dooms day starts tomorrow.
lasts till the following tuesday, 30 september.
and then, i'll be free.
if only for a few days.
then its crunch-time when i get my scripts back.
then i gotta review my life and get it back in order.
promote? haha yeah right.
retain? yeap, most likely.
then what? J1 again, poly, or aussie?
only time will tell. :/

may God watch over me and give me strength.

PRAISE THE LORD FOR HE IS GOOD!

God answered my prayer for healing of poddy.
after almost 6 hours of poddy in a comatose state and me being angst over the potential loss of 768 songs, God answered my prayer exactly how i asked Him to.
i am so thankful.
looks like He finally decided to be iPod revivor. (:

PW is giving me a headache.
actually not really, editing the WR is quite fun.
just that the unearthly hour is ridiculous.
ohwell, back to work.

5 days to promos.
GG to me.

by the grace of God, poddy my iPod will be healed from any corruption that is raging its system.
i do NOT want to have to reset it, dammit.

i must say, the first week of term 4 has gone off to an interesting start.
apart from the usual monday blues, i pretty much survived well.
studying with dan is the bomb.
because her don't-disturb-me attitude when she studies is infectious.
and so i don't get distracted.


yesterday was probably one of the most eventful days of my life.
i'll definately remember it, anyway.
firstly, racheltan actually prepared 3 econs essay outlines for the lecture in the morning!
WHOA, MIRACLE. haha.
secondly, while playing handball my teacher, msng, attempted to shoot the ball into the goal i was guarding at that time and it ricocheted off the goal post and hit me straight in my left eye.
$^#% painful, my eye immediately watered.
thank God i was spared from blindless.
thirdly and lastly, I GOT STUNG BY A FREAKING HORNET while playing ball with dan.
i was in the middle of nowhere when i felt this sharp pain on my leg, and instinctively swiped at it.
and voila! the hornet was writhing on its back on the track.
max promptly killed it for me, that sweet girl.
but before it died i actually saw venom in a droplet dangling from its sting.
WHOA.
the sting was awfully long, too. but it retracted after the hornet died.
so anyway my leg hurt and msng washed it, applied calamine lotion and gave me ice.
the ice helped soothe the pain and swelling (it looked like a mozzie bite) but it still hurt quite a bit.
decided to play safe and visit my doctor about it, so i took early-leave and dumped my bag in the chem lab with dan.
returned to school after the doctor's with medication.


right now, the area near my ankle is swollen and red.
it looks more like i sprained my ankle than a hornet's sting.
eww, my ankle looks so fat and unglam.
haha thankfully it doesn't hurt anymore, but it itches quite bad!
hope it gets better soon.
but so cool, its my first insect sting. :D


here's a picture of mottly, the hornet that stung me!
(yes, i brought it home and gave it a name)
note: the sting was more than 2x the length in the picture.

okay, its about time i posted again.
sometimes, it just feels like a chore to update.
but then again if i don't my blog will rot faster.
besides, i want be able to pen down the events that make my life interesting.
helps keep me sane.

anyway! from where i left off..
looks like things are never going to be the same again.
from the way i see things, it really can't.
as much as we try to pretend and act that things are back to normal, it just isn't.
like what the others have said, people do change.
sometimes i wonder why love changes people.
why it makes those affected behave differently,
why it makes those affected treat others differently.
it kind of warps people up.
its really saddening. i've seen the true colours of some.
and what i see, i really don't like it at all.
its a shame, it feels like the few months of friendship was all a scam.
like the inner person was hidden from us.
up until recently.
ahwell, i guess its better than being ignorant now.
at least i've found out already.
but i've said it just now, and i'll say it again.
what a shame.

met up with dear leng one fine day on august 22..
had dinner with the girls after training then leng popped by to say hi and pass my racket back to me.
omg how i missed them both! (my racket and leng) LOL.
stayed back with leng after the girls left to catch up..
and i got quite emo reminiscing about the good old days.
emo-cum-happy, actually.
haha yeah, i really missed her.
stupid girl actually cried when it was time to part.
ahahaha, shows how much she misses me AWWW.
well at least school's near her house so at least we've got excuses to meet up more!
right leng? (:
i hope you see this! sorry for writing about this so late haha!

met up with some of spectrum7 (hahah retarded name) after SR's teachers' day celebrations..
nette, yang, steph and eunice went.
everyone's basically the same.. though i found steph to be more gu niang.
either that or its just that i forgot how niang she was already.
i really enjoyed scolding eunice like last time, it felt so good after so long! HAHA.
steph left after lunch and we walked around paragon and took photos together.
i miss them! pity pat and leng had stuff on.

nike+ human race was last week!
31.08.08 - the day the world ran.
arrived just on time and was quite frazzled dashing around to exchange my shirt and dump my bag at the bag deposit.
and it was purely through God's grace that i managed to locate danielle and the gang.
THANK YOU GOD. haha!
anyway, on the way to the starting point i saw EDWARD LEE!
yes, that stupid dope from church! my mouth dropped when i saw him.
i was like, edward lee, that fat (oops) dope is going to run 10km?!
haha okay not so bad but yeah.
i was seriously amused!! and he looked shocked to see me too.
gave that typical edward lee i-am-shocked wide-eyed look. HAHA.
okay inititally ran with dan and jasmine, but soon dan and i couldn't keep up with jas.
stupid girl runs so fast!
so yeah, dan and i ended up running together as usual.
gawd, i almost DIED out there!
mainly because i hadn't trained since the SR's will run hahah.
serves me right, actually.
i was so tempted to stop and walk, especially when running up the incline from a tunnel.
but God saw me through and i didn't stop. (:
dan was a great support too! i would've stopped if she wasn't with me heheh.
completed the run in 82 minutes (omg so SLOW)!
caught up with the rest at some war memorial near the padang and took pictures..
saw jerome, jolyn with amir, and lots of other SR people.
and i saw joey too! from OLGC..
apparently ant was there but i didn't know then ):
waited and endured crappy local musicians (save for jack and rai, the great spy experiment and some DJ who could beat box) for hours until Boys Like Girls finally played at 8.30pm.
utt and another VJ hosted the concert!
ahhh utt. :P
and they gave away so many free ipods!
just threw it into the audience, OMG.
jolyn's classmate caught one. lucky ass hahaha.
ohyeah, SR won the school category!
we got $10k and a huge trophy.
SR won something, finally! haha.
Boys Like Girls is not bad, actually. hahaha.
contrary to my initial view on them.
oh, and the crew started throwing out free BLG posters.. and i caught one instinctively as it floated to the ground beside me.
so i decided to bring it home as a momento. (:
it was an awesome night.
and the run was a great new experience.

alright, we've caught up with time.
haha this week was supposed to be a mugging week for me to catch up with studies.
i had grand plans to lock myself up at home to mug.
but alas, things didn't really work out that way. lol.

monday:
studied with geor (omg i'm seeing you after A YEAR) at toa payoh,
then went to watch wall e with jolyn and her 5-year-old brother jerome at marina.
WALL E IS THE BOMB!
don't you just LOVE him. (:
and jerome is SO CUTE (jolyn's brother, not that stupid dope from school lol).
makes me wish i had a younger sibling to look after.

tuesday:
studied in school with lynn, then rai and jolyn, then lynn again.
actually all i did was complete my chinese homework due that day and continue with his present.
so yeah, i didn't study at all!

wednesday:
lessons in school, then stayed back to 'study'.
ended up continuing the present AGAIN.

thursday:
present completed, finally, and delivered.
had econs tutorial then studied for an hour before going to cathay to watch hana yori dango (the movie) with jingfang.
saw shawn at the box office! HAHA how coincidental la.
he was going to watch wall e. (:
movie was great, walked around plaza sing with fang after that then went home.
no work done again. OMG.

friday:
initially planned to play tennis with my dad in the morning but it rained, dammit.
my mum and i met up with rachsim at j8 for lunch,
then she dragged me to consult her facial lady regarding my face condition.
wound up having facial done too.
and it was #$*&^% painful OW.
but i'll endure it to get my good skin back, haha.
relatives over for dinner, and there went my night.
WTH.

today:
lynn and dongzheng came over to do our econs alive presentation.
spent the whole day on it.
sigh.

and now, i should be studying but noooo i'm blogging.
ah where did my priorities go!

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spoke to my mum about my studies yesterday..
me: what if i get retained? i mean, i WILL get retained. so what happens after that? do i go asutralia or repeat my J1 year?
mum: go australia, no point wasting another year.
me: ...
mum: see how la k? just do your best first.

ohwell. its the harsh reality that i've got to face now.
as much as i hate to deal with it, i've got to.
because me retaining is not a possibility, but a knowledege that it'll happen.
as sure as the sun rises each day, racheltan is not going to pass her promos.
haha, i'm not being pessimistic here, just being realistic.
sigh, australia here i come!
damn.