ACHOOO

i've got a cold :( sadness. its this bug that's been going around school for ages! LOL. finally, it's hit me.
NOthing much has happened. except now i have a cambridge questionnaire to fill in. it's quite annoying. I'm probably not even gonna get in after ALL this. :(
I also have huge bruises EVERYWHERE from paintballing.
IT WAS IMMENSE!!!! but painful. LOL!
what else what else... nothing much tbh.
TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa

WHOOPEE

MY LIFE IS COMPLETE... well, no it's not actually, but i feel quite happy!
MY UCAS FORM HAS BEEN SENT OFF. UCAS is the system through which we apply to university, and my headmistress has just okay-ed mine, and now it's been sent off to the universities! after months of filling in forms and writing personal statements, IT IS FINALLY OVER. and now i can't do anything about my university application except wait for offers and interviews.. scariness.
LOL!
had a meeting with mr livesey today, and apparently mr walker (deputy headmaster) emailed him to ask him if he could help me with my cambridge application. mr. livesey is our careers teacher and he went to queens' college cambridge, which is where i am applying :D AND! he has been so helpful! he says he has the queens college law magazines and has offered to lend them to me! :O and he's got this barrister to agree to come and give me a mock interview if i get an interview offer from cambridge, and she used to go to cambridge for law as well!!! excitement'' though..if i don't get asked for an interview...it'll be rather sad :(
Nothing exciting has happened so far, except that i've been back at school for two weeks now.
Last weekend i went to hannah's house with sanchia and sophie for a movie night sleepover. LOL! we watched the matrix back to back. how cool is that. and then the next day, sanchia and i went into the city to watch dorian gray.. LOL! our eyes were ready to kill us.
this weekend i'm going paintballing. HOW COOL IS THAT! i have never been paintballing before! it's gonna be exciting! IT's tomorrow, and it's like amy's very very belated birthday thing, and 8 of us are going to this forest in thetford and PAINTBALLING. AHHHHHH! LOL!!!! apparently it might hurt cuz they are like hard pellets of paint. BUT STILL. it'll be fun.
I also have a debate competition coming up in december, which is a long time away, but time does fly, so it'll probably get here soon. what else what else....
nothing much really. except that lainey promised to email me today with explicit details of a mysterious issue, and she hasn't, so i'm rather disappointed.
and... everyone's passing their driving tests and getting new cars. I WANT ONE. LOL!!! but i highly doubt that'll be possible. but my dad did say i can get a digital camera for my birthday :D SO YAYY
I'M GONNA BE 18 SOON!
that's so old :(
ttfn!!
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

so little time :(

I seriously need to find out where time goes after it's done with us little people!! Completely knackered. LOL!
Went to the end-of-summer party in Loddon on Thursday. Met Courtney and Jack in the city at around 5, and then took a bus to Loddon, where we meet some of the others. Then we went to this field.. WITH COWS IN IT! i know.. it's weird. Apparently they do this every year, and there is a chosen spot, but the cows were pretty scary! LOL! Well, I didn't mind them much , 'cuz they looked alright to me, but Courtney was scared out of her wits. LOL! we had to go under this barbed wire to get to 'the spot' and she was like: OMG. JASMINE. THE COW'S COMING AT US. and i was like.. courtney. don't run. don't run. walk. LOL!!!! Luckily, no one got trampled by cows :D People started piling in after 8 and it was quite a lot of fun :D I was quite worried it was just gonna be drunken people on a field, but it turned out to be quite interesting. Loads of people I didn't know came, but they were super friendly, and slightly tipsy most of them - but hilarious tipsy not annoying tipsy. LOL! There was this guy who went on and on about steak and steakhouses. - must have been the effect of cows. LOL! IT was basically an immense night of forming one conversation group, and then forming another, and venturing here and there talking to people (trying to remember names, i am awful at names, it's not even funny). We tried to get a fire started.. but it was all in vain. Probably too much wind. AND! we didn't have dinner :( the only instruction was to bring your own booze, so no one thought about dinner. LOL! Courtney amy and I left around 11:30 to go to amy's house and sleepover. most people pitched tents and camped. But we did NOT fancy sleeping on a cold cold field. LOL!!!
Anyways, nothing has happened thus far. yesterday, i had a lovely chat with Josie on Skype, and then ky and jasper came along! LOL! i had to leave for dinner, and it took some time cuz there were some relatives visiting and we were having a proper meal. LOL! it was quite immense though! There was steak and lovely pudding :D Anyways! apparently jasper was horribly mean to ky, being the borpevil that he is. And that was all i gathered. OH, and jasper showed josie his snails, which she says are really cute.... why are people so fascinated by snails? why? - is it normal?
THEN! LOL! jasper invited his friend alif, into a conversation. and Ky invited his friend loh wee chuan (omg, i rmb his name. LOL!) into another conversation. My speaking-to-strangers-abilities was sorely tested. Though, alif was pretty good fun, and wee chuan was pretty much holding his own monologue, and i only needed to interject a few sentences here and there. JOSIE, fell asleep... the noob - am not impressed josie. i quote "sleeping is for losers". LOL!
Shall have to go to my charity shop soon to volunteer! after which there's a dinner party at this thai restaurant 'cuz it's my great uncle's birthday. Tomorrow I'll be going to London for my Pre-Lnat course. :( AT 6 AM IN THE MORNING. UGH UGH UGH. i will die. i will literally and quite for certain, die. LOL!!!
and monday's start of school. blehhhh. ah wells.
That's all for nowww
K BYE

BLAH

back to school again next week, so not feeling up to it. It'll be lovely to see everyone again and it's not so much the actual lessons as the pressure!!
Applying to unis once school starts. horror. horror. horror. :(
October 15th is the deadline for oxbridge applicants.. HORRoR. HORROR>
okay. LOL!!!! i guess that's enough HORROR for now.
Nothing much happening. Watched ice age 3 today with charrlie mcfarrrrlie and amy :D it was COOL! - and the double meaning was intended too. hah. i'm so funny :P NOT.
anyways! it was hilarious, and i did enjoy it. I seem to enjoy kiddie movies a lot lately. it's scary.
Might be going to a party on thursday... not sure though. it's probably just gonna be a huge crowd of drunken people on a field. :P doesnt sound that appealing, but loads of people are going. LOL! and also, naveen is probably planning something on friday... so don't want tobe too knackered.
SUNDAY! i'm going to london again for a pre-lnat course. Lnat is the national law admissions test. basically most of the unis i'm applying to requires me to take the LNAT, and i thought i better find out what it is like first :P LOL! probably going with freya :D Which will be fun. But omg, the bus for london leaves at 6am or something :( not looking forward to waking up before god. Its the trains -.- they aren't working properly on Sundays. WHICH IS ANNOYING.
ah wells. I probably ought to go and try to read a bit of John Milton :( paradise lost... poetry and old english. joy oh joy. (but i;ve been told it's not too bad, so wish me luck!)
as jasper would say: K BYE.

Hi stranger

Yes. So it's officially... what? half a year since I last posted? LOL! :P
ANYWAYS! now i'm here, and that's what matters. LIVE IN THE NOW PEOPLE. :D
Currently sitting at a desk in Westminster, London at Policy Exchange (this thinktank for the government), and having nothing to do. LOL! see, i'm THAT efficient. I finished all my work in the morning. and now i'm stoning. joy.
London has been pretty good this week. Work in the afternoon and fun in the evening :D Last night i went to the palladium theatre to watch the sister act. it was IMMENSE. nothing to describe it.. just generally amazing.. everyone gave a standing ovation at the end. LOL!
I better explain why I'm in London... LOL! i'm doing work experience. Which is like a week (mon to fri) of unpaid work... It looks amazing on ur cv and universities like it. LOL! especially when it's somewhere cool. This holiday i've had work experience at... the easter daily press (the regional newspaper)! IT WAS THE MOST AMZING WORK EXPERIENCE EVER! because i was there the week of the by elections, loads of london ministers came down to little old norwich to support their candidates. So i got to go meet and interview them. people like david cameron (the most probable next prime minister, leader of the conservative party) *and he was so cool!* aand alistair darling (chancellor of the exchequer, so l;ike the person who governs t he money). I also got to meet the candidates which was pretty cool. but i didn't get to vote since i'm not 18 yet, so that was wasted.
THEN! i had work experience at East Anglian Chambers, which is like the place where barristers work. So i got to follow them into court and watch them fight cases. That was quite interesting, especially in criminal cases. Some of the defendants were PRETTTYYY WEIRD. :P AND! the funny thing is.. ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE COURT.. like the legal representatives, had Iphones. it was soo synchronised it wasn't even funny.
NEXT. i had work experience at colchester, the children's legal centre. that was pretty boring. didn't really do much. had to commute daily to colchester though, and that was a pain. Luckily, the rail strikes on that thursday and friday stopped me from having to go at the end of the week. Serependipity :D
Last Thursday I got my results back from the last batch of AS and A levels. I'm pretty content with them, so life is good. LOL! going back to school the week after the next... eeeps. AND I HAVE YET TO FINISH READING ALL MY LITERATURE BOOKS. but seriously... the books are quite rubbish. James joyce and virginia woolf? UGH. WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE THEM.
i shall stop ranting now.
LOL!
BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

exams exams exams

weee, i haven't blogged in AGES!
Well, right now i've finished 6 of my 11 modules !!! :D YAY! did english literature today. I will never read Great Gatsby OR Wilfred Owen's poetry, ever again. EVER. well, unless i have to do a retake, which i'm really hoping i won't! Can i just say! i looked at the other questions, and we could have done Wuthering Heights!!!!! or Jane Austen!!! OR TESS! but noooo. we had to do Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald :( AND! we could have done william wordsworth instead of Wilfred Owen (depressing git)! But then again, I guess Great Gatsby is a shorter book compared to the others :D which makes it easier to remember, since it is a closed book exam. I HATE CLOSED BOOK EXAMS. two hours for two essays :( totally didn't have enough time to write about everything.
ANYWAYS! i am contemplating whether or not to go on the New York trip next easter. We're having a sixth form visit to New York and Boston (and we'll be visiting harvard as well :O) BUT!! its like £1500!!!! which is quite a lot in terms of pounds, and in chinese money.. its even worse. LOL! Daddy says its fine. BUT!!! i feel so guilty :( like a guilty thing :( i actually threw the consent form in the bin to be a nice daughter, but no! my granddad was emptying my bin the next day, and he found it :( and then he talked to my grandma, and my grandma talked to my dad, and my dad found out. and now i'm gonna have to talk to him and tell him why i threw it away... and then he';s gonna getmad at me for throwing away an opportunity! AHHHHH! it's difficult having a conscience. i might just throw it away. and succumb to the pleasure principle of the id. stupid superego :( yeah, that was psychology jargon for you! LOL!
anyways, preparing for a half term holiday now before my last 4 modules (maths and chemistry)! on monday till tuesday i'm going to sanchia' lord of the rings' sleepover. yes. we WILL be watching lord of the rings back to back, 11 hours. WHOOOTS! and hten thursday i'm doing this chinese buffet thing with courtney! AND YES. revising for chemistry and maths :( joy joy joy joy.

anyways, i'm gonna pop off now :D
xxxxx

My sentiments exactly!

It's not the fault of student if
he/she fails because the year ONLY
has 365 days...
typical academic year for a student:

1. Sundays - 52 Sundays in a year, you know Sundays are for rest.
Days left 313.


2. Summer holidays - 50 where weather is very hot and difficult to study.
Days left 263.


3. 8 hours daily sleep - 130 days GONE.
Days left 141.


4. 1 hour for daily playing- (good for health) means 15 days.
Days left 126.


5. 2 hours daily for food & other delicacies (chewing properly & swallowing) - means 30 days.
Days left 96.


6. 1 hour for talking (man is a social animal) - means 15 days.
Days left 81.


7. Exam days - per year at least 35 days.
Days left 46.


8. Quarterly, half yearly and festival (holidays) - 40 days.
Days left 6.


9. For sickness - at least 3 days.
Days left 3.


10. Movies and functions- at least 2 days.
1 day left.


11. That 1 day is your birthday.
How can you study on that day ?!?!?!?!?!

Balance = 0
' How can a student pass ?????'

25 random things about singapore youths

a list of ‘25 Random Things About Singapore Youth’:
1) They speak to me softly in perfect English, then turn around and scream in Singlish to their friends.
2) They SMS with a speed and frequency that makes my own thumbs sore from sympathy pains.
3) They admit they are apathetic, and speak about it passionately.
4) They complain about the lack of culture on their school campuses, then immediately go back to studying.
5) They wear their emotions and intentions on their chests in the form of T-shirt sayings. A few of my favourites: ‘Little Miss Giggles’, ‘I SMS Your Mum’ and ‘Are We Having Any Fun?’
6) They are extremely quiet in class, but downright chatty one-on-one.
7) They love David Beckham. They lust after George Clooney.
8 ) Apparently, procreation is not their forte. At this point in their lives, they could not care less.
9) Marriage is not yet on most of their minds. Instead, they say they want to keep getting red packets of some kind.
10) Romance is not an art many young males here have mastered. I recently overheard two young women complaining that their boyfriends had surprised them on Valentine’s Day with gifts - a schoolbag and an external hard drive.
11) They are incredibly, falsely, modest. They know they rock. Just don’t tell them to their face. They’ll look at you like you insulted their mother.
12) They are way too polite. I asked a young woman to take my picture in front of the Merlion. After she snapped the shot, she thanked me - apparently for the once-in-a-lifetime chance to capture me on film.
13) Speaking of photos, they pose for them everywhere. I recently saw a group of students smile for multiple pictures with their taxi driver at Clarke Quay. He was smiling too. The meter was running.
14) A few engage in ’serious blogging’, but most just blog about their friends and pets and upload pictures of last night’s dinner.
15) They are very productive during classes - at catching up with friends on MSN Messenger and updating their Facebook status.
16) They remain sceptical of their country’s growing global status, often asking me ‘Why would you want to come here?’
17) They already express nostalgia for days gone by, at the ripe old age of 17.
18) The few young men who have long hair seem to be teased mercilessly by friends, and hit on frequently by strangers.
19) They catch catnaps at the most unlikely locations - bus stops, campus canteens, even the school library.
20) Their eyes have a tint of worldliness to them, especially the young men who have been through national service.
21) They passionately watched something called ‘The Little Nyonya’ until recently, but not all will admit it publicly.
22) They think it is funny that Singapore has a professional basketball team.
23) They love their parents, but they definitely do not tell them everything.
24) They love to dance …
25) But it does not mean they have rhythm. This list may be random, but they make modern Singaporean youth truly an enigma - a mystery I cannot help but gawk at and adore.

-> this was by a visiting professor to singapore. and omg, it is hilarious! but, what is little nyonya?

Judge Sit-IN

Today i went to the crown court to sit-in with a judge. it was quite cool! got to watch a few trials. It got a bit boring as the things progressed because they were all the same type, (deciding on the place and time of the actual trial), but then this really interesting trial came up. This lady who represented herself (she didn't have a professional barrister or lawyer or anything) and who was clearly a bit mentally unstable came on as the defendant and was accused of common assault. everyone in the court room was half-exasperated and half-amused. She was clearly going to lose the case, but of course, she didn't realise that and went on with such conviction. I felt really sorry for her, but one couldn't help but be amused :P The judge was really nice and had a nice chat with me afterwards. :) Another judge let me read a case file, and omg, THERE IS SO MUCH PAPERWORK. LOL! he was going to ask me how i would sentence the person in question, but luckily, we never got there. BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE HAD NO IDEA HOW TO ANSWER. LOL! it was my first time sitting in a courtroom, and wow, it was quite formidable. With the wigs and everything!! and your honours, and OBJECTION! and stuff like that :P aren't i superficial. LOL!
Anyways, nothing much has happened. I'm on holiday now, and have made a study plan that i have yet to follow and a week is already nearly over :( i am such a procrastinator, it's not even funny. OH. and lainey got to see aaron yan and shake his hand. i am actually so jealous. though, i have to say, i'd rather see jin zhen xun. LOL! yes, that korean guy from lian ai bing fa. that is actually a brilliant drama. another brilliant drama i've been conned into watching is Hana Yori, it's like the new korean verison of meteor garden. AND IT IS AMAZING. LOL! i watched it for a whole night without sleeping. stupid ky, his fault. :( and now i swear never to watch shows like that again. it reminds u of how sad reality is. LOL!
OH, and josie jj and I talked to GLADYS. yes, ky's girlfriend. and she laughed at me :( sniffs. LOL! and i so totally embarrassed myself. heh.
that's about all for now!!!
xxxx

HOLIDAYS!

Spring is coming!!! tralalalalala!!!
It doesn't really feel like it, apart from the flowers and trees. The leaves are coming back again, and daffodils are appearing! But, it's still cold, and now its windy and rainy. ah wells. The rhyme does go: March Winds and April Showers bring forth may flowers!
The worst thing is, I'll be going on my expedition in the middle of may. Basically it's like a camping trek (on our own, a group of 7) to some wilderness with huge backpacks for like 5 days. need to make our own food, set up camp, and have a purpose and walk A LOT. luckily, in april, it's just the training expedition, so it'll be only for 3 days. but i hear that it kills :( ah wells. wish me luck!
The holidays are coming now too!!!! WHOOOTS! tomorrow is final assembly!!!! and then funfunfun. well, actually, there'll be a lot of studying, cuz once we come back, we'll be hit with a flood of mocks and our next AS levels (or in the case of further maths, our A levels) :( sadness.
Hopefully, it won't be too bad :P Had our debate today, it went pretty okay. we debated for PROSTITUTION TO BE LEGALISED. LOL!!! very controversial :P
OHOH! and hte school is planning a sixth form trip to New York and Boston next easter holiday!!! WHOOOTS! and and, we'll be visiting places like harvard, and american schools and so on and so forth. am so very excited!!!!! :)
am gonna go now.
TOODLES