The family member-to-be

I'm still waiting for the birth of my nephew who seems to be happily rolling inside my sister's womb. I learnt that the due date is supposed to be today, and if he is still unwilling to leave the comfortable place he's in now, it wouldn't be good for both mother and son. So my sister is supposed to check into KKH this midnight and they'll induce birth then.

So I'm quite jumpy now, and since the boy is supposed to be due tomorrow, and I have school tomorrow, and I have to go to Zara at Liat Towers to collect a pair of pants that I reserved, and I have to go to CFA to put some documents there, I dunno how to plan my time tomorrow. I don't even know when the boy's gonna make himself known to this world!

So interesting. Today I'm the youngest at home. Tomorrow (maybe), I won't be anymore. And I'm even gonna be an aunt! =D

Aunt Erina. Erina Ah Yi. Xiao Yi.

Ahhhhhh.

All the angst over PSLE math

I think most of you must have heard about the Primary 6 pupils crying after their PSLE math paper. And then their parents complain. Haiyo. I saw three of the 48 questions published in the Sunday Times today and solved them. Hmm, they may be quite difficult for a P6 kid, I doubt I'll be able to solve these questions when I was P6. But considering the higher education standards now, maybe they should be able to solve it after all. Shrugs.

Here are the questions:


Try solving them! I guess the questions are more of, misleading than difficult. For question 2, I spent quite long trying to write down a formula to find the total number of chairs. My mum even laughed at me for not being able to do. And after a while, CHEY. I got the answer in one step. Haha, I thought too much already. But it was rather tricky. Questions 1 and 3 should be easy la. Maybe add question 2 to that. Haha.

A phone call

The phone rang just now while I was youtubing and since my mum was sleeping and I was the only one around, I answered it.

Me: Hello?

This guy: Hello. Good afternoon.

Me: Uh...huh...

This guy: Oh you sound a bit young. Are you over the age of 18 yet?

Me: Uh..no. (WHAHAHA)

This guy: Oh then is there anyone else at home that I can speak to?

Me: Oh uh I'm alone at home now.

This guy: Ah then usually what time they'll be back? At night?

Me: Uhhh...probably evening?

This guy: OK I'll call back again later! Bye bye.

Me: Oh ok bye.

And I hang down the phone and laughed out loud.

I sound young baby. Woots~ =D

From Roberto

When I came back from Europe, they said that one of the Italian guides attached to NUSWS had gifts for all the girls. I heard it was some horoscope-related necklace. And mine was with Yong Kiat since I left earlier and didn't collect it.

After months of waiting I finally got the necklace from YK at our NUSWS tuba outing yesterday. There's actually a pearl in an oyster or some other mollusk and you have to remove it and make a wish and put it inside the necklace.

Here's the necklace with a box-like pendant that you store the pearl in.


The box containing the entire set. 'God-given' Pearl -_-


And then the can containing the oyster...


Look closely at the oyster in the can.


Damn gross right. Hahaha. For some reason I think the oyster died and vomitted the pearl out so the pearl is now nudged between the shells. But I think probably the manufacturers stuffed the pearl into the oyster. However trusting European products, I washed the thought away.

Till I turned the can around and saw this particular sticker that was a bit of a stick-out.


Made in China. Now I think that the pearl was probably stuffed inside the poor mollusk.

Some personality test

Which I think is rather true. Shrugs.

The Sonnet
Deliberate Gentle Love Dreamer (DGLD)

Romantic, hopeful, and composed. You are the Sonnet. Get it? Composed?

Sonnets want Love and have high ideals about it. They're conscientious people, caring & careful. You yourself have deep convictions, and you devote a lot of thought to romance and what it should be. This will frighten away most potential mates, but that's okay, because you're very choosy with your affections anyway. You'd absolutely refuse to date someone dumber than you, for instance.

Lovers who share your idealized perspective, or who are at least willing to totally throw themselves into a relationship, will be very, very happy with you. And you with them. You're already selfless and compassionate, and with the right partner, there's no doubt you can be sensual, even adventurously so.

You probably have lots of female friends, and they have a special soft spot for you. Babies do, too, at the tippy-top of their baby skulls.

Always avoid: The 5-Night Stand (DBSM), The False Messiah (DBLM), The Hornivore (RBSM), The Last Man on Earth (RBSD)

Consider: The Loverboy (RGLM)


Go do it, I think it's pretty accurate.

Weekends!

Yeay! The weekends are here!

But I have tons of work to do. And concert is coming. And I have a test next Friday. I hope I'll be able to study enough for it, 'cos I have band on Wednesday and Thursday nights.

Sigh. I'm beat.

Hairspray

You all should really watch Hairspray. It's addictive!

After getting Maria's Hairspray soundtrack I'm addicted to it laaaaaaa. T_T

But listening to Hairspray makes you happy. Really. Probably that's why I'm stuck to it. You guys should watch it!

I'm soooo gonna get Hairspray's DVD. And watch it over and over and savour it. I wanna know the backstage stuff also! So interesting!

Here's a clip. Must watch. But if you don't wanna have any spoilers then don't.

Spoilers ahead!

This part is about John Travolta's character cooping at home for many years and her daughter wanted to bring her mum out and ta-daa you get a great video. Really nice!



I think Travolta's the ultimate. 'Cos he was dancing in heels!!! But the clip is sooo nice la. You won't stop smiling watching it.

Discomfort

I've never felt this lousy about school before.

Like...I know I won't go any further in this. Sigh.

Bouts of procrastination and tears and self-discipline and patience, and then dwell in self-pity.

And it doesn't help when there is a cold shoulder.

I am confused. I really am. And I hate this feeling of being left hanging there. The small little changes I see can really affect my mood, it seems.

And why is it that I seem to be falling into this trap and I don't become happier?

Things are rather frustrating these days, and I don't know how I should go about letting you know.

~~~~~

And thanks to Nick who tried to cheer me up online last night, by asking me how to put the downwards arrow in my MSN nickname which says 'ERiNA is feeling ↓'. My mind was too hazy to think about why won't Nick know. So I dumbly told him. And he asked if I can change the arrow to point upwards. Ya can, do the same thing lo. (this shows how simple-minded I can get)

Of course he knew how to enter it. His copyright logo of his Nick-name (pun intended). I was pretty amused when I realised. =)

Getting ready

When I returned home from band on Thursday, I saw that the sewing machine and an armchair was moved out of the master bedroom and placed somewhere in between the living space and the kitchen.


Which mess up the house.

Suspicious of the move, I went to check out the master bedroom. And then I realised.


Awwww, my dad set up the baby cot for his grandson!

FYI, my nephew (who is still rolling in my sis' womb) will be staying with us, taken care by my mum.

Oh and the heaps of stuff on the cot are baby-related goods. Look at the shopping done for the boy! There are more stuff around but they're not on the cot. They're in my room -_- Like thanks.

~~~~~

I wanted to eat the pomelo yesterday and my dad helped to open it up for me. 'Cos my cutting skills are lousy.

At some point, you know that waste can be turned to good use. Here goes.


I should put this pumpkin-wannabe by the window to scare the weird old lady who walks around the entire block to peek at what her neighbours are doing.

Ahh

I am feeling awfully stressed. Why are things like that?

The pressure is kicking in real hard. T_T

Exams are coming, and I'm still aimless in school. I don't know what I don't know. I don't seem to be consuming stuff efficiently.

Why isn't anything done? T_T

Sighh....

And I just found out about something which is rather worrying. =( But with the amount of time I have for work, I guess I can only leave it till the holidays to do something about it.

I have a test on Tuesday. I am ultra worried. Let things go into my brain please.

Why am I always so slow?

Sob.

Stop blogging...

...not! This is not a good time to blog because I have a test tmr which I'm very unprepared for.

Nevertheless, I went out with the father just now supposedly to get a phone but due to complications I got none.

Anyway, the point is not that. The point is this:


Damn cute right??? Imagine seeing many lion faces on the tray. Awwww. Too bad I won't buy all. Haha. Got one and I'm satisfied.

The End Of Recess Week

Today marks the end of recess week.

What have I accomplished? Nothing much, really.

Sigh.

Hills and plateaus and mountains and HDBs of unfinished business to do.

I'm dreading school.

I've never hated school before actually.

Until I entered uni. Then schoolwork became a mess and I messed up myself and my life as well. I wonder what caused the change in attitude towards school.

Wrong choice of major, maybe. I seem to be disliking almost everything I'm studying.

But there's nothing else I can do. And there's nothing else I would like to do.

Argh.

I forgot how it feels like to be attentive throughout lessons.

Put in more effort, and I'll get out of this mess nicely.

I dread the exams which are coming in less than two months.

Shit. Less than two months!

A headache is creeping into me. T_T

救命啊！

Packed

Sometimes I wonder why do I give myself so many things to do, I don't have time for academic-related stuff!

Sighhhhhhh.

Play catching-up only once in a while. Never complete tutorials. Never do this, never do that, all because I have no time.

When I am busy with my commitments I am a happy person. 'Cos I don't have the time to think of the consequences. When the time comes for me to do homework, then I realise I have a mountain to climb.

=(

My name is Erina. What does it tell you?

What say you?

The Bank Of Secrets
henceforth known as the 'Bank'

Getting started...
It's very easy. Simply create an account!

Deposit policy...
Just speak and everything will be deposited.

To reduce the chances of withdrawals, speak as fast as possible to challenge the slow processing rate of the Bank. This is so that the Bank will be unable to deposit everything and probably nothing will be withdrawn.

Once deposited, always deposited.

Withdrawal policy...
Warning: Existence of withdrawal without customer's permission.

Customer cannot choose to withdraw secrets that he/she has deposited.

Withdrawal takes place under pressure and interest.

Other forms of withdrawal takes place when the Bank overflows and older deposits are erased by accident.

Loan policy...
The Bank is unable to complement.

Closure of account...
You think it's easy to close?



This is awfully random.

Badminton

After years of not playing badminton, I finally found the time and opportunity to give a good swing.

Went to Tampines Sports Hall with seven other Mermaids yesterday and I think I played almost non-stop for three hours plus. Just on and on and on and on with short breaks in between.

Good games.

And now, I woke up with aching muscles and I can't walk properly. Man, even my ass muscles hurt. I think I worked too hard yesterday.

But anyway, I like my new racket (though YX dropped it before I even used it for a game =P) and I like my new New Balance shoes. The racket didn't give me any problems, and my shoes were as comfortable as stepping on a sponge. Yea right, no la, it was just nicely comfortable. Money well-spent. I can keep them for some time longer.

Hairspray

This time I'm still blogging about Hairspray. Not because I wanna grumble that I couldn't watch it, but because,

I'VE WATCHED IT!!!!!

Whahahaha!

Thanks to you who caught it with me =D

The songs were quite good, and you'll just smile throughout the entire show.

Goooood Morning Baaaaaaltimoooreee~

The past week

I haven't blogged the last week. It was a hectic week for me, with a test, two assignments, repairman coming down, etc etc.

And the hectic week leaves and another is coming. Though we call it the recess week.

Saturday (i.e. yesterday) had HSC alumni practice in the morning, went home, and out again to Botanic Gardens for an evening walk.

I got to know you better, thanks =)

And after the long walk around Botanic Gardens - oh walked to NUS Bukit Timah Campus as well, my first time there - was walking to Orchard. Wa, our legs were rather tired and someone didn't have dinner. =\

Sunday (today) went yum cha with Christopher, Daniel and Hui Shan at Red Star Restaurant. The food is not bad but expensive. Then went home, bathed, read the papers, came out again for Philharmonic Winds meets Boston Brass concert.

Monday (tmr) I feel like getting a pair of good running shoes and a badminton racket! I need to get a racket because mine is damn old and the strings aren't sturdy anymore. And I threw away my old pair of shoes because it really cannot make it any longer. So probably I'll be doing some shopping in the day. In the evening I have sectionals at CFA.

Tuesday morning I am going for badminton with the Mermaids at Tampines Sports Hall. That's why I need shoes and racket. I can't possibly wear my sneakers for badminton =\. From 8-12. I foresee a lunch together. And there's NUSWS comm meeting in the late afternoon. I'm going out at night.

Wednesday there's sectionals.

Thursday there's band practice.

I think I should be going down to one of the band stores to collect the stuff that I ordered for NUSWS. So my Wednesday is somehow gone as well.

And we have to discuss Basic Translation this week.

When do I study? =( I feel so lousy.

I need to squeeze out time to practise the tuba as well.

Please please let me keep my days as free as possible.

Golden Village Movie Club

Go join this, I'm sure you'll need it in some way or the other.

As far as I'm looking at this, no strings attached.

A joke and a belated one

I shall do the 'belated' joke first.

Uh, this has got to do with 我报 again. -_-

I mean, what's so wrong with a non-Chinese reading Chinese paper? They may very well be able to read it as well as you, or even better!

This time it was another auntie. I walked to her, held up my hand again, and she was contemplating whether to give me until I said '谢谢' then she released the papers from her grip. Why why why?

And the new joke for today.

Ching Wen laughed till there were tears in her eyes because of this. Here goes.

YX and I finally got seats, while CW continued standing. Not long after that, a group of elderly folk walked in and obviously we gave up our seats. Then CW started laughing, I thought it was due to another matter. It turned out that the ah pek that I gave my seat to said 'terima kasih' in appreciation.

Nice.

The problem is, it doesn't matter if Chinese mistake me for being Malay or any other race, but Malays can't make out as well. I don't know if I really look that Malay in the first place. =\

Why I say this was because after the MRT ride mentioned above, YX and I walked past Eastlink Mall. And there was a group of Muslim girls holding on to tickets that they'll ask people to donate. And because it was a Muslim associated donation drive, it'd be easier to convince fellow Muslims to donate. Ta-daa I was one of the fellow Muslims that they approached.

Mugging time. Won't be able to study much tomorrow 'cos I need to return to CFA, and there's sectionals on Wednesday, and Thursday's the ST1131 test. =( And I have three tutorials to complete by Wednesday and Thursday. One homework to complete by Thursday, and another by Friday. Great.

21st birthday

The most important birthdays of most people are their 1st and 21st birthdays. As to why, I have absolutely no idea.

I find it quite sad when I get to know people and they're past their 21st birthday already. 'Cos I have no chance to spend with them. But neverrrrr mind la.

Most like to celebrate their 21st birthday. Have some kind of parties and the like.

I don't know if I want one. I'll want one because I didn't get to plan my 1st birthday party (did I even have one?) and I am sane (not that I was insane when I was a year old) enough to organise one.

But what can I do? Plan chalet, everyone comes and sings birthday song and cut cake and give presents. A bit......too normal =P

I can't think of anything outstanding to do, so I'll shelf this celebration idea for now. Doesn't matter if I don't blow up the importance of the birthday. I've never really celebrated my birthday properly anyway, as in, the kind where I'll do all the preparations and invite people to come over and sing for me. (But all the lovely celebrations you guys did, thanks so much =D)

However I wanna request for a birthday present this time. Muahahaa. It just came into my mind all of a sudden when I was having dinner.

I want a real oven. A big one. The kind where you have in your kitchen under the stove.

Because I haven't baked for real. I used the microwave oven and it's so bu shuang. Just so odd to see the cookies spinning inside the microwave and...maybe getting treated radially in the wrong way.

I want to bake. Pies, lasagna, tarts, cookies, maybe cakes (but I don't really like cakes, so), and experiment. And bake chicken, fish, etc. Ooh-la-la! Even if the taste don't come out well I have something to practise with. 'Cos I'm sick of steam, fry, pan-fry, reheat, whatsoever. No kick.

I'm sooo going to request this to my parents. Even if they don't want to pay I'll pay for myself but I'll always need permission regarding the space. My dad is the 'everything-at-home-is-my-property' kind of guy (which I'll always rebut that he's free to take my pads) so I have to get his permission first.

But getting such an oven will mean overhauling the entire stove. Which is costly. And I like the present stove. Easy to control. How now brown cow?

I want an oven!