haha yup the As r -finally- over!!! ok i guess i'm supposed to b out enjoying myself n shopping myself to death, not staying home n blogging...haha nah but i figured since i'm going off to m'sia later for quite a few daes, i shud accompany my bro now...wat with my sis going off for her NCC camp n me going off with min n huimin to KL, he'll onli haf his new gameboy advanced SP as a substitute..(not like he seems to mind veri much =\)

ahh anw let me regale u with the events of the last dae of the A levels..a.k.a. yesterdae =) welll as i was happily contemplating wat to do later while completing paper5, it started raining. heavily. but the brave min yp kelly n me decided to brave the elements n make our way to orchard. sadly enough, the 171s n 174s were all filled to the brim with NJ ppl!!! so we had to take 66 to newton mrt instead...besides havin to take an extra train ride to get to our destination, trudging thru the rain w/o umbrellas, n getting our shoes, socks and feet soaked was no laughing matter. so i found it realli weird when we all burst out in laffter every few min..must haf been the sight of a whole long train of HC ppl playing hopscotch all the way to the mrt stn. (we were trying real hard to avoid the puddles) haha but all the same we managed to reach far east after all the trouble. then, the -shopping- began.

OH YES! i found this nice black dress in shibuya! its v-necked sleeveless n the skirt...oh man...i jus love the skirt!! its short in front n long at the back..exactly wat i was looking for! but...heh...i din get it..i figured since my aim of going to m'sia was to get a prom dress it'd b quite dumb to get one the day b4 i left, wudn't it? so i grudgingly put back tt dress on its rack...=( oh n it was onli 59.90...so cheap summore...argh. haha after shopping n not buyin much..we went to take a neoprint! haha but it proved disastrous.. the machine was so lousy we all looked like monsters. urgh. the colour tone was so weird, we were all so white..i mean even min n kelly looked fair can u imagine how screwed tt machine was..haha. we then took a bus(due to min's laziness) to heeren to take a betta one, but backed out after we decided we looked too ugly tt dae. i then left my darlings to meet the reading room ppl to haf dinner at marche...xizzy, zhenni, jingyi, seow hong, junwen, shang qun, n dennis (in order of seating arrangements) were all finishing the last morseld of their food when i arrived. but dey went for a 2nd round anw..haha since my stomach wasnt feeling too gd i bought rostis( the 6th plate tt appeared on our table i was told)...but still cudnt finish it so passed it to dennis shangqun n junwen, with the bulk of it being wolfed down by a ravenous shangqun~ after tt we went walking down the streets of the brightly n beatifully decorated orchard rd..den the 2 poor chem S souls had to drag themselves home to relieve their sense of guilt (poor xizzy n dennis) n the rest of us went to borders! jingyi bought this realli realli cute dog calendar for her fren...it was so nice! oh den some others went home again, n jingyi me junwen n ellery continued walking..when junwen suddenly announced his decision to buy sth fr taka...at the end of the next half hr, wat jingyi n i learnt was tt both of dem had lousy time management n estimation. thier 10 min evolved into half an hr!(dey wudn't tell us where dey were going) n despite pathetic attempts on our part to stalk dem, dey still eluded us somehow. urgh. haha but when i was leaving for home, n jingyi was leaving for sentosa.. we told dem we were going off for -10 min-, so... i hope dey had a nice time waiting =P

yup when i reached home i had terribly aching legs...from all the shopping walking n stalking..but i still dragged myself to my cupboard to pack for todae. haha n after blogging...i'm ready to leave! min's prob expecting me in a few hr's time...haha yay prom dress prom dress here i come!!

oh n a super late foto with yit fr my bdae...jus got it fr the scary dino...yit lets jiayou together! we wont be single! 

reading room escapade: encounter with the beeg scary dino! 

well i'm not sure whether i'm supposed to be happy or sad at this point in time. happy cos its finally -ending-, or sad tt so far it hasn't been a 'a breeze' like i expected. oh n knowing that its one of the last times i'm wearing this uniform, hmm i'm actualli beginning to like wearing it. wow. tts saying a lot. oh n not spending half my day in the reading room is gonna feel real weird too. its like... sundays n public holidays bring with dem a -lost- feeling, sometimes i feel like calling uncle chong n begging him to open the room! haha yes i'm that desperate. :
anw my brain is reaching its saturation point. i mean u noe...wat with prom n outings n stuff, where's bio supposed to fit in? btw i'm real slow. i spent liek the whole dae doing 2 pathetic sets of notes. plus i was realli boggled by the thyrosine, thyroxine n thyroglobulin. oh i forgot thyroid peroxidase. anw those who haf no inkling wat i'm talking abt? tt jus goes to show how disgusting bio is. argh. but i still love it. its a love-hate r'ship i guess. muacks. spits. muacks. spits. okok i think u get the idea...

ok i'm having a gradual brain leakage...its like all my psycho motor skills n literary abilities r trickling out of some crevice in my brain...shall go stuff it with toilet paper...anw good luck everyone n well...gd nite? =)

argh cant concentrate. dere's this incessant buzzing coming fr either the tv, the playstation or fr some mindless chattering. studying at home is hopeless. y must todae be a public holidae...a certain stupid dino is too lazy to come to my house 2dae n well i jus went to her house yesterday!! wat happened to li3 shang4 wang3 lai2?? hmph. haha well, actualli its a blessing in disguise i'm getting sick of dinos anw. ^_^

buzz. bUzZ. BUZZ. it jus wont stop. u know how when ure trying to concentrate n ur ears become super-sensitive to sounds? BUZZ. its like suddenly ure reading notes, watching TV n playing games all at once. BUZZ.

how i wish dere was some big event tt warrants a family outing...den dey can all BUZZ off.

on the other hand, my siblings haf missed me terribly throughout these past 2 wks...so i guess i was kinda obliged to stay home todae.. my leetle cute bro was jus saying "jie, so long neva see u already...i mean got see u la but neva talk to u..got talk la, but neva u noe...talk?" haha so cute isnt he? i guess he's missing those long mindless chats we haf at nite, when the 3 of us wud go to the ESSO near my house at like 1am at nite, buy drinks n sit by the poolside n yak until worried parents start bombarding our hps. argh actualli i kinda miss dem too...but well dey're jus poison to an 'a' level student trying to salvage 2 yrs of slacking =\ so to my dear serena n isaac: i'll make it up to u 2 after 'a's k! *muacks*

howeva much i miss dem...BUZZ...sigh...

happy deepavali! anw i was coerced by a beeg fierce purple dinosaur to enter her lair todae..well she had nice parents though =P anw yup while at xizzy's house todae...in the midst of being subjected to an onslaught of purple dino (barney) propaganda..n being dragged all the way to lot 1 for dinner...i realised how some things neva change...i mean seeing n chatting wif her parents...ahh so nostalgic! remember how i used to b a frequent visitor to her house before o levels..wah its like the good old daes all over again =) i mean...her parents still love me..xizzy's still irritating..her comps still perpetually on w no regard for the electricity bill..she still welcomes stephrene with open arms..etc etc.. haha kk enuff of stating facts tt everyone already knows (did i mention xizzy loves me?) =)

oh it felt veri nice going back to the bukit panjang/ choa chu kang area again. i 've lived dere since i was so young, realli missed it~ oh well guess ppl hafta grow up n changes hafta happen, but i'm jus so glad some things remain the way they shud. like good frens =D

quoting n rephrasing fr purple dino: "power to the stephy!" oh no i tink prolonged contact with purple dinos has impeded my power of speech n ability to form coherent sentences...argh 'down with the dinos'!~

yay! bio P2 and matr P1 r over finally! yea i know, its just some cheap thrill, deluding myself into thinking the worst is over. but the prospect of having a week more to study for the rest of the papers is real good. oh man it realli feels so good =P onli while cramming chunks of bio into my little poor tortured brain last nite, did i realise the luxury of studying time~ just a wk ago, i was thinking how long a wk is n how i cud afford to slacken my pace a little. well last nite realli woke me up. imagine this..8.20 in the reading room, where happy S6 n arts peeps r gleefully talking away..amidst the buzz, a solitary bio student (ok mebbe not tt solitary) trying hopelessly to induce the bio info to diffuse into her brain...her eyes n mind refuse to cooperate...n she starts worrying abt math..wondering if the 4 hrs the nest dae will b sufficient..yea u get the picture. one word -hopeless.

anw i haf established instant rapport with the ever-cheerful jingyi!.. thru the arduous course of my studying in sch. she has been promoted to one of my mugging kakis! =D haha aren't u honoured? funny isn't it? how u go thru two whole yrs n finally making frens at the end of our JC life. well cant help it i guess..HC ppl r jus too friendly...n i'm jus too nice..haha but on a more serious note, the ppl in the reading room r relatively nice, a huge portion of dem at least. ok fine, a huge huge portion.=) actualli i was rather unused to the immense friendliness i experienced since entering HC, after the -cool- environment of rg..esp since we poor gep-ers were confined in our own leelte world, i never realli felt a desire to make frens. hmm xizzy do u agree? bleah mebbe its jus me. well as in friendly, yes, but friends, maybe not. i was so contented with my leetle clique in class n my leetle yrmates...haha i tink i loved red cross quite a bit more than my class..even during cheerleading i don think we were ever realli close =\ maybe, if i had put in tt little bit of effort...not so many ppl wud haf passed me by w/o leaving a part of themselves with me. who knows i may haf made many more lasting frens.. well its too late for regrets now. i can onli treat my frens betta now i guess. so all my leetle frens...i realli love all of u!!! *muacks*

ok tts enuff affection for tonite i tink it gets quite disgusting after a while, doesn't it? haha yup mug hard peeps! ganbatte!

well haf been going to sch these past 2 daes, not veri productive but it beats lazing arnd at home. after all, i guess some work done is betta than no work done. =D besides getting work done, i think studying in sch has made me more pro-HC, n it unfortunately means i'll miss it even more next yr. the friendships forged, the take-away dinners, the canteen lunches (due to the absence of financial power), the gossiping, the playing of bridge, the freezer-like conditions in certain spots, the freq self-imposed toilet breaks, the asking of help fr certain smart members of a certain smart class (74+4=???), etc etc...ahh..esp the memory of uncle chong's nasal voice, his attempts at bring nice n his leetle wiry figure strutting arnd, secure in his own illusions of masculinity.. haha needless to say i'll haf many more memories of HC to safekeep. as i walked out of sch alone todae arnd 9pm, i couldnt help but admire 'HC at nite'. breathtakingly beautiful. probably seem like an exaggeration to anyone else, but well i guess its the memories tt make a place beautiful. i mean seeing a picture on a postcard wudnt etch tt place firmly in ur mind, but if u had experiences at tt place it'll prove more meaningful n subsequently more beautiful. ah i shant bother to justify myself further, after all beauty is in the eys of the beholder =P anw as i was saying, it brought back memories of huangcheng practices, of huishan cheryl n me practising out talentime song after ending huangcheng arnd 9-10pm, of social work camp where yp min n me decided on a romantic interlude near the flagposts, n proved to b a wonderful supper for mr mosquitoes, n finally ended up sleeping on a cls bench near the 70/71 cls bench...of the sch being alive w ppl going home after all our sch events... of staying back for dramafeste n devising ways to escape uncle chong's monsterous clutches... haha guess the night scenery of HC will prove to b a wonderful memory. =)

anw met a jjc fren fr obs on the bus on my way home..i mean pratically all of dem stay near me..anw well we were reminiscing abt our 9 trying but wonderful days in obs, n i realised dere was so much i forgot. it struck me then tt everyone takes back diff parts of an experience..things tt he remembered i forgot, n vice versa. the things tt i remembered, the things tt i felt were adequate in summarising in my subconcious mind the entire experience of 'obs', were apparently diff from his. haha regrettably, it seemed tt my summarising skills r too gd, i realli forgot a lot of stuff, incl the fact tt i haf my instructor's no in my phone. i mean seriously speaking how many of us actualli noe whose no.s u haf in ur phone? i sometimes find myself scrolling thru the contacts in my phone n wondering hu the heck is 'XXX'?

ahh. the great steph has lapses in memory too. but of cos i still rem a certain gp paper in 2 days time..well guess i'm supposed to feel guilty at this pt in time, n wring my hands n whine abt the speed at which the infamous 'A's is appraoching. hmm wait. its already here no? anw well to ease my conscience..off i go.