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THE MUSHROOM



name : tan juan
age : 18
hometown : malaysia


PIECES OF ME

LOVES

MUSHROOMS
shopping
drawing
TURQUOISE
MUSIC
rainbows
chocolates
chinese orchestra
fairy tales

HATES

CICAK WTF
creepy crawlies
homework
COPY CATS
chinese




GREAT ESCAPES

*chelsea*
*chia chia*
*crystal*
*ee leng*
*ee teng*
*jhing huey*
*jia lee*
*jo ying*
*jun fang*
*lee mei*
*mok mok*
*ning zhen*
*pei jia*
*pei qi*
*rui mei*
*su yin*
*teik hua*
*tict chyn*
*wen huey*
*wen yuan*
*xin yuan*
*xue yi*
*yi ching*





MEMOIRS

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THANKS TO

ME. kynzgerl
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The 2 paper heart: moargh.de
♥ Monday, March 30, 2009 ♥
=)

30 March 2009

HAHAHA.

I got 100% for Add Maths!!

I know, I know. Unbelievable. Me. 100%. Maths. These three things just do NOT go together. But for once, it did. But the questions weren't too tough, so I suppose it is ... "not a big deal to me".

I sound like an ass. "It's not a big deal to me" is Nutty's favourite "quote". Hahaha.

I got 95% for Chemistry!!

Not that it was particularly difficult either. But still. You can't blame me for feeling happy.
Smack me.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a great day! *dubious look* But I have to go on duty TWICE. How can a day like that ever be great?




craving chocolate kisses ..
11:57 PM


♥ Friday, March 27, 2009 ♥
Random ; To Be Continued ...

27 March 2009

I'm bored. Hence the existence of this post.

I'm still unlucky. Damn.

I had problems with the spaghetti I cooked (Haha!! I actually know how to work the stove! Impressive. *snorts*)

Because of the hurry, I forgot to take my Biology homework to school. The Biology homework I meticulously completed when I could be doing something else. The Biology homework I had to pass up today. The Biology homework which will cause my marks to be deducted if I didn't hand it in.

So I photocopied the whole fucking thing, which cost me RM3.60. I photocopied Iris' homework, and had to use liquid paper to cover up her writing, then to write my own answers. The whole thing was so messy. So were my hands, because I kept accidentally smudging the liquid paper, then smudging the still wet pen ink.

And I actually had to tune out the History teacher's voice when she was teaching! What if I fail my History?! (Okay, I have to stop making it sound like I normally listen to her in class)

And in the end, you probably guessed, we didn't need to pass it up after all.

WHY THE FUCK DO THESE THINGS HAPPEN TO ME??

If I live in the olden days, I can eat 36 sweets already! 36!!! AND I CAN EAT A SOUR CREAM AND ONION PRETZEL! What if I desperately want to buy something and I am short of RM3.60? HUH?!

I found out that I made stupid mistakes in the Modern Maths exam. But I got 94% so I'm pretty satisfied. ;) Of course, bearing in mind at the time that no one got 100% when there are actually five ...

I found out that I got zero marks for the first page of Chinese when other people got 12%. Out of 20% of the whole Chinese translation thing, I got 4% only. HAHAHA. Thank God it's Chinese. If it's English I'll probably kill myself. The GRAND *winces* total of my Chinese is 76%.

I found out I made many careless mistakes in English too. Like putting the internet and not the Internet. Capital letters. And things like crossing out the right answer I wrote and putting down another one, which turned out wrong. But I got 88%, which I'm quite happy with. =)

Okay. To make this post a little bit more interesting and less boring, I'll post a few photos.

(Wtf. Photobucket is fucking slow)

These photos are similar to some I posted a few months ago, only that they are from Hsieh Ying's camera, and our expressions are different.



Aww, Yi Ling! ♥

Okay. FUCK PHOTOBUCKET. The uploading is slower than Rui Mei at her slowest. It's unbearable.

I will upload the photos next time! It's 1.10 a.m, and I'm still watching videos on YouTube. Drooling over Adriana and her gorgeous eyes. =P

I have to go to school tomorrow ... So I better go to sleep and dream about how life will be like if I look like Adriana. Hahahaha.



craving chocolate kisses ..
10:36 PM


♥ Thursday, March 26, 2009 ♥
Whoopee, Except Not Really

26 March 2009

Exams are finally over. Whoopeee!

Except, not really.

I had a pretty horrible day ... Not that it's much of a surprise. My luck is going downhill lately.

Firstly. I slept at around 4 a.m. yesterday (thank you, Biology), and woke up at 7.30 a.m (thank you again, Biology), so I was feeling extremely crappy and prone to throwing all sorts of things around from books to tantrums.

My head felt heavy, my eyes wouldn't stay open, I couldn't concentrate on anything except going back to bed ... so I made some futile attempts to wake myself. I splashed my face with water. I tried jumping around like a maniac. I hit my head with the heavy Biology book. I stretched, I inhaled the cool, fresh morning air, I closed my eyes for a short moment .... all to no avail.

I felt so exhausted.

Secondly. I attended my tuition alone. Rui Mei and Ning Zhen weren't there and the time literally CRAWLED. I was fucking irritated. I couldn't understand and interpret what the teacher was trying to say. I made stupid mistakes. I couldn't answer a single question correctly.

Thirdly, the Biology exam. It was sooo hard. And my mind was still blank. I was famished. *sniff* I woke up early, had breakfast early, didn't eat lunch ....

Then, it was the Civics exam. I didn't study much for it, just did some last-minute flip-throughs of the text book. It sort of sucked ... and I was still ravenous.

So, worse still, as a result, I had gastric pains. Fuck.

And I had to go for my duty because if I don't, I will be punished. A punishment I dislike which involves money and energy usage. Not to mention legs like marshmallows for the next day.

The absolute worst - I don't know what caused it, maybe it's the insufficient sleep, maybe it's the gastric, maybe it's the exhaustion ....

I actually had breathing difficulties. I had to inhale really hard, then there would be these great big shudders (you know, like when you are crying, only that I wasn't), and when I yawned, no air came out. I opened my mouth, but nothing. It felt like there just wasn't enough air.

Okay. End of the ranting. I want to go to bed now.

P.S./ Now I know how it feels like, when you see something/someone you like, and you can only sit there and watch it/him/her being taken away from you or when you want it/him/her so badly, you can't have it/him/her.

In my case, it's something. Something which is edible. Ha-ha. Typical. Rui Mei's bad habits are slowly growing on me.

I didn't really give a damn though. I ate it anyway despite my protesting tummy (brain not protesting).

P.P.S./ Iris! Her MSN name was Iris @ lonely ...

*clears throat and sings*

You're not alone (lonely),
Together we stand,
(you and I stand, Rui Mei sit because she's unfit [it rhymes!])
We'll be by your side,
You know we'll take your hand.
(or take [GRAB!] something else. Aherm.)

P.P.P.S./ I don't want to be a Godiva virgin anymore. Boo. It is all the feature in the newspaper's fault! Chocolixir. Truffles. I want! IRIS BUY FOR ME!!!


craving chocolate kisses ..
11:38 PM


♥ Monday, March 23, 2009 ♥
Doooom

23 March 2009

Three more agonizing days to go.

Monday a.k.a The Day I Actually Feel Like Dying

English was not too (too TOO, you know) hard, and not too easy. Made stupid mistakes. Pfft. The subjective questions are quite difficult. Especially literature. =(

Chemistry was easier than expected. But you know lah, whenever you think that an exam paper is easy, the results always turn out like crap.

Moral = DEAD. I think I'm gonna score a grand total of zero for my essay. Great.

Tuesday a.k.a The Day Death Starts to Approach Me :

Physics, I have decided, is a subject that I hate and dislike (which means, not really liking it but not hating it too). Sigh.

Malay. Need I say anything else?

Modern Maths. Maths. I guess I don't need to say anything else too.

Wednesday a.k.a The Day I Shall Actually Die

History. HISTORY, goddammit.

Chinese. My most-hated subject. So many things to memorise, but of course I haven't memorised a thing.

I feel so ... lousy all of a sudden. I suck in Chinese, I suck in Malay and I'm not really good in English as well. Geeeee. I better learn Tamil or something. I might be really good at it, you never know. Useless eh?

Add Maths. Oh God. OH GOD.

Thursday a.k.a The Official First Day of Life in Hell

Biology. I haven't studied a thing for Biology. Really. Well, maybe two pages, but that doesn't change a thing. Stupid amoeba. Stupid paramecium. And to think I used to love drawing the paramecium on my exam papers back in Form 1 because they look so cute.

Civics. *yawn*

Wish me luck. I think I'm gonna give up on Biology. Or Civics. Or both. Plus History. I feel so tired, and I'd love to sink into the soft sheets of my bed, hide under the duvet until the exams are over, but I must study. God, please deliver me some decent coffee that can keep me awake for hours. Arrrgh. Save me. SAVE ME.

I feel so depressed.

Honestly, my life sucks. You know what, I fell down again when I went to the beach. Slid on some slippery seaweed on the rocks, and plop! Bumped my hip, (why not just bump my head and let me lose my memory, die, or something?) grazed my knee and elbow. Mortifying as well, but what to do? Sigh. I had to restrain myself from bursting into tears, had to put on my best "I-don't-give-a-damn" expression when all I wanted to do was to kill myself.

I am soooo accident-prone this year. Looks like it's gonna be a year full of accidents ... and mirthfulness.

Good news : I might be going on a cruise again! To Phuket, maybe. Superstar Virgo, I am coming for youuu! And hopefully I will be able to go to KL in June, and Singapore in November or December. I am fervently hoping that all the above will actually happen. In reality. Not in my dreams.

I know I should be studying (predictably there is a book in my lap, but my eyes are glued to the computer screen) but frankly, I am so sick of it. Who isn't? I have to keep repeating this in my mind : IT IS JUST A FUCKING TEST.

Sigh.

Oh, and I miss my old class E3B damn much. =(

Hugs.



craving chocolate kisses ..
8:06 PM


♥ Thursday, March 19, 2009 ♥
Beach, Beach, HERE I COME!

19 March 2009

I don't know why, but I have a tendency to go to the beach when the exams are near.

Last year, I went to the beach just before the PMR trial exams.

And I am going this Saturday! Wheee. Hopefully I will see some little turtles. Cuteeee.

Screw exams. I'm not in the mood to study anyway. Hahaha. This time next week our exams will be over! Yay!

So far I only studied around 25 pages of History, a bit of Physics and a bit of Biology. I know it's terrible. Oh well. Never mind.

I have a lot of things to update about! Maybe I'll update after the exams. =)

But you know too, I seldom succeed in doing the things I plan to do ...

Okay, bye! Time to pretend to study. ;)


craving chocolate kisses ..
5:13 PM


♥ Saturday, March 14, 2009 ♥
Masquerade!

14 March 2009

LONG POST AHEAD!
(and random stuff about naughty little flies at the bottom)

An imaginary masquerade, that is.

Unfortunately, I live in a place where there are no such fancy events, not even prom. Okay, maybe there are, but they are just not ....

Time for a reverie! (in which I am not an Asian)

Imagine promenading down a magnificent ballroom in London or New York City, clad in a gorgeous gown, ears adorned with pearls, fingers encrusted with sparkling jewels, and clinging onto the arm of a hot (preferably not Asian) guy.

Then imagine something like that in Malaysia.

Damn. The mere thought, the mere sentence of it already sounds kind of bad. So unglamorous. I hope it is just me. Maybe I'm just being bias as I actually live here, and happen to detest it. Maybe it's because places like Manhattan are known for being fashion capitals of the world, etc, and Malaysia is just not known for things like that.

Yeeeah. Obviously I'm the kind of people who crave for lifestyles like people in Gossip Girl. Deep down, who really doesn't? Which normal person has never thought at least once, that he/she wishes to be rich? AT LEAST ONCE.

******************

Anyway, this was what I had been up to two weeks ago.

Rui Mei and I, being such good and loyal friends, helped Iris draw some banners for the 19th Ranger Unit. Yeah, it was totally none of our business, but ... that's what friends are for? Gee.

But of course, we only agreed to help her on a few conditions. Poor Iris. But like Rui Mei said, Iris is probably dead right now if we didn't help her. Hahahaa.

Actually I didn't really mind helping her, except for the fact that I had to wake up at the crack of dawn and go to school early every week. It was my first time drawing and painting a banner, and it was fun! :)

The theme had something to do with a Venetian Ball. Something of the sort.



I like this mask! I think the fuchsia sequins were a nice touch to the forest green colour of the mask.

Fuchsia and forest green ... sounds yucky, doesn't it? But it turned out pretty great ...



I like this mask too!!

I know, the colours did not blend nicely. But I have always sucked in painting, and it's not my banner anyway, so no matter!

I love the details at the sides! Pretty colours. I heart swirls and spirals!

The mask is actually incomplete. There was supposed to be something in the middle, and notice that there are only tiny white swirls edging the right side of the mask and not the left. Didn't have enough time to finish it. But it looked pretty enough!



I like this mask too. =.=

And I also know the silver sequins were terribly sewn. Haha. I must learn how to sew nicely IF I ever want to become a fashion designer. (and at the same time open another cafe or something, like Iris said)



I don't like this mask as much as the other ones!

This was painted under the swelteringly hot sun. I know it's gross, but my perspire dripped onto the banner a lot of times. Hahaha.

And the colours of this mask were totally unplanned! I simply mixed some colours and started painting. Which explains why this mask was painted with the strange combination of fiery orange, blue, green, black, brown, red, glittery gold ....



Rui Mei wrote the words (pretty!) and I drew and painted the mask (also pretty!). Haha. Vain much?



The "Artist" and the Mask

It can almost pass as a storybook title ... The Mask. The Mysterious Mask. The Magic Mask. The Mystery Mask. The Mystery of the Mask.

(No, I still want to be a fashion designer. Not an author. Especially not an author for Nancy Drew-like mystery books, although many of them are actually nice to read)



Seeee! The results of basking under the sun fully clothed. My upper thighs are so pale.

I like the skin tone around my knees! I must find time to work on my tan. Make it more even.

The only question is, how? As in, how to make it more even? I don't think it's possible unless I wait until I become pale all over first. Or cover the already tanned parts with a towel and work on the pale parts.

RANDOM, STUPID STUFF
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Ooh, look, it's a furry starfish! I mean, a starflower.

It's huge! Almost like a starfish. I like starfishes. They are so cute!

That's not my hand by the way.

Anyway, while drawing the banner, I suddenly thought of Smeagol/Gollum from Lord of the Rings. Sometimes I just love him and his split personality, and sometimes I hate him because of his obsession of the ring (and he bit Frodo's finger off! Ouch!) and I remembered the song he sang when Frodo was caught in the web of the giant spider Shelob.




Got these photos from a website (forgot what). Thanks, whoever it is, because these are just the photos I was looking for.

So, I started singing the song :

"Naughty little fly,
Why does it cry?
Caught in a web,
Soon ... you will be EATEN!"

Something like that. It is so cute, and sort of ... catchy, and once you start singing it, it's hard to stop. It wasn't long before Rui Mei and Iris started singing along too.

Then we started changing the lyrics. It was so stupid and so hilarious at the same time. :P

During Chinese, our teacher drew a picture like this :


(modified version)

And he explained what it meant (I wasn't really listening), maybe something about people going from the dark side to the bright side, blah, blah. It's Chinese. Of course my attention wandered.

Anyway, the picture gave me some ... ah, inspiration. We changed the lyrics to (it's stupid) :

"Naughty little bees,
Why do they buzz?
Trapped in a bottle,
Away from the sunlight!"

=__=

*snorts*

Obviously we were bored.

And then we came up with another one :

"Naughty mosquitoes,
Why do they bite*?
They suck our blood away,
And soon we will DIE!!!"

*I know they don't bite, but honestly, I don't know what to write. Sting?

Then there's another one :

"Stupid little snail,
Why does it crawl?
Always so slow,
Just like Rui Mei."

Ingenious. Haha. NOT. Meaningful, yes. To those who know Rui Mei. Hah. She really is the slowest person on the planet. Pfft.

Okay. This post is ridiculously long. I'm gonna go ... *groans* study. Try to study.

Ta!


craving chocolate kisses ..
8:11 PM


♥ Friday, March 13, 2009 ♥
I Haven't ....

13 March 2009

Last week, I said I will update SOON about what I was up to the PAST week (which is a fortnight ago), and I still haven't.

Two weeks ago, I said I will start studying SOON for the test as there are so many unfamiliar subjects, and I still haven't.

Damn.

I wonder if there's anything else that I am supposed to do but haven't.

Now there are only 10 days left until the exams and I haven't really studied anything. Maybe flipped through several pages - okay, fine, only 3 pages - of the Physics reference book, after which I fell asleep. Of course.

Anyway, I am editing the photos of "what I have been up to a fortnight ago", and I will post them up tomorrow if possible! No promises, because :

a) My father always hogs the computer
b) Every time someone in the house uses the telephone, the internet connection will be cut off
c) The exams are imminent (thus I have to pretend to study)
d) I want to sleep
e) I want to hide under my duvet, turn over a new leaf*, and come out as a new person

*To try to listen to the teachers in class, to study, to revise, to finish my homework ...

Stress on the word TRY ...

Sigh. Whoever thinks that Form 4 is a honeymoon year can go rot in hell.

Ta.


craving chocolate kisses ..
10:55 PM


♥ Friday, March 06, 2009 ♥
It Hasn't Happened , Yet ....

6 March 2009

Thank you, Iris! You now owe the two of us 10 cups of Coffee Bean coffee (Large)(Each)(Actually, make that 30).

Will update soon, when I regained all the energy I lost this week for something that is absolutely none of my business, and after I finished all my homework. Hello, Chinese essay! I haven't even handed in the second Chinese essay and there's already a third one. Fuck.

How is it that it's the 6th of March already? Wasn't it the 3rd of March yesterday? Arggh. I hate Biology and Physics, not that I have started studying to even know what its all about.

Damn. I don't think 30 cups of Coffee Bean or even 30 flutes of champagne can make me feel better. Especially not the champagne. I'd probably die of a severe hangover. Poof. Actually, I am supposed to be dead already, with all the scorching hot sunlight I soaked up in just half an hour. It just hasn't happened yet.

The only upside about this : I will be dying with a nice tan. For my arms, legs and face anyway. Yay! I love tanned skin.

OK, nights! I will try to update and post photos of what I have been up to this week, soon! =)



craving chocolate kisses ..
11:46 PM


♥ Sunday, March 01, 2009 ♥
Photos :)

1 March 2009

Why is it March already?

I hate to mention it, but the exams start in exactly 22 days. Whoopee.

Around one week ago, I told myself that it was time to start studying, since there are so many new and unfamiliar subjects. Well, obviously I haven't started. But of course! I'm still going through a laziness phase. Thank you, Nutty.

It is so hard for me to acknowledge the fact that, besides having to study muchhh earlier for the exams this year, I have to study every single day. I know I have to, but I just can't (yet), and didn't (yet).

Anyway. Here are a few photos we took on Valentine's Day and on the day we went to PISA.


Iris, Rui Mei & I

Photo taken during recess. We couldn't bear sharing the canteen with the Form 1 and Form 2 students - it was sooo freaking hot and stuffy - so we stayed in class.

Photo taken by Ning Zhen. Thanks! =D

And I know you feel like slapping Rui Mei (no surprises there). What with her evil smile (complete with one missing tooth, thankfully not replaced by a gold one) and all ...

She's NOT a pirate! Hahaha. Orlando Bloom is still mine, even though he is officially Miranda Kerr's. And I know it doesn't make sense.


Iris & I

She's pretty right? Haha.

(Hope she doesn't see this, or else she will float up into the sky and never come back again)

But she's taken! (so she claims) Apparently she's "taken" by the one and only Aaron Yan Ya Lun. *rolls eyes*

Snorty, snorty, snorty. Aherm. Private joke.

Jam Factory. HAHAHA IRIS! x)


Rui Mei & I

1 mole = 6.02 x 10 to the power of 23

*smirks*


Burst the Bubble

Applied some kind of spray-on waterproof thing onto my wound. The little booklet is obviously lying when it says that there will be little, stinging pains when you apply it. LITTLE STINGING PAINS?! Damn, I almost screamed the house down.

Anyway, the photo above, it is so cute, no? (Yes, I am fine) The "plasma/yellowish liquid/thing" is trapped inside the waterproof plaster like water inside a small balloon. Makes me want to prick it with a needle and watch all the liquid squirting out. Nice.

Unfortunately the bubble-like ... bubble burst when I was sleeping, so now there are a few unsightly, disgusting yellowish brown stains on my bed. Yuck.

AT PISA



This photo cracks me up.



Always the one to ruin a nice photo.



Yet another ruined one ... *shakes head wistfully*








GLUTTON!

It sure is nice to know that she is exactly the same as she was last year.

Another new photo to add to my "Rui Mei's Embarrassing Photos" collection! Yes!! (Yeah, she has a folder all to herself. WTF.)

But she really loves making an ass of herself. Do things ever change? :P



My classmates at the back! =D


Ning Zhen & I

The only photo we took on that day. Okay, fine, the only photo we took together that I did not delete. Typical.

And yes!!! I have finally learned how to boil eggs. Hahaha. A bit pathetic, I know. I am 16 years old (15 going on 16 anyway), and let me tell you the very few things I know how to cook.

Spaghetti. Scrambled eggs. Boiled eggs. Noodles.

Um. Do toasts count?

Hmm, that's about it. No, I don't know how to cook rice. I don't know how to work the rice cooker. Yay. And I also don't know how to fry a freaking egg.

(I am fervently hoping Rui Mei will be worse than me. Hahaha. But it is not very likely. Eh. Yet it is still a bit likely, with the amount of maids she has at home. And she only loves to EAT anyway, not cook. Hah!)

RUI MEI IS VERY PRETTY!

She really is. Even though I never tell her so. Jealousy is such an ugly thing.









Oh, please, remind me not to innocently blurt out that Rui Mei asked me to write that. It is top secret! I must not tell anybody, even though I just did. Oops. xD

Don't people always say that it is okay to lie under certain circumstances? Hmm.



*yawn*

Okay. I am going to bed now! Have to wake up early tomorrow. And the day after tomorrow. Arrgh. Oh yes. I think I still have a Chinese essay to write. Whoopeee!


craving chocolate kisses ..
8:22 PM