Today is so awesome it deserves a blog entry

Starting a day happy makes the entire day happy. And it's not just true for my case, it's wayyyyyyy too true. Because for the entire day today, I got happier and happier and tonight I shall sleep while smiling. Yea.

The day started pretty ordinarily with my ordinary bread as breakfast. Got a little happy because my mum made braised eggs and I was going to bring one to school. And yes it was delicious.

Then I used my iPod to check Twitter and Facebook updates. And guess what? Carrie liked the drawing that I uploaded on Facebook. I mean, what are the chances of your idol looking at your drawing and pressing the 'like' button? And as usual I started to hyperventilate in the middle of the classroom and laughing hysterically to my iPod. I'm trying to make it sound as not fangirlish as possible. But you can probably imagine me doing it.

Oh and the rice I ate for recess was really really nice. I ordered chilli fishcake, cabbage, and ikan bilis with assam curry on the rice. It was so delicious I swear it was the bestest food I've ever had in school. Better than mushroom noodles, BBQ chicken, mee siam and whatsoever. I wouldn't have wondered about what to eat for recess/lunch if I knew it was this nice!

Also got back geog paper and I am pretty satisfied with my score even though that Abhishek who sits beside me got 33/35. But I'm not Abhishek so my score is good enough.

And the CCA sessions that gets better and better. I like how ATC employs external directors. It means a new start. New beginning. But I'll leave it to my next entry about it. Hahaha.

Another thing to be happy about is that 159 wasn't crowded today!

And when I got home and went online to check for updates again, Diya liked my drawing too! You can't imagine how excited I was!

I want to draw a portrait of them but one unhappy thing today is that I still haven't found my pencils. I've been searching high and low in all the possible hiding places of my pencils but to no avail.

O Pencils, Pencils, Where art thou? *dramatic thunder sound cue*

Inky cells

Can someone please grant me some inky cells?

So that I can express myself with more 墨水?

I can't believe I came up with this. It totally shows how not inky I am. I get so jealous when I see people write really captivating compositions/essay. Have never been able to write any artistic-sounding compositions ever since I could write. My brain has never been able to turn images into descriptive stuff nor churn out creative story lines. My compositions are always so damn clichéd with limited vocabulary. No wonder I disliked English ever since I was young.

Teachers have always told me to read more books to improve my command of the language. But seriously. It's about absorbing how authors write books, and I always read those teenage novels. Which are uhm, not really that good for composition-writing. And by the way, I think that was a sentence fragment. After learning about sentence structure, I realised my old blog entries are filled with fragments.

My inability to express myself is becoming a _______. (Damn I can't think of a word to put in.) My love poem to my idol fades into the shadows when I see some other poems like some tragic fantasy and a Romeo & Juliet one.

Someone grant me some inky cells please!!! English or Chinese also can lah! :(

插班生迷你音乐会

Hmm shall do a short entry about The Freshman Mini Showcase I went with Elaine at the Esplanade.

I asked my mum for permission the day before the performance, while my mum was frying prawn crackers. I didn't really have high hopes that she would allow me to go (it was on a Wednesday) so I just said okay when she said no. But I decided that I must go because it seemed to be really awesome from the rehearsal video they uploaded. So I went home straight after school and did my homework so that I'll have another extra point to convince my mum. And she allowed. Huahuahuahua.

Walked at amazingly fast speed on the way to the outdoor theatre because I was going to be late and it's 插班生!!! Who would want to miss their performance?! They started singing 逞强 not long after I settled down on a good spot and took out my camera.

(You can watch the other vids I uploaded here. Even though the quality is horrible la.)

Sorry it's really wobbly and that they went out of frame a few times because I was turning behind to look for Elaine.

Ok it's the first event I went to that they sang sooooooo many songs. 7 songs for each slot if I didn't remember wrongly. And I stayed for both slots. But it's worth it, even if I get slaughtered by my mum!!! They sang so many songs and many were those they normally wouldn't sing at events, while some were not their songs!

Favourite tracks of the event:

1. 逞强

2. 除了爱你还能爱谁. I already love the version they sang on the streets of Taiwan in the video, but the live one was even more lovable! Heehee.

3. 承认 by Carrie. The song isn't in my era but it's a classic. I know the song!

4. Que te pasa by Diya. Funny song.

5. 1924. It's the first time hearing it at an event! 有点小忘词 but it was still good. :)

6. 愚人码头. Also not in my era but have heard it before. I like I like.

7. 红鞋女孩. CBS dancing leh!!! How can I not like it!

8. 回忆，这东西. The song that got me to love CBS.

Okay so the whole performance was something like this. Oh ya I forgot to mention, after the performance, they stayed a while to autograph the albums that were bought there. And the very-high-and-fangirly me couldn't resist walking to the side of the stage to see them up-close. Wheeheeheehee. After signing on all the albums they were starting to leave.

The still-very-high-and-fangirly me said to Elaine, "Oh my gosh I wanna say bye to them la oh my gosh should I should I should I???" in such a fangirly tone. Ooops. They walked a distance and then I couldn't resist being a shy fangirl anymore and so I stretched out both my hands and said 'BYEEEE!!!!!" with this uh very huge smile plastered on my face.

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Okay maybe not so much. But still.

Carrie then said bye also and she shook Elaine's and my hands while saying Happy New Year!! Heeheeheehee. Diya who was further back thanked us for staying for both sets.

And I left and (insert journey home), and reached home at 10.30pm feeling ecstatic and euphoric etc (for more words with the same meaning, refer to the English handout).

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Still feeling very high and fangirly now. HUAHUAHUA.

The Happy and the Not-So-Happy Things of CNY

Happy things like looking at my adorable preschool cousin who is probably the 'main attraction' at my 外婆家 and eating prawn crackers. The happiness when I finally won a round of Monopoly Deal for the first time. When I had the chance to barbeque food for the first time ever despite having been to barbeques. And the first ever lohei there. And writing '世界和平' on the 孔明灯/许愿灯 that we flew and hoping it would reach to the very top of the night sky and be fulfilled.

When I was young, I used to look forward to CNY because of angbaos and the chance to play with my cousins. But in recent years, I realised angbaos no longer hold much significance to me anymore. My family is the only one that is living in Singapore so ever since I was young, my aunts and uncles and grandparents would give extra angbao money to my sis and I. As a kid I was happy, because it simply means more money. I would be a little sad when my mum took some of my angbao money to pack them into angbaos and give them to my cousins.

But to be honest I don't like the fact that I get more angbao money than other cousins. Residing in Singapore doesn't mean I'm any different from my cousins. Neither does it mean I'm better and I deserve more. I do not. If I were my cousin I wouldn't like it too. To a 9-year-old's mind, angbaos mean money.

But to my current state of mind now, it is a matter of obligation --- because of your seniority, because you are working, because you are married. I don't think the act of giving angbaos started out as a matter of obligation. It started out as a symbolism of blessings and hope that the receiver would be well in the new year. How many of those angbaos you received are really from the bottom of their hearts with the hope that you will be blessed?

I do not know.

If you ask me how much angbao money I got last year, I don't know. If you ask me again how much I got this year, again I will say, I don't know. I gave all of them to my mum for safe-keeping and I didn't even open a single one.

I hope all the angbaos that I received are all from the bottom of their hearts.

And as the sky lantern slowly drifts up the endless night sky, I hope for world peace. From the bottom of my heart.

:)