Bleak

Once upon a time, when I was a lot younger, and a lot more naive, I used to imagine of what my future would be like. Going to school. Making friends. Having parties. They all seemed like a fairytale dream waiting to come true back then.

But now, I cannot even begin to imagine how life will be like after Form 5. Last Sunday, I went to the ABC Study in Australia Roadshow in Riverside. I saw the banner a few days before that and I told myself and my parents, "MUST GO!"

So I went. I went there with a purpose. One and one purpose only. Tasha would know very well what my purpose was. =P

Aussie bears!

Yup.

I'd gone there for the sake of collecting FREE DOOR GIFTS.

How could I not go la right? They wrote so big at the banner there "FREE DOOR GIFT". Funny how the other highlighted phrase, possibly the more important one, I took no notice of it at all. APPLICATION FEE WAIVED. I don't even know what I wanna apply for.

After I'd got my door gift, I entered the room. I sauntered past the booths, looking for one that would give freebies. I didn't care what university it would be, so long as it had freebies, I'd be interested. But nooo, there was none with freebies. So my purpose was lost.

Bond University had also set up a booth there. Professor Libby was at the booth. Dressed in a pair of shorts and a T-shirt, I avoided that part of the room. So malu ok! Anyway, since I was there already, it would have been stupid to leave without even visiting one booth right. So I went to the University of Adelaide booth. Our conversation:

Me: What courses do you offer?
Guy: We offer a lot of courses. What are you interested in?
Me: Errr.... *speechless*

Kantoi on first question. What the heck. Our conversation lasted for barely 2 minutes! After making a fool of myself, I decided to run road (chao lo).

My future has never felt bleaker.

Fun in odd ways

Kim: Amanda says I have weird fingernails. Then I checked with other people and I found out I have weird fingernails.

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During Bio....

Nabil: Suitable what?

Olivia: Ha?

Nabil: Suitable what?

Olivia: Ha?

Nabil: Suitable what?

The rest of the table: O_O'' What are you doing, Nabila?

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Nabil: Wait! I don't understand you!

Me: I also don't understand you!

Amanda: *to me* You ar! I don't understand you!

Kim: I don't understand you, you and you!

......

Amanda: You stupid mah. That's why don't understand 3 of us!

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Nabil: I bought new baju kurung.

Me: Ok.

Nabil: Very nice one, you know! Got manik-manik one!

Me: Oh.. ok.

Nabil: It's blue! Got orange one again!

Me: ....? You wanna make me jealous is it? I'm not boh. =P

Nabil: Then got plastic!

Me: I buy anything also got plastic ler...

Nabil: Nono! I mean the plastic got hangar one!

Me: Oh! I know!

Nabil: Got plastic bag again!

Me: .... Fine la! I'm jealous!

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School these days are fun in an odd way. Just the other day, we did a chain essay during english. I paired up with Nabila, the yogurt fan while Maxine paired up with Debbie and Erica paired up with Yet Soong. I'll post up my essay later on. Made a deal with Maxine. =P

Anyway, today, Olivia and I did our little play during English - a court scene for Looking For A Rain God. Olivia was the judge and I was the lawyer. Emily was Mokgobja (who had to faint), Charlene was Ramadi (who had to mengamuk) and Elaine and Mildred were Tiro and Nesta (who had to cry their heads off). Ginny was the officer. We named the officer "Pumba" after Pumba in Lion King because we thought of Hakuna Matata. -__-'' Then there were the policemen, Nabil and Adeline and Kim the swearperson and the members of the jury who only had to laugh and say "Guilty."

Not bad la. Quite funny also.

Olivia: Please control yourself, Miss or I shall be force to throw you out of the court.

Mildred: *wails even louder*

Olivia: Aiya. Take her away la! *waves to the "police"*

Koperasi Dinner 2008

Wear skirt ah.

I no skirt.

Must wear skirt. I don't care.

I no skirt how?

*minutes and minutes later*

I found a skirt. But don't look casual. Don't want la.

Wear nia! I look so casual man!

I told her I don't look casual anymore, she still wanna tell me she looks so casual. +_+''

Anyway, yesterday was the school's Koperasi dinner at the Bangkok Thai Restaurant. :D Only 13 store helpers had attended the dinner - mostly form 2 and form 4. Or was it all form 2 and form 4? I can't remember. Anyway, Marilyn had forced me to wear my birthday present from...

AHJO, DEB, ESME and SUI HUI!

There was another function held in the restaurant that night. A birthday party for someone named Philip Chong. I wonder if he is my smell-smell bacang relative. Haha. Erica and the twins and all of the form 2s were already there so I took a seat next to Erica. Marilyn came in soon after and took a seat next to me.

Then we went to toilet. I thought she had wanted to relieve herself but all we did there was taking pictures. -_-''

Us in the toilet

After taking that picture, I realised that the sweater looked very out. So I asked Marilyn to take the sweater. She didn't want. Then I wanted to put it somewhere but the sinks were all wet, leaving nowhere to put. Marilyn, trying to be creative, said to kiap between the legs. So I asked her to kiap la. So she kiap-ed lor. One second later, she didn't want to kiap anymore because she paiseh and asked me to kiap. Mana la I wanna kiap right? =.='' Still, determined to keep the sweater away from the picture, I hid it behind my back.

So simple one solution leh. Peng.

The kiaper and I

Right after that picture was taken, someone entered the toilet so we quickly left, afraid to make further fools of ourselves. I think before that, we were already being quite loud. Haha.

Back in the room, I noticed that Amanda had arrived and was sitting in my chair. I chased her away. She chased me away. What the heck. I sat there first leh! She chased me away to Marilyn's seat which was next to mine (which was where she was seated). I said I didn't want because I didn't want to sit next to her anymore. Hearing all the squabbles, Erica offered to sit in between us. I told her no need. I was about to take the seat next to Marilyn's seat when Amanda made a comeback, claiming that I might end up sitting next to a total stranger as the seat next to the one I was about to sit was empty. I realise that sounds slightly complicated.

So I ended up taking Marilyn's seat anyways, shooing Marilyn to sit at the seat prone to strangers. Then Amanda was the one who didn't want to sit beside me, saying that we would surely quarrel one. Hmph. So Erica ended up sitting in between us anyways. Hah. That sort of conversation happens almost everytime we talk.

I realise now I do not have a single picture of Amanda for the entire night. Buahahahaha~! Oh wells. It's might as well since she was so eager to kick me out of pictures. =P=P

Mdm Tan: Who wants to be photographer?

Amanda: Lip yi!

Marilyn: I be la.

Amanda: No! Let Lip yi be! Then she cannot be in the pictures! =D

But thanks to Marilyn and my lousy photography skills, I did not become the photographer. Buahahahah~!! But then, as a result from that, I got so many pictures of Marilyn. -__-''

"Eh, take picture of me! I'm photographer boh! I don't have picture!"

A matching pair

I don't know which is worse.

Marilyn so lame. The waitress took the napkin, settled it for her and of all things, she noticed that the napkin matched her sweater.

"OMG! THEY MATCHED!"

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Food arrived soon after. It wasn't bad. Quite nice la. =D The first dish that came after appetizer was dominated by the Form 4s. So kesian. The form 2s had to comfort themselves by saying, "Let older people take first!" Lol. We also took all the keropoks when the teachers offered us some. Wahseh. I never saw hands moving that fast before. We also finished the last few watermelons. Marilyn managed to quickly tuk the last two before the spinning thing reached the form 2. Lol. 

Glorious food

Besides eating, the rest of the night was spent on teasing Sharon about her bakal suami (a nelayan from the kampung in the picture behind us). Marilyn thought he was handsome. The form 2s are also very lame la.

Them: *laughing*

Me: *stares* Very funny meh?

Them: *stops* Ah. Ya. You too lame. Cannot understand our jokes!

Ish. In Sharon's words: Kurang ajar. LOL! Don't know how many times that budak said that word that night.

Us: *laughing*

Amy: You understand her or not?

Me: No. I'm laughing at her. Hahaha!

Amy: And she's laughing with us!

Sharon: I know la! I'm laughing at myself! *still continue laughing*

Me: Your mouth muscle not tired ka?

Amy: Since form 1 never tired until now.

Me: Then when you turn 50 years old, your mouth sags lor.

Whole night she couldn't stop laughing. I didn't even know what was so funny.

Marilyn: *seeing this pic* OMG! SO CUTE!

The night ended quite fast. I practically laughed my way throughout the whole thing. Sharon la. =.=''

Oh! I won a lucky draw! I've never won any lucky draw before! My first lucky lucky draw! =D=D I choked when I heard my name. But I brought home a Tupperware. =D

As the lucky draw was coming to an end, those yet to have their names called were lamenting on their unluckiness. Amy was saying how she would be the only form 2 not winning the lucky draw because all her kawans had already won it. Just as that was said, she won a lucky draw. Peng. Talk about karma. So in the end, all the form 2s won lucky draw. Eeee. Lol.

While waiting for our cars, we saw DAP's Chong Chieng Jen. Mr Teo waved at him. He waved back.

We also saw some guy keeping a wedding cake at the boot of his car.

Mr Teo: Why is he keeping it at the boot? The boot keeps all the oil, the tayar...!

Koperasi helpers 2008 at Bangkok Thai Restaurant's TOILET

So the night ended like that. We forgot to yam seng this year. I wish Claudia had been there. =) She could lead us for a yam seng. Haha. Koperasi dinner reminds me of Claudia.

Happy Birthday, Eland =)

4th September.

"Eh? Elaine's birthday today ha?"

=P

Elaine aka Elame

She claimed that she was cold so she decided to hide her hands into her baju. In the Avila Room. I think she forgot that the room was made of glass walls.

Itchy nose?

Then she err.... I can't think of anything to describe that picture. =.=''

Someone's photography la.... simply snap. =P

Anyway,

E-card

Today, Maxine, Abigail and I went to Hopoh for lunch. The sky was dark and it looked as though it was going to rain. Having already had a traumatising experience of running back from Hopoh under the heavy rain, I asked them whether they would like to patah balik to get their umbrellas. They lazy. So we went on walking, intending to ta-pau so that we could reach school before the rain pours. But then, even though we ordered takeaway, we ended up sitting down there anyway because... I don't know why. Why ar? =.=''

Anyway, when we wanted to go back to school, it was already raining. So, we bought an umbrella. Not a very big one so we had to squeeze. We walked funny.

"Eh. Can you move there a little bit? I can't walk!"

"Ok lah. I'll walk like crab."

"Wait."

*we shifted*

"Ok ok. Can liaw."

*So cun I shifted again*

"Nonono! DON'T WALK LIKE CRAB!"

By the time we reached school, the only thing not wet was our head. =.='' Not bad la. For three stooges.

Orange = Maxine, Blue = Abigail and Yellow = me.

"I was actually not wet one! UNTIL Abigail tilted the umbrella!"

"Eh, had to be fair~!"

"My sleeves are wet..."

"My SLEEVE is wet!"

Maxine's umbrella is pink. With loves. And laces. So cute.

To me from me

Dear me in the future when high school will seem like it's never existed,

Today I suddenly thought that it would be interesting to write a letter to you. I hope that you can still read and have not been struck by some queer disease. I hope that your teeth are all still intact and maybe by some miraculous means, have become straight. I hope your head is not yet white nor bald and that your face is no longer so ''an'' (amanda's version of 'dark').

Anyway, in case you have forgotten how high school is like, today, there is assembly. It is a Wednesday and I am now working in the Discipline Unit under Maryann. In case you have forgotten who Maryann is, she is your kawan whose teenage blues is ''I always sleep in class" and has been told to eat more tomatoes by Pn Chua in form 2.

Assembly today is, as always, boring. Debbie was funny during prefects' briefing in expressing her frustration. ''Ahhh!", "Haiya!!!''. First 2 periods are BM. Teacher didn't come so we were free to crap. Erica came into class after awhile with some pamphlets and asked if she could paste it up at the notice board because our notice board is currently full of nothingness. So not knowing what the pamphlets were about, I said, "Just put la." The pamphlets were blue. Later on I found out, the pamphlets were actually about Penyakit Kelamin. Maxine couldn't find anything wrong with it so I told Maxine that kelamin means genitals. Then Maxine, being Maxine, asked,

"I thought kelamin is the... curtain... thingy?"

Nabila and I were dumbstrucked for a moment, wondering what she was talking about.

"That's PELAMIN la!!!"

I think Maxine is very funny. Oh, I hope you remember who Maxine is. In case you forgot again, she is your kawan who has joined tonnes of competitions with you this year (2008) and has been perceived to be "kuai" by parents. Olivia and you (or me, in this matter) used to call her "Parents' Choice". Anyway, back to my story. From that awkward conversation about kelamin and pelamin, I suddenly asked if they remembered the natural birth video we watched after PMR last year. Maxine said she does and remembered that she was shocked at the part where they cut the "hole". +.+'' I realise now that this letter is turning a bit obscene. So I shall just forward a few sentences...

Nabila then asked which is better: Natural birth or Ceaserean? Maxine said, "Of course natural birth la! Ceaserean is for old people one!" That was when we found out that Nabila was borned by Ceaserean. Then, trying to justify the way that she was born, Nabila exclaimed that even the Princess of Japan had given birth to her daughter by Ceaserean. I personally think Nabila is very funny too. In case you have forgotten Nabila, she is the only girl who would ask you how to pretend to understand her even when you don't. Anyway, Maxine then said, "You might as well said those born by Ceaserean are smarter or something!"

That was when we decided to conduct a survey. Are those born by Ceaserean really smarter? So we asked those smart people around. Turned out that the class' Top 6 are consists of 3 Ceaserean babies and 3 natural birth babies. The Top 2 are both Ceaserean babies. Hah. I think that proved Nabila's theory. Amanda claims that she is the smartest of the natural birth babies because she got 3rd. She very crap so I told her that next term, it shan't be so anymore. We shall see.

With that much crap, 2 periods of BM had whizzed by and it was soon Chemistry. During Chemistry, I was sitting with Kim, Maryann and Amanda - the table of natural birth babies. But as we were making our way to the lab, they were talking about how the name "Maxine" is derived from the name "Max". There are after all, Maxwell, Maximillian, Maximus, Maximum, etc... So I said if Maxine were to have a younger sister, her name would probably be "Minine" or "Minnie" (you know... deriving from Minimum?) Then, Maxine got kek tiok at Nabila somehow and called her,

"You leh!? Na-mengapa is it?"

Hohoho. That was when we started giving each other names, deriving from our original names. Maxine calls them the name of us in the parallel universe. Too much EST for her, I think.

Nabila (Na-bila) --->   Na-apa, Na-mengapa, Na-siapa

Maxine --->   Minine / Minnie

Kimberly (Kim-beli) --->   Kim-jual / Kim-sewa

Amanda (A-man-da) --->   A-woman-da / A-lady-da

Lip Yi --->   Mouth Yi

Olivia (O-live-a) --->   O-die-a

Emily (E-milli) --->   E-centi

Perhaps we were too free. =) Break was soon and I lived off people's fries, asking for one, then another one. Everyone at the table had bought fries so I could just ask two from each and I would be full. Knowing my scheme, Amanda asked everybody not to give me fries. In case you have forgotten Amanda... well... I suppose you can just forget her. It wouldn't matter. Wahahahhahha! (Imagines Amanda cringe) =P

It was soon duty time. My duty is at the side gate today. I met Kher Ching during duty and we talked about Kher Lee who is currently working hard to get admitted into an Ivy League U. I got so impressed that I vowed to be determined to stay determined to work hard. Hah. Isn't it obvious that I'd failed, considering what I am doing now?

Class resumed after duty and we were asked to do some diagnostic tests on Add Maths. There seems to be a Rubik's cube craze in my class at the moment. There are at least 10-15 Rubik's cubes circling around the lab (my class is at the Jr lab 1). Everyone seems to be bringing their Rubik's cube to school, I don't know why. And everyone seems eager to learn its formula save for a few. Rubik's cube... gosh... those in Western countries are playing X-Box and we are playing Rubik's cube... +_+''

Anyway, lessons soon came to an end and Erica asked for her Chicken Soup for the Soul stories which she had printed out back. Amanda laughed at the idea of printing the stories so I asked her if she reads. "Of course no la!" was her answer. I then took the papers from her to return to Erica and caught glimpse of the first sentence.

"Love is a magical, something-something feeling"

I read that sentence aloud, purposely for Amanda to hear. Amanda, being Amanda, demanded to see the sentence.

"Where?"

"There! First sentence! Love is a magical..."

"Amanda doesn't love."

"Oh ya hor. Never loved anyone before. Haihz. So sad."

"Who say?!"

"I say la. I just said it what."

"I love you leh."

"Ngaiti. So instant to defend herself."

So that's the end of today. Ok lah, just in case you are still cracking your head over who Amanda is, she is the person who cares more about her reputation and her looks than anything else in the world (she answered a survey like that herself). She is also your ''best friend'' officiated by Andrea Lau (there was a time when she tried to find a best friend for everybody). I think both of us had eternally abused that title, using it only to demand things and information. -___-'''

Esme: Who is your best friend?

Marilyn: Her best friend is Lip Yi la.

Esme: No! Everybody must have at least one best friend in her life! (goes on and on about the theory of one having a best friend for don't know how long) So who is it?

Marilyn: Lip Yi la.

Esme: ....... *speechless* Ok.... Never mind!

*car erupted in laughter*

Sign..err... letter is computerised, hence no need signature. Hahahahah!

+__+'' Shyt, so lame.

Ngriaw

Nabil: *blazer falls* Ngriaw~!!!

Maxine: AH! WHAT IS IT!?

Me: O_O'?

Maxine: I THOUGHT GOT CAT!

We were in class.

Class is back to normal again today. All activities are now coming to a near stop. =( Mr David said it's the first time he's seen a full class (actually not so full also coz got absenties).

Anyway, during EST today, we talked about the black hole and the parallel universe that people believe to exist in the hole. Teacher said in that parallel universe, I might be like Miley Cyrus.

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