I hold hands with a monkey

After a paper.

Me: I feel so sad la.

Olivia: Cheer up! It's not that you don't know how to do! You just wrote the wrong thing!

*pause*

Olivia: I think I just made you sadder.

iPeng.

My essay has monkey in it. =)

Fly by-s

On the first day of school, I was one of those students who came to school at the unspeakable hour of 6 a.m. The school ground wasn't even lit up yet. One of the stairs to the classroom block was still locked and I contemplated walking back to mum's car because the block looked eeriely deserted. It reminded me of a dream I once had where the school was as dark as that and I somehow walked in on a corpse. =.="

Anyway, I braved myself and went up anyway. Every other class was quiet and empty.... except 5 Science 1. -____-" Apparently I was already the 5th or the 6th to arrive and I got the seat at the second last row.

Today, it turned out that that place is just about the best spot ever. I am surrounded by the funniest people. I witness soap opera everyday (from the people in front and the people at the back).

Sometimes, if I pay close enough attention, I watch random moments like this.

Kim: *drinking*

Marilyn: *poke Kim's mouth*

Kim: *water spits out*

Sometimes, even when I'm not paying close enough attention, interesting words still fly by.

Them: *talking...*

Me: *doing my work*

Emily: .... Maxine peng on the ground.

Me: *ears perked up and turn back* Maxine peng underground?

Them: Ha?

Abigail: What were you doing listening on our conversation?

Me: Well, I didn't listen deliberately!

Abigail: You were eavesdropping!

Me: I wasn't! You're sitting right behind me! Your words flew past my ears! 

Abigail: Yea, but you weren't suppose to catch them!

..... ..... .....

Besides that, it seems that lately, I've been witnessing strange friendship outbursts too. And surprisingly, they come from Maxine and Olivia. Maxine and Olivia! Of all people! I caught Maxine reading "When Friendship Hurts" again the other day. Something must have gone wrong with the world.

Andrea: We bet that Maxine would not be forgiven even until 12.45.

Olivia: Really? How much you bet? I also want!

(We can all peng now)

Andrea: You can't, ok! We're betting on you!!

Days are never boring with these people around. :)

Budi

I lost my name tag. =(

I lost my nail clipper. =(

A snake entered the class yesterday. =(

Exam is next week. =(

Snakes. The first thing that crossed my mind was Budi. =.="

I need to let go of my bad qi. Luck has not been good. I need to absorb some good karma.... Ommmhhh....

The making of the class profile

It's the season of doing class profiles now. We've had plenty of funny discussions about the things we want to say about our friends. :P We wanted to make it more personal rather than just using the common adjectives so that's why, we had to debate.

Some things, we accept with an open mind. Some things, we shall fight to death to prevent it from appearing in black and white.

Passing a note to Elaine during Bio. (I realise Bio is really quite eventful. I love Bio lab. :D)

On the note: Elaine, will you kill us if we write that you laugh like a truck?

Elaine: *shot us the look*

***************

Kimberly during duty: I just got the saddest news ever. Fish says I'm soft when I get angry!

***************

Kimberly during Bio, striking up a random (and lame) topic.

Kim: Do you think I have a sweet smile? Some people say I have a sweet smile.

Me: Err....

Kim: But I don't see my sweet smile.

Me: ....?

Kim: Then again, I don't see anything on my face. Hahahaha!

Me: *rendered speechless* I think I shall just write that last part - "I don't see my sweet smile."

***************

Wondering what to write about Maryann.

Francoise: Very "good" in money matters. You know she mixed up some money wondered how come there was so much extra money?

***************

Brainstorming for Amanda.

Francoise: Bossy.

Me: Horrible sleeping style.

Marilyn: Ugly handwriting.

Kim: Daffy Duck. Always bother people.

Amanda: Woooiii! How come all negative one?

Me: Lol. Does that tell you something?

SHE PINCHED ME SO HARD.

Andrea: Pretty la!

Francoise: No, no! Drop dead gorgeous!

Maxine: *overheard* By that you mean you literally drop dead right? As in... drop down and peng? Right, right?

***************

Maxine.

Olivia: Maxine is kuai.

Me: What's kuai in English?

Abigail: She always finishes her homework so when we need her help... hehe.

Kim: Maxine is our go-to... er..

Me: *cough*homework-copying-machine*cough*

***************

Me.

Andrea: Lipyi equals freebies!

Maxine: You really want me to say it?

Me: Uh huh...

Maxine: Dark.

Me: *gives her the look*

Maxine: *wary* Are you gonna write "Insulting" in my testimonial later?

***************

Abigail, going home at 12.45 for the first time with the new timetable.

Abigail: *waking up from sleepy state* I feel so rejuvenated!

Me: Me too!

Abigail: It's the 12.45 vibe!

Her testimonial: This cat lover feels rejuvenated every day after school because of what she calls “The 12.45 vibe!”

***************

And this is the award-winning, longest persuasion we had to do. 

Taking Olivia on a guilt trip so that we can describe her as a Drama Queen.

Me: You left me on the desert to die!

Olivia: With Secret Recipe cake!

Maxine: But the cake is sweet! Then she'll need water but she's in the desert. How leh like that?

Olivia: Aw... The Form 4s can save you.

Abigail: No. They will walk by and pass her a glass of water. That can't save her!

Olivia: I'll be there to support you.

Abigail: You've just condemned her to fiery depths of hell!

Me: So can we write that you're a Drama Queen? You have to accept it, you know. Like how I accepted that I'm dark, Elaine accepted she laughs like a truck and Maxine accepts she's clumsy.

Olivia: OK LA.

It took us days to get that "OK" =) Thanks to Abigail's metaphors. Haha. Now, the class profiles are done! Wheee~

Actually, I like Olivia's voice.

During Olivia's English Oral.

Me: She can be the news reporter.

Maxine: Yea. More like a radio broadcaster though.

Me: *stares at Max* You know there's a very obvious hidden meaning there?

Maxine: Huh? No! I didn't mean that! I mean her voice is suitable for radio. It's like, "Tune in to Hitz.FM with me, Bol. Log on to www.hitz.fm/bol. B-O-L."

=.="

I'm sorry for the excessive conversation snippets. Since no pictures can be taken, these will have to do.... 

May you find love today

....KheR LeE... says: hey man!!! HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!
....KheR LeE... says: why r u online? not dating meh?
Lippy says: no la
Lippy says: follow your footstep ma
....KheR LeE... says: wad footsteps?
Lippy says: online on 14 february
....KheR LeE... says: hahahahaha
....KheR LeE... says: shitty man...

Today is Valentine's Day. Spread the love. =)

I did end up sending myself a packet of cookies for RM 7.

It was lucky that it's now the pre-sale season and there was a fire drill talk right after so I opened up the packet and offered the 10 small cookies to 10 people. :D

But they gave it on Friday the 13th... so an accident was proned to occur, is it not?

As I was getting up from my seat to get my things, I accidentally banged against Drea's table and sent Francoise's bottle flying. Her bottle cap was smashed to pieces. I'm so sorry!!

So I picked up the pieces together with Amanda around the table.

Pn. Kong: Lip Yi! There's one piece here in front!

The impact was so great, the pieces flew everywhere. =(

Pn. Kong: Would you like me to disclose this to Francoise?

Me: Err... no thanks. I'll disclose it myself. *thinking how to tell her*

Then Francoise appeared.

Her reaction: OMMG. That's all I can say. OMMG.

=.=" I'm so sorry!! I'll get you a new one!

Friday the 13th. *deep sigh*

Olivia offered me a cupcake, which she claimed to have made herself, today.

Olivia: I made it myself. Take!

Me: Really? You made it? She made it?

Maxine: Yes!

Me: *looks at Max's face* No... You're lying.

Maxine: I'm not! She made it! Really!

Me: Erm.. No. Fine la. Doesn't matter. *bites into cupcake*

Olivia: What's inside?

Me: I thought you made it?

Olivia: *suddenly realises* OH YEA!! *bangs table in realisation* I MADE IT!!!

Me: Can you get more kantoi!?

Honestly, I pride myself that I can tell when Maxine is lying. =D

Maxine: How can you tell?

Abigail and Olivia: There's just... something...

Me: Your nostrils flare. WAHAHAHAHAHA!

Maxine: What!? NO, they don't!

So we decided to play a True or False game. Each has to say either a true or a false statement of herself and the others have to guess.

Maxine: *said something that's personally funny* (Will you kill me if I had posted it, Miss Maxine Ch'ng? :P)

Everybody: *stared for 2 seconds* TRUE!

Maxine: *shocked* What?! How did you know?!

Abigail and Olivia: There's just... something...

Me: ... Your nostrils didn't flare!

Maxine: I very the don't like you, you know that?!

I think we all learnt a lesson not to reveal something so personally hilarious in a game like this after that. Nabila didn't quite grab the purpose of the game though.

Nabila: I like Shopaholic.

Everybody: HAIYA! We all know the answer la!

Abigail: It's like saying "I wear a tudung"!

Ok la. Maxine's nostrils don't flare. Haha! But I can still tell! Nyehehehehehe.

Our topics of conversation are a bit off these days. Yesterday, we found a book, "When Friendships Hurt" at the Reading Corner and took turns reading it. There are 21 types of negative friends.

Maxine: *reading out the types*

Me: Oh, The Self-Absorbed can be Amanda. *looks up*

Amanda suddenly appeared in her seat. -____-"

Amanda: What!?

Me: You're the self-absorbed friend.

Amanda: Aiya. I'm everything bad to you.

Maxine: *flipped the page and read* "Can this friendship be saved?"

And this was during Accounts.

Marilyn: Why's your handwriting so ugly!?

Amanda: Since when has my handwriting been nice?!

And that was my Valentine's celebration 2009. It's the best yet I think. Haha. Got so many things to laugh about what. :P

Just to end my day, this is Kim and I while waiting for our cars under the hot sun.

Me: Can we get under the shade? I don't wanna get D-A-R-K-er.

Kim: I wanna sun tan. Can I tan my other parts as well *frustrated* instead of just the parts that are always exposed!?

And so she pulled up her sleeves. Then the clouds came and covered up the eye of heaven.

Kim: Haiya! No more sun! *pulls down her sleeves*

Me: Er... *pulls up her sleeves again* I think the clouds like your new style. :D

Kim: Wait, I see my car. *raises arm in triumph* YES!

Me: Dang!

Kim: Eh... no. That's not my car.

Me: *raises arm in triumph* YES!

Kim: Haiya. That car got the yellow sticker! Made me think that it's my car. Stupid la. Pig!

Thanks to Joanna for the card and chocolates. And Felicia and Felicity for the cookies. =)

Happy Valentine's. May you find love today.

SMS between Maxine and I

11 Feb 2009, 9.45 p.m.

Me: Hey are you awake? Can you tell me how to do Physics?

12 Feb 2009, 9.15 p.m. (23 hours 30 mins after)

Maxine: Which one?

Me: I'm okay now. I sent that message to you YESTERDAY.

Maxine: Oh my gosh! My phone so so so so so lame. =.=" Waste 15 cents nia.

-_____-"

Dark conversation

If you were hanged with your head already in the noose, would you still struggle to live?

(I think I'll debate over this with Drea tomorrow...)

Suicide.

We talked about it in Bio today. The ways to die:

Andrea suggested the breaking of the neck and the cutting of the carotid artery. She's so merciful, suggesting deaths without pain.

I suggested hanging. Or lying in a tub of water with a hairdryer. Slower deaths.

Erica suggested the most brutal one of all - bite off your tongue and swallow it. Practical if you haven't got any materials.

Are we sick? We must be.

Merry Chap Goh Mei 2009

Me: Why is lingerie pronounced as lahn-zuh-ray?

Max: Coz it's a French word. Like rahn-dey-voo.

Me: .... What's that?

Max: Ren-dez-vous! (Said rain-des-verse)

Me: OH!!

They say that when you pronounce a French word like how it's written in English, you can be almost 100% sure that you've pronounced it wrongly... then again, macam manalah aku tahu which word is French and which is English. -__-"

The other day I heard teacher laughing at "may-may". And I was thinking... "What is may-may?"

Me: Elaine, what's "may-may"?

Elaine: I don't know. What's that?

Me: I don't know. I think it's m-e-m-e. How do you pronounce that?

Elaine: Er.... may-may... mi-mi... hahahahahahhaa!

Moo-moo! I think they should just spell meme as meem so we won't pronounce it as may-may. Honestly, "may-may" did cross my mind when I first saw that word. =.="

Kim had an upset stomach this morning and Marilyn was teasing that her stomach was "tidak song" during BM.

"Cikgu! Perut Kimberly tidak song!"

Barely half an hour later, Marilyn had a stomach ache herself. Some people call that Karma. Hahaha!

*both Kim and Marilyn were lying faced down on the table*

Andrea: *to Amanda* Are you gonna do your work or not?!

Amanda: *lies down on the table too* Oh! Stomach ache!

Us: -____-" (what the heck...)

Valentine's Day is coming up. I think I shall send something to myself so that I can support Interact on the first and last year I join it. =)

Today is Chap Goh Mei. =) Merry Chap Goh Mei.

Form 5 and juniors

There's something different about the atmosphere in Form Five. It's... cloudy. There's a sense of... certainty of sort floating about, knowing that we'd tried almost anything there was to try in the four years that we'd been there. We'd broken rules, been locked out of class, skipped class, witnessed fights and gone to some very funny means to hide bahan larangan. There used to be cupboards for the reading corner in every class. The school used to provide the books and the key to the cupboards were kept by the class monitor (the school took everything back after just one year =.="). Anyway, fancy throwing the whole class's bahan larangan into the cupboard and hiding the key in a flower pot... or a sand-pot la. The pot only had sand so we buried the key in the sand. But then, the spot check never happened (fine, we got the wrong info -.-) and needless to say, we had trouble searching the key afterwards. In our defense, we were 14.

Abigail: I read Point Blank. It's so lame le!

Maxine: Really...?

Olivia: In our defense, we were Form 1 when we read it!

Band Idol ended last night. The 3A1s was the second runner-up, 5 marks behind the champion. That's pretty awesome, really. =) We are very proud and tada~! You all now have a fan for your class! We used to have a fan in our class too when we were form 3. Ahahahaha! Though only the front people benefited... not very fair la - I was seated at the back. =.="

Me: You named yourselves The 3A1's?

Clarissa: Yea. Actually at first we thought of The Beatles so we wanted to name ourselves The Cockroach.

Me: *eyes bulged slightly*

Clarissa: Then someone said The Rolling Stones so we thought of The Throwing Stones.

Me: Seriously...

Clarissa: Yea, so we had to choose la. Then finally someone said The 3A1's so... ok lor.

Me: *speechless* It's so sad to say that... The 3A1's is the best option among the three....

Clarissa: Hahahahaha! Yea.

I have no idea how come juniors these days are so lame. =P

I honestly think they played one of the hardest piece in the competition - Don't Give Me Attitude, written by our instructor. I recorded it in one of their practices so you may download it from here (under Band Repertoire).

I recorded the Royal Sensorium's performance too. You can find it there but... I'm so sorry for the poor video quality. I had to zoom from afar. =\ (You guys can see your body swaying but not your face... hahahahaha... K800i is not the best phone in the market. =.=)

"You're a genius too - genius of talking"

Today, we finally did our role play on The Pearl Chapter 1. Andrea didn't come so we had to make do without her. Not that there was much to adapt since we only prepared the script yesterday.... So I became Kino in the end. And Marilyn had to play 2 roles - the super fat scorpion and the servant. I think the play turned out pelik la. Marilyn the scorpion apparently had claws and could go "Kiap kiap! Kiap kiap!"

Then we had to do the analysis, but chapter 1 is so short that we kept quoting the same example.

Teacher: What's the atmosphere when the scorpion appeared?

Me: Err.... err... *whisper to Amanda* What is kin tio in English??

Amanda: Err.... *whisper back* Nervous?

Me: Noo! *whisper to Marilyn* Woi! What is kin tio?

Marilyn: *out loud* Tense!

Amanda and I: Ah!

Then we had to present the moral values. I only prepared 2 but apparently they weren't enough so I had to use Amanda's reference book.

Me: *read from book* Greedy and materialistic.. bla bla bla...

Teacher: I think you had it mixed up.

Me: Ah? No le. *sees book again*

Teacher: That's more to theme.

Me: Amanda, your book very lousy la.

I have no idea when did Amanda turn so brave. Yesterday she told teacher that she couldn't hear anything from the back because it was raining. Today, she told teacher that information in the presentation she showed us came from the exact book that she has. And then she said I talked very loudly in Bio. I think she might finally have found the loud bone in her body.

Anyway, I spent the whole two periods of Bio trying to solve riddles thanks to Maryann Chang. The first thing she said to me when Bio started was already a riddle. They gave me the "Johnny, Johnny" one. I couldn't get it so Maryann, Francoise and Elaine had to demonstrate it for me over and over again until I got it.

Stage 1: "I don't get it!"

Stage 2: "Shouldn't it be time you tell me the answer and I go 'Oooohhh!' and we all laugh together?"

Stage 3: "It's so frustrating!!!!!!"

I only managed to solve 3. I still can't get the Fuzzy Woozy one. =.=" When Bio ended, I was still thinking of what Fuzzy Woozy likes. I felt so distracted....

Oh, and during Civic we talked about geniuses. I think geniuses are mostly sick. Mozart was sick, Einstein was retarded, Edison was hyperactive and I noticed that all the composers (well, all that I ever bother to read about la) died young. And remember that Maths genius who went to Harvard at 6 or something who ended up becoming a prostitute online...? And another one who committed suicide....?

Marilyn: I want to be a genius la.

Me: You want meh? They very sick one bo.

Marilyn: I want to become the normal genius can or not? The no need very genius but quite genius and live a normal life one.

Me: =.=" That's YOU la!!

Marilyn: Oh yea! No, I want someone a little bit smarter than me one!

Me: Oh. You wanna know who? Nabila! 1 mark smarter than you one!

Marilyn: Oh yea!

"Lipyi, are you recording?"

It's Sunday today. School reopens tomorrow. Gone are the days of my Chinese New Year visiting.

I haven't got much to write about my visitings but on the first day, my nieces came. Their New Year theme this year is purple. They entered the house wearing these pretty purple dresses, only to have them stripped off in less than 15 minutes because it was hot and uncomfortable. =.=" I'd always wanted them to wear their dresses a little longer but they much preferred their singlets and shorts. Sigh...

My very purple nieces

Then on the second day, I went to Maxine's for the sake of Guitar Hero and lamb stew. You know the normal question people ask when they go visiting? The "Which one is you make one ah? If you made it, then I'll eat it." Or sometimes people like to gloat, "This is I make one! Eat!!" But since Maxine didn't make anything, she boasted, "Try the lamb stew! I ordered one!"

It's the 21st century.

There were macademia nuts and Tiger beer too. Her whole family didn't know how to open the macademias. Haha. I asked Maxine to try Tiger beer but she said she was on medication.

Max: I cannot do drugs and alcohol at the same time!

Very funny hor. =P

Then Kim came and we sat for awhile longer while I tried on the massage chair. It's a molester, said Maxine. Again, very funny hor. =P Then we went to Amanda's house and finally Kim's, then I went home.

Pia PS2 with Maxwell

On the third day, I went visiting with Deb and Andrea. Our first stop - Sui Hui's house.

The people in Sui Hui's house

We were at Sui Hui's house for quite long listening to her stories about National Service. She talked about some people seeing the paranormal and in the rush to pray over someone who was unconscious, they took her white towel as drape over their head. So funny. She never used that towel anymore.

Heading over to Ah Jo's

And then we headed over to Ah Jo's house. We had a mini race with Azureen on the way. We were leading until Azureen used the motorcycle lane and sped past us. So when Deb finally reached the finishing line (Ah Jo's house), she took revenge.

Kissing cars. =.="

Anyway, we spent even longer hanging in Ah Jo's house because of......

Mahjong.

When Ah Jo took out her mahjong set, everybody wanted to learn how to play mahjong. So they all teamed up. Azureen was playing with Sui Hui, Mya with Ah Jo, Deb with Andrea and Kristen with... I think she and Deb shared Andrea. Haha.

Meanwhile, I stood by the sideline and watched lor, trying to grasp the concept of mahjong. Ah Jo and Mya won the first round so everybody wanted Ah Jo to be on their team after that. I became Mya's translator of the chinese alphabets. And out of 3 games, Mya won 2.

*playing...*

Sui Hui: POOOONNNGGG!!!!!!!!!

Mya: POONNGG!! eh... no... eh! POOONNNGGG!!!!

We pong-ed so loud, the house could collapse.

Us: Waaaa!!!!! *making a lot of noise*

*pause*

Someone: Eh, your parents home or not?

Ah Jo: No.

Us: Waaaaa!!!!!!!!! *make a lot, a lot of noise*

Ah Jo: EEhhhh! But got baby upstairs!

Us: Oh. *tone down again*

After 3 games, only Deb and Azureen had not yet won any game. They blamed the feng shui.

Deb: Move that fountain away!!

Little mahjong monsters

At 7 p.m., we had to move to Kristen's house but everybody seemed so reluctant to let go of the mahjong set.

Everyone: Eh, where got sell mahjong set ar?!

Deb: Come! I bring you go buy! We go buy one now!

But it was 7 o'clock and I think most shops were still closed so... they all scrolled their phonebook, looking for someone with a mahjong set. Before we left, we wanted to take a group photo but Mya was busy negotiating for a mahjong set.

Us: *getting ready for picture and was extremely quiet*

Mya: WOOO! WE GOT MAHJONG SET!

Us: WOOOOOOOO!!!

Photographer: Picture!

Us: *silence again*

=.="

Anyway, we went to Kristen's house and ate our dinner there. We didn't play anymore mahjong so they resorted to the next best thing - blackjack. Then they played the... err.... "I don't know what name" game. Then they played blackjack again.

The "I don't know what name" game

We were waiting for Joanna who only reached at 9.45 p.m. I didn't have any money so I didn't play blackjack at first. But since I had nothing to do, I borrowed 1 buck from Drea and tried my luck. I got double. Wahahahha. Then I started losing my luck.

Me: Aiya, I lose until so cham... *open card - double As* Eh! Not yet!

Then I got my luck back. Lol! Weird karma. But then nobody wanted to play anymore because they started losing their luck. Our last dealer was Mya who got broke after just one game as a dealer.

And that's they end of my Chinese New Year visiting. =) Not so bad la. Haha. At least I didn't lose any money. Hehehehe.

CNY Visiting 2009