dearly-beloved-

2006-01-11T16:41:00.000+08:00

Ever since I changed my display picture to a picture of Mr SH Tan, 5 people made comments about it.

WHY?! I think he's VERY cute. And nice.

2006-01-11T15:34:00.000+08:00

Ice kachang lunch a few days ago.

KFC lunch remainders.

That's the 3 nails (2 now) I have left, after I cut them. They're two months old!

HUGE pills that I can't swallow and won't take. I forgot to ask for liquid meds!! AND, I said that I had a headache instead of a fever, so I only had MC for today. (*&#$^@! STUPID RACHEL! Say good bye to your long weekend now.

I hope I get worse.

2006-01-11T13:47:00.000+08:00

This is the last time
That I will say these words
I remember the first time
The first of so many lies
Sweep it into the corner
Or hide it under the bed
Say these things they go away
But they never do

Keane - This is The Last Time

I went home after recess today because I'm feeling unwell, ahem. Don't give me that look. I'll go to the doctor at 2.30 later. Mum wants me to take the meds that the doctor prescribes, but I ABSOLUTELY hate taking pills. I can't swallow them. I'll ask for the liquid ones.

I wanna sleep but it's 40 minutes till 2.30.. Or maybe I'll go to the doctor's later, like at around 3, so I can have an hour's nap.

Rachel, don't get well soon! XOXO.

2006-01-10T21:25:00.000+08:00

Why do you do this to y o u r s e l v e s?!

Don't say you want perfection. STICK THIN IS NOT PERFECTION. Healthy thin is okay, but ANOREXIC people aren't healthy.

STICK THIN IS NOT PERFECTION!
STICK THIN IS NOT PERFECTION!
STICK THIN IS NOT PERFECTION!

I wish I could help them, but they're all really twisted. So much so that they scare me. Just look at this :

I got that from one of those ana girl's blogs. It's what they call 'Thinspiration'. That is so NOT pretty. It's so far from what I normal people would deem 'perfect'.

Just what the hell are they thinking?

2006-01-10T19:16:00.000+08:00

Oh therapy, can you please fill the void?
Am I retarded or am I just overjoyed
Nobody's perfect and I stand accused
For lack of a better word, and that's my best excuse

Green Day - Dearly Beloved

That's ^ where my URL came from. =D

YOU'RE someone special.
You're SOMEONE special.
You're someone SPECIAL.
YOU'RE SOMEONE SPECIAL.

I think Eeyore is cuter than any of his friends. Roo is cute too.

2006-01-10T15:29:00.000+08:00

3/2 Homework
Chinese

Worksheet

Zhou ji : changes you saw or experienced upon promotion from secondary 2 to secondary 3

Sciences

Chemistry worksheet

Chem Prac tomorrow, bring brush.

Physics??

Bring graph paper, Graphs WS, Physics Practicals WS, Condensed outline for Measurements for Physics tomorrow

English

Compo : The Joyride

Journal : A recount of your holiday

Math BAND 5 (I'm SO PROUD of being in the last class, thanks)

Couple of questions from A Math TB, due next A Math lesson

E Math tomorrow! For self : BUY EXERCISE BOOKS.

On a sidenote, I think many of the English teachers in Singapore give the most boring compo topics ever. Just when the year starts, you'll be told to write about your holidays, or your resolutions, or differences between this school year and the previous, or an introduction of yourself. And in primary schools, you'll write about robberies, break ins, black outs, your most memorable holiday. I bet every Singaporean student who visits this blog that at a point of time during your education or another, you've written at least one composition / essay based on those few topics listed above.

Just how boring can the educators be? I think they're seriously limiting our creativity.

EDIT : I forgot to say, HAPPY BIRTHDAY LILAN!

EDIT 2 : THANK YOU QINGYUN, my favouritest class mate ever, for telling me what homework we have. =D

2006-01-10T00:01:00.000+08:00

Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start

Coldplay - The Scientist

Love that ^ song.

Tomorrow is a holiday! Where's the cheer?

This blog's pretty dead. Why? I think even the entries are boring.

I had lunch at KFC with Mich, Bing Hong and Zi Yang today. I wonder why doesn't BH need a wheelchair - he's SO lame. Just count the number of times you roll your eyes when you hang around him for 5 minutes. I don't understand how can Zi Yang stand him.

The pen that Krisah's brother gave her, I like it loads. I'll go look for it at artfriend(s) with Michelle when she decides to go there, or with Grace before Vday.

The air conditioning is turned on low and I'm feeling very cold. I'll stop here.

PS, you're someone special.

[EDIT]
So you sailed away
Into a grey sky morning
Now I'm here to stay
Love can be so boring

Nothing's quite the same now
I just say your name now

(Chorus)
But it's not so bad
You're only the best I ever had
You don't want me back
You're just the best I ever had

So you stole my world
Now I'm just a phony
Remembering the girl
Leaves me down and lonely

Send it in a letter
Make yourself feel better

(Chorus)

And it may take some time to
Patch me up inside
But I can't take it so I
Run away and hide
And I may find in time that
You were always right
You're always right

So you sailed away
Into a grey sky morning
Now I'm here to stay
Love can be so boring

What was it you wanted
Could it be I'm haunted

(Chorus)

The best I ever had
The best I ever

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Just because I like that song a lot.

Thank you Krisah, for the rose.
[/EDIT]

EDIT again: CY is publishing Samurai Champloo, OHMYGOD! But I've watched the anime series already. Should I buy the manga? It's $7.90 per, and I'm already paying that much for Furuba and TRC.

..

I wanna buy!

.....

I'll buy if I can't manage to redownload the anime. Reminder to self : STOP deleting anime once you've watched them.

Stuff to redownload:
Hellsing
Samurai Champloo <-- must rewatch.
PoT (OHMYGOD!, 15x episodessss!) Grace's DVD is spoilt, damn.

Stuff to download / continue downloading:
Bleach
TRC
Yakitate! Japan (liscenced??)
Onegai Twins, maybe. Reminder : read summary again!

Stuff to buy because they are freaking liscenced and / or take forever to download on realitylapse:
Furuba
Aquarian Age. Reminder : find out if that publisher (that qiaos my money) is still publishing Aquarian Age.
Kare Kano

That measly amount of red packet money I predict I'll get is definitely not enough. And I've still not included other things that I wanna purchase.

I need a $2000 donation.

2006-01-08T21:54:00.000+08:00

So you sailed away
Into a grey sky morning
Now I'm here to stay
Love can be so boring

Nothing's quite the same now
I just say your name now

Vertical Horizon : Best I ever Had (Grey Sky Morning)

Um, I'll change my URL in a few days' time, so do relink me.

Because my mum allowed me to purchase web space and a domain. =D The domain's not registed yet though. Registration will take place only after the web host receives payment, and registration will take time, so I'm expecting something like 3 days for the domain to get activated.

Yay!

School tomorrow, and I don't feel like going as usual. Tomorrow morning I'll get the Monday blues, ~~and on Tuesday I'll get Tuesday purples.~~ but TUESDAY IS A HOLIDAY! Woot.

Oh yeah, mum just brought me shopping. I returned with a top and a necklace that comes with it. Now I need to lose weight to look nice in that top.

2006-01-08T14:58:00.000+08:00

Tabulas: not good.
Blogsome: (WP host) doesn't let me use my own templates
Bloggoing: (WP host) doesn't let me use my own templates
Blogzor: (WP host) ~~is powered by WP-lookalike.~~ Nothing wrong, but I'm biased against it for some reason.
Wordpress: (WP host) doesn't let me use my own templates
Diary-x: doesn't have categories, lacks features that WP / b2evo has
Blogger: has the least features of all.
LiveJournal: don't like this much either

If I had to choose, I'll pick Bloggoing, then Blogsome, then Blogzor, then WP.com, and forget the rest.

I'm feeling kinda pissed because I'm not receiving any emails that I'm supposed to.

2006-01-08T02:15:00.000+08:00

Can you still feel the butterflies?
Can you still hear the last goodnight?

Jimmy Eat World : For Me This is Heaven

I was SMSing lyrics from that song ^ to Krisah in class the other day.

Rachel, I demand you to stop wasting your life away. UNBREAK THOSE BROKEN PROMISES YOU'VE MADE!

I've found found found an alternative, and I'm happy happy happy. And I found found found out that I have a habit of appearing offline whenever I am not not not in the mood to talk talk talk.

I feel fat and heavy. Thank god for track. Must remember to speak to Mr Lian, or get that CCA form thingy from Mr Ling.

*ends random entry*

2006-01-07T23:41:00.000+08:00

Fell in love with a girl
Fell in love once and almost completely
she's in love with the world
But sometimes these feelings
Can be so misleading

The White Stripes : Fell in Love with a Girl

I thought I'd found the perfect replacement for Blogger - but I haven't.

Tabulas is good - it has categories! But it only allows up to 3 categories. Just what the hell can you do with 3 categories? If I categorise my posts, I'd need at least 5. Tabulas is just like the free hosted version of Wordpress, just with the features scaled down, but allows customisable layouts.

I think I'll switch to Wordpress soon. In fact I already have an account there.

2006-01-07T15:27:00.000+08:00

I don't know where to begin
I don't know how to get out there to see you
I don't know where to dig in
I don't know how to get in there to feel you

Five for Fighting : Something About You

How good is your antivirus?

2006-01-07T12:25:00.000+08:00

You know the end of the world is nearing when bimbos start speaking in 1337.

Trainings on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Love love love. miichelle h0ney gAmbette` nehhs !! <33 cHuu x

Must start work on school band's web.

2006-01-07T11:12:00.000+08:00

Sometimes I feel I've got to
Run away
I've got to
Get away
From the pain you drive in the heart of me
The love we share
Seems to go nowhere
I've lost my light
For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night

The Ramones : Tainted Love

Things To Buy (after CNY. It rhymes!)

Clothes: anything in neutral shades, skinny pants / pencil jeans.

Shoes: pumps with little height - many, new track shoes maybe.

Face: concealer in the right shade, two way cake (maybe), facial washes, THAT mud / clay mask.

Fragrance: incanto dream by Salvatore Ferragamo, if I have enough angpaolui to afford it.

Accessories: clutches!!, THAT crown ring + matching earring from Bugis Street, more earrings (even though I don't wear them often), watches (even though I don't even wear them).

CDs: The Who, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Blondie, The Ramones, Pink Floyd, No Doubt, White Stripes, Jimmy Eat World, Do As Infinity, Dir En Grey, L'Arc En Ciel, Nickelback, The Hives, Five For Fighting.

Etc: VDay stuff, vitamin pills, subscriptions to Her World + RD + Seventeen, body exfoliant.

And more to come.

2006-01-06T21:29:00.000+08:00

Running, running
As fast as we can
I really hope you make it
(Do you think we'll make it?)
We're running
Keep holding my hand
It's so we don't get separated

No Doubt : Running

Michelle wants to go back to track wimme! Yaaaaay. aii niix w0rz,, h0neyx ! XD Don't back out I tell you.

I laughed a lot today for the first time in months, thanks to Suet Theng, Wei Ting, Michelle and Guo Hao. Michelle said she'll get mad in 3/4, and so did Guo Hao. I think I'll go mad laughing in 3/4. I have laughed more in a single day than 2 whole months. Thank youuuuu, especially to h0neyx Michelle. Was so hyper today.

2006-01-06T19:53:00.000+08:00

[edit] Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you wanna change it?

Nine Inch Nails : The Hand that Feeds[/edit]

I just reached home!

I bumped into the Chee Cheong Fun auntie just now. She STILL remembers me, oh my god. Prolly because I'm royalty. =D LOL. I've been buying chee cheong fun from her stall since Primary 1, but I seldom frequent her stall now. I'm soooo honoured she can still remember who I am! Gosh. She once said to me that I'm like her grandchild, and she'll watch me grow up. How lovely! I feel so bad for not buying her chee cheong funs for such a long time.

There was a soccer match between Victoria and AMKSS today, and I sort of watched it with Michelle. I am not particularly interested in soccer but who cares. We lost. I think there was some foul play involved.. "3-2 (the score) u got see whole team HOT and sry ur friend team sucks k thx 2 ppl injured and imran need to be sent to the hospital" - Yit Seng.

Not much homework for the weekends, I'm glad. Dinner time!

[edit]Valentine's day is coming!![/edit]

2006-01-05T21:15:00.000+08:00

The one single good thing that came out of the promotion to Secondary 3 was that 2/5ers won't be labelled as "students from that class" any longer. I despise that condescending tone some teachers use when speaking to us. So what if we weren't as ideal as they'd like us to be? Whatever, it's all over now.

I miss Angela a lot. In her classes, I can speak English without worrying being caught, then made to punish myself with the flapflap hands thing. ANGELAAAAA, why aren't you my MT teacher? I think she's the next best I've had, after OTT.

Oh, and Mr Tan SH. One of my favourite AMKSS teachers by far. I can only admonish myself now for not doing his homework when he still taught me. And the EL portfolio! He gave 2/5 so many chances, and we all took it for granted.

There are so many people I miss.

I have to say that Mr Ling was especially jovial today. After the assembly, he got those who aren't participating in their CCA(s) to meet him in the hall. He let us off very lightly, but only if we manage to get a CCA by next Friday. Else the punishment (what the hell is the punishment anyways) doubles. Michelle and I will be joining Library Club, which we deemed the slackest CCA of all. =D

I wanted to go back to Track. Then I thought that nobody else would be accompanying me, and I didn't wanna go for trainings alone. This morning's run during PE was exhilarating. I didn't do too bad despite skipping track meets since July 04, and not exercising since the last PE. I'm looking forward to the NAPFA run. This year I'll aim for 11.5 minutes.

All at once the music stopped, the feeling went away
An ugly picture, me and you, but nothing I can change
You know what happens with the lights back on
The less you know the more you want (you want, you want)

Jimmy Eat World : Just Tonight

2006-01-05T18:54:00.000+08:00

someone says:
YOU TAKE 7!?
someone says:
since when were you that stupid?

I am NOT stupid, thank you very much. Just because I'm not in some school built just for nerds, and I'm not taking triple sciences, and there are only SEVEN subjects that I'm taking, it doesn't mean that I'm stupid. I am SO not stupid. Don't you dare insult my intelligence, you lowly minion.

Forgiven. <3

2006-01-05T17:01:00.000+08:00

She tries not to shatter, kaleidoscope style
Personality changes behind her red smile
Every new problem brings a stranger inside
Helplessly forcing one more new disguise

Sioxsie and the Banshees : Christine

I think I have a very eclectic taste in music.

Today's weather was perfect for sleeping in. It rained twice, and I was sooo drowsy during lessons. I wanted to sleep during class the entire day! But I didn't, because my current teachers aren't the type who'd allow me to nod off in class, unlike last year's.

PS, I've ran out of remaining SMSes. No more till the 18th!

2006-01-04T17:30:00.000+08:00

Buys today: L'OREAL true match Concealer (WEI YING, I think I got the wrong shade. Shit!), Clean & Clear Oil & Dirt Removing Wipes, school bag (FINALLY).

Second day of school and..

Rachel has gotten herself into trouble. Stop saying the wrong thingssss!

One of my teachers look VERY scary because she looks at everyone with eyes wide open like O_O when she talks to the class. She said she doesn't like us only listening to her and watching her all the time because it makes her feel awkward, but I think SHE makes us feel intimidated thanks to her O_O eyes.

I bet I'll flunk Math again. Oh no. I want a D7 instead of the usual F9 at the very least, 'cause it's the minimum grade TP accepts for all my dream courseS. I'm dead. Grace, write me those notes again! Gooosh.

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real

2006-01-03T17:27:00.000+08:00

Think of someone whose company you really enjoy and will not get sick of even if you see him / her every minute. Then thank the person.

Thank you!

2006-01-03T16:48:00.000+08:00

If you leave I won?t cry
I won?t waste a single day
But if you leave no don?t look back
I?ll be running the other way
Seven years went under the bridge
Time was standing still
Heaven knows what happens now
You?ve got to--you?ve gotta say you will

If You Leave

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I've cut my hnails and it's horribly hard to type. I shan't remove the typos so you can see what typing with short nails do to me. Grr. At the start of the day I had 10 nail pieces with me, and when I got home 7 were gone. Who wants one of those 2-months-old nails? /= LOL.

I think my form teacher doesn't deserve to be a teacher. She psells roster as roAster (no, not typo). And I was like, ugh, yuur'e a TEACHER! How can a teacher NOT know the porper spelling of dty ROSTER! And she repeats whatever she says like 220 times, as if we didn't catch her the first two or three times she said it. Rolls eyes. My co-form is okay though.

Physics was boring as expected. I fell asleep just 15 minutes before school ended. Couldn't stay up. Yitseng (my sitting partner who doesn't talk to me) was dozing off right from the beginning of hte class, and PX and Czrline and I were giggling. I love Ms Lew. She's a very very very lovely Physics (and ex-form) teacher. I think I'll study hard for Physics just for her. Love love love.

OH, and the guys were sooo yummy with long pants. Especially PLH. Zai You and Tomtom were okay. Both PX and Mich think that Zai You beats PLH, but I dunno. Leonard looked funny. Louis looked funny. Bing Hong looked funny, but it's 'cause of his hair. Bazhang was adorableee with his long pants. Krisah and I teased Bazhang in the morning (not about his pants) and he walked away. So shy! LOL.

Not exactly a very lovely day, but it's passable. I miss my long nails though.

2006-01-02T20:14:00.000+08:00

I'm allowed to get a nose piercing once I reach 16. I can hardly wait.

I got too lazy to code the skin, and I'm starting to think it looks ugly. I'll do a new one all over again when I have the time. School's starting in just a few hours. Watch me fail Math. Or not. I said I'll work hard.

But who cares, New Year resolutions are made just for the purpose of breaking them anyway.

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." - Napoleon Bonaparte

EDIT: HAHAHA I can still fit into my school uniform! The skirt, that is. I didn't try on the top. HAHA I didn't get THAT fat after all.

2006-01-02T18:21:00.000+08:00

Must read: =^_^= kitty (scroll down). Even my bedsheets found it funny.

CHANGING SKIN, again.

2006-01-02T13:38:00.000+08:00

I WANT CNY TO COME QUICK! I shall cross my fingers and hope that I'll get much more angpaolui than 2005's disappointing amount.

Things to buy with angpaolui!

CDs : The Cure, The Who. I'll think of more later.

Concealer

Clothes

Lots of notebooks! I love notebooks.

Signo DX 0.38 pens. Love love love.

~~Snacks~~ must lose weight together with Grace.

The clay / mud mask that I've been wanting since forever, from J8 Seiyu

And more. CHMEL + KRISAH + anyone else~ Go shopping after CNY!

2006-01-02T11:34:00.000+08:00

School starts tomorrow.

I've no (new) bag, no (new) pen case, and all my pens have mysteriously vanished. It's time to partaaaaye! I hope I can fit into my school uniform still.

"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank." - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)

Hahaha, I think I'll thank my telephone and the curtain blinds.

2006-01-01T21:35:00.000+08:00

I'm no barbie doll
I'm not your baby girl
I've done ugly things and I have made mistakes
And I am not as pretty as those girls in magazines
I am rotten to my core if they're to be believed

Garbage : Why Do You Love Me

2006-01-01T13:34:00.000+08:00

I am too lazy to continue, so I'll just chuck some crap here.

Er, don't watch the what Wallace and Gromit show thingy, 'cause it's really corny and stupid. The plot is ugh.

I went out with Jas, Wilson, Edwin, Alex, Bob and Ryan. Then Wilson and Jas left. And so did Ryan. So Edwin, Alex and Bob and I went to town when we were supposed to go to Esplanade. We went to Cineleisure to look for Ownie, but they didn't go up for some reason, and we walked from Cineleisure to Takashimaya. And got sprayed like 298347 times on the way there and back. So when we got back to Cineleisure, we looked for Ownie, and saw him. He didn't take part in the competition, but his friend won. Another friend's clan won the first round, but my friend lost.

Then we walked around again and got sprayed 298347 times again. Those people holding those foam spray cans were freaking stupid, they were spraying random strangers. And this Bangla tried to spray me IN THE FACE (grr) but I looked to the right (he was on the left), and my hair tio spray instead. GRRR. I think Christmas and New Year's eve are the only times Orchard Road gets to become Little India, sooo it's bearable. The Chinese bengsters were freaking racist though, I heard one of them telling another to spray only the banglas. God. It was a miracle no race riots broke out, because the Chinese teens were spraying the banglas, and the banglas were spraying back. But random Chinese like me (cough) got sprayed by our team mates too.

And we counted down at Cineleisure, and there was no freaking atmosphere at all. The DJ was like,"3.. 2.. 1!" and nobody cheered! Wtf. I expected everyone to go around hugging everyone or something. LOL.

Oh and I saw my shoogar Krisah yesterday! Love love love. She still looks the same! I'll miss her loads ~~next year.~~ once sec 3 starts. Nobody to sing with anymore, nobody to quarrel about the differences in our views on life, nobody to tickle when I'm bored. Aww. Love you loads, sugar!

I think I'll go back to gushing about Sylvester - my hairdresser, not that stupid Idol thingy. OHMYGOD, he's hothothot! He's sooo toned and smexy. I'll coat him with honey and eat him alive. Love love love! OH by the way, if you do visit Hair Plus (the Koreany one on the 5th floor), mention my name! You'll get a discount, and so will I, the next time I visit. LOL.

He's so hot.

2006-01-01T01:55:00.000+08:00

First and foremost, I wanna wish all a very happy new year! It's a whole new beginning for everyone, so ditch your sorrows and look forward to a wondrous '06!

My day started at 11 when I woke up. I did the oatmeal thing again.

For those who wanna try :

Don't add too much water. The consistency of the "oatmeal mask" should be sticky and slightly lumpy, not like porridge.

You'll be pretty bored for the 20 mins when you're lying down. Play some music or something, or take a nap. LOL.

When you're done, remove the oatmeal with a spoon or tissue paper, or what-not, then wipe your face with a hot towel.

I think the oatmeal removes blackheads. My nose is smooth (ask Grace!!) and the bumps on the forehead aren't as bumpy, but they're still visible. But at least it's smooth.

Then I showered and rushed to 7-11 to get ANOTHER present for Grace, because I ate her actual ones. LOL. After which, I met her at CHIJMES and went to town with her. Grace has a new hairstyle! It's short, and she looks VERY CUTE with it. Grace you look very cuteee~

Grace wanted a box to store her LYA (I can't spell her name. I think it's Li Ying Ai, or something.) stuff: newspaper clippings, magazines etc. So our first stop was Kinokuniya @ Taka. She saw one which she thought was okay, but I told her to get more options. So we headed to this art shop, and Art Friends, and Bookbinders. I thought the box at Bookbinders was very lovely, but the price was outrageous. In the end, Grace settled for the one at Kino, and got another from Kalm's.

I needed a haircut, so Grace followed me to Far East to get one. It was raining when we made our way there and both of us got drenched pretty bad. We nearly fell many times 'cause of our lousy slippers. LOL. I thought there were maaany hairdressers at Far East, but they all mysteriously disappeared when I went there with Grace. I remember seeing them when I went shopping with Chmel! The cost of a haircut at many of the hair salons were above $25, which was my budget. Then, Grace saw Hair Plus.

Hair Plus is located on the 5th level of Far East, and prices are reasonable. (Don't confuse this one with another Hair Plus on another storey. I don't know if it's the same, but the one I went to was Korean-ish.) To me, at least. Sylvester, the guy who worked on my hair, quoted me $25, then lowered it to $20 when I said I was a student. Goddammit, he thought I was working!

I think Sylvester's totally hot. He speaks so softly, you have to strain your ears to hear what he says. He has a hot bod as well! Like OH MY GOD. He's really sexy! LOL. Grace went: "Uhhhh..." when I asked her if he's hot, but he really is.

I shall stop here because I'm really hungry. Apart from a toast for brunch and one of Alex's fries, I ate nothing. I will continue blogging tomorrow. Or later. Yeah.

2005-12-30T23:47:00.000+08:00

HOME PIMPLE REMEDIES

Only stupid people like me would search the net for pimple remedies, and post the results along with pictures on a blog.

Tried and Tested #1 : Kai li's recommendation of putting toothpaste on your pimple
Worked? : Er, no. Maybe 'cause I only had it on for about 30 minutes. She said you have to put it on overnight, but I remember reading somewhere that it'll dry the skin too much if you put it overnight. Well who cares, I'll try putting it on overnight and hope that my skin doesn't flake. I'll post results tomorrow.

Tried and Tested #2 : putting oatmeal on face till it hardens, for or 30 minutes, whichever comes first

Worked? : I don't know. LOL. Maybe it's a psychological thing, but I think my face is smoother and fairer. HAHA. The irritating bumps on my forehead aren't as bumpy too. Maybe it takes some time for the magic to work.

Tip! : Don't let your siblings know that you're slathering oatmeal on your face. And don't get a maid whose hand wobbles to help you. And try not to laugh to much when the maid with wobbly hands is spooning the oatmeal onto your face.

2005-12-30T14:53:00.000+08:00

I need a school bag! I need the notebooks from Seventeen. They look SO pretty.

I wanna go shopping.

2005-12-29T17:42:00.000+08:00

EDIT!! The 2006 school timetable for all classes is up.

EDIT 2!! Genevieve's ex-stead Bryan (he got retained) will be in the same class as I, 3/2. And Gen will be in 3/2 too! There'll be some show to see.

Not-so-super-long Hong Kong Trip entry, with only 39 pictures. =D Enjoy.

Day One
The few hours before, I went to CHC's Christmas thingy, and then I went to Changi Airport to celebrate Christmas with Chmel, Chee Fong / Yong (sp?) and her other church friends. I stayed up that day. At 4+ in the morning my mum came to my room to wake me up (only to find my siblings and I still awake). We had dimsum for breakfast at this place (I forgot its name) near Mustafa. It was really good. After which, we went to the airport. Fast forward a few hours.

I arrived in Hong Kong tired and hungry. I was dismayed when I stepped into the hotel room. Bloody hell, it SMELLS. The sheets looked icky, and the toilet was really small. Combine 6 school tables in two rows of three, that's about the size of the loo. Don't expect too much from 3-star hotels! After unpacking and stuff, my family and I went to have lunch at The Spaghetti House. I don't know if I remembered the name rightly, but it was something along those lines. I ordered something which my father assured was good.

It was so very rich and creamy that I didn't manage to finish it. It'd be really good if it's thinner. That picture, by the way, was taken by my not-very-trusty VGA camera phone. Looks crappy, I know. About time I moved on to another phone..

My brother got a pizza.

The crust is really thin. I didn't try it, but my mum said that the base is biscuit-ish and not bread-ish like what the pizzas from Pizza Hut are like. For some reason, the lunch totalled to a whooping S$100+. That's about how much my family spends every time we eat at a restaurant, or sushi bars - sometimes more.

I was supposed to go shopping with the rest after lunch but my tummy wasn't very happy, and my brother didn't wanna go shopping, so both of us returned to the hotel. I slept for a few hours while fatso played games on his GameBoy. When they returned, I woke up. I forgot if we went for dinner (I don't remember eating dinner) but it doesn't really matter.

Day Two
On the second day, there was a city tour of sorts which only my mother went - the rest of us couldn't be bothered. I wasn't interested in admiring the sceneries so I gave it a pass. My other family members couldn't wake up lol. XD So only my mother, who thought it'd be a waste of money should all of us miss the tour, woke up at 5 friggin' o' clock. From what I was told, it didn't sound very fun anyway, so I've no regrets.

I woke up at 12+ when my dad returned to the hotel room. He went off to shop alone when he woke up. It was late already, so my dad got my siblings to get off the bed as well. My mum returned about an hour later. She made us eat bread that she bought early in the morning before we went shopping.

My sis wanted chocolate coins. By chance, we saw a shop selling munchies and stuff. I bought two Cadbury's chocolate with hazelnut thingy. It was really yummy. =D We walked about more, mainly to look at mobile phones. Dad was particularly interested in Motorola V3 Razr, I don't know why. Almost the whole family has it: both my parents, Priscilla, and my maid who won one in TNP's 8D. I don't like the Razr much - its keypad's really hard to press IMO.

It's really hard to stay thin when you're born in my family. My glutton of a father gets hungry every 4 to 5 hours or so. Irregardless of how full you are, he'll drag you to dine with him. And so, we went to McDonald's.

I had that Grilled Chicken Burger. It isn't available in Singapore, and is VERY mmph. McDonalds' menu differs from country to country, so what's on sale in one may not be available in another.

We don't get no cups of corn. But they don't have the seaweed shaker fries that my siblings wanted.

After that, we went shopping AGAIN. We'll be shopping throughout the trip. It's true that Hong Kong is every shopper's paradise! The prices aren't very much cheaper than Singapore's though. Some items may be even more expensive. All along the streets are shops. We're not talking about the ground floors of shopping malls. At the foot of hotels, residentials, offices - any buildings, really, there are shops selling all kinds of things. Beside the store that sold sweets and choccies, there's this alley. In that alley, you'll find every other thing that has naked women slapped onto them. I glanced in and saw matchboxes and lighters adorned with females in their birthday suit. How degrading! Men are such a disgusting species.

There's a newly reopened Louis Vuitton branch that we saw when we were shopping. You have to queue to get in.

Surprisingly, my dad got into the queue. We had to too. I wasn't particularly interested in the goods, because I don't really fancy LV. I think it's really drab and some of the bags have really terrible designs. Give me Chanel 2.55 anytime.

Day Three - Four
We're going to Disneyland on the third day. There was a slight ticket mixup in the morning when we were supposed to leave, so our trip was delayed for about an hour. I'll let the pictures do the talking for now. Most of the pictures from here on are taken with my Cybershot, so the image quality will be better. Slightly better.

Gosh, I nearly got one of those cuddly rounded Disney character stuffed toys! But I didn't. And oh, I was late for the parade so there aren't many pictures. x_x

Er, Mickey and friends were gonna light up the Christmas tree, but I didn't manage to get good shots.. So I'll show only the band that was playing prior to the lighting of the tree. x_x

The night soon approached. These are pictures of the 9 o' clock fireworks display at the Fantasy Land castle / Sleeping Beauty castle.

I must say that Disneyland Hong Kong was disappointing. There weren't many rides. We could have taken most, if not all, of them in a single day. Also, I didn't see any rollercoasters and whatnot.. It was kinda bleh. The entire day was spent in Disneyland. We returned to the hotel only at 10+.

Before the trip, I was thinking to myself that since it's winter in HK, my body would be burning more fat to keep me warm. So if I ate less, I'd lose weight. However I stuffed myself with candies and food. GOSH! Some determination I have.. I was expecting to lose weight this holiday too, but it seems I've fattened up instead. Shit.

Nothing much happened on day four. It rained and we couldn't shop much. My siblings went to a net cafe though, along with Priscilla. I had the chance to use the computer but I didn't. =D LOL, that's a first.

After the entire trip, I've came to a conclusion that Hong Kong is a nice place to be should you be able to converse in Cantonese. The shopping's only so-so because things here aren't really very much cheaper, so those wonderful shopping tales you've heard from friends of friends of friends are exaggerated. If you wanna pay HK a trip, and decide to splurge, don't go during winter. Yes, there'll be countless year-end, Christmas and clearance sales of up to 80% off (maybe more), but it's not wise to wear long sleeved tees in hot Singapore all the time. And haggle.

I've gotten myself a pair of Levi's (557), 3 long sleeved tops that were on sale, a black imitation Gucci purse / clutch, a tin of cookies and a box of pins as souvenirs, 2 pairs of earrings and a necklace. I love the Levi's.

2005-12-25T02:20:00.000+08:00

#1 : LOUSY ORGANISER. Noobcake, should die. Crap outing! Everyone left within like, a few hours. -_-

#2 : I wanna wish you a Merry Xmas from the bottom of my heart!

Loved CHC's drama - it was really funny. Find the baby, baby baby boy, baby baby boy, baby baby baby boy. LOL. PS, he's rapping 'cause he can't sing. HAH. For non-Christians like me, you won't enjoy the preaching much. I didn't. The drama, on the other hand, rocks. If you're attending the carnival too by any chance, take the ride that looks like a circular cage, sort of. People stand on the platform thingy, and the machine will rotate. Tell me how good that ride was! Don't confuse it with the rainbow ride / Uncle Ringo.

#4 : Going to HK. Cya. =D Have fun while I'm shopping away. LOL.

2005-12-23T18:00:00.000+08:00

AHEM, read: You are not allowed to reproduce any part of this very long and useful blog entry in part or in whole without my permission. I spent nearly 4 hours on this entry. You can however link to this blog entry: http://dearly-beloved-.blogspot.com/2005/12/ahem-read-you-are-not-allowed-to.html

These blog skins made it to Blogskins.com's Top 10 Favourites and Top 10 Downloaded list. The Top 10s might have changed by the time you visit Blogskins to take a look for yourself, so I'm linking to the skins.

Ranked #1 on Top 10 Favourites
Ranked #2
Number three
Number four
Number five
Number six
Number seven
Number eight
Number nine
Number ten

Uno numero on the Top 10 Downloaded list
2nd place
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
Seventh
Eighth - also first on Top 10 Favourites
Ninth
Tenth!

Go look at all of them. What do you notice? Well this is what I noticed: TWELVE (one's a repeat, if not it'll be 13) out of the TWENTY skins uses "faux-frames" - something very popular, trendy, in, hot etc right now. Or since the JavaScript code first appeared. Out of those 20 skins, only this (1), this (2), this (3), this (4), this (5), this (6), and this (7) doesn't use "faux-frames".

I'm against skinners who make skins that employ the use of CRAPPY JAVASCRIPT CODES, copied from some other person and pasted into their own blogskins. Why?

#1 Because NOT ALL NETIZENS USE CRAPPY BROWSERS that are not up to the W3C standards. Some browsers like Opera "follow the Javascript standard strictly" (quoted from [link]), causing these lousy crappy blogskins to not render rightly. I, for one, am an Opera user. Call me biased or lazy, and tell me that more than 90% of the world Internet users use THAT crappy browser, I won't care.

[EDIT] There are blogskins with that silly code that actually work, but I still don't like them anyway. Keep in mind that you can choose to enable or disable Javascript. Should you disable it, these blogskins won't work. [/EDIT]

#2 Because NOT ALL NETIZENS ENABLE IMAGES when they browse. This is true for people who're on 56kbps or dial-up. To speed up a page's loading time, these Net users turn them off. Take this skin for example. The navigation's on the image itself. What happens if I choose not to let the image show? Oops. Where do I click now? If you ABSOLUTELY have to (I don't see why when you can use some other designs), at least use text links. Like this one.

C O M M E N T S --------------------

Back to those skins that don't have "faux-frames". Just because they don't doesn't mean that I have nothing to say about them. This (1) skin has red text and green borders on a white background. Some people are colour blind. These people will not be able to differentiate between red and green. But it's okay for that skin - there's no green text to confuse the colour vision deficient. And oh, I know it's the festive season, but red and green is SO cliche. Use red and gold, or green and silver instead. Anything but not red and green, please. And if you use red, DON'T use #FF0000. It's too blinding, use another shade.

This (2) is okay, except that it has an annoying song that plays right when the page loads. Thankfully, it doesn't loop, and you can choose to stop it. Keep in mind that not all people have the same music preferences. If you MUST have some form of music (I don't see why) on your blog, allow the viewer to keep it on or turn it off. I find blogs that have music playing VERY very irritating.

Rainbowish skin! Ah I know this one. I made the same mistake when I just started out too, the mistake of using an image that has 8374219 colours and trying to use as many of colourful text as possible. I even thought it looked great. But now I know: having 726261 colours on a blogskin is bad. It doesn't appeal visually. My suggestion: don't use a rainbowy image. For that skin, I'd use pink or purple for the text, since the borders are pink and purple anyway..

Javascript skin. Some people disable Javascript when they browse. Let's see what happens when I do the same.. Oh no, I can't navigate the page! When making blogskins, use as little Javascript as possible. You don't know the number of people who has Javascript disabled or enabled. Even trackers don't show the actual number.

Only for this (5), this (6) and this (7) I have nothing to complain about. I really like 6 and 7 but that's another issue.

T I P S --------------------

When making blogskins, refrain from using Javascript, or navigations that use images only. Provide a text link to the different sections of your blog if you insist on using those "faux-frames". Don't use tables for your layouts (why). Make sure the text is readable against the background. Slice your images so that they load faster. Test your blogskin in at least all 3 popular browsers: IE, Firefox, Opera, and both 800x600 and 1024x768 screen resolutions.

L I N K S --------------------
These are a whole lot of links to websites that I think are helpful for all skinners. Visit them when you have time.

Adhering to the W3C web standards, + validators: Why should I? (Reason). The W3Schools, W3C CSS Validator, and the W3C Markup Validator are your good friends. More validators / checkers / tools: WDG CSSCheck, HTML Tidy, UITest, Cynthia Says (web content accessibility) (also read Why evaluate Accessibility)

Places to learn (X)HTML, CSS from: W3Schools (MUST visit), 456 Berea St: good place for interesting articles on web standards, coding, designs etc. Click Lab for XHTML and CSS techniques and demos. A List Apart: click Articles or Topics. About designs, developments and techniques. Alsacreations: CSS and (X)HTML tutorials. CSS Help Pile: use navigation on right. css/edge: has CSS techniques and tricks. css-discuss: loads of articles on CSS. Intensivstation: CSS tutorials and CSS-based layouts. meyerweb.com: web design, standards, coding, CSS articles. With links to other CSS-related sites. Molly.com: articles, tips, techniques. QuirksMode: scroll to bottom to find table of contents. sizefactory: scroll to bottom, click xhtml or css on the right. CSS PLaY: CSS menus, layouts and such. the noodle incident: CSS tutorials and articles, Web Developer's Handbook: MANY many links to helpful websites. Particle Tree: "Quick Start Your Design With XHTML Templates". Beginners or learners of XHTML + CSS designs, READ THIS.

CSS web design: glish.com: CSS layout techniques with the actual codes. Links to CSS tutorial sites too. Firdamatic: Table-less layout generator. Layout-o-matic: another layout generator. the noodle incident: yet another layout generator. Max Design: how to build a CSS layout from start to finish.

Web design inspirations: css Zen Garden, CSS Beauty, Stylegala, CSS Drive, CSS vault, Design Shack, Unmatched Style, Web Standards Awards

Blogskinners who use valid (X)HTML, CSS in their layouts: (um, I simply typed in Valid in the Blogskins.com search box, so there might be more than who I've found.) mela, emilie, banban, bladegirl (PLEASE read her bio section, it has something about Getty Image - a place where people often get their images from), morlockkid, johnrgardner.

Alternative browsers: you should ensure that your blogskin is viewable on at least a few browsers other than the most popular one, which happens to be a load of crap. Not all people use that lousy browser as their default. Test your blogskins in these browsers to see if they look good: Opera, Firefox, Netscape, Avant (based on IE), Links - a text-based browser. If you're using a crappy browser and want to make the switch, visit: Drop IE and Stop IE for more information, Browse Happy, Alternative Browsers Alliance.

2005-12-23T01:32:00.000+08:00

Won't you feel totally crushed and depressed when someone you fancy chooses your best friend over you?

IMMSE rocks. Fukae-kun is SO hot.

[EDIT]
Finishing IMMSE soon.

Would you wait for someone till s/he figures out if s/he likes another person - and of the same gender too? "Do you understand what I'm going through?!" He must feel really heartbroken inside.

IMMSE never once failed to move me till the point of tears. Gotta love that serie.

2005-12-22T15:22:00.000+08:00

A small number of people who chance upon my blog are from the States. (tracker)

Hi there. =D

[EDIT]

You are a very intense person. Most people find you hard to understand but those who know you well love you to bits.
>Which Blogging Tool Are You?

2005-12-22T07:25:00.000+08:00

Look at the time now. And I'll be going out in a few hours too.. Gosh.

Oh well. Good morning, all.

2005-12-18T21:44:00.000+08:00

I'M BACK!~ TEE HEE HEE, TRALALA!

I'm on MSN, but I'm appearing offline, because I know the 2389472 people who're anxiously awaiting the return of their Queen will start spamming her on MSN. SO ANYWAY!

I'm kinda pissed la. Why? Because my bloody Gmail account is suspended for 24hrs. #*$& Says I'm using some third-party program that doesn't comply with Gmail's guidelines. Sulk sulk, think it might be the Gmail Drive thingy. I hope my mail won't get deleted.. If my mail's deleted, I'm send the Google / Gmail team my brother's unwashed PJs. Oh, and this is partly the reason why the images on Krisah's blog are down. I uploaded them onto the Gmail Drive you see. $*#&$

I'm SO SO SO glad to be back! I really can't STAND living in that thing they call a house. YOU TELL ME IT'S A HOUSE, and I'll stuff my sister's PJs into your mouth. There are SO MANY bugs and critters - these things creep me out - and the toilet is absolutely.. I can't even think of a word for it, but the first one that sprang to my mind after like a minute or two is 'ew'. Yes, 'ew' toilet. I should've taken pictures to show you people how ew it is, but it'll prolly make all of you throw up. Ew, hahaha. But they have PS over there. It's our old one, of course, and my cousins treat it like some treasure. It got spoilt though, prolly due to overuse. Hah!

OH oh oh, it's such a real pity Smelly and Krisah and Mich and Grace and my shopaholic friends didn't visit KL with me! I don't care if some famous blogger didn't enjoy her trip to KL, 'cause I did! My relatives and I only went to two malls, the Sungei Wang and this other one across the street. Maybe it's the year-end sales or festive season discounts, but the clothes were real cheap. And they don't even look like those you buy at pasar malams too, even though the prices don't differ much! Many tees were going for RM 30+, which is around S$15+. The most expensive piece of clothing we bought only costed not much higher than RM 70. And can you believe it, in this store, (fake?) denim pants that end just before the ankles were going for RM 15 each (RM 30 for two, actually). The material, be it imitation or not, is not inferior, and the pants look good too. The sad thing is that we only shopped at KL for one day (definitely NOT enough! We didn't even finish shopping at Sungei Wang before we crossed the road) because my dad only gave us a meagre thousand to spend. Else, I would've bought more than JUST three tees and a bottom. Hmph.

I spent the days trying to work on layouts, and watching FMA (yes, yet again). I only managed to come up with 4 layouts, and none of them are coded. I haven't even done my own! I couldn't come up with enough ideas, and ended up repeating Krisah's blog's design twice. Ugh. The band website's done AND coded though, but the links aren't working, so I'll try figuring out why.

Just remembered something. On the way back to lovely lovely lovely Singapore, we stopped by this petrol station. This scruffy Malay man was trying to sell a Rolex watch, maybe stolen, to people in the area. He approached our car and spoke to my moma and she was like: "No no no, thank you, no no no, go away." LOL. He walked away, and my mother got off the car to buy snacks from the small shop thingy in the petrol station. The man approached our car again, and asked my aunt if she wanted the watch. My aunt tried waving him off, but it didn't work. Then the man was asking what lingo she spoke, and he was going: "Chinese? Malay?", and my aunt said: "Tagalog." and waved him away again. Then LOLOL HE STARTED SPEAkING TO HER IN TAGALOG! I was laughing away even though we were in a somewhat dangerous situation - who knows if the man's armed? The man saw my maid and spoke to her.

When my moma returned, she was like: "Stop talking to her I tell you! GO AWAY!" And the man said: "You go away la you, you gila! Crazy!", then he stomped away. I was like, whoamg what if he takes out some gun and fires at our car? Lolol. I asked my maid what were they conversing about, and she said the man told her that if she has any problems, she should call him (even though he didn't give her his number -_-), and that he has killed many people before. I was like WHOAMG O_o, and was worried that he might come after us with some huge parang. But thankfully nothing happened and I arrived in Singapore safe and sound. =D

And that's about it! I don't know what else I have to blog about. I wanna know what's been happening when I was suffering in some smelly kampung! DETAILS PLEASE?

REPLIES TO THE COMMENTS!
Yamashia/shi/shita-san: hmph yeah! That irritating bugger. Thanks for missing me! LOL.

Krisah: you are welcome! Mwah. =D

Smelly: Shermel. The picture's good la. I like the unserious one. AND DON'T KOPE MY CODE @*$&@ kuku. HAHAHA, and what's the sabo thing? Receiving strange calls? LOLOLOL.

Grace: okay =D lolol. Orange? Imma try. Provide pics, or at least give me a theme!

Lilan: HIIIIIII.

Alex: nope I don't. Screw it. LOL!

HX: YALOR omg. Bad imposter. #*$&@ kuku

TRA LALA~ Gosh, I'm in a shopping mood! I have no moolah though, argh. I think I'll wait till after CNY before I drag people to go shopping wimme. =D

[ EDIT ]
KRISAH. Look for http://gmailhost.com/tuptups/topper.gif and replace it with http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c366/tuptups/topper.gif, and http://gmailhost.com/tuptups/khdr.jpg with http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c366/tuptups/khdr.jpg, and http://gmailhost.com/tuptups/footy.gif with http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c366/tuptups/footy.gif. Tell me if anything goes wrong.

2005-12-11T14:10:00.000+08:00

-Will be going to M'sia tomorrow, returning approximately 1 week later
-Will be working on blog skins there as I'll prolly have nothing to do
-Will be taking requests

I have the right to deny your request. (Is that the right term?)

EDIT @ 12.29 AM, Monday
SOMEONE IS POSTING ON KRISAH'S BLOG UNDER MY NAME. I seriously think that person should be put to death. For verification purposes, I just posted four tags on her blog.

!QUEEN: btw krisah, go my blog plx.
!QUEEN: last message, the original queen rach owns all! incl noob---- like bloody imposters.
!QUEEN: KRISAH! block that loser's IP from your tagboard. get c-box or sth, they allow IP blocking i think.
!QUEEN: 1i love thierry henry2 you, bloody imposter. YOU are a disgrace to my name. if you're so smart, tell me all my email addresses plx. noobcake.

Three tags before that:

clarissah: i am very, very, very, VERY confused.
[IMPOSTED ALERT] !QUEEN: OMG>>>CAN THAT STUPID IMPoster STOP PUTTING MY NAME!!!
!QUEEN: HI HONEY! lol.

The imposter first started using my name a few weeks ago.

I am VERY pissed. Don't try pretending to be me, you'll NEVER succeed in a million years. For one, I do not use FOUR full stops (evidence: >>>>, prolly shift + full stops). Nor would I say something as stupid as "stop putting my name".

Bloody hell. You bastard child, stop using my nick on tagboards.

KRISAH: CHANGE TAGBOARDS PLX. Get one that recognises IP addresses and allows you to ban SOME PEOPLE'S IPs. I think C-box does. Or just remove the tagboard completely. Bloody hell.

2005-12-10T20:06:00.000+08:00

PRO #3 - STRICT JAVASCRIPT

While it may sound funny, but Opera seems to have to follow the Javascript standard much closer than any other browser. Case in point - the fact that Gmail does not work in Opera since the XmlHttpRequest object required by Gmail is not part of any standard. Being a web developer among other things, I use Opera for my JavaScript testing for that specific reason. Additionally, Opera seems to pick up the exact line locations of JavaScript errors EVEN on pages were both IE and Firefox failed to do so.

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At January 13, 2005 1:38 PM, LeoPetr wrote...
It should be noted that XmlHttpRequest has been added in the 8.0 beta. GMail works great on both Windows and Linux.:)

At January 13, 2005 2:00 PM, Yakov Shafranovich wrote...
That's wasn't my point actually, rather I was trying to point out that this specific object, XmlHttpRequest, is not part of any public standard but rather is something Microsoft made up themselves. Of course, once Mozilla followed and Gmail used it, Opera had to have it. My point was that Opera was following the public standards, not some company's private whim.

Yay! Gmail works on Opera now! *dances* However, Opera's built-in mail client M2 made checking my Gmail inbox easy when I couldn't access Gmail. I love Opera.

type the alphabet!

2005-12-10T16:56:00.000+08:00

Finger Frenzy, Highscores.

How fast can you type the alphabet? Click highscores and look for QRachel. =D I clocked in at 5.278 sec.

breaktime

2005-12-09T16:34:00.000+08:00

News
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Local (the Virtual Earth thingy is similar to Google Earth.)

Pacifiers cut risk of SIDS: "SIDS occurs in infants who seem healthy but then die suddenly, for no apparent reason, to the utter devastation of parents and health providers. Most die between 2 and 4 months, but older and younger babies can also fall victim to SIDS." The Star

Links
10 reasons to learn and use web standards
And I'm learning!

Developing With Web Standards
'Tis a very lengthy article. I haven't finished reading it yet. I will soon, though.

Are HTML and CSS easy?
The author says no. I agree. I'm taking a break from making a CSS layout from scratch. Things aren't going well.

XHTML is not for Beginners
Even so, I'm still gonna learn.

Top 10 web design mistakes
I'm guilty of commiting #9: Frozen Layouts with Fixed Page Widths.

CSS Shorthand
Learnt more things today.

Gmail Host
If you are using your Gmail account as a personal file saver, and want to hotlink the files to your website / blog, Gmail Host will provide the link for you. Related: Gmail Drive shell extension: "GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Gmail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium." http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

Email Icon Generator
Ever wondered where those people got their _______@Gmail.com logos? Prolly from that site, or a similar one. I got myself one. ^^ Other than Gmail logos, the site provides Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo! Mail etc. logos too.

FavIcon from pics
"Would you like to display your own icon on the browser address bar when visitors view or bookmark your web page? Now it's easy to create icons for your web pages with FavIcon from Pics. Simply select a picture, logo or other graphic (of any size/resolution) for the "Source Image" and click "Generate FavIcon.ico"" http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/

"editting entry without being connected to the Net"

2005-12-08T18:15:00.000+08:00

Right. Imma test if I can actually do this..

[EMPTY SPACE]

EDIT: It doesn't work. *cries* Oh well.

By the way, The Body Shop is selling this cute coin purse at $7.90. As quoted from the website, funds raised will be used to provide more facilities and support to HIV and AIDS patients in Singapore. Click on this link to find out more.

Introducing w.bloggar

2005-12-08T13:51:00.000+08:00

assiduous \uh-SIJ-oo-uhs\, adjective:: 1. Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive.
2. Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, "assiduous labor."

News
Narnia laced with Christianity, but not in overt way.
Air marshal fatally shoots man at Miami airport
China mine blast leaves 62 dead

What is w.bloggar?
The w.bloggar is an application that acts as an interface between the user and one or more blog(s); in other words, it is a Post and Template editor, with several features and resources that the browser based blog editors do not offer.

Because w.bloggar runs over the Windows GUI, it allows the user to edit posts without being connected to the Internet. [EDIT]What does 'edit posts without being connected to the Internet' mean? Imma try posting blank entries, then editting them without connecting to the Net later.[/EDIT] Posts can be saved locally; and anytime the user wants to publish a new text, one click on the w.bloggar icon in the system tray brings up the editor, and one more click will post it to the weblog.

Another great advantage of w.bloggar is that it is compatible with most of the weblog systems available, allowing an advanced user to have only one interface to several accounts hosted on several different sites, using different publishing systems.

test?

2005-12-07T22:35:00.000+08:00

I'm testing a new tool. Trying to blog whilst offline. :D

EDIT: It doesn't work! </3 And I thought I could blog in M'sia too.. Sigh.

2005-12-07T20:25:00.000+08:00

I'm very pissed off now because this bunch of people I'm talking to keep judging and labelling me.

WELL YOU KNOW WHAT? STOP #*$@ing LABELLING ME WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW ME.

Me: 5 GCE 'O' Level subjects including :
Mathematics (E or A) Grades 1-7
wtf is grade 1 - 7? A1 - D7?
Judge 1 says: You serious nerd
Judge 1 says: O level not yet here want go see
Judge 2 says: reinvite please
Me: yes totally.
Judge 2 has left the conversation.
Judge 2 has been added to the conversation.
Me: i, unlike you, already have plans for my future.
Judge 3 says: yup
Me: wah sian d7.
Judge 1 says: Like wut.
Judge 2 says: rach ur ambituos
Judge 2 says: not like us
Judge 2 says: ambit
Judge 1 says: Being a hooker in future?
Judge 2 says: abi..w/e
Me says: ROLLS EYES
Judge 2 says: judge 1 how could u say that to a nerd
Judge 1 says: X_X
Judge 2 says: she study so much to have good future
Me says: no actually, yes i do intend to be a big time hooker.
Judge 2 says: not a hooker
Judge 2 says: LMAO

I hate being stereotyped. These people should just screw off.

Don't you call me a 'nerd' when you don't even know what I study. Who said it was something school-related?

Bastard childs.

2005-12-06T15:49:00.000+08:00

I downloaded 4 browsers today: Netscape, Avant Browser, Maxthon, and AOL Explorer. Avant appealed to me the most. AOL took very long to download and install as compared to the other browsers.

The bad thing about Avant, Maxthon and AOL is that I can't import my bookmarks and saved data etc from Opera, my default browser. Grr. It isn't much of a big deal actually, since I'll only use these browsers to test my skins in.

I spent lotsa hours reading articles about CSS layouts, W3C web standards, (X)HTML and stuff. I'm very tempted to make one standards-compliant layout now. Maybe I shall. =D

Here's another link: Layout-o-Matic! Make your own skin #2.

2005-12-05T22:22:00.000+08:00

Make your own web layouts! I haven't tried it yet. It looks totally cool though.

2005-12-05T12:43:00.000+08:00

What is Love, in the eyes of children from 4 - 8.

Whee, new skin!

2005-12-04T21:09:00.000+08:00

1) New blogskin
THIS LAYOUT IS VERY FAULTY. I have to admit that it's because it's my first time making a layout like this, and the HTML codes are really messed up. I used div layers and tables. Well I don't code tables, hence my inexpertise. The HTML snippet for tables Photoshop generated to piece together the sliced images is the NEVER MIND, FORGET IT. This layout may not display properly on your computer. If it doesn't look pretty pretty (that's the reason why I used this skin even though I know it's faulty. I don't usually.) like it's supposed to be, take a screenshot of it and send it to me. And if you notice any bugs, tell me.

2) Vacation
I'll be heading to Malaysia next week. Don't expect any updates during the period of time when I'm gone.

3) Very irritated
I don't know how to put this in words. Nonetheless I shall try. *&@$@!*$

I have just read your most recent blog entry. The scenario was almost the same as when you stole my disclaimer. I don't know, but from your blog entry you sounded pissed off and all. You should be. Do you now know how I felt? Yes this is how you'll react when your precious work is plagiarised. True, it's only a disclaimer. Anyone can write one. But know what? I spent a long time coming up with it - only to have you steal it, and still have the cheek to tell me that you've stolen it. Now that you've experienced the same as I have, I hope you'll at least take it away, or come up with one yourself.

From my tracker, I got to someone else's blog. She's creditted me for the <blockquote> snippet, and I'm fine with that. Thing is, I've received no notice about it. *shakes fist* HASN ANYONE EVEN READ MY DISCLAIMER?

And unless specified, everything on this blog is the property of Rachel and may not be used without permission. Please do not take anything on this blog for either personal or commercial use without first obtaining permission from Rachel.

There you go. *glares* ASK next time.

I know a handful of people are thinking: "It's only a couple of stuff! Why must she make a mountain out of a molehill? *mumble mumble mumble*"

My response to that: I put in thoughts and efforts in everything I make, or draw, or write. I take pride in achieving (or trying to achieve) the best for whatever I do. It's very unfair to me if you take / borrow something from me without first asking if it's okay to do so. I'm also strongly against copying and / or plagiarism. You'll receive no end from me if you dare plagiarise my work(s). Bla bla bla this is getting lengthy, but you get the point. Don't steal / rip / plagiarise my work 'cause I don't like it, and you won't like it when it happens to you too.

4) Er...
My tracker showed that this very funny person linked to me as the designer of her blog. I was like: 'wth, since when did I make such a skin?' when I saw it, HAHA. Then I thought maybe she stole codes from me, which got me into my *$&@-mode, and I went to check her source code.

...

WTH her source code's very messy! Definitely not my work. (The codes for this layout are very messy too, but it's the first time I've had a messy HTML script.) And I relaxed. I went to scrutinise her blog. I couldn't understand anything as it was in Malay. Then I noticed that the colour for her dates is very similar to the colour of the text in Smelly's blog. My *#&$^@-mode reactivated again. WTH SHE STOLE THE COLOUR CODES FOR SURE!!, I thought. (I coded Smelly's blog.) I went to double-check it against Smelly's source code.

...

The results are negative. The colours aren't the same. So now I'm like, wth. I still don't know why she linked me, lol.

And lastly..

Here's a Merry Christmas banner. I'll make a prettier one once Yuletide draws nearer.

2005-12-04T17:01:00.000+08:00

Hokkien vulgarities, not family-safe.

Gave me a laugh. ALEX, that page is highly recommended. =D You can't swear in dialect for nuts.

2005-12-04T02:32:00.000+08:00

< NHBoy > I broke my G-string while fingering a minor :(
< rycool > ...
< NHBoy > I was trying to play Knocking on Heaven's Door.
< NHBoy > Oh well, time to buy new strings.

Bash.org

2005-12-03T23:06:00.000+08:00

I'm very upset.

Putfile says goodbye to Singapore:

At dawn on December 2nd 2005, Singapore hanged a citizen of Australia, despite a plea for clemency from the United Nations. Whilst Putfile is not a human rights campaigning organization, we believe that if a country must have the death penalty, there is no need for it be barbaric. It is enough of a punishment, and a deterrent, to take someone's life in a painless manner, without having to be barbaric about it. Putfile prefers to not continue to provide our free uploading service to a country that executes prisoners by hanging, a method of execution which can take up to six minutes to painfully execute the victim.

For this reason, we are at this time terminating all service to users from Singapore. We shall be happy to restore service following any positive move from the government of Singapore towards abolition of hanging as an execution method.

Goodbye Singapore,

Putfile.

I don't know how to respond. Thanks to all who defended Singapore's decision here.

*hides in corner and cry*

PS, not crying because they stopped the service (I don't even use Putfile), but because of a grown up's childish response to something which happened lately. </3

2005-12-03T11:35:00.000+08:00

Okay, yes I know I don't have a new skin yet, but I have stuff to share. =D

Have you not gotten Gmail invites? Have you declined when friends or relatives asked you if you wanted one? Are you regretting that decision you've made? Do you want a Gmail account?

I have invites! I donated them to the sites where I got my Gmail invites from. =D

Gmail Invitations http://b10m.swal.org/gmail : I've gotten one from this site. It's really fast, I got my invite within 10 minutes.

Gmail invites http://gmail.afraid.org/ : Gotten an invite from this site too. It's speedy as well. Received the invite within minutes again. ^^

Gmail Invites : Get Gmail http://www.highwayman.org/gmail/ : I'm supposing it's fast too. I haven't tried getting one from this site though. They're stopping the service come 2006, so grab an invite before it's too late.

OFF TOPIC-
I was reading this SFx thread which led me to this lame COPYCAT website that bashes Firefox WITH STUPID, STUPID REASONS (read this. I totally LMAOed.) that crack me up.

And compare Spread IE's fugly buttons with SFx's pretty ones.

One word : owned.

PS, I'm more of an Opera fan, but I support Firefox too. Go go, alternative browsers!

[EDIT] : as of now, I have 15 invites. DO YOU WANT ONE? Leave a comment with your email address or something. I'll remove the comment once I see it. Click [# love note] at the bottom right of each entry.

2005-12-01T01:09:00.000+08:00

WARNING: THIS ENTRY IS NOT WRITTEN IN A WAY TO PROVOKE CHRISTIANS, NOR DOES IT BASH CHRISTIANITY. I am merely blogging about what happened today, and how I feel about what happened. So please don't haul me to court. Take this with a pinch of salt, thank you. (Did I use the wrong idiom? Whatever. I meant that you should take this entry lightly anyway.)

Today I attended a rock concert with Grace and Smelly. It was organised by City Harvest** and lasted 2 hours. I was told there won't be any preaching (I'm Atheist) so I attended.

The night before, I slept at 4. This morning I woke at 11 when Grace called, just 30 minutes before when we're supposed to meet. $#*&@^ LOL. So I rushed through my breakfast and everything, and met them at PS at ~12.30. Smelly shopped for like, 5 minutes before Grace reminded her that we were gonna be late. Then we took the train to Outram.

We didn't know the way to the venue of the concert so we had to wait for Smelly's friends Jialing (??) and Marcus (??) at the train station. There, we talked about Maple and other random crap. (Grace has a very cute cat who, according to Smelly, makes a very cute face when it shits.) When JL and Marcus arrived we walked walked walked to this bus stop. Grace and I were discussing about Maple the whole while LOL. Smelly regularly added her comments to whatever topic we were on.

When we finally reached the place (it's some cafe), we had to wait outside for some reason. It was hot -_-.

BECAUSE I AM LAZY, I SHALL STOP TYPING OUT WHATEVER HAPPENED. Instead I will give my opinions about the rock concert.

* I think it shouldn't be called a rock concert at all. I had expected the venue to be some mini-indoor stadium or something, not a cafe. And only ONE song (Holiday) wasn't a hymn or unrelated to Christianity. AND, they only performed like.. 5 songs, give or take a little.

* The guitarist / vocalist guy can't sing. And the guy who looks old can't either. Their rendition of Green Day's Holiday was awful. Only the singing actually. I think the Steven guitarist guy was okay though. Maybe it's 'cause he was the only one I could see, apart from the old-looking guy.

* The last part when the guy started talking about dreams really induces loads of eye-rolling. The two instances he gave (founder of Levi's who attached metal rivets to jeans and made it big, child who came up with idea of making ice pops and selling them) are so NOT related to dreams, or Christianity for that matter. It would've sounded better if for example, he said like, Levis' founder dreamed of rolling in dough by selling durable jeans, and how he actually managed to produce durable jeans after some kind of effort. At least then, it'd have some connection to the topic he was on.

And that guy made it sound like we can't fulfill our dreams without the help of Jesus. Maybe he didn't mean it that way, but it certainly sounded like that to me. My dream is to master both digital and traditional art forms. I know I CAN achieve my goal without His help, tyvm.

* I think the lyrics to the We Will Shine song (I don't know the song name) and the Glorious Redeemer song are very cheesy. It's my personal opinion, you don't have to (dis)agree with or attack it.

* I think Tongues is a load of bull. Like, I can do it too! Shakedela rararara. At least that's what it sounded to me anyway. And again, it's my opinion, so leave it alone. HAHA I know this is going to piss someone off.

* When someone asks a question like: "How many of you enjoyed yourselves today?", it is a question about numbers. The reply is NOT "Yes!" or "No!", because this is NOT A YES-NO QUESTION. Smelly says I'm being too 'English'. I think I'm just being anal. Grace agrees with me though. (LOL if a classmate of mine was present at that time, he'd prolly tell Smelly: aiya zhe ge jiak kantang de, bu yao guan ta la.)

Generally it was okay. I didn't enjoy myself as much as I thought I would though. I'm not a very social person like Smelly, who can be good friends with a total stranger in a matter of minutes. I'm not saying that I'm very introverted, but for me, it doesn't work that way. I was kinda like "x_x ugh" when we were supposed to play some totally whack games. Maybe they shouldn't have called it a rock concert at all. It should be renamed "Get to Know More Friends While Listening to (Poseur) Rock Music Meet". I wouldn't agreed to come if I knew it was gonna turn out like this.

Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah. Notice the ** I put next to City Harvest? It's right at the top of this entry if you've forgotten. It was a reminder to myself (HAHA I REMEMBERED!) to blog about this: CHC is full of cHi0buZ and yAnda0x.

HAH, agree or disagree with me, I don't care. But I saw loads of liannies and bengsters at the Get to Know More Friends While Listening to (Poseur) Rock Music Meet. You can tell them apart from the rest very easily. I can almost imagine what they use as captions for their Friendster pictures..

[insert picture of girl who is looking downwards, preferrably with straight rebonded hair covering a quarter (or more) of her face]
\ onliiex G0D kn0ees ii kryx . ]] *

[insert picture of another girl with rebonded hair and gek'd eyes, with a finger on lip]
*~ sHhx`!! iit`s tymex tUux PRAY`! praiise dde L0rdx ~*

HAHAHA, can YOU picture it? I can. And the cHaO Ah BeNgZ?

[insert picture of guy with spikey hair-do, emo specs, ear piercing and lip piercing]
yOhZ. i Am CoOl BeCuZ oF........God! hAhAz

LOL okay yeah I'm being a little too extreme. Of course, I doubt any of them Christian liannies and bengsters would do something like this. But who knows?

This entry is getting long so I'm ending here. The next time I blog, it'd either be a tutorial on making your blogskins or about the different types of liannies and bengsters - something I've been wanting to blog about for ages. And oh, the layout that I came up with, I'm starting to think it sucks. So I'm making ANOTHER layout. No change of blogskins till then!

2005-11-28T21:58:00.000+08:00

It's time for a new layout! I'm sick of this fugly one already. The next theme: FMA.

2005-11-28T13:45:00.000+08:00

I apologise for the lack of updates. These days I've been Mapling and rewatching FMA, and I didn't have much to blog about.

Anyway. Today is GRACE's birthday. HAPPY FOURTEENTH! I'm sorry for the lack of some birthday banner thingy. I'm having a mental block.

I have already bought presents for both Smelly and Grace, so meet up some day and I'll pass the presies.

2005-11-24T23:43:00.000+08:00

Tomorrow Smelly turns fourteen. This will be my first present to her.

Happy birthday, Smelly! May all your wishes come true.

2005-11-24T20:15:00.000+08:00

Smelly, you should see a doctor regarding your bulimic problems! LOL.

I rewatched Just Like Heaven with Grace and Smelly today. After which, we had a sushi buffet. All three of us are stuffed, thanks to a very greedy SOMEBODY who ordered like 5 plates of the fried orange ball things, and 2 plates of tuna mayo, and 2 plates of takopachi, in addition to our udon and many plates of sushi from the belt. Cough.

SO FULL SO FULL SO FULL!

Thanks to Grace's dad for the lift. I told him to drop me off at the wrong place though. @(*# LOL.

Nice day.

2005-11-23T19:33:00.000+08:00

When watching a movie, never sit beside Smelly because she'll keep talking and squirming and squealing (when there's 'dropping' scenes). She might even sing. -_-

And when Smelly tries to meet you out at a time, she actually means it to be 30 mins later. Let's say she said to meet at 10. Don't believe her, she really means 10.30. I'm posting this just so all readers who know Smelly will know.

HP was.. Well, a million scenes were skipped, Dumbledore turned into this fierce old man, and it didn't follow the storyline well. Ugh. And Cedric is SO UNHOT. Ew. Fluer was hot though. I like Fluer.

Myuk is a brand for bimbos. The prints on their merchandises are like angst and attitude x 100. And their 'attitude' attitude is SO poseur-ish. Something that cracked me up was the "I'm dead. I'm like so dead can" text on a wallet. SO BIMBO!! And er, there was this "yupps" too. Like, UGH! I used to think it's funny, but this is overboard. TO THE DESIGNER(S): stop trying so hard. And oh oh, I saw a bimbo in The Wallet Shop carrying a Myuk wallet too! LOLOL.

2005-11-22T13:02:00.000+08:00

I have so many themes for future blogskins. I don't know which should be my first.

- Anime : FMA / Samurai Champloo / PoT / Bleach
- Bands / Singers / (In)famous personalities : Blondie (!!) / Gackt / DoA / .. and more. I forgot.

And they can be further broken down into subcategoriesss. Sheesh.

OWES: Mich and Krisah a blogskin

2005-11-21T19:43:00.000+08:00

Fatfat and Jerrina (sp?) should have gotten in!!

What a pity.

2005-11-20T21:12:00.000+08:00

Instructions of the tag:
Given a topic, you are to write down your answers in your blog, and then send the same topic to 5 other people. Write down the names of these 5 people and link to them on your blog. Go visit their blogs to notify them that they are tagged. The 5 people who are tagged should, in their own blogs, write down the name and link of the person who tagged them, answer the same topic, and send it to another 5 people, etc.

The Topic: Your 5 Quirks.

1. I don't like peas, carrot bits and corn in my fried rice. IT IS FRIED RICE, thank you, not fried rice AND rabbit food.

2. I don't like being disturbed when I'm reading, else I'll get pissed.

3. If I'm not feeling 'clean', I won't sleep on my bed for fear of dirtying it. Instead, I'll sleep on the sofa in the living room.

4. If I'm feeling clean, I won't use the common toilet. I'd use the toilet in mum's room, 'cause it's cleaner.

5. When buying books, cover designs matter. A boring book with a nice cover appeals to me more than an interesting book with an ugly cover.

And the 5 people I'm tagging: Alex, Delvin, Li Fang, Jasmine, Sick.
Link of person who tagged me: Smelly

EDIT: OMGOMGOMG SORRY LI FANG!

2005-11-20T20:28:00.000+08:00

WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS IMPERFECT ENGLISH.

Let me tell you people about a shithead called Darren who happens to be my half-brother.

He's just like his dad. He speaks in this volume of voice that's 120 dB when talking to anyone, everyone. He has this #*($& irritating character and thinks he's the best of the whole lot. LIKE WHATEVER LA THANK YOU VERY MUCH. If I'm arrogant, he's ten times worse. If I'm catty, wait till you meet him. If you find me unmanageable, you'll die within 1 minute of trying to handle that ass.

That is Darren.

Today he went with my parents to the WCG (what for, I don't know. Don't ask me. But before he went, he was like: "Kuai dian kuai dian, wo de Halo match!" I was like O_o er what freaking Halo match?). He returned about an hour ago. I overheard something he was saying to my dad, and joined in the discussion.

Dad: eh ah girl, wei she me ni bu yao gen di di join na ge WCG ah? Ke yi ying hen duo qian de leh! Ni gen di di 1 ge team la, ran hou can jia WCG. (Eh ah girl, why don't you take part in the World Cyber Games? You can win loads of money! Why don't you team with your brother and join the WCG?)
Me: aiya bu hui ying de la. Wo dou bu hui wan. (We won't win. I don't even know how to play.)
Dad: mei you! You hen duo game de. Ke yi ying liang wan leh!! (No! There are a lot of games. You can win $20k!)
Brother: ya lor. Wo dou hui wan Halo. Wo yao take part. (Yeah. I can play Halo. I wanna take part.)
Me: YOU? You think you can win ah?
Brother: ya la! I know how to play leh!
Me: LMFAO HAHAHAHAHA F70 LOSER NO YOU CAN'T PLAY YOU SHITHEAD! (damn, I wish I'd said those instead. Actually I said: HAHA you think you can win against those players who're 18, 19, 20?)
Brother: of course la! HALO LEH! They know how to play Halo meh? My friend is a pro-
Me (interrupted): aiya whatever la.

COCKY SHIT!

Anyway, NOW MY IRRITATING ASS OF A BROTHER IS PLAYING MAPLE STORY AND CONSTANTLY BUGS ME ABOUT IT.

(*$(*@#$(*@#&$ Wtf la.

I have quitted MS like, last week or something. AND THIS IRRITATING SHITHEAD claims he saw me in-game.

.....................

YEA RIGHT, when he doesn't even know my IGN, and when I'm NOT EVEN MAPLING. Wtf.

Just now he was like: "Da jie, you got how much str har? I HAVE 53 STR LEHHHHH!" And he's a freaking mage. When I curtly pointed out that his char is screwed, he went in his Uber 120 dB Voice: "Ya la ya la whatever. I created 3 accounts what, never mind one."

Me: you put so much str for what?! No mage put so much str one.
Him: so? When people want to steal my monster, I can magic claw what.

*@$&@(*#&$

I'M JUST ACTING OUT OF, ahem, KINDNESS to point out to him that his mage is screwed, AND HE HAS TO REPLY ME IN THAT KINDA TONE.

Wtf la I FREAKING hate this idiot!

I don't want him to Maple. Whenever I start playing a new game and he notices it, he'll want to play it too. It used to be Neopets. Then it was RuneScape, and Gunbound, and Hexic and Minesweeper Flags. Once he starts playing the games I play(ed), he'll play too, and talk about the game EVERY FREAKING DAY. And even after I quit playing the game, he'll bug me about it. Take for example, dinner some time ago.

Him: eh da jie last time you play RuneScape that time hor, how much money you have?
Me: 30k. Why? (Actually I forgot. >_> I just threw a random number.)
Him: WAH SO MUCH AH! I only have 5k leh.
Me: so? You think I care?
Him: I have full Rune leh! And full Addy. Da jie last time what-
Me: (interrupted) whatever la you think I care meh.
[*insert Super 120 dB voice's pissed-off face*]

And last night.

Him: da jie you know hor got the big mushroom leh! How to kill? I cannot kill leh, I keep dying! (no, it's not MM, it's the orange noobshit mushroom.)
Me: so? Too bad lor.
Him: walao eh, also got octo-
Me: (interrupted) aiya whatever la you think I never play before ah?

And this afternoon.

Him: da jie I can kill the big mushroom already!
Me: You think I care meh?

............

Hah, I feel a whole lot better. 10 minutes later he'll bug me again and I'll feel pissed off all over again.

Stupid noobshit turdface 120 dB voice, I hate him so much. I hope he dies and rots in hell.

PS, anyone can play Halo? Come my house and own the shit out of this noob please. He sux0rs at it.

2005-11-20T18:12:00.000+08:00

Beneath the stain of time
The feeling disappears
You are someone else
I am still right here
What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end

2005-11-20T12:33:00.000+08:00

I feel I'm not meant to be an artist.

2005-11-18T22:10:00.000+08:00

Grace you made it onto my blog again. Haha!

It isn't as orange and as green as I wanted. In fact, this skin wasn't satisfactory at all. Oh well.

2005-11-18T20:59:00.000+08:00

Chocolate chip muffins are wonderful. I can't stop having them. Yum yum.

I'll get art books tomorrow, and materials some day else. Whee.

I'll upload the new layout after this entry. I think it looks lovely.

2005-11-18T15:20:00.000+08:00

My blankets smell like fuzzy peaches! Yum yum.

Tomorrow I'll be heading to the bookstore to get books. I'll finally see.

*sniffs blankets*

2005-11-17T21:27:00.000+08:00

2005-11-17T19:58:00.000+08:00

DEVART IS DOWN and I'm not happy about that. Well it isn't really down, but it's lagging a lot, and the images I'm previewing won't load. Sulk sulk sulk.

Many of the artists on DA inspire me. Someday I'll be as good as them.

2005-11-17T17:07:00.000+08:00

I went to town with Smelly today. Liwen and Wei Ting joined us later.

Purchases: Seventeen Dec 05, 3 Mrs Field's cookies (2 white chocolate + macadamia, 1 chew fudge??), TRC 9, The Body Shop fuzzy peach body lotion

Yesterday I bought TRC10, because I thought I stopped at TRC 9. The storyline was really confusing, and I found out that I stopped at TRC 8. -_- Speaking of mangas, GRACE!, have you been taking care when reading my Furubas?! *mega Rachel glare* Don't you dare wreck the dustcover or let dog-ears form.

I must recommend the body lotion from The Body Shop. There's this Christmas promotion thingy. You can buy two 250ml containers of body lotion at only $19.90. THIS IS A FREAKING GOOD DISCOUNT, because ONE 250ml container costs $15.90! You pay $4 more just for another bottle! What a deal. The downside is, only 4 different 'smells' / 'flavour's are available: fuzzy peach, ginger, rose, and dewberry (I think).

I haven't smelt ginger and dewberry, but fuzzy peach and rose smelt lovely. Smelly claims rose smells very mild, but it's smell-able imo. Pity they don't offer mango or strawberry.. I would've bought mango and strawberry instead of fuzzy peach and rose. Oh, the rose one went to Jolyn (not 2/3's) for her birthday. Smelly shared the present with me.

I wanna buy CDs.

2005-11-16T18:03:00.000+08:00

It's raining right now. If I were 5 minutes late, I would've been caught in the rain. Thank god I came back early, ha.

I watched Just Like Heaven just now. 'Twas pretty hilarious, but the ending was SO predictable. But it was good. Those who haven't caught it should go catch it.

2005-11-15T22:37:00.000+08:00

I feel sad and I don't know why. It's like a sudden attack. Heh, I think it's because of the many emo blogs I've been reading. Sheesh!

Tip: don't read emo blogs.

Many many entries in a day, I know. Expect more like these.

2005-11-15T21:25:00.000+08:00

I just remembered something hilarious.

Last time, Smelly and I used to go J8 quite oftenly. She'd always want to have Rotiboy / PapaRoti but she is always short of 10c - 20c. I'll jokingly suggest that we look on the floor for coins that people dropped, and Smelly would agree. Once, she wanted her bread but was short of money as usual. I think Grace was with us then. For some reason, we were inside a supermarket and I asked them to look for coins. HAH, we weren't disappointed. I spotted 10c underneath a counter and Smelly had her bread.

HAHAHA! This doesn't sound funny here, but I cracked myself up re-enacting that scene.

2005-11-15T20:53:00.000+08:00

I made the new skin. It is green and orange. I think it looks okay. I'm too lazy to code it, so wait for a few days before it's up.

There are a million zits on my face and I'm going out tomorrow. The horror! How am I gonna meet 3 bakas tomorrow? Sheesh.

Let's hope at least the movie's okay. Reminder to self: TAPE PHONE COVER. The tape's coming off. LOL.

2005-11-15T11:08:00.000+08:00

I need a facial.

This morning Smelly called and asked me if I wanna join OM. Then Mr Siva intercepted the phone call.

"Hello. This is Mr Siva. They are laughing because I'm talking to you."

HAHAHA.
I declined anyway.

2005-11-14T22:34:00.000+08:00

What a wonderful week.
This is what 'short entries' really mean.

2005-11-14T10:11:00.000+08:00

1) Cocoa Frosties rocks even when you eat it without milk. EVERYONE BUY A PACKET OF COCOA FROSTIES NOW! Yum.

2) My phone is officially screwed. It doesn't vibrate. (HAHAHA sounds SO obscene!) Um, last time if you drop it hard, it'll vibrate again. Now it'll switch itself off when I drop it. Sheesh.

Yay for short little updates. OH OH, I'll be heading to Malaysia for a few days in December.. Sigh.

Okay that's it. Tata!

2005-11-11T12:23:00.000+08:00

I got into 3/2. I can already predict that next year is prolly gonna suck. I don't like the subjects combination. None of my buddybuddies are there. Smelly is in 3/1. Krisah and Mich are in 3/4. Grace is in some other class (3/1 maybe?).

Xinyee told me to appeal. Smelly mentioned this briefing about 3/4 that we can attend if we wanna, and they might allow us to get into 3/4. The downside is that 3/4 has combined Science.

Sigh. We'll see. At least I have Li Fang (??) and Raffles and some other people for company. I have 1 hour to decide if I want combined Science or not.

2005-11-10T16:43:00.000+08:00

WARNING: many pictures. They'll all take some time to load, sorry. Blog entry will be right after the pictures.

2/5 from '04 to '05

My favourite Chinese teacher ever.

Class play rehearsals. We didn't win the interclass drama competition, but we did okay.

Ms Eunice Tan - the most patient teacher I've ever met.

The NOMAD days. They were a torture but NOMAD was a somewhat satisfying experience, despite us being scolded unreasonably.

These were taken a few days before school officially closed.

Chalet Special

If a picture's worth a thousand words, I must've said a lot. I won't say much about the chalet since most of 2/5 attended it, and those who aren't in 2/5 won't be really interested anyway. All I got from the chalet are really lovely memories, many zits and body aches. I didn't like how the stay turned out - it was far from what I've expected. However, it was still enjoyable. This might be the last time 2/5 is together. It's a real pity that I didn't like the class earlier. I'll miss my friends a lot.

Oh wel, this is it then. Good bye, 2/5.

And to the 2/5ers, DARE TO DREAM.

2005-11-08T09:03:00.000+08:00

It's today, today, today. How glorious! I most certainly hope it won't rain at all for these 3 days.

I've packed pretty much everything. I'll just have to cramp in my camera, its charger, my MP3 and the laptop and we're set.

Let's see if anyone's gonna bring socket extensions.. There's so many electrical appliances that people are bringing, and I doubt the chalet room has many sockets.

I can't wait!

2005-11-07T18:37:00.000+08:00

Go out bo jio. Go sign up for lessons can forget me. All win liao lor~

Never mind. I still love Smelly. At least she asked if I wanna go out. Thank God I have been enjoying myself, if not I'd have killed all of you by now.

Tomorrow's the chalet! THIS IS AN APPEAL TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE HORROR FLICKS: bring them please. I was told by Bing Hong who was told by Ziyang that someone should bring horror flicks.

TWO THIRTY AT PASIR RIS MRT STATION TOMORROW! Don't be late. Grace, be at the CHALET by 2.30.

2005-11-07T13:00:00.000+08:00

Smelly can blog so I suppose I can too.

YOU don't know the feeling. I hope YOU.. Never mind. Watch my splendid performance.

Chalet tomorrow and I haven't packed my stuff yet. I doubt I can find a bag big enough. Screw.

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Opera didn't let me blog. I'm blogging using Firefox now. Let's see if it works.

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UIEWHRI#*&$* !! There's something wrong with Opera. Shit.

2005-11-05T12:59:00.000+08:00

2005-11-05T09:55:00.000+08:00

[EDIT] I can't seem to update, because Blogger keeps posting empty entries, so here's today's.

I want Bleach chapter 203 to be out real fast! Sheeeesh.

I had half-expected some lesbo action between Hime-chan and Rangiku-san earlier, when the latter kneeled over Hime-chan in a pose I deem provocative.. But NOOO, there wasn't any! LOL. I think fanfics or doujinshis regarding that scene will appear soon.

Breakfast time! I smell pancakes.

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Very ugly blog. No offense to the owner / designer, but really..

PS: A few days ago, Anna said that my hair resembles a lion's mane. (*#$(*$ WALAO EH, my hair is not fuzzy, thank you.

2005-11-04T19:37:00.000+08:00

Very ugly blog. No offense to the owner / designer, but really..

PS: A few days ago, Anna said that my hair resembles a lion's mane. (*#$(*$ WALAO EH, my hair is not fuzzy, thank you.

2005-11-04T19:10:00.000+08:00

GRACE AND KRISAH! THE QUEEN DEMANDS both of you to go out with Smelly and I. I miss both of you, and Smelly and I am bored to death at home.

MAKE TIME FOR US! THIS IS NOT A STATEMENT, THIS IS A COMMAND.

Tag and tell me when will *&^% not be screwing your lives.

2005-11-03T09:06:00.000+08:00

Not much longer I'll be dead, so just forget me.

My sister said I slept-talked last night. Hah! And I remember I flung my phone off the bed, and thought it was a camera. Then I was real panicky in my sleep because like, OH MY GOD, I just dropped the camera! It was 3.30 then, and the door kept opening by itself, so I got real freaked out. Heh.

My neck and shoulders are hurting. I shan't tell my mum though, because she'll say it's due to my sitting position when I'm using the computer, then try to get me to stop using it. It's probably true, but I don't really care.

I want to stay up till dawn like the last December. Mum won't let me. Sigh.

I'm losing my mind, and I don't think you could save me this time.

2005-11-02T09:31:00.000+08:00

Beautex®
200 Sheest
FACIAL TISSUE

...Softness You can Enjoy

My mum attempted to hide the internet modem from me again. And I managed to find it - again. Well it isn't hard when she hid it in the same place.

Is age really insignificant in a relationship? I can barely picture myself being in one with a guy younger than I am..

I shall quit rambling. Just six more days to the chalet! I'm oh-so-glad.

2005-11-01T09:07:00.000+08:00

Sunshine in the rain, love is still the same, sunshine in the rain.

JUST ONE MORE WEEK TO THE CHALET! I can hardly wait. Many people are going, and I'm overjoyed. Remind me to bring my camera!

Kai li, we'll miss you!

2005-10-30T20:20:00.000+08:00

We should all be used to seperation already. We all once parted from our friends in P4, then again in P6, and now at the end of Sec 2, we'll be torn away from our classmates again. It'll happen again once we hit 16, and when our tertiary education ends, and once we get into the working stream.

This is life. Get over it and move on. It's not like I don't care - I do, I love 2/5 - but it's just not worth getting all weepy every 2 years. True friendship would be able to withstand the seperation, irregardless of how long the time period would be. Yeah.

Maybe I'm just too bitter.

2005-10-30T15:22:00.000+08:00

Grace and Kriash, you made it onto my blog.

2005-10-29T17:33:00.000+08:00

WARNING
Disturbing entry. Contains pictures of myself, that are likely to cause readers to burst into fits of giggles. Topic: my dyed hair.

Er. The pictures may take forever to load.. Wait a bit.

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One day, Queen Rachel (I) compulsively decided to dye her hair blue. She (I) wanted purple hair too, but thought that blue was more extraordinary (aka weird). After discussions with hairstylists at a hair saloon in the middle of the heartlands, Queen Rachel (I) was put off dying her (my) hair blue (read the post a few days ago!!). Brown was chosen instead. Fast forward to this morning.

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So I met Grace at Jubilee @ AMK Central today. Both of us reached Jubilee early. We headed to a saloon which we had been to on Friday, and I trimmed my hair first. I had to choose between highlighting or dying the hair, because I didn't have enough to do two-tone colouring. Just highlighting or dying my hair and trimming it would cost me $60, but if I trim, highlight AND dye my hair, it'd cost $100. I only had sixty bucks with me then.

After a looong while, I settled on dying (overused this word!) my hair. Highlighting sections of my hair with my natural black hair as the base colour would look really funny, see. I chose a colour which I THOUGHT would look nice on me. Grace said the hue was alright, so I told the hairstylist to go ahead.

THE PROCESS!
(this part will be blogged in Lianguage ^^, with English translations)

diishx iish muii haiirx bef0rree itt wUs w0rkedd 0n ` ! tUdaieex muii haiirx b berii b berii niice w0rrs ` !
(This is my hair before it was worked on. Today's a (somewhat) good hair day!)

ddenn h0rx ` .. dde styylistt x h0rx ` .. putt diishx b berii smelliee x kreammx 0n muii haiirx nehhs ` !! ch0uu ch0uu ~
(The hairstylist applied this foul-smelling cream on my hair. Smelly, who joined us later, liked the smell of it. Yuck.)

hEeHeE x ` !! ii lo0kx b berii ffarniiex h0rx ` ! putt cliingwrappx 0n muii hhead x nehhs ` !! HeEhEe ` .. eUu see dde fiinkx ab0ve muii ` ? lykk uf0 ` !! hEeHeE x ` !! bbl0w h0rttx aiir dde nehhs ` ..
(This looks VERY ridiculous! My hair was wrapped with Clingwrap, and this heat-emitting machine was made to rotate over my head. It looks like some UFO..)

yaieex ` !! d0nee lerrs ` !! ddeyx g0rrt washhx muii haiirx dde nehhs ` !! burtt h0rs ` .. stillx ch0uu ch0uu nehhs ` ..
(I'm done! I got a hairwash to remove the smelly cream, but it still stinks anyway.)

(It's very tiresome to type in Lianguage. I wonder how those Lians do it.)

wheex ` ~ ii k0mparrex haiirx c0l0ur x wiid muii frenx narhhx ` .. kkuah buayy ti0x -.-" ` .. d0tts ` ..
(I compared my hair colour with Smelly's. The lousy VGA phone camera wasn't sharp enough to pick up the colour. -_-)

ii`m b berii argliiex narhhs ` .. >.<
(LOOK AT MY EYEBAGS! I shouldn't stay up late..)

dUnchh larff @ muii h0rs ` .. >.<"
(I don't look like myself! And, HAHA, the turtle smile =], the ones that bimbos always use when they take Neoprints. Because of the smile, I wanted to blog this entire entry in Lianguage, but it's really hard!)

ii`m bleediinn` muiiselbx driie ` .. ferr euu ` ..
(^ HAHAHA, FRIENDSTER CAPTION!! I look like a doll in this one. Don't I, don't I, don't I!)

whiiex am ii pwet3ndiinggx tUu b happiiex ` .. ?
(Can you see my brother's leg?)

# *- waiitiingx ferr muii pwiinCex ; ]]
(My favourite shot.)

The colour may not look very striking or obvious, but it is! It is faaar lighter when you see it on me, and not in the picture. That's the end of this entry. =D Vicious attacks on my looks, 'point and laugh's, consolations, praises, expressions of jealousy and stifled laughter are all welcome. COMMENT AWAY!

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For those who STILL do not know how to make a comment, CLICK ON # hug(s), or Unloved! at the bottom right of each entry, after the XOXO thing. I know there are people who read my blog but aren't commenting. DROP ME A MESSAGE.

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Alex, so unsupportive la!

2005-10-29T07:54:00.000+08:00

Ohayou! I'm gonna colour my hair today. Grace will be watching me. I'll update (with pictures, maybe!) later.

EDIT!!
For those who're going to the chalet, you can bring along your game consoles (PSP, xbox, PS, GameBoys and what not). Bing Hong reckons there will be wireless net access, so I'll haul my laptop along, but he could be misinformed, so don't expect any updates from the 8th till the 10th.

2005-10-27T18:20:00.000+08:00

I can't dye my hair either electric blue, or bright purple! I'll have to bleach my hair, if not the colour won't show up clearly. Bleaching of hair turns the hair white (Smelly says the roots of the hair will be damaged) and when the colour wears off 1 month later, the strands of hair will remain white! It looks real ugly, so I don't wanna bleach my hair. Can't have blue or purple hair then, sigh.

I've decided on a mix of browns, blondes and / or reds. Smelly and Grace think I look like a clown with red hair. I think Kelly Clarkson's old hairstyle, the one with brown and blonde and cherry red, totally rocks. I want that one! I'll ask the hair dresser for her opinion. I hope she is experienced.

Today's the last day of school, and also the last day some classmates will see 2/5 as a class. It's a pity for us to part. I want most, if not all, of the 2/5 students to attend the chalet, or the BBQ at least. Kai li!, I'm sorry I can't change the date.. I won't say much more about the class, at least not now anyways.

Volume 13 of Furuba is FINALLY out!! I read it on the bus and nearly cried on two occasions. Sometimes I don't understand the manga. Why is Yun Yun a tool? How is Akito, or Shigure making use of Toru? What lies are Yun Yun telling, or how is he deceitful? I don't get any of that. Oh oh oh, KURENO IS SO HOT! Also, Toru doesn't deserve Yun Yun's and Kyo's looove. She's so dense, it makes me feel like weeping. Oh well, Yun Yun isn't gonna end up with her anyway. I hope.

Oh yes, I almost forgot about this, but Grace reminded me. The second band that performed today had SO HOT members. Misfits, and Hoodie and Red Words were so eye-candy. Misfits looked like he's on drugs though, when he goes head-banging. They did My Chemical Romance, by the way. SO HOT SO HOT. Hoodie is delectable.

I'll go do some other stuff now. Cya everyone.~

I hate you most when...

2005-10-26T19:16:00.000+08:00

And that would be my biggest regret.

2005-10-26T15:25:00.000+08:00

C H A L E T
Dates 8 - 10 Nov
Meeting time, venue Pasir Ris Bus Interchange, 8 Nov 2.30pm

Things To Bring
- 3 sets of clothes (minimum)
- toiletries
- sufficient plastic bags for used clothes
- medication (if needed)
- money / EZ-link card
- extra slippers / shoes (optional)

Please pay $8 for the chalet. DISCLAIMER: The organisers will not be responsible for your cuts, sprains, bruises and all other injuries. Please ahem take care of yourselves so that we won't get sued.

If you have any questions, call Anna, or send Carline a SMS. Or ask me, and I'll help ask them. queenrach-[at]hotmail[dot]com, by the way. Add me on MSN or something.

You are a big tattletale. And so are you. But I am not affected.

2005-10-25T16:01:00.000+08:00

Accidentally in Love

So she said what's the problem baby
What's the problem I don't know
Well maybe I'm in love (love)
Think about it every time
I think about it
Can't stop thinking 'bout it

Forgive my disproportionate figures.

2005-10-24T21:19:00.000+08:00

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elloz....u there???
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nvm

The satisfaction was fleeting. You should've waited.