11:09pm...I have only 4 hours of sleep. on my birthday.

this year was far by the best birthday I ever had.
seriously.
first off, we went to Sentosa,  parajumping 4 storeys down. it's like bungee jumping, but without the bouncy parts. and then we Zip lined all the way down from this hill and onto the beach. and then, we well, actually that's it.
it rained halfway, just right after we got our feet nice and wet in the ocean by the beach ( which has imported sand from indonesia, so technically, it is indonesia. I've been to indonesia!!!) so we had to leave.
and then we just spent the rest of the afternoon running from the rain and eating soup in vivo city.
and then we got back home...waited until midnight and then did the whole birthday stuffs. you know cake. candles. wishes.

candles..chloe even had the cheek to use the magic relighting ones ( magic. Peusshh!) that i bought for her birthday but thought i'd lost  on my cake. so i was blowing away like a puffer fish. good thing i'm a french horn player though.
ppppppsssshhhhhhhhh!!!!
and then i blew all the candle flames out but they kept coming back. and it goes on...until theywere totally wax works and there was a puddle of wax on the cake.
you might have wondered what i wished for.

i said to the birthday fairy who grants wishes that never come true," please help me and my best pals and the old folk department to be happy and safe. ooohh yes, and i'd like a nice cat to go with it."
i don't think the second one would ever come true though. everytime i say,"cat" in front of dad, he'd just snort and grunt like a pig. " psh tch hornk hornk" he'd say. gosh.
and then we had a sleepover over , and we watched movies until it was like 3:45am the next day. and i just literally fainted on the pillow with my glasses on in the middle of Vanhelsing. and i might have accidentally punched Tammy once.
i'm gonna keep this short, because i have loads of sleeping time to catch up on. so bye.
zzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
my eyes are practically walking zombies taking zombie tablets.

even cats sleep more than me

10:52pm/my not so accurate birthday celebration tomorrow plus killer clown

can you believe it?
two more days till i'm an official teenager. and how exactly am i celebrating it? by bungee jumping off four stories and doing this awesome Zipline in Sentosa. again. you know, to symbolize that you are...well, old enough to bungee jump. and Whiz over an island on a cable.
and guess what, my folks allowed me to have a sleepover, so Tammy, Chloe, Acacia, and i (Ginfang has dance CCA next morning so she can't make it) would be spending the night, camping in my living room.
and no, we are NOT going to have pillow fights.
and we are NOT going to be painting each other's nails or something.
and we are NOT going to be talking about 'Martians' like they do in the movies. ( get it? like as in that book, men are from mars, women are from venus thing? get it now?)

i can't believe i'm gonna watch this.
on my birthday.

instead, we're going to be watching(if you call peeping through your fingers watching) this movie called,"dead silence"
and on the cover of the disc is this clown face that looks demented to tell you the truth,
now, retarded killer clown faces are what you might expect from your average thriller, so to counteract the scary-ness of it all so that we don't freak ourselves out at night, i've devised the counter react plan, and that is by watching night of the museum 2.
you know, that show that almost made me wet myself in the cinema and got me kneeling down on the floor( it's true)
but chloe thinks otherwise, and that comedies actually cause you nightmares. she said that if you laugh too hard you'll get nightmares.
what utter wubbish is that?!
and so her plan was to watch the show VanHelsing. ok, first off,
how does watching a vampire slayer slay vampires make you forget about killer clowns?

9:36pm...a very merry christmas without the christmas-ish parts

had christmas dinner with my family.
or at least what's left of my family. my grandparents are in malaysia, in fact, all of my family is in malaysia(since my dad's an ex-malaysian) and other my cousins migrated to canada. 
thy must be having lots of thy fun at canada. with real snow, real christmas trees, lights and actual chimneys. 
well, besides the lamb chops and sparkling juice, it's pretty much a normal day.
the only thing special is that i went to church this morning. and...that's it i guess. i mean, christmas is about the celebration of Jesus being born and everything. so it's a christmas well spent. 
oh gosh don't even ask me about presents. i got a bottle of soap. but it's nice soap. and i actually need it. it's not like i need another soft toy or a box of chocolates. (i wonder why people keep giving you chocolates as presents.) i practically will survive next year on a choco diet with choco biscuits and choco chocolates, wholesome chocolaty goodness...hmmm. 
 hey, mind if i tell you a secret? wait, it wouldn't be a secret if i told everyone would it?
ok, so here goes:
i haven't bought anything for my friends yet.
gasp, surprise woweemama you might say but truth is, i really don't know what to get. so i plan on getting stuff tomorrow. for them. i mean. not me. shussshhh. don't tell them.

i don't even know if posting
this online is even legal.

P.S. my grandma got my mum this cup that has a girl on it with gigantic 'bazoomas' on them. if you know what i mean. like as in two clay balls stuck onto the cup like-well, just a cup with two balls(literal 3D)  stuck on it at this bikini girl's you-know-whatsits. gosh, over discription alert.

that's grandma alright.

so anyway, i just think my grandma's going a bit cuckoo. we were at a gift shop when she spotted the cup and still bought it even though i pleaded and begged her not to. i just ran out of the shop when she was at the cashier and pretended not to have anything to do with her. i'd bet the cashier lady thought that she was cuckier than a cuckoo bird on cuckoo pills. 
but my mum laughed when she saw it, so i guess alls well.

10:47pm..it's not a bookshelf...it's a....shelf.

it'sjust a piece of white lamented wood.  and a teddy bear. of course now it's stuffed full of my books. nice birthday gift. why am i talking in sentences? anyway, yes, so i've got my shelf that took about the whole day to assemble(included drilling of holes in the walls and stuffing screws into them.)

oh yes. did i mention that tomorrow's christmas eve and i still have homework to do? sorrow at my heart's content. like i've always wanted it. if i could sigh like and anime character, i would. but unfortunately, i'm not some cute long haired girl in a short school uniform skirt. in fact, quite the opposite.
either way. i really like this shelf. it can store books!!!!!! yeah!!!! just like a good shelf should.
you know, if i had a cat, i would call it nico. if it's black. i don't really like cute names like sushi. or kitty.
it just starts to rub off on you. we should give animals cool names, like zombie, or astro. beats,"hey fluffy!!!! how's my good doooogieee!!!"
i saw a black cat on SPCA named carrot. he looks awesome, and i would deffo adopt him(if i could) but i  think calling carrot!!! carrot!! out loud like this would cause other's to question my sanity.

is it a carrot or a cat??
either ways, he's awesome

4:31pm...on the first day of christmas my parents gave to me......

i am such a nerd.
when people ask for presents, they usually mean something like,"hey, i want an Xbox 360!" or," you know, i feel like getting myself an iPhone." or maybe," can i have that sims 3 extension pack late night?"
see, i asked for a bookshelf.
and my parents said yes. who gets a bookshelf for christmas?! oh, i know. me.
well, it beats last year. i got a pair of socks and a cup. so i guess i should be grateful.
I'm going to Ikea tomorrow night to choose one. maybe i'll take a picture of it and upload it here.

i just thought this was cool.

1:19pm...christmas presents

my mum and dad are talking christmas presents.
already.
this is happening faster then i expected it to though. so they're planning to get prezzies after tuition today.
so, mum and dad said," what do you want for christmas presents?"
and i said," cat"
they laughed.
so i guess i'm not getting a cat anytime soon. which means i'll have to catnap one from downstairs when i'm old enough.
of course i'm not. that's illegal. i think. besides, i've already planned to adopt one from SPCA. when i finish secondary school.
well, anyway, i'll tell you what i'm gonna get when i come back. oh yes, you might be wondering, aren't christmas presents supposed to be a surprise????
well it isn't in my family.(besides my grandfather and grandmother. they got our christmas presents weeks ago, and it's been lying under the tree ever since)
i mean, what's the point of getting a present that nobody wants and then it just spends it's entire time sitting in a cupboard lying in a layer of dust, not even unwrapped yet. so we go christmas shopping together and then get what we want. it's a family tradition.
of course, christmas isn't really all about presents and jolly old santa and stuff. which is why i'm spending my christmas in church, and i'm gonna be inviting dear wei qian. yes, she's Buddhist so her family isn't exactly into christmas. so yeah, i'm sure they won't mind me borrowing their youngest daughter out for the whole entire day of an internationally celebrated holiday. no prob.

of course, this has nothing to do with what i said,
but it's just funny.

11:04pm...

i can't quite believe i only have two weeks left of holidays before school starts.

plus, i haven't even started on anything 'homework' wise. and i really don't plan to touch my homework until next monday.

but, that's what i say to myself every week.

which has brought me right at this exact moment, worrying about homework. oh well, it is next monday's problem, so i'll leave it at that.

so anyway, i just went with my 17 year old aunt to sentosa, (this resort island that's full of stuff to do, in case you've never heard of it.P.S. where have you been all this while???) 

isn't this cool??? Not.

and it was brilliant. well, i only did two things, simulator roller coaster riding(since sentosa isn't big enough to have a real one for cheap, and the only worthwhile coaster going to costs an atomic bomb) 

and jumping down four stories.

with a rope, don't be stupid, i'm not that emotionally unstable. 

at first i was like climbing up the stairs, up this tower with the wind blowing hair all over your face, and you could smell the ocean and see tiny little people playing volleyball at the beach. and then you turn around, and you see your death. 

you literally just stand on the edge of a  metal plank, and just jump. down onto this sand bed, but luckily, i was tied to a rope. so good for me, i guess.

it was fun, besides the yelling and that feeling in your stomach, like as if all the food in it is just going to rush out through your ears. 

10:55pm...first tuition class/RHEMA!!!

the picture says it all.

Had tuition today. which was....interesting.

i walked into the room with trisha and then quickly decided on where to sit. see, you have to be really really careful about where you choose to sit on the first day of anything school-wise. otherwise, you could end up sitting next to snot boy or something. which is not good in anyway. so yeah, back to the whole' sitting thing' 

Trisha, being such a smart girl, chose to sit in the 2nd row,(there where only 3 rows. btw) next to the projector. so i sat right next to her, the seat on my left, empty.  so the lesson started. by the way, i just moved into normal chinese classes from this week onwards, because last year's higher chinese course is just waaaaay higher over my below normal expectations in chinese. you get the idea.

so, the lesson started and the teacher came in, did the usual, attendance, the whole 'getting to know you' thing, and then guess what. she sat right next to me. not in front, not at the back, not in the middle.

NEXT

TO

ME.  yep. way to go girl. no note passing, no whisper whisper hey did you hear what... no, book reading under the table, no sneaking sweets into your mouth pretending to cough out loud while throwing M&Ns into your mouth. just plain ol' honest attention in class. nice one trisha.

and just in case you might be curious about it, there is ALOT of difference between higher and normal chinese classes. 

Higher chinese

1) everyone reads out loud when the teacher asks you to. ( except me and trisha)

2) everyone gets top marks(except me and trisha)

3) no one asks questions, they just DO stuff.(except me and trisha)

4) everyone pays attention. ( except me and trisha)

5) the teacher likes you ( E.M.A.T)

6) the teacher doesn't call your parents or talk to you after class. (ditto)

normal chinese

1) all of the above. just opposite.

so anyway, i just went to RHEMA at my church, Grace assembly and it was awesome. you know, the annual rhema conference(which i didn't attend last year and dutifully regret) anyway, here's a video link if you want to know more about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8Xoa28wVi0&feature=player_embedded

we did praise and worship and then this pastor who comes from Australia did a sermon about how we should all have the hunger for God and that in order to do that, we should empty ourselves from whatever's filling us up inside us now. 

Top 5 things that fill me up now:

1)TV

2)reading Harry potter

3)games(i'm getting rid of that as we speak.)

4)hate, of a certain someone(still getting rid of it!)

5)frustration.(yeah, that sort of always stays in me. i'm not exactly what you may call 'patient', but i'm working on it.)

10:42pm...fairy lights

so just to keep things up to date, i got myself some fairy lights that have delicate little flowers with little bulbs at the centre that glow this brilliant orange. and it really was quite simple to hold up. just, you know, scotch tape and ok, i think i'm going way over the whole description of some random decor in my room so i'm just gonna stop right here. right at that fool stop. i mean this fool stop. great, i just ranted on about a fool stop. and lied to everyone about ending at a certain fool stop. how many times have i said fool stop? right. 

five times.

i know i'm quite obsessive with room decorations
especially lights.

6:20...my hair is really........short.

I look like the tip of a cotton bud.
yep. i just had a hair cut and now i'm a boy. ( as long as you view me from behind). it's okay i guess, plus it's really really cooling once you get used to the shortness of it all. okay, so people might think i'm a boy, and chloe did say that i should really be more girl-ish. but what the hey, loads of actresses have really short hair. take Emma Watson  for instance. I typed in 'emma watsons' on the google search box to see if i got her name spelled right and the top 6 suggestions i got was this:
searched: emma wat
               emma watson haircut
               emma watson new haircut
               emma watson short hair
               emma watson pixie cut
               emma watson scandal
               emma watson brown
see?
and then i saw, 'scandal' and then i clicked on it and the first thing i saw said,

Emma Watson's Nude Photo Scandal

12 May 2010 ... Harry Potter's Emma Watson clears up the issue

of the nude pictures of her leaked on the internet. Is it really Emma 

naked?

And i thought showbiz.sky.com seriously has nothing better to do.

at least i learned how to spell her name.

and feel better that at least someone much much much much girlier than
 me has shorter hair than a cotton bud head. a.k.a. me. 

but i kind of like it. at least my hair won't fall into my eyes, 
causing me to 
flick my head all the time, causing me to get a headache, 
causing me to faint,
 causing me to be sent to hospital, causing me to be drugged with medicine, 
causing me to be dependent on drugs, causing me to be bionic woman.

see, long hair makes you half human.

this doesn't even make you human.

►

9:31am...going to fetch acacia

So,
i'm gonna spend today with tammy and acacia and chloe and tammy's brother(younger). where? a nice little place called snow city. and science centre. snow city is, well, a place that has 'snow' ( if you call shave ice on cement floors snow) as you can obviously tell. Of course if you're just a passing american or britt( i really love you people) you might wonder,"hold on, why in the world would anyone want to build a building just for it to contain snow?" why, it's because i live in a tropical climate that's why. so, enough with the science.
Science centre is this place where you can(sort of) learn stuff. but mostly i just go there and play with all the exhibits. it is, really quite fun. just be careful of the people roaming around and make sure they don't catch you sliding down their exhibits. wait, why am i onto the whole 'science' thing again? oh yeah. science centre. i get it.
btw, i feel that you should know, the last time i went to snow city, we almost got frostbite from the -5 degree air and that time when we entrusted the locker key to tammy and when we wanted it back, guess what? she lost it. L-O-S-T it. not that i needed to spell it out for you but it's just that dramatic effect.
so we spent the rest of our time there digging our fingernails into the hard ice( or snow, as some people call it.) but it just wasn't there. or anywhere. and we had to pay $20 for a $1 rental. as fine. nice one Tammmy.
also, we were dumb enough to eat ICE CREAM in SNOW CITY where it's -5 DEGREES. nice..huh
i just hope with 15 fingers crossed( i'll borrow some from Tammy) that today's gonna be okay. hopefully.

this is the only  place where you can find snow in singapore.
pathetic isn't it?

5:29am

That's it.
I'm broke. i just counted all that's left of my pathetic $$ container and it's absolutely dry. well, here's the thing, I can't actually tell you how much i've got left, but it's just, well, not much. by the looks of it, it's only last me three outings. three. before i start part time working when i'm 16. i hope. how am i supposed to balance out everything?? i guess i could save up...something. but how am i supposed to save anything when i'm hardly given much anyway??? where did all that $$ go?! I mean, i had quite a lot last year, well, okay, so it's not that much but still.
SO, you might be wondering why i'm flushing myself into this whole '$$$' business. see, my birthday is just 23 days away!!! that's like.....almost 3 weeks. and that's just 3 weekends before i'm 13. well, mentally speaking i am already 13, it's just that i'm, you know, born slightly later at a reasonable time length away from most normal 13 year olds. just a slight thing, nothing to get worked up about.
yeah, so i'm planning to go to this theme park in a certain somewhere ( don't want anything ruined by some online kidnappers now, not that it's incredibly obvious where i'm going.) and have a sleepover at my place.
first off, do you even now how much ticketing prices are for a reasonable themepark?
 ( of course we aren't talking about some dodgy old place with bumper boats and just one coaster that runs one round in just 20 sec now are we?)
It's going to burn a hole in my pocket, no wait, it's going to set an atomic bomb and blow up the whole town of $$money ville in $$money valley. yes, that's right. it's that much. so now i've got to come up with someway to earn something, right?
hold on, maybe i could just NOT buy any bubble tea for the rest of the year!!! yeah!! that would do it, no wait, i can't just Not buy bubble tea for the rest of the year, not that i'm addicted or anything. of course i'm not. i can quit drinking anytime. just, not this year, i mean, even if i did not buy it, i'll probably save only like, what, 10 bucks per year? so you can just forget that.
oh well, i'll think of something. meanwhile, peace to you.

8:49am..escape theme park ( i posted this late so forget the dates)

I went to escape theme park with chloe yesterday and it was awesome!!!! well, only the viking ship part. and the wet log ride. and this really really short coaster that lasted for 1 minute per round. well, okay, let's just take it that all the rides were awesome except for this spinning one where you had to lie down on this thing that goes round and round and round like some giant fan. it was quite lame. and the ferris wheel that spins at like, one metre per hour. that was lame.
and the haunted house that wasn't filled with you know, the normal. ghosts vampires zombies and some stupid stuff. there was one part that i saw this dead man lying on the floor and i started screaming, which changed from,"yeeeaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!" into,"Lalalalalalalalalala and i just closed my eyes. and someone was slowly following me and chloe behind us. i KNOW someone was maniacally laughing behind us in this deep voice. but when i looked back  creepy. i didn't really see much, since the whole place was covered with mist and smoke, but i could make out someone in this electric chair that was skiing like jellio in chains. quite gruesome.
and then we went for this log ride that was really fun. we had to sit in this boat thing, and then we glided through water channels and then suddenly the boat went up this long slope and then BAM i suddenly found myself in this splash of water. we dropped 15m straight down. cool.
oh and not to mention the viking ship...WHICH SWINGS UP TO 180 DEGREES UP!!!!!!!!
well, i guess that's it. it's not much but it's okay i guess.

well, of course this isn't the one i went to, it's from google.
you know, google is a life saver.

9:30pm

yeah, i didn't feel like 'it' last wednesday. so instead, i'm going to post this one week later, which is today. Penang was great, and quite fun. i went with my grandparents who live in malaysia, and they even followed me and my parents when we went trekking up to monkey beach through the forest( yeah monkey beach is MONKEY beach because, well, there're loads of monkeys invading the seaside. as if it isn't obvious enough) oh yeah, and me and my grandpa saw a jellyfish swimming around in the waves when we were walking along the shore line. so he did what anyone would eventually do.
he poked it. yes. with a stick. but it didn't move or whip him into barbecue with its deathly poisonous tentacles. see, turns out it's already dead, so we took a closer look at it( grandma stayed way far behind) and we saw that it had a small gash in its jelly head thing. wonder what could have done it?
also, there was one day when we were following the GPS up this crazy thin one-way road, well, it isn't exactly a road. more like a dirt path that winded through small villages and tight bends, so you could hardly see if there was another car heading your way-in the opposite direction.
we had a few close calls, but then as we were driving up and going to turn left into yet another bend, this motorcycle came out from nowhere. i think the man on the bike must have been really shocked, and he pulled the brakes and when skidding towards us. and finally, the bike swerved sideways and the man landed on the floor, his bike lying on his side.
my dad and grandpa went out of the car and tried to help him up just as three men came out from the bushes next to the road. my grandma said that they were probably from the village. and then the man who fell just got up, sat on his bike and drove away. but i caught a glimpse of his leg and it was quite well covered in blood.
so anyway, we decided not to follow the GPS and we used 'grandpa's brain' to find our way around and just as we stopped at the traffic lights, this motorcycle came zooming past us. yep, it was the one that almost crashed into us earlier on. and guess what the man did?
he pointed at us with his middle finger. typical. like it was us who were speeding down a hill.

it looked something like this. killer huh?

10:55pm..going to penang, malaysia tomorrow.

Yeah, i'm going to penang malaysia tomorrow.(i just realized that i just repeated what i had said in the title. so ignore this whole line.)
Oh yeah, i went to watch HP & the deathly hallows yesterday with chloe and tammy and it was ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! and the parts with Harry and hermoine's awkward dancing was like so funny, it had me and chloe laughing our bum-oleys out of our guts in our chairs. i know, weird expression, but that was really how it felt.
and of course they had to stop the movie right where bellatrix knifed dobby, well, you know the story(unless you've decided to be a caveman for the past century and has been living in a hole in the ground ever since) hmm..voldemort's not getting any prettier isn't he?
 so, anyway, more up on the trip to malaysia when i get back on wednesday...if i feel like it.

Class outing 7:46pm

hey, so sorry i didn't write anything much but i was kinda busy..and i just started writing in my old diary again, but anyway, class outing was a blast. we went cycling and had a great BBQ(although i must say, i'm not the best you can come to for having well-cooked chicken) The food tasted OK, i guess, but it wasn't exactly cooked properly. but that's besides the point. point is, it was a success, and we even had too much food left so we could get free stuff!!! and when we were done eating, Wei Qian and I had a go at one of the games that some of the people in class designed and it was quite fun. well, besides the ball throwing and ahhh-the-ball-is-coming-right-at-your-face-parts.

sweet huh?

And then we went cycling, which was chaotic at first. the rental shop was HUGE! and bicycles were lined up in neat rows everywhere. Well, we wanted to try something new, so we took the two seater bikes. it was kind of scary at first. imagine if you had this big bulky package at the end of your bike and it wasn't doing anything. I was practically cycling a hundred kilos all by myself. but Wei Qian got it in the end and we were off paddling like pros-well, except for the parts when we almost crashed into a tree......and when we kind of went off course at times...but it was okay.
so, anyway it was set that we all met up at the rental shop at four plus, but when we were cycling back, we sort off accidentally crashed into someone else. so after a hasty apology and a few quick looks of guilt, we made our way back...only to find ourselves on a bridge i've never crossed in my entire life. yep, we went slightly too far and were lost.
we managed to find our way back though, thanks to wei qian's superb memory skills and everything...okay,okay i admit i'm not exactly the one person you go to for directions...and i kinda panicked-but point is, we got back safe and sound, and that's what matters most, right?
we ended with a cake cutting ceremony that was fun, and the cakes that megan and natasha(classmates)baked were ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!! i just couldn't stop eating them!! it had a nice creamy, spongey taste to it. and it was all chewy and everything, like a good cake should be. they're geniuses i tell you. I mean, a few months back they baked cupcakes for some people and there were leftovers so i took some and it was the best homemade cupcake i'd ever eaten. well, okay-enough with my rants on pastry, i've gotta go.

pinky the blood thirsty cupcake

9:30pm...class outing food buying/I run with bananas/RIP slippers/etc.etc.

How about i just put the whole lot into story form? since i have absolutely nothing better to do.

CHAPTER 1
"wei qian, hello? I'm here already." I said into my phone, brilliantly slow, as always. I am, as usual, the first to arrive at our  rendezvous-place. and i sat on a nice bench all lonely and everything. She didn't reply. nice. And then I looked up and saw this girl's head bobbing up and down through the morning crowd, she came over and said,"hi!" cheerfully. I know, this story seriously sucks, but anyway, the whole point of this chapter is just about us meeting. done.
CHAPTER 2
We meet at the Food Court upstairs(the really nice cool one, not the one downstairs that hardly anyone goes to unless the one upstairs is full) with another three girls, Philys, Li Jie, and Rachel(yes my name is everywhere!!!surprise!) who've agreed to help us with buying the stuff. done.
CHAPTER 3
So, we all sat down in a nice lovely(not really, i'm running out of adjectives) spot. I said,"Ok, so all i had this morning was preserved plum so i'm gonna get myself something to eat." I looked at Wei Qian, expectantly. "What?!" she said,"I'm not hungry. "fine" I replied. and i walked over to the korean stall to get myself some Kimchi noodles that tasted like curry. a good $5 note gone. And our conversation topics were kind of limited..to food..so i kinda just ate. done.
CHAPTER 4
We decided to split up. arggh, who am i kidding? this is boring. let me just skip to the good parts.
SUMMARY OF CHAPTERS 5,6,7,8
Phil, LJ and Rachel managed to get the stuff that we wanted. they 'volunteered' to do the sandwiches.
me and Wei Qian are now heading on to this Mega Mall, IMM. we are now at the train station.
CHAPTER 9
"Ok, What now?" I say. Wei Qian points at this HUGE queue for the direct bus to the Mall. It was depressing. standing there, knowing that it'll take like forever for the bus to come, plus, we'd be squashed in there like oranges. into pulp. So, I suggested,"Hey, why don't we walk? it's not That far, right? I mean, we'd probably have to wait for two buses before we get into anything."
"erm, well, can i get a slurpee first? I think i might just die of thirst if i walk all the way there without my slurpee..." she said, all annoyingly and Wei Qian-like.( ok, my vocab is like -10, but anyway,)
I just looked at her and walked. she followed.
worst thing we ever did.
CHAPTER 10
"sooooo tired.." she said.
"don't worry, we're almost..." I looked around. Ok. now where are we, exactly? I can see that tall building up there, a bus stop to the right, and some construction fences..but no Mall. we took a turn and found ourselves at a crossroad. I gasped,"Oh my gosh, look at that!" I pointed to a car standing in the middle of the road that had its wheel smashed out of its frame, bits of metal scraps were lying at a curb, wheel lying 3 metres away from the car. "whoa.." Wei Qian said. Next to it, two policemen were scribbling something into notebooks. Now, we were standing at a place that had two zebra crossings going into different directions. one turning towards somewhere familiar and the other at the smoking car. yup, you guessed it. Car.
Second worst decision we ever made.
CHAPTER 11
Green light.
we cross, and had a closer look at the car, it looked pretty ruffed up, like a rhino had charged into it. and then we passed the policemen. it was like, awesome. we were gaping open mouthed at their real life GUNS. I mean, they were like CSI people, with all the cool gadgets and walkie-talkies. it was cool, until we couldn't find the building. just like another episode of LOST. but this was worst. it's REAL.
CHAPTER 12
"oh look!!!! I saw it. THERE!!!" Wei qian said, and pointed towards a gap in between two buildings. And there, as plain as could be was the mall. we walked. there. done.
CHAPTER 13
in the mall. at the BBQ section. Me in the trolley. Loads of people were like, staring at me. sure sure. a 13 year old in a trolley? yeah. it's cool.
CHAPTER 14
CROWDED,that's one way to see it. the cashiers were followed by an endless line of people. we waited patiently for our turn and when that finally came, the cashier lady took all our items, scanned and placed in bags. all except for two bunches of bananas. "whoarrtooopuer" she said. or at least, that's what she sounded like. "what?!" I said. she murmured something else. and then a helpful lady beside me came in and said,"she said that you need to weigh the bananas first to get the price." I was like, ohhh, china person, no wonder I didn't understand.(my chinese is terrible. TRUST ME.) And then i was like, argghh, don't you tell me that i have to get the bananas weighed and queue up all OVER again. after telling Wei Qian to handle the cash, I ran through shelf after shelf of stuff, pushing my way through a sea of people and thinking, well, maybe if i hurry i could get there in time. I flew over to the weighing station and just threw the bananas into the hands of an unsuspecting staff member, who weighed it and stuck stickers on it. then i just grabbed them out of her hands and rushed back. it was hectic-ly impossible. especially when this guy who was carrying a baby was in my way. i was like,"excuse me..hello??" and he was like,"whoo's a gooood baby??? whoooo's my little-" and i just pushed my way through.
CHAPTER 15
a horrible, "too-late-you-slow-bye!" moment. i had to queue up all over again. for bloody bananas.
CHAPTER 16
Our fingers were just HELL!!!! I mean, i could practically feel the bag handles slicing through my fingers with every step i took. not preetty.
CHAPTER 17
dead tired. plus i don't feel like writing much, either way, while i was walking home, my slippers broke and now i have new ones. THE END

7:35...we climb a granite rock/ Wei Qian falls/ I spend my $$ on plasters

Oh yes, cycling today. we started off at Wei Qian's house, paddling like no tomorrow. We did stop by somewhere to get me some bubble Tea, while she got a nice cold slurpee. and eventually, we decided to head on to this man made lake, something like this:

Well, obviously this is a photoshopped product.

Story is, some idiot went on and blew this piece of granite rock up into bits and filled it up with lake water. weird. I know.

but anyway, we were like wondering around, taking pictures and stuff, and we climbed onto this rock that was like 5 metres high. and we went back. the end.

No wait, I totally forgot about the time when we headed on to Chua Chu Kang Park and decided to do some extra-terrestrial exploring, and we climbed up this hill that had signs all over it that said: DANGER! DURIANS!!

but we went on anyway, since if you actually had a durian drop on your head, of all places and time, you are most likely the unluckiest person on the planet.

and guess what?! we found this place that was all fenced up like some secret government HQ, and had signs that had this army guy shooting someone, with INTRUDERS WILL BE SHOT labels everywhere. cool. I know!!!! But the place was full of ants that climbed all over you like nobody's business so we did a runner.

If it wasn't all that threatening,
It would have been quite cool.

On the way back, I cycled faster than Wei Qian, and when I reached the traffic lights, she was nowhere to be seen. well, I thought she was pulling up my pants and that she decided to play a trick on me. Yeah, I know. I am that kind of person.( due to some pranks my other friends played on me, I pretty much became mental on suspicious-ness.)

but I got a phone call and it was none other than wei qian, who said," Rachel...I fell down..." wow. yeah. like that. W-O-W.

I rushed back and saw this girl wearing a bright orange shirt on the floor, bike turned upside down. it wasn't that serious, really, but still, there was this huge gash on her knee. Plus, she broke her toenail. So i rushed into a nearby supermarket and got her some first aid stuff with my spare change.( woohoo, i'm just OVERFLOWING with $$$!!!! not.)

oh yes, and she managed to pour out a load of alcoholic hand sanitizer onto her cut and she screamed out, like this,"YEEEAAAAHOOOWWWWEAAAAAAAOOUUUU!!!!!!!" 

and we sat down on the stairs and just wiped away all the blood.(and what was left of the hand sanitizer)

she was okay in the end, though i can just imagine her showering. it would be like:

" SPlash splash...OOWWWWW!!!!! splash, Ow!!!!!! splashity splash OWWWW!!!!" 

I do hope she'll be okay. 

Yay Plasters!!!!!

8:33pm..last day of school/getting BBQ/I scrub whiteboards/rollerblading with Tammy

BBQ/CLASS OUTING UPDATE:

We went shopping at Giant on Thursday, and we got pretty much what we needed. except prawns. because NO ONE likes prawns. That's, er...It.

So, last day of school. yesterday. i didn't post anything as i was incredibly busy enjoying myself having a 'nice' clean up session. in school. in my classroom. with a shred of our chairman's old striped shirt. dipped in soapy water.Who wears stripes anyway? point is, i. got. dirty. which was kinda fun, i guess, when it's cool to see how much dust you could collect in a year. end of story.
And how did i celebrate????? by watching Phineas and Ferb on YouTube for THE whole day. lame, yeah, i know. but it is as addictive as eating honey sticks.
Anyway, i went rollerblading with Tammy today. Not that 5 minutes of pushing yourselves along metal bars count, but we did wear roller skates, and we did roll along.
And to make a long story short-Tam's feet were too big and i had a blister. walked over to my house. watched Youtube. got bored. Tam went home. yay.
What a pathetic way to celebrate end of school. yeah, I know.
Plus, we've got HOMEWORK. yes, you heard me. HOMEWORK.
WHO GIVES HOMEWORK DURING HOLIDAYS?!
Ok, I guess it IS supposed to stop your brains from rotting like moldy old cheese during the two months of pure school free fun, but still. What's the point of holidays when you've got homework?? It'll be just like school without the 'Building' parts and the 'social mingling' parts and the 'boring lectures' parts.  See?
hmmm... i don't think i'll be looking forward to next year though. I'm going to be 14 NEXT YEAR.
F-O-U-R-T-E-E-N. That's the age of Harry when he kills the Hungarian Horntail. And battles Voldemort. I'm. Getting. OLD. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

amateur impression of a Hungarian Horntail

8:25pm...Me On rollerskates

so, so true.

So today was part two of our sports learning day thingy, and I tried out for Rollerblading, which was quite awesome. We were separated into two groups-beginers and intermediates, and i went for intermediates, since i did learn how to rollerblade, somewhere...a few years ago...but the point is, I didn't have to wear helmets if i joined the inters so..why not?
It was okay, i mean, i didn't fall, not once. and we did all sorts of stuff, like dodging blue plastic cones and skating really, really fast,  but not fast enough as compared to the trainers. They were like, rocket fast, and you could hardly see them at all once they whirred into circles and you got all dizzy like a washing machine. plus, as if that weren't enough, they could do all sorts of tricks like spinning like ballerinas and doing triple flips into the air just like ice-skaters. It was like doubly cool, make that decagonally cool.
oh yes, and tomorrow, we are going out to get stuff for our BBQ Class-outing-wise. More tomorrow, if i have the time. i guess.

6:52pm...My name is printed/ adventure in library world

Today was the most utterly boring-ish tragic day. and we spent the WHOLE 5 hours in school in this leadership workshop which i wisely spent on finishing up Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. also, we had to do a play which made me feel so embarrassed that i actually blushed, in my ears. Who blushes with their EARS?! Tell me if you do that. please. because i do that. and it's Weird.
And also, we had this book type thing given to us today, ' Trilingual Digest 2010'. It's sort of like a whole composition of essays that our school had put together to form this book. And Guess what?! My essay is in it!!!!! WHY?????? WHY ME????? This is just proving to be the worst ever attention seeking thing that could ever happen to me. Plus, my teacher didn't even choose the essay that i spent the whole night on, and had 8 pages in total. She had to go on and choose the one that i hastily wrote out on a piece of paper in 15 minutes as i wanted to hurry and watch Ghost Whisperer. Nice.
Anyway, i went out with Wei Qian after school and we did this sort of 'Spy game' you know, like as in we pick out some random dude and we go and spy on him/her. It didn't work out. we freaked out. ALOT.
But, we ended up spying on each other instead. And i was like," grab a book so that the librarian won't notice us running around like monkeys." and we were like darting around the bookshelves, keeping a beady eye on things. and when i spotted her running towards the children's section, i closely followed her, concealing myself behind some random bookshelves. her head was like bobbing up and down in between shelve after shelves full of fairy tale books. Why she was there? I have ABSOLUTELY no idea. and i was hiding behind a book shelve, bidding my time, when she turned around a corner and saw me. Game Over.

Worst hider EVER

9:60pm rock climbing+french horn=shoulder aches

Real fun.

YES!! I found silly putty. plus, it actually glows in the dark!!
So anyway, yesterday was sort of our school's sports festival. well, at least that's what i think it was. We were given a chance to choose what sort of sport we wanted to take part in, and i chose rock climbing. haha. climbing rocks? easy peasy. that was what i thought. until i witnessed the most excruciating pain of having yourselves hanging on a piece of plastic rock at the height of 20 metres..i survived, by the way.
it was ok, i guess, i mean, besides having several muscles being pulled like rubberbands. I'm really quite fine.
another thing, i am absolutely excited about bringing the french horn home. Although they could have improved the design of it-it's not exactly the best thing you can bring home on a bus.

Oh gosh, don't even get me started on this weird shape-ish thing

9:54am...Jairia's House

Toys 'R' Us!!!

going to Toys'R' Us soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more tonight.

10:44pm The Hunt for Silly putty begins...tomorrow

This is just-insane

Going out with Jairia tomorrow to get ourselves some Rockin' SILLY PUTTY!!!!!! We would be exploring the lands of Toys 'r' Us- and yeah, I know. Two 13 year old girls going to Toys 'R' Us? you've got to be kidding. Not.  More on that tomorrow..i'm just to hyper thinking about it to type muchqigvp2igvigvgvdbcjbcjbjdkkxkmkskn3898y4u98y49dig4igudbd

see? hyper.

3:35PM I JUST REMEMBERED THAT WE have NO school On Monday and Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!

Reliable study of food sources HQ. Nice.

YEAH!!!! No school!!!!! not that i would have much to do at home anyway...but still. Mum's watching korean drama again...it CANNOT get any more awkward than this. hmm, I wonder what i'm gonna spend my sudden outburst of freedom on? Well, I'll probably have to spend one of the days with Wei Qian to do some observation on stuff we're going to buy for the class outing...so that's one day gone. Maybe i'll have tuesday with Tam and Chloe, yeah and Acacia.
Hmmm, maybe i can try and go on a hunt for silly putty, because It practically can't be found ANYWHERE!!! man, i wish Jairia would hurry and remember the name of the shop that she got hers from.
I wonder what we're going to do in school now that Exams are over, i mean, it's not like we're going to have any more lessons to learn. This is why i say, GOING TO SCHOOL IS SOOO TOTALLY POINTLESS after exams. except for when you're going to collect your exam papers, THAT i can understand. But Seriously? Okaay, i can practically smell my Macbook frying up itself with all the heat...so bye.

11:30am SILLY PUTTY-THE BEST TOY

THE best toy in the world

woke up today thinking that it was sunday...
so anyway, i have to go to church at 12:30pm for some workshop 'cause guess what?! I'm part of the Welcoming team! as in i like, make friends with newcomers and stuff. i'm really looking forward to it.
Also, i called jairia last night and she told me that she actually has silly putty, you know, the toy that you can stretch and bounce, like play dough, but BETTER. sad thing is...it's hard to find it in singapore. except for places like changi airport, where you can find practically ANYTHING. And yes, you can even find tall slides that were built for adults, which is WAaayyy cool, although you have to spend loads to slide it.
Plus, her brother's got this glow-in-the-dark version of silly putty, which is mind blowing. "BOOM!" you hear that? did you hear that? yup. THAT's my mind, blowing into a zillion pieces just by thinking of it.
Oh yeah, I also have to start planning on what to buy for our class outing, on the 6th of november...wei qian and I are head of the food department, which is soooo cool, since instead of wishing your guts out for real, nice food to eat, you can ACTUALLY make that happen. Plus, we've got a whooping $200 to spend, just on food. lalalalallalalalalalala, that's me singing out my joy of BBQ and Seaside views, and Bicycle riding. I really can't wait for the class outing. as you can obviously see.
My mum is watching korean drama beside me, as i'm typing. nice. very nice. hopefully she doesn't cry out loud because of some heart-wrenching scene. that would be awkward.

Wei Qian came over today 2:56pm

Hellooooo people. nice weather, why? 'cause it's FINALLY THE END OF EXAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!! ok, so this morning, we had out D & T papers which was really...well, let's put it this way. I paid absolutely no attention to any of the lessons except for the parts where you had to cut wood and drill holes and stuff, in case you got your fingers cut off by some tragic mistake. yeah... and after that, wei qian came over and we did all sorts of weird stuff, like recording ourselves talking and then editing it on iMovie to make us sound like chipmunks and we go dancing like teen wolves..."ahhhwoooooooooo!!!!"
and then i went off with my little self with my dad to a fish's nightmare----the sashimi buffet restaurant.  and they have THE FRESHEST SALMON SASHIMI EVER! which isn't very appetizing, i mean, you take a few slices of sashimi and then you watch them cut a salmon fish into half, and suddenly, you don't feel like eating much anymore. But i did, anyway.
And when i was heading for the ice cream section, i pressed the button and out came green tea ice cream, into my cup. When i released the button, the machine just jammed and ice cream came out like no tomorrow. it was like an episode of,"Survivor". but i ended up having to stuff myself full with green tea ice cream for the rest of the time i was there.

9:57pm Home

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's finally the unofficial end of EOY Exams (D & T doesn't count) !!!!!!!!!!
And what does that mean?! that's right. which means it's whole day long YouTube Marathon tomorrow for me.
So, anyway, I went to Acacia's house today to celebrate this joyous day. we didn't do much, but we did go on to online stores like shoplah.com and...something else. And then acacia started looking at *bling Bling* jewelry and i completely just LOST her. what's so great about stuff that hangs around your wrist and you'll have to worry about the fact that you might loose all that diamond-ish silver strands of pure money? Oh well. But then we got on to the shoe section and we found something REALLY cool. As in like, Sneakers-that-have-LED-shoelaces-that-can-light-up-in-the-dark-like-glow-sticks cool. Seriously. If i had enough money, i would have bought them all.
And Tammy came over later at around 5pm, and she came in with her school uniform and all, wearing Ipod earphones and stuff. And then she and acacia started talking about K-Pop. I practically gave up trying to talk to them. It's like,"And you know, they're going to have some mega-whatsits concert next year and blabablablababla..." At least that was what i could make up of it. Well, i guess K-pop is kind of nice to listen to but this is just-OVERLOAD.
Great thing is- I just can't believe that i can finally go out with my Best Amigoses and have a whooping great time. And also, I want to start making videos again...with iMovie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just got it upgraded!!!!! Yeah baby, and now it's all cool and sophisticating-ish, but i have absolutely no idea how to work it out. oh well, i'll just go by trail and error. You know what they say, Genius is 99% luck and 1%...something. well, anyway, I'll be sticking around for sometime, like a slimy slug, until the holidays are over, when school starts next year. By then, It'll be the end of my happy, sliming off like a sluggy thing on my computer days.