!Friday, September 29, 2006
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History Textbook, Chapter 6, page 96, footnotes:
'Ikan bilis is the Malay word for a kind of small fish known as the anchovy.'
!Wednesday, September 27, 2006
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Once upon a time, which was very, very, very long ago, before your great great great great grandmother even had her feet bound, there was a man.
This is plain weird, I can't draw on microsoft paint.
And this man decided to sit under an apple tree, you know, knowing how its all poetic and everything, having a picnic one summer morning, or reading a book, or watching little fishies in the river or whatever.
Let's just pretend he was reading a book, cause that's the only thing I can draw.
And while he was reading his book, let's say it was pride and prejudice, cause I like the cheem name, an apple fell from the tree, and by a matter of pure coincidence (either that, or his head was very big) hit him.
Hard.
But instead of cursing the poor apple,
He thought, 'why do apples fall from trees?'
I suppose it's a question the people then asked themselves over and over again, only to realise that such things are philosophical i.e. they have no known answer. A modern-day version of this question would be 'what is art?' or 'When is Madonna ever going to start acting her age?'
So anyway, back to the story,
Now unlike all the people who had ever though of this question before but just put it off saying 'these questions are philosophical, so therefore we should just all appreciate them as the phenomena they are', Newton sat down and thought.
And thought.
And thought and thought and thought and thought and thought, and I suppose in the meantime, did a lot of experiments.
And he came up with GRAVITY.
And this man is Newton.
So in conclusion, physics is like being hit hard on the head and not knowing what hit you.
And the only reason why Newton understood it was because he knew it was the apple.
!Thursday, September 21, 2006
Actually I predict ten years from now I will have a boring deskbound job and I will stumble across my long-abandoned blog out of boredom and read this, and go, 
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Oh, well imagine,
I predict ttm will one day grow up to be a comedian and make stand up comedy shows. or sitting down ones. Whatever the difference is. Wait, she already is one now.
"I shall go to Robinsons and get the stilts you always wanted!"
I predict in ten years time liz will get married.... to an angmoh! Haha! And she will have a whole lot of Ameri-asian kids who speak in cute accents. And she will dye her hair "in some strange light colour".
I predict shuyi will be an women's-rights extremist.
I predict sze will one day grow so tall we have to stand on a chair to talk to her.
I predict Tricia will be some sort of coporate executive and wear those click-clockety heels, and wear a power suit, and carry a briefcase, and shake her index finger and twirl it around when she's making a point.
And I predict ten years later I will be this super-gorgeous top model with looooong legs and curly shiny hair, and I will have this very fake posh accent but everybody will still love hearing me speak anyway! Well, almost as much as they love seeing me catwalk!
Hah!
Actually I predict ten years from now I will have a boring deskbound job and I will stumble across my long-abandoned blog out of boredom and read this, and go,
"Ha, none of these ever came true, anyway. "
PICTURES!!!
!Sunday, September 17, 2006
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Failing to plan = planning to fail.
Yes, I planning to fail, resigned to fate, whatever.
It's 3:06 PM nice sunny sunday afternoon and I haven't even started my homework, yet alone studying.
OH MY CRAPSICUMS I HAVEN'T EVEN DONE GEOG YET!
!Thursday, September 14, 2006
It's been a long time, no?
Well at least the longest self-imposed hiatus. My, am I proud of myself.
So these past few days I've imposed a 5 minute limit to computer time after I finish my work. So its do work and concentrate and not go to other websites, and then play for 5 minutes.
And my, are these 5 minutes precious.
So I weigh over the choices I have considerably- spend 5 minutes typing a short post, or 5 minutes playing 2 m___ie ma___t games?
Its a philosophical-discussion-worthy question.
And of course m___ie ma___t always wins. Only because those games are crazily addictive, and really really hi-tech cute with all the mini real-life stuff in a very Jap fashion.
And today, I've finally dragged myself our of the suction force of these games to post. And change my blogskin back! The kite one was gross. eurghh.
So back to my hiatus, more m___ie ma___t games, I'll be back here after the exams, or on weekends.
edit/ liz the mean-o is insisting that nat changes all the names of the extremely addictive game to m___ie ma____t so that no one else can find it, play it, and hog up the server so that the orignal gals can't access it.
actually this is what nat says:
Liz is a selfish pig who doesn't want to share the marvels of m___ie ma____t with the internet world. M__ie Lau would be very angry. So would andy lau, who happens to sponsor one of the games, and no, HE'S NOT M___IE LAU'S BROTHER.
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It's been a long time, no?
Well at least the longest self-imposed hiatus. My, am I proud of myself.
So these past few days I've imposed a 5 minute limit to computer time after I finish my work. So its do work and concentrate and not go to other websites, and then play for 5 minutes.
And my, are these 5 minutes precious.
So I weigh over the choices I have considerably- spend 5 minutes typing a short post, or 5 minutes playing 2 m___ie ma___t games?
Its a philosophical-discussion-worthy question.
And of course m___ie ma___t always wins. Only because those games are crazily addictive, and really really hi-tech cute with all the mini real-life stuff in a very Jap fashion.
And today, I've finally dragged myself our of the suction force of these games to post. And change my blogskin back! The kite one was gross. eurghh.
So back to my hiatus, more m___ie ma___t games, I'll be back here after the exams, or on weekends.
edit/ liz the mean-o is insisting that nat changes all the names of the extremely addictive game to m___ie ma____t so that no one else can find it, play it, and hog up the server so that the orignal gals can't access it.
actually this is what nat says:
Liz is a selfish pig who doesn't want to share the marvels of m___ie ma____t with the internet world. M__ie Lau would be very angry. So would andy lau, who happens to sponsor one of the games, and no, HE'S NOT M___IE LAU'S BROTHER.
!Saturday, September 09, 2006
Stolen from yu li.
Tag me if you wish and:
1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll challenge you to try something.
3. I'll pick a colour that I associate with you.
4. I'll tell you something I like about you.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory about you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.
8. You must post this on yours.
yu li
1. Your name directly translated is fishpear! Hah I bet you didn't know that yourself!
2. Grow taller. Haha.
3. Green. Ok this is weird, I dont know why but when I think of you I think green.
4. You design stuff on photoshop well!
5. Erm. I remember a really long time ago, you tagged my blog by linking from liz's blogskins page (I think) then after that we had this whole guessing game of trying to find out who you were!
6. Fish. duh. Pears dont count cause they're not animals.
7. Did your mother like fish, and your father like pears when you were born?
8. Ok you already did. So? Post again! I command you! Cause you're always so free and everything.
sze
1. Crackers and cheese. Ok that's not anything about you, but oh well I can't think of any random thing now.
2. Rebond your hair. And get a fever after that.
3. Orange!
4. You tend to say these really funny things in these really funny voices all the time that really crack me up, omg it's just really darn funny YOU CRACK ME UP!
5. I have two!
The first is the really first one I can think of, when Miss Tan asked us to bring stuff in a box for show and tell, and you took out something orange and you said "Orange is my favourite colour. I just started liking it this year." Or something like that.
The second is one time I was saying something, then suddenly at the end you cut in in this weird cynical metallic voice "sorry no cure." omg even thinking about it now makes me laugh to myself!
6. A chicken. wing.
7. How do you think of such funny last lines all the time?
period
1. You drop by every month.
2. Stop coming!
3. Red.
4. Sometimes I dont need to go for swimming pe at ACJC because of you.
Ok forget it this is weird.
procastination
ditto that too.
andrea
1. You like making jewellery!
2. Erm, grow taller than me, cause we have been the same height for the past two years.
3. Pink
4. Hmm, you've got good taste!
5. This goes a really long way back, I think eight years ago? when we rode the same school bus. omg you're like my oldest friend!
6. er I don't know. Oh, a human! Cause they're animals too!
7. Why you so lucky buy so many clothes one! Unfair!
liana
1. You have golden eyebrows!
2. Try wearing a dress, I've never seen you in a dress before! Haha.
3. Yelliow, my sunshiney friend! OK the politically correct answer
4. You are a really good person to chat to. And the best person to check homework stuff with!
5. Chinaman ponytail
6. A hammerhead shark?
7. Where do our school swimmers go to swim?
melinda
1. Haha you can do accent impersonation well!
2. Sleep at nine every day.
3. ???
4. You always remove the tension by making the whole class laugh.
5. During orientation camp, the 'kick your ass' thing! I can't believe I've become so much more vulgar from then!
6. Monkey lor
7. How do you run so fast?
Okay I'm tired. So the rest I'll do tomorrow.
But I've just thought of something! Liz- you remind me of a baboon! Haha just kidding.
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Stolen from yu li.
Tag me if you wish and:
1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll challenge you to try something.
3. I'll pick a colour that I associate with you.
4. I'll tell you something I like about you.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory about you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.
8. You must post this on yours.
yu li
1. Your name directly translated is fishpear! Hah I bet you didn't know that yourself!
2. Grow taller. Haha.
3. Green. Ok this is weird, I dont know why but when I think of you I think green.
4. You design stuff on photoshop well!
5. Erm. I remember a really long time ago, you tagged my blog by linking from liz's blogskins page (I think) then after that we had this whole guessing game of trying to find out who you were!
6. Fish. duh. Pears dont count cause they're not animals.
7. Did your mother like fish, and your father like pears when you were born?
8. Ok you already did. So? Post again! I command you! Cause you're always so free and everything.
sze
1. Crackers and cheese. Ok that's not anything about you, but oh well I can't think of any random thing now.
2. Rebond your hair. And get a fever after that.
3. Orange!
4. You tend to say these really funny things in these really funny voices all the time that really crack me up, omg it's just really darn funny YOU CRACK ME UP!
5. I have two!
The first is the really first one I can think of, when Miss Tan asked us to bring stuff in a box for show and tell, and you took out something orange and you said "Orange is my favourite colour. I just started liking it this year." Or something like that.
The second is one time I was saying something, then suddenly at the end you cut in in this weird cynical metallic voice "sorry no cure." omg even thinking about it now makes me laugh to myself!
6. A chicken. wing.
7. How do you think of such funny last lines all the time?
period
1. You drop by every month.
2. Stop coming!
3. Red.
4. Sometimes I dont need to go for swimming pe at ACJC because of you.
Ok forget it this is weird.
procastination
ditto that too.
andrea
1. You like making jewellery!
2. Erm, grow taller than me, cause we have been the same height for the past two years.
3. Pink
4. Hmm, you've got good taste!
5. This goes a really long way back, I think eight years ago? when we rode the same school bus. omg you're like my oldest friend!
6. er I don't know. Oh, a human! Cause they're animals too!
7. Why you so lucky buy so many clothes one! Unfair!
liana
1. You have golden eyebrows!
2. Try wearing a dress, I've never seen you in a dress before! Haha.
3. Yelliow, my sunshiney friend! OK the politically correct answer
4. You are a really good person to chat to. And the best person to check homework stuff with!
5. Chinaman ponytail
6. A hammerhead shark?
7. Where do our school swimmers go to swim?
melinda
1. Haha you can do accent impersonation well!
2. Sleep at nine every day.
3. ???
4. You always remove the tension by making the whole class laugh.
5. During orientation camp, the 'kick your ass' thing! I can't believe I've become so much more vulgar from then!
6. Monkey lor
7. How do you run so fast?
Okay I'm tired. So the rest I'll do tomorrow.
But I've just thought of something! Liz- you remind me of a baboon! Haha just kidding.
!Thursday, September 07, 2006
I'm driving myself nuts.
Math probability ws
Math number patterms ws (which has somehow mysteriously vanished in the vortex of the space-time continium of my schoolbag)
Geog Assignment
Smileyface yilunwen
English oral
Damn I hate my life. But what I hate even more about it is my best friend. Shall I tell you about my best friend?
His (why, best friends cannot be opposite sex is it?) name starts with 'p', sticks around a lot especially when I get moody and have a lot of homework. And hangs around a lot during holidays.
No, not period lah!
It's PROCASTINATION.
So today I'm going to put a stop to all of this! I'm going to finish all the homework today! TODAYYYYYEE!
Yay, I feel so motivated. It's the typing therapy. Yay me.
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I'm driving myself nuts.
Math number patterms ws (which has somehow mysteriously vanished in the vortex of the space-time continium of my schoolbag)
Geog Assignment
English oral
Damn I hate my life. But what I hate even more about it is my best friend. Shall I tell you about my best friend?
His (why, best friends cannot be opposite sex is it?) name starts with 'p', sticks around a lot especially when I get moody and have a lot of homework. And hangs around a lot during holidays.
No, not period lah!
It's PROCASTINATION.
So today I'm going to put a stop to all of this! I'm going to finish all the homework today! TODAYYYYYEE!
Yay, I feel so motivated. It's the typing therapy. Yay me.
!Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Ok let's change this hiatus into a semi-hiatus. I'll only blog on Wednesdays! Why? Because today is a wednesday lor!
Shall I tell you how I got my name (NATALIE)?
Once upon a time, a looooooong time ago, back when there were still black and white films and agogo at discos and bata shoes were cool, my mum and dad were dating. And they went to see a movie (which is what couples normally do, right?) and they saw....
Wowza! Chio, right?
The one in the centre lah!
She's called Natalie Wood.
Yes, it's a black and white image, because EVERYTHING WAS BLACK AND WHITE THEN, remember?
So anyway my dad couldn't stop staring and my mum slapped him hard on the cheek with a stinky salmon fish.
Just kidding.
My parents thought she was heck-a-lotta pretty and thought:
Hmmm, maybe if we name our daughter after her, she will be just as pretty!
But unfortunately, when daughter was born, to their horrid surprise, she was ten times uglier, ten times less glamourous, ten times less photogenic etc., but on the plus-side, TEN TIMES YOUNGER!
Which is quite sad to note, that most parents would probably name their children after someone who has made a great contribution to the society, like Thomas Tan after Thomas Edison or Benjamin after Benjamin Franklin or something like that.
Hmm, Marie Curie Wong doesn't sound all that bad.
But I got named after an ACTRESS! And my mum didn't even know the meaning of the name before she named me, which now we know means gift of Christmas or something like that.
Roar. How superficial.
But anyway I googled her yesterday, she was a noteworthy actress who apparently she died more than 20 years ago. And died quite young. Tragic.
At least I got named after a good actress. Yay for me.
Now how did you get your name?
edit
While researching for my yilunwen oral thingy I found this. And it's really quite true. So read.
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Ok let's change this hiatus into a semi-hiatus. I'll only blog on Wednesdays! Why? Because today is a wednesday lor!
Shall I tell you how I got my name (NATALIE)?
Once upon a time, a looooooong time ago, back when there were still black and white films and agogo at discos and bata shoes were cool, my mum and dad were dating. And they went to see a movie (which is what couples normally do, right?) and they saw....
Wowza! Chio, right?
The one in the centre lah!
She's called Natalie Wood.
Yes, it's a black and white image, because EVERYTHING WAS BLACK AND WHITE THEN, remember?
So anyway my dad couldn't stop staring and my mum slapped him hard on the cheek with a stinky salmon fish.
Just kidding.
My parents thought she was heck-a-lotta pretty and thought:
Hmmm, maybe if we name our daughter after her, she will be just as pretty!
But unfortunately, when daughter was born, to their horrid surprise, she was ten times uglier, ten times less glamourous, ten times less photogenic etc., but on the plus-side, TEN TIMES YOUNGER!
Which is quite sad to note, that most parents would probably name their children after someone who has made a great contribution to the society, like Thomas Tan after Thomas Edison or Benjamin after Benjamin Franklin or something like that.
Hmm, Marie Curie Wong doesn't sound all that bad.
But I got named after an ACTRESS! And my mum didn't even know the meaning of the name before she named me, which now we know means gift of Christmas or something like that.
Roar. How superficial.
But anyway I googled her yesterday, she was a noteworthy actress who apparently she died more than 20 years ago. And died quite young. Tragic.
At least I got named after a good actress. Yay for me.
Now how did you get your name?
edit
While researching for my yilunwen oral thingy I found this. And it's really quite true. So read.
!Monday, September 04, 2006
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HIATUS.
Back after EOYs!
Which is like a really long time away, but whatever.
!Saturday, September 02, 2006
Johore's the only place for a weekend vacation if you need to be back for church on Sunday
So on teacher's day, where the whole world spends their time slaving over homework as a mark of respect for the nurturers and guides of tomorrow's leaders, we troop of to Johore for, well, fun!
It's a great place, really.
Food's really good and reasonable, if you go there you should really try the seafood because in our tiny pimple-of-an-island-on-the-face-of-the-earth Singapore the only thing we catch are puny shrimp and ikan bilis. But over here, everything's mammoth, crabs especially. Oh, and the D24 durians. Hey, they sell durians by the durian, not by the packet with clingwrap bound around and hawked by the loud-yelling uncle.
You can swim too! We swam a lot at the resort, and as my mother says, 'Home pool don't want to use, must come here to swim harh?'
Or you can bowl. Not that I really know how to bowl, but there's always a first time, or first gutter, for everything right?
Bowling, as I have realised today, it's a lot about concentration. As well as about germs and bacteria in the finger-holes of those free-for-all bowling balls, and stinky rented shoes.
And you can also watch TV!
Woah! Channel 8 also got!
And you can blow bubble gum, and wonder why we never get to do that in Singapore...
Darryl's the only one among us who can blow a proper bubble, and he's very proud of it.
And last but not least, you can SHOP!
We went to some new shopping complex (it's a complex cause it's huge!) recommended by Amelia (thanks, girl!) called Terbrau City I think. Something like that.
The sales there were REALLY GOOD. No, really, really good. And they have esprit mango topshop elle guess levis dorothy perkins there! All under one roof! So yeah I bought a lot of stuff *girlish giggles*.
So yeah, remember, go to Johore!
Malaysia, truly Asia!
Yeargh, I sound like those cheesy travel agency tour girls.
Oh yeah, and while in Johore I learnt a new game! It's some two lies and one truth game, where someone tells two lies and one truth, and you have to guess the truth!
So guess this!
Story 1: Once when we were in IKEA about three years back, we saw Jaime Yeo (the DJ) shopping for carpets.
Story 2: I love eating olives on pizzas, but the smell of olives on their own gives me a headache.
Story 3: I used to love Mary Kate and Ashley books a lot, so once when we were moving house my mum and I went to Popular and I bought a whole lot of Mary Kate and Ashley books, and I read them all on the first day.
So guess! Which one is the truth, and which two others are plain in-your-face lies?
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Johore's the only place for a weekend vacation if you need to be back for church on Sunday
So on teacher's day, where the whole world spends their time slaving over homework as a mark of respect for the nurturers and guides of tomorrow's leaders, we troop of to Johore for, well, fun!
It's a great place, really.
Food's really good and reasonable, if you go there you should really try the seafood because in our tiny pimple-of-an-island-on-the-face-of-the-earth Singapore the only thing we catch are puny shrimp and ikan bilis. But over here, everything's mammoth, crabs especially. Oh, and the D24 durians. Hey, they sell durians by the durian, not by the packet with clingwrap bound around and hawked by the loud-yelling uncle.
You can swim too! We swam a lot at the resort, and as my mother says, 'Home pool don't want to use, must come here to swim harh?'
Or you can bowl. Not that I really know how to bowl, but there's always a first time, or first gutter, for everything right?
Bowling, as I have realised today, it's a lot about concentration. As well as about germs and bacteria in the finger-holes of those free-for-all bowling balls, and stinky rented shoes.
And you can also watch TV!
Woah! Channel 8 also got!
And you can blow bubble gum, and wonder why we never get to do that in Singapore...
Darryl's the only one among us who can blow a proper bubble, and he's very proud of it.
And last but not least, you can SHOP!
We went to some new shopping complex (it's a complex cause it's huge!) recommended by Amelia (thanks, girl!) called Terbrau City I think. Something like that.
The sales there were REALLY GOOD. No, really, really good. And they have esprit mango topshop elle guess levis dorothy perkins there! All under one roof! So yeah I bought a lot of stuff *girlish giggles*.
So yeah, remember, go to Johore!
Malaysia, truly Asia!
Yeargh, I sound like those cheesy travel agency tour girls.
Oh yeah, and while in Johore I learnt a new game! It's some two lies and one truth game, where someone tells two lies and one truth, and you have to guess the truth!
So guess this!
Story 1: Once when we were in IKEA about three years back, we saw Jaime Yeo (the DJ) shopping for carpets.
Story 2: I love eating olives on pizzas, but the smell of olives on their own gives me a headache.
Story 3: I used to love Mary Kate and Ashley books a lot, so once when we were moving house my mum and I went to Popular and I bought a whole lot of Mary Kate and Ashley books, and I read them all on the first day.
So guess! Which one is the truth, and which two others are plain in-your-face lies?