peel, banana

my face is peeling!! and this is exclaim-worthy because my face has never peeled like this before :x yuck.

second thing: i went to see a doctor for the stupid throat today, and i'm eating antibiotics! horror. i'm super scared that if eat antibiotics, will lose natural immuno-defenses against funny antibiotic-resistant viruses.. maybe that's quite a silly fear since i rarely go on antibiotics courses.. but still!

i'm chaota again :( and this time there's a really weird spec-tan-line to go with the horrible burntness! rawr. time for intensive whitening stuff, which i don't have and am lazy to acquire :P

either way, i got quite sian-ed today! because the people weren't very nice, and i can't say "what, you noob." to them :( which is what i'm used to doing! so i'm not nice too.

maybe this is karma xD

300

yup, the title says it all, i want to watch 300 and this is the 300th post! not substantial, but a milestone nonetheless.

we started on job training yesterday! got attached to permanent staff, and am learning from them. the moment we were given permission to take calls, it was like an instant stimulant - no more sleepiness! hahaa so today was quite cool. and it's interesting to interact with the TPs via phone :P

got another conditional offer. all require AAB, but this time AAB in any content based subject.. i'm still scared because imperial hasn't replied. it's gonna be time to chiong scholarship apps soon! but first i'll still concentrate on piano.

driving today was good :D i pwned vertical parking and didn't stall during the parking! i only stalled at the start because i mistook brake for accelerator :x rawr. got annoyed by a bbdc school car because it was going 30kmph, when the limit is 50! made me step on the brake hard, so many times! zz.

the worst thing about today is that i'm losing my voice :x boo.

add 03/03/08: there was something else about the number 300, but i can't remember off the top of my head.

black knights and roulettes!

whoo! (: today was the last day of the inaugural singapore airshow and i went! i think the highlight of the show was seriously the aerial aerobatics display.. formation flying at such high speeds and so close to one another, plus the lovely ROARRR of the engines = love! i practically melted, both figuratively and literally! in my opinion, figher formation flying that includes pulling off all the cool maneuvers beats solo aerobatics anyday! but the pc-5 turboprop trainers, a group from aust called the roulettes were very very good too! just less noisy so less impact? and it was the last show, so tired. but their cascade/curtain was prettier than the rsaf one. btw this time, i was smart enough not to attempt to take photos, but just enjoy the experience.. i enjoyed it so much that i returned from the airshow in 2 shades of tan. lol. upper half of face is currently fairer than lower half of face, from below eyebags, which is now brown-red. must be retribution for triumphantly declaring yesterday that i don't get red, just dark! :( i think my skin went weird, nvm it's a lesson learnt that i must put sun block. lol. PLEASE make it less obvious by tomorrow!

hmm the static displays weren't that fun, especially because there was a queue to do ANYTHING interesting, like play flight sim. and we were silly :( we should have gone around looking for freebies FIRST THING. ended up we didn't get much freebies although the handphone doll thingy by ST electronics was quite cute, and got black knights stickers! the queue to get black knights goodie bags and autographed posters was just too long to bother with.

the only thing i'd like to complain about is the queue OUT OF THERE. they should make a separate road for towing aircraft to the runways and not clog up the shuttle queue! i swear with the snake-like queues that the police enforced, we probably walked 1km and definitely waited ONE HOUR PLUS to get out of that place! getting there in the morning was okay, because people came at staggered times, but they should have known that the majority of the crowd would leave at the same time! rawr. waste time.

next time go airshow, hope to be a VIP or like pilot, then can go up all the aircraft that are supposed to be "by invitation only" like the A380. but the f15s were the love also! basically fighters <3 rock.

realised i haven't blogged for quite long so i shall do a quick summary of this week!

entered a new vocation as a temporary tax officer at iras (: shall be manning the phonelines! and being very helpful :D this week was training and it's quite fun because you get paid for the breaks xP but it's tiring, so of course breaks are essential to the wellbeing of us employees. the pay is quite sad as usual, but the good thing is that there are alot of people around my age there! :D so get to talk rubbish, slack and rot together. meet new people is fun (: hehe plus meet other schoolmates who are working there too :D

not really looking fwd to work tmr, there's another test. the previous test was on tax knowledge, luckily it was mcq and cough, cross-referable between people, lol! this one is on the local computer system that we'll be using and i haven't studied. shall go there and just whack. good luck to me.

today was the most exercise i've done in a long while. whee :P

the day after

i'm TIRED and semi-sick again :(
the adrenalin and anticipation of going out makes me feel better when just getting out of the house.. then halfway through i'll feel bleah, especially if there's air-con. today, my body threw in a slight cough, which is gone now.. i think my immune system is going haywire or something. rawr.

wanna sleep early but there's alot of music homework to do and i told myself that today is research-scholarships-again-day!! maybe exposure to my piano teacher today, who has a flu, sort of triggered the afternoon weirdness. and i wanted to jio people out after piano and dental but decided to be safe and come home to slack instead.

on a totally random note, my stupid bedsheets run colour. yesterday there was this patch of red on my face which turned out to be from the bedsheets.. today, i rubbed the side of my nose in the morning and my finger-pad turned red.. grrr

[this is a whiny post. that i'm going to continue without mercy. beware.]

PLUS i'm HUNGRY, and there's NO DINNER except half a egg and ham bun, and instant noodles because i'm lazy to go out and buy my own food and i refuse to order. ok, actually there's some abalone left :D oh did i mention i'm turning to flab.

anddd the worse thing is that i'm feeling whiny but no one's online to whine to!! i don't want to call anyone to whine because that's so boliao. hrmph. so i whine here.

5pm show today was JJ's singing competition. not bad. i wouldn't mind meeting xiao zhu in person xD then i watched the tyrabanks show from 6-7, which was kind of jolting because they talked about plastic surgery!! :S it's super scary although intriguing. my take is that they purposely film all the horror cases.. commercialism. anyway, i don't think anyone should resort to plastic unless there's really no other way.. even if people are lazy to exercise like me.

yes i'm lazy! and i'm not really proud of it :[ but i can't play vball because i'm scared i will injure my fingers then my piano will just diee. so all my talk and smses about going back to train with them is quite useless even though i want to! it's like a cba thing :S last time i played, i killed my thumb which took over a month to recover! last week, it still hurt to turn when playing a fast piece la.. and now my fingers are SLOW! asjdfklaskdf;adjfalsdjfaf so i refuse to risk it rawrrrrrrrr.

shall go bathe to get rid of smelliness and whiny-ness and eat wdv i feel like eating. i think just the half bun and a bunch of grapes and milk. and there's no nice show on tv. how horrible. except the rats on channel 5 which has been shown a gazillion times. fine i exaggerate. shall listen to stop and stare. and stop whining. and people should reply my smses about important stuff like addresses otherwise i'll just get lost and even more whiny. to top that all off, i'm feeling hot and cold now! how interesting.
oh the good thing about last night is that i finished my piano homework! :D:D

happy valentine's!

or should i say happy singles-awareness day? XP

today was a merry day though! i re-donned my school uniform and infiltrated the place that used to be called my second home. it felt good to carry my backpack instead of a lousy handbag, and wear the shirt, badge and skirt after such a long time! i don't think i'll ever get sick of wearing uniforms (: because they are so convenient!

met up with my "hot date" :D and we strolled around school abit before heading to RI for lunch - baked fish and cream of mushroom soup! hahaa my usual fare. then rushed to gv yishun to watch 27 dresses where another "hot date" joined us. i learnt that gv yishun is not in northpoint! :O revelations.

then walked around and around trying to find a present for my mom.. tough work >< anyway the words aren't flowing today. To sum up, 27 dresses was a suitable vday show - in a nutshell, romantic chickflick. but good, lighthearted fare! unless you're already like annoyed by all the PDA-ing (seems to be PDA day as well) or feeling emo about being single/respective partner is not around to celebrate :P hahahaa it was nice talking as well :D

ok choppy post. end. sleepy and tired :( but still got 2 melodies to fill in blanks and 4 pieces to compose. cry. :'(

Stop and Stare

OneRepublic

This town is colder now
I think it's sick of us
It's time to make our move
I'm shakin' off the rust
I've got my heart set
on anywhere but here
I'm staring down myself, counting up the years
Steady hands just take the wheel
Every glance is killing me
Time to make one elast appeal for the life I lead

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving, but I go nowhere
Yeah, I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be

Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, can you see what I see

They're tryin' to come back, all my senses push
Untie the weight tags I never thought I could
Steady feet don't fail me now,
I'm a run till you can't walk
But something pulls my focus out, and I'm standing down.

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah, I know that everyone get scared
But I've become what I can't be

Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, you don't need

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah, I know that everyone get scared
I've become what I can't be
Oh, do you see what I see?

the good with the bad

i'm sick, down with fever possibly due to drinking too little water. that's the bad. especially since supposed to go out tomorrow! :D hot date on vday~ hahaa i'm gonna take a nap after this post. anyway being sick meant my driving lesson sucked because i stalled the car so many times.

the good thing about this break is that i managed to change my driving test date from 30 june to 25 MARCH! whoo! my instructor says not enough time.. i think it's time to get one more instructor ;P OR a new instructor! go me (: need to start driving almost every day.. but after i get better... alternatively i can persuade my dad to let me drive the car everyday around the quiet part of the housing estate! shhh.

ahh and i've like 2 cupboards to clean, 2 melodies to compose and 1.5 papers to complete by today :( sleep first.

last day on my very first job (:

today was the last day of my very first job, as a temporary admin assistant at slb. they made me a really touching offer to extend until the end of the month, but hiring me as an intern so that the agency won't cut the pay! i was horrified that they were so nice :S but i chose to turn down the offer, not least because i was scared that i would end up not switching jobs and defeating my purpose in working for the next few months. As i told the boss, it's not really about the pay, although that's a very useful perk, but i want exposure and to learn, i want experience! blame it on the folly of youth but half a month is equivalent to 4% of my life. yup if you think of it in mathematical terms :P maybe when i'm older, i'll search for stability but now is the time to just let go :D

my colleague, the lady who gives me work, treated me to lunch today at Ethan's Sausages. they have really nice sausages but ALOT of potato and no veggies. but hey, i'm not complaining, the meat was lovely. i must remind myself to buy them something and go visit! (: and i found out that there's something called a Brazilian Carnivore's Buffet - the name speaks for itself, should go and try the lunch one day :P and i want to go for chocolate buffet! :( maybe when inflation drops.

anyway the next step is most likely iras since i'm lazy to go search, there's a place for me there, and there are quite a number of friends there! :D but i've the week off to do my own things :D

i hope results don't come out on friday. there have been too many rumours :S i don't want them back.. it's too scary! i'm scared of disappointment, i'm a coward. as Bill Gates said: "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." which is what i saw on an AIA poster in the lift on my way down, on the last day of work. and i felt the customary release, relief from being free to laze about again :P call me what you will, i daresay i'm piggy!

saturday is going to be quite busy. i don't know why everyone arranged things this saturday! i wish i could split into 3 to be in 3 places at one time. training on sat is indoor, which is how lovely! and now i've to choose between rjclass brunch and rgsquash teachers-house-visit.. dilemma dilemma! at least dinner is settled, and so's early morning meeting (: seems like saturday's gonna be quite fun but tiring :D then sunday will be a bore. but probably a welcome bore :P

i blogged on Feb 4 but forgot to post it (:

read some amusing articles yesterday about the science of romance and the final verdict was that you should kiss as many people as possible because it acts as a "taste-test"! similar to that of identifying a mate by the pheromones it emits so that both of you are compatible in the sense that their major histocompatibility complexes (MHC) are as safely different as possible. MHC genes make molecules that enable the immune system to recognise invaders. Generally, the more diverse the MHC genes of the parents, the stronger the immune system of the offspring. This will increase the chances of the mother carrying the baby to term, and i surmise, strengthen the variation within the gene pool of the entire human population.

Sweeney Todd was quite a good show. and there are alot of good movies out now that cater to the more mature, save 27 dresses and something else which is a chick flick. this is good for me, but there was a woman who wrote into the TODAY forum complaining over the lack of family shows! anyway, i wonder when prison break and oth will recontinue because the writers don't seem to be letting up on their strike.. on one hand, it gives me time to catch up the shows, on the other, i probably won't have done so by the time they finish picketing anyway. lawl.

I want to catch Cloverfield, 27 Dresses, Away from her amongst others. what a hole in my pocket those would burn, especially since there's no time for me to watch movies except during the peak hours :( whine.

at least today i did something interesting.. printing cny card envelopes. but they smell funny, like incense, but without the smoke. sort of screwed up 2..hehe and there's like only one envelope per card so i couldn't like re-print but i guess 2 out of 90 is just 4%?! and i was super careful after that so the rest turned out fine. rawr. my math has degenned. maybe i need to give tuition to supplement my income. except that will kill piano, which has exams coming in less than a month's time x.X

A levels results please don't come back before the 18th.. :( I need to restart researching scholarships and applying!!