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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i just finished dumping all my clothes into my bag for tmr's chalet. spent 20 minutes looking for a decent shirt which i can wear out and actually CAN fit, without showing off all my over spilling fats gotten from the period of eoys. yes, i can feel myself expanding sideways. freaking tired now, just got back from hair spray movie with jas yunting peiting sorn nat clee pingfang sipei zhiying sherry and me. i hope i didn't miss anyone out.

"one of the most memorable scenes was when he said something along the lines of "kiss my ass" or something (can't rmb, but there's definitely the word 'ass' in it), then he winked. there was this HUGE, COLLECTIVE SIGH by all the girls in the audience (at least, i hope no guys had a part in it. that would be highly worrying)." quote from izzy's blog.

i think in every slot of the show, this phenomenon would take place. when he winked, everyone in our cinema swooned at the same time. yes, you could hear all the girls giggle and sigh. ok, me included to a certain extent. even though i don't like him much cause pingfang said he mentioned something like "he liked nikki blonsky type of girls" and ditched vanessa hudgens for her cos vanessa was just too clingy or something. nothing against nikki blonsky type of girls, but he seems to be like your typical playboy? oh well, but i admit he does charm the pants off girls. aw. hahaha. and i do not act like penny in the movie ok, yunting! i need to salvage the little dignity that i have left. loads of stupid things happened which i cannot remember for the life of me. check out the other people's blog!

yesterday, i went out with nat and lisa after school for lunch to discuss our plans for the chalet. amidst all the digressions, we ended up bitching about a particular group of people (wow i wonder who).

lisa and nat " [inserts all sorts of comments here, but shall be censored to protect the welfare of nat and lisa] "

me " BUT THAT'S SO MEAN!" (yes, i am a magnanimous person with a very big heart, haven't you realised?)

lisa and nat " [rolls eyes and continues blabbling away] "

lisa "and i just realised [insert person here] is right behind you."

silence.

like omg. call this a foot in mouth syndrome. said person was 1 m behind me, and i think we were blabbling really loudly. not about her, thankfully, but you know, these things spread?! anyway, even if they do, I HOPE SHE HEARD ME TRYING TO DEFEND THE HONOUR OF XXX.

and on tuesday, after chem, 408 went out to celebrate. i forgot who went but we lunched at pizza hut, hung around at ps, and then watched license to wed. I mugged chem like crazy. i have never put in so much effort in any subject before. i did the ten year series for chem with such fervour and enthusiasm (yeah right) that even i didn't know it was possible for me. and in the end, i couldn't even do the first MCQ question, and ended up staring at nat shaking her leg for the better part of the exam. okay, since when did this post become a rant for chem. i digress. reached home, did bio journal. i know i needed the 5 percent eally badly, but it's after exams! who really cares about how bacterial transform at 11pm in the evening when all i want to do is sleep!

yep, and that is how i spent my week. nothing interesting to blog about at the moment!

okay, i just wasted my whole night watching CSS2, instead of studying chem. my mum was even more excited than me about the finals. she has the tv switched on 15 minutes before the show even started.

anyway, why did shawn win! ): my dad, who retreated into my room (yeah my room. he loved my room so much i don't know why) with his guitar after the first 2 songs, came out to see the results. and all he said was "huh, so the MICKEY MOUSE WON?! dammit!"

come to think of it. he looks a bit like mickey mouse too huh. hahaha

BACK TO CHEM! ok who am i kidding -.-

conversation which took place between jasmine and me on the phone the day before physics test.

me: you know the physics formula I = Q / T? yeah i thought of a cool way to remember it!

jas: oh yeah?

me: HAHAHA YEAH! I = CUTIE!

jas: ... hahahahahahah

(and we burst into raucous laughter)

jas: actually, i also thought of a way to remember it! I = Q/ T , so IQ = T(OP)!

* i got feedback from other people saying that they didn't understand jasmine's one. so i shall further explain! IQ = T(OP)! meaning yout IQ (intelligence quotience) is high, you get TOP! yes, our jasmine here is one rather abstract kid. hahahah

me: ... oh.

me: this really reflects our personalities.

yunting found what i said rather funny, and proceeded to tell dharsh online about it. dharsh went: that's so blonde chng, so yunting relayed her message to me. i went to confront her about it. and all dharsh said was "i hope you found my comment constructive". thanks ah. if we need to use the formula during the exams, I'M going to have the last laugh. but oh well. the formula didn't come out. all there was of electricity was some stupid lightbulb question WHICH I GOT IT WRONG ANYWAY?! -.-

alright, it feels like the end of exams even though there's one more dreaded chem paper left. oh and chinese, but that one a bit no hope already. (ok like my chem got hope, but whatever).

i shan't talk about exams. cos we all know how well that went yeah? i shall talk about happy things like our mini celebrations at seoul garden. i'm so full right now i'm going to puke.

jasmine pingfang yanyee yuxuan zhiying zhixian qiuping elaine peiting yunting and me to celebrate jasmine's and pingfang's birthday and the end of history and physics at seoul garden taka. when yx yy zy and i sneaked off the buy the birthday girls' cake, noone wanted to eat it cos we were all freaking full.

the conversation went something like that if i remember correctly.

zhiying: oh can we write on the cake the words "happy birthday losers? oh nono, can we have 2 Ls combined together then it's a W?" -does loser sign with hands to form a W, much to the dismay of the saleslady- oh how about we just say happy birthday winners? or happy birthday J W PF? (the w stood for winners if you haven't figured)

the three of us just went 0.o

yes, and i need to just add on one more thing.

`72 says:
i where got mean to u.

`72 says:
who ask u so retarded always get bullied? i cant help it too!

`72 says:
its ur nature! it cant be changed.

__crystaaal* it's an iridescent life, well, almost. says:
HAHA SEE! U ARE BEING MEAN TO ME. THIS IS EVIDENCE!

i'm an aunt now! : DD so surreal! i can't imagine my brother an uncle and my 8 year old cousins being aunt themselves. LOL.

AND the baby is indian + chinese + caucasian. (yunting, you want? : DD then i will be your aunt in law!!! HAHA how weird does that sound) HOW CUTE IS THAT.

oh wait. the baby's a female. awwww. and i haven't found out her name though, but i bet she's going to be a knock out next time! sad to say, the first time we get to see her will be when she's about 1, my cousin being in canada and everything. wow, and an american accent to boot. haha yunting i bet you are super jealous now!

BACK TO MUGGING )):

long time no blog! been rather busy lately (not with schoolwork of course) and couldn't be bothered to blog.

4 days of national day holiday passed in a flash and i am very proud to say that i have no accomplished anything. i was planning to study my sciences but oh well. i got sidetracked. as always.

NDP celebrations! well done to 408 for getting third! the entrance was really cool, i didn't even expect it to be that big! it really captured everyone's attention i think! the entire thing was really funny i was laughing so much i nearly missed the whole thing. went out to watch secret after that after debating for half an hour whether i should be sick or not. and i think the movie was really sad at some point! i have no idea why noone cried with me 0.o

FIREWORKS! 9 August 07 will be the first and last time i ever attempt to watch fireworks at the esplanade, or at anywhere else for that matter. if i ever watch fireworks away from home, it would be in a HOTEL SUITE with CHAMPAGNE and AIRCON and a GOOD VIEW.

at first, i was hestitating whether i should go, since i've seen the fireworks before at the stadium before and everything. but yuxuan convinced me that "it would be an experience". yeah right, an experience indeed! zhiying, yumin, yanyee, jasmine, yuxuan and I practically died in the crowds. we could hardly breathe and move. there wasn't even enough space to turn a full 360 degrees, that's how packed it was.

jasmine got violated though. this bangledesh worker practically slept on her. he closed his eyes and leaned on her. i was like wth is he doing?! but then, it was so packed that we couldn't even do anything. jasmine didn't even realise she was being slept on. yumin and I were suffocating, but we had this nice indian guy, whom i think might be another worker, push all the rest away from us. yeah, being vertically challanged and all, we were nearly caught in a stampede. -.-

and i'm sorry for leaning on everything behind me, ( including the baby i almost killed. he was super cute though! provided some eye candy for me hahaha) i was just so tired for standing up for ages and being squeezed and pushed all over the place. i realise i'm really embarassing though. ): come to think of it, i am so glad i will never meet this curly haired afro guy and the indian guy ever again. because according to the rest, they were all laughing at my stupid antics.
i can't help not balancing on my feet!

"excuse, you are suffocating my friend! can you stop pushing?" zhiying said in her newscaster voice, which was quite classic, cos the guy just gave her a look and didn't say anything.

by the time everything was over (the fireworks lasted a grand total of 10 minutes, and we stood there waiting for more than half an hour), the plants were all trampled on, they don't even look like plants anymore. so there we were, drenched in sweat and stinking up the place ( with 90% of the sweat isn't even ours, someone said but i can't remember who)

zhiying was very amused at my joke though.

"so how are we going to raffles city?"
"oh, we take bus 11."
"bus 11?"
"yeah, bus 11 you know? " -motions at pair of legs-

and she started laughing and laughing and caused everyone within 5 m radius to stop and stare.

bitched at gloria jean's coffees at raffles city for about an hour before everyone dispersed! and that's the end of my national day. nearly got our doughnuts from donut factory, but alas, they didn't have enough donuts for us ): so, we left the queue after joining it for 5 minutes.

post NDP. accompanied qingyun for lunch and the movie secret. (yes i actually watched it a second time cos she couldn't find anyone else to watch with, since all her friends watched it already. but she paid for me though : D thanks! hahaha) intended to spend the day mugging, but oh well, the lunc date sort of took up the entire day. so there goes a perfectly free friday.

Saturday. watched rush hour 3 with my mother and brother. i quite enjoyed it. those who need a stress relief should go watch it!

jteo seems to be picking on me lately -.- which annoys the hell out of me, even though he does it in some form of joking manner. i shall blog about it another time!

my brother had his life sciences tuition, so seeing that i am about to fail bio, (among every other subjects of course) i went to ambush his tutor after his lesson and made him teach me everything from central dogma to bacterial transformation. ( AND I MISSED CAMPUS SUPERSTAR CAUSE OF THIS. ): must rmb to watch the repeat on sat!!)

apparently the things we're learning now is a levels and pre-uni stuff. i just don't understand why can't they stick to O LEVEL STUFF. if i take o levels i would fail anyway, still teach me a levels?! funny, them.

he was so animated and excited at the prospects of bacterial transformation, he was babbling at a mile a minute about various different cells and whatever things that i have never heard of in my life. he was scribbling so furiously on the paper i swear he almost flung the pen away at some point in time.

tutor: .........so the plasmid will become porous for the DNA fragment to get inside....ok? yeah then the... understand? ok?? ok, then after it, the bacterial will multiply and you will get huge colonies ok? yes, so... ok???

me: uhm...

tutor: yeah den the start codon will ..... do you understand? am i going too fast? if i am, must stop me okay? after that, the stop codon will cause it to stop... eh. you all rgs girls very smart, ask me so intelligen questions! (which he didn't know how to answer, that's why he said that hahaha)

me: (stones)

and after he is done, i , who obviously did not get anything inside my head, will ask him to repeat that over again.

tutor: and i really shouldn't be teaching you this but....

what he shouldn't have taught me was how to remember the start and stop codons.

AUG - are you gay?
UAG- you are gay!
UAA- you are ass!

and there's one more stop codon which i can't remember. HAHA

and he kept asking me if i'm stressed in rgs 0.o i just looked at him and felt like saying, "shrugs abourrit" That totally captures the scope of things -.-

he kind of reminds me of lim boon tat. LOL. and he asked me if i'm going to NUS next year. i said, uh. i'm going JC? so he said, but there's rj girls going NUS for H3!

i told him, in a disbelieving tone, that i wasn't going to take h3 bio. i don't even know if i'm going to take bio in the first place. He looked all insulted at that comment. oh, all for the love of bio!

orals today. was a super nervous wreck waiting outside the exam room. i think this year's orals was the most screwed up for me. i didn't know they would be asking for assumptions, and since i couldn't think of any, i didn't bother to come up with assumptions. so after i conveniently neglected my assumptions, priscilla loh went. "so what are your assumptions?" i could only stone back at her. arathi and claire's suggestion of faking a heart attack at that moment was really very tempting. i wanted to try out frothing at the mouth. but unfortunately, that wasn't the case. so i just came up with something incomprehensible after 30 seconds. my entire conversation centered around "not seeing things at a superficial level". same vocab word in almost every sentence.

and the reading was in a more horrible mess. stumbled at every 2 sentence ): i should have practiced a bit more! ah. what a disappointment.

and arathi just complained to me that she's going to get 0. thanks ah, so what are we going to get? negative value? co-chair of debate getting 0? record marks man!

ok i shall stop moaning over orals.

i can hear my dad playing his guitar outside again -.- he added some new songs to his repertiore today though! HAHA and i still can't play a single note ): it is because i'm playing it the right handed way 0.o it feel really weird. or maybe cos i'm plain lousy. aww i want to learn it! i realised it's an electric-cum-classical guitar! i shall go to the library after eoys to borrow the book "guitar playing for dummies" or something related.