& Monday, January 30
If by Rudyard Kipling.If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
goodbye
4:03 PM
& Saturday, January 21
ZORRO! dielaughing. Y you both! and cheers to lucy for helping (:oh dear mingdao, you're the BEST:] blessed birthday!
i'm sleepy. badbad night, felt like i didnt sleep at all. but i know i did, cos i dreamt that i had a pet lion, which was pretty cool except it kept biting my hand which sounds oddly familliar. HM oh i also dreamt i was at amos's house with tiny tiny sinks. hohum.
i havent been here in AGES. and i dont suppose i'll be here often cos i'm trying to be good and not let my mum worry bout my homework and stuff. also, i want to go to SOUTH KOREA (geogtripgeogtrip!!) so better study hard and do well for common test. whee so exciting (: kimchi factory (laugh) and dachangjin's palace (yea i wish).
mr dax young on the bike trying to raise money for a diabetes organisation or something : 'please donate shamelessly!' ohgoodness he's so funny.
mrs chan my super-on principal : 'congrats to 4 teachers getting married! oh and there's only gonna be 3 weddings!' UBER COOL LA.
wheee i think i'm really really gonna miss veejay when i'm gone. funny how dislike can change to no-feelings to LOVE :))
note: i really like roald dahl. but his stories are scary in a way. i dont mean boy or going solo and stuff, but his short stories. they dont potray mankind well, which i suppose is perfectly accurate. did i say i love his books ?
i'm sleepy. badbad night, felt like i didnt sleep at all. but i know i did, cos i dreamt that i had a pet lion, which was pretty cool except it kept biting my hand which sounds oddly familliar. HM oh i also dreamt i was at amos's house with tiny tiny sinks. hohum.
i havent been here in AGES. and i dont suppose i'll be here often cos i'm trying to be good and not let my mum worry bout my homework and stuff. also, i want to go to SOUTH KOREA (geogtripgeogtrip!!) so better study hard and do well for common test. whee so exciting (: kimchi factory (laugh) and dachangjin's palace (yea i wish).
mr dax young on the bike trying to raise money for a diabetes organisation or something : 'please donate shamelessly!' ohgoodness he's so funny.
mrs chan my super-on principal : 'congrats to 4 teachers getting married! oh and there's only gonna be 3 weddings!' UBER COOL LA.
wheee i think i'm really really gonna miss veejay when i'm gone. funny how dislike can change to no-feelings to LOVE :))
note: i really like roald dahl. but his stories are scary in a way. i dont mean boy or going solo and stuff, but his short stories. they dont potray mankind well, which i suppose is perfectly accurate. did i say i love his books ?
and it's goodbye till i come back.
it's goodbye till i'm done with bye.
it's goodbye till hello.
quit sleeping in the bus, and you'll be just fine.
goodbye
10:48 AM
& Sunday, January 15
i need to make up space.otherwise you wont be able to see the reason for this post.
properly.
blahblahblahblah.
why hello. here it goes
Living for Jesus, wherever i go.
doing each day in His name.
willing to suffer affliction of loss
deeming each trail a part of my cross.
i wanted to highlight/underline the more-meaningful words.
then i figured take it like it is. make it a personal statement, or a creed. pin it on the wall, first page of your organiser, on your mirror, on the ceiling above the bed. ohh if only fulfilling it were as easy as singing it.
what is the best way to end a post like this?
maybe it never ends. you take it with you wherever you go.
i'll try my best to remember.
remember that compared to Your cross, mine is small.
way small, smallsmallsmall.
oh i've decided.
goodbye
10:58 PM
& Friday, January 13
it was a BEAUTIFUL day.man, no rain :) thank You for listening.
i love the rain, but i missed the sun.
and erm, dry socks.
oh new zealand may be cancelled. or postponed to the december holidays. darn! no winter and snow and blowing-smoke. if we get to go, that is. oh well, anything goes. if i get to go to new zealand, then i may consider not going to visit agnes, wherever she might be next year. but if new zealand is thrown into the trash.. then the trip is ON! after all, food lodging movies muscials blahblah will be fully sponsered by, why her :) LOL.
i've changed my mind about econs.
i dont LOVE it, but hate is non-existent.
maybe i psyched myself into it, or maybe i got influenced by everyone (and i mean everyone) who claim that macro is better than micro. or maybe, different teacher.
whatever, trade is interesting. what comparitive or absolute advantage. and the output really increases after you look at opportunity cost and do whatever specialising you want. HM i'll get the homework done.
cool update! weather station in school!
HAHA not station station. in fact it looks like an television antenna (spell?) could only make out the anemometer and wind vane, but it's awesome. there's some national competition where you're required to gather data, write reports and get an interesting conclusion. prizes are G O O D, no doubt. but frankly after pee-double-eww, i have absolutely no intention of doing projects for a long long time. hohum.
goodbye
9:44 PM
& Tuesday, January 10
BLESSED BIRTHDAY! my old sister.haha when i was young, i thought that someday i'll catch up with you. yea right.
but age aint everything, of course. love you :)
when the entire world is musing
and the sky never seem to stop weeping,
so gloomy dont you think.
i'm 18, surprise surprise.
sorry, i cant get over it. eighteen.
sounds awfully old.
when my old sister was eighteen, i thought that was the age.
man, everything will be just fine. you'll be all grown up and well, grown up.
laugh or sigh? laugh, definitely.
i still feel sixteen.
still feel stupid, still feel short. sometimes.
oh wait, i thought of what's changed.
1. siblings are no longer abdominable snowmans that need to be extinct.
2. ignorance no longer an excuse when you're talking about ironing.
3. no specs.
and when i'm twenty, i'll feel eighteen and wish twenty. i bet.
oh OH i bought new puma shoes. wheee.
pukka puma (:
goodbye
10:45 PM
& Monday, January 9
frank sinatra is cool, really.'may the children never become sceptics and cynics.'
something like that. hm forgot who said it.
but i'll think about it.
dont you hate it when you're trying to solve a math equation.
blahblah = blehbleh.
and after everything's done. you realise that RHS = LHS so in fact you havent gotten the answer. you just confirmed that this is a valid equation. argh kill me.
oh well i shall try for the rest of the day, before printing out the hints to improve my math esteem.
i've got holey shoes, which get my socks soaked each time i walk home in the rain. HAHA gonna get new shoessss. yay!
oh major update. 'idiot' is not a bad word. it actually means someone is peculiar or different in a positive way. something like that. whatever the case, it is no insult. whether you feel complimented is up to you though. so if ever i call you an idiot, no malice is intended. in fact, to hear it from me is a compliment. lol.
i am an idiot. this post is totally jumbled up and doesnt make any sense.
i love mangoes.
goodbye
5:07 PM
& Saturday, January 7
i cleared my table! -sorted out all my notes, filed them nicely with dividers and stuff.
-threw away all the magazines of 2005, and promising myself not to buy any this year because they cost too much and no space la.
before my table was neat, but looked messy because of the overwhelming amount of stuff.
now my table IS neat and LOOKS neat, just because. -point to someone and laugh.
HM pray that my corny hands get better.
2 corns, 5 plasters. everyone sigh.
it's not my fault really, or the plasters' for the matter.
just the way things are, they just wont stick.
so in order to destroy them in the fastest time possible, i shall waste resources and use as many as i want. please heal, hurry hurry!
oh yes!
like a million people from vj have the exact same bag as me.
sheesh i spotted 2 of the same colour and 2846 with the same bag, different colour. (hey that sounds like mastermind!)
oh well. mine's different now, it has 2 holes :(
OH yvonne has the same wallet as me! haha but different colour. great minds think alike :)) and whoever feels like saying 'fools dont differ', keep quiet :p
i'm so proud of my table, i feel like studying.
LAUGH.
goodbye
12:12 PM
& Friday, January 6
my bag has two holes.oh crappp.
goodbye
9:36 AM
& Wednesday, January 4
guess what. i was looking forward to school.and now that it's started, HM.
sometimes i dont know what i feel man.
rushing out homework has started, finallyyy.
and i am so proud to say i'm done with Maclaurins!
cheers to glorijoy and lijun :))
fine, so it's not that tough. i was just stupid :(
everyone cheer for crystal too!
thanks so much for offering to teach me math.
and you'll make a really really good teacher.
my loci tutorial is proof. HAHA
two oh oh six. just thinking of it reminds me of the enormous expectations. not that anyone is really pressuring me, just a little but they dont know it. of course, the major pressurer is yours truly. getting stuff done is not enough, not to me at least. i wonder where my priorities lie.
if i had to choose between results and church, just what will i choose?
if i had to choose between results and family, what?
why does everything revolve around results?
i dont deny i want a perfect certificate. but at what cost?
arrgh it's too early to think too much, to try to answer questions that cannot be answered now. i just pray that when the time comes, i'll make a choice that is pleasing to You. okk enough.
oh yes! i'm hooked on mastermind. ahaha. see my clever cousins brought their christmas present from my mum to my grandma's place, and i'm in love! cept that i think too much, even my cousin who's eight (!) commented you take half an hour to think ahh. opps.
-laugh
AND we, by that i mean jane ziteng and myself, are having this save-electricity campaign at home. ahahaha i started it, so now they're suffering with me. anyway, we try to watch less tv, use less of the com. with all the extra time, it's mastermind and dai-di and crossword puzzles, and occasionally the tv. jane and i have been talking too much at night. oh well, that's the good and bad thing bout sharing a room. we just talk and talk and talk, and i rant all my frustrations. heh.
major update!
NEW ECONS TEACHER!! omg i LOVE econs already. seriously, my teachers this year are the best. they're either good or funny or nice or oh-so-pro, or everything together. math and geog tutorial next. alright!!
edited. 1630
hohum so i have a new geog teacher. i totally didnt expect to have a new one, considering that he's new to the school. oh well he's LAME. too crappy, even worse than mr pang (who was quite bad i assure you) HM he has nice hair, nice eyes and nice teeth. speaks well, loves geography. haha maybe i'll like him. well, one plus point is that he would rather teach us transport instead of tourism. now that's COOL. because i hate tourism, and transport sounds fun :) besides almost the entire singapore does tourism, BORRINGG. one minus point is that he'd rather go indonesia than new zealand for the field trip. (pray that ms tham and ms lim and other geogers object violently) sure indonesia is much cheaper, but it's NEW ZEALAND. cmon man! of course, i'm not sure if i can go to new zealand because of the cost. oh well :( we'll see how things go.
the camera dont lie