you're such a BOLONGY!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

I think today's my best birthday ever.

I don't really like name listing cause I've always felt it was a tiny weeny superficial. I'm too objective. But cause I really want to thank everyone who celebrated my birthday with me today, so I'll be superficial on my birthday. A sidenote: I'm going to start on my new blog template soon. Birthday gift for myself. I push tutorial deadline back to... next Wednesday cause I'm happy today. Oh it's the first birthday I've spent in school, really good one at that.

A few groups of people to thank [in chronological order]. I dedicate you a paragraph each cause you guys really made me feel warmth and you know, the emanating friendship and such. I sincerely want to thank each and everyone of you. I SWEAR I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH!

VJC wushu for the double failed attempt at smashing the cake on my face, for purposefully smearing the cake over my face and not giving me tissue after, for the celebration and song, for the fact that the whole team's present there (really, that's enough already!) and for the taupok. It was kind of awkward but it's really okay! Thanks for being there!

09S65 for the celebration, the cake as well as the "laptop". But yeah, cool gift, got great design concept! Some of your messages really make me smile to myself, we're a cool lame class, just hope we could spend more time together and know each other better okay! And Perle's "cats locked" instead of "caps lock"!!! I LIKE.

Ivan and Leong Ying for the personal gifts, the letters from both of you (which really mean a lot), the box of Honeystars with a spongebob in it and cans of Nescafe - my weird antics for not falling asleep in lectures, as well as the loud squeaky duckies which never fail to make me laugh. I could actually use the duckies in lectures too. But yeah, whacking them during As next year would certainly help me reduce a few strands of white hair.

Vball guys, (esp. Shiyi and Wen Han) who sent messages and previously thought my birthday was on Tuesday, who momentarily shocked me by buying me a cute small bear which I didn't expect any guys to purchase - with the vball fund (haha). I just checked, cause I thought it looked a little familiar but yet somehow not so much. I bought the exact same bear for myself (yeah I know its quite sad - I did it together with my cousin)x 1 or 2 years ago when I went Genting and had a lot of money to spend. Different packaging and different brand but same bear!!! Seriously, is this 默契 (team chemistry) or what!

And then there's PHOENIX CHEER! For the long blindfolded detour around the school to get to LT5 which was about 15 metres away from where I was. It made me kind of dizzy. And I was really afraid someone would shock me with a cat. (I had nightmares of Ping Yao bringing a hamster to school cause he once joked that he would do that someday. I hope it was really a joke) But then thank you guys again, all... 12 who were there, the box full of Bolong biscuits, the shirt I camwhored in, the muffins and the card. Some of your messages were really really hilarious, and the muffins were made by Wenxin's sister who was my DHS wushu junior but didn't know the muffins were kop-ed for me and probably didn't know it was my birthday! HAHA But yeah, thanks to all of you for the huge surprise, the fun 10 shots camwhore (Ian's desire to block all of us with his monster face) and everything else that Phoenix's always done together!

Lastly, there's Yuting, Sieweng, Jieting, Sandra, Angell, Liqin and Tzuhsiang! For the huge and extremely unexpected surprise for turning up at VJC, the nicely designed photo frame and photo album, the t-shirt and also the huge board of messages. For the company, the past few years and everything else.

Also thanks to everyone who sms-ed, or saw me in school and gave wishes, handshakes or hugs. No need for name-listing cause you guys know how much that means to me. Right?! :) THANK YOU YOU GUYS. I LOVE YOU FOR LIFE. Oh yeah anyway I'm going to kop this cool phrase I saw from some stranger's blog in light of my new blog. It was something like... "I blog because I want to experience life twice. Once in the moment, and another in retrospect"

6:31 PM

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Yet another reflective post, read it if you must.

I just did a quick planning in my head. I'm going to finish my lesson tutorials by this month. [I know I planned to complete that like 3 weeks ago already] And whatever else I deem a holiday is made up of. "School" will start on December, and it'll be hardcore mugging. Before that, I have an urgent need to create a new blog template and buy a new pair of shoes amongst other things. I hope I'll really get to work in December, I'm taking too much time to get myself "ready" to take on a hardcore mugging lifestyle. It's almost impossible. I'm going to live on and ignore the fact that some people are already studying harder than me when they've got 3As, and are planning to study even further. To make my life happier, I'll ignore that and pretend everyone else isn't planning to start. Yeah right.

Just got back from celebrating Yuanhao's belated birthday today. They threw me in and celebrated my birthday with the cake anyway. So Yuhding gave my first present this year. THANKS! Somehow I realise birthdays are becoming increasingly less important to me. I really don't even give a hoot about my birthday anymore. Still good stuff - those birthdays, a great chance to get friends out and catch-up huh.

Interjection: Happy Birthday to Leong Ying and Joseph tomorrow!!!

Anyway here's the reason why I'm blogging today. Yuanhao's birthday celebration ended pretty early, I got back to Serangoon around 10pm so I thought I had some time. My parents wouldn't be expecting me early anyway, so I took a walk. With Zee Avi on my iPod, and my spectacles worn on my head, think it was really enjoyable. I suddenly understand the beauty of clear vision. I've been living life with blur vision, an inability to look into minute details, not even being able to recognise people in school/on the streets. Vanity. Walked from the busstop wandering into weird alleyways and then back, and somehow my legs brought me to "Serangoon Sunshine Park". Whatever, it's just this mini-park opposite my house, and this is the first time I've went there even though its... 1 year and 13 days old. Exactly. It was pretty cool. Precisely the kind of place I'll want to loiter around with a few close friends, hang out and talk about life through the night. It's pretty empty. This was the best my 3.2 megapixel phone was able to capture. Can't see anything too bad.

Anyway I think I'll be going there more often. It's quiet, and especially relaxing. I know, it's kind of weird right? Walking around a park alone when it's almost midnight? But fuck it, I think it's really awesome. I enjoy it. All these really make me appreciate Serangoon. I've been always complaining that Serangoon's filled with old people, parks and it's completely lifeless. But now I'm starting to understand the beauty of it. I've always dreamed of a big house in town, now I think I'm having a change of plans. I'll just buy over my neighbour's house from them. Serangoon's pretty awesome. I hope these don't change with the new mall coming out. Think my house's located quite well, a busy mall on the left and a quiet park on the other side.

You know, there's so much of things you gotta discover. I thought I knew Serangoon well, but a walk around my house made me saw so many new things. A dark-lit house seemingly left abandoned halfway during construction, a park with such captivating beauty, the mysterious alleyways. I love Serangoon.

10:59 PM

Friday, November 13, 2009

PW is nearly over. There's only I&R left. The presentation didn't go too well - think it was just okay, but there were definitely better times. Kind of screwed up my Q&A, got asked some weird question. The rest of my group members were luckier, I guess. It's time to relax.

On a sidenote, now that I've brainspace to think about my life:
I need to get a new pair of shoes and a new storage disk. Mine crashed a few weeks ago, so I lost everything that I don't have a copy of in my computer. Large videos, all my secondary school work etc. The rest I'm not too sure. Still hoping for a miracle though. And my old pair of sneakers is really annoying me. The recent monsoon season's resulted me in arriving home everyday with a pair of feet completely soaked. I've a hole at the sole of my Converse.

Okay tonight must sleep early. I've still got 2 more days to start working on I&R.

9:04 PM

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

singindork888 on Youtube. Can't stop listening to his songs, I was supposed to start on I&arghh this morning at 7.30am, but I've been looping his songs, and constantly spacing out. I've done half a paragraph so far, and I gotta get my ass out of my house cause I'm (going to be) late for meeting.

One more thing - it's really time I change my blogskin, but who the hell'll've time to do it? I need a bigger blog entry space.

9:45 AM

Monday, November 09, 2009

I just finished ep. 6 of Skins. It's pretty cool. It's a 2007 show. Cool guys weren't wearing skinny jeans or slim fits then, they wore straights, or boot-cuts at most. Skinny jeans were for gays. Think Cassie/Maxxie's most good looking. (That's the 2 blondes on the right) But uhm, I feel for Chris the most. His episode's been the most... emotional. My brother tells me season 1's not worth the time but it gets a hell lot better in season 2. So yeah for that I'll continue. But in any case it's not too bad. I recommend it. Get a break from brain-busters like Fringe man!

Ivan's right. Watching movies and drama serials are a thousand times more... valuable than playing games. So I gave up my 2-week affair with Neopets, gave up the goal to accumulate a million Neopoints in my safety-deposit-box. For good - I hope. Woah, wait I haven't told you? So I started Neopets 2 weeks ago when I logged on to Icytower on Facebook, and it told me it's server was full so I couldn't get it. Like what the hell huh. I've quit Icytower since. Anyway because my personal score ranking's dropped from 2nd in my friends list till a spot which I can't even see on the vertical list, without scrolling down. I don't know where I'm at now... maybe 10th? And back to Neopets, I created an account for a day, then I managed to crack out a birthdate I've fakely set when I was in primary school. So I managed to log back on to my old account (with 800plus thousand) and 4 freaking awesome Neopets. And the games were still pretty fun anyway. Then I've been hooked ever since. I'm pretty good. I make like about 30k a day.Okay I've just make a quick decision: I'll show you my awesome Neopets. Mynci's the one with good stats (albeit ugly) but the other 3 looks awesome right!

Oh yeah and one last thing. My brother's goddamnedscary. I don't know it's like he is totally un-worried about the A' levels. It's worrying me instead. Like firstly he spends thousands on tuition but yet he doesn't even work. It's like math tomorrow and I just saw him Googling "signs of failing the A levels", then after an hour "lady gaga new singles". He did go out and study this afternoon, but I mean - who the hell in the right mind would choose to listen to new singles instead of getting sufficient sleep for the A' levels?

Swear I'm going to be consistent next year. So I wouldn't screw up like him. On a sidenote, ~~some classmates~~ or maybe just one classmate is really scary. I don't know if I'm supposed to be... inspired and motivate myself to do the same or... just dislike that person.

9:18 PM

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

A Phoenix Halloween! I'll let the few pictures do the talking. But still yay! First time I've actually dressed up for Halloween!

10:31 PM

Friday, October 30, 2009

"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
Albert Einstein.

Especially true. That's random, and I still don't have time to start working on my new blogskin. Too much OP to do.

10:29 PM

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Training this week's been almost crazy (volleyball, wushu, volleyball, wushu, volleyball). Volleyball's training 5 or 6 days a week I think Chi Shun's crazy. Kidding, but not bad lah we 6 [once in a blue moon 7 when IP kid Marcus joins us] people still have quite a lot of fun. No lessons but everyday it's PW at 11am then training till 8pm. PW's not always at 11am cause I'm late most of the time - half an hour, 2 hours... yeah you get it. I'm never punctual. Plus I don't really look forward to it so that's even less incentive to arrive early. Yeah, on my left knee alone I've collected 1 bruise from wushu, and 2 pricks of dots plus 2 patches of scratches [RHYMES!] from volleyball.

Oh volleyball ran 7km continuously along ECP today, the first time I did a non-stop 7km, it nearly killed me. Furthermore we ran after a whole day of ball training. I bought $4 worth of drinks after that to reward myself. Continue like that and next year NAPFA I sure own. I'm so healthy now I could fight a lion. Not cats, please. I've got muscle aches at my neck, shoulder, ass, thighs and calves right now. I kinda like the feeling - reaching home at around 10pm, having dinner, a bit of work and then lying down on bed filled with muscle aches and extremely tired. No insomnia, I fall asleep within 30seconds. A very good sleep at that.

OH YES Phoenix's having a Halloween together! ZOMG first time I'm going to dress up for Halloween! I'm really really excited teehee! Cannot imagine the number of photos we'll be taking. I'll be bringing my DSLR, so that will be a spam. Lots of details not ironed out though, we still can't confirm who's going, going whose house to dress up, going where for the actual night. But still!

Oh yup and one last update: Facebook's changed its new layout, no highlights, no nothing. Just livefeed VS newsfeed. Apparently livefeed's every single thing that's happened to every single contact on my list, while newsfeed's those receiving a lot of attention. Nothing in between. Which sucks. So I'm going to reduce Facebook usage, look through newsfeed and that's the end of my Facebook session. It's almost impossible, but the 7km run's told me I could push myself hard enough to withstand it. YES I CAN. Notice I'm using a lot of fancy words/colours? I don't have any photos to post up my blog's getting boring.

9:33 PM

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

I've got goodies again!

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio. "To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.
My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more: "

" 1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first pay check.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
<31.>32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and showup.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift. "

Remember that friends are the family that we choose for.

11:22 PM

Monday, October 26, 2009

So you know I was playing Icy Tower on Facebook and listening to Jump and Fall by Taylor Swift (yeah, check it out, her newest song). Irony much, but she promises she'll catch me when I fall!

I think I've ran out of things to do on the Internet. It's getting really boring. I think it's the reason why I've been watching loads of DVDs this week and anticipating every new episode of Glee. Life's boring and I've no mood to study either.

12:56 AM