Fruss!!

What was supposed to be a simple- 'ok pack and go cuz everything's settled' issue is now all complicated. Again.

Monash decided to send me another offer, this time including a scholarship! which would make the cost of going to monash the same as UniSA. And as most people know, a degree from Monash is definitely more recognised than UniSA.
But going to monash means i need to somehow find a way to get back the deposit from UniSA and start over in finding accomodation in melbourne and all that...

in the end of the day it all comes down to how important is it to me, getting a degree from Monash..... instead of unisa. hmmph.

work sucks.
i get paid $4.60 per hour. morning shift is 8:30- 4:30, midshift is 12-8 and evening is 2:30-10:30 (or later depending on whether theres problems with calculations and stuff or not)

i get worked hard!! Today i spent some time first moving lots of milk powder frmo the display area to a corner of the store. then later today i spent some more time moving those from that corner into the store. I don't understand their logic. I could have moved them from outside right into the store room. saves energy, saves time. -_- anyway i was at work from 9am to 8pm today.

There's actually notmuch dust here. i mean, its indoors. it could be raining heavily, thunderstorm and all that and i wouldn't know anything until i get home and my mums like- it was raining so heavily today! and im like oh really...?
The store is big. pretty damn big. its the biggest Guardian outlet in singapore. and i dont understand WHY they can't get more staff. i know there's a lot of people out there looking for jobs. just stick up a job vacancy sign. HOW HARD IS THAT!??! Seriously, everyone here is overworked. There's this girl there who's from Phillippines, she's doing training at guardian. so she gets paid less than me. Today, instead of normal shifts (which we have to work over time most of the itme anyway) she had to work full shift.meaning, the entire day. from 8:30 am to 10:30pm. And because there isn't enough staff, she has to do that again tomorrow! i mean, seriously how fair is that??? It's like cheap labour i swear. thats wrong.... it should be against the law.
And we go in at about 8:30-9 in the morning. my lunch time is SUPPOSED to be at 2:30 which is already FRiggin late. But today i only got lunch at 4pm. I mean, by that time i really don't feel hungry anymore. And its so unfair. the manager and supervisor went to lunch together (which left me and that girl alone managing the store for about 30mins+) oh, and they went at 12:30. but when it was our turn to have lunch (at 3+) we cant go together. so anyway since i wasnt hungry anymore i let her have lunch first then i went. but its so unfairrrr.....

They're so short on staff, i really shouldn't be letting them push us around. but well, in a way if i do whatever i feel like doing, it leaves the other staff more work to do which makes me feel bad so i dont.

agh.

on the plus side, all this hard working and little eating helps with trying to lose the weight i gained from kuantan. :P
and im still getting paid more than i was in kuantan...

o and to answer more of liongs questions- the pharmacist is SO singaporean is pretty scary. her accent. OMG if u want to know how a sprean speaks- talk to her. She's ok. i like Jessica better. :) Apart from the supervisor lady, my manager isnt too bad. i dont really get her tho. if that makes any sense. my collegues, well, THere's Gloria, the girl from phillippines. she's 19. we get along pretty well although hard to undrstand her sometimes. haha. but yea. they're nice people.

enuff rambling. its 1am and i hvae morning shift tomorrow. again. and im planning to go out after that since today's plans didnt work out...
goodnight

About work

There isn't much to say anyway but since Liong asked i thought instead of replying to his comment i'll write it here.
So- this is for Liong. :) since im surprised he came to my blog... haha

It's not the same as working at Voon Pharmacy. Here, ONLY the pharmacist can get things behind the pharmacy counter. Some guy couldn't even buy Kenalog (this thing you can use for mouth ulcers...) But some of their vitamins and other medicine that was behind the counter in Voon is accessible here to public. things like Sangobion, Tanakan, Senokot, duphalac, obimin... dont remember what else. but that sorta thing... Oh and just fyi, even though i think no one cares, Senokot here is $5 for 60 tabs. in Voon its RM0.09 each tablet.
Anyway, what do i do there?? well... re-stocking shelves, making sure things on display are straight, and nice.. and the shelves don't look empty, and i get to use the cashier. :) I still can't figure out how to work the cards tho... ppl's cards i mean. at Voon all you do is stick the card in the machine and punch in the price, and enter. and its done. Here, for a different card, there's a different machine and its all very confusing. Ooh and i also get to scan items. haha. fun. but i guess only a while... after that maybe i'll get bored of it...
I've been worked hard the past 2 days cuz they're clearing out their store room. I thought Voon Pharmacy was messy and dusty at places, but i havent seen other places i guess. its a big mess here in the store... and its not like they have lots of stuff! compared to voon, this guardian has NOTHING! And therefore the entire store is being re-organised and i now have lots to do... taking things out, and re arranging and all that...
1 thing tho, ud think they would try to get rid of some dust and dirt but no.. they leave everything jsut as dusty as they are to put on display, and when reorganising...

update and pictures!

elloI'm now sitting in my new room at 0502 Holland GEMS. Goodbye Carlton Terrace... :(I started work today! tiring... but good cuz well, i need the exercise :Pthe manager forgot i was coming in today! she stared at me not knowing who i was or anything, then i said im starting work today and shes like oh, ya.Ritika should be arriving in singapore today... or tomorrow :)
Im not gonna write anymore cuz im a lazy pig.^^ BUT i will upload pictures since my phone decided to cooperate with my computer and i can finally upload pictures from my phone...

This picture however was not taken with my phone. here's a picture of our lovely crabs, Littleshit and Dung:

The orange thing is a carrot. they like carrots.

The rest are phone pictures...

Tutorgroup classrom with SoM. they got new computers!

Ice skating with Dom and Mjelva. thats just a random picture of random people who went to see the 'snow' which started cuz it was someones birthday.Naan from school!
Me and my annoying not-too-long-not-short-enough fringe that i sorta cut myself sometime ago... haha.
What's left of my Graduation rose... (its dried petals in there if u can't see!) and now even that's gone in the bin... Christmas deco at tanglin mall!

Me eating my self-cooked noodles (NOT instant noodles!). muahahaha.
My room being dismantled...
The rock in the box of rocks i got on my birthday from adam mj and dom... my dad left it on the balcony cuz no one wanted to carry it down. haha. so its still there...

MRT train in singapore :)
bye!

moving on...

my room has disappeared.

here are some pictures...

this is what it was like before the packers came.

(its usually not that messy. really ...)

now, its sorta...empty.

o well.

oh and this was what my little whiteboard had the week before i left for malaysia and when some people were still here:

It was a good week. Sad, but good.

i'm gonna sleep earlier tonight. another day of sorting out tomorrow before the packers come again and my entire house will be emptied out...

I hate moving.
It's been over 4 years since our last move. And i have SO much stuff!! I don't like throwing things away. like old schoolbooks and all that...

I spent my entire day today trying to sort out what stays in singapore what goes, and what i should bring to Australia. Very little of australia thoughts now though. no time for that. My mind is already messy enough... i suck at clearing stuff... and packing... And therefore am very slow. So i didnt get much done.

1 more day tmrw for the penang stuff. tues packers coming.

packers coming again on friday to move to new house here.

I think i'm falling sick. Crappy time to fall sick. but then i might have an excuse to do less with packing :P haha.

Job Confirmed

I start on the 4th of December. 9am.
i need to start waking up early...

If you haven't heard Gentlemen, or Try Too Hard by Teddy Geiger, i suggest you do. I dont know much about the lyrics but the melody is really nice. it makes me feel.... happy. i guess. just listen to them. :)

Anyway, i STILL havent confirmed my job at guardian which is a very silly thing to do considering how hard some people try to find a job and not getting any. Mental note: I will do that tomorrow.

I really have nothing else to say. im updating just for the sake of updating. nothing's been going on.
well not exactly. we now have 7 guests in our house. 3 adults, 4 girls. I went to school on friday to meet teachers and have naan (which unfortunately had just finished when i wanted to get some). I also went ice skating that day with dom and mjelva and got a bruise on my wrist from ONE fall about 5mins before we left ice skating because some guy decided to skate in front of me, and not knowing how to slow down or stop instantly, i decided to head for the barrier at the side- not a very smart idea. oh, and the place had crappy skate boots which resulted in sorta bruised ankles too. on one leg. the other side was fine.

My internet died on me last night, which wasnt very nice. i was in the middle of conversations with people! last night i also listened to (but not watch) british TV. haha. some show called Deal no deal or something like that.....

today i watched 5 (or 4...) episodes of Greys anatomy. :)

yes ive been very productive the past few days...

ah.. i need to start doing something. i need to call up Guardian tomorrow.

well thats a bit of an update for you.

Goodnight dearies.

just for my reference. might be a bit boring for you to read...

I've never really bothered finding out what my university course would consist of. So after months of procrastionation I realised it might be a good idea to check out what sort of things i'll be doing in uni.

First year, first half sounds a lot like normal school.
after that... omg
in math thers lots and lots of stats... glad to know though, math is only in first year.
the subjects sorta morph from usual bio, chem, math into less math, then less bio, and more and more pharmaceutics/pharmacology. intersting :)

As i read through the course description for each year i understand less and less...
which is quite scary.

anyway, after reading through a bit, i actually can't wait for uni to start. haha.
i'd probably regret saying that once uni really starts tho...

:P

looking at this year's time table (i cant see mine yet. wont be out til 20th nov) it looks like most lectures are 50 mins, and practical sessions are 2hr50mins long.
i dont really understand how things work or how what the table really shows, but looks like lectures can have up to 200 people and tutorials 15.

whats industrial placement?

the entire schedule is so hard to understand i dont even know when my holidays are. if i'm right, my mid-year break is 3 weeks in the middle of july.

First thing that comes to mind...

:: school => miss it
:: coffee => starbucks
:: vanilla => ice cream
:: yellow => banana
:: pink => I like
:: popcorn => cinema
:: summer => holiday
:: moon => night
:: memories => times after grad
:: sushi => food going round and round…
:: sorry => I cant tell you.
:: enemy => cant think of any
:: dog => snowy
:: country => this one’s small and nice
:: love => *sigh*
:: cameras => pictures
:: bed => comfortable and safe
:: aloha => cousin stitch
:: holiday => fun
:: movies => cold cinemas
:: chocolate => guylian
:: shoes => shopping
:: music => concerts
:: green => my polo t.
:: ball => sports
:: rock => stone…
:: kiss => sweet
:: life => not always fair
:: honey => pooh bear
:: Harry Potter => damn good book
:: hurt => scars
:: friends => cannot do without
:: tonight=> party

home sweet home.

i'm once again back in singapore. its good to be back. but it feels sorta different now...
theres hardly anyone here.

theres so many things i want to write but dont know what to write. so right now im just not writing anything.
i think i'll open up my diary instead... later. :)

anyway the following pictures are pen drawn 'tattoos'. haha. it all started when i was bored in one of the lectures i had to go to before starting driving lessons... if only they were real... :P i think my mum would freak out. hehe.





i like the last one...

update...

Hello all!
its been 2 months and a week since i arrived in Kuantan. I'll be back in Singapore on sunday :)
Anyway...
im done with my 2 months of work, and i also have my drivers license now! yay! :)
I baked some cookies yesterday for my collegues in the pharmacy, and they all wanted the recipe! so yeah :) that was good. haha. i thought it wouldn't work (baking i mean). The first tray came out prettymessed up... so i had to make some changes then it turned out fine in the end...

Parents came back from their trip to adelaide recently and ive got a place to stay there! sounds good so im pretty excited to get started. but somewhat scared... haha. well we shall see.
i also got an email from my Uni telling me when orientation is but i already know when it is so.. yeah...

i wonder what job ill get when back in singapore... was thinking last night cuz i couldnt sleep and i cant think of something i feel like doing apart from finding another pharmacy who would take me. haha.

SO

i'll be back soon. yeah. thats about it.

swati, i cant find your blog... o.O i forgot the address...

-laurane

salut!

i have finished 8 lessons, and passed my trial driving test.
i got 2 more lessons and the actual test on the 31st.
i finish work on the 31st.
once all thats over i hope to be back in singapore in the first week of november.

we'll see how it goes

oh, and ive been practising some french with the pharmacist who is currently laerning french and i realised how bad my french is and how little i remember :P

au revoir

HELLO!
I'm updating. :)
i dont think ive left this thing dead for so long before.
in case ure living in a box, im currently in Kuantan.
I've been working in a pharmacy for a month. was quite horrible in the beginning but its getting better. :) my lunch and dinner times is differenty from the otherppl so i end up having lots of meals alone but its not so bad i guess. sorta get used to it. ooh and once iwent to this place and managed to get rice with 3 dishes, 1 soup and 1 ice tea for RM3.30. no idea how. cuzi didnt even mention a drink or soup. lol. but that was quite good. :)

anywayyy apart from work ive been driving! i finished my second lesson today. i cant figure out the clutch and gears and all that but ive gotten myself back home alive for the second time. so its all good. should get better sometime :P

so yeah. for those who dont know whats going on ure sort of a little bit updated now.muahaha.
i need to go.

ooh and i got facebook. with my gmail. :)

bye!!

-laurane

why did it take me an entire year to figure out i have a built in mic on my laptop??

scary dreams...

Have you ever had a dream that was so scary that you dread going to sleep the next night? I had one of those dreams last night (or more accurately, this morning) and at the moment i dont really feel like going to bed. I wont go on and describe what happened and all that because 1- its a dream and therefore its friggin confusing. 2- its quite stupid, and amazing how my brain can come up with something like that and might insult some people if i do. and 3- its scary. i dont want to go through it again.

hmmph....

My desktop picture has once again changed. :) I got this from another one of those fwd messages from Meg.Aren't they CUTE?? *grin*

Anyway... I've been off to a very slow start but im finally going to do something. (yea still GOING TO and havent actually DONE anything yet... but still. its something right?)
Next weekend (the 26th i think) ill be going up to Malaysia. where i will be working in a pharmacy and hopefully getting my drivers license. I'll be there for around a couple of months during which lots more people will be leaving singapore. Which means i will have to say my goodbyes before i leave. Good thing is, lots of people are coming back in December. so it shouldn't be too depressing.

Mjelva's birthday yesterday was tres fun :) and also very tiring cuz i was walking around since about 5pm. I swear, i doubt there were many singaporeans who stayed at home yesterday. the entire country was out in the CBD. its insanely full! Especially crowded around marina bay when there was the fireworks display... At least we got ther eon time and got to see something. it was GOOD. :) i like fireworks... even better when we somehow found a place which wasnt so sardined and it was breezy and it was nice. (My english is deteriorating...)

My day journey:
4:30pm holland road- wheelock place- orchard mrt- dhoby gaut mrt- city hall mrt- suntec city- marina square- city hall mrt- dhoby gaut mrt- little india mrt- 7:50pm gayatri restaurant-dhoby gaut mrt- city hall mrt- 9pm somewhere around to watch fireworks- city hall mrt- dhoby gaut mrt- clarke quay mrt- brewerkz- sahara- holland road 1:30am.

ive never been on the mrt so many times in a day before.

She doesn't remember how she got to know them. Not their first 'hello', their first conversation nor their first hug. It just happened and she was grateful. She is still grateful as a matter of fact. And will probably be for the rest of her life. She would not be who she is today if not for them. She might still be the same as she was a few years ago. Not that its a bad thing... but change is nice. She always has a good time with them. But good times, as we all know, don't last forever, and she dreads the day it will end or slowly fade away when one after another has to move on to a different chapter of their life. But for now she cherishes every moment with them and wishes it to last forever. She loves them all dearly. Thank you...

What a genius.

My dad got a call today. He left his handphone at home so I answered the call. This is what i said in reply after he said 'hello' and asked for my dad:

Sorry, he's not in right now. He's out.


I think I watch too much of Project Runway.

I woke up at 9am today for the first time in a very long time (as in, a lot earlier than my usual 11am-12pm... waking up time) because I had to check with Gladys in tertiary if i could come in. Guess what? I can't get through. So now I dont know if she's okay with me coming in. or whatever. or she mightnot be there. :(
i sent her an email... ihope she sees that! the last time i sent an email (in the middle of june ithnk) i didnt get a reply.

fingers crossed. i NEED to get stuff.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

I had to do that.

i want to post another blog entry but i dont know what to write about...

i had a sleepover at ritika's house on friday-sat. :) we had dinner on the beach at east coast (the beach cannot beat kuantan's TC but still... at least there was slight waves and a breeze unlike Sentosa beach...) then we had gelato and we saw this girl with a gazillion piercings on her face and colorful strands braided in her hair. cool hair (but id never do that... (: ) but the piercings? Ugh...
then we went back to Ritzys house and we went to the jacuzzi pool place and sat and talked till we got all wrinkly from the water and looked like prunes... then we went back to her house. watched 'what a girl wants' and did lots of talking and played funny games. haha. anyway. in the end swati and i talked till about 7am (sheila and ritz retired slightly earlier...) when we turned off the room lights outside was already getting bright. :)

im dreading the end of august. once august ends loads of people will be gone. then when september ends even MORE people will be gone. and by the end of october the only people i can think of who will still be here are wanda(in uni), mjelva(in ns), dominic(fellow aussi uni go-er) and shobana(also in uni).

this sux.

I had the strangest dream last night. It involved a strange mall, some friends, some people from school, some strangers which i was strangely friends with, and a situation where the guys were waiting for the girls in the cybercafe.

I don't remember very much, but i know Sheila was in the cybercafe. Ritika might have been with her. And there was also a few other stranger friends in there. all girls...(i dont think they were playing games though) I was outside with other stranger friends of mine. One of them somehow knew how to read korean as well. outside one of the shops was some korean word me and him were trying to figure out. then i decided to go look for the girls in the cybercafe. That was surprisingly hard to do. i ended up walking all around and i couldnt find the place. and the mall suddenly changed into a 1 storey building and i was outside instead of walking down corridors of the mall... On the other side there was like... a massage parlour or something. so realised i was pretty far from the cybercafe and tried to run back but as usual, in your dream its IMPOSSIBLE to run. so it took me forever to get anywhere... and then i bumped into Brigitte! and um... it was either Yuka or Ellie one of the english class people. That was SO random. i think i talked to them for a bit. then something happened and i wasnt sleeping anymore and i forgot about it for a while... until i realised- it was a strange dream!

um... yeah... end of story...

i got bali pics up on webshots.

pictures :)

Here are two crappy quality pics taken with my phone...
but crappy or not, its better than nothing. :)

me and Mae Bel...




















And this is Jas Min...





















don't know what i'll do without them... especially when im back in kuantan.

sinful food... makes me happy

i had chocolate fondue today.
lots of it.
with strawberries, bananas, apples, and biscuits.

:)

Hi I'm back in Singapore again.

Kuantan was okay. I spent most of my time eating and watching tv while trying to complete the daily Sudoku in the newspaper. After 4 days of boredom, my friends finally found time to go out for a while. We took a stroll down the beach to the end where there was hardly anyone except for the occasional jogger hardworking enough to go all the way. There we sat and talked about anything and everything till the sun was about to set. Then we had McD's for dinner. haha. :)
I love the beach in Kuantan. Not only because of the wind and sand (the sea can get a bit dangerous esp during monsoon...) but because of the memories. I've blown bubbles there, flew kites, had a farewell party, made sandcastles, had coconuts thrown at us by sum crazy man, lived in the hotel by the beach for about 2 weeks when we first arrived in Kuantan (when we lived there about 6 years ago), and my did my extended essay research there. and got a C. but i wont go into that. :)

Amy's gone. and that sucks. Our plan to go to Kbox for the final time got cancelled(and i don wanna go into that either cuz its pretty depressing) so now i dono who i can go karaokeing with. i dont know much chinese... and dont know who is willing to sit and sing with me. haha. ooh wait. there's swati :P

NUS rejected me. Which means i got 6 months during which i have time to get a job (Nooo..) get my drivers license, and try not to be too bored after everyone else has gone off to uni. Right now it looks like i'm going to Adelaide. Cuz ive talked to Marian who's currently studying there and it sounds quite nice. they got nice beaches apparently. haha. :) and thats the only uni that i've been accepted to. i havent applied to the other 2 unis. haha. so to save the trouble of applying to the unis, i think ill just go to adelaide. Not only that, if i apply to the other 2 and i somehow get accepted, then i have to choose! ah horror! :P cuz i dont have any preference right? and i really dont care where i go. so if i got all 3 unis then ill have to choose and i really dont know how to choose. so better stick with one. my parents said ok. so... end of story. Adelaide- here i come! (in february)

I would post a picture but unfortunately my computer is being sabotaged by my dad and im on another com so no pic.

out and done

So. The IB results are finally out. All of a sudden everything sorta changes. There's something new to look forward to or for some people there's nothing to look forward to yet...
I've sent in my results to NUS. Now my application status on the website says "application processing". I'll find out in a week or two. Don't even know if i want to go there. Guess what? If i DO get in, orientation is usually on the first week of August. That's in... *looks at calendar* 4 weeks. If not then ill wait for Monash and Curtin and see what they say. And i will have to get a job and find something to do to keep me busy for the next 6 months.

By the way, I dont like my blog entries (or any writing) to be read out loud, especially in front of people. So, YOU- Be nice, please dont do that again.

Its like english class. i hate it when the teacher asks me to read out my writing. May sound kindof stupid, but thats one of the reasons why i dont like english and i tend to dread english lessons especialy after we've had a short writing assignment. ANYWAY, i did good in english and i'll never have to go to another english class in my life so i should stop talking about english. :) I should write to Mr.Bev.

About my results... I predicted 2 grades for each subject. when the results came out, 3 was the higherpredicted grade, 3 was the lower grade. and my EE and TOK turned out pretty shitty. so, im not ecstatically happy, nor am i extremely sad.

Lots of people seem to have done really well and we're mostly all happy about everything so... to the class of 2006 (or more like the few 2006 ppl who come here...^^ ) Congratulations!

another one of those 'here's what i did' entry...

hi! im back in singapore again.
the past two days have been extremely boring.
got back on friday night.
on saturday i went out and had some coffee with amy cuz other people couldnt come (kinda sad we called about 3 other people and turned out to be just amy and i...). so then since amy's leaving in about two weeks and she doesnt usually meet up with abu and her ex-neighbour anyway, we called up abu (mjelva) and her ex neighbour(adam). so i thought it was just gonna be us 4 for dinner. then later erica and renet(who i havent seen since she went to SAS i think!) showed up. so dinner ended up being 6 instead of 4 people. dom was supposed to show up at 7:30-8 somewhere there, after our dinner at pastamania. Amy and Renet had to go and buy something so them 2, and erica went off to taka. i stayed with mjelva and adam cuz there was no point of me going to taka. and we ended up playing pool, me thinking that dom would show up soon. we played till about 8:50 and decided to stop. dom showed up at about 9 but then he was gonna watch a movie at 9:15. also only at about 9 did the rest of the girls show up again. so we all got together for about 5 mins and then everyone left. i was home by 9:30.
i dont really know what was the point of that. but for some reason i was feeling rather depressed after that. anyway. at 11pm was England vs. portugal and watching that with my whole family and making lots of noise sorta cheered me up a lot.
the past two days (sunday and today) ive spent doing absolutely nothing. almost. i played some music, helped clean the house a bit, organised my photos that i printed out sometime ago. and thats about it.
kinda sux that so many peple are either gone already, away for hols, or working. without them it leaves me very few to call for a day out or something. so ive been home.
o guess what. im going to msia again. to kuantan this time so should be more fun. the prob is my friends will be having exams few days after i get back. i hope by now theyve learnt that exams arent everything and they will be willing to spend some weekdays out... haha. :P

i'll leave you with the last picture i took in Bali, and my favourite too :) This is Ulu Watu in the south of Bali...

hi! im in penang. on my cousin's comp. its been ok here. having lots of durian... o.O haha.

this is pretty random but u know what? here's something i found out in Bali:
i dont look 18 and my brother looks old.
when ppl guessed our ages, i average about 15. and my bro looks older than me... so yeah...

till next time :)

-laurane

Back from Bali

ooh alliteration. unintentionally tho... really. :)

Bali was fun. sort of. lots of time was spent sitting in the car because we ended up seeing the whole of Bali island (almost). and i had a headace for 4 out of 5 days we were there. it was so stupid. anyway... i cant think of how to make this interesting and im also kinda lazy so ill write a list

I...
-went surfing and bodyboarding. woke up the next day with every muscle in my body aching. but it was worth it. surfing is fun. i wanna go again some other time...
-saw a volcano. dormant. but it was beautiful!
-was up on one of the mountains sides and all of a sudden there was water. for a second or two i thought it was the sea. aha. but they were lakes. and it was pretty cool. we couldnt see very far since the fog was so thick. and it was cold... actually it was hardly ever warm the whole time we were in bali.
-went to a waterfall and was followed around by kids trying to sell us necklaces and stuff and ended up buying some cuz they were only 1000rupiah each which is about 20cents in spore...
-saw temples. but it rained, so didnt see much of it.
-saw silver smithing
-saw how they made their coffee and cocoa
-saw woodcarving
-went shopping and had to do lots of bargaining which i suck at.
-ate a lot: buffet breakfast everyday and nice restaurant meals...
-had an outdoor bathroom in one resort. very nice but a bit scary cuz the villa was next to a river and sorta foresty area so thers lots of insects. there was insects in the room and on our bed constantly... i was kindof glad when we checked out of there even though that was the more expensive resort...
-got a bruise from trying to get into the room cuz the door had a praying mantis on it so i sorta dashed in and i hit the door really hard.. cuz i missed (stupid...) and ta-da! bruise...
-was followed and begged by people to buy their stuff as souvenirs. they crowded around us so much it was hard to close the car door.
-got lots of mosquito bites
-saw monkeys and got a bit worried about them stealing our stuff
-got a henna tattoo on myback. i love it.. i might put a pic up... :)

thats all i can thin kof for now. but it was a lot done in 5 days...

im going to msia tmrw morning. v early.... will be back on friday or saturday. i dont really wanna go. theres nothing to do there. and i cant drive so im basically stuck at wherever i am until someone can drive me somewhere. i like spore cuz u can just take the bus/mrt anywhere.
see u guys whoever is in spore when i get back again.

sis is in spore
i got up at 7am today and surprisingly not sleepy at all the entire day.
went grocery shopping at queenstown, walked around suntec, bought shoes (REALLY NICE SHOES! ^^) and sum other stuff, had starbucks, walked to Bugis, walked around Bugis, and got home before dinner.
and im watching eng vs. t&t later. at 12.
i might not last till 2 but ill try.
long day.

theres 2 birds building a nest in our balcony. small pretty yellow-greeny birds. :) i cant wait till the nest is done and theres little birdies... haha. they're working so hard they didnt even notice seeds that we put out for them.... sunflower and flax seeds. i would eat them if they dont want to...
hopefully they'll stay for a while... its like having pet birds that aren't caged up. :)

like it?

thats my computer. :)

i got sticker paper leftover from Shobana's DT project.. took them cuz it looked useful.haha. :) i found them when going through my geo notes to throw away stuff. so i looked up designs online (cuz i tried drawing something and failed miserably.) and found that.

i got the design from here. i feel like i need to mention it somewhere cuz its not my work and i need to credit someone... but dont know who exactly designed it since there was no name. (whoever it was he/she had a lot other nice designs too and theyre good!)

today i was at...
-borders
-starbucks at the old 'hello' singtel building
-heerin shops
-suntec city (for a few seconds to grab a balloon which i later accidentally popped and scared myself -.-)
-marina square ( is that what its called?)
-Bugis junction
-sum other building at bugis... sorta new. dont remember what its called.

sort of went around to quite a few hangout places... surprisingly we didnt even get close to cineleisure!

i watched the opening match between germany and costa rica last night. it was surprisingly very intersting! my dad fell asleep tho... so pretty much watched it alone. haha. it was a good match. i think if less goals were scored i would have been bored too(there was 6 goals. 4-2) but it was good. and i plan to watch more matches! haha... rather strange since i dont usually watch football (i almost wrote soccer... but knowing some ppl i think should write football...) and i dont like playing football cuz i SUCK at it and the flying ball sorta freaks me out. so yea. i guess i only watch football once every 4 years. haha. um yea. im confused about the offside rule which dad tried explaining.

was at ritika's house yesterday. i took the mrt there and bus back :) proud of myself. hahaha. i found my way to east coast! (with help... but still! um... yea. i know it probably isnt very far away but ive never realy been there myself before.) watched movies, talked, had lunch and just sorta did nothing. haha. fun :)

went to OG with mum for a while (theres so so many pretty dresses there... too bad i dont wear dresses except for very formal dinners which are very very rare.) then went to Chinatown. found out theres loads of beads shops at peoples park center. and theres pretty hair stuff that i wanna get but i need to go with someone else cuz its like.. 3 for $10 or something. -Jie come with me when u get back! we need to go shopping :) and exercise. haha.

apart from that its been rather depressing. i need to wake up earlier. and i need to get started on clearing up my notes and suff. i planned that today but ended up going out with mum instead. didnt really want to go but she asked me to! so yeah...

My horoscope for today:

The Bottom Line:
By this point, if you don't understand how someone truly feels, you must ask them.

In Detail:
Just because you've been close to someone for years doesn't mean you know them like the back of your hand. There are new depths to explore in your relationship. If you can't understanding their actions or changes, you must ask them. Open up communications. You will both turn a corner together, and what lies ahead of you is a lifetime of adventures and joy. Let this positivism buoy you in other areas of you life. Even at work, you can create a bright future by talking more honestly.


wow i never knew positivism was a word.

I'm so bored.
i shouldnt be on the computer since there's nothing to do here. but its either this or i be in my room trying to clear up my mess or something... which i dont want to do.
so here i am. and im just gonna go on and on about what ive done and stuff... so this will be boring.

i went to plaza sing today. watched over the hedge with sheila and ritika. it was very cute and sorta funny. :) i love hammie. and the little porcupines, or whatever they are. i shared a double chocolate gelato with ritz. it was GOOD. oh and after dinner just now i had more ice cream. (i actually wrote 'ice scream' first then changed it. a bit strange...)

out of the blue my bro was saying how he wants to be a bartender. last night he offered to make me and my mum cocktails. so he me a 'mudslide' or something. its a mix of vodka, kahlua, and baileys. according to him. it didnt taste like super duper good or anything but it was drinkable. so i finished it. haha. my mum got 'white russian'.

i might go apply for a job somewhere tomorrow... i dont really want to tho... i like my holiday. plus that job just doesnt sound very appealing.

in the last 2 days i washed...
the bathroom, the car, my grad dress (yea only now... ive been lazy and forgetful.), my grad shoes (cuz someone spilled drink over it), and as usual- the dishes. haha... SO i have actually been doing things. :) the hols isnt a complete waste of time.

i need to sort out my schedule for the rest of the summer hols. i need to find out when school ends for my bro (so i know when i shuold go into school if i am...), when my sis is coming, when we're going on hols, when everyone is leaving (for hols and for real) and all that. right now im just pretty lost and confused and living everyday as it comes. kinda hard to make any plans when i dont know whats happening.

i think this is long enough. till next time... goodnight!

a jumble of things...

"you're so lucky it didnt rain today"- thats what my bro said to me when he saw me just now after i got back. hes right. we ARE so lucky! yesterday it was pouring the whole day but today was nice and sunny and the weather was perfecto. loved it.

Iit was very fun. Thanks to amy who organised it and thanks to everyone for showing up! for u ppl looking for pics they're once again up at:
http://community.webshots.com/user/enarual

we didnt do much at all come to think of it... haha. had lunch, played volleyball, sat, got wet, sat, had dinner, watched musical fountain.and that was our whole day! (we got there about 12 went home about 9-ish)

i didnt get burnt which was a good thing! haha. i used to think i tan easily. but after today i guess not. im pretty much the same color. i think. :) either i couldnt get any tanner cuz i already was or i just dont tan so easily. but maybe i am tanner. haha. i should stop there... :P
dont know what else to say but it was FUN. yeah. :)

i thouht of saying this in a new post just because it deserves it, but o well ill say it here:
I'M NO LONGER UNIVERSITY-LESS! hahaha! I got accepted to UniSA which is in Adelade, South Australia to study pharmacy for 4 years. with a condition of getting 3o points in IB but 30 points is THE a minimum i need to get. if dont get over 30 points im pretty screwed! i mean i WILL get over 30. definitely. really. i cant get below a 5 in most subjects. SO yeah.... at least i now feel safe! YAY!!

on a diferent note...
Azusa is leaving singapore tomorrow morning :( i'll miss her lots... and hope she has lots of fun in japan!

Leave your name, and:

01. I'll respond with something random about you.
02. I'll challenge you to try something.
03. I'll pick a color that associates with you.
04. I'll tell you something I like about you.
05. I'll tell you my clearest memory of you.
06. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
07. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.

since swati has done this for many people i thought i could try to do it too. after all exams are over and i am quite free...

*grin*

Isn't it gorgeous?

post grad blues...

I just looked through my grad photos again and i think there's a problem with my camera. i get some good photos... and then the next bunch of photos are crap... and then the following photos are okay.. and the next are crap... it cant be coincidental that people can take good photos all together, and then the next group of people who take the photos are crap. right? and its not the lighting either cuz there are good and bad pictures in the same place. so. its my camera. and half of my photos are pretty crap. which really sux. aagh. graduation night could have been better. loads better.

so. forgetting the crappy things about graduation night... here are the good things...

- everyone looked gorgeous. it was a night of beautiful people, on the inside, and outside.
- i can now say that i have performed to an audience of about 750 people. (so what if half of them werent listening... ^^ )
- its nice that we got a little bear each and the '06 photo. oh, and a rose :) but my mum got me a bouquet anyway and its very pretty.
- (the id problem and cost aside...) the afterparty was very fun. i wish it had lasted longer...

um yea. it might have gotten a bit repetitive from previous blog entry i think but whatever. dont know how many people read through it anyway....

im feeling sort of depressed at the moment. it could be that only now its slowly sinking in that i wont be meeting many of these people ever again. and to top that off i dont have good photos of them. or even a picture of them with me.

This song was played during graduation in grade 8. Four years on and it still means something to me and i'm sure to many other people. They should have played it at the end of the party or something...

Graduation song- Vitamin C
And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives
Where we're gonna be when we turn 25
I keep thinking times will never change
Keep on thinking things will always be the same
But when we leave this year we won't be coming back
No more hanging out cause we're on a different track
And if you got something that you need to say
You better say it right now cause you don't have another day
Cause we're moving on and we can't slow down
These memories are playing like a film without sound
And I keep thinking of that night in June
I didn't know much of love
But it came too soon
And there was me and you
And then we got real cool
Stay at home talking on the telephone with me
We'd get so excited, we'd get so scared
Laughing at our selves thinking life's not fair
And this is how it feels

As we go on
We remember
All the times we
Had together
And as our lives change
Come whatever
We will still be
Friends Forever

So if we get the big jobs
And we make the big money
When we look back now
Will our jokes still be funny?
Will we still remember everything we learned in school?
Still be trying to break every single rule
Will little brainy Bobby be the stockbroker man?
Can we ever find a job that won't interfere with a tan?
I keep, I keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly
And this is how it feels

Repeat chorus

La, la, la, la Yeah, yeah, yeah
La, la, la, la We will still be friends forever
Will we think about tomorrow like we think about now?
Can we survive it out there?
Can we make it somehow?
I guess I thought that this would never end
And suddenly it's like we're women and men
Will the past be a shadow that will follow us 'round?
Will these memories fade when I leave this town
I keep, I keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly
Repeat chorus (3x)

GRADUATION

(picture taken from swati's blog)
IM FINALLY A GRADUATE OF UWC. I'm no longer a grade 12 student. if thers some survey or something we have to fill out now and they ask for 'occupation' where we would usually put 'student' we cant say that now since were not really students anymore until we start uni again... so what should i put? unemployed? o.O

anyway... pics can be found at:
http://community.webshots.com/user/enarual
some are really bad... i dont know if its the cams prob or the photographers prob... but i think partially the cam problem.

so anyway. graduation was pretty nerve wrecking. i almost tripped walking on stage. no one noticed tho. :) i couldnt find very many ppl under the tent it was quite silly. the dinner i thought was a complete waste of money. the food wasnt good, and the buffet was always empty! so much for being able to switch seats once the dinner started. there wasnt much time nor space for that... the dessert was good tho... and the toilet was nice. haha. theres a pic in there taken in the toilet. u probably cant tell tho. cuz its pretty. haha.
we got a little teddy bear each... that was nice :) but still not worth what we paid.

after the dinner, we went to afterparty. the whole thing about ppl not beinbg able to go in cuz they didnt have ids was so stupid. its a friggin private party! well aynwya. after spending quite a long time hanging around figuring out stuff about ids and stuff, we got in and pretty much everything went uphill from there (well it cant get any worse! actually it could have. but it didnt really.)

good music(live band!), good people (wish there were more tho...) and good fun :)not sure how much i really drank. sorta drank off any glass i found thats not so empty on the table. i had my own but didnt finish that. then again the drinks keep disappearing...everytime we go off to the dance floor and come back theyre gone. anyway. i guess i didnt drink v much cuz i was fine the entire night. :) i tried quenching my thirst with ice... not very easy cuz ice come with a mouthful of drink as well... sorta hard to get ice out~ anyway... yeah. it was fun. and some things were quite amusing... my feet hurt like crazy after that. heels a bit high.. but they were good. didnt give me blisters or anything. for the first time! i love those shoes. wil be wearing them quite often. haha. oh but they're white. and someone brought their drink to the dance floor and we were jumping and stuff and he spilled some of his drink and it went over my feet and shoes :( so its a bit dirty.

will stop now.
lazy to write v much. :) supposed to take a short nap just now at 5 when i decided to turn on my comp to upload pictures.. and ive been on till now (7:20) sooo i guess i wont be sleeping after all. im dead tired tho. slept at 6:45am this morning. ahh sleepy....

i have...
- gotten my contact lenses :)
- bought a guitar case
- practised with swati
- gone for soundcheck at ritz carlton and wow its SO NICE there.
- got an appointment for hair on weds
- decided to go to the afterparty even though it costs a bomb

currently...
- finishing up people's leavers pages so i can bring them to school tomorrow
- deciding what time i should go to school tmrw cuz if i go too early they might not be ther yet if i go after they might want to leave right after exams and no point going anyway.


will need to...
- get teachers cards? or maybe id just forget about that. cuz that means i need to go into school another day again. but thers some teachers i really want to write something to...
- clear up my room. i just got told off again for being so messy. (but really, its my room. if they want to come in then they need to tolerate it. no one made them come in)
- go to another soundcheck on weds at 10am...

and another(two) to add to the list...

CLEAR UP MY ROOM!
and the guest room, and the study room.
cuz i have books everywhere. no, not books. papers. (cuz the books have all been returned)
oh,and now pa wants us to bring the printer somewhere to get it fixed. have to go with mum cuz bro would be at school. he said to go on a weekday. i hate anything to do with electronics. stupid printer. i dont even know whats wrong with it. and my mum would know less. i dont know how were gonna go and get that fixed.

so thats 2 more to the already long list, but that will be done after graduation. :)

and after that i need to figure out wth im gonna be doing for the next few months.

Here's some pictures...

my invitation for grad dinner. :) pretty ya?



us during lunch before the da vinci movie on friday after our last exam


and yea. uh... from where we were sitting i took this pic cuz i thought it looked pretty cool.



mum's cooking something with vinegar in it. the house smells like smelly feet... =S

freedom after the exams? not really...

at least not until graduation.

list of things to do:
1) get a guitar case! and buy a pick/plectrum(?) even though i dont use it. i just want one. i want a pink one. :)

2) practice with swati. we desperately need practice. last night proved how much i suck and i cannot play like that in front of a thousand people. (is it practice or practise??)

3) get an appointment with hairdresser for graduation.

4) get an appointment with the optic shop and and actually go and get my contact lenses trial thingies on monday. i need at least 2 days if i want to get used to them for grad i think...

5) finish off leaving pages for people who asked me to do them. i had 5. started 3, need to do 2 more.

6) buy cards or make them... and write something in them- ONLY for some teachers whom i appreciate.

7) go to school on tuesday to get my interscol signed and empty my locker and hand back the completed leaving pages to the ppl who asked me to do them and get my little book back from jo...

8) decide if im going to the afterparty...

all that before graduation.

crap. thats a lot of things to do.

Tonight was different. sorta fun but well, it would help if i knew what ppl were talking about half of the time =S im always so blur laa...
went out with adam, elysia, dom, stefan, helen, martina, and swati who had to leave early... then erica came and brought melissa with her. and marty and i left. we caught the last mrt. we felt so lucky :) haha
i dont think ill be doing that very often. too expensive. haha. i dont get how sum ppl do that every weekend...

=D

wow.
its really over.
it feels strange.

yesterday was very fun.
- i finished a relatively easy chem paper (which is pretty worrying cuz then the entire average is probably gonna be pretty high and the chances of getting a 7 is reduced... ah. im so kiasu all of a sudden. o.O maybe ive been here for too long. haha)ok. so then i returned books etc yadda yadda..
-at 11 went to watch the da vinci code with ritz, stitch and kat. (with a biscuit, an alien and a cat. haha :P) anyway. that movie was pretty freaky. yea. but i didnt have any expectations or anything since ive never read the book and i thought it was pretty good :)
-had a headache so went home after that and slept. (which was not fun. but it helped keep me awake for the next thing i did....)
-woke up and then packed my stuff for sleepover at swati's
-watched 2 movies, guitared, and talked loads at swati's and did strange fortune telling thingies about some people which was very funny.. and finally slept at 6:30am. haha

so anyway. got home today after lunch and attempted at writing out the piano score for 'sometimes i just go for it' by the Used dom sent to me sometime ago and he said he would find the piano score for me or something but he never did...
i got to about 40 seconds (the song is about 4:45) and sorta stopped cuz that took me ages to do and it just gets confusing-er from there. but i will continue another day. :)

now im gona go shower cuz im going out again tonight :)
im feeling very jolly happy. hahaha

2 years of chemistry revised in 2 days
its pretty exhausting...
good luck to me tomorrow :)

3 papers, 2 days, 1 subject...

and then it would be over.

black and white

i never knew my camera could do this... and we've had the cam for quite a long time...
so this is me being vain... :P






i sorta like this pic... its my room window.

french is over.

i messed up french big time. my paper 2 that is. i thought p1 was pretty ok. p2 exam was very interesting tho. the invigulator's cellphone went off first... so they got rid of that... then a few minutes later- the power went off. haha. ppl were laughing and stuff. it was strange. so anyway. the invigulators noticed a window so they got a ladder out of one of the stores (which i never knew was there) and opened the curtains.. and we all had to move towards the windows. it was strange considering we had to do this in complete silence. :)
oh and at the end of the exam, i realised (after asking around) that i completely misuderstood the question and thereofre my essay is on a different topic. which is NOT GOOD. but i hope that they dont take many points off cuz its out of 30 and 10 points out of that is the contents marks. the other 10 is grammar ( i think i did relaly well!! ><) and the other 10 im not so sure. so i could get at lesat 10 points still! ah. this is not good.
but i still want a 6 in french. :(

yum...

do not read first paragraph if u dont care about my french.

i'm getting bored of revision. maybe its just french. i got bored of french yesterday and switched to math and did just fine. :) i mean, i did revise. when i was doing french i was messing around a lot doodling and stuff and didnt get much done. but for now i know how to write verbs in
present, futur, passe compose, imparfait, plus que parfait('had done' - imperfect auxiliary + past tense verb) , subjonctif (take the 'ils' form of the verb as the stem and use the different endings: e, es, e, ions, iez, ent), and something else which i cant remmeber the name of... but its like... the future stem and imperfect endings, and the past tense form of that is when the auxiliary is written as that, and the verb is in passe compose. please let me get that right... i need to go check. ok. its called conditional, and conditional past. and i did get it right. :) its used when constructing a sentence which starts with 'si'. there are 3 types:
present... future
imparfait... conditional
plus que parfait... conditional past
i need to learn the irregular verbs... and VOCAB. my vocab is so limited... i dont know if i start learning them now itll be enough to understand stuff on friday, and to be able to write a good essay... i need a 6 in french. well i want a 6. i cant aim any higher than that i guess since i messed up my oral exam pretty badly. enough about french. -end-

tell u something quite silly. i was in the library yestereday right? and this guy next to me had chocolates... so i really wanted chocs too! so i decided to go out and get some.. cuz theres a 7-11 across the road. so i went out and got my chocolates... and when i came out of the shop- it started raining. really heavily. but i had to get back to the library! so well.. yeah., i sorta ran and got pretty wet.. and in the middle of running my slippers came off so i had to turn around and go get them again and it was all very embarassing... and i had to go back to my seat wet... o, and i was sitting on the inside of the room this time, as far as u could get from the door, so i had to walk through the whole room...
all of that for chocolates.


greaduation dinner preparation:
got my dress, and accesssories, and now.. i got my shoes! its nothing like what i had in mind initially... but after looking everywhere for something i want, i realised i need to be a bit more flexible. nonetheless i love the ones i got and i think its v cute. :) its not extremely high but ill be about 8cm taller. hahaha.
i think im going to be very white for graduation tho. not something i planned...
anyway. like azusa said, i think we're more prepared for graduation than we are for the exams...^^

ive been doing quite a bit of SUDOKU these few nights. its a bit sad.... anyway. guess what? isnt sudoku in a way a group? (math p3 stuff) its only missing an operation... i mean, k. if 1 is the identity, then 1 appears in every row and every column so every element has an inverse. so theres identity, an inverse, and its closed. well, without an operation, then thers no such thing as associativity is there? hahaha.

i need to get a life.

i am such a pig.
i came home early today after my final english p2 exam (YES!! NO MORE ENLGISH LIT FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!!) and after returning all my bio, geog, and english books (so satisfying... well except for the bio books bit. that was a bit sad :( ) so by 11:15 or so i was home.. and i was hungry. so i made myself lunch.(2 sausages and 2 slices of bread with butter, toasted. not the healthiest) then i had chocolate (i was rumaging around the fridge forever trying to find some. mum suggested an apple instead, but i found them at last so instead of an apple, i had chocolate...) at around 12, i was sitting on the couch doing nothing, and i was very sleepy. so i decided to take a short nap- in my room. bad idea. cuz my bed is too comfy. :) so anyway. this 'short nap' turned out to be a 4 hours sleep. 4 hours. right after my not-so-healthy meal for lunch. so anyway. i woke up at 4. and i decided to do the dusting that my mum asked me to do at 12... and now i'm here. sort of in shock about what just happened. i really didnt plan to sleep so much. tomorrow i will wake up early. ah. how many times have i said that!??!
good luck to everyone with many exams this week. :)

-laurane

im going crazy!!
ive been home the entire day. i've done nothing. tried working on my bed, but ended up falling asleep. my study table is too messy to work on. bro currently having tuition in the back room. so im in my room. and ive done NOTHING. but u see... its english. its very.. subjective. but no reason why i shouldnt do at least a bit more revision. i got so much notes.. i went to revision sessions etc. so i should make use of them and maybe get my brain thinking about the plays and know them pretty well before tomorrow. i think if i do that tonight i wont be able to sleep at night again. but then if im not able to sleep i can blame that on excessive sleeping during the day too.
i think im blogging too much. but then thers nothing else to do. 1)piano 2) guitar 3) blog 4) revision. so... yeah. toomuch of 1 2 and 3. should do a bit more of 4. or i could go exercise. hahaha. yea right.

-laurane

some pictures...

These are pretty random~ just felt like sharing. :)
pics are from my phone.


the arch in the middle is the entrance to orchard station... its a pretty bad picture.


this is one if the bus stops i use most frequently... the one near cineleisure.
btw these pics are taken frm the front seat of the a double decker bus. Bus number 7 to be precise (: i was coming home from the library. and here's a pic of the library i spent many many hours in. and will be spending a few more hours there in the next 2 weeks:


its quite nice actually.

and this is me and swati in KFC for lunch on friday after my bio exam.
heyi just realised u can see dom in the background.its actually a mirror...so he's in front of us. haha.

so thats it for my random picture update. :)

oh guess what.
i planned to go to the queenstown library today. took a bus down (bus ride was only about 3 mins. its 3 bus stops away) but to get to the lib i had to walk about 10 mins. well probbaly less if u walk really fast. anyway. so i got to the library and guess what? its closed! so i decided to go to a different library. since i was there, it was easy to get on an mrt and go to jurong or something. the jurong lib is nice. i could see the mrt line, but i didnt know where the nearest station was. i could have taken any bus that goes down that road (which runs parallel with the mrt line) and get off where the mrt station is. but i decided to walk instead. so i walked... and it was a pretty long walk! and yeah... when i finally got to the mrt station i realised: if one library wasnt open because today's a public holiday (because today's voting day...) then all the other libraries would be closed too! so instead of getting on a train, i crossed over to the other side of the road, and waited for a bus instead. the walk all together was about 30 mins long. i wanted to get a bus to go to Holland v instead. i had to wait 15 mins for the bus. but 196 came by 3 times! and 105, the bus that i waited 20 mins for before (after piano lessons) came by twice. well anyway. the bus finally came and i went to holland v to study instead. went to starbucks. since i havent been ther in a while... i was getting my drink when all of a sudden this voice spoke behind me "do you come here often?" so i turned and it was melissa! so anyway. i said hi and i said no i dont. and she was already going home since she was there the entire morning. and iw as just arriving. aah i felt so bad that she was there the entire morning. cuz this uh.. 'morning' i got up at 12.
anyway. in starbucks.. i was sitting on the sofa... reading my english stuff... then all of a sudden the sofa started vibrating! so i thought it was my phone and checked my phone and there was nothing going on. then my chair vibrated again! so i searched around for a phone of some sort and found one in the side of the sofa... its one of those thin motorola ones... so i answered it and the guy on the other side was like "Hi i left my phone somewhere.. where is my hpone??
hahaha. so anyway. i told him its in starbucks. and he asked if i could leave it with the staff so being such a nice person, i did. :) oh and when the staff came to clear up the table and i passed the phone to her, she said "you're so nice!" haha.
so anyway. at the end of the day i did get work done (read through 2 plays and took note of some quotes i should know) :)
i should stop now. its getting a bit long and boring.

oops.

mummy saw that post. thats okay. as long as pa hasn't...
she thinks i should delete it in case he finds his way here. but i doubt he would. plus i dont want to delete my post... theres no point having a blog if its all happy cheery i love everyone everytime. plus im no longer anoyed at him anyway.

my template sorted itself out. its no longer messed up. :) at least thats what it was like when i last saw it~

im getting a headache again. i dont know why... its not like it was super sunny or anything today.

halfway there!

Geog: DONE
Bio: DONE
English: p2 left (monday next week)
Math: p3 left (monday week after next)
French: friday next week
Chem: Thursday and Friday week after next

So counting papers... ive done 8. i have 7 more to go.
counting exam seatings, ive done 7. 5 more to go. :)

This week has been extremely exhausting. I guess so far the worst paper ive done is my bio paper 2 yesterday. about an hour into an exam i got myself a really bad headache. plus i couldnt answer an entire section (they gave us this electron microscope photograph and made us lable to what they're pointing to. and it wasnt a normal cell it was osmething like... pancreatic islet something....) so anyway. i felt like puking halfway through probably cause of a combination of lack of sleep, extreme headache and frustration for not knowing much in the whole section. anyway. i sorta whizzed through the rest of the paper and tried to close my eyes to stop the friggin pain. um yea. so that was my bio paper. didnt go so well. Today's bio paper was SO much better! i love the questions :) just as i loved the first question(only the first.. and sort of the second. but nothing else!) from geography(about drainage basins...) so overall, i can probably kiss a 7 goodbye, but i guess 6 isnt too bad...
Math was a lot better. i guess all that hours and hours of revision really paid off. if i got everything i did right on p1 i might make it over 75% :) compared to the failing grade i was getting during the mocks, thats very good. oh, and i might also pass paper 2. haha. pass....
english was good too. i liked the poem and the prose they gave. i did the poem. it was all good. i think i wrote a lot more than my usual english papers. (i cant really tell cuz they give us official exam paper to write on with very large spaces between lines... )

its so strange to think i'll never do geography ever again. i mean, ifi really go on and do pharmacy (which i most probabaly wil cuz if not i have NO CLUE what else id be doing) then i would never have to worry about geography! bio.. i guess i will be doing a bit of bio. :) i'll miss bio class tho. i like bio. :) in a strange way, i actually enjoyed my bio revision last night. The 2 option units were pretty straight forward stuff. sort of just need to memorise lots. haha. but its satisfying to be able to describe entire processes of things that go on the body from the top of your head! after effective revision that is. so i was glad that the revision paid off and p3 was good. :)

After paper 3 bio this morning i went to jurong point with swati and dom for lunch and a movie. i havent been to the movies for a very long time. i think. i dont remember the last movie i watched. anyway. today we wtached MI:3. it was good. i think i deserve a little break after this week. :) dont worry tho i will resume revision mode tomorrow. might drag myself out of bed early and head to the library.

so anyway. now im home and i feel like sleeping. its already 6. i could sleep til 8? :)

i dont do many posts like this... if im on diary-x it would have been password protected.

After so many times of getting teary eyed and all that about school ending and stuff, i finally cried. But strangely enough, for a completely different reason something almost completely opposite because it made me WANT school and the exams and everything about it to end.

Of all times, he had to choose last night, when he's gonna be spending the next two days at home because its the weekend(o right. and monday too since its a holiday). and what sucks most is that he's partially correct. Honestly tho. i DID try looking for stuff and finding out things but u dont know how HARD it is to find anything on university websites! anyway in the end somehow managed to find something on it when he's there and then he started shouting at me for not knowing anything about anything. and its all so stupid. the whole NUS thing. so apparently its starting in august. i didnt hand in my b2 form to Mary Toh cuz i forgot it on thursday and i thought i would have time anyway and didnt need it. that form is so that my results get sent directly to the universities once they come out. so since i didnt hand it in ill have to send my result to NUS by myself. which is something i was prepared to do until last night. THen again im not THAT keen on going to NUS. k. NUS starts in august. i wont be applying to the 2 other aussi unis until once my IB results are out. but then their term starts in february. so i wont hear from them instantly right?? and if say i DO get accepted by NUS then its not like i have a choice to make yet because i dont know about the aussi universities yet! in a way im hoping i dont get into NUS. to make sure i dont get into NUS i cant do so well in my IB. which is of course an extremely stupid goal. but if i do get accepted thers a high chance ill be stuck here in singapore for the next 7 years AT LEAST. (4 yrs uni, and 3 yr bond) . that sorta sux. and i sometimes see myself trying to find my way around a foreign place already. in australia that is. by myself. cuz its just... exciting. and in a way i really want to go off on my own. anyway. my point is... im stressed about exams and my stupid exam schedule, im feeling extremely guilty for not handing in my b2 form to mary toh, i was working on this (prove RHS=LHS) math question and getting absolutely NO WHERE with it and being extremely frustrated, then he has to come in and ask me about uni and my applications and then blame me for not knowing anything when i have personally talked to the uni people who wont tell me anything! then he goes out saying, "better go sleep early" which makes absolutely no sense at all since it was already about 1am when he came in.

so today, not wanting to spend any time with him, i spent very many hours in the library again (although this time i did so little compared to what ive been doing on other days especially yesterday. i cant concentrate when im pissed off) and managed to escape getting a lift to the library with "the sun's out, i feel like walking" which was actually quite true because the sun does get rid of depression and i like the sun. its not a very long walk anyway. and its 2 bus stops down. i got on the bus listening to one song on my mp3, and the same song was still playing when i stepped offf the bus. the walk from the bus stop to the library however was quite long. but on thursday i actually walked from the library back home and i quite enjoyed it.

tomorrow i wont be in the house again. im getting sick of sitting for hours in the library by myself so instead, im going somewhere to work with amy. somewhere with food and more people. i need to decide what to revise tomorrow tho. i feel like theres so much more to revise. but i think ive pretty much covered everything for bio and math, and geo i need to learn things like statistics and case studies which is a whole lot of memorising, which i tried already, and got memorised, some of them, but i usually forget after a while, so its one of those things i have to learn in the 3 hours i have before going into the first geo exam on tuesday after english paper 1. i need to do the same for biology. ive studied the DNA stuff, muscle and movement stuff, and respiration and photosynthesis stuff (anything with long processes) quite a few times and at times i know them very well off by heart but after a few days i try to write it down on paper from scratch and i have lots of gaps not knowin what enzyme goes where, whats the name of certain things and different number of carbons, getting NAD and NADH mixed up and all that. my brain feels like its overflowing, and all these little bits and bobs keep falling out and getting lost. and it sucks cuz i keep having to go back and look for them in the txtbk and then at the same time, trying to think of that it links to another topic and i realise i dont remmber that as well! and its all very frustrating. and my math tutor wont come tomorrow because he 'cant make it' i dont know WHY. so he's coming on monday morning instead which is a bit last minute! agh. damn him. he gets on my nerves so much sometmes. i hope tomorrow is the last time ill see him ever again. since he doesnt know much about binary operations, sets and groups anyway, for my p3 exam.

so if uve read the entire thing (and i thank you for that) then u could probably see why i finally had a breakdown. The last time that happened was before mocks. mocks was pretty stressful too. since my first exams in grd 11 was pretty crap. i managed to improve a lot, so that was very motivating. but now that motivation is sorta fading especially with the thought of going to NUS if i miraculously do very well.

dont tell me its silly. i know.

jie/hl, if u read this, dont u dare breathe a word to mum or pa or i will personally strangle you when u get back. i guess i should get rid of my blog address on msn...

i'll get over the frustration and anger at(?) him after a while.
or so we hope.

btw, if u have to look good the next day for some reason, crying yourself to sleep the night before is not a good idea. unless u desperately want a double(for those who dont have) or even triple eyelid.....

goodnight.

exam exam exam exam...

ive been reading lots of blogs with interesting things but guess what? i have nothing interesting to say. so instead ill be complaining about exams.

Revision isnt going as well as planned. im STILL behind schedule. its scary how much we've learnt over the past 2 years. and to have to remember everything for an exam where less than half of everything we've learnt will come up just sucks. o ya, i was looking thru my bio notes from GCSE cuz i remember having a really good diagram in there i could learn for IB... instead of their complex diagrams in the txtbk cuz its the same thing anyway. so i got out my bio folder from GCSE and i just realised how litttle we had to know! my entire gcse bio folder is less than half of whati have for IB. for gcse i had one folder. now i have 2. and they're over the top full... ok. i guess if i organised my notes a bit id have a bit less but most things in ther are very useful!

this is my exam schedule...

Week1
Tuesday: english SL 1h30m, geo HL P1 1h30m Total:3h
Wednesday: GeoHLP2 2h30m, mathHLP1 2h Total:4h30m
Thursday:MathHLP2 2h, BioHLP1&2 3h15m Total: 5h15m (DIE! *cry*)
Friday: BioHLP3 1h15m

Week2
Monday: EnglishSLp2 1h30m
Friday: FrenchSL p1&2 3h

Week 3
Monday: MathHL p3 1h
Thursday: ChemSL p1&2 2h
Friday: ChemSLp3 1h

ok so it gets A LOT better in week 2 and 3, but i dont get how the IBO managed to get all my higher level subjects on the first week. ITS NOT FAIR!

maybe i should go and stop complaining. im sure lots of you hvae heard enough.
bye.

graduation is in one month...

more pictures

Instead of posting everything on the blog, i decided, or rather mjelva decided i should get a webshots thing.. which is what i did. so here are the rest of the pictures:
http://community.webshots.com/user/enarual

yea it proved quite useful since its easy to use and takes little time to upload.

enjoy. :)

oh, and thanks sheila for the pictures u sent.

-laurane

So this is it.

Our last day of school.
We had the awards assembly today. Us grd 12's are on the bleachers! it was quite fun to watch the rest of the school squish uncomfortably on the floor... :) after all, i have done that for 3 years. (then again there are people in my grade who's been here since grade 4, so they must have been more satisfied than me!) After the assembly, we had our final tutor group session where we finally got our Footprints book. then we had our own grd 12 assembly, and we watched this video made by some people.. there was a videogame fight sorta thing (think streetfighter!) that they did which was really good! and funny. :) and stuff... then we had a barbeque at labrador park, west coast. and it was all good and fun. haha.
so anyway... my camera sort of died after monday*cry*... so here are some pictures from Rockstar Day (monday). and as soon as i get pictures off people for the other days i will post them up!


katriona, me and jasmin

dom as Billie Joe (Greenday) and me


me, maya, rachel


sheila and i


the village people :) (jason, stefan, arnout, mjelva, adam) did i get the names right?


wanda, amy, me


me and swati looking uber cool


the girls


yj, cinnie, lyn, maya

jo and i


oystein (not sure dressed up as who...)




helen, aashima and ritz


me and melissa (as blondie)


Dudley (as Kiss band member)

so. like i said, my attempts to dress up sorta failed, but it got better over the next 2 days so u need to wait for pictures.
hope you liked the rockstars! next set of pictures will bring to you people like mahatma ghandi, victorian maids, and chinese zombies. haha

-laurane