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She is unpredictable, frequent moodswings. Sometimes she’s nice, and sometimes she’s not.
Her name is Yan Ying. 90% of the world can’t pronounce it properly, simple as it seems. But no one really cares so they just call her YY. She is not fond of people with the same name as her. She turns 14 on 6th September and she loves her birthday cause it is a sex symbol. She was from Yew Tee Primary and is still proud of her school. She will never forget the class of 6D’07, or the batch of P6’07. She is currently an idiot in Nanyang Girls High and it is a love-hate relationship. She belongs to 202’09 which she, to be honest, doesn’t feel much for. She is a Theatre Club girl and is more than proud to be one. She especially loves Emo Batch♥, and looks forward to devoting her next 3 years to TCN with much optimism. She does ballet with more than just passion but she can’t do a center split. She is trying her best and is currently aiming for a far-fetched distinction for Grade6. She loves hiphop just as much though she’s pretty new at it. Her favourite sport is swimming and she occasionally plays basketball as a form of stress-relief. She likes to be tan and loves her swimming tan line. The piano, is yet another love-hate relationship. Like most teenagers, her hobbies include MSNing, blogging, and youtubing and facebooking. She loves shopping and doing random stuff like gaying people, jumping over railings, walking in the rain, and having completely irregular sleeping hours. Unlike most teenagers, she thinks that rap music is trash. She also thinks that she is getting old cause she hates the songs the average listens to these days. She can’t explain her love for oldies, country music, ballads, and sentimentals. Nostalgic songs are the best. Her favourite bands are Michael Learns to Rock, The Beatles and Westlife. She loves too many singers to name them all. “Forevers” are bullshit as of now. The night speaks to her the way no one else can. Her favourite thing to do is to curl up with a book on a rainy afternoon in her room, where she feels safest in. Her favourite flower is a black rose, but on the contrary, she likes rainbows and hugs too. She is always torn between two. But she is determined when she sets her mind on something, so she wants the world to shut up and believe in her. Just watch.Tag
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Monday, June 01, 2009, 11:59 PM
i find it hard to tell you, i find it hard to take.
There's a horrible sinking feeling you get when you drop something into the basin hole, out of carelessness, like you're never gonna get it back and it's gone for good. I dropped the necklace which my godmother gave me in there two nights ago and was alternating between the usage of shit and f--- while peering desperately into the hole. Fortunately my dad pumped it up for me, was possible because the water pipe is curved. Thanks daddy I love you. (:Piano concert was Saturday night, small-scale nothing big. Screwed the first song up entirely but didn't care and the second one was okay (video's up on fb, not very good though). Exam's on 11 June but I know myself and I'll only start spam practising a week before, three days before even. I can't seem to get the arpeggios right even though it's supposed to be one of the easiest techniques to master, or is it not. I keep slipping and I suck at aiming. Either way, we went for supper afterwards and I couldn't stop myself from shoving chicken wings and satays in my mouth. So there.
And I need to work on splits, don't want to go back to the rigid days again. I need to run as well cause I haven't had any motivation to do that after 2.4, I need to swim more but this one's fine cause I'm starting to love it alot. I need to struggle through Romeo and Juliet, don't understand at all why the shit we have to do such a boring book it for LA. I need to clear my wardrobe cause it's exploding with clothes I don't even wear anymore. I need to read more Chinese books.
Speaking of the last point. I completed a Chinese book two days ago within a day, and I swear it's my first one in seven years. I mean I should have read fairytales before that right? Now I don't even finish 课本s since they are useless anyway, back then you still could mug 词语s but now it's all dependent on your range of vocabulary, how fluent you are, whatever. You know I probably shouldn't take up any special programme at all next year, it doesn't really make you inferior does it? And it's not as if anyone gives a shit what special programme you were in when you're out in the working world since they say whatever you learn in secondary school is essentially crap.
Back to the Chinese book. It's called "你总有爱我的一天" and it sucks. I've decided to start out with the cliche love ones since they are the easiest to understand. It's only 145 pages, the words aren't very small, at least I know about 70% of the words.. And the cover design is pretty awesome. Can't possibly leave my book record empty and just penning down random book names I haven't read would be sort of like cheating myself.
I've also started and completed "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" last Thursday, "A book so simple, so seemingly effortless that it's almost perfect" - Irish Independent. I admit I don't know much about the Holocaust but it was still a good read nonetheless. Poor child who didn't even know what was going on, didn't even know he was living beside a concentration/ extermination camp. So you're saved from the blood, gore and tears and actually reading from the point of view of an innocent child, it's not first person narrative but you get what I mean. The ending was seriously sad even though the tone of writing was still quite apathetic, maybe even lighthearted.
The author said that he believed the only respectful way for him to deal with the subject was through the eyes of a child, and particularly through the eyes of a rather naive child who couldn't possibly understand the terrible things that were taking place around him. "After all, only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all."
"And then the room went very dark and somehow, despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let it go."
What else. Watched "Whose Life is it Anyway?" at HCJC on Friday and it was good apart from the long dialogues, long dialogues and more long dialogues. Obviously it was more meaningful, professional, and the stage was definitely neater (-_-) than Under Pressure but being the ever shallow person I preferred the latter cause it was so freaking funny and made my day. Still the play last Friday left room for thoughts even though it's a topic I've been debating with myself after reading "Mercy". For self-benefit I would be all for Euthanasia since I'm not the type that would like to die slow painful deaths - actually who does but I'm definitely more impatient than most - but you'll have to consider the other undesirable implications that would cause as well.
Haha so basically the way I'm blogging now I'm just jumping from point to point. Slimology. Performance at ACSI on Wednesday, some LA fest thing apparently, for Primary 4 kids. Wonder if they'll even understand, "Ana-Anorexia? Mia-Bulimia?" It's seriously a well-written and awesome script though, one of the fewer plays that left a lasting impression on me while crewing for Choral & Drama last year. It's accomplishing and satisfying how every new project taken on in Theatre, whether large-scale or small-scale, makes me learn something new (and cool!). Like this one I learnt how to connect floodlights in a room setting though it once seemed very complicated and impossible with all the cables strewn around. Ahh you know, better than some of you people with testosterone out there, at least this girl here knows how to do some technical work.
"You hang in there, sweetie. It’s coming for you, just like you always wanted."
CIPs and streetsales are all cancelled due to the H1N1 virus. Missing out on alot of fun cause apparently I've scheduled my entire Week 3 for it, one per day. No I'm not exactly a good samaritan, cough, but I'm doing it for the fun of it. Something's not quite right, dear, not when I read and reread it. But well, change is inevitable, especially for you isn't it? Perhaps it's for the better, perhaps I shouldn't be so selfish.
And today I felt pretty damn good. Slimology rehearsal started at ten but I didn't know, so I ended up arriving in school at around eight. After many futile attempts of reading my Chinese book I gave up and went to run staircases. Iffera introduced me this one and it's less taxing yet your muscles feel more "worked" afterwards, which is good I guess, however it doesn't really train your stamina or mental willpower. Went swimming in the after rehearsal, alternated between four laps breaststroke two laps freestyle, did forty in all.
And then it was ballet right after, extra lessons with Year 1 Grade 6s. It's quite embarrassing and annoying at the same time how the Year 2 Grade 6 class I take is so much more unproductive and unfocused than the Year 1s, it's like in a few more months they'd be almost comparable to us. Or probably there's just people in there who don't give a shit at all and waste dance space right YK. Apart from that ballet has been getting funner and funner, I absolutely love the character dance, think it's one of my favourite dances throughout the 6 grades.
Went home for dinner, practised piano, and then went for ballet again. Guess that's about all for today.
Term 2's officially over, guess it passed so fast I didn't realize it was over at all. Like everyone else I think it's the most hectic term of the year, most accomplishing as well I guess. Referring to my table calendar from March-May there has been quite some stuff going on, pretty much the average but still yeah. From the depressing SYF when I lost immense hope, to block tests which I really tried to study hard for this time, and SIAs which I actually put in effort into and not just leave messes for others to clear up. Frankly I wouldn't say I've changed like wow great revolution I'm perfect now, but perhaps things did take a turn in terms of work attitude, perhaps a slight one but still good enough I guess.
On to the minor stuff now, 2.4km, 5 stations, sec one's play, theory exam, council interview, lit mentorship screening, etc. Some I've put in effort into, some I haven't. Been running on most mornings for the past five months if I stop now I'll really feel like I've gained and extra tyre of fat, and I don't want that. It is ridiculously unfair how some people are naturally so freaking skinny they can down plates of food without putting on weight while others have to work out like crazy just to stay in shape. Sec one's play was fun, fun doing lights it was just like wow, my dream part of Theatre, fun sitting in for the rehearsals during the two weeks break after SYF. As for council interview, well, it's like sometimes I seriously want it so much but there's always this rebellious side of me somewhere within no matter how hard I try to contain it.
Love for clique and batchmates goes without saying. (:
Lastly, my korean-crazed deskie. Really one of the best deskmates ever cause there's alot of ahem, rather personal stuff we share the same views on, and if you're thinking what I'm thinking you're thinking, it's seriously not so much on bitching about other people, more about bitching about ourselves to each other. Well, some self-reflection is good at times. Stupid things we do like sitting up straight and shaking our heads left to right like retards make me laugh just by thinking about it. How we influence each other both positively and negatively is like, diffusion? By any chance if we have to change seats next semester I don't think I'll be very comfortable with sitting beside someone else for quite some time.
Actually, I think I'll stop here if not I'll get really personal and in depth about myself, the change I feel around me, friendships w/e, which is not exactly ideal for a public blog like this. Actually I'm already rather in depth haha you can find stuff you're unhappy with above and flame me, it's okay.
OMG AND AMERICAN IDOL. HOW CAN I FORGET. Definitely one of the best things that happened in term two, desperately took time off from my busy schedule just to watch this. It's worth it though, idk how I can survive term 2 without it haha!
seany (27 May 09, 00:08)
Idk. But quite cool right. (:
enning(!!) (27 May 09, 16:28)
It is disturbing! Haha omg I miss you. o_o
Jiaying. (27 May 09, 20:24)
I'm, cough, really sick.
geog (27 May 09, 21:54)
Okay June hols confirm must go out at least once k. Probably one of the days before or after ballet!
shumin (27 May 09, 22:41)
Yeah I was very sick indeed! Idk why couldn't type alot, but I changed the settings back and it's okay now already. (:
shu hui (28 May 09, 19:13)
Yup I'm hunting for the movie! Have you watched it?
weelin (28 May 09, 19:25)
Oh man can't believe CIPs are all cancelled out already. The school is totally _. Don't you feel sad too? ):
sx (29 May 09, 14:40)
Haha Zac Efron! Ohmygod I love that photoshop picture. Shu Hui if you're here can you photoshop Wuzun (find out who that is LOL) with long hair? Just long hair is enough. (:
poochy (31 May 09, 00:20)
Whaooo haha long time no tag! Great to see you again, how are you doing too? Okay stupid question you're obviously busy. Either way good luck with stuff. (:
rachel wu(:, Denise (31 May 09, 18:28, 1 Jun 09, 21:26)
Will do!
sx (1 Jun 09, 11:11)
Screw you!
And one last final thing about term 2? I'll miss TKAM alot.
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