Today we celebrate the birthday of someone special, someone fantashmic in many ways.



Ms Ng Min Shen LaurieBaleJackmanForemanPace!

You are now as old as... as... uh... Shayla Worley and Randy Stageberg!

You've been a good friend over the years. Hope this one will be another great year for you! Staring at Hugh Laurie. Staring at Hugh Jackman, studying in Design School...

YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL, WOMAN. YOU MAY BE STUDYING IN DESIGN SCHOOL NOW, BUT YOU'LL SUDDENLY END UP IN JUILLIARD. AHAHAHAHAHA.

ENJOY THE SHARPIES I GAVE YOU A WHILE AGO, DAHLING. IF YOU RUN OUT OF INK FOR THEM, I'LL BUY YOU MORE. AHAHAHAHA.

It hurts. It hurts when you know that someone you love is leaving.

People come home from their journeys. But there's one journey in which someone leaves and never comes back.

Death.

I think it hurts when someone just leaves, but knowing that the clock is ticking is worse. The fact that you can't do anything to keep that person from going. You don't know how long the person has left. But they're going anyway. Never coming back.

But, you know, they're not dead yet. So I better spend as much time as possible with them. I won't care about the distance.

This will either creep you out or interest you, but whatever it is, it certainly is very stare-worthy CGI.



Yes. We watch Youtube videos for lessons, hahaha.

Also, my Bio teacher showed us a picture of coiled chromosomes (If you remember, you can only see them during the Prophase of cell division). THEY LOOK SO CUTE. SERIOUSLY. LIKE FLUFFY LITTLE THINGS. SO PRESH. When she put the picture up, she was like, "Cute right?" and there was a collective sigh of "Aaaaaaaaaaaw!" Then she was telling us how, if we take Biomed in Uni and take Histology as a subject, we'd have an opportunity to use chemicals to induce cell division, then use more chemicals to stop the cell division as the chromosomes coil, use stains then take an electron microscopic picture of the chromosomes. SO COOL.

Oh, I found the picture on Google.



WHO KNEW CHROMOSOMES WERE SO CUTE AND FLUFFY?

Uh... yeah. So, as you can see, I clearly am enjoying Bio so far.

Econs is cool, too. I was reading the next week's notes. Transition economies are an interesting read.

Will blog more later.

OH, and I have one more public announcement to make.

MIN SHEN! JIA SHEEN SAID THAT ROBERT SEAN LEONARD IS HOT.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

SERIOUSLY. SHE SAID RSL LOOKED HOT IN DEAD POETS SOCIETY. AHAHAHAHAHA.

FANTASTIC.

I'm posting this from the library. Hahaha. Kononnya revising Econs. Ehem.

No LAN, so I was done at 2pm, but sis is out so she can't fetch me, Dad's out so he can't pick me up 'til later, Pei Lyn's got classes 'til 3pm and... uh... I don't have the house keys anyway so I can't get in. Geez.

Will lepak more online later. I only have to revise Bio, Econs and recall how to do completing the squares (Yes, Add Maths. Sigh), reread about the Nitrogen cycle and then write my thoughts on Dead Poet's Society and I'm DONE FOR THE DAY. HA.

(AND, HOMG. I JUST READ... ALICIA SACRAMONE'S GOING TO THE GOLDEN GLOBES. LIKE, DON'T ASK ME WHY. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS SHE DOING AT SOME AWARD *NOT* RELATED TO *SPORTS*, BUT OOH, I'M GOING TO SEE HER ON TV AGAIN. BUT WAIT. IT'S ON, WHAT, MONDAY MORNING? DAMNIT. CURSE YE, COLLEGE!)

ALSO, I HAVE A FEELING THAT THE GIRL BESIDE ME IS TOTES TRYING TO READ MY STUFF. HENCE, THE TINY FONTS.

The A-Levels peeps had their O-day today, so I met up with Jo Zee, Wei Wen and Dhiv during my break.

Anyway, we had our library tutorial thing, and I can now access my Taylor's Online Portal thingamajig. And the library is an awesome resource. I can actually read the New England Journal of Medicine! And the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)! Hahaha. So syiok, man. I know I should be reading stuff like Time, or The Economist or something, since I'm taking Econs. But, hey, you learn Bio stuff in Medical Journals, yeah? And my uncle brings The Economist back every weekend anyway, so hahaha.

Anyway, so far, Bio is awesome. Opening topic : Genetics! Hahaha.

OH, and did you know that the Carbon Cycle is now taught in Chemistry, not Biology? Also, have you seen the ACTUAL structure of Glucose? It's INSANE! OH, and did you know that Carbon Dioxide takes 20, yes, TWENTY years to decompose? That means my first breath's CO2 has yet to decompose. LOLtastic.

I still don't like Add Maths. It's taught in our Maths Studies. Hmph. At least my lecturer seems pretty good right now.

STUDY TIME! I'm done with my homework for today. Time to list out the things I need to do.

- Continue fic. I have not had time to even sit down and think of how to continue the story. :o
- Shorten labcoat sleeves. I think I mentioned in my previous post - Small was too small (Short, rather), but Medium's a bit lebar. Instead of rolling my sleeves, I'll just alter it myself. I wish I had an awesome labcoat like 13/Cameron does. Theirs have the whole womanly curve thing. OH, or a labcoat like Cuddy's. It's got PINSTRIPES.
- Find somewhere to dump my FORM 4 books. I STILL HAVE MY FORM FOUR BOOKS. RIDICULOUS.
- Cousin is moving in over the weekend, I would think. I just realized that my ENTIRE SAM textbook pile is barely half the height of my Bio-Chem-Phys reference books/SPM stuff pile. Hahaha.

*Also, I swear that I saw Mrs Soh wearing Crocs today. The ones with heels.

So now for my English homework I'm supposed to write in a journal EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I have no idea what to write in it. I tend to ramble. Hahaha.

Anyway, got most of my books today (Bootleg copies, hee hee), my labcoat (I couldn't take a Small - it was too short. The Medium's a bit big. =.=) and goggles, so my bag was pretty heavy and full.

I got... A Mr Hoong for Chem, Ms Ng for ESL (AWESOMESAUCE), Mrs Soh for Econs (DOUBLEAWESOMESAUCE), Mr James for Maths (He reminds me of Mr Jacob) and, as I mentioned yesterday, my class mentor, Ms Cheang, is my Bio teacher.

I sort of know my classmates now. Not know as in I can break out in song with them - that will take time - but at least we're civil and not bitch glaring at each other, or something. There's this girl in my class who comes across as really bimbotic (Down to the voice), but I shall reserve my judgement. One day, she might be my really good friend and read my blog. Hahahaha. She probably doesn't even know my name yet. I can't remember hers. Haha...ha... No it's not really funny.

ANYWAY, during ESL, Ms Ng was like, "Oh let's watch a movie. About 40 minutes of it". The VCD didn't have a cover, but you know, you can see the CD itself? Anyway, I thought it looked familiar. Then she said, "It's about an English teacher and a group of students", and I was like,

"HOMG IT'S DEAD POET'S SOCIETY!"

Not out loud, obviously. But anyway, HOW AWESOME IS IT?

OH, and my Chem teacher realizes that we're a bunch of psychos. "WHAT? Bio, Chem and ECONS? Why'd you take... SCIENCE then? Or... Why'd you take ECONS?" We all burst out laughing, saying half the class doesn't take Econs, but Accounts. Hahahaha.

Well, I'm kinda wiped from today. I need to write about Dead Poet's Society, AND write a journal (And rant a little bit and try not to sound too shallow or fangirly or desperate).

Carpe diem, everyone.

Today was Orientation Day!

There were some speeches. Briefings, rather. The Provost enlightened us with a story of what eagles are/can do, and how they learn to fly/soar, and paralleled it with what our experience in SAM will be.

First, we'll be chilling in our nest for 12 weeks (Eagle time. SAM time = A week or so, haha), then our 'mother'/Class mentor will chuck us out of the nest and let us freefall, for we are not free from the force of gravity. As we fall and not know what to do, our mother will catch us and bring us back up. And the process repeats itself; falling, getting caught, falling, falling, until we learn to spread our wings and ~*FLY*~. And then we'll be awesome like eagles.

Cheesy, but kind of inspiring in a way.

Anyway, I'm in G9, with two girls who I know by face. One's from Sri KL (I still can't place where I've met her before, apart from John Quek's tuition), the other's from SU, one of the Gamma girls from the Chinese group. There's 7? guys in my class and about 20 of us girls. Hahaha. And my class mentor's my Bio teacher, and she looks like my optometrist. LOL. AND BEFORE YOU MOCK ME, YES, I HAVE A REGULAR OPTOMETRIST, WHOM I SEE VERY RARELY WHEN I TAG ALONG WITH MY MUM FOR *HER* EYE CHECKUP. WHICH REMINDS ME - I NEED TO SEE HER AGAIN (Uh... In a literal and metaphorical way? I think? I mean, I still can see. Okay, I need to stop being lame) BECAUSE OF MY LEFT EYE. IT'S STILL GIVING ME SOME ISSUES. HOPEFULLY ITS POWER IS STILL 25 AND I STILL DON'T NEED SPECS.

I don't want to be conned by ex-students into buying useless notes/books/things like that, so I'll just get MAC Centre's 'Perfect Binding' ones, which look just like the real textbook. Not that anyone checks, anyway. And I have my maths textbook in a perpetual state of ruin because my sister got it in a perpetual state of ruin, and it was lent to a cousin, and now it's in my hand. I might want to buy a copy so that my textbook doesn't literally fall apart when I try to study.

My face looks squashed in the Student ID. Geez. Didn't someone learn how to use the 'Edit Image Size' function on Photoshop? It keeps images proportioned. (Wow. Is S'L being vain about her Student ID photo?)

Hahahahahaha my Mondays start at 9am.

Which reminds me, I might want to ask my cousin if she has SAT revision books.

ALSO, I want to join the Squash club. OH, and TAYMUN. Taylor's Model UN. JUST BECAUSE.

It's Orientation Day at college tomorrow.

I'll be getting my Student ID card. I'll be getting my labcoat, my protective goggles. I'll be getting to know my class, my lecturers. I'll know what books I need to buy, what things I need to get. I'll know if I can still use a Ti-83 Plus instead of having to buy a Ti-84 Plus (Which I'm reluctant to because, HELLO, IT COSTS RM450). Maybe I should just ask my cousin if it's cheaper in Singapore.

I've had this blog since I was in Form 2. And I'm in college now. Talk about a long time.

My mum's friends are cackling downstairs. I find it very amusing.

ANYWAY, on New Year's Day (ie Thursday), we had a last-minute sleepover! Spent time playing Monopoly (Jen's our very own Donald Trump. She's a property mogul, I tell you) until 4am. Hahaha.

Then we watched Australia on Friday! I kinda liked the movie. Some bits were a bit draggy, but I still liked it. Cheesy, yes, but it's pleasant enough not to the extent in which I want to run out of the cinema...

...

Until it's almost the end and you really, really need to use the toilet. (Thankfully, it didn't happen to me)

I'll update more later when I'm less tired. College O-day on Monday! Gasp!

Blogdrive is eating my posts. By the time this comes up, it'll be considered LATE. And LiveJournal isn't even loading.

Anyway, this would probably BE THE LAST POST OF 2008. HAHAHA.

As promised, it's time for New Year's Resolutions!

- Lose weight. Just a couple of kilo's. Then maintain it. Because I've put on a little through this month of holidays, so I need to lose it. Hahaha. S'L talking about weight. Something new, eh?
- Redistribute the fats. They're all going down to the thighs and bum. It's genetic. LOL.
- Get >95.0 TER for SAM. Anything that will get me into Columbia/Melbourne/Queensland/Wisconsin-Madison (If I want to do Biomed)/Princeton (Because they accept SAM)
- Write more, and write BETTER fanfic. I've never been so involved in a fandom. It helps with writing practice.
- Rock at Bio and Chem. Oh, and Econs.
- Make sure I practice Maths every. single. day.
- Draw more. Try realism. Get a tablet.
- Get my driver's license.
- Do ALL my coursework/homework/whatever.
- Find time/arrange to play squash with buddies/alone weekly.
- Exercise.
- Write awesome application essays that will get me into the American uni I want.
- Save money

Happy New Year, everyone. I love 2008, but as my cousin told me on Facebook; we have to move on!