birthday bash

Happy BIrhtday DeNise! so..birthday bashes this and next week..hmm..farah, yw, me, denise tan and chooey, mathura..so many..so i went on a shopping spree on sunday. kind of..thought of orchard..but presents don't always have to come from trees over there. so i went to suntec after a short recommendation by yansy. not bad.. World Stamp Championship 2004 28 August - 1 September 2004Suntec Singapore International Convention& Exhibition Centre
stamps were cool! there were the american, australia, austria, sweden, United Nations, and the New Zealand booth! i bought bout' $46.20 worth of stamps! not bad..they even sell the Lord of the Rings stamps! cool huh. alright..birthday bash intro. over. today, pple were supposed to do the NE survey. you know sotongs like me have a reputation of being blur, so here i am..another episode of the sotong me! i went to do the survey when i was not supposed to. i even thought i was late.. oh well..juniors out there..don't learn this trait of mine.

favourite word of the month: nonchalant
definition: Seeming to be coolly unconcerned or indifferent.
www.dictionary.com

Art is Blind

AAD is tomorrow or maybe today..depends whether i'm cinderella today..hmm..oh well..hope the ppt slide for champion seminar turns out fine..took so freaking long to do it..not tt i don't know how to do a ppt..i took ages to find photos..sigh..well..at least it's done. nowadays i just can't seem to feel satisfied with the work i do for the day.. i don't usually complain ..but you know..i have to start nagging myself. it's kinda weird though.. talking to yourself.. don't you find it weird? well..i do..today .. geog mock test. went on kinda rocky..esp when you have three other pple sitting at the same bench as you..with maps..BIG maps somemore..then was house meeting. not tt it was unproductive or anything.. but was not really productive too..i know..i'm contradicting myself. always like to find new oxymorons nowadays. how bout' nearly perfect? or the common fighting for peace? check it out..oxymorons..cool.

cake for sale! 

Dang.

well..today is'nt such a bad day actually..let me see..ran for my bus again..
cos' last night was reading 'The Traveller's Wife'..so enticing..haha. then panted as the bus came..33. usually comes at 6.33am. then my watch went bonkers..so resetted again..don't know why..came to sch. today had mass run.. ha. er jie did'nt
wear the house shirt. i think she learnt her invaluable lesson..me too..don't wear when others are not wearing..next..chem first..then dmaths..chinese..recess..ss..
cme..it was so funny in cme..ms malini..who does'nt come for her lesson came suddenly cos' today got NE quiz..funny or what..the catwalk thing was even more funny..she made everyone walk in front of the whole class row by row..and then told us to have a straight back..cannot yaya..cannot slouch..cannot be shy..cannot have attitude problem..and she acted all of them out..then was bio test..haha..copying time..and the NE quiz..sigh..well..tt's it. but my life is'nt tt boring everyday..
this is just one of my typical days in sch. come to think of it..i like it! don't
you, Nabha? haha.. camellia saved my life..managed to scan the pics for champion
seminar..champ. seminar..khoo swee chiow is the speaker..er jie says he creates
his own quotes..funny ones..one of them : 'if you think you can't, you can' weird right..i still don't get her explanation..oh well.. study hard!!!

Angela's Ashes

this is a snippet of what i've read from Angela's Ashes- a memoir of a childhood by Frank McCourt whic caught my attention:
Dad carried the twins in his arms and they took turns crying with hunger. Mam stopped every few minutes to sit and rest on the stone wall along the road. We sat with her and watched the sky turn red then blue. Birds started to chirp and sing in the trees and as the dawn came up we saw strange creatures in the fields, standing, looking at us. Malachy said, What are they, Dad?
Cows, son
What are cows, Dad?
Cows are cows, son.
We walked farther along the brightening road and there were other creatures in the fields,
white furry creatures.
Malachy said, What are they, Dad?
Sheep, son.
What are sheep, Dad?
My father barked at him, Is there any end to your questions? Sheep are sheep, cow are cows, and that over there is a goat. A goat is a goat. The goat gives milk, the sheep gives wool, the cow gives everything. What else in God's name do you want to know?
moral of the story: kids are curious. give them what they deserve to know.

the ultimatum 

Love after Love

The time has come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

--Derek Walcott
*adapted from 'The Time Traveler's Wife'
by Audrey Niffennegger

my favourite flower in nepal

adrenaline~rush*

today, as my feeling forcast predicted, is quite a happy day! well..began with mass run actually..now i neither dance nor run. it's duty time! sit there with hj and er jie and chill..pretty cool.. then at 11am~ , we had to go to the hall to take back o's chinese! "the tension was palpable" everyone article involving tension always says that. but nothing else can describe the blanket of emotions which looming in the hall. we improved from last yr's batch:with 100% passes and 63.1% distinctions! then the results..immense adrenaline rush...my heart in my mouth..then i peeped..woa.. nv expected so high. oral got merit..but good though.. hugged lin lao shi . she's gonna have to treat c2 and s2 pizza one of these days..haha. tonight is handover or more officially; the swearing in of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet. have to watch soon..at 7.50pm. a cedarian asked for an invitation and got it! maybe next time i'll be as bold and ask Lee Hsien Loong for one. :)

Globalisation and Geography

yawn...must type this fast. today, er jie and i "finally" got to go for the geog talk on globalisation. yah..pple say 'woa'..so small think so big..but we have to right? can't be sitting at home reading a fiction book all day. so the talk goes like this: the guy's name is Henry Yeung. he is a NUS lecturer and some guy who is getting 'famous' by the day but no so yet in economical- geographical sense. Apparently, he's quite famous (found about 42000 results on him in google (TM) Anyway, the talk started with some NUS guys who promoted their geography modules and stuff. And the main impt part: Geography and Globalisation (1) basically, globalisation is a set of processes through which the world becomes more functionally integrated and interdependent. (2) globalisation needs national boundaries (3) the global-local dialectic; spaces of flows( borderless world) vs spaces of places (boundaries- presence of local e.g your own country) (4) Global and Local cannot be separated. (5) the world is unequal from the beginning.- pple are born rich/ poor. Globalisation enhances it-> results in increased tensions (6) with globalisation, the world becomes integrated ( space- shrinking tech.) (7) MNCs are actually TNCs (transnational companies) (8) Globalisation:#flows of capital and goods #movement of pple eg. migration #spacial diffusion of info and cultures (like pollination) #rise of international companies e.g UN, ASEAN, EU, World Bank, NAFTA, WTO, APEC, IMF (9) although globalisation makes us 'similar' (homogenisation), the more pple want to be diff.->" uniquely Singapore" (10) Good of GLobalisatiOn : you see products not made locally e.g Coke (R) (11) BAD of GLobalisatiON : #north-south divide-> poor get poorer/rich get richer #developed-developing divide #urban-rural divide CONCLUSION: world getting more uneven. (12) Globalisation and discontents: discourse shapes practice--practice brings out competition--> case of "competitiveness" in labour-intensive industries e.g Nike * over-riding all other considerations : natural and unchallengable explanation for past and future happenings. (13) Competitiveness--> life and death? --> NO (14) labour- intensive industries lower labour costs --unequal divide of income (15) *exploitation of ultra-cheap female labour in developing countries by Nike's need to please stock market analysts (Wall Street) * capital accummulation in Nike * pple making shoes don't get $. $ goes to repatriates. (16) What we can do: *look for spatial unevenness & inequalities * find out who caused it * look for ways to neutralise it--> (as if we can as students..haha) alright..tt's all for now.. lecture session over.

Bang* fireworks

Happy NATIONAL day! homework day too.. did dmaths and amaths paper at dc's house..pretty cool.. more than yesterday..maybe not half a line..but still better than nothing..

blank out

crab.prawns.chickenfranks.chickenwings.lettuce.

satay.orangejuice.mango.watermelon.fruitcake.
water.- all in my digestive system now. hmm.did

my dmaths..more dmaths..va..tt's all..opps..maybe

i should be doing more. why not a rule. when i record

at the end of the day, it must be at least one line long

of work..maybe half for a start..alright..deal.

tents at Tengboche 

at night at Tengboche 3860m above sea level 

normal saturday

favourite word of the week: BEAR
definition: To hold up; support.
A huggable stuff toy
Synonyms: bear, endure, stand, abide, suffer, tolerate
www.dictionary.com

well, i guess i have to start something..like this. my favourite word of the day! haha..bleah..today started with chem prac..fun: 4/10. hard work: 10/10. well..then went to eat popcorn chicken..yummy..but tough..must be from the kampung. malcom in the middle is so hilarious..the dad stole a wrong bag containing snorkels then he went back and returned it and stole the "right" one..it turned out to be flippers instead of the leg spa he was suppose to give his wife as valentine's day present.. well..talk about funny. my dad's on tv..sang home and we will get there on stage in mita building..ha..famous in my eyes..maths is rooted in me..prelims is coming..must rememeber.

spongebob 

beams*

i'm very proud of myself for having started a blog. haha..nv thought i wld do it..but inspiration is a necessity in my life.

northern lights from Alaska - ficticiously non-fiction 

track terrain: BEWARE 

think*

well..first time must write the necessary.. today ..i must never forget. today.. NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATION- CLASS tootness- red/white socks-red/white band-class photo-three cheers for 4S2! -trip to jurong east library-study-eat in library legally-study-think think think... snores...