Saturday, August 25, 2007

1. (the person who tagged you is) - Andrea

2. (your relationship with him/her is) – Previous classmate cum Debate teammate cum stalker-trauma support group member cum doner of DNA for hybridization

3. (5 impressions you have of him/her) – Somewhat naive, yet somewhat twisted; happy; growing up; witty in his own ways; and the best person in school to angst/laugh/bitch about societal expectations of hair and the near total suppression of free speech in school.

4. (the most memorable thing he/she has done for you) – By passing me POIs during the LISHA-SBL debate! Ok I'm sure there's more. (OMG i can't believe you did a 3 and a half page gong han?! Mine was only 2 and a half pages!)

5. (the most memorable words he/she has said to you) – If you don't want to buy it, you shouldn't buy it for the sake of buying it. (or something along those lines) But I went to buy it a week later with my sister anyway, and is regretting forgetting that topman t-shirts sometimes have very ugh-stupid cuts.

6. (if he/she becomes your lover, you will) – Start soul-searching.

7. (if he/she becomes your lover, things he/she has to improve on will be) - Quit caring about outer appearances because we'll all end up looking like the amazingly-emaciated Olsen twins anyway.

8. (if he/she becomes your enemy, you will) – Laugh at his underestimation of my wrath.

9. (if he/she becomes your enemy, the reason will be) – Nitpicked-to-death

10. (the most desirable thing you want to do for him/her now is) – Go for Elizabeth's concert together then go to tcc and bitch about certain anal-retentive ushers.

11. (your overall impression of him/her is) - Person with the most unique personality. Ever.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

This is the sound of settling.

Okay Caroline tagged me—

1. (the person who tagged you is) - Caroline

2. (your relationship with him/her is) - Sub-mentor/choir senior/sister's friend

3. (5 impressions you have of him/her) - God-fearing, mature, poetic, zany occasionally, open-minded

4. (the most memorable thing he/she has done for you) - By being co-operative during orientation! Phew. Didn't have to deal with a bunch of rascals ;)

5. (the most memorable words he/she has said to you) - Hmm, actually I'm rarely talked to by her, other then the two tags at the tagboard.

6. (if he/she becomes your lover, you will) - Kinda freak out

7. (if he/she becomes your lover, things he/she has to improve on will be) - Um, by growing older? I don't know really

8. (if he/she becomes your enemy, you will) - be extremely annoyed about my current accidental string of pissing-off other people.

9. (if he/she becomes your enemy, the reason will be) - Because we're both fighting for esther's company? That was random, don't start feeling too uber-popular, esther! Haha.

10. (the most desirable thing you want to do for him/her now is) - By completing this thing

11. (your overall impression of him/her is) - Wise beyond her years

12. (how you think people around you will feel about you) - That I'm stoic and my voice lulls people to sleep in lit class T_T

13. (the characteristic you love about yourself is) - I don't get angry for nothing.

14. (on the contrary, the characteristic you hate about yourself is) - Being self-conscious by constant remindal of a complacent mind.

15. (the most ideal person you want to be is) - I don't want to be anyone else. But if I could, I wouldn't mind being a rich aristocrat living somewhere in the Welsh countryside, or some Greek philosopher and his philosophical enquiries into the subject of metaphysics and ontology.

16. (for people that care and like you, say something to them) - I love you!

17. (pass this quiz to 10 people that you wish to know how they feel about you) -
1) Andrea
2) Any of the Elizabeths
3) Angeline
4) Christabel
5) Zizhao
6) Limin
7) Xinyu
8) Zhaozhi
9) Sherina
10) Caroline

(who is no.6 having relationship with?) - Hmm. I really don't know! XD
(Is no.9 a male or female?) - Female
(If no.7 and 10 are together, will it be a good thing?) - That's a strange combination that mightinduce moral panic along the corridoors of Xinmin
(What is no.2 studying about?) - Mass communications! The other one is studying the same as me except for pure humanities
(When was the last time you had a chat with no.3?) - Like, yesterday. But it was more of a Hi have you seen ___? oh? You haven't? Bye!
(What kind of music band does no.8 like?) - Jay Chou obviously -.-
(Does no.1 has any siblings?) - He has a sister
(Will you woo no.3?) - Weird. I'd rather stay platonic.
(How about no.7?) - She has her ____ already! (haha)
(Is no.4 single?) - nope
(What's the surname of no.5?) - Gong!
(What's the name of no.10?) - Caroline
(What's the hobby of no.4?) - Coming up with rhymes about her lymph nodes
(Do no.5 and 9 get along well?)- Yes... I think. Two years ago.
(Where is no.2 studying at?) - Xinmin Secondary/NP
(Say something casual about no.1) - I haven't done my !@#$ gong han yet!
(Have you tried developing feelings for no.8?) - Uh, no. She can develop feelings herself, like film rolls. Haha!
(Where does no.9 live?) - Hougang
(What color does no.4 like?) - While doing titration, I know it's definitely not pink.
(Are no.5 and 1 best friends?) - 1 doesn't know who's 5 but 5 knows who's 1
(Does no.7 likes no.2?) - I think they know each other? Or might have seen each other before.
(How did you get to know no.2?) - Debate/SLB/choir/hanging out in the canteen, feeling carefree and longing to take A Maths at the tenderest age of 14.
(Does no.1 have any pets?) - Do class pets count? He really seems to like ma le for some reason.
(Is no.7 the sexiest person in the world?) - Haha, I wouldn't lie would I :P But pink dior spects are so cool XD

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

My Japanese buddy has finally responded to my email! I am so thrilled. He speaks English and likes avant-garde and experimental art, and alternative music! Time to start listening to John Cage and the Fluxus movement and whatnot.

:D

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Wrinkles


This is Crazy by Gnarls Barkley. "Who's Gnarls Barkley?" you may ask. Well, I haven't really heard of him but he sounds real afro-big-hair-70s-punk (only that he's bald, but y'know, whatever). Man I love this song.


It's some fanvid about Veronica Mars and Lilly, her best friend (who had an affair with some older man who killed her by the pool but it was all recorded on video etc. etc. so sad right?) Song is Lilly Dreams On by Cotton Mather.

Okay. Ten random facts about me. In haiku form. I am so sorry.

I.
grey skies and grey clouds
i enjoy looking at these
shades of black and white.

II.
OCD enchants
perennial occupation
with aichmophobia.

III.
Baby-hating, I
refuse to see younger kids
and their !@#$%-ing screams.

IV.
Enjoys book shopping
although book shopping is not
that unorthodox.

V.
Colour blindness is
something that I don't quite mind:
camou-specialist.

VI.
Once in a strange dream
I saw a flying llama
and cancer patients.

VII.
Dislikes shaking hands
due to random occasions
of palms perspiring.

IX.
Ben and Jerry's has like
totally the best ice-creams
ever, omg.

X.
I am morbidly
afraid of losing loved ones
in desolations.

--

I have killed a meme,
I know; by opening up
inclusivity.


oooh, how poetic and original!

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Made of marble

Your Anti Climactic Fortune

Deep into your future, I forsee: An itch you can't scratch


Oh well, sigh.

In Memory of Alois Alzheimer is about as interesting as One Flesh, if not, considerably much more impactful. I love the last stanza.

I'm gonna sleep early today!

And my father is complaining about the teachers who have started to call in sick already. (Before I had to fix the "My Gmail's all in Hebrew!" problem.) I asked Esther where the postcard box was, and she said Isn't it that G&H thing? and I said No I think we've changed it now, so she got up and found the old biscotti box that we transferred the postcards to and I said Oh I remember now! And we were happy. But such contentment is usually transient because my throat started to tickle and my dad said It's 10.15 already but I thought No not really, it's only 10.09, so I left it at that and thus forfeited an opportunity to strike up a small conversation about needing to change the batteries for the clock, which I presume would lead to a discussion on how changing Samuel's watch (that he had been wearing since 2005, by the way) would be quite a good idea.

Am I so bored? Do I have to resort to mentioning such insignificant bits of information henceforth? I'm just tired of learning things that I don't feel much for. Doesn't this defeat the whole purpose of education? Why would I be so concerned with the freaking trigo identities when I'm (i) not planning to be an engineer nope absolutely not it's out of the question and (ii) more interested in the liberal arts and (iii) angry at having to conform to our strictly achievement-centric society and my unfortunate birthplace in a nation so hung on its meritocratic idealogy. Woe. Disdain. I have to talk about my recent attempt at lucid dreaming last night. I was singing Akita Ondo for choir practice that seemed to have caused my conductor to cry tears of joy, and I went home to discover that my grandmother had hidden an entire house away from us at the back of the block of flats, and then I was invited by the President of Indonesia to Jakarta, and the private jet did a figure-of-eight in the air and landed in the middle of the highway. Then I found myself in a bead museum, wondering when I would get home, when a teacher appeared next to me and told me that the plane was leaving at 2.30 am. Weird, huh. I told my sister about my dream and she said Why are you always dreaming about such odd things, I hardly get any dreams now.