Chinese Os are tomorrow and I'm just about as unprepared as I can get, which I suddenly really regret (yes I know, it's a little too late for that).

live for the times I'm fortunate enough as to stumble across such beautiful splendour

the moment you hear them:
songs that you just know will stay with you forever

Well, just as quickly as they're over, the eoy results are out.
Not bad haha :) I failed Chinese paper two as expected, but at least I passed the others and got a C5 overall. Another nice surprise was SS Geog- I didn't fail! Though it wasn't a very good B4- pulled down because of SS, again- it showed that it does pay to study!
The most ridiculous was mep :/ I don't know how they mark it, but full marks (not bragging, Weitian got it too) for practical is seriously impossible. It was lousy... and full marks?! Unbelievable.

Anyway I'm annoyed now because what I really want to do is watch The Pianist!!, which I borrowed from Esplanade Library yesterday, but unfortunately I can't because I have to do the THREE, yes, THREE (which I probably won't finish haha) horrid Chinese worksheets D: in lieu of our Chinese O Levels. It's like there's never a real proper break...
In fact what I really want to do is anything but the Chinese papers. And I would, too, if not for the fact that Lilan pointedly gave me this warning glare when she reminded everyone to do them 'for our own good'.

I'm finally going for choir tomorrow. We're learning Itsuki (my gosh my gosh my gosh, exciting!!) and I'm feeling strange.
Haha don't want to think about it, just makes me sick.

Phobia, man.

I am so, SO happy I can finally say this:

(with the sucky mep paper that ended it kind-of-badly but who's harping on it?!)
Therefore the last week, excluding miserable Monday, has been awesome, amazing, freaking unbelievably wonderful and so memorably fantastic that even now, looking at the photos make me feel happy and sad at the same time :)

Ice-Cream Buffet! with Sengkang Rebels- we got lost and couldn't find Swensen's at first.
After the buffet we went to watch Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (and regretted it, especially in the SPOILER! scene where the town was covered with ice-cream balls. We were like UGH no thanks) after stuffing ourselves with ice-cream, ...although I don't think any of us were very good buffet eaters 'cause we kind of lost our appetite after the first round- too much chocolate. Which made us really high after a while and we would just look at each other and burst out laughing.
eg 1. This pri sch girl behind us kind of fell off the chair or something (it was those side tables, not stools) and the waitress rushed by and said, "It's okay! There's nothing wrong with you! The chair has a problem..." and I laughed until I teared.
eg 2. Rachel wouldn't budge so Weiting told her to 'grow fat and die' and then we all panicked and we scrambled out of the table, except Rachel wouldn't let me out and suddenly I felt true fear in my heart and according to Weiting, my face contorted when I said, "Let me out!! I don't want to grow fat and die!" and Rachel just... chuckled. In this evil tone, like a 'Haha, no chance of that, you're going to grow fat and die with me' kind of chuckle.

Suddenly I thought of Chucky when I typed that.

MEP Outing! - We had to RUSH because mep test ended half an hour late to watch (500) Days of Summer, which is very very very sweet and funny. After that we went to Marina Barrage but we initially got lost (this sounds familiar) and we were saying how nice it would be to tell people 'for our mep outing we went to Marina, this godforsaken place' cause we were surrounded by construction sites, thus the construction site photo but in the end we found our way and there being thirteen people, it was inevitable that we would make quite a lot of noise on the shuttle bus, and Hannah said we'd get reported to Stomp.
So we went up the pretty slope and took photos (and okay Amanda, I admit, that place is a nice place to take photos, the sky is heavenly even unedited- there's this beautiful slight purplish tint in the bandits/stringers/choristers photos? I didn't even add a tint, I just darkened it slightly) and we saw some TK people there, and I saw Dionne and Brenda! Though I didn't recognise them at first, which was kind of awkward. And we sang- well, some of us- and rubbished and were liable to be reported to Stomp a few more times, but it was so companionable! So...!!
After that seven of us went to Hannah's house to watch Phantom of the Opera :D I think I've memorised it already, but it remains captivating no matter how many times I watch it!

And today- games carnival-
This is the reason I'm sunburnt and my face kind of hurts already, and if I put my hand on my upper arm (of the other arm, obviously) I can feel heat RADIATING from my arm. Haha and there are two very obvious tone discrepancies (doesn't sound right but whatever) because my class tee has quite long sleeves.
BUT IT WAS FUN!
I think this year was the only time I was so into the games. Sec One was a joke with table-tennis, last year was frisbee too, but this year was different.
It occurred to me, while talking to Mackie, that this was our last games carnival, so I actually wanted to try other games, and when Amanda F asked if I wanted to play soccer I was pleasantly surprised. It was fun!! Sara was a good goalkeeper, only after she kicked the ball away from the goal (she looked so surprised that she managed to kick it away) she hopped and said, "Ow, my toe hurts," and glared at me when I laughed at her, but when I slipped and fell trying to kick the ball she claimed to have wanted to ask me if I was okay, but ended up roaring with laughter instead.
After the second soccer match was a frisbee match, and though our team was battered and broken we actually formed some kind of team bond and could almost communicate!

Haha this photo was an accident!It got too sweet so we had to buy friesI love the (digitally-enhanced) skyOkay... Rachel's laughing to/by herself again...Ning started it... she kept sticking her face in, and then Hannah followed the trend, and then Gen...Awesome sky

It's not the last paper yet but still. I cannot bear the thought of going back to the books (1st week: super enthu, studying everyday. 2nd week: clinging on, studying the day before, like cramming 10 chap of bio in a night/stuffing three mega-chap of geog in 2 1/2h. This week: can't even tolerate the sight of textbooks, which is why I majorly screwed up A math today).

I think the best thing about exams is the period after, when you can practically feel everyone's brains unwinding and muscles relaxing, (and also everything we've memorised flying out mind) and plans to go out out OUT just happening, clashing and being frustrating and it's hard to finalize plans but this kind of exasperating is a hundred times better than the why-can't-I-do-a-single-A-math-problem-sum kind of maddening that I experienced last night. Also more good things are that choir (finally) resumes!!, there's no more guilt when I read/watch TV now, even if I do have to study for MEP on Thurs...

I'm rambling.

We can't go home at 10am any longer of course- that was kind of the highlight of the exams. And no more practising piano and voice luxuriously longer than normal school days, no more trying to figure out guitar chords, no more visiting Maddie at random times, no more eating lunch at my grandparents', no more taking the bus back with the Sengkang Rebels and laughing raucously to de-stress, and I can't watch the Mr Men show at 12nn anymore.

It's quite sad in a way haha, I just realised. There's not going to be anymore frantic revision in the mornings (especially when you haven't finished studying for the exam that day), and hushed whispers of 'Good luck' and everyone's eyes fixed on the clock waiting for it to turn eight.

But I'm sure I won't be missing it when there're prelims next year :/

It's the exams, but today was the suspiciously easy emath paper (I don't trust it, there are bound to be careless mistakes) so I thought I'd drop by.
Yesterday I went to visit Maddie! and played with him for about an hour. He has this soft toy dog (as in, it's literally very soft) that he apparently can't sleep without, and Rosie (the maid) kept hiding it so he would be bewildered and try to look for it, and every time he found it he would scream ear-deafeningly loudly with joy and squeeze/hug it tightly. To which Rosie commented, "Wow, Maddie loves his dog a lot huh."
After Rosie and I continuously hid his dog, he got fed up and sat on his dog's head so no one could take it. And he shouted baby talk and pointed at us, I think he was scolding us or something?!
Then Rosie was like, "Why are you sitting on your dog?" but he wouldn't budge. And she continued, "His skull is fractured!" (which I found was a very funny thing to say to a not-quite-two year old kid) And Maddie screwed up his face to frown at us.
Rosie said, "Is that how you show your love for the dog? By sitting on his head?"

I thought that was quite interesting.