"Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer."

ah i'm back.

Some days back, when i was online, a friend i hadn't spoken to in a long while started talking to me, and it was like this:

Friend: Hey i took a screenshot, could you tell me what this problem is?

..and there was an attachment.

I tried opening it, but norton wouldn't let me. instead of taking the hint, i changed some settings and opened it, cos i was absolutely certain that my friend wanted me to have a look at it.

When i finally opened it, it was disaster. The virus started sending itself to everyone who was online, saying things like "Have a look at my vacation pictures!", "This person looks just like you!" and "Have a look at this picture and tell me if it's good enough for myspace!".

The worst thing was, i couldnt even see all the msn windows that had been opened cos a lot of people were online. I was scared the com would hang but luckily it didn't. I finally managed to close all the invisible windows, but more kept opening cos people were telling me they couldnt open it [smart people who listen to their anti-virus programmes], and poor May opened it! i apologised to everyone who was talking to me and quickly restarted windows.

Then i scanned the com for viruses, and thankfully norton got rid of it [it was probably going"ha i told you!"]. and i deleted it from my received files folder.

Sorry if you got it! especially may! i hope your com's ok!

Argh goodness knows what that virus went around telling everyone. Sorry people.

I wish i could use my common sense more often. I KNOW about stuff like this. Dunno why i went and opened it.

[and i really should trust technology more.]


on a happier note, PW's over! =D

I really have to thank my wonderful group for holding on till the end. We were the 'crisis' group a week and a half or so before submission of the WR. We needed an emergency plan of action, so all 5 of us skipped physics prac [oh shucks i need to get the skill D worksheet] and planned out a whole new WR, which involved scrapping most of the old one. We were completing the WR all the way till wednesday evening, and good ol' laura and jared went to print and bind it. Ok, there were a couple of mistakes and all, but it was pretty good =] and mr chang says we have some chance =S [though i dunno what he thinks we have a chance of]. and OP was much much better! apart from a sweeping statement (lol), it was all very good, and laura, you were good even though you werent holding your script! and our skit and video and brochures and posters were all pretty good too =]

so, laura, reuben, wenjun and jared, thanks loads! we didnt have any conflicts or anything and though we had quite a few bad moments [even at the end, when we discovered that one of the I&R's hadnt been page numbered so all the pages had to be re-numbered], we pulled through and WE'RE FINALLY DONE! =)


P.S. I'm addicted to Boys Like Girls! especially Heels Over Head and Thunder! Thanks, you.

burning bridges making wishes

It's hard to imagine that this time next year, we'll be sitting for the A-levels.

All the best, j2s [though if you're reading this, GO STUDY.]!
And all the best to dhevy and pushpa too! you'll get your A1s!

I really don't feel like blogging any more. Ever. But i'll try to finish this post.

Do you know how buses are numbered? I've always wondered about it. Is it random, or is it according to the places the bus services?

I'm feeling better about OP than about the WR. [see this is why i can't blog, i keep skipping to different topics and never stay for long on any one thing.]

Ok i think i owe a few people birthday presents. Don't worry you'll get them soon enough =]

vai: YES!! gosh it's been ages since we ran!
sneha: hey! oh hmm nope i didn't get them.. if it's problematic, you can just send them to me over msn =] thanks!

end.

Impulse post.

There's a very simple way to stay happy.
Don't expect anything from anyone except yourself.
Then, even the smallest things they do make you happy =]
Like saying thank you, or holding a door open, or just smiling.
And the best thing is, this kinda happiness is enough to make my day.

Thank you, for all those little things you guys do =].

Degeneration

[This is not poetry. It's a story. Kinda.]

There was once a Sun, strong and active,
Who would race across the skies everyday.
People admired him, because he was assertive,
At his daily call, Life to earth would stray.
But now, there's only a lonely, tired Sun left,
Who roams the skies in vain, searching
and searching, for something to mend the rift,
Between him and his human hatchlings,
Who gossip about his not roaming, but staying in one place,
While they children do all the work as they go round and round him,
Hurling insults about how he darkens each fair face.
About how he tears through the protective ozone film
[As though that's his fault]. And that's not the end,
Now they're talking about what should be his substitute,
When he finally burns out, unable to defend
His noble cause of bringing life to earth, which none can refute.
And after he burns out, his hatchlings will turn on each other,
Killing names and reputations before the person is dead,
And all good memories will be lost and there won't be a shoulder
To lean on. And the blood will bathe everything in red.
Perhaps then, the last memory of this world will be
The beautiful sunset that by then, none will see.

Farewell Assembly

I've been getting a lot of ideas lately.




Someone should program a handphone alarm that only switches off after you type in a number code, and this code should change everytime you set the alarm. So you actually have to wake up and turn it off, instead of just subconsciously pressing the 'off alarm' key.



When people upgrade their phones, and it's the same model, they should be given the option of reusing the old phone's battery. It's such a pity to waste it.






Ahh man i can't remember the rest. Nevermind they'll come back to me.

Today was farewell assembly. The house comm drama was so funny! Nazri and Althea were really good. =] Jo and Fang Lin say we need more people for inter-house floorball. Yay!

Today morning was really tiring cos i had a PW meeting right after farewell assembly, which means i couldn't mass dance =( then there was the seminar right after that, and the CCA leaders' briefing right afer that, and lincon's birthday celebrations right after that.

I couldn't finish making all the notes by today so i'll have to give them to the j2s when they next come to school. It's gonna be really sad next year when they aren't there, cos this year we bonded close. Really close, in my opinion.

I'm glad today was a fun day, not a day of tears. Street soccer (though i wasn't playing- i didn't bring a tshirt), people hurting their feet and cramping their muscles (and the massages that followed), the mass bubbletea orders (poor amoudtha and prema), the talking (oh boy, lots of this), the teasing (always happens), the dancing (and attempts at learning and taking of videos and admiring reuban and sundar 'cos sharrvesh refused to dance), watching tomorrow's open house dancers, the photos, the trying to climb the big gate with a skirt on (nope, didn't work) and the smiles.

Sneha, if you're reading this, send me the videos and pictures please =] thanks loads!

Twerp, eh no, twit: happy birthday. =)

(I just HAVE to get the hand-wound music player with the tune Chariots of Fire. I'm in love with it =] )

As the ocean opens up to swallow you.

Did you feel the tremors?

I was at home when it happened, the whole building was swaying for more than a minute and all things suspended, like ornaments and framed jigsaw puzzles were swinging about wildly. This isn't the first time my block has experienced the swaying, but my initial reacton was that i was getting really giddy and unable to keep balance.

Actually, a building that sways more is less likely to fall, according to engineers who all "declined to be named". Something to do with the building storing up all the energy and toppling if it can't sway.

Oh well.

I guess it's back to superposition and organic chem and integration [oh how i loathe those].

I won't be here until 2 weeks later, unless i get nastily distracted. So spam my tagboard with words of anger if i update before September 28th.


Twit: YOU WISH MAN. haha =D

it's the start of the week but i'm incoherent already.

"Basically a good girl, but with a streak of badness. =)"

(and what else do you expect from a penknife-carrying person who wishes she had a switchblade instead.)

I wish this post didn't have to be so short, but i forgot what i came here for, and i've got an essay to complete [start, actually] plus those things i try to keep at the back of my mind are coming too close to ignore. 11 days till it begins. actually, 18 days till it ends =]





thank goodness one programme's done. "another year down". =] thanks for being my 24-hr hotline.

and thanks to dhevy too, for the one-and-a-half-hour talks on the phone, and everything else.

and to akanksha, for the 'therapeutic hugs'.

and anushiya, for your jacket.

Studying in the Library

Sitting on the plastic hard-backed chair at the brown table facing the bookcases with a thick file in front of me and a new wad of ruled paper threatening to break the file's spine, I'm about to sneeze because I'm catching a cold when I notice a book on the top-most shelf of the second bookcase from the right, which is lying on its spine because it's too tall to fit otherwise and has interesting drawings on the back cover that's facing me, causing me to wonder if that book is a huge comic book before realising that it can't be because it's the wrong section, and I get more curious and more curious, trying to figure out what those drawings are but they're too far away to make out, and after gaping for a while, the sneeze momentarily forgotten, I start wondering when I'll ever stop.

Get up.

And go take a look at the book.

Then I sneeze, and I look back down at the brown table facing the bookcases and the thick file before me and the new wad of ruled paper;

Hoping for something else to distract me soon.