Saturday, February 28, 2004

My father is trying to get away with buying me a $20 discman pouch! Hahaha. :D

Still smarting a bit over English. Still a bit crappy. Hmm...I woke up at 11.55am today. Hehe. 'Looking forward' to instant noods for din.

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Friday, February 27, 2004

I got 14 for L1R5 and 11 for L1R4! I'm quite satisfied, except that for English I only got a lousy B3. Sigh...I was quite sad until i got home. Then I started cheering up. Lesson learnt: Don't be so proud. I always thought I could get away with being so damn proud about my English just because I'm supposed to be good at it, and only it. Seems like I can't. It is so darn embarassing when u've like told everyone how good ur english is and some of the very people that u tell score better than you. Sorry, Pearly. I've disappointed u. Also, the sec 4's this year will hear one more story about a "distinction gone awry". It will demoralize them, on top of the extra pressure on them to do well (to make up for our horrid results). Sigh. Anyway I was all nerves upon reaching the school, but calmed down once I sat down in the hall. All my favourite juniors were there, and that was very reassuring for some reason. I shall be there for them next year. K. Think I will go for mass comm. Should get the form soon. Oh, and Roy (manager) told me not to go for work tom. The market is too small there, apparently. Or maybe it's just a nice way to say "Sorry, ur sales are too bad. Bo hua to employ u for fifty smackers a day." Ah well, what the heck. A load off my mind, and I can enjoy myself tom. Cheers!!! =)

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Thursday, February 19, 2004

Results are coming out next Wed. Or Thurs. Anyway, I think it's more or less definitely going to come out next week. Although I can't be sure. POLY OR JC???????? I mustx3 decide by next week. Go to poly to chase my dream and slog through a less preferable course if I don't get into mass comm? Or slog for 2 freakin' years in JC, anticipate the bloody results, and STILL go back to poly if I can't get into U or if I can get into U pursue Journalism (if there even is such a course in Singapore)? Hmm...

Poly
Advantages:

*Probably* the faster/more convenient route to studying overseas. Which is another big dream of mine.
Can do mass comm. If ever I get in.
Few more months of study-free paradise.
I hate local U's.
Laptop! No more fighting with bros and mother and father to use the bloody PC.
I hate local U's.
NO P.E!!!

Disadvantages:

Very independent-learning.
What if I can't get into mass comm?
What if I don't like the course I get into? Can't quit halfway.
I still have to get a degree after. And that's damn hard.
Long hours of study. Also, none of them are near my home.

JC
Advantages:

Mother will be happier. She thinks JC is a "better route for girls". Though I wonder why. Something about NS, she said.
More spoon-feeding. At least at NY.
No need to make a decision from SO MANY CHOICES.
Easier path to U, which would make my mother EVEN MORE DELIGHTED.
NYJC is literally at my doorstep. (This is all provided I can get there.)
I really like some of the teachers there. (ditto above)

Disadvantages:

If I drop geog and go for another combi, I won't get back the same teachers.
I hate geog. If I drop it, what to replace? Maths? Blech.
All the subs are a lot of writing. I hate it when I don't know what to write.
TESTS AND EXAMS!!! A LOT OF THEM! <-I don't know if poly has this.
Back to poly if I fail promos (don't want to retain)/fail to get into U.
No more study-free months for 2 years at least.
Back to poly if I fail promos (don't want to retain)/fail to get into U.

I think I might stick to my initial plan: if I can't get into NY, snuff it and go poly. It's not a bad plan. But what about chasing dreams and all? JC life is really revolting even now. Haiz. I really don't know. Maybe if I don't get distinction for English then don't bother to try for mass comm; go JC. That's not a bad plan either.

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Monday, February 16, 2004

I don't know what it is that Heaven wants to play with me. Yesterday, Derrick asked me if I had a date on V-day. I said no. Then, out of the blue, he asked me "What if I woo you? Would you like me?" I was, of course, flabbergasted. I answered that I didn't know. He replied, saying he was just joking. It is majorly weird. This is not the first time this has happened. There was once when he asked "What if I say I like you?" and "Do you like me?", to which I replied that I liked him as a friend. After that he changed the subject....argH! This is baffling.

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Thursday, February 12, 2004

YAY!!! The manager found a replacement who can work for the whole weekend. So I don't need to go to work this week. Resuming next week. Too bad about YP though. I really wanted her to get the job. But she couldn't work on Sun, and the manager wanted someone who could.

This means I can go to K Box till as late as I want (and my mother allows) on Sat. YEEHAh! =D

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Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Yesterday afternoon, I went to the Mc at Serangoon inter with my classmates (i think it was half of the class. minus crystal they all.). We walked there. It was quite an enjoyable meal, only all the girls are christians and kept on talking about christianity, and I did not understand a thing. Other than that, I had a real fun time. I found out that Jerry really is very loyal. He'd actually wanted to eat elsewhere but I said I wanted to eat at Mc (so did a few others), so he said he would join us. The boys in this class are a whole damn lot better than those in e2. They show me a lot more respect and are actually quite nice to me. I can get along with all of them. Ming Yao, for example, has already sent a friendship mail as well as a friendster request.

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I went to tp K-Box again yesterday, from 4.30-8.30 pm (I had to run like crazy to make it there at 4.30.) It was great. I feel like going again. I think I am addicted to it. I do hope it's not because of the guy. I have decided to go on sat (provided I can get a replacement for my job, *crosses fingers*) after x country. If I see him there on sat maybe it means he has no valentine as he wouldn't be working if he had a date, right? Hehe...I do love to delude myself.

Yay! I just got off the phone. YP is replacing me.

So...where was I...oh ya. Yesterday, we got a really big room (we seem to get bigger rooms everytime we go there). I think it's for 4 or 5 pple. I didn't see him (my favourite K Box "waiter") at first, so I thought he only worked weekends. But later, while going to the ladies', I saw him. He saw me too and said "Eh (quite loudly), regular!" (I'm so glad that 1. he recognises me and 2. i've been promoted to "regular customer"). I think everybody there now knows that I A)always go to the toilet and B)always lose my way while going to the toilet and returning to the room. They automatically tell me the directions to the toilet whenever I walk past them. (Although it is highly likely that I am going to the toilet. Otherwise why would I exit my room? Besides to see him, of course. But that's beside the point.) It is not my fault that I have a damn fast metabolic rate and have to go to the toilet 5 times or more after drinking 2 mugs of Ice Milo.

So yesterday, being the night on which my feelings for that cute guy (fav "waiter")suddenly manifested, I decided to tie my hair after going to the toilet so that he would think (if ever he noticed my frequent visits to the piddly-diddly department) I was, like every other girl, combing and tying my hair and stuff. Also I try to keep my head down when I am passing by the counter (if he is there) so he won't notice that I keep on needing the toilet. I don't know why I do such stupid things.

On one of my return trips from the toilet, I heard him singing (loud and clear). I was so surprised/shocked that I took a wrong turn (which leads outside K Box). Of course, I immediately righted myself and turned back. He hadn't seen me the first time round, but he did this time. He gave me a funny look. Don't ask me why he always catches me at such awkward and embarassing moments.

Another time (yesterday night also), he was talking animatedly to this girl (I think it was a girl. Though that is weird as the whole working population at that K box seems to only comprise of guys. Only the counter is manned by a girl.). He stopped upon seeing me and ranted off the directions to the toilet quickly. (See what I mean?)

I was really hoping he'd serve us and he did, at the end. To collect money. I saw his name on the receipt! It's Mel. Not the best of names, but still I feel I'm really lucky to have been given this chance to know his name, handed to me by Fate. I dropped the receipt-book thing (nerves, I guess) while returning it to him. Hastily, I apologised and he said it was ok and if my handphone was fine (it had dropped on my handphone). How very very nice.

After we left (we only left 1 hr or so after the money-collecting), we found him downstairs giving out flyers. Ai Ling very usefully laughed out loud and exclaimed "So he is downstairs!" (I know not how she knew that I was looking for him while leaving). He said goodbye to us (how sweet. too bad it was all in the name of work.)After reaching the interchange, I was taking the escalator down to get to the 105 bus stop when I suddenly decided to go and get a flyer from him. So I hopped back past the medical stores and stuff, grinned at him, got a flyer, grinned at him again (he gave me a puzzled look) and skipped off to the other bus stop near the library. He must have got the hint, I think.

I do hope I do not have a little crush on him because of his looks. He has hair like dk. I think I may be trying to find a substitute for dk here in s'pore cos he is so far away. Have I got it that bad for dk? He is shorter than me (boo), and is a bit hunched. I like his shy(ish) personality. Not that I know him very well, but he does smile in a shy-ish way.

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Monday, February 09, 2004

Yay! I got a new hp! Nokia 3200. I got it for only $34. But I had to change my plan from Pod Lite to Classic plan. I wonder when the new plan will take effect...

The job went okay. I sold 24 packets in total (17 1-litre, 7 six-packs) on Sat and 19 on Sun (11 1-litre, 8 six-packs). It is rather tiring though. Have to stand for 8 hours. And the venue was NOT Tampines Mall. It was some secluded area in Tampines Street 21. But that supermarket (called "Yes Supermarket"...gee what a name) is quite popular. Many customers come in in the morning, but after 11 the activity starts to dip. And it gets very boring in the afternoon. But it's not so bad, since the work periods are broken up. I work from 9-11.30am, go for lunch, then come back at 12.30pm, go for tea break at 3pm (15 mins). After that it's knock-off time at five. The time whizzes by until lunchtime. After lunch, it c r a w l s by s l o w l y.

I feel closer to my class now. They're not that bad really. They go out for lunch every Tues (as there is a 2-hr break before chinese). I don't know if I should join them tomorrow. I have a Lit "project" meeting tomorrow though.

Lately, there seems to be a little flu bug going round. Crystal and co. have all got it. Most of them have recovered by now though. Luckily, I escaped "scot-free". Too healthy, that's why.

Ran 8 rounds for P.E today. I heard that the boys ran 12. It is madness. The scorching sun gave me a headache (I think). I kept up and argument with Shiao Hwee throughout the first 3 rounds. It truly made the run less gruelling.

Azaleas popped into my mind just now while I was watching TV. All these images of how close we were in Pri. 3 and 4 started flashing through my mind. A stroll down memory lane is in order. Hmm...let's see. We were best friends in pri. 3 and 4, had our fair share of fallouts and arguments and taking-sides (she and another friend (YT)were very close then, and when they argued our gang always had to take sides. if i remember correctly I didn't ever take sides. cos at that time, before p3, I wasn't close to Azaleas. I was close to YT.). Those were the days man. We would talk on the phone for hours everyday. The excuse? Ask what homework is there. Then after streaming, we got separated. I went to EM1 and she to EM2. We wrote letters to keep in touch until p6, when she requested to stop it. Well, even though she was the one who didn't want to keep in touch (i tried calling her in p5 and 6. she always made some excuse to go after a while and promised to call back. she never did, of course. I wonder what was up with that. At the start of p5, she complained that me and YT were er...looking down on her or sth. She said something like "Now that you all are in EM1, never talk to me already...". Of course I denied it (it really had not crossed my mind). Maybe it is because of that that she decided she didn't want to keep in touch with me. I never really took that remark seriously, but it has always stayed in my memory.

Well, even though she was the one who broke contact, it still saddens me that we were once so close, and now (or rather, while we were in Beatty), we merely say 'Hi' to each other whenever we see one another. Since sec1, I've felt awkward around her. I think it's partly because I never know how to act around popular people and partly because I bared my heart to her in the letters. I kept no secrets from her, like all best friends do. Sadly, she has changed quite a lot ever since those carefree p3 days. For the better or worse, I don't know. Maybe one of these days I should get in touch with her, and try to find out why she didn't want me as a friend anymore. I still remember her phone number. It's funny how I always remember phone numbers of friends I've lost contact with.

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Friday, February 06, 2004

Didn't blog for the past 2 days because my father refused to let us use the internet for fear of getting a virus. Apparently the virus was extra-extra active on the past 2 days. Ah well. Anyway. I got a job promoting Anlene at Tampines Mall NTUC. I shall have to rise super duper early to get there on time (damn). It's from 9am-5pm, $50 a day. Not bad, if I may say so myself. I dearly hope it goes well (crosses fingers). However, there is the problem with next sat's X Country. It's all the school's fault, having it on a weekend (and V-day too!). I plan to ask if I can have the day off, or I will have to ask my form teacher if I need an MC to not show up for the x-country. Lots to say, but I expect to have forgotten half of it.

I found out that Jerry (Pri sch friend), Crystal and Wee Kiat play gunbound. There may be others too who have not 'fessed up/did not hear Jerry asking who else played gunbound. Yesterday, in the morning, our whole class started scheming on how to pontang. All 22 of us walked out of school (save for one, who had something on in the afternoon) at eleven ten, most of us to go to the NP open house. It was majorly weird as we tried to do it the "legal" way. We informed the teachers whose classes we would be skipping (except the Human Geog teacher, but he's as dumb as a doorknob in my opinion, so he'll never come round to it) and the form teacher (civics tutor) Miss Ng. Wee Kiat showed his cowardice (?) by unwilling to ask Miss Ng for us (he IS the chairman, after all). He just kept quiet when we asked him to do it. (At this point Miss Ng was looking suspiciously at all of us) Ming Shun (vice-chair) asked for us in the end. (BTW, I also realised that Jonathan is rather crapful at times. But still, he IS a gentleman) The P.E teacher they asked was unusually kind and didn't mention anything about make-up P.E (which, I heard, involves running non-stop for 1 hr ). So after all the teacher-informing, we trooped to the 105 bus stop outside my condo. After several minutes of waiting, I shouted twice that I had to go back and take something, Jerry asked me to take us round to the bus stop at the back which had more buses. As we were entering the gate, I saw my mother walking up to the gate some distance behind us. She didn't seem to have seen me, so I walked on. I met her upstairs after getting my stuff, and told her I was going to the NP open house. Crystal and co. went there in her mother's car (don't ask me how come her car can fit, like, 7 people. Must be the 8-seater sort. Or why her mother would agree to chauffeur a whole bunch of "pontang-ee's")

Hmm...I think that's all I can remember. Oh! And Ms Chew (Lit teacher) recommended some books to me when I told her what genres I liked (it's part of the self-intro thing), and I chose Pippin to be my character (she needs us to choose a book/movie character each so that she can remember us by the character). She said it takes a lot to like a minor character. Hehe...she's the sort who finds something good to say about everything. Things are either "fabulous" or "cool". Hehe. What a rockin' teacher.

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Tuesday, February 03, 2004

Shit man...I'm in that crap mood again. Sigh. Don't feel like doing homework. Will be going for the job briefing thing tomorrow. Yay! Guess I can't go for debate then. I didn't do the research. I don't feel like doing the lit homework that is due tomorrow. Went to watch Stuck on You today. It was rather good. I'd give it 3/5. Ah well...guess I'll just play some gunbound now. Hope it'll cheer me up.

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Monday, February 02, 2004

I was VERY VERY lucky in gunbound today. I won a lot more matches than usual, and bought a Ghost flag (50k I think). It's so very cute! Then I got a Knight mobile followed by a Dragon mobile. 2 rounds or so later, I got ANOTHER Dragon mobile. Haha! I'm in gunbound heaven. =)

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