Woohoo!!! Lookie!!

I changed the template!

Looks much nicer than that orange one, but I couldn't change the archives, so the archived posts will still appear on that ugly orange template... :(

One of these days I'll sit down and figure out how to change that. :D

Only problem with this template is that there's supposed to be a *gif of bubbles popping at the top, but most of the time, that picture just disappears.

Oh well. Can't have everything, can we? :P

I think I'll put the tagboard back in. Maybe at a later date. Kinda lazy now since I've been staring at lines and lines of code for about half an hour. :P

~~PRELIMS ARE OVER!!!~~

And that makes me the happiest crayon in the box. :D

Okay, that expression doesn't sound right, coz technically, it's impossible for a crayon to be happy, but heck, I don't care!

It sounds happy enough, anyway, that's all I need. Haha. :P

And anyway, today's Econs paper was really good! Case study and DRQ was pretty easy; MCQ was a bit of strain on the brain, but I think I got through it okay. :D

This has to be the best Econs papers that I've ever taken. :D

Still pondering whether or not I wanna go for alumni band tomorrow. It's pretty late, and plus, no one that I'm reasonably close to has confirmed that they're going yet.

John and Pam aren't free, and Soon Aik and Dawn are still considering; Dawn said that Xiao Chuan's going though. I don't mind Xiao Chuan, he's a nice guy.

Lalala.....guess I'll see about it tonight, then. :)

As for the rest of today.... I'm gonna finish the lovely novel that I'm reading right now, and will probably go on a writing spree for the weekend. My head's bursting with a few ideas that I had to restrain myself from writing during the exam, coz if I start, I usually don't stop till about a few hours later....

Couldn't infringe on valuable study time, could I? :P

Right, gonna go have fun now.

Oh yeah, note to Kong Wen if he drops by here: Good luck for your papers! I think you told me that they start in October or something, I can't really remember when, just that they're after mine. Anyway, all the best! :)

Okay, well, I've just decided that it isn't such a bad thing that my sister brought home that novel... at least she brought it back when my really tough papers were already over.

Just had geog paper 2 today; it wasn't bad at all, but I guess it could've been better.

Next paper's on Wednesday; Lit paper 8. Since it's impossible to study for that paper, that means that technically I have about three days to catch up on some Maths formulae for Thursday's paper and to do some MCQ for Econs on Friday.

And after that, bye bye Prelims.

And hello to anxious waiting for the bloody results.

Life sucks. :P

But hey, I guess it could be worse. :)

Please, whatever higher powers are out there, SAVE ME!!!

My sister is turning me into a Leonardo DiCaprio fan!!!!

The absolute horror of it all!

Well, okay, I mean no offence to him or his fans, all right?

I swear, I was never a fan before, despite the fact that the year I was 14, I was dragged into the school library and forcibly made to sit down with five different groups of friends five different times and made to watch "Romeo and Juliet" with them... well, five times.

It's just a pity that our batch didn't do R&J for Lit...I could at least have put that tape to some use; trust me, watching it five times is enough to memorise the entire text of R&J.

Anyway, back to the point.

It might've been a mistake to tape "Man in the Iron Mask" that night. I do have a thing for the tragic, lonely kinda characters in stories, and Philippe is just this poor sweet little thing that got locked up in prison for 6 years, so hey, he fits that description....

Damn it.

I'm getting an idea for a fanfic there; something along the lines of Athos and Philippe's father-son relationship.

As with all my other stuff, it will turn out angsty, but since it's a father-son thing, maybe a little fluffy on the side.

I make it sound like a pancake.

"Fluffy on the side"..... *rolls eyes*

Another bad thing: my sis managed to find the "Man In the Iron Mask" novel in her school library and brought it home...

The problem with me is that I can't stay away from any kind of book that looks even mildly interesting.

So I'm reading instead of studying for my Prelims. Again. Like I did during my CTs.

Study, you stupid girl!!

Crap. My screwed-up life.

Just had my second Lit paper. Was pretty good, much better than the Shakespeare paper, that's for sure. :P

Anyway, the best part was that I spotted "Ariel" for the Plath section of the paper, and guess what, it came out!!

Haha... I definitely did the context question, of course. I always do context for Plath, anyway!

I actually intended to do context for all three questions, but surprisingly, the only context that I did was Plath. I did essays for both Pinter and API.

Just like the Shakespeare paper; intended to do three contexts, but ended up doing three essays instead. The weirdest thing.

Also, I realise that I forgot to type an entry on Tuesday after my Phys Geog paper.

It was fantastic, btw. :D

Man, when I was doing it, I felt like I knew the answers for everything! I knew exactly what to write, what diagrams to draw; for the first time ever in my life, I knew what it felt like to literally have everything at your fingertips. :D

I now have three whole days and the rest of today to study for human geog. Gonna work hard at it and get a really good grade for geog this time!!

Everything seems to be going so well for this exam; I'm glad it counts, since it's Prelims and all that. I just hope my luck holds out.

Remember how I was panicking over why I didn't seem to be the least bit anxious over my Prelims?

I'm starting to wonder now if somehow, something inside me knew that there was no need to panic. :P

Still, it seems a lil' overconfident to say that....

So I'll put all my energy now into panicking for the A levels (in a good sense, of course) and I shall try and finish about two whole units of Econs MCQ before the MCQ paper next Friday!

I've gotta try and get at least.... I'll set the target at 23- for MCQ. MCQ counts for 30% after all; that's a a lot, and it's easy to get those marks, so I'm gonna get them! :P

I will not talk about today's Econs and Lit papers.

Okay, suffice to say that they sucked.

But actually, not as much as usual.

I actually wrote twice as much as I normally write for Econs essays, and the only thing that really sucked in Lit was the "Othello" question.

Oh well. Guess that'll have to do for now... still have two more papers to do for both those subjects, anyway. The grades are still salvageable.

Damn, I said that I wouldn't talk about it!!

Moving on now.

Yesterday, a new show replaced Gilmore Girls.... apparently it ended its current season last week and I wasn't even aware that I was watching the last ep of it. I didn't even know there was supposed to be a new show either at that time slot on Sundays.

Singapore needs to cut down on weekday TV show ads. Spare some thought for the weekends!!

Anyway, new show. It's called Everwood, about life in this small little town called Everwood in Colorado.

Man, it's beautiful.

This tiny little town nestled the Rockies....it's really beautiful. I hope it's a real place. I might wanna migrate there when I get older.

Maybe I'll go look it up.

The characters are really sweet people too. And there's Gregory Smith on it. Reasonably good-looking guy; remember the main character in "Small Soldiers"? Yeah, that was him.

(Remember how I said that all the good-lookers were coming out of the woodwork at an accelerated rate too??)

I've worked it out; as of Sept 24, I'll be watching 5 hours of TV a week.

An increase of two hours. 5 hours of TV in a week sounds like too much to me when you consider that I should be studying for the A's in two months time.

Have to stop thinking about TV. 5 hours. That's it. No more increases in TV time, except maybe to fit in the odd documentary or Monday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday night movie if it's good.

Speaking of Sunday night movies. Channel 5 aired "Man in the Iron Mask" last night.

I've never watched the whole thing before; when it first opened in cinemas here, I wasn't interested in it, and when they first premiered on TV, all I caught was the first half of it.

Anyway, it was a nice one. Loved the ending though.

Rife with so much political drama and entanglements yet positively quite heart-wrenching. Philippe was a really poor thing though.

You try going from spending six years of your life in a disgusting, completely unsanitary prison, straight to being a king and having to rule a country.

I bet it ain't pretty.

I mean, I guess the change in the view and surroundings isn't so bad, plus there's a major elevation in your status and the quality of the food that you're eating, but still.... ruling an entire country as big as France after you've been in jail for six years?

Something tells me that Philippe didn't exactly practise for it by ordering the rats in his cell around.

Odd. I've been sane for three days in a row now. :P

Saturday.

My official TV day since it's the only day of the week with anything worth watching. In my opinion.

Small bonus: Next week's X-Men Evolution ep is a Pietro ep. Too much Quicksilver is not a good thing for a girl like me, but hey, we all love stuff that isn't good for us, don't we?

Doesn't it make you wonder if humans aren't just a little naturally masochistic in some way?

Slightly bigger bonus: Today's Mutant X ep was a Jesse ep. Yahoo. :D Nice to see the guy get all uptight and everything.... Yeah, I tend to be a little sadistic. I enjoy seeing my favourite characters getting emotionally wound up and screwed up (remember?).

Large bonus: My sis was on the Channel 5 website today, and FINALLY..... Singapore has bought the second season of Dark Angel, and it's being slotted in at midnight on Wednesday (Sep 24), taking over once Buffy finishes its current season.

The good thing about this is that I'm finally gonna get to see some of the season 2 eps that I've wanted to see for TWO YEARS. (Jumps and dances around the room before returning to the computer, reasonably saner)

The bad thing is.... Jensen Ackles is in season 2. As a regular, not like the guest appearance that he made in season 1 when he played Ben. Now he's back and playing Ben's twin, Alec, and the problem with that is.....

Well, he's just very good-looking. :)

All the cute guys are definitely coming out of the woodwork at an accelerated rate. And they're picking a bad time to do it.

Oh well.

We can't all have what we want.

Which brings me to him.

Yeah, that um..."special someone" who doesn't know he's my "special someone".

The thought of him depresses me nowadays.

Maybe it's just 'cause lately I've started to see the impossibility that he could ever like someone like me. Or maybe I think too lowly of myself.

Whatever it is, my thoughts today seem to revolve around this:

Humans love what we shouldn't have, and we want what we can't have.

Another reason why the end of the world is probably near.

I just hope I'm not around to see it.

Although I admit it would be interesting. :)

I seem to be pretty sane today.... so let's end it there while I still have a grip on my sanity. :)

No extra geog class today, so I got home early on a Thursday for the first time in a long time! :D

Today's definitely a good day. :)

What else to say...?

Oh yeah, when I got back up to class earlier today, I found Edison advising the girls on what to wear from grad night...

Edison, of all people.

And frankly, his dress advice made sense. Seriously.

It's at times like these that I really start to lose hope for the only boy in my class... haha. :P But he's a nice guy, and actually, I think he's very much still a guy. :D

And I suppose girls would like a guy with good taste, anyway! :D

I had my glasses (well, the lenses) changed on Tuesday.

Degree's increased. Damn.

And yesterday, when I stepped out of school, it was just kinda amazing.

Everything was just so bright and clear and sharp, and the trees across the road, I could actually see individual leaves instead of some green mass sitting atop a trunk. :P

Man, that had to be what it's like for blind people to see. :D

Woohoo.....GP Prelim is tomorrow.

Gonna go home and read my Anthony Giddens sociology text for the rest of the day; the last time I did that for the mid-year exam, it helped! :D

Was watching yesterday's Smallville and hey....Jeremy Lelliot is pretty cute. :D

And I realised on Saturday that Forbes March on Mutant X is pretty cute too. :P

And I'm starting to wonder, why is it that all the good-looking guys seem to be coming out of the woodwork now when I need to concentrate on studies?!

I swear, I'm jinxed.

And oh yeah, I've finally realised something.

You know how everyone always asks what kind of guys/girls you like? Depending on which gender you are, that is.

I've finally figured out what kind I like (I think) and I don't think the prognosis is very good.

I seem to like guys who, well, look pretty okay, but they tend to be a little... err... vulnerable?

Is that the right phrase for it??

Oh well. Seems to fit.

I mean, there tends to be something which isn't altogether "right" about them. I don't mean that they're off in the head or anything, just that they seem to be missing something or other. In the sense that there's something... which didn't maybe go too well in the past.

I see this kinda pattern in all my favourite characters in shows and books too.

I like all the emotionally distraught, mentally screwed-up characters.

Even the characters on TV shows; somehow even the good-looking ones don't come across as being just good-looking to me; for some reason I still see some kind of vulnerable quality to them and I have no idea why.

Man, I knew I was a screwed up kid.... :P