I asked around a few random people about how ’08 will be remembered by. This is what I got:

2008 Will Always Be Remembered As The Year...


“...I met awesomeass people, went out with friends after midnight and fell in love.”
-Ells

“..we all got close at Neo and became bffs.”
-Chuan

“..Jaybee came into my life.”
-Andy, from SGS

“..I remember as the time when I made new friends, went on new adventures, and discovered a whole new side to life.”
-Niks, from SGS

“..when fun is never enough? The year when friendship bloomed to the MAX? The year when memories of good times were made? The year when bush got kicked out from the white house as president?”
-Qawi

“..my love life bloomed.”
-Eunice

“..the year I realized I’ve taken so many things for granted.”
-Rhona

“..I was with Ella.”
-Joel

“..the year when I was the one who made people laugh their asses off.”
-Ling; from JIS

“..we all had fun at Neo.”
-Calvin

“..sorry I’m kinda drunk now, we’re having a New Year’s Eve party here X.X”
-Grace

“..of a series of emotional changes.”
-Kevin

“..as the year that kicked awesome ass.”
-Chi

“..I found out about Pet Society!”
-Shannon Shannon

“..the year of regrets for moi.”
-Hanah

“..the year I earned the title ‘Professional Time Waster’.”
-Alister


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Happy 2009 to all, God bless everyone this year (:
It’s a new day.

Labels: New Year

1 hour, 47 minutes and 6 seconds to 2009.

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That was unimaginably quick, to be honest. T’was a great year, 2008 wins The Best Year (So Far) Award hands down. Taking a glance back at the past twelve months, I’ve had the best times of my life. The greatest highlight was that I met just about a load of awesome, awesome people this year. Like, a lot. Friends you never thought you would’ve found. I’ve discovered a lot of talents in me and all that as well.

Looking back, this year just about had the amazing experiences, loads of wonderful memories were made, lessons learnt & I do believe this was the year I’ve had the most fun. Also, it had its down points, that is some of our close friends leaving. Elaine, Chi, Paths... Gee. Who knows who’s leaving next year? But anyway, t’was awesome despite that. For me, November & December could count as the best months. The concert is the core of all the pure awesomeness, the rehearsals and the 2 month holiday as well. Oh, and not to mention the Christmas party at Rona’s. Good times, good times.

And it’s already over, that fast. So long 2008, hello 2009. I’m certain 2009 would be even more awesome than this year. Hey, it’s only as good as we let it be. Have a great time you guys.

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1 hour, 4 minutes and 34 seconds to 2009.

Labels: New Year, personal things

“..Fabulous. It was awesome.”

*

“I can’t remember, but t’was a fun day. The party was cool & fun. The food was great, loved it.”

*

“It was great, we got to bond with our friends, it was all Christmassy and...loads more! T’was fun, AS IN!”

*

“I think fun is the only word for it.”

*

It was awesome, really stressing since you & I were pissed the day before, but all in all, it was probably one of the best days of my life.”

*

“She has carpets on her stairs and air spaces in between. O.O”

*

“I could live in her toilet!”

*

“..The house was massive, almost as good as a 4-star hotel.”

*

“The food was great. The house...well, the floor was really cold when I had no socks on =.= Oh, and when I first went inside the house, felt like there were sooo many passages. I don’t know. I’m just saying bull**** any typical teen would say if they entered a big house.”

*

“..To whoever didn’t make it that day, you just missed out on what could’ve been like, the best parties ever.”

*

“Rona’s house = HUGE fun. Emphasize on the ‘huge’.”

*

The food was great, especially the mashed potatoes and...I liked my Christmas gift? That’s all really, it was a cool party.”

*

“Mickko could be a recording artist.”

*

“Um..where’s the map to the bathroom?”

*

“It was a once-in-blue-moon experience; you wouldn’t wanna miss it for the world.”

*

“Man, what an effin’ huge house!”

*

“It was crazy; the stunts Janno & Kev were doing but oh well. And yeah, the part where Janno lost his boxers *laughs*.”

*

“Massive house, aye?”

*

“Rona’s house.... Her cat hates us!”

*

“Rona’s house was like putting ice cream and fruit salad together. You can’t describe the taste but they’re both sweet so you don’t give a damn except for the fact that it was really awesome.”


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Chels: Hey Mickko!
Mickko: ... (inaudible)
Chels: When did ya get here?
Mickko: ... (inaudible)
Chels: Why are you whispering?!
Mickko: This house is....

*

[repeated line]

Josh: I’m sooooo jealous...

*

Chels asks which ice-cream flavor Rona prefers.

Chels: So, caramel, peppermint or Turkish delight?
Rona: Turkish delight? What’s that? Turkey?
Mickko: *incredulous look*
Chels: Turkey...ice-cream?? WHAAAA??

*

Chels: Wow, Darwin you’re so tall. O.O

*

Aikks sees the stairs, carpeted.

Aikks: Wow. You can sleep on it!! O.O

*

James: Hey, where’s the map to the bathroom?

*

Josh, Chels and Aikks get separated upstairs.

Chels: Aikks, where are ya?
Aikks: Guys! Guys, where are you?!
Chels: I’m lost!

*

Aikks: She’s so lucky man...

*
Mickko eats his BBQ.

Mickko: Who barbequed this? I bite it and it crumbles into dust! *burnt ash falls*
Chels: Uhh...

*

While deciding what movie to watch...

Izaq: Dammit! HURRY UP! Or we’ll finish the ice-cream even before we start watching the movie!
Justeen: Too late dude...*shows his empty cup*

*

Mickko: Headbang!
Kiko: Yeah!
Justeen: Can I join?
Mickko: Go, go!

All three start headbanging.

Izaq: Can you headbang slower so I can take a picture with your hair flying?
Mickko: Is that even possible?

*

Izaq: *clings onto Matthew*
Mina: GAY!
Izaq: Shut up! He’s squishy :3
Matt: ...

*

Rona sets the charcoal on the barbeque stand.

Aikks: Oh look! Brownies!

*

Mickko: Wow Joshua, formal...hmmmm...
Josh: ...
Mickko: Joshua! HEHEHE!
Josh: ...
Justeen: Dude, he’s mine!
Josh: ...

*
At the pool, while Janno attempts a wrestling move in the water...

Justeen: What’s that move called? *does the move*
Izaq: Powerbomb?
Justeen: YEAH! POWERBOMB! DO IT ON KEVIN, JANNO!
Mickko: NOOOO! JANNO BOMB!

*

Izaq: You should see my gift. It’s awesome!
Mickko: What?

Izaq shows Mickko his gift. Mickko shakes it.

Mickko: Sounds like a toy, or a game?
Chels: Yeah, sounds like Scrabble or something.
Kiko: No, no, it sounds like—what’s that thing we use in Math when we were little?
Chels: An abacus?
Kiko: Yeah, an abacus!
Mickko: This better not be an abacus!!! I’ll slap whoever would give me an abacus!
Izaq: ...
Chels: Is it an abacus?
Izaq: ...
Mickko: IT’S AN ABACUS?

Izaq runs out of the room.

*

After Izaq, Mickko and Mina play Heartfelt Apologies...

Mina: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
Mickko: I told you to keep playing!

Mina and Mickko argue.

Izaq: Pfft. I don’t get why they’re arguing. I sang good, what’s the problem?

*


Izaq sees a blow dryer.

Izaq: OMG, I wanna try this! *sets blow dryer to maximum speed*
Izaq: *WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSHHH!* Is it windy outside?
Mina: ...
Aikks: Your hair is already dry!
Izaq: Who cares? *WHOOOOOOOOOOSH!*

*

Chels: Dang it, Darwin! You’re so tall!

*

While picking numbers for the exchange gift...

Justeen: Alright! Whatever number Joshua picks, he’s gay!
Josh: ...
Mickko: Joshua...HEHEHE!

*

Aikks: Huge house. She is soooo lucky.

*
Rona refills the charcoal, the fire explodes and dust gets into Rona’s eyes.

Mickko: Uh, you should check your eyebrows.

*

The guys are talking about Zodiac Signs.

Janno: Taureans are real men!
Justeen: *tries to high 5 since they’re both Taureans*
Janno: You’re a disgrace to the Taureans! You’re not a real man!

*

The guys finish changing, Chels enters the room. The guys are all wearing headbands and smell fancy.

Chels: Whoa, it’s like a new breed of guys!
Mickko: *mocking voice* What? Gays?

*

The fried rice is set on the table.

Izaq: Alright, I’ll take the rice and you can have the plates!
Chels: No. No. NO.
Izaq: Yes. Yes. YES!
Chels: NOOO. NOOOO. NOOOO.
Izaq: YES, YES!
Chels: NOWHNOWHNOWHNOOOOOO!

*

After watching the guy from 28 Weeks Later murder someone gruesomely with his thumbs.

Mickko: I now have a phobia of thumbs. Aaarrrghhh! GET AWAY, YOU HAVE THUMBS!
Janno: You have thumbs too y’know.
Mickko: AAARRRGGGHHHHH! I HAVE THUMBS!

*

Janno & Kevin plan to do pull off an F5 in the water.

Everyone: DOOOOON’T! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Justeen, Izaq: F5! F5! F5! F5! F5!
Mina: Janno, don’t do it!!!!
Justeen, Izaq: F5! F5! F5! F5! F5! F5!
Everyone: NOOOOOOO! DON’T DO IT!!!!!
Mina: Janno! DON’T!!!
Justeen, Izaq: F5! F5! F5!
Everyone: NOOOOOOOOOO!
Mina: JANNO! I’M TELLING MOM!
Janno: @.@
Chels: Wow. The ultimate weapon.

*

While talking about how “big” Rona’s house was...

Rona: Actually, Chelsea’s house is bigger than mine, right Chels?
Chels: I guess so... Yeah, I think my house is bigger than yours.
Rona: I just have more land.
Mickko: “SHE HAS MORE LAND”... @.@

*

After 28 Weeks Later got stuck. Chels was upstairs, comes down.

Chels: So the guy killed her?
Mickko: Yup. You know how he did it? He shoved his thumbs—
Chels: NOOOOO! AARRRRRRGGHHHHH! *cringes and covers her ears* *stops*

*silence*

Izaq: He shoved it through her eyes—
Chels: I DON’T WANNA HEAR IT! *continues cringing*
Izaq, Mickko: ...

*

Mickko & Chels are about to play. The guitars are suddenly off tune; they take ages trying to tune it back. Everyone’s getting impatient.

Uncle Mike: Alright, let’s all take a nap first!

*

Rona: So what are we gonna watch?
Danice: Slither?
Mina: NOOO!
Justeen: SAW! SAW! SAW!
Izaq: 28 Weeks Later!
Justeen: Texas Chainsaw Massacre! Texas Chainsaw Massacre! Texas Chainsaw Massacre!
Izaq: 28 Weeks Later!
Justeen: SAW! SAW! SAW!
Izaq: 28 Weeks Later!
Justeen: Texas Chainsaw Massacre! Texas Chainsaw Massacre! Texas Chainsaw Massacre!
Rona: Make up your damn mind!

*

Chels: Who’s gonna bless the food?
Jon: JOSHUAAAA.. HEHEHMM!
Justeen: LET JOSHUA LEAD THE BLESSING!
Joshua: ...
Justeen: WAIT, YOU MUSLIM!?
Chels: Think so, he’s half though!
Justeen: Who cares? Just act non-Muslim for us tonight!
Joshua: ...

*

Aikks: Man. She’s so lucky...
Chels: Tell me about it.
Aikks: She’s a star, but she cry, cry, cry, with a lonely heart thinking—
Chels: -.-“

*

James: Hey Rona, is it okay if I shed my skin here? (James is shedding skin on his palms)
Rona: Whaaaaa?
Mickko: Whaaaaat? “I’m peeling”?
Chels: HAHAHA.

*

Kiks: So here’s our theory on why people in Brunei are short. Since Brunei is small, the people are small. And of course, they go to Phils, and they came back, they’re 6 feet taller because it’s way bigger. And in America, it’s HUGE, therefore Americans are VERY TALL.

*

Chels is alone upstairs. Horrible screams are heard from the TV below where everyone else is watching 28WL.

Chels: Gee. I wonder what’s worse? Seeing all that blood and gore, or hearing it? *shudder*

*

Mickko takes his gift from the table, stares at it, smiles, feeling excited. (The gift is shaped like a roll of tissue.)

Kiks: And then it was only a tissue roll!
Mickko: *changes facial expression, frowns*
Everyone: *laughs*
Mickko: I’d be so pissed if this was a tissue roll!!!

*

After the Saw IV DVD wouldn’t work...

Rona: Alright! Pick another DVD!
Justeen: Texas Chainsaw Massacre!!! *chants over and over*

Justeen starts taking votes on who wants to watch TCM.

Justeen: Majority votes win! HAH! See, like 5 people want to watch TCM! There’s only one of you, Izaq!
Mickko: Rona, what do you wanna watch?
Rona: 28 Weeks Later.
Justeen: WHAAAT?
Izaq: HAH! It’s her house! 5 votes for me! That’s 6 to 5 votes Justeen!

*

Chels & Mickko still struggling on the guitars, people getting impatient.

Uncle Mike: Hang it, I think I see the Sun rising over there.

*

Chels & Rona are numbering the exchange gifts.

Mickko: Whoa! Is that a gift too?! *points at wine*
Rona: Uhh...
Kiko: That gift is mine!
Mickko: NO! MINE!
Izaq: Look! Cupcake! *points at cupcake*

Mickko & Kiks stare at Izaq.

Izaq: ...What?
Rona: IS THAT A GIFT TOO?

*

Darwin: Don’t say I’m tall.
Chels: ...You’re sooooo tall.

*

Aikks puts on Chels’ cardigan. (It’s a tight fit)

Mina: Aikks, you look so...booby.

*

Izaq: Gimme that guitar!

Izaq grabs the guitar. Chels bites into his arm.

Izaq: OUCH ****! SHE BIT ME!
Chels: *grins*
Mina: Yeahh, she bites!
Izaq: Pfft. People would be like, “I bite” and I’d go, “Yeah right”, but Chelsea, oh my God, she bit me.

*

Kiko enters the room, sees Mickko.

Kiks: MICKKOOOOO!!!!! I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!!! *tackles Mickko onto the bed*
Mickko: GAHHHH!
Kiks: MISSED YA! *still on the bed, holding Mickko down*
Justeen: *takes shock pen and Tasers Mickko.
Mickko: AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!
James: What the..?
Chels: Yepp, Rona’s cousins. Glad she didn’t inherit those genes. Haha.


*
Darwin, Danice & Chels are talking about guys shaving. Mickko, Justeen, Janno, Kiko, Izaq are engrossed in their own conversation. (You wouldn’t e*pect them to be listening to anything around them.)

Danice: Isn’t it when guys shave they get this white stuff?
The guys: (suddenly aware) WHITE STUFF?!?

*

While having the exchanging gifts...

Uncle Mike: Ronalyn! Where’s my gift? *holds out his own number he wrote himself*
Rona: ...

*

Chels is upstairs, the rest are downstairs watching 28WL. Loads of screaming is heard, sounds mighty bloody & gory.

TV: *screams & shrieks*

*silence*

Someone (possibly Mina): BOOYAHHH!

Chels: O.O What the hell?

*

Chels: Geez Darwin! Why are you so tall?!?!

*

Chelsea: Alright, who’s going to lead the blessing?
Justeen: JANNO!
Janno: What!?
Everyone else: JANNO!!
Jon: Joshua.. HEHEHMM!
Joshua: ...
Chelsea: Wait, vote!
Justeen: All in favor of Janno, raise your hands!

*Everyone raises their hands*

Janno: *mumblemumble*

*

Josh, Aikks & Chels explore the porch & garage of Rona’s house. Josh sees a mini-dumpster.

Josh: SHE EVEN HAS HER OWN DUMPSTER @.@

*

5 minutes into 28 Weeks Later...

Justeen: ALRIGHT! CHANGE THIS MOVIE! THIS THING’S TOO QUIET!
Everyone: NOOOO!
Izaq: Shut up!

Justeen gets up to change it. The movie suddenly starts from the beginning.

Everyone: AARRRGHH! Justeen!
Justeen: WHAT?! I didn’t touch anything!
Janno: Shut up! You’re right there!
Justeen: Someone sat in the remote! Janno, you and your fat ass! The remote control’s on aspirin.
Chels: Uh, I pressed the wrong button. *sheepish look*
Everyone: GAHHH!
Justeen: HAH! See?! It was you! Guilty as charged...*sceptic face*

*

After Kevin wins the first swim race.

Justeen: Our very own Michael Phelps!

*

While watching an intensely suspense scene of 28 Weeks Later...

Mina: Charlie bit me! (randomly)
Kiko: Bluuuduuuhhh!
Justeen: Not funny!!!

*

Kev & Janno are about to have a race in the pool.

Mina: Take your mark! *TOOOOOT*

Janno & Kevin dive in the pool and swim the butterfly stroke.

Mina: What the hell is that thing floating?
Justeen: JANNO! YOU LEFT YOUR BOXERS!!
Everyone: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

*

Mina gets the number 12 for the exchange gift.

Mina: This looks small.

Everyone opens their gift.

Mina: T.T What the hell?!
Danice: What?
Mina: I get this relationship keychain and I DON’T EVEN HAVE A BOYFRIEND. So sad.

*

Matt: Why are you still wearing that afro?
Izaq: Because I’m scared. *removes afro*
Mina: Whoa!! Cool hair!
Matt: Hahaha!
Mina: Your hair looks like Elvis Presly’s!
Matt: No, it does not Mina.
Mina: Oh yes it does! -.-

*

Mickko & Chels are still tuning the guitar, the guitar’s won’t tune.

Uncle Mike: *snores loudly*


*

28 Weeks Later gets stuck on the DVD player, stops playing.

*silence*


Justeen: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE!!

*

Janno & Kev are about to have a swim race. The guys start betting.

Justeen: 5 bucks on Janno.
Mickko: I bet 5 dollars on Janno.
Justeen: Janno’s gonna win.
Chels: (to herself) I bet Kevin would win.
Justeen: Go Janno!

Kev & Janno race, Kevin wins.

Justeen: Kevin, my man!

*

Mickko: Hey Chels, is there shrimp in the carbonara?
Chels: Uhh...why?
Mickko: Oh come on! I can smell it! Didn’t I tell you before what would happen if I eat shrimp?
Kiks: Just eat it! I wanna see you bloat up!
Rona: Bring some home!
Mickko: That’s the same thing.
Rona: At least we don’t get to see you bloat up and you can still eat the carbonara.
Mickko: *groans*

Mickko walks in front of the gravy.

Mickko: Hey, is this gravy?
Rona: Yeah..?
Mickko: *nods* *pours gravy all over his carbonara*


*

Right before watching a horror movie, people are going downstairs to watch. Mina is walking down the stairs, the candle holder falls off the shelf, despite being 5 feet away from her.

James: What happened?!
Mina: I’m scared now!
Chels: RONA’S PLACE IS HAUNTED AS WELL!

*

Rona: Where’s my exit fee? 10 bucks!
Everyone: EXIT FEE?
Chels: Yeah, you’re not leaving Rona’s house without paying the exit fee!
Everyone: ...

Chels: Oh not wait—I don’t think they’d ever wanna leave your house.


*****

To those invited and couldn’t make it: You guys just missed out one hell of a party. I’m pretty sure by now, you guys wouldn’t ever wanna miss something that goes on at Rona’s house. Stuff you missed:

1. BBQ; seriously, the BBQ was good. Except when I ended up burning the skewers and and the BBQ disintegrating when you bite it.

2. The horror movie; was really epic. I think. I spent practically the whole movie upstairs/in the kitchen, can’t stand blood & gore. The funniest part was when the DVD player got stuck during technically, the most suspense-ey scene and everyone was all frustrated.

4. The swimming. Not to mention the wrestling stunts pulled by Janno & Kevin.

5. The mini gig by Mickko, Chels, Kev, Mina, Matthew & Izaq. This was probably one the best parts of that day, enough said.

6. The food. Carbonara, BBQ, fried chicken, and oh, the mashed potato covered in gravy. Aaaaaaahhhh.

7. Exchange gifts. Hey now, who doesn’t like getting random gifts?

8. Good ol’ bonding.

9. Etc, etc, etc.

It was a great day, 10 hours of going nuts. Right fellas? You really wouldn’t wanna miss it for the world.


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C R E D I T S

It took me days, literally, to finish this post. Like, I started yesterday at 12 and I finish at 11 pm today. Nice. Well hey, it was 10 hours of pure fun & euphoria.

But thanks to everyone I interrogated for comments, quotes and POVs.

Thanks for everyone who actually made it, I mean, if you guy didn’t come then who would I be quoting right?

Thanks to Izaq (he just wants to be mentioned here, hahaha) for helping me out with the quotes and thanks to Mikash, Rona’s cat, for ignoring all the visitors. Thanks to Cadbury for the ice-cream, thanks to Supa Save for the ingredients, thanks to PDS Meat Packing for the BBQ, thanks to...I’m kidding.

&& of course, thanks a bucketload to Rona & her parents, that is, for lending us her house. Without it, if we just had it at some regular home, the party would be less awesome. Honestly, appreciate it. Best Christmas party ever, thanks to you guys. :D

Labels: Christmas, good times, parties, quotes

HAPPY CHRISTMAS YOU LOT! (: and so today, our Saviour was born.

Love, God bless you all.

It’s Mom’s birthday today. Nothing special, just a family dinner of seafood spaghetti & barbequed lamb. All we got her was a nice book of cartoons about mothers which we saw last minute at the bookstore yesterday. Well, happy birthday Mom! I love you so much. <333333333

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We could make love not war, and with peace in our hearts.

-A Little Respect by Wheatus


Seems awfully lonely spending Christmas Eve at home listening to Amber Pacific. I mean, this is Christmas Eve right? You’re supposed to be out there having a party or whatever. I guess not this year. Inconsequently, I’m just sitting here working on my Christmas list. Joy.

So. What do I want for Christmas? Nothing really, just what any regular hippie wants. Peace, love, an end to war. That’s all. Anything for the good of mankind. Oh, and an iTouch & a Washburn WI26 Joe Trohman signature series. That’s about it. Really. Kay, so the Christmas list is done.

Okay...I feel lonelier than ever. I want my mates! But I reckon they’re all off with their own families eating out somewhere, counting down the seconds to Christmas. Yep. Wow. Being alone is lonely, but being alone on Christmas is even worse than lonely! I spent last Christmas at Miri, in a hotel with Kevin’s family while my parents and his sipped on wine out on the balcony and Kev & I explored at the hotel, momentarily chilling at the bar. At least it wasn’t that lonely.

Let’s dissect the cause of the loneliness here, shall we?

1. There’s no Christmassy look around here.
2. It’s a Muslim country.
3. It’s a CONSERVATIVE Muslim country.
4. I have no money to buy anyone presents.
5. Everyone else hasn’t got money to buy me any (not that I expected any, I don’t really get much for Christmas)

Basically, the core of the loneliness is that this is Brunei. And that is a good enough reason. At least I’ve got the 27th & 30th to look forward to! Party at Rona’s and Christmas brunch at Excapade with my Neo buddies. Ahh, not so lonely after all.

It’s just the lack of Christmas spirit! I feel devoid of it right now. The only time I came close to actually feeling all Christmassy was yesterday when I went off to the mall with Rona to buy an exchange gift for the 27th and I didn’t have enough cash on me and so the nice lady at Xplorer gave me a discount. And that’s about it. Sad, isn’t it? Oh Brunei, when will you mend your ever so dull ways? No wonder no one’s ever heard about us at all. Tiny little pinprick on the face of the Earth.

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Half an hour till Christmas! You know..some people have totally forgotten what Christmas is all about. Really. It’s about Jesus Christ’s birth, him coming down to save us from our sins. Not presents and gifts (I don’t mind that bit though) and all that much about Santa Claus shoving himself down your chimney, goodness, no. It’s to celebrate the birth of Christ. But you don’t remember that, do ya?

Labels: birthdays, Christmas, myself

Monday night’s rehearsal was awesome. It was the bomb; and in all possible sense of the statement. Like all bombs, C4 & nuclear alike, it caused much devastation to pretty much all of us. I still cannot comprehend how they could do this to us. What happened, you ask? They cancelled our frigging gig at JP. Man, that so infuriated me therefore diverting my attention from the MOE to JP authorities (I’ve got quite a temper, if you haven’t figured out till now).

And why did they cancel it? Well, this other music school performed & well, I guess JP thought it was more of a turn off to the public rather than an attraction. And frankly, they think our school’s gonna come off the same way. I mean, geez! They haven’t even seen us, and for goodness sake, that music school deals with classical stuff, like lounge music really but we don’t! Didn’t they see our concert at the Amphitheatre? But hey, whatever. They just lost themselves a pretty decent show. If they’re smart, they’ll uncancel the gig.

I wager you’re pretty much confused at how illogical I’ve started off this entry. Saying Monday night’s practice was great despite JP cancelling what we’ve looked forward to for how long now. It’s just that even though it was all bleak, the rehearsal was fun (again). But it was better than our other practices, this one was great. Just a bunch of people jamming to a nice song, it was great. A total blues-killer. Everyone left that night feeling elated and way better than when they showed up. It’s hard to explain what was so great about it, you know, it was just one of those “feel good” times. It was a compromise, what with the cancellation of the show. Whoever knew I’m Yours could be such a fun song?

....Okay, they’ve really gotta invent another word for ‘fun’. Ever since the rehearsals, I’ve overused it way too much. But hey, they are fun anyway. D’oh, there I go again!

Labels: good times, Neo, people, rehearsals

Something I’ve learnt about writing: If you feel that rush to write something, you’d better write it down now cause then later you won’t feel that pressing feeling to write that thing you wanted to write about earlier, therefore resulting in the loss of an entry that could’ve been at the least a mite entertaining. Savvy?

Hence, my shooting blanks......

Stuff that should’ve been written about earlier:

1. PMB Results
2. My aggressiveness towards the M.O.E.
3. Rehearsals before (oh, joy)
4. “The Double Taken Epiphany Over [insert name of object of interest here]”
5. Rehearsals yesterday (joy, joy)


Let’s start with number one. I got six A’s out of the seven I originally aimed for. I suppose that isn’t bad at all, I mean come on, 6 A’s right? ‘Sides, it wasn’t like I put much effort into the exam at all. You know me, lousy sleazebag. I merely stared at my textbooks, taking in as much as I can at the time with Wheatus playing as background music and all the time preoccupied with rehearsals (for the concert last November) every day.

Tell me, how many people can scrounge up 6 A’s after spending the night of the exam not memorizing the exact function of the pulmonary artery but instead perfecting solos? Okay kidding, I didn’t commit to any major soloing but you get my meaning. So yes, 6 A’s and a B (I got a B for computer, who cares anyway, the made us draw triangles and stuff, although it didn’t help that I deliberately scribbled “Refer to Form 3 textbook” as an answer to certain question, but yeah). Not bad. Not bad at all.

Of course, I got a D for BM. So what? I passed. Like Fall Out Boy said in one of the sweetest and most meaningful songs ever to be heard, “the best way to make it through with hearts and wrists intact is to realize 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.” That’s my motto. (I always thought they meant it to be for romantics but I guess it covers the academic front as well.)

And about my hostility towards MOE, I don’t feel the urgency to write about it now. They were just being unreasonably unfair & were showing a ridiculous amount of injustice towards foreigners therefore giving me the urge to drop a nuclear warhead right into the heart of the MOE building thus incinerating them all to ashes. Nothing much.

“Starts at my nose, make my crinkle my toes..” That’s one way to sing Bubbly. Hahahahaha. Seems like someone smells. Rehearsals at Neo of course, is always worth writing about. The parodies Teacher Sharon makes (I’m almost certain either you or T. Honey is reading this, there, I blogged it, hahaha), Chuan & Calvin’s one-liners, the ludicrous nicknames my friends have given me and all that. Always a joy. There was also this one time where T. Sharon thought that Jason Mraz’s I’m Yours was nothing but a perverted serenade: “Open up your pants and damn you’re free.” Hahahahaha. Honestly. She heard it all wrong. Funny what a mess that can create.

Some have taken up the habit of calling me all sorts of petnames. They’re all weird and nonsensical really. There’s “weirdo” (Nina gave me that name, I guess by now you can pretty much sum up why), there’s Coke, since I stubbornly refused to be recalled as The Weirdo, Joe calls me “his dear” as in “What’s the matter my dear?”, there’s the incredibly unintelligent one, Chel The Sea by Calvin, and there’s also Sexy Mama (which really freaks me out, you have no idea).

There’s also the corniest of them all, My Fair Maiden, courtesy of Chuan. Geez. And if that isn’t cheesy enough, he also refers to me as Juliet. As for Romeo, why don’t you ask him yourself who it is? And the one other nickname I so warned them not to call me: Chepii. I’m not in the 6th grade anymore! And of course, there’s the very creative one: Chelsea. Yep, nothing like getting back to basics, don’t ya think?

If name calling wasn’t enough, they make fun of my habit of swearing in Chinese. Now every single one of them is going around bellowing “WAAAAAAAALAO!” I’m not quite sure what it means in English, I just think it’s better swearing in a foreign language cause then nobody’d know you were using an expletive. But yeah, they say the way I pronounce it is hilarious =.= These guys.

About number 4. No comment. Maybe I’d find myself the urge to write about that later.

Number 5. I spent the whole afternoon at Neo yesterday (come to think of it I spend every single day at Neo; I’m practically living there already). I had class at around 1:45 till about 3 and there were rehearsals at 5 so I didn’t bother going home. That gave me about a couple hours to kill. I spent the first one on my laptop and when Joey ran out of battery, I took a walk around the neighbourhood and was sort of like, stalked by these two kids. Yeah.

Rehearsals were great as usual (it’s kinda like protocol, rehearsals MUST be fun), demurring the fact that I was starving and all the food available was a packet of watermelon & lemon flavoured Nerds, sour bombs and a bottle of water. Nerds do not qualify as food! But above all else, it was fun. Only we were missing Neesah and the rest. Neesah, oh, Neesah, wherefore art thou Neesah? KK, I heard. I wanna go to KK too! *sulks* And Howard was inexcusably late; actually, he came when practice was over.


Howard enters.

Chels & Chuan: Dude, you’re so late! Practice is over!
Howard: Is practice over?
Chels: Chyeah. It’s 7! Rehearsals were at like, 5. You’re two hours late.
Howard: Oh. Okay.

Howard leaves.


That was so weird. Though, I’m not quite sure whether he actually came late on purpose or honestly didn’t know rehearsals weren’t at 7 *shrugs* T. Honey wasn’t there the whole practice; she went off to have her hair redone or something. She had a haircut sometime earlier and she thinks her hair was “butchered” and therefore went to some other parlour to get it fixed. Tsktsk. I wonder how her hair is now. *shrugs again*

I guess that’s about it for the last few days... Oh my Lord, Christmas is in five days! That was way quick. It’s Mom’s birthday on 24th (pretty cool date eh?), I’ve yet to get her a birthday gift. Wow. Now that’s real quick. Can you guys believe it’s December already? Next thing you know, holidays are over and done with, we’ll be back in school, our behinds stuck on the chairs, attempting to understand ‘O’ Level material and anxiously awaiting the bell to signal recess and/or dismissal. But hey, at least I’ll be with my mates. Makes school (mostly, our school’s to blame, I guess I could do with any other school, our school’s like a military what with Ronnie running it like it is one) whole lot bearable.

Labels: exams, myself, Neo, people, rehearsals

Safe to say Twilight wasn’t that amazing. It was a bit disappointing really, the acting was a little off; Edward Cullen didn’t come off half as perfect as he actually was in the book, no offence to Robert Pattinson’s hardcore fans. It wasn’t really that bad, it just wasn’t that awesome. But I guess it’s alright. Jasper was soooo *faints*. And Paths was right, they only showed Jacob FIVE whole times throughout the whole film. Geez.

A funny scene from last weekend’s hangout was me & Neesah’s little marathon around the cinema right before Twilight began. I came late, practically just before the movie started, barely missing the beginning and if that wasn’t enough I needed to badly to use the ladies’ that Neesah & I literally ran through the cinema all the way to the toilet round back =.= We were running like mad not wanting to miss a second of Twilight, it was kind of surprising really that the cinema ushers didn’t think we were trying to sneak into the cinema from the back or something, the way we ran as if we were chased.

Literally running to the toilet, slamming the cubicle door, yanking my pants off, willing my bladder to empty faster than it naturally would, pulling my pants back on and racing back to my seat (which was not to mention, right at the front, that means about 20 flights of steps to race down), we made it, just missing about 5 seconds or so. New record. And the rest of else is spent slouching in my seat, comparing every scene to the book’s rendition I’ve memorized in my head, digesting high-quality popcorn, eagerly awaiting Jasper Cullen’s every appearance on screen. Which, depressingly, was quite a few times only. He didn’t even have much dialogue! Honestly.

I guess it wasn’t quite a rip off though, but I reckon I’d have appreciated the movie much better if I had the self control not to read the book. From a cinematic point of view, all literary works aside, I’d give the movie an 8 and a half.

It was great though, going out with my buddies again. I’ve missed Haylie & Shannon Shannon a lot. Oh, speaking of Shannon, she finally admitted Edward hasn’t got rabies. YES. Who wouldn’t fall for any of the Cullens eh? What I pretty much regret though was I didn’t get to spend any time at all with Ells, Aikks & Josh. They watched Twilight at some other time and it didn’t help at all that I came ridiculously late with only minutes to spare with them. Gee. Oh well. There’s always next time. I miss them like mad already.


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I guess I won’t be going anywhere this Christmas, just spending it here at home. Oh, joy. I guess there’s that party on the 27th that I’m pretty much looking forward to. Though, sometimes I really feel there isn’t much I’m doing at home except eat, sleep, repeat. Oh, plus rehearsals in between. Yeah.

Oh & I heard the PMB results are out and they’ve failed like, practically everyone who ONLY FAILED BM. What in the hell is that? They can’t really give us an F for the whole damn thing just for failing BM! BM is just a pointless subject that I couldn’t care any less about. I don’t want to study it, and I’m freaking sure don’t need it. MOE, YOU CANNOT FAIL ME FOR FAILING BM.

I get As in loads of places and I fail solely BM and then you flunk me just for that one insignificant, not just to me, but a thousand other kids think so too, tactless subject, which I’m certain I’m not going to need at all in 10 years time. Tell me, for the love of God, where is the justice in that? That is, if MOE really has failed us. That’s just what I heard; I haven’t really had to willpower to go and Google my results for myself.

Man. I hope this sudden outburst of crankiness is due to PMS. Really. I don’t wanna be the Grouch for Christmas. Nope, not gonna wreck all this for myself. Tis the season to be jolly, is it not?

Labels: exams, hanging out, school, things that piss me off

I guess I’m pretty much above the norm from other girls. The way I talk, walk, dress & my less-than-feminine interests? Especially dress. I had absolutely no reason to worry about what I’m going to wear tomorrow when I go with twenty or so (hey, it is Twilight, Edward Cullen, hello?) of my friends and Ella’s combined, until she told me she’s been doing nothing all day but exchanging photos with Niks about what they’re gonna wear tomorrow. Wow. Since when did my girlfriends start dolling up whenever they go out?

She’s out there getting drabbed by Niks, fretting over what blush on she should use while I am here reading my 10th grade Biology textbook, wondering which part of our body does the alveolus domiciles in. I am such a nerd. Oh my goodness. Just last night in bed, I calculated how much each person would have to bring for tomorrow (what with everyone being broke and all). The number of pizzas we’d need, the number of pizza slices left over, the number of change there’ll be, the amount we’d have to pay and the average amount each person would need just so everyone pays fair. Gah.

Yeah. I get it, I’m a dork, enough said. I’m not the girly girl either. Sure, I get clad in skirts & I like high heels a lot (I have more than 5 pairs, that enough to count as girly?) but other than that, I look like a total dude wearing my normal clothes. Camo shorts, printed tee, Converse sneaks. And I’m not the one pointing it out! My guy bestfriend just told me I “dressed like a guy”. And just about 15 minutes ago, my other guy friend told me that the way I dressed was alright but probably because he thinks of me as a guy. I seriously have to fix my wardrobe, make me look more feminine or something. As if I weren’t feminine enough already. Geez.

All the same, I’m just so psyched about tomorrow. JACOB. Oh Jacob. Oh no wait, Jasper. Oh Jasper. (See? I’m feminine enough to still notice guys for heaven’s sake.) It’s gonna be so much fun. Just your typical day out with your untypical buddies. And also, Chuan wants a rematch after our cheesecake competition Wednesday. This time he says we’d see who can eat cake faster. Chyeah. I’ll win, no worries. Hahahaha. Oh & I cannot wait to see the look on Shannon Shannon’s face when she sets her eyes on Edward Cullen for the first time. Yes, ladies & gentlemen, boys and girls, this primitive teenage girl has not heard of Edward Cullen. Or anything Twilight. Ever.

I’m gonna get such a kick out of it tomorrow. So long fellas.

Labels: hanging out, myself, people

I found someone I thought never exists. Someone who has NOT heard of Twilight EVER.

I think Shannon Shannon’s been living under a rock for the past three months. Either that or she’s been locked in a cellar with no human contact her entire life until today. Here’s the conversation that followed after I told her we’d go watch Twilight on Saturday on MSN:


Shannon: ...What’s Twilight about anyway?
Chels: HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW?! YOU MUST BE THE ONLY GIRL IN HISTORY WHO DOESN’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT TWILIGHT!!!
Shannon: Not really...my mom doesn’t know about it.
Chels: What?! This has got to be like the awesomest vampire movie ever!
Shannon: Wait, wait! I know what Twilight means! “The soft glowing light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon caused by reflection of the Sun’s rays from the atmosphere”. Or “periods of state of obscurity or gradual decline.”
Chels: Were you living under a rock for the past 3 months?
Shannon: Vampire = scary. NO WAY. I’M GONNA WATCH BOLT.
Chels: It’s not like that. Edward’s like the hottest vampire out there.
Shannon: How can you say that? Vampires are scary. Chels, wait till he bites your neck and blood comes out.
Chels: I don’t mind. Ahhhhh Edward.....Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.
Shannon: And Quarantine! Rabies! No Chelsea, I’m begging you.
Chels: Vampires do NOT have rabies.
Shannon: Don’t look him in the eye! Edward has rabies.
Chels: Has not.
Shannon: What’s the opposite of has not?
Chels: Um, has so?
Shannon: Has so!
Chels: Has not!
Shannon: Has so!
Chels: HAS NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT times infinity!
Shannon: YES YES YES YES YES YES!
Chels: You lose. Read the book girl! Google it!
Shannon: Has so x infinity x 100. HAH. I didn’t lose. I’m just a slow typer. Who makes lots of typos.
Chels: HAS NOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT infinity to the power of infinity!
Shannon: HAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. There’s no such thing as infinity to the power of infinity. If there is...then infinity to the power of infinity x infinity YES he has rabies!
Chels: Has so!
Shannon: HAHA! He has rabies. You said “has so”. I win. Chels you just admitted Edward has rabies.
Chels: There has so infinity times infinity! That’s what I meant you blonde!
Shannon: NOOO.
Chels: Did you know Christ was a Jew?
Shannon: No O.O You said so Edward has rabies. AND I AM NOT BLONDE. I have no blonde hair, I highlighted my hair brunette’s and I like the color!
Chels: Hmpff. Edward still has no rabies!
Shannon: Fine! Is this monkey cuter or is Chuan?


Yeah. That was random. At least I convinced her Edward has no rabies and never will have! Gee. It’s been a long day, convincing Shannon Edward Cullen has no rabies. I’m turning in for the night. Shannon, you’ll see on Saturday. HE HASN’T GOT RABIES.

Labels: hilarious, people, random, Twilight

Oh, cheesecake. Mmmm.


I’ve got an updated recipe for fun: put the lot of us band kids within a 10-mile radius of each other with cheesecake, Coke, Ruffles and oh, Coke. Always works. Just like tonight, it was beyond fun. Beyond. Fun. Awarding Ceremony right? And all us band people, well most of us, and of course, our circle of buddies, the ones I’ve grown mighty close to throughout the whole concert/rehearsals thing were there. Except of course, Nina & Shannon. You guys just missed another truckload of memories.

It was so fun! Aneesah, why’d you have to leave so early? We just starting to have fun you know, with the Coke and Devil Child and Ruffles. Haha. Someone was smart enough to provide us with Ruffles. Not to mention ridiculously sour Lays. So it was Sour Cream & Vinegar flavoured. Still. It tasted funny. But that only adds to the fun fun fun. Chyeah.

I came about 15 minutes late (it was raining cats and dogs, wow, never thought I would ever use that expression, and the road off my house was flooded like mad) and I arrived just in the nick of time, again, never thought I’d have to use that phrase, to hear my name called out. It was like: *enters mini hall* *sits down* *name gets called* *gets up* *sits down again*. And 10 minutes later the whole certificate thingy was over and we were entertained by these mightily talented kid drummers. Distinctions, they got, for the Rockschool exam last month. Three cheers. Whoo.

And quarter of an hour later, refreshments were served. Cheesecake, Coke, Ruffles, Lays and some weird lime green carbonate drink. And that’s when all the fun began. Heck yeah. I’ll put down the quotes later, it’ll be easier to get the gist of the moments that way.

Ah good times. And don’t forget the Devil Child. She was sitting right next to me the whole time and was being mild mannered. When most of everyone’s left, that’s when she became incredibly hyper and started doing the most ridiculous things. To me, especially. She would attempt to bite my wrists off, she’d cling on to my leg like super glue, she’d do a whole lot of other things which I cannot mention here lest other 7 year olds decide to follow suit. I was grateful enough that she did not spit tuna sandwich on me again like at the Amphitheatre weeks ago. Yeah, I guess someone thought it a funny joke to serve tuna again.

Oh, and she, well her name isn’t really Devil Child, it’s like, Amalie or something, well, she just won’t sit still. She’d either be running around, jumping up and down or gnawing someone’s hands off. It’s like a rule; Devil Child must not sit down. Ever. And if she does try to stand still, she’d fall down. I am not exaggerating. Ask anyone! The kid. Haha. But she is cute. Oh dear, I’ve grown attached.

Besides the fun with the kid, the photo taking was super; we were caught in awkward poses, thus resulting in ‘wrong’ shots. Oh and Chuan & I had this eating competition on who could eat the most slices of cheesecake. And guess who won? Duh. Me. Hahaha. I sorta just stuffed all the cheesecake into my mouth. I must’ve looked ridiculous yet again. But hey, now I’ve got a food reputation. Yay me.

Although, I did lose the carbonated drinks competition with Idrous after that. We filled up these plastic cups with Coke, of course, and found out who could finish the lot first. And he won. Well, as the great Bart Simpson once said, “You win some, you lose some.” But as Thornapple from The Born Loser once said too, “You can’t lose em all.” I’m gonna get you for this Idrous! Bring on the Coke. (That’s a funny phrase.)

So Joak asked me how much I weighed and Idrous was convinced he could carry me. And he did. Cinderella style. It wasn’t so bad. Until he started semi-throwing me into the air and catching me and then he spun so fast, it felt like one of those insane spinning rides you find at amusement parks. When he finally put me down, the room and everyone else in it wouldn’t stay in focus. What a ride. Everyone thought it amusing, teacher Mark was screaming for more =.=

Hahahaha. Good times eh? Honestly. These guys never get old. Everyone just goes crazy whenever we see each other, even though the last time we were together would be less than three days. Haylie almost cried. Again.

Oh God, I love these guys! Amazing people. And guess what? We’re going out this weekend to watch Twilight, Ells, hope you don’t mind that I bring I few awesome, awesome people. Can’t wait for Saturday.


So here are a few quotes from tonight:


Chels: (to Chuan) Hey Calvin.
Chuan: I’m not Calvin!
Chels: Gee, I’m sorry; you guys have names that are almost the same!


***


Idrous brings tuna sandwich from the refreshment table.

Chels: Thanks. *opens sandwich to reveal the spread, tuna*

Chels: AAAARRGHH! TUNA! What kind of a sick joke is this?! *goes paranoid, looks for the Devil Child* It’s the whole tuna sandwich thing all over again!


***


Chels goes to the refreshment table.

Idrous: Why don’t you take some of the cheesecake?
Chels: *in shock* THERE’S CHEESECAKE?
Idrous: Yeah! *points to cheesecake tray*
Chels: CHEESECAKE. *grabs at least 6 slices* No one told me there was cheesecake! *grabs more*
Idrous: Chels.


***


Chels walks back to the gang with cheesecake.

Chels: Guys, there’s cheesecake!

Everyone rushes off to the refreshment table. (Ah, the effect of cheesecake.)


***


Chels sits next to Amalie, plays with her.

Chuan: Hey Chels, isn’t that the Devil Child?
Chels: Well yeah, but she’s nice now.

Amalie bites at Chels.

Chels: See?


***


Chels: (to Calvin) Hey Chuan!

Chuan turns.

Chels: Oh no wait! I’m sorry, gosh; you guys are just so alike!


***


Joak, Chuan, Calvin, Neesah, Haylie and Chels pose for a photo.

Teacher Honey: Where’s Aaron Ho?
Chels: Aaron ho?????


***


Haylie, Calvin, Chuan, Neesah, Chels & Joey talk about random things. Aaron Ho passes by.

Joey: Bye Pokémon!

Aaron Ho turns around and corners Chuan.

Aaron: What did you call me?!
Chuan: *cringes* It wasn’t me!!!

Joey runs away, behind the wall laughing his arse off. Everyone else laughs as Aaron continues to manhandle Chuan.


***


Aaron: I’ve had that since I was little!

Aaron Ho walks away.

Chels: Why did you call him Pokemon again?
Joey: Oh, cause his email is Pokemon231.

Everyone bursts out in laughter.


***


Teacher Mark has the camera. Haylie, Neesah, Joey, Chels, Chuan and Calvin pose.

T. Mark: One, two, three—*coughs*.
Everyone: *Groan*
T. Mark: Alright, again. One, two, three! *5 seconds pass* Do you press this button?
Everyone: *Groans again.*
T. Mark: Alright, one more time. One, two, three! Oh, no lights! *phone goes on standby*
Everyone: *GROOAAAN.*

Teacher Mike comes and takes the photo.

Haylie: Finally. Someone who knows how to use a phone!


***


Joey: (to Chuan) Hey Calvin.
Chels: You mean Chuan.
Joey: No, I mean Calvin. I’m talking to him *looks to Chuan*
Chels: That’s Chuan.
Chuan: Why do keep mixing us up?! We don’t even look alike!
Chels: Well, you don’t. Actually you do, a bit. You have the same eyebrows. The same eyes. Oh and your nose is the same as his.

Chuan looks at Calvin.

Chuan: NO!!!


***


Idrous: *grabs bottle of weird lime green carbonate drink* This is mine now. *walks away with the bottle*


***


Amalie aka the Devil Child grabs Chels’ arm and tries to bite it.

Chels: Hey! If you come near me again, my bodyguard’s gonna get ya.
Amalie: *cracks her tiny knuckles*
Joey: *stands next to Chels* Yeah. *snaps fingers*
Haylie: Chyeah.
Amalie: *freaked out* *stares at us*
Chels: Okay it’s all good, she’s freaked out now.


***


Aaron A sits alone. Chels walks up to Aaron A.

Chels: Well SOMEONE’S being antisocial.


***


Chels & Aneesah pose for a photo. Neesah is all ready.

Teacher Honey: *about to take photo*
Chels: Oh crap, is there tuna in my teeth?


***


Everyone laughs about something. Chels spills Coke on the floor.

Chels: Aneesah, your nose!!!

(Recall the scene a few rehearsals back where Coke came spattering out of Neesah’s nose)


***


Amalie hits Chels’ butt. Amalie runs off laughing like a maniac.

(Repeat this scene at least five times)

***

Chels: Okay, whose idea was it to give the Devil Child Coke?


***


Teacher Honey and Chels talk about Acoustic Night.

Haylie: Acoustic Night! *starts sobbing*


***


Chels has to leave.

Haylie: Wait! *hugs Chels tight*
Chels: Gee, I’ll still see you on Saturday. *yet, hugs back*



And those are just the ones that CAN be quoted down. The rest? I’m not good enough at recapturing. It was fuggen’ comical or even more so. I guess you can exactly comprehend how funny it is to us. It’s a band thing. Well, g’nite fellas. I’ll see you on Saturday. Somebody bring cheesecake, I think Chuan wants a rematch.

Labels: band, good times, Neo, qoutes

Rona
10-Dec-08 3:09 PM
Chepii! I’m gonna kill you for not coming! Especially for not telling me that you’re not coming!!


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I wonder what Rona & Kevin are up to. No, it’s all like that! Geez, some people. We were supposed to go out today, ‘we’ meaning Rona, Kevin, Aikks, Aaron, Mickko and myself since Rona’s leaving the country Friday.

(And it was also some sort of “official band inauguration” thingy, Kevin’s switched the band members around and he’s certain Rona, Aikks, Aaron A (from Neo slash MD slash church) & I are the perfect mix, and Aaron, the latest addition as the band’s drummer hasn’t met Rona and Aikks yet. Although, Rona is not at all pleased about being included in the band.)

And for some unapparent reason, I didn’t feel like going. No, I didn’t see them dying inside the cinema while the mall burns down or something. I have a theory though as to why I declined to going out today. It was possibly because I doubt I’d be missing anything; Kevin’s bait for me to go was Twilight which he thought premiers today.

Unfortunately sucky ol’, well, whoever is in charge of this country’s entertainment & cinematic needs, won’t be premiering Twilight until tomorrow. So I guess, yeah, what’s the point in me going if they aren’t watching Twilight right?

Due to the annoyingly frustrating postponement of a pretty much awaited movie, like ever, I’m probably going out this weekend with Ells & Aikks and a bunch of other St George kids to watch it. Chyeah. Go Jacob. JACOB. Either Jacob or Jasper. JASPER.

Anyway, back to the beginning: I wonder what Kevin and Rona are up too. Oh, the other three? Well, Aikks decided not to go as well since I won’t be there, says she ‘can’t have fun without me’ (aww, that’s nice), Aaron, I’m not sure he made it or not but I doubt it and Mickko, wait—Mickko’s probably there. Happy belated birthday perfect guy from planet Perfect (quotes Kiks)! Love.

I guess I’ve to rephrase it now. I wonder what Kevin, Rona and Mickko are up to now. Beats me. Rona spent the last weekend at my place and Kev & Aikks were here Saturday...although, I’m still not clear on why they were here. *shrugs.


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Band reunion tonight! YEAH. Actually, it’s the awarding ceremony tonight for the concert people i.e. = BAND REUNION. Although you can’t exactly call it perfectly a reunion, with Nina being in Europe having the time of her life (“I wish I could bring back Disneyland with me!”). And she’s all worked up about missing the awarding and rehearsals for Acoustic Night and Acoustic Night and yeah. Neenz, I’d gladly trade places with you given the chance.

I’ve yet to raid my closet for something ‘semi-formal’ to wear. After all the ‘semi-formal’ occasions at Neo I am seriously running out of anything ‘semi-formal’ to wear. I told my teacher I’d wear a cheongsam (is that how it’s spelt?). Who on Earth wears a cheongsam to an awarding ceremony? Chinese New Year is ages away. And I’m not Chinese.

Okay, that doesn’t solve anything. I still don’t have anything to wear. I’ll just open up my wardrobe and pick up the first thing that deems “something semi-formal that I don’t think I’ve worn at Neo yet despite the number of times I’ve had to...which was about 3”. So let me just go and check it out.

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Do denim jeans count as formal? I suppose if it does if I you pick the right top. So. I’ll just wear this brown blouse thing I got from Ego. Which was a couple of years ago. I do hope it still fits.

Okay, I have to run. Dad’s nagging at us to get our lazy bums downstairs and play badminton. Yeah. Oh wait—I can’t. I’ve been doing sit ups yesterday. The outcome? My entire abdomen hurts like mad everytime I stretch, laugh or sneeze. And I can’t spread my limbs. Oy vey.

Labels: band, birthdays, hanging out, myself

“..When I’m scared, I get diarrhoea.”
–Shannon

>She was kidding, but that doesn’t make it any less funny of a statement to make.


Note: Just so you know, there are two Shannons in this entry: Shannon Osman aka jumpy squirt and Shannon... just Shannon. I’ve no idea what her last name is but anyway, she’s one of Neo’s vocalists, and so in relation, is part of the band as well.


So Nina & I got to the mall at about 1:15, which was, at the most, pretty early. I coincidentally saw Shannon O (she was so frigging hyper, she should be banned from Coke, seriously) and hung with her till we ate at Mr Pizza. She was waiting round for her buddies as well and so stayed with us.

Meanwhile, Nina was having a raging headache (“I just wanna chop my head off. Aaarrgh.”) and we had to sit down. (Although, it didn’t help that we watched a horror movie by the likes of Cloverfield, you know, shaky-camera-with-all-the-running-and-falling kind of thing that’ll make you feel a bit woozy.)

And at about 2, the rest starting arriving and by 3, everyone was present & accounted for. Well, not everyone. A few others couldn’t make it :( I feel bad for what you guys just missed. It could’ve been awesomer than it already was if literally everyone from the band was there ><

Oh, I almost forgot about Haylie and I’s awkward fear of spiders. Mine’s not as intense as hers though; the mere utterance of the syllables “spi” and “der”, and she will shriek into oblivion. I just cringe into a little ball, whilst shuddering; spiders are like the Kryptonite to my helpless Superman. You would’ve thought someone slid ice down my back or something. Chuan spent a couple of hours desperately trying to buy his cousin (he and Haylie are cousins, yeah) a fake spider *cringe Haylie, cringe* but couldn’t and so made up for it by shoving a picture of a 5-legged spider into her face. Ooooh, shudder.

Remember what I said about not caring whether we get kicked out of hotel swimming pools? We lived up to that. Hah. Almost. Instead we just got kicked out of the Rizqun hotel lobby because SOMEONE wouldn’t stop wetting us with the fountain. *coughCALVINcough* I think I’m starting to build up a reputation at that hotel. Haha.

The movie started at a little after 4 so we had time to humor our semi-hungry tummies. But before eating, we went off to the arcade, Neenz, Shannon O & Joak had to satiate their thirst for a little DDR. And they’re goooood. Not as good as Zat or Justin, but they’re way better off than me anyhow.

Oh, and Shannon Shannon, Shannon O & I played this game, it’s like this jeep thing and you get in it and inside there’re guns and stuff and the game is pretty much just about killing humongous spiders, bees and maggots. African Safari, I think was what they called it. It was fun. Especially the parts where Shan and I (Shan O didn’t play, she just sat beside me watching) were being chased by this ginormous tarantula, she wouldn’t stop screaming her head off. Ah, I still have the memories of anaconda-sized maggots flying up the screen trying to bite my character’s face clean off. Oooh, shudder again.

After our horrific “safari” spent shooting at abnormally sized insects, we headed off to Mr Pizza for some, drum rolls please, tada, pizza! I haven’t had pizza in days! But anyway, we ordered a Hawaiian & a jug of Coke (yay Coke), Joey had to leave for the airport (he was coming back at around 6) and had some immense trouble finding out how much it cost us. I mean, we’re not blonde or anything, no duh but the waiters just forgot to put the price on the bill or something. In the end, the whole thing cost us about $16 and Chuan insisted on paying for the whole lot. (He’s bloody rich, don’t tell anyone.)

And that was when all the fun started. I don’t know how to put this, but let’s just say this guy, let’s call him uh....what’s a good name for a prick? Um, I don’t know, let’s call him Jake (okay, so Jake is a pretty nice-guy name). Okay, well Jake hurt someone, a really good friend of ours. And being good friends, that pretty much ticked off the whole band, well, technically, everyone who was there. Everyone was furious. Well, I was. I was ready to rip his head off.

The girls stayed back at the cinema to comfort our friend, let’s call her Victoria, to comfort Victoria, and since there was time to spare, the guys and I went off looking for Jake. I swear, the guys were so wound up about kicking his ass. I was only there to verbally torment him; I’m not so good at the kicking-people’s-asses front. Jake was wearing a green jacket and we looked out for anyone wearing green. (“Seeing red used to make me mad, now seeing green does” –Howard)


Chels: He’s wearing a green jacket and he’s probably with this guy wearing all-black.
Howard: So we’re looking for a black guy?
Chels: No, he’s a white guy wearing all black.
Howard: Pfft. Ironic.
Chels: *rolls eyes*


We sorta just scoured the mall, scowling at guys clad in any shade of green. We never found Jake. Hah. Coward. Or not. But yeah, we never did. (“Let’s just tell Victoria we beat up a couple of guys but unfortunately weren’t Jake.” –Howard). He’s lucky we didn’t find him. He is in so much trouble with us. Grr.

So we just went back to the cinema since the movie was about to begin anyway. I’m no fan of horror flicks but with the right people, it can be insanely fun. I had Howard sit next to me the whole movie since he’s seen it before, therefore giving me a heads-up seconds before something immensely gory happens on screen. He was frigging smiling throughout the whole of Quarantine! He was even laughing at the morbid parts while I cowered underneath Aneesah’s jacket. I think I spent a majority of Quarantine under there, just peeking a little when the bloody (literally) scenes are something my gut could take. Howard said I looked hilarious. Yeah whatever!

At least I wasn’t screaming my pants off unlike SOME girls I know, screaming under the jacket. Chuan & I made this bet on who screams first during the movie; I bet on Aneesah, he bet on (of course) Haylie. Originally he wanted to bet on Shannon but I can honestly say without a doubt that that wouldn’t be fair. Only because Shannon is as easy to scare as anything. Screams her head off at anything. Hahahaha. I say it’s cheating, Chuan says it’s knowledge of who’s easy to set off screaming. Ah phooey.

But about the bet? No one won, it was a truce. Haha. Aneesah left halfway through the movie, partly because Joak got back and partly because she couldn’t take much more of the bloody and gore. So it wasn’t fair on me. Don’t worry Chuan, we’ll have another bet pretty soon.

Everyone else was cool with the horror movie. It wasn’t that horrific though, just loads of blood & saliva. Nina, who still had her headache, even FELL ASLEEP THROUGH HALF OF QUARANTINE. Gee. I was right though, about the whole seen-it-all-before thing. It was a little too familiar. Like a Cloverfield-28 Weeks Later-I Am Legend collab or something. But it was alright, it was funnnnnnnn.

Though not quite everyone. Shannon was a little traumatized after that, she was shaking all over & Haylie made a vow never to let Nina book the tickets. Whatever, as long I’m with you guys :D

So after the movie, Nina had to leave, already and left us with parting gifts: a drawing of the anime versions of our real selves. Chyeah. You rock Neenz, hugs, stay away from waffles. And we went off to Unitek. Yay Unitek. One of my favorite places in Gadong. Howard hates it though (“It’s so full of piracy! ><”, it’s true, just close your eyes and pretend it’s another horror movie) And that’s where Aneesah & Joak had to leave. I was so enthralled by the sight of Joey’s car, I hugged it. Oh the memories in that car. Getting squished like a bunch of lemons at the back seat...singing along to Bad Day...making the wrong turns. Ah. Those were the days.

Just after they left, Shannon and I had to head home as well, she dropped me off. But not before taking away some McDo’s ‘cause honestly, I haven’t eaten anything from McDonald’s in years. Not consciously anyway. Eventually, I got home, with a couple of DVDs, a fun experience with horror movies and whole new load of memories.

Gosh. I miss you guys already :( Nina, enjoy your trip to the UK, get us something. Joak, go move in with someone. Everyone else, I certainly hope to see you again sometime soon. Thanks for a greaaat day, you guys are a recipe for fun. Love.

Labels: best buddies, good times, hanging out, people

VICTORY IS MINE. *evil manical laughter* MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-ahak ahak *coughcough*

Haha. I’m allowed to go tomorrow, chyeahhhhh! THANK GOD. WEEEEEEE. I’m going to the band reunion, I’m going to the band reunion, I’m going to the band reunion. Lalalala lalalala *does the Makarena* Okay, gosh, all that for an being given permission to the band reunion? YEAH, ALL THAT. WHOOOOO.~

Okay, that’s enough. Haha. To the concert fellas: see you lot tomorrow at Ego! Well that’s what Chuan told me. Isn’t it kind of maddeningly unhelpful that there are about four different Egos at the mall? Geez. Okay, so there’s only a couple (I just asked about 3 people online), but which one? The ‘guy’ Ego or the ‘accessories’ Ego? Honestly Chuan, details!

PS. To people who are wondering why this is such a huge deal, do read the entry before this? Please, thank you.

Labels: going out, random

I can hardly wait for tomorrow. There’s a band reunion. If that’s what you want to call it. It’s the lot of us from the concert’s band hanging out again merely to enjoy being in within a 10-mile radius of each other. Watch a movie or two, wreak havoc around the mall, the works. Who cares? As long as I get to see my mates again, I don’t care whether we get kicked out of hotel swimming pools (again), get chased by rabid dogs or be scared crapless by some no-nonsense horror movie.

Which is quite likely to happen, if I may say so myself, despite me entirely detesting horror movies (I don’t see the whole point of it; seems horror films exist just for the mere purpose of scaring some poor fella into wetting himself), everyone seems to want to watch Quarantine. I’m pretty sure it’s about another city getting wiped clean (figuratively) by some killer virus, yada yada. We’ve seen that already, hello, heard of 28 Weeks Later? But yeah whatever, as long as I’m with them, I’m good, no complaints, smug as a bug under a rug. Snug as a bug, what???

There is just one thing though. Practically my whole family, with the mere exception of me & my mom, thank God, is unwell right now. Everyone seems to be down with a cold or fever or something, I’ve never really found out the difference but anyway, I just hope to God I can make it. It’s just that my mom might want me to stay home and look out for everyone else or something. There’s only a 20-40 percent chance of that happening, but still.

I really wanna make it tomorrow; we’ve moved the ‘reunion’ date several times enough to drive me crazy. And if that’s not enough random people from the band are leaving, like uh, like Neenz, she’s leaving for UK this weekend, and others who’re leaving someplace for nearby, and tomorrow is practically the only day where everyone can make it. Oy vey.

Right. So yes, here’s to tomorrow. Can’t wait to see you guys :)


(........boy, do I hope I won’t be rendered speechless tomorrow by [insert name here]’s mere presence. Oh, humor me.)

Labels: hanging out, people, random

Ladies & gents, I’m back. Pardon for the hold up, it’s been almost a week since my last entry but not much has happened. Well except for maybe graduation, that’s pretty much a big deal, the upcoming gig at JP (again, hell yeah!) and...well actually that’s just about it.

Graduation was last Sunday, Rona & I made it. I mean we just had to; I’ve got loads of buddies in Year 11. Haz, Kev, Barry, Faizshah, Najib, Dayat, just to name a few. I just wish we’d come later, at about 4. We were told to come at 1:30, and ended up having to sit through boring ass speeches for about a couple of hours. I swear, I could’ve fallen asleep through the monotonous drone of the so-called guest of honour.

The students’ speeches weren’t that bad. Well, they weren’t that good either, it sounded as if they didn’t even mean all the things they were going on about, how they’re gonna miss this and that, yada yada yada. Sounded more like an ad for boredom *yawn* If I get to do a speech on my graduation I will make sure that no one dies of incessant ennui. Really.

And man...it was mellow. Well, on the inside anyway, these awesome guys are leaving us >< Here we go again, the whole I’ve-got-to-leave-though-I-don’t-really-really-don’t-want-to scenario all over again.

I guess it’s entirely inevitable, like a must, like it’s frigging mandatory that everyone leaves, for better or worse. Mostly it’s for better but that doesn’t stop the pain of having to see your friends, your beloveds leave. I guess one day, it’d be my turn as well. To leave. Until then, I’m sure as hell gonna make the best of it, you can count on that.

One day I’d have to graduate as well, leave for college and all that. Meet new kids etcetera, etcetera. I guess it won’t be long till then, everyone’s leaving already and it’s my turn. It’s hard living in a place you know you won’t be living in forever, knowing you’d have to get up and go. That’s pretty much the case for most of us. It’s inescapable, even if you’re staying at some place for good. Someone just has to go. And we’re next in line. Just like that song. Next in line.

Oh crap. I think I’ve just mellowed out back there >< Anyway, congratulations to all the graduates, especially Haz & Kev, my two awesomest bros. Haz, you rock, thanks a million for everything, I do mean everything, you’ve been the awesomest bro in history, to me Aikks, Ells & Liz anyway. Haha. You’re the best, I love ya! Kev, you don’t need me to say anything. Hahahaha. Good luck with [insert name of Kevin’s object of desire here]. And to the rest of the guys I know from the 11th Year. Thanks a lot for everything you guys, love :)

Glad that chapter’s over. Not really. I’m gonna miss hanging with these guys. Oh God, I think I’m gonna cry again. This has most definitely been the mellowest year by far. You have no idea how I’m gonna miss Haz, Kevin, Faizshah and everyone else. All the memories shared with these guys...the constant outbursts of laughter and all. Boy. Life is hard. I know. It just hasn’t sunk in yet.

...Alright, enough mellowing for one day. Change topic before I lose control over my tear ducts.

About my inept need to see my concert buddies again. Oh good heavens, I miss them so bad, you have NO IDEA. I’d feel like crying everytime I see a tube of Pringles, everytime I go to Supa Save and everytime I...well, just about everytime something reminds me of rehearsals with those doodie heads. Honestly, I never thought I’d see the day where the mere sight junk food would make me cry. That’s just...bizarre.

BUT ANYWAY, there’s another show coming up again at around the 20th to 21st of December at J’dong Park. Somewhere in the John Lennon Simulator. I HAVE NO FUGGING IDEA WHAT IN HEAVEN’S NAME THAT IS EITHER. But we’re having the show there. It’s sort of like an encore, since the concert last, last week was such a hit. We’re going acoustic this time and I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be awesome.

And you know what the best part is? The best part is that I get to see some of my buddies again. YAY ME. Hallelujah. Thank God!

So what else is new? Oh yeah. My new found aggression towards SOME PEOPLE =.= Let me narrow it down for ya. Not some people, some GUYS. I’m gonna go explain in another post. This one’s longer than normal already (well normal for some people anyway, I’m no ordinary writer) and I’m certain you’re wondering where this ends.

Well it ends right about...here.

Labels: people, personal things, school