i have not left my block for the last 63 hours. besides stepping out of the house to go over to my grandma's (which is right next door) to get meals, and down to the letterbox to pass my dad his phone charger, it's been a downright slacking bore.

for a usually active person like me, being cooped up at home with two laptops on, with unlimited internet connection, and 50 GB worth or stuff to watch, it is unhealthy. i haven't even touched the book i started on friday...and accomplished absolutely nothing on my to do list.

i'm demoralized even when the exams are over. i'm going to sleep.

here i am, posting with my brothers' Macbook. Typing rather slowly, since i ain't used to the spaced out keys. despite the pretty design, the edges which my arms are resting against while im typing are rather scratchy. screen resolution's good, but i think i'll only use it for watching dvds and stuff, and not for functional work since i'll be rather inefficient without mac-compatible software.

watching the F1 singapore grand prix race in Singapore now, on TV beyond the computer screen. race is about to start, with most of the drivers in their cockpits already. but even before it starts, the commentary to like, waste time before the race starts is getting a little dreary for a non-F1 fan like me. READY...SET. START!!!!!

OH WAIT. that was only the warm up round. oh wells. 61 laps to go.

this past two days i've been wanting to do so many things, have got so many things to finish, which makes me unable to decide what to do first, and in the end doing nothing. 

i want that date my horoscope promised me.

Promotional Examinations are over.

i should have more time to blog, more things to talk about, but the mood's gone. 

like i said before, it was probably the stress that drove me to blog more.

it's like the hype died down. my usual habit of getting bored of things too easily probably contributed as well.

so don't bug me too much if i'm like, not responding. i have found more things to do, but i guess i'll still drop by out of habit. it's already a warning of the wind-downed blog.

by the way, Mamma Mia! was great. A classic musical, that's SO much better than high school musical. catchy songs and nice location, i might not mind watching it again in the theaters.

i want to go back to henry park. be that petite little self of mine, enjoying the feeling of being light, flying through the air, being able to do the L and straddle hold. all the effort and hard work put in to achieve the most of what we can, no matter how tiring, the boundless energy. i just miss it.

a motivational movie to inspire me to go back to those days. and the amount of effort i'll have to put in to achieve it.

i'm too excited. but, first things first.

kris: bio was over by the time you tagged, and it was suckkay. i still have to figure out who akkarin is, and then let my imagination run wild before i join the club. oh and..er, sadly i don't have the kickass rocker chick movie genre for you to act in. would the white witch do? except you gotta work on your mean side.

cuitian: i would love to star you in the chick flick, but you wouldn't like the role that you fit perfectly i the movie - CLUBBER GIRL (: so yea, i think your camwhore skills will come in more handy behind the camera.

travis/norman: definately screamer. i doubt i've heard you sing, don't really want to find out either.unless you're better than wen song at least (:

talking bout kickass rocker chicks, is a kickass rocker chick movie. Stick it. i believe i am overwhelmingly biased about the content of this movie due to the theme, but it is TOTALLY my favourite now. i love Weiwei's beam routine!!! it seriously rocked all the way to hell. and Haley's tumbling....oh man, i just wish i could see it in real life.love the attitude too.

that's all i wanted to talk about. the kickass movie!

omg! kitchen princess is out! 

note to self: that's a reward ONLY for at least 3 hours of bio mugging. which means i probably can only start reading at 11.30pm.

THE LAST

few reasons why i came home early today. some noble, some selfish.

1) i had the sudden motivation to come home and study bio, trying for once to be self-disciplined.

2) studying at home is much cheaper.

3) it was a hassle carrying the following item around as shown in the pictures.

4) i was tired and felt like sleeping.

5) no where else felt compelling enough for me to go and study.

well. let's make another list of my attempts to study bio today:

1) After math paper, was feeling down and demoralised and depressed. had no motivation at all to study bio. had lunch.

2) spent an hour in bytes printing revision package answers.

3) slept in the library for an hour.

4) felt lethargic after my nap, and the attempt to read the revision package answers failed terribly. couldn't stand it anymore, so i left the library.

5) unconsiously walked out all the way to the bus stop, boarded 171 (the first bus that came and seemed remotely familiar), contemplating whether to go home and sleep, or go starbucks, while lamenting about bio to vinnie, who was at home and just woke up.

6) as the bus neared college green. inspiration struck to get off the bus and troop to sue's house.

7) i stayed there for about an hour, which helped me regain my motivation to study bio in her study room, and it didn't seem so bad after all. it may have been the food, or sue's cheery face and tone, but i love you sue! thanks for lending me the books too! [refer to the picture below]

8) she had to go for dinner, and so i struggled with two paper bags of books and the huge ass bio file, and ended up at home.

9) apparently the discipline i thought i had has just dissipated with this post. but at least i'm comfortable and happy.

again, THANKS SUE for unknowingly motivating & cheering up my horrible mood before to study bio for tmr, which is the LAST PAPER (: i'm gonna bring Book One along with me tmr to school, and start on it right away after the paper.

BIO AWAITS.

oh and some person commented that i've been blogging too much nowadays, which i think i am overexcessively, i guess this is just this exam period's way of relieving stress, which past methods included making lasagna, sewing stuff, baking cupcakes and cookies and watching anime& reading manga.

my HUGE ass biology file (which is thicker than my human geog file)

the pretty stack of books that are going to occupy the rest of my time in 16 hours' time.thanks sue! oh and chris, looks like i don't have to borrow the forth Otori book and Black Magician trilogy from you anymore (:

All you need to know about your Bio Promo Exam
Body:
[Clarification: Isolating, Cloning and Sequencing DNA Part III and IV are tested in Promo MCQs only.]

Juicy details attached.

Items that you MUST bring:
- active brain
- lucky 2B pencil
- super eraser
- smooth blue/black pens
- functional calculator
- best wishes ;)

Happy studying!




extracted from KM student Centre posted by one of the teachers. I wish i only needed those 6 items to pass or even ace bio(since it doesn't include anything about having bio information), but i've already encountered one major problem.
i've got the best wishes from friends, a functional bulky trustable GC, nice blue pens, a good-enough eraser, my mechanical green pencil, but. My brain is dead. ever since math ended one and a half hours ago.

i just need mental stamina to last one more 3 hour paper. and a little more physical stamina for opening the file and making my eyes scan back and forth millions of pieces of paper and absorb its meaning. This is why i think i need to train endurance.

as anne put it, exams focus on the wrong things. "we should be given as much time as needed to solve the questions, as we are being tested on the content and application, and not the speed at which we can finish answering the questions." very true indeed. it reduces the pressure on the student too by the way.

this is a meaningless post to waste half an hour of my bio studying time. even school can't get me away from blogging.

i hope my brain can function on 3 hours of sleep today. bio needs a lot of memory space.

i know i shouldn't be up at this unearthly hour, but i just need something to make me fall asleep. what better than something to make me think (ok, math or bio would probably be more efficient as sleep-inducers)

but i got the idea in my 1.45am bath, and here it is.

The Director quiz.

If you were a movie director, who would you choose to work with you?

Co-director: Christine.

Errand/donut boy(girl): Tabitha (she'll do a real good job)

Scriptwriter:  Myself, christine, Andy

Producer: Sam mok.

Camera Crew: Cuitian, Suenli

If it were a ........

Romance movie~

Lead Actor: Wilbert

Lead Actress: Marissa

support: Bei xi

third party: none so far.

Heartbreak movie~

Lead Actor: Michael(berger)

Lead Actress: Any girl who goes after him.

Comedy movie~

Lead actor/actress:  Shi hui, Annabelle, Gim Lim

Chickflick~

Leads: Gillian, Avril, Nush, Bee Him, Louisa(lyn), Christie, Stacey, Sue wei, Chenchel, Xiang Yin, Jillian, HUI JUAN, Marion, Si jing, Melody, Tasneem, Natasha, Lee jing....(the list really goes on)

Support:Nicolle, Teresa,  Tabitha

'Enemy': Vinnie, Ariel

Blockbuster~

Good guy: Felix

Bad guy: Justin

Thriller~

Scary person/thing: Derek

Action~

Hero: Travis, Benjamin

Helpless person/support: Puey yee

Horror movie~

Antagonist: Sophia

Victim:Norman

Slapstick~

Lead: Andy, Andrew (seow), Edwin(chong) & (stupid)John duo.

Documentary~

Host: Sherlyn(chat), Leung Yan

R-rated~

Lead: An (only you would dare), Cat (she's hot), Nanthini (sexy bollywood babe XD )

Animated~

Voice actor/actress: Andy, Benjamin

Musical~

Leads: Sheena, Wen song, Shi hui

Sports~

Jock: Jeremy

Support: Leo, Zestin 

Talkshow~

Host: Benjamin

Dance~

Lead: Valerie, Chuyun, Ying ting

ok. i should stop here before any other genres pop up and i'll never get any sleep. feel like patenting the quiz, but i shall be nice and not (:

and since a few of you will be free after chem (math can wait), feel free to create your cast!

-3.59am

i shall blog for the next hour. ok, maybe not. next 20 mins at least.then dinner.

after a total of 5 hours of writing, typing a 1000-word nonsensical blog post seems more welcome.

on my way home:

I'm desperate enough to settle for second class cake, when i could have just waited a little more, and gone to tiong bahru plaza to get nicer cheer-up cake. Instead the 3 second grade cake i bought isn't enough to cheer me up although all three together cost as much as one first grade one at tiong. But i guess its the price of impatience and narrow mindedness after a paper.

after the initial sourness, i just finished the cakes. i guess it cheered me up a little enough to make me post postively neutrally/objectively,the chocolate and butter cream cake were alright, not my kind of quality cake though, can still taste the 'cheapness' in it. but the chocolate ball thingy. ugh. don't know what's inside, don't wanna know, don't like it. that's enough of my $4.20 expenditure for today.

on the bus, i was contemplating on what my after-geog-paper shopping therapy would be, and stuff such as buying a new oven so i could come home and bake and going grocery shopping for baking supplies. but i guess its out of the question when i reached home. well, i almost wanted to be a self controlled, self-disciplined girl for once, and go straight home without buying anything, but the bus had to break down at the stop i would have to walk to the terminal, at the same time walk past the bakery...and thus be tempted to buy cake. 

i guess i would call today the positives and the negatives, 'having the cake but not the icing'. econs was alright, as usual didn't finish, but it wasn't too bad. geog on the other hand, all the essays a would say is a disaster, and so, out of the 50 marks physical and human essays together, i just hope i can get more than 10. that would be good enough. then from there on i hope the case study will get me through. second example would be the above-mentioned bus breakdown. that's...both a positive and negative? since my self-control was tested, cake cheered me up, but it was not a neccessity and i partially didn't want to buy it.

i don't feel like ranting about geog anymore. i know its over, but for once i actually spent more than 2 days studying it, and most of the topics i studied didn't come out. so there. those i DIDN'T study came out. i only have norman and matthew to thank for talking and sharing geog notes with me before the paper, if not i would have been totally clueless and probably gave up doing the human geog paper totally.

i'm craving something salty after all that cake.

my solution after rummaging through the fridge: grill some sausages, if not just microwave them. but no, there were green spots on my saviours, and so in the bin they went and left me sausage-less and crving more saltiness. and so, streaky(fatty) bacon's defrosting now. 

and another thought hit me. when i'm sad, i have no sense whatsoever for the value of money, thrift, nor consequences. maybe that's why i'm prone to making many bad decisions in my life, minor or not. 

sad = hedonist

happy = conservationist

just to sum it up.

and so a long due photo post:

today's cake expenditure that wasn't very satisfactory.

some random day i decided 'i shall make my own potato chips!' and so i did. in the end, it's much cheaper, healthier(when you don't know the cooking process and the amount of oil it takes to make chips), tastier and much less hassle to just grab a pack and pay for it at the super market

another random day (i believe thursday) at my attempt of studying econs in the living room. notice the laptop still by my side. [that's the day i watched 2 movies and 3 episodes of my little chef]

a nice cheap $1.80 breakfast at ikea, although the chicken luncheon meat was enough to cause hypertension.

after helping my human geog notes settle into a bigger home, this is ONLY human geog.

me and liu after our date at cathay to fangirl over hana yori dango final the movie.

a cute little girl named charlotte who kept coming to disturb play with me at starbucks when i was attempting to make volcanoes stay in my head. her playmate Amber was around too, i think a year younger than Charlotte, but didn't manage to take a shot of Amber. Charlotte was really generous, and gave me her milk bottle cover and a bottle of Evian water(:

my ripped off dinner before tuition. i thought the set meal was a drink with the chicken cutlet and fries, but the fries weren't included in the $6. and thus i was really happy with the meal and took a picture of my value-added meal.....until i went to pay. the fries were another $3.

and lastly, one of the days we stayed back to play tennis/frisbee/hockey. the sky turned pink.

- 7.25pm (i took 45 minutes)

There's still like so many many people online, especially j1s who are online now..with their nicknames going along the lines of 'I'M SO DEAD', 'DIE LAH'...a little ironic..since most would have papers tmr morning. or not. i shouldn't be in this crowd. ta-ra. 

i need discipline.

9 hours to Econs

15 hours to geography.

and then i was stretching, and thus observed my feet in front of me. it brought back memories of people commenting on my small feet and short toes(with really tiny toenails, but that's not the focus here). and then the chinese textbook text popped into my head, about teng ye xian sheng having interest in china's past practice of feet-binding. and so, with somemore scrutinisation of my feet, i came to the conclusion with a new theory:

I am a descendant of some Chinese great-great-great-great grandmother who practiced feet binding, and thus i have developed the characteristic of bound feet.

Supporting data 1: My maternal grandmother is from China.

Supporting data 2: I am Chinese.

Supporting data 3: Chinese women (albeit the wealthy ones only) used to bind their feet.

Supporting data 4: Pictures speak a thousand words. Just look at the similarity.

My Feet.

Some Chinese women's Bound Feet.

This is proof of how sick i am from studying.

-7.52pm

a run really energizes me when i'm like brain-damaged. ok, the process of the run wasnt' that great when you've got aching muscles to endure and stitches in the tummy, but the aftermath...that's just satisfaction.

i didn't finish econs, didn't finish physical geog, haven't finished human geog, but i never do before any exam before, so what's there to worry? uh...

-7.26pm

today's posts:

I really take a long time to get out of the house on weekends. Especially when it comes to studying. At least i'm just in time for macs breakfast this morning. I really hope i don't get tempted by the availability of the donuts, bread, cake, cookies....most dangerous would be the supermarket downstairs. 

-10.30am

By 2pm, my brain cells shut down, and physical geog is such a bore, even though i'm not finished with the whole file yet. Macs was making me nauseated with the smell of deep frying oil and not-so- freshly cooked fries.so, i got out of macs by 3, walked around with my huge ass gigantic human geog file(which i brought along for no reason.) and buy some needed stuff. But i bought nothing on my needed list, since challenger didn't stock my printer ink anymore. Popular was...a waste of time and money. Bought two markers, luckily my mom persuaded me not to buy a set of 6 huge ass files for my other subjects. That would have set me back another 20 bucks. Thankfully. But then, i bought another hair rubber band and a pair of simple earrings to replace my current ones that look a little disgusting(even though i still have like a ton more other studs at home.) i wanted to leave tiong bahru plaza for some outdoor kids playground, hopefully to get some exercise done, and maybe improve my concentration. But i stepped out, and the heat just engulfed me. I stopped. Turned around, and headed for burger king. So here i am, with a hershey's sundae pie, econs spread out under my typing hand and phone. I think its rather obvious that i'm typing out these mundane study adventures of mine to procrastinate studying, despite only having a few hours left to academic armaggedon. And its working splendidly. 

Total expenditure on food= $9.50, all fast food. Plus shopping for boredom-removing items would be $14.40

And now i observe two girls sitting in burger king with no burger king merchandise around, the walked out to buy subway, brought it in and ate it. Then walked out again and bought bubble tea from sweettalk. Pardon my next stereotypical biased view against them. They look like two typical secondary school ah lians mugging for coming O's.

And primary school kids have it tough now, as i accidentally eavesdropped on the couple with their daughter studying in macs behind me. And the mother was complaining "do you know how much i have spent on tuition for you this month a not! Do you know how expensive your tuition is now?" i mean, if the child is not responsive to the 'expensive' tuition, just stop the tuition,and help her yourself! Stop relying on others to do your own work, and take a little stress off the kid would you? She sounded distressed enough(the kid).

Macs always never fail to make my stomach feel funny.ugh.

And i have now wasted 30min away.

-4.28pm

 

Half an hour of a nap later, the two people at the next table from mine are sleeping too. 

I'm feeling lethargic.

- 4.50pm.

I'm sitting at starbucks, ordered a orange cranberry muffin, and a chocolate frappuchino. I realized how much my genes are costing me. It was just awhile back that i confirmed my love for food stemmed from my genes...my whole family are advocates of good food. I buy desserts for myself AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK. and sweet indulgences don't come cheap.

Oh wait..let me change it to studying is expensive. Not only do we have to pay school fees, books, notes, uniforms, misc. fees, yada yada...the cost of buying myself good food to keep myself happy while studying is just outrageous. And then the exercise needed to lose those extra pounds gained by impulsive 'happy-eating'. For some, it may not be food, maybe a new bag to look nice in school, or an ipod to listen to while studying(or just to look cool), or even facial products to keep good complexion from all the stress hormones are doing damage to..

Well..that's desserts for the day.

-15th September 2008

ok, that's one of the entries i missed out in my phone. and i thought it was really relevant, especially when i've been studying the past two days straight, and i've blown about $25 already. just in two days. on food. ONLY. damn. even my mom's poking my fats. ugh. 

24 more hours to study. and then Economics, Physical Geography & Human Geography comes to haunt me.

enough lazing around for today. 

starbucks?

national library?

bugis?

ikea?

orchard?

let's just see where the bus takes me.

and i can't believe my body survived without dinner last night as i passed out on the living room floor for the third time in a row last night.

Today is such a clumsy day. Firstly falling down really unglamly while trying to step up a few steps,missed one, causing a graze on my shin. like anne commented, luckily nothing's broken. Secondly dropping my wallet on the bus onto a small puddle of water. Then, i dropped my phone twice within a span of three minutes after tuition. Then, just to avoid a group of people camwhoring i stepped behind the bus stop, which was one huge step down, and i was aware of it. So i stepped down on my right foot, and almost twisted\sprained it. I guess i just landed on the wrong angle. So with a momentary lapse of pain and i continued walking(i'm not one who likes to make a scene in public), it went away and i'm fine now. Its just the mental trauma that's left behind from the day i was not thinking straight. And may i add the constant pursing of my lips to avoid two effingly irritating ulcers on my lower lip. Yea thanks mr fish and chips, noodles with chicken luncheon meat and sour cream & onion chips to aggrevate it. Maybe its retribution for not studying yesterday.

- 9.35pm

Its not meant to end is it. With a mere physical damage check, the two phone free falls is causing the side of the cover to protrude out really worryingly. thankfully the internal ware survived. And the bus that i'm on, loves to go hard and fast but still obeys traffic lights, which is resulting in a very nauseated me...when will it end?!

-9.47pm

the grim reaper is either playing with me or he's doing a very bad job today. Almost decapitating /strangled my neck when my foot was stepping on on end of my earphone wire, and the other end was around my neck. i stood up abrubtly and....ouch. and my brother directly in front of me just laughed. oh wow. lets just see how many more incidents are gonna happen before tomorrow comes.

-10.01 pm 

10 hours later: this is the result of my productivity

1) bath

2) time-wasting

3) breakfast of cereal and a toasted ham-and-cheese sandwich

4) re-watched Camp Rock movie on my laptop

5) watched three episodes of My Little Chef

6) watched Hana Ikusa the movie.

i realized Hana Ikusa(meaning The Battle of Flowers / Flower Battle) is somewhat the japanese version of Memoirs of a Geisha. The front half of the story was very similar, but the ending was different. Very touching, acted by Inoue Mao as the main actress (the lead actress in the Hana Yori Dango drama series and final movie.) Only thing i didn't like, there was about one full minute of her crying, and the background was the sounds of her weeping. it just kinda got boring if they were trying to achieve the overwhelming sadness effect.

she's a really young actress but has acted in real good jap movies.

i need to start studying. this is what happens when i HAVE to stay home the whole day. 

The secret quiz.

1. There are 30 questions.
2. Next to each number, write only the name of the person who fits.
3. Answer one question with one name.
4. Don't tell the questions to anyone who isn't doing the meme.
(PS: If you agree to do the meme, then I'll send you the questions.)


1. Matthew
2. pei qi
3. Ivanka Trump or Chef/Patissier Janice Wong
4. trudy
5. christie
6. wi: andy, f: anne
7. annabelle
8. christine
9. w.i.s.h.e.s. , kris, 
10. dolly
11. cuitian
12. Nanthini!
13. avril
14. girl:hui juan  boy: david
15. norman
16. leung yan
17. polly
18. Sharon
19. Zhi hao
20. Xiang yin
21. derek
22. joyene
23. tricia
24. vinnie
25. stacey
26. uh...i wouldn't know?
27. michelle
28. liu min!
29. not saying.
30. i had a really hard time filling up only one name to a question, so if you wanna do it, tell me! and i love you all. good luck for promos or whatever exams you're taking!

 and that reminds me. i didn't get a very important SMS i was really hoping to get yesterday ): i just wanna go cry now.

ok i just feel so disgusting now. it's 7am, the time i would wake up on a thursday for school. but wait..there's no school today! so why am i up? hm..my contacts are still on, i haven't taken my bath, and i'm probably gonna get a pimple outbreak. 

ok, i WAS NOT up studying all night (it sounded like i did). i just conked out on the sofa STRAIGHT after dinner (i'm so gonna get fat like a pig if i keep doing this), and woke only at like 4.30am. i contemplated taking my bath, but the bed was just too alluring. except, it took me awhile to fall back asleep since i felt like crap. oh and guess what, i was clever enough to turn off my daily 6am alarms, but forgot to turn off the thursday alarms...which yes, woke me up at 7am when there's no school.bugger.

then it hit me. it's thursday. promos has ALREADY started. but you see, even before, during, and after the GP and chinese paper yesterday, it didn't feel like promos at all. hence the waste of energy bringing my O'sullivan Principles of Economics to school for nothing, because the time after chinese paper was spent playing tennis (: [probably the cause of my aching knees and back now] i  have a very good feeling today is SO gonna be productive....

this is the effects of putting Chinese and GP together, then playing tennis for two whole hours in the blinking hot sun.

I'm sitting at starbucks, ordered a orange cranberry muffin, and a chocolate frappuchino. I realized how much my genes are costing me. It was just awhile back that i confirmed my love for food stemmed from my genes...my whole family are advocates of good food. I buy desserts for myself AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK. and sweet indulgences don't come cheap.

Oh wait..let me change it to studying is expensive. Not only do we have to pay school fees, books, notes, uniforms, misc. fees, yada yada...the cost of buying myself good food to keep myself happy while studying is just outrageous. And then the exercise needed to lose those extra pounds gained by impulsive 'happy-eating'. For some, it may not be food, maybe a new bag to look nice in school, or an ipod to listen to while studying(or just to look cool), or even facial products to keep good complexion from all the stress hormones are doing damage to..

Well..that's desserts for the day.

-7.00pm

the 'microwaveable pasta' recipe..at the request and benefit of travis.

For one portion.

ingredients:

1. pasta (spaghetti, linguine, fusilli, penne...) - however much you want to eat.

2. Prego pasta sauce -5 tablespoons

3. 1-2 Sausages

4. half- quarter a stick of carrot

5. salt -a pinch

6. pepper -a pinch

7. sugar - 1 to teaspoons

8. Bolognese spices (paprika, nutmeg, rosemary, basil, oregano...) - a pinch

9. one slice of cheese

10. Microwave

11. Water

12. Microwavable Glass/porcelain pot

13. microwaveable bowl, for eating pasta from

one

Place pasta in the microwaveable pot, and fill pot with water until it is double the height of the amount of pasta.[if its spaghetti or linguine, break it into half to fit in the pot to be completely submerged]. place pot in the microwave without the lid and cook it on high for 5 mins. 

two 

while the pasta is cooking, chop up the carrots and sausages into preferable sized pieces and put it in a big (microwaveable) bowl.

three

take the cooked pasta out of the microwave and let the pasta soak in the water for another 10mins.

four

place bowl or carrots and sausage pieces in the microwave and cook for 20 seconds on high.

five

remove bowl from microwave, add pasta sauce, salt, pepper, sugar and spices and mix. stir the sauce around, then microwave on medium for 2 mins with a lid on. 

six

remove sauce from microwave, place cheese on hot pasta sauce, and stir until melted and well mixed.

seven

drain the water from the pasta[it should be soft, if not soak it for longer/microwave it for another 2-3 mins], and transfer cooked pasta into sauce bowl.

eight

STIR. and EAT.

*there are a lot of steps that can be skipped, and ingredients too..they're just the ingredients i use to cook my own pasta so suit my tastebuds (: oh and it should take about 10-20 min, depending on how fast/slow you are.

the quiz i dread to complete but helps me procratinate on math revision package.

1) What color is your phone?
Black
2) What brand is your phone?
Nokia.
3) Who's the first person who comes up under the letter E?
edmund chong. almost couldn't remember who he is, but he's the I& E club guy who organizes the business competition we had in school.
4) Who's the last person you called?
home. no one picked up.
5) Who's the 2nd person who miss called?
eh. i don't have caller id.
6) Who's speed dial 2?
home.
7) Who's the 3rd person who comes up under J?
jackie-nj. one of the guy's in OG10 for orientation this year.
8) Who was your last received call?
dad.
9) Who was your second last received call?
again, no caller id.
10) What is your wallpaper?
a black and white photo of a hot-air balloon in the sky among clouds. got it from xanga.
11) What is your screensaver?
the nokia time & date bar thingy.
12) How many text messages have you received?
eh. i deleted them recently, so since...1st september, 265.
13) What's the 5th message say in your inbox?
Liu min- nj hockey " Okay i go find you now"
14) Who was your last text message from?
Sam Tong.
15) What is your alarm sound?
Arashi - Love so sweet
16) What is your handphone ringtone?
AFI - Prelude 12-21 [i stole it off liu's old blog song]
17) Name every person you have text messages from.
eh. why should i?its a waste of time.
18) Have you seen the 101 Chuck Norris facts?
nope.
19) Who's the 3rd person on your K?
Kah How- nj . another guy from OG10.
20) What does the 3rd message in your outbox say?
None. unless you're talking bout ''Sent Messages"..there's a difference.
21) Who is the first name in your phonebook?
. [really...just dot. cause i don't know whose number it is]
22) Who is the last name in your phonebook?

(unnamed) <>
23) Last 4 digits of your number?
9213
24) Starhub/M1/SingTel?
Singtel.
25) Pass this quiz on.
i shall be a nice person...

#1: anybody who's free to do it.

FINALLY.

also, before i came home, i had a craving for chips. and so, my culinary chef instincts kicked in, and i dropped by the Marketplace and got Potatoes, some $3.60 All Purpose Seasoning and Brown Gravy (it was on sale!! although i have no idea when i'll even make mashed potatoes..i'm not a fan of it.) Well, here goes Pam's really unhealthy experimental chips!

This is one post that is going to show a warped yet practical side of my mind, especially when i'm alone at some secluded bus stop or unfamilar place, and could be rather dark in lighting.which i am right now at the busstop between camden medical centre and tanglin mall/traders' hotel.it only serves one bus-75.


Well, you see, i'll start imagining scenarios such as bad people with bad intentions robbing\raping\flashing me. Ideas for self defence start kicking in.We'll start with robbing. The scenario, (assuming)he walks up to me, flashes out a knife, and asks demands for my valuables. My reply, "er, i'll gladly give you my whole wallet and phone, but let me take the picture of my dead dad out. He was a robber and got killed in a car accident last week." and then, that should distract him, which i would use the opportunity to kick his balls.

Second scenario, a rapist. Normally, (assuming again,) he would push me onto the floor/against a wall, then still has to use one hand to strip his pants, before anything can happen. So i would use that time to retort "er, just to let you know, although i shouldn't since you are committing a sin, i've got AIDS. that bloody one night stand passed it to me\its inherited from my mother." unless the rapist wants to die or already has some STD, then i should be safe. If not, there's always the "hey, i don't know where you got my location, but my going rate is fifty bucks an hour.that includes special services. But it seems you're desperate, and i'm nice, you'll get it for twenty an hour? By the way, i prefer to remain anonymous, so can you get a room first?"There's a high probability of the rapist pausing to listen, and his position should be vunerable enough with my legs in between his to give a good knee jerk upwards. Ouch.

Lastly, a flasher. This was thought up earlier on, few weeks ago maybe. So, a dark place, isolated or not, a man in a trenchcoat, grey thinning hair, moderately to very ugly (could be cute..but no cute guys would need to flash at people when they've got girls to worship them in the bedroom).He's maybe five to ten paces away, stops in front me, then open sesame. well, i could just pause, use a second to recover from the shock from being flashed at,(without revealing the shocked face- that's a weakness) then maybe walk a little closer with a puzzled look, scrutinize the part he's so proud to show, and retort cooly/coldly "If you could just shave, i might have appreciated it a little more" / " It's a little small for a big guy like you, you want some of the pills my boyfriend uses?" / "Well buddy, since you're so proud of it, i can help you make it look a little bigger...swollen." and you just give a fast, hard kick. 

well, if you noticed then all end with a kick, that's so the guy will be stunned, you have time to get passer-bys to help, call the police, or knock him out cold, or sit on him so that he'll get arrested. Also, i was hoping to go for the reverse psychology/traumatising direction.

Of course all these require practice or at least a good liar /drama actor-actress to be successful.if the initial fear and shock can be overcome to acheive the effect of the come-backs.

Also, i do believe these interesting thoughts started invading my mind when i watch Crime Watch when i was younger, and there was the flashing case. Hm, they all seem pretty feasible, so if any of you girls out there do try them out, tell me the results of how it goes yea? but i'd rather not hear any...since that would mean that you almost got mugged/raped/flashed at.

- 9.00pm

chris:my oven's spoilt...if your house oven works and we could get rid of the stuff inside...what about your house (: its bigger too..

val: thanks yea. i can't wait for you to get back!! 2 weeks! oh and i believe your brother seems to still have my one litre of tears and ouran high school host club anime DVDs? i can't find it at home..

matt: what's with the omg? orange is a nice colour....

liu: i don't like the library(to study) its too quiet. and the rows and rows and rows of books will tempt me too much. i think it was the yellow lighting too..the orange colour looks more vivid and bright (:

travis: a little, with the curly hair and all. haha.

ok, i've seen the ad a lot of times now...and i have ALWAYS thought the guy with the shoulder length hair in the tiger beer ad was cute. cuter than the short haired one.

if you still don't know, the tiger beer ad where two bartenders are competing to see who can open the most number of bottles at once/in the most stylish fashion....those bartenders. omg. he's just too cute i can't wait to watch the next tiger beer ad (:

i mean this ad. he's HOT.

i just love tiger ads now.

this is what happens when i make myself study the whole day saturday. i'll wake up late on
sunday, eat a hearty breakfast, read the papers, and then....


ta-da.my new phone pouch/sock. it looks deceptively simple, but i surprised myself by taking 2 and a 1/2 hours. partly because i forgot the space needed for my earphone jack. the plastic front's rather crumpled and crinkled due to having to turn the sock inside out, if not i would have preferred it straight & smooth.oh wells. time for dinner!

Ikea is like the almost perfect place for me to study. Besides me having no excess to internet, big study tables and availability of good food and unlimited drinks...only its a little cold which can be overcome with another jacket, or a blanket from the bed department. The other non-ikea related limitation to my studying is my phone and overactive imagination. My mind starts wondering around, and then i start typing stuff here just cause i'm bored. Mind-wandering takes up at least a quarter of my study time:(

My idea of the day anyway: convince ikea to allow students to study at their showroom bedrooms with study tables...especially during the study period. Not only do the students benefit with a studying environment outside of the house, its free advertisement of the functionality of their furniture, which may encourage parents or home-working adults to buy their furniture for a functional suppose. Only limitation is, the students must be those who are able to study with crowds and people walking around their 'rooms'. If ikea is generous enough...maybe they can pay the students to stay there the whole day?:) if not, the students can just benefit with studying:)

Ok...back to urbanization and its impacts.
-Saturday, 13th September 2008. 1.11pm

I can't believe it happened.i believe this in not the first time too. But i'm just glad i had enough resources to salvage that dreadly situation, and thank god for the circumstances. Oh, another thing to thank god for...that i'm not one of those helpless screaming, crying girls when things go wrong.

It could have been avoided if i had just listened earlier...but seriously, totally unexpected. And i think the journey home will be one of my most demure and self- conscious moments of my current life.

Bus, please just come now.
-Saturday, 13th September 2008. 6.48pm

i should be sleeping now. since i've got to be up by 6.30am on a sat morning for training. i'll die tmr during training after not training for so long.
i just can't believe i managed to wake at 5.20 this morning just to pack my bag, just because i slept early last night, at 11.30pm
i shouldn't be so sleepy.

i want to go to japan! i hope jas and liu gets in too! good luck!

today was so productive.
falling asleep in class despite 8 hours of sleep last night, didn't bring notes for two subjects (no wonder my bag felt so light), and played frisbee and a little dodge-tennis-ball with the hockey guys after bio consolidation (really, it's just a bio studying period). i wanted to go to ikea or starbucks to studying for an hour or so, but it turned out to be a shopping trip in anchorage instead( i got a nice pair of black flats from clubmarc express), and coming home to...slack until now. my eyes can barely open as i'm typing this, but i just feel very motivated to blog.

i'm trying to change. be more outgoing, less of a...i wouldn't say bitch, but be less mean, more sociable, less introverted? my attemps so far have been
1) saying bye to the uncle at the side gate before i walk out,
2) letting people have my food when they ask for it.( i usually say no straight away..and then think about it, before i decide to say yes, just because i feel bad saying no.)
3) talking to different people more (not very effective....)
it's a start, but if you think i'm becoming nicer, tell me yea? but i guess i still could keep some of that meanness too..it'll come in handy (:

chris: i've got a notebook ready for my list of books, manga, animes and movies to watch. already way ahead of you! for the food part, you know my house is always suffficient (:

looking through sunday's lifestyle papers. the choc chip cookies are tempting me to bake. but then i think about not having the nice KitchenAid mixer, not having a proper working oven, not having the Valrhona feves (55% cocoa dark chocolate), and most importantly not having the time.

IDEAs keeping flowing, but the time is flowing faster than the ideas can manifest.

after my bath, i realized i have a sore elbow joint. probably from the backflip.

and HYD movie. i'm gonna watch it with liu soon, and then i thought of watching the last episode of the drama to refresh my memory. but no, i can't seem to find time for it.

i'm beat.

can't i make friends with mr sandman?

i bought a new school skirt today. i am demoralized. then i ran jogged 5 rounds. in 15mins. and 20 sit ups. played really stone tennis.and hit some balls. tried to invent a new way to take a penalty stroke, but failed. then tried to cheer myself up by doing round-off-back-flip on the field, which was tiring. and then i went starbucks to be studious. and drank off all that exercise with iced grande classic coco with WHIPPED CREAM. oh god.

i am pressured by my mom to go sleep. yes its late, but i don't exactly feel tired despite having approximately 3 hours of sleep last night. but my biological clock has altered to not sleep before 12 anymore. so i believe.

i am very tempted to start typing about the events that happened today, and well, a follow up on matt's post about a person's objectives for blogging. and then there's my sudden impulse to get a job, or make stuff. just not studying. as i have re-illiterated to some people, it's time-consuming, tiring, and just pure brain drain.

first things first,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to ADELINE and WEI SHAN! we have two dear hockey players with the same birthday!

the surprise today was successful, as we trooped down to adeline's house at 8.30 in the morning, and fretting about how we should surprise her. it seems this year's team are not much of the surprise-type. haha.i skipped tuition to go study with vin, doll and suen, and from 10am (the time we left ade's house) to 3pm, i was pretty unproductive. besides skipping tuition already, well, math was kinda a disaster. we sat around ade's living room making quite a bit of noise which probably woke her sister up, but it was one of the few times we actually sit down and have a nice proper talk, and well, laughter ensues about every 30 seconds or less. i'll post pictures up again soon..and continue with my post when i'm more disciplined not to waste my day away on useless activities.

almost forgot. a review of disney's camp rock movie premiere just now. it was a little disappointing in terms of the acting. i felt that it was...too acted, a little false/dramatised. but i guess its fine if its catered to kids. as usual, there's the disney messages of 'be yourself', 'it doesn't really matter to be popular', 'there's true friends', 'always be confident of who you are', stuff like that, and on the importance of family as well.basically, miracles can happen. even the antagonist has her own problems and becomes a nice person in the end. maybe its that i missed the first 15 minutes of the show, that i found the whole movie a little disconnected, and seemed to jump a little. kinda like there's not enough time, and so they just cut bits and pieces of it and stick it together. makes me feel....like a igot cheated. somehow. oh and this shouldn't be here but, demi levato/mitchie's constant smiling while talking the joe jonas/shane seems overly done. i mean its like when you portray a girl liking this and is just happy to see him, and only smiles really widely all the time in front of him...there's almost no other expression. besides her almost reduced to tears in front of him. that's about it.

as i told vin, study/exam periods put a toll on my body, and clothes. i can't believe i can't fit into a few pairs of pants already. and my shirts seem small at the shoulders, as if my shoulders grew wider than it already is, which is quite weird. i need the exercise when i go back to school, but i can't believe school's ALREADY starting. sad life.

Saturdays are never productive. I just spent the last two hours at anchorage and queensway and ikea looking for our hockey bag to give a special someone as a birthday present, printing photos and buying more stuff. Queensway was way unproductive. One hour, three levels. I only bought trudy an overdue birthday present(which had three price tags on top of each other, doubling each time i peel the top one off.) the whole bloody queensway didn't have the bag, and halfway through my attention was diverted to finding myself flats and a halter vest. Found two nice pairs, but both didn't have my size in the colour i wanted. Oh...and one of them was 75 bucks. I don't intend on splurging anymore on impulsive buys. No sign of vests. Ikea...er bought something for myself too. I reckon everything i buy nowadays are impulsive, as i'm not even keeping track of my bank account balance. Hm...i need to get back to geog, econs and math amongst ikea's wafting meatball scent.

Sadly however much i am tempted to rant, I can only post this tomorrow (sunday), if not i'll be a real killjoy and kill the surprise.

And i can't believe there's gonna be a Hana Yori Dango movie! I wanna watch! :)

- saturday, 6th september 2008, 4.27pm.


OMG. Ikea's diam cake is damn nice. But i just can't place the taste at the top. Its like thin alternate layers of nut-sponge cake and white chocolate, topped with milk chocolate studded with a sort of biscuit pieces.Only flaw: a little too sweet.
- saturday, 6th september 2008,6.41pm

Today was seriously a waste of time. I have spent another two hours scouring orchard shops for the bloody red bag. Oh wait. It's cherry, not bloody red. But no, taka doesn't have it anymore, wheelock neither. Shaw...only tempted me with canele's macaroons which cost a bomb for such a tiny little thing.
- saturday, 6th september 2008,9.38pm

DONE! ok..that's 2h 10min. can i charge a midnight/overtime fee and labour charges to the cost price?

my masterpiece.

i've got tons of things to talk about. from how beef lasagna for dinner at some coffeeshop wasn't satisfactory to how i had a heated debate with my mom about a shop opening at 7am (she argues that no CD shop would open at 7am AT ALL, and they are stupid if they open at 7, and the shopping mall itself wouldn't even be open), and.....something i wanted to mention and thought about in the bath but can't remember now.

ok, surprisingly, a trip to the bathroom made me remember. third point. i was observing my obscene fats, and how i only find them obscene is because they are growing bigger, and on a person that previously did not have that much fat before (lets put it at 5 years ago). if that's what turning into an adult is (getting more body problems and getting fatter) all about, i'd rather stay as a kid. i mean when i was young, i used to think that all kids will grow up into pretty adults, losing all the baby fat and being able to wear nice trendy clothes (think of the movie 13 going on 30.jennifer garner.) but it's kinda the opposite.

today's just...a long day. but i guess i walked off the daim cake i ate at ikea this afternoon. and the steamboat for lunch. oh i can't wait for school to reopen.

i'll post the rest later.
speed sewing starts...now!

PW sucks the life out of people. Written Report specifically. The from tues night to this morning was spent on very unproductive work on our wr, which we completely re-did. i have not mugged at all this holiday, and am feeling worried as the holiday homework pile itself has not been touched. Attempting to start on chinese essay now, but to no avail.

I'll talk about our adorable little pw sleepover instead. Before we even reached tab's house, i went impulsive shopping at body shop, and became a BODY SHOP MEMBER:) which cost me another ten bucks too. Oh damn. At least i'll have nice polished nails and smell real sweet for the next year:) (hey! I'm on the way to joining the himbo gang!) we ate our bought food on the floor in tab's study room, only started work at let me guess..8.30pm i think.or maybe closer to 9pm. Mostly had to do survey analysis the whole night, and four of us shared four cans of campbell soup at about 11pm. Trudy left close to midnight, and we continued with blasted analysis. Bathed at 2, WR work started only about 3am and i went to sleep at four. As usual my sinus decided to act up in an unfamiliar environment, and thank god for sleep making everything better(a sleeping bag on the floor wasn't too bad.) anne woke me only after 5 hours of sleep, while tab slept on.(ironic since our pw title is on sleep derivation). From 10 to 2pm was so unproductive, with breakfast, and then tabs treated us to pizza hut delivery for lunch. 50 bucks for 3 people. How economical. We tested out our 'siesta' plan, took a nap for 20min. I felt my productivity level shot up pretty high after that....but effects of super siesta only lasted two hours.haha. And then we go bye bye.

Night was spent watching constantine on channel 5 despite the pressure of wr deadline down my back. Managed a little before konking out at 2. And fast forward more wr and pasta, math consult in school(which made me feel rather dumb and math-enlightened), here i am still at the oasis, using my phone to type this super long post to procrastinate. And i'm typing this last line to procrastinate somemore( ok, the seniors at the table nearby are really annoyingly noisy.sigh.)

Chinese. I'll pay someone 3 bucks to do it for me.

PW's suckkAY.
ok. still at tabs house now, like been here for the past erm, 14 hours. and we've gotta redo the bloody WR.
so i shouldn't be typing this at all. but hey, it's morning. you don't do work in the morning when you've been doing it till 4am last night. but would it apply to sleep-deprived students in singapore? no.

boohoo.

saturday night's barbeque at sheng's condo was well, to say fare thee well to wei zhen going to China. the afternoon threatened throw the party off the rooftop garden, but we managed to get it going when it slowed to a drizzle by 5. When i arrived, the VIP herself was cooking fries and nuggets, wedges were already done.funny eh. the VIP and i started the barbeque fire (when like there was only 4 of us around), and people slowly drizzled in from like 6 onwards? wasn't a big party, just a small gathering with tons of food and laughter. not that i talked much. i never seem to get really into it. so as usual, it was my place at the barbeque pit and chicken wings, although there were people offering to help, thanks! but it relaxes me when i cook, like when someone eats something that you cooked and it's good..the satisfaction satisfies me, that's why i prefer to cook, and i'll eat less(: maybe it's the two year gap between us, that i'll never really be a true crescentian and blend in.

with that aside. i can't believe i'm still sick. it's three weeks, the longest i've ever been sick for. not the i'm-gonna-die-have-to-stay-in-bed sick (although sometimes i did feel like i was going to die from coughing so much), my throat's just irritating the hell out of me. i can't run much, if not it'll get worse, i can't eat much heaty stuff, although i'm not exactly abstaining from them, it's not getting better. damn that kid at tuition who coughed non-stop and passed it on to me, whoever he is. i finished the stuff the doc gave to me within days, and on to finishing my second bottle of strepsils cough syrup. although it tastes nice, i don't exactly want to keep having to take tablespoonfuls of it everyday. it's a hassle being sick.

will you?