Monday, 10 September 2007
A quiz dragged out from Szemin's old blog archives xD
Name 24 people at the top of your head:
(Just because you're not in here doesn't mean I don't like you, and vice versa.)
1. Rayne
2. Litying
3. Nancy
4. Jaz
5. Muni
6. Jingxuan
7. Darrell
8. Minyee
9. Joongyan
10. Angie
11. Joni
12. Christina
13. Sikai
14. Jason
15. Liyana
16. Mandi
17. Florence
18. Elizabeth (senior)
19. Shinhuoy
20. Sabby
21. Wanhui
22. Jiaxuan
23. Beiqing
24. Jovenna
Now for the questions:
1. Is 9 single?
Uhuh.
2. Would you date 20?
HAHA! Sabby, hold your breath! Sorry, I'm straight. If she was a guy, I might though (;
3. Is 17 a guy or girl?
Girl. I'm pretty sure. (Florry my da jie <3)
4. Has 15 and 2 ever dated?
WEIRD question. But apart from the fact they're both girls, I don't think they're compatible.
5. Are you older/younger than 3?
Um. Younger, I think.
6. Have you ever seen 7 naked?
No...that's just wrong...
7. Where does 19 live?
LOL I have no idea, you know.
8. When was the last time you saw 12?
When I went back to SHPS on TD. She's my cousin; from St Hilda's too. We do a lot of weird stuff together at family gatherings [:
9. Ever watched a movie with 5?
No. But we must do it someday hm Muni? (:
10. How tall is 23?
Taller than me ;__;
11. Do you love 16?
This question just stopped me in my tracks. Why does it have to be 16? I'm not answering this.
12. Do you go to the same school as 14?
Nope. He went to Anglican High.
13. Have you ever had classes with 11?
Every day? (:
14. Where was 21 born?
Singapore, I'm pretty sure.
15. Have you ever hugged 18?
I will someday xD
16. What's 8's middle name?
Literally, she doesn't have one. Figuratively, it should be sacarstic or something. -ducks a blow-
17. Is 13 a nice person?
Yes! Primary school BEST friend (:
18. Would you rather 1 die, or you die?
ME. Not Szemin, never Szemin.
19. Is 4 older than you?
By a few months (:
20. Would you kiss 24?
Not without a good reason (:
21. Have you ever swum with 16?
No-o...
22. When's 10's birthday?
Oops. -guilty- Um...was it...June? Haha SORRY Angie I don't know!
23. Have you ever been to a party with 19 or 17?
19 - artclub bday celebrations? (: 17 - HAHA! YESS I will always REMEMBER (;
24. Are 22 and 24 good friends?
They're acquainted.
25. Will 3 and 7 make a good couple?
No...they're both the type who always get chosen to act guys. Like, like Willy Wonka.
26. Has 15 ever given you a birthday present?
Haha no she's too blur to remember birthdays, just like me. But it's okay, having her around is gift enough.
27. How long have you known 13?
Since Primary 4.
28. If 5 and 19 were drowning, who would you save?
This quiz is so...ugh. Can either of you swim?
29. Will 2 be willing to kiss 6?
Probably not.
30. Pass this on to 3, 4, 7, 16, 18, 22, 23.
Nah, you guys don't have to do it.
---------Tagreplies <3
Rayne - xD I WAS THAT WAY TOO! Lol don't worry I won't reveal your dA. If you don't reveal mine ;)
Darrell - Yes he is like the coolest dawg I've ever drawn <3 :D
Binkee - Why does everyone keep talking about Buzz Lightyear? <_< Anyway I think everyone's gonna have a hard time with the theme ): What's Atonement about?
Litying - Anatomy is very very important xDD I shall draw you a picture someday. A real picture, not some ugly sushi ^^"
Muni - Now Jaz wants to call me Bernelli lol but actually it's quite a cool name. Bernelli, not Grace I mean. But yes, Grace is a cool name too (:
Abi - Archives? xD I dunno! I've been trying to figure it out for a long time. About the title, you have to look for the code that goes [title][/title] (only with a <> instead of a []) and type your title in between. It should be near the top (:
Minyee - I don't know. Attention, I guess. Territorial rights. Oh and I feel so guilty. 'Cos I told my cousin's four year old son that the orange cat was bad and the black and white one was good! Cos I liked the black and white one who is very affectionate and insecure (the orange one is a big bully). So he THREW WATER at the orange cat D:Labels: friends, quiz
wings to the wind! at 10:30 pm
Tuesday, 3 July 2007
If you're reading this...please ignore the last post. I don't think I meant it ):
Remember once I quoted to you, "Women forgive but never forget; men forget but never forgive"? Well - I've forgiven (: but (un?)fortunately I haven't forgotten.
I really do treasure those memories (even if you think memories aren't worth treasuring). Thanks for everything, really (:Labels: friends, life
wings to the wind! at 10:19 pm
Thursday, 28 June 2007
We could change it. We could make it better; heal it. It'd only take a word, a smile, a few seconds...
But you don't have the courage - and neither do I.
I thought I was over it.Labels: emo, friends, sad
wings to the wind! at 3:21 pm
Monday, 21 May 2007
I'm reading the book The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.
It's sort of...Victorian lit, so I'm doing it for lit RS. I can't say it's thrilling or page-turning, but it's definitely different from the stuff I usually read.
It's set in America in the early nineteenth century and focuses on the materialistic and money-minded society. It's so...disgusting, almost, how all but two of the characters are so obsessed with pursuing wealth and the appearance of luxury - yet, none of them are really happy or have any joy in life. Their existence is frighteningly superficial.
I can't help but feel sorry for the main character. She's just like the rest - chasing after butterflies, surrounding herself with splendour, but sometimes she has flashes of self- disgust and doubt where she sees how ugly and immoral her world really is. I don't like her - she is obnoxious, greedy and flighty. But I feel sorry for her. She is twenty-nine and unmarried, but very beautiful and much gossiped about. She plays on her beauty and appearance of wealth, but in reality she is deeply in debt. All her life - all she has learned is to manipulate and backstab in order to gain status and power.
She is deeply in debt and the only way out is for her to marry a rich man. Yet at the last moment she always ruins her chances of marriage. In the words of another character:
"That's Lily all over, you know; she works like a slave preparing the ground and sowing her seed; but the day she ought to be reaping the harvest, she oversleeps herself or goes off on a picnic."
Mrs Fisher paused and looked reflectively at the deep shimmer of sea between the cactus-flowers. "Sometimes," she added, "I think it's just flightiness - and sometimes I think it's because, at heart, she despises the things she's trying for. And it's the difficulty of deciding that makes her such an interesting study."
She lives such a sad life - she has never known true love, or joy, or friendship, or life's simple pleasures. All she ever does is covet and calculate.
It's such a depressing book, and that's the irony of the title.
Oh, and I drew this (it's not related):
I'm sorry if this is an unfair portrayal of events. I can't stand it any more.
Labels: art, friends, house of mirth, kitties, life, literature, sad
wings to the wind! at 8:32 pm
Monday, 14 May 2007
Once upon a time there was an apple. It was the most beautiful apple you'd ever seen - such a pure, bright red, unsoiled and unspoiled. It grew up on a protective, loving apple tree and eventually landed in a grocery store.
In the store, it spent its days wrapped and padded - wrapped in, in, you know, the white netting they use to wrap fruits to protect them. Its life was simple and it was happy.
One day. a little girl with her hair tied neatly in a ponytail skipped into the shop. She saw the apple. She saw the redness of it through the soft white netting. She liked it very much, so she bought it and brought it out of the shop cradled in her hands.
She took it to a nearby playground, but she didn't eat it. She talked to it, because she was only a child and children like to play pretend. So she pretended the apple was her best friend. The apple liked it very much and realised how much it'd been missing out sitting safe in a grocery store.
Then she saw the seesaw and decided to play a game. She put the apple on one end and sat on the other. Then she pushed down hard and tried to see how high she could bounce the apple. It thudded hard against the wood of the seesaw, till in the end its protective netting padding fell off.
Its red, red skin was scratched and bruised, horribly bruised.
Am I the girl, or am I the apple?
LOL I'm not making much sense right now. But I blogged on two consecutive days - I'm so proud of myself!Labels: apple, emo, friends, story
wings to the wind! at 10:16 pm
Sunday, 13 May 2007
ORA!
<333333333333
AC did a haunted house.
And I was a ghost. I didn't hafta paint my face (: Because all I needed to do was let my hair cover it. And I was kneeling and doing this begging thing. Which people apparently found freaky. Mostly they reacted with something along the lines of a moan/whimper/scream, "Don't touch me!" or "I haven't got any money!" Someone passed me her friend's camera though (: And I nearly kept it. Gave it back in the end though.
Darrell recognized me! I don't know how she saw me though all that hair. She went "Is that Grace?" And I just had to hit her. xD
I didn't think we were that scary (well, except for the part with the psychotic murderer - Muni would've loved it! - and her hammer) , but apparently we were. People are really violent when scared ): I don't know how many times my hand got slapped when I stuck it through a hole in the cloth to grab people, or how many times I got smacked/punched/pushed/stepped on by frightened girls. The boys didn't get frightened -.- Look, if you're not going to scream or at least get scared, don't go into a haunted house. What you SHOULD do: scream and get scared. What you should NOT do: laugh (unless you're doing it out of hysteria), make comments about how it's not scary, attack the poor ghosts who, by the time they have done their best to scare people 200+ times, are exhausted and aching.
Anyway: back to violence in fear. There was this group that was so utterly terrified they messed up all our partitions! And dropped a cloth on me. I got tangled up in it ): We were desperately trying to repair the damage int me for the next group.
But it was pretty fun, sometimes, when we sent groups screaming and practically tripping over themselves in their haste to get out of the art room. After a particularly good round, we always applauded and laughed, and then Litying would scream at us to get ready. : I think she was really stressed.
We might have overdone it some. There was this group who, when they got to the part with the fake organs in coke, begged us - really begged us - not to scare them any more (we did stop). Another group started singing Dedication. Some of them screamed almost continuously, even when there was nothing happening.
Oh, yes - there was this little boy, maybe four or five years old. Kinda dumb to bring a kid into a haunted house. But he wasn't scared at all! He kept going "crazy woman" and "siao". And when we started spraying water from above, his mother told him it was just "special effects". -.- Maybe he wasn't scared because we were all so shocked to see a kid in there that we weren't scary.
Random quotes:
"Why am I in front?"/"I don't want to go first!" - We heard endless variations of this.
"I don't want to continue...let's just stay here until the lights come on..." - I really felt sorry for them.
"I'm from artclub! My name is...is...Tinkerbell!" - she probably thought we'd go easier on our own club people. I don't know if she really was from AC, but we didn't go easier on our own people anyway.
"Must always respect a ghost!" - Linlin, the senior being the guide. LOL.
"Are you going to crawl under the cloth at them?"
"No, I'd look dumb from behind."
- Yingxi and I
"Why is everyone looking at the fake organs!?"
"They look cute!"
"Well...they're fun to make."
- Yingxi and I, again
"I so glad I couldn't see the floor where I was sitting."
"Oh..." - looks at floor- "...gross."
- Me and Crystal
"You look really scary! And you have sharp teeth."
"...I know."
- Me and Huining
There was this weird person who was going around calling every single person Dorcas but didn't recognize the REAL Dorcas. "Hey, nice one, Dorcas!" "Ahh! Dorcas, stop it!" "Don't touch me, Dorcas!"
But - even if my knees were bruised from kneeling, I was deadbeat and aching from being assaulted by visitors, and my shorts and socks and shoes and (new) t-shirt were stained with red paint...it was a wonderful experience. I don't know how to explain. There is a certain sense of satisfaction from knowing your efforts have paid off (we earned $422 profit, but that's only part of it), and it is magnified by the knowledge that the whole of AC shares the feeling. It really helped bonding too! :D I for one got to know a lot of juniors and seniors better. And I got two new nicknames: Smiley and Sunshine Monkey. Don't ask.
Oh, yes - we're leaving the psychotic murderer's room as a display in the window because we couldn't bear to take it down. Muni can go and stare at it (: You wouldn't believe the weapons we found in the art room. Hammers, pliers, saws, wire scrubbing brushes and other items whose purposes we're not very sure of (but can guess at). Seriously. It's scary.Labels: artclub, friends, ora, quotes
wings to the wind! at 5:03 pm
Sunday, 6 May 2007
I haven't blogged for ages (: Been too busy, what with exams and pts and math worksheets (I swear, I spend half my homework time on them) and all. So here are some anonymous quotes - things which people have said to me. Guess all you like, you probably won't guess who. Unless you're one of them xD
"You are just like a conscience!"
Yes. Yes, I am. I won't deny that I do have a conscience (who would? other than Yingyue, that is), and I do listen to it and judge right and wrong actions - my own, and others'. This was said in jest, after I commented on some act which made me uneasy - copying homework, or something. Well. I was brought up to be nice, to be considerate, to be helpful, to be honest, to say 'please' and 'thank you' and not to go beyond society's beliefs or the Bible's teachings. I don't see anything bad about that, in itself. Unless, of course, my own ideas of right and wrong are flawed. Are they? It disturbs me to know that my friends find nothing wrong with yaoi (japanese slash), spouting profanity (not that I'm saying a lot of people do this!), copying homework (the eternal evil), breaking school rules (not the ones like low socks which are impossible to enforce, but the reasonable ones) and other things which I don't think are right. But I'm no longer very sure what's right. The Bible says homosexuality is wrong, but homosexuals don't do any wrong and there is a lot of unfair discrimination against them. So. What is right and wrong?
"...I always thought you were a friend of the world."
Thank you, for the compliment. I do try to be nice and friendly - but don't be blinded to my faults. There are people I don't like. I get annoyed easily - I just don't show it or complain about it to others. (If I'm annoyed and know it, I'll go very quiet and smile a lot. If I'm annoyed and don't know it yet, I'll frown, talk very fast and fiddle with my fringe. Yeah.) I'm not perfect, I'm not the perfect friend. I just try not to make my dislike and disgust public, sometimes. I wish I could like everybody, but it's impossible. Don't be fooled by my sunny exterior.
(...oh dear. That sounded scary. Okay, maybe I'm not as deep-down nasty as all that sounds. But I do have my flaws, you know.)
"You think you know someone.
But we're all human, so they're all just parallels of yourself."
I agree, and disagree.The idea here's true - that sometimes you don't know what a person is like, inside. Sometimes you think everything's fine, and it's not, and you only find out until it's too late. It's one of the saddest things that can happen in a relationship - not knowing what the other person really wants or really feels. Human nature is like an onion (so are ogres, says Shrek. Never mind.), with many, many layers. What lies at the heart? I've learnt, painfully, that I'm not even sure what lies at my own, and I can't profess to understand others either.
But are all humans really parallels of each other? I say no. Maybe we are in the sense that we all have feelings and a conscience and that we can think and make decisions and act on them. But everyone's made special. I think everyone has a different personality and character, deep down inside. Differences cause conflict. The world would be a better place if we were all the same - but not necessarily a happier place.
Oh, and this quote is somewhat of a paradox - if everyone's a parallel of yourself, they're definitely not unknown.
“But everyone hates bad guys 'cuz bad guys don't get their side of the story told...I don't mind that as well - No one is born evil, everyone will have their causes for action. I'd rather be the bad guy and have everyone hate me as opposed to the good guy whom everyone sympathises with.”
This...is a little confusing. It is true about bad guys - none of them is simply, basically evil and commits crimes because his or her nature is just plain bad. Even in fairytales - like the 'evil' queen in Snow White, who poisons the pretty protagonist just because she wants to be the 'most beautiful of them all'. She didn't do it out of sheer evilness. She had a motive - jealousy, a human fault which everyone shares. But unlike everyone else (well, most of everyone else), she acted on it.
Fine. Not a good example. She's fictional. Well, let's take a real example - Cho Seung Hui, the Korean who committed the massacre in Virginia Tech. He ahd motives, too - complicated ones. He felt left out and snobbed by richer kids. He was a misfit, neither Korean like his parents nor American like his friends. And he was more than a little insane, thinking the world was pitted against him. He wanted to get his own back and commit suicide in the process. So he gunned his fellow students down.
I'm not advocating bad guys. Not me. In no way am I saying we should support them and sympathise with them! (Anyway, if we did, they wouldn't be bad guys any longer.) I just think...the world is not painted in black and white. We are surrounded by shades of grey. It's hard to make decisions. Choosing between right and wrong is easy for most people, but how about choosing between two wrongs? Like choosing between deforestation, which promotes economic development, or preserving the forest, which makes it harder for poor countries to get revenue? If you choose either, does that make you a bad guy?
Still, I don't get why the person who told me this wanted to be a bad guy. Perhaps she meant she'd rather be a 'bad guy' of her own choice for her own clear reasons instead of a 'good guy' who is just pressured into doing what others think is good. That is very commendable.
I just wasted...twenty minutes of mugging time with this extra-long post. Off to do more important things now! And If I offended you by quoting you, tell me and I'll delete it.
I am so going to change my blogskin as soon as I get time to make a new one ): it's ugly.Labels: friends, God, quotes
wings to the wind! at 5:12 pm
Thursday, 22 March 2007
Whoo! I finished this and I'm so proud of myself ^^ Been working on it for a couple of days.
Sorry it's kinda big so takes a long time to load!
This is dedicated to all my friends - past, present and future!
Labels: art, friends, kitties
wings to the wind! at 4:01 pm
