ice skating is a sport i can only indulge in one every 6 months. okay i wouldn't say indulge cos it's not exactly a very pleasurable experience! what i mean is the AFTERMATH of ice skating is pretty horrid. i have a bad wound on the back of my shin cos of the boots and bruises on my knee and the other shin and aching muscles everywhere! i think there's some technique for skating that im unaware of..maybe i should find out cos just 15mins into it and my feet are SO painful already, spoiling my experience! other than that, the feeling of cold air blowing in my face is pretty thrilling and it almost makes up for the pain on my feet :)

it was a good one week break well spent which makes up for our sept hols that was lost on all the stupid books :) and my friend kindly donated two calvin n hobbes books that would otherwise be rotting in his shelves, so it was a REALLY good break (hehe).. all my last few nights lost in comics. even my dad likes calvin and hobbes! so now, im well rested and refreshed and ready for the final lap! sch tmr! im looking forward to playing after sch rather. okie let's not say it's playing, it's exercising. that i need desperately!

ohya! i was at the bus stop going home frm my cousin's house and ya knoe the front of the busstop near the road's rather sandy. and then there was a gust of wind and when i looked at the pavement again there was a big heart!! a PERFECT heart shape! how cool is that! <3 so im sharing the love` G'night and God bless+

D R U M L I N E

woohoo Drumline seriously rocks!!! i never knew military bands could be so freakin fascinating! those i saw during the syf opening ceremony's a far cry from what i saw on the tvee. that one really blew me off man! if only i could play percussion like that with that kind of passion and zest. they really make the percussion i played look so so so pathetic. and i thought i liked percussion enough. hahaah oh my gosh the world is too full of amazing things. anw i couldnt help wondering thru out the whole thing how come they can stay so coordinated. as in the director isnt there all the time and they're spread all over the place by the time the beats of the percussion travel to them wouldn't they be like off beat or something? which means they all seriously have a perfect keep of rhythm! i was already amazed enough by our local military bands.

over at jeanette's last night we watched a russell peters show on her comp too and he is seriously a pro crapper. i cant believe he can host an entire show jus standing there talkin crap. but it's GOOD crap and hilarious crap.. seriously HILARIOUS crap! he's so smart.

hee anw jeanette's house was fun! we watched the Drumline show, and a little bit of mean girls and the videos and pictures in her comp.. her family's so nice too! had dinner there :) we're gonna watch phantom on friday before cell.. hehehe.

nuts about a boy and his tiger

CALVIN AND HOBBES!!!

oh man im so nuts over calvin n hobbes!! if there is one person on earth i'd like to meet before i go meet God it'll be Bill Watterson! some ingenius guy he is! i AB-SO-LUTE-LY LOOOVEEEE his work!!
anw ive been reading a little beyond his comics, that is about Watterson and the meaning behind his characters and his comics and yadayada and it jus made all the more in awe of him, and gives my enjoyment much more meaning. here are some things i learnt and remember!

calvin (unlike what many people presume to be his son) and hobbes are named after philosphers!.. i cant remember Hobbes' one but i recall that Calvin the philosopher believes in predestination. maybe that explains why we can quote witty and wise quotes off the comic.
and watterson actually gets his fun out of his writing by disagreeing to many things that he writes about.

to my biggest suprise, calvin is the total opposite of what watterson was like as a little boy! he was pretty much a quiet and well behaved kid.. hahha totally not my guess.

hehehe and interestingly, watterson suspects that calvin has a crush on susie! jus that he expresses it by annoying her, only making her think him all the more weird. hahah it is so like the way we were during primary school! when a boy likes a girl or vice versa he just goes all the way out to irritate her to get her attention - the more annoying the better. hahahah!

and today i finally know how old calvin is.... he's SIX! ive been trying to guess but i couldnt find any trace of it in his comic strips until today. haha calvin's dad was trying to teach him how to balance on a bike..
"trust me, ok?"
"trust you? i hardly know you!"
"i'm your father!!!"
"what, for six years? when i'm 40 we'll see how things are going!"

oh yah and i discovered there's this book called "Teaching With Calvin n Hobbes"!!!!!
how cool is that! if only my language teachers had taught me english with that book. i think we should just use it as our english textbooks and learning will be so much more fun for kids! but then again, i wonder if they'll even know how to appreciate the humour that i think kinda satirises adults' take on life. WHICH is another reason why i like calvin n hobbes so much - it is
in sync with my stand that children are actually wiser than adults! so adults should jus stop being so obnoxious about being cleverer than their kids and try to brush their talk aside. when i become an adult that's the last thing i'll ever do!

and calvin does have some interesting thoughts about God too!
but i havent really read anything much about those tho..

which reminds me that because im not goin through any form of adversity right now, it means all the more to make the effort to draw closer to God because of our human nature that takes things for granted and especially forget those that are intangible and invisible to our naked eyes. so right now, jus say a little prayer of thanks, even if you're not feeling good, cos you obviously will never have nothing to be thankful for :)

hi there!
had a good weekend:)

went to st pauls yesterday morn and spent the afternoon studyin there
in the evening i went with miche to mediacorp to watch the channel U superstars film some variety show. i was pretty much enjoying the novelty of being there watching the filming live and it was honestly quite entertaining and funny! plus it was their first attempt at hosting a variety programme. thumbs up! got to hear a couple of them plus joi chua sing live on stage. they were GOOD man! and also this dance group that won a competiton at suntec 05 that's SUPER talented and they had a pretty original item :) and we saw jia's bf there in a red kellypoon FC shirt and we nearly died laughing! haha think his friend forced him to go or smthg. im glad miche forced me to go.

then we went to adam's road for dinner! YUM!! shared a stingray and a nasi lemak and i got my favourite bandung:) i only drink bandung frm adam's road. i dont usually like bandung but the one there is irresistable with LOTS of milk! and i must add that the service there's top class!woot good spicy meal.. FINALLY! i havent been eating well nothing has been appetizing enough to make me want to eat.
so miche came over and stayed for the night, finally putting my extra bed to some use:)

and i really want some more calvin n hobbes... but i can tseem to get my hands on any which is so annoying!! all i can do now is read them off the internet. boooo.....

a step from heaven

i've finished reading A Step from Heaven, the book that is nearly parallels Woman Warrior perfectly.. and it's REALLY alike woman warrior! just that it's much much more heartwarming because it's literally written in her own "voice", as in literally tracing her struggle through picking up the english language with her funny broken incomplete sentences. and it focused more on her abusive father and victimized but strong mom than on their difficulty transiting into the american society. but it was seriously a VERY good read. no regrets! hehe actually i read the ENTIRE book on tuesday(the day before my lit paper) hahah i was nuts la reading this book instead of my lit text. hee

here's the part of the book i like best!
During these months, the only act that gives me comfort is rinsing the evenign rice, my daily chore. i add the water to the pot of rice and push the hell of my hand against the rough grains. Push, swirl. Push, swirl. almost instantly a white cloud of starch rises up and turns the water opaque. Murky. The grains disapear. For a moment, it seems like all that stands in the pot is a confusion of dirty water. But if i reach underneath the cloud, feel around, there the are. Tiny seeds waiting to be rinsed and exposed like nuggets of pearls.

of course i dont draw emotional strength and comfort from washing rice the way she does but there's definately something therapeutic about washing rice! tt is why i like to cook rice. and i was so happy and amazed to realize that there is something more to the washing of rice than what it appears. i never thought any further about the rice i wash besides watching the water turn white so magically.

i'm so glad the bulk of the prelims exams is over! what a huge relief, im so glad He was there to drag me through :) i discovered i REALLY enjoy literature so much, especially when i'm studying the books that i like! namely all the ones that mr booth teaches.. i really like them!!! i cant tell you what i like about lit because i like everything about it! writing essays are seriously tiring but i really did enjoy myself even though i have realized some of what i wrote was totally out. im even considering taking literature in Uni though unlikely cos it's not a practical n wise choice. i dont look forward to teaching for the rest of my life. oh yea and lit is so easy to study, meaning it doesnt require as much effort as all the other subj, like GEOG. phoo. hee i was thinkin ya knoe God seperated us all and gave us all different languages and look at us we end up with so many conflicts among ourselves. BUT we were given the gift of so many beautiful languages! can you imagine our loss if we never knew english or chinese or french or korean? haha okay there are many others but those four are my most favourite:)

ya noe everyone's saying that us jc students look so bushed and bummed and tired and full of fatigue, which i really really am. i was on the brink of giving up my restrain from collapsing by friday evening at cell. but thenn riteeee.. when i think about it, i truly dont deserved to be comforted or praised for working so hard so that im so freakin tired. because the reason for my fatigue is because i've been lacking slp the whole week because i've been pushing my brains beyond its limit which was actually the result of me doing extra things that i shouldnt be doing! like reading a whole novel in the middle of prelims. or combing through the newspaper for hours falsely comforting myself that i am gaining knowledge that will give me an edge over others. like wasting A LOT of energy on the piano. which resulted in me burning a whole gallon of midnight oil. SO...hmm... yea

anw im glad the momentum's FINALLY going! my engine's all ready to go full blast!!
God bless everybody with the strength and wisdom to sustain us through the next couple of months :)

oh wow.. the storm out there is really crazy. this is the first time here so high up witnessing such magnificent lightning! it's so brilliant and blinding and the whole sky jus turns pink and purple! and i'm damn scared i may get electricuted any moment mwahah. quite weird it's just lightning and REALLY insane thunder but it's just drizzling outside my window.. hmm.. till today im still unsure how lightning and thunder come about.

lookin out of my window watching the storm, and what else could i have thought about? all cuddly and cosy in my room, a fleeting morbid imagination of myself darting around the buildings but in the end i got struck by the lightning and died. haha so silly. but then again it isn't entirely impossible.. and then came another morbid and vivid imagination of myself running away from a fast looming spin ball but alas, i was cacooned by hurricane katrina.. and then i stopped there cos i dunno what happens after you're swept up. and then another very morbid thought that my mom could've been the one swept away and all i did was stand there helpless. i felt really stupid but now i think it's not cos it really happened. when it's real and it's happening to me i think i'd rather die first because my heart will be torn in uncontrollable anguish and disbelieve watching my loved ones dying like that.

which gets me thinkin about the stampede that killed hundreds in Iraq - all thanks to a rumour of a suicide bomber amongst them. when i read the headlines i literally couldn't close my mouth, and then i started laughing cos it was so ridiculous! it wasnt just ridiculous it was so tragically ridiculous because so many people died and because it was only the natural way that people react to such a situation. really and sadly we're truly animals. as much as i'd like to think myself an altruist, if i were in there i wouldn't have given a shit about any other people's lives save for my parents'. right now i think im really low as a human being. what are we even with the grace of God?

anw i popped by the library earlier and i found this book. i read the blurb and i discovered it almost perfectly parallels my maxine hong lit text (my favourite one of the six)! just that she's korean. i can't wait to dig into it.. gotta wait till the weekends before i can get hooked.

hmm.. the exam mood immediately and almost entirely faded with the lightning and thunder. 'tis feeling good:) cheers!

ok i give up trying to fix the thing jus goin to wait for ju to be free to help me.
my mom jus left yesterday morning for another business trip to china, and this time she'll be gone FIVE WEEKS!! that is super freaking long:( i'm already missing her a lot.. i pray that she'll be safe and sound enjoyin herself over there.

it's starting tmr and right now, i'm really scared. which is very weird since this round of exams is not going to affect my future in ANY way whatsoever. but i'm still so scared!
i cannot believe it'll be almost over in a week! that is REALLY fast.. it's going to be one hell of a driven week.
howhow im really scared.... im goin to be needing a lot of strength from Him.

all the best to everybody and please dont be scared stupid like me, cos it doesnt make any sense to be!

ok i think i know why i'm so afraid. although i worked much harder than before, i know this is still not hard enough. and God punishes the lazy who dont work hard enough and hope that He will save them. i think this applies to me.. ):

help!!

hi there!
here i am tryin to change my template! haha but im really terrible at this.
does anybody know how to shift the picture and the tagboard column upward??

well..meanwhile hang in there! prelims are almost over! in just one and a half week's time..
and i've sworn not to be discouraged by preliminaries and look towards the A levels!
HERE COMES THE BLACK HORSE!!!!!

why did the teddy bear cross the road?

"..his head was as bald as the palm of my hand; but his hair in falling seemed to have stuck to his chin, and had prospered in the new locality, for his beard hung down to his waist...and the passion of his life is pigeon-flying."

!!!!! it's said in such a matter of fact manner it's so hilarious! O_O ahhhahah.. imagine strands of grey hair floating down through the air and getting attached magnet-like to his chin, 'prospering in its new locality'. HAHA!
guess which book that came from?

how do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
how do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?

wheeee i just watched sound of music AGAIN yesterday! i think i can memorize the whole show i've watched it a zillion times my entire life. BUT i can never get tired of it.. it's truly a timeless classic that every family should share! and i like every single song in the show.. i can memorize all of them too!! almost at least... hee.
anw to my horror, i did a little looking up and i discovered that the lead actor, christopher Plummer, DESPISES the show! he called it the sound of mucus.......?!!?? who knows why he starred in it then. but then again it shot him to hollywood fame. anw i'm so disillusioned! how can i watch the show again knowing that capt von trapp actually hates what he's doing. i wish i didnt know.

and....im finally getting curtains! THIS time, i got to choose:) it's orange n yellow with pretty flowers as the motif! i bet it's going to look very cheerful! especially in the morning sun which my room gets APLENTY. ( it's my alarm clock every single morning)
and....my father jus went down to ikea to help me get some shelves for my books! it's goin to go under my window sill.. FINALLY! no more books all over the place
blessings blessings!

:)

calvin and hobbes

did ya catch the sunset today?
it was exceptionally exotic

i didnt know calvin and hobbes was THIS funnie!! wah lao it's SUPER FREAKING FUNNY!!! he's UNBELIEVABLE. why didn't i realize it any sooner and deprive myself of such brilliant amusement. salute to watterson!

mm my dinner was very yummy albeit pathetic... and they say it's good to eat your dinner like a pauper. (cos you'll get indigestn if you eat so much n then go to sleep)