hey friends leaving for the airport in half an hour, taking the plane to frankfurt then new york then boston & i'll be back on sunday morning (around 5am) so don't call/sms! you can email though (:

& bock hazel lari if i don't get your stuff i'm v v v sorry! but we can go thrifting when i get back (: (:

& bock liying eden START ASSEMBLING THE MOVIES COS IT'S MARATHON TIME :D

why yes, my capitalisation is Highly irregular. case in point. i know most of you (okay, maybe just fik) think i am stupid for putting in so much effort for SS but i started at midnight hahaha by whining to my mother about how i am going to fail SS and she sat down with me and TAUGHT ME EVERYTHING AND HOW TO REBUT ARTICLE ONE which is fantabulously awesome. my mother usually is her Big Mighty Smart Assertive self in the office (i know, i've seen it) but at home she is a mother and a wife etc etc etc so it was really cool listening to her tell me all sorts of things i did not know about the singaporean economy and i was like hey, this is her job. like to know all these things. and every morning while she waits for me to haul ass out of bed she reads Money and the Business Times and the Financial Times which i find bloody boring, sorry, and she listens to 938 live in the morning which surprise, surprise, actually helps! when i get to school i actually know most of ST's headlines and sosf. well, significant thoughts:

1. the happy planet index/happiness index is FOS. you may figure out what that stands for. singaporeans rank #131 and palestinians at #45. haw haw.
2. the whole human development index and human potential > economic success & wealth thing reminds me of philo. like positive liberty and who determines what our positive liberty is and all. i saw in in this post, the last bit reminded me of negative & positive liberty la. i'm sorry i think it's interesting! and it's silly of me to apologise considering the audience of this lj. this means you, 412ers.
3. it is pwnage to have a mother who is a human capital partner when you have to talk about human development in your SS essay. pwnage. seriously.
4. I ALWAYS THOUGHT ARTICLE ONE WAS DUMB AND NOW I HAVE TO MEANS TO REBUT IT YAY YAY YAY.

this is mostly my victory post because i KNOW that when i come home tomorrow i will be too concerned about MY SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED POSITIVE LIBERTY rather than the things i have just typed ha ha ha. also quite randomly i am glad that i did not take the philo options because they sound very interesting and all but i'd rather not write 2000 word essays during options which is supposed to be FUN. my options have relatively slack assignments (presentations etc) so yay.

ALSO i talked to hannah lois for 6 hours straight today which explains the Increased talkativeness. it happens every time i talk to her for too long like last year 23rd Feb 2007 i remember the date because it was SLI and resulting in me kidnapping her verbosity for a long, long time.

i have a blatant disregard for punctuation, go me! :D

options are out, bbs.

i am in material science which has a grand total of 30 PEOPLE and considering i did not bid for a science THIS IS REALLY QUITE COINCIDENTAL. eden is in it too (a lot of 412ers are, so that may improve things) but o dear empress dowager for three hours a week she is going to unleash DEATH GLARES GALORE. i hope she forgives and forgets about that tshirt design. -hides.

i didn't get the SUPERHEROES!!!!!! option and yea verily i am greatly saddened. you know how i love superhero movies. though the recent oversaturation is really killing things for me... but i digress. i have film as art instead which ain't too shabby either, i was considering that too and anyway i have much love for all the lang arts and humanities modules (except maybe business and entrepreneurship, but that's redeemed by mr chew) so s'all good.

^ ok this is embarrassing bbs i checked the codes wrong and it looks like i Will be cosying up to my favourite fictional immortals EVAR. plus i hear snair is the king of snark so that should be fun.

rereading the previous paragraphs, i think my brain goes a little haywire past midnight. filtering system ceases to function entirely or something.

anyhoo i am now UNLEASHED UPON THE HISTORY RA GIRLS HAHAHAHAHA CHERIELLY NEO F34R M3!!! by this i mean that i got mr law's option which i did not bid That much for but i am obviously not complaining. SOUND OF MUSIC WOOHOO I REMEMBER THE GIANT SWASTIKA FLAG, AND ALSO THE SINGING AND DANCING.

during dinner my mummy messaged me with her blackberry to tell me that she was pretending to listen to PM lee (of course my parents weren't home for dinner. how many nights out of the past two weeks have i had dinner alone? er, let me see. every single day) and that i should study.

i need to sleep. i am clearly going to fail chinese tomorrow but then again WHAT IS NEW. SECOND LAST CHINESE EXAM EVER (HOPEFULLY), YO. also, tomorrow i am going to drink coffee at starbucks with lois like...there is no tomorrow. yeaaaah. and also no bottom to my wallet. let's just pretend.

before i go
I AM EXCITED ABOUT BOSTON SHOPPING ~~
the end

okay i figure i should record what happened during the exams because i am almost sure that i will forget it. every time someone asks me how my week was i can't answer because i don't even remember what happened in the week! such are my memory skills.

english essay: FINISHED IT! is the important bit. it should be Okay.
bio: was quite terrible, but it should be okay too.
lit: the compulsory question was terrible, but the other one was fine.
math: blech. i thought it was quite Sneaky.
philo: was fine too?
english compre: i don't know, i didn't feel like i covered enough points in the summary ):
history: was completely expected, haha, i wonder why.
chem: was much easier than expected, and i had half an hour left! did the bio department and chem departments switch places without me realising?

another thing to note about the exams: I HAVE FINISHED ALL ESSAYS SO FAR. miraculous. i don't think how i feel about the exams are any indication of how well i'll do in them, but i think it might be better than the MYAs :0 well the MYAs were actually fine, except for SS and chinese (but then again when do i ever do well for chineswe). so they big question is SS, because the MYA was Really Bad and ): article review scares me now. plus, i don't think i have the Important Notes.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TEACH ME SS TOMORROW AFTER CHINESE?
and slightly more importantly, who wants to go out on thursday :D

again, this post is completely inane, i just need to record this because i Know i will forget.

ok i really have to stop eating/drinking while studying. i eat/drink
-famous amos cookies
-sultana biscuits
-ferrero rocher
-japanese ice cream
-honey stars
-pringles
-sky flakes
-raisins
-apple juice
-yakult
-milo

fail fail fail. i indulge because i figure i can lose the weight later. which i will. i actually haven't put anything on yet, and there are only four more exams days to go!!!

i must also stop attempting to study online because the internet is a major distraction. i go to
-ONTD
-people.com
-style.com
-postsecret
-facebook
-gmail
-hotmail
-bbc.co.uk
-wiki (but this i use this to study, and not do the whole wikipedia-surfing thing which is really distracting)
-youtube (but not so much anymore, i think i've run out of stuff to watch (please don't prove me wrong)

i can't help it the first three links are full of things to look at and facebook text games are my ultimate exam weakness. ):

CLEARLY, I AM GOING TO FAIL MY EYAS. on the bright side i know all the celeb news there is to know, and can probably win you at word twist/text twirl.

i just read my past few entries and realise that i persistently sound like i am on crack. they are mostly hyper and bizarre and incoherent. i know i don't really bother filtering my thoughts before i type them out here, which makes them very difficult to understand. this is because i often do away with punctuation, spelling, grammar & hehe capitalisation. so this is my attempt at a slightly more sober post. it is somewhat half-hearted because obviously, i'm not trying, but meh.

today i did not study for lit. this is very bad. however, i did spent the weekend on it, which is good. hopefully, good things will happen tomorrow. e.g. i will be able to wake up on time for the paper.

the house has been so empty recently. it's a weird feeling. i only see my mother in the morning when she sends me to school (i'm usually asleep, though) and if she comes home for dinner. she sleeps early so i really don't see her much. my dad and sister are overseas, they're usually the ones i talk to on a daily basis. especially my dad, we have these long conversations when he fetches me from school (this is partially because i am a brat, and partially because he really wants to). my sister didn't spend a lot of time at home in the months before she left, but i miss her a lot ): my nightly routine is screwed up now, because i usually barge into her room to talk to her before i sleep. except when i'm sleeping at 2 or 3...but if she's awake then, well. (:

now there is an empty room that looks to be vacant for a long long time. it's sad. i don't know if it's a good thing that there's no one at home, since it means there are less distractions and more space to study. having space is weird, i have endless places to study (in my sister's room, where the desk is clear, in the living room, because my dad isn't there watching TV, on the dining table, because there's no junk on it except mine, in the study, because my dad's laptop is gone and all his other work-related stuff too). it's weird. all day it's just me and my maid and occasionally my grandfather wanders from his spot on the porch to his room upstairs. it's so quiet, the only sounds are my maid watching the olympics (she watches waterpolo and softball. go figure) and i don't listen for the car in the driveway anymore because my dad is overseas.

basically it's a very strange feeling.

i think my attempt at a more coherent post has failed. i don't know, you tell me. meanwhile i shall continue not studying lit. hee.

crazy day today, f'srs. let us look at it in reverse.

( from 1-8! :0 auspicious olympic numberz )

ok gotta go now i forgot what happened before the table tennis match (other than my tuition teacher totally cancelling on me...again. i deserve it because i've done the same to her before oops) and plus I WANT MILO.

ETA: yesterday when we got the team singapore postcards elissa and becky lined them up and scribbled all over them ('I LOVE KOBE BRYANT!' 'MICHAEL PHELPS LOVE' 'CHINAAAAAAAAAAA' 'NASTIA LIUKIN!') basicallly cheering for everyone but singapore. tsk (: at least we didn't scribble on li jiawei like ahem some other classes. my contribution? 'I HEART RONALD SUSILO'. i am brilliant kthx. oh & 'weightlifting is sexy' & 'PRK MYN HEART HEART dictatorships need love too'.

yesterday was very fun :D

1) i loved national day celebrations in school, they were saved from being absolutely cheesy by mr toh (who refused to sing!!!! ): ) liying looked so cute :D her legs suddenly looked very very long :0 and jacq is a total supermodel except for the way she walks hahaha.

FAVOURITE JOKES: "no, this is cornier!!!" -whips out picture of an eye && HDB FLAT + NEWATER PUMP. i have to admit it was pretty brilliant. well done 415ers (x

2) went to ps with mariel lari short & thong and bought stickers from daiso!!!! yay i shall cover my calculator/laptop with them :D & the crepes from saybons are super nais too.

3) vegetated at home & went for bible study, which i really needed after a long long week. ugh. ): school is terrible.

4) came home at around 10 and intended to sleep but my sister & sharm's party was in full swing so i couldn't resist sticking around heehee. took a billion shots with my sister's gorgeous new dslr to entertain myself and hung out with amanda the commie. they invited her acsi friends and sharm's hwachong exco and their mutual sc friends. and there was japanese ice cream which was FAAAABULOUS :D

5) olympics opening ceremony! was pretty damn cool. but scary, omg. amanda was like 'look for screw ups! look for screw ups!' when there were like 20836840247895 drummers pounding away simultaneously. we were very amused that pretty much everything used man power instead of mechanics, which i put down to the fact that china's biggest resource is probably their cheap labour (x

when i came online about 5 or 6 people were raving about how hot the flagbearers/athletes were (they were! it's because symmetrical faces are more aerodynamic etc, not joking) my friends are such hormonal teenagers. (: luv u guys :D

ok gotta go my grandaunt brought her wii (okay that sounds weird) which should be pretty fun (: though the last time my sister and i played wii she took like half an hour to design her mii. hoho.

BY THE WAY i think having NDP right after the olympics opening ceremony is kinda sad because well it is a lot less spectacular, just as a general thing. like i said yesterday the people involved in the olympics opening are probably totally honoured to be a part of it whereas singapore needs to dangle CIP hours in order to get kids to sacrifice their saturdays at NDP rehearsals.

1) today i discovered that when i pin up my fringe i can stay awake in class WINZ!!!

2) my sister's university roommate has met obama!!!

3) _____ is putting together childhood photos for the party, i forsee much embarrassment CRI CRI

4)i love parties yay yay yay

5) dilys ong has a new dslr and is being disgusting and annoying!!

bunniez :D

( the ennegram thing that lois & charisse took )

funny thing is that i remembered getting a nine two or three years ago, and i thought i would change but i really haven't. haha. when i think about it i guess that's true. the first part of 'what's hard about being a nine' makes me laugh, it really does. not that it's not true, it's just ironic. but yes i find it all very true like lois & charisse did, and like i did the last time i took it.

i am very amused by the interrobang behind the 'You are not completely happy with the result?!' i find it very funny. (:

i felt like i explaining what i agree with in the results but it pretty much speaks for itself. though i got the niggling feeling that if i read through the other results they will be 'very true' for me too. so i did (the ones at the end anyway), and it's true haha. nine is how i am feeling right now because i am being slacker and escapist (this is my specialty) the others are selves that i put on for other people (i don't show people my DISC because they will realise that the graph representing my outer self (can't remember which one that is) is very different from the inner one. haha. that is supposed to mean a period of transition/inner conflict. i suppose, though, since i have broadcast it over the internet it is not much of a secret :0). that was a long aside. see how i meander?

anyway there is always to much to blog about after the weekend because that is when i have fun. honestly for the past few weeks it's been like living two different lives, weekends are when i can go out and have fun, sleep, watch tv, read fables, spend lotsa time in church, shop, spend time with my cousins etc. very excellent (: weekdays are pretty much giant cesspools of pain and suffering. okay, maybe i exaggerate a little but it's not pleasant at all. the only things that make it bearable are friends & the fun we make for ourselves. and is that right? not really, considering i actually like learning and sosf. it's just very very hard to enjoy it when i feel like there is a GIANT SHADOW LOOMING OVERHEAD. i will leave that for you to interpret as you will.

another thing (yes i ramble) is that i feel like i am somewhere towards the tail end of a very big transitory period. i guess that could be secondary school life or schooling in general or having my sister at home or sec four or rgs or term 3 or teenagerdom (not a word, clearly), i am not entirely sure. but i know that in the next few weeks things are going to change a lot, and fast. there are so many endings and last times it makes my head spin. i'm not very welcoming to change but going to hwachong by myself (not really, there's tiq but you know what i mean, right?) is pretty much charging headlong into it.

to trail off a bit hahahahahahaha hahahahaha there is a picture of jeremy on facebook at his waterpolo invitational or whatever and there is him looking like a tiny tiny little thing next to this giant european waterpolo player and this is terribly funny because to me jeremy is a giant & he is going on about how much bigger he is than me hahahahahahah failz. :D ok no more laughing i am supposed to be caring encouraging etc (x

hokay yeah like i said there are a lot of things i could blog about but i won't because no one else is interested!!!! except me. to summarise i have a lot of fun in kaleo and my friends amuse me greatly. yay for terence i finished fables volumes 7-10 today & before i go on another rant i'll shut up.

today i visited my grandaunt in the icu bought neverwhere in graphic novel form had a giant cookie played word twist with ivan lost at word twist pwned at word challenge discovered i was addicted to facebook word games nearly lost my mind was very amused ate too many m&ms.

yesterday i handed in my history pt felt really good about it was pretty broke went to the national museum went to nafa sat around at a bus stop went to church was late for dinner was confused was happy practiced being invisible re-read interview with a vampire.

it's been a great week. even though i nearly lost my wallet and faced much drama with the whole chem pt thing. i am excited for my cousin (you will find out why in a week) excited for my sister (who is leaving soon, i will miss her a lot a lot) and excited about next year in hwachong. (:

i have a meeting with mrs tan next tuesday and i've been having weird dreams. most of my sentences start and end with different ideas. disjointedly i am missing meeting cool new people, i meet cool people and i meet new people but i like meeting cool new people. this probably will not make sense to you.

things i forgot to blog about recently:

1) RHD. i don't think we were all 'this is our last RHD let's savour it' it was more like sitting around camwhoring like mad. it is fun being ridiculous (EXTREME SPORTS! ok now GOSSIP GIRL! okay TITANIC MOVIE POSTER!!).

2) PTs- but i guess since they're over it doesn't matter. though staying up till 4am is really not fun at all.

3) guides farewell! i cried and cried and cried, which is surprising i guess considering i didn't cry at previous stripings. it's all gayle's fault but aah i love my batch and i will miss it so so so much i think march camp and aa were absolutely brilliant, especially march camp because mynah was so bonded & no one will understand how much that means to me. (:

4) humans quiz live round was funny and embarrassing but i got $60 out of it so yay. all guides team ftw!

5) bible study has been really really good. (: i need to be a better accountability partner to jeremy and isaac haha oh dear. i keep forgetting to sms them. ):

6) 412! my goodness. i'm pretty sure we're the only class with such blatant disregard for school timings. so many of us just stroll in whenever we want. i'd be really interested to see our blue slip records as compared to the other classes (x most of them probably get one a fortnight, we get two or three a day. last friday was the absolute best, six blue slips & gayle coming to school during the last block, with us waving our arms and yelling hello from A block (such a class video moment) and then stella coming in five minutes later. and of course sydney being the earliest of the latecomers. brilliant. (:

Getting Into Hwachong

22nd July, Tuesday
Judgement Day

glen arrives home with a beatrice loo in tow.

"aunty, has the mail come already?"
"yes, it's on the table!"

glen glances at the table. there are two flyers and a bill from singtel.

"...does this mean i didn't get into hwachong?" glen is sad. D: D:

glen and bea sit on the patio and do math. glen is bewildered by question 4 And question 1a And assignment 2 (she is doing her math homework wildly out of sequence). she has instead opted to lay her head on the patio table and make dying noises while beatrice progresses smoothly through revision exercise 4.

the phone rings. a phone conversation ensues. it seems that glen has gotten into hwach :0 :0 :0 :D :D :D awesomesauceeeeeeeeeeeeeee :D

beatrice however is less thrilled and tries to convince her to go to acsi (ha ha ha not working)

23rd July, Wednesday
Sign Your Soul Away Day

glen runs off immediately after guides ends on wednesday in order to FLY to hwachong before the office closes at 6. she reaches there at 5.57, with the aid of her daddy. inside the only lit room in the admin building are three people: two staff members and a security guard who is swearing into the phone in hokkien.

glen proceeds to sign her soul away. it is very exciting.

24th July, Thursday
Everyone Finds Out Day

well, everyone finds out. the end.

25th July, Friday
Bible Study Day

glen goes into one of the rooms on the 5th floor of her church. sharyn is folding her rjc uniform into a nice little pile.

"sharyn, i'm going to hwachong!!"
"(: that's nice."
"please don't tell joel."
"why!"
"because he is joel."

26th July, Saturday
Day After PT Day
glen sleeps for twelve hours.

after which, glen meets several of the LD potatoes at the play in which cheriel grabs a hapless boy and sexually assaults him.

melissa yoong says, "OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!" olivia is slightly more sober, though perhaps not in the alcoholic sense.

27th July, Sunday
Joel Finds Out Day

"i haven't told joel i'm going to hwachong yet."
"what? why? CAN I TELL HIM??"
"NO!!!1!!!1!"

dil drags glen towards joel anyway. what an evil non-step-sister.

"jo, glen's going to hwachong humans!"
"oh, congratulations!"

joel offers glen his hand. glen takes it, suspicious.

"do you want me to introduce you to mr B? he'll remember me, i got a distinction for my econs S paper. actually, he'll forget for a while, but if you tell him i'm the dancer he'll remember me."
"how nice. please let go of my hand."

joel offers glen advice about hwachong, such as,
"join a CCA outside humans. which means, other than ELDDFS."
"don't do KI. there's no money in philosophy. and you can get it for free from pastor!"

jon, who is sitting besides joel, is very amused. joel makes more terrible jokes and laughs like a llama-hyena crossbreed, while glen is mildly overwhelmed and sits there politely.

End.

ETA: to supply some background information, joel plays the bass guitar and dances salsa. he sings very well, but has a tendency to use his red bass as a machine gun and to do passe turns down the central aisle of the sanctuary. he also laughs like a hyena and dan calls him the llama. he, unfortunately, is a GEPer, and also transfered from raffles to hwachong. he has a Thing for econs.

(that should explain everything)

i am gifted...

...at falling asleep. e.g., on teensy economy class seats, on the floor in an amara sanctuary villa, on a bus bound for mackinaw, in math, in chem, in history, in chinese, on 1/8th of a bed during guides chalet in sec1.

...at finding tv episodes online. case in point, finding all the grey's anatomy episodes from seasons 1 to 4 on ONE WEBPAGE. also, finding friends episodes for my sister.

...at being messy.

...at filling up large, random spaces with doodles. unfortunately my powers dictate that the doodles be of the flying-elephant sort. thus i had to turn down mr lau's request to fill in the spaces on the APCG facils' cards. if not, they would have seen flying electrical appliances (e.g., toasters) or large flying mammals (e.g., walruses) flittering across their envelopes. (:

...on Christmas Eve.

...at making awful puns. (watten rise! oh no better go to NTUC & buy a new sack <- this may have been eden's, though)

...at staying up way past my bedtime (okay fine i don't have one) to do things like make pointless lists.

okay i think i am quite done with not-being-funny. i greatly anticipate tomorrow!!! i think avril(?) or joel(?) is teaching during kaleo && terence is passing me more fables && CUPCAKES YEY plus i have dinner plans which is always exciting (ok not really).

GOODNIGHT FREDDY (yes i took him home) /hyper. (:

when i think cupcakes i think cuppycakes like in the strawberry shortcake song, you know the one that liying secretly knows all the words to (and frequently torments me with them).

anyway yesterday i baked oreo cuppycakes (click for recipe!) with my seeeester and the Thing. they were Yummy except for the part where my sister wanted to make frosting- she got a cream cheese frosting recipe from the internet & d00d it was quite awful. i mean, if you don't mind cheese it's fine but it was a little bit bizarre. this was batch #1: i call them the monster cupcakes (er if you see pictures you will know why...i may or may not have gone a little nuts with the decorating). i brought four to eden's house today and she says they are good but i haven't eaten any (i can't bear to, f'srs, it's not like when i bake cookies & there are SO MANY i can eat like, three).

today on the way home from eden's i got an sms from sulynn (not lai su lyn) my bible study group leader & tomorrow is our turn to do the refreshments, so ya i was all set to bring my monster cupcakes. but then i thought :0 might as well make somemore so i came home and made 24 cupcakes, finished up the chocolate frosting (store-bought) and then (DUN DUN DUN DUNNN)

i made the best marshmallow frosting known to mankind (click for recipe!). I KID YOU NOT!! it is tasty & the texture is lovely and my hand nearly fell off whisking it but I LUV IT.

ya i ruined it slightly with my lack of an actual piping bag/my lack of actual piping bag sk33lz but heh everything looks better with colourful sprinkles. SO NOW THEY LOOK GORGEOUS.

k i am obviously not being modest today. hahahahahaaa. i should sleep soon so that i can wake up for church tomorrow! i am so excited about the cupcakes.

okay i hate it when there is so much to blog about and so little memory space in my head (y yes it is very limited, did you not know?) SO I AM SPLITTING THINGS UP.

this post is for What I Did At Eden's (no not SS PT)

today during AMBers eden and i decided that i would visit her house :D so after AMBers we had chicken rice at home (mine) and then we embarked on an Epic Journey to Punggol Seletar Hills Drive. LAUGH IF YOU MUST BUT I THINK IT IS VERY VERY FAR AWAY. and does seletar hills drive not sound suitably epic??

we wasted time looking at EMBARRASSING PHOTOZ OF ROSYTH GIRLS including one of a Little hannah lois ng with her neighbourhood walk group (mabel, gloria & eden) the funny part is that the camera has captured her knocking over someone(eden?)'s waterbottle. classic. oh and there is one that is really the most abnormal class photo ever: someone has no face (cheriel, her hair is covering it entirely), someone has three legs and three arms (gwen, lois is completely invisible behind her, save for the EXTRA LEG & ARM), there are multitudes of bizarre expressions on the boys' faces (i told eden to bring copies to the first day of orientation, but she wouldn't D:) & siying has this pose that seems to say 'look how weird my class is'. i love it.

ya & after a few hours of doing SS PT the rain let up & we decided to surprise cheriel. after inflating freddy (he's our inflatable flamingo!!!!!!!!!!!) and donning some shrek ears, we proceeded to the mama shop to buy a pair of pears & a heart-shaped toilet brush. so there we were, eden with lime green shrek ears & a red plastic bag (with a pair of pears), and myself hugging a giant hot pink flamingo.

our plan was to stand outside cheriel's house and call her on her handphone. we decided to hide around the corner instead (a road runs perpendicular to cheriel's house, it's called JALAN KELUMBONG). eden calls cheriel's house. previously, i had smsed cheriel to check if she was home (under the pretense of coordinating a RHD costume) & eden had called her house (under the pretense of checking the SS PT deadline). this is how the conversation goes.

-phone rings.
cheriel's dad: hello?
eden: (in polite Speaking To Adult voice) hello, may i speak to cheriel please?
cheriel's dad: okay, hold on.
cheriel: hello?
eden: (vith accent) COME TO JALAN KELUMBONG.
cheriel: WHAAAT?
eden: COME TO JALAN KELUMBONG. WE ARE VAITING.
cheriel: what on EARTH is going on?!
eden: COME TO JALAN KELUMBONG NAAAAAO.
cheriel: whaa-
eden: (hangs up)

freddy is a lookout while we formulate our plan. we were going to yell 'SUPPLIES!!!!! HAPPY 19TH JULY!! in bolivia, it is customary to give friends a pair of pears on the 19th of july!' but instead, cheriel does not show. we are about to call her when SHE CALLS EDEN. :0

eden: WHERE ARE YOU?
cheriel: what is going on?
eden: COME TO JALAN KELUMBONG. NAAAO!!!!

a car backs out of cheriel's driveway (we are peeking around the corner from jalan kelumbong). we scurry like ants, thinking that it is 1) a lookout to see what is at jalan kelumbong or 2) cheriel being too lazy to walk the 10 metres that is between her front gate and jalan kelumbong. instead the car drives past. how odd, but nevermind.

after waiting for another lengthy period of time, we call eden and establish that CHERIEL NEO HAS BEEN STUPID ENOUGH TO GO ALL THE WAY TO SELETAR HILLS DRIVE. INSTEAD OF JALAN KELUMBONG. AND, BEING A SLOTH, HAS GOTTEN HER DAD TO DRIVE THE 500M THAT IS IN BETWEEN THEIR HOUSES. HONESTLY.

The Stupid One returns in her dad's car. we pounce like pouncing animals. IT TURNS OUT THAT CHERIEL NEO DOES NOT KNOW WHERE JALAN KELUMBONG IS. HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED HERE, CHERIEL NEO!!!! I EXCLAIM. um, six years? no, eight. oh wait, ten. MY GOODNESS, ARE YOU BLIND???

CONCLUSION: CHERIEL IS LOUSY AT BEING SURPRISED. LOUSY. LOUSY!!!!

also instead of being greatly amused (as we were) she is bewildered and indignant. what a lousy surprisee. i tsk loudly. ALSO, SHE DROVE PAST TWO OF HER CLASSMATES HIDING BEHIND A CORNER WITH A PAIR OF SHREK EARS & CLUTCHING A HOT PINK FLAMINGO WITHOUT NOTICING. CLEARLY, FAIL.

okay next post: cupcakes. (:

( as somewhat of an introduction )

( getting to my actual point )

( wandering off-track )

( to come back to the topic at hand )

( to sum up with an unrelated ending; mr toh would be horrified )

the many lj cuts are really for fun they all lead to the same page & i have a real problem with run-on sentences, y'all (caitlin/kaitlin/katelyn/catelyn etc)

this morning in church i saw people i never expected to see again!! so thankful and happy and blessed :D ebe (it is short for ebenezer, i am not joking) is back to study for two years & looks like he came straight out of biblical times (really). leanne & chris came back to visit which was very much a pleasant surprise (: we went for lunch & talked for so long we were late for the walk/hike-thing at the southern ridges trail. (: um also possibly because i decided that i needed to go shopping. i now have 2 more skirts & a roxy belt and a pretty vest with lovely buttons (: /brainless

the walk was very fun we were a bit late so we took the steep route to catch up. it was totally no joke, like taking the steep path to the summit at BTNR. but yep we caught up and evan was so relieved because she thought i wasn't going to turn up (leaving her stranded with the guys & her younger sister&co.) the bridges (there's henderson wave, the very very long treetop walk & alexandra arch) were so gorgeous with a great view. only downside being that it was very crowded. ):

& this is what happened during dinner: i come back to the table after buying my drink.
dom: 47!
ian: 49?
me: what on earth is going on?
dom: we're guessing people's weight! :D
me: ...that is possibly the least fun game ever.
josh: let's guess glen's weight! 45!
dom: no lah! i guess...44!
ian: 43!

i was so amused & hugely flattered i love it that they have absolutely no sense of estimation. (: obviously they are completely wrong but i shall pretend they guessed correctly hahahhaha. what deceit.

yes then ian found out i was applying to acsi and was quite disturbed by the fact that i wanted to go there instead of rj. he is the third person in three days to want to kill me for that (evan & leanne thought i was nuts, but i'd prefer the change. i think?).

not that i mind going to rj. i thought i had it all figured out, finally, but i seriously don't know anymore. i think i'm just going to wait for the DSA results to come out (i could get both- not likely, hwach only- i have no idea?, acs only- i don't think i can get in, or neither- quite likely) and see how. it's really all in His hands and i realised that committing it to God doesn't mean praying hard that i will get what i want, but rather telling God that i'm okay with whatever outcome, and that i trust Him to make the best decision for me. it's really just letting go of it, which i have. that gives me peace of mind...at least until the letters come in :0

i'm really not confident of getting into acsi because there are 27 places, so i think they want sportspeople, and yesterday when we were having dinner at thanying we saw, er, people who no sane acsian will ever want to run into on a weekend. and they gave me the impression that i didn't get in. maybe i should have mentioned mariel so if they really liked the food they'd let her in :D the food is awesome, mariel shall get a sex change so i can marry her and eat pineapple rice all day whee. (:

i keep doing these, they're fun (:

( meme from stellaaaa )

i don't even know what chipper means, but it seems happy :D

( meme from xiner )

the celeb launch at indochine was pretty awesomesauce, it really makes me wish i had more time to dedicate to ONE. unfortunately it is really the smatterings i can spare, while i sleep through recesses and get horrific gastric pains like i did today. be yourself day was quite fun i think 412 is the most kickass class ever because everyone else was so boring (: and we apparently hog the mike during Q&A sessions lolz.

the hwach interview was Fun, i got to meet the infamous mr barnard, & the first thing he said to me was, "ah, glenys! I KNOW WHO YOU'RE RELATED TO." and i said, "well, that was fast. O.O" nat chin was there too & ya ok not much else to say about that.

anyway cheer up mok i will buy you ice cream Someday, & we must plan the halloween party & post-FAM party & post-FAM trip & tour-of-japan so that things actually happen!!!1!

i want to go to a library ):

i read part of fables 2 last night which is part of the reason why i slept so late (the other part of the reason being the bloody textile industry) anyway to show my gratitude to the Supplier of Graphic Novels i shall lend him MAUS, which is totally one of my prized possessions. i should show it to mr chew.

1) so i didn't update after lunch. i went for a haircut at next in holland v. next is the Best, i love it & am so going back. the service is excellent and the hairdresser doesn't screw up and you get warm drinks (it was raining) and nice (& current) magazines and a shampoo + massage before the haircut which is also awesome.

2) and we went bargain-hunting for Cheap Crap at song&song and miscellaneous holland v shops. (: i have a new top & my sister has some warm stuff for boston yay.

3) the presentation on the liberalisation of the textile industry is officially the dullest thing i have worked on. really. economic globalisation ftl.

4) okay no more time need to save our collective asses in terms of the SS presentation tomorrow. the SS dept sucks how do they expect us to do this, realistically, considering we don't take econs? or am i missing something here and is econs not necessary to study this.

5) my hwach interview is tmr and i haven't prepared, oh joy.

6) still need to blog about saturday & sunday. okay important part: terence lent me volume 1-3 of fables :D & i read the first one last night. the thing about terence is that he is Damn Weird but we get along marvelously, which frankly scares me, haha. my sister says it is a gep thing and i say it is the fact that he has 8 volumes of fables and all the volumes of sandman and he is going to lend them all to me! -excited!!!!

7) the ss dept sucks, i actually need to understand a topic in order to present on it. maybe they don't get that.