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