my mum showed me this article in the wanpao today abt this little pri sch girl whose mum encouraged her to join some cdc fashion design competition and apparently won sth, and my mum was like saying, so this is what you wanna do is it? and i said yes. and i thought, if only she could be more understanding of my likings and if only my family was one that is more encouraging of being different or being beyond conventional and not one that would have expectations of just settling for the conventional. i mean, sometimes, success or satisfaction doesnt just come from being conventional, following suit, earning a proper living and more or less comfortable. sometimes, there is much more beyond that. like i read on today, where they asked the 77th st founder (elim chew?) about whether passion for one's job is overrated. i agree with her lah, about the pt that if you dont have the passion for sth, gonig to work would just be a chore cos you're merely there to earn a living lor, get by each day like that lor. then what, waste your youth away? but, i also think that words like "follow your dreams" "dream like noone can say no" that kinda things, are bullshit in this world. go tell a 18yr old singapore jc student, who has a beyond conventional dream (ie not doctor, scientist yada yada) that and see if they tell you it;s possible.

i can personally tell you, no it's not possible. partly cos of my family as well. but seriously, when you're at this stage, there's so much at stake and obviously no sane person would give up all that. a less that encouraging family isnt gonna help much too. but somehow i'm over that phase already. i think the stubborness and drive is a sec sch thing that i've kinda gotten over.

there's another phase that i've gotten over but my mum is bringing it up again. braces!!there was a time in sec 3 when i REALLY REALLY wanted to get braces but my mum said no, it's very painful its very troublesome blah blah, and now she sees her fren's daughter having nice teeth she starts talking about it again. and now that im over it, she says its gd and nice and blah blah. and i told her, when i really wanted it you say no! but now she's given me the approval to go ahead if i really want to. so i shall conduct some opinion polls and decide if i want to have them. haha. sigh. sometimes, one should really just consider and ponder over sth less. when in doubt jus buy/get/do it. sometimes acting on an impulse (for harmless things i mean) makes one happier than regretting later on!

having mini fridges in class rocks. first of all, we had whipped cream and strawberries, then we turn on the heating function and have warm melted cheese subways, next, we have khong guan biscuits with carnation milk (which everyone loves now cos i recommended it) and we also have nice cold m&ms which are, by the way, the in-est thing in the cosmetics world. m&ms colouring for lipsticks, how's that!!

the playground near my hse is almost done with renovati0n, but sadly, it'll be one of those rubber mat ones. i miss sand playgrounds!!!!! i guess this one is probably one the last ones around having sand :( yeah, i know its for kid's safety and all that, but kids need to grow up, they need to know what's pain and learn from that right? what's a scratch or two man? so now i cant take the swing and feel the warm sand between my toes, or scribble words with sticks on sand anymore. sigh.

there's so much at hand it gets a bit messy at times and at this point, its not sacrificing this for that because EVERYTHING is freaking impt and you cant afford to not do something. gosh.that's what i totally hate about being a j2 cos you make such crucial decisions amidst the preparation for the big A's.

this 2 weeks are gonna be a whirlwind. i have about a 100 slop retrt and transportatin theories to remember and a thousand other evidence for climotology and also a few million economic theories and their limitations to study PLUS a few gazillion math qns to do. maths is consuming me. i feel like im doing math every single moment. save me.

if i give this 2 yrs an overview, it would seem that they've passed very quickly, but if i look at individual events, it's actually been pretty damn long. like how i thought jasmine came back last yr when it was only new yr! and how i thought i last saw iris last yr when it was only during chingay. and it's really weird to think how our jc journey is ending soon (abt 3 wks left before the sept hols and not much time left after that) and how it's not gonna end in a nice, warm, sob-sob manner like pri sch or sec sch, cos this time we will be seriously mugging our asses off and there's not much time to sob and mope. but i must say that i probably will not feel the nostalgia cos my class is qt fragmented and all, and i won't miss THE class, but just individuals.

well, one thing i'll definitely rmb frm jc is the GEOG CLASSES!! i love geog classes!! they're most of the time fun and funny - with mr lee's samba dance and various entertaining gestures, and not to forget miss law's silly and blur moments ( like how she describes ridges as swiss rolls and how we always manage to irritate her somehow). the science ppl are very fun also lah, so we always have a great time and great laughs during geog. speaking of geog. i jus dreamt of rg miss pang the other day!

finally watched pirates last friday and zhiyi grace and i were having this little debate on whether orlando bloom looks nicer dirty a la will turner or spick and span a la legolas. ahhaha. and i LOVE jack sparrow!! he's really the one worth watching for in the movie. i must say i prefer pirates 1, i think the characters were stronger in their personalities. but anyway, i cant wait for pirates 3 to be out already. ahha! jack sparrow!!!

yay to NO MORE PE! such a significant moment. NO MORE PE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. hahaha. i mean, pe has nv been truly enjoyable to me, so gd riddance! though i must say our pe teachers have been very nice and compromising. haha.

in case you havent realised,i've changed my pic --->> . i <3 the tango, and it's music too. and i've come to realise that i like monochrome photos, besides the fact that it matches my blog layout well. haha. but anyway, i really enjoy avant garde photog. it's sth i wouldn't mind trying out one day, and it'd be nice to do it for a living, though its one of those careers that you can nv be sure if you can even feed yourself

yest was racial harmony day!! and our class dressed up again. it was pretty fun! ahha ( and sch passed relatively quickly, maybe cos we were deceived that we were not actually in sch since we weren't wearing sch u) .



the blues!

me and lulu the snake charmer. you gotta love her turban!





so sad! its our last RHD! like janice said, last time rg damn fun! 1) no sch 2) everybody dresses up and if u don't u're the minority 3) fun stuff, like carnivals, food, and henna painting, etc. i loved 04 RHD! our class honoured our "roots" and all wore saris ahhaha, the muthusamy-s!! and i have many idiotic pics too ahahha.

i rmb the first time i wore a baju kurong was in pri sch!! for this national day skit that our class put up in p5!! it was sth abt the jap invasion, so i was like one of the villagers. ahah, i know we had a cannon prop! haha, using those long paper rolls and boxes, then u noe how the story goes. the guns were pointing in the wrong direction cos the japs came from m'sia unexpectedly. hahha, i rmb ben and sam were like the jap soldiers and eddy was "lky" hahahah!! and minjie and chengyen were the photographers or sth. hahaha!! (i've gd memory!!) and then there were "Merdeka" signs arnd hahaha. pri sch kids qt smart also huh. ahha

then, it was meeting with the girls in town, since jasmine is back from Beijing

bryna and jas (bryna's skin is so flawless it glows!!!)

gaia, francesca, sherilyn, sharm
kahei and eve

what my last meal would be (assuming i have a bottomless pit)

starters:
pan fried SCALLOP PLEAASSEEE
peking duck!

main:
- thai green curry!!
-chicken rice with roast duck, char siew and roast pork-with saltish meat and crispy skin (the shao1 la4 shop stuff, bao ga liao!)

deserts:
-chocolate (top grade!)
-hilton cheese cake (new love!)

that's all for now. will update this when i think of more. hahaha. grace is rubbing off her gluttony on me!!

this is rather overdue, but i shall just post up the pics from chris' bday dinner at giraffe

with the birthday girl!

grace, i know you are hungry again!






the birthday 'cake' which is actually just 3 brownies put together, which we stuffed ourselves silly with!! it was too much! even had to play zhongjimima to get rid of it. giraffe served fusion food...but i felt the menu was a qt limited (after eliminating pastas) and im not too crazy about fusion food lah. The reservation was slightly screwed up SO...ALL the starters we ordered were ON THE HSE!! you should have seen the drop jaws - omg expressions and followed by the plan to rip them off and ordering more than half of the starters on the menu!! i think we ate more than 50 bucks worth of starters! ( the soft shell crab was mmmm....!)

what's an a03b event without some silly pictures!


compare and contrast


yum! says eunice



this is WACKY.
when will grace and rachel stop killing each other!




thank you chris, you're legal!

sch is such a bore/drag/pain that i dun even have anything to talk about when u ask me about sch. sigh! wat am i looking fwd to now....is...pirates 2!! <3<3 captain sparrow!!. besides this, nothing else at all. really.

i watched pirates of the caribbean on channel 5 and i gotta say that i adore johnny depp and his role!! i guess he kinda has a rep for taking up quirky roles, like willy wonka in charlie and the chocolate factory, so capt jack sparrow is one of them. but he suits it sooooo well!! being that tipsy nutshell of a pirate..he's so hilarious! i read the life! report on pirates having a 3rd installment and how depp says he cant separate his role from his life anymore. he just grows into the character i think. i shall make him one of my fave actors, though he seems a little eccentric in person. he's characterises the role so well that u can't think of anyone else being that character. ok. after all that, i wanna watch dead man's chest!!

fyi, my last movie is STTILLLL memoirs of a geisha. omg. that's so long ago. rmb last time in sec 2 how i used to skip so many choir sessions and watch movie almost everytime i skip with em. that burnt my pockets but well, yeah. just as a comparison to my movie-going frequency now. ahha

just realised that aaron eckhart ( did i spell correctly?) is acting in Thank You for Smoking! He's hot! haha, watched this other show by him called Suspect Zero, a few yrs back i think and it was a nice one, psycho thriller.

was watching the england-portugal match last nite and i knew grace was gonna be up watching c ronaldo. ahha, but anyway, last nite's matches were kinda exciting huh, powerhses meeting powerhses. and brazil is out!! was qt shocked cos they're a hot favourite huh?

anyway, i simply ADORE this life of slacking around and having too much time kinda feeling. SHIOK!

cts are over but why am i not happy at all. I wonder....

anyway, was reading the STOMP blog, and they were discussing the recent courtesy survey about people holding doors for you or thanking other people who do that for you. i do agree that singapore is not a very graceful society. why? i have no idea. is it an asian culture thing? is it because singaporeans are too selfish to simply care? (because all we've been taught since young boils down to "be kiasu! dun share! if you share u cant win!" no? and that competition in sch that makes us so selfish and perhaps narrow minded in a way?) i mean isnt it like reflex action to jus hold the door a bit longer for the next person? and it doesnt take your whole dignity and pride to thank someone right?

and about the service thing, i think sometimes we should just give them a break. i mean just think about it, if you're in the service industry and u meet a damn unreasonable person, does it give her/him any reason to abuse you with words? i think that "customer is always right" thing is so wrong. i know i can never be in the service industry cos i will just black face ppl who think im a dog who has to comply to their every demand. so, seriously, they are human too right? yeah some have attitude prob but still, don't be unreasonable. it's jus like maid abuse. cant you simply treat your maid as a HUMAN BEING? like a fren? you know how the chinese saying goes "ren zhi chu, xing ben shan". it says that we, humans, start out with a pure and kind heart, which i believe in. it is because of how other things that happen to you mould you to another person, perhaps to retaliate and save yourself. say the maids, if you treat them well from the start, they're most prob gonna give you respect, but if you dont even give them the respect that human beings deserve, why should they give you that?

IMSONIA. STILL UP 6 HRS BEFORE THE MATHS PAPER.

tell ME abt it.

I HATE STUDYINGGGGGGGG.

even though i have stuck my butt to this same chair for most of the past month. i still don't think there's enough in my brain to write a flourishing 5 page essay for lit geog OR econs. i REALLY hate studying. what's the pt huh huh huh!!!! how can i save the world by doing a thousand calculations on DE or integration or AP/GP and summation??!? (ok at this pt i realise that the other subs i study are pretty relevant to real life so no complaints)

BUT

i didnt even have time to enjoy the once a year GSS KILL ME PLS. hahaha. ok, i so wanna shop after nxt wk.

i hate studying and i desperately need to burn some fats.

Janice's fault for making me do all these! hahah

You Are 32% Selfish

In general, you are a very giving person who treats others very well. But at times, you insist on getting your way - when it matters most to you.

How Selfish Are You?

one whole chunk from 3 questions. and some do have some truth

Your Personality Is

Idealist (NF) You are a passionate, caring, and unique person. You are good at expressing yourself and sharing your ideals. You are the most compassionate of all types and connect with others easily. Your heart tends to rule you. You can't make decisions without considering feelings. You seek out other empathetic people to befriend. Truth and authenticity matters in your friendships. In love, you give everything you have to relationships. You fall in love easily. At work, you crave personal expression and meaning in your career. With others, you communicate well. You can spend all night talking with someone. As far as your looks go, you've likely taken the time to develop your own personal style. On weekends, you like to be with others. Charity work is also a favorite pastime of yours.

The Three Question Personality Test

What Your Face Says

At first glance, people see you as driven and ambitious. Overall, your true self is engaging and outgoing. With friends, you seem dramatic, lively, and quick to react. In love, you seem mysterious and interesting. In stressful situation, you seem like you're oblivious to the stress.

What Do People Think Of Your Face?

i take back my word about being housewives. cos i totally adore my mum's lifestyle