my bloggie!

2007-10-31T21:51:00.000-07:00

I was randomly blog-hopping and ended up here. I don't really think of this place as active anymore, since I hardly blog anyways, and most of thoughts go onto my LJ. But as usual, the sentimental part of me decided to take an affectionate little trip down memory lane and look around at all the old entries. Maybe for a good laugh.

On the contrary, though, I found that this place was rather moving. Maybe to me only, but that doesn't matter. It's the personal bond I share with a single page on the internet, one amongst millions, billions of others. This is me! Me during my four years of secondary school. I think that after this year I might as well stop updating bubbleballoon. It's a pleasant little relic of four years of change, growth and happiness. Preteen sillyness, twit language at certain points in time, and general immaturity that I suppose as yet continues to pervade my thoughts and writing. I'd like to leave it this way. Whenever I take the time to read my old entries I feel like some part of me has managed to hold on to a little bit of my memories, which I can hold onto and savour even when the people and places around me have changed. I hope I don't seem like some hopeless sentimental person who feeds on yesterday's dreams and doesn't do much about the present; I'm merely saying, the past is something I want to look back and be proud of or at least, happy about.

Since it's not December yet, I won't do any closure things here for now. Just in case I want to add little relevant snippets in the future. I like to know there's a way back to everything, that nothing is ever truly gone or over. It's something small that's nice to believe in.

2007-07-19T04:44:00.000-07:00

Hello from Melbourne!
It's really cold here, and really big, and really foreign, as of now. Have been having quite some trouble looking for a house/school (they have to come together. You can only get into a public school if your house is nearby. And houses near good public schools are hard to get). Oh well. And I've got the flu :(
Anyhow, I'm hoping that I can start school in Melb in Feb next year instead of obscurely popping into year 10 which I've finished anyways, and even worse somewhere in the middle of the second semester.
We bought internet for 24 hours, and there're only 32 minutes left (!!!!!) so I'll scram for now.
Ciao!

2007-07-07T07:42:00.000-07:00

New web album! Please check out when free! =)

http://picasaweb.google.com/eneri.irene

Today's 070707! =D

Got so horribly sunburnt today during Volunteer work at Earthfest. But surveying tourists with Fausty was fun. :) Spaced out now, too much sun I guess. XX

Pierced my ears yesterday~ If anyone's interested, piercing's less than half as painful as clip-ons.

2007-06-27T00:49:00.000-07:00

Moved for awhile! Check it out: http://theraintree.livejournal.com
I love the elephants^^ And the name's less.. bouncy. But I think I'll still come back here, after I work on, you know, updating links and stuff =) I've had this little page for so long that I've become pretty attached to it!

2007-03-04T06:58:00.000-08:00

I say, that hootenanny over there needs a name! Let's call it a.. teetotem! Or something.
Some random (rather interesting to me at least) stuff:

1. When you don't sleep well it's more likely that you're a hyposomniac than an insomniac because you probably do manage to doze off for a few seconds (or enter a state of semi-consciousness or something) during the long hours of the night. It's fun saying you're a hyposomniac, because it sounds so.. obscure! =D
2. What better hobby is there to have than omphaloskepsis? Let's all contemplate our navels together! This is, though, a rather vertiginous and also demanding activity so please take care not to carry it out extemporaneously especially when lying supine..
3. And the most important subject for study you could ever think of: balneology! Human society can't progress or even survive without the science of the therapeutic use of baths..!! Can you imagine the horror, chaos and/or tohubohu?

A fulsome jumble of arsy-varsy razzmatazz? Random words are fun. Don't pooh-pooh them, or I'll call you a pooh-bah. Or a boob (that word is just so sophisticated).

Suffering from remote katzenjammer. Feelings in pell-mell, can't grok myself. Maybe this is chagrin. Ah, I'm maundering, aren't I. But no matter how incoherent I get I swear I'm not a misologist. =P

What am I trying to keep my mind off?
一日中待ってたけど。I won't pretend I don't care.

2007-03-04T03:06:00.001-08:00

Haha! My mum just bought me the cutest socks.. they've got a stave with music notes on them ( i haven't found the clef/key etc yet). I showed the pair to my dad, and the first thing he said was- 'can you play that'? Imagine propping your sock/ socks on a music stand and sightreading it/them! Funny. Going to wear them tomorrow =D
So much homework.. Everyone else went out shopping and stuff, while I've been trying to drill my way through this mountain of stuff undone. Stress. 2 more things to do, and I'll be free for tonight!! Today i won't bother changing the time-thing for my post. Apparently, it doesn't help/ make a difference if i do. I'm still a random maniac who blogs at 2 or 3 in the morning. Ugh

2007-03-03T06:50:00.001-08:00

もし、君を失ったとしたなら
星になって
君を照らすだろう
笑顔も涙に濡れてる夜も
いつもいつでもそばにいるよ

Living is easy with eyes closed.

Hormone attack! I feel steeped in self pity and angst despite there being no obvious reason for this!! Maybe because I screwed a part of my part. A part of my very unimportant part. AHH.
And there's that math test too. JLPT kept my mind off it yesterday and thursday, but now the thought of getting that stupid math test back is starting to haunt me again.......

今年、最初の雪の華を　
ふたり寄り添って　
眺めているこの瞬間(とき)に　
幸せがあふれだす

Then and again, I notice with a certain bit of satisfaction that my Japanese has improved considerably since, like.. June last year. And even more since this time last year, when I was busing learning '私の名前はIRENE です' etc. And writing て wrongly. Well, my ふ　still looks screwed though..

I'm depressed. I think I'm going to go find a nice corner and sit blasting myself with loud rude music or something. Bye.

2007-03-01T03:36:00.001-08:00

But still they lead me back to the long winding road.
Don't leave me waiting here-

Math test today was so, so screwed. I've never screwed a test so bad before. Or at least, not in a long while. My mom's been nagging me all afternoon about not being 'focused' enough. I guess she's right. Arhh. Must. Do. Something.

It's been raining since yesterday! Really cold. And the small hall was freezing as well, so all through singers I was chattering my teeth off. Even the chair was shaking..! Rather uncomfortable. Needless to say, I had trouble even opening my mouth. But still, I enjoyed it. (Note: It as in the singing part......)

Short disjointed paragraphs. Sorry. My brain's on holiday. Well at least I hope it is. Wouldn't like for it to have permanently deserted me.. Not an exciting prospect.

Tomorrow's 203 day! To anyone who remembers, at least. Well, this time last year I remember how hyped I was about the time capsule. And to think, it's been a year already! I wonder if the time capsule will actually survive another 23 years, and if it does, I wonder how many of us will still remember it then. You know, looking back I really think those sec 1/2 days were some of the happiest school days i've had so far! Back then I was emo and stuff almost half the time, and also excessively immature for one (I'm not saying anything about myself now though) but I guess after a while you forget all those little unpleasant details and just enjoy nice reminders of 'those days'. Which is cool. Memory changes things, doesn't it? Delusion in a sense.

Oh but Sai let's play heizhimabaizhima again soon! =)

Guess that's it for now. Concert on saturday, I'm screwed. But I don't think many people are coming (thankfully). A few days ago I heard that only 6 tickets were sold..! I guess people are just more into drama and movement than they are for music. Fine with me. Will have a better audience on the 18th I guess (Anyone interested in coming? orchestra, singers, band... yada yada)

2007-02-25T02:49:00.003-08:00

日曜だ!　朝は「ブキットチマーヒル」を登った。　久しぶりに運動したから、少し疲れた。けれども、運動した後は気持ちが、本当に良かったよ!　来週は暇ならまた行きたいな。
みんなは、カフカが書いた「変身」と言う本を読んだことがあるのか?　その本は全部で５２ページしかないけど、暗示の意味（文法は多分正しくなくてごめんね!できれば正しい言い方を是非教えてください!Suggestive?って）がいっぱいあって、とても面白いと思う。だからここではその本をお勧めしまーす!
最近は、雨が良く降ってると蚊も増えていそうだ。本当に嫌いなぁ、そんな忌まわしい害虫が。でも、蚊の目からの世界はどの様なのかと時々思い巡らす。もちろん、そう思っても蚊になりたくない。
さぁ、やっと来た休みはもうすぐ終わる。それで明日はまた学校に戻らないといけない。行きたくないよ。。宿題が多くて年末試験が近くて本当に大変だ!でも仕方がない。とにかく学校の"ナーン”に楽しみにしうるので、not TOO bad （日本語でどう言えばいいのか知らない）だと思うね。
じゃ、ここまで書く。つまらないポストを打ってごめなさい!

2007-02-24T05:46:00.003-08:00

Didn't you want to hear the sound of all the places we could go..?

But maybe it's just me

FYI, Irene is not angsting. Irene is perfectly content with things today, except about the fact that school's starting again on Monday! She is not looking forward to that- more tests, and the start of revision, because exams are in 7 weeks' time!

Irene has nothing to talk about. She thinks she will now switch back to first person because third person is starting to get irritating (who is this strange person talking about Irene anyways..?!)

-supermagical transformation, and *POOF!* Irene appears-

Er, lame. Anyways, yesterday was fun! Had dinner with Fausty and The Toot. (reminds you of Pinky and The Brain no? Except The Toot has no brain. Sadly.. Or not.) We even went 'theguy spotting!' wahahaha. That was fun. Almost had dinner at coro, until Fausty mentioned once having found 'fried flies' in her food.. that totally put me off. We went to KAP instead. There were so many HCI guys!! And we'd just escaped from Poolside because that felt like the HCI canteen or something. But ah well, it was slightly better in Macs. Fausty and I taught Jiaying some Japanese! And talked and ate until 9pm!!! Gosh, that was really pretty late. I was surprised when I saw the time. And quite annoyed, too. I was having such a nice time. すごく楽しかった!

I think I'll go do some　日本語の勉強now. And Fausty, if you ever read this, all these Japanese phrases in my English posts are your fault!! Wahahaha... =Dへへ。。冗談だよ!

2007-02-17T14:27:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I've chilled a bit. I think I really was kind of bowled over this morning, though! It was a funny, completely unexpected surprise. And I've no idea what to do from now.
Um, it's CNY so happy CNY everyone! (or no one, since I doubt anyone's going to read this)I am going to have such a wonderful evening playing with 6 year olds. yay.

2007-02-07T21:50:00.000-08:00

"I still haven't found what I'm looking for" is nice to sing along to! =D

I remember the gospel version we did during Singers, it was so nice!
I have run, I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
Only to be with you (just to be with you)
But i still haven't found what I'm looking for

Can't wait for singers tomorrow, we're doing this cute Beatles Medley.
Let me take you down
Cause I'm going to
Strawberry fields
nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever

Okay, and excitingly enough I have fun even though I cant sing for nuts/seaweed/ uh... eraser dust? Whatever.
Check out this cool new word! ZEUGMA (pronounced as zoig-ma)

Geez the weeks are flying by waaaay to quickly! They just.. disappear. どこに行ったの?

2007-02-03T22:02:00.000-08:00

The Beatles: With a little help from my friends

What would you think if I sang out of tune
Would you stand up and walk out on me
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song
And I'll try not to sing out of key

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends

What do I do when my love is away
Does it worry you to be alone?
How do I feel by the end of the day
Are you sad because you're on your own

No, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends

Do you need anybody
I need somebody to love
Could it be anybody
I want somebody to love

Would you believe in a love at first sight
Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time

What do you see when you turn out the light
I can't tell you but I know it's mine

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends

Do you need anybody
I just need someone to love
Could it be anybody
I want somebody to love

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Yes I get by with a little help from my friends
With a little help from my friends

need somebody to love~

2007-01-31T20:52:00.000-08:00

So today's the last day of the first month of the year! Funny how quickly the month has gone by, I hardly noticed it. Am halfway through the week again, for the who-knows-how-many'th time and all I feel is.. bland. (Like a bromide!)
Off to do viola! and there's a performance tmr, I hope it's not too cold or I will be Very Out of Tune (noooooo......)

2007-01-31T17:05:00.000-08:00

A Golden Day

I Found you and I lost you,
All on a gleaming day.
The day was filled with sunshine,
And the land was full of May.

A golden bird was singing
Its melody divine,
I found you and I loved you,
And all the world was mine.

I found you and I lost you,
All on a golden day,
But when I dream of you, dear,
It is always brimming May.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

This was in my inbox. I like it.

Oh, and other interesting words from my email:

katzenjammer \KAT-zun-jam-er\ noun
*1 : hangover 2 : distress 3 : a discordant clamor

gadabout \GAD-uh-bout\, noun:Someone who roams about in search of amusement or social activity.

2007-01-29T20:05:00.000-08:00

It was so very windy today!
Maybe everything'll blow over with the cool wind, to a place where memories can remain safe forever- undamaged by time, or human change.
Maybe one day, I'll find that place,
And find you too.
I like to stand in the wind thinking about that.

Among other things, of course. HOMEWORK! My music composition is due first period and I am far from done. I have decided that the only way to not get myself killed is to go to school super early tomorrow and do it before 8.10. Wish me luck..!

2007-01-27T19:32:00.000-08:00

>
WARNING

Cheese is radioactive. Wear protective clothing at all times.

Amusing.
Anyways, hail the vegetarian, hail to thee!

Er.. okay that was rather relevant..!
After watching videos on this site (during Geography, too) I have absolutely no desire to ever touch beef burgers again. Check it out! www.themeatrix.com
Am STUFFED! Gorged myself on sashimi and stuff for dinner. Parents bought some sashimi and we had a nice japanese dinner at home. Ate too much, I think. But it's really cool, apart from omelette there was absolutely no oil in my dinner! What say you, eh?
And now I will go exercise and have the glycogen in my body turned to ATP and then broken down into carbon dioxide and water with hopefully minimum amounts of lactic acid! Or something like that.

2007-01-27T17:44:00.000-08:00

If this may be of any help to anyone (apart from myself, since I know this already), you can plot a sin^2 x graph on TI GDCs by entering y = (sinX)^2
Yep, just in case.

My brother's such a nose. After reading about Bill Gates being the richest man in the world in the Guinness Book of World records he has been asking endless questions related to him and people with lots of money in general- "How many cars does Bill Gates have?" "Can Bill Gates buy Singapore?" "If I was really really really rich could I buy my own island?" (I think he got that idea from reading the Boxcar children.) He's really into the idea of getting loads of money, I think. It's amazing how important money's become in the minds of most people. Incidentally, a good way to get money would be to write a get-rich-quick book and then to sell millions of copies of it. wahahaha.

I'm halfway through my weekend homework, 0% through piano viola or my english homework. Science and Math is so much more straightforward, so I like to finish that stuff first (apart from homework on respiration, which is c-o-n-f-u-s-i-n-g). So now I'm stuck with an essay plan and a comparison table for Act1Scene7 of Macbeth. Joy! Not.

Okay, so yesterday evening was really fun! Got stuck in the traffic (it's amazing how congested it was, havent seen such bad traffic since it snowed in Beijing!) and was rather late, and by the time we arrived most people were eating and very noisy. So we parked ourselves in a nice corner, set up our stands and instruments and played our pieces! It was pretty dim and noisy and all- not your ideal performance setting at all- but it was fun. I did enjoy it. And after 10 minutes of performance (and, mind you, around 1 hour of travel before that) we got to have dinner! It was a cool buffet thing. The table was set up with so many forks and knives and stuff that I was slightly overwhelmed. And we missed the starters and appetizers and stuff and went straight into a BBQ dinner! Which was good, though we missed the sushi which we heard was the best. But anyways, I ate so much that I couldnt even eat those cute cakes and stuff they had for dessert! I had this huge potato that I couldn't finish. By the time everyone else had gone and gotten cakes and tarts etc I was still struggling with my potato, but.. I finished it in the end! =D

And then the four of us went wandering through the hotel grounds- up, down the paths in the slight drizzle; the cool evening darkness was comfortable. After that we went walking around the hotel to check out the ballrooms we might use for Formal, and tried sneaking into a room which we thought was a hotel room that we could raid- i mean explore- but that turned out to be an empty function room. We also found this cool unlocked grand piano on the second floor which we wanted to play but decided against doing so because we figured we'd probably be murdered by The Management. Wahaha. And then we wandered a bit more, and got sent home! Had a really great time

Then I got home and told my parents that I wanted to stay and board but my mom said there's no chance of that. So I got pretty pooped again. Well, this morning I talked some things over with my mom and though it hasn't made me feel, like, better about things the talk has helped put some things into perspective, and I figure there's absolutely nothing I can do about certain things. So I might as well let them be. At some times this stuff feels sad and irritating and all, but at others I feel sensible and rational enough to tell myself that life's like this! And after all, these things do pass. Well, maybe.

But strangely enough, some part of me doesn't want this to pass- because that would mean that however special this feels now, it will be over some day because after all it is and has always been just another ordinary feeling. All along- something destined to be worn away by time and tide (on an unrelated note, the gravitational force from the moon!!)

Off to do piano- Dad just woke up from nap and is grumpy, irritable and trying to push me off the computer. He's really amusing. Haha!

2007-01-17T16:21:00.000-08:00

Waited for you, but you didn't come.
Ah well, guess I should get a move on.
Crap my eyes look puffy! I didn't cry, mind you. Going to bed early tonight, or so I hope. And that's after I finish the large amount of homework from monday+tues+fri which I didn't have the time to do yesterday/overtheweekend/on monday. Most grade 10 dudes are lucky they don't have to come to school on Friday. Wish I didn't have to, either.

Pooped.

2007-01-16T20:38:00.000-08:00

So my blog hasn't been lost in complete obscurity after all. Hi Fausty!! =D
Chinese exam 2 today. Wasnt too bad, since I actually finished it. And it was really, really long (2h15min)! We were the last to leave the exam hall, and had to endure the hustle-bustle (and subsequent excited screams/noise) every time another group of students left the hall. It was so COLD! My teeth were chattering when I came out of the room.

I thought that this Chinese exam would mean free period! but no no no it ate into my lunch break instead. And I had to go talk to my physics teacher about the test on Friday, so in the end I had less than 5 minutes to wolf down a little glutinous-chicken-rice thingum in an uncivilised manner. Thought I was late for Math but when I entered the room I found havoc instead. Wallet-stealing. Hm. Very.. grand. We did Math-Aerobics! That was so obscure. I don't even remember how we ended up doing that! Think someone looked bored and my math teacher said "well let's do Math-Aerobic-Simon-Says!" and we all had to get up (I admit I was quite enthusiastic!) and some dudes like Timpanoot stayed seated until my teacher threatened to lower their grades (=DDDD). And then, my teacher said something like y=2x+3 and we had to stretch our arms out in the shape of that particular graph! The sinx graph was groovy. Actually, the idea of it was, the actual graphs we did were pretty.. floppy.

For orchestra we're doing this piece that Nyse did when we had that concert with HCI, except now instead of 10+ violas/violists there's... 1. Me. Very exciting. Most people in school play the violin so they're really short of violas, and hence I have gotten roped into quartets and stuff quite a few times. I don't actually mind, playing is fun, but I feel inferior! You've got all these super-pro people and me-one-of-the-only-violists-in-school. A fantastic feeling, I tell you. But I suppose it's motivation to practise viola more, and that's something rather necessary.

My memory is letting me down! Today I went to practise on my piano teacher's grand grand piano with ivory keys (that are yellow because they're so old) and less than halfway through the Nocturne I was playing (and have played hundreds of times) my memory went -blank- and I had to run off to get the score. Obviously, my teacher was less than pleased. And i was pooped.

Right. Anyways, I've got a free period tomorrow because my Chinese exam's over (but I'll probably be trapped in the library) so I'm looking forward to that! Think I'll write a letter to my cousin. Should've done that ages ago, though. And I'll be off to practise my viola now! =)

2007-01-11T19:01:00.000-08:00

I just changed my profile! =)
Anyways, some random dude gave my dad bak kwa (however you spell that) that's neatly packaged in bite sized-pieces. I ate some just now and it's pretty good! Out of habit I inspect the packaging of whatever I'm eating, so I looked at that one too. It was in Chinese, so I could understand only half the names of the ingredients. The last few were obscure chemical names and looked quite scary. It's bad enough to see them in English and know you're consuming them, but to see them in Chinese is worse, because their obscurity is intensified by your lack-of-knowledge. Ah well. I actually found the wrapper slightly perverted. There was a happy cartoon pig in chef's costume under the words 'dried pork meat' or something like that. I always find such ideas perverted- it's as if the pig's happily going 'I just cooked my best friend! Come eat!'
Anyways, I'm off to find a new graphing device. My efofex subscription has expired, graphmatica is not usable for some reason, and my graphing calculator can't do sin^2 for some reason. It's annoying.

2007-01-11T16:34:00.000-08:00

Well yesterday I only played my piano and wasted the rest of my afternoon/evening/night away doing who-knows-what. Quite annoying. I keep wasting time that way! Stoning, I suppose. Maybe it's a phase.
I'm here wasting time again. Am supposed to be doing ITOK with Timpanoot but she's 17 minutes late (and counting!) So I am sitting here and playing 2 songs on repeat and watching the clock at my elbow ticking. Tick, tick, tick... There go the seconds, minutes, hours.... Goodbye time-just-passed.
Sorry I sound so.. (insert word here. The only word i can think of is the sound duh that Jiaying's good at making) Am half awake and have been this way for about the whole week. Especially after yesterday's Chinese exam. Now when I think of it I feel horrible. Blah.
It was raining when I on my way home from school! I decided to walk back from the terminal, so on the way I had some time to think some things over. That didn't make me feel better, nor more awake, but at least I feel I've kind of sorted something out. BUt anyways, it was raining on the 11th of January last year too. This time last year wub and I were probably trudging around Lim Chu Kang getting ourselves drenched. That still feels so recent. My socks are wet again but not with the same rain. Hm.
33 minutes late.. I think I'll go do the rest of my homework first. And hound her later =D

2007-01-10T17:06:00.000-08:00

I'm back! Bet no one missed me but oh well =)
Chinese exam today. Compo part, at least. Well it was going pretty well until I realised that even after the French/Spanish teachers'd announced that there were only 30 min left for the F/S students nothing had been said about the Chinese students. So I waited for a little while, looked around, and caught the teacher standing waaay in front saying in what sounded like a bare whisper, 'Chinese students, 5 more minutes' Geez was I annoyed. I ended up frantically rushing my compo and handed it in with a long draggy intro and the conclusion squeezed into barely 3 sentences. I feel depressed. Have got another exam next tuesday. Might I say that the exam hall is scary? It's big and has got tables arranged excessively neatly in rows and rows and rows and once the exam starts everyone's quiet and though there are so many in the room you feel almost completely alone.
I've finished my homework already. There wasn't much to do. Now all i've got to do is practise piano and viola (and that's really necessary because I am in quite a few ensembles and am highly likely to ruin all the songs because of my out-of-tune playing) and maybe do some Japanese!
I feel really old. Sixteen in, what, 4 months+? Sixteen. Sixteen. Hm.
Emotion is so fickle, but why do I find myself guided by it so often? Annoying.
Getting random. Will be off for now

you began to wonder why you came

2006-08-21T05:03:00.000-07:00

新しいブログ、あるよ！うれしいぃ～　面白いところと思う。興味があったら、いつか、是非行ってください！
じゃあ、ここまで書く。

2006-04-30T06:11:00.000-07:00

I was looking at random vids on youtube and found this and CHECK IT OUT! it's so cute :D
http://youtube.com/watch?v=y9aUn3w7fxU&search=learn%20japanese

2006-04-10T05:04:00.000-07:00

does this look familiar? i think the translation's, er, interesting
"To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom."

2006-03-26T00:40:00.000-08:00

Fact of the Day: earthquakes
Major earthquakes can set the whole Earth ringing like a giant bell. The frequencies are too low for the human ear to detect, but they can be measured by sensitive seismographs. After a Chilean earthquake in 1950, with a magnitude of 8.7 on the Richter scale and an intensity of 11 on the Mercalli scale - the Earth reverberated for a month. I think that sounds really cool.

Today is Robert Frost's birthday! It's also Tennessee Williams' aaaand Sai and Peirong's! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DUDES! お誕生日おめでとうございます！！

and i just found this really easy way of typing japanese into a com ( i used to use this ridiculously inconvenient soft-keyboard thing) and i'm happy cause i discovered it myself! :D:D

2006-03-20T00:21:00.000-08:00

will you look at that - http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/news/article?c=1775&p=/060316/222/aynia.html

2006-03-02T20:32:00.000-08:00

DUDES! i finally managed to transfer all my pics from the cam to the com! :D check this out:
(above)the sky looks pretty as a picture, doesnt it? oh WAIT, it is a picture.
will try and do nicer contrasts next time. (below left) my bro's the guy on the extreme right. check out the height gradation (below right) 203 day!! countdown to opening of time capsule: 24 years and 0 days.

2006-02-28T18:08:00.000-08:00

2/03 day is in 2 days. im really looking forward to the whole time capsule sealing thing. especially cause there's really not much else to look forward to. maybe OBS, but that'll be over soon, and even then, i have a bad feeling that (something)'s going to come soon. and after that? i shall take on the job of being a full time champion sucker. how terribly exciting.

anyways, i'm still missing 203 a lot. 306's a really nice class, but i can't help but miss the old dudes. bahh. that reminds me, can anyone remember what we did on 2/03/05?

Last day of February 2006! and after it's gone it's not coming back.

2006-02-23T01:17:00.000-08:00

SQUIRRELMAIL SUCKS.

the ivle mail system is utterly DEPLORABLE. for one thing, my inbox is full. so, fine, my fault, i'll clear it. except when i try clearing it it says that the disk quota's exceeded and so it cant delete. so i have to manually delete my emails one by one by one (160 mails) and even so not all emails can be deleted. and i cant open my inbox because of this. and i have an impt email to read!! ACK. ivle mail suck sucks sucks.
but still, it's kind of interesting clearing my inbox cos ive got a heckuva lotta mails from sec 1 that are quite fun to read, even though the language used in it is not all that fantastic. (:

today was a shitty day:( though i liked the rain! :D

2006-02-19T18:41:00.000-08:00

today i realised how horribly impatient i am. i wonder how some people can stand saying the same thing over and over and over again and receiving the same uncomprehending response. it's IRRITATING. very , very irritating. sorry for getting so pissed with you, i know it wasnt exactly your fault.

my dad went to hanoi today! he's coming back wednesday :D

2006-02-11T21:35:00.000-08:00

i just made the most fascinating, epoch- making discovery ever! (ok fine that's kind of exaggerated but still) i found one of the most wonderful books i've ever laid eyes on----- on my bookshelf! :D i know it sounds corny, but it's true. it's this book called 'talking to the sun' and it's an anthology of classic and contemporary poems and art from the metropolitan museum of art. i got it when i was 8 or so and for some reason i never got to reading it proper but i will now!! :D:D
mum made dumplings and rice wine for dinner. yum! the rice wine was a little too much on the sweet side so i couldn't drink enough to get drunk, sadly. :(

2006-02-11T13:20:00.000-08:00

HAN HATES HOMEWORK II

homework is so CRAP. this morning i tried to get started but everything i looked at was psycho and the to-do list was psycho too and i started feeling psycho as well, and really sucky too. here's what's to be done before the end of week 8:
1. physics mini project. that means research, scavenge for materials, build thingy, write report and take care it doesnt break before the deadlines (who cares about it after that :D)
2. LA analysis of centre of the universe.
3. math RAFT assignment which requires something like a LOVE POEM describing the relationship between complex and real roots. a sentimental but still extremely informative piece of poetry. something like that. and the worst part is that my concept's all fuzzy and i dunno how im going to pull it off.
4. PDD presentation.
5. Lit Assignment
6. IH/LA SIA proposal

and then 4 tests to study for and guess what's so exciting ?MATH AND CHINESE are on the same day! wow! isnt that so cool?

crapcrapcrapcrapcrap.

mind you, i still have piano and CCA to worry about! :(
bleh. i guess i'd better stop slacking now and get started.

PS last night's concert was nice. quite inspiring! mr chan is so cool :D

2006-02-05T17:51:00.000-08:00

i just finished my IH essay! what it means to be a citizen of canada. i was hoping i could do 'citizen of the world' cos i really dunno what to write about being canadian. i mean, i've spent 2/3 of my life outside canada (and the later 10 years too) so i've no particular notion of what it means. but the essay required me to be specific about whichever country i was writing about, so i had no choice. was seriously tempted to crap a line or two about 'i was born there and spent most of my life out of it so the only thing i know about what it means to be canadian is that i have a different colour passport and pay more school fees and so i cant write the essay so bye' but that wouldn't get me anywhere so i ended up looking up the constitution and crapping about all the freedom and equality thingies. and the essay got me wondering, 'where's home?' is it where i was born? where my parents come from (all that'motherland' talk) or where i've spent most of my life? i'm really not too sure. but i guess i've the most feelings attached to singapore cos i've lived here for so long and know so many wonderful people here. yup.

if you read this, could you do me a favour and check out http://the-adventures-of-irene-and-jiaying.blogspot.com/ (toot blog) and read and comment on the poem please? it would be quite appreciated. :)

i read and finished two books today! the colour purple by alice walker and dear mr henshaw by beverly cleary. the latter's quite a kiddy book and the words were big (pictures too!) so i finished it real quick. but i really liked both books! they're very honest and heartfelt.

oh man, my life's really screwing up. ack. its really quite depressing

but anyways, happy birthday to hoxy and wee! :D

2006-02-03T22:25:00.000-08:00

Infinite.

These solitary hills have always been dear to me.
Seated here, this sweet hedge,
which blocks the distant horizon opening inner silences
and interminable distances.
I plunge in thought to where my heart, frightened,
pulls back.
Like the wind which I hear
tossing the trembling plants which surround me,
a voice from the inner depths of spirit
shakes the certitudes of thought.
Eternity breaks through time,
past and present intermingle in her image.
In the inner shadows I lose myself,
drowning in the sea-
depths of timeless love.

Giacomo Leopardi

you know what i like? it's the period that comes after the word 'infinite'. it's almost ironic, isnt it? it's also nice when things like love are compared to the sea and stuff, so open and beautiful (even though a bit dangerous).

2006-02-01T16:00:00.000-08:00

thank goodness i'm finally home!
i have homework to finish!! if anyone in my lit class actually reads this, have any of you finished the 'arthur' log thing yet?
and i seriously need sleep. last night i only fell asleep at 2am and i got up at 5.45 and its seriously sucky only getting 3 hours plus of sleep. bah
zeena was sick today, get well soon, natan! it was kinda weird coming into class and not seeing her at all. hm. but then its good she didnt come cos she didnt see me during mass dance which was such an embarrassment. oh man you cant imagine how stupid i felt there. bah. well anyways i hope zeena gets back tomorrow!

happy birthday fasher/shiru!

2006-01-31T18:12:00.000-08:00

yay! i finally figured math out. you know while i was lamenting and demonstrating to my dad how the first math question was absolutely undoable, i suddenly realised that i'd made a rather silly mistake and after i corrected it everything was quite easy! :D:D yay! and i finished all the LA stuff if you call editing and then un-editing actually doing something. in the end i took all my edits out and resolved to think about it before making any more changes. now i have chem prac and chem SIA and physics worksheet and IH proposal left. hooray

2006-01-31T14:25:00.000-08:00

HAN HATES HOMEWORK

totally.
this morning i set aside all my books (which i so wanted to read) and sat down to dilligently do my homework. i looked at the list i'd made earlier- math prac, chem prac, physics ws2 (i'd abandoned my earlier attempt at it lastn night), PDD analysis, edit speech, etc. i decided to start with my math practice thingy. opened textbook. found page. looked at question, pen poised in hand ready to hurry and scribble a few answers before crossing the item off the list and ploughing through the rest of my homework. only I HAD NO IDEA WHAT THE QUESTION WAS TALKING ABOUT. ugh. so i flipped back to the beginning of the chapter, read through everything and followed the example working and kind of got it. tried the first question in a half-enlightened state, then flipped to the answer section at the back and i had no idea what the ANSWER meant. 5min,1. i dunno what that is. (if you do, please, please enlighten me!) so here i am. stressed out, and feeling stupid. i feel like throwing my worksheets out the window. especially cos i still have an IH proposal to edit, a chem SIA journal to edit, a speech to practise, a compo to think about, a lit log to fill up.. and i have less than 10 hours to do all that on top of piano, lunch and dinner. argh.

happy birthday to amandas!

2006-01-30T19:57:00.000-08:00

i found (on the net) recordings of sylvia plath reading her own poetry. had no idea her voice was like that, but anyways she reads them in this cool, rather mysterious way. i think it's interesting to listen to a poet read his/her own work cos sometimes when someone else reads it the tone and everything goes off. check it out!
MUSHROOMS:http://anon.salon.speedera.net/anon.salon/mp3s/plath1_031901.mp3 (for this one you have to sit through a short advertisment) and LADY LAZARUS: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/index.shtml (there are other poets-reading-poetry here, including ted hughes!)

I DONT WANT TO DO HOMEWORK :(

2006-01-29T17:01:00.000-08:00

well, yesterday wasnt half as bad as i'd have thought. the kids were cute, if not a tad rowdy. there were two really sweet little girls, and the one who was the daughter of the hosts quite liked me, i think, cos she loaded me up with a LOT of stuff before i left, like a notebook, pencil, necklace, jewellery box etc. she also gave me this electronic organiser which me and my dad specially drove over to return to her this morning cos it's too expensive.
anyways, kids are really very interesting. they kind of show, in such an innocent way, all the positive and negative feelings they have, feelings that adults always try so hard to hide.
i went to borders too! bought the restored edition of Ariel. i've been wanting to buy it for ages now but the hardcover costs around $44 so when i saw the softcover at $27.95 (still not very cheap but slightly better) i was elated and bought it. :D
bahh. rachel told me that brokeback mountain's been rated r21. oh well, it's not like i didnt expect that. but never mind, i shall still find a way to watch the movie, by hook or by crook. oh man, i sound almost evil

claire sent me this really interesting email. think it deserves some attention.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who won't survive the week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 20 million people around the world.

If you attend a church meeting
without fear of harassment,arrest, torture, or death,you are more blessed than almost three billion people in the world.

If you have food in your refrigerator,clothes on your back,a roof overyour head and a place to sleep,you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still married and alive, you are very rare, especially in the United States.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.

If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder, you are blessed because you can offer God's healing touch.

If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read anything at all.

You are so blessed in ways you may never even know.

we should really get to realising just how lucky we are. but i think it's kind of difficult sometimes, esp when all the people around you seem better off than you are. guess we havent seen enough of the world

2006-01-28T14:12:00.000-08:00

新年到了，大扫除！！
yesyes that's what i've been up to all morning. cleaning dust off cabinets. and my, are they dirty!
chinese new year's here, and like christmas, it doesnt feel like it. just another average old day except everyone gets really excited and goes "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" when nothing feels new or different at all. and not much exciting stuff's happening. we're going to some parents'-friend's house to spend the evening, and i have to babysit the kids. UGH. what a wonderful way to spend the holiday. im pretty miserable cos my parents dont buy new year treats ie pineapple tarts, bak gua etc. not to mention kuih bangit, that cool white stuff toot brought to school and i more or less gorged myself silly on. im not craving for that as much cos i think i ate too much of it already. but still, i wouldnt mind more, in any case! anyways the reason why they don't buy stuff like that is cos all the stuff is fatty and horribly unhealthy and i guess it is but come on, just this once in the year, heck it!

i finished the remains of the day (finally) yesterday! it's funny but also darn sad. oh yeah, can someone help me choose what i should spend my $20 on?
1.memoirs of a geisha soundtrack
2.ariel by sylvia plath
3. 1984
4.one flew over the cuckoos nest
5. as i lay dying
6. catch 22
(OR 7. a secret supply of new year goodies. hehehe)
help me pick one, cos im really quite undecided! :

btw if any of you ever buy bertie bott's every flavour beans, i suggest you DON'T try the sardine flavoured one. or the black pepper one. they're G-R-O-S-S. bleh. but the toasted marshmallow's nice!!

2006-01-26T20:44:00.000-08:00

i think the goal i set last week for 100 entries by 2nd march is more or less impossible so i have shifted the 'deadline' to next year! xD
yay! my mum decided that we're going to GERMANY this june holiday! that means no vancouver and mexico city, but oh well, germany sounds cool too. :D
anyways, the chinese new year break's started. 5 whole days of sleeping in, no school.. BUT still a lot of homework. SIAs undone, speech to rewrite, worksheets to complete.. blah. at least i get to sleep more. you know, last night i only slept 4 hours and i was a complete doofus today. plus plus my stupid flu with leaky nose and screwed voice. ugh.
oh well, i havent much to say anymore, except...
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!! :D

2006-01-19T19:27:00.000-08:00

i shall soon (try and) start a rabid blogging craze so that by the second of march (2/03) i will be on my 203rd blog entry!! heheh that would be nice and commemorative xD im only on my 104th blog entry now, so ive still 99 to go. wow, wish me luck!
i really,really miss 203! i was watching peirong's video at home today and it made me feel very sad. watching at home, alone, is quite a different experience from watching it in school where you actually see everyone around you. at home it's more lonely, and the reality that 20305 is no longer what it was really sinks in. bleh.

for once, there's no urgent homework due tmr and so i spent the afternoon relaxing; reading the latest edition of newsweek, writing in my journal, stuff like that. after i finish my piano i'm going out to buy some stuff to decorate the classroom with! you know, 306's really into the class deco thing and it's really cool cos everyone (else)'s really arty-farty and really co operative and i think our classroom's going to look fabulous when everyone's done! :D:D i remember 203's rather lame attempts to decorate our classroom last year, and how we ended up being too lazy to take alot of things down, hence that angpao fish-lantern thing hanging under the projector screen for the whole year, and stuff like that. nice memories. (:

2006-01-18T20:21:00.000-08:00

GOOD MORNING PEOPLE! okay no fine it's 8.08 pm but hey! i just got up. :D feel so energized after a good afternoon's sleep. xDD i think if i didnt catch up on sleep soon i might start permanently screwing my speech and thinking and actions in general and take to stoning more, and that really isnt highly desirable.
today we got our sec three IC (?) photos and OH MAN i look so toot!! actually, most people do. heheh
today i also watched our 203 video (by peirong!) twice and i really like it! the vid was wonderful, and when we were watching it there were a lot of 203 pple in the 314 classrm (where we were watching) and it really felt like last yr again. (: miss everyone a lot.
hmm chem lab was cool except i didnt manage to get much of the ammonium chloride salts. the stuff left in the evaporating dish was SO GROSS! the substance at the bottom was brownish and looked quite grainy, and on top of that there were little, separate lumps of white, powdery stuff. AND IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SODIUM CHLORIDE! TABLE SALT! yuck.
oh no i have a motivational speech to write. BAH. why not write a motivational speech to motivate people to write motivational speeches? ok that's lame. anyways today i saw a video of president kennedy's speech (the 'ask not what your country can do for you, but what YOU can do for your country' one). it's a really good speech, but that isnt much of a surprise seeing that it was made by a president. and it was made in 1961 and back then my parents weren't even born yet! its scary how people die and disappear but their faces and voices still live on , in things like that little recording. :S
anyways, i'd better get started. bye!

2006-01-17T19:53:00.000-08:00

today was a deplorable depressing day. really depressing. bah. :(

but anyways,
i think the adverse effects of lack-of-sleep are slowly creeping into me. for one thing, i keep stoning. as in staring into space, mind blank, face expressionless. and that's not all! i say really screwed things! my pronunciation keeps going off and today i made such an ATROCIOUS grammar mistake. i said 'good luck on (something)'
ON
GOOD LUCK ON. oh man. that is quite absurd really!! a hfgourwg slhgjfadffgs
i shall go to bed at 10 today.

2006-01-15T17:33:00.000-08:00

finished some chem! it wasnt homework but i decided to do it anyways so i don't have to do it later. xDDD heheh.; and the homework i'm actually SUPPOSED to do, i haven't done yet. like CHINESE COMPO! what tuo1wu4yan2zhi4 thing. ugh ugh ugh. anyways, there's this phrase in the chem work sheet that goes like this :..."there is a lot of empty space between air particles." i think that's a bit scary. i mean, what is that 'empty space'? does it contain another universe home to (to us) subatomic sized planets with another 'Earth'-like planet with other civilisations like our own? or is it just nothing? and what is nothing?
oh dear, ranting again.
anyways, i got tagged!

7 Things to Do Before I Die

1.get a dog!! an australian shepherd/maltese/dalmation/labrador/golden retriever, preferably
2. tell everyone how much i love them and how much they all mean to me
3. get a diploma in piano!
4. fall in love, get married (:D) and have a kid or two
5. master the art of writing-with-left-hand. heheh. then i'd be ambidextrous! that would be cool xD
6. try to help girls in more backward countries out of prostitution ( as in, those in prostitution)
7. think about the other thing i should do. i haven't decided yet. and in the mean time, do all the other million small things i'd like to do.

7 Things I Cannot Do

1. lick my elbow
2. write a good chinese compo
3. touch any form of creepy crawly
4. talk in an aussie accent
5. read chic lit (it kind of pisses me off, no offence or anything)
6. fly an aeroplane
7. eat monkey brain. or raccoon. or dog. or snake. or crocodile. anything but chicken, beef, pork and fish, for that matter

7 Things that Attract Me to Blogging

1.it's somewhat entertaining :)
2. it has, unlike msn, not yet been dubbed a 'hazardous time wasting activity' by my parents (i repeat :yet)
3. it's less tiring to type than to write, and i'm lazy
4. it's something to do when i'm bored
5. it offers me a relaxing change in mind set when i am otherwise agonised by the thought of things like homework (chinese compo!!!!)
6. (other people's blogs) give me an insight to their lives; what they're up to, etc. it's interesting!
7. i like it. full stop.

7 Things I Say Most Often

1. "hi"
2. "so toot/ulu"
3. "whatever" (only to toots, though :D)
4. "NO, MARISSA'S THE CONDOM!"
5. "...oh shit..."
6. "that's so obscure"
7. "excuuuse me"

7 Books I Love

1. the god of small things
2. catcher in the rye
3. the five people you meet in heaven
4. to kill a mockingbird
5. harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban
6. the bell jar
7. wild swans
(poems deep and dangerous!)

(and many more!)

7 Movies/DVDs I Watch Over and Over Again

1. NARNIA!
2. forrest gump
3.STAR WARS (all six)
4. love actually
5. the lion king
6.robin hood
7.the sound of music

7 tags

claire
jiaying
zeena
rachel
chunhing
fausty

and anyone else who wants to do!

2006-01-14T22:57:00.000-08:00

OOH YEAH. my com's finally out of shit-mode. just now i couldn't even type the letters m,l,o,p,u etc etc. it was so irritating, i tell you. at the moment it's more or less ok, except for stupid annoying pop ups appearing every 20 seconds or so.
talk about coincedences. i was supposed to tell my piano teacher we might be moving sometime end this yr/next yr and before i could even say that she said SHE might be moving. then yada yada exchange of questions and guess what! we're moving to the same city. so interesting. anyways she's really really nice, she said she might postpone leaving so she can pia my gr8 with me!! xDD
SHEESH i HATE popups. they keep appearing and disturbing my otherwise peaceful typing session. bah.
my bro's kind of vain. he keeps taking photo albums off the shelf and flipping through them to ADMIRE HIMSELF. it's really quite corny. and he talks to himself A LOT! ok fine i do that a lot too but i do it privately. with him he does it ANYWHERE. and when i ask him "why are you talking to yourself?" he always replies very placidly that he "just likes it". ...haha. when my parents actually walk in on me during my self conversations i always feel quite embarrassed!wonder if everyone talks to themselves, or if my bro and i are just weird psychos.
anyways, i havent done my homework. no inspiration for chinese compo. i should start feeling guilty soon. for now, i shall go eat an orange. bye!

2006-01-13T20:19:00.000-08:00

i was washing my shoes when it suddenly occured to me that if the p5 kiddos i was hanging out with actually DO come to ny in '08, their nametags are going to be GREEN. replacing my batch. and we'll more or less be history. :( sad.but still, life goes on! and my shoes are finally clean again. now the only prob is getting them DRY before the sec one installation ceremony tmr (HAVE TO BE AT SCH BY 645!! x( what happened to weekend beauty sleep? )

2006-01-13T19:14:00.000-08:00

I HATE POP UPS.
they suck suck suck suck suck.
ARGHHH.

ANYWAYS! CAMP IS OVER. YAY YAY YAY. i think all the kiddos were very happy about going home. a lot of them borrowed my hp and i think this month's bill is gonna be........ not too cool.

hmm.. today's camp was fun, though the mud totally screwed my clean white school shoes. need to wash them tonight! the sun was out (finally) so it was hot and muddy and a tad uncomfortable. im slightly sunburnt now. blah.

im too lazy and tired to talk about anything else so BYE!

PS jiaying told me abt hw. it's CRAZY. argh.

2006-01-12T20:20:00.000-08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOOT! xD i hope she's had a good day. (:
WELL! she ought to be happy. cos while she was nice and safe and dry in school and got lots of presents, i got WET! and a whole lot of mud in my shoes. the place where i was (very very ulu place!! in limchukang)at doesnt even have many cement paths, so since it was raining, the ground was all sticky-ish with mud (Different colours too!). we had to move kayaks in the morning, and it started raining halfway through so we got pretty much drenched! but it was kinda cool, until the water started seeping steadily into our shoes. then after that we had to accompany the kiddos to the archery place which was SO MUDDY! it was scary. every step we made would be followed by a rather loud squelch and then a cool feeling around the feet. not to mention the mud was so soft that we kind of sank into it! ugh, it really was quite gross. BUT FUN! if you heck the dirty/uncomfortable parts. anyways, apart from that, we did a lot of stoning! like when the kids were cheering and stuff, that was real boring. and i learnt how very uncomfortable it is to wear a wet shirt/ shorts/ socks/shoes for a few hours on end. esp socks, cos they're stuck in your shoes and if you take air con buses home like i did, the cold air will kind of stay in your shoe and the feeling really SUCKS. bleh. but apart from that everything's pretty fun and the kids are really cute(well most of them!) and the other PSGLs with me are so super super nice! xDDDDDD (namely cheryl yonji condom [306ers!] as well as sophia and pui ian and lynette and nicole [the only sec2!])
i guess that's about all for now, im seriously sleepy and sad that i missed school! (lit+langarts+physics! bah) later i have to fix my bag (there's a very big hole) wash my (VERY) muddy shoes eat dinner play piano and SLEEP! xD

2006-01-09T20:53:00.000-08:00

i realise i've been stoning a lot today. as in, just staring blankly into space. i can't help it! waaay too sleepy. it didn't help that we had an hour long assembly in those comfortable red cushioned chairs. compounded with the rather unentertaining (actually, if you totally feel like conking there's not much that can be too entertaining) talks, i really almost fell asleep. bleh. then we had these guests for dinner and i stoned through that too.
you know, the number of snails that are seen creeping along the first floor corridor in the early morning is scary. i mean the snails themselves arent really that scary, they're even kind of cute. but when you see like thirty (i counted! :D) snails stuck everywhere-on the pillars, the floor, the walls of the classrooms, and see loads of small dark piles of their poop, as well as slimey trails of snail-juice (or whatever it's called) all over the floor, it is really kind of gross. not to mention the casualities. poor, unsuspecting snails that get crushed by (poor, unsuspecting) girls who were probably only trying to get to class faster. you know, i saw a few of those dead snails -each's shell shattered, body in an indiscriminate mess of goo- and it was quite a sorry sight! i feel sorry for the snails. :(
tomorrow's a public holiday! (VIOLA OUTING!)
selamat hari raya haji (that's it right?)

2006-01-08T15:17:00.000-08:00

can anyone recommend nice dog breeds to me? currently i only know of german shepherds, australian shepherds, golden retrievers, maltese(s?), poodles, dalmatians, irish setters, bulldogs, foxhounds, huskies and chihuahuas. my parents said we might get a dog sometime next yearr or next next year and the most likely candidate at the moment is an australian shepherd(isnt the one in the picture cute? i got it off http://www.australian-shepherd-shop.de/images/jakecar.jpg)!!! :DDDDD

i just made a (cool) discovery! LEMON TREE SOUNDS SUPER NICE ON SURROUND! cos it has these really low bass accompaniments and with surround these sounds are amplified and reverberate all over the room (they even kind of make the sofa vibrate) and it's so COOL! xDDD

2006-01-08T00:19:00.000-08:00

"False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing." - Joseph De Maistre (1753-1821) French Diplomat, Philosopher

but there's no such thing as a real opinion, is there?

today i am going to be kicked out of my room to squeeze into my parents' bedroom with my parents and my bro! the 3 of them will be sleeping in bed together and i will be (thankfully) alone on the floor! we've got these guests coming over from Australia. thankfully they're only staying one night. but anyways everyone's going to have a horrible time when i get up at 5.45 tmr! heheh.

does anyone know how to d qn4 of math ws 1.1? it's quite confusing

2006-01-07T20:07:00.000-08:00

You scored as Psychology. You should be a Psychology major!

Philosophy

100%

Theater

100%

Psychology

100%

Sociology

100%

Linguistics

100%

English

92%

Mathematics

92%

Dance

92%

Journalism

92%

Anthropology

92%

Art

83%

Engineering

83%

Biology

83%

Chemistry

67%

What is your Perfect Major? (PLEASE RATE ME!!<3)
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2006-01-07T11:38:00.000-08:00

hello! it's saturday morning and im elated cos i just took my height and im almost 163!!! for the moment, at least. i'll prob shrink back to my old height soon but at least i can console myself with the thought that at least sometimes im taller than i am! oh dear im not making sense but nevermind. :D this weekend i've got loads of work to do. need to do a lot of work on my commonwealth (thanks loads and loads to zeena condom xinrong sai christabella and jiaying for taking the time to help me look through!) so that it (hopefully) gets a bit better than it is now and doesnt suck as much. and then i have homework, math physics (my dear son forgot to return me my class WS2! tsk!) and chemistry. and to be a good diligent student i should think i have to read up on the lessons that will be taught soon! to top that, must get started on our chemistry SIA like these few days. i was quite happy cos my grp met up yesterday and drew out a rather reasonable plan of what to do, when to do it, etc and seeing others so into the project makes me feel very motivated too :D
oh yes, jiaying wanted me to advertise our 'tooty adventures' site. if you're online and have absolutely nothing to do you might check it out. it's this blog with all the lame things we wrote last year through email. you might want to know how it started? jiaying was feeling bored when i was (probably) printing the home econs SIA research or something like that, so she started writing the channel 3838338 (sound familiar?) thing, and i replied she replied i replied she replied etc. i know it's total crap but in a way rubbish like that can really be quite entertaining! xD if you like toot stuff, that is. then the other day jiaying suggested we put it up on the net and i didnt really object cos there's really nothing to like violently object to so there it is! check it out if you like and do comment! xD http://the-adventures-of-irene-and-jiaying.blogspot.com/
oh man next week im missing 3 WHOLE DAYS of lessons! the 11th 12th and 13th. some NYPS camp thing. we(yongji cheryl sharon condom me and a few sec twos including nicole) are supposed to be student facilitators to the p5 kiddos or something. i hope it's interesting! the place where the camp is is certainly very ulu. camp sarimbun in lim chu kang! oh man i hope we dont get lost or anything.
well that's all for now, i'd better go have breakfast and get started on homework! bye!

2006-01-05T18:15:00.000-08:00

"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing." - Socrates (469-399BC) Greek Philosopher of Athens

isnt that enlightening!

anyways, first week of school's almost over! cca exhibition and stuff today, it was... HOT. really hot cos the gown's tight and long and stiff and where we were positioned outside the board room didn't even have fans so i more or less felt i might die of excessive perspiration. not to mention the stink. ugh. i hope we get more juniors this year! xD
lessons have been pretty interesting, esp LIT AND PHYSICS! YAY i am happy i chose those subjects. xD for lang arts we did a diagnostic test! an analysis of this poem called... 'this poem'. heheh. i really crapped through it. wonder if ms sebastien can decipher my handwriting. it was my half-cursive-half-who-know's-what handwriting that even i think is extremely horrible. but oh well. :D
ARGH i am really pissed with this computer. every time i go online and navigate to gmail the website suddenly changes itself to some friggin 'ADULTFRIENDFINDER' site that absolutely sucks and it's really annoying because it momentarily jams up the com. it's very frustrating, too, and more and more often i find myself swearing away at the com. and that's not the only stupid website that pops up every now and then. this 'everythingyouneed.com' website too. and the thing is, the only thing i need is for these stupid websites to DISAPPEAR and never bother me again.
oh well, that's about all for today. i really miss 203!!

2006-01-03T18:53:00.000-08:00

first day of school!
i have to admit, it was more or less b-o-r-i-n-g. think about it, how fun can doing ice breakers with sec one kiddos get (not that there's anything wrong with them or anything) when you're longing to go join your class and check things out? and even worse, when i finally managed to sneak away (i know i am very irresponsible but oh well) and join everyone else in the audi, guess what was going on? CIP TALK! ugh.
on the bright side, meeting up with 203'05 was fantastic! i felt really happy seeing everyone at recess. though not so happy when i walked past that super familiar classroom on the second floor and saw inside it-not my 203 mates- but our 103 juniors! it was really quite uncomfortable. but anyways! it's nice to see everyone again.
i think our form teacher's pretty nice. his name's mr goh and i think he's new. actually, i dont think he's new. i know he's new. xD
and the kids in my PSGL group are so cute and nice! i can remember their names: XinYun, ShiHui and JingHong! xDD i can also remember their primary schools and birthdays and i feel very proud of myself.heheh
i feel really tired now, but not half as stinky cos i just took my shower. think i shall have dinner play piano and go to bed. goodbye!

2006-01-02T21:27:00.000-08:00

haha my bro is so toot!
this is what he said:
"mum, can i eat one of those thingies we bought in taiwan?"
my mum said: "okay, but we have three types, which do you want?"
bro: "the one that tastes nice"

like DOTS but he's cute

oh man! karene (sonny) just told me that a lot of our chem physics lang arts and math notes are ALREADY ON IVLE. that is really quite psycho.
feeling quite excited about tmr! so im going to bed soon! night!

2006-01-02T12:41:00.000-08:00

its 12.34 on 020106! not that that is particularly interesting but whatever. :D
school tomorrow!
i wish i could spend it spring cleaning with 306, instead of doing ice breakers with the sec ones. ugh. sorry, but i am really feeling very irresponsible at the moment.
but anyways
in less than 19 hours i'll be back in school! and what, 1680 hours (or around there?) before the march hols. yep
i spent much of my morning peeling the price tags off my new stationery. it was pretty troublesome, and rather sticky too. lucky i won't have to do that again for another while xD
later, i have to sew up my bag (there's a hole in it) practise piano and viola, and (hopefully) go to bed early!
for now, it's LUNCH!

2006-01-01T18:56:00.000-08:00

IM BACK!
back to sunny singapore (ok fine it's raining now but you get the point!)
back to school in two days (im really rather excited!) 306!
back to piano homework (trying to) sleep before 12 and slugging most of the day
and, most importantly,
back home! xD

it's 2006!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
i've decided i should come up with a few new year's resolutions so that at the end of the year i can, hopefully, feel a sense of satisfaction at actually having achieved something. xD
here they are!
1. EXERCISE! like at least half an hour 3 times a week. (oh by the way i've gotten fatter again so when you people see me on tues please dont like gape at me or anything, thanks)
2. adopt a healthy diet (eat carrots and lettuce daily. um, yeah right. oh well but i guess i can try!)
3. study harder! i have been very lazy. should try and improve my chinese in particular in the next six months cos after that i think it won't be as easy.
4. get to know new people, and stay tight with old pals!
5. BE NICE TO MY BROTHER, help out more at home :D
okay! so there's 5. the end of 2006 seems ages away especially cos today's only the first day but oh well. i hope i manage to actually work on at least one of my resolutions! xD

oh yeah taiwan was fun! quite cool, both literally and figuratively. though i missed everyone very much! we went around almost the whole island! taipei hualien jiufen kaosiung taizhong and taipei again! we took coach, mind you, so the longest ride was like 7 hours non stop. bleh, that was torture. x( but overall the trip was fantastic! xD food was great

geez, ive got 60 new emails. im done reading about forty already! yay! (congratulate me please)
i think i shall go and finish reading them and have my dinner. am starving
toodles!

2005-12-25T18:19:00.000-08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

if you are, by any chance, interested:
Christmas is from the Old English words Cristes maesse, "the mass or festival of Christ." The first celebration took place in Rome about themiddle of the fourth century. The exact date of the Nativity is notknown, but even in pre-Christian times the period from December 25 toJanuary 6 - now known as "The Twelve Days of Christmas" - wasconsidered a special time of year. The abbreviation Xmas, thought as sacrilegious by some, is entirely appropriate. The letter X (chi) isthe first letter in the Greek word for Christ.

should know something about christmas if you celebrate it!

well today's been a rather average day, none of the usual christmas parties because both my parents are sick. we had a fantastic dinner last night! at crystal jade in holland v. the food was fab, i had lamian and xiaolongbao and a whole lot of other delicious stuff. and yesterday afternoon i was at my dad's friend's house. had lunch there! there were two other kids there, a boy and a girl both around my age so we crowded around the com and played LF2 all afternoon.
it was fun!

yay and i must thank my parents for my wonderful christmas present!!! a new bag and two crisp clean fifty dollar notes! xD as well as the pretty bauble jiaying did for me, it's hanging on the tree now. i also have to thank all the wonderful wonderful people who sent me christmas cards/ecards/ smses!! THANK YOU!

oh yeah and i finished a murder mystery today! 'peril at end house' by agatha christie. quite an entertaining read, the solution was interesting but somewhat predictable in the sense that agatha christie always makes the least expected one the criminal so after you've read a few books you tend to expect the least expected one (hope i'm not being too confusing here) and you usually turn out to be right. but it was fun to read anyways. ((: especially when all those confusing bits of information actually fit together to give you the whole picture

and the more i think about my commonwealth essay, the more dissatisfied i get with it. i think i'm going to rewrite it. ugh. hope it turns out better this time.
and next week onwards is going to be fun! cos i'm finally going on holiday! 6 days in taiwan, then one day home on the 2nd and then back to school on the 3rd! i must admit i am looking forward to going back to school and seeing everyone again. (:

MERRY CHRISTMAS, once again!

2005-12-23T22:51:00.000-08:00

I WANT TO WATCH NARNIA AGAIN
hm i just came back from Parkway Parade! had a nice dinner there, though i ended up so full i thought i might puke!
then my mum had to go buy my bro's 'Santa' present, and i had to take him somewhere else so he wouldnt see. i suggested i take him to gramophone and then i gave my mum a very 'innocent' (but rather cheesy) smile and asked her if i could buy the narnia soundtrack and surprisingly she said YES! YAY. so i got it, this super cool edition with a 3d cover. its really nice!

2005-12-23T16:10:00.000-08:00

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It isa happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. -WilliamSomerset Maugham, writer (1874-1965)

the sec1 orientation today was kind of fun! apart from the fact that i overslept. heheh. i promised pui i'd meet her at kent ridge to take the 6.45 bus but when i woke up at 6.10 i felt like dying so i 'decided to sleep another 5 min' and next thing i knew, it was 7.15 and marissa was calling me asking where i was. SORRY, PUI and CONDOM! im an arse. bleh. so when i reached sch i went to the audi and joined condom and pui in ushering! that was fine. (: time really flies and its so weird that we're already sec 3s. i feel old. :(

NARNIA rocks! it was really good. esp watching it with the class! i liked EDMUND! everyone else is cool too, though! i think mr tumnus is cute.

2 days to xmas!

2005-12-21T23:34:00.000-08:00

HAHA my bro just showed me a super cute star wars lego movie-thingum!
watch it here!
http://www.lego.com/starwars/anakin.asp?x=x
the revenge of the brick one. esp the back, when they have the end credits. there's this cute lego darth vader conducting a stormtrooper orchestra with his lightsaber!! HAHA
the han solo affair one is cute too!
checkitout! (((:
today jiaying came over and WROTE CHRISTMAS CARDS. that was totally like boring so i made her stop after the third card haha. then she looked at the star wars 1, 4,5 and 6 scripts and she apparently liked the 'i am your father part' alot haha. then we watched abit of RotS and she thought it was very sad. i think the fight scene is very nice
you know what? today my mum opened this cabinet and discovered a ROTTEN WATERMELON! and it was leaking yellow color juice (FYI it was a red watermelon) and all. and even though fresh watermelon smells so nice and fresh i tell you rotten water melon totally STINKS so much you want to puke. ugh. the stench is still hanging all over the house, its so disgusting.
im excited about watching narnia!

2005-12-21T13:03:00.000-08:00

NEW SKIN!
haha. er some of it's still in a mess. im too lazy to work it all out now
i changed tagboards! cos i like the cbox color scheme. didnt feel like junking my old tagboard so i chucked it somewhere in the archives.
im not gonna touch my commonwealth essay anymore! last night i said i wouldnt but in the end i stayed up to edit it till about 1 and now it has exactly 1500 words and im not going to edit anymore, i think. it sucks though. was reading my old posts, i think i sounded rather different then.. hm bet if i read everyone's blog entries from at least a year back there would've been a LOT of difference. we've all changed (:

2005-12-21T12:32:00.000-08:00

i have a feeling that a lot of the cards i sent got lost in the mail. oh crap. next time i should hand deliver them or something. UGH. oh well gonna change my blogskin now i think

4 days to xmas. ho ho ho.

2005-12-20T23:47:00.000-08:00

I FINISHED (the first draft of) MY COMMONWEALTH ESSAY!
and even though it sucks, i dont think i ever want to touch it again.

If the word limit is what i remember it to be (1500 words) i am currently 119 words over limit and not caring. i dont know what to edit out. so i shall just resign myself to a lousy mark and let it be. though i HAD hoped that this essay would be (if even slightly) better than all the other essays i've written but seriously i have a MINDBLOCK! (cool word for this: mogigraphia.. haha)

I FINISHED THE BELL JAR AND THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER AND THE CATCHER IN THE RYE(for the second time)! NOW I SHALL FINISH BELOVED AS WELL AS THE REMAINS OF THE DAY!
i feel as though i've read so much. heh heh. most of the time i read half the book get carried away with something else and leave it sitting there for a very long time before i pick it up again and then i have to start again. BLeh.

Something's wrong with msn. not working. ugh.

2005-12-19T00:58:00.000-08:00

MY BRO WROTE A LETTER TO SANTA! (i told him to.. haha)
SO HERE IT IS (i think it's so cute)

Dear Santa, for Christmas I wish for: Toa Hordika Nuju or a Lego Star Wars TIE interceptor or a normal TIE fighter or a knights kingdom chess set or the Mask of light or a resceae helecopter or a airports fire truck (this was circled and below he wrote: choose that!) (All in Lego) Wich one do you choose?

haha.
so toot. spelling errors included. cant believe my brother still believes in santa. wish i did, but i dont think i do.. sad. haha

6 days to christmas!! (commonwealth essay? noooo..)

2005-12-17T11:31:00.000-08:00

a mysterious package has appeared under our xmas tree, and my bro says it's for me! YAY i have no idea what it is. bro says he chose it so now i know it's (1) not a book i want, cos my bro hates it when i drag him to kino or smth. cant imagine him LOOKING for books i like. (2) most probably not anything electrical, like that face-cleaning (?) kit my mum suggested to me once (i staunchly refused the idea of getting that) (3) not a barbie doll cos the box is too fat. besides my bro knows i dont play with those anymore (Imagine if i did.. oh man)! (4) not a lightsaber. i think i hinted to my mum quite a few times that i thought they were super cool and i wouldnt mind one for xmas or something and my bro was into the idea too and we were like scheming on how to save up for one but after a while he prob forgot about it (and so did i. actually, more like i gave up on the idea of a saving dollar a day for like 230 days) (5) not a printer. i told my mum we seriously needed a printer (we dont have one at home) but there's nowhere to put it so nevermind.

so now i've crossed out a few things, but there are still a lot of possibilities! (though they obviously aren't endless)
it's 8 days to xmas im quite excited cos after that we'll be going on holiday! (i know that's really late)
BUT i still have my commonwealth essay to finish. ugh. SOMEONE give me inspiration, pls!!!!

2005-12-11T19:49:00.000-08:00

PHOBOPHOBIA means fear of fear.

anyways!
im back! from camp and malacca etc.
camp was tiring really tiring.i felt like dying yesterday. but 'twas fun! xD except i left my tooth brush and towel and other stuff in school. ugh. im an idiot.
HCISO+NYSE combined concert tomorrow! feel kinda excited.
its 3 weeks till school reopens again. (and the hols are OVER) time sure does fly! im kinda looking forward to going back to school again, though i'll really miss 203. actually, i already do.
going on holiday again! in latelate december. 27th till 1jan. to taiwan! jiasin's going to taiwan too, but next week. we'll be going to almost the same places. (:

2005-12-03T10:29:00.000-08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BRO!who just came back from his friend's house rather sleepy and rather excited, and is currently assembling his new 'knights kingdom' lego set. (i haven't given him his present yet! this lego bionicle thingy that you can combine with another bionicle thingy he already has, which sounds pretty cool, even though im not that into lego or anything)

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/fictional/Worth.html

CHECK THAT OUT! forbes.com has a list of the top 15 richest fictional characters in the world! and their respective net worths. wahahaha. check out santa's age! x) i wonder what it's like being 1651.

I happened to be flipping through 'poems deep and dangerous' and happened to read the last poem on the last page (because it was short) and i liked it very much! In fact, from what i've seen of the whole book, it's fantastic!

people

some people talk and talk
and never say a thing
some people look at you
and birds begin to sing

some people laugh and laugh
and yet you want to cry
some people touch your hand
and music fills the sky

Charlotte Zolotow

we're off to malacca!! xDDDD

2005-12-02T13:06:00.000-08:00

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/news/article?c=1870&p=/051122/221/a807t.html

HAHA CHECK THAT OUT. SANTA IN AN AQUARIUM!
yahooligans pictures are nice! x)

2005-12-02T12:45:00.000-08:00

DECEMBER SECOND! is the day my brother is having his first-ever sleepover party! it was supposed to be on december the third but my mum didnt want him to go and already had a very good excuse to let him not go: december the third's my brother's birthday so he should spend it at home. But then my dear brother's friend had this whole tantrum thing when he heard my brother couldnt go, SO his mum changed it to today instead. lalala. my bro's pretty popular, i see. x)) i havent had sleepovers in ages. they're fun! but soon i'll get to see (certain pple) snoring their heads off anyways, strings camp is only 5 days away!xD

DECEMBER THIRD! is, as i have already said, my brother's birthday. and as a 'birthday treat' for my bro we will (contrary to the excuse my mother gave my brother's friend's mother) not be spending it at home, instead we'll be driving to Malacca! staying there for one night and then driving back. i'm pretty excited, cos malacca sounds pretty fun and i want to check out the peranakan stuff there! If there's anyone who wants me to get them anything from Malacca, feel free to let me know!

My parents are out at the money changer's now, i think. They're also going to check out this travel package for a trip to taiwan! (i love the night markets in taipei!). Later when they come back we'll be going down to my b ro's school with a cake so he can celebrate his birthday there. x)

I promised my mum i'd sweep the floor so i'd better go do it now.

2005-12-01T20:55:00.000-08:00

Nature's love : A heart-shaped cave etched by wind and water adorns the face of Uluru (Ayers Rock) in the World Hertage-listed Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, encompassing 1,325 square kms of desert in Central Australia. (AFP/Torsten Blackwood)

i like that! http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/news/article?c=1869&p=/051114/242/a63jc.html

2005-11-27T21:31:00.000-08:00

STRINGS CONCERT!
Time: 7.30pm
Date: 12 Dec 2005
Venue: HCI Drama Centre
Ticket price: $10

PLEASE COME! ((:
sundays are pretty boring. better than saturdays, at least. i have piano lessons on saturday afternoons and my piano teacher always has to torment me with horrible stuff like AURAL SINGING. i don't mind cadences/modulation/playing the lower melody or anything, but the singing part.. is.. something i really don't like. anyways! today i got up at 1030 and my parents wanted me to make breakfast! cos yesterday i said 'can we have fried eggs tmr morning?' and my mum was like 'okay, why dont you make it then?' and i think i didnt say anything so she took it as a yes and got me up while i was still dreaming away (i know 1030's pretty, if not very, late a time to be dreaming away, but oh well.) so i made breakfast! fried eggs turned out QUITE well, much better than the blackened smoking ones i made when jiaying came over before fundraising night (heh heh. i didnt know that it would have been better to use a non stick pot at that time). i also boiled peas toasted bread and made some tea and even though it wasnt one of those cool gourmet kind of breakfasts i'd say it was pretty ok. :D well anyways by the time i was done it was almost 12 so my mum made some kind of salsa dip and we had it with biscuits and so breakfast+biscuits became BRUNCH!. yeah. after that i played solitaire on the computer for about half an hour. i dont know whats up with solitaire, but i keep playing it nowadays. im not in love with it or anything, just that when i have absolutely nothing to do my hands just stray over to the computer, turn it on and then open up the solitaire programme. well anyways then we set up the christmas tree! it looked really pretty when we turned on the xmas lights. and i thought of my first xmas in s'pore, and the small little tree my parents bought so id stop complaining about not having a proper chistmas tree (we bought this plastic one about 3 years ago). time really flies! i mean, like 8 christmases have gone by since then. anyways, after that i got out this jigsaw i'd bought two years ago and suddenly felt like putting it together so i did! well not yet, at least. im not too good at jigsaws and all, so after working on it for about 5 hours (not continuous, though) ive only done about half of it. the easy half. ugh. i have no idea how im going to do the other half because most of it is just the DARK NIGHT SKY and thats like not exactly the easiest thing to piece together. ok well i also went to the supermarket and to the library to return my books and now im on the net and telling you about my most exciting sunday! oh yeah, might i include that my bro watched 'the three muskateers' disney version just now? i watched a bit of it, it was quite cute. hahaha. my bro told me that his classmate said her dad used to be the 'voice of goofy'! i wonder if thats true, but if it is, it would be pretty cool. i think i'd better get back to doing my jigsaw now. happy birthday to pam! x)

2005-11-19T23:00:00.000-08:00

OH MY, (or GGM, quoting jiamin) TURKEY AND GRAVY SODA sounds COOL. anyone going to america should TRY IT. xDD

here's the caption (from yahooligans.com)

The Jones Soda Company Turkey & Gravy and Brussels Sprout flavors. The selection of holiday drinks from the company includes flavors such as pumpkin pie, wild herb stuffing, cranberry, pecan pie, broccoli casserole and smoked salmon pate(AFP/Mandel Ngan)

YAHOOLIGANS has nice pics. checkitout!

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/news/

and smoked salmon pate soda sounds.. exotic. hahaha!

I JUST WEIGHED MYSELF! ergh. not something to make me happy. shall have to stop pigging out. x((

dufus is a cute name. HAHA. of course i wouldnt call my kids that. imagine someone being Mr President Dufus Sir. ick! so corny.

and im really sorry im in a horribly corny mood. i ate too much, i think.

103+203=306!

LALALA

next year i think 203'05 we should (as jiaying [was it her?] said) spend recesses together!!

2005-11-19T19:28:00.000-08:00

GOF was not bad. (: pretty cool!! i think that comic's cute. x) hm class posting came out yesterday, i'm in 306. my index number is 3 and i'm with 6 other pple from 203'05! x) and youknowwhat? karene's going to be my lab partner AGAIN! haha because she's index4. well apart from that i've no comments.
TOMORROW i'm going to the ART OF STAR WARS exhibition! (i think, as long as it isnt too crowded). me and my bro are going alone cos my parents have guests to entertain! yay yay yay x)) i was watching this TV interview of the manager of the Lucasfilm archives (i THINK) yesterday and she said that in the star wars exhibitions in japan and the USA (i think?) CHEWBACCA was one of the most popular, er, displays! hahaha i'll bet Claire's happy to hear that. x))

2005-11-16T13:28:00.000-08:00

its been a week since choral night! well yup choral night was FUN second half you totally rocked and first half, YAY! we didnt screw up. x) post choral night's been rather.. hm.. boring i guess. as in there's like not too much to look forward to anymore. except maybe class posting cca concert harry potter narnia and that star wars exhibition! hmmm.
lalala. i have been slacking like crazy! x))
went to borders myself on mon, and i had quite a nice time there! it was very comfortable sitting in a corner and reading. x)) and i bought that cool star wars book i'd reserved! (and now im totally, totally broke). then i went around asking for a job, went to fish&co, coffee bean and tea leaf, bengawan solo, sakae sushi, (went to popular kino borders on fri) and they all said : i'm sorry, you're too young. you have to be at least 16 to get a job here. so boo hoo. x( 2 more years. i also asked at mac's, though, they said they'd call me back 3days ago but still havent and i don't think they plan to. x(
then on tues we had cca and cca lunch and now, thinking back, i'm quite curious about how much oil went into my chicken rice! and how much oil went into amanda's "lucky plate" with fried chicken fried french fries and even a FRIED bun which looked like it'd been totally soaked in oil. ergh. is body fat yellow? it'd be pretty gross if it was. but it would be cool if you could like poke a small needle into your skin and ssuuuuckk it all out. x))
and today! i got up at 10 (dragged up, more like) went to the toilet brushed my teeth made my bed and changed, then went around doing nothing till 11 when i had breakfast (heh heh) and watched part of this programme on the travel and living channel called "jamie's school dinners". it was very interesting! and after that i came online talked to a CONDOM (namely, marissa yee) and downloaded ( okay, fine, it's still downloading) maplestory. and then i went reading vinette, chunhing and felicia's 'you've been tagged' thingies and they're pretty funny! here're the rules of the game:
RULES of the "Lame Game"
1. post five weird/random things about yourself
2. at the end of it, put down five names of the ppl whom u wanna tag
3. after that, leave a tag at their tagboard to indicate that they've been tagged and to look at ur blog for the "lame" game rules!!!

heh heh heh. i shall do it too, since i'm feeling random now x))

1) five weird/random things about me
HMMM
1. i often talk to myself about really,really random things (sometimes even the weather)
2. i don't sing in the shower cos recently i found that everything that goes on in the bathroom can be very clearly heard from outside xX
3.i like cinammon and maple syrup! and i like mixing cinammon maple syrup peanut butter chocolate chips and honey together and eating it all at the same time x))
4.i do not like capsicum (dont know why, and BY THE WAY, jiaying said she thought pepperoni was capsicum and that is like sooo ULU haha)
5.i often get obsessive streaks. there was once i was obsessed with handwashing, that was in p2 or 3, and i felt as though i had to wash my hands every few minutes or die of some weird germ-caused-disease xx.

okay that's done!
and
2)five people i want to do this next
1.claire
2.faustina
3.baocheng
4.xueying
5.zeena

and an extra bit
five more people i want to do this next
(HEH HEH)
1.marissa
2.xinrong
3.peirong
4.sheena
5.pamelia

2005-11-07T22:40:00.000-08:00

CHORAL NIGHT TMR, boy am i nervous! well i just hope everything goes well no one forgets their lines sai doesnt fall off her chair and we all have a ROCKING GOOD TIME!

JIAYOU 203!
x)

2005-11-04T14:58:00.000-08:00

OUCH
my throat hurts
hurts
and hurts
i want to go to choral night tonight!
but my wubby said if i go today i'll get sicker and won't be able to perform on tues and that wouldnt be too good. but i really, really want to go to choral night! esp cos i missed it on wed :((
morris sent me this really, really nice song. called 'you are mine' its very soothing. x)
i just sorted out my old stuff! there was a LOT of stuff to tidy, very tiring. x(

2005-11-01T15:28:00.000-08:00

this entry is dedicated to SAI!! (OH NO LOOK AT HER HORRIBLE HORRIFIED EXPRESSION SO CUTE RIGHT!!!!!!!) sai was sick yesterday so i hope she gets well soon!!

okay, anyways. WANG XUEYING is my spunky table-mate. i have a lot of fun with her. she does weird things like eat PEANUTS during math lesson!! sai is fun to play 黑芝麻白芝麻WITH! haha. we are (or at least she is) pro at it! XDXD she can cry at will. very cool. she's a kindhearted soul, always there to help if you need her! likes telling lame jokes. has this whole book of lame jokes and goes around cracking pple up with the lame jokes from her lame joke book, as well as the funny way she says them. haha! she's the MAN-man in our class 2nd half's chi drama, and she acts her part very,very well! i feel like laughing every time i watch her, especially the part when she's bemoaning and lamenting the loss of her 马塞迪 XD is super good at chinese! i think she's like marissa though, and can't be bothered with math. hmm! she sat two seats from me on the first day of school and at first i thought she was SCARY! which, i later found, was a totally wrong impression. sai is FUN and FUNNY! and it's always nice to be around her. has nice hands which are nice to squeeze (especially when i'm nervous.) is super pro at badminton! also plays guzheng, and is VERY VERY VERY good at weiqi. she has this whole cabinet full of trophies she won at various weiqi competitions.. woah cool man! (quote peirong) gets enlightened, and proclaims her enlightenment in this very funny weird (and ulu) way. is a fellow lover of the word ULU! heh heh. i like the way she says it. she's also very pretty when she isnt making weird faces like the one in the picture. sai's also very caring and considerate. and very friendly! (: overall, she's a fantastic friend!

2005-11-01T15:07:00.000-08:00

i just finished the lovely bones! veryverynice :) it made me feel all sad and happy at the same time.
goreadit!

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) American Clergyman, Reformer

yesterday's choral night was pretty.. interesting. i liked 212's shows, i think they acted rather well. fundraising was pretty fun! i sold seven flowers :D took more photos of and with pple! XD

can't wait for 8november even though i feel kind of (and increasingly) nervous about it.
ah well.

IT'S NOVEMBER!
happy deepavali!

2005-10-30T20:10:00.000-08:00

This entry shall be dedicated to CLAIRE!
that's her in her chewie suit, very cool right! haha. she is very cute in or out of her chewie suit, but i think she must feel really, really hot. but she's never complained before!

anyways. CLAIRE YUEN QIAN HUI is atotal nut. haha! she's crazy over her hamster, Nut!! and goes on and on and on and on about how much nut rocks etc. recently she just got another hamster which she's named CHEWIE! (after herself. haha!) claire loves anything to do with hamsters, and any word remotely related to the word 'nut'. insists i am her minion and that i should call her 'your royal chewieness' or something. says that karene was her other minion at first, but she was fired and now sheena's her new other minion. very ulu right! she also likes dolphins and the colour blue very much. she hates pink, i think! likes jrock, and is mad over some guy called hyde! does not like curry. is a very nice and huggable person! nice to sit on. is friendly and a good confidant! listens when you have problems and need someone to talk to. likes the nightmare before christmas and has a wallet with jack's head on it. i like her wallet because it has a lot of cool neoprints inside as well as (from when i last saw it) LOTS OF MONEY! wahaha. does not update her blog even though she visits it pretty often! as mentioned before, she's playing chewbacca in our english drama. has a very funny roar that (i think) she's rather proud of! is a kind, forgiving person. was science rep last year. in green club! is sometimes very ego when she starts ranting about how much she and nut rock, etc etc but i think she's still a very humble modest person. she wont boast her head off at you, that's for sure. i think she just says it for fun. she's very tolerant and puts up with me. :) lent me $2.50 once and i haven't returned it yet! but she's really really nice, and isn't pestering me at all about it even though she has every right to! finally got msn, and seems pretty excited about it. is good at math! drinks CHLOROPHYLL which sounds seriously gross. a funny, caring, soft (literally and personality-wise) person. :)

2005-10-29T21:16:00.000-07:00

THIS IS MORRIS. my husband-cum-wubby-cum-classmate-cum-CCA mate-cum- viola mate-cum-desk mate- cum- PSGL-cum-fellow toot- cum- FRIEND! she is also a condom. hehehehe. (NOT ME)

she looks so evil in the picture no? HAHA! this entry shall be dedicated to HER! MARISSA YEE RUI TIAN is a TOOT. she has a bizarre sense of humour and sometimes says the weirdest things and then starts laughing her head off when no one else even thinks it's remotely funny. :Xshe is also very naughty and comes up with weird nicknames for people (quote jiamin, ASSmon etc). i think she bandages her arm up EVERY april fool's day. next year i shall do the sling for her! (learnt how to in my first aid sabbatical). she is cute and feels sore that her HIFE is taller than her (too bad!). hates makeup and almost refused to wear it for our SYF presentation (but i think she did, in the end). is a responsible reliable dependable person, can be VERY serious at times. good at acting angry/serious, which i am incapable of doing. :( nice to chat and crap with on the phone! is very good at viola, much better than me here at least, prob going to be the next SL! likes trekking and cycling, apparently. also likes reading. likes to philosophise, sometimes, too!not to forget wushu. she almost joined wushu! but luckily she ended up in strings heh heh. is thoughtful helpful and caring. she is rarely forgetful, unlike me, who has short term memory loss. takes german, almost decided to take french. acts like a guy sometimes, doesnt like girly stuff. only started taking neoprints this year (3 times and counting, 2 with me! and rach). LEFTY! has really really really nice chinese handwriting. DOES NOT RETURN AUTOGRAPH BOOKS ON TIME because i passed her my 2nd one like in SEPTEMBER 2004 and not only has she not returned it, she claims she's lost it! has a dog patsy who likes to lick people. went on a spamming craze once and did weird things to my ivle account. same subject combination as me. even though we didn't arrange for that to happen! is Catholic, and once invited me to mass with her, a very interesting and pleasant experience. is very smart and good at stuff like LA though i think she can't be bothered with math or something. hmm. and she has a very funny laugh! is a Germ because she is SARS and also takes german. is flat footed and is the lucky duck who gets to wear sports shoes to school! feels malu-ed that the whole school knows. is ulu because after her old shoes got all worn she bought a new pair that looked EXACTLY THE SAME. so weird! overall a tooty (frooty) fun person to have around.

I HAVE DECIDED to do peirongs too! (haha AKA write dedications) will randomly pick pictures from my com and whoever's in that pic, i'll do a dedication to, provided she's in 203. XD

2005-10-27T18:32:00.000-07:00

203 second half, your drama ROCKS. really. cool pple! i hope our eng one isnt too bad either.
today's my 9th anniversary in singapore! (isn't that exciting?) heh heh. feels cool to have been here for almost a decade! :))) and tomorrow's the last day of school and I'M MISSING MOST OF IT! ergh! i have to leave at 8.15 in the morning and i'm feeling REALLY SORE about that. but i think i can come back for drama prac at around 4. i hope 203 can take a few class photos together before i go off in the morning!
my brother is so lucky!he's in some ulu ice skating club which means that he goes ice skating EVERY WEEK! that's so unfair. i wish ny had an ice skating club too, that'd be really fun and i'd prob join (as long as they let me).
i like the title of karene's blog! Peas on earth. it's kind of corny, but funny. :D
i am feeling random, so i shall randomly say that Wasabi peas tastes good! i just finished a pack. heh heh. my nose felt quite uncomfortable when the wasabi got too strong but i still liked it very much! and another random Food Fact. My mum's stewed beef tastes good with peanut butter! sounds gross but tastes really good.
had lunch at Kap today, and decided that i should not eat at macdonald's again for another 2 weeks. after watching Super Size Me, i really don't think eating too much fast food would be a good idea! but today i was tempted to and gave in to temptation. even so, i TRIED to make my fries a bit healthier by SQUEEZING THE OIL OUT of them! with my napkin. so i ended up eating flattened, slightly less oily and salty fries. they tasted fine. i was happy because i'd slightly lowered my intake of sodium and saturated fats. i'm lame.

2005-10-26T05:16:00.000-07:00

today was quite a tiring day. audi rehearsal was not-too-good. ergh. hope choral night's better. know it will be! im in a bad mood, sorry anyone if i pissed you off. :(
anyways,
i like this song! :)
to all my friends, i'd like you to know that I WILL BE HERE! :)

I Will Be Here(Steven Curtis Chapman)
Tomorrow morning if you wake up
and the sun does not appear
I will be here
If in the dark, we lose sight of love
Hold my hand, and have no fear
'Cause I will be here
I will be here
When you feel like being quiet
When you need to speak your mind
I will listen
And I will be here
When the laughter turns to cryin'
Through the winning, losing and trying
We'll be together
I will be here
Tomorrow morning, if you wake up
And the future is unclear
I will be here
Just as sure as seasons were made for change
Our lifetimes were made for these years
So I will be here
I will be here
And you can cry on my shoulder
When the mirror tells us we're older
I will hold you
And I will be here
To watch you grow in beauty
And tell you all the things you are to me
I will be here
I will be true to the promise I have made
To you and to the One who gave you to me
Tomorrow morning, if you wake up
And the sun does not appear
I will be here
Oh, I will be here.

Home And Love

2005-10-25T22:39:00.000-07:00

Home And Love

Just Home and Love!

the words are small

Four little letters unto each;

And yet you will not find in all

The wide and gracious range of speech

Two more so tenderly complete:

When angels talk in Heaven above,

I'm sure they have no words more sweet

Than Home and Love.

Just Home and Love! it's hard to guess

Which of the two were best to gain;

Home without Love is bitterness;

Love without Home is often pain.

No! each alone will seldom do;

Somehow they travel hand and glove:

If you win one you must have two,

Both Home and Love.

And if you've both, well then

I'm sure You ought to sing the whole day long;

It doesn't matter if you're poor

With these to make divine your song.

And so I praisefully repeat,

When angels talk in Heaven above,

There are no words more simply sweet

Than Home and Love.

Robert W. Service

that's pretty sweet right? :) HOME AND LOVE AND 203! XD went to the botanical gardens, had fun rolling around. will miss 203 very very much!
then after school i went to spotlight (alone) to get yellow cellophane. very expensive. $3.99! tsktsk. then i went back to school and extra-ed a while and went home.
i hope tmr's full dress goes fine. Rachel said Claire's costume is really good, and that SeeTing's mask looks damn cool. COOL! Peirong and Eunice are doing their fight scene REALLY WELL! it was so cool to watch. and then everyone else's pretty good at their roles. except me, i have a problem with being ANGRY. i hope i dont let everyone down. :( the good thing is that i doubt i'll laugh or smile on stage, too nervous. so i shall keep my hopes up.
went to this talk by this Nobel Prize winning guy just now, it was quite interesting. the title was 'how to win the Nobel Prize' but of course he didnt like say stuff like 1) must work hard 2) must eat peanuts (?!) etc etc. instead his point was that you had to be BORN AT THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME!that means it pretty much depends on luck! anyways he talked abit about what he did, and it was all molecular bio stuff and i could actually HALF UNDErSTAND because we did DNA etc this year. i felt happy about that. heh heh!
YAY! my throat seems to be getting better. but my nose is really itchy and my eye is starting to water so i think i'd better go BLOW MY NOSE!
jiayou for tmr, pple! :)

2005-10-20T22:01:00.000-07:00

strings is having a recess-time-concert next monday. 203 PPLE MUST COME! or else... heh heh. actually nothing'll happen to anyone. but it would be nice if pple'd come listen! i just hope most of the audience is tone-deaf (likeme) and cannot tell how out-of-tune we are.
eh, this post exam period is kind of BORING! though im happy i dont have to think about results anymore. yea! but drama prac is fun! though ive still got a LOT to work on. bah. my acting sucks.
we got our book lists today! for sec 3. there's a LOT to buy for physics. thats fine, except that that means that i'll have to READ AND MEMORISE all that by the end of next year. ergh! i hate memorising. it always results in me having serious head-jam and short term memory. some stuff goes into my head and when more stuff comes in too, the old stuff goes out. and i end up right where i was at the beginning. blur as a sotong. (BTW does anyone know why sotongs in particular are always 'blur'? )
anyways my mum's pissed with me cos my typing's noisy and my bro cant sleep, apparently. so good night!

2005-10-17T20:19:00.000-07:00

first day of horrible results-receiving is OVER! yay. after school i went to video eazy (how do you spell it) with pui and we walked around the little shop for about half an hour looking for movies to rent. we didnt rent anything in the end, instead we bought some candy corn from cold storage. shared it. was terribly, excessively sweet and not as chewy as i'd have hoped, but still kind of nice. i think they're very fatty though, one piece of candy corn (the size of your thumbnail) has 6.25 calories! :S erghh. anyways after that i went home and read for awhile then i felt all sleepy, and just when i was about to fall asleep i got this call on my hand phone. someone looking for her Ah-nee. wrong number.
bleh, i am feeling lame. need to go wash the dishes.
oh yeah, something cool. Ernest Vincent Wright's (who's that?!) 1939 novel Gadsby is written without ANY letter E's! thats pretty cool. i mean, look at how many Es im using in this entry alone.

dish washing's done, im back! here's a write up on the God of Small Things (got it off the web, http://website.lineone.net/~jon.simmons/roy/).
Set in Kerala in the 1960s, The God of Small Things is about two children, the two-egg twins Estha and Rahel, and the shocking consequences of a pivotal event in their young lives, the accidental death-by-drowning of a visiting English cousin. In magical and poetic language, the novel paints a vivid picture of life in a small rural Indian town, the thoughts and feelings of the two small children, and the complexity and hypocrisy of the adults in their world. It is also a poignant lesson in the destructive power of the caste system, and moral and political bigotry in general. The novel has become an international best-seller, and in October 1997 won the coveted Booker Prize.

goreadit! :) can borrow from me, im almost done.

TODAY IN HISTORY. today in 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

2005-10-15T18:08:00.000-07:00

had a super long piano lesson today. one and a half hours! was okay except for aural>> singing because i DONT LIKE THAT! ergh. and since i suck at it my teacher spent more time on it. ERGH!
anyways i went to sera's house in the early afternoon to watch Angela's Ashes. even though ive watched it before AND read the book it was still very entertaining. i think the actor playing the little Frankie and the twins playing Eugene and Oliver are soo cute! heh heh heh. must also thank sera for the wonderful lunch i had! :D:D had to rush to piano, and climb this long winding hill. i usually go by that route when im going home, and thats down-hill so i was quite surprised at how much effort it took me to go up!
on my way home from piano this weird woman started making angry hand gestures at me. i didnt know who she was or what she was angry about so i smiled rather sheepishly at her and walked off. blah.

2005-10-14T16:27:00.000-07:00

I AM AT SAI'S HOUSE NOW
heh heh
she is very nice and hospitable but VERY ulu(as usual)
we played scrabble just now, and i actually had ULU spelt on my rack. hahah! it was interesting. there was also a time when i had ALL VOWELS on my rack and at that same time karene had all consonants on hers! haha. karene sai and i did back flips on the bed and SAI FELL OFF!! HAHA that was really really funny.
THANK YOU sai!

erghh. monday is SO not exciting.

2005-10-13T19:36:00.000-07:00

went ice skating today. very fun! i didnt think it would be that fun until i actually started skating! heh heh. i managed to not-fall-down-even-once but im not too happy about it cos it might've been fun landing WHAM on my bottom (like sai.. heh heh!). morris was really scary she fell down twice while we were holding hands and it was.. well... quite an experience!
after lunch i watched an omnimax movie about fighter pilots. i think they're SO coool!!and then i went home. yup!
im reading a book called the God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy. Im about halfway through and i think its a very good book. worth a read.
i still have no idea what i am going to do tomorrow. but i know im going to watch star wars with my bro tonight! (yay!) tonight i am also going to read, play piano, wash the dishes, finish the apple pie i bought for lunch,AND think about what i am going to do tomorrow.

2005-10-12T20:26:00.000-07:00

i had my first ever eye check up today! had it at gleneagles. andd.... my eyes are fine! the doc said my right eye's still perfect and my left is only a bit worse, 50 degrees. she said no, definitely not! when my mum asked if i should wear specs. so YAY! no worries for me. :D:D heh heh. my mum was a bit pissed with me cos that check up cos $85!! oh dear.

2005-10-11T18:10:00.000-07:00

exams are over! okay this is weird. i cant really get it into my head. some part of me feels as though they havent even started yet. ah well.
today i went out and watched corpse bride. pretty funny. i still like the 'jaw-dropped' part, and the 'head' waiter! hahaha! thank you fausty sharon chunhing jiaying and peirong for letting me have such a great time! :)
sai was supposed to come, but she was sick. so, GET WELL SOON,SAI! :D
i bought a new book! sylvia plath's journals. xD. 35 bucks. oh well, no more buying things for the rest of the month. bleh.but on the bright side, i'll have a nice time reading it! :D
hm. i have nothing to do. :( i got home tried playing this computer game and got fed up within 5 minutes.it was very boring! my mum wont let me watch tv and i dont feel much like reading. i think i shall go find something random to do i.e. do fortune telling for my bro. i tell you, i really DON'T have anything better to do at the moment.

RANDOM FACT. today is Henry Heinz's birthday. 11 Oct 1884. so let's all celebrate! cos without him we'd have one less ketchup brand to consider buying. HM!but i like Heinz ketchup, so im happy!

2005-10-09T16:16:00.000-07:00

im happy i actually learnt something about html last year, cause i was able to change my template a little so that now the silly scroll things dont irritate me as much. yay! (clap clap). well, it doesnt look as nice now, i guess, but at least it isnt half as annoying. XD. and now that im done, its back to revision. ciao!

2005-10-09T14:28:00.000-07:00

yay! photos! okay that's claire, the nice red blur in front of her is supposed to be jiaying's (beautiful, she says,) pencils! that's the funny pic of fausty i was talking about! and then that's zeena and morris doing math revision and that's a very.. interesting pic peirong took of herself! :P

2005-10-08T18:40:00.000-07:00

there's either something wrong with my periodic table or something wrong with my head. either way, im pooped! okay. here's why. Caesium is in group 1 of the periodic table. proton number 55. and 55-2= 53. 53 keep minusing 8>> 53>45>37>29>21>13>5. i get left with 5. FIVE. argh. i thought its supposed to be ONE?!?!?!? and thats not the only element. I AM TOTALLY CONFUSED! arghhhhh. if any nice smart person knows WHATS WRONG, can they please explain it to me? thank you thank you thank you in advance.
anyways,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FAUSTY! peirong took this very funny picture of fausty yesterday. i wanted to post it here but its not in this com so... well, when i copy it over i shall post it! (if fausty doesnt mind, that is)
anyways good luck with revision, everyone.

2005-10-07T07:12:00.000-07:00

MATH IS OVER! which leaves only science
its so sad we have to have our exams drag over the weekend cos they're is depriving me of playtime! still have to revise science erghh.
but this afternoon i didnt do any revision! i slacked. and then i slept. yup
and later, i am going to slack more and sleep more.
bleh

2005-10-06T12:49:00.000-07:00

that pic is so nice don't you think? :) got it from yahooligans.com. they have a lot of nice pics! check out the Science and Nature slideshow.
whhee. history is history.
i didnt finish the paper. bleh
but yeah its quite sad that there'll be no more history lessons cos history was nice.
hm!
well, time for math revision
bye!