To Think About

"Sure, Rick and I find common grounds to make our relationship- and also our relationship with our families- work. But it does not make things any easier for us when we lack support from the people close to us. It's heartbreaking that such narrow-mindedness still exists today."

-- Raphaela Sianandar, Indonesia.

That was an extract from Reader's Digest Asia April 2010, and the quote was by this lady on her opinion after reading this article "Love Knows No Boundaries" in the Reader's Digest Asia March issue. The article was about the stories of three couples from different cultures and countries who got together and how they made their relationship work.

I think what Raphaela's opinion is pretty true. I mean, it's a good thing (in a way) for people to look out for your relationship and make a negative comment if they think your partner is unsuitable for you- it just shows that your friends really care and are concerned for you.
But I'd rather friends keep these negative comments and only speak up if absolutely necessary. It feels much nicer to have someone encourage you to invest in something that makes you happy and will be there for you if things do not work out the way you wanted it to be than to have someone reject and criticize all your choices and tell you it's not perfect. Those words hurt, and sometimes makes you wonder if you're wrong and your friends are right; but you choose to ignore them anyway, because you know you're right.
Well of course there're friends that have been absolutely supportive and encouraging, and god knows how anyone can live without those friends.

There's this quote that goes

"Being happy doesn't mean things are perfect, it just means you've decided to look past the imperfections."

And that quote says it all.

Earth Hour

Earth Hour.

27th March 2010.

8.30pm-9.30pm.

During Earth Hour, I took a break from the computer and the designing and retreated to the candlelit terrace to finish my Chemistry Project. It was a total success. Not only did I save electricity, but I managed to finish the contents of my project. I even had the honor of being bitten by mosquitoes. Meh to that but yay to Earth Hour. :)

Unfortunately, my house was one of the few houses in my neighborhood which was in support of Earth Hour. Everybody else still had their lights on and were still watching TV. It's really sad that my neighbors don't acknowledge Earth Hour. Either that or they have no clue whatsoever about E.H.
Next year I shall paint a big banner about Earth Hour and hang it in the middle of the playground for everyone to see. Or I could go to Tenanga Nasional and ask them to switch off all electricity in the neighborhood and tell all the neighbors that it was a blackout.
Ahaha.

Earth Hour FTW. :)

Tik Tok, On The Clock

Today felt like a shorter day compared to yesterday, but none less busy. It's good to take a little time out to blog even if you are busy, I think it helps relax the mind and body a little.

So anyway, today was a pretty productive day: I managed to complete a quarter of my Chemistry Folio in school with Nic (Nic, you didn't even use all the reference books I brought to school whatonearth) and I had a nice, enjoyable time laughing my stomach empty listening to all the jokes Aaron L and Sean were cracking. However, there was this slight moment where for some reason I felt a little faint, but I managed to get a sandwich courtesy of Nic's one dollar. Thanks, Nic.
OH and today I made a new friend. It was a pretty unusual way of making friends, but yeah. Random.

On the other hand, work is still piling up and I still lack sleep. I haven't been sleeping well lately and I absolutely have no idea why. Hmm, I'm not stressed out about school work or anything, and I don't have any distressing thoughts before I go to bed.
Maybe it's my guilty conscience torturing me about my horrible exam results. I mean, I have been studying hard, but this term my brain seems to filter all that I've studied. Lucky my sister, who kept complaining that she didn't study at all but can magically produce superb results. I on the other hand am so hare-brained that I can only remember certain information that are actually of no use to my academic syllabus, and needs to have Physics concepts nailed to my inner brain to actually understand it.
Oh well, if there's one thing my sister can't beat me at it's card games. Yahoo! Haha.

Alright, now back to work. I'm planning to have everything, and I mean everything cleared off by this weekend. :)

Smile, Charlie Chaplin

I've decided.
Even though the workload is piling up, what with all the projects and the assignments and the designs, I've decided that there's no point in thinking about how I might not be able to finish all my work and complaining about it. Because you know, life's too short to be unhappy and unsatisfied. 

I feel like our first term break was ages ago when it really was only a week ago; and the past 2 days of school felt like a week full of classes.
However, I've decided that I will get through this month of hectic-ness and I will try to smile through everything- even the tough times (if there are tough times, which I hope there won't be) because what's the point of moans and a frowning face? Moaning makes you sound like you're in pain and dying and frowning might give you a distorted face. Stress makes you shorten your life span.
I certainly don't want to shorten my life span. I've got 117 things to do on my List of Things I Want To Do Before I Die.
And if I cannot handle high school senior year how am I ever going to handle college, am I right? I know some people crack under small pressure and some can withstand strain until it reaches their breaking point. But I believe one must never, ever cave in to pressure and strain (I don't think I've ever broken down because of pressure and I hope I never do); and I think that one must be strong and see the positive side of things (which is why I shall now stop dwelling on the negative things and be a MAD HATTER). :D

Do you know we humans see the negative side of things more than the positive side of things? That's pretty much why we hang onto every word of gossip and remember the bad stuff about people more than the good stuff. Psychology, yo! ;)
I'm not sure how much I've complained about and I'm not sure how frequent my complaints are but I realize it's not really good to complain about things, so I apologize to the people who might have been annoyed by my complaints.
So yes, I vow to make the best out of everything and try to see the fun part out of everything (I cannot promise this because right now I don't see the fun part of doing Chemistry and Moral projects and Physics PEKA). I am definitely looking forward to next month because there's April Fool's and my birthday. :) Yay!

I SHALL LET POSITIVITY RULE MY LIFE OH YES (with a little exception of complaints sometimes maybe).

If I can get through this month and still be aliveby the end of it, I shall bungee jump off Mount Everest.

Aha you see so yes: Smile, Charlie Chaplin.
:)

Study More.

If I can get through this month and still be alive by the end of it, I shall bungee jump off Mount Everest.

Why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk?

JOHNNY DEPP as The Mad Hatter is why we should watch Alice In Wonderland. :D
I love him. I love his eccentric red hair, his bright green eyes and that lovely Scottish accent he faked so well. Not to mention that colourful artistic bow he's wearing and the fact that he riddled "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" to Alice a couple of times. Oh, and his tea party. His crazy, kooky tea party.
And who knew that there're that many types of hats in the world? ;)

Second loved was definitely the Red Queen. Her enlarged head, her request for her pig and her squawk for demands to be fulfilled. She was funnier than the White Queen anyway. I think they chose the wrong person to play the White Queen. I mean, okay, Anne Hathaway is graceful but not graceful in a Barbie-princess kind of way, more like the Mia in The Princess Diaries kind of way. So yeah, couldn't really stand her in the movie.

You know, I completely forgot about Allan Rickman being in the movie! He was so unrecognisable without his curtain of greasy hair and his Severus Snape accent. He was much better as Severus Snape than whoever he was playing in the movie. Meh.

Disappointment in the movie: the Mad Hatter's Futterwacken. All the characters in the movie were talking about how the Mad Hatter could Futterwacken so wonderfully, and what came out was something like a mixture of breakdancing and body parts twisting. Or maybe that's how the Futterwacken really looks like. I haven't read the book, so I wouldn't know. But I was hoping for something like a crazy Irish leprechaun dance.

Fine, I shall read the book. One day. Who knows, they might've done everything correctly in the movie only to have audiences like me (who hasn't read the book) criticize it.
One thing though: the cartoon was better. :)

Conkers.

Today I realized:

1. The holidays are ending quick, and so far I have not done anything spectacular like try to finish one item on my list of Things I Want To Do Before I Die, although some things like buy my own team of snowdogs will have to wait.

2. The small bouquet of roses that Dad bought Mum for her birthday still smell nice even though they're wilting. It's so incredible how roses can wilt with such grace- that's what we should all do, age gracefully and NOT USE BOTOX.

3. I am still waiting for Inspiration to hit me like a rock. Though by this time tomorrow if I still don't get inspired I would wish for Inspiration to hit me like a brick house.

4. This holiday I have successfully finished reading The Little Prince and have finally picked up on Gone with the Wind again. Yes I know, it's taking me ages to finish this book- but it has nothing to do with the contents of the book- I've just been ignoring novels for the past few months. 


5. Mum has begun her don't-buy-anymore-clothes-ah-you-have-so-many-clothes-already lecture even though everyone knows a girl can't have too many clothes; and just the other day I intelligently snagged 4 items for only RM54. Feel PROUD. :)


That's all for today.

The Little Prince

I feel happy today. :)
Didn't really do anything productive, like homework or MoralProject or anything, but I still feel happy. :)

And you, you know why.
Haha! :D

NINE.

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So yes- NINE.
After watching the movie I wasn't really disappointed by the movie, because I had no expectations as to what the movie was going to be about in the first place. I rate it 5.5/10.

Anyway, NINE is pretty much a story about life and seduction. It's a story about a famous movie director Guido Contini who is a little confused and lost in his life. Surrounded by fame, ladies, the pressure of directing a good movie (his ninth movie) and flashbacks about the women in his life, he eventually loses his grip in the movie-making business, fails to even start directing his ninth movie, loses his wife and spends the next 2 years of his life wandering about aimlessly. Soon after, he gets a hold of his life and starts making movies again. TheEnd.

The thing about this musical is- not many people will find it nice. I for one found the movie quite boring- the vocals not powerful enough (except maybe for Fergie's) and the songs not to my taste. The story plot behind all the dancing and singing was rather nice though, and I especially liked the ending when Guido Contini starts making movies again. My favourite flashback of Guido Contini's childhood was definitely about Saraghina, the gyspy (played by Fergie). Her song in the movie was so far the best too (nice vocals).


My favourite musical is definitely still Annie. Yay to the little red-headed, optimistic, littlemisssunshine orphan. :)

Mom It's Your Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM! :)

Thank you for always being there when I need you and for being completely calm and understanding when I told you about that thing. Haha! 

So for mom's birthday we picked up two boxes of +Wondermilk's CuppaCakes for tasting. It isn't as nice as I thought it would be, but it's still pretty yummy all the same. What I've found out from +Wondermilk is that you can order custom-made cupcakes for special celebrations, friends & family's birthday etc. 

Which I guess is nothing special for people who can bake!, but still. :)

At night we went off to OneUtama's Delicious for a birthday treat, 

YES to smoked-salmon pasta!

and right after that late dinner we decided to catch the movie NINE at 11.30pm.

Went home at about 2am and slept for 9 hours and I still feel sleepy but who cares because it's the holidays right now, Ilovemymom and I'm going to go book WestSideStory tickets YAY!

Something's Coming

OHMYGOSH. :D
I just found out...that West Side Story is coming to Malaysia!
12 May to 24 May.

I . WANT . TO . GO . AND . I . WILL . GO.

 :D

Just in case you were wondering what West Side Story is, it's a really famous musical from Broadway.
It's a story set in New York City in the 1950's, exploring the rivalry between two street gangs called the Sharks and the Jets. The story is loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, about forbidden love and everything.
Well, you know, a classic. Haha.

Oh and yes, I do have this thing for musicals. Yay musicals. :)

So anyway, between a choice of going to Singapore to catch Chicago The Musical, which was initially my plan and spending RM200 buying a ticket (it's the cheapest ticket! WSS is coming all the way from Broadway New York, so of course the tickets are a bit expensive) and driving about 40 minutes to go watch West Side Story- I'll take West Side Story. :)
Sorry Chicago, HELLO West Side Story!

And now I'm off to study BM komsas and Chemistry.
I cannot wait for the exams to end.
Then again, no one can.
Unless you're some really crazy person who absolutely LOVES exams.
Hmm.

Making Peace.

But on the other hand:

HAPPY 14TH MY DARLING SISTER.

THANKS FOR LISTENING TO MY RANTS AND SHARING YOUR SECRETS WITH ME.

:)

Meh.

THE CHINESE PAPER KILLED ME TODAY.

I FEEL SO SAD. :(

I've never been so depressed about a Chinese paper. 

I mean, okay, so maybe it doesn't matter so much to other people but it matters to me. Just like how much English, or Chemistry or Physics or Add Maths might matter to you.

And what's more:

IS GOING TO SINGAPORE.

I want to go, and the only way I can persuade my parents to let me go down to Singapore to catch Chicago live all the way from London's West End is if I get super good results.
But, no chance of that happening now, seeing as I screwed a paper up on the very first day of the exams. :(

So yes, stupid exams.