9 lives, one to go

YYAAAAAYYY!!!! 9 subjects down, one more to go!!!!
And it's chinese so I can't really do anything about it D:<
It's either I get good or bad. Or very bad
hahahaha



I can finally sleep 10 hours a night now HOORAY!!!

Confessions

There once was a girl who took her SPM sometime in November. She was excited for her Physics paper, not because she was good at the subject, but she has improved the most out of all the other Science subjects. With help from her dad, reference books, and friends, she managed to pass the Physics paper in school-based exams.

The night before SPM, she did a little bit of revision, not wanting to stress herself out. She didn't want any more pimples to grow on her already-full-of-pimples forehead. Before she went to bed, she said a prayer, hoping that she would be able to answer the questions tomorrow, and that she won't be careless.

She did poorly in her paper one. The questions were tough and tricky. Although she did pretty bad, she did not give up in paper two. She was confident in that paper, and hoped that the scores she could get in paper two would cover up for paper one.

She checked and checked the paper, again and again. When it was time to pass up, she handed the answer sheet to the teacher with a smile.

3 seconds later, she realised that she hasn't completed her paper. The last section, of the last question, of the last part of the paper was left unanswered. That question, consists of 5 marks, which to her, means the world.

That girl was me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*bangs head to the wall

给你啦!!

Heyyyy. I'm Back!!!

Nope, I haven't finished SPM yet but I'm halfway through. Okay, I'm not really halfway through but I survived one week of it, and I think that is a terrific accomplishment! *claps hand for self . *slaps self to stop it * frown (This is what happens when you spend too much time studying for an exam)

So uhm, yeah. I've sat for 4 subjects this week, Malay, English, Sejarah (it is officially History!) and Mathematics. I can't say that all the papers were easy, but I managed to finish them all. I might not have much confidence in them but hopefully I can't get A+ for the 4 of them, and A+ for the other 6 subjects that I'm going to take these coming weeks. Hopefully I will not be so careless anymore, and would speed up in completing my papers =O Seriously lah normally I do exam papers during trials so fast but during SPM my speed is even slower than that of a turtle. ='( Then I have no time to check and end up worrying about the paper for the whole day and night and next morning. =(

In the midst of hardship....WAIT!!! You see?! You seeeeee?! I have Over-stressed-student disorder. AKA OSS. Symptom: No matter what you're thinking, you're applying what you have studied AHAHAHA That's what happened to me. Over stressed bah. Even when I'm driving on the road, I kept thinking about momentum and inertia and the ABS system. Then when I reach home I was like, what the?!?!?! Why did I think of those things. Crazy. Perhaps it's a good thing, but I don't like it. Makes me sound, and feel like I'm a genius but in reality I'm not. And in the end people will say, 'Ameh this girl talk only smart but results so-so only...'

So I better quit the talking and get back to my books D: Life as an SPM student really isn't that much fun at all. Oh well. It isn't that bad. I just have 3 more weeks to my freedom. Thinking about it already makes me feel a wee bit better. I need to get 10A+s! Because someone promised me an IPad. MUAHAHAHA!

An update from a zombie

Hai,

I'm still alive.
Wait till I turn back to human again.
HIATUS!

I love you guys!

Burp-ger

My family and I spent the Raya Holidays in Kundasang, along with a dozen more families. It was a cell group outing, I must say. Had great fellowship, good food and played many rounds of Monopoly Deal.

Came down from Kundasang yesterday, tired as a hibernating polar bear. Slept early last night (okay, it's actually around 11pm) and got up at 5.30 this morning, to make some 830 burgers for the Anglican Chinese Youths.

Yup. A lady who is in charged of their food asked for our help to pack burgers so we said okay (:

And I didn't know that I would be so tired!!

Skip the packing part, we spent like 2 hours dealing with burgers. Later we had breakfast together. Guess what we had? BURGERS LAH!!

And I had TWO!!!!

In this case, the term 'two is better than one' is totally screwed =O
Sorry Boys Like Girls, I still love you guys!

After bombarding (Marie kept using this word in her post so it's stuck in my head) my stomach with burgers and tea, headed home. Went back to sleep.

Got down to Centre Point to catch a movie with the wushu mates. Lots of people. Bad timing. Never go down town during Raya. D: Watched Smurfs. It's a pretty good movie (: Reminds me of my childhood when I watched the Smurfs every afternoon before dinner. heh (:

But before the show, I had another BURGER! From McDonalds...

Am back now. Tired. Still tons of things undone! Neighbour invited us over for open house, but po and kung are coming over for dinner.

Not having burgers for a while. I think I'd spin if I see another one in front of me.

But we're having burgers tomorrow after Youth Alpha *buuuuuuuuuuuuuuurp

Day Three - Brighton to Oostende!

*This is the phase where 6 foreigners move from one foreign country to the other foreign country!

Woke up again, early in the morning hehehehe. And then we took a walk around the housing area where my aunt and uncle lived in for more than 17 years ( I use 17 because they lived there even before I was born so... yeah. It's probably around 30 years or so =/)

The housing area there is, MASSIVE!! And the flowers there are so pretty and colourful. I got so caught up with all the flowers and trees and I was really far behind. Pa, ma, and sai kuma left me behind HAHAHA Didn't get to walk the whole housing area (trust me, it would take DAYS) but at least I managed to snap pictures of other people's flowers/gardens and their very vintage-looking houses!

So pretty kan?
AHHH I wanna go back I'm not done snapping!!

Love the houses there! They're like so old but still so pretty.
FULL OF CHARACTER!
If houses here get old they usually smash them into bits and build a new one ='((
Y U NO PRESERVE OLD HOUSE!!?

Poppy (:
You will be seeing a lot of this flower! It's actually used to make a type of drug, which I forgot the name. You cannot see it in Malaysia because it's banned (I think...)

See the snails there also so pretty! HAHA

I have no idea what these are but I think this is one of the pictures I liked most. So exotic eh!

One last picture before we leave. (:

So Uncle Dennis and Sai Kuma dropped us at a bus stop. We waited there for around half an hour for our coach to come. Again, it was freezing ( I have no idea how they survive! It's only summer and it's already so freezing cold )

After riding on the road for a few hours, we had packed lunch at a rest-stop. Didn't take any pictures there because we were rushing for time. Then, we changed into another coach. This time, it was a bigger one. And it's red. WHOOOO!


Oh yeah. I forgot to state that we were actually going to Belgium!!!! =___=
Sorry about that.

A lot of people asked me where is Belgium. I wouldn't know if you ask me before but I googled it after I came back. HAHA. Which means I didn't even know where was I while I was there!!

So here's a map.

It's just basically across the sea.
We rode a ferry from Dover to Calais.

Me on the ferry. The top deck.

The ferry was extremely big!!! And I don't know why I didn't bother to take the inside of the ferry. Probably because I preferred to be outside, looking at the sea. But again it was freezing cold + the wind was blowing very strongly!!

It's not like the ferry that we have here. The ones that we ride on to get to Labuan. This one is extremely huge, is fully air-conditioned, few decks for you to visit. Has yummy-looking but expensive (to us) food at the food court, arcades, coffee lounges and a duty free shop.

Trust me, I think it's bigger that the Star Cruise I went on when I was a twelve. You can lose 100 calories per deck if you run quick enough. XDD


The ferry ride was about 45 minutes. Took the time in the ferry to get some rest, nap and munched on some chips.

You can even sleep there because there are so many chairs at the waiting lounge =O

AND HERE WE ARE. ANOTHER PART OF THE WORLD (:

TADAH!!!
We haz arrived Belgium!!

*note the chalk wall (I think it's called a chalk wall. Please correct if wrong. It is chalk you know =P) behind...

After travelling for HOURS! On the road and across the sea. Across borders. We finally arrived at Oostende, Belgium. trees! How abnormal =O

OH another funny thing. When we hoped on to the bigger coach at the rest stop, the people in the coach asked me whether I got the right coach. HAHA. That's because the whole coach was filled with people over 40 years old, I think. Nick and I were the youngest ones there. HAHAHAHA

The uncle asked me, "Young lady did you get on the wrong coach? You should be going to Disneyland or something. We're going to Belgium, FYI"

HAHAHA. All I did was smile.


So we stayed in a hotel next to the beach. I loved Oostende. We stayed there throughout the trip. Usually the coach leaves early morning to other cities in Belgium and then we come back to Oostende in the evenings. Good right? I must say, one who loves nice places MUST visit Belgium. I WANNA GO BACK!!!


Belgium itself, made me want to study Architecture. Plainly because the buildings there are so tall and pretty and unusual. They look like houses and buildings from story books, those that you never imagine seeing in real life. The roofs were so unique in its own way and the structure of the buildings were so fantastic. It cannot be described, it was so pretty. I think I was culture shocked by the buildings, not the people. They were just so amazing.

But now the thought of being an architecture has vanished. HAHAHA. Just because.


So upon arrival we checked into the hotel, and had dinner at 8pm in the hotel restaurant. Yeah.

Our menu....
Bread & butter
Soup of the Day/salad, followed by
Meat, Vege, and potato (substitute for rice), and
Dessert!

Dinner wasn't really that extravagant, but it was yummy. We had the same thing over and over again but the way of cooking was different. We had beef on the first day, then chicken, the pork, then beef again. For potatoes it was first baked, salad, fried, mashed. Like that lah. It was the same thing but they cooked it different.

Our days usually ends early in Belgium because shops close at 5pm. Good thing is that you can walk along the beach, and the park. Bad thing is you might not stand the breeze and end up staying in your hotel room, waiting for dinner to be served.

After dinner there are no night markets for us to hang kai, so Nick and I usually watch Disney shows on Belgium's Disney Channel. HAHAHA. It's in English, chillax.


Uhm, so day 3 is basically travelling.

Up next is,
Belgium! Jaw-dropping churches and strawberries (:

P.S: Holidays next week!

Book, you made me cry

Right after trials, I've decided to kick back from my studies for a while and so, I picked this up.


Uhm well, I didn't exactly pick it up from a bookstore, Uncle Dennis and Sai Kuma borrowed it to me. YAY! I've never heard of the author before, nor the title of the book but right now, the author, the story, the characters, the settings are all stuck in my head and would stay there for a little while.

IT'S JUST SSSSOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOD!

So here's the synopsis from the back of the book...

Eric Moro is a medical student eager to earn fast money modeling; Alexandra Taylor is an artist quite accustomed to drawing men's nude bodies. They fall deeply into a relationship astonishing in its intensity that transforms their lives. Then a foolish act from Eric's past rises to cast a devastating shadow over their idyllic relationship. But they will discover that within the very struggle to endure and to fight lie the seeds which can ensure love's survival.


Yeah.


I think if I tell you the whole story you'll probably get all excited and would be DYING to read the book. Then while reading you'll recap what I said and there! It's going to be boring and predictable. So I'll let you cry and sob and stay up late to read this yourself rather than spoil all the fun.


Whoever wants to borrow, line up! The book is with Marie.