Birthdays, Surprises and (Mostly) a Whole Lot of Fun.

That's what my holidays were made of.

Then there were the bomb blasts. =( I hate terrorists.

Holidays also involve a whole lot of cooking and cleaning and clearing cockroaches. (Alliteration!) My sis and I just sprayed and swept away one. But that's besides the point.

It hardly seems like just two weeks since my last paper on the 19th. Went to my sister's hostel at NUS the next day to look around and help her pack. Stayed over one night, and made the disastrous trip back home. Disastrous because all her luggage and many many pairs of shoes and business suits (she's a business student and needs different kinds for different occasions) weighed a TON. It looked as if we were going on a trip to the ends of the world. When we finished hauling everything into the taxi, there was about 1/3 of the passenger seat left for both of us to squeeze in. =D

Dad was already overseas, and Mum was going on Saturday so sis and I helped her pack, and sent her off at the airport after music class.

Watched Body of Lies on Sunday, it was pretty interesting. About how you never know who to trust when you're an American spy working in the Middle East.

Went to Escape on Tuesday- the most interesting thing was the group of friends I went with =D

Finally managed to get my hands on The Kite Runner! Can't wait to start it once i finish the book i'm on now.

Then the party on Friday at simran's beautiful house! SIMMERRRRR was going crazy planning the thing. But we're the Greats, remember sim? haha. It was great fun, the birthday babies were truly surprised, i think (which is great, considering how news generally spreads so fast). And it was wonderful meeting everyone again after so long. We had ICS Farewell on the same day too, wow I can't believe it's really over. Thanks for the gift, juniors! ICS 07 -08 was awesome =]

I've bought contact lenses again, finally, after six months of wearing specs. Just in time for Prom. Tomorrow night! =D I just get irritated by the getting-ready part. Like the whole art of putting on make-up. Which I doubt i'll ever master, not that I want to anyway. It's all quite irritating and like a mask. Literally.

Gonna meet D and RnB this week too, hopefully =] This should be fun. And reema! I haven't forgotten the treat I owe you!

Now that there's no need to feel guilty for not doing work, I've finally had the chance to talk to more people- people I hadn't talked to in a while or people I'd hardly talked to before, like Likai. He's a very interesting person to talk to. I was talking to him about death in an email conversation, and one of the lines from his reply is this:

Live life as if you believe you will die, not just aware that you will die, but with the conviction and interest that you will die. From this, decide.


There's still a lot of catching-up with a lot of friends to do though =] Not to mention many belated/upcoming birthday cards that need sending out. I haven't even given Dhevy her letter yet, and her birthday is in July =S sorry girl.

Ok, more interesting updates next time. I've gotta go practise walking in heels for tomorrow so I don't end up twisting an ankle. (Sigh.)

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Airtel is a cellphone service provider in India. The music is by A.R.Rahman, often called the Mozart of India.

"So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star."

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

"...trees that had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams."

"In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."

"Her grey eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her."

"He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the light was upon the barely-formed grass."

(Do pardon me if they aren't perfect quotes, I didn't check the book.)

I love The Great Gatsby! My favourite of the three H2 texts. Gatsby, and that unquenchable optimism of his that borders on naivity, are so memorable and endearing. The H1 paper wasn't too good, halfway during the unseen question, when I was stuck, I had the irresistable urge to go and read the other extracts, from the books that other schools did. Luckily, the urge wasn't as irresistable as I'd feared.

The unseen question was answered so-so, there wasn't anything special about it =( the Great Expectations essay was satisfactorily done. The Duchess essay, horror of horrors, was unfinished! Managed to squeeze out 2 sides in 30 mins, thankfully it's the last essay so the examiner won't have a bad impression when he/she starts marking.

I'm looking forward to the H2 paper! It should be quite enjoyable.



"It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms out further... And one fine morning -
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."





[Someone posted a comment on an entry I'd written last year, thanking me for it. That made me happy.]

Hands in my pocket and my head in the clouds.

KI and Maths are over. Completely.


You know you didn't do them well when you feel like studying and taking them again. Oh well, can't do anything about it now.

Physics and Chem and Lit left, hope they turn out better!

And happy 1st end-of-pw anniversary, people! (actually it was on the 6th.)
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I was looking for something in a cupboard I hadn't opened in a long time, and I found a sketchbook of mine my mother made me when I was in K1! I'd spelt it "Scech Book" though. Reading all those stories I'd written was hilarious. I wonder if I can find the book where I used to write nonsensical poems. (I made up words if I couldn't find a word that rhymed.)

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Can't wait for the 19th!


Just remembered a joke of Reuben's.

Jagraj or someone was saying he's only a H1-er. For chem. And reuben said, "According to Hess' Law, H1 = H2 + H3. Haha!