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yesterday was ma birthday yay! mum gave me this GORGEOUS johnny depp biography which is so doubly pretty coz it's johnny depp plus hardcover hahha. ethel made me a really preeeetty funny, and pretty and funny card with the help of ikea and terry pratchett books :D yayness, and jeli got me teddy and aly some craft stickers which i can put on my cards.. so i'm probably going to use them for mum's which i have to do asap coz it's on monday.

sushi buffet for dinner yesterday :) somewhere in bras basah and it was sooo nice, we ordered plate after plate of sashimi hahha and chawanmushi and some tempura and softshelled crab and yummyness like that.. that was so nice, even though we got back pretty late coa we had to send jie back to campus which took like forever then i had to finish the teacher day gifts

coz teachers' day was today! so very ultra fun. . this is the only day the teachers actually look forward too haha, argh wish i took a picture of ms k's card coz i really liked that one, but never mind, it was just a funkier rendition of ethel's birthday one. the celebration was such a laugh! my cheeks are like unbelievably sore from laughing so much from yesterday as well as today, i can only manage a weak smile now heh heh

and lunch at han's was so good too! yay for alyssa for bringing us there :D hadn't had a proper western for like yonks so the dory was like reaaally yum, and there was this little boy who liked jeli haha and i think we forgot about our dessert but never mind, it was so worth it anyway.. ethel managed to make it coz we ended earlier than expected (rare, but it happens) and her tuition only started at like 3 anyway.

then i unwound from the week for the rest of the afternoon; methinks this is the perfected recipe:

1. have a shower, warm (or cold if you're crazy)
2. turn the aircon on (but only if you've not used it for the past two days, we have to keep the earth green people!)
3. snuggle under the covers, but make sure curtains are drawn but the room isn't too dark (this is so it's easier for step number 5)
4. engage in a relaxing activity like reading (gone with the wind for me) or watching a movie if you're privileged enough to have a tv in your room. n.b this does not include bellowing orders to younger siblings from your bed even though some dominant ones may find that relaxing
5. when your eyes get too tired go to bed! hooray!!

here's a compo i did just now, comment please

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Colours

It was time for Christmas shopping! Little Megan could not wait; her mother was bringing her for the very first time to accompany her. She gleefully bounced into the car, full of anticipation and excitement that made her unable to keep still. Her mother had dressed her up all in green and called her Santa’s little helper. Brimming over with happiness, Megan bore her title with pride.

On the way, she pressed her button nose against the frosted window, captivated by the glittering white snow on the streets. Green tinsel hung from every lamppost, set off to perfection with robustly red poinsettias. Even to her five year old self, Megan knew she would never forget today. Swirling gusts of a shimmering breeze made the roads seem so magical, sweeping a shower of snowflakes onto Megan’s window. Entranced by its blue-white beauty she put her finger against the glass, and it melted, its glitter and shine lost.

Festivity was in the air, as they reached the main street. Groups of chattering shoppers huddled and huffed, their cheeks rosy and pink in excitement, donned in gaudy red and green knitted sweaters that were acceptable only during this season. Peals of laughter, as genuine as gold, jingled like bells all over. A jolly Santa decked out in crimson and white frosting ho-ho-ho-ed from across the street. Above all the sounds of merry-making, a calm, soothing Christmas carol drifted through the wintry air.

Megan could barely take it all in. With wide-eyed amazement, she stared all around her, grasping her mother’s red glove through her own green mitten. Soft yellow lights glowed enticingly to from the shops, and customers in every colour imaginable (and unimaginable) hustled and bustled past the little girl, who saw only a kaleidoscope of hues, swirling around her like a rainbow.

In her excitement she let go of her mother’s hand, immediately sorry of her action, and immediately overwhelmed by the crowd. Megan panicked, turning around and around. The beautiful kaleidoscope of before became dizzyingly sharp – too focused, too glaring. Pushing her way through the throng of legs to find a space, Megan found herself, with a sensation of dread, on the snowy main street.

In that moment Megan heard a scream which she recognised as her mother’s, above all the loud cheerfulness, and also an indistinct rumbling. She whipped around to see her mother, whey faced, her mouth opened to a black ‘O’. At the corner of her eye she saw a blue blur and the rumbling became a blaring honk that echoed through the street. Megan saw a myriad of coloured stars exploding like before her eyes like fireworks, which all dissolved into an inky darkness, not feeling her little body fly across the air and landing hard on the icy road.

Blearily her eyes opened a little, fuzzy images swam before her, a blue and red sire light spun like a carousel before her. It made her fell sick, and Megan fazed happily into the comfortable blackness again.

A sterile white light pierced her eyes and through masked eyes pale green blurs that were nurses flitted here and there around her. Megan suddenly remembered the green tinsel from somewhere, and red flowers and yellow glows. The memory warmed her, comforted her. A Christmas carol began to play softly in her ear, and Megan was filled with a peace that enveloped her entire being. At ease, Megan smiled and allowed the montage of colours to lull her into her very last sleep.

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ok, i am soooo not playing monopoly late at night anymore.. we played again last night, starting at 10 and we only finished at like 1.30. i got up first this morning coz it's hard to sleep in when you know your prelims are only in a few days..so when i came down the stairs mum was very shocked. hmph

got all my formats sorted, going to write compos later.. yesterday was such a good day until the end when we got lit back. if not for that it would've been brilliant coz chem and a maths and english was all pretty good.

i still can't believe english is on monday.

yikes, teachers' day at the end of the week.. haven't finished all this things yet, maybe i'll just give to 2 instead of 3, meh. i'll see if i have time
did lit today, not sure if i have the hang of it, but i guess we'll see in what is it, 16 days time? schiezen or however you spell it.

jo's in the midst of choosing her options now, which i find is so cool coz i only did that once, for macleans but i didn't get to do it here.. choosing options are so fun :)

jie's back for the weekend which means major cleaning up of everything in sight on the table, except that the room becomes messier when she comes back (she's probably going to protest at this) coz of all the stuff that comes back with her. ya.

going to read gone with the wind soon.. to get nice phrases and stuff.. makes me feel sort of guilty though, that studying for english can be so fun. i'm going full blown (i was going to say bull flown) on english this weekend. i really can't wait for the holidays, going to max out my time, no excuses this time.

birthday soon. PITY ETHEL CAN'T MAKE IT FOR LUNCH. she'd rather blow me off and meet her tutor. hmph

hmph. so i took off the song coz it sounded like the guy was having a major spitting fest. THANK YOU VERY MUCH ETHEL FOR ENLIGHTENING ME WITH SUCH A VIVID DESCRIPTION, i don't think i'll ever listen to that song the same way again. moo. and it's a nice song too

anyway, dreamt about dear curry last night, that she fell out of a tree. yea but that was just odd

jeli has an unreasonable amount of jackets. we live in a tropical island. nuff said

GREY'S TONIGHT! yay, even though i'm not watching.. it's just nice to have around to discuss now that prison break is overr.. well not really but i'm sure my arm is going to be bruised every time i mention sarah to ravynaaaa

w0otwo0t got e maths back and i missed out by 1 miserly mark! ngh, i supposed i look at it all positive and stuff, i am happy don't get me wrong but just a bit miffed that's all.. you know i think it's best that i stick to 3rd person narration during compositions coz 1st person is going to remind myself too much of blogging.

had a DISC testy thingy today! still a CS (lewis, joann, not siwel), haven't changed since june surprise surprise.. but we get to get (get to get?) a 30 page analysis thing after the prelims with is very cool. yup

the scary thing is that that will in just a month's time. yea, like the prelims are in just less than 20 days. yep. hm. twiddles thumbs. nargh i keep wanting to read gone with the wind but there isn't enough tiiiime. well there fully is but you knowww...

anyway chapel was good today, ethel's dad spoke :)

common tests have started, almost over now ..

yesterday was a terrible day, we had lit, sos, geog and then english o level oral which was ok i guess? they kept prompting me even though i didn't need it, i paused to take a breath and then they bombarded me with questions. oh well

yea so it must have been pretty brain draining coz i got home and had a headache.. after i was so glad the oral was over and banging around on the piano and eating a whole cadbury crunchie bar. yup. my sister says it was the crunchie bar that did it but i think it's just coz it was hers. HEH yea so i hardly ate last night at dinner and i went to bed at 8 coz i was just so tired and my head was pounding

so today was maths and a maths, and i feel incredibly dumb now coz of the stupid unit vectors but oh well.. i should do reasonably well even though i was aiming for the possibility of an all right. that was coz ms kay said i 'must get' it but yea, i'm all for aiming high but it's just annoying when you don't get it when you actually could have.

fizzchem on monday. ack, i don't care i'm going to get my hair cut tomorrow, my fringe is annoying me.

i'm quite happy, today actually coz it's raining and i'm pretty content and it's just so good, everything's so great. yup joyful.

what is forgiveness? how do you forgive? how do you know when you forgive?

to forgive is to grant pardon without harboring resentment, says dictionary.com but as usual it's easier said than done.

big day tomorrow, going to sleep soon.. yay for brands at least. more worried for my oral than anything coz i actually went to get help for that and it is the proper o level one.. yea, but jie gave me this verse and said i shouldn't worry "for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say." luke 12 verse 12

david copperfield is really nice. yea.

ethel's word of the day: whimsical (describing herself)

for goodness sake what on earth is wrong with you?!? ARGH

had to write a narrative today, my plot was quite weak, but if i get a alrightish grade i'll put it up.. the title was conscience, which was quite tough.. i just hope it didn't sound too cheesy. or cheezy.

i like cheese, i finished what was left of the cheddar cheese block yesterday with mum's help coz she was wrapping it up in foil to keep but then she dropped it in her brown rice tea so then i HAD to finish it.. but cheese and crackers with grapes on top is very nice, but maybe not so much with the brown rice tea flavour

i also banged my knee on the drawer knob, hard. and it's the shape of a fork so of course i rammed my knee into the prongs side of it so now i have 3 vertical stab marks on my knee. mum says i got bitten by a vampire with a dental problem, jeli said it looks like a caterpillar

went to macs for lunch today, had a good laugh over like everything, and i was in constant danger of ethel spitting out her drink on me coz she was laughing so much and i was sitting opposite her.

ca's coming up, social studies, lit, geog and english oral on thursday. then the mathss on friday, sciences on monday. hums. i think i'm getting the hang of relative velocity, but i'm puzzled by miss kay's expression today.

anyway, i'm kinda glad i'm not taking chinese now, but then i'm not coz it's disadvantageous and all that.. but the scary bit was the getting back of the marks yesterday, and that was just one paper.. can't imagine how getting all of my o levels at the same time will be. gulps. but i just can't wait for it to be over, and i'm quite satisfied now coz i managed to type the whole previous sentence without looking at the keyboard. so yea,

going to do a maths now.. cedar paper here i come

oh yea, and i was looking forward to coming home today coz then i could watch housewives and when i was in the shower with a huge grin on my face i realised i forgot to tape it last night and i was very annoyed. with myself, but that i can handle.

yay the computer is back, but everything in it is gone, all my england photos, and nonsensical photos and all my JOHNNY DEPP AND MCDREAMY PHOTOS! *sob* so now i'll have to scour google again. what a pity :D but i get to start all over again, no annoying popups and stupid things like that. yep jo's lamenting over the loss of her sims haha

oh the weirdest thing happened yesterday, we went for dinner at ikea, and we saw ethel and her family and while we were all gawping over that amanda suddenly appeared out of nowhere and it was really bizarre how people just popped out of thin air. yea so anyway that was really cool

did a maths for the whole of yesterday, this break is really good i'm actually getting things done. and today i did social studies wrote 2 essays, which i'm pretty psyched about, i just hope i did it correctly.

monopoly has got to be the funnest game ever! me jo and jie started playing two nights ago and we'd probably have played through the night if mum didn't come up and yell. anyway so we continued last night after we got back from ikea and played til 12.30 coz my darling sister was so adamant on bankrupting me that she wouldn't sleep til she did.

anyway, i should get going, i still have the teacher day thingys to get done.
and i really detest relative velocity.

This Is A Call
Thousand Foot Krutch

She fooled all of her friends into thinking she's so strong
But she still sleeps with the light on
And she acts like it's all right on, as she smiles again
And her mother lies there sick with cancer
And her friends don't understand her
She's a question without answers
Who feels like falling apart.
She knows, she's so much more than worthless
She needs to find a purpose,
She wonders what she did to deserve this

CHORUS
She's calling out to you
This is a call, this is a call out
Cause everytime I fall down, I reach out to you
And I'm losing all control now
And my hazard signs are all out
I'm asking you to show me what this life is all about

And he tells everyone a story,
Cause he thinks his life is boring
And he fights so you won't ignore him,
Cause that's his biggest fear
And he cries, but you'll rarely see him do it
And he loves but he's scared to use it
So he hides behind the music
Cause he likes it that way
And he knows, he's so much more than worthless
He needs to find the surface
Cause he's starting to get nervous

CHORUS
He's calling out to you
This is a call, this is a call out
Cause everytime I fall down, I reach out to you
And I'm losing all control now
And my hazard signs are all out
I'm asking you to show me what this life is all about

Have you ever felt this way before
Cause I don't wanna hide here anymore
Take me to a place where nothing's wrong
And thanks for coming, shut the door
And they say some one out there sees us,
Well if you're real, then save me Jesus
Cause I've been this way for far too long
I wasn't meant to feel alone

yes so it's national day, went for english oral again, we walked up like every street from the bus stop up til the next bus stop heh heh, but it's much more better now so that's good. oral in a week! yikes.

ok so i have my calendar sorted, have to properly get back to business, none of that disgusting procrastination stuff. common tests in a week too i just realised.

got the book catch 22 for the book prize thing, wish i got the lotf though.. or even roll of thunder hear my cry but oh well, i read the first bit of it and it's quite weird.. almost like one flew over the cuckoo's next but perhaps odder, if it can even get odder. yea, not sure i like it yet.. i'll just stick to davy copperfield for the moment methinks

grey's is coming out on the 15th! hip hip hooray even though i can't watch it but it's still around so that's nice.. considering housewives is almost done and everything, it'll be good to have something to watch once everything's over.

teachers' day is coming up. should start, doing stuff.

long weekend ahead! i feel bad just coming on the computer even though i haven't been on for ages. that's good i suppose.. make me work harder and all that. but i still don't get the whole hype.

went for oral thingy with ethel and um. ms el. at her house. that was kinda freaky, before we were just thinking how weird it would be to go to her house then she comes and picks us up in her grey car and it's like 'oh so where are we going?' .. and she's like 'my house'. i think i froze for two seconds. yea by the end of it my feet were cramped around to fit the legs of the chair.

anyway, i dont like the bouncing rabbit of the bell thing, it's just so horrible when the rabbit falls.

got a book prize thing award. yea, the giving out of it is on wednesday, on the national day thing. yea. so now ethel is harassing me to finish. so i think i will just take my time. full stop.

i miss pirates

ronklebosch.

scope. my computer isn't working something's happened to it so it's gone for fixing, hopefully everything won't disappear, my photos and xavier and everything sob. and all the pretty pictures of johnny and viggo that i scoured google for.

so yea, at school now.. prelim schedule is out.. i think i should do relatively well for e maths but not that sure about a maths.. have to do more relative v and all that jazz. yeh..

so anyway, jeli and aly didn't come to school on tuesday, so it was just ethel and me. i dont want to do english oral on sunday afternoons! mmf mumble grumble. and since when did blogger have spell check? i've got red squiggly lines all over now. looks like a bad rash, or nasty mozzie bites like i have on my hand from the stupid mozzie that was buzzing around last night. haven't had a mozzie attack like that since auckland summer. typically the bit that i like least about summer i can get over here too.

ravyna's beside me playing icy tower with the funky disco guy that squeals like a girl. i miss truman show, i've forgotten how much i liked it.. keeping at my pirates, jo's being encouraging and showing me how much faster i have to be by playing the soundtrack every night haha

reading through harry potter again, found some little disturbances but i wont say it now in case aly chances past :)