...past conversations re-playing continuously in my head, like a broken video player
so here i am, less than one hour before my 18th birthday. i'm feeling quite happy. ((: though its been very long since my birthday fell on a weekend so i'm not that used to not seeing my friends on my birthday. lets review the last year while i wait for midnight to come...
my last birthday was a very happy, surprising and joyous occasion. i got tons of presents and not all of them were expected though all of them were undoubtedly welcome. thank all of you my dear friends and family for really making my 17th birthday a day to remember for always.
school was... well. school. and j1 year nearly killed me. especially with PW. sickening bloody subject i never ever want to do ever again. jcts, promos they came and went some subjects were done better than expected, some worse but they left me completely breathless when i was done.
sadia asked me recently what was the greatest thing which happened to me last year. the first thing which popped into my head was that i "regained" a friend i lost. though we are now not as close as we used to be, it is infinitely better than not being friends at all. i had that experience once before and i never want to repeat that experience again. so i'm glad.
another thing which i thought of was PW ending (who else wasnt happy??! lol)... and but of course getting the call that i got my H3 math! ((: i've have 2 lectures already and i really think i need to re-read my lecture notes. they just left me completely braindead.
back to my update. i guess thats all the recalling session i'll be doing. i shall finish this post before my birthday starts! ((:
yesterday we celebrated cny in school. julia and i shared a camera and did photog duty for the day. took some great shots too! OH speaking of great shots, the day before i was out in the field and erm well i had a camera with me. and i took this really cool jump shot of my.... SHADOW! i shall show you... okay i cant. stupid blogger wont upload it but i'll show anyone who wants to seeeee :D
the cny concert was funny i guess. the dance was cool but the drama wasnt that good... rather cliche in my opinion. my 2 favourite parts of the day was playing in the huge bubble-like thing beside the SC room with joanne and julia... massive amount of fun but my arm still twinges cause of one time i fell on my own arm. oh well. the other part of the day which i liked was the sakae sushi outing!! ((((:
it was the first time i went to sakae. (sonia says i'm deprived... lol) we kinda sat av ppl vs photog ppl... but not on purpose. it just happened that way. denise, joanne and serene were seated opposite sonia, me and wanshi. (don't worry xiu, i wont explicitly state what we all ate... mostly cause i don't know the names of most of them) i ate a few new things but mostly just ate stuff which i already loved like SALMON!!
denise is like some queen of the food. she kept ordering and ordering and ordering (for all of us to share) and i think she probably memorised the menu. hahaha it was very amusing to watch though. our bill came up to 118 bucks... O.o yes i know. haha. each of us paid 17.75 courtesy of Denise's 10% discount. okay ba. i enjoyed myself immensely though i didnt each much cause i took some food at the reception at school... sonia and i got "scolded" by denise for that. sorry laaaa...
had to go back to school for H3 lecture. in which wanshi and i nearly fell asleep. and all three of us, including joanne, had a mindblock by the end of the 2hr lecture. hahaha.
i spent today watching tv. almost continuously. hahaha. spiderman 3 in the morning (didnt finish it though) then the 3rd disc of The 10th Kingdom... followed by Calender Girls, Tristan & Isolde, My Best Friend's Wedding and You've Got Mail! i really love You've Got Mail... i can really sympathise with Meg Ryan's character and guess what... daisies are her favourite flower too! :D i really want to watch When Harry Met Sally... sadly i don't own it. )):
AHHHH. its 3 minutes to my birthday!! i shall go count down the minutes and seconds now. arriverderci and *muax*, gongxifacai to all my friends celebrating Chinese New Year!! ((: hope the new year brings prosperity and good luck to all! btw it sucks to be sick on your birthday )): don't recommdend it. ergh. NIGHT!!
i am EXHAUSTED. i swear. i couldn't sleep last night. so i suspect i only slept around 2? i went to bed at 12. *yawns* 4hrs of sleep is definitely not enough for me. and i did a lot of walking today. so my feet are super achy. (i blame it partly on my being flatfoot)
really. school today was just a 'catch-up' session. the talks and whatnot were rubbish. and i can't believe i'm TA4!! i don't want to be the oldest in the school! gosh. its so scary! )): after the talks and briefing for the open house tmr, we were dismissed at 10am. seriously WHAT DID I GO TO SCHOOL FOR. humph. we went for a short photog meeting. and basically decided that we werent gonna bother setting up our booth till tmr. lol not like there's much to set up anyway. haha yep. so after much hassle, and other stuff, sadia and i went to help sonia with her table tennis booth. all the way in the dance studio. where the dancers were practicing a dance to Britney Spear's Womanizer. ohmygoodness. that song is soooooo catchy and addictive!
sadia went home... ): sonia and i tried to stop her but, well, i dunno about sonia but after a while i kinda lost the heart to say no. we left the sports complex around 1 or so. we were super hungry! and wanted to walk to bedok interchange to eat.. but instead joined xiu and rachna at their table in the hawker centre opposite the road. i ate prawn noodles, xiu ate one prata (with curry sauce surprisingly) and sonia ate 2 prata (without curry sauce).
lunch was a rather quiet affair with some of xiu's weird and not-at-all-funny jokes... lol it was more like *head desk* jokes. haha. and then xiu had to leave for drama and rachna, sonia and i went to bedok to take the train. rachna was going for dental i think, sonia and i stopped at city hall to change train. we went to ORCHARD! (:
we went to wheelock place first. to check for 2 books. on the bright side sonia found what she wanted. border's didnt have the book i wanted. it was sold out. and i dont think the stock is coming back. )): it is kinda old. well i guess i'll just have to resort to hunting it down in one of the libraries in singapore. (it's called 'The Named' by Marianne Curley, if anyone happens to see it in a bookstore can you please buy it for me, i'll pay you back! ^^)
we headed for kinokuniya cause according to sonia, the book she wanted was cheaper there. so off we went. the short walk to TAKA was uneventful, and we just talked about random stuff. my feet were already complaining but i just ignored them, hey i wanted to go to TAKA to go to Art Friend... so my feet were just gonna have to comply. we headed upstairs to the bookstore (which of course didnt have the book i wanted) and bought the book sonia wanted. btw there was a graduated ta4 senior working there at the cashier. i recognised her face but i didnt know her name...
which then brought about the conversation of temping after a lvls. ya know seriously i wouldn't mind working at borders or kino. just to hang around books everyday? what a dream come true. (then again people already say that my house is like a library... so maybe working in a bookstore is just my dream cause it makes me feel at home) i love the smell of the books and its so welcoming! ^^
sonia brought me downstairs cause i was really really parched... it was supremely complicated but we managed it. i got chrysenthemum (spelling???) tea from cold storage cause sadly they didnt have pokka ice lemon tea (my fav!) then we headed back upstairs to Art Friend. sonia really has a good sense of direction. i swear i would have gotten completely lost without her. hahhaa. we finally made it there, and then to my utter horror i completely forgot what i wanted to buy. ))):
we walked around a bit and i finally settled on something. which reminds me, i have to bring my quill to school to let sonia play with. wonder where it is... hmmm. the art stuff in there is seriously tempting to buy but i really dunno how to use charcoal so getting that for myself is a bit useless. hahaha. i'm still trying to master using graphite... i'll patiently wait till i do before challenging myself to other mediums. (: in the mean time, i'll just have fun drawing in pencils!
after i made my purchase, we found seats and just sat there for about half an hour. i was super tired and i think sonia was too. we sat there complaining about timetables, teachers, shoes, facebook, the yearbook... and thats all i remember. hahaha. then we headed back. she took a bus home and i took the train.
the huge masses of people finally mostly cleared out by tanah merah and guess who walked in, right where i was. joel tong! haha i was hugely surprised and so was he. we chatted all the way to white sands where he wanted to post something. i headed home where i was determined to get some sleep but i missed my bus. like literally by seconds!! i was furious! i ran after it but the bus driver didnt see me and just drove off. humph.
i didnt end up going home yet. i convinced my mum to come down to white sands to go with me to cut hair. ((: she'd been complaining that my hair, though long now, had no body... so we went to the usual jean yip place and so i now have lighter hair! ^^ i'm quite happy how it turned out but its really super thin now and i dunno how to tie it best. hmmm.
i ate dinner at the kopitiam and we were joined by my sister later. after dinner we went to popular and I FOUND OUT THAT FAHRENHEIT HAD A NEW ALBUM I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT. omg and i call myself a fahrenheit fan. )): i bought it though. heh heh. there are two different 'gift's which could come with it. it was a book which pictures of one of them and white pages inbetween and then pictures of another band member at the back. i didn't realise until after i bought it... and i started panicking cause the face staring at me on the cover of the book wasn't Wu Zun's! oh such a sin. of course. i found one where he was on the cover and my mum helped me make the coutner people swap it for me. ((:
of course, with my luck, i went home and realised that the one i initially bought already had Wu Zun's face on the other side. it was hidden! how was i supposed to know? *pout* hahaha.
oh yes, before i forget, i updated my wishlist for amendments for the people who booked which present! and basically just edited it. go check! ((:
oh btw, before i seriously hit the sack, thank you to sonia, xiuqing and rimiko for the presents they brought back from their respective holiday places.
okay seriously, after i put my new songs into my ipod i need to sleep. *yawns* well i'll see ya tmr or smth. its TJC's OPEN HOUSE tomorrow! from 10am to 4pm! be sure to come and take a look! ((: pop by the photog booth! ^^
arriverderci and *muax* to all my friends and special *hugs* goes out to rachna. stay strong my dear.
helllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooo 2009! (: i know i've been really bad and haven't updated since early Nov 08 but i'm back now! well not really... i don't think i'll be posting any time soon after this. but okay lets recall the past few months.
i tried to do math. ya know according to the timetable. but i kinda overdosed myself on it... and suddenly couldn't even solve a simple problem. as you can probably tell, i gave up. then i pretty much slacked the rest of november away... watching rentals (DVDs, english TV series) and reading. I finally found the Ninth (and penultimate) book of Pendragon 'Raven Rise' in the library of all places. Sadly the final book 'The Soldiers of Halla' won't be out till May i think? so i can't wish for it for my birthday. ):
December came and i was supposed to start on my work. but i kept looking for other things to do... Love or Bread started and i'm still having mixed feelings about it. The story is kinda going round and round, i'm starting to wonder when it'll get somewhere. Oh wells. I did finally start on my homework... Chem first. i finished as much as i wanted to. which was almost everything except the organic chem questions in the Essay Section. heh.
christmas time came around and i had a ball of a time... randomly breaking out into christmas songs (which drove my sister crazy) hahaha. i bought music CDs for my mum and dad (Clay Aiken's Merry Christmas With Love and Enya's White Christmas respectively) and my sister chose her own present... The Official Movie Guide to Twilight The Movie. cost me 31 bucks. and i think she only looked at the pictures. not that there's few pictures i mean... the entire book is filled with pictures of the actors. sigh. i did enjoy looking through the pictures too i guess but there's only so much i can enjoy about it.
and so we've come to twilight! this would come as a surprise to well all those people who know me very well. i'm a crazy twilight fan (and of course totally, completely, solidly Team Edward!) and i've only seen the leaked movie on the internet in which the visuals wasnt that good (but still quite okay) and the sound quality was great. though, i was quite upset that Edward didnt sparkle in the sunlight. *pout* which if you think about it... was rather anti-climatic and funny... he just stood there and she's staring in amazement and i'm like... DAZZLE ME DAMNIT. humph. as you can probably tell... i need to watch the cinema HQ version. haha.
i've got a lot to complain about it though. ages ago when i found out robert pattinson was playing Edward i screamed, shouted and was completely enraged. believe me i've heard of people who did worse things. pfft. as you can probably tell. he ain't my ideal Edward. Not. Even. Close. okay i've got this whole long rant in my head. but i think if i write it out... this post may never end and i'd be giving out a lot of spoilers. oh oh oh but one more thing. how is it that they don't mention that jasper has powers?!?! *grumble* okay my twilight rant needs to end now... *breathes*
and so the new year. well. lets see. i'm very scared for this year. with my A lvls and all. gosh i'm anticipating stress the moment i step back in school. *cringes* my sister's already back in school. 'OGL' camp sorta. the entire cohort (thats not a lot... 3 classes) are all involved in orientation one way or another. and i'm at home chionging my homework. yes i'm back at math finally. yesterday i finished GP (well not finished really... did all that i could) and spent the afternoon relaxing and completing a drawing. ((: it was a sketch of an eye. spent approximately 4 hours doing it and i'm proud to say it looks realistic! in fact i'm darned proud of it. hahaha. if you wanna see it, go to deviantArt and search for icemeetsfire (which is me)... and if you like it, COMMENT please! haha. thanks! ^^
ooh one more thing before i go... HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY! ((:
haha speaking of birthdays, mine is coming up soon! and guess what! i've actually (for once) figured out what i want. usually i'm completely clueless and xiuqing and sonia will have to spend time thinking about what i like and whether i already have it or not. haha like books. i'll make it easier for you this year. it is my 18th birthday. *squee* so here's my birthday wishlist. not in any particular order.
Okay thats all i can think of right now. if i remember anymore i'll be sure to let you know! ((: hahaha. if you wanna know why i want each of those... i'll gladly tell you. (1) i want it cause i've been suffering without it for the past year when i find time to sketch. (2) my sketch book is seriously running out of pages ^^ (3) HAH. you'll know why when you ask me what the words are. tehehe. (4) i just want it! *sticks out tongue* and i don't usually specify this but really. make sure it does not have you-know-who's face on it. and i dont mean voldie. (5) i've actually fallen in love with his voice. he's super talented! ^^
well anyway i've gotta go do math now. wish me luck! arriverderci and *muax* to all my friends! and happy new year! *hugs*