Yesterday was funnn. After school Lara was in the common room! She STILL remembers me and likes me haha. I am proud! She gives me highfives and stuff and gave me a hug before I left :)
Meike and I went to ruth's house to find me some Going Out clothes. Da eun came later to borrow clothes too.
And at seven I met arief, ruth, meike, charlotte, khanhche and felix at charlotte's house. And they made me pretty(ER haha). Charlotte straightened my hair and meike and ruth made me up. Then we cabbed to ciao cafe for suyeon's birthday. We took lots of pictures and everyone marvelled and how much prettier I looked haha. And felix suddenly wanted to hug me alot. He's so shallow, dude! Haha and meike's boobs were muy squishy cos she was wearing charlotte's way too small bra, which pushed her up alot. All us girls were just like, heehee poke poke!
Afterwards some of us went to lush early to start first, leaving arief, charlotte, ruth and meike at boring boring lion. Arief and ruth met us afterwards. Arief was tipsy haha! And we drank somemore and I got pretty smashed.
Arief and I were like, if we behave they'll let us go to another club and dance. *sit up straight with hands on our laps* hahahhh
Katrina started touching/kissing me! o_O And she was all, tell me it doesn't feel good and I'll stop. And of course it did! But it was wrong and luckily I somehow retain my core morals and ethics even when temulent :) so I made her stop. Kinda.
But after I threw up in the toilet she sobered up and brought me to her apartment and made me shower and lent me clothes and gave me water and ritz crackers every few minutes before I fell asleep on her couch. She's a really really good friend. Though she may have lesbian tendencies ><
Her dog boony is sooooo cute! It's all small and has a beautiful pelt and doesn't make a sound and is SO FRIENDLY.
And when charlotte, ruth, arief and khanh came to pick me up she walked me down. Then we took a cab to charlotte's house and watched the l word for awhile before all of us fell asleep. Charlotte drew on meike with unidentifiable makeup stuff when she was sleeping hahahaha. IT WAS SO COLD! Arief and I had to share one measly blanket :( And after she showered meike came and we had to share with her also. So after awhile I was just like trying to get warm off their body heat. Thank merlin I was the one in the middle haha.
And this morning meike and I helped clean up charlotte's room cos she had to go for a doctor's appointment at 10 and arief and ruth had to go for the thien phuoc thing.

Oh ya meike's visiting from thailand. She came to school on wednesday and her, da eun and I went to parksons for dinner so they could drink bubble tea haha.

And on thursday meike, ruth, katrina, da eun suyeon, arief and I went to gloria jean's for coffee haha. Where they saw my smexy bikini-clad pictures from muine. Ruth says I'm more toned than she is! And charlotte was like, who'da thunk? That night meike and I slept over at da eun's house and took hilarious pictures and videos. Like our Merry Little Dance that y'all should go see on facebook.

CARREN GOT SIX POINTS FOR PRELIMS I AM PROUD. I always thought she was the smartest one out of all of us. Ever since she got that 25something for psle.
Though I wouldn't recommend going to rj, since it's all work-y and my friends in rj, ie karen and michelle, have no life. Or HAD no life, since friday was THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL for them! Haha! Back to tertiary institutions. Maybe go to hwachong, because I've always liked hwachong, they're so chink that they're cool. Or vj, because my friends from victoria, ie charmaine, irvin, valmond and olivia, are cool as pie. Or ac, since my siblings went there and I wanted to go there ('cept I went to 'nam) and lots of rich cute jock boys'll probably be there haha!
If she wants to go poly I will cry I tell you. Not that poly's bad or anything, but why waste such a talent for mugging? Carren does so well in a structured school environment.

Meixuan got 12 or 10 which is pretty good also. Though she says she wants to go poly and has already been accepted anyway by dpa or something. She said she didn't feel like mugging anymore hahaha. Who can blame her?

Just now zia and I were discussing many deep things on windowslive! Like why people enjoy music (because it gives them fast good feelings) and why on earth are we made to do TOK (to force our peers to think deeper thoughts).

On music and stuff; I figured we do things like listen to music and watch tv and do drugs because it stimulates our emotions. And zia was all, then why don't I like to listen to music? And I was like, cos you like to earn your enjoyment? And it's true! He gains satisfaction from constantly improving at sports and doing well academically and all. He feels special knowing not many people are that good at football/whatever.
But not many people are like that. We all prefer our goodfeelings in different ways and are thus motivated by different things. Most of us like to get the most value using the least possible effort in the least amount of time. We do not enjoy working hard for our goodfeelings! Hence doing drugs for their easy highs and drinking till temulent and watching tv to experience emotions that we don't normally/ are hard to recreate in our own lives. Like how millions of viewers tune in to find out if ross will ever make it with rachel or if sylar will triumph in the end or what happened to clark as he grew up in smallville.
And I guess familiarity also plays a part. Like watching friends for all of its er 9? seasons and getting to know them and getting used to them but having to part ways when friends finally ended. Or, say, for music. Hearing a tune you're familiar with, remembering lyrics correctly, singing along to something. Tapping your feet to a familiar rhythm since we by nature do not like the unknown.

Which leads to, Why Are They Making Us Do TOK?
I suspect because the IB-makers didn't think people our age contemplated deep things very often, if at all. Though some of us do (hazard a guess who I refer to, HEH HEH. relatively, anyway).

And we stopped there cos it was 1 plus am and I hadn't bathed yet haha. I am pretty gross! Like even though my grossthings tolerance level has again decreased.

Ohoh da eun dyed my hair dark dark dark blue the other day. It's pretty cool, but you can barely make out any blue (I personally just see black):. Like only various korean people (da eun, dennis) can see any hint of blue colouring at all. We'll see if anyone can tell the difference when school restarts.

And something funny happened like yesterday. Da eun and I were at school doing nothing, and it was raining really heavily and we wanted to go hang out at someone's house. So our first thought was, Ruth! And I texted her asking if we could come over. She replied a couple of minutes later, dude im in cambodia! Hahahahahah! We ended up at dennis's place watching 300 in the end.

I'm getting a little disturbed thinking about how much I've started to question morals that used to be a given in singapore now that I'm in 'nam.
Dangerous, traitorous thoughts now frequent my head. You know, traitorous concepts like, what exactly is wrong with drinking and clubbing and smoking shisha?
Oh wait, right! Our body = God's temple. Dayum okay.
No but doing all those things in excess would be tantamount to damage. All that in moderation should be fine what.

And while we're on the subject of temple vandalism, what's my stance on earrings supposed to be as a christian? Is that not bodily desecration also? I don't see how earrings are fine but piercings anywhere else are taboo. That's seems kinda double-standardy to me.

And swearing. I understand the not using God's name in vain bit, but how about all the other cusswords? Why can't we use those? OH WAIT I REMEMBER SOMETHING ON THIS. Something about not having bad words mix with good ones, like sewer water from a nice fresh spring or something. Hmmms.

And another thing. I think God's law takes precedence over human laws. Case in point how daniel and the rest of the hebrew guys whose names I cannot recall stuck it up to The Persian Man and didn't worship him. Human laws are fallible. God's are less so. Thing is, how do we know what God rules lawful and illegal? We probably should still be following the 10 commandments, even though they're in the old testament. I think the old testament laws that God established are how we should be living, only changing things mentioned in the new testament like sacrifices and stuff.

Me gusta IMing katrina! I can actually hold decent conversations with her, which I find quite a hard thing to do with most people online. We're going to go to gloria jeans and properly talk or something since it seems cool and sophisticated like sex in the city (according to her haha).
IMing charlotte is fun also.
Methinks language barriers are probably also why we're all quite segregated. And katrina told me the whole barrier thing's partially why she can't be bothered to develop a strong relationship with dennis. She even simplifies her english when she speaks to him! Which I think is a real shame.

Karen says the fishman I drew on her balcony door in july/august is still there! <333 Me likey that fish man. And he's like MAGIC since he made karen actually like him too, which is like a nigh-impossible feat normally.

Hokay it's like 254 in the morning hcm time and my tummy is rumbling. Next best way to silence it: Go sleep with my mommy now. Haha!

'dMuine was awesome.Days were spent at the beach/pool and nights were spent drinking.
The first night seolye got so sloshed hahahahaah I like took two videos of her and one of da eun. This was da eun's first time drinking more than two things. She was so hilarious! Like her diction suddenly became SO KOREAN! And she wouldn't shut up. At one point while I was watching over her and seolye in what we coined the drinking room she was all, am I annoying? And I was like, yah. and she started giggling madly hahahaha.
Seolye was crying for wentai and trying to run awayyyy. Suyeon told me one time she tried to dive into the sea before she could restrain her but came up short and landed facefirst in the sand instead HAHA. She was pretty violent also, trying to punch robin and trying to run away, but her accuracy when temulent is laughable and she didn't hit anyone.
Since it was only around 10 at the time suyeon stephanie and I decided not to let the night go to waste and went to some club called hollywood. I was drunken dancing hahahaha! Apparently not to the beat :( And I musta upchucked like four times. B52s are the shit, dude.

And the next night we went to town looking for decent clubs. Man did the ones we found fall short. The first place we went to, festival or something, didn't even serve cocktails o_O And the second place was just a sleazefest with lousy lighting and music.
So we took a cab back to hollywood (another 100thou down the drain ): and the rest of them proceeded to party. But by then my mood was already pretty spoilt and I hadn't even felt like going out that night before so I just dozed on the vip seats (next to the amps haha). Suyeon cho and da eun were tipsy this time, since seolye like me had endeavoured to stay dry and it takes robin many many many drinks to get crunk.

Today my back hurts aloooooot cos I'm all burnt now! Like for the third time in history haha. I hope it doesn't peel toooooo badly.

I was just IMing smellanie. She's planning to go to some college in michigan cos her sister went there and cos her mother wants her to go (because her sister went there)!!! She doesn't even know what she's going to do there or what that uni's good for haha!
I disagree on her motivations, but I guess we all need objectives. And it is in times like these I am pretty glad I was not born into a real chinesey family.

Hings has been doing quite well for herself. Apparently she got an A1 for her chink and has already been guaranteed a place into some poly for mass com :) But being cool and all she's still going to aim for good o's marks. I HEARTILY APPROVE.

It's 459am and I'm going to muine in a couple hours.

International day was fun. I wore jeans and a vietnam shirt with the red part of the singapore flag in crayon taped over it hahaha. I'm SO ghetto dude.
Charlie's dead performed riiiiiight at the end. That didn't go down too well. I couldn't really hear myself, and when I did, I wasn't distorted enough so you could hear all my minor fingering errors. Which was worsened by the fact that I was using some raffia string as a strap since all of ours seem to have disappeared, and it was waaaaaay too low for me. And dug into my shoulder. And my pick was already whittled down to a smooth curve (I really need to buy some more). And also I was fortunate enough to have the second shortest lead in the history of leads. :(
But other than that we were fine hahahh. Apparently the crowd still loves us and they could hear me at the back. I probably couldn't hear myself cos the feedback speaker broke or something.
I went out for dinner with charlotte and ruth at some chicken rice place. The meat was chewy and the rice wasn't chickenricey enough :( But that was fun anyway.
Then we went back to charlotte's house and did shisha and drank stuff. And I got tipsy again. Arief came for like half an hour and we were all like pimpin' in front of charlotte's mac's camera.
I really don't get the korean need to always take a good picture. In pretty much the same pose. With the white peepz we're just like NGYEEHHHH with the bad photos and whatnot hahahah. They're up on facebook and called the corruption of chia lynn hahahaha. I conked out when I got home (around 11pm) and woke up at like four haha. I think it's ironic how I end up sleeping/waking up earlier when I do stuff like this than when I'm normal.

Yesterday afternoon-evening was a laugh. I MADE bryan stay back after everyone else so we could go over girlfriend and cobra again and again and again since he hadn't bothered to learn it at home himself. And by five he was just like YUHHHHH hahahah.
I think I've taken over for meike in the band discipline department haha! Like I'm mostly the one going, OKAY C'MON GUYS LETS START. And like I give evil death glares to the people who screw up during the song hahah. Quite funny they're all just like, don't look at me like that! :( hahahaha. Yeah I'm cool.

So ya I'm going to muine today with the asians and robin. I'm going to bring (and use) sunscreen cos I don't want to look old before my time! Blackness doesn't matter as much.
I think it's quite funny how I segregate all my friends into western/asian sections. And like the group you're in depends on where you were brought up and how. Like I count charlotte and arief as white. And meike is a yellowish white since she's spent half her life in thailand and can thus blend in almost seamlessly with us.

And it's pretty interesante to see how much I've changed since I got here. Like nowadays I'm listening more and more to dancey beaty songs like The Way I R and that express yourself song on gta. And like emo-ish stuff that felix likes. No longer am I limited to indie classified music. Now I listen to anything with a nice riff :)

CHARLIE'S DEAD WON THE BIS BATTLE OF THE BANDS! And the judge guy liked my vocals on Voltaire woohoo! I was all animated and active and cool and I'd never been so in all the rehearsals.
Charlie's Dead winning was quite a surprise though. We all thought Voltaire would win but the teachers instigated some moshing at the front of the stage when Charlie's Dead did our thing. Haha arief was like, ngah HOW BIASED!
Felix is planning on stealing lisa for drums and yingyue for guitarring for a new and improved Voltaire. Apparently yingyue's really good! :) Hahah lisa intimidates me a wee bit. Last year she was all hyper. SCARY hyper, not entertaining nice hyper like what I be representin'. Like last week we were joking how she could rape us! And we were even writing a song about it haha (titled lisa tried to rape me). She is a really really good drummer though! Better than that annoying little boy who keeps disturbing me.

MISTER SISTER FISTER GAHAHA

In other news I've met the singaporean ambassador's daughter. Grace ann chua or something. She's been in 'nam since p5 and she and jacqueline leow were primary schoolmates! She seems very out of the singapore scene though. She didn't know what knnccb stood for, for shameeee. And she has a funky accent haha

My idea for the option to wear costumes for halloween at school instead of only at the disco was put up for discussion on tuesday by charlotte! Yay. Though I am a little miffed I wasn't fast enough to mention it first. Felix, arief and I are going to be emoshitz for halloween hahah. I wish I had a whip for real. I could seriously go as a dominatrix ahah.

Haha I just realised something hella funny. When I'm in vietnam I pretty much speak with an international/american accent, laced with singaporean phrases and expressions (with real-live authentic singaporean tones!) when I am comfortable. And whenever I go back to singapore I pick up the yangs' rather strange not-quite-british accent! With slightly more singlish than normal thrown in for good measure.
The really sad thing is, I've noticed people generally treat you better when you are coupled with a cool accent.

I'm sleepy but there's TOK to read and math halfterm test to mug for and if I fail I'm going to be sent down to the special needs math studies class :( I don't want to be sent into a class learning sets and factorisation!!

Why am I still here? Hokay I shall go study now see y'all around.