its been WAAAAY too long

the title of this entry is self explanatory innit.

so since the last time i posted, i went to New Zealand, the land of the All blacks, Kiwis, Long white cloud and middle earth on earth, and Zane Lowe of BBC radio 1. i heard "drop it like its hot" by snoop "cluck cluck" d-o-double g at least 34 times on the inflight entertainment and also the original version of M.I.A's Galang. woohoo. that was but ONE highlight of the trip. i shant elaborate as that would take DAYS and a helluva lot of cmmitment on my past cos i tend to get long winded and too detaily when i describe things but now's not the time. For one thing, the Apprentice 2 is starting in half an hour and i have to catch up with Jac on the phone soon. so i'll try and squeeze in what else has happened since the last time i posted.

so after i got back from NZ, had loads of Xmas parties and merrymaking until the wee hours with my geragok(eurasian) side of the family. new years eve was spent at home..bleah..watched Die another Day or Star wars or summat. need chocolate to jog my memory. speaking of chocolate, went to the Cadbury chocolate factory in Dunedin, NZ where my mum went nuts and bought a ton of chocolate of all these flavours unavailable in S'pore. it last us for 6 months man...

so tried and squeezed in as much comp time as possible befor school started on 2 jan. Oh yeah, made my new specs too. (i lost my 4 month old pair of chester bennington specs as i call em in a motel in Franz Josef Glacier where we stayed and i helped my mum cook sardine curry cos we were so absolutely sick of ang moh food. ok thats not the point, the point is that my specs case got camouflaged against the carpet and left them there and there was no way we could make a round trip to get em. so yeah, got a new pair made in excatly the same style and colour. only collected them 2 weeks later and some of mah friends say that they have a purplish tinge. so i;m like, "no lah!" but actually inside i'm saying, "cool!")

so got all geared up for the opening of school and thought that since this is my O level year, they'd get us choked with hmwk on the first day, but to my utter disappointment(i'm being honest here) we didnt get any work started until the week after. dang. all that geared up-edness for nothing. but we did help out the tsunami victims(we as in the school and the upper sec in particular) by karang-guni-ying again and also goin down to mercy relief in bukit panjang to help pack clothes. dont get me started on the packing clothes thing...i was quite pissed witt the waything were done(for example, they all-manjan ppl put the Saris in piles WITHOUT the sari blouses and petticoats paired up wit em..what use is a sari without the other two??!! just shows how cooped up they are int heir own world)

so yeah, school started propa. ended up witht the discipline master for our phsics teacher but LO and Behold! the man is SO different as a physics teacher. and got mrs ash'ari for english. started off the first class in a very weird way. all of us had to stand on our chairs..(punishment lah). but it was kinda stupid. she's quite emo lah, but still like her. got mrs Goh for lit. surprisingly i'm enjoying her lessons, hanging on her every word almost. cos she's currently talking alot about greek mythology, the renaissance and stuff that i'm familiar with along that same line..all this is part of the introductory bit to shakespeare. i find it so immensely cool that one of the songs in "twelfth night" is immortalised in a real song by nitin Sawhney on his "human" album. woohoo! "O' mistress mine, where are you roaming?..."got sella for tamil again. das ist sehr gut. all the other teachers are the same. one PE lesson we had recently involved mr yeong, pacing around class preaching about nutrition, goals and his training regime for the 1/2 iron man marathon. that man is a fitness freak. and i cant decipher at all how old he is.also lost my belt..dang! thank God fifa lent me hers for the day..i would've looked like valli no. 2 walking around in my sec 1 belt(i only found out that it was lost when i woke up for school that day). oh yeah. forgot to mention CCA open house. had the Sang Torch booth for the first time. got a couple of names down from the sec 1 batch but who we really need are sec2s. but lets move on to guides. Woohoo! managed to get almost all the badges sorted out the friday b4 the open house..phew. luckily everyone had 2 badges at least(as far as i know). myself on the other hand, have 16 badges in total! ;) far out.

ok, moving away from School life, Adil ray was still in pakistan on holiday during the first week of Jan but luckily bobby and nihal dont take 1 month breaks. *pft* jay sean, the disappointer, instead of coming to southeast asia like he was suposed to is off in india filming a bollywood movie cos his song "one night" is in the yet to be titled mvie. bleah. pissed. how could he do this? hrmph. but he's still a 10 on the buff-o-meter ;)

so went to stay at aunty margie's over the haji weekend cos my parents went off to bangkok for spa-ing and shopping. my 19-year-old cousin Shamini was with us cos she was back from melbourne for the school break. spent most of the time there watching the australian open and playing either badminton, pingpong or mini-rugby. also found a book in her bro Sumana's room(me and my bro's crashed there during out stay there) called "gods Demons and Such" by RK Narayan, excellent book chronicling the various stories about hindu gods.love it. (a bit ok backgroud about Sumana: he went to RI, was an equestrian rider on the 95 SEA games team, a nat'l rugby winger, RJC alumus, UNiversity of Michigan Ann Arbor graduate etc etc) thats the stuff acheivers are made of...

ok anyway, gtg watch "the trump show"..gute nacht. i'll try and update soon. bye