I have three sweet friends in my life.

Called Peiyi for words of console (sorry to interrupt your POA preparation), and my cellphone battery went flat halfway. And because I was emotionally too tired, I did not charge it in case my parents or brother call and mention about Seattle-and-I.

BAD IDEA because....

Peiyi called Shuling and told her about what happened. According to Shuling, that drama queen, Peiyi, made it sound as if I was hugging the ground, severely sobbing.

Naturally, Shuling panicked and called Shinyee and continued that exaggerated story.

NOTE: All of these happened within my oblivion.

Meanwhile, I was in my room writing a blog entry despite the telephone ringing multifarious times. Seriously, I was too enervated to hear any more voices that even my butt refused to budge.

(ring ring)

*5 minutes later*
*5 minutes 05 seconds later*

(ring ring)

Annoyed, I stood up and head for the telephone, planning to scream on whoever is on the other line. The telephone went dead before I even grabbed hold of it.

Abruptly...

"BAO NAI!"

I was like, am I hallucinating? It was after all eleven in the night.
Gingerly, I walked towards the window to see whether anyone was there because I thought I heard Shuling's voi--

Like OMG, there she was with Shinyee, in the midst of the dark. I was so shocked that I stared blankly at them. "You okay or not?" she shouted, prominently unaware that this is a building where thousands of people are sleeping.
I nodded.
"Open the door, open the door!" she continued as her voice echoed in the dark.

I finally poured my heart out and really felt much much, really and truly much better =) I was genuinely happy.

And even though Peiyi wasn't here just now, I know she was still with me. Because we're friends, and therefore I just know it =)

TOO MUSHY!
OK gotta studyyyy! Toodles~
PS: I fell on the floor and was thus not in this picture. Bah, my red bean ice cream was in the picture though! ^^


What makes Mr Darren Chong thinks I'm similar to the lady in "Legally Blonde"?


GOSH!

First of all she's blonde, I am not. (Damn)

Secondly, I don' t have a Chihuahua or whatever's on her hand. OK, maybe I do have a dog sometime ago-I mean, HAD. It's sort of missing now, WHILE I WAS AWAY. Yeah that capitalized words are important, I'm not that cruel to let a little - or maybe tad big - dog go missing.

And lastly, she doesn't look at all smart to me. (Sorry Barbie but I don't want to be classified under bimbo)

Anyway, Physics on Friday. Can you believe it? Three more papers and I'm like, officially free! I can officially enjoy my teenage life! My precious youth... Ha. And and and! SHOPPING! Winter clothings now! Ohhhh wonderful *clucks tongue perpetually*

So well, I've changed my blogskin because my friend commented on the previous one, "two weird women" when it was supposed to be a man and a woman. After long scrutinization, I decided to be simpler than simple (and less lesbian-y) and changed to this tedious skin which took away my 3 hours. --resulting in me not doing Physics. You readers must be thankful! *cough* Okay, my bad.

So anyway, I was browsing through psychology stuffs, and since our English passage arouse my curiosity on horoscope, I decided to look it up. Gemini, aka moi. (it's French and it's pronounced as muah, twits). It is so irrefutable that I.. OK I did nothing but still, it is unbelievably accurate.

"Gemini, as soon as this is the sign of the Twins, are dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory."

Thank you, that's me. Yes, if you're observant enough, you might notice my "split personality" and "excessive thinking".
Yeah, that 'excessive thinking' thingy, during exams, it just happens to disappear.



I screwed my Math and English paper. I was halfway dying in the hall blah blah blah. Conclusion: EXAMINATION SUCKS.

I was so excited that O'level is ending soon that I started to allow myself to indulge in internet, the sims 2 and television. I know, shame on me. BUT, here's the big but, I still study like 2 hours a day, which is acceptable, right?
Aw forget it! Self-consoling is pathetic.

Crap is, I was supposed to study for my math paper 1 yesterday, and I didn't, which resulted in me not knowing how to do the graph question as we were supposed to memorise those silly curves. Which obviously, I can't do. I LOSE 2 BLOODY MARKS!

GOODBYE As.

Ah, you can't really blame me for not studying. I mean, okay, this is what happened last night --
After I've gathered all my maths stuffs on the table, I felt so satisfied and pleased with myself that I believed that I should reward myself with the internet. I was browsing through the net for some good books for me to stuck on to for my oncoming holidays when i saw MY BEST-SELLING BOOK, The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella.
That lousy book which I've been trying very hard to keep on the uppermost top book shelf so that it will never tempt me into reading it before holidays.

After I've seen that page, I peered up onto my book shelf and *heart thumped* there it is. The book was still there staring at me, bright yellow paperback with royal blue fonts "SOPHIE KINSELLA, The Undomestic Goddess". "Shit," I thought to myself, still trying very hard to focus on my internet, planning to even shut my computer down. Then i looked up again. CRAP! That book was still glaring at me, daring me to ignore it, goading me to read it.
With this kind of temptation, who could resist it!? Still, I, Stephanie Juniarta, the girl who has great self-discipline proceeded into shutting down the computer and sat on my comfy corner (customary studying place) and took out my stationeries.

*5 minutes had passed*
*10 minutes passed too*

DAMMIT.

I couldn't stand it!! So I walked out, grabbed the book and read it till I was too tired to even study. Past bedtime somemore! And finally slept WITHOUT STUDYING.

Yeah yeah, serves me right.

Still, let me share with you'al my slice of joy.
The book starts with Samantha doing a quiz in a spa centre.

ONE-
Would you consider yourself stressed?
No, I'm not stressed.
I'm... busy. Plenty of people are busy. I have a high-powered job, my career is important to me, and I enjoy it.
OK. So sometimes I do feel a bit tense. But I'm a lawyer in city for God's sake. What do you expect?
My handwriting is pressing so hard into the page, I've torn the paper. Dammit. Never mind. Let's move on to the next question.
On average, how many hours do you spend in the office everyday?
14
12
8
It depends.
Do you exercise regularly?
I regularly go swimming
I occasionally go swim
I am intending to begin a regular regime of swimming. When I have time. Work's been busy lately, it's a blip.
~~~~~~~~~~
Do you eat regular home-cooked meals?
What does that have to do with anything? What makes "home-cooked" meals superior?
I eat nutritious, varied diet, I write at last.
Which is absolutely true.
Anyway everyone knows the Chinese live longer than we do-so what could be more healthy than to eat their food? And pizza is Mediterranean. It's probably more healthy than a home-cooked meal.
Do you feel your life is balanced?
Yes
N
Yes
"I'm done," I announce, and hand the pages back to Maya (the masseuse) , who starts reading through my answers. Her finger is traveling down the paper at a snail's pace. Like we've got all the time in the world.
Which she may well have. But I seriously have to be back in the office by one.
Maya looks up, a thoughtful expression on her face.
"You're obviously quite a stressed-out woman."
What? Where does she get that from? I specifically put on the form, I am not stressed-out.
~~~~~~~~~~
"Well," Maya gets up. She presses a button set in the wall and gentle pan-pipe music fills the air. "All I can say is, you've come to the right place, Samantha. Our aim here is to de-stress, revitalize, and detoxify."
"Lovely," I say only half listening. I've just remembered that I never got back to David Elldridge about the Ukrainian oil contract. I meant to call him yesterday. Shit.
"Our aim is to provide a haven of tranquility, away from all your day-to-day worries." Maya presses another button in the wall, and the light dims to a muted glow. "Before we start," she says softly, "do you have any questions?"
"Actually I do." I lean forward.
"Good!" she beams. "Are you curious about today's treatments, or is it something more general?"
"Could I possibly send a quick e-mail?"
Maya's smile freezes on her face.
"Just quickly," I add. "It won't take two secs-"
"Samantha, Samantha," Maya shakes her head. "You're here to relax. To take a moment for yourself. Not to send e-mails. E-mail's an obsession! An addiction! As evil as alcohol. Or caffeine."
For goodness sake, I'm not obsessed. I mean, that's ridiculous. I check my e-mails about once every... thirty seconds, maybe.
The thing is, a lot can change in thirty seconds.
"And besides Samantha," Maya goes on. "Do you see a computer in this room?"
"No," I reply, obediently looking around the dim little room, at posters of yoga positions and a wind chime and a row of crystals arranged on the windowsill.
"This is why we ask that you leave all electronic equipment in the safe. No mobile phones are permitted. No little computers." Maya spreads her arm. "This is a retreat. An escape from the world."
"Right." I nod meekly.
Now is probably not the time to reveal that I have a BlackBerry hidden in my paper knickers.
~~~~~~~~~~
I edge the BlackBerry up onto my chest until I can see just the screen underneath the towel. Thanks goodness this room is so dim. Trying to keep my movements to a minimum, I furtively start typing an e-mail with one hand.
"Relaax..." Maya is saying in soothing tones. "Imagine you're walking along a beach..."
"Uh huh..." I murmur.
David, I'm typing. Re ZFN oil contract. I read through amendments. Feel our response should be
"What are you doing?" says Maya, suddenly alert
"Nothing!" I say hastily shoving the BlackBerry back under the towel. "Just.. er.. relaxing."
Maya comes round the couch and looks at the bump in the towel where I'm clutching the BlackBerry.
"Are you hiding something?" she says in disbelief.
"No!"
From under the towel the BlackBerry emits a little bleep. Damn.
"I think that was a car," I say trying to sound casual.
"Outside in the street."
~~~~~~~~~~

Hah! Sophie Kinsella is my favourite chick-lit books author =) Wanna read on? Just grab the book at your nearest bookstore ^^


Today, since it was both my mom and dad's last day, my mom and I decided to make cookies.
When we were done with the dough, I told my mom to make it small and place them far apart, and cook it at two different trays as we're both amateur. And she, professionally told me that it's okay and squeezed everything in one tray.

So anyway, usually when my dad smells food, he'll come into the kitchen and ogles at the food as though it was some girl in bikini. He just loves eating for some reason.
Anyhow, he came and took a look as the delicious smell of cookie diffused through the whole house.

He exclaimed "IIIHH...." *I was expecting "smells so delicious" or something like that*

BUT NO. Instead,
"... it looks so scary."

Wkaka. It was freaking hilarious cause I really expected him to say something that synonymized to delicious.
And he continued by saying it looks like cow dungs. Wkakaa.


YES, it looks pretty scary to me too.

Anyway, they've left.. And I've got O'levels..! Arrgggh. Gotta gooooooo~


Finally I've gotten a rather cushy day between this hectic schedules.
Since secondary 1 I've always thought that O'level examination is testing on the 4 years of learnings and thus got to study really hard (which seriously, i didn't achieve). And until secondary 4, I have always wish it would soon be over. So that we can be free again, relax and enjoy life away. Like, you know, play like nobody's business. =D

But somehow deep deep deep in my heart, why is it that i don't want it to end? Is it because of the fun days we had studying through the night? Or the discovery of true friends between the journey? I guess O'level is not really about studying. It is testing us in the most ordinary way, through the most ordinary days, between the most ordinary people.

Today, after i've completed the Geography examination, which was seriously soul-destroying, I felt like crying because after all these efforts, i can't complete the paper. However as I came out, I saw Huiping, Peiyi, Ms Norlinda and Mr Chong SMILING, waiting for the whole bunch of us outside the hall. And suddenly, my will to cry vanished.

For some reason, I felt touched =) Really really touched, it's like after a long hectic day at work, you reached home and saw your whole family - husband, kids - all waiting for you with a birthday cake that you yourself had forgotten.

After all of the work done for 4 years, it is coming to an end, just like that. Each paper taken symbolises the end of the lesson you have learnt for 4 years. It's very peculiar isn't it? How much you wish something would end, yet wants it back when it is actually ending. The tears, the joy, the vexation, I'll really miss all of this =)


Ah, back to this empty house =( It feels even emptier now that my cousins, and aunts, had left! Aside from the fact that they were disrupting my studies, which i seriously don't mind, I REALLY MISS THEM ALL! But yeah, I'm already used to that kind of feeling. Where people just come and go.

I've been thinking between my frustration due to their misdemeanor though, It's not that kids are bad, they're just, naive. So naive that they want things to go according to their will because they think everything they do is right.
I, therefore, felt so bad for scolding them sometimes =(

So anyway, felt pretty forlorn, yet resigned upon all the sudden loneliness yesterday and messaged my Mom for her arrival. She's coming soon!!
I mean, imagine one moment you're amongst a crowd of noisy six and another moment, you're all alone, in a house. DAMN SAD i tell you.

It was so much fun when they're here because well, i just love kids! Haha. Even though sometimes they get on your nerve. Oh! There was this time when i lied to them about having to lift up their hands when crossing. Then there's this oncoming truck as we crossed the road, and I shouted "lift up lift up!", and all four of them raised up their hands instantaneously. HAHA.

I became their tour guide (no other choice) during their stay! Haha. I am so bad at directories that even my map reading sucks! I just don't get the map thingy. Gahhh! We went to Sentosa Island during one of the days =)

Now LASTLY, practical sucks.

NAYYYY..........................................

"I LOVE O'LEVEL!"
Now all i have to do is to make the above sentence true =)
Emi's style :p


YES! I am finally getting alive and kicking! Wohoooo~
I was too drained to blog about the night studying adventure in Changi Airport yesterday =)
It was quite a night! *phew* Anyway, we ate at Fish and Co. which was absolutely scrumptious! That New York fish and chips, and baked salmon. And um, Peiyi's swordfish which she insisted was nice. =p
The fried fish with cheese that melts in your mouth... and a really frightening face. :p

Anyway, we were super high that night.
As we saw the sign on the secondary entrance "please swim to the main entrance", the three of us did the swimming motion whilst running to the main entrance which was slightly *clears throat* em-m-barassing, but fun! There was this family who was sitting at the side of the restaurant and saw what Peiyi and Shuling had done (aka "swimming") and looked really appalled. Ha! Yeah, that sight really tickled me.

We settled at coffee bean and realized that the most important things were missing.
COFFEE and SWEETS!
To keep us awake, of course.
So we venturesomely placed our bag at Coffee Bean unattended and ran all the way to Terminal 1 to buy some sweets and ran back. Ha!
And while we were in Terminal 1, Peiyi was like
"eh our bags are unattended!!".....
"faster faster!"
"poor bags... waiting for us, tsk tsk"
then Shuling, obviously annoyed, just grabbed a bag of peppermint sweets and paid.
Honestly Peiyi, YOU ARE SO DRAMA.
Anyway, people in the airport are generally honest. AMEN.

At first everyone was energetic. Agreed on studying for the teachers' sake, parents' and future yak yak yak......

THEN,
"CONTACT LENS!"
They felt spirited just because of contact lenses -_- and even snatched over it!

"DAMN TIRED ALREADY..."

about 3am..

Had a really great time with them =) You guys really rock!!

As for today, went to study with Michelle and Matthias.
Seriously, "friends" is a really wonderful thing. ^^
8th October'07


Shoot i'm slacking again! My complacency is engulfing me!! SHUCKS! Come on studying bugs, come to me! God i hate O'level! Yet i don't want it to end.

It's retarded.

Was listening to this random song, i forgot what's the title but it was super soothing =) That brought me back the times when i went to the band camp with the band members. I MISS THEM SO MUCH! Not that they aren't in school everyday but, it just ain't the same =( Especially JJ and Daph =(( I remembered they took the task of being the night guard. Then when i woke up and turned around, Daphne was beside me ^^ Yeah, all of the sec 3s (now sec 4s) really liked her last time. And and! We had so much fun despite me, turned all black after the camp.

So anyway, went to study all alone in Say Cheesecake cause i got released at 11 am from school. Yeah, independent ain't i? Ha.

Then Meiying and Jessica came.

So much for independence.. Geez.

We are going to study overnight at Changi Airport on Tuesday! Wheeee! Gonna be a fun fun night. Yeah, minus the dying mind when we arrived in school the next morning, of course. Hoo hoooo.. I will have to manage my time to maintain this blog going!

Yeah, ever wondered what the blog is for? Hohoho~~~

When i grow REALLY really old, and then have like, a kid, an indignant child who will proclaim that i am old and doesn't understand him/her. I will open up my blog and show it to him/her,

"Dear child, your Mom used to be a funky person too, you know,"

and then he/she will smile back at me and say, "you rock Mom!"

HAHAHAHA! Okay i'm really bored right now.. STILL, gotta do my maths now! Tah tah peeps~


What's fashion without gorgeous watches? =)

It is incredibly late and i am still blogging. CURSES! Sigh* All because of that Latte. -_- Ha, thus i wouldn't be going to school today. HURRAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!

Today's really a fine day UNTIL my visit to the dentist. He, and his scary contraptions freaked me out. I have always hated going to the dentist!!
However, today's visit was tad different. I was made numb as i insisted that i am afraid of pain. Especially that excruciating sharp sensation. You know, where..

"Yah whatever Stephanie, your point!"

Okay, as i was saying, different. I was happy AT FIRST as i did not feel even the slightest pain despite the horrendous drilling noise.
After that though, that injection for numbness was SO effective that it lasted for 3 hours. FOR 3 DAMN HOURS, it felt as if my lips had dropped out because half of my mouth was like, paralyzed temporarily!

Gah..! Thereafter, the dentist was like, "so i'll see you in a week?"
I nodded out of consideration of course. POLITE student here!

But of course i'm not going to see him. Ha..

Stella Stephanie
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