My latest It song. Andy Williams is utterly amazing. It's beautiful, especially the last part from 2:20 onwards, in particular the part where Andy Williams goes soprano-ish.

So smooth! So soothing! So full of romanticism! So addictive!
So devastatingly divine!

This is precisely the reason why I hardly listen to pop songs. If you must know, I played this on loop the whole time while napping in school this week.

*****
School's speeding up things alot, what with all the work/ tutorials/ revisions packages flying in my face. I should be whining & hating it immensely, but a small (& probably sadistic) part of me is enjoying the abstract stress being caused. My explanation?

Entropy.

Entropy In The Surroundings (check out my class sometime, we're all kuku already) relieves Entropy In The Head. Dynamic equilibrium reduces the difference in entropy so we won't be behaving so oddly. Or at least I won't. Makes odd sense, no? Either way, I'm loving it (:

On an even brighter academic note, I won't ever have to see ol' KaTie for help! Cos I'm wonderfully fortunate & extremely blessed to have another teacher to approach for help now! :D

JOYJOYJOY!!

OHJOYFULNESS!!!

College Fridays, somehow, always turn out great.
Just like how everything's gonna turn out fine, despite them deadlines & tight schedules & all.

Praise God! :D

"1 box $28."

"Ok, 6 for $60."

"3 for $30?"

& so we ended up with 6 boxes of glorious durian ranging from D24 to the CatMountainKingThing (senselessly funny name if you ask me) after the parents bantered with (& pressured) the durian seller :D

OHHMYTATTOOEDEYEBALLS you have no idea how much I heart durian. (I shouldn't have eaten dinner.)

Jolly good way to end the day; beautiful day to end a weekday!

On another T!LT note, the girls in class had a MASSIVE discussion/sharing/gossip session today that cracked me up. It started with Japanese then went on to universities, dating, proposing, rejecting a marriage proposal, marriage & kids, childbirth and ended with general College gossip/rumours (I just found out today that the class 3P exists!!). Some parts may have been slightly disturbing for the guys in the class though..hehe.

Look Behind You.

Brilliant College Friday! Albeit an absolutely abnormal one.

There was this wonderful catching-up conversation really made my day despite my fatigue. Chang & JH we should have breakfast every morning! & I want a Blackberry.

Badminton for PE was good, though it was too hot & too short (but what's new, right?). Let's play more floorball on Mondays please.

Chlorine was chatty today, which is a rare occurrence since we don't usually talk much on normal days. He also pretty much admitted to being an insensitive online-soul. (See, it's an abnormal day.) Went over to the Secondary Section for a bite during break and met BD&friend there. I forgot how huggable BD is, with all that phats (: & we met his awesome-too-cute brother who's doing extremely well in tennis. I'm jaw-droppingly impressed with him.

Then there was the New Zealand ice cream where I got 2 flavours; cost me $3.50, which I think is super duper expensive for a scoop of ice cream. But okay la, do my bit for charity. My Good Deed For The Week quota's fulfilled. I prefer Haagen Daz (whoo!) anytime, however. & interestingly enough, I'm more than willing to shell out $16 for a good pint of Macadamia Brittle/ Rum&Raisin. Hehe. (But I am broke. I've been broke for a very long time cos taxi fares are pocket-burning vacuum cleaners.)

Plusss, for the first time ever, I didn't fall asleep during H3 lecture.

It's a miracle! None of us slept today! Guess the Extended-Toilet-Break-Turned-Ice-Cream-Trip had something to do with it ;)

But before that in Math? Everyone knew I was falling asleep cos the teacher called my name like 5-6 times in 50 minutes. That's once every 8.33 to 10.0 minutes. Every single time my eyelids start drooping, it's "Christine, can you answer this question?" or "So Christine, what do you do after this step?" & then I further embarrassed myself by blurting out some random step immediately after he jolted me from my slumber. Like, thanks, really. Glad to know I provide laughing-fodder for my classmates.

Interesting Friday! Make this last!

Can't wait for Tuesday! Wednesday's GP paper can curl up & die.

Angels in our Lives

I love The College, I do. I love my class, my OhGee, and all my awesome friends (and some teachers). But going there day after day after day for lectures I don't get & tutorials I don't prepare for really saps my energy the way sunlight drains a vampire. I've been trying to convince my mom, albeit unsuccessfully, that staying at home may be a better way to up my productivity levels. Speaking of productivity levels, The College's effort to be more environmentally conscious (i.e. Eco-day) means enduring unbearable amounts of heat waves crashing into you from all angles. I can't take it; my productivity level plunges like the stocks on Wall Street. Damn global warming. It'll make more sense if the canteen operators start to use paper plates instead of styrofoam for everything.

Anyway, College Friday hath cometh again, one that I'm grateful for (: Wouldn't describe today as great & fantastic but it did end on a blissful note that wrapped up the school week wonderfully. Spent a good portion of time after chess session talking to a rather enlightened, perpetually pink-cheeked friend who should just be my personal counsellor already cos he's perfect for thought-bouncing. Gracias! (:

Left you a space in my heart

My nose & throat were killing me during training. And my eyes? They have this hazy, glassy-eyed look going on. No, neither high nor drunk. Collected another bruise today. It seems the bruised areas get higher & higher. Started with my thigh, then my forearm, then my bicep (yes it hit zee mooscle today, so it hurts when I raise my arm). My throat may just be the next target 0.0

So anyway, ignore my pre-proper-post-digression. Yesterday was probably the best school day this year. It was the usual lovely College Friday ending with a Club session except that yesterday? We had a great houseparty that involved last-minute prep work of balloon blowing, gift-packing, spray-painting, chair-moving and last-minute changes. HAHAHA.

Who cares that there was barely enough food? (More incentive to go out for post-party dinner) What really topped off the day in the magical-finale-flourish way was meeting & hanging out with my dearest ♥ Ohgee ♥ Awesome awesome company. Delicious paus, silly antics, pleasedon'ttrytocarrymelikeapotatosack-ing, shoe-throwing *coughs*, jumpshots, attempted shorts-pulling, more jumpshots, stupid jokes, lost wallets, Top of the 8 dinner, reminiscing, smart-mouths, sitting in the dark, anticipating camera flashes, sharing & discussing deep, daunting stuff, 11+pm.

mto2!, my reason for going to school. It's a happy-aura-bear-hug-comfy-make-my-day thing.

Photo doesn't include 5 other people who i) went home early, ii) were on duty, and iii) did not want to look like the 5 fools in the picture :P I can't wait to see how my fisheye photos turn out!

Reached home the next morning, which probably explains my nose/throat's condition and my weird eyes. But it was so worth it! I feel immensely blessed to have such a wonderful bunch of friends ♥! :D

Moon Over Bourbon Street

Listen to this.



I'm much better today (: albeit extremely loony. It's the lack of sleep I tell you. I don't know how people can sleep at 2am, wake up at 6 or 7 and be full of bright yellow sunshine.

Been music-isolating myself for the past 2 hours (: best thing this week. Jazz/Swing radio from last.fm. Listen to it!

2.4km run was... slow today. We start fartleks tomorrow! Fell alseep during physics lecture partly cos I was so lost and forgot my notes, again. When I woke up, my friend explained one concept/diagram to me in the most amusing way that made me completely understand it. Went along the lines of "So the light get polarized to this plan, so the waves go this way. Then it goes into this shit and gets screwed up so it emerges from the other end this way cos it moves it by half a wavelength, so the waves end up in this direction."

Let tomrrow be awesomeee :D

Hands Up!

Federer is king!

My back is itching a hundred times more than it's hurting and YOU KNOW WHAT? The itch is a thousand times more annoying cos the dressing's covering the itchy spot.

Most of the juniors who came today are pretty cool and there's one with a very pretty surname! Dined with the Club after that; comfortable company (: My dinner of apple crumble pizza was awesome!

These days, I whine. More than usual.
There is alot of... Repressed Anger again. WHY. I felt... suspended tension for a major part of the day. The kind where my muscles feel both coiled, relaxed and threatening to snap at the same time. Snap at the barest hint of friction and lash out at the first opportunity. So hostile, so terrible, far from pleasant, yes. Endless agitation.

SUNDAY COME FAST!

This Comes Up Tops, Yo

The best damn way to end a weekday (or any day for that matter):
Meeting up with Mocha for a get-together/surprise BBQ birthday party. Not everyone was there though, but the next time this happens, it'll be full attendance!

Feasted (great food, especially the chicken wings), camwhored (oh yesss), made a hell lot of noise, basked in the warm familiarity of close friends, laughed joked chattered chattered chattered, reached home past 11. Enjoyed.

'Nuff said. The most awesome bunch of people I could ever ask for. I haven't enjoyed myself in the nothing-to-worry-about way for a pretty long while.

College Fridays = <3

OhGee
Tennis
Chess
Post-IHC Party
Badminton

Pizza

Wii Tennis
Table-tennis entertainment

That sums up my exciting events yesterday and pretty much made up for the miserable, sucky mid-week. [If the confounded form's not endorsed by Monday, we're dead.] So anyway, yesterday was good. Paul came back! With this delicious rockyroad marshmallowchocolatecherry tidbit-in-a-box (:

Played tennis with Dar before the skies revolted and pelted us with raindrops, forcing us to cut our game short. Good fun though and it's quite different from playing with girls... And OH, Wii Tennis is Love, partly cos I own at the game (: But the rush is totally different from the real thing.

Also played badminton with Dar, in semi-darkness, after chess and DAMNIT he is pro. And it doesn't help that his limbs are practically extendable; he can put Mr. Fantastic out of a job already.

Due to lack of table tennis bats, some of us resourcefully turned to badminton and tennis rackets. Highly interesting ;)

And now, I have to go complete all my backlog :/
Ciao.

College Fridaze

Dazed would be the perfect word to describe my state for the first 3/4 of the day. I have never gotten so dazed after doing math. Integration by part clearly stuns my braincells.

Can't remember much of the day really but I do enjoy College Fridays cos the PEOPLE involved never fail to make my day (: Like how the Chessers ended off on a great note today! I understand differentiating graphs a little bit more now! It's a covalent-bond-happy-aura thing. I miss the seniors though :/ they're awesome and the classroom feels weird and somewhat empty without them.

And it's wonderful how a good portion of The Class'll automatically head for the canteen whenever we're released early. It's almost like a homing instinct thing. All of us will then sit, chat about everything under the bigbluesky and laugh, with sparkling eyes and face-splitting grins. Today was fun (: But it's not that easy to draw a person out of his/her shell.

Very pleasantly surprisingly, quite a number of my OhGee mates turned up at the Table today! :D Yesyes, once again, cue the awws & warm fuzzy feelings. I am SO very very emotionally attached to mt02; my school day won't feel right if I don't see them every morning. However, it'll be even better if everyone could turn up! I haven't seen some people for dinosaur ages!

Oh and dear Mr. K! has been bitten by the infatuation bug! It's utterly amusing and impossibly cute when he rambles on and on about That Certain Fabulous Girl. Brings to mind an anime character with hearts for eyes and drooling mouth x)

When marimba rythm starts to play

College Fridays = Love.

They're turning out to be as enjoyable as High School Thursdays, if not better. Played Captains Ball today and hell yea, it was a blast. What's better than immersing yourself in a game and listening to the sexy strains of Bossa Nova and other Jazz classics at the same time? ULTIMATE LOVE I tell ya. The jazz performance tomorrow sounds promising (:

We had many heroes who bravely lunged for the ball and ended up with grass/ mud stains on their WHITE pants. Yea, skidding on slightly muddy ground is totally a guy thing. But still, bravo people! Remember Lewd Dude? Yea, while normal people shout names or normal stuff, this dear fellow was spouting randomly irrelevant thingums like 'sex!!'

Oh and the next time we play? We so. totally. cannot. put the 2 tall guys on the same team. It's unfairness in it's purest form! Like, hello some people are not so vertically blessed; it's kind of hard to intercept the ball when it's forever waaaay over your head.

And it's kind of annoying when a long arm shoots out of nowhere to steal the ball before it ends it's trajectory [read: lands in your arms]. And it's also kind of annoying when you're standing on the chair[already more than a head and a half taller than Mr. Tall himself] going to catch the ball that's just there, an inch away and a hand suddenly appears before your face and slaps the ball faaaar away. Eeeeugh. Haha.

One of these days, I'm going to succeed in tilting the stubborn chair over while standing on it. I've been trying to do it everytime I'm standing on a chair but to no avail. And most times, the chair backing is... flimsy. So I dare not step too hard on it.

When we all finally decided to go home, I was ditched by the rest cos they ALL TRAVEL BY MRT and I'm the only one taking the bus. Finee.
BUT THEN!
I found a friend!
Who takes 4/5 the route I take!
So now!
I've got!
My awesome friend and Friday Bus Buddy Sir Diva to go home with!

In yo face MRT People!

College Fridays

Interview was interesting (: andandand the post-cca activity was even more so! I loooove the people in ichess. They make my Fridays fun and end the school week an the awesome-st note. Played Apples for Apples, some fascinating random party game the Arts Student brought and it was hilarious! Not to mention pervy at times, especially with all the testosterone after 2 of the 3 girls left [leaving me pretty much clueless at some of the jokes] and the presence of the a certain very Lewd character. And I mean lewd- the nutcase argued till earwigs, black velevt and roman numerals seemed either erotic or porno. If anything, his brain is definitely not up there.

Lewdness aside, I had fun! And it'll probably be the only thing I remember doing this week by the time next week arrives. Best Friend's right, the weeks are passing at lightning speed. I'm a little surprised at how fast this week zipped by like a flashy porsche- you just get a glimpse of it and forget it within the next 5 minutes.

Embracing the weekend

So the school week went past like this: 0.0 ==> >.< zzzz ="="> 0.0

It's either short term memory or my mind's not absorbing daily happenings anymore. Remember how I said I was running on optimism the other day? That was then. I completely crashed the next day; running on empty. Optimism ran out. My face, which started off perpendicular to the floor/ desk ended up parallel to the floor/desk for every tutorial and lecture without fail. It wasn't as if I wanted to face the floor. Was more of a mind is willing but flesh is weak issue.

Well, at least I wasn't the only crash victim. Best Friend and Chlorine conked out too! Yes, I'm taking comfort in that fact. (:

I've SO many things to let out.

Numero uno. People are leaving. AGAIN! It really really tremendously irks me.
Okay, fine. Not really, but there's this annoying twinge-y feeling in me. I can't help it if I'm emotionally attached to practically everyone I know! Even if I'm not so close to that person. Persuasion didn't work. So fine, said friend's rolling off to the other activity that involves the use of brute force and momentum to beat the opponent.

Numero dos. But! On a perkier note! I made a new awesome friend with a nice name todaaay! (: very interesting person who's on the same brainwave! although he refused to accept Strawberry Hello Panda from a stranger. But that's besides the point. Point here is, I had a couple of very enjoyable conversations and some good laughs today. (:

Numero tres. Technology Fast, as suggested by Best Friend. I'll be doing that for the whole of next week, Sunday to Saturday and I believe I can pull it off! Haven't really thought of how I'm gonna fast but the general idea is that I'll be staying away from my phone and computer. Pretty obvious huh. It'd be breaking a habit but hey, for my spiritual life, I'll do it. (:

Numero cuatro. I felt SO inadequate today. So pathetically loser-ish because of the numerous missed opportunities I had passed up in the past and how I took [and still take] so many things for granted and how [... ...] Quite a frightening experience.

Numero cinco. Half- day out tomorrow! I'll be meeting friends!And more interesting strangers I hope! (: Vamos!

I survived!

Oh look, it's the weekend!

I survived the dreaded 2.4km run yesterday! Most amazing, aye! Very surprisingly, the timing was better than my NAPFA last year. Same goes for my IPU. Yea. I know. Tell me about it. Despite the run, I still feel fat. Food's been sucking my purse dry :/

On a different note, I FINALLY bought the PE shirt after waiting for 2 agonizingly long weeks :D No more awfully hot tees or malfuntioning shirts!

CCA was a blast. I absolutely love being on the team-with-tall-people: so much easier to throw the ball to them. Played waaay past time but it was funfunfun! Following that? OG dinner! I was expecting the whole OG to be there cos well- OG dinner. Turned out most couldn't make it so 9 of us went from The College to J8 to Thomson Plaza. The bus ride was really dumb. We looped from the mall, to the flats and right back to The College before arriving at TP. Dinner conversation was interesting. I understand some people more now! How delightfully fascinating! Dinner however, wasn't the best. The food wasn't very well cooked so I felt sick after that. But hey, nothing a cup of ACV can't cure (:

Headed home a bit later while some of the rest went to watch a movie- horror show. WHY people lurrrve to scare themselves pee-in-the-pants-silly I have no idea. I am SO glad I have never watched a horror movie my entire life ^^ Save from ambushes by Overactive Imagination and Nonsensical Nightmares.

The only hiccup yesterday was the bus wait. Stupid buses. They're more irregular than radiations from radioactive substances. It took me nearly 80 minutes to get home. Simply because the 2nd bus I had to take took 30 minutes to arrive. I was SO CLOSE to trudging back home even though the trek back may have taken longer.

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College Fridays'll be my High School Thursdays.

Fridays are very quickly becoming my favourite day of the week. And it's not just cos the weekend follows it. It's very much like Thursdays in The High School. Thursday was the day back then cos it was the day I stayed back for CCA, hung out with friends, had dinners, went for tuition and all sorts of things. up, Thursdays hold alot of memories for me. Like how the Thursday People (awfully plain name, I know) chatted through homework and had tonnes of fun, how we choreographed the dance in 2005 and got 3rd (awesome times!), how I really enjoyed wandering around the empty corridors just appreciating the silence, how I went for random dinners with friends, how I received a brithday gift under the rain, how I wrote a poem about a close friend,how I was enlightened about an amazing amount of things by simply staring at the rain.

Yea, Thursdays'll always hold a special significance for me.