Filed under: daily, memories, rambling | Tags: brother, exams, friends, funny, television
this random but trying to mug is as difficult as deciding if simon baker is better than hugh laurie or vice versa. haha. it’s impossible to tell who’s better. i watched half an episode of the mentalist last night. it’s quite a nice show! shall add it to my list of shows to spam after ib
i’ve got nothing funny/interesting to post so here are some random parts of my waning days as an ib student:
while yuechin, ruthi, pam and i were walking out of school today after mathh:
me: ok i test you. who is the current prime minister of UK
pam: uhhh… barack obama
(which caused chin ruthi and i to go into a fit a laughter, and i accidentally spilt ribena on chin’s bag cause in the ensuing chaos we knocked into each other)
pam: wait wait let me guess again… uh BILL CLINTON. *silence* ok… john f kennedy??
me: NO!! it’s gordon brown
pam: ohh but i know marilyn monroe sang a happy birthday song to kennedy
/end (i think maybe i should get her an atlas and a subscription to the economist for her birthday, HAHA. i kid i kid.)
i was lying on the sofa watching tv after dinner
me: bj i feel so fat :( i’m oozing fats all over the sofa
bj: yeah you know what would happen if you go swimming in the sea?
me: don’t tell me… i don’t wanna hear -_-
bj: you’re cause an oil spill and kill all the marine wildlife, that’s what would happen :)
/end
lastly:
ferd: bullshit is the fertilizer for the brilliant
haha and with that inspiring quote from ferd, i shall be brilliant no mo’ and go back to studying ecornzzxx
p.s. can’t wait for ib to be over… prom! so excite. (need to lose weight if not i’ll really start causing oil spills lol) but then it’ll be 5 days of intensive, exhausting shopping right after the last paper ie math paper3. BUT I DON’T MIND. mind-numbingly exhaustive shopping>mind-numbingly exhaustive examinations anyday, all day, 24/7. and not to mention lnat straight after that in early december!! and i should probably get a job after that too! like as a secretary or something. i mean i have all the way till august/sept 2010 before uni starts
p.p.s. mom’s coming home from shanghai today!! :):) yay got crabs to eat :D
p.p.p.s. oh well house and patrick jane will have to wait. but i’ll get back to you two soon, i promise. haha
p.p.p.p.s. OH RIGHT there’s a meteor shower today!! that was like the whole purpose of my post before i got distracted with the whole hugh laurie/simon baker thing. it’s at 1-3am at night/early morning. dunno if i can see it though! but i really wanna make a wish. other than getting above 41 point of course! cos like, it’s a meteor shower so you can make more than one? but the other wish is secret, i donch tell you what it is :) heehee
Filed under: daily, random, rants, videos | Tags: angry, brother, dad, exams, food, movie, pissed
my weekend was full of spending quality time with my bed, pigging out on cornetto royales, fervently praying that i’ll get a maya angelou extract for ioc (serious!), trying to figure out the gender ambiguity and undertones of the male-actor-dressed-as-a-female-dressed-as-a-man Viola-or-hould-i-say-Cesario in 12th night, enjoying a peaceful night in my hovel- i mean, room while the storm and tempest still outside, apologia pro eating seconds of stir-fried ricecake for dinner, while still having time to catch a tv movie. namely HOT FUZZ!
two words: it. was. epic! probably ranks up there in the list of most ridiculous movies that i’ve ever seen (but still love). somehow brit comedies are so much funnier than american ones. can’t remember the last time i’ve properly laughed (like clutching stomach, tears streaming down face laughed) at an american film. which reminds me, i caught a certain the animal on channel 5 on saturday. it was just… ew. surprisingly dad and bj were in fits over it, but i quickly switched the channel when they went off grocery shopping. i would use “disgusting” and “utterly revolting” to describe it but… well i don’t want to be sued, do i? :)
anw ioc in three days. i really hope i get caged bird!! i really love that book. yes so what if its black-mama-korean-drama, but at least it features female empowerment and not to mention it’s very inspirational! and colour purple too. at least they don’t portray women in a derogatory light, like miss julie (who’s a skank) or hedda gabler (she’s nuts) or medea (cold-blooded child-murderer). who else… mayber lear’s favourite daughters, regan (president with same name was assassinated) or goneril (named after an std… yikes). okay fine, those two i kid. :P
(if you’re male just skip the last bit, sorry. it’s nothing much, really)
Filed under: daily, reflective, videos | Tags: brother, dad, exams, family, life, mom, money, music, school
the weekend’s been really productive. hopefully i’ll be able to retain all that info though! seems to be a stretch but hopefully it happens. and my goal for the prelims is to get at least a 6 in all HLs and 7 for chem and 6 for physics. i got 5 for chinese a2 but since we’ve gotten the score for our written papers for ib back already and have already submitted the ias, i hope i get a 7!
suddenly i have this real urge to go study in the uk, just seems like such a great place to be. even though i know it’s selfish because it’s sooo expensive and i should just remain in singapore and go to nus (because well, given the job climate now if i do get into law in the uk i’ll probably stay there after i graduate). well but my long term goal is to buy my parents a house by the seaside (lol mom i know you’re reading this) and then pay for my bro’s uni tuition fees so i guess anywhere’s fine as long as i get a job. cus you know, confucius ranks high on my list of life’s philosophies (after maybe say… uhhh)
haha. i know right? and if i have enough money left i’ll save up for my wedding. HAHA!
but since i’m so bad at saving i’ll prolly be a perpetually poor student even after i graduate. boohoo.
and i’m spamming a lot of indie music in my itunes recently. idk the stuff they sing about’s catchy and laid-back at the same time. and it’s cute how a lot of indie bands name themselves with the article “the” at the start of their names:the red jumpsuit apparatus (hmm is that an indie band?), the crib, the pigeon detectives, the ramones, the scientists… aaaaand this band called the kooks whose music i really like recently!
this song’s pretty good, and i used to be really crazy over their song ‘naive’, except then i didn’t really know which band played it. except half the time i can’t understand the lyrics, hm. maybe sometimes things are made to be appreciated, not to be understood.
p.s. this is random, but i’m suddenly craving that sweet, white and thick chinese hot dessert. rahhh
Filed under: daily, rambling | Tags: brother, dad, friends, movie, random, weird, work
just watched wolverine with the bro!! it was a awesome movie but some parts were really accidentally funny (like the part deadpool (or deathpool?) was falling/spiralling down the empty cylindrical chimney and was cutting it into slices from within using cyclop’s laser-eye ability… it’s funnier actually watching it, seriously). so anyway i was almost falling asleep on the couch while waiting for dad and bj to fix up the tv while studying chem, but at least i finished most of medicine&drugs and organic chem today. whoopee for me! and anyway the movie was pretty nice cos a) wolverine was hot b) his girlfriend was hot c) hugh jackman’s acting was pretty good d) daniel henney (agent zero) was also hot (at least for the 10 min that he was in the movie). but seriously i felt it was better than the x-men franchise movies cos you didn’t have all these expectation of who does what yadda yadda (and there’s no jean grey… hurray!) like a breath of fresh air!
monday i watched state of play w/ pam at shaw. the screen was so small i swear it’s the same size as the tv in my house (as in proportionately) when i first saw russel crowe i was like (pardon me) “woah jesus (sans beard)”, but overall the movie was pretty good; y’know going on about journalistic integrity and political lobbying (i think that’s what it’s called) with a good amount of irony and twists thrown in for good measure. but well i thought they cast ben affleck wrongly cos he seems too dumb to scheme anything. then walked around with pam shopping… (her new obsession is zebra shirts lol) and she told be this disturbing thing on the mrt on the way home it’s still giving me nightmares (hahahaha).
overall today was a pretty good day cos i managed to mug even though i fell asleep halfway. lying on the sofa is not a conducive way to stay awake guys, i learnt that today. and recently i haven’t been sleeping well at night. first of all i keep getting episodes of sleep paralysis (that’s when you wake up at night in this semi-conscious state but you can’t move your body) and it doesn’t help that i keep thinking i’m being possessed. and it’s not even scary anymore i mean it happens so often i get really irritated when it happens, like even in my semi-conscious state i go “walao not again” and try to kick my legs. second of all there was this day i kept getting woken up by, get this, pains in my knees. *crickets chirping* i kid you not i think i have rheumatism. but that happened only after monday cos i walked a lot around orchard and over exerted my granny joints, haha. lastly i keep dreaming of pomeranian puppies (which is kinda nice, actl.) but when i wake up it’s just my bear. how disappointing. i like my bear but i really want a real pom. :(
Filed under: daily, rambling, random | Tags: brother, exams, food, friends, life, motivational
sorry for that random title, but i shan’t elaborate cos i’ll start rambling and turn into a geek-a-saurus (or noob), haha. let’s just say: trust them to think of a functional use for satellite laser technology! (and mac and sony should just suck it :P)
and in other news… none really. heh, i’m trying to finish 2 drafts of w-lit by wednesday and start mugging proper soon, i guess. then maybe catch a movie or two (pam and i are seeing state of play on monday!) and chill out with ming and kk on ming’s birthday.
maybe i should like, resolve to wake up at 5.30am in the morning and jog around the field for 30minutes, bathe and eat a super healthy breakfast (no more oily youtiao and kimchee (which does nuts for my complexion)!!) and then mug like crazy for the whole day, whereupon i’ll sleep at 9.30pm and repeat the process the next day for the whole freaking month. i will also renounce technology and become a hermit, with only textbooks for friends; and of course in the most idealistic sense i’ll also become temporarily vegetarian (eating only selected seafood like salmon which is rich in omega 3 fatty acids) and zen a la a taoist monk practicing kungfu on the peak of a mountain, so that i’ll be able to attain 45 points as easily as a raise of my hand in the midyears…………………..
which is so obviously not going to come true in a million years unless i get a lobotomy (if you don’t know what that is then good for you). i am probably still going to wake up at 1 pm everyday and lounge around my house and eat like a pig and ignore any work that needs to be done. :( well i’ll try to restrain myself, from both eating too much and not mugging at all! i wanna do well. AND i want to be able to confidently say that i don’t speak empty words! sooo let’s go BC. prove to everyone that you can do it (and that you’re name is not pig cheng/sipangzhr<-don’t ask)
