Just came back from Thompson plaza. Am supposed to be mugging now after such unforgivable slacking, but i've got to absolutely get this down.

Gosh, guess what i saw when i walked past popular just now. I just saw the most amazing and fabulous display ever. They just make me shiver with delight and anticipation. They displayed their best-selling titles prominently and YES! the books there are unbelievably marvellous.

There's 'The Broker', ' The zahir', 'Atlantis', 'State of Fear' and many more, but there's one, the only one book which i cannot tear my eyes away from. Its 'Eldest' by Cristopher Paolini. It's the sequel to 'Eragon' and man, i've waited for this sequel for like more than a year. Eragon is sort of like Lord Of The Rings but more reader friendly and absolutely great. Tolkien is a great writer, but it took me 2 weeks to finish his LOTR series, in order to appreciate all his songs and poems and the old english. Oh my god, i can't believe it, the sequel is finally out and i'm stuck in this putrid and revolting promos.

Arrrgh!

I could only stare and finger that book longingly before being forcibly pulled away by that mugger of a sister. Even so, the loving glance never left that book. Can you imagine it, that fantastic piece of work wrapped up in thin plastic and placed beautifully on the shelf? Its simply gorgeous and just so irresistible.

There are some new titles, though most remain pretty much the same old ones on the best selling list. I swear to collect them all after promos and ha, have already obtain financial support from daddy who's always agreeable to us reading, though Xinyi rarely reads. Let me see, i've already got all of Dan brown's and Mitch Albom's, the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime, The Rule of Four from the list and yes, i want 'Eldest'. Badly. Now.

John Grisham, Michael Crichton, Pau Coelho, Dan Brown, Sidney, all of them are geniuses. Wish i could write half as well as them or have half their talent to spin webs of such intrigue and complexity.

Good God, seriously can't think properly now. Am in a befuddled and confused state of mind. There is no coherence in thought and speech. Nap needed! 1 hour shall suffice, then followed by dinner and 2 hours of mugging.

Yeah, sounds promising, but that nap will most probably end up as 400 winks instead of fourty winks.

Night people, its nap time!

Don't really intend to blog today, but i just went to your blog and yeah, i'm touched.

Yeah, this entry is specially for you. Sweet dear old Lucia!

We've known each other for like 7 years and running. Hehex, perhaps it will last till we're 70 years old. Well, i certainly hope so. Ha, glad you know that you are the one who always bully me. Nah, i take it in stride cos you are one of my oldest and bestest friend.

Hey, thanks for your compliment ar! Woah, i'm getting lots of such compliments on blogs, first on minhhui's then zhenting's, then yours. Heehee, wonder if there's more. :p

Anyway, thank you for your card and yup, those greetings and sms...
Hey, its your turn to make my day too, well, maybe after promos...
Ha, i was just kidding abt that tart but if you insist, hehex, i will accept :D

PS: A burning question : Is Haining your bf?

Whee~

Today's my birthday, yup, am officially 17 now.
Hehex, am really happy today. Received lots of birthday wishes today and ha, a b'day hug from yi hsuan this morning.

Haha, received more presents today and more celebrations. The netball people celebrated with a fruit cake today during like econs period. Ha, pon econs a while, tell ms yiak that i need to go toilet, but think was gone for more than 15 mins. The fan in the ohana kept extinguishing the flame on the candle, so had a couple of failed birthday songs before aileen hold the lighter to the candle, then can sing finish the song. Fnished the cake in like 5 mins before running back to econs, but heehee, should stay longer actually...
The class sang a b'day song as well later...

After that, went out to complete a highly secretive mission which shall be elaborated further.

Then went to Northpoint to meet daddy, mummy and xinyi for another mini celebration. And guess what, mummy bought another cake from four leaves. It's not exactly small and certainly more than enough for more than 4 persons. In the end, think i gobbled down half the cake, but hey, it's more of afraid of wasting it than pure gluttony.
I think i've eaten enough cake to last me a lifetime, ha, in case you dunno, its my fourth b'day cake.

I think i'm really fortunate because i've got the most wonderful family and the bestest and greatest friends. You guys created indelible memories that will last me for more than a lifetime, you guys make life seem worthy, you guys created me and are part of my very soul.

I'm not christian, but i wish to thank the man upstairs for giving me everything i have today. I'm grateful and i'm contented.( though helping me pass promos with some supernatural powers will be an incentive) hehex!

Right now, mummy is preparing longevity noodles and red eggs for me. Ha, that's right, i've got the greatest mom alive!

By the way, i want to thank everyone, not so much for their presents, but rather the time and thought invested into that present. Thank You!

Yeah, i just wanna thank those who came to the party and for those presents.
Its been great and fun. The food's great, the people are great, everything just seems okay.
But something seems lacking. I dunno why, but the vibe wasn't there. It was me. Perhaps i was too tired, bedtime for the entire last week was 2 and had 2 freaking Econs timed-prac on friday which i didn't study for.

I don't recognise myself anymore. When i looked into the mirror, all i saw was a disshevelled, tense, weary and drained shadow staring back. Ha, but the damage has been controlled, slept for 3 times, 19 hours in all today. My eyes looked normal now and i could finally manage a conversation with someone. According to my mom, i have not spoken more than 5 sentences to her the last week. I've not seen my cousins, not played badminton and pool with them, have not gone swimming and blading for ages. I'm socially isolated. Yeah, that's how the promos is destroying my life. I even had time for counter-strike during the Os but now, i can't even talk.

Dunno why, but i just couldn't stop comparing life back then and now.

It was so much more fun back then when we were all carefree and innocent, absolutely no worries over studying, played silly games and chased each other around during recess and the ever immature zt would pull our brastraps and everyone would flee and laughed at the victim.

It was so much more fun back then when we had it simple in the canteen and at Mac's. So much more surprising when they were secretly planted in the bag. So much happier knowing that you received them because they remembered because they cared and not because you've announced it to the entire world.

Time changes things. Forget it, right now, its back to more damage-control.
Sleep and mug!

Wuahahahaha!

I've gotten my birthday present in advance from daddy and mummy.
Hehex, guess what is it?
Well, no prize for guessing correctly.



Its an Ipod Nano.



Yup, got it on saturday night and think its a real beauty. Its got a chrome casing at the back. Its white, its sleek, its totally cool and yes, i'm showing off here. ;D

I'm still a noob at using it and downloading songs. Well, got to really thank Joei for trying to send mp3 files over for me, but dunno what's wrong with the comp ( think its hers, but heehee, most probably mine), not a single file can be transferred. We spent abt an hour on that.

So, that's saturday. Sunday is spent entirely on exploring and admiring it, downloading songs from my CDs too. Never know i've got so many CDs. After extracting the best, i've got about 152 songs in it. Oh yah, by the way, did i mention that it has a name? Well, the software wants me to give it a name, i'm not that silly to ACTUALLY name it. Anyway, its called "Darling".

Hyuk hyuk, don't ask me why i called it Darling, cos' its my darling.
Ok, i know it's a little lame...

By the way, Happy mooncake Festival! We're celebrating the mooncake festival tonight, going to play with lanterns too.
Seriously, the adults actually think we love playing with lanterns cos they bought a lot of them, candles too. But, heehee, we received angbaos as well, they called it angbaos for buying lanterns, though they bought the lanterns themselves. Heehee, its going to be fun tonight, everybody's coming.

Well, that's all folks!

Hyuk, hyuk, hyuk!

Life is ever so sweet, when an exam is over. Not too optimistic about the end-results, but its over.

Guess what?
I've got the funniest mom and sis in the world. They are literally partners in crime. Both of them had just watched the first episode of a korean serial "Full House" on cable and were immediately hooked. They just bought the serial's vcds and had cunningly enticed me with ice-cream to sit beside them to watch for "a while". That show is hilarious, and i mean it. Well, that's it, poor minyi was once again seduced by the irresistible pull of the TV.

The obsession of one korean drama, "stairway to heaven" (thanks to yi hsuan's intro) is more than enough. And now, on monday and tuesday nights, i've got to alternate between laughing my guts out and crying my eyes out...

Hyuk, hyuk, but for now, its back to the sofa in front of the telly...
Ciao!

Why must one take piano exams? Why must one take any exams at all? Aren't there already enough challenges in our lives?

Playing exam pieces and scales just stifle the creativity of musician wannabes, causing them to really lose interest in music. I would be a prime example. It would be less than 10hrs to my impending doom.

Why can't a person play the piano purely out of passion for music, and not because of some ulterior motive ( like the aim of getting a certificate).

Yeah, try telling that to my mom and all you can expect are cynical replies. But it is not the misanthropic answers which are disheartening. Rather, it is the perceptible materialism of human nature.

Seriously, the world don't revolve around grades and exams. They are not the measures of a man. However, society don't share the same sentiments and most unfortunately, neither do my mom.

I had fretted over having nothing to blog about except lamentations on the state of my revision for promos.But, no! I was soon convinced that there's more to life.

Anyway, went for a Forrest Gump inspired jog at seven this morning and just jog around aimlessly. I was soon lost. And all i had with me was my trusty old watch. I ended up in Sembawang road along some forest path then after a while fortunately, there was that god-sent signboard, proclaiming that i'm reaching Lentor. I know my way home from there. I finally reached home at like about 8 plus, totally shagged, mentally and physically.

Perfect! That shall be my excuse for slacking today. :)

Then, there's the finals today. Singapore must win okie!
Jiayou!


Hakuna matata,
Fomy

Hallo,

This is gonna be my first post on my first decent blog. Yeah, i know its kind of weird to set up a blog like now, but its been a kinda stressful week, with the promos looming around the corner and the piano exams in like 3 days time. Had a really petrifying revealation made to me just recently, my piano exams are going to be in 3 days time, can you believe it? Had initially, naively and happily thought that the exam was in another 2 weeks time, but nevermind, whatever.

Don't really think I can pass it as well.
Dah, whatever.
The only good thing that can come out of this horrendous exam is that i'll be able to pon school and gp this tuesday, but will miss my 2 mugger chums.

Seriously, people are starving in Africa, without healthcare, without proper shelter, in short without the most basic requirements of human dignity, together with those stranded victims of that hurricane Katrina, and here we are worrying about traumatising promos and dreadful piano exams... Just whatever is the world coming to.

And guess what, yeah, i'm so stressed that i spent 5 hours setting up this blog and i ended up getting even more stressed because i've just wasted 5 hours. But hey, this blog has a rather cool name and blogskin, doesn't it? Think its gorgeous.

Hakuna Matata,
Fomy