DO. DON'T. DO. DON'T DO...

In lieu of the end of our relaxing and peaceful school holidays, let me delve into the troughs of my experience on completing holiday homework on time, painstakingly built up from my nine years (kindergarten not included) of formal education.

Eve's Golden Book of Dos and Don'ts

DO find out the complete set of homework before you start

DO make a list of homework so you can cross them out as you finish and feel motivated (or depressed, whichever way you see it) at your progress

DO NOT plan homework schedules. Sure, you feel great and hardworking and whatever, but chances are, you won't stick to it and keep putting stuff off. And all you'll get is a messed-up homework schedule that serves no purpose and is collecting dust.

DO NOT plan homework sessions with friends. Most of the time you'll end up doing stuff totally unrelated to homework. Else you head to the library if you really want to. Still, it's highly not recommended.

DO NOT do the hard ones first, no matter what people tell you. LISTEN TO ME. You'll only get demoralised and give up on homework for the rest of the holiday.

DO space out subjects so you can do easy ones one day and harder ones another, so you don't get a brain overload.

DO ask your friends for help of you don't understand something, and DO NOT freak out when no one knows how to do it. One or two blanks won't kill you, as long as most are done.

And please, please, DO NOT start one week before school reopens. Got that, Nicole?

Merry Xmas!

SO.

I know, I know, I have been blogging about totally random things that do not interest you at all.

I re-read my last few posts and have been cringing in horror. ANYWAY. I do not really feel very motivated to write a long, sarcastic, witty, humorous, yada yada... you get my point.

I thinkholidays are the worst times in the year.Teachers wish you 'happy holidays', dumping homework on you so secretly you never realise you had them in the first place until someone so carelessly mentions it. So now I currentky have EIGHT 剪报s that I think I'm never gonna do, TWO 作文s, and on top of that, *drumrolls* 50 caoxies. Yaaaaay.

I was looking at my phone to arrange a meeting with Nat and ZX (Powerpuff Girls xD) and something finally hit home. It was as if someone had hit an enormous spotlight on me and I suddenly had the relevation that by the end of this week, it's CHRISTMAS. Did you hear that?! CHRISTMAS! I'll spell it out in big flashy letters in case you haven't exactly comprehended this amazing fact yet. Which means there's only 6 days till 2011? Uh-oh. Not good. And probably, some of you will stop reading right now to dash off to the nearest mall or Vivocity or whatever to buy last minute presents.

Let me use this excuse to plug in a cutesy anime photo for the occasion.

Off to buy presents and finish my cao xie~

Facebook games are ruling my life. PATHETIC.

I think my life is becoming more and more abstract.

I was feeling so down after cca, then suddenly after I realised I opened a present on Sorority Life (a super-bitchy game on Facebook that no one plays, for a good reason), and my mood shot waaaaay up. So my moods are increasingly becoming defined by facebook games. If that isn't pathetic, I don't think anything else is.

INTERNET!!!!

Thank you, Internet!

You have finally let me sign into blogger! *dramatic trumpet fanfare*

My post has been a month or so overdue, so I guess I should start now.

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I can't find anything to write about.

There. I admitted it.

I.Don't.Have.Anything.To.Write.About.

Whee.

Fine, you win, Internet.

I will make sure this is the only time.

Technology is beyond me.

*heads off to soak up more creative juices*

Badminton ^^

Badminton was fun.

Owwwwch. My last finger can't move at all now.

Not that I'm telling anyone that. These days, I think what I'm saying on my blog have become more and more meaningless and totally not fun reading. Sorry readers, I have expanded all my creativity and energy. After physics exam especially, I need ALL MY ENERGY for physics. And physics seriously saps all your creativity cos you're too tired to think. But this time round, the exam was surprisingly fun :D did open-ended questions first and then did MCQ around 9.05 and then finished it quickly and went back to doing the remaining Section B and C that requires me to think a bit more.

Eve's exam tips(slightly reliable):

Step 1- Chiong all the no-brainers structured questions when everyone is wasting time on MCQ. This ensures you don't waste all your brain cells and gives you a sort-of warm up so you don't get demoralised

Step 2- Do MCQ

Step 3- Think hard and do the rest

Step 4- Sleep because you have like 30min left and everyone else is still rushing and getting very frantic :D

JIAYOUS♥

Couldn't concentrate at all, so I shall add a brief post:D

So strangely relaxed despite knowing I'm not studying hard enough.

Our self-study times are getting more and more slack I might be better off studying at home but who cares :))) Badminton is fun!

Jiayou Xingyao, don't slack off

EOY = Mugging? Think again

This is sooooo weird.

To begin with, I shouldn't even be posting now. I should be studying...

oh well. Not in the mood AT ALL. I think we're seriously forming a stay-back-after-class gang:)))

Me Joanne (new addition) Joyce Nicole Zi Xian Jojo Henry Xingchun Jon Yeo Xingyao

Yay♥

Teacher's Day!

Grrr....

I HATE RIVER VALLEY PA SYSTEM SOUND CABLE.

but I'm so proud of the fact we continue dancing :)))))

Jiayous Year 3 dancers '10!!!!

A Swearing in Session

I shall start this entry in a reserved, polite way before I- @!% …start swearing. Now, really, anyone who knows me well will know that I’m not the swearing sort. Except for baby swear words like shit and whatnot (which is not a swear word, but never mind). I don’t even use medium swear words like b*tch, not to swear at someone, or bulls**t, which my mum insists is not a swear word, neveryoumind, and I certainly don’t use the major ones like the big F and I certainly don’t bring the person’s parents into any of my ranting and swearing ‘cos I make it a point to respect the person’s parents no matter how foul-mouthed and incorrigible he or she is.

BUT. That doesn’t mean I don’t have an ample, well-stocked supply of disparaging remarks or derogatory phrases. Granted, I may lose out to most of my friends on the hard-to-pronounce-but-even-harder-to-understand hokkien swear words because I lack the perversity of mind to find the golden connection between certain seemingly ingenuous objects and human body parts, specifically those of reproductive function.

So I replenish my word bank with less-than-common ones that thankfully, don’t sound as bad as their cruder counterparts so I can escape with my pride chipped a bit at the sides but still relatively unscathed, and most of all, in good graces, which I can never hope to accomplish in a full-tilt swearing session. I really don’t get how people can spout off swear words so easily.

(By the way, why do they call it a swearing-in? I can’t imagine prefects swearing while holding up their right hand solemnly. Go on, picture it and laugh.)

I mean, arse sounds so much better and polite than ass. More refined, even, if you pair it with just the right amount of head-tilting, look-down-the-tip-of-the-nose snobbishness. (but don’t overdo it or you’ll end up leaning backward) And succinct. Can you stand going all scientific and shouting ‘Gluteus Maximus!’ every time? Whew. Number one, it’s quite a mouthful, and not something you can manage when you’re angry. Number two, it makes you look stupid. Geeky. Nerdy. A raving lunatic. Either way, it pulls you further down the rungs of the social ladder and out of your inner circle of friends. I could be exaggerating this one. But it does make you look idiotic with the capital I. Point taken? I shall continue.

As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted… *glares*

… okay, I was not interrupted, nothing of the sort. Just thought it would be fun to sound professional. But I digress again. To start with, this post wasn’t even supposed to waste a good 2800 or so characters (spaces included) on the hows and whys of swearing. How do I know? Well, I did a draft in my phone at around 1am in the morning after you smsed. I wouldn’t want to waste my time planning on the computer and mashing the keyboard out of anger, and anyway I’ll most likely get distracted and go back to playing the b*tchy game Sorority Life. Okay! Back to the point, or I’ll never get back on track. Someone should seriously advise me against getting too carried away in my blog posts. 3200 characters, and I haven’t even started on what I really wanted to say. Any reader other than You-Know-Who can stop here if you’re getting tired of scrolling down ‘cos it is going to get very, very nasty. I estimate another 8000 characters.

If you are not afraid, please continue scrolling down.

By the way, I just came up with an idea for the title ‘A Swearing in Session’. It can be read two ways, but I’ll leave you to figure out since I noticed you’re way too smart for your own good. Should decipher it pretty quickly anyway. Think it’s a great pun ^^

ANYWAY. Back to business. I have been swearing in my head since… oh, let’s see… hmm, at the time where you first smsed! Wow, what a coincidence! Well, let me tell you, I don’t care what your number-dunno-how-many thinks. You’d think a little lady like her would have the presence of mind to behave in another person’s house. And tell her to mind her own business. She didn’t need to read my diary. Even though it was lying invitingly on the table. And she especially did not need to read it OUT LOUD in front of you. She could have kept quiet, and I would have been her BFF- best friend forever. Heck, I could even pretend I’m okay with the fact she’s dating you even though she’s waaaaay older, and there’d be no need to kick up such a huge fuss and wash our dirty linen in public. People might even think we like arguing with each other.

Sheesh, I can’t believe I’m defiling my blog instead of your tagboard to save both our sorry faces. In case you didn’t know, your blog has WAY too much hi=uman traffic. Whciich I don’t get why, ‘cos my blog is obviously better and my posts are FUNNIER. And with more effort than your posts with random quotes and stuff koped from songs like

‘F***ING TIRED! I HATE SO-AND-SO FOR GIVING SO MUCH WORK!!’

or,

‘I could really use a wish right now~’

You’re probably going to protest and spam my mobile or vandalise my tagboard with indignant messages or even go as far as to haul your sorry butt off the couch and demand your brother to drive you over but I don’t care. I’m done being the meek little girl in the past who admired your boldness and daring, the girl who worshipped your charm, the girl who was childish enough to be happy when you said you’d fight my brother to marry me or ask my parents to adopt you (because our childish minds believed that since our mums and dads married each other, we’d marry our siblings)…

She really deserved the punch on the arm I gave her. I didn’t even hit her hard. And she didn’t cry, didn’t she? So stop acting like she did. She just looked at me with those fake blue eyes of hers with the stupid long false eyelashes and said something about me being silly and not understanding grown-ups and I should get over that childish crush of mine. Hel-lo, that diary entry was six years ago. Should have looked, didn’t she? Does she even know she was being toyed around by you? Maybe, or she wouldn’t have gotten so testy about our relationship. Not that there’s one. But the way she acted, you’d have thought there was. Then, realizing it was going nowhere, the precious darling ran from the house, saying she wanted to break up with you. So dramatic.

Naturally, you were angry. Not at me, as I had feared, but at her- her, the first girl who had the gall to even suggest a break-up after so many countless others. I watched, incredulously, as you called her, whispering to me to keep quiet and winking conspirationally at me and

Putting the call on speaker for my benefit. I know- we all knew she was expecting a tearful apology, something along the lines of ‘I’ll never let my bratty cousin come between you and me again’. Well, she was well and truly not expecting (to tell the truth, neither was I) you to snarl, “Let me tell you, b*tch, no one breaks up with me. I’m the one who does the breaking up. So… as of today, I’m washing my hands off you.”

The whole thing was a drama plot cliché. And your speech was something I swear you must have got off somewhere. And the poor girl was too stunned to warble so much as a retort. Gleefully, I watched as you hung up on her, erased her from your contact list, then proceeded to turn on your laptop and log onto facebook and msn and remove her from your friends’ list, then blocking her. A series of practiced moves that can only be achieved by executing it again and again. Drama in a cupcake, all in the space of a little more then ten minutes. Bite-sized, fresh from the oven, and good to go. I didn’t even have to turn on the TV.

It would have ended on a happy note. But no, you had to tell me off too. Yada yada yada, how I should not resort to violence, etc etc, now I need to find a new girlfriend… Please, you can live without a girl for at least half a day. At least this girlfriend lasted so briefly she didn’t get your phone number or it’d be ringing non-stop. I shall expect you to be uncontactable for a few days while you wait for all the hub-bub to die off.

I hope this blog post has kept you so busy reading you don’t have time to call your next girlfriend! I lost count. The thirty-fourth girl to think you’re really true to her.

Just don’t tell her that :D

(and I hope not many people scrolled all the way down to here)

If We Knew (author forgotten)

If we knew when friends around us
Closely press to say goodbye
Which among the lips that kiss us
First would 'neath the daisies lie
We would clasp our arms around them
Looking on them through our tears
Tender words of loving kindness
We would whisper in their ears.

PoemHunter!

I know I have been very negative in my last few posts, so I shall cheer up for this post :D

Oh, yesterday I wore my contacts from 6am all the way until 11pm and U COULDN'T GET IT OUT.... My eyes were too dry. Serves me right for being so vain. And I had to call the poor glasses shop uncle to help me get it out cos no one in the house could. My eyes were super red, I bet I could play a vampire XD Oh well you get the picture. And I need to wear it again for ballet tomorrow. Wish me good luck!

Btw, I read a really cute poem yesterday and it has been replaying again and again in my head! It goes something like this:

If all the world were paper,

And all the sea were ink,

If all the trees were bread and cheese,

What should we have to drink?

If all the world were sand O,
Oh then what should we lack O,
if as they say there were no clay
How should we take Tobacco?

If all our vessels ran-a,
If none but had a crack-a,
If Spanish apes ate all the grapes
How should we do for sack-a?

If all the world were men
And men lived all in trenches,
And there were none but we alone,
How should we do for wenches?

If friars had no bald pates
Nor nuns had no dark cloisters,
If all the seas were beans and peas
How should we do for oysters?

If there had been no projects
Nor none that did great wrongs,
If fiddlers shall turn players all
How should we do for songs?

If all things were eternal
And nothing their end bringing,
If this should be, then how should we
Here make an end of singing?

It's really beautiful... And it really makes you wonder how it would be if we lived on a weird world. Too bad it's anonymous cos I want to know who wrote such a great poem! After reading it I googled it and found it on PoemHunter. Been devouring poems for at least an hour already :D If I see another one I like I'll post it up here. They won't sue me for copyright issues right?

Owww!!!

As the title so rightly puts it, I am in great pain right now. I just got home and my hips and back hurt. Whaaaaa realised how inactive my butt is. I am Siumin's most horrible student =.= "

Can't arch my back at all. How is that possible when I can do a backbend?!!

Ouchhhh.

And nearly dislocated my shoulder flinging and punching my arm in the air. Hurts. But I shall practice even harder tonight though who cares about the pain ^^

This long weekend has been plagued with tons of homework. Great, just great. There's Chemistry and Chinese x2 and Lang Arts and Physics and SCs and Geog and projects like Lang Arts and CID ARGH Oh Noes

This has been a crappy post.

I'm sowwy...

I'm sorry. I'm really, really sorry.

I didn't mean to offend you. I was just very annoyed at that time. I had a crappy day at school. I know it's no excuse for acting that way, but please try to understand a little.

I can't take back what I said, and neither can you, but I want to remind you my tears aren't fake.

If you're reading this, please forgive me.

Love you

Evie

Banned. Unbanned. Banned. Unbanned. Repeat. Heck, I'd just wish he'd make up his mind.

I've been banned and unbanned, four times in the time space of half a week. (5 days)

I just wish Pa Pa can make up his mind to ban me or not (definitely the latter). It's so tiring making sure what websites I'm going to, if not this happy little sign labelled 'Access Restricted' will pop up. *sigh*

Anyway I've been unbanned (for now), but I'm not sure how long this will last. He's getting smarter. Apparently I can access facebook, (I complained cos I wanted to see my mass display pics), but he managed to ban all games (how does he do that?!)

It's OVER

The mass display item has finally come to a close.

Wishing we could still continue dancing, though I regret missing so many lessons.

DON'T UNDERSTAND LOG NOW

Layout changed

Yes! Did you see it?!!

I changed my layout hehheh :)))

Salmon pink looks great, despite the fact that I don't really like pink. I knew the salmon sushi always looked so appetising.

I'm almost done with homework, left the chinese book I gave up halfway and the chinese compo (basically anything chinese) and math assignment. Got discouraged halfway through the Holiday Assignment. Mr Ng sure wasn't kidding when he said that it was meant to be challenging, and I left a lot of blanks -.-lll Guess I'll have to wait till I get back to school.

I AM DANCING MY HOLIDAYS AWAY.

So irritating, ballet on every other day except for Monday and Thursday, and Dance on odd days. Nearly cried when Dance landed on my free day TODAY Looking forward to Monday cos I have nothing on that day except I have to go down to Orchard to buy sushi from Isetan for dinner. Yay me.

DEAD BLOG REVIVED!

Haha! My blog is active once again!

I wanted to say so many things during this whole exam period but once I logged on I stared at the screen for a full five minutes before I realised my life has been very boring lately.

I have nothing to talk about!!

Oh wait I almost forgot. Two days before the math test my revision was rudely interrupted by my youngest brother. He was crying, which was kinda weird because he's not the sort to cry so pitifully. *ehm*

Turns out he jammed his toy cat on wheels up his nose and the ear sort of dislodged (don't ask me how, but I call it Karma for bothering me all these years) and got stuck up his left nostril. We didn't know what he was crying about at first, cos he wouldn't let anyone touch him. Eventually Mummy's interrogation skills worked and he said his nose hurt. So I got a torch and looked up his nose, ignoring all the mucus and whatnot, and found this tiny red round thing. I wanted to laugh. So did everyone. But hey, he was making quite a racket, so we needed to get it out pronto. We wanted to take him to the doctor to get it removed, but my Dad improvised, got his tweezers (which he uses to plant aquatic plants) and got it out really quickly.

Yong Yong was back to his usual boisterous self barely 15 minutes after that.

I just hope I'd pass my math test, or I have Yong Yong to blame. Jk, jk.

Relaxed... until the next test

Yup! Feeling rather relieved now, now that there's only two more exams left *lonnnng sigh*

Studying chemistry halfway, and realised how much I have forgotten over the long end-of-year hols. Sulfur dioxide forms acid rain? Or was it sulfur trioxide? Or none of the above? Agh! Actually, why is limestone so susceptible to acid rain?

And my brother is telling me it is possible to make the soil less acidic by peeing in it instead of adding CaO or Calcium hydroxide. Apparently this is because our urine contains ammonia, but I believe it's too little to do any good unless the place where you grow all your carrots and broccoli in is the outhouse. And anyway I don't think anyone will want to eat something with (correction: had) pee on it.

If this is what they're teaching in RI, be very, very afraid.

Back to the point:

I'm out of practice. What is an isotope?! Ok. Back to mugging.

Dear Diary...

Mugging physics.

Can't think anymore.

Blah

I have been deprived of the computer for many many days. Not really. I only could go to Yahoo, Google, and.... *drumroll*
NEOPETS.

Honestly, my dad never fails to amaze me. Oh well, at least I have committed more time to improving my stats in Neopets. And I have been doing more revision (honest!).

Anyway, I made him but blogger and facebook back onto my 'can surf' list because I was missing too many people's birthdays and stuff! My fish was stolen many many times on bubblefish! And I've always promised myself to try to play mousehunt but it hasn't worked out so far T-T

So anyway you should see me online more often.

Just in case you're wondering.

NAPFA!

Yay! 5A's for NAPFA!

Seriously, I doubted I'd get them again this year, what with my lousy shuttlerun timing of 12.00s *pukes*
Made it through with a timing of 11.41s :D I believe it's an 'A'

But I was kinda disappointed. I expected to do better for inclined pull-ups. I'd rather not do it at the grandstand!!! Oh well. The rest were okay. I wish I could borrow a pair of legs from any one guy to do standing broad jump. Everyone's jaw dropped today when the guys started getting higher and higher scores for each time. What's with them?! And Yuchen nearly reached the end for sit and reach. Is it because his legs are short? (no, no, not insulting anyone)

In conclusion, it has been a great day!

My legs are still sore.

Ouch.

Dear Diary...

Our class is probably the most entertaining and eventful one, ever.

I think today was the first in days where we had full attendance. What with Ang Weixuan coming in for no good reason to beat Yuchen up (I missed the good show T-T cos I was stuck in a traffic jam), Zhuoran hitting his head on the railing and missing school -.-, and Junjie jumping off the chair and his head connected with the door frame (LOL!). He now has a smaller bandage instead of the turban on Wednesday. Funny though, all related to head injuries. Didn't remember Yuchen getting injured much. Someone said there was blood. I don't know.

Anyway we re-visited Primary school math today. Whee. But the long division was substituted for more 'x' instead of the numbers. Miss numbers. We always use 'a', 'b', 'c', 'x', 'y' and whatever other symbols...

I have realised people from 2F are starting to 'dao' me when we pass each other in corridors. It's not like we didn't see each other, and my smile faltered halfway when it was met with a blank stare. Seriously.

I like books with elements of humour in them! 'My family and other animals' by Gerald Durell left me in stitches. In one chapter, his professor friend was telling them about an opera he went to that was quite... eventful. The opera was a tragedy of some sort, and at the climax, when she hurled herself to her death off a castle, the stage hands had forgotten to put cushioning below, so the male lead had to sing quite loudly to drown out her cries of pain. She was quite upset, so the next day the stage hands enthusiastically piled mounds of mattresses, making it rather... springy and such. Well, like those trampolines. And then she repeated the scene, and this time, after 'dying', the audience were mystified when her upper torso reappeared three times! HAHAHAHA! I couldn't stop laughing. Mummy thought I went berserk.

ARGH

71 DEGREES! AND 53 ON THE OTHER SIDE! @#$! I WILL NEVER, NEVER GO FOR OPERATION, NO MATTER WHAT THE DOCTOR SAYS.

Oh, joy.

I'm boreeeeed.

I think now I'm the only one posting practically every day. I know I will fail my math test! (no, not MATHS) I didn't do the first question cos I thought I should do coordinate geometry first, then happily forgot all about it... At least I passed my Lang Arts reading compre test. Barely passed la, only 12/20, so you can gloat about getting a better mark than me. Must do better the next time around! But seriously... How do you study for an english test? I got my HSK results too and I missed the 'A' grade by a stupid ONE mark!!! I was happy I didn't fail, but I was so disappointed I missed it by a mere fraction T-T

Anyway must practice my piano and study geog. It's a short post, but it's better than nothing. I'm hooked on the song 'Musician' in D.Gray-Man! Can't wait to complete it :D And I'm throwing aside my exam songs and Bella's lullaby just for this -.- lll

Words, names

It was a dark and stormy night.

Okay, it wasn't really a dark and stormy night, but it was raining that day. Cos I was feeling kinda bored, so I dug out some of my old spelling books (as well as my brother's). And I perked up instantly! Some of the misspellings were really hilarious.

Excerpts from my brother's spelling book

Panch bolce - Phone booth

Soldrens - Soldiers

Rossted - Roasted

Enmy - Enemy

Anbulce- Ambulance

Ulgy - Ugly

And the most hilarious one.... Wotter botter- Water bottle

Excerpts from my spelling book

Balooon -Balloon

Brike - Brick

Foood centre - Food centre

juicecy - juicy

suddy - suddenly (OMG)

exaxarate - exaggerate

Andandand..... nessssessarry - necessary (I was laughing like crazy, how could I make such a mistake? I mean one look at it and it is obviously wrong, lols)

P.s. Guess what? The word inclement means

1) Tempestuous (as in stormy, like inclement weather)

2) Unmerciful, harsh, opposite of clemency

Anyway, Clement is an adjective, someone who is inclined to be merciful. Hahaha. Hows that for nice :D Was the name of many saints.

So then I went on to find the meaning of names in 2F (English only) :D Read on!

Eve- (French, Biblical)

Hebrew meaning of 'to live' or 'to breathe'. Has negative connotations as a result of the Garden of Eden incident, (yada yada... -.-lll Like that was my fault!) Hence rarely used. Revived the usage only in late 20th century. Negative form of Evangeline and Eva, etc etc.

Chantal- (French, Dutch)

'Stony', commonly associated with 'song'

Frederica- (Pourtugese)

Feminine form of Frederick, meaning peaceful ruler o.O

Astrid- (Scandinavian, German, French)

Derived from some word I cannot type out here -.- Meaning: 'god' and 'beautiful'

Pearlyn's name had no definition -.- But it's supposedly an extension of Pearl, which means 'health' and 'wealth' AND is also a masculine name heehee

Phoebe- (Greek, Biblical, Latin)

Means 'bright and pure'. Was a Titan in greek mythology. Phoebe is also one of Saturn's moons.

Noelle- (French)

Feminine form of Noel. Means 'Christmas' in French. In Middle Ages was used for children born on Xmas Day.

Stiffany- Nothing found. Combination of Stephanie and Tiffany?

Jasmine- (French)

Derived from Persian name Yasmin. From the english word for the climbing plant, with fragrant flowers. No real meaning.

Aeres- Not found, probably related to Aries(Roman) or Ares(Greek) Both have violent associations ._.

Amanda- (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Scandinavian, Dutch, German, Finnish, Late Roman)

Surprising not used during Middle Ages. Means 'lovable, worthy of love'. Came into regular use only in 19th Century and female form of Amandus.

Clement- (English) Above.

Paul- (French, Biblical, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Romanian)

Means 'small' or 'humble' in Latin. Wrote much of the New Testament. Many artists, saints and philosophers have this name.

Joseph- (French, Biblical, German)

Means 'he will add'. Was a popular name in Spain and Italy as it was associated with Saint Joseph. This was the name of the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire and Portugal. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin also shared this name (gulp! that sounds familiar... who is Stalin? Smth to do with Russia?)

Richie- (English)

Diminutive of Richard, meaning 'brave power' and 'rule'

Jonathan- (Biblical, German, Dutch, Scandinavian)

Hebrew meaning of 'Yahweh has given' Anyway, Yahweh is a name of a hebrew god. Because it was considered blasphemous to utter the name of God it was only written and never spoken. This resulted to it being lost over time (Yahweh, not Jonathan). Also means 'to become'

'Kay that's it :D

Sundays rule!

Yay! Bowling :):):):):):):):)

Not too bad today I guess, I got a strike and a spare. But I was so horribly careless in my fourth and 5th frame that I practically wasted the strike! (3rd frame- X; 4th frame --; 5th frame; -1) Could have killed myself over my stupid mistake... In the end my points ended up... not as high as I hoped. Okay, I got 87. Happy? I was hoping to go over 100 T-T

I think now it's becoming some sort of ritual, every Sunday we've been going bowling IF we all finish our homework. Pa Pa is always threatening to cancel our bowling trips but I think he's secretly happy we get to bowl since he's really into bowling himself; what with his own shoes and glove and socks... (actually I don't get the point about the socks, but if he's happy, fine) Pa Pa didn't do too well today cos he let Di Di play for the last four sets, so I beat him. But didn't feel like a big winner cos he wasn't really playing. Leave it to him to spoil my good mood -.- lll

Speaking about homework, I need to go early to qiong my homework because I can't concentrate at home, obviously. Was woken up this morning at 8am by Yong Yong screaming along to the theme song of Doraemon. Great! Actually, since I usually wake up around 8.30 on weekends, it wasn't such a big deal, but I was annoyed all the same. Went for Chemistry tuition not long after. Might fail the test they set today- it was impromptu, and I totally forgot all about metallic bonding and giant crystal lattices and polarised stuff, I can't remember what. Might have heard it in Chemistry class last week... And then a girl sitting beside me borrowed my textbook to use the periodic table but instead to copy!!! Grrgh, it wasn't even hers.

Homework...

"I have homework for every subject!" I complain. Then, I look at all my other friends. Hey- they're complaining about the immense workload too! What a coincidence! Okay, I was being sarcastic. But it doesn't change the fact that we all have tons of homework! I could rant about the amount of work we have here, but I'll keep this post short- I still haven't finished more than a third of my homework -.- lll

LOUD.LOUDER.LOUDEST.

I'm still missing 2F! Obviously... We spent 2 years together. I'd rather not go all emo on this post... and I'm trying not to let any tears fall as I write... must not let my facade fall... keep up this happy front... but I just couldn't help it last Friday night, I started tearing up (luckily my sister was asleep). I felt really pathetic crying silently on my own, huddling under my blanket cuddling up to a soft toy (Yes I know I was being childish, confiding in a soft toy) but I seriously couldn't stop for some reason and everything I'd been holding back just came out. I'm not big on expressing feelings so it was a relief to get everything off my chest. I can't even confide in someone for fear they'll laugh at me and think I'm going senile. I think everyone feels that way sometime or the other, do they? Or is it just me? It's at these times I wish my soft toy could talk back to me. I couldn't even cry out loud for fear of arousing the attention of my parents, y'know.....? My left eye got seriously swollen from all the self-conscious rubbing and I only dared to post this because my eye is much better, Thank You Very Much.

.....that's enough for today. Stop it. 'Kay. I'm done here. Back to the happy me everyone sees. If you want to know why I don't let my true feelings show, it's because I hate it when people see me crying or anything and go, oh she's crying/oh she's laughing like crazy- must be another of those typical teenage crazy girls. I'm not one of those people. And I never want to be.

My class has a lot of noisy people. I swear I've been going deaf, and I have evidence to prove it. Di Di was asking me if I wanted peas in my soup and I thought he said "Please pass the soup." Speaking of mishearing incidents, today LA lesson was hilarious (or at least the incident was)! Ms Teo made us all stand up and say something from the passage about beauty and stuff, and Ming Sheng said

"The people in the school all bulimic". Or something along those lines. And Ms Teo heard "The people in the school all bully me" HAHAHAHA!!! I nearly died laughing. Of course it wasn't as loud as some people (won't say whom, to save their face) but loud enough. Anyway Ms Teo finally got the idea after he repeated it like five-six times (wah fail), and also after everyone explained it to her. Nearly fell off my seat o.O

Yay... School (tests, tests, tests... T-T)

Miss 2F!

I have just realised what the teachers meant when they said Years 1 and 2 were 'Honeymoon' years. And to think I complained about the workload in Year 2! On hindsight, that was nothing compared to the truckloads of worksheets I have to complete sitting in my file.

And so many colour-coded files! White plastic for Math(whatever you say, it's NOT maths)! Black ringed for LA! 2 pale-pinkish ones for Chemistry (for what exactly I've forgotten). Pale blue plastic one (oops, TWO plastic files) for Chinese, one for composition i guess and the other for everything else. And I have no idea what the purple and green ring files are for. I suppose one is for Geography and the other for Physics, since those are the only subjects without files. Why does Geog need such a big one -.-lll

Physics is mentally, physically and emotionally draining. Just take a look at our class... If you're not groaning at the super-long string of numbers that make absolutely no sense at all except to the boring teacher, you're probably lolling on the table in effort to stay awake (unsuccessfully) or you're asleep already. Maybe, just maybe, if you're one of those hardworking types you could be sitting upright (not without effort, of course) and feverishly copying down now so the teacher won't call on you later. And I bet Jun Jie is inwardly cursing now for ending up sitting with me again. And righhhht at the front! Some people have all the luck (or not, as in our case). Better not to sit in the front row at all.

I have came to a conclusion: For the good of their children's mental well-being, parents should make their child's name as typical and un-interesting as possible. If your name is one of those atypical types, good for you. You have creative parents. But if you wish to keep a low profile in school, I'd advise you to have those chinese names. Teachers just skim over those. Of course, if your name is in the middle, you have a higher chance of being the 'lucky' one to answer the question. I don't know why, but they just love people in the middle. Okay, so remember to name your child accordingly next time. It would save them a lot of stress if you give them a boring name like Tom, Dick or Harry.... Waaaait. Actually, you'd better not. Those names are so uncommon now. Name your child Edward- it's the most popular name now, apparently.

P.s. If your name is Jonathan, you don't stand a chance. You are most likely to be called up. It's true- studies has shown that people named Jonathan are more likely to be called up than any other name, even though it is one of the most common names in the world (my contact list can prove it, I know SIX Jonathans, and three of them have the surname Ong). Weird, eh? So whatever you do, don't name your child Jonathan.

P.s.s. I thought the reunion on Friday was an epic failure, even though I was happy to see everyone again. No offense, but I think everyone thought so too.

Must read poems...

By Shel Silverstein

The little boy and the old man

Messy room

Where the sidewalk ends (must read!!)

Homework- Pop culture (epic FAIL)

After reading many links and many futile attempts at searching for Singapore pop culture, I am forced to conclude along with so many others- yes, Singapore is a boring society. Those who pride themselves in the mundane will gladly take root in boring 'ol Singapore. Peaceful, yes. Boring? Definitely.

Those who are not convinced, I invite you to type in 'pop culture' into the search box at google. Thousands of links sprout up, along with pictures. Now, erase that away. This time, add 'Singapore' in front and you'll be amazed. Thousands of links have been reduced to few hundreds. Pictures are sadly lacking, and most are completely irrelevant. Is Jay Chou part of of Singapore's pop culture? The fans, maybe. Otherwise...

Have a short read-up on how boring Singapore can be, then.

http://www.singapore-window.org/sw04/041003st.htm

http://www.littlespeck.com/content/economy/CTrendsEconomy-050424.htm

On a lighter note, perhaps this will bring hope for us.

http://carolcooper.org/scene/singapore-99.php

Saw a lot of cosplaying links... Is that part of Singapore culture? Do you think we can incorporate that into our own? Hmm... I sure hope so. It would be nice if Singapore could also be known for good cosplaying. =D

I (We) am/are doomed

I just realised that maybe I could die before this year is up.

One misdeed= Very, very stern warning

2nd or 3rd time= Call parents (or detention)

4th= Detention

5th time= Suspension! *the horror!!!*

6th= EXPELLED. Not kidding.

This goes for any misdeed. You could be expelled for being late, people. I don't believe it. I miss Ms Ek and 2F and the old campus...

I am too horrified to say anything. I shall do my homework before they can accuse me of doing anything wrong. We're kept on our toes now. Cross the line and... suffer the consequences.

3G... Why?!

No matter how much I try, I just cannot bring myself to... *sigh* like my new class.

What about class bonding? You may chastise me. Okay, everyone is really friendly and all, but the fact remains I feel a bit out-of-it-all. I miss 2F, I do... And I mean I can't keep running between classes to look for my friends. I really wonder how I actually bonded with my former class.

Saw Miss Foo today at the bus stop :D The bus was so crowded, she couldn't manage to get onto 174. I squeezed in and barely made it up (was hanging onto railings with fingertips).

The games today weren't very fun. I really appreciate what the SCs did for all of us and their efforts really showed, but I think it would be more fun with those simple games like entanglement, vampire(maybe too dangerous), poisonball(fisherman) and/or netball(yesyesyesplsplspls)!

On the way back after a very lonnnnnng and tirinnnnng day, met Joseph on 174. Both of us was just as surprised to see each other get off at the same bus stop -.- lll Turns out he lives only two blocks away *shock* (I don't even need to cross a road or anything) I mean, how can two people who live in such close proximity with each other not even chance upon each other at least once? *double shock* Maybe he doesn't venture out at all...? Bet he just stays home and read books on World War I, II, III (wait, not yet). He says that he'd rather not tell anyone where he lives, so nobody knows where he stays. So antisocial. But who am I to criticise? I was pretty moody and unfriendly today, I think... I'll try to be nicer tomorrow. I promise! Really.

P.s. I dropped the 'colour' thing because:

1) Hard to read

2) Troublesome

Sorry, stuff here will mostly remain plain ol' black-and-white :D

School!

Yay! School's re-opening at our new campus!

I'm nervous, I know I am, especially if you're going to a NEW class and almost no one you know goes there... I am regretting not taking E. Lit. Just a bit. At least their class doesn't have the 'Too many guys in my class' problem. My class isn't too bad, not till you see 3J. Crazy. 21 guys, 11 girls. The guys can rule for once, cos RV is like 2/3 girls, 1/3 guys (good for us, bad for them)

If you are wondering why my post seems a bit different, that's because technologically-destitute(d) me has discovered the joy of adding colour to my words :D Yeah. Oh, yes I forgot-

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE !!!

(colour added! Now aren't I a genius :D)

I AM SO SORRY

I have promised some people out there I will update my boring posts on my holiday (sad but true, argh) BUT- sorry, you'll just have to wait a while longer, please? *looks at you with pleading eyes* Okay, not gonna get mushy here. By the way I have lost my dictionary. Double whammy! ARGH (again).

I will DIE without my dictionary. Seriously. Currently I have a whole list of words waiting to be unravelled because searching it on wikitionary (is that it?) lags my Apple Mac. And I don't trust something on the World Wide Web. That's my rule #1. Anyway, if someone could consent to help me (I shall swallow my pride and ask you, so PLEASE!) Thank you! Smiles~

quagmire

ardor (oh never mind, thanks Aaron)

capricious

apace (thank you!)

alarum

impregnable/impregnated

infirmities

taciturn/tactiturn (One is USA and the other is Brit English)

incumbent

reprieve

askance (never mind)

negate

acane fetters (is it together or what?)

visceral

niceties (okay, I know now)

sanguine (scarlet, i think)

prolific (okay, nvm)

brusque (is it quick and brief?)

THAT'S ALL FOLKS :D THANK YOU

(if you're wondering what brought on such and onslaught of words, I was re-reading the Inheritance Trilogy for the upteenth time and realised I should really make an effort to understand them instead of skimming over it and understanding it as a vague sentence. I mean, you'll get the idea but I want to learn too :) Thanks guys :D )

P.s. Guess what! I finished reading In the mix and Outsiders. (He-llo? Our Lang Arts textbooks. Not too bad I guess, and there is plenty of great and hard-sounding vocabulary to learn.

In the mix is great, with different types of literature for all to appreciate. But Outsiders is boring for those who don't really reading stuff in code language like poetry. Don't get me wrong, it IS nice, but when it goes about the same thing over and over again, confusing everyone, then what's the point if the reader has no idea what you're talking about? The piped piper one is nice though. But the one about the horseman and the innkeepers daughter is a bit... hmmm. It succeeded in giving me the creeps. Now I hear hoofbeats outside the window. Or maybe it's my rambunctious brother banging on the wall. Hopefully.

Oh, and there's too much violence in Outsiders. Joseph would like that I guess. And the Manga in In the mix would appeal to his disturbing nature. World War II, when Hiroshima was bombed. Was it Fat Man or Little Boy? My social studies isn't all that great, I guess. (Blame my ex-classmate for biting my social studies teacher) It really is shocking... Skin melting on the spot, clothes and glass shards sticking to your skin... Why does the macabre delight so many? I would really like to know. Ah, Reader's Digest has a new vocab list on the Macabre. Check it out! :D

P.s.s. Have I been boring you? Sorry... But I love Lang Arts

So why not take E. Lit? Many people scream at me. Well... I don't know. I just didn't want to go to where all the English geniuses are, or I'd get severely demoralised when I see their rich vocabulary and perfect enunciation and intonation. Call me a coward, then. I'll spend the whole day reading the dictionary to find better words to get back at you. XD Joking! What possessed you to think such an innocent girl like me would do that? Haha.

Oh yes, one more thing. You should seriously try reading the dictionary for leisure. It's very entertaining and can keep you occupied for hours!

Relax. You can stop scrolling down now. This very very very very lonnnnnnnnng post.... Is finally..... Over. *grins*

Am I torturing you, dear reader? Please do come again!