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most posts have been friendslocked, back to somewhere in 2007. when i have the time, i'll go back all the way to 2004. i just felt like i need more privacy; there have been some instances that have left me spooked. |
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Philippians 3: 12-14 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engender’d in the eyes, With gazing fed; and fancy dies In the cradle, where it lies.
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=( except that they cost 395 POUNDS.
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according to my mum who quoted the radio station, it's 23 degrees celsius tonight. in singapore. just feels a tad special somehow.
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everytime i listen to the goong ost, especially the wu fa chu jing de xin instrumental, it always somehow makes me want to watch goong all over again.
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so I was in the bathroom yesterday afternoon, and my mum took a call for me from mr leong, the rj vice principal. when i came out, she rather incoherently told me, 'your vice principal said that you won some lit award?' and i was like, what lit award? (after all, i have too much of a love-hate relationship with lit to expect anything to come out of it.) and then i called mr leong back today, and he told me, 'congratulations, you are the first runner-up for the angus ross prize.' LIKE WHOA. my parents are still referring to it in a joking manner. my aunt keeps asking if the newspaper is going to interview me. i'm kind of thinking of all the humans whiz kids and wondering if this is for real. this is even more of a joke than my getting 2nd for AO German, LOL.
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Watching Huang YiDa on 100% Entertainment is so much love, so I want to spread it around! ( look here for much boyprettyness! )In more unfortunate news, however, THE VET WAS OUT WHEN I GOT THERE. WHY DID THE STUPID RECEPTIONIST TELL ME THEY WERE BOOKED, INSTEAD OF TELLING ME THAT THEY WERE CLOSED?!?!
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SPH said they couldn't consider me for the scholarship because I couldn't do the last internship as it clashed with my relief teaching commitments. :( At least the heartening thing is that they waited for me to reply and confirm that I had to do my job before sending me a generic rejection letter. I think. At the end of the day, I'm kind of thinking that I actually wouldn't mind staying in Singapore to study at all. Hopefully I can do law - and then, without any bond to fulfill, I can go on straight away to be a lawyer And my hamster's very ill. I think its kidneys have failed or something. :( I just don't want him to go the way Ginny did. Had to miss lunch with WeiQi and Alps today cos I'm bringing him to the vet. ...and thus distraction in the form of Japanese and Taiwanese dramas is necessary: Nobuta wo Produce - I started watching two days ago; am waiting for the 2nd ep to load now. Let's just say that the story is TEH WEIRD so far (e.g. involving an extreme case of victimhood, a bookshopkeeper who only allows pretty people to browse, a psycho viceprincipal who has to vaunt across the school gates every morning...) and out of the three main characters only one seems normal (aka vaguely sane) as of yet. Namely, Kiritani Shuji, as played by the extremely delectable Kamenashi Kazuya. In periods of utter madness (or maybe something was lost in translation?) that the drama can descend into, the only sensible thing is to stare at him. Even so, the story (I'm curious about the possible cultural gulf involved here) and the production seem promising enough, so I should be watching still. That and the fact that there are random periods of random inexplicable funnyness. Like Yamapi's hand-flapping when he runs down stairs. Although I sitll don't get why he is constantly drunk on soya bean milk (I kid you not). Hana Yori Dango Season 2 - I would try to analyse this, except that all you need to do is place Oguri Shun in his white vintage 1967 Toyota coupe and Matsuda Shota in his all-black outfits and mean motorcycle and I'm rendered unable to think. Still, I have to say that they've messed with the main pairing of Tsukasa/Tsukushi so much that I can't think of a satisfying resolution at all, especially since I know that Rui/Tsukushi would be just a momentary reprieve from the madness that wouldn't really help at all at the end of the day. However, they've done a remarkably sensitively-done job of Soujirou/Yuki which balances humour and some pretty realistic takes on teenage romance. Well, as realistic as when one party is a rich playboy bent on shipping Tsukasa/Tsukushi only. Then again, maybe he ships it so ardently because it gives him hope. Or something. :p Corner with Love (Zhuan Jiao * Yu Dao Ai) - Barbie Hsu, possibly the only Taiwanese lead actress I can take for extended periods of time, usually gets into the role of a spoilt poor little rich girl really well - you find yourself loving her one moment because of her vulnerability or her precociousness or her sweetness and hating her the next because she gets all bratty, and yet you always realise that her actions are very congruent to her situation and her upbringing and her attitude towards others. And you really start to understand why Qin Lang/Alan Luo's character can't quite get her out of his head. Although sometimes when she starts talking loud in that TaiwaneseDramaHere! way it can get OOC. Alan Luo, in turn, manages to balance funny streetsmart sort-of-ah-beng with idealistic SNAG very well. And when the two fight/make up/fight some more you just think AWWW... all the time. And, of course, the recent entry of DEAN FUJIOKA, who's possibly even prettier than Kamenashi Kazuya. When he and Barbie Hsu played the piano and then he turned around and reached towards her - *swoon*. He almost makes me want to give up the OTP. Overall though, this is possibly second only to Barbie Hsu's/Vic Chou's Mars, which I feel is the drama that truly shows sensitivity in handling of issues and themes and characters in terms of Taiwanese dramas. Akan Datang - Stuff to finish/start: - Detective Conan: Oguri Shun! in a murder mystery! I just haven't gotten around to watching the last part, cos some idiot spoiled me with her comments, which totally took the wind out of my wanting to watch. - Sapuri: It has Kamenashi Kazuya, and the summary looks mildly interesting. - Trick: I think Abe Hiroshi is cool (for a relatively older lead) and there's apparently alot of mysterious happenings mixed with humour. So of course I'm going to check it out. :) - Paradise Kiss: Unfortch I've spoiled myself too much, but I really like Ai Yazawa's realistic handling of teenage romance. Reminds me a tad of Curtis Sittenfield's Prep, for some reason, but it's a good thing. And I love Tommy February's theme Lonely in Gorgeous, even if it features an amazing level of Engrish. - Kimi Wa Petto: for some reason I never seem to be able to finish it. I don't even know why, because I love Koyuki's vulnerable career woman character, and I love Koyuki/MatsuJunness even more. - The one where teacher!Nanako Matsushima falls in love with student!Hideaki Takizawa: There's Nanako Matsushima. And Hideaki Takizawa. Nothing more needs to be said. - Mars: I'm going to switch to crunchyroll.com to finish the last eps in peace. I hope. - Hanakimi: It's showing on Channel U from tomorrow! The jury's out till then, I guess. Doth anyone have any more to recommend? I have a long Chinese New Year weekend ahead with no cousins my age in sight. :(
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I've been keeping in contact with Aud since her operation; I'm going to see her most likely tomorrow morning/evening. Would anyone like to come with me? I've gotten her a Mandarin-translated manga mag called Lamon with GakuenAlice!Natsume post-its, so if you'll like to come you could bring her the pineapple tarts she's craving. Though unfortch she might not be able to eat them yet. :)
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was at funan with my family and my mum and I, being the techdinosaurs that we are, were straggling behind my dad and my brother, who were debating over some anti-virus thing. We passed an exhibit in the store when my mum nudged me and went, 'Isn't that Stefanie Sun?' me being the big!stefanie!sun!fan that I am, immediately oh-so-casually walked back from where we came from and oh-so-casually shifted my gaze onto the girl in the purplish maroon shirt and jeans standing in front of the very beautiful new pink leather laptops. AND OMGDNESS YES IT WAS STEFANIE SUN. I rushed to the family and squeed as quietly as I could. (she was awfully tiny - now I know what she means when she says she is 41 kg. but oh! pretty eyes!) my dad asked me to go ask her for her autograph - he knows how much I love her - but I spluttered that I couldn't cos she was shopping. Which sounds stupid, but there are some of her songs that have really affected me (and one at least reminds me of a person who affected me for a very long time) and well - I just wanted to respect her quiet downtime. It hardly means a thing, but somehow I guess that's a small way to thank her. BUT OH!STEFANIE SUN!
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went out with my aunt today to cut my hair, and winded up collecting an adorable small flowerpot full of miniature venus flytraps. One of them is still digesting a spider! Our family isn't quite renowned for our green fingers, but apparently the flytraps should be very idiotproof. If they survive I'm going to get pitcher plants.
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Switched on my phone this afternoon after a very satisfying lunch with mum at Crystal Jade (as much as I had to cut up the food into tiny minuscule tongue-will-be-able-to-force-down-the-th // FINANCIAL AID FORMS ARE COMPLETED! What with the questions they ask, you'll really appreciate that asking for money is the toughest thing ever.
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the operation and its (major) aftermath is over now, by I have NEW DEMONS to contend with, of the technological sort. 1) not quite techie, but I wish I could get some help somewhere for US financial aid forms! seems like everywhere I turn everyone isn't applying for financial aid (either everyone has a lot of loot somewhere unlike me, or is very sure of a scholarship, which is unlike me too). AND I THINK I'M GOING TO MISS THE DEADLINE, WHICH IS BY END JAN. Everytime I try to download some form, my com screws. I HATE PDF. and my dad doesn't help by not remembering to bring back his 2005 income sheet. :( 2) could someone PLEASE PLEASE tell me how to credit lovely icon people for lj icons? Because I've put their usernames everywhere I can think of but I doubt I'm actually doing the right thing, which is not nice. 3) I need BITTORRENT explained to me in painstaking detail. james tried once/twice, but failed miserably. and i desperately need by Hana Yori Dango 2 fix, the denial of which has led me to go on a massive lj icon search, after having wasted hours reading all readable grammatically-okay spoilers i could get my hands on. THIS IS SAD. PLEASE HELP. (i'm asking nicely! and shigeru *points at icon* is offering dessert!)
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a lot of things happened these few days! i've had my first blood donation (albeit in preparation for my own op), a levels were over and done with, watched a bond movie i thought would be bad but was in fact very good, tried to deal with crises, went for prom, finally did what carrie chong exhalted prom-goers to do, etc etc. i don't know if i have a one-track mind or if it's just because i didn't get what i wanted and am hung up about it. but it's some sort of closure, i suppose. but it'll be nice to remember you like this. :)
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so very obviously, i broke my own vow. i suck. but so many things have happened, in my defense. I have started watching Korean dramas, psycho-analysed characters of Korean dramas with dear aud into the wee hours of the morning, shifted the house back to the old house which is also in pasir ris (how novel!) and IS RIDICULOUSLY ENOUGH WITHOUT INTERNET ACCESS, screwed up my prelims, got appendicitis and had a (dodgy) doctor cut me open, gone to my orthodontist who took a look at the appendix cut and said, most comfortingly, 'why is it so large?! and why is it cut in the wrong direction?!, etc etc. Not everything in that order, of course. oh yes, and in between, i have accomplished the usual, aka managing to slack off for hours on my com WITHOUT INTERNET ACCESS for hours, watching too much youtube when i do manage to get my hands on internet access, watching too much tv, so much so that i can now remember all the sequences for the goong advertisements (go me!). and of course i've gone out as little as possible. i must start studying. i must start studying. i must start studying. ARGH!!! i'm not even going to start on uni applications, because that is just so depressing. and now i'm trying very hard not to newly obsess over something and actually get down to work (in case you're wondering, no, i haven't gotten down to work, which would explain why i'm still online). well, at least i should count my blessings. now that we're back at the other house, i have aircon again at night :) arh, the luxury. and maybe it's a good thing that i don't have internet access yet, so maybe i'll get down to work, finally (i think i will be frightened into it by tomorrow's incoming prelim results). no, really.
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i know i didn't do well for the last cts - it was the worst i have ever done, in terms of grades. but i guess it sort of struck home with the progress report and mrs c actually spelling it out that my grades had dipped. so tonight i played online, finished dt which made me feel as if it was closing a chapter of my life, a chapter which once had me and aud discussing dt while on a taxi home together from the end-of-years in sec two. funny how it has been a small, tiny constant all these four years. strange how i feel as if i'll miss it, quite a bit. tomorrow morning, i'm going to study. and on this entry i swear i won't come online to play until the a levels are over. i ought to know what is at stake; it's about time i stopped daydreaming so much.
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...to cass claire. for those who have followed the dt all these years, it's been a fantastic ride. |
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there are times when seriously, school does not feel worth it. i mean, i don't think it does very much for anyone's esteem when they're constantly reminded that by the way, we know you're rafflesian, but oh well you're not too smart a rafflesian. the constructive thing i gained from waltzing in and out of the oxbridge talk was that i can not bother with trying. in any which case the teacher only addressed himself to humanities and science students. i mean you can understand where he is coming from, but sometimes i think the misery is just to yourself: like, why do you bother? |
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determined
busy
contemplative
gloomy
cheerful
amused
okay
hyper
embarrassed
frustrated