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Thursday, September 29, 2005
a blessing in disguise?!

haha..now this is hillarious..ok not exactly. but as u all know, TJS is down with chicken poks...whoo hooo. muahahahahaha. ok im so evil. but sorry...its not my fault that he's such a ******* *******. shall refrain from cursing. lets celebrate!!!

seriously, 2 weeks of no TJS..how often does that happen? how abt never. u can tell how overjoyed i am..ask audrey and alethea..they saw me literally jump and bang the table when the relief teacher walked in during maths. heh. i think our class the maths really gone case already. but in the meantime, i shall be happie!! :D

so anyway, am enjoying myself now that prelims r over..too much i must say. i just cant seem 2 get into the mugging mode for A levels. i know im not alone though..all my fellow pals seem 2b in the same situation..am i right? if not why r u so free as 2 come and read my blog? haha.

today i just zao sch at 11am after hist lect..as much as it ain't good, i really love ponning sch..the trill of it gets me high. haha. cheap trills. but whats the point in me staying?? just maths lect and econs tuitorial which is a total waste of time. just my luck, we didnt have GP after sch so can zao. i heck cheng already..its not like she will even notice that im gone. lester, yong teng and brendan zao off too.

shit. just realised i havent done fern's gp outlines due tmr. ahhh whatever. i feel like slacking. the fact that im actually bothering to type out this entry is somewhat of a miracle since i have become so lazy. but i must not disappoint my loyal fanbase of blog readers. haha.

i like this song.

i'm finding my way back to sanity again
though i dont really know what im gonna do when i get there
i take a breath and hold on tight
spin around one more time
and gracefully fall back to the arms of grace

cos i am hanging on every word you're saying
even if you don't wanna speak tonight
thats alright, alright with me
cos i want nothing more
than to sit outside heaven's door
and listen to you breathing
thats where i wanna be

im looking past the shadows in my mind into the truth
and im trying to identify the voices in my head
wont you let me feel one more time what it feels like to feel
and break these caluses off me one more time

cos i am hanging on every word you're saying
even if you don't wanna speak tonight
thats alright, alright with me
cos i want nothing more
than to sit outside heaven's door
and listen to you breathing
thats where i wanna be

i dont want a thing from you
bet you're tired of me
waiting for the scraps to fall off your table to the ground
cause i just wanna be here now

- lifehouse: breathing -

Friday, September 23, 2005
its over - for now + a sneak peak into the twisted world of Joanne

arghh...call myself a blogger? havent updated for weeks! anyway, realy glad that prelims are finally over!! im so dead la..maths was seriously a killer this time. but i refuse 2 say anymore abt exams for now..shall enjoy a few days of much needed relaxation (though i dont really need it, but thats not the point). what was i gonna say next?

oh ya..supposed 2 go into a reflective mood again. since i was so free today, i decided to take out my old diaries for a flashback into the past. but there were too many things to read so i gave up after a few entries. oh well, at least i've found another form of 'entertainment' for myself again. haha.

i wonder, when pple put stuff up on their blog, do they really mean what they say? as in, its not like they're really writing down all their innermost thoughts right? since a blog is probably seen by millions of pple if ur popular enough. so there i was, pondering over the futility of having one...since i myself am guilty of not being totally honest in my entries here. then again, who is?

yup, enough of my disjointed ramblings. back to the diary subject - can u believe that this yr alone, i already have 3 diaries and counting? i think i'll probably make it 4 since my current 3rd one is already 3/4 full. and this is coming from someone who hardly updates her blog. how ironic. haha. but seriously, i find maintaining one can be quite burdensome at times. so there u go.

since im feeling rather generous today, i shall give u folks who are bored enough to stumble upon this insignificant lil' blog of mine a sneak peek into what i write in my diary. ok, more like a pathetic sneak..but better than nothing right? haha. so anyway, since i cant be bothered to type out full diary entries, i've decided 2 put in two poems taken from my 2nd diary this yr. they kinda illustrate my conflicting mood swings and messed up life. one is optimistic, the other bitter and depressed. enjoy!

since the depressing poem came first, i shall put it down first. this was written on 23/07/05, after my PTM. given my results, surely u can sympathize with me on this one.

fake plastic smiles on my face
cracking
i cannot keep it up
when the insults cut to the bone
shredded
i feel no more
for there is nothing left to chip away

is this self pity?
or does it go deeper than that?
maybe if you opened your eyes
you would see the hurt
that overwhealms me

sucked dry of tears
i am steel
i crumble inside of me
it eats away at my infested soul
that society has created for me

i do not see any worth in prolonging this
will someone come take me away
from this dreadful hell on earth
that has become my second home

and you are the only reason i still breathe
the meaning of my very existance
that catches me before i truly fall
before i go too deep

please dont leave me
stay with me through this diesase
and make it all right
please.

now is that downright depressing or what? when i read it today, i could literally FEEL my agony..even now. haha. its good to laugh it off. maybe i should make it into a song one day. (thats a joke)

now a switch in channels..to a more positive, courageous me. sure wish i could stay that way all the time though of course, thats not possible. life has its ups and downs. i didnt write down the date for this poem, but i can tell u that i wrote in sometime in the 2nd wk of august. one of my nicer poems, and unlike the previous one, this one actually rhymes. its called 'stronger'. (NO, not the britney spears song..and im sure a lot nicer..heh heh)

stronger is what you've made me
although the hurt often makes me cry
I've learnt to pick up the pieces
i may be broken, but i won't die

the trials that confront me
as challenging as they may seem
are nothing once i've faced them
and continued to live my dreams

moulding myself into a better person
ready to take on the world
how far i've come in this life
from that weak, pathetic girl

to someone with the courage
to never lose hope
even in the darkest of hours
i will pull through, and i'll cope

because nothing is impossible
all it takes its the belief
that if you want something bad enough
work hard and you'll succeed.

hope that serves as a form of encouragement for anyone who's feeling depressed out there at this moment. and with that i conclude this long blog entry. should buy me enough time till i finally type the next one in say, a few more weeks? haha.

bye..! :D

Sunday, September 04, 2005
wake me up when september ends

i guess im supposed 2 talk abt how the GP exam was.. well, definitely very very tiring. i did the first qn: "make poverty history." Is this a realistic aim?

I think i handled it ok..but but i've learnt not to be overly optimistic. we'll see how it goes..hopefully will get a lenient marker. compre was on shock and horror movies...im serious, fern sure knows how to choose weird compres for us. i mean, what the hell is there to write abt how singaporeans respond to horror movies? the AQ is so screwed. i spent damn long just attempting the qns so it better pull my grades up.

wish i could throw away all my GP notes now but still got A levels.. its only the beginning. haiiiii. i spent the morning doing some econs and maths. planning to do some hist later..then i would have at least touched on everything.

1 wk of sept hols coming up..actually, what holidays? more like "mug ur ass off" days.

isn't this song appropriate??


Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when september ends

Like my fathers come to pass
Seven years have gone so fast
Wake me up when september ends

Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are

As my memory rests
But never forgets what i lost
Wake me up september ends

Summer has come and past
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when september ends

Ring out the bells again
Like we did when spring began
Wake me up when september ends

- Green Day: Wake me up when september ends -

Thursday, September 01, 2005
i miss ij!! :(

seriously, going to sch today was a total waste of time...we ended at 9.10am..probably the earliest amongst all the other JCs. am glad i went back to ij though..managed to see so many of my secondary sch teachers. :) finally got to talk to mrs how, my form teacher in sec4.. stood there chatting for 15 mins. she's so nice and motherly.. cj could really use more teachers like her.

the last time i went back to ij was last yr during teachers day. going back there again today really brought back all the gd memories..and i realise that i miss ij so much!! its like heaven there as compared to cj where i go thru hell. guess u dont really appreciate something until its gone. will definitely be going back again next yr.

am gonna devote the whole of tmr to GP only.. dunno if reading thru the notes will help, but i suppose its better than nothing. managed 2 pass fern and koh their presents and cards personally..speaking of hypocritical huh. actually, im alright with koh..just that sometimes she can be kinda biased. i've learnt to put up an act in front of fern..just keep smiling sweetly and you'll be ok..most of the time anyway. besides, i gave her a card last yr so obviously had to do the same thing this yr. u wont catch me going back to cj other than to collect my A level results though. nope.. sorry to say, cj has nothing that i'd want to come back to.


am i loud and clear or am i breaking up?
am i still your charm or am i just bad luck?
are we getting closer or are we just getting more lost?
ill show you mine if you show me yours first
lets compare scars ill tell you whose is worse
lets unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words

we live on front porches and swing life away
we get by just fine here on minimum wage
if love is a labor ill slave til the end
i wont cross these streets until you hold my hand

i been here so long i think that its time to move
the winters so cold summers over too soon
lets pack our bags and settle down where palm trees grow
and ive got some friends some that i hardly know
weve had some times i wouldn't trade for the world
we chase these days down with talks of the places that we will go

we live on front porches and swing life away
we get by just fine here on minimum wage
if love is a labor ill slave til the end
i wont cross these streets until you hold my hand
swing life away

- rise against : swing life away -