i wrote ALL HAIL THE HOLIDAYS! at
5:24 PM for you.
I am such a lazy blogger. I deserve to be fined for being such a lazy blogger. 8D OF COURSE I DON'T AHAHAHA. Hey Nurul and Matthew! :D
Sorry, I've been really, really busy these days. Everything was due in Week 9 and Week 10, so I had to rush everything out (including LA portfolio--which, by the way, is screwed beyond all imagination), and World Scholars' Cup took place last Saturday, meaning I had to study my butt off for it, too. To top it off, I decided to fall ill. Charming week.
Still, it's the holidays! :D Well, not much of it. These two weeks will be taken up by studying for Scholars' Cup (World Finals--eep). We have our work cut out. Still, it's going to be a lot better than before, because there's no school, so we have whole days to finish off whatever we haven't studied yet. I feel so motivated (primarily because I'm scared stiff, but you don't need to know that). We did pretty good at Singapore Finals, although it was pretty much a Raffles contingent sweep :/ They were really, really good. I will take into consideration the fact that they started studying eons before we did, and that they had 12 teams while we had 4, so I will not be daunted! NY-WSC FOR THE WIN! (help!)
In the meantime, I shall have to sort out my holiday homework (the school LIES, I tell you) and clean up my room, and at the same time focus on slacking off 8D I'm losing a lot of weight. I started out as 49kg in March; I'm 45 now. (Anyone out there want to lose some weight? Don't cut the carbs. Just cut the sleep.) I need to relax a bit and gain back a bit of my health. Ugh. My life will now be defined by things that don't exactly matter in my portfolio! 8) (Who am I kidding. 50% of my life will still be defined by the things that do matter. Ah, well. You win some, you lose some.)
It's my sweet sixteen month (: To all the 409 and 413 who come yesterday, thanks for the birthday song :D Thanks Ji Inn and Ye Qi for your presents, and thanks Stella for the awesome scrapbook! You really shouldn't have. As in, seriously, you shouldn't have. I feel so guilty now D: I will keep it forever and ever okay! I shall look at it whenever I'm sad (or whenever I'm happy--which pretty much means I will be looking at it every other half hour)! It makes my day 'cause everyone wrote really cute stuff, especially Fei Ya and the penguin 8D I will also add that Elisa has AWESOME pictures. Elisa, we need to talk. 8D WE NEED TO DE-CHARACTERIZE MORE PEOPLE!
Right! Linus, I am seeing you on Saturday 8) Can't wait to see you! Can't wait to see Nurul and Yuanli again too :D Everyone take care!
And now, breakfast.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
i wrote at
7:20 AM for you.
Hey y'all! (Yes, back to English. I don't think I can stand all that Chinese for much longer. I will get back to that.)
It's been a weird mixture of relaxation and pressure these few days. I've been studying my ass off for Math (I'm not kidding. If Jennifer sits at her desk and does math for four hours, that means something), but at the same time, I'm slacking off. This weekend has been rather laidback, actually. I spent a good deal of time writing (I'll get to that), and I watched 17 Again with my family. I'm not going to go all fangirl here, but I will admit that Zac Efron is a lot better than I thought. In HSM, he was alright. In Hairspray, he was good. In 17 Again, he was AWESOME. I didn't realize what a good actor he is until I watched this movie. He's really getting the hang of shaking off the Disney kid idol and turning into a professional actor (I'm not saying that Disney idols are not professional actors. They are, but you know what I mean, right?). Kudos to him (:
Legend is going good, I suppose. I finally figured out the chronology of the legend, although I have to say that studying Equinoxes and Solstices kind of pissed me off, especially after doing Math. In the end I gave up on the latitude and longitude thing and just paid attention to the longest day and longest night thing. That's a lot easier to remember. I'm actually quite proud of myself for finding out about the Solstices and the Equinoxes. I found out something else: the word "zenith" means the highest peak, or culmination, of something. Astronomically, it also means the point on the astronomic map right above your head. The words samt arras is Middle Ages English for "path above the head". All this cool vocabulary came in really handy. It sure beats the names I came up with. :/
But the problem with Legend now is that it doesn't seem to be getting anywhere. I dedicated, what, four chapters to characterization? Sure, the story moved on in the process, and certain important events happened, but I just realized that all this has happened in four months...and I have another four months to go before I can finally write about the epic final battle, which will happen on the...never mind. (: But really, I think it's actually quite...empty. There's not much of a legend yet. It's mostly about the people. Going to have to work on that. Maybe I'll come up with some ancient grudge. Or something.
Oh, boy.
Good luck to me for Math and Physics. I'm screwed for Physics. Math is okay, considering all the work I've done, but everyone knows I blank out during exams. And for a subject like Math? Double blank-out.
Ah, well. Que sera sera.
Maybe I should put THAT in Legend.
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this is where i let rip, so be warned that you might not like everything that pops up here. but i do, so deal with it. (: .
loves
this is so subject to change that i'm not even gonna bother listing them down.
hates
too many, and the list would be extremely volatile, anyway.
wants
a place in Oxford University (good luck, jennifer.)
for someone to know that he has a special place in her heart!
to survive in HCJC next year
not to have so many wants (but who's counting?)