Zoo-lander

if my trip to the singapore zoological gardens yesterday was to be made into a movie, it'd be one of those nonsensical comedies starring Amanda Bynes or Ashton Kutcher.

i'll never look at the phrase "Enter at your own risk" the same way ever again.
*cough*

details on that shall be left out. animal pictures up soon. :)

news update: former Indonesian president, Mr. Suharto, has passed away today at 1.10pm from multiple organ failure at the age of 86.

yes ma'am!

i have been excused from the parade.

:)

*does the paw-paw*

NO ma'am!

i wanted to talk about something more happy like my friend who's arriving in 3 days. but then this came up.

you'll probably think i'm over-reacting. but anyway.

so yesterday, we met our SIP supervisor(ex) in the canteen and he told us that he needed 3 volunteers from the groups who were under him to perform at this year's Chingay parade.

i know, you're probably going, "huh? Chingay?"
yes, that was exactly what i thought.

what people dancing in weird, bright, neon-coloured, striking costumes down Orchard Road in post-cny spirit, has in relation to creating a mobile phone application that streams security videos, i really dont know.

anyway. because no one had volunteered to perform, he decided to randomly nominate 3 candidates to go, himself. and yes, me. picked. unluckily. unfortunately. unexcitedly. ridiculously. nonsensically.

here are a few out of the many reasons why i shouldnt be wasting my time:

1. the rehearsal for the parade to the parade itself takes place from the 11th to the 15th of february. what do we get in return for the sacrifice? CCA points. oh golly. those wonderful CCA points! not. CCA points dont represent much, in case he hasnt figured that out.

2. i have 2 presentations and projects to hand up on that very week itself because it's the final week before the preparation of my final(and i do mean FINAL) exams. and these 2 projects carry high percentages in our final results. let's see. important academic scores vs notasimportant cca points. need i say more?

3. my friend who's coming back after almost 2 years will be returning to australia on the 17th or 18th of february, and if i dont get to hang out with her, i'll probably have to wait for a long time before i get to do so again.

4. Chingay's meant for me to watch on tv. not to perform. 'nuff said.

whose smart idea it was to get graduating students to go perform in a post-cny parade, a week before their final(literally) examinations, i dont know. to sacrifice getting last-minute, important notes from lecturers just because the world needs to watch a masked duck in motion. hah.

if you ask me, i'm guessing the teachers probably drew straws to decide whose students(because i'm sure none of them really gives a damn about Chingay) to go and mine drew the shortest straw. tough luck.

oh well. as far as i'm concern, i'm not going. and i dont really think it'll be appropriate to fail a graduating student due to her unwillingness to participate in a parade because of her concern for her final semestral examinations. snap. snap. snap.

still think i'm over-reacting? :)

b.scott will not back down.

The Ledger

Heath Ledger is gone. and apparently, everyone around me had already heard or seen the news before i did so i was kind of the last to know.

i was in utter shock when i first heard the news.
...Heath Ledger?

gosh, this seems surreal. unexpected.
the man was only 28.

here's a list of his movies that i've seen (most of which i liked):

1) 10 Things I Hate About You
2) The Patriot
3) A Knight's Tale
4) The Four Feathers
5) Ned Kelly
5) Lords of Dogtown
6) The Brothers Grimm
7) Brokeback Mountain (a lil' bit)

and i was already planning to watch I'm Not There.

tragic.


Rest In Peace.

Zhang

wow. i've always known that Zhang was a common surname but over 88 million people in China alone is insane. no kidding. i mean, that is ALOT of Zhangs we're talking about, people.

88 million. that's like... 88, 000, 000. my fingers are tired just from typing that out in digits. and let's not forget the "over".

then of course, there's me.
indeed. i am a Zhang.

*does the robot*

6 days sure past by pretty quickly.
anna shall be returning from taiwan in a few(ok maybe slightly more than 'a few') hours time. and still, it feels like i'd just sent her off at the airport yesterday.

i hope she doesnt go all taiwanese-accent on me. god knows how much she loves to do that. it's only been 6 days. *prays*

miss little junkbucket's coming home. :)

The Process of Dying

1. mirage
2. smoke
3. fireflies
4. flame of candle
5. vivid white sky-mind
6. vivid red or orange sky-mind
7. vivid black sky-mind
8. clear light

hmm.

on a much lighter note...and 11 more days to go

today, our teacher finally returned us the community service reflection report that my friends and i had done together about a year ago. we handed it up and it was no longer seen on the surface of this earth...well until today, that is.

the paper hadnt turned yellow. it wasnt crumpled. there were red ticks here and there, all over the paper. ticks are a good thing. basically, the report was fine.

there was only one tiny little problem.
this is the comment our teacher had left us on the top of the paper.

"my name is not Richard!"

dear people of the world, for 3 years, we've always thought that our dear teacher's name was Richard. yes, we would address him by his chinese name, but we always had the impression that Richard was his english name. and that was who we had addressed the report to. apparently.

today, i found out that i've been terribly wrong.
for 3 years.

give me a minute while i laugh out loud (at myself).

hahahahahahhahahahahahaha.

inconsideration.

someone tossed a burning cigarette out of his/her bedroom window and it landed right in front of my mom as we were walking under the block. yes, it was still lighted. we couldnt make out which level the cigarette came from because the coward had went into hiding before we could spot him/her.

yeah, go smoke your effing inconsiderate singaporean life away, you friggin' pothead. keep hiding.

*breathes*
i apologize for the crudeness.

music survey

1. Nelly Furtado
First Heard: i'm like a bird
Fell In Love: forca
Current Favorite: forca

2. Gwen Stefani
First Heard: wind it up
Fell In Love: hollaback girl
Current Favorite: sweet escape

3. Kelly Clarkson
First Heard: a moment like this
Fell In Love: some kind of miracle
Current Favorite: because of you

4. No Doubt
First Heard: dont speak
Fell In Love: dont speak
Current Favorite: running

5. Madonna
First Heard: frozen
Fell In Love: beautiful stranger
Current Favorite: none

6. Rihanna
First Heard: pon de replay
Fell In Love: pon de replay
Current Favorite: hate that i love you (with neyo)

7. The Pussycat Dolls
First Heard: doncha
Fell In Love: stickwitu
Current Favorite: stickwitu

8. Mariah Carey
First Heard: one sweet day
Fell In Love: never too far
Current Favorite: through the rain

9. Britney Spears
First Heard: baby one more time
Fell In Love: sometimes
Current Favorite: me against the music ft. madonna

10. Christina Aguilera
First Heard: genie in the bottle
Fell In Love: come on over
Current Favorite: candyman

11. Natasha Bedingfield
First Heard: these words
Fell In Love: these words
Current Favorite: love like this ft. sean kingston

12. The All-American Rejects
First Heard: swing swing
Fell In Love: move along
Current Favorite: dance inside

13. Shakira
First Heard: whenever,wherever
Fell In Love: objection
Current Favorite: hips dont lie

14. The Killers
First Heard: somebody told me
Fell In Love: mr brightside
Current Favorite: all these things that i've done

15. Pete Yorn
First Heard: ice age
Fell In Love: ice age
Current Favorite: ice age

16. Ashlee Simpson
First Heard: pieces of me
Fell In Love: autobiography
Current Favorite: shadow

17. JoJo
First Heard: leave(get out)
Fell In Love: baby it's you ft. lil' bow wow
Current Favorite: how to touch a girl

18. Justin Timberlake
First Heard: like i love you
Fell In Love: like i love you
Current Favorite: my love

19. Panic! At the Disco
First Heard: i write sins not tragedies
Fell In Love: i write sins not tragedies
Current Favorite: i write sins not tragedies

20. Avril Lavigne
First Heard: complicated
Fell In Love: sk8erboi
Current Favorite: how does it feel

15 more days.

seige: bye, babe.
anna: byee.
anna: you suck.
seige: you suck more.
anna: you suck more.
seige: you're the suckiest.
anna: arrr.
seige: ciaooo.

yep. we're related.

quote.

"When you strike at a king, you must kill him."

- Ralph W. Emerson

Reel Nonchalance

people tell me things. secrets.
i dont know why. but yea. i really do try to avoid knowing too much. ask everyone around me. they should know.

so just when i thought i could avoid knowing any more things when no one said anything else, i had to discover something. on my own. BY ACCIDENT.

now i know something else.
and i really dont know if it's a good or bad thing. i always thought that it would be a good thing. but this good thing came with an extra package. now i'm confused. and it's not me that i'm concerned about. darn.

stupid burden.

nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant. nonchalant.

maybe if i tried hard enough, it would work. c'mon, girl. try harder.

We Will Rock You

shizz. i'm going to screw up my napfa on friday.

anyway, i flipped through the papers today and saw an ad on this.


We Will Rock You

oh no, oh no, oh no! this is bad.
yes, i really do love Queen. yes, i've watched MiG Ayesa's(the lead) journey on the show Rockstar:INXS. yes, i've watched MiG sing my all time favourite Queen song, Bohemian Rhapsody, on the competition. and yes, i kinda did love it. in fact, here it is right now.

yes, yes, yes to all that. no, no, no to the prices! think.

i managed to watch this today though.

The Warlords.

"xiong1 di4 sha1 wo3 xiong1 di4 zhe3, bi4 sha1 zhi1." woaaah. sorry people, i cant type chinese characters on my computer. heh. dont look all surprised. i happened to memorise that line.

to make a simple translation, it roughly means that if one (sworn)brother kills the other, then that brother must be killed. i think. sounds way cooler in chinese.

moving on, fifi surprised me with my belated birthday present today while i was doing my best impersonation of B.Scott.


now watch me as i strike this cd off my list.

thaaaaaanks lovemuffin. *screeches*

20 more days!
still gonna screw up my napfa after this entry.

the best feeling in the world.

ever had that kind of flu where your nose is all blocked and everytime you think you're going to sneeze, nothing comes out and it makes you feel all miserable inside? well, i'm sneezing like crazy and let me just say that it feels awesome.

i'm looking at the date and it says the 7th of january. which means, 21 more days to my friend's arrival from australia. nooo way. only 21 more!

i cant tell you how excited i am. i just havent seen that girl (that i've known since i was 13) since she left in february of 2006 so really, it's been a long time. almost 2 years. oh boy. i cant wait.

lunar new year(exactly a month away). what a great time to come. wait. she hates it, i think. oh well but i dont, so hoorah for me. heh. ...although, she'll only be here for 3 weeks before returning. damn. but on second thought, i'll probably be going over after i graduate in april(hopefully) so it's okay. i think. hope. um. well.

she promised to do something to my school. *crosses fingers* i hope she keeps it.

so yes, to be able to sneeze is awesome. :)
everytime i sneeze, i feel the love.
it's the best feeling in the world. and yes, it comes before eating chocolates.

ok. time to pop some pills.

i'm tired and blabbering. sorry. grin.

if there are 2 types of people that i really admire in this world, they would be the people who already know what they want in their lives, and the people who already have open doors waiting for them.

here i sit, only a few months away from getting my diploma, and i feel my hair turning grey. not from the excitement, not from me getting old-er. but from the many late nights(or early mornings) that i've been spending snuggled under my quilt, surrounded by the silence of the room, awake. the second-hand of the alarm clock next to my bed is ticking. i am staring blankly at the ceiling, but my mind's in a hell of a whirl. my hair is turning grey.

decisions, decisions, decisions.
and then, there is reality. you never welcome it, but it always finds it's way to your doorstep. that bloody reaper.

a mule in a land of wild horses.
also, the world cannot be screwed.

i'm wondering if this is a panic-attack. i'm not panicking. i'm not. i'm stressing out. is that the same thing? hm. i'm wondering if that is the same thing.

questions, questions, and more questions.
when there really is only one.

shit. i need to sleep. i think the light in my room is flickering.
i'm blabbering.