We were young and wild and free ♫

2009-10-29T21:13:00.003+08:00

is so fucking annoyed right now...

Today in school I lost my wallet - apparently I dropped in when I was on my way out of Math class to go to ITGS. And I only realised it was missing when I was packing my bag from ITGS for lunch break... Hai - and that is why I DO NOT bring my wallet to school! Mr Bello returned it to me anyway when I made my way to check if it was in the Math Room! Thank you Mr. Bello!

(Anyway, this isn't why I'm really annoyed - as seem from above - something else is annoying me to bits!)

- I'm having a massive headache right now... Probably due to having to remember quite a lot of steps for the 18 Roses Dance...

TOMORROW IS INTERNATIONAL DAY!

- wearing a mestiza dress tomorrow :)

Signing off...

something new...

2009-10-26T15:23:00.002+08:00

Today I have learnt something new...

I have learnt that I am a person who tends to keep their emotions to themselves and really only burst out when I'm alone. Today someone (who shall be left unnamed) 'tried' to play a practical joke on me about something that I consider to be a serious factor. Okay and so, he decides to tell me this thing about it and I actually believed him. But for some very strange reason, I managed to keep my cool and not burst out my emotions.

Maybe the reason for this is that I see no point in trying to blurt out my emotions in front of the person - or maybe the real reason behind it is because I DON'T want to show my emotions to them. I think I'll stick to the second interpretation because I think that's what's really going through my head when I am put into situations where I am bound to at least show some emotion. I mean, I can remember a situation where a 'friend' of mine left for New Zealand for good. I mean, he wasn't a very close friend of mine, but seriously, when I went to send him off at the airport I showed no emotion at all. But I remember coming home that night and actually cried when I realised that he had left...

Or take another situation where another group of friends tried to play another practical joke on me (also related to the serious factor mentioned in the first paragraph) - I kept cool after knowing what they had to say; but I guess I was just filled with too much anger that I blurted out a hint of anger when I spoke to them about it...

I know right - I think I'm starting to consider myself as a fake/plastic girl. I tell them that I'm alright, but actually, I'm a little scarred underneath...

vraisemblablement

2009-10-15T20:02:00.003+08:00

Today during French, I came across a word that I didn't know shit how to pronounce...

vraisemblablement

Between Val and I - I can definitely say that it'll be a word that we will be repeating for a long time. Anyway, lately I've been pretty stressed. I've been counting down the days to My 18th not realising that just a day less, my Extended Essay will be due in. I got it back yesterday, and apparently, it's a load of crap. I have to work on changing my title again to suit what I've already written - at least this shows that I don't have much to edit in my body, except change a few things in my Abstract, Introduction and Conclusion. I so can't wait to hand it in and forget all about it! Then the next thing I would have to worry about is my TOK Presentations... Now I understand what the former IBers mean when this term is going to be a hectic one. Well, actually we have one less to worry about as last year, they had their English Oral commentaries this term, but apparently for us, ours will be next term right after MOCKS. But then the school decided to put Sports Day and Swimming Gala at the end of this term instead of the third term. This I don't mind though, because I love swimming (not the track and field events)...

After school was yet another Dance lesson for my Cotillion members - only 2 more practices left before the event!!! Should I be excited or nervous? Sister Jas says that I should be excited, and so does Nabilah Amdani :) - and she even called me a retard :P

2009-10-13T19:56:00.001+08:00

you should know better than to play with my feelings...

At times I feel like it's going to be empty without... But at times I just feel like I'm glad it's all going to be over. All the headaches and sorrows I've been facing the past month. At times I feel I'm not going to enjoy the night at all. At times I just feel like quitting... It's getting too much to handle. But overall, I am REALLY REALLY excited/nervous :D

it doesn't seem right

2009-10-10T14:27:00.002+08:00

it doesn't seem right...

I feel that I have such a free weekend, but I'm in IB. This is HIGHLY impossible! Anyway, it has been quite a dreary week for me... I hope it'll all come to an end soon. But I seriously cannot face this person in the face right now. My patience level with this person is nearly all used up. But what to do... I just keep it all inside, and I think that's what's making me fill up with all this anger inside of me. And I feel like I'm taking it out on everyone else which is unfair. I should be taking it out on that specific person. But knowing that person... I don't think I can do it.

Anyway, seeing as I've been finding myself some free weekend time, I've used this opportunity to finalise my Debutante plans. I've already finalised the costings and hirings for my Videographers as well as waiting on for the designs to arrive for my banner... I've also finalised the menu and the centre piece decorations for the event. Right now, I'm putting together the music to be played at certain parts of the event as well as putting together songs for the open dance floor!

Too bad I wasn't in a jolly mood when I was doing all this. But anyhoo, back to work!

toodles♥

anger overload

2009-10-07T15:28:00.002+08:00

anger overload

Ignoring the title for now... I'm damning that Calculus Test to hell! Hated it so much that I wished I could just rip it up into tiny little pieces. Anyway, results will be out either tomorrow or Monday depending on how quick of a marker Mr. Bello is. But I have a gut feeling we'll be getting it back tomorrow. Oh the horror!

Putting aside that horrible horrible test was another test that took place today - ITGS. Well, it wasn't too much of a horror like the Calculus Test, but let's just say I just couldn't be bothered? Well okay, I really just wanted to skip part a, b and c and just get on with the essay question worth 10 marks... I don't know when we'll get this test back - but I'm definitely sure not tomorrow...

Anyway, putting aside all the school stress comes another type of stress that I will not post on this post... Just so that the people I am actually going to talk about don't read it and well yeah, you get the drift. All I can say that as of this time, I am seriously, seriously annoyed. So annoyed with a capital 'A' that I can just scream. But no, I've been keeping the anger inside of me, only because I don't know who to scream at. Valerie - I think you'd know what I am talking about here. I kind of mentioned it to you in school...

Anyway, I'm so not in the mood to be writing a post now... So I shall head off...

toodles♥

overwhelming isn't it?

2009-10-05T16:39:00.004+08:00

Okay, you can't really see my blog titles, but this post is titled:

overwhelming isn't it?

Seriously, I so cannot wait until IB is done and over with! I'm just really, really, really tired. Yet I cannot she the logic in how a person who is undergoing the cert programme can complain about too much work... Let me show you the difference:

Similarity:

1. Both parties go to the same school from 7:15am - 2:00pm (differs on different days) and have the same subject choices...

Difference:

1. IB diploma students take 3 Higher Level subjects & 3 Standard Level subjects. Cert programme have the choice of taking 6 Standard Level subjects but can decide which from the 6 they want to drop, making them only have 5 Standard Level subjects in total.

2. IB diploma students HAVE to do a 4,000 word essay, also known as the excruciating EE, whilst Cert students DON'T have to do it.

3. IB diploma students HAVE to do a TOK Presentation and a 1,500 word TOK Essay. Cert students ONLY have to do a TOK Presentation.

4. Generally speaking, Cert Students have more free periods than IB diploma students. (Not to specifically name anyone - this Cert student can have only 1 subject a day while IB students would have at minimum 2-3 subjects a day)...

I can't pinpoint anymore differences, but as you can see... They have an easier life than we IB diploma students do, so don't go complaining about work!!!

toodles♥

Back after 7 months...

2009-10-03T20:39:00.003+08:00

Wow.

It has definitely been a while since I've last updated my blog. Frankly speaking, the reason is because of IB? - Maybe, but there is also another reason - I just think that people don't read my blog? So I guess the question of 'why bother?' comes to mind whenever I 'try' to write a post. What provoked me today? I visited a blog - one of my dear friends, and I was astonished by how she can write in her blog every single day!

Anyway, this will probably only be temporary as yes, IB is really kicking in and it's going to make me hurl at some point. But right now, I'm still not feeling the pressure - and I don't know whether that is a good thing or not.

November is definitely going to be a stressful month for me as first to start the month we have Extended Essays due (which is like a mini Uni thesis of 4,000 words).

Following the due date of that is my Debutante's Ball which I will be celebrating with a big bang!

Following that, on the day of my birthday (which falls on a Monday this year) Math IA's will be given out.

On the 14th & 15th I will be performing at the Empire Theatre for a Charity Show hosted by Ballet Regina. All proceeds will go to Pusat Eshan.

Then following that will be the 23rd which my Maths IA will be due in, followed by another big due date for my Design & Technology major design project.

And following that will be TOK Presentations in December! Good thing they took out IOCs - which means one less of a thing to worry about... Because on top of all that - ISB had decided to move Sports Day and Swimming Gala to the end of term 1 instead of end of term 3. But I quite like Swimming Gala - only because I know I am good at it...

toddles♥

DAVID'S AT MALL OF ASIA!

2009-03-24T18:43:00.002+08:00

OMG! I can't believe I'm going to miss this event!

To know that I am in Philippines and hearing this on my spring vacay is friggen' annoying!

I'm so gonna get someone to help me get his autograph! - David Archuleta of course ♥

ADAM LAMBERT

2009-03-12T20:31:00.002+08:00

ADAM LAMBERT♥

- baby, you're definitely my number 1 ;).

but David Archuleta is my ∞

2009-03-07T22:33:00.000+08:00

Hello people! Yes, I’ve decided to blog for once since I haven’t been in a LONG time (excluding the idea that I’ve been posting Songs of the Month by David Archuleta).

Speaking of David Archuleta, it’s whack really – or could it be faith? I remember when Brittany and I were over at Ms. Hancox’s place, we were watching hitz while waiting for the videos to download into the Mac book. And I said “I hope they play David Archuleta’s song now...” Then when the current song that was on ended, David Archuleta’s Crush popped out! Nakakakilig talaga! Haha. And then, the same thing happened again yesterday while watching hitz too – but this time with my sister. I was like, “I want David Archuleta...” Then POP! There he was again – my sister called me a witch though thinking that I had some magic power or something.

And Speaking of David Archuleta again, American Idol Season 8 just announced their Top 12! Well, 13 and I will tell you how it got there – unless you’re an AI fanatic like me, then you’d know what happened, so for the sake of time, I just won’t explain it. (When you’re in IB – the whole world stop revolving around you – and instead revolves ‘round pens, papers & books)

You can head on over to http://www.rickey.org to get the latest hots and goss on American Idol and other reality shows. My picks on this year’s Season 8:

Danny Gokey

Adam Lambert

I think that Danny has a really good voice and that Adam’s HOT! Okay, I didn’t just pick Adam because he’s hot – but because he’s AWESOME too! His rendition of “Superstition” really made me feel that I was watching an Adam Lambert concert rather than American Idol – yes Paula I was thinking the same as you too on that night! I’m so glad that Tatiana del Toro is out – she’s so OA man. And! I think I’m starting to grow on Jorge Nuñez too!

Alright, enough American Idol for now – I will definitely be watching EVERY week but depends if I can write up about it like how I did for last season. I’ll try :) Maybe short summaries than long paragraphs like last year; anyway... IB Life? Well, I’ve had 3 consecutive long weekends, this weekend to be the last of the 3rd – last week’s weekend, even though long, was really tiring. And this is how the story goes:

BGIC VII

Day 1: Lobbying Day

Day 1 commenced at around 2:30PM where delegates; both local and overseas gathered at the ISB Hall for a welcoming speech from Ms. Wong and fellow Secretary Generals and Parliamentarians. This year for BGIC, I wanted to know what it would be like to be behind the scenes and so I opted as a videographer for the ISB reporting team along with my colleague, Brittany. After filming the opening remarks at the hall, the delegates went into their committee rooms and started their action plans. Brittany and I spent half of the day going from committee room to committee room capturing a glimpse of the whole day. When we had captured enough footage to create the first day, we asked Ms. Hancox – head of technology team to assist us in using the Mac book to edit and create movies. It wasn’t hard to learn, and in 10 minutes, we were able to get the hang of it and do things ourselves. We had fun, watching what we had captured and not to mention, point out some very good looking males (which did not distract us from our work by the way). By 6:00PM we were done with editing and all that was left to do was the dinner and then home!

Day 2: Opening Ceremony

Delegates started arriving by 7:00AM awaiting the arrivals of our Guest Speakers Nathan Chasing Horse and Adrian Lasimbang as well as our Royal Patron, Princess Sarah. We had seats reserved for us on the left hand side of the stage, but then, reporters from the government rudely placed their video camera in front of ours that had been set up already. With no other choice but to move because they were ‘more important’ than the host school – we had to move to the other side of the stage where there were no seats for us. What a day to wear heels – I stood for the whole hour and a half and I could feel my toes pinching. What agony! The Opening Ceremony commenced as soon as Princess Sarah arrived, kicking off with a speech from Mr. David G. Taylor, the Executive Principal of ISB. Following Mr. Taylor’s speech was the Choir and the Orchestra with a performance. After a splendid presentation by the music team, Nathan Chasing Horse approached the stage and enthralled us by his speech as well as his beautiful singing which had me speechless and in tears. Adrian Lasimbang then took the stage with his speech followed on by the colourful Haka Dance by students, parents and teachers. It was a beautiful performance that will remain hard to forget as the highlight of the Opening Ceremony along with Nathan Chasing Horse’s singing. Princess Sarah then took the stage and declared open for the seventh time running, Borneo Global Issues Conference. Speeches from the Secretary Generals were made next as Princess Sarah left the ICC. Refreshments were then served followed by opening speeches in committee rooms.

Brittany and I went from room to room, filming a few opening speeches and even started filming some debates. Lunch was then served after which Ms. Hancox brought us over to her house to edit the videos so that we could actually hear what was being edited. By 4:00PM, she sent us back to the ICC where we were then picked up by our parents. That same day, my friends and I went out to have a night out – dinner and arcade where we saw the Mall swamped with BGIC Delegates like insects.

Day 3: Panelling

Today was panelling session with the guest speakers where questions we posed towards them. As usual, Brittany and I did our thing – we pretended to be invisible and just do our job. We couldn’t be shy whenever we were just to randomly go to the front of the stage, or even onstage just to get the best angle shots. It wasn’t a lot of work, but in the end it was tiring – the filming was fine; it was the editing that became too much of a pain. Since we weren’t able to complete the Opening Ceremony videos the day before, we spent at most 5 hours in front of the computer trying to edit and hour’s worth of videos. Getting up early on a Sunday morning too didn’t help at all. Day 3 was tiring in a sense that we spent the whole day in front of the computer.

Day 4: General Assembly

Day 4 commenced with the General Assembly where Committees were now split up by Forums. The usual routine went about as Brittany and I went around into both Forums taking shots of the event from different angles – 10 minutes of each Forum was enough after which we headed back to the banquet hall to do more editing. It was safe to say that Brittany and I were able to finish editing the all the videos and hour early before BGIC was to end. We spent that hour just watching the rest of the debates. However, it isn’t safe to say that our job was done – there was still the after party to film. It was that bad, we worked for 10 minutes when Ms. Hancox decided to take the video camera off us and let us have the fun we were meant to have.

Though BGIC was over in a flash – our job wasn’t. We had to report back to school the next day (when everyone else got the day off) and finish editing the last part of the video which was to include the after party shots. We only spent about 45 minutes so it wasn’t too bad.

Yesterday has swimming lessons as usual with my sister and Nisa. Also today was quite nice since we had Nur (3rd person from the right from the picture above) join the team! Coach said he’ll train her so that she could beat Nisa. And I was like “What about me?” Then coach said, “No one can beat you.” LOL – for our swimming group that is – I bet there are loads more (especially from the competitive group that can beat me :S)

Let’s travel back to the present shall we? Today – I woke up late for once in my life! As in, woke up late for something I had to go too. Let’s see... Supposed to be at the Studio for Pilates at 8:30AM; I woke up at 8:15AM – oh gosh I said to myself. I ran around the house like a mad woman and still managed to get ready in 2 minutes (brushing teeth, getting changed plus a drink of water) and ZOOM off we were to Kiarong. Surprisingly, we made it to the studio 3 minutes before lesson time. It was so tiring seriously. And so, after a LOT of bone cracking, I here at home blogging while a batch of cookies is sitting in the oven while I also gobble down on the first batch – délicieux! C’est très magnifique!

Speaking of French – I have a piece of assignment in which I have to choose a really bizarre job (I think Mdm. Barrett meant in terms of jobs that we would never imagine doing) and prepare a presentation to convince her, and the rest of the class as to why they should take up the job. I chose to do MASCOTS! Haha and I told my mom about this, and guess what she suggested? She suggested that I go to Jollibee and interview their Mascot so that I could get primary information. I think her idea is great to be honest – shows that I can go further beyond the Internet and stop relying on technology.

Now – I am totally blank. I don’t think I’m going to attend tennis lessons today. Too much work to do. School + house work – yes, I am one of those lucky people that don’t actually have a maid to do the work for me. And while I’m on the topic of tennis – I think I’ll be stopping soon because I think it’s taking up too much of my time which could be dedicated to my school work.

Year 12 Mocks in less than a month!

And Philippines in less than a month = SHEY♥

Hope I haven’t kept you reading my blog for too long – toodles!

ps: I ♥ D.

(Britt – I need a nickname for him :P)

2009-03-03T20:32:00.000+08:00

Song of the Month

David Archuleta - Touch My Hand

2009-02-20T11:14:00.002+08:00

February 14th Update

I came across this just a few days ago and I've been wanting to share it with you guys.

It's such a nice song, and I hope you'll like it just as much as I do.

Everytime I listen to it, it makes me smile and think about all the things that I am blessed to have.

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Buy the song now!

http://www.buildabear.com/shop/produc...

Available until March 4th.

Support David and Save the Children. :-)

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2009-02-14T22:06:00.002+08:00

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! ♥

Photo: Ally & Azeera @ Valentine's Disco (Friday 13th Fenruary 2009).

FERBUARY

2009-02-01T20:34:00.002+08:00

HEY HEY HEY! It's FERB-uary (yes, according to Disney Channel) Ho-boy I so cannot wait to watch back-to-back episodes of Phineas & Ferb this month - and of course all new episodes! SHAZAMMM! I'm uber happy...

Anyway, update? Nothing much happened actually since my last post.

OMFG OMFG OMFG!

Like coupla weeks ago I watched David Archuleta's new video on youtube titled "A Little Too Not Over You" and I melted. Actually, I was looking for that song to have Kimmy to listen to - I didn't know I would stumble across his video. HAHA. Then like on Saturday, they aired it for the first time on MTV, #15 on Chart Attack yo! And I literally jumped and flew off my chair, screaming my head off as I jumped up and down in front of the television screen - yes, I am THAT obsessed. So kill me for being so, HAHA.

Anyway... I'm going to do this for the whole year since he has 12 songs on his current album:

♫ Song of the month ♫

A Little Too Not Over You

rain rain go away

2009-01-21T20:33:00.004+08:00

This is definitely worth something to post about.

Where shall I start? Over the past few days (weeks?) bah, days - Its been down pouring all day and all night until results finally showed today.

Last night - whoa, ubber rainfall (Brittany didn't know 'cos she was in a terrible, deep sleep). I mean, you know, I thought the rain was like all other rains we've had in Brunei - but this one really showed its colours.

Apparently, the rain last night resulted in:

Flooded roads/houses/landslides - and when i say flooded, as in knee height flood for houses; roads - like how to say this... DROWNING already (5 metres-ish?) However tall the tunnel was at the big roundabout in Gadong.
Closed school - no complaints here but the Geography, History, DT and Art Rooms were all flooded and no electricity throughout campus, so we were dismissed from school early.
Flooded drainages & worse - Flooded powerstations! - Result? No electricity for 3 days! I am freakishly one of the lucky people that actually do have electricity in my home!
People died - or well, that's what I heard. I'm serious.
Houses collapsed - no kidding here too.
People seeking shelter in other people's houses that do have electricity - my uncle, auntie and niece are coming over soon...

Brunei is getting scary! And to think that I live in a low-land area ~ ah blessed oversized drains. Though this rain seems to have caused a lot of damage - I seriously wish that school will be closed tomorrow. I am in no mood to go out!

Oh well - seems pretty dismal huh? Well - Siti, Val and I made use of the blackout day we've had today. Since we were dismissed early, we all went to Siti's house to discuss our self-initiated CAS activity and like just hang around and about. Later, Jeff text messaged and told us that the people from the boarding house were all going over to the RBA Club, and he invited us to come with. So yeah, we came but didn't swim. After that, I came home to blessed airconditioning. Ah yes - and a TV. LOL. That was pretty much our blackout day out ;).

I shall post pictures on facebook... SOON.

♥

To end, I said this to most of my friends:

"Results of Global Warming."

And one more thing...

HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY ADAM H. !!!

random.

2009-01-14T13:30:00.001+08:00

Ally is excited yet feeling so down in the dumps.

Will update later.
In DT class.
Yeah - I just broke one of my New Years Resolutions :P.

G-string

2009-01-04T13:49:00.002+08:00

I had no plans of blogging today, but since this is OH-SO funny, I just had to share it with you guys!

Yesterday 5PM-ish I got a text message -

Ethan: AH! I just broke my G-string! Damn. Is your G still okay? Mind pulling it out? XD.

Ally: Hey yeah, I'll bring my G-string along - sounds wrong ;).

Ethan: You ah. The G-String for violin is... Gonna be used by me. I forgot to tune my violin after I got the sound post fixed...

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Sounds so wrong doesn't it? HAHA!

random post

2009-01-02T20:33:00.006+08:00

Sigh...

I miss my long hair.

Uber random ain't it? Well... It get's random-er so carry on!

I was just blog hopping a few minutes ago when I came across this on one of my friend's post:

('friend' shall be left unknown :P)

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RULES

#1 Do the “Letter MEME”.

#2 Tag no less than 5 other people, and leave them a comment, informing them that they have been tagged.

#3 Copy the “How-to” Letter Meme, and finish your Journal entry.

How you do the Letter Meme:

Dear (the last person who left a comment on your blog):

I don’t really know how to tell you this, but __1__. I think I realised it when/on __2__3__ and I saw __4__5__. I’m sure you’re __6__ enough to understand __7__. I’m returning __8__ to you, but I’ll keep __9__ as a memory. You should also know that I __10__11__. __12__.

Love, (your name).

P/S: You’re so lifeless, __13__ (the name of person who tagged you).

1. What’s the colour of your shirt?
Blue - Our romance is over
Red - Our affair is over
White - I’ll join the monastery
Black - I dislike you
Green - Our horoscope doesn’t match
Grey - You’re a pervert
Yellow - I’m selling myself
Pink - Your nostrils are insulting
Brown - The mafia wants you
No shirt - You’re a loser
Other - I’m in love with your sister

2. Which is your birth month?
January - That night
February - Last year
March - When your dwarf bit me
April - When I tripped on sesame seeds
May - First of May
June - When you put cuffs on me
July - When I threw up
August - When I saw the shrunken head
September - When we skinny dipped
October - When I quoted Santa
November - When your dog ran amok
December - When I changed tennis shoes

3. Which food do you prefer?
Tacos - In your apartment
Pizza - In your camping car
Pasta - Outside of Chicago
Hamburgers - Under the bus
Salad - As you ate enchilada
Chicken - In your closet
Kebab - With Paris Hilton
Fish - In women’s clothing
Sandwiches - At the Hare Krishna graduation
Lasagna - At the mental hospital
Hot dog - Under a state of trance
None of the above - With George Bush and his wife

4. What’s the colour of your socks?
Yellow - Hit on
Red - Insult
Black - Ignore
Blue - Knock out
Purple - Pour syrup on
White - Carve your initials into
Grey - Pull the clothes off
Brown - Put leeches on
Orange - Castrate
Pink - Pull the toupee off
Barefoot - Sit on
Other - Drive out

5. What’s the colour of your underwear?
Black - My best friend
White - My father
Grey - Bill Clinton
Brown - My fart balloon
Purple - My mustard soufflé
Red - Donald Duck
Blue - My avocado plant
Yellow - My penpal in Ghana
Orange - My Kid Rock-collection
Pink - Manchester United’s goalkeeper
None - My John F. Kennedy-statue
Other - The crazy monk

6. What do you prefer to watch on TV?
Scrubs - Man
O.C. - Emotional
One Tree Hill - Open
Heroes - Frostbitten
Lost - High
House - Scared
Simpsons - Cowardly
The news - Mongolic
Idol - Masochistic
Family Guy - Senile
Top Model - Middle-class
None of the above - Ashamed

7. Your mood right now?
Happy - How awful I’ve felt
Sad - How boring you are
Bored - That Santa doesn’t exist
Angry - That your pimples are at the last stage
Depressed - That we’re cousins
Excited - That there is no solution to this
Nervous - The middle-east
Worried - That your Honda sucks
Apathetic - That I did a sex-change
Ashamed - That I’m allergic to your hamster
Cuddly - That I get turned on by garbage men
Over joyous - That I’m open
Other - That Extreme Home Makeover sucks

8. What’s the colour of your walls in your bedroom?
White - Your ring
Yellow - Your love letters
Red - Your Darth Vader-poster
Black - Your tame stone
Blue - The couch cushions
Green - The pictures from LA
Orange - Your false teeth
Brown - Your contact book
Grey - Our matching snoopy-bibs
Purple - Your old lottery coupons
Pink - How awful I’ve felt
Other - Your memories from the military service

9. The first letter of your first name?
A/B - Your photo
C/D - The oil stocks
E/F - Your neighbour Martin
G/H - My virginity
I/J - The results of your blood-sample
K/L - Your left ear
M/N - Your suicide note
O/P - My common sense
Q/R - Your mom
S/T - Your collection of butterflies
U/V - Your criminal record
W/X - David’s tricot outfits
Y/Z - Your grades from college

10. The last letter in your last name?
A/B - Always thought of
C/D - Never will forget
E/F - Always wanted to break
G/H - Never openly mocked
I/J - Always have felt dirty before
K/L - Will tell the authorities about
M/N - Told in my confession today about
O/P - Was interviewed by the Times about
Q/R - Told my psychiatrist about
S/T - Get sick when I think of
U/V - Always will try to forget
W/X - Am better off without
Y/Z - Never liked

11. What do you prefer to drink?
Water- Our friendship
Beer - Senility
Soft drink - A new life as a clone
Soda - The incarnation as an eskimo
Milk - The apartment building
Wine - Cocaine abuse
Cider - A passionate interest for mice
Juice - Oprah Winfrey imitations
Mineral water - Embarrassing rash
Hot chocolate - Eggplant-fetishism
Whisky - To ruin the second world war
Other - To hate the Boston Celtics

12. To which country would you prefer to go on a vacation?
Thailand - Warm regards
USA - Best regards
England - Good luck on your short-term leave from jail
Spain - Go and drown yourself
China - Disgusting regards
Germany - With ease
Japan - Go burn
Greece - Your everlasting enemy
Australia - Greetings to your frog Leonard
Egypt - Fuck off now
France - In pain
Other - Greetings to your freaky family

13. What is your favourite activity when hanging out with mates?
Gathering for drinks – Ugly pig
Foosball – Silly duck
Shopping – french kisser
Indulging for food – Cranky banana
Movies – Smelly Armpits
Snacks – Horny Wolf
Snooker – Tiny nipples
Bowling – Sexy grandmother
Outdoor activities – Vain pot
Having a long talk – Nose picker
Taking pictures – Dumb bitch
Other – Burn yourself

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Dear Adam:

I don’t really know how to tell you this, but our romance is over. I think I realised it when your dog ran amok with George Bush and his wife and I saw you pull the clothes off Manchester United’s goalkeeper. I’m sure you’re masochistic enough to understand that Santa doesn’t exist. I’m returning how awful I’ve felt to you, but I’ll keep your photo as a memory. You should also know that I was interviewed by the Times about Oprah Winfrey imitations. Your everlasting enemy,

Love, Ally.

P/S: You’re so lifeless, dumb b*tch, ‘friend’.

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For all I care, anyone can do this if they want - I'm not tagging anoyone :).

2009!!

2009-01-01T17:02:00.003+08:00

Song of the Month:

David Archuleta - Crush

View of fireworks from my house - edited.

Happy New Year 2009!

2008 is the new 2009

2008-12-31T19:52:00.000+08:00

2008 is out and 2009 is finally in!

Wow – another year flew by that quick! It’s starting to seem like it’s getting more depressing – I mean, it’s not like how it used to be with all the fireworks and rejoicing celebrations. For us, the traditional Christmas Spirit seemed lost and my enthusiasm seems to have wandered deep into the murky forest. Oh well – I guess that’s life. Nothing new there! Anyway, so I’m dedicating this post for New Years Resolutions (if I am sure to stick to them for 2009); Recaps of memorable dates in 2008 and practically whatever comes to mind I guess?

Shall I start of with New Years Resolutions? They are in no particular order:

Academics

STUDY HARDER (I’m going to definitely need it)
Pump up English grades
Try to be more enthusiastic in French – and stop spending HOURS on homeworks that Mdm. Barrett sets
Strive to find myself in Art
Stop blogging during DT lessons *wink*
Work harder in Maths – I know I’m going to need it when we touch up upon calculus and other hard stuff
Do more background reading for ITGS and practise answering long answer questions
Listen to Mr. Holmes during TOK lessons – which I haven’t been doing over the past Term
Cut down on CAS activities but at the same time try to finish the hours before Summer
Think of EE topics
Prepare whole heartedly for Year 12 Mocks in May/June 2009
Get through Year 12 by Summer 2009

Personal

Stick to my 2009 resolutions
Keep my faith in God and make it stronger
Balance my time equally between studies, family and social life
**LOSE WEIGHT!**
Be more active through Sports like Swimming and Tennis
Try to make better use of Summer Vacation (I threw my 2008 Summer away – regret doing so)
TRY not to get distracted by any boys (I’ll wait until I finally move out of Brunei)
Make up with any one I have fought with
Become: a better daughter to my parents; a better sibling to my sisters and a better person towards my peers
Stick to my 2009 resolutions

Others – (they are classified under here as I know that these would be the most unlikely things to happen over 2009)

Finally meet by big sister Jasmin – still waiting for this faithful day to come
Become David Archuleta’s girlfriend and life partner – I wish – okay seriously, I just want to meet him :)♥.
Travel to Alaska *fingers crossed for 2010*

I think that’s all – if there are anymore that I can think of, I shall update this list. IN the mean time, I shall get cracking onto my recaps of 2008:

January:

1: 2008!
3: YEAR 11 MOCKS

February:

14: Valentine’s Day
Mid-Feb END OF MOCKS

March:

4: Alyssa’s Birthday

April:

3: Daddy’s Birthday

May:

1: Mom’s Birthday
9: DAVID ARCHULETA DAY♥
10: START OF IGCSES
Exams the whole month :(

June:

10: END OF IGCSES – BEGINNING OF SUMMER VACATION
13: Year 11 PROM NIGHT
Outing/Chick Flick Marathon with Chicas

July:

Nabilah Armani left :(

August:

Shey Robson left :(
Mid August: IGCSE Results out
20: END OF SUMMER VACATION – START OF IB
22-24: Camp Weekend at Temburong

September:

15: Premier of David Archuleta’s Single - CRUSH♥

October:

Shazriah Shazali left :(

November:

3: Jaja’s Birthday
7: Celebrated my 17^th Birthday with friends, water balloons and luscious barbeque at my house
9: MY 17^TH BIRTHDAY
11: David Archuleta’s Album out! ♥
14: Papa’s and Shey’s Birthday

(I miss the bashes we used to hold week after week that Jav, Shey and I would hold)

28-29: HMS Pinafore / Ballet Regina Concert

December:

22: Outing with Kimmy, Siti & Val
23-27: Family Getaway to Kota Kinabalu
28: HAPPY 18^TH BIRTHDAY DAVID ARCHULETA♥
30: Chick Flick Marathon with Amirah & Hui Yen
31: BBQ with FAMILY + FIRECRACKERS!!

HELLO 2009!

The New Me!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID ARCHULETA

2008-12-28T17:24:00.002+08:00

Roadtrip to KK

2008-12-23T04:38:00.002+08:00

It is currently 5 minutes to 5AM and I'm freezing to bits. Okay, you're all probably thinking what the heck I am doing up at 5 in the morning on a School Holiday...

And the story begins...

I woke up to the sweet beckoning of my alarm clock at 4 in the morning. I say sweet because David Archuleta's song Crush was my oh-so sweet wakening to :). Anyway, I sat in bed singing to his song when all of a sudden, the white light sliced through my eyeballs. It was piercing. Anyway, my shower didn't help since the heater decided to conk out - no hot water! What luck; thus why I am currently freezing... I demanded hot milo after my shower, but my toes are still ice cold. We hopped into the car - me in my very epensive ($70), yet very comfy white jacket from a store called 'tits n asses' in Vancouver. Yes, I did say I was in the car - blogging through my phone as Womanizer plays on the radio - up beat song got the family awake. The roads are clear and quiet - not a car in sight. And here we are soon to pull up at the Kuala Lurah boarder - the first stage of our 6 hour road trip to KK. Oh funness! I wasn't being sarcastic there. Anyway, I'll stop here... My thumbs are getting numb. This should be a good 5 minutes of wasting your time ;). I'll blog soon -- like maybe when we've reached Temburong? That should bring back good memories!

no title.

2008-12-09T21:38:00.005+08:00

So yeah...

David Archuleta's Crush played on MTV this morning which made me realise how much I love him *droopy eyes* I KNOW - I'M OBSESSED! SO LIVE WITH IT HATERS.

I shall update this rather random post - tomorrow maybe. I haven't quite sorted out what I was originally going to put in this post... So wait up! :D.

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Okay - so here is the rest of my post.

I bet you guys have been wondering what this post is going to be about...

Well... I'm going to be listing out my 'things to do' for this holiday:

Travel to ALASKA and when there:
Embark on the icy slopes
Be adorned by the breath taking, mountainous views
Eat lots of lip-smacking delicacies
Be waited on by gorgeous hunks (oh yeah!)
Find my soul mate♥

The other alternative...

Stay in Brunei
Hang out with friends
Catch up on movies
Exercise?
Have a 'chick flick' marathon with my chicas
Go to KK for Christmas
Have a Happy New Year!!
Do Holiday Homework

Seriously - you do NOT want to know how much work I have up my sleeves this holiday... French (oh dear), ITGS, Art, DT, CAS... Help me!!

SCHOOL IS OUT!

2008-12-08T16:24:00.006+08:00

FINALLY AFTER GRUELLING WEEKS OF SCHOOL

THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS ARE HERE!

Well - I wouldn't actually call it a holiday...

Oh yes, I would NEVER call it a holidays when you know you've got this truck loads of work following behind. I guess with IB nothing is ever going to be easy. I mean, come on! It's Christmas! Now I wouldn't mind 'Christmas-related' work, but no siree!

Anyway, it had been a hectic last week for me...

Insomnia and stuff - some for no reason at all...

And for others... I just don't even want to say it.

Come 2 weeks before, a certain someone (who shall be left unnamed) and I had this petty fight. He called me immature and claimed that he was just joking around. Who in the world claims it was a joke when he used a serious tone and just walks off after sayi

ng it? It just pisses me off. Caught him bitching about me too last Wednesday was it? Yeah, around that time, last week of school. I don't know yet if I'm going to forgive him... We'll just have to wait and see...

Another hetic story of my life begins here:

It was Tuesday 2nd December 2008 where the hard work

began... Well not really - it started over the weekend really where I had just really pulled myself together after some 'misunderstandings' - well, that's what I thought it was at least. Anyway, I was busy working on my assignments over the weekend that were due that last week of school.

Anyway - here it goes. There I was on a Monday night at the dining room table completing my Art Project ready for presentation on Tuesday. I had a sleepless night that day - but it wasn't about the presentation that I was worried about. I was more worried about getting my visual arts diary up to date. Tuesday came and already I was a bit stressed out AFTER my art presentation. Seriously, I actually thought my artworks would lead me into the right direction - I mean, at least I knew that it would. But Mr. Peacocke didn't think of it that way which annoyed me to the max. Now I'm going to have to find myself again after he sank my passion of Photography down the sewerage. After art - more troubles came. This time he WON'T be unnamed. He's been too much of a promise-breaker to not mention him. Anyway, ITGS lesson came and last Friday, Shawn and I were paired up. We decided to do 2 sections each for our presentation topic on Film that we were to present the following day. Okay, so I was actually paired up with Shawn because he was leaving the following day and Ms. Hancox knew I could handle giving presentations alone. By the end of the lesson, Shawn comes up to me and says that he hasn't finished the other section and told me to do it. I gave him 'the look' and said to him: "I am already doing 2 sections as we promised we'd do, and the 2 topics that I am already doing are the hard, essay type ones!" So Shawn agreed that he'd TRY to complete his section before he's due to fly off on holiday.

So that night I waited. I text messaged him at around 4-ish asking for his part of the work. And he says: "Hey. I'm packing now. Chances are I can't do it. But if I have the chance to go online tonight, I'll meet you and do it. If not, I'll treat you to dinner when I get back."

WTF I thought to myself. And don't think that that was the last I heard from him - I kept bugging him for the other part of the work. It was the only thing missing at this point of time...

Shawn: "Hey! I could not do it. I had trouble packing and travel stuffs like passports. Are you in a hurry? I don't think I can do it by 9."

Ally: "If possible by 10 then? I'm staying up til 10pm just as long as you do it. Like don't make me stay up for you to tell me that you didn't do it."

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Ally: "Your work? It's 10pm."

Shawn: (At 10:30pm) "It's not done. I can't get it done. T.T"

Ally: "OMG Shawn. Get it done. I can't wait anymore. Send it to my email and I will open it up in school tomorrow before IT."

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Shawn: (The next day) "Leave it out. I can't get it done."

Seriously Shawn, I don't care if you're getting pissed if you're reading this blog - chances are anyway that you won't be reading it. At least in my own personal achievement, I was able to expose your 'true' devious nature. I can't believe you let me down...

Anyway what a hassle, NEVER again am I going to work with you Shawn. Moving on, that wasn't the only hectic moment I experienced - beside the fact that he made me stay up pissed me off - I still had other stuff to worry about which were my DT Egg Protector Project and TOK Presentation due on the same day --- Thursday.

Wednesday night I had another sleepless night doing my DT Project - I wasn't worrying much about TOK since Nyssa and I had finished it on Tuesday afterschool when I stayed back to complete it with her. Anyway, that night I wasn't able to complete everything - just the drawings and the writing up of my evaluation in that case. So even up til school I was working like a mad woman on my Project. Finally I had it done before lunch break was over and handed it over to Mr. Baird. Next up came TOK where Mr. Holmes pushed our TOK Presentations to the first week back after the holidays... Oh la... Making us work hard for nothing. Oh well, I guess it's for the best - that way Nyssa and I can find other stuff to put into our Presentation - that is, if we even have the fricking time on top of our other holiday homework assignments...

Anyway - where was I? Oh yes... Friday... dare I say anything about Friday? Well, the hard work was over by then...

Saturday the usual Tennis lessons where I learnt from Coach Then that I was like a rollercoaster. One week good, one week lazy... I guess I could also apply that to my daily life and not just Tennis XD.

OMG SORRY I JUST HAVE TO CUT HERE FOR A WHILE...

A CAR PULLED UP IN THE DRVIE-WAY...

AND GUESS WHAT?

IT WAS MY DAD BACK FROM INDONESIA!

WE HAD NO IDEA...

Anyway... Okay about that - It was just a really emotional time seeing as we've never seen each other since August and now he's here... So yes, where was I? Oh yeah - Sunday. Finally after a long, LONG time I was able to go out to the Mall and spend some quality family day fun. DANGER! Here comes Ally to the Mall! (Danger on my mom's wallet that is) I haven't been to Bingo in a while - and by doing so, I burnt a hole in my mom's and my wallet XD. I met Yesmean and Ann Lau at Bingo too :) Anyway, I shall leave you with pictures from the stuff I bought at Bingo (There were more but I couldn't be bothered to take a photo, mind you too I only had my phone at the time so quality ain't that good):

toodles♥

Blogging from Art...

2008-12-04T08:24:00.002+08:00

Secretly blogging during John's presentation

TOK LESSON

2008-11-27T12:50:00.007+08:00

Hello again...Yes, I think I am going to develop the habit of blogging while in a "FREE" class.

Well, we're supposed to be having TOK right now. Well, at least I am doing work...

Other than blogging. Nyssa is sitting right next to me and we finally came to a decision on what our TOK Presentation topic is going to be a

bout:

"How do we know we are acting in a 'good' and 'moral' way?"

Now we are kinda sruggling on words... Like how do we actually put into speech what we are going to discuss for our presentation.

Here are the lovely ladies posing for the camera (taking a break from 'thinking' too much):

That's supposed to be our TOK book by the way XD...

Yes a nice-r shot of the two of us :)

Ish - now we're seriously not doing

any work at the moment...

But hey, we got our topic already...

I bet others haven't yet to decide what they want to talk about for next week.

Okay, I'm going to turn my attention to Nyssa...

OKay, I was going to turn my attention to her to start our TOK work...

And we ended up taking pictu

res on her laptop

LIKE A LOT of pictures so I'll post one up? I'm waiting for Nyssa to send one photo to me...

And still waiting...

And still...

She scared me you know! Saying that she didn't save the photos...

But then I found them XD nyeeks!

Anyway, TOK period is almost up...

Nyssa's gonna be heading onto Malay while I'm gonna be meeting up with Valerie in the Library later for Free Period :D. So far I've had about 4 free's today hehe.

toodles♥

A blog by Siti...

2008-11-26T12:30:00.010+08:00

Hello hello...

Here we are, mucking about in the DT Room.

Lesson hasn't even started but we're just chilling out...

Nur with her egg and stuff...

I remember Ardyn saying to Mr. Baird yesterday...
"Do I have to be there when you drop my egg?"

Hilarious as Mr. Baird never in his life imagined that a student would ever say that to him ;)
Okay, I'm going to stop here... And let Siti write on my blog ;)
Our DT Lesson from her point of view :P.

okaysss..im sitiiiiii and now im blogging ally's. ermm im kinda blank..dont even know what to write but yeah ill try to put some stuff. =) anywayss..now we're just sitting down and people start doing their work i guess. and now we're starting HL & SL STUFF. "Green Design! something to do with environment.." sighhhhhhhhhh.

Ally~~ we should go out again..but wait for the rain ah. cause me and val want to run in the rain again. fun fun fun. we love and we eat hotdoggg. yum yum yum.. hehehee. and next time we have to take picture if we're in the rain.. xP heeee.

Now ill put some random pictures of ally, val, nur and siti!.. WAIT WAIT! before our picture ill show you andrew being vain. hahahaha. sorry ANDUU. im just bored and i have to force my self to put your picture in ally's blog xP heheeeeeeeeee.

This is Andrew : his First SHOT!

Second shot!

Before we start our D.T lesson we go crazy.

Busy week...

2008-11-25T11:09:00.002+08:00

I'm be having a busy week to come...
Tests, presentations, CAS activities, HOMEWORK, and of course my Social Life...

My sister has a ballet performance on the same day as HMS Pinafore (School Production)
Anyone who wants "FREE" tickets, come on and find me
*Limited tickets only...

2008-11-24T11:26:00.004+08:00

*Note to self: Photograph above taken about 5 minutes ago (during art period)

Seriously so bored... Even though I have like 3 projects due next week, and I've only completed one... :S DEAD MEAT - Not really, at least I know what I am doing lah ;).

Yeap, another blog entry just to keep you guys updated I guess.

Friday Night was Social Night... and my girls and I decided NOT to attend it...

But instead head on to Bandar for some of our own social time ;).

Siti, Val and I headed down to Bandar 'originally' to do our art project - taking photos of Kampong Ayer... But then at around 4 in the afternoon it started raining... And still it rained 'til night. So yeah, we just thought of heading down to Yayasan for a bit with high hopes that the rain would actually stop - but it didn't. Anyway, so we headed down to the arcade where we had guys 'psssst-ing' at us... Seriously, they need to get a life... It's starting to piss me off. We k-

boxed for a while and then went to the photo booth to get our pictures taken. We decided to head on over to this restaurant where we took overview pictures of Kampong Ayer (by night).

It was raining heavily, and we only had like one medium sized umbrella to keep us from getting wet... Result:

We had lots of fun though... Our hang-out at Bandar instead of Social Night at School...

And whoever said that School was the only SAFE place to be on that night? :P

We survived the rain...

toodles♥

BLOGGER, DT AND FACEBOOK

2008-11-19T13:15:00.006+08:00

BLOGGER, DT & FACEBOOK

Yes, this is what I am currently doing...

So bad of me, I mean, I've been doing this every DT lesson ever since I started bringing my own laptop into school - For DT lessons that is.

Mr. Baird just said that we did 2 hours of work in 45minutes!

OH LA LA! And still he says we're behind..

And that he should've started the year being a mean, grouchy person...

HAHA

This is what we are currently doing:

Topic 7: Evaluation

Wednesday 19^th November 2007; P7 & P8

7.1 Evaluation and Designing

Example: Canon Digital Camera

Performance – Does it perform functions well to a standard? – Like, vibration resistance.

Reliability – How long will it last? Will it malfunction when dropped in water?

Ease of Use – Is it user friendly? Can I find all the functions as is said on the manual?
Safety – Are there any exposed sharp materials?

Aesthetics – Small (pocket size), colour scheme, does it look cheap/expensive?

Materials – Is it durable?

Construction – How well is it put together?

Cost – Is it cheap/expensive?

And I am supposely chatting to Andrew as well :S

* Eight9one* Number Changed said:

haha

* Eight9one* Number Changed said:

what are you doing

äмcäямәn ♥ | aяch aηgəls | said:

what do you think?

äмcäямәn ♥ | aяch aηgəls | said:

you look back at me just now eh

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What to do next ah? Oh yeah, Mr. Baird is talking right now about costs? I'm not even listening...

So guess what? I better start listening!!!

toodles♥

2008-11-18T11:00:00.002+08:00

Andrew told me to blog...

SO HERE IT IS!!

- I'm so sorry... I'll blog better... Like over the holidays.

I've got just about 2 weeks of school left before December holidays kick in...

Hopefully by then I'll be able to write better blogs since I'll be 'sort of' free.

And I say 'sort of' becaue I have no doubt that there will be holiday homework

OH IBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB...

Draining the social life out of me

I will update the events that happened over the month of November...

Because it's MY MONTH :D.

toodles♥

2008-11-03T10:52:00.003+08:00

Hello peoples out there reading my blog...

Oh my gosh, I so cannot believe I haven't been updating a lot...

For starters, it's a so-called IB thing - Yes I have been packed with a lot f work.

And I should add to that that it has been MOSTLY French work...

Today I have also been loaded with French work -_-" It's getting on my nerves.

No like really - I have a 250word essay on eating habits, a grammar sheet on the 'imparfait' rules, reading exercises and exercises on pronouns... Can't it get any worse? Actually it can...

I'm currently in the school library, supposedly supposed to be doing my Art Research..

But look! I'm on blogger typing up this entry! Well actually I was reading someone's blog... And then I went to visit my blog. When I did... I saw this:

I was like, OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG repeatedly... And I started screaming my head off for all I know. Okay, okay, I wasn't screaming (since I am in the library at the moment) but gosh was my heart beating really, really, really, really fast!!! What a nice birthdya present for me (only a day late but I can manage). Actually, I think I might even go online at z100 JUST to chat to my baby - but then again I think there'll be like 500million other girls wanting to chat to him... Oh well, I'll see my mood on that Monday afternoon... OH MY GOSH :).

And if anyone out there is thinking... "Huh? Birthday present?" My birthday is coming up in less than a week :). Oh joy I'll be 17!!! Another year closer until I can legally drive and 2 year more 'til I can legally hit the clubs and casinos!!!

- I'm so looking forward to my 18th next year. Formal with a Cotellion and stuff...

Now how I dream that David Archuleta♥ could be my escort for that night...

Keep dreaming Ally~ Keep dreaming........

just another bad day...

2008-10-27T17:34:00.002+08:00

I just felt like writing today...

I don’t know why, but I’m feeling really sad today...

Maybe it’s the fact that I realised that even the closest of your friends can unintentionally hurt you. What am I saying – of course I have realised this like a long time back already! I don’t know, I was just in a really, really bad mood this morning... Could it be due to the fact that the sun hasn’t shined since Friday morn? Well, it’s not my place to blame Mother Nature for my gloomy mood. So I shall get to it, see, I was supposed to audition for ISB Singing Bees this afternoon. I was happy an excited! I even practised this particular song that I’ve wanted to sing the whole weekend... And along comes a spoiler to ruin the joy and excitement I had with me the whole weekend, thanks a lot... I know I shouldn’t be blaming anything/anyone for pulling me down because in the end it/they don’t matter. I still wanted to audition, but I was too much in a shitty mood to even do so... Sorry for such negative feelings – but I have nowhere to pour out my sadness to but my blog... I have already stopped myself from crying... Only because I came home to the voice and sight of David Archuleta♥ on MTV – yes, such wonders his smile can do to turn my frown the other way ‘round. I think I kind of displayed my ‘bitchy’ side towards English Class early morning, so I apologise to those who have witnessed my short, but sensitive outburst.

ps: I haven’t completely blown away all my misery, but I have smiled :).

Thank you David Archuleta♥ for making my day...

MID-TERM MADNESS

2008-10-10T14:51:00.004+08:00

Hey, hey to all! Well, I guess you should be happy to hear that I’ve decided to take a little break from my holiday homework and give you the insights of what I have been up to this mid-term. To save you the time... Pretty much nothing has been going on! But if you do want to read on, prepare yourself for a very long post! (Well, I guess it depends on how much depth I go into such events).

Okay let me start on last week Wednesday... It was supposed to be the beginning of Raya Holidays – but unfortunately they weren’t able to spot the moon which I think is ridiculous considering most Muslim countries celebrated Raya on that Wednesday. So unlucky for us, we had to go to school. It was alright actually – we didn’t do anything vigorous. And when I say vigorous I meant nothing mind challenging nor mind blowing! In ITGS we just continued on with the work our teacher had set us from last lesson. Maths, we continued on with our Math Investigation for about 30 minutes after which we played Math Bingo! In English we continued watching ‘Death of a Salesman’ which lead on to Lunch Break. My brothers were happy that there was school today for they get Wednesday treats from my mom – yes, yes, yes... Wednesday’s a keeper. Anyway after lunch break was DT, again nothing much but ‘doing’ stuff...

After school – yes, Nyssa and I were totally looking forward to this time because it’s TODDLER GROUP TIME! Meaning, we get to see our lovely little crush Daniel! Unfortunately there was no toddler group on that day. We were so upset! Well not really, for we got to goof around in school with Diana, Kristy, MayAnne, Tharindu and Valerie! Yeah... We had the whole school to ourselves – it was uttermost FUN :D.

LOVE♥

Thursday was a boring day – well to be honest I cannot remember what I did on Thursday. But then usually if I can’t remember what I have been doing on that day, means that I just stayed home being a pig I guess... How lady of me.

Friday and Saturday pretty much did the same thing which was to stay at home with of course my weekly touch to the sporty side of me – okay I have no idea if that made any sense, but what I meant to say was that I do sports on my weekends.

Friday – 2 hours of Swimming

Saturday – 2 hours of Tennis...

Sunday was a real tire for me, I had a lot of Raya invites but too bad I didn’t manage to go to all (well I only missed one of my invites). First of all, I went to Wana’s place with my family. It was so good to see Wana again! And boy do I love her house – I mean, it has a fricking elevator! I love the goldness of her house too... Oh and the lovely Apple Crumble that she helped her sister make. Simply divine. Well of course after we visited, we had to go move on to our next destination... Our neighbours house (my mom’s friend). They talked for a while and then we headed home for a rest. During this time I was texting Amirah asking if I could get a lift with her to Adam’s open house – well it ended up as me not being able to go because of some complication with timing and stuff... Oh well.

By 5:30pm, we were back on the road again and this time to Shaz’s open house in Jalan Jerudong where I met up with Amirah, Hui Yen and Valerie. We – or well, me rather... I ate a lot of food and on top of that, lots of kebabs as well. What can I say? She serves good food! After Shaz’s we headed on to another one of my Mom’s friends and then it was home sweet home to watch Camp Rock on Disney Channel – I’m not saying that I haven’t watched it before, I have, but I wanted to watch it again XD. LOL – I seriously don’t like Demi Levato, but who says I have to watch it because of her? Of course it’s for Joe Jonas! HAHA.

Bed time after that – was oh so tired.

Monday stayed home, watch TV, do homework...

Tuesday went to Nisa’s open house for lunch where I met up with Sheng, his sister and Nobuko. Ate some food of course while doing so, Nobuko was on Nisa’s wii trying to make Sheng. HAHA, it was so ugly I tell you. Sheng and I talked a bit about our favourite cartoon – Phineas and Ferb and how we said that they should definitely make a Phineas and Ferb Movie while his sister tried to get me to convince my Mom to hold cooking classes for her and her friends. When Nobuko was done on the wii, Sheng took his turn to make me – so not me! HAHA. Sadly I had to go, and when I left, MayAnne came. So unfortunate... But she had Sheng so it should’ve been alright for her ;).

Rested at home for a bit after which I headed on to Amirah’s house for a bit. No she did not have an open house – I just met up with her at her house to go to Adib’s open house. While having food we talked to him and Farah about the KK Trip which ended up to our weekend in Temburong when school began. Amirah and I had to live up to those experiences again by sharing our stories.

After that, Amirah, Farah and I headed on to the Airport to bid adieu to Shaz who was leaving to New Zealand for further studies. I cried a river for her. It was so sad to see yet another friend leaving...

Amirah then hitched a ride with me home – yeah I wanted to rape her. NO LAH! HAHA. We sent her home first, then dinner time for me at my house – duh!

Wednesday again – yes a week had past already and I did nothing once again but stay home and tried to complete a few more assignments – which I never did get to finish anyway. Too many distractions...

Thursday came around and the girls (Cheryl, Nyssa, MayAnne, Valerie and I) decided to meet up in school and do ‘work.’ HAHA. Yeah, do work seriously... Well you know just the fun of seeing each other while doing our work. Cheryl wasn’t able to make it though... But man it was funny... I guess. I mean, Nyssa and I were just sitting opposite each other and we still decided to communicate through our Facebook walls, stalking each other like “You and MayAnne are talking about moles.” HAHA – oh yes, and talking about this ‘haha’ thing in which we type it on walls and stuff but we aren’t actually laughing out loud... More or like, smiling... ;).

Anyway, it was fun getting to see friends in school where nothing is too pressured. Nyssa left first at around noon while the rest of us started leaving around 1pm. And I was back home again – bored as usual and doing my remaining homework assignments.

And look here! It’s Friday today! Yes – I will be pretty much at home for the morning and half of the afternoon where I will then head on to Swimming lessons from 4 – 6PM.

Yes, right now I’m going to predict the future...

Saturday I will be at the Tennis Courts with my lovely ladies from 1 – 4PM. After which I will be at Church with my Family and I will be as usual playing the Violin for the Choir...

Sunday I think... If I am not mistaken, be at home completing anymore unfinished assignments and practically bore myself out for the rest of the day...

Monday I will be waking up at 5:30AM again and jumpstarting myself for school... Oh joy...

Hope you enjoyed my incredibly not-so-long post.

Songs that have been stuck in my head:

Burnin’ Up – Jonas Brothers (2 days before yesterday)
When I Grow Up – Pussycat Dolls (The day before yesterday)
Fall For You – Secondhand Serenade (Yesterday)
7 Things – Miley Cyrus (Today)

I can’t believe Miley Cyrus’ 7 Things is stuck in my head, but I have to admit it is a pretty good song compared to her old Hannah Montana songs...

toodles♥!

Oh yes!

HAPPY 17^TH BIRTHDAY MIKKO! :).

OCTOBER!!

2008-10-01T20:23:00.002+08:00

IT’S OCTOBER BABY!!!

Yes – I am currently suffering from partial heart attacks from the on going firecrackers here around my street... But all is well, I’m not going to die. So drown in your sorrows haters!!! :P.

I was seriously so pissed off last night when I heard that today wasn’t going to be a school holiday – tsk tsk. I didn’t want to wake up this morning but my mom came in to wake me at 5:30am. I think I stayed in bed for like another 10 minutes or so until she came in again to get me out of bed... Sigh. But nonetheless, today turned out to be a really fun day anyway (after school that is). Diana, Kristy, MayAnne, Nyssa, Tharindu, Valerie & I stayed back supposedly to do “Toddler Group” but apparently there wasn’t any. So we stayed ‘til 4-ish and played around at the library, ICT room and the IB common room.

MID-TERM BABY!!!

Let’s see I shall:

Travel to ALASKA
~~Take lots of scenery photos of my trip~~
~~Sit back and relax while enjoying a cup of Earl Grey Tea with Crumpets on the balcony of my chalet in Alaska~~
Stay in Brunei...
Do my holiday homework
Be a geek and try to learn all the Capital Cities for all Countries
Sleep lots
Eat Mummy’s good food
Go to Open houses
Convince Daddy to approve of me climbing Mount KK (though I myself am having second thoughts about it – I want to climb for the experience and challenge, but a part of me is saying, can I handle it?)
Hang out with friends at school and various places
Pimp up my CAS Diary

Yes, my ideal mid-term would be from 1 to 3... But who says I can’t dream on ;)...

HAPPY RAYA TO ALL MUSLIMS OUT THERE!!

DAVID - SPANISH

2008-09-26T21:16:00.002+08:00

David Archuleta Fan Scene has just learned that David will be recording two songs in Spanish! It is still undetermined whether or not the Spanish language versions of “Angels” and “Crush” will be on his upcoming self-titled CD. Either way, both songs will be available for purchase as digital downloads. We hear David himself will be playing the piano track for the recording of “Angels!” There will be pictures on David’s MySpace blog of him in the studio recording “Angels” in the next few days.

TEACHER-LESS DT LESSON

2008-09-23T09:39:00.004+08:00

I know, I know - I have been labelled 'lazy' for not updating. I can't help but be busy. It's IB - it's MIND BREAKING!! And stressful. Anyway, I am in a teacher-less DT lesson 'supposed' to be working on my laptop ;P. You can so tell from the picture that it's from the DT Room :). How naughty of us aye?

PHINEAS & FERB CLAN

2008-09-12T14:41:00.004+08:00

This week had been pretty much alright with an English test on Wednesday and two presentations back-to-back today in DT and ITGS. Seriously, I had this fear about going first, and now, I'm pretty much immune to it as we've been doing a lot of frequent tests. Frankly, I don't care much about going first anymore ;). I practically did lots and lots of CAS after school hours too on top of all the work (go to my CAS blog for details on what CAS activities I've been up to this week). As usual, I have a pretty tight schedule on homework plus a FUN-in-the-SUN kinda thing on Saturday evening...

I'll leave you photos of the Phineas & Ferb clan - don't know what I mean?
Well you will...

AWESOME AYE? :).

DAVID!!!

2008-09-08T15:22:00.003+08:00

I didn’t actually want to make a post today – but then I just had to because actually, there was one thing in mind that I wanted to post about, and the other just came up when I clicked ‘Updates’ on Facebook…

Firstly,

HAPPY 17^TH BIRTHDAY KOK HOW
(aka. Andrew)

and… This is the Facebook update I got and I just HAD to tell all you readers out there:

World Premier Of Crush (Music Video)
Today at 6:48am

Hey Everyone,

So the music video was leaked in Canada...lol. And a few of your amazing Archies in Canada recorded the video and posted it on youtube. The video is now posted in the "Posted Items" on the fan page. If you don't wanna see the spoiler then don't go the the link. The video is AMAZING!

BTW, rumor has it that the video will be OFFICIALLY released on Sept 15.

So, another date to look out for: Monday 15th September 2008!

SHIT I LOVED THE VIDEO SO SO SO SO MUCH!
I LOVE DAVID ARCHULETA♥!

I must admit though I’m so jealous of the girl in the video, huhu!

To all David Archuleta haters (*looks evily at Tharindu*): At least David could have a single released and a music video up during Summer Tour, unlike David Cook with zip zero!!

NOV 11

2008-09-07T12:03:00.003+08:00

Yes I know, I haven't updated for quite some time.
Let's just say I'm and busy, busy... BUSY girl.
Well I make myself busy for completing all my homeworks over the weekend even though they're due next week or something. It's a habit I'm trying not to let go off. Because when IA's kick in it's gonna be hell if you're a so-called last minute person. I was like that last year and I so cannot afford to do it for the next upcoming 2 years of IB. SO anywhoo, I've completed most of my assignments, I just have TOK and some more Art stuff to do. And when those are finally done, it's time for me to get a kick into my CAS Diary - I can't believe I still haven't completed my OBBD Temburong entry. Oh wells - the main reason why I blogged today was because of this:

[quote] “Idol” worship is a year-round activity, what with former winners, contenders and also-rans producing a steady stream of product. This fall, though, three “Idol” discs have a chance of being more than chart bottom-feeders. The two Davids — Archuleta and Cook — extend their loving rivalry by releasing their debuts on the same day, Nov. 11. Archie’s is sure to overflow with breathy paeans to young love like his current hit, “Crush.” Cook, who’s working with renowned rock-dude producer Rob Cavallo toward that Green Day-meets-Our Lady Peace sound, can count on mall shoppers popping in to Best Buy. [/quote]

Date to look out for:

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2008!!!

DAVID ARCHULETA♥! MELT ME WITH YOUR SWEET, LOVING VOICE!

new blog!

2008-09-04T18:49:00.002+08:00

Hey to all readers out there! I would just like to point out that I have launched a new blog...
My new CAS DIARY BLOG. Everything is explained there so I won't have to explain it here too. Just go on over and take a look. I will still be using this blog of course...

Ally's CAS DIARY

toodles♥!

SEPTEMBER!

2008-09-01T18:26:00.002+08:00

IT'S SEPTEMBER!
- yeap, that's all for today; sorry I'm kinda hooked onto some French thing that I have to finish for Thursday, English for Wednesday and a whole load of Art work and CAS Diary Stuff and MATHS argh, it's currently pissing me off!!... Yes, as you can see I don't exactly have the time to blabber on my blog about how my day went and stuff... I'm actually missing summer vacation where I did nothing but talk on my blog :).

I miss talking about David Archuleta♥ :( - OH wait, I just mentioned his name...
Since I don't think I'll be blogging that often - i'll give you an overview of the American Idol Summer Tour 2008 schedule:

Sept 2 Green Bay, WI Resch Center
Sept 3 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena
Sept 4 Cleveland, OH Wolstein Center
Sept 6 Bridgeport, CT Arena at Harbor Yard
Sept 7 Providence, RI Dunkin Donuts Center
Sept 8 Wilkes Barre, PA Wachovia Arena
Sept 10 Ft. Wayne, IN Allen County Memorial Coliseum
Sept 11 Evansville, IN Roberts Stadium
Sept 13 Tulsa, OK BOK Center

Yeap - Summer Tour ends on the 13th of September 2008.
And I'm hoping and waiting for more songs to come from David Archuleta♥!!

toodles♥!

ps- as I was writing this entry, the song 'September Morn' kept running back and forth my head ;). No idea why but maybe the fact that it IS September...

a very bleak moment

2008-08-29T14:10:00.000+08:00

Hello to all readers out there! Sorry not updating from a day-to-day basis. Seriously, it’s only been about a week since I’ve been in IB and the workload is just overwhelming already! I can’t imagine how it would be like as the week’s come. I’m actually feeling pretty sick just now – I just woke up from my nap and I’m still feeling a bit dizzy. Sorry, I got a bit side-tracked; my Dad just arrived from KK – YAYE!

Anyway, like I was saying – the workload is terrible! I have homework in every subject (I have 6 subjects in total) plus my CAS Diary work...

So that’s it for my short post because I really have to get a head on start with work. Plus, I’m really looking forward to the long weekend – I do hope they spot the moon on Sunday night so that Monday would be a public holiday as it would be the start of Ramadhan (spelling?).

American Idol Updates:

Aug 26 Bossier City, LA Century Tel Center
Aug 28 Oklahoma City, OK Ford Center
Aug 29 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
Aug 30 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
Aug 31 Minneapolis, MN Target Center

temburong afterlife

2008-08-25T20:43:00.000+08:00

Today is another day and man was it... How should I say – exhausting? It’s called Temburong afterlife I guess. Anyway I started off the week with French B and it was alright I guess – everyone wasn’t that enthusiastic since we were mostly learning about the IB learner profile... In French! So not the drama! French went by in a flash and before you know it, English went by really quickly too. We already have to do a presentation for English for a poem that we chose in groups of two – Tharindu was my partner. English went by in a flash and next lesson was Art. Art too went by in a flash and we were even let out 15 minutes earlier than when the period was supposed to end – gosh Mr. Peacock! He even told us to tell the other teachers that we were let out to do research if we had been caught! Lunch break came and while I was having lunch, Tharindu was rambling on telling me to hurry up so that we could get a head start on our English presentation. I was like what the fuck towards him and telling him that we still have a lot of time seeing as our presentation is not until Tuesday next week! Gosh he’s so funny – in the end we did try and do some research in the ICT Lab. After lunch break we had Maths – YAY I have Ms. Then again as my maths teacher! We were issued new textbooks and before we knew it, maths went by really quickly too and the day was over! I’m only guessing that the day went by fast because the lessons weren’t really that formal yet as it really is only our first day into formal lessons. When I got into the car, I told my mom that I couldn’t finish my lunch, and so she asked me why. I replied, “I don’t know, maybe it’s because I’m so used to just having buns...” LOL, hilarious but obviously if you had read my previous post about Temburong life, you would know exactly how I feel... And that is it with the day in the life with Allison Geronimo!!!

Oh and one more thing to add – remember how I said in my previous post under the first five things I did when I got home? Well I wasn’t expecting it to happen again today but my Mom made it her obligation to feed me good food again – 2226111 PIZZA HUT Delivery!

American Idol 2008 Summer Tour updates:
Yesterday, David Archuleta♥ was in Houston, TX at the Toyota Center and today he will be in Dallas, TX at the American Airlines Center…

toodles♥!

OBBD Camp Weekend

2008-08-25T15:17:00.003+08:00

OH MY FRICKING GOSH!
I can’t believe I’ve actually made it home all in one piece with no broken bones or cuts and bruises. Praise the Lord for he brought me home safely. Okay, for those who have no idea about what I am talking about – I just came back from a 3-day weekend camping trip in Temburong. It was a programme set up by Outward Bound Brunei Darussalam (OBBD) for people of all ages – I guess...

First 5 things I did when I got home:

Hugged my mobile phone (mobile phones weren’t allowed at the camp)
Took a dump (never did for the whole 3 days I was there)
Took a nice warm shower (I was going to take a cold one, but then I was damp for most of the day since it rained)
Had some GOOD food (Pork steak and fish sinigang (sour soup))
Got a full body massage from my cousin...

Okay, so I’m going to be blogging about the 3 day trip from my point of view and bear with me for I’m only trying to remember everything from the top of my head. I was going to write it in my notebook that I had brought along with me – unfortunately I couldn’t find the time to even spare just five minutes to write. So here it goes...

Day 1 – Friday, August 22^nd 2008
My Dad came back to Brunei from Indonesia at 5:30pm – too bad I couldn’t pick him up.

I woke up to the blistering sound of my alarm clock at around 5:30am all pumped up and excited about my weekend in Temburong. I had my morning breakfast after my morning shower and I was off to the jetty by Kampong Ayer. I met up with my friends as we all waited for the rest of the campers to arrive. There were about 38 of us in total excluding teachers – Mr. Toomer, Ms. Hancox, Mr. Klein and Ms. Tracy. I think there were about 10 or less than 10 other students who didn’t join in our expedition but still had to do something else, which was helping out with this thing called ‘Special Olympics.’ It’s about helping the disabled in Brunei run a series of sports seeing as the highlight of this year is the Beijing Olympics 2008. Anyway, back to my Temburong trip; we left the jetty at around 7:30am and reached the Outward Bound Centre at about 9:00am. By that time we were separated into 3 groups – these groups represented the people that we would work with for the rest of the 3 days. There were 6 boys and 8 girls in our group plus our instructor, Haji Roslan. The guys were as follows: Arjun, Azim, Janrius, Jeff, Rais and William while the girls: Ms. Tracy, Allison (me), Ann, Jia Min, Nisa, Siobhan, Sita and Yesmean. First, we had a tour leaded by our instructor of the campus after which we gathered onto the third floor of the Outward Bound Centre and had a little exercise to get to know one another. We had this stuffed dog that acted as our microphone as we introduced ourselves, say our race and tell the group what out favourite fruit was. Somehow Arjun’s was pretty funny – maybe it was just the way he said it and his tone, because everyone laughed when he said it! “Hi I’m Arjun, I’m Indian and I like Bananas...” Not funny to you right! It was hilarious though.

After the getting to know each other exercise, we had a short check-up at the medical centre that was followed on by a short talk from the medics about safety regulations. We had a quick but mediocre lunch after which we were all issued items from the storage room – items such as a camping rucksack, ponchos, water bottles, white-water helmets, etc. We had no idea what was going on so we just packed our rucksacks thinking that we were somewhat going to be camping out that night. It was nerve-wrecking since we hadn’t the slightest clue where our instructor was not nor were we told what to do. We were then able to settle into our cabins (like put all our belongings there). Our cabins were across the Outward Bound Centre and the only way to get there was to walk over a suspension bridge. When I crossed through it for the first time I was pretty scared since during the talk about safety regulations it drizzled a bit which made the wood surface of the bridge a bit slippery.

After putting all our stuff back into the cabins we got a head on to start our planned activities the Centre had for us. The first activity that we started off with was the pitching tent exercise. We had to know how to pitch a tent seeing as the next day we were to camp outdoors. It took us about 10 minutes to pitch one tent up which was, according to our instructor, not so good because there were 14 of us so it should’ve been quicker. After pitching up the tent we had to take it down as well – trust me, it took less minutes to do than pitching it up.

After that activity, we headed on to do the flying fox and I must say that even though I’ve already been on it twice (like way back in Year 6) I was still freaking scared when I went down it – actually it was the anxiety of waiting to jump off. I screamed my head off for like the first 8 seconds and when I was halfway through, I just talked to myself saying ‘oh my god, oh my god, oh my god’ repeatedly. When we all got through the flying fox, we did an activity called the ‘trust game’ where the other group members held out a mat and you had to jump of from something high and trust that your team mates will catch you when you fall. It was scary yet awesome. To be honest, we as a group wasted a lot of time getting ready for the next activity and so because of that we didn’t get to do the white water confidence exercise like the other two groups did. But because it is a must, we were told by our instructor that we would do it the next day with dire consequences – late lunch. To me, that wasn’t much of a ‘dire’ consequence. Anyway so I think us girls hung out at the cabin for a while until dinner time which was at around 7pm. After dinner we headed back onto the third floor to do another exercise and that was ‘what animal represents you.’ I hadn’t the slightest clue about which animal represented me so I just chose a fish, and since we had to report back about why we chose that particular animal, I just said ‘because I like to swim and obviously fishes swim...’ After that, our instructor told us how to read a map and get directions from a compass. This was because, even though our instructor was coming with us on the trek, he’s somewhat invisible to our group and only visible when there’s an injury at steak. He told us that if we’re lost, he isn’t going to tell us that we’re lost and as a group we’re gonna have to overcome that problem and trust those that are leading the way. After all the talk, we had a question and answer session to mentally and physically prepare us for the trek and outdoor camping.

By the time it was over, it was 10pm and supper was served. After supper, Nisa and I rushed towards the toilets to take a nice cool shower after a long hot and sweaty day. And plus, the showers were pretty empty since the other girls bathed already after their water activity. After our shower – the WORST ever thing happened to us that had me shout swear words out loud not even caring what the teachers would say. It was painful and it had me in tears. I was like saying ‘FUCK’ repeatedly as I hosed down my feet with cold water. I know, you’re probably thinking I wonder what could’ve possibly made Ally swear and cry and the same time. After Nisa and I had our shower, we walked back to our cabins – since it was dark, we couldn’t really see where we were stepping, but we could see the cabin in front of us. Because we could see where we were going, Nisa and I trampled on an ant hill and instant pain from the ant bites caused us to curse and swear as we cried. Fucking shit it was horrible and painful! After Nisa and I calmed down a bit about the whole incident, we started to pack our rucksacks ready for the next day. By then we all went to bed by 12 midnight. Oh yes – and have I mentioned that the toilets are freakishly crappy and so were the cabins? I mean there were no beds nor were there any mattresses. We had to use the sleeping bags they had issued for us to use and there weren’t even any pillows so I used my backpack instead. It was so un-cool – neck pain and stuff... And that was it for Day 1.

Day 2 – Saturday, 23^rd August 2008
HAPPY 14^th BIRTHDAY to my Sister Angela!

All was well when suddenly there was a fire alarm drill at 5 in the morning! At first I thought it was someone’s alarm seeing as we had to be up before 6am that day. For some reason, when I heard it, I only heard ‘Alarm’ and strangely enough, I looked at Ann Lee – don’t ask me why because I seriously have no idea! Then it only came to me that it was a fire drill when Yesmean jumped out of bed and started screaming ‘life jackets! Life jackets!’ It was hilarious though I was pretty dizzy when I jumped out of bed! All the girls managed to get out and to the assembly area as we stood for almost 5 minutes just waiting for the guys to come out of their cabin and because the guys hadn’t come out from the cabins, the guys at the camp said, “fire, Fire, FIRE!” The first two guys slowly paced themselves down the stairs without their life jackets. So we all yelled at them to get their life jackets as they ran back telling the other guys (who were just getting out of their beds) to get their life jackets. Surprisingly after 15 minutes all the guys arrived at the assembly point and it’s not that the guys from the camp were mad at the guys, they just said that whenever there is a fire or flood alarm we should be able to gather at the assembly points in 2 – 3 minutes. Somewhere earlier on in the morning, I talked to some of the guys about what happened during the fire alarm drill and I got all sorts of responses. Some said that they didn’t hear the alarm while others admit to hearing the alarm but couldn’t be bothered to get up because they knew it was just a drill. Sheng told me that when the guy repeated the alarm again, Adam got up, turned on the lights and pulled everyone out of bed as he shouted out, “GUYS FIRE!” Mr. Klein told me that he thought the guys were say “Hola! Hola! Hola!” And he told me he was totally confused about why the guys were greeting everyone in Spanish. It was fricking hilarious to know all sorts of things that were going on in the boy’s cabin that morning. Anyway, to get back on track, since we were already up by the fire drill, we headed back into our cabins to get ready and bring our bags over the suspension bridge to the OBBD Camp Site and ready for the flag raising ceremony at 6am. While the flag raising was going on we had to sing the Brunei National Anthem – which I had no clue how to so I just stood there smiling, LOL.

After the flag raising ceremony, we got back into our groups and did a bit of stretching before heading off for our morning run. I started off alright but then I got tired after a few hundred metres because it was non-stop running. So I walked, then ran, walked, then ran until eventually I was like almost probably just under a 500 metres away from the rest of the group. I wasn’t the only one let behind though, because Jeff too was about 500 metres behind me... What can I say? I’m not THAT fit. At least I managed to catch up with the group when we walked back to the OBBD Camp Site. After our hour of morning run, we got ready to do the white water confidence exercise that the other groups did yesterday. It was awesome and refreshing at the same time because the water was nice and cold.

After the white water confidence exercise we had our late breakfast and started to finalise our packing before heading onto the longboat to Camp Seamut to start our jungle trek. The first group left from the OBBD Camp Site at 9:30am and trekked to Camp Seamut while we did the opposite. By 10:30am we were ready to leave by long boat to the Camp and only because a number of people could fit in the long boat, we had to wait at the Camp for all the boats to arrive before we could actually start our trek. So by 11am all team members had arrived and off we were to trek back to the OBBD Camp Site. It was hard task to do seeing as we each were carrying at least 10-30 kilos of things in our rucksacks, on our backs. There were a lot of steep hills which we either climbed up or climbed down. I stayed at the back because I knew I was the slowest and I would’ve held back any members that happened to be behind me. I wasn’t last-last for our instructor was last-last so that he knew that our group hadn’t ‘accidentally’ lost a group member or a member hadn’t lost the group. The trek consisted of areas with trees and some that had just been freshly bulldozed down to build a road. The bulldozed area was all muddy and a bit slippery and had slopes that were almost at 90^o – freakishly freaky! And it wasn’t just 1 slope; there were like probably 4-5 slopes at almost 90^o either to climb up or to climb down. By 12:30pm, we were able to meet up with the first group that had left at 9:30am from the OBBD Camp Site. Kristy had twisted her ankle and so she was brought back to the OBBD Camp Site for a cast and unfortunately she missed out on the camping outdoors and the kayaking. We had some problems with one of our group members for his shoe broke, and so were delayed by an hour just trying to encourage him to continue on and find him some shoes to wear. During this time, some of us had a quick lunch – I had buns and chocolate with some soothing pineapple tang juice. During our lunch break, the last group that left the OBBD Camp Site arrived and soon all three groups were at the same site having their lunch break. By 1:30pm our group was back on track – on the way I couldn’t breathe properly all of a sudden. And because of that I started to cry, by myself that is. I was too shy to show my emotions to the rest of my team members. But I managed – it was just a matter of taking some rest and taking off my backpack as it was the one that caused me to breathe irregularly. On the way, Rais experienced leg cramps like about twice but never gave up his trek. We were just a few minutes away from our last checkpoint where we were to camp when the sky became dark and the wind sliced through our skin. Finally by 4:30pm, we reached our camping area when it started to pour. It was disgusting really as we pitched our tents under the rain. We got so pissed off, that most of us were ready to give up and go home. It was horrible I tell you – soon when the tents were pitched up, the rain started to slow down a bit. Even though the weather started being a bit nice to us, our tents were still full of water and our rucksacks were all drenched from the rain. Well, our tents weren’t pitched up yet so we couldn’t exactly keep them dry inside the tents. When the tents were up, we placed our rucksacks under the water proof cover for the tent as there was a bit of space left just to keep the sacks out of the rain for the night. We had with us one 6-man tent and three 4-man tents – Ms. Tracy, Ann, Jia Min, Nisa and Yesmean shared the 6-man tent while Siobhan, Sita and I shared a 4-man tent. The guys were split into two groups: Azim, Jeff and Rais & Arjun, Janrius and William – our instructor had his own set up. Siobhan managed to pour out the water from our tents while I gave them the idea of using our rug mats upside down just so that we’d have a dry surface to lie on. Once I got changed into my dry clothes I never stepped out of our tent. By 5:30pm the other groups were making their dinner and since we only brought along with us 2 cooking sets – one for the girls and one for the guys, my tent had no choice but to wait patiently in our tents for the cookware to make our dinner. While waiting we talked a bit about ourselves and just got to know more about each other and as always, since we are definitely girls, gossiped a bit about some people. We also did try to lower our voices so that the other groups couldn’t hear us. Amazingly, though we were in our tents, you could hear what other groups were saying. By 6pm it was so quiet out and Siobhan, Sita and I were wondering what had happened – everyone was already asleep. We however, never did get the cookware for it was just left outside the other group’s tent, and so Sita was forced (by Siobhan and I) to get back out into the rain to get them. When we got them though, we realised that out matches were wet and Sita went knocking, metaphorically, into other tents and somehow the others hadn’t anymore matches with them. So we went to bed with empty stomachs – well not really. We had mee goreng that was crushed and seasoned with the powdered seasoning and we shared a packet amongst the three of us. After our so-called dinner, we went straight to sleep – and this was about 7-ish in the night.

Out of the blue, the other three tents started to talk once again – Ann was even singing. Siobhan, Sita and I were still asleep or half asleep for we were kind of woken up by the chattering and singing from Ann. At one point Yesmean yelled out for the time, and since I was time keeper, I got up and looked the watch with Sita’s flash light. Of course, blinded by the bright light, I could see, so Siobhan helped. To her surprise, she yelled out, “Guys! It’s only 12:35am!!” And on a high pitched tone, I heard Azim yell out, “WHAT? ONLY!?” Even the other groups were surprised – they all thought it was 5 in the morning and they were all happy to know that we’ll be trekking back to the OBBD Camp Site. It was hilarious I tell you – I mean, even I kept on repeating this story to the other groups and teachers and they would always laugh! It’s was way beyond FUNNY! Anyway after a few minutes everything was quiet again – the other groups had apparently fallen asleep again...

Day 3 – Sunday, 24^th August 2008
Dad off to Philippines

We were woken up to the beckoning of Rais’ mocked fire drill from the other night at 4am. Rais was like “fire, Fire, FIRE!” Hilarious – like I mean seriously, it’s not funny to those who weren’t there to ‘experience’ it. I mean it’s so funny that it’s not even funny anymore when it’s overused – you know, an overused joke doesn’t appear to be funny anymore? Whatever... Anyway, back on track, we had buns for breakfast and when the sun raised we started to pitch our tents down. Rais once again was rambling on about how they had ants in their tents and that Azim squeezed himself closer to him and Jeff and apparently managed to sleep on half a tent – so it was like fitting 3 guys in a 2-man tent. Rais said that Azim was literally on top of him – it was fricking hilarious to hear about it! Oh yes – I’ll tell you this now, during our prep talk the night before we went trekking, our instructor showed us how to dig a shit hole – you know, a place to take a dump while in the jungle. Okay, so the guys were supposed to dig a shit hole (looks at Rais), but they never did. Plus I’m never comfortable to take a piss or dump in the jungle, so, like what everyone else did, we kept our pee in until we would reach the OBBD Camp. I was crossing my legs the whole night so that I wouldn’t feel like peeing and what’s worse was that I actually kept my pee in my bladder for over more than 24-hours. I know it’s not good, but I had no other choice and plus I felt so bloated. I had no choice because there was only to be one shit hole for the whole group – disgusting I tell you, I mean, just the thought of it creeps me out! *barfs* Anyway, we were able to get back on the track by 7:30am and man was in overly dangerous. Because it had rained for the whole night, the tracks were VERY slippery and the mud was terrible. My shoe sunk into a mud pile and my shoe nearly came off. The track especially near to the OBBD Camp Site was terrible for it was like rock climbing but without the ropes. You had to grab either on the vines or someone’s hand. If not, one slip and you’re dead – like seriously. I’m not kidding! If you had slipped, it was a highway to death for you were literally about 5 metres high above the river and if you had fell, you wouldn’t have splashed into the river, but on the river bed of stones. By 8:30am we had made it back to the OBBD Camp Site and were overwhelmed with joy that we all, as a team, made it back in one piece. I mean, I so totally thought I wasn’t going to make it out of the jungle after my serious meltdown during the trek yesterday, but I just kept on praying to God to protect me and of course my team mates and guide us back to the OBBD Camp Site safely. I love you God. But when we arrived at the Camp Site, we were told by our instructor that we have not yet completed our expedition. Since we started it, we have to wrap it up – and by wrapping up, he meant that we had to clean up all the dirty equipment, hang it to dry and counted to be placed back into the storage room.

By 10:00am, the other two groups had arrived to the OBBD Camp Site on kayaks. They had kayaked from where our group originally started our trek which was at Camp Seamut. When they got back, they started cleaning up their equipment while we re-did our white water confidence exercise at about 11:00am for three of our group members hadn’t done it yesterday before our trek. Our instructor wanted to know that in case of a capsize on the kayak; he knew that everyone was able to swim. After our white water confidence exercise, we were taught the basics of kayaking – like how to hole your paddle and the different seating positions. We were even shown a demonstration on how to get back onto our kayak in case of a capsize. I partnered up with William – you know, I need a strong guy to be able to help me up onto the kayak in case of a capsize and most importantly someone who wouldn’t mind me taking a rest while he paddled by himself. So before we even started to kayak from the OBBD Camp Site downstream, our instructor made us do a capsize drill just so that he’s aware that we can manage to get back on the kayak with no problem at all. Unfortunately, Will and I were the first ones up to perform the capsize – I screamed my head of when our instructor turned our kayak over though it was expected – like wtf right? After we all did the capsize drill we were off downstream for a nice hour and a half kayak. Nothing much happened during our kayak until the very end. Apparently Janrius and Ms. Tracy’s kayak got stuck in a log that stuck out from the river. The were set free for Rais and Nisa’s kayak had knocked them out, but unlucky for them, they were the one’s that got stuck and capsized at the same time. Nisa told me that the kayak was literally above the heads and they couldn’t breathe for sometime until they were able to swim away from the kayak. It was hard because you couldn’t really open your eyes in the water to see where you were going. When we all got to our stop safe and sound, we formed a chain from the river to the road to carry up the kayaks to the truck. When all the kayaking equipment was on the truck, we headed into the bus that was waiting for us at our stop to take us back to the OBBD Camp Site which was around 2:00pm.

We got changed back into our navy-blue IB CAS shirts and had our late lunch. After late lunch we cleaned up the rest of our equipment to find out that we had lost a few of the items that we were issued – 1 water bottle, 1 waterproof tent cover and 2 waterproof bags which apparently cost the whole group $137. But it wasn’t that bad as the WHOLE group had to pay because it was a group responsibility thing, and so we only ended up paying $10 each since there was 14 of us – they even earned an extra $3 out of us. While we were trying to sort out our lost items, it started to rain miserably again. Before we headed on back to Bandar, we filled out an evaluation sheet about the whole trip and there was one question in particular that I wanted to point out because it made me laugh when I heard Siobhan say it. The question was, would you recommend this programme to friends, family and relatives? Siobhan: Yes. Why? Siobhan: Because I want them to suffer like I did... LOL. After that we got onto the bus at about 4:00ish as we said our thank yous and goodbyes to the Outward Bound guys who helped us throughout the programme. By quarter to 5 we reached the jetty and we were all drenched while we waited to collect our bags from the truck. Lucky for me my bags were just near the end of the truck and so I got Mr. Klein to just hand them to me and I ran off into the shade out from the rain. I felt so sorry for those who had their bags all the way at the front of the truck and had to wait in the rain for everyone else to collect their before they could even get to theirs. After everyone was able to collect their bags, we boarded the boat that took us back to Kampong Ayer, Bandar. On the boat, Tharindu, Amirah, Hui Yen and I couldn’t stop laughing about the funny moments we had during the trip and stuff and we literally kept most of the people awake on the boat for those we were sleeping from out belts and snorts. By 5:30pm we reached the jetty at Kampong Ayer and it was HOME SWEET HOME. The first five things I did when I got home have been mentioned above and I was oh-so glad to have a nice soft bed to sleep on for the past 2 nights I’ve had a hard wood surface and a backpack as a pillow and on the second night a uneven surface and my wet clothes in a plastic bag as my pillow – total and complete grossness!

-END OF TEMBURONG TRIP-

toodles♥!

Ps: since this was pre-typed on MS Word, I just wanted to let all of you know that it totalled to 8 pages of font size 12, Times New Roman – AMAZING! LOL.

Day 2

2008-08-21T17:03:00.000+08:00

Dear Online Journal,

LOL, forgive me – it’s just that with so many IB things going on today, I just felt like starting off with ‘dear online journal’ in relation to CAS Blogs that Mrs. Canterford was talking about today in school. B.T.W. I’m not so sure yet on whether I should make one of those handwritten diaries or a blog – I’m gonna have to sort that out later though I much prefer a handwritten one so I can go all crazy with how artistic I can be on it ;) if that even made any sense at all to you readers out there...

Anyway, today is yet another day of Inductions at school – boring yet I think it’s absolutely useful to get a kick start to IB since we’re only going to be formally starting classes on Monday. PS: I am so not looking forward to that day – like totally! It’s practically gonna be THEE start to IB life. We spent like almost the whole school day trapped inside the library with all the talks and what not a better way to end the day with Russell Peter’s new DVD Outsourced between our form and of course Mr. Klein. Awesomeness I tell you – laughter to end the day!

Tomorrow is our Temburong CAS Trip and I’m sotra, kinda like partially excited... Who knows – maybe during the course of the trip I’ll find it even more EXCITING, that is, once we hit the activities and stuff. I’m actually praying for something not to happen while I’m there – it’d be such a kill joy! And seeing as I will be in Temburong for the next 3 days and 2 nights; I won’t be blogging until I do get home safe and sound :).

Oh yes, one more thing before I wrap up today’s post – I got my ICT Results today and I was so eff-ing shocked when I saw the A* written on the piece of paper! Congrats me! I’ve just messaged my Dad about this and hopefully (fingers crossed), I’ll be able to convince him to get me a Pink Vaio Laptop with the Lizard Skin as my reward for a job well done in my IGCSE Exams... ^_^

American Idol Summer Tour 2008: David Archuleta♥ currently in Tampa, FL at the St Pete Times Forum

toodles♥!

first day of IB

2008-08-20T15:12:00.001+08:00

BLEH! I’m finally back at home after the first day of IB.
It’s seriously such a blur – so much stuff to remember. Ugh, and the stupid dress codes.
I have Mr. Klein as my form tutor! WOOT! WOOT!
There’s like only 8 people in my class – 4 guys and 4 girls and I somehow managed to wind up with Rais in my class along with Sheng and Hazim. There’s a new guy in my class too from DC, his name is John. And then there’s a new girl Diana from SAS – and the oldies (like me), Ardyn and Brittany.

Today nothing much happened except Inductions like Welcoming into IB and Outward Bound stuff. Tomorrow will be a whole day of Inductions as well – oh joy. Anyway, I might as well just leave some pictures from the day. Formal classes will start on Monday when we’re back from Temburong...

Gangsters – like NOT.

Mr. Klein!

Hazim, Sheng and Rais – Class Clowns

Me & Brit!

HAHA – Oh my God, I just remembered the talk Ann Lau, Andrew and I had yesterday. It was SO hilarious! Well – it won’t be THAT hilarious to you readers out there... Because I don’t know, probably because it’s an ‘inside’ joke.

Andrew: Hey Ann! Why you do IB?
Ann: ALLISON I DON’T KNOW HOW TO ANSWER!
Allison: Uh... Because I want to?

LOL – see it’s not funny to you right?

David Archuleta♥ is currently in Sunrise, FL at the Bank Atlantic Center.

toodles♥!

1 day to school...

2008-08-19T14:02:00.002+08:00

It’s the 19^th of August 2008...
Sigh, school starts tomorrow and I’m sort of having this mixed emotions kinda thing going on. I’m nervous about going to school because it’s IB! I’m excited to get back to school since Summer hasn’t been too good on me yet I don’t want the holidays to end only because I dread homework/coursework deadlines and most of all... EXAM STRESS. And the anxiety of awaiting results... Yeah – so by the looks of it, I don’t think I’m ready to take another stepping stone into the world of Education even though I’ve packed my pencil case and bought new stationary already for a new academic year. My mom made me organise my closet and surprisingly enough I don’t know how I fit everything in there because now I can’t after organising it... Oh well. I’ve even packed for Temburong – how sad am I? So I guess I am awfully ready to start IB. This should be fun...

Part of my clothes already inside my closet...

The rest of my remaining clothes on my bed... Where shall I put thee?
HAHA – it kind of reminds me what David Archuleta♥ said during his homecoming in Salt Lake City, Utah: “Gosh, there are so many people... (pause) Where do they park?” It was so cute XD.

Anyway, I should really stop blabbering about school starting tomorrow... It would only make me more depressed to know that tonight I’ll be heading off to bed early and waking up at the crack of dawn to the ring of my alarm clock – oh joy. No more ‘10 more minutes’ for me... How sad.

To end such a tragic post, I would just like to say...

HAPPY 8^TH BIRTHDAY COUSIN KIERAN!!
Hope you have a nice one too on this very special day just for you!

toodles♥!

naby :'(

2008-08-18T15:59:00.002+08:00

FINALLY RESULTS ARE OUT!
Been waiting for so long, but then it’s not the final/official certificates yet...
At least I know what I got for each subject! And no I’m not gonna say what I got here on Blogger. If you want to know, you’re gonna have to ask me personally ;).

I messaged my Dad immediately after obtaining my results, and this is his message back to me: "Ok good dog, so u need reward for that? Haha utang first daddy broke ehh wala pera. See yah on friday 5pm pick me up." Too bad I won't be there to pick him up - I'll be in Temburong by then ;).

After I got my results, I went to go see Nabilah off at the airport along with others.
NABILAH! I’M SO GONNA MISS YOU!!!

I LOVE YOU MY BOOB-PRESSING BUDDY!!
~~Camp Rock~~ buds :P.

♥♥♥
imy&ily forever.

To end, David Archuleta♥ is currently in Duluth, GA in the Arena at Gwinnett Center.

tagged ;).

2008-08-17T21:00:00.002+08:00

Okay, since I was tagged by Brittany and Casey I might as well play the game.
But don’t be scared of me – I don’t think I’ll be tagging anyone out there…

Let’s see how many of the 15 things you DO/DON’T KNOW about ME!
(Caution: Highly Contagious – NOT!)

RULES
1. Each player of this game starts off with 15 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself.
2. People who get tagged need to write a post of their own 15 weird things/habits/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly.
3. At the end, you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names.
4. No tags back!!

15 weird things/habits/little known facts about ME:

1. I’d date ANYONE who’s an exact replica of DAVID ARCHULETA♥ (And if it’s damn-right possible, I’d date DAVID himself!)
2. If you open my closet, you can clearly see that I sort my clothes by colour.
3. I’m such a cam-whore (no surprise there)
4. Even though I have this MAJOR crush on David Archuleta♥ – I tingle and squeal when it’s JOE JONAS♥
5. I have a little sister named April (born March 19, 1998) but she passed before birth.
6. One of my favourite cartoons to watch on Disney Channel is Phineas and Ferb XD.
7. I have this really bad habit of starting things and quitting in the end.
8. I don’t care if I’m in the cinema, but when it’s a tear-jerker flick I WILL cry…
9. I try hard not to be plastic – in other words, if I don’t like you, I don’t like you. I won’t pretend to like you…
10. I can only watch horror flicks in the cinema or at home during the afternoon. It scares the shit out of me if I watch it at home during the night.
11. I have an elder step-sister named Jasmin and she lives in Australia.
12. I have this habit of randomly entering the kitchen, opening all three doors to my fridge, randomly stare at whatever’s inside and then close the fridge door and walk out – like for real.
13. I actually do wish that my boobs were bigger (just so their actually in proportion to my body – they’re tiny!)
14. When I laugh-out-loud… I really LAUGH-OUT-LOUD – and trust me, I find inside jokes between best buds better that jokes that the whole world knows.

FINALLY – damn my head is sore from thinking all 15 things up, so the last one should be good…

15. I fart and burp really LOUD (when I’m at home that is – because I don’t give a shit)

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Last but not least, David Archuleta♥ is currently in Charlotte, NC at the Time Warner Cable Arena

toodles♥!

hbd joe jonas!!

2008-08-16T11:14:00.002+08:00

Hallelujah Praise the Lord!
Nabilah isn’t leaving today! – Which means we still have just an extra two days to hang out with her before we send her off to London for good! Well we’re arranging for a hang out tomorrow so I do hope all is good for it to happen.

Today David Archuleta♥ is in Lexington, KY at the Rupp Arena – Go David!

Isn’t this such a smexy picture of David? Well I think so ;).

What else is there to say? Oh yes, my Mom called up the school yesterday and scolded them because they promised us that we could obtain our results yesterday, but they didn’t have them. My mom thinks that the school does indeed already have our results but they just don’t want to give them out until the last minute. Why? Because I know that some of us out there NEED our results to get accepted into another school – and let’s face it… ISB doesn’t want us to move to another school because of $$$. Sucks doesn’t it? Oh well, let’s keep our fingers crossed that we WILL get them by Monday…

You want more?
Well we had ritual Summer Barbeque night on Thursday – it’s a family thing.

Before I leave…

HAPPY 19^th BIRTHDAY JOE JONAS♥!!
(Friday August 15, 2008)

toodles♥!

hbd k.ryan

2008-08-14T14:04:00.002+08:00

I’m so not enjoying this...
It’s because school starts in less than a week (six days to be exact) and results are sure to be coming out tomorrow! I’m so frickin’ scared – to be honest, I wasn’t actually THAT freaked out when I knew about results were just days away from coming out. Come to think of it... I’ll be needing to buy new stationary for IB! LOL...

Anyway, so yeah nothing exciting has been going on since my last post and nothing is going on at the moment. I just wanted to say that finally our living room has been repainted and is now purple! It was actually already finished on Sunday and so I’ll post pictures of it soon. Also, my room had a make over too – just moved around some furniture and painted the walls Raspberry Pink!!

American Idol 2008 Summer Tour updates:
David Archuleta♥ is currently in Washington DC at the Verizon Center.

Today is also my cousins’ birthday so,

Happy 19^th Birthday Kuya Ryan!

I don’t actually have a recent picture with him since he moved to Vancouver when I was just 9 years old I think. Thank God for Facebook we’ve finally gotten in touch after so many years...

toodles♥!

hbd koko...

2008-08-12T14:32:00.002+08:00

I’d like to start of by wishing my Koko a Happy Birthday...

HAPPY 19^TH BIRTHDAY KOKO SHERMAN!
Hope you have a nice one too on this very special day just for you!

Yesterday – as mention in yesterday’s post, we had dinner at Thiam Hock for my Ate Joy-Joy’s 23^rd Birthday celebration. Also, right after I posted yesterday’s post, it started to rain vigorously here and so I went out of the house on the street with my cousin for a nice refreshing bathe in the rain. LOL – well it was hot most of the morning and part of the afternoon so I see no reason as to why I should cool off in the rain...

OMG my heart was like beating so fast when I got an email from Edexcel. I actually thought results have been posted online... But, it was just a notification to say that I will be able to access my Edexcel results on Thursday 21^st August 2008 from 06:00AM GMT. So does that mean that I can only get my IGCSE ICT Results on that day? Now I’m totally freaked out...

toodles♥!

joy&nico...

2008-08-11T14:36:00.002+08:00

I actually don’t have much to say hence the absence of day-to-day posts, but anyhoo I’ll just shed some American Idol Summer Tour updates and Birthday updates!

David Archuleta♥ was/will be in the following places at the following dates:

Aug 9 Worcester, MA at the DCU Center
Aug 10 Manchester, NH at the Verizon Wireless Center
Aug 12 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena

Happy Birthday to Nico!! and…

Happy 23^rd Birthday
to my Ate Joy-Joy!

Tonight we’ll be heading off to celebrate her birthday at some restaurant – I don’t know yet where but I’m sure we’ll have fun.

toodles♥!

08.08.08

2008-08-08T11:36:00.003+08:00

It’s the eighth day of the eighth month of the two thousand and eighth year!!! (08.08.08)

Hey to all readers out there (if there are any for that matter of fact), sorry for not updating for the past two days – I was, how do you say, lazy? Yes, lazy and I wasn’t really up for posting a post because I didn’t really have anything to say except for a few small details. Anyhoo, I’ll mention them now and sorry to those for a late greeting.

Wednesday August 6^th 2008 was my Uncle Skip & Auntie Erlyn’s 3^rd Anniversary! Happy Anniversary and hope you guys are living the life back in Boston. Miss you muchos!

This is so random – but I’m gonna bring it up no matter what! I’ve got a cousin who’s Filipino-Jamaican and two cousins who are Filipino-Irish... And I so can’t wait how my Filipino-Italian cousins are gonna look like! *Looks at Uncle Skip and Auntie Erlyn* LOL.

Jasmin Garing: Filo-Jamaican

Akira & Kieran Heaton: Filo-Irish

Okay, now onto American Idol Summer Tour Updates:
David Archuleta♥ and fellow Top 10 contestants including American Idol Winner 2008 David Cook were/are at the following places –

August 6 Albany, NY at the Times Union Center
August 8 Hartford, CT at the XL Center

ps: I’m still oh-so hooked onto CRUSH. Love love it so much!

Moving on to yesterday – Yesterday I went out with some friends to spend the day out at the Mall. I met up with them at Pizza Hut after which we went to book tickets to go see Mummy 3. To those who haven’t watched it – DON’T. Just buy the DVD or something if you wanna watch; it’s not worth going to the cinema to watch it. It was horrible! – well for me that is. Well before the movie we went to iTop and tried on some clothes at Bingo – I had my sort of chaos and my lovelies, a.k.a Amirah, Hui Yen, Nabilah & Valerie would’ve known what happened that time ;). After that we watched the movie and after the movie had some eats down at Swensens. We then did some window shopping at Bodyshop when we suddenly ran out the shop like a bunch of obsessed fans when we spotted Gyver. Seriously, we were like obsessed fans – hugging him, talking to him, asking for his phone number, taking pictures with him… LOL, but we didn’t get his autograph for some reason. After the small reunion, Amirah and Hui Yen left leaving Naby, Val and I to shop at Charles & Keith. Well, Naby and I were being cam whores while Val showed us the lovely pair of shoes that she bought! So jealous right now – if only I had the same size feet as her then I could borrow it of her HAHA! After that we sent Nabilah off to her car and then I stayed at Centerpoint with Val talking about – ahem, yes Val talking about you-know-who HAHA. Then my Mom came, so end of outing. Pictures have been posted up on Facebook from the day if anyone wants to have a look-see.

Today? Well, I’ll be stay home for… OH MY GOD! HAHA. Jonas Brothers on Hitz.tv right now! Sorry – I ♥ JOE JONAS!! ♪When you look me in the eyes, tell me that you love me, and everything’s alright, when you’re right here by my side… When you look me in the eye, I catch a glimpse of heaven, I find, my paradise, when you look me in the eyes…♫ HAHA. Nabilah – can’t wait for Camp Rock!! LOL.

Anyway, before the Jonas Brothers popped out on the television with “When you look me in the Eyes,” I was just about to say that I’ll be staying home for the whole morning and half of the afternoon doing whatever could keep me out of boredom until I head on over to Mabohai for my swimming lesson. And on a last note, tonight I’ll (most likely) be sitting in front of the TV watching the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. HAHA – this is so funny, but I remember watching the news yesterday on CNN about how there have been so many rules for the locals to follow during the Olympics: “Taxi drivers must slow down on garlic as it causes bad breath – Never ask foreigners their age, income and love life as it may come to an offense to them – Don’t shake hands for more than 3 seconds – Women with thick legs should cover up with black stockings to hide their imperfection…” Trust me, there are many more.

While on the topic of CNN news, yesterday I remember also watching Paris Hilton sending in a video which can be found on http://www.funnyordie.com where she campaigned for her candidacy to run for President of USA. It’s hilarious I tell you – she kept on referring to McCain as ‘White hair Dude’ and at the end of the video she was like, “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go pick out a vice president – I’m thinking Rihanna.”

Long post, anyway… to end, we’re getting our living room walls painted purple!
toodles♥!

05.08.08

2008-08-05T09:58:00.000+08:00

Tuesday 5^th August 2008
Yes – it is yet another one of those days at home with nothing but the computer, TV and myself to keep out of boredom. Ten more days to results and fifteen more days to school – it seems as though Summer went by in a flash but maybe it’s because of how I deprive of a vacation. If I could, I would spend the next two weeks soaking up the sun in lovely Hawaii. I dream of the day to go back to America where my grandma had promised me to take me to Hawaii.

Anyway, if this were today, last year’s entry I’d be telling you guys that I’m on my way to Rockland, NY by car from Hamilton, ON. Yeap – it was one hell of a day to always remember. I shall never forget it – ever! There were more adventures to come even though school was just about to start in two weeks – and like I said, maybe it was because I actually HAD something to do back then, but now I’m just slowly sitting away the days just hoping for something exciting to happen.

toodles♥!

ps: before I slept last night, I kept singing in my head David Archuleta’s new hit single and guess what? When I woke up this morning, that was the very first thing I did too – sing his song! :D.

jen&josh...

2008-08-04T14:23:00.002+08:00

Hey, this is going to be a short post but nevertheless:

Happy 1^st Birthday to my cousin Joshua!
He’s the little baby that my Aunt Shea is holding in her arms :D.
Yes, I was able to see him a day after his birth.

Today is also my Aunt Jen’s Birthday! (Aunt from New York, NY)
Sorry Auntie Jen; I forgot how old you are :S

Anyway, that’s all I have up my sleeve for today, and I’ve also just been notified that IGCSE Results aren’t coming out on the 10^th (what a sigh for relief), but instead will be out on the 15^th – I don’t see much of a difference in the change of date by at least I can delay my worrying...

Today and tomorrow David Archuleta♥ will be in Long Island, NY at the Nassau Coliseum!

I am on the verge of memorising his lyrics to “Crush-” AMG I LOVE THE SONG!

toddles♥!

CRUSH!

2008-08-02T10:14:00.003+08:00

♥DAVID ARCHULETA’S DEBUT SINGLE♥

Me thinks I’m gonna faint so badly after listening to the song...
Yeah – I think I just fainted.

Oh my gosh you so have to listen to it!
Love love love love love love LOVE IT!

Here are the lyrics to his new song:

David Archuleta Crush Released

[quote] David Archuleta is excited and nervous about his brand new single on the radio today. The “American Idol” runner up was reportedly shaking when his song “Crush” hit the airwaves for the first time. Video camera in the radio station recorded the reactions from him and young fans as the single played. [/quote]

I ♥ DAVID ARCHULETA!!!

ps: today David Archuleta is in Atlantic City, NJ at the Boardwalk Hall touring with his fellow American Idol finalists and winner of American Idol 2008 – David Cook.

make me over

2008-08-01T14:04:00.003+08:00

It’s the first day of August – whooooooo!~
Okay, maybe not so ‘whoooo!’ seeing as there’s like 9 more days before IGCSE Results are out and like only 19 more days to SCHOOL! I’m so not ready for any of this, though I’ve said it many times; I’m looking forward to our Outward bound Temburong trip for IB CAS.

Anyway today went differently – and when I say differently, I mean getting up earlier that usual and not lolling around in front of the TV and computer. Today my sister’s and I joined the Bodyshop’s ‘Make Me Over’ session from 10 – 11AM. I leave you with pictures from the day...

Today is also Aunt Shea’s 30^th Birthday! (My Aunt from Binghamton, NY)

And also, Happy 5^th Birthday to my niece Annabelle!

toodles♥!

monopoly...

2008-07-30T20:25:00.001+08:00

I don’t know why, but all of a sudden I am in no mood to write a detailed description of the life with me today. So instead, I’ll provide you with an outline of things I did today – trust me; I didn’t just sit around in front of the computer and TV today being a pig – I did much more…

Went to Giant with Mom and sister for grocery shopping
Went to Kuilap to look around
Headed off to the parlour to pick up other sister
Headed on home and watched TV – ‘Something Beneath’ on Star Movies
Played Monopoly with Mom and sisters
Stop playing Monopoly for a bit to watch CSI:NY
Back to playing Monopoly – Mom won
Dinner
Now I’m online and bored...

Today and tomorrow, David Archuleta♥ will be in Newark, NJ at the Prudential Center for the American Idol Tour 2008!!

I ♥ David Archuleta and...
I ♥ Joe Jonas

Love love!
toodles♥!

ps: this caught my eye when Windows Live Today popped up as soon as I signed into messenger...

Miley Cyrus reveals she has a crush on a big-name British rock star

[quote] Miley Cyrus has apparently revealed she has a bit of a crush on Coldplay frontman Chris Martin...[/quote]

Click on the link provided to read more...

joe jonas!!

2008-07-29T14:48:00.001+08:00

Bonjour ! Hier, j’ai pratiqué mon art mais aujourd’hui je vais pratiquer mon français. C’est difficile pour parler de ma vie en français – mais je vais essayer. Pardon moi si mon français n’est pas précis parce que je ne suis pas couramment en français.

Aujourd’hui, je ne fais pas beaucoup parce que j’ai resté dans ma maison tout le jour juste comme ma vie normale. Je regarde la télé, je joue l’ordinateur et je mange beaucoup ! J’ai envie de sortir avec mes amis ce week-end mais il y a ma nièce anniversaire à vendredi.

This is getting too difficult – like seriously. I’m tired of flipping through the dictionary pages trying to look up certain words. I know right? Why don’t I just use a translator – but then that wouldn’t actually be me practising my French. It would be me typing up in English and POOF! Magic – a translated text that’s all wrong – yes, translators don’t exactly understand the concept of the sentence but instead translate word by word. If you don’t get what I mean – next time use a translator to do your work and hand it in to Madame Barrett. When she finds out that you’ve used a translator she’ll hold this lecture for the whole class about the wrongs of using a translator. No kidding – it happens every time someone in my class does it ;).

Anyway, tomorrow’s a public holiday and I know for sure I won’t be sitting around at home tomorrow – well hey the family’s together right? So we should be going out and doing stuff... Lol – the only reason I said ‘stuff’ is because I don’t know what we’re going to do tomorrow. I wanted to hit the beach early morning but my sister is heading on over to the parlour to get a rebond.

Today David Archuleta♥ is in Pittsburgh, PA at the Mellon Arena!

Speaking of David, Teens Choice Award 2008 is still going on so vote, vote, VOTE like crazy for David Archuleta♥! I’m doing it ;). I really hope he wins – but then I just know that he’s in for a tough competition with the Jonas Brothers. Miley Cyrus, Jesse McCartney and Britney Spears? – Pfft! Come on; I mean, who would vote for them?

I know I’d vote for Joe Jonas♥… Oh my Gosh he’s so hot!

But I love David more…

toodles♥!

mondayy...

2008-07-28T19:50:00.002+08:00

It’s the beginning of a new week and ho-boy I am hating it – only because school is drawing near. At the same time, I am actually looking forward to the rest of the days that are to come for I know they will be filled with excitement and joy – I guess. Well, that’s ONLY if I don’t stay home for the rest of the 23 days I have left before it’s back to school with the books and IB. I am scared for shit man... Results are coming out soon – and I don’t even know if I want to do a countdown for it. Yikes! Here I go – I – or at least WE IGCSE victims have exactly 2 weeks before results come out. Well – they come out on the 10^th of August but seeing as that’s a Sunday, I don’t think school will be open. Gaah! Prepare to die Ally!

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m actually really eager to know what IB feels like and I so can’t wait for the Temburong Trip on the same week school starts!

Anyway – today didn’t go as usual... And when I say usual, I mean sleep, eat, pig around – those sorts of my normal routines when I’m around the house. Today I woke up earlier than I normally do during the holidays to meet up with my Uncle, Aunt and niece. My Mom and I met up with them at this Kolo Mee place in Muara for breakfast after which we headed on back to my place. My niece – Annabelle – is celebrating her 5^th Birthday at her school this coming Saturday and my Uncle and Aunt had me a favour to do for them – which was to make Annabelle’s invitation:

Isn’t it pretty? Anyway yeah, after that I stayed home for the rest of the morning and afternoon doing some art – you know, get me all pumped up and excited to start SL Art with Mr. P! Actually no – just brushing up on my already dusted skills ;).

toodles♥!

the fringe is back!

2008-07-27T19:57:00.002+08:00

THE FRINGE IS BACK!
And what I mean by that is that I went to the parlour today to get my hair cut and...

Viola!

I know, not a good picture since it was only taken by using my webcam. I’m too lazy to get out the canon and have to plug it in to the laptop and other steps which I’m too lazy to do; hehehe.

Anyway, did nothing much today but that so... toodles♥!

ps: David Archuleta♥ is currently in Rochester, NY at the Blue Cross Arena!!

reality or dream?

2008-07-26T14:33:00.001+08:00

Last night I had the weirdest dream – I’m not too sure if I would call it a dream for it felt so real. I can’t even remember what I was dreaming about but I do remember that I felt something with my hands. It felt like I was pinching someone’s ear and when I did that, it started to burn. My hands didn’t burn lah – but I could feel my hands burning as it shook repeatedly. I tried to let go but I couldn’t seem to let go of whoever I was holding. I woke up, took a deep breath and blew out. Finally I had let go of whatever or whoever I was holding on to. It was creepy because I didn’t see anyone standing or looking over me – creepy because everything felt so real. My heart was beating really fast and my hands were still shaken up from what had happened. Strange things started entering my mind as I lay down in my bed thinking what was my dream about or whether it was really a dream or something real. Anyway, I tried to go back to sleep as I prayed to God hoping that if it were something bad that he’d protect me through the night. By then I was comforted by talking to Him and so I slept. The scary thing is that until now, I am still thinking about what it could’ve possibly meant and I’m seriously really scared of sleeping alone in my room tonight.

Anyway, today David Archuleta♥ is in Toronto, ON at the Air Canada Centre!!! Oh my Gosh – seriously, if I were back in Canada I’d so go to this Tour since I’ll be living only about an hour away from Toronto! Or even better, I could live in My Uncle’s house which is nearer to Toronto.

I LOVE YOU DAVID♥!

100th post

2008-07-25T16:51:00.000+08:00

This morning I kind of hoped to give all you readers out there a really interesting post in make up of yesterday’s entry. I had nothing to talk about... Until we got this text message right before lunch:

We received a call from my Uncle telling us that his 17-year-old daughter (my cousin) just gave birth to a baby boy. It was scary because my Uncle totally had no idea that she was pregnant up only until he heard a baby boy was born through caesarean. My cousin nearly died for her blood pressure was really high and even had a seizure which would’ve caused the baby to die too. I’m just happy and praising the Lord that she’s alive and so is the baby. I’m just feeling sorry for my Uncle as he’s struggling to find money to pay for the hospital fees.

Anyway, I’m sorry to ruin this post by mentioning that...

Anyway, 26 more days until school starts!
And today is my hundredth blog entry since March! :D.

nothing left to say...

2008-07-24T16:22:00.000+08:00

Hello to everyone out there! To bad I don’t have an interesting post for you guys today since I haven’t been doing anything productive since this morning – well more or like since the weekend hit. I’m such a sad person – anyway, like I said I don’t have anything to share with you guys today except for the fact that David Archuleta♥ is currently in Detroit, MI at the Joe Louis Arena touring with the other American Idol finalists along with winner David Cook!

toodles♥!

hbd kuya jay!

2008-07-23T16:10:00.003+08:00

Hey to all readers out there! I just want to say that I really do miss you a lot Shey and I so can’t wait to meet up with you in December! We’ll shop together, travel to places together and spend pasko and bagong taon with you.

Anyway – nothing much going on today at home (yes – I’ve been home all day today). Sigh, I really do wish I was back in Canada with my cousins so that I couldn’t say that I’m ‘bored-at-home.’ If this post was for today, last year, I’d probably be saying:

Current Status: In Hamilton, Ontario
Today my mom, auntie Imee and I went out to the Canadian Immigration to inquire about our Canadian Visas after which we headed on to Jackson Square Mall to go gown hunting for my Confirmation coming up in November. I finally found the dress I was looking for plus a red prom dress but I didn’t get around to buying it – too expensive. Anyway, after Jackson Square Mall we headed on to KFC for lunch and then lolled around at home until dinner time at Uncle Cesar’s place.

HOW INTERESTING RIGHT? Not one mention of I’m stuck at home and as usual – bored. Speaking of Canada:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KUYA JAY♥!
Hope you have a nice one too on this very special day just for you!

This is such a bad picture but unfortunately it’s the only one I have of me and Kuya Jay. As you can see from the background, we were by Niagara Falls thus the mistic spots in the picture (water droplets that got into the camera lens – so natural). When I say natural – I mean it’s not studio taken :P.

David Archuleta♥ is now in Cincinnati, OH at the US Bank Arena touring with the other Top 10 finalists including Winner of American Idol 2008 David Cook!

toodles♥!

today's post..

2008-07-22T18:12:00.005+08:00

Today's post was somehow placed under "Sunday, July 20th" and I can tell you why - it's because I typed it up on that Sunday and saved it as a draft. Anyway, please view what was supposed to be today's entry there (just scroll down).

To Shey: That post is dedicated just for you - I hope you like it.

I MISS YOU♥!
Ang hirap talaga gumising kaninang umaga knowing that you were gone :(

ps: today, David Archuleta♥ is in Indianapolis, IN at the Conseco Fieldhouse

BLAKE LEWIS! 8D

2008-07-21T16:20:00.002+08:00

Bleh – I’m so fricking pissed... And no I’m not going to have a BF if that’s what you’re thinking ;). I just came out from the study after helping my sister do so research on Global Warming for her essay. I felt like I was back on Study mode for final examinations seeing as that’s what I last did for my Geography Exam. I mean, I thought when exams ended; I wouldn’t have to touch on any of the subjects, not at least until late August when I start IB.

Anyway – July 21^st 2008, Monday... Ah yes Monday; the beginning of every new week and the fear of school drawing near is eating me away – less than a month already. Time goes by so fast. I’m actually feeling a bit sad today (and yesterday I might add) – but I won’t tell you readers out there why. Just watch out for tomorrows entry – it’s a heart-breaker really.

Today I just practically stayed at home the whole morning watching The Bourne Supremacy on DVD. To be honest, I’ve had that DVD more almost a year now and today was the day that I finally got around to watching it – for the first time! Anyway, it’s afternoon already and yes, I’ve stayed home for the afternoon too and there’s no doubt I’ll be staying home for the evening too until it’s time to go to bed.

On a last note:

HAPPY SWEET SIXTEENTH SHAZ♥!

and...

HAPPY 27^th BIRTHDAY BLAKE LEWIS!

toodles♥!

We were young and wild and free ♫

something new...

vraisemblablement

it doesn't seem right

anger overload

overwhelming isn't it?

Back after 7 months...

DAVID'S AT MALL OF ASIA!

ADAM LAMBERT

FERBUARY

rain rain go away

random.

G-string

random post

2009!!

2008 is the new 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID ARCHULETA

Roadtrip to KK

no title.

SCHOOL IS OUT!

Blogging from Art...

TOK LESSON

A blog by Siti...

Busy week...

BLOGGER, DT AND FACEBOOK

just another bad day...

MID-TERM MADNESS

OCTOBER!!

DAVID - SPANISH

TEACHER-LESS DT LESSON

PHINEAS & FERB CLAN

DAVID!!!

I didn’t actually want to make a post today – but then I just had to because actually, there was one thing in mind that I wanted to post about, and the other just came up when I clicked ‘Updates’ on Facebook…Firstly, HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY KOK HOW(aka. Andrew)

and… This is the Facebook update I got and I just HAD to tell all you readers out there:

So, another date to look out for: Monday 15th September 2008!

SHIT I LOVED THE VIDEO SO SO SO SO MUCH!I LOVE DAVID ARCHULETA♥!I must admit though I’m so jealous of the girl in the video, huhu!

NOV 11

new blog!

SEPTEMBER!

a very bleak moment

temburong afterlife

OBBD Camp Weekend

Day 2

first day of IB

1 day to school...

naby :'(

tagged ;).

hbd joe jonas!!

hbd k.ryan

hbd koko...

joy&nico...

08.08.08

05.08.08

jen&josh...

CRUSH!

make me over

monopoly...

joe jonas!!

mondayy...

the fringe is back!

reality or dream?

100th post

nothing left to say...

hbd kuya jay!

today's post..

BLAKE LEWIS! 8D

I didn’t actually want to make a post today – but then I just had to because actually, there was one thing in mind that I wanted to post about, and the other just came up when I clicked ‘Updates’ on Facebook…

Firstly,

HAPPY 17^TH BIRTHDAY KOK HOW
(aka. Andrew)

SHIT I LOVED THE VIDEO SO SO SO SO MUCH!
I LOVE DAVID ARCHULETA♥!

I must admit though I’m so jealous of the girl in the video, huhu!