Exhale

Insomia is bad. I tried to sleep early the night before Chem pract so I went to bed at the somewhat ridiculous time of 9.30. But I think I only actually fell asleep at midnight after tossing and turning and walking around the room. Sheesh. Should've just stayed up to watch all the Jap/Korean flicks on TV that night. I missed Files of the Young Kindaichi! :( Even my mum stayed up to watch (or was it Whispering Corridor?) even though she can't really differentiate between all the actors because they have the same haircuts and similar-sounding names. Grr.

So woke up groggy again for Chem Pract. Fortunately I only had to be there around 11 so there was time to wake myself up. Stayed in the hall for about 45 minutes before the exam and tried to put up with Mr Samat who's like, really off his rocker now. Think he might've rubbed off Sylvia who was kinda acting a little like a drunkard that morning :P

Sylvia: *in the toilet to anyone who will listen* Ey...for our prom right...we gotta have booze! We gotta sneak into a pub...and get BOOZE!

Sylvia: *back in the hall to Anjali* I'm telling you...nothing's fun without booze! We gotta have booze man!
Anjali: *yelling* You need a brain man!

So continued arguing about beer with Sylvia. Then Ann started talking about this cocktail party she had to go to that night to meet all her future classmates in Australia.

Ann: HOW DO YOU SOCIALIZE??!! *groan, moan*

Followed up by a gruesome conversation involving crayons, colour pencils, welts, dehydrating skin, and lots of squeezing and bursting. Of all things to talk about beofre a chem pract.

Well. Glad the actual pract wasn't like Prelim Pract which was something of a disaster. Was helped out by a bit of luck; suddenly felt like sniffing the filter paper just before I threw it away during QA and caught a whiff of ammonia so tested for that immediately. Then later caught sight of a delivery tube during VA and guessed correctly that Carbon dioxide was going to come out.

The stupid powder refused to dissolve though...so had to do a bit of guesswork during identification. And I think I threw away the design experiment. 4 marks. Gave some garbled nonsense about calculating the Mr of this and that. Argh.

Titration. Arms ached. Hands ached. Kept swirling the stupid mixture. Hoping I wouldn't run out of the sample. And if what Amanda says is true (that ESeah's value was 25.4), then my "rough" titration value (release clip. squirt. stop only when it looks a little bit orangey. record.) was the most accurate of all the titrations I did. Geez. Ah well, averaged it out to 25.35 in the end so should be around there. Then freaked out when comparing values with people from other schools until I realized that the concentrations might've been different else where. *ahh...*

My brother has gone away to a chalet for 3 days!!

I have no mood to study!

This is very bad!!

>.<

Hm. Suddenly feel like watching Animatrix.

posted by Jeanne @ 7:04 PM

Bleah. Read last few entries. Sound so moody. Must've been the lack of sleep.

Yar, so went to NJ yesterday and it was kinda...(no offense) um. Dead? I'm starting to understand Gwen's aversion toward it now.

So we entered and had to walk up this pathway leading to the main building, and all these people were standing by the side trying to persuade us to sign up for the various CCA's. I dunno but they all seemed so...

Girl: *dead expression* Join daaaaance...
Guy: *speaking so softly* Join traaaack....
Yet another Guy: *sticks hand out lifelessly* Eh...free wateeer....

QUOTE of the day: (sarah ann) "that sounds just like zombies welcoming you to a graveyard."

And then some of them just stood there and stared at us without saying anything. And Qing and I were like looking at each other going *errrrrm* Then we started wondering how come the school was so quiet...

Well, to be fair it became much more alive when they blasted Kylie over the speakers. Hah. And they gave out the best goodie bags! Free copies of 17! But it was one of the older issues and Anjali claims they ripped the freebies out for themselves. Oh well.

Ah. Keep getting cramps in my leg after each openhouse. Never going to step into another one again! Have free bottles of NeWater now, courtesy of HC and RJ. Speaking of which, we actually believed our tourguides and thought HC was generously providing shuttle buses to shuttle people away from their school to RJ (their openhouses were on the same day) - as if! So after we confirmed the nonexistance of the shuttlebuses, we had to walk and take a bus to RJ. Such an anticlimax.

Oh and there's some Marche imitation place at Chinasquare! Its called the Village only they tried to act french and put some ridiculous french spin on the name so now its pronounced Vee-Large or something. They blatantly copied off Marche! The concept's the same, the food's the same, the stupid little hats the waiters wear are the same, the decor's the same...even the cows are the same! >.<

But the food isn't bad actually. Hmpf.

And Friendster lags like anything

TTD after O's:
- Lunch with Joelle. Reminisce about the black forest.
- Go school shopping with Pea, Gwen and Anjali > New pens. Files. Foolscap!
- Improve handwriting.
- Improve Chinese. Stop looking at subtitles.
- Burn Bio and Chem textbooks. No more science - EVER!
- Watch LOTR: Return of the King with Ann. Go eat at Shangri-La or some posh hotel with her.
- Get down to reading my Idiot's Guide and all the LOTR/Vampire Chronicle books I've read halfway. Go Borders.
- Watch channelnewsasia and learn something useful for once.
- Change phone. Get laptop.
- Consider crashing Dorai's wedding to get back at her for what she did to us on the last day of school.
- Eat Oysters in Tasmania!

Now I just have to wait...and study...

Depressing.

posted by Jeanne @ 12:43 AM

Ah...so. Pea's still in love with SAJC. Tongwei's still infatuated with HC. Anjali's still gravitating toward RJ. Shrads still wants to go NJ.

And apparently Gwen ran 5 kilometers this morning so she refused to go to any open house after that.

Tongwei, Gwen and even Charlene (whom I don't even really know) think I'm being ridiculous. My parents are kinda...like, dropping hints too. Very big hints. As big as they can get. Called AAL up this morning to change my application. Think she's getting tired of me hounding her.

Hah. Guess I kinda wasted time at NJ and SA today. (Why did I listen to Qing?) Got a free SA shoebag which I later gave away to this SA girl who was begging Anjali to help her get one from the booth. Argh, but I left all the Nike vouchers inside! =(

Feel guilty already.

Right shall listen to that SAJC guy's advice.

SAJC: To get As for Maths right...just do the TYS from front to back...and if you don't get A's after that...you can go jump off a building la...

Oh Elaine you have to call me or come online sometime soon. My brother's seriously giving me hell over that Thief CD I lent you.

Ian: What do you mean she's going to Burn it? She'll destroy it and I'll be heartbroken! You better go and call her now before she harms my beloved Thief CD!
Me: You haven't play with it for a whole year!
Ian: I feel like it now what. Cannot meh? I want it back NOW.

Yea so. You've met my brother before. You know what I'm dealing with. Please call.

(My brother's scared of you that's why he isn't coming after your blood.)

Stephanie's chasing me to go off. Right. bye!

posted by Jeanne @ 10:09 PM

Ahhh.

I thought a bit about it. And realized we're all just hyprocrites. I guess I shouldn't have dissed that girl on my blog because we're no better than those snobs we saw at the openhouses anyway.

We get pissed with that RGS girl at ACJC because she thinks Crescent people can't make it there and we go all out to get back at her later - For what? Because we so easily forget that we were sniggering at all those people from so called "neighbourhood schools" just the day before. Geez. And then perhaps we don't realize that people who got "lousier" grades in primary school are getting better L1R5s than us now, so which JC will really care what uniform she's got on as long as she's nailing single-digits and we're just scraping by?

All crap.

Need to sleep.

I'm devastated. HCJC seems to offer C-maths for all the classes.

posted by Jeanne @ 1:35 AM

QUOTE of the week:

*in the bus*
Anjali: *singing* You say Po-TAE-to!
Gwen: *singing along* I say Po-TAH-to!
Anjali: You say To-MAE-to!
Gwen: I say To-MAH-to!
Anjali: You say Asshole!
Gwen and me: I say Arsehole!

Oh c'mon QING..I'm not that scary and my claws are not that sharp either =p *smile pat pat*

Interesting question asked by a college student as part of a simple experiment:

Is di-hydrogen monoxide poisonous?

Asked a couple of people this today. Interesting responses! Haha I liked this one - "Its not in the syllables anymore."

di-hydrogenmonoxide is water! =D

And the guy who went around asking that question got some award for his "work" in analyzing human psychology or stf liddat. Not bad.

Feel cheated over the Bio pract. It was just so ...... Just looked at leaves and counted sqaures. Hardly a practical. Bah. Mostly common sense questions - which is bad because as Anjali says "if your sense isn't...common....well...*cough*".
And people say I have warped logic. So.

Ah...our school spotted correctly! That...pea pod thingee :O

Am slacking. Paused to read Lestat the Vampire today while doing SS notes which was a stupid thing to do for two reasons. First is obvious. The second being because I only read the first 5 pages of Interview with a Vampire so I had no idea what Lestat was refering to when he talked about Louis in a couple of chapters.

Hope MOE won't set questions on Venice and Housing again. But you never know right? *sigh* Anyway. Read to the part where Lestat had some plan to go to Paris and become an actor (but then he went mad after killing a pack of wolves) before tearing myself away from the book. Aah. It was good. I want to read the whole Vampire Chronicles now.

I think I'm going to HC and RJ open house tomorrow. Gwen and I want to go there straight in school uniform. Anjali doesn't want to because she's afraid other people will come up to us and go "Crescent people can make it to RJ/HC meh??" like that girl in ACJC. I told them to just pretend to be PRC scholars and speak with fabulous-sounding Chinese accents if anyone asks that. Best still, wave those 2 points around!

Shuts people up immediately doesn't it.

posted by Jeanne @ 11:04 PM

DIE IRRITANT DIE!

And no! I'm still #1 dear. Aha...I see we both need some modesty then...hah...perhaps lots of it :P And I need pilot pens! *argh*

Bio Pract tomorrow. Looking through pract book now. I wrote rubbish answers when I was in sec 3! Water has no concentration. Hydrogen Peroxide solution did not digest the piece of liver. The colour of alcohol before the leaf is put in is not green.

Ah. I should be reading more of my ridiculous Bio pract answers. Or going to draw more stupid tomatoes and cucumbers.

But I'm going to watch Gao Xiao Xing Dong on channel 8.

Hopeless.

Went for english consultation with Rupa today. Told her I'd decided where I wanted to go for first 3 months and she was like "*gasp* REEE-ALLY? I thought you looked like the HC kind!" (noo. whyyy.)

Speaking of HC, found out that Claudia was one of the two crescentians who went to HC 2 years ago. (So that makes 4 crescentians in HC altogether!)

*in Giant a couple of days ago*
Me: *walking past a bench. A HC girl is staring at my uniform. Turn to stare back* Ehh...hm...
Girl: *staring*
Me: *clicks* Eh!! *runs forward* Gwen gwen! Its Claudia! She's in HC!
Gwen: *stares*
Me: *stares*
Claudia: *stares*
Gwen: *stares*
Claudia: *stares. tries to smile*
Gwen: *clicks* OOOOHH!!! EH ITS CLAUDIA!! ITS CLAUDIA!! *turns to me* ITS CLAUDIA!!!! THE KELLER HOUSE CAPTIAN! ITS CLAU -
Me: SHH!!! *drags her away*

And the rest of the time we were going "Claudia's in HC! Claudia's in HC! CLAUDIA! CLAUDIA!" And we ended up going the wrong way so we had to backtrack ("CLAUDIA! CLAUDIA!")

Must be starstruck or something. I'll never forget what she said in sec 2 about the toaster :D

So back to EL consultation.

Talked to Rupa for about 20 minutes on how to improve our essays and then launched into this exciting discussion about JCs.

Rupa: Oh dear! I can't believe I'm....gossiping with you girls about something like this! *one minute later* Oh and this is what I heard about the students at RJC....and according to my ex students in Nanyang, at HCJC the pupils...

Hah. Very interesting stereotypes.

Ah. Bio pract tomorrow.

Gao Xiao Xing Dong's on now.

Gaaaaaah.

posted by Jeanne @ 10:48 PM

Note to self: Never eat at Holland V's NYDC again.

Think there was something in air...maybe it was paint. Our eyes started to sting so Gwen and I spent the entire meal rubbing and blinking. Then I developed rashes after eating the food. Hm. I never knew I was allergic to those mushrooms.

Went for the ACJC open house with Gwen, Clarissa and Anjali. Felt compelled to do so after I mentioned to Gwen I was considering NJ and she looked at me as if I'd gone mad and went: "Do you like hanging around in graveyards or something?"

We were supposed to meet at 9....but we were all late so we only actually entered the college at 10. Met up with Sherry, XQ, Tongwei, Wushan, Leemei, Yanming, Shraddha Patil and a few others later so we kinda moved around in this big Crescent bloc. Was pretty fun.

*in subject counselling room*
ACJC guy: *coming over* Geography rocks!
Gwen: ...
ACJC guy: *persists* Geography rocks!
Me: Ah.
ACJC guy: No! Geography rocks! *hands us pebbles with the word 'Geography' written across in glitter*
All: Orrrrhh...

I later found out they'd deposited all their 'Geography rocks' in Tongwei's bag without her knowing.

Gwen: *to TW* You should take History! Its fun!
Tongwei: Geography!
Me: You see this Geography rock? Its also known as a stone. Do you know what that implies?
Gwen: You'll just stone around if you take Geography! And you'll become a stone yourself! So don't take Geog!
Tongwei: *strange look on her face*...Do you two happen to know Shraddha Patil?
Me: Yar why?
Tongwei: ...You share the same...weird sense of humour.
Gwen: Hahahahaha that's not true. We don't go around doing Shraddha's favourite joke.
Tongwei: What joke?
Me: *stretch hand across Tongwei's back and tap her on her right shoulder*
Tongwei: *whips around* Eh! Who tapped me??
Gwen: *to me* You missed out the 'Shraddha laugh'.
Both: Heeheehee!

That was in the middle of the canteen. I think the people in the other table thought we were insane.

The gym's huge! XQ, Sherry and Gwen started doing standing broad jump there.

Saw a few ex-classmates from IJ too! I have better memory than I thought.

Voice: Jeanne! *sees a girl coming toward me waving*
Me: *blank*
Voice: Jeanne!!
Me: *comes to life* Ah!...........*searches around for a name hoping its correct* Michelle!
Michelle: *waves frantically* Hello!!
Me: *waves back relieved I've gotten her name right* Hello!! What school are you in now?
Michelle: Oh! Nanyang!
Me: Oh! I never knew that!
Sherry: *pops out from behind me*
Michelle: *gasp and points excitedly* Sherry Tan!! Hello!
Sherry: *slightly bemused* Oh...eh...Hello.

*later after Michelle's gone*

Me: *to sherry* .....Was she in our Primary 5 and 6 class?
Sherry: ....I dunno.
Me: oohh...*pause* Hey. Were you in my primary 5 and 6 class?
Sherry: *stares* ....I dunno....
Me: ...Who was your form teacher then?
Sherry: *stares somemore*....I dunno....

[I went home to check. Michelle was in my Primary 3 and 4 class o.O ...And so were you Sherry! You were laughing in the 3rd row! =D]

Anjali had the misfortune of meeting someone from her primary school whose ego seems to have inflated over 4 years.

Girl: Oh. Hello. *sizes her up* You're in Crescent now aren't you? Hm. Crescent people can make it to ACJC meh?
Anjali: ....Yaar.
Girl: Oh. Well. I got 7 points for my prelims you know...
Anjali: Oh. Congrats. I got 6. *walks away*

Then she started telling everyone from Crescent about that girl, and we all trooped off to look for her.

Sherry and XQ are dangerous. They were more keen on the idea of revenge than Anjali herself.

XQ: I shall stalk her!
Sherry: I shall dunk her in the pool!
XQ: Throw water bombs from the badminton booth at her!
Sherry: Pick her up and throw her into the longkang!
XQ: Throw our Geography rocks at her!

Found Anjali's old friend hanging around the track later. XQ and Sherry were so disappointed that they couldn't have gotten her at the pool. So they sicced Tongwei and Gwen onto her.

*walking past the girl*
Tongwei: *loudly* Oh Gwen did you hear? Anjali got a perfect score for her prelims!
Gwen: Yar! And I heard this girl tried to brag to her about her own 7 points!
Tongwei: That's so shameless!
Gwen: *louder still* But I think the most shameless thing is to boast to someone and then fail terribly cause there's absolutely nothing to boost about because that person has done better than you in every respect! *girl starts to stare* That's so pathetic!

They went on for a bit. Think that girl heard because she got this mutinous look on her face and started whispering furiously to her friends. Then I realized that one of those friends was also someone else formerly from IJ. Hey. Small world.

Left AC around 3. But not before Sherry and Tongwei had a race around the track. Tongwei fell with such force that her nametag flew from her pocket and landed a meter away on the track. Started laughing somemore and the AC tennis people started giving us strange looks. Then we went to go look at the pool before leaving.

XQ: *rather forlornly* We could've really knocked her into the pool...and the lifeguard mightn't even have noticed.

posted by Jeanne @ 10:46 AM

We're in dilemma.

This family lives on 2 things. Entertainment and food. But now we have been forced to make a crucial decision which will last until the electrician comes. And that could take...well. A while.

We realized today that turning on the power for the kitchen stove trips the system causing ALL forms of entertainment and recreation in the house to shut down instantly - TV, radio, computer....airconditioning :| My brother got cut off in the middle of watching Matrix Reloaded and started screaming. So now we can only either watch TV/use the computer/enjoy airconditioning OR cook.

Mum: It must be the stove which is causing everything to trip! *switches on the stove*
Ian: *Matrix blacks out again* HEYY!!
Mum: *goes to check the powerbox* Yes! One switch is down! *flips the switch back up* Let me try again to make sure! *goes back to kitchen and switches on the stove. Computer and TV black out again* Yes! I think it is the stove! *goes back to powerbox*

So she toggles back between the kitchen and the powerbox for about 5 times until she's convinced that its the stove's fault. And all the time my poor computer's going on, off, on, off, on, off...

Hopefully this won't last.

Am still addicted to that Coke song. Someone's calilng me a Chihuahua already.

posted by Jeanne @ 7:45 PM

AHH!!!!! Morgan won the immunity challenge....FOR ONCE!!

I love supporting the underdogs. Its so worth it when they finally win something :D

Went out with Justina to Cine after classes today. I haven't been there since I went bowling with Zhiheng, Felicia and Matt months ago before the exams. I mistook it for Heeren! And I kept asking Jus why we had to cross the road to go to Annex instead of just taking the escalator up! *argh* I need to get out more.

We went to NYDC to celebrate the Jeanne-Ann birthday party yesterday. Got delayed because Dorai came to give us a pep talk in class about the Prelims which lasted till 2.30. Ann had to catch a cab to NUS by 5.30 or risk being stranded in Singapore so we were rushing for time. Pea and Gwen chose to make a quick dash across the road to the bus stop while the rest of us stayed behind rather than become roadkill. The button on the traffic light on our side of the road was jammed so we yelled at Sylvia to press the one on her side because if you don't do anything, it can take about 10 minutes for the stupid light to change.

Me: *yelling across the street* PRESS THE BUTTON! *violent jabbing motion with finger*
Sylvia: ????? *looks toward direction I'm jabbing in* THE BUS ISN'T HERE YET WHAT???
Anjali: PRESS! THE! BUTTON! *violent jabbing motion with finger*
Sylvia: *searching deparately for that imaginary bus* THE! BUS! ISN'T! HERE! YET! TAKE! YOUR! TIME!
Me and Anjali: *together* PRESS THE BUTTON!!!!!
Pea: OH! BUT WHY -?
Ann: *snaps* SYLVIA JUST PRESS THE DAMN THING LA!
Pea: *immediately goes to press it looking disgruntled* WHY CAN'T YOU PRESS IT?
Anjali: ITS SPOILT!
Pea: HOW DO YOU KNOW?
All of us: *screaming together* ITS STUCK!!!!!

Hung around Borders for a while before we went up to eat. Ann wanted to look for magazines featuring Orlando. So it was nearly 4 when we ate!

I've learnt its best never to talk about teachers being in malls while we're actually out in malls. It brings bad luck.

We were sitting right by the glass wall in NYDC and I saw this woman who had square glasses and I commented that she looked like a teacher from school. And so Anjali and I started discussing her uncanny resemblance to Clara Lim-Tan and then suddenly Ann goes "SHIRLENE KOH!!"

So for the next 5 minutes we freaked out because according to Ann our History teacher went into the toilet and spied us just as she turned round the corner. And she gave Ann this...Look. And that...Look can't be good.

Things to do when you've been Spotted.

- Nametags definitely go back on.
- Shirts, if out, go back In.
- Socks, if low, must be pulled up so that they at least cover a minimal amount of skin above the anklebone
- Must definitely avoid eye contact and head for the nearest toilet where we can think of best excuse to give for being out in school U.

Only she herself went into the toilet so we couldn't very well go hide there. Anyway we didn't think she'd come storming into NYDC and haul us out. But then Anjali said she could call us to come out. Suddenly [i don't know why] envisaged Ms Chia standing just outside the glass wall staring in, handbag and all, arms folded, one finger beckoning toward us. Mentioned this and they all started shushing me.

Ann: "...I hope they're not having a teacher's lunch here today."

I heard from Amanda that actually happened once. And some unlucky girls bumped straight into the DM.

DM: What are you doing here? Meet me back in school.
*go back to school and see her in the office the same day*
DM: *blank look* Who are you? Why are you here?
Girl: You asked us to see you because we were in the shopping center...?
DM: *straining to think* ..... Oh. Right. Yes. I remember now. Ok give me your names then.

So started concentrating hard on the menu trying not to look at the direction of the toilet. Then someone came over to take our order. I guess we must've missed her while we were placing our orders because we kept watching the toilet after that and she didn't come out. Then I decided we might as well go to the toilet and say Hi to her.

Anjali: No! Are you crazy!
Gwen: Might as well come clean about it. It'll look worse if we pretend to ignore her.
NYDC waiter: *picks up a camera and snaps a picture of us eating*
Us: ......

So we went into the toilet and started searching for her. All the cubicles were occupied so we started washing our hands pretending to do something, and jumping everytime we heard the toilet flush and someone coming out of the cubicle...we must've used up a fair bit of soap before we concluded she'd gone. Went back. But I kept looking toward the toilet after that :|

Strange.

Was planning to subsidize the entire meal with my birthday money but service charge and GST are seriously evil. Ended up using all my birthday money and Ann paid a bit too. But my mum gave me back the full amount today so I'm happy :D

We had to wait for our 83 cents change but Ann and Gwen were already running off because Ann was late.

Ann: Forget the change! Its just 83 cents!
Me and Anjali: But its money! *walk back to NYDC and wait by the counter*
Waitress: *arches eyebrow* Yes?
Me: Eh... *suddenly thinks its quite silly to demand 83 cents*
Anjali: Eh...
Me: *spies Ann and Gwen running away* Eh nothing. Never mind. Eh. Bye. *starts to walk away*
Waitress: *suddenly calls out so everyone can hear* EXCUSE ME ARE YOU WAITING FOR YOUR CHANGE?! *waves 83 cents in her fist*
Me: *quickly runs over to get it while the NYDC waiter tries not to laugh*

I'm never going to show my face in NYDC again.

And I hope they don't pin our photo up there.

posted by Jeanne @ 10:40 PM

*blows out the candles*

As of today I can watch NC16 movies!! Thank you very much for reminding me Thomas and Matt. Pity I don't really have time to go watch movies now though...*grumble*

Got the Bling Bling CD from Anj, Gwen and Pea today! I think Gwen wanted to give it to me tomorrow though since we're celebrating the Jeanne-Ann joint birthday bash on the 10th. [Ann's bday is on the 11th] Quite an awkward situtation this morning. Sat between Pea and Gwen who were arguing over my present.

Pea: Eg Gwen, we're giving Jeanne the present now horh...*rummages through bag*
Me: Yaaaay...
Gwen: *stares* NO! Not now!
Pea: *stares back* Why not?
Gwen: Give it tomorrow! Then we can give her and Ann their presents together!
Pea: Give Ann's present now too then!
Gwen: Give it tomorrow! I didn't bring Ann's present today!
Pea: C'mon la its Jeanne's birthday today already! And she hasn't even got any presents yet...*has a "let's take pity on present-less Jeanne" look*
Me: *protesting* HEY! I got a present from Ann this morning already! And -
Pea: *ignoring me* I'm giving now la...*searches around for the CD in her bag...*
Gwen: OI! NO!!

Yiming called me in the afternoon to wish me a happy birthday but I couldn't really hear him because there was some other guy speaking Chinese quite loudly over the phone. Hey, who was that anyway?

Blah. I've been exploring all other possibilities but no matter how I look at it, NJC is actually becoming [and I hate to say this] a very....viable option......... :|

Farrah: *earlier this year* DON'T go to NJ!! Worst decision of my life!!! *shakes head fervently* Don't ever go there!!!
Renuka: *joins in enthusiastically* OH YES don't go there!! Dead school!! Really!
Me: *nods head vigorously* I agree! I agree!

This must be what they call irony.

I still am tempted to go AC...I can wake up late and walk back home from school if I forget books! But now Gwen's refusing to go with me. She's basing this on the advice of her brother!! [Gwen!! We had a promise!!]

Gwen: Orh. My brother says that in AC all the AC people sit in one corner *sweeps hand to the right*, all the MGS people sit in another *sweeps hand to the left* and all the extras sit in another corner! *waves hands about violently* And they'll only talk to you if they think you're funky or you're chio la.
Me: .....*not giving up* But I can wake up late and walk back home -
Pea: Why on earth do you want to go back home so early for?! Then you have no excuse to stay out late and party!
Gwen: You should go to RJ. Do you know why? Because they are tons of extras there so you can just blend in! *sweeps hand violently again*
Me: ...are you saying that -
Pea: *nods* Yes RJ is better. Don't waste your options.
Gwen: *carries on* No really. RJ's not as cliquish. Even HC is better.
Me: What?! Whatabout the Chinese High cliq -
Gwen: *speaks very fast* HC people are funky. Really. You should go there. Or to RJ. You should never go to AC do you hear?
Me: Gwen! You were supposed to go with me to AC to do Arts!
Gwen: Ah. I said I would think about it but I never said I would. I'll only go if a big bunch of Crescent people go.
Me: So where are you going?
Gwen: *looking supremely unconcerned* I don't know. *starts on second bowl of rice*

Gah. I should just enjoy my birthday. What's left of it anyway.

posted by Jeanne @ 12:39 AM

Quick update ~ Ashley's blog is up now on the links section.

Everyone else is getting 6 - 9 points for their L1R5. Am. really. feeling. the heat. I really think I'm going insane. I go totally ballistic when I should be happy. This is a very bad birthday week.

So from the looks of it. Bio and Chem were bad. Lit was bad. Maths looks quite scary with the "majority" getting every other question screwed....so what's left?

My dad got angry with my mum over the booking of flights to Tasmania. They fought. Evidently my mum won because now she's refusing to do the booking. Once again my dad's remorseful too late. SMS-ed me this afternoon from work.

Dad: ...are you home yet?
Me: yar why?
Dad: oh...ask your mum about Tasmania!! Help me persuade her to book the tickets!!

She still won't.
Ah well. There's always tomorrow to talk to her.

Need to sleep.

posted by Jeanne @ 12:50 AM

They gave back a few papers yesterday. Not so much the checking of marks but more of going through answers and "see where you've gone wrong" stuff. And as always, its a "see how much more harder you have to work" kinda thing too.

What's frustrating is that they don't only return the papers in drips and draps, they return it part by part. So we know Biology Paper 1 marks but not Paper 2 and so on. To date, we have Biology and Chemistry MCQ marks and English comprehension. They went through Chem and Bio paper 2 answers but didn't return them, but we can get a rough gauge of how we did. So far the papers gotten back have been ok. Well, better than what I'd expected anyway.

ESeah, as usual, is all doom and gloom. She went through Chem paper 2 which was bad as expected, and she still had to go say stuff like: "For the give questions, you did not give. For the thinking questions, you did not think....and this entire paper shows that you do not think at all." Phrases like "to my utter horror", "absolutely devastated", "Zero marks out of five" and "couldn't mark the whole night" appeared a fair bit so I think I can safely say now that Chem Paper 2 was a disaster of great magnitude. Then she went through practicals which was very very very painful.

Hah. English. Gave back compre but not compo because, Janet Lee claims, "its for your own good" and gives us this meaningful look.

They're driving me mad! Was the essay section lousy or what?? Are they just trying to scare us?? Most importantly, do they moderate for English??? What happens if you get like, 74.9/69.9/64.9 for a paper???

...I just asked Alison whether they round up decimals.

Alison: DUH!!!!!!!!!!

Ok. I should stop being so paranoid.

Lots of prelim papers to practice with now. I wish I'd been in Chung Cheng for the Maths paper.

Doing Amaths until 6pm everyday! Gek's mad!

And Alison got 7 points!!! I'm envious!

posted by Jeanne @ 3:35 PM

Dorai didn't do anything after all.

Turns out after I left, Syaz and company went to the computer lab to do the NE quiz and found out it'd been cancelled. So they were understandably pissed and went to seek out Dorai for an apology because she'd yelled at them for nothing...and they found her in the AVT. Only Dorai didn't even dare come out to meet them. In the end, ESeah apologized for the confusion in the schedule. Sheesh.

That aside, today was pretty fun again. Went to the Botanic Gardens for a picnic [one of the post-exam activities]. On the way, Priya and Sylvia started discussing football while the rest of us listened, trying to act as if we knew something about what they were talking about. Presently, started talking aout the girl who was raped by 8 footballers [identities as yet unknown]

Me: Who were they anyway?
Priya: *suddenly grabs my arm* ARSENAL! It MUST be Arsenal! I want them jailed!
Me: What's wrong with Arsenal??
Sylvia: *starts choking* Have you seen their fans? They all look dead! Its a dead team!
Priya: *to me* Aiya...because they're lousy...and they rape people...oh wait...*turns to Sylvia* it could be Owen also hoh.
Sylvia: He's married leh.
Priya: So what? He's still dumb.
Me: Mmm...ok...um. So how's Beckham?
Priya: *immediately* He's an idiot lar.
Me: ??? I thought you loved him!
Priya: That was before he left Man U.
Me: Oh....*pause* I thought he was fired.
Priya: *appalled at my ignorance* NO!!!!! He quit because of his wife! She didn't want to live in England and now she realizes she doesn't want to live in Spain either, and they haven't even got a house there...living in a hotel...oh and you know what -

Spent 45 minutes walking to the Botanic Gardens from school. Then we just spent a little over an hour there and took another 40 minute walk back :| Kinda wasted actually.

We spent more time feeding the fishes and the turtles there than ourselves. Fed them the bread from the hotdog first. Then Priya and I stole Ann's egg sandwiches and just squatted by the bank throwing pieces of Sunshine bread into the lake. Very engrossing. Can fishes eat eggs? Some egg fell inside. Sherry said later it might poison the fishes. Argh.

I realize when I experience severe fatigue [eg: when taking a 45 minute walk from the Botanic Gardens back to school] I display typical symptoms of intoxication. Seriously. And so do Gwen, Pea and Ann for that matter.

*walking past Tanglin Mall. Dead tired*

Ann: *starts singing the Superman theme* Somebody saaaaaaaaaaaavee meeeeeee.....
Gwen: Ahahah ey where's Clark? Where's Clark?! Where's Clark, Ann??!!!! He should be coming to save you! Whoooo!!! *imitates Clark running*
Ann: I WANT ORLANDO!!!!! *sings again* I'm more than a biiiird...more than a plaaaane...
Me: *whining* Lets take a bus back to schoool...please....*swings frisbee around violently* a taxi...anything, anything...*starts rolling the frisbee down the street and chasing after it*
Pea: *slurs* Dorai.....sucks, I tell you..I want to put...a bomb...in her table and watch it explode and see...all the lard splatter -
Ann: *singing again* On top of old smokey all covered with sand, i shot my poor teacher with a green rubberbaaaand...
Pea: - across the staffroom....the minute fat globules...*sadistic smile* And you know if we make soup out of her right...
Ann: -I shot her with pleasure i shot her with pride, i couldn't have missed her she was forty feet wide
Pea: - the layer of oil will be like this thick! *wild gesture with hands. Grins to herself*
Gwen: *wondering* Should I take off my skirt here? I'm wearing shorts underneath....hmmmm....*staggers around then decides to strip to shorts*
Ann: -I went to her funeral i went to her grave, some people threw flowers but i threw a grenade. It blew up the city it blew up the town, it blew my poor teacher right out of the ground!!! *screams as we pass by American embassy*
All together: .....And round and round it goes! And round and round it goes! And round and round and round it goes!!!!
Pea: Hey...if this is what we're like when we're not drunk...

Sobered up when we got to the zebra crossing just opposite school. We had begun singing the Animaniacs theme song substituting the words we'd forgotten with "na-na-na-na", followed by the Pinky and the Brain one, when the security guard yelled at us from across the road to cross. But we didn't, cause the green man was flashing anyway so he got extremely pissed and told us instead not to cross anymore -we weren't in the first place ["Since you don't cross when I tell you to you jolly well stay put now blah blah"]

Drank a large cup of juice later. Helped clear my mind a lot.

Then went to the hall to watch 'Pay it Forward'. The rest went to sleep while the movie played on and woke up only to witness Haley Joel Osment get stabbed and die.

And tomorrow its back to normal lessons. gah.

We're getting back prelim results. On my birthday.

Mum: Oh GOOD!!! What a great birthday present!!

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posted by Jeanne @ 9:00 PM