we had learning festival on wed and thursday

kind of slackish, but the type of learning i'd rather have
we were supposed to choose at least four courses out of the hundred odd courses they provided
since we signed up a little late, we couldn't take up the french and comic drawing courses that we wanted
but at least we got the calligraphy course.

so wednesday began with balloons bursting
hahah
balloons resisting the twisting and squeezing that we were subjecting them to
i couldn't make the small flower with five petals, and my yellow balloon flew off into god-knows-where when i accidentally released it while pumping it
but at least i ended up with a dog, a giraffe, and a huge, green and orange flower that i had to throw away when one of its petals burst

after that course, the first-impressions talk was so interesting that it ended way beyond its supposed timeslot
really funny, engaging speaker
now, if only all our teachers were like that...

dan had to go for debates that wednesday, so it only steph and i went to cathay to catch a movie
and (YAY!!!) they had the simpsons movie!! like, a day before it was supposed to be released!!!
hahah
really funny stuff, but it was more slapstick, so it was funny then, just not now when i look back on it
can u believe i cried watching the simpsons?!!
all because marge and the kids left homer, who didn't want to leave alaska to save springfield
the video marge made was so sad; it was taped over their old wedding video, the only thing marge saved from their house when they were chased by a mob or sth

anyways, before the movie, we had to leave our balloon animals at the door since they weren't allowed in
by the time the movie was over, they were gone :'(
so steph and i decided to buy our own balloons to make!
hahah
we went to that party store in centrepoint
and bought one hundred long balloons, two pumps, and just to make ourselves happy, three helium balloons; two for me (and sis) and one for her

the ride back on the mrt was embarassing
me, alone, with two helium balloons, irritating the hell out of everyone during peak hour
hehe

thursday was calligraphy and golf
i got to draw pretty words, and hit balls
what more could i ask for?

it's sunday today
and, like all other sundays,
i'm procrastinating on homework, and housework,
and just living the lazy life that i think befits me to a tee

however, in just a few minutes,
i shall try to do some homework
i.e. the lit hw already a day late
my gp folder, which is missing like 11 articles and powerpoint printouts
history essays (yes, there are two due on monday)

feeling a bit peeved with my family now though
u noe how irrational adults are right?
and over-sensitive?
(not to mention irritable, and irritating)
always reading between the lines when there's nothing really out of hand
and then taking offense
haish...
let it be said that i'm not looking forward to being an adult...
... unless it has a rational, sensible character
(like what i have now...)
(he he)

ok then
time for the torture of hw to begin...

HARRY POTTER BOOK'S OUT!!!!
yessss!!! harry potter and the deathly hallows is out!!!

'nuff said...



.....ok, maybe not, simply can't resist...

[WARNING, MY FOLLOWING WORDS CONTAIN SPOILERS TO THE RECENTLY OUT HP BOOK. IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK, AND EXPRESS A GREAT DESIRE TO DO SO WITHOUT HAVING YOUR FUN SPOILED, STOP READING ----> NOW]


okay, just finished the book [9.30] , would have finished sooner if i didn't stop to watch gladiator and to eat

actually wanted the adult cover, until i saw the children's cover and requested for that one (more colourful, if you must know)
was disappointed at first that the book was not thicker, but now i see that it's length works just fine for the story

okay, here comes spoilers:

• Hedwig dies. poor thing

• George i think, loses an ear to Snape's sectumsemptra curse (George was disguised as Harry as a decoy)

• Nymphadora Tonks and Remus Lupin are married;Tonks got pregnant, and gave birth to Ted, named after her father

• the Deathly Hallows are three powerful items: an Invisible Cloak, which harry has inherited and is unlike any other; a wand that will win all duels, the Elder Wand; and a stone that brings people back to life, just not exactly back to human state, the Resurrection Stone

• Dobby dies helping Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ollivander, Luna, Dean, and two goblins escape from the Malfoy mansion.
  

• Snape had been in love with Harry's mother Lily since young; they'd been best friends. Snape was a death eater, but joined Dumbledore after voldermort went after Lily and wouldn't acquiesce to Snape's request to spare Lily. Snape did kill Dumbledore, but only because Dumbledore told him to, and Dumbledore was dying anyway.Snape was killed by voldy, though.

• Fred, Tonks and Lupin are killed in the battle that ensued between defenders of Hogwarts (including the Order of the Phoenix) and the death eaters.

• Mrs Weasley called beatrix lestrange a bitch for attacking Ginny, and kills her

• Harry finds out from Snape's memory that Dumbledore kept him alive only because he must kill all voldy's Horcruxes, and then must die, since a part of voldy is in him. so Harry, to prevent any further deaths of loved ones, meets voldy, and faces him, unarmed.
  

• voldy tries to kill Harry with avada kedavra using the Elder Wand, but Harry survives because he was willing to die; unafraid to face death

• draco is not really a complex, misunderstood character after all. he's actually just a frightened little boy, or coward, and has to be saved twice by Harry

• the last battle between Harry and voldy reveals that Harry is the rightful owner of the Elder Wand, which voldy actually took from inside Dumbledore's tomb, and kills voldy when he disarms voldy with an expelliarmus and voldy's avada kedavra recoils and hits himself instead.

• In the end, Hermione marries Ron, children: Rose and Hugo; Harry marries Ginny, children: James, Albus Severus and Lily. Ted Lupin is a close family friend, since Harry is his godfather

i think those're the key points in the book, except for a whole chunk of the process of discovering the deathly hallows and such. oh yeah, kreacher is now loyal to Harry since Harry gave him, Regulus' (who is sirius' now dead brother and kreacher's favourite master) locket, and because Harry (and Hermioner) loves elves. serious! he even cares for the Golden Trio and 12 Grimmauld Place like never before. Haha. Okay then, that is it.

i'll just leave you now with a quote, from when Dobby dies:

"And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great, glassy orbs sprinkled with light from the stars the could not see."

i haven't been updating in a while, have i?
just got super lazy
so here are the updates:

1. went to watch the commendation ceremony at st andrew's cathedral
really nice on the inside, all stained glass and white walls
muslim students were actually excused, but i went to support danielle
no offense meant to anyone, but the one hour seemed really long in there
but some parts were interesting
and now dan's a councillor! with a badge!
hehe

2. a majority of paternal female cousins stayed with us for the weekend
which equals to 7 girls, ranging from age 17 to age 8
six of us were all at our grandma's house, but only one parent was willing to send us
from jalan singa (eunos) to woodlands
so there were six of us in the back seat
can u imagine?! younger ones sitting on the laps of the older ones
everyone passing by the car looked into the backseat incredulously
haha

3. watched harry potter!
on sunday, the 7 of us trooped to marsiling station and headed for dhoby ghout
to watch the movie at plaza singapura
luckily my bro had booked the tickets for us thru AXS
met my bro, who arrived by motorbike
(and had never really cared to watch a movie with us before this)
bought the snacks
met two other, older, female cousins
(which makes the count ten; 9 girls, and my poor bro, the only guy)
and headed in to watch the movie
all ten of us sat in a row, so u can imagine how hard it was to share the snacks
and another stupid thing happened:
i spilled 3/4 of the popcorn on the carpet!!

the movie was... ok, i guess
i decided not to read the book again before watching the moves so i would watch it with an open mind
but i still have a few complaints about the movie
a few discrepancies like how did the kids,
other than harry and luna who can actually see the scaly horse/bird,
manage to ride them?
it wasn't explained, so it may have been confusing to ppl who haven't read the book
they should have at least shown the funny process of ron or somebody groping around on the "invisible" creature
and the part harry got possessed by lord V was hilarious
he looked constipated... hehe
and harry watching snape's memory was supposed to be done in the pensieve, and not during an occlumency session
things like this messes about with my memory of the story
so i'd give the movie about 3.5-4/5

so after that, we went to pizzahut to eat
we were told to wait half an hour before they could get a table for 10 ready
so we split up, and explored plaza sing
i was constantly keeping a headcount of the kids
didn't want to accidentally lose one of them

overall, it was fun, except when my brother made my younger sister cry
while the rest of us were goofing around, making funny faces

4. tuesday, went to the airport at 7 in the morning to see my cousins off
before this, they hadn't been back in a year
so i'd really missed them
and now it was goodbye again
:'(
but i'll visit them after them damned A levels are over
after i get my results, and a motorbike license

=)

watched transformers!! OMG! it was so good
funny, full of action, fantastic special effects... what more could fina ask for?
it was so good, in fact, that steph held her pee for 1 hr 45 minutes just so she wouldn't miss anything!

hehe
so this week has mostly been a very relaxed week in school
an example of a typical day at sajc for me is:
thursday> first lecture, SEA history, then PE, then 1/2 hour break, 1 hour PW, 3 hours break, and then GP cancelled.

thus, basically, the only lesson we had was history, and that was first thing in the morning!
ugh...
but i'm not really complaining cos u noe i hate studying rite? haha
later i'm going over to my cousin's house to deposit my stuff, then head over to the NDP preview show thingie

and after that, my grandma's house,
cos my aussie-living cousins are here!!! yea!!


hmmm... amazing race was... undescribable
on the one hand, we had a "class outing" (albeit to potong pasir only)
on the other hand, it got very sian after a while, so we gave up with 30 minutes left in the game, and went to eat =)

hehe
ouh, the other day, i saw this cute tee at GAP
omg i really want it! (or was it at esprit?)
and it's not that pricey too
hmm, but when in the world am i gonna find the time to head there again?
so, bye bye GAP tee, hello
national day tee

hahah
but seriously, do u noe how hard it is to find a red polo tee for women in causeway point?!
walked everywhere, couldn't find even one
until we came to esprit, but becos it was $49.90, my parents wouldn't let me buy it
so i'll have to make do with a white collared tee then
haish, no national day spirit at all man

okay, that's it
fina =)

congrats to my cousin who had her convocation yesterday at NUS =)
she was graduating with a Masters degree, with honours,
and even got the Runme Shaw award...

hahah
now, if only her smartness would rub off on me...
=)

i'm so bored...
in the school library now with pat, yiqi and kellyn,
while everybody else is having mother tongue...

ok; that's it
just wanted to find something to do

see ya =)

omg i so love Po from the teletubbies!!
she just makes me wanna say *eeeee! so cuuuttteeee!!!!!*
hahah
seriously, when she say *eh-oh tinky winky, ehoh dipsy, eh-oh laalaa* when greeting the others...
hahah just so a-frickkin'-dor-able heehee XD

do u see now the appeal of po?
hahah

ok, so this week is one that i'm hoping will be relaxed...
monday holiday, friday college day,
and all i need is for wednesday and thursday to be relaxed
*please, can you grant me this one+++(in case i have more) wish?*

i got a keychain from liepzig
yay!! exactly what i wanted
even if he (bro) deigned to buy me only one thing
and nothing else,
i'd still hope for it to be a keychain, to add to my collection
and i got it! (possibly to make up for the other keychain-less trips to dusseldorf and guangzhou)
hehe

and of course the customary chocolates he always buys
and cookies! heavenly, 40% choc chip, cookies!!
and pencil cases, and a handbag for Mama
and lots of pics and videos
okay, this is one trip i'm happy with :)

met up with syaz after econs paper last thursday
caught up on old times
it's been a while since i've looked at the sky during the day
the only times i remember that vast canvas of wondrous colours domed over our heads
is at night
so here's a picture of that sky
but it's not that nice
except for the contrast between the darker and lighter clouds

monday was shopping day - hari-raya-shopping-for-fabrics day!
went to that building on bencoolen street with the huge OG sign
wasn't impressed
walked to bugis, and the street shops there blew me away
can't wait to revisit
:)

then went to arab street to look for fabrics
found one italian designer silk
huge flowers-looking-like-butterflies
psychedelic shades of blue, pink and yellow
hehe
might be too big to look nice as baju kurung, but i really loved the colours!
went to countless stores
bought that "kotak-kotak" (checkered) kind, from kashmir
lavender/gray/cream, paired with a plain cream kind of fabric
walked around some more before sis finally found something she liked
and the nice shopkeepers were so persuasive,
that from not wanting to buy any for herself,
that my mom ended up buying two different fabrics
talk about good salesmanship
hahah

and finally, today, looked at some perasan-cute/sexy girl's blog
eww, her pic on her blog's page was so... flat
and i do crudely mean the boobage area
totally went "ugghh" at her pics and posts
makes me wonder why i even bother visiting that blog...
oh yeah! to gawk and laugh at this kind of person
hahah so mean
i remember leaving a sarcastic comment, don't think she let it be posted though
don't wanna say it here
too bitchy... hehe

ok then
*sings* "it ends tonight" for now...
good night, sleep tight, and no, i don't think there are bedbugs
(they existed in them long ago non-springs mattresses, so no worries about bites :])

fina <3>