yesterday i went to guang’s birthday party! special mention to the cheesecake cos everyone thought it was store bought, but it was all really due to pamelia ramsay’s expert direction (plus the extra help of the jean-phillipes aka ben chong, kwong and i). and had much fun singing at the karaoke with everyone. and i think i kinda lost my voice after yesterday though. and after that we had fun bowling/watching people bowl. then and spent time at the adjoining arcade. hmm oh yeah watching the guys play the street fighter game was really an eye opener, never knew how those things worked haha.
plus i didn’t do much all week, except for math and english. finally emailed asking for a referral letter and completed the personal statement thought, even though i had trouble with latter. cos when you watch too much antm, suddenly the way you promote yourself sounds awfully like the way the models on the show interview. not good, since it makes you sound less like the credible future undergrad that you’re supposed to be and more like…… ris low.
hmm plan for tomorrow’s that i’m gonna finish summarizing siddhartha, like key quotes and rundown and stuff. hope i can finish. plus i really need to plan the studying schedule; it’s scary to think the actual exams are coming so soon guys. i’m so not prepared. oh well, the inevitable will come whether we want it or not…
anw toodles guys time to sleep.
boom boom boomz!
bao
p.s. now that i’ve finished watching true blood s2 and band of brothers on max i have nothing to look forward to on weekends. :( i’m contemplating whether to start watching house haha. should i?
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watched the last half an hour of the miss universe pageant today while munching down dinner (some leftover ricecake and preserved fish from shanghai). it was pretty funny because that was the so-called difficult question and answer round. there was a question which was something along the lines of, “what do you think could be done to eradicate the gender discrimination women face in many parts of the world face even until this day?” in which miss Venezuela answered, well, i don’t think anything needs to be done because there is a lot done already!
this made me realise that the purpose of the q&a round is not, contrary to popular belief, to flaunt the extreme intellectual aptitude of the contestants, but instead is designed in such a way that contestants’ll score high points for waxing lyrial about life while looking glamorous. geez. if only we could answer tok questions with such relative ease. “how do you quantify truth based on the different ways of knowing?” “well firstly, i would like to say how thankful i am for this wonderful experience, because i believe in telling the truth. and also i think truth consists of with beauty, compassion and intelligence…” haha. there’s an A for tok right there.
and it was damn funny cuz venezuela won twice in a row right? this year and last. when they announced that miss venezuela won, the ex-miss universe and the current one ran towards each other and started hugging and crying and jumping around in circles in unison. and 2008’s hair just kinda disintegrated into this bird’s-nest type of thing when she jumped around. ok i kid. but seriously, the best part was when 2008 was crowning 2009. i’m sorry did i say crowning? i mean throw-the-million-dollar-diamond-tiara-on-head-of-your-successor a la those carnival games where you have to throw mini-hoops into the bottle. it was damn funny!
oh well, if only the world were a giant beauty pageant: there would be answers to every single pressing question; does god exist? were the pyramids really built by aliens? is doomsday really in 2012? will we all die then? what can we do to survive? do we hide food in the basements? if so what type of food? will we remember to bring can-openers or starve to death because we were too stupid to open the food without them? will there be tinned mangoes? what the hell am i saying exactly?
anyway if you haven’t figured, the magic phrase to all of those questions above is ‘world peace’. or as the homies back at the ‘hood say it, ‘peace out’.
appearance vs reality: sometimes you shouldn’t laugh at the weirdo.
p.s. sorry for the randomness guys, i’m really damn sleepy, and this is coming from after my 4 hour nap. haha. i failzz at lifezzxxss
p.p.s. maybe i should become lianxxzzz
p.p.p.s. can lianzzxxx win miss universe?
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national day celebs today. was super boring as per usual. then after school lunched at ikea with pam, steph, jun, cher, eddy, astro. i had this uber-deliciouso baked chicken leg with coleslaw, mashed potatoes and boiled baby carrots in gravy, was heaven. O:) then we were discussing this korean drama serial. was cereally entertaining! then guang joined us while astro, cher, pam went back to school. we walked through ikea for a while, and it was funny cos we were like looking at furniture and planning what to get next time. then after that i ate ice-cream and half a hotdawgitty dawg.
hmmmmmmm don’t really feel like typing much these few days. i expect people don’t want to read lengthy posts about philosophy (words sucked dry writing ioc scripts) either so i guess i’ll let the picture do the talking…. although this pic in particular makes no sense really. but there’s just some kind of innate beauty in the vague ambiguity of ideas, especially in the way the ideas somehow link up.
though i’ll hate to be an astronaut though. watching high up in that putrid blackness but never involved, disconnected from it all. that’s a mighty sad thing, doncha fink?
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Step 1) Think of the topic you want to elucidate
Step 2) Choose a word (for example i chose “bug”)
Step 3) Come up with a list of words that rhyme with the chosen word.
Step 4) Write the poem by ending off each sentence with a word from the list.
Here’s a poem i wrote with the above guide:
“UGH”
i am lying on my rug
cos i’ve caught the flu bug
thus i have no motivation to mug
though my mids were like bleargh
thinking about it makes me go “fug”
and hungry for some grub
though my friends tell me i have too much flub
and eat as civilised as huck
and they say “at this rate you need to go for nip/tuck”
i give my shoulders a shrug
saying “eating is my destress drug”
“if i don’t eat i move like a slug”
“no energy all day” and i give my drink a chug
then i say “my grades this time are way off mark”,
“i need to study more paddy clarke”
“and in nuclear physics stop being left in the dark”
“on an intellectual journey i must embark”
“that from the tree of ib the 45 i must pluck”
by my speech my friends are awestruck
“but since i’m sleepy i’ll start tomorrow” i remark
and i go to bed thinking
“hooboy is this gonna suck”
END
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haha if i keep at this the pulitzer prize is no problem. yeah that pretty much sums up my day, even though the conversations were hypothetical, haha. and i’m scared i have h1n1 cos i’ve got all the symptoms except for fever. i’m feeling woozy and what not. but i wouldn’t mind missing school tomorrow… 2 hours of physics =_= what a day. i think even more of my brain cells will die in that period of time. but then again i can’t pon cos there’s strand 2 english and ferdi hates me for ponning lesson enough already lol. oh and in other words i shall limit myself to one outing a month (even though me mam tells me i can’t go out at all… but it’s only once a month right mum? :D) cos i’ve been going out too much recently.
signing off,
a sick bao with no rhyming skills
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what up dawgs!
this white-board stop animation is so cute! i love the parts where the artist was morphing the animals into other creatures and the part where he’s kinda like “drawing” with his finger. love how all the ideas are like evolved from the previous image and then it transforms into something new. it’s so cute and all but it’ll probably take eons to make.
5 days left of exams. i am majorly gg-fied about physics cos well, resistance is futile (i feel like i’m dna-coded to not understand physics) but i’ll tryyyyy. =_= and english p2 was kinda screwed up today because i thought i could smoke something about satires, but then when i got home to google it i realise i got the definitions wrong. and during the paper i kept thinking about the colbert report show (cos it basically a political satire) and steve colbert’s dance-off on the ddr with rain, LOL. anyways i’m aiming for a pass at paper 2! please let me not fail like last year please please please *praying* and i hope i at least get a 6 for math, cos as weird as it sounds, i actually like doing math! it requires minimal amounts of memorization but a lot of practice and good logic-deduction skills.
and anyway i have nothing to blog about. OH I JUST REMEMBERED WLIT 2 is like due this week. and i was counting on the weekend to mug physics/chillaxzzzz but oh well. life/stuff happens. i reread parts of luxun just now, and there was this weirdass story about this guy wanting to revenge his father but instead of sincerely doing it by himself he hires this assassin who cuts off the guy’s head and then dunks the head in a cauldron in front of the emperor (who is the target) and then the head starts to sing and dance and when the emperor leans on closer to take a closer look the assassin chops off the emperor’s head and the 2 heads are like fighting in the cauldron, and the king was kinda winning so the assassin chopped off his own head into the cauldron so he could help kill the king’s head and in the end they won but they sunk to the bottom of the pot and the the surface of the pot became a layer of oil and it caught fires so all 3 heads got boiled into bare skulls and the servants scooped up the skulls and were like unperturbedly trying to identify the king’s skull. the end. whew i can’t believe i just summarized the story in one breath. as you can see how the hell does one write a wlit 2 essay on such a wtf-inducing storyline?! the conclusion of the essay would be something like “and so this story gives us evidence that pot existed in china and was the in thing way before the 70s”. an instant 7 guys.
whatev. luxun’s purposes are too magnificent for my insufficiently-cheenafied post-feudal econs-saturated brain. a brain that needs some sleep. toodles!
p.s. hope no one in singapore dies from h1n1
