7-0!!!! 7-0, 7-0, 7-0!!!!

Arsenal won 7-0!!

of course, it wasn't against a very big club, but still...

theo, hleb and cesc scored two goals each
with bendtner also scoring in the 89th minute
i'm so proud of them!
hahah

never expected a scoreline that big
so... <3<3<3!!

omg, i'm so in love with steph's D40!
most pictures i took looked great in that cam
so jealous!
hahah

*new word: carema-bag! (camera bag)

finafinafina

p.s. PWPWPWPW sucks... both external moderators and internal assessors will be watching my group! shit!

ARSENAL WON!!!

hehehe
they didn't score the 3 goals that i'd expected them to
but two's just as good
it's all the same 3 points anyway

the first half wasn't really that cohesive
bu the second half was simply beautiful
fabregas was fabulous, as usual
but yesterday, walcott was really magnificent
seemed to have improved by leaps and bounds
hahah
i'm talking like i know loads about football
though i actually don't
but to the casual observer, walcott's runs yesterday really looked stylo milo
hahah
and gael clichy had some moves up his sleeve too
so it was a good game to watch

as usual, bolton were they're usual violent selves
their pushes came to shoves
but i think arsenal handled them way better than they did at their meetings last year

Go ARSENAL!!!

now, about blackburn and reading...
poor reading!
the first half, when i saw that the score was 3-0 to blackburn,
i thot: oh no!
but by full-time, it was 4-2 to blackburn
at least reading weren't 3 goals down
they managed to score 2 themselves; one by doyle and the other by can't-remember-who
so at least it wasn't as embarassing as it could have been for reading

hmm
fina-loves-soccer!!!

p.s. and PW sucks ass!

i'm not shy to say that, as a student,
i am one of the laziest that you will ever find
i really hate doing school work of any kind
(except the fun kind)
anything that i can get away with not doing, i'll not do
hahah

it's just the way i am, you know
i don't need to be apologetic for being myself
i think it's my prerogative if i want to slack off on homework or the studying for examinations
(which i must confess, i did not do in the week before the promotional exams
hahah
everything studied was done the night before and the morning of the examination)

however,
i have made it through school just fine due to my fear of authority and the threat of punishment

hahah
i am deathly afraid of getting into trouble
oh sure, i may have a heck-care attitude
but when push comes to shove,
i'll do what is needed to be done to keep me in the clear

all that being said,
academics is something i don't really care about
of course, i am aware of its significance in the measure of our employability
especially in occupations that are specialised and knowledge-based
but beyond that...
i don't get why it is so important
and believe me, to some sad, sad people, it represents everything
especially so in kiasu singapore

parents buying their children stacks of ten-year series assessment books to complete
or forcing their children to study all day, everyday
or comparing their children's results with every other kids', hoping to come out the parent with the smarter child

like, wtf?
i don't mind the bit about parents hounding their children to study
it has nothing to do with me
but caring about the academic progression of someone of no relation to you...
that, i have a problem with
the only people to whom i have to justify my dismal results are my parents and teachers
other than the two categories of human beings mentioned above, MYOB

i mean, really,
comparing your children with other children is a condemnable way of judging their worth and the worth of other people's children
not only that, it can seem abit "hao lian", as they say
like, i know your child's smart and all, so why compare him to us lower beings?
my sister was so affected the other day while visiting a relative
she cried
cried, i tell you!
my point is, being hao lian may make others feel inadequate
unintentional though it may be, it's abit tactless

as it turns out, my sister was not just being overly sensitive that night
after checking with other cousins of mine, i found out that other people too have been made to feel that they were lacking in the academics department
and frankly, we are getting tired of it

so please, to whoever is reading this,
don't do this to other people's children
it really does get a bit annoying

sincerely,
fina

this week so far:

monday
- went to more father's uncles/aunties' houses

tuesday
- had ice-cream at swensen's =) (cookie summit - amazingly filling)
- found out the results of stupid econs... surprisingly bad

wednesday
- found out i passed overall! yay!
- sh*tass PW day; wasn't really productive :(
- poor steph was sick

thursday
- tried to cut down on WR words - succeeded, with the help of my helpful group members
- found out my printer has only green ink left - shit! will print during chapel tmr

friday
- wrote this post
- still sore about the fact that the dadster forgot to buy ink for the printer
- thinking of how i will hate maths lecture later (ugghh!!!)


good morning; i am going to sleep.

finafinafinafinafinafinafinafinafinafinafinafinafina
(i find such peace in repetition)

i'm just so frustrated - again!

you know the post before this?
the one in which i cursed like a sailor?

well, the object who warranted such a cursing - the father-thingie of the family- has done it again
and i'm so freaking angry that such a selfish bastard exists in my family

just - so - fucking - angry!

it's just such a selfish asshole
that's also so irrational and obviously wrong, since it can't give fully supported arguments without holes in them
and once i've exposed the flaws in its arguments, it says, i don't care, it's because i say so

how stupidly patronising is that?
does it think i'm 5 years old?
hello, i can think on my own now,
and methinks we have one big stupid asshole in the family

oh, i'm sure one day i'll regret saying the truth so blatantly in this post
or, if not regret, then at least feel a wee bit embarassed
but, the truth is, right now i think that truer words were never spoken by me than those i've written in this post

urrggghhhh!!!!! how dumb can a person get? seriously?

fina-super-freaking-angry-that-she-could-throw-sharp-objects-at-its-head

*this is an edit of the actual post that was here.
i think it was too vulgar, so i've removed it
but, here's a count of the vulgarities in that post:

fuck 53
asshole 3
bleeding- 1
fucking 3
bloody 1
jerk 2
bullshit

thank you*



oh no! i realised that i can't play youtube videos on my blog!
what bad luck!!!!

have been going out, house to house,
non-stop the past two days, and am going out today again
so many relatives, so little time
luckily hari raya lasts a month
(which is ironic, since "hari raya" means day of celebration, not month)
hehe

fina-tired

SELAMAT HARI RAYA, all =)

so i've finished cleaning up my whole room:
swept, vaccuumed twice, mopped, wiped the windows, changed the curtains, rearranged everything...

and, as promised, the pics of the marble "rainbow" cake:

before baking...
...after bakingyum!
hehe
not exactly like the butterscotch ice-cream,
but at least the colours are about the same
and it is better looking than conventional chocolate-and-beige coloured cakes
so i'm satisfied
besides, alot of my sweat and tears went into making baking that cake
(not literally- i hope)
hahah

ouhh!!! check out cesc's soulful eyes!!
so a-d-o-rable!!
hahah

finandfab:P

p.s. oh dear, i think i may be obssessed with cesc...
help!

hahahahah
was searching for the kiss that took place between xabi alonso and steven gerrard:

did you notice that xabi then licks steve's ear?
kinky
hahah

...and i found this funny thing:



steve falls just when xabi coughs, and says, "i hope that's not on the telly"
hahah
so cute
if they were gay, they'd be such a cute couple
but i think they're just very good friends

okay then, gd night =)

p.s. omg, i realise liverpool is the bpl team with the most noticeable number of attractive men (gerrard, alonso, finnan, torres), while spain, to me now, at least, has the national team with the most number of hotties (fabregas<3,>, etc)
*swoons!*

tried to watch the fabregas compilation on youtube in school today, while trying to wile away the time left of my history period...

... but the computer in school was waaaaay slow
so i'm watching it now



fabregas is just so adorable
hahah
when (not if ;)) i marry him, i'll make sure he's clean shaven all the time - he looks cuter that way
hehehe

"he's a little genius today; he's like a little magician"
hahah
i do object to the use of "little" though
(altho he was the youngest in the team then...)

the video doesn't just show fabregas' fabulous passes
it shows some of his mistakes too
after all, it is human to err
and what a hot human he is too
wakakaka

hmm, i just cut open the marble cake that i baked yesterday night
in colours blue, pink and yellow, reminiscent of mat kool butterscotch ice-cream - yay!!!
and the cake looks so pretty

but it was such a bitch to make it yesterday
my mother said it's be better to use the older, more complicated recipe
because the easier one, where we just dump everything in one mixer, produces cakes that sag in the middle
this one - aah, in this recipe, you beat the butter in one mixer, then the eggs and other stuff in another, and after that the butter mixed with the eggs using a different type of mixer
so bleeding complicated
but it looks so pretty!
i'll post pictures the next post

okay then,
tonight will be the last of terawih prayers
then i'll make more meringues, in pink and blue this time (i hope)
then off to bed!

ok, good night=)

fina-colada

this morning, i had about 6 pieces of meringue...

... and nearly got a sore throat

hahah
finally, the pics:right after i finished piping out the concoction into the paper cups. before sprinkles...

... and after sprinkles!

in the oven, waiting to bake

i had some mat kool butterscotch ice-cream while waiting for them to cook

two sccops, with sprinkles, in my honey stars bowl!

i left a little surprise in the meringue; one piece of trix cereal, just for fun =)


hahah
i like the taste of meringue, but seriously, it takes too much energy to cook
you have to beat the eggs and sugar and cream of tartar at high speed for like, 10 minutes,
then let it bake at 105 degrees celsius for 1 and 1/2 hours, and then at 80 degrees celsius for a few hours

hours of baking, anyone?
hahah
it is truly, very, sweet, being made from only eggs and sugar
and you can smell the egg white quite strongly
and if left out for too long, it becomes soft and chewy
(which i accidentally did, because i forgot to keep them in the container. woops!)
then you have to re-bake it to make it dry again
then it's appearance takes on more of a crumbly, less creamy look

*sighs*
the batch i made didn't even skim a hundred pieces
have to make some more tonight...
and i have to go to school tomorrow
ouh! woe is me

and that pw sh*t...
by 11 tonight
I HATE PW!!! god help me, do i hate pw

okay then
have to help my mum prepare the breaking-fast meal

fin-eringue

(potatoes again? sunday we had fisherman's pie, yesterday shepherd's pie, both with potatoe-tops, and potatoes today, again?!!)

oops, it was toure, not eboue who nearly scored...
hahah, sorry

but yesterday's match... did you see where hleb got hurt?
down there, his family jewels
then he had to sit at the side of the field, with the medic holding ice to his nether regions
hahah
poor guy
how many times does he need to get injured this season?
he really does look like a nice guy, you know
the kind of soft-spoken, quiet-type character

hmm...
meringues!

arsenal beat sunderland
3-2
but, boy, was it an exciting game!
kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time
i felt, in the words of the football analyst, "both mentally and physically exhausted"
hahah

oh my word,
the almost goals by diaby, eboue, walcott
and sunderland equalising 2-2 by the end of the first half

of course, if arsenal isn't leading the game, they usually score around the 80th minute...
but what a game!

hahah
anyways,
happy birthday to all the october babies, and thereabouts,
including nessa, diana, gilberto silva (31st) and voronin (34th)

man, are the latter two old or what?
especially gilberto, where, in arsenal, the average age of the players is about 21 or so
hahah

tmr is meringue day!
unless we go off to buy my raya shoes
sorry steph, dan, for pangseh-ing you guys

good night!
fina-colada

p.s. i dreamt that i, using a machine gun, shot this guy that i think i liked but was in the enemy army! and that i was chased by this crazy dude with a huge knife with a 30cm blade, and he very nearly got to slash my face! at the bpghs campus! what strange dreams...

so my facial experience left me with experiences both good and bad

relaxing:
the masks

painful: diamond peeling> using a vaccuum-like machine to suck dirt off my face (every strokefelt like sandpaper)
the digging out of whiteheads and blackheads out of my pores (they used this ear-digging-type instrument; so painful that tears flowed)

at least afterwards, my face felt so much cleaner
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

anyways, i've finally bought mitch albom's for one more day
13 pages left; really sad
shed a few tears even before reaching the half-way mark

thursday: after the nonentity maths paper, went home to catch some shut-eye
then met up with steph and dan late because of the shut-eye, after steph's facial
saw rachel, neha and their friend
had a look-see at borders
didn't get to de-virginise my new atm card there :(...
all the normal stuff, y'know
except i saw bounce up! at borders!
(for the uninitiated, bounce up was the name for my sec 3/4 infatuation, dubbed bounce up for the sport he played - volleyball [ball bouncing up? geddit?])
hmmm...

then,
we ate ramenten! yay!
finally, some halal sushi in singapore
we also met steph's au naturale gray-eyed malay friend
so cool!
and then off to ngee ann city...

...where i bought an arsenal fc magazine!
my word, it was a bleeding $16 dollars
but worth it, i think, for the best, most stylish club in the world ;)
lost of pictures of fabregas in it, anyways
hehe

and then at the better toy shop, i bought this music-box
you can see how it works - little dots sticking out of a metal sheet pushes these small strips of metal to create a sound
i've been playing it non-stop for the past three days
before bed, after waking up, after my shwoer, before reading... you get the picture

and today, i've been making pineapple tarts
real ugly, but they're all the same once you pop them in your mouth

...

my brother told me that at his camp,
8 out of 10 of the malay boys don't fast!
in the morning, for the pre-dawn meal, only my brother and another boy ate
the others take lunch
lunch?! are you kidding me?!
i was super-shocked... and disgusted
they don't fast, don't respect the month of ramadan, and usually they're the ones who celebrate hari-raya the most
hmmph; the nerve of people nowadays...

okay, that's it
because of the persistent hounding of my siblings, i have to end here
till next time then

fina-colada ;)

yess!!! my last paper is over!!!
(unless you're counting the h1 maths paper tmr, which i'm not cos i'm not really studying for that, and i'll fail anyway... so what's the point?)
hahah

walked about causeway point with steph
my first promenade since ratatouille
a celebration of sorts for our regained freedom, if you will
hahah

and i've finally made the replacement atm card!
yay
i now feel more financially secure
won't have to worry if i don't have ready cash
never fear; nets card is here!

andd...
i've cut my hair
not so short that i can't tie it
no way, nuh-uh
that would be image-suicide for me cos my hair would just puff up all the time like a hive made from black straw
(see that? that's called a simile. hahah)
hahah
its just shorter than before, is all
wanted to cut it on friday after the facial, but since i was with my mum already...

you know how i've been skimping on sleep the past few days?
a result of last-minute studying for sure
it's been officially 24 hrs and 40 minutes since i last had some shut-eye
yup, that's right; the last time i slept was yesterday afternoon, 2.00 - 4.30
kept myself awake all night with the aid of my good friend, red bull

the optimal number of hours of sleep a day for an adult is about 8 hours
and since sunday night,
i'm supposed to have slept 24 hours total
(sunday night + monday night + tuesday night = 8+8+8 =24)
but... i've only racked up 9.5 hours
out of 24!

so if it were a grade, i'd be getting 38% - a U-grade, i think
ugh
this is really bad
you know how much i treasure sleep, right?
i used to sleep at least 5 hours of sleep a day
those were the days... *reminisces*

harrumph!
that's it!
i'm going to bed now!

hahah
aiites then
gd nite!

fina-colada
(hmm... name for new blog?...)

Just finished with helping my mother plan the menu for hari raya
menu as in all the stuff we'll serve to visitors
so far, this is what we've decided:

1. Cheese tart w/ blueberry filling

2. Pineapple tart

3. Rainbow Dots meringue

4. Cheese biscuits

5. un-Famous Amos cookies

6. Cake – Steamed, prune lapis & rainbow marble

7. Potato Chips, Rempeyek, & Tumpi (some kinds of keropok)

8. Marshmallows and Assorted Chocolates


Yum! Can't wait to eat all this,
although it remains to be seen whether we'll stick to the plan

Okay then,
that's it (i hope) for my deviation away from studying stupid economics

Adios, mi amigos

fina

p.s. i finally found out where to buy butterscotch ice-cream!
Turns out that that rainbow "mat kool" ice-cream is butterscotch
yay!
I bought it as soon as i saw it at sheng siong just now, on my way back from school
haha
okay then, this is the end of my post
see yaz

as research has shown, an organised room yields an organised mind
just what i need for promotionals
so,i've been trying to clean up my room

and guess what? i've been slaving away in my room since 2.00 pm this afternoon
clearing out things i don't need - tissue, clothes, paper, etc.
and i'm still not done
hahah
it's pathetic, yo
granted, i did take a few long breaks
to eat, to read all the papers i've got

but it's still taking too long!
and i'm not halfway done!
in fact, it looks worse now
because although my cupboard and shelves are cleared out, my floor is littered with all the stuff i want to throw away and stuff i haven't yet organised

aaaarrggghhhh!!!!
so frustrating

anyways, i was going through some old rjc papers
and i've realised why they do so well for their gp essays
it's because they actually do things during class that helps them with writing essays
like, they have worksheets - fill in the blanks - for philosophical terms
and for compre, they have guides on how to figure out the meaning of a word

hmm...
it's not that i want to do work during gp classes
god knows i'm really lazy
it's just, i just did my gp paper for promos yesterday
and i realise that my english sucks big time
i wrote only 2 and 1/2 pages for my essay
when some people write 4 full pages

and my compre!

don't even ask about my compre
i misinterpreted (or misinterpretated - hahah!) certain questions

sucks, sucks, sucks

aiite then, guess i'm off to continue bulldozing through my room

(too full for choc pudding - bummers!)

fina, the floundering fish

5-0!!! 5-0!!! Arsenal won, 5-0!!!

it's 1 goal over the 4-0 that was predicted by the new paper
arsenal just slaughtered derby county
and, at derby's expense, i feel ultimately joyous

and, guess what? for the first time ever, i tried to predict the score before the match started
i thought, 4-0? nah, not with the form arsenal's in
it's gonna be 5-0
and i was right! hahah
an informed prediction, though

and, guess who scored again?
Fabregas, of course
that wonderboy/man drove the ball from 20 yards out in the 70th minute
and adebayor scored a hat-trick (three goals)
and abou! abou diaby scored the first goal!!!
haha
i wonder if he was fasting during that game
must be awful hard to fast and then run around the field like that

hmm...
i'm off to watch the reading/wigan match now
i hear that kitson will score in the 29th minute
see yas!

fina

so it seems that fina the naughty girl has not shown up for h1 maths lecture... for the second week in a row!
where did she go? what did she do?
find out here on the fina show, exclusively on channel F!

..................+xXx+.+xXx+.+xXx+..................

what did i do today?

well, tried to study econs in the cc during chapel,
but soon got distracted when they showed the 1 LIFE video
it's about people infected with HIV, and the 1 LIFE exhibition is supposed to help the general public experience what these people have gone through
it's really insightful and interesting
i just might volunteer for that...

and i slept during the econs lecture
hahah
don't worry, there was no chance of getting scolded
it seems the lecturer would rather we sleep during lecture and not disturb anyone else, than if we were to talk during lecture and disrupt it

what then...
pw: discussed survey questions, and then discussed soccer (or at least, the players) with kellyn
econs: copied down whatever was required even though i was almost falling asleep

and then was the all-important, h1 maths lecture
really, even if i had gone there, it would have been no use
they were only going through the test papers
which i did not attend last lecture to take (for reasons that shall remain hidden)

so here i am at the computer
decided not to go bukit timah to buy chocolate pudding, since i still have two cups of it at home (yum!)
i'd actually planned on the bus ride home to buy the ingredients for a milo godzilla: vanilla ice-cream, whipped cream, perhaps sprinkles
but circumstances did not allow me to do so (i'd changed my mind)

gah~
guess i'll make a milo godzilla with only milo powder then...

Shiny (Steph)
Flying (Fina)
Dinosaurs (Dan)

Duty (Dan)
Free (Fina)
Shopping (Steph)

hahah

fina:P

i love grocery shopping!
hahah
yesterday steph and i went shopping at orchard and bukit timah
but no, not for girly stuff
but for food!

hahah
i bought 1. chocolate pudding, from the cold storage or wtv at taka
2. baby biscuits
3. vitagen
4. mochi, filled with chocolate ice-cream, all from ntuc finest at bukit timah plaza

hmm
shd bring much more money next time
felt like buying every single nice-looking snack

and i've bought a lock for our locker!!
it's a gawdy-ly-coloured piece of work, that's green, with four multi-coloured dials
sorry, guys!
it was all i could find!

hahah
hmmm....

till nxt post

finananananana

(leonard: leh-nerd or lee-oh-nahrd?)

oh yeah, i forgot to mention in my previous post...

ARSENAL WON 3-1!!!!!

against their bitter rivals, Tottenham Hotspurs, in the north London derby!!!

wooohooooooo!!!

i actually felt better when the Spurs scored the first goal

because if their opponents scores the first goal, usually Arsenal would win the match by scoring two or more goals afterwards

and, true enough, they did!

yay! yay! yahoo!!!!

i swear, this post has the most number of exclamation marks out of any post i have written... ever!

and fabregas scored a goal!!!!!

i am so in love with that genius of a young man

although i don't like his teeth.... (lol!)

hahah

okay then, must finish my literature essay...

see ya!

fina <3 francesc fabregas