Appreciation.

Hey blogosphere. I'm high. On Seoul Garden 7 Up.

The effects are wearing off, but yeah.

So, Sports Day yesterday. Rained but didn't rain at the same time. Managed to pull off all the events in time after the rain stopped (it was drizzling during flag raising).

Fun, fun. Fibonacci won. Yay Fibo. (Yeah, extreme "this-is-my-sports-house" bias-ness here.)

Anyway, Staff Appreciation celebration was awesome. Had to run around with a video camera being shameless 'cause neither Michelle nor Ash would do it.

So, yeah. A huge thank you to all teachers and staff out there who keep schools going and students satisfied.

I think teachers are like, a huge part of a school's personality. Without teachers, who would we direct our inside jokes to? Without teachers, who else would be keeping our lameness in check (actually some teachers add to it, but that's not the point)? Without teachers, we'd all probably have died of nothing-to-do-ness right now.

Big *lessthanthree* to you all.

Went out for dinner and finally got those Crocs my mum wanted for my brother.

Oh God, I don't think I've ever had that much fun buying shoes.

Spent ages trying to decide whether to get pink shoes for my bro, but decided against it in the end. Compromised by buying a little fairy button thing (good think about Crocs is that you can totally overdecorate without looking stupider) to put on them. My brother likes fairies. I don't know why. I've never liked fairies.

Maybe I'll introduce him to Edward Cullen one day. Edward Cullen is totally a fairy.

Okay, I be going now.

Adieu fair people.

P.S. Three days to balikz, yo.

Spa-Francorchamps 2010.

Something's been on my mind lately, and best get it off here so my mum can see it.

Here goes: Should I get a second cartilage piercing? Same ear, of course.

When I got my first one last year, I was planning to get one for every year I stayed in Singapore, so that would make it five in total. You see, I think it's kinda uncool to have only one piercing. It's just not as badass. I mean, yeah, it's cool, but it doesn't really look as good when you have a single ring around your ear cartilage compared to, let's say, three.

So should I?

I know I shouldn't care about what other people would think about it, but sometimes I have this feeling some people think I do it just for the sake of "rebellion" or something.

Just so you know, yes, I do care about society. Yes, I do abide by the rules. Yes, I am generally a nice person.

I think I just need people to tell me it's okay to do it.

Anyway, doubts and insecurities aside, I am completely in love with the ring I'm using now. I can't seem to be able to use real rings (this one is kind of like a half ring with a straight bit that goes through my ear) 'cause the piercing I have was done pretty badly (yeah, I admit).

Summer break's finally over for this F1 season, so we got back on track at Spa today. Oh Spa. Brings back so many memories of Kimi Raikkonen (it was one of his favourite circuits, and knowing he won't come back to F1 just makes it hurt even more).

Sometimes I have half a mind to follow WRC too, but I disappoint myself 'cause I'm just not bothered enough. I should start, huh?

But I digress.

Rain at the first turn made things really hard, 'cause quite a few drivers pitted to change to intermediates and came out realising the rain had stopped (Alonso included. Poor guy had a shunt with Barichello, wasn't his fault, and then crashed out when the rain came back later on in the race).

I'mma go straight to the point here: Hamilton went on to win the race ahead of Webber and Kubica (great race there by Renault), Button had to retire, and now Hamilton's three points ahead of Webber in the driver's championship standings and McLaren's a point ahead of Red Bull.

Tight, very tight. Ferrari still have a chance, and as long as the team still has hope so do I. Our car's not so bad at the moment, we're just awfully unlucky.

Sports Day tomorrow. I'm glad 'cause there's no class.

Forza Ferrari.

P.S. I think some people with multiple piercings have no taste when it comes to ear rings or studs. They tend to verge on appearing seriously grotesque.

Salespeople.

Listening to Yos (or rather reading off MSN) scrutinise 'Pendekar Bujang Lapok' right now.

It's kinda funny 'cause I think he actually likes watching it, but not admitting it. I dunno.

I have this feeling Faiz and Insan lost disc 2 of Faiz's copy of the movie (that's why I totally prefer DVDs. You don't need to get up and switch discs halfway, and the chances of you breaking the discs when removing them from stubborn cases is drastically reduced).

But that's okay, the story line is simple enough (so, so glad Cikgu liked our script-thing. Now all we have to do is to shoot, act, and edit).

Malay project aside, I went out with Fatinn today. Watched 'Grown Ups' at Jurong Point.

It was a pretty nice movie. Funny, sweet, strange at times. Loads of puns.

Then got a new pair of shoes. Feel kinda bad about it, but then again I hardly buy stuff for myself (apart from food), and I haven't bought a book for almost a month, so yeah.

It's funny how shoe stores hardly sell kids shoes. Need to get to a Crocs store before I get back. (For my brother, not me. I have to admit, I wouldn't wear Crocs 'cause I don't think they're "cool").

Managed to save Fatinn out of the clutches of yet another persistent saleslady (yeah, I loathe their persistence) by faking a phone call and practically tearing ourselves away from her. Scary.

Got back and then went out again for this Majlis Khatam thing at this house near the High Comm.

Mmm, free food. And egg tarts. Oh the egg tarts. I love egg tarts. So many egg tarts. Wish I brought some back, 'cause there were so many left over (according to Syaf). I love egg tarts. So, so much.

Ah, I love egg tarts.

I think the reason why I enjoy Bruneian get-togethers is 'cause of the whole "Brunei-ish" feel about it. It's like being home for a few hours. Better than nothing.

Okay, gotta go now.

Night.

P.S. Egg tarts.

Thermal equilibrium.

Totally not been in the mood for school lately. It's the end of week 9, and yeah, you can't blame us for feeling a tad tired.

I have this feeling NUSH is trying to portray a "cheerier" feel. Perhaps the school hired a consultant, and said consultant didn't like our colour scheme (that's my theory, anyway).

It's either that, or the painters the school hired to repaint the school ran out of white and green and decided to use yellow and orange instead.

Got back after CCA to find the hostel painted in alternating blue, green and yellow. It's bad enough that the benzene rings above the concourse are now orange and yellow (which look quite nice, actually, except when they clash horribly with the NUSH-green above the annex building).

It looks pretty all right far off, but close up it looks slightly grotesque.

Anyway, apart from drastic paint jobs, all that happened today was Mr Tan covering a bit of 'solutions' during Chem, us hanging around classrooms being random during non-existent Malay and watching Mr Yeo do magic tricks, Mr Chia teaching us "general solutions" to sine, cosine and tangent graphs, Mr Yeo planning a class outing during mentoring, us listening to presentations during English, Mr Yeo conducting some strange Physics recap and CCA.

Yeah, we do see a lot of Mr Yeo. When you've got two hours of mentoring and ACE along with four hours of Physics a week, it's bound to happen.

Our Final Cut Pro 7 course is finally over, and I have to say I can't wait to do some actual editing with it. I need Final Cut Pro 7 on my laptop. Seriously.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to continue Google-ing my way through Chem worksheet 6.

Adieu.

P.S. Weekends are best when they're productive. No kidding.

Gerard Butler.

So, what did I do today?

That's what I did today.

Three hours of free time, extreme joblessness and conveniently forgetting about homework for a while add up to Gerard Butler as the Phantom.

Okay, now that I'm done with my first portrait ever, I can say that I've finally dared to draw people. It would be so cool if I had charcoal pencils to do this with.

Anyway, that Geog test finally happened today, after Math (haha, aftermath).

Wasn't as GG as expected. Passable, but I had absolutely no idea what I was writing about, so passing would be nice.

Wondering where to go for that Geog monograph thing we're supposed to do. Is two extra marks worth the rush? Unsure, unsure.

I have to admit, I wasn't really paying attention during Physics. Mind kept drifting off to other things, so I'm going to GG sometime in the near future.

Read articles during English. It's not really the education system that's making children miserable; it's the way their parents push them towards better results.

I don't think it's reasonable to base the outcome of someone's life solely on some exam they took when they were twelve. It's ridiculous. People with good PSLE results won't necessarily be the smarter of the lot. Maybe they've been trained for this exam all their lives, by overly competitive goal-oriented parents who think of nothing but good grades. I don't know.

Sure, securing a secure future is a good thing, but is it really worth it?

If I ever have kids, I'm going to make sure they'll never look back and wish they had a better childhood (you know, one without constant revision and tuition classes and drilling drilling drilling). Kids with horribly strict childhoods probably grow up into sad, lifeless, robotic adults. I'm just sayin'.

My kids are going to have fun. They're going to know fun. I swear it.

All right. Off to be more productive now.

Arrivederci.

P.S. So vapour pressure doesn't change with surface area. Thank you, Google.

PV=nRT.

Watching 'Spiderman 2' now.

In HD. I love YouTube.

I'm completely lovin' that bit where Dr Octavius starts donning a hat and trench coat just to look more badass. It's funny how we define badassery around here.

I think I'm on some sort of a Spiderman movie watching marathon. I'm unsure. If I can find Spiderman 3 online tomorrow that would be so cool.

Anyway, apart from committing slightly illegal offenses (such as disregarding copyright rules), today went down fine.

Had two hours of Physics. It's funny how we're all so quiet and nice when Mr Yeo was being observed and how we're noisy as hell when the observing dude leaves.

Ah, the joys of PV=nRT.

Typed out some karangan on cikgu's laptop during Malay, about how teenagers nowadays don't spend much time with their families. No comment. Won't comment.

ACE was awesome fun. Had a little insight into Mr Yeo's love life history, 'cause he ran out of things to say with ample time left.

Steady relationships? Not at this age, no. To be honest with you, there is absolutely no need to need to hook up with anybody unless you're like, over forty and still single and your parents bug you about it day and night (which I think will happen to me, but just sayin').

And I don't know what's so complicated about being in a relationship if it's done right. Maybe I just don't understand. I'll probably find out sooner or later.

Started on all the heart stuff during Bio. I'm not looking forward to dissecting sheep heart though. Not at all. It's just so... squishy.

Okay, gotta go now.

Geog test tomorrow.

Blatancy.

Watching 'Spiderman' (the 2002 movie) on YouTube right now, and I realise that there is a whole lot of character development. That's probably what makes it so great to watch.

I've never seen or read 'Twilight', but I imagine that it has near zero substance and that's what makes people dislike the series so much. I've read plenty of critics say that the characters in Twilight are all underdeveloped, empty shells that allows housewives and teenage girls fill them in with their own personalities and the are able to relate to the story line.

But I digress.

I've always loved Spiderman's powers. Spiderman's a great guy. It's just that sometimes Peter Parker gets on my nerves. He talks too much.

School today was meh.

Chem was Inception-ish, 'cause I think Mr Tan recently watched 'Inception' and he was telling Joo Kee about how he was dreaming and how we were all just part of his dream and stuff. I don't know.

Made a tonne of Mr Chia references 'cause of the whole "solutions" thing. Funny.

Math was okay, and Malay was just random.

Kosa kata fail.

I think I need to start being more productive. Productivity rate just died today.

Gotta go now.

Arrivederci.

Lunch.

My toe is throbbing. 'Cause, being the genius I am, I kicked one of the steps going up the stairs.

On a completely unrelated note, I love the weather right now. It's so cool and refreshing (I overused this word in my sales letter last Friday. Looking at it makes me want to throw up).

So, like, slept away my afternoon after school, so wasn't productive.

Did soccer during PE (when it was awfully hot out). Beats volleyball any day, man.

Hmm... yeah.

Went through the emo compre during English. It's interesting how I managed to pass this one considering I really didn't like the passages. I still think adults and "experts" should stop trying to label us. We can be whoever we want and as long as that makes us feel good about ourselves and as long as we're not being asses, I think it's fine.

Graded exercise-ed during Math. Graph drawing was okay.

And as for Geog, well, it was just weird. Wasted away my Sunday reading for the test 'cause it got postponed (again). Sad. I wanted it done and over with.

Okay, short post for today. Honestly, I don't really have anything else to say.

Adieu.

Ignorance.

Tired.

But don't feel like sleeping.

So I'm here on the internet like I always am trying to waste my time.

Check out this site: thereifixedit.com. It's full of creativity win.

Speaking of creativity, I haven't been to inewidea.com in a long time. It's a brilliant site. My uncle introduced it to me years ago, and the things people have managed to come up with never cease to amaze me.

Anyway, spent my entire afternoon hanging around this 'Bruneian Community' booth thing outside the National Museum of Singapore for the Singapore HeritageFest 2010.

It's depressing that people hardly know what or where Brunei is. Actually, no. That's not depressing at all. What's depressing is that people don't know that 'Malay' is both a race and a language, and that within the race and language there are variations unique to different countries or regions. What's depressing is that people don't know that 'Islam' is a religion and that 'Muslim' isn't a race. What's depressing is that people make horrible assumptions about countries they don't know and try to act smart.

It's okay to not know, you know? It's okay to ask, but it's not okay to go around pretending you're knowledgeable when you haven't the slightest clue.

It also annoys me when people go, "Wait, you're Chinese? But isn't Brunei a Muslim/Malay country?"

Dude, Singapore isn't the only multiracial country in the world, you know?

Sigh. I'll bet that's why they need exhibitions like this. To educate the public. A hopelessly ignorant public.

So, yeah. Remind me to be more cordial tomorrow (didn't say much today 'cause was feeling somewhat impatient after a while).

Sungkai-ed at auntie Mal's place after that. Yum. Home-cooked food is the best. I kid you not. Next time, when you eat home-cooked food and wish you could've had outside food instead, think of us people who'd give so much just to have a simple meal at home.

Then caught a bit of 'The Parent Trap' on the Disney Channel. Oh God, how I loved that movie.

Couldn't help but go "Man, can you believe she's going in and out of jail now?" while we were watching. She's such a talent, but I doubt anyone really remembers that now.

Do one bad thing and it overshadows all the good stuff you've ever done, huh?

Okay, I'mma go off now.

Adieu.

P.S. There is also a fraction of the people who walk by who actually know about us, or ask questions in earnest and not to show off, and those people make me happy. Big 'thank you's to them.

Beta.

What's up, blogosphere?

Didn't post yesterday 'cause I had that Bujang Lapok script thing I had to finish up and send lest we get murdered by angry teacher.

But yeah, nothing much. Math test went okay (thankfully), Geog test didn't happen (thankfully. Went around school looking at soil samples instead. Never in my life have I paid so much attention to dirt before), Physics was more PV=nRT and English test was good ('cept I realised last night that I left 'Yours faithfully' out of my letter, so there goes my format).

Anyway, I think it's pretty cool (like, literally) that it's been rainy all day, and the current temperature outside, according to this weather widget I have, is 25 degrees. Which feels awesome.

Every day I live here I think I grow decreasingly dependent on air-conditioning. Good for the environment, yeah, definitely.

Nothing truly epic happened at school today, so won't say much 'bout it.

Cluster outing-ed after school. Went out to this place called 'Honeymoon Dessert' at Vivo.

Fruity. That's all I can say. Loads of fruits and sago and strange indiscernible doughy ball things.

But yeah, wasn't bad. Apparently it's a really good place, 'cause there was this long queue outside, but I'm thinkin' my taste buds aren't so Chinese.

Okay, gotta go now.

Need sleep.

Night.

P.S. I can not write sales letters. Somehow it's just not easy for me to write horribly cheerful superficial things. And I despise using exclamation marks.

P.P.S. What can I say, I'm just not cut out to be a sales letter writer. I'll probably have to cross that out of my list of prospective occupations in the future (along with professional volleyball player).

Asymptote.

I'm here practicing for our letter-writing test tomorrow. Oh yes I am.

I find it hard to believe that Spa is just around the corner (I've been hearing people use this phrase a lot lately, so I've decided to give it a shot), given that ("given that" is Math talk, by the way) it seems like only yesterday summer break started.

Just in case you didn't get me there, I'll rephrase: The Belgian Grand Prix is this Sunday and the few weeks between the Hungarian Grand Prix and now have flashed by so amazingly fast I am left astounded.

Hope that helped.

Listening to Coldplay at the moment, 'cause Coldplay makes me feel all chill and relaxed.

And I honestly need to pull myself together if I want to pass that Math test we have tomorrow.

Speaking of tests, I'm extremely unsure when our Geog test is going to happen. Tomrrow? Monday? Tomorrow? Monday? I don't know, and I'm hoping hard it's not tomorrow (or there'll be high chances I'll fail it).

Sad.

Physics prac today was unfun. Don't like confusing calculations. (Although I am kinda proud of myself for managing to tweak the gradient of my curve to shave a few hundred degrees Celsius off my absolute zero value.)

Malay was... Malay. Cikgu sure puts a lot of faith into us for O-levels this year.

Had some briefing about OBS (that's 'Outward Bound Singapore' for all you Bruneians out there) during ACE. But there's no way I'll go 'cause I like to be home.

Bio was... Bio. Note taking, lame joke making, Ryan answering every question Ms Fong asks, yeahp, not much difference.

Okay, better go now.

Wish me luck for Math.

Adieu.

P.S. I love this consistently cool and rainy weather we're having.

Methyl salicylate.

You know, I didn't previously know that 'Asian' was an option under 'Style' on YouTube channels.

I'm not sure whether I should be proud, or depressed.

Are we such a joke that we can become a style of comedy all on its own, or are we just that awesome?

I think I'll go for the latter.

You Westerners just love us Asians, don't you?

Anyway, nothing much happened today, 'cept that we had a Chem prac (and a few breakages, none of them by me, thankfully) and an ujian karangan for Malay.

It's funny how methyl salicylate smells a lot like root beer. (I looked it up, and it's actually used as a flavouring for root beer, so that explains it.)

Mr Tan wouldn't let us write down "smells like root beer" on our prac 'cause apparently "root beer" isn't a valid description.

I've never liked root beer anyway.

Beer, yes, but not root beer. Don't find the taste to my liking at all.

But beer, oh beer, I like that.

Man, feeling thirsty now.

Drew graphs for Math and that was it. Not much advancement, but I like the pace 'cause I can actually understand things at this rate (yeah, I know, I'm slow, but what to do?).

Then had Malay, after like, a week and a half of no class. No comment. Well, what's there to say about it? Still need to get that script done though.

Okay, I'm blabbering. Should stop now.

Arrivederci.

P.S. Just a thought, but I think I can get through many, many posts titling them after organic compounds.

Scorpions.

Been listening to stuff on and off all day, but haven't quite found anything that stuck with the moment (I'm not sure how else to explain the feeling).

Had a brief hour or so stint with MCR, then went on shuffle, and then back to MCR, and then kinda gave up for a while, went out to have dinner with Fatinn, Nazihah, Yee Rou and Faiz, and then came back, and then 'Wind of Change' was up and then I knew.

Oh yeah.

Mmm, Scorpions. They have this distinct sound about them. That arpeggiated, punctuated with sweet rings of distortion, airy kinda feel they have. Mmm yeah.

The Scorpions songs I have in my iTunes are courtesy of my parents ('cause it's totally from their era).

Did nothing much yesterday, and did nothing much today, too.

Bleh.

Now I'm starting to feel as if I'm wasting my life away (again).

Oh well. These things happen.

Going to start being productive from this second onwards.

So I'mma hurry up and finish up with this post so I can go do more productive things.

I like to blog. I like to blog because it helps me tell the world certain thoughts that would make me look weird if I were to simply go up to someone and tell them about. The great thing is that it doesn't seem weird at all for me to type my thoughts out here 'cause I'm not making anyone read it, and that I can come back to them and read them for future reference (although for what occasion I might need them for other than memory's sake I have no idea).

I like it 'cause I can do it in my own time. Nobody's making me do it. I do it because I want to. Even if nobody read this blog of mine I'd do it anyway, because I enjoy writing rubbish and posting it onto the internet.

Okay, gotta go now. Productivity starts... now.

Adieu.

P.S. Faiz asked, "Johnny Depp or Adrien Brody?" Honestly, I can't decide.

RedTwoAdePlus

Listening to Adam Lambert right now. Mm.

I kinda like it that he sings quite a number of genres, but I don't like it that he doesn't write his own songs. I mean, he can "Adam Lambert-ify" songs people write for him, but we still don't know what kind of music goes on in his mind.

One of the reasons why I prefer bands to solo artists is that they tend to write their own material and have their own sound (which turns out to be a good thing for me if I find it to my liking).

Can't believe it's Friday already. Three days of school and boomz, it's a weekend all over again.

I should be feeling glad 'cause I get to wake up considerably later again tomorrow (and hence get enough sleep), but somehow deep inside of me it kinda feels weird.

It's like school's such a huge part of our lives that when you take it away at odd intervals, we're all secretly lost inside (at least, that's what I think).

My iTunes is on shuffle right now (it often is. It's not easy to choose from roughly a thousand songs sometimes. And it's fun to rediscover songs when they get played) so I'm just typing out whatever comes to mind at the moment.

Cat Steven's 'Matthew and Son' reminds me of home, 'cause my dad used to sing it all the time. It was kinda like one of the few songs he can't forget how to play, so whenever he picked up a guitar he'd play it (another of those songs was 'Wonderful Tonight', if I remember correctly. My dad's repertoire is pretty limited, but I'm totally proud of him all the same).

It's fun that way.

Plenty of stuff happened today, definitely.

English was probably the epic-est 'cause of that commercial skit we had to present today.

Advertised sports drinks, mineral water, coffee, microwaveable pizza, weight loss chicken wings, weight loss drinks, the iKnife, PSLE tuition, headphones, and saliva.

Guest teacher who was there to give us marks probably came to a conclusion that 305 really likes drinks, is extremely weight-conscious, has a thing for Justin Bieber, and in general, is terribly, awfully, horribly lame.

Absolutely loved Joo Kee and Chee Seng's commercial(s) on some fictitious brand of mineral water. Oh the Justin Bieber references.

Oh man we're so lame. I love that we're lame.

All right, better go off now.

Sleep, or Sherlock Holmes? Hmm. Hard decision.

P.S. Joo Kee: *throws bottle across room* "Whoops, I dropped it."

Pendekar Bujang Lapok.

Oh my gee. Oh my gee. Oh my gee. Oh my gee. Oh my gee.

Watching 'Pendekar Bujang Lapok' right now and it's awesome. Seriously, ia memang tak masuk akal. But seriously, lucu lah.

The wonders of Malay comedy. I love it.

The last time I watched any P. Ramlee was probably many, many years ago. Hardly remember anything, but man it's great now that I'm rewatching it.

I love the black and white, I love the really lame script, I love how the actors act in such an endearing manner (it's so cute).

Man, those were the days.

Who needs iPads and PS3s when you've got good old-fashioned humour?

Anyway, school today was a relatively short day.

Had Math (after six Math-less days) and revisited our best friend Trigo.

Had Geog and watched weird YouTube videos on Mount St Helens.

Had Physics and was introduced to the "zeroth" law, which is just common sense translated into equations.

Had English, and didn't do our commercial skit ('cause it's apparently tomorrow).

Then came back, played The Sims 3, browsed the internet a bit, wasted time during study time talking about this book we're going to write, and now I'm back here watching 'Pendekar Bujang Lapok'.

Ah, life's good when you don't have things to do that are due the next day.

Adieu.

P.S. Now that I've watched it, I do not want to be acting as Ros. No way, man.

Fasting.

Hey blogosphere.

Don't you hate those days when your brain doesn't seem to be functioning at all? I hate them.

It's like you're trying and trying and yet you just can't get anything done right and you don't know why and you feel horribly frustrated because somehow you know how to do something but you just can't process it into coherent thoughts.

Yeah, I think I might be having one of those days.

And I have this feeling my mum's going to call me again to tell me about the importance of breakfast.

I wish I had more time to do other things. Things other than work and work and more work.

Yeah, I'm just another student speaking.

Anyway, on a lighter note, Ramadhan's started.

The feeling of Ramadhan in Brunei is great, but over here it's just "meh, okay, you're fasting".

It's sometimes fun to come from a Muslim country 'cause the Chinese people get to feel the Raya (Aidilfitri) feelin' and it's like a second CNY, which is awesome (oh the good food).

So yeah, selamat berpuasa to everyone (especially all my homies back home, love you guys and miss you guys loads).

Adieu.

P.S. Oh yeah, I am so Chinese.

Glass of water.

Woke up today feeling all, "OMG there's still no school today", but that feeling's kinda worn off 'cause honestly, without school, I have nothing better to do than sit here and watch YouTube videos and play The Sims 3 all afternoon.

Speaking of YouTube videos, here's one that really got me amazed. Being able to draw well is probably one of the coolest talents out there. Pencil, paper, and you're ready to go.

I think some people were just born to be able to do what they love to do so well, they can make a living out of it.

And thanks to YouTube, a lot of these people get discovered. It's funny that ten years or so ago they wouldn't have had all these opportunities to showcase their talent (a lot of these people include a certain Mr Bieber, unfortunately, so I'm having second thoughts as to whether I should be using the word "talent" here).

I'm thinkin' here that I spend too much time on YouTube.

I love the sound of Michael Bublé's voice. Just felt like saying that.

I would seriously consider going out with any guy who can sing and play the guitar like Jason Mraz does. I kid you not. Have you ever seen Jason Mraz sing live? He's an entertainer, all right.

But who am I kidding? It's a lost cause.

Back to school tomorrow. Back to normalcy.

Need to get stuff done. Bleh, stuff.

Adieu.

P.S. The more I read 'Sherlock Holmes' the more I think of Robert Downey Jr solving crimes in an Ironman suit. It's frightening.

Dragons.

Meet my dragon. He's a pro-gay dragon. Which means that if you're a homophobe, he'll eat you.

Yeah, just goes to show how jobless I am over this long weekend.

Nah, I kid. Was pretty productive today.

Finished off Chem worksheet 4 (had a bit of help from MJ for the calculation bits, but other than that I can safely say I followed instructions and completed the questions by myself).

Took a look at Physics to try to continue where I left off last Saturday, but gave up and drew aforementioned dragon instead (and realised that the muscle build between a dragon's body and a feline's is quite similar, actually. But we'll never really know for sure).

Personally, I think it'd be seriously cool if dragons really existed. I mean, if they didn't go around killing or eating people or kidnapping princesses like they do in stories then yeah, having dragons around would be awesome.

But then again, us being the problematic, troublesome humans we are, we'd probably mess up the relationship between humans and dragons and boomz we'd all get obliterated.

Or it could be like, "Hey dude, equal rights for all or my dragon eats you," which would be one of the greatest things to happen ever.

Nah, it would suck if we started abusing the pure awesomeness of dragons, so change of mind there.

Dragons, you can remain as myths, please.

Okay, enough about dragons for now.

Better go off to do something more useful.

Adieu.

P.S. Syaf recommends I get watercolours. I think so too.

Straight but not narrow.

Making plans for tomorrow, but they're not really working out.

Seriously feel like going out alone and getting a beanie like Nazihah's (I absolutely adore Zeh's beanie; it looks awesome).

But I dunno, who knows, I don't.

Anyway, went out today with a bunch of the Bruneians (Emily, Wardah, Syaf, Fatinn, Nazihah, Yee Rou, Wan Shen, Insan, Nicholas and Faiz).

Had lunch, then watched 'Street Dance' at Marina Square. Thought it was quite good, 'cause I like dance ('cause I find it seriously cool). So, so much badassery.

Oh, and there was George Sampson and Diversity too, so yeah, pretty badass.

So, um, let's talk about something more significant in the world other than me going out to watch a movie.

I think same-sex marriage should be legal. Yeah, there you go, I'm out with it.

Honestly, I don't understand what's so wrong about it.

So two people of the same gender love each other and want to make the same lifetime commitments as straight couples because getting married is a huge leap forward into a relationship.

If you really loved someone, you would want to be with them until the end of your days, you want them to know that, and you'd want assurance that they feel the same way about you. What better way to do so than to get married? Like, really, why should we want to stop them? What good reason is there to prevent two people in love from getting married?

'Quoting from the Massachusetts case that paved the way for Judge Walker's ruling, he said: "Civil marriage is at once a deeply personal commitment to another human being and a highly public celebration of the ideals of mutuality, companionship, intimacy, fidelity, and family. Marriage fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity. Civil marriage is an esteemed institution and the decision whether and whom to marry is among life's momentous acts of self-definition."'

-Excerpt from this CCN article, dated August 5th.

So, yeah. Bring forth any argument you'd like, because I'm standing my ground on this one.

Inception.

Watching a bunch of music videos on YouTube right now, 'cause as I've probably mentioned before, I really like to watch guys sing (it's a strange thing I do, please don't mind me).

Is it possible to fall in love with a band all over again? 'Cause I think I just did.

Saw this video right here (MCR's 'I'm Not Okay') and I realised that heck, I've missed being completely crazy over MCR.

Hey, I was thirteen once (man, you really do start to define yourself when you're thirteen. Trust me, I've been there).

When I was thirteen, I realised something: I wanted life to take me places. I just kinda wanted to not stay by the sidelines all my life. I wanted to do something with my time here, you know. Something worth being remembered for, something people would look up to me for. Or that I would be able to make a living doing something I enjoyed (personally, I dislike office jobs very, very much). Or both.

Yeah, when you dream, you gotta dream big. Naïve, younger self didn't know that it's not easy to have life simply bring you where you want to go. It kinda blows when you realise you're not just good enough at anything to accomplish what you want to accomplish in life, but somewhere down there, deep inside of me, there's a teeny fragment of myself that still hopes hard, that one day, I'll make the impact I want to make on the world.

Anyway, speaking of dreaming, we (Woan Chyi, Syaf, Kelvin, Wee Thean and I) went out to watch 'Inception' at Vivo after our National Day celebration (was on duty, and ran out of battery halfway through so I've got this ten minute gap in my footage).

And man, it was good. It's so good, I'll say it again: 'Inception' is so good.

Honestly speaking, it was probably one of the awesomest movies I've seen this year. It's not one of those movies where you can just sit back and watch, but it's one of those that flow with an amazing pace and have you hooked right from the beginning till the end.

I loved 'Inception' because it makes you think. It makes you think and it makes you question, and it's all so well performed and directed you kinda step out of the movie all dazed and then don't stop thinking about it for hours or so later on.

Mum, if you're reading this, go watch it with dad, it's brilliant. Totally worth two and a half hours. And don't bring your son.

All right, gotta go now.

Night.

P.S. Long weekend. Whee.

Equilibrium.

Okay, mystery of the week has been solved.

Been wondering where my Chem notes on alcohols, esters and carboxylic acids went, 'cause it somehow mysteriously disappeared over the weekend and I couldn't find it for Chem yesterday.

I mean, I'm such a *cough* responsible *cough* person, there's no way I'd have lost my notes just like that. And so I searched everywhere, and asked our study time group if they'd taken it ('cause most of the time if anything goes missing it's 'cause one of us took it by mistake), but it wasn't anywhere to be seen. So very perplexing.

Then Kian Wee texted me on MSN just now and problem solved, he's got my notes.

Oh God, people need to stop mistaking my notes for their own.

Anyway, today went down pretty nicely, 'cause we spent two hours in the lab balancing rulers on retort stands with weights for our Physics prac, had no Malay, spent ACE playing some random quiz thing on the history of Singapore, two hours in an air-conditioned room for Bio (I love Bio), and an hour and a half listening to some mathematical talk on logic and infinity.

I like Physics, but my mind can't seem to be able to stand all the numbers. I think Mr Yeo was pretty bored, with nothing to do but watch us fail at tying weights to rulers and then trying to find equilibrium.

Spent non-existent Malay in the canteen finishing up the prac and eating cheese fries. Insan bought some, then I bought some, then Woan Chyi bought some, then Faiz bought some, and then Insan and I decided to share some more, and then Yos bought some. So yeah, epic cheese fries spam.

Bio was fun, 'cause I like Bio, and that we kept making really lame jokes about Math (actually we do that most of the time, but then we started talking about sine graphs and whatnot).

The talk was weird. Maybe if I was more Math savvy I'd have found it more interesting and not so "yeah-I-know-we-can't-count-infinity-please-stop-talking". Hmm. Who knows.

But I liked the dude giving the talk 'cause he sounded so awfully excited and enthusiastic about sharing with us, so no, I wouldn't call it a complete waste of time.

Going to go off now. Have a Chem quiz to read for.

Adieu.

P.S. Yeah, I'll be braiding my hair to school tomorrow. Please don't die of shock or surprise or laughter. Thank you.

Love.

I'm sad.

I'm disappointed.

I'm incredibly unhappy.

I am most distressed.

I'm angry, even.

But there is no way I'm going to ignore this.

And here's why I'm so upset: "International Burn A Quran Day".

Apparently this Christian group in Florida have decided to commemorate 9/11 by burning copies of the Quran. Like, dude, how is that going to help with anything? What were they thinking?

I don't understand. Would it make them feel better about themselves? Would it make them look good? Would it settle all the world's problems? Would it clear up everything humanity has botched up over the past millennia?

This is so uncool.

This is totally going to send wrong messages and misconceptions firing across the globe (via the internet, of course). People are going to feel disgusted at Christians just because a certain few of them decided to come up with this unfathomably horrid idea, and all this ignorance concerning other religions is just really bad for health.

Maybe people are channeling all their anger and hatred wrongly. I don't know. It's ridiculous.

Whatever happened to "love thy neighbour as thyself"?

Well, this blows.

Signing off with this rough sketch of a swan (just in case you can't tell what it is).

Adieu.

P.S. I read that the aforementioned group is also extremely anti-homosexual. Kejahilan benar.

Curisoity.

Took me ages to log into Blogger 'cause of the horribly atrocious internet connection we've got here (has anyone realised that I haven't complained about the internet connection in a long, long, time? Well yeah, it's about time I did).

I'm going to go straight to the point with this post: Volleyball hurts. Bad.

Why on earth do I find myself finding hitting balls over a net in the netball court addictive? It's like there's something wrong with me. And thanks to my stupidly masochistic tendencies, my arms are all bruised because I really can't play volleyball right. Either that, or I bruise ridiculously easily. I don't know.

Honestly, how do people enjoy it?

One more week to go and I'll be free of volleyball (till whenever we do volleyball again, that is, and I hope it's not soon).

Did that DISC survey thing during mentoring. Mr Yeo surprisingly knew what to do (we all saw him sleeping during the briefing; we think it's 'cause he stayed up all night playing Starcraft II).

So yeah, went down to the free access lab, sat around, talked, answered 24 questions, had computer problems, sprayed a whole lot of deo, made a lot of noise, got our lives evaluated and that was it.

Nothing much.

Although I have to admit, I'm quite looking forward to the results when we get 'em back, you know, just out of curiosity (or should I say, "curisoity"?).

Okay, I best be off now.

Adieu.

P.S. Lisa Simpson got married? No wonder she's been trending on Twitter all day. Apparently an episode aired in 1995 showed an invitation to Lisa's wedding, dated 1st August 2010, which was yesterday. Now that's seriously cool.

P.P.S. Twitter, keeps me in touch with the outside world. Sad.

Budapest 2010

I can't stop smiling to myself like an idiot because I'm listening to this, Colbie Caillat's version of 'The Little Mermaid''s 'Kiss The Girl'. (Syaf was like, "Oh my God you're high," and yes I think I am.) If only she sang it with a certain Jamaican accent.

Fatinn asked when I sent her the link, "Since when did you listen to female vocalists?"

Well, I do, sometimes, but only very rarely.

But I digress. I miss my childhood. Classic animated Disney movies make me feel happy. Like this: :)

Feeling really jazzy right now, 'cause I somehow happened to have 'The Princess and the Frog' in my iTunes for some strange reason (I have absolutely no idea how on earth it got there), so I rewatched it. Mmm, great movie.

Movies don't need to be in 3D to be awesome. Why don't people understand that? Personally, I don't like watching movies in 3D 'cause I can't really see any difference, and that it costs a significantly larger amount than regular non-3D movies that are equally good. As long as you've got good content, I don't think anybody really cares about whether a movie is in 3D or not. So unless people have really perfected the art of 3D projection, there's no way I'll be voluntarily watching any other 3D movie till then.

Apart from watch YouTube and the aforementioned movie, I spent my entire Sunday listening to songs, playing songs, and um, being in the Music Room teaching Fatinn how to play 'Semua Tentang Kita' on the guitar.

Yeah, a rather music themed day today.

Woke up to the sound of heavy rain and thunder and lightning and I was like, "Yesss" 'cause I love rain.

And the weather today's been consistently great 'cause it's cool and shady and everything I love about the weather.

And because it rained I spent my entire morning listening to 'Sunday Morning' (the acoustic and album versions) and playing it myself (choppily, because I suck that way). (You know, the line "Sunday mornin' rain is fallin'.)

Woohoo.

Feeling so, so good. Mm yeah. (Oh God, I really am high.)

Okay, F1 time (this means non-F1 followers please look away now).

I have to admit, Red Bull is stronger and faster than Ferrari in performance, but Ferrari is so coming back. 1-3 to 2-4 means that the front of the field is totally dominated by Red Bull and Ferrari (they may have the better car but we've got the better drivers).

I think Alonso's second place was fortunate, 'cause if Vettel hadn't gotten the drive-through penalty for safety car infringement it would've been a Red Bull one-two.

And Massa drove a really good race, despite the car being significantly slower than Red Bull's. Managed to close in on Vettel to around 5 s before the race ended.

And about that safety car, oh God, I really don't like the safety car right now.

Alguesuari started leaking something out of his car, and then the safety car came out, and then everyone pitted, and then there was this huge mess where Kubica ran into Sutil (and earned himself a stop-go penalty) and Rosberg's tyre flew off in the pit lane and then Webber didn't stop and ended up winning the race.

So yeah, that was about it.

Oh, and Hamilton had to retire 'cause of some car problem (didn't quite clarify).

Gotta go now.

Haz stuff teh do (like read Sherlock Holmes).

Night.

P.S. Did I mention how much I loved today's weather? I love today's weather.