Unbreathable

2007-08-31T11:55:00.000-04:00

First week of college almost over!! I have registration in abt 2 hrs*eeek wish me luck for getting the classes that I want... I'malready up there at the maximum number of credits i can take persemester so haha it'll be pretty hectic i think... btw email me atthis columbia account cos i'm going to be checking it prettyreligiously considering its like the official mode of communicationhere. anyway!! internet access!! finally... pretty fast too butHORRROR NO DOWNLOADING ALLOWED??!! arrrr How am i supposed to watchmovies now?? and anime and all that stuff seriously... there wasthis internet talk abt how the university got like 100 warningmessages about downloading a week during the spring semester hahahilarious reallu... anyway i'm signing up for calc 3, acceleratedphys, p.e. badminton, general chem, and general mechanics... its arather set schedule actually not That much choice really... i wentto this placement test for physics and it was only 3questionsLONG!! and oneof the questions i culdnt even do because it wasnton ythe bloody ib syllabus and i still got into the class~!!bwhahah the prof. tried to scare us by saying 10-20 hrs of homeworkevery week but i'm slightly more optimistic looking than that.living in the dorm is just... ok i gues.s... i missing air-con,personal bathroom, personal towelrack, personal everythinggalthough my roommate is very cool and all that we get along verwell. ytd there was some kind of trinidad party across the hall soi only got to skeep arnd 5 wich was pretty bad ahaha i had to goout to ask thme to turn down the music but they were prettyreasonable about that i guess... people are really taking advantageof the nlack of classes right now. i met the first singpaorean iseen here too! ver strong accent haha i culd tell immediately toobad shes in cc and not seas. also met lots of other people fromrandom different places its pretty cool... been having lunch anddinner 2 meals a day almost every day at john jay wich is the majordining hall and today hahaha i convieniently lifted 2 wholetupperwares full of cereal back to the room BHWAHAhaha its notstealing really theres so much food there and i also convienientlylifted so much fruit its crazy... getting my fridge tmr finally for30bux the whole year its pretty good deal and can keep milk and allthat... things are looking up i guess. ehehe. i also get ALL mywater from the dining hall and its pretty good water.. the fooditself is only so-so i guess... usual noodles and rice andstrangely cooked stuff that you can only get in cafeteriaseverywhere i dunt know who thinks up weird combinations like beans,avocado and raisin salad/!!! like wut the hell!! but theres gooddesert and ice cream too... trying to eat less.. the dining plan ispretty exp though yep, like 12bux a meal?? i guess they alreadyfigured that students will take stuff from the cafeteria back tothe dorm! anyway i'm going to pack my table again now.. bb!

16th!

2007-01-10T00:33:00.000-05:00

carnt wait for... hmmm... ah... 16th!

yayayAYy!

oh but wait... thats also the deadline for that four thousand word extended essay.

damn it!

ah well. at least it'll be over with right?

2006-09-02T19:24:00.000-04:00

omg is there anything more dreary than spending the whole bloody rainy day studying for satS?? unless you're studying for prelims that is. yeesh not to mention the threat of college and prjects and stuff hanging over ya head. school starts on tuesday yes its horibly, dreadfully true. *and* my parents are both foaming at the mouth abt how im soo not enthusisastic about senior retreat day. (as if its ther motive in life to point out to me all the 'social interaction' pts of my school career) wunderful. the people in charge have once again struck to encourage student moral... and what was it... bonding between faculty and students... oh sure... we're all going to have so much fun at crystal lake that we're just OVerjoyed to get back to school... not tht it would remind us that the summer is over... oh noo... or the whole bloody ib is going to come down like a ton of bricks in a few months. of cos no.A RRRGH HHH. diedieidiedieieddie. okok. something more positive... mooree positive. everyone shuld buy halo 2 and an xbox and also internet connection thts v. fast. then we can play a real multiplayer game and instead of killing aliens we can kill each other!not counting the occasional shooting in the back during co-op wich of cos is entirely accidental and not due to the fact tht thre no aliens in sight at the moment.. no of cos not. more and moreim finding writing a blog is v. pointless becos my life is so boring... but its marginally better at the moment than studying for the sat. exactly. yes. (you should be doing sometihng more constructive than reading this im sure) also somehow the raspberry jam in the cookies baked yesterday was like eye-wateringly sour/bitter yesterday and like tooth-droppingly sweet today.. no idea wut happened... a very bizarre chemical reaciton or sometihng... either way ... the cookies look nice... if not... very.. edible. yeah. if anyone has encountered this weird jam phenomenon before pls tell me im v. intrigued to know wut happened.

testing

2006-07-25T04:09:00.000-04:00

testing...

driving!!!!

2006-02-09T19:22:00.000-05:00

omg driving is seriously fun. scary, somtimes life threatening and sometimes incredibly boring (such as waiting at the damn light) but funfun!!

so being 5secs late to get into the car im suddenly stuck with being actually DRIVING FIRST? eeek. and the guy goes thru all the pedals and signals and stuff and OFF WE GO. yeah, 5 secs of instructions. thanks man. make it all the way down f.d.r and onto 38th without mishap (except perhaps .... then we're on the main streets and there are sooo many pedestrians and stuff and they're ALL STANDIING AT THE CURB WHEN IM TRYING TO TURN?? what the hell is wrong with them. hellooo pple read the sign on the car: "extrememely dangerous student driver: step away from the curb" but nooooo, they dunt care, so i have to brake in the middle of the whole road and waiiiit for them to slloooowwly walk across the damn crossing! aghr! then i totally miss my turning because im sooo busy concentrating on the three damn mirrors that you have to look at every 3-5 seconds??? YEAH NO WAY. and then theis total idiot looks like hes turnign in front of me but then he starts to reverse and im coming up behind him and so i swerve like frantically left to avoid him the whole street is full of cars?! eek. im going to fail my road test. horribly. miserably. terribly. the accelerator is too light and the brake is too heavy... noo... ervthing is wrongggg eeeeeek... VRROOM SCREECH VROOM OMGIMGOINGTODIE VROOOM EEEEeeeaackkk.... *sighs of relief* <- basically summarizes the class.

actually it was pretty ok... didnt feel like going to die or anything... sarah had it soo much worse. there was this one guy in front of her and to her right (and to tell you the truth i dunt even rmb the next 5 secs properly cos adrenaline was like flooding through my brain) but then he seems to stop i think and sarah's coming up from behind pretty fast, so the instructor tells her to slow down and turn on the left blinker to pass her... AHHAHAHA but somehow everything goes opposite and teh WINDSHIELD WIPERS START WIPING FRANTICALLY NA DTHE ACCELERATOR JUST JAMS ON IN THIS HUGE BURST OF POWER AND ARGH ARGH ARGH!! and the instructor has to jam down his brakes and we're all lkike... what the hell just happejned?? hahahahah... kinda funny actually.. not funny while goin through it... i had this whole flashback to jurassic park where the safari cars gettotally trashed and the windshield wipers are on... SOO CREEPY! then the instructor was evilll and made sarah go through grand central where there is this quote :" serpentine" twisty road thing wher eits a total blind curve... youjust see like one manageable curve turning left, then suddenly as you turn this horrible sloping downwards right curve comes up and the instructor is talking sooo fast like "lookoutlookoveryourshoulderlookattheblindspotkeeptotherightbecarefuloftheguynexttoyou" and like alll sorts of more stuffstuff...

damn tiring. damn fun. damn lots of stuff to remember. like thoese damn mirrors. i need more eyes.

MORE DRIVING! (plus i have this icredible urge to just crash... like just once you know... just to see what it feels like... erh... yeah... :P)

hoho!

2006-01-30T18:56:00.000-05:00

ha ha i finally uploaded the pictures. yay.

cookie experience.. well.. not really cookies... erh... cream cheese rolls to be more specific. ... ... yah. nothng wrong. they were nice.

be afraid. be very afraid. evil... shadow... creeepy... loomimg......... BAkers!! *shrieks and screams come from nowhere*

smile for the camera! notice how i'm doing the washing up. yes... i am *actually* washing up. har har. not funny.

Yeah... thats the best use for the cream cheese rolls... decorative art. uhmm hum...

NO ONE FORGETS THE MUTANT STRAWBERRY. EVER. HAUNTING HAUNTING. EW.

happy new year!!

2006-01-29T23:28:00.000-05:00

happy chinese new year guys!!!

as usual im avoiding homework... although in fact (surprise surprise) it isn't due tommorrow!! yay! and (more cheers) i've just completed the bio homework that *is* due tommorow. of course... i spend 20 mins doing the actual thing... and then another 30mins looking for the damn stupid stapler which the damn stupid designer put a lousy magnet on the bottom causing it to stick to the christmas cookie can on my table... which of course i put on the floor while clearing space to do work.... i mean... who the hell looks for a stapler attached to the side of a cookie can on the floor and furthermore covered by a trashbag full of sick tissues which fell off the side of my desk... of course the last place you wuld look right??!! dunt blame me ok... more and more time is totally being killed by looking for stupid things. like the fever medicine. its missing. not good. oh and lets not forget the extra boxes of tissues that are apparently in the cupboard...only... they're not there. running out of tissues. defintely not good. oh and of course i'm coming down with a cold. greeat timing. start the new year sick why don't I, how auspicious.

okok everything isn't really falling apart. it just seems that way. on the upside my cooking is improving tremendously. i.e. i actually conquered laziness today to defrost and prepare and then cook sum chicken and tofu and rice for dinner! whoohoo! this means, considering how the rice cooker has a minimum amount that can be cooked... i'm probably going to be eating chicken and tofu and rice for the next few days. yay!! -___- why i thought you wanted to know that i dunt noe... but then again... if you had anything better to do you wuldnt be reading this right? :D this means you sam. stop watching tv. bad for your eyes @_@

yikes its actually feb alreadi... which means... driver's ed is starting to get serious... ooo... first driving lesson in the car is 6th of feb. not looking forward to it at all. plus the instructor's voice makes me want to sleep. or slit my wrists out of depression. the course sounds soo hard now... im just going to fail soo badly. ergh. whats wrong wif taking the bus? i like the bus. im a bus-person. no... .... actually i hate the bus. whats wrong with taking the subway? *someone points out that most places have no subway* ....... whats wrong wif walking? no wait... i hate walking. ...... everyoine shuld just live more close to one another.

anyways... enough abt that... its already starting to be depressing. its also depressing how im complaining that its depressing, being that no one needs to know how depressing it is, in case they are depressed. soo... hey ... had soo much fun at xi's house yesterday i.e. new year's eve. think i managed to lose a few pounds laughing so muhc... except for the cheesecake... .... .... cheesecake. hehe its kind of coming back in fragments, so bear with the mixed up chronology. first thing that comes to mind... oo.. we watched seoul raiders... hahahaha... such a nonsense show but sooo funny... then of course made twenty thousand jokes about wassa-wassa-wasabi the wholle night that contributes to the stomach cramps of course. hehehe... somehow things degenerated into things being thrown around the room, and then an all out pillow fight that managed to chase xi out of her room, after which we barricaded it with four pillows (two striped), three wheely chairs (one missing a head and an arm) and a stuffed lion(who is simba and shuld die). xi's dad's following comment: "they were preparing for another tsunami". hmm... next thing i can remember... oh yeah... haha making dumplings at like... 11pm? or something like that? hehehehe... me and xi making and making and then she's like im soooo tired and she stops... then coupla minutes later im like "argh... im soooo tired also" and thne i stop... and then the only one making is sarah... who probbaly made like the entire last tray of dumplings. must have been somthing in the flour... got an allergy... was sneezing the whole night and the whole day today also... egh... not to mention the blood or wine (i.e. mysterious red stain that kept appearing on my hands and then my shirt... hey it had nothing to do with me ok.) theres absolutely no reason why there shuld be blood there. not a cut, not any particular time of the month.... sooo weird. yah yah enough about that... hmm... what else... hmmm... had a thought... had a though.... ... .... no its gone. yah well... not time also anyway. must get back to madame bovary and the damn flying cow. (dunt ask)...

ps: sorry guys... i think the xmas cards didnt make it through the mail... :{ i'm probably sticking to ecards from now on. yeah.

remembering eg

2005-12-16T23:06:00.000-05:00

-remembering EG.

a moment of silence,remembrance,relinquishing for eddie guerrero. wwe superstar. fighter. player. legend. who brought greatness to wrestling and heady, life, excitement, laughter,drama,emotion at 3am in the morning, when sneaking downstairs to watch, it becomes bigger than the ring and somehow more likely that the good guys win. (even if they cheat, lie, steal and have such fun doing it). thank you.

game...

2005-12-01T21:43:00.000-05:00

mc: hey folks... give me some feedback here. should i burn down sam's house for listing me with ronald macdonald and the tooth fairy? or should i sign up for twenty thousand websites and listings and webrings and porn with her email for including me in this pointless and strange game? or maybe... if you're in a terribly good mood, i could even... lock her and ann in the same room for a week... with *gasp* a deranged and homicidal baboon! or even... two! (and a banana! it's more vicious than you think!) it's all your choice!

audience: yay!! all! all! ALL!

mc: all right!! amuse yourself with the following, while i go prepare...

*~*
RULES OF GAME:
1. post 5 weird/random stuffs about yourself
2. at the end of the quiz list the names of 5 people who you want next to do this and leave a comment "you are tagged" in their blog and tell them to read your blog for rules.

1) All those times when i just blank out and stare at you with a rather hazy expression after you've said something... and then i go "what what?" or "huh?" ten seconds later... its just to drive you all crazy. actually i heard you fine the first time. :D

2) I'm still plotting to spike my teachers' coffee with lotsa sugar... problem is getting it done without being caught red-handed. my bio teacher is relli distracted, soo... should be rather easy... except i'll feel sorry for him (since he seems a rather sappy person), and i bet he wunt haf any reaction. my phy teacher on the other hand... would probably know exactly who it was if his coffe is unnaturally seasoned... therfore i must set up some sort of framing evidence before hand. hmm...

3) I recommend everyone to play morrowind and monkey island... two best games of my life. in fact, i'll even lend it to you... which reminds me... wq still owes me my monkey island 3. tsktsk.

4) an random dislike that i have is those colorful plastic things that babies play with. they bother me somehow. oh oh and the strange weird sticky but slimy transparent membrane that is between onion layers... unnecessary and alien. go peel open an onion and see. (dunt laugh, if you were cooking everyday you'ld hate it too!) what else... my dad whining filial piety everytime i refuse to do something for him like find his lousy glasses. seriously. plus the way the damn scotch tape tears off this small 5mm by 2 mm triangle corner when i have my hands full holding the whole project together and have after mucho delicate manevoures have managed to get two fingers free to tear a large piece off... i realise this list could go on forvver... im going to stop now. yes... right.

5) i lost my pencil. just five seconds ago. where the hell is it??? its not in the pile of stuff on my table... which incidently is not always there but spontaneously occured when the damn aluminium can pencil holder tipped the hell over... its not under my laptop or the books... its not under "one hundred years of solitude"... eeeeeeeerrrgghhhh... its not on the flooorr...... hmm... just found my alarm clock battery... thats good..... did it fall in my bagggg... nooo.... the saga continues... now where is my backup pencil?.... damn it!

people to sabo: can i say sam again? alright. sam. sam. and also... sam. thats 15 facts you sabo-er! and they btr be long! and just for good measure, huimin and ann as well. and sarah and xi. im goiing to forget to tell anyone aboutthis quiz... but if any of you is reading this now... yeah... you've been tagged... yeah. hm...

Side note:
Shopping List
1) Baboon/Howling Monkey
2) Rope
3) Petrol/Gasoline
4) Lighter fluid and matches
5) Digital video camera
6) Banana
7) Yogurt (peach)
8) Flashlight/black ski mask
9) Suitable blunt instrument
10) A good book

burfday!! yay!!!

2005-11-12T20:54:00.000-05:00

BURRFFDAY!! YAYY!!

This is all the weird things that i got my seventeenth birthday and my rather logical but somehow kafkaesque take on them... im traumatised for life.

1) Strange watermelon +bear notebook (do Not ask) (to record life?)
2) Small b0wl of sugar (ahahah!) (to sweeten life)
3) 5 striped paper clips holding 2 pieces of note paper and a moist towel packet (life is random)
4) 2 pencils and 1 piece of dark blue string (for sat II chinese)
5) bead necklaces (blue and silver yaY!) (for celebration whoo hoo!)
6) orange gummies (for energy!)
7) 2 pax of pocky (chocobanana (wth!!) and strawberry) (im not even going to comment)
8) 4 balls of yarn (purple, greenand blue) (to make sweaters... erhh... yeah....)
9) 1 pack of "really big paper clips" (to... hold life together??)
10) 1 japanese cake sweet desert thing <- hard to explain (shows that life is squishy.. no really it is)
11) 1 pack of seaweed (symbolises life's suicide...oh and i supose saltyness as well)
12) 1 chocopie (down with racisM!! esp. to pies!!)
13) 6 badges (life needs slogans to survive)
a) zombie
b) Kill your television
c) Stewie: why you sick, sick little moo cow
d) We're all mad here
e) Say nope to dope and ugh to drugs
f) "even though this is a stupid button you're still squinting to read it"
14) packet of tissue paper (for coughs)
15) 2 differnet kinds of chopsticks and 1 really small spoon. (note: spoon) (erh... hmm... life... revolves... around... cutlery??)
16) 2 hair ties (do not even talk to me about this)
17) ... this is the kicker... all the empty little packets of sugar that went into the bowl of sugar earlier... (*some* people are insane. enough said)

add to this xi and sarah wrapped everything up with 16 layers of tissue paper... note... tissue paper... that caused the cleaning guy's eyes to fall out cos we opened the prez in the physics labs... ooo and the card... v.v.v. nice card...

and of cos this unbelievable drawing from lisa... hehe that small face looks more like her than me... and trust me the drawing is SOOOO much better up close... like make it ten thousand times more clearer ... hehehehehheheheheheee.... *muffles insane giggling*

hehehehe also... mucho thanks for all the ecards and emails that i got :P carnt believe everyone remembered... but of cos i assume everyone has memory thats as... great... as mine... yesh... must remember to send emails on 22nd... :D *rummages for post it note* in fact... i better wish you guys happy birthday in advance!!! happy birthdayy!!! oh dear... too emotional... its getting sappy... im going to go sweep the floor... hehe...

in any case... ytd was the best day ever!! you guys are the greatest!!

this is not pork. (chapt 2)

2005-11-01T16:54:00.000-05:00

ok so these are the few main jokes and i realli carnt write out all the rest because i already forgot everything... hehehe...

so basically we went back to xi's house to make lunch and she already asked her mum before to unfreeze the meat for cooking. here we are trooping into her kitchen and im raiding her fridge for the nice milk chocolate toblerone (hehehe no its white... no wait, its black!! whahaha!) ok yeah... and at the same time she goes to check the meat thats quietly defrosting. she picks thru them and shes like... "ok... chicken"... and then another piece... "yes chicken"... and then suddenly i hear... "this isn't chicken!! this is so pork!!"

AHAHAH!!

cue spontaneous uncontrollable laughter here. and immediately of course i send "this is so pork!!" to sarah, which she of course links it to the earlier message she sent to xi, which was "do you take chem?" only it came out "do you take ahem" and we were soo stumped we didnt reply... hehehehe... sooo funny... just imagine you ask someone like do you take chem and half an hour later you get the message this is so pork!! WHaHaH!!

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and then im doing tok with xi in her room and sarah is outside trying to concentrate on her english cos she said we were too noisy, except she kept asking me questions which means i have to walk alll the way out to the living room... so after like 2 or 3 times i just randomly grab the nearest soft toy next to me, which was a pig, and i went out and immediately shouted: "ALL YOUR ANSWERS WILL BE ANSWERED BY THE MYSTICAL PIG".... hehehhehehe then of course i just threw it at her and ran away, but she kept asking me to come out so the pig was followed by a mystical stuffed lion... and an apple... -merf-

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hehehhe and then this last thing which is totally impossible to describe without a visual. ok so im gonna try anyway. imagine xi's bed is like against the wall, except its on wheels so it can move, and then somthing dropped behind the bed like near the top right corner, no idea what it was, xi is like lying on the bed and trying to reach it... ahehehhehe... except suddnely the bed MOVES and shes trapped in tha corner between the bed and the wall and the cupboard and it just looks SOOO funny cos her legs are like waving in the air and shes like "HELP HELP!!!" and me and sarah are like "WHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA" and not moving at ALLL... heheheheh...and shes like that for 5 mins before she finally manages to push the bed further away and roll out, no help from us of course. XD.

alot alot alot alot tests tests teststests... except something to do with halloween next. :D

this is not pork. (chapt1)

2005-10-19T21:22:00.000-04:00

omg... theres no way i can write out this killer post... yeeks even the simple list is sooo long... okok im gonna try. no homework anyway. and i totally trashed both my math test and my english commentary so... just a leeetle depressed shall we say. >:{

*no more late nights and coffee binges before math tests* ever.

the time line for this thread is reeelli screwed up. blame my bad memory.. it was like... what 5 days ago? something like that.

ok me and xi start out in the morning arranging to meet to go to chinatown for lunch/buying stoopid hong lou meng bk, and then going back to her house later for study. (we both have tons and tons of homework) so... my dad's not home... i arrange to meet at 10 but i wake up at 9.40... as usual. tsktsk. first strike. being rather on the ball at the time, i call xi and postpone the meeting 15 mins back. ok... a rather rushed 20mins later im finally out of the house... whooo 15 mins to walk 10 blcks and 4 avenues... shall we say... no chance at all on a frozen hell day. 15mins later im calling xi again and asking her where we were supposed to meet, which was 2nd and 23rd. (second strike) ...ok now comes the killer genius part. follow the movements carefully.

9.55: rush out of elevator
10.10: at 2nd and 30th near the cinema (and badly winded i might add)
10.15: 2nd and 27th - first call to xi (finds out meeting place is 2nd and 23rd)
10.25: 3rd and 27th

10.30 : 3rd and 23rd - sudden and spontaneous realization of self-stupidity... resulting in dramatic cursing and a sheepish embarresment

10.35: 2nd and 23rd - call xi again

yay arrival... more than half an hour late and just after the buses have passed. just great. xi is ready to pull my nose off... seeing that she was perfectly on time as usual... hhehe.. i hope you got the mistake. just lowered my iq by 100 there.

so we get to chinatown... after summat trial and error with the pathfinding. and guess what. my lousy chinese teacher has given us DAMN shoddy intructions to find the damn bookstore. (not to mention after the first horrible encounter with the bookstore on 5th ave.) this means walking along the entire damned elizabeth street until... located a chinese cultural center/mall... walk in... walk around... discover many weird stalls and weird pple talking mostly in cantonese which is vaguely disturbing (cos like gangsters leh)... walk out... walk around elizabeth... walk up... walk down... .stop in middle of street. ... notice BIGBIG chinese bookstore sign right beside the cultural center. smacks head for stupidity. walk in. buy books (after exhaustive search which involved much moving and stacking and shifting of books). of course we have no more energy after this so we went to get egg tarts. yummy. then of course the long, circle route i took back to the bus stop thanks to more random, luck-based pathfinding... stay tuned for chapter 2 ... which im too lazy to put up. plus i need to get some work done.

(or perhaps... watch ff advent children which i just downloaded off the torrent) :P

this is so pork

2005-10-16T16:13:00.000-04:00

[pps: this is the original list that was typed up at xi's house. fun rite.]

THIS IS SO PORK!!!!!!!

wahahaha... ok im at xi's house now and doing zero work at all. very good rite. hehe.

chinatown
do you take chem... this is so pork
skittles in orange juice
comedy movie
mystical pig/lion
mystical apple
sweets amd corn
sliding down the bed
sarah and mei laughing but not helping at all
sugar and tapioca
spicy food with pork and chicken
sarah hiding in the cupboard/behind couch
xi finding lost week clothes under the bed
drinking vomit orange juice (EWW)
xi still not knowing that there is ... sugar in her shoe!!!!
time bomb/ timer
translating the stoopid entire movie [MG!!!]
xi and simba at the door!
sarah creeping the hell out of me with the idiot timer
stoopid tear seaweed thing
sarah pouring all of the candy away
corn in the tissue box
six months flower
trashed economics book
and zero hw done at all
smashed internet connection - bloop
xis dad coming home any minute for 10 hrs
eating pepper!!!
creeping into the living room with guilty expressions
hiccups from pepper
seeing sarah sitting on the couch rather obviously right after xi has said sarah has disappeared
Mei crying!!!
deleting imesh and quicktime from the computer and almost managing to delete the stoopid flashget which is completely uselss and unsused all the time. :p
hi -SHUTUP!!!!
throwing skittles at the wall!!
you have reached chase bank
xi answerin g mei's phone and sarah hearing mei singing in the background and cactus
stoopid internet connection virus thing!!!!
my dad messaging me at WTH two in the morning from paris to tell me i am not at home. wooow......GOD!!
when? whenever....
she was half an hour late and she called me at ten twenty, so are we meeting on the 23rd and third or 23rd and second. second. ok im on first. ill bethere in five minutes. so iw aited and waited and waited for like 12mins and i waslike wth are u.,.. i just did something really dumb becos i was on second and i thot i was on first and i went up to third and i had to go back...
omg there is a seven... omg!!!!
seaweed committing suicide
Xi's english committing suicide as well
sarah lost her shoes!

Facts

2005-10-13T22:02:00.000-04:00

[posted five minutes by mei after this was posted by sarah: she's avoiding studying for her econ test - its true]

Ok, so here is some random facts that i (hehe i.e. sarah) got by e-mail and decided to post....hehe....and by the way throwing sugar IS so much FUN!!!! oh, and seeing the top of an umbrella fly off is great as well.....MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

(Now that's more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.)

(I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

(Do not try this at home. Maybe at work.)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

(30 minutes... lucky pig. Can you imagine??)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

(Hmmmmmm........)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

(OK, so that would be a good thing....................)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains.

(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.

(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

(What about that pig??)

Now that you've smiled at least once, it's your turn to spread the stupidity to someone you want to bring a smile to (maybe even a chuckle)...in other words everyone.

rainrain rain go away

2005-10-13T20:58:00.000-04:00

[the work im avoiding today is physics homework: vectors]

hahaha the funniest thing happened today. okok imagine this: its raining and the wind is dammn strong... so me and sarah and sara are walking out of school (that walkway is just like a wind tunnel) and sara is walking in front of both of us...

sara: ok, i'm sorry if my umbrella hits any of you
me: hehe

*five secs after that sara's umbrella head flies off in the wind (narrowly missing my head i might add)*
*one sec of stunned silence passes*

me and sarah together: BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHH!!!!!!!
me: choke cough cough
me and sarah continued: BWAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!

SOOOO FUNNY... if you can visualize it... BWHAHAHAHHA!!!!

*repeat that for the next 2 mins*

okok... so sarah and i went to xi's house on... was it tuesday? ok, soo anywayy... for some random reason xi started pouring sugar down my festive straw (pink - bwaha!) into my orange juice. perhaps its because

a) i stole three of her straws for no good reason ( its because i like straws)
b) she was offended by the festiveness of my drink (pink and orange)
c) i didnt express enough enjoyment in her food (chicken teriyaki and salad)
d) she is insane

*see answer below

anyyyway, the logical assumption would be the sugar dissolved in the orange juice making it sweeter and NICER right? oooohhh noooooo, thank kafka for this, its all his fault, stoopid illogical world.... biggest mistake ever, while trying to drink my nice sweetened orange juice i inhale half a packet of pure, machinized sugar which stuck in the straw..... straight into my arteries and had a spontaneous heart attack.... hard to imagine? to relive this, take 1 packet of equal, or 3 packets of normal sugar, pour it into a little mountain, and SUCK THE GOD DAMN THING RAPIDLY THROUGH A STRAW. enough said. never take drugs children. it coats your brain through your nose canal and that is not a fun expierence. mlegh.

then we start talking about sugar and xi takes out this BigbigBIG carton of sugar packets. 1000 sugar packets. (a bargain her dad got - sorry her mother's husband, hehehe, which is how her dad describes himself - seriously who says that...) anyway back to the carton... imagine a box full of these little packets of coffee sugar... its just like holding... a tray full of ping pong balls.... *evil grin* wad do you want to do?

a) pack it away (dear GOD??!!)
b) admire it (weirdo...)
c) throw it all in the air and dance in the fall out (perfect!)

so kick in the uncontrollable urge to carry out c.... follow with two minutes of superb persuasion skillz in action...

amazingly, and rather naively in hindsight, xi agrees to let us throw the little packets around... WAHAHAHAH!!!! me and sarah carry the box into the living room, and then grab handfuls of sugar packets and just start flinging them at each other. i know it sounds weird dunt take this the wrong way...... but its fun seriously.... try it...... okok... so very fast theres no more packets in bnox, the're all over the floor. we start to pick them up, but of course it degenerates into a pick up and throw wahtever is in your area fight as usual.... at this poitn xi realises the horrible mistake she has made because of the 1000 packets scattered ALL OVER her floor and under the tv, and in the plant dish and in her shoes and everywhere... so shes kinda dead on the floor.... WAHAHA!! INGENIOUS IDEA. -zoom- -zipzip- -fwwwoooosshhh- in five secs me n sarah haf the box refilled and the evil smiles on our faces... *one*...... *two* .... *three*... POUR ALL OVER XI... BWAHAHA!! ... sugar... suggggaaaaaarrrr.... eeevveerryywheereee....

okok i seriously have to get to physics... cont. later... maybe...

ps: the answer for the first quiz is d.

koffee...

2005-10-08T20:55:00.000-04:00

today the koffee that i had during the week caught up to me and i felt deeead tired the whole day. argh! i was falling asleep during the lecture, and also completely miserable cos of the damn stoopid constant rain and the fact that i forgot my umbrella AND the fact that my dad was SOO DAMN MR GRUMPY TROUSERS because i forgot my umbrella. bad day. argh. its all my bio teacher's fault. hes such a bad influence, drinking coffee in bio class, esp before lunch, then i carnt help going to get coffee during lunch. bleh!! and then one time he even SPILLED HIS COFFEE and the WHOLE ROOM smelt like coffeee... argharghar Dieeee... it doesnt help that my friends are all coffeeaddicts too...... peerpressure... cofffeeeeee...

im avoiding my physics lab. and my english homework. and the damn chinese essay, which my yeacher 70% probability to forget about if we dunt remind him. during the week i realised how many teachers walk to school the same way i do.. something like 4 i think... argh argh... avoidavoidavoid tthheemmmm allll...

i need coffee. after doing experiments [i.e. drinking coffee] i had collated all the effects of coffee on me. firstly, for two periods after drinking coffee 1: i'ld be on a damn perky coffee high which means i talk and smile and laugh constantly to which my friends are kinda amused... although they most prob drank coffee also and are also right there being high with me. 2) there will be a hrorible urge to go toilet, esp during important things like math tests and bio labs... then for the next two periods it will be impossible to concentrate on anything, like th edamn physics equations all over the board... and then for the rest of the day the high will be back in full force. after which two days later its gonna suck all the energy away.. i swear coffee is this alien life force entity parasite that has evolved to wait in our body and eat our energy, meanwhile the chemicals its exudes makes us want to drink more coffee...

...did i just write a whole paragraph on coffee? the alien lifeforce entity parasite is influencing my mind.

hehehe... anyways... on a more... lighter note.... my friend ordered an ipod of amazon.com, and then when she hooked it up to the usb port on her comp it started smoking... and thne after that it didnt turnon anymore... so she ordered a replacemnet. and to be extra sure, she asked me to go help her install it. sooo... installed itunes and everything... THEN i plugged it into the usb port and the ipod EXPLODED!! ... ok it didnt really, but the small port at the bottom of the ipod started burning and there was this horrible crispy burnt wire smell in the air, so of cos i threw the ipod away from me, and as u can imagine it dunt work anymore... stoopid ipods. i concluded its becos the computer was jealous and fried the ipod with a surge of electricity.... she said its cos her usb port is whacked out... hmmm.... im probably right.

i've just come to realise how much i hate this girl in my class. omg, you will never be even able to imagine what she is like. ABHOR. DETEST. first take every single loudmouth act-smart know-it-all you have ever known. throw them all together. subtract common sense to know when to shut up and a strange ability to resist my EVIL EYE, as well as the gift of pinpointing the exact question that, when asked, is enough to make me eat my own pencil, and then increase her horribleness to the power 41. like OH MY GOD, she even interupts the teacher in the middle of his explananation to add in her own explanation, which HELLO was completely unasked for and unecessary and then she enjoys wallowing in her own aura of superiority. i hate her laugh, and her smile, and her every single word, and i have no idea why. except for the obvious one of her seeming to think she has an obligation to clarify things that Oh im sorry the rest of the class is too stoopid to understand ourselves. i swear im going to poison my teacher's coffee and have him spill it over her so it soaks through her skin and gives her sickle cell anaemia causing her to die a horrible death. in class. where i can seeit and laugh. ha. ha ha. hmph.

anyway, i feel much better after the ranting. if you have just read through that, congradulations for wasting 2mins of your time. i feel so accomplished. now go drink some coffee and read it again.

by the way: avoid kafka like the plague and go read catch-22, one of the funniest books ever!

tired -_-

2005-06-08T20:41:00.000-04:00

-_- tired. exams. tired tired.

also damn hot.
hot as hell. dieee stoopid global warming!

chinese exam on friday.
then math and eng and history and physics and bio and art.

my room is a mess. as usual. exam-time mess. all textbks and wkshts all over the place. AIEEAGH! how to find anything? -rummage rummage-

on the plus side i have lotsa pictures on my camera... if i can figure out how to upload them. bleh. which site should i use?

anyone who can tell me how to ace my history test please come online now. 1 essay, 2 sourcebased, 8 identifications. why? why? why?

also whoever has memorised every single metaphor and important quote in Othello give me a call. important.

expected return date: 6am 18th of June

ps: i managed to get a UNIS yearbk even though i was only here for one semester... *whoopie*

^-^ over and out.

wotta.

2005-05-11T22:00:00.000-04:00

ok guys... im feeling inspired after reading everyone's blogs. the reason is i have a physics test to study for and I obviously chose the lesser of two evils... i.e. being wu liao and reading everyone's blogs. yepyep. creative expression... let me just find something to say...

okok... the other day I walked 30 blocks for bubble tea!!!! [1 block = taka to centerpt - less crowded plus 50 farenheit weather] and good food of cos... but mainly bubble tea. desperate lah... around mie apartment totally NOTING to eat except this damn LOUSY chinese takeout shop that mie father LOVES COS ITS CHEAP! -_-;; also all the good food is concentrated in soho and near the university place and thats rather far from mie house by walking distance. hate taking bus or subway. bus i had this horrible experience when I was like new and first time taking and I didn't noe how to insert the metro card... the driver was like "HURRY UP!!!" and I was like... "HELLOO IM NEW" and she was like "YEAH RIGHT STOP PLAYING GAMES WITH ME" and I was thinking wtf!!! sheesh... damn rude la and totally set me against the stoopid bus taking. ARGH!!! then the subway... underground trains = loud, noisy, dirty, unsafe. at least they're on time. anyway there was an article recently about how the percentage of ipods being stolen has increased from dunno-when to now... thinking about changing my headphones from the white ones... so its pretty dangerous to take the subway at nite and stuff and my father is damn suffocating protective so... guess whos stuck at home like after 9. geez. biggest reason for not taking public trans. is becos of the 2dollar flat fee everytime you take it... its like 1 stop or 10 stops all 2 dollars and its quite exp. after a while so... mite as well lose some weight walking around right? haha. back to the subject... i loved the bubble tea. very nice. esp. after eating horrible cafeteria food.

actually i took the subway over to 99th the other day to watch my fren's taekawndo lesson... i mite take it up. -evil smile- WHAHAHAHAA.

then my canadian fren took me to eat poutin last week or the week before. its sort of this quebec dish where its french fries and cheese and gravy melted together... damn nice but very filling... also plus its in american sizes so... "it seems like i've been eating this forever!" sushi is a big thing on the menu, plus cafe stuff like sandwiches and salad and brunch silver dollar pancakes... why am I suddenly ranting on about food anyway?

hmm... i have chinese homework. its read the DAMN WENYANWEN FOR THE STOOPID CHIBIZHIZHAN!!!! ARGH!!!! hello 5 pages worth of stoopid impossible to understand shortened sentances and crazy words... meh... the thing i like about my classes is i never have to volunteer for anything. there are always like 5 pple in all of my classes volunteering the answers and being 'lab subjects' and being constructive [keep in mind most of my classes are under 20 pple] - so can sit back and enjoy the atmosphere. then also, due to the weird shape of my english classroom, my englihs teacher sits RIGHT OPPOSITE ME... and she KEEPS CALLING ME... so basically we're doing othello now and one day she'll be like: 'ok let's read. iago... luci. montano... mei!' and the NEXT DAY she'll be like 'ok open your books... othello. claire. gentleman 1... mei!" damnit and this keep happening!! nooO!!! im practicing the art of avoiding the teacher';s eye while not looking like your're avoiding her eye so she wunt call you... bWHAHAHaH!!! its not working... very well... hmm... my japenese fren gt an othello bk version in japenese to help her!! Cool!

let me see... okok in history... i was leaning back in my chair and holding the paper in my hands... trying to focus on the words... last period of the day... sleepy sleepy sleeeeepppyy... british guy for my teacher and he loves to divert to random things [such as his old skolteacher that he called junkers 88 - german plane i think].... the next thing I know... i open my eyes, look arund frantically [which always happens 5 secs after you wake up] ... and my paper is missing!! argh argh where is it!! not on the table... not in my file... and my czech fren next to me is like... " its on the floor. it slipped out of your hands while you were snoozing." :P

hehehe... im not looking forward to my lifesaving course. i carnt really swim myself and now they make me learn how to save pple. i'll probably DROWN in the process damnit!! geez. also must learn cpr/heimlich manevoure and all that stuf... WHY!!!! argh!

hmm... must get serious. study physics. maybe i'll type out some notes here.

elasticity is the property of a body by whch it experiences a change in shape when a deforming force acts on it and it returns to its original shape when the force is removed.

hooke's law" the force is proportional to the stretch.

elastic limit: point at which permanent distortion occurs.

i beam is stronger than a h beam: why?
... hmm...

you totally needed to know that right! :D

gd nite!

carnegie hall!

2005-05-07T23:24:00.000-04:00

whee tonite i went to carnegie hall to watch a choir performance - St Cecelia's Chorus... except my father conveinently forgot to mention that the songs were being sung in GERMAN so you can guess how much I understood right? the acoustics of the place were damn good though, also pretty grand... although i carnt realli critic since all I can measure to is like... esplanande (:|) bleh... anyways... the conductor [david randolph] was like 91-years old! ^-^ luckily in his job age counts for experience more than disadvantage so thats good...

actually the music reminded me alot of lotr and that was basically what i was thinking of throughout most of the performance. [besides german and elvish are both greek to me.] i figured out one of the reasons why i like lotr is because of the cool names that tolkien thinks up. [mount doom is the exception. im rather baffled on that count] since thinking up names that are actually pronouncable and nice is damn hard... harder than you would except. think about the symmetry of gondor's minas tirith, or fallen osgiliath. elvish heartwoods and hearthstones at lothlorien and rivendell and mirkwood. the serenity of the shire. twin evils at orthanc and barad-dur. horselords of rohan defending at helmsdeep and the rohirrim. the final battle just beyond mordor. then theres theoden, faramir, gandalf... interestingly original. yay for the movie versions... since they make the book palatable.

motivational poem for sam

2005-04-28T23:32:00.000-04:00

motivate!!! I hope you like it.

Love Life
lately, i've been missing you
and every little thing you do
the way you laugh, your ready smile
and how you walk with me awhile

like sleeping in bio and smiling to see
someone sleeping right in front of me
then poking fun for unruly books
while my own messes I overlook

and how at times, thoughts spring to mind
funny little things, preserved in time
like m'n'ms and switching tags
and fiddling with all nearby bags

this feeling, so hard to express
perhaps in verse is laid to rest
never think yourself to be
less than meaning the world to me

the only person I could ever stand
upon my defeat, to shake your hand
the only person I have ever known
in talking to, to feel right at home

perhaps me, this single person's ryhme
is little help when you're in a bind
so when all around, night has overrun
just turn to yourself, your inner sun

because it shines, bright as day
your polaris showing you your way
measure life, not in other people's eyes
but in times of joy that

cannot be bought
cannot be studied
cannot be marked
cannot be tested
cannot be won
cannot be auditioned
and cannot be counted

can only be felt by you, yourself
and when these are numerous like drops of rain
you'll live and love life, and forget all pain

this has been a poem
for sam.
love life.

poemic

2005-03-22T18:39:00.000-05:00

i'm feeling poemic. :D

if i said, give me your hand
let me be second in command
walk in your shadow, by your side
support you upon your stand
be the listener no one can
because you mesmerize them
what would happen if i said
give me the task of guarding your back
let me be not hero nor foe
but simply companion
advice to give, but unintruding
upon the way you lead, wherever
even unto the dragon's lair
for when it comes, flames blazing
let me be there, providing aid
giving you the moment's chance
to throw that fateful lance
to gain the fame, admiration
that you deserve, let me stand back
what would you do
if i said, no matter who you become
i will be your second in command.

will you then, give me the trust
i need i wish i hope i am earning
give me the sign i am deserving
what will you say to my entreating?

something different.

2005-02-27T23:10:00.000-05:00

ok guys... this is a surprise. i found the temporary [1-day] journal i kept during my four day winter camp just now... so i'll just type what i wrote inside. background: i just went for a full-day hike up and down a mountain in the Catskills range, so I'm lying in my sleeping bag an hour before dinner and trying to pass time. I forgot to bring a book (unprecedented!!). So heres an entry.

Actual Text.
Thoughts from a Journeyman Hiker (downhill only)
note: i can't feel my hand so this handwriting is screwd. still readable.

The packed lunch that had us hikers make was so cute,

1 fruit: apple/orange
1 fruit juice packet: caprisun fruit punch
1/ or 2 sandwiches: cheese, ham, lettuce, tomato
1 granola bar: blueberry/strawberry
1 bag of potato chips

I took picures of everyone with their lunches. it was so funny. About 50 of us (my estimation is lousy ignore it) packed into the 2 vans and went to Slide Mountain, the highest peak in the Catskill range. My councillor said that the Catskill Mountains aren't made by plate tectonics but by erosion of plateaus. Its quite obvious from the rounded, sandstone-texture of the hills. Of course it raises the question of how the plateaus were made. Anyway, from the beginning of the hike I had this *couldnt-be-bothered* kind of feeling - i.e. hiking = not my thing. The first part, was hell! It was a 60degree trudge and I mean trudge, through slippery, powdery snow and horrible jutting rocks. in fact, my brain has shut down, so the only description you'll have throughout is the word horrible.

We seperated into 3 groups from the start, fast, medium and slow. At first i was in the middle with Ivana and Sara and a bunch of other people, but as we trailed like ants up the damn steep incline it was hell on earth for tropical kid - i.e. never seen snow before. there is Nothing that matches the feeling of moving up two steps in the horrible slush and sliding back one... and then feeling like you're going to slide all the way down again. So the guide is like "we're only at the Start guys." geez. I came to the rather un-nerving conclusion that whether i walked at speed 5 or speed 10, i'ld still feel as horrible as anyway [the works: knee pains, cold wet feet, panting desperately for air, frostbitten fingers, overwhelmingly hot] it was the same level of boiling, straining muscles and puffing and wheezing. so me and ivana caught up with the fast group when the medium fragmented into medium-fast, medium-medium and medium-slow.

[edit: crudely drawn pictures here. i wish you could see them. they're stick man animations of my climb up.]

Stages of Progress
1)Hell on Earth - tropical kids
The Steepest, iciest slipperest part of the climb. sapped energy fast and set a dark mood for the rest of the way

2)constant incline
This was the stamina testing endurance part of the climb. the thought running through my mind the whole trip was this: "I'm a -puff- damned badminton -wheeze- player and we aren't -huff- built for damned -cough- two hour matches against gravity." the incline was about 40degrees which was manageable if not for the horrible speed we hustled along at. the funniest thing was that the guide went soooo comfortably slow on the straight portions, and he'ld stop like ten thousand times. then on the INCLINE, he'ld switch into demon mode and race all the way up without stopping even ONCE??!!

3)begin deep freeze
As we went up and up, the layers came off and off because we were so nhot. but the temperature fell and fell sharply. the guide pointed out some snowshoe tracks and balsam trees. apparently some guy at the front got the idea that the guide would stop everytime he asked a question, so he'ld be like *wads that track* or *wads that tree* every few minutes. not that i minded. not at all.

4)SUMMIT
The last mile was like dying, and it was at the point where i was gonna lie down and fadeee awayyy... it was that bad. energy gone. hungry. dehydrated. plus 1 more mile to the top. the incline was ok, lactic acid burning in my legs was not. at the top, the view was NOT worth it. - obscured by damned balsam trees and it was lousy eroded hills. freezing. i wore 5 layers including down and wool and i was still COLD. we ate lunch. anything tasted heavenly in that condition. badminton-player thot still running thru my mind.

5)slip and slide
so the fast people decided to take the 1 mile longer more fun route down the mountain, where you can literally slide down the steep incline. the sliding was so fun, as long as you avoided the horrible sharp rocks buried under the snow. we did like 50 feet in 5 minutes. WHOO! so much for climbing uphill. at the end my boot was caked in snow, contained snow, had snow pressed into the sole, and was anything except actual snow.

END. CABIN. END END END. YAY.

-end rambling account. I hoped you enjoyed it.-

glorified wishy-washy-ness-ness

2005-02-24T17:33:00.000-05:00

so i took a train to washington on friday [amtrak: cheapest], tagging along with my father on his business trip. needless to say he only spent one day out of four on actual business, but that was wholly expected. anyway, here is how strange washington really is.

first thing i noticed, the pavements were at least twice that of newyork, plus theres only 1/100th of people walking there... effect: ghost town. all the while im expecting tumbleweed to blow past... but i had to settle for a dunkin'donuts bag... sigh... it could be because i arrived on a weekend, and a holiday weekend at that, and all of washington's workers filed out on trains and planes to go home into suburbia. it felt really desolate compared to nyc. so we checked into our hotel pretty fast: knowing my father it is immediately the cheapest hotel in the district, be-damned to class or stars or anything else. surprisingly it wasn't bad at all... defintely a good choice... one of few he makes... yep. few.

visited the washington monument and lincoln's memorial during the time i was there, plus the vietnam memorial. i saw another dunkin'donuts bag inside the reflecting pool [what is it with these people????] the water was greenish and horrible. ensuing conversation:
me: look at the dog in the water [a couple's golden retriever swimming in the pool]
father's frn: they'll have to get a new dog.
or something along that lengths. really horrible. maybe becauase of the varied birdlife settling in the pool? im not an expert on ducks. noreally! think i saw some geese and mandarin ducks [def. mandarin ducks, with the iridescent green feathers] though... possibly. ducks in the reflecting pool? seabirds also. there were quite alot of them, quacking and stuff, perhaps brought down the image of the monuement reflected in the water... nahh. read the getty'sburg address on lincoln's memorail... thought about what would happen if they had lost the war... refused to take a picture of lincoln on his seat. i mean come on, its all glorified wishy-washy-ness-ness, dunt see the point of elevating someone to semi-deity status. any american diehards, please stone me now. vietnam memorial was more inspiring, a rather simple but poignant tribute to the people who died in vietnam. its a asymetrical wall cut into a small hill, with panels engraved with all the names of the people deceased. now all thats left is to catalogue not only the american heroes, but the innocent vietnamese civilians who died under gunfire from both sides. is anyone leaping forward to the task?

righto... took a trip into suburbia... its mind-boggling, the small-town life, esp. to singaporeans becos we dunt noe anything about it. imagine these small, isolated groups of houses seprated by miles and milesof unwinding highway... how does anyone communicate or even know anyone is there? exactly. mind boggling. miles nad miles of highway, cutting through stands of deadwood in the dark of winter, ironically called the greenway. didn't take much note of the surroundigns since i was plagued by this horrible case of car-sickness... like nausea... NAUSEA OVERWHELMING NAUSEA NAUSEA *blegh* we ate lunch. that much i gathered. nice lunch. in small town. with its own college. NAUSEA NAUSEA NAUSEA NAUSEA NAUSEA. then i get a shocking clarification of commercialization after coming back into the city. right next to the pentagon [i.e. that super-important, super-high-tech military base - remember it?] is this huge shopping mall called pentagon city... *pauses for realisation to sink in* yep. a huge shopping mall... helloo can we spell lucrative? l-u-c-r-a-t-i-v-e. furthermore i learned the pentagon was meant to be a war hospital. hmm... planning and implementing "fear and awe" war strategies from a hospital...hmm... i'm sorry, please wait while i fix my skewed perspective. oh wait... it isn't me after all.

let see... what else happened. erm... oh yeah... visited capitol hill. now, i rightly feel like strangling the inventor of the gate-way metal-detector-thing. it is the bane of my life. theres always this niggling feeling that as you walk thru its going to ring and those indifferent security guards are going to regard you as a terrorist. ten thousand of them, scattered around capitol hill. imagine that. overall it gave me a bad taste in my mouth... like NAUSEA. i think i'll repeat this. glorified wishy-washy-ness-ness... just because i like the words. anyhow... the whole moving, melodramatic process of congress rather has me down. esp.after i learned that while being the nation's capital, washington itself dosn't have a representative int he house of representatives... is it just me who thinks thats a little strange? here, take my advice: visit capitol hill once in your life, just for the experience, and then avoid it like the plague. i think though, it would be cool to have enough importance that you can walk about there with permission to open every door and have no one challenge you, other than that... its not visitor-orientated, its security-orientated, or at least it appears to be. saw at least two people carrying machine guns, plus one secret service guy [couldbe] ontop of the white house. pondered how far one could get if one jumped the gates and starting sprinting towards the white house. probably a meter would be applaudable. one strange thing that bears mentioning is the greenhouse/conservatory that is right next to the hill... hmm... i would like to hear the original reasoning that has it positioned there, other than tradition of course. the answer, predictably... is tradition. sigh.

visited national air and space museum and the halocaust museum. i'm not a museum person. the halocaust museum was rather trying though... its a little hard to understand what would flame someone, and then somepeople, and then some countries to effect wholesale genocide. i still don't get it. sheer madness?

final impression. washington, district of columbia, is a massive office, without the facilities and housing to accomodate actual *life*. it is also built on a swamp [i.e. the pentagon is sinking]. hehe... swamp. this leaves it seeming like an old western abandoned town come weekends and holidays, when its life, all the little people, bleed out of it. bleed bleed. for all the hyperbole it gathers for being the nation's capital, walk along the empty streets and feel a little sad for this not-big-enough-to-qualify-representation-state-, so that the governemnt people who work there and keep the nation running... gets taxation witout representation. a rather cynical view of washington. yep.

lift me up.

2005-02-15T18:41:00.000-05:00

ok... so i was watching this rather cliche and young-toddler-ish animated movie [balto 2] on the disney channel because there was nothing else to do... not really paying attention and reading a book at the same time, and suddenly there was this really really nice song which lasted for less than 1 minute... it wasn't very complicated, in fact it was a damn simple tune, and the voice was any grammy winning singer either... but i liked it... very nice. nice enuf [plus i bored] to go on internet and find it.

if you made sense of my rambling, please go to
http://fluke.theicecave.org/music3.shtml
and listen to the song named Muru's Chant. :)

if you haf any idea why this song is so nice, please tell me. if you haf any critical comments, please keep them to YORSELF! *hums the tune* bye now. *listens to song another 20,000 times*

empty

2005-02-08T21:26:00.000-05:00

the house is so empty.

yeah my mum flew back to singapore today... and when i went home and opened the door. in the doorway i was like thinking... "this isn't my house. bleh." of cos my father is still around but thats totally, completely different. since i haf like lite homework i'm *pause for applause* bloggin. yay.

school. new stuff rushing in from all angles... bio, physics, eng, math... almost everything has a different syllabus even though this is supposed to be same as sec 4... ah well... i suppose that's good right? english class is the best, we do free writing and poem writing and analysis and stuff... much more interesting. of cos i only haf o.s.l. to base my comparison on and even my chinese teacher is better at eng than her. *rant rant rant rant rant*

on the other, i have a history teacher *holds up protest board against history* who is like her. hes a rambling Maniac! i.e. he keeps rambling, not the other way around. it could take him 20mins to get back on topic, and by that time my attention is wandering already. but i think i have his teaching curve figured out... tune in for 10mins, zone out for 15 mins, tune in again when he has reached back on track. heh.

i am anticipating weeks of returning home at 4 and having no one in the house until 7 o'clock. just great. oh wait. that's exactly what happened in singapore anyway. ah well. what is it with developed countries that push people away from each other? oh and i had this whole rant about maturity written down which im not going to repeat [if not u'll think i'm immature] but its basically about independance and maturity... and how you really shouldn't equate the two. speaking from an immature, dependent point of view... speaking to all the immature dependents out there *changes protest sign* let us boycott... eating dinner at home! *waves signs* yay. how mature rite?

you asked for it

2005-01-19T22:34:00.000-05:00

and now you get it. wahahha... this is not a compromise! this is not a truce! this is... a temporary remission in conflict-based activities while i manevour into striking range... i just found out that everything in bio and sum things in math and EVERYTHING in history i hafnt learned yet... skol isnt gonna be such a pushover... soo it mite take sum time to reply to everyone's emails... thanks alotalot for anyone who sent emails though! I really appreciate it... *coughs out mouth full of sap* anyway... here you go... TEMPORARY! i still believe tagboards are HELLGATES! so there. XP

---> that side

ps: since im not feeling so depressed as when i trudged home last week after a long day in classes full of idiotic loud and uncomfortably annoying pple, throgh the FREZING STOOPID COLD... the previous post won't be continued... unless im depressed again. Im waiting for mail guys! its boring here in new york.

yurk

2005-01-11T16:28:00.000-05:00

confessions of a ~~chinese~~ Singaporean in nyc

1. i hate singapore.

1i. singapore has this weird accent which sounds totally horrible next to everyone's european and international accents and everyone cannot understand what im trying to say... i.e. you only ever feel comfortable with another singaporean.

1i result. attempt to remove accent from voice immediately. trust me... you'll know what im talking about when you enter a predominantly european or american culture.

1ii. singapore is one of the few places where Chinese is both a mother tongue and second language? How can a mother tongue BE a second language? its not SECOND??!! and I am embarressed when i say - oh my chinese isn't very good. yes i am embarressed. very very embarressed. my mum speaks hokkien and my dad speaks cantonese.... its sad that i don't know either.

1ii result. improve chinese. i have no idea how but... yeah. lets include learning cantonese here also.

1iii. theres nuthing nice to sae about it. Oh SURE singapore has beautiful scenery and great shopping and lots of fun things to do? LIKE NOTTT?? maybe for... waht 2 hours? im like - im from singapore and people reply - oh... erh... that's cool... then theres this pause. and im like -you've never heard of it rite? and they are like -yeah. YURKS

1iii result. take the first opportunity possible to evacuate the ENtire island of people. then salt the island. detach it from malaysia and let it float away. pretend it never existed.

2. i hate genetics. [sometimes i think i only have half a brain]

2i. absolute tone-deafness + no clue how the music scale works + haf no idea why sum scores are considered MasterpIEces when they are the worst disgusting combination of sounds i have ever heard = no music ever. ever ever ever. = no connection with anyone who plays music = all the world's aspiring musicians.

2ii. zero creativity + clumsy + colorblind = no art ever and ever also. i actually enjoy art... only everyone else doesn't enjoy my art. basically whenever i do art... i'll remember to lock the door and then burn it when I'm done. *throws artpieces into the fire*

-to be continued- repairmen coming to fix blinds... hafta evacuate room.

billboard city 2 - ooh the lights

2004-12-18T09:03:00.000-05:00

Monday!
before taking off the chief stewedess person came over and shook everyone's hand. he introduced himself of course... i can't remmeber his name though... it sort of slipped my mind after he went to the next chair and I opened the krisworld-movie guide. not my fault. also exceedingly weird that all the stewedess call me miss-cheung... damn strange... like hellooo is name memorising service included in the extra money? It supposed make you more comfortable... only made me more weirded-out larh.

take it from me... when sleeping fly business, when eating slip over to economy class and disguise yourself as one of them so you can get their food. the business class food is like damn rich and esp. weird when eating on an airplane. for lunch and dinner you get seperate courses appetizer, main course and desert.

lunch
appetizer: duck liver pate with salad [Quality: F]
supposed to be a delicacy but it was too delicate for me so i gave the whole chunk over to my mum. tried the salad - bad move 'cos it was parsleyfied and saucified - managed to swallow small leaf. ended up moving almost all to my mum's plate also. attendant came over and took my empty plate away. she asked if the appetiver was nice. resisted stepping on her foot. told a small white lie. resisted tripping her up again as she walked up and down the aisle. nice stewerdess man gave me a breadroll but the butter was on the taken-away tray... why??!! stole mum's butter.

main: tomato sauce linguini with some kind of fish [so i have a bad memory alrite!]
the highlight of my meal... v. v. v. v. nice... one of the perks of flying business class *pauses to rub it in* yes business class :) slightly better than an economy class meal... but not enough to upset the horrible appetizer...

desert: some kind of cake or rum and raisin icecream + coffee + chocolates
i choose the cake which turned out to be really really rich and creamy and stuff... ended up with no room to eat chocolates when the stewedess offered me some *sigh* i think she was quite shocked becos i looked like the only teenager on board in business class and i REFUSED THE CHOCOLATE??... arh well... she offered it again at dinner so... coffee was ok. the stewedess actually poured the milk for me from this nice tin kettle thing??!! not like lousi dairy creamer thing... maybe the reason i slept 1 hour only... nahhh...

watched sharktale and mystic river in this time. love the krisworld selection man. checked out the games section... a record 6+ pokemon games??!! AFGRAFRGFAGR... was halfway through legend of Zelda when it was dinner time.

dinner
appetizer: raw salmon and salad
lets see. i dunt like sashimi and the salad was the same one as before. enough said.

main: some kind of chicken
i have decided to boycott the one-star chef that cooks for the airline. the menu highlighted the dish and said what -specially prepared by what-is-name- well... the same chef made my mum's steak at lunch whihc was tough... and now my chicken is tough... greattt... tough chicken. ate more bread... saved the butter from the tray first -learn by experience. realised that paying more also meant more cutlery... aside from the basic fork-spoon-knife in economy, now everything is doubled! i.e. salad and butter stuff... no, you stilldon't get to keep it. ooh you also get salt and pepper in small little high-class bottles and an actual PLATE??!! AND TRAY??!! WAHHH... not like the tv-dinner alumuninm holder for economy.

desert: pandan pudding or cake and coffee and chocolate
had another cup of coffee... bad move? nahhhh... finally took some chocolate... quiteyummy! note for sam: you should try business class, they offer you one whole tray of chocolates! rows and rows and rows hehehe endnote. forgoed the others... the choices were a tad weird.

watched i,robot and collateral until 4am...

oh man the airline chair is damn cool... thers like maximum leg room and the sides of the chair are wide enough that you can acutally not feel compressed in a sandwhich maker... then there are these six buttons that you can adjust likew evysingle thing about the chair leg and back and seat and angle and stuff../. the best part is it can become completely 180degress flatflat when you want to sleep. the problem is the chair is so smooth and i had socks on so i kept sliding off the chair and halfway under the person in front of me' s chair!!! THEN THERE are TWO breaksin the chair so its quite impossible to sleep properly... this is probably the reason why i only slept 1 hr... dunt be foooollledddd.... the 180defress flat surface is not all dat great really....

breakfast: instant noodles
don't get me wrong, they have GREAT instant noodles!! v..v.v.v..v.v.v..vv nice again, like more real and more fresh than ANYTHING ELSE that i ate that whole trip: frequentfliertip: eat instant noodles. yumymumyumymumyum. also asked for milo this time... don't want to get addicted to coffee ;)

-more later.

billboard city 1

2004-12-13T23:56:00.001-05:00

okok im typing this at 1am in the morning over here in the billboard city, the lights are still biting outside and the temperature is dropping, veri frosty so im using the computer laptop in bed, hopefully my parents didnt hear the DAMN loud startup tone [dooo-DOOO-doo-DOOOO] this stoopid computer went thru if not i get an earful in the morning man... suffering from either majoy jetlag and cant sleep or it could be the stoopid POLICE SIRENS blaring outsidenthe window all de time, and i was wondering why my father gave me this nice room openinginto the street... :P

wah 18hr swtraight flight in business class... haha not bad larh...

firstly thanks you guys for the great send-off... haha i def. wunt forget it eva and eva... although the immigration officer gave me this -ssshssshhhh- librarian look when u guys wanted to take pictures.... if haf any i want okokaes!

we totally boarded the plane just in time only... ok there are these weird creaking noises outside my bedroom door... culd be the radiator or it could be... other things creaking....yup.... going to sleep now... continue more tomorrow... can see the empitre state building and chrysler building from my room, took alot of pictures of this -quaint- flat... mite upload tmr also... i feel like i graducated into uni already and are lkiving in own apartment... v. little furniture and whitewashed walls... now the darn creaking is joined by this click click noise... argh! good nite.

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2004-11-10T04:57:00.000-05:00

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take one moment?

2004-10-23T11:25:00.000-04:00

remember: [sort of chronological... memory faulty]
9. farewell assembly 2004. enuf said.

8. sleeping over at huimin's house and playing ff7 [she play I watch - very fun] until 4am in the morning... haha wanhui cannot make it larh... why sleep so early? [sephiroth and laguna forever!]

7. walking out of skol with only *ann* becos sam and huimin DUNT WANT TO GO FOR LUNCH! end up eating lunch wif her only becos everyone else is downright lazi and toot and lousi and stay in skol... BLEH! at least we haf nice lunch riterite!

6. dancing wif cheryl at teacher's day dance... wahaha... wad kick wad step wad pose... then... *accidently step on cheryl's foot* me: whahahaha [no larh kidding :D]

5. eating one tub of b&j icecream wif jy and sam and ann [4 spoons larh!] - how come we are sho poor? summore dint save anything for wq [tsktsk]... actually I can't remember what we were eating it for... to celebrate something? someone tell me pls... no really...

okok got info from sam: we were celebrating ann's [expected] a1 for chinese larh... and huimin waz also there... then sam sae that we did keep sum icecream for wq but she dint want to eat? [she mux be put off by the color of her horrible table tennis shirt cos she doing phototaking...] hehe

4. going to church wif ann! esp. when your cell group leader is sho enthusiastic and devout its quite scary... ... ... very scary... also hope she dunt get insulted when I dint go ever again... -nervous laughter- [tip: avoid nursery duty]

3. sleeping over at huimin's house again! except this time gt talk wayway into the nite with everyone arnd... heh heh heh tp-ed geri when she was sleeping.. on second thot it shuld have been cheryl rite? cos geri not fun one... no reaction! hehe...

2. going to see wq at work wif nisa and throwing paper aeroplanes past the glass wall to get wq to notice us [she dint]... HAHA in the end only the security guard notice us... then... *bright spark* FRAME WQ!!! whahahah... sho got found out eventually... after much stoopid moronic circling around the shop and going up and down escalators... heheh

1. okok sho my memory dunt go so far back larh... anyone got anything to fill in here?

new!

2004-10-22T11:57:00.000-04:00

finally completely revamped the blog [sick of the mountains?]... so spent 15 lousy minutes deleting all the old posts one by one... if anyone knows any easier way to delete them *all* at one time... dunt -repeat- do not tell me. later wasted those 15 minutes.

heh heh chem prac... heh heh heh... firstly, all dose pple who always say -arrgh so hard so hard- and then get full marks... u on my black list now! immediately! as of this instant! pple who say -wow so easy- and then get full marks... same!!

anyway why isit the chem lab always got chlorine smell? or ammonia? or sulphur? so misleading... maybe their airfrensher was tainted... esp. when the gas is -always- oxygen. speaking of which our glowing splints are all broken. dunt burst into flame one... how can? maybe coat with solid fuel? summore the CHemicals keep Spilling over my PAper!!! GEEZ... i'll bet its not gonna be allowed into england - new chemical warfare... wah lau so many stains... one big handprint on the top of some purple color [was there even any purple??!! how come my paper haf chemical reaction on it??] then sum brown smudges at the bottom [can see my thumbprint in one of them] plus my entry proof was soaked with sumthing [hope it was water] then ended up kneeling on the ground with writing paper on the chair... AND REalised GOT BIG HOLE IN MIDDLE OF CHAIR?!! HOW TO WRITE??!!! bleh. [after that used table behind me... teacher dint say anything... shuld be ok.]

then i went to hcjc open house todae... at the risk of offending any diehard hc fans... will post all nice things...
1. dunno whether its becos got new students, but all the peeps there are quite friendly i guess... maybe on orientation dae become evil seniors!!
2. why the history teacher keep discouraging us to take history? summore direct us to geography table... haiz
3. lots of funfun ccas... [outdoor club? liondance?]
4. LT and hall = 100000000PAT size
5. nice classrooms... strange how they stick out into passageway though... some avant-garde architecture?

still not sure about the faculties and such... seeing as that we went at closing time so everyone was like shutting down... hmm how come nothing about chinese and english at all? got newater in the goodie bag... how come? and aizhoukan - reinforcing image of *chinese* skol?

ps: sam u owe me mamma mia! [and icecream]
and liesel u suppose lend me new police story!!
plus sumone owes me money... hmm... mux try and remember...