Woah I haven't been here in a while - onsugar tells me I last logged in 8 weeks ago.
After a while, my interest in any blog just seems to fade away. Which is why I've had a grand total of almost 10 different blogs to date? I think.
I'm back, though! Maybe I tend to blog when life's not .. hectic.
It's been Good (and costly $$) Hectic though. I haven't stepped into RJ in months (except for that one instance where I went to meet lisa in the canteen and we stayed there for an hour just talking before leaving for her place so I don't think it actually counts!)
I've been occupying my time with pure mindless fluffy fun activities which have adequately wrecked damage to my bank acct balance so I guess I'm satisfied.
I'm actually looking forward to tomorrow. I saw this quote on fb a few days ago - "2010 starts on 11th Jan." and it's SO TRUE.
I realised why I've been lovin' the end of 2009 and 2010 so far. School (and our descension onto the path bound for the A Levels nightmare) hasn't started yet hence the stress, panic, and other highly negative emotions haven't set in yet.
But frankly, I'm looking forward to meeting and lovin' my A01A darlings all over again. Back-to-school plans are well underway!
Sushi buffet and avatar with awesome people on Monday, crazycrazy Tuesday, open house on Wednesday, awesome Thursday with lingmin @ starbucks, crazycrazy FridaySaturdaySunday Harvard MCA.
I love being free and being busy at the same time. I feel weird when I'm not busy yet I love it when I'm free.
But the holidays have been really really good to me - 2 solid months of fun and I've met everyone I could possibly want to meet (oops if I haven't met you and this sentence makes you .. indignant because you love me).
I'm taking SATs on 23rd and I'm probably going to start studying soon. I felt panicky last week because I realised everyone started studying at the beginning of the holidays (ie two months ahead of me) but I'm just going to entrust this all to God and not get caught up in the hustle and bustle of everything.
J2 year's going to be so so fun and so so stressful at the same time - HMCA, h3, A Levels, RMUN, RJ U14s, trainings, NYA, midyears, NTUMUN, etc.
I'm glad I had these two months of pure fun and I wouldn't trade them for all the studying (I could have done) in the world.
Time to suck it up though.
2010 starts tomorrow.
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are your thoughts results of static cling?
I think we all thought, a long time ago, that good things don't last.
And that all good things must come to an end.
But to me, yall are the best friends a girl could ever wish for and hey, five years on, we're still here with each other.
It irks me when we are described as "the debaters" because we aren't just that.
Even if you stripped us of our titles and respective statuses, we'd still be best friends.
It may have started off because we were teammates, to be sure.
But we've long moved past that.
(This post cropped up because on msn, someone asked "eh are you free on tuesday or are you going out with the pl debaters" which was annoying)
Okay I'm going to stop ranting
Hi I love you.
For one, I cannot wait to see you on Monday at 12pm because I know that's when my life will go back to normal and I will feel, again.
You will always be my best friend, whether you know it or not (although I hope you do) and I can't even begin to express how strange this entire year felt without you near me all the time and I missed you xx
Kthx see you on monday love you forever and ever!
The past week was amaziiing from start to finish.
Math lecture, burger shack with lingmin, hissoc meeting (canteen convos!) on tuesday,
Founder's day on wednesday followed by bumming around at deb's house and I spent two hours on the circle line (it's 8 minutes from bartley to marymount so you can ... go figure out how many rounds I took hahaha) just reading Murakami thereafter,
Wii with esther, krist and dinner with john auggie everyone else on thursday,
East coast with lingmin, mabel on friday and KL through the whole weekend.
And another awesome week ahead I think, even though we have OP dry run on wednesday morning hahaha lousyy.
I bought 3 H&M tops yesterday and I'm happygirl.
I've finished Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicles and Revenger's Tragedy.
Of course, I could be studying for chinese a levels instead buttt maybe not ~
Am going to read part of Hamlet this/next week and finish up the rest during the Dec holidays because it's only due first lit lecture of next year.
Liked today, vv good company and good entertainment.
I headed over to krist's place with esther this morning for five wild hours of guitar hero/super smash hits (and my kirby pushed esther's pikachu off a cliff haha), hokkien mee and a mini celebration for krist's 20th birthdayy, cleverly engineered by john and executed by the rest of us.
Delightfully embarrassing moments (a particularly funny episode involving me and the wii controller) throughout, and I honestly think that my ditz side reveals itself fully only in the presence of people like esther, krist, and john.
Church after that for band practice and it was fun I think I'm going to go down more often. Aunty mary picked us up after that for pasta at her place and it was yummyyy, I like her cooking.
And I've just finished up the powerpoint slides for tomorrow's junior worship, they are rly pretty (:
Class picnic @ marina barrage tomorrow afternoon <3
I woke up at 8am today, and instinctively felt that life was good.
Which is of course one of the nicest feelings in the world, especially when I'm usually more prone to a zombie-esque syndrome in the mornings - something the people around me are well aware of.
According to esther (who's working at my mum's place for this week and texted me at 830 today to inform me), my mum's been telling anyone who'll listen that her youngest daughter's about to burn her house down, all because I calmly told her last night that I was going to endeavour to bake something more complex today with bel and lm.
What faith, mother.
I re-read The Sunne Rising by Donne this morning and the third stanza simply resonates with beautiful feeling.
B sent me this on msn last night and it's so beautiful:
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
- E.E. Cummings
It's been two and a half days since the end of promos and life's been awsm stuff.
Sentosa, (500) days of summer/shopping with abby, breakfasts with the people I love, borders with rachael in our corner, hanging out over coffee/hk cafe, spotlight/madewithlove, baking tomorrow with bel/lm at my place and drawing on our white/black canvas shoes.
Class picnic at marina barrage on sunday evening, plus wii with krist/esther on saturday!
Loveeeee.
I just watched an episode of blackadder, read half of murakami's wind-up bird chronicles and watched mean girls x 2.
Breakfast with abby today was nice and it's rly nice having heartfelt conversations about where we are in life now, what we plan to do in two years' time, and about everything in general.
Reminds me of the long walks we took by the river during baybeats and drahma, with most conversations featuring mr. bean soya milk with peaaarls.
Plus we wanted to spend the whole afternoon shopping but we decided to go for (500) instead, before shopping in vivo.
(500) was rly good, plus I want to rent A Walk To Remember.
Planning the Post-Promos Post Production Party (officially dubbed PPPPP but people often have to count the number of Ps on their fingers as they say it, haha fail) is going to be so fun.
I'm appalled by my lack of progress in mugging history, SEAHist specifically.
I love the subject and that's why I rly want to take h3 history, but memorizing the dates and events drives me nutsss.
Anyone who knows me knows the extent of my short-term memory.
I don't know how I survived O levels and I don't know how I'm going to survive promos, homg.
I'm glad tomorrow's sunday because spiritual rejuvenation here I comeeee + airport with robyn.
I watched re-runs of hannah montana (DON'T JUDGE PLS) today and after lunch, I indulged in Mean Girls and White Chicks just because.
I guess it's not that I can't remember the dates, more like I'm not willing to put in the effort.
Which unfortunately happens all too often for me.
I finished the last of the champagne truffle snowskin mooncakes today, unadulterated blisssss.
Okay it's 7.13pm now, I'm two hours away from my bedtime and I WILL FINISH POLITICAL STRUCTURES.
Pre-war/decol + ArabIsraeli/End/Origins of Cold War (i.e, all of international history except cuba/korea cos' I'm dumping those) tomorrow.
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Not by might, not by power, but by Your spirit.
Three down, three papers to go.
History on monday, math and lit on tuesday.
And thereafter ... we get our lives back , I think.
Shopping with rr and ice cream with lmml on wednesday,
Class picnic on thursday/friday,
And perfect bliss everafter
(asdfghjkl who am I kidding, lectures resume the monday after but at least school ends at an average of 12pm everyday, which is another fun pursuit altogether)
Listography:
1. Bakeeee for special people on wednesday +
2. Borders just because (and I'm going to buy three books because my privilege card is convulsing with loneliness)
3. Visit the SAM
4. Esplanade/River walk
5. plan the drahma PPP
And that's all for now because we have been so attuned to the familiar tingly feel that exams give us that the brief interim post-exams of ... relaxation is just that. Brief.
But, 6th october here we comeeee.
