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[through the looking glass]
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[Jul. 3rd, 2009|09:17 am] |
It is truly disturbing when one reads about "fresh sheep placenta" being used as a beauty product along with shark liver oil and grapeseed oil in a "soft gel capsule" that promises to make the user look 25 years younger with prolonged use.
Fresh sheep placenta. One truly questions the sanity of this world. |
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[Jul. 3rd, 2009|08:55 am] |
Looking at the photos for the SIE, I actually.. kind of miss kayaking. It's a bitch and not as fun or fast as wurfing but the views are amazing. It's really quite awesome to be on choppy waters and kayaking right next to ships that tower over you. and then there's always the sea view of Singapore's skyline. The really quite unspoiled nature and general bumming around doing nothing.
It gets boring after a while and kayaking really doesn't require that much thought once you get it into your muscle memory but it's ... relaxing. somewhat.
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[Jun. 27th, 2009|02:46 pm] |
Today was fairly bizarre... Woke up and lazied around trying to decide between biking and not biking, but in the end, the guilt of not biking for about 2 weeks or so got to me and I dragged myself up, quite certain that today was going to be a slow/arduous ride.
And it turned out quite the opposite. >< Well, going to LH was fairly nice and slow, and I managed to have 10mins to spare for stoning, after which calls were made to roll.
That's kind of where it all started. Everyone started off pretty nice and slow so I quite innocuously 'clung' on to the back of a pack, and eventually they just started speeding up. It was quite fun actually since I was drafting and it wasn't tiring. Spin spin spin all the way till I reached the junction where I traditionally turned left, but the pack I was with charged straight ahead up a slope.
Tora *confuse*: ah... where do I go?
Snail Queen Joyce: Just go straight, since you're with the front pack.
Tora *still spinning*: ah, alright.
2 seconds later. Tora: ... what am I doing here what am I doing here what am I doing here.
2 minutes later. Tora *dripping sweat*: spin spin spin spin spin!
10 minutes later. Tora: ok, that was quite fun. whee.
Well, heh, apparently I accidentally managed to get myself stuck with the front pack, and with some advice from Joyce to not spin too much, I managed to stay with the pack all the way! (discounting the going up the hill bit. It was.. not much better than the Ngee Ann - NUS hills) averaging about 33-4km/h which was pretty nice. (: (also, apparently I improved. .___. )
hahhaa then came home and bombed. Tried to do work but fell asleep for half an hour, woke up pretty energetic. yay. wonders if I can train for AHM through biking hmm. |
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[Jun. 24th, 2009|08:54 am] |
"Economist Paul Collier estimates that the risk of conflict goes up 1 percentage point for each percentage-point decline in economic growth rates. "
interesting.. Morning reading includes the 2009 Failed States Index by Foreign Policy.
information is so addictive.. .___.
amongst other things, that is.
ok, well, yesterday was pretty good running day, did 4 sets of intervals! yay go Sera :D timings: 4.29, 4.22, 4.42, 4.38
Didn't manage to slow down to do a 5 minute pace.. I blame babu who was running behind me for my last slacking set and forced me to run faster...
on the other hand, running has ceased to give me a high.. NOOOOOO
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[Jun. 24th, 2009|01:04 am] |
Lol, so I was trying to sleep but realizing I was failing and got up and started doing my work.
and this was what I typed
"a spectrum leaning towards wtf is this shit." -> in regards to Twain's portrayal of society in Huck Finn.
lol. ><
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[Jun. 22nd, 2009|02:42 pm] |
Hahahha this is quite amusing. I was flailing about wailing about how I is so epic fail because I cannot find my wlit drafts with comments from Goh and Huck notes from the mouth of Lit God
Sera: *flails and runs around house* arghhhhh where did I put those papers??? Is so fail!
*runs around and rummages in drawer* YESH.
*brandishes the two wlits, which were printed on old econs IAs, hence explaining why she could not find them* hAHAHA IS LESS FAIL.
*paper with coloured scribbles drops out of same drawer* ... I THINK THOSE ARE CONNOR NOTES! BWAHAHHAHA
so, yes, my life is burlesque. ><
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[Jun. 22nd, 2009|08:13 am] |
Wonders if everything is too fast, too intense, too soon.
But she rather die knowing than live with uncertainty.
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[Jun. 18th, 2009|02:55 pm] |
So today after brain-fail, I picked a random book off Yam's shelf called "The Book of Other People", an anthology of short stories.
The stories in there were all intense in their own way, as short stories are wont to be, but this passage really struck me.
"I understand why people look at fountains, or at the sea. Because those don't stop. The water moves and keeps on moving, the tide withdraws and then returns and it keeps on going and keeps on. It's like - it's like that button you get on stereo, on those little personal players - there's always the button that lets you repeat - not just the album, but the track, one single track. They've anticipated you'll want to repeat one track, over and over, so those three or four minutes can stay, you can keep that time steady in your head, roll it back, fold it back. They know you'll want that. I want that. Just three or four minutes that come back. I want a second, three, four seconds, that will be all. I want everything back. No stopping, I want nothing to stop."
- excerpt from Frank, written by A.L Kennedy. |
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[Jun. 18th, 2009|12:25 pm] |
Hmm, is beginning to realize that the Drastic Mood swinging is.. pretty scary. .__. |
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[Jun. 17th, 2009|10:03 am] |
After yesterday's wurfing session, I realized on hindsight that I was slowly becoming one of those crazy wurfers who run out to sea and start planing..
But the speed high is... awesome. (for lack of a better word)
Though ulfp claims the wind was only around 8 knots max, I am pretty certain it was more than that cos I've apparently experienced 10 knots wind before and yesterday was faster and more uncontrollable than the 10 knots day. Anyway! Great conditions, no sun, good (though slightly inconsistent) wind and choppy waves.. Which reminded me of around 2-3 months ago, when such conditions would have me flailing instead of yelling in excitement.
I can explain the latter haha. Well, the day was spent heading up wind, doing lovely gybes (arch still very big, but can be corrected in future!) and 'blasting' downwind. Ok, so yes, I was using a 5m2 sail and the mistral prodigy board with the daggerboard so it's impossible to blast, but half my board was out of the water and I was staying on the board by clinging on to the boom and REALLY leaning back. ... And all this without even sheeting in much. In short, it was a blast haha. As I was telling Sloo when we were sitting on our boards and resting with happy grins on our faces: I don't mind falling down after speeding for some time heh.
The only thing was uphauling (a bitch as usual >_>) which was oddly difficult yesterday. Not sure if it's due to the rougher conditions. Anyway! Am really hyped up about planing now.. hehe I wonder how Uncle Chubby will feel/think if he finds out he raised a pair of speed fanatics. ^^ Sloo reckons he will feel proud, and in his words, a "sense of ownership" haha also, is a bit sad I cannot take my practical test this weekend due to the SIE... hope I can get it before the race!
After that, went off for a run at ECP.. I mean, since I'm already there, may as well run right? Realized that 1: I need to eat more, 2: need to train more if I want to do a sub-2 Half-marathon (which seems so unattainable now ): ) but oh well, pretty shiny sails at Mana Mana oO I wanted to molest them.
OK YES RAVED ENOUGH ABOUT WURFING. TIME TO GET BACK TO HISTOIRE.
Also, I miss biking. I miss rolling down mostly empty long stretches of road at 32km/h in the early morning. Heck, I even miss the lung burning sensation and the foot numbness. ):
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[Jun. 13th, 2009|07:57 am] |
WOAHHHHH SAFARI 4.0 IS SO PRETTY. :D |
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[Jun. 8th, 2009|10:20 am] |
According to wikipedia, the source of all that is reliable and true *snickers*
Kun (君 in Kanji ?, くん in Hiragana) is used by persons of senior status in addressing or referring to those of junior status, or by anyone when addressing or referring to male children. It can also be used by females when addressing a male that they are emotionally attached to or have known for a long period of time.
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[May. 13th, 2009|01:16 am] |
01:16. Am starting to like my world lit. Or at least, it makes sense. will be in suspended disbelief tmr due to lack of sleep. Need to stop crashing system.
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[May. 9th, 2009|08:26 am] |
I remembered my nightmare from yesterday night.
I dreamt that my EE AND TOK were.. highly unsatisfactory, and the teachers looked terribly disappointed. I recall the feeling of sheer terror, of overwhelming grief and desperation.
To quote Queen:
Is this the real life?
Or is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide-
No escape from reality |
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[May. 6th, 2009|10:48 pm] |
I just realized that I am very disconcerted. Something is not right. |
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[May. 4th, 2009|09:20 pm] |
There are many books in the ACSI IB EL A1 HL syllabus.
There are 3 I dislike, 2 I really really dislike, and 1 that I condemn to near JLC levels.
FIrstly, The Colour Purple. I first read this when I was in Nanyang, and it was powerful. But there was also some dissatisfaction with the ending... too colourful butterflies and unicorns and happy. ><
Secondly, I Know why the caged bird sings. I was really hoping that it would be a good novel, like TKAM, which I really enjoyed. But I was quite disappointed. At the risk of being blasted, I went through Angelou with increasing incredulity and irritation. The narrator, who was clearly a thinly veiled persona of the writer, came off as being self-indulgent, whiny and (surprisingly) stupid instead of appealing to the readers as she should. I think that the scene where she went up to her neighbour and had sex with him just to prove to herself she wasn't a lesbian is meant to be comical. It was, furthermore, so completely moronic that I laughed out loud (Scaring my mother). The ending was.. utterly inconclusive. Ok, yes, the whole having a son and hence heritage idea, but still.
Thirdly, Miss Julie. Strindberg is one of the most fucked up psychotic writer ever. Insane. I swear. Miss Julie is nothing but a manifestation of his innate fears and paranoia, as well as a sort of attack against his wife. I DISAGREE with the introduction in which they defend Strindberg, saying he is not a Nazi. Yes, not a Nazi in the sense that he was not exclusively anti-semitist, but he expressed the same beliefs as them in the superiority of certain people. If he lived during the Hitler era, I reckoned he would have been their celebrated writer. I much prefer Hedda Gabler to Miss Julie... although both are somewhat autobiographical, at least one has a much more interesting and complex character, rather than using his play as a sounding board for his insanity.
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This is clearly the result of too much study of works in my course of study. Perhaps after IB, I will look back at the novels and appreciate the beauty/meaning in them. At this point in time, I would NOT study them if I had the choice. |
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[Apr. 25th, 2009|09:58 am] |
For fun, during the !nk meeting yesterday.
Observation: If David were a fish, debate would be the bait.
Brenda Ma: Leaning Tower of !nk (credit to Shiru)
Henry: It'll be a lot of work for us.
David: That's the closest you'll ever get to a 'No' from him.
and in class, David and Ping are arguing.
Ping: You are just a dictator [of !nk]
David (denies vehemently)
Bong walks in.
David: You! Am I a dictator??!
Bong: Of course!
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[Apr. 24th, 2009|09:06 am] |
Prefers Identity crises to intelligence crises.
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[Apr. 22nd, 2009|08:28 pm] |
Red Threads, which I had been so eagerly looking forward to, would actually be quite good if they had decent actors.
The only person holding them all together is Adrian Pang. As such, I would prefer Fighting Spiders. |
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[Apr. 13th, 2009|10:13 pm] |
I'm nearly halfway through the second term, with the second draft of W.Lit 1, TOK Draft 2, W.Lit 2 Draft 1, EE final copy + abstract all due soon
SO THE LAST THING I NEED IS TO WORRY ABOUT HOW THE FRAK I AM SUPPOSED TO GET A GDC.
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