Emma.

Taking a break from Bio (I take too many breaks, actually) to come here and blog.

Didn't post yesterday because I was tired. What is this. It's only the start of the week. I'm supposed to be feeling refreshed and alive from the weekend, but instead I feel worse and with every passing hour I wish it were the weekend again.

But then again, I wish it wouldn't be, so then deadlines wouldn't seem so close.

But then again, we'd be over with a Cell Bio quiz, Chem test, and a Physics test which I am deathly afraid of failing.

Oh insecurities.

Help me.

Spent yesterday with girls, because that's what I do, I'm a girl and I have to hang out with girls sometimes. Got nothing done. Have a Physics report to write. I'm rambling. My mind is in a state of "what are you doing get back to studying but oh no I think I'm pushing myself into overdrive you're an idiot for procrastinating".

Oh yeah talk about stress.

E-learning today, so no school. Spent most of my time on the internet, which I guess fulfills that requirement. Thankful for the massive cut-down of workload from last year's e-learning, but that just gives us more of an excuse to go online and slack.

Tried to film. Tried. Did. Took a forever. Laptop dying. Brain dying. Can't talk in proper sentences.

I'm scared.

Of failure.

Okay.

See you.

I've got meiotic and mitotic processes to familiarise myself with.

P.S. Why do I keep feeling as if I'm missing out on something? Constantly. I don't know why. It's like I'm forgetting something but I don't know what.

P.P.S. Congratulations to my aunt and uncle for the safe delivery of their latest baby. She's going to be adorable and awesome, I swear.

Melbourne 2011.

Listening to Maroon 5's latest album, 'Hands All Over', right now, 'cause I realised you could download entire albums of Mediafire. Oh man I'm slow, but better late than never.

It's quite good, actually. Listening to Maroon 5 albums make you feel good. Their songs have this feel to it, and Adam Levine's voice makes everything so smooth and strangely sexy in that high-pitched way. Good stuff, man, good stuff.

Maroon 5 is coming in April, and I really, really want to attend their concert. The trouble is that it's on a Monday, and I'm unsure whether the hostel would let us go. And if we were to wait for them to approve our application, all the tickets would probably run out. How fun. Stuck in a dilemma.

Might as well just not go.

I hate that when the process becomes so unappealing, it just puts you off.

But yeah, this is only Maroon 5. I love Maroon 5, but yeah, I probably can live with them coming over and me not going to see them. I mean, I survived missing Green Day, amongst others.

Perhaps if MCR came over. I'd probably kill to attend that concert. I feel as if my life wouldn't ever be complete if I didn't watch them live. I love them to bits.

So yeah, spent all day attempting to do stuff for all those quizzes and tests we have coming up, while trying to catch up with F1.

Yeahp, the season's started. Realised yesterday before qualifying started that the Live Timing applet from formula1.com wouldn't run, which really did frustrate me.

Ended up using other live commentary sites instead. Mm yeah.

It still kinda sucks to not be able to watch the race live. It's never the same, staring at words and bunches of numbers on a screen in complete silence. I need the sound of those revving engines.

Results, results. Oh God, Red Bull are insanely fast, but take a look at the fastest laps and you realise Ferrari managed to sneak a few in as well. Fastest lap goes to Massa (who goes up to seventh 'cause both Saubers got disqualified).

Congratulations to Vettel for his first win of the season, and to Petrov for his first podium position for Renault. Excellent performance on his behalf. Hamilton got second with a damaged undertray for running over grass.

Alonso's race died after a bad start, but managed to obtain a fourth place behind Petrov. Good racing from him, definitely.

Perez is definitely my driver of the day. Ran his first race on only one pit stop, and surprisingly, squeezed in a fastest lap with his Sauber. Pity him and Kobayashi got disqualified. We're definitely going to keep an eye on him.

Okay, going off now. Tomorrow's the start of a new week and I don't want to die from a lack of sleep.

Night.

P.S. Kimi's absence is felt greatly. F1 just isn't the same without the Iceman.

Heath Ledger.

Listening to 'Apologize' right now, and it sickens me to know how I've almost forgotten how beautiful it is. I remember how much we used to like this song back when it came out a few years ago.

"It's too lateeee" was like "It's Friday Friday" now, except it lasted longer and had a thousand times more musical ingenuity.

And since I procrastinate so much, my playlist has moved onto Muse. Oh yeah, Muse. My love for Muse is still going strong, I have to admit. Brilliant band.

Watched 'The Dark Knight' this morning. Yeah, call me slow, but Christian Bale.

Heath Ledger was so amazing and convincing, every time The Joker showed up I'd get chills. Oh so good. And dedicated to his role.

And I feel horrible for watching it so late after its release. But hey, better late than never.

I love comic book superhero movies. And with Christopher Nolan everything just gets better.

Then did like, stuff. Should be more productive, so it's a short post for today.

Adieu.

P.S. I find watching Christian Bale interviews a bit unnerving, because it's like he can't seem to be able to settle on an accent.

Odyssey.

Yay it's a Friday (and I thank Rebecca Black for making it such a big, big thing) again.

The strangest thing is that how today feels like the start of another week of holidays. But it's not, and our week of holidays has only just ended. Term 2 Week 1 is officially over, and it's felt like a ridiculous continuation of Term 1.

Deadlines are approaching, I'm doomed, but it's a Friday night. Give me some time, yes.

Just got back from 'Odyssey' (that's what our annual Music department concert is called this year). Not filming, for once. I'm so proud of Media people. Always there to lend a hand and make sure things go smoothly. Also just realised that the big video camera could be connected to the projector to show whatever the camera's taking on stage. Cool.

And yeah, the school orchestra was awesome, and the lucky draw was awesome fun. Nikki won a portable DVD player (probably one of the most obsolete pieces of technology right now), and Wang Bo magically won a Wii set, which he chose to donate it to the hostel.

If only we had won both the television and the Wii. If only.

So school today. Had Cell Bio. Tetrahymena are so bloody cute. Saw them swimming around, and felt kinda bad afterwards for intentionally killing them for the sake of Science and counting the number of coloured cells they'd nom-ed (or engulfed).

Then got released early during Math. Which is ridiculously rare, given our Math teacher is Mr Chia. Imaginary numbers are strange. I honestly don't see the point in it, but whatever. i is fun, in some ways.

Was confused during Physics. Waves. Oh waves.

Spent CCA time watching random videos (especially 'Friday' and its follow-up parody 'Saturday) and attempting to autotune.

Okay, need to go off now. Want to watch 'The Dark Knight' 'cause KT lent me the DVD and I still haven't seen it yet. Does that count as deprived?

P.S. Hostel life is awesome when school ends late.

Imaginary.

Oh my goodness, another week has gone by and 'Rebecca Black' is still trending on Twitter.

It's funny, because it's like a decade or so ago news like this would've taken a month to spread the extent it's reached now, but I seem to be finding some people talking about how 'Friday' is such old news. Already. Like dude, it's only been a week. Let us have some fun.

I think it's good that we can find fun, even when it seems as if the world is a dark and dreary place sometimes. Earthquakes have just struck Myanmar, and it's frighteningly close in vicinity to where we are now.

And frighteningly close to the Japanese earthquake, which happened almost a fortnight ago. It's scary. Yeah, 2012. Yeah, Mayans. I bet you can't wait to say "I told you so".

Death, destruction, disease, disasters, everywhere. Why? What's going on?

Well, the earth's shifting. Again. Tectonic plate movements. They happen. But with such frequency? That's what's freaking many of us out.

We are not prepared.

But yeah, let's talk about other things.

PE today was surprisingly relaxing and non-vigorous. Did five rounds (2.0 km) only, and it was like, epic easy jogging. Talked all the way with Deborah, about random stuff, and about what happened to 203. Oh man, it makes me miss 03 when we bring up memories. Seems like a bloody long time ago, but when you think about it, it's only been two years.

It's strange how our perception of time is twisted. Some things seem like yesterday, some days seem to take forever to end, but some events seem so distant but yet so close. It's funny.

Had Malay. Made up some weird story that concerned a bit of Geog. Loved Faiz and Ahmad's story though.

Geog test was okay-ish. Got released early, attempted to rub it in the faces of the History people, then realised they got released before we did. It's depressing.

Have to admit I wasn't paying much attention during English. Whoops.

Math was fun. I like Mr Chia. He says the funniest things. Mathematicians really do have too much time on their hands, don't they?

Okay, going off now.

Sleeep.

P.S. Oh subject specialisation. Time to do something about it before the indecisiveness kicks in.

Field trip.

Listening to MCR on a higher-than-usual volume right now, 'cause sometimes you just have to clear your mind and let the MCR-ness embrace your soul. Mm yeah. Now my soul feels good.

Also, found out this morning that they've released 'Planetary (Go!)' as their latest single, complete with music video here. Gee's hair still looks ridiculously awesome.

So yeah, school today. Rained early in the morning, but was still pretty humid, which means that it'll probably rain heavier and longer sometime soon. Hope this humidity doesn't keep up. Don't like it that way.

Had no class early in the morning. Non-existent Malay, leading to a break all the way till 11. Oh yeah, felt good to just sit there and talk about nothing in particular.

And it also feels good to not have class when everyone else is.

Chem was fine. I like Mrs Chong. She bears our lameness with great composure. It's fun.

Then went on a field trip during Econs (I have a feeling plenty of people didn't realise it was today either) to the Marina Bay City Gallery, where we looked at stuff. I'm not quite sure what it has to do with what we're learning in Econs now, but I liked the architectural planning stuff and all those fancy-looking display things. Oh yeah, I lack the vocabulary to properly name them.

Speaking of lacking, English (the module) is making me feel sad. I know I shouldn't let it get to me 'cause I know my English isn't that horribly atrocious, but it just hurts inside to be terrible at a subject you once thought was your only hope. Whatever happened?

I figure it's not me, it's them. Lowering our self-esteem like that. It's confusing.

Okay, I'm going off to read notes for our Bio D quiz tomorrow. Oh man I adore Bio D.

Adieu.

P.S. 'Friday' is still a big thing. Oh please die down already.

Coincidences.

Oh dear God, talk about a small world, yes?

So all that Disneyland brainwashing wasn't for nothing after all, was it? Like, dude, I'm so amazed at all the epicness that's happened today.

Oh so so amazed.

People who went on the exchange trip to Brunei have come back, and according to Thao, according to Fatinn, it went awesomely and they happened to meet Dr Sun at The Mall (yeahp, our one and only).

What a coincidence, huh?

I'm totally amazed.

The last time NUSH people went on an exchange trip to Brunei, I met them at The Mall too, and then at MS the day after. It's such a tiny place, where else would you go? Oh it's so cute.

So yeah, first day of Term 2 today.

English, then Math, then Physics.

Then did this rhythm thing as part of our "Aesthetic Appreciation Programme" during assembly.

Then went for CCA and tried to script for our M&Mentary. Hoping we can get it up by April Fool's, but I have a feeling it's going to take a lot of rushing to get there. Perhaps not then, but if we can it'd be epic.

Bio Bio Bio. I love Bio D.

I don't know what I want to drop next year. Thought of dropping Physics. I might. Who knows. Thought of majoring Geog. I might. Who knows. Sigh. I'm not sure of what I'm good at and what I suck at anymore. Things are changing and I'm confused.

Maybe it's because I put more effort into subjects I know I suck at. Maybe.

Oh this could qualify as subject discrimination. Equality for all modules.

Night.

Slapping.

How strange is it that hostel wifi lets us create new posts on Blogger but doesn't let us post them?

It's like, giving somebody money and then telling them not to spend them.

Strange.

Waiting for roll call while I type this out, 'cause I want it to be done fast and therefore have set myself a time limit. Helps with the procrastination.

Been procrastinating a tonne lately.

School starts tomorrow. I'm okay with that, actually. Back to time flying past ridiculously fast again, and back to work work work. And more work. Sounds fun.

Spent yesterday at Funan mall with Fatinn, looking for a new video camera. It doesn't record in HD (I sort of maybe do regret it, but that's okay) but it has an awesome 78x optical zoom, which is brilliant for stalking. So there.

Then spent today filming Wee Thean getting slapped for our new video.

Had lunch at WCP (plaza, not park) with Nikki, Jon Koo, Kelvin and Wee Thean. Wanted to film there, but decided not to.

It's funny how we can waste a tonne of time yet feel as if it was time well spent. Epic epicness, yeah.

And met a few snails while we were shooting a scene with Ji Hyun.

Vlog up here.

Snails are adorable.

Okay, going off now. Videos speak more than words, in certain ways.

Adieu.

P.S. Gratitude extended to Nikki, Ji, Yen Ling and Suen Rong for agreeing to help is out today.

Enthiran.

Yeah, I've been experiencing some time (and more recently, Internet connection) constraints lately, and been unable to post.

Past few days have seen my time being swept away by an onslaught of procrastination, eating, movie-watching, eating, discussing work, eating, doing work, eating, catching up with television shows and the Shaytards' vlogs, and eating.

Oh heck I've eaten so much. I keep telling myself it's completely acceptable to stuff my face with every single bit of food presented to me, because I only get to go back once in a few months, and without eating like a complete pig it makes me feel like I've missed out in life.

Yes, I love home cooked food, and restaurants my parents bring me to. Oh yeah, I like food. Especially home food. These are small joys in life people overlook until they leave home.

And heck, I realise it's been two full years and counting (fast) since I left home, and feelings and opinions have definitely changed. Feeling are a strange sense of belonging in our weird, nerdy school, and a stronger sense of national pride. Yeah, I'm out here to represent my country and I love it to bits, despite it being tiny and exceptionally uneventful. It's called being "peaceful", okay.

And like, it's totally okay to be living elsewhere. In fact, it's cool, even. I like it. Meet new people, see new places. It's all for the experience, and all the good we're gaining out of it makes it even better.

Okay, so like, movies and stuff.

Watched 'Rango' on Tuesday with my mum and brother. Was kinda weirded out at first, but yeah, wasn't bad at all. Kinda makes you want to truly know the answer to "Who are you?" Who am I? Something. Definitely something. And Johnny Depp's voice? Mm yeah, that's all I have to say about that.

Watched 'Enthiran' today with Wee Thean, Kelvin, Jon Koo and Wei Ren. Was supposed to do some filming, but abandoned our plans 'cause our chicks wouldn't show up.

And wow, it was just wow. Like, wow. It was my first full-length Indian movie, to be honest with you, and I thought it was just wow. So that's what happens when Bollywood gets ridiculously high budgets. It was pretty great and definitely epic (epic enough to get onto RWJ), but the dance sequences. Oh the dance sequences.

I think if we'd had watched it individually, we'd have skipped all the dance sequences (that seem to pop up at the weirdest times), but since we watched it together we kind of forbade ourselves to fast forward. Epic, yeah they were epic.

And Glee, oh I have to talk about Glee. Spoiler alert, but I have to say it. Blaine and Kurt. Finally. Oh homosexual acceptance. Yay.

Night.

Rebecca Black.

Oh lord, what has blind commercialism and wannabe teenagers done to the world?

Horrible, horrible, pointless things, that's what.

Wei Ren sent me this link to a music video I will gladly never watch again (I closed the window two minutes into the awfulness that followed) shortly before it went viral and started trending on Twitter.

According to this article, the only reason why the music video to her oh-so-eruditely written "song" (it doesn't even qualify as a song in my books) seemed to have a slightest hint of professionalism in it was because her parents were rich enough to fund her biggest dreams.

This makes me sad.

The money could've gone to, let's say, charities, or poorer, less fortunate people. Some things some people could've thought of, and some things some people could've thought of to teach their children. But no, it had to go to making people like me sad, because that's definitely how I felt when I watched it.

You know those times when you don't know whether to laugh because it was so bad, or to cry for a lost cause. What has the world come to, man?

As xkcd so blatantly put it, we're totally losing out to the old times. So much for advancement in all areas.

We're definitely losing it here.

Losing it.

Oh no.

Tweaking a script on Google docs now, so catch you later.

Night.

Cargo belt.

I know this is wrong, but I'm currently downloading Pokémon Black and White. You know, out of curiosity. So much for condemning the latest generation of Pokémon and vowing not to touch anything beyond the first generation (although I did play Emerald).

Oh this is so, so, wrong.

Also, illegal. I feel bad now.

Anyway, didn't post yesterday 'cause we had this leadership workshop thing that lasted all day, and then I had to catch a flight back. As we all know, travel is tiring, and packing last-minute is hectic, so therefore no post.

So yeah, filler half of the post coming right up.

What goes through my mind when I wait for my luggage at cargo belts:

- Not mine.

- Not mine.

- Not mine.

- Not m- holy sh*t what happened to that? Looks like it got run over by a truck.

- Not mine.

- Not mine.

- Heck, why can't I ever be one of those people who catch sight of their luggage the second they step up to the cargo belt?

- Stupidly lucky people.

- That's okay, I'm patient. Patience is a virtue.

- Not mine.

- Not mine.

- Wait is that mine? Oh no it's not. Sigh.

- Why oh why didn't I hand carry instead? WHY?

- Not mine.

- Not mine.

- I'mma make a prediction: The next five pieces of luggage aren't mine.

- Yeah, I was right.

- Not mine.

- Still not mine.

- Aaagh.

- Patience is a virtue, patience is a virtue.

- Heck, look at the stuff some people buy. Suspicious-looking bag there, funky-shaped case, black briefcases. No surprise security nowadays is tight.

- Not mine.

- Not mine.

- Not mi- Oh my gosh is that it? I daren't hope but YES it's mine.

- Finally.

- Hah watch me coolly grab hold of my suitcase and leave.

- In your faces, the rest of you poor, unfortunate souls.

- Hahahahahahah

Yeah, waiting for luggage in the middle of the night gets to you, man.

Numbness.

House carnival today.

Fun, but let's have a moment of silence.

The world accepts this news with numbing silence.

Condolences.

These things happen, you know. Natural disasters. These things have been happening for a long, long time. The incidents that matter are those we actually have control of. Like those riots and genocides and wars. Those we can prevent, given we stick to our ethics and have morals and believe in peace and have hope.

And all this other stuff, we can't do anything about.

It kills us inside to not be able to do anything, but that's just the way things are.

Moving on... That's how the world does it.

Moving on.

Stonefish.

Just finished writing my DV commentaries on burying pigs in snow and some article about skunks that's really full of bull (but is actually rather entertaining, 'cause it comes from this website).

Awesomely randomly funny highly inaccurate scientific research articles make me smile.

It's funny how we come to accept whatever's presented to us with big, important-looking words without looking stuff up beforehand. Yeah, we have the right to question. Totally.

Anyway, today's a Wednesday 'cause yesterday was a Thursday (I might not be making any sense here, but you have to bear with our school's constant timetable-swapping).

Had Bio D, with yet another practical to go along with it. Bio D practicals aren't really practicals. They're basically made up of us answering a few questions, sketching a few diagrams, a bit of labeling here and there, and we're done.

I think I might have briefly revisited my love for insects this morning. I remember those times when I'd (nerdily) sit and read countless books on insects, arachnids, myriapods, you name it. I'd leaf through books of animals, and I'd spend so much time looking at pictures and trying to draw them out.

Whatever happened? I grew busy, that's what happened. Sometimes we just have to give things up when we realise they aren't as important to us anymore. I love animals, yes I do, but there's work and socialising to keep up with.

Time management, once again, comes back to haunt us.

All right, going off now.

Want to read this book I've been reading for the past few weeks, two pages a night. It's awesome. Now I've got more time to read and I want to use that time well.

Adieu.

P.S. Congrats to NUSHS for winning many awards for SSEF.

P.P.S. It's become an annual thing, this "wander around the Science Centre then have Macs before going home" thing.

Compromising.

I can't sign into MSN, Youtube videos take forever to load (and end up not loading at all), and a new episode of Glee is out that I won't be able to watch, but whatever.

It's okay, I'm cool.

I must slowly, oh so agonisingly, slowly tear myself away from the Internet. In order to survive in this horrible world of work work work and no play and no Internet addiction either, this is what must happen.

But, oh but, this is also what's keeping me alive. The Internet. It's making me feel connected, in touch with the rest of the world, with what's coming and going and with everyone else on the Internet.

The depressing truth is that I've got highly dependent on it.

Typing this post out fast so I can resume using my LAN cable and forgo Twitter and blog post-posting until tomorrow.

So yeah, my ass kind of aches right now, partly because of PE, and partly because Rania and MJ just really like to slap me on the ass when I'm not looking. I'd file for molestation, but I'm nice that way.

PE was fun, but at times simply pointless. New PE teacher tried to disguise NAPFA training as a game involving water bombs, and resulted in us carrying buckets of water to and fro and running around with our water bombs.

Got all sore and wet, but yeah wasn't bad at all. Felt good to get water slopped all over you when the sun's scorching your head. Mm yeah.

Spent ages doing a crossword puzzle (the one we made two weeks ago) during Malay. Hard, hard, hard. It's like our (or mine, rather) vocabulary just really sucks. Time to up the game.

Geog was, well, Geog-ish. Mrs Lim's down with the flu, so we went over to the free access lab to plot a population pyramid and answer some questions.

Watched 'The Social Network' during English. I've been wanting to watch it for quite a while now, but the one Mr Chin showed us was a cut (and censored) version, and therefore I still don't feel satisfied.

But yeah, I liked the general flow of the movie, but I kinda also do want to know how accurate it is. Events get blown up for movies, yeah.

Math was slightly confusing at first, but managed to get what Mr Chia was talking about in the end, thankfully.

Going off now. Need LAN.

Night.

P.S. One of the best feelings in the world: Hot showers in cold weather, cold showers in hot weather.

The Human League

Here we are, more shameless advertising coming your way.

Go and check out our video on YouTube, because we've put work into this, and we really want to showcase our epic lameness. No planning, nothing. We just met and decided to film things. Yes, these things just do happen.

School today was easy on us.

Malay first thing in the morning. Went through our test paper, and then did another paper from some other school. Got super agitated because they wrote "hati" in the passage when they meant "jantung". Honestly, I don't understand why people refer to their heart as "hati". Medically speaking, "hati" means liver. Oh you totally broke my liver, man. That makes sense.

Chem came after that. Spent two hours going through the DIY questions in our notes. Got harassed and harassed right back, because that's the way we roll in class. Totally prevents us from falling asleep though (I'm not sure if that's a good thing, 'cause Mrs Chong kept calling us "studious" and kept making us do more questions).

Econs test was one of the best tests ever, 'cause it's basically a test on common sense (not that I have much, but you get the idea). It was almost like a feel-good test. Like after you do it, you feel good about yourself for the rest of the day.

Mm yeah, great feeling, that.

Stayed back and helped strip bottles and paint banners with a bunch of people for the house carnival on Friday. Now I know for sure that Aisyah is always hungry, 'cause she kept saying she was.

All right, feeling sleepy, so I be off now.

Adieu.

P.S. Do you want to know what's annoying? Our hostel Internet connection, that's what.

Exporting.

Listening to 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' movie soundtracks right now, 'cause squeaky voices have a certain appeal to them.

Still waiting for our video to be exported, but that's okay 'cause I'm patient that way. We all are, except that sometimes when you think about how strangely awesome our video is, you kind of want to explode with excitement.

I've definitely got to learn how to prioritise. Cyberwellness (which isn't even a word) during our Physics-turned-ACE today kinda reminded me of how being addicted to the Internet can screw up your life. And therefore I shall tell myself to stop thinking about the Internet so much.

In the meantime, check out this extremely compressed version of our video on Facebook. YouTube will probably have to wait, given extremely slow compressing and uploading time.

Oh the irony.

Okay yeah, summative assessment-ed during English, then vector-ed during Math, and then wave-ed during Physics. Edited during breaks, and then capture-the-flag-ed during the house meeting.

Go Fibo.

So much epicness.

Going off now 'cause my eyes kind of hurt from all the staring at computer screens. Maybe this is why MysteryGuitarMan wears shades.

Night.

P.S. Sarah Palin running for President? Oh no, no, no.

"Intellectual prostitutes," -John Swinton

Before I start, here's the vlog I made today, 'cause I spent most of my afternoon catching up with lost sleeping time and probably won't have much to say.

Listening to Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' right now. Don't have to really understand it, but yeah it's catchy.

Woke up early today to head over to this place where we watched people perform, sang and then ate. Bruneian Maulud Nabi celebration. Was fun, but I couldn't stop yawning, so came back and KO-ed.

I think I might be obsessed with our video (the one we filmed yesterday, and then dubbed ourselves 'The Dinner Table Crew').

It's ridiculously epic. More epic than we expected, really.

I love that I finally get to produce real videos again, and not these vlogs I edit with iMovie.

Oh man, I love exploring the possibilities open up to you when you play around with Final Cut Pro. So many things to do, so much power and manipulation.

I'm wondering if I should get my own video camera. We know from experience that (good) DSLRs take video with more depth than those mainstream handheld video cameras, but I don't think I'm looking for something that serious. Yet.

I just want something I can carry around everywhere I go so I can vlog whenever I want (which my iPod works perfectly well for, actually) and yet be good enough to film professional-looking videos.

I don't think I want to step into the vast, dangerous world of DLSRs.

But I didn't say it's not tempting.

All right, I'm going off now.

Adieu.

P.S. It's strange how when we're relieved of "hell week" (what we refer to last week as) we feel as if we've got nothing to do. No, concentration is required. Must concentrate.

Impromptu.

Oh man, I'm tired, but today's probably been the most well-spent Saturday of the year.

I mean, usually we hostel people spend our Saturdays just mulling around, going out if we have to, minding our own businesses. Or sometimes we go out together to eat or to catch a movie. Nothing much. Always have homework on our minds.

But today, oh today. Today was different.

I have a feeling that after I reveal what we did today, it's totally going to consolidate others' opinions of us being complete no-lifer nerds.

So no, I'm not going to reveal the details now, but you could go and subscribe to our newly-made YouTube channel and I can assure you that something epic be coming your way.

We call ourselves 'The Dinner Table Crew' because well, we have dinner together sometimes. And when we eat together epic things happen. Which we've decided to manifest in video form.

Oh so much awesomeness.

We didn't have anything much to do after the house carnival video shooting, and I had equipment I borrowed from CCA, so we figured why not film something epic and have some fun while we were at it.

So yeah, we came up with an idea in like, five minutes, and then built on it for a few hours before actually filming. Jon Koo, Kelvin, Wee Thean, Ahmad, Wei Ren and I are probably the most jobless people in Singapore. Who knows.

It feels good to be able to spend your afternoon in the sun without having to worry about work due or quizzes to study for.

Okay, I'm going off now. Tired, and have to wake up early tomorrow.

Night.

P.S. I really want to run After Effects.

Grim Reaper.

It's been a week, but I'm still listening to “我问天”. It's awesome that it took me this long to get what the dude's trying to sing about. Better than nothing.

Anyway, didn't post last night 'cause well, I had a tonne of stuff to do, and a Physics test to sort of study for (and thankfully didn't GG during the test today). Math journal got completed, with help from Faiz's fixative spray. Awesome stuff, that. I should get myself a can.

So about yesterday. Had PE, where we listened to our teacher talk about shoes for like, half an hour, and sprained my thumb while running. Had non-existent Malay, and where I like, fell off a bench, and then Geog, where my thumb stopped hurting as suddenly as it had started.

Then left early for this leadership series thing we agreed to attend. Spent most of the time talking to Jean and trying to make friends with people from other schools.

Got back and kind of accidentally slept through most of study time. Whoops.

Anyway, today was great, 'cause it's a Friday and all. Woke up feeling all good-spirited and high, despite very little sleep. Awesomeness.

Cell Bio was simply two hours of listening to Dr Low make lame jokes and of making lame jokes ourselves. Mm, cells. Got kind of high somewhere in the middle of the lecture, but we're high in every single class, so nothing special there.

Math was more vectors. Oh joy.

Econs, well, Econs. So glad I'm done with my EI.

Physics was great, yeah, apart from Mr Yeo standing creepily in front of me staring at my paper.

Mm yeah, CCA, then dinner out.

Going off now, 'cause I be sleepy.

Night.

P.S. Oh why oh why does life have to be so difficult? Leadership thoughts.

Graphs.

This is what I've been working on for the past week. On and off tweaking, reflection-writing, function-tabling, et cetera et cetera.

I've yet to colour it, but I guarantee you if this doesn't turn out awesome I'm going to be sad.

Is it morbid? I don't know if it's morbid, but it's the best I could come up with, given the amount of time I had (which was a lot, but trial and error led me to a little).

I wish I could've added a nose and mouth, but we're only allowed twelve functions. How sad.

Did arthropods (part I) during Bio D today, which was awesome. I love arachnids and insects and such. They're fascinating creatures. I don't know why people dislike them. I think they're absolutely amazing.

More vectors during Math. Going into 3D, but I'll be missing tomorrow's class for this leadership course we're attending, 'cause I'm curious that way. I mean, since they offered, why not?

Chem was surprisingly short, and the quiz was, well, let's not talk about that.

ACE was all about talking about what we want to be in the future. Well, yeah, I've addressed this matter way too many times before, and if you went to look at all my posts in early January one can see that I've definitely given this matter some thought. In fact, a lot of thought.

Yeah, there are certain dreams one wants to fulfill. Some short-term, some long-term. But in the long run, I want to have made an impact on the world, on its people, on its being. I want to have done something that people will remember me for, and I want it to be a good thing.

I don't want to live my life here and then disappear without leaving any trace. That would be depressing and almost meaningless. As Shakespeare's said, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." So yeah, listen to Shakespeare.

And yeah, I'm done with today's post.

Have an Econs insight to complete.

Adieu.

P.S. Da Vinci quiz shameless copying was shameless.

Born This Way.

Listening to U2's 'Electrical Storm' at the moment, because it's one beautiful song.

But yeah, as much as I try to brainwash myself with other songs, I can't stop thinking about Lady Gaga's really strange (no surprises there) 'Born This Way' music video. I thought the song was great, and that it sent out a really strong, positive message, but good God what on earth was the video trying to depict?

Some weird evilness? Rebirth? Constant birth? I am a confused soul.

Maybe one day Alex Day will interpret it like he did 'Telephone' and everything will make sense again.

Wrote a karangan at school today, 'cause it was a test and if I didn't I'd have failed. I sure hope I didn't go off-topic or anything. It's hard to stay within the lines, nowadays.

Had two hours of Chem afterwards. Paired up with Kian Wee again, 'cause that's how we roll form Chem pracs. Did some temperature-taking, water-boiling and white powder-measuring (which I highly suspect is crack 'cause a bunch of us sort of got high towards the last half hour or so). Graph-drawing not so fun though. I don't like extrapolating, because there are so many ways you can draw a line, and I'm so indecisive I can't seem to be able to do it fast.

Econs was, well, Econs. You can't say I don't try to listen. I do, actually, but somehow my mind just drifts elsewhere. Thank God for tutorials.

Speaking of which, I still have my Econs insights to do, along with a bunch of other things that require completing.

Adieu.

P.S. I kid about the crack. It was NaHCO3 and Na2CO3. We're clean.

P.P.S. They've posted a list of sites banned on our notice board, but there's nothing that mentions Twitter or anything Twitter-based. So why is Twitter banned? I still don't understand it.