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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A message from Jasmine to Anonymous-

X or O? says:
if u think u are so cool saying this, why dun u talk to me in person

X or O? says:
and i will prove to u i hv a freaking truckload van of boyfriends in future

TOO TRUE. You wait and see!

The bus driver from SBS pissed me off so badly yesterday I wanted to pull off his act-cool shades and gourge his eyes out. Granted, that is a little extreme since he didn't do anything majorly bad to me, but then, I was already feeling crappy and tired to begin with. Last straw man, he should count his lucky stars I didn't (think of) do(ing) anything else to him.

Feeling tired and a little grumpy, I boarded the bus back to school. I had no money with me, no EZ link card, just the 55 cents I borrowed. So I just "tonked" the 55 cents into the container thing and went to sit down. BUT NO. I COULDN'T SIT DOWN AND ENJOY MY (albiet 1 stop only) BUS RIDE. The bus driver stopped me and demanded, "Where is your bus pass."

me: What bus pass?
BD: Your BUS PASS, girl, your BUS PASS!!
me: I don't get what you mean, I already put in 55 cents and I don't have a bus pass.

when he didn't reply for a moment, I thought all was well, so I proceeded to the back. BUT NO. I HAD TO BE INTERROGATED AGAIN.

BD: BUS PASS!!
me: (who was ready to gourge his eyes out already since he wouldn't tell me what the hell is a BUS PASS. Like I can read his mind?! Insisting "BUS PASS" for the past 3 minutes so did not clarify things) I DON'T HAVE A BUS PASS. IF YOU MEANT EZ LINK, I DON'T HAVE MY WALLET WITH ME.
BD: No bus pass, must pay adult fare.
me: BUT I'M ALREADY IN A UNIFORM.
BD: No, cannot. Must pay adult fare.
me: I'M SORRY I ONLY HAVE 55 CENTS. SO WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? (SEND ME TO THE POLICE STATION NOW? I was tempted to add that, but then I really didn't want to be sent to the police in actual fact.)
BD: (pauses) Next time don't do it again.

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH HIM?! Okay, this is the first time I have encoutered such an incident. Maybe my reaction is a tad too strong but then I wasn't in a very good mood in the first place. He can clearly see I am wearing the SCHOOL UNIFORM. IT'S A PINAFORE FOR GOODNESS SAKE. Do I look like some 30 year old adult who is wearing to school uniform JUST TO SAVE 50 CENTS ON BUS FARE?!

People who pay cash may not have their wallets with them!! So what do they expect us to do. If I were in my outside clothes paying 55 cents, I wouldn't blame him lah, BUT HELLO. I was mistaken for a 12 year old kid just the other day!!! Since then, I have aged 20 years. WOW.
Apparently, Elaine and Oli had similar experiences too. Maybe they encountered the same bus driver!

But I just don't see why must they make a big fuss when we are already in our school uniforms! Seriously pisses me off. The thing is, if he had said it in a nice way and didn't keep insisting on "BUS PASS", I probably wouldn't have minded, but he just needed to be incohenrent and rude. He has got issues, seriously.

On a totally random note, since I am already ranting about bus and bus drivers, another nice uncle let me go in without paying the bus fare because my EZ link had no money and I was trying to shout to my companion (forgot who you were sorry! hahaha) who was at the other end of the bus to lend me money.

Today, I was heading home from school on the bus and I fell asleep like I usually do during the ride home. The bus driver drove with such a vengeance that I, who was currently asleep at that time hence could not do anything to help myself, BANGED my head with such force I swear I got a concusssion. The bang was so loud half the passengers turned to stare at me.

The whole accident was so uncool and embarassing, (it did not help that I had the word RAFFLES emblazoned prominently across my back) I pretended to go back to sleep with my head in my hands, hoping that at least looked somewhat cooler than what I just did.

What's up with me and buses lately?

Long time no update! But that doesn't mean that I have been going out and partying til late for the past 3 days. In fact, have been leading a sad life, cooped up at home doing... absolutely nothing! (oh I actually finished an essay and I felt so accomplished I went to sleep and didn't do anything else for the rest of the Monday. You go, girl!)

Meanwhile, technology and I have been at loggerheads. First, my iPod died on me. It was fully charged the day before and there was absolutely no reason why it suddenly refused to switch on while I was at the gym. After jabbing at it several times, it still refused to cooperate. It came back to life after all when I charged it again. Must have left it switched in throughout the night so the batter died, that was a logical conclusion I thought. But doesn't iPod automatically switch off?! Ah, a mystery!

Next, my laptop became infected with spyware and porn (I can live without the images thanks very much. I was educated enough in France on that matter). It's going away for repair tomorrow ):

and than, my handphone is malfunctioning. The screen blanks out everytime I slide my phone and it take eons to work. So now you know the reason for my retarding replies.

Since I didn't make it to Sentosa today with the rest, I decided to treat myself by going down to the furobath and then swim! Whenever we use the facilities at the condo, we have to sign in and out on this logbook. I don't get the point actually. So what if we sign in and out? So if there's some problem with the sauna or something they will come after us? 0.o

And because I forgot to bring my residential card down to scan for the door to unlock to the furobath, the security guard had to open the door for me.. There was a sign plastered onto the door which says, "Children between the ages of 12... must be accompanied by an adult."

Security Guard (SG): Are you 12?

me: yes (in a disbelieving tone. DON'T I LOOK 16?! The only person who looks 12 is Jas! okay I'm sorry Jas, I have no idea why your name cropped up) I am 16 already!

SG: (glances at the sign) Children between the age of 12 and 16 must be accompanied by an adult." ... you need adult supervision.

ZOMG. I can't believe I actually missed out the 16 part. I was already all decked out in my swimming costume and bathrobe I AM NOT ABOUT TO GO BACK UP TO GET MY MOTHER, who probably will refuse to accompany me down. Anyway, how lame is it to have adult supervision!! So, I came up with a stupid lie, which I bet the SG didn't believe at all, but who's complaining?

me: oh uh. ACTUALLY I'M 17! (nervous laughter) I'm 16 because my birthday hasn't come yet. As in, my birthday is this month! So i'm 17. yeah, I'm already 17 actually.

She gave me THE LOOK, which clearly said she didn't believe me one bit, but let me go ahead anyway.

PS After chatting to Pingfang online, I realised that I actually tanned more than her hahaha

I've just finished reading Jasmine's blog and now I finally understood what the lesson is all about. alright, HALF of what the lesson is all about. I'm sorry, but I just don't like to listen to people having one-sided conversations! I was so afraid I would get thrown out of class, thanks to Jasmine. Yeah, I know Jas already recounted her incident, but I'd like to do so again, ala Crystal style.

The guy from Temesek Holdings came to gave a talk about entrepreneurship and he had the coolest hair. His hair was parted so severly, it looked somewhat like a wave.

me: It looks like a wave.

Jas: I can see a surfer on it.

Best. I started vibrating on the spot so hard, I think I switched from silent mode to vibration mode to loudspeaker mode.

Throughout the whole session was agony, everytime I glanced up, I could see this tiny surfer riding on his wave of hair. At one point in time, the speaker went "What about the 3 of you? You all have been rather silent." or something to that effect. I froze. I totally had no idea wth had been going on for the past 40 minutes since I was on vibration and loudspeaker mode for the entire session so far. Zhiying looked as confused, alas, Jassymama managed to save the day with some answer I didn't understand.

Yesterday was prom dress shopping with Jasmine and Pingfang.

No. of hours shopping for a dress: Less than 30 mins.
No. of dresses seen: Less than 10
No of hours spent talking: 3 hours +

We are one cool bunch indeed. Yes Pingfang, I am really excited about our excersie regime too!!! : DDD