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i was out with the bimbo today.

THE BIMBO.

seriously i wanted to faint and die when i saw her outfit. (actually i want to faint and die most of the time when i see her outfits. except when shes in nj uniform)

like omg. how to walk with someone dressed like that?! oh by the way thats her work clothes. oh and by the way this is my potential roomie at nus. imagine she wears that for work. maybe she wont wear anything to sch in future. -dies-

anyway we walked around clarke quay. and she said okay lets go eat at this place. its really cheap. lets share food. so we shared finger food, a main course and two drinks.
guess what.
it was 40 bucks each.
both of us nearly died when we saw the bill.
never trust abby when she tells you a place is cheap.
she has warped conceptions of what cheap constitutes.

so after that, we were supposed to go shopping. let me emphasize the word WERE. but because dinner was so expensive, we told each other to stop ourselves from buying stuff.
and then, we met zhen! haha.

after that we were so thirsty and tired of walking around, but even though there were an abundance of clubs, pubs, restaurants areas in the vicinity, our instincts told us that we could only afford a super big gulp from 7/11 and we sat on the bridge at the end of clarke quay. people kept staring at us. we felt like putting out a cap on the ground or something. who knows, some kind soul might donate money to us.

while we were searching for the mrt, abby said it was down the escalator. i was like, "are you sure?"
she went, "dont you TRUST me?!"
we both paused for a second, then laughed like crazy.
yeaa right her cheap food turned out real cheap. of course i trust her hahaha.

she says shes gonna wear this outfit to come to sas to visit me.
i tried to persuade her not to.
ill die!
then she said she will wear this pink dress that i have never seen before. i very scared leh. i told her if she was anywhere near indecent she had to walk ten metres behind me and is not allowed to tell anyone shes my friend.

haha abby's hilarious =)

anyway, i was doing a lot of stuff in the animation lab with this old boy called seth and we were so busy that we had to packet lunch and eat at the benches outside the lab at this secluded corner of the school. i was telling him that if any of my students walked past we were dead. they were going to think he was my boyfriend. he agreed.
just then, the bell rang. hahaha you can imagine what happened next.
this group of boys walked past and went, "ehh maam you on a date ah?"
this other group walked past and had THE LOOK on their faces, while they went "hi maam!" in a super chirpy voice and kept shoving each other in my direction.
wth. so immature!! quite cute actually hahaha. as if they never see guy and girl eat together before. haha.

other than having a fun day, my life totally sucks right now. ill blog about it some other time.


i had an interview for usp today.

and i met crystal my primary 3 classmate there! so cool. i was so scared she wasnt gonna be who i thought she was. shes doing psy too. cool stuff. probably course mates if we both go to nus.

the interview was fun.
like we just talked about art.
thank goodness it was about art =)
somehow the convo just headed that way.
we talked about art's place in today's society, art and technology and how they compliment each other, what it means to be creative, creativity in different contexts, the arts vs the sciences, whether they should be looked at as different entities and what are their common grounds, basically a very very interesting topic (to me). and about why psychology. the interviewer actually ask me why not business its also about helping people. haha. i got a bit confused. psychology vs business is quite a weird comparison actually if he compared psy and social work it would be harder. but i just told him that i cannot see myself in business since i preferred working with youths and children. and when i talked about very special arts (VSA) the younger one had this huh? look on his face. the older interviewer actually had to go dont worry we know what it is haha. it was quite funny.

until the part where they asked if i were to do two teaching subjects what would they be. i said eng and eng lit hahaha cause art needs to be done overseas.
then one of them was like, 'so why are you against an overseas education?'
(you could literally see the question mark hanging above my head)
and then i told them that i actually applied overseas as well. sighh. and my list of accepted schools. sighh annoying. i never wanted to mention that to them.
then one of them said, "so if its moe (local) scholarship + usp + nus, vs moe (overseas) + carnegie mellon, which will it be?"
wth.
i told them cmu. hahaha.
and desperately tried to salvage myself by telling them that i wanna double major and how good both faculties at cmu actually were, though its famous for engineering in sing.
shit la. stupid right. haha.
oh well. it was an enjoyable half hour conversation nonetheless.

oh. and you know what.
some people wore sport shoes for the interview. SPORTS SHOES. no im not kidding. sports shoes. omg.
and some people were in three quarter pants.
and some people were in blue jeans.
i mean, if you were in black jeans and tried to stealth or something thats okay la. but wth blue jeans + sports shoes = looking like a tourist!
if i were the interviewer, (thats a very big if by the way) i would err sit aghast at the sight of my interviewees. haha.

if my mum was there, she would have given them a piece of her mind.
she nags at me when i wear tshirt and shorts, even to just go downstairs and buy something from the neighbourhood.
whats wrong with tshirt and shorts when i go downstairs to buy some chocolates? haha

all in all,
an interesting day.


i deleted my facebook account. by accident.

im very sad about it okay.

no more photos! sighh.

haha.

add me!! tag me!!


"Speechless"

Feels like I have always known you
And I swear I dreamt about you
All those endless nights I was alone
It's like I've spent forever searching
Now I know that it was worth it
With you it feels like I am finally home

Falling head over heels
Thought I knew how it feels
But with you it's like the first day of my life

Cuz you leave me speechless
When you talk to me
You leave me breathless
The way you look at me
You manage to disarm me
My soul is shining through
Can't help but surrender
My everything to you

I thought I could resist you
I thought that I was strong
Somehow you were different from what I've known
I didn't see you coming
You took me by surprise and
You stole my heart before I could say no

You leave me speechless
(the way you smile, the way you touch my face)
You leave me breathless
(it's something that you do I can't explain)
I run a million miles just to hear you say my name
Baby

You leave me speechless
You leave me breathless
The way you look at me
You manage to disarm me
My soul is shining through
I can't help but surrender
My everything to you

everytime i listen to this song, i feel like laughing.
YOU know why =)

my grandmas staying over at my house right now.
we go to our grandmas house weekly.
when i was a child she used to go, "you du shu ma?"
when i was 16 she used to go, " ni wei shen me yue lai yue hei?" (canoeing days) even if i didnt train for a week. lol my pri sch friends thought i was malay and couldnt recognise me. that was how black.
now she has started to go, "you mei you nan peng you? wei shen me mei you? shang da xue yao jiao nan peng you!"

lol my mum also, "when you go university... must get boyfriend okay. and remember that hes not THE ONE. must go out with a lot of guys okay."

its quite funny actually. both of them dont tell me to err study properly, get a good job, blah blah, they tell me to get boyfriend. like, my main aim in going to university is supposed to be to get a boyfriend. hahaha.

anyway i had 7 consecutive periods in sch today. as a student, ill be shagged. as the teacher, its WORSE. had a sec4 normal acad class today and they were surprisingly well behaved. but there was this group talking behind and refused to do work. one of them promised that he would finish at the end of the lesson and he really did! properly. i was so surprised. i prefer the upper sec actually. when i am in a lower sec class doing relief i feel like a zookeeper.




did gym today. was supposed to swim as well but there was inertia getting myself from the gym to the pool. and while doing gym, i started thinking of my canoeing days. crazyyyyyyy days. insane people. it was a cult.

we only ate from two stores. mixed veg and yongtaufoo. (i followed, MOST of the time =)
we ran at 650 every morning. 8-10 rounds.
if we ran 8 rounds over 16 min = FAIL. (thats 2 min per round mind you. i still remember i did 16.07. fail okay haha)
if we ran 2.4 in 12 plus min = *pat on the back* try harder next time okay. if we did it around 10 plus 11 thats the norm.
if we did 3 water trainings a week, that was "omg why you never come for training?!" haha.
if we did 4 water trainings a week, that was okay.
some people trained every day.
my record stood at 14 consecutive days, twice a day. cool right. i think most of the rest have longer records haha.
we rowed around 8-15 km every training.
one round around pulau ubin in 3 hours was considered a leisure row for us. (we took one day in obs remember haha)
we ran 42.195km. it was 106 rounds around the track. we nearly died from boredom.
our 10 crew ip girls beat the penang men's team. ahahahahaha.

i miss canoeing.
=)


i love khachaturian's toccata! its such a fun piece to play. whats so cool about it is that it sounds very difficult but its actually very easy. this piece depends a lot on how well the pianist controls the instrument, and i think sound quality (the quality of the piano) is very important as well. if its played on those cheap 2000 dollar pianos it will sound like crap.

here it is! hear it for yourself and you will know what i mean =)



its the best that i found on youtube. (in my opinion) her control is superb!
most people play it too fast. for some other videos the 'feel' of the piece just didnt seem right. haha oh well its open to interpretation and this video is roughly how i would play it myself.

i love the feeling of breathlessness when i play such an exhilarating piece =)

kim came over ytd and we played rachmaninov's piano concerto no 2. or more like attempted to play. lol we sounded quite bad but it was fun! and watched tom hanks is forrest gump. i liked it. kim had to work on good friday so poor thing.

im in the transition phase where i want to but dont want to go to uni.
i enjoy spending hours on the piano, going out with my friends, going to ppls houses, doing weird random art stuff, going to st andrews, going shopping, going for concerts and performances (ive been to at least 2 in the past 3 months), going for art/fashion/design shows and exhibitions (ive gone to sam and 8Q twice), which i wont get to do as often once uni starts, but at the same time, i feel like all my brain cells are dying.
i feel as if ill be stupider than i ever was when i enter uni. really.


I think I have some compulsive disorder. I compulsively check my mail every few hours. I compulsively check my mailbox every day. (so does the rest of the class of 2013 students in the US) and I think I am going to die from stress for the month of April. not knowing whether ill be studying locally or in the US/UK.

this is one of those times when i wish i were rich. (dont we all? =))
then i can just fly to the US.
20-40% in cmu are self funded lehh. thats 320000 a year. (look at the no of zeros!)

sighh.

i think what yini said to me made quite a lot of sense - money, you can always earn it back. opportunities like that only come once in a lifetime. (in chinese)

but it really issnt fair if the rest of my family has to compromise on their lifestyle just so that I can do the undergrad degree that i want.

on a lighter note,
i am running for staff race on fri. hahaha. it was through sabo-ing no teachers EVER wanna run staff race! the pe teacher in charge was running around practically BEGGING ppl to run! so poor thing.

the male teachers were like, "the boys want to see the female teachers run. go ask the female teachers dont ask us."

the middle aged and old teachers were like, "we are too old already cannot run. go ask the young ones to run."

the senior teachers (my supervisor actually) were like, "i dont want to run. i just want to sit there and look pretty."

so. the young, female, and extremely junior teachers have to run.
which = me.

well i guess it would be fun. i hope it would be fun.