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okay. i haven't been posting in awhile. not as frequent as before. so sue me. not that i'd care anyways.
it'll be a good break away from school - the bane of existence, to quote xy. except that she was referring to PW. and i had to suffer the whole time on the way to her house, listening to the endless babble and disgust directed at a certain subject that all JC students put in the most time for. and then she continues taking a stab at the system, complaining and whining over the fact that it's a pointless subject and that it shouldn't even be made compulsory, etc., well you get the drift.
and oh. life's not any better here you know. we suffer the hell. for two whole years. matter of fact. i think it's worse. crap. what i have i gotten myself into. some people say it's a two -year exam. whereas for the A's all ou do is just mug and cram everything before the exams and you'd do it. sucks that there are so many IAs. haiz. we're all enslaved by the system.
it's actually not the course that sucks. it's more the like system here and competitve environment that leads to the high level of stress found in every student who gives a shit about his future. i'm serious. to survive, you gotta have double degrees. and that is kinda the bare minimum. and it'll just get worse over the years, so i pity the next generation. and the ones after that. the system requires you to work hard to the core and it reduces you to a nocturnal creature staying up and doing work. and if that hasn't happened, it'll soon be - sooner rather than later. it's not just the system. it's the over ambitious nature of everyone here. and you can say that asians are overachievers. they set out on new projects and find that they have loads of things piling up on them. and that sucks when you realise that you can no longer handle it, and you give up sleep and all forms of social interaction to lock yourself up in your room, trying to complete the never-ending stack on assignments. you finish one after another,and realise that it's an endless journey - one that will drive you crazy eventually if you do not look out. no matter how much you do, the pile grows - and exponentially too. it's not a pleasant sight. you start to eat and breathe and study in the same air - in the spatial confinements of your room - which will turn into a sty sooner or later. you don't bother packing up before going to bed because a) you either fall asleep on your books and wake up in the morning to get ready for school, not bothering to pack up since you'd be using them again later, or b) you can't be bothered to pack up even if you actually do not fall asleep on your work - because you know that you'd use thhem again later. they're ultimately the same thing, yet different. and this eventually becomes and habit, and you live a life in approximately a ten square-metre habitat. it's disturbing, but you don't care. and because you get so caught up in actually doing your work, you don't spend time doing other things anymore. for instance, going out, or even making the effort to talk to your friends and family. you can't be bothered- or you simply just don't have the time - to open your mouth to start a conversation, and when one of them actually does it, you either a) scream at him and ask him to zip it or b) ignore him completely or c) grunt in agreement and rush back into the safety zone of your room. and the cycle repeats itself.
and i wonder why many people turn out like that. For example, many Singaporeans fail at job applications not because they don’t have the requirements – oh hell they do – but it’s because they don’t pass the interview. And why’s that so? It’s cos we don’t talk. It’s just the way we’ve been brought up. And how we’re moulded. And I’m not blaming anybody here. It’s just like that.
People say to balance work and play. Tell me how it’s possible to do that when you have a whole lot of work piled up on you, engulfing you every minute of your existence. And it accrues if you leave it out there for just a millisecond. Hence we all grow fatttt.
Lalaal. So that’s all nonsense. You can forget you read it.
this blog is officially dead. i swear. but i jo-ey still attempts to get me to revive it. so here goes.
FOA yesterday. it was quite cool. it went well, the dancers too. oh. and i almost died. my heels almost killed me. hahah. walking the entire day in stilettoes is not a very wise decision. so that's one thing to learn. and now that it's over. i feel kinda weird. and it's time to get back to work, since we've all been missing lessons as of late, to go for rehearsals. lalalal.
and hilary and joyce are plain retarded. i swear they are. they gave me and shawn pandan leaves. WTH. oh wells. and mine was topped off with a cob of corn. hahah. it was pretty hilarious though. it was like a reunion of some sort. went out after that for "supper" at raffles place.lol. and i reached home at one plus =.= and i still had to go to school this morning. it sucks big time. bleah.
moving back in time, there was grad night. it was COOOOOOOOOOOL. and most of the squatters were there. all of us were damn high. class reunion ((: took LOADS and LOADS of pics. just go take a look at jo's blog. it's picture spammed. a nice contrast to mine - a void of photos. oh oh oh. and there's gonna be class outing SOOOOOOOOOON. can't wait to see everyone again ((:
going for band FOA later. so i'm coming back late again tonight. yikes. no time to do work.
ciao!
whoa. i realise this is my shortest post of ALLLLL time. seriously. SUPER short. oh wells. show's that my brains aren't working any more.
oh and jo-ey. you'd better be glad i posted something just for your sake ((:
OMG. i went on a FIVE WEEK hiatus. nice.
so let's see what's new since joey's birthday.
a lot of stuff happened that i can't write down here. and i think i changed quite a bit. don't know if it's for the better or worse. or maybe it's both ways ((:
hm. there was choir camp, council camp, church camp, and i finaly got a break during the last week of the hol, which was spent by trying to mug in school with shawn and sengtiong and tanu. but it almost always turned out unproductive. or maybe it was just me.
and then CTs came rolling round and i had to mug real hard. like before. and chem totally killed me. i just hope that math would be enough of a consolation (:
went out with joey to watch Wanted. it was damn freakin awesome. but i hate the F-words. can't they be more implicit and subtle about it. it's gross how they just shout that word over and over again. it's BARBARIC. seriously. UGH. and because it was so good i watched it again the next day with shawn. HAHAHAH.
and now that CTs are over, we're all awaiting our results with quicken heartbeats. lol. results out on friday. there's council term that just started, and FOA to prepare for. a lot of stuff. oh yeah. and not to forget long overdue homework. HAHAH.
went to mediacorp today to support jon and ben's band. the lead singer is cute! hahah. i shan't comment on anything else less i get sued (: but it was quite fun. oh yeah. point to note: BOURBON PLUS COKE = COUGH MED. yikes.
HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY DERRICK!
HAHAH YEAHHH. i am back from my extremely long hiatus.
pre u sem absolutely rocks my socks ((:
it was cool. and fun. and sleepless ((:
my roomie's sherrie. CJ-er. i conclude that all CJ people where their skirts SHORT. yikes. hahahah.
our presentation actually went well. it was good. everyone laughed at the bird. LOL. but i have to say that some schools had really bad presentations. didn't get what they were trying to say. and some had suggestions that were really not feasible. FLEXICUBE ((: singapore's PSI will shoot up to 400 LOL. seriously.
and there were panel discussions. kinda boring. heh. no offense. i fell asleep during the second one. cos i was too tired. didn't sleep enough. the teacher caught me and had to wake me up.
there were games and stuff. the usual ice breakers. a big scale amazing race call Digital Chase in which we had to look for 2-D barcodes to get clues. then there was the filmfest thing. our LT screened Janji Joni. indon film. i'll go ask the indons when i go back to school. i thought the film was good. the ending especially. although it was fairytale-ish, it was subtle. so it's good. the subtlety. and the other stuff. except that i don't understand bahasa so i had to read subs the entire time through. and i got a headache halfway cos the images got too flashy and fast-moving. then there was the sandcastle building thing. quite cool. went to ECP and got burnt like crap. hahah. so now i am tanned once again. lost my tan and found it. oh wells. at least i didn't peel. just turned red. LOL.
SG 12 is COOOL. we are cool people. what with all the late nights and truth or dares and the sexual innuendos. gosh. it was fun. and our ultimate objective. and the company - Horny ltd. LOL. not pte ltd cos it has already gone regional. and i'm supposed to be the corporate laweyer =.= cos apparently i look like one. hahahah.
and i look like an air stewardess too. LOL. "have a safe journey". don't know why. must be the school u. and the HC teacher seriously loves it. don't ask me why. she got weiling to take pics of me and the school u and bomber jacket =.= she loves the non tucked-in blouse and the "cute" half pleats on the skirt. LOL. and she LOVESSSS the bomber jacket. HAHAHAH.
and nicholas seriously managed to squeeze into my jacket. cool eh. and i wore the RJ tie ((: everyone'll kill me for it. during closing ceremony we swapped blazers and cam whored in them like crazy. ahahah. seriously.
and we all didn't sleep. have i mentioned that? yup. so we died on the last day. but they all stayed up only the last night. i didn't sleep much the entire five days. about ten hours? something like that. so i'm trying to catch up.
and i'm off to camp tomorrow. AGAIN. i seriously have ZERO time left to mug for CTs. oh wells. i'll try my best ((:
gonna do some work and pag my bags now.
CIAOOOO!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JO-EY!!!
EUPHORIA. ELATION. A SILVER LINING IN THE CLOUDS.
gosh. can i just say i'm happy in case you haven't gotten it yet ><
yeah you got that right. i'm finally out of my emo state. and my screwedup state too. hahah.
today just rocks my socks. nah, not really. just the part after noon. started with church. i finally got to see my cell members. like, seriously. i haven't seen the HC gang in damn long. like seriously DAMNNNNNNNNNNN LONG. i think it's like about one month. ECK. i miss them. YIKES. never thought i'd miss guys but yeah. oh wells.
so we had a pretty fun time today. celebrated ernie's birthday. but he had to leave early for a family dinner. so we had to get people to finish the cake. HAHAH. and everyone went out for dinner but derrick and i had to go home cos we had to chiong stuff. so we decided to walk them to the station. but then sharon found jason's bag so i went up to look for him, but he already left. oh wells. so when we came back down, we realised that the rest of the gang left without us >< how nice.
so we walked to heartland. and upon walking there derrick asked me if he should cut his hair. and i said YES. HAHAHAH. it was pretty long. long hair on guys is really...GROSS. anyways, that's besides the point. so we went to L'Oreal to get his hair cut. and joyce saw us. so she came in to say hi before leaving for cell dinner. and clever boy, he forgot to draw money so i paid for his hair cut. it cost $16. HAHAH. and it was...oh wells. i shan't give my comments on his hair cut. it looked very different from his previous one. that much i can say.
then he accompanied me to heartland to get the serviettes. so we finally caught up. HAHAH. and we recounted the horrendously hilarious gelare incident oh me treating him and sk to a gelare cone each. and how all the cream melted and i was disastrous and i didn't wanna eat my cone so in the end one of them ate it for me. HAHAH. it was a truely dirty experience. it was fun no doubt, but i don't exactly look forward to having a repeat of it.
so we went to cold storage and tried hunting down the serviettes, but to no avail. we went to the section that was labelled napkins, but all we found were dypers. and i went to another section labelled napkins, but they were the wrong napkins. you know, for the use of the female species of the human kind. yeah. hahah. i don't think i need to elaborate on that. so we decided to give up and asked one of the people. but we had to speak in chinese. and i swear we both fail at that. i was like hi auntie do you know where the serviettes are? and she pointed to the kleenexes. and i was like bu shi, bu shi. then derrick was like, snapping his fingers and trying to get the word out. and he finally said zhi zin. then i was like, yeah. na ge. then she pointed to the kleenexes again and said zhe ge bu shi zhi zin ma. then i was like, no, bu shi zhe zhong, shi na ge chi fan de. and she gave me this incredulous look and derrick tried to makethings simpler by saying "shi na zhong fang xing de". but she didn't know where it was so she pointed us to the direction of the toilet rolls. which we checked earlier. so after a while, we finally found the serrviettes. we had a great laugh about it. about how we both fail so badly at chinese.
OH MY GOSH. i simply love today.
i didn't fall asleep at all throughout the day. except that i was trying hard to keep awake during chapel ((:
so it was a typical day at school: playing a fool in class, being damn blur as usual, and so jesmond and gang always manages to "suan" me so they say.
WAFFLES ARE DAMN COOL. not. i was talking to Dneo last night, and i asked him to bring a mixing bowl. but he didn't have one. so he suggested the milo tin. LOL. seeing that there wasn't another alternative, i had to agree, right?? so we were making the batter in class during second break. Dneo being Dneo mixed the flour and eggs together and formed a freakin' DOUGH. wth. he totally forgot to add the butter =.= nice huh. so when he added in the butter, we discovered that we were having trouble trying to mix it. it was damn hard. a nice dough no doubt, but not a nice batter. bleah. anyways, we added the milk in the hopes of actually getting it to dissolve the dough+butter mixture. but to no avail >.< so i added in all the milk, and noobstick was trying to stir the mixture with a FORK. LOL. so i offered him the spoon that i used to make the milk. it wasn't that great since it was pretty small, but oh wells, it beats a fork anytime. WAY WAY BETTER. but seeing the the dough was already set, and we can't pull it apart, and the milk isn't doing anything to dissolve it, noobcake decided to shake the gross mixture of a batter. so we capped the milo tin, and the guys took turns to shake the tin. LOL. it was DAMN HILARIOUS. you could actually hear the mixture inside slapping against the walls of the tin. it's that sick. there was this gurgling sound. and some 5.2 dude, jarell seah i think, came into our class and Dneo was like, jarell, hold the tin and shake. and he went all ???. LOL. but he shook it. anyways i shall cut this nonsense short by saying the guys passed the tin around and they all shook it, and Dneo took pics of them, LOL. it was pretty amusing. so we opened the tin, and it looked ok. so i poured the batter into the big container. and guess what. we weren't successful. the bottom had so many bits of flour - the bits of dough that couldn't be dissolved. and there was bits of butter too. but oh wells. we decided to try one. so i made one, and it was damn screwed up. i mean, the misture was pretty thick so it couldn't fill the entire mould. so i added more, but it exploded >.< then the waffle iron emitted this strange stink that only i could smell. LOL. all the guys claim it smelt "awesome". nice one.
so the first waffle came out screwed up. and guys being guys, they snatched the one miserable piece of waffle the moment Dneo cut it up. LOL. they said it tasted good. they're damn lousy if they think so. no.1, it looked gross. like, it was freakin' yellow. no.2, it smelt gross. i needn't explain further. no.3, i almost puked when i smelt it and saw it. so i decided we weren't selling that batch of failed waffles. ALL THANKS TO DNEO. THANKS A LOT MAN. no.4, guys being guys just want to eat. so they were damn happy that i wasn't gonna sell them. and thus i am forced into making breakfast for them tomorrow. THANKS A LOT HUH. I MAKE THE BATTER AND THEN YOU FORCE ME TO MAKE THE WAFFLES FOR YOU NOW. UGH. oh wells. at least erik promised me that he'd "REMEMBER TO BRING THE CHEESE SPREAD". HAHAHAHAH. yayyyy.
so therefore i am taking the public transport willingly, or rather, with forced willingness, FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE. i have be at some council meeting at 7AM tomorrow since the department results are out. i think i'm in welfare, by the looks of the web they churned out. YAY. but i don't mind being in any of the departments. anyways, this means that i have to prepare the food before 7AM. this is damn illegal and i hope no one finds out about it cos i'd get sacked from council if someone actually reports me. technically we're not supposed to be eating in class, and i'm not helping the situation by allowg them to do so. ECK.
and i'm gonna re-run my 2.4km run tomorrow. i aim to cut my timing by about 10seconds in the least. LOL. i have lost touch with X-country. oh wells. i suck at running now man. LALALAL. i shall run properly tomorrow. YAYYYYY.
and we're gonna redo the batter. Dneo said it got screwed up because we didn't add the stuff in the correct order. and we forgot to add in the butter, and i forgot to bring the sugar. LOL. oh wells. looks like we have to do it in the milo tin again since not a single person i asked has a mixing bowl. DARN. let's hope it comes out much better tomorrow ((:
for the record, Dneo and noobstick and noobcake are the same person.
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anyways, i was going home after pre u sem today, and guess what. i saw jo-ey at dover. no. it's more like, i called her, and i asked "where are you". then she replied "dover station". then i went "seriously?!?!? 'cos i'm like, here too!". then we spotted each other. THAT WAS DAMN COOL. didn't know she'd be there. there were throngs and throngs of people at the station today. jo told me it was cos all of them were let off at 5PM. and when i asked charvi why there were so many people, she said it's because i've never left school so early before. HAHAH. there's much truth in that. i spend more time in school than i do at home. haiz. that's sad. BOO HOO.
anyways, that's besides the point. so i met jo. and we decided to go home together. so we stopped at the mall to repair her specs. and i was saying how i wanted another pair of specs. and then we saw this blood red Miss Sixty spectacle case and we were like "AHHHHHHHHHHH I WANTTTT". we contemplated asking if we could just buy the specs case on its own but we decided our mom's will kill us if they found out we bought a specs case with no specs in it. BUT RED IS COOL OKAY. sorry but we just happen to love the sae colour. then we checked out the prospects of nice wallets for my long-due birthday present ((: then we went up and checked out shoes. and i was screaming over the patents. HAHAH. sorry, i can't help it. i love shoes. and i love patents. i just re-fell in love with patents when i saw hui fang's shoes that saturday. AHHHHHH. I WANTTTT. jo was like, trying to make me chill. HAHAHAH. then we went to popular and decided to try out some pens but not buy any. and that was even before entering the store. hahah. it was hilarious. then we went to the bag shop. and we were saying how the bags are generic and "ah-lian-nish". LOL.
then we decided that we were hungry. so we decided that we'd get my ice cream first then head for food. so we got my vanilla ice cream from NTUC. then we went to that shop that sold the XXL chicken thing. and we bought just that. then we decided we wanted to sit. so we went to macs and ordered a huge drink. HAHAH. then we sat there, and we used her laptop [since i didn't bring mine] to surf blogs. we went to the 4A2'07 blog and proclaimed it dead. my tag's still the first one there =.= then we read other ex-class mates blogs, read miss kang's blog too. there was this random pic of a damn colourful toilet bowl. HAHAH. don't ask why. cos i really don't know.
then we decided to go home. so i walked her to the bus stop. and she missed her two buses while walking there. LOL. then we sat at the bus stop talking. and 325 came. and she was like, i think i'm gonna miss this bus. then we can talk longer. then i just hapily agreed. HAHAH. but she had to go when 161 came. but she promised that she'd call me tomorrow after she was done with her project. then if it's possible, we'd go to gelare tomorrow to have ice cream waffles ((: it's be a great change from the waffles that i make. HAHAH. I CAN'T WAIT FOR TOMORROW ((:
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anyways, my day shaped up pretty well. I AM GONNA GET A NEW PHONE, YAYYYYYYYY. and it's gonna be REDDDDDDDD. SO COOOOLL. can't wait for the weekend. YESSSSSSSSSSS. sorry. i'm just over delirious about the fact that i'm gonna have a RED phone ((((:
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okay. i just waste my time typing away. oh wells. but i almost fell asleep reading A Whole New Crowd on fiction press. i was reading Trouble Starts with a Q last night. finished it, and decided to read AWNC. so i read a few chapters of it before i slept last night. thus i slept late. HAHAH. but i think i'm really tired. so i shan't continue reading. i shall continue tomorrow in school. i'll get one of the boarders to log into the net for me ((: yayyyy.
okay. i shall go sleep now. so that i can wake up in three and a half hours. YUP.
G'NIGHT.
YAYYYY. another slack day.
NO ECONS. NO STRAND 1 ENG A1. cos sir and madam didn't come in for lessons.
and guess what we did. we played Go Fish. AGAIN. i think i'm becoming tired of that game. mann. and madam gave us a commentary for homework, but no one handed it in cos we were discussing about the fund raiser. FINALLY.
we finally got around to discussing about the fund raiser. GOSH. HE finally started. i think i was quite pissed with HIM. dang. don't know how it sparked off. i think it was during break when i was talking to the indon scholars and they were talking about it. cos almost every class has already started. so we're lagging behind. and erik was talking about how he doesn't wanna top up to $130/ student. oh wells. neither does any one of us want to do that erik. so we shall work together and pool together loads of cash yeah?
and dang i'm so gonna be broke buying all the stuff. haiz. stuff's done so differently here from PL. back in PL we get to claim whatever we spend. here, we pay for it. damn it. thus i declare myself broke before i even go to the supermart. i'm not complaining. it's just different. it's all a matter of getting used to.
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so you can imagine now how happy i am that we're finally doing something. seriously. putting a certain someone in charge of this is so gonna screw it up. oh wells. and in the end it was me and jesmond doing the talking. AGAIN. as usual. always. oh wells.
come to think of it. today was kinda insignificant. nothing much happened. except for the usual 'bullying" i get from the usual bunch of guys who like to "bully" me. namely erik and julfri and vincent and stanford and levin and jesmond and darrell. man. the bottom line is GUYS ARE JUST SO CHIDISH. TSK.
and seeing johnsee in class. HAHAH. i came to school ten minutes earlier. cos i managed to get dad to leave the house earlier. so caleb reached his school at like, 6.35AM?? HAHAH. damn early. i used to, last year, when dad had to fetch gid to school in the morning too. so i miss reaching school early and sitting in the assembly area, reading my storybook til the start of assembly. i usually get at least half an hour of pure good reading time in the morning. and loads more in the afternoon after school when i go home. i used to have LOADS AND LOADS of time last year. even though it was O's and all. no stress no nothing. except loads and loads of time. homework was quite little. and school work's easy. and now?? ZERO. i can squeeze in like, minutes here and there, but it's not fun anymore.
and i can so conclude that GUYS ARE DAMN VAIN. they care about their hair A LOT. i have a mirror on my desk, and julfri's the one using it most of the time. always checking his 6-cm hair, LOL.. and erik too. his is a variation of the first. he uses the mirror in my comb to look at the reflection of his hair in the other mirror. HAHAH. applying sound use of the laws of physics, LOL. shit man. i keep on thinking school. dang. no good no good. it's as if school has been infused and imprinted on my brain. HAIZ. anyways, i shall continue supporting my point. julfri used the moisturiser too. HAHAHAH. damn funny. he's the only one who used it without being forced. HAHAH. i put some on jesmond's hair too. his hair is damn soft. HAHAHAH.
OH YEAH. when i was coming home, i saw SK and soph walking toward hougang mall. those guys are damn cool. i bet they were going to soph's house. SK has officially integrated into the ling family.. HAHAH. talked to them for a bit, then headed home. and then i saw gid coming out of the train station. he didn't bring his umbrella so he was waiting for mom to send one to him. LOL. good thing i saw him. so we went home together. first time since the beginning of the year. lol.
AND YAY. I GOT YOU GUYS THE CHOCOLATE YOU LOVE SO MUCH. YOU GUYS HAD BETTER LOVE ME FOR THIS. I AM SPENDING MONEY ON YOU. AND TURNING MY LOCKER INTO A MINIBAR.
so it's gonna be a busy weekend. i don't know why i'm thinking about the weekend now when friday's not even here yet. i totally skipped friday. oh wells. there's gonna be that preserve planet earth conference thing on saturday. so my entire saturday is wasted in school again. ain't that a recurring pattern. and i'm gonna spend sunday morning till before dinner making waffles. or rather, trying out the recipes. haven't done them in a long while. dang. and after that, there's a dinner appointment with certain relatives to celebrate caleb's birthday. now the choice is between Jumbo Seafood Restaurant and Swenson's. i vote Swenson's. and i bet we'll go there. i think we'll spend less there than if we go to Jumbo. so effectively, my entire weekend's GONE GONE GONE. nice huh. who said weekends were meant for you to relax? it's more like "weekends are meant for you to work twice as hard to complete whatever you haven't done".
and i've got LOADS OF HOMEWORK TO DO. i seriously have no idea how it all accumulated. i do my work. but maybe i'm just damn slow. oh wells. here's this list:
Physics - Simple Harmonic Motion (WS) 4.4-4.5; IA
Chem - IA
Math - trigo worksheets from the yearbook [i shall do them first so that i won't have to do them later ((: ]
Eng A1 - strand 1 commentary - i don't wanna do it. i didn't even go for any lessons when the rest of the class was discussing frost. i'm SO DEAD; there's the mock IOP next monday. I AM SO SCREWED.
Econs - worksheets; IA
ALL EXCEPT MATH IS DUE NEXT WEEK. the commentary was due today >.<
DANG
and on top of that, there's preserve planet earth conference research and PRE U SEM to do. busy busy busy me.
UPDATE: no. hours slept since sunday: SEVENTEEN HOURS. eighteen more hours to complete thirty-five ((:
GO ME. THE BEST IS YET TO BE :D