Spring: Sowing the Seeds of Hope

Walking Zombie on the loose

2010-04-29T18:23:00.008+08:00

I don't care if us students are supposed to be the most care-free people in this world. Because I just don't feel care-free at all.

I wake up most days at 4 in the morning (Stay up till 4 in the morning and the tears are pouring and I want to make it worth the fight~ << practically true except for the tears pouring part) just to finish the ever mounting homework. That used to be the exams-only rule. I don't know how I survived this long. SO most days, I look like a walking zombie with panda eyes. Hey, at least I amuse people right? Oh, GP classes started a while ago and I'm having a hard time channeling my inner-GP genius. Cos' sometimes, I JUST DON'T GET IT. Answering the comprehensions, you have to be straight to the point but have to beat around the bush for a bit. You have to go around explaining the metaphor then explain your explanation again. Teacher said she can't "feel" one of my answers this morning. Great. Please teach me how to make her "feel".

ANYWAY, exams are coming, an uhhhhh, can't seem to find the time to start the studying. I sense Dooms Day soon.

Enough with all that though. I have some good news.
For the preliminary round of the debate competition, we had 3 wins in a row, got to the semis with rank #1. :D Something totally new to me. Lost that match in the semis though. SIGH. It was a 2-1. Weren't as sad as I think I would be. It was one hell of an experience :)

OH. And I got accepted into JIS. Gonna start in August :)

I've also just read the most awesome book: The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson. It's funny, romantic, sad, happy, breath-taking at the same time. And did I mention that it's funny?

More soon.

xoxo,

Oops.

2010-03-29T00:46:00.005+08:00

... ...In the midst of everything, I somehow unintentionally forgot to blog again. But it's OK, cos' here I am! :D

It's been the 3rd week since school started, ok well, the last week doesn't count since we're having the holidays. Again. But I can't believe how much I looked forward to it then, even after merely 2 weeks of school in SMSA. Oh, theoretically, it's called the "holidays" because we get to stay at home and not go to school, but the ever thoughtful teachers had given us have piles of homework to fill up the holidays, so as to ensure that we don't feel that "boring" this holiday. My physics teacher called it "Holiday Happiness (aka Homework lah!)". His words, not mine. He said holidays are for the teachers, in fact, everyone else at school, except for us, the poor students.

Anyway, surprisingly, I did not procrastinate this time, I finished my maths, bio and most of my phy homework the first 2 days. Trust me, I would have finished phy too if it weren't so, so hard. It's all settled now though, I asked the pros the other day, right after our lunch at Kaizen. We looked like a bunch of nerds LOL Just in time too, since school's starting tomorrow, or should I say, today, since it's 12:56a.m now. I should really be asleep by now. But oh, this is just one of those days when you're really really tired and you really really want to sleep but you JUST CAN'T. Sigh.

Putting on the tudung seems easier now, but I'm gonna wake up 10 minutes earlier later. Just in case. You know, just in case I forgot How To Put It On Just Right when I wake up later, cos' trust me, I didn't even give it a second look all through the holidays.

My brother participated in the Nature Camp organised by the Forestry Department this holiday so he didn't join us in Singapore. Trust me, the camp was the most luxurious one I've ever seen. The tents were already set up when we reached there (I tagged along just out of curiosity), complete with sockets for I-don't-know-what (since they're not allowed to bring mobile phones or iPods or whatever) and an electric fan for each team. Oh, and they have curry fish head for dinner the first night. I'm serious. They're there to enjoy LOL They're each given a notebook for the camp. When my bro showed it to me, I gasped. Cos' there we are, the PRYNSA gang, right there on the 1st page of the notebook! We looked happy =) Ahhhhhh, the PRYNSA days :D

The 2-and-a-half days S'pore trip was fun, I got to wander around alone a lot, which was something new to me. Didn't get to visit The Universal Studios though. They closed down the roller coaster, so I guess it's better to wait for it since what's a trip to a theme park without a roller coaster ride, right?

School starts in about 7 hours. Will have to work harder for school. The brain really does go rusty after almost 3 months of not using it. :D Plus, I need time to get used to the walking around too. Haha, rushing from this block to that, trying not to be late so that 1) you won't get scolded; and 2) your seat won't be taken, which, when happened, you'll end up sitting far more behind than you already are. Trust me, the size of every single one of my class is HUGE. Around 40 students per set? Yea. You don't want to be sitting too far behind.

I really really want to show you guys how I look in a tudung. But we're not allowed to. Come to think of it, I don't think the discipline asst. mentioned Blogger. So I guess it's... okay?

Spot the dork =)

This was taken during orientation. Our team came in third.

If I were asked to state one accomplishment since I've stepped into SMSA, it would be that I've made the SMSA debate team! There'll be a competition soon :O

More later.

xoxo,

New School. New Start.

2010-03-03T21:41:00.003+08:00

School's starting tomorrow and I'm pretty excited about it. To me, the year's just starting NOW =) I'm sure I wouldn't be able to sleep tonight. Wish me luck, guys! This is gonna be a new start, and it's defnitely not an everyday thing that you're given a chance to start over.

Love you all,

THE Updateeeeeee

2010-02-27T21:33:00.006+08:00

OK, so it's been a month. Well, nearly a month, but ah, that's not the point. I'm gonna keep this post light and breezy, I'm not gonna post about my "Hua Ho incident" (will tell you guys that next time), not gonna post about what is probably the happiest day of my life either (if you're wondering, it's the day we celebrated Wen's 18th b'day and Boy's farewell), neither am I going to post about the day the result came out, I got shivers just thinking about that fateful afternoon LOL, and nope, ain't gonna talk about my trip to JIS too.

So, first thing first, technically, the Chinese New Year will only end after tomorrow, so I guess it's never too late to say:

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR~

I never knew I'd say this, but hey, I'm eager to go back to school. School's starting on the 4th, of march, of course, and I've been pretty excited. There's a catch though, I'll have to learn the art of tudung wearing. It's actually really tricky and then of course, there's also the fact that I look like a total dork in one =.=" Seriously, I got my cousin to help me, with my aunt standing beside us, snapping pictures furiously. I wouldn't be surprised if the pictures are gonna up on Facebook, and then the whole wide world can witness me and my tudung wearing dorky self.

You know how you would do a lot of things you wouldn't do normally when boredom strikes? Guess how I spent my boring days? I re-read every book in sight and downloaded loads and loads of movies off the internet LOL And not just any movies either, I've downloaded the oldies. You know the movies they always mention in books but then you just can't relate because you've never even watched them? Well, problem solved. I've watched Dirty Dancing (both 1 AND 2), Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Serendipity, Notting Hill, Pretty Woman, Ever After, The Princess Bride, Runaway Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Two Weeks Notice, While You Were Sleeping, The Notebook, I even re-watched Miss Congeniality 1 & 2. And the list goes on and on, I know that's a little overwhelming, but I've been really gung ho about watching them all LOL. And yep, all of them have been romantic comedies, sorry if you weren't a fan of the genre, but mind you, they're actually really good. I mean, take the Princess Bride, despite being produce in the year of 1987, it's WAY better than the ones produced recently. My favourite though, has to be Pretty Woman. I just can't get enough of it, it's definitely somewhere on top of my best movies of all time list.

I've also watched Glee, and Ting Wen is right. It's... weird but you can't stop watching it. I can't stop laughing at the scene where the whole football team danced to "Single Ladies" by Beyonce. I mean, trying picturing a group of macho footballers in your mind, complete with their helmet, shoulder pads and everything. Then imagine them all dancing like Beyonce did in her music video in the middle of the field while football game is still going on with spectators watching. Hilarious right?

Oh, and then there's also this Russian guy called Vitas. He has a gorgeous voice, and he can even sing the Dolphin vocal. You've got to watch this:

Ok, I think that's it for now. Ciao!

xoxo,

Smile.

2010-01-30T19:59:00.009+08:00

If you smile through your pain and sorrow, maybe tomorrow you’ll see the sun come shining through the clouds. For you. =) So let our lives be filled with laughter and beautiful stories~ ♥

xoxo,

P.S. Here's something to brighten up your day:

OK, I don't think that's legible. Click the picture above for clearer/bigger/more legible pic. And I guarantee that it'll definitely worth the "click". =)

Reminiscing the times we spent together...

2010-01-17T22:56:00.011+08:00

Live.Laugh.Love. We've been through them all...

Have I ever told you guys what I wrote in the PRYNSA magazine? Wen posted up a video on Facebook which pretty much compiled everything we've been through since first joining PRYNSA. I remember us being all awkward at the beginning because we don't really know each other all that well, I mean, 3 of us junior mixed up with 5 other seniors? I have no clue how our team would work out. Turns out, we hit it off. Watching the video, I was amazed by how much we've been through, how I have already forgotten some of the stuffs we had all laugh SO hard at. It really brought back memories. How can it all be over now? How can it be time to go our own ways? I'm glad that we stayed close, glad that we've bonded over PRYNSA. This is truly something precious, I've been watching the video again and again and again. Not knowing whether to laugh or cry each time. I'll post the video up here when I get it, or you guys can watch it over at youtube. This is what I wrote:

Nepenthes bicalcarata - a word that I can barely pronounce, let alone actually knowing what it actually is a year ago. PRYNSA changed that. It is now a plant that I've come to know and love. Its uniqueness is breathtaking; I'll choose Nepenthes bicalcarata over a bunch of roses any day! I can still recall the pure pride and joy when we first discovered it, now that is something I will never forget.

Yes, the competition is tough and yes, the forest trips are tiring and exhausting. But at the end of the day, it all boils down to teamwork and hard work. Learning to cooperate with teammates who have become more like a family and to bear the disappointments together when things didn't work out has helped us grow socially and emotionally. I'm proud to be part of the PRYNSA team and no matter what happen, I know that we're all in this together. Now, that's a relief, isn't it?

It's been a wonderful journey. Thank you, PRYNSA.

I meant every word then, and I still mean them now. We might have tailed the top 5, but we gained something even better. We gained our friendship, we gained happiness and we gained the times we spent together laughing :D Time spent with the Ohanas were definitely the highlights of my life. I'm really lucky to have you guys. <3

A little of everything (of the first 2 weeks of Jan 2010)

2010-01-11T17:08:00.004+08:00

News flash: I got my hair cut real short.

Some of you has probably seen my new hairstyle. Truth to be told, I don't really like it. But gosh, my head feels SO light after the haircut, I don't really bother what kind of style I ended up having. (I can't tell immediately cos' I took of my glasses before and I'm as blind as a bat without them.) So yea, new look for a brand new year. Albeit a bad one, but oh, it'll grow back long before I know it, at least, that's what I'm trying to tell myself :D

Anyway, I've been spending the past mornings helping out over at kindergarten and will continue doing exactly that this week. It's crazy, but fun :D The kids can be demanding, asking you to help them put on their pants after they are done "shh-shh" and puking all over the place when they cried. But ah, it gets better day by day, they don't cry anymore and most of them has learnt the art of pants-wearing. There left only one of them though, who likes to lie on the floor or crouch on the floor when he doesn't get his ways. But guess what? He has a weakness too! He likes... *drumroll* YELLOW BALLOONS! He absolutely perks up this morning after hearing that whoever listens will be given a balloon! Somehow, I found that really endearing LOL Oh! And there's this one who told me that he saw his girlfriend after he came back from his bathroom trip. I was like -- O_O. Man! I've never had a boyfriend for my whole life and here he is, 4 years old and is happily announcing that his girlfriend is from K2 Blue! So cute XD Spending time with the kids bring back memories too, I was in K2 Yellow once upon a time, playing the same toys and singing/ dancing to the same songs. I'm happy that I've been given the opportunity to relive my kindergarten years. It's just too bad that these all will have to end this Saturday, and I'll have to look for something else to wake up to in the mornings =)

ANYWAY, Yan'll be leaving tomorrow. Time sure flies eh? I'll miss her SO much. Good luck, girl, I know you'll charm them all the minute you step into the room. And to whoever out there experiencing the same mixed feelings towards their future as I do, hang on, you know that everything will turn out just right in the end. After all, when a door closes, a window will be opened. This chapter of our lives might be ending, but you know the new chapter'll come soon enough, filled with even more interesting stuffs. :)

xoxo,

The Last Moments of 2009.

2009-12-31T21:28:00.003+08:00

Hey peeps!

I just wanna drop by and say:

HAPPY NEW YEAR! =)

I'm not gonna bore you all and go through my whole 2009 life, you guys can just check the archives and find out the what happened here and there. But oh, I graduated from CCMS, after attending the school for like, 14 years? Yea, that's more than three fourths of my life. Incredible. I've forgotten what it feels like to go to a new school and just.. start all over. I've forgotten what it's like to be in a school where not everyone knows you and you don't know anyone. I guess I'm gonna find out next year.

It's been an incredible year. Thanks guys! Love you all!

xoxo,

Bowling... towards the gutters :D

2009-12-19T22:22:00.009+08:00

Hey guys!

Went bowling at Empire with Lu's church gang at the Empire today, it was... interesting and fun! Well, interesting because I've never actually bowled before and I'd like to know whether my lack of hand-eye coordination works on bowling too. (If you're curious, it does XD) I mean, the highest score was 117 and guess what's my score? Yea. 21. LOL, so I basically sucked. But who cares? It was embarrassing when the ball went to the gutter, but I had fun laughing at myself and cheering for others. Oh, how I wish to feel the thrill of a strike! Instead, I felt it through the others. Even my bro managed a strike, SO cool!

Then we had lunch at Swensen's, lived through the utter humiliation of having other customers watching us play games outside the restaurant in the open space because somehow no one thought of closing the blinds and everyone having lunch inside just stare at us while we continue to do... interesting moves like walk around with balloons under our armpits and between the legs and dancing with a tomato between our foreheads. Some of the ones eating inside even took pictures of us! o.o I felt like some sort of... amusing celebrity LOL Some people even stopped short while shopping and just looked at our "show" unfolding before their eyes XD I had a great laugh :D

Yep, that's probably it for now. Will have to wake up early morning to head to the airport tomorrow. Ciao, guys! Oh, and an early Merry Christmas!

xoxo,

Merry Swiftmas~

2009-12-16T22:31:00.003+08:00

Hey guys! Check this song out! It's called Merry Swiftmas, by Evan Taubenfeld:

Check out the original MV here.

"So Santa for my gift, please send me Taylor Swift"~ :D

xoxo,

Lesson Learnt.

2009-12-14T21:58:00.003+08:00

I was skeptical when it comes to reading the book: The Host. I mean, the summary at the back and the excerpts I've read doesn't really say much: us humans got abducted by aliens, we become hosts to parasites called "souls" who are really three-inch worm-like creatures. In other words, not really my kind of book. But to avoid being killed by boredom during the holidays, I've decided to give it a try. And it took my breath away. Literally a page-turner.

So, give it a try! You'll fall in love with it =)

Lesson Learnt: Never judge a book by its cover (or the summary on the back cover).

14 years is such a short time

2009-12-12T23:25:00.013+08:00

HEY!

Yep. I know what you're gonna say. I wonder anyone's even reading this anymore. But oh well: I'M STILL ALIVE! XD

Where should I start? Let's skip over the whole GCE frenzy, shall we? I don't really want to talk about it, and from the sound of it, you know how I did LOL. Graduation was... emotional? Yea. I've been in ccms for 14 years! I think I started the crying trend LOL You'd think that we'll be oh, so free after the GCE, mind you, I thought so too! But graduation was a HUGE headache. Somehow we ended up taking the responsibility for decoration, and we're back to the days when we work until 12 midnight. It was fun though, and the stage background turned out pretty good, if I did say so myself. Check out the pics on Facebook! Then after that there's prom, another great night added to our piles of wonderful memories =) We danced like there's no tomorrow, ok, well, they danced, I'm just jumping up and down LOL, great food, great music, great people, great prizes, all in all, a night full of awesome-ness XD

So, that's that. Oh btw, my laptop died, due to a lil incident involving my mom and her elbow XD My uncle's still trying to fix it XD I've been doing a lot of reading lately, and seriously, I never knew I'd say this, but I've gotten tired of reading books... about vampires. Seriously, all the new books are about vampires, or werewolves, I mean, hello? Even a book about the love between a girl human and a frankenstein would be nice for a change ==" I'm serious. Even the movie "New Moon" didn't do anything to revive my faith in vampires. It's disappointing. I watched it last wedenesday, when I went on a trip to Bandar with the other 25 of the F5 peeps. Seriously, all 26 of us watched it LOL, when I called to reserve the tickets, the guy over the phone was like, "TWENTY-SIX? TWO SIX?" Hahaha, cracked me up XD Let me show you how long the tickets are LOL:

Oh, and I've discovered a store that has my initials as the store name:

Cool right? XD Anyway, Ket's back and I'm looking forward to our Ohana Gathering =) And uhm, I'll be going to SG from 20th - 25th, so, yea.

xoxo,

P.S. Picture of the day, presenting, Taylor Swift with straight hair! CLICK HERE

P.P.S This is my 100th post!

Peanut Butter M&Ms and Everything Nice...

2009-10-12T20:30:00.004+08:00

Hey guys!

GCE is round the corner (like, literally) and I'll be on hiatus soon! So, mock's FINALLY over, and we had a 3 days break after that before we get back to school for another 3 days to get back the papers. Anyway, my dad wanted to reward us for all the hard work and sleepness nights during the exams and so my family and I made a quick trip to SG during that 3 days! It was really something to look forward to at that time, like an oasis after a loooooong journey in the desert. Well, my point is, it's just all really cool.

Ting Wen reminded me about the peanut butter M&Ms she bought us all when she went to SG last year, so well, I went on a hunt for it. I kind of made my mom and dad taste them when I opened a paket because well, it's tasty! Even my dad, who, really, isn't a candy/chocolate person fell in love with them. It's THAT awesome. So, before we went to the airport, my mom asked me to make a trip to Cold Storage to grab 10 more packets of Peanut Butter M&Ms LOL (for us and for some friends and family, of course). It's a good thing that we're staying near one of the Cold Storage stores so I can easily make a mad dash to the store.

That's not the end of it.

When my dad discovered that they're not available in Brunei. He asked me to hunt for them in the airport while he and my mom sat down for a quick dinner/supper, cos' he said he wanted to give some to his colleagues and friends back at the office. (I wasn't hungry, so I happily agreed to do the job. Gave me an excuse to wander around XD ). Anyway, I found them in the 7-eleven store. Oh, and guess how many did my dad wanted me to buy? 21 packets. For those of you who don't feel like doing the addition, that's 10 + 21 = 31 packets of Peanut Butter M&Ms. You should see the look on the face of the lady at the cashier when I made several trips to the cashier since of course, I can't get all 21 packets to the cashier in a go. She was like (while smiling awkwardly), "is this all for you or for your.... friends?" HAHAHA. I assured her that I, alone, could never finish all that and that's when her awkward smile finally eased. She must have thought that she'd met a M&M freak!

I bought lots of books too! Kinokuniya is like the heaven of books. The books are for after the GCE. Need to stock up so I'll have yet another thing to look forward to during the GCE. One month of exams! That's definitely my idea of nightmare. Well, since I didn't stay there at SG for long, I didn't do much shopping. We went to the new ION Orchard, freaking huge, still haven't finished walking through the whole shopping mall yet. You can really get lost in there. I almost do, when I went there with my mom and when my dad is out with his friend. My dad's usually the one with the good sense of direction. So when he's not there that time, my mom and I can't even find the door to get OUT of the building! (My brother stayed at the hotel cos' he claimed that he's too full to do anymore walking =.=" ).

Then, we went to ride the Singapore Flyer one night. It's currently the largest observation wheel in the whole world. I think the max. height of the wheel is about 165km. Yep, not really an ideal way to spend the evening if you're afraid of heights like me. It took me a while to adjust to the height and to calm myself. Yep, believe me. I actually got used to the height in the end and stopped shaking for once. Though there's this couple who travelled with us on the same cabin, the guy practically closed his eyes throughout the whole journey (30 mins). Poor girl she was left to describe the view and walk around alone.

Ok, I think that's probably it for the trip.

Boy, Yan and Ying them all invited Adrian and I to Kaizen's on Saturday to have a small belated birthday dinner. (My birthday's on the 5th, Adrian's on the 6th) It was really fun. We stayed until no one else was there at the restaurant (well, except for the waiters and waitresses and all the staffs). Pictures are up on Facebook. I think Ying posted them up already. Check them out!

Right. Ciao for now. Need to get back to Bio MCQ =S

Cheers,

Play as Taylor Swift - Band Hero

2009-10-02T09:45:00.001+08:00

This is SO COOL!

=)

2009-09-25T21:17:00.006+08:00

I've been told to blog more. So here I am, trying to bore you to death with my life these two weeks. XD

Being the super hard-working 2009 F5 batch we are, we spent the first 5 days at school, trying to cram in as much classwork as we can during the first 5 days. On the last 2 days, classes are from 7 a.m to 1.00p.m. Pretty awesome right? The last day consists of 2 hours of d.maths and and about 4 hours of a.maths. Talk about maths overload! I literally can't think straight after all the formulae and calculations!

Exams starts after the holidays. So that means I can't go anywhere else during the holidays. Which is a bummer, really. Aren't holidays supposed to be about relaxing and all that? Instead, I got stuck at home, staring at the books, while my brain wandered to this amazing bookstore I always dream about but highly doubt actually exists. It's a really huge one too! It's divided into two sections, one of which is filled with racks of books that are ceiling-high, and the other is filled with loads and loads of stationery! Those stationery aren't like those you see at Bismi too! They're all real cute and tiny and so creative! I remember the homey yellow lighting of the store and staying in there for HOURS. Oh, and there's a second storey too! And you can only get there by climbing this amazing swirling staircase! (I think I've typed too many exclamation marks. HA! Oh, there's another one. XD) So yea, basically, I have recurring dreams about a bookstore. And you can probably tell that there isn't much studying going on. Why is that I'm always SO sleepy when the exams are practically round the corner? It's just real frustrating!

Anyway, there is actually some pretty exciting things going on last Saturday. A bunch of us: Boy, Yan, Ying, Lee San, G.K and me went to Sutera Biru to have a tour around the place and also to smooth out the details for our prom at the end of the year. It'll be on the 28th of November, and we're pretty excited about it. The F5 Art were supposed to be hosting the whole thing, but they planned to hold the prom next year at around January. Well, the thing is, few of us will be out of the country by then and this is supposed to be our last gathering or something like that, so we decided to organise another one instead. Of course, everyone's welcome, so basically, we have like, 2 proms.

It's pretty exciting too! We get to design our own tickets and have them printed like one of those tickets from the school anniversary! I was so excited when the tickets are finally done! Oh, let me post the design up here =)

Yep, that's our prom theme: Tonight's Dream, Tomorrow's Memory. Pretty cool right? :D

So well, here you go. One new post. =) I'll have to get back to my Bio notes. Ugh.

Cheers,

Taylor Swift VS. Kanye West

2009-09-20T19:09:00.003+08:00

To quote the President, "Kanye is a JACKASS."
I rest my case. =)

Anyway, I think Taylor has such class! I mean, check out this video:

LOL @ Taylor's Overall thought that night:
Wow, I can't believe I won. This is awesome. Don't trip and fall. I'm gonna get to thank the fans. This is so cool. Oh! Kanye West is here. Cool haircut. What are you doing there? And then, Ouch! And then, I guess I'm not gonna get to thank the fans. =)

She's pretty awesome, isn't she? And she got her first condo!
I Love You, Taylor Swift! Rock on.

2009-08-26T20:33:00.003+08:00

You know how the good stuffs always come out when you're having exams =.=" It's really annoying. Guess what I found when I was having my third quarterly? I discovered this hilarious Taylor Swift video. It was taken during Taylor's tour with Keith Urban. She played a prank on him. It's hilarious.

Hmmm. What else? Oh, I'm having my GCE English Oral tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Been working on my computer project these few days. It really gave me headaches. Ugh, what was I thinking again?

Ooooh. And I discovered this really cool thing:

The smell of e-books just got better

Does your Kindle leave you feeling like there’s something missing from your reading experience?

Have you been avoiding e-books because they just don’t smell right?

If you’ve been hesitant to jump on the e-book bandwagon, you’re not alone. Book lovers everywhere have resisted digital books because they still don’t compare to the experience of reading a good old fashioned paper book.

But all of that is changing thanks to Smell of Books™, a revolutionary new aerosol e-book enhancer.

Now you can finally enjoy reading e-books without giving up the smell you love so much. With Smell of Books™ you can have the best of both worlds, the convenience of an e-book and the smell of your favorite paper book.

I guess that's all for now =)

xoxo,

Hola!

2009-08-12T19:26:00.005+08:00

I know, I know, it's been forever.

Well, what else? Exams start tomorrow and uh, I suddenly got sick this morning. Life's just great, isn't it?

It's Chinese P1 and P2 tomorrow, so thank god hard core studying isn't needed today, or seriously, I have no idea how I'm gonna manage memorizing, analyzing and stuff on top of everything else.

I slept for 2 hours in the afternoon and after a nice shower, I'm already feeling better. =D

Hmm, I think that's all for now.

Oh, here's something totally random: If you guys haven't watch "Obsessed", don't bother to spend $5 on the DVD. It sucks. Big time. I think I fast forwarded the last one hour. =S

Dancing Down the Aisle

2009-07-31T13:20:00.001+08:00

This is the video I was talking about. I finally found it! Is it the best wedding ever or what? XD

xoxo,

The Facebook Experience

2009-07-28T23:13:00.010+08:00

Hey =)

So I was busy studying Bio with my laptop blasting out the song "Knock Knock" by Lenka (it's superb, you guys should try listening to it!) yesterday night when I feel the NEED to take a break from the ever-growing exercise book. So, I turned to my laptop and refreshed my Facebook page, expecting to see a new stream of updates, you know how the homepage is. Anyway, what I get instead is the sign in page. Feeling weird, I typed in my password and guess what? I got the deadly message: Your Facebook account has been disabled. For further information, .....

You get the idea. MY FACEBOOK ACCOUNT HAD BEEN DISABLED. I was horrified LOL. I mean, how can they just disable an account without reason? Being the internet freak, I immediately turned to Google for help. I found out that a Facebook account will be disabled for the following reasons:

1) You add too many friends in one go (The thing is, I don't really even add friends anymore! )
2) You somehow hacked one of the games in Facebook and they found out about it (Uhm, yea, if this is the reason, I should have been disabled a LONG time ago, when I was still addicted to Pet Society. You can't really hack now and I don't even play it anymore. SO this can't be it either.)
3) You joined some applications that aren't exactly Facebook-friendly, meaning the application slows down the whole Facebook network. (Well, I don't know about this, but isn't Facebook a social network? Why else are the apps for if people got disabled for joining them?!)

Anyway, later, I discovered an e-mail address which you're supposed to contact if you think that Facebook has made a mistake when it disabled your account. So I did just that. I don't even remember what I typed, being really confused at that time. I think I wrote something like: To whom it may concern, my Facebook account has been disabled for no apparent reason. Please do reactivate it ASAP. - Sin Nii" Kinda lame, I know, but it's all I could come up with at that time. Oh, and I got and automatic e-mail back almost immediately, saying that they'll "get back to me soon". -_______________-"

I've read some random posts on the web and most of the people said it took Facebook 5 - 7 days to reactivate their account. O_O!!! I guess I'm lucky though, cos' I received another e-mail from facebook in less than 24-hours:

I don't think that's legible. Anyway, it says:

Hi,

Your account was mistakenly suspended due to an error by 
Facebook's site security system. We sincerely apologize 
for this inconvenience. We have reactivated your
account and you will now be able to log in.

Thanks for your understanding,

The Facebook Team

And I was like YAAAAAAAY! HA! Though I think Facebook should be more careful the next time they decided to disable another account, cos' it's really bizarre. Someone even missed his friend's funeral because Facebook has mistakenly disabled his account and he missed the memo. I was like WHOA!

Cheers guys. Good Night! Over and Out.

xoxo,

P.S. 19-year-old Joe Jonas and 22-year-old Camilla Belle had broken up. Apparently, Joe is depressed. Serves him right!

Heyyy =)

2009-07-25T21:56:00.003+08:00

Have you guys checked out the Yahoo! homepage earlier? There's this video about a wedding ceremony that has been a hit on the web recently. It's called "Dancing down the Aisle". It's really cool. Instead of having the bridesmaid, groomsmen and ushers walking down the aisle of the church like normal weddings do, the couple (Jill and Kevin if I've not mistaken) decided to have them dancing all the way down the aisle! You'd think they're all professional dancers! The guests were all smiling and clapping along with the music. The whole thing is sooo cheerful and happy, just like how weddings are supposed to be, you know? Spreading the joy of two people falling madly in love? Yea.

I would really love to post the video here, but they don't allow people to post the whole video on Youtube. So, yea.

The Ohana gathering at Kaizen last Thursday had be fun fun fun! Well, it's too bad that Fu and Dan can't make it, but we just had to have a final Ohana Reunion before Ket goes back to Australia and we'll probably have to wait another 6 months before we see him again. We ate A LOT, we (Boy, Yan and I) were still full when we arrived at school the next day, barely able to swallow our breakfast LOL XD The pictures are up on Facebook, check them out when you're free, though we didn't take many, cos' we're too bust eeeeeeeating XD

Oh, and I really really really want to read this book:

I guess that's all for now.

xoxo,

The (not-so-complete) Ohana Reunion =)

2009-07-19T17:16:00.006+08:00

So, Ket's been back for like what? A week? And I only got to see him on Friday (like, Finally!) =) Well, it's not exactly the reunion that I hope it would be cos' Jennifer's sick and he insisted to quarantine himself until Tuesday even though he's already better and Danial is elsewhere, so it's just a small gathering, but fun all the same =) Here's some of the pics, no, actually, there are the ONLY pics we took. HAHA, we'll have a complete Ohana/PRYNSA gang reunion soon!

Does this reminds you of the Report Compiling Days? XD

=)

<3

xoxo,

Wonderful World

2009-07-07T19:50:00.004+08:00

I really like the lyrics of this song. It's beautiful =)

What A Wonderful World - LeAnn Rimes

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world

The colours of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They're really saying I love you

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself what a wonderful world

It's really an oldie kind of country song:

An Update =)

2009-07-03T19:23:00.010+08:00

Hey guys!

Haha! I'm hoping you know who those two freaks are. Yep, that's my brother and I, the only two people who were wearing masks while roaming around Orchard Road in Singapore, simultaneously trying to ignore the questioning gazes of the passers-by. HA! Like they don't know how serious the H1N1 cases are in their country! Better safe now than sorry later right? XD

Well, it's getting pretty serious here in Brunei too! So guys! Take care of yourselves ok? I bumped into Meli at the Singapore Changi Airport and that's when she told me the news: the holidays will be extended for another week! I have to admit that I was psyched! I mean, I'm not ready to face my papers yet, and even though I know I'll have to face them EVENTUALLY, it's still nice to know that I'll have another week to be prepared and all that =S

Anyway, I've bought tons of books and novels back to stock up =) And I've been reading them for the past few days. Confession: I believe in reading for FUN, you know, the kind of book that makes you sigh with satisfaction once you've finished reading the whole thing. So yea, never recommend me books where the main character got cancer and died in the end. No-freaking-way, nuh-uh, I'm just not the type. If you recommend me a book where the main character got cancer, make sure that he/she gets well and lives happily ever after in the end. Life's depressing enough and we don't need the additional fictitious how-life-is-so-cruel-and-unfair to remind us of that! Unless it's real life story, then that's different.

SO, I've read this book. It's a romance and I think it's real sweet. The plot's not too complicated, with just the right amount of humour and spark that make it difficult to put down =) It's called "Something, maybe" by Elizabeth Scott:

Anyway, I'm supposed to spend a week at home to quarantine and all that, since I'm just back from, I quote "infectious area". It's the fifth day and I'm still feeling as great as ever, so I guess I'm safe =) Btw, thanks Ting Wen!

That's all I guess. Just a short update before school starts. Then I'll start living in a frenzy all over again. >.<

xoxo,

WOW....

2009-07-02T21:21:00.003+08:00

NEW YORK – The eldest Jonas brother, Kevin, and his girlfriend Danielle Deleasa (DAH'-lees-ah) were engaged Wednesday.

The 21-year-old Jonas is one-third of the popular Jonas Brothers, along with Joe and Nick Jonas.

A spokeswoman for the Jonas Brothers confirmed the engagement.

In a statement, Kevin's parents, Kevin Sr. and Denise Jonas, said they were "filled with joy."

The young couple have not yet set a date. Their engagement was first reported by People magazine.

People quoted Kevin Jonas as describing his girlfriend's reaction as "yes, yes, yes like 500 times super fast in a row."

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xoxo,

P.S. Will post something more... personal soon! XD

R.I.P Michael Jackson

2009-06-26T17:12:00.002+08:00

The King of Pop died 2.24p.m L.A. time yesterday (Thursday). He was 50. Gosh, I just can't wrap my mind around the idea of him actually... dying. R.I.P, Michael Jackson.

Guilty Pleasure

2009-06-23T10:36:00.003+08:00

Wow, Ashley Tisdale's gonna release her new album soon! The song "overrated" with will on iTunes tomorrow. Not that I'll be able to download it from iTunes, I'm hoping that it'll be available on Limewire. *excited* Can't wait!~

xoxo,

P.S. I probably wouldn't be posting any posts until Monday. It's vacation time!

The Other Side of Taylor Swift

2009-06-22T20:04:00.009+08:00

Wen Jack posted this on his Facebook and when I watched it, I was temporarily in shock. I still love her though <3

If you can read lips, you can probably see that she didn't swear =S

My Life So far~

2009-06-22T17:54:00.007+08:00

The following post has nothing to do with this picture. I just love the feel of it =)

Hey guys!

Haha, I know it's a bit too late to wish you guys "happy holidays!" but well, HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Don't blame me though, since to me, holidays just barely started. (We had holiday classes till Friday last week =S ) And then our maid just had to choose this time to go home. So I haven't been able to sleep in since after the exams, as I need to help with the chores and cleaning up and all that stuff. Speaking of which, the exams were disastrous, I'm dreading school now =S

Oh, apparently, our dear Mr. Jaya wanted us to "enjoy our holidays with A.maths homework". So I can't exactly stuff my school bag under my bed and pretend it's not there. I'm trying to finish them as soon as possible now, but the holiday mood had struck me and I just don't feel like doing anything that requires extra brain juice. Gosh, the teachers will kill me if they hear that LOL. They've been going on and on about how our class has gotten lazier and how that is totally unacceptable and all that. Judging by our rotten results, this type of scolding wouldn't stop anytime soon either. So you can see why I don't really look forward to next Monday X|

Anyway, enough of the grumbling, I don't want to sound like a 70-year-old old lady now, do I? So have you guys heard? The Sports Day has been postponed to August. This is good news I guess, cos' then we'll have more time to make the flag, think up a catchy motto, practise for cheerleading and all that. Did I mention that I'm the vice-captain of Red House? As in me, the girl with zero hand-eye coordiantion and sucks at every sport imaginable? Maybe I should cheer from the sidelines, God knows my voice is loud enough for that XD

Oh, by the way, Boy and I got to go to Bandar for the Borneo Bulletin's High School Page thingy the day after school reopens. I'm kinda psyched about it. I mean, it's something I've never experienced before and well, I hope it'll be tons of fun!

I guess that's all for now. Over and out.

xoxo,

OH MY GOD!

2009-06-04T12:37:00.008+08:00

One word came to my mind when I watched this: GAY

YOUTUBELOVE was for those videos I love and this is NOT one of them, like I said, it's GAY, so yea, I'm not going to post it there. I did warn you guys, for those of you who's brave enough, ENJOY =). It's hilarious in a twisted way though...

Debate Fever~

2009-05-25T22:23:00.009+08:00

The debate was... fun! XD Don't get me wrong, we didn't get into the quarter finals, but still, it's a really cool experience. Our first round was against... the one and only St. Georges! Need not to say, they're all pros and ah, we lost to them by 10.5 marks LOL 813.5 vs. 824. But guess what? Our point's the second highest when compared to the other schools, and since they told us that they'll select the schools for the quarter finals based on the points, we thought that we had a pretty good chance to get into the quarter finals!

So well, on Saturday, when we went to another round of debate (this time it's against Sufri Bolkiah), we're determined to win. I mean, this is our chance right? The debate motion that day was "This house believes that teachers should wear uniforms", and we're the proposition team. Somehow, the opposition team wasn't really well prepared, I mean, they have post-it notes all over their desks and tiny pieces of papers here and there. When we started to relax a little, they fired two POIs to Ah Boy. Oh, you have to see their face, they're smiling sooo much and soo smug that I'm tempted to go across the room and literally shut their mouths. Well, it's WAR baby! Teck Voon and I then vowed to wipe those smiles off their faces. So when the first speaker of the opposition started speaking, and as soon as the first-minute bell rang, signalling the permission to start with the POIs, I fired two POIs over to them and then TV fired one more. I don't think we're allowed more than 2 POIs per speaker, but like TV said, the chairperson didn't stop him, so we guess it's OK. :D

Anyway, the first speaker just kinda looked at us annoyingly and accepted all 3 POIs. I admired her courage! When it was TV's turn, he got lucky and went through his speech smoothly without POIs of any sort from the opp. team. When it was their turn again, they declined both of our POIs!!!!!!! When it was my turn, I got 1 POI from them, of which I do not really understand, but I managed to get back at them with a question. Their POI was smth like "Students wearing uniforms have accessories to enhance "something" while teachers do not". All I could think of at that time was, "WHAT ON EARTH?!??!" Though instead of saying that, I went, "Accessories? What kind of accessories do we have?" And with that, I went on with me speech. I have to admit that that's not the best come back line, but seriously, what else could I say? We had a total of 7 POIs to them, 4 of which they declined :(

When it's time for the reply speeches, the first speaker of the opp. team started by saying, "I strongly disagree that teachers shouldn't wear uniforms." We just stared at her LOL, I mean, hello? Shouldn't you say that earlier? Cos' then we wouldn't need to spend the past hour debating! -___________-""

Oh, did I mention that our chief judge's really pretty? She's from the KATOK 6 Form Centre. The funny thing is, when the other male adjudicator asked where she's from, and when she answered "KATOK", he went, "Oh! well, uh.. er... Is that a school?" LOL, I mean, c'mon, of course it's a school, or else she wouldn't even be here!

So, we won the second round of the debate. It turned out that the select the 8 teams not by points, but by the votes of the judges. And we have only 3 since we lost the last round and all the judges from last round was on St. Georges' side. And in my humble opinion, this is just not fair! I mean, say if we're up against some other school that's not on the NATIONAL team, then we'll stand a much bigger chance of getting in right? Oh well, like what teacher said, with our high points, at least the quality of our performance is there! =D

OK, that's all for today I guess. Oh, before that, TV was the best speaker for the second round! Turned out his British accent had successfully charmed the adjudicators! XD

xoxo,

BIG DAY!

2009-05-20T13:21:00.004+08:00

BIG DAY TOMORROW!

Seriously, between Maths Quiz + Debate @ STPRI + Sports Day Selection, I don't know if I can survive tomorrow O_O Why do things like that happen to me?! They just all have to come at the same time!!! OK, well, don't worry though, I won't go all emo and hide in my little corner like what I did last time XD If I can survive that, I think I can survive this too! Oh, btw, I haven't memorized anything debate realted and neither am I prepared for the quiz =)

For the Sports Day thingy though, due to the fact that the person who's posting this post *cough* is the vice-captain of the RED HOUSE (red house rocks!), so she has to be there for the selection. Though she might be late for it tomorrow, due to the reason mentioned above, you know, the one realted to STPRI? Yea.

Cheers/xoxo,

NEW

2009-05-15T18:45:00.004+08:00

Hey guys!

So I got tired of my old blog template and found this new awesome one! I know the font of this new one really hurts the eyes, since the font size's sooo small and the space's really limited, but you have to admit that it's cute! And guys! Give me some credit, somehow, this skin only allows alternation through the html code, and well, I have to scroll through the whole long thing and try to figure out how to add stuffs in between. SO yea, ciao for now!

P.S. I added that tiny cloud! XD

Random-ness

2009-05-14T21:17:00.002+08:00

I don't know why, but I kinda like this pic. And I'm NOT being emo here XD

xoxo,

!!!!!

2009-05-10T21:25:00.003+08:00

I just read this article off the internet!!:

Seven Career Killers

1. Procrastinating. Remember the first time you put off studying for a test then crammed at the last minute and still got a decent grade? Many of us have been procrastinating since grade school and have done just fine, but that's a habit you have to break. "There's no grade inflation in the workplace," says Nemko. If you pull together a report or presentation at the last minute, your shoddy preparation is going to show. And if something unexpected happens -- say your computer crashes or a key contact fails to return a call -- the old "dog-ate-my-homework" excuse isn't going to cut it. "Procrastination is an ingrained habit," Nemko says, "but if you don't kick it pretty quick, you're going to find yourself on the corporate slow track."

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Procrastination is the first on the list!
I've. Got. To. Stop. Procrastinating!

2009-05-10T19:32:00.003+08:00

Hey!

I just wanna drop by to say:

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

P.S. I can't believe my 4-year-old cousin is better at game-playing then I am! Like what my Malay teacher likes to day: Kalahlah saya! XD Ciao for now!

2009-04-27T20:07:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!

It's been what? 10 days since I last blog? Sorry guys, life's been pretty busy. Well, that doesn't mean I'm not having fun along the way =) Take last Saturday night, I had a blast. We (the PRYNSA gang) went to the Rizqun Coffeehouse for PRYNSA appreciation dinner. We're asked to sit separately and mix with the others. So Kah Yan, Fu and I share a table with two PDS guys, 2 girls and another guy from Menglait and uh, I have no idea from which school the other 5 peeps are from. Anyway, we bond almost immediately and just talked while getting to know each other. It's ironic how we've been in this project for sooo long and that that was the first time ever we've talked to any of them. OK, not exactly ALL, but SOME of them at least, I can barely recognise them without their uniforms!

Well, I brought along my bag with me that night, the bag which I bring along with me to the practicals. Apparently, I forgot to take out my knife from the Bio practicals that week and only then, when we had all settled down, I discovered that my knife was still in the side pocket of the bag!!! The knife's clean, obviously, but it's just weird, so I calmly informed Yan and Fu about this. Poor Fu kind of over-reacted and practically shout out the words, "YOU BROUGHT A KNIFE?"

Obviously, the PDS guy sitting beside me, Ervin, heard this. He freaked out too! LOOOL! And was like, "You brought a knife?! Here? NOW? Uh, (turns to Fu), can you please keep the knife for her until after we've done eating?"

!!! I told them they had totally over-reacted but somehow, Ervin started picking up his bread-knife and points towards me. Well, I was REALLY hungry at that time and had nothing better to do, so I played along, I went, " Like that's anything against a real knife." I guess he agreed with me too, since he immediately changed his choice of weapon and decided to pick up a fork and point towards me instead -____________________-. Luckily, we're told that we could start eating shortly after that, so that short pleasant feud was put to a stop.

Oh, I found that the Pink Panther Girl's name is Chantelle. Love the name.

The food was delicious, there's both buffet and steamboat. I was hungry but that problem was quickly solved =) I was SO full after that that I thought my tummy would burst LOL XD It's a shame that we'll never meet the others again, we're just starting to get to know each other! Well, that's fate I guess. Life goes on, we move on.

That's all for now I guess. Ciao!

xoxo,

HEY! I'M STILL ALIVE!

2009-04-11T23:19:00.005+08:00

Hey guys! =)

Sorry for being M.I.A for soo long, I should have keep you guys updated, but yea, the major reason that I'm not blogging recently: I'M SUPER TIRED + BUSY. I know that looks like a lame excuse, but it's true. Whenever I'm not up and about doing PRYNSA/speech/schoolwork/homework, I'm sleeping.

PRYNSA is fun and tiring. AND I am literally seeing my friends 24/7 - morning, afternoon, night - amazing huh? The finals was a bit of a disappointment, but well, we got over it XD We're optimistic people. We're now in the progress of making the largest man-made pitcher plant EVER. I'll post the pictures up soon, well, sometime after Thursday, cos' by then, everything will be over =)

School had been like a 3D Theatre, what with all the jaw-dropping, baffling dramas going on at school. Ah well, I feel like I'm on top of a roller coaster ride, waiting excitedly for the thrill of feeling the butterflies in my stomach when my ride's going down the hill. It's gonna go down no matter what, I can't stay up there forever, so I might as well sit back and enjoy the ride, right?

The thrill begins next week, when I'll be going to Bandar from Monday to Thursday. COOL RIGHT? Not. I'll be missing classes and practicals again. Sleepless nights! How I haven't missed you!

The PRYNSA gang just left about 20 minutes ago and my heavy lids are threatening to close anytime, so yea, I'm off now. Ciao!

xoxo,

P.S. I'll be more active on Face book and Twitter (yes, I joined Twitter, thanks to Miss Ting Wen =] ). See you guys there!

Taylor Swift~

2009-03-20T20:21:00.004+08:00

"Another teen heartthrob - Zac Efron - was in a foreign country this week. The "High School Musical" star premiered his new comedy "17 Again" in Sydney, Australia. Country star Taylor Swift joined him on the red carpet."

"Don't worry Zanessa (Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens) fans, he's not dating Taylor Swift! (Phew!) The singer happened to be in Australia at the same time promoting her "Fearless" tour. Taylor performed at The Factory Theatre the day after the "17 Again" premier."
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I hope Taylor's promoting her album HERE. Wishful thinking on my part though. sigh.

xoxo,

Kissing the exams goodbye XD

2009-03-19T20:47:00.010+08:00

HA! I feel like shouting on top of my lungs. I'm F-R-E-E! Well, for now. And OK, we don't really have any holidays. We only get 2 Sundays off. Can you believe it? Though I really look forward to camp next week =)

Well, I've decided that this post will not be about my papers, barely survived those, I'm moving on. So, it has been quite an eventful week. Well, the good news: 1) I got in to finals of the BELTA Speech competition! 2) 洪老师 and 吴老师 are back to visit us!

Ok, so before I end this short post, I'm gonna share with you guys some of the songs that got me through the long hours of studying =) Lovin' them:

Plain White T's - 1, 2, 3, 4 [quote "There's only one thing to do, three words for you: I love you"] Isn't that sweet?
James Morrison ft. Nelly Furtado - Broken Strings
Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
Slumdog Millionaire OST - Jai Ho

Cheers guys,

One more post before I go M.I.A

2009-03-09T20:02:00.007+08:00

My 70th post! Wow... I've come a looooong way. So, exams are starting on the 11th and today is... the 9th! Need I say more? Exams are just around the corner! Ready to slam me in the face! UGH! So, we're gonna move our tables and stuff to the hall tomorrow, which means no Chem lesson during the last two periods... OK, I'm blabbing here.... Uhm, yea, ok, I think that's it for my official 70th post (will have to plan something more glamorous to post for my 100th one XD)

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE! 加油! 加油!

xoxo,

NOTICE: This blog will be dead till the 19th. Unless the blogger herself feels the sudden need to blog sometime in between. Ciao! Love you all!

Jai Ho!

2009-03-05T20:22:00.005+08:00

That means "victory" by the way, at least that's what I read off somewhere on the net. So I think that's gonna be my new theme =) Victory all the way! Who would have thought that I'd actually like an Indian song? There's an English version one by the PCD, but I like the Indian version better [this one's by A.R. Rahman] =)

Rock on, people, I know life is hard, but everything will be worth it once the chaos is over. At least, that's what I'm trying to convince myself =)

Dead Meat.

2009-03-03T19:24:00.008+08:00

I AM SO DEAD. Between the on-coming exam, malay debate competition and the BELTA speech competition (all dated next week btw), I don't know how I'll ever be able to pull these off. But I hope I do though, life goes on no matter what, I might as well make the most of it. I'm trying HARD to enjoy this all, but the truth is, I'm stressed out. You guys will see a panda named Sin Nii visiting Chung Ching soon. I don't mean a cute one either. Cheers.

xoxo,

Where's my superhero when I needed one?

D.e.n.i.a.l !

2009-03-02T20:47:00.003+08:00

"Slumdog Millionaire" starlet Freida Pinto denied that she is dating her costar Dev Patel, calling him "a little boy." The Bollywood beauty revealed her dream leading man to "Access Hollywood:" Leonardo DiCaprio.

yea right.

Freaky!

2009-03-02T20:04:00.002+08:00

The story I'm gonna tell you guys now? It just happened this afternoon and it's freaky AND funny at the same time. Depends on how you look at it, really. SO, here goes:

Well, before I began, I have to tell you guys what I heard from my aunt a few months back (back as in 2008) She told me that our school's primary sections' dentist, Ms. Olga died. Of Cancer. (Please don't jump to conclusions yet. Not till you've finish reading this whole thing anyway.) Like most people, I was horrified! I mean, she's a really good dentist and I was actually pretty close with her. I remembered thinking that it's really a shame, she's has her way around children, giving stickers to any kid who has their teeth nicely brushed and all that.I used to LOVE those stickers! Well, that's that, I mean, I can't do anything about that now, can I?

OK well, back to this afternoon. After practical, as usual, the 5 of us (Boy, Yan, Lee San, Ying and me), we were walking from school to tuition @ Flying Colours. So we were walking and talking and joking around when we walked past the primary section of our school. That's when I saw the dentist room and suddenly remembered what my aunt told me. Naturally, I blurt out the news to them. They gasped with horror and just stared at me. Lee San then confirmed that she'd heard that Ms. Olga has been diagnosed with cancer too. Everyone was suddenly really d.o.w.n.

Though that was quickly replaced with stunned, shocked expressions and speechlessness on our part. Cos' who else other than our very own Ms. Olga herself just drove past us in a big maroon Prado? We stopped short in the middle of the road. Stunned into silence, then burst out in laughter! I mean, Ms. Olga even smiled and waved at us! Talk about creepy! We were just talking about her being dead a few seconds ago! We thought we were seeing things, but no, cos' we saw her again when we turned around the corner LOL!

Lee San was shouting, "She's back!" My first response was, "back from heaven?" LOOOOOL!! I don't know what's wrong with me, of course she meant that Ms. Olga was back from the hospital, but I was just too shocked and I guess the shock had just knock all the senses out of me. I was relief. Really, she's still here! We all laughed our whole way to tuition LOL. (Oh, we did stop by at Millimewah to buy some tomatoes for tomorrow's practical.) Gosh, just to teach us to never to talk behind other's back. I've never told anyone about this and look what happened the minute I said it?

My Wounded Heart =(

2009-02-28T22:12:00.004+08:00

Freida Pinto's 'fiance' hates Slumdog

Rohan Antao, who says he was Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto's fiance, says he hates the Oscar-nominated movie and won't watch it because it ended their relationship.

Antao blames the movie for the reported off-screen romance between Freida and her co-star Dev Patel, who is six years her junior.

"She ended it with me after getting close to Dev Patel. Now everywhere I go I see them on billboards. I am devastated," 24-year-old Antao told the News of the World in an interview published on Sunday.

"I hate the film. It wrecked my relationship. As soon as it became a success and she started spending all her time with Dev, she ended it," he added.

Antao, a marketing executive, said the two met six years ago and that he proposed to her in 2007, but Slumdog Millionare turned their lives around.

"The film bosses didn't want her to be engaged. It would affect the whole emphasis of the film, the love story. I had no say in it."

He said he was forced to lie to director Danny Boyle about their relationship when they met at a party. "He was very down to earth, but I had to lie all evening and say I was Freida's boyfriend, not her fiance."

After seeing Freida with Dev at the Toronto Film Festival last September, Antao said he sent Dev an angry text message saying: "You do know she is engaged, don't you?" Dev never responded.

"I feel bitter towards Dev. If you are engaged to someone, the last thing you want to be thinking about is whether Dev Patel is telling her how wonderful she is," Antao said.

He said he and Freida broke off last month after she called him.

"She is infatuated with Dev. I don't know if they were having a sexual relationship but if I came face to face with him I would have things to say."

"I wish her success in her career, but I can't watch the Oscars, and I don't want to watch the film - it wrecked our love."

Sigh. Am I lucky or what? My heart has been stomped over. Again. =\
HAHA

P.S I like this one better! The theme I mean.

Blogger Noob x |

2009-02-27T21:26:00.006+08:00

Hey guys!

I've been wanting to change my Blogger template for some time now... The thing is, unlike certain self-proclaiming-computer-geek I know, [yes Ting Wen, I'm talking about you =) ] I have no idea how to create my own personal template. So poor me, I'm stuck with the ready-made ones. So my blog is currently under renovation (just like our school's conference room! Ok, too random, but oh, whatever). I'm not exactly fond of this new template either, so I might change it again. Stay tuned XD

Note to self: I have to learn how to create my own templates someday.

P.S I feel like my brain is cracking these days. And I'm super bad-tempered. Sorry guys! You know I still love you all =)

OUR List =)

2009-02-21T22:14:00.016+08:00

I was trying to avoid homework, so I got online. Guess what? Everyone's there! Lu and I chatted A LOT (she rocks!)and we've put together a list of people we a.d.o.r.e =) Here goes the list :

1) Jesus

2) Taylor Swift [Who else? =)]

3) Dev Patel =D

4) The one and only: Mulan

5) Craig David

6) Tom Daley

7) Rachel Hawthorne

8) Meg Cabot

9) BarlowGirl

10) Barack Obama

P.S. A lot of people are getting married these days. Love is in the air~

White Horse - Taylor Swift =)

2009-02-21T20:28:00.004+08:00

Soooo, I have been addicted to this song, even though it's not even though it's not exactly new... I caught myself humming it without really knowing. This even led to a horribly embarrassing incident during English lesson. I'll spare you guys the details though, if you really want to know, ask me, OR you can always ask the fellow F5 Science peeps XD

The video (lovin' it!):

Say you're sorry
That face of an angel comes out
Just when you need it to
As I pace back and forth all this time
'Cause
I honestly believed in you
Holding on,
The days drag on
Stupid girl
I should have known, I should have known

That I'm not a princess
This ain't a fairytale
I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet
Lead her up the stairwell
This ain't Hollywood,
This is a small town
I was a dreamer before you went and let me down
Now its too late for you and your White Horse,
To come around.

Maybe I was naïve,
Got lost in your eyes
I never really had a chance.
I had so many dreams about you and me.
Happy endings;
Now I know

I'm not a princess
This ain't a fairytale
I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet
Lead her up the stairwell
This ain't Hollywood,
This is a small town
I was a dreamer before you went and let me down
Now its too late for you and your White Horse,
To come around.

And there you are on your knees
Begging for forgiveness,
Begging for me
Just like I always wanted,
But I'm so sorry

Cause Im not your princess
This aint a fairytale
Im gonna find someone, Some day
Who might actually treat me well.
This is a big world,
That was a small town
There in my rearview mirror,
Disappearing now.
And it's too late for you and your White Horse
Now its too late for you and your White Horse
To catch me now.

Oh whoa whoa whoa-oh
Try and catch me now
Whoa-Oh
It's too late
To catch me now.

The Bizarre World Today!

2009-02-21T19:40:00.007+08:00

All I have to say is: WOW!~

U.K boy becomes father at 13, newspaper says
Baby-faced and only 4 feet tall, he was only 12 when he impregnated girl, 14

LONDON - He's 13. He scarcely looks 10. And according to a British tabloid, he's a father.

Baby-faced and only 4 feet tall, the boy, Alfie Patten, was just 12 when he impregnated Chantelle, now 15, The Sun reported Friday. Shown in a video posted Friday on the tabloid's Web site, the diminutive Alfie takes the newborn girl in his arms.

Asked what he would do to support the child financially, Alfie asks in a small, high-pitched voice, "What's financially?"

The girl was taking birth control pills but missed one, the newspaper reported. (People take birth control pills at the age of 14?!!!)

SHOCKING TRUTH: Britain had 27 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 between 2000 and 2005, according to a report published by Population Action International. Comparable figures are 10 per 1,000 for Spain, 8 in 1,000 for France, and 5 in 1,000 for The Netherlands.

Britain's teen pregnancy rate, however, is still far below that of the United States, which registers 44 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 and are more line with English-speaking countries such as Australia and New Zealand, which respectively have 17 and 27 births per 1,000 women between 15 and 19, according to the report.

P.S. Love the line: If I could rearrange the alphabets, I'd put U and I together. =) Sweet, isn't it?

UPDATEEEE

2009-02-19T19:42:00.010+08:00

Hey all!

Sorry, I know I've been M.I.A lately and this blog has been pretty much dead. (I can't believe it's been 19 days since the last time I blogged. Time flies. Tell me about it.) But don't worry, I'm back, safe and sound.

OK, where should I begin? Well, I've been thinking about posting a post on Dev Patel since I first watched the movie 'Slumdog Millionaire". Talk about gorgeous AND talented! He's a British born Indian and he's only 18. People, I present you Dev Patel:

Talk about good-looking huh? Oh, and here's the trailer for the movie! (It wins 10 Oscar nominations!):

It's A M A Z I N G!

Oh, another highlight of the previous 19-days: The Ohana's last gathering =( It's fun but sad. ut we did have fun! Ket's leaving for Australian on early Valentine's Day morning, so we're helding the gathering on Thursday, over at the headquarters =) It's sweet really, I love you guys!

That's us with our geeky Harry Potter glasses =D

I'm pretty busy lately, what with the homework, the exam-marathon, the preparation for the Chinese camp in March. So, I played my first cricket match today (we finally had our ECA), my team lost 15 - 19. Ugh. But nevermind, I'm sure I'll get better, even though I have zero hand-eye coordination, I'll manage. It's FUN! And we had fun =) Exciting.

Ok, I can't htink of anything now... Except, it's my turn for Word-of-the-Day at school tomorrow, any idea what I can alk about? That's all for this post. Ta!

P.S. If there's a kind of people I really hate in this beautiful world, it's the hypocrites. Talk about f.a.k.e!
P.P.S. I'm the TUNG KU OHANA BIG SACKMOM! WOOOO!

Thought of the Day

2009-01-31T18:51:00.006+08:00

I feel really... motivated all of a sudden. I guess that's a good thing. Now that I find something that I really want, I'm not gonna give up on it =) 加油! 加油! 加油!

"Your hard work will be rewarded, you just have to believe in yourself!"
Heard something like that somewhere. Totally. Inspiring.

xoxo,

P.S. You guys (you know who you guys are) make mom proud!

Aaron Johnson is L.O.V.E =)

2009-01-26T18:04:00.007+08:00

OK, I know it's new year and I'm supposed to be out there house-visiting. But well, after coming back from my grandma's house with my cousins, we started watching movies. Ok, A movie to be specific, and it's "Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging". It's hilarious and I fell in love with Aaron Johnson <3

Can you say h.o.t?

Moooooooo!~

2009-01-26T11:34:00.003+08:00

I'm here to wish you all:

新年快乐!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Another year older, another year wiser. =) Guys, I love you all! <3

P.S. Happy Birthday to my 17-year-old daughter, Wen =) *hehe*

Wen's Surprise Party =)

2009-01-24T21:33:00.005+08:00

OK. Trying to get Ting Wen over to my house without her suspecting anything is the hardest thing I've ever done. It took lots of careful planning on Ket's and my part LOL. Actually, I can't think of any reasonable excuse at first. Cos' we don't have to start the presentation part of PRYNSA until much later and that's ALWAYS our one and only excuse. So we've been trying to think up an excuse for a while. The excuse came one day, during a msn convo. Here's how the short version of the convo goes:

Ting Wen : Mum! Do you need help with the New Year decoration at school?
Me (the decos are actually almost done, thinking that it's the perfect opportunity): Do you think you can help me?
Ting Wen: Yea sure! Just tell me the date and time.
Me: Are you free this Wednesday (21.1.2009)?
Ting Wen: yep!
Me: Cool! Let's make it at around 7p.m. then!
Ting Wen: OK! But.. isn't the judging on the 22nd? Will you get time the next day?
Me (thinking UH-OH!): yea sure! of course! we'll just have to put everything up early the next morning =)
Ting Wen: OK!

At the same time.. In another convo.. Ket and I were discussing the details. We contacted the rest of the OHANA peeps (Everyone turn up except Danial) and everything is set! Ket will buy the pizzas and cake and all. While I'm resposible for distractions. I even texted her one day and asked if Ket is coming (she asked if he could come. I said yes.) eventhough I know perfectly well that he IS TOTALLY coming LOL.

So, on that night, everyone came early. Fu picked up the pizzas and cake and brought them over. Wen said she'll be here at around 7:30p.m, soo we have plenty of time of prepare. I purposely locked the gate so Wen'll have to ring the doorbell when she arrives and we'll have a signal. I told Fu and Teng to hide their shoes so there's no giving away our lil surprise there. =D

Only then the doorbell didn't work -__________- But we heard my dog barking and then Wen miscalled me, that's when we know she's here. So I rushed outside while everyone prepared (Teng and Fu to light the candles, Ket to wait patiently for her and Boy and Yan to pretend to start doing the decos on the floor) When she came in, we just kind of started singing the birthday song to her. SURPRISE?!

Guess what her reaction is? Normal people would just stare and laugh LOL. Not Wen though, she just kept saying "WAHLAU" and pointed at me, saying, "WAHLAU SI SOI PO!" LOOOOOL
Though all in all, we had fun, we ate and talk and took pictures. They're up on Facebook, check 'em out when you guys are free!

Birthday Girl =)

P.S. Rest in peace, Mdm. Lim.
P.P.S. Happy Chinese New Year to all!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-01-19T19:54:00.005+08:00

Read something really cool and exciting on the internet today [at least, to me =) ]:

The World's Largest House

Indisputably, the Sultan of Brunei’s Istana Nurul Iman is the world’s largest residence. Really more of a palace, this structure boasts an impressive 2,152,782-square-feet of space, comprised of 1,788 rooms (including 257 bathrooms), and is home to the Sultan's car collection, including 165 Rolls Royces. (It easily dwarfs Buckingham Palace's 828,818 square feet). Unfortunately for non-royals, the Sultan’s palace is only open three days a year for the Islamic festival of Hari Raya Aidilfitri, marking the end of Ramadan. However, in 2009, Indian multi-billionaire Mukesh Ambani is scheduled to complete construction on the world's largest house.

Pretty cool, huh? I'm proud to be a Bruneian! OK, technically, I'm not. A Bruneian I mean, but meh! Who cares! I live in Brunei Darussalam! Which is where the largest house in the world is! (with 257 bathrooms!! Who needs that many bathrooms anyway? Obviously, Sultan does.) And let's cross our fingers and hope that the record will not be broken. (Though I doubt it. Records ARE meant to be broken.)

xoxo,

P.S. I joined cricket for CCA. O_O I know I know, shocking news huh? *grins* Will tell you guys
how THAT turn out.

=) / =(

2009-01-13T19:55:00.014+08:00

SO I'm declaring today as "Bad Luck Day". I mean, really, I haven't seen so much people getting sick in one day. First there's Jia Qi. She fainted during class. Guess what? All I did was just stare! I mean, I've never seen anyone fainting right in front of me. It's bizarre. And scary. When I finally snapped back into reality. I yelled at boy to rush to the office LOL. Chann Onn and GK carried Jia Qi out of the class (teacher - Mdm. Shanti followed). While Ying rushed to call Jia Qi's mom. Well, I guess the shock haven't really sink in then, cos' after everyone had rushed downstairs, I just kind of sat there and stared into space. Thinking (!!!!!!). I don't know why, but I was sooo slow today. Then, I guess reality hit, and I rush downstairs to check on Jia Qi too! She was already in the principal's office. So I kinda just step in, feel her forehead and felt that she's h.o.t! So i kinda grabbed her handkerchief from her hand and ran it under the tap water. Then of course, put it on her forehead. Mr. Jim then came to the rescue with his car. He asked Chann Onn and I to follow him and Mdm. Shanti to the hospital. And so we did.

Luckily that the school's near the hospital. You know those scenes in movies? Like how when there's an emergency patient, all the medics and nurses are just supposed to rush out with the bed and everything? I mean, it's ER after all. EMERGENCY! Oh well, those kind of exciting scenes obviously doesn't happen here in Brunei. I mean, Mr. Jim rushed in to tell them that we have an emergency patient and all. BUT WHAT DID THE NURSES DO? They walked slowly to the door, peeked out of the sliding glass doors over to where we stand (we're getting Jia Qi out of the car) and slowly looked around for the bed. Yea, nice move. They have to LOOK for the bed, like they didn't even know where it is! Oh, then they found it, and slowly pushed it out. Nice service there. Oh, if you think that's the bizarre part, wait till you read what happened next.

So Jia Qi was pushed into a room, then she was checked for pulse and stuff. A guy wearing white shirt and pants walked into the room after that. We thought that's the doctor. But turns out, he's just some kind of an assistant. A few minutes (maybe ten) passed by, Jia Qi's parents had arrived and registered her and talked to the nurses. THEN, only THEN, the doctor came strolling in (HE STROLLED, LITERALLY!!). Uh-huh, yep, like the lives of the patients don't matter, like it's not the case of live and death over here. what if she's REALLY SICK? Well, luckily she woke up briefly after that and was instructed to go home. Well, it's a relief! (Russell then said that the whole episode was like a movie right out of TV. Yea, it FELT like an episode of ER too! Like I said, bizarre.)

Then, during the last lesson (Chemistry), Lee San suddenly got gastric pain, It looked really painful, she couldn't even stand up! So teacher asked her to go home early, Chann Onn and GK had to help her down the stairs and everything.

Well, then tuition was suddenly cancelled just now. Cos' Ms. Lim was in ICU in Bandar and Cikgu Lai was rushing up to visit her. She told me that it's really serious. I really hoped everything is fine now. I mean, there should be a limit to how much drama a girl can take in a day. One adrenaline rush barely stopped before the other begins. I'll say that I'm a pretty adventurous girl myself. But all these that happened today are something that I wouldn't mind not having to experience again for the rest of my life.

Though there's an upside to today's events: I had my very first webcam conversation! HAHA, I know that's really naive of me. But hey, it's my first! Actually, it's an interview with Wen Jack, the Head Prefect of CCMS when I was in Form 1. Oh and I didn't do it alone, I was doing it with Kah Yan an Ying Yen. Meli is in our group too! Only she didn't show up, I wonder why. It's kinda awkward at first, what with the sudden switch from speaking Chinese to speaking English (it's an English project so we're supposed to use English). But well, we managed to finish the interview smoothly (well, smoothly if you didn't count the embarrassing part when I appeared as a monkey on his screen because of my webcam special effects LOL. I didn't switch it back after the last time I took goofy pics with the PRYNSA gang!!!). Well, besides that, Ii's pretty cool!

It's been an emo day for me haha!

xoxo,

Grrrrrr!

2009-01-10T20:30:00.005+08:00

Never in my life have I felt such... resentment towards someone. Let's just say that this someone is a "she", shall we?

All in all, she's just this.... AWESOME person, you know? She's just SO inconsiderate, SO selfish, SO irresponsible, SO... (for lack of better words) mean, and just PLAIN AWFUL! She's this HUGE liar too! (I hate liars.)

Sounds familiar? Guess who? (Ohana peeps might have a better idea =] )

P.S. I know it's wrong to hate someone, but I can't help it =S

=D

2009-01-08T23:17:00.004+08:00

THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!

T -to the- A -to the- G

2009-01-05T20:24:00.007+08:00

Tag-ged by: Lee Hao (a.k.a Sharon)

1) Do you think you're hot?
= Uh, no? For 16 years the word "hot" has nothing to do with me, except when I'm outdoor, standing under the lovely sun. =)

2) Upload a favourite picture of you.

3) Why do you like that picture?
= Well, let's just say that it has more to do with that huge/cute teddy bear and little to do with me =) [and I get that you want a favourite picture of ME, but well I've decided to choose my favourite picture with ME in it. You don't mind, do you?]

4) When was the last time you ate pizza?
= New Year's Eve. And the day after (leftovers).

5) The last song you listened to?
= Heels Over Head. (Boys Like Girls)

6) What are you doing besides this?
= Listening to music. There aren't much else to do since both my hands are occupied.

7) What name do you prefer besides yours?
= I've always loved the name "Audrey" but I wouldn't have traded my name for any other name cos' then I won't be ME anymore, if you get what I mean, even though my name is kinda weird. But I've gotten over that long ago. So it doesn't matter anymore. And I'll have to admit that "Sydney" sounds pretty good too!

AND I'll skip the tagging part =)

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I can only think of one word to describe the first day of school: Nightmare-ish. Yea, it's a total nightmare, eventhough it only lasted for about 2 hours. Everything changed. And I do mean EVERYTHING. The most exciting thing that happened this morning is probably that our new handbook is blue, which looks just right and nice. Very unlike the ones we got for the previous years, purple and orange. As much as I love those colours, they just look wrong. Definately not suitable handbook colours. I know I sounded weird here, yea, who cares about the colour of a handbook? But dear friends, when the most exciting thing that happened to you in the day happens to be the right colour of your new handbook, you know that things HAVE to be pretty bad. If you still don't get what I mean, try looking at our timetable, and take note at the names beside the subjects. Perhaps then you will have some clue how our -current F5Science peeps' -lives will be for the rest of the amazing year.

Cheers,

WooHa!~

2009-01-04T20:37:00.003+08:00

School starts tomorrow. Wow. I think I'm kinda excited about it. HA!

Cheers!~

My 2009's Resolution

2009-01-03T17:16:00.004+08:00

I'm SO gonna think up a resolution this year. I mean, everyone has a resolution. EVERYONE. So I was clicking on my Internet icon when my Yahoo! homepage popped and guess what's right up there in the heading?

"Stars' 2009 New Year's Resolution" Yea, and since I heard that resolutions are supposed to keep you motivated or something like that.. Well, I figured there's no harm and never too late to have at least on resolution this year... But before that, let's see what the stars planned to do/change this year, shall we?

BRITNEY SPEARS:
"I would like to stop worrying so much because I worry all the time. And to learn how to be happier, just in general. And to stop biting my nails!" (She bits her nails?!)

EVA LONGORIA PARKER
"To give up meat."

FERGIE
"It's always the same: to work out more and eat healthier. I'm trying to go organic, eat more raw."

ASHLEE SIMPSON
"All my focus is on my son. Every day, being a better mom and learning with him. It's an incredible experience." (Awwwwwwww)

SPENCER PRATT
"To stop eating pizza every day. I think my wife [Heidi Montag's] resolution will make that happen. She says she's going to cook." (HA!)

CARMEN ELECTRA
"To have more fun! I was just with Jenny McCarthy not too long ago, and she said, 'Carmen, life is supposed to be fun.' And I remembered that, it stayed in my head. And that is my goal."

JAMIE FOXX:
"I'm looking for the right woman. I need a magnifying glass! I'm trying to find that rare jewel."

STEPHANIE PRATT:
"I'm making my boyfriend quit smoking. I'm lazy -- that's all I'm doing!"

COOLIO
"No bills in '09. Live off other people. We're in an economic crunch right now, so I'm not trying to pay any bills. I want somebody else to pay my bills, so you get me like 10 [women] with money. Nah, I'm just kidding."

JULIE BOWEN:
"To have a healthy baby. Last year, my New Year's resolution was to run the L.A. Marathon, and I got up to 18 miles in my training and I got injured so you know what, I'm putting it on the list for next year."

KANYE WEST:
"My resolution is to be as nice as possible to the press."

JENNIFER MORRISON:
"To learn Spanish faster. I started doing the Rosetta Stone program a year ago. I'm getting there, but I want to get a little more focused."

AISHA TYLER:
"To be happier! I'm a pretty happy person, but I try to be as happy as I can."

BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN:
"It seems to be to stop smoking every year. We'll see how it goes this time."

KATHY GRIFFIN:
"To eat more carbs!"

KIM KARDASHIAN:
"Probably just to continue last year, which was to get in shape and stop eating sweets. I think I'm going to continue that because I broke it a little bit."

CAMERON DIAZ:
"I have always had the same New Year resolutions: to stop smoking, to start wearing a bra and to stop shopping." (Riiiight. She never wears bra before this?)

DAVID ARCHULETA:
"I would like to learn more about the music and business that I have gotten into. I would like to get more involved in the writing side of music, and also Im learning more things about performing and meeting a lot of new people that I can learn from."

See what I mean? Although I'm not sure if I know who half of these people are, but that's not the point.

So here goes:

1) Stop being such a procrastinator.
2) Learn to play the guitar. (Actually, this is on my "Things to learn before I turn 80" list. But I guess I want to cross this particular one out this year =D)

YAY! So, if Dr. Som asks me what my resolutions are this year, I won't have to answer "I don't know" anymore. He asked me that a few years back and that's what he got for an answer. I almost got killed by his killer glare. HAHA.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!~

2009-01-02T11:59:00.004+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS!

Haha. I'm high! Had fun on the last day of 2008. We - the usual gang + Lu + the devil kids - gathered and celebrated over at my home sweet home (a.k.a the OHANA headquarters) We had loads of fun! At least, I know I did! =D

The details of that night are posted up on Ting Wen's blog And the crazy pics are up on my Facebook profile. Check them out when you guys have time! So, all in all, despite the economic crisis and all those terrible incidents that happened throughout 2008, I'd say that it has been a wonderful year to me. I made new close friends and stayed close with the old ones =) I've never been happier. Oh well, I hope 2009 would be yet another great year, since it would be my last year at dear ol' CCMS. We're gonna be seniors next y-- I mean, this year! WE RULE! haha.

I haven't had any new year resolution. Yet. I'm not really a resolution kind of girl, and more of the do-anything-that-comes-to-mind kind. But well, when I think of some, or even one, I'll post it up here and let you guys know. Don't get your hopes up though. *grins* SO, yea, WOW, I mean, time really flies and you never really realise that until time has flown straight past you.

Cheers guys! And I hope you guys enjoy your lives as much as I do! WOOHOO! (I told you from the very beginning that I'm h.i.g.h XD)

Heyyyyyyyyy!

2008-12-29T21:50:00.010+08:00

Hey guys! I'm Baaaack! From where? You might ask. For which I'll answer: from THAILAND! Yep, I spent my Christmas there... Which is why this blog is d.e.a.d for soooo long. Ok, that's not really an excuse, since I have plenty of time before the trip to blog, but well, 1) I was lazy 2) there isn't really much to blog about... Except that, the game marathon at Ket's house was FUN! :D

So, speaking of Thailand... The trip was fun of course, ok, "fun" was an understatement. Let me try again, the Thailand trip was SUPER DUPER FUN! Better? *grins* The highlight of the trip was when we - my family and I - joined a trip to Ayutthaya (Remember the Ayuthia Kingdom of Thailand from the Form 2 History Textbook Chapter 2? Yep, that's the one, only the spelling's different... I wonder why.. Oh well, pretty cool huh?) I met an 11-year-old Australian girl on the bus. Though you can never tell she's 11, I mean, she looks SO mature. I told her that she looked 15 or 16, and she told me that I looked 12 =.=" (!!!) Her mom was SO shocked when she heard my age, telling me that I don't look 16 AT ALL~ While I was like, "Yea, I know I'm short." And we laughed. So then we started talking the WHOLE way. About anything and everything, you know, general stuffs. Oh, and her name's Courtney. When I told her MY name, she's thrilled, cos' she thought my name's "Sydney" instead of "Sin Nii". She went,"Oh wow, you know that there's a place in Australia called Sydney? With the Opera House and all? COOL! I met an Asian with an Australian name!" =O After several failed attempt to correct her, I gave up... I mean, why not? The PRYNSA gang was already sometimes calling me that, so I figured, MEH!

We visited a summer palace and several temples. The trip ended with a lunch on a cruise sailing around the Chao Phraya River. Pretty cool huh? LOL, and we - Courtney and I got too bored that we filled up the questionnaires on board. Only we were messing around and give weird comments like "Too Bored! Entertainment needed!" (that's what I wrote) Courtney wrote "When on bus I hated seeing stray animals and injured dogs. It made me sad! But you can't do that much! Boat GREAT!" (that's what Courtney wrote. She's an animal lover, wanted to be a vet or smth when she grows up. cool huh?) AND we actually handed in our survey with smiley faces and the words "open open open open open PLEASE" written in front. We're HIGH! lol It's sad to part at the end of the day, but we exchanged e-mail and we're sure to be in touch soon! =)

Oh, and here's a pic of Courtney:

And, here's Courtney and I:

Oh, there's also the Siam Niramit Show, which was HIGHLY RECOMMEDED by Ket, oh well, to that, I have only one word to describe it: WOW! It's AMAZING, with all the dances and special effects. Too bad that pictures are not allowed, you guys just HAVE to experience it yourself the next time you visit Bangkok. It's a MUST. I'm impressed!

Ok well, these are all I could think of for now... I've missed you guys!
Ciao!~

P.S. WAIT! Here's the Picture of the Day:

HAHA

!!!

2008-12-19T12:34:00.016+08:00

Taylor Swift Admits New Crush

Forget Joe Jonas (his loss). Taylor Swift has her mind set on someone else!

When asked in the new issue of Your Prom magazine who her "celeb dream date" is, the 19-year-old country crooner reveals it's Gossip Girl hottie Chace Crawford, 23.

But Crawford, beware!

Swift admits to mixing business with pleasure. "I like to write about boys and relationships," Swift told writer Antonia Van Der Meer. "I write songs about the things that happen to me, because it helps me figure them out. Writing songs is like breathing for me."

Swift also dished about kissing. "I was 15 and the oldest out of all my friends to have not kissed a guy," Swift admitted about her first smooch.

Perhaps a Swift-Crawford kiss can happen sometime. It's not like Crawford doesn't know a thing or two about country singers. Not only did he grow up in Texas, but he and Carrie Underwood dated for about eight months before breaking up in March.

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Cool! She's finally over Joe Jonas! It's amazing how she heals her broken heart by writing songs - nice songs. You go, girl!~ AND, you have to admit that she sure has a good eye for guys... I mean, Chace Crawford? THE hottie from gossip girls? *whistle*~ :D They do look good together though, don't they? Let's hope some good news happen soon!

p.e.r.f.e.c.t m.a.t.c.h?

Ciao!~

I'm Yours~

2008-12-17T18:11:00.007+08:00

I'm really into this song recently~ It's catchy and I love love love the lyrics~ :D

It a good song! Love the picturesque scenery of the Hawaiian Islands in the video. Check it out:

♪♫"But I won't hesitate no more,
no more,
It cannot wait,
I'M YOURS!~"♪♫

Ciao!~

It's Oveeeeeeeeeer!

2008-12-15T18:42:00.017+08:00

♪♫ "Tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la la la la la la" ♪♫

Hahaha. MY days of relaxing has finally and officially BEGIN! I know, it's kinda late, but still, I'm Happy =)

Last week has been CRAZY! Half the PRYNSA gang has gone off for holidays, enjoying. Traitors! Haha, nah, like I have the right to complain ( I'd been away from the 4th-9th O_O ). Anyway, most of last week (from the 9th to the 11th to be exact) were one of those days when you wish you have 8 pairs of hands, if you know what I mean. I mean, there's just SO MUCH to do! We have to get 15 copies of a 100-page report submitted by 4:30 pm on the 11th (!!!)

Ok ok, I'll admit it, we're all procrastinators. I'M a procrastinator myself. Hmm, maybe that's what makes us The Ohana, you know, like we have that in common. LOL. We spend the whole of those 3 days in front of our laptops, typing furiously, ocassionally fooling around lol. Even when everyone had gone home for the day (which is around 10pm, and 12:30 on the 10th), we went online, chatting (connecting ourselves in case there were problems) while doing the report.

We're tired of course, but we still have to do it - all by ourselves, I might add (*eyes-rolling*). But the last day took the cake, we were dog-tired then. On the 11th, we were supposed to be able to sleep late, you know, cos' the work is all done and over with and all we have to do is to print out the report. 15 COPIES. But then, at around 8, I got a wake-up/emergency call from Ting Wen. "Sin Nii, Chen Ket has ran out of his yellow printer ink, while I have ran out of my black cartridge," haha, she manage to deliver that message quite calmly. While I was like, "!!! THIS IS A TOTAL DISASTER!"

So, we got online, interpreting the current issue. Then we've decided: Since, Danial is going to get the report covers printed at his mom's office at BSP, we're gonna deal with the rest of them. Only then Danial forgot about it and woke up late lol, so we ended up printing the covers too! Like I said, DISASTER!! Chen Ket went out on a mission, in search of his yellow cartridge, while Ting Wen rushed over to my house and we started printing using my dad's printer. It was about 9 o'clock then. we were printing our 3rd copy of the report while Chen Ket messaged over THE BAD NEWS: he can't find his yellow cartridge anywhere in this small Seria town. Fanta-terrific!

Then we decided to divide the report: we're gonna photocopy those pages in our report that doesn't require colour printing, and print the rest of the coloured ones. So, Chen Ket rushed over to collect the pages to be photocopied and took them to the shop. After some time, Kah Yan came over and joined us, she was SO worried (we actually planned to take off to Bandar @ 11:45 LOL) I never knew this, but it took FOREVER to print those coloured pictures.

So, guess what? It took us about 5-6 hours to get those 15 copies done and compiled. Which means that when we finished, it was about 3pm (!!!!!!). So, we divided our work again; Chen Ket and I rushed to the shop to get those 15 copies bound while Ting Wen and Kah Yan rushed to school to get Mr. Thomas, who was supposed to be taking us up to Bandar. He's been waiting for a looong time too! Oh, and thanks my mom for everything.

After that, we rushed to Bandar, Mr. Thomas drove REALLY fast lol, not that I can really tell, cos' we all fell asleep. HAHA, guess what? We made it to the Forestry Department! (though a few minutes late) But well, there's nothing else we can do, we did our part, it's up to the judges to judge, after all the fun we had, after all the ups and downs we'd been through, the prize doesn't really matter anymore. After all, we did our best, right?

After that, we went to the Mall, spent about and hour and a half there. Didn't want to get back too late, Chen Ket had a flight to catch the next day. We didn't do much either, just roaming around aimlessly- we were too tired to get high. But the feeling was great! The burden was finally off our shoulders. (We'll worry about the presentation next year haha.)

So now the report part of our PRYNSA project is done and over with. Funny, after all that, I kinda feel empty once it's over. I mean, during those report-typing days, I KNOW what to do with my day, now, it's basically: wake up. read. watch movie. eat. read. watch movie. sleep. Yea, in other words, B.O.R.I.N.G

Ha! These boring days will end soon though, I'm waiting for Ting Wen and Chen Ket to come back from their vacation. We - tw, ck, sn, and ky - made a date, ok, more like an ohana reunion to spend some time together to CELEBRATE! I'm looking forward to it!

OK, I know this post is long. AND boring. But well, keep in mind that this post is typed by a person who's bored to death lol. SO yea.

That's all for now.
Ciao!~
Ohana rocks! haha.

Oh, here are some pics of us fooling around...

I'm BAAAAACK!

2008-12-09T23:28:00.002+08:00

Hey People! I've miss you guys!

Though I can't really blog much now, was supposed to be doing my PRYNSA report, we're racing with time now. AGAIN! When am I ever going to change this bad habit of mine? SIGH, more soon!

I love you guys!
Ciao~

Partyyyyy!

2008-12-04T11:57:00.007+08:00

OK, this will only be a short post.

Yesterday night was FUN FUN FUN! We celebrated Ket's 17th birthday a day early. SO yea, today's ket's birthday! Happy Birthday! Actually, it was a surprise party, he didn't know about it, though we were REALLY obvious, but, oh well...

I posted the pics in facebook, so you guys, check them out whenever you're free! Oh, I'll be heading to Singapore later this evening, It's was supposed to be this MORNING, but well, there's a tiny hitch this morning so it's postponed, to this evening. HA!

Ok well, I've decided to post some of the pictures here:

These are some of the OHANA shots!
OK, that's all for now. Ciao!~

OHANA!~

2008-12-01T19:34:00.012+08:00

It's been a busy busy week! I was hardly at home, it was tiring, but FUN! After spending So much time with the PRYNSA gang, we've developed and turned into an OHANA ^^

Here's the simpler and less-complicated version of our ohana:
[we can't get anyone to take the pics for us, so we kinda take turns lol]

Guess who are the mama and papa?
[ We took this when we went jogging after the meeting at OGDC]

Anyway, this is then our extended and WAY complicated ohana:

Well, minus Mdm. Sheeja there...

I might have mentioned this before, but our motto is:

OHANA means FAMILY;
FAMILY means noboby gets left behind

We even have a theme song :], inspired from Lion King's "Circle of Life", it's FUNNY!

Oh yea, the RTB filming this morning went well, although there ARE some hitches, like how we can't find that "Sin Nii" tree at first, and how the labo gas just won't light up at first, and how we almost got lost in the forest while coming out... LOL, Besides those, it went super well :]

OHANA members are meeting tomorrow again at my house (I'm the mama lol, surprised?) for report compiling... it's gonna be fun!
OK, that's all for now!~
Ciao!~

WAIT!
I forgot grandpa:

[he's Jennifer's dad =)]

T.A.G

2008-11-28T18:06:00.005+08:00

Tagged By: Carmen; Tok Chen Yun

Rules:
1) Write (type) your full name with your elbow.
2) No backspacing.

I know this ain't gonna end up pretty, but oh well, here goes:

leong sikn niki

HAHAHAHA! Leong Sikn Niki huh? Cool. Anyway, there, I've done it! YAY!

I'm tagging: Lu, Ting Wen, Ling~
Ciao!~

continuing... Teen Scientists!*

2008-11-28T09:13:00.003+08:00

HA! I've been waiting for Ting Wen to update her blog, now whatever happened that day was now at Ting Wen's blog :D... Only minus the part where they stayed till 7:30pm, we - Ah Boy, Kah Yan and Me - went home at around 1:30pm ='(

ANYWAY, there'll be another BARC trip again tomorrow, only Kah Yan isn't going this time, I think she has some function to attend... Oh well, it's just the four of us then. Plus, Mr. Avinash and Mdm. Sheeja, oh, and Uncle too!

That's all for this post. I know it's super short, compared to my other posts, but I'm totally absorbed in "Twilight". I'm going back to it now =)

Ciao!

P.S. It's the F5 prom tonight, everyone, have fun! :D

Teen Scientists?!

2008-11-26T20:50:00.006+08:00

Ha! Went to BARC in Bandar today for PRYNSA experiments. Had loads of fun! While we're there, we went to the Mall for lunch and walked around a little, since BARC is in Bandar. So yea, not really in the mood of blogging now, will let you guys in with the details pretty soon!~

Oh, our PRYNSA gang has really gotten close lol... I've learnt this today from Ket, kinda cool:

OHANA means FAMILY;
FAMILY means NOBODY GETS LEFT BEHIND!
(it's from Lilo and Stitch lol, but still...)

More soon~
Ciao!

P.S. Report card day tomorrow. Ooh, scary (haha). Good Luck Everyone!
P.P.S. Oh, and I finally got my copy of Twilight today!!! Excited!

=O Another T.A.G!

2008-11-25T12:39:00.008+08:00

Tagged By: Ting Wen!

Instructions:
-Remove any number of questions from below, and add in your personal questions, then tag any
number of people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box
that he/she has been tagged.

1) What do you do most for the time being?
- school school school, blogging, reading, on-lining, watching movies, sleeping! (Ooh, I've been busy, haha)

2) What is your favourite animal(s)?
- Hamsters, rabbits, puppies, dolphins, oh and polar bears!

3) What is your one regret in life?
- Uhm, Me and My Big Mouth LOL

4) Who inspires you?
- My dad. [ =) ]

5) Tell me something I don't know about your family background.
- LOL, like what Tine Wen wrote, I don't know what you don't know. Uhmm, how about the fact
that my family [as in, my great-great-grandparents] was originally from Guangzhou, China?

6) Do you believe you can survive without money?
- NO, hey, it's a material world.

7) What are you afraid to lose the most?
- Family and friends aside, my laptop.

8) What can cheer you up from sadness?
- Music, talking to BFFs on the phone, books (they get my mind off the issue).

9) Have you ever fall madly in love?
- Nope

10) List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you.
- Funny (good sense of humour). A good leader and photographer. MAN! (kind and helpful too!)

11) What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
- Wicked sense of humour, loyal, kind, and of course, someone I love and who loves me back :D

12) What's the best thing that happened to you?
- Living in this awesome world?

13) What is your ambition?
- So far, it's to do my best in GCE :)

14) Describe your life in one word.
- Lively.

15) If you had a choice to be rich or happy, which one would you pick?
- Happy, no doubt :D

16) If you are told you can enter any university in this world, Oxbridge excluded, what
university will you enter?
- Harvard! [I dream BIG, haha]

17) Who is the persons (peoples) that you can share all your problems with?
- Lu, Yan & Jennnnnnifer!

18) How do you see yourself in 10 years time?
- All grown up and working?

19) You accidentally deleted this question.
- HA! right, then I'll just ignore and skip this question.

20) What is your dream job?
- *gasp* I think I want to be a lawyer. (Not necessarily those who goes on court. If you know what I mean)

DONE! Again, anyone who's interested, happy brainstorming!
~Ciao!

Taaaaaaaaggggggggs

2008-11-23T17:57:00.004+08:00

Tagged By: Wei Ling~

1) What is the most important thing in your life?
- Family & BFFs

2) What is the last thing you bought with your own money?
- DVDs

3) Where do you wish to get married?
- Uh, Paris perhaps?

4) How old do you think you will be permanently owned by your love?
- at least 26 (!!!)

5) Name the latest book you bought.
- Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer

6) What is your full name?
- Leong Sin Nii

7) Name the person you wish to meet in real life or the first time.
- Taylor Swift!

8) Cristina or Britney?
- Definitely Cristina

9) Do you do your own laundry?
- yes

10)The most exciting place you wanna go?
- U-S-A

11) Hugs or kisses?
- Hugs

12) 8 Things I am passionate about:
- my MP4
- Laptop (internet included)
- Music
- Movies
- Books =)
Uh, that's all I can think of at this moment....

13) 8 Books I've read recently:
- Kitty kitty (Michele Jaffe)
- Queen of Babble Gets Hitched (Meg Cabot)
- Audrey, Wait! (Robin Benway)
- Jet Set (Carrie Karasyov & Jill Kargman)
- Puppy Love (Nancy Krulik)
... I can't remember the rest lol (I want to read Twilight! That is, if I can get my hands on one. ugh!)

14) 8 songs I can listen to over and over again:
- You Belong With Me (Taylor Swift)
- Our Song (Taylor Swift)
- White Horse (Taylor Swift)
- Teardrops on My Guitar (Taylor Swift)
- Love Story (Taylor Swift)
- Thunder (Boys Like Girls0
- The Potential Breakup Song (Aly & AJ)
- Welcome to My Life (Simple Plan)
- Leavin' (Jesse McCartney0
- Unwritten (Natasha Bedingfield)
- 7 Things (Miley Cyrus)
- Tell Me Something I Don't Know (Selena Gomez)
I realise that the list is more that the required "8 songs" but, oh well...

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Tagged By: Wei Ling~

Rules:
1) Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player etc. on shuffle.
2) For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3) You must write that song title down no matter how silly it sounds.
4) Put any comments in bracket after the song title
5) Tag 6 people (I'll just skip this part)

Are you male or female?
- 7 Things (Riiiight :S)

Describe yourself.
- Our Song (gosh, what does that even suppose to mean?)

What do people feel when they're around you?
- Play My Music (?!)

Describe your current relationship.
- Touch My Body (*raise eyebrows* whaaaaa-?! )

Where would you like to be now?
- Bye Bye (I suppose this means I'd like to be in heaven now? HA!)

How do you feel about love?
- This is Me (no comment here)

What's your life like?
- 你们是我的星光 (Oooh!)

What would you ask for if you only had one wish?
- Picture to Burn (LOL! what a waste for a wish)

Say something wise.
- Whoa Oh Me vs. Everyone (that's wise, alright)

If someone say "is this okay?" you say...
- Your Call (oooh, this kinda makes sense, doesn't it?)

How would you describe yourself? (I thought I answered this earlier?)
- Unwritten (O_o)

What do you like in a guy/girl?
-Hot N' Cold (right.)

How do you feel today?
- Thunder (SO NOT true, quite the opposite actually..)

What is your life's purpose?
- New Classic (??)

What is your motto?
- I'd Lie (HA!)

What do your friends think of you?
- Love Story (LOL)

What do you think of your parents?
- Tell Me Something I Don't Know

What do you think about very often?
- I'll Be Loving You Long Time (oooh, how sweet.. haha, only I have no idea who that "you" is)

What is 2+2?
- 暧昧 (!!!???)

What do you think of your best friend?
- One Step At A Time (That just doesn't make any sense!)

What do you think of the person you like?
- Crush (!)

What is your life story?
- Just Stand Up (Finally! An answer that fits the question. sort of.)

What do you want to be when you grow up?
- Pocketful of Sunshine (wow!)

What are you thinking when you see the person you like?
- Leavin' (Who even does that? Leave the person you like? hmm..)

What will you dance to at your wedding?
- Welcome to My Life (haha)

What will they play at your funeral?
- It's Not Over (...)

What is your hobby/interest?
- All American Girl (yea, nice hobby)

What is your biggest fear?
- 苦茶 (scary? NOT!)

What is your biggest secret?
- Mary's Song (no comment)

What do you think of your friends?
- Teardrops on My Guitar (again, makes no sense whatsoever)

What will you post this as?
- How to Touch a Girl (heh heh heh)

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OK, to anyone who's interested and has plenty of free time like me: feel free to do these tags, although, let's face it, they're kinda weird... So, yea. -Mission Accomplished- Ling, I did all your tags!

Tiny Little Facts About ME~

2008-11-22T23:32:00.002+08:00

I know it's kinda late, but I can't sleep, so I decided to blog a little~

Name: Leong Sin Nii
Age: 16
Class: F4Science

I'm addicted to my precious laptop, Facebook and chocolate! (dessert of any kind actually).
I actually developed a habit of checking my horoscope on the internet every other day. Not that I'm superstitious or anything, I just want to know how true those stuffs are... (So far, they didn't get anything right lol)
I'm a classic bookworm, though I only read books with "happily-ever-after" endings, childish/stuborn, I know. To ensure that, I ALWAYS scan the back of the book before buying/reading any book. That drives Lu crazy. HA! (Oh, and my "books" do not include "texybooks" or "workbooks")
I believe that happy endings DO happen in real life.
I hate exams.
Music IS my life. At least, a whole big chunk of my life. Oh, though Lu described my taste in music as "weird".
I've always wanted to learn to play the guitar.
I think guys who can play the guitar and has a habit of wearing watches are cool. (I'm weird)
I don't really like guys who wear jewellery. (at least, not that much)
Oh, I'm not really a patient person. AND, I don't like beating about the bush, whatever I am thinking at the moment comes straight out of my mouth. Without filtering. So yea, sometimes I hurt people's feelings without even knowing. (Sorry! I didn't mean it) I can keep secrets though. =D
I hate my hair, and never have the patient to grow it out. (Told you that I'm not really the most patient person in the whole world)
Sometimes, I laugh for no reason.
I'm a cheerful person. You can see me crying at one second and then laughing the other.
You probably already know about this, but I love Taylor Swift. I think that Britney Spears is overrated, sure, she used to be good, love her old songs, but now? Not so much.
I'm a procrastinator.

Tagged xD

2008-11-22T21:34:00.005+08:00

Tagged by: Lu~!
1) Take a recent picture of yourself or take a picture of yourself right now.
2) Don't chang your clothes, don't fix your hair, just take a picture.
3) Post that picture with NO editting.
4) Post these instructions with your picture.
5) Tag 5 people to this.
- Lee Hao (Sharon Lee), Michelle Lai, Ting Wen, Lorin and Wei Ling.

=)
(Was ready to go out for dinner, thus my nicely combed hair.. HAHA!)

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P.S. I know my blog is getting crowded day by day, was still trying to figure out how to put everything in and yet not appear messy. HA! Sorry guys, I love you all!

E=mc² : 103 years later, Einstein's Proven Right

2008-11-21T18:05:00.003+08:00

PARIS – It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula E=mc² has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists.

A brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of France's Centre for Theoretical Physics, using some of the world's mightiest supercomputers, have set down the calculations for estimating the mass of protons and neutrons, the particles at the nucleus of atoms.

According to the conventional model of paryicle physics, protons and neutrons comprise smaller particles known as quarks, which in turn are bound by gluons.

The odd thing is this: the mass of gluons is zero and the mass of quarks is only five percent. Where, therefore, is the missing 95 percent?

The answer, according to the study published in the US journal Science on Thursday, comes from the energy from the movements and interactions of quarks and gluons.

In other words, energy and mass are equivalent, as Einstein proposed in his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905.

The E=mc² formula shows that mass can be converted into energy, and energy can be converted into mass.

By showing how much energy would be released if a certain amount of mass were to be converted into energy, the equation has been used many times, most famously as the inspirational basis for building atomic weapons.

But resolving resolving E=mc² at the scale of sub-atomic particles -- in equations called quantum chromodynamics -- has been fiendishly difficult.

"Until now, this has been a hypothesis," France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) said proudly in a press release.

"It has now been corroborated for the first time."

For those keen to know more: the computations involve "envisioning space and time as part of a four-dimensional crystal lattice, with discrete points spaced along columns and rows."

at the scale of sub-atomic particles -- in equations called quantum chromodynamics -- has been fiendishly difficult.

"Until now, this has been a hypothesis," France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) said proudly in a press release.

"It has now been corroborated for the first time."

For those keen to know more: the computations involve "envisioning space and time as part of a four-dimensional crystal lattice, with discrete points spaced along columns and rows."

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Pretty amazing, ain't it?

A trip into the wild!~

2008-11-19T21:17:00.003+08:00

HA! Maybe that title is an exaggeration, but it's true that I went to the Andulau forests today. It's was super-duper fun! (Even though the soil was wet and some part of the route into the forest is flooded) We walked for about an hour and a half and STILL, there is no sign of Nepenthes bicalcarata - fanged pitcher plant - the species of pitcher plant that we're looking for, but we did saw a lot of other species, some of them are HUGE...

Oh well, so, then after a loong time, uncle - our forest guide - said that we can't walk any further into the forest cos' he's afraid that we'll get lost or something... He also told us that he'd never seen the Nepenthes bicalcarata in Andulau area anyway. Disappointed, we started to head back. Oh yea, we found a new species of pitcher plant too! Uncle said that he's never seen that type before.. heh heh heh!

Okay, so we started to walk back to where we came from. Uncle, auntie (his wife), Tian Fu, Ting Wen and Ah Teng walked WAY in front of me, because somehow, even with the wet and slippery ground, they managed to walk real fast. I always walk with my head facing downwards whenever I went into a forest. It's for safety precautions: you never know what you'll step onto in the deep dark forest. But then, halfway, somehow, I decided to look up - for once - and Guess What I Saw? THE NEPENTHES BICALCARATA! Just THERE, RIGHT IN FRONT ME!

I started shouting and screaming, "WE FOUND IT! WE FOUND IT!" Ah Boy and Yan was behind me at that time, and when they saw it, they joined me with the shouting, everyone who was behind us, ran up to catch up with us, and everyone who walked in front of us came rushing back too! We cheered and clapped hands and high-fived each other. Gosh, we were high.

Turned out, I not only found one, or two, I found the whole tree trunk of it, from the ground to the top of the tall tree, FULL of it. We saw all kinds of weird things on that tree, a tiny crab, a yellow praying mantis - which looks kinda odd, two types of giant ants. Then, it's time to get to work. Teacher ordered us to start digging the soil. Well, the guys did it, I just stood there and watch. =O We stayed there by the tree for a very loooong time. Uncle made a mark so that it's easy for us to get back there the next time. He said that he'd never seen that tree before, and wanted to name it. He asked for my name (cos' I'm the one who spotted it) and wanted to call the area near the tree "Sin Nii" HA! Only that he heard me wrong and thought my name was Cindy, so he named the place "Cindy" instead.. LOL! hey, I actually have something named after me! *grins*

Then we walked out and teacher wanted to have breakfast at Soon Lee, though only the two teachers ate. The rest of us weren't hungry, so, we just walked around the building and settled on the railings outside the supermarket and talked. You do not want to know what we talked about. So yea, let's skip that part.

After that we went back to school and I left early, instead of helping them to dry the soil samples we collected. Sorry guys! I was EXHAUSTED!

That's all for now. Ciao!~

P.S Pictures are soon available up in my Facebook. Am uploading them now...

Progress Meeting...

2008-11-18T20:48:00.004+08:00

I just came home. About 2 hours ago. Went straight up to Bandar with the PYNSA gang straight after school. The meeting went horribly, we were late, which is a BAD start, but well, the forestry department people were ever late-er than us, so it doesn't matter. BUT, well, we got a loftof negative comments from the chief judge, and even got accused of copying the previous ex-PRYNSA's team's work - we didn't by the way, I swear. We thought the whole idea of "progress meeting" is to tell and show them what we've done for the project so far, so that's what we did. Turned out, that's not what they want. They want the RESULTS of the experiments, of our progress, not what kind of/type of experiments we did. Though, if they know the results now, there aren't going to be a lot of surprises in the report/oral report now, are there? So, we decided to go with the mysterious-slash-surprise! route, and tell only a little about what we've found out, keeping the best for the final report. They didn't know that. Oh well, we'll see.

After that, we went to the Mall for a brief shopping trip, which is FUN. Didn't buy much, it's only an hour stop. So, yea. More soon!

Oh yea, PRYNSA forest trip tomorrow!~ YAY! Forest trips are ALWAYS fun...

LOL, one of the picture that we've taken on the way back in the car (we're bored)....

Don't tell Boy that I posted this... Check out his eyes, it's cos' Yan said "Open you eyes WIDE!" when she took the picture lol (Ah Boy will never visit here, so shhh! keep the secret!)

That's all for now. Ciao~

Planets Outside Our Solar System =O

2008-11-16T09:56:00.003+08:00

Scientists discovered not one, not two, but four planets this week. Astronomers reported Thursday that they have the first snapshot of another solar system — one with three planets larger than Jupiter — orbiting a nearby star.

Circling the star HR 8799, the three planets "are a scaled-up version of our own solar system," says study leader Christian Marois of the National Research Council Canada. A large star about 128 light years away (a light year is about 6 trillion miles), HR 8799 resides in the constellation Pegasus, according to the online report released Thursday by the journal, Science.

"This is the first image of a multi-planet solar system," says Marois, who headed a U.S.-Canadian team that sifted light measurements from the star in 2004 and 2006 to photograph the planets in infrared light. "Here we are actually seeing the light, temperature and size of these planets."

Astronomers are also releasing images of single giant planets orbiting nearby stars, including one in Science from a Hubble space telescope team led by Paul Kalas of University of California, Berkeley, which released an image of a giant planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut.

Direct observations of planets come after more than a decade in which astronomers have detected planets, about 300, orbiting nearby stars through indirect means, such as gravitational wobbles in stars induced by planets and dips in light as planets transit across the face of their star.

Marois and colleagues essentially collected infrared light from the star over time, and then subtracted light emanating directly from the star, to leave behind an image of the three orbiting planets. They also looked at 19 other "A"-type stars, similar to HR 8799 in weighing about twice as much as our sun.

Previously, astronomers have only been able to directly image larger "brown dwarfs," failed stars about 40 heavier than Jupiter, says astronomer Sean Moran of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif. "So a direct image of a real planet would be quite exciting," says Moran, who was not part of the studies.

"The fact that (Marois and colleagues) found their triple planet system after looking at just a few stars would seem to imply that either they are incredibly lucky or that these systems are relatively commonplace," says planetary theorist Alan Boss, author of The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets. "Further observations will decide which is the case," he says, by email.

All of HR 8799's planets are cloud-topped giants, says Marois. They resemble Jupiter and Saturn but are much heavier at 7 to 10 times the mass of Jupiter. They respectively circle the star at 24, 38 and 68 times the distance that Earth circles the sun, which is about 93 million miles.

Both Boss and Moran caution that more observations by independent groups will be required to confirm that the images are true snapshots of nearby planets.

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*Pretty amazing, huh?* -grins-

Ciao!~

Twilight!

2008-11-13T19:16:00.001+08:00

The Twilight movie will be out soon! (21.11.2008) Can't wait to watch it, the trailer seems nice:

Staring Rpbert Pattinson as Edward and Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan =)

AND, I hope Stephanie Meyer will continue to write the 5th book, "Midnight Sun", it's supposed to be fun and is written from Edward's point of view, but i doubt that she'll continue writing because someone leaked the first 12 chapters of the book online and she said that it violated her rights, and so she was no longer in the mood to continue. AND, she posted the first 12 chapters up on the websites too! So, I doubt that it'll ever be born... Sigh, we can only wait and see what comes out next. You can read the first twelve chapters here: http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/pdf/midnightsun_partialdraft3.pdf

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Life after the exams isn't any easier...

I have a presentation due on the 18th (progress meeting @ Bandar for PRYNSA), a PRYNSA report to finish by the end of the month, prepare a MC script for the kindergarten graduation, prepare a speech in three languages for the secondary graduation, help with the preparing of the school exhibition, a talk to attend on the 22nd..... GOSH! But well, it's life, one step at a time...

Ciao~ This is the last post. For now.

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P.S. Twilight's soundtrack hit #1 on the billboard 200. This is supposed to be HUGE because Twilight is the first movie to hit #1 in advance of the movie's release since 8 miles six years ago. The books have been best-sellers, the CD is #1. Does any one doubt that the movie will be a smash? Can't wait! *Excited*

=O News Flash! Unbelievable

2008-11-13T18:57:00.002+08:00

Is Joe Jonas Dating Older Woman Camilla Belle?

Joe Jonas is being lambasted in the press for his 25-second phone break-up with Tailor Swift, age 18.

But that shameful quickie phone break-up news hasn’t deterred his new (slightly) older woman, Camilla Belle, 22, from seeing the swift serial-dater JoBro.

Then again, Camilla is best known for her word-less role in "10,000 BC," and this match may actually make the stunning brunette a bigger household name, if a hated one. Be nice to Joe, girl. Never underestimate the wrath of obsessed teenage fans!

So when did the magic happen? On the set of the Jonas Bros.' new music video, "Love Bug." But it was only "after doing the video that they began to date," a source tells People.

But so far, mum’s the word. "They are not public about it, but they've just been hanging out with their friends and Joe's brothers," explains the source.

So just how did Belle nab a Jonas Brother? "She's a really good girl, and it seems they share a lot of the same characteristics and morals," says the source.

Morals?

Oh, right. Morals. That's always what brings two very hot and hormonally charged young stars together.

What do you think? Did shared morals bring these two hotties together? Is Camilla too old for Joe? Or will she help him grow up a little? More like a lot?

Here's a thought. They look eerily alike. Maybe Camilla can give Joe the name of her expert brow shaper!

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Joe is unbelievable, he dumped Taylor, for HER?! The world has just gone upside down...

P.S. This morning, when we had Chinese P1, our dear GK asked Mdm. Lu what "假如我是比尔盖斯" means, Mdm. Lu just told him "Computer". That sent GK into a fit of confusion, computer? What about computer? Then he realised that there weren't the words "电脑" in those 8 chinese words. So, he decided to try again, this time, he asked Cikgu Khor, and finally, he got what we wanted, Cikgu Khor translated nicely, it means: If I were Bill Gates... Poor GK.

Air Cars: A New Wind for America's Roads?

2008-11-13T18:41:00.001+08:00

A new carmaker has a plan for cheap, environmentally friendly cars to be built all over the country

An air-powered car? It may be available sooner than you think at a price tag that will hardly be a budget buster. The vehicle may not run like a speed racer on back road highways, but developer Zero Pollution Motors is betting consumers will be willing to fork over $20,000 for a vehicle that can motor around all day on nothing but air and a splash of salad oil, alcohol or possibly a pint of gasoline.

The expertise needed to build a compressed air car, or CAV, is not rocket science, either. Years-old, off-the-shelf technology uses compressed air to drive old-fashioned car engine pistons instead of combusting gas or diesel fuel to create a burst of air to do the same thing. Indian carmaker Tata has no qualms about the technology. It has already bought the rights to make the car for the huge Indian market.

The air car can tool along at a top speed of 35 mph for some 60 miles or so on a tank of compressed air, a sufficient distance for 80% of consumers to commute to work and back and complete daily chores.

On highways, the CAV can cruise at interstate speeds for nearly 800 miles with a small motor that compresses outside air to keep the tank filled. The motor isn't finicky about fuel. It will burn gasoline or diesel as well as biodiesel, ethanol or vegetable oil.

This car leaves the highest-mpg vehicles you can buy right now in the dust. Even if it used only regular gasoline, the air car would average 106 mpg, more than double today's fuel sipping champ, the Toyota Prius. The air tank also can be refilled when it's not in use by being plugged into a wall socket and recharged with electricity as the motor compresses air.

Automakers aren't quite ready yet to gear up huge assembly line operations churning out air cars or set up glitzy dealer showrooms where you can ooh and aah over the color or style. But the vehicles will be built in factories that will make up to 8,000 vehicles a year, likely starting in 2011, and be sold directly to consumers.

There will be plants in nearly every state, based on the number of drivers in the state. California will have as many as 17 air car manufacturing plants, and there'll be around 12 in Florida, eight in New York, four in Georgia, while two in Connecticut will serve that state and Rhode Island.

The technology goes back decades, but is coming together courtesy of two converging forces. First, new laws are likely to be enacted in a few years that will limit carbon dioxide emissions and force automakers to develop ultra-high mileage cars and those that emit minuscule amounts of or no gases linked with global warming. Plug-in electric hybrids will slash these emissions, but they'll be pricey at around $40,000 each and require some changes in infrastructure -- such as widespread recharge stations -- to be practical. Fuel cells that burn hydrogen to produce only water vapor still face daunting technical challenges.

Second, the relatively high cost of gas has expedited the air car's development. Yes, pump prices have plunged since July from record levels, but remain way higher than just a few years ago and continue to take a bite out of disposable income. Refiners will face carbon emission restraints, too, and steeply higher costs will be passed along at the pump.

Zero Pollution Motors doesn't plan to produce the cars in the U.S. Instead, it plans to charge $15 million for the rights to the technology, a fully built turnkey auto assembly plant, tools, machinery, training and rights to use trademarks.

The CAV has a big hurdle: proving it can pass federal crash tests. Shiva Vencat, president and CEO of Zero Pollution Motors, says he's not worried. "The requirements can be modeled [on a computer] before anything is built and adjusted to ensure that the cars will pass" the crash tests. Vencat also is a vice president of MDI Inc., a French company that developed the air car.

The inventor of this technology is Mr. Guy Negre, who is the founder and CEO of MDI SA, a company headquartered in Luxembourg with its R and D in Nice, France.

OK. I copied and pasted the whole article, but that's just becase it's interesting, I mean, an environment friendly car!, how cute!

End Procrastination Now

2008-11-13T18:22:00.001+08:00

Haha, I'll admit, I'm a pricrastinator too! So, here's the article by Rachel Mahan, PsychologyToday.com:

Ten Tips on getting on What's Important

I procrastinated on this article. There. I said it in front of God, my editors, and everyone reading this. But I'm not alone. Most of us have been guilty of procrastination at some point. And about 20 to 25 percent of us are chronic procrastinators, says Joseph Ferrari, a psychologist at DePaul University in Chicago. Some people procrastinate because they believe they need a rush, some feel paralyzed by perfectionism, and others simply don't want to do the task.

Chronic procrastinators may need behavioral therapy, but for the other 80 percent: Don't put off reading these tips from experts like Ferrari and Timothy Pychyl, a psychologist at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and a blogger for Psychology Today.

10. "I work best under pressure" is a familiar refrain, but research suggests that this isn't necessarily true. Ferrari and colleagues have found that chronic procrastinators actually get less done when working under a time constraint compared with "non-procrastinators." And chronic procrastinators make more errors. If anything, people who procrastinate leave little room for error. Shopping early for a dinner party allows enough time to look elsewhere for better produce or matching napkins.

9. We all know that distractions are often too welcome. "We give in to feel good," says Pychyl. It may feel good right now to check Facebook, but we often discount future gains. In experiments, people choose the more immediate reward when given the choice between now or later. But, it will probably feel better in the long-term to finish that research paper.

8. Here's one way you can make it more attractive to complete a project before deadline. Celebrate! Normally, people are punished for turning in projects late. And, of course, no one is rewarded for finishing early. "We don't give the early bird the worm any more," says Ferrari. So, next time you finish your taxes before April 15, plan a party with friends.

7. Don't underestimate how much you can get done in 15 minutes. Waiting for a doctor's appointment? Bring along envelopes to be addressed. Honestly, you can do many things in 15 minutes. Set a timer and tackle a dreaded task. You could also try to change the way you approach a chore. Think: "I have the opportunity to do this again." Rather than: "Do I have to do this again?!"

6. "Just do it" should be your slogan. If you get to work on time, your attitude about the job will change. Once you start, it won't seem so bad. In addition, research from Kennon Sheldon, Ph.D., at the University of Missouri-Columbia has shown that we feel good when we make progress with our goals. And when we are happier about goals, we achieve more. Indeed, it's a not-so-vicious cycle.

5. The well-worn advice of making a list may not be helpful for everyone. Ferrari says that we don't procrastinate because we don't know how to make lists. Psychologists don't entirely understand all the reasons we put things off. Still, it might be good to break down a big project into small, bite-size pieces, like book chapters. Be honest about a task that's been looming on your list for weeks. Either do it now, or admit that it will never get done and strike it from your list, suggests Pychyl.

4. Make your goals public. Telling others what you plan to do will hold you accountable. Make a pact as a favor for a friend and yourself. As many people have found, it's a lot easier to get out the door if you have a jogging buddy. Disappointing yourself is one thing, but disappointing a friend is a whole other matter.

3. Don't beat yourself up about past procrastination. Some people "awful-ize" and are convinced they are horrible because they've procrastinated, says Ferrari. Yet, people who forgive themselves are less likely to procrastinate on the same task in the future. Forgiving yourself often means you make a promise to change your future behavior, according to research from the University at Buffalo and The State University of New York.

2. If you find yourself straying from a job, Pychyl recommends getting to know your flags. When you inch the mouse toward the check-mail button, be aware. Instead, stay focused on what really needs to get done. John Perry at Stanford University has written an essay on his strategy, called structured procrastination. He structures his to-do list to exploit his tendency to do anything except a necessary task. At the top of the list is something that seems important and pressing (but—here's the secret—it isn't), so he ends up doing all the other things on his list to avoid that one thing. He knows his flags and even uses them to "acquire ... a reputation for getting a lot of things done," he writes.

1. People may procrastinate doing things they don't enjoy. While we all have to do mundane things, such as dishes and grocery shopping, life is much more enjoyable if we have a meaningful career. It may take some soul-searching. For instance, experts recommend that you sit down and make a list of the times when you felt truly happy. Then, think about how you can make a career out of them. See a career counselor for help if needed.

After all, says Pychyl, "this is your life, why don't you want to get on with it?"

Hello Humanity, how I've missed you!~

2008-11-13T17:26:00.000+08:00

Hi, I'm back! Gosh, it's been two loooooooooooooong weeks, but I'm here! Sound and alive! Exams are tough, but it's WAY over now, so yea, whatever. During these long two week, I've collected few articles that I thought was cool/interesting/exciting....

But before that : Taylor Swift finally released her new album the day before yesterday! Love the new songs, especially "You Belong With Me".

Check out the new songs:
- Fearless
- 15
- Love Story
- Hey Stephen
- White Horse (this is the song that was on Grey's Anatomy)
- You Belong With Me
- Breathe (ft. Colbie Calliat)
- Tell Me Why
- You're Not Sorry
- The Way I Loved You
- Forever & Always
- The Best Day
- Change

Ooh, yea, Taylor Swift revealed how she coped with her breakup to Joe Jonas:

Entertainment Weekly

Taylor, 18, was interviews on a radio show today, admitting to dating Joe Jonas and saying she copes with their breakup by writing songs. (like I expected!)

"I've written about [the breakup] and I write about my life and that's just how I deal with things," Taylor said. "It's tough and it's been tough."

Taylor says she's learned from her past relationships and now knows what she wants in a boyfriend. The singer says she looks for someone with the same sense of humor and wants a guy
who is allowed to be seen in public with her! (Go, girl!)

*Please be warned with the numerous posts that might follow after this one* Cheers!

Confession of a Shopaholic

2008-10-30T19:18:00.000+08:00

OK, I know how I kinda mentioned that I won't be updating this blog any sooner, but I can't resist! Cos' I found this totally exciting news from the web (OK, not THAT exciting, but well...)

ANYWAY,
Ready? *drum rolls*
There's gonna be a movie made out of two of Sophie Kinsella's books - "Confession of a Shopaholic" and "Shopaholic Takes Manhattan". Of course, it's called "Confession of a Shopaholic", starring Isla Fisher as Becky Bloomwood. Though I'm kinda disappointed that they got an American - who has American accent - to star the movie, cos' the whole point of the series is that Becky is an English - with an English accent of course - and is down-to-earth and all, the trailer kinda gives an impression that she's an airhead... But well, I'm still gonna watch it, just to see how much the movie differs from the books .

=D So, anyone who's interested, here's the trailer:

P.S. Ms. Independent by Ne-yo is officially my new theme song - for now

Ciao! (I change my mind: Do miss me :D)

Exam Week!~

2008-10-30T13:04:00.000+08:00

Ok, so, exams are approaching and the teachers are all still nagging us to start studying, so I guess it's WAY after time to actually get my head in the game.. (Don't get me wrong, I've started with topics here and there.. Hello! Bio and Chem! *waves*)

SO, I guess it's obvious that I won't be doing any updating for the next two weeks or so.. Don't miss me! xD

Oh, wanna see our timetable for the finals? It's CRAZY!

04-11-08 (Tue)
- Melayu P1
- D. Maths P1

05-11-08 (Wed)
- Chemistry P1
- Chemistry P2

06-11-08 (Thu)
- English P1
- English P2

08-11-08 (Sat)
- A. Maths P1
- Chinese P2

10-11-08 (Mon)
- Melayu P2
- D. Maths P2

11-11-08 (Tue)
- A. Maths P2

12-11-08 (Wed)
- Biology P1
- Biology P2

13-11-08 (Thu)
- Chinese P1
- Physics P1
- Physics P2

See what I mean? The last day is the worst, we have the papers scheduled till 1300!!! Shoot me now...

FM - S.H.E

2008-10-25T14:06:00.000+08:00

Ooooooh, I lurve this new album of S.H.E (我的电台 / FM S.H.E)
Check it out when you guys have time =)

Here are the songs of this brand-new album (Okay, not so new, since it was out on Sept 23. '08, but still...):

早安您好
我爱烦恼
宇宙小姐
沿海公路的出口
天亮了
比你贱
喜碧夫人时间
女孩当自强
安静了
我是火星人
612星球
店小二
熬夜DJ
月光手札
酸甜

AND, these are some of the album's videos:

沿海公路的出口 - This is the sad/touching one

宇宙小姐 - Miss Universe

女孩当自强

酸甜- ft. Farenheit

Ciao!

P.S. Tomorrow's Ah Boy's Sweet 16 Birthday, Happy Advanced Birthday Jen! xD

Arrested for Virtual Murder =O

2008-10-24T18:38:00.000+08:00

Online Divorcee Jailed After Killing Virtual Hubby

TOKYO: A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband's digital persona has been arrested on suspicion oh hacking, police said Thursday.

The woman, who is jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his identification and password to log onto popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out a virtual murder in Mid-May, a police officer in Northern Sapporo on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.

"I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry," the officer quoted her as telling investigators and admitting the allegations.

The woman had not plotted any revenge in the real world, the official said.

She has not yet been formally charged, but if convicted could face a prison term of up to five year or a fine up to $5,000.

Players in "Maple Story" raise and manipulate digital images called "avatars" that represent themselves. while engaging in relationships, social activities and fighting against monsters and other obstacles.

The woman used login information she got from the 33-year-old office worker when their characters were happily married, and killed the character. The man complained to police when he discovered that his beloved online avatar was dead.

I can only utter one word after I read this: wow, I mean, WOW... It's really a modern world huh, if something like virtual murder can happen. Well, and that woman is kinda scary, I mean, it's a virtual world after all, it's not like you're devoted to him for life or anything, chill! Oh, and a thought just came to me - it's not even like her "hubby" is good looking or anything, unless you like the nerdy/geeky-with-super-thick-glasses-that-you-can't-even-see-their-eyes types *see picture above* (and I know it's kinda shallow to say that... For all I know, he might be the best virtual husband in the world, BUT, if he dumped her without a single notice, his personality can't be THAT good now, can it?) Plus, she's a whole decade older than him! O_O

P.S. I ♥Heart♥ Biology (NOT!)

THE G1

2008-10-22T17:57:00.000+08:00

Check this out: I kinda like this phone, cool apps and all xD They said that it's a true iPhone competitor - a good one =O

Read the review here: http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/patterson/29075

Well, tell me what you guys think, though I'll admit that it's not as good-looking as the iPhone. lol. But well, don't judge anything by its looks, its inner beauty is what that might surprise you...

Something Awesome to Share

2008-10-14T13:28:00.000+08:00

SO, I got this e-mail from my dad, it's called "The Girl Who Silenced the World"...

It's about this girl who silenced the world for about 5 minutes at the UN conference. It's an amazing speech delivered by a young girl at the conference in Brazil. According to the e-mail, she "delivers a powerful message that goes right to the heart of why we must take action. A very stirring and eloquent speech."

Well, I can't agree to that more, it's what I've always wanted to say but never seem to find the right way/time/place to say it... So, here's the video:

ANYWAY, for those of you who don't have the time to watch it/prefers reading, here's what the speech's about (I've tried my best to write everything down =D):

Hello, I'm Severn Suzuki speaking for ECO, the Environmental Children Organization. We're a group of 12 and 13 year-olds, trying to make a difference. Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. We've raised all the money to come here ourselves, to come 5000 miles to tell you and all, you must change your ways.

Coming up here today, I have no agenda, I am fighting for my future. Losing my future is not like losing an election, or a few points on the stock market. I am here to speak for all generations to come. I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world, with their cries unheard. I am here to speak for the countless animals, dying across this planet, because they have nowhere left to go.

I am afraid to go under the sun now because of the holes in our ozone. I am afraid to breathe the air because I don't know what chemicals are in it. I used to go fishing in Vancouver, my home, with my dad, until just a few years ago, we found the fish full of cancers. And now we hear of animals, plants going extinct, everyday, vanishing forever.

In my life, I have dreamt of seeing great herds of wild animals, jungles and rain forests, full of birds and butterflies. But now I wonder, if they would even exist for my children to see. Did you have to worry of these things when you were my age?

All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I am only a child and I don't have all the solutions, but I know I want you to realize neither do you. You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer, you don't know how to bring the salmon back up in a dead stream, you don't know how to bring back an animal, now extinct and you can't bring back the forests, that once grew, where there is now a desert. If you don't know how to fix it, please, stop breaking it.

Here, you may be delicates of your governments, business people, organizers, reporters or politicians, but really, your mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles, all of you, are someone's child. I am only a child and yet I know, we are all part of a family, 5 billion strong. In fact, 30 million species strong. And borders and governments will never change that. I am only a child, yet I know we're all in this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal.

In my anger, I am not lying and in my fear, I am not afraid of telling the world how I feel. In my country, we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and throw away and yet Northern countries would not share with the needies, even when we have more than enough, we are afraid to share, we are afraid to let go some of our wealth. In Canada, we live the privilege life, there are plenty of food, water and shelter. We have watches, bicycles, computers, and television sets, the list could go on for two days. Two days ago here in Brazil, we were shocked when we spent some time with some children living on the streets. This is what one child told us, "I wish I was rich, and if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicines, shelter, and love and affection." If a child on the street who has nothing is willing to share, why are we, who have everything still, so greedy?

I can't stop thinking, that these are children my own age, that it makes a tremendous difference where you were born. That I, could be one of those children living in the favelas of Brazil, I could be a child starving in Somalia, or a victim of war in the Middle East, or a beggar in India. I am only a child and yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty, and finding treaties, what a wonderful place this earth would be.

At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us how to behave in the world, you teach to not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not greedy... ... Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? Do not forget, why you are attending these conferences, who you are doing this for, we are your own children. You are deciding what kind of world we are growing up in.

Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying, "Everything's going to be alright, it's not the end of the world, and we're doing the best we can." But I don't think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of priorities?

My dad always says, "You are what you do, not what you said." Well, what you do makes me cry at night. You grown up saying you love us, but I challenge you, please, make your actions, reflect your words. Thank you.

I know that's kind of long, but trust me, it's well worth the time. I mean, you'll really have the urge now (if you haven't had that before) to protect our environment... Really, it's kinda ironic how the words of a child carry more weight in truth than lies of all the nations put together. Anyway, I love it and thought tha you guys might wanna watch it too. tell me what you guys think.

Ciao!

P.S. I hate Britney's new song, "Womanizer", it's worse than the last one, what was that again?
oh yea, "Gimme More", which isn't any nicer either. SIGH, she's kinda hopeless, though she
did lose her weight now... WHATEVER xD

... ... talk about speechless-ness

2008-10-10T08:02:00.000+08:00

... ... ... ... ... ... ... *gaping*

SO, Joe Jonas and Taylor Swift broke up, before even going public with their romance... (!!!) Jonas ended the five month romance in a phone call.

"He broke her heart," says an insider. (Tell me about it)

The teens never talked openly about their feelings for each other, but Swift, 18, confessed the Jonas Brothers pin-up was "an amazing guy and anyone would be lucky to be dating him" at the MTV Video Music Awards in September.

Right, what kind of human even does that? Break up with people over the phone, I mean. *rolling my eyes.. GUYS* SIGH, never mind, if he did something like that, he's not even worth it, Taylor deserves someone who at least have the guts to break-up with her face-to-face (not that I wish she would have to have her heart broken the second time) They said the break-up was swift...

ANYWAY

Let's wait for her new "break-up song".. You know that she'll definitely write something about this, and trust me, I have a feeling that it'll be good...

Gosh, Kah Yan will be crushed when she heard about this, since she's a BIG fan of Joe Jonas... MAN, I really thought this one would last...

OMGGGGGGGGGGGG!

2008-10-05T21:15:00.000+08:00

OMG! Omigod! Omygosh!
THAT IS JUST SOOO SWEET!
You guys can NEVER guess what LU just did, it is exactly 9:15 now, trust me, I think I have something in my eyes now, I'm close to tears - of joy... LU, you are the BEST, that is the sweetest thing anyone on earth has done to anyone...

SO, here's what happened:
9:07:30 - I heard my dog barking
9:07:14 - Look out the window
9:08 - Saw someone vaguely like ah Lu standing at my front gate (it's raining, she's carrying an
umbrella.), Rub my eyes, just to be sure, pinch myself, making sure that I'm not
dreaming...
9:09 - Rush out with the keys to the stairs and -
9:10 - SCREAMS! cos' Ah Lu is already there! LIKE MAGIC!!!
9:11 - Lu (while hugging me): Happy Birthday Nii!! (while giving my the pressies in a bag)
Me (STUNNED): Why.. What are you doing here? We just said good bye in MSN!!!
9:12 - Lu: HAHA got ya! My mom and me planned this!
9:14 - Back upstairs, open present, STARES O_O, read through the whole thing.. OMG! I
LURVE IT!

And you guys can never believe this! She hand-made this SUPER COOL card-calendar for me! (which consist of stuffs about our friendship and my life since birth =D) I'm SO touched! Gosh, this thing in my eyes just won't get away... *sniff* *sniff* Lu, trust me, this is the best birthday present ever! I LOVE YOU!

I can't believe this, THIS IS THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER! I feel like screaming (of joy of course) on top pf my lungs.. I'M THE LUCKIEST GIRL ON EARTH!!!

As you guys might notice, there's an awful lot of exclamation marks in this entry, well, that's how psych-thrilled-happy-touched I am!!! I don't think I can sleep, I'm too happy!

SWEET!

2008-10-05T19:59:00.000+08:00

WOOHOO!
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Someone here who owns this blog has hit the BIG SWEET 16 today!~ =D
If I were to be born living in the States (a.k.a the ol' U-S-to-the-A), I'll probably be able to drive a car by now... But since I weren't born there, I'm still stuck waiting for another 2 years..

Let's see,

My sweet sixteen birthday isn't glamorous like those on MTV (personally, I think they're all spoiled brats), but it sure is SWEET! I mean, people who I love and care about were there with me. LOL, ah Boy (JENNIFER) got me a glass that says: Congratulations! You have got the best friend award (FROM ME!!). Isn't that cute? GK got me a... get this, *drum rolls* A GUITAR! I was like O_O, I was SO stunned for a minute that I just stood there and stared at him. I barely even manage to get out a proper "thank you". So, I have to say it here, "Thank you, GK, I love it!~". I also got an e-card from Teck Voon(Nerissa) - Thank you to you too! Ooh, and thanks too to those who have greeted me "happy birthday" - Mom, Dad, Tung, Ah Lu, Kenneth, Meli, Onn, Yee Yee, Teck Lee, JJ, Darren, Xiao Jiu mu.... I LOVE YOU ALL!!

Ok, that's all for today... Man, I'm SO happy, you guys make my day~
xD

Selamat (Belated) Hari Raya~

2008-10-03T18:23:00.000+08:00

I spent this year's first two days of Hari Raya in Singapore... You might think that there's nothing different between spending Hari Raya HERE and in Singapore, but trust me, it is, different I mean. Maybe it's because they're not big into celebrating it, I mean, sure, it's they're public holiday on the first day too (although it's a day earlier than ours, since they got the date kinda fixed every year), but they don't have the festive "feel" there, like, you don't get to hear the familiar "Hari Raya" songs everywhere you go like what happened here. SO yea, it's a whole new experience... I think the Singaporeans just view this day as they're day off to shop and relax. You would easily forget that it's the first day of Hari Raya if it weren't for the people around. I mean, MAN, the streets are all CROWDED, and I wasn't even talking about the MRTs yet (you can barely breathe).

Heh. So, again: "Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri" (to all the Muslims xD)

So, I've bought quite a lot of stuffs on this trip to S'pore, (a few clothes, BOOKS, Dvds, you know, the usual =D).

I especially Lurves the books, though it's kinda disappointing that I can't find the one that I really REALLY hope to get my hands on.. SIGH, maybe next time...

Here's the book:

It's out of stock for every bookshop I went to (and that's quite a lot of book stores).. That's how good the book is. ICK! I really want to read it ='(

ANYWAY, I got my hands on some other pretty good ones too~ I finished reading this:

Like what Meg Cabot said, Michele Jaffe is "purrrrrfect". HAHAHA, it's SO funny that I almost wet my pants while reading it. You guys should all try it, it's like Mystery + a little ROMANCE, mostly mystery. This is actually her second book, the first was "Bad Kitty", not bad either, she used the same characters, only different story, different place =D Cool~

Oooh, I almost forgot, Meg Cabot is going to Borders, S'pore for her book tour on the 6th, there'll be book-signing and everything, I WISH I could stay until then, but too bad, with school starting and all, I only got to stay in SG till the 4th.. SIGH, again, just my luck...

Oh yea, Singing Practice for the F4s tomorrow...
Time: 9:00-11:30
Venue: CCMS Secondary

Rock On People! Enjoy the remaining not-so-long, nearly-ending holidays!

P.S. Hint: This Sunday's the 5th of October!!!!!! *Wink* *Wink* Friends, I hope you know what
that means, and I DON'T mean that that's the last day of the holidays~

New Global Warming Threat?! O_o

2008-09-24T17:35:00.002+08:00

Read this off the sustainblog (blogging a greener world) this morning:

Scientists Discover New Global Warming Threat: "Methane Time Bomb" Under Arctic Seabed (!!!)

Scientists have today warned that global warming could rapidly accelerate as millions of tons of methane escape from the Arctic seabed. According to preliminary findings, as the Arctic region gets warmer, massive deposits of the greenhouse gas - 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide - are rising to the surface.

Orjan Gustafsson of Stockholm University, one of the expedition's leaders, said in an e-mail from their Russian research ship that, for the first time, the team has discovered an extensive area of methane release so intense that "the methane did not have time to dissolve into the seawater but was rising as methane bubble to the sea surface". The team believe that the accelerated release is connected to rising temperatures throughout the Arctic region.

Gustafsson went on to report that "the conventional thoguht has been that the permafrost "lid" on the sub-sea sediments on the Siberian shelf should cap and hold the massive reservoirs of shallow methane deposits in place". However, extensive research across thousands of square miles of the Arctic seabed had revealed growing evidence that "the permafrost lid is starting to get perforated and hus leak methane".

Wow, now we're definately dying sooner than expected (blackbholes by the LHC or not). Ick! I don't want to die yet... ='(

Gold Coast Dream Squashed X|

2008-09-19T20:18:00.000+08:00

So I've been planning happily these few days my to-do list when I'm in Gold Coast, since that is where daddy told us we'll be going for this holiday.. The beautiful beaches, the exciting theme parks, the luxurious spa treatments.. Man, I'm practically drooling just by looking at those pictures...

BUT
All those plannings are squashed now, since daddy just hit us with the news that we're going to S'pore instead... (I think he has some meeting there to attend or smth) Oh well, I think I'm a teensy bit disappointed. On the bright side though, now I won't have to worry that I won't be able to buy a single book/novel to last me through the next semester (I checked the net, let's just say that they're not exactly famous for their vast variety of bookstores) yea, so, it's S'pore for now, and it's f.i.n.a.l, cos' daddy just booked the ticket :D

So, yea, just a brief update here

Outdated? >.<

2008-09-19T18:22:00.000+08:00

So, guess what I'm watching recently? HAHA. It's "放羊的星星" (I found this amazing site that allows you to watch one episode straight, non-stop). I know, I know, I'm outdated hehe, but hey, I'm also watching "无敌珊宝妹" on Youtube every Monday, so I guess it balances out everything...

I started watching this because Ah Lu said it's good and because I can't find anything better to do with my looong holiday. So yea... It turns out that it's pretty good, although the guy who plays the brother of the leading male role - who, btw, is HOT ^^ - can barely speak Chinese (I think he's an ABC, cos' man, he has a thick accent). But I think it's still early to judge, since I haven't exactly finish the whole thing...

ANYWAYS
Went to school this morning for singing practice, we had a great time, laughing our butts off because of the silliest things. (we all ended the practice with sore throat!!) I have no idea how we manage it, but even though it's a really nice and mellow song, we tend to come out with the "Lui-est" gestures to do along with the lyrics =.="

Oh, and we have to sing this really high-pitch birthday song >.< sans music. So this is gonna be a fun holiday (NOT), filled with singing practices and ocassinal trips into the nature.. (Not to forget the compilation of the dictionary-thick PRYNSA report, but we managed to magically produce 81 pages O_o)

Love Story - Taylor Swift :]

2008-09-15T21:46:00.000+08:00

I absolutely adore Taylor Swift. She's talented (she wrote all her songs and is very good at playing the guitar), young (she's only 18), pretty and a good singer... All in all, she's the best country singer ever. Hands down... People sometimes got a dismissing look to their faces when they heard that she's a country singer, but hey, don't knock it unless you've tried it. Trust me, once you did, you'll be HOOKED.

ANYWAYS, she just released her new album few days ago (11th Nov). I LOVE the new song!
Here's her new album:

"Love Story" - Taylor Swift

We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes
And the flashback starts
I'm standing there
On a balcony in summer air

See the lights,
See the party,
The ball gowns,
I see you make your way through the crowd,
You say hello,
Little did I know

That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
And I was crying on the staircase
Begging you please don't go, and I said

Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting all there's to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say yes

So I sneak out to the garden to see you
We keep quiet cause we're dead if they knew
So close your eyes
Escape this town for a little while

Cause you were Romeo and I was a scarlet letter
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
But you were everything to me
I was begging you please don't go and I said

Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say yes

Romeo save me, they try to tell me how to feel
This love is difficult but it's real,
Don't be afraid
We'll make it out of this mess
It's a love story baby just say yes

Oh oh,

I got tired of waiting
Wondering if you were ever coming around
My faith in you was fading
When I met you on the outskirts of town, and I said

Romeo save me I've been feeling so alone
I keep waiting for you but you never come
Is this in my head, I don't know what to think
He kneels to the ground and pulls out a ring

And said

Marry me Juliet you'll never have to be alone
I love you and that's all I really know
I talked to your dad, go pick out a white dress
It's a love story baby just say yes

Oh oh yes,

Cause we're both young when I first saw you

Isn't it just beautiful? It's like a perfect fairytale... (looove the castle and her dress)

I read this from her Myspace page: I've never been the kind of girl who needs a boyfriend. Plus, guys don't ask me out because they know I'll write songs about them. But I'm also the girl who still believes prince charming exists somewhere out there -- fully equipped with great hair and an immature sense of humour. (LOL) I believe that love will find you when you least expect it to, so yea, I'm not looking ( =] !)

Spring: Sowing the Seeds of Hope

Walking Zombie on the loose

Oops.

New School. New Start.

THE Updateeeeeee

Smile.

Reminiscing the times we spent together...

A little of everything (of the first 2 weeks of Jan 2010)

The Last Moments of 2009.

Bowling... towards the gutters :D

Merry Swiftmas~

Lesson Learnt.

14 years is such a short time

Peanut Butter M&Ms and Everything Nice...

Play as Taylor Swift - Band Hero

=)

Taylor Swift VS. Kanye West

The smell of e-books just got better

Hola!

Dancing Down the Aisle

The Facebook Experience

Heyyy =)

The (not-so-complete) Ohana Reunion =)

Wonderful World

An Update =)

WOW....

R.I.P Michael Jackson

Guilty Pleasure

The Other Side of Taylor Swift

My Life So far~

OH MY GOD!

Debate Fever~

BIG DAY!

*NEW*

Random-ness

!!!!!

HEY! I'M STILL ALIVE!

Taylor Swift~

Kissing the exams goodbye XD

One more post before I go M.I.A

Jai Ho!

Dead Meat.

D.e.n.i.a.l !

Freaky!

My Wounded Heart =(

Blogger Noob x |

OUR List =)

White Horse - Taylor Swift =)

The Bizarre World Today!

UPDATEEEE

Thought of the Day

Aaron Johnson is L.O.V.E =)

Moooooooo!~

Wen's Surprise Party =)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

=) / =(

Grrrrrr!

=D

T -to the- A -to the- G

WooHa!~

My 2009's Resolution

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!~

Heyyyyyyyyy!

!!!

I'm Yours~

It's Oveeeeeeeeeer!

I'm BAAAAACK!

Partyyyyy!

OHANA!~

T.A.G

continuing... Teen Scientists!*

Teen Scientists?!

=O Another T.A.G!

Taaaaaaaaggggggggs

Tiny Little Facts About ME~

Tagged xD

E=mc² : 103 years later, Einstein's Proven Right

A trip into the wild!~

Progress Meeting...

Planets Outside Our Solar System =O

NEW

=O News Flash! Unbelievable

... ... talk about speechless-ness