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top five things i have learnt today in descending order:
5) red bull really does give you wings… but then it’s just crash and burn
4) what the fuck has happened to muse guys??! they’re going into america with their new album and turning into a disco-synth-disaster-of-blondie-proportions (not hating blondie or anything, they’re awesome in their own right, but they’re hardly alt rock!) oh well the album is awesome still, once you get past the whole blondie thing. haha. the instrumentals at the end are mmm mmm mmm! fantastic :)
3) madonna used to be sooo pretty when she was young. or at least prettier… comparatively. that’s before she became Madgenator AKA Cyborg with iron biceps filled with mercury veins
LOVE THIS PERFORMANCE:
2) lady gaga is teh shizz. period. her epic mtv vma perf last night is just too epic for words. it was like madonna’s 1990 rococo vouge performance all over again, except new and improved!!
“WHAT? taylor swift won best female video?? unacceptable! “
“I’M NUMBER ONE!”
1) have you ever had the experience where something that seems not so significant from the past comes back and hits you like WOAH, in the present? in lit it’s called a chehkov’s gun haha. oh man i just had such a moment. three words: never underestimate the powers of public transport. really. it’s shocking! it’s shock value even tops the whole lady gaga perf, haha that why it’s at number 1 on the list.
sigh, i feel like a bad girl. i’ve gone out 3 times in 1 week and i’ve been neglecting work. tomorrow i’m going out again! and i probably failed chem, cos madam had this funny/ominous talk with me, about my results. anyway today i travelled to town with yuechin, who had dental, and we feasted (our eyes) on the delicious food present in the food fair. then i met with the babes for a good ‘ole chick flick “it’s a boy-girl thing”, which is about how this nerdy-girl and jock-boy switced bodies (and who happen to be neighbours) and had to reconcille their differences to work together, trying to maintain each other’s lives. it’s kind funny, and really romantic <3 just the kind of movie i can relax to, because it’s not intense like movies about serious themes or fright-inducing like horror movies, and it’s a typical chick-flick-romcom type movie. which is in total contrast to wanted, which is like the movie all guys like because it involves swearing every five sentences and bloody, gory violence and ANGELINA JOLIE, haha like all things guys like in a movie. if i made a list it’ll probably look like:
movies guys like must include more than 3 of the following:
1. action
2. hot female lead(s)
3. swearing
4. guns
5. sci-fi/non-real life premises (i.e. cgi effects)
movies girls like must involve more than 3 of the following:
1. romance
2. hot male lead(s)
3. humour (esp since for a romcom)
4. a happily-ever-after ending
5. real life premises (school, work etc)
seriously if any guy wants to get the chicks, the only thing they need to do is to mimick the tricks and the pickup lines of the male lead in any good chick flick, and alter the situation to that of the movie. the girl will just fall head over heels in love with you. and it’ll help if you had brad pitt-esque good looks and a hot bod, so she’s distracted enough by your face to fall for all that mushy/sappy stuff.
as per norm:
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- the cursed sweets
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- the rose tea flavoured cookie that i bought!
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- met up with kk and ming. tsktsktsk stalkers
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- beard papa!
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- my lunch
i’m so tired. :( i’m tired of school, tired of living. i’m so scared about my results, i feel as if i’ve let everyone down. yup, life’s fair so you’ll get your comeuppance if you have done something you shouldn’t, or not done something you should. maybe i should pray for an angel to come down and save me, because i’m gonna need a miracle to save myself from this mess. but wait, i forgot. i don’t get that kind of special treatment. but if any guardian angel happens to read this and take pity on an agrieved soul, please help me out in some way, because i think my guardian angel’s been on leave for a long, long time.
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recently i’ve been making yogurt! it started when i was in shanghai on vacation, and grandmum took out this really old yogurt-making machine, which is at least as old as i am, but brand new. Essentially it’s like an incubator, and all you need to do it put some milk, sugar and a teeny bit of store-bought yogurt in it (for the bacteria to turn the milk into yogurt), and after 6-8 hours you get this really lovely, creamy yogurt. The best thing is, it’s au natural because there are no preservatives and chemicals (save for the ones from the store-bought) AND the next time you make the new batch of yogurt, you can recycle some from the previous batch for the bacteria to be used! So essentially it’s really fuss free, healthy, and best of all, so adorably simple.
and ever since i discovered that i’m lactose-intolerant (only to diary milk and products with a lot of whole milk in it), i had to give up drinking it. which is quite sad, because i like drinking milk. ): to find another healthy way of replenishing natural goodness, i decided to turn to this solution:
the yogurt-incubator incubating the milk concotion. i used 1 litre of strawberry milk, 5 tablespoons of caster sugar, 1 small cup of strawberry Magnolia yogurt (around 4.t tbsp) and a quarter of a teaspoon of strawberry essense. as you probably can tell, i’m a big strawberry fanatic. but i was more worried about the sour taste of the yogurt overpowering the strawberry taste/smell, so i took (a little) more initiative ensuring that the taste will stay, haha!
after refridgerating: the yogurt acheived the texture of a jelly-like chawanmushi! it was really smooth and a pretty pink colour!
a closeup of the jelly-like consistency. pity the original flavour of the strawberry milk got a bit wonky compounded with the sour-ish yougurt taste.
for the next batch, i used fresh, plain diary milk and 100% diary yogurt (after my dad’s suggestion that my previous one was total strawberry overkill, lol). it turned out less sweet and powdery tasting (i suspect the strawberry milk was made from condensed powder) and more like true yogurt. however i couldn’t resist butting some strawberry bits in it haha! i diced some fresh strawberries, soaked them in a thick sugar-water solution, and kept it in the fridge for a bit to get the sweetness in.
muahaha looks store bought *ego*
the consistency is more like true yogurt this time round, and tastes less “fake”. i suspect it’s because the bacteria in the yogurt the first time round wasn’t strong enough
hmm, last paper on monday! going out with mingyi and kingkong next friday, can’t wait! we have so much to catch up on.
but despite the fact that the midyears are pretty much over (and that i think i did pretty badly… haha), the huge lead weight still haven’t been lifted off my shoulders.
list of things to complete:
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IOP essay (long overdue!!)
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TOK term 3 essay
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EE proposal/framework + think EE topic and read books
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Chem revision for monday’s paper
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CAS stuff (i think i’ll be danger listed S: )
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徐志摩 poem analysis/appreciation
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File stuff
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Clean room
edit (7 july 08): almost done!
