Belle Of The Boulevard

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Belle Of The Boulevard

When i first heard this song, i thought she was labelled as a hooker.
However i think that it could just be a girl who always hangs out in bars and is looking for a guy to fall in love with, but all they want is one night.

So life is tough and things aren’t perfect, but i guess the guy who’s singing the song’ll be there to save her.

When you fall apart,
Dry your eyes, dry your eyes.
Life is always hard
For the Belle of the Boulevard.

Mamihlapinatapai.

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(kissez)

Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes spelled mamihlapinatapei) is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes

“a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.”

Interesting.

Happens awfully often.

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PLACES-TO-GO:
1. STEP: 28 oct to 4 nov
2. SC CAMP (Chiangmai): 11 nov to 15 nov
3. LEGENDARY LEADERS’ SUMMIT: 16 nov to 19 nov
4. Out with Claire Pearl Rachel Serene Clarissa Ruo
5. Out with Char Deb Cheryl
6. Out with Jaf Ie, Shirlyn, Karwai
7. SW Outing.
8. Dentist appointment: 23 nov
9. Job Interview (no i am not kidding)
8. 3F Outing

THINGS-TO-DO:
1. read 城南旧事
2. 剪报案(2 1)
3. LA Comprehension
4. LA Expository Essay
5. Copy Chemistry Notes
6. Chemistry Online Quiz
7. Math Holiday Assignment:
Circular Measure
Polynomials
Trigonometry 1
Trigonometry 2
Trigonometry 3
Quadratic Equations
8. Chem Periodic Table Assignment
9. Chemistry 2oo6 EOY Paper
10. STEP Photo Journal Reflection
11. Read History Notes from Mrs Tan and Sean (lol)
12. Binomial Theorem Assignment
13. Re-do Ten Year Series (Math1, Math2, Chem)
14. CCA Leaders Contact List
15. Legendary Leaders’ Summit Reflections
16. SC Chiangmai Reflections

No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti

righttt, so my mom drag my whole family to see this show. a film in fact. at picturehouse. therefore no food allowed.

but of course we all cheat. so we sneak in chocolates duh.

so this story’s about a poor father who is losing custody to his daughter and holds nothing back to provide for his daughter. the unique and uncliched thing is that there are no mentions of ‘I Love You’ and conversations so the love is expressed through their actions.

MY myriad of emotions: anger, injustice.
MY MOTHER’S myriad of emotions: empathy, touching.
she is super embarrassing to the max. not even halfway into the movie, she starts crying and i believe the whole theater could hear her omg.

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btw this is for serene, you like UP don’t you?

(via apinchofsalt)

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okay short post bcos i have LA Essay to do then work. will post pictures of Handover. maybe.

“Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off.”

It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.”
-Natalia Campbell

(via prettytasty)

垂涎三尺

speaking of which, during the gift exchange,
shuhui got my Cadbury chocolates,
i got edward’s Cadbury hot chocolate.

ey srsly, i live for hot chocolate there. we only get to drink if we work until 11 OR if we’re lucky. it’s super nice i kid you not.

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SO…

1. i met some srsly weird people. strange. freaky.
i think there were 6 guys and 1 girl and i think the girl was from dhs.
me: (cleaning the tables)
some guys: (whispering) ey i thought you want her number?
me: (runs away)
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guys: (ask me to clear their stuff)
me: (goes over)
guys: he wants your number!
me: (walks away)
guys: wait are you from dunman high?
me: (does a double take) how you know?
guys: oh my friend is from dunman high.
girl: (hides her face)
guys: ey he wants your number! (points at a guy)
me: (traumatized and shuhui has to drag me away)

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guys: CASSANDRA!
me: how you know?
see, from this part onwards it starts getting freaky.
girl: (hides her face)
guys: er she is getting quite pissed at me, bcos i told you about her knowing you.
me: (like i care) how old is she?
guys: one year younger than you. next year year 3.
me: what cca?
guys: same cca as you.
now,
WHEREFORE ART THY LOGIC?
i mean if you are in the same cca as me and one year younger, shouldn’t you know my number??!

2. one day, i went there earlier, so shuhui, bella and i were reading books at the dining table and junjie was eating.
edward: 在这边吃超压力的, 连吞的声音也听得到.

3. so, junjie and i started arguing. AS USUAL.
shuhui: can you all like don’t talk across my ear or not?
bcos she was between us, trying her darniest to read.

4. during our break, grace was telling us about ppl quitting,
grace: i not working, brenda not working, jj maybe also.
me, gladys and shuhui deep in thought (bcos like everyone also leaving) then suddenly sad music plays. so it’s quite epic.

update more on this post tomorrow, need go work alr bye!
(-edit)

5. and i brought my homework there to do with shuhui to help.
me: ey how to do this? ey wait wait is it like that? omg it’s correct ar?
this is called answering my own questions with questions.
shuhui: i think you know how to do, just that abit kuku.

6. rogie: oh you doing maths ar.
me: ya.
rogie: come come! i know i know!
me and shuhui: okay.
rogie: i don’t know.

7. btw i learnt NOT to lean against the door of the train. like at cityhall, i was leaning and junjie was saying something about not leaning.
me: aiya nevermind one la.
(DOORS OPEN)
he had to grab my wrist to stop me from falling backwards.
unfunny.

hey if you see the “Cassandra;” page right, it looks like it’s snowing with a christmas tree at the back, cool sia haha.

“Have yourself a merry little Christmas.”

-Judy Garland

it’s not my fault if i hear this song every day at work.

Joyeux Noël!

so today is Christmas and i am doing my homework, maths namely. polynomials, more specifically.

i remember when Christmas was about running to the stocking at the window and squeals of delight and ripping of paper.
i used to have presents like video games and barbie dolls and mounts of candy.
when i was about 9 maybe.
but then i soon found out it was my mom and dad, not the fat red man.

so now i have Christmas quietly, of paper pealed gently along the edges. of polite please and thank yous. and presents like adidas shoes and nike bags and books.

ah, changes of growing up.

anyway happy christmas folks.
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so we went out yesterday to orchard and somerset. and i really dislike the decorations. can’t they have a theme to represent singapore like “boomz” or yog or something to follow each year, instead of mixing polka dotted balls with flashing lights together?

thank you tingwei,

happy feliz navidad yourself!

“Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.”

-Fire And Ice, Robert Frost

(onon_deviantart)

Adevntures and Misadventures of Mr Wasabi
you don’t want to hear about it.
you really don’t.
i’m serious.
okay maybe you do.

so armed with a mask, gloves, bowls, water, tubs, chris and i went to make mr wasabi. should have known better. should have brought an oxygen tank.

the smell was worse than sulphur dioxide (during chem prac when i inhaled and my heart almost died) like super choking and spicy. and the parts of our arm without gloves was like in flames when in contact with the wasabi.

also, every whiff of it brought on a new wave of tears from us. i think both of us are really bad criers.
so in the end i threw away the mask bcos it was soaked in my snot (yes i know i am superbly disgusting)
so after that when we wash our hands with ice water, i had to bite my lip to keep myself from shouting an intense amount of profanities. like
&!@?*$#!!@^&**$?$%%)&@*#!!!!!!!!!

anyway please do not do this next time,

it’s really 心痛 to see all the wasabi go to waste. and as if you could finish all of it. lame. try making it yourself hmmph.

so if you eat the wasabi and you find it salty, i’m terribly sorry.

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so when i came at 1 yesterday, i saw shuhui wiping the cutleries for a good 45 mins. which is slack to a large extent.

also, she is awesome. broke a chopstick bowl (which a loud crash and clatter and which some customers added super cool sound effects like “OHHH”) and a chawanmushi bowl in a day!

so we went to buy dinner with junjie bcos no one bought dinner on that day. and i was damn awkward bcos i was trying to make a fail conversation with 2 people who do not see eye to eye.

so we came back, then we were discussing the schedules.
nancy: 现在没有人做 station, 也没有人做 runner, 我们都在这里.
junjie: 对 lor, 也没有人做 wasabi.
or something along those lines and shuhui started laughing like siao. so probably some ice was broken, bcos the only thing that allied them together was against me -.-

then shuhui and i went to clear plates, suddenly we heard one table
“were we ignoring the waiter as he was explaining to us?”
the waiter was edward so we started laughing like shit.

so chris made me wipe the tables at the closing bcos of 2 possible reasons,
1. shuhui wiped too many times.
2. he knows that i vehemently hate wiping tables.
so he helped me keep the tissue and chopstick box, but one box wasn’t refilled and there was very little left,
me: huh are you sure this one don’t need to refill?
chris: oh you caught me.
me: tsk i’m very disappointed.
chris: life is going to be hard for you.

so i think i’m going to be runner tomorrow. and i will die a terrible death. good lord. and goodbye.

“I wanna wake up feeling beautiful today, and know that I’m okay.”

-Believe In Me, Demi Lovato

(via gatekeeper)

I THINK,

i really should start believing in myself.

i really should doubt anyone.

i really should not pursue the matter.

i really should mind my own business.

also, i really should finish my holiday homework.

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SW Outing

8 out of 23 ppl came. more than one third wow not bad.

subway, then went to padang to eat. the city lights are actually quite pretty. uhm then ICE and WATER but quite fail bcos the area is quite large so florence and i zhui until ban si still haven’t catch finish.

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aaannndd i’m starting to like demi lovato. they wanted to choose this song for the year1s but used No Boundaries instead /: so we started debating on kris allen and adam lambert.

this week is mostyl dry run and work so nothing much. speaking about work, they put me as runner which was a terrible mistake. but that’s for another time.

btw,

so cute right?
more about work soon. warning, watch out.

What Would Cassandra Do?

i had this Winston Churchill quote pasted along my staircase during the EOYs.

“Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.”

— Evan Esar

at times like these, i wonder what could i do? what should i do? what would i do?

it’s like when you hear something you shouldn’t have, the road comes out from underneath your feet more quickly than you have prepared for.
and it takes you by surprise.
no, by shock, like a blow that knocks the breath out of you and you can hardly breathe.
while last night’s dinner claws its way back up even before you have taken the morning’s breakfast.

after eavesdropping so sickeningly, i sat up of my bed so fast that my head hurt and raced out of the room bcos,
Do I Really Want To Know?

1. cried my bloody eyes out.
2. paint my toenails a dusty dirty deary pink.
3. called pearl and claire.
4. went to the bus stop and called jz.
5. went to the library. 因为图书馆永远是我的避风港.

i couldn’t sit around and mope bcos Cassandra never never never never gives up. so with Plan A, suspects and clues, i set off with dusty deary dirty pink nails to face the day ahead.

(-edit)
on the mrt, a woman beside me said something like
“you’re too young to be worried about money, too pretty to worry about looks, holidays so nothing to worry about studies. it must be family and love.“
i blatantly ignored her.

“I remember Daddy told me:”Fairytales can come true,

You gotta make ‘em happen, it all depends on you”
-Almost There, The Princess and the Frog

(via shutterstock)

Discovering that what we want is not as important as what we need.

Disney Princesses
i think,
Charlotte would be Tiana (motivated, independent)/ Cinderella (determined, hardworking)
Debby would be Pocahontas (noble, playful) / Belle (free-spirited, adventurous)
Cheryl would be Aurora (playful, gentle)/ Snow White (cheerful, optimistic)

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“On the return bus trip from my night class, I noticed a very young girl fawning over my bright pink hair. Her mother discouraged her from bothering me or speaking with strangers, especially “troubled teens.” Instead, the child retorted, “She’s not troubled, Mommy– she’s a princess!” Becoming royalty for a day GMH“
(via GMH)

i think all of us are princesses in one way or another, and as much we try to hide, deep down we still do have our own fairy-tale dreams.

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YOSHINOYA.
so after plaza sing, we walked over to the Cathay to watch the movie.
and there were 3 extremely cute children behind us. and one of them pulled pearl’s ponytail halfway throughout the movie.
doe-eyed, chubby cheeks, blonde hair -gushes-

righttt so claire and pearl had to leave for guitar. when we were walking around The Cathay, suddenly there was an awful stench lingering around the first and basement levels.
with sudden realization dawning upon me, i realised it was my restaurant smell. oops.
and i didn’t say hi to chris or shuhui bcos i couldn’t find them aww.

A Cage Bird’s Dream!

so we went to orchard ion and wisma and saw many unrecognizable dunmanians. uh we knew them only bcos they were like “ey ey dunman high one ley!” then they turn around and left.

so we went to buy ice-cream just bcos we wanted to find a place to sit. tsk tsk clar and serene eat until like that -.-

went to The Face Shop to try on nail polish, i think we spent a good 20-30 mins there trying on rad and loud colors (ahem quote) like Midnight Blue and Maroon which are actually quite nice. And bold colors like Cadmium Yellow. But i’ll stick to my Seashell Pink anytime :D
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i hate my (insert expletive) internet connection. wow it’s down and i have barely 48 hours to do my chem online quiz so i’m now in the library.
-grumbles and then my face lights up again!-
yeah so a pretty good excuse to go to the library since my dad banned me from borrowing books :D
i heard some kid singing ’sorry sorry’ lol.
okay goodbye, i hope the quiz isn’t hard.
oh oh bytheway, i like Ariel and Jasmine! which disney princess do you like?

“Boom boom clap, Boom de-clap de-clap.”

(via zazzle)

Woohoo. Yes I Can!

no i am not some lamo person (unlike my bro) who spents 315 hours on youtube  staring at miley cyrus doing the throwdown hoedown on repeat. i’m doing it bcos i’m sacrificing myself, putting sc above me to attempt it albeit i have absolutely no sense of rhythm and dance.
wow, applause here please.
yes, thank you.

altho the dance looks pretty chicken-feet, it’s actually merely an optical illusion. so if you want to go ahead and try it out, look you’ve been warned.

oh yes all councillors have to dance this.
idea of charlotte choo dancing plays out ridiculously in my mind.

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Pillow Fight

we are buried.

terence killing a helpless victim aka me.

shuchuin surrenders.

tingwei holds on to many ammo at once.

truce?

so we had a meeting yesterday and only a few of us came back after lunch. so we played pool (which i failed terribly) and Wii (which i rocked at) lol my arm was terribly sore and aching after boxing, and i was sweating profusely in the air-conditioned student lounge.

but methinks a Wii is a good investment. exercise without moving your butt.

World’s Largest Gummy Bear

vat19.com is freaking crazy madness.

What A Glorious Glob Of Gummy.

Five-pound Gummy Bear is equal to 1400 regular-sized bears.
it’s booming, it’s colossal, it’s voluminous, it’s enormous, it’s magnificent, it’s gigantic, it’s powerful, it’s monstrous, it’s huge, it’s whopping, it’s jumbo, it’s humongous, it’s glorious, it’s massive, it’s SUPER.

Serving size: 0.9 ounces
Servings per WLGB: 90
Calories: 140
Sodium: 15mg
Carbs: 32g
Sugars: 22g

ooh delicious. but i bet charlotte choo hui min will kill me if i give her that. (snickers with deb and cheryl)

Methods of Consumption

bite, tear, chew. or ambush, pounce and attack rather!

this is for debby siow meow ker because she is learning to be a shu nu (altho abit unlikely, but we’ll take baby steps first :D)

Emotional Attachment

Do not take your WLGB sight-seeing in your Baby Bjorn.

Do not teach your WLGB to play the piano.

Do not feed your WLGB regular-sized gummy bears. WLGBs are not cannibals!

Do not put the World’s Largest Gummy Bear in a crib and sing him lullabies.

FAQ
i nearly fell off the chair laughing and reading this.

Q: is it really necessary to make giant versions of smaller things?
A: It’s not necessary, but it sure does make the world a happier place, don’t you think?

Q: Is it awkward to eat the genital area of the giant gummy bear? Because I’d imagine that it is.
A: Luckily our gummy bears are androgynous and do not have such areas. So, you can eat the entire gummy bear without any awkward moments.

Q: BUAHAHAHAH NOW I CAN START MY GUMMY BEAR ARMY! Will my army be eaten?
A: Not if you defend them! But I feel I must warn you that these gummy bears are very tempting and, in the end, you may eat your own troops

Q: Will the WLGB protect me from mountain lions?
A: Probably not, but maybe you’d get lucky and the mountain lion’s teeth would get stuck deep in the gummy bear or you could throw the gummy bear to distract it long enough to make your getaway.

Q: These are SO COOL!you guys are amazing:)i MUST buy one for my party!-_-
A: Yes, you MUST!

Q: How many of these GUMMY BEARS would I have to purchase to survive WWIII ?
A: What type of survival are we talking about? Stopping bullets? As a food supply to sustain you? Distracting the enemy with its awesomeness?

Q: Do you think it is possible to eat the WLGB in one sitting?
A: Sure, but that sitting might be a long sit.

Q: How do you keep away a father with a big appetite away from my WLGB?
A: Hide it, and hide it well.

Q: The WLGB is so AMAZING but im worried about buying 1 because it’s bigger than my dog and it might scare him, should I still buy it?
A: Yes! It’ll only be bigger than your dog when it first arrives. After you eat some and it gets smaller your dog won’t be as scared.

Q: Why isn’t “Awesome” included in the ingredients?
A: Awesome is the result.

Awesome.
Fantastic.
Definitely On My Christmas Wish List.