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2008-01-26T13:50:00.001-05:00

lalala...

2007-07-18T15:05:00.000-04:00

So happy with my AP scores...

4th of July

2007-07-05T00:57:00.000-04:00

Today, went to see the fireworks at Manassas Downtown. It was really pretty and there were lots of people on the field watching the thingie. Really cool, except that there were this bunch of young people next me, who were making out when the fireworks were being released. Really annoying. Comeon, go get a room.

Also, let me tell you this. Today, there is this white smallish puppy that got into my neighn=bor's yard and was barking its head off. So my neighbor came out with her dog (which by the way has the notorious name of PANCAKES) and tried to chase it away. The white dog went away for a while but kept coming back, and so my neighbor got really annoyed and just shut the door on that poor little thing. Ans so after a while, she and her family went out fishing. The white dog then began to wander around until it came upon this family in the culdesac who was having a BBQ. That family thought that the dog belonged to my neighbor and so brought it to my neighbor's house. Seeing that nobody was at home, she tied the dog to the door and left it there. AND THEN IT BARKED FOR ONE FRICKING HOUR (Arrg). Finally, we went out for dinner and by the time we got back, it was gone. Either it chewed its way free, or someone took pity on it and ate ot for dinner (Yum).

Okay, that basically sums up my day. Happy birthday America! You are, umm, 200+?

Summer Woes

2007-06-26T18:25:00.000-04:00

Summer here is really really warm. I bet that it is warmer in Singapore, but then after the winter here, I find that my pores forgot how it felt like to sweat like a pig.

Mom told me to go water the plants today. It is not the first time that I am doing this, but it is definitely the worst time to do it. Normally, I would go out at dusk around 7 when the sun is just setting, when the temperature is warm, but still nice, not suffocating. But today, I had to go out at 2 in the afternoon, with the sun directly above my head. And that’s not the whole story. I had just finished playing badminton with my brother for like an hour, and so naturally in the 90 degrees heat outside, I was sweating profusely. Then, I had to struggle with the sprinkler cause water kept leaking through one of the openings. I tried to stick the sprinkler thing back in, but then forgot to turn off the water while doing so. So, in the end, I am soak to the bone. Woe.

Have to think of some topic to write for the college essay. I was of doing the “Topic of your Choice” in the Common Application, but then what if there is NO TOPIC OF MY CHOICE? Just feel like my life is just one flat straight road, going on endlessly, without any turns or bumps along the way.

If you know what I mean.

Any ideas for my essay?

No, sorry, this is not an ad asking for paid services.

Woe Betide... (Remember it from some poem?)

2007-06-20T20:54:00.000-04:00

Been totally unproductive for the past week, don't even know how I am going to survive for two more months

That's it, I am going to go job hunting this weekend and get some cash this summer. It is at least better than loitering around the house and arguing with my brother.

Want to change my template for something that makes the words somehow easiler to read. Any suggestions on good websites that I can go to?

Yay!

2007-06-18T11:40:00.000-04:00

Just want to say that:

SUMMER IS HERE!

It is just so nice of the American education people to grant their kids who worked so hard during the year a two and a half month break during the summer. Pity on the Singapore kids *Laughs uncontrollably*

Another day sick at home

2007-06-11T10:16:00.000-04:00

Haven’t been updating for a long time. Well, nothing much to say. Life it very boring here. Got really sick over the weekend. Sore throat+runny nose+cough. Not a very pleasant combination.

Went to take my ACT last Saturday. The English and math sections are OK, but then I ran out of time on the reading part cause I spent too much time raising my hand to ask for some tissue and the science reasoning part was well, the questions were very easy, but it took a very long time to read the passage and interpret the data.

Summer is almost here! But then this summer have to be spent looking at colleges, finding scholarships and filling in applications. Not a very exciting thought. Can’t wait to get into college, just know that it will be so much better than high school.

Here is a list of what I want right now:
1. Coffee and cough syrup. My throat is irritating me.
2. To go back to Singapore before the age of 25 and hold a class reunion. Maybe even hug Ms Rai’s baby, if she have one at that time.
3. Sleep Zzz.
4. Chocolate ice cream and Oreo
5. Watch Romeo and Juliet
6. Get a picture to hang in my room.
7. A couple of hooded sweatshirts.
8. My block nose to go away
9. A new wallet
10. A clear complexion

Whatever, none of those is going to come true today, except for maybe the sleeping part.

You reading this Annas (T and Z)?
Haha, have all the fun in sunny California while you can, I will visit you when I can.

I need to find some people here I can talk to. Feel that all my feelings are cooped up in my little heart. Actually come to think of it, it is only here that I dun have people that I see everyday. In primary school, I have Jasmine, Geraldine and Minsi, then in Monroe Middle, I have Kelsey and Mikaela; in Rogers, I have Zhouy and Tchenakina; in SJC, I have Pris and Sarah. Dun worry, I will find someone weird in college who is just like me.

Gtg, promise this time I will update more frequently.

I have been trying to get some pix up, but failed. Maybe have something to do with the background or there is something really wrong with blogger.

SO HAPPY TODAY!

2007-05-06T01:08:00.000-04:00

Hahaha. So happy. Today, I went to take my SAT (my second time), it was way harder than the March one, but i thought I did better. But of course, you know me, always off on my predictions. Sigh, just wait, on the day the results come out, I would be hapf crying and helf laughing. What an ironic life. For a minute, I really really miss Mrs. Tan's Lit class, have no idea why.

The other thing that really makes me happy is that I finally mananged to push up my English! From D to B some more. Now, it is a 89, which is just sitting on the fence from a B+, so I really really have to work really really hard ot push it up some more (Well at least to a stable B+)!

The AP exams start next week, with History on Friday morning. There is also the Cambridge Biology one in the afternoon on that day, but who cares, it is the Cambridge thingie that colleges here dun even care about. It is so funny to think that while in Singapore, people (like me) work their asses off to score well on the Olevels, but here, nobody really cares (they dun even care about the As!). The other day in History class, they were talking about how we have to take both the AP and the Cambridge at around the same time this year and everyone was complaining and really angry at the school for making us take two tests, when one of them isn't even worth the effort. Because of the fact that the A-level Biology falls on the 15th, which is like the day after the last day of school, this guy says that he is just going to go in and write his name on the paper and sleep for the remaining time. I mean, it is logical: you have to take the test in order to get the weighted score on your report card, no matter if you just get a F, or better yet a U, so why waste the effort?

I heard that last year, everyone who took the A- level Chem got a U (and I mean it literally) so this year, I am going to break the convention and get a F. James K so smart, wish I could have his brain so that I can have at least a better chance at getting a A. sigh.

Alright, I am going to work really really hard starting from today, so please, no distraction and of course, no daydreaming (yeah right).

My new approach

2007-05-02T22:56:00.000-04:00

I have decided to adopt a more optimistic approach towards life. Everything have to be happy i my eyes now. So even if I fall down or *touch wood* get knocked down by a train, i will just ave to convince myself that this incident takes the place of a ore disasterous event.

Doing my English paper now. Some paper where you have to read this passage and write about how the author uses style and technoques to portray her view on the American culture. Ms. L has been giving a lot of these writing assignments since the start of the 4th quarter, and i am just doing Ok on them. i mean, one moment, I am getting like a 95 and the other, I will drop to a 80. All depends on my mood. I guess i dun like to do all these things, but it is good practice for the AP test, so have to "jia you"!

It is almost the end of the week. Oh did I mention, i have to go take the SAT this Saturday. Really wish i can score really well so that I dun have to take it again...

Congrats Linh on you new blog. Looks very pretty.

To all those that are looking here, leave your trace behind, dun just lurk around.

Go Linda, you can do it! (The start of my optimistic journey)

I will start linking some of the people I know. So if you happen to drop by, please tag so that I dun have to look for you (lazy mah).

Oh my.

2007-04-29T23:34:00.000-04:00

Have to go back to school tomorrow.

Sian.

My life

2007-04-27T23:10:00.000-04:00

I feel that my life revolves around education. The mere sense of education and books. I know that I have to do well and all that kind of things, but hey I need a life too! Today is prom day, didn't get to go, though I caould have gone with Linh and Songji. But there is just too much stuff in my head that the idea of prom just seem to be not so appetizing, if that's the right word for it.

Well, life goes on. Now, I have to prepare for the SAT on May 5th, all my AP and Cambridge test, and then the SAT chem and the ACT in June. And then it is summer break. Can you imagine, three whole months, without the stress of school? But then, of course, have to think of colleges and visit all the campuses. DotDotDot.

But hey, at least, I am still alive?

Bounce off...Boiing.

hello to all friends

2006-11-06T13:10:00.000-05:00

post your thingees here, maybe I will reply when i have the chance to do so. Thanx.

Hello all you people

2006-11-06T13:03:00.000-05:00

Hi, this is my first entry on the blog, so please pardon the distasteful template and simplicity of the webpage. Haven't got the time these days, so maybe if time allows me in the future, I will start to decorate this thing. Bye for now. Don't expect me in mayb 2 weeks.