MCQ

It may be a Friday night, but it feels like anything but a weekend.

Horribleness.

Felt awfully like the last day of sem today. It's like, half-hearted classes and teachers telling us they won't be teaching us anymore (kinda sad, actually. I think I'm going to miss them).

But no, it's just exams in disguise.

Made it through English. Was tempted to write down "A character from Marvel, Xavier of the X-Men's step-brother" as an answer to the meaning of "juggernaut", but didn't. Come to think of it, I should have, 'cause I got that question wrong all the same.

Malay? One word: abaca. It's not even a word, but they're a nice arrangement of MCQ answers.

Went through quizzes and then did nothing for both Physics and Chem.

Now I'm really scared for Math. Might not be able to do anything right on Tuesday.

I'll be so relieved once that's over.

306 had dry ice to play with today, 'cause Faiz bought a Swensens cake, and those tend to come with dry ice.

Capped bottle of dry ice and water exploded epicly, and many came out of class to have a look. They probably thought some terrorists were attacking the school or something. I dunno. Mini explosions are awesome.

Total class disruption win.

Feeling really sleepy, so better go now.

Need to be more productive.

Night.

P.S. Seven weeks of nothingness. Exams need to end now.

Rindu.

Exams officially start tomorrow, but it doesn't feel like it.

Maybe that's because it's English tomorrow, and the only paper I'm severely worried about is Math.

I wish I could drop Math. Seriously. No kidding. I think I've said this before, and I'll do it again: I'd rather take all the humanities subjects at once than take Math.

How do people do it?

Hmm.

Epic lightning warning-ed during flag-raising today. It was all, "Come on hurry up let's get your asses over to the track," then "never mind come back come back get indoors you might die out there."

Honestly, I checked, and the odds of being killed by lightning is 0.0002% (one in five who get struck by lightning die). Interesting.

But of course, the numbers vary, and you could be one of the unluckiest people on earth at the moment. Who knows?

I guess they just don't want us to take chances and end up suing the school.

Bio was awesome, 'cause we got released an hour and fifteen minutes early.

Hung around class reading lame pickup lines off the internet (there's something wrong with my phone; your number's not in it). The things people come up with.

Do they just sit around all day and think of possible scenarios where a guy tries to get chicks? I dunno, man. And it's interesting how pickup lines are usually written for guys, and not girls.

Went through our Geog test 2. Wasn't so bad after all. I thought I'd GG for that one. 'Cause I didn't write about cows and obese fish (I kid, I kid).

Math was meh.

Malay was meh too.

Better sleep early tonight. Need brainpower to crap my way through an English comprehension paper.

Night.

P.S. I miss 2007. And 2008. Best years of my life. I just wish I'd known.

P.P.S. "I was blinded by your beauty so I'm going to need your name and number for insurance purposes."

P.P.P.S. "I'm not actually this tall, I'm just sitting on my wallet."

"Need a little time to wake up," -Oasis

Oh God, help me.

Exams exams exams exams exams exams exams exams exams exams exams exams exams

and I'm scared to death.

Anyway, panic and insecurities aside, I'm listening to Oasis' '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?'.

Feels awesome. Great album. Reminds of the times in the car with my dad, and he'd play this and we'd sing along, along some deserted highway, windows open, wind whooshing past. Those were the days. One thing I love about my dad is that he knows how to enjoy life.

You know what also feels good? That strange feeling right after sometime after midnight when I suddenly (I kid you not. Split second sudden) feel awake and completely un-tired. Like right now.

It's like getting drunk. You know you're gonna regret it in the morning, but hey, what do you care? It feels good.

Sometimes I wish we didn't need sleep. That way, we'd have more time to do more productive things and do the things you want to do (unless that thing you really want to do is sleep, of course). But then again, sleep is one of those pleasures in life that are actually necessities (food is another, for example), so if you took that away we'd be less one form of relaxation.

I dunno.

Sorta confused. My own brain likes to confuse me. I think it thinks it's funny.

Speaking of being confused, was epic confused this morning when a random cleaner dude came up to us (Aisyah, Ahmad, Yos, Insan and I) and started giving us a strange random lecture on God-knows-what.

Come to think of it, it's pretty interesting what CJ (that's what Insan calls him now) had to say and why he said it and why on earth he had to come back repeatedly after wandering off to think of more things to say. I think the poor guy finally snapped or something.

It's not that I'm saying I enjoy being lectured for no reason at all. I'm simply curious. Like, what is up, man?

Strange things.

Okay, okay, better go now.

I talk nonsense at one in the morning.

P.S. Seven weeks of nothingness after exams is what's keeping me alive through all this.

P.P.S. That, and everything else. I'm just worried.

Opera.

Ah, 91% humidity, and relatively small chance of rain (extremely, actually).

Sucky.

I need to stop talking about the weather.

But what can I say? I like the weather.

Revision, revision, revision. That's all teachers seem to be saying nowadays. And I don't blame them. It's true. If we don't start revising, we'll GG.

Finally did the "assignment in class" (otherwise known as "quiz") during Physics today, after being postponed for like, more than a week.

I hope I don't fail this one.

I think I like work and energy better than the other topics. Less ridiculously complicated.

Chem quiz-ed today, too. Passing would be very good, thank you.

Did some more R-formula stuff during Math.

Revision revision revision. Feeling epic tired now.

Stayed back to watch the MU3117 opera. Awesome epicness, what with Arif in a skirt, epic scenes and everyone dying in the end.

I wonder if Dr Wong will deduct their marks for causing the audience to laugh during a tragedy. Hmm. But hey, how could you not laugh? It was awesomeness.

Feeling stupidly tired right now. I need to find some way to survive without sleep. I need the time.

Some day.

Night.

Chocolate.

I have just come to a realisation.

And that realisation, makes me feel somehow extremely awesome.

Let me enlighten you: Insan is never going to overtake me in MouseHunt.

And that is a sweet, sweet realisation indeed.

Ah, sweet realisations aside, mentoring was kinda epic today. Apparently the estate people have been doing rounds checking the condition of chairs in our classrooms (amongst other things, such as 01's locker).

Price tally? 01: $1.00 each for broken locker. 02: $1.10 each for broken chairs. 06: $2.00 each for broken chairs. 05: $1.10 each for broken chairs. John Huang: $65.00 for broken chairs.

(Disclaimer: I could be wrong for other classes though. This is as far as I know, and my memory isn't what it used to be.)

Now we technically own the chairs, 'cause we've paid for them. So therefore we're entitled to do absolutely whatever we want with them. Hopefully.

Essay test during English. Craptalked my way through, hope I don't fail.

Yesterday's weather forecast for today came true, and it thunderstorm-ed during PE. Got dismissed way early.

Presented our projects during Malay. Let's not talk about it.

Somehow Geog managed to flash by with Ms Chua talking about exam question formats.

Bleh.

We're one step closer to exams.

GG.

Better go now. Shi Ni claims that if you sleep more you'll grow taller. I dunno, man.

Night.

P.S. Saying "don't talk to me" is completely ineffective during study time. I give up.

P.P.S. Insan, Yos can fund you all he wants. You're never gonna catch up anyway. Nope, not gonna happen.

P.P.P.S. "But why?" "Because 42." "Ah."

"I'm under a lot of stress lately."

Thank goodness for online translators.

Just finished one karangan out of two, and the humidity is currently 84%.

Weather forecast also says that there's a chance of a thunderstorm tomorrow sometime during PE, which I'm hoping will happen, so as to clear away all this horrid humidity and to make PE considerably cooler (cloud cover would be much preferred as well, which is around 80%).

I don't know why, but I find the weather quite interesting. I don't know why people think it's a boring topic only to be brought up when nothing else can be brought into conversation.

But I digress.

I still have another karangan to write, so better hurry up with today's post.

Accomplishment of the day: I cleaned the microwave (God knows what they cook in there. It's like the stuff explodes all over the sides and even the top) and the fridge in the pantry with Syaf.

Had an idea while we were cleaning: A reality show called "What The Hell Made This Stain?" I'll sell the idea to FOX and get rich.

Yeah, in my dreams. But honestly, what the hell made all those stains?

The spilt Milo powder was a nightmare. I'm probably going to have bad dreams concerning scrubbing stains off bits of plastic.

Rewarded ourselves with a bit of chocolate afterwards, though.

Speaking of chocolate, I think Insan has gone mad. He's had four huge blocks of Cadbury chocolate in twenty-four hours, and I seriously doubt that's a very healthy choice.

It's probably our fault for tempting him in the first place with our Halloween-scale amounts of chocolate.

Oh well.

That's my karangan done with (yeah, I finished it while thinking of stuff to write here).

Tomorrow's the start of another week and I want to start it off not horribly sleepy.

Adieu.

P.S. Epic quote of the day: Wee Thean's "I can see Khairul twitch from so far away."

P.P.S. Post title courtesy of Ly En and Woan Chyi.

Buhhh-ruuuhhhzzz.

Is it sad that the highlight of your day is turning 'Knight' in MouseHunt?

Perhaps not, but it sure does sound geeky.

But yes, I turned Knight and it's pretty awesome.

Basically wasted away my entire morning trying to do that assed Mastering Physics assignment, giving up 'cause I grew kinda frustrated with the subscript-adding and horrible internet connection and reading 'Dawn of the Dreadfuls' after that.

Thankfully managed to finish both after lunch.

Why thankful, you ask? Anyone in their right mind would be thankful for completing Mastering Physics assignments, 'cause they're so awfully tedious when you trial and error your answers.

And it's a good thing to have finished reading 'Dawn of the Dreadfuls' 'cause that's one less distraction before the exams come. Remember, Fokus Untuk Capai Kejayaan (focus in order to achieve success).

Man, 'Dawn of the Dreadfuls' is such a good book. Highly original plot (it seriously is, although based on characters from 'Pride and Prejudice' and prequel to 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'), witty, funny, perfectly balanced amounts of action, gore, romance, humour, ridiculousness, ooze and brains. Not to mention zombies. There sure were plenty of those.

All-in-all, I am so glad I picked it up a month ago.

Rewatched 'Sherlock Holmes' in the TV room with Kelvin and Adithya while Adithya did his Mastering Physics (great feeling to have finished it beforehand). Had chocolate while at it. $74.70 worth of chocolate. (What can I say? We were high and simply succumbed to temptation. Insan went out today and bought some more chocolate. We're going to be sugar high for a few days, methinks.)

Better go do something productive now.

Night.

P.S. Despite Dr Keckilpenny's efforts to teach the unmentionables human speech, Mr Smith the zombie only knows how to say one thing: "Buhhh-ruuhhzzz." Brains.

Gotta love that book.

P.P.S. How do I stop myself from eating? Simple. I just look in a mirror and tell myself I'm fat.

After Eights: Heaven in a box

I absolutely loathe that feeling you get when you come back to your room feeling awesome and then you're suddenly reminded of the copious amounts of work you have to do.

Such awfulness. Should be like, some sort of sin to impose that feeling upon others.

Anyway, went out earlier on after school with Kelvin and Adithya for dinner.

Honestly, I was sorta dreading hostel food today, thinking I'd have to endure another (unfortunately) unsatisfactory meal.

So yeah. Managed to have a great dinner (albeit in portions too large for our school-food-adapted stomachs), good conversations and get my watch new batteries.

We also bought epic amounts of chocolate, just 'cause Adithya wanted to buy a box of 'After Eights' (didn't happen anyway, 'cause we ended up buying too much and had to drop the After Eights).

Mmm chocolate.

It sure feels good to wear my watch again. Wrist been feeling pretty empty without it, but it's way easier to write left-handed without. Don't know how people wear watches on the wrist they're writing with. It's uncomfortable.

No Malay today, so no presentation. Spent an hour near the netball court talking about MouseHunt and iPod Touches and Tap Tap (suck so badly at games like that. No idea why) with Aisyah, Insan, Yos and Ahmad.

Did some past-year paper during Physics. Pooled answers with Ryan, Zheng Wei and Joo Kee (which basically means we got Ryan to tell us the answers to everything)

Finally understood the R-formula thing during Math. By some awesome miracle I wasn't clueless at all. Cool.

Spent an hour of break simply having lunch and waiting to be able to go back to fetch my Math Ass. C (had Mr Chia after me 'cause I forgot to submit corrections).

The other hour was spent doing corrections with KT's green pen while MJ and Rania read for their Bio quiz.

Speaking of the Bio quiz, it was definitely the least difficult of the lot.

Yesterday's Geog test was horrible though. Fingers crossed to getting points right.

Got our tests back during Chem. Passed, but no chocolate bar.

Went through another comprehension paper during English. Didn't get single digits for that one (thankfully).

Gotta go now.

Tired.

P.S. Exams in six days. Screwed.

Global citizen.

John Rzeznik is an amazing lyricist.

What on earth is "mangement"? Our Geog notes sure have funky typos. It's interesting how a disadvantage of flooding is "flooding".

Hope I don't GG for tomorrow's test on flooding, storm hydrographs and catchment "mangement". I like Geog.

I also hope I don't GG for tomorrow's Bio quiz on transport in plants and (wait for it, wait for it...) plant reproduction. I find our Bio notes and textbook strangely salacious, in a sense. It's like, they have a page full of beautiful flowers and label them "reproductive organs of angiosperms". Sure does sound appealing. They also like to talk about plant sexuality with strange questions like "Can plants practice safe sex?" (The answers are available here. Apparently the Bio department ripped off the internet. Actually everyone does that, so that's all right.)

But yeah, I like Bio. No calculations.

I love the way nature is so ridiculously smart. It's beautiful, even.

I'm pretty thankful we don't have Malay on Wednesdays, 'cause if not we'd have five hours of lessons straight (which is hell without any break whatsoever).

ACE (flying potatoes are global citizens because they can fly), Math (trigo trigo and more trigo), non-existent Malay (randomness), more Math (more trigo, more trigo, and even more trigo), English (take-home compre, anyone?).

Trigo equations are awful. So very many, so little memory space. I guess that's just failed understanding on my part.

Need to stop sleeping in the afternoons, but heck, it feels good.

Adieu.

P.S. Don't have time for 'Dawn of the Dreafuls'. So sad. Great book so far.

Pokémon Theme

So very sleepy.

So very in need of reading notes.

So very screwed.

Had extra English today. Went through sample essays while I practiced pen spinning. I'm such a noob.

Did some revision during Physics. Heard Mr Wong say "you retard" before I realised he was talking about deceleration.

Chem practical test was surprisingly okay. I think I'm going to lose a whole load of marks, but that's okay 'cause I didn't break anything nor screw up that badly. Got an awfully boring compound. Would definitely have been more fun if it were coloured.

Passed my Math test, thankfully. Did much better this time 'round.

I need to stop sleeping in the afternoons. I make up for the lost time by not sleeping at night, but I think that's a bit ridiculous.

Hard cycle to break. Messed up sleeping patterns.

Tried to read up for Thursday's Geog test, but got nowhere ('cept skim through Adithya's notes on 'Catchment Mangement', which I apparently don't have).

Bio quiz on Thursday too.

'Dawn of the Dreadfuls' has horribly grotesque illustrations. I try hard not to look at them.

Still so very sleepy.

Night.

P.S. "I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was." Yeah, in my dreams. If Pokémon truly existed, all our environmental problems would be solved. Flying and Surf-ing Pokémon for transport, Electric Pokémon for electricity, Fire Pokémon for heating, Ice Pokémon for cooling, et cetera et cetera. It'd be pretty awesome.

P.P.S. And yeah, study time topics never fail to be random.

Afishion.

There's this Facebook group that says something along the lines of "Relationships and friendships get ruined because of rumours".

I have to say I totally disagree. Real relationships have enough trust in them to not be affected by rumours.

Anyway, school today was fine.

Did stuff for English, did stuff for PE, did stuff for Malay and stuff for Geog too.

Yeah, talk about being specific.

Turns out we could've gotten an extension for our Malay project thing, but since we're all considerate, hardworking people we've chosen to hand it our reports (that Aisyah and I actually finished, by some miracle) and present our work on Thursday instead of the following week.

We are so going to GG.

Came up with extremely lame fish jokes during Geog with Cheryl and JunQi. "What is the name of the process when rocks collide with fish in rivers? Afishion." "Fish are used as flood preventive measures as they are able to drink up the river water before it breaks its banks." "Causes of natural flooding include obese fish as they take up space."

Got back after school and kinda just KO-ed on my bed.

Been feeling freakishly tired all day.

Gotta go now. Want to read 'Dawn of the Dreadfuls'. If only it had Mr Darcy... Sigh.

P.S. Weird new words today: SMish: Noun. Abbreviated form of "screw Math-ish", which is the feeling you get when you don't feel like doing Math.

EFPA: Noun. Acronym for Extraterrestrial Flying Potato Angel. (Yos came up with this one. I'm not that jobless.)

P.P.S. And no, Insan, I'm never going to let you overtake me in MouseHunt. Dream on.

Shanghai '10.

It makes me wonder... Why can't I do Math?

I mean, yeah I can do Math, but my brain isn't like, hardwired for numbers. I can't do numbers. I look at them and it's a complete mess.

It just makes me feel stupid and inferior and retarded. And that sucks.

Okay, no more typing here till I finish up my part of our Malay project.

*tonnes of failed Googling later*

Well that sure took ages. It's so tempting to plagiarise and simply copy-paste text off the internet, but you know, we're honest people and I honestly don't roll that way.

Woke up pretty early this morning (fooled Syaf into thinking she woke up late, 'cause I'm not the early riser on weekends). MouseHunt-ed. Sounded dragons for Joshua and Shuen at the exact same time. Now that was seriously cool (oh Lord save me I'm turning into a complete geek).

Spent the rest of my morning waiting for the horn and reading up on adat-adat perkahwinan Melayu. It's pretty interesting, actually. In fact, it would have even been recreational if we didn't have to write that report.

Tradition is obsolete, but that's what makes what we do special. If all weddings were the same that'd be awfully boring. Chinese weddings are funky. I like them 'cause of the steamed fish they serve at the dinners. Yum.

Anyway, went out for lunch pretty late with Syaf, Fatinn and Nicholas. Feel a slightest bit guilty for going out despite the looming mountain of work we have to do, but I've been having hostel food for more than a week, and my heart's still a bit broken from missing out on yesterday's Shangri-La trip.

Pizza Hut ran out of lasagna. Almost burst into tears. (I kid, I kid. But seriously though, it should be illegal to run out of lasagna.)

Hung around Clementi central a bit, then came back to do more work.

The awfulness of it all.

Got Kelvin to explain Math Ass D to me during dinner, but despite his and Wee Thean's efforts I still don't know how to do Q6 (sorry, man).

Depressed.

Listening to Coldplay now. Mmmm yeahh.

My iTunes is usually on shuffle, but I like to do the deejaying sometimes.

Start of another week tomorrow. If I procrastinate, I swear I will find a way to time travel and beat the crap out of myself and thus create one of those time-traveling paradoxes. How ingenious.

Today's race was meh. Joshua thinks it's China. I think it was the rain. Whichever, Ferrari needs to start winning again or McLaren will trounce us and we will sink forever into the severe depths of humiliation. Sad.

Congratulations to Button though. Good job.

Need sleep now.

Night.

P.S. I apologise for the violence. I'd probably high-five myself before proceeding to beat the crap out of myself though.

P.P.S. "And the answer is two, which is larger than one."

Open House '10.

If we could get refunds for weekends, I'd like one please.

But then again, perhaps I'd rather not.

Yeah sure, I might feel as if I've wasted my Saturday being at school and totally not going to Shangri-La for that cluster outing or not doing homework or anything like that, but I think it'd be a horrible idea to ask for a refund.

After all, every little thing and every event plays a role in your life, no matter how small or trivial or unproductive.

So no, no regrets actually. There's still karma, and believe me, good karma is one of the best things in the world. That tiny sense of satisfaction is pretty awesome too.

Got to school pretty early this morning (for a Saturday, normal school time is too early for comfort). Hung around Chem lab 3 with Aisyah, Samantha and Si Min and the other SLs who got sabotaged (okay, maybe I shouldn't phrase it that way; it was more of an obligation, and we're nice people) into giving the school tours. Managed to read a few chapters into 'Dawn of the Dreadfuls'. It makes me sad to think that Mr Darcy isn't in this book. My favourite part of 'Pride and Prejudice' (and 'Price and Prejudice and Zombies') was definitely Mr Darcy.

Anyway, parents started filing in, so we started touring. Did my first round with Sam (was utterly clueless, so extremely thankful for her sixth floor knowledgeableness). Spent ages, 'cause the dry lab stop was extremely interesting (they omitted the dry lab from the tour afterwards, 'cause of congestion).

Did one round alone, and another four with Aisyah (personally I think we did a great job).

We're currently so familiar with the sixth floor, it's disgusting. I don't want to find myself walking to Malay and thinking, "That's the Clean Energy Lab, set up in conjunction with so-and-so in order to blah blah as you can see from the yadda yadda...". Not cool, man.

I think one thing that kinda sucked was that I couldn't sound the horn while giving tours. Bumped into Yos and he was like, "While you're here being sabo-ed Insan's at home sounding the horn." There is no way I'm losing out to Insan. No way.

Oh, and if I lose, not only do I have to eat magic masala but I have to pay Yos 100k as well ('cause he lent Insan money for his obelisk).

Listening to Muse now. I love Muse.

Malay project calls to me.

Adieu.

P.S. I hope we get an extension for our Math assignment. I am completely clueless.

Deterioration.

Clusters 5A and 5B went out on a cluster outing and got to skip study time.

Thing was, they went out all the way just to eat from the same company as our school caterer's. So basically they travelled two hours and fifteen minutes (according to Kelvin) in formal wear to have hostel food.

Sad.

I wasn't faring any better either, to be honest with you. Had a date with Math during study tine, and the guys weren't there for me to copy off, I mean, get help from, since they were out enjoying hostel food.

Managed to do around half of it, although I think I might be wrong in some places (many, actually).

GG.

Hyde Park was kinda interesting. It's funny how people sign up but don't show up during their time slots. It's good for the other speakers though. Less competition.

Malay was meh. Bio was meh. Geog was meh. (Not in chronological order, but still all meh.)

Everything was meh.

Meh.

Looking forward to waking up late again. Weekends are probably the reason we survive weekdays.

Great, Syaf's table lamp just went boomz, and so did our toiletmate's. Now there's no electricity coming from our sockets. This is assed, man.

And there's no electricity in the pantry either, so we're pretty much doomed, 'cause firstly, we can't charge our laptops, and secondly, all our food is going to spoil 'cause apparently supply to the fridge got cut off too. Sad.

So sad.

This a day the hostel totally fails us.

Tsk.

Better go off now. Conserve batt.

Adieu.

Chikungunya: His purple chicken.

Suddenly feel really exhausted. No idea why.

Must be 'cause I took a look at Math.

But heck, it's been a long day, what with the trip to Nanyang Polytechnic and all.

ACE was weird. Are we trying to highlight cultural differences? This is definitely promoting racism (I kid, I kid. Racism is not cool. But then again, without racism, there is no cultural pride).

Math was all trigo and angles and ratios. Stayed awake this time 'round.

Non-existent Malay was fun, as usual.

English was severely depressing. Still don't like the way things are done around here.

Microbiology quiz was okay too. Wasted loads of time traveling back to school, but at least we had free food (and got to support our school team as well).

I had nine egg tarts (how shameless of me).

Really really tired gotta go sleep now screw Math graded exercise and file check I GG.

Night.

P.S. I read that it it takes you less than five minutes to fall asleep, you're sleep deprived.

P.P.S. I also read that teenagers need at least ten hours of sleep a day in order to function well. Yeah, that so happens. The equation works like this: Time spent sleeping per day = 24 hours - (time at school + time used to do homework + recreation) so the more time we sleep, the less time we have to do work, and end up rushing everything and ending up with even less sleep resulting in impaired performance and hence horrible quality work. And they blame us. We're going to grow up into psychotic adults because of the lack of sleep.

P.P.P.S. This may seem lazy, but it's not. Sleep is important, okay? We don't work well if we don't get no rest, savvy?

Theme song.

Study time today was absolutely awesome.

Somehow started singing random theme songs for half an hour, 'cause someone started singing the Pokémon theme song after I started playing Tap Tap 3 on Insan's new iPod touch after we started talking and not concentrating at all.

Talk about productivity. Got absolutely nothing done. I'm such a genius I left my pencil case upstairs and didn't bother to do anything about it afterwards.

Still need to do that Geog assignment though.

Listening to U2 right now. Mmm yeah, U2. I love 'Magnificent'.

Physics was okay. Forgotten everything from last week, so was a bit of a blur.

First half of Chem was utter GG and failure (let's not talk about the test, 'cause half the time I wasn't sure of what I was doing), and the second half was seriously funny.

Made epic lame jokes again, 'cause that's what we do to keep ourselves awake.

The answer to everything is now "dzeeeewwwww", thanks to Joo Kee.

I think the Malay booth for language week was quite a fail, 'cause nobody actually bothered to make kites. I don't get how people would think putting two sticks together and then taping shiny coloured paper of the frame is an extremely difficult and complicated process.

Fell asleep during Math. I don't know how people stay awake through these things. So very confused.

Better go do Geog now.

Arrivederci.

P.S. "Barney is a paedophile who touches little children, after school they get together for dinosaur sensation."

Chem is awful.

Woke up to 'Never Gonna Give You Up' this morning, and heck, bad idea.

Not good to get yourself rickroll'd in the early hours of the morning, when you're still struggling with reality and to tear your eyes open.

It's like, *intro plays* *wakes up* *gropes around for phone* *We're no strangers to loveee* *tries to get up* *You know the rules, and so do I* "Oh hell..." *finds phone, resists throwing it out the window, stops song*.

I'm not saying it's a horrible song though. It's actually quite good, to be honest with you. I think it may be that I can't stand being woken up by 80s music.

Sometimes people think I'm weird because I smile to myself occasionally.

Usually it's 'cause I hear some song (or some part of it) that sounds seriously good. Either that, or my brain's really snapped.

Feeling super tired right now, but begging myself to stay awake and study for this Chem test we have tomorrow.

I hope I don't GG.

Such awfulness.

Listening to the Glee soundtrack right now.

Ever so tempted to re-watch it, but the thing is, I've got plenty on my hands already.

English letter writing thing was all right.

PE was okay, 'cause I'm done with NAPFA this year.

Learned how to cut shiny pink/purple paper into squares and make kites that don't fly during Malay. Bet the people who take Chinese really hate us now.

Got to skip Geography.

Translation competition afterwards. I think we did pretty well, actually.

Okay, short post tonight. Chem calls and I need sleep.

Night.

P.S. Math file GG.

Horrible.

I think... It might not be too late for me to start teaching myself how to play the drums.

Who knows?

Feeling epic tired right now, and I have no idea why.

Okay, I'll admit maybe I do have the slightest sliver of a reason.

Woke up relatively early this morning, did laundry, went out to Cold Storage (since it's closer than NTUC and I'm a lazy ass), did nothing, had lunch, had some fun on Facebook with our epic new language of randomness (asdneu cudp a34? uhnaUe0 98dNJncpz ZWUcmr), Music room-ed, badminton-ed, had dinner, did nothing much, ironed, and got back here to post this post.

I think this horrible feeling I have inside of me is 'cause I didn't really do anything productive today ('cept file my Math notes and stuff).

So guilty.

That's one weekend wasted.

Tsk.

I also feel awfully guilty 'cause I forgot it was my grandmother's birthday yesterday till late last night when my uncle thought it'd be funny to tell me how he almost forgot his mother's birthday. And that's when I realised it had completely slipped my mind as well.

Sometimes I question myself, why am I that inconsiderate? Forgetful? Ungrateful? Or is it that the days just roll on by so fast it's hard to keep up?

I honestly lost track.

My grandmother has an excellent memory. She doesn't ever forget birthdays. In fact, you can ask her where anything is in the house and she can magically produce it out of thin air after you've searched for hours on end and flipped the house upside down and inside out.

That's why it's such a big deal for me to remember hers.

Sigh. Such a failure.

I think I'mma turn in early tonight.

Adieu.

P.S. I suck at badminton. Beyond words.

For the love of Odin.

Talk about horrendous internet connection.

Couldn't do a thing with it since I got back. Thankfully it improves significantly past the midnight mark.

Speech Day was today. Somehow miraculously managed to stay completely away throughout the entire thing.

Loads of people were sleeping though. Don't blame them. I mean, no offense to the award-recipients, but honestly, no matter how much we support you, it's absolutely horrible to have to sit quietly through long speeches and extremely long lists of names being called out.

Congratulations to all the prize winners though.

Went out to Vivo with MJ and Debb after that. Watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' in 3D.

And man, that was one awesome movie. Brilliant picture, witty dialogue, awfully cute dragon and great story line, too. Almost as good as 'Up'. Kinda burst into laughter during one of the tense, suspenseful scenes, 'cause the main protagonist's name was "Hiccup". Seemed pretty ridiculous at the time.

I thought it'd be a hard time watching it in 3D, but it wasn't so bad, actually. Quite good.

Met up with a few of the 01 people at Bukit Batok (Cough Hill) and somehow decided to play hide and seek in West Mall. Probably seemed like a bunch of retarded asses, but it was pretty fun. Hope we didn't attract too much attention though.

Sent Pari off at the airport after that. Pari, if you ever read this, I sure hope you'll have loads of fun in India, and that we'll definitely miss you being around.

Exhausted, so I'mma go to bed now.

Night.

P.S. Have I ever mentioned? I believe in karma.

Flying potatoes.

It's pretty late, but I've got this sense of accomplishment, 'cause I'm done (99%) with the English advertisement thing on promoting good English speaking.

Thought I'd take forever, 'cause it took me ages (the entire study time, actually) to finish off the draft and less than half of the final one.

Speaking of English, we think the entire Year 3 cohort didn't have English lessons today 'cause our teachers didn't come.

Which means we (the 05 people who take Malay) only had Math today (ACE doesn't count) 'cause we our Mother Tongue on Wednesdays got rescheduled to Thursdays. Cool.

Was supposed to do the usual "sexuality" lecture thing during ACE, but apparently 'cause quite a few people signed up for the depression and anxiety talk thing, it got postponed.

Instead did something on appreciating the things your family does for you. To be honest with you, I found it quite meaningful (yeah, like seriously). Have a sudden craving for my grandmother's cooking now. Tsk.

Math just isn't entertaining anymore. At least I have an idea of what Mr Chia was talking about (I hope).

Was epic nerdy and talked about Pokémon and MouseHunt (no surprises there, we're MH addicts). Ahmad installed Pokémon Gold into his GC, which was pretty awesome. Ah, the good old days of Pokémon.

Thought I was the only one with problems updating my Sims 3 game, but apparently Insan has the same problem too. Interesting. I suspect it's the internet connection.

Talked crap for two hours, went back to class for English (that didn't happen, so we basically transitioned from non-existent Malay class to non-existent English class). Brainstormed with Insan, Stanley and Verena, but didn't really get anywhere. Ended up reminiscing the good old days of good old cartoons.

I feel old now.

Kids nowadays don't know what they're missing out on. I miss watching Popeye, classic Mickey Mouse, the Winnie the Pooh of the old days, Tom & Jerry with no dialogue and just the brilliant soundtrack for company, the extreme surreality of Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel and everything else that was awesome back then.

Freaking marketing.

Better go now.

Night.

P.S. Laughed Milo up my nose again. Talk about fail.

P.P.S. Magikarp hyperbeam FTW.

Blue potatoes.

Felt pretty relieved after our Math test, so I copied this off Google image somewhere off the internet after dinner.

Listening to MCR now.

Found out late last night that Bob Bryar has left the band, and man, I felt awful. I'm gonna miss him.

Anyway, school was all right today, surprisingly.

Mr Wong was pretty awesome in giving us loads of tries. Quote of the day was probably "Are you feeling lucky today? Yes, I am.".

Epic lucky. Epic awesome. Epic hitting-the-target-twice-in-five-tries with pure epic luck. I love GG (our launcher).

Chem was funny, 'cause Ms Teh entertains our super lame jokes. Assed hybrid orbitals look like bowling pins. I kid you not.

Was freakishly anxious before Math. Got the shock of my life when that awful clock appeared again, ticking away my thinking time, but managed to pull through. Definitely can pass, this time.

Our study time group is awesome, I swear it. We say the most brilliant things and somehow joke away an entire hour and a half.

Seriously going to get started on 'The Lightning Thief' sometime tonight. I swear it, man.

Arrivederci.

P.S. Seriously, what's with this current obsession with potatoes?

'Black and Gold' -Sam Sparro

Syaf found Noodle earlier on. Just in time for our launching tomorrow.

I sure hope our launcher doesn't fail. Fingers crossed.

I also hope I won't almost fail this Math test we have tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

Well, sure have loads of things to look forward to tomorrow.

No English today, 'cause no teacher. Talked about F1 with Stanley (he's an avid follower, surprisingly) over the English project we were supposed to be discussing (Insan and Verena were sleeping, anyway. Such a shame to wake them up). He supports Webber, but honestly, I don't think he's up to pace with Vettel. Good car though, Red Bull.

Kinda GG-ed during 2.4 today. I don't think I try hard enough. I don't think I push myself hard enough either. There's just no motivation. I wonder why.

Completely forgot about Math and missed the extra half hour on partial fractions and ass. C. I am so going to GG for tomorrow's test (so scared. So very scared. Terrified, in fact).

Went through a newspaper article during Malay. Nothing much to talk about, I guess.

Fell asleep for a few seconds during Geog. Still on flooding. Not much advancement.

Went back to the hostel to look for the receipt Clara gave me for reimbursement. Submitted the form, then returned to my room to sleep.

Heck, tired.

Couldn't sleep last night, somehow. Kept waking up for no reason whatsoever, so basically spent the entire night tossing and turning for five hours or so. Talk about sleep fail.

Stayed up reading 'The Umbrella Academy: Dallas' by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá. Sorta loved the weirdness and surreality of it all. Was pretty confusing at first, actually, 'cause I've never read the first book (well, comic, but whatever).

Brilliant artwork.

Planned to start on 'The Lightning Thief' tonight, but I don't think so. 'Cause I made a date with Math.

Why hello, polynomials, partial fractions and quadratic functions. Nice to see you again.

Adieu.

Sepang 2010.

2.4 tomorrow.

I despise running. I don't know why. Maybe that's because I suck at it. Maybe I should brainwash myself into loving 2.4. Hold on a moment.

2.4 is awesome. I live for 2.4. The reason why I wake up in the morning is for 2.4. 2.4 is the meaning of my life. Without 2.4, my life would have no meaning. I absolutely love 2.4.

Okay, brainwashing over. I have a feeling it's going to be rather ineffective, but whatever. At least I tried.

I just don't want to fail so I don't have to retest. Bleh.

Remember me mentioning I loved yesterday's weather? Well I love today's even more. Like, really. Cold and rainy.

I hope it's like this tomorrow. And the day after. And the day after that. And the day after that. And the day after that. And the day after that. You get the drift.

Anyway, stayed in the hostel all day today. Woke up relatively late, did a few things, played The Sims 3 (I made three sims the day before. One's red, one's blue and another is green. I call them Red, Blue and Green), followed the Sepang race, and did a few other things.

About TS3, Insan has 'World Adventures'. Assed EA and Maxis keep making expansion packs. You can wait till the price of the thing drops, but by then they'll have released another EP and you'd be all "screw this" will end up buying the new one anyway.

It's a ridiculous cycle.

Should I borrow it? Hmm.

About F1, well, I've got a whole lot to say.

I have to admit, Ferrari and McLaren screwed up qualifying pretty badly. Thank God Massa managed to end up within the points. Poor Alonso had a retirement thanks to his engine failing trying to overtake Button.

Congratulations to Red Bull for clinching a one-two with Vettel the "third-time-lucky" race winner. I'm actually quite glad Vettel won, 'cause he sure deserves it. Must suck to lead two races and then have some mechanical problem, not to mention a third.

I think we're going to have an extremely hard time placing bets this year.

Not that I place bets, no, not at all.

Following the trend, a McLaren will win in China (preferably Button). After Ferrari, Mercedes, and Red Bull.

But my support will always go to Ferrari (and Vettel, actually).

Oh, and I think Force India should win a race this year.

Better go off now. Night.

P.S. Schumi should've stayed retired. Perhaps he's having fun, but it breaks my heart to see him all average like that.

Clash of the Wimpy Kids.

I've currently got John Mayer's 'Why Georgia' stuck in my head.

Has been since last night, throughout the entire morning after I woke up to Ivanka's text message till the afternoon.

Good song, that.

Oh, and I love the weather today. All nice and windy, not so humid, drizzly and cool. I love it when the weather's like that.

Spent my morning teaching Ivanka basic chords in the fifth floor TV room. Her enthusiasm is awesome. Teaching people who constantly mention giving up because they suck during their first try isn't much fun, to be honest. It's good to understand that it takes time to get to anywhere.

I've missed playing.

Went out to Vivo after lunch with Insan, Kelvin and Wee Thean.

Managed to waste a whole load of time before 'Clash of the Titans' started.

Stepped into a bookstore for the first time in around a month and a half, I think. Now that's sad. But since we're all nerds, we spent ages there checking out weird books (perfect guide to bras? Facebook for Dummies? Heck).

Picked up a few myself, 'cause I'm done with LotR and my vow to not buy any books till I finished is effectively over.

'Dawn of the Dreadfuls' (prequel to 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'), 'Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief' (pretty curious about how good the book is compared to the movie 'cause Insan keeps complaining about how awful the movie was), and 'The Umbrella Academy' ('cause, you know, Gerard Way and plenty of curiosity).

They didn't have 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules' though. And come to think of it, why didn't I get 'Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters'?

Maybe that's 'cause I spend way too much on books (but then again, I hardly buy clothes and I certainly don't require a ridiculously large amount of shoes).

Had Ben & Jerry's beforehand. I love ice cream.

As for the movie, well, personally I don't think it was that great.

I'd rate it well in terms weirdness and strange scenes of possible humour, but the action scenes were a huge blur thanks to the failed 3D effect (my eyesight is screwed), so it was basically "fight scene! blur blur blur it's over omg what happened who won?". And the funny thing is that Perseus has an adorable British accent as a boy, but turns Australian twelve years later (the dude from Avatar played him). How interesting.

And Zeus, come on, man. Bring yourself together. Stop having affairs and illegitimate children and please stop rewarding people with "here, have a sword and Pegasus, son, and oh, thanks for saving mankind. I'll toss in a hot chick for you while I'm at it". Weird.

Jinn scenes FTW though.

Okay, better go now.

Night.

P.S. When we stepped out of the movie theatre, the first thing we said was probably, "Oh my Gee it's still a Saturday." *insert sighs of relief* "I love long weekends."

GMH.

I love this website: GivesMeHope.com: It's like FML, but for optimists.

To be honest with you, I've grown to hate FML. Why do people like to share how much their lives suck and why on earth do people enjoy reading about how other peoples' lives suck?

Makes no sense.

But GMH is awesome. It gives you that little, feel-good, tingly feeling that makes you smile despite how crappy your day has been.

So instead of going onto FML and saying FML after every petty little thing that's happened to you, go read GMH.

Should do you people good.

Life is a gift. We have to appreciate that.

It's those little things in life that make it worth living.

Stayed in my room and played TS3 all afternoon. Haven't played for ages. Almost forgotten where the controls were (which actually can't really happen 'cause I've been playing for years and years).

Then went out with a bunch of the Bruneians.

Bruneians are so random.

Wanted to watch 'How To Train Your Dragon' but it was sold out, so went to eat instead.

Long weekends FTW.

P.S. "My dad would always start out conversations with''Do you have a girlfriend yet?''

After laughing and saying no hundreds of times I finally found the courage to tell him I was gay. After a long silence and a stressed out face or two, he calmly said, "Oh. Well.... Do you have a boyfriend yet?"

His fair love GMH.

P.P.S. I was at the mall the other day when I saw an old couple sitting together. The man looked over at the woman and said,

"Jane, we did it. We grew old together."

The look in her eyes GMH.

Spontaneity.

It's April Fools' today (besides the obvious), but nothing really epic has happened.

I heard they tried to report some major rule changes (two-seater F1 cars, needing to slow down to let Schumi pass, etc) for Sepang this week, but you know, it could have been more believable.

Kept thinking today's Friday, 'cause of the timetable swap thing. It's sad that we have to rely on what we do at school to tell what day it is.

But it's thankfully a Thursday.

Anyway, did a quarter of a past year O-level paper during Malay, witnessed Mr Wong own Ryan during Physics, kept awake during Math (Trigo II anyone?), Chem quiz-ed during Chem, presentation-ed during English, and edited during CCA.

Heck, listening to Michael Jackson's Thriller right now, 'cause I need to get that CO song out of my head. Honestly, if you listen to the same thing repeatedly for hours, it kinda gets imprinted in your brain.

Epic spontaneity during dinner was awesome.

Decided to go out and catch a movie with Kelvin and Insan to "spontaneously" celebrate the coming of a long weekend (like, finally). Planned to watch 'Clash of the Titans', but it was kinda sold out so we settled for 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' instead.

I've got the first book, and I thought it was pretty awesome. Have to get the rest sometime soon.

I liked the movie. Funny, sweet at times, cute kids, gross humour. Not bad at all.

I personally think Rodrick is awesome. I would love to prank my brother one day. Wake him up at four in the morning telling him he's late for school. My mum would kill me, but that would be awesome fun. (Oh, and I googled him, and apparently the guy who plays Rodrick in the movie shares a birthdate with me. Cool.)

Better go now. Need to catch up on some much needed sleep.

Night.

P.S. "What do you have to say to women for owning such a magazine?" "I'm sorry, women."

P.P.S. Guyliner. Mm yeah.

P.P.P.S. Made a bet with Insan last night that if he overtakes me in MouseHunt ranking by the end of May, I'll eat an entire packet of magic masala potato chips (they say it's simply awful). If not, he'll have to eat it.

I Just Wanna Live -Good Charlotte

Wednesday, 31-03-2010

It's as if I don't need sleep anymore, but when I get back from school I feel tired as hell.

It's like, I don't have time to do anything I'd like to do in earnest. It's all work, work, work, read, read, read, GG.

Thank God for long weekends, but even those are punctuated with tests.

I'm probably writing this now 'cause I don't want my days to be lost just like that.

I can't feel anything anymore.

It's interesting.

It's like some race, against deadlines, against time that's stubbornly ticking away, never waiting, never yielding, never merciful.

And I think I might be losing.

Sometimes I wish it'd slow down, so I'll be able to appreciate little things in life and savour every moment.

But then again sometimes I wish that somehow I'll be in the near future, free of tests and exams and deadlines and quizzes and projects and assignments and not having to constantly worry about things. Sad thing is, that's never going to happen.

I think I might be failing.

GG.

P.S. Thank God for my brilliant improvisation skills, and for extreme patience. Should I really stop being so nice?

P.P.S. Thursday's April Fool's, and it's also Friday, 'cause Friday's Good Friday. Cool.

P.P.P.S. I swear, after this week is over, I'll get my life back on track. And back to posting daily. So much to say, so little time.