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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.

Hmm

I'm ranting on my blog a lot. And most of the time I don't wanna give everything away so everything's vague that makes people think I'm emo or took too many panadols or something. And if I'm not complaining, I apologise a lot or publicise or (in the rare event) talk about events or something.

SO I'm gonna do something different. I'm gonna do one of those blog quizzes which aren't really quizzes cause you give answers but there are no CORRECT answers. Actually I've done one before way way back like on May 11 2007. This one's from JoOu's friend Fik's blog. Thanks, even if I don't actually know you personally. I only remember this name cause you're the Richardson sec 4 level co-ord, aren't you?

It's harder than it looks! Copy and paste to your own journal, erase my answers, and add your own.
Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real places, names &/or objects, but nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person you got this from has the same 1st initial. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question. And Have Fun With It!!!

1) 4 LETTER WORD: Jump (What I do a lot.)
2) BOY NAME: Jay-Z (Hah!)
3) GIRL NAME: Jamie (I like that name.)
4) OCCUPATION: Jumper (Not the supernatural movie kind, I was thinking more of, long jumper or high jumper?)
5) A COLOR: Jade (I had to look up wikipedia for this because my range of Colour Vocabulary isn't what you'd call impressive.)
6) SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Jumper (Again, not the athlete or movie kind. I was thinking more of a sweater.)
7) BEVERAGE: Juice
8) FOOD: Jalapeno peppers (Not that I eat those.)
9) SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Jelly soak (The stuff you can buy from Robinsons that comes in powder form and turns to jelly when you put it in a tub of water.)
10) A PLACE: Jurassic Park (Or Jamaica.)
11) REASON FOR BEING LATE: Jam on the B.K.E./ C.T.E./ P.I.E./ any other jammable place
12) SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: JUMP!

What is it with me and jumping? Thinking of inter-house long jump too much? Probably. I NEED TO TRAIN. I'M GETTING UNFIT. And reading Feeling Sorry For Celia isn't helping either. Elizabeth (the protagonist) trains like 10km everyday. And she came in TOP 5 in the Forest Hill Half Marathon. Like woah. I really admire her. It's like the first time I've ever found myself admiring a fictional character who never does her homework. But then again, even if she doesn't get an education, she's already adequately smart enough PLUS she'll probably end up becoming a long distance runner anyways. I really love the book. Read it after I return it to the Deborah Tan library.

A FEW MINUTES AFTER I PUBLISHED THIS POST

GASP. I can't believe how similar my answers are to Jo's! But not a lot of words start with J anyways.

I love GMs :) I love GMs :) Open house was fun :) Laoshi thinks we're getting better :) I'm actually READING again :) 30 reasons not to be in a play :)

I hate my url now. Maybe I should change it. Again.

I bought a swimsuit last week. First time in 8 years. For some reason, people just love giving me swimsuits so I don't have to buy any.

Hi, Wen Jia Ying. I am not an emokid. Life just bares its cruel pointed ugly teeth at me. You don't understand. Nobody can understand. Life hurts? Hah! An understatement, don't you think? Fine, I'm joking.