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so sleep alone tonight
This blog belongs to CRYSTAL. It documents her musings, rants and the many anti-climatic events in her life, so read at your own risk! PS She thinks her dad reads her blog. |
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about the author
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(: shoutouts
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AilinClaire Charlene Chern Ping Crystal Lee Davina Enqi Fadhilah Fanglin Fann FourOhEight '07 Huiwen Isabel Jasmine Jiahui Jolene Maryam Munchin' Mamas Natalia Natalia Peiting Pingfang Ruiling Saniah Samantha Serene Sheena Sherry Sipei Sorna Theodora The Red Jewel Yanqi Yunting Zhixian archives
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WARNING: LONG LONG POST AHEAD : D Disclaimer: Conversations which took place are typed out to the best of my memory (which isn't saying a lot but well... you get my point.) PART 1: CLIMB Today was a pretty much interesting day, albeit exhausting. My mum thought I went mountain climbing or something when she saw my clad in the electric blue CLIMB t-shirt and told me straight in the face that I smelled. Talk about subtlety -.- Stay tuned to Part 2! Tan Jia Hui, I hate youuuuuuuu. jiahui says: sigh when we kayak over, i can see all the corals jiahui says: so cool and beautiful jiahui says:the rocks were amazing, can see all the layers of sedimentary rocks.. jiahui says: then the coasts were wow. jiahui says: then when i abseiled down jiahui says:can see all the sea waves crashing on the rocks.. jiahui says: SO AMAZING. jiahui says:ok i miss stepping on the soft sandy beach and clear waters. TALK ABOUT LAYING IT ON THICK?! humph. Who else went for ALPS? Feel free to enlighten me on what really happened! Somehow, it seems that this is very one-sided ahem. --- Zhiying needed company to go buy toys for Interact yesterday, so being the nice friend I am, I sacrificed a day of studying (yeah right, the only thing I'm studying are the habits of a pig so I can imitate them more closely than ever) to accompany her. One of the items were paper bags. Apparently those paper bags were supposed to fit over the children's head. Unsure of the sizes, she phoned her senior to check. Zhiying: How big do you need it? Snr: How big is it? Zhiying: uhmmm. Because I am so quick witted, I used my fists to measure the length and breath of the paperbag, since there was a lack of measuring instruments round. Zhiying: Oh uhm... about 2 and a half fists in length. Snr: 2 and a half what? Zhiying: FIST! You know... your hand when you clench it? (makes clenching action in front of me, as if I was the one who needed to know) Snr: Huh? But fishes got different sizes what! Yeah, she thought we were using fishes as a measuring device of sorts. Zhiying started laughing her trademark laugh. She couldn't stop and everyone within 3m radius of us started staring. I shall not comment any further. After paying for all the stuff, the toy shop uncle offered us a sweet. Instead of clenching the handle and pulling it out, Zhiying twisted the cover and took a sweet. I looked at the dubious sweet and squeezed it. Okaaay, it was styrofoam! Uncle: You're not supposed to open it this way! We were extremely curious as to what would happen if we opened it the proper way. So she capped the bottle of fake sweets, pinched the handle and promptly elicited a squeal. Me: What what?? Zhiying: (blubbers incoherently) Me: Let me try!! So I grabbed the handle and screamed. The old adage says "Curiousty killed the cat", more like "Curiousity electrocuted the cat" in this case. As if that weren't enough.. Uncle: Okay lah, just playing with you guys! You want something else? (offers us Whitley's chewing gum, which unlike the fake sweets, looked suspiciuosly like the real deal) But no, both of us got electrocuted once again. The uncle finally did offer us real sweets though haha. I swore my fingers felt different when I left the shop. Too much electricity running through my veins. --- The visit to the toyshop must have awakened the inner childhood in me or something. After eating dinner with my brother and mum, my mum decided to go grocery shopping while the both of us tagged along. While browsing through the food... Bro: Eh, you like this right? (points at mussels) Me: Yeah, why not? Nice what! Bro: YUUUUUUUUCK. They are so gross lah! The smoked salmon is so much better. Me: Oh yeah, I like smoked salmon!! (pause) Me: I'll pay you 10 bucks if you smuggle it home without Mummy knowing. Smuggle meaning to dump it in the trolley while my mum unwittingly pays for it, not stealing lah duh. Oh and I wasn't really intending to pay him 10 bucks. I said that cos I wanted to eat the salmon hahaha. My brother is a damn lousy smuggler please. He kept giggling/smirking and having those "I have a big secret" look on his face. Apparently, I wasn't much better according to him. Bro: Why are you so happy?? Me: FUN WHAT. hahahahah. Bro: Walao like that also fun meh?! So we hid the smoked salmon under the mountain of food we have piled up in the trolley. By some luck, we managed to smuggle the smoked salmon home. My mum wasn't very please when she found out though. Okay, sounds quite lame when I type it out, but at that point in time, it was like a James Bond movie! Really! So thrilling : D As you can see, I am learning how to embrace the inner child in me! Speaking of my brother, I suppose my little fainting incident scared the hell out of him the other time, because he finally learnt to show a little concern. I was in the toilet in the morning. (knock knock) I ignored him, since I just woke up and yours truly is not Little Miss Sunshine when she just wakes up. (knock knock knock knock knock) So I opened the door glared at him, "What is wrong with you?? What do you want?!" Bro: Oh. You okay not? Me: Uh yeah. Why? (I could see the clogs in his head turning) Bro: Cos you look like shit. Gee thanks, little brother. PS PW is really a pain in the ass omg. At the very least, most groups got their GPPs approved right?! So those who are freaking over the prospect of not getting their interview/survey done, CHILL MAN. Because our GPP is still at the "Please Revise" stage and we ain't happy about it. I never thought I would see those shorts again.  Neither of us expected that it would decide to make a reappearance today. But let's start from the beginning : D Yuxuan came over to my place in the morning before we set off to meet the rest because the only semi-formal clothes available in her wardrobe were only fit for a school teacher. So in a desperate attempt to glamourise herself, both of us decided that she should pop by and invade my wardrobe, for some reason. Like I have anything to wear myself. hahaha. Did some last minute shopping before we met Sipei, Pingfang, Yunting, Olly, Sherry, Sorn and Zhiying. We managed to convince Pingfang to splurge on a near 90 buck dress and she was extremely happy the whole day.  Half of us, while the others went to buy donuts for Qiuping and Claire. Because Ms Rich and Ms Glam (i.e. KPF and SP) couldn't stand walking to the Arts House from Raffles City which was a mere 5 minute walk, they roped in Zhiying and I to cab to the Arts House with them. (oh yeah by the way, you guys haven't paid me back for the cab fare but being the generous person that I am, I will just forget about it : D ) The others arrived in... about 3 minutes after we arrived. Since Pingfang and I ordered our tickets late, we were stuck at another row away from the rest (btw I still think our row had a better view!!) After grumbling for 20 minutes, she decided to take action since there were empty seats besides the others. PF: Chng, wanna move? Me: Orh, okay. I was getting ready to stand up and walk up the steps LIKE A NORMAL PERSON, but no, Koh Ping Fang is by no means normal and decided to do things in typical KPF fashion. Before both of us actually left our seats, the lights dimmed and the MC started speaking. So she grabbed me and instead of heading towards the stairs like CIVILLISED person, she scrambled through the freaking hole in her new 90 dollars dress while I just gaped at her in utter disbelief. I thought we were going to get thrown out for our indecent behaviour please. Plus, I realised that I do a lot of crawling and climbing with my friends eh. (thinks about YX and C's midnight adventure.) Apparently Zhiying hyperventilated when Ms Hot Stuff came strutting out of the runway. But we all agree that you were hot up there, Claire. Talk about endless legs eh. hahahahaha But that does not give you the right to say things like... Claire: Was is very cold inside? Zhiying: Yeah at first it was, but it was okay afterwards. Claire: Because I came out onto the runway right? hahahahahah Then the temperature went up! Qiuping was looking all sweet in her preppy costume too. Again in typical Qiuping style, she just had to jut her head into the photo below haha.  Us and Ms Hot Stuff.    The Dumb and the Blondes : D  Meet Blonde and Blonder! hahahaha  Miss 89 dollar dress : D   There were more pictures but I don't have them! Guys, send them to me! Or post them on your blogs! Sherry and Sorn left afterward while SP, PF, ZY, YX and I headed to some jap restaurant for dinner. After SP left, PF went to go get food for her camp so she wouldn't starve to death while ZY accompanied her. I followed YX to collect her blouse and also to get my blouse exchanged (which they repaired in the end). Met up with the other 2 after that. Sorry ZY and PF for taking so long (they were done grocery shopping by the time we got there), but we got distracted : D There were lots of nice shops from City Hall MRT all the way to Suntec, so we decided to stop for a little retail therapy hahaha. Since it was getting late and all of us were walking like a duck already due to lousy shoes (with the exception of YX because she couldn't take it any longer and changed to slippers, a shirt and FBTs lol), we decided to head home. YX must have been in a hurry to catch the bus. She started walking in front while the rest of us hobbled along. Me: OMG YX. You are wearing that pair of holey shorts!! So all 3 of us started rolling along the floor laughing. (okay, more like ZY and I. For some reason, YX didn't find it very amusing.) YX: oh my gooooodness. SO IT MEANT THAT EVERYONE SAW THE HOLE WHEN I LEFT MY HOUSE FOR CHNG'S HOUSE LAH. Well, what can I say, but why don't you just frame up that pair of holey FBTs so you wouldn't risk wearing it again : D Hello world! Contrary to popular belief, this blog is NOT dead. Much to blog about actually, but never did get around to doing it, so now I forgot everything that I want to type haha. Lost focus the last 3 days of school especially after GP CT, and totally day dreamed throughout the entire lectures and stoned in tutorials. (fine, you caught me. I stone and dream for the entire semester anyway). --- Let's start from a few weeks ago. CO concert was... expensive. Who knew Jasmine and I could spend about 30 bucks each trying to kill time. We had the entire bus to ourselves when we boarded it from Gleneagles so it was like a limousine ride if you had a bit more imagination. The doctor finally took off my stitches and I nearly died while he tried to cut the thread which was "embedded into my skin". Doctors also need higher EQ in my opinion. Jasmine, I still admire you for going through your entire ordeal. Can't belief how many tubes you had stuck into you, plus morphine zomg. By the way, I don't think my mum knows you as Ms Big Eyes anymore. Plus she didn't bug me for the 5o bucks both of us extorted from her hahaha : D Fell asleep during CO concert. Ooops. While I tried waving to Huiwen, Jasmine laughed at me and told me the performers can't see us. Feeling rest assured because this was coming from a seasoned performer ( haha somewhat ; D), I decided to snooze for a bit. But no, apparently, I was caught by Cheryl, who was at the most remote corner at the end of the stage, so that's saying a lot. -- Fast forward to Wednesday! Felt like rebelling so I cancelled tuition on Wed and went to YX's house to Wii, watch movies and feast. (My sugar intake significantly went up. YX, you can totally bring me home anytime man, I will help you finish up all your food : D Yes, I am totally food deprived at home. Jiahui can testify, since my fridge is only 1cm taller than me so that's saying a lot haha) But it didn't work out, because some technophobe didn't know how to set up the Wii. Neither did she know how to set up the DVD player -.- Spent half an hour fiddling with the remotes just to find out that there wasn't any battery inside. We also learnt that watching a murder thriller with Dolby Digital Surround Sound System wasn't a really good choice. Left my handphone at YX's house when I left at night and I cleverly boarded the first bus I saw, which turned out to be the wrong bus obviously, because that's what Crystal Chng does. What should be a 15 min bus ride turned out to be 45 mins of agonising waiting ( and this was after watching Zodiac, yes) Bottom line: I was handphone-less, stranded on Bukit Timah hill (okay technically it wasn't Bukit Timah hill, but I was on a sloping hill in Bukit Timah. Same difference yeah.) on some deserted road. Attempted to walk home, but it started pouring. I was surrounded by the jungle and bushes and I thought Mas Selamat was going to jump out and kill me. But I made it home alive and kicking in the end : D --- Friday was spent louging around at Zhiying's house after lunch with Yumin, Claire, Zhiying, Pingfang. Wanted to call other 408-ers but we kind of gave up after Peiting had her phone switched off and Yunting rejected us. HAHA. Decided to go shopping because none of us had anything semi formal to wear. haha Claire, see all the trouble we have to go through just to see you catwalk for like 1 minute 30 secs?! You owe us, girl. --- Meanwhile... CCA Chair was asking me if I could stay over at some St John's camp or something over msn. CCA Chair: Can you stay over at St John's then? So, I wanted to ask who was staying overnight, i.e. type: oh I stay overnight with who? : D But no, I didn't know what I was thinking and typed: Me: oh I stay overnight with you? : D And that didn't sound very right at all. It was an honest typo mistake, but I thought it was quite funny after I got over the initial embarassment. hahaha --- Am going on the Singapore Flyer tomorrow because my mum's aunt has free tickets or something : D To end of this post, I shall give a basic summary of 10 of my academic years thus far. Lower Primary: I must get 90 and above! Upper Primary: I better get Band 1/ A* ! Secondary School: omg thank goodness I PASSED. JC: DAMN, single digit again. School rules : D Dad: So, you want to be a lawyer next time? Me: Uhm, I will let you know after I get into the double digit range for my tests, yeah? ___crystaaal* says: my mum dont want me to go for camp! lol jiahui says: MUST GO OR I WILL BOX U CUS U ASKED ME TO GO ___crystaaal* says: what if my wound splits open hahaha jiahui says: ): i will glue it back with my love. jiahui says: hahaha No thanks, jiahui. I've had enough of glue to last me a lifetime (there's still some remnants of the glue left on my face thanks very much. Doctors should seriously take proper Arts and Crafts sessions). -- Anyway, my little 3-day holiday stint is OVER and regretfully, I hereby announce now that I take unproductivity to a whole new level. Thanks to Yuxuan for your little visit today : D Even though I could feel my stitches splitting! My handphone is temporarily down (again, yes). I can't read/send sms and that really annoys the hell out of me -.- So yeah, just to let you guys know, I can't open all the smses in my inbox. Will reply when my phone decides not to misbehave! Hello world, I am back to blog again because I am just so damn bored at home with nothing to entertain me except work (miraculously nothing much has been done even though I have nothing else to do) so people, feel free to spam me until I get back to school. : D Plus, I'll be out of action for the next 2 days so if you guys don't see around in school on Thursday, it meant I would have rotted and died at home.The only company I have is my mum and again. she isn't very good company because I can't be normal (read: my signature dumb blonde-ness) in front of her. Basically, I wake up at 10, shower and when I get back from the clinic/hospital, half the day is gone and hardly anything is accomplished. Whoopdeedoo. I have heard a lot of stories regarding Junhao's groundshaking confession over his sexual orientation during GP today. Damn, I always have to miss the most interesting tid-bits when missing classes. Hopefully, 6K will withhold any interesting moments until I get back. haha Joanna, Tri and Muz, bet you guys missed your dear efficient Secretary : D Yesterday was really trying on the muscles because I couldn't eat (From a sanwich which measured 20 cm by 20 cm, it got cut up to little 1cm by 1cm bits, seriously)MSN-ning with Nat and Yumin made me laugh I was so scared that my stitches would split. But now, I feel quite crappish, cos my throat is pretty much inflamed and I'm really lethargic the entire day. Yumin made me see the finer points of fainting in the comforts of my own toilet instead of in a certain someone's arms. Peiting, omg. Why did you have to blog that sms excerpt. HAHA I sound like a ditz. (okay, I know you will say I always do). Meanwhile, thanks to Wendy (I KNOW YOU ARE DYING TO SEE YOUR NAME HERE) for keeping me company during my distress and boredem. Yuxuan, you better come visit me on Wednesday, I will hold you to it! I don't know how Mas Selamat does it, living in the jungle for goodness how long. It's only been one day and I CRAVE human company, at least, human company of the same wavelength. : D Thanks to those who asked, and seriously, it isn't as bad as it seems haha, I mean, now I have a battle scar to show the world! COOL RIGHT? I was supposed to spend today studying for math, but the little incident today has left me recuperating the the remaining hours of my Sunday : D The hours spent in the Accidents and Emergency department in a hospital was a harrowing experience which I do not want to relive again. Like omg, I don't know how women can stand giving birth?! Jasmine, you have my utmost respect man, can't imagine how you survived your surgery! One fine Sunday morning, I woke up because my stomach ached for some reason, so I went to the toilet. I suppose my threshold for pain is extremely low or something. I felt giddy, everything turned cold plus I started sweating like crazy. My ears were blocked and then I blacked out. My chin hit the toilet floor and I sustained a cut under my chin. Ultimate winner. The flesh was hanging out please, how gross was that. Plus it was bloody all over. I regained consciousness and stumbled out to the sofa. My brother thought I was going to die or something and yelled for my mum. He told me later on that he heard super loud thud in the toilet. Went to a GP and he referred me to go an A&E to get my wound stitched up. He said it'll probably need about 2 or 3 stitches. For someone who rode in an ambulance before and had about 10 stitches on myself already, this would have been no big deal right? But no, the nurses was so inexperienced it left me emotional duress throughout the whole experience. Not to be racist or whatever, but they weren't local and seriously, they didn't know what they were doing. MY FACE IS AT STAKE HERE, HELLO. At least pretend you know what is a fine scapel lah! The doctor said it was okay if I wanted to glue the skin back, instead of getting stitches. Or if I wanted, he could call in a plastic surgeon to stitch my chin but it'll cost 2000 bucks. Even though my face to me is worth millions, I didn't feel that the 2 or 3 stitches are worth $2000 bucks. Doctor: You'll need about 7 stitches... Me: AH?! 7?! I thought it'll need only 2?? Doctor: ... or 2 fat stitches, which will leave 2 big holes on ur chin. Not very advisable. You can get it glued back, it's the same as getting stitches. So between gluing and stitching, I chose to get it glued. Sounds less intimidating right? So after ages of attempting to squash the flesh back into my chin and gluing up... Doctor: Yes, glue this area. NONO NOT THERE! The other side.. NOT SO MUCH. Just a bit will do.. yeah. NOOO! SLOWLY. Basically, the nurses were just fumbling around not knowing what to do. Doctor: Get me a fine scapel (nurse hands him some shiny metallic and sharp instrument)No, I want a FINE scapel!! Yup, and there I was, lying on the bed/operation table/whachamacallit freaking out. After ages of lying there, waiting for it to be over... Doctor: I can't glue the middle portion up! It won't stay closed. I need to give you stitches. OMGG. I NEARLY DIED DOWN THERE WHILE YOU GLUED ME UP AND NOW YOU TELL ME CANNOT, MUST SEW ME UP INSTEAD? I BOX YOU, I TELL YOU. So I had to lay there somemore for him to inject me with local anesthesia and give me stitches. While lying there being glued/stitched, Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love kept playing in my head- "You cut me open and I keep bleeding, I keep keep bleeding love" haha Talk about ironic, except that there wasn't much love involved and he was trying to sew me up instead of cut me open. Okay, there wasn't a lot of blood involved either but yeah, you get my point. The gluing was much worse than the stitching in my opinion. Maybe because the nurses weren't involved in sewing me up or something. Halfway through the gluing, (when the doctor and the nurses seem to not know what they were doing) I was so freaked out, plus it kind of hurt, I started tearing. When I thought it was over, the doctor told me no, he still had to stitch me, I was so pissed, cold and hungry, I started tearing somemore. (It was hard to cry lying on the bed/operating table/whachamacallit you see, so all I could do was tear haha) Basically, I paid 30 bucks for the nurses' fee out of the 200 bucks in medical fees. They only deserve 3 bucks okay, not 30 bucks?! After bandaging and whatever, the nurse handed me a mirror to look at my face. When I handed it back to her, she took the mirror and checked herself out in front of me. Go figure -.- Thanks to you guys for your company while I SOS-ed during the few hours! CHUAPEITING you suck. If you laugh at me, I'm going to punch you and laugh at you back. So there. The banadage is super huge ): I shall attempt to cut it smaller, otherwise, stupid people like CPT will laugh their asses off. At first, I thought PW would be a waste of time, but now I think it's kind of fun, with our super whacked up group members. Our GPP is certainly the highlight of the class. In case you have not been very updated in my life, our PW group is doing on porn and modernisation of technology, mainly, the internet. During the discussion on the debate if gay marriages should be allowed. Person A: Okay, we need to go back and research!! Person B: Yeah, Tri. You go and research lah. Tri: Cannot, cannot. I am very busy with pornography already! MO heard it all and nearly convulsed on the spot. --- Anyway, in response to Claire's post, IT'S NOT THAT I DON'T READ OKAY. That's only because you take about 10 years to go publish a post. hahaha not my fault! Quotable Quote of the Day by a certain someone whom I cannot mention again, because it may ruin her reputation. Actually it's not so hard to guess who, if you have a bit of contextual knowledge. For some reason, we were talking about the Dance module that RG girls had to go through and at the end of it, we'll get a certificate. Person X: Eh, we actually got a certificate for that dance module! We can totally put it in our Universitiy applications next time hahahah! Me: Anyway, it's not like we actually need to dance mambo or whatever next time! I mean, if you go clubbing, I'm sure you'll do the chacha on the dance floor please! Person X: Yeah, the only place I'll dance on is my bad next time! Zhiying and I stared and at her, and while the realisation dawned on us, Person X continued, Person X: ... Okay maybe not. I'll just go right straight to it. -- Friend, you should totally start wearing the "I only look innocent" T-shirt we got for you last year. Suit you to a T, man. |
