Last week:

- baked almond coffee cake! Yum!

- watched Helios II at Marina Barrage. There was a grand explosion of fireworks at the end. Pretty!

This year, I’ve had sleepless and sleepy nights. Sometimes, work squeezed every ounce of strength in me till I had none left by midnight. On sleepless nights, I think about my friends. Those who I miss dearly, I wish to see them soon. There are nights I cross my fingers hoping to be accepted into business school. When I finally got offers from NTU and NUS, I jumped in delight. I seriously did not think I would be offered my first choice. Last Friday, I accepted the NUS offer. Although most of my friends are going NTU and some are going overseas, I still believe NUS is the right place for me. Although the Biz course at NUS is a year longer than NTU’s, I’m still happy as a lark! But I’m gonna miss all my friends. Honestly, I don’t know of a single soul going to NUS. So if you are reading this and you accepted NUS, please give a shout out so I know that I’m not alone.

I’m going for the MOE Scholarship Interview next Tuesday. I was told that I placed Teaching Services as one of my choices for the PSC Scholarship but I’m pretty sure I did not! If I get the scholarship, I have to take Economics and drop Business. I really have no idea which is better for me. This is called an ultra huge gigantic dilemma man! It’s gonna chart my life route. And I’ve gotta make a decision fast.

I realised that more and more people from the US are reading my blog and I fail to understand why. How do they even know of it? I don’t link my blog to anything at all. This is creepy and outright strange. Maybe I should be like Gimlim, locking my blog and only inviting friends to read.

Watched Henry Poole Is Here last week. I do not recommend you to watch it unless you’re thinking of falling asleep while watching. The plot is lame and I don’t even understand the ending. Its vague and without basis. Just don’t watch it! I wanna watch Angels and Demons! These kinda movies are thrilling and keep you on the edge of your seat.

Regarding the Aware saga, I feel that although it is a tad too irritating considering how much press coverage it received, it is a good thing that it was brought up. Imagine if no one had the initiative to voice their opinions on the content they were teaching in schools, many parents would not know of it. The new guard had reason to intervene because what they were teaching previously is clearly wrong. I however do not agree with the way they took over. It was too sudden. Then again, what other way could they have done it to bring this issue to light. This is not an issue of religious views; this is just plain morals in our society. Just because homosexuality is becoming more common doesn’t amount to it being alright. Just like how terrorism is becoming more prevalent doesn’t mean that it’s fine. Duh, it’s not. This is a question of morals. It is not to say we should discriminate against gays, rather we should not encourage it. We can always accept and embrace them as one of us. Just like how we accept and embrace prostitutes. YEAH?

2008 and 2009 has unmistakingly been a horrible year for many. Besides the fact that the US has a black president or the fact that the latest season of American Idol is hands down the best ever, we’ve gotta admit that catastrophe is everywhere.

In the past few months, we’ve seen the credit crisis, the Sichuan quake, the quake in A’quila, the Kinglake fires, the Mumbai bombings, the swine flu scare, the Turkish bloodbath, the protests against governments around the world, the Tamil Tigers plotting attacks, Israel and Palestine at loggerheads for years, suicide bombers everywhere. The aftermath played out in slow motion and is playing out still. These are grave reminders that our world is degrading instead of improving.

A tearjerker movie may take us on an emotional ride but the headlines of people dying everyday leaves us cold. It’s become the norm.

Talking about movies, I’m reminded about Red Thread and Fighting Spiders. Red Thread is lame. The acting is so stiff and the pronunciation is far from great. Fighting Spiders is kinda cool. The fattie Charlie is so adorable! American Idol Semi-finals tonight! Yay!

Last month, Zhen and I had a mini celebration for Nut. Gimlim couldn’t come on time. Haven’t seen Gimlim for a long long time. Worse, I haven’t seen John since A Levels. He wasn’t there at Prom. Did I see him on results day? I have bad memory man... Anyway, I really miss all my friends. I hope Zhen chooses NUS!!

The floorballers did not miss the NJ-VJ match. No way! We were rooting for or juniors and I would say even though they were defeated, they played amazingly well and I’m proud of them! Later, we hung out at Junction 8, eating amidst bright orange lights and suspicious cleaners. We had a blast catching up with one another, shooting the breeze and taking pictures with a horse/shoe. Not to forget trying to take group photos but always cutting Chewyan out of the picture. Man, it was funny. Chewyan was trying her best to stretch her hand but the lens refused to let her in. Hahaha!

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