Quoted directly from the Bit of Fry and Laurie 'Australian Soap Opera' sketch...

"I have a confession to make" (Say it with an Aussie accent)

...

Once you read this, it's no longer a secret.

I absolutely wasted my time watching Twilight (Though, as I said several posts ago, it was fun with the girls), but I actually like the soundtrack.

I mean, who doesn't like Paramore? And pianos? I cannot discriminate a composer because of the movie he's composing. Take, for example, the fact that I love whatever Hans Zimmer or Howard Shore composes, whatever other movies they compose music for that are NOT Gladiator or Black Hawk Down or Lord of the Rings and all.

I will now distract you from what I have just said with a picture of Alicia Sacramone.



And this .gif of Shawn Johnson's bars dismount. I need a .gif of Nastia's bars pirrouettes. Seriously.

Credit to whoever made this, on LJ.

WHO KNEW THAT PICKING 4 TOPICS FOR A MODEL UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE WOULD BE THIS HARD?

I do.

LOL.

I'm supposed to find 4 topics from G20 OR The International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Economics, or Law. Economics, or Law.

Trying to find some good ICJ topics, because we already have ECOSOC. I have something to do with piracy in mind, since it's so rampant nowadays... but what should the topic be? Argh.

- Investigative Study essay handed in. I have this feeling I did a really crap job with it. But the UN is so technical, it's kinda hard to have a questionnaire.
- Ei-Lynn provides a lot of laughs. Her Restaurant City avatar does, too
- Emily and I make a good team. Yeah, Elmo?
- Was in the library with Harvind (Bim), Michelle and Emily the other day - was talking to Emily about *cough* gymnastics (Well, ShawnJohn IS on DWTS) and then we were surfing the net and then came the exclamation, "DAMN, LOOK AT THOSE ABS" Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Gymnasts have 6 packs. =.=
- Bio practical assessment tomorrow. TSA/V. You should know what that is. Unless you're a bio dropper. Tee hee. Going to drop blocks of jelly into acid... Mmmm...
- Handling the TAYMUN booth with a bunch of other people are fun. Renee reminds me of Sue Mae. Except that Sue Mae's perkier. Jia Sheen is ever the bimbo, and it's quite amusing seeing Wei Wen stress out about hangers.
- Handling the TAYMUN booth also provides me an opportunity to meet various personalities of the college. Take, for example, an ICPU guy who was trying to guess who was in A-Levels, and who was in SAM. "SAM students always look so stressed, and A Levelers are the general population" was his reasoning
- Wei Shen (Tan. Yes, I have another Tan Wei Shen in my class. He's from Brunei) tried making his Restaurant City avatar look like a Twatlight vampire. Hee. I told him to try getting redder lips. xD
- I was going to fall asleep during Moral today, so I compromised by blabbering with the Moral lecturer. Morality and ethics and philosophy and whether the bombing Hiroshima/Nagasaki was right, and talking about Hitler and the Holocaust.

Just had a run around the neighbourhood. Okay, just ONE round. I did the entire round out of my house to the right, to the back row (Shahnon's row) back to my place. I think I would've done 2 if Dad hadn't called, breaking my focus. Blech.

Off to prepare dinner. Then I'm going to iron my pants for tomorrow. And dig Mum's jacket pile for, well, a jacket.

Damn. I'll be carrying a jacket AND a labcoat. Ugh.

I was wrong. It was actually Safina - Penetta and Dementieva - Kuznetsova in the semis. And THEN I was right, Safina and Kuznetsova won. They're going to meet in the finals! Hee.

Anyway, I was just reading this random Nastia interview thing in a forum, and there's something I really identify with.


Who doesn't identify with too short pants? xD

Which reminds me, I need to get my long pants lengthened. They're an inch too short. LOL.

CSI NY and House this week were awesome. NY more so than House, just because of the premise and gravitas of the story. I love Hawkes. Seriously. Hill Harper hit the ball out of the park in his response to Danny as to why he wasn't going to be unnerved by the skinhead's racist comments. In terms of being emotional, it was definitely a lot more emotional than House's Head/Wilson's Heart. If they're submitting an episode for an Emmy - be it for Best Actor (Gary Sinise), Best Drama or Best Supporting Actor (Hill Harper. Although I'm sure the lack of actual screentime won't do him any favours) or maybe even Best Guest Star (Or whatever that award is called. The guest star, though only in 2 scenes, went from endearing old guy to seriously evil man in no seconds flat). It was an amazing episode.

House, on the other hand, was full of LULZ to revel in. From "Fight the Power!" to "If I'm drunk enough, I might kiss a stripper. Or become one" "SOLD". The overall lightheartedness and brightness (Literally. Simple Explanation used uber-dark filters, darker than NY Season 1, to the really glowy lens in House Divided) of the episode, yet the dark revelation of House slowly losing control of his subconscious ("Amber").

Anyway, Anna Belknap will be back in next week's episode! Woohoo!

In other news, I was watching some Jelena Jankovic vs Flavia Penetta just now. It was the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, held in Stuttgart. A few years ago, the tournament used to be held in Filderstadt, in... September? Basically, post-US Open, indoor hard court. A couple of years ago, when Justine won the tournament (And the car, teehee) it just 'moved' to Stuttgart, though it was still indoor hard court, and in September. I guess it was after the '09 WTA Tour schedule revamp that Stuttgart became an INDOOR (RED) CLAY tournament.

Anyway, Jankovic was having a meltdown. Sigh. I miss watching Justine. Woman NEVER had a meltdown. Okay, other players don't have a meltdown, but, you know, I also had a soft spot for Jankovic (Mainly because she kept losing to Justine. Hee. Out of 9 matches they played against each other, Justine's won all of them). Also, sigh. No one really slides on clay any more. But I guess I shouldn't be generalizing too much since I haven't been watching (any!) tennis. Oh, and I just checked the scores. Jankovic lost. HAHAHAMEEEEEEEEELTDOWN.

But, DARN. Semifinals would be Safina - Kuznetsova. I love the both of them. I want Kuznetsova to win, so that she can get some confidence before RG rolls by, but I also want Safina to win, because bb needs to win something as a World Number 1.

Also, there's a gymnastics competition in Germany this weekend! Sloanie's going to be there. And... that's about it. I'm too lazy to watch, although it IS elite gymnastics.

Away from fandom, I wasted about 2 hours of my life watching Twatlight yesterday. Although I must say, it was fun watching it with the girls. We get to LOL at whatever scenes we feel are ridiculous, which is to say - a lot. I mean, SERIOUSLY. THERE WAS SOUND WHEN EDWARD SPARKLED. AND. IT WAS SO... LAME. I didn't even know that the Cullens (Especially Alice) were essentially still in school. I thought Alice was, like, the Aunty, or something. LOL. Anyway, better 2 hours watching the movie than 200 hours trying to plow through the book. Also, why the hell did the other vampire - James, was it? want to kill Bella? Just to spite Edward? Or is it because Bella is Major Mary Sue And So The Entire World Revolves Around Her?

And I drove to lunch and back today. We were going to go for lunch in Taipan, and Dad asked whether I wanted to drive, so, okay! Hee, Mum was also a passenger. Mruahahaha.

My Granduncle passed away this morning. I wasn't terribly close to him, but he's still flesh and blood (Grandmother's brother... there's some blood there). Also, I'm worried for my Grandmother. You know what it's like - when you're old and your sibling or someone who's close to you passes away, you think about your own mortality. Especially when the person who passed was younger than you.

Weather's pretty cool now. As in, no sun. Off to jog.

MAY IS HERE, PEOPLE.

MAY.

OH, MY GOODNESS. HALF THE FREAKING YEAR (Okay, June is half the year, but May is half the ACADEMIC year). AND I'M STILL DYING. MY GRADES? STILL SUCK. MID TERMS. ARE IN.... 3 WEEKS. THOSE RESULTS? ARE FOR AMERICAN ADMISSION COMMISSIONS TO READ. T_T NO MORE SLACKING. As Mrs Soh said, the motivation has to come from within. There's only so much parental and lecturer-induced pressure can do. We only have about FIVE more months of SAM left. GOSH.

Anyway, so Mum saw my Princeton Viewbook (08-09 edition. I think I'll ask for another one when summer - don't know when THAT is, rolls around), and now she wants me to GIVE IT A SHOT! (Parental approval! Awesomesauce!) because, well, Princeton is generous when it comes to financial aid. And, as Mum says, when you convert our income bracket? Teeny tiny compared to what's needed for US uni fees. Sniff. Anyway, I'm waiting for my Columbia, Brown and Wisconsin-Madison viewbooks. I think I also asked for the Cornell one recently. Anyway, they come 'round in Summer, whenever that is. I'm going to assume next month.

Good grief, May is here. I knew this year would fly by, but I didn't expect it to be this fast. I mean, seriously. When I'm supposed to 'report for NS', I'll probably be dealing with the next 50% of my Internal Assessment. Heck, it sounds like I have to apply for Aussie uni's in August. STILL TRYING TO CONVINCE PARENTS THAT JULY INTAKE IS THE WAY TO GO, MUAHAHA.

Anyway - Malaysian Studies finals today went okay. Hopefully, I've managed to get my 20 marks :D

Looking forward to tomorrow. After all that fun, it'll be back to work - 3 sets of Mid Year Econs papers, lots of Maths practice, completing the final Investigative Study essay and prepare for a case study presentation for Bio.

The thing about joining clubs, especially if you're in the exco - you need to have a portion of your income (Woah, that came out more Econs-like than I expected) just for it.

No matter, the Human Rights Week t-shirt looks pretty!

Shameless plugging to come tomorrow. I need to get MY OWN details sorted out first...

Anyway, the thing about CANCER!!!1!!! and preparing a presentation for it is kinda... it's not very fun when you have a FAMILY HISTORY of about HALF (4/8) the types of cancers your lecturer gives to your class, because the "Causes" bit makes me depressed for me and other people.

- Leukemia
- Cervical Cancer
- Lung Cancer
- Brain Cancer
- Prostate Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Skin Cancer
- Colon and Rectum Cancer (Our group's, hahaha. We were the last group...)

It's fun, though, in a morbid way... Heh... heh...

Not to distract you from the previous post or anything, but...

Today's newspaper stated that Amantadine doesn't work on the A/H1N1 swine flu virus. No it does not. And I partially blame fandom for making me chuckle at the word, "Amantadine". I just don't want to be taking it, get my kidneys and liver shot and not be able to be cured by dialysis because Amantadine binds to the body's proteins.

And, looking at the Wiki page, seeing the chemical structure of Amantadine... IT'S AN AMINE. HAHAHA...ha.

Also, it's like straight out of an episode of ReGenesis. A previous strain of H1N1 was Spanish Flu, and people, if this breaks out into a pandemic, it's not going to be pretty at all. No.

Also, it made me think of the Flash Game, Pandemic. It's fun to play, but when you think about a pandemic happening IN REAL LIFE (Okay, the bird flu happened), it's actually terrifying.

If there was one brand I have been completely loyal to, it'd be Swatch. Okay, well, not *completely* loyal, because of the Baby-G phase, but loyal enough.

So anyway, poor bbBlueSkin's strap is tearing. It's turning 8 this year, too! My bb is growing older. So happy. xD And my parents know that I want/need a new watch soon. I'm in no hurry, but, you know, there comes a time when you need a watch that looks formal enough for a formal-ish dinner and does not look bright blue and plastic.

And then, Mum got me a watch! Yay! It's a Skin, too, because Mum knows that I like slightly big watch faces which are SLIM, because I don't have a watch wrist. In the sense that small-faced watches make my wrist look small, and big-faced, thick watches make my wrist look smaller. That's my theory as to why a Skin is perfect for me, anyway, hahahaha. And it's one of those metal Skins, those Skin Irony series.

Say hello! Well, not really. It's just that Min Shen asked for pictures.


Taken with Flash. Not very smart, considering it's METAL AND ALL, but oh well. Without flash it just looked bland and boring.


Say hi to watch face.

Anyway, I had the strap adjusted today, which is why it looks so small. Hehehe. S'L has small wrists, who knew? Oh, Min Shen does. Our wrists are about the same size.

On other things that do not pertain my watch...

I read in yesterday's newspaper that ANGELINA JOLIE is going to act as Kay Scarpetta. WHUT?! WHUT?! WHYYYYYYYYYYY?!!!?!?!?!?!?! I mean, I'm HAPPY that there's going to be a Kay Scarpetta movie (Well, not really. Some things are best left as books), but seriously. ANGELINA JOLIE?! Gross. Surely there are better actresses out there who can act as Kay Scarpetta.

Also,



I don't know if I'm going to download it if it comes out, I doubt I would, but I had a good laugh watching just 10 seconds of it. I mean, seriously.

1) You don't run down to the vault that slowly. It may be on slow-mo cam, but you know when a person's really sprinting. It's very tempting to show that slow-mo aSac vault run.
2) Gymnasts aren't that scrawny looking. I mean, you may be trying to go for the Nastia look (Teehee Nastia has the funniest vault runs ever), but that's just... they make Nastia look like Alicia or Shawn in comparison. Those actresses need to build them muscles. Hahaha.

and most importantly:

3) WHO THE HECK RUNS DOWN THE VAULT RUNWAY WITH THEIR HANDS IN FISTS?! Even if it was a non-Yurchenko vault or a vault that doesn't require a cartwheel before the block, you don't run down with your hands in fists. The basic idea of vault is to run as fast as you can so that you can use your momentum to let you make your vault. Heck, even sprinters don't run with their hands in fists. Nor do squash players, in my knowledge. At least, not this squash player. You're going to be pushing off the vaulting table. And you sure as hell can't do it with your hands in fists.

Now this is a real vault.


(Hahahaha, I did it in the end) (And, ooh, high-def YouTube gymnastics is so pretty o_o)

And while we're still talking gymnastics -

I was looking for some non-Wiki pages for CANCER!!11! which wasn't the US Department of Health, and the first thought that came to me was, "Cancer.net is your network" complete with a cancerdeath stare*.



*inside joke: Nastia's stare gives you cancer. Or, Nastia demands that you go to cancer.net, or she'll give you cancer. Unfortunately, I think there's something about .net sites being unreliable.

EDIT: LOL. Dad was channel surfing just now, and Star World had Jimmy Kimmel on. And he was having this 'Unneccessary censorship' segment on. At the beginning, there was Regis & Kelly, and I was like, "Hey, Regis and Kelly!" and decided to see how good my 'pop culture' whatchamacallit is. It was basically about shows in which a character/person says the F word, then some other, probably less severe profanity gets censored. Then SUDDENLY, THERE WAS SHAWN AND MARK'S DANCING WITH THE STARS RUMBA (From 2 weeks ago)!

I WAS LIKE, "HEY SHAWN AND MARK", hopefully not loud enough for Dad to hear (I was in the dining area), and started giggling insanely. It seems that they censored when Shawn was doing A SPLIT. LOL. HAHAHAHA. POOR BB. SHE'S BEEN DRESSED IN A LEOTARD ON NATIONAL TV FOR MOST OF HER LIFE, AND MORE PEOPLE THAN THE ENTIRE AMERICA SAW HER IN A LEOTARD DURING THE OLYMPICS, AND SHE GETS CENSORSHIP DOING A SPLIT IN A DRESS WHICH OBVIOUSLY HAS THOSE SHORT SHORTS INSIDE. BEDAZZLED OR NOT, IT WAS HILARIOUS.

The dance was actually quite awesome, by the way.


Or rather, Shawn learning the dance was LOLtastic. Her pre-dance segments are usually pretty LOLtastic.

PS. NO, I do not watch DWTS. I only wait until someone uploads Shawn's dances on ONTD_O. I don't want to burn my eyes with all the sparkly dresses. Ew. Oh, and if you thought the dress Shawn wore was pretty bad, that's actually one of the better ones. The others have been pretty awful. Last week's dress was okay, just reminiscent of her 08 Nationals leotard. Hee.