I don't want to waste this December holidays! I know next year every possible moment I'm supposed to be studying (not going to happen, haha!) so this Dec is really the only time for us to slack. Next year - what a scary thought. Every Christmas I always think "Next year at this time I would have ____" so last year I was thinking "Wow next year at this time I would have sat through Promos/my first JC exams" and this year it's going to be "Next year at this time I would have completed my A levels." O: O:

I have really wonderful friends :D I may not have gained as many new friends as one is expected to in a new school environment but I'm glad that I've managed to strengthen older relationships!! All my bbz this massive, massive love goes out to all of you for making J1 tolerable. <3 <3 I lost some people too, sorry, I miss you!

LOL IDK WHY I'M STILL RAMBLING BUT SYLVIA IS SINGING NOW ON SI!!! HAHAHA SIYING IS AT TRAINING, THIS IS FOR YOU! It's not bad though, her self-composed song. Must have viewing party! :D Ok omg gna stop rambling now *stupid*

I've always loved the December weather. Except it's not quite December. I wish Christmas would hurry up and get here already, mostly because it would mean November would be over and done with. At least I can look forward to Indiaaaa with awesome frenz!

Aside from being shamelessly happy about being sucked into the black hole that is Korean pop music, I have also been busy. OK WHO AM I KIDDING MY LIFE IS 99% ABOUT K POP NOW as my classmates and friends would not hesitate to attest to.

After PW (i.e. 5 straight hours on Guitar Hero) on Monday, it was around 6.30pm - dark, gloomy and there was a miserable excuse for a drizzle that soon developed into one of those in-between sort of rain: neither a downpour/thunderstorm nor a drizzle. The annoying sort of rain, the kind that is too heavy for forgoing an umbrella but makes you look and feel wimpy if you do. And it got cold after a while. Gwen and I stood on the side of the road and flailed at oncoming taxis but none of them stopped. I felt truly pathetic. We even speculated that we were flouting some sort of unspoken taxi cab rule about flagging cabs along a certain part of the road, or that we were invisible, or ghosts. It was kind of weird, I definitely wouldn't have liked to be in that situation alone. I would seriously begin to reconsider my very existence.

Not to mention I was having the Mother of All Stomach Cramps and Gwen was sniffling incessantly since she was recovering from the flu. We gave up around 7pm and retreated into the shelter of a nearby bus stop and called for a cab instead, to which we were informed "SORRY WE HAVE NO CABS". Why yes, I do know that, that's precisely why I need a cab! So we called another number and just as we were about to RESIGN OURSELVES to more waiting, we flailed at one last cab in a valiant attempt and IT STOPPED!

I flung the door open and crashed on the backseat, exclaiming THANK YOU UNCLE, THANK YOU UNCLE~ which must have been quite creepy, in retrospect. The taxi ride took forever but it was nice to sit in comfort. The little things in life~

Alright. Off to appear productive again. Toodlez~!
 

This is a very interesting post on books that people hate because they're overhyped... I have read quite a few of them, to be honest. I think only like 3 people on my friends list will read this, but w/e~~

Urgh today has been such a moodswingy day. I was feeling great throughout the whole of the morning, what with the fail-basketball that my class plays (except me! I am the only girl who can do what some may call dribbling!) and general Aly-stupidity and assplosions. $3 Hokkien Mee!1!!1!! Then CA where I fell off the chable (omg Fik/Hannah, we have to sit on the tables in the ELL classroom and pull the lever! It is quite a shocking drop) and everyone going crazy and spitting out stupid ideas~ Met up with Siying and went home together awwwww (it's a lye!) Had fuuuuuuuuuun.

On the way home I felt like I was living in an MLIA. I was listening to my song (non-kpop) and then I realised that I was walking according to the same rhythm, and creepily enough the person hammering on the construction site next to me was hammering that same beat out in perfect timing D: D: D: So I continued walking and when I snapped my fingers ALL THE STREET LIGHTS CAME ON. It was AWESOME!!! I know it was because it was around 7pm but hey, it was still cool! This needs to happen again.

TODAY I TRUDGED THROUGH MANDAI MANGROVES :D IT WAS INCREDIBLY AWESOME AND MUDDY BUT GREAT FUN AND I SAW MANY MANY COOL MANGROVE ANIMALS! At least I wasn't tormented by the smell, even though the massive amount of mud and the prospect of getting into the shin deep water was kind of scary at first. I swore my shoes were going to get completely pulled off my feet by the suction~action of the mud, thank God for the booties.

Btw the OpenLab in school lends out booties. I'm going to call it the Bootie Stash from now on.

Jonny is damn l33t at spotting horseshoe crabs though! I spent most of the time in the mangroves trying not to fall in the mud, which I turned out to be quite good at because I kept my balance although Gwen fell on me about three times. It was terrifying. Getting sucked into the mud was kind of creepy!!! I felt like I was never going to able to get clean again (isn't this a rape victim thing? =/) but wl it was so cooooooooool. Plus my group is kind of completely awesome? :D

We were completely unprepared to wash off the mud though! Thank God the kind old man at the nearby petrol station let us connect a hose to the toilet and we used up so much water trying to get clean again. The teachers were amazing though; they were cleaned up in like 5 minutes flat and they had to sit around waiting for us! Luckily the petrol station people were nice and didn't kick our asses for messing up the place. So Gwen and Jonny and I wandered around the place after Derwin and Lingli left with Dr Ng in her car. We bought drinks for the nice old man but he didn't want it so Gwen and I drank all of it haha!! That place is damn ulu siaaaa.

Anyway if you know me you should know I HAVE BEEN SUCKED INTO THE ABYSS OF KPOP. Or not rly, just Big Bang. Heeheeeeee.
 

I was thinking about tertiary education and I realised: I Don't Know what I'm going to do or where I'm going to study! So I very logically went to the Cambridge website and read the course descriptions from A to Z except, predictably, I got stuck on Archaeology which is the second A subject. 

I wanted to be an archaeologist the moment I learnt how to spell it, after my I-want-to-be-a-detective and I-want-to-be-an-author-phase in P1. I guess it's the whole romanticised idea of digging in the desert and discovering a sparkling artifact buried under the scorching sand~ but seriously, there is no room for archaeology in Singapore. Not like I'm going to chain myself to the ground and prevent tractors from destroying a site because THERE BE PRECIOUS ARTIFACTS HERE!!! Either that or I'm going to be permanently overseas. Either way it's a dead end but wahlau archaeology is damn exciting please!!! I really have no idea if any archaeological work is being done in Singapore; I wouldn't mind being a part of it as a volunteer or something.

Ok lol I admit it I only considered it again srzly after I watched The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 and Bridget gets to go to Turkey to do cool archaeology stuff.

...I think I should continue reading through that list, first.

Someone wrote in to the papers today about a tough question in the Math PSLE paper that apparently reduced some students, who would usually have no problems acing Math tests, to tears. (I vividly remember Math in primary school! I was quite bad it after once we hit P5 and I never finished a Math paper because I would panic halfway through Section B. PSLE was the first full-length Math paper I actually finished! Amazing.) And this year they're allowed to bring in calculators so apparently this was a reason why they gave harder questions with more intermediate steps.

Anyway, my mum excitedly made my brother and I solve it. We did! He finished before me haha but that was because I read the question wrongly! It's obviously not hard for either of our standards, but if you don't know how to do simultaneous equations, nor understand the concept of ratios, I think it's impossible. And since I don't remember doing simultaneous equations in primary school (what, we drew graphs to solve right!) I think most students shouldn't be able to do it. And apparently, neither can my dad because he's just burnt through about ten sheets of rough paper with no answer in sight.

So if you can find it, go try it! :D

Anyway the pre-requisite PROMOS ARE OVER post!! I definintely don't deserve straight As this time round haha I was super lazy until about a week before the Promos when I started panicking but most of my mugging was done the night before... nothing/no one to blame but myself and my lack of self-discipline and complacency. Then of course, NEVER AGAIN will I do this mugging-the-night-before-thing! We'll just wait and see how I do when the results come back. Meanwhile JC never fails to provide us with more things to do when all we want to do is relax.

Heehee I love I Fight Dragons (so qt I love their band name)! Can go and youtube them but I think mostly live performances (and they're not actually that good live, imo) but still electropop! Heehee.

I just went on FB & noticed a lot of "I didn't feel the tremors not fair" statuses and comments and all I can think of is: What the shit? These are lives we're talking about.

So I started my srz mugging just this Monday, which is fairly late, by anyone's standards. Clearly I am not in the groooooove yet because HERE I AM ONLINE. But it feels good being brainy; I feel like telling my mother about telomeres & the Shine Dalgarno sequence. I actually really like the subjects I study! I still don't feel like I'm getting closer to solving mysterious dark secrets about the world; instead I think of and admire how much shit someone else had to do before I got the privilege (?) of getting to study the things I do: abstract concepts, things too small to be seen, things infinitely bigger and equally incomprehensible.

That said, I wish it would just be December already! Poo.

Spent two-thirds of the long weekend on PW, and no time mugging at all! But PW put me in a very good mood because honestly, my groupmates are AWESOMESAUCE. :D Today when we were finally done we played badminton! I am kind of grinning stupidly non-stop now because I'm in such a fantastic mood! WOOHOO~~~ Plus my family spent the entire weekend trying to do MJ's iconic Smooth Criminal dance move, except without the special shoes so we can only tilt about 3 degrees, haha. My dad's really good at it though!

The dangerous proximity to the Promos hasn't really hit me yet!! I kind of wish I could just not take them and count on my CT grades, in which case I would appear completely and totally awesome; but it wouldn't be fair to myself.

In any case, I'm allowed to slack for now cos my throat hurts quite badly, I have a throat infection. ): I hope it goes away soon cos I drink way too much water right now and too many toilet breaks spoil the ~mugging concentration~. 

Gosh I can't wait for December! MUCH LOVE TO THE FRIENDS LIST, NOW I SRSLY BE STARTING MY HIATUS

Mock paper for Bio today; I can't believe I woke up at 7am and as of now (4pm) have not fallen asleep! I woke up around 11 am for the past few days so this waking up at a single-digit hour of the day is quite new to me. Anyway: didn't really study for the paper except for doing 158127597545 MCQs I fully expect full marks there!!! Whatever, really, this isn't important to me and I didn't put in much effort at all. I finished damn early (mostly because I didn't know how to answer haha!) and started writing, "NOKIA X6, YOU ARE MINE" all over :D :D

O the Nokia X6. I want to buy it purely based on aesthetic value (omg the white/blue one; it's so gorgeous) & its function as a music player (32 GB storage!!!) but really it's quite impractical for me! It's got functions that I don't use and a touchscreen which I can predict, will be killer for me to use because of my fat fingers ): It's coming to Asia next month! It's really expensive though, 450 euros D: I made my daddy promise to buy me it if I get straight As for Promos (unlikely) so yeah whatever~~ incentive to study! :)

Alternatively I could get the smaller one, X3. No touchscreen and smaller space but much more practical. No way near as gorgeous. ): But much less expensive. Eheh, I should try to pass the Promos first plz

!!! A couple of nights ago, I realised that Channel 8 was showing The Return of the Condor Heroes again!! Does anyone remember it; it's an epic set-in-the-pugilistic-world kind of show. Christopher Lee is the male lead and Fann Wong is the female lead; surprise surprise, it's just a run up to their wedding right! But it's so cool because I remember really liking this show when it first screened in primary 1, I think! Old Mediacorp shows are the best :D Now I just watch and cringe cri cri WHAT ARE YOUR FAVOURITE MEDIACORP CHANNEL 8 DRAMAS?