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Intro
i am who i am
i hate squatting toilets and people who cycle on pedestrian paths
i love my sg gibson bass guitar and playing crisis core
i spend half my life in yuhua secondary school
nothing left to lose
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Yesterday I watched Bandslam with Merv, Minnie and Mel. 4Ms! Then we watched South Park and Fringe. Yay Fringe rocks. Then Minnie, Merv and I stood at the overhead bridge leading to Lakeside MRT and played That's Your Boyfriend (or in Merv's case, That's Your Girlfriend).
Yesterday was fun.
On Monday Pervy Boy went recording. Our new song (I still don't know the title) is going to be on some compilation for Noise Singapore, if I remember correctly. Anyway it's a nice song, and I'm glad I didn't mess up the bass part.
The more you hold on to something, the more it strains to be let free. The more you can't have something, the more you want it. The more you try to forget, the more you keep remembering.
My eyes are so tired, and Christmas still isn't over.
My feet are still aching from yesterday. Thank you Rahul for walking everywhere with me and listening to me whine about my feet. =)
To the YHCB people who read this, good job yesterday. I enjoyed it, especially the percussion pieces (but I am biased that way ^^). Rising Dragons rocked!
I realised that soon I cannot refer to the Sec 4s as, well, the Sec 4s. Hmm.
Anyway, here is a nice video for you to enjoy.
Animaniacs - Noel
To spell Santa's name is easy to do You write S A N T and another A too But no L, no L Santa's name has no L And he won't be too pleased if you don't learn to spell!
Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch water from the well But when neither one could find it Jill started to yell, "No well? No well! Can't believe there's no well! We walked all the way here and I'm mad, can't you tell?!"
Captain Ahab took his crew, his harpoon and set sail And he called out to ships, "Have you seen the white whale?" "No whale, no whale, no we ain't seen no whale, Saw a couple of dolphins and a big yellowtail."
If you've listened to this tune then you probably can tell That you've heard it before, it's a song you know well Know well, know well, it's a song you know well And we've ruined it completely so we all say, "Oh well!"
Oh well, oh well We'll just say fare thee well Merry Christmas to you and a joyous Noel =)
I really don't think anybody reads my blog anymore.
Oh well.
I feel very strangled today, for some reason. Like I have all this emotion inside of me waiting to be let out, but I can't find the words, or think of what to say. Like there are invisible hands around my throat, choking me into silence.
In other news, I don't like wrapping presents. My wrapping average is 3 or 4 before I get bored and/or sleepy. And I can't wrap anything that isn't box-shaped. I HATE wrapping soft toys. Everything becomes a mess of scotch tape and badly-cut wrapping paper. And I have to sit on the floor and wrap stuff cos there's not enough space on the dining table, so my butt usually ends up hurting from that.
And I don't know why I'm talking about wrapping presents, really. Maybe because I have so many more to wrap, and I don't want to wrap any of them. I want to close my eyes and stop time. Because once Sunday comes, it goes... then Christmas will come, and go... and then New Year's will come, and go... and then it will be the first day of school again. And I don't feel like I've had a holiday at all. I don't. I feel as though I am living Yuhua all the time, always seeing YHSS people, and being either in the school itself or around it... And while I didn't mind in the beginning, I think maybe my brain is soon going to short-circuit because of it...
Someone said to me before that I was lucky to get 4E5 but unlucky to be in this school... I guess it depends how you look at it... I don't regret coming to YHSS at all, because of all the wonderful people I've met and the situations I've learnt valuable things from... But I think there will come a day when my YHSS experience will end, if only because I would have learnt all there is for me to learn from YHSS... I don't know when that day will come (and who will be around to see me through it) but I hope I will have the strength to walk away... because I usually never know how to let things go.
1. I changed the blogskin so that people would not automatically think they were at the wrong blog. Then again, this new skin isn't that much different from the previous, just that there's NO CLOUD ZOMG WHY. Will someone please make a nice Cloud skin for me?
2. I went shopping with my mom today. I bought a lot of things. I am now significantly poorer, but the good thing is that everything I bought was for other people. Well, most of it.
3. I found a bedbug crawling on me today. YUCKS! My father says I have to throw away everything, including my favourite pillow. Noooooo! &#^$*&# bedbugs!
4. My cats are so annoying. 4 out of 5 like to fight with each other (needless to say, all male cats), and the 5th likes to stand between me and the laptop screen, and if I try and move her she meows at me with her lethal fish breath.
5. My friend bought me a PSP for Christmas. ZOMG! I don't know why she's so happy to spend money on me, but I guess I'm not complaining. Asked her if I could change the colour though. LOL. Now everybody will want to be her friend too! Hahaha!
6. Tomorrow is another busy day - changing PSP, buying rest of Christmas presents, choir practice - but I am looking forward to being active and doing things that make a difference to other people. =) The other day we went carolling at Assisi Home and Hospice, and we sang "I'll Be Home For Christmas", which on hindsight probably wasn't the best of songs to sing there... But some of the people there were happy that we went... Just like when we went to Orange Valley and St Andrew's last year (which is why I missed last year's YHCB POP), and when we went to Orange Valley this year too - my sister said people were singing along and some of them even cried (though that could have been due to the quality of our singing :X).
Christmas is a good time to reflect... on what kind of person you are, who you've become... and whether you are who you're meant to be. But right now, it's very late... or early, so I am not going to reflect yet. :D
Argh cat tried to stand in front of laptop again! Annoying!
