In reference to Su Jean's recent blog post:

"Taurus teens have a paradoxical mix of laziness and the capacity to work very hard." 

LOLOLOL I find this statement very true. I am very lazy, but I can work late night hours and pass out after. Maybe I work late night hours because I'm lazy. I don't know.

But I definitely am lazy.

You know when some hopeless romantic is all, "you can't live without love" ? And then some asshole comes along and goes, "Oxygen is more important"..

Are we merely surviving without love? How do you know you love something or someone when you haven't even experienced it before? How can you know if you even experienced love before anyway? Are you in love, or are you just confused and convinced yourself to just go along with it anyway to avoid conflict?

How do you know if he's really The One? How do you know if she is The Woman Of Your Dreams?
How are you supposed to know who to spend the rest of your life with? Sure, you can give me links to websites telling you signs that you're in love. But why should I trust their views on falling in love? Why should I put my heart on the line based on someone else's perspective on love?

When you care about someone, is that called love?

There's this quote, "Falling in love. That is the beginning of everything."

Maybe I haven't started anything yet.















NOW IS THIS POST DEEP OR WHAT.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHH These are the top comments for a Hellfire lyric video.

OH FROLLO. YOU AND YOUR HAHAHAHAH WHY DISNEY WHY.

This is insane. I just checked my stats and apparently, my most searched keyword is Gaspard Ulliel LOLOLOL 64 sources found my blog cos of him.

I knew Gaspard was useful and hot. i just knew it.

Please take a moment to appreciate the producers and directors and cast directors of X-Men : First Class for casting Michael Fassbender (such a wonderful, wonderfully hot actor) as Magneto. My hormones soar into the heavens with happiness.

Then listen to this "super theme song"


The guy combined 'First Class', 'True Colors' and 'Sublift' into one song. Which is pretty freaking awesome.

And for the ones with a small part of evil-appreciatitude in them, here's the mashup of "Frankenstein's Monster", "Pain and Anger", "X-Men" and "Magneto" ....

Before I start the post, I'll like to share one of the weirdest pictures of me ever to be taken. Extracted from Cik Adlina's Facebook album :D

WHAT WAS I DOING!??!?!?!?!? Everyone was like :DDD and I'm like >;) HAHAHAHHAHA I remember laughing cos teacher was so excited we stood there smiling at the camera for ages

Some people aren't blessed to be natural geniuses in school. Lots of people just have to work hard to get what they want from their academics.

Some people are like me and require understanding to the max. I have a friend who loves Biology and Chemistry. I HATE Biology and Chemistry. They're so abstract! Like, I can't see what's happening. And even if I do, it doesn't guarantee any understanding. You can't just make me conduct an experiment and expect me to understand.

School works like this. The teachers are knee-deep in their work, so therefore class usually goes like some factory process. They drill everything into you with Powerpoint presentations and give you lots of handouts (which are a pain in the ass to cut and paste.)...and then they expect you (if you ask me, it's more of a hope than an expectation) to remember everything and be able to answer the questions.

No.
Or at least, it's not in my case. I can remember something better if I understand the mechanics of it all. If it makes sense to me the first time, it makes sense to me forever. Which is probably why I like Physics better than Biology and Chemistry. Because you can see it happening, for one thing and there's a common sense behind it. To me, Physics is common sense, good grasp of Physic vocab and formulas.
Biology is more of a understanding of mechanics and remembering all of them. Chemistry is like Geo. It just keeps repeating itself and it's just there. It's set. There's nothing much about Chemistry that can be twisted.
Or at least I hope not.

Maybe the ministry should give less bloody paperwork to the teachers so they can finally focus on actually teaching us.

Or maybe teachers need to understand that Powerpoint presentations don't always work.

Or maybe I just need to shut up and do my work.

Goooodddddd. Exams are coming.

This scene wasn't as popular, I suppose. Cos I certainly did not remember this scene in Aladdin. But whatever. I saw a poll for guys on their favourite Disney princess and Princess Jasmine was pretty high on the charts. At least now we know why.

Belle topped the charts, though. My brother told me its cos she has her own opinion and she helped an ugly guy become good again and she actually fell in love with some beast appeals to the normal male brain.  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Okay.

Oh, and did anyone notice the scene in "Hellfire" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame where Judge Frollo was singing....



it happens around 2:10
One of the top comments was :

most epic reaction to a boner ever

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH oh Disney, why was I too young to realise all these innuendos you were leaving around in your movies?

So today we had this spicy-salty-bean paste steamed fish for dinner. And I was quite thirsty and after the first bite, I realised it was really salty. Like, really salty. So I just sat there and looked at the fish while finishing my rice and broccoli. Everything was so salty.

Then my brother was like, why aren't you eating the fish?
Me: Cos I have my period and for some strange reason I always get thirsty during my period. And the fish is salty, and the fact that it will dehydrate me and make me walk to my bottle and drink water and potentially filling myself too much to down the bowl of soup puts me off.

Everyone:

Its true. That's why sometimes I don't eat things. That's why I don't eat durian anymore. Because the fact that the stupid durian smell will be stuck in your mouth and fingers for like, EVER no matter how many times you wash it and everyone will know you ate durian.....that puts me off. That's why I don't eat durian anymore.

why are there so many pretty stationary out there? So pretty :( but so goddamn expensive. Screw you, economy :( Screw you.

I have debate by the end of this month, I have exams on the start of next month. The debate motion hasn't even been given yet, and when we get it, I'll have to balance researching and studying for my exams.

After that, I'll like to add my opinion on extra classes at school. Let me tell you what happens during extra classes in school. Teachers all spend half of our time introducing us to form 5, as if we don't already know. Look, it's not that we don't know it's SPM year. Yes, we know that our SPM results are like, the only things people will see in the future. Yes, we are aware that people don't care about PMR, they'll ask for SPM. Yes, we seem half-assed with our school work.
However,

Okay, here's the gist about the situation teachers are in right now. They have to wake up early in the morning, beat the traffic and get to school by 7 or get reprimanded by everyone above them. Yes, I get that everyone thinks the Guru Cemerlang are all arrogant and abuse their power. Yes, I am aware that our school organisation is half-assed. Yes, I get that the ministry keeps springing new ideas and new forms to fill at the last minute. Yes, I get that you have a lot of things to do and since almost all of our teachers are women, they have a family to take care of too.



But the reality of the situation is that to us students, school is merely an institution where you go to for the sole reason of meeting friends. School is where we all go for revision classes. We do not really learn much from school. And if the stupid hair and ridiculous rules are abolished, school will look slightly better.

Cos seriously, I don't see how anyone will be impressed by say, the school's official socks or the colour of our shoes. In my opinion, people will be impressed by a school if the school has a nice and friendly faculty, if the school office wasn't made for the soul-less and if the students are visibly friendly.

When there are tuition centres available, where you're free to wear anything you want, do anything you want with your hair, bring any bag you want to. As long as the teacher can teach, people will flock to your classes, I tell you. It's a fact. How is it that Ahmad can get so many students in his class? He's a good teacher, he develops a good student-teacher relationship and let's face it, the fact that we don't have to make our own notes is appealing. All you have to do is highlight and make some extra notes on the side. No cutting or pasting required.

I'll continue my dissatisfaction with the school system in yet another post.

To add on top of my debate and school,\; I have to juggle my extra tuition classes and my orthodontist appointments. I am also very very VERY behind my homework. I haven't finished my Math homework from last month yet. I have a half-assed excuse for this.

I have to stay back for extra classes and my extra-curricular activities. I have them four times a week, and I usually get home by 4 o'clock. I have tuition classes 3 times a week, sometimes 4 depending on the month. Usually in between school and tuition, I either nap if I can or I go shower, have a quick bite and go to tuition. By the time I reach home from tuition I am exhausted. I go to sleep at 11 and wake up at 5am. 6 hours of sleep is pushing it already, okay.



My Biology tuition teacher is a good teacher, but his fucked up analogy of what a student should do to get straight A's in SPM is seriously one of the most fucked up thing I've ever heard. I am not sacrificing my much needed sleep just to impress some college. As if scholarships are thrown to straight A students. If you think this is true, you're lying to yourself. No way can the government fund so many students. You think you're the only one who can get straight A's? Please review your life. 

Honestly. When the new neighbour moves in, they're gonna get some shit from me. It's already irritating beyond my mind that your renovation is disabling me to concentrate on anything. All that noise, what with the hammering, things dropping all the time, you demolishing half of the house to build a new half of a house.. it's getting quite unbearable.

Just this morning one of your workers did something that caused one of the telephone wires to fall -.- dude. That is one of the most retarded things to ever happen, like ever. It's bad enough that the renovation opposite of my house a few months ago caused our water pressure to go retarded, now you come do a huge-ass renovation that caused my phone line to go kaput.


That telephone line better get fixed, and fast. Look, it's not just my social network you've affected.
But I cannot fully blame you for your stupid renovation. Okay, I understand that you want a nice house and all, maybe you need the space.

Of course fate will cause those workers to do something with the wires the one week I need to catch up on my homework with. Of course my homework will have to revolve around the Internet. Of course. 

As I've said in the previous post, we've made it into the third round.

The third motion is : Science is a threat to humanity. We were going against SMK Datok Lokman. We drew lots and we got Government - the side that agrees with the motion.

Initially, we were kind of scared because there are SO many points you can use against us in this motion. Because Science is such a wide topic and it has done so much, there is SO many things you can say, there is SO many ways you can use it against each other. Science is basically quite a controversial topic, especially in the ways of the religious.

So anyway, we prepared for it anyway. What I can say is that we spent most of our time thinking up the contentions and our stand. We have our contentions, but how to call it? And then we had to prepare Hani for her part of the debate (can't really blame her that she doesn't have enough time to brush up on her English, but I really hope she improves her grammar and pronunciation.) and I was thinking up of the things they could use against us so we're prepared for it.

Time for the debate. It was in the library and we were surprised to see so many people showing up. In the last two debates, the audience only consisted of the reserves from both schools and their teachers. In the library, we saw the SAB students, the Datok Lokman reserves and students from some other school. And the fact is - all of them are friends. They all somehow know each other. Me and Pillai felt so inferior.

Okay, basically, the debate was quite entertaining. The speakers from Datok Lokman were seemingly very confident about the debate. I don't know, I just get this feeling that they're not taking it seriously because we're from Seri Mutiara, some school no one has ever heard of. Plus, we're new comers!

The opposition did not state their ultimate definition. They only defined Science. What about Threat? What about Humanity? What does the motion mean? Moreover, they were aggressive and to be honest, taunting. But that's okay, because well, we're in a debate and you do what you can and what you have to. Me and Pillai we were sitting among the audience huddled together like two worried Moms who just realised they send their kids to a bunch of barracudas. Until Kevin called it and said that the opposition were only talking about the benefits of Science, not how it is a threat to humanity. And since they didn't give a full definition of the motion, they couldn't really defend themselves on that part.

But the debate was okay. I understand that we both want to win, so some aggresion and some friction will happen. What really fucking annoyed me was the boy sitting behind of us. That boy is the biggest fucking asshole I have ever had the good luck to not see. When Kevin was all "Why is Science a threat to humanity?" the boy was all, "your brain."


As if that wasn't enough. He actually told the girl sitting beside him to buy some eggs so they can throw them at us. And they knew me and Pillai heard them. They came closer.

Hello, boy. This is a competition. The nation doesn't sink because either party loses. I felt like turning around and castrating him right there and then. But I didn't, because civilized people like me don't sink to low levels like that jerkface.

But in the end, we won the third round.
I hope that boy feels foolish about himself. I hope he changes for the better in being an overall person, especially in competitions. I really hope he does. Malaysia doesn't need scumbag attitudes like that.
The adjudicator felt that the opposition did a bad job at doing what they're supposed to do - opposing us. She pointed out some points that the opposing team could use against us. Fortunately for us, they didn't notice them.

The fourth round we were afraid of. Not only are we going against a school widely known for their achievements in almost everything, we were not prepared at all for the fourth motion. It was so hard to find anything for it because you basically can't when they already gave you the answer in the motion. It's quite hard to interpret correctly, or rather, quite hard to pin point what the adjudicators want from us on the motion.

Drawing lots, we were lucky. We got government and thankfully, we had some points. The motion was: Negligent parents legally liable in cases of child abduction.

Quarantine was quite a scene. We were racking our brains to think of some contentions for the motion. All of us, we were pissing in our pants cos our opponents are from SAB. They were busy thinking of contentions and a good stand, while I kept bombarding them with "what if they ask"s cos being cynical is being me.

Then, the actual debate happened in the hall. God, we were scared. We had no one supporting us. We had no one rooting for our team. Everyone was friends with the debaters from SAB.

Okay, I am now rewriting the post. My Internet crashed and the original post wasn't saved, so I'm just going to say..

We got second place! The very fact that we actually made it into the finals was surprising for us. We went up the stage to get our trophy with pride.

The adjudicator came and told us what we should improve on. And generally, she didn't say much about points. She just stressed on our confidence and style and language. Which basically means our language pulled us down, so SAB won -.- which means our points were good. Which if you ask me, is completely true. Even SAB's own students agreed. I heard them say it. Our points were strong, and relevant.

I suppose if SAB won it would've been bad for their name. But whatever. Getting second place is quite good also. And it is also announced that we're going for the state level competition! :D

Best of luck to us ;)

Today, me, Pillai, Hani, Kevin and Jin Hua went to SMK Bandar Tun Razak (henceforth known as SMKBTR) to represent our school in the debate competition for the Pudu area :D we practically channeled our inner clown skills when we all squeezed into teacher's Kancil. When we got out, my legs weren't my legs anymore.

SMKBTR has really friendly students! I'm seriously sorry if I sound like some English text book but cut me some slack here, I've been listening to people speak proper English the whole day! We've been speaking in proper English the entire day.

Anyways, back to business. SMKBTR has really friendly students. Like if you go to SMKSM right now, the students will give you that Look and look away. SMKBTR students look at you like we're all freaking old friends. Sometimes I wonder if we really know each other lol they're really warm and welcoming :) though their school looks really old and small, the students' friendliness really made up for it. Plus, they have a soda vending machine. Me and soda, we make sense.

First round, we are against SMK Alam Damai. Our first motion: Co-ed Schools are superior to Single Sex Schools.
We could see that the first speaker of the opposition (we got government, thank GOD.) really hated Kevin. Cos Kevin POI-ed him and sat down before the guy could finish speaking LOL
We messed up the format. Hani was supposed to state the definition before introducing the speakers. Me, Pillai and Cik Adlina especially were DYING in the audience. Cik Adlina was SO pissed off lol.
the adjudicators (judges) thought that both the government and opposition got off track with the motion, but we won! Cik Adlina told us that we won by a little, but you know. better than losing haha
The first round wasn't that dramatic cos SMK Alam Damai were quite composed and calm.
And the fact that the first two speakers from SMK Alam Damai were only form 2 took the fun from winning. It didn't seem fair. But for fourteen year olds, they can speak really well. No offence, but look at the form 2's in SMKSM now -.-

After that, we had a break. Food was okay... abit on the meh side. Then we found out we were going against SBS and we were pissing in our pants scared. Cos they looked really impressive and confident and c'mon. It's SBS.
During the quarantine, we spent the first 40 minutes trying to come up with a good stand. Then we found out we were running out of time and I really felt sorry for Hani cos she didn't know what was happening and she barely came for meetings so I think she couldn't really understand the motion.
SBS has style. The way they speak is really Americanised and Cik Adlina couldn't stop commenting on their usage of slang. Hani was stuttering and she was SUPER nervous and she slipped on her pronunciation and stuff. The third speaker from the government POI-ed her and asked all bitchy "can you PLEASE speak more CLEARLY so I can UNDERSTAND you?" -.- me and Pillai were like bitch. Sit down.
Faye, Cheryl's cousin was there lol. She was so sassy. Regardless of whether or not I know them, SBS should've done more research. They didn't even presented their stand.
In the end, we won :D

WELL. Going against SMK Dato Onn tomorrow and you can see that they're not fazed at all. We're like the underdogs of the entire competition. Every time they say our school's name, they're like "since when did this school even exist?" and were all chill la, cos we were like a lowly public school.
We'll be competing against them in the semi-finals for the motion "Science is a threat to humanity" and the fourth motion which we sincerely hope that we get government for: "Negligent Parents legally liable in cases of Child Abduction" -.- we need to bring out our inner lawyer for that one. That is IF we beat SMK Dato Onn.

Wish us lucckkkkkk