Last month, my relatives came to Singapore for a holiday and my mom and I acted as tour guides. :) Haven't met this uncle of mine for 10 years and never seen his wife and kid. Crazy, right?
Brought them to various shopping malls, to Sentosa etc. My little cousin seems to be a bit over-pampered, being the only child. After interacting with her, I realised that I was the only one who wouldn't let her get away with whatever she wanted xD If I ever become a mom, I will probably be a strict one. Oh well, on the bright side, she's adorable.
Meet Athena
My cool uncle
I like the above photo a lot! :) And of course, the awesome photographer is me! xD Sorry for the self-praise.
Mom and I :)
I didn't take any pics of my aunt with my phone. OOPS. Never mind xD
In other news, Wendy and Brielle gave me a surprise! I was just sitting at a table at the Foodplace in City Hall, waiting for Wendy and Brielle to come back from the rest room when they came back with a chocolate lava cake. I swear it had 2000 calories in it...not that I don't appreciate it lah xD
I am not big on celebrating my birthday though. Personal reasons. :) So if anyone is reading this don't bother celebrating kay! xD BUT I STILL APPRECIATE THAT B AND W DID THIS FOR ME. REALLY SWEET OF THEM. I DID NOT EVEN KNOW HOW TO REACT. Although when Brielle and Wendy were trying to figure out what to give me as a present I totally guessed it man. xD haahha brush up your acting skills people xD joking, joking!
I feel old but I am glad I am alive xD
Dang it, I am going to turn 19 and I am neither a responsible student nor daughter, and neither have I done anything with my life. :/ I feel the pressure to do something with my life already and I suppose I could start with A levels. I AM GOING TO BE HONEST. I PROBABLY FAILED ALL MY H2s FOR PRELIMS. :( I don't know HOW I am going to buck up in time for As...but I don't have a choice. I WILL buck up in time for As. The only problem now is, how am I going to face my parents and my teachers. Omg I can already imagine all their disappointed faces.
There is this motivational speaker that I always listen to. He is called Eric Thomas and he uploads new motivational videos every Monday(for America)/Tuesday(for Singapore). But even he can't motivate me sometimes :( Oh well, I have physics MCQ tomorrow. Hope I don't screw it up real bad. Sigh :(
Haha & Skull concert: Well let's just say that it was awesome! :D They were even better live than on their music videos. They hyped the crowd up really well and threw souvenirs in the form of t-shirts etc. out to us! I almost caught one of their souvenirs but someone snatched it away from me :(
Zhiqi and I, Zhiqi looking so sweet :D
(lazy to upload the other photos plus Blogger keeps screwing up :/ ) Hari Raya Celebration At Shamira's: Went over to Shamira's house to celebrate Hari Raya with her and her family. Met cute baby Emma and adorable Olivia, Shami's nieces. :) Ate a LOT of delicious food courtesy of Shamira's mom!! We also met Stina, a German exchange student who resided in Shamira's house for about 2 weeks I believe! She didn't socialize with us much though. :/ One interesting thing I found out was that she takes 13 subjects. And to think I already had trouble keeping up with my 8 subjects in secondary school... Here are some photos:
Zhiqi and I with sweet Olivia! Look at that smile! :D
Them goodies tasted good!
group photo! German girl beside me!
That's all for now! Will post more after the prelims! :)
Haven't had the time nor the mood to post for very long so now I'm going to spam several posts in one go.
1)Last month, I went to one of my mom's friends house with my mom. While I was there, to my horror I discovered that to occupy the kids' minds so that they can do housework in peace, the aunties let them watch horror movies on TV. 'cause apparently that's the only genre that makes them sit still. I am not a parent so I don't have experience with kids but surely that is not something kids should grow up watching. They were watching Prometheus for Pete's sake. Soon they will become desensitized to violence and horror. Oh lord, good luck to these kids. 2) Ok next, I realized I haven't complained about the haze yet. It's all past tense but I still feel the need to say something about it. This was the worst Singapore has ever been affected by the annual (deliberate) forest fires in Sumatra. Everyone was pissed, worried about their health, the masks were out of stock, I have never been to Guardian so many times in a week, we were breathing in carcinogenic air, people were getting coughs, PSI was hitting 300+ everyday, daily activities were interrupted (such as outings, canceling of consultations, and my dad was even allowed to come home from work at 3pm one day!). That basically sums up the terrible second week of June. Kudos to the 987FM DJs though, for making the situation lighter with their jokes and songs about the haze xD
This is called This is Haze by SgGag
This one's the best. Hazy by Mr Young and Jacqui
But luckily the wind directions over the ocean changed and the haze decreased. It's usually between 10 - 25 now. I never truly appreciated the clear air in Singapore till this incident. So THANK YOU Sumatra, for making me appreciate Singapore more. But no thanks for your contribution to Global Warming. *pissed*
3) We celebrated two more birthdays recently! Jessica's and Mazi's! For Jessica's birthday we went over to Mazi's house and baked cookies for Jess! We also made a batch each for ourselves and MAN...THEY WERE GOOD. Nothing like cookies fresh from the oven! *drools* Just hope that Jessica liked them too! :) It was the first time I tried my hand at baking after Home Economics in secondary school. I remember I made my first batch of chocolate chip cookies with Jermine. :D
For Mazi's birthday we made her a mixed tape! We put all sorts of songs inside! Maal even put Bollywood songs inside!! xD HAHA. I put a song from Mumford & Sons, one from Ellie Goulding, one from Steve Grande, and one from David Gray. I hope Mazi liked our present too!!
4) Mabel and I won the contest to go watch Haha & Skull!! :D Thank you so much to everyone who voted!! Went to get the tickets today! Will be bringing Zhiqi along since she is a big RM fan! I am not a big RM fan but I do like Korean music and Korean reggae is something really special and unique and totally worth watching! Check out Haha & Skull:
The mini concert will be held at Zouk tomorrow, which, in case you guys didn't know, is actually a club! So excited! My first trip to a club!! Albeit, not for clubbing~
I was always under the impression that Zouk must be at Orchard/clark quay along with all the other clubs, but turns out it's at Tiong Bahru! Which is fine by me, the nearer the better! :D
A picture I got of Zouk from Google but I will be uploading my own photos of Zouk tomorrow night, or maybe on Sunday. :)
5)There is actually literature class tomorrow morning...yes on a Saturday. However, I won't complain because we are going to watch the movie that has been adapted from our lit text The Remains of the Day and the play too! :) Really eager to watch ROTD but not so much The Duchess of Malfi as it is rather dark and dreary :/ and depressing.
Wondering if I should go to Ngee Ann civic centre tomorrow after lit, 987FM is having an event there... Anyways, I went to find Kazuo Ishiguro's other books! Already read A Pale View of Hills. The contrast between ROTD and APVOH is that while at the end of ROTD he neatly tied up the knots and everything, there are many questions left unanswered in APVOH :O I was quite stunned that he never bothered to explain certain events, thus leaving them to my imagination. It can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on what type of reader you are :) Borrowed two more Ishiguro books today: The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans. Gonna start on The Unconsoled first. Hope it won't disappoint! :)
6) Last but not least, I'd like to talk about a movie I recently watched. The main character (girl) was in love with a guy and broke up with him for some reason. Then along came another handsome and charming guy who wanted to be with her...she felt attracted to him too, but couldn't be with him because memories of the old guy would keep resurfacing. :/
I just hate this part of us girls...we somehow always think of the old guys even though it's been literally years. I sometimes still think of my primary school crush you know. -.- Maybe us girls REALLY ARE from Venus. Anyways, there is a song that describes this SO WELL. Broken Arrow by Pixie Lott. The song is self-explanatory. Do take a listen!
I know I kind of neglected Physics this holiday so if I fail or score poorly I understand. But I did put in effort for Math and especially for chem. I felt that the Math paper was ok but I don't think I will do that great...maybe just average. Chem was a real bummer. It feels like all my effort wasn't paying off.
You know what that means? That I have to work 1000 times harder D:
Whoever said in JC it's about studying smart and not studying hard, is clearly being delusional. We have to study hard AND smart. Really a hard thing to do for us teenagers with so many distractions.
One hurdle down, 2 more to go (prelims and A Levels). Hope I can pull through. If anyone else is demoralised like me, take a look at this video :)
Hey everybody! I hope your common test preparations have been going well! I think this was my most productive holiday so far and YET I haven't finished revision for any subject yet -.-
Been a bit distracted recently because Mabel and I joined this competition to win tickets to watch Haha (from Running Man) and Skull's first showcase here in Singapore. Thanks to everyone who voted though, I really appreciate it. Mabel and I are at the top 2 positions now :) So happy~
Ok not much time to blog already, just wanted to wish everybody all the best for common tests! FIGHT ON!
There was an open mike in Jurong West and it's going to continue till 13 June. I personally have something against that date. Anyways, let's not digress. Mabel and I went to perform today! :) Both of us performed live for the first time without any other purposes like auditioning for some singing competition or with the choir. It was for pure exposure :)
And I must say we did pretty well. We were both nervous but based on what I saw, I couldn't see that Mabel was scared. She acted calm pretty well :D And according to her I didn't seem one bit nervous either! Three cheers for US!
I sang Breakeven by The Script and she sang The One That Got Away by Katy Perry. According to my knowledge, I know I got every single note right. So I am satisfied :) I am a perfectionist when it comes to certain matters, and being a choir member for 6 years has made me a stickler for getting the notes right. The only sad thing is that none of our friends were there to watch us =/
But that doesn't matter. We sang so that we get exposure and we both did good and that's all that matters! Mabel told me this was the best I ever sang on stage! :) Will do this again after As! Time to concentrate on studying now. Had too much fun this holidays already. Means I haven't been studying :/
Mabel looking like a rocker :)
Tafn. Good luck with studying everyone :) Have a fruitful holiday!
