2012

So 2012 is ending. We're all still alive (I assume), no thanks to those conspiracies. On 21st Dec 2012, I was on a plane flying from Taiwan to Singapore. Like a boss. ;)

Let's take this time and reflect on our actions throughout the year; what we regret, what we don't, and correct our mistakes. That's what the teachers would say.

To me, 2012 is a complete waste of my life. I've wasted one year rotting in junior college with people I don't like, doing things I hate (aka studying), and destroying my brain cells for no good reason. Really, there isn't a single person in my current class that I will contact in the future. The relationships are so damn superficial, so shallow. But maybe that's just me.

If I had known this was how JC life was gonna be, I would've gone to poly. Really. The chances of me entering a university now and if I had gone to poly are the same. 0%. That's how bad things are. I've lost the motivation to study because no matter how hard I try, I don't get results. It's very discouraging. I should've gone to another school. My school is too hard-core studying. Not my style. At all. It's wearing me down.

Oops I'm going off-topic. XD
Alright bye people. Bye 2012. I'm going out for countdown yeah~~~

I'd wanted to post more than I did last year, but then I got too lazy to do that. :p

Food for thought: laziness vs introversion... Is "lazy" really laziness?

Movies

I'm no professional critic, but these are just some movies that I really like. :)

Favourite Action movie.... Ironman.

Favourite Chick Flick.... Pretty Woman.

Favourite movie Soundtrack... Tarzan (Disney).
Runners up: The Little Mermaid & Lion King (all Disney).

Favourite Comedy.... Toy Story 3 & Kung Fu Panda 2.


Undiscovered gem: Osmosis Jones.

It's one of my favourite movies as a kid, back when I didn't know what osmosis meant. :p

MERRY CHRISTMAS and goodnight everybody (it's 2am here).

Age Gap (Couple)

Just wondering about different people's different views on the acceptable age gap between a couple.

My mother is 6 years younger than my father, and between you and me, I already think there's a little generation gap between them (lol).
A 6 year age gap is surprisingly a very common number among my parent's generation. The age difference between my friends' parents is about roughly 5. 6 or 7 years.

Why? Guys don't dedicate themselves to the army for so long. Why the big age gap?

My friend once asked me what's my acceptable range. For me, the max is 4 years. Then she asked if the 4 years was a plus or minus, or plus and minus?

Until I'm at least 28, that 4 years is definitely a plus. My mother once warned me not to date a younger guy, and I'm spreading this to all the females out there. Most younger guys have not yet matured (guys mature later in the first place) so if you date a younger guy, you're just giving yourself more things to worry about. He may not know what he's done wrong, but to you maybe his actions are irresponsible and insensitive. Just a heads up.

I think the age gap also depends on your age. For example, I think a 18 year old guy with a 16 year old girl is unacceptable. 16!! It's almost pedophilloic, despite the mere 2-year-age-gap. However, a 28 year old with a 26 year old seems normal, nothing wrong.

Let's widen the age gap. A 34 year old guy with a 28 year old girl seems acceptable, no?
How about a 20 year old guy with a 14 year old girl? Disgusting! Immoral!!

I read the news today about a former teacher being arrested for having sex (repeatedly) with a 13 years old boy. They didn't specify the teacher's gender (oh, the horror). Let's assume it's a female teacher.

Why? Really, why?? Sexual frustration? Oh, I'm sure there're a lot of (older) men out there happy to assist you. But a 13-year-old? Seriously? Disgusting.

Ugh this post is not going the original direction I intended.
I guess the moral of the story is AGE IS DAMN IMPORTANT. Especially when your partner is still a preteen.

Music Quiz Retake: Rusty Halo

Third time I'm doing this -hey, I like music quizzes. XD

1. Put your iTunes/Napster/Zune Player/WinAmp/iPod etc. on shuffle. 

2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer. 

3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS! 

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY? 

Kiss 'N Tell -Kesha

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL? 

I'm Into You -J.Lo

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?

Hello -Kelly Clarkson

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE? 

What Do Ya Want From Me -Adam Lambert

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?

Girl In The Mirror -Britney Spears

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU? 

Rolling Stone -Pixie Lott
*LOL I REALLY HOPE NOT. XD

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS? 

Kids Of The Future -Jonas Brothers
*Shouldn't it be the other way around...?

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN? 

Love Song -Sara Bareilles

*Quite true... 95% of the songs I have are love songs anyway. XD

WHAT IS 2+2?

She Don't Like The Lights -Justin Bieber

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND? 

A Place In This World -Taylor Swift

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE? 

Mama Knows Best -Jessie J
*LOL!!

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY? 

Something 'Bout A Truck -Kip Moore
*My life is so sad....

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?

Just A Game -The Hunger Games OST

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE? 

Written In The Stars -Tinie Tempah ft. Eric Turner
*Erm.. It's meant to be? :/

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU? 

We Are One -Lion King 2
*Not bad, iTunes, not bad.

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING? 

Tennessee Line -Daughtry

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?

How Could This Happen To Me -Simple Plan
*LOLOLOLOLOLOL!! So true! XD

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?

La la la -Auburn
*I'm not listening~

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?

Wanted -Alex Goot Cover
*I knew I should've stopped hanging out with those good-for-nothing criminals.

WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?

Stand Up -One Direction
*I beg to differ. It takes guts to stand up.

HOW WILL YOU DIE?

Talking To The Moon -Bruno Mars
*LOLOL the best way to die out of all three quizzes. XD

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?

Some Hearts -Carrie Underwood

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?

What's My Name -Rihanna

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY? 

Stuttering -FeFe Dobson
*What an unfortunate phobia to have.

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?

Don't Forget To Remember Me -Carrie Underwood

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?

Afraid -Vanessa Hudgens
*I'm just replying with the question. Bad iTunes. Fail at comprehension.

DOES ANYONE LOVE YOU? 

The Boys Are Back- HSM 3

*I GOT THE SAME SONG AS THE PREVIOUS ONE!! O_O Maybe it's fate or something...

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE? 

Tell Me Something I Don't Know -Selena Gomez

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW? 

Winter Wonderland
*A wonderland indeedy.

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?

Rusty Halo -The Script
*What a cool title!

Snow White Is Annoying

Watching Disney Snow White right now. Barely 20 minutes and I can't stand it anymore. I hate people like Snow White. She acts all nice and hardworking, but in actual fact all she does is manipulate.

She barges into the Dwarves' home, manipulates he animals into doing all the cleaning, then falls asleep on the Dwarves' beds. And when they wake her up, SHE SITS IN THEIR BED TO TALK TO THEM WHILE THEY STAND AROUND HER.

And then one minute later she lectures them on their untidiness. =_=
Quote: now you go outside and wash your hands, or you won't get a bite to eat.
In her sickeningly sweet voice.

Snow White is the master of slackers, I'll give her that. I know at least one person with the same ability as Snow White in my class right now. And yes, I did mention her on my blog.

She's very nice, very sweet, very sociable, very pretty (according to many others), she's hardworking in her studies and all. But regarding other stuff like carrying heavy things or doing volunteer work, she always manage to slack without making it obvious. It seems like she did a lot when in actual fact she just managed to coerce others into doing her work.

And then when I got pissed at her behaviour she got mad at me and started to ignore me. WTH. Of course since she's very nice and all a lot of people like her so there're always be tons of people who support her. I'm not reading her wrong. I've told her many times, to her face (but disguised as a joke) that she is manipulative. She always says "aiyah, don't be like that" in a very sweet voice and then laughs sweetly and change the topic. She knows what she's doing.

I hate people like that. Of course here are many out there who may not mind being used because they think they're doing something nice for a friend, but I'm not one of those people.
I am a strong-headed, stubborn mule which is not good especially if you're female. Because it tends to make other females dislike you, and we all know about the drama and backstabbing that only happens between females.

Bottom line, manipulation is a skill that will get you ahead in life. A skill that using have. But you know what? I rather have the "good" virtue than the "nice" skill, because being "nicely manipulative" is definitely not a virtue.

Just my two cents.

Movie Review: Rise Of The Guardians

Plot: When an evil spirit known as Pitch (the bogeyman) lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians (Santa, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Sandman, Jack Frost) must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.

My review: An awesome movie, really. A must watch, though not necessarily in 3D. 
For me it wasn't a laugh-until-belly-hurts movie but it has its moments too. While I don't think that it is an epic movie like I did Toy Story 3 & Kung Fu Panda, I will buy the Blue-Ray 3D version. :D
The movie is, in some ways, CUTE (lol).

Rating: 8.5/10 :) 
(I'm picky, so that's really quite high.)

Green Thumb

...... or rather the lack of thereof.

The Money Plant

Last year before the O's period, I wanted to try and grow something besides green beans. So my mother went and got me a small pot of money plant. The money plant is the easiest plant to grow, ever. It doesn't require much love and pampering.

Mine died within the first 6 months. Lemme clarify though. It is not my fault. The plant sorta self-combusted. The correct term: leaf scorch. It is caused by soil compaction, transplant shock, nutrient deficiency, drought, salt toxicity and herbicide injury. I didn't do any transplants, always kept it in a sunny place, watered once in a while and all that jazz. The soil I used was the soil the plant came with because I obviously don't have soil.

The Cactus

This year, I tried again with three mini-cacti. One a big, fat one with huge spikes, one a medium sized one with tiny needles and the last one the same species as the second one but smaller and narrower. Let's call them Pot 1, 2 and 3.

Pot 1 is still healthy and growing even though I've been waiting for it to die for the past year now.
Pot 3 is 90% dead but still hanging on for some reason.
Pot 2 is the problem.

To make things clear, my mother took complete control over the care of these cacti. All of my contribution is to provide a space in my room for them. Everyone that has ever owned a cactus before would know how dang easy it is to take care of a cactus. Forget to water? Nevermind!

She watered them with fertilizer water once every 2 weeks.

Anyway, what happened to Pot 2 is... Tragic. Pot 1 being the fattest is also the slowest in terms of growth while Pot 3 is the fastest. But I think my mother over-watered Pot 3 so 80% of its roots rotted off and we had to cut them.
Pot 2 had an ok growth. The round shape never did grow but a narrow channel did start growing out of the tip of Pot 2. It grew at a reasonable rate as well.
At first when Pot 3 died (we thought it was dead), I decided to just give up on ever growing plants so my mother transferred all of them to the living room, and that was the end of my contribution.

And then 3-4 months ago, I was feeling bored one day and decided to inspect the cacti. Then I started poking them with a chopstick.
Pot 1 felt strong and sturdy, so I left it alone. Pot 3 consists of rotted cacti fighting for survival so I left it alone too. Then I came to Pot 2.
Pot 2 is a bit smaller than Pot 3 and was of a different species. But when I poked it, Pot 2 felt hollow and empty, like a balloon.
So then I poked a little harder and tore apart the skin of the cactus.
Underneath, swarms of tiny little worms that had eaten the cactus clean out. The worms filled half of the cactus' cavity.

Most disgusting thing I have ever seen.

Me, being the coward without a green thumb that I am, shouted for my mother and she dumped the entire pot. I wanted to try and poke Pot 3 too but haven't really gotten to it.

You know the worst part? I kept the pots on an open-ended shelf at the foot of my bed, near the window where were the wind strong enough, the worms would have landed on my bed.

Oh sure, the worm thing is entirely not my fault. Based on the size of the cactus, the eggs of the worms had to be laid even before my mother bought those pots.


Conclusion

Safe to say that I am never touching plants ever again.

I'm A Boring Person

Well I'm sorry for not being 'energetic'. Sorry for not being 'hyper' all the time. Sorry if I'm soft-spoken and not 'interesting'.

I'm... how do you say, selective. And unfortunately for my class, I do not feel bonded to them. So I just don't inject so much energy in my movements and speech. It comes naturally when I'm with closer friends, I guess. Otherwise, I'm as boring as a talking brick. (Ok too exaggerated.)

Plus, JC has sucked my life force out of me. I'm tired 80% of the time, and the remaining 20% is because I'm so tired that I just start being hyperactive. I don't know the mechanism behind this behaviour, but yeah. It happens to me.
So when I'm hyperactive, there're only two possible scenarios.
1. I feel really close to you
2. I'm just damn tired.

My Oral Presentation is this coming Wednesday. SO SCARY.
The 5 mins that you babble determines 40% of your PW grade.
The Written Report that you slaved over for 6 months is also 40% of your grade.

I really don't like the marks allocation system. Not everyone is born a good public speaker. So unfair.

Ok off to doing PW. UNTIL WEDNESDAY.

My Stupid PW Group (Rant)

I really ******** hate my PW group. DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL.

Well later, at 4.30 pm is the due date for the submission of our 51-page written report for project work. And guess what? We need to submit both soft and hard copies.

Now guess what? NOBODY ELSE IN MY F------- GROUP HAS A DAMN WORKING PRINTER. Yeah, rightttt. So then guess what happened? I GOT F-------- TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.

No choice, who asked the teacher to choose me as the f------ group leader. DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL. I had to print 26 pages. FULL COLOUR. Oh, I was supposed to print 35 pages, but hey, I GOT MAD. Guess what? I am the one who has to provide the CD too SINCE THE REST OF THEM WERE BUSY SLEEPING.

Especially that stupid, damn, f------ DREW. I'll tell you his real name (very bad, but this is a warning to all of you out there in Singapore). HIS NAME IS ANDREW CHUA, AND HE IS A DAMN SLACKER.

When I texted him to tell him to print, he replied "no printer".
And then when I asked him whether he had a CD he DIDN'T REPLY.

AND HE IS THE DAMN FREELOADER OF MY GROUP.

I asked him to edit chapter 3, HE EDITED ONE DAMN WORD AND CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO SEARCH UP EVIDENCE ONLINE.

He's absent for 2/3rds of the year, missed 3/4 of our pw meetings, and in actual fact only did 1/9th of the workload. And that's being nice. I hate him. I hate them. But I hate him especially.
Who was that idiot who assigned the pw groups??? Well, you sure did a great job with mine!!!

Lesson learnt: Never ever ever become a group leader, especially not when you KNOW that your group is made of damn freeloaders and damn slackers. Wow, my most explicit post yet.

Reallly wanna spew f-bombs all over the place. But noooo, I'm a freaking angel.

Quiz Thing

Haven't done this in quite a while. :)
Was looking for something to post since I really don't like that creepy screen of "The Maker" as my first post.

Pick 10 artists you love, DO NOT read the questions beforehand!

1. Taylor Swift

2. Carly Rae Jepsen

3. Tyler Ward

4. Leona Lewis

5. Selena Gomez

6. Jackie Evancho

7. Bruno Mars

8. Megan Nicole

9. Kelly Clarkson

10. Charice

What was the first song you ever heard by 1?

Teardrops on my guitar

What is your favorite song of 8?

The one that got away cover

What are your favorite lyrics of 5?

None.. Her songs are catchy but that's it.

How many times have you seen 4 live?

Never.

What is your favorite song by 7?

....Nothing on you?

Is there any song by 3 that makes you sad?

Tribute

What is your favourite song by 9?

Because of you

When did you first get into 2?

When "Call Me Maybe" came out.

How did you get into 3?

Youtube charts.

What is your favourite song by 4?

Run.

What do you like about 6?

Her voice is pure goodness. She's an angel.

What would you do if you saw 10 on the streets?

Gape for a second or two.

Do you have all of 2's albums?

Nope.

What do you like most about 1?

Her lyrics. They're very expressive. Not many have that talent.

Of all the 10 artists, which is your favorite?

TAYLOR SWIFT.

Of all 10 artists' songs, which is your favorite?

Uhh.. How about I list my favorite song from each artist?

1. Sparks Fly

2. Curiosity

3. All The Wrong Places

4. Run

5. Whiplash (it's fun to sing XD)

6. The Prayer

7. Nothing On You (?)

8. The One That Got Away

9. Because Of You

10. Note To God

The Maker

This video is strangely fascinating.

Their other one, Zero, is much more happy and is just as good. :)

Panda Owned

This happened just a few hours ago in school when my group was still "hard at work" for project work. My group consists of 5 members: me, Fabaa, Jess, Panda & Drew, with Drew being the only guy.

Panda is the only one in our class with a boyfriend from the same school. She managed to snag the captain of her CCA, a senior, in just a few months. She pro. XD
So our class kept teasing her about it. Let's call her bf Dada (pronounced as DaDaaaaaa~ in a very annoying voice).

Panda was thirsty and she transferred water from Drew's bottle to her own.

Panda: Hey Drew, why does your water taste sweet?

Me: Must be his saliva.

Panda: No, it can't be! Saliva tastes salty, not sweet.

Me: How do you know what saliva tastes like?

Fabaa: AHAHAHA!!


OWNED YEAH.

DO NOT EAT BRAINS. Ever.

Mutations caused by prions, a mutated protein itself, is deadly. Prions can only be transferred via consumption of nerve cells aka eating brains. It is adept at 'jumping' between mammals.

Moral of the story? Do not eat brains. Whoever's brain. Whatever's brain. Ever.

My Movie List

For my own reference. :)

2012 (what's left anyway)

Hotel Transylvania- Coming in a few weeks...?
Rise of the Guardians- Coming in Nov (SANTA!!)

2013
Monsters Inc COLLEGE- ?
The Croods- April


I just realised that they are all ANIMATED movies~~
Haha anyone wanna watch something that Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks made just calll me. 90% chance I'll watch. :3

Your Grammar Sucks

I love the people who collated this. :)

Bookworms

I think my family has the 'bookworm' trait. There is never a day that I don't see my Dad or my Mum without a book in their hands. I like reading. My brother... More than average, but not a lot.

My Dad reads all those fiction books about Christianity, medicine, boring stuff. His book collection is HUGE and I bet there are literal bookworms in them. I don't touch his books, ever.

My Mum likes to read all kinds of books, but they're mostly in Chinese.

My bro reads only short stories. Like really short stories. The one-page kind. The thickest book he has is "Captain Underpants" or something which is the comic-story mash-up kinda things. Oh wait. He also has a 'Bionicle' storybook. His english is.... not quite up to par. I've never seen him holding a thick book before.

Me, I read all kinds of books too. My favourite genre is fantasy (well I am a girl). I'm also interested in all those medical fiction types but I prefer to watch documentaries about them. Last year in the post "O"s period, I had nothing to do all day so it was one book per day. Got addicted to Wattpad a while back but I'm already sick of it since the books are mainly all the same.

I've been hooked to documentaries this month. Watched about mutations, child abuse, kidnapping, anorexia.... All those kind of stuff. I find "My Strange Addiction/Obsession" quite interesting and fascinating yet disturbing at the same time.

Ok bye! :)

Jaycee Dugard

Makes you loose faith in the current justice system.

This is proof of both human strength and human failure. She deserves respect from us.
A moment of peace for what she represents.

Career Prospects

I'm gonna be 18 soon. So scary. I still have absolutely no idea what I want to be when I'm older.
I'm most likely gonna study science in university (hope I actually can get in) since I can't give a care about memorising things like they do in arts. But the downside to studying science is the awful compulsory CHEMISTRY. GAHHHHHH.

My mother did talk to me a lot about choosing the right career. Plus last week the school had a "Career Week" where they brought us to various university campuses and also invited professionals from different professions to come and talk to us. Of course, everything was on a first-come-first-serve basis.

I managed to sign up for NUS (National University of Singapore) where the available 80 places were all taken in 10 mins. My schoolmates are so scary.

The environment there is awesome, but that's only natural for the top university in Singapore and top 3 in Asia. School fees are equally as awesome, of course (sarcasm).

I have a very short attention spam. I'm not able to stay interested in anything over a long period of time. My longest hobby is drawing, but that's only because I have nothing to do in school besides drawing anyway. The teachers will catch you if you do anything else. I like singing, but got so sick of it recently. It's all the same songs, over and over and over again. It's repetitive. It's uniform. It's boring.

I think I have a wild streak in me. I have seriously considered dyeing my hair purple or something. I want to dye my hair purple or something, but I won't because I definitely can't pull that off.

Back to career. I am aiming to get into NUS because it will have the best environment (not to mention library). But to enter NUS science faculty, I need STRAIGHT A'S. Righhttt. 

I want to choose a career where:
1. I will not compromise my values or my conscience.
2. I can help others.

So, law is out (we all know about the dark side of law). Biological engineering... I'm not so sure. It goes against nature. Plastic surgeon is out (I don't give a shit about physical beauty -you want it, go work out).

Seriously thinking about psychiatry. I do think that I have that something that makes people wanna spill their guts to me, but maybe that's just wishful thinking. Oh well. I still have a year or so to contemplate how I will shape the path towards the rest of my life.

Mind Blow

They are awesome! The designer and choreographer is AWESOME!!

The Real Bears

Take care of your bodies.

Help.

My brother is a lost cause. Maybe it's his computer addiction, maybe it's his personality. Either way, I've given up on him a long time ago. My father... Well frankly he cares only once every blue moon. My mother gave up on him a few months ago. Even my biased-towards-him mother.

I've accepted the bias quite a long time ago, because let's face it, I can bet my hat there isn't a single parent in this world who doesn't favorite a child. This is just how the world works. Favoritism doesn't mean that your parent doesn't love you. He/She just happens to be more generous towards your siblings, whether or not they deserve it. I'm just lucky that this isn't a severe case of favoritism. That story is for another time.

My brother has a severe case of addiction. He doesn't need to eat, sleep, or pee if he has the com. In March when my parents went overseas and dumped my bro on me, he played the com throughout the nights and slept in the mornings. At that time his school was commencing online learning, and there were allocated time slots when they have to go online and look at the lessons.

He skipped every single one of them because he was sleeping.

I knew that he had e-learning, but at that point he doesn't listen so I just gave up.
The thing with him, he doesn't just not listen. He ignores you completely. Like you're not there. He doesn't even bother to turn his damn head to look at you when you're talking to him.

He does this to me and to my mother. Where's his respect? Where did we go wrong? I think my parents did a pretty good job with me because at least I know I have correct priorities and values and respect. And I was left alone for the most part of my life.

He doesn't dare disrespect his father this blatantly. Yet. Mostly because when my dad talks to him it's always about fun and games. Like I said, my dad isn't exactly the parent-type. He's more uncle-type. 90% play with the rare scolding/caning.

I've nagged and nagged and nagged at my bro but to no avail. But what can I do? I can't cane him. I don't have the right to. Besides, caning is useless. My mother continuously caned him for more than a year and he's still as rotten as ever.

Of course, I do suspect the strength behind each cane. She is, after all, a chinese mother with male nepotism. I've repeatedly told her to send my brother to a shrink. She always ends up defending him. Oh yes, she acknowledges that he needs help, but she doesn't do anything. Is she heartbroken that her dearest son has to see a shrink?

He doesn't accept help from me, doesn't accept help from his parents, doesn't accept help from teachers. Who else is there to help him? His good-for-nothing friends? His friends are almost exactly the same as him, only he has it so much worse.

Just three days ago on Friday, he skipped his exam because he couldn't be bothered to wake up and go to school. This isn't the first time. Or the second, or the third this year. I don't even have enough fingers to count. He can't be bothered to give a single damn about education. His only love is a rectangular machine with a screen and runs on electricity.

His situation is ridiculous. Every single day, every single damned day, my mother has to personally wake him up and has to stay awake herself to make sure that he doesn't get back to sleep. Even when she's outside in the early morning, she still has to freaking call him to make sure he's awake. All this for a 13-year-old kid.

In a way, her softness towards him has contributed to his hopeless situation.

God save him and may He help us all.

Good Things Are Meant To Be Shared

Best acoustic version I've seen so far. The lady's voice really suits this type of singing. :)

Peace At Last.....?

I FINISHED MY PROMOS!!! YEAHHHHH!!

But now.. Well, let's just say the after-promos period is nowhere even half as relaxing as I hoped it was. We had the last paper on Tuesday. Break on Wednesday since I didn't have a paper.

Today was horrendous. HORRENDOUS. The first day back, and I score the longest time table combination possible. Went to school at 7.30am, ENDED AT 5.30pm LIKE WTH.

Of course, we haven't started studying yet.

All day, TALKS TALKS TALKS.
SEX ED.
PROJECT WORK.

OMGGGG PROJECT WORK. I hate it. HATE IT.

Reached home at 6.30pm, fell asleep on my bed until 7.15pm, ate dinner until 7.35pm, started doing pw online. UNTIL A MINUTE AGO. @_@

Curse you, PW. Hate you. HATE YOU. I FREAKING HATE YOU.

PS, Google Drive sucks. It was bad before when it was still Google Docs, but now it's so many times worse.  In the first 10 minutes alone, my Google crashed 5 times. I was trying to paste a small teeny little paragraph of about 100 words. @#&$%

Sorry about my rant and all. It's 11:11 pm, I'm cranky, I'm smelly, and my abdomen hurts like hell.

Ok bye.

Swifty ♥

I LOVE TAYLOR SWIFT CAN.

Begin Again -RED

Took a deep breath in the mirror

He didn't like it when I wore high heels, but I do

Turned the lock and put my headphones on

He always said he didn't get this song but I do, I do

Walked in expecting you'd be late

But you got here early

And you stand and wait

And I walk to you

You pulled my chair out and helped me

And you don't know how nice that is

But I do

And you throw your head back laughing like a little kid

I think it's strange that you think I'm funny 'cause 

He never did

I've been spending the last 8 months 

Thinking all love ever does

Is break and burn and end

But on a Wednesday in a cafe 

I watched it begin again

You said you never met one girl

Who has as many James Taylor records as you

But I do

We tell stories and you don't know why 

I'm coming off a little shy

But I do

But you throw your head back laughing like a little kid

I think it's strange that you think I'm funny 'cause 

He never did

I've been spending the last 8 months 

Thinking all love ever does

Is break and burn and end

But on a Wednesday in a cafe 

I watched it begin again

And we walk down the block to my car

And I almost brought him up

But you start to talk about the movies

That your family watches 

Every single Christmas

And I won't talk about that

For the first time, what's past is past

'Cause you throw your head back laughing like a little kid

I think it's strange that you think I'm funny 'cause 

He never did

I've been spending the last 8 months 

Thinking all love ever does

Is break and burn and end

Then on a Wednesday in a cafe 

I watched it begin again

Then on a Wednesday in a cafe 

I watched it begin again

Ain't Nothin' About You -Live

Run -Live

Elizabeth Blackburn: The woman who discovered telomeres

Really proud for her and all, but kinda wish the telomere wasn't discovered until 2012. One less chapter for us bio students. Cancer is one of my worst chapters for bio. *Sigh*

Loan Sharks

My ex-neighbour's (they moved out to who knows where) parents (I think) owed some loan sharks money and quite apparently couldn't pay up.
But then the parents gave the loan sharks my neighbour's address instead (bastards). A few months ago the lackeys started to knock on my neighbours' door and paint-splatter (basically throw paint) all over their door.
And then they installed a surveillance camera, reported to the police, blah blah blah, and moved out a couple of months ago. I thought the whole ordeal was over.

A little while back, the loan sharks called my house. How the freakin heck did the bastards get my home number????

My father picked up and boy was he unhappy. Apparently, from what I could hear from the one-sided conversation, they wanted US to pressure our ex-neighbours to pay up.

Um... Hello, not our problem! We are not your lackeys, thank you very much.
My mother was like "what if they spray our house next?!"
I'm warning ya, you stupid sharks. You don't mess with a JC student. I could very well study law in uni and SUE YOUR ASSES OFF.

Ahhhh, wishful thinking. But I am serious. Think of the possibilities of a youth.

Anyway, the loan sharks have become a serious problem in Singapore, especially ever since the stupid casinos opened up.
Last year, the gov collected $195 million just from casino entry levies and $9 million was spent on addiction rehabilitation. That's 1,950,000 local entries into the casino, and there are only 3.2 million Singaporean citizens in total, including BABIES and CHILDREN (though excluding PRs -not sure if they have to pay entry fee). Many, many addiction cases have popped up in my church alone. And we are such a small church.
Gambling is a damn serious problem.

And so are loan sharks.

Now my mama won't let me answer the house phone.

Just in case you're wondering why I suddenly know so many facts... It was my GP exam this morning. x_x

My Vocab List... For Now

....for now. Busy studying for my PROMOTIONAL EXAMS starting tmr.
Really scared I can't get promoted. >_<


Apartheid: racial segregation
Misogynic: distrust of women

Imbue: permeate
Exacerbate
Xenophobic
Unviable
Alleviating
Expedient
Obsolete
Acquisition
Belligerent
Proliferation
Detente
Emergent
Encumber
Juxtaposing
Ratified
Cultural accoutrement
Cognitive
Epigone
Irretrievably
Adjunct (of culture)
Contemporary (culture)
Fallacious
(A pervasive) juggernaut
Horizontal communication

"a cultural milieu that is primarily linguistic"


I made another vocabulary list beginning of sec 4 and when I read through it last month, I was horrified at how poor my vocab was. I hope this happens next year too.

Some words I already know, but don't use it. MUST HAVE GOOD LANGUAGE. Must get a B for General Paper!!!!!!!!!!

K bye~

Ronan

Taylor Swift is really good at telling stories. Ronan isn't the only one out there who deserves a song. <3 p="p">

I remember your bare feet down the hallway

I remember your little laugh

Race cars on the kitchen floor, plastic dinosaurs

I love you to the moon and back

I remember your blue eyes looking into mine

Like we had our own secret club

I remember you dancing before bed time

Then jumping on me, waking me up

I can still feel you hold my hand, little man

And even the moment I knew

You fought it hard like an army guy

Remember I leaned in and whispered to you

Come on baby with me we're gonna fly away from here

You were my best four years

I remember the drive home

When the blind hope turned to crying and screaming "Why?"

Flowers pile up in the worst way, no one knows what to say

About a beautiful boy who died

And it's about to be halloween

You could be anything you wanted if you were still here

I remember the last day when I kissed your face

I whispered in your ear

Come on baby with me we're gonna fly away from here

Out of this curtain room and this hospital grey, we'll just disappear

Come on baby with me we're gonna fly away from here

You were my best four years

What if I'm standing in your closet trying to talk to you?

What if I kept the hand-me-downs you won't grow into?

And what if I really thought some miracle would see us through?

What if the miracle was even getting one moment with you?

Come on baby with me we're gonna fly away from here

Come on baby with me we're gonna fly away from here

You were my best four years

I remember your bare feet down the hallway

I love you to the moon and back

Wrong Or Lie?

Let's say you made the mistake of saying, "a banana is pink", but then realised that a banana is in fact yellow. You'll say, "oops, sorry. I was wrong" to the person you said otherwise to.

But if you think about it carefully, you lied about the banana being pink. And lying is a sin. Of course, you didn't do it intentionally, but is it still telling a lie now?

According to dictionary.com,

A lie is defined as 

1. a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.

2. something intended or serving to convey a false impression; imposture

3. an inaccurate or false statement.

4. the charge or accusation of lying: He flung the lie back at his accusers.

5. to speak falsely or utter untruth knowingly, as with intent to deceive.

6. to express what is false; convey a false impression.

and 'wrong' is defined as 

An unjust, dishonest, or immoral action.

Synonyms:  incorrect - erroneous - mistaken - false - improper - bad

It seems that point 1 and point 3 don't mean the same thing. Point 1 specifies that a lie is an intentional wrong-doing while point 3 just says that a lie is an incorrect or false statement. So according to 3, wrong = lie.......?

Or course, if you did something wrong, it can't be used in this context since a 'lie' is of spoken words, not actions. So should we be saying "sorry, I lied about a banana being pink" instead of "sorry, I was wrong"? 

In this scenario, the word "lie" implies that you did it intentionally. 

Huh. I'm not getting anywhere. 

I do think that this is an important issue, because lying is one of the seven deadliest sins and all (yes I am Christian)... Well, good luck figuring out another mystery of the english language...

*listening to Carly Rae Jepsen's new album. It's a bit to fluffy and cotton-y for me though :/

Shakespeare's Da Man

I didn't know. O_O

This one he didn't invent: YOU DA MAN, BRO!

Hahaha I was glancing at the last line and saw "a sorry piece of sh*t". XD

Was wondering why in the world Shakespeare's times were already so vulgar LOL.

Amazing Animated Optical Illusions

...and so on and so forth. :)

Awesome Political Speech

One word. AWESOME.

Come to Singapore Bill Clinton!

Amen

"Amen" has many different pronunciations, and I've noticed a few things.

Chinese-orientated ppl usually say "Ah-Man".

English-orientated ppl tend to say "Aye-Man".

How come no one actually says "A-Men"?
Or rather, I've never heard anyone say that.

Just wondering.

Tweet

Just bawled like a baby watching The Notebook.

Nights~

Light In Motion

SO DAMN COOL. Skip to 2:00 min if you don't have time.

How Big Is Infinity?

Know what? I like to watch videos that jumble my brain up. I have no idea why.
The endless possibilities? Maybe. The underlying challenge? Maybe.

I strongly recommend MinutePhysics and Vsauce (youtube) if you like such things too. :)

The Horrors Of Snow White

My friend and I started discussing the various characters in Disney's Snow White (for some reason) and she told me that the seven dwarves represented the seven deadliest sins. Well I got interested and went home to research. I couldn't find anything on the dwarves representing the sins, but I did find other more disturbing things.

Some aspects of the original Disney did retain, most Disney did not because it wasn't age appropriate.

1. In the original, the queen wanted snow's liver and lungs. And she wanted to eat it (in some cultures ppl believe a person's attributes could be obtained through consumption). CANNIBALISM.

2. Snow White was SEVEN when she became the 'fairest in the land'.
I know what you're thinking; WTH right? That is so messed up. How can a seven-year-old girl be the 'fairest WOMAN in the land'??

3. The huntsman did not kill Snow because he was in love with her beauty. PEDOPHILE.

4. Snow was displayed in a glass coffin instead of being buried. Pervert dwarves.

5. Snow did not wake up from the prince's kiss. The bit of apple dislodged from her throat when one of the servants carrying the glass coffin tripped.
The prince demanded to have Snow's coffin. What he wanted to do with e dead seven-year-old's body, well, it's up to your imagination... Or not. NECROPHILIA and PEDOPHILIA.

Such a dark story. However, I think Sleeping Beauty is by far the worst. Go research it up yourself, the post is too long. :)

Stress

I'm becoming more stupid day by day. Most definitely due to lack of sleep.

I have thought a lot about many issues, but the moment I want to type them out, I forget what I was thinking of. Sigh... Dementia at 17 years old.

Anyway, I'm just here to do a disclaimer and scold my past self for a bit.

During the O Level period last year, I complained how stressful it was and what not. But now I just feel like telling myself and all those secondary 4 people "SHUT YER TRAP". Wait till you come JC. I miss O Levels so much. That's how bad it is right now.

I'm getting an average 5-hour sleep each day, and I don't even have the time to slack off.

So now I have this "Holy Saturday" no-work policy. Strictly no studying on Saturdays. Not sure if it's effective, but I need it.

Oh yeah. I did this for my friend yesterday and am obviously happy with the outcome. But I used water colour so she can't wash her shoes HAHAHAHAHA.

Took 30 mins to do that because my paint were all dried up. I used paint FLAKES to blend the colours LOL. Easier to use flakes actually. They spread out more evenly.

Original plan was blue and red then draw cartoons. But, oh well.

Bye bye~