romeo and juliet? nah. it’s GNomeo and juliet!

it’s opening in theatres next year! 😀 goodness. i think i’m so… gonna go watch this. love the part where one of the female gnomes tell the mushroom: “you’re such a fun guy (fungi-geddit??!!??)

one of the bestest disney movies ever :)

it’s a twist on rapunzel, the classic fairy tale. a twist that kinda gets tangled up, you know. hahas! the trailer’s really hilarious.

and this one too. it’s the best educational film ever. it teaches you the definition of… grounded. hahas!

time’s running out!

we officially have 3 school days left as a class. just three days of the ever so fawesome 113’09/213’10 left. *cues sad music* and everyone’s been sending around such sad emails in the class yahoogroup, i’m gonna cry reading them. and i have stuffs to say as well, but knowing how many emails y’all would have (i have almost 4000 in my inbox now, all facebook spam), the email’s bound to get lost somewhere, so i’m gonna dedicate a post to all my really awesome classmates whom i’ve spent half of my secondary school life with.

dearest two thirteen oh ten, also known as one thirteen oh nine,
we’ve been such a wonderful class for the past two years, even though we might have some low lows at times, such as… stuffs that i don’t wish to mention. however, there are some high highs as well, such as when we won practically all the inter-class humanities quizzes last year (hahas!) and of course, our third in drama nite just a few days ago. i guess those are just a few achievements our over-achieving class has achieved. but achievements aside (these aren’t too important, i guess), we’re one of the most bonded classes in the whole cohort. yes, there might be cliques, but the lines dividing cliques are so fine, we just cross these lines and get to know more about our classmates, and actually, when we do, our class grows closer.
113’09
it was our first year in RGS. first day of school: with my horrible memory, that day’s kinda vague. there were some snippets of it, here and there, but i couldn’t exactly remember everything, all the little details of it, and such. and the thing i remembered most clearly was that i was sitting beside meng xue in class. and we didn’t really know each other, kinda clicked over music and stuffs. (i guess i was a little quiet then…)  first week of school: orientation week was pretty fun, quiet me didn’t really get to know everyone that well. but meng xue and i totally bonded. hahas! and i guess she was the first to see my maaaaad self (hi bestie! if you’re reading this, feel honoured!) uhm… i can’t remember much, just the PSBs organising really fun games like “invaders” for all of us, and we had such a fun time screaming our lungs out during the game… oh. learning the raffles cheers? yeah. we were kinda shy then. but look what we’ve became after orientation camp? and one thing i could remember pretty fondly was when we first met ms chan. it was kinda hilarious. i can’t exactly remember her exact words, but these were the ones i put into e tiny little letter in e scrapbook i made for her this year, and in her biography (for english AA), “get back to your seats, i’m ms chan, and i’m your form and english teacher this year”.
okays. that was a glamour-ified version of what she’s said. actually, it was… “chop, chop, get your butts onto your seats. *giggles* i’m ms christie chan, and i’m your form and english teacher for this year” and she just burst into class with her high, perky, american/british/australian/i-have-no-idea-what accented voice. so we met our teacher (who always has such a fun time laughing and giggling at us. i’ll be quoting her loads later)
orientation camp was the last two days of our orientation week. i can actually remember the exact spot i slept in the hall. and i do remember that meng xue was wimmie then, and we shared her phone to listen to music at night. >< and on e second day (it was a saturday), we woke up to our first ever house meeting, which was kinda cool, cause we all got new house tees! >< i still do remember trying to figure out which side to turn to, when we were doing e combined house cheer (i still haven’t figure out the correct side till now)
and after the whole thing, we had to perform for our ‘rents, who were invited, and it was our first ever class effort, it was a mini drama nite i guess. and i do remember louise being the really fierce boss (her name’s “scarlet”) who was screaming at her employers. and xinhui being  little scarlet, who raised her hands, going “i know! it’s people-centered!” hahas. fond memories when we were little kiddies.
first year was pretty fun, i mean, why won’t it be? with some insanely maaaaad people in class like lea and gen and jean and miao (who first introduced us to potter puppet pals and helga fontinella), and a few kinda blur ones who has… ahem. SELECTIVE HEARING (hear me now, yenjean? i mean, daddy? *giggles*) and of course, someone who always bursts out… “who is the first quadriplegic in zero gravity?”, only to have the whole class going in a really bored and annoyed (sorry, ariel) voice, “stephen hawking…” O.O'” and coupled with a dash of fun craziness and an equally bizarre teacher who happens to think that “you guys are so bizarre!”, it’s the perfect formula for a really fun school year, with touches of *screams* hilarity and such. and then the first year of school was done. we were pretty glad we weren’t going to be separated to other classes (but something i, and i guess some of us, were pretty sad about was the teachers who left the school. like mdm rozanah, who was the one telling us some pretty scandalous stories during our lunch lessons. and mrs sia as well, who’s pretty caring as well. and then there was ms chan, who would not be our english/form teacher anymore…)
and then double… trouble? second year as 213 was pretty fun. i mean, after one whole year, we got to know each other better, and it was cool that we did. i never knew that little ms perfect would sleep in class… or that louise, the oh-so-awesome actress doesn’t like being hugged, or that yenjean was that overly mad. i can’t really remember the first day of school this year, but i think someone will. one of our dearest secretary LAST year who took attendance for the first day of school this year (thanks!) actually went up to ms tay and went, “are you debbie tay” and then… oops! got a stare from her. hahas! and i guess that’s when we were introduced to our lit/drama/english/form teacher for this year (that most of us, sad to say, have a love-hate relationship with. >< i didn’t say anything!!!)
hahas. this year was much much busier than the last. more tiring, more commitments and such. sometimes we just wanna go back to J Block and be the “little kiddies” that we used to be. but no. we’ve evolved into “kiddos”. *cringe* oh the stuffs that teachers call us. (quotes ms chan again) “teaching your class is like teaching LITTLE FAIRIES cause y’all move and run around with no evident reason at all!” *double cringe* little fairies? oh, okays. that seems… nice. thanks for giving me an idea of what to dress up as for halloween. oh wait. it’s over.
stuffs were sometimes, just hilariously crazy. and funny. i’ll always remember yenjean as the one who might need a hearing aid that can remind her to wear her shorts on drama days. and crystal for being the oh so organised, perfectionist class chair. and nicole not just for being a science genius, but also a kinda litty/dramatic friend as well. and xinyu as someone whom i can always unleash my inner-geekdom to (hahas! i guess y’all don’t know that i love playing WoW and FPS games huh? and i adore MMORPG games.) uh… Lea! for being my awesome term-two tablemate (we sat, for two years, as tablemates in term two.) who comes up with loads of weird, random and kinda coldly funny puns who reads loads of teen fantasy fiction. i mean, looooooads.
bwa! now, where was i, anyways. oh yeah. second year. i guess we were a little tired, and some of us drifted apart (some of us just can’t wait to claw our eyes out at someone else… but i don’t want to talk about this here)
i guess this year was pretty eventful. and we had kinda awesome teachers to guide us through. and even tho i do understand that some people do not exactly fancy ms tay and her way of teaching, but she’s actually pretty nice and all. just a little… idk how to describe it. moody? at times. but she’s actually taught us quite well (if you haven’t realised, she’s actually gone through quite thoroughly the passages that came out for e R&J Lit exams with us.)  oh, and i’ll remember her as the dramatic one, who acts really well, with loads of nice books to borrow, and has a not-so-secret crush on her robert patty.
so, we have only bout three days left as a whole class, and most of us, as zhang laoshi told us, won’t be in the same class as each other, and i’ve kidna calculated, if we split the whole class into 15 different classes, then there will be only bout 2 or 3 thirteeners in the same class. which is kinda sad. so thank you everyone in class, for making my first two years in secondary school such a fun experience that i never expected to have, and for giving me such fond memories that i’ll have a great laugh at, 20 years down the road.
love you guys, and as much as i would like to stay in the same class as all y’all (with the exception of two people… O.O) i know i can’t. so, good luck for the future, and KIT (keep-in-touch)! you can always facebook me. you know i’m always on facebook!

loads and loads and loads of love,
Rach3L (taaaaaaaay) 😀

day before drama nite.

it’s mad. i’m tired. arrgh. really. even though i’m only doing e backstage work, i’m really really tired. maybe it’s just cause i skipped lunch today. maybe… >< but sighs. i’m seriously tired.
did e make-up for some people today, with meng xue… sighs. pei shan and the other main make-up people weren’t around in class, so i had to help, and therefore, so sorry people. i have no idea how to do make-up for other people. only myself… it’s pretty awkward, when you’re doing it for other people, cause their skin quality and skin tone’s really different, so you don’t exactly know what to do with them. and since it’s drama make up, it has to be pretty dramatic, and that’s what i’m not too good at… so sorry crystal, for being made look like a possum! but you were a pretty cute one. hahas! really! especially with the pin! 😀 anyways, we did a pretty good job (that’s what i think) there, and we were e first sec 2 class to perform! yay! *cues applause* i don’t think that e singing was bad, even tho some people told lingwei so… so lingwei, don’t feel demoralised. emily too! we’re actually pretty good, and if ning hui decides to play piano accompaniment, i think everything will be perfect. i think e only thing that’s lacking is e emotions. (><) sighs. sing with more emotion!!! okays. i don’t think that’s easy. i mean, i got a hell load of ‘fun’ trying to sing like i’m panicking. it sucks.
but e actresses were really good. so don’t worry! and even if y’all go off tune or anything, i don’t think people will realise, cause it’s only y’all singing! don’t worry too much. just… sing in the shower. hahas! 😀 and maybe the school toilet tomorrow, although it might be a little too stinky for your liking. and you might risk suffocating in there. ><
anyways, we have loads of people to thank tho. our awesome script-writer turned… idk. assistant director turned lighting manager? crystal aka e possum who is just so… organised, and great at getting everything done really efficiently! and then there’s our director louise who has been cheering us on, directing us, guiding us and stuffs, how awesome! and she’s the one who encourages when we’re down. and then there’s our awesome sets turned stage manager yenjean! who’s really great organisation skills make moving sets in and our really efficient! and of course, there’s the cast, lingwei, emily, annie, bridget, chen xi, nanshan, joanne, xinhui, sarah… whose awesome acting (and for some, choreography) wowed many people (i know right. the dance in e second scene’s just awesome.) uhm… and there’s e make-up and costumes people (that i’m supposed to be part of, before i ‘transferred’ to sets), meng xue, pei shan, zhixin, joan, alicia… thanks to these people, the cast won’t have to appear on e stage nude. hahas! jkjk. and the sets people… lea, gen, miao, jean, yenjean, nicole… and finally, our scriptwriters and composers, who are kinda like, the backbone of e whole play, crystal, yenjean, cihui, ning hui, daniella…
sorry if i’ve missed out anyone, but you’re still loved. don’t worry!
oh goodness. i’ve just given a thank you speech, to e whole class. yay! 😀
213, mark my words, we’re gonna rock the house tomorrow, and we’re gonna make ms tay feel really proud of us-we might not win, even though we want to, and we’ll strive to, we know we’ve worked hard enough to, and even tho ms tay did make it pretty clear to us that she does want us to win, but i guess, even if we don’t, she’ll still be proud of the fact that we’ve tried, and we’ve bonded and learnt a lot through the whole experience. this is the final ‘project’ we have as a class, so we’re gonna do it really really well!
break a leg peeps! you’re loved! 😀

-Rach3L

arrrrrrgh… eh?

read the title out to understand it. arrrrgh (R). eh (A).
hahas. i’m going mad. today was e RA selection test, and i think i rambled on for e essay. sad… >< sighs. hope i do get into history RA. i really do want to get into an RA class. i really do…
sighs.
nothing much to blog about today. school was just… boring. we had nothing much to do, we couldn’t do much, cause everyone’s out for RA selection test. sighs. ><
<3,
Rach3L 😀

o-v-e-r.

it’s finally over. drama nite.
we did a really great job today!!! And we’re in the top 4! 😀 miss tay will be so… proud of us (she expects us to win, so jiayous!)  we had such a great time doing e back stage props and stuffs, damn fun. and i wonder how did e “strippers” do. hahas! they had to get the cast changed really fast, and are therefore called e “strippers”, cause they had to strip e people down to e costume that they are already wearing inside. hahas. emu had one of her buttons done wrongly. thank goodness it was e bottom, so it wasn’t too bad. but yay! we got into the finals! almost there. you had no idea how it was for us to actually be called last. i mean, when they were announcing e results, it was like, 204, 211, 209… sighs. maybe we can’t get in… two one… oh. it’s 201. three!
wait. *screams!!!* it’s us?!??? did she say 213? ohmahgawd!!! screams! Screams!!!!! we were awesome! yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

odyssey of the mind. the auditions went okay-ish. they balance out to be okay-ish. the long term problem was fun. miss chan seemed to like it all. okays. she seems to like everything. she’s just… so nice! and so sweet! hahas! so we started off with the dance. and it was quite okay. i had a few stumbles, when i kinda forgot my move… >< sighs. but it was pretty okay. and janice (yay!!! i remember her name now) was so… awesome! she learnt the whole dance in like, 10 minutes! she’s really really good. okays. i didn’t get to watch her, cause she’s behind, but if she’s able to present it to the teachers, she’s really good. and fast. and miss chan had a pretty great laugh at our long-term problem (which isn’t that long term), it was like, halfway through e performance, she started laughing out loud (before that was just a few giggles here and there, and snickers from the seniors), and then idk why, she started laughing i forgot where, but it wasn’t really suppose to be that hilarious… and we were like… uh… for a while, and then oops. continue. hahas. sighs. she was farnee. i have no idea how we got to music and stuffs. and talents… uhm. oh. SYF. miss chan dropped e bomb on us. (i never knew) that OM was just a week before SYF. but i’m sure i’ll cope. i mean, i’m kinda familiar with hua mulan already. and i’ll just have to learn the other set piece. just worried about the sec ones… >< sighs. we need our sec ones. i mean, e seniors just have to make sure all our notes are accurate, emotions are easy (for me), and then polish it, but e sec ones have yet to finish playing e whole piece!!! hope they’ll cope. and yeah. i guess it’s fine. and then she started asking about idk… oh. instrus that we play. (erhu!!!! yaaaaay! i less than three xianyue.) and then asked for other instrus that we play. damn farnee. us: piano. ms chan: anything more.. portable? me: portable piano? annie: we learnt how to play e recorder. seniors: laughs and snickers.
damn.
oh, and then e talent thingy. had a great time thinking about materials to make one of my designs with. “we don’t have the budget for satin and organza, you know” hmm… I know exactly where to buy stuffs. for a really cheap price. and daddy’s got all e spandex we need. mwahahahahas! 😀 and recycled materials… trashbags/paper bags, anyone? oh. and pom poms.
and apparently, they said hula hoops don’t work. but they do. FC senior did it! 😀 i know right. people in FC can make practically anything, really. we should just have a collabo. and oh. i was thinking… hahas. toilet paper. and… dum. dum. dum. veggies. yes. i’m serious. veggies. it’s possible! anything’s possible on project runway! hahahahas! really. i think that’s just something that they don’t watch. according to clara tay, they watch glee. but really. project runway’s recycled materials episode’s always the best. all the weird materials come out. oh. and… hahahas. table cloths and rugs as well. and… stuffed toys as well! remove e stuffings! mwahahahas. i’m a stuffed toys killer. just like casanova. hahas. he’s damn hilarious.
and i have no idea why. miss chan suddenly popped a random question. i have no idea how it’s related. but, it was: are you a perfectionist?
the moment she said that, i was like. wth?!? please do take a look at my pigs sty room with books, clothes, bags, worksheets, random stuffs lying everywhere. then you’ll know whether i’m a perfectionist. but on the other hand, when i do want to do something really much, i’ll do it to my best. and will try to make it perfect. and that’s when i throw away i have no idea how many “rejects” before getting a perfect one. sighs. idk. i just told her i’m not much of a perfectionist. and that when i don’t do something well, i’ll try to touch up to cover up e mistakes, but i won’t redo it. which isn’t exactly true. (refer to above) sighs. and then she asked whether i’m open to suggestions, and i was like… duh?!? hahas. i am. i don’t push them away. but i’ll think about it before i do decide whether to change or not. and usually i’m kinda stubborn. but if i do want it done well, then scrap whatever i’m thinking. i’ll accept their opinion. new paper/canvas/cardboard/materials please…
but overall, e interview was pretty fun. oh. and they had to torture us… >< sighs. apparently one of e seniors. no. most of the seniors there were from problem 3, and they atually did wayang (aka chinese opera) then, for their performance earlier this year. and for the fun of it, they asked us to do it. and we took e line from ma li lian (aka marilyn monroe in chinese). o.m.g. it was damn epic. so sad, i cry. so sad, you cry. so sad, everybody cry cry cry cry cry… >< and the “panel” just had a great time laughing. bleah!!! and e one lone soul there who’s from prob 5 was like, “i’m disturbed (by these people)”

spont wasn’t that good though… >< ms may tan and ms regina lee… sighs. they were staring with a poker face (p-p-p-poker face p-p-poker face…) at us during verbal spont. now i know how people are like when they have botox, the inability to smile. sighs. except their wrinkles are still there. wait. don’t tell them i said that! i want to get into OM kays?!!! but yeah. they still didn’t smile at all. oh goodness. reminds me of posh spice. hahas!

but it was pretty good.

and then there was farewell with e sec 4s, and they loved xianyue’s performance. hahas! they were laughing loads at the “hope you get a boyfriend” part. and then after that, leevoon was like, “no!!! we won’t get a boyfriend anytime soon, so please don’t hope…” and i was like, you’re just speaking for yourself… hahahas! no, i didn’t say that.

and then after that, when we went back, annie and i met ms chan.
*shudders* but at least having her for OM was better than having ms tay. we peeped (from e window) into e room for her side, while waiting for spont, and she was stoning. hahas.

anyways, i’ve gotta go get my beauty sleep now. tata!
<3,
Rach3L 😀

OMnomnomnomnom

O.M madness, part one! (part two comes next year, if i do get in, right before e sing finals)
and i really really really do hope i do get in. and… dum dum dum. MISS CHAN IS AUDITIONING US!!! Yaaaaaay! hahahs. she’s nice. and the worse she’ll do is to give e “huh?” look. she won’t stare, like miss may tan. but ms tan’s gonna take us for e verbal hands-on spont! arrrrgh!!! 😦 but sighs. thank goodness miss chan’s auditioning us for e performance. (chen xi’s team got miss tay. and chen xi’s “thrilled” about it. hahahas!) at least we won’t have someone scrutinising our acting (phew. i still have no idea how to sing worriedly. maybe when i’m anxious tomorrow, i’ll learn how to)
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! my portfolio’s done. and it looks really pretty! 😀 and idk whether to bring my barbies and whacha call that? oh, pottery to school tomorrow. my bag will be really heavy if i do. ><
but it’ll be better if i do, right?
gotta go run through my lines!!!
<3,
Rach3L 😀

oh….. wow.

there’s two more days left till OM auditions! 2 more days! gotta get my script memorised, or i’ll have to do impromptu. which isn’t good. cause you’ll see my eyes rolling up, and that’s the “i’ll think about what i have to say” look, which is simply unprofessional. and then i’ll have to act. arrrgh. sighs. and the schedule clashes with drama nite auditions’ i think. >< sighs, hope we do have the time for drama nite, i mean, emu can’t leave us!!! emu’s e lead in drama nite’s performance. and emu has to help us change e props as well. and she’s the ‘naughty’ spirit as well.

sighs. oh, and i have to sing check yes juliet worriedly. how the heck am i supposed to do that? i’m currently googling: how to look and sound worried while you sing. this is baaaaaaaaaaad.

it was pretty farnee today, when we went to check our OM schedule tho. chen xi and i were walking towards the anderson staffroom, and then we saw this lady, (actually, later, we found out there were two of ’em there), and chen xi was like… is that miss chan? i stared. and stared. and went… uuuuuuh… chen xi: no it isn’t. it’s a girl. and then i was like, nope. it’s not miss chan. it’s miss chan AAAAAND miss tay. (this shows how tiny miss tay is. she’s practically unspottable behind an already petite enough miss chan. arrrgh! EEEEEAAAAAT!!!!)
goodness. i never knew miss chan looked like… a girl. chen xi!!! hahahas. damn farnee. and the reason when i was like… erm, and uh… was cause i was trying to see whether miss tay was there. it seemed like she was, and it seemed like she wasn’t. >< *cringe* and then when we met them, it was like… uh… hi miss chan. oh. hi miss tay. *heehees (tis a nervous laugh) oh, and i think they’re taking e sec ones, they’re like… scrutinizing the list of sec ones who are auditioning. oops. the little ones, better watch out :O

anyways, i’m going back to mousehunt. really. the game’s addictive. i’m gonna rank up soon. one more percent 😀 and i’ll be an apprentice! yay!

multiplying beibers

as if one justin beiber is not enough. there are 5 of them now. oh the horror (they’re pretty good though. much better than justin beiber, i guess, considering that they DO  NOT use auto-tune)

buttered bread. can we just eat it?

was at a western dining etiquette workshop our school required us to attend just now. and i realised how difficult being a perfectly lady-like person is. i mean, first, you have to s’lide’ gracefully FROM THE LEFT into your seat. and then you have to know which cutlery you have to use (i’m fine with the cutlery. mummy taught me when i was younger. from e outside to e inside, and then the top) but trying to be ladylike was so… difficult, i wanted to give up on it.
when they give you bread, they don’t expect you to eat it as a whole. they want you to peel it off bit by bit, and butter the slice. that’s retarded. why don’t they just let you butter the whole thing and then have you munch on it as a whole? oh right. it doesn’t look nice.
not that i’m against behaving perfectly gracefully, but don’t you see how difficult it is? by the time we finish peeling off the tiny bit of bread, the bread is all squashed. and the butter had just… melted. oops.  how gross. it’s even more unglam for us to eat such a gross looking thing isn’t it? really. they have such… flawed logic.

and then comes the soup. you have to scoop outwards instead of inwards. this, my dad AND mum have constantly reminded me since i was a kid. but i still am NOT able to do it. i mean, scooping out? isn’t the food supposed to come towards your mouth, and not away from it? come back my food! don’t run awaaaaaaaaay!!! yeah. this is apparently the situation. sighs. scooping it outwards is so tiring for the wrists.

next, it’s the chicken chop. i don’t understand why they have to serve use chicken chop, when they’re expecting us to be lady-like. chicken chop. we’re supposed to chop up the chicken, aren’t we? and since when is chopping became perfectly acceptable of ladies of the high society? do you even see the queen of england holding a knife, trying to hack something? i don’t think i’ll ever get to see that. i mean, i don’t even get to see the queen of england, so i have no idea what she does in her free time. maybe hacking the chicken’s head? or is she a vegetarian? who knows.

they should never give use chicken chop, when they’re teaching us dining etiquette, i mean, it’s so… messy. the cling, and then a clang, and then a whossh! “yaaaaay! mummy! look at me fly!” calls out the chicken. oh wait a minute. it’s dead. but anyways, i managed to drop my knife when cutting the chicken, thank goodness the knife didn’t stab my thigh. i don’t wanna risk being someone else’s meat. eew. human thigh eh? i think chicken’s better.

whatever it is, chicken CHOP should not be served. something more… elegant like foie gras would be a better choice. of course, then, people would have a great time hacking the goose’s liver. poor mother goose.

then there was a cake. which was the most decent dish. but maybe that’s just caus everyone gave up trying to eat like the women of the high society. i wonder how they manage to do that? i don’t think they even do manage to keep their straight posture, with elbows off their tables, looking so fabulous as they pinch off their bread. i mean, i don’t think they even have to do that. look at paris hilton. her daddy’s a billionaire. oops. sorry. i mean, her gwam-papa’s a billionaire, and she’s a hostess, but all she does is to get weird films of her posted online, get down, drunk and dirty, look like a tramp with… a tramp (called tinkerbell. no, not the adorable sidekick of peter pan. of course not. it’s a dog…) and get her fingernails and toenails all painted. i don’t think she even has to suffer being such a ‘lady’.

goodness.
i have absolutely no idea what i’ve learnt there, it’s pretty crappy. other than the fact that guys will always have to wait on us, of course. i mean, that goes without saying. oh, i was just telling meng xue then, that if a guy actually wants to hook his arm across yours, you can just try putting (or chucking, as violently as you can) your clutch (best if it’s hot pink, and make sure there is nothing expensive innit) into that hole where your arm is supposed to be linked across his, and then leave him with your clutch under his arm. mwahahahas. and if it’s a hot pink one, all the more better.

okays. i’m just really evil now.
teehees!

tata!
<3,
Rach3L 😀