Let's get down to BUSINESS...

It seems that it took me one year later to enter a post here again, which in fact, it's not. It was just five days ago. School ends relatively late on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. Tuesdays end the earliest! Wednesdays end quite early too, but it's CCA day, so the happy thoughts of going home early drain away. Too bad.

It's homework. Homework and homework.

And What did I do?

Do it. Do them. Do all.

It might be taxing but I think it really drives me to push forward to my best and I like it. I like the feeling of being busy, it perks me up although it can be really irritating at times becuz you don't know where to start.

Oh!! Many things happen in school during the past week. There were auditions held for casts to play in SYF Drama. Xingyu went for it and landed himself with the role of Edgar, in King Lear. Well, congrats to Xingyu! :D I got myself in Photography and honestly speaking, I have doubts about whether I will be happy there. Sure, photography is my interest, but I'd prefer my CCA to be a sport. I abandoned the thoughts to join Hockey with Jiamin, its trainings are on Wed-Fri! How lethargic will I be after all those lessons already??? I missed the tennis trials cuz I was still sick! There were only 3 girls selected into the team... sigh. Monday was my first Korean IDP lesson and I was on MC that day. Still, I made a trip down to school just for it cuz I am paying for it! The teacher is quite interesting and she's Korean. Very native, which is good, cuz only native Koreans can impart you the correct pronunciation of their words. At least, that's my sentiments. Thursday was the second lesson and the teacher gave us homework, which I completed it in the wee hours of last night. It's quite simple and really fun. I know it may not be easy to learn a completely new language, but I will try. 8 more lessons to go! There's also this CD-AYL convention hosted by JJ. All secondary school leaders from S'pore, China and M'sia gathered to camp in our school. Senior Cao was made to help in one of the programs of the camp - Lantern making competition. I think he had some fun there, indeed, he had also gained some meaningful experience from working with the campers.

Since taking Econs, I have try to read The Business Times to learn more about the economy in the world. Sad to say, I've only just finished the first set of The Business Times I brought home. Many articles are on the US economy and I think they are really good reports. I've also come to learn that the depreciating US economy was due to some housing matters happening in the US. The second set of is still unread. :P

The last article was about R and D. I took it down for fun cuz it's kind of related to Senior Cao. R and D is his CCA. Lol. I don't know, but now I think I like reading newspapers. Newspapers are now not filled with mundane colours anymore and the coloured pictures really entice me to read the articles. However, I've not been reading The Straits Times for a long time, I should go back to reading it someday soon; that is, after I have finished the second set of The BUSINESS Times.

I'm feeling very hungry now!! Talking about hungry, Senior Cao told me Solomon's trademark to tell people to concentrate on their homework is: '我现在很饿, 要吃人了. If you don't do your tutorial, I will eat you up.' Eh, I guess it's kind of funny. Haha. Well, then I told Caoxun that my trademark is: 'If I'm under stress, I will bite off my limbs, just like what a stressed octopus would do.' And he said my TM is kind of scary.

I'm signing up to be a CSL in JJ with Zoe. Senior Cao is contemplating to join it too, but we are wondering if the J2s are allowed to join. Since I'm in photography, I will go be a Community Service Leader and make some mark while I am in JJ! Yipee!

Maybe I will just expose my new bag to end off this post:

A day with an eccentric doctor and another day with tennis

I'm sick, still quite sick and I don't enjoy every moment of it. I could just feel the yucky lump of phlegm in my throat and it's making my chest feel tight. I haven't master the skill of spitting phlegm out of my mouth and will never master it. It's gross enough to have it at the throat, much less than the phlegm touches my tongue, NO WAY! I can only wait for it to be vomited out! I went to see the eccentric doctor whom I have not seen since I was three. I think so. He sat me and daddy down and talked to us. We simply explained to him about my cough, phlegm and flu.

'You've been sick for 2-3months.' The doctor said.

'Er... 2-3 weeks.' I corrected. He shook his head and said,

'No, months.' I pondered for a moment and agreed with him.

'Yeah, I was sick in January and recovered.'

'Yes, your illness went "ding dong ding dong" (his meaning was that my illness went on and off). Show me your left leg.' He instructed.

As I stretched out my left leg, I asked: 'For what?'

'Ahh... your left leg is swollen......' I stared at my leg and saw that there wasn't any obvious change, how was he able to see it? He continued,

'Actually, you did not recover from the previous illness. The infection went to hide in your kidney and has come out again. What we have to do is to prevent it from going to the lungs.'

'I'm going to hit you really hard.' He told me and gave me MC for today and tomorrow. How I wish I can be healthy and be back in school with my friends!

So I went home with the medicine he gave me. There are three anti-biotic, a flu medicine and a cough mixture. He added some stuff into the cough mixture and the nurse told me to shake the bottle real hard so that the powder will be fully mixed in. I vomited that evening, my dinner was emptied out of my stomach but not the phlegm!!!! ARGH!!! Why can't the phlegm just come out altogether at once????? I don't know what words I should lay down and explain my predicament. Not too long before, my chest felt really queasy after my medication. But it seems like I'm not going to vomit at the moment. I shall wait, WAIT!

One information to drop your jaw, the doctor didn't even use his stethoscope to examine me, all he did was 'chat' with me and he was able to know my condition. Clever huh.

Phlegm, Phlegm, go away, never come to me again! (Sung to the tune of Rain, Rain, Go away)

Tennis trial is up on Wed, it was postponed to this week cuz it rained almost non stop last Wed. Just as well, I was sick that day and Mr. Chow told me to come back next week (which is this week). I met another girl who was potentially waiting for the tennis trial to start. She was on the phone with her friend and I went up to her and asked her if she was going for the trial. Her name is Constance. Constance held me on then came back to me once she ended her call. Indeed, she was waiting for the tennis trial. She was urging her friend to come along just now. So Mr. Chow postponed my trial and since Constance was waiting for the trial too, I helped her ask the teacher if the trial is still on since the weather didn't promise us a 'sunshine after the rain'. He then decided to postpone the trail! YES! I thought I could use the time between to get well and train my mediocre skills. But it seems that I'm still sitting here, sick. Hope I will recover by tomorrow!

I arranged with my uncle on Friday to use the tennis court at his condo. So, in spite of me being sick and feeling gawky after my medication, I went on head to head with the tennis ball. Well, as it seems, my mediocre skill is still very....mediocre. What can I say or do? I nearly fainted after my short tennis practice. And it really makes me want to give up on tennis and just stick to the Photog Club. However, since I made it thus far and since I made the effort to hone my skill, I shall head for the trial on Wed and the teacher will decide for me.

That's me going to pick the ball in the first picture and me trying to challenge my daddy in tennis.

Ok! I've finished the second sequel of Shopaholic - 'Shopaholic Abroad' aka 'Shopaholic takes Manhattan'. Seriously, when I read the first and second book of this Shopaholic series, I feel that I kind of detest the main character, Rebecca Bloomwood. Like I said, she just can't stop spending. She has so many overdrafts and still doesn't even bother to pay attention to them. She even asked for more overdrafts. Her eyes just can't dart away from apparels and many other things! Becky also gives herself excuses and multiple reasons to buy the stuff she laid her eyes on. Her spendthrift attitude took a toll on her. She was featured in Daily World as a Spendaholic and a woman who relies on her boyfriend for financial assistance. Her boyfriend was even mentioned to be facing some sort of bankruptcy, because of her! Serve her right, right?

Her boyfriend was a successful businessman, the founder of Brandon Communications. Luke Brandon was angered when he saw the article and kind of blamed Becky for it. His motive in coming to New York was to set up his business there and he already had some problems with the backers. They weren't very willing to invest in his business and now, they would be more unwilling to invest cuz they think he was going bankrupt. So, it seems like Becky had also landed her boyfriend in hot soup. She, herself was unemployed after this incident. Becky left Luke in New York and went back to London on her own. She left saying that Luke wasn't ready to be in a relationship at this point of time. But, you know, love always bind people together no matter what. They got back in the end. Nothing to be very fascinated about. Finally, it was realised that Luke's employee, Alicia was plotting against him and his company. They purposely got Becky into trouble and in turn made Luke's reputation turn sour. The thing is, Becky was the one who discovered Alicia's plot and I guess the author gave credit to Becky for it, so that the readers won't have a reason to hate her so much. I must admit that some parts of the story is quite hilarious. It's worth reading it, but if you do not want to be distressed by Becky, don't touch the book.

One more thing, there's a moral in this story, that is not to be a SHOPAHOLIC like Becky!!

Shaun sent me a get well message not too long before. How nice of him, thanks Shaun!

PS. I strongly believe that my Chinese zodiac has a part to play for my illness. My Chinese zodiac is at loggerheads with the Rat. So, you can see, as I step into the Rat year, my health deteriorates!

Day 1 234 567

Ignore the title, it's just for filling up the empty space there. We are starting to have homework already, as in ACTUAL homework now. It's not like during PAE, if you can't do the question, you still can leave it blank and go back to school to ask the teacher. But it's different now, I must at least crack my head hard to attempt the question at all costs! Still, if I don't know, I can go back and ask the teacher. Bit of an irony huh. Still... I think you can understand what I'm trying to convey.

Forget about Taekwondo. Mummy and daddy discourage me to join that one, it's dangerous! Next week's tennis trial is really anticipating, I'm going to try my best. At least I'm into the photography club already, lol. There's another dilemma: If tennis fails, should I join hockey with Jiamin? I really wish I can be in a sports CCA and she really hope I can accompany her to crash that CCA. Oh well, let's just sit back and watch the show.

Today is the day Shaun joins us for lunch and trips to the library when we are having breaks. It's an addition to our family! I mean, our group of friends! Yay! We are all classmates, I believe that if we hang out together often, our class spirit will be strong. Oh! My class belongs to Bannister house now, I prefer Rono though. My civics tutor is a Rono teacher, so by right, we should be following him too. But we are not sure how the planning of the houses goes. If it's indeed set that way, then I will just let it be.

I really appreciate Cao Xun for lending me his valuable notes and teaching me homework. He's indeed a wonderful senior one can ever have. Thank you Senior Cao! :D

And I'm still sick!!! I don't understand it. The phlegm is choking me and I think I will be going to the doctor's for the third time now. This third doctor is different, he can totally cure me, I know it. Everyone in my family knows it too, he's a weird but good doctor.

Talking about the library, I borrowed the second sequel of The Shopaholic book. Annie lent me the first book and I like it. But one thing about Becky Bloomwood (aka The Shopaholic) gets on my nerve, she just can't stop spending!!! LOL! I will probably do up a review on this book after I finish it. Until then, shall we? I might also flaunt my new school bag in the next post. Opps, am I spending too much like Becky?

Delights!

They say women are fickle, I don't know. I feel that I'm a little fickle now....not as in liking another boy, that is. I'm fickle cuz I like another colour now... I used to like sky blue very much, I still do. However, it seems that the things I choose to buy now tend to be more of the colour pink. I guess it's because of me forever choosing blue colour products that my inner-self wants to have a change. It is protesting for a radical change! Relating it to Economics learnt in school, the demand for pink colour products increases while the demand for blue colour products decreases. Of course, that theory only applies to me. LOL. The food that I eat also becomes pink:

I never prefer strawberry flavoured foods, but the sweet colour of this cake attracted me so much that I bought it. It costs $0.80, still affordable.

Then again, it is not true that I totally ignore the colour blue. I saw this blue Nike bag at GP about a week ago. I thought of buying it cuz my blue Puma bag is a little torn. It is quite cute, patterned with mickey mouse like ears. It also comes in black, orange, white and...I can't remember. It's not that expensive but I will only buy it when I really really need it. I hope there's still enough stock when I go purchase it! Fingers crossed! I was searching on yahoo! for the picture of the Nike bag I want but couldn't find it. Instead, I found some really nice blue colour bags from various sports brands:

I like the colour, they look so cool! I'm not into them though.

School reopens in 2 days time. I can't wait to go back and meet my friends again, I was on MC for the last 2 days of school and I'm still not fully recovered up till now! How am I going to have PC(aka PE) on Monday? Grrr... and the CCA thing is really making me feel conflicted. I want to join tennis. I signed up for photography. Now I'm considering taekwondo! Ok, I'm telling myself this at the moment: First choice, tennis. If fail, then taekwondo. Third choice, photography. I don't think joining taekwondo will be difficult. If I really join it, I will be kicking butts all the time! Wooo! I can really feel the vibe now!

Soon, I will be going for Korean language lessons conducted by the school as an IDP, it's been all I wished for. The venue is so very convenient as it will be conducted in school! Jiamin is going with me. I seriously can't wait any longer!!

Random thoughts...

It's a rainy Wednesday morning and I'm still down with my cough. It's almost more than a week already. The cough is as bad as keeping me awake for the first 2 hours when I go to sleep every night and I would wake up early to start the coughing again. My stomach muscles have gone wobbly from all the coughing but I think the medicine the doctor prescribed me yesterday did their work. I feel better... I gave up sleeping in further today and got up to bathe. I popped the television, flipped the channels and settled on Prime Time Morning, channel 5. After a while, I came online and Xingyu chatted with me. He gave me this riddle his brother told him. Before I reveal the riddle, I have to emphasize strongly that Xingyu do not take credit in its making, neither do I:

'Why is the cockerel crowing when the kitten falls into a pond?'

BECAUSE....

A wet pussy makes the cock happy!!!

Yeah, I agree it's perverse but it does make your lips curve upwards, right? :) The smile on you fades when the next topic is being brought up. The SKINNING of ANIMALS ALIVE!! It was an email forwarded to me by my friends. I've watched the obscene video, I just can't believe the Chinese men have the heart to even do it. The animals were truly pathetic and helpless! Someone or some organisation please save them and stop all these from happening again. I cried as I watched the video, it was definitely.... mere words can't be put down to explain my feelings toward the poor animals. The last part when the skinned raccoon held up its bare head before giving in to the darkness was terribly saddening. That's how all those rich people obtain their fur coats - at the expense of these animals' lives. It's no wonder Princess Mia in Princess Diaries wants to safeguard the rights of animals. The unspoken voices.... save them please!!!

The sex scandal of Edison Chen and his female sex partners created a storm in the entertainment industry. I feel that it is not worth for him to quit because of all those sex photos being disseminated. Don't get me wrong, I am not supporting Edison but it's such a pity that he has to leave the Hong Kong entertainment industry after working in it for so many years. I, needless to say, disagree with his actions. Must he really take videos and photos of him making out with his sex partners? Is it even necessary? If he'd really wanted to, he should have saved his files in a hard disk or thumbdrive and delete the files in the computer before sending it for repair. How could he have been so careless? He had not only disgraced himself, he had also caused embarrassment to the girls. The culprit(s) who disseminated Edison's private files was/were in the wrong too. It is an infringement of Edison Chen's privacy! Anyway, the scandal has come to an end with Edison apologizing to the public through a media conference and this should serve as a warning to all people, to think twice before deciding on video taping or shooting themselves having sex. First, the Tammy scandal and now Edison, who's next? I hope there isn't any more 'who's next?'.

No book or movie review ready to blog, just Random Thoughts...

Until next time...

It must be love...

OK! So, because of some reasons I deleted my previous blog I created... and all along after that I've been thinking: 'Hey, I can always blog about other things and still be who I am, yeah?'

I like to read books and watch movies, so I thought, and have always thought of writing reviews about them. I think it's gonna be really exciting cuz I can feel the tingles of excitement running through my veins now!

Right, today I'll start with the book, 'It Must be Love' by Rachel Gibson. This is actually the second book by this wonderful author which I read. She's under the Little Black Dress books company and you can just tell what kind of genre this book is in just by reading the tag line: 'Pick up a Little Black Dress, it's a girl thing.' Romance is the word to describe the genre!

I think it's kind of nice to have a company like Little Black Dress which produce all the romantic novels for girls/women. I don't know about others, but I think the books suit me well. Currently, I own 3 of Little Black Dress books. 'It Must Be Love' is one of them. The next is Rachel Gibson's 'The Trouble With Valentine's Day' and the last is 'Hex and the Single Girl' by Valerie Frankel. Just to satisfy any creeping curiosity, I coloured the titles not only to highlight them but to show people how they are seen to me. The colours match the colours of the book covers.

'It Must Be Love' is a story revolving between two unlike individuals. Gabrielle Breedlove and Joe Shanahan. The former is an antique shop owner and the latter is a police detective. The story goes like this: Gabrielle's business partner, Kevin Carter was having his hands full on illegal selling of stolen antiques behind her back. Gabe, as Kevin calls her, was too trusting to believe this fact when the police told her about it. At first, the P.D suspected both Gabe and Kevin were involve in this case and had detective Shanahan to tail Gabe while maybe some other detectives went off to tail Kevin. Of course, Gabe noticed this stranger stalking her in the park when she went for morning jogs for the past week. She carried out a plan to nab this stalker and found out that he was actually a cop. He arrested her back to the police station for assault and for carrying an empty derringer. It was at that place when she knew about Kevin's case. Events moved on and detective Shanahan had to pose as Gabe's boyfriend to get close to Kevin as an undercover.

During that period of time as Joe was posing as Gabe's boyfriend, sparks of love shot through their hearts. They'd taken a liking for the other party but didn't admit it. The girl thinks he's not enlightened enough and the guy thinks she's crazy. But when Gabe was sure of her feelings for Joe when the case was near closing, he walked away from her! Like a chicken! He upset her and she left her town to her grandfather's with her mother and aunt Yolanda. Her heart did mend after a month. It also took Joe that amount of time to be sure of his feelings for her. They met again and he wanted her back but of course she walked away like he did, depriving him of what he wanted. However, he managed to coax her back into his arms with the Yin and Yang necklace. She had told him he was her Yang but he didn't understand it before, now he do. So it's a happy ending soon after. They were married and Gabe was preggers!!!

Isn't that what all girls hope to have in their life? For me(and maybe for many others as well), I wish for something really extraordinary and yet normal to happen to me and then voila, I have the love of my life beside me, forever! It's hard to explain what I'm wishing for and it's hard for it to happen. You can only think about it but it doesn't happen at all. Let's put it this way, I wish for a magical event to happen, which will then trigger a string of other events after it and then with a wink of the eye, I see myself in a cosy little home spending quality time with my husband. That's just about the typical type of romantic stories you read from novels. It's that simple, but will it ever drench on me?

It did drenched on Gabe though. She's a beautiful woman, 28 years of age. She concocts new aromatherapy oils and spa mask and believed in karma. Her quirky mindset scared the hell out of Joe, which added some cute humour in the book. Joe, a man 35 years of age is starting to get worried about not having a family of his own. He's strong and bulk, a hunk many women would die to possess. Haha! But not me...I don't go for such mature men. Joe is portrayed as stubborn and firm and his character is drafted pretty well. The entire story doesn't seem fake and absurd at all. Normal people in normal professions and in normal illegal deals but the whole seemed magical. It's like having someone up there preparing the next scene in your normal daily life with magic.(Yes! Magic!) I like the way Gibson can provide details on how detectives work in order to nab a criminal. She's an author but she is familiar with the police issues. It shows that she gathered the right guidelines. Come to think of it, she may have been watching all episodes of C.S.I, hence she's able to write stuffs about the law. :D Gibson had also slowly showed the progress of Gabe and Joe's relationship, leaving suspense to the reader now and then about whether or not they will be together. To spoil the fun, I actually guessed what will happen in the end cuz it's the typical type of romantic stories. Girl and guy fall in love, they had some qualms, parted for a while then got back together and get married. I'm not trying to say that the book is no good or whatever, if it's not good I wouldn't have bought it. Nearly forgot to add, I think Gabrielle Breedlove's name is kind of spun up to fit the story, ain't it? Breedlove, as in breed love. Breed the love around you!

I too, like Gabe, believe in Fate. It is Fate that brought her to Joe and vice versa. In my own life, it's the same. It's fate that brought me to my family and all my friends and I love them all. Hehe. So, will Fate give me a hand and land me in Team JJ's tennis squad as my CCA? Although I signed up for Photograhy, but Hope is in me. Hope is there telling me there is a chance for me to be in tennis, but will Fate bring at least 6 more girls with me to join it? I like photograhy too but it ain't the first choice and I will feel empty if unable to join tennis. Don't worry, whatever the outcome, Fate has it in its hands for us. If I landed in Photograhy or somewhere else, I will still have fun!

Until next time, with another book or movie review in my head, ciao!