Monday, June 1, 2009

curse sweettalk person. I WANT THE COTTON ON GREY SKIRT

I just got home from Higher Malay supplementary lesson in Bishan. Screw it. Waste my time only.

I want the skirt from Cotton On! Only S10, and it's very nice! I like the grey one, but there's no size for me. Size 6 is too small, size 8 is too big. And for the grey skirt, I've been to 2 Cotton On branches, and the smallest size available was 10. Damnit.

So maybe tomorrow after school I'm gonna go to Orchard with Necha to go and buy. :D

After we finished the Higher Malay lesson, me & Jenni went to Toa Payoh Central to buy SweetTalk. You know, that drink with black pearls inside? Yeah.

I asked for vanilla milkshake. Then the person made the drink, then served it as vanilla milktea.

Notice the difference?

So I told her, "I wanted vanilla milkshake."

Then her face changed. Then she started grumbling under her breath in that stupid Chinese language and made the vanilla milkshake.

Oh, then an ang moh came, she asked for vanilla milktea. The person immediately took out the milktea she mistakenly made for me. The ang moh was taken aback, and she asked "Are you sure?", then the person said yes, then pointed to me. So I told the ang moh, "Yes, I asked for vanilla milkshake but she made milktea instead." The stupid person.

The ang moh didn't look very happy. She said, "Oh, yes, I heard you say milkshake (HAH!)... (To the SweetTalk person) You're very lucky, you know..."

HAH. TAKE THAT, SWEETTALK PERSON.

PLEASE, PLEASE BE THERE TOMORROW, COTTON ON GREY SKIRT SIZE 8, PRETTY PLEASE.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

nineteen minutes. the world isn't meant to be fair.

I am currently reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. I was tempted to read the book because of its opening paragraphs:

"In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.
Nineteen minutes is how long it took the Tennessee Titans to sell out of tickets to the play-offs. It's the length of a sitcom, minus the commercials. It's the driving distance from the Vermont border to the town of Sterling, New Hampshire.
In nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem.
In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it.
In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge."

And then the story goes.

Basically, it's a story about a boy named Peter who is bullied, who takes a revenge by committing a massacre in his school, killing those people who were mean to him. And then, because he committed a hideous crime like that, he is being jailed, I think for life. I haven't finished reading everything (I took a peek to the last part. Shh.).

The troubling issue that I just thought about and decided to jot it down here is:
The boy killed the people who picked on him in the past. But he is the one being punished. They were the one who started it, were they not?

It's like, those people did something bad to him, so he does something bad to them in return. But what he did was murder, whereas what those people did to him was maybe, making fun of him, sneering and jeering at him all the time. You can call it making life hell for him.

Why is a murder worse than those things?

A lot of people who are abused, being beaten up everyday, enslaved, or suffering from an excruciatingly painful terminal illness may say that death is more appealing than living in this world with these burden being put on their shoulders. Death is peaceful, it is even easier to die than to fall asleep (a saying from Remus Lupin or Sirius Black from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I forgot who said it, and the exact words).

Why were the people who made life hell for Peter never get punished? Whereas Peter, who did what he thought he needed to do to stop the torment, get to be punished? The suffering Peter experienced during his life continued without anybody preventing it from happening to him. Even his mother can be considered as doing the wrong thing to make him able to stand up for himself (by threatening to punish him if he didn't fight back). What he wanted was that the torture stop, so he can live in peace and happiness.

I thought. It is not fair. Peter suffered for don't know how many years, and now he get to be jailed for life because he stopped the bullying towards himself, forget about how he did it.

What is wrong, I think, is how people ignore the suffering other people may be experiencing. What comes out in the headline is when the tormented person does something in order to protect himself, sometimes to extreme measures, eg. what Peter did. The things they do to him are never acknowledged, right? They just let it go without offering a helping hand to the bullied, instead sometimes some people helped tormenting him.

If only someone helped Peter get out of the bullying, they all can live happily ever after. Everyone can.

Help those female suicide bombers in Pakistan, please, someone. Before they become martyrs.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

immunisation sucks. tkmb film

I went to the Health Promotion Board today, to get the immunisation, with Pati & Necha. When we arrived we went straight to the toilet, and acted like total idiots there. Hahah. Then we went out and didn't know where to go to. We had to register first, and there was this machine where we put our EZLink card to get its barcode scanned, and then it knows our name! (<- see, total idiot) Then we'll get a number, and then we go to the registration place, then we get another number, and wait for another machine to display our number on the screen thingy. You know, that kind of screen.

Then I went in to get consultation from the doctor, and after that waited again to finally get immunised. Shot. Dunno what's the word.

When I was shot it wasn't that painful. Well, ok, quite painful, but bearable. After that it wasn't painful anymore. So everyone's happy.

BUT, it hurts NOW. It hurts when I raise my left arm. I got shot on my right & left arm. The right one is ok, but the left one is a problem. Dammit.

Now the rest of the girls are watching To Kill A Mockingbird. I don't wanna watch, cos it'll ruin my image of the characters. I've seen a trailer of the film, and I was rather disappointed with the casts. Atticus doesn't look as clever as I imagined, Scout doesn't look as boyish as I imagined, and Mayella doesn't look as weak as I imagined. Thank goodness I didn't see Jem and Dill. I still want them to remain as I imagined them to be in my mind. For now I want to enjoy the book as a book, not a film, where the characters' faces are clearly seen. For now I still want to enjoy the characters as I imagine them to be. I'll watch it after the O's, when I don't need to get in the atmosphere of the book, and understand it as if I live in the book's world (isn't in needed in order to really feel and understand the book? I dunno).

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

NOISE. late for school. mass practice, immunisation tmr!

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY SOME PEOPLE CANNOT STOP TALKING AND START THINKING ABOUT DOING SOMETHING.

ok, today was quite a nice day, except from the part where we got late to school, because of the stupid side gate (or back gate, whatever). We weren't supposed to be late ok, the juniors were only like 5 metres in front of us and they could still get in! The hell with it. So we had to sing the National Anthem and The Pledge, which are not even ours, because we're not Singaporeans. The other people sang with the minimum volume lah. We can even sing better than them. Louder. With correct pronunciation. We even memorise it better. STUPID.

And then, after school we had Founder's Day mass practice. I'll bring the offering of portrait of Father Barre. Rather queer, don't you think? (do I use the word queer correctly?) But whatever. Then we had to go earlier cos of the stupid higher malay. SIGHS.

Oh I'm gonna have immunisation tomorrow after school. I hope it won't hurt very much. I mean, I think I'm ok with needles now, because of the 12-days in hospital last last year (wow, time does go very fast). But Jenni said immunisation hurts more cos it's like, deeper. I dunno.

AND THE NOISE LEVEL HAS GONE UP LIKE, 55 TIMES. DAMMIT. Just go largh, who cares.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Games Day, Fiesta, colour swap & accent, monopoly@Starbucks, Funan

okayyyy. What should I write about? Nothing much is going on with life, all the same...old boring life. yeah.

Hmmh. Maybe I should give a recount of Games Day & IJ Fiesta... Here goes...

So on 21 May we had the Games Day. It's when you have the whole day for you to play games lah, duh. The games were netball, captain's ball, basketball and badminton. Each class must participate in all games. Those who don't play anything (they're the leftovers) cheer for their classes.

At first I was one of the cheering crowd, cos I'm not in the mood for playing anything. Actually I was quite interested in playing badminton, but only 4 people were needed, and I was scared if I play I'll make our class lose. Hahah.

But then, on the day itself, one of the people who are supposed to play badminton had an arm injury, so I offered to play. So yeah, there you go, Nadia Ingrida, the lazybum, was gonna play badminton. :D

Let's just fastforward to the results, shall we? Too lazy to write about what went on. Sorry :p
OUR CLASS WON 3RD PLACE FOR BADMINTON!!! :DDD Of course, I helped in none a way. eg. : 1st match I played the last. The 1st person from our class won, 2nd pair won, so even if I lost we'll still win. So why bother? Hahah. But I won.
2nd match: I played first. Lost badly. Cos I was very nervous. The opponent was a tennis player! I stood no chance, did I? We lost this match.
3rd match: was the 3rd & 4th placing. I played last again. 1st & 2nd won, so I didn't bother much. I lost in the end. HAHAH. But we still won, so whatever.

YAY MANNNNNXZXZ. Our netball team was trashed I think. The basketball also. Hahah. But our cap's ball team won every single match! But we didn't win at all. I think cos they count the scores. Whatever lah.

4/3 '09!! but not complete :(
at the field

And then, IJ Fiesta on the next day, 22.5.09. It was okay. Our class was assigned to help with the chicken curry (or was it curry chicken?) stall. My shift was from 12 to 2pm.

In the morning we had the IJ Spirit Day, which was a bit of nonsense, cos I don't really understand what we're supposed to do during that time. Anyway, in the morning we had assembly at the hall, and then we went back to class to make something from the materials provided, that represents our class. I didn't help with it at all, so so sorry. :( Instead, we took photos!! Used the colour accent & colour swap tools from my beloved camera, IT WAS SOOOOOO COOOOLLLL.



colour accent: blue :D
























colour swap: blue -> green :DDD























colour swap: blue -> red

my camera was not liking me at the moment :(


















SO COOL RIGHT?? Only in these pics can we get a pinafore with different colour without even taking out the pinafore! hahahahahahahah :DD

After that we enjoyed the Fiesta, bought a lot of food and at 12 we went to attend the stall. Working at the stall sucks. Very few people went to buy the stupid chicken curry, so we had to shout "CHICKEN CURRYYYYYYY!!!!! 3 DOLLARS ONLYYYY!!!! CHICKEN CUUURRRRYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!" all the time. Screw chicken curries.

Then at 3 we had to go to Singapore Polytechnic again to have the prize presentation on the National Earthquake Competition thingy. Our school was the 19th place. Out of 52 teams. Not baddd. hahahahha.

Oh and then yesterday me Athe Necha & Pati went to Vivo to play monopoly. Yes, you heard me right, monopoly. We ended up sitting at Starbucks and play monopoly with Necha's laptop. So retarded. Hahah.

And then today I went to Funan, DigitaLife Mall or something like that. I KNEW THE PLACE, I've been next to it. But I didn't see the words Funan there so I didn't know it was it. Confusing much?

Sunday, May 17, 2009

THANK YOU EVERYBODY (post-birthday)

hohoho. yesterday's birthday celebration was grrreat. THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO'VE ORGANIZED THE EVENTS, BOUGHT THE PRESENTS & CAKE, MADE THE GREETING, COME TO THE CELEBRATION, AND DONE ANYTHING CONCERNING THE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

ok let's recap. SO, May 11 was Bernadette Natalia Pekerti's sweet 17th birthday. We didn't celebrate it because it was still during mid-year exam, and we still have to study. So her birthday celebration is merged with mine (16.5.09). I knew this.

then on May 15 in the evening, before prep time (so it was like around 7pm), I went up to Talitha & Gisela's room on the 4th floor, to ask for money (hahah) from the 2 of them because in the afternoon I paid for them first when we ate at Seoul Garden (it was very nice, the meat & ice cream were super delicioso). Then I also borrowed Talitha's The Sims 2 & Encarta DVD to later install it in my laptop.

Then after prep time (1opm) I went out of my room and there was nearly nobody on the 3rd floor. One of the people left was Bernadette. Oho. Something was not correct.

Then I felt bored, cos there was no one to bug, so I decided to just go upstairs to return the DVDs to Tata. I went up, and guess what I found upstairs?

EVERYBODY.

HAHAHA. They saw me and they screamed. Damn funny la. This meant that I screwed up my own birthday's preparation for 2 years in a row. Cheers. :D

AND THEN, (I'll just ffwd) I went back to Adet's room and I told her abt the thing and we laughed together. Then I taught her guitar. Then at 12 am, the people came barging into the room and they sang happy birthday for me. Hahah.

On May 16, me, Athe, Jenni & Patty went to Far East to shop. I got a $30 vest (very ex right? but I couldn't find anything nicer & cheaper so yeah :( ) & a $15 white shorts.

in front of Carls Jr., Far East taken by a nice ang moh :)

Athe screwed up again by telling her mom that she was gonna have a birthday celebration that night at 10. hahahah.

So at 10 I was supposed to go down and celebrate the birthday. There was a quiz of guessing a person with 5 clues given. The person was Marson. Goh Chok Tong, the colour of Rwanda in the Social Studies text book & PM Lee Hsien Loong were involved, by the way.

Oh and these are the presents I got:
the greeting


the 3 dresses

The 1st & 2nd dresses are the ones given by the babelu people, and the last one is from Sil, Poch & Cumi. The 3 of them also give me a halter & a pink frilly skirt which I may use in not-near future. Must prepare myself to wear such a thing. hahahhaha sorryyyy :'( Why do people give me dresses for this birthday, you may ask. I also dunno. Hahahah.

THANKS AGAIN PEOPLE!!! LOVE YOU ALL!!! <3

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

countdown to 16.5.09

OH YEAH, 3 DAYS TO MY BIRTHDAY!!! :DDDDDD

Should I make a wishlist?

1. maybe shoes? Charles & Keith's one, preferably. I'm thinking of heels, but I'm not sure...

2. I want a drum set. Or acoustic guitar. Or bass. But I can only play the guitar. MY GUITAR DAMN CRACKED LA. I dunno why. Sobbbsss.

3. well I dunno. I suck at making lists. I just wanna be happy, that's all.

4. OH OH OH OH I KNOW. I WANT MCFLY'S MOTION IN THE OCEAN AND/OR RADIO:ACTIVE AND/OR THE GREATEST BITS: B-SIDES AND RARITIES CD. I WANT THEM BAADDDDD. Or any of McFLY's concert DVD. I'm mad about them these days.

yes yes. Making this kind of thing when your birthday is approaching kinda makes you feel guilty, but whatever. Just hope that someone you know is reading your blog and somehow the things you write here come up as your birthday present. har har.
 

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