almost... there....

3 H1 papers down, 3 monster H2 papers to go. Oh the stress! Oh the lack of time! Oh my achy shoulders!

I can't wait for all this to be over. Volleyball at Sentosa with the class next Friday! Yay!

Aaaaand... I LOVE ONLINE SHOPPING! <3 <3

:D

I must be the millionth blogger to post this.

A bit late ah. But.. JONATHAN! WHY? Why la why. If he became Singapore Idol, it would be such a refreshing change! But no.

Oh well. Don't worry Jon, you'll always be MY Singapore Idol HAHA so fucking corny but I mean it. If he cuts an album i'll definitely be buying it.

Jonathan is so SESSY.

Okay enough SI ranting. A week and two days to to the END of promotionals. They start on friesday. End next thursday. We're planning a post-bio exam movie. I wanna watch Rob-B-Hood but Fatimah wants to watch Little Miss Sunshine. But as long as both are funny, it's good enough for me.

And during the weekend, the momster and me will be shopping in JB for a day. On the other day, a little somethin' somethin' i've had planned in my head for awhile. Then monday (which will be a wonderful, wonderful holiday, for me that is), I will most probably be wasting the day away, although I would be better off coming up with something constructive to do.

Hurr. I'll ask Ms Tan for the D70 next Thursday and take some awesome peektures with all my free time. Awesome is subjective.

Hmm. I want to eat at more new places. I'm always going to the same places to eat, it gets so boring. Cause the people I go with can be really fussy.

But with fellow Assistant-in-Charge for prom, Deborah Sim, we go places man. Seriously.

We were wandering around the basement of Century Square and came across a jap restaurant called... Uma Uma Men or something like that. Had a salmon donburi I think. It was quite awhile ago. She has something else, plus one green tea, and some weird tasting ice cream and it came up to less than $20! Student discount. And the portions are BIG.

Another time, Bryan, her and me went to Ajisen Ramen. Kill me now, but it's the first time i've even stepped into the place. The ramen... is GOOD! Their side dishes are awesome too! But.. DON'T buy their green tea. It's assholifyingly bitter.

A bit on the pricy side though. $43 for the 3 of us. But they give a LOT of ramen. Service charge was what... $7? Yeowch.

Then just last Friday, we had to go to town after school (in our school uniforms, UGH) to get the door gifts from NTUC Income and Kimage at Funan. After spending 20 mins in the hot sun trying to get a cab (and almost getting run over by a speeding BMW), I got fed-up and went to the other side of the road, only to end up flagging for a Merc cab!

So we went to town in comfort and luxury, and the fare was no problem cause the school would reimburse us. Man what a digression.

But anyway, after going to NTUC Income, we had a few hours to kill before Kimage, so we window shopped. Then felt hungry. After scanning the Raffles City basement directory for awhile, I saw some place called The Pizza Place. I thought it would be a nice change from the usual... Pizza hut and the works, so we went there.

It's a pretty quaint place, not much of a crowd, tucked deep somewhere in the basement level. The sell pizza by the slice or as a whole or a mix of different toppings. They also had pasta and baked rice AND side dishes. I had a Seafood Carbonara which cost about... $9 I think?

The sauce is SO MUCH BETTER than Pastamania. Seriously. It's hard to make good sauce cause everyone tries to make it and some fail terribly. Bacon bits, fried calamari rings and small prawns arranged altogether to look extremely fancy. But still cheap. I don't think there was service charge, hmm.

So that marks the end of my pre-promo gourmet. Deb and I will probably be working full-time on prom after promos, so... Maybe our food-tasting adventures shall continue.

Heheh.

one more weeeeeeek.......

Argh. One more painful week of slogging away till I break free of this horrible burden that is the fucking promotionals. I've mugged more than I did for my O's, so far. And I still have a week of mugging to go! Unbelievable.

I shouldn't be juggling other sites while blogging cause that's just stupid.

aruna will do the following things to reduce her acne problem.

1. Eat less heaty food (no more tom yam cup noodles :( )

2. Buy those everyday mask thingies

3. Stop washing my face with water and drying it with toilet paper in school. That is badbadbad. Will buy cleansing wipes from TM asap!

4. Stop scratching my face when i'm bored

5. I've stopped squeezing pimples, but I should try not to squeeze them even if they do explode by themselves

6. Stop/Continue going for facials? Cause apparently right, some make your skin worse. I dunno eh, my skin's become worse and my pores and more obvious. So how? Don't go lor.

7. I hate to say this... but STOP PLAYING BASKETBALL IN THE SUN with my class. WAAAAHHHH I cannot believe I just said that cause it's soooo much fun. And it reminds me of the times I had with 4E2, playing captain's ball with the WHOLE CLASS.

Too much sun's apparently really bad for the skin. And i'm getting darker so that's not good.

8. Fuck up those National Skin Centre MOTHERFUCKERS! I swear... I am gonna scream at the fucker first thing come October. ROAR! HELL HATH NO FURY SOMETHING SOMETHING!! AHH!!

9. Try not to stress-out so much and stick to 12am bedtimes on weekdays

Yep. So I guess that's about it. Then hopefully sometime soon I shall emerge a... person with a clearer complexion! I'm not expecting a miracle but i'm not asking for too much either.

Wah kao. I have crazy-ass emotional roller-coasters.

ask too many questions, and you'll only get hurt in the end.

Well. I can't help being such an insecure wreck. About everything going on around me. Cause there's always that chance that it could all go wrong.

I dunno eh, it's always been like this. If I had a choice, I'd obviously wouldn't wanna be this way. Neither would I wanna have a fucked up complexion, or do things thinking i'm helping someone but I end up doing more harm than good, or have someone feel like i'm intruding in their life when I really am being... very genuine.

BLAH.

Watched 3 movies in a row today. Didn't study. I think I have a deathwish.

sometimes... i feel for the attendants in my school.

There's a male malay attendant that stands at the foyer guides parents' cars further up the foyer, so they can drop their kid off without obstructing the other cars, with hand signals.

Pa was sending me to school one morning and as we approached the foyer....

Pa: You see this guy. I feel like just banging him down. Why is he showing me where to go? I'm not stupid, I know where to go.

Me: Pa... That's horrible.

Pa: ....mm.

Time to mug! Because I have no life.

my brain is mush.

For the first time in my life for ANY exam, i'm studying 4 weeks in advance. Miraculous right? Well I have to, if I don't wanna retain. Which is the scariest shit ever lah. Emo-haired Paul told me to just retain cause it's BETTER. Wtf. Better my ass. I've got a lot on the line here! Council, OCIP, blahblahblah. Just cause my graduation cert won't say that I retained, ended up pulling out of OCIP and getting sacked from council on top of it, it won't have much else to say anyway.

Monday was the worst. 4 hours of chemistry class, then council exco meeting for 3 hours, and it dragged on even after we went to Tampines Mart MacD's to take a break. Went home and TRIED to study, but I felt so mentally exhausted I just read Negi Magi and went to sleep.

Tuesday had Math and Chem for hours, then me and Fatimah went for dinner at Seoul Garden with Chen Xi! Haha. At first he was gonna blanja both of us, until I told him I didn't have cash BUT had NETS. Me and my big mouth. So I ended up paying for myself. But it was still fun. Fatimah had to leave early, so me and Chen Xi went to Toys'R'Us to throw things at each other and fight with styrofoam swords.

It was a good break, but not good enough. Tried to study again, but the Mole is a pain in the ass. And that's just the LEAST bit of chemistry I have to worry about. I tell you, the secondary school syllabus is the biggest joke ever. Instead of teaching us LIES, they could've thought us stuff USEFUL for 'A'Level chemistry, but noooo.

Tonight I HAVE to start on... I dunno.. Chemical Bonding? Bahhhh. Such a pain in the ass, promos. And I still have Math and Bio to mug for. I HATE BLOGGING ABOUT EXAMS!

But that's the only thing on my mind right now.

cheers from the blotchy-faced one.

I went for a facial yesterday. And she squeezed the LIFE out of my face, I swear I almost cried. And i'm not gonna pop anymore antibiotics, cause the doc told me to give it another 2 months but no change so far. I was supposed to see him last week, but I had to cancel last minute cause of an OCIP meeting, so my next appointment is in the first week of OCTOBER. Sheesh.

So yeah. My skin is covered in blotches cause the facial lady really squeezed the living daylights out of my face.

Prom '06 is really killing me. A certain british teacher-in-charge, for my sake I guess I can't name names, is really not cooperating. Following other teachers advice, I should never EVER call him. So I smsed him. No reply. So I sent him an online message through the school's intranet system. Not only has he not replied, he hasn't even READ it.

Why do I need to contact him so badly? Cause he's in charge of setting up a meeting with the Ritz Carlton officials, and I need the date of the meeting so I can inform the J2s who are going. There's a chance the meeting is on Tuesday, and I need to know the date asappppp.

Working with him really makes you wanna rip your hair out. Not only does he NOT want help from other teachers, he'll rip your heart out, skewer it and barbeque it should you even SUGGEST the POSSIBILITY of employing more help for prom to ease his heavy workload.

He's like Miranda from the Devil Wears Prada. I brace myself every morning when the Prom committee has to meet him in his office, and he keeps saying the same thing.

'I'm not SCOLDING you, this is just a blunt exchange.'

But nobody dares to bring anything up cause nobody wants to challenge him in any way.

I understand he's busy and all, but all I need is some insurance that he has at least remembered to CALL the Ritz officials in the first place. GAHHHH!!!!

Okay i'll be going in 5 minutes so I can watch Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee. Can you believe it's a series and not a movie? Each episode is 90 minutes long. The first episode was pretty confusing initially cause I thought it was a movie.

And i've started to watch Miss Vasantham 2006. This year's contestants are MUCH better looking than last year's, but that's not why I watch it. I like to laugh at the way they speak, the annoying performances and the judges' errors in their grammar. Start watching horrrrr.

overworked, underappreciated.

But it's all good. I'll just continue putting in hours of effort invisibly. Like with... ninja stealth!

It's hard to read all the appreciation messages going out to everyone else but you. Bah, I won't harp on it. Maybe i'm being overly-sensitive. But somehow... I'm still sad. Sad enough to tear up while typing this.

But i'm glad for the council, for everyone that TPJC's Teacher's Day concert was a roaring success. I'm extremely proud of everyone who put it effort, those who spent evenings till late in school doing work (see what i'm discreetly getting at?).

Ahh but i'm genuinely appreciative ok! I'm really happy with the way things turned out, under-appreciated or not. I enjoyed myself thoroughly during the process of preparing and the concert itself. So what the hell huh.

Okay. I've decided that i'll save up and backpack around Japan when my A'levels are over. Mabel visited TPJC the day before Teacher's Day and she told me that her friend went to do vet science in a university in New Zealand with her PRELIM RESULTS. Prelims are in September, what the hell! So she'll be in the first intake of the year.

If I do that... it means no backpacking in Japan! Nooo!!!

Ash has periodic bursts of snores. And it sounds DAMN loud and gross. Every five minutes he's like.. SNGGGARCK!

It's 1.06am and pa is nowhere to be seen. Usually he calls if he's coming late, or even lies about being home by 10.30pm. Not even that.

EH EH I HAVE NEWS!

Aruna is now addicted to a new manga. Previously.. it was Love Hina. Now it's...

MAGISTER NEGI MAGI! Surprisingly, also by Ken Akamatsu. I just LOVE the way he draws. Negi Magi's NOT AS perverted as Love Hina, but there's still some. But what's amazingly amazing is the battle scenes. It's seriously no joke. Huge landscapes, evil demons, detailed melee combat, it almost gives me a headache so I read it a little at a time. I'm up till volume 8 and all I saw was volumes 1-14 so bahhh :(

I hope there's more. Before I saw this, I was browsing Popular's comics section with Fatimah (Sim, not Yasin ahaha), I initially wanted Fushigi Yugi but they didn't have volume 1 stupidly. There were two different versions of Fushigi Yugi. The TV series Suzaku one and a Genbu one. I wasn't really interested in what was happening with the maiden of Genbu so I looked around for something new to pick up.

Then I saw Magister Negi Magi! Yay! I'm so glad I got myself a new manga addiction. Maybe i'll start drawing again. Highly unlikely cause I spend loads of time drawing one thing and i'm now a wannabe-professional photographer so I'm just waiting for that period of time in my life where I can actually be A BUM.

Yes. A bum. When you finally reach a point where you realise 24 hours a day is SERIOUSLY not enough, and it goes on for days, weeks, months, you'd give anything for free time. Free time for you to explore. Pick up something new. Earn your own keep. Do something you love doing, but just never had the time. Create something artistic yet requires you to be meticulous towards every detail.

And when you're finally done, the satisfaction you derive from it? Priceless.

In sec 3, I once spent a week on a drawing. I look at it every now and then, and up till now, I still smile to myself thinking about how great it looked. Aesthetics aside, what really made it look like it was worth a million bucks was the thought of how much was put into it.

Well. Since I have no time during the week to blog and bore you with my daily itinerary, here's just some deep thoughts from the dusty, neglected realm of my imagination and philosophical side. Right.

On a completely unrelated note, check out my spring pig! Get it? It's not a spring chicken... it's a spring pig! Haha i'm so witty! I'm in love with my new handphone accessory. Everytime I take out my phone I like to play with my pink pig. I was never a fan of the colour pink, but my phone, it's landyard and this pig is pink.

Funny, how things are like... that.

Anyways, I took this with my darling V3x, so quality's a tad fuzzy. And the edge of my finger can be seen. Haha oops.

There's something about tonight that's... almost magical. Maybe it's cause my room smells nice, maybe it was the divine chocolate cake I had earlier, maybe it's the blue glow from my phone as it charges, maybe it's the fact that i'm up late, on the internet which hasn't happened in a LONG time, maybe it's the delightful serenity of silence that's very calming right now.

My house is almost NEVER this quiet. On second thought, my dad just got home. 2.40am. Well, good luck to him with the momster tomorrow!

Bla. I better sleep so I can study tomorrow. Hopefully. Nighty night!