OMG RMUN IS TOMORROW.

I have no idea of what to prepare and what to do!

Argharghargh.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that OA silver was a waste of time, because it wasn't and we did learn quite a lot; however, it'd have been nice if things progressed a little faster so we could all go home early. We spent quite a lot of time looking like druggies with withdrawal because of the lack of mental stimulation to keep us awake.

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My first relatively-free Saturday night in weeks, and guess what I spent it doing?

For two hours I did nothing but WASH THINGS. First a full set of dirty dishes and cookware, then clothes, then school shoes.

My hands look and feel like prunes now. Urgh.

The weekend's been crazy omgomg Physics SPA and Sandbox tomorrow argh everything's coming together at once nuuu.

I need a break. So. Freaking. Badly.

Holidays come pleaseeee

4 more days; I can/will/shall survive.

And then what...RMUN? OH GOSH I SHALL NEVER BE FREE

Sorry for the incoherence, loves. Maybe I'll blog properly WHEN I ACTUALLY HAVE TIME

This week has been fruitful; met the founder of Firstfruits and talked to him with Xinyuan. She bought, like, 4 books for $37, and one of them an advance copy of Cyril Wong's latest collection of poetry :O

I got Invitation to Treat by Eleanor Wong! 9 bucks; I wonder if they're even making any money from this. I've finished reading it already and it's really awesome, if rather tragic.

I feel sorry for Ellen. Sigh. Though if I were to post quotes from the plays or go into detail about their content, I'd probably receive complaints from homophobes, so I'll pass. Go google the synopsis yourselves.

I think I like Wills and Secession the best. They were so happy together for a while.

Omg I'm so screwed for everything argh shouldn't have gone to HC todayyyy

I'm so jealous of their campus. It's huuuge.

I'M SO ANNOYED WITH MY GPA.

Yes, it's that time of the year again.

It's actually a lot better than I expected it to be thanks to Bio SPA, but I can't get over how my 2.0 for Chem pulled everything down spectacularly. If only it was a 3.6 or something; my GPA would be a fairly respectable 3.73 then. (Still not a 3.8 but whatever hahaha I've never hit a 3.8 before in my entire life)

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I shall be hardworking and do my jianbao! Luckily I found an article that was sort-of about Jay Chou, so I can gush about him and Laoshi has to mark it. (Actually I feel quite mean doing it, but I'll just limit it to like one page so Laoshi doesn't have to suffer that much :/)

RMUN 2nd briefing today was okay, I guess.

The shoes were killer. I was wearing heels this time; they weren't that high, but my feet died all the same. Damage: Blisters on both my 4th toes, multiple cuts on heels. I was limping around the whole day. It was awful.

The presentation was quite screwed. I realised when I got there that I was relatively unprepared compared to everyone else; no script, just a thumbdrive, and no laptop. Omg die laaa. I just adlibbed my way through (not great; I was mumbling) and didn't really answer the questions properly either. Arghhh. Everyone in GA1 apparently has to make speeches at a podium during RMUN itself. Happy birthday to me.

Fashion Parade was fun, though. We just goofed around on stage and I wore a pair of shorts on my head.

Breaking my BioSPA studying to blog this:

SAM TSUI IS AWESOME OMG HOW IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE CAN SING SO WELL AAAAAH. *fangirls*

The Anthem - Good Charlotte

(Yeah, here we go)
It's a new day, but it all feels old
It's a good life, that's what I'm told
But everything, it all just feels the same

At my high school, it felt more to me
Like a jail cell, a penitentiary
My time spent there, it only made me see

That I don't ever wanna be like you
I don't wanna do the things you do
I'm never gonna hear the words you say
and I don't ever wanna, I don't ever wanna be

You...don't wanna be just like you
Oh what I'm sayin' is this is the anthem, throw all your hands up,
you... don't wanna be you

Go to college, a university, get a real job,
That's what they said to me
But I could never live the way they want
I'm gonna get by, and just do my time, out of step while, they all
get in line
I'm just a minor threat so pay no mind

Do you really wanna be like them, do you really wanna be another
trend?
Do you wanna be part of that crowd?
'cause I don't ever wanna, I don't ever wanna be

You...don't wanna be just like you
Oh what I'm sayin' is this is the anthem throw all your hands up,
you, don't wanna be you

Shake it once, that's fine
Shake it twice, that's okay
Shake it three times, you're playing with yourself, again.

You...don't wanna be just like you
What I'm sayin' is this is the anthem throw all your hands up,
Y'all got to feel me, sing if you're with me, you, don't wanna
be just like you (just like you)
This is the anthem throw all your hands up, y'all got to feel
me, sing if you're with me
Another loser anthem (whoa-oh)
Another loser anthem (whoa-oh)
Another loser anthem (whoa-oh)
Another loser anthem

So I was wondering how much I've changed over the past 4 years, and decided to browse through my FB pictures to find out.

Meh I just went for tuition at Han Language in Kovan, and it was SO SIAN.

Last term I had Chinese tuition with Vic at Anchorvale CC, but they cancelled the class because they didn't have enough students. Being in the same class as Vic was pretty stressful (because she always finishes her homework etc and I look like a terrible student next to her), but at least class discussions were interesting.

There're supposed to be 4 people (including me) in my new class. 2 didn't come today. The other one sat there and didn't utter a single word throughout the entire lesson except when the teacher asked her a question.

I kept forgetting she existed and started my own conversation with the teacher, because listening to the teacher lecture would be terribly boring. So we ended up discussing the government's motives for getting the Genting group to build Sentosa's IR. In Mandarin, which made for a rather interesting discussion (because of my lack of vocabulary, so I had to keep substituting phrases).

(Actually also quite fun la, but I felt like I was the only one in class.)

[edit] I just realised that I didn't dare to post my NAPFA results last year for fear of being laughed at! So for comparison this time next year:

IPU - 11, C. (Yeah it sucked, but I always do just enough to get a C every year and then drop.)
SBJ - 178cm, B. (Had to retest for this one. I AM NOT HAPPY WITH MYSELF.)
2.4km run - 14.02 min, B. (Commented already. Eh but I just realised that even if I were a guy my age I'd still have passed! Awesome!)
Sit and Reach - 48cm, A
Situps - 31, A (haha almost everyone in my group did exactly 31 and stopped)
Shuttle Run - 11.0s, A (sigh last year I got 10.9! SO ANNOYING LA)

So that's...CBBAAA. Meh. Not great, but whatever.

At least it's a Gold :D Wish I were still fifteen, though. Sigh.

Urgh I am feeling poorly.

So today was WRCD and 2.4 and Inconvo, and I barely slept at all last night and woke up super early this morning to bring my uniform to school.

Then there was 2.4. I missed A by 2 seconds, dammit. Then I got high from the endorphin rush and ran another 6 rounds.

Yes, I was crazy enough to run TWELVE rounds. What the hell was I thinking?! I am not particularly athletic. 6 rounds would have been enough to half-kill me. And I ran 12 rounds. It was broken up with rest breaks in between (because I was running with other people who were doing their 2.4), but STILL.

So now I have a terrible headache brought on by lack of sleep and overexertion, and I feel a bit like puking. This is awful. I should have just ponned Inconvo to go home and rest.

So I was staring at my toenails after showering just now (because I just do these things) and lo and behold, I saw for the first time that I have a tiny extra toenail on both my left and right little toes.

What a mystery. I never realised I had an extra toenail! So being the good teenager I am, I decided to Google the topic to find out why.

Well, it turns out I'm not alone! Loads of people have the same...anomaly.


I'm half-Hakka. (:

One of the best (or maybe worst) parts of living in my block is the almost-complete lack of soundproofing. It's as though the contractor forgot to put enough concrete in the walls when building it or something.

So my family just got treated to a lovely quarrel between the couple living upstairs. Well, at first it was a husband-and-wife quarrel; then it became a one-woman rant by the wife to her mother-in-law about her husband.

I slept through the first half, but according to my mum it was the wife shouting at her husband about "YOUR MOTHER". My mother insists that the phrase was not used as part of a vulgarity.

The second half took place after a half-hour break, presumably when "YOUR MOTHER" (aka her mother-in-law) arrived for dinner. The woman is seriously pro okay. From shouting in English, she switched to shouting in bad Mandarin. Then we were duly entertained for a good half hour with her retelling of how her life sucks because her husband was quarreling with her -.- “他叫我不要跟他沟通了！！！”
In an attempt to try and stop their quarrel, my dad went over to the window and started singing. Didn't help.

Then a door slammed shut upstairs. We had peace for maybe about 5 seconds, then the door slammed open and the woman started shouting with renewed vigor :O She's amazing; doesn't seem to need to stop for breath.