Phew. For a while I thought that my previous post wasn't saved. When I hit the "Post & Publish" button Internet Explorer decided to crash with an "Illegal Operation". Gah.
My mother is back. She just nagged at me to bathe. Sigh.

Decided to do my first Friday Five. I got the questions from here.

1. Would you say that you're good at keeping in touch with people?
Not too bad, I would say. I do send the occasional Christmas, CNY and birthday cards to my Primary school friends, whom I haven't seen in eons. But most unfortunately, I haven't kept in touch with my cello and piano teacher, and my tuition teacher from last year.

2. Which communication method do you usually prefer/use: e-mail, telephone, snail mail, blog comments, or meeting in person? Why?
E-mail, blog comments and snail-mail. All these require non-physical contact... I'm not exactly a very social person. Oh yes, and SMS too.

3. Do you have an instant messenger program? How many? Why/why not? How often do you use it?
I have ICQ... I've never talked to half the people on my list, though I know them all personally... I'll only talk to good friends on ICQ... and my ICQ will always show that I'm online whenever I'm using the computer.

4. Do most of your close friends live nearby or far away?
Well, I live in a really out-of-the-way area. So what do you think? One thing that really pisses me is that no one is willing to travel the extra distance to come to my area, even though I never complain whenever they want to meet in more convenient places (for them) like Orchard. So what's wrong when I request that they come over to Compass Point or something? Can't there be a little give and take?
OK nevermind, I doubt you'll understand what I'm grumbling about.

5. Are you an "out of sight, out of mind" person, or do you believe that "distance makes the heart grow fonder"?
I would say "distance makes the heart grow fonder". Yeah.

Nice... I like Lilo. She's so cute! Haha...
Oh yah I watched Lilo and Stich in the Sept holidays... it was a nice movie... very touching... aw... but it was funny at times too... I think Lilo's very cute. Yeah... she's so small and adorable! :)


What sea creature are you?


Had another 4 hours of Physics tuition today, and made a wasted trip down to Popular trying to look for Chemistry TYS. Gah. Been searching for the TYS for very long. Whenever I see it, I don't have money to buy it. Whenever I bring money, it's out of stock. -_-
Maths is the first paper! (Actually GP starts this Saturday, but I have no clue on how to study for GP) So I shall practice and practice and practice my maths. I need to pass maths. I need to. Must pyscho myself.
OK I must also bear in mind that I cannot neglect Chem and Econs too... been focusing largely on Maths and Physics these days. Sigh! Can't wait for the promos to be over. After that it'll be Open Day, and I predict that we'll be very busy with CCA stuff.
Oh well. Till the next post, tata~

Hey! Guess what. For once, I'm actually home before 6pm, instead of reaching home at the usual 6.30pm ++. Wow!!!!! I must record it down. Haha.

Maths make-up lecture ended at 3pm today, so I could reach home at the wonderful hour of 4.30pm... :) Hence I decided to make use of this opportunity to come online. For a while. (Homework and revision's nagging at me at the back of my head)

People in school have been studying and studying and they suddenly seem so much more knowledgable than me. Oops. I don't even have time to start on my revision of past topics.

Shall go now... better not waste any more time. Promos in just a mere 9 more days! Gasp! Freaky.

Some test results:




If I were in a movie, I'd be an extra!
Take the Movie Quiz now!
created by Brooke.

Oh my. Now that's sad.

I'm on a quiz spree. Decided that I needed something to decorate my blog with. Haha. Whee!!~


What punctuation mark are you? Find out at quizlets.tk!
by Krysten


find your inner PIE @ stvlive.com

Haha, nutty I agree, but rich I'm not. :) Unless they mean rich as in... rich, creamy filling?


Take the test at the Faery Glade


quiz by krysten


Take the Dessert Quiz

That's enough quizes to last for a few days.
I need to wake up early tomorrow. Darn.
This goes out to Regina: I read your note in the guestbook, yep we're all fine here... hope you are too... keep surviving! You'll become stronger than before. :) Yes and do keep in touch! Hope that blogging is an effective way to keep in touch... :)

Tsk. How noisy.

My youngest sis just pierced her ears today. (She's only 4 years old) And now she's wailing and screaming because my mother is trying to apply something to her ears. And what a din they're making. Gr.

Realized that I haven't taken quizes for some time. Haha. So here goes:

which song describes you the best?

Haha, I cheated to get that. ;p



Which Kid's TV Character are You?Find out!


Take the test, by Emily.

I love that piece. Though I can always never play the cello part of the fourth movement properly... :)

6am now. The clock in the living room just chimed. 6 chimes. Dong dong dong dong dong dong.

I hear my father in the bathroom.

Just changed the layout. Nice?

I'm off to bed, before my mother wakes up and nags at me.

Bye.

Wrote this whole entry like, one whole week ago. Yeah, so some stuff may be outdated but this is after all, my blog and I choose to post it.

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Wanted to blog earlier but my computer is being evil. -_-
Anyway, Compass Point has opened! So now I've got a place to go to when I'm feeling bored. The libaray will be opening soon, I hope. And I shall stuff myself with BreadTalk's pork floss bun at every available opportunity, haha :)

I have Econs essay to hand up on Monday, and I really really need to start doing my tutorials instead of just going to school and copying whatever the teacher says. Especially for Maths. If this goes on my only passing subject will become a failing one. It's a bad habit. But whenever I stare at my tutorial my mind goes blank and I don't even know how to start doing the question, much less try and complete my tutorials. How? I feel like such a failure at times.

I will still be blogging, but much lesser and not so frequently. Time flies. It's already going to be the last week of Term 3. What have I achieved for the past 3 terms? They say JC life passes by very quickly. I think so too. Wish I was in Secondary school again, with all my good friends, crapping, laughing, lunching together, having lessons together... sigh...

Shall blog abit about recent happenings.

16th Aug Fri: Went to celebrate birthdays for Tsin Shwen, Yuan Shan, Adelene and Angie. But most unfortunately Angie couldn't make it coz her grandma passed away.
Well it was quite fun, we went to Toa Payoh to eat Sakae and we lured them to Delifrance where two others were "ambushed" there, with the relighting candles and cake prepared... took pictures, sat around, talked and laughed... sometimes I really cherish moments like this, where all my good friends are together, without a worry in the world... well, until a call came for Shuhui that brought bad news. The mood was instantly killed, so we all prepared to go home and consoled her on the way home.
17th Aug Sat: Went to school for SAT lecture, stayed back for the CCA board, went home, dozed off for a while and then went to the Esplanade for a trial test performance by the People's Association Chinese Youth Orchestra... the Esplanade looks nice, the concert hall is quite big, reminded me of the theatre at UCC for some reason, and there's alot of chambers... for the acoustics I guess. Negative points: The reception is bad and the space between rows are too close, if your seat is right smack in the middle then you'll have to squeeze your way through people's knees.
18th Aug Sun: Went to Jurong for maternal grandfather's birthday. It was boring. I'm not very close to that side of the family and neither am I close to my cousins, whose ages range from adult (married with kids) to babies (about 1 yr plus?). Diverse family I have. And because my sister the lucky pig gets to stay at home (using studying for tests as an excuse) I have no one to talk to there and was stoning and rotting for like 4 hours?! What a waste of time, in my opinion. Sorry if I seem rather mean and unconcerned about my family, but that's really the truth. And when I got home I had to rush through my homework because the weekend has been ultra busy for me. Sigh.

Today I had to go back to school again. Why? Because I had to help out with the CCA board. The vice-president actually came up with this totally crazy idea of sawing off the scroll of a violin. So armed with a blunt saw and an unwanted violin, we spent about 2 hours trying to saw and saw and saw and getting all hot and bothered, and with a few lame jokes cracked in between. Well it was a fun experience, at least now we know that we should never attempt to saw off a violin scroll ever again.

I had a rather bad sore throat for the past few days, my throat will hurt like crazy when I swallow or when I sneeze... ow... but luckily now I've recovered... I was thinking that I may need to get my tonsils removed or something... :p

Well on a side note: Things with HX now are rather neutral, I don't talk much to her, although we do come in close contact. I think she can still sense this feeling from the blatantly obvious body language of mine that I've given her for the first few weeks of term 2... Guess now everybody's happy and we've all mixed well in the class. Even the SJI guys are not that unbearable now. Life in school and in CCA's not bad, in fact, I would say that I'm rather satisfied with things. The only thing is that my not-too-brilliant results sticks out like a protruding thorn... sigh... I wouldn't dare to describe myself as happy, I don't know what defines real happiness and I'm afraid that if I feel happy, it'll all come to an end soon coz it wouldn't last.

When I went for my maternal grandfather's birthday celebration, my third aunt made such a big hoohaa over me being in NJC. And you know relatives, they will always subtract away at least one year of your education. For example, if you are in Sec 4 they will think that you are in Sec 3 or Sec 2, until you tell them that you are in Sec 4, then they'll go "Wah! So fast ah! Sec 4 already, so O levels this year issit?" -_- So my aunt thought that I was still in Sec 4, and when I told her that I was in J1 and studying in NJ she was making such a big fuss over nothing and was saying that I must be very smart to be able to get into a JC, and into such a "prestigious" one somemore, and yada yada yada. And by getting into a JC, I will go on to a university and probably be the next cousin that gets a degree. And she looked so impressed when I told her that I didn't have tuition. Really, this is so overrated. She doesn't even know the other half of the story. The fact that I'm failing almost all my classes. The fact that my O level results aren't really that great. The fact that I'm having such a hard time coping with my school work and there's a high probability that I'm going to get retained. What do they know? They don't even know anything.

Everything's a lie. It's just the surface. It's so superficial, it's like a mask, shielding everything from reality and not knowing how ardous the process is. In the end, the end result really does matter huh? Because people will use that to judge you, without knowing what the truth is.

Listening to my MP3s in alphabetical order now.

The more I look at my webapge, the more I think the red colour is extremely glaring to the eyes. And since National Day is way over, the red-and-white theme doesn't really fit. So in order to make my page more pleasing to the eyes, I will try my best to come up with a new layout before I leave for Genting on Monday.
Yep, three days of my short one week break will be spent in Genting Highlands. I haven't gone on a holiday with my family ever since Sec 2. I suspect that I may be too old for all the kiddy rides and I think I'm too un-adventurous for all the roller coasters, so I'm wondering what I'm going to do there. Bringing school work to do is a choice, but to spend money to study when you are on a holiday when you can always study for free at home? Nah, I think not.

And after numerous phone calls and negotiating, I've finally found a tutor who hopefully can help me in my Physics. Things are desperate. I need to pull up my grades. I need to get 2 A level passes and 2 AO level passes, the minimum being 1 A and 2 AO passes. I barely scraped through for my common tests. If I'm repeating my 1st year in Junior College again I might as well have gone to a Polytechnic.

Can't seem to type properly, weeks of non-practice has caused my fingers to feel unfamiliar on the keyboard and my knuckles are aching. Wait, since when do we use knuckles to type? Hm.

Oh well, since I'm already typing quite a bit, I might as well type a little bit more.

Yesterday was the teachers' day celebration. Had a picnic cum concert thing in school, saw Daniel Wong in The Chinese High School's uniform (that bit was really funny) as he pranced around on stage singing "Sew, a needle pulling thread", and the school witnessed Wen lao shi's beautiful singing. Only flaw is that her male singing partner couldn't really match up to her singing standards. After that, I met a couple of friends and we went back to St Nicks. Saw a lot of teachers, saw a lot of friends too. For a while, I really missed the times back then. Had weird feelings that I couldn't really place. Since I didn't to go home, I hung around for a while, then went to Compass Point with 2 of my friends to walk around.
At about 5.30 I caught the shuttle bus back to AMK MRT and then went down to Orchard. Met my class for class outing, which was dinner at Sizzler's. Hm. Food wasn't that bad, but I wasn't exactly hungry to begin with, so I couldn't really enjoy my food. But the food was quite expensive. And our class was seated at different tables because they didn't have a big enough table that could accomodate all of us. Well a few of them were not very happy due to different reasons, seems to me that someone in class has gotten a little too unbearable. Hm. It wasn't really a very nice class outing, because we weren't really together as a class in the first place. At about 9pm, 5 of us left the place and walked around Wisma before going home. I overslept on the bus again and ended up in the interchange, wasting about half an hour of my time.

Idols have made me a bit crazy. I'm wasting my SMS. Parentals not too happy with my handphone bill. Sigh.

You know what. Everytime I try to post something Blogger will refuse to cooperate and that makes me very very pissed. Either the page refuses to load, or loads too slowly, or I'll get some stupid message that says "Bad Gateway" or "This page cannot be found" or something to that extent. Hurmph. Talk about stiffling my thoughts.

The last time I tried to blog something was about one week ago.

Luckily I saved my post, or I'll really be very pissed off. Ugh. Blogging is one of the good things created in the internet, but can they please practice Quality Control or something. Or maybe it's just my computer huh.

'tis late, life has been so-so, and well, I don't really feel like describing my week at the moment.

Thinking about the promos has all the more assured me that I'll get retained.