hello its a sunny yellow banana day!

Yay it's Sunday!

I went to photograph the Interact Club's Installation yesterday. Quite emotional and all. And I got a free bubble tea out of it from the club's new president, WEI ZHENG! Woohoo!

I came home and started taking all sorts of nonsense pictures. I'm still in need of A LOT of practice and Ungku totally slammed the pictures I took of Dog. It was sad but it made me realise I need to experiment more instead of using the same modes over and over just for the sake of convenience.

Pa and I will be going for the National Day Parade this year. I almost gave this year's parade a miss cause I've been going practically... every year but he kept bugging me cause the tickets he got were in the White Sector. Which is the grandstand. So I asked him to bring Ma.

No, she wants to spend the day at home.

Bring Ash?

No, the crowd is too large he'll kick up a fuss and the usual garb.

Then he said Ma asked him to bring me. I never thought of that, so I yelled OKAY! over the phone. There was a 2-second period of silence from him then he went 'Uhhh... Umm.. Okay. So you are sure ah? I have a carpark label so we don't need to walk.'

Yay! I'm going for NDP with my dad. I don't know why i'm so happy. Haha! Maybe he doesn't feel as strongly about the whole situation, but whatever. As I recall, the last time I actually ENJOYED NDP was when I was in Primary 2, and I went with my dad. Strange.

Oh. Overseas CIP had its first meeting on Friday. We were split into our committees and we had to write down the ones we want in order of how much we want them. Mine was Interaction, Teaching, Donation, Secretarial and Logisitics & Finance, in order of what I wanted. I got secretarial! At first it was a tad heartbreaking cause Meijuan and Daphne got Interaction.

Interaction's the committee that plans all the games for the kids.

Secretarial does the handbook, records minutes of meetings and settles post-trip reflections and presentations to the school. Oh and photography and videography of the trip. Which is probably why I was put in there, being the only Photography member in OCIP.

Turns out, secretarial freaking rocks! We had great cooperation and at the same time we talked so much cock it was unbelievable. Interaction? Ah, don't ask. They were quiet from where I was sitting. I thought they were immersed in discussion but turns out it was so much... less.

One word: Politics. Which is something we really don't need.



Aiya. My coldplay pics are so long overdue. So here's one of the dunnohowmany I took. Sorry its so small! I still dunno how to watermark. AHAHA sorry.

Ok so now i'm gonna shower and fool around with the D70 a bit more. BUAIZZZXXX.

Softball tourney, achy fingers and other funny shit.

We lost 10-13. But it was DAMN fun la! Haha I can't wait to play again!

And yes my eyecandy was there! But at one point I had to bat and run in front of him. Felt like a retard but I got a free base for smacking Ren Yuan's hand! So what the hell.

We will try to own the next game. But that's highly unlikely cause the team we played against was pretty noobish so we are SCROOED.

Aiya. So lazy la.

ashwin smells like FARK!

He hasn't showered in awhile. So he smells. Really bad.

So anyway. Watched NACHO LIBRE with Surin today! It's damn bledy funny la. It's brainless humour.. but we all gotta laugh ourselves silly at no-brainers every once in awhile.

Yeh. It was still early and we had nothing else to do. So for some weird reason, we went to Fort Canning! Sucks that I didn't have the D70 this weekend. I'll be getting it for a weekend again next week though! Yay!

The weather was really pleasant and all. We sat down for hours watching people go by. The place is a lot smaller than I thought. Hur.

Tomorrow's Najib's OTHER sister's wedding. The first one was... 3 years ago? At Fort Canning. I still have they picture ahaha. But this one's gonna be a void-deck one in Bedok Interchange.

Oh. And we've put our house on sale. We're not in debt or whatever, we just need to upgrade. My parents, well actually Aresha realised the importance of everyone needing their own space. Ashwin, me, Ma, the maid are all in such a close proximity to each other it's driving everyone insane and probably accounts for how dysfunctional my family is. Haha.

Next Monday is the Softball open tourney. Practically our whole class has signed up.. so it's gonna be another tiring Monday evening. And it'll have repercussions on the rest of the week. Well, as long as my eyecandy is there I wouldn't mind it a single bit :D

Ah I can smell the Palmolive wafting through the stench of my dad's room. My brother finally smells human.

HOLY SHIT, LIKE, ARUNA IS BLOGGING!

Yes. I earned $200 in 7 hours on Sunday! That's more than your average post-o level wage per hour kay!

And I was home the whole time. Resizing pictures for a competition! It sounds easy... but when you have to do 400, it's not as fun as it seems.

Well so. Finally have time to blog proper, but I have an overdue Binomial assignment to finish. Oh and chemistry practical. Both overdue. Rargh.

So letsee. CO concert was on Saturday, and despite the fact that I was grounded, I had dinner outside and came home at 11pm. So maybe i'm off the hook! Just maybe.

I'm hoping to watch Nacho Libre this weekend after my dental appointment at some time in the afternoon I forgot. I keep forgetting the time, then I go there late, and Dr Motherfucking Siva takes it out on my teeth. Horrible shitbag.

Played in the inter-class Netball tourney last Friday in sneakers. That spells DEATH for your feet by the way. I don't understand how Kenneth and Meijuan run for PE in sneakers. My toes were on FIYAH! by the end of it. And being GK.. I was jumping here there everywhere. We didn't make it into the next round though.

So right. I'm almost on the right track for promos. Keyword: ALMOST. So I haven't started which sucks.

Oh I got selected for overseas CIP! Woohoo! I hope we get to go to Vietnammmm. Next week's the meeting with Mr Ong. I have yet to tell my parents, but whatever. I haven't spoken to the momster since yesterday cause she locked herself in her room the moment she came home. Pa's off 'meeting-the-people' as he does every Wednesday, which doesn't make a difference cause if he was home now he'd be sleeping anyway.

Ok finish. Hello Chirag! Haha.

ROAR HIATUS!

Hello world.

I haven't blogged in a long time. I dunno why, I have all these things up in my head but i'm just too lazy to type it ALL out cause i'm a longwinded boring person and I get distracted easily.

Anyways. I'm gonna start homework-ing and studying FO' REAL yo. No more playing around. After next week's Sea Sports Carnival, I shall start proper. I hope.

Speaking of the carnival, I love my frickin' class. We're having Dragonboat training tomorrow and I can't wait. Everyone should try it at least once in their life with a group of people they're relatively close to. I mean, the coordination, the cheering, glancing to the side and seeing that your boat totally owned the rest in the race, the feeling is unbelievable.

On to other things. I signed myself up for photo duty for the Chinese Orchestra Concert this saturday. You're probably thing OMG WTF but my whole class is going to see Yongquan play his er-hu or whatever so I signed up. Free entry, opportunity to take whatever pictures you want, AND THE NIKON D70 FOR A WEEKEND.

Shoot me. Like srsly. The thing's on saturday, so I gotta collect the camera on Friday, return it on Monday. Oh, sweet motherfucking bliss.

And ohyah, I went for the 2nd night of Baybeats. It was alright, but you can only stand at a concert so many times you know? And coldplay completely satisfied my need to see live music for... a very long time. I would've rather sat by the river listening to the music from the Chillout stage. So we see how, next year. Oh no wait A levels. Sheesh.

After Baybeats, me Yigang and Surin sat near the flyover and talked crap. Then we heard a not-so-loud CAR BUANG CAR sound. Me and Yiggers ran up to the flyover while Surin did the 'I-don't-wanna-be-a-kpo-kiasu-Singaporean' thing. It was a mild 5 car pile-up, just bumper to bumper dents. Is that called a pile-up? I dunno. But yeah.

Called Aresha and she was at Homeclub, so Yg and me ran all the way there after Surin left. Saw Aresha there, got stamped for entry for free, and we sat outside drinking... Brandy dry with gin or something.. I can't remember. But it was strong shit. I felt heady and Yg was red. Then suddenly he felt a very strong urge to dance. A VERY strong urge.

So we went in and danced for a long time. I came out earlier cause my ears felt like they were gonna burst. Coldplay, baybeats then Homeclub. My ears are taking a break now. So I went out, checked my phone and got a msg from my mother. Shit shit. She said I better have a good reason for coming home late. And it was only after I showed Aresha the msg that she told me she and ma fought before she left.

So ma is just carrying out her usual routine. When she fights with Aresha, it's suddenly the crime of the century to go out with her. And since I didn't know, I happily went. Reached home at 4am, and the next day ma grounded me for a month. Hooray.

Yes I'm grounded. I haven't been grounded in a long time actually, so it might do me good. But i'll be missing Aresha's super fab event at BarBaaBlackChic on Friday night. Oh well. See lah aruna, test your limit some more. Next time around it'll be a lot worse than grounding.

Okay i'll post the coldplay pictures up here as SOON as i've watermarked them with my wonderful name. Cause yknow... people... STEAL.. you know? Maybe YOU won't think my pictures are that valuable but I cannot stand the idea of someone saving my pics to their comp and posting them somewhere else without me knowing. There's a word for that whole sentence, but my vocabulary is failing me today.

A Level malay Oral and Listening Compre was on Monday and Tuesday. And I totally screwed up both. I didn't know what saluran hiburan was so I just bullshitted my way through. The examiners were cold bitches man, really. They don't smile, they don't even have a trace of warmth in those dead, malay-language revering eyes.

Malay at A Level is SO redundant. Sheesh. It's not like we aren't short of time as it is. Yeah, PILE on fucking 6 periods a week wasted on useless malay. UGH. And don't get my started on Project Work.

Overseas CIP interviews were today. It went okay, he seemed impressed, somewhat. But he kept insisting on a reason why I wouldn't want a leadership role in this. I told him i've already had ample opportunity to be a leader in so many ways, so I would encourage someone who hasn't had the chance but the potential to go for it. And that wasn't a good enough reason. But as a whole it went okay.

On the application form for it they asked us to fill in the problems we may encounter during the thing. I wanted to write.. 'Tio menses'.

But I didn't. Of course.

i'm totally high...

... On coldplay. You see. This is why you should queue early. Cause you get to stand right in front, ogle and shout 'I LOVE YOU's at Guy Berryman, have Chris Martin look right into your eyes and sing to you, and take the most awesomest of awesome pictures of the band you could ever imagine.

happy happy happy :D

i've been back for more than a week but i haven't blogged woo!

Hello.

This blog has died in the arse.

But, FRET NOT! For I shall be updating frequently once again when i've been bitten by the blog bug. I think.

TPJC's Panorama @ The Esplanade tomorrow evening, here I come babay!

WAH LAO EY!

Remember when I blogged about God not wanting me to go to England?

Well.

I think God doesn't want me to leave. If today had gone as planned, I would've gotten on my plane 3 hours ago.

But. I am here happily blogging on my sister's laptop, STILL taking up parasitic residence in my aunty's home.

BLahahah. This is hilarious really.

So here's the story. Aresha checked the train to Gatwick Airport arrival times online and it supposedly said 4.50pm, and another at 5.15pm. So we rush ALL the way there thoroughly stressing out my aunty ONLY to find that the train comes ONLY at 5.43pm, and there was no bledy 4.50pm OR 5.15pm train.

We waited at the station for almost an hour for the train and despite that we would still have reached the airport on time. But NOOO.

It was roughly a twelve-stop journey which takes 1hr 10mins. But right after Sandhurst, which was about the 3rd stop, the train stopped totally in the middle of nowhere. Then the driver announces about there being a power failure up ahead and we shouldn't panic and we should be able to continue and we should be patient blahblahblah.

10, 30, 40-50 mins pass and the train starts to reverse back to Sandhurst. The driver says we can get off for 'a breath of fresh air' or a cigarette.

This is getting too long.

So anyway. The wait after that was about another 30mins before the train control people said it was safe to continue. But the train continued at the speed of a fucking snail. The latest I could check in for my flight was 830pm, and it was already 730pm, so no way I was gonna make it in time. Uncle Matt picked us up from a couple of stops after that and dropped Aresha off at another train station so she could take a train to London cause she needed to meet her DNB friends.

She's only leaving next Monday. I was supposed to leave a few hours ago but i'll be leaving sometime after 2pm on Friday, England time.

So much for wanting to study for my common tests when I get back. Haha.

firste poste from ENGLANDO!

Before I start I just wanna let everyone know that within 2 days of shopping we spent 90 pounds. Convert it to SGD and you have $270. So we are royally screwed.

We arrived here at 12pm on Sunday. After close to 20 hours on a plane inclusive of transit time, I was severely jet-lagged and exhausted. Showered, ate, then fell asleep at 5pm.

The funny thing about this country is that in summer the sun rises at about 5+am. Which is okay, but the sun sets... at 10PM. That's like the funniest shit ever.

So here I am, 47A Nine Mile Ride, near California Country Park. It's pretty ulu, 'quiet, rich man's area' as my uncle put it. It gets pitch dark when the sun sets, so its quite creepy.

The weather here's wonderful. I can wash my hair once every two days, you can wear the same pair of jeans ten times straight. But it borders on bledy freezing (well it felt like it) when the sun's covered or before and after rain. We were at Reading (pronouced REDDING) town centre and we went into one of the malls since it started raining. When I came out, EVERYONE was in sweaters and windbreakers. I felt like a retard walking around in a spaghetti strap cause the weather was quite pleasant before it started raining.

On Monday we went to Wokingham just to take a look around. It's like the Simpang Bedok of Tanah Merah, just with shops like Dorothy Perkins and stuff. The pubs here are cute and quaint but i've yet to actually enter one. Chances are I won't.

My aunt says the brits love to preserve everything remotely historical. It's kinda cute cause all the buildings around the area have extremely beautiful architecture. You'd think i'd go crazy taking pictures and all but... i've barely touched my camera really. I know, kill me now but the shopping and sight-seeing really makes it hard to take pictures at the same time.

There's a farm behind the house which has sheep and cows and horses. I can't see much cause it's blocked my a wall of trees but i'd sure love to go see them.

Me and Aresha saw the This Fashion of England. It's called Top Class but the clothes there are extremely nice, nothing like what you get in Singapore. I bought a cute tube dress for 17 pounds which actually converts to quite a lot. Apart from that I haven't spent much else cause I've been saving it for our trip to central London tomorrow. Transportation alone has eaten a chunk out of our spending money.

Lets see. It was 3 pounds to Wokingham and back for one person BY BUS. That's fucking S$9. The bus ride to Reading was 5 pounds. That's fucking S$15. WHAT THE HELL.

Our trip here is no gourmet either. To save on unnecessary expenditure, we've been packing lunches and buying super budget meals.

The people here are really nice. They tend to look at you funny for awhile, then smile and wave. When we went shopping over the past 2 days A LOT of people gave us funny looks. A lot of guys checked out my sister, no surprise there.

Speaking of guys, there are quite a few good looking guys here, no wait, actually quite a lot. Shitty thing is, once they open their mouths they have the most horrifying teeth i've ever seen. Apart from that, the guys here are MUCH better than those in Singapore.

But they cannot beat the guys from Dubai. Oh my god. Seriously la. I was ranting to Mimi about it 2 days ago, that we will go to Dubai after our A Levels to find husbands in Dubai. Cause the guys there, you can't find anywhere else! Seriously. Even English guys can't hold a candle to the ones I saw at the Dubai airport.

Aresha, on the other hand, said that she hasn't found any good looking guys yet. Not even in Dubai. But she's just fussy I guess.

Ok enough about guys. It's my 4th day here and i'll be leaving next Wednesday night, and arriving in Singapore on Friday. And I doubt i'd have studied much for my common test, hoo rah.

Ok bye.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh.

I think right. God really doesn't want me to go to England.

My mom took out my passport just now and got a shock of her life. My passport expired 6 months ago. Wonderful. Since I haven't travelled in the last 2-3 years, I had absolutely no blinking idea.

And the worst thing is.. my mom has the fucking AUDACITY to turn around and blame me for all this! Wow. Perfect. She holds on to my passport, then she takes it out one day and OOPS ITS EXPIRED then BAM it's aruna's fault.

Even if she said it was her fault I wouldn't even feel half as angry as I do now.

So if i'm not on the plane with my sis sunday morning at 2am, my mom will MURDER me. And yet again, I don't understand how it's my fault. At this rate i'm fine with my mom going in my place, seriously.

Then I can study for my common test! Haha.

things i MUST buy for my engrand trip.

1) bag
2) jeans
3) face powder (not so important)
4) sneakers (also not so important)
5) jacket
6) stuff

And stuff I MUST do

Haircut
Manicure
Taper stupid 3/4 pants
and uhh... Dunno lah.

Yeah. The mom is pms-ing, the dad is missing in action, the sister will be landing in an hour and the new maid is deeply traumatised by the mom's pms-ing.

Even i'm not spared, albeit the fact that i'm so sick I can barely walk straight. I'm just trying to stay out of her way as much as I can without going to sleep. Blah.

I'm gonna fail my common tests. I brought my notes to pre u sem, but never got a chance to study. A day after I come back, I fall sick. Arg.

Fail lah. I'll just have to work my butt off for promos if I don't wanna get retained. Oh man this is scaring the shit out of me. I'd study now, but my head is throbbing way too much. Life sucks.

when you're tired, just don't say anything.

*bolster falls down and father wakes up*

Dad: Mmf, Aruna, Aruna....ARUNA it's 1am enough computer go and sleep.
Me: Huh what? No.
Dad: Aruna.... *schnorrreee*

The way he snores is super cartoon la. Like some animal's dying. I wonder how my mom can tahan.

Anyvhay. Pre U Sem celebration yesterday was loads of fun. Since I was having my dengdeng I didn't bring any spare clothes cause I thought I could reason with my eediot friends not to throw me into the pool.

When I arrived at 7+pm Bryan got a shock when he saw me with eyeliner on. I told him it's cause I wasn't gonna swim and he accused all the girls of lying about their time-of-the-month's. We ate pizza and chilled with cool music playing from a couple of speakers loaned to us by Mrs Koh's extremely sporting bro in law.

Then it was DUNKING TIME. God.

Zhihan was the first girl to kena cause it was her birthday. Then Sam. Then one by one, even the girls with periods were either jumping in themselves or being thrown in by the guys. I felt damn sad cause I really couldn't go in and have fun with the rest so I stood by taking pictures of everyone.

As I sat by the pool Desmond and Joshua approached me and grabbed my wrists and I reasoned with them while screaming that I really really really couldn't. The 2nd time round was Joshua chasing me aimlessly halfway around the condo. Not to mention the couple of times when Caspar was trying to fool me into holding his hand. It went something like this.

Caspar: Aruna... I'm feeling horny. Will you hold my hand?

And Jiten stupidly fell for it. But Caspar unsuccessfully tried to swing him into the pool.

Finally, as I tried to take a group picture of everyone in the pool, Zhihan (i think) grabbed one arm and Joshua yanked my camera from me, and accidentally took a picture of the inside of his hand. The rest very HAPPILY joined in and swung me into the pool on 3 counts amidst my horrified screams and laughter.

Once I was in the pool, everything was ok la. I was the last girl to be thrown in but I didn't miss out on much. Had random races, played catching, splashed water at each other and floated around aimlessly in the pool in lifeguard floats. Fully clothed.

We had a cake for Zhihan and Bryan, drank some fake champagne, danced and took photos randomly. But by 10++ we had to clear out cause the residents were complaining. So a few of us went to ECP!

We had ice cream at gelare and I bought a pair of shorts to change cause I was thoroughly soaked and freezing. Joshua later brought a change of clothes for me, Jiten and... I'll just call him Ian. Haha. Easier.

We wanted to play pool initially but couldn't find the place so we played at the arcade for quite awhile. Me and Yilin played 2 rounds of dance dance revolution while Caspar fell asleep waiting and Sherry and Jiten were bored waiting.

Sooo.. I'll blog about Pre U Sem itself another day la. Haha.

6 MORE DAYS! :D

PRE UNIVERSITY SEMINAR IS OVAH!

And that's everyone's favourite director... MARK WOO! And his assistant director, me. Hah (he does that a lot by the way, I just copied him).

Yes it's finally over. No more long-drawn out rehearsals, memorising lines, missing lessons, ever changing script and the et cetera. Our presentation went really really well, and I think my self confidence has been given a slight boost. :D

Today's our celebration poolside party graciously catered by our teacher-in-charge, Mrs Christine Koh. She's been more of a mother to us, sms-ing us 'i-love-you's and 'i-miss-you's. For that, me and yilin are gonna get her a giant sunflower. Miss Leow too.

I miss my seminar group like crazy. We weren't exactly the most united bunch of the lot, but damn, I miss them. I'll blog about it tonight or tomorrow. Till then.....

1 MORE WEEK TILL ENGLAND! RARRRRRRR.

During GP lessons...

Mark can't contain his excitement enough...














This is a mountain of sleeping hamsters.















"Nina is a dream space that packs girl's love.
Such a cute play mind's being able to do is a privilege only the girl."

Yesterday was the good shite. I haven't done something like that in a very long time, so it was a refreshing change. Not to mention finally being able to give Yigang and Surin their long over birthday presents.

We played burger burger like crazy! Marr wasn't in the mood cause she never seemed to win much.

Pre U Seminar's in two days. I haven't memorised my lines for the presentation, nor have I decided on what to wear for it. Rar. If Mrs Koh reads this, she will hunt me down and kill me.

You know ah, I was on the bus the other day. And they were showing that Diva on a Dime thing. AND SHE WAS WEARING THESE FABULOUS BRIGHT BLUE COURT SHOES. Omg. They reminded me of the man-killers I wore for fun at Zara, just in a shade of sky blue. So nice.

Oh oh and I watched advent children just now. So awesome. :D

*edit* the spacing between the pictures are like so fucked lah. I also dunno why.

ngerr.

Are you sick of watching videos yet? Don't be.

Here's Jason CHAO ANG MOH speaking malay before our student compere auditions at effin' BUKIT TIMAH.

And this is premjeet the retarded arm wrestler. Versus our very own... HIDAYAT OF BEDOK VIEW! WOOT!
















A real WTF moment going on here eh? That's Ryan's friend. And Mr Lim the econs teacher in the background who's disappeared back to NIE.














This is Alvin's shiney face at the airport.















This is the 21st council neoprint which I very eagerly decorated.

I hate doing laundry now.

yay more videos!

This is Jiten the pole dancer.

Jiten: I CAN'T DO IT!

Me: *hysterical laughter*

Desmond being himself again... A slut. Then a teacher comes along, just watch his reaction.

Desmond being a slut YET AGAIN. I think its hilarious how he had to peer down to see if Joshua was already err... 'pinching' him before he began his slutty expressions.

WHAT THE FUCK

IS UP WITH THE PARAGRAPHING!

Seriously. Makes it so SIAN to read.

WOO FINALLY A PROPER BLOG ENTRY!

21 Evanns Road, 16th May 2006. Student compere auditions for 2006's SYF.

When I first saw the map I thought it was someplace in Malaysia. Woo!

I'll be missing a period of Bio tutorial though. AND a very important council meeting. Crap. Bio I can catch up, but council? ARG.

But i'll finally get to go to the dentist! Yay! For the first time i'm actually HAPPY to go to the dentist cause my bracket has been broken for a month.

Ok. I know my past 2 entries were crappy. So I shall update about today!

We had stupid extra classes in the morning cause of all the extra holidays we've been having. But it was the most unproductive 3+ hours of my life. After that, my class was supposed to go canoeing in preparation for Monday's Sea Sports Carnival Heats but it started raining as we were eating lunch at McD's so we scrapped the idea and went to play pool instead.

For over THREE FECKIN HOURS. The rest had left already, since we weren't canoeing, so it was just me, Alicia, Alex, Kenneth, Mark, Kiwi fruit, Wilbur and Ryan.

Ryan and Kenneth play too much pool for their own good. They were dishing out some major ass kicking and I gave up trying to play properly after awhile. I lost to Kenneth by ONE BALL so I guess it's of some consolation. Some.

And then Aruna got too lazy to blog more.

I look at you you look at me then what? Just keep looking at each other? I'm tired of that. LOOOK ONLY. LOOOOOKKKK SOME MORE.

I'm a nice person okay! I'm not gonna bite your head off. JEEZUS what's a girl gotta do for a guy to make the first move for a change?

All this while i've felt so pushy. And now that i've taken a step back, really restraining myself to no end, nobody takes any initiative.

All selfish bastards I tell you.

wah my life is busy like siao

Seriously.

I think i've died on the inside. There's this weird empty feeling in my soul that's eating me inside out.

And that sounds so wrong.

I'm tired, yesterday I was tired, the day before I was, tomorow i'll be tired and it's a vicious cycle where my fatigue mounts with every day.

I NEED A BOYFRIEND.