And yes, it's true that I'm now Freaky Fifteen (: Haha wow. Life moves soooo fast. Last time I woke up, I was like. Five. But this year's birthday was pretty full of awesomeness <3

Haha so it all started with the insurance agent cake on Friday. Then I met Germanium at NLB at 10.30pm that night because we were really nice and decided to go join Jor at his reading marathon thing. Haha I think I'll just start koping excerpts from their posts (: But Germ's blog doesn't show her older posts ): Oh man.

"after that went to NLB where two AWESOME FRIENDS were there haha jazzy and gerMEANIE hahaha x) they were like there to support me haha cool right? EVERYONE ALL JEALOUS SIOL XD" 

HAHA yes we're totallaye awesome right.

So me and Germ spent the night (or morning) MARATHON STONING! Like walking to 7 eleven and getting nothing, talking rubbish, trying hard to concentrate on Math and Chinese but failing miserably. Not to mention Germ was a little drunk for a while there. 

Ahh so that ended at about 7.30 am and the three of us stumbled our way to Bugis Junction again. Took a trip to the mrt station then turned back and went to Starbucks! At this point Germ got high and started laughing at EVERYTHING me and Jor said. HAHA and I suggested we go ask the caucasian people at Starbucks for the way back to VEGAS! Too bad they left before one of us could do that. Jor and Germ were calling Rachel for some Urgent Matter.

Then somehow we ended up in Cathay but everything was still closed! Including the escalator. So we stoned around the escalator for a while 

"than jazzy go crazy and threw her purse around xD until e security guard scold us :P"

Not really like SCOLD us, more like GAVE US THE LOOK. Oh yes and it was a hp pouch.

Then we stoned around the empty fountain "waiting for Ben & Jerry's to open" and I got pretty restless and went hopping around the basement/trying to do double pirouettes and failing (duh)/doing lit/watching my friends morph into daylight zombies/wondering what on earth was actually going on and why Germ seemed to know something I DIDN'T!

Haha then we took the lift to the cinema and by that point, all of us were completely drained and zombified. Me and Germ flopped down on a couch and the TI people JUMPED UP BEHIND US and Germ screamed like super loud! HAHA and she knew they were there! I was kind of. Stunned. Because my brain wasn't really functioning I guess haha so I didn't scream until after I put 2 and 2 together and realised what was going on. AWESOME RIGHT (: (: Watched Duplicity which was pretty sick and spent half to movie laughing at everyone screaming at Rachel whenever sick parts came up. HAHA IT'S OKAY RACHEL THAT WAS FUNNY (:

Then Jor treated me and Germ to B&Js as promised (: (: (: Gosh B&Js is so super duper sweet but also super duper awesome! Everyone ended up in PS and had an escalator picnic like the hobos we were. HAHA had a brief episode of supermarket searching with Germ then my zombie friends had to go home ): After that Huiqun, Sarah, Rachel and I hid in Marks and Spencers from the guys. Poor things haha! Then I had a present presentation ceremony in the middle of PS haha thanks guys! AND SARAH... X) But I was kinda glad to go home soon after that because staying awake for 33 hours straight is seriously no joke. 

TAIWAN IMMERSION KIDS AND GERMAINIUM ARE AWESOME (: (: Really really didn't suspect a thing! Haha special thanks to Jor and Germ for putting up with my rubbish for 33 hours!

THEN THE NEXT DAY JOR SMSED ME HAPPY BIRTHDAY. HAHAHA IT WASN'T MY BIRTHDAY FOR ANOTHER 2 DAYS X) 

Birthday yesterday was awesome I don't remember there having been so many birthday wishes for all my other past birthdays thanks guys you're awesomenesssss! VERNA is soooo sweet I tell you awwww loved your gift and card thanks! And and YUFEI MANDY ZIEN GERMAINE chipped in for a gift too thanks! And my fabulous darling 105 and CLASSICS!!!!!!! Haha that was CLASSIC, Nisha and Jo-Ann luring me downstairs to "meet yimin" and Minchih "losing her wallet"! YES I'm using the awesome wallet you guys gave me love you all you're the coolest sec one class this year I insist (: And my darling deskmate Parisa giving me a note telling me that I can feel free to tell her to "SHUT THE **** UP" whenever she asks too many Maths questions haha Parisa I think I ask more questions than you lah!

Then Leko came over and we had classic birthday camwhoring and cake (:

And and yesterday having yet another semi-philosophical completely-random convo, I came up with the solution to all rhetorical emo questions: the only way to stop asking yourself rhetorical emo questions is to MAKE an answer. And -POOF- there you have it (:

Now I will attempt to answer your emo queries HAHA:

Q. What am I doing here? (variations include Why am still in this world, What is the point in me being alive etc. etc.)
A. Answer it yourself. DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE. Are you here to help people, to sing to dance to live life, to learn and pass on this knowledge? DON'T WAIT FOR THE ANSWER TO FALL FROM THE ACORN-SATURATED SKY. (Quote from The Suite Life: You are the pilot of your own life!)

Q. If I'm gone, will anybody even care? (variations include Nobody will care if I'm dead, so why shouldn't I be, Why am I here taking up precious space I should just be gone etc.etc.)
A. This one is trickier. But so far the best answer I've come up with is that You Wouldn't Know. I mean seriously, you wouldn't know unless you faked your death or something. So instead of pondering this one over, a better use of your time would be to go out there, and make someone happy. You'll be glad you did, and you'll understand why this question is simply unanswerable. To make your life worth something to others, you have to show others their lives are worth something to YOU(: Make someone else feel valuable, instead of worrying over the value of your life.

Yeah so you get what I mean.
Instead of asking yourself all these questions, ANSWER them yourself! It's your life, anyways (:




So now I'm sitting at the dining table with my parents and an insurance agent who just bought me a birthday cake HAHA cool right!

Okay I guess I should get to work now.

And the sad thing is that people who are crazy don't know they are crazy or maybe they're not really crazy just that everyone else thinks they are crazy but they don't know it. And that maybe it's the people who think other people are crazy who are really the crazy ones and that the people they call crazy are really the non crazy ones and blah blah blah

I don't wanna be fifteen. I don't want to remember the date. I don't want anyone to remember. But maybe I'm just like that today and I'd change my mind tomorrow.

Germaine and Jor want to crash my house next week (: (: (: Germaine's still in quarantine oh well poor kid.

Doing open house feedback forms. Because I know if I get it done I'll be super happy and it'll totallaye make my day. (Is it day if it's 3 in the morning?)

Anyways I'm proud of myself for having gotten back into running after being such a slacker for goodness like 4 months (tsktsk) PLUS I found a better route that takes me to that 3M building that's supposed to be on the road to Woodlands. And the path isn't as ugly and big and bare as the one at the hardcourt where we used to rollerblade. Only thing is that I was worried I might get bitten by killer mosquitoes but ta-dah guess what, I came back bite-free :) So while the rest of Sembawang is either running at the very boring hardcourt path or getting carbon monoxide-ed running round the blocks, I'll be the smart kid running the longer-but-cooler route to the awesome 3M building so HAH!

What reeks is that I still have to go through the hardcourt path on the way back because it's actually also part of the route if you wanna complete a circle.

I wonder how long I can keep this run-almost-every-evening thing up. Until I get H1N1 or something, I guess. THE SPANISH FLU IS A STRAIN OF H1N1 :O Yeah and there are 454 cases now and we're all looking forward to many more in the coming term how lame is that. Mortality is super duper low at least. But still.

MSN is a powerful thing:

Thanks Ben for the feedback form tips and EMPATHY :)

And thanks Claw for your jiayous. We really must get that Claudia pizza for your before we graduate!

And thanks Fang for motivating me to start chem :D :D

And thanks Jor for amusing me while I'm up doing work when people should be sleeping!

Ahhh Michael Jackson is gone Michael Jackson is gone. So surreal it's like how you know an earthquake happened in Sumatra but just sit home and watch the news and stuff and go Oh, Okay.

Uhh I don't know what to think of this. But at the same time it's like Anna Nicole Smith dying in 2007. Like Oh, Okay.

But somewhere right now someone dies silently, and nobody even bothers thinking of that person. I guess fame makes people you don't know feel like they know you, and they miss you when you're gone.

Still, to those that the world misses terribly, and to those the world doesn't miss, goodbye.

AHHH WHAT DID I JUST POST. I don't want to live in a HIV community! And I don't think anyone deserves to live in a HIV community! Get that straight. It's like staring in wonderment at WWII if you get where I'm coming from.

Aww man I'm confusing myself again. Over a movie I have not watched.

"This is Calcutta. Bohemia is dead."
"The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation!"

You wanna play?
Let's run away
We wont be back
Before it's Christmas Day
Take me out tonight

Ahh i'm like ADDICTED to Out Tonight from RENT! It's so ironic this no lifer in the Practically Perfect land of Singapore is so fascinated with bohemia and everything associated with it. But you know, maybe it's these broke drugged artistes that are more human than anything else. Uhh okay maybe I'm just sick of everyone being too fortunate for their own good.

Oh wow look at the time.

How do you compose Bhangra music with GarageBand it is infuriating how they only have western instruments here. Uh but then again how often does the need for original Bhangra music arise?

HEEHEE GERMAINE WE SHOULD RENT RENT RIGHT? Haha :) Uhh but I think it's NC-16 I saw a copy in Sun Plaza some time ago I think. Haha would my mom rent RENT for me? It's PG-13 in the US :( But I can get the soundtrack I guess. Mom couldn't find it in Vietnam aww.\

But that's probably a good thing because I change tastes all the time so getting the soundtrack won't satisfy me for more than uhm 1-2 years? The other day I was listening to my iPod and I skipped 50% of the songs because they were lame like The Corrs and Kelly Clarkson both of whom I've gotten sick of long ago but didn't have the heart to delete from my playlist hah.

Haha on the other hand, I've been listening to RENT songs faithfully on Youtube for two days now while doing other stuff.

RENT is rock opera genius awesome songs (: (: (: Too bad it's NC16/M18 I don't know and plus it's not really what people call blockbuster cinema. I don't remember the movie making it to Singapore in 2005 even. Even though I remember something about Karen Mok doing Mimi for the musical asian tour and they came to Singapore some years back.

Ughh GarageBand is weird to the max but no choice cause we're not allowed to use copyrighted music and I don't think we can compose Bhangra music on the piano now, can we?

Ahhh I feel evil today I feel evil today I feel evil today I feel evil today

GUESS WHAT. THE "DEAD FISH" ISN'T REALLY DEAD. IT'S BEEN STRUGGLING FOR A WEEK NOW GO FISH GO DO OTHER FISHES PROUD! 

Wow how do you survive without food. In any case, I'm mighty glad it's not dead and the other fish isn't eating it.

You know it's the 21st century when people have virtual catfights:

Jordan---sms me if u wanna talk to me (: says: (9:23:03 PM)

hehe

the real jasmine says: (9:23:09 PM)

what's sho funny huhh

Jordan---sms me if u wanna talk to me (: says: (9:23:12 PM)

haha

the real jasmine says: (9:23:14 PM)

wanna fight?

Jordan---sms me if u wanna talk to me (: says: (9:23:18 PM)

nothing =D

Jordan---sms me if u wanna talk to me (: says: (9:23:22 PM)

bim fight!

Jordan---sms me if u wanna talk to me (: says: (9:23:27 PM)

*slap*

the real jasmine says: (9:23:33 PM)

*claw*

the real jasmine says: (9:23:36 PM)

RARR

Haha yeah even the glory of catfights is replaced by verbs sandwiched in between apostrophes.

:(
It's so painful watching an animal die.
There are two angelfish in the fish tank now. But one is dead. So I got the net and tried to fish it out so I could flush it away but arghhh I couldn't stand it so now it's still lying there like the dead fish in NTUC. Except I'm not afraid of going near NTUC fish because they weren't from my fish tank.
Rarr okay I guess I have to bring myself to do it somehow if not the other fish will eat the corpse and it'll get even harder to go near the fish tank. :( :(
I think it's more SIGHHH than EWWW. Aww but fishy had a good life. It had a long life too :D
R.I.P. fishy hope you find a nice longkang or river in heaven where you can swim around again. Sorry for daoing you a lot. Have a nice afterlife with your fishy friends.

Homg it's like birdy. Poor birdy you were recovering so well and then you just died.

birth. day.

I
don't want
my birthday to
be a big deal anymore.
Because growing old
is just
sad.

But
last year
my birthday was
right before gym comp
and my bestest XJT mates
gave me a surprise
and I thank
them for
that.

But
this year
I think I'm
way too tired to
even think of
celebrating
my

Birthday.




HAHA I'M A GREAT CONCRETE POET. Whuteverr.

But seriously, birthdays are fun and stuff yeah, but you reach a point (or age lah for that matter) where you're too busy to remember it.
And I came close to that last year. I almost forgot. Hahahaha until I looked at the calender and I was like HUH TOMORROW'S MY BIRTHDAY. That was very sad wasn't it. Hahaha but sho funny.
Eh but I can't believe people can actually remember! Like I remember that Su Yun gave me a pretty note and a Toblerone and I remember because I thanked her at training (we were sharing the hall that day cause of COMP). HAHAHA.
IF YOU REMEMBER MY BIRTHDAY, YOU SERIOUSLY ROCK. :D

I don't feel like my birthday's coming in a month because
a) still feeling extremely extremely cheated over the holidays
b) already got my present last last month or something :D :D :D
c) because Munaya remembers it. and I don't. so. doesn't feel right, right.

I feel like I don't have a birthday. Maybe I'm just tired lahh today so a bit incoherent and I realise I say lah a lot nowadays and I don't really care because lah or lahh or lahhh is true Singaporean languange lah so yay me!

And what really stinks is that the less you sleep, and the less your eat, the slower your body metabolizes fats. Or something like that.

HAHA OMG DONG IS FREAKY

About 15 minutes ago she called and the conversation went like this:

Me: Hello?
Dong: HEEHEEHEE (high pitched giggling)
Me: HELLO? HELLO?
Dong: hello-HEEHEEHEEHAHAHA (high pitched giggling)
Me: OMG OMG STOP IT STOP IT AHHHHHH!!!!
Dong: (to mom behind her)She's screaming! (MORE high pitched giggling)

At this point I was half convinced it was just Dong and half convinced there was something freaky on the other end.

Me: (screams for Leko) (screams some more) STOP IT STOP IT SERIOUSLY I'M FREAKING OUT STOP IT!
Dong: (giggling fades away) Um mama wants you to turn off the soup gas.
Me: STOPPIT STOPPIT DON'T DO THAT EVER AGAIN SERIOUSLY YOU FREAKED ME OUT!

And Leko was there going: Haha what? What?

Dong should be a voice-over in a psycho movie like The Machinist. Or Harper's Island. SERIOUSLY (:

Did you know it takes less than an hour to get from my house to Harbourfront?

PHYSICSISSTILLLOVE

1. Put your music on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
It's Hairspray - James Marsden
Yeah, I'll try that sometime.

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
想飞 - 任賢齊
I like flying only when it's bumpy.

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Sexy, Naughty Bitchy - Tata Young
Right.

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Addicted - Enrique Iglesias
Hmmm.

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now - Ricki Lake, Marissa Jaret Winokur & Nikki Blonsky
To grow up? Last thing on my mind.

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Run and Tell That - Elijah Kelley
They think I'm a messenger or live telegram?

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
No One - Dave Days
That's sad.

WHAT IS 2+2?
Till Kingdom Come - Coldplay

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Me and Mr Jones - Amy Winehouse
So my best friend is Mr Jones...

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Even If - The Corrs
What person I like?

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Some Unholy War - Amy Winehouse
WHOA!

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
(There's Gotta Be) More To Life - Stacie Orrico
So I'm gonna grow up and lead an unfulfilled life.

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Fields Of Gold - Sting
I don't like this song. It's very old and very boring.

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Start Of Something New - High School Musical
Nice :D

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Wake Up Alone - Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse songs have such sad titles.

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Step In The Name Of Love - R. Kelly
Haha, dancing?

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
I Don't Want To Talk About It - Everything But The Girl
YEAH. I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
好时代 - 任賢齊
Umm, that's nice. But I've never actually heard that song. It's just rotting in my ITunes.

WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
You Know I'm No Good - Amy Winehouse
So lots of bad things are gonna happen because I'm No Good. Or I'll turn into a gangster one day.

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Big, Blond and Beautiful - Queen Latifah
Big, Blonde and Beautiful people do not make me cry!

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
The New Girl In Town - Brittany Snow
Now that's just weird. And mean.

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Walking Away - Craig David
Gosh, yes.

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Fear - 周華健
I don't want to die afraid! D:

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
It Takes Two - Zac Efron
That's a nice song. Especially for this question.

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
We're All In This Together (Graduation mix) - High School Musical Cast
Who doesn't want their kids to GRADUATE? I don't understand the We're All In This Together part though.

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Sorry Anyway - Tata Young
It's like Sorry, but NO.

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
You Found Me - Kelly Clarkson
I don't want people to find me?

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
True - Ryan Canberra

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY, WHEN YOU MEET YOUR BOSS?
Just Friends - Amy Winehouse
Yeah, let's just be friends, boss.

Ooh wow I sound like a dorkus ultimatum talking about equations like that.

An Abundance Of Katherines is cool. Books with extremely smart people as protagonists (like in The Curious Incident Of The Dog In Night Time) are generally cool. Okay I take that back. Bindy Mackenzie was the first fictional character I wanted to murder. Haha ironic right, then in the end it turns out someone was plotting her murder all along and at that point she's become less annoying and you think "ohhh noooo run Bindy run!".

Anyways, An Abundance Of Katherines is cool. It's such a quotable book. John Green is brilliant. And Colin is brilliant. Anyone who draws graphs to predict relationships is brilliant right?

"Monotony doesn't make for painlessness. In the first century CE Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting"

It seems cheem but it's actually very easy to read. It makes math fun. There, I said it. The maths part you can pretty much skip lah if you don't care to know the Theorem but I read it all and if you can't understand math theorems like me there's an appendix at the back.

IT'S over!!!

I feel sooooo relieved okay now finally I can get some sleep and clear my inbox of the hundreds of messages. Yeah I'm super OCD about my inbox it was the first thing that came to my mind.

SARAH SMRITHI WEITING YAY THANK YOU FOR BEING SOOO HARDWORKING AND SORRY I NEVER SEND IN DOCUMENTS ON TIME. ANYWAYS WE DID WELL DIDN'T WE?

Anyways, the deployeeeees (haha) were the awesomest people ever okay.
Hear that?

Yeappp RGS girls are seriously so helpful I don't know what I could've done without them man. And it was like we were SEARCHING for problems sometimes, but everyone was too free (because of Nanyang OH?). Oh but sometimes people just SWARMED in and everything/one went kinda nuts. (Like after Nanyang OH ended.)

Yeah and the number one questions parents ask:
Are the classrooms air conditioned?

RARRR. Whatever happened to eco-friendliness? Hahahaha. Yeah but sure, nobody can resist air con right.

Heehee and I mistook this girl's bro as her DAD. SO EMBARRASSING. But they thought it was quite funny and they were nice people so thank goodness. Oh and their older sis was Hadley captain 1996 how cool is that eh? They wanted to end the tour at the notice board so they could find her name.

Having PSB/PB juniors is awesomeee. Now I know why Violet liked talking to us smaller people haha! After everything was over and we were slacking in the Dry Lab Wanyi and Louisa tried to guess my CCA. Goodness gracious they don't know my CCA and I've known theirs since? Well they got gym right because they said I LOOKED like a gym person. But they kept guessing squash probably because the poster spams by squash penetrated their subconsciousness or something like that lah.

And the PITs are such funny people! I hope I didn't scare them too much because I'm not always this drunk!!! I think OH drove me a bit weird and alcohol fermentation occured resulting in the sugar in my blood turning into alcohol or something which resulted in me screaming RARRR at people randomly and singing Anything You Can Do which is a very very catchy song by the way.

(Starts screaming like the bimbo I am not)

Seriously, I don't know how one IHG can mean so much to me. :D

STEPH SIOW! CHENG LYNN! DO YOU HEAR ME? YOU GUYS BETTER NOT PANGSEH/PON OKAY? (Just kidding, I know you all won't!) HAHA. WE CAN DANCE WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER AGAIN IF YOU WANT.

But this year we're gonna be up against all those pro sec fours tooo! Maybe we'll just cheer to death and hope everything turns out alright? Wheee yay this is gonna be fun :) Just like in sec one and two!

And and the date's real appropriate too (hint hint).

On a different note, I'd like to declare that my hot and cool friend Germaine Teo is the bravest little girl everrr. Because she tries her best. And because she'd rather eat ice cream like Ms Choo said than commit suicide. (Right?)

(Cheesiness ahead) You go girl! <3

Hello world

I'm up late again for the millionth night in a row! Not that I'm proud of it. But at least I'm not trying to keep awake by eating chili or Tabasco sauce or something like that.

Happy birthday uncle chin chow! You're a good host and so is your mom.
Vera's right. We've sorta split into RGS sec 3, RGS sec 4, and RI sec 3. But it's okay, everyone's still weird as ever!

Yay I really missed our gatherings and stuff. It's nice to have a bunch of people who don't fit into any social category (like CCA, clas etc.) but are still good friends. And I've realised that some people are so SLOW at getting jokes. I tried using the classic Joey Tam one:

Me: (slaps Rachel's shoulder) don't you hate it when you pee on your hand?
Rachel: Huh...

Me: (slaps Lin's shoulder) don't you hate it when you pee on your hand?
Lin Wen: Yeah...

Me: (slaps Ryan's shoulder) don't you hate it when you pee on your hand?
Ryan: (blank face)

At this point, Jordan and Marcus start laughing like hyenas (in a guy sort of way) so they obviously got it.

Me: Let me show you the APPROAPRIATE reaction.
(attempts to slap Jordan's shoulder) Hey don't you-
Jordan: (ducks prompty)

Like I said, SLOWWW

Yeah then a bunch of us stayed back to watch the Machinist, which is truly a psycho film for psycho people. We looked away at the -ahem- inapproapriate bits, of course. Well, most of us. Heehee and Marcus thought the Ivan guy was hotter than Brad Pitt. (Who isn't really hot anyways.) And Ben says Megan Fox is actually a guy.

NO SHE IS NOT. YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS hahaha!

Okay we'll end with a
Thank you Vera's dad for sending me and Terry to Bishan :D

WHO IS THE GENIUS WHO WROTE THE SS ESSAY?

I can't believe I just logged into Blogger to write that, but the essay is really. Really. REALLY.

Good.

http://www.abc6.com/news/41131932.html

I NEED TO GET OUT AND TORTURE MYSELF UNTIL I CRY (or come close to that at least).

You know in sec one, training was like NS (according to Christine). Hmm I can't say that considering I don't know how NS is like. But it was like almost every single training, before we start I'd be thinking I can't do this. DIE. DIE. DOOMTIME. even if I didn't say it out loud.

But now I feel kinda weird. Like I need to be tortured. Like I WANT TO DIE TRAINING. And on the gray tombstone they'd engrave:
Here Lies Jasmine. Who died when her lungs burst while she was skipping/running. Rest In Peace.

I sound like a sadist. Sorry.

I think I'm just restless. Really restless. And feeling pathetic about not running for SOOOO long.

And I think IHG Bronze is now just some weird fantasy.

SYF IS OVER but that hasn't really sunk in yet.
Shall not say what WASN'T supposed to happen just in case an SYF judge finds this and we're dead meat.
Heehee but I'm glad we pulled it off despite having only practised about 5 weeks.

Went for training on Tuesday. I didn't train, just commentated/helped Carrissa pull her leg up/watched.
I THINK THEY WILL DO WELL!
I was really nice being back at Potong Pasir even though the new coach must've felt really confused or just annoyed cause she kept looking at me. Not like she was mad or anything, just curious.

I still love rhythmic gym a lot :D

Okay I have calmed down. I am a germ factory. Now where haven't we heard that before?

Ahha and I only told Celine Chong after she gave me a big hug! Not on purpose. Anyways I still went to school for rehearsal. It was pretty good and we sang I Want It That Way 234876 times with Sarah Actions. I bet we have permenantly established the reputation of LD girls as Noisy Singing Screaming Drama Freaks. But there are RATIONALES behind being crazy! It's called voice projection, people!

And it's fun, besides the fact. I'm wondering whether we can get booked for over-projecting our voices (i.e. screaming for the fun of it). Janne has a really boomingly loud voice!

I think so far, my favourite Idol contestant is still David Cook because he's a very talented arranger. Yay!

Love is in the air

Let your love take flight! Join thousands of couples in the first ever mass releasing of love balloons at Marina Barrage as they rededicate their love for each other. Come down now and be part of this symbolic gesture and experience the love that’s in the air.

I cannot BELIEVE THIS UTTER NONSENSE.
HOW CLEAN and GREEN can you GET?




9th March
To whoever it may concern,

I am a fifteen year old student who just happened to chance upon a Real Love Works advertisement in NTUC's Lifestyle magazine and I am writing to express my concerns on the Love Is In The Air activity to be held at the Marina Barrage.

Though I have no qualms about the intentions of the activity, I'd like you to consider the environmental impacts of it. First of all, there is no way of telling how far a balloon would travel before deflating and falling back onto the ground. These released balloons could land anywhere, including nature preserves or other areas where they would pose serious environmental threats. Latex balloons are especially harmful to wildlife as animals such as sea turtles could swallow these landed balloons.

I suggest that an alternative activity be planned in place of this. I'm sure there are other symbolic gestures that are just as meaningful without the negative environmental impact. I also understand that this may take extra effort and planning on the organizing committee's part, but it is important that environmental responsibility comes first on every action that we plan to execute. I sincerely hope my suggestions can be taken into serious consideration, as there should be no need to harm the environment in any way for the sake of promoting happy marriages.

Yours sincerely,
Jasmine Liu

24th March
To whoever it may concern,

Heard the couples had a great time. The animals are dead. Too bad.

Yours sincerely,
Jasmine Liu

Koped from Deenie's blog. Because I'm bored.

MY BOY SIDE
[x] you love hoodies (I know lots of girls who love hoodies. Okay, maybe it's just an RGS thing.)
[x] you love jeans
[ ] dogs are better than cats (EQUALITY!)
[ ] it's hilarious when people get hurt (Unless it's on Zack and Cody.)
[x] you've played with boys on a team (Duhhh. Primary school right.)
[ ] shopping is torture
[x] sad movies suck (Not exactly how I'd put it, but I like HAPPY movies in general. DISNEY!)
[ ] you own a XBOX (Never touched one. Sad life, huh?)
[x] you played with Hot Wheels as a little kid (HEYYYY. They're a unisex toy!)
[ ] at some point in your life you wanted to be a firefighter
[x] you own a DS PS2 or SEGA (Not currently. But I used to steal my uncles' haha:D)
[x] you used to be obsessed with Power Rangers (Hmm do they even have it on TV any more?)
[x] you watch sports on TV (Eh, the Olympics?)
[ ] gory movies are cool (Not reallyy.)
[x] sometimes you go to your dad for advice (Yeah like "Daddy, how do I write this word?")
[ ] you own like a trillion baseball hats
[x] you used to/do collect pokemon (POKEMON!!!)
[x] baggy sweat pants are nice to wear (To sleep, yes.)
[ ] its kind of weird to have sleepovers with a bunch of people (But Tay Zhi Yuan does that!)
[x] green, black, red, blue or silver are one of your favourite colours (Right. And those are guy-ish because?)
[x] sports are fun (Yup yup they are!)
[ ] you sometimes talk with food in your mouth
[ ] you sleep at night with your socks on
[ ] you have fished at least once

TOTAL= 13

13 X 4 = 52(unreliable)percent

MY GIRL SIDE
[x] you like to shop (Sometimes. And especially if I have something to drink.)
[ ] you wear eyeliner (Eyeliner HURTS!)
[x] you wear the color pink (And so does Terry...)

[x] sometimes you go to your mum for advice (Like, "Hey Mom can I join __?" HAHA)

[ ] you consider cheerleading a sport

[ ] you hate wearing all black (HEY c'mon, we wore black leotards and jazz pants for gym concert, does that make us un-girly?)

[x] you like going to the mall

[ ] you like getting manicures and/or pedicures

[ ] you like wearing jewelery (I don't really bother.)

[ ] you cried watching The Notebook (Never watched it :)

[x] skirts are a big part of your wardrobe (But just cause ANNETTE LIU dumps all the skirts she can't wear and I can almost wear on me!)

[ ] shopping is one of your favourite hobbies

[ ] you've seen Star Wars and don''t like some of it (I haven't seen Star Wars but I don't think I wouldn't like it.)

[x] you do/did gymnastics (YEAHHHHHH. Hey wait, don't straight guys do gym too?)

[ ] it takes you around one hour to shower and get dressed

[ ] you smile a lot more than you should (Well, when I went to Taiwan Li Laoshi told me to smile more.)

[ ] you have more than 10 pairs of shoes

[ ] you care about what you look like majority of the time (If I can't see me, I don't care that much.)

[x] you like wearing dresses whenever you can (I own ONE dress. But I like dresses, they're pretty and stuffs.)

[x] you like dancing/do dancing (YEAHHHH. But don't guys dance too? Horrible sexist quiz.)

[ ] you like high heel shoes (They generally LOOK cool but I never wear them.)

[x] you used to play with dolls as a kid (Yeah, but I liked soft toys better.)

[ ] you like putting makeup on others

[x] you like being the star of almost everything (It's fun, but sometimes it's good to let others go!)

[x] pink is one of your favourite colours (I like lots of colours. Got a problem with that?)

11 X 4 = 44 (unreliable) percent

THIS QUIZ IS SEXIST. GUYS DANCE TOO OKAY? What about Maxim Beloserkovsky?

Dong is puking from sailing. Sea sickness.

I went to see the doctor today and he was really funny and stuff. But he said that I'm suffering from lack of sleep which explains my swollen gums. Ewww. So what we discussed at MGM last year was true! Dr Chan says if I don't sleep at 11pm, my liver will not get rest and I will become a toxic waste vat.

Then we talked a lot of other stuffs and he told us that the doctors of Singapore are getting squeezed for their services because of all that MediSave and stuff. So lawyers are getting the status and moolah now and people who love moolah should go become lawyers instead. Then he was like, "I've been a doctor for 33 years, you know!" so it was kind of shocking cause he looked 45 oldest and he couldn't possibly have been a doctor when he was 12. He is 61 this year!!!! Yeah so me and my mom were dead impressed that he looked super young for a 61 year old dude.

Maybe he sleeps at 10 every night or something.

In conclusion, RGS girls are going to grow up with sleepy livers and look 20 years older than their age.

Hi people

Neglected this thing for eons already. (Hmm, wonder why I keep using that same expression.) So yeah nothing's been happening, so there's absolutely nothing to blog about. Well I COULD blog about Founder's Day, but I'm still waiting for a Founder's Day video to appear on Youtube cause I couldn't see anything yesterday. But still, wasn't bad. The speeches were pretty good, didn't have any sleep-inducing side effects:)

Oh and I got to see the tall masked people on stage though, cause they were on platforms. But other than that, couldn't see anything. Too bad, maybe I'll get better seats next year!

Rarrr.

It's funny how I detest school when I'm at home, but find that my somewhat exaggerated hatred for school is gone. And when the day is over I feel like I survived and it was a piece of cake and I wonder why I was so scared in the first place.

HAHA SS LESSONS ROCK.

Yeah so anyways, Sparsh just adores her school so much she looks forward to going there every day. I mean, not that I DON'T like my school. I'm perfectly content and I think I have a real cool school. I mean I don't think I like it enough to actually be anxious about going. Maybe I just need sleep. Like now.

Oh yes and even though I've been in uniform since Kinderland, it struck me one morning in sec 2 how MECHANICAL we look trooping down to assembly in them. It's just like plain freaky, okay? And I was like WHOA, I had no idea assembly rush hour made us look like we were from The Island.

Wheeeee PSL session 4 next week!

Can't wait to do our TBC surprise! (Note: TBC= may not happen)

But I'm still sick. The sore throat evolved into cought which evolved into flu. Ick. I'm a germ factory.

Okay, dead blog. I know.

I'm sick again for the second time in a month. It must've been the CNY junk+crazy weather+not drinking enough water after runs. Oh yes, speaking of running, I really am out of shape. Which is why I'm into the new running-every-sunset craze thing. Haha and running is great! (See recent posts) It's really fun and even running slow is fun sometimes.

Sec ones, especially Zeng Yu, this is for you:

Life in rhythmic gym
Training 3 times a week at the very least. Mon, Wed at Potong Pasir. Sat at RI. CCAB on occasion. 3 hours per training. Can be up to 6 trainings at the right-before-comp month :O

Most trainings begin with mat unrolling. This is the part where everybody unrolls mats. And not those teeny blue ones, I mean like CARPETS.

If laoshi allows us to buy bubble tea, we send people to buy bubble tea. Yay! However, laoshi doesn't always allow us to buy bubble tea.

If laoshi lets us play ball games, we play. Yay! However, this only happens like, 5 times a year?

If there's a track where we're training, we'll run. Mostly about 4-5 rounds.

Sometimes, laoshi makes us skip continuosly for a few minutes. We'll do a few sets at a time. Or we'll do conditioning. Abs and back. We do more physical training after comp, I think. It's random luh. Some days you get it, some days you don't.

But a pretty normal training would go like this:
Changing, then unrolling mats (10 minutes)
Run around the mats 10 rounds. (5 minutes?)
Do splits and oversplits, backbends. (20 minutes)
Do kicks and jumps. (10 minutes)
Laoshi leaves you do practice on your own for the rest of the training. Nearer to comp, we take turns doing routine in front of laoshi, with the music.
Then we stop and do cool down splits and maybe light conditioning. (last 10 minutes)
Then we roll the heavy mats up, drink up, change, blah blah and then go home.

Most people compete, though I'm not sure how many new sec ones get to. There are group and indiv events, depending on your prowess and height. I was in group for 2 years cause Ting, Zhimin, Sarah, Claudia and I were about the same height in sec 1. (Now look at how tall Claw has become!) Yeah so I just continued that way in sec 2. Groups only have one (longer) routine to practise. Indivs have 3 (ball, rope, clubs) in C Div and the same routines in B Div + an extra ribbon routine. If you win anything in indiv, too bad, you can't do indiv anymore.

Overall verdict: Gym can get very frustrating sometimes, so be prepared to work really hard.
Laoshis will tell you you're fat sometimes! But gym is still a cool sport (more sport than dance) and it's a small CCA so your seniors aren't really very detached or anything. Plus, the feeling of relief and accomplishment after comp is like PRICELESS. Oh and it's a very happy CCA at gym camp and chalet, and even sometimes after trainings when everyone has post-training highs!

Oh and to clarify, rhythmic gym is NOT a performing art. It's a sport. Even though you may think it looks like dance from the Olympics and stuff, to me it's more of a sport than a form of dance. But a very pretty sport!

I feel like going for CCA trials just for fun, so I know what it's like being a no-CCA sec one again. HAHAHAHA:)

I LOVE 105 TO THE MAX LIKE TOTALLAYEEEE

AND I LOVE CLARISSE, JO-ANN, MIN(ce) CHIH(ken), NAN, NISHA AND ZERZER TO THE MAX-ER

AND AND I LOVE SEC ONE RICHARDSONIANS 2009!

AND AND AND I LOVE PSB/PB 2009!

Proper specific updates and photos up some other day!

My life's a complete mess, and my head's a complete mess. My sanity was already long gone, it had a 5-year headstart.

Orientation camp tomorrow! Night surprise tomorrow! House orientation saturday! Orientation concert saturday! OBS shopping sunday! OBS monday-friday!

See? I didn't even bother capitalising the days of the week.

Oh well, on a more optimistic note, GO PreSteLs! We shall pwn night surprise and well, surprise everyone! Grace Lim is going to be SO proud of me living up to my duties as Vice-president of the Bymnastics Association!

Oh yeah and I totallaye hate Leko. Excerpts from lekoburrito.blogspot.com:
"i finish at twelve am and woke up at 6am. i nearly sleep on every lessons."
"Lots of homework....i told dong my school is the school of no homework...ok la...it's not a lot..and 2 to 3..."
Oh, YES Lek, I know your school is the School Of No Homework. And YES, Lek, I know 6 hours of sleep is still not enough for some people!
Argh, I'm gonna kill you the next time you come over!

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/347073/1/.html

RGS gymnasts set to compete in 2010 Youth Olympic Games
By Heather Tan, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 12 May 2008 0145 hrs

SINGAPORE: Two 13-year old gymnasts from Raffles Girls' Secondary School are a step closer to flying the country's flag at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

That is because their coach feels they are of the age-group that will make a mark for Team Singapore.

Passion and commitment - that's what drive Phaan Yi Lin and Vivien Ho* from Raffles Girls to dedicate their time to gymnastics. They train for five hours, six times a week.

And these two 13-year-olds - the youngest members of the team - are all set to represent Singapore at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

Phaan Yi Lin, Secondary One Student, Gymnastics Team of Raffles Girls' Secondary School, said: "For this, we will work hard and train so we will not disappoint our coaches and our families." The girls are part of the school's Junior Training Squad in gymnastics.

They train with seasoned coaches from China and the UK, and have been practising various moves, including the front aerial, back flip layout, giant swing, chest rolls and reverse split jumps.

The girls not only excel in the sport, they are able to handle school work too.

Nazyra Suhairi, Secondary Four Student, Gymnastics Team of Raffles Girls' Secondary School, said: "There's always a time for everything. In school, you just focus on school, and once you come to gym, you just switch off everything else that has nothing to do with gym - you just focus mainly on training."

Joey Tam, Secondary Two Student, Gymnastics Team of Raffles Girls' Secondary School, said: "Gym has been a part of our lives since really long ago. So we just squeeze in homework anytime we get."

RGS also plans to build its own gymnasium to dedicate more time and effort into coaching the girls. **

Alina Wee, Teacher-in-Charge of Gymnastics at Raffles Girls' Secondary School, said: "We would like them to train at least six times a week. And with great parental support as well as school support in terms of studies, we have to ensure the scholastic aspect of their life in school is also taken care of while they prepare for the YOG."

Currently, the school's training sessions are held at the Education Ministry's CCA Branch at Bukit Timah. - CNA/de

*GO YILIN AND VIVIEN! Keep on pro-ing and being aweshummmmm!

**COOOOOOOOOOL!

Yup so I realised that my posts are getting kinda self-centered nowadays. (Self-centered meaning all about me only.) SO I have decided that I will do dedications for the new year!

202 08: The QUEENS! I'll miss all those sick jokes, eyebrow-raising moments, legal eating in class for practically every lesson, junk food ordering, and class partayyes! Thanks for all the good unclean fun and we ROCK :D

Rhythmic Gym 08: B'Div champs for the 8th year running! Even though I won't be with you all next year, I'll still consider you guys my wonderful batchmates, seniors, and juniors! Love you guys and I'll pop down for training when I can. <3

English Drama 08: It was really fun and fabulous getting to know all of you and becoming an ELDSer! Thanks for all the laughs, puns, funny improvs, and awesome plays! Seriously the wackiest, p(h)unniest people on earth :D

PSB 08: I don't know what sec 2 would be like if I wasn't in PSB. Thanks to all the PSLs and SPSLs for being great seniors and friends and JPSLs for being part of the coolest, littlest PSB batch ever :D I'll remember PSLTC, all our great GMs, PSL sessions, Orientation, MGMs etc. etc. and we'll still be aweshum PSB 08!

109 08: So you'll all become 209'09 next year :) You guys have been the number one reason for my sleepless nights, no kidding. But it's all worth it when I see you all at PSL sessions, even just around school and I hope you all can grow closer together as a class in sec 2!

Taiwan Immersionees 08: Thanks for all the crazy crazy moments we've had, and all the field trips, lessons, computer classes, shopping, kumquat peeling, cup noodles, getting scolded, crying, laughing etc. etc. I couldn't think of a better way to spend the holidays than learning Chinese at the NTNU with you guys! Keep the gatherings coming on and drink more chin chow!

Yeah and thanks to all those other friends out there who made my year great, even if it's just a moment or two. AND LEKO BURRITO the aweshum 4th sister I have who crashes my house every spare moment she can and eats all my food and sleeps on my sofa and shares my mommy.

And I seriously doubt my family reads my blog because I don't publicise it but they've been really great too :) My mommy who drove me home from trainings in Potong Pasir, my daddy who works like crazy, my sisters who play with me, my rabbit who just sits around and acts cute, my cat who follows me everywhere I go.

Can't wait for Orientation 2009 now :) 105 class I/Cs are really cool peeps. Nandita and Jo-Ann say they're gonna be extra-participative SPSLs! Which means that they'll do the usual job, observing us and stuff, except they won't do it silently in the corner of the classroom, they'll join in all the activities. So I guess we're gonna have 30+ sec ones and 2 sec fours to entertain!

And guess what, Min Chih is taller than all of us despite being the youngest. I feel small. Really small.

In the lift at Far East, Nandita, Jo-Ann, Min Chih, and Zerline suddenly realised that they all live ridiculously close to each other, so they started screaming and exchanging info on the exact locations of their houses. Boo not fair :( But wouldn't it be cool if we could have like a joint sleepover at all their houses? We could travel back and forth and stay an hour at each house!

105 is a RICHARDSON class! Things keep getting better and better!

YAY CCAO :D

Wish I could've gone last year, too. Tour guiding is fun hahahahaha! And surprisingly, the sec ones talked to me. A lot. Alright, maybe it was only like 1 or 2 who kept talking to me and I was sooo glad that they didn't dao me. Wasn't very hyper today because of serious lack of sleep. But still happy :) And I found out how lame Charisse, my fellow 105 I/C, is. Still, no one got close to beating Shi Wei.

Haha it was super fun going round the booths going "Heyyyy! I got a group for you all!" to random strangers or friends. The LD booth was super funny, because everyone was just munching on cookies and hanging around like a partayye. And the best part was that we were the only CCA eating in front of the new sec ones and their parents, so paiseh hahahaha!

And the show the sec 4s put up was really really really good. :D "Ways To Torture Your Teacher" was so cuuuute and me, Karishma, Min Ee, Debbie, and Deenie snuck up to where the spotlights were to get a better view of the performance.

Yays to R.GYM for THE best souvenirs, in my biased opinion. And and and I got to intro the gym booth because Rosemarie was either being nice or feeling shy. You know how much I like "public" speaking. Yay aweshumm! Oh and thanks Ting for the Blue Batch Bangles.

I separate posts by topic, not by day. So that's it for CCAO I guess.

Needs to run. Needs to long jump. Needs to rollerblade. Needs to feel blood in my blood vessels moving. Needs to stretch. Needs to try on my new Adidas.

It seems the older I get, the slower I run. Grahhhh. It's just as well I can't make it to play catching with my Taiwan Immersionees. I'd probably feel slow and unmotivated. And there goes my punctured ego. Serves me right for not having a life.

So I'm back from Penang. And my life is already being tossed around in the washing machine. Heh, I remember back in China there was this giant Whirpool washing machine ad that hung outside the shopping center-ish place I used to go for milk tea. Maybe that was a sign or something.

I wanna go rollerblading! But it seems that all of us are way to caught up in our crazy lives to live like we did after PSLE and at the start of sec 1. Sheesh. Plus, we didn't even have any Aunties outings yet. Hell-o, can we please respect tradition?

2005: Malacca. Well, I don't know if this counts 'cause we didn't know each other well enough to be excited about this trip. If you don't count knowing Leko, that is.
2005: Desaru!!!
2006: Genting!
2007: Genting. Didn't feel right the second time.
2008: Nil.

See? It's like a curve or something.

Zomgoshness the PretSeLs cast me as the bimbo. The bimbo. The bimbo.
Can't wait :D Go PretSeLs!!!!

I'm backk from Taiwan!

Although I will miss that place and living there like CRAZY, I can't say that I'm sad or anything.

I have 37 good friends, a new found interest in Chinese, and lots of souvenirs.

I'm happy. :D

It's 4 hours to meeting time, and nobody wants to get sleep.

Just got a big scolding from Mrs Poon because everyone was being sentimental and having mass hugging in the corridor. I guess she heard us, because she gave us a long talk about being considerate. My roommates have all sorts of funny plans and now Sarah is on the phone with Sam discussing the possibility of sneaking out without being caught.

I love my new hoodie hooded jacket! It's Paul Frank and I have the black while Rachel my twinnie has hot pink :D Zhiyuan went shopping with us because we lost Sarah, Grace and Sam when they went to buy crepes and disappeared. So yeah, but I didn't mind shopping with Zhiyuan and Rachel at all because they're really nice to shop with. Zohmygoodness Jasmine Liu Jia Hwei actually goes SHOPPING? Yes, she does :)

And Zhiyuan loves stuffed toys and jackets like us so we always stop randomly to look at stuff. He's now regretting not buying a Paul Frank hooded jacket to match ours. We were actually hoping laoshi would decide to let the guys use up the remaining 5,500 Taiwanese dollars worth of food coupons on biscuits so Zhiyuan would have another chance to get back to the night market and find that jacket shop. But no, so now we have $5,500 gone to waste. It's about $270 Singapore dollars worth of food coupons.

So I have officially spent almost $300 dollars on this trip. Whoa, Nelly. The LLY is gonna be so happy to know how I splurged on their gifts. And guess what, I even bought my tuition teacher a gift because she's nice and also because I had to cancel a whole holiday's worth of tuition, much to Brendan's delight.

I miss gym. I miss gym. I miss gym. I need to jump. Very badly.

There is Ryan, Terry and Joel at the door now. Probably more illegal gatherings? Sarah and Grace want RI and RGS to merge. I don't mind us being separated. We're still rather close, anyways.

I'm gonna miss this place. Loves OCAC, NTNU, Taipei :D Dedications coming soon, probably :D

Yay and I'm back!

So we had a really good lunch, with like 10 dishes per table? Of course no one could finish :( But I think the restaurant re-serves the dishes. We all suspect it, but we don't really care.

Afterwards we had 1.5 hours to go to the supermarket and explore the campus outside of our isolated little block which we're confined to most of the time. Instead, most of us just went back to our block right after the supermarket trip (where we annoyed customers by getting like one person to buy everyone's junk at one go) and we frolicked around taking pictures and giving each other piggyback rides.

So after that we went for a briefing which no one really listened to. I tried hard to but it just couldn't process in my brain for some reason. Jordan was like "Is Hong Lao Shi sleeping?" and Hong Lao Shi jerked her head around to look at him. Whoops.

THEN MAI LAO SHI BROUGHT US TO THE UNIVERSITY SPORTS AREA! I just looove Mai Lao Shi now. Actually it started out with the guys asking if they could play basketball there, then in the end 28 of us went with Mai Lao Shi. Well, we only had one basketball so I walked around with Linn, Rachel, Pearlynn and Chloe. Linn and I were looking for a trampoline, but that'd probably be indoors somewhere. There is an indoor pool that smells really really strongly of chlorine :(

And as we walked out of the pool building, that was when I noticed the LONG JUMP PIT! Linn and I were hooked onto it and we just jumped and jumped and jumped to no end. Now I have a bruise on my knee but who cares? My love for long jump has been rekindled! That was so cheesy. But seriously, I was happy for a good long while after that and I think I was the fastest girl eater at dinner. I went around announcing that I officially Love Jumping but no one really cared because I was just high from jumping.

After that, POOL! (I don't say billiards.) Joseph (Hoseph) was really weird today and he started standing on the table and whacking the cue ball with the stick like he was playing golf, which really annoyed Rachel who just wanted to beat him seriously once and for all. She won, but she says the game wasn't even serious. I CANNOT aim.

My roommates are AWESOME. We're swapping clothes for our graduation vacation and I get Sarah's favourite shirt and paikia hoodie! Grace gets my ACRES shirt, and Rachel gets my brown and red stripey sweater while I keep the green one and we're wearing them together on Friday so we can be real Twinnies.

Graduation vacation tomorrow. Returning Friday night. Apparently we're going to the last piece of untouched Taiwanese land. Sounds pretty cool, we're going to be doing a lot of hiking (even at 5.30am) and we're going to Ocean Park!

I LOVE LONG JUMP! GO RICHARD!

There's a lot more to blog about here in Taiwan than in Singapore.

Graduation today! Supposedly formal but in fact very emotional. After the goodbye video from the OCAC fu dao yuan people, everyone felt like crying and I sorta felt a bit like that too but for some reason I didn't. I started hyperventilating. It was really freaky because I forgot how to breathe so I was making weird wheezing noises and trying to breathe into my jacket (I have no idea why) while everyone was like "Don't cry!" and I was like "I'm not crying!". It took us(including me) about 5 minutes to realise I really couldn't breathe, and it wasn't just getting emotional.

So my wonderful awesome classmates all went upstairs with Ms Koh to get me some air at the rooftop garden. About 10 minutes later I could breathe properly again, but my arms were still weird from the lack of circulation. Ms Koh says the doctor says it's pretty normal when children get too excited. Eeps. THANK YOU CLASS #1 I TOTALLY OWE YOU GUYS ONE!

So after that we all played truth or dare. Claire had to go up to this woman working out on the treadmill and tell her she's pretty. The woman just smiled and it was pretty obvious we were behind this anyways. Jordan called us to the auditorium to sing songs together. We did some HSM 3 songs and some more bittersweet ones. We all went downstairs 10 minutes late on purpose, partly to see what punishment we would get. I guess the laoshis weren't in the mood to punish us.

Post getting too long. Look out for next post!

I can't believe we're going back this Saturday. Or Sunday. Whatever. Seriously stinks :( We all wish we could be like boarding school students and live like that and I guess we'll all miss all the rubbish we get to do like eat cup noodles every night and kope food from as many people as we can.

Graduation is tomorrow! And graduation trip to the countryside. Sounds cool :D

Hee today I was really impressed by the skits class #2 and class #3 put up. And I'm sure class #1 did well too! We all got prizes. Class #1 was named bravest class, class #2 recieved best presentation, class #3 was named most creative class. Then after the competition we all used the green chalk left over from class #2's horror skit to draw on each other's clothes and faces. My jacket took quite a bit of torture :D Renci's ear turned green and Jordan's face was kept green for the rest of the day for a dare or something.


Speaking of which, I can't believe I fell for this prank played after bed check, when we were all supposed to be in our rooms but people still sneak around anyways:

(Doorbell rings)
I open the door and just then Jordan appears from the stairwell with his bottle and starts filling it up.
Jordan says hi without speaking.

Jasmine: (half whispering)Hey, who rang the doorbell?
Jordan: Huh?
Jasmine: Somebody rang the doorbell
Jordan: Really?
Jasmine: Yeah, just.

Then Rachel comes over to the door and being the smarter of us two, goes

Rachel: He rang the doorbell.

So Jordan doubles over laughing silently but hysterically, what Sarah would call the chicko look, and I pretend to be mad.

So karaoke is over. Everyone's feeling kinda sad about this but me. I'm feeling fine. I'm feeling so much more than fine knowing that there will be no more reason for me to freak out every night any more.

I need to stop lonering. I shall will play pool tonight. I WILL.

Taipei 101 tomorrow night! Bubble tea and shopping on Wednesday during (supposedly) Chinese lesson time!

I bough a Nike shirt at 50% off. 440 Taiwanese dollars (about $22?). AND I just came back the supermarket where my roommates bought like 4 bowls of instant noodles each. I just bought this weird health food thing in a packet and instant milk tea. I don't even know if the health food thing is a drink or a food. I don't even know it's state of matter.

This place pretty much rocks :D

So here I am lonering in my room. I'm supposed to be upstairs playing billiards or something but I CANNOT PROCRASTINATE uploading photos!

It's kinda funny that I'm not nearly as Jazzy here as I am in school. Not enough sleep maybe. KARAOKE IS DRIVING ME NUTS. AND I THOUGHT KARAOKE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPY AND SPONTANEOUS.

But the people here are nuts. During computer lesson on Saturday, lao shi was saying how he had the FEELING that we were on MSN and not doing work. Most people were having a mass class convo but I was being nerdy playing this Chinese computer game we were supposed to play but it's SO ADDICTIVE. So anyways whenever lao shi walked around looking at our screens they'd minimise MSN and pretend they were being good. Well lao shi wasn't convinced because this isn't his first year with Raffles students. Later on someone walked over to ask lao shi something and HOLY MACKERAL he was watching the MSN convo from the comfort of his special teacher computer that could show what everyone's computer was doing! Haha so what to do? Spam the convo with endless 老师很帅(lao shi is handsome). He was pretty amused :D

Whee we're going to buy more rubbish from 7 Eleven tonight! I don't think I have ever been so glad just to go to the supermarket or even 7 Eleven. The pens here are like half the price of what they're worth in Singapore it's awesome.

There are cheerleaders downstairs playing He Said She Said and Girlfriend over and over. Apparently they're going for some competition so they have been practising day and night for days now. It's pretty cool and they wave to us when we look at them.

Class in 48 minutes. Wonder if I should just fall asleep here again or join my classmates at the pool table.

My roommates are awesome CSI investigators :D

Life here is exciting!

Eeep.

I don't know what to make of this trip. Most of the time I'm having fun but sometimes I want to jump off the rooftop. My roommates say it's stress?

Taiwan is fun :) Even the Chinese classes, they're cool. I've met the Taiwanese equivalent of Mr Hogan in my class. And the female teacher is also very good. Only thing is that the vocab they're teaching us is super limited, like primary school :(

Inter class karaoke next week! Guess what song we're doing. Right, better not put it up in case someone from another class finds out.

Heee and the people are pretty nice here! And I'm gonna have huge biceps when I return, cause we're all practising arm wrestling during breaks. Inez and Shiwei's match was drawn. Tennis vs. rugby. Whoa. Claire is gonna beat her dad when she gets back to Singapore, she says.

Class starting soon.

Hey

I'm in Taiwan now. Go to facebook if you want to see photos:)
It's so much like China here. I don't think the Taiwanese want to hear that but yeah. It's so much like China here that I miss China again. But I won't cry or anything. I hope.

We're sort of grounded right now so we can't leave the building. Grounded for a week. And now we still have more than an hour until we have to go downstairs so we're sort of doing rubbish on the computer now. And CmPS. I'm waiting for Debs to send me the edited SOW cause she forgot to attach it. Okay maybe I'll just do it on my own SOW so we can merge the changes later.

I like my group :) Pearlynn is a nutcase. In a good way. But I think I'm getting a bit flu-ish. Or maybe I'm getting sinus problems like Nut.

202 ROOLS

ACP was fantastic. Haha fantastic seems to be my new favourite word! But it was. Even though I'm not exactly the most graceful or coordinated person in the world, but whatever. Sorry if I scared anyone with my temporary bimbness, I was just high and stuff.

You know, even though everyone got frustrated and tired and stressed during the last few days before ACP, I have to say that it's worth it. And I really did mean it when I said that my doubts about 202 had cleared over that one event. Yeah, so we have cliques and we're not THAT bonded and I really thought I couldn't survive the year. But what's the point of being such a loser pessimist anymore? We're leaving in 9 days, might as well make the most of this time to have fun and get the class together than worrying. I know 202 isn't perfect or really what I hoped for at the start of the year, but what I learnt from 109 is that you can't really compare classes, and you can't have a fixed mindset over what an ideal class is, cause we're all different and nobody's perfect. So we're all winners in our own special way.

And 202, I couldn't really say that you guys aren't a fabulously fun and shameless class with a knack for spotting innuendos :) I think we had THE most fun throughout this whole ACP, what with all the karaoke, air guitar, mad dancing and Mr De Souza videos. Like Rash and Yihui said, we don't have to win any ACP prizes, we've already won.

Let's make the last days of 202'08 the bestest ones yet! And no matter what, 202 still rools!

Happy birthday Trina!
I know everyone likes bullying Trina because of her lame sense of humour, but we still like her just the (lame) way she is :D
& Cailyn!
I'm glad I didn't get cheated into buying that $10 LeSportSac eh? Good thing for Alicia Tan. Don't get sick of gym, dude! Alright so you can't help it because they never change the routine, but eat more peanut butter sandwiches and you'll feel better!

PSB Night was fantabuloustest.

It seemed like just yesterday I was at leadership camp writing those acronyms that would possibly determine my sec 2 fate. I'm glad I picked the one with 3 letters:D

I'm gonna miss PSB 2008. Even though I know we'll still have great people for PSB next year, it won't really be the same without red-name-tag SPSLs. Not that blue name taggers aren't equally awesome, but SPSLs 2008 were like the first batch of SPSLs I got to know, and in a way, they're my PSLs right?

And like I said to Ting, even though people have this fixed mindset that J/S/PSLs are permanently on high, if there's one thing I learnt about SPSLs, I can say that they're some of the wisest people I've ever met. Not in the Confucius (Johnny Kong!) way, but they're wise in their own SPSL way. So thank you for all the help, advice, MGMs, GMs etc. etc. :D Especially JoHo and Yen Yee for taking care of 109 PSLs!

And whoa I totally experienced this strange Deja Vu when JoHo said to be a good PSL. Because I can still remember exactly on November 3rd 2007, Sharon said to be a good JPSL. Freaky how time flies. Every GM since somewhere halfway into this year, I've been wishing time would slow down :( And I missed farewell GM!

Rawr okay I'm whining again. Back to PSB Night. Haha a KNIGHT in Shining Armour fabulous! Sorry JoHo and Yen Yee for the strange song I half-composed! And I'm sorrier for screaming the lyrics, not singing them. Poor Xin Ping was all limp after land training because her coach was a "freaking sadist". Thank you Leena for guest-starring in our performance I totally owe you one! Pris Chew and Carey had the most sentimental performance of the night and everyone was like "Awwww!". So sweeeet. OH YES AND THANK YOU PRIS, ELAINE, CAREY, PSB TEACHERS FOR PATCHING ME UP after that dumb accident! And also thanks to the people who asked, "Are you okay?" and Nadia! Pris stayed back to entertain me with her guitar and I secretly felt SUPER DUPER jealous. Like Xin Ping. It's just fascinating watching her fingers move. I FEEL INSPIRED. It shall be my latest goal in life to learn to play the guitar. After I'm done with piano maybe.

Photos courtesy of Elaine Lau :)

LOVE PSB!

No one's coming back to visit. But I don't blame them. I dumped the wordpress for a month already.

Ooh tomorrow is going to be a mad rush.

1. Stand up speak out
2. Random class stuff like hanging around doing rubbish
3. OBS checkup(?)
4. Taiwan briefing
5. PSB NIGHT!
6. That's for me to know and for you to find out :D

It's gonna be fun and busy and fantastic and laught

I don't feel like going to school. It's supposed to be fun and stuff but somehow I have grown to taking a liking for my loser routine life. I'm hesitant about having fun. I feel weird at the thought of interacting with people I ALREADY KNOW. It's like I turning into some sort of loner.

I want to go. But I don't want to go.

It's super freaky how when you think life just goes on like that, whether you like it or not, your subconsciousness begs to differ. And then some strange dream to the likes of Frankenstein's monster comes and upsets the artificial balance.

This is going to take some serious thought.

Now I'll get dumb haunting deja vu moments whenever I use Yahoo! Mail. In other words, every day. Why YAHOO?

Hey

This has been a horrible post-eya. Last year, I remember we went to Novena, Plaza Sing etc. but guess what, I went home for piano today.

Okay, so it wasn't exactly anyone's fault except for mine. I knew piano was coming anyways and I really need improvement. Somehow I missed the announcement on inet about the taiwan vaccination postponement and ended up stuck in RGS which was like a ghost town cause everyone escaped withing half an hour. Only this bunch of sec ones hanging around and sec fours practising for net carn were left. That's it. So I sort of panicked and went down the the dance studio to check every half an hour or so, and read New Moon in between.

Right so I finally gave up and decided to check inet one more time and guess what? It struck me that I'd given up Angela's offer to watch House Bunny and Trina's offer to celebrate YuQing's birthday to stone in school! It was kinda late, so I went home and wasted another half an hour following my mom to NTUC. So by the time I was actually home it was 2.15, 15 minutes to piano. So I waited patiently for Ms Pauline and GUESS WHAT, I fell asleep. It was already 3 when she finally came cause she gave a time range, so technically she wasn't late, I was early.

Ms Paul is actually a pretty interesting musician. It's like lit to her, or something. She goes really dramatic sometimes and says stuff like "This song is like riding a boat" and then she picks my wrists up and make them do rowing movements.

Besides the point. So piano ended at 4.30 and I spent half an hour digging out the DVDs to bring to our unofficial movie marathon and searching for YuQing's gift and trying to put some life into my zombieish, tired, outer shell. Finally, when I called at 5pm, the marathon had ended and everyone had left.

But later I found out that cineleisure's House Bunny started at 12.50pm, which means that even if I went, I wouldn't be able to watch it. And maybe it wasn't too bad getting some rest from late nights mugging. Plus, this isn't like the last day of school or anything.

But I'm still extremely guilty for being too slow for YuQing's birthday. ARGH.

Hey

I'm into wordpress right now. Don't know if I'll ever come back. In the meantime,
http://www.paintedpavements.wordpress.com

See you:)

30 Reasons Not To Be In A Play
And it was FUN :) The last time I acted in front of an audience was during Drama Night 2007 when I had that ONE line as an orphan kid. ("Hey Charlene! Let's play!") But this time it was like WOAH, 2 hours. And Huifei is afraid of coming into contact with other human beings! Just like Mei Jia I guess, but they really shouldn't let other people know. In Huifei's case, we are going to make it a tradition to give her a constricting group hug after every performance. Cool eh?

Alright back to the point. THANK YOU to everyone who came to watch and I'm really glad that we could put on a play that lived up to our reputation (I hope!) in such a short period of time! Special thanks to VIOLE(N)T-LEE for taking over me during comp. I know I've said this a gazillion times to her already but I don't think I can ever thank her enough for that.

Rehearsal lunch breaks are deadly fun.

Have you heard the joke about the ocean?
It's too deep for you.

Have you heard the joke about the cradle?
It rocks.

Have you heard the joke about the blunt pencil?
There's no point.

And FPS was fun too! Lin taught us the one word game, where you have to answer all the questions people direct at you with the same word, and not laugh.

Shao: Everything King Midas touches turns to gold. Everything Jasmine touches turns to...
Me: BANANAS!

Lin: What do you like doing?
Amanda: Jaywalk

Lin: What's your boyfriend's name?
Amanda: Jay Walk

10 reasons not to make a list

1. Lists suck.

2. There's no point, Santa still thinks you're naughty.

3. If you should ever get carried away making a paper one, you'll get one so long it wraps around you and suffocates you like a boa constrictor. Not cool.

4. You may make a list of relatives, which could lead to you trying to make a list of your ancestors, which could lead to you researching on your bloodline, and you just might find out something truly shocking like you're actually related to your scary P2 teacher Ms Grisworld, and you may fall off the chair in shock and knock yourself into a coma.

5. If you make a shopping list, you'd probably lose it right before you go shopping. It's the way of the universe.

6. Because lists make you look organised. And should you be in the "We are disorganised and proud of it" club, you'll find yourself losing membership. And the goodie bag that comes with the membership.

7. With Adonis Lee in this world, you may, in your state of fangirliness, make a list of things Adonis looks like, such as a bowl of cereal, a plate of lasagna, or a ticket to the world cup. And if anyone finds that list, you'd better get your wig, sunglasses, and one-way ticket to the Bermuda Triangle ready.

8. Aunty Gladys insists that lists are for weak-minded people who cannot bother to remember things. And you have to obey her. Or else.

9. Your older sister once told you that you're allergic not only to sharks, pianos, and Swedish accents, but lists as well.

10. You may feel the urge to put it on your blog, which is totally uncool.

Watch out for part 2: 30 Reasons Not To Be In A Play, to be performed in the KS Chee on the 25th (7.30pm) and the 26th(2.30pm and 7.30 pm) of July. Tickets are free at $10 each

Comp is over once again. Thanks for the chocs/hugs/notes/lip gloss/food everyone!

Yay RGS RSG and our good friends from IJTP RSG! I think everyone did really well, whether you were danrens, jitis or optionals :)

RGS RSG: B Div champs for the don'tknowhowmanyyears running! Thanks for doing the math, Mrs Wee. And indiv 2nd! Which is really really awesome considering that Mel, Hazel and Cailyn were never indivs before. Dajiti 1st! And they only trained for 2 months, too! Glad and Jolene were great as usual too :) Xiaojiti didn't win, and it's partly my fault for freaking out at the first pao, but ahh well, we did our best. Vivien and Yilin won for all the optional apparatus. Well done RGS RSG:D

IJTP: I can't really remember what all of you all won so I will just do a thank-you message. Thanks for being our Gym mates! Even though we're not in the same school and all we still cheer for each other and help each other out and I think that's really cool :) Well done for everything and catch you guys some other time!

You know what? I don't think I should've made a wishlist. I shouldn't even wish for stuff. It's not very nice because there are other kids out there wishing for non-abusive parents. So yeah. I shall be *happy* with what I have and NOT think about stuff like beanie babies. Even though it's human to want stuff. But that doesn't mean you can't try to forget. Oh man I don't know what I'm saying. I want beanie babies but I don't want to want them? I guess?



What I know now is that I don't know the meaning of going on a hiatus. (Not in the literal sense.)

Jasmine wants:

1. A pair of white clubs
2. That famous Broadway musicals soundtrack (I think it's called Mama Mia?)
3. XJT GOLD OR SILVER
4. A hug :)
5. A hello-happy-birthday-dude!
6. Dried cranberries and an apple for a nice healthy lunch
7. To get that ink stain off my pencil case
8. Beanie babies or any other soft toy
9. Nice yummy books like Feeling Sorry For Celia
10. A guitar. Just for fun.

for her birthday. Though those in bold will do, since the rest are material items and it's no good to be too materialistic. Yup and all these are fulfill-able things, or I'd wish for everyone to have a nice day or something, but you can't really do that, can you? Okay please DO NOT spend your money on the stuff here because I do know they are expensive (to me at least). Number 5 and 4 will do. I'll just mail this to Santa to see if I've been a good girl.

My mom says the sores on my tongue means I'm getting HFM disease. Ick. This is probably the worst time of the year to get an infectious disease. SO if I'm absent for a long time, you know what happened. Meanwhile, I've been posting too much. So I will go on a 2 week hiatus. Also because I have a lot of stuff to do. Adios :)

Alicia Tan's making me do this. (See tagboard.)

1.Do you like your present school?
Yeah :) But I feel like killing myself when I see all the PTs due this month.

2.What do you want the most now?
The remote Adam Sandler had in one movie that enabled him to stop, pause, etc. time.

3.What type of ice-cream do you want to be?
If I'm lemon sorbet or Cherryberry gelato, I can lick myself. Eww gross. Maybe I should be a flavour I hate so I don't lick myself. Maybe I just shouldn't be an ice cream.

4.Do you hate your friends sometimes?
No. The most I get is secretly irritated. Hate is too strong a word :0

5.Name something annoying your friends do that annoys you.
Talk to me too much at assembly sometimes. Call me a killjoy, I'm not used to talking at assembly.

6.What is your goal this year?
I've got many of them. The most obvious one being become a PSL :)

7.Do you forgive or forget or both?
I forgive all the time and I try to forget but forgetting isn't something you can really control right?

8.Do you believe in eternity love?
Its not "eternity love, its eternal love" And yeah, why not?

9.Have you ever done something for a crush or boyfriend/girlfriend?
No. Do I look like someone who has a boyfriend? Sorry, I'm too feminist right now.

10.What do you enjoy doing the most?
Conducting PSL sessions.

11.Have you done anything for your admirer?
No.

12.Do you like your CCA?
Yup :)

13.Do you cherish every single friendship of yours?
I'd hate to lose any friend. Does that answer your question?

14.Who would you probably spend the rest of your life with?
I have to idea. But like Alicia says, ME. Duh.

15.What do you think is the most important thing in your life?
People.

16.Do you find life meaningless?
Not really. But I have a crazy theory that actually I'm living in a miniature playset belonging to some people and everything is just made up. Like the black hole and WW1 and YOU.

17.What do you live for?
I don't know. I just live. For the rest of the world, I guess.

18.Who do you talk to most in school?
I have no idea. I talk to a lot of people

19.Who is the last person/people you've talked to on msn?
I don't MSN. I sent a file to Violet on MSN a few weeks ago. But we didn't talk.

20.What do you crave to eat right now?
I'm really full and there's a horrible sore on the tip of my tongue so maybe a lemon sorbet can numb it?

Tag 8:
1. You.
2. You.
3. You.
4. You.
5. You.
6. You.
7. You.
8. Cause what's the point of doing this when the person I tag might not read it? But YOU're reading this so HAHAHAHAH!

This is totally unfair. They can totally just arrest undercover agents for invading people's privacy then. WAKE UP WAKE UP WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT HERE, PEOPLE? Arresting the people selling whale meat, or arresting the people reporting the crime?

Two Greenpeace activists who exposed a whale meat embezzlement fraud in Japan -- Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki -- have been themselves arrested -- for allegedly stealing the whale meat that they turned over to police as evidence.
Demand the Japanese government free the activists

This is the backlash. We've uncovered a scandal involving powerful forces in the Japanese government that benefit from whaling, and it's not surprising they are striking back.

What is surprising is that these activists, who are innocent of any crime, would be arrested for returning whale meat that was stolen from Japanese taxpayers. Theirs are, to date, the only arrests that have been made in the Tokyo public prosecutor's investigation into the embezzlement we documented of millions of yen worth of whale meat.

This was not a police action -- it was an intimidation tactic by the government agencies responsible for whaling -- and the kind of harassment of whistleblowers that a modern democracy should not allow. Our first news that an arrest was imminent came from Japanese television stations. Someone leaked the information to ensure images of Greenpeace activists in handcuffs appeared on news reports in Japan.

More than 40 police officer raided our offices and the homes of the activists, and spent 10 hours seizing cell phones, documents, and computers, despite the fact that we had documented every step of how we obtained the whale meat, turned the full dossier over with the evidence, and made ourselves available to police to help with the investigation at any time. A simple phone call could have brought Junichi and Toru to the police station. Instead, the government made a public spectacle of shutting Greenpeace down.

Don't let Japan shut down the truth. Demand the release of Junichi and Toru and demand an end to the whaling programme in Japan. The corruption of a few bureaucrats who profit from whaling should not be an excuse for harassing those who have exposed it. The domestic and international shame which this scandal is bringing on the Japanese agencies responsible for whaling is just one more reason that Japan should stop its sham scientific whaling programme in the Southern Ocean forever.

Please, take action now and pass this message along to your friends. Let's get Junichi and Toru back with their families, and demand the real criminals go to jail.

Thank you,

The Greenpeace whale team

CLICK HERE: http://www.greenpeace.org/tokyo-two

Talent vogue was SO MUCH MORE than fantabulificent. I don't think I have ever been to a better school concert like WOAH. And I'm so glad I bought the tickets early. It's fully worth the 8 bucks and I betcha next year's tickets would be snapped up in 3 days.

Thanks performers (and guest performers)! You guys were awesome and sexy and TALENTED. And congratulations! Yupp. The Bballers won first prize. I haven't seen that much moshing since me and Cailyn's air guitar thingy we made up at gym chalet! Anyways you guys were fantastic and hilarious and enjoy your BANANA republic, MANGO and APPLE merchandise! (Plus the basket.)

Thanks TALENT TEAM! Thanks for the fantastic hosting, effort and for shamelessly plugging every Thursday. Thursday is the only day I look forward to assembly. Please keep the ads going! Hah but that's a dumb suggestion cause that would be pointless since the show's over.

Yay I love how RGS is crazy and exciting and funny! And HEY XJT'07! I want US to perform next year! We can act bimbotic. WITH APPARATUS. That would be cool but insulting to the sport of R.Gym. But still!

Quote of the day:
"They have such tight butts. There's like no flab at all. Laoshi would love them!"

Weirdest conversation of the day:
"Hey! You told me she could sing, you didn't tell me she could mosh!"
"I told you she could dance."
"(Pause) Okay never mind, that was an unfunny joke."
"Yeah. I don't get it."

Howdy

So, what is this mysterious cabbage-like thing hmm? I discovered it while attacking veg to feed Rabby. Apparently if you cut the end of the xiao bai chye (yup, that's how they spell it) where the stalks meet, you get this cute rose pattern. Cool eh?

So well the first day of school was kinda slack and fun. The new History teacher had to go for a photo shoot so we were left in class watching this video but it only lasted 10 minutes so we just hung around for the remaining 50 minutes. Bio was... weird. I'm not sure what we did. It was more contact time-ish. So the rest of the day went on with people going MIA on account of the CCA/leadership boards photo shoots. And I discovered while running down the spiral staircase that the best way to run in court shoes is to run on tiptoes. So that way the heel won't get in the way. The dancers were still in stage makeup at the time of the PSB photo shoot so they looked scary in a nice way :) LD (I don't really like ED. It's like Health Ed.) photo shoot was kinda sad. And SORRY for wearing my culottes and PE shirt!

Oh yeah and PSB applications are out! But I discovered that lots of people still have the impression that a good PSL is a hyper-laughing-smiling-never-frowning person. In my humble opinion, PSLs can come in all colours and flavours and just by being hyper doesn't make you a good PSL. Quote Rachel Miao "Being a PSL isn't about being bubbly and enthu. It takes a lot of patience to be a very good PSL." Gosh, I can remember that from before Sec One Orientation 2008. I think she said it in Pre-Orientation Training? Yeah so anyways, I do notice that PSLs like me tend to be very high and stuff during PSL sessions but we're doing this to keep the mood happy and stuff and not because it makes us better as PSLs. THAT WAS AN INSIGHTFUL INSIGHT FROM JASMINE AND GOOD LUCK FOR THOSE APPLYING :D

Whoops I gave too many clues away. Sheesh. Fine so there are only two things to do now.
1. Give the recognition.
2. Scream and complain.
I'll do #1 first:)

CONGRATULATIONS MS NURUL :) WE(jasmine) HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU WERE A SHOO-IN TO WIN THIS CONTEST ANYWAYS!(Well, not really haha.) WELL DONE! WHOOHOO! AND YOU WERE SMARTER THAN MS CHENG LYNN WHO THOUGHT I LIKED XMEN 3! YOU HAVE PROVED THAT YOU HAVE GOOD MOVIE KNOWLEDGE LIKE TOTALLAYE SO WELL DONE!

You know what? I'm even gonna buy you something from stall 1 just cause I feel like it :) Well done! So you see, reading Jasmine's blog does pay off!

Right, now for the screaming and complaining.

That was not the least bit fair guys! First you guys complain that I don't give clues, and now I give too many clues and you guys guessed the movie in like 2 weeks! You guys should have known that I'm a horrible clue-giver. Did you see the clues I set for my sister when we were playing treasure hunt? Fine, maybe you didn't but URGH! (Proceeds to sulk in a corner.)

Ok fine it was my fault! I'm not REALLY angry :D

Hello my adoring blog readers! (HAHA)

Since no one has made any guesses yet, I will make it much easier by providing all the clues I can think of in one shot.

1. It was in cinemas in 2007.

2. (Forget about the previous clue #2 cause it doesn't help much) There is a hot actor in it that had many RGS girls fangirling for some time! Well actually it depends on perspective, but some people claim that this other actor was also worthy of being fangirled.

3. It came out in May- June (?)

4. It is the third movie of a series. And the most successful one so far, too! (I can't call it a trilogy because I'm not sure if there's another one coming up.)

5. It is not horror because I never watch horror movies. Neither is it animation. (Not that I don't watch animated flicks.)

6. One of the main characters is a struggling theatre actress.

7. The hot guy dies.

8. A quote " ...wouldn't want us living one second with revenge in our hearts. " If you paid attention to the trailers, you would be able to remember this one!

Yup so there you go. Happy guessing! I can't give too much away cause you get 3 guesses already. Use them wisely.

I don't know why, but I feel like deleting my blog, or moving to xanga or something.

Science Investigative is driving me nuts. The proposal is too SHORT! Something must be wrong I betcha. Plus, the rubrics are for the REPORT right? Right? What is missing I HAVE TO PUT MORE STUFF IN and submit in 13 hours but it just doesn't feel like enough yet and how am I supposed to get enough types of simple sugars for the experiment since some cannot be bought from supermarkets all pretty in plastic sacks? I mean, galactose is present in milk but how am I supposed to get it from the milk? Milk the milk?

Argh forget it I'll skip the galactose then.

Dear feet,

My ballet shoes are getting small. Please stop growing.

Thanks
Jasmine

CLUES to the movie-guessing contest!
1. The movie was in cinemas in 2007
2. I don't watch a lot of movies, so I pick carefully

Aha, what could that mean?

Hello

I'm doing up my Integrated Science project proposal now, so you can start heaving dramatic sighs of relief cause I'll make this quick and non-philosophical. Which actually means kinda superficial, but it's a nicer way of saying it.

OW. I ACHE ALL OVER.

That's all for now. I'll go back to doing my work and hopefully I'll be able to finish it before I fall asleep unglamorous-ly on my pretty computer.

NEED FREE RECOGNITION?
Then this contest is for (points at your nose) yes, you!

Simply be the first to guess what Jasmine's favourite movie is by 1st August (exactly one month away). It's that simple! Plus, if you're from RGS(S), you will even be congratulated personally by Jasmine herself!

Contest rules:
1. Leave all your guesses on the tagboard.
2. Every participant will be entitled to three guesses.
3. The management will not be held responsible for any injury or loss of life (or worse) suffered by participants during the course of this contest.
4. Prizes may be subject to change. (There may be a mystery prize!)
5. This contest is only for fun and we strongly advise you to NOT spend too much time (or money) (or sleep) in trying to think of movie names. You never know.
6. Any foul play such as blackmail, phishing etc. discovered by the management will result in the participant losing eligibility to participate in this contest.
7. I thought no one read contest rules.