Wednesday, October 31, 2007
I woke up yesterday morning with this pain in my neck and it disabled me from any normal activities I would usually do with my head.
I couldn't turn my head, so I had to turn my entire body.
I couldn't bend my head down for too long or the base of my neck would start to hurt as well.
And worst of all, I couldn't look up. Even though looking up isn't an action you take very often, but well, when you can't do it, you realise the inconvenience it causes you. And you can't exactly turn your body to look upwards, you have to lie flat on your back. How are you supposed to lie down if you are outdoors?
I had my O level Chinese today as well, and believe me, it was NO EASY FEAT trying to do the comprehension since I have to copy the answers from the passage, and hence have to bend my neck down. Every once in awhile, I had to strain my neck slightly upwards(but not too much or it'll hurt) and I bet the invigilator thought I was some weird lunatic but I don't care.
When your neck is in agony and you can't make use of the mechanism your body has naturally provided for you, others' opinions hardly matter.
I'm gonna have to put reading that Jodi Picoult book off for awhile since my neck still hurts from completing one yesterday. It was horribly painful but then, that's what makes the book so good I guess. That you're willing to SUFFER just to complete it.
Speaking of which, I want a Haruki Murakami novel but it's so damn expensive. I don't know why, is it 'cuz it's translated??? It's not even hardcover!!!
Yeah, and this post is just full of random crap that I wanted to spew out.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
So for the past few days I was on Maplestory because I was pretty sick of Runescape and Audition, and HG started a crossbowman as well so I thought, "Why not?" Oh yes, there are more at the bottom: And finally we are IN! Yes! We got in! I think it's because my group leader had a hack of somesort but I don't care as long as I get to do the quest. One of the stages of the quest(Don't ask me how it works, I have no freaking clue): Still, it doesn't matter. I'm just glad I have many many different virtual places to go to when I'm bored. Ps. I know my hat sucks. It's the only design I can wear for my level.
My character is currently at a place called Ludibrium, which is basically a toytown.
A photo HG's 2 character's(Aileen and xxsnowy456xx) took with me(snowflurri, duh. the smiling one) sometime before I left for toytown.
Kerning City:
To get to toytown, I have to board a flight/cruise(whichever it is, I can't tell if its a ship or a plane. A flying ship I would guess) to Ossyria for 'transit' before I can get to toytown since the flight to toytown can only be found at Ossyria.
On the flight/cruise to Ossyria:
And now on a different flight/cruise to toytown:
I couldn't help taking jumpshots, it's so boring on the flight/cruise.
Don't you prefer this ship to the previous one? It's much cuter.
Arrival at toytown. The place is really colourful and pretty and the streets are paved with... (no, not gold) LEGO blocks. How cool is that? I wanted to level up so that I could hold my new bow, so I trained hard(which I am never gonna do again for the next month) and levelled up! Killing and bombing teddies(took great pleasure in doing so). Love the blue light whenever you level up: 
Since toytown is known for it's party quests(an adventure that lasts about 40 minutes than you do with 5 other members in a group), I decided to try my luck on it. At least it isn't boring.
Well, all except the waiting part.
We have to WAIT AND WAIT AND WAIT outside for the other team inside to finish the quest before we can gain entry inside and since other groups are trying to get in as well, it was tough to get in.
The crowd of people waiting outside:
That's about it. I know my life is boring, or rather, do I have a life at all?
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Well, guess what.
Our exams are over and instead of getting, say, a week of well-deserved, uninterrupted rest, we get piled with homework. I wouldn't mind so much if it were varied, like maybe an essay for Geography plus a math paper followed by an English Comprehension. But NO, they just have to pile loads and loads of Chinese mock papers on us till we almost die of suffocation.
Just think, you've been doing them for so long, about 2 or 3 a week for the past few months, plus all your other subjects, till you're so so so SICK of it that you can't even bring yourself to lift the pen and make stroke.
It's not that we're lazy. It's mentally frustrating because instead of "subconciously" reading the comprehension and writing like we used to because well, writing and reading comes naturally to us, right? We now have to grip our pens so hard and squeeze every ounce of force into our fingertips to make it move the pen till we go crazy, and while reading, we have to keep telling ourselves, "focus, dammit, Focus, FOCUS!!!!!" but it never works. We want to, but we just CAN'T. Our brains are bursting because we just don't have the ability to do it anymore.
And then some people just come floating by and say, "Relax man... Just a few more weeks and you can relax already. Bear with it."
I've always found this "logic' to be completely illogical. If you want to know why, the next paragraph is an accurate portrayal of what the sentence means.
Let's say I'm the boss of a busy company that deals with loads of work. One day, during the month when we're busiest, I tell my employees, "Ok fellow employees, tell you what. Since we're so freaking busy this month, why don't you all stay in the office and work for me 24/7 without sleep and I'll give you the next month off to hibernate."
It doesn't make sense right? Not only will the company go bust, but well, it can't temporarily stop its services for the next month either.
Relaxation is just the same, like sleep. You can't NOT relax for a month and save it all up for the next month. It doesn't work like this. Work and relaxation work TOGETHER. Similarly, without relaxation, we can't perform our best at school. And it's literally IMPOSSIBLE to work and work and do nothing but work for one month then save all the relaxation for the next. It doesn't work this way.
And I'm not using this as an excuse to get out of studying. It doesn't work to relax but not study at all as well. Not only will you fail miserably, you won't even appreciate the bliss of relaxation.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
I was chatting with my cousin on MSN, and he's now in Switzerland, having just
come back from Italy.
Apparently, he's on some some university exchange programme, which is so slack its just like a holiday. He could even pon lessons and go AWOL to shop in the
town and yet not get caught at all. That's so not fair.
Before Italy, he went to France as well. And now he's planning to go to Sweden,
Greece, Czechslovakia, Austria and even Spain! I am so jealous.
Isn't this supposed to be an EXCHANGE programme? I hardly notice that he even
goes to the university. All he does is go gallivanting around Europe, post the
pictures on his blog(link: Mozaralla) and enjoy himself in the cold weather.
I'd like to do that one day, with my friends. Not on an exchange programme, but
just on our own. Visiting city after city after city. And I WILL do it. Just watch
me.
Random note:
NORTH-EAST MONSOON,
WHERE ARE YOU?
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Once again I am driven to write about how much I hate modern music. There's so much imitation, no originality, and the cover of the albums are probably more attractive than the music itself. That, though, is NOTHING. The lyrics are the worst.
You know there's this Cupid's Chokehold song, and lyrics go something like...
"Take a look at my girlfriend, she's the only one I got.
Not much of a girlfriend, I never seem to get a lot."
Oh wow, I hate bands or groups or erm, "artists" who sing lyrics like these. I don't know how it even became a smash hit because the tune is not that great either. What drives me crazy are the lyrics. This guy needs to be dumped in the Sahara desert for a month and left with just enough food to survive so that he can appreciate what he has.
If you didn't like your girlfriend in the first place, why break the poor girl's heart? You aren't worthy of her. Yes, and we all know she's the only one you have, because apparently she's the only one who loves you enough to tolerate your crappy attitude towards the people you're related to. And for that, you aren't even grateful and still say that she isn't much of a girlfriend??? Try fishing a girl out of the street in the 21st century, not many are as committed as your "girlfriend" is to you, and most of them will probably sock you straight for treating them like this, and probably dump you later.
And if you appreciate your girlfriend in the end, why still sing that "not much of a girlfriend" chorus? You obviously still look down on your girlfriend. Seriously, I thought we had better music taste than that.
If you ask me to listen to this kind of crap, I'd rather listen to classical music 24/7. It's not that bad, and it IS better.
And I'm not criticizing R & B, although I don't think that is R&B(it isn't even nice music in the first place), in fact, I have no rights to because I cannot appreciate R & B. Well OK, maybe I can, but only a little, and only those by se7en. See, Korean music is so much better!
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Yes yes, exams have ended for me here. And what do I do? No, I do not take time off to sleep, I do not brush up on my piano(btw I passed my Grade 6!!!!!) and I do not even go to the movies with my friends. All I have been doing is rotting at home, going online on MSN and alternating between medieval Runescape and Audition. Sometimes, I really don't know how to spend my time. You Are An INFP The Idealist
My exams were pretty OK. I'm expecting to do better in my humanities than in my Sciences, in fact, i WANT to do better, I NEED TO DO BETTER. Why? Well, just to please myself really. I am so very very biased. I studied 7 times more for Geography than for Chemistry because I wanted to do better in Geography even though I should be studying more for Chemistry.
On to the more un-schoolish stuff, I extracted my LAST milk tooth on Friday. And if you didn't already know, I am extremely pain intolerant. Especially to sharp pains. If I had a scale from 1-10, knee grazes would be 1 and injections would be 2. Which is weird, because grazes seem to hurt more than a needle prick. But to me, grazes ghardly hurt. They're just like a bruise. And erm, being the typical weird me, I have to confess that I actually LIKE the pain sensations from bruises and grazes because the pain isn't sharp and has this nice moderate pain feel to it. Ok nevermind.
Back to my extraction, well, I freaked out at the dentist's because I had to have 2 rounds of jabs before the extraction and I am REALLY afraid of injections. But after they injected, the area was totally numb and I couldn't feel a thing. I was so scared that I would be able to feel my muscle tendons being pulled on when they were extracting the tooth, but actually, the pain scale is 0. Yes, ZERO. I only whimpered along the way because of that horrible *crack* *crack* sound when they're pulling it out. My dentist commented, "Later they think I'm butchering in here or something..."
After that I had to bite on the gauze to stop the bleeding but I didn't like to bite on it so I took it out. A few moments later, i tasted some saltish liquid and realised it was blood, so I had no choice but to bit on the gauze. So now there's this funny soft sensation whenever I run my tongue over the 'wound' and I keep thinking that I'm licking my own scab but I can't feel a scab at all! HG, you have no rights to kill me because you chose to read this post.
I bought new shoes! I repeat, I bought new shoes! I'm not really a shoe person, like most women are because:
1) I'd rather blow my money on a new bag than shoes(cuz I'm a bag person).
2) I get fed up finding the right pair before I can buy them.
Adn I'm not joking. Everytime I buy shoes, it's ALWAYS out of size, or in another outlet, or out of that particular design I want. It's so mentally frustrating and taxing that I get fed up before I find the right pair. It's not as easy as walking into Nike and paying with a Visa(not that I own one but you get what I mean).
So today when I was at Wheelocks Place, and I spotted these really special looking shoes in a store called Star Three Sixty. I really don't know how to describe it but this is what I told HM.
"The designs are skecher-ish(as in the brand Skechers) but its from Onitsuka Tiger, and they're flats, but not the ones that everyone is wearing now. Mine has a more vintagey grunge look, rather than the pale white ones. It has a dark greyish blue for the background, then theres this olive green thing down the middle, and the other lines are dusty pink. All earthy colours. I know it sounds weird but honestly I really like it. And it is the best description I can give."
And I am so ecstatic because it's the FIRST time in years that I have actually walked into a shoe shop, saw a pair I liked, chose my size(They had my size!!!!! That itself is incredible.), and bought it without needing to source for one in another outlet. That has to be the best thing that happened to me today.
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Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships.
It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
I'd like to quote something I saw in Victoria's blog. It's probably the most meaningful post I ever saw, and the most logical of all.
"I hate studying.
I hate the discipline, I hate the regulation, I hate the repetition, I hate the lack of freedom, I hate looking at a test paper and realising that the only thing you can fill in is your name.
I hate not being able to read what I want, learn what I want, do what I want, when I want, how I want."
by Miss Victoria Loke.
She makes a lot of sense. I mean, people say that studying is "so siannn..." but then it just gives you the impression that they're lazy, which they probably are. Then adults start lecturing us on "Don't be lazy, next time no qian tu..." yadayada. The thing that studying that makes us hate it is that we don't get to read what we like, or have an interest in. And even if we do, the book phrases it in such technical terms, it puts you off straightaway.
And in school today they said that when people are sian it means they have no passion, so everyone should should go and have some passion. I wanted to smack then hard on their heads. If passion was that easy to get, believe me, I would have gotten it long ago. And anyway, you can't GET passion, its inborn. If you managed to get it somehow(I don't know how), then it isn't passion, its fake. Unless of course you were previously living in self denial. But the thing about passion is that its natural, and now you say it like we can go out and buy it in stores or something. Honestly, you don't make sense.
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