"I wear this on my sleeve," -MCR

Last day of September today, and I just realised. And there I was thinking we were still sometime in the middle of September, but apparently not.

Week 3 is over, and it was over so fast yet so gruelling.

It's also the last day of school lessons for the Year 6s today, which means yet another batch is graduating; bringing us closer and closer to our graduation, in turn. The prospect of being out of school and into university life just scares the hell out of me. I'm growing old and what if I can't accomplish what I want to accomplish in the short time I'm given here? Oh no.

And when I recall when we talked about not leaving this place soon enough, I really want to go back in time and tell myself to pull myself together and simply savour everything and go along for the ride.

Okay, so, yeah.

Rained superbly in the morning, so went to school contented and feeling great. Also, it was a Friday, and Fridays are good days because there's no school the next day and we get to sleep in.

Talked about AC and DC circuits during Physics, which makes me wonder why I really never bothered to look up how these things work. I mean, we see them everywhere, and electronic devices and appliances basically rule my life, so why am I not the least curious about them? Maybe it's because they're everywhere, they've become un-fascinating. That's kind of sad. These things need to be appreciated more, I think.

And I'm simply shallow.

Two of the remaining groups finally presented during English (my group presented a week and a half ago), and I have to say, the guys really impressed me with their 'love and marriage' presentation. Yes, it's true that pop culture destroys the meaning of traditional marriage, but true love can never be destroyed. I love it how the guys seem to be more clear about these kinds things than girls are. What can we say? We're erratic.

Also, got marks back for summative compre and essay. Compre was great, essay was better than last time (and last time was a C+, which was depressing beyond words).

Made tonnes of LotR references during Econs with Clarice and Verena, 'cause we had to do this discussion and presentation about the trade of certain countries, and we chose New Zealand. Awesome fun.

Almost managed to finish off our notes during Chem, but we've got one page left before we're done with this sem's module completely. I like Chem.

Edited stuff during CCA. I want to remain president, because I feel as if I need to make up for this horrible year of non-leadership. I believe in me.

Then had dinner out with Wee Thean, Kelvin and Lee Ji-Hyun while we discussed our Econs project. Yeah, busy day.

Okay, going off now. Need to watch the latest episode of Glee.

Night.

P.S. And, if anyone wants to stalk me further, here's a Tumblr account.

P.P.S. The rest of 05 gets to go for the Geog field trip tomorrow with the 04 and 02 Geog students, while Daryl, Zhi Yao, Ryan and I are able to spend our time doing other things tomorrow morning. Whee.

Guppy report.

Sometimes, I feel like I need to assert my girl-ness, so I'll post a link to this insanely hot GIF. It's a matter of taste, really, but I know thousands of other people around the world think Adrien Brody is great, so it's no matter if you think he looks terrible. It's fine.

Slept quite late this morning, rushing a Geog poster-presentation thing that we only have to present next week due to certain reasons I can't recall so will not disclose. Partly why I don't want to remember is because I probably wasted my night. But no regrets, oh no.

Forward and onwards, mateys.

Played random games during PE, because it was peer teaching.

Then finally had our Malay debate, after weeks and weeks of dragging and postponing and changing dates and topics. I must say it's like a great weight has been lifted off our shoulders, because it's something that's been pending for such a long time, and now that it's gone it feels good. I can not speak fluently in Malay, which is quite a shame, considering it's been part of my life for many, many years now.

Talked more about proving in Math. It's sort of magical, really.

Did more inheritance stuff during Cell Bio, which reminds me, 'Inheritance' is coming out on my mum's birthday, which is in a month and a half. Oh I'm so excited, but then I'd have to re-read the previous three books first because I have obsessive issues so I'd have to wait until I got back home.

Dinner was surprising, because it was surprisingly good. Like, puffy, crispy prata with curry sauce. Felt good not having to eat rice for hostel dinner for a change. And the look on Adithya's face when he realised what we non-Indian-vegetarian people had was just priceless. Poor guy gets pretty much the same thing every single day, and they won't let him switch to regular food (because he's not vegetarian at all).

Okay, more stuff to do.

Guppy report awaits.

P.S. It's super humid tonight and I don't like one bit of it.

Entropy.

As good as rainymood.com is at helping one pretend it's raining, it isn't as good as real rainfall, which is why it feels amazing right now because it actually is raining.

It seems like I talk about the weather all the time here, but I honestly can't help it. I love almost everything about rainy weather. The darkness, the pitter-patter of raindrops, the occasional assuring thunder and lightning, the cold, the way the wind blows and kisses your face with a slight hint of wet, the smells, the sounds of cars driving through water and making little splashing noises. Is that selfish? I know a lot of damage can be caused by storms and relentless rainfall and stuff like that, and even so I still seem to love it to bits.

But you can't always see the bad side of things, can you?

Okay, printing my Math journal now, because Joo Kee just tweeted about having not finished his and I almost totally forgot about it. That's what I love about the Internet and social networking, even though it's a huge waste of time and causes us to procrastinate so much. I enjoy feeling connected.

Had Malay first thing in the morning today, and I'm pretty sure I'm not going to fare very well for this test either. This is it, I'm going to fail my O-level paper and end up having to take Malay until I graduate at this rate. Better start crackin'.

Had Math afterwards, where Mr Chia gave us sound advice on choosing our honours and majors for next year. Everyone obviously wants to choose the subjects they like most, and yet not want to die of work overload. It's a hard balance to find. Then he told us stuff about our future Math modules, which pretty much scared off or tightened the resolve of Math-honour-takers.

Statements is an interesting topic because it's been mostly words, so far. Converse inverse contrapositive maybe yes no perhaps just kidding. It sure doesn't feel like Math.

Finally started on our last topic of the year for Chem, but then got reminded of how much we didn't like entropy. Oh, entropy. Entropy of the system, of its surroundings, of the universe. Time going forwards and entropy increasing until equilibrium and so on. Deep stuff, man. Existence is a scary thing.

Need to get started on our Econs project. So far we've only distributed roles. It's hard 'cause we aren't in the same class and have other things to think about.

Okay, going off now.

Night.

P.S. Need to brush up on my pool skills.

P.P.S. You know the awesomer half of the year has arrived when it starts raining a lot more frequently.

Discrimination.

I would like to start off this post with a little heart-to-heart about subject specialisation. It may be a bit vulgar so I suggest turning away for a moment.

Dear people who think not dropping Bio is stupid,

You are not better than us. Just because you guys have a flair for calculations and logical thinking and hate learning about "stupid, useless, irrelevant things" does not mean everyone else does too. Just because you belittle Bio does not mean you should belittle the people who enjoy it. Just because you think your life would be better without this subject doesn't mean the lives of people who take Bio suck. No, don't make assumptions.

Also, just because people who like Bio tend to want to drop Physics, you think you have the right to insult us, to tell us we've made unintelligent, irrational decisions because we're dumb enough to enjoy "mindless memorising" and not appreciate Physics. Why haven't you considered that interests can be different? Maybe we're as uncomfortable with calculations and diagrams as you are with terms and explanations. Have you ever stopped to consider that? Don't we have equal opportunities to indulge in the subjects we like most?

Just because you're geniuses with Math and Physics and are honouring everything sans Bio, it does not give you the right to call us stupid. You are not special. It does not make you smarter than us. It's called discrimination, so go f*ck off and leave us alone. We're not losers, so stop thinking you're better than us.

I hate your mentality.

Sincerely,

Someone who's not dropping Bio.

Okay yeah, now that's over with.

Math test was okay and passable, got let off early during Physics, and played with guppies during Evo Bio. I love Bio.

Also, pretty doomed because I have a Math ass due tomorrow and I realise I'm stuck.

Night.

P.S. But feeling accomplished because I finished a Physics ass. It's times like these when I feel like I want to drop Physics the most, but I'm not, so should get rid of these feelings.

P.P.S. Sudden storm ftw.

Singapore 2011.

In all my almost eighteen years, why have I never thought of the possibility of elven mermaids before? I have been missing out on a lot.

Going to type this post in two minutes with the sound of Rick Astley belting out 'Never Gonna Give You Up' in the background, 'cause he performed yesterday over the course of Singapore's F1 event and someone uploaded it onto YouTube.

Yeah, all the hype about F1 is going to end very, very soon. Also, I just received a tweet about Linkin Park recently bringing the house down during the post-race performance. Great, simply great. Absolutely brilliant. It's bad enough that I'm stressed as hell and have a Math test tomorrow and I'm worried about being careless and losing marks without knowing I've missed out on yet another F1 race just a teeny distance away from where I am, and a performance by a band I used to love to bits.

So yeah, back to the race.

Finger boy is now only a point away from clinching this year's Driver's Championship after winning this race, so good for him. I feel like a proud parent. It's like we've watched Vettel go from promising rookie to epic ownage, and I like that he's not a complete douche like Hamilton is.

Speaking of Hamilton's doucheness, he ran into Massa quite early into the race, punctured Massa's rear tyre, and poor Massa had to finish tenth due to really bad luck.

Button finished second, and shaved many seconds off Vettel's lead before finishing 1.7 seconds behind the leader.

Alonso in fourth behind Webber, because despite somewhat good driving, our car just isn't up to par.

Okay, going off now.

I'm sure I have more to say but I really can't at this moment.

Night.

P.S. Geog field trip was interesting. Know a little more about Singapore now, and it doesn't hurt to know things.

P.P.S. The race also managed to cut our field trip short, which made me love F1 a little bit more.

Humility.

Just got back from dinner out with my aunt, uncle and freaking adorable baby cousin, and Stella tweeted me this link, which plays out the comforting sound of rainfall and distant thundering to create the illusion of a reassuring thunderstorm.

I love it when it rains. The sound, the smell, the temperature, the lack of humidity afterwards. So good.

It's been all cold and rainy for the past few days, and I totally appreciate it. It makes up for all the crap we're going through at the moment, what with all the deadlines and tests and quizzes. Oh horribleness.

And went off blogging for a week, because frankly I manage my time really unwisely, so I couldn't bring myself to come here and procrastinate because that would make me feel even worse.

So now it's a Friday again, and even though it's not such a free weekend, it feels good to not have a test/GCT/something due the next day, even though we have a Geog field trip early morning.

Busy busy busy. That's all we've been. But that's life, and we push on.

Hopefully I'll do all right for our Chem test just now.

Had a farewell party for our Year 6s during CCA, because today's their last CCA session, and we've relied so heavily on them. People like Roslyn and Ash have done so much for us, and because of them we've developed as a CCA and they've set the path of leadership for the rest of us. We all want Media to succeed and be regarded with high esteem, and all my CCA life they've been there. And suddenly they're gone and there's a huge gap that needs to be filled. I'm so grateful for their help.

Okay, yeah, race weekend this weekend, and it's a little closer to home this time 'round. Singapore, so close yet so far.

One day, I'm going to go and watch a race live, complete with tickets and seats and all. I don't know how much longer I can last without the experience.

Going off now. Tired beyond belief.

P.S. New seasons of How I Met Your Mother, Glee and The Big Bang Theory have all premiered this week, and I think I might explode of television series goodness.

Acceptance.

Did two things of significance today, and only two, so it wasn't really as productive as I planned it be.

Slept too much in the morning, and ended up not getting anything done because I was sleeping, instead.

But managed to get my lazy ass out of bed and head down to Bugis to meet Aisyah so we could check out the National Library together and see if we could find any useful material for our Malay debate project. Apparently not.

Despite the non-yieldy trip, we gained plenty of new library experience, 'cause neither of us had been there before. If it's possible to fall in love with a building, I have with this one. I love libraries because they're so organised, literate and smell of books, and I love this particular library even more because the building looked so good.

It was ridiculously professional-looking, too. Great place.

The second thing I did of significance today is draw out this print ad for our English advocacy speech project thing in order to support our cause.

And since I'm posting it here, I might as well get out with my cause. I'm advocating a review of the current sexual education syllabus to include LGBT matters. This is because with education gains understanding, and understanding leads to acceptance, and with acceptance, the world becomes a better place. It sucks to have to go through high school as a student with tonnes of work, and it must suck even more to have to go through it with sexual confusion and unsureness of oneself, risking depression and such.

So once a generation has been educated, it paves the way for future generations to have the same level of acceptance. People shouldn't be defined by their sexuality. They can love who they like.

So there you go. Now I'm off to draft my speech.

Adieu.

P.S. I also like libraries because when a library is new, it smells of new building, and when it's settled in, it smells of books, which are two of my favourite smells.

P.P.S. Workload still dwarfs Mt Everest. Oh help me.

Colour Fusion.

Our school combined performing arts concert, aka 'Colour Fusion' has just ended, and we've just had the most awesome post-event pack up ever.

Hung around in the hall while the PA team cleared away all their equipment from the hall, and helped coil a few wires. Then played around with balloons and had awesome fun with Rania, MJ, Wai Yin, Pin, Shankari and Adrian. Wearing our media shirt lets us do almost whatever we want, because other people have learnt to recognise us as the "backstage people" who do all the technical stuff.

Which is true. Without us managing the sound, lighting, slides, recording and various other paraphernalia, no school event would be able to take place fully effectively. The performing arts CCAs perform, and that's their calling; to be on stage and be seen doing what they love, and we find this special place in our hearts where we find sweet, simple satisfaction in playing huge parts in making things run smoothly even though we're hardly taken notice of. Media club pride forever. I love us, truly and forever.

Last day of the first week of the last term of Year 4 today, and the school was sort of abuzz with it being the first weekend of the first week of the last term of the last year before our class reshuffling, and also 'cause many of the performers had pre-concert jitters.

Had Physics, then English, where I felt kind of bad when 405 trolled 404 during their presentations, then Econs, where Jia Hong kept saying she screwed up although she got higher marks than most of us, then extra Math, where we went through two GCTs, and then Chem, where we went through Ass 4 and a past year paper.

Finally did some filming during CCA. Ever-so-grateful for the help of Kat and Stanley, who were nice enough to agree to appearing in our video and contributed even more awesomeness.

Going to edit soon, hopefully, really soon. Workload needs to be cleared first, though. Go me, I can do this.

Okay, have to go and watch House now.

Night.

P.S. Our performing arts CCAs improve every year. It's even lovelier watching them after realising that.

Newton-Raphson.

I love how when you Google the words "cunning" and "plan", the first thing that pops up is the Wikipedia page for 'Baldrick'. It's brilliant.

I miss watching 'Blackadder'. Each episode was simply packed with wit and fun and Rowan Atkinson genius. I love British humour.

But I'm watching 'House' at the moment, so I still get huge doses of Hugh Laurie. I adore Hugh Laurie as House. He's the perfect combination of utter asshole and wit. And those moments when he impersonates a British person while playing an American by faking a British accent while in his American accent make me admire him tenfold, because it's so ridiculously convincing.

Was a Monday today, but felt like a Friday because of all the people heading to CCA and because it was near the end of the school week. But it's a Thursday. How confusing.

GCT-ed again during Math, which was better than yesterday's. Thank God for the availability of "upgrading".

Physics prac-ed with Kian Wee. Was fun because we're Chem prac partners and I feel okay even though I'm horrible at practicals. Sometimes I don't like working with people I've never worked with before, or with people who you know will judge you for being stupid.

Finally had Evo Bio. Spent less than an hour listening to Mr Soh talk some more about allele selection and stuff, and then Mr Soh spent more than an hour listening to the class to our assignment 3. I say "listening" because Chee Seng came over to sit with us and we couldn't stop talking and ended up handing it in after class ended. Whoops.

Then hung around 06 for a while, waiting for rehearsal.

Rehearsal was fun because we've finally figured out where to place the cameras. Oh joy.

Going to talk about the concert tomorrow when it's done. I actually enjoy rehearsals because I like to see how much improvement has been made on the actual day, and seeing things refined after days of practice is satisfying.

Okay, need to go now.

Adieu.

P.S. Need to know more songs.

Scrambled egg.

Something's wrong with Blogger today, but I can still type here, so I figure it's safe enough to post.

Ended class ridiculously early today, because Mr Chin wasn't in school for English and Mr Yeo wasn't in school for ACE, so kinda had to wait for a few hours after Math and Malay before going out to Seoul Garden with MJ, Jia Hong and Deborah.

Totally died for today's Math GCT, and I swear I'm not going to screw tomorrow's up as badly, because the one we're having tomorrow isn't upgradeable. Mr Chia thinks it isn't excusable for us to not know our Newton-Raphson method. Anyway, did some stuff about expressing some equations in power series afterwards and that was it.

Still just hung around and talked during Malay while doing random bits and pieces of work. Really unproductive.

Lunch was awesome, because we ate and ate and ate because it was a buffet and we wanted to get the most of our money. Decided to head out to Seoul Garden even though Subway was having a tempting one-for-one deal at all outlets (heard tonnes of people say this today, and then saw tonnes of people leave school for Subway), 'cause we wanted to treat Jia Hong for her birthday (although really belated).

And it was so good. Hadn't eaten there for quite a while now, so it was fun and we got to play with food. Scrambled eggs on the hotplate and then asked for a new hotplate shamelessly. And then kind of over-ordered food and didn't finish some stuff, 'cause we sacrificed meat for dessert.

Walked back to school because I was so ridiculously full.

Have this huge dilemma over camera placement during the performing arts combined concert on Friday. I prefer the audi over the hall because it's more comfortable there and it has a slope which raises the seats so we can get a good look at everything, but it had to take place in the hall and now I don't know what to do. Hopefully we can solve this problem by Friday.

Okay, going off now.

Night.

P.S. Awesome weather today. Really, really awesome.

P.P.S. Realised ice cream and Koko Krunch go ridiculously well together. Why haven't I noticed this before? All these years.

Excuses.

Doing a teeny slice of research at the moment (which here means typing phrases into the Google search bar on the top right corner of my browser window) for my English advocacy speech project thing, and it turns out our region of the world is still keeping really hush-hush about all this homosexuality stuff.

They don't talk about discrimination cases, hate crimes or senseless assaults. It's so clean. It's like they don't acknowledge gays at all. It's like a problem they don't want to address, and hence keeping it quiet, very much like this advocacy speech project thing we have to do.

Honestly, I don't really mind this advocacy speech project thing (I'm unsure what to call it because it appears to be not just a simple, heavily-graded six-minute speech anymore) because my ego is large enough for me to enjoy being heard, but one of the main reasons why I procrastinate so much is because I don't want to do a crap job. Which is super ironic, because the later I leave my work, the more likely I'll end up doing a crap job. Subconsciously, I'm giving myself an excuse to submit subpar work. Bad subconscious.

Had this short hostel talk in the theatrette during mentoring, so spent twenty minutes or so listening to Ms Queenie tell people about what it's like in the hostel, what to expect, how to behave, and all the essential life skills they'll pick up during their stay. Fun stuff, yeah, but I still can't help but feel a bit violated 'cause it's like tonnes of new people are invading your house.

Lounged around during Malay and discussed some peribahasa questions, then had our first GCT of the week during Math, followed by Chem, followed by nothingness and card-playing, followed by Econs.

Ah, Econs.

I still enjoy Humanities.

P.S. Haze has improved, skies are clearer and it rained. Overall, the weather is looking up and I'm thankful.

P.P.S. I love my Tweeple.

Horny umbrella.

Listening to Snow Patrol right now, and I really like their sound. There's something about Gary Lightbody's voice that's so pleasantly pleasant and makes you all warm and fuzzy inside.

I generally dislike many female singers because I don't like the way their voices become screechy and unnecessarily painful to the ears and it annoys me. And maybe because I'm sexist, too (well, slightly).

First day of school today. Had trouble waking up because I had trouble sleeping because the haze has gotten absolutely terrible and made everything hot and stuffy and humid. Touched down yesterday and instantly missed cleaner Brunei air. It's bad stuff we're inhaling, but we've no choice, because if we shut the windows we'd die from inner-room stuffiness.

Thankfully survived, and even had time to nap in class because Evo Bio got cancelled, which resulted in a three hour break before our house meeting.

Math first thing of the day went by slower than usual. It's like we all needed time to remember what on earth happened last term even though it's only been a week. But yeah, Mr Chia has successfully managed to re-introduce Math into my life once again.

Had Physics afterwards, and finished off our magnetism notes with much slacking and procrastinating and lame joke-making.

Nothingness was spent having lunch, watching people play cards, playing Freecell on my phone, sleeping, wandering around aimlessly, and reading off Yos' umbrella (which had phrases like "Thinking of you makes me feel so excited").

Had hostel dinner again, which really is yet another sad reminder of being back at school. But the company was good. The company is always good.

Okay, going off now.

Night.

P.S. Mid-Autumn Festival. Moon has been blocked by the haze and that's really sad.

Monza 2011.

Let's see if I can rush this post in a few minutes, because my workload has piled up like magic and now I don't want to like, die.

Went to a sort-of party for middle-aged people yesterday, and saw old people sing terribly. The experience will scar me for life, but at least now I know I can still have shameless fun when I'm seventy.

Then magically woke up before noon today to head out for breakfast before catching my flight back here, the place where my school is situated because I need an education to make a better living in the future, and because my country sent me here because they didn't really want me back home.

Caught the race, and was sad I couldn't watch it on television, but that's all right. Will catch highlights eventually.

Vettel won, again, and Button got second place, again, and Alonso managed a place on the podium, which was brilliant for Ferrari.

At this rate, Vettel and Red Bull are going to clinch both championships before long, and all we can do is sit back and watch and congratulate them. Good going, really. They've dominated all season. Ferrari are third in the standings after McLaren, and Alonso's in second in the Driver's standings with Massa in sixth.

Webber crashed out early in the race trying to take on Massa, and then Massa spun and ended up in tenth place. Poor guy made it back up to sixth though.

Apparently the Schumacher-Hamilton battling was uber epic awesome and brilliant, but I couldn't watch it and that only reinforced the sadness when Hamilton managed to overtake my childhood hero with his better-performing car.

Nine cars retired, which is quite a large number. Liuzzi and his first turn fiasco (or perhaps not, race stewards think there were other causes of the tangle) wiped out Rosberg, Petrov, D'Ambrosio and himself in one go, and various other failures ended it for other drivers.

Okay, okay, going off now.

Night.

P.S. Last term of Year 4 coming right up. Holy shit that was fast.

Mastering Physics.

Feeling so horribly unproductive at the moment, and it makes me sad. What on earth have I been doing?

Nothing much. Sleeping, eating, sleeping, eating, dreaming of doing work and then waking up realising I haven't yet. My mind obsesses yet my body does nothing.

Read 'Little Vampire Women' yesterday, and although there were plenty of really amusing facts as little side notes and a tonne of eyebrow-raising moments, it honestly wasn't as well written as 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' (and its prequel and sequel). I think that's because P&P&Z is one of the first of its kind, and so exceptionally good that other parody books don't seem as good anymore.

Desperate holiday reading has reduced the number of unread books I've got at home, and I think this might somehow clear my conscience and let me get more when I see ones I want. Honestly, there's so much to read yet so little time to do so.

Okay, last true day of the holidays tomorrow. Does work resume when I get back? Will it not resume? Am I doomed to last-minute work everything? Am I going to fail all my subjects and get my ass booted back here?

Tune in next time to find out!

P.S. The hardest part of filming things is finding actors to do it.

P.P.S. We have to learn to see further than the work involved and be able to visualise the finished project, and then that will keep us going.

P.P.P.S. Oh no.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Still listening to Snow Patrol's 'Called Out In The Dark' (I say so because it's been on repeat for a few days now, ever since I realised it existed).

Also talking to Baoxin about a scholarship interview she's got tomorrow. It's interesting, because I think I might know how horribly nerve-wracking it is to sit in a room in front of several strangers and have to "present" yourself to them in a nice little package they'd see fit to have in their institution.

Yeah, it's scary business. I remember literally trembling, because I was so terrible nervous. I thought it'd be fine, because whether I got in or not, I'd be fine with whatever outcome (although I must say I am so glad I got in).

And now I wonder, changed so much as I have (in terms of confidence and shamelessness; I still think and talk pretty much the same), would they have passed me? Maybe they look at me now and totally regret letting me into their school. Whoops. I still don't know how I got in. I thought I failed the entrance paper, and when I found out I passed, I thought I botched up the interview really badly, too.

Sometimes when things are meant to happen, it doesn't matter how, because what matters is that it did. And I'm ever thankful for it.

Speaking of being thankful, I found my phone earlier on after losing it yesterday. Turned the house inside out looking for it, then they found it at my uncle's house.

Went out for dinner with Kevin, Feyra, Feyra's sister, Fatinn and Faiz at our beloved Mall to celebrate Kevin's birthday. Sooner or later, all of us are going to be able to legally drink and drive (man that's just ironic. Drinking and driving are a terrible combination). Was relatively quiet, because it's a weeknight and all the other Bruneians have school to attend tomorrow, or jobs to turn up at, so therefore less people and my beloved poklenz.

Sometimes it's like Bruneians in Singapore in Brunei are different. It's like we've seen more, and we've been through more, and we emerge all war-torn and bitter and with our eyes opened to the outside world. Whoa.

Also finished reading 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' by Mark Haddon, which is as brilliant as they've said it would be. Such an amazing read. I love books that kind of open your eyes to different perspectives and open your mind up even further after you're done with them. So, so good. It's never mentioned that the boy in the book has any form of autism or Asperger's though, so we assume. I thought it was quite convincing.

I feel enlightened.

All right, I have the rest of my holidays to enjoy.

Adieu.

P.S. So many good books, so little time.

P.P.S. Tried to convince my brother I actually go to Hogwarts, but failed miserably.

Les Schtroumpfs.

Whoops, been away from the Internet since my flight back on Friday, and haven't posted for too many days.

During my brief period of abstinence, Irsyad kindly tweeted me this terrible piece of news, where MCR fires their temporary drummer Mike Pedicone for stealing stuff from them, which is really sad. I was kind of getting used to him replacing Bob and stuff. Oh God, I miss Bob Bryar.

Anyway, not that anybody cares, but I'll run through the last few days just in case they get lost in history forever.

Thursday was our school teacher's day celebration, which was disappointingly un-entertaining (although it was a definite improvement from our national day celebration). Appreciated teachers and stuff. I totally appreciate my teachers. In fact, one of the reasons why I didn't post on Thursday was because if I did, I'd be writing another huge cliché post on why we should appreciate our teachers and how to appreciate our teachers and stuff, so no.

Friday was my flight back, so spent the morning packing and the afternoon transiting between countries.

Watched The Smurfs (movie) yesterday with my mum, brother and cousins. It was better than I expected, and I'd totally learnt to keep my expectations low now, so I can still enjoy myself and be entertained. I liked it because it was full of ridiculous familiarity. Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Hank Azaria. I was in television series junkie heaven, man. And the references, oh the references.

But yeah the Smurfs were kinda cute and it was kinda funny so good going for a holiday "nothing-better-to-do" movie.

Also started reading 'Merde Actually', sequel to the wonderful 'A Year In The Merde' by Stephen Clarke, who is as funny as he is an awesome writer. Finished it earlier today, and I have to say it made a highly amusing read. Loved it loved it loved it.

The reason why I got 'A Year In The Merde' around a year or so ago was because I saw 'Merde Happens' out in stores but didn't want to buy it because my strange compulsive disorders prevent me from buying books out of order. Was totally impressed with the title, and the Merde books are so so brilliant.

Also had fun carrying around a book which blatantly spells out the word "shit" in French and having nobody mind because they didn't know what it meant.

So yeah, need to get some work done soon, but it doesn't hurt to be able to chillax to the fullest for a few days before getting back in the game again.

Adieu.

P.S. Smurfin' smurfity smurfin' smurfs.