hey i haven't blogged in ages and so i thought i'd come back, especially since today is the first day since As are over that i've stayed home the whole damn day (and did absolutely nothing of value, as usual whee). short recap on the days that have passed.

tuesday: As ARE OVER! the class was awesome, we jumped into the pool with our uniforms on and everything, and then later headed out for an expensive dinner before some chillaxing time around town. i was nice to have a class outing again, honestly. took quite a few polaroids too.
wednesday: headed out for lunch with pak, and now he's in china for a holiday. can't wait for him to be back, but then after he's back he's gotta start work so, lol. went to orchard central for some good jap food.
thursday: spent the afternoon with debs, shopping and lunching at astons and just bumming in general. strolling down orchard road with my girl is always exciting. then later, met up with isaac for dinner and we had well, jap food! no i don't know whats with the sudden jap food craze haha, but i did try a new dish: pregnant fish! and damn its so good srsly. and now isaac just flew off to japan last night ):
friday: public holiday which was spent out with the family, dad's side.
saturday: spent out with family, mom's side. went to sentosa and the underwater world, and my little nephew (cousin's son) was being his usual little monstrous self and trying to steal my lollipop. but he was cute when he wasn't screaming his head off (: yes he's six months old and positively adorable.
sunday: well haha i spent the night out with david at the night safari. it was pretty awesome and fun, and strange at times cuz i swear levu calls people at absolutely the worst times! the animals were so cute and strolling around at night is actually quite cooling.
monday: spent it out with hwee and we watched a christmas carol which is a secretly scary kids' show, and hwee spent a ton of cash on a CD, a pair of jeans AND MORE. we ate at toast and it was so good, i have to go back there more often if only it wasn't so eggspensive ): its often frequented by angmohs and working people so yes that tells you something.

and today is tuesday and i am home and refusing to move anywhere! i have gone out nonstop and have spent a ton of cash and now i refuse to move for a while. or at least until i get bored. plus a ton of people are overseas now, like tongtong's in LA and isaac's in japan and pak's in china and debs is in turkey and yes i am sad and alone awww. PROM IS NEXT TUESDAY THOUGH so thats something to look forward to! (:

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this is because i can spell konfusion with a k and i can like it. okay not really, this post is really for hwee because she insists that i blog more about 'exciting things'. which is really terribly vague, but yes. anyway, the horror of A Levels is almost over. i always thought it would be so terribly different, like how the finals of a competition feels different than the first round/heats. its just the atmosphere and the looks on the faces of people. but somehow i was (pleasantly?) surprised to note that A Levels was really not that much different from prelims, or midyears, or terms. at least in terms of atmosphere.

i don't know if it should be worrying actually, because i just went in and did my thing. but i had to keep reminding myself that This Is It (sorry MJ, that's the only phrase that would've fit) and honestly there are no more second chances. went in there and winged most of my papers. i just hope it turns out fine, my fate is in the bell curve's hands now. okay enough of As, one more paper and i'm done forevermore with this damn education system.

had a lovely enough weekend i guess. slept in like mad on saturday, only woke up at 2:30pm. did some lit work, and then stoned out. sunday was nice too, with some more lit work and dinner with the family. shopped a bit for prom stuff, my outfit is almost complete and honestly its not the typical gown shiz that most people wear (and tend to look somewhat bad in) but its a little more casual and definitely rewearable. i never saw the need for buying one of those in-your-face evening gowns and only wearing it once cuz that is such a waste of money really. plus, looking at seniors' old prom pictures, the gown way really isn't the most flattering.

so here we are on monday, ust waiting, waiting for it to be over. seeing that its like 4:20pm now, this time tomorrow i'll be one third of the way through my last essay and just winging it like never before. tomorrow is going to be crazy, and i can't rely on the bell curve cuz Very Few People take my lit elective paper, not to mention its the first year of this new lit paper (they change the lit books every couple of years) so its time to set the standard, time to fight the great fight.

how nerve wracking huh. oh well at least it will be over soon! (: i leave you all with a few quotes which i hope you'll enjoy cuz honestly they made me laugh and maybe they will for you too.

me: i think that if i go overseas, the thing i will miss the most is Pig.
mom: pig?! not your mom?
me: i meant in terms of food. you're not food, are you?
mom: well i look delicious.

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I think as a general rule of thumb, guys tend to stay up later than girls. Or rather, the guys on my MSN list stay up later than the girls. Maybe its a beauty sleep sort of thing or maybe they don't come online much or maybe they're out clubbing and doing goodness knows what but honestly I haven't met a girl that really stays up as late as I do >_>

Its always amusing to have my personal reverse alarm clocks (Nam and Isa) opening conversations with me at 3 or 4 am telling me to go to sleep. Nick, my late night study buddy, also stays up pretty late, like 2am plus on weeknights. Plus I just had an extended conversation with Hon Cheong via Twitter last night, all the way up to 5am or something. Not to mention crazy Pak who plays dota into the wee hours of the morning and is up way later than I am.

I just sort of wonder why this is so. Maybe guys are just crazy hahahaha. Thoughts?

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"It always fascinated me how people go from loving you madly to nothing at all, nothing. It hurts so much. When I feel someone is going to leave me, I have a tendency to break up first before I get to hear the whole thing. Here it is. One more, one less. Another wasted love story. I really love this one. When I think that its over, that I'll never see him again like this... well yes, I'll bump into him, we'll meet our new boyfriend and girlfriend, act as if we had never been together, then we'll slowly think of each other less and less until we forget each other completely. Almost. Always the same for me. Break up, break down. Drunk up, fool around. Meet one guy, then another, fuck around. Forget the one and only. Then after a few months of total emptiness start again to look for true love, desperately look everywhere and after two years of loneliness meet a new love and swear it is the one, until that one is gone as well. There's a moment in life where you can't recover any more from another break-up. And even if this person bugs you sixty percent of the time, well you still can’t live without him. And even if he wakes you up every day by sneezing right in your face, well you love his sneezes more than anyone else's kisses."
-- Marion, 2 Days in Paris

(You know, soliloquys are awesome when bits of them mirror your life.)

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old memories. old feelings. reminiscence. i somehow knew i'd look back on those days and laugh. also, A LEVELS START TOMORROW LOL LOL LOL.

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short post here before i head back to the notes. i realise that my standard of chinese has dropped dramatically ever since i came to ac. not that it was tremendously good before or anything, but at least i could read/say/comprehend chinese with a certain level of understanding (not much can be said for my writing though haha).

now i have to read something twice before i can actually understand it, even if it is in relatively simple chinese. and when i speak chinese (rare occurrence), it is rather halting and occasionally i mispronounce words in an english accent. for the latter i sort of blame the clb people hahaha, they've been my only source of chinese for the past two years lol.

at least i'm somewhat glad that i can still listen and understand chinese (even if i can't write/speak/read it much). must be all those chinese duets that i put on my ipod hahaha (: i'm almost ashamed to call myself chinese sometimes, but i think after As i really ought to put in a little more effort into speaking more chinese cuz i think its sort of embarrassing.

however, if you are like me and your chinese also stinks after two years of not speaking it or having anything to do with it really, then maybe you ought to get some practice just like me! here, have a nice picture to comprehend. it illustrates the chinese standard and ideal for the perfect and most desirable bachelor! hahaha. after staring at it for a bit i finally got it and then i started LOL-ing in front of my laptop. i think my dad thinks i'm crazy now. i thought it was pretty cute (:

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Today, while riding on a bus,
I saw a girl with golden hair...
I wished that I could be as fair.
Then suddenly she rose to leave,
I saw her hobble down the aisle.
She had one leg and wore a crutch...
But as she passed, she wore a smile.

Oh, God, forgive me when I whine...
I have 2 legs, the world is mine.

I stopped to buy some candy.
The lad who sold it had such charm.
I talked with him, he seemed so glad.
If I were late, it'd do no harm.
And as I left, he said to me,
"I thank you, you've been so kind.
It's nice to talk with folks like you.
Who do not mind that I am blind."

Oh, God, forgive me when I whine...
I have 2 eyes, the world is mine.

Later while walking down the street,
I saw a child with eyes of blue.
He stood and watched the others play.
He did not know what he should do.
I stopped a moment, and then I said,
"Why don't you join the others, dear?"
He looked ahead without a word.
And then I knew... he couldn't hear.

Oh, God, forgive me when I whine...
I have 2 ears, the world is mine.

With feet to take me where I'd go.
With eyes to see the sunset's glow.
With ears to hear what I would know.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine...
I'm blessed indeed, the world is mine.

No, I didn't write this, but whoever did is amazing. It just serves as a reminder as to how blessed we truly are, even amidst all the supposed crap we are going through.

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