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

“Wearing the holes in the soles of her shoes.”

-Story Of A Girl (Absolutely), Nine Days

At the end of every (tiring, excruciating, painful) day,
1. my soles ache like bloody hell,
2. my apron and clothes stink to the max aannndd
3. i have to drag my barely alive body home around 11.30pm.

However,
i kind of like the job altho it’s my first time and it’s killing me. because i get to meet alot of ahem interesting people. for example,

A whole group of university students. and then they kept asking me to serve them. and for the 5819301 time they wanted me to refill their tea, suddenly all of them pointed to one guy and said “He has a very interesting question to ask you.”
hesitantly, the guy was like “errr, how old are you?”
me “fifteen”
then the their whole table was like slapping his back and laughing and like “awww” so from then on, i tried to stay away from their table.

bryan chua and his cousins i think. when he saw me and when i saw him (which was at the same time) both of us were like “ey?!” and stared at each other, altho my mind was “wthell?!”

2 men (who i found out from my supervisor that they were regulars). so they called me over and we had a strange, freaky and ji-ko-pei-ish conversation.
them: “你会做 accounts 吗?
me: “oh 我不喜欢.”
them: “我们在请人.”
i smile at walk away. and they call me back.
them: “你这边做会辛苦吗?”
me: “还可以.”
them: “你住哪里?”
me: “kembangan.”
them: “你几点放工?”
me: “10.30.”
them: “很迟, 但是你住很近 ar.”
so i looked at the clock and thankgod it was break time so i dashed into the staff room and avoided coming out if possible.

my colleagues. let’s name phillipino A and malaysian B
B: you! come out and mop the plates la
A: mop what mop? okay i go take the mop
B: no no come? wet the plates!
A: what wet? the plates already wet!
B (asking me): 抹怎么说?
me: wipe.
B: come and white the plates!!
all of us burst out laughing.

also i have since decided to do my homework during the break times. as many of them there are 19, 20 in university and poly, they always try to help me. albeit quite fail la, bcos they forgot their stuff already. then we end up wasting time laughing and guessing. bcos i start work at 7, i had one more hour for break while they started at 6.30, so i was doing math. then junjie came in with a bundle of different colored straws and said “your inspiration.”

and we are allowed to drink the grape juice, then junjie and grace ask me “you like or not? no taste right?” i pondered for a minute and i was like “can smell, cannot taste.” so 3 of us started smelling things like coffee and stuff lol.

i think the work can be quite enjoyable. without a certain aunty there, who is freaking irritating and super hypocrite. like acts rlly nice to the customers but complain about them behind their backs. and she thinks she knows everything. but thankgoodness she doesn’t work on weekends and only works for lunch shift :D so i try to avoid her as much as possible lol.
altho i am still trying not to flinch whenever she shouts out “CASSANDRA” and the whole restaurant looks while i try to hide.

so alright long post. no pictures. truly regretful.
my shift starts at 6.30pm ciao.

World Aids Day 2oo9- Universal Access & Human Rights.

That’s the theme for WAD o9.

According to UNAIDS estimates,
33.4 million people living with HIV, including 2.1 million children.
During 2008 some 2.7 million people became newly infected with the virus An estimated 2 million people died from AIDS.
Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35.

10 years to live. Good Lord.

when the school reopens, i will buy a red ribbon from mancini.

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First Day @ Work

hiy’all. how’s life with your holiday homework coming along?
firstly, please congratulate me on my first day at work.
secondly, i honestly don’t think i will ever touch japanese food. again.
after a day of clearing plates and cleaning tables and serving tea and billing people, my hands stink of wasabi and soy sauce and soap.

Holy Moly!
i have earned $20 today!
ah the sense of satisfaction is starting to sink it.

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ps.
1. i have made an absolutely ridiculous deal with good old dad. (or ye old dad rather) 1 piece of homework = usage of compauter. essays and zuowen = twice the period of use.
2. devoured 7 books in 3 days. i can rlly live in a library.
3. WHICH BAG SHOULD I BUY?

“Oh sugar sugar, you are my candy girl.”

-Sugar Sugar, The Archies

The Candy Chronicles

1. Objective: get $4’s worth of sweets.
2. after endless piling and adding of gummies and marshmallows and sugar, we finally got a $3.80.
3. so we added in a few more, and it jumped to $4.55.
(so apparently, the sweets that char took were ahem quite heavy)
4. Plan B: throw back the sweets charlotte took.
(frantically stuffing back the 8 fatasses into their respective boxes)
5. HOWEVER, it became $3.85 instead. and we tried to find out the root cause of the 5 cents.
6. we decide to take some others and it turned out to be $4.10.
7. angry, pissed off and bushuang, we left exceeding our goal.

*Any Minitoon staff reading this, i am not a thief nor a terrorist, i only think about butterflies and fairies and Winnie the Pooh. On a separate note, i have about SGD4.35 in my wallet.

ahem while waiting for cheryl who was late.

so we saw a quite pretty notebook and were considering to buy when we flipped to the last page,  we saw doodles.
flashback last year november.
we were comparing 2 notebooks and considering to buy when we realised one of them had around 10 pages missing.
deja vu.

PLEASE DO NOT LEAN ON GLASS.
debby says the person who was helping us take the photo “teaching us a lesson”
irony huh.

Christmas Carol: when the lights were dim and the show was about to start, a group of guys suddenly came in and then we all heard a “ji-bai” in the midst of the darkness 0.O

Pizza Hut: our server was a guy called isaac who served deb and cheryl the other time as well and apparently they sat at the same place as where we sat.
when we walked to pizza hut again, we saw him and he quickly looked away lol.
i think debby scared him.

debby: i dunno i dunno i dunno.
me: why why why
debby: because because because
me: yeah right yeah right yeah right
debby: enough enough enough
me: okay okay okay
debby: all your fault!
well you get the gist. sound familiar with the msn convo i had?

WHICH BAG SHOULD I BUY?

“My heart is racing to you like a rocket.”

-Rocket, Yellowcard

(took from Toys ‘R’ Us)

Hi i am a rocket. Zoom.

i know this is a little random but, why do they say ‘The Sky’s The Limit’ when people have walked on the moon?
doesn’t makes sense to me.

anyway i just drank rocket fuel so i’m extremely hyper now. yay all set and fuelled-up to Pack. My. Room.

(surveys the mess…)

Good Lord.

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3F Goes To Sentosa

one-fifth of 3F rather. hey well it was 32 at first, then to 2o plus, then at least 15 could come, and suddenly all of them went mia in last minute cancellations /:

EPIC VOLLEYBALLING.

we were walking along  the beach then there was a familiar “eh cassandra!” lol yes so we saw terence tan and he was with some other people like yulong and wenkai playing cards.

then it rained so we played cards. when it stopped, clar, mel and i went to play vball.

1. INVENT IMAGINARY NAMES & FRIENDS
bcos there were only 3 of us, there were empty spaces between. thus,
小华, 小明, 小美 were born!
so then the ball rolled to 小美’s place, and she was slacking so all of us were like “小美! 小美!” but an extremely nice guy went to help us pick up instead. then his friends started laughing because we called him 小美 lol.
oh yeah, and we invented 小便 who was situated in the center.

2. BALD HEADS REFLECT BEST
ooh wow i am so awesome. when the ball rolled to somewhere else, a guy picked it up and punched it to me. but i accidentally hit it and it bounced on a guy’s bald head. and since there wasn’t hair, it didn’t cushion the hit and bounced to somewhere else. and all the people around were laughing. as in srsly, the beach was crowded. and i covered my face and hid.

3. CATCHING WITH SMALL CHILDREN IS NOT MY FORTE
sucks ley. we went to the fountain to wash our sandy legs and we saw small children playing, then a small guy was holding a pail filled to the brim with water, so i was like “her! her!” pointing at clar. then claire and clar both pointed at me, so i outnumbered lor.
and he started to chase me so i ran.
round and round the fountain.
in circles.
many times.
surrendering, i shouted “peace! peace!” but the guy didn’t care, so ta-da i got pwned.

hi oscar!

bye sentosa.

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Post-3F-Outing

everyone went back, leaving clar, mancini and me.
so we didn’t watch movie bcos all the current movies are like bleh /:

TOYS ‘R’ US

kiddies ‘R’ clar, mancini and i then.

geoffrey is a giraffe!

doesn’t he look like he’s pointing mid fing?

colorful lego blocks :D

spongebob is facebooking!

hi yu-zhen, how’s life?

geoffrey in space :D

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XMAS @ VIVO

this looks damn fake, like the christmas tree was photo editted behind haha.

omg the Glowing Monster is chasing us!

this is me. i have red eyes. roar.

this is clar. she doesn’t have red eyes.

by the way, clar and i have hired mancini as our personal stylist and shopper. ha dibs on him first.

“oh no you shouldn’t wear that, your skin color too brown. you need to have some sort of contrast.”
“hmm that bag to big and bulky for you, because you are too short.”
“that watch is nice but doesn’t suit you, maybe a little smaller.”

so we went adidas, and i saw an ADIDAS HOODED PULLOVER WHICH IS DAMN NICE. but
it’s $109.
and it’s for guys.

ohwells whatever, my personal shopper says it’s nice :D

“And i’ll taste every moment, and live it out loud.”

-Time Of My Life, David Cook

My Parents Are Outta Town!

like seriously. finally. i mean i love them yeah, but they recently turn freaky and we can’t stand each other. i think it’s time for the daily stand-offs and stare-downs to take a break.

my eyes are getting tired from all the rolling as well.
(okay i’m a bad bad child)

mom: be safe, don’t do anything foolish.
me: yes mom, that’s what we were planning to do, foolish stuff!
mom: no wandering around late at night.
me: yes and thank you for planting that idea.
mom: i want to see you here when i come back.
me: yay, so do i!

but of course, my mom glared at me and i clamped my mouth shut while all these thoughts processed my mind. hmmph MISO SCARY.

i’m sorry, i have been rather sarcastic and satirical lately, haven’t i?

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VS

debby LOVES siwon (Downstairs ^) says:

eh yo

C­­assandra. says:

yo yo yo

debby LOVES siwon (Downstairs ^) says:

yo yo yo yo yo

C­­assandra. says:

yo to the power of infinity

debby LOVES siwon (Downstairs ^) says:

yo to the power of infinity and more than you

C­­assandra. says:

yo to 10 times of whatever you say

debby LOVES siwon (Downstairs ^) says:

okay let’s stop it

i feel like dying

C­­assandra. says:

because u are losing

lol

debby LOVES siwon (Downstairs ^) says:

OH WHATEVER~

debby LOVES siwon (Downstairs ^) says:
okay yay
thanks cassandra!!
WAAA
C­­assandra. says:
WAAA
debby LOVES siwon (Downstairs ^) says:
wa wa
._.
C­­assandra. says:
wA Wa wA
debby LOVES siwon (Downstairs ^) says:
WA WA WA WAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWA
WAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWA
WAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAokay enough
we are going back to the same thing just now

HIYA DEBBY SIOW MEOW KER (aka Goddess of Noise with goggle specs altho it’s not a very nice image) you are back finally, it has been a… while since i remember you talking on the phone like a Drama Queen. but together, we are (brace yourself)
THE DRAMA EMPRESSES.

oh and also for some weirdly odd reason, maybe due to the weird alignment of  the stars tonight, we have decided to talk like
t
h
i
s
throughout the convo, hmm.

monday awaits and we are going to conquer cheryl and charlotte together.
by the way, cause of charlotte’s death: too  much  stress  from her friends to make birthday present. (sorry inside joke)

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i went to jz’s house just now. at first they wanted to come over then i was like ‘for what’ so i went over and failed terribly horribly at DOTA.

oh and i saw him on the bus. probably a scruffier, older, punkier version and i was too stunned so i just stared and stared. and the stranger stared back. and after a while, there was a kind of wordless question swimming in his eyes, so i glared back and thought, why are you staring at me? and then i realized that he was staring because i stared at him first. so for the whole bus ride, i caught the guy staring. with a hint of disgust. manzx.

anyway if you have looked at my proudly updated to-do list, you will find that i have done a great deal :D :D :D okay there i go being sarcastic again /:
but i really am the best person in the world so please stop peeing in your pants.

“Well, gotta know the enemy.”

-Know Your Enemy, Greenday

TODAY, I TRIED DECORATING THE TREE.
bad idea.

Reactions from my:
Mom: the dangling crystals and messy lights scream “Ooh look at me!” and my mom flinches. her expression says, How on Earth did this child spring from my loins? and starts taking everything down, mostly.

Dad: looks at my mom and me having a stand-off. decides to hit on the escapism route, and lopes off to hang lights at the front porch instead.

Bro: “joke” “epic” “fail”

Know Thy Enemy
Tree: top part slants and gives me a hard time straightening it because it just insists on following the Leaning Tower of Pisa ugh. After miles and miles of duct-tape, it finally surrenders.
Balls: are bouncing furiously and irritatingly. boink-boink.
Candles: heavy fatasses weighing the branches down.
Crystal Drops: my mom makes me tighten and tighten and tighten the strings round the crystals over and over and over again to ensure it doesn’t fall.
Star: it prefers to stand on its head. thinks that it looks pretty cute being upside-down.
Lights: greatest enemy yet. i beg, persuade and convince yet it refuses to untangle thyself. i swear i struggled with the damn thing till i almost drown.

“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.”
-Maya Angelou

that is pretty much all the excitement this week. wow i am so bored until i decided to make friends with non-living things. did i say friends? oops, i mean enemies.

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on another note, i had a ridiculous phone conference with ridiculous pearl and ridiculous claire this morning, discussing about ridiculous stuff. i love how they play along so ridiculously with my ridiculous nonsense so easily.

also, my mom has thought of a new ridiculous (and nutritional) food to added to my breakfast. so now i have ridiculous salad, ridiculous yoghurt, ridiculous fruits and ridiculous oatmeal. ain’t that just ridiculous?

ANYWAY TO ALL FOCKERS, WE ARE HAVING A CLASS OUTING THIS FRIDAY! after all the failed attempts, we will not give up and plan this (ridiculous) outing! cheers, alarms, bells, whistles, sirens, claps!

and also, i have been so busy being ridiculous that i forget my ridiculous homework. good-ridiculously-bye.

Flying Solo On A Friday.

It’s Friday, I’m (out of) Love.

-no it’s actually supposed to be (in) love, from It’s Friday I’m In Love by The Cure, but my mood today is bleak like shit /:

for once, it’s a neutral feeling instead of a Thank-God-It’s-Friday or a What-The-Heck-It’s-Friday-Already feeling. for once, there is no sunshine in me to conquer the rain outside. and i guess for once, i feel kind of lonely on a friday.

so i parade around the house like a freaking champion with a
roll of toilet paper- to blow my nose with. the snot from my leaking is flowing like a waterfall, i kid you not;
a mug of hot milo- which i constantly refill;
and The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams.
kind of nice actually, i wonder when did my taste in books switch from Gossip Girl to a young Polygamist Girl abandoning her family and autocratic society, running away on her own in search of discovery, freedom  and love.

anyway i’ve been looking at some other blogs and realized that i’m not in this DOWN Syndrome alone. ha-ha. sorry, unfunny.

on a random note, my mom set me up for a job interview on monday. for Andersons of Denmark ice cream. and i am thinking if i were the customer, would i have liked to received a cone with a blob of mushy ice-cream instead of a round ball hmm.

(via gatekeeper)

it sure is.

AND NOW. TO FACE MY MASSIVE PILE OF HOMEWORK.
i guess we all have our greatest enemies.

The Stars As Our Blanket.

twinkling, dazzling, these stars form amazing patterns across the night sky (eg ‘inverted question mark’ which is actually the North Star) and form a canopy around group5 and 6.

i can only remember the second shooting star that i saw out of 4 vividly. it was a burning ball of light and left a blazing trail across the sky as it shot past and disappeared in one second. it was so bright that left me stunned. it was flawless, perfect and in that moment i didn’t think of anything else.
i just made a wish.

we have the air-con at full blast, they have natural cool air;
we have oversized pjs, they have handmade silk scarves;
we have large comfortable beds, they have the soft sand beneath;
we have warm thick comforters, they have the night sky and
stars as their blanket.

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CIP

through this activity, i realized that PAINTING. IS. NOT. MY. FORTE.
1. i was painting the top of the wall (by stepping on rocks) and shuchuin was painting the bottom. and i paint was slippery so the cup slipped out of my hand. as it overturned (altho i caught it before it hit the floor), some paint splashed on shuchuin’s hair, so she had white highlights. ‘cept that white highlights made her look like she had grey hair. uncool.

2. so i went to the back, and as i stepped on some logs to get across, i tripped and spilled paint on the floor. oops.

3. i decided to go inside the classroom and i didn’t realize that the floor of the doorstep was wet paint and ta-da i made an awesome brown foot-step mark. so technically i didn’t even enter the classroom -.-

that’s Clement Ong (my youthday ic who loves scolding me) doing hard work :D

shoveling is hard.

and one day we will all look back and see the small seedlings we planted grow to tall trees, providing shade and breeze to the people.
前人种树,后人乘凉.

Maetamann Elephant Camp

RIDE. OF. MY. LIFE.
omg sanuk to power of 100.
ride was bumpy and everytime the elephant takes a step, shuchuin and i will lurch forward and screeeaaamm. especially with our fun rider in front and naughty elephant tsk. his name is fo-man by the way.
then our rider always tries to take the ‘road less traveled‘, into the deepest valleys and steepest slopes, and took different routes from the rest. also, he likes encouraging fo-man to go intensely near the cliffs and say “oh my god! say bye bye! bye bye to papa mama!” and the screams start again while he snickers at us -.-

also, our fun rider overtook 6 elephants in front by going rlly fast and dangerous short-cuts! and i found out my elephant likes to poop and pee which are both a disgusting shade of green /:

pee poo poo poo pee pee poo pee. what did the man do? he poo!!!
(kay sorry inside joke)

before bamboo rafting, mr yeo told us that we wouldn’t get wet bcos the water was rlly mild and there were 2 professional bamboo rafters and no one in the history of dhs ever fell except Mr Low.
the very smart eugene tried to raft and he got tired and stuck his bamboo in the water. and he flipped, overturned, headfirst into the water hahahah. char was on his raf she said it was epic. and his gonna make history!
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Doi Suthep Mountain

izare class photo woohoo!

then we went around playing stuff like fortune telling lol.

and clinging of bells ahem.

omg trying to act cool.

And i am from the Meo Hill Tribe!

izare again!

can you find helaoshi and mrs low?

omg super-gay to the max!

hahah he lao shi! 我们都热爱华文!

a li shan de gu niang.

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lol thank you tour guides ( altho i can’t sleep in the bus bcos of your loud voices -.-)

while shopping, jiaxin and i met 2 french women and when they asked if we could speak french, we were like ‘un peu’.
us: bonjour!
them: enchante!
us: huh?
them: it means ‘nice to meet you’
okay so fail and we talked for a while and then ‘au revoir’. so it was quite failed french and i think i disappointed Madame Tournay lol.

lol random 6.

anyway while eating dinner at a restaurant, i was watching soccer match between sg and thai and i DID NOT KNOW IT WASN’T LIVE. so i bet with Gng Jia Teck (mr evil) 50 baht that thailand would win. and he said it would be draw 1-1 (like duh he knew it but i didn’t) stupid sia.
(-edit)
anyway thailand rlly did win sg in the end. i am claiming my money when school re-opens. in SGD.

“Life’s a climb but the view is great.”

-Hannah Montana the movie.

The trail was bumpy and winding and there were many branches to duck from and streams to cross. Also, there was a long, steep upslope under the sweltering sun that I honestly did not think I would make it.

I guess the quote does justice to what I experienced. Perseverance and determination pays of in the long run, just like how we finally saw the village and suddenly all of us started running towards it.

It was an exuberant feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment.

Airport

while they were explaining all the safety things to us like the life jackets and stuff, all of us were damn sian. then when they got to the part about emergency exits, char was looking around frantically lol epic.

let’s take it to the skies!

so cool right? got bus to the plane lol.

i like this picture, almost as tall as the skies :D

stairway to heaven plane.

year3s unite!

all hyped-up and ready to go bcos we didn’t expect the arduous journey awaiting :D

Star Hotel

view from my hotel room- 702.

lol people meet my roommate ey.

lol i have no idea shuchuin took this picture and i was watching Glitter.

truthfully, i think shuchuin has been an extremely retarded roommate and she taught me alot of ahem things to do in the hotel room. like selling away your stuff to tingwei after she bought it -.- and i guess we did bond alot and had fun so yeah.

Palong Village

pick up truck to bring us to the countryside.

Chiangdao Cave

relief, victory all in one as we chionged to the village!

here’s looking at you kid, now tell me who does it resemble?

cool, the picture looks like it was taken from the ancient times. early morning i wore gloves and everyone was like ‘ey you think you in Switzerland ar?”

woo hot chicks sia! or ducks :D

dunno who’s hand.

early morning syndrome. that’s why everyone so sian. arthur, clement, eugene, peter, jiaxin.

oh yeah all the year3 girls bought this wax bracelet. means it can catch fire anytime hahah. i bought my birthday color: blue!

“I’m on the supersonic boom.”

-Boom Boom Pow, Black Eye Peas

hello yellow dirty fellows.
i’m currently at the airport surfing wireless.
and shuchuin is beside me.
and we have less than an hour left to board.
and char tingwei and jiaxin thinks that we are no-lifers and have decided to abandon us.
and boo-hoo.
and “zou le la” says shuchuin.
and that’s enough.