Thursday, July 20, 2006
leonardo da vinci maxine
NEWS! NEWS! READ ALL ABOUT IT!bandyay, mr de announced that we're definately going to Hawaii, confirmed. according to some junior, mrs loh said it herself too.
but i don't believe them.
i don't get it, one single gold and we're on the plane to Hawaii? with subsidies too. man, if it's true, then that's how shallow mrs loh is. well, i think i should be glad, but i don't think i reeally am. i think a lot of people are feeling that way too. when mr de announced it, we just went, "yayy" and it died after two seconds. or maybe cus by then, it wasn't such big news anymore. oh well, i think i'll start to get excited the day before. it's always like that, haha. march 2007. remember that.
ok, so as wardrobe mistress of st. anthony's canossian secondary school concert band, i hereby come to the conclusion that i can draw as well as leodardo da vinci. HEEE. i actually designed the band's new soon-to-be uniform, if they don't accept it, it's their BIG loss. but i just can't come to the conclusion of the colour, i really liked black and red at first, but after seeing two bands, in JUST the third division, with black and red uniforms, i think i should change the colour, but i've got no idea to what. any suggestions?
oh, and we found out that we didn't just get a 80.5 for national band competition, it was more than that, but i just can't remember what, haha.
fashionwow, i thought i had the perfect trend to set, PAPER HAIR CLIPS, well, technically they're 'hair paper clips', but 'paper hair clips' sound nicer. so anyway, i thought, and still do, think that it's like, so fun to wear paper clips as hair clips, and i've even been giving out paper clips for people to clip their hair up, but the sad part is, people don't know how to clip their hair with it. -_-" oh well, i should hold lessons on 'how to clip paper hair clips on your hair'. haha, kidding. but i must admit, i think it looks really nice on hair, haha.
i guess that's it for now, i need to bug Weelyn for the pictures..
GONE SHOPPING, 7/20/2006 10:58:00 pm
Sunday, July 16, 2006
i'M BLOGGING!
wowee. i'm blogging! imblogginimbloggingimbloggingimbloggingimbloggingimbloggingimbloggingimblogging!
ok, so what happened today was the FIRST NATION BAND COMPETITION, 15th of July 2006. i shall remember this day. and like, one month ago, it was the Jamie Cullum concert. and the next 15th of the month is... oh, ok nevermind, haha, it's Amanda's birthday, hahaha.
ok, well, on to NBC, i think we made some mistakes and the most obvious one of all, we forgot to do the fp, the forte then piano thingy, and it was like, supposed to be our 'grand' finish la. then everyone was like, aiya, silver la silver. but i was kinda proud of the clarinet section for not squeaking, ALL the other bands after us had squeaked a lot. yeah! go clarinets! i think our first piece was good though, our second one was like shit. haha.
then in the bus, we were like, reaching school already, then kwan yee who was sitting beside me was sleeping (as usual) and i was listening to my ipod, i wasn't even sleepy! wow, well anyway, suddenly there was this loud shrieking and screaming and the first thing that came to my mind was "wahliao, so irritating la". and they were really screaming even louder than my ipod (which was blasting quite loudly, teehee). then i tried to think of why they were screaming and i was like, maybe something good happened! we got a gold?! and i quickly pulled my earplugs off and heard them screaming "GOLD! GOLD!". after a really long time, kwan yee woke up. i have no idea how she managed to wake up so slowly, haha, i think i would have probably jumped out of my seat or something.
so, one tiny tippy toe step to us being able to go overseas. the mark to get a gold is 80, and we got like, 80.5. haha, but it's still a gold la, good enough. don't kill me but honestly, i don't feel anything? haha, well, i tried my reallyreally bestbest not to squeak and to rmb all the accents and dynamics and blah, but i think i would have probably felt the same if we got a silver, but just maybe a little more hopeless cus i'm kinda tired of getting silvers.
so i rushed home and then went for warden duty at church, we didn't have to do it in the end cus it was youth mass and some other people were going to do it. then it finished at 7 and i was lucky enough to get a cab when i stepped out of church to go to Victoria Theatre for the dance concert. i think i just got cheated of my money, from Tampines to there, it would be about a 20min ride, and it was more than 30 mins. and i remember that i didn't recognise where we were going and i saw a clark quay MRT station on my way, the damn cabbie must have taken a big round. i didn't know the way so i did't dare say anything but i knew that it was getting a bit too long. i feel like i just got robbed, which technically i did.
came late and missed the first two dances, i really wanted to see them too cus someone said that the first one was really great, and i wanted to see the second one cus there were dance curriculum girls in it.
nevermind. the performances were great, the indian dances so totally spoiled it la, i mean like, that was not a racist comment. i think indian dances can be great, at the SYF in the heartlands thing, i liked the indian dance, haha, and i thought the children were kinda cute too. but yeah, this one was just plain boring.
then after the concert, we went to walk around looking for a place to eat, but there were a lot of chinese seafood restaurants and pubs. bleah, so we walked and we walked and we walked until we reached a dead end at riverside point, haha. we didn't want to walk back cus it was so FARRR away, and then, we were officially lost. finally, we found an mrt station and made our way home. yay. we took a whole lot of crap photos but i don't have them so when i get them, i shall post them.
yeah.
GONE SHOPPING, 7/16/2006 12:53:00 am
Saturday, July 08, 2006
so say we all
lalala, i've been reading Xiaxue and Mrbrown and i noticed that bloggers don't exactly have the best job in the world. Mrbrown had just been suspended from his column in the Today newspaper because he wrote
this article, and some press secretary dude had a problem with it and wrote a letter saying it's partisan. so Mrbrown did
this podcast. pretty smart i must say, but it still doesn't help anything, and now his income has decreased from the already low (i think) income which he receives. and to think he probably wrote that article to... i don't know, prove that the government is over-taxing. it's kinda ironic. and well, for Xiaxue, she's always getting critisized up, down, left, right and centre, always getting one of her sponsors to not sponsor her anymore and stuff.
not an easy job.
in Mrbrown's case, i guess he just think the government could inprove, like a hell lot. his podcasts are always making fun of what the government is doing and stuff, but nonetheless, he still loves Singapore which is quite obvious in his 'I am Singaporean' podcasts. unless he is being seriously sarcastic and just have no money to migrate, and thus force to love Singapore. which, come to think of it, is actually quite possible because i don't think Mrbrown is very well-off.
and Xiaxue just simply doesn't like those typical Singaporeans such as those loud talking, phelm spitting lao ahpeks who give a bad name to Singapore, and also people who hate Singapore. but she still really likes to live in Singapore by looking at her 'they hate Singapore' posts under 'the infamous' part on the right side of her blog.
and i think the most patriotic person i've ever
met is my senior, Denise. and i would really like to be patriotic to my country like
this dude but i honestly have no reason to like Singapore. all i like about it is that it's
safe
clean
quite modernised
and that's about it? i don't like the people (except my friends), but then again, i don't even like a lot of people from school. okay, honestly, i'm biased against normal girls cus they're soo... can i say Singaporean? there's a fine line between them and express girls but yeah, i guess there are quite a few girls from express which are somewhat like them and all. in other words, normal streamed girls are irritating, but irritating girls are not normal streamed. it doesn't really matter if you don't get it, i don't think i am talking rubbish but i think it might be kinda confusing. and also, i've heard a lot of tourists say that Singaporeans are nice. man, i could have laughed out loud right there and then. okay, maybe those people working at the esplanade and stuff and nice, but you hardly see any nice people in your everyday context. hardly any hawker stall holders are nice, NONE of the busdrivers are nice and it's a miracle if a taxi driver doesn't scold you for anything under the sun. and all this hullabaloo about 'gems', those hot pink thank you cards and what rubbish.
and i know i can't and probably never will appreciate the government because i don't feel as if i've benefitted anything from them. in fact, the more i think about it, the more i feel scared shit of the future. even now, we are already stressing so much about what we're going to do and all. fail maths, ITE also dowan you. fail english, ITE also dowan you. fail whatever, ITE also dowan you. that's scary. i hear those motivation stuff all the time, like "if you set your mind to it, you can succeed". i want to succeed but i don't really believe it because if you look at it, there are many VERY talented people and VERY smart people in the world but they end up doing what? some odd job or waitressing or something. my mother has this employee who went to some good school and studied in Australia and she's got a degree or bachelor in lalala, but now, she's struggling to juggle three jobs to support herself.
i know i was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, i used to cry over play doh and my mother would always say, "it's okay, don't need to cry. we can just buy more." i have no idea why i'm not a spoilt brat now. no, i am not one, surprise surprise. but yeah, people may go "aiya, why worry? parents rich mah". but someday, this money's going to be gone and then what am i going to do? but by the way, i don't plan on living on my parent's fortune at all, well, that is until i go out and work.
oh man, i think this post is kinda depressing, but i just wanted to show how much i don't really like the Singapore government. oh well, i guess this would probably the last of its kind cus i just realised that saying it all out is probably worse than keeping it to yourself, it kinda rubs it in i guess.
GONE SHOPPING, 7/08/2006 01:00:00 am
