6 posts in a go

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! 

" You could be my hero, if only I could let go

But his love is still in me, like a broken arrow" 

That's all for now! Toodles! :)

Post Exam Trauma

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 :)

Common Test Preparation

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! 

Sushi date

Went to the Sushi restaurant at Jcube with Wang Ru(Mabel), Chin, Darren and Wan Ling. Although I don't like sushi so I ate very few :X 

I tried this awesome flavor called Avocado-Mango. Didn't expect it to taste so good! I am gonna drool just thinking of it. LOL. 

It felt good to meet up with the whole secondary school gang after so long. :)

Looking forward to the next outing alr! 

Singing

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!

The Final One Live

Last Wednesday, Brielle, Judy, Mazi, Mabel, Zhiqi, Wendy, Shamira and I went to watch the Final One. Here are some pictures:

Mabel and I, pre-event

In the lift. Sun was a bit too bright ><

The set of Final One

What we wore for the live show!

Brielle and I. Are we photogenic or what? xD

my ticket! :)

Taufik Batisha, Judge. Photo taken by Mazi!

The contestants! Photo taken by Mazi! 

With besties Mabel and Judy! I know you can't see me -.-

Group shot! :) 

Pretty little ladies 

The Awesome Threesome 

  I must say we had some trouble finding the Mediacorp Studio and had to change several buses just to get there. LOL. Thanks Judy and Mabel for being such awesome navigators and so skillful at using Google Map. Without you guys, we would all be lost and late for the event! To anyone going there in the future, the best route would be from Farrer Park MRT station, there is a direct bus from there! :) 

The stupid thing is that in the midst of being lost, it started to drizzle and most of us did not bring an umbrella. -.- 

Anyways, upon reaching there I saw Mardiana, my ex Fuhua senior who is a supporter of Jean, a contestant of The Final One, and is also a close friend of hers. :) And guess what? We got really good seats despite the fact that we were kinda late! Brielle, Wendy and I got front row seats!! And the others were either in the 2nd, 3rd or 4th row, so all of us had a really good view! And yes, we all appeared on TV several times. :D 5 seconds of fame. HAHA

The contestants who performed that day were pretty good! My personal faves were Louisa and Glen! I liked Rico in the previous round but felt that he chose the wrong song to sing that day :/ I voted for Glen at the end of the show. We didn't stay to watch the results show though, most of us had to go home. 

I wanted to get a photo with Taufik but he went backstage before I could chase after him. WHAT A WASTE OMG :( Nvm, AT LEAST I GOT A PHOTO WITH HARRIS. *spasms* 

With the handsome Harris!

I know he doesn't look that appealing in this picture but it's just the lighting ok, he is normally very handsome. Judy and I were spasming when we saw him! THANK YOU MAZI AND ZHIQI FOR HELPING US BY APPROACHING HIM TO ASK IF WE CAN TAKE A PHOTO WITH HIM. LOVE U. We(Judy and I) were being wimps and didn't dare to ask -.- It would have been such a regret if we missed the chance. 

HE LOOKED AT ME. 

Omg I am being such a fangirl. I am sorry. :(

Anyways, all in all, it was a great day. Had lots of fun and laughter and new experiences. :) 

Operation Nair and Brielle's performance!

Almost forgot to mention this! On Friday, before the sports meet, we successfully carried out Operation Nair! In other words we surprised her with our birthday gift! :) 

                              

Then yesterday, on Saturday, Wendy and I went to the shopping mall near Stadium mrt to watch Brielle's first outdoor performance! :) we missed his first two songs tho :( we were late Cus we accidentally got off at the wrong mrt station! Dumbos~ 

For his second performance he sang Just give me a Reason by Pink and Domino by Jessie J! Both songs are  tough to sing but he hit every single note so hats off Brielle! He keeps growing as a performer! :) I would upload the video of him singing but the uploading takes FOREVER so a picture of him will have to do :/ 

My initial plan was to get him a flower because that's what ppl usually get for their friends when they perform on stage, especially roses! But because we couldn't find a florist at the mall, we had to settle for a spongebob balloon! Wendy insists that it's cute but since I am not a spongebob person I shall remain quiet on this topic XD and we attached a card to the balloon, congratulating him on his first performance. 

His parents and two brothers, Bjorn and Barrichello were there too. I hope I spelled the names right. LOL. After the performance he told us that he was actually nervous but it wasn't obvious at all during the performance!! The mark of a true blue performer :) 

Tafn!