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Saturday, 12 December 2009, 5:34 PM
Bunbun AND I WERE SPAZZING OVER DEATHLY HALLOWS!! :D :D Okay fine we were being dreadfully shallow and spazzing over the actors playing YOUNG DUMBLEDORE AND GRINDELWALD but well, STILL POTTERIFFIC RIGHT!!! ^^This is young Dumbledore, played by Toby Regbo! :D :D :D DUMBY LOVE
And young Grindelwald, played by Jamie Campbell Bower!
My sister came in as I was looking at the photos and went, "OMG SO CUTE!!" hahahaha.
CANNOT WAIT AHHH THANK GOD IT'S COMING OUT IN TWO MOVIES!
I'm totally going to have a Harry Potter Marathon over Christmas and REREAD ALL THE BOOKS by the time Deathly Hallows Pt 1 comes out SQUEE~~
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Also, THIS.
AND THIS.
And with KEY KEY KEYYYY AND TAEEEEMIINNNNN, I end off my post, goodbye you won't be seeing me! (Gosh I really am shallow @_@)
Friday, 11 December 2009, 9:14 PM
greetings from the ocean's sweaty face
wenxian says:HOSU IS DAMN CUTEEEE.
OMGGGGG.
EOHREROIEOR
IOOEIUREUIR
AHHAHHHAWHR
HOSUUUUSUUSUS
HAHA.
I'm reading a book now called Happy Endings, by Adele Geras! :D It's about the theatre, so yay! I like books about the theatre, like Centre Stage, by Linda Chapman, yay yay yay. They are undoubtedly very cliched, but all the same :) Allow me to pursue something that I would not in reality, that's what books are for right!
"This play is about dreaming - filling days with illusions, hopes, aspirations that mostly come to nothing... learning to live with disappointment, with second best, without your heart's desire. It's about living in the future or the past, about the impossibility of grasping present happiness."
And speaking about "grasping present happiness", here's a quote from Our Town:
"Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it - every, every minute?"
I bought Three Plays instead of Our Town on its own because I figured that it was more value for money that way. And I'm glad I did! Thornton Wilder, though it doesn't show through in Our Town, is really a comic genius. Admittedly, my sense of humour is rather... poor, and I haven't read that many plays yet, but The Skin of our Teeth and The Matchmaker (Dolly Gallagher Levi!) are really funny hahaha. Even the stage directions made me laugh.
I think I love reading plays, because unlike novels, plays are written with staging in mind and it makes it easier for you to visualise in your head! And there is more freedom for the reader to picture each scene. Of course, I miss the elaboration and (this phrase will be used because I want to!) the baroque styling of each scene that novels possess - very few playwrights can be wordsmiths, I believe. Too long a play and the audience loses interest.
And it's remarkable how plays are so timeless! Actually, this isn't just exclusive to plays, but to LITERATURE. To borrow Wilder's words again (you see, because I read his preface and everything as well) "literature has always more resembled a torch race than a furious dispute among heirs" and maybe it's a mark of human endurance that amongst the many changes, humanity remains the same. The torch is passed on, held by different bearers perhaps, but in essence unchanged. The fact that 400 years on, Shakespearean plays still hold such significance and bearing and meaning, that has to count for something.
I am very happy and content now. Maybe acknowledging that you are just that one insignificant speck in the history of time makes you feel better about yourself. It's unexplainable but I just feel glad knowing that I'm part of this unbroken chain of action! "There are no real endings at all. Not in life. Things drift into one another, eddying, swirling like the unseen currents in the oceans of the world... I like the time-like-an-ever-rolling-stream notion, myself." (from Happy Endings :D ) Yay you are important and special too, even if you're just this little star in this gigantic galaxy of stars :) The constellation I'm in is just so wonderful that I feel so blessed now! Especially some of the stars shining brighter than the others in my eyes, you know who you are :D
This is a very long post and if you've read this far then good for you! Ending off with yet another quote haha:
"if i had a big enough needle, i'd stitch our skin together while you were asleep so that when you woke up, we were like one person. one big happy deformed person."
the uncooked duo
Goodbye!
Thursday, 10 December 2009, 4:55 PM
piano steps
Interactive Swedish Piano Stairs - Watch more Funny Videos
steps that play piano keys!!
i'd be motivated to practice more piano haha! omg can you imagine playing fantasie impromptu on this xD
Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 9:15 PM
wanna go december camp ):Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 6:22 PM
HELLO
TODAY HAD TRAININGthe word "proclivity" kept coming to mind, and i had no idea what it meant -.- stupid. i kept thinking of proclivity when pegging haha. aish i wish i could stay later -.-
Monday, 7 December 2009, 8:50 PM
they will play tumpty umpty and toodle oodle, and they will dance and do a thousand tricks.
oh - mytwitchy witchy girl
i think you are so nice,
i give you bowls of porridge
and i give you bowls of ice
cream.
i give
you lots of kisses,
and i give you lots of hugs,
but i never give you sandwiches
with bugs
in.
read coraline, wow it's really great!! neil gaiman is a master i'm so happy i got to SHAKE HANDS WITH HIM AND HUG HIM OMG -fangirls-
today i watched my first movie on impulse. it was new moon. yes, well.. hahaha it was well, as expected, but frankly i don't understand why all the characters seem so BORED! if i were bella and i had such a wonderful boyfriend i would be grinning all over whenever i saw him. it really confuses me, because bella does NOT SMILE AT ALL. if she were cheerful and injected some zest into her dialogue everything would be nicer.
also, i wish rpattz would just dispense with his american mumbly mumbly accent and just speak with his british accent!! ): right now he is barely whispering and WHERE IS THE MANLINESS. he sounds perpetually in pain.
another thing: there is one really cool volturi vampire and his name is jamie campbell bower and will be in harry potter!! as grindelwald! omg GRINDELWALD yay.
wenxian's slip of the tongue: (looking at a random picture) is that.. ella and badword.
actually it's quite a big thing for me to watch a movie unplanned. normally i look at all the movie schedules and all. i remember the first time i watched a movie without my family, it was with janne and rachel and we watched devil wears prada. someone cut out the day's movie schedule hahaha.
pretty dakota fanning!
11:36 AM
ppppokerface
i see dominic cooper there too (:
Sunday, 6 December 2009, 6:23 PM
Carol Ann Duffy
Words, Wide NightSomewhere, on the other side of this wide night
and the distance between us,
I am thinking of you.
The room is turning slowly away from the moon.
This is pleasurable.
Or shall I cross that out and say it is sad?
In one of the tenses I am singing an impossible song of desire
that you cannot hear.
La la la la. See? I close my eyes and imagine
the dark hills I would have to cross to reach you.
For I am in love with you
and this is what it is like or what it is like in words.
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All Days Lost Days
Living
in and out the past,
inexplicably
so many things have died
in me.
In and out like a tide,
each tear
holds a tiny hologram,
Even this early
I am full of years,
Here are the little gravestones
where memory
stands in the wild grass,
watching the future
arrive in a line of big black cars.
All days
lost days, in and out of themselves
between dreaming
and dreaming again and half -
remembering.
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Talent
This is the word tightrope. Now imagine
a man, inching across it in the space
between our thoughts. He holds our breath.
There is no word net.
You want him to fall, don't you?
I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
The word applause is written all over him.
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Lizzie, six
What are you doing?
I'm watching the moon.
I'll give you the moon
when I get up there.
Where are you going?
To play in the fields.
I'll give you the fields,
bend over the chair.
What are you thinking?
I'm thinking of love.
I'll give you love
when I've climbed this stair.
Where are you hiding?
Deep in the wood.
I'll give you wood
when your bottom's bare.
Why are you crying?
I'm afraid of the dark.
I'll give you the dark
and I do not care.
Saturday, 5 December 2009, 10:14 AM
crazy love just can't get enough
AHHHH CRAZY LOVE IS NICE!!! ^^"this song makes you fall in love again."
dbsk songs are so nice and non-techno that it makes for a very refreshing change! even their more techno songs are so ballad-ish and nice (: ever since wx showed me the english version of survivor i keep mishearing it haha! but their "survivor" is like suh-bye-buh heheh. omg i love yunho xD
aish i think i take things too personally/ take offense too easily. but i really feel super D: when it's as if i'm being completely ignored, as if i'm not even worthy of being acknowledged. agabish. okay i should stop doing this to other people as well. maybe i did something wrong? you D: i don't know what's worse, your lack of response or the responses that lack the slightest meaning. relegated to the ranks of - what?
i miss huiran D:
and we had campcraft trainings yesterday! it's kind of amusing that all ct'08 squadmates excepting jac are in team2, and i'm with wx and pt again so yay! but haha most of the people in team2 didn't expressly want ct? i don't know what that means.
everything about ct now reminds me of ct'08 and sometimes i'm melting in this great reminiscence and i don't wanna do new things. must learn to let go! but aish. i want to just rewind and pitch the old basha again and the gadget and everything.
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princess bride is a wonderful book. i love it much, william goldman has this really spectacular wit that makes me want to hug him. WESTLEY NEVER DIES. and buttercup is hilariously useless haha! reading sophie's world now!
i'm devouring books now. too quickly i think, the ideas and intricacies are slipping through my fingers.
must read coraline!!! and do androids dream of electric sheep! OMG AHHH anticipation.
oh lol my dad fell into the pond hahaha
Thursday, 3 December 2009, 8:44 PM
SNAPEWARD
OMG OMG OMG OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MADE OF AWESOME
2:34 PM
whee!!
finished bloody monday!! ): sad but omg it was so awesome awesome awesome now i feel like starting on binbo danshi but is that like suicide? ah haruma haruma haruma! he keeps crying it's so sad D:Wednesday, 2 December 2009, 4:23 PM
wapo
i think my blog is damn boring now. hahaha it will be even more boring next year, because i will be ALL WORK AND NO PLAY -promises-i'm really frightened about next year. i'm so scared!! but okay i must jiayou, and try to focus for the first time in my life i think. i'll be 16 next year wow!
just now when squadmates had that mass convo, my heart was literally thumping. i was wearing earphones so i could watch my bloody monday (heh episode 9 underway!) and i could LISTEN TO MY HEARTBEAT (IT'S WAITING FOR YOU!). but ahh it was a damn scary moment.
not quite sure what i want!! pray for strength (:
the lang arts teachers are really perverse, to set us an assignment they title R&R which, taken out of context, actually means REST AND RELAXATION! D:
Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 9:46 PM
humuhumu
i'm totally not gonna have regrets. hope hope hope hope this will turn out okay!!! >< will leave it to fate, or actually god.omg miura haruma is freakishly THIN?? i mean i knew this already, but after trawling through 48? 49? pages of him well it kind of gets to me.
this will be a long post!
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realised there are some people who mean a LOT to me, a lot more than i do to them. it's kind of scary. maybe it's because i mean hardly anything to them that they mean a lot to me! that's kind of sick isn't it. that the people who care about you the least are the ones you seek the most approval from. but life is often like that i guess.
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this is sort of related to being an actor, and one of the reasons i am both fascinated and pretty bewildered (?) about acting in general. especially stage acting. the ability to touch so many lives in that hour and yet, that hour is just another. tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in that not-so-petty pace, and you recreate hour after hour after hour.
i guess the whole opportunity and ability to feed off the energy of a crowd, having their emotions pinned onto you must make you feel wonderful! which i guess is why so many actors take to the stage. but that being said, theatre isn't for the egocentric i think. to pour yourself so completely in the mould of another is so difficult, and to be truly successful, an extent of self-forgetting must be reached. to be so completely humble and unproud, to be able to let go of any and all airs or pretences or fronts and just shed yourself, expose yourself so fully in front of a whole group of strangers - i think that is real art!
you can't exactly play another character while withholding your pride, or some element of you-ness. acting really is something that one can be passionate about. i wish i had the talent so i could experience it firsthand! the fright of acting and public speaking hinders me, i think, so i will just continue to live vicariously through books and movies and maybe my imagination!
perhaps in reality actors aren't like this at all. but i hope!
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the tilde must be the most insolent, belligerent punctuation mark to ever have been created. it just lends this air of disdainment and INSUBORDINATION (hahaha) to whatever the speaker says! a simple "yes" becomes "yes~", long and drawn out in that annoying way! just like how exclamation marks make that voice reading stuff in your head START SHOUTING!!! the tilde makes mine speak in a disrespectful sing-song tone.
I HATE IT.
-chills out-
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the word belligerent was from AWIT! i like picking words up! "lugubrious", from APTI. lugubrious is a strange word. it just means sad. it sounds like it means something heavy and sticky.
aglet! if i'm not wrong it's from the amazing maurice! it means that plasticky bit at the end of your shoelace. cos i was telling jac and con that we should use shoelaces to tie knots cos they won't fray haha.
big words are dumb, but they are impressive. i remember in primary six, when leevoon used the word "languorously". twelve-year-olds! mrs valerie tan made the class compare her and my compo once i think, (it was a stupid story though) but leevoon's got high marks because of her awesome vocab, and mine was just a nice plot haha. with lots of teenage mischief angst divorce-related stuff inside xD
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ooh the word i picked up from The Gun Seller (capitalised cos it's so awesome) was licit, which is the opposite of illicit. WHAOAA.
but anyway, The Gun Seller is really an awesome book. Hugh Laurie writes so well!!! gregory house!!!! omg his wit is so searing, my mind is burning burning burning on FIRE after reading. totally awesome!!
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live update: we just killed a cockroach! i whacked it with a rolled up newspaper and my sister sprayed with the bug spray with such ferocity that the entire area was covered in white foam. and fearing for the marble + our dad's scolding we cleaned it up omg i picked up a cockroach with a newspaper ):
Monday, 30 November 2009, 10:16 PM
ENLIGHTENED
ASIANFANATICS!!!!!!!
Sunday, 29 November 2009, 5:26 PM
today i sucked.but anyway, the christmas tree is up! and i met a nice cat on the way back, and the bus arrivals were strangely coincidental. and i realised that it's possible to walk from botanic gardens to school. and cluny is nice! i never knew it existed.
also there is this bomb fruit tree quite cool eh!! like it just plops fruits down...
bloody monday is super freaky!!!
Saturday, 28 November 2009, 11:49 PM
tale as old as time~
just came back from this year's beauty and the beast w!ld rice panto! (:needless to say, it was really cool and awesome. this is not a very good review, but i really want to do front of house stuff for them next year because omgz i don't know why but i just do! and one of the front of house people look quite young, like around my age so okay i'm gonna go try :D
all the same, i think the best panto that i've watched would be jack and the beansprout! maybe it's because that was the very first one i watched and has the greatest impact, and i was still young and impressionable then, but hmm i think that was the freshest and most original. the twist at the end was also most enjoyable! and perhaps because the main characters kind of broke the mould; no stereotypical princesses or princes in that show, compared to snow white (2008) or this year's beauty. the female lead in jack and the beansprout was a manga princess lol!
w!ld rice is producing animal farm next year in april! is anyone interested in going? but it's only for one night so tickets might be limited :/
WAHH MATH IS HARD. but now it's easier ish now that mr wong explained it! i really like my tuition teacher, though i don't interact much with him. he's damn cool!! and today i was the only student, doing math for two hours HAHA but i didn't do the worksheet, oh well. i did chem though!!! and now i have *mysteriously acquired* (muahaha) big bang songs! i love sunset glow~
2:04 PM
sad
no squadmates, no classmates online, what is this :(Friday, 27 November 2009, 8:33 PM
a passage to india
it's nice, kylie! nice quotes (there are many, but these are the ones i took note of):There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
Looking back at the great blur of the last twenty-four hours, no man could say where was the emotional centre of it, any more than he could locate the heart of a cloud.
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speaking of clouds! today i wandered lonely along stratton haha. i got a stitch while running, maybe because i downed two glasses of water before running? cos i was afraid of dehydration -.- so i was bloated with water -.- bad choice!!
anyway the walk back was nice (: i remember amanda asking me if i get bored of walking along the same route all the time, but actually the answer is no! because there are always things that will be different. i saw a windmill today!
neil gaiman always makes references to sodium-coloured streetlights, but in singapore i suppose they are more tangerine than sodium. the effect is nice, because everything is awash in this warm orange glow, it makes everything seem closer. if i ever have my own house, and have control over what kind of lighting i can use, i'll pick the kind that is slightly tinged with yellow. the sepia effect that that kind of lighting results in isn't exactly dull, but it softens edges and hides ugliness so everything looks nicer!
"we all look the same in the dark"
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 9:49 PM
you took my heart and you took my pride away~
guitar hero!!!i can't believe it's almost one week since we departed taipei. time flies! and i don't think i've gotten any closer to getting any substantial work done.
no complaining!
passage to india is actually pretty interesting! (: reminds me of TKAM, in a very obvious way. anyway, i like that our lit texts are always very thought provoking. all the same, i wish we were doing another shakespeare text next year. i don't think i'm good enough yet to decode a shakespearean play on my own! ms teng is really good at it haha.
psle scores are out today! congrats christina, but you'll always be nana to me xD
i've started practicing my piano and i THINK there's some improvement! not that that's saying much, seeing as how i practiced ZERO in the past -.- but now i'm quite determined to at least make an effort, and hopefully clinch a merit! or maybe my first ever distinction HAHA how noob that i've never gotten one before, but that's pretty impossible i guess. retrato de alfredo gobbi is such a fun piece. (:
get well soon taemin! he's caught H1N1 ):
eating taiwan beef instant noodles now!! :D drinking the soup as well ><
Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 10:55 PM
shiny SHINee
SHINee!!! (: (: (:although i am aware that a lot of idol groups are posturing TOO MUCH but still, STILL! there are a lot of talented people out there and many of them have big dreams = idols. it's not perfect but ahhh my fangirling brain doesn't want to care.
SHINee!!! :D
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 8:10 PM
brief
today:cycled 30km in three hours, pretty slow but it's okay.
borrowed five books.
ate veggie delite at subway.
bought wedges, didn't know they came with cheese, wasted most of it.
yijia i want the photos (:
today = good day.
12:33 AM
YAY
Monday, 23 November 2009, 11:39 PM
too geeky for words; if words bore you, skip
Patrick Henry: The War InevitableMarch 23, 1775
This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received?
Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land.
Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love?
Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years.
Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves.
Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne!
In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope.
If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained — we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us! They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength but irresolution and inaction?
Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!
The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
I know not what course others may take but as for me: give me liberty or give me death.
6:12 PM
hoggy warty hogwarts / teach us something please
~~ 7 minutes to a new day in hogwarts live. i'm counting down the seconds.i'm emo now and reading way too much into things. sian i always have the wrong perspectives haha. i want a new pair of eyes so i can look upon the world in a clearer light!!! it's now so shadowed with greed and ungratefulness. why emo ah?? my life is so awesome i have no right NO RIGHT to be emo and waste my daylight.
went to yujie's house today to rollerblade! we didn't really end up rollerblading though, mostly we played with our diabolos and surfed the internet. omg ingrown toenails @_@ and standard deviation is horrid. i don't understand a single thing. math tuition is calling me back...!
regarding taiwan trip post.. another day, perhaps!!
i think we're gonna go ecp to cycle tomorrow ^^ excited!
Sunday, 22 November 2009, 11:58 PM
guess what
there is a ton of homework to be done.things i have to do:
1/
2/ math self study + worksheets to be done
3/ chinese SIA (in which i will do the saikang cos i can't do the chinese, obviously heh)
4/
5/ commonwealth essay
6/ LA R&R
7/
8/
9/
10/ invest 2010 (!!!)
disclaimer: struckthrough but not necessarily completed!
that is about it. at least i've finished one.. and 2 and 9 should be easy. but when i look at the rest i just want to keel over and die!!! oh gosh.
church bbq today, it was erm, as expected i guess? i will commence on my taiwan blogpost soon i think.
things i want to do:
learn diabolo (we got one from the elementary school!)
learn rollerblading
watch bloody monday (haha omg)
memorise "the soldier" (alicia's poem i think it's beautiful)
memorise "loud poem"
learn completely my piano exam pieces
play the nice nice nice songs!!! OMG haha~
also: danse macabre, secret garden, moonlight sonata
play bnsdmm songs!!
organise history notes
organise chem notes
read the physics textbook to see what i missed out
master expert level on DDR (i.e. not fail epically)
read the books i have bought: sophie's world, anna karenina, the story of forgetting, princess bride, shakespeare comedies (jiayou!!).
also, read perfume.
reach level 30 on farmville (yes, this is my goal, shut up)
if time permits: learn how to knit/ hip hop.
the best would be to be able to learn both!!
one month is definitely not enough.
things to look forward to:
as always: christmas!
japan trip!
december camp!
being a senior, which is utterly scary but cool!!!
invest 2010!
SLC 2010!
world scholar's cup????
mpp!! o:
gylc!!!!!! *crosses fingers*
UK trip!!!!!! *crosses fingers*
batch 44! jiayou 44 ncos!
to pass HCL O levels. i am seriously just looking for a B4 okay!
jiayou! in taiwan, the petrol stations are "jiayouzhan"s haha.
taiwan!!!! i love my class!
also, to conclude this post, i would like to reveal how much of a n00b (as nicole would put it) i am. i'm embarking on a new obsession, with Hogwarts Live! do play and add me :D as my creativity would have it, my username is Esther (case sensitive)!
okay enough of being gay. i'm gonna go to bed, and so should you!!
Saturday, 21 November 2009, 8:15 PM
不要问我的名字 我的名字是孤独
i miss taiwan! the following will be a brief recapping of events. super interesting stuff below!! (to me at least)- our tour guide at the university museum was legolas. and he looked like legolas too! and was super nervous and stuff but very nice!
- the museum track is blue, so that when you run on it you feel as though you are swimming.
- at the farm, there was a horse in the cow field. reason: it thinks it's a cow.
- 314 loves dogs.
- i saw a grand total of one cat in taiwan.
- the national palace museum has really cute food jade stuff. like san cheng rou!
- we all have new names thanks to yuxin.
- there is a yellow rock in taiwan.
- jay chou has a special kind of car.
- "the eyes of t.j. eckleburger"
- 马英九 is considered hot by taiwanese housewives.
- archery isn't all that hard...
- ... but 泡-ing 茶 is.
- taiwanese boys dye their hair.
- to make butter, you just shake cream around. and wait for it to solidify.
- we harvested coffee! it is actually a plant. omg we won with 1.9kg hahahhaa.
- TAIWANESE INSTANT NOODLES IS THE PWNZ!!!!
- yam balls are awesome.
- there are karaoke machines on tour buses, which recycle the SAME music videos.
- you can dunk prawns in coke and beer for bbqs.
- we very very very sadly and unfortunately lost our porn viewing virginity at the taipei hotel. i hate them for putting it right before the disney channel.
- porn is horrifically disgusting and gross and should be banned to hell. i love mda!!!
- our 导游 looks like christopher lee + mr calvin lee. both are CLs!
- nantou: 好山 好水 好无聊 xD
- eslite bookstore has freaking awesome piano scores (BNSDMM SCORES!! -dies- and it's cover is leathery with coloured movie stills in it i want to burst with joy!! and it's only like $12!!!)
- page one in taiwan also has cheap english books (:
- changing of guards~~ sigh~ 帅呆了!
- nuclear power is awesome.
- wind power too!!!
- aircon is a freaking stalker.
- "people look better with big cameras" amanda
Friday, 20 November 2009, 10:37 AM
spiky haired tomatoes.
hello esther.i am on your blog :D from cheenah.
'teck teck can i buy you instant noodles from taiwan'
'no omg i want a cute t shirt. there are instant noodles here too'
'but the instant noodles here are yummmy'
HSSRP KEYNOTE SPEAKERS MUAHAHAHAHA AWESOME. totally the best thing out of the entire beijing trip.
i rebonded my hare, eugenia and angeline are to rebond theirs too :D
<3
teck teck
hwa chong teachers are really witty.
esther wong what's the flavour of my instant noodles :D i am buying kylie a chilli notebook, do you want korean stuff? or jap stuff. here should sell. i am going to this big big market for keychains and stuff, maybe they have stock or something :]
uh what else to tell you.
things are getting politicky here. and i gained weight. right after i told eugenia kwong that i lost weight. i lost 2kg in the first week ah ah ah life sucks.
okay, volleyball is on now D:
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 5:41 PM
spirited gung-ho ardent!
the time now is 5.41! (:i watched one episode of pi li MIT! so at least i have completed one right xD yanyalun is very shuai but not upclose haha! and he is so perfect at everything ._. and guigui is disgusting omg omg omg omg D: D: D: xiao gui is also.. -.- but shuai yyl > everything bad so okay! i will watch at least 8 episodes (:
cheering is so awesome SO AWESOME! i love the feeling of cheering, of just giving your all for that moment, like shouting at the top of your lungs! as if it were the most important thing in the world. i love it i love it i love it.
my favourite memory of cheering must be during heaven&hell last year at december camp, when the whole council was crying and cheering for the people at the GO. so bian tai, but ahhh that moment was seriously !! and that is why tekan activities are so very important. i wish i weren't missing december camp this year :/
and i love ATC cheers too! all the charlie'07 cheers were SO NICE gosh. my favourite delta'08 cheer!
delta delta's gonna BEAT you
delta's gonna THRASH you
delta's gonna WIN LALALALALALALA
delta delta's gonna BEAT you
delta's gonna THRASH you
delta's gonna WIN YEH!
omg that cheer is so epic and awesome and spastic!!!! i love it.
charlie delta alpha next year i'll go for bravo i think to full house it xDD
i totally chong bai _. my reaction when i talk to _ is totally unbefitting! and inappropriate hahahaha. i hope this is a reciprocal arrangement and _ will likewise happen! if not i think my heart will be secretly broken. or maybe loudly broken.
airport in about 12 hours :D :D :D
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 8:11 PM
"vegeance is mine; i will repay."
sister: eh help me fertilise my farmville corpse!hahahahhaa.
i wonder what most people think about in their free time. like, when you're preoccupied with a really boring activity. such as walking from A to B, or maybe when marshalling, or taking bus rides home.
yesterday while embarking upon the 10 minute ughy walk out to the bus stop (which is the same amount of time some people take to walk to the closest MRT station!! i have to spend half an hour ): ) i was feeling bored. and wondering what people think of when they're bored. so i decided to visualise a strange scenario! i imagined what i would do if
there appeared, in front of me, a ladder stretching up up and above! till you couldn't see where it ended. and with a sign posted in front of it: DO NOT CLIMB. i was wondering if i would climb the ladder.
but immediately after picturing this scene, i realised there were many loopholes and sketchy details which would have influenced my decision on climbing the ladder.
a. what was the ladder made of? a rope ladder? too unstable. a wooden one? would it hold?
b. if the person put the warning sign, there had to be a reason. was the sign professionally done, indicating that it really was an official warning, or not? and were there any other details on the sign? maybe it was a social experiment to see who would climb the ladder..
c. what would i be doing at that point in time? would i have any scheduled appointments later in the day?
d. was i wearing pants?
etc.
yes, so this is what i think of in my free time. in the end, i decided to forget about the imagined scene and have a debate with myself on whether it was easier to scale a ladder or climb a steep mountain.
i think climbing a mountain is easier.
actually it would be interesting to examine the genesis of all my weird thoughts. i know where the warning sign idea came from, from reading that disreputable history of frankie landeau-banks book. but i don't know about the rest.
can sense everyone getting bored of farmville. a lot of people who entered at the same time as me (because of me? heheh ^^) are experiencing a level plateau. LIKE JEAN WONG. WHO UPPED AND LEFT A BIG BUNCH OF FALLOW LAND. hahahaha. 'tis the time for maple leaves in farmville! 缓缓飘落的枫叶 that 像思念 are in a pile on my farming ground :)
i think when (IF EVER) i leave farmville, i will turn the entire place into an orchard so the place will be in perpetual harvest haha. or buy lots of haybales and make some message.
bought anna karenina today! figured that at 800 pages it was the most value for money book. i hope i don't die reading it -.-
is everybody insecure? sometimes i feel like the most insecure person in the world.
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 8:10 PM
delible
delible delible delible! delible!unit outing today was a success (i think at least xD) so, congrats to FUNCTIONS!! :D :D picture perfect very cute haha.
i think i look like lynn somewhat! (lynn that is a compliment to you HAHA) cos we've short hair and are short (eekh D:) and have about the same build at first sight, though lynn is in reality much much skinnier.
wenxian looks like an angry but cute baby :D
jac just looks lost and innocent!
glenda looks grumpy.
okay that's enough for squadmate face analysis.
oh but one more. if aircon were proportionally shrunk by like 50%, she would be a successful imp. like those you read about in enid blyton books, who steal your stockings and dirty your golliwogs. aircon i hope, vindictively, that you read this!!!!!!
Monday, 9 November 2009, 6:51 PM
ESTHERR I MISS YOUUUUU.beijing freezes my ears off. is that grammatically correct! my ears D: poor darling ears. I AM COLD. i want peektures from taiwan PLEASE.
i am in a sec 1 class. with someone called yang xi and someone called zi yao. they are complete -.-
and my buddy is AWEESUM. i love beijing. shopping here is awesome. i shall spend all my money. and learn more about cheenah. life here is quite good :] getting used to cranky people on the bus already. and shopping time. and we learn a lot. i bet taiwan is boring in comparison. but there's no time to practice english. just singlish and cheenah language :D
i lub you esther.
hssrp buddies <3 for ldp we got RACIAL HARMONY.
xoxo
teckteck
I WANT PEEKTURES FROM TAIWAN! have you gone? are you back? if you are back you can call me! free incoming call for me. oh yeah i forgot to tell you guys.
to contact teckteck ask eugenia . i have free incoming. and from singapore it's the normal singapore rate to call me too. cause i am using some superpower sim card or something. blahblahblah.
I AM REBONDING MY HARE .
12:29 AM
i love hsm
i love hsm i love hsm i love hsm! it's brilliant watching hsm on dvd because you can punctuate practically every scene with "so cute! so cute! omg so cute!" hahaha (:
and i think i know what my mum will get me for christmas already ^^
sister: have we came here before?
mum: what?
sister: come. have we come here before?
dad: no, been.
sister: ..um.
dad: have we been here before?
no it's not funny here!
we had good dinner yay. and walked around clarke quay yay. I HAD COFFEE AT TCC SO I AM NOT SLEEPY NOW. monday will be sleep day!!!
-
Treehugger Kimya Dawson
The flower said, "I wish I was a tree,"
The tree said, "I wish I could be
A different kind of tree,
The cat wished that it was a bee,
The turtle wished that it could fly
Really high into the sky,
Over rooftops and then dive
Deep into the sea.
And in the sea there is a fish,
A fish that has a secret wish,
A wish to be a big cactus
With a pink flower on it.
And in the sea there is a fish,
A fish that has a secret wish,
A wish to be a big cactus
With a pink flower on it.
And the flower
Would be its offering
Of love to the desert.
And the desert,
So dry and lonely,
That the creatures all
Appreciate the effort.
Sunday, 8 November 2009, 10:21 PM
i feel completely gruntled
am reading bad books. i tried rereading my favourite fantasies from the past, but gosh they're so trashy!! hahah trashy fantasies are omg damn funny to read cos they all have like hahahah cool words. talenyn -.- and all the chosen ones! gosh.yay new banner :D :D but it's so emo.
i'm watching HSM3! i love this show haha i could watch it every day and not grow bored. did you know they're showing danny phantom on okto? and it's the last few episodes already. haha i wanna watch phantom planet!
yay the three horrific days are finally over. the wake-up-at-6am, reach-home-at-10pm days. no more cat class already! church is such a strange thing for me, the community part of it anyway. and for people who think i'm a brainless loudmouth you should see me at church xD
good food today :D :D
the disreputable history of frankie landeau-banks is nice!! i can totally imagine angeline reading it. it's kind of lame but smart at the same time too! maybe my taste is just horrible haha.
can i have this dance is showing now! ahh~ zac :D i am so amazed at his ability to look tall even when he's not lol.
Friday, 6 November 2009, 9:38 PM
you promise them heaven,
they'll follow you to hell.this was a quote from an imprisoned pimp, on why runaways turn to prostitution. these kind of things disgust me so utterly!
actually i am a very romantic person, not in the lang man sort of way, but in how my ideals are? and how i have such high expectations and weird "moral standards" if they may so be called. when i meet a new person, i place a lot of expectations and sort of project onto him or her many ideas and kind of.. hopes? i'm not quite sure of the word. which is why i become very infatuated, very easily. it's like, i create a superversion of that person in my head, gifting him or her with such talents or perhaps aspects of personality and it's really kind of unrealistic. so that is why i get disappointed quite a lot too haha.
i felt really sad at the sec four graduation ceremony, it was kind of weird. especially if the sec fours didn't feel as sad as i did. but i don't know man, i think next year i'll probably cry, especially when it's the last time i'm singing the school song and all. and the teachers' gifts were so meaningful! so that part was quite yay. but i nodded off to sleep for a while and stupid lauren took a photo D: D: D:
gah life is recently very tiring. i don't know why! and i don't know if this is transient or if it will only keep getting worse.. EOY period was much more relaxed than now. actually i am quite thankful for academics, because they give me some sort of direction. if i don't have anything to focus on, or occupy myself with, something like BIG and WHAOAA then my life becomes so.. pointless. and i start farming -.-
if i join NYCT there will be so much direction HAHA. and also invest!! i'm scared D: and SLC was integral part of my year this year, gave me so much purpose which i am so thankful for! it really defined the first part of my year.
sec four grad ceremony was also sad because i realised how fast everything has flown by. ahh, how i wish i could have told my sec one self to seriously LOVE NANYANG because i regret how much i disliked nanyang, or at least aspects of it. i really love nanyang! hahaha. and the fact that sec fours and 40 ma'ams are graduating is really unbelievable. they have been such a constant presence in our lives, from the time we entered nanyang, and now they're leaving. it's so surreal.
at this point in life our lives are so controlled. we live in a completely simulated environment, controlled by our teachers, our parents, and in NP, our ma'ams. especially for things like ATC, whatever ma'ams say, goes haha. like firedrill at 3am! and stuff like that. it's a very insulated and how to put it? very artificial environment, to some extent. it's not really very natural. and because you're put into such a situation, in thus becomes such that we are so affected by all this, so vulnerable. one year can make so much of a difference in the life of a teenager. it's such a big and scary step to make, and i'm gonna be honest and say i don't think i'm up to it. but i will try!!!
nanyang :) :) :) though maybe i should direct my :) to doing something constructive, like for council or something!! invest invest eek scary!
eating in class is very D: sometimes especially when people keep doing it. i mean, i know you don't think that it is important, and that maybe you won't get crumbs on the floor or whatever, but still, i think it's important to uphold school rules. maybe it's the result of a guilty conscience from having failed to impose this rule, and from breaking the law (._.) in sec one, after dalt dinner. but i don't know, maybe i'm a prissy freak but i really do feel this important. and sometimes it's really !!! when people just ignore me and mock me, even in jest, when i try to be the annoying councillor. it's not exactly very fun you know!!! gah. sigh. it's kind of like respect, even for things you don't agree with. how you must do things, even if you don't want to. that's also kind of why i freaked out about the skipping rope/ sandwich thing because gahhhhh words fail me. and the reason i get so upset when _ eat in places they're not supposed to is because well, i have such high expectations for them and sometimes their bochap-ness and total heck care, not my business attitude is so depressing and disappointing. like maybe i'm very da pai, but it's just very ): when they just do it in front of my face even after i ask them not to, it's like am i not a person that you ignore me so outrightly and blatantly? or worse, turn it into a mockery. maybe i've made too many mistakes before and am thus not worthy of being listened to? gah. no i'm not martyring myself here or placing myself on a pedestal it is just a RANT GOODBYE
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 9:32 PM
how good looking is jaejoong on a scale of 1 to 10?
50012048132947182534123.
8:22 PM
fly
i feel a bit mad, like crazy, because my blog is like essentially talking to no one.umm good day today i guess? i can't wait for school to be over over over.
dara is so cute!
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 9:22 PM
"are you a noob?"
TOP is super cute here (:
today was a day spent mostly in a vegetative state. zzz.
went for the ICAS thing after school and met many cute nyps gep kids aww (: juniors are cute! and saw ms yeo too, and the nyps vice principal was there too! the nygh people who went were all twelvers :D :D 112, 212, and chloe and i!! yay!
PIANO. OK.
jiayou dbsk jiayou jiayou!!!