This is a catastrophe!!! Disaster!

I received a hamster for my birthday! Yes a freaking hamster!!!

My crazy friends got me a hamster as a present!!!

I mean of all the things to give... why a hamster?!?!?!

I am not a furry-animal person! I am not an animal person! I am most certainly not a pet person! I can't take care of pets! I am a commitment-phobe! *Si Yi goes slightly hysterical*

Nobody in my family is a pet person too... my mom doesn't even dare to hold the hamster. I think she is more averse to furry animals than I am.

Plus having a pet is a freaking huge responsibility. It's a living thing! It's not some inanimate object that I can choose to place in a display cupboard. It's like deciding to have a baby! Do I have the time and ability to look after a hamster?! And I have to support a hamster on my meagre pay! I am not prepared at all! Plus I've always believed that if you don't have the means, the time, or the patience to get a pet, then don't! It's unfair to the pet if you just get one "for fun". You've got to be really committed to get a pet!

I was quite shocked when I saw it. Was like...
................................... Shit.
YOU MEAN YOU ALL GOT ME A HAMSTER?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?! (times ten thousand exclaimation marks)

Have I shown any inclination towards furry cute animals?! Have I expressed any desire to have a pet of my own?! NO!!! Neopets, Tamagochi and Igglebins are the closest things I would get for a pet-substitue. But not a real, running, nibbling hamster!

Of all the presents that I've ever gotten, this takes the cake man. Not in a good way -- no offence -- but a hamster! A hamster! I am now burdened with the task of looking after a hamster!!! And I am absolutely clueless about how to take care of one!!! *Si Yi becomes hysterical again*

And my mom had a rather negative reaction when I brought the hamster home too... She was like "Why did your friends get you a hamster?! Aiyoh, you never tell them that we don't rear pets at home? Why they waste money like that?" And she suggested that we let our 6th floor neighbour have the hamster.

Okay lah, but on the plus side, the hamster is really very cute. It's a dwarf hamster, and luckily there's only one. If I had a couple of mating hamsters, very soon there will be lots of little hamsters running around and I will be pulling my hair out.

And then we all crowded around the cage, looking at the hamster nibble. Then I filled its cage with water, and we masking-taped certain parts of the cage coz it looked big enough for the hamster to slip through. I don't want to wake up and realize that the hamster is missing. -____-"

This probably needs some time to sink in. I am now a hamster owner. I am responsible for its tiny life!

ARRRGGGHHH! I don't even feed the freaking fishes in the pond! *panic panic*

I think I shall name my hamster Hamster. Hamster the hamster. Yeah very creative I know. It shall be Hamster till I can think of a nicer name. And since I don't know what is Hamster's gender, I shall randomly assign a gender to it. It shall be a female hamster. Hahahahahaha.

Haha, I discovered something that Hamster and I have in common! Hamster is a nocturnal hamster! It's already 2am and Hamster is not asleep. It is running on its hamster wheel!

But anyway, do not ever give me living things as presents again.

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Other than the hamster saga, the day went pretty well. I was horribly late as usual because I forgot to bring my KTV vouchers out and I only remembered when the LRT reached Sengkang. So I made a U-turn back home to get it. But in the end Party World was fully booked till 6pm (!!!) so we went to Kbox instead. Then we went to Suntec for dinner at Country Manna. Besides the hamster, the Royalties also got me a bag, a pen with a rude hand sign, and a Big Sweep ticket. LOL. Top prize $2 million leh! Eh, if I win I can buy my dream car! Which is an Orange Volkswagen Beetle. :) :) :)

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Hahaha, my sis just told me the funniest thing. My little sister has a plan to surprise me for my birthday by getting my sis to act as a witch, my dad to act as a ghost, my mom to be a narrator and herself as an angel. Hahahahaha. Kids say the silliest and funniest things sometimes. :) :) :)

Halloween coming eh!

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Damn, I haven't compiled my part of the project yet. Been mapling every spare moment I have. I hope my group members won't kill me. :(

I had a couple of very interesting dreams lately, all consisting of horrifying scenes of me either crashing a car or knocking someone down.

Case Study 1:
Last night I dreamt that I was in this uncontrollable car that went at 120km/h and I was freaking out coz the max I ever went was only 70km/h?! And I was driving the uncontrollable car and there's something wrong with the brakes and I can't decrease the car's speed so I think I jumped out of the car somehow, and the car miraculously did a right-turn by its own without anyone inside it (!!!) and it went out of my sight. Then I heard a big bang and then it crashed into another vehicle.

And I think the car belonged to a friend, it was probably Tsin Shwen's car or something. Eh. How come I ended up driving Tsin Shwen's car??? And all I remember was panicking and getting darned worried coz I just reduced my friend's car to a wreck.

Case Study 2:
A few nights ago I dreamt that I was driving and somehow I ended up knocking someone down. So I was horrified and sort of froze at the driver's seat, and this time Shuhui was in the dream with me, sitting in the passenger's seat. So she went out of the car to check on the person that I just knocked down, and I think the person was bleeding pretty badly. I hit his leg or something. And all I did was just to sit there and look horrified. Then somehow Shuhui cleaned up his wound and all was fine and we drove off.

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Anyway, I need to pass one more subject before I can book for my driving test. Hahaha. Is this a sign?!?! My subconscious is probably trying to tell me something. Like, "Who are you kidding?! You're going to mount all the kerbs and then roll down the slope. Then you'll forget to give way to the pedestrian and you'll knock down somebody while doing a U-turn!!!"

And I scored a whooping 58 demerit points for my first assessment! Yeehah!
I always take pride in the weirdest things, hahaha.

I've been neglecting my blog and everything else... because of Maple Story... haha.

I think I've something to blog about... but I tucked it somewhere in some corner of my brain... and I can't seem to retrieve it now... and I really have nothing to say... nothing to say... nothing to say...

Yay 300+ words down, most of which is rubbish.

And if I did not see wrongly, I passed my 3237 test!

Tutorial in 10 mins time. ARRRGGGHH ARRRGGGH ARRRRRGGGGH I hate this paper that I'm working on now. :(

:(

I'm screwed... 1000 words (plus minus) by Tuesday on some boring topic for GEK1002... And I've got nothing to write about...

It's only a within-group dateline coz the actual dateline's on 10th November. Obviously my group project mates do not believe in procrastination. And that is good. Seriously, that is good. Not trying to be sacarstic or what.

Because on 10th November the 2131 report is also due... now THAT is a major pain in the ass. Because I have no idea what has been going on for the entire semester! Bah!!!

Everyone's saying that it's only 3 more weeks to exams... is it really that fast?!?!?! I must have been living in denial (as usual).

I feel so proud of myself this week because I've been punctual for all my morning lessons! Not even a minute late! I was even 5 minutes early for my last Abnormal Psychology tutorial this morning. Woohoo! :)

Speaking about Abnormal Psych, the test was okay but the Language and Cognitive Processes one was ()&!~*#%^~*&#~+!!!!! Plus my test paper will have slobber marks containing my lecturer's DNA because she likes to lick her fingers before flipping the pages. =___=

And speaking of Language and Cognitive Processes, I have a walking Wikipedia in my group! I don't know if that's a good thing or not, because he's super knowledgeable and contributes a lot to our discussion, but he makes me feel stupid. Hahahaha. And he's volunteering to do the entire write-up that I'm supposed to also help write. Now I feel quite bad because I don't want to get marks for something that I don't deserve, and I know how it's like when other group project mates slack off and you're stuck with all the work. But then again, I have another project essay to write by Tuesday... eeeks, I am so tempted to just let him do the donkey work.

It's so true that there are various sterotypes of the student character existing everywhere... you have the bo-chap dude, the hostelite, the knowledgeable smart one, the NATO person, the silent one, the "Anything" one, etc etc...

There is also the over-enthusiastic mugger that I mentioned, and she is your typical kancheong Singaporean student. She is likely to say "How did you study for your test? Oh no, I only studied 5 chapters! Passing is not good enough because everyone else is doing so well!"
And I am secretly trying not to give her an evil stare, because comments like these always irk me. Ms Procrastinator here hasn't even started okay!

I secretly dislike all over-enthusiastic muggers because they epitomize everything that I am not. Hahaha!

Oh well, to each his own.

The Maple Story server is down for maintenance, so I can't play! Which is why I am blogging instead. Hahaha.

And my spelling is really going downhill, I can't spell words like "knowledgeable" and "maintenance" without checking dictionary.com first! Arrrgghhh!!!

Of all the stinking times to get addicted to a game...
!!!!!!!!!

Well, it could have been worse. Hahaha.

Okay so while I was busy with the game and not blogging, there was the test... the annoying over-enthusiastic mugger... the many tales of woe about the insensitive boyfriend that I've heard from a friend... the talkative driving instructor who three-timed when he was 20 years old... my part of the project that I have to write but obviously am putting it away till the latest moment possible... and killing lots of snails and mushrooms.

So long!

I've been staying up late these few days.
Not to research on my projects, not to write my part of the freaking paper, not to study for my Abnormal Psychology test, but to play Maple Story!
Wah, very good man. What an untimely addiction.

Prioritize!!! PRIORITIZE!!!

Anyway, Mabel's Poke The Penguin thing is quite cute. Or rather, the penguin is cute. :D

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Today I went to Sandy's new condo to swim and use the sauna and the gym. Wahahaha. I burned about 102 calories at the gym brisk walking on the stupid treadmill. Better than nothing. :) The sauna was quite fun though, I was never so happy to see sweat before. It went up to about 60 degrees Celsius -- oof, hot man! And they say 75 degrees is a "comfortable" temperature!

But Sandy the blurblock left her keys in school, so we were locked out of the condo because our valuables were all inside. Imagine the horror when we gaped at each other and realized that we had no cash, no handphone and no ez-link card to get home. Haha.

And everybody has flat-screen TVs there, haha.

We must go there for a BBQ one day!

Okay I must psych myself to do some work tomorrow.

Today is 13th October!
Today is Thursday!
And today is also Ian Thorpe's birthday!!!

Happy Birthday Ian Thorpe!!! :)
(yeah like he'll ever see this)

Just know that somewhere in the whole world there are many other like-minded fans like me who are sending you well-wishes!

You lazy pig, you procrastinator! When will you ever learn that cramming the night before a test will NOT get you good grades? *clobbers self*

Help me with my phonology
Fa la la la la, la la la la
What on earth is morphology
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Seymour, Treiman, all the models
Fa la la, la la la, la la la
I am slowly going crazy
Fa la la la la, la la la la

SLIs and BPVS
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Reading, writing and then spelling
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Dyslexia and Dysgraphia
Fa la la, la la la, la la la
I am going to fail my test
Fa la la la la, la la la la

I think I really need a kick in the ass.

I haven't found anything for my disgusting project, haven't studied for my disgusting test, and haven't done my disgusting readings.

And what I am doing? Playing Bejewelled. Sheesh!

Say hello to Igglebins! Click on him repeatedly to make him roll in the mud! Heh heh heh.

Yet
another
boring
Saturday
... ... ...

It was one of those rare occassions on Wednesday evening where everybody appeared for a dinner meet-up cum birthday celebration for all of us who were born in the later part of the year. Haha.

Xiaojing's phone has this very cool mosaic function that will churn out pictures like this:



And Pam's phone is absolutelywonderful! Photos!!!

Anyway, the girls followed my wishlist dutifully and I now can have a shopping spree at Topshop! Thanks everybody! :)

I have photos to send, buzz me on MSN and I will send them to you!

Garrhhh. My stomach feels bloated after scruffing down my dinner while watching Pride. Hungry mah.

And men who push women are scum!

I watched a film called The Wild Child in the library today during my unbelievably boring break. Watching TV will cause time to pass quickly, as I have found.
After fiddling with some knobs and switches I settled down to watch the show, which took about 2 hours. I should just watch films in the library whenever I have long breaks. Heh.

The movie was in French with English subtitles and I learnt that "lait" is pronounced as "lay" or something and it means milk. Then water is "ewww" I think, anybody wants to correct me on that?

There was a little boy (around 11 or 12 years old) who was found in the forest and he moved around like an animal on all fours, was dirty and naked, had hair like a lion's mane (now those Dove shampoo advertisers should really watch that film), couldn't talk, and seemed to be deaf. He lived on acorns and roots and nuts, sniffed anything that was foreign and basically lived like an animal instead of a child. Turned out that he was abandoned when he was really little and because he was isolated in the forest, he didn't get to learn how to function normally like normal people do. Like those Nature vs. Nurture things.

Yep and so he was found and sent to some Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and those kaypoh Parisians crowded around him like he was some kind of exhibit. Till one fine day someone decided to make a project out of training and taming him. Like teaching him how to walk properly, teaching him how to interact with people, how to utter words, recognize the alphabet, match objects to words etc etc. Was really quite touching at the end, and the boy who was cast as Victor, the wild child, is really quite cute after the housekeeper cut off his lion's mane.

Yep and this film's sort of related to my Language and Cognitive Processes module, which was how I got to know of it.

Eurrrgh. Still feeling bloated. Puffing up like a pufferfish. Burp.

The stupid mouse is not working! I had such a hard time playing Solitaire Showdown with my sis using this mouse.

The Blogger interface looks weird too! What happened?!

Sigh, it's a Monday. Mondays are bad because of the 3-hour break. Tuesdays are bad because of the 4-hour break. I just need to get through those two days and the rest of the week will be good!

I gave Grimace a bath just now. Poor Grimace. His first bath in dunno how many years. I had to scrub him with the scrubbing brush and squeeze him to get the water out. :(

If Grimace had a voice he'll probably be going Ow! Ow! Ow!!! and if he was capable of facial expressions he would be giving me an indignant look.

When I squeezed him he went rather out of shape. Sigh, I feel so sad when I see him all wet and out of shape. And now he's hanging on the clothes peg! Sorry Grimace! Bear with it for a while. :(

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Today I feel long-winded and I have a lot of things to blog about.

First. The Amazing Race!

This season's the family edition, and there are now 4 people in a team instead of the usual 2. But it's rather disappointing that they don't get to travel to other countries. Instead, the first stop's Pennsylvania. Not even out of the US yet. And the poor teams, I think they had grander plans in mind, and those grander plans definitely do not include just driving around the States, judging from the video clips I watched on the website.

And when there are more people, it gets progressively noisier and more confusing. And there are so many faces and names! It's quite hard for the viewer to keep track. There are the shrieky sisters in pink, and the siblings in orange who kept saying that they don't want to lose out to a 8-year-old kid because they would have been SO embarassing, the very rude family (the Paolos) who kept arguing and arguing and arguing, and the cute little girl in blue! :)

Hopefully it'll get more exciting... but I still prefer the 2 people in a team format.

Second. Halu you idiot! Go and grab Aki by the shoulders and shake her vigorously and tell her "I will not let you go back to the ex-boyfriend that you wasted two years of your time on!" Then live happily ever after together and stop misusing the word "Maybe".

Don't know what I'm talking about? Go and watch Pride on Channel U!

Third. The Project Superstar Concert on Friday night! It was at the Max Pavilion at the Singapore Expo. One of those new halls that they built. Me and my sis rushed there only to realize that a whole lot of other people haven't entered the hall yet. So it started at 8.30pm, and ended at 11.30pm. We were seated near the front of the second half of the hall, can't really see very clearly but better than nothing lah. Thank goodness for the big screens.

I saw a lot of aunties and uncles, young girls and young boys, and those fans decked out in their various fan club t-shirts. Actually I'm quite surprised that there are so many aunties and uncles. It didn't strike me that they would be interested in attending some "shriek! shriek! when idol appears" concert.

The section we were seated at was rather tame. Not many of those enthusiastic youthful fans. They all probably bought the $98 tickets to be as close to their idols anyway. Even fluorescent light sticks were rarely seen in our section.

We took a lot of dark, grainy and blur photos, and recorded a lot of bad-quality sounding clips (illegally, of course :D).



This was taken when we moved closer to the front towards the end of the concert. You can see all the enthu fans in front waving signs and placards.
One of the few clearer photos we had.

There was the parody of the five judges and duets with some of the superstars' sisters, a couples section (and speaking of which, I saw Ruth and Sebastian near Orchard Cineleisure on Monday), the army boys' little solos and other rather interesting acts but we did not get to see Junyang perform on his French Horn as advertised! Grrr.

Weilian also performed on his guitar and the piano. And he could sing and play any song that the audience requested. Man, is there anything that this guy doesn't know? He can even play the piano rather well! Wahlao, I am put to shame. o___o

The singing wasn't all that wonderful; sometimes I think me and Ade can harmonize better than some of them, and that's saying a lot. Hahahaha. One person even forgot his lyrics. In fact I think if not for the witty Quan Yifeng who was the host for the night, and Weilian who was very candid in his speech, the concert would just have been so-so.

On our way out of the Expo Hall, there was this guy giving away KTV vouchers. Wahahaha. Being the cheapskate I am, I now I have 10 Party World KTV vouchers that expire only on the 15th of December. Friends!!! If you want to go Karaoke come and look for me!!!

Singapore Expo's 7-11 store is not open for 24 hours. Weird man. Why open a 7-11 store there then?

Luckily, me and my sis caught the last train to Tanah Merah or else we would have to spend a bomb on the cab fare home.

And that concludes our Superstar watching experience! Luckily I won the tickets instead of spending money on them.

Saturdays are truly boring... raaarrr! There are no TV shows to watch. There is no pressing need to read my readings, or do research for my projects, or to do anything academically inclined... I need to find something to do... maybe I should reconsider working at the music school on Saturdays, but I hate waking up early and I dread having to make small talk with Leong the Chatty Parent.

Now I wish I was some sporty babe who goes windsurfing/wakeboarding/dragonboat rowing/and assorted trainings during the weekends, like those you see in the Sunday Times beautiful bodies column. Then I can get a killer body and spend my weekends with all the other toned bodies you see springing up everywhere.

But then halfway through I'll probably not stick to this demanding routine because I am one big lazy person.

Or I wish I was some social butterfly who would have a never-ending stream of invitations to go out on Saturdays and act oh-so-busy because so many people want to date me! Then we would all look cool and eat a lot and shop a lot and talk a lot and walk a lot.

Haha, pathetic me.

Maybe I should just read my textbooks and worry about my test two weeks later... snort snort grunt grunt.

Because I am so bored, and because everybody whose blogs I read anonymously have done this "meme", or so they call it --

7 things that scare me:
1. Lizards
2. Landing myself in a job that I hate
3. Not knowing what to do in the future
4. Everybody being so accomplished while I am still nowhere
5. People around me gone forever
6. Eyeballs
7. People stabbing each other and shooting each other on TV, with all the sound effects

7 things I like most:
1. Chilli crab and the fried mantou
2. Earrings
3. Sweet corn ice-cream
4. Spending a nice day eating and chit-chatting with my friends
5. My bed
6. Strong winds and heavy rain at night, and the smell of rain on a cool night, especailly when a storm is approaching
7. Karaoke

7 important things in my room study room:
1. Grimace
2. The computer
3. The printer
4. The router
5. My photo albums
6. The book that Ichee gave me for my birthday
7. My earrings collection

7 random facts about me:
1. I carry a handkerchief when I'm out. Few girls do that anymore. I'm a rare species, haha.
2. I don't like gingko nuts.
3. I don't wear my specs at home so I watch TV by sitting very very near the TV screen. And I never dare to wear contact lenses.
4. I have a habit of sticking the comb in my hair after combing.
5. I will definitely be late for any appointment before 5pm. Bad habit, that. :)
6. I am about as expressive as a tissue box. That's why ballet didn't work out, my piano playing's bang-bang-bang, my cello teacher would cry out "Feel eet! Feel eet!!!" and Yanz says I sing without emotion. Hahaha.
7. I sleep late and wake up later.

7 things I plan to do before I die:
1. Meet Ian Thorpe, shake his hand, and take a picture with him. And maybe request that he give me a hug :D
2. Fall in love and then get heart-broken
3. Maybe skydive!
4. Be able to spend $500 a month shopping and not count my pennies after that
5. Pay off my school tuition fees and driving lesson fees
6. Buy a car!
7. Go globe-trotting

7 things I can do:
1. Swim
2. Cycle
3. Drive. Well, almost. :)
4. Do hulas, but only with my special hula hoop.
5. SMS without looking at the screen while walking
6. Curl my tongue/flip my tongue over
7. Make that "RRRRRRRRRRRRRR" sound which my sisters can't :)

7 things I can't do:
1. Those cartwheels/somersault things
2. Spilts
3. Dance
4. Be sociable in unfamiliar situations
5. Dig my own ears
6. Reduce the size of my tummy
7. Touch my eyeballs with my finger. EEKS.

7 things I say the most:
1. Wahlao
2. Damn
3. Huh. or Huh? or Huh! or Huh?! depending on the situation. The punctuation is extremely important.
4. HMMMMMMMMMMM. (Loudly, like a cow grunting.) Usually used in response when your parents ask you annoying questions or repeat the same thing for the nth time.
5. 等一下
6. Thank you
7. Take 2 tablets 3 times a day...

7 people that will have to do this
1. No need for seven. Anyone who's also bored on a Saturday can do this.


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This one isn't accurate, but I think the picture is cute! :D

Somebody tell me, what do you do on a boring Saturday?

Happy Children's Day!

Saturdays are very boring days. :(