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A New Phase.

2012-01-22T17:56:00.000+08:00

Currently listening to: A Thousand Years by Christina Perri.

Current favourite song ♥

Hi, peeps! :)

I don't know if I've mentioned it in my blog yet, but I'm currently taking A-Levels at Methodist College, KL. College started on the 3rd of January. The first two days were orientation days, where the lecturers just came into the auditorium and gave us briefings on our subjects, the rules and regulations of the college and such. On the 2nd day, we were split into our classes, according to subject combination and admission number. I'm in S1201 β, with Shalini.

My thoughts on the college so far?

I think MCKL is awesome. I really love the environment, it's extremely study-friendly. The lab sessions are also really cool and fun, totally unlike school. I've met really friendly people from various cultures and races. The cafeteria isn't too bad either, the food's really affordable and pretty tasty. Christian Fellowship (CF) at MCKL is really active due to large number of Christians, and hence, it's really fun.

A-Levels is really intense. In the course of 3 weeks, my Math lecturer has finished 6 topics which is three-quarters of the entire C1 syllabus :o Everyday, we have homework for most of the subjects. The hours are also pretty long, now one period is equal to an hour, whereas in school one period was equal to 40 minutes. On an average, my classes start at 9am daily and finish about 3.30/4.30pm. Break is only 30 minutes long.

Everyday, I travel to and fro from college by train. Which means I have to get up early in the morning and when I get back, I'm quite knackered. But slowly, I'm adjusting to this new lifestyle. In fact, I actually enjoy being early at college, because I can do whatever revision I want and chat with my friends.

So that's pretty much what I feel about my college so far. Toodles! I'll blog in a couple of days ;)

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR! :D

2012-01-18T23:17:00.000+08:00

College has been an absolute whirlwind.Yes, I do realize it has been about fourteen days since I last updated T_T My resolution to blog more has totally failed. But but but but I promise I'll blog this weekend, so please don't desert my blog, okay? :(

New Year's Resolutions.

2012-01-04T20:43:00.001+08:00

A little flashback to my new year resolutions last year:

RESOLUTIONS FOR 2011;
Study my butt off to get perfect grades for SPM. (make that straight 'A+'s).
- I don't know my results for SPM yet :s
~~Be a good daughter, friend, student and human.~~ ✔
~~Do my Ed Board duties well.~~ ✔
~~Improve my electone playing skills.~~ ✔
~~Lose weight (I'm vain like that) & grow taller (anything is possible lah, ok).~~ ✔
- Surprisingly, I did grow taller! Hehe :D

~~Save money for a DSLR.~~ ✔
~~Read another five hundred books.~~ ✔
~~Blog more often, and not just during the holidays (SPM exams are an exception)~~. ✔
~~Learn basic Korean and Chinese (I'm a banana -_-").~~ ✔
Learn how to cook Korean dishes. ✘
Overcome my fear of butterflies/moths (no, srsly). ✘

I'm actually amazed that I managed to achieve so many resolutions in a year. YAY! So I'll set myself more challenges for this 2012. I don't care if any of you go all "Oh, everyday should be a fresh new start, not just when it's a new year blablabla". I shall try my best to achieve all the resolutions :D

RESOLUTIONS FOR 2012;

Study hard for A-Levels.
Pass driving test to get P license.
Get to know more people.
Blog mooooooore & revamp blog template.
Enhance my photography skills.
Stop procrastinating and finish up the 30 Day Letter Challenge... and start a new challenge.
Stop staying up late so much.
Dye my hair burgundy (or a similar shade).
Go on a road trip.
Learn how to draw eyeliner (because I suck at girly things like makeup.)
Learn at least 10 new songs on the electone.
Be happier and healthier.
Take up another language.

Okay, I can't think of any more at the moment. Cheers! ;)

(via heartsquotes)

Looking Back.

2012-01-02T10:00:00.000+08:00

First post of the new year! :D

Remember my recap of 2010 last year? Now I'm gonna make a similar recap for 2011. Gosh, time does pass fast.

If I have to put it in simple words, 2011 was pretty good to me. It wasn't as much of a roller coaster as 2010 was, instead I'd describe it as smooth-sailing (minus all the stress for SPM, duh). I didn't really attend many events because I was being my nerdy, recluse-like self, so this recap is definitely not gonna be as interesting as 2010's, sorry! :(

January.

Chocolate-making workshop.

Elected as vice secretary of Badminton Club, AJK Papan Kenyataan of Cooke House and promoted to secretary of the Science and Mathematics Club. Also attended my first Editorial Board meeting.
Attended a chocolate-making workshop organised by Persatuan Pandu Puteri Malaysia mainly because of the amount of co-curricular points (we realised their importance only in our senior year), but it turned out to be fun. Now I can say I can make chocolate :)
Joined the celibacy club (brownie points for you if you understood what I'm talking about :D).

February.

CNY stuff.

Celebrated Chinese New Year as usual with my family.
Survived Intervensi 1 and got an A for Biology. Yeah, it's so rare for me to get an A in Biology that I actually feel the need to record this as a highlight T_T

March.

At Pavilion.

Went out with friends and watched possibly the most disturbing movie ever *coughBlackSwancough*.
The horrific tsunami and earthquake disaster hit Japan, and a huge nuclear problem ensued. I know this is a weird event to include, but this affects me as well because I have a host family in Tokyo. Thank goodness they're safe and sound.
Witnessed a supermoon.
Reality finally hit me hard and I could feel the pressure when last year's SPM results were released.
First and last time attending so many (6, to be exact. I counted.) yearbook photoshoots for all the different clubs I'm in.

April.

Our poster. Yes, I ruined it on purpose by adding my blog URL there so that no one can steal it.

Went for a poster design competition with Siew Yuan.
Went for an accounts competition in Taylor's.

May.

At the OiC Camp in Taylor's Lakeside Campus.

Worked my ~~ass~~ off for Thinkquest. Eventhough we didn't win, we walked away with experience and new directing/filming/editing skills.
Attended the OiC Camp at Taylor's and had loads of fun.

June.

My last Co-curricular Carnival.

Extracted my wisdom teeth.
Started the 30 Day Letter Challenge... and more than half a year later, I am still not done. Procrastination ftw.
Went for Spell-It-Right for the 2nd year in a row.
Had fun at the school's annual (and my last) Co-curricular Carnival.

August.

We're cool like that.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I DID DURING AUGUST *scratches head*
Erm, my birthday is in August.
Showed the SBU spirit in Martin by wearing red.

September.

No photos whatsoever T_T

Survived SPM trials.
I think I went for college interviews during this month. Taylor's, Sunway and HELP. I turned down all their offers though *guilty*
Locked myself in my room for the whole month because of the exams, so basically my social life died a slow and painful death.

October.

Editorial Board farewell, graduation & Martin seminar.

It was the last month before SPM, so I went on a hiatus from blogging.
Attended the Editorial Board farewell.
Graduated from secondary school (but still had to attend school, jeez).
Stepped foot in Martin for the very last time.

November.

Again, no photos.

Time became very, very important. Studying became my top priority and revision books were my best friends, wth.
SPM commenced on the 14th. Everything else is insignificant.

December.

At Lynette's surprise farewell party.

After 11 months (not counting last year) of solid hard work, I finally savoured the sweet taste of freedom and enjoyed the option to slack.
Went out multiple times.
Started out on my journey towards complete independence. I'm talking about driving lessons.
Attended Lynette's surprise farewell party (which I have yet to write a post about).
Went for a Christmas musical.

So, that pretty much summed up my 2011. May 2012 bring better times :D New Year resolutions are gonna be in another post because I'm too tired to continue (I'm typing this at 2.30am). Toodles! :)

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-25T16:55:00.001+08:00

Gingerbread house courtesy of Kay-E.

I hope all of you are having an awesome Christmas!
I'm one happy camper today because I got wonderful Christmas presents. A big fat thank you to all of you who gave me presents! :D

Updates.

2011-12-22T16:08:00.000+08:00

Currently listening to: Rumour Has It by Adele.

I'm finally back with updates! I know, I know, I've gone MIA more than a few times this holidays. Well, it's the last high school holiday I have, so I've gotta enjoy it to the maximum, right?

So here's what I've been up to for the past two weeks or so.

1. Cleaned my room.

Look, it sparkles!

I feel so proud of my room now, haha. And yeah, I kept a few of my SPM reference books because I heard I might need them for A-Levels. I've even separated my storybooks according to their colours ~~(OCD much?)~~.

2. Driving lessons.

The undang book and my red card.

I went for the 5 hour undang ceramah with Ivy, Xi Men and Kay-E. We saw so many familiar faces there, haha. The ceramah was okay, it wasn't as boring as I thought it would be. After that, I went for the undang test with Ivy (it was a last minute decision). We waited for 5 hours at the testing center, my god T_T Moral of the story: go there super early if you want to avoid waiting.

I passed the test, so two days later I went for the theory session and I just got a call from the driving school auntie that my L license is ready. Wahahahah. I can't wait to start driving *rubs hands in glee*

3. Outings.

I only went out a couple of times, mainly because I don't have transport (read: I'm afraid that I'll disturb my parents if I ask them for a lift).

Here are the photos from the last outing I was on with Ivy and Siew Yuan. Ivy and I sat for our undang test together last Friday, so we managed to get a cab and got ourselves to the Maluri LRT station. From there, we took the train to Bandaraya and switched to KTM, where we caught up with Siew Yuan (and her brother). KTM's train was super super slow, so we dawdled for more than 15 minutes. After what seemed like eons, the train to Mid Valley arrived and off we went. Mind you, the train was super squashed. But overall, my first Malaysian train experience as a teenager (FYI: The last time I used the train was 4 years ago, in Japan) went pretty well :D

Ate here.

We wanted to try the Korean Barbeque, but we were broke. So, we settled for the usual a la carte meals. I chose a soybean paste soup, while Ivy had bibimbap and Siew Yuan ate some kimchi noodle thingy.

Ivy and I ♥

In the cinema. Sorry, it's blur.

Since we got there quite late (about 5pm), we settled for Arthur Christmas at 7.25pm. The movie was hilarious, I don't think I've laughed so much in the cinema. Oh, and now 'Silent Night' keeps resonating in my head, haha.

4. Attended a Christmas Musical.

The invitation card thingy.

This was held at my church, so I went with my parents. It was really nice and flawless. The singing was awesome (Y) I was really amazed by the performers.

5. Shopping.

I did a lot of shopping, and I seriously mean A LOT. I bought college clothes, shoes and accessories. I'm just lacking a bag for college at the moment, I'll have to hunt for one this weekend.

I also got myself some beauty stuff :

Nail polishes from The Face Shop & Elianto + Eye brightening patches from Elianto.

Elianto's having a Christmas promotion at the moment. The set of 4 nail polishes is priced at only RM 10. That's RM 2.50 for one, it's such a bargain! So, if you haven't got them already, do consider buying the nail polish set. The Face Shop's one was about RM 5.30, I think? They were having a 10% discount.

... and I bought the eye patches in an attempt to get rid of my dark circles, whattheheck. Yeah, dream on, Michelle.

Close-ups and colour codes.

6. Music classes.

Oh my god, I missed my music classes so much! I had to stop them temporarily for SPM, but now that it's over, I can now resume learning. I even downloaded a bunch of music sheets to learn on my own :D Whee~~

*_*

So, that's all I've been up to, haha. I also watched a few dramas, but I intend to review them in another post, so stay tuned.

And I nearly forgot to mention that I am currently taking dance classes. Can you guess which dance? :)

#HappyJokerDay.

2011-12-19T15:07:00.002+08:00

(via yepppo)

Happy Birthday, Jun Hyung oppa!

생일 축하 해요~ ♥

5 Things.

2011-12-15T12:48:00.004+08:00

The other day, I stumbled upon a few random photos which I haven't blogged about. They don't fit into any blog entry on their own, so I thought I'd make an entry just about them.

So yes, it's going to be a short, brainless filler post before I blog about graduation.

Ticket + Autographed CD ♥

I went for the 3rd Wave Music Rally at FGA KL on the 8th of October (yeah, as if you can't see from the picture above -_-) with Ivy, Siew Yuan and Chi Shein. It was AWESOME, really. At the end of the concert/rally, we got to shake hands and interact with Alexander, Brian Joo and Pastor Johnny while they signed our albums. I was so starstruck that I couldn't even think of what to say to them, haha.

We wanted to be the last so that we could get a picture with them, but luck wasn't on our side. A few other girls outsmarted us *sigh*

Japanese jellybeans ♥

My gay love got these awesomesauce jellybeans for me even though I was suffering from severe cough during the second week of SPM. Every time I took my yucky cough medicine, I would eat a few of these to counter the bitterness. And apparently, there's a hidden jellybean in the shape of a heart, but I suspect I ate it without checking the shape beforehand, haha. I♥YOU AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH, XI MEN.

Memories ♥

I finally got my school sweater on the 30th of December! It's soft and cuddly, ideal for rainy and cold weather! I super super super love it. In my opinion, it's worth every single penny.

Blue and purple nails.

Did these nails before SPM. This was the first time I didn't make a mess when painting my nails (I really suck at painting nails). Success! :D

Holiday companions.

I had a RM 100 MPH voucher, so I bought these. I finished 'Something Borrowed' by Emily Griffin in the span of less than two days though -_-" And I just finished 'The Night Before Christmas' by Scarlett Bailey yesterday after neglecting it for nearly a week so that I wouldn't finish everything so soon. Seems like I'll have to make another trip to the bookstore soon. Sigh.

Kthxbai.

111008 Editorial Board Farewell.

2011-12-09T11:36:00.001+08:00

Date : 8th October 2011.
Venue: Sultani Restaurant, Flamingo Hotel.

God, look at the date, I am 2 months late -_-" I really need to start being regular when it comes to updating my blog.

Moving on.

The invitation card.

I remember that traffic was horrendous that day, and nearly everybody was late. When I got there, I could see Lynette, Siew Yuan and Cheng Kuan. Later on, the other Form 5s trickled in. The juniors (other than Audrey and Mae Vonne) decided not to come due to exams.

(l-r) Tess and Shal; With Vanessa.

We wanted to wait for the principal to arrive, but we were way too hungry. So we dove headfirst for the food. Being a buffet, there was LOTS of food, from soups to pasta (even though it's some sort of Iranian restaurant). I was STUFFED. The teachers tried to make us eat more food, but we really couldn't take it anymore.

Cue: pictures time!

With le Ed Board buddies :D

With our teacher advisor, Puan Ruzila ♥

Group picture!

Sadly, not all the Form 5s in Ed. Board came. Nevertheless, it was a memorable day. I know I've said this before, but I will miss all those days of rushing assignments and that inexplicable feeling of happiness and pride when you finally see your work in print. :D

Last Day of SPM.

2011-12-08T14:04:00.001+08:00

'Sup readers.
Yeah, I should have blogged 3 days ago, but my Internet connection decided that it was high time to commit suicide. Anyway, on to the main contents.

They should have scheduled the Accounts paper earlier, because I felt really odd to wake up at about 7 and put on my school uniform for the very last time. My mother even asked me why on Earth was I dressing for school when we were only leaving the house at 10am. But naaaah, I wanted to wear my school uniform for a few hours longer simply because it was the last day I would be wearing the distinctive blue-coloured pinafore.

At school, all of us were really restless because we could practically smell the freedom.There were only 14 of us in a class, on the top floor. So lonely :(

Accounts.
Paper 1 - Found this quite easy, maybe it was due to the crazy amount of trial papers my tuition teacher bombarded us with ;_;
Paper 2 - Surprisingly, Kelab dan Persatuan and Kos Pengeluaran did not come out. The questions were pretty straightforward, the second question (Perkongsian) was freakin' long though. Nevertheless, I am pretty glad, because I managed to balance my accounts :D

Right after the invigilator took our answer sheets, we started screaming like crazy people. Rahul shouted something along the lines of "SPM IS OVER!!!" Hahahaha.

So you guys must be wondering how has my 3 days of life after SPM been. I hate to disappoint you guys, but it has been boring as heck. For one, I had no Internet connection whatsoever so the only source of entertainment I had was my phone -_-" I spent 3 days clearing out my books and whatever papers as well as generally tidying my room. I did however, manage to edit a few photos from recent events which I have not blogged about, so at least I managed to prepare a few blog posts.

Someone, please, just ask me out for a movie already before I die of boredom :(

Toodles.

Third Week of SPM.

2011-12-01T15:19:00.000+08:00

NINE subjects down, ONE more to go! :D
Ohmaigosh I can't wait for the end of SPM~~

Here's the recap for the past week of examinations.

Chemistry.
Paper 1 - Sorta easy.
Paper 2 - Exactly like Physics Paper 2, it was easy-moderate. I did both essay questions (Manufactured Substances in Industry & Chemicals for Consumers) in Section B and the last question (Chemical Bonds & Acids and Bases) in Section C.
Paper 3 - The insoluble salt experiment was a real shocker. Luckily, Shalini the psychic predicted that the experiment will come out, so we all rushed to memorize it. Thank God for Shal's sudden insight 8)

Biology.
I hope I get an A for this subject, I studied really hard T_T *crosses fingers*

This day marked the last day of SPM for most of the Science stream students. When I arrived at school, everyone (excluding those sitting for additional subjects) was so hyper at the prospect of being free in less than 9 hours.

Paper 1 - Easy-ish. Five people left the room early, and I was so tempted to follow them. But I didn't and stayed to keep rechecking my answers.
Paper 2 - If I were to rate this paper on the scale of difficulty, I would give it a 7/8. Essays were okay, I think I did better than trials. I chose to answer the first choice (Reproduction and Growth) and the last choice (Endangered Ecosystem). The structured questions however, were a bit jumbled up and weird. For example, they mixed homeostasis - regulation of blood glucose level - with cell organisation.
Paper 3 - Easier than Paper 2, definitely. The experiment that came out was the effect of light intensity on rate of transpiration in Hibiscus sp.

At 3.30pm on the dot, I could actually hear people screaming and celebrating from the floor above. I would've joined in, but I still have Accounts to sit for. *sigh*

Alright, I have Accounts left, so I have to go study. FOUR MORE DAYS, BABY!

Second Week of SPM.

2011-11-24T21:51:00.001+08:00

Before I start my post today, I need to plug my new favourite song - Bad by Tablo. Do give it a listen! :)

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On with the post.

The second week of SPM is officially over!!!! \m/

Moral.

I could hardly sleep the night before due to my wonderful nose block, so I was thankful that Moral was the only paper for the whole day. It was okay, as usual. I hope I answered the 'Pembangunan Insan' question correctly. My sickness worsened during the examination and I seriously could not stop coughing every few seconds. Thank God we had no papers the next day.

Additional Mathematics.

Paper 1 - Usual. I was shocked when I saw the last question because it was... different. Binomial distribution instead of normal distribution. Overall the paper was pretty standard.
Paper 2 - I found this alright too. The only surprise (I think) was in Section A, Question 2. According to my Add. Maths teacher, this is the first year that logarithms appeared in Paper 2.

Physics.

This was the first science subject of SPM and I was reeeeeeeeally nervous.

Paper 1 - Usual. However, I did not expect the X-OR logic gate to come out, because it is *supposedly* removed from the syllabus, but I learnt it in tuition anyway.

Paper 2 - Strangely easier than usual but I am going to say it's normal because I don't want to jinx it. I answered both questions in Section B and the radioactivity question in Section C.

Sidenote: This is easily the most hilarious paper so far. It suddenly became really windy and our room's doors kept banging repeatedly. The first time it happened, a few of us made mistakes in our writing because we jumped out of our skins. Every single time the door was going to make a huge bang, our invigilator ran towards it in an attempt to stop it. So funny and cute.

I wasn't paying attention but according to my friends, the wind also blew the curtains into the room and hit the light fixture above Bryan. They said it looked like a scene from Final Destination, haha.

Paper 3 - Everything was fine until I flipped to Section B. Holy freaking cow. Now I know why Paper 2 was easier than usual. I had no idea what they were talking about in the first option, so I did the second option. Thank God Physics allows us to choose for the experiments. I hope this doesn't happen for Chemistry and Biology too. *touch wood*

Alright, end of post. Just 3 more subjects to go! Gambateh~ :D

You must be kidding me.

2011-11-21T21:53:00.000+08:00

Seriously, this is the most inopportune time to fall sick :~ Thank God it's just a minor flu and cough, but I must have annoyed the sh*t out of everybody in the room with my constant hacking coughs when we sat for our Moral paper today :f

Okay, toodles, I need to study Physics. I'll update on Thursday/Friday.

First week of SPM.

2011-11-17T21:27:00.002+08:00

HI PEOPLE! :D

One week of SPM has passed, and I'm just chillin' here for a while before I return to my studies.

Bahasa Melayu.

First day of examinations! We were all really tense and nervous, but that feeling went off after a few minutes.

Paper 1 - Rather fun. There's nothing like writing to soothe one's spirit. The first essay's topic - 'Faedah-faedah Belajar Secara Berkumpulan' - is a little weird, but doable. For the second essay, I picked the one that has to do with the family's role in overcoming social problems.
Paper 2 - was okay... except for that stupid 'cepumas' word! Seriously, I was stumped when I saw that word.

English.

Paper 1 - Good! Writing was fun, I picked the discussion/argumentative essay for the continuous writing.
Paper 2 - We expected something easier to come out for novel, like characters or themes but nahhh. It was still doable anyway. I think 90% of us chose to write about Claudia's story, hahaha.

Sejarah.

Seriously, Sejarah is freaking stressful. We were all panicking before the papers because there was so much to revise.

Paper 1 - I found this okay. Maybe because it was all objective questions?
Paper 2 - Shocker of the day. When I was doing this paper, my face's expression changed from this --> @_@ to THIS --> O_O. More than half the paper consisted of KBKK questions. The 3rd structured question only had one fact-related answer, and even so that was just the title of the song.

Modern Maths.
My favourite subject, yay! (Ok la, it's mainly because it doesn't involve ANY memorizing.)

Paper 1 - Meh, normal degree of difficulty.
Paper 2 - This was fine as well. Spent an age on the graph because my graph-drawing skills are terrible.

Sidenote: Am I the only one who doesn't feel like it's SPM? It feels exactly like trials. Even the invigilators resemble my school teachers o_o"

Random but we got our yearbooks today! I feel so proud, seeing all my contributions in the yearbook :D I'll definitely miss Ed. Board ♥

Okay, I need to go. I have to finish revising Moral and all the science subjects. Bye!

Where it cuts the deepest.

2011-11-11T17:08:00.001+08:00

Wordy post ahead. Skip if you don't like emotional posts.

I'm supposed to be on a hiatus until the evening of the 5th of December, when SPM is officially over and done with. But here I am blogging, as encouraged by ~~my gay love~~ Xi Men who said that the best time to write about my feelings is now, right when I am experiencing it.

So, what is it exactly that I'm blogging about?

School.

I don't get emotional very often, but today is one of those days when I just feel down in the dumps. Do bear with me for this post.

Today is the last day of my high school life. If you want to be technical, it isn't exactly the last day as I still have SPM and will therefore be still in school for approximately another 3 weeks. But I don't count the days of SPM as actual schooling sessions, so 11/11/11 marks the end of my journey in secondary school. Auspicious, huh?

As today was the last day before the Form Fives sat for the much dreaded public examination, the school had the usual 'majlis salam restu' (I think it's called blessing ceremony in English?), whereby the students thanked the teachers who have fostered them for the past 5 years and the teachers in turn, wished the students the best of luck and expressed their hopes. I was determined not to shed any tears today but boy, did that plan fail miserably.

I was already feeling emotional when I woke up and realized the significance of the day ahead. In an attempt to summon some last-minute bravado, I gave myself a pep talk in the car. I arrived to school amidst rain and thunder and Sheng even commented that the gods were crying because today was our last day of school. By the time the principal finished her little speech for assembly, some of us were already starting to feel quite raw inside.

Then the teachers started forming a large semicircle. And the sentimental music came on through the PA system. That was pretty much the last straw. When we queued for our turns, that was when it really hit me in the face that this was the last time I was ever going to see my teachers up close like this again. And when I saw V's teary face, I think I lost all sense of self-control. The tears started streaming down my face as I hugged the principal and accepted her words of encouragement. I hugged most of my class teachers and my favourite teachers. I shook the hands of those whom I didn't know as well and tried my best to present a watery smile.

It felt so good to hug my teachers tightly and say my thanks to them. After all, they were excellent teachers who had our best interests at heart under all those scoldings and tendencies to present us with large stacks of homework. Without them, I think I wouldn't be who I am today. Call me a big softie, but I think teachers (well, some of them) are awesome. Everyone says school is depressing, but it's the good teachers and the awesome friends who make going to school on a daily basis bearable.

I'm not going to lie, I love school so much that I really can't bear to think of my life without it. School has been such a huge part of my life for 11 long years, it's exactly like a long-term relationship. And when the real breakup comes in December, my life will be so devoid of activity and routine. I know college will fill that gap within me in January next year, but at the moment, I am dreading the final moments when I step out of the school grounds for the very last time and plunge headfirst into the dark realms of reality.

On a happier note, do wish me good luck and pray for my safety in the upcoming examinations.
SPM kicks off on the 14th with Bahasa Melayu as the first subject and my eyebags have been increasing steadily in both size and darkness due to mild insomnia as my brain is way too active at night.

Bye. See you again in 3 weeks.

Heyloooo.

2011-09-16T00:11:00.002+08:00

SO. Apparently I'm really popular around here (pfft.) I privatized my blog about 2 weeks ago and so far, about 3 people have asked me what happened to my blog, haha. Wow, people actually miss me :D I'm honored!

This is the reason for the recent blog privatization:

Yes, my life is miserable right now. Huhuhu T_T

Currently, I'm like a zombie that eats, poops and studies 24/7.

I've been abusing my friends constantly because that's the way I release my stress, haha (and no, I'm not promoting violence okay).

Also, am I the only one who gets hungry while doing an exam paper? I could hear my tummy rumbling when I was doing the Add. Maths paper (o_o")

Kthxbai. I have 3 more subjects & 7 more papers to sit for before I can rest my derriere comfortably and do somewhat proper blogging.

p.s. and oh yeah, Happy Birthday Malaysia! :D

Spéciale.

2011-08-08T22:10:00.004+08:00

Princess Beatrice of York

Faye Wong

Michael Urie

Katie Leung

Roger Federer

What do these people and I have in common?

Nope, I'm not a princess, an actress nor a star tennis player.
Honestly, guess.
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(if you're one of my regular readers, you should totally know the answer)
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It's our BIRTHDAYS.
08/08 FTW :D

It's my last birthday in high school and boy, am I going to miss it.
My class was singing happy birthday like, the entire time today, even in the canteen, which was super embarrassing, but I'm touched anyway.
Honestly, I nearly teared.
I love all of you (in a non-mushy way lah) and thanks so much for making my 17th birthday a memorable one.
I want to say thanks a lot to all those who wished me today.
And also, a big fat ILOVEYOU to my awesome friends for giving me equally awesome presents ♥

I'm one year older, and hopefully a lot wiser :)
Oh and by the way, being seventeen rocks c:

Toodles, imma go do some fail shuffling to celebrate the last few hours of my birthday :D

Sous la pression.

2011-07-28T23:10:00.000+08:00

Currently listening to: River Flows in You by Yiruma.

(via vintagestylexo)

I think I've set some kind of new personal record. I've fallen sick THRICE in three weeks -_-" The first time was sore throat and fever, second time a mild sore throat and the latest, fever, flu and cough; the full package. Ugh, I hate hate hate taking meds. They make me sleepy and I keep dozing off while I study :( Falling sick is pretty rare for me, I normally have pretty good immunity. I guess it's at an all time low at the moment because I've been staying up late recently to study for trials.

School has been unproductive and boring lately, we've been doing A LOT of moral papers while the Islam students have their Agama seminars/classes. We finished our History syllabus yesterday and spent the remaining 30 minutes sharing ghost stories, wth. Now I'm terrified to enter the school museum and the 4th floor toilets :o

Filling scholarship forms at the moment. I've taken to practicing Yiruma's River Flows in You on the electone a lot. Something about the melody is very calming. Plus, it's one of the few piano pieces I've learnt so far. I'm trying it out on the piano this Sunday in music class; I'm pretty excited, actually. Sure, you can select the piano sound on the electone, but it's different to play it an actual piano. The piano keys are a lot harder than those of the electone, and at first I had to get used to the whole one keyboard and three pedals only thing. You see, I'm used to the double keyboard and my feet normally move around a lot on the pedals.

I've finished re-watching La Corda d'Oro ~Primo Passo~ after like, a year of not watching anime. Why so sudden, you ask? I had a sudden urge to watch a good anime with awesome classical music, so hence the choice. I suddenly realized that anime is so much easier to watch as it's only 30 minutes per episode, unlike Korean dramas which typically stretch on for an hour or more. Also, it's easier to access as anime is normally subbed and uploaded onto YouTube.

Oh, and I still haven't watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. I really really really want to, but I never have the time.

On a random note, it's almost the end of July and my birthday's in less than 2 weeks. Somehow, I'm not looking forward to growing older.

Toodles, I gotta study History.

110629 Co-curricular Carnival.

2011-07-23T00:00:00.000+08:00

Photo spam! You have been warned.

This is a waaaaaay overdue post.

Anyway, the Co-curricular Carnival (or is it the Co-curriculum Carnival? idk.) was one of the best days in the year so far. It was heaps of fun and although Xi Men was living the life in Europe during the carnival, I managed to cram in loads of happy memories and hung out with Sheng, Vanessa, Ivy, Shalini, Tessa and the gang :)

I think a main reason why I got to have so much fun this year was because the Form 5s didn't have to be involved in the selling business anymore.Utter bliss. Not that I didn't have fun last year, I really did, but I didn't get to walk around and enjoy the attractions because I was busy managing the stall (and guarding the money wth)

Tracie isn't in the photos because a last minute crisis popped up for the basketball club and she had to rescue the situation.

In the classroom. We were all pretty hyper about getting our coupons :D

Setting up.

Couponssss!!! And free eco-friendly bags!

We grabbed our coupons and made our way to our first attraction of the day: the hot air balloon!
We paid the RM 13 fee and waited for a bit.

Boarding passes.

Watching the hot air balloon inflate...

Snapped photos because we were crazy excited and too bored.

However, it started raining and the hot air balloon was postponed. Talk about dampening our spirits :(

So we made our way to the Skylite, which was already buzzing with activity as the students started preparing the food they were selling for the day.

We bought tortillas and punch from the Interact Club's stall and wolfed them down even though we weren't supposed to begin buying stuff (to be fair, we didn't even know about the restriction until Pn.S yelled at us to stop eating).

Our table company.

Said tortillas. They were pretty good! *thumbs up* We got the vege-less ones though, haha.

Gradually, the Skylite began to fill up with people and Pn.S finally gave orders to begin buying and selling.
Oh, and the DJ booth started operating and guess what was the first song they played?
BEAST's Fiction!!!! *happy fan-girl mode* Chi Shein and I couldn't stop grinning like idiots and high-fived each other excitedly when we heard it.

Sheng having brain freeze after downing some snow cones from the Science & Maths Club.

After stuffing ourselves with plenty of food, we decided to queue for the Haunted House. The queue was crazy long and the worst part was people kept cutting in from all sides. Those queue-cutters seriously pissed us off and about three or more of us actually snapped. That's how terrible they were.

We waited for about 15 minutes when the Navy people in charge of the Haunted House said that they were going to take a 30-minute break. At the same time, the hot air balloon was ride was on course again as the rain stopped, so we walked to the field again.

Each ride had to have 3 passengers, so I was with Ivy and Vanessa. We were the second batch and we were so so so excited. We laughed insanely at every single thing, kinda like jakuns, but this was our first time riding a hot air balloon, so you can't blame us :) The person who was handling the hot air balloon probably thought we were mad, but he was pretty nice anyway and even helped us to take a photo while we were in the air.

Helloooooo~

Aerial view of the school field and adjacent structures.

In the basket~

This photo is nice :D

See the burner? Every time the handler ignited the fire to erm... heat up the air (?), we could all feel the heat on our faces. It was that hot.

Once we landed, we went back to the Haunted House to queue again. I bought a pair of sunnies for RM 3 at the St. John's stall and we snapped some photos.

Top: Shalini, bottom: Sheng.

BEST photo of the day.

Silly faces.

This was how crazy the queue was.

After queuing up for about 2-3 hours (yes, I'm not kidding), we FINALLY got into the Haunted House. It was quite scary, the 'ghost's were pretty realistic and I freaked out because I'm not really into horror and stuff like that. There were ghosts grabbing me at every turn and one even tried to grab my ankles. I screamed for a bit, but after a while I started screaming for fun (like how you would scream on a rollercoaster) wth.

Ah, and if you're reading this, Siew Yuan, I'm so sorry I pushed you towards the ghosts ~~to be eaten~~, hahahaha.

After the harrowing experience, I hung out in the PA room (a.k.a. the DJ booth) with Priya and Gan for a bit.

Haziq preparing for his magic show.

With Gan.

Magic show in progress.

The carnival basically finished at 3.30pm and the stalls closed to count their earnings. The Science & Maths Club made about RM500 profit, whee!

Some random photos before we went back:

Ivy looking cute with Jalur Gemilangs which mysteriously appeared out of nowhere.

Joined by Siew Yuan.

With Chloe! She's adorably hyper :D

And so the carnival ended with an impromptu dance battle thingamajig. It resembled an underground dance showdown and it was so crowded that I didn't even bother to look.

Alright, abrupt end of post wth.

Day 5 & 6 - Guangzhou, Zhuhai & Macau.

2011-07-22T11:24:00.000+08:00

I'm back with the last 2 days of my December trip.
I was supposed to put this up like, last week, but I had a bout of fever and sore throat (which keeps recurring -_-). Okay, on with the post!

[ Day 5 ]

It was yet another relatively warm day. We checked out of the Shenzhen hotel in the morning, took breakfast somewhere I can't remember and off we went to Guangzhou. Guangzhou wasn't initially in the itinerary, we were supposed to go to Zhuhai straight away and spend only half the day sight-seeing and the other half shopping. However, that particular day was the day of the closing ceremony of the Asian Games, so the tour guide suggested visiting Guangzhou to admire the decorations before they were torn down.

The journey there was boring as usual, I tend to sleep a lot on the bus when I'm on tours :s The decorations at Guangzhou were really nice though, most of them were made entirely of flowers.

First stop: Some park which is full of decorations, I don't know the name, so I'm just gonna call it the Asian Games Park.

Main entrance.

They had a lot of these statue thingies dotted all over the park.

According to the tour guide, this is the largest outdoor TV screen in... the whole of China? The world?

I wasn't paying attention :s

Second stop: Panyu Lotus Hill.

This place was really nice and cooling. It's a religious place, if I'm not wrong. There's a huge gold-plated statue of Guan Yin and a lot of temples/pagodas.

Garden/park?

Wishing tree.

The gold-plated statue of Guan Yin.

Lunch passed, we bought roasted sweet potatoes from a street vendor. They tasted awesome ♥
Went to Zhuhai and reached in the late afternoon. There aren't many attractions in Zhuhai, so we only went to the Fisherwoman Statue and took photos.

After that, we had our dinner and went to the Gong Bei Underground Shopping Mall. Like its name, it's a huge underground mall selling everything from food to clothes. We only walked one floor because the tour guide was afraid we would be lost. It was really big and within that one floor, we walked for like 3 hours.
There were loads of clothes, bags, shoes and accessories. I found a shop that sold really nice and good quality accessories at low prices :D

We checked in at Hotel Jumbo Zhuhai. It was okay, but the toilet was smaller than the previous hotels and the room was rather dim.

[ Day 6 ]

Our last day! We got up and checked out with our heavy luggage bags in tow. We were in for a shock, we had to freakin' walk through Gong Bei Underground Shopping Mall with our super heavy bags to get to the immigration checkpoint. By the time we reached the immigration counter, my arms were very, very sore and tired.

When we got out of Immigration, we saw loads of promoters standing along the walkway and trying to lure people to visit the casinos. There were even special buses that brought you directly to the casino o_o

By the way, I was super excited about our trip to Macau, because in some of the K-dramas I watched (Goong & Boys Over Flowers), they have scenes filmed in Macau and the scenery is really pretty.I'm such a K-drama fanatic, haha.

Anyway, first stop: Lotus Square.

This was like the Golden Bauhinia Square in Hong Kong (which I visited but forgot to post up pics).
More info from Wikipedia:

The Lotus Square or Golden Lotus Square (Chinese: 金蓮花廣場; Portuguese: A Praça Flor de Lodão) is an open area in the former Portuguese colony of Macau, now a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The area features the large sculpture of "Lotus Flower In Full Bloom" (Chinese: 盛世蓮花) presented by the State Council of the People's Republic of China in 1999, marks the transfer of the sovereignty of Macau from Portugal to the People's Republic of China.

In front of said lotus flower.

Next stop: St. Paul's Ruins.

This is one of the most famous landmarks in Macau and is similar to Kota A' Famosa in Malacca :D
There were loads of people even though it was a weekday. I assume they're mostly tourists.

See, it's so crowded :(

If you walk down the steps and further out, it's connected to Senado Square.
The patterns on the pavement are really nice. We also passed by a famous alley, but I didn't get clear photos because it was very crowded.

After walking in Senado Square, we went to the observation deck of the Macau Tower to look at the view. It was super nice :D

I found Menara KL on the wall too! :) Malaysian pride yo!

I looove the transparent floor! :D I want something similar in my house, haha.

Funny sign.

They had these bungee jumping activities going on, and I really wanted to try bungee jumping off Macau Tower, but we didn't have enough time :(

We had lunch in some Portuguese-themed restaurant. It was a set meal thing and my mom was like "Oh, they're still the same." Apparently she also had a set meal for her lunch when she visited Macau years and years ago. It was delicious all the same. The funniest thing was when we left the restaurant, there was a sudden blackout. Imagine if we were still in the restaurant, we would have to dine in darkness, haha.

We also visited the A-Ma Temple, but we only took photos at the entrance because most of us opted not to go in. One of the other families on the tour wanted to pray at the temple, so everyone else just lounged about and checked out the shops nearby. We also tried the famous Portuguese egg tarts. They were heavenly.

Next stop, the City of Dreams.

Actually, it's a casino with a lot of expensive, luxury boutiques on the outside. Since there were minors (like me) on the tour, we didn't go into the casino (I briefly considered sneaking in). We just walked around the place, which by the way was very nicely decorated and watched a 3D show.

Entrance.

While waiting for the show to start, my mom and I hung out at McD's. Their food is significantly much more expensive than the McD's in Malaysia, so we couldn't bring ourselves to fork out money for a burger.
One thing that was different about this McD's though, was that they had a cafe subunit, called McCafe. It's like Starbucks and the price was quite reasonable, so we bought milkshakes.

The ticket for the 3D show.

The show was okay, it was kind of interesting to see their lighting effects and the CGI.

Computer generated tiger.

Our last stop was The Venetian, which was located just behind the City of Dreams, so we walked there. I think all the casinos in Macau are located in the same district, because I saw a lot of other casinos nearby too.

On the way there.

At this point, I became really really excited because Boys Over Flowers filmed here! I couldn't wait to walk in The Venetian and see the same scenes. -kdrama freak mode-

In the grand foyer!

The Venetian was pretty much like the previous casino, except it was more grand and beautiful. Seriously, I couldn't stop admiring the decorations. Everything looked so pretty *_* We didn't have much time though, so we practically rushed through the entire place.

Our flight was at about 9.30pm, so we checked in our luggage at the MFM Airport at 7.30pm and waited for 2 hours before boarding the AirAsia flight home.

Last shot of Macau.

Ah, we've reached the end of this blogpost!
Toodles~

Day 3 & 4 - Shenzhen.

2011-07-10T22:48:00.000+08:00

Whooo~ back with the 3rd and 4th days of my December holidays!
I'm on a roll, baby! XD

[ Day 3 ]

Went for breakfast at one of Hong Kong's 'Char Chan Teng's (equivalent to the Malaysian kopitiam) The food was super yummy and very affordable :D

On the way back, we saw this:

Real estate office.

Now, these offices can only be found in Hong Kong (according to my mom, who's some sort of HK drama fanatic). It would be cool if Malaysia had these ^^

We checked out of our hotel and got ready to go to Shenzhen, China!
Btw, I slept in the bus all the way to the immigration checkpoint, got up to get my passport stamped and stuff, and promptly fell asleep again until we reached some place for lunch. The tour guide's voice was like a lullaby, haha.

Obligatory shots of the scenery.

Left: Oyster farms.

Top: Hong Kong high-rise apartments.

Bottom: Highway to Shenzhen.

Those vertical black/grey lines have nothing to do with my camera, it was on the bus window.

First stop of the day: OCT East Theme Park.

Entrance. I had this urge to beat my fists against this huge drum, but sadly I'm too short. Sigh.

Ticket.

I love the place, it looks like something out of a storybook! It's very European.

Left: Santa climbing into a house.

Top: Very festival-like atmosphere with the colourful canopy.

Bottom: Flowersssss.

Left: More flowers.

Right: Colourful hot-air balloon! :D

Theatre.

We went for this cultural show thingy called the T-show? Something like that. It's sort of Buddhism-centred. If you go there, please don't bother reading the English subtitles, they make no sense to me. The ending was epic though.

My favourite scene! Teapots~~

Random photo with the lovely flowers.

Forgive my expression.

Okay, I think this is the best part of the park, because IT LOOKS LIKE HOLLAND. There are loads of flowers everywhere and there are cows dotted all over. They're not your typical black-and-white cows, they're painted with a lot of different designs and colours.

Our next (and last) stop was Dongmen Street, which is basically an area surrounded by shopping malls and shops.
No pictures of Dongmen street because we were too busy shopping, wahahha. There were LOADS of cheap things. If you're good at haggling, you can walk away with items at half (maybe even 80% less) of the original price. There were also a lot of those makeshift stalls selling random things.

Checked into Shenzhen Holiday Inn! It's a super awesome hotel, they even have a LUX shampoo dispenser ♥

[ Day 4 ]

Complimentary hotel breakfast~
Today's weather was beautiful, it was warm enough that I took my coat off 90% of the time.

First stop of the day: Window of the World.
This wasn't in the original itinerary, so we had to fork out extra for the entry tickets.
Basically it's full of replicas of famous landmarks all over the world.

I'm posting this up because I love the colours.

I think this is London Bridge.

You can't see the sign, but it says 'Do Not Step' :x

Stonehenge.

They were having some sort of snow & ice exhibition near the snowboarding area, so we went to check it out. Note to self: wear gloves when visiting places with temperatures below 0°C.

The freezing temperature aside, the exhibition was actually kinda cool. There were ice sculptures of Kung Fu Panda :D Plus, there was this ride where you sat on a tire and just slide down an ice ramp. Very, very fun.

Oversized jacket and bad lighting conditions.

Next stop: Splendid China.
More miniature stuff. We didn't spend a very long time here because well, if you were to walk around the entire area, it would take more than 2 hours because it is HUGE. So, we rented one of those buggies to go to the key attractions.

I wanted to go on this train :)

Typical touristy photo.

We went for two shows in Splendid China, the first was some tribe war thingy that involved soldiers and horses. The place smelt like horse poop :s The second show was a cultural show, the troupe is apparently famous in China. It was okay, I took some photos but they're all very blur.

Our last stop was Dongmen Street again. Well, we're shopaholics, there's nothing you can do about it. Bought a lot of things because they were pretty cheap.

End of post~ The weekend has ended, so I'll probably post the last holiday post next Saturday. Bye~

Day 1 & 2 - Hong Kong.

2011-07-09T17:03:00.004+08:00

Sooooooo. I'm suddenly a hardworking blogger and I FINALLY finished editing my holiday photos. After like, 7 months -_-" Well, better late than never.

WARNING: Photo spam!

[ Day 1 ]
So my flight was at 7am-ish, I got to the LCCT by 5.30am and went for some breakfast at Old Town. Boarded my flight and in case you haven't guessed it already, I was flying AirAsia. And boy, the plane was TINY. It was like only two sides with three seats a row. I felt cramped throughout the entire flight and could barely squeeze myself out to get to the toilet.

Top: Boarding pass and arrival stuff. Apparently in China they call foreigners aliens. Hmm.

Below: First glimpse of Hong Kong.

The flight was about 4 hours long, and I was soooo relieved when it was over. At least I could stretch out in the airport terminal. We collected our luggage and got onto the bus to our first destination on the trip: Hong Kong Disneyland.

Top: Signboard before entering Disneyland.

Middle: Hong Kong Disneyland entrance.

Bottom: Find the hidden Mickey!

Taken by Mom. I believe it was a weekday when I went, and yet there were so many people :s

Top: Messing around with the camera, but cool nonetheless.

Bottom: Stunning fireworks show.

Okay, my thoughts on HK Disneyland:

As I've been to Tokyo Disneyland when I was Form 1 on a homestay programme, HK Disneyland seemed smaller. A lot of the more exciting rides like the Haunted Mansion were also missing :( The most extreme ride in HK Disneyland was the Space Mountain and even then it felt smaller and shorter than the one in Tokyo. There were a lot of movie attractions though. You know, those that show mini 4D movies and stuff.

The food in HK Disneyland was also very, very expensive (compared to the food in Malaysia). It was about 40+ ringgit for a bowl of wanton noodles. The portion wasn't big and the noodles aren't all that tasty. But if you do have to eat something in HK Disneyland, you should try the fish and chips in Fantasyland. They're positively humongous and totally worth the price because it also comes with mushroom soup. Here, let me show you:

Look at the size of the fish!

Plus, the popcorn and candyfloss are pretty good, they're about RM 10 each. They can be found in the carts scattered all over Disneyland.

Ah, and before I forget, Disneyland is utterly spotless. I'm not kidding, the cleaners watch the place like a hawk and grab the rubbish once it touches the floor. They even pick up the fallen leaves. Amazing.

Checked into Panda Hotel after that and checked out the shopping mall nearby but all the stores were closed because it was past 10pm.

[ Day 2 ]

Got up and had a dim sum breakfast at some restaurant.

First stop of the day: Repulse Bay.

One of those houses belong to Jackie Chan, I forgot which. All the houses in this area belong to the rich and famous. Makes me want to stalk them XD

Love the scenery here.

Shivering.

It was unusually freaking cold. The fact that we're near the sea (you know, what with the sea breeze and all) made the temperature drop even more :s Apparently, Hong Kong was going through a strange cold season so yeah, temperatures dropped below normal. I kinda wished I brought along thermal underwear, lol.

Next stop: Aberdeen.

One day I shall eat in this floating restaurant! It looks uber cool.

I actually took a photo with the old woman who was steering the boat (she's super nice!), but I'm lazy to edit it, so here's only one photo. At least now I know I'm not prone to seasickness.

Third stop: Victoria Peak.

More shivering.

Seriously, I think I froze. Low temperature + icy wind is definitely not good for my system. The view was breathtaking, although a bit height-phobia-inducing.

Madame Tussaud's is located on Victoria Peak, so in we went.

Heil Hitler!

Madame Tussaud's is awesome. There were lots of other celebs and famous figures in there, but like I said, I'm too lazy to edit the photos, so just be satisfied with this.

Short detour to Wong Tai Sin Temple.

People praying.

I'm a Christian, so I couldn't pray here. It was a lovely place though. According to the tour guide, lots of kung fu movies were filmed here.

First we have Victoria Peak, now it's Victoria Harbour.

First time seeing the junk (ship) in real life!

The Avenue of the Stars is also located at Victoria Harbour, so as we walked and took in the scenery, my mom and I were busy looking for Andy Lau's handprints. Sadly, we couldn't find it. Maybe we overlooked it or something. The light displays in Hong Kong are spectacular ♥

Really cool light displays.

After that, we went to Lui Yan Kai (Ladies' Street) to shop a little, but we only succeeded in buying a pair of slightly overpriced gloves and more winterwear because the ones we brought weren't enough. We didn't really have a lot of time to shop :s

Shenzhen post next! :D

Day 4 - Your sibling.

2011-07-09T10:02:00.002+08:00

So, technically I don't have a sibling. I'm an only child, so my siblings would be my walls (wth).

But I want to write a letter addressed to my sibling anyway, although I know the alternative was your closest relative because I'm insanely interested in writing to a nonexistent person.

Dear sibling (Whatever your name is),

I'm going to assume you're a girl. Not to be sexist, but I can't imagine having a brother, what with the Hot Wheels obsession and the very, very unsettling interest in erm... alternative movie genres. I remember when I was a kid, I dreamt of having a sister to talk to and play with. I even flicked through name books to find the perfect name for a sister. Well, that sibling did not materialize, so my hopes have been put out. Sad, but things happen.

Anyway. If I had a sister, I bet we would have loads of girly talking sessions. I might even bully you into doing some menial house chores (like washing the dishes, I hate it). I guess we would have our moments and fight a lot, but then again, bak kata pepatah Melayu, carik-carik bulu ayam akhirnya bercantum juga (haha, rojak language much?). I bet we'd be obsessed over K-Pop and fight over the cutest/hottest guys. I would be there for you when you get your heart broken for the first time and then seek out the offender so I can punch him in the face until he could see the faraway galaxy of Andromeda.

I wonder if we would share the same fashion sense, whether we would raid each other's wardrobes or constantly criticize each others' dressing. I wonder if we would have girly sleepovers and watch rom-coms non-stop. I wonder if we would both share the same eating habits. I wonder if you would like spicy food as much as I do. I wonder if you would love stuffed toys and (occasionally) act as childish as me. I wonder if you would go through the torture of braces, like how I'm suffering right now.

However, one thing's for sure. I would love you to bits, no matter how much we fought or yell at each other.

♥, M.

Okay, end of letter. Isn't it weird how most of the time only childs crave for siblings and those with siblings wish that they were only childs? :)

#YoonLeaderDay.

2011-07-04T20:31:00.001+08:00

It's Doo Joon (a.k.a. leader of BEAST)'s birthday! :D

생일축하합니다, 두준 오빠 ♥

(photos from various Tumblrs)

You're an awesome leader.
Good luck for your Japan promotions! :)

Oh and if I'm lucky, I might be able to convince Priya into giving me one of her MTV World Stage tickets to see BEAST, hehe.

The Tale of a Girl and a pair of Bubble Flops.

2011-07-03T00:07:00.001+08:00

Currently listening to : Ma Boy by SISTAR 19.

Very random post today, but I don't care :S

So, the story behind the pair of slippers I'm holding in the photo above goes like this :
One day last year, I was window shopping in Jusco with my mom and found this pair of slippers. It looked pretty wacky, so I tried it on nevertheless. My mom asked me whether I wanted to buy it, but I shook my head because I felt that it would be very attention-grabbing if I wore a pair of bubble flops in public. Plus, my older pair of flip-flops were still in good condition. I liked the white-coloured pair better though.

I saw the same pair again around March. I tried it on and still thought it would look ridiculous. The bubble flops were put back on to the shelf.

The other day, my mom came back from the Jusco members' sale, happily clutching a plastic bag with unknown contents. Of course, my curiosity sparked and I demanded to know what she had bought. With the most enthusiasm ever, she whipped out this pair of yellow slippers wrapped in plastic.

My first thought was "Holy crap. It's YELLOW." Attention-grabbing much? Haha. But after trying it on again, I decided that I look pretty alright in it, so I kept it.

And such is the story of me and a pair of yellow bubble flops.
Thanks for reading this utter trash, hahahaha.

No lah, actually this is just a filler post :D
Will do the post on Karnival Kokurikulum soon.

(EDIT)

So, I'm not the only one who has weird bubble flops! Look, Yo Seob wears them too! Plus a ton of other K-Pop celebs.

More K-pop celebs wearing bubble flops HERE.
Now I feel a bit more proud about having a pair of strange-looking flip flops, haha.

Put Your Hands Up.

2011-06-25T23:37:00.000+08:00

Currently listening to : Hands Up by 2PM.

This was supposed to be my Day 4 post for the letter challenge, but NST's S-I-R is in less than 12 hours and I've just found myself doing something I never thought I'd do: reading an indexed list of phobias and attempting to memorize their spelling.

Oh God. Wish me luck.
I'll be running on adrenaline tomorrow :s

Day 3 - Your parents.

2011-06-17T21:07:00.002+08:00

Dear Mummy and Daddy,
(yes, I still call my parents that even though I'm almost 17, I think it's cute :))

There are no words to describe how much I love you. If it weren't for the both of you, I wouldn't be here. Thank you for creating and giving me life.

I'm sorry if I've made your lives difficult, with my typical teenage mood swings, crazy stress spells and sometimes horrible academic results.I'm sure it wasn't easy to raise me, although I think as a child I was an extreme introvert and had an inexplicable fear of other kids my age -_-

Thank you, Mummy, for carrying the little me in your womb for 9 months and going through terrible labour pains to give birth to me. Thanks for cooking yummy food for me almost everyday. Thanks for listening to all my problems and giving me valuable advice. Thanks for shaping my fashion sense. Thanks for sending me to all those tuition classes. Thanks for constantly nagging me to study, or else I wouldn't have gotten rather good results all these years. Thanks for waking up early everyday to prepare breakfast for me.

Thank you, Daddy for being my source of 'Vitamin M' :x Just kidding! Thank you for killing all those bugs that I'm afraid of and teaching me about computers. And even caving in to get me a webcam when I was like, 12. Thanks for not scolding me when I dropped my first camera and basically rendered it useless. Thanks for bothering to buy a new camera after the first one spoiled. Thanks for teaching me everything about politics. Thanks for sending me to school every morning.

I love you, Mummy and Daddy, no matter how many times you've scolded and lectured me, because I know everything you do is for my own good ♥

♥, M.

Day 2 - Your Crush.

2011-06-11T19:30:00.001+08:00

In terms of real-life crushes, I honestly don't have any at the moment, so don't be too disappointed, LOL :D
Instead, you'll have to settle for me gushing over my celebrity crush.

Dear Yong Jun Hyung (용준형),

You're the 2nd celebrity crush I've ever had (the first one being Heo Young Saeng from SS501, but he's too old for me, so he's out of my league *le sigh*). I know I'm just one out of your many, many fangirls, but hey, I can dream right? *delusional* You're the first rapper I've liked, and although I still don't like rapping very much, I can somehow tolerate it a bit more. You're the reason why my deskmate, Xi Men always chooses to ignore me whenever I start fangirl-ing excessively.

Oh, and btw, I prefer your hair down and with a fringe, your hairstyle in Bad Girl was a tad weird :s
Just saying.

Everytime I listen to Far East's Movement's Like a G6, I sing Na Na Na, now I'm feeling so FLY like Yong Jun Hyung, haha :)

(photos and gif from various Tumblrs)

super freaking ♥, M.

Day 1 - Your Best Friend.

2011-06-10T13:27:00.001+08:00

I'm not really sure if I have best friends, but I do know I have some really really good friends that I wouldn't trade for the world. So, this is for them.

Dear awesomesauce friend(s),

(via makemestfu)

I don't say this often enough but I'm so thankful that you're always there for me. You guys helped me through some of my roughest periods and supported my decisions. You always cheer me up when I'm down in the dumps or feeling anti-social. Thank you so much! :)

I'll never forget all those moments where we gathered at one table and talked about a whole lot of crap, ranging from Osama bin Laden to Lady Gaga to some really random topics that cannot be mentioned here because it would be extremely embarassing.

I'll always love you guys and I hope we'll still be in contact after we graduate from high school. I'm truly blessed to have friends like you guys.

I would put your photos here, but I'm too lazy at the moment, haha.

♥, M.

30 Day Letter Challenge.

2011-06-09T23:16:00.001+08:00

Day 1 — Your Best Friend
Day 2 — Your Crush
Day 3 — Your parents
Day 4 — Your sibling (or closest relative)
Day 5 — Your dreams
Day 6 — A stranger
Day 7 — Your Ex-boyfriend/girlfriend/love/crush
Day 8 — Your favorite internet friend
Day 9 — Someone you wish you could meet
Day 10 — Someone you don’t talk to as much as you’d like to
Day 11 — A Deceased person you wish you could talk to
Day 12 — The person you hate most/caused you a lot of pain
Day 13 — Someone you wish could forgive you
Day 14 — Someone you’ve drifted away from
Day 15 — The person you miss the most
Day 16 — Someone that’s not in your state/country
Day 17 — Someone from your childhood
Day 18 — The person that you wish you could be
Day 19 — Someone that pesters your mind—good or bad
Day 20 — The one that broke your heart the hardest
Day 21 — Someone you judged by their first impression
Day 22 — Someone you want to give a second chance to
Day 23 — The last person you hugged
Day 24 — The person that gave you your favorite memory
Day 25 — The person you know that is going through the worst of times
Day 26 — The last person you made a pinky promise to
Day 27 — The friendliest person you knew for only one day
Day 28 — Someone that changed your life
Day 29 — The person that you want tell everything to, but too afraid to
Day 30 — Your reflection in the mirror

From Tumblr.

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So it's been ages since I did a project, the last one was Project 365, which failed after the first 30 or so photos. I'm gonna try this one out, since it's a lot shorter and it doesn't require my camera.

I'm gonna start tomorrow! Hwaiting! :D

Post #250.

2011-06-08T12:01:00.011+08:00

Currently listening to : Light Up the World by the Glee Cast.

AleatoireMichi.blogspot.com has reached another milestone! :D
250 posts in the span of 44 months. That makes it... 5.7 posts per month. Okay, that's... actually not a lot :| I don't think anyone reads this blog regularly other than Xi Men and I. (yಠ,ಠ)y

ANYWAY.
I haven't been updating lately, because

Trials is in 2+ months, so I'm supposed to be revising, not spending inordinate amounts of time online,
I haven't been out and about recently, and
I'm procrastinating. *cough*

The only reason why I'm even online, updating the blog at the moment is because it's the holidays and it suddenly occurred to me that my blog still exists :s

So, all that I've been doing during the holidays are (in no particular order):

Getting my wisdom teeth extracted.
Removing like, 10+ gigabytes from my laptop's hard drive.
Being frustrated with Angry Birds (PC Version).
Watching City Hunter and swooning over Lee Min Ho.
Successfully finished learning how to play U-KISS's 0330 on the electone.
Failing my Grade 5 electone examinations -_-"
Killing insects (who seem to love my room, btw).
Getting a haircut.
Organizing all my stuff.
Studying (oh, so nerdy, but yes.)

My life is very exciting, indeed.

So, since getting my wisdom teeth extracted was pretty much the highlight of my entire holidays, I am going to blog about it, despite the fact that I think I should blog about something awesome for my 250th post.

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I extracted my teeth last Tuesday, on the 31st of May. I had to extract my wisdom teeth because they were apparently pushing my other teeth, therefore pushing my lower jaw outwards and pretty much decreasing the efficiency of my braces. I was supposed to extract them a month ago, but I had to postpone it due to school.

So, before my operation, I took my lunch - Nasi Lemak with Sotong Sambal - at Chawan, knowing full well that it was going to be pretty much the last good-tasting food that I'll be able to consume before I suffer for the week after the operation. With lunch out of the way, the nurses at the dentist's got me to swallow some painkillers and antibiotics while waiting for my turn in the chair of horror.

I would be lying if I told you that I wasn't nervous. I've extracted 4 teeth before (due to braces), but this was my first time extracting my wisdom teeth, which is considerably larger than the teeth I've previously extracted. Soon enough, my turn rolled around and I had to get an X-ray of my teeth. After that, I made myself comfortable in the dentist's chair while staring at the X-ray image on the monitor.

Injections. It was the worst part of the entire process, because I hate needles. The fact that I couldn't see the needles exactly was slightly comforting though. The first jab on both sides and the jabs on the nerves near the tongue were the worst. My mouth was numb after that, so I had a bit of trouble rinsing my mouth.

The extraction itself hardly hurt, because of the anesthesia, so I don't have any complaints there. The sound of the drill was creepy and I could like, hear the cracking of the tooth when my dentist broke it into two. Other than that, the operation was smooth-sailing and quite relaxing (wth). After he extracted the teeth, my dentist stitched up the gaping holes and imo, it's quite interesting to watch the dentist sewing when you can't feel the needle at all, haha.

After the entire process, I got out feeling all dizzy and my mouth couldn't close, so I ended up stuffing tissues into my mouth to soak up the mixture of saliva and blood. I got about 4 different varieties of medicines to take and went back home.

I didn't take my dinner on that day, because I could hardly speak, let alone swallow food. My cheeks were swollen and the saliva wouldn't stop flowing (gross). The next day was better because the anesthesia finally wore off and I regained control of my mouth, thus allowing me to down some mashed potatoes. I couldn't eat anything that was hot and/or solid, so I sustained on mashed potatoes, cold porridge, juice and ice water for a few days. Believe me, it's not fun. My trips to the toilet practically quadrupled because of the increased intake of liquids. Plus, I may have boosted the sales of KFC's mashed potatoes because I ate like 6 tubs in the span of 7 days. The dentist also recommended ice cream, but I don't like ice cream, so that was a no-no for me.

Today I got my stitches removed within about 5 minutes. I can eat normally again! :D Hello, vegetables, I missed you~

Okay. I'm off to go chow some solid food. Tata.

110528 OiC Camp.

2011-06-02T01:55:00.002+08:00

Date: 28th May 2011.
Venue: Taylor's University Lakeside Campus.

(Random sidenote: I think writing reports for Ed. Board is changing my blogging style, wth. I don't ever remember blogging details like the date and venue o_o)

So, a bunch of us went for this one day in campus event, hosted by Taylor's. It was SO MUCH FUN. But it was really tiring :|

Most of us took the bus from school, and we reached the campus by like, 9am? Got registered and started taking photos all over the campus because it had such a lovely environment.

Jakun-ing over the high ceilings.

The campus ♥

l-r: Xi Men, Kwai See, Rebecca, Ee Lin and yours truly.

Groupshot. Becky's eyes cannot be saved, but I'm posting this up anyway because it's nice.

With the huge Taylor's sign. At first, Ivy thought it was LOR'S only, hahah.

Starbucks has been taken over by a horde of SBU-ians! Hello, we gave them good business, ok.

In the gym for briefing and icebreaking.

So, after icebreaking we had this session called 'Race Around Campus'. I was in the same group as Xi Men, Claryson and Amirah :D SBU power, heheh. Anyway, our group was called 'Awesome-6'. Everybody's a bit quiet, but at least they're cooperative :)

After the race, everyone was pretty much tired. We got a break, thus, off we headed for lunch and random window shopping at Syopz. Shalini and I bought the same headband from TeleGift, so we were 'twins' for the rest of the day, hahah.

Random pic at the Syopz walkway.

Rahul kept going, "OMG it's so HOT!", thus ruining the photos -_-"

Mimicking the Prefectorial Board's Teachers' Day performance. Hmmm... I think we failed.

My 'twin' and I, hahahah.

On the staircase back to the gym.

For the second section of the day, we had our workshops! Most of us went for Fashion-Style-Impression.

The entire lift's passenger load was made up of SBU-ians :D

I ended up not writing anything down D:

Overall, the workshop was pretty good. For the first 15 minutes or so, we had this thing where you go around writing your first impressions of a particular person on his/her back. By the end of the time given, the SBU-ians went mad and just started writing a load of crazy stuff on each SBU-ian's back. We were... really high lol.

Our workshop ended late, about 20 minutes later than the scheduled time, so by the time we got to the amphitheater for the Rock Concert, it was already pretty full.

They performed songs like 'Price Tag' and 'Rolling in the Deep'.

Priya and Syazwan in some game called 'Proposal, Marriage & Divorce'.

Magic performance. Doesn't this look like some horrible S&M scene? Just sayin'.

'Love the Way You Lie' dance cover by Taylor's Dance Crew.

Hip-hop dancing?? Also by TDC.

Beat-boxing.

At the very end, they announced the winners of the lucky draw... and no one from SBU won, wth. It has got to be a fluke because there were like 73 SBU-ians there :(

THE END. ~~*faints*~~
(p.s. It was Kim's birthday on the same day! Happy (belated) birthday! :D)

2011-05-16T23:30:00.003+08:00

I love you, BEAST, for releasing your album on a holiday ♥
(It's the 17th in Korea already, so their new album has just been released :D)

널 찾아 이리저리 헤맸어.

2011-05-02T00:06:00.001+08:00

Currently listening to : O.K. by B1A4.

Hey guys. Short update, before my blog gets too dusty.
Diagnostics begin in 4 days, so the blog will be on hiatus for about 3 weeks. You'll see me again with ginormous eye bags and dark circles, like a panda. Le sigh.

Anyway, while I'm away, check this site out :

http://stress-thesilentkiller.blogspot.com/

This is my group's project and entry for the Thinkquest competition. Watch the video, we put a lot of effort into it ;)

On a sidenote, the royal wedding was awesome, loved Kate's dress. Prince William's bald spot was a little distracting, but he still looked handsome and princely anyway.

Kthxbai.

But I don't really care at all, not answering my phone.

2011-04-15T22:47:00.000+08:00

Currently listening to : Candles by Hey Monday.

Hello, this is Michelle from Michiworld Entertainment News. Today, I'll be presenting the happenings and incidents that occurred during the duration of the past week in this blog owner's life :)

Monday; Drug Prevention Education Week (Minggu PPDa). Spent Chemistry lesson preparing for our experiments for the Riau exchange students. Mondays are always boring.

Tuesday; Spent Pendidikan Sivik at the Chem lab, because Terrence managed to persuade our teacher into bringing us there to prepare for our experiments. Nicklaus' group was doing an experiment involving gummy bears. At one point, Nicklaus managed to stuff like 3/4 gummy bears into the test tube and somehow the experiment went kaput. The whole lab had smoke and a smell like rotten eggs/fart was emitted. Most of us ran out because we couldn't take the stink. Ughhh.

Didn't go for badminton, but stayed in the counselor's room with Siew Yuan to prepare for our graphic designing competition the next day. The office's wireless Internet was surprisingly fast :D

Wednesday; Lugged my heavy laptop and extension cord to school. Siew Yuan and I had a short discussion at the gazebo before dragging ourselves to SBS. Registered, ate breakfast and went for our competition at 9.30am.

Anyone who was watching the two of us during the competition must have thought we were nuts because everytime Photoshop lagged, we would both be like "OMG OMG NOOOOOOOO *headdesk* *prays to God* X1000". Then when the application was responding again, we would go "YESSSSS. OK OK GO GO."
Hahahahahahah. imho, we did an awesome job with the graphic. WE FREAKING DESIGNED THE FONT OURSELVES OKAY. Imagine using the Ellipse tool and slowly cutting and adding bits to make it into alphabets for nearly an hour. Pure torture.

Anyway. We got back to school at 1.30pm, and stayed back for koko. Later, Pn. S told Siew Yuan that we didn't win the competition. *emo* :(

Luckily for me, we didn't have Renjer today, because our school had the DiGi Sekolahku Berbakat thingy. I brought my uniform but didn't bring my black socks, shoes and scarf, so I was mighty glad that we got to have fun instead. Sadly, most of the contestants didn't do very well. I think they might have done better with more practice, though. The judges were pretty mean -_-

Thursday; Had the Taylor's Accounts Exam thing. Accounts in English... is a bit weird. And I couldn't do the Bank Reconciliation Statement thing. Gahhhhh.

Friday; Friday was awesome because, well... it's Friday. Need I explain more? The school held a ceremony marking the end of the Riau student exchange. The Riau students' dances were soooooo cute, I kid you not. The highlight of the day was after school when we retook a few of the scenes for ThinkQuest. Xi Men was supposed to just kick Bryan, but she ended up nearly injuring Li Lok :x Amazing.

Another highlight of my day was when I managed to kill TWO mosquitoes in one go outside my house. Epic, I tell you. They were like, flying on top of each other. Maybe they were mating? Ewwwww. Okay, let's not think about that.

Alright, I'm gonna stop here.
Toodles.

Who cares if we're trashed, got a pocket full of cash we can blow.

2011-04-10T16:32:00.002+08:00

Currently listening to : Marry You by Bruno Mars.

This is gonna be a photo post :D Behold, the barrage of megapixels.

#1; Favourite necklace.

#2; Experimenting with the camera's manual mode. Gotta love the blue sky :D

#3; It looks as if I'm asking my plush dog to sniff my toes :O

#4; Houndstooth leggings.

#5; Lace.

#6; Ribbon ring ♥ I've been looking for one since forever.

#7; Camera ring. I'm obsessed with camera-themed things.

# 8; World badge and name tag for Renjer Puteri.

#9; Yesterday's outfit.

#10; Knotted rope belt.

#11; fyi, this isn't a shell, okay. It's an ammonite crystal.

#12 I just like my hair in this.

#13; Macro on the belt.

#14; Hairrrr. Might be cutting it soon.

Done. Byeee.

Don't deny, our r²π.

2011-04-09T00:05:00.004+08:00

Currently listening to : 0330 by U-KISS.

I seriously love Despicable Me :)

(via themellowfellow)

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I've been a bad blogger by neglecting my blog for the past two weeks :(
School's a whirlwind, thrown in with random moments with my friends and heaps of homework.
Terry was missing from school for the first few days of the week before last week, due to basketball, and then it was Tra's turn at the end of last week and the starting of this week. I don't remember anything from last week (other than Saturday), so I'll just give my account of this week.

Monday; 20 Riau students came to our school for a student exchange program. Only Terry and I attended school today, so we sat together and talked about a load of rubbish. We talked about food with Sheng Juen and got really, really hungry, haha. Our No. 1 food craving is now siew loong pao (a sort of soup-filled pao) from Dragon-i. Mmm.

Tuesday; Terry's turn to be absent. My crazy deskmate *coughximencough* and Jan came today though! Did a Physics experiment regarding Ohm's Law for PEKA. I'm finding electricity sorta fun :O We had about 3 free periods today, because our teachers were involved in something or other. YAY.

Stayed back for Science and Maths Club today, we conducted the Amazing Race. It was quite fun and nice, but chaotic because we didn't have enough facilitators to handle the groups, and it was mind-boggling to make them stay in their groups and not barge around everywhere.

Plus, we left the prizes in the Science lab because we thought we were going back there, but it got locked. Xi Men and I had to retrieve them the next day, during Puan Jey's class. Omg, so embarassing ><

Wednesday; Only Xi Men and Terry today. Tra was away, playing for the 3rd/4th place match (if I'm not wrong).

Had Renjer Puteri today, fooled around :)

Thursday; Finally everyone in our group came to school! :D Did yet another PEKA experiment for Physics, this time it was about the factors affecting resistance. Today was also picture day for our class layout. It was so much fun, imo :D

Friday; Alright, I suppose. Did the Cooke board. I think we're about 75% finished? It looks awesome, anyway. And I MUST commend Xi Men here (she reads my blog, hahah) because she actually ran like a million times to and fro from the co-op, trying to buy double-sided tape, but failing miserably because a certain someone refused to sell it to her.

Btw, people, I've deactivated my FB account early this week, due to studies and it's not like I'm an active Facebooker anyway. I'll reactivate it after SPM :)

Also, check out the MV below! My new favourite song ♥

Toodles.

‘Cause hey, I could be a superstar, I’ll see you when you wash my car :)

2011-03-27T02:35:00.001+08:00

Currently listening to : Loser Like Me by the Glee Cast.

It's FRIDAY, FRIDAY, gotta get down on Friday~
Partyin' partyin', YEAH!
Partyin' partyin', YEAH!
Fun, fun, fun~

-___- omg, so annoying.

(via weheartit)

Anyways, weekly recap.

Monday; Meh, nothing much, other than the launching of Program COMBI (some dengue fever thingamajig). I think I fell asleep during the invited speaker's speech :s

Tuesday; Usual studies, filmed a bit of the ThinkQuest project.

Wednesday; 2010 SPM RESULTS DAY. Congrats to the 34 people who got straight A's, and Cheng Ken for getting straight A+'s. Wow, I feel the pressure of being a Form 5 now :o There's supposed to be a photo here, but it's with Xi Men :( Tracie and Terrence went for their basketball tournament, so it was just the three of us lepak-ing around the school.

Thursday; Yearbook photo shoot. Attended six photo shoots in one day x.x Class photo, Science and Maths Club, Christian Union, Badminton, Cooke and Form 5 Graduation. I felt like dying ~.~ Also, the twins are missing from our graduation photo :( Got to know our class positions!

Friday; Second day of yearbook photo shoot. Went for Editorial Board's photo shoot, then proceeded to do the Cooke house board. Yet another tiring day.

Okay, I'm DONE. Bye :D

March Holidays & Ultimate Laziness.

2011-03-20T19:55:00.004+08:00

Currently listening to : By Chance (You and I) by J.R. Aquino.

Don't even bother asking me how my holidays went, it passed by so quickly that I can barely believe it. All I did was go for extra classes at Martin, finish up my homework and study, like the nerd I am. Oh, and I watched tons of YouTube videos and repaid about 5% of my sleep debt.

Tomorrow's gonna be the reopening of school already. Ughhh. I'm so not looking forward to the heaps, no, mountains of homework and the general, monotonous routine of Form 5 life. I hate waking up at 5.30am every weekday :(

Super Junior's Super Show 3 was yesterday, but I didn't go because I went to the previous one last year and I'm too stingy to fork out for another RM 200+ ticket. Ivy was really hyper in tuition though, because apparently the Super Junior members were staying in the Gardens... which is within a 5km radius of her house. Yeah.

In case you readers haven't noticed, I changed my blog header. That's probably... one of the most productive things I did during the holidays, I guess. Is it better than the previous header? :/

Last night's supermoon.
Just in case you were wondering, those are the silhouettes of my neighbour's Astro discs.

I took this at about 2.30 am. My sleeping hours during the holidays are roughly around 3am to 10am. I remind myself of a nocturnal animal :s

Last but not least, Japan was hit by an 8.9 earthquake and tsunami last Friday, so I was pretty worried about my Japanese host family who took care of me during my stay with them four years ago. They live in Tokyo, which is quite far from the earthquake, which hit the northern parts of Japan like Miyagi prefecture. Fortunately, they replied to my e-mail and assured me that they were safe. Thank God.

Please pray for Japan and give them hope while they recover from this disaster. If you want, you can donate to the Japanese Red Cross or any other help organizations.

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If you're free, check out this video!

Rhythm of Love cover by Joseph Vincent and Clara C.

Best cover ever, omg.

Toodles! :D

110305 Pavilion Outing.

2011-03-15T12:35:00.001+08:00

WARNING: PHOTO SPAM.
(This is only half of the original album. The full album is here.)

So, we planned this outing like, a week ago and luckily almost everyone could make it. Kwai See and Ee Lin couldn't make it due to transport problems though :( Siew Yuan couldn't make it at the last minute, because she had to go for a dentist appointment.

We had classes at PTM until 3.15pm. After that, we met up and off we went to Pavilion in my mom's car. *excluding Xi Men and the twins, who went in their own cars*

With Becky. Notice those LEDs embedded in the wall behind us? We were super fascinated by them! :D

Kay-E with her beloved candlesticks from Royal Selangor :x

Xi Men finally came after like 234569 eons.

Ivy and Lynette.

Our movie, Black Swan was at 4.20pm, so off we went to Food Republic to fill our tummies :D

Shared Kimchi Jiggae with Lynn! Yum. *slurps*

Ivy!

More eating pics.

Too cute for me not to post up :D

Being smothered by Xi Men ;_;

And the twins arrived! :O (and there are two super self-conscious uncles looking into the camera hahaha)

They were harassing Chung Shin to take a photo. *cough*

Awww... they finally succeeded!

Becky being vain in the toilets. She suddenly whipped out a brush from her bag and started combing her hair. She never ceases to amaze me.

Obligatory camwhore shot in the toilets.

Going to the cinema.

Ok, so we watched Black Swan... and OH MY GOD. I now know why it was rated R. It was full of gore, sexual scenes, psychopaths and drug abuse. It's very beautiful and intense, but very disturbing. After the movie, all of us were like ---> (O___O), and we swore to never send our kids to ballet classes. If you're planning to watch Black Swan and you're not exactly strong-hearted, please watch it with a friend.

After the movie and the subsequent discussion, we went to the top floor and then camwhored like mad. The best thing about an all-girls outing is that no one will ever criticize you for taking too many pictures :x

Xi Men and Sharon.

Ivy and Lynn's... I dunno, 20th take?

With Xi Men and Lynn.

Group photos!

Xi Men and Sharon.

With Kay-E.

Perasan No. 1 & Perasan No. 2 *cough*

Random shot.

Love Lynn's expression in this :D

Sorry, ignore me, I'm sesat :(

Too lazy to give captions.

Down the escalator to send off Lynette.

Sharon and Lynette.

Sharon and her boyfriend hahaha.

For Rahul, our 'kambing' :x

We spent like 10 minutes on deciding where to have our dinner. Everyone couldn't make up their minds. Finally, we decided by making three representatives and voting. Xi Men represented TGIF, while Ivy was Manhattan Fish Market and Kay-E was Tony Romas. TGIF won, hands down.

TGIF.

Ximennie.

I like this photo of Chung Shin a lot :D

Ivy reminds me of the psychopathic Beth in Black Swan wth.

Ivy = Kyuhyun, Me = Jun Hyung ;D

Ivy and Xi Men's Nachos thingamajig.

Kay-E and I shared these Boneless Chicken Wings. It was super sour and nice *_*

Becky and the twins shared this umm... Diablo Pasta?? I don't remember the name :/

Kay-E and I had this Southwestern Mac & Cheese. Yummy.

Ivy and Xi Men ordered this burger, and this is how they had to split it, lol XD

They were talking about inertia wth.

Ivy and Xi Men.

Wow I look drunk/high here.

Ivy with an onion slice :D

y turn. And Ivy decided to decorate my hair with a french fry.

I was literally strangling Xi Men *sadistic smile* wth

They were very eager to give their money :x

Ivy and I.

The rest went home, leaving just me, Ivy and Xi Men. We went down to Snowflake to get Xi Men's mom's dessert.

The very cool UFO beeper :D

Xi Men left, so Ivy and I walked around Forever 21, before my parents arrived to send Ivy back :D

Okay, so these heels are like, RM 116. Ivy is a Size 8 (if I'm not wrong la hahah) and I'm a Size 6, so please get them for us, although they are impossible to walk in.

THE END.

My head is stuck in the clouds.

2011-03-13T23:28:00.000+08:00

Currently listening to : Rhythm of Love by Plain White T's.

Currently reading the book in the photo above ^^. I love Philippa Gregory's books. Actually, I like anything that's about history and royalty :D

Last week's recap.

Monday; Got back the English Paper 1 (or was it on Wednesday? I can't remember.)
Got Chemistry Paper 1, 2 & 3 back. I think I did alright, considering the fact that I only browsed through Chapter 7 and 8, plus I crapped in my essay :)

Tuesday; Biology Paper 1 & 2 returned. I FINALLY got an A for Bio, after so many freakin' B's last year. The last time I got an A for Bio was for my first exam in Form 4, wth. I got 80, which is an A-, and pretty close to an A (just by one mark damnit :()

Wednesday; Got back Accounts paper! I GOT FULL MARKS WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Also, I did my BM Lisan with Xi Men. Our choice of topic (ghosts and spirits in the Malay community) actually prompted our BM teacher to tell us about her experience with ghosts :o

Thursday; Got back the much dreaded Paper 2 for Physics. I think I got pretty good marks. Also got back the Paper 3 for Biology. Teacher made a mistake in the marking of Paper 2, so I now have an A for Bio! *jumps around in glee* Got back the Maths Paper 2 as well.

Friday; Teacher returned the Add Maths Paper 2. The marks were lower than I expected, but good nevertheless. Also got back English Paper 2, it was okay :)

So, I got back all my results, and I got __. Hahahah. Guess my results yourselves, I'm not revealing anything :)

With this, I wish everyone happy holidays! It's the last holiday I can actually enjoy, before I start studying hardcore for SPM. I suspect that the Alpha teachers are out to keep our nose to the grindstone because I have a whole pile of holiday homework :(

Anyway, toodles! :)

Dramas and etc.

2011-03-11T20:41:00.001+08:00

Currently listening to: Dreaming by Kim Soo Hyun.

Random drama post as a filler today, while I attempt to blog about the Pavilion outing last week.

Just finished watching Dream High ;D

Thoughts and comments:

I think this is one of my favourite dramas so far. It's like the Korean version of Glee, and you know how much I adore Glee :D The fact that Kim Soo Hyun does an excellent job of portraying Song Sam Dong is another boost for this drama. I love how the drama doesn't feel draggy and doesn't have an overload of overly-emotional scenes. The OST is also pretty cool, imo. I'm rather unhappy with the ending though, I wanted more Hye Mi x Sam Dong scenes! ;_;

Overall, this is a must-watch! :D

Here, some extra eye candy in the form of Kim Soo Hyun! :) *gets shot by Ivy*

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Okay, some random things I'm sharing for no apparent reason:

I made this wallpaper :D The Latin words there are from Jun Hyung's tattoo!

Who did you end up with later? --> Jun Hyung. Epic win.

Okay, bye :D

하늘에 있는 저 별들처럼 높이 날아봐. (Fly high, like the stars in the sky.)

2011-03-04T16:24:00.002+08:00

Currently listening to : Dream High (Dream High OST) by Suzy, Kim Soo-Hyun, Taecyeon, Wooyoung, IU, Eunjung & JOO.

Cutest thing everrrr. (via picsandquotes)

Okay, I'll start with my re-cap of the exam weeks.

WEEK ONE.
Monday; Physics Paper 3 and BM.
Physics Paper 3 was possibly the easiest Paper 3 among all the other science subjects. BM was okay, it was a mix of Paper 1 & 2.

Tuesday; Maulidur Rasul holiday! :D
Stayed at home all day and studied Physics :/

Wednesday; Physics Paper 1&2.
Paper 1 was considerably easy, but Paper 2 was a killer. It was... terrible :(
Thursday; English Paper 1&2.
Both papers were alright.

Friday; Mod. Maths Paper 1&2.
This was the last 'easy' subject, before the true hell began the next week.

WEEK TWO.
Monday; Pendidikan Moral.
I can't understand WHY they fitted two pages into one A4 paper. Lack of space to write. Also, I messed up my 'Hidup Bersama Secara Aman' definition :(

Tuesday; Sejarah Paper 1&2.
I felt like boiling my textbook and eating it, so that I can memorize all the facts ;_;

Wednesday; Add. Maths Paper 1&2.
Okay, I think. Paper 1 was alright, but Paper 2 had a couple of tricky questions.
I COULDN'T FIND THE COORDINATES OF R. *tosses paper in the dustbin*

Thursday; Biology Paper 1&2.
I thought this was alright, since I could do the essay questions in Paper 2, but Puan Juliana basically implied that our class's marks were terrible :(
Friday; Biology Paper 3 & Chemistry Paper 3.
There were 21 experiments to read for Bio and 26 experiments for Chem. That totals to 47 experiments. *faints*

WEEK THREE.
Monday; Chemistry Paper 1&2.

My feelings, exactly (read the underlined letters). (via purplemallows)

Oh Salt, why do you make my life so difficult?

Tuesday; Accounts.
The BEST paper ever because Rahul wasn't sitting next to me and asking me for the time every five seconds or so.
Anyway, this paper worries me because I finished it at about 12-ish, and everyone was still doing their papers. I hope I didn't leave out any questions or something.
Also, Tuesday signified the end of Intervensi 1! YAY!

Got back the Add. Maths Paper 1 + Physics Paper 1&3. I'm pretty satisfied overall :)

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Back to the usual dreary schooldays.

Wednesday;
Got back English Paper 1 and BM. I GOT MY FIRST A+ FOR BM! *tears*
We had this really interesting talk about DNA for three periods. I wish I was selected for the experiment though, it sounded interesting :(

Thursday;
The school conducted a Maulidur Rasul celebration thing for the Muslim students, so all the non-Muslim students hung out at the Skylite. Puan Jey gave us a talk (actually, more like a chat) and some people from Kafe@Teen came to promote their centre and gave us a talk on teenage love. I didn't pay much attention though, they came and gave the exact same talk when we finished our PMR examinations, back in 2009, so it was basically repetition.

Got back Modern Maths Paper 1 only. Very very satisfied and I really want to see what I got for Paper 2!

Friday;
Cross-country run today. 4 kilometres :o Walked with Janice for 3/4 of the whole journey.
Tracie got a sprain in her right ankle and some inconsiderate junior knocked her down at the last checkpoint. She was in so much pain :(
If you're reading this, Tra, please get well faster!~

Also, we got back our Sejarah Paper 1&2. I was so shocked when I saw my Paper 2's marks. It must be divine intervention... or my superior crapping skills :x

Pheww~ that's one post off my to-do list! Will update soon.

You keep stirring my world, even the ice will burn if it meets you.

2011-03-03T20:42:00.000+08:00

Currently listening to : Perfection by Super Junior M.

Bored.

EXAMS ARE OVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
*does the victory dance*

I'm too lazy to do a proper post at the moment, so here are a bunch of videos :D

Super Junior-M's Perfection.

Hello, guyliner :o

Dalmatian's That Man Opposed.

So cute :D

Park Jung Min's Not Alone.

Damn cool.

GD&TOP's Baby Goodnight.

I don't get the snake ._.

BEAST's SHOCK (Japanese Ver.)

OMG OMG JUN HYUNNNNNGGGGG ♥

kthxbai.

Photo Spam.

2011-02-25T16:22:00.004+08:00

Currently listening to : The Man Opposed by Dalmatian.

Hiya, I'm supposed to be on a hiatus until the 1st of March, but I can't take it anymore. Only 3 more papers left, so I decided to do a photo post. Beware, the photo vomit. It's mostly vain camwhore shots and weird random things, so proceed at your own risk. I have more photos, but I'm too lazy to edit them *yawns*

Hello there, Jun Hyung :D

I love colours and Post-its :D

Oh btw, that's the stress ball Ivy gave to me.

Salted eggs with porridge for lunch when I was sick.

Stitch~ ♥

I have an obsession with winter-themed dresses.

Failed body shot.

Usagi headband from Times Square! :)

Was playing with the calendar. That shows just how bored I was :/

Kthxbai, you've finished scorching your eyes with my photo spam.

Germmmmmssssss.

2011-02-12T01:02:00.003+08:00

Currently listening to : ALL OF THE SECRET OST SONGS :D

(via leilockheart)

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Okay, usual weekly update.

Monday; The Lau twins' birthday :D HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TRA AND TERRY :D

Tuesday; I fell sick. Went to school anyway, and had a high fever but ignored Xi Men's pleas for me to please go home and rest. I lasted until 4.30, after koko activities :D

Went home, slept for three hours, woke up, took porridge and went to the doctor's. Slept at 2am.

Sick.

Wednesday; Stayed at home. Woke up at 9, did homework, went for tuition. Xi Men now labels me as D-Workaholic. WTH.

Thursday; Finally went back to school. Xi Men and I were panicking over our BM Lisan, but it turned out that we were fretting over nothing, because we were the 13th group and had to do ours after the exams. Heh.

Stayed in Mom's office after school until about 5.45pm when I went for Accounts tuition, in my school uniform :D

Friday; Did English oral! Imo, it was quite successful :D

Okay, that ends my week.
Intervensi 1 is next week, so I'll probably be on hiatus until the 1st of March.
Good luck, everybody.
kthxbai.

CNY 2011.

2011-02-06T16:47:00.006+08:00

Currently listening to: Secret That Cannot Be Told (不能说的秘密) by Jay Chou.

This is gonna be a (mostly) picture post, as I'm too lazy to elaborate at the moment.
Reunion Dinner;
Had steamboat and BBQ at my second uncle's house. Stuffed myself until I felt like a fat pig :( Then, lolled on the sofa and attempted to study History while listening to the elders talk.

Fishcakes and fishballs.

Bubbling steamboat and the hot BBQ pan which spatters oil.

Mine's the Coke, I'm a teetotaler.

Chor Yat;
Went to maternal grandma's house. As usual, on the first day of Chinese New Year, those of Cantonese descent normally eat vegetarian meals. Helped with the washing up, because I had to take evidence photos for Kerja Amal Pendidikan Moral.

I managed to stay away from New Year cookies, but indulged in a packet of peanuts :D Also, I collected my angpaus :D

Vegetarian goose meat (siew ngor).

Vegetarian food.

Wow, my arms look so manly here wth.

Chor Yee;
Same place again. Lounged on the same sofa. Ate yet another packet of peanuts. We had meat today instead of just vegetables though. Today's menu consisted of Treasure Pot (Pun Choy), steamed vegetables and chicken :) I didn't take photos of the food though, I only have vain photos of myself ;_;

The reason why I don't smile showing my teeth :(

Chor Sam;
Went to Times Square with the parents to watch this;

Awesome.
I totally love Kato ♥
This is a must-watch for those who hasn't watched. Watch out for Jay's English though...

And The Green Hornet influenced me to watch...

THIS.

Oh God.

你是我不能說的秘密.

Dong dong chiang~~

2011-02-03T11:32:00.002+08:00

Happy Lunar New Year to all those celebrating and Happy Holidays :D

Taken at my uncle's house.

Have an awesome Year of The Rabbit! :)

Also, for the Form 5s, happy studying for Intervensi 1 :x

Hello Sejarah, my love :) *deluded*

And ending with a photo of me being vain:

Glasses (Y)

I got the money.

2011-02-01T22:49:00.006+08:00

Currently listening to : VVIP by Seungri.

I LOVE THE PART AT 0:42 *spazzes*

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(via yani-lavigne)

I'm feeling rather lazy to blog x.x

Today's the first day of February, and that leaves less than 290 days to SPM.

Sunday; I went for a BM seminar at Universiti Malaya for ten hours, with Xi Men and the rest. It was okay, imho. Then, went to my uncle's new house for a family dinner and got back at 12am. Also, I had my first sip of wine! It tasted really... bitter. Ew.

Monday; I went to the orthodontist and he said he'll take off the upper part of my braces during the next appointment, which is (probably) on the 28th of February. He repositioned the back brackets and removed the weird biting block he fixed on to my molars about two months ago, as well as this strange metal shield thing on the last molar tooth before my wisdom tooth.

After the appointment in Bangsar, I had to jam all the way to Pavilion to meet up with Xi Men to buy Tracie's present D: The traffic in KL (especially the town area) is HORRIBLE. It's like all the KL residents came out of their houses to shop for the New Year.

Went for English tuition with Xi Men, and it was fun :) There were two mosquitoes in the room at first and I killed them with the electric bat thing. Then suddenly, two more emerged. At that crucial moment, the battery in the awesome torture tool went flat, and Xi Men managed to kill one, but the other one went missing.

It was so tense that the three of us (The English teacher, Xi Men and I) were standing up and frantically waving our hands to make the mosquitoes come out of their hiding place. Thank God no one else saw us :x

Came home, did the English oral presentation slides until 4am in the morning D:

Tuesday; Stayed at home all day. Cleaned my room until it sparkled. *yawns*

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Random photos:

Ripped jeans from Shenzhen.

Love this top.

This pair of shorts originally came with another top, but it looked ugly on me, so I wore another top :(
I think I have a big ribcage wth.

I was rather free one night, so I went and tried out fish braids (left) and normal braids (right)~

Alright, toodles.

Wooooosssshhhhhhh~~

2011-01-29T02:37:00.004+08:00

Currently listening to : Come Back by Navi (ft. Jun Hyung of BEAST)

(via bkopp-photos)

Hello, my dear blog readers :D

Other than my recurring gastric and indigestion problems, this week was uneventful, as usual.

Monday; I don't even remember this.

Tuesday; Science and Math Club meeting. Did logic puzzles.

Wednesday; Renjer Puteri. Copied notes again. Someone made all of us do pumping during the koko assembly. Most of us did the sujud raja pose instead :x Plus, I did something that I wanted to do an age ago :)

Thursday; Ed Board meeting. *reminder to self: send the report!* Then rushed for tuition straight after that, but it turned out that the teacher was late anyway :D

Friday; Best day in every week, because we have PJ and we get to breathe in the fresh air. Also because we have the easiest subjects on Friday. I like :)

I'm fully equipped with charcoal pills and minyak angin now, to ward off the evil bugs named indigestion and gastric :D Thanks, Mummy~

Toodles. Intervensi 1 is right after Chinese New Year. It's time to cram.

Chocolate-making Workshop.

2011-01-23T17:02:00.003+08:00

Date : 20th January 2010 (Thaipusam)
Venue : Pandu Puteri Headquarters, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.

Gathered at the school gate at 8.15am. Took Dalina's car with Kam to the headquarters. We broke off into groups of eight, and sat for the workshop conducted by Puan Asma.

Puan Asma, demonstrating the way to melt milk chocolate compound.

After the demonstration, we divided ourselves into two, one section did the chocolate Oreos and the other did the choco-pops (basically chocolate on sticks). Armed with a single paintbrush and melted chocolate which was prepared beforehand for us, we started to make our Oreo biscuits covered in a thick layer of milk chocolate. We were done in about fifteen minutes, I think, and we popped the mould into the fridge.

We had to wait for our turn to use the choco-pops' mould, so we wandered around and disturbed Ivy's group. Also, a stall selling chocolates was set up, but I didn't buy any because 1) I'm not a fan of chocolate, and 2) I didn't bring any cash. Kamilia did buy some chocolates though, here's a photo of them :

Box of chocolates, priced at RM 5 each.

We took out our chocolate Oreos' mould too soon, and we couldn't get the biscuits out. In the end, one each of mine and Janice's cracked. Stuck edible stickers on them.

Then, it was our turn to do our choco-pops. This was way more fun than the Oreos because we got to fool around with coloured chocolate :D

Photo grabbed from Ivy.

Then, we got bored (again) and decided to join Ivy's group to do mini heart shaped chocolates.

Spot mine :D ♥

The whole event ended at about, 1.10pm. We received our participation certs and our school got a prize for having the highest number of participants. Obviously, the prize was chocolates.

Group photo! :) Not complete because most of the SBU-ians went back.

So here's what I made:

Chocolate Oreos.

Front side of the mini heart-shaped chocolate.

Back side :D ♥♥♥♥

Choco-pop. My mom and her friend gobbled up the other two before I could take a photo :(

Overall, I think this was a great workshop (Y) I learnt a new skill and now my mom insists that I should put my skills to good use by making her a batch of chocolate. Heh :)

Toodles.

I'm not alone.

2011-01-22T18:32:00.006+08:00

Currently listening to : Not Alone by Park Jung Min.

(via nikkigotthis)

I've survived the third week of January :D

This week, we had a new timetable and our extra classes began. My stomach doesn't agree with this new timetable, 'cause I start to get hungry about one hour before school is over ;_; I'm such a glutton.

Monday; I think we had a briefing on our SPM registration.

Tuesday; Usual. We conducted an experiment in Bio about the TSA/V ratio in different-sized potato cubes. Chung Shin's potatoes were rotten :x Had Badminton meeting after school. Teacher's threatening to kick people out if no one brings their racquets :(

Wednesday; Usual. Had Renjer Puteri meeting, copied notes for the log book.

Also, I had the shock of my life ;_;
After school, I went for tuition at Pandan Jaya as usual, and I was dreaming in the car while waiting for my teacher to turn up. Suddenly, I heard this loud thump on my window and holy cow, it was Xi Men with a demonic smile on her face. Xi Men said my eyes popped out in shock.
And she wouldn't stop laughing after that :(

Darn you, Xi Men. I'll get my revenge one day *plots*

Thursday; Thaipusam! Went for a chocolate-making workshop at the Pandu Puteri Headquarters at Brickfields. Will make another post about it.

Friday; Awesome day. Spent the whole day out of the classroom. We had Add. Maths at the Skylite (Y). And later, we went to the field for PJ. The teachers wanted us to prepare for the Merentas Desa, but we ended up playing Galah Panjang. Very fun :D

Went to the Computer Lab after recess for English. Sheng's group presented their oral, titled Volcanoes. They even did the volcano experiment! The 'lava' smelled really fruity and yummy :D
Then, we stayed in the lab for History and started stalking people on Facebook. Heh.

'Kay, gotta go. I have a heap of work taunting me in the corner of my room.

I'm ending this post with a super random pic of my crowning glory.

I just wanted to see how long my hair is :) The colours didn't come out well though, and no amount of Photoshopping could save it.

Your lipstick stains, on the front lobe of my left side brains.

2011-01-16T11:01:00.006+08:00

Currently listening to: Hey Soul Sister by Train.

(via yani-lavigne)

It's hard to believe that just the second week of January has passed by. It actually feels as if I've gone through the whole of January already, what with the steadily growing mountain of homework, assignments and projects. My eyebags are like, an inch thick ;_; *flails*

On the upside, I finished Interlok last Sunday, on the 9th of January 2011. The story's okay, the more interesting ones are Cing Huat's and Maniam's stories.

Anyway, here was what happened this week.

Monday;
Cooke House AGM. I got force into the AJK Papan Kenyataan post, together with Xi Men, Kwai See, Rebecca and Chloe. Seriously. Worst job ever.

Tuesday;
Usual. We pranked Rahul into smelling a potato cube that was immersed in a beaker of fluorescent pink liquid, which smelt like a cross between a fart, poop and rotten eggs.

Wednesday;
Usual. We spent the last two periods gossiping and generally making a racket because our teacher didn't come into the class. Skipped koko, because we were preparing a performance for Puan Jasbir's farewell on Friday. We decided on Hey Soul Sister by Train, because it was her phone's ringtone and her favourite song.

Thursday;
We skipped like, nearly all the subjects after recess, to practice in the music room.

Friday;
Didn't have a single lesson the whole day. We got permisson to practice the song and dragged along the whole 5 Sc. Alpha with us, together with the ex-4 Alpha-ians who were involved in the performance.

After our practice, Xi Men found out that she lost her shoes (lol).
Apparently, a Form One kid took her shoes (because some Form Ones were also using the music room for another performance), unknowingly. Luckily, we found the Form Ones in the hall and Xi Men ambushed the kid wearing her shoes.

The best part was, he apologised by saying "Sorry, baby." HAHAHAHA.

Anyway, the farewell was a period after the senior recess, so we practiced and fooled around for a bit before settling down in the Skylite for the arrival of Puan Jasbir, speeches and such. To be honest, during Puan Jasbir's speech I actually felt this overwhelming sense of sorrow and heatbreak. To tell the truth, she's the only teacher I've really really liked, because she taught us very well and with her heart. She even talks about random topics when our brains were gonna explode from an overdose of Add. Maths.

So, our performance was the second one, and I think we did it very well, compared to the *ahem* funeral requiem. I couldn't sing the first paragraph, as my throat was choked up with emotion.

At the end, we held up a banner with the word "WE L♥VE YOU" and got down the stage to give roses to Puan Jasbir. I think the hugs she gave us was the last straw, since some people (including me) burst into tears right there and then.

Puan Jasbir, if you ever read this, I'd like to let you know that we 4 Alpha-ians of 2010 love you to bits :)

OKAY, END OF POST.

sinks to the floor

2011-01-09T01:31:00.001+08:00

Currently listening to : One Two Step by Tae Goon.

This photo does a good job of showing my tiredness. Believe me, if I didn't PS this photo, you would be appalled at my dark circles :/

Hey people ^^;

Finally, the first weekend after a week long of school.

Tuesday;
Nothing much.

Wednesday;
Badminton Club AGM. Elected as Vice Secretary (I thought vice-posts are supposed to be for Form 4s?)

Thursday;
Science and Maths Club AGM. Elected as Secretary. (Lol, why do I keep getting jobs related to writing? :o)

Friday;
Renjer Puteri AGM. Some idiot took my koko book. *curses* Now I have to fork out for another one. -_-"

So in one week, I already have what seems like a ton of work. I have to read Interlok and Pahlawan Buntung, do notes for Physics, Chemistry and BM, read a poem and prepare an oral presentation for English, do a piece on the school crest for Editorial Board and complete the files for Chemistry, Physics and English. Oh and did I mention that I have some exercises for Tatabahasa? :(

Anyway. Unrelated photos.

Wirework bookmark/ clip thingy.

Christmas present from Kay-E.

Our Form 5 novel, Interlok.

It's okay, so far. Except for the part where they make Cing Huat/Cina Panjang use some seriously cacat Bahasa Melayu. I can't even decipher some parts of his speech. :/

By the way, is this book seriously gonna get banned? If yes, doesn't that mean we would have to wait for yet another novel to come out and force ourselves to read it? :I urghhhh

First movie of the year 2011.

Watched Gulliver's Travels with my mom at Times Square on New Year's Day, because my dad was working. Yes, WORKING.

Camera necklace from Zhuhai.

Kay, bye. I have to get back to my never-ending pile of work.

#it'sYObirthdaySEOB! ♥

2011-01-05T16:44:00.005+08:00

Today's BEAST's Yang Yo Seob's birthday, so happy 21st birthday, oppa~ :D

생일 축하 합니다, 요섭 오빠 ♥

Keep your head down.

2011-01-03T15:41:00.005+08:00

Currently listening to: Why (Keep Your Head Down) by TVXQ.

AWESOME.

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To keep my 2011 resolution, I'm blogging :D This isn't gonna last long though, with tuitions starting by the middle of this week/next week.

So, today was the first day of school and I think it was okay.
Classmates are alright and the teachers are okay... so far.
I got my textbooks and ohemgee, the new novel for BM, Interlok is so so so thick :(

School's over at 2.30pm everyday except for Friday. They've decided that we need extra classes starting from this month itself. Whoa, pressure much? 8|

Alright, toodles.

pops champagne

2011-01-01T00:01:00.000+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR, MY DEAR READERS!!!
HERE'S TO AN AWESOME 2011!~

Thank you for reading this blog, and I love you guys :)

; And don't stay out partying too late, alright? :p

school starts in 2 days.
NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Tying up all those little loose ends.

2010-12-31T00:01:00.004+08:00

2010;

Was one heck of a roller coaster of a year.

January

At Majlis Anugerah Cemerlang YPC.

On the first day of the new year, I got terrible news. I went into the 3rd pure science class. I stuck it out for a week, and then I got moved to the 2nd class. At the end of January, I made it back into the 1st class.
I got elected as the AJK Papan Pernyataan for the Badminton Club and (unexpectedly) became a treasurer for the first time in Science & Maths Club, which I rejoined after 2 years in Christian Union.
I went for the Majlis Anugerah Cemerlang YPC for straight A's in my PMR results, with 79 other successful students.

February

Moral project (cr: Janice).

Celebrated the first Chinese New Year without my maternal grandmother.
Made macaroni & cheese for the first time.
Attended Sports Day to do Kerja Amal for my Moral assignment.

March

At Super Junior's concert.

In class.

First Assessment in Form 4. Did quite well, since they only tested on a couple of topics.
Went for the Super Junior concert at Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil with Ivy, Siew Yuan, Diorene, Rachel, Xi Men and her sister. Fell for Lee Teuk's beautiful smile.
Became obssessed with Lady Gaga, after lots of influence by Terrence.
Went out to the Cosmo World at Times Square with Jan and Kim. We became kids for that day.

April

With Riau Students (cr: Sheng Juen); The Sivik project crew; With Xi Men at La Bodega; Frog dissection (cr: Sheng Juen).

Riau students came to our school and joined our Chemistry class.
Went out to Times Square for Sivik project and had a blast.
Went to Pavilion with the gang, and ate possibly the best pasta ever at La Bodega.
Started my second relationship.
Dissected a frog in Maths & Science Club for the first time ever.

May

Mid-Year Examination for Form 4s. Suddenly, the subjects all seemed much tougher as we adjusted to the new format. Learnt that A's came with lots and lots of hard work.

June

At Putrajaya.

Went sight-seeing at Putrajaya with parents.
Supported South Korea in the FIFA World Cup and actually watched half of a football match (Portugal vs. North Korea and Argentina vs. South Korea) without feeling bored.
Discovered Konapun (and I still want it).
CHANGED MY HAIRSTYLE.

July

At the 2nd ASEAN School Games; At our Maths & Science Club stall (cr: Hui Min)

Went for the 2nd ASEAN School Games with the whole 4 Alpha.
Planned a food sale for Maths & Science Club.

August

Birthday lunch at Vivo; Merdeka celebrations at Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil (cr: Xi Men)

Turned 16. Had lunch with Xi Men, Kay-E and Kim.
Participated in the choral speaking for 53rd Merdeka celebrations as part of the KL contingent.
Had assessments, like 1 or 2 weeks after the rest of the Form 4s. A lot of people didn't turn up for exams.

September

Felt the torture of completing Accounts project.

October

ummmmmmmmmmm... Halloween?
FINAL EXAMS!!!!!!! @#$%^&*

November

Class party (cr: Fayra); With Xi Men at Uniqlo's opening.

MORE EXAMS!!!!111 @#$%^&*()@#$%&*()
Attended school after exams when everyone preferred to hibernate at home.
Attended the CLASS PARTY and said our teary goodbyes to each other.
HOLIDAYS!!!!! (Y)
Went for the Uniqlo opening at Fahrenheit 88 and for the first time in my life, I queued for the shop to open.
Went for my Grade 5 Electone examination.

December

At HK Disneyland; Shenzhen's Windows of the World; Zhuhai.

Went to Hong Kong/Shenzhen/Guangzhou/Zhuhai/Macau for the first time (in the case of my Mom, it's like her 13th time)
Reconnected with an old friend.

Overall, I had my ups and downs in 2010. I made some new friends and lost a few. I got closer to people who used to be just acquaintances or classmates. I bought a ton of clothes and shoes, plus I started wearing coloured contact lenses. I cracked my head while struggling for exams. I was so so so so happy when I found out that my friends and I are in the same class next year. I fangirl-ed over Korean celebrities. I finished watching about 3/4 dramas in a year. I read like five hundred books.

I'm thankful to God for giving me all these hurdles and joy. Without them, I wouldn't have become a better and more matured person.

I'd like to say sorry to those I've hurt unintentionally and say "I LOVE YOU SO MUCH" to my friends and family.

RESOLUTIONS FOR 2011;

Study my butt off to get perfect grades for SPM. (make that straight 'A+'s)
Be a good daughter, friend, student and human.
Do my Ed Board duties well.
Improve my electone playing skills.
Lose weight (I'm vain like that) & grow taller (anything is possible lah, ok).
Save money for a DSLR.
Read another five hundred books.
Blog more often, and not just during the holidays (SPM exams are an exception).
Learn basic Korean and Chinese (I'm a banana -_-").
Learn how to cook Korean dishes.
Overcome my fear of butterflies/moths (no, srsly).

Here's to 2011.

(via petrasjake)

Cheers.

G-H-E-T-T-O E-L-E-C-T-R-O

2010-12-26T12:27:00.006+08:00

Currently listening to : High High by GD & TOP.

It's Boxing Day today!
Here's a (very) short picture post of my Christmas:

Bought this Christmas platter thing from Jusco, cuz we were too lazy to cook :x

Christmas outfit. Wore a maxi dress for the first time and nearly tripped so many times ;_;

Christmas present from Xi Men. ♥♥♥

From parents. They know my soft spot :D

Okay, back to work. Bye.

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth~

2010-12-25T18:19:00.004+08:00

(via sugarsystem)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY :D

I hope you guys had an awesome day celebrating with your family and friends!

All I did today was:

Open presents.
Go to church.
Eat.
Shop.
Eat some more.
Buy groceries.
Waiting for dinner.

I'm gonna be obese in no time :x

(via soflylikeyongjunhyung)

Toodles. God bless you :)

This is a filler post.

2010-12-22T16:09:00.007+08:00

Currently listening to : I'll Be Back by 2PM.

Random stuff because I feel like it.
*blows raspberry*

☐ Single. ☑ Taken by Yong Junhyung.

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Crap post, but meh, whatever lah. Bye, be back with the HK post.

Fantastic Elastic.

2010-12-21T23:54:00.002+08:00

Currently listening to : Hello by SHINee.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH I'M BACK!!! DID YOU GUYS MISS ME???? *spazzes*

I MISSED KUALA LUMPUR'S HOT AND HUMID WEATHER.

Alright, pictures and commentary next post. Bye.

Poppin' Dragon.

2010-12-19T08:00:00.002+08:00

When you read this, I won't be in Malaysia any more, but in HK. (hopefully, having a blast)

This scheduled post is for Jun Hyung / Jae Soon oppa ;D

Happy 21st birthday, Joker oppa~ ♥
생일 축하합니다.

All pics from Tumblr, Jun Hyung's Twitter and other random sites.

My favourite quotes from a-dork-able Jun Hyung ♥ ;

Junhyung: "I'm Mommy."
Doojoon: "And I'm Daddy. *Looks to Junhyung* Hello my love/wife."
- BEAST on RAZORTV

Person to kid: Is this hyung good looking? *referring to Junhyung*
*kid shakes head*
Junhyung: "I know it too."
- Junhyung and unknown - B2ST Almighty Ep. 7

Yoseob : "Why are you still wearing shades at home?"
Junhyung : "Serious night blindness..."
- Yoseob to Junhyung - B2ST Almighty Ep. 8

Quotes credit to : B2ST Rising

Bye.

insert some random lyrics

2010-12-14T14:52:00.009+08:00

Currently listening to: YaYaYa by T-ara.

Got a new haircut last week (or was it two weeks ago?), nothing major. Won't be around tonight, since I have to sleep early so that I can wake up at 2/3am to go to the airport without looking like a zombie. Sometimes, I wish I live near the airport, so that I don't have to wake up so early.

The worst part is, I just checked Google for the weather in Hong Kong and guess what.
THIS is going to be the weather when I reach there.

Compare Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with Tuesday. Such a drastic drop :o

Okay, gonna stop here. Pray for my safe trip, alright?

Poop.

2010-12-12T00:39:00.006+08:00

Currently listening to: Friend's Graduation by F.Cuz

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Why are the holidays zooming past so fast like the cars on the Autobahn in Germany?? :o

Whenever it's the good times, time flies like it's on crack. *gloomy*

I'm trying to cram in as much work as I can do while packing for the HK trip.
I finished watching the latest episode of MSOAN, and read the recaps for My Girlfriend is a Gumiho, 'cause the video links were broken.

Snapshots of my week.
(actually, more like photos of crap, since I've been cooped up at home for these past seven days, except for the days I have tuition.)

Got myself a new pencil case :D

My dad called this a 'burung kakak tua' (parrot). LOL. It's actually 'burung hantu' (owl).

Got my blue contacts from FreshLook :D

Yeah, I wanna look like a 'guai lou' (Caucasian).

Empty luggage bag, which I am currently having a headache packing.

Aaaaaand I leave you with this :

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HAHAHAHAHAHAH XD

Like crazy, just run run run running.

2010-12-09T01:53:00.006+08:00

Currently listening to: 부탁해, My Bus! (Mary Stayed Out All Night OST) by Jang Geun Seok.

Currently satisfying my k-drama cravings with these :

[KBS] Mary Stayed Out All Night

I actually think this drama is quite cute (although somewhat ridiculous at the same time), but the plot only started getting better about Episode 7. Jang Geun Seok is ♥.

I love the soundtrack too, especially Jang Geun Seok's '부탁해, My Bus!' (I don't get the lyrics, but I love the tune) and 'My Precious'.

[MBC] All My Love

Just started watching this, and I love how Geum Ji (Ga-in) and Ok Yup (Jo Kwon), who are twins in this sitcom, fight like cats and dogs. I also love the fact that BEAST's Doo Joon is in this :D

That's not the only thing, they played like 3 BEAST songs in the background during this sitcom :D *happiness*

Bye, I'll update soon.

Feels like insomnia.

2010-12-03T10:18:00.002+08:00

Currently listening to : Insomnia by Wheesung

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I'm bored out of mind until my brain juice is leaking through every single orifice in my body.
I've been Photoshopping new wallpapers, doing Ed Board tasks, re-reading the entire Harry Potter series, watching Glee and Playful Kiss, cleaning out my room and shopping with my mom.

I kinda miss the carefree November days, 'cause all the tuitions are starting again in December D:
Say hello to stacks of books and goodbye to being online 24/7 :(
Which reminds me, I need to do my school homework. Aaaaaaargh.

I watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 about a week ago. It had some hilarious parts, and I'm pretty depressed that Dobby died. ANYWAY, I can't wait for the second part. I'm dreading the day there's no more Harry Potter to watch though, 'cause I love the series so much :(

The Golden Trio.

I actually prefer Harry Potter and Hermione in the movie, although lots of people have been saying that Ron looks hot. I have to disagree though, there are some parts where he looks old and sleep-deprived :/

Alright, gotta go finish my workload and pack for HK. Toodles.

One of those rare emo moments.

2010-11-23T21:57:00.005+08:00

Currently listening to : 주먹을 꽉 쥐고 (Clenching a tight fist) by BEAST

I know I've been listening to BEAST a lot and fangirl-ing (I'm not sure if that's a word), but bear with me.

This song is so freaking emo that my mood is now affected as well -_-"

Holidays are so boring, and I'm sick of staying at home all day.
I can't wait for Xi Men to be released from her house arrest sentence so that I can bombard her and make her feel like strangling me.

Aaaaaaa, I have to stop replaying this darn song and prevent myself from melting into a puddle of salt water ;___;

I love you you you you you you you~

2010-11-21T23:11:00.007+08:00

Currently listening to : V.I.U. by BEAST

So, today was D-Day.
I got up at 7 am, got ready and went to Kelana Jaya for my Fundamentals exam.
I reported myself and sat on the bench, my stomach wasn't just filled with butterflies, it had all sorts of other insects as well.
At 9.50 am, I was called into the room.
I was finished in what felt like 10 minutes.
Thank God the examiners were pleasant and didn't flinch at my horrible singing.
At 12.40 pm, I sat for aural and my theory paper.
My stomach was rumbling like a mini thunderstorm, 'cause I only ate a tiny muffin at 8 am.
Was finished by 1.50 pm.

So, the review of the exam :

Melody Singing & Melody Singing with Accompaniment.
I definitely failed this part, so there's no point trying to reassure me.
But I don't feel anything, because according to my teacher, about 90% of students fail this segment.
I went off-pitch and my voice sort of blacked out.

Accompaniment.
I'm very sure I passed this :D

Transposition.
I'm also sure I passed this, but my timing was a little off.

Theory & Chord Progression.
Fairly easy, I'm shocked I could do the modulation question without a hitch.
All those hours of studying theory a week before the exam paid off.

Aural.
Pretty alright, there's nothing to say about it.

I AM SO DAMN RELIEVED IT'S OVER. Finally, I can lounge around the house with no worries on my mind. I'll probably be taking the make-up exam for whichever segments I failed, in March next year, but whatever.

By the way, has everyone seen this parody of Like A G6 (BEAST Parody)?

So catchy.

Toodles.

On and on and on.

2010-11-19T12:28:00.003+08:00

Currently listening to : Lights go on again by BEAST

LOL at the end.

I have two more days to my electone exam.
I am so dead x_x

U, my beautiful.

2010-11-16T22:20:00.006+08:00

Currently listening to : Beautiful by BEAST

Damn, Jun Hyung is hawt ♥

Okay, I'm addicted to everything BEAST now.

I swear that this will be one of the best 7 minutes of your life. (well, only if you're a kpop fan)

I can't wait for the second part.

Goodbye, Form 4.

2010-11-16T16:30:00.004+08:00

Currently listening to : Bbiribbom Bbaeribbom by Co-Ed School

Joke of the day:

PnJuliana Me

... consists of amphibious plant blablabla...
Do amphibious plants have lungs?

and Xi Men, Jo and I proceeded to draw our possible models of amphibious plants, which were plants with lungs :x

We had our class party today, and most of our class teachers came to grab some food. Had Dominoes, Secret Recipe cake and loads of carbonated drinks and junk food. I feel so bloated now D: I can't update about the party now though, 'cause no one has uploaded the photos on Facebook.

So, today marks the end of the 2010 school session :D
I've still got homework and Ed Board assignments to do though :(
Oh, and I have to study for next year's Form 5 syllabus.
My Grade 5 electone exam is on this Sunday, so I'll be concentrating on my music for one week.
Wish me luck.

Plus, I'll be jet-setting off to Hong Kong and Macau in December. Yay, cheap shopping!
I'll try to bring back Portuguese Egg Tarts for you, Xi Men XD

Okay, gotta go practise my music now.
Toodles.

p.s. Oh, I got a Tumblr account. I won't be deserting my blog, don't worry. Visit my Tumblr HERE. Please follow me! :)

Baby, you're a firework.

2010-11-09T22:32:00.003+08:00

Currently listening to : Firework by Katy Perry.

I am so freakin' addicted to Katy Perry's new song.
I love the part where she shoots out fireworks from her chest 8D
And no, not in the perverted sense -_-

I've been wasting the whole day with Polyvore :D
I am addicted x.x

Okay, bye, I'll update tomorrow.

AleatoireMichi.blogspot.com.

A New Phase.

New Year's Resolutions.

Looking Back.

Merry Christmas!

Updates.

#HappyJokerDay.

5 Things.

111008 Editorial Board Farewell.

Last Day of SPM.

Third Week of SPM.

Second Week of SPM.

You must be kidding me.

First week of SPM.

Where it cuts the deepest.

Heyloooo.

Spéciale.

Sous la pression.

110629 Co-curricular Carnival.

Day 5 & 6 - Guangzhou, Zhuhai & Macau.

Day 3 & 4 - Shenzhen.

Day 1 & 2 - Hong Kong.

Day 4 - Your sibling.

#YoonLeaderDay.

The Tale of a Girl and a pair of Bubble Flops.

Put Your Hands Up.

Day 3 - Your parents.

Day 2 - Your Crush.

Day 1 - Your Best Friend.

30 Day Letter Challenge.

Post #250.

110528 OiC Camp.

널 찾아 이리저리 헤맸어.

But I don't really care at all, not answering my phone.

Who cares if we're trashed, got a pocket full of cash we can blow.

Don't deny, our r²π.

‘Cause hey, I could be a superstar, I’ll see you when you wash my car :)

March Holidays & Ultimate Laziness.

110305 Pavilion Outing.

My head is stuck in the clouds.

Dramas and etc.

하늘에 있는 저 별들처럼 높이 날아봐. (Fly high, like the stars in the sky.)

You keep stirring my world, even the ice will burn if it meets you.

Photo Spam.

Germmmmmssssss.

CNY 2011.

Dong dong chiang~~

I got the money.

Wooooosssshhhhhhh~~

Chocolate-making Workshop.

I'm not alone.

Your lipstick stains, on the front lobe of my left side brains.

*sinks to the floor*

#it'sYObirthdaySEOB! ♥

Keep your head down.

*pops champagne*

Tying up all those little loose ends.

G-H-E-T-T-O E-L-E-C-T-R-O

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth~

This is a filler post.

Fantastic Elastic.

Poppin' Dragon.

*insert some random lyrics*

Poop.

Like crazy, just run run run running.

Feels like insomnia.

One of those rare emo moments.

I love you you you you you you you~

On and on and on.

U, my beautiful.

Goodbye, Form 4.

Baby, you're a firework.

sinks to the floor

pops champagne

insert some random lyrics