road trip
24 May 2008 at 12:21 am
i know this post comes a little late but..
man utd won the champions league, david cook won american idol, jack black was hilarious, they sang apologize, class outing was great, we've asked mr lee out, and i've finished packing!
i am a happy girl.
okay la but i'm going to fail maths and econs =((
GEOG TRIP HERE I COME!
missed
~* jo *~
friend or foe
22 May 2008 at 1:17 pm
i've watched speed racer AND i've got the stardust soundtrack, weehee! iron man soundtrack isn't out yet though. but soon! if you like lots of colourful bright exciting things (like me!) go watch speed racer. i guarantee you'll love the races. even if you don't like colourful bright things you'll probably still like the races, as proven by my friend. so uhh, watch speed racer! QED.
yesterday was a beautiful day =D
firstly, i finally finished reading heart of darkness, and i managed to photocopy wilfred owen so i wouldn't be text-less today.
secondly, i think i studied pretty hard.
thirdly, I FOUND MY CALCULATOR! or rather mr alobaloba pineapple hedgehog (aka mr low) found it and tried to convince the library auntie it was hers o.O it's the scientific calculator i lost in the library last year i think when i was studying for promos. omg. so like i was walking to the photocopying machines to do owen when mr aph beckons me over. "what's your surname?" he asks. "uhh, seow?" he walks me over to the library counter and goes "zhe ge jiu she joanna seow!" and then while i look on incredulously my calculator appears from the desk and he and the aunties get into some strange semi-argument about whose calculator that is (it has "joanna seow =)" written on the back) and where he found it coz apparently he borrowed the auntie's calculator and when he returned it it had my name on it, omg. hahaha! so finally when i wanted to take my caluculator and go, the aunties became so skeptical and were like "girl, if it's not yours, cannot take you know." and then they hit upon the bright idea of checking my ezlink card so woohoo they finally let me go. the auntie from jb says she's going to report me to mr teo coz ONCE AGAIN she caught me with my waterbottle inside and she says i'm going to have to see ms phua.
fourthly, aud jie and i went to sentosa with jane&samuel to try out the sound for their wedding =D it was really fun seeing the planning and we all agree that they are really sweet together haha. especially when they were trying to decide how fast to do the march in. we were like playing canon and laughing non-stop. i haven't been to a wedding in a while coz of my relatives, everyone older than me is either married or in another country, and my dad's bb boys are all married and raising children. lol. but anyway it was really sweet and uhh it just made me wonder how it would feel to be less than a month away from your wedding, feeling so sure you've found the one you want to spend the rest of your life with, the one God has planned to pop into your life at just the right time. i wonder how i would feel. joyful? scared? haha anyway QUARTET! we'd better play really beautifully on that day, jane says "my happiness rests in your hands!" yikes.
fifthly, after that jie aud and i went to vivo! I LOVE VIVO I LOVE VIVO. it makes me feel like a kid in a candy store *rubs hands gleefully* could only window shop though on account of the heavy instruments and fat books. haha. but it was so fun! <3 we must all plot to give jie a makeover xD and then when we walked out of candy empire these two guys pounced on us and.. asked us if they could do a magic trick for us! so funny. so the guy made a HUGE GIGANTIC DIAMOND pop out of an ace of diamonds card o.O i was like, "WOAH!" jie was like, "woah." aud was like, "..." hahaha. we were all kinda tired by that time though. but he was funky. and then they said they were going to put it on youtube. yikes.
sixthly, although i got home at 830pm, i watched american idol (instead of studying)! okay, not supposed to be a good thing but. final two! ACK DAVID COOK PLEASE WIN!! I LOVE YOUR VOICE! but but but so many people support david archuletta =( i mean he IS very good and i think he sings in a very inspirational manner but still, david cook's a rocker and he's so versatile! david a. only sings the one type of ballad-y songs.
so yay! little things like those 6 make a day just fine =)
today there's class outing later, to some abazu azuba dunno what place, can't wait =D and there's tv to watch tonight, bags to pack for GEOG TRIP WOOHOO and a piano to play just for the joy of it.
just one of those times when it's good to be alive.
Your goodness overflows, Your blessings abound. all i can offer is this thanks. re-found.
~* jo *~
wheeeeeeeeeeee
22 May 2008 at 1:10 pm
MY COMMON TESTS ARE OVER!!
~* jo *~
a moaning post
17 May 2008 at 10:56 pm
wow, more than half my CTs are over. in fact, i only have one lit paper left.. whoopdeedoo!
ALL THE BEST TO EVERYONE WHO STILL HAS PAPERS! may all your studying come in reallllll handy =)
NOTE: do skip (the next few paragraphs) to the *** in order not to be moaned into passing out.
yeah anyway, i've been moaning a lot about how horrible my CTs have gone. seriously, i am not at all confident for math after hearing everyone's discussion of the answers, i am so scared for gp, and i'm definitely screwed for econs, geog and lit. sigh. let me tell you about my awful time management. out of the 1 hour 40 minutes we had to do 2 equally weighted econs essays, i spent 1 hour ++ on the first one, and wrote completely out of point for the second. screwed. out of the 3 hours we had for 2 equally weighted geog papers, i spent 2 hours 15 minutes on human geog, and wrote 6 lines for a 9m physical geog essay (i didn't touch the 16m part b). screwed. out of the 3 hours we had for lit paper 1, i spent 2 hours on the unseen, 40 minutes on great ex and 20 minutes on darling bosola on who i had so much more to write when time was up. screwed.
=((((((
and the reason i know the times so surely is because i didn't bring a watch and had to keep glancing (with increasing anxiety) at the clock in the gym / hall.
to continue moaning, here is a breakdown of my study actuality (as opposed to 'study plan', which i made but did not follow): monday 5 may - sunday 11 may, math revision package. monday 12 may, population, complex numbers. tuesday 13 may, population. wednesday 14 may, (after gp) CRAM econs, sampling theory. thursday 15 may, (after math) CRAM human geog (physical geog uhh give up le la). friday 16 may, (morning) lit. oh-kay! i resolve never to be so last minute again! but the next time i'll have a chance to practice will be PRELIMS omg. =(((((
you have been moaned. mojomoaned.
*** okay so I'M SO GLAD CTS ARE ALMOST OVER. i'm already celebrating =D
on thursday after lit, mer tis celle and i queued up for aristal tickets. the girl behind me was remarking that it was so ndp-ish, and i said yeah next thing you know people will be popping tents out of the schoolbags. thank goodness we were like almost the first in line so we got all the tickets we needed! going with jia and kim yayyy can't wait can't wait =) it's the day before exco elections, so exciting. celle and i went to the plaza sing carl's junior for dinner!! =D =D (observe the beeeg mouths) obviously good food. celle was so retarded lol. girl, convoluted!!!! we went to the scrapbooking store and bought ten dollars worth of beautiful paper YAY. when celle's old and rich she's gonna own the store and give me loads of free stuff, aren't you celle! hahaha. love that store. we spent like an hour just looking at all the pretty eclectic things like the paper and ribbons. it was really fun =)
today was just great =D strings in church was the morning. enjoyable was the afternoon! went to vivo and watched iron man =D =D as mr oh said, 'it was damn good' xD I LOVE TONY STARK'S HOUSE AHHHH. AND THE SOUNDTRACK = <3 the next two cds i buy shall be the iron man and stardust soundtracks. and the action was obviously very good though some parts a wee bit unbelievable but still. loved it! even more unbelievable was the sheer amount of popcorn i polished off. ugh. and omg half the belgian waffle at hagen daaz =) hahaha. oh, managed to walk into pull and bear and walk out again without buying anything *congratulates self*
i don't care the next movie i'm watching is SPEED RACER the graphics look so good. or maybe just coz the trailer's so colourful lol.
if you commit harm to others you can ask them for their forgiveness, beg them, if necessary. if you harm yourself, how do you forgive you?
change is afoot.
we finally got the new car (it's awesome) and the design for the new place is almost finalized!
change is afoot.
wait
~* jo *~
on top
12 May 2008 at 12:32 am
wished i could be there. haha definitely beats 94 minutes of mugging for CTs in front of the tv. brooding players walking out of the tunnel, near-penalty scares, lots of football, some frustration, sudden change of pace when chelsea scored, and ryan giggs! haha and the trophy presentation, that was fun. sir alex ferguson jumped for joy and looked like a teddy bear. and the players put on funny hats and danced around in the champagne fountains.
oh joy =D
now for moscow!
uhh, whee xD
~* jo *~
quotas
11 May 2008 at 2:53 pm
my family has been doing strange stuff that worries me about their sanity =P
haha friday night was fun, we played bridge after dinner because i felt like slacking after attempting to mug for a whole week straight (okay i did of course watch american idol and men in trees lol). my dad's really good at bridge (okay, AND he had imba cards). my mom's really blur. my bro's an idiot! he bid 4 spades and he didn't even have the ace, king or queen. OMG i wanted to slap him after we lost. hahaha.
saturday was really fun too coz in the morning my family went to meet the designers to finalize the design for the new place. she didn't change my design for my room, yay. we're just having a bit of a dispute about my wall colours lol. getting a new silent piano btw! if you've ever played on my piano you'll know how out of tune and plinky it is (a few broken strings). lunch was at red star restaurant? think it's supposed to be really famous but i didn't really like it. in the afternoon i baked a cake for mom, jon iced it to look like a durian haha. dad jon and i made dinner for mom and she liked it =) the cake too, which was dessert. oh i used half the batter for cake and the other half for cupcakes for mom and grandma. you should've seen the cupcakes in the oven they looked so adorable and puffy. but everyone was being strange! when jon was going to pour olive oil onto the cherry tomatoes i saw him pick up the olive oil bottle and toss some onto the table in semi slo-mo! and i can't understand when he says it's coz he picked it up too hard =( even though the rest of my family does. and then my dad, we were talking and he suddenly looked down on his plate and announced with surprise that he had two of the same type of sausage there =S omg i think we're all going mad.
we donated 3 huge bags of clothes to the crime library people outside farrer court collecting stuff to send to myanmar. sometimes i worry about how you can trust people to actually send these things and not kope them to sell at some ulu night market. have to keep reminding myself, if you give, just give and have faith that God will get it to the right places. hope what we gave helps!
TODAY we went to pete's place for buffet lunch with my grandparents and my uncle's inlaws. there was a cool guy called something barbasso, "the acrobatic pizza chef". so like halfway through lunch funky music comes on and he walks around the restaurant flipping, spinning and juggling pizza dough! haha! it's a nice restaurant btw, the atmosphere's really homely. if you go there try the panna cotta it's AMAZING. there was a rather interesting character there, a eurasian guy in a red shirt who kept talking to himself as he got his food. puzzling fellow. the first thing i heard him say was "today's a party! what a surprise!". then "the vending machine gave me wine when i asked for soda" o.0 my first thought was that he was an author or playwright coming up with new ideas for his book or play. but then when i went for my next course he walked behind me and said "today's a party! what a surprise!" so now i think he could be an actor rehearsing his lines. upon observing him, however, the rest of my family thinks he's a bit off. maybe he's a spy and those are like code phrases.
on thursday i sat through 4 straight hours of exco interviews. woohoo! so stressful trying to decide who best to leave strings in the hands of. everyone has such brilliant ideas! i'm really really glad to see their dedication to strings and the fact that they want to make it even better =)
mug mug mug.
since today's mother's day, i took a moment to wonder what kind of a mother i would make. all i have to do is look at my arm and i begin to have serious doubts.
trust is fallible, faith is not
~* jo *~
heh
06 May 2008 at 7:13 pm
umm. i'm back. had to come online to email people about exco interviews (they're this week, i'm so excitedslashapprehensive)!
anyway after thinking about what i wrote before, i realize i was in a bit of a tizzy. i mean, people blog about what's important to them right (like strings ), not necessarily about issues that pertain to all citizens of the world or are deeply thought-provoking, though i genuinely admire certain people whose blogs are like that. this doesn't mean i'm going to update this like all the time lol but when something i deem monumental occurs, like now, i'm just going to blog and not care what you people think (e.g. omg she's such a boring old sod *thinks of sophie*).
so one two three monumental things happened today.
firstly, and most importantly, ALL THE SINGAPORE TESTING CENTERS ARE FILLED UP FOR THE JUNE SAT. omg. my mom tried to help me register for the subject tests while i was in school and. aah! no space! okay and then here's the bit. so she registered me for the KL one. kl as in kuala lumpur. I'M GOING TO KL FOR MY SAT II LOLOLOL. kinda scary, unfamiliar location, psychological impediment to success. BUT we're going to stay next to the college (the only testing center there) at SHERATON haha and go SHOPPING at the sunway pyramid thingy. HAHA! nice way to slack after common tests aye!
number 2. mr teo likes to announce my cwo habits in math -.- and my phone died at like 2pm i was in the middle of discussing with my econs tutor (yes, i have econs tuition, with cherry and nut, and i really feel i need tuition for every other subject as well) my desire to skip tuition today to MUG. ugh. so i spent the rest of the afternoon borrowing people's phones =(( can't believe how dependent i am on my phone! couldn't even tell the time (no watch), panicked about meeting audrey, etc.
3. i hate trying to do jon's math. always ends up making me feel stupid because of the marked difference in how long i take and how long i think i should take to solve it. today i tried to do this problem he couldn't do in his math SA today (woah, remember way back then when our exams were called CAs and SAs). "when calvin's age is k, his mother is 36 years old. how old will calvin be when his mother's age is 3 times of his?" omg. my mom and i spent like ages at the dinner table trying to do that. so depressing coz we'd keep THINKING we'd got it and get so excited then on second thought we'd realize we hadn't got it. but in the end i did =) hahaha i'm sure you'll laugh at my troubles.
okay bye! must finish sending exco inteview emails and go MUG. i wrote part of a sad song about mugging btw. lol. here's a funny picture from threadless! usually i hate anything to do with zombies or other scary things but this don't you think this is just so hilarious!
dare i say
~* jo *~
the goodbye post
04 May 2008 at 11:52 pm
so okay i know i haven't blogged in almost-eons, and i've missed several key events like the humanities trip and my birthday and museique and us coming in first in our 4x200 heats and yesterday's strings dinner at swensens and today's pianoworks. but honestly. even though they were totally memorable, especially my extraspecial eighteenth and of course museique, somehow i've realized that what i write here isn't well.. important. it doesn't make a difference to people's lives, it doesn't make the event more memorable, i mean for the most part it's really rather pointless. half the things i write here are mundane everyday occurences i might, in the moment, hyperbole-ate, and which you are probably better off not knowing. so this shall be The Goodbye Post (at least till the hols); from henceforth i shall post only links to the 700+ photos of recent events i hope to upload soon. lol. to whoever reads my blog, thanks for letting me know i exist, see you around.
recently i've been struck with this strange notion of needing to make some kind of difference to people.
ANYWAY, i was looking up the dictionary for E words (because i'd noticed i hadn't changed my age in that column on the left). and there are so many that could describe what it feels like to be eighteen. like, effervescent, a nice word, which can mean happy, excited and active, or a bubbly liquid, neither of which works because really, i feel more like a stone. or a cucumber. there's evanescent, which could fit coz it means 'does not last very long', and time really is kinda uhh floating away before my very eyes lol. but sound cliche (evanescence). or effulgent, 'beautiful and bright'.. oooh. that would be like, a star! not me. so finally, i decided that becoming eighteen isn't really that special after all, it's more of an essential part of life, something we go through to get to the next part of our lives (post-As), and though my birthday was pretty special and i guess i've been doing some growing (not lengthwise, unfortunately), that's about it. the life of jo, essentially.
so what is jo? if you actually thought about it, i don't think you'd be able to describe me, because i'm not anything really. maybe you'd come close with something like "jo likes stars, sparkly stuff, and yellow", but those descriptors don't make a person. i'm not everything i want to be. been thinking about it, and you know, there're so many people whose lives are all about their faith, friends, family, pursuit of knowledge, pursuit of greater understanding of self, pursuit of happiness, inspiration, passion, ambition, love.. but not me. the only thing i could say i'm passionate about right now, that keeps me going to school, is strings. music is all there is, and NJstrings is like my life-support. i'll probably shrivel up without it. without the bright and beautiful people, without the music, without the laughter or the crazy antics or the rush of a performance. (i'm not behaving like this just because we performed today, i've felt this way for a long time coming.) not just strings actually, it's music. when i make music, i don't have to think about anything else. everything just feels right. when i'm bored i play the piano, when i'm emo i play the guitar, when i feel good about myself i play the viola (my violin has insects again, i really miss it). haha. it's like a strange symbiotic relationship, i pour my heart and soul into strings and in return it gives me something to survive on. i think stepping down will be like walking off a cliff, blindfolded, to be swallowed up by a canyon of Unknown. it's unexplored territory. it's frightening. but maybe it's exciting too, maybe there is a life after strings. lol no, maybe there is a life after As. we'll see.
in the meantime, i've made a sticky resolution to Differ.
and to start studying for common tests =(((((((((((((( rudely shocked yesterday to find out they're oneandahalf weeks away. believe it or not, I HAVEN'T STARTED. always late. story of my life.
that's it, essentially.
ennui.
~* jo *~