Teach me the games you play so well

So three days ago, i said i couldn't wait to go back to school. SCRATCH THAT.

The work is absolutely crazy. Mrs Yoong is, not surprisingly, on my back for numerous teeny things again and cracking the worst jokes in class. 'Time flies when you're having fun!', she says when the bell rings to signal the end of a tutorial/lecture. Seriously, who is she kidding?!

Although I am quite stoked about tomorrow's basketball match. Our team comprises of yiwen, tiara, me, kieran and kenneth. Hopefully the guys remember to practise the dance routine to 'Getcha head in the game', which we are so going to do tomorrow during half-time to wow the audience. HAHA.


I AM SO CRUSHING ON EMMA WATSON'S YOUNGER BROTHER NOW.

thank your lucky cows that Lizzles (amazingly) found the video wherein he's trailing his older sister around the (London?) premiere of The Half-Blood Prince.

ABSOLUTELY-HOT-POTATO-JACKET-HOT-IN-A-LEATHER-JACKET-AND-SMEXY-HAIR-HOT-HOT-HOT. Like a mix between ulliel and Aaron Johnson


Good looks run in the family, apparently. Tis' not fair.

Anyway you should head over to lizzie's moofings.blogspot.com to check out her video with him at the premier, cause this photo doesn't do him justice. Kudos to the girl who shouted 'YOUR BROTHER IS SEXY' really loudly like a gazillion times.

HP AND THE HBP finally, this friday. No more swine flu or dental appointments to stop us from going! Its been all we could talk about. Just discovered that 99% of guys have a major crush on emma watson.

Me: Kieran, choose a HP girl. Hermione or-
Kieran: Hermione.
Me: WAIT! Hermione of Gin-
Kieran: Hermione.
Me: I haven't finished asking yet!
Amos (*being kaypo, interjects.): Hermione is damn hot lah, please.
Kieran: xxxx(expletive) hot.
Me & Tiara: sheeeesh.

Speaking of hot guys, mozzie was extremely embarrasing when we were sitting together with two random guys during break, and the Sex God happened to stroll by and chat with those random guys (THANK YOU.) Yiwen was the uncoolest ever. I think she actually snorted a few times from the hysterical, fit-like laughter. TRY TO BE COOL NEXT TIME, YIWEN.

Back to doing my stupid math F.A. Thanks a bunch, mrs yoong.

The restless heart syndrome.

The world's gone mexican!

Well these days, there's no other way to put it.

I feel like michael jackson before he passed.

four dosages a day, plus the occasional panadol. and about a zillion lozenges.

Anyway, while people have been toiling in school and what not (half of my class is infected. TOLD YOU, MOE.), home has been dead boring. Really. I have been reduced to nothing but a very skilled couch potato. Even You Me At Six's record, courtesy of patrick's credit card and fueled by ramen, couldn't stop the misery from setting in.

Besides, I've heard the mid-years are back to haunt us in the form of dreaded results. Been receiving messages all day about mine and I'm quite stricken. I did pass chinese tho. Lao shi called to tell me herself, as if absolutely shocked by the outcome! Wow wee, thanks, Lao shi :D C2 again reminded me that it was under her tutelage that I passed... tsk, Modesty!

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Not in Singapore, of course.

WHY?!?!?!

Time to do wall-painting. Later, everyone.

So lonely was the Ballad.

You can say that again.

Well I've always greeted Fridays with joy. Okay that's the understatement of the year. If Fridays were a football team i would be the crazed-fan-yelling-'TGIF'-in-the-stands-and-sporting-a-massive-flag. Besides THIS Friday was significant, since it was the date that I could pry the torture device off my upper teeth (yes. Its called braces.)

Things did not go according to plan.

So headed to my orthodontist at Shenton House, stoked that it was the end of my suffering. Of course, things weren't looking too good when i peeked into the unit and saw fallen debris and several construction workers peering back at me. Called them and the snotty orthodontist assistant (whom, come to think of it, I've always disliked.) told me that they have shifted and didn't we text you to come to Golden Shoe Carpark instead? Oh yeah, i got the text, and that's why I'm hovering outside an ex-dental clinic.

Extremely pissed off, so apologies to everyone who got a bit of my text rant during that time. Fumed all the way home. Started to feel a tad sick so i slept after a shower.

Woke up with a 38.5 degree fever.

So the weekend has been rushed doctor appointments, cold showers and hacking coughs. I thought i was the only one who had been suffering the whole week till i heard from C2 that nick, ruizi and maxipad also got the flu! See, the results of not extending school holidays.

I just wish i hadn't got it RIGHT before the weekend tho D: Missed the recording session on friday night and so the time capsule contains half-baked snippets of our tracks. Apologies to our band! Also managed to miss the whole event of the time capsule, lifenet, and jen's manga art convention thing (athough i heard it went superbly! congrats.)

So in short, becareful what you wish for.

Thank god for my awesome but really stupid friends who decided to drop by my place to pass me the following death presents.

Offerings of Island Creamery's finest and a sunflower (how did they get a sunflower at 11pm!?!) It was sweet. I meant their actions, not the ice-cream since i haven't even tasted it yet. It's kinda funny cause i was at the doorstep and everyone was standing a two-metre radius away. Alex also got a scolding from Aunty Stella for going near a 'diseased' person.

So this is what having leprosy feels like.

Tomorrow's schedule?

Sleep alot, read a lot, watch alot of movies, mooch around and be sad. Hopefully all of us will get cured off the bug soon, be it h1n1 or not. Night everyone!

Yes Virginia, No virginia.

This is a song for you
but i need you to close your eyes.
Sometimes you make everything
make sense when it doesn't need to be.

So as i said,
This is a song
from the last of the small-town musicians.
I give you my heart in my hands,
take it.
but you leave none.

Pieces of me,
You and I,
will always be unfinished business.

____________________________________________


Well hello.

Today during class, i drafted out my letter to Santa Claus. Which resulted in a lot of laughing from me and mozzie. We got our first term 3 indirect-scolding from Ms Chua! Ah how i miss it.

Anyway don't ask me why I'm drafting out the letter to Santa in July. The Christmas spirit is alive! Mozzie says she's never really celebrated Christmas before and I was beyond shocked. Thus, it is our job to introduce her to the traditions of Santa-letter-writing and presents and too much honey-baked ham.

So here's the letter.



Dearest Santa,

Greetings from Singapore! This year, I'm writing with two other great friends of mine, Yiwen and Amethyst (but you can just call us the three musketeers). Its a bit mad to be drafting a letter in July, but I think Yiwen needs alot of practise. Thus, the necessity to start teaching the art of Christmas letter-writing starts now!

Of course, we have been marvellously good girls this year(Well, so far. Six months is an awfully long time), which i understand is some minimal criteria we must meet in order to um, ask gracefully for gifts. I sincerely hope that instead of merely sending a computer-generated letter back from the North Pole, we actually get what we ask for.

We ask for good promotional grades (okay so maybe we're a bit old for this. But whatever.) so we can all spend another year cramming our face off next year together and graduate into successful lives, whatever that means. Of course, in the name of good morals, we wish for world peace, an end to all civil unrest in Israel and here's to no more world hunger.

Oh. It wouldn't hurt to throw in a billion dollars. Of course being the experienced and frequent letter writer that i am, i get the 50% cut, yes?

Anyway, have a pleasant July-December!

Love,
Athos, Porthos and Aramis



SNAZZY, yes?

So Tiara might have H1N1 and i hugged her yesterday and we also agreed to get married/merit but that is another matter altogether. YAY! Matthias, a J2 counsellor also got it, so CJC is officially infected.

All i can say is: ABOUT TIME.

Chinese orals was pleeeeh. Although i HAVE to thank my cube sister for being such an awesome chinese tutor. You have trained me to reasonable standard my friend.

Now, off to listen to some Jamie T and Coldplay's Prospekt's March (thanks to Mr. Nick Glascow for supplying the EP). I have to call Claudia.

Plastic Hearts (No not BLG but DPTs :D)

He left me in bedspreads
Tell me how I'm supposed to go on,
Sparse bedsides,
and a hole in my heart.
Still i dream in heist.

__________________________________________________

Currently inspired by my well-thumbed copy of Sunshine (Robin Mckinley) and a re-reading of Audrey Niffenegger's 'Time Traveller's Wife'.

I'm in love with Constantine and Henry Detamble respectfully, though they are rather bad choices as the resident heroine's love interest. Since one is a vampire whose skin is (apparently) the colour of old mushrooms and quite ugly, and the other time travels unpredictably. No matter. As if my boring life will ever come across such exciting instances.

After exam period has been heavy with a myraid of expensive dinners at expensive places, late-night simpang bedok suppers and waaay too many music practices.

So Jen-fer came up with this brilliant idea of recording an EP encompassing some christian, secular and jazz numbers to put into NLCC's decade-old time capsule (That is another story altogether but we've got time. Apparently we buried a time capsule in Pastor William's backyard in 1999 with all sorts of crap innit that i cant remember and we're opening it up for 20th year anniversary. And so we have to put in new stuff. Thus, the record to signify the birth of the youth band and the years of change :D Symbolic, i know.) The adrenaline rush has been crazy.

Eventually it boiled down to a remix of break free which sounds pretty darn awesome, i must say, this beatles song 'With a little help from my friends' and a self-written jazz piece that is yet to be named! Quite exciting.

Although we shouldn't be taking too many pictures during practise and actually, you know. PRACTISE.


Nick straddling two guitars while i operate the camera, Jen having a bug-eyed moment and lucy - well i don't know what lucy's doing.

whooo cool shot blocked by someone's hand. phfft.

not-so-cool.

we were trying to give the image of 'casual walking' but it didnt work.
Pathetic, yes.


Today was the first official day of school and it sucked. So much work and i'm like 'are you kidding'.

Me: Yiwen you look so different today! you look hawwwt *winks
Amy: Uh huh totally! did you cut your hair?
Yiwen: Oh thanks! But i didnt change anything!
Amy: Oh well you look nice.
Yiwen: OH. I CHANGED MY SHAMPOO.


Love the three musketeers. D'artagan ftw.
Tomorrow is Chinese Orals and i don't feel quite sane. Missed dinner to go home and 'cram' for A-levels and of course i didn't. Well i probably should feel motivated by the promise of my useless chinese mentor C2 treating me to sushi if i pass, but AH HECK.

Playlist of the week include some of the Indigo Girls (power of two), Anberlin (Amsterdam) and some old Flaming Lips numbers. And of course, Michael Jackson.

Midnight! Someone screwed up my internal clock. Goodnight all!

Big hearts, big hearts are for breaking

Love's too easy
so we make it into a game.

Fling your affections out
of the window now,
sell your heart on street corners,
You know what they say.
Big hearts,
yes your big heart
is for breaking.

_______________________________________

i should really have joined the circus.

Let's see. No talent in studying, nada attention span and who am i kidding about how awesome i am in math? Besides, you get free bicycle rides in circuses. Lest free rides balancing a plate on a stick on your teeth.

Ramble!

TIS' THE NEW MONTH! (here's some old news.)

1. Obviously ya'll know about the MOE not extending school holidays. After all the hype with the eastsiders at starbucks the other day, was gobsmacked upon hearing the news on telly. HELLO, is the 200+ new cases not big enough a clue that something else must be done besides temperature taking?

2. Was literally dying the day before literature papers, and went to claud's place in desperate need of good music and rest. What can i say? 'I get by with a little help from my friends' - The Beatles. Thanks Clauds!

3. Unfortunately, that was also the day wherein Tiara texted to tell me that Michael Jackson had passed. He was one of those guys who everyone thought would live forever (and of all the things to die off.) So in tribute to the greatest pop icon who ever lived (in this generation, as least), my family and I spent two hours watching old music videos and docummentaries of him. Which resulted in my addiction to songs like 'Smooth criminal' and 'The way you make me feel'.

R.I.P MJ!

4. Toiling in my own jealousy (brownie points for those who get W.I.L reference!) the whole of last weekend cause Sarah G. got to go all the way London to catch the Kooks and Kings of Leon live in Hyde Park. The taunting text DID NOT help

5. Our social in Botanic Gardens (last last week?!) playing frisbee and captain's ball. Needless to say, the girls sat at the sidelines and the boys played. And the girls who did play (the cool ones like faith and i) never got the frisbee/ball. Le sigh. It always ends like this!

6. Watched the Green Mile. EPIC MOVIE. John Coffey is tres adorable. and so is mr. Jingles!

7. Went to a flea market with Jen-fer (TWAAAAT) on saturday after the literature paper, going to P.S. with no idea where it was. Two people with bad sense of direction should not trust another person's words about non-existant shuttle buses. Anyhoos, after half-an-hour of trampling around Old School, discovered the place.

It was like. bleh. Alot of the stores were mass-ordered/produced from HK or Taiwan or goodness knows where. The whole warehouse (effing hot and mind you, i was in uniform) resembled a compact version of Bugis Street.

Tell me, what happened to the Elvis Costello and Goo Goo Dolls records? Beat-up Taylor Acoustics and penny-bracelets? Gone. The orange and black vespas outside were the only interesting things :D

Met Clare and a bunch of old Sacians. Clare was relegated to maid of the day and was commanded to buy food for the rest of the store-owners, so we three HIKED down Mt. Sophia where aunt carol picked us up for music practise.

A day of short-fueled-tempers and not-so-surprising-birthday-cakes.

8. Lunch at 'A pinch of salt'!

'Frankly, i prefer pepper.' - Alexis

The food sucked. Fun company. Beatrice had beat-rice (risotto). NO ONE HEARD MY HILARIOUS JOKE.

Need a good picture with bex soon! She's leaving tomorrow (phhhooo you. and the day before my exams, they have dinner together. what is this?!)

9. MATH PAPER = joke + utter depression.

Laugh or cry? You decide

10. We are going to Genting! We are going to start basking!

Luki came up with all the weird ideas of where to go at the end of the year and we downgraded from japan to genting (FOR NOW.) Being mature and independent youths, the idea is to get the moolah needed from the one thing we actually like to do: music!

I am looking forward to it :D The electric prunes/Key-of-H/Homeschooled makes our debut!



It is late and i need to wake up early to cram linguistics tomorrow. Goodnight all!