Saturday, May 03, 2003
a number of things. american idol. it was terrible. right from the moment i turned on the tv, i told myself. josh is gonna go. no buts about it. i'm sure he is good at other genres of songs and such, but he is just not great at whatever thing he sang and it was so the wrong song. trenyce and clay sang really well. and then ruben and trenyce got into bottom 2. what? i'm telling ya, you can't pay a million bucks to see the reaction when the results came out. the audince booed and the judges actually openly said that something was gravely wrong and asked what's with america. meaning like they took a stand in it and had already predicted who would shoo-out. so trenyce had to go, and josh stayed. what can i say? ears need cleaning.
np hours are increasing. i'm clocking 10 hrs per week. way crazy. weixi asked us today, to pull up our socks and start working our asses off coz we weren't showing and proving to be sec 4s. and she actually asked us if we want to take 1st class drills coz if so we have to put in effort and fork out time to learn the stuff. i don't know about the rest, but some of us just want to take adventure training and 2nd class and drop it. so what if we break history records in being the first squad ever never to take 1st class? the hours are really crazy and there's only so much one can do. today was a long day. first, taking the sec 1s really wasn't easy. the sec 2s are way more responsive and are this great bunch of fun people. the sec 1s, just don't respond. and while taking them, i kept worrying my ass off over the sec 2s' test. like how their pit couldn't get started, how the wood was too wet, how this and how that. i didn't exactly have fond memories of my own campcraft test so i just couldn't stop worrying about theirs. i just hope really few fail, coz this isn't a just-study-and-i'll-ace-it kind of test.i took them for drills in the end which was great especially after taking the sec 1s.
then we ourselves had drills after lunch. it was better than usual. we had the 'perfect bangs' and the 'uplifted morale'. i wouldn't say that i enjoyed myself, coz i don't like drills. my squadmates were like totally happy or somethingand like totally engrossed with doing drills, but i was still pretty standard. partly coz the beret was very tight. it was like constricting my head and i got a pounding headache during the session and couldn't focus during the last 30-40min. and i still don't like slow march. i just don't understand how slow march will ever be used. ??
now i'm awful tired. but i have to study finish chem. which i haven't starte. coz chem and ss test is on monday. there's been a change and now i have 2 tests on mon. but i don't think i'll finish it coz i'm really tired and washe dout. i still have to study some stupid public housing tomorrow. how i iwhs it wasn't energy changes and electric cells theat are being tested. anything faintly related to electrolysis and i stand a relatively great chance at doing badly in the paper.
Wednesday, April 30, 2003
tomorrow is mayday! so anyway. ther's a load of tests next week. like a lot. chem. chi. ss. horrible. horrible. horrible. my results have been somewhat disappointing. actually that's a rather mild work of usage. but nevermind. it's been more than disappointing.
anyway, i went to the school library today. borrowed another book. called last chance saloon by marian keyes. that leaves me with 4 books to finish in 2 weeks which is completely impossible to finish. wild swans, what she wants, nowhere else on earth and last chance saloon. i always borrow on impulse. regardless of how many i still have. coz i don't wann go digging later. so i just grab and figure how to extend the dateline later. ahh. it's almost 9pm. i shall go watch something. me is a lazy person. awful.
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
i had a bad hair day yesterday. coz in chinese, it's said that it 'kai hua' my ponytail was projected from my head like some unwanted extension and it opened up beautifully into a flower or should i say, a broom. haha.
today, lovable mop of black-brown strands was obedient and pledged allegience to stay my my head. so it flipped down in a gentle and bouncy tail which swished each time i turned my head. haha. this is really lame. but every bit is true, just a lot more believable that's all.
i borrowed another 2 books and renewed 1. i love reading, something people can't take away from me.
i listened to nothing but english songs today. which is really hard for me since approximately 65-75% of songs in my computer are in mandarin. but i did so anyway. and i figured that i awfully like superman by five for fighting and if you're not the one by daniel bedingfield.
i did up a new wishlist during lesson time. goody. excpet that i'll prolly never get like half the stuff in there.
mmhm..gonna bathe, then i'd like to read somemore. mayday is coming! yay. public holiday. break is good. just another day of school.
Monday, April 28, 2003
haha. i haven't been online since 3 days back. today was a good day(my english is awful. like duh! today was a good day.).haha. i had my geography test today. that wasn't so good. i completely wrote my info and nothing from the textbook. so i guess sherwood can't exactly give me marks. but nevermind. it's the last and only test of the week. so i have the week to slacken off. had a nice restful day when i got back home.
let's recap the past 4 days. thurs. stayed back in school, didn't come online. dead beat from cca doing the board. fri. stayed back in school again to do the cca board. then got caught in the rain and peiwen's dad sent me home. thanks peiwen! sat. went for cca from 8am-3pm. really killer. the afternoon part was quite terrible coz peiwen and yumin were teaching a bunch of people who kept falling asleep. but i learnt so many new knots and i'm gonna decorate my room with a rope ladder. then i got home, bathed and fitted the contacts. then rushed for eye appointment. i returned them the contacts and they are doing a new pair for me coz my degrees dropped. maybe qianyi's red date thing really worked. coz apparently, my eyesight improved.
my mom and i had dinner in orchard. i ate beef noodles and takopaichi and beard papa's cream puffs. yum. we went shopping. yay! fully subsidised shopping. no need to pay a single cent. we got this top at zara which my mom and i are gonna share. it's v-necked, brown and knitted with stones and beads on it. real cool. then i got this polo necked cardigan(cheryl saw it when i wore it to church!) in white, which i've always wanted coz the cutting is so great. got a white peasant shirt. then a cap-sleeved top from elle and a forest green long-sleeved turtle neck from elle. ahhh! i love to shop. my dad joined us later. everyone bought something. my dad got 2 pairs of shoes and a couple of shirts. my mom got about 4 tops? and i finally got my school socks. i love shopping. i nearly got thi skirt butt my mom said no coz she felt the size was wrong. but it was so pretty in a dull pink with gathers and patterns and whatever. i have this fetish for patterned things now. everything i wear has got to be elaborate and different. and we ended off with eating jap cheese cake. whooppee!
sun. went for 7 am mass, then breakfast, then a 9-11 meeting, then 11-1 was class. we had to write a letter to the archbishop regarding our confirmation and i'm so freaked coz i'm afraid i won't get confirmed. but i so want to. i don't ever want to be retained. but i don't know what to write. i knw i proly won't sign up with a youth group, i won't help at the old folks home and i don't go for daily mass. i pray everyday late at night and occasionally fall asleep when i pray. so how? but my faith really has increased. my aunt is now my godma. i nearly asked my maternal cousin kenny to be my godparent. but i saw him yesterday and we were talking outside the church coffeeshop. then my dad came and i left but somewhere in the middle of the conversation, i received an sms. from a familiar but non-saved no. asking who was the guy i was talking with. i replied that it was my cousin and asked who was it. my catechism teacher. haha. wonder what he was thinking.
then there was lunch then tuition. then dinner. and studying and slackening at night for today's test.
today was pretty okay. i slept in the afternoon whilest being bitten by damned mosquitoes which were killed by my maid later. serves then right for sucking my blood. and i watched shakespeare in love. later gonna catch friends.
i want to buy some vcds. on shows like romeo+juliet, shakespeare in love, breakfast at tiffany's, casablanca, all those long ago stuff. aye. i want so many things...
