♥ Friday, December 31, 2010 ♥
Adieu, 2010!
31 December 2010 --- 1 January 2011
2010, a year full of ups and downs. But after contemplating for a moment, I think the ups triumph over the downs. A lot of bad things may have happened, but they weren't too ... well, BAD, not to me anyway, not exactly, whereas the good things that occurred were really good.
So, in conclusion, I think 2010 has, or had (okay the year isn't technically over, not yet) been a very great year. Going to do a short recap of what happened this year, and what I did, to help myself remember! Because truth be told I can't really recall what happened this year. Only remember snippets of it. I'm going to skip the bads of this year though.
All the photos are saved from Facebook, thus the quality of the photos are a bit weird. Too lazy to shift through the thousands of folders in my pendrive, haha.
January
(Why are all the words that I 'bolded' hot pink? Something's wrong with the HTML in the template but I can't be arsed to figure out what. Damn. Too much pink, especially hot pink, is not a good thing)
Uh. Uhhhh.
Okay. This is kind of hopeless. What happened in January? :O
Well, school started, obviously. Started my life as an old, dignified, cool and sophisticated (ha-ha) fifth former. Not. Was as childish (if not more so) as ever, and things didn't exactly improve by my sitting beside Rumi. If there were two people who should not have sat together in class, it was us.
We were two lazy bums who never did our homework, loved to chat and doodle in books, and despised Add Math. On the rare occasions that we did do our homework, we just had to have completed the same homework so we couldn't lend our homework to each other for copying even if we wanted to. Hahaha.
Thank goodness there are Hui Jing and Jia Li - the good bums in our gang - from whom Rumi and I can borrow our homework and get information when we chatted/doodled/daydreamed/slept in class and missed what the teachers said.
Okay I think nothing very good and significant happened in January.
February
Chinese New Year, of course. Met up with my cousins, ate a lot of food, gained weight, got lots of red packets, and that was that, I guess.
Had a primary school Standard 6 gathering. Met up with lots of people I haven't seen for years. I guess everyone has changed! And grown. Haha.
March
Went to Cameron Highlands. I have been there so many times, I was kind of sick of it, and was not anticipating the trip. I thought I would be very bored there, but turned out I wasn't, because I spent a lot of time photographing the exquisite flowers (using a normal digital cam, but the results were pretty fantastic), and managed to snap some gorgeous photos that I'm secretly very proud of, haha.
There are lots more! And it occurred to me I never updated about the trip. Maybe I will, sometime. After the Langkawi posts, if nothing interesting happens in my life. Hahaha. Way overdue, as usual!
Celebrated the school's 90th anniversary. Performed for CO.
Had a whole week of jumble sales to raise money for ... for what, I don't know. To renovate the school's toilets, I think. I guess I was lucky to have used the new and improved school toilets for a year or two. :P The sales were extremely fun, but it also caused us to become fatter, since we consumed so much unhealthy food (i.e. chocolate fondues, sweet jellies, chocolate brownies, pizza, pasta, sausages and stuff), practically every day of the week. Crazy.
April
Okay, I REALLY can't remember. Did the school's Sports Day fall in this month? *shrugs*
May
Uhm.
Sat for the .... midyear exam? *dismayed* There must be something wrong with me. I mean, who remembers the exams for goodness' sake? Of all things.
June
Went to the beach with my sixth aunt and cousins, and rode on a horse for the first time. Pretty exciting and scary at first, but got boring after the first 10 seconds. LOL. And to complete the uh, magical moment (you know, first time and all that), the horse peed and pooped. Peed after we rode him (must be our combined weight, poor thing) and pooped while some other children were riding him. Haha.
Went shopping with Ee Leng, and introduced her to the best bubble milk tea in the world! :) Okay, maybe not the best, I have yet to try the famous bubble milk tea in Singapore that Ee Leng mentioned. Haha.
Oh, and the CO competition!! Got the first Gold prize. I LOVE CO!! Had fun practising, even though the practices were tiring. Had a post-competition celebration at Little Cottage 2 near our school.
July
I think I went to Singapore for my brother's convocation this month. Or was it August? Hmmph.
Had great fun, even though the trip was only for 3 short (too short) days. Visited the magnificent, glittering Marina Bay Sands, went up the Singapore Flyer, took a ... graduation? photo in a proper photo studio, ate many fabulous food (the dessert at ... Bugis? OMG!), went shopping ...
I always have a great time in Singapore! Hopefully I'll be able to go next year. Haha. Oh, and, as Ee Leng 'predicted', I haven't updated about the Singapore trip as well. Oops.
August
Don't know what happened. Uh, yes. National Day! *coughs*
September
Attended my cousin's wedding in Klang. That was during the two-week-holiday in the midst of my SPM trial exam. Hahaha. Had fun, and met my cutest ever cousin who was born in the USA.
October
Graduation!! :)
And graduation night. Okay I really don't have much to say, except that I really don't want to leave my friends. But we're going our separate ways soon (some have already gone), sigh.
November
Had a pre-SPM party (odd timing, I know) at Hui Xian's place. An awesome day. I really love S5B!!! The girls (or leng luis, as we like to call ourselves, XD) are all friendly and amiable, really nice and down-to-earth, and have great senses of humour.
The best last-year-of-school class anyone could ask for, as I have said before. :)
Went shopping for baking supplies together with my classmates, had lunch, baked cakes and cookies together, had a barbecue.
Of course, nightmare started. SPM.
And my fantastic birthday. *sarcastic smile*
December
End of nightmare aka SPM. Very happy. A bit anxious about my results though, am pretty sure they're going to suck. Especially Chinese. And am convinced that I haven't done well enough for Biology, my favourite subject besides English. Heck, I didn't exactly did great for English either. Bugger.
Anyway. Went to Langkawi, and had a brilliant time camwhoring (typical, haha), appreciating the beauty of nature, blah blah. Was sort of relaxing.
After that, CO became my priority. Joined the solo competition and managed to scrape a Gold prize. Not exactly satisfied, it's a very long story, which you don't need to know, or maybe you already know. Haha.
So, that about sums up my year. Of course there are a lot of things I've missed, or decided not to put here. Like my frequent shopping expeditions to Gurney and Prangin' with my mates. Haven't been to Queensbay for a long long time, until 2 days ago. Really love Forever 21! :) And like CO "commercial" performances (as Siok put them) with my awesome CO buddies.
Okay. It's a quarter of an hour past New Year already. As in, it's the first 15 minuts of 2011!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Hope you guys have a great year ahead of you. :)
♥ craving chocolate kisses ..
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♥ Sunday, December 26, 2010 ♥
Sick of Being Sick
26 December 2010
Wow. I have had the ... err, privilege to experience the most unforgettable - not in a good way - celebrations or supposed-to-be-celebrations in this year which has positively FLEW past.
First, my birthday. My seventeenth birthday. People say that the most important birthdays in a person's life are the 16th, 18th, 21st, and ... I don't know what else. Still, I think the 17th is quite important too! Hey, I'm sure there's something special about being seventeen or else there wouldn't be a magazine called Seventeen. If you get what I mean, haha.
I'm not going to elaborate on what happened during my birthday, but it was just awful, even compared to last year's, which was ... well, awful too, but mush less so. At least I got a nice old Coffee Bean Ice Blended Mocha with whipped cream and a healthy dose of chocolate powder on top last year (and thousands of calories, but oh, who cares, it was my birthday!). And my CO friends sang me a birthday song in the morning (yes, I had to wake up at the crack of dawn to go to school).
This year? *shakes head* It was even worse than any normal day, any normal SCHOOL day where I had to go to school and endure the teachers' incessant droning about things I detest and don't really want to care about.
Horrible though was the way I spent my birthday, I find it a pretty amusing story to tell to my friends, hahaha. I don't know why. To seek sympathy? As a form of entertainment? To make people feel guilty about neglecting my birthday (HAHAHAH)? Well I suppose it really was kind of ludicrous now that I look back at it.
At the moment, it was really despairing. Maybe it was the fact that it was my birthday and people generally have higher expectations of things on their big days, you know. Sigh, expectation is the root of all heartache, after all.
Not that I was expecting anything to happen. I mean, hello, I have to sit for the Maths paper the very next day, and Moral the next, then Add Maths and Physics. All the worst papers, wrapped into one whole soggy package with a large floppy ribbon on top.
Then. Christmas! Our, uh, annual Christmas celebration took place at our house this year, and I guess it's lucky it did, because I fell SICK. I don't know why. I woke up with a very sore throat and a throbbing head, and started sniffing uncontrollably.
There were so many fabulously yummy food - fat cocktail sausages with warm cheese oozing out of them (I ate them before), pizzas, my mom's superb Belacan Rice, fruit cocktails, all sorts of snacks, puffs overflowing with dollops of fresh whipped cream, spongy, soft cheese cakes ... (I am not trying to make myself miserable) - and I could touch none of those. BARGH.
AND it did not help that Eunice gave us two packets of Hersheys mini bar chocolates, and my sixth aunt gave us a giant bar of Hersheys Special Dark chocolate (yum), and there are the two packets of Hersheys Kisses I bought from Langkawi.
HERSHEYS OVERLOAD!!!!
(I really love Hersheys though. ♥)
Oh, a fridge-ful of lovely chocolates. Testing my ability to resist the temptation. Argh.
Sick on Christmas Day too. Not that I had any plans for the day. Slept for the whole afternoon and kept waking up at short intervals because my neck and shoulders hurt, and my body felt hot. Bargh.
Boxing Day, had stomach cramps first thing in the morning, it was totally awful and my peaceful sleep was disrupted.
Awesome right? I am SO going to give myself a huge reward. After the solo competition. Maybe I'll buy myself a gorgeous pair of shoes. HAHAHA. Okay, an excuse. But I really want some new pairs of (high-heeled) shoes, they make me happy even though I don't get to wear them that often.
Anyway, New Year is approaching. Haven't quite decided whether to make some (useless) New Year Resolutions so that I can give up on them after a few days or not. Hahaha. :D
♥ craving chocolate kisses ..
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♥ Monday, December 20, 2010 ♥
There is No Place Like Home
20 December 2010
Hello world, I'm back from Langkawi, looking all tanned and gorgeous. Hahaha.
Okay, tanned. But not gorgeous as the skin on my nose and cheeks are starting to peel off due to prolonged exposure to harmful UV rays. But I'm loving my skin tone right now!
Still, my tan is quite uneven, because stupid me does not know how to swim and thus had to wear a life jacket, resulting in awkward tan lines. Things didn't go any better when we were on the hanging bridge which was, what, 700 meters from the sea level?, with the blazing sun practically within our reach. I was wearing a dress (big mistake, but I'll get to that later), with a ... how do you say it, racerback top or neckline. So, yeah you can imagine how scary I look. Hahaha. My arms and legs look great though.
And I don't look gorgeous because of all the weight I gained. Okay, it's not exactly noticeable but I feel all fat and grumpy. Haven't exercised for four days, and my food intake for this trip was ... crazy. Blame it on the buffets. I'm starting to loathe buffets. It's not like the food's awesome or anything. And there's just so much pressure as you don't want your money to go to waste for not eating enough. Bugger.
Anyway. Will post the photos SOMETIME. Probably not too soon. Probably. Since I have a thousand and one things to do. And because I'm lazy. And because I have to edit the photos a bit.
Took 600+ photos. Crazy huh. For three days. *shakes head* Girls, haha. Took a fair few photos of the breathtaking scenery though.
Going to start editing the photos now. Zzz. Save me.
♥ craving chocolate kisses ..
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♥ Tuesday, December 14, 2010 ♥
I'm Like A Bird
14 December 2010
A bored one. One who can and wants to fly but doesn't know where to go.
So SPM is officially over!
And Chinese was really tough.
But it's over, and I'll never have to have anything to do with the language again. Yay.
So, I came home and had Koko Krunch for lunch. *dismayed*
There was nothing to eat because the maid didn't know I was coming home for lunch. I wasn't going to come home for lunch but turned out that my mom did not buy any lunch for me at school because of the rain. Arrgh.
Read Harry Potter and the Chamber of the Secrets (I don't know, for the 29238th time?), then slept, woke up, exercised, ate dinner, practised my erhu, tried on clothes for fun, then here I am, now. It's only the first post-SPM day and the day is already starting to feel REALLY long. Oh no.
Probably going out with some friends tomorrow. But I have no money to spend. I realised that I 'lent' my mom RM50 that time and she never returned it to me. Technically it IS her (and my dad's) money. But I was the one who saved it! Still, don't feel like asking her to 'return' me the money. Hahaha. Hey, I can buy so many things with RM50! Pretzels. I'm suddenly craving for pretzels, coffee and all things sweet. Arrgh.
Going to Langkawi so have to watch my food consumption. HAHA. For the time being. Must not expose unsightly adipose tissue, must look absolutely fabulous for the beach. I hope the weather's fine and sunny there. It has been raining for days in Penang, and it is SO cold. I'm sitting here, with the fans switched off and I still feel cold. Brrr.
Sigggggh. I don't know why my face has this tendency to sprout pimples when the exams are ending. It was like that during the trials and like this now. Bugger. Even my mom noticed. Haha. I HATE these bloody pimples zits witch's warts boils uh ... bumps blemishes!
♥ craving chocolate kisses ..
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♥ Friday, December 10, 2010 ♥
Nightmare! :(
10 December 2010
SPM will be over in 4 days!
The last paper is Chinese. One of my worst nightmares besides Physics and Add Math! Yes, you probably know.
I really don't get Chinese. There can be so many different pronunciations for one stupid word. And some of the words look so similar to each other, just with a few differences, yet they all have different meanings AND pronunciations. Drives me crazy.
I'm Chinese but I don't like the language. I know, I sound all ignorant, it's my roots and all, but I really can't like it. I force myself to read Chinese books but I get tired and irritated so quickly, it's mad. The words are SO small and have so many 'strokes'. And the vocabulary, the terms, the phrases. There are so many ways to write one phrase, all using different words. You may say it's like synonyms, but no.
I don't know how to put it, it's like you can take one word from this one phrase, then join it with another word from another phrase, and you get this completely new phrase, either with a new meaning, or with the same meaning as both the phrases you took the words from. If you get what I mean.
Chinese!!! *groans* It's a pain in my ass.
It's ironic, really. Because I love the Chinese Orchestra so much. And some Chinese dances. And lots of things about this race. Except the language. And the songs and movies.
And I find it hard to write Chinese words neatly and quickly. It's impossible.
Oh, and all those lovely 'famous quotes' and 'old Chinese' (whatever you call them). The summary for Chinese is plain TORTURE. It's not like Malay, which would probably ask you to summarise a passage on the benefits, factors, causes, consequences, etc of something. For instance, the benefits of eating chocolate, which was what we got for the SPM Malay paper. That was the best summary I had ever done. Come on. The BENEFITS of chocolate. Oh yummy. :)
English is kind of the same, sometimes not, but still easier than Chinese.
What do you get for Chinese? You get : summarise the PROCESS (I can't think of any other more suitable word) of the monkey being made the king. Summarise the PROCESS of, say, the winning of bla bla empire in the bla bla war. If you get what I mean. Like how it happened, why it happened, what happened, yadda yadda.
TOTAL. PAIN. IN. THE. ASS.
It is SO difficult to find the correct and significant points. So normally, most people get very little marks. Out of 22 marks, I'd normally get ... hmm, from 10 - 14. Around. Plus or minus. Poo. The passages are so long and yet they expect us to summarise the whole freaking process into 120 words.
Okay, fine. 124 words. Which isn't much of a difference.
I know complaining isn't much use. But still. Sigh. I started to dislike this language once I started secondary school. I don't really remember why. And I started to really really detest it once I got into Form 4 because the teacher bloody criticised my essay in front of my whole class and humiliated me. It made me dread writing essays and getting my essays back from the teacher. I know, it's a weakness.
Can't help it. It's just like trigonometry. It's not like I don't attempt to do the questions. It's I CAN'T do the questions. I'd take out my piles of trigonometry exercises, full of confidence and determination which would crumble the moment I start to solve the first question.
I can't even start. Actually, couldn't is the more appropriate word to use, since the Add Math paper is over and I'm probably never ever ever going near this subject ever again.
I'd get really frustrated. Especially with those "prove this equation is equal to that equation" questions.
Like ARRGH. If they are the same, they are the same. Why prove it?!? It doesn't make sense. Add Math never made sense to me. Guess I'm not born with the type of brain which tolerates mathematical stuff full of complicated calculations. And that is precisely why I struggle with Physics too. Oh well. Guess I'm more the 'memorising' type, since I have, not that I'm trying to boast or anything, quite a good memory. If I use it properly, and if I decide that I want to memorise something.
Some things, I can memorise so well it actually surprises me. Like some the music scores for Chinese Orchestra that I have played once or twice, a few years ago. I can still remember them. Maybe there are some mistakes here and there, but I can remember most of them. I don't even know why, it's not like I tried to memorise them or anything, I just remember.
Like Rumi who asked me that day : "Hehe, my father is very handsome right?" And I told her I can't remember his face, but I do remember that he wears a gold ring on his finger. Yeah, I remember weird details like that. Like what clothes a person was wearing, what shoes, etc. Using my memory to remember the wrong kind of things. Sigh. Stupid right.
Anyway. Chinese. I'm reading (forcing myself to, anyway) Chinese model essays. Pfft. I almost want to give up. And there are six years' worth of 'famous quotes' to memorise. Not just the quotes, but who said them and in what book or something. This is one of the things my brain can NOT memorise. Maybe it's because I'm not particularly willing to memorise them, but I still try.
I have a feeling I'm going to write a whole load of crap during the exam, especially for the 'old Chinese' part. One poem one passage. Have to interpret them into 'new Chinese'. Oh boy. I have always wondered whether the teachers who mark the papers laugh at us when they read the crap we write. =_=
Okay. I have blabbed a lot. Heehee. Feel better now, not that it'll help me during the exam.
Going to Langkawi on 17th to 19th. Not sure if I should go to Genting (or if I'm allowed to) on the 15th and 16th. A bit of a tight schedule.
Oh, and I'll have to take driving lessons (the HORROR) soon, maybe in January. NOT looking forward to it, and especially not the extra driving lessons my dad is going to be giving me. I'll probably get scolded lots of times.
I have been living with him for 17 years and yet I still cannot tolerate his ... uh, temper. We're kind of similar. Extremely impatient and hot-tempered. So, guess I'll have to bite my tongue or something so I won't make impatient retorts or remarks and get myself shut out of the house.
Okay I'll shut up now. :S
♥ craving chocolate kisses ..
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