Sunday, August 30, 2009

Really really quick post before dinner.

Coming home today after tuition was pretty fun.
Popped into Mama's room and saw her cutting up some cloth. So I asked her what she was doing - probably some stuff to sell for church fundraising or something of that sort.
She said, "I'm making baby booties!" (Baby booties being those cute little cloth shoes that babies wear to keep their feet from being cut off cos they're too little.)
me: "Oooh, what for?"
Mama: "For my great-grandchildren!" *beams*
me: ....?! -.- "Err..."
Mama: "I'm serious! =D I'm starting now so that next time I'll be ready! And now you know even if I'm no longer around you'll have baby booties for your kids! =D"

Lol...I get the hint, Mama. But, LOL.


Played Snatch Scrabble with Papa Mummy and the boys. Daniel refused to play, predictably. Also predictably, Papa liked it a lot and thrashed Mummy and me. But it was fun! =D

Papa: DIRE. SIRED!
me: DESIRE desire desire HA I grabbed first!
Papa: RESIDE! HAH

...hmph. <3 family =")

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

In psych stats tutorial now. It's probably not a good idea to have it in the com lab. I'd actually be following the class, but I have no idea how to get to the webpage the tutor is on. Lol. Whatever.

Wondering if this is really what I want to do with my life. Because it seems like I'm gonna have to choose between keeping up with my schoolwork and doing other (fun, meaningful) stuff, like IFG or FOP or meeting friends.

Hmmm.

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Monday, August 24, 2009

Everyone's a lost romantic,
Since our love became a kissing show
Everyone's a Casanova,
Come and pass me the mistletoe

Everyone's been scared to death of dying here alone

She is easier than love
Is easier than life
It's easier to fake and smile and bribe

It's easier to leave
It's easier to lie
It's harder to face ourselves at night
Feeling alone,
What have we done?
What is the monster we've become?

I need to stop procrastinating and doing stupid things like blogging and synching my ipod when I should be doing work or sleeping.

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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Well. D&D was fun.

And now, we are free to get down to studying! I'm curiously relieved at that prospect.

Although, considering that I basically wasted my entire Saturday today... Heh.

And yet I shall waste a bit more time blogging about D&D. But hey, after all that work, it deserves a little more wasted time than it has already claimed, I suppose.

So, rehearsal on thursday was fun. Cabbed from school =( EXPENSIVE EH. Rawrrr. Also, I realised at 3.45pm that I hadn't done my PSP pre-tutorial task, which was due on IVLE by 8pm. Thank God Phoe had reminded me! But since I had lecture from 4-6pm, and pageant rehearsal 6-8pm at Marriott, I was essentially doomed.

Sooo I basically stressed out, and spent PL2131 reading The Eye of Power and trying to do the task. Thankfully for YongHao's laptop, Phoebe and I were able to upload it just in time at the rehearsal! XD YAY! I tell you I was walking on air - actually, bouncing on it - after I'd submitted the post. Haha!

There was a minor upset when we realised Eleusis was using the same music (and same concept!) for their entrance as for ours. I was pretty upset because of the time we'd spent rehearsing and doing up the music (in YongHao's case) and the powerpoint/movie (in my/Marvin's case). But Ryan was very nice about it, so yup. Anyway, we changed to the song "Ever Ever After" from Enchanted and re-did the movie/music.

After PSP on friday, met YongHao, Haikel and Denys to re-work the end of the entrance to fit the new music. Spent an inordinately large amount of time on the final moment. *wince* But like Denys said, guess it all worked out for the best in the end. =)

Went home, slacked, went to the hairdresser's, went home, made up, went to Marriott, slacked, got dressed. (And just like that, 8 hours passed...)

Actual D&D was slightly anticlimatic, because I was pretty disappointed at having to miss all the performances as well as the other couple's entrances (Delphi was the last to enter the hall for everything). But the Greek entrance went without too many hiccups, yay!

The pageant tasks during the Geek segment were really good THANK GOD! Well crafted - such that they were interesting and entertaining, yet still pretty doable and not overtly perverse. Except for maybe Joel Kang's task. LOL.

Naomi picking up Weldon in a club:
"Hi." "May I have your ball?"(He was holding a basketball.) "The juice too?"(He was also holding a carton of sunkist orange juice.) ...

Weldon giving 5 reasons for Naomi to be Ms Olympia:
"...#2: She's pregnant. #3: I made her pregnant. #4: If you vote for her, she'll give you some of her Sunkist juice..."

Elizabeth making the cheesiest wedding vows she could to Richard...
Richard selling the USP shirt that Elizabeth was wearing...

Melissa explaining why her facebook status is "It's Complicated":
"Love, is like a bowl of wanton mee..."
(Can't remember what Jerome did! =X)

Adeline proposing to Ryan with an umbrella:
"...Will you shelter me?" *AWW moment*
Ryan picking Adeline up in the library:
"...We are both studying. In the library. Carrying umbrellas. So nice to find the same type of people here. =D ..."

YinLing serenading Joel with as many facebook terms as she could:
"Only youuuuuuu... I found you on my Friend Finder..."
Joel giving YinLing a lesson about the birds and the bees:
"...So ah, the Mummy and the Daddy hug right, then liddat right, then liddat liddat, then do a lot of times then got baby!"

Me reacting to finding Denys cheating on me:
*gasp* *gasp* "How could you do this to me?! Don't try to explain. ...can you explain?" *sob* *sob* *collapses on floor and dies*
Denys proposing to me with a PGP transponder:
"Here's the key to my heart...it doesn't look like a key but trust me it's a key. ...If you press it - err... err... then you can ...open the doors to my heart! =D ... Err, sorry I'm afraid my pants will split so I can't kneel down..." *kneels down anyway LOL*

Haha. It was fun. Then the Glam entrance was also okay. I stepped on my skirt as I was going up the stage (this teaches me not to practise walking with a long skirt) but THANK GOD didn't fall down. Phew.

Best Campaign: NYSA
Mr Personality: Ryan
Miss Personality: Naomi
Mr Photogenic: Denys
Miss Photogenic: Laura
Best Couple of the Night: SPARTA Richard and Elizabeth
Mr Olympia: Joel
Miss Olympia: YinLing

=)

And this concludes USP D&D 2009...

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

I should really be sleeping.

So anyway, I'm currently indebted to a lot of people. Whom I can never pay back because they've really done so much for me and anyway that's not how friendships work. But yeah. Phoebe is an AWESOME friend I tell you. She has saved me dunno how many times already this sem alone! And it's only week 2. Thank you, God. PHOEBE IF YOU SEE THIS I LOVE YOU MEGA MEGA MUCH! *hug*

And then there's Marvin! And Jerome. And James. Haha. And Jesus! But of course I'm already indebted to Him. =)

I'm really excited for USP D&D on friday, actually. But scared, too. Hope they don't make us do too weird stuff. I don't want to let Delphi down by just freezing up there. Eeek.

I can SO foresee having withdrawal symptoms after friday! Haha.

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Monday, August 17, 2009

When death like a gypsy
Comes to steal what I love
I will still look to the heavens
I will still seek your face

But I fear you aren't listening
Because there are no words
Just the stillness and the hunger
For a faith that assures

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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Friend,
All along I thought
I was learning how to take
How to bend not how to break
How to laugh not how to cry
But really
I've been learning how to die
I've been learning how to die

First week of school has been... hectic, to say the least. Already I find myself sliding into a lot of the university ruts that I promised myself I wouldn't fall into. The temptation to skip lectures is unbelievably strong! And, despite the innumerable warnings, I was still taken by surprise by how self-initiated the learning has to be.

Thank God for the USP people and the USP lounge, without whom and without which I know I would be hating uni life a lot more. Then again, they're also a big part of why I haven't been keeping up with my schoolwork as much as I'd like to. Haha!

Sleepover was fun. It was especially nice talking late into the night...er, early into the morning, discussing all manner of random things. I wonder, can you really just partition God into a part of your life? Just once a week, no more, no less (except perhaps on Christmas or Easter).

"Sunday Christian" my mum would call them. But it seems to me that if I truly knew God, not knew about Him but truly knew Him personally, then surely I would be so convinced of His Glory and Love and Power that I would be compelled to worship Him, and make Him the centre of my life. If I were not, then surely He would not be God - immortal, perhaps, and supernatural, perhaps, but not God. For should not God be greater than any and indeed every other thing?

Anyway, we caught Up in the morning! (Haha, it sounds funny - we caught up, and we caught Up...nevermind.) It was nice! I wept quite a bit =X the first part especially was really really sweet. But it wasn't so great that I'd watch it again (unlike, say, Finding Nemo or Monsters Inc. or maybe even Ratatouille). The plot was pretty predictable, as well as the characters. But man the first part was really sweet =) *AWWW moment*

Then I was late for lecture, which I might as well not have gone for for all the listening I did. Caught dinner with James after that. I gotta admit he knows where to get good desert. Yum! Car syndrome kicked in, too - (The 2nd Principle of Car Usage states that if one in a group owns a car and is willing to send the others back, the likelihood of the group staying out later increases tenfold) - got back just in time to skip grounding, but late enough to receive a "what time are you coming back???" message from Mum. Hee.

Wow, 6.20pm. I'd better hurry or I'm not gonna be able to finish the slides before games night.

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Sunday, August 09, 2009

AHHHHH USC RAG DANCE =) =) =)


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Saturday, August 08, 2009

Rag day was REALLY FUN!

The floats were seriously awesome. And USP WON BEST FLOAT DESIGN (faculty/club category) !!! WHOOHOO!!! =D We were jumping up and down and screaming like mad when the emcee announced it hahaha =D yay!

The hall floats were really really good. They were seriously in a whole different class from ours! My favourites were Eusoff's (they won best float design, hall category) and Kent Ridge's. Amazing, seriously. I can't wait til the photos are on facebook!

The other dances were pretty awesome too. Again, hall dances tended to be better by quite a bit. Their costumes in particular made me cringe in envy and shame when I thought back to the costumes we had had to make do with for VJ's dance concerts. Vibrant colours and elaborate designs to the MAX!

Out of the dances, though, I thought medicine won hands down legs up. They could even have given most of the halls a run for their money! They were amazing. (Met Reg later, realised she was in the Med dance! Haha) Eusoff's dance was clearly the best out of all the halls, although the hall dances tended to be (in Marvin's words!) "rather incoherent." They were really elaborate and neat, though, and often full of stunts and different costumes (or costume changes). Most of the hall dances were pretty good, though. Oh, Prema was dancing for Eusoff hall! (Instead of USP. =( ! but haha okay I can see why...)

After the whole thing ended and we pushed the floats and stuff back to central forum, we had a debrief with the giving out of "golden spanners" (spanners painted gold) to top rag contributors. There were quite a few! Haha. It was pretty fun, and I think they really deserved it - people like Phoe, Jerome, YongHao, LiRu, Yuan Yi, Alvin, Genim, Leonard, Mik, Chris, Phyllis, etc. =) Yay!

They're already talking about Phoebe and I choreographing the rag dance next year, which is expected, I guess. I'm not sure =/ I'm still not entirely for rag, still finding it generally a great waste of time and resources. Then again, it's true that it does really bond people and it's fun if you win! Haha. Although the joy doesn't QUITE make up for all the wasted hours. Then again, I would like the choreograph. Choreographing the class dances in sec2 was AWESOME, as was choreographing the IP dance for Regale or Butterflies&Hurricanes for Footnotes. It's just fun to take ownership of a dance! Haha. Among other things, of course.

Well, there's still a long time to go! Guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. =)

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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Just been reading through my old blog posts, and LOL I am an emo kid.

Ugh. Bleargh. *shudder* HAHA

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WOMAN'S QUESTION (by Lena Lathrop)

Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing
Ever made by the hand above?
A woman's heart, and a woman's life--
And a woman's wonderful love.

Do you know you have asked for this priceless thing
As a child might ask for a toy?
Demanding what others have died to win
With the reckless dash of a boy.

You have written my lesson of duty out,
Manlike, you have questioned me.
Now stand at the bars of my woman's soul
Until I shall question thee.

You require your mutton shall always be hot,
Your socks and your shirt be whole;
I require your heart be as true as God's stars
And as pure as His heaven your soul.

You require a cook for your mutton and beef,
I require a far greater thing;
A seamstress you're wanting for socks and shirts---
I look for a man and a king.

A king for the beautiful realm called Home,
And a man that his Maker, God,
Shall look upon as he did on the first
And say: "It is very good."

I am fair and young, but the rose may fade
From this soft young cheeck one day;
Will you love me then, 'mid the falling leaves
As you did 'mong the blossoms of May?

Is your heart an ocean so strong and true,
I may launch my all on its tide?
A loving woman finds heaven or hell
On the day she is made a bride.

I require all things that are grand and true,
All things that a man should be;
If you give this all, I would stake my life
To be all you demand of me.

If you cannot be this, a laundress and cook
You can hire and little to pay;
But a woman's heart and a woman's life
Are not to be won that way.

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Got this from Joshua Harris' I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Which is a really good book, by the way. I'm just wow-ed by it. And he was only 21 when he wrote it! That's just incredible to me. Haha. I mean, the freshmen guys are 21 years old now. Not that they're immature or anything (quite the contrary in fact - some of them are refreshingly mature) but the book just contains so much wisdom about attitudes towards our interpersonal relationships - with family, friends and of course those of the opposite sex - that I can't really imagine any of the guys writing something like that.

Rose-coloured glasses are never made in bifocals
Because nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

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Sunday, August 02, 2009

Meant to update more but haven't had the time so I'll just leave it as it is.

Love NUS USP people.

Extremely blessed - got the modules I wanted.

Rather confused. But think I know what I should do. Just not sure I have the guts to do it. Or the wisdom to say it properly.

Hmm. Tired. =)

So I arrive
At the conclusion
Love isn't made
Love doesn't sell or pay
But we buy and sell
Our love away

Don't let the panic bring you down...

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