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Monday, September 19th, 2011
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so i haven't posted here in eons...i don't really feel like i'm missing much though. most people have moved off LJ; there are more ways to stay in contact now but hopefully not any fewer reasons. it's sunday night or rather, monday morning at 1.30am and i am doing my usual ritual of rushing my assignments/readings and i don't understand why i Never Learn to do this stuff earlier in the day, or even week. maybe i'm just bitter and complacent and lazy. eh, scratch the 'maybe' - it's probably true. anyway i am procrastinating enough for me to churn out another post on another LJ that no one will read until a month from now (haha) so that says a lot about my priorities.
today i watched a japanese movie on TV called 'Departures', about a man who takes on a rather unique job: one in which where he "assists in departures" - by preparing dead bodies in a traditional japanese ritual. anyway it was a really sweet, touching movie and i enjoyed it and here is my favourite quote
long ago, before writing, you'd send someone a stone that suited how you were feeling. from its weight and touch, they'd know how you felt. from a smooth stone they might get that you were happy. or from a rough one that you were worried about them.
sounds like something out of History Of Love, doesn't it...tbh if i were angry i'd just throw the damn rock at the person instead. right now i feel like hurling rocks, so go figure.
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
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Is it very immature to have "favourite" things? I can't think of a favourite food, a favourite movie, a favourite book, a favourite colour and all my "favourites" are underlined just because I have a "u" in them. And now the word looks weird. But honestly though because I was trying to figure out my music taste: I like sincere acoustic songs, I like some trashy clubby songs, I like KPOP, I will kill to hear Amsterdam by Coldplay live in concert, and I love a good movie soundtrack (like Spirited Away or Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence) played with a full orchestra. Whereas if you asked me when I was eight who my favourite singer was, for example, I think I wouldn't have skipped a beat before replying BRITNEY SPEARS. Maybe it's because we know so much more and have a larger range of choice, or maybe because we're told we have to be open-minded, or maybe because it's dumb to like only one thing wholly and completely because there's no way anything can be that perfect and what we do is pick and choose, mix and match.
Also I have a blister on my left foot, this is what I get for exercising. Me and exercise, clearly we are not meant to be.
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Sunday, December 12th, 2010
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EDEN: *announces* I am going to take a catnap.
MUM: *keeps reading newspapers*
EDEN: I am going to get some shut-eye.
MUM: ...
EDEN: I AM GOING TO CATCH FORTY WINKS!!!
MUM: Can you, please, just go to sleep.
EDEN: I may never use the word 'sleep' again.
So, the exams are over (and have been over for MORE THAN A WEEK!~) and although my days feel curiously empty, I much prefer this kind of lifestyle, thank you very much. Been spending time catching up with my friends and playing copious amounts of mahjong with my family. Also celebrated my 18th birthday, had an Oxford interview, painted my nails, played badminton for a mere hour and for that am currently aching along the entire right side of my body. I have not held a pen for more than a week - in fact, I am not sure if I am able to hold anything in my right hand - because my forearm is in a SORRY STATE, it is aching so badly.
Anyway post-As was supposed to be hipz and hapz like learning horse-riding or shopping my way down Orchard Road or exercising or doing something worthwhile with my life instead it is more like hibernating & occasionally leaving the house only to crawl back home before anything hipz or hapz actually happens because I am a hermit. LJ has also been very unhapz. I am a hermit and a bum and I'm going to crawl to bed now, after winning $110 in plastic chips at mahjong, bow to the Queen you guys.
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Monday, October 4th, 2010
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ok it's 12.48am and i am SO CREEPED OUT no joke i can hear this odd wailing/crying/meowing coming from my garden it's a whole cacophony of harmonising wails and it's really audible from my room it's like PIERCING THROUGH MY WALLS and RINGING IN MY HEAD i know it's just the neighbourhood cats or something but it sounds terrifying like a crying babby you know and i really hope it's not a crying babby in my garden, i will freak out and weep~~ i would switch off the lights and shine a torch into the garden but i'm SCARED OF WHAT I WILL SEE a voldemort babby??? mating cats??? idek and i am so sure i'm the only person in my whole street awake now :'( what if i'm just HALLUCINATING THIS WHOLE THING sobzsobz if you don't see me in school tomorrow you know what happened omg a momentary pause aggslgksg oh SNAP it's back ok this is horrible i'm going to plug my ipod in kthx
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
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8.28pm today
MUMMY: Girl ah you have an insect on your head.
EDEN: Haha mummy. It's my hair clip.
MUMMY: No, really, it's an insect.
EDEN: GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!!!
My worst fears have been realised, you guys, I'm officially rotting at home on my ass.
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
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Story of my life, the more time I have, the less things I do. My sleep cycle is whack, I went out 3 out of 5 days for extended periods of time, I took 2 hours naps every single damn day and basically did a lot less work than expected over this long weekend...fml, I have no discipline, I get into exam mood about 24 hours before each paper - I don't deny that it works, but it's time to make the time that I have now COUNT. It just sucks that there's so much shit to do rn: regular schoolwork (assignments), allocated revision, my own revision, decide and plan my future and write essays and play up my achievements lolol and I need to cut my nails as well! As I type this omona is loading in the next tab and my ELL paper is lying ~abandoned~ on the floor. Sheeeesh. And H3 prelims are in 3?4? weeks HOW SCREWED IS SCREWED? Damn screwed. I swear I'm gna stop going out after this week and Imma hide at home in my sloppy clothes with pen ink smudged all over my right hand. So overwhelmed right now hahaha but it's oscillating between being thrilling and exhausting and hot damn I can't type on this keyboard when my nails are so damn long
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"You know, it seems to me," he said slowly, "that I have spent my entire life waiting, and I don't even know why. Even when I was doing things, I was waiting for what was going to happen after I'd finished doing them - and never enjoying that, because I simply started waiting again, for the next thing. I suppose I was waiting to become happy, although what I was doing was actually preventing that from happening."
Tara smiled broadly. "Some people seem to think that happiness resides only in being able to look ahead to a certain future," she said. "But what does that mean? Happiness often comes precisely at the point that life seems most uncertain."
The Juggler, Sebastian Beaumont
Read this on 31 December 2009 and took it down because I KNEW IT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR DAYS LIKE THESE ):
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
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omg, need to stop talking like this "DIRTY TABLE IS DIRTY" or "STUPID BOY IS STUPID" because in my chem paper i wrote "MOIST RED LITMUS PAPER TURNS RED" fml fml fml
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The full extent of my DEDNESS FOR CT2s has yet to strike me... two weeks? Sounds quite long to me. However considering that I wake up around 10 or 11 everyday, which naturally means that I don't start work still after lunch (~2pm) and there's three more discs of Mind Your Language to watch, and World Cup matches etc. = dead. But I don't feel particularly stressed yet... maybe cos I've been ignoring Bio. Damn you, Bio!!! >:( So content-heavy for what!
Anyway RCLF IS OVER~~~ I had a lot more fun being a facilitator than expected, probably because my group was really easy to deal with and they were really self-motivated & mature :) I imagine I would have had a much harder time if my group wasn't as cooperative/on the same wavelength as me & the other SIGLs, Kailin & Sebastian. Plus, omg, from my group of 12 people alone there were liek 4 DSLRs? Camwhore ttm my camera-radar has never been this alive before *_* But for the first day and a half I was dying from the amount of ~friendliness and enthusiasm~ that I had to exude!! Needed some anti-social alone time damn badly; I didn't talk for an hour after I got home! Anyway I got to know my J1s better, and met damn nais people so all in all, it was a much better learning experience than last year! ^^
Then I painted my nails and they are kinda messy but it just feels nice to have them a dark shiny blue :) Looks great from afar/when your eyes are half shut/when the room is dark - I definitely need some skillz upgrading! They will entertain me as I study (or try to study). Yay!
I don't even like to watch football, usually, but I will do ANYTHING (this includes exercising and bathing in cold water) to avoid studying. Watched the first half of the Opening Match and sry but it was really, really boring... D: Then the moment I stopped watching they scored -.- Today I caught first half of Argentina & Nigeria, I think it's over by now but it was x100000 more exciting than South Africa & Mexico and I think I finally understand why people like soccer! O: Tbh I think it's kinda long and drawn-out to watch but when it's exciting IT REALLY IS EXCITING~~
I don't have cable and we didn't buy the whatever Starhub/Singtel package so my family actually watches the matches on an Indonesian channel, which for some reason we can receive. The only problem is that the reception is DAMN BAD so there's this buzzing on the screen all the time, which matches the buzzing that the 1000000 vuvuzelas make in the background. Also it looks like there are 66 players on the field at any time because each player has 2 ghostly images. Damn confusing when the players cluster around the ball. It makes for very interesting commentary for me "PASS TO HIM PASS TO HIM NO SHIT WHY DID HE - oh, he's not real, damn!"
June needs to go on forever, pleaseeeeeee ):
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HOLIDAYS, PLEASE START FEELING LIKE HOLIDAYS ):
This is not the way to enjoy my last June holidays ever! Granted I haven't been doing anything very heavy (i.e. ignoring most academic subjects in favour of pretending to be working on facilitation plans - hate being a friendly facil, damn tiring la!) and I'm honestly terrified of studying for Bio; I don't even want to start. *_* I have studied a grand total of TWO CHEMISTRY TOPICS~
Anyway my brother just came back from a shoulder surgery so he's got this massive supporting sling thing which makes him look like Jax in Mortal Kombat, except not as buff (kombat is just one letter away from wombat!) and a one month MC so he's going to be hanging around while I am not-studying for exams till the last two weeks. It's funny how everyone in my family who actually exercises is injured in some form (my mum & her arm, my brother & his shoulder, my dad & his back) and here I am, just chillin' in my ~perfection~ and non-exercise-filled lifestyle.
FML this studying schedule isn't going to work out!!!
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the last time i did this, i actually did well for GP, so here i go again: please, please, PLEASE let there be a question that i can slip kpop references into! (all the best, everyone! exams are so lame.)
*~GP GODDESS VIBES~*
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
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money i spent today:
1) $10 class fund, siala i still haven't paid for last month's.
2) $2 lunch
3) $1 almond jelly
4) $1.50 squid on a stik from old chang kee
goodness. must keep track of where all my $$ goes!! we have this running joke in my family that whenever i withdraw money from my bank account it "come from my scholarship money" but that's only $750 a year which translates to an additional... $2 a day. that means 2 almond jellies from fruitful fruits stall. i am such a bum. ): i should work!!! in a book store or something. which reminds me of the post that i did in sec 4 about the plebeians that work in Borders. anyway if anyone tries to buy Twilight/other books i Disapprove of, i will refuse to ring it up; and i'd have to look for a new job soon enough.
accidents that happened to me since yesterday
1) kena squashed by MRT doors when i tried to ninja my way in
2) hit my head while getting off my school bus
3) LEG CRAMP IN MY SLEEP, shit this is damn fail
so i complained about leg cramps damn loudly throughout morning assembly and i was advised to eat more IRON (so i SMSed my mom and told her to cook me spinach I ATE A WHOLE PLATE & i don't even like spinach sobz) and POTASSIUM (why hello there, bananas) and SODIUM (idk i'll drink my ban mian soup tomorrow or something). nocturnal leg cramps are horrid things. i thought i dreamt it up. but when i woke up i realised that my left leg hurt like i ran 5km hopping on my left leg only. so it was REAL ):
subjects i am hating on at the moment
1) bio because of the lecturer, sorry2say
2) GP because i got an E (omg, the first non-A/B of my entire JC life, crying) for going OUT OF POINT, idek, fail
3) maaath. just because.
things i have been doing in class instead of listening
1) drawing fake tattoos (this is Great Fun)
2) persuading joshua to fake-faint in front of various teachers
3) looking through aly's phone Gallery and realising that it has photos of me in Compromising Positions that may be Misconstrued as vulgar poses e.g. when i am doing the PEACE sign, aly frames the shot such that i look like i'm flipping the camera off (i.e. my index finger is not in the picture) and am very pleased about it, wah lau!!
erpzerpz idk how to feel about life atm, so i will just go and google nocturnal leg cramps now, bye.
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
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I WOULD RATHER HAVE A BOTTLE IN FRONT OF ME THAN A FRONTAL LOBOTOMY
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Oooh it's 3.14pm - PI TIME!
I'm mildly sick today. I've got a sore throat and my nose is blocked and I have to drink this awful herbal tea ): My body is telling me NOT TO TAKE THE H3 TEST TOMORROW which my brain happens to fully agree with considering that I don't know ANYTHING except stereoisomerism at the moment, and even that not too well. In addition, tomorrow's the dumb day with 4 hours of free blocks and only Bio practical to contend with. And of course H3, which I am *this* close to skipping. I... printed all my H3 notes (haha backlog ftw) but now I actually have to read them, and I don't want to because my head's all stuffed up and groggy and heavy.
After ELL on Friday I went out with Hannah Lois and we spent FOREVER looking for a pair of shoes for her in Far East Plaza. WHO IN THE WORLD CANNOT FIND SHOES FROM FAR EAST PLAZA? Answer: Hannah Lois, omg. I nearly expired from frustration and her indecision - I hope you are reading this, Hannah! I also didn't buy anything, goodness knows why. Shame on me and my self-control, hmm. And later that night 3Q went to the Night Safari for our Learning Journey! It was really fun actually! A far cry from what I remember from my previous trip(s) to the Night Safari. I don't actually recall seeing any animals then and I cannot understand why.
So I came home water-deprived and sleepy as anything and I woke up the next day - SICK. Thanks a lot.
My great-grandmother passed away approximately 2 hours ago, aged 98 (I think). We just celebrated her birthday in January. She wasn't doing too well back then, but it was a stroke last month and sudden degeneration from then on. And she managed to hang on until three of my aunts & uncles returned from overseas on Friday. Amazing. I wish I got to see her before she went (not that she remembers me now, anymore). I always thought she was damn cool because she spoke English pretty well :) :) Rest in peace.
I'm all alone~ at home now in my sickness, sobz~~ maybe I will go read my H3 notes and fall asleep on them. Hope the CTs went well for you guys; it was better than expected for me and my one-week of intense chionging, so. So much to look forward to in the months ahead! x)
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010
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OK IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT: I HAVE COVERED HALF OF BIO, HALF OF CHEM, ALL OF MATH (YAY) AND NONE OF ENGLISH. All things considered, this isn't too bad! For CTs and Promos last year I mugged for two weeks for both and did well enough. I'm really stretching myself with one week to cover three subjects (why yes, ELL is not on the agenda at all) but urgh. I don't really care at the moment~ I wake up at 10am everyday! I have a strong internal clock and apparently I hit my brother this morning when he tried to wake me up. Ooh, vicious monster. I've been having damn epic dreams everyday! Like the action-packed kind so I kinda have to KEEP DREAMING to know what happens! On Monday I dreamt I was a spy - when I tried to recount the dream to my mother I sounded like an idiot ): It involved me running and vaulting over my back fence into my garden; it was kind of awesome. Cannot unsee this, everytime I walk past that stretch of road. On Tuesday I dreamt of my Drama Fest cast at rehearsal and it was EPIC FUNNY except I cannot remember how!
My mother has managed to get me off my lazy ass so I've been doing BRISK WALKS, like an old person, around my neighbourhood. 5km brisk walks! Very brisk! Heehee now the word "brisk" looks really bizarre. Ya anyway it's more tiring than it sounds ): So even if I don't do well for CTs (this, probably) AT LEAST I EXERCISED. HA. Now Imma listen to more Timbaland and Katy Perry, If We Ever Meet Again is so bloody catchy I don't even
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
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I haven't posted in super long and even though nothing terribly exciting and earth-shattering worthy of a post has happened, I still feel like I have to type something here... hmm. Ok I really need to focus and do my work because CTs are damn soon and I cannot hope to magically ace them again like in J1! But I'm so lazyyyyy and there's other stuff to do! Like watch Fringe! Oh my it is so exciting, and I haven't watched Glee yet either oops. So much to watch, so little time. But I'm really horrible when I get hooked onto a drama series because I will stay up to obscenely late/early hours watching and have my entire sleep cycle reversed, as is what happened during Dec when I wasn't overseas.
Anyway I wasn't online for ~5 days because of Take 5 and Chinese New Year but when I came online but holy mama, so many FB notifications! My classmates were having an Unrelated Conversation on my photo aifjasgaraweuh not good, you guys, you suck. Take 5 was quite fun I guess. But it was very hot and sticky/sandy (lol I'm so whine-y obvs, it's a beach) but I got ~free popsicles~ and a lot of camwhoring done with osm ppl from my class so yay! And then after that class lunch + I BOUGHT DENIM SHORTS FROM ZARA YAAAAAAAAAY + meeting up with Glen/Becky/Liying/Lari <33 free B&Js love y'all. Went home and... watched Fringe, I think. I didn't even get vaguely darker from spending the day in the sun!
CNY this year was good :) last year there was not much gambling because my brother and cousin were away at the army SERVING THE NATION so mahjong did not happen. This year? We all picked up poker and my other cousin brought her actual set of poker chips & everything, man it feels awesome to play with that set! I'm not too good at faking people out yet haha and I've got no guts to challenge people when my cards are actually decent. You live and you learn! And mahjong marathons this year were damn EPIC siaaaa. I lost $44 when we were playing one double = twenty cents, IDEK HOW THIS HAPPENED D: D: D: $44 is like one angpao leh!!!1! Next time Imma bankrupt the cousin, he's not reading this but YOU WATCH OUT!!! That money is coming back to my pocket! Ya but the good thing about CNY was catching up with my cousins, we always lose contact over the course of the year, which is sad, because we were really close as kids! ): And getting to know my grandma better lol. This means she pwned my ass a few times over at mahjong. Yaaaay for large families with many cousins! :)
Sia last night I slept damn late (4am) so this morning I didn't do PE aaand I'm basically functioning on two and a half hours of sleep... I should go do work and bathe. And watch Fringe hahaha~ ok ok focus Eden go go go! Urk what a lame post
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
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I was in RI Popular today buying book-wrapping plastic when Kaiyang picked up a book and showed it to me. I laughed very badly and then felt a bit bad. Here's why.
First, the book: The Missing Page, by Douglas Chua. Surprise, a local publication! The blurb is as follows:
In the 21st century, an ancient document with far-reaching political implications for Singapore and Malaysia is accidentally unearthed. The discovery threatens the very sovereignty of Singapore, and as the news spreads, a no-holds-barred race develops to get the document, code-named The Missing Page. Soon, even the prime ministers of Singapore and Malaysia are involved. The action takes place in Singapore, the Malaysian North-South Highway and lush Cameron Highlands, leaving in its wake a trail of death and destruction. Special agent Alex Han stumbles upon the case while investigating a series of seemingly unrelated murders. Events spiral into an explosive climax as Alex confronts the mastermind who is after...The Missing Page.
I'm sorry, but am I the only one who can't take this blurb seriously? Trail of death and destruction? Explosive climax? Horrific use of the ellipsis to attempt to build up tension? In all fairness I haven't read the book (I actually think that I will, in future, just to see what it's like - but there are some reviews online complaining about its terrible standard of writing, but others complimenting it. I'll leave it to you to see here.) but somehow just because it's set in Singapore makes lame. So terrible right, I know I should be encouraging the local literature scene but I just laughed very badly at the story summary on the back of the book. ): Also, the fact that it's about Singapore-Malaysia relations is such a Singaporean thing to write about. Death and destruction, y'all.
Anyway its sequel is Crisis in the Straits, with another blurb that. Well. IDEK.
The Malaysian ambassador in Singapore is gunned down, triggering a crisis which threatens to escalate into full-scale war. At the heart of the row is a secret document, codenamed The Missing Page. Special agent Alex Han, a decorated hero, is the only one who knows the whereabouts of The Missing Page. Accused of murdering the ambassador, Alex is torn between country and family as he confronts two men who will stop nothing to possess the document - vicious killer Othello and fanatical diplomat Mustapha. The tension mounts and Malaysia invades Singapore, bringing to a head the Crisis in the Straits.
ICWYDT, ending with the title! Ah-ha! Now I'm really convinced to read it. What do you guys think :)
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
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So I opened Raffles Connect, and this is the first thing I see: Welcome back to a new year of PE! No, PE Dept, just no. Height and Weight is next Monday which has spurred me onto a Diet! (Obviously I say this a lot, and it is not happening, except I really have a lot of cherries to eat at the moment because my dad got suckered by Devious Fruit-Seller. And anyway I am totally allowed to eat cherries.) And NAPFA, I hate you so, so much. Though probably not as much as the boys, because it doesn't determine the standard of my life for the next two years or so. Anyway I really want to do some new sports this year seriously, like tennis and volleyball and get beyond the rallies that last only a serve and a return. But YOG construction is everywhere, obviously I'm assuming it's all YOG related unlike the other strange and minor changes the school makes like changing the clocks to a centrally controlled system and changing the cutlery in the canteen. Things I like: the track being under construction and hence not available to students for PE (!), but cactus garden takes the cake. Best. Thing. Ever. I hope some unsuspecting J1 stumbles into it; it will honestly make my day.
First day of school consisted of a lot of Chemistry, Chocolate and Fik. My Monday timetable is really odd though, I only have Chem practical block followed by afternoon PE (joke) followed by a couple of hours and then H3 Chem which ends at 5! Whereas Tuesday timetable is ultra-packed, which reminds me that I have a test tomorrow that I am not prepared for. Yes anyway I distributed chocolate today like nobody's business (this is part of my plan to Remove All Junk Food From House By Means Other Than Consumption) and had fun and happy tiemz~
Wah just re-reading this post is really annoying... I kind of want to delete it, but not really, so there's something wrong with me. I AM GOING TO CONTINUE WATCHING FAMILY OUTING, YOU GUYS. F.O. WITH T.O.P >> studying Bio.
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