Saturday, December 02, 2006 @11:27 PM
Jac is A MARVELLOUS COOK :DI'm supposed to be sulking about my takehome final or stewing in guilt for not studying; all I can think about is how I'm going home in exactly fifteen days. I haven't seen Singapore in one whole year, it feels like I haven't seen my friends and family for even longer than that.
After class the other day A asked me how on earth I stand being away from home for so long, and I didn't really have a ready answer so I shrugged and laughed and said, well, time flies by faster if you're having fun here; and then we both laughed. But for all my grand globetrotting schemes I'm too glad to be going home for winter.
Oooh and then-
Bangkok for three whole days, glee!
Monday, November 27, 2006 @5:09 AM
Because I just read Tinky's blog, because it's 5:02 am on Monday morning, and because I really wouldn't mind if I were sixteen forever.I'm pretty sure I've posted it some many months before. And I've probably read it at least a dozen times. And in the midst of all the exams, I can afford to sit down, laugh and remember those good times we had.They always bring a smile to my face.Damn. I miss 413.Note: Seeing as Chris documented this, she conveniently left out all the bloopers she made. But I better keep quiet about it, seeing as how she spared me from most of the trauma too.Chris, in an unexpected fit of idleness, compiled a hugely entertaining list of 413ers' infamous quotable quotes. Not wholly exhaustive, but is comprehensive enough of the featured stars, of course -OBS=]Chris, trying to get Lydia to nod her head on Puee's tummy: "Lydia are you a girl?"Lydia, nodding: "Yes!"Serene the Foul: "What makes you think so?"Puee, laughing: "Serene are you an idiot?"Serene: "NO!"Puee: "What makes you think so?"Chim: "Sharon and Gene. Wait. Are they both girls?"Audry explaining the OBS dress code: "You can't wear sleeveless stuff into the cookhouse 'cos [when you go there to eat] your sleeves will get in the way of your food!"Audry's thirst getting the better of her: "Ohmigosh. I tried to drink out of a bottle with a stopper!"Puee's last words before being victimised by a swarm of mosquitoes: "Mosquitoes don't bite me."Serene demonstrating the extent of her botanical knowledge: "Look at the wooden tree with the burst nest fern!"[This one needs no introduction]"Hmm. Should I save my disposable underwear?"[and this one]*cockadoodledoo*"I think that's a monkey!"Serene's attempt to match up to physically superior beings: "My abs hurt!"Audry's discovery of her own inferiority: "I have a short torso!"Serene the Conservative: "You know. Bao's getting more vulgar. she curses in capital letters!"Jia Hui's orienteering misadventure [or one of many, if you ask her watch=]: "Wait. Which colour arrow points north?"Pei Ying's take on mosquitoes: "Mosquitoes will fly through whether the windows are closed or unclosed."Serene, recalling vivid childhood memories: "You know, a durian chased me when I was six!"Jia Hui and Intelligence"Aiyoh, I'd better start thinking!""I didn't become smart, I was already smart!""Yay! I'm getting smarter. I'm smart!""Haha, I'm the only smart one around!""Oh dear, I'd better stop thinking!""I should start planning for my future. I need to know what I'm doing tomorrow.""Even our cells are so smart. I feel stupid now.""I'm smart. I have nothing stupid to say.""I'm tall. And I'm smart.""Eh, I got a very big brain, ok?"Pam's Puns [with contributions by Pam's group]In a Physics lesson on electricity: "The current group is presenting."And: "What is the potential difference? I thought it was 'watt'!""Jia Hui can't stand Emath! Sit down!"In an Emath lesson on geometric transformations-JH: "What's the point?"Chris: "I want to go for recess on the dot."Pam: "Yeah! Then you don't have to line up."Ms Hoo: "Pam! Do your work!"Chris: "Pam! Go back and reflect on your actions!"On Serene's gas tests in Chem practical: "All gaswork! Hua4 se4 tian1 zu2!"Miscellaneous Slips-of-the-Tongue-that-Unfortunately-were-Made-in-My-Presence
Serene: "Serene is smart."
Lydia, to her waistline: "Are you there? Oh no! It's missing!"
Puee, during a PE lesson: "Serene, you aren't supposed to move your hands like that. It's obstruction."
Serene: "So I can't touch you?"
Puee: "No, you can touch me."
Jia Hui, after reading above blooper: "'Destruction'? You mean, Puee's suicidal too?"
Puee, during assembly: "Four-thirteen, you're right at the left. The first person stands in front, and the last person stands at the back."
Lydia: "Maybe fish eyes make you smart, because I don't eat them."
Jia Hui, to Ms Hoo: "Why'd you brush your teeth with a hairband?"
Ms Ting, on failed governments' policies: "It's like. dangling a carrot in front of a goose. That's quite good! I must remember that!"
Chim: "Audry's making eggs!"
Ting, on walking faster than others: "Well, some people have more legs!"
Jia Hui, brandishing her Bio diagram: "It's a skin!"
Shiqin, reminiscing: "When I was a girl."
Pam: "What are you now, then?"
Audry's effort to spew less profanities: "Sh*t! Oh no, I said 'sh*t'! Oh sh*t!"
Serene: "You can't have watermelon trees, right?"
Lydia, to tray of peanut cookies: "Are you cooked?"
Chim's lack of faith in Audry's culinary skills: "If I eat this will I die?"
Jia Hui, on pineapple tarts: "You mean pineapples come in little things like these?"
Jia Hui, after baking peanut cookies for half an hour: "Oh!! These are peanut cookies!"
Jia Hui: "What's a sucker?"
Chim: "You laughed, therefore you took my calculator!"
Chim: "Pei Ying, if you don't mark Serene's attendance, maybe she won't come."
Chim, on Tinky's discman: "If I touch it more, it'll become mine."
Serene: "I'll give you food if you let me molest you."
Tinky: "If Ser laughs enough, maybe she'll die."
Jia Hui: "Does 'A. Lee' stand for Serene Lee?"
Jia Hui: "Chairs should vibrate. Then fat will dissolve. That's what slime-ing centres do!"
Pei Ying: "You know, 'park' as in parking cars. Choochoo!"
Serene: "Oh look I found a mushroom! Oops. It's an angsana seed."
Serene to her latest victim: "Tinky don't worry. I won't touch you, I'll caress you!"
Serene, repeating her OBS mistake: "That's a chicken! Quack quack!"
Ting, on Serene and Audry: "They aren't alike. they're as different as peas in a pod."
Jia Hui: "What do parallel lines look like?"
Jia Hui: "Haha at me."
[long pause]
Jia Hui: "Who said 'haha at me'?"
Jia Hui, puzzling over diagrams of the reproductive system: "I'm sure I'll be better at the male one."
Shiqin: "Where's my sperm duct?"
Jia Hui: "Doesn't the foetus have gills?"
Jia Hui: "What does a boat look like?"
Serene: "I have small testes."
Pei Ying: "Hitler is British. of course, Germany is in Britain."
Lydia: "You will not quote me on that! What if everyone thinks I cannot speak English?"
Lydia: "Yay! Successful insult!"
Lydia: "I have a windy stomach. You have a problem?"
Lydia: "If I become like Puee, I. I'll go sit on the fence!"
Audry, anxious to get started on class video: "Quick! Write it down. and then. Stephrene, Michelle and Puee will do splits."
Lydia: "Isn't Germany part of the United Kingdom?"
Puee, on hearing that Li Jia got a big fluffy Eeyore: "I have the smaller Eeyores. We can start a family together!"
Miscellaneous Very-Apt-Remarks
Jia Hui, after Bio prelims: "How was I supposed to know [that the stomach secretes mucus]? I asked my stomach, but I didn't answer!"
Ting: "We're all people. Right?"
Junwan, on not using sulphuric acid: "It will kill you!"
Chim, spluttering and pointing a trembling finger at Audry: "You. you are such an Audry!"
[Audry stares in shocked silence upon the revelation of this profound truth]
Chim: "No. I mean. you're a. a Classic Audry!"
Lydia marvels: "I never knew science could be so practical!"
Clar, wailing about Lydia: "Lydia bit me! With her teeth!"
Ting: "I'm always siding with myself! Yay!"
Jia Hui: "Yay! I'm me!"
Jia Hui: "Yay! I have many bothers."
Hui Chu, on Serene: "Argh. Save me from this perverted sex maniac!"
Jia Hui, latest victim of myopia: "Puee! You're a blur blob!"
Audry in Geog class: "The men go to work in the urban areas and leave their female wives behind."
Audry, proudly displaying a Work Experience souvenir: "It's a semen sample."
Mrs Lee, aghast: "What were you doing?!"
Pam: "She was working!"
Shiqin, on her newly acquired perfume: "It's moonflower!"
Puee: "But there are no flowers on the moon!"
Lou: "Chewing is so tiring."
Li Jia, on how the great Leibniz got to travel extensively: "He rowed a boat?"
Jia Hui, on the inconveniences of clothing: "After you unbutton then you have to button again, so tiring!"
Serene: "Ow! My fats hurt!"
Ms Ting, to Serene: "You dirty woman, you!"
Sunday, November 26, 2006 @11:46 PM
i'm in a fit of rage against technology after my beautiful sony camera ate up all my thanksgiving photos :(
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but christina is thankful for thanksgiving! (:
the only city, ny:
despite persistent rain and a thanksgiving-tradition-enforced closure of nearly all the stores in new york city, we three musketeers stuck it out! prata for lunch at nyonya, meeting estelle's stuy-columbia crew for xiaolongbao steamed goodness in chinatown, and braving the armani crowd in soho on wednesday, topped off with casino royale in the cinema near msg.
yes, the New James Bond Movie is really
that good.
yes, i did only buy shoes during that trip. aldo was practically the only thing open on thanksgiving!
and yes, in spite of that, i spent lots during thanksgiving. here's how-
home of the overseas cantonese diaspora, on:
we braved the long drive across the border and made it into toronto, only to drive waaaaay out of town in search of That Cheap Karaoke Place. yonge street, the longest street in the world (someone wikipedia it for me! i wanna know where it ends), is full of sparkly christmas lights, shopping centres, and, if you look far enough, one hella-good korean barbeque restaurant and karaoke place! met d, basked in the Glory of Being Legal to Drink for all of half an hour, and then drove d home, only to realise How Truly HUGE Toronto Is.
dimsum and barbequed goodness made my saturday. that, and, uh, an afternoon at eaton with ellen. don't tell anybody about the zara trenchcoat. shhhh.