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Put some moxie back into my soul
{Sunday, June 27, 2010}
Life has been mundane and slow. I know, it's Sunday today and it's the last day of holidays but the last week has been going on a rather slow pace to me. I couldn't wait for school to start so that blocks can be over. I mean, has the holidays even been holidays? To be honest, the first 2 weeks were pretty good but the last 2 were more than terrible. After those 2 weeks, I can feel and see the changes in me. I have turned lifeless with not an ounce of vigour in me. I feel no obligations to smile and think happily. I no not what's being content. I am restless and I feel incomplete. I am half dead and I can only promise myself revival after blocks.
Like what me and jw discussed last night, it is rather unbelievable that we have stopped being so stressed up over grades and have simultaneously decided to take a step back and relax. For god's sake, it's just a petty 10%. & this is why this round of revision is considerably the worst for me. Perhaps disappointments will come, but I know now that failing other's expectations is okay as long as I don't fail my own.
So guess what my goal is: beat Ms Christine Lee's score in bejeweled before tuesday. I know it sounds ridiculous since GP is tmr but honestly, I've been spending so much effort and I'm not reaping anything! :( Why is Ms Lee so pro in bejeweled! :/
I guess now we'll just have to wait for my good news, hopefully. Here's to bejeweled and 410000 score. Heh!
11:02 AM
{Wednesday, June 23, 2010}
Okay, this is damn random but everyone should go SMB and read up on the recent posts posted by Dr Hon, i.e. soccer betting, A love story and A love story - follow up. Somehow, I find them v amusing. HEH.
10:44 PM
It's just the beginning
{Sunday, June 20, 2010}
It's 1030pm now, another 1 and a half hr and I'll be officially left with 1 week to study for BT2. I can't believe how screwed I am. Actually I can, because I haven't been spending much time revising, especially having to travel here and there these few days and this will actually continue for the next few days. I admit, I'm tired. I'm feeling rather drained mentally and I don't know if I can actually study study like study even if I can find the time to do so. I highly doubt the information will go into my mind. Needless to say, I haven't done a single homework. Sorry Mrs Quek, but I'm going to have to bully you too. :(
I guess most people are in the same boat as me, for different reasons such as WC. On one hand, I'm still trying to prep myself for intensive muggin' next week, on the other, I'm trying to convince myself that 10% is nothing. All I can conclude from this is that I'm not ready for As and I'm not getting ready for it. Sometimes once I reach home I'm just so drained, I sit in front of the com attempting to do the things I usually do but sometimes I just stone and go to bed early. Other times, the sleep bug doesn't want to come and I end up reading and waking up with dark circles the next day. Sooner or later, I think I'll morph into a zombie and start attacking plants, haha.
To think this is just the beginning. Is this a joke on me?
Happy Father's Day, daddy.
10:30 PM
What a wait.
{Saturday, June 12, 2010}
Finally DAISO is open at BPP! :D Everyone is cheering, I can hear them!
SO yeah, I walked around the place yesterday briefly because I didn't want to spend my whole night there; I always spend loads of time at IMM DAISO but anyway, I went back there again (see I can feel the advantages of having DAISO near my hse now, it's so surreal!) and finally got proper cookie gift bags. I know I sound stupid saying this because out of the so many things sold in DAISO I actually bought cookie gift bags? (WTHeck?!) but yeah, I've been looking out of them because all these while I could only find those with patterns and I didn't want a single one with pattern! So yeap! ;D Now that I have DAISO near my hse, I can see myself getting fat from caramel corn. I blame YH for introducing it to me... NOT. Hahahs, I have two packets now and I forsee them to be well-stocked in my hse for the rest of my life. :D
Anyway, I'm pretty sure everyone can see the changes I've made. I really love the quote a lot, it inspires me to go beyond my fears and do what I want to do or what's right. Yeah yeah, I'm not going to go back to talking about the whole litter thing, I think no one is reading anyway.
As usual, days spent home attempting to study = days not spent studying. It's the norm so I'm not surprised. I'm actually waiting for 1030 to come because Channel 8 is showing my fav movie, 画皮! I really love the movie a lot and to all those who will see this before 1030, do catch it, I swear it's good! :D
World Cup officially started but I'm sad to announce that I still cannot see why the big huha to see 22 people fighting for a ball. I'm sorry, really but soccer/football (I read this column in TODAY today, HAHAH, and the author mentioned about how fans are sensitive to the usage of "football" and "soccer"; apparently I should always call it football? But football reminds me of the American football i.e. rugby) is just not my thing. So while the world celebrates and watches football in the middle of the night for the next 4 or 5 weeks, I'm going to continue leading my life and pretend I didn't hear any 'Hallelujah's.
I'm kind of sad that Nelson Mendela didn't appear for the opening though, because his grand daughter died in a car crash (all those drunk drivers out there you suck!). He was the only reason why I'll catch the opening; Invictus is still fresh in my mind.
& since we all know we have to study for blocks, I shall attempt to be studious tmr. 'attempt' being the key word. I have this feeling I'll end up watching alton brown all day again; I can nvr get sick of 'Good Eats'. Alton Brown is the love.!
Till then dear readers. :)
9:23 PM
Broken
I don't know how many caught this on channel 5 the previous 2 weeks perhaps, but I love this song. It's sung by Sezairi Sezali, our very own Singapore Idol (No, I don't watch SI) but it's good quality music. I fell in love with it the moment I heard the song and I didn't even know it was him even though I was watching the mv. I just kept wondering who the heck he is while listening to the music. Now all I need is a copy of it for myself. :)
Here's the lyrics: Dropped off your keys last night The front doors still not painted You were polite like ice That I once could have melted You took our pictures down And you left them on the ground Its like you wiped all the memories Of what we used to be You and me before it all crashed down
And I know I never told you That I love you Now its all too late And I dont know how to hold you But I want to I dont want to leave this way All I know Is broken
I heard your voice break when you said Well I hope youre happy Nothing to say I stared straight into my coffee Then the conversation changed And we talked around the blame And the pain of losing All of the good times lost When it all crashed down
And I know I never told you That I love you Now its all too late And I dont know how to hold you But I want to I dont want to leave this way All I know Is broken
But Im here if you need me I know you dont believe me And well Im so sorry For all the pain Ive caused For the pain Ive caused
And I know I never told you That I love you Now its all too late And I dont know how to hold you But I want to I dont want to leave this way All I know Is broken
10:22 AM
What will you do?
{Thursday, June 10, 2010}
The litter campaign launched recently has caught my eye. I've always been a person that likes to think about social issues, no matter whether I actually discuss them or not. A lot of the thinking just happens in the bus on my way home or to school when I look out of the window and see something, anything and it just triggers a thought which leads to a chain of them and yes, that's how I spend my time.
So anyway, after yesterday's JTS (superb, but that's for later), me, jo, hk and fly went home together and on the train I just randomly asked them if they will ever tell a person to pick up his or her letter if they see the person purposely throwing it on the floor. The reply was of course expected, but like what I told them, it really irritates me that I don't have the courage to go up to the person and tell him or her. After all, it's as much her country as it's mine. So I usually end up despising the person and myself. Horrid feeling really, because I'll end up spending some time staring at the litter (Sorry but I wasn't born to pick up others' litters, why should I anyway?) and the offender. And if I'm in a really bad mood I give my deadliest stare, but obviously the person would not be looking at me so my daggers just bounce off the body and back to me.
Why is our society like this? Why is it that since young we're taught never to care about what others do but instead just care about what we're doing? In the end, we grow up to become citizens that heartlessly pretend to sleep on buses and mrts when we see senior citizens in need of seats; blatantly throw litter all about without caring a hoot about the consequences and more importantly, we become ignorant citizens who are unconsciously oblivious to the bad acts happening all around us. So in the end, the government end up spending tons periodically to come up with campaigns to 'teach' or 'educate' citizens how to be gracious. Sadly, this does not solve the surface problems, let alone the roots.
So, why do you do it? Why do you choose to turn a blind eye? Why do you lack the courage to stand up for what is right? Why do you choose to stare at the litter when you know any amount of eye power can't will it to fly into the bin by itself?
WHY?
I know of course the main reason is fear. I know I sound like a hypocrite here urging everyone to be courageous when I myself am just as afraid as anyone else. How would I know if I end up with a black eye just because I was standing up to what's right? Is it worth it? & What's the probability that someone much older would actually listen to me, an 18 years old girl that hadn't even sat my A levels?
But then we have to ask ourselves, why not? Why not try? Isn't trying better than feeling bitter about not having the courage to do so? Huikin joked that for all we know the person we ask to pick up his or her litter will end up being our interviewer for some scholarship or university application. But so what? If this really happens, I for one thinks that the interviewer should be glad that he or she gets to have the chance to accept someone who has social consciousness.
Of course, I'm not saying you guys don't have it, but isn't it time to bring it out? So stop ignoring the little angel on your shoulder who is constantly reminding you to stand up for what's right and start listening to her. You know she's right.
On a side note, H3 workshop had been fun. Awesome in fact; I know I sound like a nerd but it was fun and I believe it's because of my groupmates and hmmm, Dr Ang? My groupmates are fun to be with you and until now I still can't forget how we ended up locked outside the corridor simply because we were looking at the MS and forgot to follow the rest of the groups. It was a hilarious sight as we attempt to knock the glass door and shout to the others to stop walking away, willing someone to just turn around and open the door for us, but instead we watched as the distance grew larger and larger. Hahah, what retards!
After going for the workshop, I'm highly inspired but Leonard, this guy who graduated 2 years ago from IMPERIAL college. He studied Chem engineering and he made getting into Imperial and getting good grades sound so easy. Although... I highly suspect he's from RI cause no. 1, he has the typical RI guy look (shush, stop telling me I'm stereotyping!) and no. 2, if he's a HC guy, he would have been happy to tell us that cause it was blatant that we were from HC. So anyway, he was in the department that works on the formulation of drugs and it was a little like what I want to do in the future so yeah, asked loads of questions and really, he made it sound so easy to work for A star! & with his answers, I'm having second thoughts about working for private companies like GSK cause he said they're profit driven and you will usually end up working on projects with tight deadlines and worse, you may not even like the projects. Although I'm put off by the fact that Jurong Island is so far away, it doesn't seem so bad considering the shuttle buses available. Hmmm?
JTS at Jaime's hse was fun! :D The juniors are super efficient and as usual, by some kind of law!, our steamboat ended up with loads of leftovers too. They even bought mochi and icecream, yumyum, stuffed myself heh. We played guitar hero too and hahas, HK please secretly practise before playing with us next time, hahas. Okay, I'm not good either but hahahs, not as bad as hk! So anyway I had a lot of fun and it really is time to ...
HIT THE BOOKS. I'm going to start tomorrow. Full fletch muggin' till the end of the holidays. Sign up now if you wanna join me! :D
Okay, I'm going off. Major problem to solve and the solution is nowhere to be found, sucks.
8:36 PM
My God is Good.!
{Tuesday, June 08, 2010}
"Alton Brown's first book, I'm Just Here for the Food (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2002) won the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Cookbook in the Reference category, was one of the bestselling cookbooks of 2002 and has sold over 300,000 copies to date. It was also chosen by Amazon.com as one of the top 50 books of 2002 by both editors and readers."
The James Beard Foundation Award is like one of the most prestigious awards for culinary stuffs. OMG. I LOVE ALTON BROWN!
10:20 PM
For me it happens all the time
Another day spent not studying. I'm a really happy girl today! The workshop was reasonably interesting besides being lasting for such a long time. Went home to sleep for 2 whole hours and I've nvr felt better. Then I went back to Alton Brown (Y)! all the way till dinner time. Watched TV, caught buffetlicious (oh gawd, food porn!) and a little noose and I've been surfing the net till now. This is what I call a good day. I'm seriously not in the mood to study, AT ALL. & I've no time to do that tmr cause there's H3 workshop, which I hope will be fun!, and JTS (Y)!. :D
My life is revolving around alton brown, food, sleep, shopping... anything but studies! Guess when next week come I'll be stressing out in this space. But until then, I'm going to RELAX.
This is life. :)
I'm craving for chocolate fondue now! RAWRRRRR!
9:27 PM
ALTON BROWN is my god.
{Sunday, June 06, 2010}
I shall relate the past few days, let's start from thursday, shall we?
Thursday was DSA trials, stoned at the start while watching the rest play and I can't believe I got sunburnt! :O But it was okay the next day. Anyway, we played bball together hahas and bullied Jaime! :D It was so fun, I want to do it again! :) Then we went for lunch at curry wok; they increased their student price to $6.50! Well, I hadn't been there for a long time so maybe they increased it long ago, hahas.
Friday was stonage at home and eat, sat, eat, sat.
Saturday was SAT! I'm so glad its over but I'm not confident, shucks. I just need at least 2100 so that I can go for the A star scholarship, PLEASE! Guess what I did in the afternoon... I BAKED! Extremely therapeutic, seriously. Cause I was making bread with my own hands, no machine!, and it took me ages. Like really really ages. Just the kneading alone took more than 1 hr, I think it's my lack of strength that caused it. In the end, I didn't even wait until it reached the perfect consistency before leaving it to proof for an hour. Anyway, the resulting bread wasn't that bad at all. Still not the best, of course!, but successful considering my previous attempts. :)
Sunday, which is today, was spent packing my table ( because it was a horrid mess) and shopping with QR. What fun, finally got to spend time with you BFFAE! We shopped around Ion and bought clothes then we headed to Once Upon A Milkshake for ice cream! :D The shop is really purple but the rum and raisins ice cream was delish. :) I'm so glad I finally went out instead of thinking about sat and what not. Seriously. I think I'm burnt out even though I haven't even started studying. All my motivation are gone. All those goals I set I no longer care a hoot about them. I just want to live like a hedonist now. Come on, it's the hols!
So anyway, life after flash forward is... Drop Dead Diva! I know, it doesn't have much substance but I guess that's why I like it as much as reading chicklits. My life has too much substance and complexity that I embrace anything that's not.
Okay, I nearly forgot about my title. YES, ALTON BROWN IS MY GOD. He's totally not suave but I think one can really fall in love with him when you see him bake. Seriously. It's AWESOME. He explains baking like a science (I know it is, but how many people baking out there knows what each ingredient does and why there's a need for that specific amount?) and now I'm in love with baking even more. Just look at the two videos below, it really is very interesting.!
Have fun watching them yeah! :)
Rawr, need to go to school tmr for Interview workshop.!
9:00 PM
All I ever wanted ?
{Wednesday, June 02, 2010}
I'm absolutely bought over by the glorious weather, peaceful atmosphere, cheerful sun in Australia, after watching food source on channel 8. Honestly, life over there seems so good! The pace is slow and you'll never have to worry about competition because over there, you have to wait while things happen naturally but over here, you rush the processes all the way and you can't even enjoy life one bit!
I can already imagine myself walking up every morning, have a fun time eating my breakfast, bake and make jams etc., do some gardening, read at the porch... etc.! I honestly blame the lack of life in Singapore and those explicit details of life overseas in chicklits for these thoughts. I am once again reminded of how I'm always, still am and always will be, chasing after time instead of waiting for things to take place naturally.
SAT on SAT, once again. This time I'm putting in more effort so can I please have a 2150? Pretty please? :)
