My Day in the East

I went to a dog-petting café yesterday and it was a lot of fun!!
The dogs are way more friendly that the cat café (they are always asleep) but they usually just go to the person with food, ha ha!!

After that, I spent time touring around the neighbourhood because it's pretty well known for good hawker food (at Old Airport Road)

I died on the spicy Katong laksa a couple of blocks away but the prawn noodle soup and satay were so yummy and good! I also had Ritz apple strudel and fried banana fritters and chilled beancurd and washed it down with an apple and grape yakult blend and it was nothing short of AMAZING.

My stomach is happy :)

Epitome of Laziness

I pride myself as being really good in English, but lately I have become more and more humbled after reading what others have to say.

I know I can write something like that, and it's not as if I cannot find the words to put my thoughts into speech, but... My laziness always fails me.

Let me tell you a little more about how lazy I have become.
I would rather reuse the clothes that I have worn again and again- because my maid went back to Indonesia and urgh I just can't be bothered to fold them all. Usually I throw them on a chair and let them get all wrinkly, then throw it in the hamper again to be doomed to an eternal cycle of washing until I decide to wear it (and still be doomed to be washed after that)

I can't be bothered to throw my clothes in the hamper- I dump them on the floor and kick them on my way out when my parents call me out on it.

I spend all day in my pajamas if I don't go out.

If there is something I need to do that involves me needing to sit up, no thank you.

It is a very very annoying attitude to have, and I hate it a lot.
I wish I could do chores happily and not grumble through the whole thing and kill all my happiness and brain cells, and feel so tired afterwards even if I so much as wash a plate.

I have even become too lazy to do things on my mobile phone- things that do not require any physical effort- so you now know how goddamn lazy I am. 
I know I am lazy, and I tell myself every time I catch myself being lazy that I NEED and I MUST change, but... that annoying little voice in my head will go

Nahhhhhh... don't bother. It's too much effort.

It is so frustrating and I know I have to change, I know it, but oh my god every time I attempt to change (okay I don't attempt at all, I just think about it and I feel so tired already. 

//slaps myself hard

Well who am I kidding slapping myself requires effort and I'm not going to do it.

Funny Things my Younger Brother Says

*Some statements have been rephrased for clarity, he largely speaks Singlish and a mix of Chinese.

To my mum and me:
"You know, there's this teacher in my class that keeps saying 'must check your work'."
//pause//
"I think he should be really good at checkers."
Me: "What has that got to do with checkers?!"

"My eyes are more powerful, because my power (degree) is higher."
(600 degrees, he has bad myopia even though he's only 9)

Him: "There's this guy in my class with blue eyes! Do you think everything looks more blue to him? Like maybe the sky will look more blue?"
Me: "Then is everything black to you, even in the day?"
Him: "Oh ya hor."

In a way, you can feel his childish innocence in the things he says, and I really want him to keep that forever.

Logos Hope- The Largest Floating Book Fair

I visited the largest floating book fair in the world yesterday!

Logos Hope was this enormous ship, and (I quote from the website at this point)

It is a non-profit venture that is crewed and staffed by 400 volunteers from over 45 countries!!It first launched in 1970, and it has since welcomed 40 million visitors.

I swore to learn Japanese ten years ago, and I've not started (whoops). Did I mention I'm a huge procrastinator? So why am I saying this?

Well I made my first step in learning Japanese by picking up a small pocket Japanese - English dictionary (really small, the size of my palm. No kidding) and a Japanese language easy guidebook.

I'm going to make my ex-classmate give me lessons too, cos he teaches at the MOE Language centre and his Japanese is zai (awesome)

I also picked up a modern calligraphy beginner guide, but I can't really do much with it without the proper pen, ink and guidesheets. So I'm taking up a modern calligraphy course this month, on the 22nd. I've been searching for classes FOREVER, and finally there was one set up by Katrina Alana. I subscribed to their newsletter after seeing they held one previously, and I really can't wait!

The Life of a Newly-Converted Otaku

The A levels are over, and I have been mostly doing nothing at home- just watching anime, reading manga, and derping around on Tumblr reblogging Free! posts.. basically becoming a full-blown otaku. I feel this immense desire to throw everything away and move to Japan, that's how bad my otaku fever is now.

I feel that it's extremely unhealthy. I spend a huge proportion of my nights juggling several phone apps and doing photo edits, waiting for the latest Free! updates (like the recent Fr Fr episodes that fans have been waiting for forever, and interacting with my followers on my anime Instagram account.

And, and, and... do you know how time-consuming and tiring it is to manage my account? I never knew anime accounts had it so hard.

First, we gotta do unique and eye-catching edits to appeal to people and of course it's a mad race to get more followers, shoutouts are precious, and people will steal and repost your photos without credit.

Then of course we need to credit the original artist (which usually comes from Pixiv accounts/ Tumblr) because people always steal their wonderful artworks and they don't get the exposure and fans they deserve. And the whole Pixiv website is not helping it because they don't get nice usernames, instead their IDs are in long strings of numbers making it extremely difficult for anyone on Instagram to track back and find them. But that's beside the point for now. Anyway, it would be nice if we could post a long link and be able to head to Pixiv directly on mobile devices.

OR MAYBE INSTAGRAM SHOULD JUST STOP BEING STUBBORN AND LET US POST USING THE COMPUTER.

Oh and then after we do edits, and someone steals them, and we complain, some ignoramuses will say

But you guys didn't create the picture in the first place! Why are you complaining when someone steals it and why should you be allowed to put a watermark over it?

Well, smart alecks, we put in lots of time to edit it (though less than the original artist) and we should still be given credit for making a nice edited picture with awesome typography and faded effects and all the awesome sparkly pastel pretty things in it.

//rant over//

Here's the newest Fr Fr eps to neutralise all the hate I spilled.

But other than my sudden spate of otakuness, I have other things to rant about.

So anyway Xy has been overseas for nearly a month plus uninterrupted- he got back for a few days after his Shanghai trip and then set off to Taiwan promptly after. I mean, it's great that he gets to travel and see his relatives and have fun with his class but it's so damn frustrating because I'm just sitting at home feeling so useless and unproductive.

You know how the longer you spend on social media the more unhappy you feel?

Yes.

That's exactly it.

I'm hating random strangers for NO REASON AT ALL just because they don't ship the same characters as I do or post photos of rival ships.
Oh, and if you have no idea what 'ship' means in this context, do a quick google search.

So I am a huge fan of MakoHaru and MakoRin, and RinHaru pics piss me off
(ignore this whole part if you don't understand)
And I am always super irritated because RinHaru fans are always not playing nice (maybe it's my own bias), especially this girl on Tumblr (I shall not name names) that was totally abusing her power and it was a huge uproar then.
And RinHaru fans make up a sizable proportion of the Free! fandom so it's hard to... well... especially cos Rin gets so many moments with Haru.
I can't stand Haru much actually, he's so expressionless and ungrateful and Makoto is so nice and doesn't deserve to be treated that way >:(

This picture makes me unreasonably happy.

So does this.

But this, my friends, make me SO, SO, ANGRY.

Like, I'd hate on people just because they like this ship.

I have since calmed down because all the hate wasn't healthy and it scared me. A lot.

Like I didn't understand what I was becoming- someone whose personality I'd hate.

I was becoming one of those angry irrational fangirls.

Even worse than the Korean fangirls.

I was fangirling over ANIMATED CHARACTERS.

And they were dominating my life.

Still are.

It scares me :/

And then the fact that Xy is overseas means that there is nothing to distract me/ make me want to go out much (I do all my shopping online because it is so much cheaper, except for clothes). So now I'm usually flaring up at him and hating myself for it.

Food pics to end off the post

Of Free! characters of course

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Selfie Rant

I don't understand why girls like to post pictures of themselves with captions of supposedly deep quotes (mostly self-coined) or song lyrics like...

"You don't know how much it hurts to miss someone~"

or

"Tell me again, was it love at first sight; when I walked by and you caught my eye~"

That's my favourite song, by the way. Deer in the Headlights by Owl City.

Anyway, what I want to say is that I'm fine with it if the quote is truly relevant to the picture or if you are gushing about your favourite song or whatever.
Even doing it once or twice would be fine.
But if half the posts on your wall are just pictures of you staring into the camera with your best 'come-hither, look at me aren't I pretty' face, just STOP IT.
It drives me nuts.
Can you believe some of these girls have multiple accounts in Facebook because they have too many fans? I'm sure the fans must like them for their pretty faces wondrous words of wisdom!

To top it off, I've seen a couple of misquotes. Obviously, these girls wanted to stand out from the crowd of other girls doing the exact same thing, so they reckoned they would need better quotes. Would be nice if they bothered to run a quick Google search. I saw a bad Thomas Edison quote by a pouting, blushing girl.

"Success is 1% education and 99% efforts~ take that you haters who said I was dump, cuz education is gonna make you dumper~ Ain't nobody going to take me down!"

I hate to go all Grammar Nazi on you guys, but firstly, 'effort' not 'efforts' and I think she meant 'dumb'... People who don't bother to get their words right irk me, because it reflects badly on your effort to get things right, and I'm sure you wouldn't do the same if it was your resume. But I'm assuming that she knows how to spell...
Perhaps she doesn't and my earlier rant might be all for naught. I hope not. But anyway if she doesn't know how to spell... Shame on her!(trying to save my argument haha)

Second, she has a serious logical error there. True, education may not be everything but it isn't going to make you dumber just because it isn't as important as other things.

Third, I'm pretty sure that is a misquote from Edison. Hello, ever heard of something called Google?

Lastly, if she wanted to get back at her haters who are calling her dumb and all, she should post a picture of her doing meaningful things like doing volunteer work or teaching poor kids or even pretending to read a book...
If you really want, you can keep the thoughtful pout while reading a book. At least look intellectual so these haters can realise you are a thoughtful, intelligent individual.
But no, you just had to post a picture that will fit exactly into their stereotype of you as an airhead and dumb white chick (no offense intended!- just stating a stereotype).

Also another kind of attention-seekers will do these sort of quotes:

"You don't know how much it hurts, when you left me that day~"

What their intentions are: Maybe if I post up a quote about an imaginary situation, people will start to pay more attention to me and ask me what happened. And I will add a completely unrelated photo of myself, and maybe my crush will notice how pretty I am and ask me out.

Also related:

"Why am I so ugly and everyone else so perf, urgh! Sorry for this dork face~"

When the girl looks perfectly fine and in fact is trying really hard to look pretty.

ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

Okay, rant over. Now I shall post a meme that sums up this whole selfie business. Enjoy.

...Uh yeah that's me

Cute!

Face Development in the Womb - Inside the Human Body: Creation - BBC One

Wallowing in a pit of hopeless self-depreciation

Yet, not willing to do anything about it. This is not the way to live my life and I know it, but for some reason I remain hopelessly bound to useless superficial things and time-wasting pastimes.

I'm addicted, and I need help. Fast.

What Do You Know About Me

I was talking to my best friend of all eleven years yesterday. We hadn't met for almost two months because of our differing schedules, what with my mid-years and her overseas trip...

We were sitting outside in the dark of night on her balcony, feeling reflective and philosophical like people always do at night (for some reason). So after talking about fate and life, I asked her how many secrets she thought everyone would have.

Amazingly, we came to the consensus almost immediately that we all had 7 secrets.
4 minor ones, like embarrassing moments or guilty indulgences...
3 major ones, secrets that we would never admit to anyone, or perhaps only part of it.

I bet she was wondering what secrets I have kept from her! :)

Speaking from my own experience, I have secrets that I'd rather die than confess them. I have, however, admitted part of them to my closest confidant and most favourite person in the world, but I feel we all need secrets. They allow you to feel alone. And that is not always a bad thing.

Watching soldier homecoming videos and crying like shit

Ummm, yeah. It's what the title says.

I couldn't stop crying!!

I first got hooked on the dog homecoming videos but in the end they usually just jump around a lot and lick their owners :/ no matter how cute they were, it got kinda dry.
Human emotions and expressions are way more diverse!

Some videos guaranteed to make you cry...






Anyway you can continue linking from the embedded videos, and watch them forever. Dozens of them I've gone through and my tear glands have gone into overdrive :X

Awesome Dad!

I WANT A HUSBAND LIKE HIM.





Omgfxvxdkjfh that butt :D
Whoops! *pedo smile*

How did he get so many kids that young ._.
There's definitely a set of twins somewhere.

Lizard Bites and Camp Woes

I friggin' got bitten by a garden lizard today during CCA camp ==

I caught this gorgeous garden lizard with awesome frills (it was a young one, though)
And everyone was freaked out when I brought it around.
Xy told me to go away lol (with the f-word even, though he meant no harm), but in his defense I actually put it right up in front of his face, which must have scared the shit out of the poor guy.

I don't understand how such a manly (looking) guy can be so afraid of something so much smaller than him.
He hates reptiles, insects, and amphibians, and I love them all!
Except cockroaches, who have an appearance not even their own kind can love.
Hmmm.

Oh, so how did I get bitten?
So anyway I was prepping the logistics (balloons and stuff) for the games later and holding the lizard in my left hand, which pretty much meant everyone sat at like about 2 metres distance from me cos they were terrified of it.
Like, get that away from me omg please don't bring it near me

Sighhhh will I ever find someone who appreciates my love for these creatures?
So somewhere then Jieminnie was like, hey, look, a spider-
and everyone knows lizards like insects yeah?
So I tried to make it eat the spider, and it kept turning its head away.

I persisted, and it got fed up, turned its head around, and bit me on my thumb.
It didn't hurt or anything, but I was hurt emotionally because no lizard has ever bitten me before, and I kinda felt betrayed... I'm not sure how I should begin to explain this.

Ummm, so anyway I let it go because I wasn't going to risk another bite, and I watched sadly as it ran off.
Then I went to disinfect the wound (not very deep) with hand sanitiser and wash it and slap a band-aid on.
Xy was super unsympathetic, even gleeful.
I think he feels like he just had his point proven and I'm going to be stricken with salmonella or whatever.

Actually, I think I'm still going to catch a lizard again next time.
I never do learn, do I?
(the same applies to cats and getting scratched/bitten)

Grumbles (should come up with better titles)

FINISHED GP TEST~!

Feeling kinda sad that I didn't write as much as I wanted to for AQ but I guess it's fine :/

I READ THE ARTICLE BEFORE! PART OF IT!!!
I KNOW THE MEANING OF PANACEA!! (cure-all, perfect cure)

GRRRRRRRR I should have watched the clock.
There I was watching it like a hawk for the first 40 minutes, then after awhile I forgot about it and Ms Sab was like, "Ten minutes left,"
And I shouted, "THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE! I'VE ONLY STARTED ON MY FIRST POINT FOR AQ!"
Of course I didn't say it out loud, dummy. I shouted it in my head.

So I panicked and started writing like a berserker and I have cramps in my right arm (added effect of writing plus P.E.)
Shouldn't have been so haolian to do thirty inclined pull-ups at one go when I haven't done any exercises to train my arms for two weeks ._.
I'm stuck at 195cm for standing broad jump and it's getting on my nerves!!
I want to be able to fly and clear 200++ cm!!

Xy cleared the mat today o_O
Told me proudly that everyone around him cheered (dunno how to describe the sound impressed guys make 'cos it's more of the 'whoaaaaaa, you sicko, how can people jump so far de' kind of exclamation)

Should borrow his frogs' legs on NAPFA day

(like this!)

And then Yuning's legs for running 2.4km :D

And Matilda's abs for sit ups!
Did I mention I HATE, absolutely HATE 2.4KM?
And sit-ups, 'cos after that laughing becomes a chore and a pain.)

Toodles~!
('cuz I'm feeling whimsical today)

Useful home remedies

:)

Useful home remedies!

So trying the one for muscle aches / acne!

Source: skinnymom.com via Gwen on Pinterest

This blog is pretty dead

Funniest thing ever happened during CCA today.

There is this guy that I seriously can't stand (kinda an open secret now), because he's always acting as if he is really good at what he does and I have always wanted to tell him that it's not the camera that takes good photos- it is the person that takes good photos.

So anyway our teacher said it today (specifically pinpointing him) and I did an inner high-five with him! *cheers* You know the feeling you get when someone says what you have been feeling AND wanting to say for ages but couldn't?? SO MUCH WIN.

But but but that's not the best part.
Anyway I interviewed the VP (vice-principal) last year for the school magazine Montage and I asked this guy to tag along to take the pictures (since he is always walking around holding his camera, like the show-off he is), and anyway the teacher said (he was commenting on how some of our photos are unusable for the school mag)

*drumrolls*

"Who was the one who took the photos for the interview for Mr ___? The photos are totally unusable!"

*cue horrified expression from the guy and I nudge XY beside me, who promptly bursts out laughing*
(and so did my CCA leaders and the guys in the back row *accusatory glance* )

And his reaction-
(b....b...but I thought... I thought the photos were okay... (insert CCA leader's name here)... you saw right? They were okay!)

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA.
I CANNOT EVEN...
PAYBACK.
*waves butt in face*

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Valentine's Day is tomorrow, by the way.
Actually girls don't really want flowers (most of them). Pretty things that die in a week and make a mess all over our room and stink after that. At least chocolates are practical okay!
I expect no less than Godiva. *expectant face*
Or at least Royce...?
Hey hey what expensive chocolate? Godiva on offer at Changi Airport can?? Buy one get one free! Save 75 bucks and you can eat one box yourself and *cough* if you have another gf *cough* can give two boxes *coughcoughcough*

Not that any guy would dare, of course.
*cue the quote where you will rather offend some petty person rather than a woman*
It's in Chinese but I'm too lazy to type it.
It starts with Ning4 ke2 de2 zui4... yeah yeah yeah all of you should be effectively bilingual so figure it out yourself!
Nyeahhhh ;P

If I don't get any it's okay, I have tons of chocolate anyway :3
Omg I just sounded so loner and loser-ish.
Don't get it wrong.
I am way more cool in person. (not)


I am in a good enough mood today so I am fine with insulting myself.
Don't expect this everyday.

Audience Stats!

I recently discovered that you can track where your pageviews are coming from!!!

And I discovered that the top views come from..... *drumrolls*

Excepting Singapore, my home country (friends visiting and all, with 461 views)....

RUSSIA! With 59 views.
Wow.

I mean, I barely know anything much about Russia but thank you so much, Russia Internet people! :D
(sounding quite retarded here)

And Belgium and Israel, God bless them cos' they're going through bad times now.
I think it's quite awkward if you're surrounded by countries with a strong dominant other faith.

I even get really unique countries like Latavia and Belarus :o

My other blog gets the usual traffic of the US and South Korea, etc.
If only I had some traffic from some far-flung country so I can introduce wonderful products and stuff....
But I guess it's because the target audience is different.

Here's the pic-

Amazing.

Hmmm, maybe my blog is more serious?

Holidays

Wow, seems like blogs are more or less obsolete now.
My last post was in.... July? :/
I have noticed, however, more and more fashion blogs popping up! With divas and princess-y rich people who buy products every other day from famous brands, try them out and write reviews, whether they recommend it and why. Whenever I read such blogs I am always consumed with a green cloud of envy and feel like beating them up-almost! In my mind- (blast you, you rich beings who do not have to suffer like we commoners do! You must look down on us bourgeoise with such pathos!)

On an entirely random note, I recently discovered the adjective of pathos is pathetic. I wouldn't have known they had the same root word. ._.

And I have to do my ELL homework!
Oh wheeee.
*attention span shortens so drastically I cannot bring myself to continue)

Phineas and Ferb are on at 7pm!
I love that show.

Wondering when you'll come back from Thailand. I want my Tom Yum chips.

Dentist of Doom

Hey guys!
Guess WHAT,
I went for my dental appointment yesterday because my teeth have been feeling sensitive of late.
So apparently I have some mutant virus that ate up part of my teeth, but it has been drilled out (yes, seriously, with a teensy drill) and filled up with some sour powdery thingy (I was expecting a filling)
So no more sweets- at least, not so much sweets- for the time being and I should be okay.
But I have to admit I cried halfway, and that I grabbed on to the dentist's hand and wouldn't let go, like a *whisper* ....baby. Ashamed.
I really pray I'm not going back for checkup anytime soon.