Warning: long ranty post up ahead! Not to be read if you’re in a bad mood to begin with.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you!
So promos are over. I ought to be rejoicing, but a part of me wishes that I could have another go at them – I would even do another set of Promo papers next week, if given the chance. Sigh.
I’ve already mentioned how terrible GP and Chinese were.
Chemistry on Monday was fine, much better than expected. In fact, I can practically call it the paper I’m most satisfied with, which is saying a lot because everyone knows I suck at Chemistry. Note: It doesn’t mean I’ll score the best at it, but I think I’ll be happy with what I get because God knows I put in the effort.
Physics on Tuesday was not so fine, though it was a million times better than the CTs so hopefully I don’t get a C again.
Biology on Wednesday. I don’t even know where to begin. From the start, it gave me the most headaches, and the crazy cramming would have paid off, if I hadn’t been so damn careless. I was happily working my way through the paper, managing my time very well indeed [yes, I knew it was 2 hours long unlike some poor souls out there who planned their time thinking it was 2 and a half hours long] ... I even managed to do the unexpected 10 mark essay on translation and transcription ... I even finished early, early enough to check through Section B, Question 1 ... then Question 2 ... then Question 3 ... and 4 minutes before the end of the paper, I flipped over to the next page and my heart stopped and my life flashed before my eyes and I nearly had a seizure there and then BECAUSE,
I ACCIDENTALLY LEFT OUT AN ENTIRE 10 MARK SECTION.
Not because I didn’t plan my time well [I know lots of people who didn’t finish because of that].
Not because I didn’t mug [because I did and the question was on respiration which I mugged the hardest for so I’m sure I could have answered at least some of it].
TEN WHOLE MARKS. 10 marks can pull you down from an A to a B, from a B to a D even.
Needless to say, with 4 minutes left to the end of the paper, I didn’t exactly write anything coherent because I didn’t even have the time to read through the question properly. Poof. 10 marks gone.
After passing up the paper I just sat at my desk and tried to stop snivelling because snivelling is for babies. Then Mr Tan came to ask me what was wrong and when I told him I started sobbing for real. And I wanted to take Bio S but now there’s no hope of that anymore.
Emerson was being nice and comforting as we walked out of the hall after I took control of my tear ducts and slowed it down to a drizzle ... but once I reached the canteen and saw Justin’s face, well, I’m quite embarrassed at the spectacle I made – I ran positively bawling into the boyfriend’s arms. It took a long time and a few packets of tissue [thank you Tubby] and a lot of encouraging words [thank you everyone] before I finally calmed down.
I suppose it was a good lesson learnt. It just sucks to know that I’ll be getting the same marks as the people who didn’t put in that much effort or didn’t manage to complete their papers because they ran out of time. Ugh ugh ugh.
I guess all that stress wasn’t doing any good for my body, because I fell ill and I still am now. Down with a cold which resulted in a foggy brain, I couldn’t study for math [I couldn’t even figure out how to differentiate 2x^2 because I was wondering why the constant 2 didn’t turn the whole thing into 0, yeah, that’s how foggy I was].
Slept in the afternoon, and tried to sleep early the night before the paper, but I couldn’t really.
So the paper was quite disastrous to say the least. It’s especially bad because I know it was a relatively straightforward paper, and I would have been able to ace it under normal conditions. Math was the only subject I was confident for, and today I completely shattered all hopes of taking any S papers. Because I felt so groggy, my nose-blowing noises were echoing deafeningly through the hall, my brain was murky and sluggish, my airways and throat were entirely clogged up ...
Made so many mistakes, left so many blanks, definitely not a chance of getting an A anymore.
I’m going to disappoint my Math teacher so much, I know she expects a lot from me.
So upsetting lah. I wouldn’t have minded half as much if it was a disaster because I didn’t study enough, because that would be my own bloody fault right?
Sigh.
I guess it’s all still my own bloody fault.
Well, much thanks to everyone around me who has endured my fits of grouchiness, in particular the boyfriend ...
... who has had to suffer under my mood swings, to calm me down whenever I had crazy bouts of stress, to hold me whenever I burst into tears [very often, I’m ashamed to confess], to explain my work to me when I didn’t understand ... who’s always been there to care for me no matter how bratty / bitchy / unreasonable / hurtful I am.
Love you, thank you so much (:
Ok if you survived through that paragraph of mush, and the um nearly 800 words of ranting before that [Wenloong, tell me if you word-counted again to make sure I wasn’t lying], then I congratulate you.
And hope sincerely for your sake that your exams went a lot better than mine.
7th October
It’s the day after the promos, and what am I doing?
...
Sitting at home emptying my nose into a mountain of tissues.
No happy celebratory post-promos outing, because I’m still as sick as I was yesterday.
My classmates are having fun at East Coast, and there really has got to be a conspiracy against me because I’ve missed every single class outing there was this year, because of reasons like training, already made other plans, and I can’t remember what else. Bleugh. Sorry 3Q-ers, I’m not trying to be antisocial ok? I’ll try to make it the next time. Hope you had fun.
I shall plan out the stuff I have to do, now that the revolting promos are over.
Important dates
- Later: Quidam!
- Tomorrow: special day <3 and family dinner
- 17th Oct: Dental [Yay TwinStomach, no more braces soon!!]
- 19th Oct: Somebody’s birthday!
- 31st Oct: Chinese AO, sighhh
- Nov: PW ): ): ):
- ASAP: Plan Lake Kenyir thing with Jingwen [!! Quickquick I’m very excited :D ]
Pampering myself
- Number one on the list: Sleeeep. Eyebags, shoo!
- Get a facial
- Get a haircut
- Get a tan [I’m pasty white now]
- Go to the beach (:
- Shopping! [Especially the long overdue TwinStomach shopping date!]
- Go Jitterbugs-ing more with Maddy
- Learn to cook [essential for survival if I choose overseas studying]
- Learn to bake more yummy stuff
- Get a swimming costume, swim
- Ice skate, rollerblade, cycle, etc etc
- Finish playing FF7 [haha!] with the boyfriend
- Get a new pencilcase ... ever since Livia started copying MY ZIPPY PENCILCASE THAT MY MUMMY MADE FOR ME WHEN I WAS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL it’s become way too common and I don’t feel special anymore ):
- Chocolate fondue party! [Who wants to come over? :D]
- OH and, visit Marshmallow!
Other stuff to do
- Clear my desk and everything else that has been my makeshift desk [eg. computer table, floor, etc.]
- Jogging regiment with Liru [BURN the fats I’ve stored up since hibernation]
- In general, exercise more
- Is training starting soon?
- Maybe I should get down to stretching, oh dear :P
- Plan gym stuff, get it approved ASAP so we can get down to the exciting bits
- Open house stuff
- Clear shelves of yucky clothes
- Decide whether or not to get a job during the hols? [Must talk to Tubby, heh]
And of course,
- Catch up with friends ...
- ... and family ...
- ... and the boyfriend ...
Aiyoh, still got a lot but I shan’t bore you with the nitty gritty details (:
Enjoy yourselves while the freedom lasts, people.
8th October
Quidam: a nameless passer-by, a solitary figure lingering on a street corner, a person rushing past. It could be anyone, anybody. Someone coming, going, living in our anonymous society. A member of the crowd, one of the silent majority. The one who cries out, sings and dreams within us all. This is the "quidam" that Cirque du Soleil is celebrating.
A young girl fumes; she has already seen everything there is to see, and her world has lost all meaning. Her anger shatters her little world, and she finds herself in the universe of Quidam. She is joined by a joyful companion as well as another character, more mysterious, who will attempt to seduce her with the marvelous, the unsettling, and the terrifying.
Ahhh ... Quidam last night was amazing! Well worth the $132 per ticket, I must say. [Though it may be different if I were the one who had to fork out $660 for the family haha :P]
I liked it so much I forced daddy to buy the DVD for me. All their products are amazingly expensive though! [$7 popcorn? $300++ scarves?]
Tell me if you want to borrow! Must take good care of it, $50 ah! Hehe. I’ve watched Saltimbanco and Alegria on VCD, they weren’t half as exciting as it was live, so I hope you’ll enjoy it anyway (:
I don’t quite feel like talking about the performance because whatever I say won’t do it any justice. Suffice to say, it was one of the best performances I’ve ever seen, the feats they can do are astounding and I was sitting on the edge of my seat the whole time.
The music was great, and it’s especially remarkable because everything from the instruments to the sound effects to the singing is live! The props were really cool, the costumes really suited the theme, I loved how there was no pause in between the different items, everything just flowed seamlessly and beautifully.
Quite magical and somewhat ... sinister. It left us debating on what the theme of the performance was all the way home. But it was really really magnificent.
Ok enough gushing about Quidam, hehe! Sibling photos, before going off for for the show:
We’re happy and smiley and normal here ...
But we can never resist taking goofy photos ...
Hehe! <3
[Yes yes, horrendously ugly wet hair, we know :P ]
9th October
Walking back to my house from school today, I saw my sister taking a jog, puffing and panting down the neighbourhood road ... Of course, I couldn’t resist walking over to say HELLO, and I ended up jogging beside her for about 400m. Yes, with my pink bag slung over one shoulder, keys dangling from one hand, and a breadtalk bun clutched in the other, clattering up and down the road.
Accidentally meeting ‘newly formed’ couples on the road is quite cute, especially if they stare at you in terror and hastily unlink those hands, hehe! But no need to be embarrassed lah, what’s so embarrassing about looove? (: [Besides, I had long seen it coming but hehe anyway ...] The more embarrassed you act, the more teasing you’ll get!
Nothing wrong with showing some affection, lah. Makes the world a warmer and jollier place, right? :D
This Saturday was mainly spent eating, shopping, and eating some more. Ahh, the bliss of having no more promos -beams-! Met the boyfriend to catch Corpse Bride, but unfortunately the cinema theatre broke down >( so we didn’t get to watch it in the end, sigh!
[Caught it on Sunday, though – well worth a watch, the animation was lovely and the storyline was so sweeeet!]
Along Citilink, the poor boyfriend got impaled!! Gasp!!
And somewhere in Suntec, we saw a television program that reminded us greatly of our friend Tubby, so I just had to get a photo of it just for him!
[Feeling honoured, Tubby? Hehe!]
[At this juncture, please take note that if you don’t want to view excessive photos, stop scrolling down.]
After lunch at Subway [meatballs are the best, people] and discovering the broken down cinema [at least we got refunded!] we headed to Starbucks and went absolutely trigger happy. Which felt very tourist-y but ‘twas fun.
We discovered my skirt was waterproof! See the beads of water rolling about happily on my skirt?
And here’s a tiny fraction of the photos that we took ... if you’re bored of our faces then just close the window lah :P
1. Comparing eye size
2. Fishy faces
3. Goofy grins
4. Justin stabs my dimple!
5. Somebody tell him he is SO NOT FAT >(
6. After his haircut!
MRT-ed down to Raffles Place to meet the family for a buffet dinner on the 3rd highest floor in the UOB building, aka the 60th floor! It was right beside the Singapore River and looked out to a gorgeous view. We could see the new Supreme Court from there, but it looks more like a UFO to me. Shouldn’t Supreme Courts look majestic and grand? HM. See for yourself:
Anyway. Went up to the restaurant, and I was immediately fascinated by this Chinaman pouring hot water into teacups with a dangerously long and pointy teapot! I asked him if I could take a photo, and so he struck a marvellous pose and poured my tea backhand!! Wah. I applauded after he was done, hehe!
A few pictures of the buffet dinner:
1. Jasmine tea – my favourite type of Chinese tea! Terribly pretty too, right? Little flowers floating around (:
2. The Chinaman pouring tea the ‘normal’ way at another table [no backhand techniques this time]
3. An amazingly spicy Sichuan dish that made me choke and cry for about 5 minutes before my dad got me a cup of iced water! One of the hottest things I’ve ever eaten. [Should have listened to my dad when he warned me against eating it.]
4. A ferocious fish.
There were lots and lots and lots more dishes [like soft shelled crabs mmmmmm!] but snapping photos throughout dinner would have been weird, and as if you’re interested in knowing exactly what I ate :P
Though there was a pause in the dinner where the waitress seemingly forgot all about us for, like, half an hour, which warranted a round of family photos:
1. Daddums and Mumsies
2. Sisters
3. Crazy sisters
4. Crazy brother
We ate for nearly 2 hours, and everyone ended up practically bursting out of our pants. We made plans to eat nothing but watery porridge the next day, but that obviously didn’t materialise :P
To end it off, here’s the gorgeous view from the 60th floor [very much zoomed in, you can see about 8 times as much as that actually]:
And we took a walk along Singapore river, which was gorgeous too:
I guess Singapore still has some pretty places to visit (:
13th October
To be honest, I’ve never exactly been very on about house stuff, even in Sec 3 when I was part of this:
[Betcha can’t spot me :P The pyramid’s only halfway there but that’s the first picture I could find.]
Even so, I dragged myself down for the interhouse games during the marking days, but didn’t exactly contribute apart from watching people compete. Improvement nonetheless! :D
Very fun, Justin and I made out during the track finals some more.
Ok lah, bluff you wan, we didn’t really :P
Guess who lost a shoe while having a ‘fight’ on the track halfway through one of the races?
... Guanghao! XD [See, he’s bursting through the finishing line with one shoe missing]
Anyway. Justin got into 400m finals [weird, since during the heats someone tossed him a rugby ball while he was running and he ran to the finishing line with a rugby ball tucked under one arm] but died halfway through his run due to an injured knee, and subsequently pulled out from the other races. Poor thing, sayang sayang!
[Before running, all ready in his yellow spikes]
Went out with my class FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER after the track meet, so Tubby is not allowed to call me ‘antisocial’ anymore! We watched the Myth, and all the guys went gaga over the Korean actress:
Pretty? :D The Indian woman was the funniest though. As were the bloopers at the end of the movie.
We walked about pretty aimlessly after the show, and I felt a little awkward at first ... Until the rest of them decided to walk to PS/Cine, and I was a lazy bum, and Emerson was being a lazy bum too, so we announced that we were going off first. Tubby tagged along for a bit and we had a man-to-man-to-girl talk.
Emerson and I banished Tubby away and forced him to “be a man” and join the rest and stop running away from his problems. Which potentially may have been a little suspicious because it seemed as though Emerson and I wanted to be alone together (?) but thank God for understanding friends and an understanding boyfriend, so no confusions there (:
[And speaking of the ‘understanding boyfriend’, Justin gives other guys permission to call me if they need girl advice, with a 1 hour time limit. And he lets Tubby hold his hand. Hahaha.]
Shopped around for presents for Emerson’s 2 female friends [thus I had to tag along to offer some girly suggestions], and had a nice chat along the way, punctuated with our usual bouts of insults. Haha, for some unknown reason, I suan him the most out of almost all the guys I know, and it’s reciprocal :P We know we’re only kidding around [haha well usually] so it’s fine. He sent me off to the bus stop which was surprisingly sweet of him, I think he’s becoming more gentlemanly ahaha! Good, good.
Today was the first ‘proper’ day of school in what seems like a long long time. Received GP results first thing in the morning, and it seems like most people in class got 40-something and 50-something percent, so yeah it was quite an upsetting start for all of us. [Except crazy Siyuan who got 41/50 for his essay, whatthehell :P] Bustled off to the toilet to console a dismayed Liru ): Sigh.
[I have a rather peculiar characteristic whereby when people are crying, even if I’m not feeling very sad, if they cry long or hard enough, it’ll induce me to start weeping too. For no discernable reason, hehe.]
Anyway. Chem and Math lecture were torturous, I was so fidgety and everything sailed through my head. PW was quite a bore, but I’m glad it’s ending soon. Chinese was funny because we got back our papers – I was sitting next to Gabrielle and when we saw her zuo wen marks we screamed because it was really high! And then I got back my zuo wen and when we saw my marks we screamed even louder because it was a little higher! Haha :P
Even my mum was shocked at my Chinese marks [what to expect, when failing Chinese has become a family tradition]. When I informed her I didn’t really study for it, my dad gleefully told her that I just proved her wrong, because she’s been bugging me to study Chinese ever since the promos ended. Haha but I must try to study a bit lah. Who wants to converse with me daily in Chinese? (:
Will update about my results when I get the rest back, but for now I can only pray very very hard that my GP improves by next year, and attribute my surprising Chinese marks to divine wisdom (: [My God’s multilingual, how cool is that!]
16th October
The Gourmet Network was officially inaugurated on 14th Oct 2005. Invitations were sent around, and due to our exclusivity, we have only 5 members now:
Evelyn - President [has power over everyone]
Maddy - Creative Arts Director [designs our logo (see above) and tattoo (see below), etc]
Jingwen - Food Analyst [tests food for poison to prevent other unnecessary deaths]
Justin - The Muscle [does strenuous activities eg stirring gluey batter, carrying heavy pots, etc]
Shibani - Executive Events Director [plans all GN meetings]
Upcoming events:
Chocolate fondue party, mmmm.
Our tattoo [to be drawn each time we meet]:
Ahahaha XD
17th October
Yay, I went Jitterbugsing with Maddy yesterday! Purchased our membership cards, so now it’s $12 instead of $18 per lesson, hooray :D
Lyrical was really good, the only icky part was that there were way too many people squashed in the room, which is such a change from the last time we went. To our surprise, we met Bernice and Huixuan there! Funky. Learnt a really nice sequence to this song:
- Craig David
One last dance with you
Even though what we have is strong
Both of us know that we've done wrong
You could lose everything
Need to give it up
Just one last dance with you
For all the moments that we shared
All the lies they don't compare
You gotta go back to him, and I realize that
Every time I see your face I know
There's a part of me that can't bear to let you go
And I would give my heart
Give you the world, risk losing everything I got
I'd give it all to you
Though I don't wanna stop
I know it's the right thing to do ... yeah
Part 2
I cried, on and off, perhaps about 5 times in school today.
My promos results are looking a lot more dismal than my common tests so far. That is saying a lot considering my results for CTs were A A C C B3 C5. And to add to the gravity, everybody knows promos are about 1902479185 times more important than CTs.
Everybody, please, stop asking me “So, how many As did you get this time?”
I think I’m too proud. Too complacent. But only fools are complacent.
And I used to be good at my studies. My options were never limited by my results, I’ve never had to beg or bribe or petition or appeal, my only worries were which school to choose, which courses to take, etc.
I used to scoff at crybabies who couldn’t control their emotions, especially in public.
Now I fear I’m becoming a weakling, just like the ones I used to scorn.
18th October
Justin’s birthday tomorrow, everybody be nice to him alright! (:
My dahling has been doing so well for the promos, it’s such a contrast from his RI days where failing was the norm for him, and even from CTs where he did pretty badly ... Now, he’s getting much higher marks than me for almost every subject [and by much I mean more than 10 marks] and if he were in my class I think he’ll be practically topping the class.
Whoahhh.
[Watch out everyone, MUSH ALERT!]
Really really proud of you (: I know you’ve been trying, and after all the nagging and wheedling and threatening and even arguing, you’ve done all that you’ve promised to do and more. Thank you for trying so hard.
And don’t worry, I’m not jealous or upset or resentful that for the first time ever, you’re outdoing me in studies. We’re not like -cough- certain overly competitive couples, k? Hehe!
Keep it up up up dear, don’t let it get into your head ah! :P Love youuu (:
[END OF MUSH]
And to Wenloong and Tubby: I’M NOT TELLING YOU MY QUIRKS, HAH. So there.
:P :P :P
22nd October
Wow, haven’t uploaded pictures in a very long time! Check out the new (but rather small) album, Justin’s birthday treat. Available in the links too!
Since Wednesday was Justin’s birthday, to avoid being stripped, he had to give a treat to the ruggers (and me of course :P), so we went to Marché for dinner. The ‘budget’ was supposed to be about $20, but I think the only ones who kept to it were Justin and I. Haha. Maybe in comparison to the other ruggers, Justin has a tiny stomach? I don’t know, but we were really full!
Shared a yummy black pepper chicken crepe, and mushroom soup, and drunken prawns, and a portwine cake with the boyfriend. Very yummy, but I didn’t really like the drunken prawns, they tasted too salty and Chinese-y.
The Marché staff were really nice and helped us keep our cake, and served it on a dish when it was time. We did the customary lighting of candles taking photos singing happy birthday etc etc ...
[1 girl, 14 boys (Ryan left early), scary huh? :P]
And then, poor Justin was ambushed and cake was squished into his face. Eeee! He even had to go wash his hair and blow cake from his nose after that, hahaha.
After everyone was satiated and content, we settled down to a few rounds of “I Never”. First time I played that game, many people were suanned, and I gained new insights! Hahaha. [Ruggers concerned about the wellbeing of Justin and I after, you know, that question, don’t worry we’re fine. Hehe!]
New Insights
1. All guys surf porn [ok that’s not really new but yeah]
2. All guys pee in the shower [ugh ugh ugh!!]
3. Lots of guys have peed in the swimming pool before
4. Guys enjoy talking about wanking and fantasising
5. Many more I should not disclose :P
The bill amounted to $321.30 after discount, and the receipt was one of the longest I had ever seen!
Cool eh?
I remember 1 year ago, when Justin treated on the last day of O Levels, we went to Seoul Gardens and wrecked havoc. At that time, I hardly knew any of the ruggers, and felt so shyyyy and out of place. Now it’s a lot better (:
Anyway, thanks Justin for the treat! And for sending me home! <3
Hope you enjoyed your birthday, and hope everybody else enjoyed themselves (:
[If anybody wants the large versions of the photos, tell me and I’ll send them over]
Part 2
Surprise surprise, new layout!! Predominantly purplish, and filled with pretty butterflies ... it’s just so me don’t you think? (: Open to constructive criticism, tell me if it’s ugly or doesn’t work on your computer of whatever!
I made it from scratch, right from editing butterflies in photos to all the html rubbish, all by myself. Sad to say, I’m not quite the computer whiz, because the html is mostly by trial and error, as it has always been for previous layouts. [So don’t ask me to help you with your layouts because I won’t have the same determination to get it done, sorry.] Too lazy to bother with the archives page so they’re still the same as before.
Oh, if someone can tell me how to make scrollbar tracks transparent, I’ll be very grateful! Silly scrollbar tracks are blocking my lovely butterflies ):
And guess what! -GASP- I have a tagboard at last! [Look on the right!] My goodness so exciting, everybody must tag okay?
Gee, I feel like such a nerd for being so excited over a layout, but,
I have new layout and YOU don’t, HAH!
Yippeee. (: (: (:
Open House on Friday seemed pretty useless, and would have been utterly boring and unmeaningful if not for the performing. Call me narcissistic, but I really enjoy performing!
Modern dance item! I kinda liked our costumes although it made us look like pregnant tribal women. Here we are posing in the LT:
Boredom in the LT led to forcing the longsuffering boyfriend to attempt a split ... Not bad I say, undoubtedly a dancer in the making eh? ;)
And these are a few screenshots of our dance!
1. Joy, Xinqin, Beatrice
2. Me, Amy
3. All of us
4. The last bit
The after effects of dancing: A heart-shaped booboo on my knee! <3 Unfortunately it grew and it doesn’t exactly look very heart-shaped in the photo anymore, but it was the day before.
After manning the very un-happening gym booth and trying to derive fun from teaching guys how to do rhythmic gym, I lazed around in the canteen having Lunch Part 2 with Justin, admired the pretty deco hanging from the whirling fans, played with flour, took photos ...
This is what happens when you’re bored: Role reversal! A vulgar and menacing middle-finger-pointing Evelyn, and an act cute fingers-in-a-V Justin. [Apologies to the touch ruggers for ill-treating your souvenirs!]
Trudged back home after that, without remembering that I was still in heavy make-up and my hair was in a bun ... Must have looked like quite an oddball!
Um, The End [and hoorah for abrupt endings]. And and and, REMEMBER TO TAG!!! Hehehe XD
//edit: How in the world did so many people discover this new layout and tagboard within about 5 minutes of me putting it up, despite my not telling anyone other than Bananahead and the boyfriend?! Gosh!!
24th October
Whoah, so many tags, but my gut feeling tells me that the novelty will wear off by about ... tonight? Hehe! Thank you all for making my brand new tagboard feel loved! [Hahaha what a an absolute geek I am!]
Wenloong: STALKER. But be honoured, I shall always remember you as the first tagger (:
Justin: I shall always remember you whether you were the first or second or whatever-th tagger (: Hehe higher status than Wenloong!! :D
Gerry: Sissy then sissy lorh! I still like (: Hehe.
Bananahead/laxative: No, you’re 4th :P
Shib: ’Scuse me Miss Executive Events Director, but you’re supposed to organise our fondue party! :P
Jingwen: But I like it white! ): Found your boyfriend? Time’s running short :P
Jennifer: Cool, how did you find my blog?
Tubby: Ahhh do you see the deep underlying significance of the layout! Ok kidding I didn’t make it with you in mind bwahaha XD Your turn to get a tagboard!
Bryan: Thanks! You’ve improved! -thumbs up-
Zhixu: I didn’t know you visited! Heard you wanna join Chinese Dance next year!
Ok sorry for that long chunk of boring stuff. Will refrain from doing that again :P
Anyway. Met Justin [as usual] on Sunday, where he had a very pretty albeit sleepy-looking left eye. Triple/quadruple eyelids, looks even nicer than mine man!
We lunched at Menotti, an Italian café ... Altogether quite a disaster, due to a big booboo that we made: Choosing the wrong dish to order. We got a blue swimmer crab spaghetti thing, which was yummy, but we also very unfortunately chose a pasta salad with seafood. Which looks nice enough in the picture:
... BUT the pasta was nothing like we had ever eaten before. Maybe it’s an acquired taste, but to have rubbery and strangely starchy penne soaking in a bowl of oil and herb mixture – well, not quite something I fancy. The only redeeming point was the prawns, in my opinion, though I’ve had better.
We forced ourselves to eat as much of it as possible, and in the end I could hardly bring myself to swallow anymore, which kind of ruined our appetite for the rest of the meal. Thank goodness the crab pasta was really good, with a nice generous amount of crab.
The set lunch came with tea [passionfruit, served in a miniature teapot] and a dessert [a molten chocolate cake, similar to the ones my sister makes but much richer].
I feel like I’m doing a restaurant review, haha. I only wish we could have enjoyed the entire meal without the icky pasta to spoil it ):
Went shopping after that, and as usual I delighted in buying clothes that were on offer. Cheap buys make me [pathetically] delighted :D
Unfortunately, shopping also reminds me that I practically have the proportions of a man, and if not for my boobs and long hair, I’ld look just like one.
Impossibly broad shoulders make it so difficult for me to find fitting shirts – if the shoulders can squish into the shirt, it’ll be loose around the waist. If the waist fits, the shoulders probably won’t.
Impossibly fat + muscly thighs make jeans/shorts-shopping such a chore. If the thighs fit, the waist often hangs loose, and if the waist fits, the thighs will probably burst through the seams.
Maybe I should start shopping in men’s sections, I’m sure the clothes cater more towards broad-shouldered, thick-thighed people. Bleughh.
25th October
Most guys at this age are gentlemen, who know how to treat girls with respect and consideration.
Some exceptions though, have obviously never grown up.
Let’s just pretend, that all I’ve ever said to you concerning my Promos results is “I don’t want to talk about it”. Especially if you don’t even know what I got, will that give you any reason to call me “oversensitive” and “selfish” and “very whiney”?
And let’s just say, I get upset over a ‘D’ because by my standards ‘D’ stands for Disaster. Perhaps I just set higher standards for myself than you do. In your vocabulary ‘D’ may stand for Decent, but not in mine, sorry. Does that warrant another bout of insults about my oversensitive and selfish character because there are other people who did worse that I did?
Oh, and just assuming, I get upset over a ‘B’ because I really wanted to do S papers for that subject, because I actually have a great interest in that subject. And because of that ‘B’, I’m no longer eligible for the S papers, something I had been working towards. Is it a crime for me to be disappointed and troubled?
Y’know, just imagining lah.
If you think this is directed towards you, please don’t send your pack of nasty friends after me yet again like how you did previously, with the instructions to throw an avalanche of vulgar insults at me even though we’re all complete strangers, because everybody knows that’s plain immature and I’ll just be sitting there laughing at your lack of creativity.
Sorry for the angry post, I just can’t help it when people push me to the brink. I try to be nice to everybody but sometimes, well, I can’t.
It’s ok, I’ll forgive in time, because I’ve done that so many times, and also because that’s what God wants me to do (:
Part 2
The OP dry run went pretty okay, from the feedback I should be fine except for that fact that I was a little too soft. Which is something teachers often say when I’m making presentations, which puzzles me because I’m not that soft what right? I don’t know, heh.
Went home straight after a sad lunch of porridge [braces = painful teeth] and fell asleep for about 2 hours I think. I’ve been feeling so aged nowadays, sleeping at 1 or 2 plus used to be the norm for me, but now I can’t ever seem to get enough rest.
I went all the way back to school again at about 6.45, thank goodness I live relatively near, or the travelling to and fro would drive me crazy!
Lindyhop was fuunnn (: It isn’t the most graceful or challenging dance I’ve done, but it’s certainly one of the spinny-est and cutest! And it’s always great to learn a new dance style. We learnt the basic lindy turn, lindy circle, swing out, and 2 cutesy jazz steps ... All in all it was very entertaining and I really enjoyed myself!
We were rotating partners because it’s a social dance, but there weren’t enough guys :P Anyhow, got to dance with Justin a couple of times, which was cool because he was catching on quick (: Thanks so much for coming!
One thing that’s fun about lindyhop is that it’s a very spontaneous dance, and it’s all up to the male partner to lead the girl to do any step he fancies. And that’s pretty exciting because you’ll never know what’s coming next until you feel the pressure of his hand on your back leading you around in a circle, or pushing you out to turn, etc.
Yayyy can’t wait for the next few lessons, moving on to more advanced steps and also, I get to dance with Justin again! (: (:
The boyfriend would like to say:
“Lindyhop is fun, even though the steps twist my legs up in knots.
But, (he adds cheerfully) you get to share partners and this is one occasion where you can go through 8 girls in about one hour. HAH beat you Don.”
JUSTIN ):
[hahaha :P]
28th October
Amy and I accidentally ponned Dance today. Sigh sigh sigh.
I think the first stall Aunty likes Justin and I (: We grumbled to her once about the hair we found in a chicken pie, and a few days later she recognised us and gave us a free chicken pie in return and told us about how she complained to the supplier.
And just yesterday when Justin was buying his lor mai kai, she gave him an extra kueh for free, something she doesn’t normally sell but keeps for herself to eat. Teehee must be because Justin so small and cute hor?
Liru and I have been designing the class shirt after seeing the first design offered up by another classmate. It was cute and all, but not so much suited for a class shirt, especially not a class shirt for students already in Junior College!
We’ve come up with the main template, now I have to scan it into my computer and male-ify it because we know it’s very girly and pretty now. Hehe.
Apart from that, I have to redo the gym concert proposal. Just a rant: The school is severely discouraging the display of arts in school by renting out the PAC for $600 plus per hour if it’s used for charity purposes!! That’s just ridiculous, who in the world can afford it?
That’s probably why up till today, only a rare few performances have been put up in the PAC. What’s the use of a Performing Arts Centre if no one can afford it? Even my dad lets his students use their auditorium, which is a few times bigger than the PAC, for free. If the school’s intent on promoting arts and talents, doesn’t that make more sense? If not, why have a PAC?
Ugh.
This is for Jingwen and Justin and XY [and Dan]: my mum contacted Eureka Tours [at least, I think that’s what they’re called]! They’re the ones who organised the Rosyth GEP Jerantut trip :D
Some info [to all the other people not involved, please scroll ahead!]:
- We’ve decided to go to Taman Negara instead of Lake Kenyir because of the monsoon season ):
- Taman Negara doesn’t receive monsoon rains! :D
- They suggested a night coach ride there
- 4 days, 2 nights
- Resort with twin sharing [aircon, I hope! :D]
- We’ll go about 14th to 20th Nov, since that’s the only time all of us are free. Please tell me your preferred dates!
- 2 breakfasts and 1 dinner provided, as for the lunches, we’ll have to buy from the resort or take a 10 min boat ride to some hawker places.
- Activities include jungle trekking, canopy walk, rapids [!!! Fun!]
- There’ll be a licensed guide so no need to worry about the ‘no chaperones’ thing if your parents ask
- We need 8 people, which means 3 more [who wants to go please tell us!], preferably either 1 girl 2 guys or 3 girls [for room sharing convenience]
- $328 per person
That’s about all my mum got ... I’ll be emailing them to find out the exact itinery and other details, will keep you updated (: Meanwhile, get back to me and tell me if you’re up for it!
Who else wants to go! TELL US ASAP! Everyone’s invited! It’ll be really fun, and no parents will be there to interfere with our fun ;)
[Eh maybe we can ask Adam again? Hehe!]
So, today’s the last day of school! I’m not as euphoric as I usually would be. The obvious reason would be Chinese AO’s which are on Monday.
And also my holidays, and next year, prove to be tremendously busy. What with holiday plans with my family and the Taman Negara thing, catching up on this year’s work [my grades show that studying over the hols -gasp- is necessary if I am to cope well next year], getting the class t-shirt done, upcoming dance performance, dance night prep, gym concert prep, gym training, Chingay [I’m partnering Just!], and the onslaught of the dreaded A’s ...
... And of course all the frivolities I hope to accomplish during the hols [like shopping, going to the beach, having -cough- Gourmet Network meetings (SHIB!), dancing with Maddy, etc].
Busybusybusy.
Just in case I forget, because I’m getting so muddled:
Sun [30th Oct]: Church, bake pumpkin pie
Mon [31st Oct]: Chinese (8-11), Chingay prac (11-1), gym training (3-6), class party
Tues [1st Nov]: Deepavali! :D (Shib! Maybe can organise a GN meeting?)
Wed [2nd Nov]: Fall prac (10-?), gym training (3-6), lindyhop (5.30-7.30)
Thurs [3rd Nov]: Hari Raya! :D
Fri [4th Nov]: Fall performance at Toa Payoh
Sat [5th Nov]: Lyrical jazz with Maddy?
Wed [9th Nov]: Russian ballet! [Cerise!! Maybe I’ll see you!]
Fri [11th Nov]: OP
Ok sorry for such a disjointed, boring entry. Sad to say, it kind of reflects my current state of mind. For some unforeseen reason, I’m not feeling much less stressed now than I was before the promos.
29th October
This is specially for Jingwen! XD
Justin's mum remembers you as "the girl who took her teddybear shorts and never returned them".
My mum remembers you as "the girl who always came over last time to eat".
Justin remembers you as "black and short" (although you once used to tower over him).
While I remember you as my once best friend who used to come over and play 'volcano' on my mattress and was my source of entertainment during Chinese lessons in RGS and the friend I can now depend on to go on exciting adventure trips with and have a crazy fun time along the way. Yay (:
My dad taught me to play pool today! I think I’m quite fabulous, I got some very unexpected shots in!! Even my dad was amazed. [Except what usually happened was that I aim for one hole, miss, the ball rebounds a few times and enters a completely different hole. But nonetheless I still consider myself quite fabulous :D]
Apparently, my dad used to be a pool pro some 15, 20 years ago. Cool eh?
Still, he discourages me from going to play pool with my friends because those pool salon places are filled with bad guys who love to pick fights. Eek. The staff-only pool room at where my dad works sounds better to me, and it’s free too! Hehe.
So right now for the Malaysia trip,
Confirmed:
1. Me
2. Justin
3. Jingwen
4. Jacinta
5. Adam
Pending:
6. Sandhya
7. Jaafer
So, we need 1 more boy assuming Sandhya and Jaaf can make it! 1 more boy 2 more girls also can! 3 more boys also can! Haha.
Who’s in who’s in quick tell us (: [Details in the previous entry]
31st October
NO MORE STUDYING CHINESE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, YEAHHHH!! :D :D :D
(that’s assuming I pass but let’s not bother about that now)
Whoop-de-doooo.
A bit about the gross Chinese paper – it was about 5 times harder than the Promos in my opinion. Even the essay was tougher, I’m worried I li2 ti2ed. But I’m hope that my liberal sprinkling of cool phrases like gong1 dao4 zi4 ran2 cheng2 would pull up the marks a bit.
The main paper was a big disaster. For promos, I didn’t study so I didn’t understand most phrases ... but at least, I could read the individual words and make a guess at what the entire phrase meant. This time, I mostly couldn’t even read the words what more understand them what more guess what the phrases meant, so the MCQ section mostly consisted of wild guesses.
The compre was hard too ... it wasn’t the typical copy-out-paragraphs-from-the-passage-and-hope-for-the-best kind of compre, but it was the kind that forces you to understand and think, which is not something I’m very talented at.
Oh well. D7 can already lah. Besides, doing well would be breaking the family tradition of sucking at Chinese :P
Had a liiiiittle bit of Fall practice after that, followed by a long session of Chingay prac. It was latin-ish, which is completely new to me, and evidently completely new to Just as well. I think we were the most jialat couple there, and also because I joined them late, but I had a LOT of fun so all’s good (: Can’t deny that I screamed a lot though ... scary lah, being whizzed around in circles by someone holding on to your ankle and back.
Justin sat there watching for a bit, and passed comments like “Just, take your hand off her ass lah!” Hehe :P
Just and I will perfect the dance by hook or by crook, HAH. Then everyone who kept laughing at us today won’t have anything to laugh about anymore.
[Hehehe I hope so lah :P]
YAY Sandhya and Jaafer are coming for the Taman Negara trip! :D So happy!
Now, everyone please email me the following details:
1. Full name
2. NRIC number
3. Date of birth
4. Passport expiry date
Thanks! Sandhya please tell Jaafer, and Jingwen please tell Jacinta? ASAP please (:
Off to the class Halloween party in a bit! Yay, another class outing that I can finally go for (: (: (: Hope it’ll be spoooky and fun!
So many (:’s abd :D’s in this entry. I haven’t felt so liberated in a while (:
I guess Sunday’s sermon was extra pertinent ... Don’t have to worry about anything, just enjoy what you’re doing [yes, even studying] and have faith that God will pour forth His blessings on you! Getting all stressed out didn’t do me a BIT of good, I’ve got to learn to place my burdens on Him (: And it really works! No worries (: Thank You God (: