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the simple things in life. the small little pleasures

ah. bloghopping is so fun.

thanks to manda for the very nice card! it arrived today abd i read it at the lunch table and i was 3/4 laughing and 1/4 crying, minus the tears. i love you too! and thanks again my dear.

thanks to entzer and krystle for the box of chocolates! prettiness! <3! the card, however, is a totally different story... thanks to joyce for the sweet pair of earrings (a girl can never have too many! :D) and tiff for the really sweet thought of writing my name on her palm. thanks also to jo for the very rude card... and nice present :)

sigh. yet another quarrel. i doubt __ will come out alive out of this one. seriously, nearly the whole of albert house is against him... all i can say is that he has had this coming to him, it was just a matter of time.

courses

and so it begins.

whoots. my 2 full days are over. for me the weekend starts on wednesday nights.

but of course, the free time comes with the fact that my essays have to be written!

dammit. i don't want to do commerce anymore, there's more essays... :(

time for... list!

LIST OF POSSIBLE COURSES MELISSA CAN DO:

1) be a slacker! [erm i don't think this counts...]
2) commerce[essays... bane of my life.]
3) law[have to go monash for that.. hmm. as much as i love to argue, i don't think i'm suited for it]
4) arts[what can you do with a bachelor of arts?! teach? i want to be a gazillionaire!]
5) architecture[reminder to melissa: you failed your art. oh right....]
6) education[i don't mind... i love yelling at kids :D]
7) argiculture?

ooh.. interesting

i never dared hope, only allowing myself a passing thought.

happy birthday senior michelle!

hostel life is so interesting. i swear. ok. imagine this:
its like the most drama of all dramas,
played out 24/7 for a year
with 60 characters which means
60![go calculate it yourself] relationships, ranging from extreme loathing to best of friends...

if only there were CCTV cameras in everyone's room, so many more secrets would come spiling out...

17 years old.

i hope i don't repeat the same mistakes. i'm loving life now.

had quite a messy birthday celebration, with them blindfolding me and making me drink some weird coffee and getting whipped cream and wasabi on my face.

but all in all, it was fun. thanks albert house for the birthday cards!

they got winnie the pooh stuff for my present :D haha. i haven't grown up yet! despite being 17...

too tired to go for eap and psych. skipping it had a rather excellent outcome. :D

sunday

if it was so easy to control and give up, this world would be a very boring place..

just came back from dinner from the korean place which kc's farewell dinner was at. they really do miss the orders a lot... food's good though.

wanted to go ice skating but it's really ex. about AUD$13 in total... pfft. oh well.

good luck

a rush of regrets, just a little more effort than what was expected.

esther lee asked me over msn what judges looked out for in music drill. naturally, i nearly flipped because, why should she ask me that when national drill com is in a YEAR'S time?

turns out that there is to be music drill instead of the usual format & impromtu. and its in october.

SEAGULLS! know that although your senior is in australia and not with you physically, i will support you guys mentally and morally and everything else. you can do it!

omg, you guys are so dead....

seriously speaking, it'll be difficult for you lot. and i think we allowed you guys to slack a lot during practice but just don't be too sloppy and lenient and you'll pull it off, i hope.

:(

for it lives in my mind too

happy 121th founder's day to mg...

I MISSED IT.dammit.

for goodness sakes, everyone's personal message on msn is like: founder's :)

ARGH. but as some sort of condolence, claire's sending me a pic of my cert. not the school grad cert but the mg one... thanks claire.

*sniff*

anyway, li wen: hope you enjoyed your speech day!

date and age

what do i care about your opinion?

lemme see the longest possible length that a date can be written:

Thursday, the twenty-fourth of july, in the year of our Lord two thousand and eight Anno Domini.

yup. so that's the date for you. i'm going to be 17 in 4 days. i don't want to grow up so fast!! whines. and this is the first time i'm not celebrating it with at least one of the musketeers. and the first time i'm not celebrating it with family.

move along is playing on my player. time to emo... [side effect of listening to it too much when in the US with cousins]

movies

watched the dark knight. :) it was worth the 10 bucks mann...

my contact lense has managed to disappear. won't say anything about it except that i look toot in specs. and i have to wear specs from now on...

sleep is in order.

but before that, movie update: saw 4, scary movie 2&3, 21 and a lot of foreign thriller films that have horrible english subtitles.

things to do

learn to master emotions.
learn to enjoy the pain cause there's plenty of it in this world.

rawr.

list of things to do:

-HOI essay- haven't even picked the damn question
-accounting essay- haven't covered the topic yet
-psych essay- AHAH. at least i've picked my topic: asperger syndrome. and i've borrowed the books on it. all i have to do is write the essay. which seems to be the hardest thing to do really. ironic don't you think? i can[i think] talk the hind leg off a cat and can blog fairly consistently yet i'm too lazy to open a word.doc and type a few paragraphs.
-lit essay's coming soon.

I'M STILL UPSET I'M MISSING FOUNDER'S DAY. RAWR. :(

ya think life in aussie is easy mate?
i'm telling you, ITS NOT. and the freedom is a bloody illusion.

i should have applied for trinity college, cambridge instead. better still, NYU or cornell.
the further the better

:|

hatred will consume from the inside.
love takes up a lot of life.
and right now i have no more energy to face the world.

artermis

things became better than before. no tension, no awkwardness. just 2 friends having a good time.

my dad has decided to get books for me as a birthday present...

WHICH MEANS I WILL GET MY HANDS ON ARTY! yes, artermis fowl, you're mine! actually, he's holly's so, oh well. OH and [spoiler alert ahead] i heard that holly finally kisses arty. i am so artyholly pro mann. miranda just has to get in the way... i told xian this piece of news and all he did was to sigh. COME ON MAN...

an entirely random post

haha. i'm too short petite to change my own lightbulb!

at least i can laugh at myself ok?

results are mostly out. extreme as usual... accounting and econs were predictably the worst. i was moaning to kaii and cherm that i was going to go to poly next year when wai hoe decided that he couldn't make it into any course and said he would join me in poly. hah. poly will have 2 retards then.

cherm has decided to lose weight and therefore is doing situps on her bed as i type this... she's been going to the gym and eating healthily, i don't know how she's got such good self discipline.

ah well. more bad results tomorrow. shall wait and see.

and superhero movie is SO lame.

30 days to live

its so ironic, the confidant needs a confider. and sadly, the same confidant pushed the confider away when the confider helped.

one question that was recently posed to me:

what would you do if you had 30 days to live?

a month? is that all i get? sigh
well. first i would eat all the food on my list. :) what?! i live to eat.
see friends and cousins, laugh and reminisce with them for the last time
meanwhile, i'd live everyday like i'm living now. treasuring everything i have, each moment.

i think i have learnt to enjoy life's small little perfect moments, to the fullest.

one more recruit for the dark side

at the mac lab again... i'm adapting i guess.

anyway,

BIG NEWS:

I CONVERTED DEBBIE! she has finally turned to the dark side. holidays can really do wonders to people. i mean she used to cringe whenever me and amy gave her the V sign or the peace sign with the hand turned the other way, but today she gave it to amy and i!!! so debbie, welcome to the dark side... i wonder how long it'll take before ru ann says her first f-word, but i'm not working on her.

gloomy...

i'm in the dark.

there's not a ray of light

because my room lightbulb has blown. i have to change it, soon... i forgot i had my torchlight. and i had to borrow jasmine's to find mine because it was somewhere in the depths of my messy room.

getting back our exam marks this week, i suspect my marks will be dismal.

back in melbourne

albert house is noisy again!

& oh my gosh the guys all either cut/straightened their hair. they look weird. like little boys again. not much change for the girls' hairstyle...

dinner was so quiet last night cause most of them hadn't arrived yet. its SO weird for albert house to be quiet.

tomorrow school starts again. SIGH. i don't want to start school! WHINE

WHINE.

celebrating chen's birthday tonight although it was on the 11th. heheh, can't wait

the wonders of unlimited internet

i managed to watch prince caspian and kungfu panda online. yay. part of the yayness when you watch movies in the comfort of your bed, is that it is not only free, it is illegal! [and as cherm would say, cheap thrills]

my favourite part of prince caspian[it is one of the few movies that i think lived up to the standard of the book] is the when lucy gave aslan one last look, also the saddest and sweetest part of the movie. :) the song's also very nice.

for today, personal accomplishment: i managed to get rid of an anchor. so i can properly listen to the song without anything coming back.

manda, melia, claire

met up with manda, melia, claire on tuesday for dinner. As expected, amanda ang was late. because of council meeting. manda's still being her usual bandotti self, melia still relatively sane and sensible, claire still is a lunatic. safe to say, the four musketeers haven't changed, except to grow a bit crazier.

old friends are still the best
:)


to the four musketeers, may we never become boring and sane. see you people in december!

i realise

when i went to church on sunday, i realised i'm not as close to Him as i was last year and the years before that. i thought about it and calculated. mg had 1 hour of chapel a week plus morning devotions everyday, and there was gb, cell and church. in melbourne i only go for cell. that's quite a large drop in time spent with God. i was reading grace's blog and this is what she figured:

and the whole thing made me realise how much i've been taking such a simple thing such as chapel for granted.

In our whole lives in MG,
we've had close to 520ish chapels?
that's 520 mornings of worship and praise, opportunity to draw closer to God.
Not including the daily morning devotions, special chapels, personal worship sessions.
That's a whole lot of time put aside for God,
maybe that's why he seemed so much closer before.

half a year

where did half a year go?

alot of things happened. i found a family[albeit dysfuctional], birthdays were celebrated, seasons passed, essays were churned out, memories were made. photos will tell you a bit of my life thus far... [in reverse chronological order]

for friendships made and pleasure shared and lessons learnt apace -MGS school song, verse 2

grace's 18th, each of us holding a candle

lockout! haha. note my name is second

sleeping in math lecture. illustrations on the lecture pad are courtesy of joyce ho.

leaves have fallen off now...

kc's farewell

my now-filled room

xian's 18th. the wrapped present is a magazine of dubious nature

steaming night- said goodbye to jun beng and ming zid

watched sweeney todd, performed by uni students

kaii having her noodles in a takeaway box[like the ones in dramas]

our discovery that jelly contains seaweed

kaii at the park

bill's birthday. note the shortness of hair

all of us at moomba

trinity, when the tree still had leaves

cherm's 17th birthday

when david was still nice and clean

chermaine with her just begun cross stich then

my very bare room on the first day.

7jam

the 7jam are at 118a hillcrest road now... PLAYING WITH THE WII.

and licka just about pwns everyone at tennis. SIGH

nevermind, what i lack in skill, i make up for in intelligence :) i don't think i'm smart. i know it.

got songs from maddy, 2 that i find hilarious. i am cow and PM Lee's speech remix. whoever did the remix is super brave. and sick minded.

anyway, 7jam [or rather 6am since rachel isn't here] is having a tennis match, elimination style. i think i will get out in the first round.

my holidays thus far

meeting old friends is supposed to be nice and good.

for most, all except one actually, it was really good to see them again

i shall not think about that one meeting and describe the rest.

thursday:
buy toiletries with mum
eat yong tau foo at people's park [yay]
meet kit yeng at kap[it was really good to see you again! haha. nice date you have for yourself there! keep in touch yeah?]

friday:
see optician [eye drops for dry eyes]
meet shri at guthrie house, coffee bean [hey shri. you still haven't changed in the slightest bit! don't worry so much about everything and remember that friends will always like you for being you]

saturday:
meet kaii and cherm at taka[kaii you late ass]
bump into jiayang at taka[GOATPLUSGOAT! WHY ON EARTH DID YOU STRAIGHTEN YOUR HAIR?! i didn't recognise him at first. cherm spotted him. and another thing, i never realised that jiayang was that tall.]
-unpleasant incident-
meet marianne at junction 8 for dinner
go for maddy's guitar concert[madeline lim cheng geok, you'd better appreciate the flowers]
supper at macdonald's [fries+ice cream= yum :)]

sunday:
lunch with family
get hard drive and stuff
dinner with dad's side of family

holidays are supposed to be time to recuperate. as you can see, my holidays are so not fufiling that purpose.

nothing to do

i could get used to this lifestyle.

which is currently going out, shopping and basically spending my parents money.

no wonder so many people don't want to get married and move out of their parent's home despite being 30 something...

too many changes

today was an eventful day.

went to visit my grandma. she's still cool, telling me to get a chinese boyfriend[i assured her i would] and still looks the same.

went to collect my school grad cert from mg, i work so hard[ok, not that hard] for 4 years and all i get are 8 pieces of paper?! and 2 are blank! sigh mann

anyway, stayed on for gb. what can i say? standard of drill's dropping, discipline's getting slacker and the numbers are fewer AND the new principal's scrapping the parade for founders day [?!] yes. no marchpast no colours party and not even a GOH. but i still love you my juniors![teng, les, cassie, jie, yuenie, angie, grace, bina, phoebe, esther etc.]

OH and when i was waiting for teng, leaning against the doorframe of her classroom, i heard 2 girls talking to each other in chinese! my gosh! what is mg coming to mann? CHINESE?!

which reminds me, grace told me that the level of prettiness is dropping like hell. as the levels go by. you know why? its because they're raising the cut off point for the affiliated people! i scrapped a decent 240 and i can safely say that my level, whose cut off point was 200, did VERY well in the o levels. WHY raise the damn thing? otherwise all these nerds/cheenapoks will come flooding in mg and dilute our culture!

and apparently, the new principal wants to change the uniform too! you can't do that! it was voted the 2nd nicest uniform in singapore in 2007 AND its been unchanged since 1922[i kid you not.] HOW can you get rid of such an essential part of mgs history and such a pretty thing?!

too many changes for an old person like me...

i rant. i'm sorry

but yeah, in short so many changes. and its only been 6 months since i really left gb and mg.

:(

on the mrt...

i was on the mrt to meet kaii. i was standing and facing people who were sitting down. the mrt stopped and the guy sitting down in front of me got up and left. i was about to sit down when the woman standing beside me suddenly got to the seat before me. so i was not too happy with that because i had just walked quite a fair bit and i was drained from the humidity and the heat of singapore, of which i was not adjusted to yet[its winter in melbourne now] and was thinking uncharitable thoughts like no wonder she's plump, she sits down so much and that seat was mine!

yes, not very nice of melissa lim. i know.

anyway, what happened next was very nice. she suddenly stood up and gestured towards this old man clinging onto the railing to take her seat.

a lot of people say that singaporeans are rude and selfish. but we definitely have the capacity to be nice.

grace and kaya toast

saw grace today. GRACE AIK! you're still as much of a bimbo and of a bitch as ever. except maybe you're a tad more vulgar but oh well. haha, love you the way you are! and yes, life updates will be sent. yes? haha. we're both stuck in similar situations...

i also met up with cherm and kaii. kaii looked so nice in her heels and dress! cherm looked like she was going to the beach. haha. had ya kun kaya toast yay. :)

i saw ms chew[my ballet teacher] and a family friend today at raffles city. ms chew still looks SO young and her figure is to die for considering she's given birth to a son and she's not young. i hope that when i grow older, i will have half as nice a body as her's.

and so it begins... i don't know how to deal with it. i'm just going to let things be. Give me the strength and the wisdom to do the right thing. Let me have the discernment to be sensible and not to repeat my mistake. God, help me.