Thursday, September 30


Hmm. Nothing feeling much better, but yep, visible mood improvements from yesterday. However, I'm still not in school mood, so might not go school tomorrow too. Aiya, whatever lar. Just see how I feel tomorrow. Hmm.

I pretty much don't care anymore. Dealing with problems and matters are not my forte, and I'm just gonna take things step by step now. Argh. Whatever lar.

No chem p2 results which I'm supposed to take, so...

P1 - 25/40 (not too bad, but I was expecting more... Whatever.)
P3 - 46/100 (winces...)
P4 - 58.5/75 (Damn frustrated with the rate of reaction question. Totally put down my score... Totally. What, 4 out of a max score of 15 for that?!)

Posted by Isabelle at 10:52 pm

Wednesday, September 29


Totally down. Something just got to me lar. Feeling like the pits. Nothing doing, just overwhelmed. I think it's the gloomy weather. Blame everything on the weather. Don't wanna think too much about it, but yeah. I'm just a little low in the spirits. Very low.

Posted by Isabelle at 8:08 pm

Tuesday, September 28


Hmm. Just booked the chalet today, and it went great, since we got the duplex room, at union's price... Hehe. All thanks to those that paid up on time. No thanks to Ben though. So on about the whole chalet thingy, but one of the last few to pay up. He's too fake. Sigh. Kinda annoyed at him for being so enthusiastic but not serious about it. Contradicting huh? Hate this kind of people. Duh.

Hmm. Got back my physics. I think I'm struggling for a C...

Paper 1 - 30/60
Paper 2 - 57/90 (The best so far...)
Paper 3 - 52.5/110 (Woo... Sigh.)
Paper 4 - 26.5/34
Paper 5 - Erm, I'm estimating a scrape pass, like 8/16

So, total - 56.1/100 = C... What can I say?

Posted by Isabelle at 10:13 pm

Monday, September 27


Yeah! Finally got a chance to blog.

Somethings I dun think I wanna do it again:

- Get cheated to go to Juneyong's house without him at home
- Retake my prelims (they sucked, I just got back my results)

Updated results:

- Maths - sigh.. 63/100 = C (not what I would expect, but ah, well...)
- F Maths - 65/100 = B (Surprise, surprise... higher than maths. I'm genius.)
- Physics - Paper 3 - 52.5/110 (damn if i get a C for overall. I'm betting I will score lower than hinky.), Paper 4 - 26.5/34 (Another surprise, surprise. Thought I'll screw this up.) Hmm. Better hope I score lower than Hinky. I owe her that Maths treat already... Sigh.

Posted by Isabelle at 10:38 pm

Saturday, September 25


Another day at the Marina Bay Steamboat for Clara's birthday. Sigh. But this time was more fun. Ate a lot more than yesterday. Lol. I mean, with the 6 of us, can anything go wrong? Oops. Had a mushroom feast. I mean, we practically feasted on mushrooms. Lots of it, button mushrooms, the xiang gu, the roundish one, the longish ones... All of those they had to offer. Woo.

Yeah. Had a repeat of yesterday's events. Food, then arcade, and blasted the punching machine. Lol. Ouch. My fingers hurt. Sigh. But at least we had fun. Arh, whatever lar.

Hmm.

Posted by Isabelle at 1:05 am

Thursday, September 23


Went out to eat steamboat over at Marina Bay with Ven, Xin and the rest. Hmm. Didn't eat much, but watched Ven downed three bowls of rice. Man, can she eat. Woo. Yah, then after that dinner, headed over for some arcade, and jammed a little of that percussion freak thing. Lol. A little of the air hockey thing, and then daytona. Yah, usual thing lar.

Then let's do some calculations. Dinner's about 15 bucks, arcade, $4? I would have spent about $20, but noo... Ven just had to pay for all 5 of us. That's a hundred buck down the drain. Say 'Wow'. Sometimes she just do that, and not really for a special occasion. I think sometimes I'm too stunned, especially after you see what she gave me for birthday present. I know it's a little late, but I can absolutely understand why it's so belated.

A FRAMED JIGSAW PUZZLE OF A PICTURE OF SQUALL AND RINOA. A freaking 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle.

I was so shocked. Flabbergasted. Stunned. Dumbfounded. Oh my god. It's hanging proudly on the wall above my bed. And I tell you, you gotta know it ain't cheap. Especially when it comes from one person. She did the puzzle, framed it up, gave it to me. Where else can you find a friend like her?

I'm not so astounded by her generosity with her money. After all, she is one that can carry up to a thousand in cash in her wallet with no qualms. But sometimes she can just do things that just make you go speechless. That 1000-piece jigsaw meant a lot to me, and she very well knew that. She could have given me a box of the unsolved jigsaw piece, but she went ahead to piece it all for me, plus a frame for it. I don't know what to say now, for the first time. There's no doubt she's given me the best 18th birthday present I've ever received. Oh my god. Can't say much.

Touched? Duh. Go ahead and see if you were me, would you not be overwhelmed as well.

Posted by Isabelle at 12:00 am

Wednesday, September 22


Slacked the whole day at Jingyu's house with Huiying, Sophia, and Huiling. You know, when it gets down to slacking business, we are best at that. I mean, what more can be said? A whole day of pigging out, lazing around the bed, playing cards, mahjong (that's cultivating the auntieness in us), and tarots. How laid back can we get? You get the picture? Yeah.

Yin Jie joined us later in the afternoon, and we got a kick out of tricking her. Sigh. One, she's so gullible. Two, she probably can't trust me anymore when we play bridge. Three, I have a tendency to bluff her because she simply too naive. Hehe. Really. I mean, you can't fall for the same trick twice right? But she did. Lol. She's just too funny. Hmm. I guess that was the highlight of the day. Hahaa.

Played tarots, and predicted, or rather tried to predict our er, fate for the next 12 months. Hmm. Don't really believe in those, but you know, curiosity kills the cat? Yeah. Dabbled in it a little, but wasn't very pleased with the readings. Very jumbled, and blurrish kind of feeling. I don't really understand, but I don't think I'm supposed to understand in the first place. Oh well.

Posted by Isabelle at 8:08 pm

Tuesday, September 21


FFX-2 is seriously the most underrated game in the whole series. I mean, it's not as bad as the rest seems to say. At least, I had fun, and I thought the mini-games are so much better and less irritating than FFX's. Hmm. Oh well, heard a lot of comments saying that the sequel to the 'most perfect FF series' was a disaster. I think X was actually more disastrous. Sigh, I was about to jam my whole controller when I saw the last scene where Tidus disappears. Can you imagine? The LEAD disappears. Sigh. Happy ending? Yeah, in a way. Female lead brings her friends to save the world, clap clap, but only to lose her beloved. Sigh. What kind of story is this? I'm seriously thinking they made it that way to add the sequel so they can make more money. But at least I'm still enjoying the game. Hmm.

Let me see, I've finished FF7, FF8, FF8, FF10, now at FF10-2, and seems like FFXII is coming out. Great... Hehe. The only damn thing is that FFXI is online gaming, and I don't have cable. Yet. Sigh. And playing it is damn expensive. But the game sounds fun, and it's a totally different concept of gaming. Yeah. Some people just have all the luck. Whatever.

Still love FF8 the best. Firstly, Squall's extremely out-of-this-world (check out the guy on my blog... sigh), secondly, the plot is surprisingly more believable for me, third, I love the gameplay. Short, sweet, and cuts to the chase. Hate the droning level-up system for experience points, and prefer a lesser exp point system in FF8. I mean, I can practically level up all the way within an hour or two. The card game is great, unlike FF9's (duh), and I like just having a single weapon and you build up the weapon instead of having multiple weapons and you hunt for it high and low. Seifer's (the rival) cool too, and I thought it was the best made in terms of graphics and characters compared to FF7 and FF9.

FF7 ranks next, because I like the plot, but somehow the characters didn't connect with me like how FF8 does. And Aeris died. SquareEnix just likes to kill characters once in a while and see how the gamers react to it. It's their sideline hobby. And there's no possible way to revive her. Hmm. Surely she didn't die just because Sephiroth plunged a knife into her heart? The rest had phoenix downs in battles when they KO. Sigh. And I don't like the gameplay. Hate the materia. They keep on mulitplying, and without them, you are nothing. I don't like how you have to keep on reslotting the materia. Kinda time wasting.

FF9, well, if you liked castles and princesses and knights in er, rusty armour. Hehe. And thieves. Lol. Cute and funny, and the plot was not dark and thick like the last two FF's. Like fight the bad guy, then realise the bad guy is not the ultimate bad guy, but another one that's manupulating the bad guy. Confused? No worries. Not this game. Very straight to the point, and fairytale-like. Bad point? I spent 30+ hours leveling up to Level 100. Not that I needed that high a level, but I make it a point to always max my character's statistics. And this game took me forever to do that. Ugh. But at least I had the enemy for dinner. Can you imagine? It's totally useless to level up all the way. I imagined I'd be able to beat the final boss at 60+. Hmm. The mini-games were quite interesting, albeit a little frustrating sometimes. Chocobos are always fun (not in FFX), and I like the major part they play in FF9.

FFX has got to be the best in terms of graphics, characters and gameplay. I mean, the female's really pretty, and main guy is so cute. Not to mention they are quite 3D in character. I like the plot too, but the sidequests are extremely irritating, and an absolute must if you want all the characters' best weapons. Argh. That was so mean of SquareEnix. I got tired of playing that for a while, jumped to FFX-2, but jumped back to get on with that game and beat the final boss. Turned out I didn' even need the ultimate weapons. Hmm. I loved the sphere grid level-up system though. Different from the olden experience points thing, and you get a bigger satisfaction watching yourself travel the sphere grid leveling up. My original plan was to finish the whole grid. It was taking too much time though, and I gave up halfway to finish up the last boss. I know there's a cheat to leveling up, but didn't care to use it. Hmm. Too lazy. I have to admit, the chain of plots is just as good as FF8, if not better, but I really hate the ending. What on earth is a sequel doing to ruin the "Final" fantasy game? It's supposed to be FINAL.

Oh well.

Posted by Isabelle at 6:18 pm


Yeah! Rain! *yeah, rain* But I'm not gonna say much about it, except it's cooling, and I'm out of it. Nothing like a good thunder shower to make me feel like sleeping. Hmm. Another two days before exams end, and I have F maths p2 tomorrow. Dang. Sigh, don't really feel like studying for that. It's a confirmed-flunked paper, so why bother anyway? Another physics p5, who studies for design experiment anyway? Lol. That's such a good way to escape from books. Well. Explain's why I'm not doing anything productive here. Kinda wanna sleep in a little. Hmm. Or maybe go play my ps2. Hehe.

Posted by Isabelle at 4:49 pm

Monday, September 20


Wow. I mean, I just landed myself in deep shit. Can't really tell how my piano exam will turn out, and whether I'll pass anot. Really hope I don't fail any of it. Sigh. Man, this is bad, but whatever lar. No use brooding over already. Truth is that I really did my best (I hope it was my best), and just forget it. Results coming out this year end.

Hmm...

Posted by Isabelle at 7:48 pm

Sunday, September 19


Ok, so I'm supposed to be revising for my piano exam tomorrow, but no... I had to come online to blog. Sigh. Do I always contradict myself? Yeah. I guess I do. Hmm. Feeling kinda tingling, a little nervous, a little excited... then I tell myself. Haven't I done this before? I mean, it's not my first attempt, yah? Can't get over it, so... Really hope I can pass this time. I'm not gonna repeat it again. God forbid, choi, touchwood... whatever works. Received a boost of confidence yesterday when my teacher told me that I had a good percentage of passing, but you never know when I might screw it all up. Sigh. I screwed up the last time, didn't I anyway?

*takes in a deep breath* Ok, so I'm gonna sleep early tonight, don't touch the piano for today, and drink lots of water. Yeah. I hope.

Posted by Isabelle at 4:53 pm

Saturday, September 18


Ok, I'm cool with things. Was too frustrated with the stupid pop-ads and self-downloading programs circulating around the net. Whatever those people were thinking, and it's really irritating. Can you imagine trying to get to one site and 4 or 5 other side windows pop up telling to buy this 'amazing' product, or take part in a non-existent lottery? Sigh. Not to mention the programs that my com self-downloads. Why on earth do I need a daily horoscope teller to 'advise' me on my day-to-day schedules? Or some pesky web searcher that searches everything you click on? If I need some information, I use Google. And I hate buggers.

My only solution was to download an anti-spyware, and rid my computer forever of all those cookies and programs. So now you ubiquitous and blasted spywares can all go to hell for all I care.

I'm cool.

Posted by Isabelle at 10:10 pm


ABSOLUTELY FUCKINGLY PISSED WITH THE STUPID DAMN SPYWARE. JIA BA BO SAI PANG, GO AND CREATE ANNOYINGLY FUCKING PROGRAMS TO MESS WITH PEOPLE'S COMPUTERS. ALL THOSE CHEATING BUSINESSES AND COMPANIES, GO TO HELL WITH YOU GUYS! CAN'T FEED YOURSELVES WITH PROPER MEANS TO DO BUSINESS, THEN GO GET A JOB OR SOMETHING! SORE, STUPID LOSERS OF THE SOCIETY. YOU FUCKERS!

Posted by Isabelle at 4:43 pm


I'm so damn pissed. And really damned pissed. No one, NO ONE MESSES WITH MY COMPUTER AND GETS AWAY WITH IT. SPYWARE! GO FUCK YOURSELF! I'M OFFICIALLY DECLARING WAR!

Posted by Isabelle at 4:35 pm

Friday, September 17


Wow... Hilarious day, all because the whole gang of us went bowling. Dong... Lol, anyway, had a de-stressed session after the stressing physics paper, so went over to Pasir Ris to check out Albin's aunt's spectacles shop, and maybe, just maybe, get contacts from there in the future. Hmm. After, related, so can get discount? Hehe... Ya, turned out the trip was a little wasted, since the aunt wasn't around to help talk the price down, but at least we spent lunch over at the delifrance (like TM don't have delifrance like that...) and had 'sumptuous' meals that consisted of potato, bread, and soup. Hmm. Not bad lar, huh?

Huiling was itching to bowl, but we couldn't possibly go Downtown east to play right? (Imagine the chalet peeps staring at our uniforms... Major nono.) Went back to Tampines Safra. Ya, too much money to spend on bus fares. Duh. Played two games each, and had a fit over the games. Sigh. Fooling around, I guess. And Sophia was so serious she broke the 100 mark record. 129. *raises eyebrows* Lol.

Sat around the bowling centre after that. None of us wanted to go home, so we ended up playing and teaching the *ahem* art of Bridge. Such a refined hobby, the only thing is that we use cards to play, so you know, the stereotypes that make us look as if we were gambling. *wags finger* I must declare -- Bridge is NOT a form of gambling. Hehe.

Yah. So that's how I spent my day. Need I mention I'm still waiting for TV to start?

Posted by Isabelle at 8:15 pm

Thursday, September 16


Hehe. I'm right in the middle of my exams, but I don't feel the pressure as much as when we were preparing for it. Lol. In fact, I don't pretty much care... I think I'm going crazy, but who cares? Just hope I don't fail any subjects, and that's it.

Hee.

Posted by Isabelle at 5:39 pm

Tuesday, September 14


Hmm. Maths was really bad today. My supposed A just went out of the window. I mean, it's the only subject I can depend on to get an A. Ah well. Physics was equally bad, but at least I'm accustomed to failing the subject. And I didn't even put in effort to study, so when I fail, I can console myself with that fact. Hehe. F Maths tomorrow, and that's a major killer paper for me. I never passed a single test this year. Damn. I really hope I can at least pass this time. No confidence here. Sigh.

Prelims is really a flop for me. Hmm. Ok, maybe my definition of flop isn't the same with everyone all the time, but yeah, it's still counted as a flop. I have high expectations for myself, and sometimes too high, then I get very disappointed. Ah, whatever. Sigh. Cannot think too much, if not I will come out of this whole exam totally pissed off with myself and terribly desolute. SIGH.

Why am I so... sigh...

Posted by Isabelle at 5:45 pm

Monday, September 13


GP sucks. Chem sucks. Physics gonna suck tomorrow, but I don't the hell care.

I don't care, I don't care~~~...

Damn the exams.

Posted by Isabelle at 9:47 pm


GP sucks. Chem sucks. Physics gonna suck tomorrow, but I don't the hell care.

I don't care, I don't care~~~...

Damn the exams.

Posted by Isabelle at 9:47 pm

Sunday, September 12


Ok, I'm freaking out. I'm telling myself that I still have 4 hours before 10 o'clock, but chem is really gonna kill me. Crash course. Sigh. I'm dying, absolutely freaking out.

God help me...

Posted by Isabelle at 5:39 pm

Saturday, September 11


I'm so lax I'm worried about myself. Can't believe it. Chem paper 3 in another day, and I'm online blogging. Hmm. Should I even be doing any thing other than studying? Yeah, did plenty of that. TV, piano, books, phone... I think I'm just gonna flunk this time. Sigh.

I don't the hell care.

Posted by Isabelle at 10:35 pm

Friday, September 10


9th September

Great accomplishment. Completed my FFX! Wahaha... I'm so proud of myself. But the ending sucks. I hate the ending. Not good enough. What? He had to leave? I know he had to leave long before I finished the game, but the ending was simply sad, and never said enough about the epilogue.

One thing Yuna said: "Even when your dreams stop, never ever forget them." (Direct reference to Tidus.) Sigh.

Went out with Ven and Xin later at night. (8.30 to be exact). But lucky for us, we got a car. Hehe. Drove down to Downtown East for BK, and went to the beach, hoping to take some photos, but nope, no luck there. Too little light, too many couples. Hehe.

Headed back to the car, but didn't know where to go, so Ven drove over to the deserted carpark opposite the resort and we (I really mean WE as in me and Xin) test-drove the car. Hahaha. More flop than applause. I mean, if there were a lot of cars, we would have hit every single one of them. Lol. So, you see, driving isn't exactly a breeze. Lol. But nice experience though.

Posted by Isabelle at 8:21 pm


Let's backtrack on the last 3 days.

8th September

Hmm. Met Heli at 8... Duh, or was it 8.30? Aiya, whatever. We met to study at the hougang green Long John, then actually planned to surprise Xin tonight with the dinner and everything, but she decided to spoil our plan by backing out last minute, saying she wasn't free. Bummer. But at least it saved us from having to think of what to buy for her birthday present. Why on earth did she have to be born on such a timing? After JC prelims, right before J1 promos, preparation time for the 'O' level people? Sigh. Untimely birthday, but what to do? Hafta make celebrate at such an awkward time, like two weeks before her birthday. Hmm. I think this time, Fey really cannot make it. Yeah. Hmm. Gonna do something small-size after our exams.

Oh yeah. CK joined us shortly after 9.30, and barely started studying when Ven showed up for pool. Only for pool. She had to go off after that. What a person. Anyway, we were kinda distracted, so why not play. Hehe. 3 short rounds of pool when Ven's cue to go off came, and the rest of us headed back to study again. Sigh.

Didn't know where the time went, and 4 hours at the Mac with your books isn't a short time, but yeah, once again distracted, so... Yeah, pool. Hahaha. And just as I predicted, Apple was the fourth, no er, fifth to turn up (hehe) before the rest appeared, and we 'pooled' and 'daytonaed' and 'time crisised' until about seven before dinnertime.

Funny. The drinks uncled that laughed at us last time when we drank yakult from the 7-eleven at his coffeeshop laughed at us again we this time we decided to drink proper. We almost wanted to buy yakult again, just to spite him. Hehe. But we weren't that bad lar. Bought proper drinks from the proper stall and drank the proper way, and got some proper food. Steamed fish, venison, sweet & sour pork, bitter gourd soup... Not bad. Hehe. For once, the food I ate with Fey was really proper food. Had quite a fill, but didn't know where to go after the meal, so guess where we went?

Duh. Usual hangout. (Can you believe it? I'm already 18, but I hang out with the rest at the playground. PLAYGROUND. And played catching. Yeah, I'm childish, what can I say?) Jumped around like a monkey, then posed for some pictures when Ven came back with her camera phone, and You Cai joined us with his digicam. Wanted to take nice shots and video clippings for Ying Xian but due to insufficient technology advancements e.g. the digicam, we couldn't do much. Never shot anything for her in the end.

Yeah. What was wondering the whole time though, was what we were supposed to buy for Xin. Hmm, and when we were gonna do the Ying Xian thingy... Hmm.

Posted by Isabelle at 7:46 pm


OH GOSH!! Finally... After a DAMNING 3 days before I solved the damn problem of the stupid damn textbox... Do you know how much frustration it is when you feel like blogging but the stupid textbox refuses to let you type anything, ANYTHING AT ALL? Yeah... I almost crashed my whole keyboard, but the fact that I know it wouldn't help anything at all saved the keyboard from its miserable demise. Yeah.

Oh fine, so I'm all cool now, since blogger's back on it's usual functionable self, I can return to do some crapping.

Posted by Isabelle at 7:22 pm

Tuesday, September 7


Boredom.

Dilemma.

No Excitement.

I don't wanna STUDY!

Posted by Isabelle at 10:29 am

Sunday, September 5


Got my new phone... Yeah! Lol, even though a few didn't recommend that model, but who the hell's using the phone anyway? It's my dream phone. I don't the hell care.

I don't care, don't care, don't care.

I'm a spoilt brat.

Posted by Isabelle at 10:06 pm

Saturday, September 4


Nothing much to say.

Posted by Isabelle at 6:12 pm

Friday, September 3


Didn't get my phone today, spent an entire day doing nothing. Yeah. I know I'm gonna say I don't care, but I do care. Even when I'm feeling slack. Can't get it in me to hit the books. Really feeling depressed. And when I'm depressed, I know I'm starting to stress myself again.

Prelims. A levels. Yeah. Gotta get it over with, study hard, don't leave any regrets. I really hope I can push on. I'm hoping that this break I really, really can do some quality work. I don't wanna fail myself.

Someone help me.

Posted by Isabelle at 10:51 pm

Thursday, September 2


Long day for me. Had to wake up at 8 to meet up with the gang at the mac (again) for breakfast, which was free because Jonathan told us the secret... Hehe. Went for chem prac lock-up at 11.15, and guess what? We had to be kept in quarantined like animals for 2 and a half solid hours. Sigh. But never mind. I slept through half the time, and the other half I was trying not to fall asleep reading the practical notes Sophia had. Lol. I'm a pig. I never said I wasn't. Hehe.

Came out with the feeling that I was gonna fail, but seriously, I don't care. Heck, it's practical. Since when don't I fail pract? So, yeah. Had something at Long John before we hit the phone shops. Been thinking of changing phones, so yeah. Found the best deal I've seen, and I think I might just go for it. Feeling generous and rich. Hmm. Rich maybe not, but I do know I've been spending lots these few days.

Ah... Whatever. Gonna do what I want to do.

Posted by Isabelle at 8:46 pm

Wednesday, September 1


Wow... Day at airport. Studied a little physics, ate a lot of tidbits. Slept some, then played monopoly at sakae sushi. (No, you haven't seen wrongly. We really played MONOPOLY. Sigh.) Jun Yong had to bring it under the firm instructions of Huiling, and we took the game into Sakae, and ate the buffet while playing. Some kind of break we had. One game at Sakae from 3 to 6, another at the viewing mall from 6 to 8... Wow. I'm amazed at myself.

I think I must get early sleep. I'm having a headache from playing that game... Sigh.

Posted by Isabelle at 10:35 pm