mug (Sunday, February 26, 2006 / 2:28 am)
i find it hard to cope with life nowadays.
thats when i turn to my secret blog.
and i've just done typing my first entry. way to go.
alrighty. its 230 already. gotta catch some slp. be muggin with shu wei hopefully tmr.
.. (Friday, February 24, 2006 / 11:29 pm)
Arena (known to self and others) cheerful, reflective, sentimental, warm | Blind Spot (known only to others) accepting, bold, clever, complex, confident, dependable, energetic, extroverted, friendly, happy, helpful, independent, ingenious, intelligent, knowledgeable, mature, modest, patient, powerful, relaxed, searching, sensible, shy, silly, spontaneous, trustworthy, wise, witty |
Façade (known only to self) self-conscious | Unknown (known to nobody) able, adaptable, brave, calm, caring, dignified, giving, idealistic, introverted, kind, logical, loving, nervous, observant, organised, proud, quiet, religious, responsive, self-assertive, sympathetic, tense |
Dominant Traits
57% of people agree that chubb is cheerful
64% of people think that chubb is friendly
All Percentages
able (0%) accepting (7%) adaptable (0%) bold (7%) brave (0%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (57%) clever (28%) complex (7%) confident (7%) dependable (14%) dignified (0%) energetic (21%) extroverted (7%) friendly (64%) giving (0%) happy (35%) helpful (7%) idealistic (0%) independent (7%) ingenious (7%) intelligent (21%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (7%) logical (0%) loving (0%) mature (14%) modest (7%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (14%) powerful (7%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (7%) relaxed (7%) religious (0%) responsive (0%) searching (7%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (0%) sensible (21%) sentimental (7%) shy (7%) silly (28%) spontaneous (35%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (28%) warm (21%) wise (7%) witty (14%)
Arena (known to self and others) timid, simple, insecure, panicky | Blind Spot (known only to others) intolerant, hostile, selfish, unhappy, cynical, inane, cruel, childish, blasé, impatient, loud, vacuous, insensitive, self-satisfied, passive, smug, dispassionate, overdramatic, inattentive, unreliable, cold, foolish |
Façade (known only to self) needy | Unknown (known to nobody) incompetent, inflexible, cowardly, violent, aloof, glum, stupid, irresponsible, vulgar, lethargic, withdrawn, unhelpful, unimaginative, brash, ignorant, irrational, distant, boastful, imperceptive, chaotic, weak, embarrassed, unethical, rash, dull, predictable, callous, humourless |
Dominant Traits
57% of people think that chubb is overdramatic
All Percentages
incompetent (0%) intolerant (14%) inflexible (0%) timid (14%) cowardly (0%) violent (0%) aloof (0%) glum (0%) stupid (0%) simple (14%) insecure (14%) irresponsible (0%) vulgar (0%) lethargic (0%) withdrawn (0%) hostile (14%) selfish (14%) unhappy (14%) unhelpful (0%) cynical (28%) needy (0%) unimaginative (0%) inane (28%) brash (0%) cruel (28%) ignorant (0%) irrational (0%) distant (0%) childish (42%) boastful (0%) blasé (14%) imperceptive (0%) chaotic (0%) impatient (14%) weak (0%) embarrassed (0%) loud (42%) vacuous (14%) panicky (14%) unethical (0%) insensitive (14%) self-satisfied (14%) passive (14%) smug (28%) rash (0%) dispassionate (14%) overdramatic (57%) dull (0%) predictable (0%) callous (0%) inattentive (14%) unreliable (14%) cold (14%) foolish (14%) humourless (0%)
tan (Thursday, February 23, 2006 / 9:00 pm)
halleujah.
today went tanning with amanda at sentosa.
apparently, today was a DAMN cloudy day. we only managed to have the evening sun which wasnt sunny at all.
but due to our BANANA
DEEP/GOLDEN BROWN tanning oil! we got
TANNED!gagagahahaha. if u see me in sch tmr, must say i tanned k. dont say no DIFFERENCE?!
hmm, not bad la. and from today's trip. i know that amanda is LOADED. so we mus got qiao zha her. ahhahahahahhaa. alrighty. i feel so oily now. we put too many layers of suntan oil today. ahhahahhaa.
ciao!
imaMUGGER (Sunday, February 19, 2006 / 10:16 pm)
i became a MUGGER today. and im HAPPY about that.
never have i been so happy to study. and its great. i finally devoted myself to studying today. or mugging. whatever u say. its GREAT to be a NERD again. i feel so TK again(:
heh. yeah. indescribable euphoria gushing out within myself now. cant help but grin to the laptop. omg this is HOHOHO!
haha and yea, i watched CATCH ME IF U CAN just now. was anticipating that a few weeks ago. lala. frank is HOT. hahhaa. in the show and reality. lol.
this is just great.
hopefully it'll last..
miss ( / 2:37 pm)
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Once again,
bohemian rhapsody is playing on the radio. it suddenly dawned upon me that a few months ago, while mugging for prelims and Os. this was the song stuck in my head. the memories started pouring in as if the floodgate to a gushing river had just been opened.
sigh. i
MISS those sec4 days terribly. when everyday everyone would just be clarifying doubts with each other, bullshitting about almost everything in class, distributing sweets to make ourselves awake, wondering when would Os actually end, complaining about those mounting tasks the teachers would always assign to us, humming songs in class, going to parkway after school, spending hours talking in some fast food restaurant...
memories of a lifetime.
oh well, then each of us progressed. KAKA was separated.
mich, rong, fifi went to TJ.
yilin to MJ.
mini to poly.
ali to aussie.
and i.. to VJ.
before i entered vj, i've heard about how fun and cool it was. and i was sure that i would be able to experience the fun there. well, a month and a half had passed. things started to get dull and boring. how i wish my life can be able to come to a standstill during those sec4 days. regardless of how boring and mundane the days could get, it was far far better than what im experiencing now.
yesterday, i talked to ali. she seemed so fortunate, happy, and carefree in aussie.
i wanted to go aussie too! another of my impulsive thoughts. but im not happy here in singapore.):
alright. lets face reality. there will be econs test coming up shortly --- NEXT TUESDAY. basic mathematical formulaes and stuff, Central Problem of Econs & Demand and Supply. oh my.
and then, i wanted to change class to PGME. and i thought michelle would be gg with me. sigh, and who knows. she might be going to RJ. ): i'll be alone
again. so now, i can only hope that fee will be able to join me in vj. otherwise.. sigh. theres no use in hoping or wishing now.
Anyway the wind blows...
): (Thursday, February 16, 2006 / 11:07 pm)
dude. i know u see this in almost every year1 blog.
mentioning about how they are lagging in tutorials and lectures. and seriously, this is happening to me too. oh my.
sometimes, its not my wish to pon school or whatsoever, and apparently, fact is that im sick but maybe my reputation of poning is bad enough to cover the fact that i can never be sick.
sigh. and im seriously lagging in almost everything. i tried to study at home too, but it never works. cos im really LAGGING.
save me..
vday1 (Tuesday, February 14, 2006 / 7:37 pm)
yeah! this vday is great! its the first time whereby i received so much presents. alright. its not alot. but hmm.. let me tell how i normally celebrate vday previously.
in tk, from sec1-3, we dont really celebrate vdays. i take it as like a couple day or something like that, so friends dont exchange gifts or stuff. when i was in sec4, my juniors started giving me vday presents, and till then, i realised that so thats how we should celebrate V DAY!! woohoo(: so yeah, to avoid the same mistake, this yr i prepared gifts for my classmates and my angels and friends!!
LOL. dont laugh at me or call me sua gu okay.
anyways, today was GREAT cos me and amanda went tanning! unfortunately or fortunately, we din managed to leave by the side gate and leave vj to go east coast to tan. nevertheless, the fact that the gate was locked did not waver our strong determination to tan! amanda brought a dark tanning lotion with SPF which was used to apply on our faces. and i brought a golden brown tanning lotion(both banana boat!) to apply on our hands and legs. in the end, we laid on the bball court for like 45 mins and tanned like no one's business. fortunately, no one caught us cos we were afraid that the teachers might chase us away for fear of us getting a heat stroke. and only a few ppl saw us but din bother to see what we were trying to do haha.
and YAY! i got tanned!(: this is great. from now on, mons tues thurs are TANNING DAYS!
but its kindof sad, i'll be changing classes soon. sigh, have to make friends all over again(:
alrighty. i hope i be able to mug Maths and Econs later.
p/s: if ure taking PGME, tell me okay!!!
suck. (Saturday, February 11, 2006 / 1:27 am)
im really damn freaking tired now. and theres choir at 8. but after reading some blogs here and there.. i realised how lousy i could be.
*P/S: if u dont want to be reminded by the Os results, refrain from reading this. i once thought that i was a good consoler. and consoling is my forte. or should u say WAS. now, i really know that i suck at doing so.
today i saw shu wei at PS, and i went up smiling at her. initially, i wasnt thinking about the Os results. but i was just smiling at her as what i normally do. and she told me that even yu ting din smile at her and some HAHA thing. im like,.. hey did i really portray such an image? im not sure. then i thought about it, yeap. the problem lies with me. why cant i stop smiling for once. if i got above ten for Os, i know i be damn upset too. and if i saw someone who scored better smiling at me, the impression must be.
why is she smiling at me. is she mocking at me?!and after that, i dont know what to tell shu wei. congrats? NO. good job? NO. u've did ur best. thats SARCASTIC. and for once, im at a loss of words.
then when i read yu ting's blog. she mentioned about crying and stuff. and i realised that probably i sent her a msg that couldnt help with any encouragement she might need or whatsoever. and it suddenly dawned upon me about what i should talk to them about during choir tmr. if i dont mention about the results, im afraid that i will portray an image whereby im purposely avoiding the topic or something. and if someone accidentally mention about it, im afraid that i might be viewed as arrogant. and thats definitely what i do not want.
sigh. but anyways, im HAPPY for all of my TK friends who did great for their Os. almost everyone i asked had 10&below. so great job people. and im definitely esctatic that fee is joining me. and prolly mini too! well done!!
pics (Friday, February 10, 2006 / 11:07 am)
how cool can i get when i play pool! see it even RHYMES(:
me and noobie pool partner(:
at the pool table. btw that pair of cool hands belong to ME(:
olvls ( / 10:49 am)
well oh well. the day has arrived.
a week ago, i was praying madly that the results shud come out on monday or tues, why the hell do we have to wait SO LONG until friday, which is today. and hmm, now im like. contradicting myself.
half of me is anxious to get the results. cos i wanna noe how GREAT or
badly i fared in Os. another half of me tells me that this is gonna be sucky. all thanks to dear shu wei, who likes to preach about Os results. and now, here i am, half panicky, wondering how badly everything will get. and i even had a dream whereby i got D7 for both eng and combined humans.
my oh my. anyways, gotta set off soon. meeting mini fee and rongy at PP mac. Argh. oh and im so broke. yesterday was OGLS jts at ps pizza hut(all thanks to anna's stupid idea). and today its gonna be seniors class JTS. once again, at Pizza Hut but fortunately its at suntec. not much diff though. but im just wondering if theres enough space for like 50 of us. hahaha.
grr. i wanna play one more game of yahoo pool... but shit. if i still play sure damn late. but im the chi dao queen. so it doesnt really matter yeah? haha. and POOLING at pasir ris with shu wei, yu ting and daniel was SHIOK ytd. now im half addicted to the game. oh shall post a cool pic of myself playing pool later. for now, i have to go(:
oh and if TOUCHWOOD, i scored v lousy for Os. and when i tell u my lousy score, pls dont show me a sympathetic face.
guess im gonna hate that. so yepps. thanks(:
thurs (Thursday, February 09, 2006 / 12:38 am)
Unbelievable
Always said I would know where to find love,
Always thought I'd be ready and strong enough,
But some times I just felt I could give up.
But you came and changed my whole world now,
I'm somewhere I've never been before.
Now I see, what love means.
[Chorus]
It's so unbelievable,
And I don't want to let it go,
Something so beautiful,
Flowing down like a waterfall.
I feel like you've always been,
Forever a part of me.
And it's so unbelievable to finally be in love,
Somewhere I'd never thought I'd be.
In my heart, in my head, it's so clear now,
Hold my hand you've got nothing to fear now,
I was lost and you've rescued me some how-.
I'm alive, I'm in love you complete me,
And I've never been here before.
Now I see, what love means.
[Chorus]
When I think of what I have, and this chance I nearly lost,
I cant help but break down, and cry.
Ohh yeah, break down and cry.
[Chorus]
Now I see, what love means
HOTTEST TRACK in my mp3 now!by the way, my mp3 is pretty useless now. i can only store like 8-9 songs. dont laugh. i know its worse than a DISCMAN. but what can i do yeah? hear over and over again(: so friendship day's coming. u'll noe what i want!!
oh and this song btw, is UNBELIVABLE by Craig David, dl urself or find me online and i send it to u right at once!
today was a MEANINGFUL day. for once, i actually PAID FULL ATTENTION to MATH lecture. yeah. quite unexpected for someone who doesnt pay attention to lectures at all. and i realised that when u listen to lectures, actually u get like 50% of the whole bullshit the lecturer is harping on. oh and i managed to finish my physics mini test and i got all
CORRECT! now this is HOT and UNBELIVABLE cos i don listen to phy tutorials too! and wth, all these time i;ve been bullshitting that jc life is tough. cos im ONE FULL TIME SLACKER. so yeah, initially i've decided on going to sch tmr! since im SO IN LOVE with sch now.
and.. there u go. that shitass ARTS FAC student.
BAMBI WEE YU TING/YUTING(whatever) instigated me to pon tmr. cos she used TANNING to tempt me. wth. of course i will go tan right!! yeah. anyways tmr lessons suck big time. the first 4 periods. chem lect and tut. and its like, after first 3 mths, i definitely DROP CHEM!! PGME, HERE I GO!!! yeah. but im afraid of the class la. what if some mugger class. or pai kia class. sigh. then those ppl damn hostile. but whatever crap, now no need worry about this first.
hehehe. and NOW...
*DRUMROLL!!
the greatest event of the day!!
and this is damn important la. cos for the first time in the shitfreak 16 years. i've never got a 1548 record for my 2.4!
what la. dont laugh! its like i've been getting 16mins+ or 17mins+ during sec sch. wow. the ppl here damn fit sia. and guess what la, im the LAST. those china scholars in my class cheat my feelings la. during X ctry they purposely run slow slow. i tot their stamina as lousy as mine. in the end, i din even managed to see them until after i ran finish 6 arounds.
so yeah. if u failed ur mock nafa due to 2.4, i've got a TIP for u. but these were my train of thoughts while i was running la.
1st round: woah. going on at a faster pace than my normal style. but nvm, at least ltr i wont lag so much. shit sia, hope all 6rounds like that, dont stop fast fast! shuang sia!
2nd round: hoo haa. woah. im feeling quite tired already. can i like give up!? omg. this is draining me out.
3rd round: i thought of the motivating song by MCFLY: I"LL BE OK! yeah. and i hummed that for like the nxt few rounds too. and at this round, my stitches developed around my stomach. wth.
4th round: stitches got worser. MY GOSH. can i like walk liao. wth. FAIL LA! eh no, i dowan go for pe rem. hang on la stupid piece of shit!
5th round: MAMAMA! save me. bu ke yi le(cannot make it). i need to walk. so i walked for a while. jogged.
6th round: sia la. left like 3 mins plus run last round otherwise fail liao. can i make it not. shit. then i started walking due to extreme fatigueness. then i suddenly thought about this, which i thought might be v inspiring to those who like to walk when doing 2.4.
hey. when i walk, i still breathe so loudly and fast. when i jog same thing right. must well jog la!and so i ran jog walk until last 100m or so, sprinted. and yeah the teacher was like:
WELL DONE GIRLS! the last is 1548. and im like HUH! no one behind me ar. i tot only 3 ppl overtake me?! SIA LA!
hahaa thats for my exciting double period pe lesson. anyways, after sch we had choir. as usual, sscc stinks! haha. karen was suggesting that the altos shud buy a deodorant so we can spray around our feet. yeah, and mr kwei was like telling us to msg our SLs abt our results asap. and im like thinking of msging something like this to jj.
hey, i'll be around east coast breakwaters there la. no need to come and find me la. it will be too late when u do so. yeah. see ya. guess u know how i fared ya..
HAHAHA. fun sia. but she will def be damn busy. so interesting see everyone's results. but damn paiseh ar. hope i don get so lousy. but i know that i sure not happy with my results. imagine u get 18, u curse urself for getting so high. then u get 12, ure like wth. why did i get so many A2s instead of A1s. then u get 8, u torture urself for not getting 6. its like just 2 pts diff. agree? u'll nv be happy with what u get. but i'll try to be satisfied with mine.
ahaha and hope ah fee can join me in vj(:
then later after choir, joined the choreo com temporarily cos dawnie apparently needed a
PERSONAL SECRETARY. so there i was, holding the pencil, frantically trying to trace and catch up with what they were singing and scribbling down notes to remind that dumb dawnie just in case she forgets any steps. otherwise she wont be able to teach the altos. ahhahahhaha.
and by the time that ended, guess it was 7-8+. not sure ar, nv checked. then we're supposed to go makan with johnnie, supposedly kian sin, bambi and whatever la. hahahhaa. in the end, ks disappeared and we went out the above daniel, darren, rayner, marcus, irvin and jeremy. hahaha. then went to blk 85. feasted on sting ray. THE BAMBI's FAVOURITE DISH! yeah. apparently, mr johnnie ang didnt treat and we had to go dutch. hmm, nvm nxt time then qiao zha him.
after that, zhao go home liao la. so i asked my sis tape TOP MODEL for me. apparently, i thought it started at 10. as usual i forgot that ANTM start at 1030. once again, cranky VCR got prob, tape until 1024 or something like that. then nv tape liao. so i realised that in the tape got TAB TV that PG show which i can watch. hahaha. IM 16! err, whats that to be proud of. whatever, nvm. erm so i was watching about murders and body parts being chopped off and ritual killing and stuff. then afterwards the interesting part came.
CANNIBALISM((:
HOT! so i wanted to watch. there was this guy who had a death wish which was to be eaten when he died. and another guy had a unique hobby: cannibalism. and so they met up at one of the guy;s house. EXCITING PART. then the tape stopped. shit sia. dono what happen. WTH. but anyways, i shant harp on this right now, cos its like 1am. and my sis is sleeping and no one's ard. gosh. scary.
what a long entry, feeling lethargic. but dono what to do online lei. recommend me stuff okay? yeah. but i dowan sleep now, cos if i do, i sure think about Os even though im trying to make sure that i don feel tense until i queue up and take the result slip. but i'll noe that will never happen. cos on thurs night, butterfly eggs will be in my stomach already. and by the time i reach sch nxt day, they become pupa. then i queue up, the become butterflies and fly in my stomach. good analogy eh? yeah. I ROCK. and im not as lame as yu ting who goes around taking people's phone and send a message which says that YUTING ROCKS! to her own phone. dumb. yups. shes dumb; i dont deny that(:
thats all yeah?
i (Sunday, February 05, 2006 / 6:51 pm)
i've been blog hopping again. then i see people mentioning about keen and hoping to stay in vj and stuff. and suddenly, i realised..
why arent i feeling the same way too?isit because of the fact that im a DSAer and i might most prob stay in vj unless i get above 20? sigh. im not sure. but will i be able to catch up? they say with perseverance sure can la. well, i can just say that im not a very determined person. furthermore, there are just so little pillars of support i can count on in vj.
life is becoming worse, pathetic and hopeless everytime i think about this issue. should i or should i not? well, stella is right. do something that u like. i like the U. i mean nowadays no degree = nothing. but the problem is that i hope to study HTM in poly too. goodness.
sigh..
wow ( / 4:32 pm)
wow. this is
H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E! i actually spent such a nice sunny afternoon cramming myself in the room and not studying!
hmm show u what i've been doing for this 5 hours or so.
Doodling(: my favourite!!
see. stella loves to communicate with people using recordings!! and yeah. i seriously hate ur nick when im in singapore):
just in case u cant see it properly stella, you said: omg im so dumb! and its like yeah TOTALLY!
how bored can a person get!
LOL. u shud definitely see this one. i give u the link, u go click and see what she typed!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/thechubber/ss5.jpg
fee actually spent 3 hrs persuading me to go crash MJ tmr. unfortunately, it isnt successful!
sigh. cant get some freaking recordings up. waaaaaao. 630 liao. better get off. its been such a long long time since i laptoped for so long. omgg.
.. ( / 1:29 am)
wow. a happy lil post which used up 1 hr of my precious beauty sleep..
but happy posts are rarely found here nowadays. sigh. happy posts belong to those secondary school memories. sigh..
lets hope that fee will change her mind and drop me a visit at VJ aft 1st 3 mths(:
pics. ( / 12:22 am)
woooooo(; initially, i din had the mood to blog. but after receiving some
Pretty and Memorable pics from dear da mei(mich), i've decided to post a simple entry to spread the joy around.
its like, everybody gets happy when they see my faces yar?dont ask why. i've no idea too(:
cool lala! dont be jealous BAMBI! such pics of me are pretty common i guess?(: calm down! learn from adele k. thats what she told me to do too!
HAHHA. i spotted mich's sexy brastrap there! there, u cant see meh? THERE!!
KAKA TEE! too bad, never take the bottom part of the shirt):
once again, intellectual me at WORK!
cool visor and me! yeah. thats my prev shitass specs. don giggle.
TJ CARNIVAL(:
close up.
pretty ANGELS. just like us! mine's lovelier by the way! did u notice that?
my small eye did a GREAT job there! agree?
repetition again. u will see more of this(: dont be too excited though. i know theres me in the pic. when u get too excited, look at mich, so u can calm down then FOCUS on me again lor?
wee oooh wee!!
HOT!
see my GORGEOUS hair under the light. and there u go, one of the rare pics where mich looks weird! btw, thats DEFINITELY NOT a compliment!
for the 1st time! my face looks POINTED(: yeaha!
once again, mich sets her head in such an angle that her head seems to be so puny there, but in reality.. thats true too la. hai. small headed people):
do we look weird? NO right? cos when we took this pic, a bunch of idiots at marche were staring at US taking such a LOVELY shot!
pretty angel on my arm(:
i seriously suck at such lousy poses. so NOT me! im not one who slacks, unlike BAMBI WEE!
faith did such a PRETTY shot so that she can paste it on her tomb in the future.
FAITH IS ACTUALLY SMILING! ma yi ar hee ma yi ar ho! the sky is FALLING!!!
supposed to be formal shot. but faith looks constipated. argh. as usual((:
FULL KAKA PIC at the fountain!! WEE((:
ALI looks retarded no matter what poses she does. so UNLIKE me!
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eh, dont u agree that ALI looks kind of RETARDED?
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once again, i look COOL whichever whatever pose u ask me to do(:
u know. i cant really DAO. im like NICE? CONSIDERATE? KIND? CARING? INNOCENT? PURE? MODEST? yeah. shall stop at this short list then(:
wee (Thursday, February 02, 2006 / 11:12 pm)
surprisingly, i;ve contradicted myself..and now, for now i guess, i've decided to remain in VJ if life goes on well for me!(:im glad that i've finally made a decision instead of bumming around at home, poning school everyday. yeps. i was considering those job prospects if i get
ONLY a diploma and not a DEGREE.
had a really long talk with my dad today cos we went to EAST COAST to eat. then he mentioned about letting us take on his projects in china. hmm, and if one day, im jobless, i'll definitely go to china and carve out a living there! sounds interesting. but there's just too much corruption going on there. hmm. thats a little far from what i am currently. so lets head back to reality!
yesterday, i had a sumptuous dinner with my dearest bambi! so
ROMANTIC. haha. bambi was desperately looking for someone to dine with us, unfortunately, she din managed to find any. so hoho. poor me had to dine with her at banquet.
we ate
i) OUR FAVOURITE --> STING RAY!!
ii) vegetables cooked in oyster sauce
iii) shared a big bowl of fishball soup!
ho. and that horrible bambi still had the appetite to go to GIANT to buy a can drink.
and yeps. today i had sting ray and the same veg with my dad! hahahhaha. im never bored of them. and last but not least, i had my
FAVOURITE TEDDY BEAR CHICKEN WINGS!!
hahaha okay. thats enough.
erm, i was initially looking forward to school tmr. as in
75% excited! currently, the percentage has dipped tremendously until
20%and there u go! its me, the
F-I-C-K-Y(fickle+icky) bambi u have here!
oh and finally, i gotta blog about these 3 great books i;ve read in my CNY holidays up to now.
#1: IN HER SHOES!
overall, i must say its GREAT. quite different from the movie about some parts. but i guess i LOVE both the book and the movie. hmm, nevertheless, i find the front part of the book quite dull. but the back parts, such as the sisters leading their own separate lives and the part about Maggie getting to know Ella, her grandma, quite touching(: but the nice part only lasted for a short while. so... hmm, yup. thats about it. but if u've watched the show, i think that you should read the book, or at least loan from me to read it(:
yeah, LOAN#2: DESERT FLOWER!
a book that inspired me. seriously. its about waris dirie, a somalian, who had a terrible childhood. she was a victim of the female genital mutiliation (FGM) and had once walked from somalia to mogadihsu
barefooted. her encounters with those strange men, having to work as a maid in an embassy in London, having to travel around without a passport and finally getting spotted by a photographer is really incredible. those experiences just tell me that i shouldnt be complaining abt my life now. fortunately, she's enjoying her life now. a top model. came out tgh with naomi campbell. but i guess that naomi's just a tad more famous than her. hahaha. the book isnt filled with cheem english words, maybe because she din had education while she was young. but i guess u can fully understand what she went through after reading it(:
#3: Forget You Had A Daughter
the most inspiring and memorable book. maybe its because i;ve just finished reading it today since i had nth to do at home? hahaha. thats what u get from poning school. but anyoways, the book's FANTABULOUS! once again, its a TRUE STORY! about a drug trafficker Sandra Gregory(see i even remembered her name! ahhahah) okay. yeps. she was a rebel in her teens, smoked marijuana and stuff. in the end, she went to Thailand to experience life in such an exotic country. in the end, out of desperation to get home, she decided to smuggle 89g of heroine out of thai to get 1000pounds. and unfortunately, she got caught. cos her eyes gave her away): and she was sentenced to a 25 yr sentence. poor her. cos if she was caught in america, it would have been 4-5 years? yeah. and she talked about life in Bangkok's Hilton(the Thai Jail she stayed in for abt 4.5 yrs) Its called LardYao. and her encounters are really UNBELIVABLE. seeing a person dying of electrocution right in front of her eyes, 70 women having to slp in a small rm, so on... gosh,. and then, she continued to recount abt her experience at Britain. she had to stay in the same prison as a few well known serial killers. thats horrible. and amongst them, she mentioned that there was a case whereby her friend had been set up. she wasnt the one who murdered her granny but she had to take the rap. and so we could see the inefficiency of the British system. omg. and her friend had a life imprisonment): its still going today. sigh. and now, i wonder. how many prisoners are suffering. how many are victims of grievances. and is the number still increasing rapidly. its really a book that we need to read, in order to remind us how lucky and fortunate we are today.
DO YOU KNOW?that theres half of humanity lives on less that US$2 a day?
every week, more than 1 mil people are added to the urban popn in the world?
20% of the world's popn lacks access to improved water supplies?
40% of the world's popn does not have access to electricity?
and here i am, feeling troubled just because i dono whether i shud go to JC or POLY.
how ignorant can i get..thats it!(:
