so. it is over. feels kinda weird though, i mean im so numb to having exams that i REALLY dont feel much. and ive been qt relaxed for the past wk so it doesnt make much of a difference. but it will sink in when i go out and have fun everyday hahah. its like i've been studying my whole life, from mar, then jun, then sept, then nov. once an exam ends, u start studying again for the next. sad lives of singaporean students. oh, and i wont be amazed if i got a U for econs s

niwae, i got my prom dress. hhahah, it was chanced upon, so those of u who havent gotten, fret not! you'll chance upon it! i love the colour of mine, one of my favourite colour combis. anyway, there's NO TIME TO WASTE for post exams time. for this dec, i'll be gg on hol and looking for jobs (which i'd prob start in jan), start learning driving (WOW!), pack my room, revamp my wardrobe and finish scholarship apps (which is such as pain in the ass!!!)

sigh, i was qt sad when it dawned upon me that it'd be the last time im going to rj as a student. now we're all officially alumnis. sigh. the gate that i walked thorugh more that 600 times the last minute cramming at lockers. we were all too busy to enjoy the last!! and i like my uniform a lot ahahha

1. grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18 and find line 4:
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse.
They had rooms in the village, and so, walking in

(uninteresting HAHA. got this bk cos i couldnt find mrs dalloway frm the NLB. so lousy ahhaha)

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can
get my liquid paper


3. What is that last thing you watched onTV?
CSI supreme sunday! where i bust most of my wkend time


4. Without looking, guess what time it is.
5.30

5 . Now look at the clock. What is the actual time?
5.25. i checked not too long ago.

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
nxt door kids screaming away. what fun lives.


7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
hmm, this morning, throwing the thrash AHHA. hmm, yest, bt batok coffeeshop


8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
hmm...some econs site...econs s is such a pain in the ass


9. What are you wearing?
boring home clothes


10. Did you dream last night?
YES!! i dreamt i was back in rgs with eunice and...rachel i think. then i was intro-ing the sch to them. but it was new and all glass and steel. except the foyer. oh, everything was escalator (dream come true!) no stairs ahah. and i met mrs tan yioe hwa, but she was slimmer and i couldn't recognise her at first. she's one of my fave tchers in rg too bad she retired. i think everything i know abt chem came from her and she made chem prac seem so easy and manageable. (ok i've forgotten EVERYTHING from science! except the Please Stop Calling Me A Zebra, Fat Stupid Pig, Copper Silver Gold. if you know what im talking abt, the metals chart thingy...HAHA)



11. When did you last laugh?
hmm, a few hours ago?

12. What is on the walls of the room you are in?
wallpaper....


13. Seen anything weird lately?
not really


14. What do you think of this quiz?
good for bored ppl like me

15. What is the last film you saw?
OH MAN..i cant even rmb...maybe it's memoirs of a geisha!! (god forbid!! that's super long ago)OH now i rmb, the banquet

16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
OH! HAHA. u mean multi multi millionaire?
1)go learn all the things i wanna learn!! sewing,riding,french, etc etc
2)save part of it
3)a nice shoe, nice belt and nice bag

17. Tell me something about you that I don't know.
i dont have a secret life...or do i?


18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you change?
hmm....joining chorale maybe, not quitting piano, and maybe the world being less messed up than it is now


19. Do you like to dance?
well, its nice to see ppl dance. i like ballrm/latin but haha, i've no idea how i'd look like dancing



20. George W Bush... American?
eh?

21. Imagine your first child is a boy, what will you call him?
hahha, HMM...joseph/bryan (yeah yeah passe, but i'd rather not give them weird names like...n'gel....read sumiko tan ahah)

22. Imagine your first child is a girl, what will you call her?
cant think of right now


23. Have you ever considered living abroad?
yes! 3 dream cities in mind!

24. What do you want God to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?
that even though i havent been the most pious of all people, He still accepts and pardons me!

25. 4 people who must do this

reading janice's blog has inspired me to write abt 401 days too!! it's really the best, most super 2 yrs i have had in sch. it's a crazy mix of ppl that made it helluva fun. i rmb the first day i saw steph i REALLY REALLY thot she looked like liv tyler/arwen (LOTR) hey its a compliment ok. but soon i found out that she was FAR from that gracious arwen AHAHA

and then there're others in my row like hanna and wy! ahhaha ( i love bullying her, she's very funny and she makes funny noises!! and she refuses to drink cooler water but we sneakily fill her bottle with it anyway, she cant tell the difference) and then there's felly whom we bully too with the tapping thing but i try to protect her from the claws of steph HAHAHA

and there was the evelyn-steph "cold war" that had dunno how many sets and dunno how many chapters. oh and i rmb janice's table having that fan with the hand keychains. and lots of other things! and then there was muthusamy family and nice mrs tan and mr chang's funny actions

speaking of which. i still dont have the original class vid leh! (which i and mama/liangpei made with the original music) so if someone has pls burn for me thanks!

my PC CONFIRM A ALRDY (read: i am SCREWED)

i didnt even talk about george being mad in "the madness of george"how now brown cow. paper 3 better be gd or i'm screwed (rhymes)

Ozymandias was apparently about tyranny..which i didnt really write about. i am so s-c-r-e-w-e-d

i think i need to detox decaf myself some time.

oh btw, rmb don't burn your notes. i know you want to create haze a la indon ahha, but go green! recycle! sell to garang guni and get some money at the same time ahha

oh Lord, what a bad bad bad way to end one of my favourite subjects. and to think that its probably (99.99%) the last phy geog essay i'd EVER write in my whole life. and i don't even feel like i was utilising the knowledge i have half the time. sigh, this probably marks the end of my phy geog journey from adriel yap to pang pang and marianne chong to ms law. :( its really weird to think that this is THE END of all the work from these years. very weird

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Stability results were medium which suggests you are moderately relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic.

Orderliness results were high which suggests you are overly organized, reliable, neat, and hard working at the expense too often of flexibility, efficiency, spontaneity, and fun.

Extraversion results were moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity.

trait snapshot:
clean, organized, dislikes chaos, semi neat freak, perfectionist, traditional, realist, fits in most places, enjoys managing others, risk averse, good at saving money, prudent, respects authority, high self control, hard working, does not like to stand out, follows the rules, finisher, resilient, takes precautions, cautious, honest, unfamiliar with the dark side of life, practical, dutiful


(kinda accurate ahha)

was watching this really really nice show on nat geo. about polar bears mainly, and tracking the beautiful change in seasons in the North Pole and areas in the polar regions. its BEAUTIFUL. i'm inspired and if only money doesnt make the world go round, i'd 1) continue studying geog 2) go the Npole and do filming with nat geo. ( and see the Northern Lights aka auroras it's STUNNING)

IF money doesnt make the world go round

niwae, in the documentary, the polar cubs were SOOOOOO CUTE LAH they look like a teddy bear that i have, really really adorable. baby seals and belugas also super cute! belugas are white whales but they are smaller like dolphin size maybe? and they look like they're smiling! and the guy put a camera into the water to film and record their voices also. and they were so cute lah! they kept looking at the camera in cusriosity and even used their nose to probe it. SO CUTE.

rachel jus kindly enlightened me on how CHICKEN the SATs 2 chinese is lah!! examples


" ni hao, __"
a) ma?
b) ne?


"jing tian wo he mei mei zuo huo che"

a) bus
b) train
c) car

SO CHICKEN. we can ALL get 800 if we took it. man, maybe i shud have taken it for the cheap thrill of getting full marks (ok lah not very cheap) and Arts students have very little options in tms of SAT 2 subs - there're only math, lit and world history(which i heard is very very broad and i havent taken history since sec 2. i know. its time i start reading up after As) so chinese would have been a gd option. sigh, in the end i took sats twice and didnt even have to use it (sorry for wasting ur money dad HAHA)

i finally remembered what i wanted to blog about. the new JAMES BOND. i saw the casino royale trailer and i cant believe they got that guy to be bond lah! i mean i think there's no lack of better looking actors around (ok after googling i found some nicer pics of him) but still, i think he lacks that bond factor. both rachel and i think that pierce brosnan is still the best bond. you know bond should be like suave, and very cool while doing all the stunts but i think the new bond lacks it leh...hahah

man..i jus realised that this chinese show i'm watching has some lesbian thingamajig...and up till where i watched i thought it's just sisterly love. check it out here gu lian hua

phew. i finally completed my ucas and it shud be on its way to ali. haha, i have procrastinated for damn long alrdy. everytime i do such serious matters i will always be very scared and want to double triple quadruple check. that's why i took so long ahha. man, i wonder what life has in store for me...everytime i see ppl doing US apps and packing their envelopes, looking very pro, i will be damn envious but aiyah, for the fuss-free me, ucas will do ahha. don't you wonder what you'll be doing next yr? i mean all these choices and decisions are gonna decide your future. and i just hope life has a surprise ( a nice one!) for me.

these days at the library have been boring but fun at times. like how rachel is high on seemingly nothing today and our paper aeroplanes with grace and her "bf's" face on it (they're pilots!) and our numerous teh peng breaks in the canteen. sigh...i want it over and done with!!! but it'd feel a little awkward to know that sth you've been preparing for so long is soon to be over. but who cares. im alrdy looking fwd to the post A's spree and frantic prom dress hunting!!! (onlyhave abt 8 days to do that!!!) it's like we've been talking abt it for so long and finally it's really really near.

yest, rachel (my bday matey!) celebrated our bday at my hse with some of the class. my dad and i even put up balloons like it was a 3 yr old's party ahha! it was quite a new feeling for me cos i had never really had a bday party before and i don't really enjoy crowds that well, because of awkward silences and moments. well, besides the fact that they were bored of my hse cos i have no games, no vcds, NOTHING to do at my hse, it went pretty well. i liked the fortune telling part (though its proven inaccurate!) and the hilight of the day must be project L (inside joke!) and rachel's expression was PRICELESS.
anyway, lots of pics!

grace likes her door gift

oh, don't you just love rachel when she's looking like a fool.

grace likes her second doorgift, a la bi xiao xing nailclipper

my mum's homemade smiley face bday cake adorned with m&ms and half a strawberry for a nose
grace likes my bday cake ahah.

the 2 gluttons of the day rachel and eunice (the pseudo a03b-ian)

HAAHAH eunice's expression is the BEST!





i like this photo ahahahha

flashing their million dollar sunkist smiles!


the cake's really cute! (though wax started dropping over...)


my pretty present. thank you!

rachel wearing her cancer patient hat. ahha, but she likes it alot cos it's some manga character's hat.

everyone

had a great time! and man, now im legal to drive, booze, buy booze, buy ciggies..hahahah! ok soon lah, 2 more days. you know rachel, we should sth dangerous or havoc on tuesday!

it was open hse today and man, i can still rmb every thing i did at the 04 open hse! man, times passes so quickly that i feel so old at times. today at the library had some silly moments when we were exchanging invitations and tmr is going to be swell i hope! expect pictures!

more pictures!


wah! grace's close to 180 degree taekwando kick! HAHA when will this 2 stop fighting!




view from the lockers

thsoe who went for the lantern festival celeb. man. wish i was there!

GEOG RM!!! ahahha, look at all the wonderful maps in the background(3D maps mind you! haha)!



entertaining ourselves with helium balloons....

which we plucked off the railing ahhaha



pepper lunch



(geog rm alert!)

geog rocks!

man i'll miss this place


err...70% of my class or 80%? haha (now you witness the severe lack of male presence!)

im SURE that there is a lit bk thief going around. or some locker spirit that steals books. grace lost her m4m and robert frost, rachel lost her robert frost and I the UNLUCKY SOUL. lost 2 BOOKS WITHIN A TERM. i really have no IDEA at all where they've gone! i have even pulled out my drawers to see if they've fell behind, and NO they are NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. but on the other hand, i've no idea who could have broken into my locker, i mean the few of us who borroweach other's lockers sometimes would know one and another's combi but that can only limit the possible ppl down to 3 or 4 who could have taken them home wrongly. or maybe there's a THIEF GOING ARND STEALING LIT BKS COS THEY DUN HAVE THEIR OWN TO STUDY. if you're whoever i know and you're reading this and you see my name YAP ZHI XIN on the first page of the bks WOMAN WARRIOR AND HEART OF DARKNESS and you feel guilty, pls return it. if i really cant findthem and none of my frens have taken them by mistake, im going to the office estate management and request to look at the security videos or sth. it cant be so many lost bks from one row of lockers. I WILL TRACK YOU DOWN WHOEVER YOU ARE. there is a camera facing RIGHT at my locker. beware u thief

I'll Hear Your Voice

And now that we've reached the end,
I think of all that's passed
of how the time that went so fast
and of how I've come to depend
upon the faith I feel inside your guiding hands

Say you'll go with me forever, though I know that you can't
Well I ain't much with words
There's nothin' I could say that you ain't heard
But I promise you that each and every day

I'll hear your voice
In every thought that flows through my mind
I'll see your face
In every cloud that floats through my sky
And when the world is too much
and the hurt's got me down on my knees to pray
I'll hear your voice
and you won't be so far away

Do you remember a moonless night?
With only sound for a view,
funny what an ocean can do
It was then that we knew this was right,
and that the arms we shared we'd share so many nights

Say you'll go with me wherever, even though I know it's just a dream
Though I know it's unknown,
It's something that I gotta do alone
But I swear to you I could never do anything without your soul inside

I'll hear your voice
In every thought that flows through my mind
I'll see your face
In every cloud that floats through my sky
And when the world is too much
and the hurt's got me down on my knees to pray
I'll hear your voice
and you won't be so far away

Someday I'll hold you, and we will be sailin'
and I will never have to say goodbye again
Til then, til that day
I'll hear your voice, and you won't be so far away.

that's the song the squigs performed for our seniors during their prom and that seems jus like yest. thought the lyrics are pretty appropriate for this point in time, now that we've reached the end. it really hasnt sunk in yet but we have reached it. and i cant help but wonder where the days have gone - complaints, complaints but now that it's gone we learn to treasure it.

that day my dad was just explaining to me the story behind the 1812 overture, and that reminded me of my interest in music some yrs ago. and dropping piano will be that eternal regret at the back of my head. and that also reminded me that there's sth else i ought to do post A's, which is going for a concert/performance! i havent done that for REAL long. hmm, that last performance i went was dance night, which seemed really really long ago. and anyway, phantom of the opera is coming to sg!!!! for 07 march! if you wanna go please tell me! hahaha, i hope that i can make it for this singapore run. $50 for students

sigh. 3 more days to the official end of day. it's a mixed feeling i think. will miss geog lessons cos i love the small grp and the interaction with the teachers, and some teachers, friends...somehow this 2 yrs were very transient. i cant say i love my sch, because i think that only comes when you are very attached to ccas, hse or groups which im not obviously (check out my wondrously short cca form) but i will miss its environment as well...im really glad i got to stay and of cos i will miss my favouritest junior aminah! sigh...its hard to put into words, with everything going so fast

Your Deadly Sins

Greed: 40%

Sloth: 40%

Envy: 20%

Gluttony: 0%

Lust: 0%

Pride: 0%

Wrath: 0%

Chance You'll Go to Hell: 14%

You'll die in a shuttle crash, on your way to your resort on the moon.

How Sinful Are You?

hmm..let's see how i die next time huh. maybe i can hum fly me to the moon along the way. haha

Your Summer Ride is a Beetle Convertible

Fun, funky, and a little bit euro. You love your summers to be full of style and sun!

What's Your Summer Ride?


this is kinda addictive! ahahhaa

You are a Black Coffee

At your best, you are: low maintenance, friendly, and adaptable At your worst, you are: cheap and angsty You drink coffee when: you can get your hands on it Your caffeine addiction level: high

What Kind of Coffee Are You?

hahah my caffeine addiction hmm..kinda high lah! ahhaha, but definitely WAY better than earlier this yr k. control and restraint ahahha