The Shoes Factory

2011-11-02T00:08:00.002+08:00

So I haven't been blogging here for quite a long time.

Just wanted somewhere to pen down the thoughts that have been bugging me recently, quickly, before anyone else sees me blogging.

Is what we're doing correct? Is it right to keep something from him?

I know it's for my own good, it's for my future. That's what I keep telling myself whenever I feel guilty.

Actually, I don't really feel all that guilty. Because he does things wrongly and if we continue to let him do so and not do anything about it I'm pretty sure my future won't be as bright as I want it to be.

So for my future to be as bright as I want it to be, we have to do this.
He will also want the best for my future, so he will understand why we did this.

He wants the best for my future but is doing things the wrong way. Or maybe he doesn't even care much about my future anymore. It sure seems like it :/

Call it mid-life crisis or whatever, but I honestly think that I have more sense than him sometimes- he's changed quite a lot from before that's why the only logical explanation I can think of is mid-life crisis -.-

And because he doesn't have much sense now, he doesn't realize that what he's doing is wrong. That what he is doing will ultimately lead to negative implications including my future not being as bright as I want it to be.

All I hope for is for him to wisen up, be the adult that this family needs him to be, COME BACK TO HIS SENSES and rectify his mistakes. REALIZE that what he is doing is wrong.

Sigh. I pray for this every night.

2011-07-08T23:25:00.003+08:00

I would appreciate it if people actually took the initiative to read through every single email/sms sent out and clarify with me if there are any doubts! Zzz. Like confused or wtv then don't just stand there and do nothing, come and ask other people lah!

I really really hope this doesnt turn out to be a flop. *crosses fingers*

2011-07-08T20:44:00.002+08:00

So, Midyear Examinations are over and it's time to get back into the hectic school-CCA-homework schedule again. Only this time, i've really gotta work much harder than I did the past half a year if I wanna do well for Promos.

Grades that I've received so far were pretty bad, and I have a long way to go till acing my A levels next year. Realised I need help with maths, so I'm going to sign up for math tuition.
Bio was a humongous disappointment- I took it really badly. Bio was my most confident subject since IP- I didn't need tuition for it, enjoyed learning it, and really felt like it was something I picked up naturally. I didn't get less than an A for bio for my whole two years in IP, so I thought that bio in JC would be okay as well.

So I guess it's because of that that I got complacent and over-confident and didn't practise doing past year papers/tutorials much, just attempted/saw the answers for a handful of questions from the 2010 MYE paper the day before the Bio exam. I guess that's part of the reason why I did badly. Another reason would be because I havent memorized the info as well as I thought I did, and I really don't know how to improve on that because I really did memorize for the Bio exam. I guess I've got to think of a better way for info to remain in my brain. Try to revise regularly after each bio lesson? And make more notes. And practise more, hopefully that will help.

Did worse for Math and Econs, but wasn't expecting to do any better. For math, I just practised doing the tutorials and realised I didn't memorize my formulas well. Tutorial questions are a lot easier than past-year papers, so I think I should practise with past-year papers in the future. Maybe get assessment books to help with drilling the different topics into my head as well. And I need to make sure I know my formulas like the back of my hand, because when I received my exam answer script I realised I either forgot or remembered quite a few formulas wrongly. So there's how I can improve in Math. Hopefully tuition will help with the drilling too.

Now, econs... Sigh. Econs has been my weakest subject since the first half of the year, and I got a single digit for the previous class test so I guess I should be happy that I passed MYE. (And did better for econs than math, surprisingly. But both are still within the same sad-sounding grade, sian ._.) But I don't want to just pass. If I continue scoring badly for econs and just borderline passing, what's going to happen to me next year and more importantly, my A levels? Getting good grades for ALL of my subjects is really important, I can't just abandon one subject. I guess for econs I need to practise more by doing more past-year papers too. And try to revise regularly as well. Econs is the subject I'm worried the most about now... I think if all else fails, I may just drop to H1 econs. I have always sucked at Humanities subjects so...
Argh but I can't just keep having the notion of dropping to H1 as my comfort blanket and not
work harder. Yup, I have to work harder.

Havent received my GP or Chem exam scripts yet, but I'm pretty sure I screwed up GP. So... I have to read more and really WIDEN MY VOCABULARY.

I'm pretty sure I won't be getting an A or even B for any of my subjects. Wow, I really did screw Midyears up didn't I... And yet some of my friends and classmates can get As and Bs for the same subjects I take. That makes me feel stupid, but I know feeling stupid isn't gonna make things any better, so all I can do is improve on my time management and see how I can improve on my studying methods. Study smart, not just study hard.

But I don't know if the changes I'm intending to make to my study methods are changes in the right direction. Will implementing such changes actually help me score better? That's the problem. It's like always a case of trial and error, if the changes to my studying method don't work then I've got to find other improvements. What if I can't make the right improvements in time?

Guess I can only try. How do other people find out what their ideal studying methods are so quickly? Obviously what worked for me in primary and secondary school don't work anymore...

Okay. Time to get back to PW. Targetting to finish EOM by this weekend, start on WR by monday and hand in first draft on Wed because doing the WR will be easier if we do EOM first. Then, I've got to finish my research on the Sri Lankan Civil War for GP, finish Math tutorials and Bio tutorials. Whoa. That's a lot of things to do...

OKAY BETTER GO OFF NOW!

2011-05-14T23:59:00.004+08:00

Whoa I have neglected my blog for 2 months and a day!

Okay well good stuff and bad stuff have happened, but I remember the good stuff more and the bad stuff just sorta fade away. I'm praying though, that things will get better!

Drama Night 2011: No Handlebars was a success, and I'm proud of myself for having pulled off my first major role in a school production successfully :)
Thanks to all those who supported me either by coming down to watch the show or texting me! Appreciate it. :)
And thanks to everyone who complimented me on my acting, it really means a lot to know that I have finally found something I'm good at :D
For some reason or the other, I wasn't as thrilled as I thought I'd be after Drama Night ended. Don't know why though, maybe it was because we had rehearsed the plays so many times and been on stage quite a number of times as well that performing it one more time wasn't much of a difference- I have no idea why I didn't feel the energy from the audience though!
Probably because the plays I acted in were dramatic and intense and I didn't have any funny bits- I get a whole lot more satisfaction and feel more energized on stage when performing comedic productions, haha.
But it was still really cool getting a main role in a classic play (The Caucasian Chalk Circle) and being part of the chorus for the intense sorrowful Women of Troy! I loved the lighting effects and reciting the morbid poem talking about the Trojan Horse, haha!

Found out on Twitter that the movie Troy was playing on HBO earlier tonight, but I couldn't watch it because I don't subscribe to HBO! :(

The Dramatic Society's next project is Sketch Night Live 2011, and this year's SNL will be different from any other year's- The sketches are all linked to each other so it's just one huge play- each sketch is one scene and the scenes will be performed in different locations around the school! The entire plot is about the murder of a man named Montgomery and it's so cool...
The J1s have the opportunity to sign up to direct some scenes from the play so I signed up! The only downside of the entire thing is that I won't be acting in it though. Bummer. I think the storyline's so cool, it's a mystery- my favourite kind of storyline!
Oh well, I'll be in the promo video for SNL, so it's better than nothing I guess. Even if it is just one line LOL.
Tickets to Sketch Night Live 2011: Montgomery Manor (that's the name of the uber cool production!) are priced at $5 each, half the price of a usual school concert ticket! (And half the price of a ticket to Drama Night!) So it's really affordable!
To any of my friends reading this, GO BUY A TICKET OKAY MONTGOMERY MANOR WILL BE AWESOME! Just wait for the promo video Rishvinder's doing, I believe it will blow you away...
Go to Facebook and search for the page entitled Sketch Night Live 2011: Montgomery Manor for more info! :D

Rish just told the Drama Exco Wannabes today that they'll announce the results of the new exco on Monday night through a video. That is a realllyyyyy unique (and kinda cool!) way of announcing the results, cos it'll just amplify the suspense so much more LOL.

So let's see what I've got on my hands for the rest of the year (at least, what I currently know I'll have on my hands so far) vSparks carnival for Operation Smile, SHINE Youth Festival 2011 (Publicity Committee! :D), Garden In A Bottle, Drama exco stuff if I get in, and not to forget Project Work... Whoa.
But IP has prepared me for such spammages of projects so I believe I'll be able to do the best that I can! GO MEEEE~ ^^
Oh oh and I also got selected for the Switzerland homestay trip this Nov-Dec! Will be staying with a host family in Davos, Switzerland for 2 weeks and then next year our Swiss buddies will be staying with us for 2 weeks!
Kinda afraid of the awkwardness I'll face 24/7 (at least for the first few days), but I think it's an invaluable opportunity for me to learn about another country and to be independent! Probably won't be able to get such opportunities in the future :)

Yep whoa this is a long post, I thought I'd have trouble thinking of stuff to blog about but no I just rattled on and on and on!
Glad that I finished my part of the latest GPP draft and most of the GP tutorial. Need to finish the rest of the GP tutorial & assignment tmr, plus start studying for the bio test next week!

Going to watch Macbeth with Tanya and Yin Shuen tmr! Can't wait :D

2011-03-13T22:02:00.001+08:00

2011-02-21T22:44:00.002+08:00

HAHAHAHA i was re-reading my old blog posts from when I was P6 and Sec 2...

I talked like an ah lian in p6.

In sec 2, I talked normally but was REALLY blunt. I saw some of the stuff I wrote for/about other people and was like 'whoa... so straightforward.'

2011-02-18T21:54:00.002+08:00

Oh no there's something wrong with my template and I can't get the codes right.

Then again my blog is so old-school I might just decide to create a tumblr...

[edit]

Ooh i managed to fix it!

2011-02-06T00:54:00.003+08:00

Thank you. (:

For telling me I did a good job, even though I fared the worst and probably would have done better if I had more perseverance.

Your comment made me smile through the veil of self-disgust I was feeling.

2011-02-03T14:45:00.000+08:00

2011-02-03T14:37:00.003+08:00

My new year so far seems to be filled with important decision-making and deciding how to spend my time this year, because there are just so many things I want to do.

If only I had all the time in the world, I would be able to do everything I want to.

But I don't. It's so hard to make decisions.

2011-01-31T22:14:00.002+08:00

Read this, thought I should learn from it and apply it whenever I come across people I don't like in general.

Try to view things from the other person's perspective.

Thought about it.
Conclusion? Subconscious, not aware. Superficiality in the subconscious mind.
Realised that it happens to me all the time as well.
So I can understand^^

2011-01-31T21:40:00.001+08:00

HAHA just realised this might be a good moment to start singing Kanye West's Stronger (aka our IP SYF 2009 dance song!) but yeah it reminds me too much of the weird choreography we had.

2011-01-31T21:26:00.003+08:00

Apologies for abandoning this blog for so long.

Anyway, ever since the new year began, I went for a 4-day OBS camp at Pulau Ubin with the rest of the IP cohort, met my new schoolmates from mainstream secondary schools and had orientation, and went for the NYC Recruitment Camp 2011!

Pretty eventful eh^^

OBS was alright I guess, but I really didn't sleep well at night cos the tents were gross and the ground super uneven. But on hindsight I feel a sense of achievement at all the obstacles I conquered (save for the double ladder thingy which I really feel like such a failure at cos I only reached the third log while everyone else managed to climb to the top! :X)- Kayaking 10km, hiking 3km with a haversack that's filled with camp equipment (eg sleeping bag, dirty gross + super heavy poncho)... The haversack was heavier than Tzuki man, I think I shrank by an inch carrying that bag haha.

Orientation was fun! The people in my OG are really nice, especially the girls! We've always got so much to talk about and yet we've only known each other for like what, 3 days!?
So sad we don't have JC orientation anymore :( We're all split into our different classes and having class orientation for the next two days instead.

For my new class, well... I'm really fortunate to have Joey, Clarissa, Mel (from my OG! :D) and the other IPs in my class! Started worrying about something which everyone is telling me I'm thinking too much about, so I'm going to just relax and not worry so much because after all it's only the first day of school, I can't tell what's going to happen.

A bit down these few days, but I am determined to make myself happy because this is my life and I'm not just going to sit around waiting for things to happen! I will get through this, and come out stronger! I'm going to be like coffee beans and turn my obstacles into something good:D

Really need to improve my vocab LOL.

Can't help but feel stressed after hearing what my CT said today about JC school life! It seems like such a huge gigantic leap from secondary school/IP!

Anyhoo. I WILL DO MY BEST.

COME OUT STRONGER, TOUGHER, HAPPIER, MORE POSITIVE.

Go me~

2011-01-30T21:38:00.002+08:00

I've learnt something today:

Never judge a book by its cover.

I probably have seen that phrase a million times and thought that I don't do that, but I just realised I've been doing that all along.

I feel enlightened. And I feel that I really need to improve my vocabulary...

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I feel so amazed and inspired.

2011-01-02T19:27:00.003+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!! :D

Okay that was kinda lag, sorry :P

The holidays are coming to an end soon and I'm glad to say that I've really enjoyed myself these few months and had a lot of fun! Hanging out with Louisa and her sisters, going shopping, bought awesome stuff and had equally awesome food at Bangkok, watched so many shows, attended parties... It was a really satisfying holiday and I think I've (almost) got my rest from all the studying I've done in 2010!

It's 2011 now, OMG o.o

I even had a chance to meet up and hang out with Louisa and Grace (Thong)! They're my um... god-cousins (if there is such a thing) from Australia! Okay fine god-cousin sounds stupid they're my buddies that I've not seen in three years! I've only met up with them like what, three times in my entire life I am so going to bug my parents to take me to Australia I've been wanting to go there for ages!

There are so many nice movies out now I wanna watch as many as I can! Okay not a lot, less than five but that's a lot when you compare it to the average number of nice movies screening at the same time in Singapore! That's like... 1 or 2? -_-

And and and I'll blog about the Bangkok trip soon! Got so much to share like the cool TO THE MAX hotels I stayed in and one that I visited! Free advertisement again, I should really get paid for all the free "advertising" I do hahaha $_$

(Oh gosh I actually spelt paid as "payed"... and I'm not even sure if the word "payed" exists. Think I've been spending too much time off school LOL)

I've got a scratchy throat now :( Hope it goes away soon and doesn't develop into a cough D:

2010-12-26T16:19:00.003+08:00

I'm not supposed to feel this way, so BREATHE....

BREATHE.....

BREATHE....

It's probably nothing.

Ooh but I can't help crashing in.

swakljldfhiu bhoerh fnejo ghor hipowskjldfhsjh

2010-12-16T17:27:00.000+08:00

I should learn from him. I always have to pee at all the wrong times ._.

2010-12-16T17:14:00.006+08:00

HAHAHA oh man this tumblr is hilarious.

thatawkwardmoment.net go see it! :D

This is has almost happened to me before many times when I was using my old phone, and actually happened once.

BTW, it was the worst situation EVER for such a thing to happen, and the person I sent the message to thought I was talking about someone else, which was really nothing short of a miracle for me.

I distinctly remember feeling like the main character in some chick lit story at that moment.

Although I'm still not sure whether that person finally managed to figure out afterwards that the msg was meant for that person...

Anyways. I'm so going to make sure that doesn't happen again. I shudder just at the thought of that moment.

Going to Bangkok tomorrow! Returning only on 22 Dec midnight, which means I can't go for the 09v12 class christmas party ):

Still not sure whether my parents allow me to go for the chalet though cos of all the gangfight-ish happenings at downtown east :/

Okay I've got to pack my bags already, but I shall post one more funny picture I got from happythings.tumblr.com!

Gahh. Blogger is being an idiot again and doesn't allow me to drag the picture down to the bottom of this post. I'll have to put it in another post then!

2010-12-12T23:19:00.005+08:00

Heh I shall be thick-skinned for the first time in my life and post my wishlist for Christmas :D

Although I kinda feel bad about it cos after all Christmas wasn't about presents and Christmas trees and stuff like that in the first place.... But anyway.

I SHALL BE SUPERFICIAL FOR ONCE OKAY.

1) Taylor Swift's Speak Now album!

2) Jennette McCurdy's debut album Story of My Life (kinda blah for an album title though, if you ask me- But then again she is an awesome singer so the title of her album doesn't matter!)

3) A pair of nice shoes that I can wear out and to school which are NOT track shoes, haha :D

4) Any book from the Chronicles of Narnia series except The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe because I have that already!

5) An iPhone 4 case designed by Shinzi Katoh! Hahahaha.

6) Sticky sweets HAHAHA okay I couldn't think of anything else this was kinda anyhow one so never mind LOL.

Gah why is Facebook so full of errors. I can't spend a single session on Facebook without having the "sorry, this page cannot be displayed" window appear at least one time -_-

But anyway it doesn't make much of a difference so never mind^^

Oh btw, I know I'm kinda lag but I still want to post this up all the same cos it's so awesome! The singing and dancing and the entire scene is just AHHH makes me smile :D:D

Currently in love with this song and also Katy Perry's Firework, still. HAHA.

Super nice right!? HAHA it'll be so cool if I could do the same thing for someone else's wedding! It's so much better than the traditional song that the bride and groom walk the aisle to. The reason why some of the couples who got married on 10.10.10 this year got married on that date. ("Because the date can be sung to the tune of the wedding march- ten, ten ten ten...." OMG WTF *faints*)

2010-12-09T11:33:00.002+08:00

OMG, this fight between DPRK and South Korea has got to stop.

It's so stupid, they were originally both one country and yet they are still so hostile and finding faults with one another.

In fact the names of the islands involved in the very first attack on South Korea by DPRK are so similar as well.

Yeonpyeong and Pyongyang. It's so easy to confuse the two! They sound like the reverse of each other or something.

DUUUUDE -____-

2010-12-06T23:56:00.003+08:00

Darn I still can't find the $80 Borders book voucher I won at last year's financial lit! :( arghhh I need to ask someone who still has it whether it's expired yet. Cos if it isn't, I'm going to turn the whole house upside down until I find the voucher.

I can buy so many things from Borders with that book voucher! I'm already thinking of buying the entire Chronicles of Narnia series... I already have the first book :D

So glad I'm finally watching Rapunzel with Lou tmr :) We just haven't decided where to go yet...

And I really want to watch Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader! But not many people have replied me about the CLDDS outing I wanted to have to go watch the movie together.

My family's Christmas tree is finally up after so many years of not having a proper one! Bought silver tree decorations from Ikea yesterday, and after sorting out all the books and papers cluttering my dining table (aka my study table) as well as all the junk in boxes I put on the floor, I finally managed to pack everything neatly and found space to store the boxes so I finally had room to set up my Christmas tree! :D

It's pretty late now and everything I'm saying is random and has no link with the other stuff I'm saying.

Currently arranging the photos I took from my USA trip in 2008 in this virtual photo album thingy, one where I can design the pages myself and get it printed out like a magazine, just like what I did with my Europe photos which I mentioned before. But this time I don't have to go all the way down to Funan to do it because I'm using another software from another shop, one that doesn't require me to go anywhere else to arrange my photos.

All I have to do is borrow the disc with the software and install it in my computer, then I can arrange the photos in the comfort of my own home! The designs are much prettier than the Funan one too, and the price is cheaper as well. (Would you look at that, free advertisement again^^)

HAHA okay my blog post is so random and some parts probably don't make much sense cos what I'm typing now doesn't pass through my brain much.

Okay going to sleep now. Nighty night!

Ooh I got pretty star-shaped lights from Ikea too. They come with suction cups and are hanging onto my balcony door right now. Pretty pretty(;

So glad my Christmas this year will have a real Christmas-y atmosphere and Louisa (the other one) and Grace are visiting at the end of the year! Whoo~

Okay okay I'm really going to sleep now. And I've got to buy Taylor Swift's Speak Now. And I really like Katy Perry's Firework. :D

2010-12-05T18:51:00.003+08:00

Man I love this song!

Argh I hate blogger why doesn't it allow me to copy and paste the lyrics here!? I believe I've done it before... Lemme try again.

No I still can't do it! Argh.

But I've got to say, when I heard the first line of the song I was like "What? O_O"

Anyway the lyrics can be found everywhere so I guess there's no need to post them here. :D

Self-empowerment song^^

... And until I find a nicer blogskin, you guys will just have to make do with YouTube videos being half-blocked by my tagboard. Ah well.

2010-11-30T09:11:00.002+08:00

Okay I have got to type out my dream before I forget it.

I have a mother who's constantly doing bad things and looks like a witch. Just that I forgot what are the bad things she does. So one day, I remember coming back from a school trip with Louisa and Lorraine (Lou's sister) and we're in some foreign airport and I wanted to buy a cold snack. So I got change from Lou and decided to buy a small cup of hagen daaz ice cream from a mama shop that was in the airport. And yeah the ice cream was in a hagen daaz ice cream vending machine.

When I was choosing which flavour to buy, Lorraine told me to buy chocolate and I realised that's what I wanted too, but the labels of the buttons on the vending machine didn't weren't flavours but weird words that seemed to be in a foreign language. Lorraine told me that either 'cello' or some other word that starts with a C (it was the label of the button next to the cello button) was chocolate but she couldn't remember. So I just took a gamble and pressed the cello button but it turned out to be cheese. I was disappointed but didn't mind cos anyway it's still ice cream!

When I got home, a bunch of people from I don't know, the police force or something? Came and told my family that because of the bad things my mum did, we were banished to the bottom of the sea and my mum couldn't come out of the house. So when we were at the bottom of the sea (surprisingly we still could breathe and when we spoke bubbles came out of our mouths) my mum bossed me around telling me to do stuff. I remember the only people living in my house were myself, my mum and Tzuki, my dog. -.-

Suddenly we were on holiday and a lot of the people I knew from previous tour groups came. But after that we were back home again. And by this time, my mum was free from house arrest and she wanted to go out for lunch with her friend, but the friend came to our house instead and told us through the window that because my mum was such a witch, she was under house arrest AGAIN.

We couldn't believe it, but just then the same police force people from before floated past our window in a hot air balloon (I have no idea why my house was in the air instead of at the bottom of the sea) and told us that yep, what my mum's friend said was true, my mum was under house arrest again.

I remember waking up the next morning and going to the kitchen to see what my mum was doing. On the way to the kitchen I remember passing by Tzuki and Tzuki was looking at me with an urgent look on his face and tilting his head towards the kitchen as if asking me to go there to fix something my mum did.

Okay then I woke up.

OMG I'm so sleepy I wanna go back to sleep.

Good night world!

2010-11-29T01:10:00.003+08:00

Whoo it's 1.10am I'm going to sleep soon.

Really feel like doing fun stuff this holidays! But it's just the usual... Watching shows, using the computer, listening to music, going out...

Haha hopefully I'll be able to experience something interesting when I go to Bangkok. I feel like I have so much time on my hands and yet I'm letting it all go to waste! I want to spend it doing and experiencing interesting things I've never done before!

Okay I'm really going to sleep now, super tired alr. I sleep at around this time everyday and wake up around lunchtime, and conveniently skip breakfast (hmmm maybe I can lose weight that way! HAHAHA).

I never wake up earlier than 10.30am, always 11+ hahaha.

Ooh I did crunches today to Sexy Back played twice! Let's see if I can keep this up everyday. And I should probably go jogging although I've never done that during the holidays before. Heh.

Can't wait to go shopping with Eunice at Haji Lane and then watching Cinderel-LAH! with her and Clara! :D Ooh and watching HP7 with my mum, and going to that Raffles Museum thingy with Clarissa when she comes back from Dubai... Hopefully we'll be able to watch Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader after that! :) I've been watching all the Narnia movies so far and I want to buy the books, too... I've only got The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe though.

Will someone watch Tangled with me tooo? :D It's another version of Rapunzel, omg so cool considering that I had a chance to act in a parody version of Rapunzel once :D

OKAY OKAY I'M GOING TO SLEEP NOW.

2010-11-27T20:28:00.003+08:00

As much as I'd hate to post something new and cause that last beautiful post to not be at the top of my blog anymore, I must.

I have something terribly sad to announce.....

I've resorted to playing ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK on Facebook to cure my boredom.

I'm playing a game about UNICORNS, omg.

Okay no. My unicorn keeps running into cliffs and I don't know how to make it jump, because there are only two keys I can use and none of them allows the unicorn to jump. And it's kinda gruesome to see the unicorn's head on the ground after I used up all 3 of my wishes.

Okay I'm going to try again. Ooh I finally figured out that Z made it jump. Which was what I had been doing the whole time. So I'm just pressing one key and I have no idea when to make it dash, which is when I press the other key. But it's a typical boring game where you have to accumulate stuff to give you more points and avoid obstacles. YAWN.

I shall figure out how to download games into my iPhone.

2010-11-26T21:53:00.003+08:00

And I also need this constant reminder, everytime I think about "could-haves".

And lastly, to my dearest 09v12! (We'll still be able to spend time as a class the first two months before JCO starts, phew!)

:D :D Positive thinking, people^^

2010-11-23T21:44:00.001+08:00

Oh dear. I am so so so SO screwed for dance.

2010-11-20T22:56:00.003+08:00

I'm sick. Again.

Oh, what joy.

But I'm not gonna blog about that, too depressing -_-

I can't seem to stop using the computer. I've watched like a gazillion shows and YouTube videos over the past week, and I'm afraid I'm going to turn into a computer addict.

I also can't seem to stop watching Sonny With a Chance. I just keep gushing over the extremely cute romance between Sonny Monroe (played by Demi Lovato) and Chad Dylan Cooper (played by Sterling Knight). Oh boy.

And I can't seem to get over how cute Sterling Knight is. I do NOT want to turn this into a fangirl's blog post and start rambling on and on about his amazing eyes or incredibly dazzling smile and admit that I am overwhelmed by how cute his personality (or what I can make of it from the video clips about him I've seen on YouTube) and appearance are, like every other girl out there who watches Sonny or other shows with him in it. Cos that would be too... Urgghhh. -shudders-

I need to get my life back and quit using the computer/my iPhone/watching TV. Okay I'm sad to say that that probably IS my life right now because spending time with the three "squares" (my mum calls them the Big Square, Medium Square and Small Square. Go figure.) was pretty much my idea of relaxation that I was so looking forward to back when I was working my ass off during the school year.

But now I think I need to get out there and actually DO something. I'm thinking of looking for a part-time job, or bringing Tzuki downstairs for walks regularly and not let him eat sleep and eat some more like what he usually does everyday because I keep telling myself that I will bring him downstairs, then I will realize that taking him for a walk on my own would be really boring so I either end up texting Louisa and asking her if she's bringing Comet for a walk anytime soon so that I would have company but Louisa's not free, or I just go back to spending quality time with one out of the three Squares.

Boy am I a social hermit. But I think most of of my classmates are doing the same thing... Spending quality time with the three squares? Well for those who don't have an iPhone, the Small Square would be your iPod.

And I also keep telling myself to start choosing the nice photos from my America and Japan trips so that my parents and I can go down to Funan to start arranging the photos in a book and getting them printed out. Arranging pictures for ONE book takes 2 trips to the mall, each one lasting about 3 hours. It is that tedious, but the end result is a pretty book full of photos with captions in cool fonts you can choose and it's not like a regular photo album, the photos are actually printed on the pages like a magazine and you can choose how you want to design it. (See that? Free advertisement. I should get paid ;D)

I'm just worried that if I continue spending so much time with the three squares I'll go blind by the time I'm 20.

So to do that, i have GOT to stop watching so many shows and YouTube videos and stop obsessing over SK. Okay I'm not obsessing over him, I'm what you would call fangirling. Which, according to Joey, means you don't just like the celebrity's acting/singing/music, but you're like really interested in his/her life personality and what they do etc. I've got to stop that, it's wasting my time.

But seeing how my Lucifer craze was over in a week, I think I'm going to get over this craze pretty quickly. :D

And I've got to stop dreaming of ever making it to the big screen AHAHAHAH. Oh boy it's so embarrassing to even admit this on my blog but hey, who reads this?

I need to find more meaningful ways to kill my time. By meaningful I mean not spending so much time with the three Squares and actually going out and doing something that requires me to move my whole body and not just my eyes and fingers ._.

2010-11-16T15:34:00.000+08:00

Do you believe in magic?
In a young girls heart
How the music can free her
whenever it starts

And it's magic
if the music is groovy
It makes you feel happy like an old time movie

I'll tell ya about the magic
It'll free your soul
but it's like trying to tell a stranger 'bout rock n roll

If you believe in magic, don't bother to choose
If it's jug band music or rhythm and blues
Just go and listen
It'll start with a smile
It won't wipe off your face no matter how hard you try
Your feet start tapping
And you can't seem to find
How you got there
So just blow your mind

If you believe in magic
Come along with me
We'll dance until morning, just you and me
and maybe, if the music is right
I'll meet ya tomorrow
so late at night

We'll go a dancin' baby then you'll see
all the magic's in the music and the music's in me, yeah

Do you belive in magic? Yeah.
Believe in the magic in a young girl's soul
believe in the magic of rock n roll
Believe in the magic that can set you free
Ohhhh, talkin' bout magic

Do you believe like I believe?
Do you believe in magic?
[repeat]

:D

2010-11-16T15:20:00.001+08:00

Awww! (L) Furry little animals make me smile :)

2010-11-14T01:02:00.000+08:00

OMG why am I so obsessed TT

I'm starting to worry I'll go crazy AHHHHH

2010-11-07T12:00:00.002+08:00

I thought I could finally relax, but I've got so many things to do this weekend and it's a wonder how all the important stuff clash!

I haven't even gotten round to uploading all the London IndiEventure photos onto facebook yet. I wonder if I should even bother doing that!
And well I suppose my iTunes is reinstalled already, but there're a few minor hiccups here and there which I don't know how to correct, but they don't give me much of a problem(:

What I've got to do this weekend:

1) Do research on university courses to confirm my subject combi choices for next year
2) Finish up a scholarship application which includes writing a 500-600 word essay
3) Study for HCL O Levels (._.)

Yup, all of the stuff on my "to do" list are pretty important and there's no way of changing the deadlines, as you can see...

Ah well. At least I'll be able to properly relax after the O :)
The entire cohort's going to watch The Social Network together after our HMT O Levels on Wednesday! Apparently this activity is part of our LA curriculum, the last LA-related thing we'll be doing before we move on to JC.
Now is that cool or what. We get to relax RIGHT after our exam! :D
The IP1s will be watching Legend of the Guardians (pardon me if I get the movie title wrong), that 3D movie about owls... Well I guess it isn't as lame as it sounds, since the teachers did say that it's the owl-equivalent of the Lord of the Rings.
HAHA.

Okay I'm going to watch Full House before I get started on writing the essay for my scholarship application.
Hope inspiration strikes me~

2010-10-27T20:16:00.004+08:00

I feel so targetted on Facebook- by people I don't even know. And I didn't even say anything mean or insulting!

I have a feeling they're joking, but then again, I'm not too sure.

But oh well since I don't know them and there's no possibility of us meeting in real life, AND I didn't do anything wrong, I shan't care. HAHA :D

ANYWAY I'M KINDA HAPPY WE DANCED TO LUCIFER TODAY DURING YUTAKI'S TRAINING! Whoo~

Probably would've been happier if he taught us the dance during that week where I was spazzing over the music video- I played it practically everyday and thought the song was so so awesome and so so catchy and I was determined to learn the dance- But didn't know the craze would be over so quickly.

Haha I still like the song though! And still want to learn the dance from the mv- Natalie's going to teach me! Yay thanks Nat <3
For those of you who are wondering why I can't just learn the dance from Yutaki, it's because the dance he's teaching us is a mixture of his own steps and steps from the music video, it's for the overseas competition the dancers are taking part in next year!

Although I won't be participating though.... I'm quite sure I'm going to leave dance at the end of this year and just focus on Drama for next year. Time to try new things and have more time for myself, both for studying and for doing stuff I've always wanted to do but never had the time! :)

Argh I need to find my prom dress soon- I've went shopping for it twice already but wasn't successful ):
Shall find it this weekend! Then I can get started on looking for matching shoes or seeing if any of the current shoes I have match^^
It's funny, the girls are so concerned about what we're going to wear and how we're going to do our hair and nails but the guys seem to be nonchalant about it. Brandon's wearing THREE-QUARTER PANTS, for goodness' sake. -_-
(This reminds me of HSM 3: Senior Year hahaha! Okay yes I see people rolling their eyes I shan't elaborate ;D)

Hmm then again I suppose prom doesn't have to be so old-fashioned and classic haha :D

2010-10-21T18:04:00.002+08:00

Either I've really gotten over it, or I am just numb to it all.

Really hope next year will be better.

Currently also dealing with a CCA dilemma. Pfffft.

2010-10-15T22:23:00.002+08:00

So, I just spent a full working week at MPTC, working from 8.30am-5pm everyday in a cubicle.

I've scanned and cropped (using Adobe Photoshop) close to a hundred newspaper articles, filled up forms and did other forms of admin work.

I've helped to answer calls from residents.

I've learnt how the water pumps and switchroom in a typical HDB block work to supply the entire block with water and electricity (it's Physics applied in real life- URGH!)

I've climbed onto the rooftop of a HDB block to check out the water supply, which looks like a swimming pool :D
(oh BTW the rooftop is freaking cool okay. Y'know usually on Mediacorp shows when they film people threatening to commit suicide by jumping off a building, the rooftops they choose have short walls for the suiciders to climb on top and gaze at the cars on the street below, and recall their past experiences, up until the point where they decided it was time to take their own lives?
Well, the rooftop I went to had no such wall! There's no form of railing, parapet, wall, nada. It's like if you miss a step you could just fall off the building. Which is what makes it even cooler! :D)

And what I've learnt is that:

The workplace is just like school, albeit a bit more aunty-esque and the topics the people talk about are different. But there will always be the same groups of people you see in school- The nice people, the gossipmongers, the chio bus, the narcissistic guys, the kiasu people.

It's interesting, really. Although I was starting to get awfully tired of the conversations the people have (they talk about their laogongs, their haizis, and mostly food. Heheh.).
And the fact that almost everybody is married, which make them seem even older than they already are.

Although I think I quite enjoyed working when nearing the end of the week, because the person I was attached to was one of the nicest people I've ever met in my entire LIFE and is just like an older sister to me! One of the reasons why I click well with her is probably because she's one of the youngest people in the office, lol. Oh but when I remember that she's married and has a 4-year-old son, I'm once again reminded of the fact that everyone is generally old.

And it's quite fun cropping newspaper articles using Adobe Photoshop, so much so that I wanted to do more work but the person I was attached to told me to rest, LOL.

And I find it nice knowing that I always have someone to go to lunch with because the person I'm attached to has a "clique" of her own and always asks me to go lunch with her! Hahaha she was on leave for the first 2 days, and I spent my lunchbreak on those 2 days in the pantry eating sandwiches by myself, while reading an issue of Reader's Digest. Oh then after I finish eating I'll go back to my cubicle and start watching kpop videos on my phone, trying to learn the dances.

HAHA.

Anyway, Get Real's over! I'm so glad to go back to school again, OMG. I think school is so so so much better compared to work. :D:D:D

2010-10-07T18:13:00.002+08:00

HAHAHAHA OMIGOSH EXAMS ARE OVER!!!!!!!!!!! LIKE FINALLYY!!!!!!!

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW WHAT I'LL NOT BE HAVING ANY EXAMS TILL LIKE WHAT, JUNE NEXT YEAR I THINK? NEXT YEAR'S MID-YEARS!

Hahaha but I can't keep to my word about posting about the euphoria I feel after exams though. I mean I typed those few sentences in caps up there (^) but those are just words. I don't feel a lot different from during the EOYs period leh haha.

Like it hasn't sunk in yet! But you know the worst thing is now that exams are over and we're having so much freedom, when I switched on the laptop just now I totally was at a loss as to what to do besides clearing all the darn 300+ Facebook notifications from my email and logging onto Facebook to update my status. Like -okay, what do I do now? What were the things I said I'd do when exams were over!?-

Okay actually there are two pretty urgent things-

1) Reset my iTunes (because my iTunes was gone after the laptop came back from being repaired -_-)
2) Finally upload all the London photos onto Facebook

But I'm like so lazy to do them... Resetting my iTunes library is really tedious because my songs are all over the place and I have to rename many songs and artists and albums cos they're all like in weird characters and stuff :(

Oh well!

Get Real's next week! Heh will be going on a 5-day work attachment at Marine Parade Town Council! Hahaha hopefully I won't feel bored like during lunchtime or something when everyone's out for lunch and I'm like stoning on my own wondering where to eat... Hmm maybe I can get bubble tea but Koi's like a long walk away....

Had rehearsal after school today for Open House tmr! We'll be performing right after the principal's speech at the performance theatre and before that another time during Farewell Assembly! Although it's a teeny weeny bit sian to do the same dance that we did for Teachers' Day and to not be able to do the concert items at the bus bay ('cause the IPs ended exams too late so not enough time to rehearse for so many items D:) but it's still awesome to be able to dance again! And like be able to slack without feeling guilty for not making better use of my time during breaks :D

Cos before that during rehearsals for Teachers' Day whenever we had breaks I'd feel so guilty for not making good use of them since I already knew I had quite little time to study for EOYs.

BUT OH WELL ALL THAT'S OVER! :D

Hmm I just re-read my post and realised I use the word "like" quite often hahaha. OKAY RANDOM HEHE XD

Nananananana, nanananana.....

2010-09-29T15:00:00.002+08:00

I gotta give myself a well-deserved belated birthday treat after EOYs.

Man even though IH is over (I totally screwed up btw but just trying not to think about it :X) I keep thinking about opportunity cost when it comes to studying.

Like choosing to spend this amount of time blogging has incurred me an opportunity cost because I could've spent this time studying.

But I just tried to have an afternoon nap and was finally drifting off to sleep when someone called me on my handphone and because I set my ringtone to Adam Lambert's If I Had You (and didn't put my phone on silent mode), I woke right up with a shock :(
Turned out the person called the wrong number -.-
Tried going back to sleep but couldn't because the song made me think of the dance concert's opening item hahaha then I started doing the arm actions on the bed LOL.
And then I tried to quieten down my mind but then people starting cutting grass downstairs -_- so it was super noisy then I just gave up ahaha.

Okay time to go back to mugging. The next time I post, it will be about the euphoria I'm feeling after EOYs are over.

JIAYOU JIAYOU JIAYOU! To anyone who's reading this who's got exams coming up! Haha.

Omg my phone just rang again and it's the same person who called the wrong number just now -_-

2010-09-19T12:26:00.003+08:00

OMG Bruno Mars's Just the Way You Are and Taylor Swift's Mine are soo sweet! Gosh the 700+ couples getting married on October 10 this year should play these songs at their wedding HAHAHA. Confirm very touching one! LOL.

Anyway I'm a happy happy girl today! Haha my mum and uncle planned a surprise birthday dinner yesterday for me at Tawandang, ECP! Cos at first I thought I was just going for dinner with my family so it was going to be really sian since there are no other teenagers.

But then my mum secretly invited Louisa's family to come along! Hahaha I even smsed Louisa telling her that I was gonna be so sian LOL.

Then when I saw her entire family walking up to us I was damn happy! Cos our families have never been out for dinner together in a few YEARS! Nor have we been on holiday together like how we used to in primary school!

Everything seemed like the good old days last night when Lou and her sisters and I were chatting away... Hahaha OMG how I wish we could all go to Disneyland and California Adventure Park and Universal Studios (in America) together! It would be like the epitome of fun okay omg~

Hahaha but I can't escape mugging today though. Darn. I'm quite stressed now cos I don't think I have time to finish studying everything! D: sighh..

But I'm going to try and DO MY BEST. I can do anything :)

Thank you to all those who wished me happy birthday! Haha I feel like such a blessed girl today(:
Have never felt this happy for a long long time! :)

ILY guys! <3

2010-09-17T23:42:00.002+08:00

I'm worried about not feeling worried. Oh man I remind myself of Mr. Worry (is that his name?) from the Mr Men Little Miss series!

I'm supposed to be feeling worried for EOYs but I'm not. Maybe I somehow managed to repress all my stress into my unconscious. Oh man... I'm worried the stressed feelings will come out later.

Ahhh I can't wait till EOYs are over cos then we'll have like ABSOLUTE FREEDOM! Okay no, we'll have intensive Chinese lessons (ack!) for the Higher Chinese Os. But still, we'll be drilling Chinese while having fun and that's way better than mugging for/taking the EOYs any day.

Okay I'm going to sleep soon. Good night world. :)

2010-09-07T10:33:00.001+08:00

Screw this.

If my family had enough money, I wouldn't feel bad about spending too much of my parents' money and would probably have chosen to take private physics tuition instead of a group one.
If I had private physics tuition, I may be much better at physics than I am now, and I may actually like the subject.
And if I like the subject, and because physics is so much more useful than bio, I may be more inclined to take physics in JC.
And if I take physics in JC, I would have so many more career options than if I take bio.

In other words, if I can't find a career I like in the future because I took bio in JC and not physics, the root cause of all my problems then would be the fact that MY FAMILY DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH MONEY.

And for the record, I really need physics tuition. I can't study physics on my own because my brain is just not that good enough, okay!?
Different people have different natural abilities, and physics is not one of mine.

2010-08-20T00:12:00.002+08:00

LA discussion late at night with a headache. =/

I cannot take it, I cannot take it, I'm not gonna take it... Anymore~

LOL..

[edit]

P.S. Operation Stalking under way! Hahaha Lou you should know what I'm talking about! ;D

2010-08-18T20:04:00.002+08:00

YAY THE TESTS ARE OVER. It's time to rest for a few days before starting my EOY preparation! Must be kiasu now, because I study REEEAAAALLLLLYYYYY slowly and if I start mugging too late I won't have enough time :X

It's a good thing that the difficulty level of the physics and chem tests today were lower than usual, because I really didn't prepare much for the tests cos I was so busy! D:< Gah.
At least for Physics the difficult parts were in the MCQ, which didn't make it so stressful...

Oh no I had another interesting dream a few nights ago but I forgot what it was! So you see, everytime people have interesting dreams and want to remember them, they should write/type out their dream first thing in the morning or they're gonna forget as time progresses.
Anyway, I think my dreams are awesome cos so many stuff happen in them, stuff that are even more exciting than real life :D

I had a dream a few years ago which I still remember now because it gave me a phobia of riding lifts that were faulty- In my dream, I was taking this lift which could access many many floors- Like over 1000 and there were even floor numbers with decimal places, LOL. But everytime I pressed a certain floor number button in the lift, the lift would exceed the number and go too high or too low and it's scary when you want to go home but can't hit the right floor.

There was once in the dream where I DID manage to reach my home floor though, but when I came out of the lift the corridor outside my flat looked strangely different, even though it was similar to the actual corridor in many ways. It was like someone deliberately arranged the furniture and plants in the corridor to make it look like the actual thing, but there's just something really different about the place and you don't know what, which leads to this eerie feeling you get when you have a gut feeling that something's not right.

CREEEPY.

Good thing stuff like that don't happen in real life- The closest I've ever heard so far to such a faulty lift would be the one at my mum's workplace- If there're too many people in the lift, the lift would go to the basement instead of stopping at the ground floor even if the ground floor button is pressed. But still. SCARY.

HAHAHA okay shall stop uttering nonsense now shall go have dinner! ^^

2010-08-15T23:05:00.001+08:00

Close call.

Funny how people's minds work.

But really! CLOSE CALL MAN.

Whew.

2010-08-08T21:35:00.005+08:00

Dear Cousin Butene,

Why, you may ask, is this delightfully exotic-sounding reaction called Free Radical Substitution? Well, simply put, the occurrence of the reaction involves free radicals. I doubt you’ve heard of the term Free Radicals before- No, they are not a new political party- They are electronically neutral species that contain an odd number of electrons and thus have a single unpaired electron in one of its orbitals. My, the reactivity of a radical is simply mind-blowing, due to the lack of an octet structure.

Yep, I went there alright.

It was kinda fun pretending to be butane, but after a while it got boring.

Right now, I'm so glad I'm done with my chem assignment (:

Next on my list- Preparation for IH debate and Geog Option presentation, finish Vector homework, P&C notes, P&C homework, mug for IH core test.

This long weekend is absolutely delightful.

If you're wondering why I'm talking like that, I think it's because I've been reading Requiem for a Mezzo (A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery!), this mystery novel I bought in London.

And the book series is set in 1920s London, so.... Yeah.

***************************************************
The National Day skit that we put up in school last Friday went smoothly, thank goodness(:
The audience laughed at almost all the jokes! They got them! :D And we were worried that they'd just talk amongst themselves since no-one really pays attention to the National Day concert anyway (or so we thought :D)
It was a really nice feeling, standing on stage doing the coolie bit with A'ishah and Caleb and watching the audience pay attention to us and laugh and cheer! Whoo ;)

Go coolies, go coolies, go coolies, OOOHHHHH!!!!~~ ;D

2010-08-07T10:32:00.001+08:00

Dear Cousin Butene,

You know I am two whole hydrogen atoms taller than you.

-smirks-

Signed,
Your Cousin Butane

2010-08-05T23:36:00.001+08:00

BOOOOO ):

I like to prepare myself for worst-case scenarios, so that I know no matter what happens I'll be prepared ^^

But even so,

MEHHHHHH D:

T_T

!#&@)^&

2010-07-27T23:25:00.004+08:00

I am so so tired, I'm going to sleep right after I finish this post, which is the earliest I've slept in a really long time D:

Well actually I now sleep around 5 hours everyday because I've realised that I feel more awake if I slept for 5 hours than if I slept for 6 hours, and if I sleep for 7 hours it doesn't make much of a difference than 6 hours sine I still fall asleep in class, so I might as well sleep for 5 hours everyday, right?

But I think it's taking a toll on me, without me realizing it. Once I get too deprived of sleep I'll get a headache, which is what happens to me when I get too MUCH sleep. I know, I have a weird head -_-

So sorry Geog option project group! Everyone's done their parts already except me D: well the deadline's tomorrow but still! :X

Sigh. I'm slowly slipping back into my busy mode again, as you can see from my previous post. No more grass-lying and sky-gazing and leaf-admiring. Wait. I didn't do that in Singapore, ever. I did all that in London haha! And it was really relaxing when we were lying on the grass in this park near LSE (London School of Economics), to just gaze up at the patches of sky between the leaves that were interlocking overhead to form a canopy, while lying down on the grass listening to Christine's iPod, and hearing the occasional scream from the people playing catching (yeah some of us played CATCHING in London. Wonder what the people picnicking/sunbathing thought of us, yeah? ;D)

Oops, sidetracked. Yeah so as I was saying I'm slipping back into my old routine of being super busy and tired at night and sleeping late. Not that I mind though, dance and drama are really fun :D

Okay cannot tahan alr.

MUST. SLEEP. NOW.

-zzzz-

2010-07-23T19:05:00.003+08:00

Career Week is like the calm before the storm. It's the period of time when the wind starts stirring and clouds start building up, but nothing is shown on the surface.

Then when Week 6 starts, it's like VOOM!

The storm begins.

(chemassignmentphysicspresentationIHdebatemathsquizgeogoptionpresentation WTP they're all in the same week wts wts! @!)(#%&*

The school has an uncanny knack of putting deadlines for projects/assignments/presentation dates all around the same few days.

Add to that dance three times a week, plus rushing from drama rehearsals to dance because they clash, and you get my freakin' awesome school life.

Sometimes, I think I'm Superwoman :)

2010-07-21T22:05:00.003+08:00

I hope I'm not being too over-ambitious.

I hope I'll be able to do everything I want to do this semester.

Somehow, the trip to London made me a lot less tense.

I STILL DON'T KNOW HOW! hahaha.

But anyway I guess all things happen for a reason and this gives me even more reason to be grateful I made the choice to go to London :D

Speaking of which, I still haven't uploaded all the photos yet! Darn. Wonder if I'll ever find time to do so...

Haha I think by the time I upload my photos everyone'll be -_-ing at how lag I am, LOL.

The photos I took weren't that nice either... Most of them didn't have people in it.

Oh, but did I camwhore with other people's cameras! :D

2010-07-17T09:03:00.000+08:00

You're a good soldier
Choosing your battles
Pick yourself up
And dust yourself off
And back in the saddle

You're on the frontline
Everyone's watching
You know it's serious
We're getting closer
This isnt over

The pressure is on
You feel it
But you've got it all
Believe it

When you fall get up
Oh oh...
And if you fall get up
Oh oh...

Tsamina mina
Zangalewa
Cuz this is Africa

Tsamina mina eh eh
Waka Waka eh eh

Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa aa
This time for Africa

Listen to your god
This is our motto
Your time to shine
Dont wait in line
Y vamos por Todo

People are raising
Their Expectations
Go on and feed them
This is your moment
No hesitations

Today's your day
I feel it
You paved the way
Believe it

If you get down
Get up Oh oh...
When you get down
Get up eh eh...

Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa aa
This time for Africa

Tsamina mina eh eh
Waka Waka eh eh

Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa aa

Tsamina mina eh eh
Waka Waka eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa

This time for Africa

2010-07-17T08:32:00.001+08:00

I can probably come up with a million negative stuff about what SIP stands for, but I can't be bothered to think anymore :D

Whoo I just made a rhyme!

AHAHHAHAHAHA ANYWAY SIP IS OVERRRRRRR

This is so liberating :D

Oh great, now I even think in LA terms.

2010-07-10T01:01:00.003+08:00

I realised that nowadays, I'm not as bothered about the stuff that bothered me a lot before.

Either I'm numb to it, I repress it so naturally that I forget about what I'm bothered about, or I've just straightened out my thinking without myself knowing O:

This is really weird.

[edit]

OMG haha after reading Audrey's blog I realised this post is exactly what she meant with "I don’t know if I’m really getting better or am I just getting used to the pain."

2010-07-08T22:33:00.003+08:00

... And the craziness starts again.

I'm starting to miss those supercalifragilisticexpialidocious times )':

I don't even think I used the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious correctly, but it's really fun typing out supercalifragilisticexpialidocious :P

Okay okay gotta get back to work.

2010-07-05T08:54:00.002+08:00

LONDON WAS SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS!

Did I spell that right? O_O

Anyway the highlight of the entire trip was WICKED!

OMG that was so superbly awesome it gave me more chills than I ever got from watching Glee and SYTYCD.

So much so that a few days later when half of us went to watch The Lion King we were trying hard not to fall asleep. LOL. Oh but Timon and Pumba were funny. The jokes were kinda lame though. Everyone around us was laughing and we were like "-_- very funny meh?!"

And some girls from London schools actually cried at some parts of the show. While we were trying our best not to let our eyelids snap shut.

Oh well, guess they must not have been to watch Wicked. HAHA.

WICKED WAS SO FANTASTICALLY AWESOMEEE!!! And the theatre workshop we got at the theatre that was showing Wicked (The Apollo Victoria Theatre) was fun too!

Loved it :D:D:D

I think I'll blog in greater detail when I have the time. Which isn't going to be till like much much later ):

Now to finish SIP and the rest of the homework I haven't done.

This is what I keep telling myself:

"The sooner I'm done with all my work, the sooner I'll be able to gush over London."

Alright man ;D

2010-06-23T11:43:00.004+08:00

Yep, researching is torturous alright.

I swear, at the rate I'm going, I'm going to be as blind as a bat by the time I hit my 20s.

Gulp.

2010-06-17T23:46:00.001+08:00

Researching is torturous...

D:

Argh what the heck, it'll be worth it.

HANG TIGHT! :D

2010-06-16T15:44:00.004+08:00

Oh my this is funny.

Was looking through the bio textbook for answers to the Reproduction task we're supposed to do, and found this:

"All mammals produce milk, but humans are the only ones with permanently swollen hemispheres of fatty tissue."

2010-06-15T10:18:00.006+08:00

I just woke up, am still in my PJs, but I have GOT to type out my weirdest and most eventful dream yet while it's still fresh in my head.

Okay the first thing was I was at a market, and the goods on sale were limited, and this old man wanted to buy the same thing I wanted to buy, and he was a scary old man. I rushed in front of him, bought the good he wanted and then he started chasing me around the market. I ran and ran and ran and eventually lost him, then someone told me that old man was some chinese teacher's husband. LOL.

The next part of my dream had no link with the first part, and it goes like this:

I was watching a movie on my laptop, don't know what movie it was but it was kinda like a special episode of CSI where the villain is no ordinary villain. In the movie I was watching, the villain was this guy who kinda reminded me of Willy Wonka- He altered all the facilities in the house so that no-one could escape; everything was booby-trapped. (Oh I know! It's like that the very first episode of NCIS: LA I watched last week!) He kidnapped a few girls and used them as prostitutes, and these girls wore black all the time and were handcuffed together.

Suddenly myself and a few other girls (who they were, I forgot but I know Christal was one of them- Yes, very random) plus a nurse suddenly appeared in the villain's house. We were relaxing at first, cos the house was big and it was carpeted and we were in a lounge of some sort. One of the girls with me asked me if I knew how to remove something that looked like a staple from her big toe. I asked the nurse if she knew how to do that and she said yes. So the nurse got to work helping the girl remove the staple from her big toe.

Then, someone announced that the villain was coming. The person was like "____ is coming!" (He called him by a special name but I forgot what the name was.) So all of us stopped lounging about and stood up, and tried our best to be very prim and proper in case we offend him cos we didn't want him to abduct us as well.

After greeting him, we immediately ran away, looking for an escape route. This was where I remember Christal as being part of my dream. She was the first one to flee and run to the back door, and I followed her, and the other girls followed behind. After struggling with the lock on the back gate, we finally got it open and we ran for the main staircase.

This staircase was a wide one, it took up the whole corridor space and it had a lift built over it. Yeah the lift moved up and down over the staircase and when you wanted to hop on it you have to wait till it stops in the middle of the flight of stairs, then you climb a few steps and step into the lift. But this lift didn't stop for us, it kept moving up and down.

So we decided to just climb the stairs alone, and not take the lift. We assumed there was some kind of censor thingy where the lift could sense people climbing the stairs below it, and not come crashing down on them. But everytime we got to the middle of the stairs the lift would move down suddenly and we had to back away, or we would be crushed by the lift.

I looked around for another escape route and spotted this metal staircase painted in pastel colours, but it was old and a lot of the paint was flaking off. I asked the other girls to come try this escape route, and I myself climbed to the top. It was the roof and the only way to escape was to jump down. Which wasn't so bad, because it was a low building. Yeah at first we were in a large house, then when we climbed the metal staircase it suddenly became a low building. Hahaha it's odd but dreams are like that ;D

Anyway, there was a police officer there to help us escape. I was so relieved that help had come and there were people going to arrest the villain. The police officer helped me off the roof, but because he was sitting on the roof and had to remain there to help the other girls, he flung me to this pipe and asked me to slide down the pipe LOL, like sliding down a fireman's pole. It worked though, and I was on the ground, outside the building seconds later. I waited till all the girls were helped off the roof, and then I saw this viking ship, the kind they had in amusement parks. The villain had fiddled with the mechanics of the viking ship such that on the last swing, the entire viking ship was flung off into the distance. So I saw the viking ship fling off into the distance, but didn't know if there were people in it.

Anyway, everyone was safe. The girls who were kidnapped by the villain escaped as well. So it was my turn to leave the place. I looked around and everyone was gone, except for myself and like another group of people. There was a feeling of deja vu, as if I seen this exact same scene before. This golden Thai painting who had come to life and was walking around, walked back to its canvas and melted into the background (this was like one of the episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place). Following that we were looking at this small stack of golden bricks (the feeling of deja vu came back again) and I thought some of them were made of real gold which I could bring home. But I didn't know which ones were real gold and I didn't want to waste any more time in that creepy place, cos I kept thinking the villain would come back to life even if the police shot him (like Voldemort in Harry Potter), or escape even if the police arrested him (I didn't know whether the police had managed to get hold of the villain or not, but didn't want to stick around to find out). So I asked the rest of the group who was with me if we could leave.

Yeah and then we left, and we were like the Pevensie children in Narnia. We walked through a wooden wardrobe. I remember asking Susan Pevensie (in my dream she was played by Anna Popplewell, just like in the Narnia movies) if the guy in front of us was her brother, because I had never seen the guy before and I thought he was a bad guy in cahoots with the villain. As you can see I was getting paranoid about the whole saga happening again, cos it was freaking scary. Luckily Susan nodded her head, and we walked through the White Witch's palace cos it was connected to the wardrobe (which doesn't happen in the Narnia movies when they walk through the wardrobe, haha) and into this hotel lobby. So it's like, the wardrobe and the White Witch's palace formed this long wide tunnel which eventually led into a hotel lobby. LOL. And then my maid came into my room and woke me up.

Perfect timing right! Hahaha.

Sigh I wish the mistake in the coding of my blog's template could be fixed, so I can finally get my archives back again. Guess I'll have to wait till I find another nicer blogskin!

2010-06-12T18:56:00.005+08:00

Everyone's blogs are getting prettier and prettier with pictures!

I know I should probably brighten up this blog with some pretty artsy-looking colourful pictures that weren't taken by me instead of cramming words here all the time, but I'm just too lazy to search for pictures on the Internet. :D

Besides, those pictures are often either emo, pensive or inspiring. When I'm feeling down I tend to type words, not post pictures. And well I suppose pensive or inspiring pictures would compliment how I'm feeling sometimes when I'm blogging but as I've said, I'm too lazy so too bad!

Might consider being less lazy in the future though.

Anyway, the purpose of this post was that I just realised how lame my dad is. But it's in the good way cos he can make me laugh! Yeah I laugh at lame jokes, if they're lame enough.

Like today: My dad was taking a drink from the fridge, this carton of green liquid I've never seen before. And when I asked what it was, he simply replied "it's not good for children".

So I went: 酒 ah?
And he replied: No，十。

And then I burst out laughing like a maniac. It seems a lot less funnier now though! Wonder why O:

I have a feeling I may have inherited my dad's lameness, just that it's not shown itself yet. I mean cos in one of my latest weird dreams I made a lame joke! Yeah. I made a lame joke while I was sleeping. Weird though, cos I'm seldom lame in real life! At least I think so.

The dream was that the entire IP2 cohort went on some school trip to this foreign place. The first place we went to was a beach, it kinda reminded me of Bintan and I remember all the luggage I had was this thin long shoulder bag the size of a surfboard, with a surfboard in it! I remember trying to squeeze it in and feeling pleased with myself when the surfboard fit perfectly into the bag, LOL.

And then we took a bus from the beach to a bus terminal, where we got off and we walked through a high-class shopping centre to a chinese restaurant. And we walked through the chinese restaurant too, out the other side onto this street that was lined with stalls that strangely reminded me of Japan.

The odd thing was that as we walked through the chinese restaurant, colourful Tshirts suddenly appeared on all of us, but for most of us it was the house shirt. For people not wearing the house shirts, they were wearing plain shirts in the colour of their houses AHAHAH yes I know so weird!

So when walking on the streets I was wearing my Draco shirt, then suddenly someone behind tapped me on the shoulder and I turned around. Don't know who the person was but he/she was wearing a long-sleeved red nike shirt and said "yay! red!"

I was like "-_- What's so nice about red?" and the person replied "Don't know... Red shirts! HAHAHA."

You know, red shirts as in those people protesting in Thailand. I think I was spending more time thinking about my SIP than I realised LOL cos that was one of the ideas Marie, Sam and I considered! hahaha. Yep and my dream ended there.

In another weird dream I had this year, I was dreaming about lions and cheetahs roaming the school. But the school was some weird abandoned building right where Cedar should have been. And I was walking through the school too. I remember walking beside a lion, afraid that it would eat me. But after I walked past it, I heard a shot and the lion dying. I saw the lion gasping for breath and it was so sad cos I couldn't do anything about it.

And after that I saw a few cheetahs walking around, and a giraffe just like the one in Body Worlds hanging off a railing like one of those giant posters hanging off railings in shopping malls. Then I left the building and took a bus home from the bus stop where I usually take buses home when I was still in Cedar.

The weirdest thing was that I woke up in the middle of the night after that, and found my mother awake too. And she said she just dreamt of cats and leopards! I can't find another word to describe this other than weird.

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Better finish up my holiday homework + projects before I leave for my trip! (:
11 more days to LONDON! Yippee ;D

P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LORRAINE! THANKS FOR BEING SUCH AN AWESOME LEADER AND CHOREOGRAPHER FOR IP ITEM AND FOR ALL THE EFFORTS YOU PUT INTO IT! <3

Ooh I just realised that Louisa and Lorraine are both in Malaysia.

2010-06-09T21:37:00.000+08:00

It's hard trying to accept the fact that the world is never fair and that I should just give my best in everything I do because that's the only way I'll ever have a chance to get what I want; even though many a time I feel like just lazing about and not doing anything at all, because hey, it's the holidays after all. But then I remember that I am not as smart as I'd hope to be, and therefore I have to put a considerable amount of effort into my studies during the holidays just to hopefully get a couple of marks lower than people who are such fast learners that just half the effort I put in will be able to secure them good results.

[Note to self: This isn't secondary school anymore, my brain's degenerating, I am not as smart as I think I am. Gosh I better be more humble or my studies will seriously go down the drain.]

....

It's harder trying to improve on a flaw that just won't seem to budge, and will continue haunting you with sudden slips of the mouth.

It's even harder seeing everyone else as one big happy family while you're on the outside looking in.

It's hardest trying to come to terms with the fact that some things don't come as naturally to you as they do to other people, and never will, unless your personality is changed. Which is a pretty hard thing to do.

2010-06-05T14:45:00.002+08:00

My smile-generator just made me cry,

but I still can't help smiling everytime I see it.

It functions perfectly, even with all those faulty parts here and there.

2010-05-31T11:42:00.006+08:00

TO HELL WITH HBL! :D

YAYYYY it's finally over! No more homework due till after the June holidays WHOO-HOO!! ~

Gonna get my flu jab tmr with Louisa!

My posts are getting shorter and shorter. Hmm.

Anyway went to ABC school yesterday with Lorraine and Tessa to watch their dance concert! And their chinese dance is really good, like everyone's so super flexible and their lines are so clean...

There were a few dancers doing hiphop which I thought were good, cos they were really hitting the snares. But the rest of them were kinda not hard-hitting enough.

And they just kept alternating between bboying/modern/hip-hop and chinese dance, so it was getting kinda boring after a while. Like I know you guys can split and do all sorts of contortionist stunts, and some of the hiphoppers were pretty good too, but still! If you keep repeating the same things over and over it gets tiring to watch it after a while, doesn't it?

-Cue SYTYCD judge Nigel Lythgoe's comment on Victor's solo when he was in the bottom 3 during the Top 14 round (yes I know that round was a long time ago, but I only watched it today!) :

"You have to be careful not to put pirouette after pirouette after pirouette... We KNOW you can pirouette, Victor." -

Then again ABC dance is split into different sections doing only those genres, so I guess that's why they only did those few genres for the concert (correct me if I'm wrong, but that was the impression I got from the CCA photos in the concert programme booklet).
Hehe refer to Lorraine's blog for more details.

The school's so freaking ginormous that I walked round and round trying to find my way to the place where my mum dropped me off, cos that was where she was gonna pick me up. I confused 2 different staircases and yeah ended up lost but I used the auditorium as my reference point (as what Esther said haha!) and found my way out!:D

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It's so nice to relax on the sofa with my laptop and type this leisurely and at my own pace ;D

I just finished watching an episode of Glee and an episode of SYTYCD from long ago which I recorded but hadn't had the time to watch!

Can't wait to go to London! ;D Oh my group still needs to think of a group name that starts with L...

2010-05-25T12:56:00.003+08:00

Can 29 days pass by sooner! Pretty please :D

HBL sucks, I now have homework to occupy me for the rest of the week and I only have time to go shopping with my mum on Sunday!
Whee that's gonna be my motivation man :D

I'm going to organize my iTunes now....

2010-05-24T00:52:00.001+08:00

Pippi Longstocking! :D

2010-05-20T16:51:00.002+08:00

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'M BORED.
For real.

I haven't been bored for like a whole 2 and a half months! this is awesome :D

I need something to crack me up.

2010-05-11T21:24:00.003+08:00

My period must be coming.

I don't know whether I should flare up at such a matter or not.
Is it logical for me to flare up at it or is it too trivial?

I really don't know.
I am this close to breaking down.

Great, the tears are coming and I don't even know what I'm upset about.

2010-05-11T20:50:00.004+08:00

I am SICK of wondering why I get treated differently.

A part of me wishes I were still at Cedar.

Right now, school sucks.

London please come soon! D:

2010-05-09T23:32:00.007+08:00

Photos from Estrellas! :D

Gah, the fake eyelashes gave me double eyelids that made me look like I went for plastic surgery gone wrong D:

IP dancers! (L) in our costumes for opening item

Jennifer!

All the VJ dancers doing Sorry Sorry, our closing item, taught by Yutaki! :D

Mrs Yong!

Weeqin, Cassandra and Timo! :D

Annia!

Tessa!

Tessa and Dione!

IP dancers in our costumes for closing item! The yellow Live 4 Dance shirt was ordered from Yutaki hahaha so cool right! XD

Natalie! :D

Jen, Nat and Gwen! hahaha Gwen suddenly becomes so camera-shy after putting on makeup. But hey, we still caught her on camera! :P

As you can see, I wasn't being much of a camwhorer during the concert xP

2010-05-09T13:42:00.005+08:00

I really really am not in the mood for doing work now! D:

Still suffering from Estrellas withdrawal syndrome ):

I miss the full runs and the nerves backstage, the spotlights and the megawatt smiles we flashed at the audience!

Thank you to those who came :D

Yesterday when we were waiting in the wings to do the final dance (Sorry Sorry! XD) and watching the slideshow of Italy photos playing on the white backdrop, I realised it was the final dance the VJC Dance Ensemble of 2009-2010 was going to do together, and the final dance we'll be doing with the J2s...
I'll really having the J2s around once they leave the club. It's gonna be so weird without Shanice briefing us with the smile she always has on her face (the smile is always there even when she's lecturing us!), Nicolette and Kim telling us not to give up on our leg-lifts or crunches during conditioning, Kim's constant nagging....

Sigh. I'll post more later, once I've got all the photos from Facebook! :D
Now I've got to start doing the writeup for Maths project poster, do research for CI (omg CI is a complete waste of time D:<) and shorten my IH presentation script.

Just purely for my own amusement, I'm going to make a list of all the extra-curricular stuff I've been involved in since the start of the year so that I can feel glad about all that I've achieved! ^^

Rapunzel (for Sketch Night Live)
Rapunzel (new and improved, a pre-Drama Night show)
Rapunzel (for the talk Mr Boy gives every year at MP Library to attract potential students to the VIP)
VIP Open House Biology presentation
Estrellas!

OMG, it's so little. It's starting to make me feel depressed instead of happy whooops.
Ah anyway there's always a first time for everything! I've really enjoyed my first stage play :D
I've just realised that because of dancing, I've performed in most of the more well-known performance theatres!
Victoria Theatre, Esplanade Theatre (why always not concert hall one ah D:<), UCC....

I want to perform some more! :D I love it when I go onstage and have the audience's attention on me (well not on me, but on all the performers onstage- Which includes me!)...
Oh well. There will be more performances to anticipate this year, I think!
And there's still the Overseas IndiEventure trip to London this June to look forward to! :D

As for academics... I will try my best to get back in the mood.
But I'm sure I'll be able to do it- I can work hard both in academics and in the performing arts!
Why? Because....
I'M A VJ DANCER! AND VJ DANCERS ARE AWESOME <3

.... Okay that was really cliche but you get the idea :D

VJ DANCE FTW! <3

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Oh oh oh I forgot to mention this!
JIVE WENT SMOOTHLY.
Hurray! ;D
Things really work out when you worry about them the most, haha(:

2010-05-02T01:04:00.006+08:00

Going to sleep soon!

Hahaha I was starting to get high after listening to the Chipmunk version of Adam Lambert's If I Had You (which is going to be the song used for ESTRELLAS' opening item! :D) and I went to search for the lyrics online and its so fun singing to it the tune is super catchy!
I'm really worried for dance concert, I'm afraid that IP item will be messy and I won't be able to do some steps because I don't have enough time, I'm worried about the same thing for Jive and that the stunts won't go well and that everything will be extremely weird because of the whole partner touchy-feely thing while I'm wearing a super short dress. Ewwww.... -shudders-
And for Minli's jazz item, I'm worried for the last part because I always don't have enough space but there isn't enough space for the people in front of me either! D:

But seriously, I'm most worried about Jive :X

After this concert all the madness will be over, I will be able to go home before the sun sets, complete the pile of accumulated tuition homework that has been left untouched for several weeks, ever since the craziness of school projects and assignments dawned upon us.
Closely following that bout of craziness came the restaging of Rapunzel as a pre-Drama Nite show and again at MP library (to "attract" more potential IP students), intensive dance rehearsals and practising for Open House's bio presentation (fell sick right after Open House cos the crowd who came was just overwhelming and all of us presented more than five times non-stop), and now, just the last week of dance rehearsals left.

OH AND I FINALLY GOT MY CONTACT LENSES. Hahaha practised putting them on and removing them at the optical shop today! The store person who helped me was so nice and patient ^^
I'm gonna have to get used to wearing them so that I'll be able to wear them for both nights of the dance concert!

IT'S BEEN A CRAZY TERM 2. Been missing out on a lot of fun stuff, such as going with the class girls to eat shaved icecream (I couldn't eat cos I was sick), shopping at Haji Lane, going for other class outings.... All because of dance rehearsals and if I'm not wrong, Rapunzel rehearsals as well.

And it's been kind of an emotional roller coaster too. Hate it when that happens, which is quite often, sadly ._.

OH WELL.

Tough times never last, but tough people do! :D
Remember this people (:

JIAYOU DANCERS! WE CAN DO IT!!!!! ~~Although I'm still kinda worried =/~~

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Okay, I know I'm kinda lag, but-
ADAM LAMBERT'S SONGS ARE AWESOME! :D
In fact after listening to some of his songs on YouTube I'm tempted to buy his album but I'm kinda turned off by the album cover... Yeah. :X

It's so weird, I've been dancing to If I Had You countless times but the song didn't seem that fantastic then.
But just pure watching and listening to it on YouTube made it awesome! And got me clicking on other Adam Lambert songs...

2010-04-25T12:00:00.003+08:00

Man, this ALWAYS has to happen. Like !#)(&#^)&(%& zomg UNFAIR.

Its like someone up there deliberately arranges for these things to happen! I seriously can sense a pattern already. Booo ):

Hahaha don't read too much into this people, it's nothing serious. :D

2010-04-18T16:15:00.000+08:00

It is probably really unwise of me to be spending even this teensy fraction of my time to blog.

Time is a scarce resource, and here I am not making a sound decision on how to spend my time.

Then again, I am printing out Econs slides at the same time, so maybe it isn't such a bad decision after all.

The school is driving all of us crazaayyyyeee again!

2010-04-07T23:54:00.001+08:00

DUUUDE.

Omg why is everything going wrong at the same time ARGGHHHH.

2010-03-28T19:11:00.003+08:00

After a whole week of not sleeping earlier than midnight,

I WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO SLEEP BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT!

Gosh, the amount of hardwork we put into the IH proposal better pay off. Our entire group went through so much these few days, it's really draining emotionally.

I guess when we are put under stressful situations, the best side of us don't show themselves much.
Then again, although everyone's equally stressed out and (nearly) lost our cool, we handled it the mature way and I guess I can say that I've learnt a lot about myself during this period of time.
Not very nice things actually. I mean I've discovered what a slow brain I have. (To all you people nodding away and smiling evilly to yourselves because I've "finally" realised how slow I am, GO AWAY.)

It's called Conscious Incompetence okay! In that four-quadrant thing Ms Farah told us about during civics before! It's better than Unconscious Incompetence. Now I just have to work hard at it to turn it into a Competence!

These next few weeks are gonna be CRAZZZZZZZAAAYYYYEEEEE. Lots of dance concert rehearsals, Rapunzel rehearsals, ballet exam, Open House presentation practices, tuition! .__.

Goodbye life ):

2010-03-28T10:01:00.001+08:00

OMG.

Now that dance concert rehearsals are almost everyday, I have no idea what day to have chem tuition.
And it's not like I can decide what day to have it, the teacher has to ask the rest of the class for the days they can make it.
But now the thing is dance rehearsal days are not fixed, they're probably gonna change every week..
And I'll only have one possible free day.
If the rest of the class can't make it on that day, I'll have to change chem tuition.

Omg this is bad I don't even have time to catch up on schoolwork.
._.

2010-03-20T00:08:00.004+08:00

I love watching Glee and So You Think You Can Dance :D

I've been watching recorded episodes of both shows (the ones that I've missed the past few weeks) all week!
So shiok :D
Oh, and I've been eating a lot all week too.
A LOT.
The chiffon skirt I use in ballet tightened in just one week!
And there's Andy's tomorrow.
Argh.
Missed so many weeks of conditioning (because of valid reason okay, I'm not a ponner mind you) and have only been dancing during ballet lessons twice a week.
Which are really short and not intensive so it's not much at all.
Anyway, I think I'm going to be busy with Rapunzel these couple of weeks cos we're preparing for our ENCORE PERFORMANCE that's gonna be held right before Drama Night! Why can't they just call it a part of Drama Night itself, it's still the same night what!
Speaking of which, I'm going to promote Rapunzel again! Heh don't mind me x)

It's a mere $12 to watch Rapunzel + Drama Night! Meaning with just $12, you can watch 3 different items! Rapunzel, the Drama SYF 2010 item and Cinderella the Musical! 4 different items if you count the classic and parody of Rapunzel as two separate items :) :) :)
9th April, from 7pm! :D

Now that I've finished watching all my recorded episodes of Glee and SYTYCD, I find it so hard to wait an entire week for the next episode of either show =/
Watching the Glee cast members sing and the contestants of So You Think You Can Dance- well, dance- gives me the chills!
Like I'm thrown into this state of awe and amazement and all the hair on my arms are just standing up because they're so good!
My 2 all-time favourite routines from SYTYCD would have to be Katee and Joshua's No Air and All For the Best! :D

ENJOY:

1) Hiphop routine choreographed by Tabitha and Napoleon- No Air (Jordin Sparks)

2) Broadway routine choreographed by Tyce- All For the Best (Godspell)

Aren't Katee and Joshua just amazing? :D
They were contestants from Season 4, and Joshua won that season!
Okay I just remembered I've gotta wake up early tmr darn.

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Oh man I just realised the width of the blogging space is too small! The videos are partly cut off :(
Anyone knows how to make the width bigger?!

2010-03-18T16:49:00.001+08:00

I've always been there for you.

But are you ever there for me when I want to talk?

I know, it's hard for you to relate to my situation.

But still, the least you could do is pay attention to what I'm saying.

Gosh.

2010-03-18T00:24:00.002+08:00

There's a fire inside of you that can't help but shine through
But she's never going to see the light
No matter what you do.

Like shadows in the faded light
We're invisible.

2010-03-16T21:11:00.001+08:00

I seem to have lost the motivation to do anything.

I was supposed to start filing all my papers (yes, I've been procrastinating for over a year now, I honestly don't know how I managed to study for the previous tests and EOYs last year) but I haven't;

I was supposed to clear my study table (aka the dining table) and the junk in my cupboard so that all the stuff on the study table can go INTO the cupboard, but I haven't;

I was supposed to do the Physics commonsense test tonight but I haven't;

I told myself I'd practise splitting for half an hour everyday, but I haven't.

Sheesh.

WHEN WILL I EVER GET MY MOTIVATION BACK!?

This is bad D:

2010-03-14T22:36:00.003+08:00

Oh crap.

The ballet examiner's from Shanghai.
CHINA.
Well she's actually from Malaysia but then she went to Shanghai to teach and she's now living there, so yes, she's from China.
Which means she's gonna be really strict, seeing how Chinese dancers are probably some of the best in the world.
Like possibly stricter than the English examiners. Or the Hong Kong ones.

Anyway Ms Ho already said she's more focused on technique.
And now that I've learnt that grinning like a maniac throughout the entire exam would not earn me a high mark in the Performance section (unlike how it did when I was in Grade 1, which pretty much influenced me to do the same thing at every exam ever since) I've been trying to work on my facial expressions.

I need to get my leg up.

I suck at Character. My high-heeled shoes always seem to be a bit too loose, and the humongous, thick character skirt keeps getting in the way.
I swear, it's easier to do character without the shoes and the skirt!
Oh but it's so cool that we get to dance barefooted for the Free Movement section! Haha I like Exercise in Stillness and Gravity, it's so cool! :D

Btw, is it true that all pirouettes from Grade 8 onwards will be double? D:
Because if it is then I'm so screwed.
I can't even do like single turns perfectly!
I need like a really slippery wooden floor in the house so I can work on my splits.

I'm such a failure man. I'm like in Grade 7 and I still can't split nor do single pirouettes perfectly.
):

EXAM'S COMING.

Oh darn examiner please do not penalize me for not turning perfectly or kicking/developpe-ing my legs too low :X

And I have been working on my splits, just not that.... often.
:X
I've more than once pushed on my centre split against the wall while using the laptop on the floor!
Stayed there for like 20 minutes man.
Next time I shall stay there for half an hour :D

Oh this is depressing.

2010-03-14T22:31:00.001+08:00

HAHAHAHA my mum just called Transformers Transponders.

2010-03-11T18:31:00.003+08:00

CONGRATULATIONS VJ DANCERS! :D :D :D

OMG you guys really showed the world what VJ dancers are made of! :D
1st in Contemp, 2nd in Hip-hop, 1st in Hiphop Solo and

OVERALL BEST DANCE SCHOOL in Lecco Danza International Dance Competition!

AWESOME JOB DANCERS! :D :D :D

And I would like to take this opportunity to also announce that:

RTS ARE OVER(:

2010-02-28T12:39:00.003+08:00

I shall take a small breather from all the craziness to blog.

About the craziness....

Yeah okay I'm really going crazy.

2 projects due tmr, last-minute chionging, plus some homework that I'm not intending to do, simply because there isn't enough time, and studying for Review Tests.
I suppose my chem group only has ourselves to blame cos we were slacking when the other groups were chionging in the beginning, but oh well!
What's done cannot be undone.
Just have to suck it up and PRESS ON!
I'm proud of our chem group(:
No chem pros, no idea what the topic is about, but we still managed to get so many things done.
Okay well now I have a LOT of things to do so I shall just stop here.
Will post after RTs, when all the craziness is over.

FULL-SPEED AHEAD!

2010-02-21T23:18:00.002+08:00

I know I really should be sleeping now, but I've got to blog about this.

I'VE FINALLY COMPLETED AQ!!!

Take that, LA.

Ha.

2010-02-20T23:24:00.002+08:00

SNL (Sketch Night Live, not Saturday Night Live) WAS A SUCCESS!

Hahaha so many people said the IP items were the best!
Yay I'm so proud of IP :D
The IP kids really showed the rest of the school that we're not to be fooled around with!
(Take that, people who were dissing IP/drama in the toilet -smug look-)

Everyone really improved over the few weeks of rehearsal and omg, when our classic version of Rapunzel was onstage everyone already started laughing! So you can imagine how the audience reacted when the parody came onstage :D
The ghetto scene was cool everyone cheered the black mum and sistas on, everyone laughed after every single phrase (like seriously, every single PHRASE) the Old Sage said, and no-one forgot their lines!
And the audience actually laughed at the prepaid hotline bit hahaha!
It was so much fun working on Rapunzel, it gave me something to look forward to every week, and I laughed more than I ever did this year :D
I laughed like crazy before the first show on Thursday when Yan, Caleb, Jane and I were playing Heart Attack and the damn funny "continue the story game".
"Once" "There" "Was" "A" "Pond"
-silence-
Yan: "Star!"

HAHAHAHA and "Everyone" "Hello!"

I managed to fake-laugh pretty well on the Thursday show because of that, and on Friday I think I was all laughed out so when I was practising my fake-laugh before the show on Friday I couldn't do it.
So I was worrying that my laugh would come out sounding really lame, and in the end everyone was laughing at Aishah's "Muh muh muh muh" at the same time I was fake-laughing so I couldn't be heard! And by the time they finished laughing I was onto my next line.
Hahahah I was so relieved man!

Kudos to Rishvinder and Yunita for writing such an awesome script and directing the sketch! Thanks for being so patient with us and never making us feel stressed, but instead always bringing laughter to us with your antics!
And amist all that laughter, we still managed to succeed! So this whole process wasn't the typical "get stressed and work hard and in the end we succeed so all the stress paid off" kinda process.
The process was enjoyable as well, and that's really something that doesn't happen very often!
Oh, and thanks for being lenient with me whenever I have to leave early for tuition too! Haha :D

I shall wait till all the SNL photos are up on Facebook before posting them! (Then again, since all our photos were taken by people from Photo Soc, I don't think they'd upload them onto FB... Wait then how're we supposed to see our pictures!?)

Hahaha till now, when it's already more than one day after SNL we are STILL zi-highing on Facebook and commenting like a bajillion times on everyone's wall posts.
IT'S FUN :D

I LOVE SNL RAPUNZEL! <3

2010-02-16T21:59:00.000+08:00

I really don't want to lose my appetite again.

And besides, I'm eating grapes now.

GRAPES!

So there. :D

2010-02-14T01:26:00.003+08:00

Giving it away like its extra change
Hoping it'll end up in his pocket;

But he leaves you out like a penny in the rain
'Cause it's not his price to pay.

2010-02-13T00:07:00.006+08:00

HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY SAMMEH!! (since I am part of the Eh-Ehs I am entitled to call you by that name. Wanted to include Samzies but I'm not part of the Cutezies so only Marie's allowed to call you that XD)

Anyway this post is dedicated to the one and only SAM CHEW!
Yes you, the Sam Chew who was in Latin Jazz & Theatre Dance with me last year, Introduction to Molecular Biology Techniques this year and who's always there to accompany me early in the morning before assembly!

(OMG I typed a whole long paragraph here and Blogger screwed it up and now its gone. D: Never mind I'll re-type as much as I can remember! Apparently I can't put the less than three sign cos it'll screw up the codes ._.)

So sorry for not giving you a birthday note okay! You'll get a proper birthday letter next week! I promise to write longlong kay, but first I need to go find nice paper to write on LOL.
Thanks for always brightening up the class! And for being so cheerful about everything and taking everything in your stride... You make life seem so easy, but the truth is you've got it harder than the rest of us. I really look up to you Sam! (uh figuratively. LOL I didn't realize it was a pun until I typed it out XD)
I really have to learn from you LOL.
I seriously think that 09v12 will be a really sian class without you! You're like the sunshine of the class hahaha I can see your head getting bigger and bigger till you become just like the pink "piaopiao" stuffed toy the class gave you :D
Thanks for always being there for me, accompanying me to places (but mostly the toilet), dancing to SNSD songs with me and Joey and Marie and for always brightening up my day! You never fail to put a smile on my face Sam(:
Now doesn't that just make you wanna go "awww!" HAHAHA.

Anyway today was a really awesome day to celebrate Sam's birthday! We had CNY celebrations in school so we only had 2 periods of Maths and the rest of the day was free for us to slack! And Sam could come with us to Kallang Leisure Park for a ~~class~~ GROUP outing! Hahahaha yay :D
Met 4 our our juniors there haha and we watched Valentine's Day!
The show was really quite nice lor haha. I teared up at the part where Julia Roberts (omg I thought she was the old woman with the blond hair that looked like HLS) visited her son after 11 months hahaha.
And Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Garner's characters were so sweet together awww!
Taylor Swift was like... Her nerdy character in the You Belong With Me video. :D
I'm gonna listen to Today Was a Fairytale and search for the lyrics man!~

And now I will kope pics from Facebook in honour of SAMMEH!
Get ready for a massive Sam Spam people. Aiya actually you guys can see all these pics on Facebook I'm just uploading pics specially for Sam and to brighten up my otherwise wordy blog LOL.

At the bowling alley after our class picnic last Friday! :D

Today!

Sam with the huge pink stuffed toy from the class! (L)

HAHAHAHA this pic is so cute! xD I just realised that the stuffed toys Brandon and Sam are holding totally suit them! Like Brandon's holding the giraffe cos he's the super tall guy, Sam's holding Little Miss Sunshine because she brightens up the class! =)

At Kallang Leisure Park! Camwhoring while the rest of the class was stoning and deliberating on whether to watch a movie or go bowling, which is what we pretty much do on all class outings ._. (stoning and deliberating, I mean. Like what Marie said, the line we use most often during class outings is "So now how?" ;D)

And now, one final photo before I go.
People of the world, I present you Sammeh Chew.
The girl who wears diapers on her head.
KIDDING! You know I love you Sam :D
Quote: "Hehheh! -waggles eyebrows-"

09V12 LOVES YOU SAMMIE!! (sian I can't put the less than 3 sign! D:) okay this shall do.
(L) *hug!*

2010-02-09T20:45:00.001+08:00

This is to the school:

You make me crazier, crazier!

2010-02-06T23:30:00.002+08:00

Class picnic was... Indescribable. (Is that how you spell it?)
I played ice and water for the first time since... Primary 3?
And did that oyapayasom-balaya-rotiprata-charkwayteow thingy for the first time since eons ago!
Ooh ooh and open numbers as well.
Can you believe it, we're like in JC and we're going "open num-BERS!"

HAHAHA didnt bother to run much during ice and water since there were 3 catchers and they all could run fast -_-
And we did retrospecting too -_-
Ms Farah was like "it's time to take a break... And you can do that by taking out your retrospects!"
I've never done so much reflecting at East Coast Park as I've done in VIP.
Going to the beach, finding some isolated corner to read short stories and then reflect on them during the post-exam period last year... Seriously it was really funny, old people doing taichi (it's the climb!) and then suddenly you see a whole group of students in beige uniform arriving at the beach and then splitting up to each emo in a corner of their own.
All the passers-by were O_Oing at us lah.
And now we're retrospecting by the lake! Gosh =_=
Funny.

Oh then after that we went bowling! Hahaha my bowling skills have improved even though I didnt get a single strike or spare! I managed to roll a great deal of balls straight down the middle of the bowling lane.
And I only longkang-ed TWICE!
Like what the shit right super pro! LOL.
Sam was funneh :D
I didn't see what happened but she was trying to get her bowling ball back after she dropped it on the lane, but it kept rolling forward so she walked onto the lane to get it.
Then everyone else was like "SAMMIE DON'T WALK WILL FALL DOWN!" but she ignored us and continued walking.
And proceeded to fall a few seconds later.
HAHAHA and the bowling alley uncle had to come and re-gloss the bowling lane floor.

Oh and I bowled when the metal barrier came down.
So the ball knocked into the metal barrier and rolled backwards.
And got stuck in the middle of the lane.
I swear, when I was getting ready to bowl the metal barrier was UP!

Haha when the ball got stuck in the middle of the lane I got reminded of 8 years ago, when I bowled for the very first time at Raffles Town Club.
The ball stopped rolling twice cos I was so little.
And the security guard had to walk to the middle of the lane and continue rolling it from there for me. Hey I wonder why he didnt fall! O:

Oh and I searched for the lyrics to Collin Raye's Love Me just now.
It's so sad! But at least they spent enough time together to be grandparents, that's real long.
The first time the message was written for the grandpa, from the grandma cos they were planning to run away and get married in the first town they came across and they arranged to meet at this tree. But the grandpa arrived first and saw this message on the tree which is the chorus of the song.

Then after that when many years passed and they became grandparents, the grandma passed away and the grandson was reading aloud this note.
So its kinda like from the grandpa to the grandma!
There's one thing I dont get though.
When they were running away, how did the grandma manage to stick the note onto the tree if the grandpa arrived there first. LOL.

2010-02-06T19:49:00.006+08:00

I've discovered a new hobby.

Singing along to SNSD's Gee and Genie with the help of Romanization! :D
Hahahaha its so cool when you manage to catch the speed (which I can't like 30% of the time) but the remaining 70% when you do catch the speed its so cool because you finally know what they're singing hahaha! and it's like you can sing Korean, OMG O_O

Oh and trying to learn the dances to those songs too.
I hope this doesnt mean I've turned into a fangirl.
Because a fangirl of girl bands just doesn't seem right o.O
The only boy band whose music I've taken a shine to was 2am, a band that doesn't dance when they sing, surprise surprise.
Their music is so soothing you can listen to it to go to sleep :D
And their voices are the real deal man a four-guy band but they sing different verses individually so it's not the usual blended voices that you hear from all the other typical boy bands.

No offence, but to me those are the bands whose members do not have strong voices (well most of them) and have to rely on super-synchronised dance routines + techno background music + effects that make the song catchy and addictive to make their music sell.
On the bus to 18 Chefs I was listening to 2AM songs on Joey's iPod and concluded that I like the band 2am and Joey was like "you don't even know how they look like -_-"
Pssshhh, if they're Korean boy bands you can pretty much guarantee even without looking at their pictures that they'll at least look pleasing to the eye.

OH MY GOODNESS.
I JUST TYPED AN ENTIRE BLOG POST ON KOREAN MUSIC.
O_O
(cue "ZOMIGOSH! -raises spectacles above eyes-")

[edit]
WTS! marie! you freaking didnt tell me that you and joey were going for suntec mass dance pfffft..

[edit]
LOL okay sorry I forgot that Joey was the one who was supposed to call me. But anyway now I know both of you called when I was sleeping so thanks for caring! It's my mum's fault lah she go say Clarissa called -_- Out of all the girls in 09v12 my mum can only remember Clar's name and she has short term memory so everytime she wants to refer to a particular girl in my class she'll just say Clarissa -_-

It was destined that I miss the Suntec mass dance and go for ballet so that I could have a chance to practise being an exam line HAHAHA.

2010-01-31T15:26:00.001+08:00

I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way;
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow,
And ne'er a word said she;
But, oh! The things I learnt from her,
When Sorrow walked with me.

- Robert Browning Hamilton

2010-01-30T20:31:00.005+08:00

HAHAHA omg nerdy pick-up lines are so funny.

Got these from the Facebook group Nerdy Pick-up Lines:

Baby you must be a modulus sign, 'cos whenever you wrap your arms round me i always feel positive!

If you were C6, and i were H12, all we would need is the air we breathe to be sweeter than sugar...

You're like an exothermic reaction, you spread your hotness everywhere!

Girl whenever I am near you, I undergo anaerobic respiration because you take my breath away...

These are so corny they're actually funny HAHAHAHA :D

2010-01-29T22:45:00.005+08:00

I'm a really fickle-minded person.

A moment ago, I was keen on taking Molecular Biology Techniques as my Sem 1 elective.
Now I'm thinking of taking Fashion.
ITS SO HARD TO COME TO A DECISION MAN!
I'm like alternating between the two every half an hour ._.
Okay now I'm thinking of MBT again.
Yeah this is basically what I've been doing for the past day.

I HAVE DECIDED.

.... To flip a coin.
*searches for coin*
I think the coin's heavy on one side.

And now coin-tossing has no effect on me.

GREAT.

It is now about one hour later and I have come to a decision.

Although I'm starting to regret not putting BBQ as my first choice :/

[edit]

i'm not sure if it's allowed, but I rebidded HAHAHA.
MAN I am really fickleminded.

Oh btw, the timing says 10.45pm cos that's when I started this post.
It is now 12am.
See how long I took to decide!

2010-01-26T22:15:00.002+08:00

... And the 401st post has to be one about stress.

Anyway, all I want to say is that I think I should find the balance between being overly enthu and being overly slack when doing projects.
Because all this while I've been alternating (sorry, I'm dead tired now, brain can't think of better vocabulary) between both extremes.
Which is really weird, if you ask me.
It's as if I'm bipolar or something O:

Okay I should be reading up on the topics we're doing the chem project on right now.
Sorry for freaking you out, Marie! =/

2010-01-23T19:42:00.003+08:00

MY 400TH POST!

Unbelievable. I've been having this blog for -counts- 4 years (this is the 5th) and I've only posted 400 posts!?
Hahaha well that actually goes to show that I have a life. -smug-

Anyway, the auditions today for SNL went okay! I got a part! Whoo!
(Okay I only have 4 lines but that's a good start for someone who's never done English stage drama before right! Clap for me people :D)

And my seating arrangement is damn funny lah, wth.
ALMOST THE SAME PEOPLE AS BC LAST YEAR, only 1 person changed =.=
But nvm Sherilynn we have the same personality hahaha we're gonna work super well together! :D
Plus all the experience of doing dunno how many thousand projects together last year ^^
(TSK don't hog her okay. She has to talk to me too! D:<)

Going to Elinda jiejie's house tmr to bake pineapple tarts ;D

And stop daoing me you doofus!

2010-01-22T18:58:00.003+08:00

Whooo 399th post!

Hahaha the number looks so cool XD

Anyway this whole day I've been feeling really weird, like I didnt know how to describe what I was feeling, but just really weird and I didn't know why!
Then I took a 1.5 hour nap and I had this really weird dream.
Like all of 09v12 was dressed up in our Bash Nite clothes, and we were goofing around and pretending to have some sort of audition for a production.
And then all the girls were wearing feather boas around their necks, and Joey started singing and I started dancing to Beyonce's Single Ladies O_O
Really weird!
Then I woke up.
And I realised why I've been feeling so weird...
My subconscious was feeling anxious about tmr's SNL auditions!
HAHAHA so cool right omg!
Something can actually slip from my unconscious to my conscious through dreams! Just like that Sigmund Freud theory :D

Hahaha talking to Lorraine and Marie now.
Very funny, I didn't talk to Marie much last year because she hardly went online!
And then I realised she's just as bored as me online.
So hahahaha we can talk! XD
Gahhh I hafta miss ballet AGAIN tonight cos I've got some dinner with my relatives and my mum doesn't allow me to go for ballet! D:

Gotta go! :D

2010-01-20T21:31:00.002+08:00

Hahaha when this first happened I felt like I was being punched in my stomach.
Really lightly.
And then it went away and I guess I'm numb to it.
But then I realised that I shouldn't be thinking of "it" in such a negative light.
And I'm really thankful for all I have, so... (:

Haha on another note I am numb to a lot of things.

2010-01-18T22:43:00.003+08:00

Oh crap.

I'm wondering if I made to wrong choice to audition for SNL.

I mean, it just suddenly occurred to me that I've not done an English skit since Primary 3, I've only done Chinese skits in CLDDS for 2 years in Cedar, and the most number of lines (Chinese ones) that I've had to memorize in a skit was 11.
Which is freaking little.
So the chances of me ever getting a part for the sketch is pretty low.
And even if (and that's a majorly huge IF I'm talking about) I get a part, I'll have to memorize waaaay more than 11 lines for the sketch and I'll have to say it in front of an audience. An actual audience.
The last time I did that was in Primary 1. The skits I did in CLDDS were in front of the CCA only, never in front of the whole school.
The skit I did in P3 was for some filming in front of a blue screen thing. Less than 10 people in the room, plus say anything wrong, just cut and film again!
Oh crap oh crap oh crap.
This is horrible. :X

2010-01-16T19:01:00.004+08:00

Haha got this from Weeqin's blog who got it from Tumblr(:
I think it really makes sense! :D