happy new year

horror of horrors! i met clara in the taka TOILET today! haha fancy meeting your roommate in the weirdest place possible.

there's been nothing much to blog about these few days :( something interesting: mr loh sent this hilarious email to the class titled "Goodbye". that guy is so funny! and i dont know if this new ct thing is a good thing, cos mr bodybuilder loW makes me feel WEIRD. well we'll find out soon enough!

running out of things to say :( so here's wishing everyone a happy new year! we'll survive.

love
bird

eeps i haven't felt like blogging. i still don't really. i'm not sure whether i'm looking forward to school... i like having some kind of order in my life. and holidays don't really allow it. but... i'm a bit apprehensive about the new term because:

1. i'll probably get lost a few million times in the school
2. our new ct is a bit strange. soft spoken. with big biceps. [my mom was mortified when she found out we changed ct: how is he going to write a good testimonial??]
3. the canteen seems really far from class
4. we have noon pe on tues. frizzled and frazzled
5. our new physics teacher freaks me out.
6. we end frigging wednesdays at 1055!!!!!
7. one of our THREE lessons on wed is pe! the injustice of it all...
8. i end late every day [including wed cos of trng.. which will start at like 230??]
9. lecture groups are a bit larger right? bleah
10. i have to wake up early!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yay. anyway my cousin from malaysia is here for jc. at anderson. poor kid. he looked so miserable at hostel. and i don't think i'm going for the 403 countdown party today cos it's too far. nice dinner with my grandma anyway!

i realized.

i'm still stuck on math hw page 2.
i havent done any freaking tutorials!
6 days to school reopening!
horror of horrors! I'M IN J2 NEXT YEAR!
someone save me.

haha nice pictures bird! the kids look so cute :)

hmmm i've really nothing much to say. india wasn't as great as i would have liked cos of an extremely terrifying episode. gosh it freaked me out so bad i don't think i've cried that much in ages. my sis got to sit first class back. and slept the entire trip.

we threw a surprise party for my elder sister yesterday. it went so well! haha the blur girl had no idea we had it all planned despite us being so blatantly obvious during the planning period. she kind of yelled in shock and horror when all her friends popped up from behind the sofa. her expression was priceless! yup so surprise parties are really nice.

er chris won survivor. hooray i guess. he was the only person we were rooting for. and the o.c. ended. boohoo.

my hair is growing out now. so it looks like shit sticking out at weird angles to my head. i hope my hair colour looks ok.

i still haven't finished missing everything!

i miss the tuktuk! i miss the children in laos. (trust me, singaporean kids are a NIGHTMARE compared to those adorable children) i miss 202. i miss 201. i miss twinkly eyes! (the charmer!) i miss mich's ah beng and her crazy obsession with his gloves! i miss cooking with clara and paula and jingli and shona and joel and bobo! and listening to bobo whine about his laos rice gone all wrong and sticky. i miss making fun of bobochacha! i miss my friendly chio bu who smiled at everyone all the time! i miss meeeeeee! and saa! i miss vang vien, sitting in the balcony playing truth or truth, lying down freezing our asses off trying to look for shooting stars, waking up early for the sunrise but not finding it, taking pictures by the river with the beautiful scenery! i miss pigging out on banana chips in 201! i miss jaya's screams during slapjack and her funny enchantress thing! i miss eating PRATA (omg, the prata is heavenly!) at night! i miss all the boring reflections we did every night! i miss teasing john and jaya and timothy! (love triangle!) i miss being mistaken for vicky and sometimes suyin! i miss everything!

but it did happen! it really did :)

now i shall get back to the sad reality of life. write my christmas cards, do my math hw, freak myself out thinking about how to survive next year........

back from laos :)

laos was GOOD. i had alot of fun.. and it was much better than i expected. :) we had really nice spacious rooms with beds and mattresses and pillows and blankets! i expected like small rooms and 4 people squeezing on the bed or floor. and we had clean toilets for shitting and peeing and bathing in. oh i must sound so retarded. but there was a HOLEY WINDOW in our toilet so we froze our asses off in the mornings. and it freaked me out when i was bathing in the toilet and i could hear like people talking and walking along the corridor. cos anyone taller than me could look in and see everything. which means almost all the guys. but they were on another floor so i guess we were just being paranoid.

we didnt do that much gardening in the mornings. but gardening was interesting.. learnt how to dig holes and make fences for creepers and plant plants. and i think our group was quite slack compared to the other group.. (our group, unfortunately, was called POWER RANGERS while the other was mou. which means friend in lao. i think) and we got to teach english almost every second day in each school cos we finished working on the gardens..

ahhh it's only a day and i'm already missing laos! i miss sitting in the tuktuk (although i seriously think you could die from inhaling all that exhaust smoke and polluted air) and doing stupid things like waving at motorists on the streets. i miss going to room 201 to talk and prepare kits and play cards!! i miss the kids! i miss floppy haired guy! i miss laughing at BOBO. and making fun of watimah. and everything. oh well.

like what paula said, we should be glad that at least it happened.

thank you everyone for being part of the awesome experience. :)
jaya, paula and vicky: thanks for opening up your cosy room to our group and putting up with all the mess we created every night cutting skeletons and preparing kits. and you are all part of our group too! :)

sarabird, clara and haowen: you've been great room mates! thanks for being really fun and putting up with my meanness. ahah especially watimah!

lizhen, tohqi, mich, john, timothy, jaya, paula, vicky, the whole tuktuk group!!: thanks for all the crazy and stupid but fun moments we had in the exhaust smoke filled tuktuk :) you all make up the best tuktuk group ever! we must keep in touch!

love
bird

"tips on how to survive at sea after a shipwreck"

1. always read instructions carefully.

2. do not drink urine. or sea water. or bird blood.

3. do not eat jellyfish. or fish that are armed with spikes. or that have parrot-like beaks. or that puff up like balloons.

4. pressing the eyes of fish will paralyze them.

5. put up your feet at least 5 minutes every hour.

6. unnecessary exertion should be avoided. but an idle mind tends to sink, so the mind should be kept occupied with whatever light distraction may suggest itself. playing card games, Twenty Questions and I Spy With My Little Eye are excellent forms of recreation. community singing is another sure-fire way to lift the spirits. yarn spinning is also highly recommended.

7. green water is shallower than blue water.

8. look for green. ultimately, a foot is the only good judge of land.

9. do not go swimming. it wastes energy. besides, a survival craft may drift faster than you can swim. not to mention the danger of sea life. if you are hot, wet your clothes instead.

10. do not urinate in your clothes. the momentary warmth is not worth the nappy rash.

11. so long as no excessive water is lost through perspiration, the body can survive up to 14 days without water. if you feel thirsty, suck a button.

12. don't let your morale flag. be daunted but not defeated. remember: the spirit, above all else, counts. if you have the will to live, you will. good luck!

---yann martel

bird is gone! but it won't be the last you'll see of her. darn.

anyway cip over the weekend. so that's 30 hours in the bag. it was an awfully boring convention. at singapore expo. i mean how many people actually go to singapore expo?? sat was bleak bleak bleak. hardly anybody came at all. yesterday was a little bit better. cos of all the crazy teenage girls who came at 7 in the morning to queue up to see the final 3 singapore idols. [they were only coming at 2 btw] yikes. well they were really good live. even, as much as i hate to say this, sylvester! haha gosh he is so skinny. seeing all those fanatic girls screaming their freaking heads off at him... gee i was trying to imagine bird doing that at the jay chou concert. hmmm....... anyway we packed up at 7 even though the convention was supposed to end at 9. haha loupok. i think the only really fun part of this weekend was me and my sis racing on the wheelchairs. yup. that was the only fun part. unless you count the overzealous candle man telling us about how wonderful candle craft is and hearing him go: "wow the ice candles selling so fast? wah see i told you they are so popular." er ok. sigh.

yay my sister is coming back soon! and apparently she bought me a salmon pink sweater to wear to india. yuck! i don't like that colour at all. i have to figure out some way to get her to return it fast. or i'll be stuck looking like a doofus in india. oh no. i really can't figure out the weather in india. it's supposed to be cold but cold enough to wear winter trench coats? somehow i can't imagine people in delhi rushing about their daily business in posh nosh coats.

bird is devastated. bird thinks that singapore idol is boring. bird thinks that singapore idol is sad. bird thinks that taufik is too polished and wannabe westernized. bird thinks that singaporeans chose taufik cos they dont want to lose FACE. si ai mian zi. bird thinks. that sylvester will survive longer in the music industry. bird thinks that JAY CHOU is still the best. so bird cant be bothered to comment any further on lousy singapore idol. bird thinks that ymw is becoming a super freak reading funny books like life of pi! bird thinks that she doesnt like any other mystery book writers except agatha christie. bird thinks that she will destroy her piano playing ability trying to stuff her sleeping bag into that puny pouchy thing. bird thinks that she'll go mad cutting 50 skeletons out for LAOS. bird thinks that she's not excited about laos. bird thinks that she might poison everyone on cooking day. bird thinks that she needs to start packing soon. bird thinks that sara is deluded cos she thinks that she's gentle, soft spoken and medium. bird thinks that her holidays suck. bird wants to go to sleep.

where's bird? must be weeping after the defeat of sly. haha. all i can say is i'm glad singapore idol is over. better tv on wed please!

had a nice time at cons' place today. playing pool. for the first time in my life. and watching infernal affairs 1&2. oh boy the first one was good! although is the movie supposed to be in cantonese? cos either the mandarin dubbing sucked or their looping was dreadful. the storyline reminded me a bit of face/off... and andy lau with that haircut reminded me of *horrors of horrors* dick lee. poor guy. the second one wasn't so good but edison chen is cute! haha anyway i was thinking, i should open up more to asian films. i think the only other ones i've watched are the jack neo movies. oops. hmmm but definitely no horror for me. now i'm wondering whether i should watch infernal affairs 3. but maybe that's a bit much.

well books. no science fic for a while. finished when we were orphans by kazuo ishiguro (i think). a rather strange book i think. it's supposed to be "really good" according to brainiac friends of mine... but i guess i'm not at their intellectual level yet so i can't appreciate it. now it's life of pi. i really like his style of writing. ugh and now my friend thinks i'm a total dweeb cos she called to ask me out for lunch and i said, "er i'm reading now." oh no. i meant to say that i'd already had my lunch, was reading my book waiting to leave for my long walk to training. but i guess only a fraction it came out :(