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2007-10-19T23:41:00.000-07:00

MOVED.

xanga.com/farfromfantastic

I have finally managed to twiddle around with the xanga codes to get some sort of a new webpage going. Wow, now I'm off to doing something revolutionary. Start and end a three-day water war. Shave my head. Study math.

Please link or subscribe!

2007-10-17T04:12:00.000-07:00

So where do we go from now?

I can't say myself that I'm really happy with my results (especially math, maybe slightly mep and lit too). But I think I'm satisfied generally judging by the less-than-copious hours I spent studying (on average I spent more time on the computer). And math, as I predicted, was pretty messy messy messy.

But whatever, there's still next year and O levels and I swear I'm going to come in everyday high on Brands Chicken Essence (pretty potent stuff) and sleep at unearthly hours studying. Thought not now, I'm suffering from exam fatigue.

P.S. I found out what kept me awake for the whole night till 6 am before bio. I drank a whole mug of this malaysia white-coloured coffee- that little wonder in a satchet works better than Red Bull.

Holidays are Europe and job attachment. Pretty excited. And at this moment I will insert a well-meant smiley (:

2007-10-14T00:00:00.000-07:00

BRUSSELS (AFP) - A baby girl was born over the Sahara desert during the night aboard a Brussels Airlines flight from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Belgium, the company said in a statement Friday.

Baby Daniella -- named after the co-pilot for the Kinshasa-Brussels flight -- "is doing fine thanks to the help of two doctors who happened to be aboard as well as the crew," the statement said.
A 31-year-old Congolese woman, who was not identified, gave birth to the child at around 0200 GMT as the Airbus A330-300 was flying over the Sahara.

"Given the absence of any nearby airport, the birth took place aboard," the company said.
Mother and child were taken to hospital on arrival in Brussels.

"Flight SN352, therefore, had 233 passengers aboard on departure and 234 on arrival," the statement ended.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071012/od_afp/belgiumdrcongotraveloffbeat_071012132728

Haha don't these lucky people get free airplane rides for the rest of their lives or something? I remember saying something recently about how if I was an expectant mother I would loiter around Gucci or something then rush in when I'm about to give birth, and I will get free Gucci bags for life!

Gucci Wong.
Salvatore Ferragamo Wong.
Louis Vuitton-Wong. LV Wong! Haha.

Tell me that I'm so superficial materialistic blah blah but you have to make sacrifices for the happiness of your child-to-be right?

Then I would purposely give birth to quintiplets like on the hallowed polished marble floors of Gucci. Whoohoo my five kids will have a lifetime supply of Gucci-ware!

Enough of my fake musings, I'm actually secretly bored at home and reading all these breaking news on Yahoo! so SURPRISE ME BY ASKING ME TO GO SOMEWHERE PLZZZZ! (yes I'm so desperate I'm resolving to lian language. Touched?)

Anyway on thursday me jacq aud and sze went out for fun and we ended up killing our poor feet walking into some really out-of-the-way place Mandarin something for audrey's tights!

And on friday we finally had a 4+4 gathering with all eight of us! I haven't seen/talked to the NJ people in such a long time, it was a very pleasant day (: (Even you, tricia, although I'd hate to admit it. Haha)

Very shaky pictures from the very arthritic Sarah. Thanks! And szee I owe you pictures can I send them to your email? Cause my msn is down. Again.

Is tomorrow on?

2007-10-10T03:04:00.000-07:00

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It's over! (My exams and my 14th year and practically the rest of my life)

Yes so anyway today was my chinese paper which I think I pretty much screwed up but anyway who really cares because it was my birthday on 9th october! Which is a very special day because it's the only day I can get my brother to do the dishes and peel the skin off my gourmet vine-ripened green grapes and serenade a birthday song with the violins, trombone, banjo and bongo drums all at once!

None of that really came true anyway but I did get something from he-who-~~must-not-be-named~~-is-in-the-girls-are-icky-phrase! I got a .... ... (are you ready for this?) BIRTHDAY HANDSHAKE! (In all its pseudo-authencity and fake sentiment).

Thanks to all the people who wished me happy birthday too! And sze and audrey for the presents! And those who tolerated all my I-want-a-range-of-technicolour-volkswagens-to-match-my-sock-colours-for-my-birthday nonsense.

2007-09-30T00:36:00.001-07:00

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TOMORROW!

2007-08-23T05:57:00.000-07:00

I hate math I hate trigo I hate doing corrections I hate losing my 0.38 signo ball black pen with the super fine tip I hate the people on the bus who always take up the aisle seat even though there's no one sitting at the window seat.

I'm on a non-computer phase until my birthday (9 October, a purple Volkswagen Beetle would be nice) which is coincidentally on the day of my A math paper. Sometimes I think someone up there is fooling around with the celestial calendar to annoy the hell out of me.

After the exams I'm going to go crazy and sleep at five in the morning, read Tintin comics all over again and play super mario on my brother's gameboy until I save the princess peach (or prudence, or pastry, or petticoat, whatever her name is) or until my fingers peel off, whichever happens first. And then I will race around the new F1 tracks in Singapore with my shiny spanking new purple volkswagen (that someone will graciously provide as a birthday present).

So I'm officially not updating till my exams are over. Have fun!

2007-08-11T02:13:00.000-07:00

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Happy National Day!

If you're an average, schoolgoing kid like me, you've probably got shitloads of homework to do for the long weekends.

And if you're an average, schoolgoing kid like me, you probably haven't done any of it yet.

Cheers.

2007-08-08T07:24:00.000-07:00

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Dear Liana,

You're a sleepy sheepish shnubbly-wubbly sauerkraut.

Just kidding, HAPPY BIRTHDAY. (P.S. I hope you liked your not-so-surprising surprise!)

2007-07-28T04:52:00.000-07:00

Japan Hour (which is what I'm watching now) is quite amusing. The unearthly, primitive (ew) sounds they make when they're sampling some exotic Japanese food! And the way they talk really fast in Japanese.

Guy 1:" seshun ilikso nichiro meso haikin oia oga obitorira oomsedesdo pingaraelo dfnsdjlfnzjsdfng xdfg ncmfnclbf mnb gnbx.f, flfnbm.c x gn/n gmfgfc (blah blah blah) ... ooooooohhga!"

Guy 1 eats the tabiruto niesosusame ichibouriatessema nairotoahago (which I believe is just the long Japanese name for blowfish)

Guy 1: "mmmmm! ooooohhhhgaa! ooommmmm! woooaaaoohhhh!"

They are so cute, they can even make eating blowfish (which is supposed to be lethal) fun. ~~These people keep me smiling (:~~ Icky I can't stand my cutesy writing nowadays. But I can't help it! The way they smile makes me happy inside!

Anyway today we had the very last ISO meeting. One day I will miss those tedious hours spent poring over copious data, the draggy meetings in the freezing library, the annoying weather console and how we had to check it every week.... but that day is probably not going to be anytime soon.

And after that- lunch with NASA at Pepper Lunch at Taka, I went home early like I always do.

(P.S. Japan Hour is back on again! The way they cry and sigh over fresh fish at the market- it's like they are seeing shining visions from the stars above or something. I love that show).

2007-07-22T06:25:00.000-07:00

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B.O.B.

I didn't really enjoy it much but the acs barker band was good.

And I can't believe I forgot to bring my camera to Ballet Under The Stars!

stinky nat. ):

2007-07-14T07:17:00.000-07:00

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Fitness woes.

I tried, I swear!

Yesterday I finally heaved my lazy ass off the computer chair, uncovered my rotting running shoes and took a jog around my condo area. Of course the last time I've ever been so crazy to do this (and actually do it on a regular basis) was six months ago.

If this was a good day six months ago (i.e. bright shiny sun, chirpy singing birds, no exhaust fumes and random joggers cheering you on) I could have covered a reasonable, decent distance before my legs give out, I see a glowing light and I think I'm going to heaven. Now I can only make it to half that reasonable, decent distance. Which makes me unreasonable and indecent. Great.

Well, come to think about it, I could have covered the whole path-that is, if I was strapped on a wheelchair hallucinating and spasming with a glucose drip and those weird electric shock paddles.

I need to do something about my personal fitness! Or I stand at a high risk of dying of a heart attack before I turn 15. And I probably consume so much peanut butter that I'll have a Skippy mascot dancing in my funeral.

EEEEP.

2007-07-11T01:16:00.000-07:00

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You know you're going to fail your "O" oral exam, and thus destroy your future because:

1. You laugh when you stumble over some incomprehensible chinese word.
2. The examiners look like twin bulldogs. And that's when they're smiling.
3. You accidentally confuse the chinese word for 'violent' with the chinese word for 'sexual' and you say it out loud.
4. You jumble up random words to form four chinese characters that sound reasonably like an ancient confucian proverb, and you say it like you mean it.
5. You stick out your tongue seven times in all across the whole passage.
6. Your eyebrows seem to have taken a life of their own. They go up and down and then they fall off your face and dance across the table and do a tango on the examiner's lap.
7. You freak out. In English.
8. YOUR NAME IS NATALIE WONG SING YEE.

Ok that's it. I'm going to clown school.

2007-07-01T04:44:00.000-07:00

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Hello!

I haven't updated for so long. Thanks to the fact that I still haven't kicked the horrible habit of procastination (gosh I sound like I'm doing drugs) I have major loads of undone homework that I have to finish by tuesday so this youth holiday was basically a stagnant week.

So much for celebrating youth and vitality, I swear I'm getting wrinkles from doing math homework already.

sin, cos, tan? Can someone please illustrate to me since when did they decide to use Singaporean sirnames for trigonometogery (sp?)

Anyway yesterday was spent at Holland V with liz and tricia (happy birthday to them both, whenever it is). I miss them loads! The money-borrowing (haha), gossip, wacking each other. I miss last year ):

I think I'm going to fail my bio test. But I'm not going to think about that now, because I have this theory that thinking of bad stuff gives you wrinkles. That's why old people are pessimistic and can predict the weather.

No prizes for guessing what book this is!

Ok its 8 pm, time for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban so see you!

2007-06-22T07:23:00.000-07:00

Of life, love (not really), jiggly thighs and oreo milkshakes.
Just kidding, I wanted a nostalgic title.

For anyone who wants to know what happened to my phone-

My almost-new upmarket Nokia music phone in a lovely minimalist Zen purist white and grey, pristinely spotless, scratchless and newly-bought!

What can I say- it got smashed in my bag, and now there's a huge unfixable blip splattered across the screen- I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that it's actually an undecodable message from Mars, instead of an LCD screen crack.

DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO GET IT FIXED!

And other random pictures:

Yes, this is another of my I'm-trying-to-act-artistic-with-a-bulky-camera-in-my-hands-wandering-in-some-fairytale-fairground-when-in-fact-its-only-escape-theme-park-with-a-digital-camera phases.

2007-06-08T03:53:00.000-07:00

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I cracked my phone's LCD screen today, I swear I will die from cancer from all those radioactive waves from this eerie light its emitting if my mom doesn't kill me first.

2007-06-05T06:46:00.000-07:00

^^

Happy days

I was dying in physics prac, spilled oil over myself hundreds of times- I'm a very slimy girl. But afterwards- Bakerzin! It made my day.

FOOD

Creeeeepy.

Yes, we were aping the miu miu/lindsay lohan ad. I look disgusting.

Coolio sliding doors at paragon toilets.

Then we went to Heeren! Neoprints, walking around doing random stuff, getting shop salespeople pissed off:

Neoprints!

And some pictures on the way.

We left at night, got home to limp roti prata with oil slick curry. Not exactly the ideal ending, but a fun day nevertheless.

And today I learnt some basic photoshop! Thanks to julia and audrey, who I'm sure got quite irritated with my pesky questions in the com lab. Nothing fantastic, I think your just like switch colours and filter, saturate blah blah blah fix things up, brush stuff (?). I have no idea how you technophiles get these sort of things, I'd rather stick to maggiemarket for the rest of my technology-deficient life, thankyouverymuch.

I think its annoying how MEP ~~geeks~~ girls like myself miss out on one whole year of home econs (FOODDDD!!!). I swear if like ten years down the road I can't cook some exotic foreign food and therefore cannot hitch some rich expatriate, I WILL BLAME MEP! Or photoshop myself pretty for some online dating agency.

I mean, us MEPians will miss out on neccessary life skills crucial for future! If we don't find jobs as concert pianists we will DIE A PAINFUL DEATH!

CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT MEP IS COSTING US, MY LIFE IS AT STAKE! Ok I take that back, I love MEP, ardous hours composing songs and falling asleep while classical music is being played and all.

2007-06-01T21:18:00.001-07:00

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For my convenience, and maybe yours (if you take lit):

Semester 1 break holiday assignment for English Literature (Pure and Elective)

Your non-negotiable deadline is the first Friday, June 29 2007 when school reopens. You must turn it in no later than 12 noon on this Friday.

Remember that the week we return is an even week and is supposed to be W4 of T3.I know it’s confusing, but you’ll get round it, I’m sure.

ALL YOUR WORK MUST BE HANDWRITTEN. PLEASE REMEMBER TO LEAVE A RIGHT MARGIN. YOU MAY USE BLANK, WHITE, A4 SIZE PAPER TO COMPLETE THE TABLE.

Please read the following short stories in Island Voices.
‘The Martyrdom Of Helena Rodrigues’ – by Stella Kon
‘Evening Under Frangipani’ – Philip Jayeratnam
‘A Dream of China’ – by Ovidia Yu

1) A quiz on these stories will be held when the semester reopens.
2) Answer this essay question in full:
a. In what ways does the writer make you feel sympathy for Prakash in ‘Evening Under Frangipani’? How far do you think it is effective?
3) Draw a table of similarities and differences, always giving evidence, between the main female character in both ‘The Matyrdorm of Helena Rodrigues’ and ‘Evening Under Frangipani’. Do the same for the male characters. When you are done, determine what message the author is trying to convey to the reader.

It took me three years of doing lit before it finally dawned on me that I have the analytical power of a peanut.

Homework
Physics tys, ws
Social studies SBQ
Lit
Chinese
Math paper
Bio research
Study for chem test

I'm going to have this staring at my face every time I read my blog so my guilty conscience will provoke me to get my lazy ass off the oh-too-comfortable computer chair and start working.

For the last three years and counting, I've reserved my holiday homework for the last three days of mad scrambling. This year, it's going to be different!

I feel empowered! I'm going to start today!

Ok, maybe tomorrow. Saturday is a rest day. Everybody knows that. And Sunday is a church day so no work. And Mondays, well I never do any work on Mondays. Mondays are lazy days.

TUESDAY I WILL START.

Anddd, a quote from Supernatural a long time ago- Your alarm's as useful as boobs on a man, and that's why we're here to fix it!

2007-05-31T02:51:00.000-07:00

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Today Holland V with Sze, Av and Sann!

And the banner-painting Saturday a long time ago-

Last post before I switch over to my spanking new xanga!

2007-05-30T06:58:00.000-07:00

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Finally, photos!

Sunday town with NASAians
Monday POTC
Tuesday MEP camp
Wednesday humanities conference
Tomorrow lunchhh

Emo sandra like you've never seen her before!

And... the two cutest people in the world!

I'M LOVING THE HOLIDAYS wheeeeeeeee.

2007-05-26T05:24:00.000-07:00

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Back from OBS!

What an experience. I wouldn't want to go for another one, but really, what an experience, I've never learnt so much in so little time before.

If not for the tents, canned food, sandflies, mosquitoes, bed hair, 5 hour treks, endless kayaking etc, this trip would almost be enjoyable.

Stolen from marisa's blog, thanks!

I'm not good with captions, but I just want to say that I had a great time with some pretty amazing people and thank you guys so much for making my five most dreaded days this year fly by pretty quickly.

I'm missing OBS already!

2007-05-15T03:22:00.000-07:00

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Hello!

Today I ran seven rounds with jaime during recess in the freezing cold wind and rain, walked 1 km to and fro from my violin teacher's house, and pranced around the physics lab a lot. So much excercise, I swear I have almost developed enough muscles to be a she-man.

And next week is OBS! If all goes well (i.e., if I somehow manage to rumage three long-sleeved shirts) I'll be traipsing around Pulau Ubin or Pulau Tekong or Pulau whatever-it-is, and canoe for six hours and get wet and muddy and not bathe for five days straight. I'm excited. Really.

Annddd. I have a new month's resolution! To grow at least 5 cm by the end of this year. I don't think it's impossible, from now on I'm going to focus my inner chi on lengthening my legs and stand on tip toes all the time. I am nat wong, I have the spiritual blesssings of the long beans I have been eating for the past week, I WILL SUCCEED.

And well, I have another near-impossible task, which is to find a formal gown in three days to save the world from diabolic evil. BUT I AM NAT WONG, I WILL SUCCEED.

And lastly to end this off, here are some lovely pictures of Tasmania! As in the country/island in Australia, not the place where dodo birds came from- that's Mauritius, dumbutts.

West Coast range, flag iris flowers

Great Western Tiers, Liffey Falls

Church in Port Aurthur.

Isn't this so pretty! Good thing this picture didn't have me in it, or you would faint from the beauty of it all!

In December it would be flower-blooming and fruit-harvesting period.

Ok see yous.

2007-05-03T03:39:00.000-07:00

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Been bored/busy lately, here's what I've been doing:

Ok, I've got to admit it. I don't actually read these index-finger thick books I buy (maybe the first and last page), but just put them on my table to look intellectual. Yes, what a cheat. As if those nerd glasses weren't enough.

SAVING!

Yay the piggy bank from ttm is so cute. And plastic, which is good cause when you really need the money you snip it open, which is so much more convenient than breaking the porcelain.

I've got like $5.95 in there, so, following Mr Yeo's comprehensive POSB compound interest plan, I should be a millionaire by... 342736416000 years (well at least I started!).

And lastly-

TALKING TO MY CALCULATOR.

Ok kidding, calculators don't joke. Anyway this happens to be the exact same one my dad used in university! So vintage (nice word for obselete) it doesn't even have the function where you can type alphabets in secret calculator messages.

But I love it anyways. I mean, how cool is it to wave your calculator in front of your friend's and go "My calculator is older than yours!"

Ok I'm starting to sound freaky, it's time to abandon this post.

Happy Holidays!

2007-04-27T03:25:00.000-07:00

Week.

I think I need to de-stagnate my blog, I can see moss and weed forming over my tagboard.

Anyway this week's been pretty funny, I'm happier now (I can feel it radiating off my skin and its not pregnancy, for pete's sake) and I actually feel like writing a blog post! And I think I'm doing better in math, hopefully after a few more months of toil and torture I WILL ACTUALLY GET AN A FOR MATH THIS YEAR. And (plusplusplus!!) free monday afternoons!

Down-sides: I've 'lost it for lit'. And baked cookie-like failures that tasted disgustingly bitter because I broke like three bars of dark chocolate into the batter or whatever you call it (yes, I should burn in the eternal fire of baking hell). But my brother, in one of the most chivalrious (sp?) moments of his entire pest-like life, forced himself to eat one entire cookie (no, it's not going to be a dab-tissue-and-cry moment)!

New week's resolutions: Stop gossiping, PASS THE A MATH TEST (everyone can dream), spend less time on the computer, SAVEEEE.

And I'm looking for a TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) icon to use every friday afternoon/evening cause I spend the entire week practically praying for friday to come. No shit.

Ok and this pretty much sums up my not-so-lovely friday in school:

Sze. (moist banana?) filename: "THE SPAWN OF THE DEVIL" says:
i was going to die from laughing

Sze. (moist banana?) filename: "THE SPAWN OF THE DEVIL" says:
i was going to CRY

Sze. (moist banana?) filename: "THE SPAWN OF THE DEVIL" says:
the devil thing!

Sze. (moist banana?) filename: "THE SPAWN OF THE DEVIL" says:
and jaime said it shld have been devils incarnate or smth

nat wong. moist banana! says:
it wasnt funny!

nat wong. moist banana! says:
i could have been shot or something

Sze. (moist banana?) filename: "THE SPAWN OF THE DEVIL" says:
we were so scared too okay!

Sze. (moist banana?) filename: "THE SPAWN OF THE DEVIL" says:
we were like really really scared but it was hilarious

There are some days that are placcid and mild, and then there are some that totally scare the pants off you ... shhhh ok that's all I'm going to say.

2007-04-20T17:16:00.000-07:00

Hello!

Imma typing on my brother's tablet pc, so shhhh he's not supposed to know. Who am I kidding anyway, he reads my blog.

But. Cannot. Resist. The. Temptation. To. Use. It!

It's nice and shiny and white and it's got the clickety-click office job feeling. And apparently you can draw on the screen too! Just that I can't find the slot for the whatchermercallit pen thingy. And the screen can spin around 360 degrees. Now all this thing needs is a camera and I'm a very happy girl.

2007-04-13T02:37:00.000-07:00

qifsdknlnsz.

on a sidenote- this is going to be another one of my stupid mathy musings

Hello, world.

It's been a verrrrry long time, I haven't blogged in like 3564019 days. Actually, more like 14, but that's another matter.

Today was IFD (I swear I almost killed the two very retarded people who kept on pasting/pretending to paste IFD stickers on me!).

And physics test. Which was a screw up. Not a major surprise, considering the three-and-counting tests I've managed to flunk so far. I'M A FLUNKIE!

Ok call it screwing up, but I would prefer the name adjusting to upper secondary life.

And it doesn't help that I can't do math. I mean, I'm not made for math. Me and math are just not fated to be. Some people are just born to do math- you can tell, checked shirts, glasses, pencils in pockets, deftness in working the calculator- no, I'm not naming anybody in particular.

And it doesn't help that I don't have math genes. My mum has never heard of logarithms. I don't think my brother knows how many grams there are in a kilogram.

So in conclusion,

Screw math, my lifetime goal is to wear the world's highest heels without tripping.

Heh.

2007-03-30T06:24:00.000-07:00

I can't believe this, but

yes I'm being such a compliant psssssssstt and uploading pictures early.

Okay I know this picture is almost ancient, I just found it in my camera from the holiday day at island cremery, I'm sorry, so shoot me.

Artistry! My camera can turn melting slob-coated mush into actual edible ice cream.

the concert night

I'm swearing off flash from now on.

Heritage tour

Thanks to frigging flash my face has grown a ghastly lightbulb. But I just learnt something- my shoes have glow-in-the-dark stripes! Childish, I know, but will come in handy if you're trapped in a cave. Or a creepy museum.

Heritage tour was, unexpectedly, fun with our little earmuffs and 'companions' and pressing the GO button in sync, bobbing our heads around a circle surrounding alien crop circle-like numbers like a little medieval cult. I'm amused.

Didn't learn much though (I spent more time laughing at the weird hokkien/fake english accent bits) except in the past Singapore had showgirls and bubbly retro music.

Anyway, meet my new boyfriend.

He's reliable and a great conversation-starter. Just my type.

Toodles!

2007-03-25T06:07:00.000-07:00

[ ] You like to eat chicken feet.
[ ] You sing karaoke.
[x] You've worn glasses ever since you were in fifth grade.
[ ] You'll haggle over something that is not negotiable.
[x] You are a math genius. (I don't care what Mr Yeo says, I think I'm a math genius!)
Total: 2

[x] You sometimes take showers at night.
[x] You avoid the non-free snacks in hotel rooms.
[ ] You say "aiyah" and "wah" frequently.
[x] You save grocery bags.
[ ] You twirl your pen around your fingers.
Total: 3

[x] You have been taught that wasting food is a sin.
[x] Your dad thinks he can fix everything himself.
[ ] You beat eggs with chopsticks.
[x] You like congee with thousand-year-old eggs.
[x] You have eaten moon cakes before.
Total: 4

[x] If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask you if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
[x] You email/msn your Chinese friends, even though you're only 10 feet apart.
[x] You can read traditional chinese
[x] Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin before they are thrown away.
[x] You know what pearl milk teas are.
Total: 5

[ ] You bring fruit with you as a gift when you visit people's homes.
[ ] You have acquired a taste for bitter melon.
[ ] You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat the last piece of food on the table.
[x] Your parents argue with other adults over the dinner bill.
[ ] You love to use coupons.
Total: 1

Now add the numbers up and multiply it by 4.

I'm 60% cheeeena can!

This is a good omen. I will pass higher chinese this year.

2007-03-10T04:18:00.000-08:00

spell HOLIDAY.

I came back home so bored, I watched a whole bollywood movie on tv. It's much better than I thought (apparently the whole booty-shaking, tree-dancing, song-singing etc. doesn't last throughout the movie). And the jokes (ok, judging from the subtitles) are really funny. I swear, I might even convert to vasathasam (sp?) channel permanently. Ch 8 shows are getting either too whiny, too doctor-based, too fantastical, or keep on starring joanne peh.

And I read miss tan's blog about korean dramas, and I was reminded about something I wanted to say-

ALL KOREAN DRAMAS ARE THE SAME. period.

At first there was the weepy korean dramas- girl has long hair with curls, is always wearing pink/ flowers, has bambi eyes, likes to act shy, cries practically 3/4 of the time, speaks in a wispy voice. Then there's the brooding male who is always either:

1. rich
2. is some bigshot president of a multimillion dollar company and rich, or
3. works in some dreamy artistic profession (photographer is always the best choice) and can afford it cause he's just discovered he has a long-lost billionaire granddad.

So girl meets guy just as guy's ex-gf has left/died, long tormentful relationship, cry cry cry, girl gets accepted by guy's family but suddenly discovers she has cancer of some sort, cry cry cry, girl lives or dies (depends on how many people are actually still watching the show in the end).

AND IT'S ALWAYS CANCER. In autumn in my heart they did lukiemia (which is cancer cause it's bone marrow cancer), in winter sonata they did brain cancer, in stairway to heaven they did eye cancer. Practically every cancer is being taken up, sooner or later directors will have to use toenail cancer or armpit cancer or something.

And then koreans discovered plastic surgery, and more and more koreans just became prettier and prettier it wasn't enough just to be pretty at all! No! You must be pretty and funny at the same time! Enter new wave korean dramas like my girl or my lovely samsoon, where

Girl is born poor, wants to get rich, has some weird quirks, meets super-rich, young, hot billionaire who likes her character, has some major goof-ups and some tussle with an extremely pretty rich girl who wants the billionaire too, wins in the end cause she's got character, both live happily ever after.

ALL KOREAN DRAMAS ARE PREDICTABLE.

Normally I would just forget about it, but I'm so pissed because my daddy fell for the korean drama ploy and bought this:

Just looking at it gives you diabetes. And you know something's fishy when the guy wears a pink shirt.

p.s. I think I've blogged about korean dramas briefly before, but arrrrrgh I can't help it lah. Something must be done before our society turns into mushy goo.

2007-03-08T02:08:00.000-08:00

Don't say I didn't post the photos!

Sign of the day. omgxzzz ahlianzzz.

2007-03-06T05:02:00.000-08:00

I bet you don't know I have a secret addiction to pork floss.

Today is officially the first day I don't have any homework, and turns out, boredom is something I could live with the rest of my life.

daRkeNiNg dAwN :: screw alphabeta. says:
ahh i think i'll sleep early tonight. (: what say you?

daRkeNiNg dAwN :: screw alphabeta. says:
you'll do that too.

nat wong. says:
yes I think

I think Jaime shares the same sentiments.

2007-03-02T03:41:00.000-08:00

PICTURES-for sarah, who owes me ice cream.

And one picture from eons ago.

And today Sandra was singing her yi qian nian yi hou (one thousand years later) jj lin song with gross english translations!

A thousand years later
My heart beats out of rhythm
My dreams are also bounded
When loving the promises are definite
Sinked until one thousand years later
Putting down the responsibilities helplessly
Submerging into dust
When I was messed up, I saw you coming over
My light
Can't endure it any more
All the love that you need
Because after a thousand years later
I'm no longer in this world

etc.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Chinese songs (aside from the fact that I barely passed Chinese this term) but these translations made me want to cry. In a really bad way.

2007-02-19T03:58:00.000-08:00

Stolen from liz.

Because I live a boring, uneventful life.

The phone rings. Who do you want it to be?
Anybody but my mum. And I shall put a :) here in case she's reading this.

When shopping at the grocery store, do you return your cart?
Yes, I want my dollar back.

In a social setting, are you more of a talker or a listener?
Depends.

Do you take compliments well?
YES. Compliment me, compliment me!

Do you play Sudoku?
I used to be a freak who cut out those daily sudoku puzzles from today newspaper. Does that count?

If abandoned alone in the wilderness, would you survive?
If I was five metres away from the exit, yes.

Do you like to ride horses?
NO.

Did you ever go to camp as a kid?
Camp Koochiwawa. We learnt to blow curare poison darts at people and kill wild antelopes. Be very afraid.

What was your favorite game as a kid?
It's called the how-many-times-can-you-beat-your-brother-up-before-he-cries game.

If a sexy person was pursuing you, but you knew he/she was married what would you do?
(In a purely hypothetical situation that will not happen in real life) Make him buy me a five-carat ring. Then call his wife.

Could you date someone with different religious beliefs than you?
I don't think so.

Do you like to pursue or be pursued?
No comment.

Are you ticklish?
YES NOW DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH ME.

Do any songs make you cry?
Unless that was a song about onions. I'm not as highstrung and emotional as I wish.

Do you know how to shoot a gun?
I wish I could, but no.

If your house was on fire, what would be the first thing you grabbed?
Strepsils, because smoke gives you a sore throat.

How often do you read books?
Textbooks everyday.

Do you think more about the past, present or future?
The future cause it's the only thing worth thinking about.

Favorite children's book?
Enid Blyton. Mary Kate and Ashley (ew this is so gross I don't even dare to admit it)

How tall are you?
I'M SO TALL YOUR FATHER STANDS ON A CHAIR TO TALK TO ME. HAH.

Where is your dream house located?
On top of the eiffel tower. Kiss kiss!

What name brand is your computer?
Computers have brands?
Um well, it's black in colour?

Have you ever taken pictures in a photo booth?
Gross miniscule neoprints that I always lose.

What flavour is your favorite lollipop?
Coca-cola and the ones with pink and white stripes.

Where was the furthest place you traveled today?
I travelled to the eiffel tower in paris and built my dream house there!

Do you prefer to sleep or eat?
New York Cheddar Cheese or them mustard honey(?) kettle chips. FEED ME!

Do you look like your mom or dad?
Neither, I look like a circus clown.

How long does it take you in the shower?
10 minutes max.

Can you do the splits?
If I broke my pelvic bone and forced my legs into a straight line, yes.

What movie do you want to see right now?
Little Miss Sunshine, which I watched once but want to watch it again cause it's in my DVD player.

Would you like to make a shout out?
No, but I would like to make a type out.

What did you do for New Year's?
Can't remember. Okay, I ate a lot.

What song would you like to dedicate?
Um, what?

Do you own a camera phone?
Yes.

Who would you dedicate that song to?
Is this like part b of the question?

Candles or Incense?
Incense cause it won't make your curtains catch fire.

How many hours of sleep do you get a night?
I sleep seven a night, but I do some sleeping during school so it works out fine.

Do you like care bears?
Ew no.

What do you buy at the Movies?
A movie ticket.

Do you know how to play poker?
Almost. I just need to develop a poker face.

Do you wear your seatbelt?
Yes. If not you get your car confiscated or something?

What do you wear to sleep?
NOTHING!

Haha kidding. T-shirt/shorts

Are you in love?
No, because true love is a fallacy.

Do you like funny or serious people better?
I like seriously funny people.

Ever been to L.A.?
Yes, Disneyland. And spinning myself dizzy in a teacup.

Did you eat a cookie today?
No, I ate three.

Do you use cuss words in other languages?
What's the point if other people don't understand them?

Do you steal or pay for your music downloads?
Umm.

Do you hate chocolate?
Yes! Omg finally someone who understands how I feel! I absolutely love the writer of this quiz! What's there to like about chocolate? It's brown and tastes disgusting and gives you pimples. Those who like chocolate, you don't know what you're missing out .

What do you and your parents fight about the most?
Math questions.

Are you a gullible person?
Gullible enough to spend valuable time doing this quiz.

Do you need a boyfriend/girlfriend to be happy?
I don't think so.

If you could have any job (assuming you have the skills) what would it be?
Anything, as long as I get to bathe in money every day. Wait, hold on. Anything that doesn't involve sweat, swear words or stripping.

Are you easy to get along with?
Yes, unless you like chocolate.

What is your favorite time of day?
I live for recess.

Blah blee bumblebee.

2007-02-13T03:25:00.000-08:00

And andrea says, and I quote:

Gossip spreads faster than diffusion.

Mr Tay would be so proud.

So anyway, last thursday I baked a cheesecake.

And I took a picture of it. And welluh it ended in a cookbook.

And happy valentine's day!

Apparently it's so named because of someone called St. Valentine, or something like that? I mean people were actually called> such names. In those times my brother could be called emilio valentino wong and no one would really care.

So anyway here's what I'm giving everybody for valentine's day!

It's pink so I don't care if it's not chocolate, EAT IT! (forces it down your throat)

2007-02-09T05:38:00.000-08:00

Did some editing to the template!

So it's been yet another week in my already screwed up life. We've all gotten back the e maths test (Mr Yeo marks like a OAS machine) and I failed, but I kind of expected it so I guess that's fine.

Was reading Sarah's blog, and I so agree, I really really really miss last year, all the 1T/2T people.

2006

See, we look all glowing and happy. Ok, aside from the fact that it's in a neoprint machine.

2007-02-03T04:05:00.000-08:00

I suppose I could update monthly

It's ~~febuary~~ ~~febraury~~ ~~feburary~~ FREAKING FEBRUARY!

Which is kind of a girly month, along with april, may, june and androgynous july. Boyish months are January, MARCH and august. So yeah, girlpower.

Anyway here's life lesson number 3234319,

never cut your bangs in the bathroom sink.

It all happened when one fine day I woke up, rattled my head about to remind myself that it was a sleep-in day, and stared at myself in the mirror.

And I realised that my fringe was so absurdly long it looked like cockroaches had crawled up to my head and died. And left their feelers hanging over my forehead.

So, well, I couldn't go to the hairdresser cause they charge double for haircuts during chinese new year (tyrants, I know, it must be some kind of cheena hex that everybody's hair just gets out of control during CNY).

So I reached a pair of scissors, stood in front of the bathrooom, took a deep breath, and...

The rest is history.

So now I look like my bangs were chopped off by helicopter blades.

I swear, today could be the saddest day of my life. February the third, 2007.

Anyway, on a lighter strand of hair,

PICTURES OF MY BABYHOOD.

I was leafing through old albums.

I think I have always been a bangs girl.

No, its not me after an infanthood sex change operation. It's my brother!

I know he'll probably kill me for posting this (it destroys what little left of the machoism and male egoism he has) but I cant stand it! His cheeks are so pinchable!

Don't you just miss those childhood days? Where your middle finger was just like any other finger? Where life was just a matter of who got the bigger chocolate biscuit? Where you could get away with gross psychodelic prints on your pants with your shirt tucked way in and still look adorable?

Ho-hum.

See you in March.

2007-01-21T04:36:00.000-08:00

I AM THE EPITOME OF PRO-NESS.

I can finally type really fast without looking at the keyboard!

I am the fastest in my family! My mom still types with two fingers and my brother still doesnt know what QWERTY is!

MWAHAHA!

I am qualified to be a secretary already! They just need to have manicured nails, type and answer the phone.

And bow?

Do secretaries have to bow?

In Japan maybe?

Anyway, back to school tomorrow. And before I know it (and also because I sleep all the time in class) it will be friday again. And then the weekends. And then I shall cut my hair.

2007-01-17T03:15:00.000-08:00

I have to do some character analysis of a book I haven't even read.

By tomorrow's tomorrow.

In chinese.

SAVE MEEEEE.

2007-01-15T04:36:00.000-08:00

UPDATE!

I miss the holidays. ):

But anyway today we had our very first chemistry lab practical SPA whatever thingy.

And MGS, thank goodness, has finally ~~dumped~~ made better use of those gross grey 70s prep school lab goggles and gotten brand spanking new transparent ones!

Now instead of looking like geeks with pencils sticking out of our pockets, we actually look futuristic, sophisticated, even stylish, if I could say it.

I mean, we actually look like people out of terminator 2.

Anyway, our goggles look just like these from forever 21-

Only that they're totally transparent. And much much much more stylish. Haha. I kid myself.

Which makes me wonder why our school can't just order sunglasses from forever 21 to use as lab googles. I mean, they're so cheap that the only sunnies I know cheaper than forever 21 ones are second-hand forever 21s. Or handmade cardboard ones with clingwrap shades.

I mean, if our school got them in bulk, won't they be like half price or something?

And we could take them out of the lab and wear them out to PE or something! How cool is that!

Us mgs girls, with already the third-best Singaporean uniform (st poll long time ago) can become the epitome of style! Woooo!

2007-01-08T02:07:00.000-08:00

School is something you're forced to go to so you don't bother your parents at home.

I'm kind of adjusting back to school life now- getting rudely woken up in the middle of a nice dream about cheesecake by my dad, sleeping in for another five minutes, getting yelled at by my dad, splashing water over my face, eating breakfast with my retainers on, yadda yadda yadda.

But life still goes on.

School's getting a bit laggy nowadays, I kind of miss Ms Tan's little perk-me-up lessons, laughing over the most stupidly small things, private robot jokes, but I still love my new class anyhow.

And tomorrow we're going to take height and weight during PE! I think PE should have been abolished by MOE long ago, its just an excuse to embarass people in the gross sweaty shirt-and-shorts combo. And what's up with the 'encouraging healthy lifestyles' thing? I get my excercise from talking and typing the keyboard, and I get along fine. No heart attacks yet so far.

And this year's new year resolution- Be everything I wasn't last year. Ok wait, ax murderers not included.

Scrap that.

BE EVERYTHING GOOD I WASN'T LAST YEAR.

Eat more fruits, practise the piano more often, start actually doing homework instead of copying it, start sleeping before ten.

It's been broken already, but whatever, new year's resolutions are made to be broken so that the guilt that hang overs forces you to think up a new resolution next year.

Toodle doo! I'm off to doing bio now. Unified major principles in biology yadda yadda yadda. I'm off to a good start!

2007-01-02T04:31:00.000-08:00

class party

More tomorrow, my tyrant-of-a-mother is making me sleep at 8.30 tonight.

2006-12-27T02:48:00.000-08:00

Happy day after the day after the day of Christmas.

Tomorrow joylynn and belicia and joanne and I are going to go to far east to try put together a costume for omega night, failing which, I shall just go as myself, which is perfectly acceptable because I am iconic.

I win, hands down. No arguing about that.

And since everyone wants more of the cookies that Joanne and I baked for christmas, I shall disclose the very, very, so-secret-we-keep-it-in-a-heavy-duty-vault-and-lock-it-up secret recipe:

For very nice christmas cookies:

1. Get loads of flour.
2. Pour it in with an equal amount of water and yeast.
3. Watch it expand.
4. Taste it. (this part is absolutely compulsory) add salt if you think it's not sweet enough. Cookies work by reverse psychology.
5. Dump the whole thing, go to the nearest Famous Amos and get a cookie, and take this as a lesson never to trust Natalie again.

Anyway I'm in the process of spring-cleaning my room, and I've decided to pursue greater literary works by dumping all my teen chick lit books, so if you want anything by 1. Jaqueline Wilson 2. Meg Cabot or anything else that I have ask me.

Oh, and everyone, meet emo orange.

And emo banana.

Complete with emo specs!

And to end it all off, I must say that this -> http://community.livejournal.com/sgsale/14198881.html is the smartest shirt I have ever seen.

P.S. icon credits to xanga.com/lunchbox_icons.

edit- the cookie process.

Cookies so cute they make you want to lick your screen.

2006-12-19T17:42:00.000-08:00

Merry christmas five days in advance!

I think cookies will make a good christmas present for everyone, only that

1. I can't bake
2. Grace Chan is probably going to be doing that

So I have devised a theory which I call the Natalie Christmas Theory.

Instead of your friends giving you thoughtless and unpersonal? impersonal? inpersonal whatever gifts like candles and carved soap and more soap, demand that your friends each give you the money they would spend on the gift instead of the gift itself.

So suppose you have 30 friends, and they each give you 10 dollars, you will have

30 x 10 = 300 freaking dollars.

But then again, you can also have 15 really rich friends that give you 20 dollars each, and you get

15 x 20 = 300 fast easy money!

So instead of getting 30 candles/soap/bath towels etc., you get money to spend however you wish.

Not only does this method make everyone happy, it also teaches you how to make friends! Looking at the above two situations, the amount of money you get depends on

1. The amount of friends you have
2. The richness (?) of each friend

So choose friends wisely! Or make sure you make a lot of friends during the month of advent and drop them like a hot potato thereafter!

And instead of wasting time on finding meaningless yet gift-friendly gifts, you can just save time and give them money instead, but that won't be impersonal because you're banking on the idea that

"I'm a true friend, and true friends know that the best christmas present is one that you can choose for yourself."

How touching!

And this method is quite similar to the chinese new year hongbao concept, i.e. parents give out money, kids act cute and try to retreive money back. So logically speaking, it's a good way to get money out of your parent's pockets. See, that's why the Chinese are so practical!

Remember the true christmas spirit- the one that gets the most out of it wins!

Eeep I sound so superficial. Ah, whatever.

2006-12-18T05:50:00.000-08:00

"It's been proven that nobody smokes, only the cigarette smokes, the person is the sucker."

2006-11-12T00:46:00.000-08:00

I'm bored, and updating because my parents are sleeping and I can't watch anything on youtube and cause I have absurdly amazing TYPEINTHEDARK typing skills.

And since I have virtually nothing to update about, let's play a game!

It's called the spot-the-Jimmy-Choo game!

Not Jimmy Choo the designer, but Jimmy Choo the shoe! From the other relatively cheaper counterparts.

click for the picture!

I took the picture off my blog cause it's too big.

Guessed it yet?

If you chose the green covered-toe heel whatsitcalled on the bottom left, you are a genius, and of course correct! You're probably the sort of person who could pick a branded handbag blindfolded, or walk through Orhard Road in six-inch heels without looking.

If you chose the one second from top left, the sandal, you are a LOSER! That's a bata superman boy's sandal that comes complete with squeaky air noises and lights with every step.

Byebye!

2006-11-10T05:00:00.000-08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAISIE KOH!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SZEEEEEEEEE!

I spent ages highlighting each letter separately so be honoured! Arrgh my eyes are peeling and shriveling and dying already. I'm frigging allergic to bright colours.

AND A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE BORN IN 2006 IF I HAVEN'T WISHED YOU SO!

Oh heavens, my eyes.

I know how I'm supposed to do this at midnight and all to give it some sincere meaning, but I sleep at nine every night, so you can always turn your clock forward three hours!

P.S. Jaime I got your socks! Ask me for them when school reopens.

2006-11-08T18:03:00.000-08:00

I'M BACK! WHEEEEEEEEEE!

And the famous Tricia line- Did you miss me?

I can't believe when other people are going to places like Bangkok or Japan, I go to boring ol' KL for the hundredth time. Seriously, I'm starting to get pretty bored. But anyway we went there cause my dad has to settle something about renting the apartment out? Or something like that.

So we stayed (in? at? I don't know) the Ascott, which is not that bad and like 2 minutes walk away from KLCC!

But then again there's not really much you can do in KL, unless you're a shopping fiend (which I just discovered on this trip that I'm not really one) because it's hazy everywhere, no nice weather or picturesque scenery and no prancing around pairies or visiting museums or all the arty things you see in movies.

So, shopping. Well there's always the golden triangle of KL malls- Berjaya Times Square (which is like a Wisma Atria on the bottom floors but a really lian Far East Plaza on the upper floors, the only difference being an indoor amusement park), KLCC (which is seriously absolute love!) and Mid-Valley (not-so-mega) Mega Mall. It's not really a lot different from Orchard in Singapore, with the usual Topshop Mango Esprit, but unfortunately at the time I went THERE WERE NO SALES! It's sort of a hangover from the Malaysia Mega Sale (sept) and the eve of the eve of the christmas sales.

KLCC!

Which is seriously such a shame, because in Malaysian sales they really cut everything and make sure the stock gets sold out in one day or something, as compared to Singaporean sales which seriously suck.

And the taxi drivers there are tyrants! Damn them. Half of them there don't use meters, so they charge extorbitant fares on poor unsuspecting tourists (actually I don't count cause I'm a Malaysian, but I got swindled anyway). And the transport system seriously sucks. The LRT or KL monorail system is jammed belly-to-belly with people and you can't even get on during the peak hours.

So I was thinking about designing a new LRT system for them. See, if everyone stands upright the top space of the train is wasted! So if everybody lies on top of each other, the train can accomodate more people! Cool, right?

Or the alternative- build more LRTS.

And then there's the twin towers. It was the tallest building in the world, before the Taipei 101 was built. I think it's the whole competitive spirit between countries- tallest, fattest, biggest, longest, whatever. But I was thinking, if they had chosen not to built two towers but rather pile one tower on top of the other, it would be unbeatable right?

Hey, not many things look nice both night and day ok!

Anyway, if you want to go up the twin towers, it's FREE! But not really much of an experience, cause you only get to go up halfway to the connecting sky bridge. The view is fantabulicious, but make sure you go up when it isn't hazy. And QUEUE early! The tickets run out at like 9 plus am.

It's a bird, it's a plane.... no, it's a gross view of KL on an extremely hazy day!

And FOOOOODD we found this really good place at KLCC called chilli's, I think it's a grill and bar or something, the food's really good and the price is reasonable too. Only that you have to wait again, cause the place's jam packed with people every fricking night, but it's worth the wait.

Blah, it's not reallyphotogenic cause it's half eaten, and I had to use flash because of the dim lighting of the place.

But the best thing of course, is the CABLE TV IN THE HOTEL cause I don't have cable tv at home! So I watched like 20 hours of MTV.

I suck at writing travelogues. And of boring, blah places like KL. I want to go to an exotic place! Like Barcelona. Where is it anyway?

2006-11-03T02:42:00.000-08:00

Hiatus.

I'm going to KL on Sunday, flying back on a yellow polka-dotted umbrella on Wednesday or when the winds are blowing in a southeasternly direction. Don't say I didn't tell you.

And by the way I called so many people today but no one picked up? Is this some strange supernatural coincidence?

Blah.

2006-10-28T05:52:00.000-07:00

Hello, I haven't updated for like ages. Past two weeks have been busy, cousins came over and they just left yesterday, and other stuff that I can't be bothered to blog about.

But anyway, I've been thinking, and I thought it would be around time to write dedications for everyone in class. You call it shoutouts, but notice the irony in that you don't actually shout, you type. So I call it a dedication.

Ok lets start. Whoosh, I'm picking a name out of a black top hat and levitating it on my silver wand, only that there is not black hat and silver wand and I'm choosing random people mentally. Get it?

So first.... Liana!

Liana.

I LOVE YOU! I'll miss you a lot if we don't end up in the same class, because you like to squeal a lot and say random things especially if it's very silent. Like your twisted barney song! And I used to think at the start of the year that you were really noisy and boisterous, and guess what.. .

I WAS RIGHT!

But anyway study hard! And swim less or you'll get tanner than ahma!

Liz.

I'll miss you really much especially since you're going to nj and I might possibly never ever see you again. But I'll miss my books and clothes more, so return them please! Ok kidding. I really hope we don't lose touch or anything, and we must meet next year! With tricia and sze and the 4+4!

Sze.

I love you sze cause you're so funny and you say random memorable lines that crack me up even now, and all the private jokes and msn conversations about budget airlines (!!!) and everything. I'M MISSING YOU ALREADY COME ONLINE YOU FREAK. haha. One day I'll buy a bag big enough to fit you in, and ship you to India, I promise! (Ok that was really random, I don't know where it came from.)

ttm.

wubbly bubbly chubbly guppy tammie see I can rhyme ok! I love you my MEP partner! To bad we you won't be in MEP next year to slack during the listening times and find answers in Miss Tsien's harmony books or talk about taste. Quit on me you! :(((((((( I'm being doomed to eternam suffering by MEP aloneee! While you get to go to home econs. Blah you.

tricia.

Tricia! Teehee I'm uploading photos now, and SHOCKANDHORRORS you're in every single one of them! Haha I remember last year we used to write a load of letters. I still have them at home! I'll miss you, have fun at nj, don't smoke even though the uniform's supposingly fireproof! Not that I can imagine you smoking. Haha. See you at RMBR!

Sarah.

You take good photos, even with short hair! And you draw very well! Ok that's like what I think when I think of you. Good luck with your netballing, and I hope we can still stay in the same class next year! It's been really fun having you around especially when we're in a phototaking mood!

Melinda.

Class clown! Ok thanks for all the crazy jokes, I remember we used to be really sick in chem lab during practicals. Ahaha. See you next year!

Gabby.

GABBBYYYYY the prefect. Erm. You're like perfect in every way! Haha. You're going to nj too, so good luck in studies! And I like your bangs, so make sure you continue cutting them like that!

Grace.

I LOVE YOUR CHEESECAKE GRACE OMG bake more! I really think you should sell your stuff. Seriously. It tastes better than the secret recipe one I had for my birthday. Mmmmmmmm. Oh and YOU BEAT ME IN EVERY SCIENCE SUBJECT! Haha you robot! I want to whisk you off to nj (no competition, haha) but then I won't be able to eat your baking any more, so that's why I hope I'll be in the same class as you next year!

Oh, and who can forget you're famous line:

(staring at my blue oishi oheya chips) Can I try some of your strangely-flavoured cereal?

HAHHAHAHA.

Maisie.

My ex-english partner! Haha you're straight hair is straighter than mine rebonded. And it's gravity-defying! You robot you, study so hard that you're voice sounds tinny. Haha kidding. See you in school next year! Don't keep on booking me for eating in class!

Jaime.

Class sit-next-to-er and fellow communalist! We share everything! You're drawing and english rocks solid! And rapping, haha jaime your hidden talent. We knew all that memorising was going somewhere. Oh yes thanks for drawing the designs with eyeliner on my face for musical, it must have been gross staring at my pimples for a full ten minutes!

ahma.

Haha ensemble partner and fellow back-huncher! I wouldn't come for ensemble if not for you! Honoured? haha. You're like so musically inclined, and inclined to hunch too, I must add. Blah you just talked to me on msn! Only talk about class stuff. Boring lurh. (:

andrea.

I've known you since like a loooooooooooooooooooooooong time ago! In primary one we sat on the same bus! Haha and RMBR, and looking for a job and all that. I hope I get to see more of you (ok ew, that sounds gross) next year!

Sophia.

You're going to nj too, all of you are leavinggggg wehhhh you make me sad with a quadruple chin :(((( Less people to talk to in MEP too! Sigh. But oh well, best of luck! I'll miss you loads cause I like talking to you! Yay!

Ok that's about it, and also in general to the whole of 2T, thanks for making my first two years in MG really really memorable (for good reasons and for not so good, haha). I mean this sounds so cliche-d, but really I bonded with all you strangers I would otherwise have never met, and I am miles greatful for having you guys in my life. I couldn't dream of a better class. Really.

I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YOU GUYS A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

edit- LDOS photos.

fine dining photos, plus those at my house later. These are not all, by the way, so if you want more ask me.

2006-10-20T05:19:00.000-07:00

If poetry screams, threaten to switch to painting.

Today was eventful, we had house elections (SARAH OUR NETBALL CAPTAIN!), then some poetry thing, then fooling around with those gym stuff in the primary school hall. Reliving childhood memories, releasing happy hormones whatever.

PICTURES!

Photo frames! Gabby, demoness in disguise

Tricia the daisy-picker

Nat the, uh, four-eyed monster.

Baby Liz and a milk bottle.

ROCK ON!

I kiss you!

I look retarded. Hey, not everybody can carry of that look ok!

Sarah can.
Blond bombshell sexayyeee.

Group shot blah-dee-bah.

Liz getting hung. Hanged. Whatever.

A very, very weird Addams family portrait.

Actually I hate writing captions. Tee hee. This is like the longest photo post I've ever done, more pictures later! I think I'll be uploading everything from this year after the class party that is.

Then after school tricia sze me liz went to play tennis but my camera ran out. There are still some pretty dark pictures, will upload them later.

I liked today's photo frames! Let's do that again.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh.

2006-10-16T06:07:00.000-07:00

How mooncake festival came about.

I figured all you people might need a little cheena education.

Once upon a time in China in some random province before your great great great great great great great great-grandmother even had her feet bound, even before feet-binding started in the first place there was this fairly pretty lady called Chang Er (directly translated=long ear).

So Chang Er had porcelain complexion, with wispy hair and silky stuff fluttering about.

And as it always goes, pretty weak ladies end up marrying heroes. So she married Hou Yi, the guy who shot nine out of ten suns (which makes me wonder why he didn't just finish them all off).

Because of Hou Yi's chivalry, Queen Mother of the Western Skies (funny huh, China's in the east) gave him a immortality elixir.

But selfish Chang Er slapped her silky hair around and sulked. She must have that elixir! So what if Hou Yi could shoot down suns, she was so pretty could make all of them turn away in bashfulness!

So she ate/drank the elixir. But unfortunately she ate/drank too much of it just in case. It unknowingly contained helium, which caused the already-fairy-like Chang Er to float, and then she started to hiccup, and then develop a helium-induced donald duck quack, and floated out of her house, much to her husband's surprise (yes, he tried to grab her silky fairy stuff when he found out what was happening, but it was too late).

So she floated and floated, and managed to grab a fluffy rabbit from a nearby farm.

So now she's isolated permanently on the moon, with only a rabbit for company. Having nobody to talk to, she communicates frequently with her rabbit, who does not seem to mind her donald duck voice. Occasionally, however, she does have the ability to send high-pitch frequency messages which induce all mooncake-makers to automatically have her blown-up picture placed on the lid of every mooncake box.

Chang Er believes that through this propaganda, one day she might just be able to take over the earth, where she shall rule from afar and have a palace on the moon. After all, she's already suceeded in becoming the moon goddess.

Hou Yi, however, got so angry that his elixir had been eaten up by Chang Er that he gave up on shooting permanently. However in a lucky turn of events, he got endorsed by a cosmetic surgery brand that constantly renewed his good looks.

So over the years, he has morphed into...

Christopher Lee.

P.S. there's another version of this story where Hou Yi is the baddie and Chang Er takes the elixir to prevent him from becoming immortal. I prefer the former one.

2006-10-14T06:42:00.000-07:00

HOLIDAY RE-CAP.

Speaking of which, does any one know what recap is the short form of? Is it recapitulation (recycles old mep term)?

Wednesday

Far East Plaza in a Indianish maxicab (the only other solution was to squeeze sze in the boot). Then everyone else went to watch John Tucker Must Die while I went home for tuition, which got cancelled.

Thursday

Went to IMM, then went bowling (which I officially suck at), then went to Island Cremery, then went to liz's house, then went home.

Friday

Went to VivoCity for the very first time, about 99.9% of the shops are not open yet but the Forever 21 there is BIGGGG.

Saturday

Bea just came and played cards and left.

Anyway my blog is getting boring so I'm going to do a quiz! from andrea's blog.

What is the 1st word that comes to your mind when you think of the word word?

play.

What are your vital statistics?

Er I'm not really sure but I've got ACTING CALIBRE and that's all that counts.

Name something interesting about your father.

A lot of things. Hmmm he was a DJ, had permed hair and earholes in the past, and now he has gross long fingernails to strum the guitar. Oh yeah, and when no one is looking, he takes off his shirt,

and becomes SUPERMAN!

Clark Kent married Lana Lang (I don't care, she's so much prettier than Lois Lane) and retired, and spent the rest of his days running around farmer fields and reliving childhood memories.

Name 3 interesting neighbors.

The German guy next door who likes to come over and borrow random stuff, though he's not interesting just weird.

What body moisturizer do you use?

I don't.

How tall are you?

1.65m on last count. Though I might have had a sudden growth spurt. I'm staying optimistic.

What toothpaste do you use?

Colgate the mass-commercialised brand (hell, I don't even know if I'm spelling it correctly). The Colgate conspiracy must be to get everybody to believe that Colgate is the only type of toothpaste cause when I was young Colgate was so common that I thought it was the actual name of toothpaste.

But Colgate's cool cause that's an alliteration. And in my sense everything that's an alliteration should be taken as a fact. Nice nat. See?

But then again Darlie rocks to cause of the cute guy on the toothpaste tube with, literally, a sparking smile. Dashing Darlie (I'm presuming that's his name) :)

What printer do you use?

hp something something I don't know cause it's with the other computer.

Do you know Newton's third law?
No, but have you ever heard of Natalie's third law? Everything that goes up must come down. Unless you're on a drug-induced high.

Have you ever had a manicure?

If painting horridly clashing colours on my toenails messily counts, then yes.

What perfume do you use?

I don't.

What sports do you play?

A wee bit of tennis.

Who is your favorite economics teacher?

Damn why is it that everything I do I get reminded that I'm in FRIGGING MEP INSTEAD OF HOME ECONS HUH. Is this a Singaporean quiz or what. Cause only in Singapore we give simple thinks like cooking and sewing cheem names like home economics. Or calling project work intergrated study options. Or calling art asthetics. And of course MUSIC-FRIGGING-ELECTIVE PROGRAMME.

Do you dare kill a cockroach?

I would eat one too if you paid me a quarter million dollars.

Your favorite fruits?

oranges green grapes AVOCADOES (I know it's not a fruit but I love it all the same)

Your favorite shoes?

No preference, really.

At least how many times do you exercise a week?

Let's see, there's PE once a week, and talking on the phone, and dashing up and down the stairs after recess, and channel-switching (which is a very struenous excercise cause you MUST get a bag of chips and a drink and go to the toilet before the commercial break ends), yakking away at my mum, so that adds up to... three days a week!

Stripes or polka-dots?

I don't know why, but I have this ugh feeling about polka dots unless they're very small.

Can you control your spending?

No. That's why we're not supposed to have credit cards right?

Do you eat a lot?

Yes.

What and how much is the most expensive item in your wardrobe?

THE WARDROBE ITSELF HAHAHA.

Artificial or au naturel?

english over french please.

Carl's Jr or McDonalds?

McDonald's cause Carl's Jr is oversized. I'm lovin' it!

More of tan or fair?

Tan.

Do you have a high metabolism rate?

Sadly, no. Which I consider to be one of the ten greatest tragedies of my life after Hilary Duff. having to play the violin and failing chinese.

Which of the 7 sins are you guilty of?

Reading in the dark, losing things, overeating, telling white lies, MURDERING SHHHH. Ok is that seven yet? Hah I'm too perfect. Either that or I can't count.

What is the hairstyle you normally sport?

A sporty hairstyle!

I feel like uploading pictures from Thursday but I haven't charged my camera yet.

I feel it essential to have at least an element of truth in my post, so here it is:

'I hate my life.'

2006-10-13T07:40:00.000-07:00

LALALALALALALALA.

I promised to blog about tam mei, cause she blogged about me. And I was told to say something nice.

SOMETHING NICE, ttm!

Hah! I said it!

But blabbity blah. Yes we do look photogenic together. And retarded. And next year you wouldn't be in MEP any more (insert sad smiley face with a nose here) and we can no longer fall alseep while miss tsien's playing the MEP songs and try to find the answers in miss tsien's books (insert another sad smiley face with a nose here).

But at least you will satisfy your stomach in home ec and take weird pictures in the imac lab during IT!

My post was longer than yours ok! And don't give me that picture's-worth-a-thousand-words crap.

Toodle doo!

2006-10-12T16:49:00.000-07:00

Just a thought.

Ok, so they build this very very very very VERY big shopping complex near Harbour Front, and then they get loads and loads of high end stores to rent space, and then they revolutionise the whole shopping experience by building large rooftop play pools, a waterfront promenade, the largest multiplex cinema in Singapore, and interactive water features,

and then they give it a corny name.

Like VivoCity.

What the hell is that? But of course, everything must be justified!

From their official website,

The name "VivoCity", which is derived from the word "vivacity", evokes a lifestyle experience that is modern, stimulating and accessible to everyone, a place bubbling with energy and flowing with vitality. It feels alive.

Wow, so such a weird habberbash hybrid of two totally unrelated words.

And what makes it even worse, is the stupid act-cool putting-two-words-together-with-the-first-letter-in-caps-just-two-show-that-it-is-a-mix-of-two-words-wow-isn't-that-exciting.

I swear, the Singapore town planners or name-conceptualizers must have loads of fun thinking of names that make Singaporeans look like losers.

Just when they started on the safe side with beautiful, flowery names like wisma atria (I love that name! Whatever it means. Doesn't it make you feel flowery and flimsy all over?) and Heeren (another nice name! Even though again I don't know what it means, maybe something to do with heron), they had to stray away into 'Uniquely Singapore' names!

Like Kunan Melody. No offense to whoever stays there, but I can't help but think that's the weirdest Singaporean condo name I've ever heard.

2006-10-10T00:23:00.000-07:00

I owe beatrice this!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEATRICE! !!!!!! (belated)

You've been the absolutely bestest church mate! We MUST go out during the holidays ok? I LOVE YOU!!!!

Sorry, its been like how many weeks and I still haven't got your present? But I'll get it for you before christmas! Gauranteed!

AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRACE CHAN! Omg I'm so sorry I thought your birthday was the week after mine!

nat wong. says:
hey when is grace
nat wong. says:
's birthday?
sze. says:
uhh
sze. says:
grace
sze. says:
chan
sze. says:
?
nat wong. says:
ya
sze. says:
it was on wednesday,
sze. says:
the wed before yours
nat wong. says:
OMG

Happy birthday to our class ballet dancer, baker, chemist all at once! Try not to be so smart next year!!!!! (:

Oh yes and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MYSELF, I know I've already said that in my previous post but I'm still on the happy birthday high.

MEP today was crap I didn't even listen carefully and before I knew it it was on to the next piece and half way through tam mei's MacDonald's food came in and it was a MAJOR DISTRACTION.

And then the composition harmony part was so long and draggy that I started performing surgical pencil lead incisions on my eraser and see how long I take to dig the pencil lead out. It's good stress-relieving therapy.

TOMORROW IS LIT THEN I'LL BE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE.

And then after that its holidays then the start of the new year 2007 and before I know it it will be the finals again. It's funny, the cycle we live in. It makes people go 'huh why do we always have to do this' and protest and then just live on with it because everybody's doing the same thing and EITHER YOU'RE IN, OR YOU'RE OUT'. bleh.

And can our class people VOTE SENTOSA PLEASE west coast is so crowded! SENTOSAAAAAA RHYMES WITH SAMOSA.

2006-10-09T00:46:00.000-07:00

I'm supposed to be studying for frigging MEP now and not using the computer (by the way any one who's ever considering MEP should STOP and bang their heads 1000 times on the wall and think about 'selling your soul to the devil, in Miss Tsien's exact words), but whatever, I think I have the right to, cause

IT'S

BIRTHDAY

TODAY

HAPPY

BIRTHDAY

FOURTEEN

NOW

!!!!!

FOURTEEN!

I'm not going to pretend that rhymed.

I'M FOURTEEN FOURTEEN FOURTEEN not unlucky thirteen but FOURTEEN doesn't FOURFOURFOUR have a nice classy ring to it?

I just can't get enough of it, I'M FOURTEEN FOURRRRRRTEEN!

Ok off to studying MEP now. I still have practically the whole of the 600+ pages left, plus some dinky things about indian and chinese music.

Bah.

2006-10-02T23:45:00.000-07:00

Happiness is ~~being content with what you have~~ getting the geog paper over and done with.

Liz: Wehhhh! I spelt the Semakau in Pulau Semakau wrongly!
Sze, ever the optimistic: Well maybe they'll give you marks for the Pulau!

One down, 8? more to go.

But it feels great when annoying primary-schoolers scream every time they hear the thunder, or walk past the classroom talking and you go SHUSH! in this very loud voice and you hear them suddenly hush up and scramble forward and you don't feel mean at all but you feel a sense of SELF-JUSTIFICATION because after all it's exams and everybody has special rights during the exams.

SPECIAL EXAM RIGHTS!

You get to, besides the above,

1. Crush up unused foolscap paper in front of your environment-activist geog teacher
2. Tap your pen LOUDLY in impatience
3. Move your chair forwards and backwards to create screechy sounds
4. Ask for more paper even though you don't need it
5. Ask for the time every 30 seconds
6. Hide cheat sheets in your calculator to 'test' the stringency of checking for cheating
7. Sigh very loudly every time the teacher announces how much time you have
8. Sigh even louder whenever the teacher says there's some mistake in the question that you have to correct (what, waste my time to answer the questions)
9. Clear your throat. A lot.
10. And a personal favourite of mine:
Wait until the teacher's on the opposite side of the room, and then ask for one sheet of paper. And when she walks over, say

'I'm sorry, but I think I need another sheet'

And make her walk all the way back to get another for you. And rinse and repeat every single time (which will probably be less than two times, unless your teacher's an idiot).

Now that's a true classic.

It's your right! It's your entitlement!

Don't you love the feeling of empowerment?

2006-09-29T20:25:00.000-07:00

History Textbook, Chapter 6, page 96, footnotes:

'Ikan bilis is the Malay word for a kind of small fish known as the anchovy.'

2006-09-27T23:59:00.000-07:00

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.

2006-09-21T03:30:00.000-07:00

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!!!

2006-09-17T00:02:00.000-07:00

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!

2006-09-14T00:35:00.000-07:00

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.

2006-09-09T23:31:00.000-07:00

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.

2006-09-07T04:47:00.000-07:00

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.

2006-09-05T17:34:00.000-07:00

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.

2006-09-04T01:17:00.000-07:00

HIATUS.

Back after EOYs!

Which is like a really long time away, but whatever.

2006-09-02T03:47:00.000-07:00

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?

2006-08-31T16:38:00.000-07:00

2006-08-31T01:20:00.000-07:00

PICTURES

HAHA FORGET IT.

2006-08-30T05:50:00.000-07:00

TTM MELINDA AND WHOEVER VANDALISED MY HAND WITH ZIG MARKERS I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!

(at IMM)
busybody primary school girl in pink: Mom! Look! An MGS girl! An MGS girl! (pointing, obviously at me)
Mother: Where?
Pink Girl: There!
Mother: (looks, then in a loud, exaggerated whisper) See ah, all MGS girls like to draw on their hands.

!!!

2006-08-28T05:40:00.000-07:00

PICTURES!

By making us visit the TEA CHAPTER teahouse (weird name, I know), mgs tries to no avail to educate her girls about tea etiquette and Chinese culture.

Cause we spend all the time there taking photos.

Liana learning how to make mooncakes!

Our table.

From here on the photos get a bit dark and blurry- try squeezing 10-odd people at the (storeroom?) back of a tea house and you'll see why.

Tam mei has suction pads on her mouth, I swear. Either that or it's a gravity-defying miracle.

This is like the only serious shot in the whole lot of photos- grace fong sitting quietly sipping her tea looking every bit, well, graceful.

Most of the pictures are shrunken down to a fifth of their original size, so if you want the originals, tell me or leave a tag. I'll email them to you.

And there's also a load of other shots I didn't put up, so tell me if you want them.

OH! AND OUR AMATEUR MUSIC VIDEO!

Sung to the tune of... Sarah says it's someday we will know?

Starring:
Sarah Thiam -the girlfriend
Tan Tam Mei -the boyfriend
Melinda Ang -song singer
Tricia Chng and Gabby Loo -two background people sitting a seat behind us who consciously duck down everytime the camera moves upwards.

2006-08-25T23:56:00.000-07:00

Thankfully, Stupid.com never receives any complaints. But if we did, we think something like this would come in quite handy.

It's a handy display for your desk, counter top, or... if you have one... your actual complaint department.

The display clearly announces "COMPLAINT DEPARTMENT" in bold type, and depicts a pointing hand that says "Take A Number.
"
The number, however, just happens to be connected to the pin on a hand grenade. Theoretically, the complainer will re-think his gripe, decide it's not really that important, and walk away.
The entire display is about 8 inches tall and comes in a fun box. We shouldn't have to say this, but we will... The hand grenade is fake. Though it looks real, it's actually made of squeezable rubber.

We're certain you'll get loads of laughs with this thing. And if you don't, you're welcome to come down to our Complaint Department and take a number.

With some people, it's impossible to get off the phone. You WANT to, but the person on the other end keeps blabbing on and on about NOTHING. "My boyfriend said this..." "My mother wants that..." "A crocodile's in my bathtub..." Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

If only there were a graceful way to break free!
Well -- surprise surprise -- now there is.

Meet the GET OFF THE PHONEEXCUSE MACHINE

It's a small electronic device that performs a huge public service. With just a press of a button, you'll have a solid excuse that'll get you off the phone, no questions asked.

DOOR BELL
Just say, "Whoops. There's the door. Gotta go."
STATIC
Press this button and say, "I can't hear you. You're breaking up!" Then just hang up the phone. SIREN
After this loud police siren wails, you can say "Uh, oh, it's the cops. Look, I gotta run."
BABY CRYING
Hey, you'd love to talk, but you have take care of the baby.
CAR CRASHING
Just say, "Oh, my god!" and hang up.
KNOCK..KNOCK...CHINESE FOODThis is our favorite.
Sounds like a delivery man just brought your dinner.

If you've been searching for a way to look like an idiot, your quest is over. Meet...

BASKET CASE

Basket Case is basically a basketball hoop hat. The goal of the game is to toss red and white balls into the air and catch them in the net on top of your head.

There's no way you can avoid looking like an imbecile as you play this game. Naturally, this makes Basket Case is a terrific party game. Just pray that nobody has a camcorder or camera when it's your turn to play it.

It comes with everything you see, including the stupid box. Dignity not included.

Haha this is just what I want for my birthday. From stupid.com, link stolen from ttm (: .

I'm not going for the MEP concert tonight. No way. No one's going to force me to listen to two and a half hours of chinese music on a Saturday night. Hmph.

2006-08-25T03:19:00.000-07:00

SMILE SINGAPORE!

four million smiles, light up those faces, Singapore!

To submit a smile is no hassle, to write an entire argumentative essay IN CHINESE then read it out to the class and answer spontaneous questions is another. But I will get through it with my own efforts! ... and a bit of my tution teacher's help, I suppose.

Anyway today I have learnt that in the alternate-reality universe of personality tests and shrinks, if you draw a mouse on the middle of your page head facing left with four legs and large ears, you are:

1. Serious

2. Stable

3. Creative

4. A good listener.

Like wow, one stupid mouse-like doodle can change the way you perceive yourself forever. Someone sue the stupid personality test industry for coming up with the Mouse Personality Test.

AND ISO PICTURES! Thanks Grace!

So we play dress up as public relations managers so (hopefully) we get higher ISO grades.

NO HOLD ON...

We BETTER GET EXTRA POINTS!

I didn't walk up and down in HELL-HIGH HEELS for nothing, or squeeze myself into a blazer and don a tie! OR WEAR A FRIGGIN WEIRD SKIRT.

My hair's so messy and my tie! I look like someone who slept and drooled all over the office desk.

2006-08-24T00:46:00.000-07:00

It's been 5-6 days since I last updated, but this really freaky thing's happening so I just have to post it.

Apparently, someone's been stealing our shoes.

Yes, I'm not kidding. Someone's been going to our doorstep and stealing our shoes. And omg are my parents damn pissed.

Apparently my dad went to play golf early this week, AND SOMEONE TOOK HIS GOLF SHOES! Unbelievable huh. So he had to by new shoes at the golf course.

And then one day later someone took his working shoes, those black polished so-shiny-I-can-see-my-reflection-in-them whatever their called shoes to wear to work.

And then this morning/yesterday night someone took my mum's really tattered sandals.

And this is the really creepy part- apparently the mysterious unknown shoe-stealer only takes one half of the pair of shoes! (Like either the right or the left side). That narrows the suspects down to only amputated one-foot shoe-stealers or someone who likes to wear unmatching male and female shoes on both feet.

Or, as my mother says, someone is trying to purposely throw one side of the shoe away SO WE CAN'T WEAR THE PAIR OF SHOES AT ALL AND THIS IS PURPOSEFULLY DAMN IRRITATING. At least if you took one side I would think you were some poor person who couldn't afford to buy shoes and let it slide, because charity is always good and zhu ren wei kuai le zhi ben!

But no, the 23244ing person brilliantly took one side, knowing that no store freaking sells shoes by single sides! Bloody irritating, I swear. Just because he takes one side with the intention to irritate us WE CAN'T WEAR THAT PAIR OF SHOES ANYMORE.

So now I have moved in all the sneakers and all my pairs of shoes, including the pink ah lian ones I don't wear anymore, into the house.

So tomorrow night, I will wait outside my back door behind the dengue-ridden potted plants, and when that shoe-stealer appears I will WACK HIS FACE IN WRATH WITH MY SUPERMARKET SLIPPERS and then dangle him over the railings and make him finish licking them clean before he can come back up again.

Shoe-stealer, you have been warned.

Now that I have vented out my anger, I feel muchhh happier? Anger Management hahahaha.

So anyway sze your pics:

I don't really like this picture but it's the first one without my braces!

And grace's ISO group yours:

and Grace C send me the pics before the ISO presentation the other day!

There you go, super long post for a super long weekend.

And life science sucked, so I'd rather not talk about it.

2006-08-19T23:52:00.000-07:00

Hello!

I know my entries have been very boring recently, so to spice things up, heres for...

A little eye candy!
Don't say my blog not interesting arh!
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Haha! I suppose all of you fell for it right?

2006-08-18T22:02:00.000-07:00

I was just browsing through all my files, and I found a whole lot of random pictures:

Sze says there's a new Nets commercial, but I've been watching a load of tv and I haven't seen it yet. She's commercial-crazy! I remember the Lock-and-Lock one she told me about ages ago, and I suppose she was the first one to see it on tv.

Sze watches tv for the commercials, seriously.

My fave commercials
1. Richard Gere's (DBS? some credit card) bank commerical, the Indian one about releasing the birds and even funnier, the mrbrown parody.

2. The new Bolly Bolly! CD commercial with the I-shakes-my-turbaned-head-vigorously mascot with coolio sunglasses.

3. All the carlsberg ones with the nice songs!

4. Crazy gravity-defying Amazing Race-esque FedEx commercials.

5. The Starhub cable tv one with the guy whose mother is always crying.

I remember last time there used to be really cute commercials, like the Oreo one where we used to sing the Oreo jingle (which didn't have anything to do with the words 'twist', 'lick' or 'dunk'.)

Going to watch Citizen Kane now, yay for nostalgic black and white films. The last of these sort I ever watched was Gone With The Wind. Hold on, that was in colour right?

Can you believe it? Citizen Kane
1. Came out before my parents were born, and when my grandfather was a young boy, before WW2.
2. 's actors and actresses have all died except some guy who acted as a boy in the film.

Un-bahleef-able.

2006-08-18T05:54:00.000-07:00

What do

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have in common?

2006-08-16T03:35:00.000-07:00

Maths test tomorrow.

And on my birthday, 9TH OCTOBER O6 there's going to be two maths papers.

@#$%^!!!!!!!!!

Make sure you remember to give me presents to cheer me up.

2006-08-14T02:35:00.000-07:00

Today was a Monday, and the first time in my secondary school life that I could actually watch TV in the afternoon (The Ellen DeGenres(sp?) Show, if you were wondering what). Supposed to study for a Maths test, but thanks to Mr Yeo's wonderful tradition of always having tests on Thursdays, we are mercifully spared.

The only time watching a movie is ever counted as homework is in Social Studies.

And Citizen Kane, aside from being an oldie and all, is pretty cool. It sounds like one of those mystery/suspense thrillers that have large, major twists in the end. And lucky for us, citizen kane has A HUGE SURPRISE I BET YOU NEVER EXPECTED IT in the end!

I know because I was checking wiki for information and there, right there, was the sypnosis. And right before the big twist there was a teensy-weensy line IN THE EXACT SAME FONT AND COLOUR that read:

'spoiler warning'.... blah blah blah.

I scrolled down to fast, and there it was, staring at me in my eyes, the ending which was really a good surprise.

I hate spoilers.

Every spoiler warning should be like this:

100000001 pop-ups, each bearing the same words 'spoiler warning' in bright yellow font on black background and then this:

And then in georgia font size 0.000000005 in yellow font on white background, the end of the plot. That's the way things should be done, and then there would be no more need for spoilers so people can just GO WATCH THE MOVIE. Yay.

2006-08-12T23:11:00.000-07:00

Post number one-oh-one.

I love Liana's new blogskin!

Studying for MEP now, which reminds me of why teachers can't teach more useful things like how to eat ice cream every day without getting fat, or why pink and purple polka dots don't match, and other philosophy of life stuff. That would be a whole lot more useful.

It's my brother's birthday next week, so does anybody have any idea what makes a good present for a twelve-year-old? I know they are pretty satisfied with comics, computer games and the occasional bar of chocolate, but I need to get him a present! So that I will get one for my birthday.

2006-08-11T00:57:00.000-07:00

Listen up, this might be the most sensationally striking piece of philosophy you have ever seen in your entire life.

TEN ALL-IMPORTANT LIFE LESSONS WE CAN LEARN FROM EMILY OF EMERALD HILL

1. When ordering cakes from a patisserie, it's always good to assume a posh accent.
2. It takes three weeks to get to England by boat.
3. Try not to force anybody out of horseriding- it's an obsessive sport.
4. Getting eighth in class when your older cousin got eleventh is not bad at all.
5. If you suspect your husband is visiting his mistress instead of going on an overseas trip, always check if his car is parked next to his mistress' house. Yes, and guys being dumb makes it to the 100000001th reason why women should rule the Earth.
6. The way to a man's heart is through is stomach. Be prepared to whip up a mean babi buah keluak in exchange for your husband's devotion.
7. Cows have udders. Ok we didn't learn that from EOEH, but it was an important fact from Chinese.
8. Always wear a pink coat when you are thinking about younger times, it makes you look younger. Just like how Barbie does to girls.
9. Remember, always remember, that when you are buying prawns you must squat down to examine the uncle's baskets cause you'd never know, he might be hiding big ones underneath.
10. Stop reading, and learn how to cook. And no, instant noodles don't count.

2006-08-10T04:23:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIANA!

I can't believe it, I have absolutely no pictures of with you without me looking retarded! Liz and you look so sunny here. But oh well NOW YOU'RE FOURTEEN AND I STILL AM NOT, HMPH!

Next time postpone your birthday to 9th October, then you can celebrate the same time as me! (after exams also)

You've been a wonderfully great friend, and really really really nice to talk to!

Haha yeah, God bless your fourteenth year!

P.S. Next time find something else for me to get you on your birthday can? Haha I estimate at this rate you will probably have the full complete set of Zig markers twice over before you graduate from Sec 4.

LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF BIRTHDAY LOVE TO OUR OOH-I'VE-JUST-TURNED-FOURTEEN,-BE-VERY-JEALOUS GIRL!

Love, Nat.

2006-08-09T02:17:00.000-07:00

You know its National Day when your dad tries to call Pizza Hut up ten times but the line's always engaged, just because he, like a million not-lucky-enough-to-get-NDP-tickets Singaporeans have a craving for pepperoni.

Pizzas in front of the TV?

But, no, I'm going to be a non-conformist and eat it on the dining table and only turn on the TV for Singapore Idol!

National Day nostalgia, okay that's a weird post.

I'm bored. I hear my daddy dialing the number for the gazillionth time on the cordless phone.

2006-08-08T17:50:00.000-07:00

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Getty is really skewed. I searched 'confused' and what came up was a whole lot of pics with girls holding pregnancy test kits and scratching their heads.

HAPPY NATIONAL DAY!

It's raining now, which is one thing I realise is very funny- never on National Day Parade has it ever rained. Right? For the last fourteen years of my life it has never rained during the NDP. I suppose they have a wet weather plan, maybe move everything to the Indoor Stadium or something.

Did you realise that if it ever rained on National Day, there would be:

1. No Red Lions, or whatever they're called, you know those parachuters who always come in flying from the sky one by one.

2. No jet planes with nice smoky trails behind them in different colours, where they always fly up to sky and split into five different trails like the Total Defence symbol.

3. No plane carrying the Singapore flag and flying past when everybody's singing the National Anthem.

4. No fireworks.

Which would really be a spoiler, cause the fireworks are always the best parts of the show after the long and draggy song-and-dance-skit-about-the-history-of-Singapore-with-some-ethnic-music-and-bright-costumes-and-floats-and-heavily-American-accented-voiceovers.

And you know this year's NDP song? I don't like it as much as last year's, cause last year they had the funny dance thingy which was in a way, kind of lets-all-do-it-together fun.

2006-08-07T03:02:00.000-07:00

I was editing our ISO final draft, the segment on consumer confidence. And to my utter surprise, it seems like our group has been taken captive by aliens and brainwashed to speak, write and type in their language.

Let's play... spot the mistake!

Sentence 1:
it is even more important to be considered a brand that I trustworthy...

Sentence 2:
Earlier this year, ReNu, the brand of the contact lens solution was suspected of not cleaning the lenses properly, resulting in the growth of a type of fungi.

Sentence 3:
From ReNu, it has be reemphasized on, the need to hire a professional to test the service and to provide an explanation to the public.

Sentence 4:
In order to make the public forum look more attractive, doorgifts such as a bottle of water or exclusive pen etc could be given out.

And finally, the one sentence that made me sit up and realise that I need to do something quick.....

Sentence 5!
A professional’s credibility is indeed high, as they have a doctrine or a degree in that specific field, and have to a certain extend, plentiful of experience working.

doctrine:
Main Entry: doc·trine Pronunciation: 'däk-tr&nFunction: nounEtymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin doctrina, from doctor1 archaic : TEACHING, INSTRUCTION2 a : something that is taught b : a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : DOGMA c : a principle of law established through past decisions d : a statement of fundamental government policy especially in international relations e : a military principle or set of strategies

And I think doctorate would have been a more suitable word:
Main Entry: doc·tor·ate Pronunciation: 'däk-t(&-)r&tFunction: noun: the degree, title, or rank of a doctor

Mistakes, mistakes. I wags my finger.

2006-08-06T04:45:00.000-07:00

I watched The Lakehouse!

Haha actually it was a long time ago, just that I forgot and I haven't blogged about it.

So, The Lakehouse in two words:

BO RING.

Oh, so that's one word? Whatever, the same meaning. It was a completely pointless plot, something you know will never exist ( I mean, hello, dating a guy who lives two years behind you?) and the show was so slow-moving.

You know, like some shows you can really be attached to the whole plot, and not blink or twitch an eye and pay full attention, and other shows you just feel like sleeping and sort of wishing you can get out of the cinema as soon as possible.

The Lakehouse, unfortunately, is one of those (the latter) shows, along with other shows I fell asleep in like Just My Luck and Aquamarine.

NO JOKES.
NO GAGS.
NO TALKING ( I know it's supposed to be one of those artistic films where there's not supposed to be any noise to make it feel as poetic and as LURRRVE-y as possible. But I HATE those films).
NO FUNNY FIGHTING SCENES (I know we all hate Jackie Chans and all, but sometimes the plot gets so amazingly boring you need something to push it along. Like Daredevil and Elektra's preschool playground fighting scene in Daredevil).
NO HOT GUYS. (No offence to Keanu Reeves fans, I mean, I used to like him in the Matrix. But that was like a long, long long long long loooooong time ago).
NO POPCORN (ok, fine, we didn't buy it)

TOO MUCH CRYING AND CRYING AND CRYING AND SOBBING AND DRAMATISING THE WHOLE THING.

Someone needs to tell Sandra Bullock this:
So what if you would never meet your penpal again? For all you know, the person could be someone horribly deformed, or even a girl (gasp, a conspiracy! That will at least make this ho-hum plot interesting!).

I don't think anybody could fall in love with a person you've never met. It's impossible, and the whole unreality of the whole thing PLUS the fact that they live two years apart (so time-traveller's wife, so cliche) IS UNBELIEVABLE.

So, want to watch a good show?

DON'T watch this.

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Anyway today after church me and Amelia (fine, gramatically it should be amelia and me) went to Wisma, looked around for a bit, she bought a necklace! Then I took 171 back home. Ho-hum. Any more boring and my life can be made into an artistic movie.

2006-08-04T07:06:00.000-07:00

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

DID YOU WATCH THE 9.00 SHOW? Yaye the ending just as I wanted it.

Love At 0° CEvery Mon-Fri, 9pm
Episodic Synopsis
Ep: 20
Friday, August 4, 2006
21:00:00

FINALE!

Yixin proposes to Weixiang at the fashion show. Guobin is badly affected and decides to marry An-na. On the wedding day, Weixiang senses that Yixin still loves Guobin. He decides to leave Yixin.

Taken from mediacorp.

See? It was cleverly deceiving.

But whatever, as long as Yixin ends up with Weixiang!

Yaye, I knew if the ending was otherwise people would have complained.

2006-08-03T06:13:00.000-07:00

Will. Somebody. Kill. Me. Please.

This is not happening.

nat wong. says:
maisie how long is your geog report?

maisie. sounds like the squeaky pickles says:
8

nat wong. says:
AHHHHHHHHH!

And so I thought it was ok, cause maisie is the class robot and its typical for her to do things like that, along with aceing every single test and doing long long math in her mind.

So I asked someone else:

GAYLE PLEASE DON'T GO FOR MY HEART WILL SURELY BREAK says:
um
GAYLE PLEASE DON'T GO FOR MY HEART WILL SURELY BREAK says:
12
GAYLE PLEASE DON'T GO FOR MY HEART WILL SURELY BREAK says:
my effects 8 pages...

And then I tried to justify:

nat wong. says:
does yours include pictures?

nat wong. says:
is it double spaced?

GAYLE PLEASE DON'T GO FOR MY HEART WILL SURELY BREAK says:
1.5

nat wong. says:
does it have a very large font?

Thank God, there's someone sane in the class:

nat wong. says:
sophia how long is your geog report?

like today never happened; sophia says:
hey about 600 words i think

like today never happened; sophia says:
570

like today never happened; sophia says:
around there

nat wong. says:
oh ok

I feel better now.

GAYLE PLEASE DON'T GO FOR MY HEART WILL SURELY BREAK says:
omg.
GAYLE PLEASE DON'T GO FOR MY HEART WILL SURELY BREAK says:
IM SO DEAD.
GAYLE PLEASE DON'T GO FOR MY HEART WILL SURELY BREAK says:
i have like e longest

Yes jong, you're so dead. Cause I'm so jealous, I shall murder you tonight and steal your report! RAWR.

2006-08-03T02:13:00.000-07:00

ITS OVERRRRRR.

And you know, my examiner looked so much like Sandra Kaplan I swear I thought they were the same person, and I was like thinking, wow, Sandra Kaplan is multi-talented a,dshe can play the piano and flute and do elements of thinking (though not at the same time),and she has two different names! Her alias is Brenda Dykes!

But yeah she was nice, and even though I messed the whole piano playing up she didn't cringe or faint or throw up over my nice white shirt. I suppose it must be due to loads of experience listening to this sort of people, and having sadistic satisfaction of failing them by half a mark.

Haha.

Ok, off to homework now, geog(!) and math will kill me if I don't commit suicide first.

2006-08-02T00:44:00.000-07:00

Eight reasons why staying in MGS keeps you healthy.

1. Walking up the Blackmore Road lump. Which can't be called a hill, cause its not steep enough to kill you.

2. Climbing four flights of stairs every other period.

3. Running up four flights of stairs from the canteen to get to class on time.

4. Healthy yoghurt with fruits!

5. Running, it seems that with the new track PE teachers just can't get enough of it.

6. Dashing up to the classroom from the homeroom under 2 minutes to get Miss Tan's worksheets, fearing immediate doom by slavery.

7. The science block, which surprisingly, makes things a lot further.

8. The freezer aircon in the library, LT and chapel. Because when your body looses heat faster, it has to use more energy to generate more heat. Right? Physics :)

Today was so tiring a record 4 people fell asleep in history class. And then we basically just goofed around for the whole day, and did ISO.

And during class phototaking, sze said something about never being able to stand on the top bench (sounds like a sob story huh), so she stood with the tallies during the informal shot and we hoisted her up so she could be the same height as us. And we didn't do anything interesting for the informal shots, no dance moves from the hiphop dance thingy or rock on signs or kawaii I-know-my-eyes-are-huge-freaky-but-I-can-make-them-bigger-and-at-the-same-time-do-a-peace-sign-to-cover-the-hideous-pimples-on-my-face shots.

And then I skipped cca, cause tomorrow is the lovely PIANO EXAM and I'm blogging instead of practising cause I want to DESTRESS.

And Singapore Idol tonight! Though I probably won't be able to catch it, I mean, freaking over piano exam and all.

Saw this on getty.

2006-08-01T01:15:00.000-07:00

Typing out some philo project about monogamy for sze, which is essentially the practice that you can only marry one partner. As opposed to polygamy.

And just by pure coincidence, guess what I saw on today's Digital Life supplement? (go read the whole article, it's quite interesting).

Chatroom slang:
IMONOGAMY: The practice of chatting into only one window at a time.
Example: "He must be serious about this girl. When she comes online, he is IMonogamous and ignores everybody else who messages him."

Haha.

I'm imonogamying with sze now!

2006-07-31T01:16:00.000-07:00

Vampy picture stolen from yuli!

My, my, if you ever came home looking like that, wouldn't your mother freak out, hurl and commit suicide?

That's half of the Lot's Wife Quintet, the freakiest they will probably ever dare to venture in their lifetime (unless one of us turns goth, that is) with loads of eyeliner and Jaime's amazing drawing skills.

I swear, Jaime can draw on anything, even pimples. Though she charges an extra 10 dollars for that.

Boy, I sure miss the musical, pigging out near the staff room (again probably the last time we will ever get to eat outside the canteen), waiting and waiting and waiting for the Miriam song to end, playing freaky music, listening to the serpent's witty lines, and laughing like crap over stupid jokes. And the last time I will ever get to look so ~~vampy~~ goth.

More pics later, when I finally muster enough strength to dig out my camera and start uploading. I'm tired enough practising for Thursday's piano exam, thankyouverymuch.

2006-07-28T19:49:00.000-07:00

Lao po bings (wife biscuits) taste so gross, if my future husband was to give me one I would divorce him right away.

2006-07-28T18:49:00.000-07:00

Sooner Or Later We Have To Stop Inventing Retarded Things Like These

These I'm-trying-to-look-like-a-barren-two-leafed-plant thingies called Eco Flip Flap Minis cost a remarkably amazing $19.95 each for 8 cm of plastic (and please don't make me repeat how many boxes of chicken rice you can buy with that amount).

You can't really see from the picture, but here's what the ad says:

Liven up your surroundings with cool, moving toy plants from TOMY! They will sway in the light and sooth you into a magical holiday mood. Best of all, these eco-friendly plants are solar-powered and do not require batteries or water. They're ideal as Xmas gifts for friends, family, and make a great treat for yourself too. Pick up an irresistably cute Eco Flip Flap Mini today!

So you're paying $19.95 for a solar-powered piece of plastic that 'sways in the light'? Wow, this is so remarkably ridiculous it blinds me in amazement. And hold on a moment, how can plastic toys be eco-friendly? Just because they don't use electricity? Helloooo, plastic is the most un-biodegradable material in the world, you burn it and burn it and burn it and it still doesn't decompose, and it releases toxic fumes.

Please tell me I was foolish enough not to flip over to the other side and discover that these plants could cure cancer or had amazing psychic properties, because I can't believe anybody can sell a piece of 8cm long plastic that can't do anything but sway and still earn money.

And they 'put you into a relaxing mood'? Please, if I was ever to have one of these swaying up and down on my desk I would be so annoyed and distracted I would instinctively fling it out of the window and then realise half-a-second later that I have just thrown $19.95 down the trash bin.

With $19.95 you could:

1. Buy any paperback bestseller from Popular.
2. Eat steak at Swensens.
3. Have 5 serves of double-flavour ice-cream at Island Cremery.
4. Buy a year's supply of toilet paper.
5. Buy two pairs of Forever 21 sunglasses.
6. Buy 7.98 packs of chicken rice.
7. Go for two rounds of nice nice neoprints
8. Watch Pirates of The Carribean with a friend.
9. Take 44.3333333333333 bus rides.

Or...

10. Buy a Flip Flap Mini.

It's your choice.

2006-07-27T17:37:00.000-07:00

I hate the phrase "do you mind".

It's so fakely prim and proper, and

IT'S A BLOODY TRICK QUESTION. Look:

Person A: Do you mind if I use your pencil?
Person B: Ye...er.. No.

Person A: Do you mind if I stuff your pencil up your nose and jam it in until it bleeds and the capillaries burst, and at the same time give your stomach a knuckle-punch so I can see blood coming out from both your nose and your mouth at the same time?
Person B: NO! AHHHHHH! Wrong-bloody one! *pencils stuffed up nose, knuckle-punched* I meant Yes!

Told you.

2006-07-25T23:44:00.001-07:00

E-Learning Week!
(Though it's not really an entire week. Maybe an e-learning half week.)

LA poem
LA oral
Read higher chinese powerpoints
~~Set language and notation worksheets~~
~~Similar figu~~res worksheet
~~Physics worksheet~~
~~LS worksheet~~
Geog forum
~~History poste~~r on chapter 9
Social studies

List taken from andrea. -> http://ilurvechocolates.blogspot.com .
Thanks!

By the way, I got new glasses. Which are like the same ol' box-shaped ~~emo kid~~ look just that they're a lot skinner, and black-rimmed with apple green sides.

ANYWAY, here are the top eight reasons why I can't be a beauty paegant queen:

1. The whole looks department thingy. Not going to elaborate cause that will cost me another 1000 reasons.

2. No way you will force me into a dress made out of flimsy metal with gaping holes.

3. I can't gush excitedly about 'wearing my heart on my sleeve' or about 'sky-diving in Idaho', which, by the way, will cause your intestines and kidneys to spew out below you and form a safety net.

4. I'm not that avid about world peace. Nor am I about cheesy grins.

5. I hate animals. I think one day I shall form an organisation who does nothing but throw tranquilizer darts at strays and other SPCA people.

6. I can't walk in heels, damnit. And yes, I still want to ban them.

7. There's no way I can hip dance vigourously while showing off my national costume and saying the name of my country with much fake spanish flair and rolling of tongues with pretentious gusto.

8. All that waxing = UGH.

2006-07-25T01:26:00.000-07:00

And yes, that's our very own MsUniverse 2006.

And I remember reading the comic strip in the newspaper, if it's a Ms Universe contest, where are all the contestants from outer space?

But whatever. I think she's pretty, and she deserves it, cause she has really really pretty eyes. Just a tad too skinny though. It looks a bit freakish being skeletal and all.

And then she fainted. Which was really no surprise, because imagine wearing a dress made out of heavy metal chains and walking around in it for a few hours, I mean, even if you don't die of the heaviness of it all you would die of the cold. I can imagine, her being so skinny and all, freezing herself to death. Poor thing.

I don't think anyone had to suffer so much wearing a dress before since Mathilda Trump performed the insane feat of wearing a 50-pounder wedding dress. I mean, you might want to have the most unique dress on your wedding day, being incredibly out-of-this-world-ly rich and all, but don't need to go to that extent right?

I think there should be a bill against wearing unwearable dresses. Yes, which is the first law the PPP (People's Purple Party) will make if you vote us into Parliament. VOTE US AND WE WILL TAKE AWAY ALL THE SUFFERING AND PAIN WOMEN UNDERGO! (besides childbirth, cause there's nothing we can do about it other than Casearean)

2006-07-24T07:27:00.000-07:00

MSN conversations with sze are fun.
And impersonating people. Haha.

And the three-or-so hours I spent working on the political party poster (heck, I took half an hour just to do the logo) has gone down the drain.

Because apparently my mum says that people are not going to trust a party just because it's purple. And she also said purple is the colour of death.

Yes, either my poster really sucks or I have a mean mum.

Then again, I think she's just being really objective, because the purple poster is hideously jarring and I think I would rather die than take another look at it.

2006-07-24T01:09:00.000-07:00

Have you seen the History Assignment yet? You're supposed to design a poster for an imaginary party of your own interest to run for the 1959 elections.

As I have said before, if I were ever to start a party, I would call it the People's Purple Party. Why? Because purple is a good people's colour. It's THE PEOPLE'S PURPLE.

Actually I couldn't really decide on a name. People's Purple Party? Or the People's Party Against the Cruelty of Barney The Dinosaur Who Aside From Being The World's Biggest Goof Is Also Co-incedentially Purple. But I figured People's Purple Party rolls off the tongue better.

Haha, as you can see, my logo is basically one big piece of ugly purple shit. But whatever, because you don't vote for a party just because you like it's posters, right?

You would vote for a party because it is PURPLE.

2006-07-22T04:31:00.000-07:00

So here I am, in the comfort of my home, playing the computer while all you unfortunate Sec 2t/2g girls are slaving away in the dead of the night presenting your exhibitions to hundreds of thousands of guests who only care about dinner.

Haha, kidding.

CAUSE WE REALLY DESERVE A BREAK AFTER THIS WHOLE FOUNDERS DAY/OPENING DAY/MUSICAL DAYS.

And this is the evidence:

After staying up till past midnight for the past week or two because after coming back at 11-ish I need to SHOWER, EAT, AND STUDY FOR THE HISTORY TEST, I now:

1. Have heavy heavy heavy heavy heavy eyebags, not just the panda eye kind but the panda panda plus groteseque cleopatra eyeliner kind.

2. Sleep during history, and only wake up when Mrs Ng starts talking to me.

3. Sleep during founders day and opening day technical rehearsals ON THE STAGE WITH BRIGHT DAMNING LIGHTS

and....

DRUMROLL

4. Fall-a-freaking-sleep during the actual opening day itself (today), while on the stage with the rest of the ensemble with all the audience with the bright lights, and I didn't wake up until I dropped my bow with a loud ker-plang and everyone looking and....

I WAKE UP, REALISING I AM HUGGING MY VIOLA SO THAT MY HEAD HAS SOMEWHERE TO REST ON.

As in, I love my viola yeah, but not that much.

And I think I probably smooched it a couple of times in my sleep.

Splendid, right?

2006-07-20T00:35:00.000-07:00

YOYOYO. TTM HERE.

Nat's blog sucks. Go to ttmttmttm.blogspot.com for better entertainment. (: JOKING. Nat's blog is 'interesting' but Mine's better.

ARGH. Opening ceremony rehearsal , where we'll practice shakign the minister's hand, and LOOK HIM IN THE EYE. Won't that scare him? Poor guy. Having a few dozen MG girls STARE HIM IN THE EYE. Nat's a geek. She plays the Piano, Violin and Viola. GEEK. NOT the geek in pink. But just geek with glasses.

NO I AM NOT I AM A GEEK IN THE RED CAUSE RED'S COOL AND YOU'RE NOT.;

Red si an ah lian colour. Don't you notice the ah Lians love to wear it? They even have red underwear with the 'fu' word on it. And red is CHEENA because red is used for Chinese new year. Not only are you a geek. YOu are CHEENA. (:

Red -> auspicious. Red -> Good luck. The official ah lian colour is pink, dumb ttm.

But the supposedly good luck from the colour red, is from china. Alot of china people are CHEENA. SO YOU CHEENA. (:

BLAH.