t s u b a s a reservoir chronicle

Thursday, September 30, 2004

Oh God, chinese and english composition writing tomorrow. I am panicky! Even for english. I'm scared I won't finish the compo on time. I'm re-reading Huan Mie De Tian Cai Meng to hopefully stimulate those once-existing chinese compo writing cells in me. Ahhhhhhh! Suddenly there seems very little time for study. WHY WHY WHY? Why didn't I start studying earlier?! Like a month ago? Like why couldn't I have studied 3 hrs a day?! Oh God. *Buddha's leg comes off in hand*

Anyway, today I got attacked by a fish. In our school fish pond. See, Wen and I were waiting near it for Yilin and Huiyi to come down so we could go to the coffeeshop opposite and have our lunch, then we were joined by Wei Mun and Polly. Wei Mun started telling us about the time she got bitten by the fish in the pond. She said she stuck her finger into the water and a fish BIT it. So Wen was like sticking her finger into the water and wriggling it, but the fish simply ignored it, and she was like "ma de", then suddenly I turned to my left and Mr Ari had appeared next to us! ... So Wen was completely embarrassed by the finger-in-the-water incident, but Mr Ari started going on about how the fish in the pond bite, but the ones that bite are not the golden coloured carps, and he was like "come, I'll show you" and he went to another spot in front of the pond and pointed at some fish in the water (i couldn't see which ones, I thought he was pointing at weed), "see, that's the evil fish. it bites" or something like that. !!! First the teachers, now the VP! Oh, and while we were "admiring" the fish with Ari, Adlin and the rest of the malay girls walked by, and Adlin was like giving us a !!! "what the hell are you people doing with Mr Ari?!" face (cuz Crystal and her have this thing about Mr Ari's boyish good looks...) and we were smiling innocently at her, wahaha. Ok, then after he left for the coffeeshop we were a bit stunned at what Ari said "evil fish. it bites" so we went to look at the fish again. It was this big black one which Mr Ari claimed was evil. We were staring at it when suddenly, on the right of the evil fish, ANOTHER evil one came out (cuz it's black, and The Pearl says anything that is dark is evil), and this one was HUGE, and had thick thick lips, and ANGRY LOOKING EYES, and I was like leaning over to peer at it in fascination, and Wen was like "hen chou (ugly) leh", and then suddenly the fish flipped in the water and splashed water at me! I'm serious! I totally freaked. Stupid fish!!!! I wasn't the one who insulted you! And I bet if the fish wasn't so heavy or something, it would have leaped into the air and said some 4 letter words to us and fall back. What is this! Why does our school rear evil fishes which flip into the air and splash water at students!?

Lingga says @#%$! at 4:46 PM

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Stupid mosquitoes lah! Just a bit of rain and all of them rush to seek refuge in my house. In my ROOM. Then in my room they see this huge puddle of sweet blood sitting there doing nothing but typing on the keyboard and they all go and suck on the blood. Heck, I'm just sitting here getting eaten alive by MOSQUITOES (I am supposedly 10000 times bigger than one).

Anyway, because of how industrious I am (oh sure, does finishing 2 Meg Cabot books in 2 days count?), I've stopped coming online. I shall give a recount, a PERSONAL recount, of my past week:

Saturday

Wen, Jia and Sa came over in the evening to play at my house x) First I arrived at Yishun MRT at 6pm and suggested we toured Northpoint while my mom got ready her beehoon. We oogled at lots of food and Cold Storage. Anyway, after finding out it was dangerously close to 7pm, we rushed back my home to watch Yi Tian Tu Long Ji. Stupid Zhou Zhiruo! Screamed in agony and threw cushions at the TV screen and at each other after eating the beehoon my mom cooked. It was fun.

After the show, we went downstairs to play with lanterns! Firstly we traipsed around the bottom of my flat (the blocks at Yishun Central have no void deck, underneath are all the shops, and it's not those kind of shophouses one) before deciding on the side of the big field just in front my block. We were equipped with tons of paper lanterns and candles. We crossed the field gingerly for fear of stepping on all the freaky snails hiding in the grass, camouflaged by the darkness of the night. Settled down on Jia's books and files (she helpfully supplied them so as not to dirty our precious pants) and started lighting up candles happily. We made a fool of ourselves (as usual) acting as vampires or something and pretending we were adventurers who hold up lanterns to light their way, while many cats watched us and 2 actually mated a distance away. Sa and Wen went to check them out and came back almost immediately saying that someone had dumped water over the cats from their apartment due to the racket the cats were making (well they WERE kind of wailing like babies). Felt sorry for the cats and we taked about how the cats should move under the block to avoid getting interrupted.

We also made some kind of a birthday "cake" for all of us. We sang Happy Birthday to each of us (from the oldest to youngest) and before the song was sang to the "birthday girl", the others would come up with a wish each for the birthday girl and we would observe a minute of silence to pray for that wish to come true. Then after the song was sang, the girl would blow out ONE candle out of the many lighted ones (Sasa blew out like half of them, but never mind). I was commenting that we were like a cult and people kept strolling past us and staring at us. We also (for fun) screeched out VA-NE-SSA CHE-ONG hoping Vanessa, who lived in the next block, would hear. But I guessed she didn't but we realised we were seated directly UNDER the window of a second storey apartment, and there were actually people in it. Oh God.

Anyway, we got Jia to play out her handphone ringtones during the cult rituals. We also executed flying kicks over the 2-7 sign Sa made out of lighted candles. It was so interesting n_n We would kick over the flames and do a 360 degree turn. Weeeeeeeee!

Around 10.15pm, we started clearing up the mess we'd made. One of the candles had actually burned a paper lantern to the ground and nobody realised (not a fire or anything, but the lantern was razed to the ground -_________-'') so we laid it to rest inside the Dumpster and saluted it. Scraping at wax with fingernails wasn't a good idea, thus in addition we used objects like keys and combs.

After some 15 mins, we finally got the place cleared up. Then we parted ways and I went home and realised Sasa'd forgotten to give Jia the stupid Guides cookies she'd brought to my house.

Today

Mrs Lim started on Chapter 7! The class was majorly hypered. However, turned out what Mrs Lim said was a lot of gross stuff about pregnancy (oh my god. No wonder the birth rate in Singapore's so low. No sane woman, after going through education in Singapore, would be stupid enough to get pregnant. Do you know the stuff we learnt today?!)

Look, you stupid mosquito, if you don't do a U turn and fly out of the window right now, I am so going to Baygon you.

Anyway, Divek said that he'd read that the world record length of the male sexual organ was 24 inches. I am not kidding. That's what he said. TWENTY FOUR INCHES? Maybe it's CM. But if so why is everyone saying how theirs is 11 inches or whatever?! Mrs Lim was so gross, she was like saying how they must all wear really baggy pants to let it HANG. She said that!!! Oh GOD.

And we had our dumb music assesment today. I partnered Faris. HE was supposed to play the chords, we agreed on it last last week! NOW he pretends to not remember and I ended up playing chords too. GOD! We were like playing the thing through (after setting the speed to VERY SLOW) on the dumb prodikeys and I was like DE DE DE, DE DE DE to Jingle Bells (the song we were playing) to help me keep in rhythm, and then Ms KC Lau said it was our turn, and we were totally messed up and we got to the teachers table and sat down feeling screwed and Faris started the com's music and he started to play along and after the first key I pressed I was lost and I kept staring at the screen wondering where Faris was at and worst is that chords don't make any sounds! Then why the hell would you play chords?! Anyway, half the time I was just staring at the screen mumbling to myself while Faris messed up as well, and at least I got in a few correct ones and after the thing ended I remember getting out of there in a hurry we didn't even see how much percent the computer'd awarded us. OH GOD.

Ok forget all these horrid memories. After the thing ended Faris and I went back to fight over the computer and in the end he sat there playing all these stupid games (including this shooting alien planes one and I was like THAT'S OUR OWN! DON'T SHOOT and he would be like firing all the same as if his brain couldn't react) while I watched and laughed at him. heh.

Ok shall go back to my studies soon. I wanna go play some games first ;)

Lingga says @#%$! at 4:11 PM

Saturday, September 25, 2004

I'm going to die of anxiety before the exams even arrive (ok exaggeration).

Yesterday Wen, Sasa, Jia and I went to AMK Library to supposedly "study". I was armed with my assesment book and determined to study Maths for 5 hrs straight. Well, no. We had lunch there first, Jia, Wen and I. While waiting for the sandwich to arrive, Wen and I went to stake out books. I FOUND MEG CABOT'S BOY MEETS GIRL!!!!!!!! IN THE LIBRARY!!!!! OMG!!!!!! Yeah and I borrowed it along with the TPD Princess Files. Wahahahaha. Showed Jia my treasure.

The sandwich was totally devoid of moisture. Like bread picked up from some drought-struck third world country. It was hard to actually finish it. My black pepper chicken was so tough. Wen and Jia actually resorted to dripping coke on their sandwich to make it more edible (Wen ended with some disgusting wet bread afterall. I'm thinking of puking just thinking of it). Anyway, after we were done with the lunch (I finished last, as usual), we opened our books and got to work. I attacked the monstrosity titled Standard Form. I do not like Standard Form word problems.

There's only so many times you can do Standard Form questions before flipping out.

Anyway, an hr later, I'd only finished 6 pgs of my ass book, Wen was still on Chapt 27 of our HMT shou ce, Jia was still on Chapt 5 of History textbook and Sasa was still on Chapt 6 of the pearl. We decided on a break soon.

I guess we didn't really do MUCH studying. What with shaking tables (our table could ROTATE), Sasa banging on the table absently while listening to Jay Chou, me creating a mini earthquake when I tried to erase something, Jia/Wen/Sa/I trying to exchange nose/chin/cheek pokes with each other, changing positions every 1 hr or so to create a "new study environment"...

Yah well it was fun afterall. I only got through standard form and expanding/factorising algebra. Diao. Ok. Never mind. Tonight the 4 of them coming over for dinner and to watch Yi Tian Tu Long Ji. Which reminds me, I really should get back to Maths. Ha.......... I am so looking forward to it.

Bye.

Lingga says @#%$! at 12:03 PM

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

No WONDER people are failing maths. Who the hell knows what's a solar panel?! Let alone seen it before. So when teachers incoporate totally random things inside maths questions that they give us, we really have no choice but to leave the whole thing blank.

It's demoralising, but I can't see myself passing that class test. Well. Maybe there's a glimmer of hope because I got the whole of last question right. And the whole of first question wrong. And I skipped question 3 (thanks to Mr Big Shot Solar Panel).

I am seriously considering getting my mom to confiscate my computer wire so I won't go online. Hopefully it'll make me want to study more? (I doubt so, I'll probably be reading all my Enid Blyton books again)

We did the 2003 maths paper 1 today and it was totally ... I was completely spaced out doing it. I can't remember how to do anything but factorise algebra equations. God. I resolve to go through the whole maths textbook next week. Yes, even sucky things like standard form and hired purchase (I ALWAYS GET HIRED PURCHASE QUESTIONS WRONG EVEN THOUGH I UNDERSTAND IT PERFECTLY WELL!).

Listening to Elva Hsiao's Beautiful Episode album now. The songs all sound a bit weird. Currently is chang hua duan shuo. Actually not bad lah. Haha. Ok I can't wait for the weekend. Yi Tian Tu Long Ji!!! WAHAHAHA.

Lingga says @#%$! at 6:43 PM

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Something I got in the email. It's kinda cute, and really true if you think about it. Haha.

Stuff that Annoys Me

People who point at their wrist while asking for the time. I know where my watch is buddy, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the bathroom is?

People who are willing to get off their ass to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.

When people say "Oh you just want to have a cake so you can eat it". Screw off. What good is a god damn cake if you can't eat it? What, should I eat someone else's cake instead?

When people say "It's always in the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who are they? idiots?

When people say, while watching a movie "Did you see that?" No dicknose, I paid $10.50 to come to the theatre and stare at the fucking ceiling up there. What did you come here for?

When something is "new and improved", which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.

When a cop pulls you over and then asks if you know how fast you were going? You should know asshole, you fucking pulled me over.

When people say "Life is short." What the hell?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever has!! What? Are they going to do something that's longer?

When people ask "Can I BORROW a piece of paper?" Sure, but please don't return the favor! It's one god damn piece of paper!

When you are waiting for the bus and someone ask you "Did the bus come yet?" If the bus came I wouldn't be standing here asshole!

People who ask "Can I ask you a question?" Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya buddy?

I'm supposed to study Maths. Really. DETERMINATION!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wuji and Zhao Min so rock!!! Anyone who watched The Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre (Ch 8 @ 7pm on Sats and Suns) will agree!! Jia Jingwen is SUCH a nice name, GAWD! I caught her in the freaky The Butterfly Lovers at 4.30pm and I couldn't recognise her at all. Only when i see her dressed as a guy. And when I look really closely at her face. Today we discovered treasure in U-Weekly - in the synopsis of the show for next week, there was a picture of Zhao Min and Wuji!! AHHHHH! Lijie, Jia, Wen and I totally flipped. They were sitting on the ground and Wuji was kinda hugging her. AHAHAHAHA IT WAS A NICE PIC!!!!! Wooh!! Wen will scan it in and I will upload it here to let you all see the sheer beauty of the image!! Oooh!!!

Which just goes to show how perfect fantasy is (cute cute Syaoran n_____n). And how cruel reality can be. *shudder.shudder.shudder*

Lingga says @#%$! at 6:16 PM

Sunday, September 19, 2004

Your Sexual Profile (you sexual deviant you...) by sparkledee
Name
Your Secret Kink Thing	Whips.
Your Sexual Strength	Your HOT SEXY BODY!!
Your Sexual Weakness	You're terrified of penises.
Your Likely STD	You're clean! Hurray for you!
How Many Partners in Crime?	2

Quiz created with MemeGen!

God forbid. I can't bang about if I'm afraid of the male sexual organ.

Lingga says @#%$! at 3:13 PM

Saturday, September 18, 2004

Let's see. What have I done other than feel insulted that I don't know anything about Congruency and Similiarity? Hmm. Oh yah, Jia and I went to AMK Library to study history. like I talked about in my previous entry.

It was raining. Of all the times it had to rain now. Ok never mind. We got off the bus and dashed across the road, me with my A3 plastic file covering my head (now you know why I always use bigger-than-A4-size plastic files). Jia was alone in the battle of staying dry. After reaching NTUC, we still had to go across that damn carpark to reach the library. Unhappily we trudged across, this time with Jia's bag raised above her head like some trophy. Salvation! I ran into shelter with Jia close behind.

We pushed open the glass door to the cafe, feeling like naked drowned mole rats (ok maybe that was me). Dumped our bags on some table and ran into the bathroom, the chill eating into our butts. Remembered the oh-so-fond memories of last year when Jia tried to help a little Indian girl switch on the tap (I think) and got a glare from her mother. Perhaps it was because we had bold black scribbles over our arms. Such an unfeeling world. Anyway, we tried to make ourselves look presentable and hence headed out to order our must-have milkshakes. Ah, 4 dollars gone just like that. Ignored the pinch in my heart.

Started on damn history. Was ok with Chpt 4. Somehow I know it pretty well. Throughout the whole 3 hrs there we only did ONE chapter. Chpt 4. Ok. I admit we were side-tracking a bit and kept sharing anecdotes, but whatever. We also met one of the seniors who always went to the library last year with her female friend (we were hoping she wouldn't recognise us and we don't know her on a personal basis). She was one of the 2 who laughed at us ("Mr Lim Yu Kee ah? GIGGLE GIGGLE GIGGLE") (not to our face though) for having those messages on our arm. Bad memories. Anyway, she was with her boyfriend who looked a bit diao. His hair esp. All his fringe was flipped to one side and he really reminded me of a scientist. He had this pair of glasses too. He still managed to look passably cool. But whatever.

Went home at close to 6? Yah. I keep reading JD Robb nowadays and will continue to force Jia to lend me. Good. Haha.

I cannot imagine plowing through the history texbook and emerging a historian. I wonder how much info about history a historian has in his head and I am awed.

Below is my Lit group's diary entry of the doctor in The Pearl. I never knew I had a talent for insulting in such a refined tongue. It's invigorating.

12 November

Oh, my beloved Paris! Gone! Wrenched so cruelly from my grasp!

The nerve of that little Indian, the utter nerve, how dare he pluck out so magnificent a pearl from the ocean! I hear its beauty is unparalleled, and oh, just thinking of the money the mere size of the pearl would bring makes me dizzy.

I cannot believe my own stupidity; I should have taken the chance to befriend him the day he brought his infant son here for treatment (I believe a scorpion sting was the cause of the sickness) but of course he had no money to pay. Why, he even dared to ram his filthy little hands on my gate! But of course, it made barely a difference (and I do so pray he bleeds to death from the wounds he has sustained). Oh, why could he not have found the pearl earlier, so that I might have convinced him to use the pearl as payment? The Gods are jealous, I tell you, jealous of my soon-to-come wealth and desirable good fortune! They are frightened that I might surpass them in power and wealth!

Anyway, what right do those little Indians have to possess an object of such value? Ah, thinking about what they might do to the beautiful pearl makes my heart constrict; those foul, foul hands, dirtying the purity of the pearl! They are so wrapped up in their own insignificant little ( and might I mention destitute) lives that they wouldn’t know how to handle such a precious object! Probably all that revolves around them is how much fish they can get off the coast each morning! I shudder at the pathetic mess they call their life.

However, if those silly little natives were not in existence, who would I cheat money out of? Perhaps that is why God created such redundancy; for me, Him of the world! Oh, what a great responsibility I must bear! For the umpteenth time I am awed at the power I have been awarded.

Wait, I think I may be coming up with something. Tonight, yes, tonight I shall retrieve what rightfully belongs to me. I shall head down to their residence (nothing more but a roof over some straw, I suppose) and find a chance to steal the pearl! I shall ask, casually, if they need a place to safeguard the pearl and perhaps they will be wowed over by my charming disposition (which seems more than likely since they are all without a brain anyway) and hand me the pearl (while slobbering over me) which I will of course keep in my own pockets! Yes, it will all be mine eventually! What joy I am experiencing now!

Oh, what with so much emotion in me, I think I’m getting heartburn. I’d better turn to some super rich and luxurious liquor-stuffed Belgium chocolate to calm myself down…

Lingga says @#%$! at 4:30 PM

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Today is going to be a very relaxed (and slacking) day. I have no wish to start on my revision yet. Will be doing that on Thursday. We're gonna keep the tradition of going to AMK library to study for EOYs alive (actually it was started only last year, and there's only one EOY, but whatever).

A*Teens To The Music is nice =)

Today Jia didn't know why there were so many water spots on her uniform (God sounds retarded). We checked the ceiling for holes and around, but couldn't find a water source. After finding more water spots on her sleeve, we thought maybe it was her bag leaking, and her water bottle inside was leaking. So we thought that was the end of it. But then I checked my shoe bag (really just my sports shoes in a Nike shoe box and stuffed into a plastic bag) and almost the whole box had water stains and my plastic bag was midly wet. Her minute water bottle couldn't have lost enough water. I also remembered the few freaky incidents in the past where there would be water spots on the side of my pinafore for no reason. This concludes The Case of the Mysterious Water Spots.

Another more interesting (and violent) incident today would be Gang Quan fighting. He threw a chair at Rama (it was just a toss and the distance was 4 feet, but it was still painful I think) and pulled his collar up and I seriously thought someone was going to get punched and I was yelling RELAC RELAC and after a while he loosened the grip on Rama. Then we thought everything was alright, but after a while we heard a commotion. Gang Quan'd got on the teacher's table (which he likes to do a lot) and when Leroy got up because of some disagreement between them he grabbed Leroy and Leroy grabbed his hand and Gang Quan pulled Leroy's specs and started swinging punches at him. Thankfully none hit Leroy but they continued this for a few moments ~~and finally one hit Leroy and his nose broke and teeth fell out and Gang Quan was struck by the monstrosity of his actions and knelt to apologize~~ while Jia and I and the rest of the class watched open mouthed and finally we got Gang Quan to calm and get off the table. He said something about him "ren gou le". I wouldn't be surprised if Rama was the one irritating him or something. Ok anyway don't feel like blogging anymore. Listening to Blue's Fly By and it's a bit distracting, no idea why. Haha. Ok bye.

Lingga says @#%$! at 4:12 PM

Monday, September 13, 2004

Your Homicidal Rampage! by crash_and_burn

Your name:

Weapon of Choice:

Coke bottles

Your Favorite Target:

Punks

Your Kill Count:

1,825,809,973

Your Battle Cry:

"Yo mama!"

Years You Spend in Jail:

How Much Money In Damages You Cause:

$16,000,516,098,215

Your Homocidal Insanity Level:: 55%

Quiz created with MemeGen!

Erm, ok... The part about me yelling out YO MAMA when I'm going to kill is weird though.

Ok, I'm like being lame here, but can blogskins users go here and just, you know, view it? I really like this layout n_n It's my first ever layout created using purely Photoshop brushes! Surely that ought to get some encouragement =) Pretty please?? (Oh and if you have time you may want to tell me how much it rocks in the comments section n_n)

Ok I still have to do my art. Like to hell with art. I'll do it at night. Do I care whether I get an A1 or not for my Asthetics?

Well actually the answer is yes.

PS: Let me introduce to you my current favourite smiley, n_n!!!!!!!!!! *coos* Isn't it just adorable???

Lingga says @#%$! at 5:48 PM

Sunday, September 12, 2004

TOMORROW IS THE FIRST DAY OF TERM 4. *freezes up*

Blank paper on desk: PAINT ME! PAINT ME!
Me: No.
Maths textbook: READ ME! READ ME!
Me: No.
Devil in brain: Slacked for the whole hols just as I instructed?
Me: Yes.

Crap. Let's analyse the usefulness of the subjects forced upon us in school.

English? duh.

HMT? Yes, what with all the crap about investments in China.

Science? Yes, or it would be sad if one died sleeping next to plants and didn't even know why.

History? Well, if you're that sort of person...

Geography? So important! How else will we know how soil was formed!

Art/Music? To make us appreciate the more finer aspects of life, perhaps...

DT/Home Econs? In case our husbands leave us because we can't fry an egg... or in case the wives leave their husbands because they can't repair a broken stool (not that we'll have all those equipment at home anyway... except a hammer, but what can you do with a hammer?)

SRP? Complete and utter crap. No one grows up thinking "OH GOD I WANT TO BECOME A SCIENTIST AND RESEARCH ON BACTERIA".

Maths? The best for the last. While I understand we might need to know how to plus minus divide and multiply in the absence of a calculator, it befuddles my poor innocent mind that we need to learn congruency and similiarity, draw and intepret linear graphs, solve algebra equations and find the volume and surface area of a stupid sphere! What next, calculate the possible population of the earth in the yr 3000 using the Potato formula (if we're not wiped out by nuclear bombing and natural disasters)?! Oh, I can just see myself telling the auntie I want to by xkg of fish and 7(y+1)g of grapes, and the auntie will have a sign depicting the values of y and x and I'll have to solve to find out how much I have to pay her!

Anyway, I finally got the 2 songs in Ella Enchanted!! Don't Go Breaking My Heart and Somebody to Love. HAPPY! Transferred the new collection of songs I have to my mp3 player already. I really like ~~Ashless~~ (I just KEEP typing Ashless) Ashlee Simpson's Piece of Me and Tata Young's I Think of You. Nice!!! Haha.

I swore to keep off layouts until after the exams right? No such luck.

Lingga says @#%$! at 5:39 PM

Thursday, September 09, 2004

I changed my layout, as you can see. =) I love the image but I kind of stretched it so it doesn't look as clear. But actually this isn't the point. Ok. I was thinking of redoing the layout because I wasn't satisfied with how it looked (high expectations, high expectations), but now I'll just forget it. Haha.

Anyway, came online to do my history online lesson, but can't find it anywhere. 2/7ners, if you are reading this and haven't done your history online lesson, feel happy because you don't have to do it (you can't find it anyway). Nicky and I think Mrs Lowe forgot to post it (finally one thing she does right ^_^).

Ok am awaiitng results of the wild card of Singapore Idol... I wished Beverly had gotten in. I was hoping Leandra, Taufik and Beverly would get in (actually Maia was my favourite) but Jerry (no Seow Ho) squeezed his way in. Oh well, hopefully Beverly or Maia gets wild-carded. =P

Bye, back to SI.

Lingga says @#%$! at 10:34 PM

Honestly, why am I so depressed? All I need to do is to finish my maths worksheets (which I cannot get down to doing since congruency/similiarity makes me sick), do my art tag (yeah, one measly tag) and my history online lesson, and I'll have finished my holiday homework. Yeah. Never mind me not studying for my EOYs, I'll just hug Buddha's feet for 3 days before the paper and I'll ace it. Sure.

I wish.

Seriously, I think our education system is flawed. Because of the MOE's desire to have well-rounded people who are good at all 8 subjects dumped on us secondary school students (please, what's that? 1% out of the whole nation?), they are actually limiting our career choices. See, those who are good at subject A (take me: English) will have to spend less time on that to study for subject B, a subject he/she ~~is not that good at~~ sucks at (take me: Maths), and then end up with mediocre results for both, or still continue being sucky at subject B while scoring less for the subject A. They should just let us choose what subjects we want to further develop ourselves in so that we can rise up to take on occupations requiring only whatever we're good at. Like Maths people becoming engineers or something. With the current system our average will just get pulled down even more with ONE lousy subject. If last year Johnny got 5 A1s and 1 A2 but a D7 in maths, his average is still going to be like LOW.

But that's impossible really cuz nobody will go for that. Haha (actually it's just that the thought of not having to learn maths for the rest of my life is so deliciously creepy it's impossible).

What I Have Learnt About Korean Serials From Watching Summer Scent and Winter Sonata

In any successful Korean drama serial, there must be a love triangle consisting of 2 males and 1 female, in which one of the males and the female have been in a long lasting relationship, but intruded upon by the new male who has some unexplained bond with the female.
In any successful Korean drama serial, the male in the long lasting relationship will be kind/generous/understanding so the female lead will feel guilty to abandon him.
In any successful Korean drama serial, the female lead must spend the rest of the serial debating who she should choose (and also avoid the new male because she feels guilty but they can't control themselves anyway) when it's just nonsense because everyone knows she will end up with the new guy anyway.
In any successful Korean drama serial, the female lead must have nice hair (usually long and dyed), a perfect complexion, have a very good character and usually the men they end up with are gorgeous looking. (actually this applies to any drama serial)
In any successful Korean drama serial, it will not be hot no matter what the female lead is doing, regardless of whether she is building sandcastles in the beach under the hot sun with her hair all around her neck or running across a soccer field. (ditto)
In any successful Korean drama, there must be a not-so-important-but-also-very-important couple the camera can focus its attention on when the viewers are tired of the love triangle between the 2 male leads and female lead (usually the couple is good friends with the male leads and female lead).
In any successful Korean drama, even seemingly boring things like running down a soccer field or doing the box step on said soccer field barefooted and without music can seem extremely romantic and fun.
In any successful Korean drama, it is essential to have the drama drag on and on to prolong the suffering of the female lead as she debates over things like how much she loves the new guy but cannot hurt the old guy etc etc.

Lingga says @#%$! at 4:56 PM

Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Hey people! Summer Scent rawks =) I haven't finished watching it (my mom's friend lent her the VCDs) but am only up to disc 6. Song Chengxian = hunk ^____^ Nice bod and nice 6 pack, hehe.

Anyway, regarding the little incident on my tagboard, I've done something in an act of revenge (yeah, revenge, but I didn't kill anything, so relax) to Zhiyong of East Spring Sec. Visit his blog to find out what I did. Or if he took the layout down already, you can view the image ~~here.~~ All I did was to upload that image in place of the real All Lost picture, but don't worry, I'm not that mean, I'll take it down after 24 hours. Those who want to download the real All Lost layout, no worries there too, I've moved the server to a new host. Haha!

Oh, if anyone wants to spam my tagboard and tell me what a *censored* I am, by all means, hopefully I have enough loyal army ants (haha ^_^) to fight you off, or when I'm tired I'll just delete your message(s) at one one go. Happy spamming!

Lingga says @#%$! at 4:22 PM

Monday, September 06, 2004

Went to watch A Cinderella Story just now (didn't I say that yesterday)! Chad Michael Murray rawks =) (I don't like saying Chad Murray even though it would make typing easier, but whatever) He's got this lean and tall body I want my ideal guy to have, hehehehehehehe

Not bad lah, I'll give it 3 stars (half star for the good looking factor). It was like Mean Girls and Ella Enchanted mixed together (why do popular girl cliques always exist in trios). The plot was cute, Hilary actually dropped her handphone instead of the glass slipper, and her handphone was so cute!!! It was kinda metallic blue with stars all over it. Her stepmom was sooooooo freaky. Her chest was so large; she stuffed her money into it. It was so Pamela Anderson x2. And the two stepsisters learn synchronised swimming! -________-'' Never mind.

Can't be bothered to type more, wanna have dinner. Tomorrow still got netball, sian. Tata.

Lingga says @#%$! at 6:56 PM

Sunday, September 05, 2004

I'm just sick here *sighs*

Ran away from my Theory WB only after 45 mins. I can't stand doing electricity!!! Electricity sucks *shudders* I resolve to finish my theory WB and zao ju today!!! ~~But knowing me, I probably won't and will be watching Yi Tian Fu Long Ji and then going online~~ NO NEGATIVE THOUGHTS!!!

Bahgawd (I'm addicted to this word Lok came up with).

Watching A Cinderella Story tomorrow!! Why do people not like Hilary Duff? It's not as if she's been having sex with married men or been killing stray cats for their fur. Plus, we don't even know her enough to dislike her. I think she's got a nice voice and her acting's not bad =) And she always gets to hang out with cute leading actors (double bonus). Chad Michael Murray looks GOOD in the trailer, hehehe... ^_^

Lingga says @#%$! at 4:12 PM

Saturday, September 04, 2004

I'm reading this book called The Time Traveler's Wife. This is the extraodinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible, but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control, Henry and Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

It's very interesting. A bit confusing at the beginning but it goes on pretty smoothly afterall. There is a lot of sex but not those kind of lurid ones explained in full detail. There are many four letter vulgarites. There is also more proof of the "joys" of labour. An extract from the book:

Clare makes a sound I have never heard a human being make before, a deep despairing groan of agony. What have I done to her? Oh Clare, I'm sorry, so sorry. An older nurse comes in and checks Clare's cervix. "Good girl," she cooes to Clare. "6 centimetres." (??)
Clare nods, smiles, and then grimaces. She clutches her belly and doubles over, moaning louder. The nurse and I hold her. Clare gasps for breath, and then starts to scream. She is lying on her side, whimpering, her face wet with sweat and tears.

She gives birth only after 6 miscarriages, because the foetuses all time-travel away, since it's a genetic disease. It's really sad leh but sounds a bit ... eh?

Lingga says @#%$! at 11:13 PM

Teachers' Day Celebrations on 31st Aug

We did the ACES (Andersonians Can Exercise Simultaneously *rolls eyes*) in the morning. Or rather, the counsellers on the stage did the dance and the floor just stared and moved around a bit. The dance wasn't that bad actually; it looked good paired with Superstar. But I couldn't bring myself to move around much -_________-''

The concert was totally butt-numbing. There were a lot of off-key renditions, esp A Whole New World with Major Chong and 2/5's Grace and Zhi Yan (at least that's what I think they're called). Major Chong sounded pretty ok (for a 40+ guy) but the 2 girls were horrible. They couldn't touch the high notes and when they tried, they overshot. Sorry to the girls and friends of the girls, but it sounded really nasty man. *shudders* Jia could have done a WAAAAAY better job.

Halfway into the concert, the MCs told us something about ex-Andersonians performing. I thought some enthu pupils had come back to the school to dance or whatever, and the curtains were pulled to reveal this group of guys and girls wearing their Anderson uniforms sitting at desks with their faces covered with a textbook, and when the screen showed a picture of this cute boy with 2 other girls, I was mentally going "Who's that cute guy?" and then the first guy wearing the shorts removed his textbook and it was Mr Ismail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BAHGAWD. I never knew Mr Ismail was an ex-Andersonian!!!!!! He is like 32 and likes to wear tight tees and jeans sometimes!!!! He was cute in the past!!!!!! That boy on the screen was him in his school days!!!!!! OH BAHGAWD BAHGAWD!!!!!!!! Then the rest of the dudes and dudettes removed their textbooks one by one and started singing, and oh, BAHGAWD, Ms Sharmilah was one of them!!!!!!!! They were all singing and dressed in the ridiculous pinafores and stuff!!!!!!!!! We were so freaked out we couldn't help screaming!!!!

Mrs Lim sang a duet with Mr Kwok, haha. She had to alternate her flute blowing with her singing and when she stopped singing she had to hurriedly pick up her flute and play. She has a nice voice!!!! But totally ruined by the mike.

Everyone was anticipating Mr Lim's guitar-playing moment, and it came as the last act for the concert. However, we didn't expect his "guitar-playing moment" to consist of only two notes and a few changes in the strings occasionally. -________-'' But it wasn't bad, considering, you know, his algebra roots and singlet-wearing behaviour =) He was part of this teacher band playing the music for Bring Me To Life while Ms Zarinah (no idea how to spell) belted her lungs (very powerful lungs) out. Cool.

Another Cute Holiday Homework List

Chinese zao ju
Maths TB
Lit The Pearl writing
Science theory wb
History online lesson (STRUCTURED Q)
ART OH GOD I HATE ART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STUDY!!!!!

Lingga says @#%$! at 10:12 PM

Wednesday (Happy Teachers' Day!)

Sakae Sushi bound!!!!! After not getting through to Sasa after 5 calls, we suspected she'd forgotten we were meeting today. After finally getting through to her, we discovered she was still sleeping (as usual). She thought we'd cancelled the outing today... *bangs head against wall* Anyway, while waiting for the freaky Sasa to show up, Jia and I toured J8. We bought the stripy pencil case I wanted, went into Watsons' to oogle at these cute furry brown teddy bears on sale at only $9.90 (quick!! whose birthday?!) and were a bit aghast at the neon green/blue/yellow tortoises and crabs displayed next to them. We also went around smelling assorted shampoos, body foams and feet scrubber (or something like that >.<") and there was this particularly ghastly one called sensual kiss which freaked us out completely. Then we went to Kiddy's Palace, Seiyu toy section to marvel at the stuff kids wear these days (Malibu Barbie) and wishing that there were such cool clothes made for us too, then we went to Popular to look at books where Sasa finally appeared. Turned out we were staring at cookbooks and Sasa was staring at this Alphabet Book behind us and none of us noticed each other. Ha.

Ok anyway by then our stomachs were trying to eat us up already (aka we were hungry) but it was only 1 plus. We then went to take neoprints in this weird machine (every now and then the scenery would change and stars and sparkles would be falling all over us in the screen and things like swords were moving around and settling in the picture) and came up with the following:

I like this one a lot!!! Look at the da hong hua on Sa's head and my earring =) which looked custom made for this pose. I don't get the many roses in the background, but never mind.

This one is also nice. You see the tiara-like thingy on my head? That's really a metal chain. I just clicked on the metal chain icon I saw when there were only like 15 secs left for us to decorate and anyhow drew. Haha. =)

We liked this one a lot too! It's so pastel-y coloured but all of us looks great ;) even Sasa who is looking her usual spastic self. If you look at all the neos again you'll see Sasa always has a stupid face to put on and never a smile -________-''

Last one! I think this one looks a bit freaky with my -______-'' face and Jia's "I'm trying to be seen above Lingga" look (cuz I was tired of always standing at the back being the tall one so I tried to force myself into the front for once and bent my knees) look. Heh. In this pic Sa looks the best (but also the freakiest).

Ok, after taking the prints we still had like an hour to kill, so we brought Sasa to visit Watsons' (she thought the tortoises were cute!!!!) and I drew this freaky green mark on her face with eyeshadow or whatever =) Then we walked around J8 AGAIN (God I was getting SOOO tired of J8) to kill time and we even sat outside Sakae Sushi to wait it out and we talked a bit and finally when there was 10 minutes or so left before the buffet started we got up and walked around J8's ground level (the Adidas shop was ridiculously expensive; no wonder it was empty save for the sales people) before finally returning to Sakae and WE WENT IN!!!! Oh my GOD you won't believe the relief we felt (esp Sa who must have complained 20 times about her stomach) when we grabbed the first plate of sushi from the serving belt. My first sushi was unagi (eel) and we just kept on taking and eating. Sasa had the goal of taking every single plate of unagi she saw and I think she ate at least 5 plates of that. After 30 minutes, believe it or not, I was full. We'd eaten only 20 plates and we were not satisfied. Problem was the lack of variety of sushi, we kept seeing the same disgusting corn salad and salmon skin ones (which Jia didn't know and ate commenting that it tasted like ba zhang) floating around us and there was a period of time when Sa didn't see anymore unagi and she was so deprived of it she actually went to snatch the one plate she saw at the other sushi belt next to us. Then we discovered we could order $1.90 plates from the chef if we didn't see them on the sushi belt. That was when the fun began (for me at least ^_^). I kept making Sa order stuff to eat =) There was even takoyaki!! So cool =) =D =)

After 37 plates, we left satisfied with ourselves and walked around more before taking the MRT home (but not before we boarded the wrong train on the other side). Haha, that day was great fun =) Jia's right, we always have fun together heh heh heh ^______^

Lingga says @#%$! at 3:12 PM