GRAHHHHHHH. For some reason, nowadays I get bored super fast and super easily. 1) I need to curb my spending so I don't really go check out clothes online anymore and 2) there aren't many things online that i haven't already looked at anyway. And isn't the internet supposed to be FAST? Everything moves so slowly! Hahaha, I'm sorry, boredom breeds impatience, you know. It's so sad, I actually spend my days looking forward to nothing but driving lessons. There was a time when my email account was brimming with new emails everytime I checked but I think now that I check it way too often, there usually isn't anything in it ): HELPPPP. And yet I'm too lazy to do a lot of things - go out, for instance. Haha, I'm such a nasty dilemma.

In fact, my boredom is prolly one of the reasons why I revived my LJ account, right? ): The only thing that moves fast on the Internet shopping scene are those sell/trade pages but that's bad cos the faster it moves, that means if you're trying to sell something, the faster your post disappears off the front page and the lesser your chances of selling it off. PFFFTTT.

I got my Old Navy Henleys and my JJS shorts in the mail today! (: I think they gave me my alternative item for Old Navy because I distinctly remember ordering purple Cassis colour but they gave me the brownish Indian Clay colour. I don't remember reading anything about my item being OOS in the updates! 0.o oh wells. I think I should check back hum. Other than that, I realise the henleys are only good for layering because it's waaaay too low to wear without anything underneath, if I wanna protect my modesty haha.

I'd find a picture, but Old Navy took it off their website. Went out of stock, I think. Oh well, I shan't pursue the matter. My JJS shorts were quite tight but they're quite awesome when worn though! (:

You know, I don't even really enjoy how my life revolves around shopping but I really have nothing else better to do ): Maybe I should take up cross-stitching or something. Or horse-riding. Or drumming. All these things that I actually WANT to do but I never find the end of my procrastination in actually getting off my butt and doing it. Hahahaha. BAHHHH. And I have another 4 months left till university. :\ Sometimes I almost can't wait for university to start. Hahahaha. I think it's better than sitting around rotting. MAYBE. Maybe by the end of this year I'll be slapping myself for saying that.

My driving test is NEXT WEDNESDAYYYY!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I'm trying to convince myself I have nothing to be afraid of and as long as I stop speeding in the circuit and be more daring on the road, I'd be fine. Yes. :\

HOKAY. Will go find something better to do. Like eating chips or wasting my life in front of the TV. Sounds like a plan! (:

SUHWEEEEET. I'm really lovin' Mozilla Firefox! (: It keeps me safe, protected and gives me a lot more options and stuff. Plus, it's a lot less of a hassle to install than IE10. Hahaha. No, this is not an advertisement. I am really Mandy, I am not an automated advertising robot. (:

I've been shopping WAAAY too much recently. ): liao says she has owned me this month. RARRRR. OK, i am really seriously going to curb myself in May, OK? I thought I was bad in March but April, so far, has been far worse. But I mean, look at this! I bought this sweet wallet this afternoon:

    

Don't you think it's cute? Hahaha it's the Floral Hinge Wallet straight from Forever21.com. So far I've paid S$10.50 for it. No idea why I'm typing a blog entry because nobody really reads my blog anyway. Not since it became inactive shortly after Outvestiture, as it seems.

Law test was all right! It was way better than the Interview, that's for sure. Not too certain if I'd be able to get in, but I guess that's not up to me to decide right now, so I'm just thinking about driving test right now. Mag's is tomorrow! LOL. Good luck, Maggie. If you pass, I have a new driver to bully. Medicine test was apparently quite a toughie too. All these admission tests! University seems to be really quite terrible manzzz. But thankfully, I'm done with all these Uni prep stuff. Medicine people still have 2 rounds of interviews to go through. Good luck, yall! Hahaha.

These are the other things I've bought from F21 in April




And, of course, the Floral Hinge Wallet already featured up there. I'd do a review of what I've bought so far in April but a lot of things have gone OOS on their respective websites, so there aren't any pictures available. Forever21 doesn't seem to ever go OOS. =\ If you noticed a trend, you'd realise that I have a weird rainbow obsession as liao would know very well. I'm drawn to all things rainbow. Hahahaha. Sounds kinda freaky actually, but sadly true.

OK, I think I'll go find some other pointless way to fill my time THAT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE SPENDING MONEY. Toodles!

magash i was reading through all these entries and you know how amusing it is to read through old blog entries. it's like... looking at yourself some time back and it's always embarrassing for some reason. :\ hahahaha. i'm thinking of selling off some of my old stuff here! but NOBODY READS MY BLOG. SO WHO'D BUY IT??? XD okay la, we'd see how eh? (: i need to change the font of this thing. i hate this font!

I AM OFFICIALLY ADDICTED TO ONLINE SHOPPIN'!

oh dear. we just had our last investiture rehearsal today. throughout the entire process of rehearsals and walk-ins and whatnot, i've never felt emo at all. like okay i felt a bit, 'omgad outvestiture is coming' but i knew i was subconsciously in denial about the whole thing. even when our tribute video aired on friday assembly and made miss yong, mrs chang and mrs chan our principal cry, even when maggie and timo made their last announcements together, even during today's full-dressed rehearsals, i didn't get emo at all. then i came home and watched the tribute video again because desmond and darren uploaded it onto youtube, watched the last bit with all the flying photos twice, suddenly i got slammed back into reality and i started crying.

now i shall copy aaron and paste emo lyrics on my blog. this is photograph by nickelback, but with some lyric changes by me.

Look at this photograph
Every time I do it makes me laugh
How did our eyes get so red?
And what the hell is on Ollie’s head?

This is where I grew up
I think the present council fixed it up
I never knew we ever went without
The front door is hard for sneakin’ out

This is where I went to school
Most of the time it was more like a zoo
The school record says I got locked in twice
I must’ve done it half a dozen times

I wonder if it’s too soon
Should I go back and crash the room
Life’s better now than it was back then
If I was them, I wouldn’t let me in

Every memory of looking out the back door
I had the photo album spread out on the council room floor
It’s hard to say it
Time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye
Every memory of walking out the front door
I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for

It's hard to say it
Time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye

Remember the old candeck
Where all of us always went to slack
Every morning before assembly
Before we got chased for morning duty

We used to listen to the iMac
And sing along with every song we’d know
We said someday we’d find out how it feels
To walk down the aisle in court heels

Kalai's the first person I dissed
I was so nervous that I nearly missed
She’s had a couple of comebacks since then
I haven’t seen her since God knows when

I miss that room
I miss their faces
You can’t erase
You can’t replace it
I miss it now
I can’t believe it
So hard to stay
Too hard to leave it
If I could relive those days
I know the one thing that would never change

Look at this photograph
Every time I do it makes me laugh
Every time I do it makes me

whoo! emofest! ):

WHOOOOO!!!
guess who finally watched harry potter and the order of the phoenix? (: okay lah, i know i'm not the first and i know ten thousand people watched the sneaks before me. but who cares! :D

yups, i went to meet pek kei after school at lido. had a ball gossiping about stuff, before we finally went into the theatre. when the warner brothers logo flashing up and the usual harry potter music drummed up, the whole theatre started cheering like it was some kind of interschool competition or something. this group even shouted, "WE LOVE HARRY POTTER!!!" i was feeling extremely amused.

the movie was actually rather cool, despite how i've heard a couple of people saying that it "sucks" or was "disappointing". but at least to me and pek kei, it was quite good, better than the 3rd and 4th one too. much truer to the book, we felt. even though the action was a bit fast but i mean, c'mon, the 5th book is even thicker than the 4th, if the action wasn't fast we'd still be in the theatre now.

i actually really wouldn't mind watching it again, if you ask me. pek kei was extremely violent when it came to the kissing scene. i think i'm gonna bruise on my left arm tomorrow, she kept punching and pinching me like there was no tomorrow, and making such a big fuss. i was like hissing, "pek kei, you are being very embarrassing." because she kept making strange noises (and rather loudly) like she was trying to stop herself from imploding simultaneously from hysterics. hahaha.

BUT OMGAD IT WAS THE COOLEST SHIZ!! (: i think ginny and hermione looks rather good in that poster over there, and luna lovegood was better than expected. she had that dazed, 'huh?' tone all the time, which was really good. daniel radcliffe buffed up and he looks like a man now, especially with that office hairstyle. hahaha. ron was as funny as ever.

on a more emo note, tomorrow is the last day of council badgeship! i think this is a valid reason to begin mourning now. ): and tomorrow's a short day too. last time its rectangularity will be accompanying me in lessons, in breaks, in an official school day. last time its heaviness will be weighing down on my mind. last time i see the gold SHINE, last time i hear the weird clacking that it makes when it hits the table edge. hahahaha. i make it sound like i'm saying goodbye to an old friend, which is rather true. time for some nostalgia...

i remember i had no idea what was in the envelope they gave us during investiture, so when i opened it and the rectangular badge popped out, i was extremely delighted. it was in the canteen girls toilet where all of us 31st girls were changing out of our number ones into school uniform. i remember we had an official putting-on ceremony in that toilet, in front of the mirror, where we started humming some grand DUMDUMDUMDUM music, slowly and ceremonially putting on the badge.

when i went out, everyone was like, "whoaaaaa finally got your badge eh!" and all. i was in LOVE with that badge. and i remember there was a bit of a hoo-ha about why some of our fonts are different. some of us have thinner, longer font while others, like me, have the fatter, stouter one. if you ask me, i think the thicker one looks nicer, but we kinda figured out it might've something to do with height because all the taller people in council got the thinner ones.

and what's more, jun wrote on a piece of paper, tore it out and pasted on his badge such that he became 'PRESIDENT'. always will be, jun! president against popular belief, of course. and that weird day not very long ago when timothy wore the member badge to school, for goodness knows what reason.

and of course, tomorrow's the very last day that maggie/timo/both will be doing announcements, saying, "good morning college, here are today's announcements" and "college, this is the end of assembly, please rise". i remember last year the friday before investiture, i think it was shaun sitting and i was like, aww does that mean clarence's last time was yesterday? then when shaun stood up to go read announcements, clarence popped out from behind the curtains and they took turns reading alternate announcements, and finally they both went, "1, 2, 3. college, this is the end of assembly, please rise" i wonder if maggie and timo will do that this year. it'll be so sad!!

okay i think my entry's becoming like a story-telling session. shall go grieve by myself. hahaha! four more days!

w-ell! it's been a really rather boring weekend, except for the CIP stuff that i have going on.

i found some rather interesting links on wikipedia. i was searching up on something when i found parody religions like, Pastafarianism, the Invisible Pink Unicorn and Frisbeetarianism. they're all really funny and lame, but i can't believe people would actually take up such a religion. i mean, believing that a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe after 'drinking too much'? and saying 'Ramen' instead of 'Amen' after prayers? that's just so weird!

i've been bitten by a frisbee bug lately. and no i have not joined Ultimate, everyone keeps asking me that. i don't know, i guess i don't really like to play the game much but i really love to throw and catch. i've been throwing with rachael every tuesday and thursday but now that i've bought my very own disc (awesolomeee!) i can throw anytime i want! in fact, my cousin is coming over tomorrow to throw with me at the park opposite namly garden. i threw it around the candeck today with lydia, dharsh and bennett, and my beautiful brand new frisbee disc is getting scratched and shaved. sobs.

the exco went for their retreat yesterday, and i think they're coming back tomorrow. rather interesting, we were talking about Jobs That Maggie Just Cannot Handle yesterday during our break. initially it was behind her back, then she came and asked why we were hollering with laughter, juli was like, "nothing, maggie, we were talking about jobs that you CAN do. (: like CEO, President, Mother, Housewife..." then maggie made us list out the occupations we were discussing. it includes hairdresser (because she's only ever had one hairstyle in her life), graphic/fashion designer (i don't even want to explain this one), bikini model (hahahaha), pole dancer, professional choreographer, musician (her grade 8 piano certificate does not equate to musicality), journalist, author or anything else in which aesthetics or linguistics play a major role in. poor maggie, and we all thought she was invincible.

yupes. i can't wait till tomorrow! (: bleh. boring weekend.

NINE MORE DAYS, ZOMGAD.

lols, i was just digging around my council file, searching for some ahem lost minutes, and i found these. and seeing as it's almost been a year since i got them, i decided to scan them in for fun's sake.


what preluded the tortures of june camp.


what we discreetly stuffed into the inner pockets of our blazers in that second behind the curtains after going on stage.


what came with the wonderful council badge.

LOLS. how nostalgic. i wonder what our tokens of appreciation would be.

this is a special newsflash, to tell you that:
YAP CHIN HUA SUCKS!!
and that's a fact. (:

yesterday after school, i met aaron at the bus-stop and we were going the same way so we went to holland village to buy my hokkien-mee-without-taogay. he was supposed to meet his class AT holland village, but then he decided he'd go town instead - out of the blue! but anyways, on the way to the bus-stop he bought a packet of fries and tempted me with it - yes i'm on a sort-of health kick lately which basically means i'm laying off chips to eat peanuts - and when i refused on the basis that i don't want to become more unhealthy than i already am, he was saying, "life is too short anyway! you live 60 years of junk food and you get an eternity of happiness!" WHICH MAKES PERFECT SENSE, YOU SEE. according to him, Bible Studies boy, he says in the Bible, God states that all these animals can be eaten by us humans, and when Peter said, but some of these are dirty, God says that it's okay, we can still eat them anyway. ... JUNK FOOD!

so yeah, i'm thanking him for giving me an entirely new perspective. stuff myself silly with unhealthies, die and go to Heaven. XD! why not.

i tried to download IE 10 but unfortunately i only realised AFTER i took the time to install it (it takes really really long) that i don't have enough speed for it. ): i had to restore my computer. urgh.

AGM's tomorrow! it's quite exciting, like dhanuj has said. it's like an overview, round-up of our council term. but in any case, i'm having very mixed feelings about starting investiture adhoc. i'm really excited to plunge into the whole new experience of being in the senior invest adhoc, and of being IN an adhoc, but it's really saddening because it's like my LAST ADHOC, and the last ever adhoc in council, and it signifies the impending end. RAWR.

ah wells.

kudos to anyone who can guess this song. julianne is forbidden to try. (:
did you get my message? uh oh, it must have bypassed your phone and flew right outta the window.

i seem to be eating loads of potato chips recently (for those of you who just said/thought, "what's new?" - slap yourselves!) and of course, it was kind of worrying. although my metabolism does seem to be a bit higher than normal but obviously i don't want to suddenly explode into a glob of fat. so then i switched to my second favourite snack - PEANUTS! or rather, roasted groundnuts. but this has also started me on another path - are peanuts or potato chips healthier?

i went to research up on it, and apparently, peanuts contain a high level of antioxidants, which are sort of anti-aging, in a way. the levels of antioxidants are parring that of the strawberry. there are, much to my surprise, quite a good number of health benefits to be gained from eating this. goodness, even apple falls below peanuts in antioxidant levels. i've been eating lotsa apples lately to try and recover my dietary fibre loss. (:

well, anyway. that was rather pointless. i still want potato chips though, but i'm trying to curb it. peanuts is still fattening, but i suspect that it's prolly not as terrible as potato chips. but hey man, peanuts doesn't have oil and all that, and it has antioxidants! and it's cheaper! hahaha! what a perfect solution.

omgad omgad hahaha. what a cute layout this is. i don't like the font but omgad it's cute and purple!

once again, i reiterate - i am not bimbo. just in case people out there have misconceptions.

wellwellwell.

i've been checking out some of the elects' blogs (yes, me and my tentacles again) and i must say, i'm quite heartened by some of the stuff they say. i mean, it's one thing to do a camp and all but at the end of the day, the camp IS for them and i left the camp without really knowing exactly how they felt about it. i'm not a training i/c, i'm not a facilitator so i technically don't have direct contact with them. i was curious so i went to source things out, found some blogs and read them.

of course, it's nice to know that people appreciate what you do for them, but i think one of the really heartening things was that most of them understood most of the lessons that we were trying to drive across during june camp. it's like, we achieved what we set out to do. and i feel doubly reassured when i think about the many signs that God has shown during the 5 days. it's almost as if He's personally blessed the 32nds and insodoing, i think they'll prolly be the best council in acjc history, which is good. they better be. (:

first there was apparently a shooting star during peanuts, i think. or was it chimera? i didn't see this personally but i read about it on some of their blogs. okay how often do you get a shooting star man, that is not a coincidence. hahaha. secondly, there was apparently a rainbow when we were down pumping on the tarmac. i was busy trying to make sure i wasn't thinking about my burning palms to look up into the sky, but yet again another sign. now the biggest sign of all, that i think most of the elects didn't notice. the last day, when we were making them repay their push-ups, it started drizzling. it had been threatening to rain for the entire day but it only started drizzling now. i was getting worried that it might pour cats and dogs because the rainclouds didn't look friendly, but the rain never got any heavier than a slight drizzle. we finished the 32 push-ups and released them to go pack their things, and when they were halfway across the field from us, the sun suddenly shone randomly above the building, directly onto them and us. bronson called that to our attention, and said, "Look, that's God's hand, He approves of them." and we were all just totally taken aback. shortly after that, there was another rainbow, albeit really faint but a rainbow nonetheless.

okay zomg, i rarely get to see a rainbow, and i get to see a shooting star even lesser still. how is it possibly coincidental that there are two rainbows and one shooting star in the span of five days? and what's more, thunderclouds for the whole day and only a slight drizzle, followed by a brilliant sunshine, just the right amount to make a rainbow on the last day? that's really - it's so inyourface, it's like ultimate signs that God approves of the elects and since God does, all the more we should too. (:

on lighter notes, i watched Pleasantville today. it was quite cool, and i thought there might be some kind of racial undertones to it. subtle messages, maybe. i don't know. but it's really rad stuff, the things they do with black and white and colour in that movie. tobey maguire was quite cute. hahaha. then i watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fo rthe gazillionth time again. johnny depp never fails to amaze me. everytime i watch him as willy wonka, i'll keep thinking of his other notable characters like Jack Sparrow (sorry, Capt. Jack Sparrow) and Edward Scissorhands and it's so impossible to link all these 3 characters together. he's so incredibly versatile and such an excellent actor. respect! (: but of course, he is also quite good-looking. okay i'm kidding myself, he's plain goshdarned hot. this coming from someone who is more than 20 years younger than him. hah. if he was any other person it'd be downright disgusting.

which reminds me of when my brother, suli and i went to watch pirates of the caribbean 3. suli and i were commenting on how disgusting it was to watch chow yun fatt force-kiss keira knightley, especially when she's tons younger than him. then i pointed out that keira knightley had to kiss johnny depp in the second movie and they have a similarly large age gap. and suli went, "yeah but that's different, that's johnny depp." i can't agree more.

i'm thinking of renting pirates of the caribbean: dead man's chest, legally blonde, cruel intentions and man in the moon. you'll see that 3 out of 4 movies are reese witherspoon movies, and i really want to see them because yesterday night i watched this reese witherspoon special on E! Entertainment and these celeb-biography shows usually have some kind of weird way of making you want to catch their films. bleh. i wish i could catch one on johnny depp. (:

if anyone knows dhanooge's blog address, can i please have it? :D

okay well. i'm having really mixed feelings now. but all i can say is, you never really know how seniors feel until you're one yourself. you can see photos at waxinghurts. (:

( my long-winded june camp story )

okay i better go. my brother is watching pirates! :D

as i walk through the valley where i harvest my grain
i take a look at my wife and realise she's very plain
but that's just perfect for an amish like me
you know i shun fancy things like electricity

at four thirty in the morning i'm milking cows
jebediah feeds the chickens and jacob ploughs, fool
and i've been milking and ploughing so long that
even ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone

i'm a man of the land, i'm into discipline
got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin
but if i finish all of my chores and you finish thine
then tonight we're gonna party like it's sixteen ninety-nine

we've been spending most our lives
living in an amish paradise
i churn butter once or twice
living in an amish paradise
it's hard work and sacrifice
living in an amish paradise
we sell quilts at discount price
living in an amish paradise

a local boy kicked me in the butt last week
i just smiled at him, and i turned the other cheek
i really don't care, in fact i wished him well
because i'll be laughing my head off when he's burning in hell

but i ain't never punched a tourist even if they deserved it
an amish with a 'tude, you know that's unheard of
i never wear buttons but i got a cool hat
and my homies agree, i really look good in black, fool

if you come to visit, you'll be bored to tears
we haven't even paid the phone bill in three hundred years
but we ain't really quaint, so please don't point and stare
we're just technologically impaired

there's no phone, no lights, no motor cars
not a single luxury
like robinson crusoe
it's as primitive as can be

we've been spending most our lives
living in an amish paradise
we're just plain and simple guys
living in an amish paradise
there's no time for sin and vice
living in an amish paradise
we don't fight, we all play nice
living in an amish paradise

hitchin' up the buggy, churnin' lotsa butter
raise the barn on monday, soon i'll raise another
think you're really righteous? think you're pure at heart?
well, i know i'm a million times as humble as thou art

i'm the pious guy the little am'lettes wanna be like
on my knees day and night, scoring points for the afterlife
so don't be vain, and don't be whiney
or else, my brother, i might have to get medieval on your hiney

we've been spending most our lives
living in an amish paradise
we're all crazy men at night
living in an amish paradise
there's no cops or traffic lights
living in an amish paradise
but you probably think it bites
living in an amish paradise

i find that nowadays, i'm way too lazy to actually blog. i'm just like typing out song lyrics now. oh dearie me.

i'm just an emo kid, non-conformist as can be.
you can be non-conformist too, if you're just like me.

hey mr curiosity
is it true what they've been saying about you?
are you killing me?
you took care of the cat already
and for those who think it's heavy
is it the truth, or is it only gossip?

call it mystery or anything
just as long as you call me
i sent the message out
did you get it where i left it
see, this catastrophic event
wasn't meant to mean no harm
but to think there's nothing wrong is a problem

i'm looking for love this time
sounding hopeful but it's making me cry
love is a mystery
mr curious, come back to me

mr waiting ever patient, can't you see
that i'm the same the way you left me
in a hurry to spellcheck me
and i'm underlined already
in envy green and pencil red
i've forgotten what you said
will you stop working for the dead, and return

mr curious, well i need some inspiration
it's my birthday and i cannot find no cause for celebration
the scenario is grave but i'll be braver when you save me
from this situation laden with hearsay

i'm looking for love this time
sounding hopeful but it's making me cry
love is a mystery
mr curiosity, be mr please, do come and find me

i'm looking for love this time
sounding hopeful but it's making me cry
trying not to ask why
this love is a mystery
mr curiosity, be mr please, do come and find me

love is blinding when the timing's never right
oh who am i to beg for difference
finding love in just an instant, well i don't mind
at least i've tried
i've tried, i tried

okay lah i know it's damn emo. ):

yo.
my name is joe.
and i work in a button factory.
i have a wife, a kid and a family.
one day my boss came up to me and said, joe. are you busy.
i said, no.
he said, turn the button with your right hand
ch-ch-chchch-chchchch-chch.

hahaha, today is what all school days should be like lah. assembly in the morning, with the first chapel of the year. felt super alive. oh yeah, before that we had ACfm. "red blue gold ACfm, better than MSN, now with live emoticons." as said by jun. it was quite hilarious at bits. it was a bit messy but it's okay, it's the first day. anyway, basically after chapel all the OGLs were called down to the concourse and mrs kelvyna chan gave us a day off. LONG LIVE ACS! hahahaha. (: yups. everyone had like clan outings but i was glad to have the day off to DO MY HOMEWORK.

anyway, from 11am onwards i was stuck in the council room doing homework. i finished up my GP essay outlines first and it was alrady 1pm. i wanted to go down and pass up some edusave forms to buy the acs story, and return the boxes of pins that i borrowed from the general office, then i was walking with dhanuj to the void deck to buy something to snack on before returning up to the room of homework when i walked past this table of seniors. they called me over and totally started criticising the council jacket! they were like, "omgah, why is the gold so weird. why are the words behind so big? why is there an ACJC out of nowhere at the side? why is it so big on you? why does the chimera look like a MONSTER." then after that santosh asked me if i was really called manly as written on my jacket and before i could say anything, shaun and darren immediately went, "YES YES YES. she's called manly!" wah funny ah, damn funny. har har. as aileen would say, enough is enough!

so i went back up to the room of homework to do more stuff but i didn't get much done before darren choy and matthew chek came up. darren choy helped me do a maths question but it was like all wrong, and he even said if he doesn't get A for maths he'll chop off his right hand. zomgg. hahaha. they were really quite funny. they kept appearing in and out of the council room because they had to go and help push the wheelchair kids around for lecture week. quite sweet of them, which is surprising unto itself. basically they just sat there and talked rot a lot, but it was really quite entertaining. although i suddenly suspect that maybe that's why i haven't really done much of my homework despite spending 7 hours in the council room, zomg.

after that myron and krissandi came up! everyone, it seems, is looking for a job. clarissa is now miss poh, otherwise known as a chem teacher. i greeted her like a teacher this morning. hahaha! i can't imagine her teaching. i only can imagine her laughing to herself for the whole lesson and going like, "hahahahaha, why you all ask this kind of question." krissandi was visibly in need of a job. he kept going like, "wah i'm so bored!" and everything, and offered to help tutor econs to maggie and the others. all the J3s have jobs lah, zomg. i should really start looking out for one. after all, it's less than a year to A Levels. gulp.

oh no, i don't wanna use the adult ez-link card, that is how disgusting please.

myron started playing really retarded and gay songs on the imac, totally distracting julianne and i. retarded things like barbie girl, tarzan and jane, all those weird aqua songs and everything. shaun came up, however, but things didn't get much better. at least i had someone to help me do a bit of differential equations. i'm quite hopeless at it, i realise. i'm so going to die. hahaha, shaun was like, "what's direct integration? oh no, i feel so stupid!" but rar, at least he managed to do differential equations. i get stuck at every question and i spent most of my 7 hours attempting to do it. gosh i forgot all my a maths already. and my integration is the suckiest now. eeyikes.

i only left school at 6.30pm and now i am completely unenthused about homework because i have an ongoing stomach cramp. i realise that when your stomach cramps get really bad, you just feel very suicidal. really. sometimes i'll be thinking like, "someone please kill me." when i'm having really bad stomach cramps. it's sooo painful! but, according to mr darren choy, he says that the pain of labour is ten times worse than a gunshot wound. thanks a lot, really. hahaha. girls are long-suffering.

erif erif what are we
H-O-T, H-O-T!

orientation is finally over but i have a feeling i shall be experiencing withdrawal symptoms soon. for now, i'm currently in the state of recuperation. i look like an indian man. i've been feeling mentally and physically tired for the whole of today, and i think i shall be until next week or so. i really hope we have a day off! but mean while there is still school tomorrow.

campfire last night was a blast, especially the ending. it was really amazing to see all the J1s actually knowing how to do most of the mass dance. i think last year it was so cramped in the badminton hall that i could hardly move my limbs to dance. and besides that, i forgot most of my steps as well. hahaha. but yeah, it was awesome. the J3s were there, doing the mass dance too. no idea how they picked up this year's ones so fast. they brought along light-sticks and whistles, and were quite queer.

shuying wrote a letter to me yesterday and in it, she wrote something like learning as much as the J1s during orientation as an OGL, or even more, and i totally agree. on the first day itself i already realised that being an OGL wasn't as easy/fun as i thought it would be, especially on the first day when everyone was so completely stoned and didn't want to talk to each other. i had to keep my spirits up even when i was feeling as tired as them or even more lethargic. but it was a very amazing experience all the same, to see the firedrakers start to bond with each other more and more, culminating into a very fun last day. i'm seriously very impressed by all the guys in firedrake. some of them i'd be expecting to be very slack, and refuse to dance but they all at least tried their best to dance and they're all nice, friendly kids. (: and it was totally awesome to see them after campfire just totally high, screaming their lungs out, dancing and dancing, etc. etc. firedrakers are the awesomez.

and of course, i wouldn't have been able to survive four very exhausting days of orientation without my wonderful co-OGLs. if i haven't had them around i'd probably be in the hospital or something right now. hahaha. seriously, from the bottom of my heart, noel and lejing are two of the best co-OGLs i could ask for. even in the face of stonage, they never gave up hope and never ceased to encourage all of us. (: love you two loads.

k as a piece of randomness, let me count how may school shirts i have now.
- orientation 06
- fun-o-rama
- PE
- dance x2
- council june camp
- council dec camp
- council polo tee x2
- science fac
- CKS
- collegiates x4
- ac games
- orientation 07 ogl
and that makes a total of 17 shirts! sweeeeet. like duuude. XD

gah, i'm feeling very tired now. i'm like slouching in my chair as i type this. i have a feeling that i've gotten so used to the times when i spend whole days in school, running up and down, doing this and that, that spending a free day at home is more mentally and therefore physically draining than that. i was looking forward to a good rest today but alas, no such thing. the rest did come, but the relief did not. i think i'll do better to go to school tomorrow for the tenth adhoc meeting and count the money. calling og kids is quite draining as well. hahahaha.

i had a cute candlelight dinner just now with my parents. then after, i watched this show called In The Womb: Animals on nat geo where they follow the conception period of dogs, elephants, dolphins, etc. with real-time videography into the womb. very strange, but very enlightening. puppies are oh so cute! hahaha. after that, i took a power nap of 15 minutes and woke up feeling even more lethargic than before, which equals me now. i have a feeling i don't sound all too enthusiastic to my og kids as well, because of my sore throat and because i'm feeling oh so tired today.

all riiiight. my mom just came out, saw me slouching like a sick doorknob in my chair and said, in chinese, "why are you sitting like that! sit up straight!"

gosh, so many weird things happen when i call og kids. seriously. and i'm only calling 5 girls out of my whole og of 22! poor noel has to call 12 guys by himself.

i am currently craving for more potato chips but i'm resisting it because, well, i already finished one bag before dinner. heh.

this is the period of time when i feel like i'm in a mental conflict most of the time, because i just want to sit back and do nothing or orientation things, but i cannot because i know there's loads of homework that need FINISHING. i am so glad i don't have lit homework, or bio homework, or chem homework. maths and GP are the only things loaded on me right now. differential equations has been okay so far but i was feeling sleepy by the time half the powerpoint presentation was over. blahhh. i don't feel like getting started on either, but i think i better. ):

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

gosh, i can't believe 2006 passed so quickly. it seems just like yesterday when my parents and i went down to harbourfront (before vivocity even existed) to catch the fireworks and everyone was honking their cars off when it struck 12. and i was like, zomg, i am embarking on my JC life soon! and now it's - HALF OVER. even dengli was scared when i reminded her that i only had half a year left to my council term. she said it seems just like yesterday that i got invested and i was a council n00b.

2006 has been totally AWESOMEZZ. i'm having the time of my life in acjc, in council, in scone. i've got to know some of the most fantabulous people on earth in 2006, and got to know better some of the people i've already known since before '06. life has been a general upwards trend this year, social-wise. 2006 has been such a blessing from God and i don't know how to express my gratitude to Him for having blessed me so many many times with the people i've met, the ups and downs i've experienced, the wonderful new experiences that i've gone through this year. every single moment has been so awesomez.

but i'm not mourning that 2006 is over. it's been awesomez but i know 2007 will be as excellent, if not more! i don't understand how the year passed so fast. it doesn't even feel like a year! the months slipped by like nothing, my goodness. well.

i remember back in primary school, everytime there was a new year, we'd watch the fireworks on TV and then we'll sing auld lang syne, and i'd go to bed thinking about what class i'd be in next year, what the classroom will be like, who would be in my class and everything. and i always had a bit of a dreading feeling, like what kind of homework will i get, every year is drawing closer to the big PSLE. and this year, i went shopping with my mom the whole day, then i had dinner with my whole family at swensen's at orchard road, then we drove down to marina bay, reached there about 10pm, found ideal spots and camped there until the fireworks. the only thing i'm looking forward to in J2 is the new seating arrangement in the hall for assembly, and orientation. my class is the same. oh yeah, ragging and interrogation. ooooh. XD june camp! and then - outvestiture. shit.

i don't want to say goodbye to AC and council and scone and everything i've been blessed with in 2006. ):

and julianne wins top prize! (:

i was a very independent girl today! (: haiyah, wth am i saying. i just cooked lunch for myself and survived about like 3 or 4 hours home alone today. i woke up at 2pm because i was quite sick in the morning with my sore throat and everything, then i washed my clothes, had a shower, spent quite a long time figuring out how to light the fire on the stove, cooked my noodles and my parents came home before i even started eating it. hahahaha. but heyy, it's good enough k. so anyway, my maid absconded and now a new maid is coming. not really new, she's my auntie's boss's wife's old maid whom they say is very good. i sure hope so! apparently she sews very well.

i guess... relationships aren't all they're cracked up to be sometimes. not that i'm in one.

it's funny how life goes, isn't it. you need something bad to appreciate something good. if there is no darkness, would we appreciate light? stuff like that. and i guess sometimes it takes tough times for you to appreciate things when you make it big, or when things go well. can you imagine getting full marks for every single test in your life? you wouldn't even appreciate your grades anymore, it'll just be like whatever.

rarr, i'm feeling a bit philosophical today. my brain's all frayed up, haha. i feel like eating potato chips but i cannae because of my stupid sore throat. i ate KFC for dinner though because there was no other choice. i think i need honey lemon - lots of it. i had lots to blog about but i always forget and i end up blogging super random stuff.

la la la la la la la life is wonderful
la la la la la la la life goes full circle
la la la la la la la life is wonderful

i don't know why i'm updating my blog so often nowadays when i have nothing to blog about. hahaha. the last day of anything to do with orientation is over, except the actual thing itself. sort of lah, at least with all the OGLs and everything. i was getting quite worried about it but maggie made me read matthews 6:25-34. the title of the chapter is called: do not worry. and it's quite true.

i left my jacket and my slippers in the council room today.

it takes some night to make it day
it takes some old to make you young
it takes some cold to know the sun
it takes some fears to make you trust
it takes some silence to make sound
it takes no time to fall in love
but it takes years to know what love is
it takes some hurt to make you love
it takes some love to make you hurt

kudos to anyone who knows what that song is.

oh-kay. maybe i should do something productive and print out GP comprehensions, for example. (: i've loads of time tomorrow at timo's house where i will be doing nothing until they decided to record my voice for the orientation video, which isn't even much.

oh no, the 32nds are coming. they only last half a minute. hahahaha! okay, lame.