An Ideal Husband, and A Long Post
Sheesh i haven't updated in a while!
The past few days were busy geez to be honest i cant remember much. Ok Lemme try. Thursday after that post was watching soccer and chatting online... all the way to 5+ in the morn lol.
Fri woke very late (duh) and then it was hw hw more hw. Actually no lah it was quite fun. Read An Ideal Husband for crp. Last time i read A woman of no importance and they're both by Oscar Wilde. Seems like AIH has plenty more plot than AWONI but i still prefer the latter. I mean, i love it when the dandy Lord Goring says the only way to have a lifelong relationship is to fall in love with oneself, but then again there's nothing quite like a play titled A Woman of No Importance ending with "A Man of No Importance"! The play on words, so Wildean, so beautiful. Oh, the dandy ideal.
And i did my tuition hw. yayness.Then sat morn had tuition then watch tv then do CRP... but still hadn't finish AIH then yet.
Sunday went to buy watch, cut hair, then go for the Kopitiam Association prize giving only to realise that IT WAS OVER but nvm at least we still get to take our prize $$$ =)
Then went for chinese tuition. Oh my the little room is spilling with ppl, can we change to the bigger room with proper tables, please? Oh and i got back my gong han. like. oh no ! :( 10/20 overall and 1 mark for ge shi. Oh my, how noob is that. It doesn't matter that Harold got an egg for his ge shi and li han failed. both 0 and 1 upon 4 is FAIL and lihan can just switch to writing speech (yanjianggao) since she writes like she talking. I write like i'm writing cuz i talk like i'm english ed. How? Did i mention Andy FOR ONCE didn't get 18/20? hahaha see see his foray into Dota isn't doing him any good. Oh but then i think he's still a Mr. 4.0. Can't slip that fast.
Then went home and wrote my crp(finally) and then watched soccer all the way to 5am in the morning wheee i don't regret it cuz its really cool! The portugal-holland match and i'm glad portugal got through. And Figo's still inspiration i feel. Heated match. Passion. Like u see Scolari getting fired up and all, oh my, the fire's burning in me.
And today i woke up late late yet again and guess what my parents brought a bird home. Apparently it langah something while flying and fell flat on its face. Um, no, that'd break its beak so ok it wasn't on its face but anyway my dad brought it back i think a student passed it to him or smth. Then they went to buy cage and when they were back mommy was fuming cuz after they spent 20bucks on the cage not to mention more $$$ on the food they had FOUR ppl on their way back telling them the bird cannot be kept cuz its the kind of bird that foraged for necter in plants and doesn't feed on bird food.
So when they came back we brought it downstairs and let it go but oh it just won't fly away. Then when i went upstairs it flew out ><>When I'm Gone.
Then the rest of the day spent on reading Gulliver's Travel's CLiffnotes guide. Whee i better ticum properly tmrw i won't fail no i wont!
Lemme talk abit abt GT. I think its an awesome book if you recognise all the allusions its making as well the stuff that it criticises (abstract reason, the humanities, science, experience,pride, humanity,unfeeling morality etc etc). Not that i agree with all the criticisms but its just elegant, how he does it. He uses coarse language at times, sure, but its still nice how he satricise it.
Now if all that were lost on the reader, it'll be nothing more than a children's adventure story. So when reading, open your eyes big big and read between the lines, Be Sensitive.
Coming to that point, i read in one person's letter to the forum today that basically, as her last line wrote. "Literature is LIFE". She also argues along the lines that not learning lit will make a person less able to feel for others and become, essentially, like a mechanical robot.
Although i 'm a lit student, i can't quite say i agree with her. Lets put it this way, after conversing with a person, are you able to tell that he/she has taken lit, and is thus so sensitive? Oh i do get her point abt how doing lit and answering the questions will make u think deeper. Like acting out "Et tu, Brute" will make you think twice before betraying a friend. But then again there are many other avenues for thought provoking stuff u know. Movies, television, conversations, life experience. And after 2 years (sec1&2) of lit students can always hit the books themselves.
Which brings into question, why did i take lit? To be brutally honest, i wanted the Guthrie scholarship which is now like 1000000000000000000zillion points away from me heh. cuz my eng lit was good at sec 2. So i was like, Lit is CONFIRMED. Then i picked bio to go along with it, sacrificing my beloved history. Oh well i told myself then i can just read up to catch up, but honestly speaking thats not what i 've done.
Actually if we look back at what we said in the past, how much of what we've said have we done?
Take this holi for example. I came into it with 4 areas to work on : Academics, Weiqi, Sports(i.e Gym) and developing some fashion. Oh yeah i wanted to hang out more as well.
Now holis over and guess what my hw's only completed today. Weiqi fared better. Week 1 was 100% weiqi and the subsequent weeks i put in effort as well but i've not touched it for days so u see, the consistency is not there. Sports? Gone to the dogs. To the world cup actually, after i fell sick and had less sleep it was all gone. Fashion? oh i got a book i really like i hope it helps.
ANyway let me put it behind me since the sch term starts in a few hours time. Ready, get set, no i dun want to go yet.
The fashion bk's worth talking about. Its about discovering your own style, so it had this exercise where the reader's supposed to write the answer to :
1)What do you love and feel passionately about?
2) What do you dislike and feel passionately about?
You know, i've always considered myself to be someone who thinks quite alot. I spent my time before sleeping each day (involuntarily, since i sometimes just can't get to sleep) thinking over what i did and how could i improve, then plot the days ahead.
Strangely, i've never asked myself those two questions.
Why don't you try?
Tough huh?
If you do write though, then lemme take a look? Haha ok i understand, its Personal. YEah. i'll write mine soon and ain't gonna share it either. But really, the answers to these questions will tell lotsa, won't they?
I think this is one of my longest posts ever kinda making up for lost time but like i forsee a hiatus once again when sch starts and i start realising what hw's not done.
Oh yeah chess club's interview's at this coming fri, time to pass on. Oh my. The coming of the full circle. But then yeah, perhaps it IS time for new blood.
oh yeah my past few hours were spent emailing ppl for interview, namely Stomp, blinkymummy and of cuz Mr Brown. Its for ss proj, which my group met on thurs for. And i think ss stuff, they're just pure FUN man. We do a good job, make a decent video and just like my sec3 re video, its really something years down the road, (if u dun lose the file) u can look back and remember what a fun time u had.
oh yes and australia went down to italy 1-0 to a 93rd min penalty. Haiz. good fight anyway.
You know, Gus Hiddink teams, the fighting spirit.
like the game i gave up quite awhile ago,
Battle On!
oh u see i'm so loso i meant to stop there but i forgot i missed smth. Serene i know Selina won first, but what competition? oh my u see this selina is so cute hahaha my mum saw it as wall paper and keep gushing abt her. See my mum, senior citizens matchmaking instincts worked up le, want to intro her to my 7 yr old cousin, still say, 4 years not big. hahaha lian tong zhen!
'D like upload her pic but then as i've promised, want selina pic plz go ask the turtle serene.
Is it some baby cutesy competition? Ah? WIn le then good wor... Win Anthea le.. i rmbr last time anthea had baby competition.. ke xi nvr win :(
Alright Alright. Better catch some sleep now and then tmrw come back and play weiqi.
THen next week onwards my lesson with phillip will be on tues, so thurs can go gym with ben and co. and so yay back to an active lifestyle.
geez.
Indeed,
A L-O-N-G P-O-S-T
The past few days were busy geez to be honest i cant remember much. Ok Lemme try. Thursday after that post was watching soccer and chatting online... all the way to 5+ in the morn lol.
Fri woke very late (duh) and then it was hw hw more hw. Actually no lah it was quite fun. Read An Ideal Husband for crp. Last time i read A woman of no importance and they're both by Oscar Wilde. Seems like AIH has plenty more plot than AWONI but i still prefer the latter. I mean, i love it when the dandy Lord Goring says the only way to have a lifelong relationship is to fall in love with oneself, but then again there's nothing quite like a play titled A Woman of No Importance ending with "A Man of No Importance"! The play on words, so Wildean, so beautiful. Oh, the dandy ideal.
And i did my tuition hw. yayness.Then sat morn had tuition then watch tv then do CRP... but still hadn't finish AIH then yet.
Sunday went to buy watch, cut hair, then go for the Kopitiam Association prize giving only to realise that IT WAS OVER but nvm at least we still get to take our prize $$$ =)
Then went for chinese tuition. Oh my the little room is spilling with ppl, can we change to the bigger room with proper tables, please? Oh and i got back my gong han. like. oh no ! :( 10/20 overall and 1 mark for ge shi. Oh my, how noob is that. It doesn't matter that Harold got an egg for his ge shi and li han failed. both 0 and 1 upon 4 is FAIL and lihan can just switch to writing speech (yanjianggao) since she writes like she talking. I write like i'm writing cuz i talk like i'm english ed. How? Did i mention Andy FOR ONCE didn't get 18/20? hahaha see see his foray into Dota isn't doing him any good. Oh but then i think he's still a Mr. 4.0. Can't slip that fast.
Then went home and wrote my crp(finally) and then watched soccer all the way to 5am in the morning wheee i don't regret it cuz its really cool! The portugal-holland match and i'm glad portugal got through. And Figo's still inspiration i feel. Heated match. Passion. Like u see Scolari getting fired up and all, oh my, the fire's burning in me.
And today i woke up late late yet again and guess what my parents brought a bird home. Apparently it langah something while flying and fell flat on its face. Um, no, that'd break its beak so ok it wasn't on its face but anyway my dad brought it back i think a student passed it to him or smth. Then they went to buy cage and when they were back mommy was fuming cuz after they spent 20bucks on the cage not to mention more $$$ on the food they had FOUR ppl on their way back telling them the bird cannot be kept cuz its the kind of bird that foraged for necter in plants and doesn't feed on bird food.
So when they came back we brought it downstairs and let it go but oh it just won't fly away. Then when i went upstairs it flew out ><>When I'm Gone.
Then the rest of the day spent on reading Gulliver's Travel's CLiffnotes guide. Whee i better ticum properly tmrw i won't fail no i wont!
Lemme talk abit abt GT. I think its an awesome book if you recognise all the allusions its making as well the stuff that it criticises (abstract reason, the humanities, science, experience,pride, humanity,unfeeling morality etc etc). Not that i agree with all the criticisms but its just elegant, how he does it. He uses coarse language at times, sure, but its still nice how he satricise it.
Now if all that were lost on the reader, it'll be nothing more than a children's adventure story. So when reading, open your eyes big big and read between the lines, Be Sensitive.
Coming to that point, i read in one person's letter to the forum today that basically, as her last line wrote. "Literature is LIFE". She also argues along the lines that not learning lit will make a person less able to feel for others and become, essentially, like a mechanical robot.
Although i 'm a lit student, i can't quite say i agree with her. Lets put it this way, after conversing with a person, are you able to tell that he/she has taken lit, and is thus so sensitive? Oh i do get her point abt how doing lit and answering the questions will make u think deeper. Like acting out "Et tu, Brute" will make you think twice before betraying a friend. But then again there are many other avenues for thought provoking stuff u know. Movies, television, conversations, life experience. And after 2 years (sec1&2) of lit students can always hit the books themselves.
Which brings into question, why did i take lit? To be brutally honest, i wanted the Guthrie scholarship which is now like 1000000000000000000zillion points away from me heh. cuz my eng lit was good at sec 2. So i was like, Lit is CONFIRMED. Then i picked bio to go along with it, sacrificing my beloved history. Oh well i told myself then i can just read up to catch up, but honestly speaking thats not what i 've done.
Actually if we look back at what we said in the past, how much of what we've said have we done?
Take this holi for example. I came into it with 4 areas to work on : Academics, Weiqi, Sports(i.e Gym) and developing some fashion. Oh yeah i wanted to hang out more as well.
Now holis over and guess what my hw's only completed today. Weiqi fared better. Week 1 was 100% weiqi and the subsequent weeks i put in effort as well but i've not touched it for days so u see, the consistency is not there. Sports? Gone to the dogs. To the world cup actually, after i fell sick and had less sleep it was all gone. Fashion? oh i got a book i really like i hope it helps.
ANyway let me put it behind me since the sch term starts in a few hours time. Ready, get set, no i dun want to go yet.
The fashion bk's worth talking about. Its about discovering your own style, so it had this exercise where the reader's supposed to write the answer to :
1)What do you love and feel passionately about?
2) What do you dislike and feel passionately about?
You know, i've always considered myself to be someone who thinks quite alot. I spent my time before sleeping each day (involuntarily, since i sometimes just can't get to sleep) thinking over what i did and how could i improve, then plot the days ahead.
Strangely, i've never asked myself those two questions.
Why don't you try?
Tough huh?
If you do write though, then lemme take a look? Haha ok i understand, its Personal. YEah. i'll write mine soon and ain't gonna share it either. But really, the answers to these questions will tell lotsa, won't they?
I think this is one of my longest posts ever kinda making up for lost time but like i forsee a hiatus once again when sch starts and i start realising what hw's not done.
Oh yeah chess club's interview's at this coming fri, time to pass on. Oh my. The coming of the full circle. But then yeah, perhaps it IS time for new blood.
oh yeah my past few hours were spent emailing ppl for interview, namely Stomp, blinkymummy and of cuz Mr Brown. Its for ss proj, which my group met on thurs for. And i think ss stuff, they're just pure FUN man. We do a good job, make a decent video and just like my sec3 re video, its really something years down the road, (if u dun lose the file) u can look back and remember what a fun time u had.
oh yes and australia went down to italy 1-0 to a 93rd min penalty. Haiz. good fight anyway.
You know, Gus Hiddink teams, the fighting spirit.
like the game i gave up quite awhile ago,
Battle On!
oh u see i'm so loso i meant to stop there but i forgot i missed smth. Serene i know Selina won first, but what competition? oh my u see this selina is so cute hahaha my mum saw it as wall paper and keep gushing abt her. See my mum, senior citizens matchmaking instincts worked up le, want to intro her to my 7 yr old cousin, still say, 4 years not big. hahaha lian tong zhen!
'D like upload her pic but then as i've promised, want selina pic plz go ask the turtle serene.
Is it some baby cutesy competition? Ah? WIn le then good wor... Win Anthea le.. i rmbr last time anthea had baby competition.. ke xi nvr win :(
Alright Alright. Better catch some sleep now and then tmrw come back and play weiqi.
THen next week onwards my lesson with phillip will be on tues, so thurs can go gym with ben and co. and so yay back to an active lifestyle.
geez.
Indeed,
A L-O-N-G P-O-S-T
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