Saturday, April 30, 2005
::extol::
\ik-STOHL\, transitive verb:To praise highly; to glorify; to exalt.
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Ok, so school rules say that we are not allowed to step out of school before 1200. But we only went opposite the road to get a piece of waffle for lunch!! And we got caught for that!! It's not like we're not coming back or anything. To think the DM still says that if we did it again, we're going to be suspended. @#$%#%
Was flipping through 'The Cadet 2004' a few seconds ago and boy, was I shocked!! Well, not really shocked, maybe just surprised. Esther Lai is one of the 13th NCC Council Member.
I can't wait to get out of CO. Just one more month to go. One more month of extensive preparation for the concert, and after that, I am out. Finally. OUT.
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
::arcane::
I can't even remember when was the last time I blogged or even when was the last time I visited my friend's blog. Somehow or another, I have been racing against time to get my homework done. There's still quite a lot of stuff that I have not completed. This month is coming to an end soon, along with all the good things that come along with it.
The weather has been so hot and stuffy nowadays. Almost every morning I will wake up sweating like a pig. Is it summer already?
Countless events happened over the month. There are certain things that I try so hard to achieve but all the effort came to naught. My studies are one of those things. Certain friendships that I try to build will never go past the surface. Maybe I should concentrate more on people that are closer to me and are threatening to drift away should I neglect them. Some people I have not had a decent talk in days. I realise that so many of my friends are talking in riddles. I don't understand what they are trying to tell me, and they don't quite get me either. We don't really talk about these things when we meet so the thing it that we have no idea what is going on. Maybe I am the one speaking in riddles.
SYF is coming soon. 3rd of May. I don't know what to expect. Somehow, I feel that I feel more for the orchestra as compared to the others that are competing. Somehow, I feel that our conductor is just a pain in the arse. I have grown to dislike him, especially after what I heard from my friends yesterday. Maybe my analysis about his behaviour is totally wrong. I don't know. The sight of him just irks me, as do so many other sickening grown ups. Or should I just keep that to most of the sickening teachers? But I guess everyone like to push the blame around. Who likes to carry that heavy burden of facing the music? So I guess one day, people of my age now will grow to hate me as well. So while I still can grumble about adults, I should make full use of it. Childish? Yes. But it's good to be childish for awhile.
Every single day, I heard my brother argue with my parents. He just don't appreciate it. I hate him, I sure do. It makes me mad when they are bickering. And everytime it's over small, trival issues. That's why I prefer to stay outside. Of course I still like my home, I just hate to hear people shouting and screaming at each other. It creates a non-conducive environment to be in, just like what happens in my tuition centre every Saturday. Bascially, those 2 people just don't know how to shut up.
Been reading The Rule of Four for the past 2 days. I learnt something. It's better to love something that will love you in return. Otherwise, you will be just wasting your time and effort.
Sunday, April 17, 2005
::kinks::
I am convinced that truly nice people exist on this earth that we live on after today. I mean, seriously! So here's what happened:
I transfered $6 to an account on Friday to pay for something I bought on Yahoo! Auctions. After that, I SMSed the seller about it. But I did not get a reply from her. So I thought, maybe she wouldn't reply me after all.
Anyway, some 15 minutes ago, she called me to ask me if I had sent her the money and whether I messaged her about it. Well, I told her, yes I did, and I even had to transaction receipt as proof! But she said she had had 2 transactions on Friday and one of them was a guy and since he did an internet banking, his name was next to it. And there was another one. She said she received a message from a girl named Pamela informing her about the transaction and she checked as soon as she received Pam's message and sure enough, a $6 was there! So there we were, confused about what was happening. I had the transaction receipt with me, so how could I be wrong about it? Unless POSB didn't do a good job. But it couldn't be. So I suggested paying her another $6 for it. I mean, it's just $6 and I wouldn't lie about it. So she suggested to me to pay $3 instead, so we break even. Okay. And I sent her my address as requested by her just now as well. So a few minutes after sending my address to her, she called back.
And she told me about the message she received from someone using the user name rychie87. But that wasn't my user name on Yahoo! That was the one I used on Ebay! Damn it. So it was my fault. I sent the wrong name to her thus causing all the confusion. But she was really sweet and told me to forget the $3 that I should have sent because of the mess that I caused. Throughout the entire conversation, she didn't sound harsh or anything bad. And she was responsible enough to call me to confirm this. A great seller. Anyway, why the hell am I always such an idiot????! So if by some chance that you are reading this, thank you so much for being patient with a dumbo like me. Bless you!
Just in case you readers would like to know who this wonderful seller is, it's Dreamteam on Yahoo! Auctions. You can trust me on this.
And I will receive the stuff either on Monday or Tuesday. Yay!
Saturday, April 16, 2005
::movies::
I realised that there are some really awesome movies coming up in the later part of the year. Some movies that I want to watch:
1. The Interpreter
2. Star Wars: Return of the Sith
3. Bewitched
4. Stealth
5. The Cave
6. Mirrormask
7. Zathura
8. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Perhaps more will come soon.
Friday, April 15, 2005
::integrity::
Finally Sports Day is over. As usual, things were not very well organised and the events did not run smoothly. But this IS TJ, so that's about what you can expect. Spent most of the time walking around the school because it took extremely long for one event to start after one ended. There was the uber cool cheerleading competition. I wonder who won. There was this girl from the Beta team that was really good in her dancing. She was so full of energy, shaking her ass so violently in front of everybody! I mean, I am so proud of her! What the hell am I talking about anyway? There was a tennis match between AJC and my school as well. I suppose we won because I could hear people cheering away. The AJ guy looked rather pissed as he played the game. Maybe it's because of us. We were quite a rowdy crowd. But hey, here's our turf, what do you expect?
Got our Project Work results today. If I hadn't known about something, I would be rather okay with my results. Actually I was quite hopeful about the fact that my group would get a band 1, but that didn't happen in the end. All of us got a band 2. And that was after all the effort we put in. We did so much more compared to the others. We did at least 5 interviews, conducted real surveys, did all the drafts and stuff. And to add on, the teacher kept praising us, giving us false hope. Our school was strict with the marking. I don't think that our standards can be any worse than VJ or even MJ, where so many students got 1s and 2s. Heard that in VJ, only 1% of their students got band 3. Damn it. I think MOE should really revise their marking system. Schools should not be marking their own Project Work files. It should be done like the 'O' or 'A' levels. Okay, I shall not start rambling here, all I want to say is that
why should we uphold integrity when all the others are stooping so low?
Thursday, April 14, 2005
::obloquy::
\OB-luh-kwee\, noun:1. Strongly condemnatory or abusive language or utterance.2. The condition of disgrace suffered as a result of public blame, abuse, or condemnation; ill repute.
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Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Sports Day! Seems like I am the only one that is still enthusiastic about Sports Day. Everyone wants to skip the event tomorrow. But what the is wrong with it? It's our last year already!! The only thing I hate about it is that I will have to wear the absolutely disgusting Beta house tee. I wonder why M thinks it's nice. Anyway, the class have plans for tomorrow. After the event, we are going to Marina Bay for steamboat. Heard from my friend that it isn't exactly a nice place to go. It's extremely hot and stuffy. The bus takes ages to come. Of course you can chose to walk, but it will take forever to reach the place. I have never eaten steamboat there before. Seriously, when was the last time I went there anyway?
I just bid on Yahoo Auctions. What a cool place!! Hopefully I will get the thing that I want. Please!! Don't let anyone outbid me!! NOOoooOOoo!!! Let's see. I bid $2.60. Is there a high chance that someone might outbid me? The auction will close on the 16th. 2 more days to go!! and during these few days, I strongly feel that someone is really going to outbid me. I've checked the bidding history. Argh. Yahoo Auctions is really lousy. One minute the items on the list is there, the next minute it's gone. Like how am I going to check the biddings??! Maybe I should just pay more and buy at once from some other user.
This has been the most tiring week since school started this term. But for some reason, despite my staying up late to study and complete my long list of homework and faced with a lot of stress over schoolwork as well as relationship problems, I still feel a sense of satisfaction and happiness. You are probably thinking that I am one sick arse, but hey, you can just continue to wallow in your own unhappiness while I am enjoying heavenly bliss. For one thing, CO is getting more and more enjoyable. But I know very soon it's going to become hell for me again. So I'll just enjoy it while it lasts.
Went for the learning journey yesterday. Cool place. Pity I didn't really enjoy myself there because some other class that I don't really like is there as well. There are some really irritating people there that I totally dislike. YUCK. And the stupid teacher is so lazy. He just wants to leave the place as soon as possible. He wasn't even taking care of us!! Ya, we are not kids, but the point is that he is not fulfilling he's duty as a teacher. At least he should leave after all of us have left. Not sneaking away while we were still looking at the exhibits!! The other class wasn't any better. They left really soon as well. Had a really fun time with the fortune telling. It's surprisingly accurate. Could play it the next time I go for CO.
Can't wait for tomorrow!!!
Saturday, April 09, 2005
::Panglossian
\pan-GLOSS-ee-uhn\, adjective:Excessively or naively optimistic
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Thank godness for some people that exists in our lives!!! If not for them, we would never be who we are today. Sounds cliched? I guess it is, but after seeing something, I realised how important it is to have friends. Click
here to find out more about what I am talking about. Start reading from the 17th post.
I used my card to book movie tickets yesterday!! There were 6 of us going to Cineleisure to watch The Pacifier, and I was worried that by the time we reached there [meeting time was 1830] there would be no more seats left for us. Besides, someone always had to be late. So, to prevent us from having to suffer from the fate of discovering that there aren't any more seats left for us, I decided to book the seats for them. And indeed, someone WAS late. Guess who?
After purchasing the popcorn and drinks using the 2 pieces of discount coupons, we entered the theatre. Four of us shared the sweet popcorn but after the movie ended, we were still struggling with it. The other 2 girls actually managed to finish theirs!! Anyway, halfway through the movie, Mavis turned to me to ask me for tissue. She said that Elin squirted tomato sauce on her. So I asked around and got her the tissue. I though Elin had gotten herself some fries or a burger. Turns out that she was actually munching on some Cherry tomatoes and strawberries and the juice was squirted onto Mavis's arm. The movie was rather funny. Or at least to me it was rather funny because after the show, my friend told me that I was laughing at almost everything, even at times when things weren't exactly amusing. So, I am easily amused. Ok, which is true because I seem to laugh at almost every lame joke in the world.
After the movie, we walked all the way to Ngee Ann City. Most of the shops were either closing or closed already. Apparantly, there don't seem to be any night life in our city. I was dying from popcorn saturation already but after reaching Mos Burger, I still got myself a milkshake. Anyway, Elin was behaving weirdly. We stared at her doing funny stuff with her unfinished milkshake unapprovingly. Sure, some parts were kind of funny, like the UFO, but most of it was gross. Fiona pressed Elin's hand against the disgusting saucer filled with chilli, barbecue and tomato sauce and venilla milkshake and Elin rubbed all the sauce that was on the palm against Fiona's palm. Ewwww. I actually took a picture of one of Elin's 'masterpiece'.
Anyway, I called kyl after discovering I missed her call, only to find out [to my disgust] that there was tuition that night. Apparantly the group of MJ girls didn't want their tuition on Saturday and decided to change it back to Friday. Can't they just make up their minds about things???! They were the ones who wanted to change the tuition timeslot to Saturday because of their squash training on Friday but now they want to change it back. Have they any idea how much trouble they are causing to the others??! So now they have their tuition on Friday and we have our tuition on Saturday. I wonder why the tutor want to split us up into 2 groups. I don't exactly like the idea of going for Physics and then Math tuition back to back. So now I have to leave home at 1200 instead of 1400.
Thursday, April 07, 2005
::troubles::
Well, as the title suggests, I am troubled now, by quite a number of things.
I just created another trouble for myself just a while ago when I told somebody something. It wasn't even a secret or anything, but I don't know. Now I feel kind of screwed. How should I explain it? It's quite a long story and I don't like to name people. Okay, so I am lazy. Or maybe I just think too much. I hope that is the case.
And this afternoon. I don't know what's wrong with me. Just feel weird and upset and uncomfortable over something......
Forget it. No point writing anyway. I feel too bothered now to continue.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
::classical gold::
Some things are better left unsaid.
Monday, April 04, 2005
::blogging::
Read the blogs of some of the guys in my class just now. Quite amazed that a few of them actually state that blogging is their hobby. But how fun can blogging get?? I feel lazy typing this. Even though I seriously got a lot of stuff to write, I would be put off by the sight of the big empty text box in front of me.
Well anyway, today has got to be the most amusing free period ever! The 4 girls [including me] spent approximately 45 minutes forcing our friend to tell us who was his crush. It was quite though, really. So stubborn!! It was damn hard to force him to confess. But he sort of gives in easily to peer pressure. Just keep forcing and eventually he can't take it and TADA!!! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!
But the bad thing that happened today was that my junior totally ignored me. Yes. IGNORED. That was during the free period as well. Damn it. Why are people always ignoring me??! Am I such an insignificant speck that exists amidst the whole universe?? Ok, I think I am exaggerating about my feelings. I am not feeling too bad either.
Just one question: do you agree that emotional guys = gays?
And I realised that a lot of people still discriminate against them. Oops. Does this mean that the survey we did last year for the Project Work was totally inaccurate?
Ok, another question: do you think it is ok to have sex with a transvestite? That means the guy is now a girl now and vice versa. Ya, with his/her opposite sex. Hopefully this doesn't sound to offensive to anybody out there. Sorry if I made you readers sound like dumbos. Such questions suddenly pops into my brain. It just appears to me that society is not liberating as fast as it appears to be. We are just forcing it. It's just a false image. Crap. What the hell am I writing anyway.
Friday, April 01, 2005
::1100::
I never knew swimming was much, much worse than running until yesterday. I thought I was going to drown. Usually on Thursday mornings some classes would go to Bedok Swimming Complex to have swimming lessons. There are 2 levels, Beginners and Intermediate. I was in the slacking Beginners class for a term and decided to switch to Intermediate after last week's horrible "Attack of the kids" in the toilet incident. The teacher made us swim a lap first, and slowly he increased the number of laps freestyle, until eventually we had to swim Back stroke. That was the beginning of the terror. I never really knew that stroke, so I just fumbled along. I kept swallowing water and I was worried that I might hit my head against the wall when I reached the end. I was swimming at the middle of the pool where the water was the deepest and my feet couldn't touch the floor so there was no choice but to keep swimming. At that time I was very tired already and could feel my leg muscles burning like hell. When I reached the end, I was panting like some dog that spent the whole day chasing it's own tail. But my friend and I still want to stay on to try out. Maybe things will be better for us after a few tries. After all, the Beginners class is still there for us should we decide to go back.
Went for the mentoring session with Felicia yesterday. I did not expect it to be that enjoyable. I mean, I really enjoyed it. All of them were girls and there was this really quiet one that sat at the left corner of the four tables. I noticed that she was using her stencil to mark out the name KEVIN on a piece of paper. So I asked, who is Kevin? And she was like 'damn, she saw!!!'. Well, it doesn't matter. I have no idea whatsoever who is that Kevin guy anyway. There were 2 girls that were laughing at something throughout the whole session with us. I was wondering if they were mocking at my stupidity or not. But they actually called us 'Teacher'! Well, anyway, when the whole thing was over, I made them tell us what was the thing that made them laugh so hard. They refused and I had to keep guessing. They said it was embarrassing for them to say it so they didn't want to confess. But turns out that I guessed the right thing on my second try!! I was surprised that that was THAT funny. How could it be? Those girls in my class wouldn't even bother to laugh at such things. Okay, maybe they are just kids, that's why.
Oh, and I almost forgot that today is April Fool's Day. There was this guy in the class that tried to trick the girls into going for Math remedial when the Class Rep had already told us that it was cancled. He told this girl in the class to tell the rest of us who are in the canteen playing Bridge. She was really very frantic when she came to us, telling us that the teacher was already very angry and that the guys are all in the class. We threw our cards into a pile on the table and prepared to leave when on of the girls suddenly remembered that today was April Fool's Day. But my partner and I was losing already, so it didn't matter. The other girl who was winning was quite disgusted. The first game was the most exciting one ever. Each team needed one more set to win and we were holding on to the last card. So my friend was like, 'this card is going to decide our fate..' and she put it down on the table. We made quite a lot of noise when we realised that our team had won. The people around us turned to stare.
The day before yesterday [okay, Wednesday] was my sister's birthday. My mom got a Breadtalk Tiramisu cake for her. Sometimes I just wonder if it's just pure bad luck or anything, but my cake is always the ugliest among everyone's. My brother got one that had this soccer pitch like cake that was green all over with sugar figurines of boys playing soccer. My sister got a branded Breadtalk Tiramisu cake that wasn't very nice. In fact, it's rather cheapo because the cake isn't rich nor does it taste solid. My mother makes better cheesecakes, in fact. But that isn't the point!! The point is that the cake is so nicely decorated and everything. My cake has got to be the worst looking cake that existed in history.
Take a look:
My brother's cake.
My sister's cake.
MY cake. Doesn't it look atrocious? Did you see that the pale yellow layer? I'm sure you noticed that it was Cheesedale cheese. Well maybe the only good thing about this cake is that my mom made it for me. She had made better looking cakes than that before. Wonder what happened to this one.
Tuition is 2h30min away.
