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.

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Just bawled like a baby watching The Notebook.

Nights~