My thoughts, your blah.

Detour

2009-07-11T02:25:00.005+08:00

Enough language politics.

On Thursday, our school sprang a surprise of us and brought around 100 students to Cultural Village for the crafts bazaar. I was the only one from my class who went though, the rest had competitions for the Sports Carnival and couldn't follow.

The artist of the wayang doll above, Adek!

I expected it to be really boring, but it was one of those times when in between looking at everything [in my case, burning cash way tooo fast] and taking time to breathe, someone was there to fill in the gaps with lots of laughter and conversation.

Talking to all those people made the entire 5 hour trip [Tiring in extreme] very much worth it.

I haven't gone through all the pictures yet so these are just a preview.

Wonder how RWMF is this year, it was raining in Kuching just now.

Yay Mr Eric yay!

Sam drove the Innova with a rare display of trust from her mother. Baby steps to Liberation!

Downfall

2009-07-09T00:58:00.006+08:00

Edit 3. I'm exasperated.

Maths and Science back to Bahasa, mother tongues

It's a link. Click on it.In the article, are things like...

“The gap between rural and urban students has widened since PPSMI started"

It's probably because 'Urban students' have been progressing faster than rural students hence, WIDER GAP. Nobody is going BACKWARDS, just forward at a different pace. And probably cause not a lot of teachers want to be posted to rural areas. I wonder why.

Only 19.2% of secondary teachers and 9.96% of primary teachers were sufficiently proficient in English"
Further on in the article.
"On efforts to emphasise the learning of English, the number of English teachers would be increased by 13,933 -- retirees would be hired, as well as foreigners if need be"

If it's possible to increase the number, why isn't it possible to do so for both science and maths subjects as well??!! Why are we not being the progressive country that we're "supposed" to be? Lack of teaching staff is something that needs to be overcome by TRAINING MORE TEACHERS, not changing the medium of instruction.

And bear in mind, a lot of these teachers were students who went through maths and science in BM. See how they are faring now?

Changing languages itself because of 1. Gap and 2. Lack of teachers indicates that no, there is nothing bad about studying Maths and Science in English. It ~~might even be~~ IS better what with modernisation and the internet and that edge over our counterparts and all. We just don't have enough manpower to implement it well.
It's like the inability to find the trigger of a shotgun has made us go back to using our parangs and keris.

"Primary schools will also increase English classes by 90 minutes a week"

What good on earth would that do if students in primary 6 are still learning pronouns like he, she, it?!

Mr Education Minister even said

“Whatever its decision, it will not be due to pressure from any party or groups and it should not be viewed as politically inclined."
“While we decide on the use of English in the teaching of the subjects, we also need to look out for our children’s future,” he added yesterday."
"He said all views would be submitted to the Cabinet, adding that it would not decide hastily and would give importance to the needs of students and the country’s educational system"
"They said Muhyiddin had expressed his disappointment with the standard of English taught in schools as he was well aware of its importance."
“Whatever the decision, improving the command of English will be given great importance,” said the official, adding that Muhyiddin would have to be mindful of the political implications of this issue before deciding.It is a balancing act between the importance of the national language and the need to arm children with English to face the globalised world."

LIKE REALLY NOW?

*Perplexed expression*

He said he consulted Dr Mahathir and convinced him of the "reality of the situation". But HAH. Farce much?

The same way the general public "welcomes this realistic policy change".

Notice most of the Anti-PPSMI people are figures like the guy who wrote an entire book in BM on why PPSMI should be abolished to "mempertahankan kedaulatan negara" and other people who AREN'T INVOLVED in the actual teaching or studying of the subjects!

The people who ARE however are against this policy so What does say? Nothing Mr Edu Minister seems to understand obviously!

I'm against this very much. Yes I will not be studying by the time this stupid decision is implemented, but my sister will be.

My mum's reaction.

"Send Sheryl to boarding school somewhere else la."

Barbara, this is gonna make your job a hell lot tougher. Cause now, you'll be teaching the ONLY subject in ENGLISH. [Pfft, it might even be a forgotten language in this part of the world by the time you start teaching!]

Will somebody please radically oppose this and make the government listen? *Prepares loudspeaker*

Sam is looking upwards and inwards.

(Happy Birthday)^5

2009-07-06T23:55:00.005+08:00

It's a theory of mine that 17 years and 9 months ago, the moon was really bright.

Because nine months later, a whole bunch of babies were born, now let me introduce them, all grown up and sexy 17!

Aishah Dato Salleh a.k.a Queen!

We weren't able to pull off any awesome surprises this year like we did last year.

[It was ELSIE'S idea for the whole no contact thing!]

We can't do all the stupid things that we used to do together all the time anymore...Cause there's this sea in between us...

We can't pose our stupid cheerleading poses in the middle of class or pose with other birthday girls...

And I'm incredibly sorry we couldn't spend your birthday with you,

But we love you all the same!

Esther

My mortal =D!

She's been feeding us nonstop with birthday food for the past week, making everybody in class happyhappy all the time.

Lamb Curry, Tiramisu cake, JELLY!

Wait till I find the perfect penguin for you!

Alicia a.k.a Master

The one who doesn't like celebrations. Boo~!

I really wish I could give you Yi Jung, since you don't know what else you want as a birthday present...but I can't find him =(

So I promise you that card'll be amazing.

Hee~ 5hours!

Sean

One year ago: Short hair. Studying FAIL.

One year later: Shorter hair [NS prep]. Studying still fail!

Scary movie scary movie scary movie *innocent face*

Chin a.k.a ALLY

We've crossed an ocean together.

We've trekked through jungle together.

We've annoyed each other and laughed with each other and slept together and done flashlight dances...

Chin... You're all grown up now <3

Harry Potter in ONE WEEK!

Happy birthday all of you!

Sam was looking for distraction. Driving exam tomorrow. Must. Pass!

Malam Sanjungan Budi

2009-07-04T22:47:00.005+08:00

LAZY DIE TO BLOG.

Lazy die to spiak them proper Engrish aso.

I just effectively killed the readability of this blog.

On to the actual event at hand. Malam Sanjungan Budi at Merdeka Palace on Monday. Probably our last performance outside of school before we graduate.

Practicing the songs, polishing the instruments, lugging them around last week was not as bad as I thought it'd be. Sentimental almost. I might cringe at the thought of a two month intensive practice schedule now, but I'm sure I'll miss Caklempong after we graduate.

Doesn't hurt that we got all sorts of nice comments from the headmasters present especially from the Art School's headmaster.*Success!*

Suk Ing was around us alot that night. Hilarious her.

The thing I regret the most was Cikgu Reduan not sticking around for a group photo. Mengada-ngada sigh!

Sam was warming her Xylophone the entire night.

Pro patria

2009-06-29T14:14:00.002+08:00

Oh how very annoying it is to read articles like this.

Scrap the policy of teaching Science and Mathe-matics in English and bring back Bahasa Melayu as the medium of instruction in the education system, said Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
He also called for the return of Bahasa Melayu’s status as the supreme language, which includes using it as the medium to teach Science and Maths in national schools and also strengthening its usage in Chinese and Tamil schools.
“This issue has become a controversy for far too long.
“We consider this policy a betrayal of Bahasa Melayu as our official language,” he told a press conference yesterday.
Anwar, however, conceded that it was important to master English and agreed that there should be constructive steps taken to improve the usage and understanding of the language.
“But how we do it should be decided by educationists and with consideration towards the national education policy.
“This includes not forcing our children to pass English as a compulsory subject in the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) as this will result in many students, especially in rural areas, to fail,” added Anwar.

Let me begin my brief dissection.

"B.M. as the Supreme language."

Science and maths were never subjects intended to be used as tools in any political agenda to spread the usage of languages, supreme or not supreme, national language or not. He really doesn't need to worry about supreme languages as far as B.M. is concerned at the moment, because if he hasn't heard, the standard of English in Malaysia still sucks badly, this I kid you not.

My sister who is currently studying in a Chinese school [one of the places he intends to spread the supreme language ha.ha] had an English teacher who insisted burger was pronounced as [say it with me] - BAAARRGERRR. There are English teachers around who can't differentiate between there's and theirs.

If he could take his eyes away from all this stupid political bickering over our national language for a moment, he'd realise that within Malaysia, it's perfectly okay to have a complete lack of command in English, but if he really wanted Malaysians to be on par with students from other countries, maybe pushing for our SUPREME language now isn't the best way to go.

Maths and science in English? Yes.

Supreme language to be spread by making students read translated texts, translate international texts into B.M so on and so forth? No.

"A betrayal of Bahasa Melayu as our official language"

He obviously missed the memo that was passed out last year. It's not Bahasa Melayu anymore, it's Bahasa Malaysia in line with NATIONAL INTEGRATION.

On to the betrayal part of the sentence. How is studying maths and science in English a betrayal I fail to see. I suppose his book has lines in between the description of the cortex and medulla that says things like "BM SUCKS ENGLISH SHALL REIGN SUPREME BECAUSE I SPELL IT HYPERTONIC NOT HIPERTONIK SUCK THIS MUAHAHAHA."

I dunno. Just maybe.

I'm wondering though, what about the betrayal of the peoples trust in the government to do something right for the PEOPLE and not for petty issues like B.M used as the language to Malaysianise us.

"BUTBUTBUT, it's important to master English and constructive steps must be taken to improve the usage and understanding of the language, but how we do it should be decided with educationists and with consideration towards the national education policy."

At this point, my eyebrows arched in a total WTF expression.

It's a lame attempt at salvaging himself by conceding a little that maybe, just a little teeny weeny maybe - English is kinda...like....Important too. B.M STILL SUPREME LANGUAGE. But maybe it'd be good for our students to be able to read the instructions at the back of their imported shampoo bottles right?

I'm sorry, but you think too highly of us.

How exactly does he propose for us to study science and maths [subjects that are killer in their own right what with Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Additional Maths so on and so forth] by changing it from English [Language of betrayers] to BM [SUPREMELANGUAGE] and at the same time improve our command of English. By then, the number of subjects in English to BM would be ... 1 to 9?

Moral [Useless] is in B.M. History is in B.M. Geography is in B.M. Accounts is in B.M. Economics is in B.M. Arts is in B.M. Music is in B.M. Civics is in B.M. PJK is in B.M. K.H. is in B.M....B.M is in B.M....if we add in the maths and science subjects then I guess the only subject left in English would be... ENGLISH!

[Literature in English and Bible study face and uncertain future due to the new limitation of max 10 Subs in SPM]

So, with the low standard of English that is prevalent now, we're supposed to study ALL our subjects in B.M and at the same time, IMPROVE on our English.

Sounds good?

I'm waiting for him to tell us HOW exactly does he plan to do that.

Oh wait, he did conveniently throw that impossible tasks to the "educationists" who are probably tearing their hair out now with screwed up expressions on their faces like XS.

Maybe he plans to pre-program the students with a mental Oxford dictionary.

"This includes not forcing our children to pass English as a compulsory subject in SPM as this will results in many students especially those in the rural areas to fail."

TRAGEDY isn't it? If we make English a compulsory subject to pass, students from rural areas will fail!

The same way rape shouldn't be considered a crime because rapists have to go to jail!

Oops, bad analogy.

Based on the incredible short sighted remark made, he clearly doesn't think English is that important because he's trying to make it OKAY to fail English. His solution to the low standard of English in rural areas is to let them continue as it is. Fail, don't fail, not really a problem don't worry!

It's okay that those students would have a smaller chance of furthering their studies abroad or participating in international forums [or anything with the word international in it for that matter] BECAUSE THEY CAN'T SPEAK ENGLISH. [As long as they do well in THE SUPREME LANGUAGE.]

Unfortunately, the whole reverse psychology thing isn't working well, so unless he is okay with huge disparities between rural and urban areas, English should DEFINITELY be made a subject that is compulsory to pass to help if not encourage, motivate and [epiphany music] drive students EVERYWHERE to do better. Except, you know, language of betrayers and all. Oops?

Okay, rant complete. I finish off by quoting the VIP at the interschool Choral Speaking competition prize-giving ceremony two weeks ago. He's from the education department, part of the team that is in charge of educating Malaysian youths. You be the judge whether or not you feel like your education is safe. [I quote directly because I WROTE THIS DOWN]

Check back the many animals that were created by God. The bees, the horse the rhinoceros. In actual fact, we humans are at many times, arrogant.

We have pilots at our flying academies who study and get certificates. What about the bees? From which flying academy have they learned how to fly? Did the bees receive any certificates? From the day the world was created, the bees were never given any certificates.

Check the fish. Can you see the fish never suffer from the so-called obesity. They have learned how to manage their own menu.

This world is not creates so that we are to kill. No, it's about sharing.

Kehidupan kami begitu canggih sehingga kami tidak tanya kenapa kami dibenarkan hidup. How much longer can we live?

I'm liking Najib a little more now.

Sam rests her case.

Jinx

2009-06-25T17:46:00.002+08:00

Two things that apply now.

The higher you climb the further you fall.

And with every upswing, there is the eventual downswing.

This year has officially become the polar opposite of the last.

2009 - Failure rate 98%

Mediocrity is taxing.

Went for interschool public speaking today. I wasn't supposed to be there, but I was.

Didn't even place.

Kinda feels like God's personal joke now. Kinda like Uno Stack. You build everything nicely, really high and all, before pushing out the foundation and tumbling the entire structure.

But I met a whole host of very awesome people there who cushioned the fall. Guys [and girls], I TOLD YOU NOT TO SAY IT!

Congratulations Hannah =) Go kick some PS ass in Divisionals.

You're Special!

Sam has reached the end.

!@#$%^&*()

2009-06-21T21:57:00.002+08:00

I couldn't even find the right words for a title. So I held the shift button and went in numerical order.

Someone passed her driving law!

And used contacts for the first time!

Caklempong the entire week therefore driving exam pushed further back.

Those headmasters better be very nice.

Queen is officially sexy seventeen. I love you sooo much!!!

Ever get the feeling that some things are better when they just don't make sense?

Sam is gonna try and remember her dreams tonight.

Sad Die

2009-06-14T21:58:00.004+08:00

What the hell happened to the holidays I'm asking myself right now. I don't remember a single day where I woke up late, lazed in bed then went back to sleep.

I remember shopping and playing and dreaming and walking and meeting and laughing and watching and talking and sleeping in darling's bed and right now that seems okay too.

Streamyx on my side has gotten incredibly horrible and I disconnect every two minutes or so. Uploading pictures for this post is literally a miracle.

June is midway through and it already feels like it's running away.

Yesterday, briefly.

Woke up early again to go to Limkokwing for a photography workshop organized by BL photography club and LKW's marketing department. Chin, Syaz and I brought along the Form 4's and 5's and KC was there with his Highians. Eileen was there too!

I don't really know what to make of it. I certainly didn't learn anything about photography. In some parts I was bored out of my mind and wondering why on earth did I volunteer to wake up early again. Then the faciliatators showed us some videos and I was staring a the screen feeling pretty wow-ed thinking hey, this looks good.

Harold [from WSDC!] was one of the guys who volunteered himself to be junior photographer of the day and he brought some much needed entertainment to the day. He was shooting two finalists from the Breeze Model Search, their names escape me at the moment.

The last session was a photoshoot with this guy in incredibly harsh lighting conditions against a white wall at the back of the building. He was certainly getting the attention of all the camera wielding secondary school students.

That night, a UGS gathering was held at my house. Most of the pictures are with Garrick and these were all not taken by me.

We've grown, that's for sure. We're all mature now [when not relearning our ABC that is]. They do dishes ;)

UGS's become a Mac breeding ground!

What's UGS you ask? [Maybe you don't ask, but let's just pretend for a moment you have].

Check it out for yourself and if it interests you, sign up. We're nice.

Our admin, Cedric, only bites when you want him to.

Or when you look like food.

www.undergroundsquare.com

The rest of us? We don't bite at all =)

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Now on to the miscellaneous stuff.

Ronaldo is leaving. Finally. My cousins are so happy they've started a countdown to his departure by burning a picture of his, a bit each day. So far, he's lost his head.

LCW for some unknown reason decided to suck in Singapore and lost to Nguyen whose matches normally, I wouldn't have even bothered watching the livescore because...well I just wouldn't have. But then, LYD lost both his matches too, so maybe it's something in the Singapore water that make all the pro-badminton players lose their grip. I want to add that XXF lost too, but she's been out of the scene for quite some time now.

SPM has been reduced to ten subjects starting next year and now they want to make English compulsory to pass. This is something I've been wanting to talk about for a long time *Runs to start a thread in UGS*.

I think limiting it to ten subjects is a lazy-convenient way of getting over the shortage of qualified teachers for the extra subjects. Now everybody is REALLY stuck with the stereotyping of arts/science streams and confined within very limited choices, most of which do not reflect the true interests or talents of a student.

Subjects like Literature in English and Bible study are revolving in my head as I look at the ten subject cap. I wouldn't be surprised if they use the ten subject cap as a reason to scrap subjects like this off the list of SPM subject because they've been trying to for a long time.

However, making English as a subject you HAVE to pass is something I look forward to. I've seen many people ~~whining~~talking about how this would deter students from rural areas so on and so forth and these are more or less the same people who are ~~whining~~ talking about the Science and Math subjects and how they should be taught in B.M. Their logic baffles me and sometimes infuriates me. It's like they deliberately want to run backwards because higher intelligence scares them.

What do you think about these two education issues?

Sam is so blanked she can't formulate proper sentences anymore.

Nature

2009-06-06T17:12:00.000+08:00

At it's best.

Happy Birthday Sheryl!

Sam was totally lightbulb with the Old Virgin.

By Request of Ashik

2009-06-04T00:42:00.004+08:00

[I attempt to quote. But you all know my memory is shorter than the length of Britney's skirt ~~when she remembers to wear one~~, so forgive any misquoting.]

To be read with accent .

"My parents asked them which university would be the best for me to concentrate on my studies and they told them either Swinburne, Kuching, which is near the city but the city is totally bogus anyway or Curtin, Miri."

"There are black chickens here!"

"It's ridiculous. You pay 75 ringgit for a cake here. With 75 ringgit back home, I could buy this shirt, this pants, maybe not these shoes, this necklace, AND everything else I have on now."

"Good money! Hire me! I'll be your personal accountant, PA, I'll clean your house, I'll pick your kids, okay that might be a bit dangerous..."

"I come to Spring for breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday."

[Left]My friends were paparazzi-ing. I didn't realize either T.T

[Right] The family in the car next to me was staring at me as if I was retarded. I think totally looked the part.

Third time I met Ashik in Spring and counting. You asked for this so here you go!!!

Stop being a silent reader you.

Hi Hanani! [I have a feeling my spelling is wayyy off course]

I've been to The Spring three days in a row now with three [almost] different groups of people. I declare myself Springphobic. If I have to go there again within a month I might have to cut a few limbs off because aimless wandering is worst than going to tuition.

A collage of what two days spent with my darling has accumulated in.

Cameraphones tsk.

Kay, apologies for visual pollution.

Damn. I'm on a dress addiction.

Someone in a high-class place, with his high-class English and no mosquitoes accused me of not having a life thus being on of them people who actually updates her blog and can be googled. Online assets I tell you. I want to ice-skate. And speak Teochew.

Typing this from Vivian's bedroom.

More haphazard badminton tomorrow.

I'm going to join my darling in bed now.

Sam is jam-packed and sleepy.

P.S. To prove a point here, all those who know Ashik, say Aye =)

Gawai!

2009-06-02T12:23:00.004+08:00

It's the holidays it's the holidays it's the holidays!

Lazy to process all the pictures I have with me now. So here's a preview of what has been going on over the past weekend.

Teachers' Day in St Mary's.

As usual, we had church service and then the Form 3's and Form 5's had their class parties while the rest were in the auditorium with the teachers.

In our class, we actually thought we wouldn't have enough food but it turned out to be plenty cause RK member's are just awesome that way. The day before, a few of us had gone over to Erna's house to do cookies for the teachers since we still had leftover ingredients.

One day I'll do a collage of said cookies with the teachers.

Photo-outing.

First time I've gone out with a bunch of people for street photography. The four of us, Cedric, Garrick and Joash, went around Kuching Town. 3 different Canons and one Sony.

Pretty damn eventful for one afternoon. Cedric got his fill of story-telling images, we lurked around the abandoned market, all three Judokas held back against some kids with a lot of spunk, we visited the underground pass, went to Waterfront for the sunset, witnessed a police ~~sprint~~ "chase" and ended up eating ABC before heading home.

More pictures when I'm back.

On another hand. I DROVE TODAY *Happy*.

I'm at the last episode of Boys over Flowers and I'm not willing to watch it because after this HOW AM I GONNA SEE YI JUNG AGAIN =( =( =(

Gah. Fangirl Mode. Off. OFF.

It won't turn off =(

Sam is catching up.

No Exam Wednesday

2009-05-27T20:52:00.002+08:00

And I'm Freee~!

After literally dancing out of the library yesterday leaving the Bible Knowldge Students agonizing over things like a very cool guy called Bar-Jesus [kidding Jen kidding] I was officially done and over with exams.

Then the exam papers started trickling back half an hour later which really spoiled the whole free-from-exams feeling.

That aside, we're celebrating Teachers Day on Friday! So the Form 5's and 3's are having the traditional class party while the rest of the school does God-knows-what in the auditorium. Chin and I are also screening through potential school photographers to take over our place next year. American Idol style.

Muahahahaha. We have 5 prefectorial candidates and haven't really come up with a plan on how to determine who to give the responsibility to but we know we have to start training SOMEBODY up. Our school likes photography. Or rather, photographs of anything and everything.

I slept super early yesterday. Came home today, watch 3 episodes of Dollhouse and took a 3 hour nap [interrupted by Erna Syafina Baboon] and now I'm ready to go back to sleep! Except I know I shouldn't for fear of becoming CHIN. [3p.m until 6a.m. and she STILL feels sleepy. WTF]

Haven't really figured out what I should be doing for the holidays, everything is rather touch-and-go. In my mind there's a lot of things to be done but when I sit down and want to start something/anything, I am left with a blank.

Okay. Maybe I should get started on the horribly-tragic English Nilam now....

MU v.s. Barcelona tonight!

What are you guys doing for holidays?

Sam is all happy because of the little surprises that have been coming in her general direction this week.

Zen Needed

2009-05-24T22:40:00.002+08:00

Sam will be free. Soon.

[Update]

GOT THE CAT

.Muahahaha.

Interim

2009-05-21T17:41:00.004+08:00

Happyfying event of the day.

Not going to school.

Had a horrible headache last night and went to sleep at NINE.

Nine! For those of you who've been talking to me for the past week, you'd know that nine is a far cry from my exam bedtime of 4.

Didn't study so didn't see the point of going to school today and screwing up my Physics paper.

Here's to hoping they'd let me retake the exam.

First episode of Glee is exactly like the trailer suggests. Very awesome =D I cannot wait for it to start airing.

The Season5 Grey's Anatomy soundtrack is now on replay.

KRIS WON. [Barbara, you're obviously happy at winning the family bet. I woke up and saw your msg and SAT UPRIGHT in excitement]. I was watching the show last night with Teresa and it was hilarious. I talked about how Adam has nice eyes and she said they reminded her of Robert Pattinson. I said his coat looked very Darth Vader and she said they looked very phantom of the opera. Then WADDYU KNOW. Simon and Randy go into a shouting war of Phantom v.s. Twilight!

First round casualty in Interschool yesterday left me with a whole lot of questions. But Sasha and Teresa surpassed all expectations on debators in their first debate. The way they presented, I would never have thought it was their first debate *proud*. Hear that you guys? I'M PROUD OF YOU. Felicia and Deborah, I officially announce you guys GRADUATES from the Straight Line School! [Damn the amount of paper... XD ]

Time to go back to the last leg of exams and face to up what I started this year.

But it's oh-so-far-from being over.

Sam will go dig up all those pictures and things she hasn't blogged about during the weekend.

Glee

2009-05-14T22:27:00.004+08:00

[Update at 3.48 a.m.]

In a desperate attempt to keep myself awake. I decided to isolate myself from the comforts of my room and ditched the comfort of my Chair and Table for the Hallway Floor.

Hallway Floor better have some magic.

IknowIknowIknowIknowIknowIknowIknowIKNOW I should not be here.

[I am also hooked on Ain't no Sunshine atm]

Exams have been stupid. I've been stupid. I still am being stupid.

Well watch the trailer and tell me you don't feel like watching.

Wait. You can't. Because it looks awesome and the Hudgen's lookalike sounds awesome too!

KRIS V.S. ADAM.

Who are You voting for???

Back to Che-misery.

YAY MALAYSIA BEAT DENMARK.

[Is is obvious what I've been ~~watching~~ doing the past few days instead of studying?]

Sam is running with her eyes closed.

Rapid Photolog

2009-05-09T14:59:00.008+08:00

I don't even have time to type anymore because it's three-thirty and somehow my powers of awesome procrastination overcame me.

As usual.

So here're are the things that've been going on. In rapid succession. If anything catches your eye and you want to know why we look so gay, ask, and I'll answer =)

Starting with...

Stout.

My aunt found him outside her house. She kept him for a day waiting for somebody to come claim him. But nobody did, and she couldn't keep him anymore so she put him at my house. He was adorable. Gorgeous.

Horny.

Star is very wary.

He kept humping my leg on the first day. And then for the rest of the week, attacked Star. Poor Star was like a rape victim and she was jumping everywhere to escape him.

Anybody you know who lost a dog? I WANT TO GIVE HIM BACK because looking at him makes me feel guilty for no reason. However rest assured, we're showering him with lots of love and food =)

Damai Puri.

Our weekend escape during LabourDay holidays.

The lobby is really zen and everything but the room has a habit of condensing turning everything wet. My lens did too =S

On the way up. LOOKS LIKE THE CULLEN RESIDENCE RIGHT? So pretty.

We went to climb Mount Santubong the next day. We made it halfway up and then came all the way down because we realized we were on the wrong trail [we took the longer one] and had no more energy to go follow the right trail.

The 5% that had bridges were scary broken bridges

Waterfall spotting failed.

McDougalls.

Cedric is leaving and so the Thomians and the Marians decided to spend a little time with him. It was very last minute. Very funny. And very noisy.

I got no time to go into the details of what happened...but here are a chockful of photos from the stupid things we did that night..

Thomians dunno the concept of personal space

Jonathan Bakes btw

Boyfriends!

Joanne and Garrick doing the We're so sexy pose. Cedric showing his true colours.

Ced being Jesus. People just gather around him.

Ian and Kelvin with random light trails around us

Thomians

A.B and C

McDougalls.

There is so much more in store.

Sam going to study now! Like srsly.

Will Be Back

2009-05-07T00:29:00.004+08:00

It's 12.30a.m. and I'm studying Chemistry. How's that for nerdy?

I am taking a short break now to announce that I will update on...

SATURDAY =)

With pictures of Stout [In reference to Guiness] our new-lost-and-found-dog that I'm waiting to give back but- to- who?!!?!?

Tell me if you know anybody who's lost a dog recently!

Further random things today.

M.U BEAT ARSENAL.

AGAIN!

*Jumps* CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL BABEHHHH!

*Hugs Amy and Jon*. That's for making my day start with a huge grin.

Kris Allen butchered "Come Together", one of my favourite Beatles songs'. Carly Smithson did it 400% better last year. But nevertheless, I WANT GOKEY [with his cheerleader massacre scream] TO GO HOME.

Does anybody find it annoying how the judges are ALREADY idolising Adam even BEFORE he's won American Idol? They keep saying things like "nobody can top Adam" and it's demoralizing for the other contestants.

We're all watching Adam Idol. Allison, Gokey and Kris are just the backup singers to fill in the rest of the 45 minutes.

BUT OH I LOVE DUETS.

Damai Puri was pretty. The rooms were wet, literally. The people were... cousins [therefore a whole lot of madness]. The pool was...crowded. More on that on Saturday.

Felicia and Aldrin have an awesome house and an awesome mum and I will also say more about that on Saturday. [If ever my memory card adaptor chooses to work]

Canon almost killed me today when they offered me a promotional price on the Eos 500D. Technology is cruel.

I want to learn how to drive but the stupid exams are in my way. Yay for Nickki getting her license. Now the trees are all afraid of her.

Having a Concert smack dab in the middle of exams the day after 3 Physics papers and the day before 2 Add Math papers. The clashes of dance and academics has never been so horrible before.

Another clash? Interschool debate. Three days. And those three days happen to be 3 Physics, 3 Biology and 3 Chemistry papers. So I need to replace 3 Physics, 3 Biology and 3 Chemistry papers. DO THEY DO THIS ON PURPOSE? But this is the end of my high school debating career... [Marian-Thomian being subjective]... Good or Bad, I think it deserves an ending. And Teresa and Sasha deserve the initiating.

First Term exam will prove to kill me. If I don't somehow manage to grow an extra brain and/or steal Aldrin's - postSPM. The Add Math project is stupid, I see no sense in it the same way Civics is a very failed attempt of a subject.

A WHOLE LOT OF GOODLUCK TO ERNIE TOMORROW. Debate your heart out =)

[She completed her essay perjanjian. I FAILED therefore I owe Alicia food.]

Sam just typed out a whole lotta random from a bubble.

WSDC 2009

2009-04-25T10:08:00.016+08:00

I warn you. Lots of pictures. Hit esc now if you have bandwidth limitations.

One and a half weeks of preparation madness.

Of peptalks

Of convincing.

Of pushing.

Of failing.

Of hope.

Of desperation.

Of coming together.

Four days of compromising.

Of wondering.

Of stressing.

Of second-guessing.

Of meeting new people.

Of forming new bonds.

Of surpassing.

Of falling.

And then coming back up again.

Suddenly 108+ students found themselves in their classrooms, wondering what on earth were they doing there? This was not where they wanted to be. School was surreal.

Or at least in my case it was, as it always is after a competition, exactly how I felt the day after WSDC.

We came We saw We debated

Two weeks and 35 motions ago, St Mary's team A were pushing to form a St Mary's team B. However due to many circumstances, it didn't come to pass and on the 20th of April, I walked into Swinburne block G and was suddenly surrounded by the usual host of familiar faces and then some.

It was Swinburne World Schools Style Debating Championship again. The major difference this year being that I had no more Tracy to lean on to. Suddenly I found myself in the pillar position and that alone taught me many lessons.

Our CA this year was Dr. Sucharit Pongprakyun, almost the opposite of our CA last year, an easing-going guy who seemed like the kind of teacher who would be very popular in school because everybody would like him for his nice manner. No Wonder he's a doctor.

The workshop was basically a refresher, I was getting nervous. Our team had not debated at all prior to this competition because every time we had training sessions, my team members were either away or unable to come. The demo debate was done by Justin, Sophia and Felix as Gov supporting the motion "THW give free needles to drug addicts" against Cedric, Paul and Ashik.

Cedric very greedy. Keep snatching Mic.

Hilarious. It really was. The humour started when Ashik came up and quoted from the bible with his accent. When he was POI-ed and labelled a hypocrite for being a Muslim quoting from the bible, he sent everybody into tears of laughter with his reply.

"With the people as the people for the people!"

"The bible is much a book as the Quran."

*Pause*

Then with conviction,
"AMEN"

At the end of the debate, Cedric manage to elevate his debate skill status and for the rest of the week was just as hounded by teams for advice and encouragement as the other adjudicators around. *Winks*

This year we had time for a practice round! We thought it'd be fun to run up 8 flights of stairs so by the time we reached our room with our runner, Kelvin, we pretty much resembled human jelly.

In the Four days that we were there, we debated 7 times, so I'll list out the debates that we had somewhere after I tell all the stories in Between the debates which I think, are much more interesting.

Faris and his Friend.

After the practice round, we were talking with our opponents, Allan, Harold and Boon Kim from Kuching Town No.1 and our runner Kelvin. Over the next few days, they were one of the many people whom we got to know better and better and eventually supported each other throughout the competition.

Andy and Ian. Sam and Kelvin.

Funnily, Kelvin even turned out to be Teresa's uncle!!! And that was the beginning of Teresa getting to know people. For the next few days, she was constantly meeting people until she had to use Kelvin and me as a human shield to... stop meeting people!!! Hehehe.

The first day ended later than expected [all the days ended later than scheduled] and I had to rush over to tuition in my uniform, getting a stare of mirth from Vivian.

On the second day, in between the debates that we had, there was a game called "Human Bingo" where all the debators rushed to get signatures of people who fit the criteria. Alex was hoarded for having Robert Pattinson on her phone as wallpaper [which she actually changed specifically for that game] but the hardest one was to find A GIRL WHO LIKED CHELSEA. Aww, cmon. Why Chelsea T.T

Of course I blurred the numbers XD

There was also the reprise of last year's chicken dance mania. I have a feeling it's going to be a recurring theme in WSDC, maybe even as it's theme song? Andy and Malcom had a competition going on to see which one got the most phone numbers of girls and Andy won!

We lost our third prelim that day and for a while I was wondering how it happened. What went wrong and how were we going to continue. It seemed like after every debate, the adjudicators found another fault in our debating style or presentation style or speaking style. But that aside, our opponents from Lodge C were really nice people who eventually made it to the Finals. Yvonne gave me the *eyebrows raised* look when Chara started talking about music with Jesmond. Nope, I didn't understand a thing here either.

It's a bird! It's a plane! No it's WSDC!

Adam. Aldrin. Joshua.

On the third day, several things happened. The first one was the Public Speaking showdown between the Girls and the Guys. Rebekah, Julia and I represented the girls defending the guys whereas Andy, Sean and Joel represented the guys defending the girls. I was at the back of the hall talking about cameras with Garrick and Stefan if I'm not wrong when I heard the Thomians and Marians shouting my name.

Sean and Rebekah went up first and the crux of their speeches was ASSets. Because we girls have ASSets therefore should be given promotions in the workplace.

Then Andy and Julia went up. Girls should be sent into war because they are Strong, said Andy. So strong they need extra clothing to hold in their strength *Holds hands in front of chest*. Julia retaliated by saying Guys had original guns!

By the time it was Joel's and my turn, the crowd was already deeply immersed in the sexism that flowed within the speeches. Joel was to defend co-ed schools and tell the audience why girls should go to co-eds whereas I was supposed to defend single sex schools and promote guy single sex schools.

Top left Clockwise: Sasha with her pretty Nikon. Marians and Josephians.

Marians and Greenians [Bibiana. Sam. Esther. Avery. Alex. Teresa. Julie]

Thomians and Marians praying. Random shot with Kay, Ian and Andy looking directly at the camera.

Joel had everybody gasping in laughter when he started talking about SPORTS like Archery and Pole jumping and then accused me of not socializing with guys enough because I came from St Mary's. He and I had a deal that we'd accept every POI we gave each other for the fun of it, but his speech was so Joel, I was left standing there mic in hand laughing along with the crowd.

As the last speaker and mentally I had a few things in my head I needed to rebut Joel on...but once I grabbed the mic, everything became a blur so I started off opposing Joel by shouting out "What's up boyfriends!!!" to the Thomian contingent. It was the scariest thing I had done in the entire competition, because in front of 108+++ people, the Thomians could very well have not heard me, or not reacted or just kept quiet or BOOED.

Thank God they responded. From then on everything was impromptu and never before had I expected to give a speech like that in public. The audiences reaction made it the highlight of the day, it was like PSF08 all over again when the punchline got through and people LAUGHED at my attempts at being funny. When I came down from the stage, I was trembling slightly from the audacity I had to muster. Everybody was looking at me in a different way.

Especially the teachers. Whoops?

What did You think of the speech?

Eventually, Sean, Andy and I were announced the winners of our respective rounds and were given a blue Swinburne bottle as a prize.

In the fifth prelim, we were up against GRSS C. It was a cold, COLD debate. Midway through, Esther produced a small tiger plushie and set it on the table as if to go "Rawrrr, Fear me!!!". Adorable-ness! I remember your names I remember your names! Avery, Esther and Bibiana!

In chronological order,

[Practice Round] THW Ban physical punishment of Children by Parents.

[1st Prelim] THBT High School students' right to confidentiality supersedes the right for parents to know.

[2nd Prelim] THW make smokers pay for their medical bills

[3rd Prelim]THW make Drug Testing Compulsory for all athletes competing in the Olympics

[4th Prelim] THBT we should restrict vehicle access to the city.

[5th Prelim] THBT 3rd World Debt should be cancelled.

Wall of Debators

Before they announced which teams made the break, I was positively shaking with fear. Last year, there was Tracy to lean on. This year, I wasn't sure of anything. I couldn't. I was unable to.

We made the break as the 2nd highest qualifying team with GRSS B leading the rankings. I was overwhelmed.

Quarter finals against St Joseph. A direct reprise of last year. There were people in the room, outside the room, next door to our room all watching or trying to watch the debate and by the end of "THW negotiate with terrorists", I had labelled the St Jo team as Terrorists and Joel had labelled us as Disney Princesses. *Bows*

It was a split decision of 2-1, St Joseph Team A avenged their loss from last year and this year became the exact opposite of the last.

I suddenly had four choices of debates to watch and I chose to watch GRSS A v.s. St Jo A. During the debate, it was so...civilized. There were no personal attacks, however there was a line that went, "It's like feeding the people Broccoli broccoli broccoli broccoli everyday. Soon they'll get tired of it and they'll want meat." Or something to that effect.

The debate finished late and I was getting my things when I noticed the sky. It had turned pretty. Later on in the hallway, I was talking with Sasha and she said some things that made me so proud to have teammates like her with us.

St Joseph made it to the Finals along with Gapor, St Theresa and Lodge [in the Junior category]. After dropping Sasha home, I had some Adam therapy before going to sleep very very early.

Last day of Swinburne. I woke up late, picked Sasha up late and went there later than the previous days. This time, instead of piles and piles of briefs and research, I was armed with Miera, something I had been longing to do since the first day when Stefan, Garrick and Lance ran around touting their Nikon, Alpha and Eos respectively.

Lance. Stefan. Garrick.

The atmosphere was suddenly very relaxed and people all around were taking pictures and talking and doing things that was hard to do in the first few days because of all the pressure upon everybody. Midway through a conversation, Cedric managed to pull a judo move on Ashik which left him speechless on the floor.

I love the bottom left photo of Mdm Orlnda and Andy. They look so cute together =D

Felicia spent lots of quality time with Miera going on a mission I dared her to to earn extra brownie points. Heheheh. You're on your way to paparazzi-dom!!! And it was really awesome of you to be doing flow in the first few debates btw!

You see! Totally couple-ish right!

And this was random. I was taking a picture of Mdm Orlnda when Andy suddenly popped into the frame!

I spent most of my time during the junior finals talking with Mdm. Orlnda and she was estatic that Hey! Kuching people know where Klang is!

Or maybe not.

Senior Finals

During the senior finals, I found myself front row with the Event Photographers watching as the debate grew more and more heated on the topic of nuclear weaponry.

This is the Green Wall.

[See Samuel's expression in the middle left photo when holding the wireless remote XD]

FastForward. Award Giving Ceremony had not started. Lance was convincing the GRSS team that Canon is the way to go and I had obligingly handed over Miera as well to show them Yes! Canon is good for your soul =P

The expression of winning

In the end, St Theresa and Gapor were crowned champions, Emmeline and Joel getting the best debator in the finals award and Joel doubling it by getting overall best debator in the preliminary rounds!!! His plans for world-domination are definitely coming true.

I got second best debator but walked away with more than a trophy. There're two teams who showed me more than any certificate could ever tell you. I'm going to start talking about them now.

Chung Hua Middle School No.1 entered the competition relatively unknown. They made it all the way to the semi's and then lost because of one. Single. Word. They accepted it and sat as a team in the hall and what I saw was a team that really won together and lost together. There was nothing I could think of to say to them then but I remember thinking, "Damn. That's spirit."

The other team is St Thomas. A,B, and C. We entered this competition supporting each other every step of the way and I remember them looking over and helping us out during Quarters. The fact that they didn't make the break was something I did not expect because during our practice rounds they exposed my lack of practice and beat me. I don't know how to explain how together they were, but if you had been with them, you'd understand what I mean when I say I hope one day St Mary's will have a group as tight as they are.

“A yardstick of whether you’ve won or not: if a person comes in to watch a match you’ve just lost, right after the results have been released, and he doesn’t know who has won and who hasn’t even after looking at your reaction … then indeed you have won the match.”

[Debate Letter 5]

After the prize-giving ceremony, we walked out of the hall, the McDougalls. It seemed like a good time to take pictures and that is exactly what we did. The Marians ended up in Garrick's car as we raced against the Thomians to reach Spring first where we had an impromptu "debate afterparty".

Starbucks was practically invaded by us debators and we messed up the furniture arrangement to accomodate our huge group of people. More and more debators started to show up...and for a moment we were lost on what to talk about. [And a bit emo at the time yes we were.]

Somehow, money came into play and we started staring at money to find a mountain, bird and astronaut. Then I remembered what Ernie had shown me during Bio class and soon EVERYBODY was staring at money. Like retards. Who had never seen money before. To show you how retarded the scene was....

Stare!

Even the Tunku team ended up staring at money when they showed up! I had to leave soon after and walked out with Ida to our cars. GOODLUCK IN IIUM ALL OF YOU! Sharon is having a party right now as I write this and I want to thank you for inviting me too! I'm sorry I can't attend. Kind of stuck. At Home. With sister XD

Heh.Heh.Heh. Find Bank Negara Malaysia!

So, I've heard and read what's out there. I know where we stand in all of this. There are many things I've learned and experienced throughout the process of getting through this four days. Especially playing the role of pillar and leader and teammate. The limits and lengths that a leader has and must go through, I understand more of that now.

McDougalls

I believe I've managed to let some people see exactly why I'm so deeply rooted in all of this and they seem to be going in the right direction. We went into this competition stating firmly that we'd have no regrets and that we'd have fun. For all of that, I have to thank my team, Alex, Chara, Teresa, Sasha and Felicia. Mdm Ivy and Miss Jusy. Cedric. All the Thomians. I have to thank the people who encouraged us throughout the competition, the ones who ran with us and laughed with us and cried with us.

Especially our team B who ended up watching the entire competition. For helping with the briefs so dedicatedly even though you guys weren't the ones debating. You guys asked me what I was thanking you for, some of the briefs weren't even used. I was not thanking you for the paper you put into my hands but rather you guys who were there helping every step of the way. It really meant more to me than I can show and it's your turn next year ; )

This sums up everything we will never say.

McDougalls. Now and Always.

Sam feels lost in school, like she's not where she's supposed to be.

Take Two

2009-04-19T23:35:00.004+08:00

*Pops Bubble*

Lesson learnt.

There are so many nice people around.

Yes I trust you =)

It's time for me to sleep.

Sleep.

The exit might not be the same. But I'm bending over backwards to make sure it's one with lots of mental balloons and streamers around.

Happy photo. With physical contact *gasp*

Anybody who says my sister looks like me will have to chia me apple pie.

Hopefully 1 will become 2.

And that I end up having to write a letter.

The Harry Potter trailer has left me salivating!

Sorry Kev, I haven't been around much have I?

After two weeks.

It's gonna be the four days we've been talking about since last year!

Fun remember? Fun!

[Sorry Felicia, I haven't taken any photos of you yet!]

Sam is going to close her eyes and dream.

2004

2009-04-14T23:18:00.003+08:00

In that hall. On that wall.

You ripped it down.

And screamed.

I remember.

I screamed back.

But it all came together in the end.

I need that braiding again.

Across the Universe

2009-04-09T16:43:00.005+08:00

I seem to watch the best movies on the computer.

And I really loved this one I don't know why it took 2 years to reach me!!!

Across the Universe was given to me by Vivian in her pendrive at Pizza Junction on Monday. How to describe the movie....

Mamma Mia minus stupid corny scenes, a HOTTER cast, the main actor with a Hot British accent and 2 hours of stunning visuals.

I regret not being as exposed to the Beatles as much as ABBA because I was half-singing along with the song and for the song I didn't know, I had the lyrics open up in my browser XD I love musicals, is it obvious?

Jim Sturgess [Sounds like Tom Sturridge rightrightright!!!] is too damn hot. Sigh. Yet another one of my fangirl moments where I'm immediately bought over by an amazing character.

Seeseeeseeeeee!!!!

He looks a bit like James Blunt. The opening of the movie reminded me of the MV for "You're Beautiful" and I thought the main actor was James Blunt. Which scared me, a little bit.

This is James Blunt. Not Jim Sturgess. Damn I keep typing Sturridge.

Jim can sing too!!! Damn, everybody in the movie can sing! Evan Rachel Woods not so much but she was incredibly pretty in the movie so I suppose she's an exception. Substitute her voice with Carly Smithsons [AI Season 8] and TA-DAA perfect movie!

Oh-well.

It's a romance movie, played over a year or two when America was at war with Vietnam. The movie is chock full of Beatles and American references so there's a high chance of catching no ball when watching it. But you don't need to know the significance of "she came in through the bathroom window" to enjoy the movie really.

Watch it if you can. Now, one last photo of Jim.

*Ahh*

It's not everyday Sam enjoys a movie this much =)

[A backlog of photos to go through now sigh!]

Anything

2009-04-04T01:26:00.003+08:00

...that can go wrong, will go wrong.

-Murphys Law.

Note: Random photos from MFFF. Because you like photos.

Today, in add math, I was blankly staring at Mdm. Chai as she gave three examples of a differentiation to explain ONE integration.

I opened my notebook and flipped through the decorated pages all the way until the back. Throughout the entire year, our class timetable been replaced three times and I had already torn up at least 5 timetable cards.

There was one blank timetable card. One of those pretty ones that you get when you buy CP products at the beginning of the year. It was my last one. The last three were already decomposing somewhere else in Kuching. I had been saving it for a month.

I turned to Alicia and said "we haven't changed our timetable lately hor? I'm going to write on this one now." She shrugged and her attention drifted back to the blackboard.

I took out my coloured G-Tecs one by one. Every single colour would be used as usual to differentiate between general subjects. Green for languages, red for sciences, light blue for math subjects, dark blue for the rest, purple for extra classes....

By the end of Mdm. Chai's explanation, I had capped my pens and placed the timetable at the back of my notebook where it was easily accessible. My add math textbook was wide open on the table and I was going back into study mode.

Knock. Knock. Ustazah Sa'adiah suddenly appeared at our door holding sheets of paper.

"Jadual Kelas Baru".

Alicia turned to me with a half-amused half-horrified expression on her face as I started shredding.

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I passed my Table test!!! So did Erna!!!

49/50. Stupid question in Section C took away a perfect score.

But...

YAYY! One step closer to driving Muahahahaha!

Sam is going back to brain-racking now.

Blank

2009-03-30T13:59:00.003+08:00

Several factors to why I haven't been able to update.

1. Lots of birthday related things.
2. MFFF.
3. Queen's surprise visit.
4. Dance and bruises.

But most of all, Laptop adaptor died T.T

Did I mention I have a serious gripe with things that do not work?
*BANGBANGBANG*

Now that Swinburne WSDC motions have been released, I don't see myself a very happy, carefree Sam either in the coming weeks.

But now, more important than Anything else at the moment, I have to say

CONGRATULATIONS SEBASTIAN LIM BAO JIU!!!
PSF Champion 2009!!!
[Even though you're probably stuck in NS and unable to read this]

Go to London and make PSF proud! =)
[And find out if the guy really exists!]

I think PSF stands for too many things now. Public Speaking Finals...Public Speaking Federation...Eitherways, you guys know that I mean.

Sam'll be back =D

21st March

2009-03-22T16:35:00.007+08:00

SEXAYYYY SEVENTEEN.
[I just needed to say that.]

I don't really understand how I suddenly find myself staring in the mirror and realizing, Oh. I'm seventeen.
I thought I was thirteen, or fourteen, or fifteen, wait, sixteen...No! Now I'm seventeen! Once more with enthusiasm.
SEVENTEEEN!!!!

It's not exactly the age where you dread celebrations, it's exactly the age where you revel in them. But this year, everything was pretty low-key. I had celebrated with most of the parliament before exams already so my actual birthday was devoted to family, which actually, was really fun.

And when I say family, I mean family. From my parents and sister to cousins from Sg to my grandfather to my GREAT grandfather and grandmother.

I woke up groggily, early Saturday morning having slept "early" as well. Pulled on a random pair of jeans and then got into the car with my parents. My phone was retarded the night before because I got it wet due to err... certain circumstances. There were many messages but I couldn't really read them without my phone applications bouncing all over the place.

In the morning, I managed to reply most of the messages except for those from overseas because SORRY I got no birthday bonus. Number is under my dad, so I'll...sms you guys in August? =P

The reason I had to wake up early was because I was paying a visit to my great-grandparents. Mmmhmm, my cousins and uncle and aunt were back for the same reason, Ching Ming.
We reached the Teochew cemetery in Batu Kitang while the sun was rising. If it wasn't for my uneasyness at taking pictures in graveyards, I would have gone trigger happy.

It was beautiful. To watch the sun rise over the small hill, the colourful sky over the tombstones that were laid out symmetrically. Ashes flying above, silhouettes of family against the sun.

When I got back home, my mum asked me to follow her to the market to get things we needed for the night. I bought two dramas of which one, 青春舞台 I watched in the afternoon. AHHHH, sexy Chinese with the "qiao she" tone. Heh... yes, I am 1 yr older and non the more mature.

Midway through my afternoon nap, my sister barged in my room and set my heart racing when she woke me with a jolt.
"Nah, Che. For you."
Mmm, it's become a yearly tradition eh? *Smiles* Thank you very very much Tzelun.

The rest of the afternoon was spent online chatting with people who kept asking me how come I wasn't out celebrating. Low-key people! Low-keyyyyy. Then my mums side of the family came over for dinner and my cousins brought Hazel. Who started biting when we didn't play with her.

It's my birthday and I got presents. Is it just me or does the amount decrease every year? But one thing to be said about my presents this year, I love each and every one.
My family seems to know me and my tastes better than ever =P

My dad in particular decided to lead me on a trail of clues. He and my sister conspired against me!!! They spent practically half an hour upstairs with my "present".

When they came downstairs, they handed me a red velvet box. A red velvet Rolex box. I thought I was getting a watch. I opened the watch to find a fat bulging angpow. I opened the angpow and took out two keys, I THOUGHT I WAS GETTING A CAR T.T.

My sister asked me to read the angpow properly, and it said "Ha.Ha. Look below".

I looked into the bottom of the box and found 17 notes. Not exactly a car but hey! My dad obviously knows me well =)

So now I want to thank you and you and you and you and ALL of you for wishing me a Happy Birthday. Which it was. Happy. Very!
Thank youuuuuu Kim, Jeryl, Andrew, Barbara, Queen, Chin, Jenevy, Cerise [HAPPY SEXY SEVENTEEN TO YOU TOO BOOBIE], Daniel, Wen Qi, Licia, Athena, Ben, Erna, Azra, Kenny, Jean, Hardin, Kelvin.C, Aldrin, Angelina, Aunty Caroline [Sorry, just have to add in the aunty XD ], Amanda, Julie, Elsie, the Beh family, Bibil, Yan, Steffi, Mag, Lina, Syaz, Angel, Cindy, Mavis and Rachel!!!! for making me smile everytime my phone rang with a message.

And to those who called me. Starting with NICKKI. Thank you for using all your credit up to call from Singapore =) KC, Sean and Tzelun.

Eric, Hansley, Josh, Jonathan.C [You are NOT my ex-classmate youuu], Amy, Kev, Alex, Zacq and everybody else who wished me on MSN. [My memory fails me I am older by a year!] Teresa, Amanda, and ERNIE [Your turn soon] too.
AMY! Darling Vivian [Sorry I couldn't go out with you], Jonathan.T and Kath [OOH new Camera!] who blogged XD

And the facebook people who ~~were reminded by facebook and~~ wished me as well =/ I'm staring at my page right now and deciding if I should thank you all individually.
*Deep breath*
Thank you thank you Mr Kong, Tracy, Tabby, Hansley, Keith, Yolande, Alvin, Christopher, Michelle, Queen, Kevin.T, Ferbest, Pamela, Alex, Rachel, Patricia, Marilyn, Jenny [Sexy March Babe!!!], Jasper, N, Chin, Patricia, Grace, Aricka, Benjamin, Asti, Shawnne, Chara, Cerise and Lyndia BOOBS!!!

I really hope I didn't leave anybody out =/ If your name isn't in there, chalk it up to me getting old and THANK YOU anyway.
*感动* lor.

春玨终于能驾车了!!!

What!? No!

2009-03-19T21:16:00.002+08:00

HOW COULD THEY VOTE OFF ALEXIS OVER SCOTT?

How! How!!!!!!!!!!

I am upset that the judges didn't save her as well. Randy couldn't even remember her name!

Seriously? Over Sarver?
I am annoyed with the over-sympathizing.

*Bangs Thumb in frustration*

I can only bang my thumb now because I've got a pebble sized bruise on my lower back on top of my spine. Thanks to 4 hours of dance class.

Did anybody catch the documentary on Al-Jazeera? On the corruption of Sarawak?
I need to type out this quote, because it shows just how CHEEM our level of English is.

Interviewer: So are you a Cronie of the Chief Minister?
James: Yes I am. Cronie means friend. I am his friend.

Sam is your cronie.