t s u b a s a reservoir chronicle

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Sasa ohmygod you're soo cute I feel like pinching your cheeks! The bo ku and ke bo thing is pure genius!!!

I know why SOk Mui wants me to blog because on Friday Xinyun was taking pictures of us on the swing at noon (and sat on it for a while but got up fearing the demerits of skin cancer), due to her being a member of the Photography Society. However she had to use my phone because of its 3.2MP camera, and she had fun experimenting with it because

a) at first she couldn't find the Shoot button (which is perfectly normal as the first time I got my phone, I didn't take pictures for 2 days because I honestly didn't know how to)
b) but insisted she knew where it was
c) she found out how to take sequence shots
d) and hence took like 45 consecutive pictures of Sok Mui and I sitting on the swing in VJC with me craddling her darling black Jansport backpack, which she is ardently fond of
e) some of which she proudly announced were very artistic indeed (especially one with my calves and Sok Mui's legs which she quite liked for one reason or another)
e) when Sok Mui and I finally asked her to take a proper photo of us she activated video mode, and didn't know about it until 5 seconds later

Here are some of the photos she took in sequence because I cannot upload the rest of the 30 or so of them.

Xinyun is damn cute :D Like her inability to resist buying items from the fruits stall in school (she is known for coming back to the class table with bags of green apple slices and wailing that she didn't know what had happened).

Oh yes here is a very brief update on my school life. Recently the amount of homework we have been assigned for weekends has been increasing at an alarming rate, something I only, for some reason, noticed last week. I came online only to look for an analysis of Wilfred Owen's Asleep, but looking at my tagboard and all the very-encouraging messages left behind by my supporters I felt compelled to post a blog entry. I have started paying attention in Econs lectures ever since Mr Ueng ("You all don't talk so much, later I nervous") stopped lecturing, and the lecturer we have now is the first lady who lectured us, and while she is a very good lecturer and makes us understand things, I have started feeling extremely sleepy during Econs lectures now. Math lectures are getting increasingly incomprehensible as we move into stupid things like Geometric Progression (which we finished, and I have to do the tutorial and do you know I really suck at this kind of logic-required problems?) and drawing hyperbolas.

On Thursday Mr Chan granted us a half day (yay Mr Chan! And yay Mrs Chan, the previous principal, for starting this tradition so that us new Victorians know how to carry it on) due to our Wushu team emerging Champs and the Cross-Country girls for coming in first in the National Cross-Country meets. A group of us went back to Anderson to collect our O Level Certs and it was lovely sitting in the canteen eating lunch in our VJC uniforms while everyone looked at us weirdly (how come the pinafore colour is so ugly now? It's such a dark navy it looks perpetually wet). Jia Dev and I didn't meet any of our teachers, we only met Mrs Lim Shioh Hwee (who was garbed in some crimson trench coat which she no doubt ordered from some online catalogue, because no shop in Singapore would carry such an outrageous article of clothing) who remembered Shunwei and Kum Boon and Lijie. Then we went to sit in at Mrs Theresa Lim's geog lesson in the AVT, and she made me miss Mdm Neo's geog lessons very much. Only we didn't see her. I didn't see Eric Tay either even though I really wanted to. I went to peek at the zuo wen books in his pigeon hole :) Crusty Wong Teck Hock couldn't be found, either.

We went to visit the Sec 4 block, and Dev was alarmed at the strange green the doors have been repainted. There are now strange plaques placed above the classroom doors proclaiming "Kindly donated by ..." and we couldn't figure out what the hell they donated, did they donate the PLAQUES itselves or something?

And the saddest thing was it only took me 20 minutes to reach Yishun MRT station from Anderson.

Lingga says @#%$! at 1:42 PM

Friday, April 06, 2007

I'm supposed to be either starting on the PAWS signboard or finishing up my Arithmetic Progression tutorial, but I am of course doing neither.

Later on I'm going over to Xinru's house to make 50 stressballs and 48 wooden pegs with clay ladybirds attached to them and to finish up my signboard. It is a big thing okay. (Must remind Xinru to bring rafia string to attach the banner on Monday.)

Today's my mom's birthday and there's supposed to be a celebration at my cousin's house because some other relative whom I do not know has the same birthday as my mother. So it's a double celebration and kind of a big event. I will be at Xinru's house because I cannot delay making the products anymore. I will not be able to eat cake :(

Wish me luck that everything will be fine :)

Lingga says @#%$! at 9:33 AM

Thursday, April 05, 2007

How depressing nothing ever goes smoothly for me -.-

Not to particularly want to spend one whole entry whining, but WHAT THE HELL WHY DOES THIS KIND OF THING HAPPEN? I already ordered the ice cream and the freezer has come and then it turns out we are only allowed to sell ice cream for one week because the drinks stall vendors are unhappy that we'll affect their sales. And it's an agreement the school has with them so unless the drinks stall vendors agree (and they are not going to =x) we have to sell 600 / 5 = 120 cones per day. Oh my God, I am so desperate I just want to finish selling all the cones we have! But what about the ICE CREAM? We won't be able to finish selling the ice cream one lor, CONFIRMED, what am I to do with them??

Victorians please help me out and buy an ice cream cone or two T_T (per day)

Alright, no more fundraising mentions. On a happier note, I am going to London and Paris =D With Jia and Wen and Shunwei. It's the UK-France Literature Trip 2007 the Lit department is organising, initially it was only open to the Arts faculty but due to lack of response (as usual) they've opened it up to the Science students. Cost price is a staggering $3188 for the 9-day trip. We're leaving on 30 May and Wenwen is already fretting over what to wear. Thankfully it'll be late spring/early summer so we don't have to bundle up in thick layers. The only thing I'm puzzled over is, since we're paying 3000 over dollars, why don't we get to stay in hotels very night? Because most of the time we'll be residing in youth hostels and only the occasional hotel every 3 days or something. :( I want to stay in a hotel.

Oh we get to ride an aeroplane FOUR times in the trip. How super duper cool! And we'll get to play never-ending games of asshole daidi and bridge and maybe bitch and gossip a little on the plane when everyone else is asleep (hmm maybe not so little).

My mom says I am to pay for the trip myself out of my savings. Initially I was all triumphant and haughty, declaring that I had much money in my Edusave, I could probably pay for the whole trip using Edusave! Then my mom checked the remaining funds in my account and laughed at me. The number on the receipt said $362.40. -.- How depressing.

So I will withdraw the money out of my bank account and pay for my holiday like a proper adult.

Yesterday was the 2007 Inter-Secondary School Humanities Quiz held by VJC and 07A14 were ushers/invigilators/quiz markers/cheerleaders. Usage of the slash means cum, not or. It was somewhat invigorating, it being my first time representing VJC in an official capacity :D So we all donned the ties and looked ultra smart and apparently the next day (which is today) Ms Goh, Head of Arts, would then praise us as the "best batch of J1s we've ever seen" to Mr Najib! Oh, the satisfaction. But I digress. Anyway we were stationed in LT1 to usher people into their respective rows/seats (a tad confusing, considering each school representative had to sit in alternating seats with a rep from a different school in between), then had to invigilate the quiz for an hour during which most of us stood around, sat around, slept or read Great Expectations. I peeked at people's answers and had a good laugh mentally. But who am I to laugh; unlike them, I do not know that the first baby to born using in-vitro fertilisation or however you term it was called Louise Brown.

I do, however, know that the primary colours of light are red blue green, NOT

a)white
b)yellow, magenta, cyan
c)red orange yellow green blue purple violet.

I'm not kidding, these are actual answers I marked in the LT AVA yesterday afternoon. This ACS(I) boy scored 31/60 for the quiz (which is super admirable already; the better ones get 20 over and the average mark was 17) but didn't know that our newest poly was Republic Polytechnic (he actually dared to write Innova Poly oh-my-god).

The structured questions were easiest to mark most of the answers I came across were either completely inane or blank. :D

RI, HCI, SJI and Maris Stella (or MSHS? That is strange) got into the finals. Before you question this phenomenon please do take a moment to recall who the person to always top the class in History, or the person who knew all his prime ministers whenever your SS teacher gave a quiz, was. Were they, perhaps, all of the same gender? Yes, you have no more questions. Back to the boys then. I understood just how they felt (kind of) during the competition because just the day before, Sok Mui, Enid and I took part representing A14 in the dress rehearsal for the quiz :D It was humiliating all the teams scored less than 50 points and each question is worth either 4 or 5 points. There were about 80 questions in all? We placed second though :D But the boys in yesterday's actual quiz really know their stuff, like REALLY know the super-obscure-cannot-imagine-why-anyone-would-know-this stuff. It was very entertaining to watch because RI and HCI were competing for last place. The HCI boys looked really depressed because they were really lagging behind. SJI was leading right from the start but in the speed round, the Marists (HAHA) caught up and tied, while RI got pushed into last place by the HCI boys, who still looked rather depressed that they weren't kicking everyone else's asses.

Maris Stella won eventually, beating SJI by only 2 points scored in the last question. RI was last lol they looked totally crushed. Poor things, such a beating their egos took.

Lingga says @#%$! at 10:08 PM

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

ALL RIGHT! I am done with my PI. As usual, I tried to hun shui mo yu by using an assortment of chim-sounding words and saying things like "it is easy to split up the work among a large group of students, for example..." only not mentioning how it might be easy :) Whatever lah it's only the first draft.

I'm still online because I'm waiting for Jin Ning to finish her PI so I might type it out and print for her. She says to give her 20 minutes so I am.

I'm terribly stressed out about PAWS fundraising! The total cost for the ice cream added up to this insane number. Did you know there was tax on the freezer? Like a 5% tax on a $100 freezer? That is FIVE ice cream cones I must sell, just to cover the bloody TAX on a $100 freezer! So it's like. Ice cream is $14.80 per 6 litre tub. And we need to buy at least 12 tubs of ice cream before they'll actually sell anything to us. That's $14.80 x 12 + $105 (FREEZER + TAX) + $21 x 2 (600 cones) = $324.60. I need to sell at least 325 cones so we won't make a loss for the ice cream, and obviously I'm not going through all these for NOTHING, so my aim is to sell at least all 600 cones, which leaves us with only a profit of about $275, which is NOT ENOUGH because our target for the fundraising is $700.

Oh crap Jin Ning's called will type again!

Lingga says @#%$! at 9:05 PM

Sunday, April 01, 2007

I win already lor. I'm damn good at putting off doing constructive stuff to do not constructive stuff. If I'm at my table then I'll end up doodling tons of nonsense. If I'm online I'll go friendster-surf, youtube-surf or end up blogging. Yep. The constructive thing I'm putting off is my PI. Hehe. I know how it's going to sound like already, I simply cannot bring myself to put it down in words. I've started my introduction. I'm on the second paragraph. Should be okay to take a break right.

I read Sok Mui's blog just now and she says she's old and really doesn't know how to talk to children. I don't like young kids and I don't want to talk to them either. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO! Especially my little cousins who want me to play with them. Why not kill me instead? My wavelength and their wavelength completely clash, no way to hash properly one. Mostly it ends up me saying really awkward things to like humour them or I end up "fu yan"ing them. Plus. They bore me out can -.-

I find I kind of condescend to people younger than me even if they're only a couple of years younger or something. I can't help it this gear in my brain goes "younger person" and I start talking like he/she's 12. I noticed this a few years back when I was teaching my netball juniors to do passes. I was saying "okay?" really gently like fifteen times in a minute. Sheesh.

Sports Day on Friday. We got our house tees finally, stupid 15-dollar thing. Phoenix's colour is orange and I think the tee is fantastic looking :) Because I ordered the correct size (S - and it's already quite big), I didn't look like I was being swallowed up by it/or simply untidy, which I had gotten tired of looking over the years (EXAMPLE NETBALL TEE FOR BOTH 2005 AND 2006). The material is mostly dri-fit and it feels really nice against the touch. Plus, orange is a cool colour :)

Xinyun and Enid and Sara and I joined the march along the track. So cool. We giggled a lot because we had no clue as to what we were doing. And you could only march only if you were wearing your skirt, so only the 4 of us from our class went. Haha.

Superb cheerleading routines, everyone :) I particularly liked Draco's, because Chia Chia looked so sexy. And I know her and her team worked really hard to make the whole thing work, which is fitting because they came in third. Pegasus's outfits were damn nice lah, short black and white striped skirts with a purple top and cropped black cardigans. Ursa was dressed in black and gold, such a pretty combination. Lynx came in first like I knew they would because their routine was mind-blowing :D Nice job, Phoenix! We came in last but who cares, you guys kicked ass anyway :DD Especially my 07A14 classmates. Cherissa, who looks so gentle and soft-spoken in class, but turned out to be one wild, flexible woman on the track. Jolene (from Chongfu, 6B - she recognized my name first before I did hers! So coincidental) looked super chio in her little black and orange skirt and who knew she could do a split!

I got out of my 800m run simply by not reporting at the track :P Which was a good thing because if I had gone, I'd have been left behind to eat dust for sure. the girls just started sprinting the moment the race began - I saw the poor girl who came in last valiantly trying her best to keep up, but it was really beyond her, and I sat there thinking THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ME.

Oh Enid, Xinyun and I got prime seats. We sat with the teachers :D Because after the march, we couldn't find space to sit down in the stands, so we sat in the chairs instead. So many empty chairs leh! Luckily Phoenix was next to the teachers' seats.

And then it started raining and the 3 of us gloated because we were safe and dry and warm.

Phoenix's mascot fights Ursa's :D

Siew Boon made the whole outfit from scratch. She stayed up till 6am the morning of Sports Day stitching it and hence didn't go for lessons. Instead, her mom (such a supportive mother! If I tried that my mom would just laugh) sent her to school with her completed costume. And Mr Najib told her there was no need to give him an MC, "let it be our secret" (did I mention my CT rocks?). Anyway the mascot costume was just SIMPLY ADORABLE, Siew Boon will go down in history for producing the best mascot Phoenix has ever seen man.

All the other houses had such ugly costumes which they rented LOL. Especially Draco's scary-looking little blue and pink dragon and Ursa's red-eyed bear and Lynx's strange-looking yellow dog! Our mascot was the best looking lah :D Maybe it was a good thing we didn't have a rent-able mascot, how to rent a phoenix costume you tell me?

Towards the end of the day someone called, Lingga, and I dismissed it as a fiment of information because no one in A14 knows me well enough to call me Lingga, but the strangely familiar voice persisted and I turned around and squealed because it was Liu Xinying Vanessa! Who had come to support me for my 800m run (which I didn't go for, HAHA!). So sweet of her. Instead Jia and her and Wen and I met up and had dinner at New York Pizza.

Oh before I start on dinner here is a picture of Wenwen.

Fortune telling, Arabian nights

We went to New York Pizza and had our dinner at9pm. It was so much fun and laughter, like we were all 14 years old and in 2/7 again. Sasa knocked her head into the bus window during the bus ride there because she was laughing so hard! Just like old times. And she dropped her handphone during dinner =x Sasa used to be famous for dropping her N3310 on the floor where it would fly apart into a few pieces.

There's so much I miss of my past. Gotta get together for a proper gathering soon!

We went to the pasar malam in Khatib for a while and I bought the Aladdin DVD :D It's really an impulse buy because I don't need to pay $12.90 for the movie and some unappealing bonus features (uh, this save Jasmine game and deleted songs), but I've been wanting to watch Aladdin again for the longest time. It's exactly like I remember it but I now know the dialogue in the movie :) When I was 6 I only paid attention to the graphics. I think both it and The Little Mermaid would rank as my favourite Disney movies ever, but I've never come across a VCD/DVD for the latter, leh. I also saw the Mulan 2 DVD which I really want to watch as well! But no way of watching, leh. I'm broke from the DVD purchase. Wth. Haha Sasa bought a set of Doraemon VCDs for her dad to watch because she says he's fond of watching Doraemon. I think Sasa's father is damn cute. Unlike my own who likes to do lots of strange gestures to get the cat's attention. Wth again.

Will blog about PAWS fundraising and our efforts to prepare for it next week, as the following week I will be DAMNED busy, what with getting ready the products, helping out with the humanities quiz and all!

Now I must get back to my 2-paragraph-long PI, goodbye!

Lingga says @#%$! at 8:19 PM