slept most of my weekend away.
oh wait.
elisa got baptized on saturday 24th march :)
yupp!
yuhua studied with me at the airport today.
been long enough that we havent held a PROPER conversation.
come to think of it, i havent really been in touch with quite a number of people i got to know (more of) last year.
like...
MS HA!
weiqi the home ec teacher
tessa sherwin and ben devey the mountain climbers.
wei wei and yingsi the roomies..
zhengyi
edlyn
nick derek pierson
(and i just contacted johnny!)
ok.. it's getting rather long this list.
rather.
anyway, i was on my way to the mrt station when i met dad. so i got him to give me a ride to the airport. yay. then i got him to go for dinner (so he could pay).
oh yes he paid. uh.. actually i wanted to go to swensens.
but but but. he doesn't like swensens food.
we ALMOST ate at the food court, but i found sakae sushi on the way.
so we ate there!! wooohoooo!!!
hahaha sorry im gg crazy. yeah. so i went to macs after a full dinner at sakae.
cheers.
got back 20 minutes ago.
i'd been suffering for six hours prior to that.
i don't care what mark thinks of who i am cuz he doesn't even know who i am therefore he'd have a skewed and contorted idea of who i am but who i am doesn't matter to him and what he thinks of who i am doesn't matter to me. cause if im coming back EARLY tomorrow, i wouldn't have to see his face ever again. if we're coming back LATE, good. we'll work hard. even if it means bearing with his "OH MY GAWD, I SWEAR!" or his "DON'T LET ME HEAR THAT" or his "OH GAWD, IM NOT GONNA ANSWER THAT". pmsing peranakan.
evergreen's going down tmr.
i hope.
surprises:
i found a bar of hershey's cookies and cream under my desk this morning!! thank you jenny was really touched!! :D
someone got famous amos cookies! though they havent been delivered yet cause i wasnt at my usual cosy corner today!
a certain troubled someone who doesnt usually sms me smsed me -- was quite surprised.
shocks:
i was alone in class after sch, trying to complete my homework in silence when julian jump out from behind me and gave me a terrible heart attack.
i got hit in the eye and my lense got shifted into the socket part till only a quarter of it could be seen. i was uber scared cause hard lenses can tear the cornea. was terribly painful.
better not mention the other thing that happened. way way WAY too embarrassing.
i did morning devotion today and it wasnt as bad as i'd expected - BY GOD'S GRACE. the last time i shared during assembly i was trembling real bad.
xinzai insisted that her head is bigger than a basketball.
well friday's our third jg db8! feel the nervous energy!!
ciao!
we were supposed to write a chinese argumentative essay over the holidays.. i didn't do it luh.
but it wasnt intentional. i completely forgot abt it.
anyway, it was about how peopl dub the young people in this generation as "cao3 mei2 zu2" cao mei as in strawberry -- good looking on the outside, but in actually fact, sour and useless. it has this implication that we are softies who break down easily and cannot overcome obstacles. ZU meaning group. like hua zu (chinese group) and yin du zu (indian group).
so i wrote whenever the teacher wasn't talking and i asked xinzi for help cause she's from higher chinese (im from lower chinese. whatever you wanna call it). and apparently, there was sthg wrong with my pronunciation.
xinzai: cao3 mei2 zhu1?? strawberry pig?? wha that's bloody TWIT luh!!!
haha then she put on this american accent.
"what's that. is that.. *intellectual pause* strawberry heads? *intelllectual pause* or is that.. *intellectual pause* people who PLUCK strawberries for a living? *intellectual pause* or is that strawberries with legs who run around the place?"
actually the second guess was pretty intellectual right?
i would've thought that too.
ok or maybe it's not a very intellectual guess and im not a very intellectual guesser. *shrugs*
i didn't do slip shod work though. i thought through all my points carefully for that compo and wrote THREE PAGES!! i am CERTAIN that i've not hit complete two pages in more than a year. seriously. fruit was a great help. eh but i came up with the points myself! oh si liang helped me a bit too. (the one who emceed in chinese for grad ceremony and chinese new year)
anw, i bathed without turing on the heater just now cause i forgot.
first thing i thought: COLD WATER!!!
second thing i thought: VASOCONSTRICTION!!!
couldn't think of a third thing cause i had brain freeze and i turned off the shower.
thought for a few seconds and realised i couldn't remember anything else about homeostasis in cold temperatures other than increased metabolism.
DIE!
my confidence level drops down to way below negative.
you wanna hear me shut up, see me at debate.
goodness.
me and debate? love-hate relationship.
or maybe it's mark.
im just praying that i'll digest this week's motion really really well.
here's a little bio revision for you. dont read the italics if you're a smart bio nerd who needs no revision.
carbo is first broken down to maltose in the mouth
by salivary amylase.
nothng happens to it inthe stomach because of the acidity in gastric juice.
it is next further broken down in the small intestine to glucose by intestinal juices which contain
1) surace
2) maltase
3) lactase
ok so much for revision.
somebody over there seems to be having mood swings today.
and the other person over there.. sometimes i wis
what i'd really like now is to get back a test result that has a near perfect score.
and i wanna know that i worked hard for it.
shucks luh. God help me stay focused on the right things.
if you're reading this sms me to ask me how i am. unless you are more than twice my age.
i made a new friend today.
her name's wendy.
i think she's really cool.
RGS to RJC. and she took her os to get into RJ mind you.
she speaks really well, perfect complexion, tall fair, friendly.
elite?
well, this week's been like sour milk.
plain, boring, sour.... yet a little sweet.
is sour milk a little sweet?
met nic the zulu at the house of bread so he could write in selene's card -- i hope she likes it!-- and help me post it. don't know if it's a good thing, but this is one of the nicest (maybe even the nicest) card i've made woots!!
ciao.
i just smsed zai to study with me again tmr.
and the result?
she thinks im very suspicious as i have a sudden interest to go out with her.
XIN ZAI!!! ii heart euux!
twittish fettish.
RIAA's clamming down on students in us who download music from the internet.
dudes that's SO not gonna work.
eventually these pirates (like ms airstewardesswannabe) will outfox the system, find new loopholes and start distributing free music again.
and the cycle continues. it will never end! the internet is such a vast entity that no man nor organisation nor government will be able to have full control over it. agree? shut up plmgs girl.
im going crazy luh.
part of zai diffused into me.
here's something funnny that happened at burger king.
elisa hands over jeremy's english handout to xinzai for her to read this uber funny part on proper pronunciation:
bill gave jack a big slap
bill gave jack a big slab (of meat)
as zai was reading, elisa accidentally kicks zai's leg.
"OW!!" went xin zai.
elisa looked at her.
"i meant my leg.. not the worksheet"
OUR MSN CONVO
xinzi says:
i bet you'll just come at 8
xinzi says:
and do weird things at my hse, like slp on my bed or something to irk me.
elisa! HOW IS SELENE DOING? says:
hahahahhahahha!! goodness you make me sound disgustingly repulsive.
xinzi says:
aren't you?
xinzi says:
x.X
xinzi says:
okay, i shan't ramble incessantly on and on
xinzi says:
just wanted to let you knw tht, you shan't come at 8!
xinzi says:
hahaha, 9am pls.
xinzi says:
thanks
elisa! HOW IS SELENE DOING? says:
oh my goodness you're trying to sound cheem again
xinzi says:
that's so ME isn't it?
xinzi says:
urm, can you pls bring along the prized Chibas and clarice's box.
xinzi says:
THANKS.
elisa! HOW IS SELENE DOING? says:
hahahha! you sound vulgar
after the debate on friday, this girl left her chibapros in a hushpuppies shoe box on a stool at market 85. she didn't realise it till i was already at home. so i changed outta the suffocating student council attire and ran all the way to 85 (i made in in two minutes +-!)
fortunately, by God's grace they were still there.
have a good nite's rest darlings!
did i mention that ivee said i looked like an scgs girl??
whahaha.. that can either be very good or very bad.
anyway, this week was exhausting.
i was struggling with chem and physics on wed as we had chem and physics tests on thursday.
on thursday, if the two tests weren't draining enough, i had to rush for tuition straight after school. was uber tired. could hardly stay awake.
and IF THAT WASN"T BAD ENOUGH, i had debate after that.
afraid that id fall asleep and not wake up for debate, i decided to go to xinzai's place after tution.
so we left for mark's place after that.
debate ended at ten plus? dead beat.
i couldn't do anything when i reached home.. not even study for the next day's a math test which covered two chapters that i was poor in.
i prayed, surrendered everything to God and went to bed.
FRIDAY
i woke up with a slightly sore throat, feeling very lethargic.
it was 7am, i checked my phone, xinzi said she wasnt gg to sch and asked me if i was going.
i immediately sat up -- GOOOD IDEA!!
mummy came in and i asked her if i could go to school later. so she wrote me an excuse letter.
THEN XINZAI SMSED ME SAYING SHE WAS OUTTA THE HOUSE AND GG TO SCH.
i went back to sleep.
woke up at eight plus, washed up and got daddy to send me to the house of bread when i did math till twelve and headed to sch.
yuhua reckoned i might as well not have gone to sch at all.
but (1) i wanted to get the math test over and done with and (2) i had to debate later so i can't miss school YET be well enough to debate.. makes no sense rite?
really thanked God for the extra rest i had and the extra time i had to study for math.
another thing to thank God for is that the test wasnt' as bad as i expected.. it was pretty alright. hope my marks will reflect that. really thank God for that.
THBT harsh punishments is the best way to deal with juvenile crime. (opp)
by God's grace we won!! unanimous.
by His grace i didn't break down!! (in fact i thought i would have dont worse!!)
motivation to win the third round!
victory tastes so so sweet. really really thankful for that because the team was feeling so unprepared before that. Mark had lost his temper at us two hours before the debate and left us alone. (good thing he came back). we were afraid the possibility of a policy debate. I was terrified of a policy debate because i as the first speaker bore the most responsibility in bringing the policy down - which i had ZERO confidence in. when the prop set up their case i was screaming for joy inside myself thank you God!!
reminiscing the days when we won round after round with aurelia, blackie and gerbil.
when we had dinner at cafe cartel after our first win and i had to rush home for midnight movie with my family.
when we always had dinner together after the debates and only reached home at midnight.
and those days with geraldine when we were in a division.
when we debated against cat high.
i remember fengyao acting so seh, everyone wore their blazers but halfway thru the debate the took his off. and geraldine was crazy over him. (refer to pictures above. they were taken two years back)
top: shaun fengyao and some other dude.
bottom: some other dude speaking. look closely at the blackie in the background. looks like daniel selvakumar rite? cant see very clearly though. on the far right would be feng yao.
gnite!
"he's quite cute eh?"
"omg, liar!! he's fat and old and balding!"
"no, quite hot wad. he looks super young la."
"LIAR!! omg..anyway, he says thanks for the compliments"
"huh! goodness you told him?? what if he thinks i like him?? tell him that i have a boyfriend that i don't intend to break up with. tell him im married or something!!!"
*roar.
well her dad gave me, shui and kimberly a ride to the station from mark's.
speaking of which, last saturday when i was walking home from somehwhere near kev's, it started raining!!!
so i ran to the dome shaped thing in the playground which apparently wasn't really much of a shelter because it didn't have a proper roof. but thank goodness there was something i could hide under while the rain got heavier. i dialed kev on him mobile TWICE and he didn't answer!
so i called his house and sarah picked up. (and she passed the phone to hm)
"ehwhyneverpickupthephone??imoutsideyourhouseimcaughtintherainineedanumbrella!!!!"
"huh? ok ok lemme akljhfsiuvn give me five minutes ok?"
"kk bye!" *i hang up*
tick
tock
tick
tock.
five.. six.. seven mintues.
the rain had died down a little.
RING RING**
"yes?"
"whrer are you?"
"outside your house!"
"oh my dad wants to send you home"
"huh?? no need luh!!"
"he insists"
"no luh.. cannot"
"he insists, quick can you see his car?"
"the silver one?"
blah blahblah...
and he sends me home.
ohman. kev's dad's uber nice luh!
sigh. so paiseh.
anyway, i just realised not too long ago that i'd just eaten either duck tongue or kidney.
i didn't know what i was eating when i ate.
it was some preserved thing that daddy coerced mr into trying.
and it was only AFTER id eaten it that i found out what the wrapping said.
there were two -dunno which i was given.
but i think it was the tongue.
then i looked at the kidney wrapping.
"at least i got the tongue"
then mummy said "uhm, actually when they say duck tongue, they don't really mean the tongue. it's the pancreas"
GOODNESS.
YUCK YUCK YUCK!!!
UBER GROSS!!!!!
1) the twelve apostles. 2005. me andrew jeremy3) me andrew
4) cowan block. (corridor)
5) outside the caves
6) chiangrai CIP group
7) girls after painting and teaching
8)so cute rite.
anyway, caleb and i went to feed the little cat today.
(the brown and white one that jake wanted to get milk for)
it's really lovable!! but it's picky - refused to take the milk :'(
then there was this other one.. blackish. it's got this blur face and huge eyes that stare into yours.. and it's very shy. sweet lil thing.
ok im going crazy.
so guess who i saw today?
whahaha mr hot-neighbour-whom-zhengyi-and-yuhua-do-not-think-is-cute-at-all. eh not a himbo k. he's uber smart. RI then RJC. ah see. how many people can do that?
yes im positively crazy.
direct entry to any and every uni in the world?
eh that's pretty cool.
i wonder if aileen was really the one mentioned in the article. cause then God must be smiling from above as everyone rejoices.. i dont know how to put it in words.. but it must be quite a picture.
aileen's been a great blessing to everyone even to the kids at cambodia im sure. to see God's love being poured out from her as well - uber cool! (in fact way way better than that!)