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OMG WOMG GUESS WHAT, HIGHER CHINESE O'S ARE FINALLY OVERRRR :DD Okay fine, I guess I'm overreacting, considering we only have to take O's for one subject, but stilllll. Initially we were all under the impression that we'd be gloating like sugarbitches after our EOYs, because everyone else'd still have their O's and we'd be DONE ((: But noo, that was not to be the case. After our EOYs, we still had a 16% Math test on multiple topics, and our HMT O's ;;____;; So, although after EOYs we tried to linger in our false sense of freedom, we were still not yet completely free. Like... a bird with its cage door open, but guess what? It's got its leg tied to its perch. And then, as the dreaded HMT O's drew near, we were all holding our breaths, because I don't know about the rest but honestly I didn't know what to feel about the O's. I didn't know if I wanted it to drag, so I wouldn't have to take it so soon, or whether I wanted it to come quickly, so that I could get it over and done with. Womg and last night we were at my grandparents' house like every Sunday, and they all kept talking about it; then I got so jumpy that I couldn't even sit still at the dining table during dessert without my finger twitching and my eyes moving around on the mental 公函 I'd projected onto the dining table. To everyone else, it must've looked like I was studying the table :X I can just imagine them all thinking, "Poor girl, look what the stress has done to her." Oh dear.
And afterwards when I was sitting in the living room with my Chinese file in my lap, some busybody went and turned on the telly, and I got completely distracted (at least it was a CHINESE show!). Then I noticed someone staring at me out of the corner of my eye, so I turned to my right and saw dad smirking at me with this totally evillll grin that totally screamed, "Mhmmm, so you're studying, eh? 8D" And then he looked very pointedly at my Chinese file, very pointedly at the TV screen, and very pointedly at me *raises eyebrow*. Yes, he raised his eyebrow. Sometimes there are teensy weensy disadvantages to having a dad with an amusing sense of humour XD Oh, but he was really nice and calm about the whole omg-I-have-O's-TOMORROW thing, because after I told him I'd be free tomorrow (which is actually today) at 12.30pm, he was all, "Oh, so you only have how many hours? Come, I'll count for you... take now as 8pm, you only have about SIXTEEN HOURS TO GO!! And look at it this way, 8 hours you spend sleeping." Mhmm, encouraging eh? :D And no I wasn't being sarcastic, it actually was quite encouraging, cause at that point of time all I wanted was for tomorrow to come and tomorrow to come soon like right now soon. MHMMMM.
Oh, we'll be having Matriculation Day tomorrow. I have no idea what that means officially, but for us it's supposed to mean that we choose our tentative subject combinations. I'm not sure if there'll be any formal registration and the works, but I'm pretty sure about the subject combination part. I'm taking (tentatively, technically) H2 Math, H2+3 Bio, H2 Chem, H2 Lit + the 3 compulsory subjects. I want to take H3 Lit though! I wanna take H3 Lit so baaaad. (And here Shakira is complaining that she can't take BOTH H3 Lit and KI; hellooo I can't even take H3 Lit alone!! Waaa.) But I've maxed out all 12 points, sadly. And although they'll let you take 2 H3 subjects if you're really good, I doubt they'll let you overshoot 12 points )): And dad kept doing hwaiting poses when they mentioned KI during the RJ talk, and whispering to me across mom, "You can do it! *grins like little boy*". I tell you, it must be the competitive spirit in him that emerged when the principal said "only students of a certain calibre and standard of English, etc, etc, can take this subject". Ugh, and I had to tell him that it's not that I can't make it, it's that I don't have the points to take it. Darn. Not that I ever wanted to take KI in the first place, of course, but honestly once they put a sign labelled "academic criteria" on something, something in my dad and admittedly me as well nags at me to take it. It must be the genes :X Darn, if I didn't have to take H2 Math then I could always take H3 Lit, but unfortunately med school wants me to take H2 Math so fineeeee (since everyone who really knows me knows that the only person/thing on earth I ALWAYS LISTEN TO WITHOUT FAIL is called "med school") I shall take H2 Math. Of course, technically, under "Basic Requirements", they say you only need H1 Math. But everyone knows what "Basic Requirements" means; aka, they flip through your application in front of the board of directors, then throw it out in the trash when noone's looking. Therefore, H2 Math, here I come!!
I seriously, seriously need to get a headstart on those books I have crammed in my room. Here's a list of all the books I still need to finish:
1. Lords and Ladies, Terry Pratchett. (Yes, I know Shakira hates him, but I still ♥ him nonetheless; and this book is way overdue. Thanks a lot, Lich.)
2. Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman. (Mhm, NEIL IS LOVE. ♥ *waves book at Yui* Okay fine, I shan't be mean. Tell you a secret, I haven't actually started reading it yet ;___; )
3. DGrayMan Vol.3. (Manga, just bought today.)
4. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett. (Sorry twinn, I've been keeping this for AGES.)
5. 剑客行Book 2, and half of Book 1.
6. Evolution, Carl Zimmer. (Sorry AGAIN, twinn :X )
7. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder. (Ditto. I'm ashamed of myself *blushes*.)
8. The Twelfth Card, Jeffery Deaver. (Author of The Bone Collector, that nice movie with Angelina and Denzel.)
9. The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde.
10. Everyone Worth Knowing, Lauren Weisberger. (Author of Devil Wears Prada, the other nice movie with Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep, and most importantly all those gorgeous gowns.)
That's right, all these books lie stacked up in one (very neat) pile against the wall in my room. All except "Lords and Ladies", since I'm desperately trying to finish it by tomorrow, and "Fragile Things" cause it's still in that MPH plastic bag on my desk. DGrayMan doesn't count, cause it's manga and everyone knows that all my manga either stays unopened or zipped away in a ziplock bag, where the yellowness and silverfish and dogears can't get it :3 Only now they're not all stacked up there anymore, cause I moved half of them here so I could copy their authors' names XD
We went to Mise todaaaay! I didn't buy anything, but Chris/Shakira bought Suju pics. Notice the slash in between. Buttt, we watched an awful lot of DBSK!! ♥ Cause they installed a new TV, and they were playing the O JBH Showcase, so all of us went nuts. And all of a sudden Ally, my long-lost twin (with a single N) appeared! So we both went nuts together and screamed like madwomen and almost broke each other's hands/shoulders XDD As if I wasn't high enough, when I came out Sam ambushed me with Miracle, and womg we started singing together cause the moment I heard that song I went all high and giggly again. I swear, that song will probably stay my longest lasting favourite song ever *____*
(I think we were all a bit overly high after HMT O's.) XDD;;;