at home slacking...

the first batch of the Global Classroom programme ppl are leaving tonight. they are probably at the airport now.

Red nails

I painted my fingernails Red.
yeah. in this shade.
and i've already painted my toenails red too. 2 weeks ago.
I look like some bimbo. haha.

and I realised that I'm actually eating pepper, winter melon, mushrooms, beans, the lotus root thing, bean sprouts, and drinking soup now. maybe tomorrow I will discover that I actually eat bitter melon too. Which i swear i'll never eat.

I think i've grown a lot these days. not literally. i mean, more boring, like an adult. wooohoooo!!!

and so there goes my red nails.

to match it, I'm wearing a pink blouse, pink pants, and pink slippers when i went to buy dinner just now.

This is our class photo!!!
taken on the last day of sec 3. 31st october 2008.
Actually, we'll still be in the same class next year.
=D i like that.
P.S. as usual, my head looks big with that haircut.

below is my schedule.

5.50am: wake up (and thought that its saturday and that school is over. ok, i didnt even hear the alarm. i thought its some music in my dreams. how pathetic.)

6.30am: on the bus to NY. during the journey which as usual, i slept like a pig. and knocked my head on the emergency exit handle two times on my temple, and hit the back of my head once.

7.00am: reached NY.

7.30am: flag raising. saw a never-ending long line of students queuing up to receive prizes.

7.45am: spring cleaning. (i mean, cleaning). slipped away with gengyu and yanqi to check for SMP results. GOT IN!!! =D

7.50am: cont' cleaning. and after that i realised that the fruit basket meant for ms chen is gone.

9.45am: level closure. which i saw myself in an OBS photo, cooking sth. (i think its on the fourth day) do i look so old with long hair?

10.30am: break. ate beef don, bu couldnt finish it. since when had i been incapable of finishing food?

11.30am:class closure. issue of report books. photocopy of results for SMP. stoned for the rest of the time.

12.30p: sneaked out of the class and came to library. after 1/2 hour of fruitless searching, i came to the com and started blogging.

1.00pm: class supposed to go for global classroom programme briefing. since i have none...

2.00pm(now): blogging. will go for choir prac at 2.30pm. hopefully they can release us ON TIME for once. you know, last day of school and all. i dont want to reach home in darkness again.
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above is my routine of the day. and this has been the same for the whole week.
now you understand why i sound so sad and depressed.

looking at a pretty looking salad (made by our class in the salad making competition). and thinking about the process during which the salad was made.

Me: 知道什么是艺术吗？
Qianying: ......
Me:艺术就是看着好看，但不能当饭吃的东西。
Qianying: "'

so to get rid of my depressness (sorry, depression), i resorted to reading tong's email. when she still had internet access and wrote emails.

:"
We went shopping and all that the next day. We went to the book shop which is like, 7 floors high and some other places. It was very nice!!! I bought books, but due to the lack of money, I did not buy more. I shall buy 1 or 2 for you okay :) The ones I bought were very nice :D But I didnt really see many Rao Xue Man's books leh. It was so saddening. Sigh.
"

WOW. i want to go china for 3 months like tong. instead of australia.

not that australia is bad. but there are so many rules. and PLUS I have to write articles for lian he zao bao after i come back. Even though i scored surpringly very high and made a li4 shi3 xin1 gao1 for my chi paper 1, you know, writing has never been my thing. the australia trip competition nearly killed me. And did i mention that i didnt sleep until 1am for nth night? and yeah now that i got the prize ppl think it seems so easy. well, i guess it should be, if you havent gone to austria for some choir competition, come back with a jet lag after travelling for 19 hours, couldnt sleep for days and had BLOCKS to prepare immediately, since the first day of school is the exam? AND that the teachers DIDNT exempt us from taking the hecking IH paper even though the band ppl are exempted? and that after the blocks we have to chiong 10 days of undone homework + making up for all the missed lessons? cos on my first day of lessons i couldnt understand a single thing about trigo and had no idea why 180 degrees is pie? yeah right.

sorry. the above comments are not specific to anyone. im just rambling and trying to vent my frustrations. after all, im a sec 3 Nanyang girl who's stressed like anybody else.

btw, i just cooked lunch, washed 2 days of dishes, and mopped the whole house. i want my mum.

Humpth. I suddenly got very depressed thinking about my results. Ok. look, i already sorta expected it before i even took the exam, since these marks all met the expectation. Bottom of the range though.

and without the stupid jap which took me a month to prepare, I could have done better in Lang Arts. then i could have gotten A1 for everything. Ewwww.......

I'm bored...surprisingly, having nothing to do felt worse than EOY. I'd rather have the exams...then i can retake and do better haha.

anyway, i'm reading this 林语堂 book called 《京华烟云》。 it sounded like some stupid love story with the pink book cover and all. only turned out that it was a series of stories happening qing-->post qing--> republic of china--> kang ri. still its kinda nice and reminded me of 《红楼梦》, which i happened to like a lot.

anyway.

i saw this 宋词 while roaming aimlessly online and I LIKE IT ALOT!!! haha i dont really get the meaning though. but still here's the poem:

庭院深深深几许，杨柳堆烟，帘幕无重数。玉勒雕鞍游冶处，楼高不见章台路。 雨横风狂三月暮，门掩黄昏，无计留春住。泪眼问花花不语，乱红飞过秋千去。

and while reading Laura's blog i saw this poem which i happened to like as well. cheers honey! we have another thing in common!

Ode to a toilet
by Tamzin Merchant
I’ve never failed to notice how
Loos are generally excluded
From literature and suchlike,
And so I have concluded:

In general, as a Nation, we
Refrain from using ‘poo’ or ‘pee’
As a legitimate and pressing plight
For characters to exit downstage right

For when did Superman ever say
“Just a sec, love, don’t go away,
Hang on that ledge another mo
Coz when you gotta go, you gotta go!”

Likewise, Shakespeare never proclaim’d
“The human psyche is thus maim’d,
When one hath many things to do,
One always just pops to the loo.”

Caesar never said during orations
“Hang on there, plebs, hold your stations
Your imperial highness will be back in a bit
But just right now, I’m off to the Pit.”

Harry Potter and Friends don’t have time to poo,
Cos they’re always fighting You-Know-Who
They’re far too busy with that three-headed dog
To have time to pay a visit to the Bog.

And Frankenstein’s creature (so people thought)
Was never (lucky sod) caught short.
And so yours truly writes in conclusion:
There is a good deal of toilet confusion

Don’t be deceived by the characters you see
(From the Frodos to the Captain Cooks)
And here’s some advice to you from me:
Don’t believe everything you read in books.


Last but not least, according to my honey(haha):

(quoted from laura's blog again)
[Oh yes and by the way, Merchant was most famous for playing Georgiana Darcy in P&P (2005). She should be famous for this as well. ]

And need I mention that I TOTALLY agree with you?

Just realise, isnt this the blogskin for 103-203 class blog?

OMG I'm having the same blogskin as my former class blog.

But whatever. I'm too tired to change it now.

P.S. this skin does not show titles. which suits me even better, since I'm too lazy to write one.

and, should I get a Suju blogskin?

marking days

Ok. I'm done with the Austria Pics.

I so hate the blogger picture posting system. It drives me bonkers. And to think that I thought I would never use it again since the horrible experience while doing the Australia Project.

Whatever. I guess I would have more to post after I go and come back.

Dont think about it now.

Anyway, after the horrendously stretchy long EOY what spans over 3 weeks (which actually makes up 3/4 of a month), I'm pleased to say that IT IS OVER and that I have survived, breathing and all.

So which makes a good time to go to the PSL camp.

Which is okay for me, since I'll have nothing to do at home anyway. I mean, I can't read recipe books, do sewing and play piano for the whole day right? (OMG that sounds SO like the life of a housewife.)

So off I went to the PSL camp, carrying $100 with me all the time. (OK, Jiamin would be pleased, or should I say, shocked? to know that I have used the SAMe tactic to keep my money as I did in Graz. I shall not tell you HOW I did it.)

and so for the first day we went along Singapore River for the amazing race and I almost got 'chao da' and heatstroke. Surprisingly I did not turn black this time (like the usual), but instead developed this huge gross patch of rashes on my arms.

And then we had what a PSL camp should have.

I almost thought that I could make it and go home happily at the second day, when we played this water game (AKA messy game by the EXCO) and while sliding on soap water, I slipped and fell (WHERE? on my bum of course). And to go with that I had quite a few bruises as well.

So I literally spent the next two days (that is, yesterday and today) lying on my bed.

Minus the baking-a-choco-cake part. and also buying-a-watch part. But then, my mum's leaving for China tonight (I think she's in Changi at this moment), so what can I do? being a filial daughter and all.

So this practically explains why I'm not at the airport crying at this time but blogging instead.

While lying on my bed, I suddenly had this idea that I SHOULD GO GET A BOYFRIEND AND GO OUT DATING. but the mere thought of having to go out and have a date made me take back my wish immediately.

I mean, after that date (or maybe a few dates), what else can I ( we) do? break up? probably. and that would make the end of my first love. haha.

In Vienna...(Still in Austria, though=)

And these are taken in Vienna. I couldnt remember what are the buildings though. Got to check it out yourself.

And btw that muddy looking river is the Danube. According to the tour guide, it's supposed to be blue. but then there were the heavy storm before that so it kinda got flooded and became muddy. What a waste.

In Graz!!!!!

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Ooh this is taken long long ago. I mean, in July. But since I don't have a blog then, (or rather, I hadnt gotten a new blog then), I could only post it now.

Anyway, this is the good old time when I still had Long Hair.

And the rest are some of the photos I took in Graz.

Btw, Graz is in AUSTRIA. That is where we went for the World Choir Games. NOT AUSTRALIA, AS REPORTED IN THE STUPID NEWSPAPER.

Whee!!! my blog is back.