sigh. i dun seem to be fated to watch movies with friends.
first, it was bourne identity.
then kai watched "8 women".
then val and i want to watch "8 women" too...but i dun think it's showing anymore.
hrmph.
+ serene @ 11:22 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 11:22 PM
yay! added a tagboard to my blog. so fun! =)
lalala..yesterday's shopping trip was a success! (finally)
i DID buy whatever i had set out to buy. *grin*
+ serene @ 1:35 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 1:35 PM
another TEST sigh. i am super-duper bored.
You are seeking an affectionate relationship, offering fulfillment and happiness. You are capable of powerful emotional enthusiasm. Deep down, you are a kind loving person, always helpful and willing to adapt yourself if necessary to realize the bond of affection that you desire. But you need the same consideration and understanding from others and it is this need that will sometimes hold you back... so let go, trust and you may pleasantly surprised at what happens.
You enjoy taking part in anything that may constitute fun and excitement. You need to be stimulated and need to feel that 'Life is worth living' and you are awaiting that stimulation and you don't particularly care where it comes from!
You are prepared to establish a particular relationship that is being made available to you at this time. It could be a satisfactory liaison but there could be a certain amount of conflict involved -try to avoid direct confrontation at all costs.
Unacceptable restrictions have been forced upon you and this is resulting in severe frustration and stress. You are looking for independence and consequently you shy away from any restriction and avoid obligations of anything which might prove hampering. You are being subjected to considerable pressure and want to escape from it so that you can obtain what you need, but unfortunately at this particular moment in time you lack the necessary strength of purpose to succeed in this.
The tensions and stresses that you have experienced of late have been the result of trying to cope with conditions which are really beyond your capabilities. You feel completely inadequate to cope with the situation and you would like nothing better to escape from it all and to be able to relax in a problem and pressure free environment where you can do your thing.
Since in the recent past all of your hopes and aspirations have been denied you, you are now convinced that the future will hold nothing but anxiety so therefore 'why bother?' You would love to get away from it all, to escape from the trials and tribulations of this mundane existence and fall into a peaceful and harmonious relationship, which will protect you from the lack of appreciation and give you the chance to start afresh.
+ serene @ 9:40 AM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 9:40 AM
yay! prelims over! (that was quite unnecessary, i agree)
let's see, what did we do today? hmm.
got off school at 10, then went taka after wandering around aimlessly for about 1hr. hmm. then went to coffee club express. shared a chocolate fudge cake ($5.50) and a mudpie (6.50) between 7 pple (haha). the cake was quite worth the money i thought, but not the mudpie...i mean, i suspect that they took the ice-cream, which was all it was made of, from a box of ice-cream, those u can get from supermarkets...well, just my suspicions...and better not say more, or else might get sued =)
went to forum next with val and cris, while sunny, adeline, jennie, hon deserted me *sniff* =) to catch bourne identity!! argh!!! to think i was the one who suggested watching that show, and i didn't watch it in the end! how...ironic. hrmph. well, went to forum to meet peggy and the rest of the debaters for lunch at california's pizza kitchen. another feast. =) we ordered 4 pizzas: peking duck pizza, rosemary chicken and potato pizza, thai chicken pizza and one more...some salad-like thing that i didn't dare touch. ordered lots of desserts too! apple crumble, brownie with ice-cream, chocolate souffle or something and cheesecake! haha..was so stuffed after that.
then met up with ad and the rest, after which val, ad, cris and i went to the esplanade! finally! hmm. ad, val and cris had lunch at SENSES, this restaurant in the esplanade. the individual items were quite expensive, but their set lunches were relatively cheaper...they ordered a beef stew set meal, and fish and chips (the fish was apparently dipped in bear...something like that...i still don't get what they were saying....) i sat there, staring wistfully at the food, but knowing my stomach could hold no more, even with it being elastic due to the longitudinal and circular muscles...*grin* did steal a few fries and fish from them though. right. then went to the library@esplanade...borrowed two music books...one chopin's concertos that will, i think, prove too difficult for me, and waltzes, that looked much, much better.
after which, i was supposed to meet my mom at parkway parade...but got completely lost around marina. had no idea which bus to take, or rather, i couldn't find the bus stop that had the bus which would take me to marina. sigh. so walked all the way from esplanade to city link mall, then from city link mall to suntec, then from suntec back to city link mall, WHERE i fortunately, found val and ad again. *grin* did some more shopping, albeit window-shopping sadly, and then decided i didn't wanna go all the way down to parkway, so went home instead.
what a day. my legs are aching from all that walking. and this has been the longest post since...a long time ago.
+ serene @ 10:21 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 10:21 PM
oh dear. received an sms from a friend today, and he said: "don't die mugging".
instantly, stabs of guilt "killed" me. seriously. what mugging? i thought to myself...*sheepish grin*
oh yeah. on tues. erm...i'm meeting peggy for lunch with the rest of the debaters...so sorrie...but why don't you all go to California's Pizza Kitchen for lunch with me, since i'm going to be there? but it's fine if u want to go somewhere else to eat...tell me where u are, and i'll meet all of you after perhaps 2? =)
and who wants to go Esplanade with me? heard that have a real good collection of music scores and cd...can't wait to see...val, ad? Ad: it's near fullerton..*grin*
+ serene @ 1:41 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 1:41 PM
on shows
haha..prelims almost over...time to relax! =)
been watching tv non-stop these past two days...and not feeling guilty about it. i absolutely adore the new korean show that started today! the director was the same one as "autumn of my heart"...the show everyone was ranting about at one time or the other...and this one is really good too! hrmph. if not for the fact that my mom, who was watching the show with me, guessed the entire plot within the 1st 30 mins of this series, and i'm quite sure it's correct, cos at the end of today's episode, they left a BIG clue that confirmed my mom's fantastic guesswork. so basically, i'm watching the show knowing how it's going to end, a tragic ending by the way. my mom should become a script-writer i tell you. she always guesses the whole plot and the twists in the story. that is NOT good. =)
+ serene @ 12:42 AM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 12:42 AM
my dream
Imagine - John Lennon
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...
Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...
Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
You know, in all those beauty pageants, the contestants always say "world peace" when asked what they would want if they had one wish. i used to think it was quite...fake, and meaningless. i can't explain it, but i feel sad each time i see any type of violence in this sad world, and so i realise now that indeed, if i had one wish, world peace would be it.
+ serene @ 10:44 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 10:44 PM
hmm.
today, the bus i was taking on my way back from school met with an accident. it wasn't exactly a very serious one, but it was unexpected. basically this truck "crashed" into the bus when he was changing lanes or something, and the bus swerved a little to the left onto the shadow lane. hmm.
sunny and xiz refuse to believe the accident was why my left eye kept twitching!! i tell you, it's absolutely trueee!!! when i got onto the bus, my left eye was twitching still, and this was from yesterday onwards. so since left eye = bad luck....the bus had an accident! and after the accident, my eye stopped twitching completely! i'm completely serious!
+ serene @ 8:46 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 8:46 PM
My Bloginality is ISTJ!!!
lalala. 6 more days to what i regard as freedom. =)
+ serene @ 5:20 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 5:20 PM
this is quite accurate. go check it out if u all have the time. =)
sigh. wasn't a-math so screwed up today? *whine*
history wasn't that fantastic either. took like 10mins to figure out that the picture was depicting a cannon covered in white cloth. lousy. =(
+ serene @ 4:55 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 4:55 PM
well. here's the DBS song everyone has been ranting about. it's not bad actually...but almost the whole singaporean population "addicted"? beats me. =)
Life is beautiful
In the morning I feel the breeze
The sun washes over me
The sound of water the crashing sea
Is it only me
That feels alive
It's all ahead of me
Cause it feels so right
Just open your eyes and see
That life is beautiful
It's beautiful to me
Life is beautiful
It's beautiful to me
Life can take you anywhere
You don't know where it leads you
But you know you're not alone
Just open your eyes and see
+ serene @ 11:44 AM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 11:44 AM
I take mindpower to a new level. There are those who think and those who act. I am a rare combination of both. I make that which I think into that which you see. Mind over matter and then some. I am not quick tempered, but crossing my line is far from wise. I am known to be lazy, but who wouldn't be? I can move things with my mind. Don't cross me - or you might find something flying your way.
What's your superpower?
+ serene @ 11:10 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 11:10 PM
i wanna watch the new movie by matt damon! the bourne identity!! *grumbles*
hrmph. i am gonna watch it immediately after prelims, if it's still showing then. who wants to join me? =)
+ serene @ 4:31 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 4:31 PM
sigh. was watching the 911 memorial thing on channel news asia, and it was more troubling than last year. it was just so bad. i felt so bad. especially when the building came crashing down, with thousands of people still inside, believing that they could get out, believing that they could see their loved ones again. i mean, that was so cruel. to know now that they died not realising that they were going too. and the scenes of family members holding photographs too. that was extremely saddening as well. because they still thought they could find their family in all that mess.
it's things like this that make me ask: why? over and over again. why can't we live in peace for even one year, or just one day? Why is this world so fraught with violence, when we could be doing other better things? Is it too difficult for me to hope that one day, just one day, there will be no conflicts in the world, that one day, people will reflect and realise that fighting only results in innocent lives being lost? is human nature such that violence is seen as the only solution? i realise that many conflicts in this world cannot be solved easily, but why should there even be conflicts in this world? why can't israel and jordan share their water supplies, why can't communism and democracy live side by side, why can't we just see that sharing is good and not bad? why is the world we live in so competitive?
it's violence like this that make me think that prelims are no big deal. after all, what is an exam compared to war and strife, non?
+ serene @ 10:07 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 10:07 PM
ahh!! so much more to study!! bio, physics, geog and history...=(
fortunately ss is finally over...i'll miss studying for it though. *sniff*
then again, there's the Os, which don't seem that omnious after all. after all, what could be worse than our prelims?
am praying hard school *does* moderate our marks..yes, they *must*.
+ serene @ 7:23 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 7:23 PM
ooh. owen's captaining england in beckham's absence....*grin*
+ serene @ 11:18 AM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 11:18 AM
help!
if we're asked whether Singapore or Malaysia played a greater role in bringing about the separation, how should we argue it? =(
+ serene @ 12:42 AM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 12:42 AM
Top Ten Indications that you Take Debating Too Seriously
10. You find yourself yelling out "Shame!" whenever Ann Robinson makes a snotty remark on "The Weakest Link"
9. You�ve committed pages 10 to 38 of �Pros and Cons� to memory and you�re doing the rest tonight
8. During elevator rides you think up jokes and witty sayings to add your future debate speeches
7. Your favourite superhero, instead of wearing a cape and flying faster than a speeding bullet, wears a gold-coloured silk bow tie and uses his umbrella as a walking stick
6. At the dinner table, you refer to your mother as
"Madam Speaker "
5. You are only considering a Doctorate so you can keep debating
4. You ask your friends to call you Master-Debater
3. Your idea of fun is making a Top Ten Debating List
2. You're dating Elliot Gold
And the Number One Indication that you Take Debating Too Seriously is:
1. During your vacation you fly down to Australia to help Aborigines mine opals.
haha...i don't understand some of it...but heck. got this off some Oxford related debating site...they are weird...
+ serene @ 5:28 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 5:28 PM
social studies
ahh. what else could this blog entry be talking about aside from school work, considering prelims are less than a week away?
i think the whole idea of having another subject social studies is a bad idea. yes, bad. for me, it takes up more time than any other full subject, requires the most thinking (weighing) and well basically, doesn't really fulfill its aims of teaching us about current issues. and i emphasise, CURRENT issues. which can't be that current altogether, especially since the books were published 2-3 years ago? a lot can happen in 3 years, my dearest MOE. it would have been much better if there was time set aside to *discuss* real current issues, real life situations, what is happening at that present moment in Kashmir, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, or any other country. rather than making us memorise the whole textbook, and try to regurgitate everything on paper, unfortunately, most of the time, in vain. besides, i think i'm going crazy trying to weigh up everything to "give weight" to my paper and attain "level 5". social studies used to be more fun, with assignments *not* relating to the textbook and debates in class.
what happened to learning for the sake of learning, and not for exams? as much as i hate saying clich� stuff. it's absolutely. true. *piffed*
+ serene @ 11:55 PM
* [ serene ] r e m e m b e r s again * 11:55 PM
i am
ant writing revived
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