Ominous.
Oh FUG, I just realized that the person I longed the most to get away from in TK is coming to SAJC too.
Fug face, fug personality, fug everything. He oozes of fug. Spongebob Fugpants [sorry, recycled joke]
Oh why oh why…
Plus, the new principal of SAJC is the old principal of Crescent Girls’, who happened to be my sister’s principal back in Crescent. Oh no.
Long story short, lots of drama happened between my sis and the principal. I’m guessing that if my sister didn’t like her, I won’t be liking her much either.
Oh no, with all these ominous signs popping up… Sigh.
I’m expecting to have a bad orientation experience 
Lists
Well, 2007 has come to an end and I decided to make lists for funsies.
Favorite times of 2007
: Anytime I was away from school.
Crappy times of 2007
: Anytime I was in school
: Getting a C5 for Chinese Os
: Jie jie leaving for USA
: Waking up at 6am every morning
Favorite books read in 2007
: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
: The Minds of Billy Milligan
: Flowers for Algernon
: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Favorite TV shows watched in 2007
: The Office USA and UK
: Ugly Betty (Haha, my guilty pleasure)
: Scrubs
: Knights of Prosperity (Haha)
Favorite movies watched in 2007
: Dog Day Afternoon
: V for Vendetta (Okay, that was last year, but watched again this year)
: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (ditto)
: The Godfather (ditto)
Favorite bands/artists I’ve started listening to in 2007
: John Lennon
: Muse
: Bruce Springsteen
: Meat Loaf
Favorite songs of 2007
: John Lennon - Imagine
: John Lennon - Working Class Hero
: TOTO - Africa
: Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
: The Beatles - Strawberry Fields
: Bee Gees - Tragedy
: Rammstein - Spring
: Radiohead - Arpeggi
: Radiohead - Karma Police
: Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
: David Bowie & Queen - Under Pressure
: Lazy to name the rest
Resolutions for 2008
: Fall ill as little as possible
: Watch Sweeney Todd (Lizard, don’t you DARE watch it without us first! >.< )
: Don't get retained
: Pass Chinese A levels
: Watch Reservoir Dogs
: Watch Candy
: Read The God Delusion
: Read Jude the Obscure
: Don't cheat for 2.4km run (Yeah right)
Might add on to the lists.
Anyway, hung out with Lizard, Dee and Eunice yesterday and exchanged Christmas presents.
I found this totally INVENTIVE, HILARIOUS, AMUSING toy in China! Oh my god, I couldn't resist, I had to buy the pig version for Dee and buy a tomato version for myself ^^ And they're only 3RMB each!
Here's how the toy works: (Sorry for the lousy resolution)
I never knew that flagging cabs was a snatching matter, I mean, seriously.
We learned our lesson on the 2nd day, when we tried to flag a cab on the street. A cab stopped for us. It was pretty obvious that we were gonna board the taxi because, oh I don’t know, we were standing right in front of it?
Little did I know that in China, standing in front of the taxi doors indicates nothing.
Because a dude came running along and we, flabbergasted, watched him slip into the taxi. He never once made eye contact with us, which I infer as a sign that he’s a coward. I mean, if you’re gonna steal a cab, at least acknowledge it.
So my parents obviously asked him what the hell he was doing.
He looked up, smiled his phony smile and said, “Bu hao yi si hor, bu hao yi si,” (An apology in Mandarin) and drove off with his rude, cowardly little ass.
BU HAO YI SI MY ASS!
I nearly wanted to pick up a stone, chuck it at his head and ask calmly, “Are you a total idiot?”
But obviously I wasn’t gonna fight with China people, they’re unpredictable people.
After that incident, we learned that when flagging a taxi, we had to hold onto the door handles so that no one could steal the cab.
But the good thing about cabs there is that the fare is insanely cheap, compared to Singapore.
The basic fee is 11RMB already, which is about SGD1.80, and a trip which would normally chalk up to SGD9.00 would cost only 15 RMB, which is SGD3.00. Oh my god! Total cab heaven.
Another thing was their excessive smoking. They simply just could not stop smoking! Smoking was like breathing to them, which is pretty ironic. Whenever we were in restaurants, there always would be a few men smoking and eating at the same time. They were literally alternating between chewing their food and smoking.
As I recall, I was defending China in one of my previous posts because for the Chinese, it’s where we come from, so we shouldn’t try to peel it away from ourselves. I still stand by that statement. Hating the people there is well, inevitable, but we still have to accept it as our country.
[P.S: Watch the video if you haven't!!]
Bad Hair Day.
Aiyah what a rubbishy, uncomfortable day.
Sorry for the superficial whining, I am aware that there are currently kids in Africa starving, but sometimes…
1. Bad hair day. I hate bad hair days, because they’re really bad. It goes poofy and shapeless and irritatingly thick when it’s humid.
2. Appealed to ACJC today. I forgot to bring my passport sized photograph. Dad got pissed off and had to drive home and drive back. I asked the guy in charge of the inquiries table whether I could fill out the online form first while waiting for Dad to come back - the guy said that the photograph actually wasn’t that important. So I got my Dad grumpy for nothing.
3. Told Dad that I had to wait for Denise to arrive so that she could give me an A4 sized envelope, which I thought was required. Dad groaned. Got him even more grumpy for nothing because in the end, I didn’t need the envelope anyway. I hate getting my Dad grumpy because he doesn’t seem to understand that I try really hard not to get him grumpy all the time - but somehow I just screw up some details.
4. Bad hair day. ARGH!
5. Got carsick, which is a first. Usually when I see people get carsick, I think that they’re just weird, I mean, how can you feel nauseous from a tamed car ride? But now I understand. Plus, I felt sleepy so I tried to sleep in the car, but I just couldn’t. Sleepy man = Angry man.
6. Met Eunice’s guy friends (Lippy, Gibby and Matty. Okay it’s Lip Men, Gibson and Ming Jun, just trying to make them rhyme), which was rather awkward because they seemed intimidated by us, either that or they were very shy. I don’t really get it, not trying to generalize here, but I thought dudes were more extroverted when it comes to meeting girls. I mean come on la, we’re not aliens.
7. BAD HAIR DAY!!!
8. BAD HAIR DAY!!!
Highlights of the day:
1. Lizard lent me “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler! Yay!
I’m very fed up with people who keep dismissing him, they don’t seem to want to know his point of view after knowing the general fact that he murdered thousands of Jews (Yes, I’m aware of the sinful enormity of it). Murderers and criminals may have done things which earned them their title, but I think we shouldn’t define them or their lives by their mistakes. Imagine having your whole life just being about the one mistake you made, no matter how disastrous the mistake was.
Similarly, I don’t think we should define Hitler by his murders. I mean, he practiced antisemitism, which is we now find despicable. But he had so many supporters, hundreds back then. Why? Don’t you want to know why? Why did he develop this mindset, why did so many people follow him, etc. Why did he do what he did? Murderers have a point of view too, and I think if we want to learn and move on, we have to understand it.
Sometimes when I mention Hitler, some friends would say, “To hell with that guy, I don’t care about him. He killed so many people, blah blah blah.”
Oh my god, just. SHUT. UP.
I’m not saying that I support his killings, I obviously do not. But it happened - it’s history, it’s a fact, and there’s no point in hating a dead guy.
All we can do now is try to understand him, or at least acknowledge his point of view, in order to move on. But obviously some people don’t want to move forward.
Okay.. Sorry, it’s been a long day.
2. I got a nice Republic Poly goodie bag.
3. Going to China (Shanghai) for 7 days! Long story short, I’m happy to go.
Bleh. Bad hair days…
Post-PAE results
[edit] Okay, I’ve found someone. Wei Rong. Uncanny, never mind. [/edit]
DID ANYONE ELSE IN THE WHOLE BLOODY WORLD GET INTO SAJC?! DAMNIT.
PAE results
Crap. Got my second choice - SAJC, which is located in the other side of the island so it takes 3 modes of transportation to get home.
First choice was ACJC, I guess 9 points wasn’t good enough for them. At least I don’t have to do swimming in SAJC.
Hello world, I will now be sporting t-shirts which says stuff about saints… The irony.
But on the other hand, it would’ve been ironic too if I went to ACJC anyway because they’re saints or something too, so.. whatever.
Okay, I shall be sitting down on the couch trying to digest the information now.
Un-happening Happenings
Okay, my holidays haven’t been as happening as others’.
No jobs, no clubbing, no smoking, etc. I don’t get why everyone’s out there looking for a job, I just feel that it’s too soon.
Usually when people ask me why I don’t have a job, I just say that I’m lazy in order to end the conversation. But it’s pointless to me, actually. I mean, Enjoy the holidays, people! You’ve got the next 40 years to work! What’s the rush?
The most happening thing that happened was discovering my old crush’s blog.
Filled with all sorts of intelligent posts, no less. He even posted an entry in some foreign language which I’m unable to identify. Probably Spanish.
And apparently he speaks Tamil too.
The manner in which he types is poetic too, very prose-like.
Which makes me feel even more wtf-ish, I mean, he even exudes intelligence 10 times more than me in everyday routines! Gah!
Another happening thing that happened was making a huge mistake of watching the movie, Fred Claus.
Every time I watch a stupid movie, I promise myself never to watch those kind of movies again.
But I always give it a chance the next time, and I end up promising myself the same promise again.
Like Doctor Doolittle, Norbit, White Chicks, Dodgeball, Little Man, those crazy movies.
They always involve this “funny” bit - A kick/punch/hit in the nuts, proceeded by a twisted, agonized expression, howling and slumping to the ground.
I don’t get what’s so funny about punching a guy in the nuts. It looks painful. Pain is not funny.
Another thing these movies use for humour is fat people. Or short people. Or any kind of person that doesn’t fit into society’s code of beauty.
It’s funny to see a fat person try to get laid, or a short person punching a tall dude’s nuts.
Oh and these movies use hot girls as sex targets too, totally brings across the message of equality *rock on*
Another mistake I made was watching Beowulf.
Snort. Here’s the most ridiculous scene ever:
[Beowulf is fighting a dragon which is destroying the village. Long story short, after lots of extraordinary, fancy schmancy kung fu moves later, Beowulf managed to hook himself onto the dragon by dangling from a chain tied around the dragon's neck. Aim: Stab the dragon's heart which is located in the neck in order to kill it, duh]
Dragon: *breathes fire onto Beowulf’s wife and mistress, that’s right, MISTRESS. Mistress and wife are pals*
Beowulf: NUUUUUU!
[Beowulf then uses his SWORD (take note of sword) and penetrates the dragon's skin, but the sword can't reach the heart!]
Beowulf: *grunts*
Wife and Mistress: AHHH!
[Beowulf then heroically SLICES OFF HIS ARM, the armour lets him dangle from the chain still, but now he can reach further, see. He swings in. He can't reach!]
Beowulf: *grunts*
[Totally frustrated now, Beowulf chucks away his sword (or maybe the dragon swiped it, I forgot) In one final, desperate attempt...]
Beowulf: I.. *pants* AM.. *pants* BEOWUULLLFFFFF!!
[Despite not being able to reach the heart even with a sword and arm intact, HE MANAGES TO GRAB THE HEART WITH HIS BARE HANDS!]
Dragon: *dies, dissolves into the sea*
Beowulf: *dies. Not sure why. Fatigue maybe?*
Total wtf. He couldn’t reach the heart with a sword and couldn’t even reach it when he sliced off his arm.
AND HE COULD’VE GRABBED IT WITH HIS BARE HANDS ALL ALONG?! The laws of physics simply do not apply here.
Liz, Dee and I were the only ones laughing hysterically at the scene, I couldn’t believe that everyone else looked so serious!
How could you keep a straight face at such a scene?!
There were a bunch of other likewise funny bits in the movie, which weren’t meant to be funny.
Like Beowulf repeating this line, “I.. AM.. BEOWUULLFF!” about 10 times every time he’s about to face an enemy. K, I know who you are, thanks.
Another important discovery I made was that a building actually needs 4 Starbucks outlets.
In one tower alone, Suntec City has 4 Starbucks outlets! Plus other cafes as well!
Is walking one level up or down too much of a hassle to get coffee? Apparently so.
Starbucks is ridiculously overpriced too. Ridiculously. Sorry, I’m a Starbucks noob, I haven’t been there often. But I don’t need to be a frequent customer to know that it’s ridiculous when the price of one small Mango juice is equivalent to one small Ice Chocolate with whipped cream and chocolate chips included.
Mango Juice = Ice Chocolate + Whipped cream + chocolates chips?!
I don’t mean to be a stickler for prices, but is that insane or what?
And don’t give me all the “Oh ‘cos it’s ice blended and the mangoes were grown in the fertile, bountiful soil of sunny Hawaii…”, come on. Mango juice is mango juice.
Whatever, maybe I’m not posh enough to appreciate ridiculously overpriced drinks.
I think my own self-brewed hot Milo is good enough for me.
Speaking of which, yummy! Milo time!