yippy! i finally received my birthday cards from my family and melissa fu back in singapore! it's almost a week since my birthday, oh well. thanks for the thought! i'm over the moon to receive something back from home.


from my parents!


envelope from mel containing loads of stuff like..


a big card filled with messages, and...


kitty magnets, and...
a bookmark and letters from the poster herself, mel, and cindia too! filled with all the memories, language and feelings of being in singapore and amkss. thanks alot guys, especially melissa fu xunru! you rock! lol.

survivor saw the voting off of stephanie. disappointing. i hoped she would be the sole survivor. to be the only remaining member of the ulong tribe and brave the whole koror tribe plotting against her, survivor.. arrrgghh.
the apprentice was next and alex finally got fired. it's down to three, two female, one male. this season's apprentice better be a female, otherwise donald trump will seem like a sexist!

from monday (fear factor), to tuesday (american idol, amazing race), to wednesday (america's next top model, american idol), and finally to thursday (survivor, the apprentice).

i'm a total reality tv freak, and i'm loving it.

today school was fun. too think. i never really really enjoyed school as much as i did in amkss, but guess this will be the exceptional one.

this week is the start of the 3-on-3 basketball tournament organised by some students. so every lunch break i will sit at the student lounge and watch the 3 matches. today was real funny and exciting. one match ended in a tie and after many long shootouts, a victor emerged..
i'm having tingles now thinking of how the student council back in amkss always organises the 3-on-3 basketball tournaments. yea, though i wasn't involved in it, it's always nostalgic just thinking of it.

then in biology we went to this other classroom as our teacher taught the 11U ppl. we were given wkshts and halfway through that, chloe stumbled across some twister boxes. u can guess.. we stopped and jumped into the game. we stretched and twisted. once i was in this very awkward position, and chloe, emily, vicki and jason just laughed and laughed. hhhmpppff..
i'm feeling nostalgic once more. i rmb the halloween party when i was in 3/1 amkss.. we were at jesmine's house and played twister too. also had this volleyball game with balloons too! lol. those were the days.

nostalgia is overwhelming me right now. i need a breather.. so bye! btw, the english literacy test was fine. it's finally over! =)

PS: i want to be a photo blogger!

as most of u constant ones coming into my blog know, last saturday was my 17th birthday. sweet seventeen. well it was spent like any other day. my housemates didn't know about it till only later in the night, so on sunday, one of them went to buy me a cake! mango cake. yummy. so thanks alot guys.


yellow mango cake
tmr i will be taking my english literacy test. it will be comprehension and essay taken over the next two days. so well, it should be okay seeing that in spore that's what we usually do..

happy 17th birthday to me!
i'm now one year older, and wiser! =p

i'm turning 17 in approximately 1 hour. so what does being 17 mean to me?
simple. another year older.

i want to find my inner peace.
i want to find my destined path.
i want to find my desired horizon.
i want to find my shining star.
i want to find my happiness.

i have to find myself. i'm turning 17.

24X2=48 small lakerol boxes all for me and my bro to gorge on. something to sweeten up my life.

we went to ikea just now to have dinner at the restaurant/cafe. the food there is so yummy! poached salmon, swedish meatballs with gravy, swedish chicken fillet, apple pie. aaawww... then shopped around for a while for glass jars.
before we left we went to buy frozen yoghurt (ice-cream!). unexpectedly we spotted lakerol! u guys must be wondering what's the big fuss huh. but well, lakerol isn't seen anywhere in canada. so being swedish, ikea sells them and we took the big packaged boxes thinking they will sell them like this. oops, they don't. but still they charged the normal price for 1 small box, which is a dollar, equivalent to twice the price in spore. so we paid a total of ca$50 for sweets! gosh! the cashier lady must be thinking we are freaks! but oh well, it will last us for a long time...

oh yes, my application to york university's biotechnology got accepted. but i'm waiting for university of toronto's offer. i still have my literacy test to take before i actually can gain admission. so well i will just wait. patience pays.

i nearly lost my vision for the next few days. but after prayers and of course cursing, i finally triumph over the stubborn lens that refused to enter it's rightful place in the spectacle frame. i dropped my spects in the bathroom and made a grab to save it from the fall, but i guess the force popped the screw open and released the lens. thank god i'm not disabled anymore.. phew!

what's wrong with the weather? yesterday was a blistering warm 27 degrees celsius, and today? dark, gloomy, windy, and it rained all the day.

i was busy with replying emails that the ginseng chicken soup i was making dried up and burnt. but i sort of saved it. i hope it won't taste weird. this is the pains of being my own cook..
my final exam timetable came in to my email inbox just now. 3 days and it's over. so well, better start. if i ever find the time to..

recently, i'm so into those 'sing singapore' songs. like those in ndp, kit chan's home, tanya chua's where i belong, jai's shine on me, etc.. listening to them gives me the goosebumps!

in another 3 days, i turn 17. what does 17 mean to me? hhhmm, something to think about over the next few days..

time- 1:05pm toronto
just started chatting with grace and joanne in the same conversation! it's so awesome. like in the past when we will chat non-stop online or offline. discussing , gossiping, crapping, arguing. yes, but the only thing is joshua isn't here to side with grace against me and joanne.

time- 1:12pm toronto
we are now talking about sec 2's IPW. is red wine a good hair conditioner? lame topic, yes we know. but we enjoyed surfing the net in the school's computer lab after school. we were supposed to find research and work on our presentation for the IPW elementz competition. apparently not. still we made it through. grace is saying she misses me because there's no one to do the whole PW for her now. arrrggghh!

time- 1:23pm toronto
i mention how it was calling grace and joanne last time. for grace, sunday afternoons she is MIA, only at night. her mother will usually pick up the phone. for joanne, her mother or her brother usually picks up the phone..

time- 1:26pm toronto
change in personality is now our topic. what was the exact word that me and joanne used on grace after she went on to sec 3? i'm having a brain lapse and cannot remember what was that we said. as long as it was for the better. so grace, we aren't talking bad about u!

time- 1:34pm toronto
change in appearance is now our topic. compared to sec 1, grace slimmed down. and from joanne, who met her yesterday, she is more tanned and slimmer. her cca is now vball! OMG! me and joanne are in disbelief. jaw-dropper.. joanne made fun of her saying she is like a malay or indian now. lol.
joanne, from what grace says, is still the same old her. blur as sotong.

time- 1:41pm toronto
grace has become more self-conscious and sensitive about her looks now. she keeps asking what's the difference with present her and past her. tanner? more feminine? i have no clue as i haven't seen both of them for a long time. me and joanne feels the change in grace. joanne says she is as pretty as ever and we 'puke'.

time- 1:44pm toronto
change is the topic once again. i'm asking them if it is a change for the better that i came to toronto to study. grace says it depends only after i finish my education and see if it's for the better. so in short, i have to work hard to make this change for the better. (thanks for the advice grace and joanne!)

time- 1:48pm toronto
on to joanne's past mood swings. all of a sudden the funny and yet scary MOOD SWINGS OF JO is discussed. in sec 1 when i used to sit with her, everytime she becomes very sullen and pulls apart the desks, oh-oh. beware! MOOD SWINGS OF JO is here! and the funny thing is she measures how far apart the tables are even in such a bad mood. lol.
grace joked with her saying that we became friends with her because we pitied her for having such mood swings. i turned against grace and said that only grace did that, but not me. grace cleaned up her 'mess' in the way good friends do. joanne laughs her way and all is good.

time- 1:51pm toronto
grace is back to her self-conscious self. joanne creates a scenario where she dials woodbridge to come take grace to the mental institute. she says they will arrive in 5 minutes, but i say it's too long to wait. joanne redials..

time- 1:54pm toronto
joanne disappears for a couple of seconds. grace says she tumbled to the floor laughing. joanne returns and says she is trying to read what we said previously. and everytime we enter something the window will auto scroll down. me and grace purposely bombards the window conversation! hehe.

time- 1:55pm toronto
this is one of the longest conversation i ever had in years. forget the bombarding part, it is still long and filled with emotions and memories.

time- 1:57pm toronto
grace says she hasn't done her hmwk. she was supposed to do as we chat. but because of us, she left it aside. joanne was supposed to go to bed. and similarly, i was supposed to go have my lunch. everyone forgets something. grace doesn't get the whole 'forgetting stuffs' thing and me and joanne bombard the window conversation once again.

time- 2:02pm toronto
the conversation nears its end. we bid our farewells. fixed a time to meet every saturday. 11:30am for me, 11:30pm for them. and by 12am/pm if no one is here, it means we are busy. joked about one another even before we leave. and then all the 'take care' and 'miss u' comes up on the screen.

time- 2:05pm toronto
exactly one hour of conversation ends. everyone leaves, both grace and joanne to their homework and bed respectively. and me, to wherever i'm meant to be..

the strike didn't happened. they came to this last-minute deal and so they called off the strike. thwarted my plans of enjoying a nice weekday at home. and caused me to rush through untouched hmwk. so there went my long-awaited break.

but not to fret. good news came in today. friday will be a half-day as the teachers will be having a meeting. finally. even though it isn't a full day, but in desperation anything will do..

it will still be a long week ahead with quizzes packed in for tmr and thurs. so off i go!

me and my bro watched the 2 volumes of kill bill late last night. gruesome, gory, violent, funny. no wonder it was R21 in singapore i suppose. i preferred volume 1 better. much nicer and there was this short jap anime in it. awesome. all the visual graphics. cool..
well, better go do some hmwk. the strike is still on tmr i guess. so most probably i won't be going to school. hooray! =)

i just got off the phone with my sis, mum and dad in singapore. i miss being there with them! =(

my sis told me that on monday is the syf judging for the drama competition! gosh i rmb how it went last yr. so nerve-wrecking, but it was fun and exciting! we had to project aloud w/o mics in the big auditorium! and then the judges were sitted all over the empty auditorium. i was w/o glasses on stage but i saw all these clearly..

so i wish all my drama juniors good luck! clinch the gold! we failed to in 2003, so we are counting on you guys now! prove to those that look down on drama that we have substance! all the best and break a leg!

my housemates blew up a condom and made it into a balloon. ring a bell? yes, to me.
this was what joseph did in the humble 4/1 classroom in amkss during a biology lesson. and guess what? the condom-lloon made its way down the row of classroom, and in the end joseph got a scolding from mr voo. lol.

aawwww.. sweet memories. i miss the time i had in amkss and the ppl there. i know i have said this many times, but it's just the way i feel..

ok the ttc strike is most probably happening on monday. school will be open for those who can make it there, and lessons will resume. but for those who rely heavily on the public transport (like *ahem* ME) have the option of not going to school. but that means missing lessons and going to school on tuesday or wednesday worrying for a quiz or something..

i wonder what it will be like in toronto with the strike on? no buses, no subway, lots of cars, traffic jams? hhhmm...

for the past few mornings when i wake up, i will definitely look out of the window and watch out for buses on the streets. funny? well, no. the toronto transit commission (ttc) is planning to go on strike if there isn't a deal regarding some issues. it has been for quite a few days now, but it's confirmed that by tmr noon it will be announced if there's a strike on monday.
i pray all my might there will be.
for if there is, then there won't be school on tuesday for those who have difficulties reaching, and that includes me. though some moronic teachers will still teach..

i have never felt this way before. frustration towards the school and teachers. i thought the week would improve, but today was crap. the trip tmr is cancelled, and i got moody. i miss amkss and everyone there. it's such a totally different environment. =(

i better go somber up and get a grip of myself. i'm SO looking forward to the weekends. i need at least a short break before i crack up! i want to go on strike too!

this week is considered a torture. it's coming to an end, so hopefully it will be better now.

yesterday was the worst. started the day all wrong. i walked in through the back door of the school which set off the alarm. i thought the school was opened, but it wasn't. thankfully a teacher just came and stopped the alarm. if it went on, the police would have arrived!!!
then had to cram all chemistry, calculus and biology into my brain for the tests and quiz today. finally, it's over and done.

hhmm i'm going to chill a while for now. friday should be an early day as we are going to the library again! yippy!

daylight savings time was on since yesterday. that means toronto, canada is now exactly 12 hrs behind singapore. and that meant i had one hour less of sleep yesterday. =( the funny thing is that the sky now is starting to get dark much later, like around 7.30pm, unlike the usual 6.30pm. i'm definitely not used to it yet. blah..

i have 2 tests and a quiz on wed. and an assignment that involves reading one whole long chapter from 'the wars'. oh, i better go get started now.. already looking forward to the weekend..

we got punked, big time!

first period, mike, my chemistry teacher, gave us this so-called 'surprise quiz'! at first we did it as some ppl cursed him. then one of them exclaimed and then just handed in the paper. it spread across the row, and i finally found this out at the last qns on the last piece of paper..
" just sign your name on the paper without answering the questions and hand it in. "
and so i finally got the twist. those who didn't get the whole hoo-ha just looked on in befuddlement. everyone eventually found out and lessons resumed. what a waste of paper huh.. there was one who came late and on she went to do the quiz. just as she had only 2 more questions to completion, mike pointed at the last qns. then only did she realised..

same thing for english. tina, my english teacher, gave us a quiz once again. me and emily were swearing not to fall into another such stupid tricks, but we did. in the end, it seemed like she did give us a similar worksheet yesterday to read, and she was saying this proves how much we did her work. oooopps =x

well, happy april fool's day!