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| I recently went back to my secondary school to be a substitute teacher. I teach 3 classes and I really enjoy it. This morning, I was trying to convince my classes that upon mixing Nickel (III) Chloride with Silver Nitrate, the resultant precipitate will be white (duh, it's Silver Chloride). I find it so amusing that nearly ALL of them observed a green precipitate. When I was in the staff room, I decided to go through their answer scripts and I laughed SO much. I suppose that's what MY teachers did when they were reading my scripts. For example, to describe effervescence, one girl wrote: "The solution fizzles." To describe the green precipitate, another girl wrote: "I observed a strange, green clumpy powder in the solution." Seriously? Who uses words like STRANGE and CLUMPY in an exam script!?  After my last class, I had to stay back with a couple of girls to give them a Chemistry Crash Course. I think I had several crash courses in my year because I don't really listen in class hahaha. Then I realized it was raining so heavily I decided to wait for the rain to stop. I ended up chatting/bitching with them for an hour and half  And today, I finally mustered enough courage to venture into the canteen. All this while I've been either bringing my own fruits or sneaking down to the cafe to grab a club sandwich and retreat into the staff room before the girls start coming down for lunch. I feel super stifled whenever I'm surrounded by a million girls and they're all super noisy and whiny! I tried the set lunch from the Japanese food stall. It was..well, edible. The Chawanmushi was literally mushy HAHA. One thing is for sure, while the stalls may change, the standard of school food hasn't changed. By the time I got home, I was semi-drenched and my bag was waterlogged. My phone ended up trapping some moisture on its screen and then it started to go bonkers. Like, it would switch on/off repeatedly and the battery would heat up on its own! (electrolysis at work!!!) So I have to use my substitute phone from tomorrow onwards ): My classes have SPA tomorrow. It'll be my first time being an invigilator and I'm super excited. I will be in charge of one half of the class and I'm supposed to ensure that the girls follow a certain form of procedure. I wish I could take a video of the whole experience! It'll be legendary! Hahaha | | |
| Yesterday, I woke up at 730am to go for a Sports Day event organized by Toa Payoh Methodist Church. It was raining and I thought the event was going to be cancelled. But by God's grace, the clouds cleared and sun was out!!! :D We played Captain's Ball and my team was awesome. In the first match, we thrashed our opponents 13 - 1. We won another match and advanced to the quarter finals. And that's where our journey ended ahahahha. It was quite nice to meet so many people from other schools and just have fun together. While waiting for the rain to stop, Bern needed to go to the toilet. So we went to the coffee shops opposite the field to search for a decent toilet and guess what we saw? A PAP possession!!!!!! I went up to say hi to a PAP representative and she's like "Oh do you want to say hi to DPM Wong! DPM Wong, there's a young lady who wishes to speak to you!" Then DPM Wong came around the corner and he shook my hand and talked to me! Wow this is the first time I ever spoke to a politician ahahaha Sports day was super fun and now I am sunburnt :) Then Bern and I went to Pastamania for lunch and then we decided to go to Abhi's house to collect our batch cardigans. Due to some miscommunication and confusion, Bern and I ended up waiting 2 hours for the cardigans to arrive and I must admit, we were pretty upset. ("Pretty Upset" is actually an understatement) When we finally got the cardigans, we had to carry all of them back and on our way back, we met a random guy who was loitering around the void deck looking pretty distraught. He came up to us and asked where the nearest shops were and we said just around the corner? Then he tells us that he needs an extra pair of pants because he had pooped in his. What? What? What? He wasn't senile-old. He looked 40? And I think he really needed help but we didn't have extra pants and neither were we willing to give him a cardigan ahahahaha So after our epic day @ Bishan, I had to go to Orchard Central to collect my Nike Goddess Race pack :D I am excited for the week ahead! 
Nike required our team names to be alphanumeric and hence, Fr3nz4eVa was the name we came up with. Yen and I are going to kick-ass on saturday! :) 
Running is for girls! Because we just do it better ;) | | |
| Today, I decided to give my xanga a facelift because I was inspired by Guiqi :) We're not going to my grandma's today because she and her taichi friends have free tickets to the Flyer. Geez, even my grandma is more happening than me ;) But I'm alright with it (and used to it)! My aunt recently loaned us her copy of Full House. My mum and I watched 2 discs yesterday and tonight we're going to continue with the 3rd. There are 9 discs in total. We were watching it halfway when suddenly our neighbour decided to pop by (like, at 10pm) to have a random chat. Work's been super tiring and I've added a couple of burns to my collection of Injuries. Last wednesday was the unluckiest day I've ever had so far in 2011. Firstly, I was late for my manual dexterity test. My dad exited the highway one turn too early (thanks to my brilliant map-reading skills) and then we were stuck in a traffic jam. When we eventually reached the campus, we couldn't locate the faculty of dentistry so he just dropped me off by the side of the road and I went to ask this guy for directions. I asked him and for some reason he wasn't paying attention to me. He asked me to repeat myself? Weirdo. Then when I walked off, I looked down at my chest and realized that my top shirt button came undone. So I pretty much just flashed myself at the guy. No wonder he was distracted ): I finally found the faculty and everyone looked pissed when I entered the room hahaha. Luckily, they hadn't started the test yet. In the next 2 hours, I had to use a scalpel to carve a cube of 2.3cm x 2.3cm dimensions from a cylindrical plaster block and carve off 1 corner of the cube of 1cm x 1cm. I thought I was doing well initially but when I did my final measurements, my cube was 2.1cm x 2.1cm. Oh well, at least it's still a cube. I took longer than expected at the test so I decided to cab to work. The fare came up to about $17.60 and my mum wasn't really pleased about it ;) When I got to work, I was quite exhausted and super flustered. I didn't pay much attention and accidentally grazed my arm against the corner of the stove. Got a nice L-shaped burn.. On friday, I went ice-skating with Bern and Jon! Had a great time even though I hadn't skated for super long and I was super rusty. The skates didn't really fit my feet well and I ended up having a couple of abrasions and blisters on the sides of my feet. I also fell down 3 times. The first time was because Jon pushed me. The second time was because I was trying to hold onto Jon as he skated and I think our skates got entangled. The third time was because this 5-year old Korean girl crashed into me from behind. The best part was that I FELL DOWN and she didn't. She carried on skating?! Thanks to her, I got 2 bruises on my knees ): Sherwin, Abhi and Heezhi later joined us for dinner and we went to Nihon Mura for $1.19 sushi. Bumped into Xinyi, Jodee, Hafiz & friends at the restaurant!!! Super hilarious because no one expected them to be there :D Anyway, I promise to blog more often. I realize it's so difficult to remember my past events and write super-long posts. | | |
| Hi everyone, it's been a while since I last updated my xanga:
My San Francisco holiday in Feb:
I went to SF for a week. I had a great time except for the unnaturally chilly weather. We didn't pack thermal wear? And I even brought shorts and leggings! As such I caught a bad cold and I always felt really sick in the evenings. I suppose it's because the air in our hotel room was super dry and it made my throat really irritated. It rained on the first day and after traveling 18 hours, it took a hard hit on my mood. I was also suffering from jet lag (Singapore is 13 hours ahead) but when we arrived at SF it was way too early to simply eat dinner and go to sleep. We forced ourselves to walk around in the wet streets ): But after I recovered from my jet lag, I went straight into shopping mode. I went to Forever 21 3 times in the week and I think I spent at least USD 100. Then I bought 2 pairs of shoes, one from Converse and the other from Adidas. Calvin Klein was also having some mad sale, like I bought a sequin purse at $15 because it had a 70% discount?! Wait actually most of the stores were having sales because it was near the end of the season and apparently SF was celebrating Presidents' Week. Wow, GAP had a 44% sale! 1% for each president hahaha!
I love the food in SF. For some reason, we kept eating Asian Food. Like my dad loves to go to this particular Vietnamese cuisine (we went there twice) and we found this Thai joint called Bangkok which had super great food. My mum and I were craving for dim sum so we went to chinatown and found this cafe called Dick Lee's pastries. Ohgawd that was the WORST dim sum we have ever eaten in our lives and even though it was a buffet, we only had 1 serving. Like seriously, the buns were so gross and the siew mai had a strange tinge of color. Only the fried rice was edible. But wtf those people who own that place totally ruin the name of dim sum!!
Couple of accidents I had in SF: Firstly, on our way back to our hotel from the Vietnamese joint, I think I tripped over my own feet and I just fell flat on the sidewalk. The best part was I landed on my right knee and my winter jacket right sleeve had a slight tear because I skidded across the ground. LOL right. And I didn't there to look around so I asked my brother if there were anyone else along the street who had seen me fall and he's like, YEA there was a middle-aged lady who saw you fall, and the look on her face was as if she just witnessed a murder? And she looked like she wanted to come over and help you but didn't know if she should."
The second thing happened when we were at Sausolito (beautiful place btw). I saw a dog in a car and I assumed its owner left it there to buy fish & chips or something. So I went over to say hi, and then the dog went into berserk mode and started to bark furiously and lunge at the car window. WTF I freaked out and ran away hahahahah!!!! That dog looked like it was ready to whoop my ass if it wasn't LOCKED in the car! Now I know why its owner left it there. Geez.
Overall, I really enjoyed myself. I seriously love California :D The only schools I applied to are Californian schools: UCLA, USC and Berkeley. I got into the first 2 but got rejected by Berkeley. Sigh was super bummed about Berkeley but oh well at least I got the other 2. A couple of days ago, a DHL man came to my house with a package addressed to me! I was quite surprised because I first thought it was from UK but then he said it was from USC. THEN I started to panic because I thought they sent me some rejection letter. But it turned out to be a folder of really cool stuff. "Welcome to the Trojan family". Oh yeaaaa :D I remember when I was in SF, we were at Nike and they had some school shirts on sale. Like Stanford and USC? I told my mum I wanted to buy the USC ones but I changed my mind because it would be really shameless if I got rejected from USC hahaha
GCE A level results:
I couldn't stay in SF for more than a week because results day was on 4 March. When I got back, the girls wanted to have a pre-results day sleepover and my class also wanted to have lunch at the Thai joint before results were released at 2pm. The sleepover was super hilarious because GQ and I had dance class and we only went over like around 10pm. When we got there, we decided to show Wanting and Yen our dance moves. Then we intended to watch the encore telecast of Survivor but I got the date wrong (hehehe) and when it was finally 12am they were showing Grey's Anatomy instead. HAHA. So we went to watch ANTM on yen's laptop. Then...hm we chatted for a bit till 2am before GQ decided to sleep first.
Around 230am, we decided to prank GQ. Like, we changed the time on our phones to 730am. Then the 3 of us pretended to be sleeping and GQ's alarm clock would ring to wake her up for work. I had to stop myself from sniggering because when the clock rang and she woke up, we could see her peering into the darkness with this WTF? expression. She's like "What? It's 730am already????? But it feels like I just went to sleep!" Ohgawd it was so hilarious. Tsk but the game was up because little miss smarty went to check her iPod and it said it was only 3am. Since she was up we forced her to play cards with us until 5-6am and I was too exhausted myself to continue. We woke up around 7am to have breakfast at Mcdonald's. Then GQ had to go to work and I decided to go home to sleep some more.
The entire process of receiving my results was so nerve-wrecking by the time it was my turn I was on the brink of tears. I kept seeing people wince (in pain?) when they got back their slips and some would grin and do some sort of victory dance. When I finally got my slip, I guess I was so overwhelmed with emotions that I hugged Mr Ali and I started to cry :') I am so thankful for my results!
Ever since I got back my results, I've been pretty much doing the same thing: Essays, essays, essays! I also went for a couple of scholarship interviews too but I don't think I made it ): Scholarships are so tough to get! ):< And now I'm preparing for my med interview. I have approximately 7 days to read up about every single disease that Singaporeans usually get. And I just saw the essay question for 2009: Write about a book you have read and how it has changed your perception about team work.
Wow I am in so much trouble. | | |
| So, my trip's been cancelled. Feeling pretty bummed about it, but there's nothing I can do to salvage the situation. I'm just leaving everything to God - If I'm meant to be, I will be. No doubt about that.
I went to play squash by myself today. Just felt like I needed some time alone to clear my head and vent my frustrations at the wall. Yet, as I hit each time, my head was empty. I wasn't sure what I was thinking about, I don't think there was any thoughts. Just smashing, smashing, smashing.
Somehow, I feel really empty inside. Even though I have a circle of friends, I still feel lonely. Is that normal? Then I ask myself, what is it that you're looking for? I just want this void to be filled. Is that too much to ask for? | | |
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