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Okay. I find this pretty lame. The title, I mean.

So let's see...yesterday's HCL was the best Chinese lesson I've ever had. Because Jiang Lao Shi explained everything in both Chinese AND English.

YAY!

I managed to get quite a number of questions correct.

History was totally DULL.

Don't wanna elaborate.


Today Art Club went to the Singapore History Museum to see some electric are exhibition. It was really cool. There was one exhibit where some sort of weird cap translates our brainwaves into white particles (dots, to be exact) on a screen.

Kimberley tried it and very amazing images came out. There were many types that I haven't seen before, and the person in charge said that it was the first time that that pattern occurred.

KAKUII!

So yeah. It was really fun. On the bus to the museum, one of the art teachers (forgot her name...) mentioned about the windmill competition. She said that sadly, 2 windmills that were submitted could not be accepted. Those that were accepted she returned the 'fee' of $2, those that weren't wasted $2.

I didn't pay for the windmill because at that time I didn't have exact change. So the teacher paid for me. I was so afraid that mine wouldn't be accepted (I'd lose face AND 2 bucks) but thankfully, it was, so I didn't have to give the teacher $2.

I think Grace's wasn't.

So this is my short summary of the past 2 days.

Thank you for reading this boring post.

I hope you have enjoyed it.

Thank you.

The Quiet Ones

*This post was supposed to be posted on the 26th of July, but I kinda forgot to press the 'publish post' button, but thankfully, they automatically saved it...*

I've been silent for a long time.

Keeping a low profile is my motto.

NOT!


I'll admit I was just too lazy to log in. Anyway. For the last 2 days I was so lucky. On Thursday, I stayed back for an hour. I was walking toward the gate near the Gym, then when I was about 50 meters away from the gate, 105 came, so I chiong. Because there was a lot of people, I got onto the bus just fine.

Just yesterday, I was about 30 meters away from gate when the bus came. The line was short so I had to rush like a madman. Even then, the door closed on me. Then it opened again. YAY!


Today is my brother's birthday. 2 days ago was my father's birthday. Today we went out to celebrate their birthdays. We originally intended to go to KFC for lunch, but my brother didn't want to, so we ended up negotiating in the car while in the middle of nowhere in a random carpark and congested the whole thing.


We decided to go to this restaurant called "Happy Joy Restaurant". The moment I saw its name, I was like, is this some lame restaurant? It's right in the middle of a HDB area.

The whole restaurant was deserted. We arrived at 14:20, and because of a wedding dinner that was going to be held later, the last order would have to be at 14:30. So we went to eat.

So cool, you know. We actually got to dine in a special room with only 4 or 5 tables.

We ordered so much my stomach was about to burst. It costed $70 plus...do you know how many meals I can eat at a hawker centre with that much money?!

So anyway, after that, we went to walk the Forest Trail, which ended at the Anderson Arch. Then we visited some weird flower thing. It was kinda cool, especially the play ground.

Oh. Did I just make you think that I thought flowers were cool? Oops. Sorry. I was talking about the displays.

After that we went home and had home made dinner consisting of pizza (fresh out of the freezer).

I CAN"T BELIEVE I FORGOT TO POST ON PI DAY!

I"M SO STUPID!!!

Anyway. Pi Day is 22nd July. The date would read 22/7, which, mathematically, would mean '3.14' rounded off to 2 decimal places.

=D

I went to the bookshop during lunch and there was only one Prince of Tennis 40 left...

Wow. They really ARE flying off the shelves. Originally there were about 5. I bought the first one. =D

I didn't know so many people (well, it's a lot compared to the figure I had in my head) in my school likes Prince of Tennis.

YAY!

But I'm still waiting for another tankouban to be released in my school bookshop...

BooK 41

YAYAYAYAYAY!

I NOW OWN BOOK 41 TOO!

Found it at the book shop during recess.

Today is RHD. Didn't know until yesterday...

-.-"

shippai...

Saa, anyway, RHD was kinda cool. Created 3 random people at the caligraphy section. =D

We were supposed to use the ink to write caligraphy, but i really couldn't, so I just started drawing. The first one was supposed to be a girl, but people comment that it looks like a guy...probably because of her bushy/thick eyebrow...

I wonder if Ash will look like that when she grows up...

So yea. RHD was kinda fun. No lesson. School ended at 11.30 (again, I didn't know this until yesterday). Bought book 41 from book shop during recess. All except 3 canteen stalls were closed when I came down for lunch. XP sucked. Ate only 2 slices of watermelons for lunch. Gave Han Jun some information for EL after school.

That's about it.

=D

My day in a nutshell.

Oh yeah. I saw a squirrel under the conjuncting roof joining H block and J block while taking the long detour to the gate outside the Gym cuz it was raining.

Thought it'd be kinda cool if I reported it here. =D

This is my lucky day! LUCKY!

KYAAAA!!!!

PRINCE OF TENNIS 10!!!

Today after church, my mother wanted to buy Maths and Science assessment books for my sister. So we went to a hawker center near AMK hub. There is a building beside the hawker center that has Popular on its second level.

I had chicken chop for lunch today. It is usually called 'Western Food', which is normally not what we eat often, so I haven't had it in about half a year already. My sister just at one about one two months ago... -.-"

So after the very nice lunch washed down with a can of Pokka Ice Green Tea and a little Coke flavoured slurpee from 7/11, we trooped down (well, literally it's up) to Popular to find some assessment books for my sister.

The first thing I did when I stepped into the treshhold was head to the comics section. Stupidly, I went to the English one even though I know my father would never allow me to buy a manga in English. So I just searched the whole shelf for any books that I know of and like, mainly 'Prince of Tennis', 'D.Gray-Man', 'Katekyo Hitman Reborn', and quite recently, 'Black Cat'.

The English comic section was seriously lacking in diversity. Well, to me that is, because I'm not interested in most of the comics there. So anyway, the only manga I recognized was 'Fruits Basket', and I'm apparently not buying that. One, cuz' it's in English. Two, cuz' it's kinda lovey dovey and the drawings are a little...not realistic?

So I went to search for the Chinese comic section. I was strolling down the rows of shelves and finally found it. I skimmed and scanned the whole two shelves. And I found 'Prince of Tennis 1' (about 5-7 copies...), 'Prince of Tennis 10' (about 2, one of which I bought), and 'Prince of Tennis 40' (about 2 or 3 copies too).

I didn't have book 10, so I picked it up! YAY! I FOUND A NEW BOOK!

I really shouldn't indulge myself in worldly treasures too much...

Then there are also 'D.Gray-Man' 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13. They were all in Chinese (well duh, cuz' it's the Chinese section). P.S. Komui doesn't look like Komui at all on the cover of book 7, he looks cooler on the cover than in the book... And I found books 16, 17, and 18 of 'Katekyo Hitman Reborn' as well. I love book 18 of the series. It has my fave chapters in it!

So yeah, I can't find 'Black Cat' at all.

My father sponsered the book. =D My brother bought two books. One of them is a novel about Halo, and the other is some 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid'. That diary one has lots of pictures in it and it looks like it's aimed at little kids... and mind you, my brother is already 15 AND from NUS High... I'm so embarrassed...

*crouches in a corner and attempts to cover face with curtain of hair*

But yeah, the book about the wimpy kid had really cool drawings (well, they weren't actually very professional, but the humor's what counts, right?).

Today during church, Brother Kafai (remember? BK?) preached to us about God's call. About God calling us to share the gospel.

I REALLY WANNA BRING ZANN TO CHURCH!!! I've never actually brought up the topic of coming to church to her, I just pestered her about being a Christian... I'm such a bad person...

*emos*

Oh yeah, before that, we were shown a short clip about 06.07.08., which is an even held last week at the Summit at Trinity@Payah Lebar. Originally, when Ignyte first started, there were only 350 youths attending. Then the following year in 2007, there were 555, then this year, the count rose up to 665 (or somewhere near).

Then during 06.07.08. last week, 724 people came!!! There were 76 FTVs (First Time Visitors) and 21 salvations. So cool right?

I'm just regretting not inviting Zann over...

*sobs*

Back to BK's speech about preaching the gospel. When BK was 15, he received salvation. But before that, he was kind of a gangster. His friends tried to get him to know Jesus. Everytime someone comes to the door of his friends' house to preach about Jesus(BK goes to his friend's house a lot), his friend would drag him to the door.

Back then, BK really didn't want to listen and be a Christian at all. He said, "You want to preach about Jesus right?"

Then the person would reply, "Yes."

Then BK would let him preach. When the person was getting into the heart of the matter, when you could feel that depth of what he was preaching, BK would take small steps backwards, and SLAM the door into the person's face.

So evil right?

Everyone say it with me.

So evil.

So yeah. Last time, BK and his friends would go to some place and hang out. Then they would go up to just any random person and say, "I don't like your face. Your face not nice." and then slap them.

*shudder*

I wonder what kind of friends they were. Wanting BK to know God and at the same time slapping some random person's face on the streets. Maybe they were a different group, or they had a serious personality crisis.

Yeah, but someone persisted (I never knew who. BK never mentioned who at all) and he finally came to know Christ and became the person he is today.

And today was Brother Titus' birthday.

Brother Titus is in charge of worship and the...uh...what do you call the lighting, sound, video, blah blah blah crew? I doubt it's AVPA....

Pastor Derrick (I honestly don't know how to spell his name. All I know is that it is spelt very differently from what I've typed but sounds the same) purposely made a black-out and asked Brother Titus to go to the back and check what went wrong.

When Brother Titus went up, he was greeted with a cake and the lights came on. I, who had no clue what happend until pastor Derrick explained at the end, was, like, the black out was so fake. The projector was on...

Anyway, we sang happy birthday to him and then we were dismissed.

YAY! This was my day.

And did you realize that today is the 13th? My lucky number? And I found book 10 on this day?

Prince of Tennis 40...

I GOT PRINCE OF TENNIS 40!!!

I bought it from the school bookshop yesterday. I just walked in, not expecting much (since all the previous time I walked in after buying book 37 last week, there were no new books), but then I saw some blue spines sitting on the shelf with their cover facing up. So I just walked towards it, seeing some ray of hope but suppressing it in case I get disappointed.

When I saw the books' cover (all of them were book 40), I was...filled with ecstacy?

I grabbed the book off the shelf, inspected it, looked up and down the shelf to see if there were more (there were no more other than books 40, 38 and 37, which I all already have), and proceeded to the counter to pay up.

HAPPY HAPPY DAY!

Three days' update

Weird. After Ignyte service, some guy sitting two seats from me (the seat between us was empty) passed me a slip of folded up paper and told me something. I couldn't catch what he said, and asked, "What?" but he didn't hear me. He most probably told me to pass it to someone...

What was written inside was the verses in 'Psalms 100: 1-5'. I think it's notes taken from a sermon.

Anyway, today's Ignyte service was called '06.07.08', which is the date today. Ignyte Trinity @ Adam and @ Payar Lebar combined and had a service together at the Summit (L4) of Trinity @ Payar Lebar.

...And Darren was doing some weird narration thing on stage...he looked so weird in a suit and a tie...I think the tie was purple...

Then there was this person, who narrated too, who was singing about being in the army, the (some tank or something called 'something 45') very fine, when you chuck the key and ignite the engine, you have to push from behind.

Then there's another one about the food very fine, when you drop the chicken wing, your leg will break. (Because the chicken very hard...)

Anyway. There was this video comepetition. Go to 'http://www.trinity.net/IGNYTE/combined/060708/vidcomp.html' Check out V6 [Daniel Ho- PL]. Or you can just click on the links I created. It is SO hilarious.

The competition is one where Ignyters (youths who go to Ignyte service) can participate in, and their videos submitted must have the theme 'His Purpose. My Generation.' in it. That is this year's theme.

And so the V6 [Daniel Ho- PL] one won.

IT.

WAS.

SO.

FREAKING.

HILARIOUS.

XD

YAY!

Today I had lots of fun at church.

You know what? I just realized I am able to speak 5 languages!

Well, only a little of 3 of them, but in all, still 5.

English, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, French.

I'm so weird.

Anyway, on Friday, my Gym team came over to my house with me after school to work on our Gym sequence cuz' we barely got anything at all.

So we created some weird steps that were super gross (in the sick way) to us. Like dragging our hands slowly up our legs and thighs...

Ewww.....

Sad to say I created them.....

Ah well. Who cares. We finally got the sequence down!!!

Rachel, Gloria, Moira and I made a generalization:

In primary school, people like to act 'cool'. In secondary school, people like to act 'sexy'.

I think this is true. Considering what hip-hop looks like now in secondary school and what dances looked like last time in primary school.

Secondary school: Lots of hip movement, body waving, and so on.

Primary school: Wears sunglasses, copies Matrix..., do the weird Elvis Presley pointing finger thing.

Gekki dasa.

On Saturday, it was the norm. Ballet class, eat dinner. But there was one extra. I went to watch TV! It's been a long time since I watched TV after 20:30. I usually spend my time upstairs with my computer.

YAY! D&T RAWKS!

Randomness again.

But you know, D&T really was fun.

Just last week, my 'toy' looked very plain. All I did was poke two holes in a metal tube which I later painted brown, cut a gap for the switch and shape the acrylic for the cover (which had a hole in it for the melody changer. That was pretty much all I did.

So little right?

Then today, I finished painting the metal tube and even sprayed clear spray paint on it to make it shine like the morning sun pushing its way through a crack in the roof of a cave! Then I cut it to size cuz' I didn't need that big a piece of tube.

Right. You must be wondering what kind of toy I'm making.

I'm making this 'Garden Gramaphone'. The 'gramaphone' will be a flower with yellow petals. The tube was its stalk. I took my 'disk' from a disket. Well, more like my father ripped it out from the disket. Either way works.

I didn't need to make anything that spins except stick that 'disk' onto the rotating thing.

Today I added colour to my toy. Earlier, Moi Moi had asked me to severe a part of an egg shaped styrofoam from the thing itself. Since last week, I had a phobia of penknives, but I, being the kind person I am, agreed to help. (I still had the scar from the penknife incision on my left middle finger...)

After I chopped off the part (more like sawed off), I threw the unwanted piece into the bin beside the table. I was just sitting around and fooling, singing random christian songs and trying to get Zann to convert along with Rachel and Anabelle. Well, it didn't work. But it was only 2 hours or less! We couldn't do anything. Zann stood up for her own believes and didn't budge.

Oh yea, and Rachel had asked me to draw a paper boat and lily pad for her toy. I do so believe that I have never drawn either of them before, so my drawings probably looked a bit weird. The lily pad looked really, really, stupid because it was so empty thus I drew a water lily, but frankly, it was my first time drawing a water lily too... but Rachel still used them anyway. *Shrugs*

I decided to paint the stupid box of mine cuz' it looked so neglected and plain.

So I painted the whole thing brown (same brown as the tube). The wood looked really like a tree bark, or so that's what Rachel (1) said. I had already decided before that I'd paint some grass on, and Rachel had so happened to have used green paint before (to paint the lily pad), so I used that.

I didn't dilute the paint or anything, and so I drew/painted the grass at the bottom. The tips of the grass had a serious paint shortage and they looked fuzzy. But I don't care. Rachel (1) voiced her opinion: It looked like the foot of a tree.

So anyway, I decided to make a little lady bug to be my melody changer's disguise. I remembered the piece of styrofoam I threw away and dug it up from the bin. I can almost hear you say 'eww'.

Anyway, I hacked off some parts here and there and finally got a small shape (that looked nothing like a lady bug, even though I didn't take into consideration the fact that it was white). I painted it with some red paint that Anabelle had left in Rachel's (1) palette.

I decided to leave it on the piece of styrofoam I cut it out from which was originally part of Moira's certain part of her toy to dry (run on...). Then I got impatient and decided 'to the heck with all the wet paint' and picked up the paint brush and painted the black (the spots and the head).

And I left it there until the next time I picked it up.

So in the mean time, I decided to cut out petals for the flower and paint the styrofoam I used as the thing to stick all the petals on and chuck the speaker in. So I dumped my paintbrush (well, technically, it's Rachel's (1). If you ask to borrow anything from her, she'll consent...) in the brown paint I had used earlier and slathered a generous amount on the styrofoam.

As I left it to dry, I got some yellow felt from one of the teachers (the taller lady whom we consult for art stuff) and started cutting out the petals. Because super glue melts styrofoam, the teacher (same as just now) suggested using the hot glue gun.

I used them before in Art Club last Tuesday and this Tuesday, so I was pretty familiar with them, and also the pain that comes with dripping hot melted plastic on my fingers. One on the left middle finger (why is that finger always the victim?!) and my left thumb. Man. My left had is so unlucky.

So I stuck them all on the brown styrofoam thingy. It finally looked like a flower! REJOICE!

Oh yeah. And in the middle of nowhere, the teacher who we were to consult on technical stuff repremanded us for being too slack. Before that, she had come to my table and told me that I had the potential (every teacher tells me that. All kinds of them, English, Chinese, Art...blah blah blah. I think they're seriously lying) but I must unlock it.

I think she saw my terrible 1 minute drawing on a piece of paper I did with a paintbrush dripping with brown paint and was drawn towards killing me for slacking in class but resisted the urge. *;D

Oh, the picture was a guy. I painted his hair yellow...

But don't worry! The whole picture didn't waste any more than 1 1/2 minute of my time~!

And that teacher came over to my table (she was just skimming through the tables) and said that the lady bug was kinda cool, so she said that I should add two feelers (stable bullets) to it. So I did. But before that, I had to repaint the red part cuz' my hand accidentally pressed onto it and smudged the black dots.

So after I did that, I asked Moi Moi for staple bullets. Rachel (1) had but they were purple... (HAH! PURPLE!). I pressed them in and tadaa! Done. But I had to wait for it to dry.

After it dried, I spray painted it clear and shiny, then hot glue gunned it to the melody changer cuz', as I mentioned before, apparently, glue melts styrofoam.

Yeah. So basically this is my progress throughout today.

Next week I suppose I'll have an easy time...

And Rachel (1) mentioned I'm straying from the 'emo' path...that I'm less emo than I was last year...hmm...I wonder why...

Nevermind! See ya~!

ART CLUB RAWKS!

Today in Art Club, we had to paper mache our 'newspaper skeleton', which were supposed to be bloated up animals (but I did a guy and someone had planned to do a snowman...).

Kimberley and I sat next to each other. Well, more like at two sides of the table which are connected at a side (does this sound weird?).

Grace sat at opposite me at a table to my right. She was singing, "I am cow, hear me moo, I weigh twice as much as you etc."

So Kimberley and I were editting them (the song Grace sang) and creating weird stuff lah. We experimented singing with high voices and low voices.

Kimberley can go amazingly low...and I was like, wow.

Then we tried replacing the word 'cow' with another animal. There was the 'bear' version. (Kimberley made a bear, purple one, nontheless) It went:

"I am bear, hear me roar, I am lying on the floor, and lying there makes my stomach sore..."

Then I started singing 'Rudolph the Red Nose Raindeer' (don't ask why).

Kimberley decided to tweak the lyrics a little:

"Rudolph the red crust muffin
Had a very reddish crust
If you saw it with/on metal
You would even think it's rust

All of the other muffins
Used to like to call him names
Rudolph the red crust muffin
Pushed them into the flames"

So yeah, it was kinda fun lah. We kept singing and in the middle of nowhere started speaking in accents. Kimberley in some westernish cowboy voice and I did a British (or was it American) accent.

We were having a lot of fun. Then out of nowhere, I asked Kimberley if I could call her Kimberley-chan. (I was very bored...) Before that, we were randomly saying some Jap. words lah. Kimberley went, "Watashi wa Kimberley desu." (I am Kimberley)

Then we had, "Watashi wa cow desu" (I am cow) but we dunno how to say 'hear' in Jap. so we left it hanging there (hell, we didn't even know how to say 'cow'...)

Then we started calling my bag 'bag-sama', which carries the meaning of 'bag the great' or something like that. Kimberley kept calling it that and then she called me some weird thing that I couldn't help laughing like crap.

Now that I think back about it, it isn't so funny...

Anyway, Tessa Low (Mua ha's older sister by one year) was sitting 2 tables behind us and she said that she dunno why but when she see us laugh she also feel like laughing and then she laugh lor.

Then we kept up with that 'sama' and all and we called everything 'sama'. =D Technically it's an honorific so it's supposed to be used behind a noun (preferably a proper noun). Eg. Bag-sama (that refers to my bag).

Anyway, Kimberley dubbed me 'Rachelle-san-chan-kun-sensei-senpai-sama' or something like that. She name almost all the honorifics. The sequence of which I stated them is obviously wrong cuz' my memory is crap.

It goes like 'Rachelle-Miss-(something you call people close to or younger than you)-(something you call children, more commonly, boys)-teacher-senior-the great'. =D

The left out 'dono' because it meant 'lord'...and yet she called me 'sensei' and 'senpai' and 'sama'... well, I AM exactly 2 months her senior...