us to get it mmm" and proceeded to turn back to the book.

Eileen jabbed her finger at it again, and said rather irritatedly "no, I mean why do you need this? You have math tuition!" Oh great. Now you have to ring another math doom bell. So I said in a very detached and flat tone "Yeah.. isn't Longman good? Yeah yeah Longman is good. So I just look at it loh."

I think she decided that my brain was twisted into a badly shaped lump of grapefruit and quickly bade goodbye.

I moved off to the cashier queue, and hugged the books. Yingying passed by in a brisk walk, I didn't notice her until she was halfway past me and she had an expression on her face that looked like a smile. So I smiled back. I say it looked like a smile because it could have a been a poor attempt at trying to hold back her spit at me, a painful cringe or maybe she was just smiling. Anyhow, I didn't have enough spare brain cells to make this decision.

Maybe people have this affinity with people, like people on the streets. I was at the foot of the hill when this tall Indian man carrying a Crumpler laptop bag (no, I'm still alive enough to notice branded bags) said "Hello there!" in a sunken tone. I turned around 180 degrees before realising that it was directed at me. So I said "Er, hi." And I thought, maybe you failed your math test too. But I clamped my books under my armpit and held my Nalgene bottle steady for defense. Hey my Nalgene is pink and formidable ok. One knock and the rapist K.O.

I swung a mallet into my kneecap (just last week!) so I think I'm actually pretty good at whacking lumps of meat.

初一

2008-02-06T20:35:00.000+08:00

I slammed down on the snooze button FIVE times this morning, happily thinking that they won't book us for being late on Chinese New Year's Eve. Load of tosh! I was late today! Late today! What a way to start the lunar year -.-

A hell lot of other people were late too, but they were all the picture of perfect i've-done-this-a-million-times, and oh-let's-take-our-time, look, the whole world is late! I guess you can pretty much distinguish the first-timers, by their dreadful looks and the way they flap their arms for the bus 200m away. Like me. -pouts-

I was on the bus with Min Ee and her classmate (finally!) when the sun was already nice and bright in the sky. Mr. BFF and JJ were standing beside each other and they both smiled gaily at me when I looked at them worriedly. I returned a very eh, cracked morning-face smile, but it was a very good effort okay! I was yearning to yell OMFG I AM LATE! CHARMAINE IS NEVER LATE! to the entire bus, but thanks to my powerful self-control, I managed not to -.-

So I returned them a gay smile each at school afterwards (: Dreadful, dreadful. It never pays to be late, unless you like slouching and doing the eyeball roll at student councillors while trying to accidentally misspell your name in the late book.

Anyways I found out (only when I reached the classroom) that my stupid water bottle was leaking and all the stuff in my bag was soaked ugggh. But my phone was still functioning, despite the fact that I had to wring the water out of my handphone pouch heh. The performances were boring, I slept through half of them. I only remember being awake for the CLDDS and music videos showcase.

Kay and I went back to our primary school after that! There was nothing much to see cos my chinese teacher quit (haha the one who always makes me stand because I don't do her homework) and nobody else went back! We went to Swensens' after that and ordered two huge executive lunches and one Clam Chowder to share, which was $34 too much for us to finish! We ordered the baked Mac 'N' Cheese and it smelt funny, tasted weird and I ended up having to strain all the milk out of the pasta. Gee and we wasted half the food heh!

We met Jumana and her friend, then Yingci dropped by and we laughed about Thwin Thoo, our Burmese classmate who had a crush on Kay in what, P5 hahaha! I spilled a whole cup of carbonated grape drink on myself and my bag halfway through the meal.

My year is dooooooomed!

To be wet.