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Alright, I'm not happy. I've lost a book. It might be lying outside NTUC now, i don't know, but I'VE LOST IT OMG I'VE LOST IT.


Pity me?


Mm. 4 chat conversations. CHAT CAT CHAT CAT. I prefer schnauzers.
I can't deal. -shies away from cameras. shoo, go away-


Oh well my dad's brought a nice wooden clock from Berlin. I have no idea how to work it, I mean gosh, it has like... well, I'll take a pic of it if the camera's workin.


Camera. Hate 'em, love 'em.


I'm amazed people even want to talk to me.


I'm Chinese-illiterate, and my tongue constantly malfuctions. That's why i use fingers, suh. type type click clack type tip.


I got chocolate too, but it's too rich.
BUT I've got peppermint green tea in the fridge and I can down it in less than a minute an' that makes me cooler than you. (:


I need a new blogskin, dammit.


You know what this blog is called?


The Lonely Life


Mm yeah. I was feeling rather, err, lonely - when I made this blog 2 years ago.


TWO YEARS WOOT.


Have you started on your holiday homework? I haven't. No wait, I have. A bit o' history, thassall. Flivver.


Wait, I think I'll start on my English speech to-night. I think it'll be pretty fun.


When i was young and extrovert-ish in kindergarten, i used to love speech making. Monday was Show&Tell day and every week I'd raise my hand and get to the front and talk to the entire cohort of 6-7 other kids about... well, anything in particular. just loved speech making.


I loved them too, in primary school.


In sec1 I suddenly dreaded them.


And now YAY I'm lovin' them again.


The speech is based on this single line: I have a dream.


EQUALITY FOR HOMOSEXUALS.
NO MORE WAR. -I LOVE DEBATING 'BOUT THIS.
PEPPERMINT GREEN TEA EVERYDAY.
ANTI MENTAL AGING PILLS. LET'S ALL BE KIDS FOREVER!
AVRIL LAVIGNE TO RULE THE WORLD.


I shan't do the whole equality for men-women thing. Yes, inequality is still prevalent, and it's a very debate-able subject, but it's cliche overdone boring and we all know basically EVERYTHING about this subject so I won't talk about that.


No more war. Yes, that shall be my speech topic.


Now I've to think of a spiffy name. um.


I have a dream for the eradication of war.
nah too cheeeeeeeeeem lorhz.


I have a dream of no more war.
C'est ennuyeux.


I have a dream of WORLD PEACE WOOT.
Ohmygod NO. -gonk-


Quel horreur.

My inability to understand HOMG_ELITE_ABSTRACT poetry infuriates terrifies depresses me. Hand henna's so squiggly! oh yay. I can write my own abstract stuff but I can't understand others'. Gawd I suck.


Stupid shift button.


Alors que, wet matches won't light, so I s'pose it won't matter, one way.


The space between my big toe and the toe beside it hurts.


Hock-ay! oh whee. Who'd wanna read this.


ANYWAY i'm not too disappointed i missed french yesterday. C'mon, i got 8 books. :3


EIGHT. OH YES SWEET JESU.


I shall read one now. Bye bye, book-less suckers!

Come with me
Let me walk in through the world that I currently stay in
You can take a look around and tell me if I'm mistaken
You can even talk to everybody that I live with
Maybe you could tell me why everybody's so distant
Is it me or maybe, when I look around daily
I don't even know the people I can put my trust in lately
People that I used to hang with now their actin' to different
I'm still the same person why doesn't anybody listen
Can somebody please just explain to me
What happened to the way that we always said we'd be
Right now I dunno why I push through the pain that I got through
And I'm losin' hope

[chorus]
Deafening voices
That frequency inside my head that says
I'm going at it the hard way I focus
Get everything inside out of my brain that claims
I'm going at it the hard way

Come with me
Let me walk in through the world that I currently live in
Not a thing is forgotten, not a thing is forgiven
Nobody can hold their own underneath the weight but
Nobody can take the blame for their own mistakes so
What do you do when somebody lets you down
And you wanna say something but you can't cause their not around
Inside you think they know the extent of the pain
But they won't even admit that they were the one to blame
Can somebody please just explain to me
What happened to the way that we always said we'd be
Cause right now I dunno why I push through the pain that I got through
And I'm losin' hope


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Somehow i always manage to relate to Fort Minor's lyrics.


they're horribly angst-ridden, some of them, but sometimes life's like that.


I sound so pseudo-emo. =/

black is the new feminine! just something I thought of.


robyn paula amanda y'all know I usually spit out stuff I'm drinking whenever I happen to be drinking and something says something OMG funny. Happened twice at Robyn's house; was drinking vitamin c stuffs and spit it out all over the carpet, twice. I forgot what made me laugh. ^^;


Yeah anyway, it happened today again. I was finished with my curry rice at home and was drinking soup, and my mouth was totally totally totally filled with soup and my mum said something funny and I spit everything out onto the remainder of my curry rice and curry chicken and egg yolk.


It was pretty cute.


The fiesta today wasn't that boring. I wanted to do my history homework but ended up... not doing it. I got alot of books, yes yes yes yay! Titles are as shown.

The Faber Book of Nonsense Verse
The Songlines; Bruce Chatwin
The Falling Boy; David Long
Momo; Michael Ende
When We Were Gods (A Novel of Cleopatra); Colin Falconer
The Owl Service; Alan Garner
Skellig; David Almond
-a book for Paula; summat t'do with witchcraft :D -


Oh god oh god cost less than ten bucks, the whole lot. I am so lucky. It was a book haven, whee.


I kinda want to capture that magick charm of children's books that I've been severely deprived of. At least right now.


Y'know, Mrs. Goh is nice.


I'm seeing ducks in a totally new light, only it's kinda gross when one duck tries to seduce another. And crabs mightna be so bad aftrall!


My shift t'day was boring. The fun part, though, was mixing the chocolate.


After that i walked round a bit with Denise. She henna-ed my hand; my first henna ever! Y'know i'm thinking that next time if i go to a party of s'mething i don't need any hand accessories. Henna would do, on both hands, whee! So exotic, and i have a nice tribal-ish necklace to match. My dad got it from the Philippines.


I SHALL HENNA MY HANDS EVERYTIME I SEE A HENNA BOOTH.


oh and I gave Erin's cousin Yin-Rong twenty bucks worth of tickets, ahaha. B'cos i'm just that kind.


Let's evaluate my horoscope as stated in the Teens magazine.
Capricorn:
Get lots of rest to recharge.
Love: Sincerity speaks volume.
Friendship: A friend might get into a sticky situation.
Take initiative on: 3, 23
Lie low on: 8, 22
Lucky colour: White


I must admit, my horoscopes have been eerily correct on a few occasions. Forget about evaluating this. It's sososo ambiguous.


My sister went to sng for the fiesta, just for a couple of hours, and she bought two tea eggs and brought them home. She ate one for dinner and left the other one for me.


Taste good.


My mum wants to get me a camera tomorrow. I'm feelin' guilty.
Maybe i'd better show her my results tonight so she might change her mind about the camera.

I came home feeling stressed. I'm still feeling stressed.


And technically I shouldn't be stressed, b'cos i like my class tshirt, i've got one week's rest, i'm gonna play tennis/badminton at least once or twice during this one week, the fiesta tomorrow might not be that boring, there're grapes and ribena in the fridge, black still exists, ducks mightna be so horrible after all, to-day's geog test was rather easy, i'm blogging, i'm alive, a nice song is playing on my computer-


Oh yeah, oh yes, that damned PPR. I need this stress, dammit.


Talking about the geog test, I found it significantly easier than the previous one. Mm, lots of stuff i memorized and blogged in my previous blog post came out. I could do every single question. :3


Of course, with geog you can never predict your score.


What'd I need?
A good cycle and a good badminton/tennis game with someone. I wonder how much I'll get for my Science test.


My blog posts are getting hopelessly self-conscious. >_>


At least from my perspective. mia cara, mon cherie! Orlando di Lasso, wheee.


I think I shall have cookies to-morrow.


Anyway y'know yesterday for the Chinese presentation Yi Ying kinda stumbled on the chinese word 'fang4'; ended up saying something like 'fuck'. XD
Ouch. I just bit my lip.
My lips are awfully chapped. They always get like that whenver I've an ulcer.
Spate of bad luck, mal chance!


We-ll, things are looking up. at least temporarily.


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A1 for English & Lit & Chinese & History. One B4, two C6/7s, one D and one F.


oh yes, I'm very intelligent.


OH BTW I PASSED GEOG. BOTH. Yeah i passed the test by half a mark. 'twas re-marked, you see.


And I passed the geog individual reflection when almost everyone else failed. :3
Is that a cause for celebration or would that be considered sadistic and mean?
Mm, it aint no high pass anyway. 12/20
Teacher said: Gd tt you have statistics. :) But compare more to pre-war please.


I like teachers with ang-moh surnames. =D
likelikelike


Mrs. Sherwood! She's chinese yeah but prob'ly married some caucasian.


And i like it cos I can casually refer to her as sherwood. Mrs sounds stuffy. =


Like, well, we still refer to some teachers as 'wong' or 'sushilla', meh, but it doesna sound as spiffy as a non-Asian surname. :3


GO SHERWOOD GO!


oh man oh man, I got 65.2% for my overall PPR. That's my lowest ever. Next term i shall ace everything, EVEN ART. Well i mean c'mon Mr. Foo fails everyone for art except for Pei Hwa and Weng Jun. That's the bad thing bout having an art connoisseur for an art teacher.


But I like art lessons themselves, though. It's nice to sit there in the airy place, and then mr. foo talks to us for roughly half an hour, and we have about 30-40 to commence with the actual DOING of the lesson itself. It's so slack and open, it's brilliant.


I think i shall try out a new method of studying. Name blog-studies.


Features of a DTM:


Shown as a line graph.

Does not show specific male/female populations.

Shows total population as a separate line.

Shows details of country by stage.

Shows r'ship between birth and death rates and how they directly affect the total population.

Only needs one diagram to show all stages.


Whee, correcto!


Now, characteristics of a -


oh fcuk. I just realized, hahahahhhha. Nevermind.


Stage1
Less access to contraceptives. (damn my ulcer hurts)
High IMR, so families have more children in hope that more will live.
Need more children to help em farm.
Religions encourage more children.
High DR b'cos of poor hygiene, poor diets, famine, disease, little access to medical service and generally low life expentancy.


Stage2
Improvements in quality/quantity of food, sanitation, medical services, water supply. Decrease in IMR.


Stage3
More access to contraceptives.
Industrialization and modernization require less labourers.
Low IMR, people thus less inclined to have large families.
Increased desire for material possessions overrides desire for large families due to increasing wealth.
Women are more educated, more career oriented, more likely to marry late and have less children.


Stage4
Low BR and low DR with the occasional fluctuating population due to baby booms/disease. Results in steady population.


There!


What's a dtm? A...


A model showing how dynamic population is, with population change shown in two ways: change over space and change over time. Former: number of countries at same time can exhibit characteristics of different stages. Latter, country theoretically progresses through stages.


1950s - encouraged to have more children
1959-61 - Great Leap Forward. Disastrous economic project by communist government to speed up industrialization and rural modernization. Farmers shifted from agricultural communes to work in village industries, leaving few to bring in the harvest. Famine famine famine, woot!


BR declined until 1964.


From 1964-74, cultural revolution, BR rose. Ba-by boom whee! Needed farm help, wanted to 'replace those who died', etc.


Then wanxishao. Later, longer, fewer.


1979- one child policy implemented. BR declined.
Was relaxed in 1985 but a BR rise was inevitable anyway since women born from 64-74 were then of child bearing age.


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Should do this more often. :3


OMG IT'S THE END OF TERM ONE ALREADY.

My mouth is in agony.


ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER ULCER.


I mean, ulcers.

ohohoh I just remembered; hwa chong guys are in sng for the usual annual exchange program between the two schools. Miss Choo was flattering them so sugar-ily that it was quite amusing.

Nice people make me cry.


Expect waterworks.


/with a pinch of salt


I'll not get a good overall grade this term. Failed geog, got a C6 for Maths, B4 for gmusic, Csomething for art etc.


I did well for history and lit and english and maybe even chinese though, that is if our presentation wasn't graded.


but i don't think they'll raise my grade.


Oh freaking hell I wanna get into trip science. =/

Check this out: http://www.plushgolem.com/


:3


man oh man, well, today was okay I guess, for the most part. I was happy because the science test turned out to be not that hard and I got 17/20 for the English compre which is one of the highest I think, but I'm not so sure. The Maths class test wain't too bad either, though i thought one question looked rather incomplete and then i figured how to continue. I thought i had about 2 minutes left but i just wrote the first number and Mrs Soh was all 'time's up' and I had to stop.


oh well, the disadvantage of last minute brain waves.


And I'm sad because I wrote a lot of intelligent-sounding stuffs for my english newspaper reflection and Mrs Lee only put a 'seen' there. I'm not sure if she put that for all reflections but I'm just disappointed, that's all.


And i got 32/50 for gmusic for a piece I practised lots. It sounded nice, was real expressive (I think) but apparently it was too easy so I lost marks for technicality and thus got a low score. Well, i can't say some people didn't warn me of scoring low. Kerina advised me to change to another piece the week before but i didn't really heed it.


I died a martyr. ;_;


jeez, i sounded so pseudowannabe-emo there.


I suddenly want to go shopping.


and then I remember that I've got loads of stuff to do and i can't shop without feeling guilty, so there.


Fcuk. I've to spend about 10 hours in school this Saturday for a dumb, dumb fiesta.


Desolee, but have i missed something? B'cos all the funfairs I've gone to are helluva boring.
I know. You're thinking i'm a poor, deprived soul.


Gragh.


My leg itches. -twitch-


I have decided that to-morrow i shall bring my dictionary back home. It doesna deserve to be kept in a place where it is in danger of destruction, mutilation, disfiguration, assault and rape.