Friday, December 29, 2006

Momentary Musings at Midnight

I've stayed up till this late, waiting in anticipation to find out my class next year... but school's decided to release it later in the morning at 9am. !#$%^

It's not going to be a very good start to the year because I'm missing my long pants. I haven't bought them yet! ohmygawd!

I tried checking my Gmail account... and it worked! (I've just seen the publicity video for the upcoming Reflections & Retreat. It was. Surreal. Very Surreal. Haha)

And Esther... Seth Cohen isn't cute!

Seth Cohen = Not so cute = not so worthy

(smug.)

Anyway she's really happy that she got into SOTA. Along with 3 other schoolmates. Isn't that cool? It could have been like, oh I dunno, me getting into IP with my closest schoolmates? (Only difference is that I don't think I want to get into IP afterall. But gah. My sister's not gonna sit for the Os. Just the IB. Crumbs.)

I'm going shopping with my sister tomorrow! (actually today) There's this shop in Far East that stocks Threadless Tees. I'm so gonna need those. Then I'll get this sweater I saw at Matinique that's very emo, with all the black and red stripes.

You know... I dreamt I had an older brother. And he loved heavy metal so we didn't get along. I wonder how it feels like to have an older sibling. Or older siblings. I'd rather have an older brother because older sisters and little brothers rarely get along. And I can pick out the people who have older siblings because they sometimes think like 5 years ahead of their mental capabilities, and their dress sense is slightly better. Slightly.

It's gonna be my Grannie's, Leonard's, Judith's and my birthday in a weeks' time! Yay!

Get something for me. I think I'll do a wishlist. As a guide for those who have no clue about what to get me =D
1) Topman Gift Card
2) Havaianas
3) an iPod (that one I'll leave to my parents)
4) handmade, homebaked cookies/chocolates/pavlova
5) a modest, presentable, professional looking school bag ie. that calfskin one
6) socks that I could wear to school *that aren't the 3 for $5 kinds*
7) Clarinet reeds (size 3 Rico Grand Concert)
8) A piano. Or, at least a keyboard that has a full piano on it, because I'm sick of playing songs only to realize that I don't have that note because it's beyond the 4 octaves that I have. And, my keyboard's older than me and it's still half-working only because it's Yamaha and was hardly used during the 1989-1996 period.
9) The new Camera Obscura CD (available at HMV for $19.95 :) )
10) A new Bible, or a Bible protecter/case/cover

(And for sympathy and self-pity:)
My birthday falls during the period when everyone is still recovering from an overdose of Festive Joy, so poor us, we're all forgotten anyway. And everyone's too busy in the rush to complete their holiday homework/make new friends in class/prepare for Chinese New Year to care. Happens every year, ah well, I've grown used to it already.

And Elizabeth's op falls during that period too! That's just... 6 days away! whoa.

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Rainy Day Nonsense Quiz









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     Can you Ace my quiz?
  Yes way! I'm cleverer than you, I should know.
  No because I'm concerned that it might only heighten my self-consciousness and sense of self-worthlessness.
  I'm not comfortable with judging myself against the standards of others, but I don't mind because I'm post-modern and open to different ideas. (in other words, whatever)



Monday, December 25, 2006

What I want for Christmas... Really

1. 2 years' Blackbook subscription
2. Cyber-shot® DSC-N2 Digital Camera
3. Sony Ericsson Cybershot k800i
4. Vertu Ascent
5. Havaianas Men's Wardrobe Bag
6. 7 For All Mankind jeans
7. Alexander McQueen Puma Sneakers
8. Warhol Factory X Levi's stuff
9. Tod's Messenger Bag in Calfskin
10. Daler-Rowney System 3D Acrylics

It's Christmas!

Wellll.... I hate it when I run out of Christmas cards. Because I didn't get to write to everyone that I wanted to write to and it makes me more selective of the people that I decided to write to... which is still much more than the number of cards I could use. (and the extra cards I used as a last resort were older than me, anyway. So vintage huh.)

And then I had another relapse of my flu after several Christmas lunches. !@#$%

I didn't receive any actual presents this year, apart from the bars of chocolate that my grandparents gave me. Oh well, the $95 I collected should be enough to reimburse me for my Christmas shopping expenditure. Looks like I have a childhood that ended prematurely, gah. (I mean, what do most people my age do during Christmas? They go around wishing people Merry Christmas and then assume that he/she/it will receive a present, tsk tsk.)

Anyway I'm super worried for next year. Like, really, morbidly worried. I think I'll probably be requested to drop some activities/posts by a teacher, and then I'll take the emotional highground saying that I just can't, and then I'll sit for my exams and then I'll get an L1R5 of probably 40+ (now that is really scary) and then I'll get a nervous breakdown and quit everything. I'm clairvoyant... cool. Either that, or I'll probably barely scrape through.

Alright I've just ruined Christmas for myself by momentarily thinking about the future.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

5 days to Christmas

Things to do:
1) Complete homework
2) Blog about camp
3) Buy gifts
4) Write Christmas cards
5) Order pizza for Christmas party
6) Get well soon! Argh!

So I'm having a runny nose and wearing my other sweater, which is less comfortable, because the favourite one is in the wash (or supposed to be after the lack of sun for drying these few days) and I think I have a temperature too. It started with a headache that nearly knocked me out after debate yesterday (while groping my way in the darkness along the school staircases) and then I woke up sniffing with reddish eyes and an equally red nose. And I have 5 days to recover in time to devour all that Christmas Goodness. Be sympathetic.

My companions shall be Satie and The Decemberists and in my dreams I'll once again remember a perfectly starry night sky. I'll hear guitar strumming and the slight drizzle, I'll smell lavender and tea tree, I'll speak oddly with surreal gobbledeegook, all because I have a headache and visions of metal blades for tongue scrapers and separation anxiety torment my sleep.

And my sanity is at stake too, argh

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Cryptic speech, cookie heart, small rant

A year ago, I would have been swearing and devoting my life on the spur of the moment to the extermination of them. But despite (or perhaps due to) their grating manner of expressing themselves in manner of melodrama, I find that it is perhaps annoyances like these that inject flavour into the casserole of life (what sort of flavour, I really don't know).

Perhaps I'll grow to become of tolerant of them. Or even behave like them. Shudder. I don't want to end every freaking sentence that that I type with a 'ya?' in some attempt to make it sound less offensive than it already is. Or break into frantic babble eg. "omigawd, girl, I haven see you in like, 7 minutes!" before they start hugging. Or start up some sort of Reverse Soup Kitchen where the poorer, older one has to treat a meal at an overly hyped up eatery. As if pricier = yummier (although in most cases, pricier = another conned teenager, another penny(s) earned, muhaha).

But most of the time they're lovable anyway.

However, the thing that will never be lovable would be to give up a pet for the sake of interior design. (And in my context, pretty bad interior design involving beech Ikea furniture. I mean, I'd never thought they could produce such a gaudy design for a cupboard door, cringe.) Because just like how Imelda Marcos has her shoes, my family has our books. The only safe walls that haven't been covered with hoards of shelving are the kitchen and toilets. And the area above where the chinchillas stay too. So you know, yada yada, the usual crap that people give when they think they're all too big and human-y and sentient to allow room in their lives for cute furry things that give you unconditional love (after feeding them with raisins and apples.)

And my sister and I have finally finished watching Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands after several interruptions to have dinner, wash the dishes and fix my dad's videocam woes (technology hasn't been kind to the older folk). The movie was so so good! We kinda cried at the end because snow is so evocative and romantic, etc. etc. But I never cry during movies. Anyway, I really do love Tim Burton's films, because they ain't cheesy and overtly reeking of Christmas and Festive Joy.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm born in the wrong decade.

Monday, December 04, 2006

I wish I lived in Paris...

... because look at all the desserts!

(I'm starting to sound lame, whatever.)

Darn page's in French and I don't know how to switch it to English so I'll have to make do with looking at the pretty macaroons and eclairs.

Which (somewhat) reminds me of the disaster-dinner I cooked yesterday. Which was supposed to be a New Orleans style gumbo chicken stew but my family didn't know what gumbo was or whether we should eat it with a spoon or with chopsticks like a porridge. But it was nice, anyway.

However, stupidly enough, I tried making a stacked salad with olives and avocado but didn't press down on it hard enough for it to mould into the shape I wanted and my mum thought it looked very lo hei, with the purple cabbage and stuff.

And after reading too many food blogs I've rather subconsciously imposed expectations on my dinner later, followed by the Three concert at the esplanade!

By the way, My Big Fat Greek Wedding's a really good movie. It's free of those cheesy Hollywood scripting that I've had enough of after watching My Super Ex Girlfriend and their, well, lame, connotations. And it's not art housey enough to impose ideas by way of melodramatic lighting and sad, provocative endings that often leave one disturbed and without anymore faith in humanity. After Pride and Prejudice and MBFGW, I'm starting to find hope in 21st century cinema again! Yay!

Friday, December 01, 2006

Meme

Well... My sister tagged me. And I share most of her answers anyway, so it was just a matter of copy paste edit edit.

Name: Samuel
Nicknames: Samuel
Name spelled backwards: Leumas
Name without consonants: aue
Birthday: 5th January
Ethnicity: Chinese/Peranakan
Glasses or contacts: glasses
Hair color: black
Hair length: boy
Hair style: boring, layered for the sake of layering
Pets: Zsazsa, Pip & Mochi! =D

La Favourites
Animal: Cats & Chinchillas
Band: Beulah, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Belle & Sebastian
Brand: Ben Sherman, Topman and I don't mind Hollister (hint)
Brand name for shops: (huh?) like Candy Empire ah? Ohhh got alot alot one!
Candy: Chocolates!
Cereal: I don't mind rice puffs
Colour: grey, brown, maroon
Cookie: chocolate chip, peanut butter, fudge, white chocolate
Day: Friday
Disney character: Eeyore
Drink: Iced Peach Tea, Caramel Frappuccino, Chai Tea Latte
Fast food place: Carl's Junior
Food: Japanese when I'm hungry, French when I'm not
Holiday: Christmas (that's the only one I can tolerate)
Ice cream flavor: Cookie Dough, Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby, Haagen Daz's Strawberry Cheesecake— all doused with Bailey's. Mmm.
Month: December
Number: pi
Perfume: I don't know... Allure Homme?
Pie flavor: Chocolate. But a hearty meat pie would do.
Pizza topping: Triple Cheese.
Restaurant: NYDC, New York New York, and hoity toity Les Amis though I've only seen their food plating.
Subject in school: Literature, Certain Algebra Componants
Type of music: Indie
Type of sandwich: Avocado

All Of Your Friends
The best advisor: Elizabeth Chan/Minghui
The best hair: Although there's no such thing as perfect hair I'll reward Shao Jie for effort
The best handwriting: Samuel/My brother.
The dirtiest mind: Shao Jie/Andrea
The funniest: Hazel/Eve/Lucas
The loudest: Stuart
The prettiest: Any self-respecting girl (faggots not considered la =P)
The most trusting: Ruimin/Christine
The nicest eyes: Me/My sister
The shortest: Heh.
The smartest: Zizhao (who is so all rounded), Jialin (1st in level eh),
The tallest: Elgin/Yao Ming

Haver You Ever
Asked out a crush (ed alumnium can): nope.
Been on stage: yep
Been scared to get a shot: Needles aren't that scary
Cheated on a test: Yes
Cried during a movie: No
Felt like you didn't belong: Yes
Fought a black belt: nope
Gone to camp: I hate camps
Kept a New Year's resolution: Yes
Kept a secret from everyone: Yes
Pushed all the buttons on an elevator: Yes
Stolen something: No
Told a guy you liked him: Yurk no way.
Won a trophy: Yes
Written a love poem: No

La Last
CD listened: Yo La Tengo's Prisoners of Love
Movie watched: Moulin Rouge
Person that's called you: My mum
Person who saw you cry: No one
Person you went to the mall with: My mum
Song listened to: If We Can Land A Man On The Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart – Beulah
Thing you ate: fried rice
Thing you drank: Water

Yes Or No
Growing up scares me more than it should: yes
I adore getting mail: yes, mostly.
If at first you don't succeed, do you try again: yes

La Others
If you could describe yourself in three words: I don't know
Is your computer in your room: bedroom? no. Study room? yes.
What are some of your favorite junk foods: pizza, seaweed tempura, cup noodles, and I'm a sucker for deli crisps and their exotic flavours
What color are your bedroom walls: white, sadly.
What do you do when you're bored: Cook/Microwave random stuff/draw/sleep
What makes you happy: Knowing that everything in this world is created for a purpose/Apple stuff/A1s/Cats/Chinchillas/
What makes you sad: this corrupted world.
What's your favorite thing to do on the weekends: sleep in.
Worst feeling in the world:envy.

--
My teacher once said that
her locker number is eleven.

Never in my life have I regretted
treasuring life

The one person who can drive me nuts, but then can always make me smile
Homer Simpson

When I'm nervous
I talk in non sequiturs

The last time I laughed was
The SL intensive camp last month. Hahahaha just kidding

Hair is
black. dry. undesirable.

My feet
were once extremely cracked and dry during a bad bout of ezcema when I was P5.

Last Christmas I
went to church, went to Aunty Magdelene's House, like all other Christmases.

When I turn my head left
I see my sister

When I turn my head right
I crack my neck

When I look down
Space bar

The craziest recent event
Grad night!

By this time next year
I would have already been 365 days older.

I have a hard time understanding
quantum physics and Einstein's Theory of Relativity

One time at a family gathering
we had lunch, and then discussed my grand aunt's burial. LOL!

You know I like-like you if
you were nice to me.

If I won an award, the first person I'll thank is
GOD.

Triangles are
part of the title of a song composed by Toru Takemitsu, "A Song of Circles and Triangles"

My ideal breakfast is
crab mayo sandwich on the seaside with the ones I cherish.

If you make me really happy
I'll be like, way happy?

Where do you plan to visit anytime soon
Cuba

Boys are
immature, misunderstood, so stop complaining already.

I'd stop my wedding if
someone died

The world could do
with some love, and a sense of security

I'd rather lick the belly of a cockroach than
go to hell.

Most recent thing you've bought yourself
Sushi

Most recent thing someone else bought you
Lunch

My least favourite time of the day
Very early morning 3 hours before the sun rises

The last time I was high
thinking about my ideal breakfast

The last person I talked to
Sister

I shouldn't
keep on worrying

Last night I went
home after debate

There's this girl I know
who really loves indie and listens to screamo as a lullabye

I'll tell the next person who makes me really happy
that they've made my day alot easier

I'm listening to
Thursday by Asobi Seksu

I last ate
fried rice.

My bedsheet is
something that I'm totally oblivious to.

I smell
citrusy things

On my table
are too many things!

My full name is
Samuel Lee Wan Heng

The next 4 people who are gonna do this quiz are
The 4 people who bother reading till the end of this quiz. You've made my day alot easier :)