licialicialicia!

2009-09-04T01:44:00.003+08:00

work today was insane, blah. the silver lining is that pay is coming on saturday!

currently watching black&white on youtube. it's surprisingly amazingly good. i want the ost! and probably the dvd/vcd too. for directing mars too, cai yue xun is now officially my favourite director! next on my watchlist: the hospital.

PAYDAY COME QUICK. i still have cds to buy too. hopefully i don't bust all my money again within the first three days of getting it- wish me luck.

2009-08-25T00:13:00.007+08:00

so many albums to buy/ bought, so little money!

joanna wang - start from here

bought it today, yayy me! serena mentioned that she sounds like tanya chua, haha. actually, don't know why i bought it either, doesn't seem like anyone i know is listening to her. but it's fine, she quite groovy in her own right. and i like it that she's recommended by david tao on her cd jacket. it's a sign, i tell you.
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joanna wang - joanna wang & 王若琳

after listening to the above, i want this!
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tanya chua - 若你碰到他

bought it while i was on a hunt for david tao's new album. i saw it at popular and was like "i want that!" bought it the day after that happened. listened to it twice this afternoon, and it's probably going to be on repeat for a long time (or until david tao comes).
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jam hsiao - 王妃

heard the single off youtube just now, and i totally want the album!
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alan kuo - one day

this one's more of a curiosity thing. his first album was great, his second was a little blah, so i want to hear the third. plus, jay chou directed one of his (sleazy) mv!
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david tao - opus 69

...and here comes my main reason for blogging. david tao new album after three (long) years! it was slated for release on the 15th of august, got postponed to the 28th because of the typhoon, got pushed forward to the 21st because of the leak of the album on the 14th. seriously, just make up your mind. and remember, when you market an album, BE SURE TO COORDINATE WITH SUPPLIERS IN SINGAPORE TOO. there are fans here too you now. it's been 3 days, and it's still as if nothing's happening here in singapore, even though taiwan, china and hongkong already got it. it's not fair! went to mj multimedia on friday to enquire about it, and the salesgirl there was like 'who's david tao?' literally, okay. i wanted to slap someone.

GAHH, PLEASE COME QUICK.

2009-07-27T10:30:00.000+08:00

the sky suddenly became very threatening, and my study room went all dark. wanted to head to marine parade library to study today, but became totally turned off by the impending rain.

anyway, lunch cum shopping trip on saturday with serena turned out to be first day at work as a waitress at the station kitchen at st james powerhouse. i've been told that waitressing is totally not my thing, but till now i don't see why. what is wrong with you people! i can do anything i set my mind to (maybe except for econs, that is)! oh well, i'm extra glad for the additional income that's going to come in through this job, provided the boss decides that i'm doing a good enough job and is willing to keep me. was teling serena that giving tuition now shall be for my expenses, while waitressing shall provide me my shopping money, haha.

i've also recently decided that i shan't keep the tagboard any longer should it threaten to die again, since no one seems keen on tagging me anymore. just die already.

2009-07-01T16:08:00.003+08:00

it's been such a long time since i've sat down and written a decent post.

picked up a call just now, asking for a 'ms chee', which i presume to be my mum. however, i found the voice eerily familiar to a certain mary lim, and was torn between hanging up the phone straightaway and asking who the caller was. did neither, and now i'm regretting it. HER VOICE IS HAUNTING ME!

anyway, i've been thinking about the 6th of march again recently. and i still feel as shitty as i did on the day itself. given that the standard of my econs is still no where near passing, i've been feeling really bad, resulting in slight insomnia. so what do i do in these situations? i play zelda, which for the record, is very fun. and yes, i'm scared, and i'm running away from reality.

i really need to drag myself to the library to study really soon. given that the study mates of the first half of the year were limited to people like daolin and melissa, who have long finished exams, my current study mate is only limited to jacob, which is very sad. i need new/more study mates!

literature is currently bugging me as well, because i still have no confidence in writing a decent poe essay at all. note to self: go bug krispy or jacob when his cts finish to teach me how.

i am such a bummer.

2009-06-10T00:02:00.002+08:00

nothing riles me up anymore. not even jacob smacking me really hard, stepping on my foot, nor tickling me. i have become a very boring person. for all the bored people who have been coming back to check this blog, which i highly doubt anyone is anymore, being the very boring person that i am writing very boring posts which don't attract any readers at all, i think you can pretty much stop now.

am going away to church camp tomorrow, and i haven't finished packing. i don't want to pack anymore. blahh. i'd rather be here rambling off on what a boring person i am. lol.

anyway, i'm very happy that i've found jacob to help me out with lit as well! yayy jacob!

2009-05-13T23:30:00.002+08:00

400th post, finally! haha.

my mum kindly informed me the other day that my hair looks very thin now. thanks, mum.

yes, i've been dropping a lot of hair ever since i went to dye it red. and it's still dropping like mad! soon, i'll need to go to beijing 101 too, with all the uncles and the aunties. i've thought of keeping my hair red semi-permanently, but i guess it's not going to happen now. i'll wait for my mane to fully grow back, before deciding on my next weirdass colour, haha.

anyway, i must say, i do miss teaching. a lot, especially after talking to mel about her tuition kid. i was initially quite glad to be taking a break after i left, but i now miss the feeling, even though i still think that the students to have the potential to drive me mad, haha. or maybe i just miss the feeling of having a job (getting paid, yums!). no but seriously, i do miss the kids and the job. but perhaps it too was a good thing that i left, i kept feeling like they did more good for me than i did for them.

oh wells.

2009-05-07T21:10:00.003+08:00

say goodbye to the pretty, useless phone..

and hello to the pretty, functional phone!

okay, granted that:

the phone still feels like it kind of lags,
the camera is at the most disastrous place you can think of,
the memory cannot be expanded (but hey, it's 8gb),
reviews have been saying that the cover scratches like nobody's business,
the touch screen buttons on the front are so sensitive that it's annoying,
and the phone probably won't be found in a dark room because it's completely black, and not the partial brown i wanted,

it's a totally welcome change from my samsung which

lags like it's nobody's business,
has a blurry camera which takes pictures at a rate of 5 seconds per shot,
can only take a maximum of a 2gb memory card,
i get to choose between having a scratched or a ugly screen because the protective plastic won't stick properly due to the unevenness of the screen,
(i have nothing bad to say about my touch-sensitive buttons and the colour of my phone because i love them, haha).

so yes, am loving my new phone! for now, at least. opinions might change when i actually start using it.

2009-04-20T23:18:00.003+08:00

would you believe it,something eventful actually happened, haha.

first of course, was ecp with twoseven last last saturday, and i'm too lazy to upload pictures, so go see them on facebook, because i have a much easier time uploading pictures on facebook as compared to blogger.

anyway, i had fun that day, even though only about a quarter of the class turned up. well, good enough for me. =) only thing is, it started to rain while we were having fun at the beach, which resulted in me being stuck at macs for something like an hour because i couldn't cycle home in the rain. or more like, refused to.

the other eventful thing that happened:

i finally did it and went to dye my hair red! though i do think that i would have preferred it redder, because the colour only shows up like this with flash, haha.

i've been cooping myself up at marine parade library to mug. fyi, i'm procrastinating, and currently haven't started on econs at all. well, i did try to start yesterday, but it didn't work very well. anyone who's free, PLEASE DROP BY MARINE PARADE LIBRARY SOMEDAY TO KEEP ME COMPANY. mel is useless and can't do maths, lol. if you can't help me with maths, econs will do as well. i need someone to sit next to me and push my lazy ass to study.

2009-03-26T20:09:00.001+08:00

i'm too lazy to update, mostly because nothing interesting ever happens anymore.

2009-03-14T11:07:00.002+08:00

in case you still have no idea (which is highly unlikely) how i did for A levels, i didn't do well. failed econs in fact, which is one of my H2s. ultimately this means that i'll have to redo the A levels this year.

i've decided to take it as a private candidate instead of going back to school, because the atmosphere there is really stifling. also, because SEAB doesn't allow H2 china studies to be taken by private candidates, i'm probably switching up to do H2 lit and drop china studies to H1.

oh by the way, the reason SEAB provides for not allowing private candidates to take H2 china is because they say that there's a coursework involved which 'needs guidance'. but the school, in trying to convince me to go back to repeat another year, says that i can not do the coursework this year because the marks from last year's can be carried forward. well, SEAB's reason for not allowing me to take china then doesn't hold water, does it. and tpjc doesn't even offer H2 china studies anomore. so i'm like, 'why are you still asking me to go back to school?'

i feel like i've fallen through a huge gaping hole, and everyone just looks in the other direction.

i've also officially left my job at temasek. i'm thankful for the experience, extremely.

i'm thankful for it because i'm liking literature all over again.
i'm thankful for getting the difficult classes to teach, because they taught me so much about people skills, even though they may not have known.
i'm thankful for meeting so many wonderful people, and obviously the people in my mind now are twoseven, haha. (i don't know whether you guys see this, but you owe me a class photo!)

speaking of photographs, i bought a new camera yesterday! it came a day late though, because i missed the photo opportunities on the last day of school.

it's pretty!

2009-03-05T19:02:00.002+08:00

for all the uncertainty that's going around; whether or not to continue with teaching one class, whether or not i have to repeat (prays really hard), whether or not to go to an over-priced trip to gold coast with the YF, whether or not to go to melbourne with the blitzes, whether or not to go to FASS if i can, i guess tomorrow's d-day.

pray REALLY REALLY hard for me eh?

2009-03-03T20:57:00.004+08:00

an update after long last.

going to school has started to become a drag, and hence i've decided to leave before it kills all my interest for teaching. of course, there are other factors too, which i would prefer not to mention here, so come ask me if you're dying to know.

so this means that there's probably going to be an opening for another relief teacher for 2 english classes once term starts again after march holidays. please call me if you're a bummer going around reading stagnant blogs like mine, which is a clear indication of how much free time you actually have, and are interested in teaching!

anyway, with that said, i thought it'd be appropriate to pen down my last thoughts about this stint.

overall, it was a really really fulfilling experience, and i'm not saying that because i'm obliged to. i really learnt alot through teaching, and it has definitely matured by leaps and bounds. i'd like to think that i made some friends there, even the students, but of course that may be wishful thinking on my part.

i pretty much learned on the job over there, which i suppose has its pros and cons. because it's a do-and-see-how-it-works-out approach, and different people respond differently to different approaches, some worked and some didn't. so yes, i've had successes and failures as well. i may well be deluding myself if i say that there were more successes than failures, but hey, i'm delusional man. but then again, who am i to judge?

staff room talk was somewhat of an eye-opener too, because who ever would have thought that teachers were such a humorous bunch of people? seriously, it seems as if the teachers depend on each other to maintain their sanity. it seems like a very different story from what seems to be protrayed by the teachers at tpjc, then again, only from what i know.

there are definitely classes which made me feel like storming out of class to vomit blood, but then, there were others like sweet 1/2, who made a card for me on my last day with them.

i know that some of them were probably forced to sign it, but hey, everybody's signature is up there man. i was damn touched can!

either way, i'm actually quite glad that i'm finally seeing an end to this stint. for a while, it somehow felt as if it would never come to a close, and it got somewhat depressing.

please remember to let me know if you're interested in the job and i'll give you details! please also let me know if you know of any place which is going to hire after 3 weeks and pays a reasonable salary!

and thus abruptly ends this entry.

2009-02-03T23:29:00.003+08:00

something that i found very interestingly funny while marking a certain class's holiday homework. and no, this doesn't really happen to me. well, not yet, at least.

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Did I Miss Anything?

Question frequently asked by
students after missing a class

Nothing. When we realized you weren't here
we sat with our hands folded on our desks
in silence, for the full two hours

Everything. I gave an exam worth
40 per cent of the grade for this term
and assigned some reading due today
on which I'm about to hand out a quiz
worth 50 per cent

Nothing. None of the content of this course
has value or meaning
Take as many days off as you like:
any activities we undertake as a class
I assure you will not matter either to you or me
and are without purpose

Everything. A few minutes after we began last time
a shaft of light descended and an angel
or other heavenly being appeared
and revealed to us what each woman or man must do
to attain divine wisdom in this life and
the hereafter
This is the last time the class will meet
before we disperse to bring this good news to all people
on earth

Nothing. When you are not present
how could something significant occur?

Everything. Contained in this classroom
is a microcosm of human existence
assembled for you to query and examine and ponder
This is not the only place such an opportunity has been
gathered

but it was one place

And you weren't here

-Tom Wayman

2009-01-27T21:12:00.005+08:00

... and here's the reason why i haven't been blogging.

okay actually not really. i guess the saga last year has made me that much conscious of what i blog and what i want blog. so yes, i suppose that has made me much more of a boring person in a sense, because i feel that i don't have the same liberty and freedom to talk here as much as i did before.

so shoot me.

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for all the (read: slow) people who don't know that i've returned to temasek sec to become a relief teacher, yes, i've returned to temasek sec to become a relief teacher. i'm aware of how easy it is for students to get here if they actually bother to google my name (heck, i know i would if i hated my teacher well enough), hence shall refrain from talking about any particular class here. (note: read above)

i still love my job though!

anyway, just something that i found interesting on the door of the staff toilet:

2008-11-26T14:52:00.001+08:00

got very scared packing, because i'm constantly asking myself "will i need this next year when i resit my A's?" before throwing it away.

damn.

throwing away stuff is really hard, because i really don't know how (horrible) the A's will turn out. maybe i should do what serena did and just dump all of it into a big cardboard box. this way, i won't be able to see it, and i can drag the whole box to throw away if i do do well enough.

take me to the star
脱离烦人的轨道
相信生活本逍遥
我想要疯狂大声叫

2008-11-23T01:48:00.000+08:00

i refuse to do a post-mortem of A's, because it'll only serve to dampen the holiday spirit.

here's my newest infatuation:
hahaha. i love his voice! so crazy over it that i'm determined to dig up all the old 信乐团 albums which are so difficult to find now. found one though! so it's one down, three to go. =)

not dying my hair red anymore, at least not until i finish the teaching stint. which is hopefully still on, because money is my loves. hah no lah, i looking forward to the experience too.

watched a choir concert last night, and i after hearing it made me realise just how much i miss singing. i can already hear henry going 'just come to consort lah and stop whining.' lol.

2008-11-09T21:53:00.002+08:00

oversight - n.

failure to do or notice something.
inadvertent mistake.
supervision.

such a contradictory word, no?

2008-10-06T00:14:00.000+08:00

gosh my computer is like totally dying on me.

the computer hanged, ms word won't work (at least for now), and the left-click button my the mouse is being really stubborn and i have to hit it really hard for it to work. and i'm still left with the bibliography and footnoting for the IS.

damn.

watched 'the island' just now, and it really made me think. i guess i never had a serious problem with clones before, but after watching it i'm totally anti-clone now. lol. would you do it? would you pay millions of dollars for a second shot at life, and destroy another you living in a parallel world?

'distraction' is currently airing, and it's such a sadistic yet really sad show. you watch people do self-deprecating things (eg. squeeze into a telephone booth with a bunch of naked people, have people smash vases on your head in the form of a buzzer, tie rubber bands on your face for points etc.) on national tv for prizes. like get a life huh.

what is this world coming to.

2008-10-01T22:16:00.000+08:00

patiently waiting for the 9th for jay chou's new album. =) though i am kinda pissed that the whole freaking album was leaked even before october.

apparently david tao's album is also due out around this time, but there doesn't seem to be any news on it.

oh well, so many albums coming out, so little money. plus i bought myself a new pencilcase too, and planning to save like 80 bucks this month. don't really know how i'm going to do it, crazy man.

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went for F1 last friday night. not the actual sessions, just the practice runs.

i forgot what you call this, but i'll call them earstoppers. would have seriously gone deaf without them. or died. or something.

can you see the blur of a car, it's that white thing which looks like its zooming past not bad eh, can take such a picture with such a lousy camera phone.

changed a spot, and went down near the track. took a close up! okay lah, not very close up, but good enough for me. took about 50 photos, and only about 7 contained cars. haha, that's about how bad my camera phone is, or how much my estimation sucks.

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joycelyn and enkee made this weird cocktail thing yesterday. it all started when joycelyn and i were trying to kope enkee's nachos (as usual) and joycelyn spilled enkee's iced tea onto the cheese. and then joycelyn declared that it was actually nice, lol. and then after enkee was done with it we actually started arranging the leftover bits, and got this. hahaha. we even have a waterfall, if you look carefully. such detail!

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likely meeting random people again tomorrow to visit teachers back at temasek. jacob has too much time to kill after promos lol.

gotta finish complex and vectors practice papers for mdm lim tonight, grr.

2008-09-24T22:57:00.002+08:00

it seems like the only thing i can sit down to do for hours now is stats. and i'm no where close to being confident at it.

it pisses me off that the school is back to tracking attendance, because this means that i'll have to turn up for econs. seriously, i think even staying at home and sleeping for an additional hour would be more productive than going for econs early in the morning. really.

oh yes serena, i think we'll never learn that studying at your place doesn't really work. neither does our alternating between cooking and washing thing.

short update only, busy with other things.

2008-09-15T22:06:00.001+08:00

so yesterday in a moment of fury/laziness/immaturity, i vented it out.

my mum asked me to fill a bottle of water for consumption on the second floor and i got really pissed off. one, because i was going to sleep and two because she's the only one who'd probably be drinking it. plus my sis was still up in the room, and she had to come specially to get me out of bed to do it. so yeah, got really irritated.

i stormed downstairs, filled a bottle with boiling hot water, went upstairs, and dumped it in the fridge. felt quite happy and contented after that because i was hoping someone would like reach to drink out of it and get scalded or something lol. went to sleep in peace after.

but look what has become of it today:

here's it from another angle. the cover doesn't even fit properly anymore.

2008-09-12T13:09:00.003+08:00

fell sick, possibly from munching on too much of those butterfly cookies.

caused a throat infection, which brought on a slew of other symptoms, most notably the fever which hit 40 degrees this morning. woe is me.

but i got a two day mc! and next week marks the beginning of the collapse timetable, which i'm frankly very happy about. and i'm so glad that they're not making us turn up from morning assembly, and that we can enter and leave school anytime we want too.

gosh, why didn't it start earlier.

ohoh, the tortoise egg hatched! i have a new tortoise now!

2008-09-08T18:38:00.003+08:00

got back results today. 'passed everything but one, surprisingly. failed econs, unsurprisingly.'

though most of the subjects were passed, it still doesn't feel like it's enough. i blame people like mrs koh for that feeling. even though i'll usually be content with a D for gp, especially since it's the 'not-likely-to-be-passable' prelims, D just seems inadequate.

considering the amount of effort i put into this round's prelims, i'd say that i did pretty well. just not enough.

stuff like maths can probably be improved on. stop procrastinating and read up more on china, do IS. get someone to talk econs to me, and stop gossiping with henry when he's supposed to be teaching me. and grr, lit. 22/50 for the great expectations and poem essays. need to rewrite, since i've failed them.

ack, i feel so under-prepared for everything.

2008-08-30T23:33:00.000+08:00

short update.

prelims are over, currently slacking away. terrible right, i know.

2008-08-17T22:07:00.003+08:00

opened mrs koh's exam tips for all of us tomorrow, and i find advice #5 quite funny.

"5. Write Fast."

don't know why, but i was really tickled by it. though i know she probably meant it.

okay good luck to me then, gp papers tomorrow, followed by econs case study later in the day. counting on gp to hopefully help pull up my rank points, as well as the case study to help me pass econs overall.

turning in early tonight, because i feel like procrastinating and not doing anything else, though this is most certainly not the time to be doing so.

2008-08-15T00:36:00.001+08:00

prelims officially start tomorrow for me. hurry wish me good luck, i'm going to need loads of it.

2008-08-12T23:15:00.002+08:00

i'm not complaining mel i swear!

caught the last episode of parental guidance just now, even though it's not on my weekly must watch list. such a funny show, such a sweet ending, kinda makes me regret missing so many episodes before. oh well, i'm sure they're somewhere on cyberspace.

2008-08-12T18:28:00.001+08:00

so. it's a B for chinese. a bit no point, even though there's improvement. same difference, haha.

today's a very cold day, and it doesn't help that i didn't bring my jacket. and that the NYJC maths paper was beyond difficult. and it was very cold. did i say that already?

borrowed a phone from melissa, but it a little spoilt and i can't make calls. so i'm only partially disconnected from the world. oh joy!

2008-08-03T20:25:00.002+08:00

my phone's spoilt, it won't charge. sent it to samsung today for repair, since the warranty expires on the 12th of this month. lucky lucky me.

LICIA IS UNCONTACTABLE. DON'T CALL ME, I'LL CALL YOU.

oh, and there's a very good chance that all my contacts will be gone after this. *cries* years and years of accumulating contacts! all likely to be gone just like that! *cries more*

stuff that i want to accomplish tonight: china essay. guess it's good in a way that the phone's not here, less distraction, hopefully.

but i dread being uncontactable for the next 5 days or so. and trying to get everyone's contact again. hmph. oh! and no music too, since my phone literally is my mp3 player. sheesh, i'm going to start using the cute lil purple mp3 again.

oh yes, i want to go shop for a new wallet too. eyed this animal wallet at vivocity the other day, but it's freaking expensive. debating within myself whether i should just starve myself for another month and get it, hah.

i'm quite glad that national day's finally coming this week, yayy. it means only four days of school! okay lah, still freaking long, given that i only went to school 3 days last week. heh. ali was so unwilling to accept my two-day parent letter lol. oh well, whatever.

ohoh! i cut my hair today too! short, might i add. it feels strange touching the back now, because the hair ends earlier than it should, haha.

2008-07-27T00:33:00.001+08:00

what kind of feelings do you harbour when you start calling casket companies in preparation for your grandmother's funeral, when she hasn't even passed away yet?

it is beyond me.

(not mine, huiwen's.)

2008-07-22T20:21:00.002+08:00

i've decided to stop procrastinating and update this dying blog today. been meaning to do this for days, haha.

i think i finally have a goal for post-jc education, NUS's FASS. i expect i'll go there and study the english language, the program looks very promising. *grins* well at least it doesn't look like it's going to put me to sleep, haha. okay now let's all cross our fingers for me and hope really hard that i'll be able to make it into the school.

i've always thought that if i was going to university, i would take some maths or business course. well because maths is fulfilling whenever i finish a question, while business would probably be able to get me some mundane job. but well, now that i've lost interest for both, i'm moving on. oh wait, i can't lose interest yet, A's are horribly close. zzz. so yes, the english language for me, hopefully.

WORK LICIA, NOW THAT YOU FINALLY HAVE A GOAL.

oh and by the way, i've gotten my 4x4x4 rubik's! is damn confusing, i swear. i need someone to teach me, the online guides are confusing, lol.

tomorrow's road run! at east coast! means i get to wake up later, hah! the buggers in tampines will finally experience the woes of waking up early. but it's only for a day, so sad.

interesting news! the mum has bought a new place after long last! but it's still within the same estate, and i think she mentioned that the size of the house is slightly smaller than the current house's. but who cares, when i can get my own room! *cheers* but we'll probably only be able to move in at the end of this year or early next year. such a long and agonising wait it's going to be.

bought amy winehouse and shin's album! loving both! woots.

2008-07-08T20:52:00.000+08:00

eh dan, I AM NOT ZILIAN CAN. i hate it when people call me that. hahaha.

anyway, i'm in the midst of writing my SGC. might i say, it is damn weird to be bragging about your own achievements can. i'm just not that kind of person, i think every word is a pain for me to write. it's going to come out very unnatural and two years down the road when i read it again, i'm going to cringe at what i'm writing right now.

i really need to start studying like really hard. heck it, i need to strive to finish all my homework on time first. i finally finished the statistics questions, albeit many questions were left blank because i don't know how to do them. bah.

on a sidenote, i'm very broke. boo.

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HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LIMHUIWEN!

2008-07-07T22:00:00.000+08:00

tied my hair just now to do work, and now i'm so tempted to cut it short. BUT DAMN! I WANTED TO PERSEVERE!

met up with atikah enkee and joycelyn just now to do the gp thing, but it turned out to be quite unproductive. hahaha. but oh well, we still had fun.

my new favorite show of the moment: SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE! it kinda made me wish i had continued ballet or something, haha. okay maybe not, i think ballet was quite painful at that time.

rewatching nodame cantabile at the moment, something i should so not be doing at this time. BUT IT'S SUPER ADDICTIVE!

i came to a conclusion that i can't live without music. i mean, people express music in so many different ways, some play instruments, some dance, and i love to sing. like yayy! but currently i''m so deprived of singing now, i need to sing again, bah. maybe that's why i'm so addicted to these shows now.

i've also decided that the time between 10 to 1 is usually my most productive time of the day, or rather night lah. so yeah, i'm off to mug statistics again. gah, i'm starting to go crazy doing it already.

2008-07-02T19:03:00.002+08:00

spent like one whole period of PE trying to do standing broad jump, and my thighs hurt like shit now. and the worse part is I STILL HAVEN'T PASSED IT LAH. 2 FREAKING CENTIMETRES. die please.

for some reason, i had a lot of fun in school today with enqi and joycelyn. maybe it's because mr gay was on mc and china got cancelled. yayy!

2008-07-01T21:14:00.003+08:00

http://www.tpjc.net/forum/?t=06455&page=1

hottest forum of the moment (i think).

and here's the object of discussion:

(stupid turnstile)
okay technically i wasn't part of the queue because i think this was the queue after maths that day, and my test finished late. everyone else was foolishly queueing to exit the sidegate, one at a time, because of the one and only turnstile. but still, super funny can.

while we're at funny, here's another even funnier picture.
turnsitilre! super funny can. pwns all. someone on photoshare was saying that they guess and check, and finally got it right the third time. i couldn't believe it really existed when i first saw it on photoshare, so i went and took notice of it today. AND IT REALLY JUST INNOCENTLY HUNG THERE! it's adding on to the list of bad signage they have around school. the ones in the cafe are like so primary school-ish please, i think there one which goes 'social responsibilty' or something like that. okay elevate that to secondary school, i don't think kids these days are that smart. there's another sign which spells potentially as potientially. been meaning to take a picture of that one for a while, just kept procrastinating.

anyway, I HATE THE TURNSITILRE!

such an inconvenience, because there are times when i've left the school already through the sidegate, but decide that i have to go back again because i left something in the locker. hey it's happened more than once okay, so it's going to be an inconvenience for mewith the turnsitilre around. i suppose i'll forget to take stuff home to study one of these days and just decide to leave it there, because walking back to school through the front gate is just simply too much of a hassle.

and then someone else was saying in the forum that if there were to be a fire, we'd probably all perish. well someone was stupid enough to retort that if there really were a fire that we should be following the evacuation drills and go assemble in the field. PLEASE LAH, when the fire alarm rings, you go assemble in the field yourself okay? i'll be running with all my belongings out the front gate, because the turnsitilre's only going to allow one person through at a time.

just to prevent one crazy flashing auntie from entering the school ever again, inconvenience the whole school by installing the turnsitilre. how smart eh.

2008-06-26T21:17:00.002+08:00

enkee got bored during lit, so she drew a tortoise on her hand. you know, the kind where you draw it at the area where the fingers open up (hah i don't know how to explain this) and i thought it was quite cute. so i told her to draw one for me. she drew me a snail, but that turned out ugly, so we tried again. AND IT IS SO DARN CUTE!
the snake.

SSSSSSS!

2008-06-24T21:37:00.001+08:00

have i mentioned how much i hate school? well in case what i've ever said before wasn't enough,

I FREAKING HATE SCHOOL.

so anyway, the first two days in school haven't been as bad as i imagined it, apart from the trying-to-get-used-to-waking-up-at-5.50am bit. in fact, it's been nice seeing people again, for a change. and oh yes, i have to brag. i actually passed the econs case study! 30/60! and yes, that's a D, not an E! i am so proud of myself. =)

maths test today, i don't think i did well. not enough time to study lahh.

i need a new wallet, i need a new pencilcase, i need to change my shoelaces. planning to go out tmr to buy them, and also stock up on comics. hahaha. meeting up with half of blitz tomorrow. yes i know it's only mel and daolin, and yes, we ARE that small. haha.

i wanna watch kungfu panda! i wanna watch get smart!

okay that's about it. i had something else to blog about, but after 10 minutes at a futile attempt to recall what it is, i give up.

2008-06-17T01:50:00.005+08:00

finished off the last three episodes of a million stars.

secrets, lies, manipulation, murder, incestual siblings. and oh yes, a totally unneeded sad, twisted and downright depressing ending. yep, the answers totally floored me, as promised in the synopsis.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/group/CRSeries_-_A_Million_Stars_Falling_From.

off to rewatch a few episodes of iswak next, just to clear my mind.

2008-06-16T01:26:00.003+08:00

i just finished episode 8 of a million stars falling from the sky, and the last minute of that episode was totally a 'WTF' minute. i so did NOT see that coming.

i'm now in a i-should-go-to-bed-now-but-i'm-too-caught-up-in-the-show mood.

supposed to meet enkee at 10 tomorrow to mug for stupid econs. how unappealing lah. oh wait, not tomorrow, today. grr.

2008-06-10T02:19:00.001+08:00

my left eye keeps twitching, and i don't know why.

2008-06-08T00:44:00.000+08:00

i had some sort of an epiphany.

it's nice to know that there are friends who don't care how stupid they look in front of you. it's nice to know that there are people who have no image in front of you, because it means you don't have an image to keep in front of them either.

yes, that means you huiwen, and you know i love you for it too. =)

-

sometimes, i can't really tell if the people in school are keeping up some sort of facade in front of me. i look at the people around me i call as 'friends', but sometimes they don't really behave like friends at all.

it really makes me wonder why i still bother to keep these friends at all.

and then there are those whereby in their lives, i'll just be a passing phase. i expect that five years down the road, i may not even bother to say hi to them even if i meet them on the streets or something, and neither will they.

i think mdm sharifah was absolutely right when she said secondary school friends are the ones that you want to keep for life.

gosh why did this turn out sort of emo-y.

2008-06-06T18:39:00.006+08:00

oh yes. i told myself to put this here. huiwen gave this to me yesterday as a belated birthday present, after ten thousand years. haha.

hers says 'friends'. so sweet right? *grins*

anyway, nadya's left again. =(

2008-06-06T15:56:00.008+08:00

finally made it to ecp, and back. hahaha.

the feet in the sand,

the sea,

and on the rocks.

found something strange on the beach.

it got flipped over by the waves. this is the underside. it moves, by the way.

changed a spot after that. sat on the rocks for quite long. this is the right,

and this is the left. was very peaceful, because this part of the beach wasn't that crowded as the part in front of macs. felt nice sitting there by myself.

and then the sky let me down again. oh well, i was burnt by then already anyway.

random picture of the day.

2008-06-04T19:44:00.002+08:00

ROBERT DOWNEY JR IS MY NEW HERO!

2008-06-04T16:26:00.002+08:00

spent some time alone, once again. haha.

left for vivo after lit, had hotcakes and sausage for breakfast, tried (and failed) looking for RAG FAIR albums. *sigh* also didn't find any sodagreen albums for joycelyn.

watched iron man on a whim. yes, alone. the timing seemed right, lol.

i always thought that iron man was one of the least powerful superheroes out of all the marvel superheroes. i mean, look at storm. she's like so cool lah. iron man looked weak.

but i now know that HIS GADGETS ARE SO COOL! he's like batman, only cooler, lack of a better word. i want a sequel, but i think he's too cool for one. sequels are usually disappointing.

once again, wanted to go cycling, but the weather let me down again. i hope it rains tomorrow though, because hopefully i'll get to meet up with hui mel and nad tomorrow. and then i'll go cycling on friday. yayness! =)

i kind of like this spending time with myself thing.

2008-06-03T09:12:00.000+08:00

was planning to go cycling today, but no, the weather JUST had to be uncooperative. blah. now i'm stuck at home, and the next day that i'm available to go is friday. or maybe i'll wait for it to rain, and then i'll go in the afternoon. hmph.

2008-05-28T18:08:00.000+08:00

got pissed off with the pop-up ads with cbox, so i've moved. spam me please, the tagboard's really empty.

went shopping today and blew $23 on 2 cds and a bracelet. pretty happy with them.

the bracelet was supposed to be $8.90, but i when i went to pay for it, i found out that it was on offer! $7.15! such a warm and fuzzy feeling when you find out that something's cheaper than what you thought it was. GSS ROCKS. =)

sort of cheered up my mood, cause was emoing again yesterday. i miss nad and hui. again. they're on my wallpaper now, haha, to remind me to go out with them soon. ECP! WITH MEL TOO!

so many planned trips to ecp coming up. church people are going on sat, and then date with the girls there (sometime) and i'm also planning to go there one of the days next week by myself. sheesh, i think i'll get sick of that place haha.

*note: there, hanrui. happy?

2008-05-21T18:37:00.002+08:00

yup. i'm finally getting down to blogging about the concert. when i rightly should be studying for maths, might i add.

concert's over.

right after the concert, i was going crazy taking pictures with random people. i realised that this choir isn't turning out to be a choir anymore, but a band of friends. which is quite sad in a way. i guess the music just isn't the main highlight anymore, which makes it all the more sadder. like weiwei said before the concert, it doesn't matter we sound good anymore, it's about enjoying what we sing. sad. i somehow think he means that we don't sound very good. lol.

kind of sad that i couldn't have done more to help the juniors, but i am in absolutely no position to do so anyway.

heard that they may not be going for SYF next year, but going overseas. again very sad, because along comes a chance to get back to gold we lost last year, but looks like its not going to happen.

sad once again, because monday might be the last time i sing in a choir. haven't really made up my mind on whether to go for consort, because of church commitments. so yeah, in a way, it's up to me whether i'll continue singing. want to, but well, conflicting feelings.

decisions decisions. but oh well. for now i'm more happy that choir has stopped. withdrawal symptoms are surprisingly little.

2008-05-12T20:23:00.002+08:00

today was kind of eventful, in a way.

my nose bled during maths lecture. something which hasn't happened since primary 2, might i point out. i hope this means i'm getting sick, because i love mcs. well who doesn't.

i got to see people dissecting pig foetuses. well it wasn't really the dissecting which was interesting, more of the decapitation of the foetuses which were downright gross. yucks.

and then on the bus home there was this old guy who asked to borrow my phone.

at first i thought he was going to take it and run off with it or something since he was closer to the door than me, but no, it was genuine. he thanked me after that and even shook my hand, and offered to pay for the call. then he rambled on about how he needed to call his daughter. who was adopted, might i add. told you he rambled.

i was never one for talking to strangers, but since he wanted to talk i couldn't possibly stop him. so i just smiled.

well he was really very nice, i don't know why i had the impression at first that once my phone landed in his hands i'll never get it back. tsk, i should so stop being a skeptical singaporean.

he totally made my day lah. =)

2008-05-11T20:53:00.001+08:00

i have no idea what i'm doing here when i have twelve reading logs to do. wasted the whole weekend away, yet again.

frankly, i can't stand being in the choir now. i just feel so disconnected, and i seem to be finding fault with everything that the comm does.

how they work really pisses me off. how they treat the alumni really sucks. how they seem to reject help from the alumni sounds really stupid.

i think at this point, the alumni's working so much harder than the comm in trying to settle the whole situation. yes, the comm is working, but they're not thinking far enough. all they are concerned about is how to get this concert over and done with, and not about the later generations at all. i would even go as far as to call them selfish at this point.

i don't know, maybe they have some grand scheme waiting to be put into action after the concert. highly doubt it though, because after waiting for so long, everyone's reaction over the whole situation fizzles out, and then all the j1s will just be left in this sticky situation whereby they want to move out off, but they don't really know how to proceed, because they don't know anything at all.

the alumni wants to help, comes up with a plan, BUT NO ONE IS WILLING TO LISTEN, AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. and then i expect that when the concert is over, the comm'll probably just go like 'oh we did it by ourselves what, we don't need help from other people'. okay, this is my overactive imagination at work, but this kind of is the attitude they seem to be protraying about this whole matter now. well, at least to me lah.

i'm sure the comm is infallible.

i heard they wanted to refuse one of the basses to sing, not because he's not part of the school, but because he goes flat at times. oh it's not matthew, (of course it isn't) i think the guy's name is linjia, but i'm not sure. anyway, i was thinking, since you want to kick those out who cannot sing, might as well just make this concert a choir comm concert. i think it'll suit you guys better.

i have another thing to rant about, but i think this is all that's going to go up today. this was just a post which had to go up, because, in short, i am pissed off.

2008-05-03T22:27:00.000+08:00

today didn't feel like saturday at all, more like tuesday, because yesterday felt like monday, owing to the labour day holiday.

next holiday to look forward to:
JUNE HOLS.

yayyness, i can't wait.

econs seems to be looking more and more foreign to me after i attempted mugging it today. grr, it was such a pain man.

after that, got dragged out to look for dresses because serena ps-ed tomorrow's plans with me. very irritating, because i was already at the bus stop at my place, and then with one phone call, i had to go all the way back to tampines.

SUPER PISSED OFF.

but oh well, at least we found something. but it costs like 40 bucks! blah.

2008-05-01T14:13:00.003+08:00

yes, i've spent too much at k last night. hahahaha. oh well, at least we had fun at some points. =)

like jiayi said, we'll just laugh it off and laugh at each other on friday about each of us being broke. lololol.

$2 a day! we can do it!

trained home last night, ended up reaching home about 1230. yes, the three of us do have our limits, and we left in time to catch the trains back to the east. lucky enkee got chauffered. blah!

2008-05-01T14:05:00.004+08:00

i guess this entry is only dedicated to one person. read on if you want to, but don't fret if you can't make any sense of it. sorry to hanrui who has been waiting lol.

yes, i have read the post.

if the saga with mr ali has taught me one thing, it is to be calm and rational in such situations.

what am i looking to achieve if i lash back out? maybe to piss this person off as much as this person pissed me off.

but at the end of the day, i still want to keep this friend, even if it's only till the end of this year, at the very least.

so this is the only response i'm going to give up to this point.

let's cross our fingers and hope it ends well.

2008-04-23T22:33:00.003+08:00

damn, just got back not too long ago from visiting hanrui. oh the poor botak boy. =(

just realised that there are lots of things waiting to be accomplished tonight. okay maybe not accomplished, but attempted at least? hah.

note to self: gp essay assignment, maths test, games tee, chinese worksheet, gp newspaper articles. well i guess if i really finish them all, i'll probably die of exhaustion. oh yes, there's also the stupid china IS proposal that i have to redo. did i mention this? my first IS proposal got rejected because (i think) mr gay didn't get the requirements right.

so yeah. REJECTED.

ahh. *pulls hair in frustration*

i'm tired and i want to sleep. i NEED to sleep. had PE this morning, and i think i still stink from it.

AHH.

i wish i could skip school tomorrow. but probably no chance at that happening, since i just took an MC on friday. sheesh.

2008-04-21T23:40:00.005+08:00

i'm currently feeling very sad now, because i just chatted a little with huiwen.

made me realise just how much i miss her, even though neither of us said much.

bahh.

2008-04-21T23:18:00.002+08:00

DAMN.

i guess i'm getting payback for constantly laughing at the a03ers who stay back for gp every monday, because econs starts tomorrow.

and gay is on mc tomorrow.

essentially this means that school ends at 9 freaking am tomorrow, the gates open at 1 freaking pm tomorrow, and econs remedial starts at 5 freaking pm.

do you see the link here?
NEITHER DO I.

i have no bloody idea what is WRONG with the idiots in the timetabling committee. as if giving me such a totally sucky timetable on tuesday isn't enough, gay has to be on mc tomorrow, and econs remedial JUST has to be arranged at FIVE.

pissed off would be an understatement right now. it just doesn't say enough.

and limhuiwen, i miss you too. =(

2008-04-21T17:59:00.003+08:00

OMG LYE HANRUI I WANNA SEE YOU BOTAK!!

not much has been happening recently, besides the fact that mrs koh just said today that she expects an A for gp from me.

it's so sad when i never seem to be able to meet the expectations of the people around me.

when i got my 249 for PSLE in p6, my mum was like: 'but people told me that you should be able to get at least 250. but okay lah.'

during the sec3 mtp session, mr yong told my parents i should have no problems getting 12 points at least. i got 13.

how sad right? bah.

looks like i'll never be good enough, in some way.

but perhaps i should feel loved too, because people keep thinking so highly of me.

i don't expect too much out of myself actually; and this is one of the only things i don't really like about myself. i suppose that's why i'm in tpjc, because i told myself i probably won't be able to take mj's hectic life. okay arguing this way, i brought this all upon myself.

WHY DIDN'T I GO TO POLY, WHY.

and back to my point, i ask too little of myself. yet it's a good feeling to be able to keep meeting your own expectations, you'll feel really good about yourself, hah.

and then you create your own comfort zone, and never break out of it, ever.

goodness, this post has gone way off topic, kinda.

eh lye, send me a photo leh. =p

2008-04-13T08:55:00.002+08:00

B for project work!

given that i've refused to redo my EOM and PI when mrs kum told me too, and that our group's OP has never been seen by mrs kum, i think B is really a feat for me.

alumni's talk was generally well received i guess, yayy. then again, i didn't do much XP.

henry's being an ass by repeatedly telling me where consort's going. henry, you're an ass. hah.

2008-04-09T22:52:00.003+08:00

was it wrong for me to have been tempted to give up?

i know many in the choir have already settled into the decision of pushing forward with the concert without a conductor after today's practice. i may not be in the most comfortable of places, but for the sake of the whole choir and not to seem so outcast-ish, i've *tried* to give it my all today.

then tonight i get a call saying that people are still fighting. was it wrong for me to have been tempted to give up?

i'm going to fight all the way, because there are still people who have faith in us.
because there are people who still believe in our abilities.
because there are people who think that there's something else to be done.
because there are people who haven't given up.
THANK YOU ALL.

2008-04-06T22:55:00.000+08:00

"it's like there's so much work i can't even start."

hahahaha sheryl. you are so funny.

2008-04-06T00:07:00.003+08:00

i try to smile my tears away
i try to keep my cool
oh but one more door gets in my way
i feel like such a fool
trampled and bitter
my heart just wants to bleed and stop believing in me

it feels like nothing is for certain
and that nothing comes for free
when they're lowering the curtain
to the theatre of my dreams
i stumble and i crumble
and i'm sinking to my knees, but you
you cradle me

you keep me flying
you keep me smiling
you keep me safe in a crazy world

-

who would like to volunteer to keep the choir safe in this crazy school.

2008-04-04T20:27:00.002+08:00

FUCK.

how can the principal even THINK of closing down the choir? i know right now it's just one of the many options, but how can they even bring this up.

choir isn't supposed to be 'just another CCA', it's supposed to be a tradition. you tell me, which jc doesn't have a choir in this day and age?

i think i've said too much too many people already, i'm kind of lazy to repeat myself so many times. but i am NOT happy about it.

thank you to wife and henry who have been willing to listen to me ramble, as well as jasmine. woots, i think you people totally rock, unlike the principal and whoever is bent on getting rid of the choir.

and oh, this whole saga just makes me want to go to china with the choir even more, just to show how much i hate the decision. but they probably won't let me go, given my sucky results.

2008-04-02T18:41:00.001+08:00

i do not appreciate people judging me for who i am, i'll do it my way, thank you very much. if i want your opinion, i'll ask. if not, shut up.

if you think this post is directed at you, you're probably not the one i'm refering to.

2008-03-26T20:09:00.000+08:00

Mr Ali,

I'd like to say that your attitude in class today was totally uncalled for.

During CME period, you actually raised your voice to the class and told us to 'Shut up', and not only that, you even added 'Bloody hell' after that.

In my opinion, 'Shut up' would obviously not be the best two words to use in this case, especially since the class was definitely not uncontrollable at this point. In addition, as a teacher, would you not agree with me that the two words, 'bloody hell' should absolutely not appear in your dictionary, not to mention a CIVICS AND MORAL EDUCATION lesson.

I've been told that this is not the first time that such a thing has happened in class. When I expressed my outrage, the History students from your class told me that the same thing has occured during their lesson before. I may not know what happens during History class, but if it were the same circumstances as from our CME class, it would definitely not warrant such a behaviour.

As a CIVICS tutor, what kind of an example are you trying to portray to us 07A03?

I am personally very enraged by what happened today. An apology to the class would definitely be appreciated.

Thank you.

Licia

-

well, we'll see what comes back.

2008-03-23T18:25:00.000+08:00

ahh panic panic.

songfest auditions are tomorrow.

ahh panic panic.

still addicted to evanescence's 'the last song i'm wasting on you'. i think it's such an irony that the best songs are usually written about negative stuffs (ie. betrayal in this case). 'like you' was written for a dead sister, david tao's '不爱' was about letting go of someone who didn't love you anymore, eminem's 'stan was about an over-obssessive fan who comitted suicide, while corrinne may's ultimate song 'fly away' was about seperation.

oh well, raw emotions always gives a song depth.

i guess that's why i like kelly clarkson's my december much more than breakaway.

2008-03-20T23:57:00.003+08:00

i is needing someone to speaks to me like this everyday. it keepings me sane.

licia! says:
you? ns? no?

RaY - In my hands. says:
what?

RaY - In my hands. says:
you dumb

licia! says:
i no dumb.

licia! says:
i smart smart.

RaY - In my hands. says:
u is dumb 1314

RaY - In my hands. says:
=(

RaY - In my hands. says:
i cry

licia! says:
i is smart!

licia! says:
you is crybaby.

RaY - In my hands. says:
u is smart i is billgates

licia! says:
i is the guy richer than bill gates!

licia! says:
i is cannot remembering his name.

RaY - In my hands. says:
i is like how you is can speak like mes

RaY - In my hands. says:
and my cousins

licia! says:
i is donch know you cousins.

RaY - In my hands. says:
u is know naos

RaY - In my hands. says:
because u is pros

RaY - In my hands. says:
at speaking retardeds

licia! says:
i is speaks smart!

licia! says:
nots retard.

2008-03-20T12:45:00.003+08:00

oh man i'm screwed.

china's at three, but i still freaking don't know what theme three is about.

AND i'm still procrastinating. i keep telling myself this is the last paper, hah.

i expect the 2 hours or so of the paper later will be the longest two hours of my life, because i'm not going to have anything to write.

i SWEAR the teachers made this mid years damn difficult, so as to fail everyone in school. like hello, the comprehension was NOT comprehensible at all. why bother calling it COMPREHENSION, i wonder.

-

sparkling grey,
through my own veins.
any more than a whisper,
any sudden movement of my heart.
and i know,
i know i'll have to watch them pass away

just get through this day

give up your way, you could be anything,
give up my way, and lose myself,
not today
that's too much guilt to pay

sickened in the sun
you dare tell me you love me
but you held me down and screamed you wanted me to die
honey you know, you know
i'd never hurt you that way

you're just so pretty in your pain

give up my way, and I could be anything
i'll make my own way
without your senseless hate
hate
hate
hate

so run,
run,
run
and hate me, if it feels good.
i can't hear your screams anymore

you lied to me
but I'm older now
and I'm not buying baby

demanding my response
don't bother breaking the door down
i found my way out

and you'll never hurt me again.

the melody is beautiful. i just which the lyrics were more coherent. lol.

2008-03-16T21:40:00.002+08:00

i can't believe i'm panicking for songfest on the eve of the start of mid years; someone shoot me please. i'm starting to regret signing up. man.

wanted to go for retail therapy at kino, but it didn't work out. grr.

gp paper's tomorrow, wish me luck. i'm going to need it.

2008-03-08T18:57:00.001+08:00

just submitted my form for songfest, we'll see what comes out of it. =) probably singing 'like you' by evanescence, very emo. if you haven't heard the song before, now's the time to.

kbox was postponed from yesterday to today to tomorrow. yayy, hopefully we'll finally go tomorrow, and with more people. can't wait!

i need to finish this last thing on my imaginary to-do list, so that i can tell myself i'm done with playing and get down to serious studying.

because we all know i flunked econs.

and i didn't do well for chinese, not to say that i didn't expect it. rather, it was exactly what i expected, but disappointing nonetheless. C, and i've decided to retake. don't think it'll take up too much time.

and, like jasmine says,
'gonna retake, don't ask me not to.'

2008-03-02T21:07:00.000+08:00

i'm not done procrastinating lol. and i just thought of this funny thing that i had to post.

yesterday my parents went to look at houses, because my sis and i have been bugging my mum to move us all to a bigger one so that we can each get our own room.

somehow the conversation ended up something like:

someone: your house still okay what, why you look for new house?
sometwo: for your daughter ah? turning 18 soon?
all: (laughs)
mum: getting married soon ah?
me: (mock calm) oh please.

goodness, turning 18 turns into jokes about marriage. how weird can the family get.

soon they start asking me when i'm going to get married everythime i see them.

weirdoes of the world unite.

2008-03-02T19:58:00.003+08:00

the choir room's become significantly more crowded this week, but, surprisingly, not as smelly as before when i got there. i guess the comm must have loaded the place with air freshener.

busy week ahead as usual, what with the clearing of homework after procrastinating for two days. and during this time of procrastination, i've finished all the harry potter books, so yayy me, hopefully this means that from now i'm addiction free. woots.

now it's off to the overdue lit essay, assignments 13a&b, and 28 questions of sickeningly irritating p&c i go. i don't see how i'm going to sleep more than four hours tonight if i finish everything, given that i probably won't be able to finish lit by 10. and what's the point, i still doubt i'll pass lit.

oh wait i see the point, because as mr tan said that day: "in short, everything you do now leads to a suspension." well we wouldn't want that on our SGCs now, do we?

first paper of CTs on friday, and it's the most irritating subject of all, econs. henry if you see this before friday, HELP.

2008-02-26T21:43:00.000+08:00

start of the year, i thought the new timetable would come as a blessing in disguise, because of that 5 hour break on tuesdays.

9 weeks into the term and i've realised OH HOW WRONG I CAN BE.

I HATE MY TIMETABLE.

on other news, yayyness, i'm on to the sixth harry potter book.

yet on other news, after 4 days of not doing anything productive at all, i'm going to finish the p&c questions that i'm supposed to do tonight. congratulate me for going to attempt please.

oh yes, ended up not going for the sajc choir concert after all, stupid cabby. *imagines hitting him hard on the head*

have i told you how addicted i am to tanya chua's album? i think i have. hah.

2008-02-20T21:06:00.006+08:00

我想你是爱我的
我猜你也舍不得
但是怎么说总觉得
我们之间留了太多空白格

the song's been stuck in my head, and i can't get it out. ahh.

the head's still throbbing from PE, even after i've slept for an hour and a half. tells me something. don't ever try this hard for 2.4 again, except when it's napfa. but still, it doesn't make sense to get silver for 2.4 and then fail sbj and ipu. lol.

how's the new skin? i still don't like the colour though.

2008-02-17T23:07:00.002+08:00

another weekend wasted away.

the next few days are going to be really busy i expect, what with the essay outlines to do, p&c tutorials, extra maths lessons, extra gp lessons, integrations test, and, oh yes, overdue lit essay. *groans*

oh yah, people want to get together to meet over dinner next week. shall see how it goes.

shall not attempt to stay up tonight to do anymore homework, the last sunday i did it, i stayed up till 5am. and suffered miserably in school the next day. and skipped choir. yayy to thins, because monday is foong-day. and i hate foong-days.

i think i had something else on my mind that i wanted to blog about, but i can't remember what it's about now. chewy's right, i do have short-term memory. and i'm guessing she's not the alone one who thinks so.

on the way to changing my blogskin, i'm getting kind of sick of this one already.

2008-02-11T04:38:00.000+08:00

give me a pat on the back please, i'm done with the reading logs and china IS, delayed by many many rounds of freecell.

oh well, about an hour plus more to go before i start preparing for school. i guess if i sleep now it'll be considered a power nap or something. hahaha.

2008-02-10T23:08:00.000+08:00

i foresee a very long night on the way, four reading logs to go.

sheesh, and i was telling sheryl how i wanted to finish two by last night. what am i doing.

cny holidays have passed too fast. i was so looking forward to this holiday, and now it's gone. all gone. goodness knows when the next holidays will be.

i feel a cold coming. it better come fast, because i sorely need a mc now to make up for the time i wasted today. ugh. did i tell you how much i hate school? i hate school.

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hear me, i'm crying out
i'm ready now
turn my world upside down, find me
i'm lost inside a crowd
it's getting loud
i need you to see i'm screaming for you to please hear me
can you hear me

i don't know, this song just popped into my head and i felt the urge to type it out.
i won't be weak, damn it.

2008-02-08T22:50:00.000+08:00

2nd day of lunar new year, so happy lunar new year to all.

well i appreciate lunar new years a lot, not because of the hongbaos, as i never get to keep them, but because of the sorely needed two day break from school. and then the weekends which follow right after. yayy to that.

i've been spending too much time in the library lately, owing to that dastardly weekly five-hour break on tuesdays, and those two horrendous two-hour breaks on fridays. too much of a good thing really kills. i've taken to re-reading the harry potter series, currently on the goblet of fire now. i need to finish reading it really fast, becasue the book's really heavy.

and it just struck me why the library isn't as conducive this year as compared to last year. because henry the botak isn't there studying! and i don't see him studying, i don't have any motivation too! yes henry, your presence is missed in the library.

i am desperately behind time for my china IS. still haven't handed in my new proposal. just going to start on it now. i should stop procrastinating and get down to it. my oh my, work licia, work!

2008-01-24T23:56:00.000+08:00

well i'm only here because i'm still in the midst of procrastinating. i've been in front of the computer for hours, yet i'm only into my third reading log. the peeps in a03 say each article can be done in half an hour.

lol, what am i doing.

choir's going to be a chore this year i guess, currently rethinking my decision to go to china, because shuyun said that most likely foong would be conducting the choir.

eee, i don't want.

because this means that i'll probably have to see him for ten thousand practices pre-china, something which i'm so not willing to do.

and bah, my leg's still swollen. maybe i should really take mr fizz's suggestion and go see a gp about it. goodness, it'd better heal before chinese new year, because the only pair of appropriate shoes i have now are heels, and i'll need to buy another pair of shoes if i can't wear that. bah.

TAG concert's next saturday, blitz is performing, so i'm supposed to memorise my scores by coming saturday. sucks, i say. did i tell you? i HATE forcing myself to memorise scores.

can't wait to go back to see TAG and mo though, but the old peeps won't be there. damn, huiwen isn't even going for the concert lo! gah, why must that competition be on the same day. WHY.

and the mum's been bugging me to get braces. according to serena's dentist whom i've gotten my first consult from, i'll need surgery on either my top jaw to expand it, or my bottom jaw to push it back. gah, i don't know whether i'm prepared for so much pain man. (note to self: call up dentists.)

the weekends have been coming and going so quickly, i feel as though time is slipping out of my hands with every weekend i waste. ahh, how can i even SMELL china like that.

okays, back to reading logs i go.

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i may not have known you kenrick, but i pray that your soul rests in peace, somewhere in heaven. =)

2008-01-14T21:51:00.000+08:00

this morning, serena told me that she dreamt of me last night and i was quarrelling with her.

and then during maths lecture, joycelyn told me that she dreamt of me too, quarrelling with her.

sheesh, am i that scary? lol.

2008-01-05T18:29:00.001+08:00

i had a feeling when i peeked inside the christmas present from daolin+gang. just opened it just now. and look.

seeing double.

the other one's from huiwen early last year for my birthday lol.

2008-01-03T20:15:00.000+08:00

well, it's the 3rd of january, so happy new year all. =)

second day of school has been going well so far, apart from the suckiest timetable in all my history of timetables. oh well, shall make use of the never-ending breaks and become a mugger this year.

YES, LICIA IS GOING TO BE A MUGGER! or at least try my damnest to become one.

and yes, top of my list of new year resolution is to become a mugger!

YAYY, MUGGERS RULE!

next would be to go overseas with the choir this year and do well in whatever competition it's going to be this year, because it might well be my last year in choir ever. how sad is that. =(

jasmine kum got pregnant (again!) so the class isn't going to have her as our tutor anymore. woots!

i so need a mugging partner this year man, one who's willing to travel to siglap to mug with me. serena doesn't really work, lol.

2008 is going to rock, yayy.

2007-12-28T23:21:00.000+08:00

have you seen my timetable for 2008? it totally sucks, look:

and because i'm so pissed off, here's how it looks like with the lessons i don't take:

WHAT ON EARTH IS THIS?! 10 PERIODS OF SHEER NOTHINGNESS! ARE YOU TIME-TABLING PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR MINDS!

2007-12-26T23:02:00.000+08:00

mugged with serena today.

pretty productive by our standards, i must say. oh well, time to finish what little homework i'm supposed to have done already.

so since everyone else is wishing everyone else merry christmas, i shall be slightly more creative and wish everyone else happy boxing day instead.

happy boxing day!

2007-12-22T20:52:00.000+08:00

back from youth camp, yayness.

well actually that was yesterday, but i didn't bother to update lol.

twisted my ankle on thursday, ouch. it's recovering well though. =)

christmas is in 3 days! and i got my first present from daolin today, shared by the bLiTz-ies. (LOLOLOLOL, twit.)

the sequel of it started with a kiss came out already! yayy, it's going to be my weekly addiction from now on. woohoo!

watching the anime version of tantei gakuen q now. i guess i'll settle for that without subbed version of kindaichi, lol.

2007-12-12T22:46:00.000+08:00

went to cut my hair today. but that's not really the point.

i convinced serena to give up her boring hair, and cut it short!

lolness, cheap thrill.

'mugged' with henry today too, not that productive. but then again, anything would be better than staying at home to rot away.

shall attempt to study tomorrow too; someone jio me out please.

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OH LOL!!

my dad saw henry and i at macs, and told my mum he saw me with my boyfriend. GOODNESS, DAMN FUNNY! hilarious shit.

*dies of laughter*

2007-12-11T22:53:00.000+08:00

oh green grass. i feel like a cow.

daolin said the other day that he thinks i like green. like NO, grass just happens to be green.

purple is still my loves. =)

well i didn't do much to the skin, but it looks brand new. LOL.

2007-12-06T22:38:00.000+08:00

AM I PISSED OFF OR WHAT.

the writers of house went on strike, and people on youtube now are saying that episode 10 will be out on january 10th. ARGH.

carolling's finally over, whew. i guess this year's carolling experience sucks so far, as compared to last year. maybe it's because i knew last year that i'd be getting paid for singing, and the songs were much less irritating, heh.

blitz stayover tomorrow, hope all goes well.

and hopefully a free movie too, WHEE!

2007-12-03T12:51:00.000+08:00

back from hk! feels quite surreal, given that i was there just this morning lol.

camera was with my sis most of the time, so most pictures aren't mine. this means that the pictures up here will most probably be incoherent, and hence will my narration be too.

checked into the hotel on our first day, and this is our gigantic tv. that nodame cantabile guy was on some show lol.

second day i think. the mum, dad, bro and the old people went to visit this giant buddha statue thing. the sis and i went shopping.

headed to disneyland afterwards, this model of pluto was taken on the train there. the train was damn cute!

look at the windows!

reached disneyland, this is the flower thing at the entrance.

group photo. in case you're wondering who the old people are, the middle one is my popo's sister,, beside her's my popo, and the right-most handsome guy is my gong gong. they're damn cute, everytime my sis wants to take a picture of them, gong gong would use his hand to sweep his hair back and make sure it's in place, and the two ladies would make sure their jackets were worn properly. haha, very funny.

a random tiki totem.

preparing to watch some 3D show with our cool glasses.

cinderella's pretty castle.

fireworks.

under the christmas tree.

presenting.. shit tree. we started camwhoring a lil. many pictures left out because uploading is irritating.

random picture of the dad and bro falling asleep together. i think it's quite cute that they fell asleep holding hands lol.

went to macau. was boring, because the adults mostly went there to gamble. pssht. waste of money, i say.

this was found in the hotel restaurant's menu. scary shit.

random series of pictures of the irritant at work.

away in a manger, no crib for a child.

the mother. i think we took this picture for the flowers.

camwhored a lil. i think this was some library/museum thing. they had some really really old looking books at one section of the building, like some important heritage thing. just next door to that section were some people there reading newspapers and checking the stocks. tsk.

we then went to this huge fort thing.

umm it's supposed to look like we're floating.
eh. help?

that bimbo leg joycelyn complains about. lol.

next stop was madame tussaud's.
some random huge cannon.

doesn't look like much from here though.

door guards.

crazy door guards.

stairs. we climbed many of these. stairs, horrible stairs.

that bimbo leg again!

next stop was madame tussaud's.

with the jay chou-not-lookalike.

eddie murphy.

my brother and royalty.

hie hitler!

madame tussaud in the (flesh) wax.

and just to identify as a china studies student, here's some famous people.

here's mao, who implemented some really bad plans. like the great leap forward, which totally sucked, and his brainwashing of the chinese.

deng, whose democratic visions of china sparked off massive student demonstrations.

jiang zhe ming, whose xiaokang concept i'll perhaps never understand.

hu jintao; i don't really know what he did. big deal. lol.

albert. i never really got how he became so famous, given that his e=mc2 is just widely accepted, but not widely understood.

andy lau, my mum's 偶像.

damn tall. this picture kinda looks like i'm smelling his armpit. LOLNESS.

micheal, the paedophile whose nose is liable to fall off any time. i just realised that he bears an uncanny resemblance to peewee. sorta. paedophiles all.

hongkong night lights.

there, i'm done, and thus shall end abruptly, yet again, here.

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i thought it'll be appropriate to show you my most satisfied buy of this trip.
MY VERY OWN RAG FAIR ALBUM! well it's my best buy, because RAG FAIR albums aren't sold in singapore.
YAYYNESS!

2007-11-24T18:07:00.000+08:00

i guess i would like to say something for the j2s in choir too, but i doubt anyone that it will be aimed at would be reading it. but just in case anyone does,

FCUK YOU MATTHEW.

oh and anyway, well done on the 1000 word essay. *claps*

2007-11-17T23:11:00.000+08:00

click me!

okay. so in case you're too lazy to click on the link, here's an advert:

BLITZ's christmas album will be out, last i heard, coming wednesday.

pre-order them (yes, we're very high-tech people) from blitz.2010@gmail.com if you wanna, or you can just choose to get it from me. include name, contact number, number of cds, (blah).

TEN DOLLARS ONLY! buy lah!

97705001!

2007-11-17T22:16:00.000+08:00

wanted to get a job at the cheesecake cafe today, but got rejected, because i''m going on a holiday next next week. sadded. =(

oh yes! i'm off to hk and macau from 26th nov to 2nd of next month, so don't miss me too much eh.

well this means i'll be missing out on all the highlights of november.

highlight #1:
grandparents' day. okay, actually this qualifies as a highlight because the songs are damn irritating, and very. very sian.

highlight #2:
samuel ting concert. obviously this is a highlight. the songs are amazing, and we're singing with vj for goodness sake. lol.

highlight #3:
choir barbeque cum farewell. i really wanted to go for this. was looking forward to it in fact. darn.

so this means that i'll still be looking for a job when i get back. any one got lobangs? let me know. thanks. =)

i'll be very free next week since i'll have absolutely nothing to do. so if you, like me, have absolutely nothing to do as well, ASK ME OUT. stardust anyone? i don't want to die of boredom at home.

2007-11-16T19:03:00.000+08:00

went to the ecp with lijun this morning! hardly any sun at all, but oh wells. pictures! because i finally brought a camera. i guess this number of pictures is kinda a record for my blog, lol.

the sun..

..and the sea.

well lijun started off by drawing the weird powerpuff girls wannabe heart.

and then we dug.

and dug.

and dug some more.

and finally completed our tunnel =)

*waits for water*

*waits some more*

i got bored lol.

it kinda looks like a heart eh?

*gasp* water! but it was gone the next instant.

lijun feels accomplished still though.

measely..

measely..

and finally it really fills.

aftermath.
sigh, the tunnel collapsed.

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yayy, we're happy people. =)

2007-11-13T21:04:00.000+08:00

Wise. Smart. Clever. Witty.

Bloody Hell! You're a Ravenclaw! (You lucky thing you.) Although you don't hear about them very much, they're really quite admirable. Often referred to as the "intelligent" house, Ravenclaws are clever, witty, and intellectual. Mind you, don't base your judgement off Miss Cho Chang. God knows how she made it in. Ravenclaws are said to be wise and intelligent. The founder of this house, Rowena Ravenclaw, prized those "whose intelligence it surest".

Clearly, you must be of some intelligence (so how Chang got in baffles me). It's very sad that they don't have Ravenclaw in the spotlight. They don't get nearly enough attention. Except Cho...stupid trollop. Well, there's Luna Lovegood. She counts. Luna shows infinate bravery in the Department of Mysteries, using her helpful Ravenclaw smarts and wit to aid the group.

But of course, being a newly-discovered Ravenclaw, you should have already known that, you clever thing.

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ha i knew it! exactly the one i wanted! ravenclaw is simply underated, in my opinion.

and yes, luna lovegood SO rocks.

2007-11-12T21:46:00.000+08:00

heores at 10 tonight! can't wait!

skipped china this morning. overslept, lol. and serena woke me up at 830 just to ask whether i was going to scool because she wanted to borrow my rubik's. no serena, you do NOT wake me up at 830 just for my rubik's BLAH.

spent the whole day watching nodame cantabile instead! damn funny it is. was addicted from episode 1 to the last all the way through. been such a long time since i've found such an addictive drama besides mars, lol. GO WATCH IT YOU!

okay, life has been boring, and i've ran out of things to update.

i need to start looking for a job. not just ANY job, but a job which PAYS. heh.

2007-11-09T19:06:00.000+08:00

wow. a whole week has gone by since i've last updated.

anyway, there were a few new addictions which have been keeping me busy.

addiction #1:
mandy moore's version of 'umbrella'. ten thousand times better than rihanna's version. as daolin puts it, she shows us all that thrashy songs can still be saved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMB6YOWzQMY

addiction #2:

YES! i bought the cd already. WOOTS. album's okay lah, but personally i still prefer 八度空间 as compared to all his newer albums.

addiction #3:
and i bought a rubik's cube too! and serena, I CAN SOLVE IT NOW!! the whole thing! *cheers*
clockwise x3 anticlockwise x3
up left down left up left left down
four squares
down right up left

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had diarrhea today (yet again!) and gave this morning's maths lecture a miss. stayed at home and watched crunchyroll though. many many dramas to finish watching!
1) 换换爱
2) 放羊的星星
3) my girl
4) 公主小妹

should have more time to finish watching now, since the recording for the blitz christmas is finally over after many arduous days. speaking of which, buy the album when's its out! reasonable price, i think. though i'm not really sure how much. LOL. pathetic, i know.

oh and, everybody in A03 got promoted. woopeeedoo.

2007-11-02T23:30:00.000+08:00

oh wells. much thanks to the various random people who were concerned for my op. at least it's over.

and i screwed it.

some things are just better left unsaid. i think this is one of them.

2007-10-31T21:30:00.001+08:00

with every presentation i'm forced to go through, i face the same problem.

I'M A FREAKING ALTO FOR GOODNESS SAKE.

I DO NOT DO THE HIGH-PITCHED EXCITING-LIKE THING THAT OTHER PEOPLE DO.

FAIL ME THEN, FOR NOT BEING ENGAGING ENOUGH.

DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ME THEN, FOR HAVING A LOWER PITCHED VOICE THAN EVERYONE ELSE.

SAY I'M BORING THEN, BECAUSE MY VARIATION IN TONE CAN'T BE HEARD.

grr.

2007-10-29T20:15:00.000+08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktmHy2YhiNM&NR=1

cool shit. =)

feather boa's doing significantly less leads. i wonder why lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BorYetxoS4k&NR=1

and this weird video, only because i miss the feather boa.

2007-10-28T19:12:00.000+08:00

'Overall, I think my readers who are having OP are all fluent speaking people.'

that's so not true, henry.

wells, i'm panicking over OP now, but doing nothing to improve the situation. lol, that's just so me, isn't it.

okays, off to watch simpsons, and then stepford wives. =)

slack is i.

2007-10-26T19:26:00.000+08:00

been chionging x-family; it's darn addictive. slept at 430 last night, lol. oh well, 6 more episodes to go. probably will finish by this weekend i guess.

i need something more productive to do. after op, i expect i'll go get a job. extra cash is good. but i don't know whether i'll like working life. still, extra cash is good.

come to think of it, i had a job last year too. i went carolling, but throughout the whole holidays only made $80. lolness. hopefully i'll make more this time eh? extra cash is good, heh.

yes lah, i'm money faced.
whatever.