YEAHS~ finally repaired my blog today!! hahaz...cuz i was too lazy ta host pic n da bandwith was exceeded...hahaz...really glad it's up n about again...w0oho0...felt really shagged today..sh00ooo sLeepy esp durin econs lesson...stupid L@#$%$ made us walk ard da classroom ta perk us up..he's been wastin lotsa our time these days...man..almost dozed off today...

wooh...it's rainin cows n donks today, juz da weather fer my fav past time: SLEEPING!!! haizz...but i'd feel guilty if i sleep..there's like onli 30 days to A Levels...gr8...tt's juz wad i need...more stress. shucks.

hahaz..other than my huge mountain of notes..fer additional protection i'm headin fer bugis this weekend n pray...hahaz...so i dun hafta 'ling shi bao fo jiao'...haiz. juz lookin at my room littered with notes...noTES and more NOTES makes me SICK.

i'm 2/3 thru with 'teahouse', hope ta finish it by today n move on to da next stage: tang poems n song ci...difficulty level fer round 1 'teahouse': ***** difficulty level fer round 2 'tang poems n song ci': **** hahaz...

honestly, i still cant believe tt i'm gonna sit fer my As in juz 30 days time...30 days!!! haizz...let's juz hope i'll use it well.

YEAHS~ gonna watch ju-on2... scary baby...i like~ well then, fer now i'm gonna plonk my lazy bones on da bed n sleep away...

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Stewpid, freakin, lazy me still refuses to study. Shucks. God! thank you fer
giving me a brain, but can ya plz oh puhlezzzeeee ACTIVATE it?

Mammal Total Daily Sleep Time (in hours):

Giraffe 1.9

Roe deer 3.09

Asiatic elephant 3.1

Pilot whale 5.3

Human 8.0 (not really accurate huh)

Baboon 9.4

Domestic cat 12.5

Laboratory rat 13.0

Lion 13.5

Bats 19.9

hahaz...interesting huh? and bull frogs never sleeps at all...those poor lil critters...i've been shoooOOoo sleepy these days...haben recovered from post-holidays trauma yet. da sch was pretty desolated today, many pple ponned sch *looks up to see an imaginary Peiru, reGi n shirley wavin to me from home*...plus there were no j1s ard...our 1st lesson was econs lect n it was even more obvious..n Bong Bong noticed tis downward trend in lecture attendance...he in really sound mad or anythin..guess it alwaes happens when we're nearin As..

jiale told me tt yest(when i was 'sick') lawrence was really sad cuz our class was da 2nd.............WORST in our prelim performance fer econs..haiz...he din even shout at them..juz b4 da bell rang he juz left quietly (or rather dejectedly). haiz...i heard onli 5pple passed in our class...imagine juz 5! (yes juz like da wonka's 5 golden tickets....really rare)...and da highest score in yu's class was a D...not a promisin sign with da As lurkin ard da corner...when we went fer econs lect lawrence was sittin alone in da far left-hand corner of our class row...initially we din wanna venture o'er tt 'depressed zone' but he really looked v pathetic/pitiful/wadever..so we moved o'er there...n we were like a seat away from him..man we really felt too darn guilty ta even look at him in da face.

anyways..din get any papers back today...hmmm still not confirmed with me GP results n dun even know who's had ma' econs paper...a lil apprehensive though...can i not have it back.

Shucks.

Woohoo~ caught amazing race direct off satellite...well...da later bit of it...n twas really sad n touchin when da Blacks family being eliminated...their sons were so freakin devastated n da host sounded like he couldn bear ta tell 'em...but twas really touchin..although they had major problems fixin tt dumb wooden house-with-wheels thingy the family din once give up..they pulled together( w/o even hollerin at each other's faces unlike da other groups) n worked things up...i tot the dad was really cool..his words were reaally touchin...aargh...they shuldn haf been eliminated!

VS

alritey! there's a Liverpool FC VS Chelsea FC tml mornin at 2.35am...woohoooOOOooo~ it's soccer galore again...aarrgghhhh absolutely loathe Chelsea...they're so darn arrogant..so wad if they bagged da 'good' players...hmph..let's see 'em go down tml! hahaz...go go LIVERPOOL!!! woohooooOOOoooo~ red + blue = turn chelsea's faces purple!!

shit.can't believe it, sch's starting tml. so soon. darn it.nvm, it'll be 3 more weeks of sch n tt's it, pia all the way fer As. wonder wad da atmosphere ll be like fer tml. cant imagine wad's written on my prelim paper, thank god there's no parents' day. phew~ well, this is it, haven got much energy to blog an extensive entry. guess aft tml when my results start flooding in, guess it'll start kicking in and i'll probably start ranting on my blog. arhahaz...

i still dun rmb how to study... -_-" haiz...maybe i shuld go consult my comic books.

i forgot how to study.

Today's my final prelim paper. Human Geography to be exact. Really tired of moaning about how i messed up my prelims...hahaz...such things can't really be helped if i haf my laziness to blame. i finally got to read newspapers after about 2 weeks( thanks to the prelims...my GP's affected).

On N.Korea...

N.Korea finally agreed to surrender its nuclear weapons...wonder if we'll live to see the day when N.Koreans watch American shows, listen to MTV, eating at McDonald's or enjoying a cuppa at Starbucks...

On Reality...

read this in a book(Thomas Stearns Eliot) T.S.Eliot, 1888–1965, American-British poet once said:" Humankind cannot bear very much reality." hmmm...think he'd gotta change this quote...i mean..juz turn on our telly these days...they're packed full of reality TV shows like Amazing Race, Survivor, The Apprentice..it's pretty much reality with real people, real setting..well we PROBABLY don't bitch as much in reality...arhahaz...anyhow i really enjoy reality TV esp Amazing Race ( really looking forward to its new season's family edition) and fear factor...oh well i might as well include The Apprentice( my econs teacher has given rave reviews on it n has vehemently advertised it in claz..)


On Last Day of Prelims...

well...hahaz...i gotta moan bout prelims..it's becoming a habit...when to school feeling really sleepy today, so my eyes were still pretty blurry..when i neared da school gate..i tot it was locked up...and surprise surprise...it WAS locked!!!...well it wun be such a big deal had i reached school earlier..cuz by then it was ard 7.40am n we were supposed ta report in da hall 15 mins b4..god it would take me like 10++ mins ta take a detour n enter da front gate...but Lo and behold! alas the kind drinks stall auntie saved the day!! it so happened tt she was headin to sch fer work in skool too!!! boy, i'm beginning to believe in luck!

about 1hr35mins into da paper..i tot i'd check out wad pple were doing in the hall( cuz i could hear vividly from da left side of the hall where the prestigious(freaks) Further Maths students punching aggressively at the calculators)...besides a break 'd do me good since i was in a midst of a mental block...when i looked up..my eyes literally rolled over and everything in the hall( incl. hall) was like spinning ard me..i actually panicked when it happened and i clutched at my table fer dear life( well i did it discretely so nobody'd notice) n hung on to it till da giddiness passed...ooh~ finally...i finished da paper...wad a ride it has been...n i've finally come to a conclusion: Exams( of any subject, size,shape, duration) are extremely detrimental to the well-being of one's mind, body and soul.Mr. Shanmugaratnam( i checked da MOE webby fer da correct spelling), guess it's time u scrap exams!!

i'll now come to a rather abrupt stop to today's entry and have a go at comp games then...oh yeah i got a new mouse today( shared $$$ with sis)....well, tt's all folks! till then...take care peepz..spray any sorta hong you ( chi medicated oil) or insect repellent b4 ya head out esp to da dengue hotspots n take cover immediately ya hear buzzing sounds yeah...

hmmm...wonder if everyone's staring up into da night sky, illuminated by an unusually huge, round and bright moon...still rmb the first time when i heard the story of Chang-E, Jade Rabbit and er...fergot da name of tt woodcutter..i was onli pri2 then...from the day our teacher shared wif us tt story, i'd alwaes stare at da moon, not wanting to blink...hahaz..i actually thought i could catch a glimpse of Chang-E or even cuter...the Jade Rabbit. Years passed and as i grew up...i no longer believed in tt story, our sci textbooks would tell us tt there're a whole bunch of craters, Neil Armstrong's footprint and prob America's flag up in the moon, no Chang-E or bunnies were ever sighted...skepticism it seems comes with age...

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible. - John & Lyn St Clair, ‘Eyes of the Beholder’

back in the past, i used to anticipate this very day, where daddy n mummy would bring us to the nearby shop to buy lanterns( mum would bargain furiously over price of a $2 lantern n dad would would shake his head in disbelief)..could still remember there were the translucent plastic ones, paper ones and da musical ones tt we see so often these days( battery not included)...mum would buy pomelos, little piglet-shaped mooncakes in lil pink/yellow baskets, horn-shaped yams..and dad n mum would bring us to the park ta parade our lanterns...along the way you could see many families having fun together...their faces soaked in a very warm n cosy orangey glow from candles...evrything seemed magical( and orange)...back in those days we would go to the void deck( in Pasir Ris old home) and play with a pack of "pop pops" this white lil teardrop shaped stuff tt you throw on the floor n go POP!, well of course it has now been made illegal...( wonder wad stupid accidents can a harmless lil toy cause??)...some would throw sparklers into the trees...those not so adventurous ones would juz swing these magical ( yet short lived) wands ard...sparklers are really mesmerizing...it's like mini fireworks ( and so cheap!!!)...

but as we grew older...our lantern holding, mooncake feasting, tradition-upholding celebration gave way to a less conventional one...hahaz...man my family and relatives organized a pot luck at my aunt's place at Punggol..there was baby asparagus wrapped in bacon, japanese breaded teriyaki chicken, chicken curry, chocolate fondue, konnyaku jelly...and yes we ate mooncakes, but it was juz take-go-eat and tt's it...everybody'd be back to their mahjong, black jack( man i did win a hand at it), tele watching. No pomeloes. No horn-shaped yams. Not even a blade of tea leaf in sight.

along the way we even celebrated my uncle's 51st birthday, i heard it was his 1st ever cake-blowing birthday. by 7pm...many of my cousins would have either burned a hole in their pockets or earn a bag full of coins( at mahjong and black jack)...we tuned into the liverpool and man u match...and yes we even gambled on that...we betted on total goals...nobody betted on a goalless draw so everyone got back their $1 bets...well, as i'm da onli liverpool fan( finally rallied fer support from my cousin n aunt)..i was "ostracised" by man u fans...i'd lost count of the no. of times i heard:" Liverpool sure lose one lar..."

when we finally went home...we could still see many pple at this lil park playing with lanterns, burning up dried leaves( and wadever rubbish they could find in clean and green singapore...) . but most if not all of them were children...

yes, indeed it was fun...but something seems lacking these days...tt nostalgic and sentimental feel, tt child like innocence and pure fun...and on this night, i couldn help but reminisce our childhood days...will lanterns ever lose its place in modern Singapore?

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect! ~Owens Lee Pomeroy

i'm so dying to read tons of books ( do excl. textbooks, notes n all sorts of reference books, news like body parts murder, natural disasters,terrorism...any more of these n i'm gonna puke words n melancholy all over da place)...it's like when ya've been constantly fed wif healthy( read boring/bland food) food...ya'd yearn fer junk food(those high in calories n wif each bite ya take ya're a nail closer to sealin ya coffin)...aft readin so much notes, facts,figures, numbers...all things reality...really wanna kick back and read somethin fictional...somethin tt can tug at my almost dormant imagination...b4 all my imagination n enthusiasm r zapped away n turned into a robot programmed ta study mindlessly....


hahaz...tt's da way it is...we spent most of our lives pursuing stuff tt we might not even love at da 1st place..it's juz tt everybody is chasin aft da same stuff like money, popularity n status...we lose ourselves in da process...n ferget da lil things tt used ta make us happy...n after all these yrs..when ya look back ya life's resume...ya'd go"what da heck? tis isn't wad i reali want"..n we'd be like old, wrinkly n feeble by then...hahaz...but as students in spore...guess we cant really break outta da pack n go after our dreams as n when we like..tt shiny laminated piece of cert (in my opinion it's like a well-packaged lie tt doesnt reaaly represent our true potentail) is da key to our future( how cliche)..it's like da safest route ard...n in case if we pursue our interests in future n fail ta achieve success...it'll be our safety buoy at least..so does tt alleviate all our senseless n endless muggin...well not really...but it's a reminder to all of us when we start ta lament wad all these are for...

in da meantime it's back to our daily routine n engage in our arduous task of conquerin tt mountain of notes sittin in a corner of our rooms( n fer some of us...it'll prob be caked with dust)....well...if it does any g00d...at least we're not alone in this paper race...arhahaz...

lastly:Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. take care folks!

haiz...moi econ paper was a total disaster...feel like i'm writin what i think...dunno if i got my econ concepts rite...hahaz...oh wadever..haiz...the stupidest thing was i actually wrote down some chocolate flavors tt mars, hersheys' and nestle waere offerin lorz...to illustrate the concept of product differentiation..hahaz...shold haf added a diagram of the choco bar man...hmmm..wonder if tt'll earn me some brownie points?? hahaz...

hate da fact tt we gotta sit fer our papers at 2 or 2.30pm...i mean half of our brains( left/right) would haf been fried long b4 we reached skool lorz..g0sh...there's still econs and geog ta go...tml still gotta go celebrate mooncake festival...hmmm...tink i prob wun haf da time ta mug fer my goeg le ba...

haiz...i've spent like 12yrs chasing after a pretty laminated piece of paper..and i'd nevr imagine tt tt piece of paper would be key to my future...hahaz..

but well tt's life..no use moaning over it..hahaz...jux hafta go with da flow...juz like all da other millions of s'poreans...talk abt rat race...arhahaz...

hahaz...everybody listen up!!! it's alliiiiivvvveee!!!!! yes...er i mean my blog...i've applied fer net le so i can blog consistently le...this ish absolutely great news!!!!

wooh~ gotta cool down 1st...arhahaz...i think i've made a mess outta my prelims...but dun worry i'll buck up fer A levels de...hopefully....

i'm too excited ta say anything now...hahaz...but when i do.......i do...hahaz...till then tune in folks!

hahaz...everybody listen up!!! it's alliiiiivvvveee!!!!! yes...er i mean my blog...i've applied fer net le so i can blog consistently le...this ish absolutely great news!!!!

wooh~ gotta cool down 1st...arhahaz...i think i've made a mess outta my prelims...but dun worry i'll buck up fer A levels de...hopefully....

i'm too excited ta say anything now...hahaz...but when i do.......i do...hahaz...till then tune in folks!