Band..

Grr band is soo annoying, just its taking up my holidays!! I mean it will. Gah Golden is so annoying, talking about discipline and practice and the like. I always zone out when I listen, either that or I'm making lame comments and asking nonconstructive questions. Muahaha.
Hmm the new batch of juniors are not as good as I expected, they haven't even finished Book 1 which is kinda mandatory. I do not know how on earth the trombonist got in, cuz he's hopeless and only complains that he wants to play the euphonium.
AAA! That reminds me of what I really really HATE about Golden, he ALWAYS throws the people from euphonium into my group ( trombonists ). ALWAYS. ARRRGH I have nothing against Adam though, he never complains but this new one only laments about freking euphoniums. To hell with him.
Hmm the clarinets are okay, flutists not, saxes hopeless. The only roses in the midst of a great HUGE thorn-brush are the trumpeters, for once muahaha. Kelvin is quite a talented one, though he is very VERY annoying, but you can talk to him once you get to know him. However, he tends to sweat like the melting Arctic, so when the air-conditioner is malfunctioning or we're marching, its best to be away, FAR AWAY.
Next is the girl, I don't know her name O.o. She's nice, polite, quiet, attentive, you know girly girly characteristics. She plays quite well but I've maybe only exchanged like 1 sentence with her, if any.
Last is Felix. Hehehe this one has character, he may not be as good as the others but at least might be a strong Third. He's very energetic and funny and sometimes annoying but I can handle it. He makes me feel old. Wait till you come to senior years, buckaroo, its no piece of cake. He's maybe the only one I'm almost-good friends with as he's been sitting beside me for a few times now. Though his voice still cracks a lot.
Hmm these 3 are really the one I deem worthy of mentioning, the rest, we'll see. Though one of the percussionists is quite good, but I haven't got to know him yet.
Okay my band rant is over.

Tshung Tsin Pride?

Hehe, this week my school is trying to promote itself by letting all the Pri. 6 kids come to our school. And I volunteered to station myself in a science lab and show them the ' wonders of science', if they exist, that is. Today I got the acids and alkalis station, and oh gawd, the Pri.6 kids are so so so annoying.
Of course I couldn't give them an in-depth explanation of it so we ( all the people involved ) agreed that we could just like drop universal indicators into the substance and show them whether its acidic or alkaline.
And the only thing that the kids ask are...Will it explode?!!?!?!?!?!
Uggh I think that the cartoons should really stop showing those kind of shows, and anyway where is their freakin' cow sense!?!? If it'll explode, would I do it in front of my face!?!?
But of course there are ups too, some really felt interested and asked a lot of questions, like when will they learn about it bla bla. Hopefully they will enter my school. :O
Hehe but over at the band it was a different matter. Sack and her fellow trumpeters were at wits end trying to find songs to play that would appeal to the kids which is err.... none nada zero. Thing is is this weird Golden didn't let any other people join them so they were the only section playing, and well only 1 instrument playing songs meant for a whole band is like err like a tree with only 1 leaf. Emptiness. Nakedness? haha it was so So SO tiring but I guess it was worth it.
Hee hee maybe going on the Doulos this Wednesday, hopefully they still have books that are worth reading and buying :D G-bye!

Bazaar!

19/7/09 was my school's bazaar and unfortunately I did not get any pictures.
Ugggh being part of the band ensures you to be an early bird, my band mates and I had to wake up at 6 a.m. ( ON A SUNDAY??!?) just to greet the guests of honour. And they were late OF COURSE, so it took much of my time that I could've spent touring the bazaar or selling roses.
Yea, you heard me ( or is it saw it? ), I sold roses on that day, don't ask me why, but my club's advisor thought of selling tissue, soft drinks and roses, nice combination...NOT.
But the ups of selling the roses was that I could walk around, just needed to bring a basket around and shouting my wares. we were paired in groups and I was with Sack so it was kinda fun after all.
The education fair was crap though, it was like only the universities that had Malaysian Campuses and I wouldn't need to go to an education fair for that wouldn't I?
I saw University of Melbourne there but the person there didn't look like she was in a talking mood, (and no wonder because she had to wake up at 6 too) so i passed.
It was so tiring and by the end of the day my voice was spent but....
The band made about RM30000 from the three stalls, unfortunately we have to give the school 55% and then minus our cost, so in the end we only got RM2000, sad isn't it.
Hmm thats it I guess, nothing to write about, except for the boring old school.
Oh wait! There's a replacement for my BM teacher who is currently heavily pregnant and due to be a mother any day now ( if not hours or minutes )and he's this weird gay person that is SO annoying. He gave homework and kept on patrolling the class, asking us whether we'd finished it was SO annoying.
Nows its the real end bye:(
Miss my friendssss, school just seems so wrong without you all...
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
I hate Mr. Gan or Mr. Tang or whoever who put me in the insufferable S1 Xiao.
BYEEEEEEEEEE

Lifeeee

Okaaay now after a looong break i have decided to blog again.
Talked to Kara on Skype and read her blog. I can see she really does not like being there, its so saddening, like in KK there really aren't the kind of people you get there. We're all nice to each other to a certain degree, and we never fight that horribly.
I wish she wouldn't cry, there's just this heart-wrenching feeling when you know a close friend of yours is crying because she misses you and others because she's away with a lot of people she hates. Arrrgh, why must life be so complicated.
I realllly miss her too but well, life goes on. But at least I know she will come back.
And I don't really like her new hairstyle its very mix-of-chinese-japanese-korean. Its like the mushroom head ya know, I liked her old normal I-look-the-way-I-look ponytail sigh.
7k is this Saturday. Malina, Sack, Carissa, Pat are all going to run and maybe watch a movie but I'm not sure la whether I'm going.
Sunday is bazaar day. I'm selling freaking flowers, can you believe it.
Time and tide wait for no man. Just hope that it passes faster

Summary of Holidays...

Holidays were filled up with band, I could'nt do much else. Haha I still remember the looks on the fellow band members' faces when I said I wasn't staying over at school....... again. Its because I have asthmatic allergies to dust that will induce a flu that lasts very long.

This holidays passed really really fast. But I enjoyed every bit of it, though I did feel a bit annoyed when I had to say no to Joel when he asked me whether I wanted to join them for a day in 1 Borneo.

But as a highlight, Chia Sue Theng came back from Singapore for a week and we took some pictures..
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with me looking like a prat as usual...
Yea it was fun, but back to school now, sigh, and days of Ad. Maths homework..blech

bad, Bad and BAD

It was the last day of exams and the holidays would start on the nest day, it was also the day I went out with my friends which I mentioned in my earlier post. Needless to say, I was in a very good mood until I saw.... lying on my table was
67 for physics..... I am so so so so so dead. This is like the lowest of the low I have EVER gotten in my entire life for a science subject.
Arrrrrrgh, but well the highest in my class is only 79.5. and the highest in the other class is 84, no one reached the 90-100 range so that means this paper is hard I suppose. BUT sometimes the English is so weird you don't even understand what its talking about, thats why everyone lost a lot of points. Uggh Its so bad :P

Sigh band today, and tomorrow, and the day after. Maybe I shouldn't complain so much =P Its called TRAINING, I wish I was Junior 3 again though, they now have extra classes. I wouldn't mind if it was with my old class :D.

End of Exams, Start of Holidays.

Okay I haven't posted for a long long time because I was so busy. And yeah I didn't manage to change the stupid class, BECAUSE the disciplinarian said I would have to change again next year and I thought : What a waste of time! SO yes I didn't change it but I am definitely NOT going to change to some weird freak who can only speak coherent Chinese and crappy English. Hahaha you all should have seen he faces of my classmates ( sigh I have to admit they're my classmates now ) when I read some extract from the biology textbook. Hahahaha I almost died of laughter there and then.

Anyway, I really hardly socialize with them, though I can finally remember their names ahahahaa. Whenever its recess I go to the class where my REAL friends are and talk with them. Its not that my classmates are weird psychos, its just that Me + Chinese = Dead.

Went out with frriends yesterday to watch Race to Witch Mountain, the remake of the 1975 Escape to Witch Mountain. It was quite good starring Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. It was quite good, better than I expected to be, the humurous parts in it were really good.

Sara : We are not from your planet.
Jack ( Dwayne ) : What?? You can't just drop the 'I'm an Alien' bomb on me. Besides you two don't even look like aliens.
Sara : What do Aliens look like?
I thought : Lai Siew Wei? but anyway
Jack : Little green men that stand on their spaceship and say ' Take me to your lair, earthling'

I quite enjoyed the movie, its not the best there is but definitely one of them. I want to watch The Reader and City of Ember too!!

Haahaha the assortment of my friends were rather weird, Nick, Melvyn, Lai Siew Wei*, Alice*, Ahmad, Halim, Jonathan Wong, Joel and I. Normally I don't go out with those people except for Nick and Joel, whom I have recently become closer friends with. But it was still fun but it made me miss J2 J3 SOOO much!!! Sigh the good old days.....

This holidays I'm going to be very very busy as band as is going to have a concert in April and the advisor has arranged practices everyday, Danm it, I can't go out with my friends, All right I admit it I really miss all my friends from the ren class, sometimes I tear up thinking about them. I miss Sheila picking fights with people, miss seeing Carissa and Jacqueline talking in hushed tones in a corner, miss seeing the super-not-racist-gang hahaha that was made up of so many different races, miss listening to Joel and Calvin annoy the teachers ( though now I do that to Mr. C hahahaha ) .... sigh, I can't blog about this, its too depressing. And it definitely did not help when Joel said he preferred his current class to our old one, sigh maybe I'm not so good a friend?

The Last Straw

That's it, if I cannot get all the signatures by tomorrow (Friday) I am going to ask my dad to go to the school to talk to assistant headmaster. Gah for all of you that don't know, the school smartly(not) decided that to change our classes this year, we would have to to get 4 signatures.
The current form teacher , the form teacher of the class you intend to transfer to, the discipline master and the assistant headmaster need to place their sign on your form. The discipline master??? WTH? Arrrgh its impossible to ask him anything!

Beside me there are other people that want to change classes too, and they have asked the discipline master but guess what he said? He said, come to me in 2 weeks. What?!!! After 2 weeks the permanent namelist is already out which means he does not care about the applicants or their reasons!! This is so unfair and violates the students' rights. Gaaaah

Anyway if I fail, my dad will go and the school see that 2 can play at that game. You make the students helpless, the parents will make YOU helpless.

Crossing Fingers

As of yesterday, my mind was already made up that I wanted to change to S1 Ren from S1 Xiao. After today, I know its a Must. Today after 4 periods with the form teacher, our classes started in earnest, even though we hardly have any books. So the first lesson my class had was Physics. The teacher Mr. C came in. ( I don't want to disclose any of my teacher's names because one of my friends did and she was given hell for it. ) So Mr.C came in and introduced himself and took attendance. After a long time of ice-breaking, he started to teach. Horrors of horrors! He explained it mostly in chinese!! Helloo! The subject is in English not freaking chinese! I was speechless. And then my mind was like : Oh no, I am so dead.

Then after Mr.C's period, Ms Y came in and she taught chemistry and she's my form teacher. She speaks okay english and she has a degree in chemistry from Taiwan. Luckily her english is still good. But Mamma Mia! She too explained things in Chinese. Gah. I know that all the students in that class are chinese-educated through and through but jeez they might pay more attention to the language its supposed to be in!!

As I have said before, I cannot I reapeat, absolutely cannot function in chinese. All the science subjects before were explained in English last time and I had no problem but now I couldn't even understand a word! Even though I know chinese and I take it as subject, I was never good in it.

I am going to get a letter from my parents and try to change tomorrow....by hook or by crook.

A New School Year.....With A Horrible Start.

Okaaay school was definitely horrible for me today. First of all, I found out I am the only one from my 08 class that is in my current class. 16 of us got into science stream and I am the ONLY ONE in my current class ( S1 Xiao ). Uggh I don't even want to call it my current class I will just call it S1Xiao. When I got this news a few weeks before I was already like.. WHAT the Hell? But I was already in Kuching ( my hometown ) and I couldn't do anything about it. Sure, encouraging the students to befriend other people is good but I think in my case its a bit extreme! I am going to apply to change my class along with the other stranded classmates from my 08 class to Ren class which is where most of the people ended up in. Lol and can you imagine 12 of them are in Ren talk about unfair. Hmph.

My day started off well but I don't like to interact in chinese, it feels distinctively wrong for me. And I hate chinese with a capital H. Its the only subject I did not get an A in for PMR, the government exam for 15 year-olds. Luckily I went to school early so I managed to bag myself a good seat. My premonitions were a little eased when I saw a boy from my club ( band ) step into my class and chose to sit next to me. He was talking to all his friends from his 08 class where there were also 10 of them! At that time I was definitely thinking someone on the school board must have it in for me. Gah. Anyway he and his friends were quite friendly and they were quite okay I suppose but no way I say NO WAY can they be compared to my friends from my old class. So don't any of you old-fashioned "pacifists" dare to bloody patronize me. That was a phrase I picked up form Mamma Mia the Musical and I can definitely feel how she felt now.

If that wasn't enough, this came...



Our new school uniforms! At first we were so psyched up that we have new "stylish" school uniforms. I mean it does look cool and its definitely different and it might have won the challenge on Project Runway. But in terms of functions and comfort, it was the worst thing a school uniform could be. I don't know whether the school chose the material but it was the worst material they could have chosen. It was stiff and sticky making your every move uncomfortable. And comfort should also have been taken into mind too. It was not very breathable and sweat might just cascade down AND to add insult to injury, it doesn't absorb any sweat at all! Every drop of sweat from you will be visible. Do you think that we students like to go around looking like we're having a perpetual shower? Also we don't need to tuck in it and thats good, very good but well everyone has different heights, and custom sizes aren't very good. So you see a lot of people with very long shirts going around or very long skirts . All the bigger people have big problems because of their size and they need bigger fits but most of them don't have the height. So actually our school uniform should have been custom-made or our school uniform would just look like a normal one without being tucked and it looks messy, so our school's image is just going to be continuously damaged isn't it?

Now before you dear readers think I am some weird gloomy person I'm only writing this because I am not at all happy today. And seriously, in terms of design, the school uniform is great and definitely separates us from other students.

Ending my post now, been ranting too long haha.