Exhale

Went for Grad Nite yesterday. And it was very fun even with my merry, merry friends Elaine :P You should've come!

Went to HS in Paragon for make up, hair and studio photos. The makeup was...very thick. Pea famously remarked that we looked like a bunch of sluts in the Ladies' where we were frantically trying to blot out the lipstick. I suppose the makeup was heavier than usual because we were going to take photos later so they couldn't afford to "go easy" as Ann requested. My mum was horrified after the prom when she was trying to remove all the powder.

Mum: *violently scrubbing my face with makeup removal for the third time* Oh my goodness! Your makeup! *panting* Its fantastic! I still can't get all the foundation off!

Spent almost as much time removing all the pins which the hair stylist had stuck into my head. I counted them later. There were 33 hair pins in total! So I've got this little black pile of pins now on my bedside table and they still smell like that insecticide-hair spray she used. Eeeee.

And the school cheated us! Miranda clearly said during the briefing that the first 200 to arrive at the hotel would get half their money back (or some money back anyway). Well. We were the first 10 people to sign in and we didn't get anything! Just some 18 dollar voucher at Jill Lowe's makeup place. Sheesh. No wonder Mr Loh was so evasive when we tried to confirm the half money back thing just before the ballroom opened. Pea came from some other hotel and phoned to ask about the partial refund while on her way over. She was understandably pissed at my reply.

Pea: *furious* WHAAAAT?? Are you serious? There's no cash at all? And did you say they're giving out J. Lo vouchers?? What's their problem??!! *starts to rant a bit*

Am quite hostile toward Jill Lowe now. Firstly because her $18 voucher - which was useless...who wants a makeover after the prom?? - replaced that refund I was hoping for and secondly, we later got these Jill Lowe makeup cases as a table prize during the dinner. We thought they'd at least have Jill Lowe products inside but we opened it up and there were just these empty Jill Lowe bottles! (for putting in your own makeup I guess) Ripoff! The only thing useful in there was the mirror which Ann and I used to check whether we'd eaten up all our lipstick!

Ah but the food was v. nice though. Mm...Sharks Fin Soup! Not too bad! Although I think my dad would be upset if he found out I ate the stuff; he's had a 2-year boycott on the dish and collects those anti-Sharks Fin postcards which feature a bride and groom walking into a banquet hall filled with bloody Shark carcasses ("hundreds of innocent sharks are tortured and left to die each year for your wedding feasts...").

Anyway, it ended at around 11pm with dancing. Never dance in heels! Discarded our shoes by the side after realizing we'd end up with major cramps if we continued in those stilettos. [still got cramps anyway] There was some fog machine which churned out this thick white smoke which smelt faintly of...satay? Something burnt anyway giving the impression that we were dancing in the middle of a bonfire. Had fun with Sylvia while we did some Bollywood dance to Eve's Who's that Girl with Clarissa - who was sandwiched between us - unknowingly serving as our coconut tree. No booze Sylvia but you have to admit it was still quite fun without it eh?

Recovered today by spending 5 hours on PS replaying FFX. Ann and Gwen think I'm weird for saying a "cartoon character" is shuai. Sheesh! Its CGI! Donald Duck is cartoon character! There's a huge difference!

Gwen: *blank* ...Aiya they're both same thing la...

O.M.G.

posted by Jeanne @ 11:55 PM

My dad bombed 3 people with black pudding on Sunday!

He was swinging his arms around in the church kitchen when some woman (Jennifer/Janice) came up behind him with a bowl of black pudding. And he hit her and the bowl flew from her hands and landed on the floor with the pudding splattering onto Father John's robes, this woman he was counselling and Jennifer/Janice's face. The latter promptly threw a fit whilst the black stuff started streaking down her face, smuding her makeup.

Jennifer/Janice: *ranting* OMG! My face! I'm going to sue you until your pants fall off!
Dad: *shooting back* Yea that's what you want isn't it?

Went to Paragon to pick up prom stuff and go for dinner that same day. My dad was quite reluctant to go the place which he says houses "a lot of posh stores with weird names I can't pronounce". Started gesturing toward Yves Saint Lauren to prove his point and then later concluded that Metro's the only one there that's not French and is pronounceable.

My brother still is not really talking to me after 4 days of silent treatment. Only yesterday he suddenly addressed me when I claimed (incorrectly) that 7-11 didn't sell Twiggies. He called me a "stupid git". This, I guess, is progress.

Grad Nite's on friday. Still undecided as to what to do after its over.
Mr Miranda talked a bit about it this morning when we went for the PAE briefing and warned us not to "take over" the hotel on that day [and apparently they're now offering discounts if you say you're from Crescent!] or dress to seduce the hotel staff. It all seems quite exciting really. I think Monica Chua and the PSG have outdone themselves - Mp3 players, diamond pendants and holidays up for grabs in the lucky draw! And they still seem to have funds left over because they're now organizing some "early bird" thing where the first 200 sec 4s to arrive get half their money back. !!!!!

Pea: Hey so is there going to be any booze at the prom???

And we're thinking of getting her a bottle of vodka as a grad nite present.

Got our testimonials from Dorai today. I am convinced she cheated. Some of the stuff in my testimonial looks strangely familiar such as "Jeanne works well under pressure..." Well she wouldn't know that not being around half the time so the only place she could've found that out from was from the CME self report - ostensibly aimed at providing her with a "better knowledge" of her class - she demanded from us in the beginning of the year! And all the stuff about "Jeanne is generally modest blah blah.." was obviously taken from the peer testimonials of Ann and Gwen! Sheesh! So she's just copying and pasting things from a combination of our CME reports, peer testimonials and stuff she previously wrote under the Remarks section of our report books over the past year! *grumbles*

Speaking of which, Dorai refuses to drop by Grad Nite. The reason she gave us, during that now infamous lecture on the last day of school, was because she never "gelled" with us and that she's "never had a form class like this before" (that meant in a negative way) We figure the real reason she doesn't want to swing by is because she just wants to get some beauty sleep to be in top condition for her wedding which is the day after the prom. Oh. And she used the same lame excuse about "gelling" to justify withdrawing our invitations to her wedding! Gwen and Anjali reckon she just doesn't want to book more tables for the dinner or something. There has been some talk about crashing her wedding anyway and standing up to protest when the Priest gets to the part when he asks if anyone objects to the union... *broods* Ah well.

Made arrangements to go to Sentosa again with Gwen this week. The prospect of sunburns and jet skiers will not deter us this time. And we must bring along swimming costumes!

posted by Jeanne @ 11:03 PM

My mum did some spring cleaning today. She got to my room and pulled out the box in which I throw all my school books in and went though every single item in it.

Mum: *holds out Mastering Unseen Prose* Do you still want this book? ....Hey! All the pages are falling out! The binding is lousy! *pages 81 - 90 fall onto her lap*
Me: Yea just throw it away.
Mum: *holds out Mastering Unseen Poetry* Hey but the pages aren't falling out of this one!
Me: Ah. Because I never opened it.

Strongly tempted to fling my science textbooks into the bin but my mum thinks my Bio book could be given away to "needy children". Chem stays because I might be giving tuition to juniors. I wonder which will be harder to comprehend: The crazily highlighted pages of my Bio book with random scribbles and doodles beside the text, or me explaining the collision theory with relation to temperature and pressure. Hmm.

My mum also unearthed Yuehao's "FEAR ME" sign in the box and was about to junk it if not for me waving my arms around in violent protest (I was eating). Its the only thing left to remind us of our short but memorable stint as directors-scriptwriters-cum-actors during last year's video journalism course - it was fun! Gwen, Yuehao, Yueyou and I did a 10-minute short film to impart the importance of cleanliness and hygeine. Well. That was what we said when the course instructor asked us what message our film was trying to convey. We did this blair witch like flick about a group of students who wreck havoc in the school toilets (shot entirely in the sec 1 washrooms) and as a result, face the wrath of the ghost of a dead school toilet cleaner. The climax is when the cleaner (Wushan) "glides" out from the shower, plastered in toilet paper and dragging a mop to the opening of Linkin Park's In the End. That follows with us screaming in fear (though they managed to cleverly mask my obvious grinning by blurring the images during editing) and seeking refuge in another cubicle as the toilets start flushing spontaneously around us. In the end we run out to a miraculously clean toilet and there's a closeup onto the toilet cleaner's final message pinned up on the wall, written in red ink - "FEAR ME". Yuehao was kind enough to duplicate the infamous "FEAR ME" sign for me after our first one was dumped unceremoniously in the trash.

Still think it was quite a decent film. Yuehao was considering sending it in for some amateur film contest, but then we realized we would have to strip it of the entirely Linkin Park soundtrack to avoid infringing copyright laws and instead replace it with "original" music. So lost interest and never did submit it. I think the video clip is still languishing in one of the computers in the lab unless they replaced all the iMacs with new ones. Quite a pity.

I think if I screw my O's I'll go to NP and do film studies or something. I don't mind running around with a camera as long as I don't have to act in my own movie.

Went out to Suntec again today. Wanted to return to my poster shop but it was closed - as usual. What does that guy get up to?? There's money waiting to be made for the sale of FFX posters to me!! *sulk*

And Matt thinks I'm sick because I made 2 toy snakes in Borders french kiss. They had forked tongues! C'mon!

Bought Adrian Mole , The Cappuccino Years ("Its a little bit of coffee and a bloody lot of froth") Haha, yea for Moley!

posted by Jeanne @ 10:59 PM

Why is blogger messing up my posts?? *hmpf*

My brother's sworn revenge on me. This is getting bad.

posted by Jeanne @ 1:38 AM

Ah. I've learnt that I should never strike a deal with my brother.

I lent out his Thief CD to Elaine 2 weeks ago to burn and he insisted I get it back on Wednesday (the day of the history exam) though I really can't see what's the rush because he hasn't played with that game in about a year. But he was so serious about it that he actually drafted out a contract for me to sign. (???!!!!) Stuff about how I had to get it back by Wednesday or I would "suffer the terrible consequences"...didnt really read it properly because I was watching TV and also because his handwriting, like mine, isn't that great. Signed it because I wanted to watch Holland v in peace and also because I didn't really think much of the "terrible consequences". It was only after I signed it that I noticed that he had squeezed in stuff in the margins and at the back of the paper in extremely small print. Things like "By signing this you are agreeing to play 6 co-op missions with me on my LOTR PS game (and you cannot be Legolas)" and more importantly "If you don't get back the CD by the 19th of November, you will be banned from the computer for a week". Little sneak. He doesn't care about the game he just wants to milk it for all its worth. And I guess I should've made an effort to decipher his handwriting better but I thought he'd forget about the contract by Wednesday anyway.

And obviously I was wrong: he didn't forget. Which just quashes my mum's perceptions that my brother has a "bad memory".

So I forgot to ask Elaine back for the CD that day. Somehow when you're trying to do some last minute cramming of the events of the Cultural Revolution, other things on your mind tend to just .... disappear.

[And the most irritating thing is that...China didn't even come out for the exam. Sheesh. And neither did Hitler and the Nazis! Feel cheated. But. Anyway.]

*while out shopping after History exam*

Me: *phone starts to ring* Hello?
Ian: ...Did you get it back?
Me: *trying to avoid the question* Ahhh...eh....hm...oh hey, is this Ian by the way?
Ian: *ignoring me* Did you get the CD back.
Me: Is Mum at home?
Ian: Did you?
Me: Well....no I forgot to ask Elaine
Ian: *furious* WHAAAAT...
Me: *a sudden stroke of brilliance* Eh, sorry but my phone low batt now arh...byeee!!

He called me 2 times after that during dinner to pester me somemore. Went as far as to give him my Tidus poster as a peace offering when I got home.

Ian: *evil look* Tidus sucks. Why didn't you get Auron instead? *turns back to watch Holland V*

.....

And I realized last night he was serious about enforcing the computer ban after he started singing 'Lalalala' at the top of his lungs everytime I asked him whether I could check my email. But unfortunately for him the computer is still in my room so I can just lock the door when using it while he screams outside about blood traitors. But I didn't count on him to use his mysterious influence to get my parents on his side so both of them actually came and gave me 2 seperate lectures last night on "upholding my promises" which was quite ineffective because of two things: one, I have never upheld any promises when it comes to my brother because he doesn't uphold any himself. and two, I'm not listening I'm not listening I'm not listening....

But I guess I have to go call Elaine just to pacify my brother who has started to lurk around the living room giving me extremely sour looks. Sheesh.

And am still quite pissed over Sentosa yesterday. I still don't understand how I could've gone there with 50 bucks and come back with just 2. Cinemania was a ripoff. $12.50 for just 10 minutes of being thrown around in this Pod!

The beach was pretty fun...until the jet skiers came and started showing off.

*while wading in the sea*
Ann: *bellowing* Why didn't we bring our swimming costumes!!
Me: You brought a change of clothes didn't you? So just go and swim la.
Gwen: *wondering* Should I go and get wet?
Ann: *bellowing* I didn't bring extra underwear!
Pea: *big grin* Yea think of all the microorganisms in the sea....heehee *wanders off to 7-11*
Ann: *bellowing* Why didn't we bring swimming costumes?!!
*jet skiers draw closer*
Me: *starts to move out of their way* Just do it Sarah!
Gwen: *to herself* Should I get wet..
Ann: *bellowing* But I didn't bring any extra under-
*HUGE spray of water hits us as the jet skiiers suddenly swerve*
All: AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Ann: *dripping with water and bellowing* WHY DIDN'T I BRING SWIMMING COSTUME???

Pea and Anjali later found the 3 of us soaking in the water.

Pea: Hey! We saw a huge spray just now!
Me: ....Don't ask.
Pea: *grinning* Eh Ann, seen any microorganisms?
*another HUGE spray of water*
All: AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

posted by Jeanne @ 1:40 PM

Exams are over!

Went ot Suntec so Ann could get her hands on the Return of the King posters. Or rather, Orlando Bloom posters. That place we went to was great! Vosh Studios or something. They've got everything from postcards to teeshirts to those wallet-size pictures. Gwen and I went mad when we saw Final Fantasy stuff and had quite a fun time choosing FFX posters for ourselves. We got stuck between a poster of Tidus posing in a lake with a rainbow behind him (dubbed "Sunny boy" by Pea) and one of Yuna posing in another lake against this nice crimson/purplish backdrop ("Autumn Girl")

Got Sunny Boy for myself in the end so now I have a nice, colourful picture of Tidus grinning in a lake in my room. Gwen eventually picked the one with Tidus and Yuna posing together in yet another lake. Also concluded that Yuna just looks seriously wrong in FFX-2.

Steph sent me something in the mail a couple of days ago. Some psychological test formulated by an American psychologist to see if you have the makings of a psychopath apparently....so this is a question you wouldn't really want to get right I guess:

A girl's mother died and during her mum's funeral she met a handsome guy whom she instantly fell for. She kept obsessing about the guy even after the funeral. A week later she killed her sister - Why?

Asked around. Everyone instinctively thinks that a) Her sister was chioer than her. b) The guy was her sister's husband or c) More inheritance.

Surprisingly, my dad actually got the answer after a few tries. Without any hints.

Dad: *roaring from the living room* I've GOT IT! Haha!
Me: Whaaa-at?? I don't believe you. What's your answer then?
Dad: *very smug* Haiya...because she wanted to see if the guy would turn up at her sister's funeral mah...*smug grin*
Me: Omg...You may be a psycho!!
Dad: No I'm just creative :P

Freaked.

Going Sentosa tomorrow. Am seriously broke. Better start saving again.

posted by Jeanne @ 3:38 AM

Last paper tomorrow! :D:D:D

My interest in Sims has been revived after Ian bought the Sims expansion pack. Been building castles for my Sims the whole day but unfortunately they died in a tragic fire so all the effort was kinda wasted :|

Tried to cram in some last minute history with Gwen over the phone. Quite unsuccessful.

Gwen: Tsk Jeanne! Don't call me! Go and study!
Me: Then what about you?
Gwen: *extremely unconcerned* Orh. Aiya...I'm different la....haven't even flip open my textbook yet...but you! Go and study!
Me: Don't want la. I'm bored. And the Sims programme hung up on me.
Gwen: Eh, what chapters are you not studying?
Me: Mm...Cold war, Lenin and War in Europe.
Gwen: *immensely pleased* Oooo...good! Everyone's not studying the same things! Lets test each other. Lets do Gorby! *flips open textbook* Let's see...Gorbachev had a problem...and that problem was Russia. And Russia...*pauses* had a lot of problems......hey must we study all the problems of Russia?
Me: Yea you should.
Gwen: *very annoyed*...Haiya....then why did they print that section in such small fonts... People will think its unimportant! Tsk....yar anyway. So he introduced some changes like....eh...glasnost. So what were the consequences of these reforms?
Me: Um. *thinks very slowly* He couldn't get any support so...
Gwen: Eh...hang on...is this the guy who tried to suck up to the West but the West didn't bother to lend him any money?
Me: Yea.
Gwen: HAH! What a loser! Hm anyway... oh hey do you want to go swimming tomorrow?

- Long conversation about swimming -

Gwen: Ok ok anyway.....let's do Hitler...Rise of the Nazis...*reads from textbook* ......Oh. What must we know apart from the factors which led to the Rise of the Nazis?
Me: All the stuff about political and social control. And economic control I think.
Gwen: Ooh...ecconomic control....like his 4 year plan right? Or was it 5 year plan? Or was that Stalin?
Me: 4 year for Hitler.
Gwen: Oooo...*immensely happy* Ok good! Don't need to study that already!
Me: Are you going to study later by the way?
Gwen: *implying its a very stupid question* No.
Me: Are you going to study tomorrow?
Gwen: Tomorrow's the exam what.
Me: But its an afternoon test.
Gwen: Oh. No. I'm going to sleep.
Me: Alright. Maybe I'll go swim in the morning.
Gwen: Eh do you want to go swimming after History arh...?

- Another long conversation about swimming -

Hopeless. Shall just sleep late tonight and hope Brands' Essence will perk me up tomorrow.

Good luck to all!

posted by Jeanne @ 1:12 AM

Chatted with Gwen over the phone yesterday for around half an hour and probably would've stayed on for another half hour had it not been for that incoming call. Gwen comments that we're acting like we're on holiday after we started talking about Sentosa, socks and Harry Potter. The holiday bit is actually true but then again, it really shouldn't be one when you consider how Bio and Chem are lurking around the corner and that Hitler and the Stormtroopers seem to be giving you reproachful looks from the cover of your History Lecture Notes book.



Bio tomorrow.

After which,

I shall never have anything to do with Bio again in my entire life. Whoo!!

posted by Jeanne @ 6:05 PM

Me: *on the day of the Maths-D paper* Ahhhhh...so sleepy...I need Brands' Essence of Chicken.
Sylvia: *stares* ...You need BOOZE, we all need BOOZE man.

Was watching the news just now. And there was this woman on the street who was being interviewed on her views over sex. And I thought she looked like one of the Chinese teachers in school so I pointed this out to my dad.

Dad: Really? Oh. *turns back to TV* She likes to have sex in the dark, did you know that?

Sheesh.

Went to Hard Rock Cafe with my cousins yesterday. [set lunches are dirt cheap! :D] Ian started on a fresh rant about the ACE camp in M'sia again...supposedly like OBS only they've got to contend with wild boars too which chase after glowsticks at night (so they threw the glowstick into the river once and the wildboar jumped in after it). I think he's just pissed over the sunburn and sand fly bites he got there. Started entertaining us with stories about how some stupid hunters were going around shooting the wild boars at night so they had to run up the hill waving their glowsticks like crazy so they wouldn't get shot too while their teachers were lounging around in this huge bungalow ontop of the hill :/ Still trying to decide whether to believe him.

The ACE camp sounds pretty hilarious though. Apparently during canoeing, one of the instructors tried to show off and nearly drowned in front of his class. And another one fainted from heatstroke because he was fasting the night before. They had real tents though unlike in OBS where we completely gave up erecting the 'tent' and just slept on the tarp. Only they were more unfortunate because it rained while they were trekking in the jungle miles away from the campsite and the instructor suddenly went "Boys...did you seal your tent doors?" Apparently my brother's tent door was closed...but not the window so everything got wet anyway including his toilet paper and clothes. After listening to his horror stories, I concede that we had it much better at OBS.

Went to watch Matrix after lunch. Ah it was so much better than Reloaded! Its a little unfair though. It seems you should at least play Enter the Matrix before you watch the movie because the game explains about 70% of what's going on in the actual show accrd to PS freak Ian. And the remaining 30% of it is....well. Greek I guess. Makes as much sense as those vertical green encryptions which look strangely Japanese. But then again, Ian says if I can't even tell if dihydrogen monoxide is poisonous then there's no way I can grasp the "complexities" of the Matrix. Bah. They kept talking about "equations" in the movie. Reminds me of Maths. And I don't want to try and understand Math ever again.

Speaking of which, a/o maths is a nonexistant subject at HC. Confirmed. :\ They sent me a nice email saying I could take C-maths even though I don't have Amaths presently.
Suddenly I think of my Euthanasia essay.

Ah some good news! Pea, Gwen and I are going to stay with Ann in M'sia during the December holidays for a week!

Gallavanting! Shopping! Pirated VCDs! Uncensored VCDs! Food! Food! Food!

(and as for Sylvia...)

BOOZE!!

posted by Jeanne @ 12:22 AM