Saturday, May 31, 2008
anniversary day!
Today was ultra-super-fun, except for the sucky bickering about the wireless connection just now. oops.Never realised how nice s'pore was until dad and I took mum for a planned surprise (not really) lunch to celebrate their um 22yrs since they got each other wedding rings. In other words, an anniversary. We blindfolded mum and made her wear sunglasses on top of that, and when we reached mtfaber there was no place to park so dad and I went one entire round up, down and back up the mountain again because we missed a turning.
I LOVE MOCKTAILS (and my parents).
The mocktail was nice, think it was the first mocktail i'd ever tried. Shirley Temple mocktail. yummy. the restaurant was kind of small, there were only a couple of tables, but nearly the whole place's made of glass so you can see the cable cars and everything below. WOW. the food rocked so much, especially the soup and chocolate mousse. Super expensive, but totally worth it I guess.
And then we took cable car to sentosa, then took back to harbourfront where we went off shopping at vivocity for a while. Must go back there again with yiying the shopping queen or gourmet maybe, 'coz there are so many shops my parents wouldn't exactly be interested in going but are in actual fact REALLY INTERESTING to us. heh. But since today's their special day, I guess they had the time of their life 'coz it's been a long while (um, since I came to this school) since the three of us managed to spend an entire day together being happy and carefree and such. I'm glad we're a family. Yay for today (:
The cable cars made me realise how phobic I am of so many things. death, heights, lightning, balloons popping, loud noises, the dark, food mixing (i.e. carrots must not touch curry chicken), detachment, bees. I should become Monk (the guy on starworld. go watch). But nah some of 'em aren't adverse fears, except the my fear of bees and balloons. The best way to kill me is to put me on the top of a very high building, blow up twenty balloons and release a swarm of bees to pop the balloons. I'll jump off the building first. Even mum thinks I've sort of changed alot, I mean, the last time we sat the cablecars dad and I were shaking the whole cablecar like crazy, but when I went on it today I was digging my fingernails into dad's trousers everytime the cable car started shaking. Is that a sign of growing up? When you understand more about life, and when you've lived it longer, you develop more fears. I wonder.
And surprisingly, math isn't one of my phobias. It has never been, I guess.
box you cellulite, box you.
hate being fat, and not having enough drive to do something about it. come on octeo you can do this.
from now on, no more bite-size chocolates at home, no more crackers. no more eating corntos when math gets in your way. get the butt up and exercise more. don't get lazy on the workouts. don't eat fast food. don't eat fast food, no matter what. don't eat fast food. eat subway, don't eat the chocolate flavoured cookies. stop complaining and wishing and whining because things never work that way. don't eat so much rice at night. don't eat fried dumplings frm stall 2 more than once a week. don't touch samosas unless you need something to cheer you up. don't buy milo. don't eat any other ice cream except soya ice cream. practise suona while standing up instead of sitting down.
AND ABOVE ALL, CONTROL YOURSELF.
you have everything it takes to lose the fat, except the one thing you lack- determination.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not exactly a food addict. It's just my nature that I don't like the taste of any sort of dessert- that means no ice kacang, no cheng tng, no bobochacha or whatever. Except cheesecake though, my great big stumbling block (:
Hello, I don't even eat real ice cream on a regular basis. And I hate most excessively sweet stuff, I hate chocolate, I don't like eating biscuits.
fat frustrates me to no end.
why does it take me every ounce of effort- or even going beyond that, to the point of extremity, just to lose those pounds, just to get into shape? Face it- without shape, life's gonna be loads harder, 'specially if you're female. and why are some able to eat anything without feeling guilty, without even exercising, and without getting fat? Tell me! TELL ME!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
the umpteenth quiz.
Phewz. Now that the juhuatai scores thing has been settled (WANGMAMA HAD BETTER THANK ME PROPERLY), now for some fun.The Umpteenth Random Personality Quiz Which Is Still Very Enjoyable (koped frm yixin!):
1) Last Person/People you hung out with?
Liyana (: if you count having macs breakfast and going to math clinic with someone as "hanging out". If not then that'll be GOURMET.
3. Last Person/People you went to the movies with?
Gourmet! wil dorcas valsoh and i went free-movie-ing at lido yesterday (IRONMAN!) and last week (MADEofHONOUR!)
4. Last Person/People you went to the mall with?
Gourmet again, 'coz we were shopping for b'day gifts at lido.
5. Last person that made you laughed?
All of the sec2 mad hatters- yuming xueling xinyi anqi and jiaqian my skinnybeany who assaulted me with tickles after dazu. :D
6. Last Person you cried about?
Four times for David Cook, because he won. <>
7. Last Person you texted?
Boss or ziyi a few hrs ago. One of them, cant remember leh.
8. Last Person you commented?
Ahma. :D as in, the ahma from xianyue!
9. Last Person you hugged?
Ziyi, sticky, jiaqian, my daddy.
A N S W E R. T R U T H F U L L Y
1. Do you like anyone?
Yes with a capital Y, i like ____, _____, ______, ________, and _______ . and DavidCook!
2. Sun or moon?
Moon, 'coz it tends to make me wonder.
3. Winter or fall?
Winter.
4. Left or right?
Right. Wanna be a lefty like cookie and archie though :)
5.10 acquaintances or 2 best friends?
2 best friends [but i have more >: D meep meep]
6. Sunny or rainy?
Rainy. 'Coz rain tends to make me wonder, too.
7. Vanilla ice cream or chocolate ice cream?
Neither. Both make me outrageously fat. Will eat 99% fat free orange sorbet though.
A B O U T. Y O U
1. What time is it now?
9.13pm.
2. What is your first name?
Valerie. DUH.
3. Where do you want to live?
Singapore. OR ICELAND, FOR A WHILE :)
4. How many kids do you want?
One or two. Or one and a half?
5. What will you name them?
David and Cook. okay just kidding. I don't see the point in thinking so far ahead.
6. When do you want to get married?
When I know he truly loves me.
When I know he truly loves me.
7. Have you ever eaten spam?
What's spam?
8. Favourite ice cream?
Ben&Jerry's and gelato!
9. How many kinds of cereal are in your cabinet?
Uh. want me to list the collection?
Banana nut crunch, normal cornflakes, WaffleCrisp, SpecialK (something thats supposed to help reduce calorie intake), Froot Loops, some wafer-like cereal, etc.....
10. Do you cook?
YES I DO COOK. <>
oh yeah seriously i do cook, but more like baking i guess.
11. Current mood?
Snoozy-woozy.
I N. T H E. L A S T. 4 8. H O U R S. H A V E. Y O U
1. Kissed someone?
parents lah. and by my dog.
Snoozy-woozy.
I N. T H E. L A S T. 4 8. H O U R S. H A V E. Y O U
1. Kissed someone?
parents lah. and by my dog.
2. Prayed?
yeaaaaap (:
3. Been hugged?
yeaaaaap (:
4. Felt stupid?
When fari and i were hopelessly trying to work out the weird-o differentiation questions.
5. Missed someone?
yeahhhhhh : O
6. Danced crazy?
Dont dance except on the ddr, sorry.
7. Cried?
loads of times this year, and some more in front of alot of people (i.e. gourmet, classmates, teacher)
8. Lied?
vaguely remember but white lies, yes.
RA N D O M. Q U E S T I O N S
1. Have you ever been searched by the cops?
No, I'm a good kid too!
vaguely remember but white lies, yes.
RA N D O M. Q U E S T I O N S
1. Have you ever been searched by the cops?
No, I'm a good kid too!
2. Have a dog?
yup.
3. When was the last time you went sleding?
Will try playing the skiing game on Wii tomorrow, does that count?
4. Would you rather sleep with someone else or alone?
Alone but someone must be nearby in the next room or something. Don't like taupok-ing on the same bed/same room as other people, experienced that during gourmet bio pt sleepover last year. Apparently someone stepped on wil's and my hair.
5. Do you believe in ghosts?
No, but am immensely thrilled by paranormal activity.
:) there you go. now you know me.
Holiday Horrors
Mmmmm so the holidays have begun.Any thoughts? Loads.
So far the past few days have been nothing but math clinic, RS (WHICH IS A GOOD THING!), piano, concert prep, math clinic, movie with gourmet, tuition, math clinic, CO. Pretty good, huh?
I kind of enjoy the feeling of getting a totally new hairdo, especially after rebonding my not-very-curly-but-still-quite-curly-nevertheless hair. Guess it was quite a good change, and the hairy comments from people are um STRANGE. but very amusing. Like how koh thinks I look as if i'm melting as a result of being dipped in strong acid, or how i look like SEAWEED and xueling >: )
Oi but me is very, very confident that my abnormally straight, ironed-out fringe will curl back into its usual shape by the end of the holidays, just in time for photo taking. Right, I am vain.
Going out with gourmet yesterday was superb :)
Thanks to valsoh the moose's heavenly free movie tickets, we watched ironman! SUPERLY NICE SHOW. BUT THEN AGAIN WILL SOMEONE PLEASE WATCH PRINCE CASPIAN WITH ME? (: *there's time after CO on the 12th, hinthinthint!*
Okay I stink. This has just been a little skimpy summary of how I've kicked off the holidays.
And I just realised, today's thursday but there ain't no AmericanIdol to look forward to anymore. <:O
Saturday, May 17, 2008
I MAKE WIND :)
OF WHICH I AM VERY MUCH IN LOVE WITH RIGHT NOW :)
birdbrain rules the world
there must be something seriously wrong in my life.there must be something(s) that's not going my way.
or for the matter of fact, not going in the way anyone would want to.
shoulder-deep in a pile of manure (because i don't wish to swear).
struggling, clamouring to get out.
but all i'm grasping at is air.
air,
the thing that sustains me but unfortunately probably fills 80% of my brain, therefore accounting for the gargantuan forehead i have.
This is so frustrating.
I should just go and join forces with the karang guni man.
I know where I went wrong, but am I ready to change?
Am I ready to get up, keep my head on and start getting a move on?
probably my (academic) life lacks consistency, discipline, perseverance and a hint of luck.
Which is what I really, really, really am dying for now.
Goodbye.
-wait. this isn't the end.
Still will be blogging the normal happy impish octeo way, but as I've told people like valsoh for the umpteenth time, this person will be forced into social recluse mode (no msn except when urgent, and for only max 1hr) and the consequences for defying my own rules will be very, very, painful. self-administered punishment. It's not like I'm going to drop my entire social life or anything, just that I'll be alot stricter and harder on myself from now on.
God bless and all the best to me. wheeheehee. DAVIDCOOK<3
Saturday, May 10, 2008
& goodbye doesn't mean forever
so yesterday was sort of like a potpourri of whirling emotions again? Guess so.
Had quite an entertaining time during dazu today. *ahem* entertaining in a boring fashion. Since they were doing molou the entire time, we suona people were all boring ourselves to death at the prospect of waiting for another 150+ bars before we could actually play a single note. And when we actually got to our part, we totally skrewed it up because we had absolutely no idea when to come in. Probably even schubert wouldn't know when to come in if he were playing, how can anyone know when to come in if you have a score that's totally SPARTAN, save the title and a number of empty bars and performance directions, right up to the part where you start playing.
So dingding and us had to ask the other sections and look at the zong pu to try and find a little indication for our parts.
Songs with little suona parts suck.
Looks like we're doing tajike for encore, whoopeedoo!
and um, on to the sad part of the day.
Sometimes we get so attached to people, we literally latch ourselves to them and live on our relationships with other people. And when you're forced to part your ways, or leave each other for good, life just whacks you on the head and you realise that it is your craving for acceptance, your hunger for eternal friendship, your love for being able to be with people... it just makes you so vulnerable... so terrified... of simply the thought of being away from them, not being able to see them for months, years, a lifetime, maybe even eternity.
And that is what makes me a person, I guess.
my maid james left last night. So james seems the most unlikely name, but forget it, that's the only name I'll ever, ever want to remember her for the rest of my life. It's so sad to think that someone who's been around for years, listening to you ramble about such and such, or helping you remember things you might've misplaced around the house, watching late-night horror shows with you at night, laughing at ____, wrestling and just being such a nice daily companion... is finally leaving.
i heart you, james, for being the one person at home whose age group is closest enough to me to be a real companion, and someone who understands stuff that sometimes parents just can't, or won't. Thankyou for wholeheartedly listening to my stories and sometimes draggy recounts of dreams till the end instead of cutting in to worry about electricity bills or why the char kway teow isn't fried well enough, for not grumbling about how "the music young punks listen to now are so noisy", for allowing me to scream when I get very excited, and really, above all, just for your company. You're more than just a maid, you're a real mate. :)
Everyone's so sad that you have to go, and maybe once you've settled your fuzzy problem back home you could come back and work with us again, you said you really want to do that next time. Whatever the case, I'll be waiting for you on your old bed with the radio (that has the worst reception on earth), the pink unicorn you won at Escape and your smelly orange blanket. :)
Why am I posting your farewell message here when there's barely any cybercafes in your village?
Don't say you're sorry, because it's not really your fault that you have to go.
Because goodbye doesn't have to mean forever.
:' )
Monday, May 05, 2008
weight tips man. haha.
DID YOU KNOW???????okay right. people out there, you're not exactly very fat/has great potential to be a big woman like me so you needn't know but anyway must use this as a personal reminder to myself.
taking the stairs instead of the lift or moving more for about 20min like increases your metabolic rate!
which is why i drop off 2-3 stops further from the bus stop outside my house : D
exercising about an hour before dinner is good!
because metabolic rate stays high after that so dinner doesn't take a toll on the hips : D
eating more protein?
dunno someone told me about this so I'm like gonna eat more meat than rice.
sleeping ENOUGH. can. help. you. lose. weight.
OH MY GOSH SO THAT HAS BEEN THE PROBLEM HMM.
lolzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz THEN WHY ARE THERE SKINNYWEANY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO CAN SLEEP LATE AND STAY SKINNYWEANY! LOOKIT THE SKINNYWEANY PEOPLE WITH DARK CIRCLES IN SCHOOL!
okay sheesh. stop complaining about being fat/nearly fat already and start math-ing and working out man.
Saturday, May 03, 2008
unfortunately, c is also for chemistry.
am currently marvelling at the wonders of how such a randomly superb combination of oyster-omelette, bob the builder fruit juice, occasional smses and an americanidol season7 playlist on repeat can ease the cruel study of chemistry.:) ALLDABEST, PEOPLE!
Friday, May 02, 2008
c is still for cookie!
AHAHAHA POST-SS, POST-CHINESE PAPER TWO, POST-ENGLISH, POST-GEOG EUPHORIA!Hah yitong's advice really worked! Slept relatively earlier and woke up at 5am to memorize geog, and the memory really does stay alot fresher compared to mugging late into the night before the big exam day. :D
I think gourmet was perpetually high right till the very end.
High Moment #1:
After geog, we started crapping non stop about various stuff, as usual. ah okay this is just to prepare you for the more highness to come. Oh right, we were crapping about the number of calculators we had to return to the CHEM AND MATH TEACHERS.
High Moment #2:
p/a/u/l s/e/g/a/r/r/a is the answer to everything (and every single question) in life.
It started out when wilz and I told the other two that we had to go return mr s/e/g/a/r/r/a's calculator at the level 1 staffroom. But dorcas and valsoh were still in the blur-sotong stage which often comes after you've been wracking your brain over geog for a good one and a half hour. aha.
wilz: eh dorcas why you going the other way?
dorcas: you and valteo go that way for what? (the way to the level1 staffroom)
wilz and I: P/A/U/L S/E/G/A/R/R/A.
valsoh and dorcas: hah?
wilz (in a very aiyo alamak tone): PAUL S/E/G/A/R/R/A lah!
me: we returning his calculator lah.
dorcas: OHHHHHH i thought we were going to split ways.
so we started asking more questions like....
what's your favourite food?
P/A/U/L/ S/E/G/A/R/R/A.
how are alternative energies good for the environment?
P/A/U/L/ S/E/G/A/R/R/A.
agree or disagree?
P/A/U/L/ S/E/G/A/R/R/A.
conclusion: our chem teacher is the answer to everything.
High Moment #4:
at the staffroom.
We couldn't find teacher so we decided to go call him using the telephones outside. And just as I picked up the phone, another person next to me picked up a second phone and all we could hear was each other speaking.
So the other gourmets were like, "eh later when you call teacher arh, we'll eavesdrop."
:D
High Moment #5:
Just as we were gonna call, we spotted mr.seg standing outside the staffroom, so we quickly ran over to him to return the calculator but he was busy talking to someone else. Tried putting the calculator in his pocket! :O
but in the end we did manage to return the calculator, and when we said we borrowed loads of calculators frm the math teachers his whole face was like O_o" which was just priceless man.
High Moment #6:
Chased another teacher at the third floor to return all the calculators we borrowed. And her whole face was also going O_O --> >:D ah so one of you was the one who borrowed my calculator ah!
never again.
High (Freaky) Moment #7:
wilz and valsoh had gone to the toilet, me and dorcas were kinda moping about in class packing our bags and such. We were talking about horror movies and spirits and things moving out of their own accord when suddenly the doors started opening and closing themselves, ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY.
High Moment #8 WHICH SERIOUSLY IS THE HIGHEST MOMENT IN A LONG, LONG TIME:
Me and dorcas finally decided to go toilet, and on the way to the toilet there's this rather low ledge which i jumped up halfway to touch. Then dorcas jumped up to try and touch it too, but when she landed back on earth we were like "OOPS." because dorcas almost jumped straight into a teacher, and the teacher was really trying to stifle a laugh before she walked off.
then we laughed and laughed and laughed and screamed inside the toilet.
now for the funny part.
When I got out of my cubicle, I thought dorcas was in one of the right side cubicles so I turned towards the right to talk to her, but THERE WAS NO ONE THERE ALL THE DOORS WERE OPEN. :O
And then suddenly I whirled around and dorcas was standing at the left side so I screamed and my hand was sort of pointing towards the right. Then she thought I was pointing at this scary roll of tissue hanging from nowhere so she turned to look at the right side and SHRIEKED, and we just ended up shrieking all the way back to class with a very good story to tell the other two gourmets.
Lunched at lido with valsoh and dorcas, plus waiian and yunxi who kindly provided us with chairs and a table, and becca yitong xinqi seetoh shimin elaine. pok seetoh and yitong (qian bian-ly) convinced valsoh dorcas and I to drink some queer-smelling japanese tea which they claimed could help you relive your past. It tasted like semi-strong coffee. I STILL THINK IT'S DILUTED BLACK COFFEE LEH YOU PEOPLE.
AHAHA coolz I'm promoting two davids to a david who promoted another david to me! :P david arh, thanks for the davidtao song, jiayou for physics man! (:
oh today was just incredibly cooktastickamagically high.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
c is for cookie, that's good 'nough for me
well because I've been a very good girl studying hard for tomorrow's geography, reassuring myself time and again that there seriously isn't anything to study for english, me will start typing big big big big font now.GO GO GO DAVIDCOOK!!
i cannot express how much cookie rocks, but yes anyway WATCH AMERICANIDOL FOR MORE COOKIE!
cooktastickamagical! :D
Oh yeah, time for me to head back down to earth.
Me and ziyi have immeasurable admiration for cookie which nobody can really quite understand, unless of course you are also a fan with immeasurable admiratin for cooktastickamagic (an octeo-was-too-high-when-smsing-ziyi-while-watching-idol-last-night invention)! (:
I am going to pass geog, and I am going to pass it good.
YEEEEEEEEHAW must finish mugging alternative energies to catch the results show later on!