:):):) I'm in a hyper mood now, thinking abt what I wanna do after promos and during the Sept hols when I haven't even gotten the studying bit settled yet. I didn't go to school today, even though I was planning to, cos I woke up with a bad throat and puffy eyes. I went back to the doctor to get an MC, and apparently I'm allergic to my antibiotics.

I baked brownies! Or I tried to. Everything seemed fine, and it all smelt lovely, until my mom and I bit into it and realised it was more cake-y than brownie-y. It was pretty yummy though. And it was the first time I ever baked from scratch, which is a huge achievement for me, considering I can't even boil water properly. I put it back in the oven to cool and a few hours later it came out a brownie! Subsequently it became hard as rock. And... yeah. Hope it'll still be fine tmr; I'm planning on bringing it for the class picnic.

Can't wait for tmr! When the performance is over, I'll have the class picnic and 4U reunion to look forward too. SN food&friends, the perfect combi. :)

(To dee: SPOILER WARNING! Don't read this entry till you've watched it!)

The 'Sylvia' movie was disappointing, to say the least. Gwyneth Paltrow was only mildly convincing as Plath, despite having a strong physical resemblance to her (in my opinion). Ted Hughes reminded me a bit of Leonard Woolf in The Hours, at least in terms of his physical appearance. But he was neither goodlooking nor possessive of that certain absentmindedness that made Mr. Woolf so charming. The movie itself was a bit hard to follow but that's understandable as a lot of what goes on is really in Sylvia's mind. However, I think the portrayal of Plath was too negative and centred on her morbidness (is there such a word?) . And it made it seem as if they problem lay in her; hardly a word was mentioned about her mental disorder. Most importantly, it wasn't very entertaining. I could actually watch it and do my Alkanes tutorial at the same time. One thing I'll say, though- the beginning was good. As in the very beginning, when part of 'Lady Lazarus' was recited.

For now, I guess I'll just have to read The Bell Jar and Ariel and her journals and form my own opinions of Plath.

Medicine is yucky. It tastes awful. For some weird reason, even the pills seem to disintegrate in my mouth while I'm trying to swallow them down. I tried to avoid going to the doctor but five days were too much to take. Ah well. I don't know what I'd do if not for the sweets. I like them- the grape-flavoured Twinkle sweets with the metallic pink wrapper. I ate them a lot in pri school. :)

I can't wait for the coming week to end. Or at least, I can't wait for Teacher's Day celebrations to be over. I love dancing it but, you know, it gets stressful sometimes. Especially now. The timing is the worst. Before promos and everything, PW deadlines up ahead, and on top of that, I had to go get sick.

One day I'm going to snap,
the rubberbands
string, rope, bits of twine and all
holding the loose ends of my
so-called
perfect life
together
coming apart
I'm

Unravelling at the seams.

10.25p.m.
Edited to add: I have the sudden urge to bake. Brownies, cupcakes, cookies, anything. Maybe I will, when the hols come around.

I'm in the NJ lib now. Attempting to do PW. It's bloody late. I shd be at home sleeping or sth. AAAARRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. :(:(:(:(:(

I decided that just for the hell of it, for this one week, I'll try to follow what my horoscope says. I haven't seen it yet.

... Okay, now I have.

Virgo
You will be in a comtemplative mood regarding your current relationships. In the next few days, you will have to be careful about what you say as a secret you have been trying to keep may leak out.

The weather is disgusting. All hot and oppressive. It's a bloody furnace in here.

On a happier note, I love surprises. :)

Yay I'm happy. :)

Even though this weekend doesn't really count as a weekend. I have dance the entire day tomorrow. And then on Sunday I have to get up at the crack of dawn so that I can be at Woodlands by 6am for CIP.

09 class outing!

Project Work sucks big-time. I don't seem to be able to say anything else lately, and for good reason. I'd rather be studying quantum physics or something than be stuck typing up crap for PW. It'd be more interesting. It'd be more useful. Aaaaarrrrhhhhh I hate PW. It's a waste of time and effort and brain cells and everything.

Thankfully I have such a slack class. We're all slacking together and, in a concerted effort, not handing in the written report tomorrow, so we're all gonna get screwed together. So be it. I know that eventually, though, we'll have to write it. I'm so not looking forward to it. :(

When in doubt, eat.
What have I gotten myself into?

To the guys in 09: Thank you. I mean it. Thanks for looking out for me. I was quite annoyed about what happened during Chem today, but Gerard cleared things up just now. I'm sorry I misunderstood; I honestly thought you all had nothing better to do than to gossip. I'm not going to say don't worry, I can handle it because I'm worrying that I can't. I'll just take things one step at a time and see how it goes. The problem with me is that I cannot say 'no'. Next time you have a discussion about me, though, you might want to call me along. I'd appreciate it. :) Thanks for your concern, ppl. I'm touched.

To xin: Thanks for listening to me rant today. It was much needed.

To jy: No Fullerton treat for you. I'm still very much unattached, and plan to stay that way, at least for the time being. :) It was fun hanging out today. So, when's the shopping + stepford wives?

NDP was fun, more due to the company than the actual celebration. It was great spending time with Beek and Ping again. And I finally got to meet Nicole, whom I've heard a lot about but never met till yesterday. I had fun, what with the all-exclusive ghost club with Beek and Nicole and laughing till my cheeks hurt making up ridiculous stories about the sniper/photographer with Ping. And walking a lot just to get dinner. Thank you, Wei Qi & Jonathan, for the tickets!

I had PW today from 10-5. It sucks big-time, it really does.

Meanwhile, I don't know what to make of things right now. I'm not going to elaborate. (It's really weird I'm not able to type anything on this even though it's my blog because I know people are reading this. This is why I have to have multiple blogs and a paper journal.)

:) :) :) I'm in a good mood now. Happy National Day, people! To those going for NDP: Maybe I'll see you later?

I'm really loving the long weekend. On Saturday I went shopping with my Mom, then I went to meet the Dancers for dinner at Cine. We ended up watching a movie- my first Chinese movie in about 5 years, and I'm not exaggerating. Sam & I were for 'The Notebook' but the Boss wanted 'House of Flying Daggers' and it so happened that while we were in the midst of deciding, 'The Notebook' got sold out. It was better than I expected, but then again I wasn't expecting anything from Flying Daggers. It turned out to be quite funny, even though it wasn't meant to be. There were too many twists in the plot that made it cheesy, and the love triangle, especially, made me want to throw popcorn at Andy Lau.

Class outing yesterday! Before that, I went shopping with Nic&Serj. It was an experience, shopping with guys who have money to spend but no idea where to spend it. Bizarre, actually. For some reason, the whole of yesterday felt quite bizarre to me. Hoho, Nicholas was annoying; he talks too much sometimes. I bought a tote! I nearly bought another bag but finally my pickiness won out and I decided that it wasn't worth spending sixty on a bag I wasn't sure about. (... Ee Ling just spoilt my mood with her latest blog entry.) After that we went to meet the class in Marina for steamboat. The steamboat place was all hot and smoky. I didn't like it. We had a wonderful class outing nonetheless, also despite the fact that only about half the class turned up. After that we went to the Starbucks at Somerset for fraps and fruit punch. I think my class guys are deprived. When they congregate, they can only talk about one thing. And they gossip. :S

I'm supposed to spend this weekend catching up on my schoolwork and mugging but I'm so not.

NDC's over, and I can breathe properly once more. The dance went well, except for the unexpected lapse in the middle due to the lousy PA. We all kind of froze in our positions, beaming idiotically at the audience while muttering 'stupid PA' through gritted teeth. It's kind of funny now I think about it. Still, werockwerockwerock. :) I was in all 4 NDC runs (including the actual day's celebrations) but I didn't get to see a single performance besides the Council band. Not even the fireworks. I'm so glad it's over. I really enjoyed dancing for NDC, but it was so time-consuming. After this long weekend is over, though, there'll be preparations for Teacher's Day. A new dance in approximately twenty days. Someone shoot me now. Plus I'm so behind in all my work and everything, not to mention my PW teacher somehow lost all our annotated articles (apparently they slipped out of the plastic folder) so we have to re-do them. I already have no life, and now this?

After the dance I had to go wash all the glitter and gel and muck out of my hair before taking the Physics SPA. It wasn't as bad as I expected, and I was all smiling and ready to leave when Mr Yong sprung a Physics lesson on us. We were all, like, "Huh?" but no one dared say a word because, you know, Yong. After the lesson was over, and after quite a bit of dithering around in school, I finally went home. Around 5 I met the class for dinner at Pizza Hut before going for CIP. That was the third time I ate Pizza Hut in a week. It scares me, how completely indifferent I am about my health. Anyway- the service at the Hougang Mall Pizza Hut sucks. Don't go there! I'm beginning to almost look forward to CIP every Friday. It's actually quite fun. The kids are (mostly) sweet, it makes for great class bonding and, on top of all that, we get CIP hours. I miss my old class but my new class isn't all bad.

Edited to add: track finals photos!

Crummiest. Day. Ever.

Edited to add:

the lesson of the moth