Europe in Italy's perspective.

Europe in Germany's perspective.

I LAUGHED LIKE SHIT WHEN I SAW THESE TWO PICTURES. Especially when I've studied European history so I know what some of these terms really mean. Click to enlarge!

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Oh xkcd.

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Poster for Eclipse. Kickass huh. It's literally a sun and a moon. So, Twilight has been blue, New Moon has been golden, and now Eclipse will emerge with red and gray.

Twilight the movie sucks. :D I can proudly say that now. I'm never looking back.

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Florence + the Machine is brilliant. To think they have released only one album and yet are already so successful - it just goes to show how rad they are.



What was the last test you had on?
Mock Chinese Paper 1, I guess. I didn't even complete it.

Are you good at creating graphs in math?
I'm impossibly hopeless at them.

Oreo milkshakes or orange juice?
Orange juice.

Do looks matter the most to you?
Nup.

Have you ever had a lemonade stand?
Nah, Singapore schools don't have like actual carnivals and fun fairs and stuff.

Do you hate it when people read over your shoulders?
Yeah, but the last time someone did that and really meant to snoop on me was about a few eons ago.

Would you electrocute yourself as part of a dare?
Would you? No, I wouldn't.

Do you smile politely when someone comments that you’ve put on weight?
No I will wear this apathetic-but-deep-inside-you-know-I-want-to-kill-you-but-thanks-for-telling-me-anyway-that-was-honest-ttm-but-still-couldn't-you-phrase-it-better smile. I know how to do that smile. I'm not exaggerating.

What do you plan to do with yourself as far as future education goes?
I plan to make a huge success of myself. That's what.

Are you afraid to stay in a hospital overnight all by yourself? Why?
If ICU, yes, I'll be afraid but wtf if I'm in an ICU I have better things to worry about than the paranormal.

Do you even care about world peace?
No. The universe is going to end soon anyway. Who cares about peace and war and love and death?

Who was the last person to turn you on?
My mom. She switched me on yesterday morning from my shut down previously to remind me that there was school. Then I told her it was an hour later and shut down again.

Without stating names say something to three people:
1. Thanks for the talk and stuff, it was great to pour everything out to someone.
2. I HATE THE "UPSIZE" CAMP PACKING LIST CAN YOU QUICKLY FINALIZE THE SHIT AND GET BACK TO SHUNING AND I? :D
3. Hi.

Do you currently have a hickey?
HAHAHA YOU WISH.

If the year consisted of only one season, which would you choose?
Autumn. Because spring has the highest suicide statistics (bet you didn't know), summer's too hot and if I chose winter the Russians would murder me.

Is there a girl that knows everything or mostly everything about you?
Nah.

What's one thing you want more than anything in your life?
...I'm feeling very existential now. I don't think I can reveal this or else my mind would explode from the utter complexity of trying to explain it to you.

Last time you had butterflies in your stomach?
Never. Butterflies can't get into my stomach.

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Okay. CL Oral for O Level.

What’s the best feeling in the world?
The feeling of knowing you have lived, and not just existed.

Would you ever shave your head to save someone you love?
Yes. Life > hair.

Can you play guitar hero?
YESSSSSS, ON EASY LEVEL!!!!!! I AM SO PROUD OF MYSELF. I LOVE PLAYING THE MIDDLE AND NEVER MISS A BEAT BECAUSE I SUCK AT THESE TWO SONGS HAHAHAHAA.

When's the next time you will kiss somebody?
Ask the crystal ball.

Do you wear the hood on your hoodie?
Yeah.

Can you successfully blow up and tie a balloon?
Yup. I can even successfully blow up balloons. Like, take that literally.

Do you bump into someone’s arm if you want to hold their hand?
How in the world would I know..? Oh damn.

Do you want any tattoos? If so, where?
Yeah, but I have no idea where. I want it at a peek-a-boo location. No no don't even go there.

Does the thought of marriage scare you?
Yes. A lot. I have issues with commitment.

Do you get the recommended eight hours of sleep a night?
Maybe soon, since it's the, er, holidays.

Would you rather have your nose or tongue pierced?
Nose. You have all sorts of difficulties if you pierce your tongue. Not to mention if it goes haywire.

Are there things in your life that you'll never be able to get over?
Why not?

Is there someone who loves to cause drama in your life?
Thankfully no. I think that will change once I enter poly though.

Got into major trouble in school?
Primary school, yeah, but secondary school, nup.

It sucks being let down, doesn't it?
Ha tell me about it.

Can you handle a lot of drama?
Keep me out of this man.




So pretty, so smart
Such a waste of a young heart
What a pity, what a sham
What’s the matter with you, man?

Don’t you see it’s wrong, can’t you get it right?
Out of mind and outta sight
Call on all your girls, don’t forget the boys
Put a lid on all that noise

I’m a satellite heart, lost in the dark
I’m spun out so far
You stop, I start
But I’ll be true to you

I hear you’re living out of state, running in a whole new scene
They say I haven’t slept in weeks, you’re the only thing I see

I’m a satellite heart, lost in the dark
I’m spun out so far
You stop, I start
But I’ll be true to you

II’m a satellite heart, lost in the dark
I’m spun out so far
You stop, I start
But I’ll be true to you no matter what you do
Yeah I’ll be true to you

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She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls, if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hands all the time, as if they were afraid they’d bore you or something. Jane was different. We’d get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we’d start holding hands, and we won’t quite till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

- J.D. Salinger, Catcher In The Rye

I admit that I haven't read this book and I'm dying to. I wish I could get my hands on a copy. The book's lead character is so cool.

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The Harper's Bazaar outtakes from Rob and Kristen's photoshoot are breathtaking. If the outtakes are that amazing, it'd be hard to believe the chosen pictures are going to be ugly.



Yeah sure I'd be the first to believe they're not dating. Like totally.

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I love The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

The Babel fish is small yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the unconscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them.

The practical upshot of this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly disappears in a puff of logic.

"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is whte and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that did not stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best selling book 'Well That About Wraps It Up For God'.

It's funny.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It’s a nice day, or You’re very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right?

At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up.

After a few months’ consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn’t know about.

See? The book is so straightforward. I mean, don't you get annoyed when people keep asking you if you're fine when you obviously are not? Like maybe you just burned your hand with a scalding pot of water and you stepped on a nail and your eyeball got plucked out and something is tearing away your scalp. Are you okay? is not the least comforting.

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Listening to Florence and the Machine now. Love them. They're English, they do indie pop and Florence Welch has this amazing voice.

Going for steamboat dinner with 3/4Q later. Ashley may not be going as he has NCO. Wow, NCO, wow.

Anyone wants to offer an explanation of how the Universe began? Apart from creationism, that is.

How does it make you feel to know that your dear Lady Gaga is a hermaphrodite anyway? I think it's funny as hell. Her defensive explanation is so weak.

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You Are a Hippie

You may not have long hair or a closet full of tie-dye, but you definitely dance to the beat of your own drum. (And you may even play the drum as well.) You are a true free spirit. You don't let yourself be weighed down by rules and expectations. You are creative, philosophical, and caring. You want everyone to have a better life. For you, the worst thing in the world is being stuck in some rat race. You rather be broke than have to wear a suit every day.

You Would Be a Smart Celebrity

You're already very well read and curious about the world. So why would that change simply because you got famous? If anything, with more money to devote to traveling and charity, you would be even more worldly. Even though you may abhor most celebrity causes, you'd probably have a cause of your own if you were famous. You just care too much not to. You'd be a celebrity in the mold of Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon.

Recently I downloaded this app called Zebra Paint, and it's fun enough to kill time. Shuning and I were bored so we painted our own masterpieces!

^ Shuning's.

^ Mine.

And this is my art piece featuring a blotted Echo.

Joon drawing faces from the class! Can you find Pearlynn?

That's me! Because Eunice had been helping me tie my hair these days that's why it appears short.

But my favourite is still Zhan Teng.



For these past few days I've been having a bad blocked nose, to the point where one entire nostril would be closed up to the world and the other would be half clogged. So, it's at times like this when I breathe really hard in order to attain the oxygen supply I'm in dire need of, and that's when I realize that I actually sound like Darth Vader.

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Impressed, aren't you?

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You Are Scary on Halloween

You aren't easily scared on Halloween. You've watched so many horror movies that it's really hard to frighten you anymore. And because you're so fearless, you are the perfect person to scare others on Halloween. You can really take it to the limit. Each year you try to outdo yourself with the freakiest costume possible. You Halloween isn't complete until you hear some very terrified screams... because of you, of course!

You Are Black

You are a serious and thoughtful person. You spend a lot of time in quiet reflection. You are a friend of the honesty, and you don't sugar coat anything. You prefer the truth in all its complexity. While you may relate to the color black, it doesn't necessarily mean you're a dark person. You just don't hide from the dark side of life. If anything, you tend to be sophisticated and classic. You don't follow trends, and you have your own style of doing things.

Your Witch Name is Mildred

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

You Should Give Out Milk Chocolate

You are a very modest and unassuming person. You don't pretend to be someone you're not. Like a milk chocolate bar, you're perfect the way you are. You don't need any flash. You are comforting and steady. People know what they can expect from you, and they appreciate your strengths. While some trendy types may leave you underrated for a while, people always come back to you in the end.

Your Halloween Sugar Binge is Cookies

You like creating sugary things as much as you like eating them. You have a flair for baking. And for you, there's nothing sweeter than eating your own cutely decorated Halloween cookies. There's something magical about holiday cookies. And why should you be forced to wait for Christmas. Plus, you swear that there's something about the orange frosting that gives you power to hand out candy for hours!

And, because I was craving for eggs, I did this:

You Are a Scrambled Egg

You are spontaneous and fun. You like to mix it up in life, and you are very flexible. You consider any day that surprises you to be a good day. You aren't big on planning and structure. You are an agreeable, happy person. You can get along with almost anyone, and you're pretty easy to please. You live a somewhat chaotic life, but things seem to work out for you in the end. Even when things are a mess, you come out fine at the other end.

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Pixxxxxxxxx from the (official) last day of school! They're all pretty much self-explanatory, despite questioning faces by Pearlynn and stuff, but let's be caption free today!












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If you guys are kinda into Star Wars and stuff, check this out:



It's one picture from a series of photos showing Stormtroopers - the George Lucas ones, not the Hitler ones - doing various things on their day off. Which is quite ironic because this whole series is 365 days long, a photo each day, and it began on April 3rd.

Oh well, who cares. The rest reside here!

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I'll go do other things first then restart my com to try and get that Facebook uploader to work.



You know the blasphemous Hello Kitty-esque Sony Ericsson phone?

Well, you see, I have this neighbour who moved in about, say, early this year. They're one whole family complete with two tots. Funnily enough, their car demonstrates everything you wouldn't expect from a family car.

It is freaking draped in Hello Kitty stickers. The best part? The husband drives it as well. And hence I'm guessing that since the above-mentioned phone is coming out, they'll be the first in line to grab a unit of their own.

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Benedict: See that's what I hate about Garage Band. Play a few notes and it makes them think that they are musicians.
Ian: You hurt my feelings.

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Uploading photos from yesterday onto Facebook now! For both Thursday and Friday we camwhored madly. I'm feeling kind of sentimental, and that same feeling of being afraid to grow up is now haunting me. I think the feeling would strengthen tenfold as soon as my CL O-Levels end. I mean, at least now, I still have something based on education to look forward to before I step out of my third year and head forth to the sixth floor of NHHS. But as soon as November 10th passes, I may very well start having fits.

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Just kidding. Have a sense of humour, guys.

Thanks Facebook. Upload failed. I'll try again when I get back later from a TS meeting.

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I don't know if you guys have caught wind of this yet, but I know it was published a few days ago on the front cover of a local Chinese newspaper.

Anyway, I knew of this whole thing about last week, and got semi-freaked out but forgot all about it.

Until yesterday.

Yesterday morning we had to orchestrate a last-minute event (that we did not have any rehearsal for) as an official way of saying goodbye to Dr Foo. Following that, we had our debrief and as we were all heading down to the canteen to have a munch, SOME LOWER SEC GUY WALKED PAST AND MY HEART JUMPED OUT OF MY MOUTH BECAUSE HE FREAKING LOOKED LIKE THAT GUY ABOVE.

Apart from the balding head that is. BUT THE UNIBROW! THE EYES! THE LIPS!

I think I need to transfer out of NHHS.

Just kidding, again.







Now dream of him tonight and tell me what it was like tomorrow.
























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I want to watch Jennifer's Body and all the other zombie movies. Like Shaun of the Dead. You know.




Toldja Foxtrot was magic. Found this on Tumblr, but I happened to see it on last week's The Sunday Times as well. LOL @ Paige though.


Click to enlarge! I bet you can't see the words. It's funny though. xkcd is always funny.

Oh, and, Halloween's gonna be here in three days and I'm not going for any party (as usual), but if I were, I'd totally steal this rad idea:





Never underestimate the power of a vintage female comic book superhero, complete with the red dots and thick black lines and all.
(Source)

ANDROID 2.0 IS COMING OUT!!!!!

Yay for more uses for the Bluetooth.

Damn. Where The Wild Things Are isn't going to be released till next year. Whatever, here's Karen O's contribution to the soundtrack:


I want to mix my own concoction of Particulière, but I don't know how to get half the brands listed in Nylon's recipe. :( Arghhhhh the song Maps by YYYs is constantly running through my head. There's a name for this situation where you keep having a song play mentally and you can't get rid of the tune.

You Should Carve a Sad Pumpkin Face

You are sensitive, reflective, and fragile. You may not be sad or depressed, but you are in touch with your emotions. You're the type of person who doesn't really enjoy Halloween that much. You don't like the attention that wearing a costume brings. If anything, you may like giving out candy to kids... but there's no way you're dressing up for it! You prefer almost every day of the year, where you're allowed to be an introvert.

You Are an Orange Pumpkin

You are a bit average and ordinary, but that's a good thing. People appreciate you for who you are. You believe life's too short to not forgive and forget. You try to let the small stuff slide and focus on what's important. You appreciate the ordinary things that most people ignore - good friends, a warm home, a tasty meal. There's so much to be thankful for in your life that you would feel wrong to complain too much!

Why would being appreciative of the simplest things make me average when the average person ignores it? D-oh.

You Are a Zombie

Like a zombie, you can't really help who you are today. You're a product of your past. You tend to be needy to the point of being borderline dysfunctionally co-dependent. You literally can't exist without other people. And once you set your sights on someone, you become obsessed with chasing him or her down. When you want a person, you're not exactly subtle. You are forceful and honest... you have no trouble expressing what you want!

I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE DESCRIPTION! YES I'M A ZOMBIE.

You Are Psycho

You think there's nothing scarier than the anticipation of something horrifying happening. It drives you insane to be in suspense. You prefer scary movies that build up your fear and resist overwhelming you with scene after scene of gore. You like some thought being put into scaring you. You find the idea of being totally vulnerable to a deranged killer to be incredibly frightening. You're the type of person who dreads being alone. And yet you find deranged killers to also be quite fascinating, psychologically speaking. You can't help but be drawn to what terrifies you.

The last paragraph is absolutely true.

You Are a Treat

As a kid, you didn't cause too much trouble, and the adults adored you. Now that you've grown up, not much has changed. You know that a little sugar is the way to get what you want in life, and you are as sweet as they come. You like to make things better in the world, and you don't mind following rules... no matter how silly they may seem. You are a truly good person, and there's very few of you in the world. Anyone who knows you is blessed!

You Are Candy Corn

Your Halloween personality is whimsical, colorful, and creative. You see Halloween as a time to get your creative juices flowing. Each year, Halloween can't start soon enough for you. You tend to go all out for Halloween. You decorate like crazy and always dress up.

You Are Disturbingly Profound

You're contemplative, thoughtful, and very intense. Taking time to figure out the meaning of life is a priority for you. Because you're so introspective, you often react in ways that surprise people. No one can really understand how you are on the inside... and that disturbs them.

*sticks out tongue*



After spending such a long time with my faithful Mikaela, finally, a phone manages to edge me out and make me feel envious. iPhone? Nah, you wish. It's the Android-based Sony Ericsson Xperia X3. (To think I dismissed Sony Ericsson after getting HTC!) It even has its own Rachael user interface:

AHHHHHHHHHHH. But it's okay, because:

Yeah well Mikaela is HTC Magic, if you still don't get the joke.

/facepalm

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Guitar Hero plus football equals:


That's all, folks.