Don't Close Your Eyes

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CRYSTAL is thankful to have finally graduated from the Raffles family in 2009.
She is not so ready to embark on the new phase of her life and she still enjoying bumming around.
If being a slacker is an occupation, she'd be a millionaire(:

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MY HARROWING EXPERIENCE ON ICE

but first before i tell you the story... i would like to express my heart felt gratitude to

SAMANTHA TEONG (shifu!)

HUIWEN AND JIAHUI

(or JIAHUI AND HUIWEN. so noone gets jealous HAHA)

these are very nice and wonderful friends. of course they would be, if they let you violate them right!

anyway, my arms and knees are skinned and aching plus i have 3 blisters (2 which have yet to pop)

Bg info: I haven't been to an ice rink since 5 years ago. and that time doesn't exactly count since i "skated" in a rink the size of a classroom using baby skates. (the 2 bladed kind 0.o)

so. my first time skating! samantha zoomed off like a pro, hwee skated along, huiwen waddled and followed them. HAH. i din even noe how to MOVE.

samantha taught me and i am glad to say i finally managed to ice skate. sort of. after countless encounters with the ice

in the process however, i uhm. caused sam to fall down like a turtle on its back. yes i freaked out so i pulled her along and BAM. and she was facing heavens with a thunderous look. and she was screaming my name too. not my fault! i was just THE BEGINNER OF BEGINNERS and she puuuuulllllllllllled me along like some pro and i of course i started to shriek (her name). so by the time, the entire rink probably knows our names are crystal and sam. oops.

huiwen for helping me up whenever i land on my butt. but she let me hold on to her before that though. then thought better of it when my flailing arms touched some uh. ~~not supposed to be touched~~ parts.

jiahui let me skate along with her too! although she thinks i'm terribly frightening, the way i skate. anyway she was clinging on to the railing when i fell, so i tried to grab whatever was in front of me, which happened to be her butt. OOPS. i din mean to, serious!

i totally scared this girl off when she fell, and i was coming straight at her. "HOW TO STOP! I CANT STOP!" i looked in horror at sam, whom was happily speeding and pulling me along. the girl on ice covered herself with her arms. heehee

anyway i seriously THINK they shud expell those stupid show offs in the ice rink who endanger peoples lives by skating so fast. This idiot whizzed by and caused me to fall with a thump (nvm tt im used to it, but tts not the pt) and he din even apologise! and one group of !@#$%^&*9 guys skating around me and huiwen like we're some exhibit of some sort. (alright to be fair they were also NICE people who understands the meaning of SORRY.)

AH WELL IN A NUTSHELL I APOLOGISE PROFUSLY TO THOSE PEOPLE WHOM I ~~molested~~ INJURED.

I just single handedly printed a picture of "Gardenia Sunshine Whole Meal Bread" with all the yellow and red stripes whatnot. (it came out of the plastic due to the heat 0.o i DIDN'T KNOW IT COULD HAPPEN!)

oh no. BUT my mum thought she was the one who did it so she didnt scold me! TEEHEE.

i was heating up some waffles and i left the loaf of bread on top of the oven, which unfortunately became hotter as each second passed as i heated up my waffles. The bread was in the plastic, which unfortunately "melted" and my oven had a very nice imprint of the gardenia label. when i tried to remove the loaf of bread, "sqqqueeelch" the label came off with it.

uh oh was right. i waited for the oven to cool down den i tried wiping the label off -.-

but all i did was to burn my fingers (not cooled down enough) and smudged yellow and red, which unfortunately turned to green.

i immediately fled the scene of crime (not before covering up the stupid mark with the bread so it hid it from view)

My mum went to heat waffles too! so i think when she discovered it, she thought she was the one who did it. HAHA.

but hey! IF she thought she did it, and she din gv herself a scolding, then if she scolded me (i know she would) it wouldn't be fair right? SIGH. how ironic.

anyway from then on, i kept thinking about putting my own wonderful picuture on the oven. but i thought, it's not a very good idea cos the poor person who goes into the kitchen in th morning at 6am, will probably die of fright when they see this uhm. FACE (abeit a nice one) grinning at them.

I think my mum is really- interesting. yeah interesting.

brother had this humongous ulcer in his mouth, so my mum decided to shut his moaning by helping him apply some ulcer cream.

my brother asked, "eh your hand clean or not!", as she stuck her fingers in his mouth to attempt to apply the cream.

my mother was very irritated, ( i stick my hand in your mouth and you still ask me if my hand clean or not?!) so she said very sarcastically, "no, i just touched shit."

omg i was eating so i chocked on the food when the though of her touching shit, and then sticking it to my brother's mouth finally sunk in.

SICKSICKSICK.

my brother thought it so funny, he snorted and nearly bit into her fingers when he laughed, he annoyed her even more.

just yesterday night, she asked me if i was going out after exams, and so i told her i was.

den she told me "aiyar you cupboard so messy! holiday then go out lah! tmr come home clean cupboard!"

i'm like, who in their right minds would clean cupboards, after exams?

i was too -.- to reply her.

so she pressed on, "eh you tutor Don [tht's my brother] after school. i'll pay you."

0.o even though the prospect of getting paid was appealing, come on lah, i would probably kill my brother in less than 5 minutes of tutoring, and let's face it, who'd TUTOR when u can go out.

2 more days to go. Hang in there girl.

xiner just freaked me out, asking me if i learnt the "3 dudes' theory"

and no i didn't.

Malthus's theory: Therefore population growth will eventually exceed the capacity of agriculture to feed that growth.

OH TIAN AH. what the !@#$%^&*( hell are they talking about?!

i'm hoping, praying, with every fibre of me that the " 3 dudes' theory" would nt be tested. else i will cry. right there and then.

anyway, happier thoughts!

oh yes something really. uh amusing happened today.

i was at bukit timah food court with my mum. My mum was buying lunch for my brother so i was standing and waiting.

meanwhile, there was this commotion at the table with NS guys. (damn NS, nothing came out on it in todays history EOY. waste all my time gahhs) behind the ns guys' table was this whole flock of birds attacking the leftover food.

so this guy was fumbling with his handphone, disecting it would be more apt. yeah his sim card, his handphone, there were all im bits and pieces.

"I THINK THE BIRD TOOK MY SIM CARD!"

his ns friends all stared at him. and looked at the bird pecking at the food.

they helped him search around the table and that guy found his missing sim card, guess where.

he was SITTING on it.

then his friends were saying, "yeah YOUR bird took it."

LOL

So much for practising my narrative.

i wrote the person exposition.

"If you could have a talent or skill, what would it be and give 3 reasons why"

yeah and i had to give something supernatural, that is, mindreading

omg, what was i thinking.

definition of skill:
Proficiency, facility, or dexterity that is acquired or developed through training or experience. See Synonyms at ability.

obviously mind reading does not belong to this category. panicking skightly, i proceeded to search for the definition of talent. strike 1

definition of talent:
A marked innate ability, as for artistic accomplishment. See Synonyms at ability.
Natural endowment or ability of a superior quality.

alright. mindreading is NOT natural, (strike 2) but yes it is an ability, no?
harbouring some little ray of hope, i went to check the definition of ability

definition of ability:
The quality of being able to do something, especially the physical, mental, financial, or legal power to accomplish something.
A natural or acquired skill or talent.

definition 2 is out. strike 3 -.-

but the quality of being able to do something especially MENTAL. ahah.
if i fail this damned essay, be sure i shall print the definition out and march up to them and demand my a plus (i wish)

WHY OH WHY must thye give such an ambiguous title. WALAO.

first i suo the summary completely wrong, now i write a compo completely wrong. my oral was horrendous too. (if those of you may remember, i strode into the wrong room. yes i am not kidding.)

sigh.

what next, confuse my geography and literature paper? such that i wrote lit for geog and geog for lit?

HAH. who knows, i wouldn't put it past me.

Crystal Chng, the epitome of all screwed up exams.

join the club! we give free mind reading sessions!

i think prefects are scary 0.o

mhmm.had spotcheck but i din get booked. thankfully.

this sec1 PIT was checking me out, and my hair was kinda on my face, so i hurriedly shoved it behind my ears and thought-HAHA WANNA BOOK ME RIGHT, NOT SO EASY-

yeah den she stared at me ears. i could see her straining her neck. uh oh.

DAMN IT i 4got about my earrings, which i think its illegal. My hair is used to cover these illegal earrings, see.

but i think that nicenice pit decided she didn't want to measure my earrings with a ruler, so she let me go.

Later on, after the traumatic experiences when everyone was reeling from shock, i went to find this girl to pay the money for that workshop thing.

walkwalkwalk.

-think ghost story-

I felt the back of my hairs stand as i hurried through the deserted corridors which was only being lit by flickering lights...

-AIAYR I NOE IN SCH DAYTIME! SHHH DUN INTERRUPT ME I AM PRACTISING MY NARRATIVE WRITING FOR ENGLISH EXAM!-

I paused. Someone was there. "taptaptap" (footsteps what sound one ah?) came the footsteps from behind. Albeit soft, it seemed to echo and amplifly through the dinghy corridors a hundred times. I swivelled around and... ...

"AHHHH PREFECTS!"I ran and ran and ran and ran and ran... ... -leaves it up to reader to continue-

No really! suddenly got this swarm of prefects coming after me. i look behind me, they were 20 m behind. I walk faster. Look behind agn, ALAMAK 10 m! I walkwalkwalk faster. Turn behind and OMG 5m.

either that i run too slow or they walk too fast 0.o or you can also call it a figment of my imagination

Frm that time onwards, my heart still palpilates with dawning fear whenever a prefect comes within 3m radius of me.... ...

AIAYR MY NARRATIVE PRACTICE DIDN'T GO VERY WELL DID IT.

oh what a rubbish entry.

THANKYOU huiwen for staying back with me to do my damned eportfolio

~~not that you had any choice anyway HEEHEE~~

yeah anyway i think its really funny.

we were walking, whee! 190 whizzed past. huiwen gaped. i LAUGHED AT HER.

hahaha.

she gv me "THE look"

then, 105 came and went and i yan3zheng1zheng1 watched it go away.

huiwen snorted at me.

-okay she says she didn't-

I am going to fail my driving test.

I roughly knocked down 2 cars and let's see... (almost) made about 2 little children fly.

hey, can't blame me, they dashed across the road you know.

the road was deserted. WHEE I stepped on the brakes, and nearly collided with the oncoming car, driven by an old woman.

and i made a 3 point turn! and found out that I was opposing traffic. oops.

overall, I made it back to the starting point alive 0.o

For those of you who don't get it, it was a simulation.
I was at NTUC pushing a trolley cart you see. HAHA

I can declare today as the worst week.

oh and i simply lurve similarity and congruency! ( nvm the fact that I cannot do any of the questions!)

my keyboard went haywire. alright so i got another one. whoop dee doo! but what happens, my microphone decides to screw on me. bloody thing.

did i mention I'm crazy over triangles?

and all my pictures in the stupid eport folio simply would not load. wow

omg, what would I ever do without my favourite subject math? It'll take the fun out of life, surely.

History, geography, chinese, physics! the onslaught of work has got me buried six feet under thank you very much.

math rocks!

my eyes are conking up too. They look like the eyes of the rabbit (which is red FYI) i once owned, (which ran away btw, oh dear hope it didn't get eaten by dogs)

whee whee did i mention i simple adore math?

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all the damn worksheets jason ng gave us i can only do half (which is probably wrong anyway) and the other half. SIGH

im panicking. 2 more weeks to fine tune that stupid topic.

SHEESH.

did i mention i love triangles?

Alright. No idea why my internet refuses to load my blog so I’m now typing it in Microsoft word

Have this sudden urge to blog 0.o since i

I completely conked out and went to bed after I came back from school. Closed the curtains and offed the lights and then the next moment I remember is sunlight streaming in –or so I thought- and I panicked. WEDNESDAY morning already and I wasted my entire Tuesday sleeping? Wow.

Okay so my brother’s ideas of fun is barging in the room unannounced, switching on the lights and scaring the wits out of me.

In a nutshell, I wasted my whole day sleeping. And now I am still wide awake, nothing to do.

No, I do not want to study.

No, I do not want to do my homework.

No, I do not want to do anything else for that matter.

But that’s okay. I shall not feel guilty. After all, RS just ended and that calls for a celebration yeah?

-erases the memory of our uh, not so up to standards presentation-

It could have been better.

Oh yes. It could have been much, much better.

Nope I shan’t go into a tirade of “If onlys”

But really, the methodology –ala the gist of the entire presentation- is rather redundant.

Oh never mind.