Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award
Saturday, August 30, 2008,10:47 PM
My DOE service is finished!! :D
It keeps raining nowadays, at least once in a day. I've survived school for a week now, but I have homework on almost everything.
Met up with Tim and the others today, we went to escapade, then we went to the mall and the others met up with an old classmate. It was pretty awkward because I didn't know the guy. He thought Ling was Camille! haha :D Body shop has this cool lomo thing going on for charity. We took several photos together.
Lomography is characterized by its 'unique, colorful and sometimes blurry' photos. At least it's still in production, unlike polaroids. :(
Fish eye lomo.
Labels: school
yr 11- first day
Monday, August 25, 2008,4:31 PM
Not so sure why I always anticipate first days of school after a long break. This must have been the third time this has happened. Year 11 is the
BIG year with all those GCSE and coursework wrestling, as well as
prom.
I would put it this way, change is nice. But the Year 11 timetable is totally messed up, well, for me- straight after monday's first lesson, art, I have DOUBLE PE! I'm not in Alexia's PE class, I'm scared they put me in some funny class, I've got to check that out. I'm in Miss Bennett's class for art, which is quite nice but I'm separated from Syaz. To top it off, my locker is in S block when things happen only in T block- it's where the 'life' is- where the rest of upper school has their lockers. Oh, and Mr Lowther was nice, as soon as we walked into physics, he told us we had a test on Wednesday. We also have to hand in our geo coursework on Wednesday. So it's back to school and whining about work. :)
Labels: school
you’ve got yesterday’s heroes in last night's clothes
Thursday, August 21, 2008,8:42 PM
School's next week, still a lot to do, and not much done- I've got to rewrite and add some more bits to my geo coursework and my Sibelius doesn't work. :(
Also, today's the day we get our science results(+ foreign chinese). It didn't work at 1pm, it only worked at about 6pm. Even with the delay, I still haven't got my bio results yet. It makes me scared, because I didn't do as well as I expected in my last Bio exam. Other than that, the results I did get were satisfactory and I'm very happy about it.
Today I finished the book 'The Host' by Stephanie Meyer. It's a really sweet love story, yet it feels like science fiction at the same time. Somehow, just by reading it, it made me feel really upset- humans living with no future, which is a pretty scary prospect.
It talks about Earth, taken over by parasite souls that live in people to colonize them. When the souls go into the human(host), usually the host's real soul dies. However this particular girl refuses to die and the soul ends up with all her memories and begins to fall in love with her host body's human lover. This is when things start to go wrong, the soul and the host body(Melanie) both go in search for the man they both love.
PS: nope, m'sia lost to china in men's singles.
Labels: book, holidays, school
back.
Sunday, August 17, 2008,9:14 PM
First things first, LEE CHONG WEI has to win men's singles in badminton and China has got to stop the mind-numbing cheerings of
加油, it's unsettling and upsetting :( He's returning rather feeble shots, oh dear. olympics is getting to me, sorry. :)
I just got back from KK, I think it was a great experience :D WON in the 2 categories that I joined :D, so very happy. Sutera Harbour's a lovely place, the hotel rooms are pretty comfy, and the bathroom has a tub and a shower area- with shutters as well! There have fantastic landscaping and stuff, food's not bad either. They have cable tv, but somehow no live Olympics broadcast- tomorrow rhythmic gymnastics will start, i think.
back to the TV.
Labels: holidays, music, trips
summery beats: bangkok
Tuesday, August 5, 2008,8:02 PM
Just got back from Bangkok. It's been about 5 days or a bit more than that since i've been away, and it seems like nothing much has changed even though it feels like it's been ages.
bangkok's so modern. i went there not quite sure what to expect, but it turned out to be a lot like s'pore because of all the high-rise buildings, underground trains and skytrain.
the hotel i stayed in was connected to the skytrain, so it made things so easy. thai people kept speaking thai to all of us. This random lady on the skytrain asked mum what was the next stop in thai, a random caucasian guy asked sis to press the number four on the lift in thai.
despite us looking thai of some sorts we still stuck out like sore thumbs when we used the skytrain. The coins wouldn't go in, because we were using 1 baht when only 5 baht and 10 baht could be used. We got pinned down by the gates at least three times while carrying shopping bags (embarassing). Later we noticed thai people carrying bags put their hands clear of the sensor thing-o, so we did the same whenever we had a lot of shopping bags.
The hotel we stayed in had a cabaret show that had she-male performers. According to the tour-guides, these men were more beautiful than his wife. He even went on to explain how they got their boobs done, and he kept trying to persuade us to go. (we didn't go.) But the tour-guide was right. Some 'ladies' we met on the skytrain had shaved smooth legs and were decked out in skinny jeans and shorts!
Another thing, thai people walk a lot. Almost all of them wear shorts all the time in all places, they all have skinny, skinny legs. Almost all thai teens have dyed hair in a layer cut. Almost all the guys appear to go to the same hairdresser and they all wear skinny jeans. The girls' uniform skirts that are even shorter than my miniskirts! I wonder what they do to get so skinny, because thai food in super-yummy. It's not all hot and spicy. The desserts they make are good. Sugar made from coconut, used to make their lovely desserts. Mango and sticky rice, coated with coconut santan. The tour guide also brought us to the market where dad got durian and smuggled it into the hotel :D we also got longan and duku.
Another market that was lovely was Chatuchak. It's every bit amazing as they say it is, but it's so very hot. The place is humungous, so big you could get lost. Every corner there are shops chock-full of printed t-shirts with all those rock prints all over them- the beatles, the libertines and so on.
The tuk-tuks are scary, the first day we went there there was one tailing us and trying to get us get on his little buggy. Scared us so much we never ventured on foot on the street, we used the skytrain instead. Wondering why we didn't get on? The tour-guide said apparently they overcharge people, making them go around in circles instead of going for the shorter alternative route. Now for photos.
edit://6th of August.
yes, the taxis in Thailand are the cutest. They come in all colours of the rainbow: blue and red, pink, green and yellow, orange and purple.
This is not your typical temple. This is Wat Arun.(temple of the dawn)
every bit of this structure is made of broken porcelain that they found off sunken Chinese ships. A great way to recycle eyy.
bags in the market at Wat Arun.
This is on a longboat sampan on the waterways which lead to the floating market. This waterway went through A LOT of backyards and frontyards of people's houses in thailand.
Everywhere in Thailand there are traffic jams, even in the Floating Market.
The tour guide insisted he take hold of the camera to take a picture of this man. This ah-pek(old man) is 80+ and apparently, he looks like on of those chinese old men with the beards. I think he's modern, advocating for world peace.
Intricate wood carvings. They even do the detail of each wrinkle on the elephant!
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