My Break From Blogging (:

Dearest all,

my AS trials will be in another 45 days, if I’m not mistaken. My AS final exam will be in another 70+ days. This leaves me with roughly around 15 days each per subject.

Regardless of how important an event I attend or how angry I feel at that spur of the moment, there will be no excuse to blog! I will not be blogging for the next 3 months or so. Minzy shall be taking over my role, that is, if she doesn’t end up posting all her posts under privates ;p

I will also refrain from going in facebook during these 3 months. Please do not sms me unnecessarily and no outings for me pleaseee! Sorry but I really do want to do well for my AS ):

Wish me luck people!

I love you all. <3

-audrey-

Blogging hiatus.

I just have no mood to blog these days. I’m sorry. Bear with my irregular blogging habits please. ):

Children’s Home

Last Friday on the 22 of January 2010, my class, PE10 and I went to the a disabled kid’s home with the intention of getting our moral project done. This is their official website so any questions should be directed there. I won’t be writing down the full name of the home here incase people google it and come to my blog by accident. What I’m about to put is entirely my personal experience so I am not to be charged with giving wrong information! Anyway, I’ll let the pictures do the talking for now:

My classmates and I with Mr Baskin, the supervisor there and a few of the kids at the home.

Shasi, who was amazing with kids, especially this one. He kept talking in Tamil and swinging her around and it was clear that she enjoyed it. Actually she’s a really cheerful girl who even wanted me to carry her when I came near her, to which I did but wasn’t very successful at.

Douglas, me and Francis. Douglas here is a very scary driver who actually looks at you while he drives the car and never breaks even at junctions! Sorry Douglas for constantly screaming and nagging while you drove. I love you, I just don’t love your driving so much ;p And thanks Francis for sending me there and I’m sorry for giving the wrong directions *although I doubt you’ll read this*! (:

Jessica and Kenyon with one of the kids in the home. Thanks Kenyon for the pictures!

Me and Stephanie. If you recognize her it’s because she appeared in the Cleo magazine for the cover girl search last year. I think she appeared in this month’s issue as well. She’s mix portuguese and really really pretty! But back off guys, she already has a boyfriend! ;p

I did the interview with Mr Baskin with constant help from Shashi and Jonathan. He was a very nice man who dedicated a lot for the home and I fully respect him.

Me and Eugene with Sheng! I really like this kid. He was really really smart and very good at chinese. A few of my classmates were laughing at me for struggling with my mandarine while I was communicating with him. I can’t read chinese you see, and I have to translate mandarine from cantonese in my head before I speak in mandarine. Sheng kept pointing at the chinese words he wrote in his exercise book and I was like ‘wo bu hui du’ (i don’t know how to read). T___T

Awww… Eugene with this kid who was only 7 months old. He was a really good boy though and didn’t cry once even though we were all fawning and making a fuss over him.

Douglas, entertaining the kids. I know how you feel now Douglas. ):

Pak Tung and the kids. Do not be fooled by this guy; he’s one of the smartest person I’ve ever met even though he never ever pays attention in class. The girl in the blue shirt was really smart too and she was like a big sister there who controlled the other kids. The boy in the green shirt was a bit scary because he went around pulling people’s shirt off! I was sitting down by the floor and before I knew it he pulled my shirt from the back and started giggling like crazy while he ran away. He later came back and hit me (in a playful manner, nothing excruciatingly painful or whatnot so no worries) T__T

Jerry, handing Mr Baskin some souvenir.

Jonathan, a worker and the 2 year old kid. Her brother was the 7 months old kid I mentioned earlier. Jonathan was really good at kids as well and could handle them quite well. I’ll be honest. I don’t know how to take care of kids much. In fact, I don’t even know how to carry them. Jonathan was teaching me how to carry the kids and he even took them off me when I was worried I’ll drop them.

I think this was when they were waiting for their tea during tea time. Stephanie and Amritha, who is doing the peace sign in the picture, were really good at kids too. In fact, they were one of the first few who started playing with the kids. I think I’m the only one who couldn’t handle kids T__T

Eating the bread and curry puffs we brought. Yum yum yum :D

Most of the pictures you see here are actually not taken by me. I was busy interviewing Mr Baskin most of the time. It’s this guy here who took most of the pictures you see. Thank you Jung Kang for taking such lovely pictures! (:

Jerry, who is simply brilliant at maths. He’s really nice and will always help you whenever you need help with maths! *coughs 89 for maths coughs highest in class coughs* 

Maggie, Jessica, Sheng and me. Ooo I totally forgot about the monkey necklace Sheng wears on his neck. He even kissed it for me and said ‘wo si huan ni’ (I like you. Sorry if my spelling’s wrong) to me. Isn’t he just sooo cute? :D

Last but not least, Eugene. He’s a really nice person who gives very good advice and who I enjoy talking with. I mean he’s really rational and can think very well. Hope all goes well with *coughs*!

I have very slow reactions! When I was first there I felt okay and was really happy playing with some of the children but after I came home I suddenly felt really sad that the children there were at so much disadvantage when I’m so blessed! It’s like it’s not fair you know? So I’ve decided to go visit them at least once in two weeks! The place is really near my house as well so unless I’m up to my head with projects, tests and exams, there is no excuse for me not to go! Do leave a comment if you’re interested and want to go with me too, okay? (:

P/s: For privacy reasons I won’t be posting up pictures of the really disabled kids. If you want to see them you can always go visit them during the volunteering hours. In fact, I think they’ll really welcome you! It’s really sad though and we should all emphasize with them so do show some support yeah?

 

Safari, Thailand

Hellooo!

Sorry everyone for the serious lack of updates. It’s been quite hectic lately. You see, college was design to make you stay on your feet 30 hours a day 8 days a week! No, I’m not in the least exaggerating.

Anyway, a miracle’s finally happened because at long last I’ve finally managed to find my camera’s cable!

Here are the long ago promised pictures of Safari Thailand. I’ll post pictures of other parts of Thailand another time because uploading Safari itself took me almost an hour! Enjoy! : -;

The Safari tour cost us 1000 baht per person. I guess it’s more expensive than going yourself as the entrance fee was much cheaper but since we were foreigners in Thailand and didn’t know the place well, we opted for the tour instead. They provided transport, directions and lunch although the lunch, which was buffet style was kinda horrible (the food was tasteless and hard). Our tour guide was always rushing us around and I think he was pretty pissed with my family cause we were the slowest walking people in the group. T__T

First up was the open zoo. When they say open zoo they don’t literally mean you can walk inside although I would’ve loved to! You sit in a bus and there’s this road all along the zoo so the bus just goes through it and you see the animals through your window (you weren’t allowed to open the windows). I’ll just post a few of the nicely taken or interesting pictures up. Do take note that since I had to take the pictures through the bus window, some of the pictures may seem fuzzy because of the reflection.

The ostrich! Most of the animals there were pretty good posers ;p

Pelicans, I think. Behind them were other busses containing tourists. I was lucky in the sense that because we had our own tour which consisted of around 15 people or so, we had a smaller bus to ourselves and my whole family managed to take get the whole back sit to ourselves so we were able to take pictures from both the left and right side of the bus.

Somehow the animals knew how to stay off the road although some of them came near us.

Most of the non dangerous animals were allowed to mingle together but I noticed they prefer to stay in their own tribe.

My hump, my hump my hump my hump. Check it out! ;p

Baby zebraaaa! :D

The lions were pretty inactive and most of them were under the trees, probably to escape from the scorching sun, except these two.

I think the tigers were the most interesting part of the open zoo. They were really big and dangerous, because they can jump onto your bus anytime. There were two zookeepers/trainers in 2 separate rangers near these tigers, probably to keep them in control. Halfway taking pictures, the one on top was staring directly in my direction. I was pretty freaked out cause I remembered this article last year where a tiger jumped on the zookeeper and tore him to pieces because some tourist used flash for their camera.

Bears, incase it isn’t clear enough.

Then we moved on to the inside of the zoo where there were cages around but because we were mostly rushing to watch the shows, I didn’t get to see them much. ): My tour guide kept walking really really fast and because the place was sooo big, we had to really struggle to keep up with him. To make matters worse, somehow, a lot of school children, I think they were in kindergarten because they were so tiny, were on their field trip there that day. They kept holding each other’s hands and making this really long line while jostling each other around that I had to really concentrate on maneuvering myself out of the well spun web of children who barely reach up my waist!

Parrots swarming around the entrance!

The first show was the chimpanzee. It started around 8.30am.

Hahaha so cuteee! The chimp can’t really play any music but they sure as hell know how to pose for it! ;p

Then the wrestling match began! There were two teams, namely the blue and red team. They even had supporters!

Ooo..  too bad. The blue team won after knocking the red team out. I think there was foul play or something (can’t really understand because the commentator was speaking in Thai so I had to guess most of the time) by the blue team, hence the chimp supporters threw all those cans, which you can see on the ground at him. But in the end because the chimp on the red team was supposedly knocked out and couldn’t continue the match, the blue team won!

And then there was these two emergency dressed chimps who came and carried the knock out chimp backstage.

The second show was the sea lions, which was my personal favourite! The shows kept coming one after another so yes, as you can guess, we had a hard time trying to keep up with our tour guide and making sure we don’t accidentally knock the children, who were also rushing for the show, down. I like how the sea lions jumped into the pool, swam one whole round then slide all the way back up on stage! <3 

Sea lions walking on their fins. I think the animals had to be constantly encouraged because everytime they did some tricks, the zookeepers would feed them tons and tons of fish.

Hahaha told you they were amazing posers! ;p

I also liked how they started clapping their fins together. I remember after this show the commentator said something in Thai then translated it to english saying something like ‘We hope you enjoyed the show. We hope you have a nice life!’ Wth. I mean I know they’re not fluent in english or anything but it’s rather depressing to hear something like that, isn’t it?

Remember that zoo world game in facebook where you can breed your animals in the incubator? This is it! They showed all the animals being incubated through the glass. This is probably one of the first few stages because I remembered seeing 3 month old parrots in the later stages. Apparently most of the animals there were bred through this method.

We had to choose between the elephant show and the cowboy show. Being in safari, and being in the land of thailand itself, of course we chose the elephant show! I mean it’s their trademark, isn’t it? Family found it pretty boring but I thought it was actually really good because the elephants did things I never expected they could. I think what made people think it was slightly boring was that they were a lil’ slow and being in that atmosphere where everyone was pumped up and waiting for some action, it just didn’t suit the mood, you know? But it was good nonetheless!

Can you see the strings the elephant was walking on? It could even turn back halfway through the string and go the other way round.

This elephant painted this right on the spot, which could put any decent kid’s painting to shame, including the pictures my sister paints for art classes in schools ;p

They wanted 2 volunteers to come up on stage and let the elephant massage and walk over you. I really wanted to volunteer but I was sitting directly in front of stage because I wanted a good view to take pictures from and my family were sitting far away from me so I didn’t know where to keep my camera incase the elephants step on it and spoil it. There must be something terribly wrong when you’re more worried about elephants crushing your camera than your back T__T

They ended the show with this. Before that, the elephant played some football, basketball and shoot some arrows on the basketball board filled with balloons. Aren’t they just talentedddd? After the show I managed to snap a few shots with it and even touched its trunk. The elephants here had much smoother hair than the elephants I touched during my visit to the taiping zoo two years back. The zookeeper even asked me if I wanted to sit on the elephant but as usual, my tour guide was really impatient and whisked us all away because according to him, the food at the buffet table finishes really fast. Just for the record, no it doesn’t. I didn’t even eat anything because the food was really horrible and I was too exhausted to eat much anyway.

I think this was right after the chimpanzee kissed me! From my expression I think it’s clear I was a little bit freaked out. At first I started shaking it’s hand so the zookeeper asked me to hug it while I took a picture of it. Halfway taking the picture I think the zookeeper said something which made the chimp kiss me! I didn’t expect it so yeah, the-oh-my-gosh-what-should-I-do face expression.

Next up was the dolphins! Some of the people in my tour’s group went for some canoe ride but it was quite expensive and we’ll rather watch the dolphins! <3 Seriously, most of the shows were right after the other so we hardly had time to even do much except to go from show after show. If I were to ever go back to Thailand, I’ll want to come back to Safari to have a good look at all the animals again (:

They started off with the dolphins, who obviously inherited all the other animals’ posing skills.

The dolphins were really talented too and my mother and sister really liked them. I thought the dolphins were nice, but they didn’t really do much because they were limited to the water. I think the concept of them being dolphins appealed more to the public. But they were nice and did a few tricks, including balancing balls, swinging hulla hoops and jumping out of the water to hit a ball hanging way up the ceiling. And they were undeniably cute ;p

Then they brought out the whalesss! It’s called something like the bassilus whales or something. Apparently they only have it in Thailand and Japan in the whole of Asia. The trainers even started standing on the whales while it swam around the pond!

There were a few more shows after that but because some of the people in my tour wanted to go back, we had to go back as welllll ): I haven’t even seen the polar bears or the penguins! (although I did manage to see them in the singapore zoo!) My parents and sister was pretty beat up as well but knowing me, I was super hyperactive and wanted to go watch more shows and see more animalssssss! I wasn’t in the least tired, I was running around here and there and I was the one who didn’t eat lunch. Sometimes I think there’s something abnormally wrong with my metabolic system. It was really really fun though and I had one blast of a time! Even though I’m not an animal fanatic and to be perfectly honest I usually don’t find animals appealing or anything, I’ll definitely recommend Safari to anyone who’s visiting Thailand. :D

DON’T ENDDDDDDDD! ):

Remember those days and years that were long gone?

Well, they’re back again. With a vengence this time.

I want my holidaysssss! ):

When the holidays are ending….

….you realize you didn’t accomplish as much as you would’ve hoped for.

 Work is good. It makes you stay sane and focused. :D

When You’re 18….

In reply to Minzy’s previous private post, when you’re 18..

Seeing as both of us celebrate our birthday towards the end of the year, although I’ll have to say Minzy definitely takes the cake, seeing as she celebrates her birthday on the second last day of the year, I guess you can’t really say we’re 19 this year, even though it’s already the 3rd of January 2010.

So. When you’re 18..

1. You realize it wasn’t much different than when you were 17.

2. But it’s a great deal more different than when you were 15.

3. You learn to laugh and do things you usually won’t have done when you were young because it was considered uncool then and you didn’t want to look like a prissy idiot.

4. You’re on your way to colleges and universities and realize you miss lots of people, including the ones you never knew you’ll miss, especially those from high school.

5. According to Minzy, you learn the art of compulsive shopping, although this can hardly be said to me because I’ve already learnt it when I was 17. See, told you it wasn’t much different. ;p

6. You learn to analyse people more.

7. You learn to appreciate and long for vacations. No kidding.

8. You learn how not to take everything so seriously but at the same time not to take anything by face value. If something is too good to be true, then it probably is.

9. My next point’s supported by facts : You realize you’ve stopped growing upwards and will only grow sideways from hence forth.

10. You finally realize how fast you grow.

Currently reading The Catcher in the Rye. Have I ever mentioned how I love the way J.D. Salinger writes? Well, I do. It’s not the typical classics, but it has a certain charm that just enthralls me in! Very good read especially when you’re in the mood to just be alone and think, I guess.

Oh btw. Happy Belated New Year! :D

Que Sera, Sera

When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother, what will I be
Will I be pretty, will I be rich
Here’s what she said to me.

Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future’s not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.

Do you still remember this song from when we were young? I kind of like it, especially at times like this when I think I’m growing up too fast! I wish time would stop, you know? When the world ceases to evolve, or rather it evolves without the passage of time, or time itself stays stagnant, whichever that can happen without time going by. I know I’m not making much sense, but you get my gig right? Or maybe you don’t? But then again is it important, seeing it’s just another one of my whimsical hopes which would probably never happen anyway.

It’ll be Minzy’s birthday on the 30th of December, so I’ll appreciate it if you can wish her a very happy birthday, for my sake, okay? Or for her? Whichever one you prefer really (:

I can practically kill myself for not having read a proper book throughout the holiday! When I say proper book I mean reading it from front to back, page by page, because I always have this bad habit of reading a bit of the front, skipping to the end, reading a bit of the middle then re-reading the end. Yes, I know, it’s a horrible habit, which spoils books for me, especially mystery books where the villain/plot/motive isn’t suppose to appear till the end of the book when the police catches the bad guy and the bad guy spills why he’s been behind all the crimes!

Facebook is taking over my life. Okay, I know, it’s pathetic. But really, the games they have! Everytime I get bored of a game, another one appears! Can someone just take away my password or something? Eileen! I’m still using the password you changed for me months ago. Can you just rechange the password for me, please? Don’t want me to fail my SATs, do you? ):

I’m a little phobiatic towards people I don’t know who add me in facebook. I mean seriously, we write most of our personal stuff like our college names, ex-school names, interest, email, etc in our profile. In addition to that, there are all those photos of us doing silly things with our friends and family. Okay, the person who added you could be some harmless guy trying to add more friends in his friends list just to show that he’s more popular than his friends, but what if he really is a serial killer, or a stalker who might like… kill/rape/murder/etc you? So yes, if you’re going to add me, although I think everyone who visits this blog already knows me and have me in facebook, and you decide to use an anime inspired name and photo for your profile or whatnot, please send me a message telling me who you are. Or if you’re someone I’ve met once or twice in an event and might not remember, owning to the fact that my memory sucks, and want to stay in contact, do send me a message too. I know I’m being extremely paranoid, going through each friend request, checking out their photos to make sure that they’re the actual real person I know and checking all their information twice before accepting each request, but one can hardly blame me with how dangerous the world is today!

I guess that’s all really. No pictures to accompany this post because it’s really late and I have to get some shut-eye. Nightssss! <3

End Year Trips

Hello everyone!

Well, I’m finally from travelling up and down peninsular malaysia. The trips were enjoyable, but unfortunately, the day after I arrived back from my holidays I received a letter stating my results which pretty much dampen the whole Yayy-I-just-came-back-from-my-holidays spirit. I expected lousy results for my chemistry, that, I can let go on account of the fact that I spent half my time in the toilet trying to puke on the day of the paper itself. But my physics really suck, to the point where I myself have hardly any excuse. Yes, I know it’s still slightly above average, seeing as the college so kindly wrote down the average marks for each subject, but I just can’t accept it! *living in denial wth. Best result turned out to be thinking skills. I must have like the weirdest results in the whole class!

Anyway, to lighten up my mood, I’ll go on talking about my holidays! I have finally realize that my camera’s cable is well and truly lost, so no pictures shall be up on the Thailand trip till I’ve finally either miraculously find it back or end up buying a new one.

P/s: I’ve actually written this whole post last night but unfortunately forgot to save it, hence, I have to re-write the whole thing again.

Thailand

Thailand was good, and truly worth it, especially after the whole conversion thing. Food, transport, clothes, books, tourist attractions.. whatever it is, you name it, and it’s much cheaper compared to Malaysia. We went for the river ride in Chao Praya River and Safari World. Safari was really really good, especially the animal shows! I’m not a big fan of animals or anything but even I have to admit that the animals there exceeded my expectations. Chimpanzee really can put on a wrestling show, sea lions can walk on their fins, elephants can play football and paint pictures which would put most kid’s paintings to shame and dolphins really can catch rings in their snouts! It was definitely worth your money and time and if I ever go back to Thailand, I really will go to Safari World again, despite having been there already. Somehow, I feel like I’ve accomplished more if I do go on tours and visit touristy places rather than go shopping all the time, but I guess it’s up to the individual. Don’t get me wrong, I love shopping! I just don’t want to visit nothing but malls for my entire trip anywhere.

I tried a few spa massages as well. The foot massage was good, especially if you’ve spent the whole day walking around the city. The Thai massage on the other hand was… hmm.. how shall I describe it? Ever watch those gymnastic shows on tv where little kids prance around doing tricks you know you’ll never be able to do what with your bones all hard at the age of 18 and never having gone to any gymnastic classes before but wishing you have after watching them perform? Well, here’s your chance! I won’t recommend this to guys (too much touching around!) or people who are extremely rigid (especially people who can’t even stretch type of rigid) though. But if you’re up to trying new things and want a taste of gymnastics, well, go ahead.

Minzy asked me to visit pratinum, and I’ll highly recommend it to anyone who wants to find affordable but fashionable clothes. They have this sort of discount which they call wholesale price, so you get really cheap clothes there, and pretty too! (;

The only frustrating thing in Thailand would be the fact that most of the people there can’t speak english. I’m not talking about upper lip British english like how Chester and I always role-play but they can’t even pronounce numbers! I was once asking this girl how much a head band cost and she wanted to say one hundred seventy but it sounded more like one hundred twenty. One waiter won’t talk to us at all and when we asked her how long we had to wait for a seat, she wrote down 30 on paper indicating 30 minutes rather than tell us. Oh, and maybe Malaysian chinese look like thai cause somehow all the people there who approach me started speaking in thai really really fast to which I have to wait for them to catch their breath before going ‘Sorry, but I don’t understand a word you’re saying’ to which they’ll give you that smile which I have no idea means what. T__T

Overall, Thailand was a good experience and I’ll say it’s definitely one of those places in south east asia you must go to before you leave here to go overseas to study or work.

Singapore

First of all, I’ll like to say thank you Huei-wen for organizing the trippp! Huei-wen, Jyy Yee, Pei Ying, Tse Wei, Bo Yuen, Qing Lin, Chee Hung and I managed to go. The trip was very well organized, hotel was especially cheap for a 4 day 3 night stay and we went to lots of touristy places like Sentosa and the zoo. Sentosa was funnn! We did the pakage deal and went for 2 lude ride + unlimited sky ride among others, although we only sat on the sky ride once as we were rushing for time =/ I’ve actually sat on the lude ride before, although it was definitely fun to be competing down the slope with those bunch of people. ;p

I like the sea, although I would like to go to the sea again as I haven’t gotten as much sun as I would have liked and I’m rather pale to be honest. I’m really healthy and not at all sick but somehow my paleness sometimes give people the impression that I’m sick or something wth. A few pictures to illustrate what has been going on in Singapore (pictures have been stolen from Tse Wei and Jyy Yee’s facebook photos. credits should be given to them for taking such excellent photos and having the patience to post them up in facebook. thanksss!) : -

the bunch of people whom I love from left: bo yuen, qing lin, me, tse wei, huei-wen, pei ying, chee hung and jyy yee

me and my dearest roommate, Jyy Yee. she was really nice, and I have no complains whatsoever with staying in the same room with her, although the same could probably not be said about me =X oh, and those were the bottles of water I bought from a 7/11 shop 5k away from the hotel and almost died carrying those bottles back because I was worried there won’t be enough water but it turned out that there was a sundry shop within 500m of the hotel. total fml moment.

this is the day we went to the zoo, with the girls wearing sunglasses and the guys without. and some of us *coughs* looking very grumpy because we didn’t have enough sleep for days!

 

but it’s okay. that’s why coffee’s invented! and I think this was the shot where the zoo wanted us to go ’show a peace sign!’, ‘now thumbs out!’ and all those stuff you see on zoo posters where their visitors look so happy but in actual fact they haven’t even had the time to go in the zoo to see anything yet. -.-”’

this is where the bunch of them went to take a picture with a real life snake all coiled up around them and the crew cast who performed this sketch. of course i wasn’t there cause I simply can’t stand snakes!

then we just acted silly in a christmas tree but I was a little freaked out cause the floor of the tree was moving and there was like.. 1000 volts of electricity above our heads!

the song of the sea show, whose display was totally awesome! like you must seriously seriously take a mrt from vivo city to sentosa, even if it’s just to watch this show. my personal favourite was when the fire started coming up, although I could literally feel the heat on my face when I wasn’t even sitting near the stage to begin with! 

 

I even had the chance to try this para jump thing in sentosa! okay, fine, it looks scarier than it actually is. it’s rather tame actually and not at all dangerous but it was a new experience, I guess. jyy yee and huei-wen went for the flying fox so if you’re interested in thrills, you should most definitely ask them how it went!

bo yuen and qing lin, who were behind us when we went up the skyride. it was pretty fun actually and we were all busy taking pictures rather than admire the scenery from above wth.

Obviously there were a lot of animals in the zoo but I’m too lazy to upload each and every one of the animal pictures. No regrets in going although I was dead tired the day I got back and slept for nearly twelve hours in a row. Walking in Singapore for 4 days 3 nights is equivalent to my whole year of exercise! Not to mention that I just came back from Thailand the night before at like almost 11pm and left the next day at 9am so I was like a walking zombie at some point in Singapore. Sorry people for having to endure so much from me T__T

A big thank you to my parents for bringing me to Thailand and allowing me to go for this Singapore trip. To Minzy for sending me emails. To the people who called me when I was overseas, sorry for not answering the phone or replying your messages although I doubt any of you would read this post anyway. International roaming is expensive, as I’m sure we’re well aware of especially after we’ve been conned by handphone line companies many a times.  

Today’s Christmas actually. I’ve been saving my post for ages and only managed to finish it today. Merry Christmas everyone!

I kind of feel like emo-ing my new year’s eve away. Not the ‘come let’s go suicide’ type of emo-ing mind you. More like the ‘come let’s talk about the good and bad times of 2009 and let our worries roll by’ type of emo-ing. Somewhere quiet where we can gaze at the stars and talk in peace without fear of people overhearing us and calling 911 thinking we’re some type of psychotic teenager under the influence of drugs -.-”’ We don’t talk drugs!

Sigh, it’s late. Or should I say really early in the morning? I’ll update again some other time. Till then! (;

Random #4?

I’m so proud of Minzy for finally posting something up, regardless of the fact that it’s kept under private. But I guess what she wrote is private, and if you’ll like to read it you’ll have to either ask her for the password or hack into her or my account to read it, although I’m sure we’ll both really appreciate it if you took up the former.

I’m under the editorial board, and we’ve to produce 3 essays… by today! Sigh. Remind me why I love procrastinating so when the consequences are so stressful. To make matters worse, my neighbour is renovating his house! Ugh! They’ve been drilling day in and day out. I’m trying to concentrate to actually write a piece worthy to be printed in the college magazine, but I just can’t concentrate with all the racket going on. I mean sure, it’s okay to write in my blog, seeing as I just write whatever that comes to mind in the spur of a moment, but imagine having to think everything through. I’m so tempted to open the window and scream my head off at those construction workers, but then again, it’s not exactly their fault is it? They’re just trying to earn a decent living, and I’ll rather they be construction workers than burglars any day.

I tried going through my blog to see whether anything I’ve written so far can be sent in. But I don’t think my editorial head will approve if I send in anything I’ve written in my blog so far. I mean, who wants to read about how I flunk my exams or how I thought New Moon sucks? And when I wrote those pieces it was for self-gratification, a way to rant and ramble about how life wasn’t fair or how I thought things could have been better, not for an audience of more than a thousand students.

I’m sorry I’ve been MIA (missing in action, a new word I learn this year) these days. I’m ill you see, so most days are spent at home, staring at the computer or reading some random books here and there.

I know everyone goes on and on about how they thought the holidays could have been so much better and how everyone isn’t exactly blasting with happiness now that the holidays are here. I’m not neither, but I think I’m suddenly contented with life, which means a lot coming from me. I won’t elaborate but I think some of you would get what I mean.

It’s just a matter of the other side of the field is always greener. During the hectic school year, everyone wishes the holidays would come faster but when the holidays are finally here, everyone wants to go back to school. Okay, no, I don’t exactly want to go back to school, but I do think these holidays are a bit dull. But anyway, my bit of the holidays start a little later, so we’ll wait and see before the final verdict of how fun/boring/useless/useful these holidays are for me.

I know I’m suppose to be studying for my SATs, but I just can’t bring myself to. It’s just been a week since my holidays started and I deserve a week filled with no studying for all my hard work, no? But I should get a move on if I want to do well in it, seeing as I only have a month to study till my SATs in January and my mother has made it clear that she will not be paying for me to resit it if I flunk my first one. T__T

Does anyone have any tips for SATs, besides the obvious like ‘Study lah, duh!’, which I’m sure applies to all exams anyway so no need to tell me that. Besides that, any tips at all would be appreciated. (:

In this new modern age, facebook is the root of all evil. Seriously! I’ve been addicted to this game called Kingdoms of Chamelot. It’s this war like game where you build castles and farms and stuff like that to feed your troops and get them to conquer other players. You can even upgrade stuff like mines and sawmills to build your kingdom. The only problem is it takes time to build it up. Can anyone recommend actual games for me that sounds something like this but won’t take me hours to build my camp? Okay, maybe you shouldn’t recommend any games like this to me or I’ll be addicted to yet another game and end up never studying for anything during these holidays!

Okay, this is by Channel. It’s last year’s winter collection, if I’m not mistaken but I’ve been harping over it for ages. Isn’t it pretty? I mean it’s not something I’ll wear for prom or anything, but it’s absolutely perfect for work! I once showed it to Chee Hung I think, and to my utter annoyance, he told me it looks like she’s wrapped in newspaper. -.-”’

I mean seriously, look at the stockings, the perfect fit of the skirt and blazer, the bow tie, the handbag… Okay maybe I don’t fancy the shoes that much but it is a fashion show so I guess she had to overdress a little and make it funkier or something. Even her hair is so pretty! It’s charming, neat and totally polish.

If you’re bored and have nothing to do, you might enjoy this game:

http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/delicioustasteoffame.jsp

It’s one of those dinner dash type of game except it’s a little different.

One day I’ll tell you my dreams and you’ll be amaze (: