Finally finally finished my Project Work.After sleeping at 2 am for the past few days.Reason why it is so rushed is because a week ago...

Reason: You have a MUN conference, an oral presentation and an I&R draft due soon, which one is more important?
Me: None!
Went off to watch movies on my laptop.

But still, PW is finally over!

Went to an faculty outing yesterday. YJ and P danced crazily for at least 5 songs. The rest of us had a fun time too, taking pictures of them. And then we went out for coffee afterwards. We walked through a crowded mall, and P was holding her shoes, staggering a little, and everyone was talking very loudly.
J was like, keep it down guys, we are not drunk.
P: (very loudly) I'm not drunk! (and lurched forward)
All the passer-bys were staring at us.

Going back to Taiwan soon. Anne and YJ are going there too!

Another massively screwed-up day. A day when I wish that everyone, the teacher, my classmates, and myself, can just stop talking and let me crawl under the table. Or hide in the com lab.(Which is not where I am now, btw. I am at Mac, drinking coffee, happy that the school network is not monitoring my computer. Applepies are kind of nice:))

Today started well enough. I lugged my laptop to school, prepared to work on my speech with my group members, happy that today will not be the day where I have to go to the com lab to do work and then miss everything and everyone.

The good thing about my group is that we do not have an authoritative group leader who boss us around.The not so good thing is that there are period of absolutely no communication, we make plans and do not stick to them, and sometimes we have no idea what we, everyone and ourselves, are doing.

I wouldn't feel so bad if everyone were not acting so nonchalantly(Oh, hey, you are here) because now I have no idea angry or annoyed or disgusted they are by all these mistakes and misunderstanding.

Just earlier I had been thinking, yay I might have more friends.

On a brighter note, talking to C this morning was nice.

P.S. I used to rant less on this blog. Well, I suppose I'll be happier once the presentation is over.

P.P.S: I also used to ask for comments. Realised this while deleting some of my more embarrassing old posts. Now I don't, because as you can tell from the grammar boy story, it is, well...

Sudden rearranged lessons are worse than no lessons. I was late for every lesson yesterday because I had no idea that there were lessons. And during one of those mad rushes to class I fell down. It's kind of YJ's fault. Just because you can leap down four steps does not mean that everyone else can do so, and you should let go of someone's hand before you jump.

I think my project work group mates are pissed at me. Communication and coordination, it's all about (the need for and lack of) communication.

But I'm happy now because we finally submitted our report and there's only the presentation left. So much more free time to read and write and watch movies. And now I am eating chocolate:)And Ice-cream with DM and RX later.

A...weird encounter

My recent schedule in school has now reached the epitome of boredom. A talk from 8-9. Then no lesson until 3.30-4.30. And around the same schedule for this whole week.

I had actually been looking forward to normal lessons after the past week of, well, at least it was called post exam activities. And it was quite fun. And contained ice cream.

Now, a whole week of no lesson. (I suspect that one day, when I am buried under tons of homework and stress, I will look back on this post and call myself an ungrateful something)

Hey, not as though I have nothing to do now. I have a volunteering form to fill, an email to reply to, a short story competition to participate in, three story ideas that I need to magically conjure up by 26 oct, and a conference to prepare. And project work, which has been haunting me day and night. I think we had never work this hard before from the start of the year.

Now,a game, spot the grammatical error in the above.

More background on that: Earlier this morning, when I was typing out the post in the school com lab which is not exactly private, the guy sitting next to me said suddenly,you have a grammar error.

I did not jump, to my credit. But I stared at him for several seconds to confirm that he is talking to me, and maybe for clues as to why he was reading over my shoulder in the first place. Nope, his face was expressionless. So I turned back to my computer, started reading the first few words, and found that I cannot concentrate,because it's so freaking embarrassing and maybe he is continuing to read the rest of the post and how am I supposed to calm down and find a grammatical error while it means letting him continue to read.  So I did the only thing I could, other than press the shut down button(no way,I finally got a spot in the very crowded computer lab), I hit the publish button. Then, with a glance back to the guy(no reaction whatsoever), I started to read legitimate looking articles by Matt P--. If I could whistle innocently, I would.

Well, at least he hasn't seen my url. But that doesn't mean he cannot find my blog. Eek:(

Shall stop thinking about it and go for coffee now.

Yay!

Exams are over. Holidays and free time all the way until next year! As usual, all the story ideas, movies to watch, books to read that I have been thinking about (during times when I am supposed to be studying) have suddenly lost their appeal. (Is there such thing as post-exam blues? Especially when you are thinking about your results?)

Anyway, when I finished the last paper I was shivering(seriously, my teeth was chattering) and hungry, and I had drank about 350 ml of water. Drinking water helps me to think.For this exam, I wrote two of the longest essays I had ever written. Three and a half sides. Says something about my lack of writing speed, doesn't it? YJ wrote 6 sides, average!

 Then had a very nice lunch with YJ and P. A very satisfying, filling lunch. The lemon tea was served in a vase-sized container.(Poke a hole through the lemon, said P. YJ, being YJ, immediately started laughing.) I never had a serving size of so much macaroni before. And free mango pudding! I feel kind of full now.Maybe because we talked too much. About our various writing postures(and me taking off my shoes during exam), holiday trips(YJ is kind of amazed at my impending airplane trip alone back to Taiwan and 5 hr bus trip. But she went to Hong Kong by herself.)  about future jobs(pilots and warzone reporter?) and finally, us not really taking care of our pets(P's hamster eating her own little hamsters. YJ forgetting to feed hers for an entire term).

 What to do now? Tumblr, I guess. Rewatch Captive. Reread Outlaws Inc. Finish my 6 library books. Finish  the uncountable unfinished stories. Write out the many story ideas that are somewhere in my head.

Wait, there's project work.

Life in general

For one terrifying moment(no, for several terrifying moments) I thought I would have to redo my Eom. On the day of the deadline.

5 more days till exam. The Exam(still hasn't forgotten how scary it was last year). Was quite proud that I started studying 11 days before the exam, and then I realized that everyone has studied more than me.

Also, podcasts are too addictive. Under the guise of listening to music while studying.

Right, study now.

Am Very Pleased With Myself

 Because I actually completed a story! Two, in fact.

Ok, granted that there were short stories(4500 and 900 words respectively), and I was forced to finish them, but hey, first stories finished since sec (3?)

And by some miracle, someone liked those stories enough to select me. Wow. Am still kind of amazed at that, one month later.

P.S: Spent ten minutes self-censoring all the sensitive information in my blog.

untitled for now

Today is one of those days when everything you do seem to be an embarrassment.

You want to do the correct thing but you don't know how.

You can only hope that not too many people notice you floundering and failing.

And I still have to dance later.

I'm back

What have I done?

Oh, hi there. First post in this year. Only one post last year.

So, this year, new school, new environment, new classmates. Really unfamiliar classmates, who will surelly be loud and opinionated and super smart. Just hope that they won't be too proud or mean. Feel kind of inferior.(Ok, must be more confident)

But what have I done? Why did I want to go to an arts stream? (Future kinda bleak) Subject combi is geog, lit(Yay!), econs(I wasn't going to take econs! I promised myself I wasn't going to take econs oh crap) and h2 math(yup, what the hell was I thinking?). What else can I take, anyway? CSE(A rate too low) KI(nothing against it. But it's hard! Harder than Math.) the choice is between Math and KI and CSE. Replace econs with CSE? Anyway, I think econs is interesting. And easier to score.

Math and KI? Well, one can be studied, the other cannot. Guess which I choose.

But I want to take history!(cold war and UN= cool) But then it will include history of SEA which I just can't memorise properly, sadly.

Enough crapping already. Am wondering when will my friends(except Anne, of course) find out about my crazy subject choices. Arts stream, huh, and all my friends are science stream ppl. But I get to go home earlier! And no lab session! I'm really giving up bio. Feels so weird. Really really weird. Hope it's the right decision.

And I lost V's nametag. It's not lost per se, I know where it is.(At home. Somewhere in that pile of things.) So...I'm making her new one. It's called lend one and get back two free.