Wednesday, March 31, 2004

once bitten, twice shy.
and then everyone puts on their fake smiles of sympathy and tell me that everything will turn out okay, that i'm perhaps making a mountain out of a molehill. tomorrow will be so much better. it's okay, everything will find a way to make it right again. the sun will shine again. you'll get what you deserve. perserver on and you'll get there one day.
ha. i have a lot of one days in my future. i beg to differ. i'm just too tired of it all. of life in general. yes, i know i've repeated that countless of times here. but what can i do? it's not like i have any control over situations turning out the way they do. emotions and feelings that are constantly repressed want to burst out of me right now. but i don't let it. it's unfair that people don't appeciate what i offer until i stop offering. but you know what? the thing is that no matter how hurt i feel, how under-appeciated i feel, i wouldn't tell anyone "no, i cant do it, i cant help you." because underneath it all, i know i'll feel too guilty for words. i have a helping people tendency. it makes me feel happy knowing that i helped someone and that person's day is slightly better because of it. but guess what? i'm compromising what i owe myself.
i wish i can go up to people and tell them, "look, say the words thank you. acknowledge what i've done." i know it seems rather egoistic and all, but it's getting worse knowing that what i've done to help with the situation has gone unnoticed. and i'm sick of people taking me for granted. and i'm constantly drawn back to square one. would it hurt so much just to say thank you and mean it?
hope.
such a simple thing really.
faith.
such a pretty sentiment.
yet all this takes courage. courage is needed for hope to endure and faith to continue believing. i DON'T want to believe anymore. because the more i believe, the more it hurts. and when i'm alone, contemplating stuff, it gets worse. the mind is a dangerous thing when it starts to wander or to get bored. because a person is given the opportunity to reflect, to think back on the day. and to realise that even though the hope is there, every day it rapidly diminishes and at the end of it all, it's not worth all the time and effort. the sad thing is that this only hits you when you're feeling tired and sick of the trials life brings.
there was this tensed atmosphere in school today. that sounds rather insane but it's true. i felt oppressed and the humidity of the weather was getting to me. badly. i wanted to strangle someone. i needed a hug. now i sound way more pathetic than i already feel. haha! wonderful. just because i didn't know how to explain a few particular lines of chaucer, my tutor came to the conclusion that i didn't do my work properly. i merely skimmed the surface. so as a punishment, i have to properly prepare 100 lines by monday. and my day just keeps on getting better and better. i happen to not have cca on wed, so i went home by myself again. and when i got home, i realised that i forgot to bring my housekey. haha, locked myself out again. once was obviously not enough.
so i went to the reading room to get some work done. did 20 lines of chaucer. going to have to do 20 lines per day at this rate. because it's so freaking hard to understand. sat at the reading room and periodically called home to see if cheryl was back. then, 2 hours later, i decided to heck it and went to check. surprise! cheryl was home! and totally not answering the phone. g.r.e.a.t. totally sucks. and my vj skirt? the slit is so bloody short. i think it's practically non-existant.
realised how shitty my piano playing is. realised how shitty this whole fucking week is. realised how much i want to scream the word fuck to everyone. this has been a great day. i am absolutely thrilled and delighted that this day is turning out the way it is.
Monday, March 29, 2004

1. Symbol of divinity
Qualities:
Great determination, purposeful, self confidence, great achievements, inventive, sometimes brilliant and a special liking for action and power.
A number one likes to be a leader, takes responsibility, is friendly to the weak. He or she is ambitious, stubborn, and sometimes underestimate the character and work of others
then again, i've always been mad.
at times like this, i miss my mind.
i wonder where it went to.
sometimes i find it so hard to say what i want to say. that's kinda surprising isn't it? coming from me? "i had a speech all prepared but it went away" that line came from spike. (buffy the vampire slayer) and well, i think it seems to fit what i'm trying to bring across here. things normally don't go as planned. that's the way life is. because if life was too easy and laid out all ready for us, it just simply wouldn't do! hell no, they want to keep us on our toes. i realised how much i like pain. when i'm in the mood for pain, that is. anyway, some people will say that's insane, but seriously, if you think about it, when pain is classified as self pity, as hurt, it takes on a far more different meaning that just the physical pain.
tomorrow
i'll be on my way
to a distant land
so far far away
tomorrow
i'll be past your sight
past the hurt and anguish
way into the night
tomorrow
when you look and never see
the hopes the joys and the blindness
you're not
a part of me
Sunday, March 28, 2004

felt too tired to want to do much except mooch around the canteen. walked around the school with him for a while, went to visit his old archive room. it was quite interesting. saw the photo album with vj and david beckham there.
it was basically quite crazy when the mass dances started. there was one Norman termed as the "violent" dance. it was positively freaky. but his excitement is contagious. when people started giving him weird looks for being so enthu, i explained that he was a year 3 and was once an OGL. that seemed to solve the problem. everyone knows how enthusiatic OGLs are. but it really was violent. Norman says it's violent but has style. i don't think he'll be thinking that way if he had killed me in the process.
during the finale, when the MCs were saying, "you may not know it, but your ancestors are sitting with you now", our whole class or what remained of it was laughing. it was for some role play with a tribal theme. we were laughing because, duh, our ancestor WAS there, sitting with us. oh well.
my weekend is gone. wonderful. dinner with cousins.
Saturday, March 27, 2004

silence can be deafening. and cold. lonely. lost. spiraling into the gloomy depths of the abyss. i feel so alone. i need a hug.
hug my computer!!!!
er...
enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise
i hope they receive the pga. go people!
Friday, March 26, 2004

just felt very tired. i want something, but i'm not even sure what's that something i want. just... something. nette said that deep down i know what it is. but i cant figure it out. it's just a thing. a need for something? like something;'s not quite right with me, i feel. then there are times i feel so down, so tired and so irritated. like a single small thing will set off my fuse. i know anger shouldn't control a person, but perhaps i like being in a pissed off mood. maybe because it distracts me from the patheticness of my existance.
emotions shouldn't be controlled but i realised i've been doing a fair share of controlling my emotions as of late. it's hard to tell. i'm sensing a change. but it's a subtle one. so slow and therefore not that noticeable. but nonetheless, it's there. just a small change. i'm tired of it all.
am i a fickle person? sonya seems to think so. perhaps. but when it comes to relationships with friends, i'm not fickle. i know who i like and who i don't. stubbornness would be a better word i guess. or rather, a liking for disappointments. have i said that before? yes, i think so. ah, where would life be without its great disappointments and trials? *snorts* i suspect i'll be much better off. in a way, i've been lucky enough to go through extreme disappointments and great bouts of endless joy. *rolls eyes at the stupid phrasing* but it's kinda true. so... cheers.
people hide behind their facade. everyone has two sides. but most only glimpse one particular side. i think i'm hiding behind one. but people rarely see the real me. oh well, now i sound so drama queen. whatever.
2 days without school. the joy.
Monday, March 22, 2004

then again, very few people know i play drums. because when it's a hobby, it's not something terrible like piano. at least i have rhythem. while when i'm playing the piano, i dont have the TONE. i dont even know what the tone is. or rather, i cant seem to hear it.
tone. moan. groan. see? it all links together nicely.
tired. played my piano already. needless to say, i'm bored.
i'm not saying i'm a fantastic writer, but i'm not a bad one. i get really irritated when people who are definitely not good writers proclaim that they are at the top of their lungs. it's embarrassing. not to mention, sheer humiliation when people actually read their stories and flame them. i remembered reading one so bad (fanfiction) in which she twisted the story so terribly that all the 7 reviews she received were flames. i was kind enough not to flame her. it was shocking and downright disgusting. and she believes she has talent. i stopped writing fanfiction for a year or so because i knew my standard of english wasn't there. i only took to writing when i read something quite inspirational. i didn't expect reviews, but i got them. furthermore, they were good ones. so i continued writing. and i've received nothing but compliments. and of course advice on how to make improvements. writers must always know when to take good criticism. yes, i know that if i don't like a person's story, no one's putting a gun to my head and forcing me to finish it, but sometimes it's simply too bad. and that person expects praise. *snorts*
2 more days of orientation. wonderful. absolutely wonderful. grr
Sunday, March 21, 2004

thursday went to cheng san library... shall we say "no wonder you couldn't get anything good"? should have gone a little further and went to the one at compass point. but shall we also say "lazy!!!" went to the CD shop and stood there drooling at the CDs that i want to get but will never be mine. someone get me the guns n roses CD. they rock. but shhh... don't tell. and i wanted the josh groben one too. alas! no money! okay, i had some money but it was the GP fund. so i really shouldn't spend it.
i want to go and see the passion of the christ. but my pastor says it might be an RA rating. or who knows? the new nc 18 rating. hopefully it'll just be nc 16. then it'll be quite fun to go as a cell. should be quite a revelation. oh, that reminds me, todays' guest preacher was good. it is through faith that we are saved. hey, that even rhymes.
lecture on ASEAN, fire gas electrical accidents on saturday. it might be fun. if i feel like making a go of it. and i don't even know the mynah sec 1s. and no one's updating the guides webpage. and i like complaining. it's my hobby.
creative genius is often surpressed by people who are jealous of what you have. they tell you: it's not a job, it's only a hobby. so i have decided to make complaining my job. how? i'm not too clear on the details. perhaps i could be a journalist, writing columns complaining about the government or old age or children. or i could set up a club for complaining and be the president. we'll have talks on the best ways to complain. it'll be a real hit.
er....
i need to pack my bag. then again, what's there that i need to bring? not much! please! just gimme one more day. that's all i ask.
i'm done with waiting and waiting and waiting. it's never going to happen. i moan my poor sad deluded self. i wallow in the depths of self pity.
er....
ok! right. there's the great big transection of high to low. i feel like a cockroach. someone squash me.
spill my guts!
went to the SJI campfire yesterday. as well as the exhibition at the science centre. i thought it was pretty cool. both, i mean. oh well.
Friday, March 19, 2004

homework! piling up! *cannot breathe cannot breathe* plus, me being the fickle minded person i am, finally decided to go to the SJI campfire on saturday. one more day less to cram all the stuff in.
je suis convaincu. folie! folie! *i mean, that's the only reason i'm speaking french* yes, while i did say i do not know that beautiful language, i do possess SOME knowledge. but let's not talk about the pronoucing it since my accent sucks. whatever. i try not to let people know i know anything.
it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. i wonder who said that? that person must obviously have been insane. i wonder if it's because i don't feel like taking chances. okay, so maybe i'm contradicting myself. i do want to take the chance. but maybe the chance doesn't want to give me a shot. makes sense? after all, most things in life works both ways. and unfortunately, we cant have our cake and eat it too. we always want the feeling of being safe and secure, but if we don't take the risk, we'll never know. it's certainly been a long time since i remembered. sigh, if only i had chosen to forget. but that's life. we always seem to chose the particular thing that almost always never works out fine.
i wonder what's in the water to make me say stuff like this. must be the excessive piano playing.
but seriously. i wonder. what brought on all those kinda cynical remarks about love? is it because i'm lacking the feeling of being loved? *snorts* what? isnt love more than just liking how the person looks? it's liking the person inside as well as outside. after all, as my friend put it so well, (stupid guy, i wonder if i even believe him), looks fade but inner beauty endures forever, or something crappified like that. i laughed then. because i simply didn't believe that. but perhaps it's time to start being more accepting. i'm not putting anyone down, but it's just an opinion that looks matter more. sometimes it's the ONLY thing that matter. to some. who eventually realise their folly. *go to confession all ye who have thought like that!* isn't intelligent conversation better? heaven knows i need some desperately now. intelligent conversation i mean.
because no matter how many times i am disappointed, i always (like an idiot) ask for more disappointments.
Wednesday, March 17, 2004

woe is me
i think i went slightly insane. the laughing and the giggling. and at night, i think i went into some sort of lameness redrawal. messaged eldon to tell me something lame. it was midnight. hmm... it's the people that make the difference between a sucky camp and one that's fun. but yet again, it could be due to the fact that the camp was only two days.
but i didn't enjoy the end. and sometimes i feel like it's just a stupid waste of time. the only reason i wanted to be a unit helper was because i could go back and help the guides in my school. but now it just might not be so possible after all. and that sucks. i'm considering not being a unit helper if i find myself not posted back to SN. and i'm serious. who cares about all that bullshit?
and i also realized that i get really irritated whenever i think about that stupid issue. feel like showing my third finger to everyone i meet. gladys could tell when i called her how irritated i was. not just cos of certain stuff i said. whatever. this is only serving to piss me off further.
Sunday, March 14, 2004

smile: tomorrow might be worse. i guess so. who knows what the future holds? and if you do know what the future holds, will you work as hard, slog your butt off even though you don't get what you deserve in the end? see, that's the beauty of the unknown. because no one really knows, our actions will be what we meant them to be. a little confusing, but it sounds better in chinese. we do things because we hope for a specific outcome. but if we know what happens in the future, our actions will be different... ultimately, they'll affect the final outcome. and i love making myself and other people more confused than ever.
i need a new motto. or a new saying. whatever you call it. quek has her "you rock my socks". of course, i don't want to keep saying that. that's her line! until i figure it out...
ming and i were talking. and then she told me i was speaking funny. suddenly i possessed an accent. rubbish. i've always been speaking like that. it's her fault for not talking to me for such a long time. then she said i was trying to act cute. rubbish. i don't need to act cute. i'm already cute.
hoo boy. i think to write/ say something like that, i must be high again. grr. wonder how that happened?
oh ya. cheryl's blog has a cool background. after all, deacon frost from blade. that's like saying "duh".
Saturday, March 13, 2004

yes, vj has become a big part of my life, surprisingly considering i've only been here for about 2 months. i still miss SN and would love to go back on days other than for guides, but vj's just... (fill in the blanks yourself) and i know i'll miss the people there. not just my classmates but the seniors as well. i guess the people is what makes a place worth staying aint it? i honestly don't want to think about it. so i should just stop worrying right? honestly.
on to a less depressing topic then: edwin and his coconut. edwin's this nice senior in 53. apparently he found a coconut somewhere in school. it looks like his pride and joy. hmm... when you shake the coconut there was all the sounds of splashing juice in it. edwin kept drumming his hands on it and sangeeta looked really amused, probably thinking about the greatness of life if the coconut cracked when he was hitting it.
the joys of history: thick stack of Napoleon readings to do for the holidays. does edna tan know that we only have about 7 days to finish everything? i can see myself being buried under readings. got back history test paper today. B. i got a B. 15.5/25. quite happy about that since i thought i screwed it up. now isnt life peachy. when you think you did okay, you DONT. when you think you've done a boo boo, you DONT. why is it always the opposite? i'm convinced life just wants to keep a person on their toes. or else life is secretly mocking us behind our backs at our sheer naivity. one does begin to wonder.
Wednesday, March 10, 2004

i saw you
walking down the street
a single smile that crossed my face
all because of you
i saw you
looking back, head held high
just a nod to say you know
how much you affect me
i saw you
look away again, walk a little faster
away from my sight and
the hurt that's evident inside
i saw you
this time i looked away
before you had the chance to see me
and kill the joy i had
life is relatively harmless to me right now. even though i didn't do exactly what i would consider well on the math test, life is harmless. for now. it's just 2 more days to a much needed holiday, of which is already packed. but anything is better than studying right? there is much to do and little time to do it.
and hey, the poems are all 100% me. as in, original. not. me me.
Monday, March 08, 2004

past all feelings
a word called believing
something that was never real
what can never be
is definately not meant to be
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i walk away
leaving a part of me
there's nothing
memories of yesterday
better gone than remembered
tears that never form
water that drowns
fire that burns
yet they still cant kill
the feeling in my heart
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wrote this a while back. it's posted in my blog about a year ago or so. damn, i'm good. *ego, watch the ego*
i am so happy
so so happy.
nothing can spoil my mood.
i'm just feeling oh so good
the sky is clear
the bees are here!
and the party's just going to start.
can you believe this stupid thing comes from my heart?
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that one *points upward* is pure insanity. not creative genius
leave me all alone
to face the stormy waters
take me away
from this hell or grave
nothing comes from within
the whispers echo around
the fire burns
and then consumes
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this one is the real me. i'm sensing an elements pattern.
i'm sick of trying to live
in this world of pain
it's not that i want
to complain but i have to
coz there's nothing worse than
not telling the truth
that life just sucks.
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there's the pain thing again.
a love hidden all this while
you'll never know
you'll never imagine
i want to live
a better life than now
i want to feel
more than i feel now
but
i don't know how
that's what hurts
heart wrenching pain
at first it strangles
and cuts through like a knife
then i lean into pain's embrace
and it hurts no more
grr... somehow i've lost the melancholy mood i had a mere minute ago. dang, i seem to be able to write better whenever i feel sad. had a full day off from school today. dang, they should have given us tuesday off as well. my ideas are a jumble. a pile of mush. not much use at all when they all spill out and i have no idea what to do with the crap that's there. enjoy my sadistic nature. i think i'm a glutton for punishment. i wonder if i do it to myself on purpose. that's human nature i guess. remind, warn yourself and in the end, throw the advice out of the window. that's the beauty of life.
and no, the poem above has nothing to do with anything. i repeat, this is just something i'm trying out. *responding to a writer's challenge and i need inspiration* *deadline coming up... gulp* better write some better shit
Sunday, March 07, 2004

Friday, March 05, 2004

i'm such a ... hypocrite? whenever i see people stuck in the lala land of candied dreams, i want to give them a slap to wake up to reality. trust me, real life isn't candied dreams and sugared sweets. it's harsh. so why am i saying that i rather stay in dreamland? i must be cracking up.
people 2 years my senior came back today to collect the results. As. do you realize that we're stuck in the montony of an education system that we can never esacpe from if we ever want to succeed?
celebrated class day today. 5th of march. 5 (3). it's a cool tradition. it's also dan's birthday. he ended up cutting his lip. long story. instead of his head meeting cake, it was his teeth meeting the box on the table. oh well, looks like it's a short story. but he got a half day. silver lining in grey cloud? oh well.
math test. history outline. p3 history essay due. econs essay due. i see my death looming closer and closer in the horizon. i shouldnt be complaining so much. it's life. what more can i say? i'm too young to be keeping this kind of mood. what kind of mood? i think it's the pessimistic one. or maybe it's called realistic.
i was hyper this morning in the bus. i'm really cracking up. but i calmed down half way. seriously, i think something's wrong with me. i am never that hyper in the morning. key word, morning. no one SHOULD be hyper in the morning. i shouldn't be hyper in the morning. it's against my principles. whatever those may be.
i may seem to certain people like a real pessimist. but i'm also a idealist. part of me i guess. the pessismist side of me is the depressing one. you'll be surprised how depressing i can get. then again, some people think i'm all happy and normal. ha! you've never seen me try to really bite my sister. or even beat her up. i've tried to strangle her before. the rage just clouds my judgement. but who's to say she didn't deserve it. going off topic. i PRETEND to bite people, that's when i'm in a good mood. but when the rain comes and the rainbow disappears, you'll wish you never knew me. but that's why being my friend is so interesting. i keep people on their toes.
i hate this. this emotional high and then the wwwwwwway lows. depressing. life is certainly not being my friend. my emotions get tossed up and down. this is not some bloody rollercoaster. this is about stability and balance, which i have yet to achieve. wishing i can control my feelings. because sooner or later it'll drive me clear off the edge. i feel like giving up but the idealistic side of me just screams to hold on. emotional basket case.
Thursday, March 04, 2004

*starts chanting that*