Tuesday, March 27, 2007
10. A THUMBDRIVE!!!!! A diskette's too small..... And a thumbdrive has so much more space and is much more convenient. 11. A new bag that is NOT green, and if you're gonna get me that sling-on-the-shoulder type, please remember that my torso isn't as long as yours so get me a shorter/adjustable handle, something you don't see so often nowadays. 12. Some decent hair ties that look nice, it's hard to find nice yet strong hairties nowadays, however common they may be. Because my hair needs heavy-duty tying, I once snapped a hair tie that I got from Korea while typing cuz it was too weak. 13. Free sheet music onlineI've got a birthday list brewing in my mind and i"m not afraid to flaunt it here. I've got 11 more days to my birthday and even though I don't look my age, believe me, I have a lot and a lot of WANTS.
Birthday List 2007(random)
1. NO MORE NCO OR OVERNIGHT CAMPS FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE(church camp doesn't count, because its more of a holiday)
2. BoA's CD 'Outgrow'. I have no idea if its nice or not, so I'm not buying it yet, I need to hear more opinions first(The CD "Made in Twenty" wasn't disappointing though)
3. To be able to turn around in a pair of in-line skates because even though I can balance fairly well while skating now, I failed to master the skill of turning from my friend HG.
4. Everlasting travel vouchers so that I may travel to the destination of my choice at least once a year in SIA(Economy class will do)
5. A 40-episode Korean drama serial that's worth watching(on DVD)
6. Jun Hyun Lee's album, which I don't think is available in Singapore
7. Inuyasha soundtrack, which Cherise said is not likely to be found in Singapore, only Japan.
8. The reduction of Global Warming. I went to the World Meteorology Day a few days ago and if you guys didn't notice(which is impossible since this years weather has been extreme), it's getting worse and worse and the sad thing is, not many people can be bothered to do anything about it. Small things go a long way... Quote: "It's not about saving the Earth, its about saving ourselves!"
9. New shoe from Nike that's GREEN because the latest colour theme I saw in the store is green!!!!! But I'm waiting for discount--->GSS!
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Did some personality test I got from jolene's site:Advanced Global Personality Test ResultsExtraversion 53% Stability 60% Orderliness 50% Accommodation 50% Interdependence 70% Intellectual 30% Mystical 50% Artistic 70% Religious 90% Hedonism 10% Materialism 56% Narcissism 50% Adventurousness 50% Work ethic 63% Self absorbed 63% Conflict seeking 63% Need to dominate 56% Romantic 56% Avoidant 23% Anti-authority 30% Wealth 43% Dependency 70% Change averse 43% Cautiousness 63% Individuality 76% Sexuality 56% Peter pan complex 50% Physical security 90% Physical Fitness 17% Histrionic 36% Paranoia 36% Vanity 56% Hypersensitivity 36% Female cliche 50% And another: [ ] You like to eat chicken feet(I didn’t even try it before, but I think its too much of a hassle to spit the bones out)[ ] You sing karaoke(Are you kidding?! I don’t even like it when people sing)[ ] You've worn glasses ever since first grade ( P1) (close! Mine was P2!)[ ] You'll haggle over something that is not negotiable(oh yeah? And get kicked out of the shop)[ ] You are a maths geniusTotal : 0 [x] You sometimes take showers at night(Whats wrong with bedtime ‘baths’?)[x] You avoid the non-free snacks in hotel rooms(Hotels overcharge, I’d rather buy from a minimart downstairs)[x] You say ' aiya ' and ' wah ' frequently(who doesn’t?)[x] You save grocery bags(that’s called being GREEN)[x] You twirl you pen around your fingers(I learnt that in P6!)Total : 5 [x] You have been taught wasting food is a sin[ ] Your dad thinks he can fix everything himself[ ] You beat eggs with chopsticks(you might as well use a fork, lesser utensils to wash)[x] You like congee with thousand year old eggs(I LOVE CENTURY EGG!!!)[x] You have eaten mooncakes beforeTotal : 3 [x] If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask you if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.[ ] You email/msn your chinese friends, even though you're only 10feet apart [x] You can read traditional chinese (I still can suss out most of the words)
[x] Your toothpaste tubes are squeezed paper-thin before they are thrown away (doesn’t everyone do this?)[x] You know what pearl milk teas are (everyone in Singapore knows this…)Total : 4 [ ] You bring fruit with you as a gift when you visit people's homes.[ ] You have acquired a taste for bitter melon (my grandma cooks it with such skill till it isn’t bitter at all, but when my mum cooks it, its still quite bitter)
[ ] You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat the last piece of food on the table (I don’t even like rice)[ ] Your parents argue with the other adults over the dinner bill (they don’t exactly argue, they mostly give in. lol)[x] You love to use coupons (if theres discount given, why not?)Total :1 Now add the numbers up and multiply it by 4.13 x 4 = 52I'm only 52% chinese, cool!
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Monday
I went out with Hui Ge yesterday. We don't do the stuff msot teens do when they go out. We umm... played badminton(yes, isn't it amazing that Ker the couch potato here is actually involved in a sport???) at Temasek Country Club in this ultra cool badminton court where they have a net in the middle(So we can't cheat!) and the windows block out all four sides so no winds can blow out shuttlecock off course. And then after that we had lunch at IMM in this Japanese restaurant called HOSHI. most of us like Japanese food right? Whenever someone goes,"I had Japanese food yesterday.", everyone will squeal,"So luckyyyyyy!!!! I also want to eat!" It's a natural reaction, I mean do you just sit back and watch people feast on sashimi while you force-feed yourself with stringy veg without making a sound? OBVIOUSLY NOT! So anyway in the car while HG's father was driving to IMM, HG was telling me something like, "I don't want to eat Japanese food..." I replied,"How do you know its Japanese food?" Turns out that their father-daughter relationship is EXCELLENT. We went up a couple of storeys, made a few turns(and all this while I thought we were looking for a food court) and HG's father stepped into Hoshi. I turned to HG with this look on my face that said "OMG,we're really eating Jap. food? You actually predicted it!!! That's incredible!" HG later called me that night and told me that her father's claims of "IMM got air con" was just an excuse to eat his favourite Japanese food. ROFL. After a lunch of bento(with marinated salmon, beef, tempura prawns, this purple thing that looked like brinjal deep fried in tempura, miso soup and chawanmushi, we were STUFFED. HG's father did a very wise thing which was to make us walk around Daiso to aid in our uhh... digestion. 
Our lunch
Ok, so we went back to her house and I put on my blades(roller blades) and went "skating" at the void deck. She wanted me to go down the slope, and even though I was pretty freaked out by its steepness, I clung onto the bike(on which her sis EP was riding) and screamed my way down 2 slopes on skates. When we reached the bottom, an utterly horrendous sight met my eyes, ANOTHER SLOPE. And this one with a steeper, longer path!!! I managed to grip onto the bars while moving myself downwards but when I reached the middle of it, HG said,"Kerryn, let go of the bars and skate down... Look, hold my hand and we go down together k? I'll brake with you. Let go!" This was repeated in infinite rephrased versions till eventually after all the squirming and squealing, my patience for myself grew thin(the others patience wore out long ago) and I let go. In a sudden swoosh, I sped down on my skates, half forgetting to brake(though I did) and hit the pillar with an "ouch" and many smothered giggles. All I remember of the process was the rush of wind against my face, and the many attempts to slow down and finally the thud as I collided with the pillar. Having said all this, I'd really like to thank HG, EP and EP's friend for encouraging me all the way and helping me accomplish something I never thought I'd be able to do. For all that you've said and done, i thank you.
Tuesday
I went to the dentist today to get my teeth checked and while i was there, I agreed half-heartedly to get my braces fixed. I expected a sort of squeezing tight pain when I got my braces, but no, none of that, because umm they haven't inserted the wire yet, only the metal things they glue(my dentist insisted on the word "bond on your teeth" even though it looked pretty much like glueing anyway) on your teeth.
The braces have not been any source of DIRECT pain but they have been a great nuisance and since this afternoon, indirectly causing me agnoy. I have no idea why, but sometimes when I chew(just chewing normally) it makes me bite the walls of my own mouth and that, as you all know, HURTS. I have since done that like 5 to 7 times in the last 8 hours. The wound has stopped bleeding but goodness knows how long more I have to put up with this. "Time heals all wounds" right? Well, I don't know how its going to heal this one if a new wound appears everyday over the old one.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
I'm back and I survived camp!!!!!
It's only been 3 days and 2 nights because it was cut short as there was food poisoning but hey, 3D2N is ENOUGH FOR ME. NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER will I go on overnight camps again unless I'm forced to or unless it it catches my interest(like music camp? that sounds nice) All I can tell you is that the hygiene there was terrible, the sleeping conditions there were disastrous and the activities were unbelievably BORING. But to heck with all that, nothing else matters if you've got your best friends with you right? WRONG. They tried to force NP/NC discipline(actually, I dont see the point in their form of discipline) on us in what, A DAY?! Don't you think that's a little unreasonable? They wanted us to standardise everything(and when I say everything, I mean every little bitty itty thing under the sun). Stuff like which hand we hold our water bottles and which direction our cups face on our table. I mean I see the need to standardise our clothes, but I think that all that is just too extra. I mean, does it matter of your left arm is tired and you want to hold the bottle with your right arm? WIll you go,"I just held my bottle with my right arm! I'm going to die of un-standardisation disorder!!!! aghh!!!!"? Seriously, why do we bother so much on our physical appearance when its our inside that counts? Like it or not, you can't keep your physical appearance like it is forever, but your soul remains intact, it NEVER EVER dies. Instead of forcing weird meaningless(to me) physical demands on the team, why not focus on strenghtening our team spirit and our bonds? Isn't that a more useful way of spending time? You don't have to scold us and we won't give you trouble. Well anyway, I guess I should tell you guys how I survived my 3 days of camp, so here it is:
Day 1:
1 word- HOMESICK
We had a Nightwalk in the RAIN at Kent Ridge Park at night(duh...). Never mind that I had to walk on a bridge 50feet above ground. Never mind that a bug got on me and I screamed the forest down, never mind that I had to walk for 2 hours at night in the rain(I didn't catch a cold as some did, in case you want to know), never mind that I had 3(at that time I thought it was 3 cuz there was food poisoning yet) more days to go. I was homesick, BADLY, and I NEEDED my home.
I can't believe that for the past 14 years and 11 months, I took my home for granted, I assumed that its just a place where I eat, sleep, and spend my un-schooling hours. I never did realise that after less than 24 hours from leaving home did I really start to break down. I cried, needless to say. Not your just-a-long-sob-and-I'll-be-fine kind of cry. That only happens in trivial matters, or on TV. I tried to cry, silently, by myself on the bus on the way to Kent Ridge Park. But when your heart is bleeding itself out, you just can't hold back the tears for long. You say we need to build bonds between our friends, that point I cannot deny, but how can we(or rather, I) do it when I am homesick to the point where I don't even care if you feed me poisoned mango pudding just so I can return home?
Day 2:
2 words- food poisoning
I woke up to the sound of Cherise's groaning,"Anyone has medicine? My stomach very pain!" Which is not even funny because clearly, she is in agony, and like 10 other people are as well. 10 over people had stomachaches and diarrhoea and this is not just pure coincidence, this is food poisoning at its worst in camp and everyone knew it. There were a total of 55+- people who got these symtoms, 16-17 came from my class, how bad is that? Half of my class went home and I daresay, we were the worst hit. I guess I was really fortunate because they say that the virus is called viral gastritis and it ca be spread through physical contact and so many people who hang out together got it but many of them were the people who I hang out with often and slept IN BETWEEN yet I did not even get the food poisoning. Either my immune system is really strong or I'm really just fortunate.
Day 3:
6 words- It stopped raining & Home sweet home
IT stopped raining in the morning. Guess what? when we were abseiling, yours truly over here dropped the carabena(In case you don't know, its this hook thing that they use for abseiling to attatch the rope to your harness. You aren't supposed to drop it because it might cause slight fractures in the metal which in turn might collapse halfway because of the fractures) at waist-level and my instructor was like, "OMG... Dont you ever repeat that!!!" I was sweating under my bandanna and helmet, wearing a pair of gloves that were too big for me(which was why I had trouble holding the carabena in the first place) and there you are pointing your little finger at me like I actually WANTED to drop it and MEANT FOR IT to drop! Obviously, I do admit that it is my fault that the carabena dropped and yes, I was the one who accidentally dropped it. But to accuse me of purposely doing something I did not mean to do is just too much! I get your point, I will try my best not to drop it anymore, but do you have to talk to me as if I wanted it to happen?
We had pizza for lunch that day because they didn't want to risk us getting another bout of food poisoning from the caterer's food. After lunch, we were told to "Go back to your dorms and pack everything into your lugguage/bags. Meet in the hall at 2.45pm(1 hour to do everything)" I know most people are really sad and pissed off because they really like camp, so do I remember? Just that I really really cannot bring myself to enjoy the activities in overnight ones. The first thing that came to my mind was,"We're going to break camp early! I get to meet my family today!" And true enough, we did break camp that day, because of FOOD POISONING. I was so glad to be home, all of a sudden, I felt much happier, my mood went back to normal, and I jsut didn't care if I was dirty or sweaty or wet. I'M HOME, and if there was a very important lesson I learnt from camp, its that THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
Day 4:
When I woke up the next day for my piano lesson at 8am, my whole body was aching. My legs(the whole length of my legs), my arms and shoulders, my back, my butt. I had to walk like a maimed patient all day because just the slightest tweak and I would start groaning, its THAT bad. That's why I'm avoiding all camps from now on.
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