*~*Just Black And White*~*

17.7.09

Such is the life of a Secondary 2 student in an elite school in Singapore:

No matter how much you wish you could blog or use facebook, you find yourself restricted to the books. Wordy, boring textbooks. Not that we actually use our textbooks. We just seem to do worksheets, worksheets, common tests and more worksheets.
Even the newspapers are seen to be a form of relaxation. Gone are the days when parents would wish and hope that their children would read the newspapers everyday so that they could be well-versed with current affairs.
Teachers seem to think that schoolgoing children are bored during the weekend, so they pile them with homework. ( I believe that this weekend is a testament to this statement. I have just been bombarded with an extra long math worksheet and a geog assignment on Land Reclamation in Singapore. Plus, I have a math common test next tuesday. Can't a girl get some rest?)

Every one was high in school today :D We even started trying to "fish" the tree outside our classroom from the balcony. It is strangely satisfying.

Methodology:

Tie some extra long string to the railing of the balcony of your classroom.
Tie a nice, sturdy hanger to the end of this string.
Make sure that the rest of the string is on the outside of the balcony and that there are no knots.
Hold on to the hanger, take aim then shoot.

Point Scoring System:

Gold: If the hanger can knock down some leaves.

Silver: If the hanger goes over the tree branch and can make a couple of leaves fall.

Bronze: If the hanger goes over the branch.

Participation: The hanger doesn't go anywhere but the way that gravity pulls it.

Though I totally suck at this game, I find it strangely exhilarating.

And I don't know why I am chiminizing this entire entry. Must be the result of an overload of language arts assignments.

We have a total of 3. Three whole huge Language Arts assignments (all based on the scandalous and extremely irritating Merchant of Venice):

A newspaper on the happenings in the MoV. (My group's doing a modern, atheist newspaper. Our feature article is on how Launcelot Gobbo's being mistreated by Shylock. However, we're basing it on domestic workers. In the end, Launcelot is under the employment of a maid agency. Our news report is on how Bassanio divorces Portia to marry Antonio (oh so scandalous). I'm supposed to do the opinion piece. I'm trying to write something on Madoff and Shylock. It just hasn't come to me yet.
A compilation of class notes. (My group has set out to do Portia, Nerissa and their duty/friendship relationship.)
??? I can't remember what it is. Must be a result of the love for Fridays. I can't wait to relax so much, till I can't give a thought for school.

I just realised something. My entire group for the newspaper consists of prefect. ALL excluding me. Nice going. I'm going to have to be a goody-goody while I'm doing this project. Well, according to Christabelle and Gwen, I already am. I don't know if that's a good thing or not.

But I don't know till I have experienced it myself.

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22.1.09

I'm back, after a long suffering day at school, of which I survived. I'm so glad that I get to skip school tomorrow, which reminds me, I'M SKIPPING SCHOOL TOMORROW!!! =D Lol. I can't believe I still have the lame-ness to do that after wasting my lame-ness on that really dumb Barney propaganda song in Language Arts. Anyway, can't wait to see all my cousins, and my aunts, and my uncles and my grandfather and my dear grandmother. I'm practically bursting with excitement. Imagine me doing that... ... Okay don't imagine that, it's gross.

Well, anyway, to continue my very exciting story on my December vacation to the States.

So, on Day 4 of my trip to US, guess where I went? ... ... ... ... Yup, I went to DISNEYLAND!!! Woo-hoo!!! (I'm really exuding an extreme high of lameness today.) Disneyland was sooo much fun. I heart the roller coaster there, the smoothest and coolest one I have ever ridden on. I especially loved the take-off. It's not the clickety-clackety one, instead it's a blast-off one. Isn't that so cool???

After 3 days and 2 nights in a very thrill-filled FantasyLand, we had to unwillingly pull ourselves away from the Magical Wonders of Disney, and set off for a new peak, Big Bear Lake, on a mountain. Get it? New peak, mountain?? Never mind.

Stay tuned for the next installment of

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21.1.09

Hey all:) Haven't blogged for a loooong time. About two months. So to all those who have been constantly checking my dead blog for updates (especially you Jun Hui), I'm sooooo sorry!!! I was on holiday for almost three weeks, then I was tied down with start-of-school stress, and I am still stuck with dance almost everyday of the week. Thankfully it's no longer gonna be 6 times(counting SC Dance and my private ballet sessions), but has been reduced to 3 times a week. Still quite a handful.

Okay, where should I begin??? Fine, let's start with my rather blissful but somewhat scary holiday to Los Angeles - San Francisco.

It all started on the 12th of December, 2008. I had just finished performing in Dancepointe's ballet concert and was stilled mentally and physically exhausted from the preparations and the performance itself. Had to be bored to death by doing tons of props. We left S'pore at 10+ and that started our 21 hour flight to my first day in the USA. That sounds so grand.

Reached at about 11 in the morning in LAX, or Los Angeles International Airport. It's super duper plain compared to Singapore's lovely Changi Airport. According to my dad, it was under construction when he went there a long while ago. Guess what, it is still under construction in the same place as last time! How slow is that?

Checked out of the airport and took our first real breath and step into the beautiful city of Los Angeles. It was actually 15 degrees Celsius outside, just 1 degree lower than the temperature that my ballet teacher puts her air-con on to. Plus, I was wearing a short-sleeved tee. Amazingly, I wasn't THAT cold. We waited for our shuttle to the hotel, sitting on the mega-ultra cold metal seat.

The hotel we stayed in was GORGEOUS!!! It's not really a hotel per se, it's more like an apartment. There were 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a living room, a dining room and a kitchen in it. Plus, we had complimentary breakfasts every morning, Plus we were really near to Hollywood, PLUSSS... we could order ANY snack we wanted from the hotel at any time FOR FREE!!! Isn't that SO COOL???

Sadly, we had to leave after 2 days and 2 nights of bliss. Then, the next exciting part of our trip was about to start.

I have to go now, will continue writing when I have time. Until next time, au revoir!

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21.11.08

It seems to me that I am losing my sense of direction in life.

Every single day, I follow the same plan:
1) Wake up
2) Eat breakfast
3) Practice my piano pieces
4) Do 2hrs of work to stay ready for next year's syllabus
5) Eat lunch
6) Use the computer
7) Watch some tv
8) Lounge around
9) Eat dinner
10) Lounge around somemore
11) Go to sleep

This is done with the exception of Tuesday and Wednesday when I have to go for ballet and jazz classes. Thursday is also a little different because I have piano class. Even so, my life seems to be very, very boring. I wish that I had some sort of motivation to do something so that life won't seem like a chore... Oh yeah, America trip and Ballet Concert! Why won't December push November aside so that I will have something fun and exciting to do?

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19.11.08

I had a great time yesterday. I had to go for a concert item rehearsal with the leads, Beauty and the Beast. It was really quite amusing to watch the "Beast" holding "Beauty" so gently. My toes hurt so much after doing pointe work for almost two entire hours, the longest time I have spent on pointe so far.

After the rehearsal, my ballet friends and I were actually supposed to do props, but due to the lack of necessary materials, we became rather lazy and instead chose to laze around, watching some chinese show on tv, having a bite to eat and just talking. We went for dinner at exactly 6.45pm, courtesy of Alicia and I being desperate to have dinner. Whilst enjoying our food, we talked and joked quite a bit. Chelsea started talking about escargot, some french style snails. Then I added to this 'snail' talk by contributing my experience of eating Malay style snails, after which Chelsea said my sugarcane juice was snail juice while Joedi's Groovy Grape was slug juice.

While the chit-chatting was supposed to be plain fun, I also realised (just only now) that a world without TRUE friends is really boring and meaningless. When we feel down, we need true friends to remind us that we are loved by the people all around us. Our friends can always make us feel much better when life does not go according to plan. So I want to thank all my friends, primary school friends, secondary school friends, ballet friends, church friends and even my family friends, for giving me the support that I needed all these years.

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17.11.08

I haven't been posting for a while, so it's high time I started again. Well, here goes.

I recently went to Rihanna's concert, on Thursday, the 13th day of November 2008. It was the first concert that I have ever been to, and I must say that it may be one of the best concerts I will have gone to in my life. Sure, the mic might not have been working during the first song, Disturbia, and the concert hall was not crowded like crazy as I had expected, AND the concert was quite short, with Rihanna singing only about 10 songs, but it was quite an experience.

In our world today there are soooo many singers: Rihanna, Avril Lavigne, Chris Brown, Taylor Swift, ooh, the Jonas Brothers :), and so many more. It seems that music somehow makes a person. For example, introverts tend to listen to boring classical music, rebels listen to really loud rock music (this however does not apply to many of my classmates who listen to these LOUD rock music but remain very hyper). Since I listen to the mainstream type of music, as in all of the above mentioned singers, I am supposedly a normal person, not an introvert and not an extrovert.

Well, can't say that it's wrong in any way.

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29.10.08

A newspaper article recently reported about a particularly spoilt child.

She's a 20-year old undergraduate, and yet, she carries a $2000 Louis Vitton handbag to school and uses only Shiseido cosmetic and skincare products. She can spend about $1000 on an overseas trip shopping with her friends. Although it may seem to many people that she is spending WAYY too much for a girl her age, she does not think so. "I think it is okay for me to maintain my current lifestyle. I may be spending a little more than my friends, but I don't think that I am overspending."

Just reading that article made me sick, sick with rage and with pity.

I just cannot understand why she has the guts to do all this and show this to the entire working population of Singapore, who are all tightening their belts during the recession. This leads me to explain why I feel pity for this poor girl. She would not have been like this if not for her parents. Why do some parents just love spoiling their kids, giving them money whenever they ask for it and not being more insistent? If this girl had not had parents who were such pushovers, she would not have become a girl who spent money lavishly on branded items.

I just wish that she will realise her mistake before it is too late.

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