flash floods and economics

1. i found the flash floods amusing.

i know that's evil of me, but they're the closest we have to 'natural disasters'. like finally we can apply what we're learning in physical geog. and its quite exciting for it to happen right outside our doorstep. too bad couldn't see it. but i am truly sorry for the unfortunate few affected. it must suck to take the paper when you're drenched and cold.

2. i hate econs

i hate when you study really really hard and whatever you've learnt doesn't come out and you can't apply whatever stuff you crammed in your head and the questions are so weird you're literally stuck and you just write jibberish.

i hate econs.

after today, no more econs! can't wait!

3. i really don't like a levels

besides maths and physics, the other papers are really argh! phy geog makes me want to pull my hair out, econs makes me want to curse (i was so frustrated after the paper i crushed the question paper, went home and blasted hard core metal music to calm me down. evanescence is the most effective i feel)

this makes me question if its my own fault, or if all along i'm so used to doing the tough hwa chong questions that when i see these type of weird questions i have no idea what to do?

4. music rocks

super calming effect. i think i can't live without my ipod. i have decided to support the truly talented artistes by buying their albums. but only the truly talented of course.

5. britney spears is still my idol

i was watching a documentary called "Britney Spears: For the Record." why don't they sell it in singapore???

she's been through alot of shitty stuff, but you must admit, she's a survivor. after getting her heart broken, and losing her family, if she can still come up with great songs and smile for the cameras. she's a survivor.

this blogpost is very random and crappy. thats because i'm in a crappy mood in view of the econs paper i'm about to take later and my absolute repulsion against it.

its ok, i've already mentally prepared myself for the worst. who cares about results anyway? i don't need those stupid results. i don't even want to pursue econs. its just an alphabet. one teeny weeny alphabet. whatever.

this post is so crappy. and bimbotic. i'm embarrassed. whatever.

secrets

ryan tedder is amazing...

besides writing/producing happy, bleeding love, already gone and halo, his OneRepublic songs are so incredible. not only the melody, but his lyrics are like wow.

at first i preferred all the right moves, but now i kinda like secrets better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHg-GGYF9zU&feature=related

all the right moves

gosh they're great

blew me away

the circling ant

i like how meg ryan's character says that she doesn't want and answer, just wants to send a question out into the void.

i think thats why i blog. i don't want anything in return, merely just to get it out of my head, into that wide invisible nowhere...

after a levels i'm going to read LOTR, and all of Jane Austen's novels, and learn Japanese.

Last night I was in the kitchen, and this poor little ant seemed in distress. It was going around in mini circles, I counted 20 at least, on the same spot, or at least the same tile. Then, it crossed over to the next tile, and continued its frantic circling.

makes you wonder what its thinking huh...

i love the small little things in life.

the other day i was at the bus stop in the heavy rain, and i was enchanted by how the rain accumulated together on the ceiling, and fell as little droplets. and so many of them at once.

and you wonder where that little droplet came from...

i am determined that in my next life, if i ever have one, i'll be born in the Jane Austen era. Wear pretty dresses, dance country dances, have nice long walks in large meadows, and converse in that wonderfully sophisticated manner which i can never master now.

my brother returned yesterday from his field camp. he was sharing horror stories of digging i-have-no-idea-what in the rain and cooking leaves and freezing at night. he hated it there, in the army, and i suppose its reasonable. who wouldn't when you're being forced to do silly things against your will, or when you're being punished and scolded at for the littlest trifles, especially when the fault does not lie with you.

reminds me of council camp, the whole 'tekan' saga. the secret is to bite your lip and press on, and forget the whole thing once its over. i remember when i asked a council senior what was the point of 'tekaning'. she told me somethings there's no reason. great. but really i don't believe in it because you'll never learn anything from it, just how to further cause pain and misery for your future juniors.

thats why i never liked scolding people. there are so many other ways to teach something.

first day of a levels.

the last swimming pool to wade across before we meet the raging sea.

you've got mail

life doesn't stop because its a levels

but why do i get this feeling like there is this humongous weight on my head pressing me down?

"Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life. Well, not small, but valuable. And sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void."

~ Meg Ryan's Character in You've Got Mail

yes it should be the other way around.

i want to write my own story. but that takes guts. guts which i lack.

that is why i admire people who are 'weird'.

they're not afraid of what people think. (just look at marilyn manson!)

they're truly the brave ones.

new skin

my old skin died. the pics are gone. and somehow mac doesn't allow me to get skins from blogskins. so i just did up this simple skin. i apologize if its too pink.

north and south

from BBC's North & South

beautiful visuals

and the music... beautifully heartbreaking

'I believe I've seen hell. It's white, it's snow-white.'

great exectations

JOAN DIDION:

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves -- there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

the sound of music

probably one of the best films of all time...

The hills are alive
With the sound of music
With songs they have sung
For a thousand years

The hills fill my heart
With the sound of music
My heart wants to sing ev'ry song it hears

My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds
That rise from the lake to the trees
My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies
From a church on a breeze

To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls
Over stones on its way
To sing through the night
Like a lark who is learning to prey

I go to the hills
When my heart is lonely
I know I will hear
What I've heard before

My heart will be blessed
With the sound of music
And I'll sing once more

~

i am seriously a dreamer

life ought to be a movie

really funny

i'm so funny really

in my dumbness i thought the uc deadline was 30th oct

and i got stressed out over my PS

especially after i found an online site where students upload (or show off) their PSes and I feel that mine is so inferior

but haha whaddya know, deadline is 30th NOV!!! hahahaha

more time to stress over my PS!

fantastic.