Sunday, December 30, 2012

2012 resolutions!

Happy New Year's Eve! I'd better do some resolutions although I probably won't accomplish it -_-

1)You guessed it.. LOSE WEIGHT

Ok now that I'm in school, I can have more chances to skip meals wtf. Maybe I'll skip once a week. Or maybe I can eat less carbs. Goal weight is to be 43kg the whole of next year, or even lower!

2) Speak up more and not be so awkward

I can be reaaaally shy in front of strangers thus it's difficult for me to become good friends with someone. In a new class, I hope I can be more talkative so I won't be known as the quiet girl anymore.

3) Be more "tolerating" to choir

As you can see I've been ranting about choir for the past year.. And you also can see that I absolutely can't stand anything about it .__. Like I hate it 100% wtf.
And I'm pretty scared about next year because the dreaded SYF is coming (fml fml fml)

OH SHIT.
And that means auditions.. in front of the conductor.. and getting humiliated in front of the whole choir.. all over again. That's what happened 2 years ago.. and I can never forget it. Seriously, my ego has gone down to negative, what more do they want? UGH.

4) Good academic results
Enough of spending time with my laptop for the holidays. I seriously have to cut down my time on the computer or else I'll seriously get addicted. And the fact that I'm suscribing to so many youtube channels that update almost everyday doens't help .__.

Aiming for a 3.2 or even higher this year. Not sure what to expect cox my science sucks.


Thursday, December 27, 2012

Bangkok trip Part 2: Random stuff I did there.

1)Manicure and Pedicure
I did my manicure/pedicure on the last day of the trip! I don't know why my aunty let me do it although the price is the same as Singapore! Was really happy cox it's the first time that someone is actually painting my nails! Have been painting my own nails since primary school and it turned out pretty crappy because I don't bother with base coat and top coat. Waste of money plus I have to do with what I have. And I always buy the cheapo ones (Please I don't have money for OPI) so they fade in 4 days LOL.

My past nail art:

Looks legit anot? Quite proud of it cox I had to make use of toothpicks and a bobby pin since I didn't have professional nail tools. Had to painstakingly paint every flower :<  Aiya, I'd rather pay a little extra for some nice nail art!

TADAAAA

My floral nails! In case you didn't notice there's this 3D jewel thing in the middle of the roses! SO happy with it! They also filed my nails!My nails look short here wtf, cox we have to cut our nails short in school. IMO nail art should be allowed in school! Then can show off x)


Owl nails for my feet! I choose the design one! You know I have an obsession with owls! But my family says the owl looks like a dog wtf!

Removed the nail polish after 4 weeks and my nails look like that now:

Disgusting and yellow.
But I kind of love how long my nails are! Looks classier compared to the short nails I had last time!

2)Wat Arun Temple (Temple of Dawn)

We went to an ancient temple there. It's around $2 SGD for tourists per entry so it's quite cheap lah! Even if you're not interested in architectural rural-ish stuff(like me), it's still worth a visit cox it's quite fascinating. The temple has 3 levels and the steps are really steep! Being the badass I am(wtf), I went all the way up.








Kay bye! Part 3 is gonna take a hell lotta time to come out cox I have a lot to say.


Tuesday, December 25, 2012

How I spent my Christmas

This year's Christmas was..meh, nothing much, just an ordinary day. Only had one simple dinner celebration at my Grandma's house.. Didn't receive much presents cox we don't really take Christmas as a big deal.

Was lazing around the whole day during christmas with my ipad. Was playing some karaoke games half of the day and then sleeping and then eating. Yesterday = totally wasted. :(

Anyway, the stuff are recieved are: Angbaos, a purse, some bath stuff and a pair of oxford wedges from new look <3

Btw, why would anyone send bath stuff to me? DO I STINK?!

I love the oxford wedges and I belive we were fated to meet lor! Seriously, there were only 3 pairs of them left and 2 were size 38! And my feet is size 38 so I believe that shoes were meant for me wtf. Aren't I lucky? Bought it for $29.95 and the usual price was $59.90! #Happygirl98
 Plus, this pair of wedges are my very first pair of high heeled shoes. All my life, for the past 14 years I've being wearing flats so now with my wedges I can be taller ehehehe :> I'm 160cm in that wedges!

To be honest, I really didn't  know what I wanted or Christmas. All of them were "wants" not "needs". ANd there wasn't anything that I desperately wanted. Maybe I would love a 3G plan but nah, not craving for it. So yay you can say I'm happy with my life ^_^ I'M NOT BEING SOUR GRAPES.

Just a confession, I feel kind of jealous when other people (my friends) get better presents than me. Don't you find it so unfair when you get better grades than your friends yet they get presents that are wayyy better than yours? I mean I have this feeling that they don't deserve it at all, given their GPA pfft. Like one girl got a 2.4 GPA and you know what she got? A FUCKING IPHONE 5. Maybe I'm being my selfish self but girl, how could you get an iphone5 with that kind of grades? Another of my classmates got 2.67 and she got a fifth generation itouch! If they can get those gifts, how bout me, a person who got a 3.2 GPA? I probably deserve more right lol. Ok I admit I'm kind of jealous just ignore me I'm not a bad person just ranting my feelings here.

I think I get very pissed/annoyed with this type of "deserving or not" things because I highly respect the value of "You reap what you sow" * Philosophical me strikes again * I feel that it's totally unfair if you work so much harder than other people and get so much better results and in the end they get something better than you! UGH. And the same thing strikes again when people who are supposed to be doing 7 subjects get into a class for 8 subjects. I can't stand people who don't work hard enough getting into the same position of people who worked extremely hard. You don't deserve to be there! It's the survival of the toughest. Yes, I'm aggressive when it comes to results, if you do badly, too bad. That's how it works for me. I JUST DON'T LIKE PEOPLE GETTING MORE THAN THEY DESERVE. Being very agitative now lol.

Happy belated christmas everyone!

Spending my boxing day at the dentist later and then going for tuition fml. I haven't had enough rest from christmas and now there's tuition?! -_-

Friday, December 14, 2012

P O L Y V O R E :)

Recently got addicted to Polyvore ^_^ Stumbled across it while I was surfing the net and I'm glad I found this site!

Polyvore is a website where you can create your own outfits through selecting from the different categories. You also can do make-up/nail looks, actually if it's anything under beauty you can create i using polyvore! Gah, I hate explaining. Create an account and you'll see ;)

My proudest creation of all:
The Taylor Swift make-up look! 
Not bad right :> I created it myself with some help from watching online tutorials. Does it look legit? Can publish on magazine anot. Lol.

Created another Taylor Swift outfit inspired by her casual outfits:
 Taylor Swift Style! 
A bit more simpler, but I like the colours!

Still trying to work polyvore out cox I'm new to it and I still don't get how to use the backgrounds/templates. Tried using them and they don't seem of any help in enhancing my picture at all, so I only can start from scratch, that's why my sets are so plain and white-y.

Another holdiay look that I created - Ice Princess!
It was inspired by a look created by CutiePieMarzia here! Btw you should check out her youtube channel here! Really love her videos and she's one of my favourite youtubers! ^_^

Ice Princess

The latest one I created was some old navy contest thing:

Style That Sweater with Old Navy
Two looks: Girly and casual ^_^ I wish I had these outfits!

Here's my polyvore account! Follow me! I LOVE FOLLOWERS EHEHEH.



Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Bangkok: FOOD!

I'll be dividing my Bangkok trip into 3 parts:
1)Food
2)Tourist attractions I visited (Only one wtf) and other random stuff
3) Buys

Probably uploading my hauls a bit later cox there's really quite a lot!

So I'll say that there was really good food in Bangkok, there are many hidden restaurants that seem mediocre but you'll never know unless you actually try them. There are many streets that have restaurants near our hotel (Novotel@Siam square) so you may wanna check them out!

Gonna be blogging about our dinners cox for breakfast we ate buffet breakfast and for lunch we mostly ate at food courts with not-so-good food quality.

If you're on a budget:
For food in Bangkok, food court food is super cheap there so if you're on a budget you may wanna have your meals there. Most of the basic meals like chicken rice are $2.70++, even cheaper than most food courts in Sg. I swear, it's super cheap! But let me warn you, the food quality is kind of horrible. It's decent, not that terrible tasting but its food is..meh. I bought a Japanese curry-don meal and was expecting something good but in the end, the curry was disgusting and watery, not like the thick ones I ate before. Oh well, what can you expect for $2.70 leh?
Oh and you have to top-up your card (can be purchased there) with money so that the stall owners won't be so busy returning you change.

If you're rushing for time: 
Eat fast food (duh.) There are many fast food outlets located. Prices are a bit cheaper than Singapore and start from $3 liddat.

If you don't belong to any of these two catagories above:
BE LIKE ME. Eat at restaurants. They are really nice :>

Day 1 Dinner:
Korean BBQ @ Arirang

Address: 212/30 4th, Sukhumvit Plaza, Sukhumvit soi, Soi Suk Chai, Khlong Toei, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
Phone:+66 2 653 0177
Transit: BTS Asok Station


Food was really good there. I was about to die cox I was starving. They use charcoal for their BBQ so it's supposed to be authentic. I recommend you go there in big groups cox the portions are quite big.The best dishes, in my opinion, are the chicken and kimchi pancakes!


Kimchi stew. We actaully overordered cox we thought it was a small portion...

And then here cane the ginormous pot. Just look at the teapot on the top left hand corner and you can compare how big-ass that is. Plus, it's super spicy and I was huffing and puffing (Wtf) at the first sip. We ended up only finishing half(there were 4 of us). But I still found it nice as a fan of spicy food ^_^ Just ask for it to be less spicy when you order it!

ORDER IT ONLY IF YOU LOVE CHILLI. Even someone like me who can finish a whole packet of chilli sauce when eating chicken rice teared cox it was too hot while eating it. Don't say I didn't warn you!


 Day 2 Dinner: 
Ban Khun Mae Restaurant
458/6-9 Siam Square Soi 8, Rama 1 Road,
Patumwan District, Bangkok 10330

Their website is here so you can check out their menu!

It's located right opposite Novotel@Siam Square. It looks old and shabby on the outside, but when you go inside it's different. I think it should be a popular restaurant because I can see both locals and foreigners there, can be quite crowded during dinner time and we actually had to wait for a few mins before getting our table.
What's a Thai meal without a Coconut ^_^

Pandan chicken and Tomyam. Tomyam was a little bit too salty, but it was good. Pandan chicken was nice.

Pineapple rice. My absolute favourite dish evar! I'll always order pineapple rice when I eat Thai food. In case you didn't notice, it is served in a REAL pineapple. That mean's after you finish you can eat the pinaplle flesh lol.

Green curry. Average dish cox I don't ship green curry.


Seafood curry. Something like otah but squished up *_*

Some salad thingy. 

The prices there were affordable, most of them were around $10. Service was good too, and there was live Thai traditional music, so it's a must visit place ^_^


Day 3 Dinner:
Japanese dinner at Siam Paragon. I forgot the shop's name -_-
Let the pictures do the talking :) 









Friday, December 7, 2012

2NE1 Concert

Went to the 2NE1 concert on 1 Dec ^_^
2NE1 is my favourite girl group! Ok I kind of like SNSD too but still .__. Used to hate them but now I fell in love with their songs! My bias is bommie cox she's freaking pretty and her vocals are really good!

Random picture of my bias JUST CAUSE.


Group picture with Alyssa and Erin :) I look short, fat and awkward here.


Ootd: Sheer white top from Bangkok and black spiked shorts from Bangkok too.
2NE1 styled right? :)

Didn't manage to get any souveniers cox I only went at 6.15pm LOL. Erin the hardcore fan went at 12pm and queued 2 hours just to buy the merchandise *__* 非常佩服她!By the time I got there the only things left were stickers (That cost $10) and notebooks. WHY WOULD ANYONE PAY FREAKING $10 FOR A...STICKER?! Oh well at least I saved money (the shirt that I wanted to buy costs $30) and Erin collected some freebies for us earlier on ^_^ so it's okay!




Camwhoring before the concert started :)

Pictures of the concert: Pics are from 2NE1's Facebook official page!





CL was deejaying on this tall stand like a boss. SHE HAD A LOT OF SWAG. Can I slap myself I forgot I absolutely hate the word "swag".


Dara :> Did I mention that the back up dances were hot? At some point they were topless O_O

Minzy :> Her dancing was superb!

BOMMIE. SHE STILL LOOKS CUTE WITH SHORT HAIR! AND I WANT HER LEGS. She performed Don't cry and You and I during her solo stage.

My fave moment: When Dara sang "Kiss"
Not a really big fan of Dara but I immediately fell in love with her when she sang her single. From her looks
I thought she was this very innocent and pure and demure girl but I was wrong wtf. She actually invited a male fan to do a dance for him.

She was giving a PG rated "lap dance" to him like sitting on his lap. And later he kissed him on his cheek :* aww. I was getting a little bit too excited and going "OMG" and "AWW" every 5 seconds. I mean, if I were the guy I'll probably would have gotten a boner even before she kissed me! >:) I swear she is so sexy and hawt! I should stop now I sound like a pervert :>


Final group picture.

To be honest, after the concert I felt like I needed some brushing up on 2NE1 songs. Cox as you know all of them were in Korean so I only could sing along to some as I knew them by hard .__. For the rest of the songs I was just keeping quiet and waving my fan which could not be seen in the dark to cover up for my confusion. I couldn't sing along to Scream and Follow me and Please don't go cox I only heard these songs once or twice. Oh why oh why. *_* And I realised they are way more other hardcore blackjacks than me!

The only things about the concert I didn't look were:
1) The music was too loud.
Like seriously, halfway through the concert my ears were blocked (don't ask me why but it's probably due to the loud bass which was blasting)

2) The flashing lights which almost blinded me
Trust me, the lights were randomly flashing all around and it was kind of  刺眼











VERY BRIGHT LIGHT.
But overall, I loved the concert because there was so much energy and the atmosphere is totally there. No need to go to Korea anymore... cox I'm happy I finally saw my idols perform life. It's definitely different from watching Music bank on youtube. The fan chants kind of failed cox everyone was screaming, screaming so madly that I can't even hear my own voice.

They said they'll be definitely coming back to Singapore, and I hope they keep their promise!

To the organiser: Can you set tickets at a cheaper price next time, you're from Korea so the airfare will probably be less right? Not trying to compare but last year I went to a Taylor Swift concert and it only costs $108 which is half the price -_- I don't understand why we need to pay fucking $231. So pratically every minute there cost $1.50 OHMYTIAN. They could really keep the prices lower. Because I feel guilty for spending so much money -_-

Ok that's all folks! I'll be posting about my Bangkok trip ASAP!

Sunday, December 2, 2012

How to get more likes on instagram.

Hey guise :)

Just got back from Bangkok and I'm back here in Singapore. Kind of miss Bangkok.. Will be blogging about it soon since I'm too lazy to connect the camera to the computer :P

So I finally found out how to get more likes on instagram! So happy wheeeee.
I have 141 followers on instagram but I'm struggling to get more than 10 likes. Pathetic right? Cox I think the photos of my life are too boring and no one gives a shit about them. By the way, I only post ORIGINAL pictures on my account, all of these photos are taken by me handphone camera, no tumblr quotes/posts. I mean if you want hipster/emo stuff, GO TO TUMBLR. Instagram is for personal stuff, thank you.

1) Get to know more about your followers
What do they like? What interests them? Most of my followers are schoolmates which are girls. Being girls, they like bimbotic stuff which are cute and pretty, so it's best to post those sort of stuff. Good ones will be like: Cute notebook covers, ootds (outfit of the day), cute nails, cute food (cookies, sweets), cute animals (pets), and cute girls (camwhore). Aiya basically everything nice! If you post some zombie picture it obviously won't get any likes cox it won't really interest your audience. If you really like zombies, you should just post them once a fortnight or something cox people will just get annoyed with your random spamming and unfollow you. JUST SAYING.

I think if you wanna get more likes, try to post things that YOU AND OTHERS can relate to.
If you don't bother about likes, just post the things YOU love. After all, it's your personal album, you can put whatever you like.

Real life example:
I posted this beautiful scenery of Bangkok
 
And got only 9 likes WTF. It's so pretty!!! Probably no one appreciates scenery:(

I posted a blurry picture of my nails:

Very bad quality picture. But I got 20 likes ^_^

Anything above 10 likes is good to me, if you wanna know what my standard is. Idk, my choir seniors just don't like my photos or smth. They hardly like them wtf. So redundant.

2)HASHTAGS!
Hashtags can attract people outside your followers. They get you noticed as some people are looking for a certain type of pictures. 
A few hashtags can make a difference. MILLIONS of people are searching for hashags every second so who knows, you may get random people's likes if you picture is appealing to them.
I recommend you put a maximum of 5 hashtags if not it'll look too despo LOL.
Btw, why do people tag #instahub? What is that? I'm laggy.
TAG SMARTLY. Tag some stuff that people normally search for. For a picture like my nails above, I would put #nailart #pink #flower #cute. See? It's that easy! Tag simple words. Don't tag too long like #prettyflowernails #ilovemynails. Maybe you can if you want, but not recommended.

 And one no-no that annoys me the most: TOO MANY FREAKIN HASHTAGS.
If you have more hashtags than likes, something is wrong .__.
I've seen people doing tags like:
#beach #water #bffs love #them #all #yay #happy
-_-
I mean I can understand the first 4 hashtags but what's with #them and #all? Makes no sense and absolutely redundant. No offence! 

3)Get a nice picture (duh.)
 This is the ultimate one. How do you expect people to like your picture if it isn't nice in the first place?

That's why I will never have the confidence to post a selca on my account. Cox I will just look like a retard in the sea of beauties out there and no one will like my photo. So embarrassing omg. If I had a pretty face I'll just post selcas like 1000 times a day :) I've seen my friends get 60 likes JUST FOR THEIR FACE.

Don't just post a picture of a sandwich or some crappything that isn't deserving of likes. Or even worse, post a picture of some unknown person that is not you. I don't mind pictures of Megan Fox on my timeline, but your cousin? Not interested.

What I would suggest is to maybe decorate it with stickers if you wanna make it more cute and pretty. You also can make it more interesting by putting different filters OTHER THAN those on instagram.
I recommend camera 360. Best variety of filters :)

And for selcas and ootds, if you're despo, EDIT/PHOTOSHOP IT. LOL. This is the best advice I can offer you.
For the face, cover all pimples, make your eyes look bigger and make your face thinner. See my guide to editing your face  here
For your body, idk lah LOL.  I never edit my ootds before -proud- Em best advice I can offer is make your waist smaller, make your butts and boobs bigger? Ok me and my shitty thoughts. Actually for ootds it's more about the clothes that you wear :) Personally I don't really care about your body as long as it's decent. The nice clothes will cover up for you. ^_^

Conclusion:
 This is just a guide that helped me to get likes, but I can't guarantee it will work on you cox it all depends on whether they all piece well together :)
And instagram is not about how many likes you get, it's also about sharing interesting stuff about your life that people will like ^_^

After finishing this guide I feel like a boss. I could even write my own book lol.

 


Saturday, November 24, 2012

Would you rather?

Would you rather have a boring repetitive job that paid $9000/month or an engaging job that you really enjoy but it pays $2000/month? 
 Believe it or not, I will choose the high paying job. I know I'm really money faced but if I look for the job I will look at the income first, then how interesting the job is. I'm actually okay with any job because if it's boring, I can motivate myself to love the job since it has a high pay, right?

Hmm.. But if the $2000 job is REALLY fun, like being a blogger, I will take it, but I will probably have another part time job since it will be more financially stable. LOL why am I so critical. I just treasure money a lot, like if someone that I'm not close to wants to borrow money from me, I'll be hesitant and try to show that I'm not willing to. Why? Because I don't feel secure with my money in other people's hands. *shrugs*

Would you rather be ugly and rich or pretty and poor?
I choose pretty and poor ! For me, I believe if you're pretty, you can be a supermodel and earn lots of money! And you can even have a good social life and be recognized! Beauty will really get you anywhere! (Well, almost) And if you're ugly it's hard to find love. Yeah yeah I know you all will say love has no boundaries but you can't deny that you will be more attracted to handsome/pretty people right? And it's kind of easy be financially stable because as long as you have qualifications it should be easy to earn some money right?

My friend she said that with the money she could get plastic surgery and it will only cost a few hundred thousand dollars, and the problem of ugliness is solved with nose/eye/lip jobs and facelifts. But when you have kids then they'll turn out not-so-gorgeous and then they'll find out the truth which is quite unpleasant. -cough-

Would you rather be really short (1.4m) or really tall (2m)?
 I'd rather be really short :) Sure, I would LOVE to be tall, but the maximum I'll go is 1.75m? Because any further then people will think I'm a transvestite since I'm of a man's height. (no offence lol.) And also very hard to find a boyfriend who's above 2m, at least in Asia. You can't wear heels too!

Most people think short people are cute ok ^_^ And you will look young and youthful! 
(I say one.) Just look at short bloggers like fourfeetnine and xiaxue! They're cute!  

BEING SHORT IS AWESOME. 

Would you rather be tall and fat (1.7m and 67kg) or short and skinny (1.55m and 40kg)?


What do you think? Don't need to say. OF COURSE SHORT AND SKINNY!  BEING SKINNY IS MY LIFETIME GOAL YOU KNOW LOL.
But I would choose tall and fat if I know I had to power to lose at least 17kg to qualify "being skinny", which is kind of impossible since I can't even lose 2kg.

Would you rather have a gorgeous face and a not-so-hot body or a hot body and a not-so-gorgeous face?

Gorgeous face and a not-so-hot body. Because it is quite easy to change your body if you have the commitment to exercise and eat healthy :) Not many people are born with pretty faces!

For the other one, even if you have a hot body, most girls will have one too because it's a bit more common. And it's hard to change your face unless you go for plastic surgery/make-up which is a complete waste of money. I will NEVER go for plastic surgery because it looks very painful wtf. I can't stand blood and pain and the stitches and all looks very painful. And also it's very money-consuming and people will judge you like some shit, calling you "fake" and all. But no hate towards people who had them! 

Would you rather lose your crush to your best friend or your worst enemy? 

I'd rather lose it to my worst enemy. Then I can hate them both. Like I can be sour grapes and say, "I knew he was such an idiot! Setting such low standards for himself, liking that bitch!" And then it will be easier to get over them since I hate them to the core. There will be less hurt to the heart and it will be more of hate.

However if you lose it to your best friend, you will just feel very hurt and can't help but feel extremely jealous. It will just affect your friendship badly and you'll be bearing grudges at her secretly. You'll keep asking yourself, "Why is she better than me? What did I not have?" and all those questions which will make your ego drop or smth.

Would you rather be alone forever (no family/friends) or disliked by others forever? 

  I'd rather be disliked forever. At least you have people around you who at least know of your existence and you can at least talk to them. And even if you're disliked, there must be some people who actually care about you. Being alone is so scary like imagine you live with no one's company, have no one to talk to, everyday it'll just be you. At least for the other one you can quarrel with them.

My worst fear: Dying alone and no one knows of your existence and then I'll just be burnt to ashes and then no one comes to my funeral :( CHOI CHOI CHOI.

That's all! I realised many of my questions are superficial wtf. If you have any good "Would you rather" questions comment! :))

 

Sunday, November 18, 2012

SYF 2013


If you haven't read the news, read it HERE

 Well, since it has GREAT relevance to my previous article on choir, SYF and how it is ruining my life, I shall do an article review about it.

If you do not know, SYF stands for Singapore Youth Festival. It is a competition held every 2 years and most schools participate in it. SYF is for performing arts, not uniformed groups/sports. Normally there are 5 ranks:

Gold with Honors (the best)
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Certificate of participation (the worst)

The schools make a freaking big deal out of SYF and use their awards to haolian (show off) how good their school is in terms of promoting the arts and culture(Wtf)

Firstly, I think many people misinterpreted the article. The article only talked about certificates, but it did not talk about the different types of certificates given out.So there won't be bronze, silver and gold awards anymore, i will be replaced of certificate of distinction, accomplishment and commendation. So there is still judging of choirs! Which I think, doesn't make a difference at all! I think people should calm their tits because there is still judging of our performances and our hard work wont go to waste! The only difference is that the awards are gone and they are replaced with certificates of different ranks.

To be honest, I welcome the change. Most of my friends/schoolmates rage about the change, but I think it's good because at least the government understands how SYF is stressful and takes up a lot of our time. It tries to change our perspectives on awards. So what if you got a Gold with Honors award in the SYF during your JC days? I mean you probably won't care about all that by the time you are working, when you are working. I mean who actually looks at your SYF record when you are gong for a job interview or applying for a scholarship? Seriously.

You hear teachers saying that everything is as important as studies but in this harsh world, they only look at your As/A*s. Ok maybe I don't really know but if I were a boss I will just look at his/her character and academic results not his/her CCA record. But I do agree that SYF matters if you want to be a dancer/singer or any job in the field of the arts. For common folk like you and me, em.. it doesn't really matter.
 
 However, I feel that the new SYF has some flaws *deng deng deng*

 "I have seen students putting in a lot of effort into training, which can last up to 7pm every week day. Sometimes, the students would be excused from lessons so that they can go for training sessions."
-Quoted by a teacher in the news article

Even with the new SYF, guess what? Nothing will change. Students will still stayback until 7pm for each training, students will still come back for Saturday practices and students will still have to skip lessons to attend to their CCA. Do you think that the CCA leaders/teachers will still let them off by having lesser practices?

NO.

FOR YOUR INFOMATION OUR NORMAL PRACTICES LAST UNTIL FREAKING 6.30PM.

So we will still have the suffer like some shit although this new scheme is supposedly trying to reduce our stress. Everyone will still treat it extremely seriously like it's a life and death event. Because everyone will be politically correct and be like, "Although the rules have changed our efforts still must remain and we should continue to put in our 100%.." Yeah, you know what I mean.

So overall, this thing will have a very small impact on us. If the government really wants to reduce stress, they should just cancel the whole SYF, seriously. I'm not kidding. Why cut the SYF by 20% when you can cut it by 100%? Either it's no SYF or SYF, no little changes/modifications are allowed. These things won't really benefit us.

 Possible things the gov. could do
1) Put SYF to a stop
2) Put CCA to a stop (Even better lol.)
3) Impose a rule that in a week there must not be more than 6 hours of training or else it will be considered as child abuse (Yes, that is the best to reduce our anxieties!)
 
I think number 3 is the best and is the most valid. Here's am example to prove my point:

 In every week we have 5 days of schooling. And for my timetable the maximum number of hours of a subject for a week is 5. That is for math, 1 hour for every schooling day.

If we put in 5 hours/week for math (a quite important subject), why must we put in more than 6 hours/week for our CCA(a not so important thing)?! LOGIC PEOPLE, LOGIC.

For the people who complain that SYF is the thing that actually motivates them to work even harder for the awards, well it's not about winning the awards. It's more about having passion in your CCA. It's about learning how to enjoy it and also strive to achieve for yourself (not for the award). Competing for awards is good, but what are we chasing the awards for? It's not about the awards awards awards, we don't need your awards awards awards, we just wanna make the world danceeeee.

I think instead of SYF they should organise a yearly school exchange where 4 schools can combine and then mix around and share their techniques/skills to doing well in their CCA? Obviously less stressful and more effective. No need for auditions, extra practices and what not. No one will die/cry!

Thank you. Lol.

Out of place, but this is my #ootd :)

And a random zilian picture

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Always the same things.

The first two weeks of the holidays have been..torturing.
You wanna know why?
Because of choir.
I had to enlarge, bold, italic and underline it, thank you.
You know what, I had 5 practices from 8am-4pm.
Which equates to 40 fucking hours in school!!
Ok maybe the lunch part didn't count, but this leaves us with 35 hours!
I find math homework more fun than it actually.

So we had this "grouptionals" thing where you sing in groups of 8, which is kind of scary. Imagine only 2 people in your section, and you must rely on your own.
And if you sing badly, people will judge you. They think you're a liability, they think you're of no use to the choir, and most of all they think you're a two-faced,  irresponsible and probably no talent to sing at all.
I have developed this fear of octets since year one. I don't mind singing in octets, but the problem is I can't hit the high notes! I'm in soprano and those notes are really high. Mygod why did I get into soprano.

*Flashback to March 2011*
I was singing for the SYF auditions and I only joined in January, I was new, I didn't know what to expect. To make things worse, the conductor only wanted 4 people to sing at a time.
Obviously I sang badly because the fact that I've only joined for 2 MONTHS. I could feel the embarrassment as my cheeks burned and I could feel everyone judging me and stuff.
So a bunch of year ones and I failed, I think 80% of the year ones failed? And then one of the music comm members (I shall not say who) started scolding us. Like raging at us as if we committed a crime. "What do you think this kind of standard is this? Is this what you want for the choir?" blah blah. I was super annoyed and thinking, what do you expect from people who only has been here for 2 fucking months, huh? Huh?!

And then the comm people, namely the president and vice presidents will start nagging at us about how our standard has dropped and be like, "Oh don't come crying if we get a silver later. For your standard I don't think we can even get a bronze." So demoralizing. And the cycle continues as the next committee takes over. It's always the same old words. See what happens when the seniors learn from the juniors? So in May 2011 there was handover and a new committee taken over.

At first I was like, "Aww the year 3 2011 look so nice!" But later they turned into such strict people wtf. Especially the president, keep giving the bushuang glare lol. And I'm pretty sure she gives the glare to everyone.

So there was concert this year in May and we had octets too. And then they went on to nag again. Once again, it's always the same words, threatening, making us feel shame.
 "What do you think of this? Do you want to present this in concert? Do you think people will want to pay $10 for this concert? Even if the concert was free, I also wouldn't want to go! It's a waste of my time."
I swore they said something like this! I was like fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you. Go fuck yourself. Stupid committee. They also wanted threatened that they will take us out of concert if we don't sing properly. And then they really took people off stage for one of the musical-play, except they said that because it was too cramped. Bullshit. Why is there a need to audition? Calm your tits, this is a CCA, we are not some professional performing group such as the Vienna Boys and what not. No one really cares if we got a note wrong or sing sharp/flat. In reality, as long as the song sounds legit and seems like proper music, they don't care. If they one perfect music, ask them to spend at least $100 plus for a professional one, or even $200 plus! I feel that everyone should have a chance to perform as if you don't let the juniors perform, it's kind of demoralizing to them and they'll hate choir even more. That's what happened to me, btw. They joined choir to perform for others. Imagine the pissed-off-ness when you've been practicing the bloody song for 6 months and you suddenly tell them that they are not allowed to perform 2 months before the concert, well, go screw yourselves! Why do they need to be so fucking uptight about it? They should think about our commitment, at least we go for these agonizing practices, I think I have perfect attendance ok. I should pon choir next time!!

For example, if you went to a piano recital and have not much musical background you would have thought that your friend who is performing played very well, when in reality, he tells you that he played a few keys wrongly. And then you'll be puzzled, thinking to yourself, huh, but it sounded so normal and nice! I didn't hear any mistakes! The same case in an EDS concert. For many people who do not have a background of hip-hop, if a dancer misses a move you probably wouldn't have noticed it because you are totally clueless in hip-hop and you think that everything that dancers do are cool, so there you go!

And also, I wonder where the ticket sales go to. I know at least 500 guests were there, so $5000 was made.Eh excuse me, we are performers, at least give us $2 each as our commission okay, we must have put in don't-know-how-many-hours in it! Making use of our efforts eh? 

Oh, back to reality.

So this year in June another new comm has stepped up, I think they're a bit nicer but once again, I told you juniors learn from seniors right? They've also continued with the nagging with almost the exact same message.
 They always say that "Everyone makes a difference." and be all positive and shit and draw out rainbows. But I don't think I do. I can hardly be heard. To be honest, I think only the loud ones make a difference. For someone like me who sings softly, no one really appreciates my existence. 

So after the octets, they nagged again saying "Is this what you want to present for SYF? Who will be proud of presenting this? Do you think you still can get your gold with honors? If you think you are proud of performance, raise your hands." 

Of course no one raised their hands lah! You don't say. Actually I think this comm is much nicer than the previous one, just saying that they should quit nagging, although I believe it's absolutely impossible to stop it.

I bet the same thing will happen after the SYF auditions too, and then it will happen after the SYF too. It's like we will never be satisfied.

In my primary school choir, we were all happy. Although I only had one close friend, I still had fun. We were allowed to read books and even use our handphones secretly wtf. The conductor was super nice and rarely got angry at us. And you know what, although we went sharp, we still got gold with honors, so this proves my point that a happy choir is a good choir.

Ok this is the end of my really long rant. I realised this post in 1261 words long! Cool right! :))

Friday, November 2, 2012

At Bugis!



On the last day of school, Angeline, Charissa and I went to Bugis to shop! We originally wanted to take neoprints first but unfortunately it closed down. IT CLOSED DOWN, LIKE BOOM, AND IT WAS GONE.
I was kind of devastated because my classmates and I have been going there since primary 5 and it was the only place that I could shamelessly act cute and pretty T_T NOOOO.
Anyway we went to bugis street for shopping. To be honest, I've NEVER been there before. I thought bugis street was the little alley in Bugis Junction with little pushcarts at first omg am I fail or what. 

Bugis street was really quiet with a lot of youngsters. And I saw some aunties there too lol!

And then I saw this signboard saying "I LOVE SEX" LOL. You can see it near the enterance there. It's hard to miss it!
I walked past the shop and realised it was an adult shop selling sex stuff. Seriously, I was fascinated by the stuff on display, but don't mistake me for a bian tai!
I swear I must visit an adult shop before I die.
And no, I'm not a pervert.

Ok back to Bugis.
It had 3 storeys and it was kind of confusing since we couldn't find the escalators to go up or go down, and sometimes we had to walk one whole round.
On the first floor, we saw a mini pushcart selling bracelets! And it was really pretty, not to mention cheap too. It was one for $2, three for $5! It was perfect for a friendship bracelet, so we bought it!
 
Pretty right! And it's only about $1.70! It will cost you at least $3 if you buy it outside. And I really love the shades of blue and pink and also the simple beads ^_^

And then I bought a studded hairband from De Elegance (Level 1)

I was SO HAPPY to see this! Like I've been looking for a studded hairband because all my hairbands are super plain. And in the other parts of Bugis street they only sold the pointy types which was too rocker-ish and aggressive for me,  so was pretty happy to see this!
I paid $2, for this and I admit that it's a bit expensive (You can buy those cheap plastic ones at $1.20) but this one is made out of metal and leather so hopefully it will last longer than my previous hairbands that have a lifespan of 4 months.
The downside is that my head will hurt abit when I wear it I think my head is too big.

On the second level, I found my best buy yet - A MUSTACHE TOP! Angeline and I are obsessed with mustaches :x

AND IT'S PINK ASDFGHJKL. You have no idea how much I like pink. The armholes are kinda big (as usual for me.) For almost all the lose tops I buy, the arm holes are too big :( And crap i think the thing bulging out is my stomach -.- Pardon it.
Angeline bought the grey one. It's 1 for $12, 2 for $20, so we saved $2 each :D That's why it's good to go shopping with a friend - you can save money!
Don't worry if you're shopping alpne, you can mix and match with other patterns too! Btw, that stall is called Cheris :)
You can wear it wih decency as shown above or you can reveal a bit:
 
Or show your whole stomach if you have abs or a flat stomach. BARE IT ALL LOL.

 Sorry I have stomach fats T_T That's why I wanna lose weight so I can wear like that next time.

After shopping, we went to take a snack! :)

This is the famous pancake stall there! It's something like the man chien kui at hawker centres but their pancakes are REALLY THIN. Like paper like that. But don't worry about not getting full because it's still quite filling! The pancake is really tasty and crispy. There are diff flavours from red bean to pork floss and bananas and whatever. I bought the durian flavoured one and it made me full haha!

We later went back to Bugis Junction to camwhore .__.


With Angeline!


With Charissa!



Lol why I every picture have same face.

Ok byes! I don't know what should I blog about next hmmz maybe I will do a comparison on secondary school and primary school life?(: