environment
domain-ken's study
juke box-dirty little secrets, all-american rejects


sooo, 2 weeks of not updating. lol, i realise the past few entries have always started with that word. anyhow, lots have happened in that space of time i've honestly fogotten most of it.


first things first, the help university college student achievers scholarship award (sasa). those who got the full scholarship received the offer letter on thursday 20th october. and i didn't get one so i was pretty down. june got one though so congrats to her. anyways, i though each school was allocated 1 scholarship each so i wasn't bothered. went out for retail therapy instead at the preview anniversary fcuk sale at one u. got a 300rm jacket at 80rm.the only thing better than retail therapy is retail therapy + massive bargains.lol. i'm so hooked up on the jacket i even wore it to malay tuition class.


yesterday was pretty darn okay at first. had the usual bout of adminstrative crap which i realise i'm overworked for. never thought i'd consider school as one of those sweat shops. got results for the national chemistry quiz which i got a participation for. blergh. got the unsw international exam for schools english results back. DISTINCTION! wohoo. then skipped half of bio checking leaving school certs, testimonials and all that cos i didn't bring my 2dnd bio paper. figured i'd go back when rose was discussing the 3rd but turns out she discussed it the other way round. sheesh. didn't get caught though so that was peachy. then things went downhill when i got the message that zarrin received a partial scholarship. was super snappy, annoyed and depressed trying to figure out what went so wrong that i'd be the only one not to receive a scholarship.


then during malay tuition, i get a call from an unknown number.

hello?
hi kareen? this is trilie from help university college. congratulations.
pardon me? congratulations on what?
did you get the letter abuot the scholarship?
no?
oh. well anyway, since you didn't get it, i'll just inform you that you have received the sasa scholarship from help. a full scholarship ammounting to 16000rm.
*blink*


haha. wohoo! the rest as we say, is history. but i'm happy. lol. okay, i so want to go and watch dh now so i'll just do this another time. probably after spm. anyways, toodles. muah.


allahyarhamah datin seri paduka endon binti mahmood. your dearly departed soul will always be etched in the hearts of those whom you have touched. love gave you courage and courage brought you the strength to rise to the occasion even in your darkest hour. rest in peace.


academic hours clocked in-2 hours

i don't like titles

environment
domain-my room
juke box-forever love, anna nalick


soo, here goes. holidays suck! yea. am i going nuts or what? haha. the only reason it does is cos i have no discipline to actually sit my bum down on a chair and read a book relevant to the god forsaken spm! yea. i have no idea where the lack of self initiative comes from because genetically i shouldn't be that way. so maybe i'm like a freak child! or then again, the recessive alleles from my parents must have somehow transfered onto my dna. damn. me and my dysfunctional genes. do i feel fortunate. pfft. okay, enough ranting.


so anyhow, i'm pretty "cheesed off" (or so my bio tuition teacher likes saying.) cos i can't seem to get the episodes of the OC and reunion downloaded. (although she, i mean my bio teacher, was referring to not being able to award marks when grading essays.) and i've been looking forward to it so much! talk about dashed hopes. dh better not do that to me on monday. i'll be absolutely depressed! so much for destressing. life's been a tad weird these days. nothing short of wanky but nothing more than extraordinary.


i hate it when teachers call me during my tuition classes. although it's only happened twice, but it sucks anyway. the first time was when pn prema called during physics class. traumatising to say the least, cos the class is absolutely tiny and anything i say is heard by every being in the room. even the mosquito which doesn't seem to die off and irritates me every week! what a pest. so anyway, pn many called me during bio tuition this week. weird. luckily bio's fun and comfortable enough for me to answer calls. hehe. yea, so she called to ask me to go to school to do the forecast results for the whole class. i'm so so so exploited! got a whole load of co-curricular slips to fill into a book too. and that caused me 2 back-breaking hours at the table last night! i'm such a pushover!


on to more important and life-determining things, i got short-listed for the help student achievers scholarship interviews which was today! the call came in during physics tuition, of all ironies. anyhow, went to help at around 12 and boy was i shocked to see SO many people milling about. yea, apparently there were many slots and even though i happened to have been scheduled for the 12 o'clock, (reached a bit before 12) i was given a whopping number 64! so yea, thank goodness for june and zarrin being there to keep me company. met pn chai, although i'm sure she has no clue who i am, faith whom i used to sit next to in edusmart tuition, rachel from the chs taylors debate team, zhen yuan who used to sit behind my in physics tuition but quit later on, win jean from my bu malay tuition, sara, who's my sister's ex-classmate form her first semester of help a-levels, and a whole bunch of other people from sri aman and chs. that was fun. hehe.


anyways, waited like 4 loooonnngggg nerve-wracking hours before it was my turn. i was the last of the 3 assuntarians who got short-listed. was freaked cos i didn't bring my original certificates whereas everyone else did and the coordinator was telling me it's procedure for any interview. that plus she introduced our interviewer to the group of us there as the marketing director, which made him so high up there and scary. aaaahh. anyhow, i got lucky cos mr willie tan didn't ask me for my original certs! weeee. was quite a relaxed interview where i basically talked about my co-curricular activities, the posts i held, co-curricular achievements, leadership qualities and academic qualifications. oh and i made up some crap about the only blasted subject which i got a 2a forecast for saying that i didn't have enough time to revise seeing as how i'd just returned from australia and that being one of the first subjects. haha. so i guess it didn't go too badly, but i forgot to mention lots of things, like how i'm the vice president of taekwondo and winning the petaling district choral speaking competition among other things. typical me. god, i hope i get into the next shortlist!


oooh, james blunt is playing on itunes! whee. his voice is a tad sexy. the whole husky, soprano thing he has going. too bad he's not in the slightest bit physically sexy. haha. the "you're beautiful" video made me cringe! in short, nothing to drool over. was discussing him with yuan and we came to the conclusion that he puts on his accents cos when he sings, some parts are english accented and some parts are american accented. wannabe! but i love his songs anyway. haha. how very paradox. okay, the song's stopped playing. so i shall stop bitching.


my dad and sister are in singapore watching bloody cirque du soleil! how annoyingly unfair! dad got the tickets from a business contact in singapore whom he's dealing with now. argh! why do businessmen know how to have fun too??? if they didn't i wouldn't be put through my current agony of not being able to watch quidam! daaayymmm. plus my sister gets to go shopping too! bleh. although i did go on a short trip to one u with my mom today. saw tons of nice stuff in zara which i'm dying to buy but won't fork out the cash for. it's times like these when i question why i'm not drowning in cash to satisfy all my whims and fancies. refrain. abstinence. refrain. abstinence. refrain. abstinence. refrain. abstinence. aaaahh. so much for shopping not being so appealing anymore.


i'm so cheong hei! i bet this is the biggest chore to read. i keep on and on ranting whimsically. haha. whatever. i'm going to chat with fun people now. tata.



academic hours clocked in-2 hours

i feel the love

environment
idiot box-none
juke box-none


soooo seeing as how i'm in my brother's study there's obviously no entertainment around me. bleh. in actual fact, i'm supposed to be helping him out with last minute pmr stuff for malay which is tomorrow. anyways, he's about done. and ooh, i hear non-intellectual sounds. ie the cat scratching out a box in the room. melodious. so anyways, the extent of my duitful sisterly study aiding was preparing snacks: bite-size chicken sandwiches and chicken-stuffed doughnuts. hehe. sounds flashy huh? don't doubt my culinary skills.

went to school on friday and found like 21 students in my class. haha. the only reason i actually went was to collect my law olympiad prize money but su ended up not coming although i specifically told the team that everyone had to be there to get it. pfft. so anyway, had to work out the whole political issue on that most of the day so i didn't do much exept walk up and down between class and the annoying staffroom. talked to ms chew and jo tan about the distribution of money which ended up better on my part for the most except for having to stop myself from saying b******t from time to time. haha. jp. all this diplomacy that i'm getting better at makes me feel so mature. haha.

didn't do much the whole weekend except attend add math tuition. decided not to go for tuition [Edit: SHOPPING not tuition!] with my sister after that. haha. i know you think i'm nuts. but it's just not so appealing anymore. or maybe it paled in comparison to watching the episodes of the OC and reunion which were waiting for me while she was out. haha. i'm such a smooth operator. season 3's plot for the OC is much better compared to the first 2 in my opinion. the characters are more developed and the even bigger scandals make it more the better. lol. i'm such a sucker for all the brainless fluff america constantly produces. aaahhhhh. dh is tonight in the us.hehehe. that's another one with the irresistible plot and cast.

i better go anyway. gotta help out with the exams. and someone just called and hung up the moment i said hello. sheesh. i feel the love. haha. toodles.


academic hours clocked in-0 hours

stuck for a title, heh.

environment
idiot box-none
juke box-this is the last time, keane



soooo....the past let's see, 13 odd days? i don't actually remember much of what i've done. it's all been a huge blur of cheerython, exam results and high school politics and exploitation of children rights. yep. haha. i can be such a drama queen if i want to but i don't really feel in the mood for it now.


anyways, exams got me caught up in this whirlwind of text messaging and phone calls, late nights and (waaay too) early mornings. text messaging with the most unexpected people and getting a clue in on what some people really are like and really can be. whoever thought trials could get me to watch my back even more and to learn to be more streetwise in high school. and here i was thinking it was one of the places i could go to for closure. lol. who am i kidding? anyways, here's a post on my results.

malay-75

english-85

modern math-81

additional math-89

moral studies-71

chemistry-74

biology-72

physics-81

history-67

english for science and technology-88

average-78.3

gpa-1.5

okay, so the blergh marks are all those that fell below the 75 mark border. especially history. i have no absolute idea how in the world to study that. i think it's because of my study habits. i'm not the memorise-every-word-in-the-book persona but more like the understand-and-apply type. and yea, i'm the bum-around-chilling-till-the-last-week type. so yea, that explains my bad grades in moral studies and the subject from the blasted past. pfft.

anyway, on to cheerython. that was a reeeaal pain in the behind. you'd bever hear me say thank goodness for chick peas. lol. i never thought i'd be glad myself to sell those little packets at the cut-throat price of 2rm. safe to say, some personalities think they have the right to throw tantrums about at the whole world thinking they know everything in the world when they're in actual fact absolutely way off mark BECAUSE MILK DOES NOT CURDLE!!! i've never heard anything so ridiculous. that and adding ICE CREAM to melting chocolate as a dip and not letting it melt completely. but then again, i DO have a dysfunctional class to deal with. and now everytime cheerython comes up, many has taken up the habit of laughing at what happened to me. haha.

aaahhh, so season 3 of the OC is back! and so's season 2 of desperate housewives (from this moment on christened as dh on my blog). i'm soooooo glad! now i have weekly fixes i need to satisfy and look forward to again. whoop-dee-doo. hahaha. the new series of reunion is out too. and that's turning out to be pretty darn interesting. although the characters/actors aren't as hot as those of dh and the OC, the plot really gets you going. so all you broadband-equipped people start downloading now! haha. house has been blowing up a storm around the high school region too. i'm contemplating it but maybe i should just refrain from it since i'm already up there in hours at the idiot box watching serials. lol. maybe after spm.

lately, it seems that good music's been churned out by the industry like a chicken laying eggs, by which i mean daily. haha. here's a few of the frequent ear candy i've been indulging in, some of them older than most though. lol. i'm quite a fan of powerful vocals, meaningful lyrics and country bumpkin music nowadays.

bad day-daniel powter

this is the last time-keane

this side of paradise-bryan adams

mississipi girl-faith hill

tears and rain-james blunt

then you look at me-celine dion

dirty little secret-all-american rejects

kill-jimmy eat world

bend & break-keane

breathe-anna nalick

i will always love you-tamyra gray

lol, so this has gone on long enough i think. i'm up in arms with stuff to revise as it is. been bumming around since the early morning. till my next entry.

academic hours clocked in-3 hours

guess who's back?

environment
idiot box-love story in harvard, 8tv
juke box-nada


ooh, i'm a soap opera junkie.....haha! yea, i'm sucked in by all the sap. my sister calls it "this kind of meesua show". okay, so i have tons to update on. and knowing that just makes me soooo lazy! haha, okay so i'll start with trials then.

so after over 30 hours of sitting at the same exam table here's my verdict. trials have been, to say the least, annoying. and that's because i didn't finish studying my subjects as well as i would have liked to. i basically studied target chapters and flipped through the rest aeroplane speed which didn't give me good odds at all. especially bio. i hope i didn't flip the whole thing. my parents will totally flip on me. haha. except add math! i'm happy with what i got for the first paper, hopefully the second one will be just as good. damn, i've never done anything close to what i did for that paper so i'm just exhilarated. haha. okay, i'll shut up now. i was just called a freak because of my results. =D

hmmm, lou and yuan's joint party. theme-midsummer night's dream. haha, yuan kept insisting i should dress up. thank goodness i didn't! noone else did 'cept for yuan and family anyway. and hwei was wearing my dress! haha, that was classic. it was kind of awkward for me actually, because there weren't many people i knew but ended up hanging out with the assuntarians. that was cool, haven't hung out with them for a really long time. reached home at about 2 because of the post-merdeka-celebration jam all over kl. but that night was memorable. gave me an insight and a better perspective of a lot of things. *wink*

oooh! melbourne! that was a great trip. hung out a lot with ee lin and shen, met marilyn-my cousin's husband's cousin whom we hung out a lot with, and all my sister's summer school friends. they're really nice people, very funny, sweet and everything fluffy.hung out till late some nights having hot chocolate at THE best chocolate place ever! the pricing wasn't really to my liking though, exhorbitant! lol. bought the best chocolate there at max brenner's but didn't share it with anyone cos they cost tiny a-bombs, literally! went on a wine tasting road trip in the suburbs. that was cool. tasted almost 10 different types of wine. had champagne with cheese too which tasted superb together! had dinner every night with shen and ee lin at a variety of restaurants, talk about fattening machines. haha. it was all good but as the plane neared klia and i looked out onto the kl nightline, there was this surge of feeling for my home country. haha, take that for patriotism, ms umma!

oooh! my birthday! what'd i do? study. yea. i did. for the 2 hours i had add math lessons. lol. i just couldn't make myself sit down at the table. woke up late, had breakfast, cooked lunch for my brother, had tuition, then i got my presents! got an iPod from my dad, guess watch from my mom, dkny handbag from my siblings, emma page necklace from sui lin, ang pows from numerous relatives. hehe! erm, jtcy got me a handbag/purse set which is really nice. and had a great dinner at mum's place with everyone. had a really fun time hanging out with my cousins and family. was a really simple birthday but i truly did appreciate my family being there and i might say it was one of the best birthdays in my short span of 16 years.

today we went back to sitting in our normal class positions and boy did i realise how much i do miss my the banter with my friends. the whole day was ups and downs, but i was really happy most of the day. settled all the ceriathon stuff for tomorrow. i hoooppppppeeee against hope that it goes as planned. mainly because even though i'm not in charge, if anything goes bad it's me who'll be suffering the consequences. honestly. i'm not whining about responsibility but it seems to me that people don't want to do anything unless i push them to? or that nothing's planned and thought out well enough, and everything's always last minute! although all that was liberated by a simple small hand with scrawlings from some of my fellow classmates. that was really sweet. out of the blue and completely unexpected, just the surprise that made my day. will post that the next update because this is getting long enough. haha. i bet whoever's read this far is probably falling out of their chair in slumber. haha. i'm out!


academic hours clocked in-too many to want to know?

i know you've forgotten this blog exists. haha. oops. my bad.

environment
idiot box-none
juke box-what if, coldplay


omg, i haven't updated in half a month. haha. that's phenomenal. don't i have a great thing going? lol. anyways, just a quick update. will do more when i'm done with trials which i'm currently 2 days into.

so the main reason i have been mia is that my faithful laptop decided to take a turn on me and blow up. okay, so not literally. but it's unusable (is that a word?) all the same. and now i'm at the mercy of my sister and whensoever she feels generous enough to let me take over hers. bleehhhh. what a crappy time to lose my computer.

so anyway, we're in the thick of trials right now and boy i'm loving it. haha. ohh yea. soo much. first day was average. malay 2 was harder than normal. i only finished with 5 minutes to spare for the first time ever. and erm, english 1 was cool. quite a complain-y paper. continuous writing did the topic 'things that frustrate me when shopping' which was pretty cool. hehe. maybe i'll post it up one day. although it probably sounds so bimbo-fied. hmm. that's something i'll ponder over another day. history was the biggest pile of *bleep* i've ever sat for. managed to figure out some stuff but the most i'll be expecting out of that is a 2A. and that's only if i'm THAT lucky. sigh.

oh, there IS one spot of good news. tomorrow's my birthday! whoopee! not like it'll be that fun cos i'll be at tuition and at the study table sitting away my bum but i turn 16! i'm that young. yes, i know, feel old right about now all you ancient creatures. haha. oh, yuan turned 16 on wednesday too so HAPPY BELATED 16th BIRTHDAY to him. and david and viknes turn 17 and 16 on sunday so HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you guys too!

anyways, update on melbourne, yuan and lou's bash, more trials happenings and my birthday after i get my computer back. IF i get a computer back in the first place. and even then, it mightn't be functioning. wish me luck. toodles.


academic hours clocked in-a lootttt, and only because of trials. sigh.

byeeeeee

environment
idiot box-none
juke box-what if, coldplay


man. i haven't done this since saturday. seems like forever since i last did the deed. haha. anyways, school's officially over and done with for me till it reopens for trials. wheee! hallelujah!

no more flights to climb. no more teachers to feign attention for. no more frequent trips to the blessed staffroom. no more bullying by a certain group of people!

so tomorrow i'm off to the k land! oh and by which i mean koala/kangaroo land. whichever you please. i personally like kar land. =P hahahaha. i just like the fact that i'm going to be frolicking in melbourne while poor everyone else is in the classroom working hard to elude teachers' gazes. have fun darlings!

yea, so the school week's been fine. basically have just been stoning the whole 2 days. haha. except during bio and physics. bio did this experiment on alleles, genotypes and phenotypes. (gosh, i feel so smart already!) used different coloured beans and all. suuupppeeerrrr brain stimulating. decided we should be real systematic and separate all the pairs, turns out our results were the most off the mark. haha. such losers at bio we are.

physics was embarassing. haha. discussed contextual problems on einstein's theory and i didn't do it. so we nerds just decided to look like we'd done it and read the answers from the back of the text. and the answer just had to be skewed the one question we decide to be smart. shhheeeessshhhh. lol. saved the situation a bit by pointing out something, but yea, embarassing all the same. finished the syllabus and many started chatting with us so she didn't hear the bell. haha. since est was next, i decided we should go back a lil late and only told her class ended like 10 minutes after the bell. lol. i do rock at this business!

omg, today was so fat rice day! (nasi lemak in case you don't get it.) wasn't going to have any break but since everyone was eating it i decided to get one too. ended up buying 2 and the 4 of us shared the second one. (anaz, kasi, me and lee quin.) theenn, i go home and find out that ji ee's bought lunch for us. fat rice. again. lol. was still full from break so skipped that and had it for dinner! i'm so fatty-ful now. haha.

trials are 15 days away! i've barely started with the revision. damn, hope this doesn't screw up my forecasts if not i'm fried. literally. or maybe not. whaaatever. wish me tons and tons of luck cos i'll be neeeeeding all of it! and whatever you do, don't refer to juo nan's testimonial on my friendster account. it's FAKE! fake i tell you!

omg. i'm not done with the packing yet. will probably end up with a towel less and a sock short or something. haha. will update when i get back if i'm not pooped or have ended up banning myself from the lauppy. ciaooo.


academic hours clocked in-0 hours

conmen in one u

environment
idiot box-perish in the name of love, tv3
juke box-none


i see the light! oh my god, today, for the first time in like 3/4 days, i saw the sun a.k.a. the light! i never thought there'd be a time when i rejoice to see the sun come out from behind the clouds. really. today's been a much better day, the weather's not so humid, the air's not so acrid. wheeee! haha. yesterday i was talking to chris and he came up with that petition down there. lol. print it out, get signatures, scan them and send them to me. we must save the environment!

so this freaky/crazy/annoying/stupid thing happened to me today. my sis and i were at one u and we're just walking around heading towards the new wing, right? and then as we're passing the elevator, this weird guy dressed in all black with a black esprit bag just calls who's coming down it suddenly says "good morning." so we're just like "huh?" and continue walking cos we don't know him, but he calls out to us and starts asking us these weird questions on this perfume by lancome called miracle. yea. so i'm cautious about him cos he's promoting lancome but he's carrying an esprit bag which is really quite dumb. guy dressed in black clothes, carrying black esprit bag promoting lancome? suspicion meter overdrive!

so then he takes out this pink box which said mirage and was all,"we're getting feedback from our customers about mirage, which is coming out at the end of the year for 189rm." and he dabs some of it on the back of our hands. and me being miss suspicious just waves it around far away from my nose cos no way am i going to sniff something a stranger dabs on my hand. so we're like, oh it's not our type of fragrance. theennn, he takes out a blue box and does the same thing and we're like, it's more of a cologne than perfume. so by now he's forced one box into my sister's hands and he takes out another one and shoves it at me and says,"now the price is at 79 9 but for you i free one for you so you have standby birthday present." like wtf? so i just shove it right back and say,"thanks, but if we want them we'll just head over to the counter and get it later." stupid guy.

anyways, later i found out from my sister that two of her friends had been approached by the exact same guy already. and got conned into buying those products too. dumb guy. so moral of the story is, don't take things from strangers. lol, actually, don't buy anything from guys dressed in black, carrying black esprit bags and promoting lancome products. or something similar. haha. oh by the way, the air inside one u is hazy too.

i should go study now. i mean, after my daily tvb fix. ciao.


academic hours clocked in-0 hours

SIGN IT!

Petition

We the population of Kuala Lumpur, and representatives from around the world are appalled at the lack of control on the slash and burning being committed in Indonesia. They are poisoning themselves and others, committing crimes and immoral acts. We demand that the Indonesian government immediately place restrictions and penalties that are required, and do everything in its power to control the burning which is damaging the lives of so many.
origin-piech, iskl

go print that out and start signing people. SIGN! haha. i'm so serious now. i'm out. oh, you gotta print it out first.

my eyes burn

environment
idiot box-perish in the name of love, tv3
juke box-none


breaking news- school's out for two days! wheeeeeeee! that's about the only good news that can be made out of this crazy indonesian-forest-fires-induced HAZE! it's worsening by the day..and apparently, it's expected to go on till october cos that's when the winds change. that's another month and a half before we're done with this crazy blanket of smog. how sweeeeettt. thank the heavens, albeit for awhile, i'm fleeing the country! and to someplace where they've never heard of haze before either. argh. visibility in this area is now almost 100m. API's over 349 = hazardous. convenience stores are out of "sexy mask"(according to chris) supply. and oh, bbc actually did a report on the haze in our country. fascinating. haha. check it out.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4140660.stm

oh, listen to this joke. and by no means am i digging at anyone's nerves. i'm just creating cheerful ambience in this dreary country.

"meterological department confirms that the haze is caused by rafidah's ass on fire." (with reference to AP's and the API. if you've been reading the papers that is. although i haven't. =D)

so since i didn't do anything productive today, i figured i'll post some pictures. just found out that pictures can be posted without having to have photobucket and the sort. =D

okay. maybe when i get it all figured out. till then, ciao.


academic hours clocked in-0 hours

the island

environment
idiot box-none
juke box- first, lindsay lohan


heyyy. how ya doing?

haha. today was oohhkay. basically half the class didn't come today because of the prefect installation. so when i got to school i found out that i'd literally be the island surrounded by empty desks. lol. anyhow, pe periods we got malay work to do cos apparently too many people failed the mid terms (about 1000% of the target.) so everyone has to do them now. not that i'm complaining. hehe. juo nan and kasi came to sit in front of me and put sat next to me so thank heavens i wasn't the lone ranger. haha. physics was to say, lacklustre. syllabus is almost done now. and oooohhhh. we learnt e=mc2. haha. omg, i feel so brilliant now.

had an early break today, then chilled out in class till the prefects came rounding up the stragglers. haha. not that we got caught. we're too smart for them. what can i say? we're science 1! installation was okay. i think the student population is nicer this time round. i think literally all the prefects were cheered. so that was that. oh yea, today was ribbon day. by which i mean that i go to school and juo nan ties a cool purple ribbon in my hair like 5 minutes later. cooolll. haha. was sweet that ribbon, although many didn't think it very disciplinary. lol. only took it out during install where she was scolding this girl and almost slapped her. haha. got scared after that since we'd already gone in late.

so currently, there are 2 permanent fixtures in the radio which i kindly nicked out of my sister's room. haha.

x&y by coldplay.
the phantom of the opera soundtrack.

they are honestly goooddd albums. go check them out cos they're super cool. oh and by saying that i just earned xrm from bmg. heh. (fall for that and go check into jack and jill kindergarten.)

okay, i just have to say this. the freaking haze is pissing the hell out of me. i mean, i can't even see the house opposite mine clearly. and the whole country smells of smoke, which makes you not want to breathe, but then again, we can't be doing that can we? lol. and yea, driving around is like weird, not that i drive, but weird too because it's "like mist and vapour but it's actually smoke and soot" to quote my sister. seriously, it's disgusting to inhale. okay, enough rambling about that crappy grey blanket.

oh yesterday's malay tuition was hilarious. no thanks to horny people from chs.

teacher"kareen, you didn't finish your sentence. after class you're going to give him what?"
horny chs dude"virginity."

sheeeessshhh. so that was yesterday's funny episode. according to my sis, i have on everyday. which is kinda true, but i can't be putting up everything here can i? haha. just take what you can get.

time to hit the sack. muah.


academic hours clocked in-2 hours

hazey days

environment
idiot box-none
juke box-the hardest part, coldplay


i woke up at approximately 8.58am today thanks to my new alarm clock a.k.a. chien yih. haha. thanks man. i was supposed to study you know, seeing as him and yuan took the liberty to scold me one at a time for not studying. so today was supposed to be the start of my study regime. ended up fiddling with random things in my room like my certificate file, decluttered my bed and stuff. oh and just for the record lee, (haha!) i now have 19 certs. 5 of which from co-curriculum awards day. lol. only started studying at like 11 for erm, 1/2 hour? yea. i'm baaaadddd at this discipline thing.

anyways, i just realised today how much i thoroughly dislike/borderline loathe anything resembling indonesian labourers and lorry drivers. mainly because of personal experiences.

like how the annoying pest of a lady who used to work on the construction of the house behind mine. every single day she won't fail to start singing at the top of her indonesian-idol-failure voice right about the time i start falling asleep in the afternoons. (back then i used to take naps.)

not to mention those horny males too who plague the area with their presence. every evening when i used to go for walks they'd be standing around, half-naked mostly, creating such an unpleasant aura. i used to be so freaked out i'd pick up a huge wooden stick and run with it so that none of them come near me.

yea, and the fact that every morning at 7.30 and at 5 in the evenings, the whole residence turns into somewhat of an immigration at the guardhouse because they're streaming in and out like it's their first home. their absolutely swarming the country and i bet half of them are probably illegal anyway.

lorry drivers. hmmph. road hogs and absolutely horny pains in the asses too. today in the car i was just leaning in front to pass my sister something and when i look out the window there they are accelerating forward so they can have a look into our car? gee, go get a gro. and they were laughing about it too. dumb people. not that i'm insinuating anything conceited but yea, don't people have a right to privacy in their own cars? right. that's what iskl debate's done to me. go check out the universal declaration of human rights. haha. it's coooollll!

oh yea, today i got the new coldplay album. yay! am listening to it right now and it's pretty good if i may say so myself. =D cost my sister a whole 33.30 rm but that's okay. it was worth it. and i didn't pay for it either. haha. jp.

the 'rents are out tonight. wohoo! time to part-ey! haha. more like cram both my siblings into my room, attempt to study more and switch on the airconditioner because the lousy haze is inducing massive headaches and killing the country's citizens>workforce>economy>population. tnb must be really happy about my new aircond usage. more profits for them. the indonesian government better pay for the cloud seeding that's bound to be carried out because i heard it costs bombs and honestly, it's not even half our fault we're swimming in smoke. bleh.

wohoo. tomoro's sunday. which means monday's just 2 days away. and i'm not cheering because school's starting. monday's when we have hilarious malay tuition classes. haha. yay!

okay. time to get some chemical oxidation and reduction into my grey matter. ciaaooo.


academic hours clocked in-1 hour.

i heart performances?

environment
idiot box-none
juke box-none


so, today was co-curriculum awards day. woooo. basically, they just gave out certificates for extra-curricular activities and we watched presentations from most of the clubs, societies and uniform units. which, in all honesty, was just a repeat of the sewo concert. my point is-why did we even have a sewo concert? yea. exactly. whatever. anyway. down to the good part. my *ahem* taekwondo club also had to perform! haha. how interesting right? but only because i got to break 3 planks of wood in front of the whole school shocking them out of their mistaken reverie that i'm a worm/penguin/jellyfish/lembik. haha. to quote a few.

"satu persembahan yang menarik. tidak sangka sekolah assunta ada pelajar yang begitu merbahaya." asimah.

"i'm so scared to go near you'll now. so many science 1 girls in taekwondo. don't want to go near you anymore." rose.

[while patting her chest]"wow, i didn't know you can do flying kicks too!" tan lee lee.

"i told evelyn,'you and kareen are about the same, so lembik with the hair always flying. tak sangka boleh pecahkan kayu.' haha. but very good." asimah.

"wah she's going to beat up her boyfriend." random charmaine quote. (huh?) =P

"i know you're going to go back and do an x-ray even though you say there's no pain at all." anaz.

haha. so basically now all the teachers are telling me that they don't dare come near me and what not. and my dysfunctional class is so into learning how to punch the 'whacker' and break planks. although that's forgiven because when we went out they did a whole "go science 1!" cheer thing. haha. gotta love em. so basically, the whole day i just worried about the performance, sweat profusely in stress that karate would be better, listen to random comments and chill out in class. haha.

so yea, i have got to be the biggest weirdo yet. recently, i've been doing things strange to normal. well normal being defined as the average teenager you can find-watching tv, yakking away on the phone, homework *ahem*, going out and the likes. or at least that's what normal is to me. so anyway, here's what i've been doing lately.

1. going online to read www.bbc.co.uk/news aka bbc news.
2. sleeping before 12 everyday.
3. deciding that shopping malls are boring me out of my mind. (case in point one u!)
4. bringing a camera to school and not taking a picture of my sollid form.
5. leaving the internet running while i do other stuff. (by that i mean that it doesn't really interest me)
6. watching only 1 hour of television.

oh, i'm going to be making a trip to melbourne this month. just to accompany my dad, so the whole family's tagging along. will be going two days earlier with my sister cos there's flight complications (the problem when booking late.) and staying in my second cousin, michelle's apartment in melbourne city. the problem? i don't want to go!!!! well, at least not without my dad. or mum. i'm still a child!!!! i neeeeeddd a parent! yea. i'm not so independent. sue me! i'm only 15! oh and also, i'll be missing the last 3 days of school and 3 tuition classes too, which sucks! mainly because i like going to school! there, i said it. now laugh. someone call the doctor. or better yet, psychiatrist.

i'm going to go study and let off my steam now. hmmph. bye.


academic hours clocked in-2 hours

liberate my soul.

environment
idiot box-don't have one in my room.
juke box-victory, bond. guess why?


where do i begin? yesterday was great! let's see.

woke up early to have a hot bath before going to help for THE competition. i was soo excited but so very nervous at the same time. i guess because of our expectations this time around. so anyway, we registered at a quarter past 8 and almost immediately we're referred to as the 'last minute team'. lol. lucky team number 33. our marshal this time was junie, who coincidentally is the vice president of the a-levels law student council or something of that sort and the one who helped us get into the competition. so anyways, we got there early and found out other schools had sent up to 6 teams! and here we were with only one team, i was quite intimidated cos schools like du are really good, what more if they send so many teams.

the five games this year were the same as last year. sooo nerdy fun. haha. the 3 whodunnit? cases were much easier than last year except for the one lee quin and i worked on. got all the answers right though, which was great. then for trivia quiz, we found out a few of the questions were actually the same as last year's. lol. cliches were funny, haha. they even had one by yoda and as usual, one by buddha. the funniest was napoleon bonaparte. "never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake". after that was what's your verdict?. that was good too. got both of the cases with all the reasons correct. best alibi and best plea was okay. worked on that with su and lee quin. guess what? was so much pressure for me. lol. the genus this year was fruits. comparatively easier compared to last year's which was dances. yeah. got 7 of them right. missed out on blackcurrant, ciku (which they spelt as chickoo, btw.) and pomelo. they posted the results for the first 3 games before lunch break. we were tied for third then with 58.5 points.

moot court was booringgg. was about school bullies this year. the bailiff wasn't so funny this year. maybe cos he didn't have the build and tone. hmm. anyway, sat through that then they announced the results. i wasn't really expecting anything. mainly because i wasn't confident about our alibi and the fact that a few teams got perfect scores for guess what?. anyway, when they announced that du got 2nd runners-up, i have no idea why but i kind of lost hope. maybe cos that was the most i was expecting. lol. then they announced,"first runners-up, sekolah menengah kebangsaan assunta, and they only sent one team." i was so shocked. haha. was soooo liberating the fact that we won second place. aaaaahhh. a medal, cert and 150rm in my pocket. heavenly.

so we took pictures and stuff, changed, then headed off to school for the sewo concert. that was cool. because of the company. haha. performances were okay. some were reaallly good like jean's dance and the bhangra. had a great time with may, rachel, joyce and a few cu members. met armand for the first time. showed off my bling bling, haha, and saw miss chew at the registration table. honestly, the lady's never been so happy to see me. she even hugged my in front of salmah. after that had dinner at cameron towers with sa ee and sui lin's families. sat with my darling twinnies which was super fun. saw sweet yee there who was taking out. then headed back to sa ee's place to chill out. was fun using the massage devices and stuff. (yes lee quin, sex toys.) then came back, went online for awhile and passed out on my bed at 11.

yep. my epitome of one of the best days one could have. okay, now i reeaallly need to do some math. love ya.

'Crazy but I'm relieved this time
Begging for sweet relief of blessing empty sky

Hands on a miracle
I got my hands on a miracle
Leave it or not, hands on a miracle
And there ain't no way
Let you take it away.'
Miracle, Foo Fighters


academic hours clocked in-0 hours

excitement!

environment
idiot box- [v] special-foo fighters, channel [v]
juke box- go figure. =D if you can't, then just take a trip down getaclue.com. haha. jp.


aaahhhhh. tomorrow i'll be going for my second law olympiad!!!! wohoo! so after all the struggle to get into the competition my efforts really did pay off. not to mention my sister's connections with the law department. i can't wait for it! the games are really crazy fun, albeit nerdy(!), and the best part is we're not going to be chaperoned! hahaha. moot court's going to be great and i reaaallly reaaaaaaalllllllyyyyy hope we live up to the feat that our seniors have achieved, if not better it as my mum says. not to mention the cash prize which would really would boost my current pathetic financial status. haha. i'm just sooo hyped about law. i even did a tiny jig after unexpectedly receiving our faxed-over participation forms yesterday. life is gooooooddd. hopefully our luck outlasts the whole competition.

okay. so that's enough of law. haha. i never thought i'd be saying this but the school library is now my new sanctuary. it's the absolute best place to chill out during free periods and study in the blasting air-conditioning. (let me remind you that my frugal lifestyle doesn't permit me the air conditioner at home.) plus the librarians aren't too bright either. i get to chew on my candy while filling my brains with stimulating facts or duplicating juo nan's homework. haha. the irony of it all is that my library card got stolen last year along with my purse at camp. so now i borrow either swit yen or rachel's library cards and go in without my name tag. got it all planned out too. if anyone asks why i came in with either card the day before, i'm just going to say, "oh! that's my twin. you noticed?" =P

days left to spm-105

these days, the teachers are really starting to get us in the studying mood. almost all our teachers are prompting us to start sacrificing our luxuries, i.e. television, the internet *ahem*. education is everything. well, almost. oh and little old me's trying to start a new lifestyle of early nights and days sans afternoon naps. am i not an angel? haha. yeeeaaaa.

oh, comic relief. go humour yourself over these jokes which are soo beyond me. they're so lame you actually start laughing.


there's a river filled with crocodiles and you need to cross it but there isn't any bridge to. how do you get across?
wear a crocodile shirt.
origin-du

apakah bangunan yang tertinggi di dunia?
masjid. because it's close to the stars and the moon.
origin-du

atom A-i've lost an electron
atom B-are you sure?
atom A-i am positive.
origin-school library

note that i stated origins. haha. don't wanna get people confused. soo, tomorrow i'm actually going for the sewo concert right after law. it's gonna be one hell of a day. let's just say i'm hoping it's going to be one hell of a sweet day. time to get started on the academics. much love and hugs. byeeeeeeeeeee.


academic hours clocked in-2 1/2 hours