supposed to be doing my maths tutorial but i can't concentrate. so no point forcing myself to do it. gonna blog a while then, hopefully, work on some of my essays. sigh. feeling a little guilty about it.

school's started after the so-called break. so sad. can't wait for december to come round. choir's got a lot planned. planned lah, i don't know if confirmed or not. we going shah alam (that's confirmed. more on the competition later on), kk said that they're in negotiation with chijmes and mariott hotel for carolling in return for sponsorship for the competition. can't imagine what it'll be like carolling in chijmes. hope i get to do that. :D on the competition, we've finished learning the 5 songs. so fast! hui jun made us sing solo (sort of) during sectionals the other day. i malu-ed myself with my horrigible rendition of "lily". the high e lah. it's already hard enough to reach when i combine let alone solo. ya, anyway. the new chinese song replacing the "birdie monologue" (don't know the real title) is really weird. it's even weirder than the birdie song. but kwei said we can't use that song cos it's not a authentic folk piece. so this new song comes up. it's called "dong dong kuay". while it's really easy to learn, i caught myself singing that song repeatedly this morning, it's not very interesting with regards to rhythm and lyrics. boring song actually. my least favourite song among all of them. even the "lily" song, difficult as it is, is more fun. going to start learning for varsity voices (vv) soon. already got score for "missa brevis". can't wait. :D

going to be roommate with felicia in shah alam. kinda had a dilemna about that. there was 2 ppl i wanted to share with, and who wanted to share with me. but i had to choose only 1. felt kinda guilty, like i'm betraying my other friend or something. sigh. but she managed to get someone else in the end, so not too bad lah. hope shah alam will be fun like genting. i really miss the genting days. even sharing a room with toh ying was fun. remember how when everyone else was hanging out at the indoor theme park way past curfew hour, me and ty were watching cantonese dramas in the room. ok, ty was watching and translating for me. remember also the most memoriable, watching LOTR past curfew hour (me and my group were really kuai kias) sneaking back to the room cos we saw mr yong hanging around and didn't want him to catch us (not that he would tell on us lah), but the fun was in that. getting nostalgic again.

other stuff. dad's going cuckoo about feng shui. IMHO, feng shui is total crap. i don't care what other ppl say, to me, it's all in the mind. full stop. ya so, just now, he's been trying to convince me that feng shui is authentic and really works. even started quoting me the apostles' creed, "creator of all that's seen and UNSEEN", challenging me with the subject of acupuncture, ghosts and supernatural happenings. whatever. he's dabbled with feng shui in the house. eg, in me and andrew's room. he made us switch rooms last year, changing the positions of the furniture and stuff like that. and nothing miraculous has happened. well, i caught dengue fever and actually did worse in my exams than when i was in my original room. haha. another thing that makes me convinced that it's all in the mind. i have this dreamcatcher that i bought in england. i hung it in my room. i'm assuming we all know what dreamcatchers are supposed to do. now, i think, (can't confirm cos i don't remember) that it works cos i don't recall having (terrifying) nightmares since i hung it up. but i think that it's cos subconsiously, you think that the dreamcatcher is catching the nightmares, so you subconsiously not create nightmare situations in your brain. ppl have this need to feel that things are going the way they want, and that they can affect their environment, somehow tweak situations to their favour. think harry potter and the lucky potion. hmm...interesting. some shrink should do a thesis on this. anyway, bottom line, it's all in the mind. where feng shui's concerned, i'm a confirmed skeptic unless you can scientifically prove that it works. (lots more to say on this subject, but i won't bore you for now)

moving on. duan hui lost her hp again. and i really really REALLY must scold her this time. sorry i'm kinda telling this to the whole world. go ahead and whack me but i think ppl need to know and learn from it. anyway, here's the story: she fell asleep at a study table in sch. her hp was on her bag. when she woke up, it was gone. looked around for it, cannot find. frantically calling her number. finally someone answered. called himself 'michael', giving a contact number and telling her to meet him at clementi so he can return her the phone. apparently he found it on the floor. so the next day, i went with her to find the guy. he never showed up. or if he did, he didn't make himself known. the number he gave was out of service. me and her were going around clementi mrt asking every guy there if he's michael. know how surreal that is?? kafkaesque imo. later i found out that he didn't know duan hui's name, he didn't bother to tell her any way of identifying him, and claiming to find it on the floor is total crap. all evidence points to the fact that he stole the phone. even if he really found it on the floor (say, the real thief decided he didn't want the phone after all and chucked it), and if he didn't return it, it's same as stealing it. esp when he knows that someone is frantically looking for it. moral of the story: never EVER allow your personal stuff, esp high tech gadgets, to be out of your sight/person. school is not safe. no, no. no where is safe. and people are inherently evil.

happier stuff. almost finished the english project. only left a little bit more of the essay to complete. yay!! and i borrowed my first book from nus library. haha! after so long in school. ;D oh ya, and i malu-ed myself at the photocopying machine. i didn't know how to use the thing, so i asked a guy who looks after the place. and he looks at me like i'm a complete sotong before helping me. *rolls eyes* the look was like, "what planet did you come from?? uni student liao still don't know how to operate the photocopier?!" whatever lah. and i'm considering, maybe i won't take maths next sem. i'm not that keen on going through the same torture again. i know i'll miss it. but...see how lah.

oh ya, really want to mention this. i spotted a typho error on tv mobile!! you know the new students' showcase thing? i was watching the one about roy and the clone. and the trailer at the bottom introducing the work to you. well, "tv mobile" was spelt "tv molile". gosh! they should hire me as proofreader. haha!! and btw, i realised how good bo bice sounds. i downloaded "inside your heaven". love it. so nice to listen to. he sang it miles better than carrie. muahaha! last thing, mum thinks i'm perpetually playing the fool on my laptop just because i've got a picture of clay as my desktop wallpaper. what nonsense!

lots more to say. but i'll spare you for now. so nice of me. :D