just like a song in my heart

jika semua kaunter dibuka serentak pada pukul 8 pagi dan setiap pelanggan mengambil masa 10 minit untuk siapkan urusannya di kaunter, berapa lamakah yang perlu diambil untuk Ali, Ahmad dan Raju untuk keluar dari bank bersama-sama?

a. 1 jam 10 minit
b. 1 jam 20 minit
c. 1 jam 30 minit
d. 1 jam 40 minit



if all the counters open simultaneously at 8am and it takes 10 minutes for each customer to settle his matters at the counter, how long would it take for Ali, Ahmad and Raju to leave the bank together?

a. 1 hour 10 minutes
b. 1 hour 20 minutes
c. 1 hour 30 minutes
d. 1 hour 40 minutes

yeah, what kind of stoooopid question is this? it came out in Pengajian Am 1 this morning.

nevertheless, with that, ends my mid-term exams (: and i will be free for the next two weeks. a bit short compared to jamie and pearly who have 4 months and 3 months break each, but 2 weeks is not bad.

may the holidays begin!




p/s: my friend's current romantic developments are seriously making me feel single. nevertheless, i vehemently soldier on alone in my path of singleness (:

pp/s: skinny pants or no skinny pants?

ppp/s: watching The Biggest Loser seriously makes me feel f-a-t.

we can go higher

i have no idea how we take exams the way they are.
it's my 6th day of exams, i've just finished my 6th papers and there are only 2 more to go.

the paper starts at 10am everyday so we usually have a couple of hours to do some last minute studying (which i find rather useful), go down for recess at 9.20, come back up at about 9.45 and sit the paper. the thing was, the electricity died on us this morning as if the weather wasn't hot enough so no productive last minute studying was done and i found that it did affect how i did on the paper.

i'm grumpy because i'm sick of studying things that i think i already seem to know but don't know how to answer on the paper. ergh.

i feel super guilty when i don't study okay. i told you, i have this hyperactive guilt thing where i can feel guilty for everything that is and isn't my fault.

i feel mad. madder than ever. both the angry mad and ki siao mad because of exams. angry mad because my studying never seems to be productive enough and ki siao mad because of all the things i have to forego or cannot enjoy properly, the fixed schedules, the memorizing, the writing, the heatwave...

the best part about all this is that it ends in two days.

but the thing about suffering so much when you study is that the minute exams are over, you just want to drop all studying and forget about formulae and definitions forever. but when the next exam period comes round, you have to pick it all up again.

and i have this super diverse range of students in the class. the madly studious ones are super focused and manage to use the 3 hours to maximum capacity and write 16 pages of answers whilst the not so studious ones write about a page and a half of answers and use the rest of the 3 hours to maximum sleeping capacity.




p/s: ugh econs 1 tomorrow. the voon twins, fellow 6th formers in seremban, texted me to tell me that they are going mad from exams too. i'm not kidding, only exam madness of such magnitude and intensity is personified by Form 6ers.

pp/s: i think my holidays will be super packed and occupied.which is the way i like it.

ppp/s: people owe me money = i am broke = please pay me my money back.

officially!

officially, as of now, i am halfway done with my mid terms exams.


i can officially say that i have never written so much before. i seriously think my pens are going to be inkless even though i've just bought them like two weeks ago. i've finished more than half of my 80 pages-thick exam pad. but then again that's also partially due to james who keeps asking for paper (: my fingers are swollen. or were. swollen. because i'm very intense when i write. i squeeze my pen very hard so the skin on my fingers are quite chafed.

ooh i can't wait for exams to be over. the end is in sight. at 1.00pm next wednesday the 27th, i'll be done with mid terms. who wants to make plans with me??? (:



p/s: yes i am very happy that kris allen won (: i found that out just a few moments before i sat my business 2 paper at 10am.

pp/s: notice i used alot of smileys. because i am happy (:

chien family supremacy

this too is for my little sistah.


Leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember! Don't send a message, leave a comment on here. Next, re-post this in your notes and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty cool (and funny) to see the responses.

1. Who are you?
your older sistah.

2. Are we friends?
technically, no.

3. When and how did we meet?
actually no lor i don't think we met on december 14th. i met you a few days later. i think. but i remember going to the birthing centre. ah. forgot.

4. Did you like me at all?
i still don't like you now (:

5. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.
you're the one to talk. i call you fatty in the house and you answer.

6. Describe me in one word.
messy.

7. What was your first impression?
i don't remember lah. i was only 3 then. you were a blob of pink mottled flesh.

8. Do you still think that way about me now?
well, you're not a blob of pink mottled flesh anymore.

9. What reminds you of me?
showering. or getting ready to go out. because you take so long. or, laughing about our inside jokes that we make about our father. or nail polish. or arsenal.

10. If you could give me anything what would it be?
pimple-zapping cream.

11. How well do you know me?
rather. living in the same house for sixteen years should teach me a few things about you. like, what you do in your sleep.

12. When's the last time you saw me?
when you passed by me to walk up the stairs to go take a bath. it'll be another 45 minutes til i see you again.

13. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?
clean up your stinking dishes in the sink la!

14. Are you going to post this in your notes and see what I say about you?
you already did that for me, though i didn't ask you to. that was nice of you.

15. What is my best attribute?
you do provide mad stories for family entertainment, you can cook and even when you're angry at our parents you don't burst out in flames like me.

ergh my face so fat. damn cmi.

somewhere far along this road he lost his soul

one.
exactly a week from today, i will be sitting for my midterms. they are eight days long and run from the 18th til the 27th. i thought they were going to end on the 22nd but yeah well, the school very stupid wan and only give the exam schedules the week before and on days when i am absent.

i feel immensely guilty whenever i am awake and not studying. like, now. and yet i still obstinately refuse to move from this chair and move on to a more productive time-filler like studying.

life is a constant balancing act between what you want to do and what you actually need to do.


two.
a couple of friends of mine are taking their driving tests today. hah it only seemed like a year ago i was losing my mind stressing over that stupid test.

anyways, from what eugene has told me, while taking his road test, the jpj officer asked him to stop at the side of the road and asked if he wanted to pass *hint*. in the end, eugene failed his road test because he chose to say a big fat no to the jpj guy. i think i feel incredibly proud of eugene for doing that. standing up for what he knows is right even though he suffers the consequences. but i believe God will honour him back for his integrity. eugene's, not the jpj officer.

and, i think i'm quite dense when it comes to taking hints. if that jpj officer stopped me at the side of the road and asked if i wanted to pass, i would say yes and we'd both be staring into uncomfortable silence for a long while before the jpj officer realizes that a) he has to blatantly say outright he wants to be bribed or b) realize that i am really dense and am not taking his hints.


three.
ooh lower 6 has come in for registration today! but i am sorely disappointed. there is absolutely nobody worth looking at. as if upper didn't already disappoint.

but there are quite a number of pretty girls. so unfair!


four.
i have just realized this, but it may be the answer to a very important question.

how do you know if the guy/girl is right for you?
and the answer is: when that person is everything that you wish you could be.

i tend to look out for tall and skinny guys because i was never tall and will probably never be skinny. i find myself attracted to talented people because their portion of giftedness is something i always wish i could acquire. i gravitate towards guys who are patient and have integrity because those are attributes that i always wish i could have.

simply put, you will know who to marry when you realise what you are lacking and try to make up for it.

that's not to say once you've married a person with characters that you don't have, you can stop trying to be a better person.


five.
ooh i independently led my first care-cell meeting on saturday. joycelyn the adorable told me she would sit by me during the cell for emotional support (:



p/s: no more MUET forever. that is so yay.

pp/s: genelih baked some awesome brownies on saturday.

ppp/s: but i will not be outdone in this way. when my exams are over, i will bake my own awesome possum brownie recipe.

for mousey.

i found me tagged to his notes. this is what it said:

Leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember! Don't send a message, leave a comment on here. Next, re-post this in your notes and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty cool (and funny) to see the responses.

1. Who are you?
anniesu.

2. Are we friends?
why wouldn't we be?

3. When and how did we meet?
eh i think it was one of those redaksi room moments. you weren't even on the board but you hung out with fern so much in that room. form 4 i think? form 5? you always buy credit for me.

4. Did you like me at all?
don't know. you weren't that intriguing (:

5. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.
ennie! because i am mushy and needy. mousey because that's what you look like.

6. Describe me in one word.
gay.

7. What was your first impression?
nerdy. loser-ish. cos you hung out with fern so much i thought he was your only friend.

8. Do you still think that way about me now?
no lah. you quite happening also. fern is not your only friend.

9. What reminds you of me?
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. heheheheh.

10. If you could give me anything what would it be?
give you anything in terms of what? presents? i'd give you a girlfriend la.

11. How well do you know me?
er i dunno lor. i think i know you quite okay, but don't ask me to do any 'how well do you know en lin?' quizzes on facebook.

12. When's the last time you saw me?
en lin! this was so long ago! last year, when i came from camp and you belanja me for a belated birthday dinner and we took a joyride with yivern and ajy. en lin that was the last time i saw you!

13. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?
oh mushiness. i'll tell you in private lah. like, when you call me again (:

14. Are you going to post this in your notes and see what I say about you?
i posted it on my blog, because i love you that way. what would you say about me?

15. What is my best attribute?
you are generous, and don't mind going the extra mile for your friends.


see, en lin low. the reason why i say so nice things about you is because now i am feeling sentimental and nostalgic.
faster write this back for me.

as for the other people, you don't have to do this as a tag or whatever. i only did it because ennie asked me to, and i didn't want it to be just a comment on his facebook notes.

one more try

sat for MUET Speaking test today.
think i botched it up quite nicely because i stuttered and stammered a lot. i remember one moment when i was halfway talking and i lost my train of thought and went 'so...*silence*...yeah.'

eeee.



p/s: next Monday ialah exam mid-term aku.

pp/s: i feel deprived. i haven't been inside a shopping mall in a month. jive hasn't jived since march.

ppp/s: lots of people are attracted to different traits that they like in a girl/guy. genelih is attracted to smart, go-getter type girls. natalie is attracted to homely, kid-loving guys. i am attracted to talent (:

everybody knows

maybe you've heard me getting excited about May 1st once or twice, but didn't know why. but here's why.

because on May 1st, my parents' cell, uncle ping lum's cell and uncle sai cheok's cell decided to rent neighbouring bungalows in PD for one night. considering how all of the kids from each of those cells are good friends with each other, it's like a mini getaway for the kids too.



yeah actually the beach not so nice wan lah. see the drainage pipe? yeahlor. budget mah.
but the picture not edited so much lah. just intensified the colour abit. so PD still has some natural beauty quality to it.



poor joel who dislocated his shoulder. if he joined my team during beach captainball that day, sure we all win wan.


room conditions. when we first arrived, it was so hot and the rooms were all so stinking hot despite the air con. so we all fiddled around with the remote trying to betulkan the temperature, and yours truly is a genius because i figured out how to work the ancient air cond remote.

anyways, the chor dai di gang was supposed to play chor dai di the whole night but i think we were all too tired out lah. by 12am we were all sleepy already and by 1am, all had adjourned to their own rooms.

but still, May 1st was fun. here's to more May 1st's!



p/s: if you want more pictures, go see my facebook (hah first time i publicize my facebook)

pp/s: yes i've still got some photographic skill left.

ppp/s: no i've got no sun tan.