my blog wants to die. i have not been feeding it with posts for 3 months already..so i guess i'll just leave my blog like this for a long time.   1:35 AM

  sorry jess i was really tired that day slept for the whole afternoon. n not rubbing anything in but HOORAY for portugal!!!!! anyway watched minority report vcd. v nice sci-fi movie. but i bet no one will be interested. ok so today's first day of term 3. almost late for school. assembly as usual. glad to see familiar faces again. sonya complaining about two major asses, adeline's singing still sucks-no offence juz frankly speaking-, seeing syarah after pe telling me soccer rocks her socks!-i can't wait!!!- mr tan's boring lesson killing brain cells-his way of starting(ruining) such a beautiful day-,and now i'm in the writing workshop for lit. lesson and everyone is juz chillin out on the com. so far so good-15 mins to recess!-   10:17 AM

  HOORAY FOR PORTUGAL!!!!! Managed to beat spain! hahaha. dunno why i support portugal so much but it's just this gut feeling that i should support them. haha. go portugal! and for jess's sake HAPPY BIRTHDAY to lampard. hahaha. rrrrrrrrrrrrrr fuming now mum blaming me for taking her sewing stuff and not returning them. no proof that i took it lor. even though i use a lot of her stuff it doesn't mean i'm the one who ALWAYS misplaces her stuff. rrrrrrrrrrr.  9:48 PM

  freaky. i was just about to enter the keane website when everybody's changing played on radio! wow! i think jess has passed some of her psychic powers to me. gosh. love keane!
Who are Keane?
Tom (Oliver) Chaplin - Vocals (8th March 1979)
Tim (James) Rice-Oxley - Piano, keyboards, bass, backing vocals (2nd June 1976)
Richard (David) Hughes - Drums (8th September 1975)
interview on Top of the Pops
TOTP - Top of the Pops
TOTP: You met at school didn't you..?
Tom: We all knew each other from a very early age and hung out during school holidays.
TOTP: Who was your best teacher?
Tim: Our physics teacher was absolutely insane. We recorded him and made a compilation of his best moments.
Tom: He used to go off ranting like someone had flipped a switch in his brain and that would be it, he'd go off on one. He would say he was sure the kids of today couldn't change a lightbulb!
Richard: And he's probably right!
TOTP: Did you learn anything?
Tom: I learnt how to change a lightbulb! And that the Humber Bridge is the biggest bridge in the country, although that's nothing to do with physics.
TOTP: Can you remember your most embarrassing moment at school?
Tom: Tim and I had a fight outside music. I ended up in pain, so I guess I lost. That's pretty embarrassing, although he is quite muscley...
Richard: I walked into a tree in front of a lot of people once. That was both painful and embarrassing so that's a bit of a double whammy.
Tim: I used to play the flute and we had this concert in front of about 400 people which was scary when I was about 8! And it got to the bit I had to play and I completely forgot how to play the instrument. I just stood there and wept! [laughs]
TOTP: Can you remember the most trouble you got into?
Tom: We went on a school trip to Paris once and I let off a banger in the hotel. [laughs] It didn't go down very well.
Tim: The best thing about it was that Tom let off this banger and the whole fuss was that it was going to upset everyone in the hotel. And then it turned out that the rest of the hotel had been booked out by a convention of deaf people!
TOTP: What was the best excuse you used to get out of P.E.?
Tim: I used to love it!
Tom: I don't think I did try to get out of it. It was one of the best bits.
Richard: The first day I got contact lenses I had to get up and play a hockey game, I was very excited about the game. But I'd only just got these contact lenses and it took me like an hour to put each one in but by the time of the match I'd only managed to get one in so I had to play the whole game only being able to see out of one eye. [laughs]
TOTP: What was the best excuse you had for not doing your homework?
Tom: The best one I heard was 'I left my homework on the window sill and in the night there was lots of condensation which ran down the window and the ink ran'. [very serious] It wasn't true...
TOTP: What about the worse thing you had to eat at school?
Tom: Ugh, the tubes. The tubes in the kidney. Ewww!
TOTP: What about semolina?
Tim: Is that like tapioca? [gets excited] I LOVE that stuff!
TOTP: Did any of you have nicknames?
Tom: I have the unfortunate surname of Chaplin which meant I was...erm...never called Charlie Chaplin actually. [laughs]
Richard: And I'm called Richard so draw your own conclusions.
TOTP: What's the best part you had in a school play?
Tom: I was in lots of school plays. I played Trinculo in The Tempest, in which I managed to do Geoff Boycott's accent and prance around the stage. It was another way of getting rid of some of the excess energy I have.
Richard: I was an urchin in Oliver. I didn't get to say, 'Please sir, can I have some more?', they wouldn't let me do that bit. [disgruntled] They insisted on making Oliver do it...like in the script. [laughs]
TOTP: What are your best mates from school doing now?
Tom: They're on Top of the Pops with me!
TOTP: While you were at school did you ever do work experience?
Tom: I worked at Sotheby's auction house. I worked in the prints department which meant...I got to look at all the prints. I did discover that Freddie Mercury owned a lot of very nice prints. I'm probably not allowed to divulge information like that...
TOTP: What was the worst career advice you were given?
Tom: My dad once said to me stop playing that bloody guitar and think about getting a proper job. [laughs]
Tim: I was recommended to become a dietician... I've been eating burgers ever since. Maybe they meant I should just go on a diet...
Richard: [gets quite angry] I wanted to be a pilot but I'm colour blind so I couldn't be, and I was really annoyed about that cos I really wanted to be a pilot.
TOTP: How are you coping with attention that fame has brought?
Tom: We get asked for lots of autographs and things after gigs and the people who come to our gigs seem to be...
Tim: ...sane!
Tom: ...well relatively sane and just normal people who like music and that's really cool. It's like going down to the pub and meeting a friend of a friend, it's really nice.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp/artists/k/keane/underthegrill/page1.shtml   2:14 AM

  hi everyone who came to tag! jess i can't believe u will actually be interested in Shakespearean plays but it's good! maybe coz u went to the wrong theatre hall. hahaha. and your mum is so nice can't stand it!!!!!!!! pls tell me about the story and ending when you're done ok? anyway i'm gonna be in deep shit. lotsa homework not completed. thinking about how i've spent my hols. not satisfying enough. wish i could watch euro matches. wish i could be playing soccer now but its soccer for pe next term so i'll just hafta wait a bit.   1:02 AM

  yes i know my blog has been rotting away for more than a month. this is what too darn lazy means. brief description: 31/5 slack. do not disturb. 1/6 relax. 2/6 went to LOTR exhibition! bought leaf and rings! packed bag for camp. 3/6 camp. did ropes thing. got to know children. tired myself out. yay :D 4/6 pulau ubin. took ferry. ate rations. watched childern build raft. played a bit of water. suspect i did something wrong. had to do with Rui Jean but didn't tel her (GUILT). 2nd day 5/6 went on hike (more like a trail). saw lotsa plants interesting stuff. got quite lost. >built tent yesterday night. it collapsed -__-" but fixed it. was the biggest!< washed and packed tents. had fun with children. left island. at campsite. FLYING FOX!!!! overcame slight fear of heights :D unpacked backpack from pulau ubin and repacked own bag. had the misfortune of having grasshoppers sneaked down my back by two boys and one of them called prakash (can't remember how to spell) had the cheek of denying it. believed him at first then felt this uncomfortable twitching. managed to shake it out. got me paranoid from then on. o yeah the first night prakash put a beetle on my shoulder and pretended to have spotted something near my neck. flicked it away in horror. it fell on the floor with a soft thud. can u imagine how big it was. big black and shiny. thought it was an overlarged cockroach at first. was slightly relieved it wasn't (hate cockroaches!) but hey its not like any other bug is ok to sit on my shoulder. and the boy still dared to pick it up and plant it on my friend christina's back. what a nightmare. anyway i managed to catch some grasshoppers and threw it down the other boy's shirt and told him ok let's not play anymore. done. had trouble rounding the children up to go for their evaluation. got the opportunity to find out how old each of them were and what schools they went to and especially their extent of patience for evaluations. the girls had the neatest and most eligible handwriting. the boys seemed to have difficulty expressing themselves in written work. prakash took a short cut by putting a dash diagonally across the paper and writing 'Good la!'. smart eh? frankly he's the smartest kid amongst the children but uses his intelligence in the wrong ways. after evaluation they had a small 'graduation' ceremony. my group gave them souveniers we made ourselves and the official certificates and collar pins for completing the camp. debriefing followed. sad :( departure :'( so long then. 7/6 missing the camp. thinking about it a lot. 8/6 9/6 can't remember what happened. 10/6 went out with sonya jess charmaine and syarah. ate crunchie ice cream. window shopped. bought cookies and sweets from mrks and spencer. bought harry potter 5th book. went far east plaza. nice shops there! lotsa jewellery. ate gelato ice cream. jess tried on earrings! haha :D. realised topshop is a kinda cool place. didnt' get to go chinatown /little india :( 11/6 back to school to do ceramics. quite satisfied with my work which is a vase-like pot/pot-like vase. hope it doesn't collapse. later in the evening went to band concert at victoria concert hall. jess went into the WRONG HALL! haha :D she nearly watched OTHELLO!! funny! 12/6 watched bend it like beckham on tv. funny and romantic! 13/6 reading harry potter. depressing. cleaned my room. talked (sms) to jess who was apparantly having a really bad day and feeling sad coz of LAMPARD. sigh. listened to radio. LOVE KEANE!!! listened to red hot chili peppers cd. what a day. 14/6 slack. mum found out something i've been keeping from her. mum bought a pot of orchids. couch potato transformation in progress do not disturb x| 15/6 slack again. harry potter. tv. radio. writing in students diary. admiring aragorn postcard. thinking about people. is this day wasted? 16/6 17/6 holed up at home. waiting for keane songs to play on radio. 18/6 lucky day heard keane like 3 times. woohoo! decided to not sleep tonight and finish reading harry potter. 19/6 finished at 4.30 or so. still feeling wide awake. decided to write this. ok so it wasn't so brief afterall. but thanks for reading if you have.  6:07 AM

  a mighty big thanks to all who have made my birthday a very memorable one. i love my easter birthdays. they only come once in every 7 years so the next time my b'day falls on easter is when i turn 22. haha. ok so thanks again and hope all of your b'days will be equally special! ok the ah ma is going off to eat all her goodies. even though i have a sore throat. sigh. adios.   9:53 PM

  ok hi. went to chinatown with mum on saturday. went to temple street to shop. how ah ma of me. ok bought earrings, this metal container for me candleworks and faye wong album ($17.90 for 2 cds + dvd - ah ma is an experienced shopper). mum went for this herbal foot bath at this shop house. then went to have dinner at hawker center. then took bus home at about 7+pm. today-went to j8 today with bao xian li wen joyce and tricia. had to think of what to get for bao xian and li wen's birthdays. decided to buy $10 worth of snacks for bao xian. she also doing the same for me. anybody kind enough and with $$ to spend is welcome to buy the following for me: chocolate, lollipops, gummy sweets, liquorice allsorts(if u know what this is), japanese snacks, potato chips(lays, ruffles, the whole lot), ice cream(whole tub, any flavour), ginger beer, root beer, any soft drink except cherryade. ok basically it's any junk food. or just give me a cash voucher. haha. ok shall make a list when i'm free.
countdown to b'day/Easter: 7 days  8:14 PM

  once upon a time in singapore there was a notorious family of outlaws that roamed the corridors of st nicholas girls' school - the Mafia. it made it's hidey-hole in the privacy of the 2 justice classroom where the bosses - the Godmothers- held supreme. for a period of time, these criminals worked hand in hand to achieve much happiness, fame and respect. they were one big bad happy family, but good times don't last long. a certain member had to migrate to a different headquater. the family was reluctant to let her go but she promised to keep in touch. not for long, she started drifting away from her once-dear sisters, and soon she succumbed to the temptations of her new environment. her Godmothers who so dearly missed her were heartbroken. they are still trying to reach out to her meanwhile, relationships within the Mafia were not going too smooth. it was especially bad for two certain members who were once very good friends. they used to hang out together, play under the sun together, you get the point. but their friendship turned into cold war of avoidance. they could not put their differences aside, not even for old times' sake. alas, now it is not known how bad the situation is. maybe, deep down inside, they badly miss each other's company? maybe tomorrow they would find each other and patch things up? all these troubles had taken a hard toll on one of the Godmothers. she sighs more often nowadays, even her favourite taiwanese singer could not make her forget her troubles. what is happening to the Mafia? its future looks bleak..  9:54 PM