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2011-03-16T21:37:00.007+08:00

Hi!!!

So... the holidays have just started. We have Cross-Country tomorrow so there will be no lessons at school. And yes, I'm going; to support Macdougall in the hopes that we might actually win this year! Yeah! Green pride, yo! :D

While I was trying to make swiss meringue butter cream a week ago, my hand mixer died on me. :( One of the beaters just stopped working. So I couldn't finish whipping up the butter cream with only one beater so I deemed the swiss meringue butter cream a fail. D: I wasted so many eggs; so I don't think I will ever try it again.

But!!! I am never going to give up my goal of making the perfect frosting with good balance in terms of sweetness and stiffness for piping. I want to pipe beautiful swirls that will not melt on my cupcakes one day... AND I WILL.

But to achieve that goal... I will have to get a brand new mixer (I want a Kenwood one but they are so bloody expensive!!!). Which I will!!! Hopefully sooner than later. :D I have been suffering from baking deprivation AND IT IS KILLING ME!!! I just sat in front of my computer for the whole day last Sunday (I usually bake on Sundays) and I was so bored because I had no mixer to make CCC dough with. :(

I couldn't stand not baking anymore (And also because I was partly craving for something to eat) so I made crumbly cookies just now. They require absolutely nothing electronic, except for the oven, which I thought was perfect for my now mixer-less self. And I took pictures!!!

Yes, the lighting in my kitchen is that good. HAHA! No lah. I wish. I've been learning how to improve the lighting in pictures using Photoshop so that when I take pictures of food, they will look 10x more appealing. And yes, the cookies are supposed to be ugly like that.

So have a nice first term of holidays, guys!

Hopefully there won't be any accidents happening at Bukit Shahbandar tomorrow because it was raining pretty heavily just now. Good luck to all the houses tomorrow! But I am naturally biased; so MACDOUGALL is gonna win. Hopefully. :)

Enjoy the rest of the week and STAY SAFE! Remember to lock all the doors! :)

Love, Audrey
(11.24 PM)

P.S. Will make a lengthier post when I have something to blog about.

Musical Genes in Jeans

2011-03-10T20:29:00.012+08:00

Hello! :D

As I mentioned in my previous post, I went to the Fiddle Fest last Sunday to watch Jasmine perform. It was really nice! Jasmine looked so bored when she was playing. That's because she's concentrating a lot lah. But I prefer to think that she's so good at playing the violin already, all the kiddy songs that she was playing was subpar to her standards. Hehe. :)

I went with Josephine and Sandra to watch Jasmine. And yes, there are pictures. (Finally, right?)

Having a mocha at Cheezbox. Jasmine was getting ready at Rizqun at that time so she wasn't with us.

Jos and I.

Sandra and Jos.

Sandra and I.

There was an intermission during the performance. Heh...

Only going to post photos with Jasmine in them because I'm biased like that. :D Love you Jassie. ♥

Group photo at the end.

During the 40 minute intermission, we had high-tea at the Rizqun Restaurant. It didn't meet up to my expectations. :( Wasn't very impressed with the food. But it was not bad lah. Haha.

Will probably blog again this Sunday. :)

I must get a hair cut soon. Fringe looks so ugly right now. :S

Love, Audrey
(9.43 PM)

P.S. I have been downloading MTV Movie and Video Music Awards and watching all of them. Haha. My favourite so far is the MTV Movie Awards last year. Aziz Ansari is really funny. :D

P.P.S. Haven't watched so many episodes of Pretty Little Liars, Glee, Gossip Girl and 90210. Downloaded them already, but I haven't watched them yet. Heh. :P

P.P.P.S. By the way, 'Musical Genes in Jeans' is the slogan for the concert. And that's why all the performers were wearing jeans.

P.P.P.P.S. All photos were taken using Sandra's freaking awesome Canon PowerShot G12! I want a camera with a swivel screen!!!! So fun to use! And so, so easy to take pictures. Even doubles as a mirror! :D

P.P.P.P.P.S. I wonder who's the guy who narrates the plots for movies in the trailers. Because all the voices sound the same. Or maybe it's computer-generated. Hmm...

Baking Post

2011-03-05T20:47:00.005+08:00

Hello! Can you believe it's March already? Wow. I'm back after so many days of not blogging. It has been so long since I typed in this window. Not particularly proud of that.

1st Assessment Tests just ended today. So far, I've only gotten one paper back. It was... meh. Could've done better. :/ But on the bright side, I'm not moping around or anything like that. It didn't destroy my weekend.

I actually planned to bake this afternoon. Yes, after a week of baking depravity, my hands were just itching to grab my hand mixer and whip up some cookie dough. But, I didn't because I had to be somewhere.

Then, I thought that I would bake tomorrow. But instead I'm gonna be at Rizqun, supporting Jasmine in the Fiddle Fest (Musical Genes in Jeans, yo!) and eating cakes with Jos and Sandra. :) Can't wait!

So I have to wait until Friday when I have some free time to bake something. Up to just a few weeks ago, I thought chocolate chip cookie dough was supposed to be firm and can be cut with cookie cutters, sort of like shortbread cookie dough.

Shortbread cookie dough

Because every time I bake chocolate chip cookies, I have to add additional flour to the recipe because it was wet. So I asked Josephine about it and she told me that CCC dough isn't supposed to be dough-like, CCC dough is supposed to be kind of moist. The taste of the CCC that I made before wasn't bad but I wanted to give a go at making CCC the way it's supposed to be made. So I went online and watched so many baking instructional videos and found a lot of recipes pertaining to chocolate chip cookies.

This is how chocolate chip cookie dough is supposed to look like.

It has been my goal since I started baking to make the perfect CCCs; because I, myself, am an chocolate chip cookie aficionado. I still have yet to test out to 5 recipes that I got. If they don't measure up, then I will find more recipes. Yes, that's how enthusiastic I am about this. Never give up!!!!

Also, I have been scouring the internet, finding frosting recipes, because no cupcake is complete without frosting . Now, I have an issue with the only frosting that I use, whipped cream frosting (The frosting I used to ice Pat's cupcakes): it melts. Very fast too, so you can't leave it out at room temperature.

So I looked around and found a lot of recipes for butter cream frosting, a very common frosting that holds up pretty well at room temperature.

Butter cream frosting

I made the frosting and tasted it. It was like I was biting into sugar. It was too sweet, one bite into the frosting will have your teeth withering in pain. The average amount of sugar in butter cream frosting is about 2 and a half cups. 1 cup is very, very sweet already. Imagine two. There are also some recipes with four. D: The reason this frosting has to be very sweet is because the icing sugar is the backbone of this frosting, it is used to stabilize it and make it pipe-able and not soupy.

So after that, I found swiss meringue butter cream. It only has 1 and a quarter cups of sugar, so that's not too bad, considering that frosting is supposed to have that sweet taste. So I'm gonna try that one out and hope that it goes well. I will post pictures if it does go well. If not, then... I will keep looking for a frosting recipe that will satisfy my needs. :)

I'm really into baking right now, in case you can't tell from the paragraphs above. I can spend a whole day looking at pictures of beautiful cakes and cookies and searching for recipes and how-to videos. It give me a sense of hope when I look at the pretty deserts because if I were to master that particular technique, maybe one day my cakes and cupcakes can be that pretty too. :D The one thing that I would strive my hardest to bake is probably a mango cheesecake. I love mango cheesecakes (the one from Fleur-de-lys) and it would just be such an achievement for myself if I can successfully bake one of those. :D

Will post some pics of food that I actually baked by the end of this week. :)

Love, Audrey
(11.16 AM)

P.S. I miss my brothers. Haven't talked to them in so long. It is so quiet in the house. :(

P.P.S. I took all the pictures in this post from Google.

Random Post 13.0

2011-02-20T19:18:00.002+08:00

I'm really sorry. :(

It's been almost three weeks since I last blogged. Yeah, I've been neglecting this blog for quite some time now. I'm really sorry to those of you who come here, expecting a new post, but ended up being disappointed from the lack of one. :(

My life has been really hectic lately. National Day practices for the last couple of weeks, tuition, my piano theory exam this Saturday (I still can't wrap my head around the musical terms!!!! We have to learn all of them from Grade 1 onwards and the crazy thing is, only less than five of them are coming out. And they can be from any grade. D:), me being sick for half of this month... yeah.

I got sick on the second day of Chinese New Year. Yeah. That was such a long time ago. HAHA! Went to the doctor and got some medicine. But they happened to be pills. And for those of you who have read my blog before, you would know that I have an aversion to pills/tablets/capsules because I can't swallow them. I could swallow them before, but now it just wouldn't go in. So I had to crush them into powder, taste that horrible bitter taste (Disgusting, disgusting, disgusting) and swallow them.

I still wouldn't get better after finishing my medication. So I went to the doctor I usually go to (He wasn't here the first few days of CNY). He prescribed me liquid medicine (THANK GOD) and I enjoyed taking my medicine after that. Then I got better. So yay! Last Wednesday, I was coughing a lot and had a sore throat. Then the following day, I was feeling like crap. Took the remainder of my fever medicine and went to school. I actually felt better when I got home. Then I went to piano and tuition and when I came back, I checked my temperature and I found out I had a high fever. I spent Chap Goh Mei sick too. :(:( But I felt better the next day. So all's good.

I don't know why my immune system is so low. :( I eat lots of vegetables and fruits (I'm actually eating fruits now! Pears and apples. And I always eat fruits on the way to tuition because they sustain my hunger before dinner at night and they give me something to munch on so I don't feel bored on the way. And plus! 100% fat free!) and drink lots of water and stay away from soft drinks and junk food (Except for the Cheetos that Pat tempted me into eating yesterday. Before that, I haven't eaten any junk food since... I dunno. But quite a long time already).

Chinese New Year wasn't very fun for me. For the most part, I was sick the first week of it. And I didn't collect a lot of ang pows this year. It was just another new year. Nothing special.

I smell like cupcake batter. Haha. Made chocolate chip cupcakes for no other reason except that I want to have something to eat before extra class tomorrow. Yes, that's why I bake. For myself to eat. :P

I'm gonna go pack my school bag now. And I'm not going to be blogging until after the 1st Assessment Test is over, which will be on the 5th of March, unless they postpone it. So until then! :) Good luck to everyone who are currently stressing over the upcoming exams!!

Love, Audrey
(8.19 PM)

Happy Advanced Chinese New Year!

2011-02-01T21:10:00.014+08:00

Hi!!

It's already February and since the first day of the new year, I have only blogged... 3 times. Epic fail!!!! D:

I'm sorry I haven't blogged for a little over a week now. I have been busy with school and National Day Practices and practicals in the afternoon and piano and all that. Tuitions haven't started yet, but they will soon. Which means my life will be even more hectic then. Oh, joy.

I bought new heels for CNY!!! They're espadrilles and they're super pretty. They're a little over 2 inches so they're sort of alright to walk in. I already did my toenails while watching Mythbusters just now. Heh. I will probably take pictures of them for you to see. :P Doing my fingernails only tomorrow night because we still have school tomorrow. But that's alright because we have four straight days of holiday after that!!! YAY!!! :D

Chinese New Year is in a day and I can't wait! Hopefully it'll be a nice and enjoyable celebration. :D Brother #2 is coming back tomorrow. Can't wait to see him. :) Brother #3 and #2 are both leaving on Sunday though. So fast. D:

So I would just like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy and prosperous Chinese New Year! May this new year bring you much joy, health, wealth and success.

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

It's Harlequin and Artemis' year this year!!! Love you both, you cute little bunny rabbits.

Love, Audrey
(10.31 PM)

Hello

2011-01-23T18:36:00.010+08:00

I'm back after a very long break of exactly 3 weeks. :O Didn't mean to be gone that long but I just haven't had the drive to blog. Until now. I'm really really sorry to those who thought that I stopped blogging indefinitely. I'll try to get some posts up after this one. :)

I've been alright. Bought some stuff in preparation for Chinese New Year. Can't wait!!! :D Less than two weeks to go! Brothers are coming back soon, with the exception of the eldest one. Can't wait to see them!! :D

This is going to be a baking update post. So...

These are the cupcakes that I made for Pat. It took me so long just to make 25 cupcakes and frost them like that. I bake really really slowly; the book said that the preparation time for the cupcakes is 10 minutes but I took at least 30 minutes to whip up a single batch of the batter. HAHA! Believe it or not, the white base icing for the letters and the flowers + leaves took the longest because they had to be leveled and there had to be a considerable and equal amount of icing on each cupcake. And I also had to wait for the frosting to cool and harden before using because whipped cream frosting sucks like that.

I BOUGHT WILTON DECORATING TIPS!!! :D I used them to frost the icing. So pretty but so expensive. I wanted to get the #1M one but Le Apple doesn't have them. :(

Also made sponge cake with whipped cream. :D

The whipped cream didn't have a chance to cool before I took this picture so it's very messy. The filling inside wasn't evenly distributed too because I didn't slice the cake perfectly straight. :( I have to work on that. It was so much better than my previous failed cake though. It was really fluffy and the whole cake didn't collapse when I sliced it so that's good. :D

I made my first ever cheesecake the other day!!! I didn't take any pictures but the cake was good, in my opinion of course. :)

And yes, I'm the #1 consumer everything that I bake. Mainly because I bake stuff that I like to eat. HAHA! I'm just making myself fat by baking so much. But it's so, so fun. :D

Love, Audrey

(9.18 PM)

P.S. We got our juniors last Monday!! I think they're all capable of doing a great job and we'll definitely have loads of fond memories together. :)

Update VIII!

2011-01-02T20:06:00.009+08:00

Hello.

I noticed that my daily hit stats have been going down. :( But I don't expect it to stay that high for much longer anyway. My posts have been terrible.

Anyway... I just wanted to wish everyone a pleasant first day of school tomorrow. I'm dreading it but hopefully it won't be so bad. I packed my school bag already and got my school uniform out. Also tied my school tie so I don't have to fuss over it tomorrow. That took a long, long time. I kept on retying it. Haha. I'm a perfectionist like that. :P

Now I'm gonna go take my flu pill. I can finally swallow the medium sized ones! I'm pathetic, I know. :(

So to everyone who's gonna start their first day of school tomorrow, good luck and I hope the academic year of 2011 will bring you much joy and less stress. :)

Love, Audrey
(8.20 PM)

P.S. Brother #3 left for KK this morning. :( I miss him a lot already but I'm gonna see him in a month's time again anyway. He's gonna take his A Levels this year too. I hope he realizes that he has to work extra hard this year. But I believe in him. He can do it! :D

P.P.S. I woke up at bloody 4 AM this morning because I had a dream about cockroaches (Ewww). I always have weird dreams when I'm sick. :/ My immune system must be crazy low on weekends because I always get sick then. It's not like I don't get sick every week. It's just whenever I do, it's always on a weekend. Is that a symptom for something? Or is it just mere coincidence? :S (I got sick on the first day of the new year. Nice way to start of the year, don't you think?)

P.P.P.S. Cleaning up the beach was... disgusting. I had no idea Tungku Beach was that filthy. D: Altogether we collected like 20 something bags of trash. And it's those big black rubbish bags again. D:

Happy New Year!

2011-01-01T00:31:00.005+08:00

Hello, everyone!

I'm taking a break from blogging about Thailand so that I can make a new year post.

Last year hasn't been a very good one for me. I really didn't like 2010. Nothing special happened that year and there were more downs than ups. The good parts of 2010 were kind of awesome though. I became friends with some great people who I know will always be part of my life, even though they're a thousand miles away. ♥

Hopefully 2011 will be a better year. :)

I spent my New Year's Eve with Sandra in the afternoon, eating Lamb Nasi Briyani (which, by the way, is the BOMB!) for dinner, celebrating Brother #3's birthday in advance and playing monopoly with my brothers and Jasmine and Josephine at night.

I owned hotels on the red properties okay. And some more we played the long version. If we continued the game, I would've kicked their asses for sure. But then we agreed to end the game at 10 PM, and by then I just spent an extra $900 to upgrade the 3 houses on my red properties to hotels, so that's why I didn't win. My brother had more money than I did. :( Yes, that's how blood thirsty (as Brother #1 puts it. I bankrupted him. Heh heh) I am. :D

And then after that... I watched some video tutorials and tried so hard to do the chopstick bun on my hair but failed miserably. My hair wouldn't stay up!!! I think it's because it's too short. :(

So that's how I spent my New Year's Eve. Now when you think about it... it's actually kind of sad right? HAHA!

I'm gonna head to bed now. It's kind of early compared to my usual sleeping time during the holidays, but I have to wake up early tomorrow to go clean up Tungku Beach at the freaking godforsaken hour of 7 AM in the morning. YES! I know. So charitable right? I'm gonna start off the New Year by doing something good. Not bad right? HAHA!

Enjoy the first day of the new year! And I hope you all will have a great 2011!

Resolutions for this year will be posted soon... when I'm free. Which, considering the fact that we start school next week, isn't gonna be a lot. But I'll try my best! :)

Love, Audrey
(12.52 AM)

Thailand: Part 2

2010-12-30T23:53:00.008+08:00

Hello, again! :) I promised that I'll blog about the rest of my Thailand trip, so here I am.

The next day, we went on another tour to Phi Phi Islands. I enjoyed this tour so much more than the James Bond Island tour, mostly because there were less people and the buffet lunch was so much more civilized. In the previous tour, some person took like a whole fish and placed it on his plate. So inconsiderate. >:(

So... back to the topic.

First picture of the day! I took this picture. The lotus flower looks so perfect, right? This is taken in the garden surrounding the villa.

Since this is a post about Phi Phi Islands, let me give you a little side note about it.

Phi Phi Islands consist of many islands, but we only visited the two largest ones as the others are not much more than large limestone rocks jutting out of the sea. Phi Phi Don Island which is the bigger of the two has people permanently living on the island whereas Phi Phi Lee Island is much smaller. The movie The Beach (the one with Leonardo DiCaprio in it) was filmed at Phi Phi Lee Island. This popularized the islands and Phi Phi Islands came to worldwide prominence.

(Some parts from the above paragraph were taken from Wikipedia)

We left Phuket Island on this boat.

It went a crazy 80 km/h and the engines were so loud, you had to shout for someone to actually hear you. The boat was very shaky and wobbly too, especially when it's stationary.

On the way to Phi Phi Islands, we stopped at some place to look at the fishes swimming around the boat.

The water's SO clear. You don't find sea water like that in Brunei.

Then we went to a shallower area so that we could snorkel. We couldn't snorkel at the area pictured above, because it was about 5 metres deep. Snorkeling was fun, but you have to get used to breathing using only your mouth and you have to kick your legs really hard to stay afloat because the bottom of the sea was at least 3 metres from the surface. I swallowed so much sea water in the process. Bleh. No pictures of us snorkeling, but it looked exactly like the pictures above with the fishes swimming around us. My brother actually caught a fish. :P

After that, we went to Maya Bay at Phi Phi Lee Island to swim in the sea and take pictures.

Maya Bay

Me and my incredibly ugly hair, HUGE forehead and teeny tiny eyes. Sort of channeling Lord Voldemort's slit-like nostrils. Except mine are slit-like eyes. -.-

And this is me and my brothers on the same beach. The other one was swimming.

After that, we went to have lunch on Phi Phi Don Island, where we saw this inexplicably cute dog.

It was playing fetch with that tennis ball. It even went and swam in the water to get it. SO cute.

Then we went to this beach. I forgot what's its name. But it was less crowded than Maya Bay so we enjoyed it more. There were a lot of seashells and broken corals on the beach, so it was pretty painful to walk on.

Brother #3 requested that we bury him, so we did.

And we gave him a tail and drew abs on his stomach (Not pictured). So he looks a merman. HAHA!

We also went snorkeling in the sea here, but there were less fishes on the side we were on. If you go to the opposite side of the island, you can see many more fishes, corals and also sea urchins. Only my eldest brother and father went, because the rest of us were pretty content with what this side of the beach has to offer. And we were afraid to get punctured by a sea urchin or get cut by a coral.

I caked on so much sunblock that when I went into the water, my brother said that I looked like a white monster... which I did. But it's all for preventing skin cancer and a very bad case of sunburn so if I looked like a white monster... it was all worth it. :)

If you can't tell which one is me, I'm the one on the far left, rearranging my goggles.

The funny thing was, while we were scared of getting poisoned by a sea urchin on the other side, I saw a jellyfish on the side of the beach that we were on. It was about 10 inches away from stinging me. I saw it floating in the water while I was looking at the fishes. It was like a pink balloon. A very dangerous pink balloon. I swam/ran back to the shore and was pretty scared. After that, I didn't go back to the water and just chilled around and ate ice-cream. :D

The next post is gonna be about Bangkok. :)

Love, Audrey
(11.53 PM)

P.S. I baked yesterday! It was a success!!! All the previous cupcake recipes that I followed right, the cupcakes stayed low, ugly and not soft. But then I used a recipe out of a cookbook that I bought and they became tall and fluffy. Yay! :D

P.P.S. Happy New Year's Eve to everyone! It's 12.17 AM now. :P Welcome 2011 with a happy smile on your face because I sure as hell am gonna have one plastered on mine. So excited to say goodbye to 2010 and will wish and hope for 2011 to be a better year. :)

Thailand: Part 1

2010-12-29T03:31:00.017+08:00

Hello, wonderful people who read my blog! I have to wonder about your current state of minds though. Seriously, you guys are that bored?

Anyway... I touched down on Brunei soil last Monday evening and was lazing around at night so I didn't blog. I started this post on Tuesday but only finished it in the wee hours of this morning (now). I finally have all the pictures (all freaking 678 of them!!) transferred from my camera's memory stick to my laptop so I can now blog. :D

This is a statue at the Bangkok International Airport. And that's Brothers #1, #2 and #3. The picture's not straight, I know. Haha.

While we were in Phuket, we stayed at Two Villas Holiday. We had a spacious living room, three bedrooms, a fully functional kitchen and a private swimming pool. The only bad thing about the villa is that it is soooooo far away. I swear, we spent at least a quarter of our time in Phuket in the minibus.

This is the living room. If you're wondering about that colourful thingy on the floor, it sort of massages your feet so they won't feel so sore. It's similar to that rock-stepping thing at Tasek Lama. And I don't know who's that on the TV screen.

Continuation of the living room, and that's our cook making us breakfast.

This was our breakfast! I had the continental breakfast (bread, croissant, cereal, yoghurt and juice) the whole time I was there. :D

View from the detached room to the other part of the villa, on the left is bedroom #2 (my room), straight forward is the living room and to the right is bedroom #1, the master bedroom.

The detached room, bedroom #3.

The pool! It was deep, I had to stand on my tippy toes. And it's sooooo cold. Given that we only swam at night, I'm not surprised. Lol.

This is the bed that my brother and I shared. I loved the rooms at the villa. They were so big and the beds were so comfortable.

And the bathrooms were really nice too!

The shower takes a long time to heat up though. Meh.

This is the really small entrance door.

We arrived at Phuket at around 6.30pm, and on the way to the villa, we stopped at a restaurant to eat dinner. So it took us about 3 hours to reach the villa. The commute was so long. It's because the airport is at the top of Phuket Island and our villa is located right at the bottom. After we checked-in, we just swam in the pool, showered then went to sleep.

The next day, we went on a city tour, guided by our tour guide. I didn't take a picture of him though.

Our first destination was Promthep Cape, which is the Southernmost part of Phuket Island. There's a lighthouse sort of thing there and there's a shrine outside with a lot of elephant statues surrounding it. It was really colourful and pretty. :)

Then we rode on real elephants, and my brothers shot I dunno what type of guns and did archery at a shooting range. I didn't know a gun shot was that loud until I went there. And believe me, it was LOUD. No pictures because I don't think my brothers would appreciate that. But it was cool. :D

This is the elephant my brother and I went on. Her name is Munju and she's a 20 year old female. She sprayed us with her saliva and dunno what other bodily liquids from her trunk because it was a very hot day and she wanted to cool herself off. I can understand that but sadly, we smelt like elephants for the rest of the day. :( My brother was surprised because I didn't whine about it. I'm not that bimbotic lah. I can understand Munju's feelings. By the way, this is actually a picture that someone from the elephant trekking company took so that they could sell the picture to us. And I took a picture of it. I took a picture of a picture. :P

After that, we went for a buffet lunch at a hotel. Then we went to a leather and cashew nut factory. It was... boring. Then we went to see a temple.

The temple.

Then we went to this place where they sold really cheap souvenir shirts, hats, flip flops, bags, scarves and stuff like that. It was like less than $5 for a shirt and the shirts were really comfortable. Bought quite a lot of stuff from there. No pictures because I was busy shopping. Heh.

After that we went to watch a cabaret show, where I assume that all, if not most, of the performers that night are transvestites. Really, REALLY, beautiful transvestites.

Their clothes were so over the top and really pretty with the feathers and glitter and everything. Most of their outfits encompassed of only lingerie, but their lip syncing and dancing talents were really something. They lip synced to Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, English, French (I think) and even Indian songs. Keep in mind that all of them are Thai. They also did a Lady GaGa number. The song was Bad Romance I think.

The show also featured some really funny stuff. There was one part where this person came out with huge, fake, plastic boobs covered with this bright pink dress. And she/he lip synced to Barbie Girl by Aqua. At one point, she/he came down from the stage and kissed random people sitting along the aisle/right at the front. My dad was scared that he would kena because we were sitting in the third row and he was sitting along the aisle, but she/he walked past him. HAHA! It was really entertaining to watch.

Dunno who that guy is. You actually had to pay to take pictures with them. So we just sneakily took a few shots. Not very good pictures though because there were a lot of people there.

The next day, we went to James Bond Island and some nearby islands. James Bond Island is nicknamed as such because they filmed the James Bond movie, The Man with the Golden Gun, there.

Our boat was somewhat like this, but it only had 2 decks.

Before leaving. My hat's so cute right? :D

This was on the way to the island. The one on the far right looks like a camel, no? :P

Some island

James Bond Island

Then after that we kayaked to two different islands. We had 'drivers' so we could just sit back and relax. The sun was relentless, so I was so thankful that I put on sunblock beforehand. :) We went through a lot of caves and they were so low that we had to lie flat on the kayak just to pass through without injuring ourselves. All we could see was darkness but it was very cool.

This is my brother and I and our 'driver', Alan. Or was it Aaron?

All of us in the kayaks.

Then after that we went to the fourth and last island (first was James Bond Island, and the other two were where we kayaked) where we could kayak by ourselves. This is my brother and I sharing a kayak.

See? I kayaked too. I suck at it though. We kept turning in circles. Haha!

This is us having a kayak war.

And this was on the way back. It's so cool right? It's a rainbow in the sea!

This was at the pier when we arrived back in Phuket.

We saw this cat on another boat. It's a phu-cat. Geddit?? HAHA! Credits to brother #1 for that.

So that's umm... basically my first and second days in Phuket. I'll blog more about the rest soon. :)

Love, Audrey
(3.24 AM)

P.S. It's so late. =O

P.P.S. I watched Tron: Legacy with my brothers yesterday. I didn't really get the movie though.

P.P.P.S. Just deleted my story blog because... meh. I lost my drive for writing.

P.P.P.P.S. Oh!! I almost forgot! My blog's three years old now!!! :D Happy Birthday www.audrey-teo.blogspot.com!

P.P.P.P.P.S. Went to get the last of my school books yesterday. Happy to say good-bye to the crap year that is 2010 but not looking forward to the new year either. I can't believe it's going to be 2011 in just 3 days. :/

See ya!

2010-12-19T17:18:00.003+08:00

Hello!!!

I'm off to Thailand tomorrow. More specifically, Bangkok...

...and Phuket. :D

Super, super excited!!! I will try to blog if I have time. But if I don't, then I'm sorry and I'll see you on the 27th/28th of this month. I will be spending Christmas Eve/Christmas there so I'm going to miss Sandra's birthday. :( But I'll make it up to you, Sandra!! I promise. ♥

I'm now burning discs because my HDD has only 1gig free space left. Ahh... the cons of downloading entertainment.

Enjoy the last two weeks of the holidays, guys! :D

Love, Audrey
(5.25 PM)

P.S. Jas and Jos got Mini Shopaholic from Singapore or Bali!!!!!!!!!!! So excited to read. :D

Random Post 12.0

2010-12-16T23:32:00.005+08:00

Hi!!

I suddenly felt like blogging.

I can almost hear the collective gasps from the nonexistent readers of this blog. HAHA! Even I'm surprised.

Digressing.

My laptop's fixed! YAY! :D After sooooooooo many weeks of internet/computer deprivation (Actually it's only 1.5 weeks. Heh), I can finally get my dose of my favourite TV shows. It's been so long since I watched Gossip Girl and 90210. T_T And not to mention HIMYM and TBBT.

Now that I re-read that paragraph, I realize that my life is very sad. Sigh. But what can one do, right? :P

My brother and I spontaneously went to Hua Ho Tanjong Bunut and Empire yesterday, for no apparent reason than to just get out of the house. And then after that he treated me to Chezzbox. We actually had plans to go to OGDC today (HAHA! I know right) but then it was cancelled because... I don't know why exactly. Lol.

I made the worst looking strawberry shortcake (Not the traditional scone one, the one with an actual cake and whipped cream and strawberries) ever! Taste-wise... the cake wasn't too bad. The cake was tough, but still deliciously edible (I have to find another recipe for a fluffier one). But presentation-wise... omg. The whipped cream and strawberries just wouldn't stay in the cake when I cut it. I have to work on the decorating bit. :/ No pictures because it's embarrassing. :(

Brother #3 is coming back tomorrow! Can't wait! Then the whole family's gonna be complete. It's nice having siblings around because the house doesn't seem so empty and quiet. :)

Three more days 'till Thailand! VERY excited. It has been so many years since my parents planned a vacation like this where we will be staying in a hotel and everything so yeah. Pretty ecstatic. :D And I hope the shopping's good. Mmm... shopping... *Eyes shining*

Now I'm contemplating whether to bring my laptop with me to Thailand. Because you see... the whole idea of this trip is so that we'll spend more time together as a family (To me lah, at least. Dunno about my brothers). And if I'm on the computer the whole time we're there, then it's just hindering the purpose of the trip in the first place, no?

A few days ago while I was watching TV in the living room, I felt like listening to Katy Perry's Firework because it was stuck in my head. But I was too lazy to go upstairs to get my iPod, so I changed the channel to MTV, hoping that they would play it. Then after a few songs... they actually did! HAHA! I know, it's just a mere coincidence (...or is it?), but damn that's cool. It's like MTV can read my mind! Okay no lah, just kidding. HAHA! :D

Love, Audrey
(12.57 AM)

P.S. Liar Game The Final Stage is out! Yeah, yeah, I know. It's been out for a long time. But I've only just recently found out okay! My brother gave me the file. SOOOOO excited to watch. Akiyama Shinichi!! :D

P.P.S. 73 is the best number! HAHA!

Update VII!

2010-12-12T17:44:00.006+08:00

Hi!!!

I didn't blog in the past week because I spilled water on my laptop (That was last Sunday) so the keyboard didn't function anymore. So I sent it for repair but it won't be ready for at least two more weeks. I'm using the desktop to blog now.

I'm stuck at home with nothing to do. :( But I did find joy and a very slight relief from boredom in playing Plants vs Zombies on the iPad (though I majorly suck at it. I had to restart almost every level. HAHA). :D Also played L4D2 with my brothers. And let me tell you... first person shooter games are not my forte. I will always manage to shoot my team members. I suck at it more than Plants vs Zombies, and that is saying something.

I have also been a couch potato for a couple of days now. I watched the entire season 4 of The Amazing Race Asia on AXN yesterday, from like 1pm to 11pm. And I just finished watching the POTC trilogy. My life is very sad... :(

Also went to watch Rapunzel: A Tangled Tale last Friday with Sandra, Jasmine and Josephine. I like Maximus and Pascal!!! They're SO cute. The movie was alright. Very Disney Princess, with all the singing.

I'm working on everyone's Christmas presents now. :D Not actually a surprise anymore because I've been doing it at home in the living room but that's alright. It was made with love. ♥

On a side note... I'm going to Thailand next Monday!! Very excited! Also going to see Brother #3 this Friday when he comes back. :D

Enjoy what's left of the holidays, everyone! :)

Love, Audrey
(6.40 PM)

Don't ever look back

2010-12-02T07:25:00.011+08:00

MY BLOG REACHED 50k!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just realized when I checked my blog for comments this morning. :D I didn't even notice it yesterday!

This is SO cool. I would like to thank everyone who reads/has read my blog. And I do mean everyone. Even if you read my blog just to make fun of my English/blogging or to know the extent of my bimboness. A thousand thank yous for making me smile whenever I check my blog. My face just light up when I see my visitor stats. And I owe it all to you guys. :)

So this post is dedicated to EVERYONE who has ever clicked on my blog url.

Digressing.

My air-conditioner is, in one word, stupid.

Anyone who has ever slept in my room can vouch for that e.g. my cousin, Yuki. She's still sleeping now. Lol.

So you want to know why my air-conditioner is stupid?

It's because even when the settings on the remote control is 32 degrees celsius, it feels like it's freaking 22 degrees. D: And 32 degrees is the max that my air-conditioner can go up to. I don't like the cold at all, so you can see my dilemma. :(

When it's too cold, I switch it to fan mode, so my room becomes warm. But then again, it's too hot for my liking. To prevent my room from being too hot or too cold, I have to change the settings every few hours or so so that the inhabitants in my room won't freeze or sweat to death. :/

And it leaks. A LOT.

Grrr... >:(

Moving on.

I love Swiss Miss!

The only one I've tried so far is the Mocha Cappuccino. It's gooood. :D I wanted to try the one with the marshmallows, but I couldn't find them. :( Cadbury's Hot Chocolate's not bad either. It tastes better than Milo, for me.

I did mine and Sandra's nails!

These are/were (I don't know whether she took them off or not) Sandra's nails! I did them for her. Some were nice. Some were... not as nice. I messed some of them up because I got distracted when my brother called me from Australia. He had credit to blow so he decided to call me. HAHA! Can't wait to see him on Saturday. ♥

And these were my nails. This was actually done about 3 weeks ago. We still had school at that time lah. I did them for fun then took them off. :P I know lah. It's ugly. But you don't have to say. My nails were like this yesterday morning but with a shimmery purple base colour. Then I baked cookies in the afternoon and they got messed up. So I repainted them a glittery light blue. :)

Also curled Sandra's hair.

Look at her longggg, gorgeous hair. :O I want hair like that!! I took this picture while curling halfway. One side is curled, the other is kinda straight. HAHA!

And... you must be wondering why I'm awake this early (It's 7am). I went to sleep at approximately 11pm last night. Then woke up at 4am this morning because it was so hot. Changed the settings on the air-con but couldn't go back to sleep. So here I am. :)

I'm gonna go read fanfics now. :D

Love, Audrey
(7.17 AM)

P.S. Blaine from Glee is hot. Heh... Love the Glee cover of Teenage Dream! It's on replay. :)

P.P.S. It's very cold now. Changing settings.

P.P.P.S. So far, spending time with Brother #2 is going... not bad lah. I made cookies for him. He said they were chewy, not crumbly (He likes crumbly cookies). Okay I try again. But must eat all the remaining cookies first. :P We watched How to Train Your Dragon (The dragon's so cute. Toothless!), Gabriel Iglesias, The Walking Dead (THIS IS FREAKING SCARY OKAY. ZOMBIES. EWWWW. Never watching that again. D:), Pokemon Season 14 (Isshu region! Pikachu's thinner hahaha) and Starcraft (I watch him play Starcraft. He explained all the different races and buildings and stuff to me. Zerg is disgusting! D:)

P.P.P.P.S. Oh, I almost forgot! HAPPY DECEMBER, EVERYONE! :D

Random Post 11.0

2010-11-28T22:11:00.010+08:00

Hello!!!

I've been so busy this past week. T_T I am so happy that it's over!!!!! FINALLY.

I don't know if I'm supposed to blog this... but all the people who weren't supposed to see it already has so I guess it's okay. So...

I kept this one because there's a piece of paper stuck at the back and we couldn't get it out so we couldn't use it. Coincidentally, this is my favourite colour combination out of the whole lot.

If you were wondering what I have been doing for the past week, I have been doing this.

I have been cross-stitching non-stop since Tuesday. I owe the completion of this seemingly impossible task to my mother (Cross-stitcher extraordinaire) and my maid. And also my cousin, Yuki, her mother and my mother's friend. I couldn't have done it without you all. :)

They helped me make at least 80 of them. And it was no easy feat. Cross-stitching is enjoyable if you're not rushing and if you don't make any mistakes. But if you need to do more than a hundred in a short span of time... you can get really frustrated and fed up. But!!! We did finish it in time and I am so happy that we did. :D

So if any prom wenters (Goers. Wenters. Geddit? HAHA. Lame) are reading this, I'm sorry if the one you got wasn't your favourite colour or if there were any mistakes in the stitching. But try to understand that it was done out of the goodness of our hearts. We did try to make it as nice as possible but no one is perfect, right? I hope you appreciate the immense effort that all of us put in to make them. :)

By the way, the picture on top was taken by my new baby!!!

The Canon PowerShot SX210 IS!!!!!

OMG! Doesn't it look so pro? Mine's the black one. I would've preferred the purple one though. But I think that the black one looks more professional. My dad just handed me the camera and said, "Nah. Give me the old one ah." Then I looked at it and clicked it open. The pop-up, pop-down flash popped up and I was like woah because damn that was cool. HAHAHAHAH!

The megapixel of this camera is less than my previous Canon Ixus 980 IS (by 0.6 MP), but 14.1 MP is pretty damn fine already in my opinion. :D I also think that the PowerShot SX210 IS makes up for its loss in the megapixel department with its crazy long distance zoom.

Without zoom

At 1m zoom

The camera settings stated that this is "56x". I don't know what that means. But this is the maximum zoom. Picture is blurry but... very far right? :D

I'm playing around with the settings of the camera. I now know what's ISO, aperture and shutter speed, thanks to Aarik. I tried to wiki them but I had no idea what I was reading. Never knew there were so many elements to photography. Before this, all I changed in my camera settings were 'flash/no flash' and 'macro/normal'. HAHA! I am such a noob at this. :P I still have lots to learn. But I'll get there someday! :D

Love, Audrey
(1.37 AM)

P.S. I have school tomorrow and I'm still up. D:

P.P.S. Brother #2 is coming back tomorrow. Haven't seen him since CNY this year. Miss him like crazy. ♥♥♥

P.P.P.S. I posted this post without a title. I only realized it 2 hours after posting it. Fail. D:

P.P.P.P.S. And if you were wondering about the pail, my air-con is still leaking. IT NEVER STOPS!! :(

It All Ends Here

2010-11-19T19:24:00.020+08:00

Warning! (Sort of) Spoilers ahead! And rants!

I WATCHED HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 JUST NOW...

... AND IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like bloody, omgwtfbbq awesome.

I know, I know. The book was better yadda yadda yadda. And I agree with that too.

BUT!!! I reckon that this second last installment in the Harry Potter movie franchise is one of the best. Wayyy better than the 5th and 6th ones.

The movie was almost how I pictured it to be in my head while reading the book. And it was so cool to watch. I was really excited, but at the same time, sad. Sad because approximately 7 months from now, this phenomenon is going to end. This... epic awesomeness (Sorry for my lack of creative words. Heh...) is going to end. And it saddens me so. :(

But you know what they say. All good things come to an end.

Okay. So I want to tell you guys about my Harry Potter 7 Part 1 experience.

It was really exhilarating and exciting to watch (The first part is a bit emo lah. Haha). Because after watching the trailer (Which was mad awesome), my expectations for the movie was high up there. And it did meet my expectations. Surpassed it, even. (I'm very easy to please one, lah. So you shouldn't take my word for it when I review stuff. Haha)

So I was concentrating on the movie. And it was this really, really suspenseful part. I was covering my ears because I'm very easily frightened by loud sounds and my heart was beating really fast for what was about to pop up on the screen.

Then the snake came out and it was action packed and adrenaline inducing and everything lah.

Then I felt it.

A kick. To my back. The back of my seat.

YOU CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE HOW MANY FREAKING TIMES THE PERSON BEHIND ME ATTACKED MY SEAT WITH HER FEET (I know it was a girl, because I turned back after the movie was done and shot death glares at them. Them, not she. Because the girl who sat behind Sandra was kicking her seat too. A whole gang of them. D:<).

FREAKING HELL.

Like no bloody consideration for others' feelings. The girls had their feet propped up on the back of our seats okay! They were half sitting half lying down on their seats. I don't know how to explain lah. Like... you know sometimes when you're tired, you just slide down your chair? Your butt far away from the back of the chair? Yeah. They were sitting like that. And they had their feet at the back of our seats. AND WERE CONSTANTLY KICKING THEM.

I was so engrossed in and was enjoying the movie. Then all the happiness and excitement I felt went down the drain when I felt the kick.

As if their parents never taught them proper etiquette and manners. AND SENSITIVITY TO OTHERS' FEELINGS.

I paid the same price they did for the tickets okay! Why should I suffer multiple discomforts for the duration of the whole movie? HUH?!

I know. I can go crazy sometimes. But you would complain too!!!!

And if you're wondering why I didn't tell them off, it was because I didn't want to miss any part of the movie. They're not worth it. And also, I'd rather not get into a bitch fight or anything.

And if you think that I'm exaggerating... I'm not. They were that irritating and agitating.

Don't get me wrong, I still loved the movie.

I'm just merely pointing out and telling you guys that there are some people in this world who can just get on your nerves sometimes. And practically crawl and bury themselves under your skin. But that shouldn't stop you from doing the stuff that you love to do. :)

So umm... yeah.

To hell with thoughtless and selfish people!!!

Love, Audrey
(8.11 PM)

P.S. I know, I'm over-reacting a little bit. Heh... But those girls were so aggravating and infuriating. Grr...

P.P.S. I have been using the word 'bloody' a lot. HAHAHAHA

P.P.P.S. I just realized that I don't rant on my blog a lot. I try to keep it vanilla and cheerful. But I just can't help it sometimes. MUST. SHARE. WITH. EVERYONE.

P.P.P.P.S. 48k hits. LOVE LOVE LOVE (L)

P.P.P.P.P.S. I just changed the light bulb in one of the lights in my room. I took the wrong one and now my room is bathed in an orange-y glow. I'm too lazy to change it back. So all the stuff in my room's gonna look discoloured now. Lol.

P.P.P.P.P.P.S. My air-conditioner is leaking, again. Omg. It never completely stops leaking. Urgh.

P.P.P.P.P.P.P.S. There's a very Twilight-esque part in HP7 too. HAHAHA! If you have already watched the movie, then try to guess which part it was. If you haven't, then keep a look out for it. :D

Update VI!

2010-11-14T20:43:00.004+08:00

Hello!

Exam papers are back. WITH NO MERCY TO SPARE!!!!!!!!!!

This is like some kind of record. In a short span of just FOUR days, all the exam papers were handed out. :O

I... didn't do that great.

In fact, I did really, really, really badly.

My lowest mark is a C6. AND IT'S LIKE A SUPER IMPORTANT SUBJECT OKAY. Was so disappointed in myself. :(

Oh well. What's done is done. :/

I digress.

Let me show you a pic of the cutest/wierdest strawberry ever!!!!!

HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAH! The shape really makes me want to draw eyes and a mouth and a nose on it.

So I did.

I actually wanted to make it look like a cat. But it doesn't really look like one, even with the whiskers. Oh well. HAHA! This was hastily done using MS Paint in like 1 minute. HAHA!

Love, Audrey
(8.42 PM)

P.S. I used to have the complete first season of Pokemon, but I have no idea where the discs went. My mom probably gave them away. So I'm downloading seasons 1-5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome or not? :D And the best part? The download is like SUPER FAST. In 5 days, I managed to download 190 episodes!!!! I feel like a kid again, watching Pokemon. :D Pikachu is still, undoubtedly, the cutest Pokemon ever! (In my opinion, of course). :)

P.P.S. 47k hits. I LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU GUYS!!!! ♥

Miaos and Baked Goods

2010-11-07T22:35:00.010+08:00

Hello! :D

The title makes me sound like a cat murderer. Like I killed my cats and put them in pies or something. Gross. And cruel. D: But trust me, they are both separate topics!!!!!!!!

Okay. So... starting with the baked goodies, I made shortbread cookies! I made these about a month back, I think. I actually didn't know what shortbread cookies are. That's why I wanted to make them. So after I baked them, I knew what they are. I've actually eaten shortbread cookies before, I just didn't know they were called that.

They're those kinds of cookies that melt in your mouth. Well, kind of. They are incredibly easy to bite. They taste like butter cookies, but of course, softer and more fragile. It may sound... pretentious and stuck up and self-praising to say this but they were oh, sooooo good. And also!!! Very, very simple to make. The dough was so soft and I just loved shaping the cookies and dipping them into the chocolate. Yum. :D Recipe from here.

I forgot whether this was the first batch or not. I think it was. I have to practise more on the dipping so the chocolate cools nicely and there are no lumps or bumps. But they still taste great. So yay. :)

I left some undipped for my dad. :)

Tastiness in a jar (It's actually a plastic container but I think jar sounds better in that context. HAHA! And yes, it's like only 3/4 full because I ate the ones on top already. Heh...)

AND!!!! I did the wordings on my mom's birthday cake, because the person who was supposed to be in-charge of doing the wordings at Fleur-de-lys that day was out for lunch when my dad and I went to get the cake. I know it looks horrible. But practise makes perfect! I didn't even use the proper icing to do wordings, because I didn't know of any. So I just used whipped cream frosting. HAHA! I'm terrible. But I will get there one day!! You just wait and see. :)

And now for cuteless overload!!!!!!

I didn't get a chance to take a picture of the dead kitty when it was still alive. So you will never get to see him. The poor cat. :(

But you do get to see his brothers and sisters, which are as cute as a button as he was. :)

This is Pale. Or Dark. They look so similar, I can't tell them apart. (HAHA! That rhymes!) But yeah, his name is Pale or Dark.

This is Monk! Short for "Monkey." HAHAHAHAHAAHAAH WHAT KIND OF NAME IS THAT HAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHA! My maid named all the cats so if you find the cats' names weird, you can blame her. She named Monk Monk because she says that Monk's like a monkey. HAHAHAHAHAA MONK.

And this is Nice! HHAHAAHAHAHAHAA! My maid named her that because she says that Nice is very nice. HAHAHAAHAHHA

And this is Dark. Or Pale. I really have no idea. But yeah. Dark or Pale. She named both of them Dark and Pale (Sounds like Chip and Dale. HAHAHA The chipmunks!) because one of them is darker than the other. And the other one is paler. By like a single tone difference. If they're not put side-by-side, you can't really see the difference. Heck, even when put side-by-side you can't really see the difference.

And here is a group family picture, minus the mummy. It was SO hard to get them to stay still and face the camera like that. This was the best shot out of the whole lot.

Here she is in a different shot. The proud mother, Batgirl. My dad named her that because of those markings around her eyes. I reckon that this picture is a nice picture. HAHA! She poses for the camera too, that vain cat. Just like MingMing.

There are A LOT more pictures but all of them were blurry. I didn't want to use flash because the natural lighting would be gone and the pictures won't turn out nice, albeit clear. And I'm scared that flash would make the kittens dizzy or something. So yeah.

Okay that's it! I have to go to sleep soon. So I'll end this post here.

Hope you enjoyed the cat and cookies and cake pictures! I'm making brownies tomorrow just to try the recipe out. So expect pictures if they turn out nice! :)

Love, Audrey
(12.04 AM)

P.S. I like the new Windows Live Messenger. The emoticons are cute! :D

P.P.S. 46k hits! Love you guys. ♥♥♥♥♥

P.P.P.S. Catching up with my unwatched TV show episodes. Finished with 90210 and starting with Gossip Girl now. JULIET SUCKS. D:

I'm back!

2010-11-06T13:00:00.007+08:00

Okay. So I'm back, on the 6th like I said in the previous post.

You may be thinking that I'm over the moon now, numb with happiness.

But sadly, no. :(

I'm, instead, numb with grief and sadness. T_T

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It was that bad. T_T

I'm positive that I failed Add Math and Chemistry and possibly English and Malay. I don't know whether my compo was out of topic and if my karangan had enough points. Most probably it was and it doesn't. But the cherry on top of the icing on top of the cake that represents the worst papers in the history of worst papers would have to be Chemistry and Add Math. The papers were so hard, halfway through Add Maths, I wanted to take Geography. :(

Is it just a coincidence that both papers were on Saturdays? Or maybe it's a conspiracy! A plot to destroy mankind! Okay haha too over already. But yeah. I can't help but wonder whether Saturdays are bad days to have exams. Or maybe I'm just very lazy on Fridays. I think the latter is more probable. Hmm... ^o)

The rest of the papers were... less terrible but terrible all the same. :/

Now I have to go and drown my sorrows whilst playing the piano. Not my ideal form of erasing sadness, but I have my piano lesson in an hour and haven't practised. Heh...

I will be back soon. Maybe tomorrow or something. I have pictures to show you guys!! :D

Love, Audrey
(1.09 PM)

P.S. You people reading this post would think that I'm bipolar or something. 5/8 of this post was sad and the last bit was a bit humorous too, albeit a bit dumb. HAHA. And now this post-script has a HAHA in it. HAHA!

P.P.S. I can't wait to bake again. I have a lot of new recipes to try! :D

P.P.P.S. Batgirl (a cat who came to my house who sort of befriended my cats) gave birth to 5 beautiful, fat kitties on the 13th of October. Now she's sort of officially my cat but yeah not really also. HAHA. What is this. Okay, so anyway... one of the kittens died on the 31st of October. I'm not really sure what happened, but I was the one who found him dead. :( His body was all stiff and when I poked him, he didn't move. I was so scared. The poor kitten. I hope he didn't suffer. :(

Pictures will be up tomorrow or Monday!

Baking update + Hiatus!

2010-10-08T16:56:00.010+08:00

Hi!!! :)

I baked cookies last Sunday. The first time I made cookies, I used Josephine's self-made recipe. It's my first time making them using this recipe (Joy of baking is an awesome site with recipes to baking pretty much every pastry and every dessert you can ever think of. I find all my recipes there), so I didn't know how much sugar I should have lessened. So the cookies came out a bit too sweet. :S But they didn't taste too bad. :)

They're Chocolate Chip Cookies. :D

I made them again today, because they are surprisingly very nice... to some people.

I also made Chocolate Chip Muffins just now. :D

I used less than half the amount of the chocolate chips stated in the recipe because I didn't have enough, but check out the chocolate chips in one of the muffins I ate! A lot or what? :D

I have been blogging mostly about baking lately. Lol. It's really fun. :)

I'm here to announce my hiatus from blogging and the internet for the next four weeks. Exams end on the 6th of November, so that's when I'll be seeing you all. :)

Good luck to everyone else who are having/going to have their exams! All the best! :D

Love, Audrey
(5.24 PM)

P.S. There's this freaking big spider outside my room. I'm not exaggerating. It's HUGE. D:!!!!!

Random Post 10.0

2010-10-01T20:51:00.008+08:00

Hey! :)

It's the first of October today. In nine days, it's going to be 10/10/10. HAHA! :D

I went to tuition just now to register for a place there next year and queued up for an hour and a half! That's called devotion, okay. Freaking tired after that. But happy that it was over. :D

So when I got home, I baked cupcakes again. :D They're so much better than the previous ones that I did. I halved the sugar in the frosting and the cupcakes so that it won't be too sweet.

I only used single coloured frosting this time. It came out great. :)

The pink ones.

It took about 4 hours. But sooooo worth it. Baking is so fun.

The green ones.

Take a look at these strawberries that I had a few days ago. Ginormous or what?!

Huge and dark red strawberries are the bomb. ♥

I didn't know Starbucks made chewing gums. My dad gave me this.

Not the best chewing gums in the world, but definitely one of the priciest.

I want a munchkin cat!!!!!

Munchkin cats are cats with abnormally short legs. And they are ADORABLE.

(Source: Youtube)

A youtube video of a munchkin cat. SO CUTE.

I'm now burning Two and a Half Men into DVDs. I have a collection of all the TV shows that I watch starting from Season 1. That's 72 DVDs! 315 GB!!! Thank you, Aarik! For giving me The Simpsons (20 seasons! No shit, man. :O I downloaded Season 21 already) and Friends. :D

I recently started watching Junior MasterChef Australia (Credits to Elvern for introducing it to me). :D

AND IT IS AWESOME! These kids can COOK. Like really, seriously cook. And they're only 8-12 years old. :O They make me feel so inadequate. But wow. Their finished products look so good.

I really recommend this to all you cooking show fans. :) Hell, even I didn't like cooking shows before I watched this.

Love, Audrey
(9.59 PM)

P.S. First post for October!!

P.P.S. Looking very forward to the weekend. :) Sleeping in = awesomesauce.

One step closer to becoming more domestic

2010-09-26T16:08:00.006+08:00

I made cupcakes!!! :)

They're not the prettiest cupcakes in the world but they're still pretty decent looking (In my opinion). :D

The best looking yellow and pink one. The colours are all messed up. D:

This is the best looking cupcake of the whole batch.

The blue and green ones look better than the pink and yellow ones because I started off with the pink and yellow ones first and didn't place the different coloured frosting properly in the piping bag. I suck at that and frosting and decorating, so I have to practise more. But I'll get there. :)

The cupcakes taste good too (Also in my opinion). :D

AND!!! This is the big one.....

I made these cupcakes by myself!!! :D

Yay!!!

Love, Audrey
(4.20 PM)

P.S. Watching Two and a Half Men now! :D

P.P.S. FINALLY! A proper title. HAHA!

P.P.P.S. SAS Teacher's Day is tomorrow. I hope everything goes well. I'm kind of excited about dancing on stage, but at the same time, scared shitless. It's so nerve-wrecking. But I know that we can do it. Go team! :D

Update V!

2010-09-24T21:27:00.005+08:00

Hello!!!! :D I'm supposed to be doing my Bio homework now but I just felt like blogging. I'll do my homework later.

So we just finished learning our steps for the performance on Monday and I have to say, we're actually kind of good. Except when we make mistakes. But if we're flawless and perfect and everything, the dance looks awesome. :D I hope that none of us gets scared or too nervous until we forget the moves or just freeze there, because that will just be very embarrassing. But I know that we can do it. :) Also, please know that all of us slaved for this dance. We practised almost everyday this past week and ended up with bruises and blisters and sores all over. So even if we're not perfect on Monday, at least appreciate the effort that we made to make this happen. :)

Yesterday, I didn't come home until like 9.30pm. That's 15 hours since 6.30am. D: I was out the whole day. Was so tired when I got back. :( But I slept from 12am to 10am today. And it was so good. :) I miss sleeping in. D:

THE BIG BANG THEORY IS OUT!!! It is soooo good. And I watched the new episode of Glee yesterday and it was awesome. I loved it. :D

Does anyone know why my blogger stats don't load? As in the statistics counters provided by blogger. You know, the stats tab on top. The screen just reads "Loading stats..." and it doesn't load. D:

I will now go do my Bio homework. Will probably be blogging tomorrow or Sunday.

Love, Audrey
(10.45 PM)

P.S. I'm eating papayas now. Papayas are awesome. :D

P.P.S. I CAN BAKE! I know that all of you are going, "You couldn't bake before? You suck!". Well... I kind of knew how to bake before but I have never baked by myself. And only when I can bake by myself will I say that I can bake. AND I BAKED BY MYSELF. YAY! :D This is like a major milestone for me because I'm not a very domestic person, though I like to keep my room clean and when I'm bored, I rearrange the bookshelf in the study room. But I'm not a kitchen-friendly person. So for my first time baking by myself, I made cookies and they tasted good (In my opinion). :D Thanks for teaching me, Jos. Love you loads. ♥

Update IV!

2010-09-22T22:13:00.005+08:00

I am extremely disappointed in myself. I did really badly in the exam. :(

BUT!! I will ~~try to~~ do better in the EOY Exams. :D

This is going to be a very short post, because I have a bunch of homework to do and it is already 10pm.

I went out to eat to celebrate the Mooncake Festival AKA the Mid-Autumn Festival with my family and Jas and Jos' family. I don't really fancy moon cakes and walking around with lanterns while I give mosquitoes a free buffet don't interest me anymore so today's just like any other day. Dinner was awesome, though. :)

We only have less than 5 weeks before the exams. D: It was just like yesterday when we sat for the Assessment Test.

Time does fly by pretty fast. :/

Now I shall be a good girl and do my homework and sort out my closet.

Love, Audrey
(10.17 PM)

P.S. 41k hits!

P.P.S. HIMYM Season 6 and Glee Season 2 are out!!!!!!!! :D

P.P.P.S. I am so bloody tired. D:

P.P.P.P.S. I'm too tired to think of a title for this post. So hence the very 'creative and dynamic' title.

Will you dance to this beat, and hold a lover close?

2010-09-17T13:12:00.008+08:00

Hey! :D

It has been a long time since I blogged. I wake up past 12 almost everyday and then I go to tuition for the rest of the day and night until 9 and when I reach home, I'm just like dead tired. So then I go straight to bed and I have no time for my blog. I'm sorry. :(

But it's a Friday today and I don't have any obligations for the whole day so yay! :)

Before I delve into anything, I would like to share something from the vaults of Josephine's (occasional) lameness.

So we were at tuition yesterday and Jasmine said to me, "Why so serious?".

Then I told her that the way she said it wasn't right. So I repeated what she said.

Then Josephine piped in, "Why so serious, Black?". (And I still find that very funny. Yeah... I have a very broad sense of humour)

And for you non-Harry Potter fans, Sirius Black was a very profound character in the franchise. And Sirius is pronounced 'Serious' so it is a very lame joke.

Credits to Josephine's lameness.

NEW SEASONS OF EVERYTHING ARE COMING OUT THIS WEEK AND NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!! You do not know how excited I am to watch all the new episodes. I am sooooo excited.

The ones that are scheduled to premiere this week already has and I'm still waiting for the others to premiere next week.

Out of my boredom and joblessness and *cough* the goodness of my heart *cough*, I have decided to share with you my tv show downloading schedule. This is already based on our time zone to make everything easier for you. :)

Monday
Leverage (The new season has already premiered in June but has not ended yet, so I am still downloading it every Monday)

Tuesday
90210
Gossip Girl
House (Due to premiere on the 21st)
How I Met Your Mother (Due to premiere on the 21st)

Wednesday
Life Unexpected
Glee (Due to premiere on the 22nd)

Friday
The Big Bang Theory (Due to premiere on the 24th)

So if you are a tv show junkie just like I am, you can follow this schedule to download your favourite tv shows too. Just check your bit torrent sites on the days stated above for the tv shows that you want to download and it will most probably be there (Sometimes the new episode doesn't air for a week or two because of some problem or something like that. But it will be there the following week or the next).

These are the only ones that I watch so I'm sorry if your favourite tv shows are not in it. :) And if you are using utorrent (Which I assume you are), I would advise you to start downloading all the new episodes of the tv shows at night. Because that's when the episodes get a lot of seeders.

Happy downloading! :D

School's starting next week. I am very anxious to get my papers back, but I know the results won't be good. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

Oh! And I only watched the first 30 minutes of the VMAs, because my dad wanted to watch the tv. Bummer. :( I thought that Chelsea Handler was funny. :D I don't know if they will replay the VMAs or not but if anyone knows the time and day, that information will be greatly appreciated. :)

I had a dream last night of me messing up the dance during our performance. :O I really, really hope that doesn't happen. Other than that... I've been practising at home. :)

I'm not yet done with HPatGof. :O!!!! I haven't touched the book since the holidays started. Shame on me, yes. :(

Love, Audrey
(2.29 PM)

P.S. I miss my brothers. I haven't seen them for almost a year. Except Brother #3. But I miss him and Brothers #1 and #2 all the same. :(

P.P.S. Oranges are my 2nd favourite fruit! Right after the glorious strawberry. :D

P.P.P.S. I hope it doesn't rain later. :O

P.P.P.P.S. Now I'm just saying nonsensical stuff.

P.P.P.P.P.S. Title from Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off by P!ATD.

P.P.P.P.P.P.S.I was wondering what would my name look like without vowels, because I just relinked Sheena (her new blog link is her full name without vowels). So without vowels, my name would be like this: dry T P Qng. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA DRY. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Sinners

2010-09-12T20:32:00.009+08:00

Lately for the past month, I have been seeing a lot of dead animals on the road.

*Insert gruesome, gory pictures of dead carcasses of animals*

I don't want to google for any of those pictures. Because I am scared of them. They are horrifying and just plain cruel.

But I'll be happy to paint a picture for you without the actual photo.

Imagine a squashed head of a cat, flat on the road. With blood and white stuff cascading around it, dirtying and staining the gravel. Then you see the yet-to-be-squashed abdomen. Still with the fur intact, glistening as headlights and streetlamps shine upon it. Its tail lay flaccid on the road, still in its proper shape.

FYI, I actually really saw that dead cat on the road on the way home from tuition.

And yes, it was a cat. It could be any other animal, but just so you can imagine it more clearly, I added the cat into the context.

SO YOU SEE.

YOU SEE HOW MEAN AND HEARTLESS PEOPLE ARE?

YES, they are just animals. YES, they are of lesser intelligence than we are. YES, they walk on four legs.

But does that mean that we can just hit and run over every animal we see on the road?

So what if you don't like animals?

Must you kill them? I, myself, do not fancy canines. But that doesn't mean that I want to kill one.

That animal did nothing to you.

I mentioned once (I think) that I get more emotional when I see an animal dying than when I see a human being dying in a movie. Like in this Japanese movie I watched before where a dog died. I bawled my eyes out crying. :( But when I watch a person die in a movie, I don't really bother much about it.

It's because humans do bad stuff to animals. Animals don't do bad stuff to humans. I heard that people here (Yes, in Brunei) give food containing poison to dogs just because they dig into their garbage cans and because they do their 'business' and because they give birth near their houses. And Sandra told me that her dad told her that there was one time where someone beat a pregnant dog to death along with all her unborn puppies.

What kind of people would do something like that? That is way past inhumane.

Yes, animals do all those stuff. But that's because they have to survive. Don't tell me that when you are in labour and homeless that you would not have your baby then and there on the streets. I mean, you can't actually push the baby back in, can you? (Sorry for the graphic explanation. There's no other way to get the point across) Don't tell me that when you are hungry and homeless that you wouldn't dig into a rubbish bin for food. And don't tell me that you wouldn't do your 'business' out on the streets too if you are homeless.

We are far more superior than animals (Don't say that I'm narcissistic. It is a fact) and yet we don't know and don't think that killing something is bad.

I know that a lot of controversial opinions and hate comments are going to pour in once I hit that Publish Post button.

Because I'm no vegetarian. I eat meat. And by eating meat, I have killed a lot of animals. Like chickens and ducks and pigs and lambs. And also, there is no way I would ever want to give up meat.

But let's put it this way.

Let's not kill animals we don't intend to eat.

My dad told me about an article he read in a newspaper under the suggestion section or something like that. There was this man who was at the beach (Man A). He saw another man with a box of puppies, who was planning to leave it there (Man B). A asked B why was he abandoning those puppies. B explained that his dog just gave birth to those puppies and he wanted to get them vaccinated. So B went to a government vet clinic and they said that they don't provide those services for dogs. So B went to a private vet clinic but their services were too pricey for him. So A wrote that article to the newspaper to ask the government to do something about this. Like why not employ some non-Muslim vets?

Oh, and I'm not really so sure about that story. My memory is very fuzzy. But it is something along the lines of that. The point I'm trying to make is in there.

I mean, Brunei is pretty rich. Why isn't there a SPCA here too?

Think about it.

Love, Audrey
(9.42 PM)

P.S. Before you comment, read the disclaimers on your right. :) I don't expect this post to impact anything or inspire anyone. I'm just putting this out there. My opinions.

P.P.S. I wanted to blog on Thursday, but I was busy packing for my weekend in Miri with Jas and Jos and their family. But now I'm back so here's your blog post. Oh, and Miri was fun. :D I'm tanner but it'll fade away. Hopefully.

P.P.P.S. I'm watching the VMAs tomorrow at 10pm. Are you?

P.P.P.P.S. 40k hits. Yay! Love you guys ♥

P.P.P.P.P.S. Sorry for the delay. I didn't blog earlier so I wasn't able to do this.

SELAMAT HARI RAYA TO ALL MY MUSLIM READERS (Though how little you may be)!

Teardrop on the fire

2010-09-07T21:46:00.016+08:00

Hello!!!!!!!! I'm sorry I haven't been blogging lately. I have been very ~~lazy~~ tired. My apologies. :)

Last Saturday, my class went to OGDC and the beach. It was fun. :D

OGDC

This is the bed of nails with Albert on it.

This is the gyroscope with Ling King sitting on it.

This is the transformer (I think) which stores electricity or something like that. That spark on top of the thing is 1000 volts (I think). My memory is very fuzzy.

Liquid nitrogen! This is so cool (Pun intended). Here, the tour guide was demonstrating the uses of liquid nitrogen and what it does. He was freezing those flowers.

And it creates this cold misty, cloud-like kind of thing when poured on the floor. Liquid nitrogen is used in films to create this effect in graveyard or cemetery scenes.

This is the pedal-meter or something like that.

I look too happy to be dead on a platter.

This is kind of like Wii, but we move and tap on the screen with our feet. We were playing football on the moon. Haha!

Okay, I don't know why it came out like this when I rotated it correctly already but you obviously can read what it says even without tilting your head and I'm lazy to re-re-upload (I tried it twice before) it so here it is. I actually scored that! And yes, it was a kalok shot.

It kinda looks like I'm falling down. There's a kinda there because you can see my shadow.

I wanted to go in here but we were wearing skirts.

I have no idea what this is but it is cool.

Beach

Woo! Jump shot. HAHAHA! I like the splash down there.

Shelby. :D

We actually had out own little 'island'. Look! She's standing on it. HAHA! It's just like that because that particular part of the beach was uneven and that part was higher than the rest.

And this was our feet buried in the mud on our island.

So that was pretty much the whole trip.

We had our first dance class today for our performance. It was funner than expected. HAHA! Our instructor has nicer legs than I do. And he can move. I felt so inferior. I couldn't even keep up with the steps when we were warming up. D:

But it is definitely enjoyable and hopefully I will not forget the steps when on stage and make a fool of myself. :)

I went out with Sandra last Monday. :D

Smurf! Omg I used to watch that show everyday. I loved their houses. So cute! Mushrooms!! (Note: Sandra gave me that shirt for my birthday. :))

Okay that was pretty short. But I will blog soon. Mark my words, everyone! I will! :)

Love, Audrey
(12.00 AM)

P.S. I actually started this around 9pm (FAIL. It took me three hours to type this post out! D: It was also probably because I got distracted and watched youtube vids. Heh...).

P.P.S. My parents love using this ¶ when they type stuff out on Microsoft Word. I personally don't like it because it's very messy when you look at it on the computer. I am saying this randomly now because I went on character map just now and saw that ¶ is actually called the Pilcrow Sign. HAHA! Jobless much?

P.P.P.S. Jas and Jos are back!! :D

P.P.P.P.S. I have blisters on my feet from all the dancing. :(

P.P.P.P.P.S. New layout + pages on top!!! I think the layout's pretty and it looks very neat. :)

P.P.P.P.P.P.S. 39k hits. Love you guys loads. ♥

Omg, I am really bad at naming posts

2010-08-31T20:37:00.016+08:00

EXAMS ARE OVER.

FINALLY.

I couldn't stop thinking about the euphoric feeling that I would get once I stepped out of the classroom after the last paper while I was studying for the exams. Sadly, the feeling I got wasn't as happy as I thought it would be. It was more of... relief slash disappointment slash sadness. But mixed in with a little bit of joy just because I don't have to sleep so late every night anymore and I can lay off the books for a while. :)

The sad feeling I got was more of a I-could've-done-better kind of sadness and disappointment. I studied until 12 am+ every night for the pass week and actually slept at 3 last night but I feel that I could've studied harder and memorized more stuff. :/

But that's all done and I can't change my answers now. So on to another topic.

Don't you think life should have a rewind button?

Some people don't regret anything that they have done in life. Well, I'm not one of those people because I regret a lot of things. Some of you may say that you shouldn't regret anything that you have done in your life because those regrets and decisions and mistakes are what shaped and molded you into becoming what you are now. But what if you don't like what you are right now?

Like take me for example. I was cleaning my closet one day last year and took off my specs and set them down on my bed so that I could try on some clothes to see if they still fit me. I forgot that I left my spectacles on the bed and knelt down on them, deforming them with my knee. They looked so weird and I couldn't wear them the next day. I took them to the shop for some tweaking in hopes that they could somewhat get back into a proper spectacle-looking shape. They didn't really get into that shape. They were very... disfigured and crooked.

Okay, they looked something like that but more crooked. And my glasses weren't red. They were black. I decided to use another colour so that it won't clash with the black colour I used to draw the face.

So I continued wearing those spectacles. Then one night, my brother attacked me with a bolster and they became even more crooked. Like this:

Both of them look the same but this is supposed to be more crooked then the previous one. I suck at drawing. D:

So after that I got my new spectacles in December! Yay! No more stupid crooked specs! :D

I just dictated the whole story of how I damaged my spectacles to you. Went slightly off-topic with the drawings. HAHA. Well the thing is... I regretted kneeling down on my bed thus destroying my spectacles. And just the other night, I regretted popping a pimple. My regrets are small regrets. Miniscule, if you will, compared to others. But regrets are still regrets.

And if life had a rewind button, I think my DVD player would be jammed and my DVD will be scratched and spoiled because I will be very busy rewinding that thing.

This was such a stupid topic to discuss about. But I just wanted to put it out there.

On to less idiotic topics...

I LOVE 30 SECONDS TO MARS.

I know, lagging much.

I especially love the cover for their This Is War album because tigers are cute. :D

I've heard of them before, but I have never listened to their songs until that one fateful day when I happened to change the channel to MTV and Closer to the Edge was playing and oh my god. It was a wow moment. I love Jared Leto's voice. ♥

Their songs are AMAZING. Love love love.

My brother just left for KK just now. His absence from the house is so apparent. I got him an easyway before he left (Omg best sister in the world right? HAHA. No, I'm just flattering myself. I didn't get easyways for my other two brothers when they went to Australia and Singapore earlier this year. But I will get one for each of them when they go back in January after their holidays in December :D). I can't wait 'till all of us are in the house again. Sure, the internet bandwidth will be taken up but that's okay. :D When they're not here, the chairs in the dining room are just for decoration. We only use three during dinner time now and it's very empty without all of us sitting at the table. I miss that. :(

Ooh! I have a very stupid (Word of the day) incident to share with you all.

One day, I decided to clean my C: drive and delete all the torrent files because they are useless to me after I have finished downloading the files. So I highlighted them and pressed Shift + Delete. Then a pop-up popped up, saying "Deleting 15.95 GB. Please wait" (Or something like that. My memory is fuzzy). I thought nothing of it and waited until the deleting process was around 75%. And then I realized that I have selected the whole folder by omission (That folder, by the way, contained all the ANTM episodes which I was downloading).

. . . . . . . .

I KNOW. I am the biggest idiot in the world. T_T

I only managed to salvage around 4 episodes from the 4 cycles that I have already downloaded then. You could imagine my distraught. I was so furious with myself. Sigh. But was done cannot be undone. So I started downloading it all the way from Cycle 1 again. I know, I'm very stupid. But recently, I finished downloading it until Cycle 5. So I'm pretty happy. I love it when my download moves fast. Seeders rock. ♥

Love, Audrey
(10.15 PM)

P.S. Am going to download Two and a Half Men after my ANTM downloads finish. Can't wait. :D I've been watching it on Star World a lot lately and loved it. :)

P.P.S. I really hope we're not going to get any papers tomorrow. The anxiety is killing me but I don't want to know how bad I did. :(

P.P.P.S. I am very excited for the holidays. :D I can't wait to sleep in and wake up in the afternoon again. Ahh... bliss.

P.P.P.P.S. HAPPY MERDEKA, MALAYSIA!

Hiatus!

2010-08-17T18:33:00.002+08:00

I am here to officially announce my hiatus from my blog and from the internet for the next two weeks to prepare and bury myself in books and be stressed out for the exams, because they are just that important (POA is a killer T_T).

Wish me luck!

And good luck to everyone else who are having their exams. Study hard! :)

Love, Audrey
(6.35 PM)

P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPA! I love you ♥

Update III!!

2010-08-13T20:26:00.010+08:00

HELLO!!!! :D

I'm sorry for not blogging for the past 8 days. :( I didn't have anything to blog about and I was busy. But I'm blogging now. So I hope I'm forgiven. :)

So tomorrow's my birthday and I am so excited! :D My parents brought me out just now and they bought me my birthday present!!!!!! It looks so pretty and I'm very happy about it. :) I'll probably post a pic up the next time I blog.

Brother #3 is coming back tomorrow! I mentioned it in the previous post, yes I know. :D Can't wait! We don't spend a lot of time together while he's here. He's just usually cooped up in his room or playing the PS3 (that he hijacked from Jas and Jos) or out with his friends. But I would just like to see him again. Oooh this is exciting! :D

This blog has reached 35k hits.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where do you people come from? SERIOUSLY. I have to meet you guys. You guys are awesome. I now get 100 hits per day on my blog (Not being narcissistic. Okay, maybe a little bit. But I have proof!) Why do you all still click on my blog? I don't update very often and yet you still keep coming. This is not a bad thing, at all! I'm just... appalled at this revelation. It's very shocking.

Because you see... when I started this blog, it was just a way of telling and showing people how my day went. Mixed in with the bad english, the constant smiley faces (I still put in the smiley faces, but not as often as before. That's just a way of showing my emotions in text. HAHA!) and the symbols (For example, the tilde: ~. And yes! This ~ is called a tilde). My brothers were insulting my blogging skills back then. And I don't blame them. I would criticize my then blogging skills too. I still do actually, as in to my present blogging skills. I don't think my blogging's great at all.

When I started this, I didn't think anyone would bother reading it, because I don't have an exciting life. Well... I still don't have an exciting life. But at least I know that people still click on my blog. It may be just one of you constantly refreshing my blog a 100 times, but at least someone reads it. :D 100 hits per day is not a very big thing to celebrity bloggers or famous bloggers or bloggers who have frequently-visited blogs, but it is a big thing to me. Because I never expected this.

So I would like to thank everyone who reads my blog. Because you feed my addiction by clicking on it. And you can feed my addiction more by commenting (Hint hint. COMMENT! It'll be an amazing birthday present. :)). And most importantly, whenever I see the numbers on the daily hit counter in my blog rise, it just makes my day to see that people actually take their time to read the crap that I write. :)

Gonna have dinner with the family (excluding Brother #1 and #2) + Jas and Jos' family + Sandra tomorrow. Bought the food just now! Lamb... *Salivates* It's a very very small thing. And it's kind of like tradition already. I had small dinners for the past two birthdays too. And I miss my brothers. :( The house is so quiet without our bickering and fighting.

Love, Audrey
(9.10 PM)

P.S. YES! Sam finally returned HP and the GoF to me! Time to resume my reading. :D When I saw the movie poster for HP7 at the Mall just now when Jas, Jos, Sandra and I went to watch Salt (I didn't really get the movie. But... it was okay), I was squealing and jumping around. Soooooo excited! :D

P.P.S. I hate naming my posts. Because I don't know what to name them 99% of the time.

P.P.P.S. Two hours and fifty more minutes! :D

It's disgusting

2010-08-05T17:40:00.008+08:00

You can be mad at me, I don't blame you. T_T

I have been neglecting my blog for the past week and a few days. But!! I have valid reasons! I have been very busy. And I was sick and not feeling well on Sunday (Curse the common cold!! I was sneezing nonstop and my throat was so sore. Bleh). But I am, of course, still very sorry for not blogging. :)

Exams are in less than three weeks, and will be going on for a whole week. The mental image of studying right now is painful and horrifying. The subject that irks me the most at the moment would be POA. I don't understand ANYTHING. I am going to fail the 2nd Assessment Test. T_T

On a brighter note, however... MY BIRTHDAY IS IN NINE DAYS. I am super excited!!! And my brother's coming back on that day too and I can't wait to see him. I miss him a lot. :D

And now I don't have anything else to write. Hmm...

Oooh, yes! I almost forgot to blog about this.

We dissected frogs a few weeks back.

We were asked to bring frogs and cut them open. >:D It was nothing compared to the rat dissection Mrs. Simmonds did last year. The rat was bigger and you can see all the organs very clearly. And the rat was less repulsive compared to the frog (The rat wasn't slimy and sticky). The frog was tiny and the organs weren't really visible. The scariest thing about the frog was even after we detached the heart from its body, it was still beating. o_o Shelby went all evil surgeon and took out its eye (With me cheering her on. HAHA). But we didn't manage to find its tongue, which was a bummer. We actually wanted to measure it. :(

All I want to say is... frogs are disgusting when they're alive, but not as nauseating when they're dead. NOT THAT I WANT FROGS DEAD! But... I'm just putting this out there as my own opinion. Live frogs are nasty. D:

I'm reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire now. It's one of the best books out of the whole series, I must say. Robert Pattinson was in the movie! But he looks so much better in Twilight lah. :) I am now currently watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, because I just finished reading the book, again. Sirius and Lupin are awesome! I was devastated when they both died. :'( I am repeating myself, I know. Haha.

And this is where I end this blog post. I apologize, it's kind of short. I will probably blog again on Sunday. So be patient. ;) Remember to drive safely and make sure to lock the doors! :D

Love, Audrey
(10.46 PM)

P.S. Title of this post is from a song by Ke$ha, Disgusting. I think the title is very appropriate for this post, because of the frogs. The revolting, abominable frogs.

P.P.S. I went to the Consumer Fair last Sunday. It was... okay, I guess. It was my first time going to the Consumer Fair, actually. I thought it would all be food and beverages like the pasar malam. But I misinterpreted the word 'consumer'. Lol.

P.P.P.S. Daniel Radcliffe looks good in the third movie. Okay, he looks good in all of them. :D

P.P.P.P.S. 34k hits! Love you guys loads. ♥♥♥♥♥

P.P.P.P.P.S. First post for August! :)

Psychedelic

2010-07-25T14:15:00.017+08:00

It seems that now I'm blogging solely on Sundays. I have been so busy this past week, I didn't have time to blog.

Yesterday was the Annual Council Dinner. It was SO fun. One of the best nights ever. Somewhere among the top 5, I have to say. There were events and games and it was a blast. Thank you for organizing it, it was really nice. :) I'll post the pictures after I steal them from Facebook (Maybe).

I don't know how many senior councillors read my blog, but I just want to thank you guys for teaching us everything and it's been a hell of a year (Even though it's not over yet) and I'm going to miss all of you. And I am very sure that the rest of the juniors feel the same way too. ♥

Yesterday at school we had a fire drill because there was an earthquake in the Philippines and they felt tremors at Kampong Ayer. It was really scary but I don't think anyone went crazy with panic. Thank God nothing happened. :)

Just now, my parents brought me to this place near the old Liang Toon where they sell Kipling bags.

All their bags come with a monkey keychain. Cute!

I now have a new favourite brand. Initially, I never knew such a brand existed. But I'm glad it does. The bags are sooooo pretty, albeit a bit pricey. My dad is planning to get me one for my birthday (So much for a surprise. But I don't think my parents intended it to be one :D) and I have absolutely no idea which one I want. There are so many different colours and shapes and sizes. Decisions, decisions.

For the past week, I have been obsessed with Rob Thomas and Mike Posner (Credits to someone ;)). They have such good voices. I have their songs on replay. :D

Cooler Than Me is gooooood. I prefer the non remixed one. The lyrics are funny.

Apparently Rob Thomas is/was (I'm not sure) the lead singer of Matchbox Twenty (I love their songs). This album is the bomb! Favourite songs are Mockingbird and Her Diamonds. I know, I know. The cover is a tad bit freaky. But you know what they say. Don't just a CD by it's cover. HAHA! I am so lame. But as Sam would say, "I'm not lame! I can walk!" Lame x2! HAHAHA!

I had this very weird dream last night. I dreamed there is going to be POA test tomorrow and I didn't study and I was panicking and somehow, it lead to toothbrush shopping. I wonder where that came from. o_O

And!!! I successfully downloaded all six HP movies. I admit, the movies pale in comparison to the books. But there's always Tom Felton and Daniel Radcliffe to look at. :D Can't wait for the 7th one!!!!!!!!! Trailer looks epic. And yes, I'm repeating myself. HAHA!

After almost a year of using the same profile picture on Facebook, I finally changed it!! :D

I wanted to test out my photoshopping skills, so I photoshopped the picture. My Facebook profile picture is the un-photoshopped one, by the way.

There. Side by side. You obviously know which one is the photoshopped and not photoshopped one lah. I just played around with the liquify tool a bit. Results aren't that bad, considering that this is my first time. :)

Okay. Done with my blogging bit for the day. See you all next Sunday or sooner! :D

Love, Audrey
(3.51 PM)

P.S. I've been having a lot of trouble naming my posts. It is probably the hardest task of blogging (for me), besides thinking of what to write.

P.P.S. I went to Supa Save just now and was disappointed because there were no more big, fat, juicy strawberries which were there last week. :(

P.P.P.S. Changed the background of my blog! :D

P.P.P.P.S. I'm re-watching Avatar: The Last Airbender all over again. I love Appa. I want a sky bison!! ♥

You can never say never

2010-07-18T13:29:00.013+08:00

Today's the 18th of July. And the 18th of July is my brother's birthday. So...

HAPPY 20th BIRTHDAY TO BROTHER #2!

This was the pic for the family photo frame.

This one was taken in Singapore

This was on the way back from KK last year.

I don't have a picture with him and me together. Lol.

Thank you for teaching and helping me during my exams last term. You're really patient and always willing to help me when I have technical difficulties with my computer or some other computer-related stuff. And I'm very grateful for that. Sometimes, you remind me of Sheldon from TBBT. You tell me all about the ins and outs of the things that people don't usually talk about, like popcorn (Remember that time when we watched Transformers 2 and you went on and on about how popcorn is made? Yeah. HAHA). And that makes you very fascinating. You're very hard to please, especially in terms of movies. It's very rare to hear you say that you enjoyed a movie. HAHA!

Have fun today and enjoy yourself! Take care and best wishes, ko! :D I miss you and love you! ♥ And I hope you like the card. I don't know when it will arrive, but it will, eventually. Mummy sent it out a bit late. So just be patient. :)

It's already the second week of July. Exams are getting closer and closer. I hope it won't be on my birthday, I really really hope it won't be. :/

I went to Miri last Thursday! :D Bought some things. I can't wait 'till the end of the year to buy more clothes again. Ahh... shopping is awesome! :D I got a new alarm clock!

Now hopefully I won't oversleep. It's pretty loud. And it comes with a snooze button! HAHA! I didn't know what is the function of a snooze button until now.

When I buy new stuff, I will always feel like using those stuff. Like when I buy new clothes, I will want to wear those clothes so badly. Or when I have new stationery. I will feel like doing homework or writing. Or when I have new bedsheets! I will feel like sleeping. Or... like that alarm clock! I was so excited to try it out, I went to sleep at 9 PM. HAHAHAHA! Crazy enthusiastic.

Oh, and yes! I have a new phone. It's actually an old phone. My previous phone died. So my mom gave me another one of her old phones. Here it is.

The wallpaper is a sad attempt to make the phone look prettier. HAHA! But the phone is not that bad lah. Okay also. :)

I have no idea what model it is. But I prefer it to the red, flip top phone I had before. This phone has games like snake! The red one didn't even have snake. D: And, this one has nicer buttons to type on and it is slimmer and can fit into my pocket. It has a lousy camera though. Judging by the quality of pictures, I'm guessing it's a 0.1 megapixel cam (Yes, I'm exaggerating). But then I have a separate camera already, so the built-in camera in the phone has no use for me. It doesn't play music or have bluetooth or all those fancy stuff people have on their phones these days, but I already have my iPod and I have no idea what the function of bluetooth is, so as long as this phone can call and receive calls and type messages and receive messages, it's a good phone already. :)

I saw this tag on Azirah's blog, and I wanted to do it.

Bold the truths:
I am a morning person.
I am a perfectionist.
I am an only child.
I am Catholic.
I am currently in my PJs.
I am currently pregnant.
I am currently suffering from a broken heart.
I am left handed.
I am married.
I am addicted to MySpace.
I’m shy around the opposite sex.
I bite my nails.
I currently regret something I have done.
When I get mad I curse.
I don’t like anyone.
I enjoy country music.
I enjoy jazz music.
I have a car.
I have a cell phone.
I have a pet.
I have at least one brother or sister.
I have been to another country.
I have been told that I’m smart. (But I disagree with them)
I have been told that I have an unusual sense of humour.
I have had a broken bone.
I have caller ID on my phone.
I have changed a lot over the past year.
I have had surgery.
I have killed another person.
I have had my hair cut within the last week.
I have had the cops called on me.
I have kissed someone I knew I shouldn’t.
I have kissed someone of the same gender.
I have mood swings.
I have rejected someone before.
I have seen the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I have watched Sex and the City.
I like Shakespeare.
I love to cook.
I love Michael Jackson.
I love sleeping.
I love to shop.
I miss someone right now.
I own over 100 CDs.
I own over 100 DVDs.
I own and use a library card.
I practice a religion that is not considered mainstream.
I read books for pleasure in my spare time.
I sleep a lot during the day.
I strongly dislike math.
I think Britney Spears is pretty.
I will try ALMOST anything once.
I work at a job that I enjoy.
I would classify myself as ghetto.
I can name all seven dwarfs from Snow White.
I am currently wearing socks.
I am tired.
I am currently waiting for someone.
I lost contact with someone.
I hate Miley Cyrus.
I think Party In The USA is catchy. (It is catchy. But I didn't say it's nice)
I’d date Harry Potter.
I can name all the past presidents of the United States.
I know who was president before George Bush.
I love pickles.
I need the internet to live.
I prefer vanilla over chocolate.
I watched Star Trek. (I watched the TV series before. It was cool)
I watched all six movies of Star Wars.
I own an Xbox.
I think music is life.

I. Music (BOLD THE ONES YOU LIKE)
Acceptance. Coldplay. Dave Matthews Band. David Bowie. Foo Fighters. Hellogoodbye. The Killers. James Blunt. Teddy Geiger. Linkin Park. Muse. Ok Go. Panic At The Disco. Peter Bjorn. The Postal Service. Timbaland. Jack Johnson. Drake. Norah Jones. The Fray. The Wreckers. Michael Buble. Beyoncé. Metallica. Massive Attack. Queen. Journey. The Cars. Supertramp. Eurythmics. Sublime. The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Wu-tang Clan. Fergie. Sarah McLachlan. Band of Horses. John Mayer. Jason Mraz. Justin Timberlake. Michael Jackson. Kenny Chesney. Carrie Underwood. Lynyrd Skynyrd. Neil Young. The Beatles. Tim McGraw. Brad Paisley. Taylor Swift. P. Diddy. Jay Z. Lil’ Wayne. Lil’ Jon. Three 6 Mafia. Nelly. T.I. Young Joc. Sean Paul. 50 Cent. Eminem. Eiffel 65. Ace of Base. The Underdog Project. Dream Theater. Santana. Alicia Keys. Incubus. Victor Wooten. Ludacris. Gorillaz. Matchbox 20. Paramore. Say Anything. Taking Back Sunday. Eric Clapton.The Darkness. Weezer. The Eagles. Jimi Hendrix. Maroon 5. Billy Joel. Reel Big Fish. Anberlin. Mae. Family Force 5. AC/DC. Hootie and the Blowfish. Electric Six. Outkast. R.E.M. The White Stripes. Prince. Mika. Crystal Castles. Britney Spears. The Gossip. Spice Girls. Lady GaGa. Eagles. Jimi Hendrix. Nirvana. Smashing Pumpkins. Third Eye Blind. Metro Station. Motion City Soundtrack. Mandy Moore. Plain White T’s. My Chemical Romance. Fall Out Boy. We the Kings. The Rolling Stones. Angels & Airwaves. The Beastie Boys. Black Eyed Peas. Boys Like Girls. Selena Gomez. The Cure. Cobra Starship. Death Cab For Cutie. Deftones. The Jonas Brothers. Demi Lovato. Team Sleep. Filter. Goo Goo Dolls. Honor Society. Katy Perry. Kid Cudi. The Rocket Summer. Tenacious D. Something Corporate. The Moldy Peaches. Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Macy Gray.

II. Movies (BOLD THE ONES YOU’VE SEEN)
Pride and Prejudice. Glory Road. The Princess Bride. Goonies. Center Stage. Ocean’s Eleven. Seven. Newsies. Robin Hood. Men In Tights. 300. Love Actually. Garden State. Donnie Darko. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. My Best Friend’s Wedding. Anchorman. Drop Dead Gorgeous. Wedding Crashers. Elf. Zoolander. Austin Powers. Clueless. Mean Girls. Hairspray. Moulin Rouge. Fight Club. Rocky. Pulp Fiction. What A Girl Wants. Kill Bill. Thank You For Smoking. Little Miss Sunshine. Requiem for a Dream. The Departed. Dawn of the Dead. Memento. The Lovely Bones. 17 Again. Office Space. 8 Mile. Snakes on a Plane. Boondock Saints. Say Anything. The Silence of the Lambs. Saving Private Ryan. Superbad. The Prestige. Just Friends. The Devil Wears Prada. Under the Tuscan Sun. Titanic. Steel Magnolias. Saw. Ace Ventura. She’s the Man. Because I Said So. Catch and Release. Music and Lyrics. Spanglish. Stick It. Step Up. The Fast and the Furious. Joyride. Halloween. The Italian Job. Crash. Must Love Dogs. The Last Kiss. Chicago. Harry Potter. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Rush Hour. Clerks. Shooter. The Bourne Identity. Meet the Parents. Dirty Dancing. A Christmas Story. Rudy. National Treasure. Sleepless in Seattle. Miss Congeniality. The Science of Sleep. The Matrix. Everything is Illuminated. Good Will Hunting. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Empire Records. Phantom of the Opera. Lord of the Rings. Click. Scarface. District 9.

III. TV (BOLD THE ONES YOU’VE WATCHED MORE THAN A COUPLE OF TIMES)
ER. Grey’s Anatomy. Saved by the Bell. Man vs. Wild. Scrubs. South Park. America’s Next Top Model. Gossip Girl. Sex and the City. Friends. Dawson’s Creek. The Big Bang Theory. The Office. Seinfield. Lost. Miami Ink. Made. Arrested Development. That 70's Show. Family Guy. The Simpsons. Veronica Mars. Project Runway. Bones. Iron Chef. Alias. Pushing Dasies. Gilmore Girls. The Colbert Report. The Daily Show. Mythbusters. Avatar: The Last Airbender. 24. Will and Grace. House. To Catch A Predator. Whistler. Heroes. Aqua Teen Hunger Force. 7th Heaven. Unsolved Mysteries . Everybody Loves Raymond. Boston Legal. Bleach. What I Like About You. Reba. King Of Queens. Survivor. The O.C. American Idol. Days of Our Lives. How I Met Your Mother. CSI. Boy Meets World. Law and Order. Numbers. Reno 911. I Love New York. Step by Step. Little People Big World. What Not To Wear. My Wife and Kids. Moonlight. Supernatural. Ace of Cakes. White Collar. Nip/Tuck. The Biggest Loser. Beauty and the Geek. Battlestar Galactica. Stargate SG1. The Inferno. Scarred. Wild N Out. Real World. Whose Line is it Anyway?. Trinity Blood. Dead Like Me. Firefly. Medium. Star Trek. X-files. Cowboy BeBop. Sailor Moon. My Name is Earl. Six Feet Under. Dancing With The Stars. Degrassi. Greek. Glee. Secret Life of the American Teenager. The Hills. Laguna Beach.

Do this if you want to. :)

Love, Audrey
(2.34 PM)

P.S. I forgot to mention this in the earlier posts. 31k hits!!!! I love you all. ♥

P.P.S. The Annual Dinner's this Saturday! Can't wait. :D

P.P.P.S. Brother #3 is coming back soon! I miss him.

P.P.P.P.S. Litfest was great! The performances were really nice and congratulations to Hollis on winning the debate and Patricia for being best speaker! :D

P.P.P.P.P.S. Title is from a song by the Fray, Never Say Never. Great song. :)

Random Post 9.0

2010-07-11T20:48:00.009+08:00

We didn't have school yesterday, which was awesome. You gotta love Brunei and its many, many public holidays. Another one coming up next week! I love July. :D

I actually forgot that we didn't have school yesterday so when I woke up at 8 am, I was swearing like it's nobody's business while running down the stairs and panicking until my auntie told me that I told her the previous night that I didn't have school today. And then I remembered. Me and my stupidity. Sigh. But then after that I did go back to sleep and woke up in the afternoon. Bliss. :)

Today my parents had this vegetarian food party. They invited their friends and there were a lot of vegetables and healthy stuff. The food was okay. Everything else was boring though. So I entertained my little cousins, who were so fickle to the extent that we changed board games every 15 minutes. I kid you not.

We played Snake and Ladders first. Well... they played. I helped them move their tokens. After one round, the other two didn't want to play anymore because they lost (Three of them were playing).

This giant Ludo set is cool. :D

So then, we played Ludo. They got fed up with it and then we moved on to Monopoly.

I was the banker. And they didn't want to compromise and barter trade their properties. So I just left it like that. They rolled the dice a few times before they got tired of it. After that, they didn't want to play board games anymore. So they jumped on my bed and played Mario on my GameBoy (HAHA! Yes, I still have mine!).

I bet I was like that, as in the... fickle part. And the annoying brat part (Okay, there wasn't any annoying brat part but I know I was one). My apologies to whoever were there when I behaved like that. This is especially to my brothers. I'm sorry, koko[s]! :)

All of this talk about board games reminds me of the times when my brothers and I played Monopoly or Risk together.

This game is awesome. Because all you need to have in order to win is pure luck. I pwned my brother (#1 to be exact) at this. :D

And I remembered too, that I would cry when I lost a game. But I swear that I do not cry when I lose now. Those times were nice. It was before any of us got laptops of our own. I bet that when my brothers come back at the end of the year, the internet bandwidth will all be taken up and we will all just be glued in front of the computer screen.

I remembered that when we used to play Monopoly, Brother #3 will always want the stations. And brother #1 will always want the red and/or the yellow. And I will always want the orange and the green, and sometimes the light blue, but I don't get them all the time though. Brother #2, on the other hand, can win with any property. He settles with anything. And yet he can own us. We played two rounds of Monopoly in a row last time (I forgot when, though) and he won both of them. D:

The red ones are my favourite. :D

I'm eating grapes right now. Don't you just hate it when you accidentally bite down on a seed? D: Seedless grapes are the bomb! I detest the ones with the seeds. Such a pain in the ass to get rid of them. :/

ANTM Cycle 2.

I just finished watching ANTM Cycle 2. Am downloading Cycle 3 now. I still have a long, long way to go. :( I realized that the mean girl NEVER wins, which is a good thing. So if you ever want to star in a reality TV show similar to ANTM, make sure to clean up your act and be nice. :)

Love, Audrey
(9.57 PM)

P.S. Fat cat weighs 7kg now! Just weighed her. HAHA! I think she has a striking resemblance to Garfield, except that she isn't ginger in colour and she doesn't like to eat lasagna (Well... she hasn't tried it before. And I don't plan to let her).

P.P.S. Just finished all the birthday cards! The last one's not completely done yet, because my printer ran out of black ink. D:

P.P.P.S. Speaking of birthdays... someone's birthday is next Sunday! You know who you are. Study hard and take care! I love you. ♥

P.P.P.P.S. Am still tediously removing the seeds from the grapes. Urgh. D:

Mine looks like this! Except in a more cacat condition.

P.P.P.P.P.S. Reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban now!!! Sirius and Lupin are two of the coolest characters in the series. I was so sad when they both died. :( After I'm done with the whole HP series again, I plan to read the Lord of the Rings trilogy (Which will take me a gazillion years). But I can't know until I've tried. :)

You've got nothing to lose

2010-07-08T21:51:00.013+08:00

Hello! :) Thank you for stopping by my blog! I haven't been updating it lately - I have been so busy. It has been a hectic week.

Yesterday, we had the elocution event for Litfest. I lost, but that's all right. I did do my best. Learning the words for my speech is so much harder than memorizing notes for the exams because during the exam, I have time to think and recall everything I have studied. But in this, I can't. The words just have to automatically come out of my mouth. I was so nervous so I stuttered and said the wrong words. D: But, there's always a next year. :)

Macdougall still won for both the Junior and Senior Elocution though, which is awesome. And!! Macdougall also made it into the finals in the debate. They're going to be up against Hollis. Congratulations to everyone!!!!!!!!!! You guys did great. :D

Today on the way back from Maths tuition (We learnt the Remainder Theorem, which was very confusing the first time. But if you understand it, then it isn't so bad. I remember at the beginning of the year when we first started learning Simultaneous Equations. We were so blur and distraught (Word of the day) and confused. But I guess now after a few months of learning Add Maths that everyone (much like myself) are perfectly fine and happy with Simultaneous Equations), we used the Kiulap roundabout route.

I looked at the decorative lights which were hung up between the lamp posts around the roundabout and I was so shocked when they changed colours! They were so pretty! Yes, I am a very sakai person. If you don't know what the meaning of sakai is, then I'm so sorry. Because I don't know what is the English translation of sakai.

I have cat pictures! This is especially for my brother. Because he helped me with a certain something and he bought Pods for me (Pods, by the way, is the awesomest chocolate to have ever graced this earth). ♥

This is Ming Ming.

This is Thin Thin. She is Ming Ming's daughter.

This is my fat cat, Fatty. She is Thin Thin's sister.

I like this picture. It is so cute! :D

And now, I will end my post with this:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Hastily done in 5 minutes using Microsoft Paint. I have always wanted to dress my cats up in clothing. But I bet they'll just bite and chew on them. This is an alternative approach. HAHAHAHA!

Love, Audrey
(11.24 PM)

P.S. Fatty and Thin went outside after I took those pictures so I couldn't take any more pictures of them after that. Sorry!

P.P.S. The title of this post is a line from an awesome song by You Me At Six, Liquid Confidence.

P.P.P.S. I am so happy that Saturday is a public holiday. Sleeping in and waking up in the afternoon rocks. :D

P.P.P.P.S. I AM SO HAPPY THAT SPAIN BEAT GERMANY IN THE SEMI-FINALS. I AM ROOTING FOR SPAIN TO WIN THE WORLD CUP!!!!!!!! I am actually considering staying up to watch the finals. :D

It all begins with a choice

2010-07-03T19:01:00.015+08:00

(Warning: Spoiler Alert!)

I know a lot of you won't agree with me concerning this post, but I have my own opinions and I am also a very opinionated person so I stick by them (My opinions). And you should too. Everyone's entitled to their own opinions so if you don't like what I'm typing out here, don't flame my tagboard or anything. Just leave. As I mentioned in the disclaimers sub-title in the other column, "Everything written here is also my own personal opinion. If they happen to offend you, you are very welcome to leave." I don't need anyone raining on my 'parade' (My blog). This is, of course, my blog after all.

I watched The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and I must say that I was pleasantly surprised. I actually thought it wouldn't be any good so I went to watch it anyway just for the Robert Pattinson parts. HAHA! But it really was better than I expected.

The newborns gave an edge to the film. It's not as tame as the last two. I personally don't like the new Victoria. The previous one (Rachelle Lefevre) was better. Bryce Dallas Howard (Eclipse's Victoria) looks too innocent to be evil.

Her eyes are so doe-like and she looks so friendly and too goody goody ≠ mean, nasty, and angry.

My favourite parts were all the Robert Pattinson parts...

... which were a lot. :D

I don't know how anyone can like Jacob Black. I mean, ALL THERE IS TO HIM ARE HIS LOOKS (Which to me is kind of ordinary. Sorry to all Jacob/Taylor fans! If you are thinking of posting up bad comments now, I suggest you scroll up and reread paragraph 1). He is so presumptuous about Bella's love for him and in denial about Bella's love for Edward. SERIOUSLY. She's obviously together with Edward, and yet he goes, "I know you love me, Bella" (Or along the lines of that). I liked the part where Bella punched Jacob when he kissed her. >:D

The proposal scene! It was so sweet. :') The ring was really pretty.

But at the pre-fight scene, Bella got mad at Edward - because even though Edward knew that Jacob was nearby, he still named his favourite evenings to her, the first one being the night where he proposed and he also called her 'Mrs. Cullen' (Bella didn't want Jacob to know that they were engaged), - so she asked Jacob to kiss her. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I felt so sorry for Edward. :( And I absolutely hated the part where Jacob cuddled Bella on the mountain because she was really cold. He looked so smug. Urgh. But in the end, Bella still married Edward instead of him. HAH! :D

The Cullens! I liked the part where Jasper was demonstrating how to kill the newborns to the werewolves. Jasper's and Alice's sparring was like a very synchronized and choreographed dance. It was so nice. And it was sad to see Rosalie's (I think she's awesome. HAHAHAHAHA!) and Jasper's (I love his Southern accent. Cowboy/General Jasper rules!) pasts.

The newborns! Xavier Samuel plays Riley (The one up front). I think he's cute! Apparently Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy from HP) and Channing Tatum tried out for this role too. The newborns were very vicious and scary. Especially the screaming parts in the beginning when Victoria changed them into vampires. One of my favourite parts was also the fight scene. :D

Overall... Eclipse the book < style="text-align: center;">Love, Audrey
(7.54 PM)

P.S. First post for July!

P.P.S. I'm not yet done with my speech for elocution. And it's this Wednesday! D:

P.P.P.S. I bought a lot of The Sims 2 Expansion Packs. Thank you for helping me install them, Jasmine!!! ♥

P.P.P.P.S. SPORTS DAY TOMORROW!!!!!!!! GO MACDOUGALL!!!!

Hey!!

2010-06-30T21:20:00.007+08:00

I just wanted to do a quick post before June ends. July's almost here!

It's officially half of the year in a few more hours. Another half to go and hello 2011!

As I said before, time does really fly so fast. It's continuously moving, racing and just speeding past us. In a month and a half, I'm going to be 14! Damn. Fourteen years of living already. Before you know it, I'll already be graduating from SAS. And then before you know it, I'm already going to uni (Hopefully by then I will finally decide what would I want to do with my life). And before you know it, I'll be facing society and the big, working world. But then again, I'm still thirteen and 7/8 years old. I can still enjoy life as it is now. ;)

I'm currently watching Russell Peters: Outsourced. Damn, this guy makes racism funny. But then again, he's just pointing out the traits of each race. Awesome stuff. :D He actually looks a bit like Mr. Singh to me. HAHA!

You know, I had nothing to do yesterday. So I went on Converse (The official website) and designed Converse shoes. That's how jobless I am. HAHA! But the shoes. Oh my God. They are divine. They are so pretty! I want them all!!! Too bad they don't provide international deliveries. :(

I have a pair that looks something like this! :D

This is so pretty!!!! I love the double uppers and the double tongues. They look amazing. Word of the day: AMAZING.

The colours are so nice!

I downloaded a shitload of movies, like St. Trinians 2 and Sherlock Holmes and Knight and Day. I have wanted to watch St. Trinians 2 since I watched the first movie last year. The movie is amazing. It's really funny. I watched Sherlock Holmes before, sure. But I wanted to watch it again because it is an awesome movie. I heard that Knight and Day was good, so I downloaded it. :D

AND! I watched the official trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and let me tell you, IT WAS EPIC.

My book looks like this! As I said, all my books have the cartoon illustrations on the cover.

If the trailer's like that, the movie has got to be a million times better. I hope it surpasses my expectations. I can't believe that Harry Potter is coming to an end. I mean, yeah it has already (Book-wise), but then when the 7th book came out, there were still a few more movies left to film. But exactly a year from now, the 2nd part of the 7th movie will premiere. And it's the end of this glorious, glorious franchise. Harry Potter is epic. And it is legendary. It is a phenomenon. It's more than a decade of awesomeness. And the 65 people who disliked the trailer must be high or something. Bleh.

Love, Audrey
(10.24. PM)

P.S. Happy Month of July, everyone! Have an awesome July! Sports Day is this Sunday. I'm going to cake my face with sunblock, you can count on that. HAHA!

P.P.S. This blog now has 30k hits!!!!!!!!! I love you guys. ♥

Eighty Eights

2010-06-25T20:10:00.011+08:00

Another week, another post.

The first week of this term is almost over. We had Parent's Day at school today. It was so chaotic and hectic. A lot of mixed up numbers, uncooperative parents and 'he said, she said'. It was an experience, but it is not something that I would fancy doing everyday. I got my report book back though. I saw it beforehand so nothing in it was surprising. Still kind of disappointed with some marks. But I guess the overall results were okay.

My mom just came in and gave me my credit for the next two months, which is pretty good timing considering that I only have 10 cents left. :D It's actually supposed to be only for a month but I don't message/call a lot so it lasted two months. Speaking of credits...

I don't mean to brag but this is kind of awesome. It is very old though. It was when I was in Primary 4 I think. So it was in... 2005. It was before August so I was still eight. It was the World Water Day event. Mind you, I only did the colouring. :)

There's also this new band that I love (Credits to someone. ;)). It's called Hot Chelle Rae and it is mind-blasting (Russell Peters. HAHAHA!).

I think that the vocalist, Ryan Follese (Second from the right) is cute. :)

Their album!! My favourites are I Like To Dance and Say Say (Half Past Nine). Sooooo good.

Go youtube or download or buy their album. Look, I already have it linked for you there. Just click the damn button(s). Trust me, you won't be disappointed. :D

I'm sad to say that I'm not yet done with The Lost Symbol. But I am going to. I am just taking a brief (Maybe) hiatus from it because I feel like reading Harry Potter again, so I'm reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone now. You can just feel the awesomeness radiating from it. Yes, Harry Potter is that awesome. B-)

Mine looks like this! All the Harry Potter books I own have the cartoon illustration on the cover.

Like most books-turned-movies out there, books > movies (Inequalities. HAHA!). But the first movie wasn't that bad. I thought that Daniel Radcliffe looked so cute!

Hedwig the owl! I was so sad when it died in the 7th book. :(

Daniel Radcliffe was once this sweet, lovable kid. And now he's all grown up and muscular. :O

It is such a nice movie. The whole cast looked so young in it compared to now!

Does anyone get 3OH!3's album covers? o_O

And!! 3OH!3's Streets of Gold album is out! I have no idea when it officially did, but I think it was some time ago. I downloaded it and it is awesome!

Love, Audrey
(10.06 PM)

P.S. Aching is coming back this Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait! ♥

P.P.S. I woke up late for school thrice this week. D: I'll try sleeping early today. My alarm clock can hardly be called an alarm clock. It is a sad excuse for an alarm clock, I kid you not. Its alarm isn't loud, AT ALL. :(

P.P.P.S. If you're wondering about the title of this post, it's an awesome song by Farewell. :D

Back to school, yay!

2010-06-20T18:43:00.008+08:00

NOT.

Today is the last day of our holidays, until September, of course. I'm not very excited to go back to school, but what can one do? I've grown used to waking up in the afternoon and pretty much doing nothing for the rest of the day. But I guess it's somehow good to have something to do everyday.

There's going to be the 2nd Assessment Test, more stuff to cram into our heads and more stress (Images of studying for the Mid-Year Exams suddenly came flooding back into my head. Urgh. The horror). I relatively enjoy the third quarter of the year (But of course, the fourth quarter beats the third quarter's ass, hands down!) because I'm turning 14 this August! :D

It's funny how time flies by so fast. It was like only yesterday I stepped into 9B, and chose a place to put my things and sit. Then a month went by. And another. And another. It is so fast.

Today is Father's Day. And I would like to wish all the proud dads out there a Happy Father's Day. I kind of forgot that today is Father's Day. But then luckily I went on Facebook this morning and saw all the greetings. And then I remembered. Haha!

Most of you will notice that I changed my blog template after three long months. I wanted a new look for my blog, so I changed it. I originally wanted the colour scheme to be orange, but then I changed it to teal. I kind of like how it looks now, but I think there are some of you out there who may beg to differ. I used the new template design feature that blogger has incorporated. It has new templates and lots of stuff to choose from, including new layouts and a lot of pictures for the background. I love it. :D

As I mentioned above, school starts tomorrow. I hope it's going to go well. :) I will blog less now, since school is reopening. Maybe one or two or maybe even three posts a week, if you're lucky. ;)

Love, Audrey
(12.01 AM)

P.S. It is this late and I am still not asleep. I am going to wake up late tomorrow, no doubt.

P.P.S. 29k hits (Although the sudden increase in today's blog hits may be because I kept refreshing the page to see how the new template looks. Heh...)! But nonetheless, thank you so much for sticking with me, you guys! I love you! You're the reason why I still blog. :D

Update II!!

2010-06-18T23:37:00.004+08:00

I promised someone that I'll blog today, so I will. :)

The holidays have been so boring for me. Everyday's the same. It's a routine. I wake up, shower, eat, do the house chores, watch tv, use the computer, shower, eat again, and then sleep. Then the cycle repeats all over again the next day.

I'm accomplishing nothing everyday. But then I'd rather do nothing than go back to school. Holidays are awesome and I am so going to miss the holidays once school reopens. D:

So I watched Karate Kid last week. Jaden Smith is very cute. It's a cool movie, with all the stunts and the fight moves. I liked Jackie Chan in the movie. It was really funny too. :D

I've been watching this anime series called Yakitate!! Japan. And my God, the bread they make in the anime looks so good. It's like the description they give you about the bread makes you want to eat it so much. When I watched the ending, I felt very sad because this wonderful, wonderful anime and the story and everything has come to an end. I'm sure all anime and tv-show viewers feel like this. The show takes you on a fantastic ride and suddenly, it all stops. It makes you feel very sad. :(

You should really watch this anime, if you like anime and if you haven't watched it yet. It is hilarious. Especially when the judges taste the bread; the reactions they give. They are so exaggerated but it's very funny. The reactions are mostly puns. There's also the manga, if you want to read it. But I don't really like reading manga online, so I don't read it.

It's like all I am doing now are reviews. But this is my blog after all.

I can really tell that my cats miss my maid as much as I do. They're less hyper now, but that doesn't mean that they behave better. I'm giving them a bath tomorrow. I bet they'll be very noisy. It's also very hard to catch a hold of them and put them in the bathroom. They know when we're about to bathe them. They're smart cats. They know.

I'll post up pictures of them probably tomorrow, so most probably I'll be blogging tomorrow too. Probably. :D

Love, Audrey
(1.46 AM)

P.S. This is a bit late but thank you sooooo much! This blog now has 28k hits! I love you guys!

P.P.S. School is starting next week. I am not ready. AT ALL. D: I learnt logarithms at tuition and I absolutely dislike it. It is so confusing and URGH. But Jasmine is right though. When we go back to school, we'll be a little bit smarter than we were before. HAHA!

P.P.P.S. And I also have been watching America's Next Top Model. I'm currently downloading Cycle 1. I watched the first few episodes already and it is gooood. Since now all of the tv shows I watch have gone on hiatus to film for the next season (Except for Leverage. Season 3 is coming out next week!!!!!!!!!!!! :D), I have something else to download. :D

Defy the future

2010-06-08T22:06:00.012+08:00

(Warning: Spoiler Alert!)

So I went to watch Prince of Persia: Sands of Time just now, and IT WAS AWESOME!

I loved the movie.

It was really cool actually. It has a lot of action, mixed in with some comedy and the usual hint of romance in it. It also has some deceit in the movie, which reminds me of Dan Brown's books. Which also reminds me; I haven't gotten around to finish reading The Lost Symbol yet. But I will! Soon!

Okay, back to the topic.

The movie was really good. I watched the trailer a few months back and I wanted to watch the movie ever since. And now that I have, it totally surpassed my expectations. It exceeded my expectations (Harry Potter! :D God, I want to read the whole series again and just drown in the awesomeness that is Harry Potter). I am very easy to please, so just keep in mind where these reviews are coming from. And coming from me, this movie is highly, highly recommended. :D

The Dagger of Time

This movie revolves around the Dagger of Time. It's kind of cool actually. The Dagger of Time gives its owner the ability to go back in time for a short period so that the user can try to correct any mistake or redo any moment. No one else except the user will know that he/she went back in time. But in order for the dagger to work, it needs a special kind of sand.

So the movie goes on and on and it is revealed that there is a huge Sandglass underground containing that special kind of sand. And should the dagger be pierced into the Sandglass, the sands would be released and destroy the entire world, and the holder of the dagger may also turn back time as far as he/she pleases.

Okay, enough about the dagger. Moving on... (But if you want to read the full synopsis of this movie, click here)

Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal)

Tamina (Gemma Arterton)

I thought that Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton were perfect for their roles. To be honest, I think that Jake Gyllenhaal is super hot. And for the guys, there's Gemma Arterton. :D This year is a great year for her, she starred in Clash of the Titans too!

There is one part in the movie where it kind of seemed bizarre to me; the part where Dastan and Tamina kissed before reaching the Sandglass. I mean, did they really have the time to kiss when Nizam (The bad guy in the movie) was already reaching the Sandglass? That part puzzled me a lot. Weren't they supposed to be rushing towards the Sandglass to stop Nizam?

But then again, they had to realize their true feelings for each other before she plummeted to her death where beforehand they played the 'Let-me-go!-No,-I-won't!' game. When she fell into the black abyss, I thought, "Wow, poor girl. She died in Clash of the Titans and now she's going to die in this movie again. I bet when she read the script, she was like 'Aww... I have to die again?'". HAHA! But then Dastan did go back in time again at the end, so she lives. Which is a good thing.

Nizam. He looks more Chinese than Persian, if you ask me.

I kind of cried when Dastan killed himself to prove to his brother about the true power of the dagger. I think that that's so courageous of him. :) But then his brother pressed the button on the dagger and went back in time and stopped Dastan before he could kill himself.

So if you trust my review, go watch it in the cinema! Or wait for the DVD! Or download it! Either way, if you haven't watched it, you should.

Love, Audrey
(11.47 PM)

P.S. I am so daft. I spent the last two days without the internet but all I had to do was restart my laptop. D: Thank you Brother #2! ♥

P.P.S. Doing chores suck. I want my Aching back. :(

P.P.P.S. My air-con is still leaking. URGH. Am now using an air-cooler. It looks like this. I can't find a better picture.

100 Truths

2010-06-05T20:04:00.010+08:00

The holidays just started and I'm very excited! As mentioned in my previous post, I'm going to do all the housework until my maid comes back. Oh, joy!

I lost my Friendship Day sticker, but it basically looked something like this. The picture in the middle of the sticker is similar to this one. I got this from Google.

Friendship Day was last Wednesday. It was really... colourful. There were a lot of National costumes worn on that day. There was the Chinese Cheong Sam, the Malay Baju Kurung and Cara Melayu, the Japanese Kimono, the Korean Hanbok, and the Indian Sari. I wore jeans and a T-shirt because I don't own any National costumes, not even my own race's costume. LOL!

There was a class party where everyone had to bring food. I brought a cheesecake. Then after that was the performances, which outnumbered the performances during Talentine, because Talentine had themes. There were some singing, dancing and a fashion show. It was really nice. :D

That's like a very, very short summary of the whole day. Sorry for the lack of pictures. We weren't allowed to bring cameras. There wasn't a very friendship-y vibe around which I thought should be present, seeing that it is after all 'Friendship Day', well to me at least. But everything went fine. :)

The entire cast as of Season 6

I have been watching House M.D. lately and it is awesome! I am currently downloading Season 6.

Dr. House

I absolutely love Dr. House. I think he's awesome! He's so witty and smart. Hugh Laurie plays him and he's one my favourite actors. :D

Dr. Chase. :D

I was kind of sad in Season 3 when Chase, Cameron and Foreman left. I was mostly sad because Chase left. But all's good because in Season 5, because House rehires Chase again. I love his accent. :D

The class party at the beach on Thursday was fun. Sadly the organizer didn't even get to go. But there'll be another one maybe next term. :)

Speaking of the beach, I'm going to the beach tomorrow again! Some jogging around and a picnic afterward. I hope I don't get a sunburn and/or get bitten by sand flies. Their bites itch like crazy. D: I have to bring loads of sunblock and insect repellent and reapply them every hour. HAHA! I'm very scared of getting sunburns since a very bad sunburn two or three years back. My face was very red, to the point where I looked like a lobster for a period of three days before the skin started peeling off.

We looked very much alike.

I got this off a random website.

LASTS:
1. Last beverage → Root beer. :D
2. Last phone call → Driver.
3. Last text message → Jas and Jos. I wished them good luck. :)
4. Last song you listened to → Here (In Your Arms) by Hellogoodbye (Which, by the way, is an awesome song!!!)
5. Last time you cried → I can't remember.

HAVE YOU EVER:
1. Dated someone twice → No.
2. Been cheated on? → No.
3. Kissed someone & regretted it? → No.
4. Lost someone special? → Yes.
5. Been depressed? → Yes.
6. Been drunk and threw up? → No.

LIST FOUR FAVORITE COLORS:
1. Pink.
2. White.
3. Black.
4. Red.

HAVE YOU:
1. Made new friends → Yes.
2. Fallen out of love → Yes.
3. Laughed until you cried → Yes.
4. Met someone who changed you → Yes.
5. Found out who your true friends were → Yes.
6. Found out someone was talking about you → Yes.
7. Kissed anyone on your friend’s list? → No.
8. How many people on your friends list do you know in real life → Friend list on where?
9. How many kids do you want to have → Depends.
10. Do you have any pets → Yes
11. Do you want to change your name → I did before. Because no one could pronounce it right. But then I found out that my name is awesome because it's kind of unique and it means noble strength. But that's not the reason my parents named me that. Actually my maid gave me that name. She said she named me Audrey after a song. HAHA!
12. What did you do for your last birthday → Had dinner and took pictures. And had ice-cream cake. Yum. :D
13. What time did you wake up today → 12 PM, I think.
14. What were you doing at midnight last night → I was sleeping.
15. Name something you CANNOT wait for → ECLIPSE! I didn't really like the book but I'm just going to watch it for the sake of watching how they translated the book into the movie and what scene they cut out or how did they portray this particular scene. And also for Robert Pattinson, of course. :D
16. Last time you saw your father → Two hours ago.
17. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life → This year.
18. What are you listening to right now → Gossip by You Me At Six
19. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom → I don't know. For all I know, Tom could've been the name of a waiter who served me, a doorman who said hi to me, or a customs officer at an airport. Anyone.
23. What’s getting on your nerves right now? → Nothing in particular.
24. Most visited web page → Wikipedia.

WHAT:
1. What’s your name → Audrey.
2. Nicknames → Aud, Dee, Dree, Oddee, Dodo, Fat pig, Muddy girl (HAHAHAHAHA!) Small girl, Princess (It's actually an insult. Because my brother calls me that because he thinks I act like a princess.)
3. Relationship Status → Single. And sooooo loving it. :D
4. Zodiac sign → Leo.
5. Male or female → Female.
6. Elementary school → Lower Primary at SGS and Upper Primary at SAS.
7. High School → SAS.
8. Height → The last time I measured, I was... 5"1.
10. Hair color → Black.
11. Good at → Nothing. Okay, maybe failing. And sleeping. And eating.
16. Bad at → Everything else.
17. What do you like about yourself? → Honestly? Nothing.
18: What don’t you like about yourself? → Everything else.
19. Piercings → None. I actually had them before, but I got an ear infection and I took the earrings off. The piercing closed. :(
20. Tattoos → None.
21. Righty or lefty → Righty.

FIRSTS:
22. First fight → Forgot. Probably with my brothers.
23. First embarrassment → I forgot. But I had a lot, a lot of embarrassments in my lifetime.
24. First best friend → Pei Si! :D
26. First kiss → Never had one before.
27. First pet → Ming Ming!
28. First vacation → It was to KK, think.
29. First crush → This information is private and confidential.
30. First boyfriend → Never had one.
49. Eating → Apples.
50. Drinking → Nothing.
52. I’m about to → Reply Sandra on MSN.
53. Listening to → Jealous Minds Think Alike by You Me At Six.
55. Waiting for →House M.D. to finish downloading.

YOUR FUTURE:
58. Want kids? → Yes.
59. Want to get married? → Yes.
60. Careers in mind? → None at the moment.

YOUR PERFECT MATE:
68. Lips or eyes → Both. :) But if I had to say... lips.
69. Hugs or kisses → Both. :D
70. Shorter or taller → Taller.
71. Older or Younger → Older.
72. Passive or agressive → Passive.
73. Personality or looks → Personality.
74. Quiet or loud → Depends.
75. Hook-up or relationship → Relationship.
77. Trouble maker or hesitant → Hesitant.

HAVE YOU EVER:
78. Kissed a stranger → No.
79. Drank hard liquor → I had a sip of Tiger Beer (Which tasted HORRIBLE) before. Does that count? o_O
80. Lost glasses/contacts → No. But I disfigured my glasses before though. Not pretty.
81. Told a big lie… or joke → Yes.
82. Broken someone’s heart → I don't know.
83. Had your own heart broken→ Maybe.
85. Been arrested → No.
86. Turned someone down → I guess.
87. Cried when someone died → Yes.
88. Liked a friend that is a boy? → Yes.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
89. Yourself → Honestly? No.
90. Miracles → Yes.
92. Hell → Yes.
93. Santa Clause → No.
95. Kiss on the first date? → Yes.
96. Angels → Yes.

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:
97. Is there one person you want to be with right now? → No.
98. Had more than one boyfriend/girlfriend at one time? → No.
100. Posting this as 100 Truths? → Okay.

I seem to end my posts with tags nowadays. Lol. Do this if you want to!

Love, Audrey
(9.30 PM)

P.S. I'm going to be blogging more because I'm not going anywhere this holiday and also because I'm going to be so bored. So be happy, you guys! :D

P.P.S. My air-con is still leaking. WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT!? D: Urgh.

P.P.P.S. I have been playing The Sims 2 a lot lately. I know, I'm so last 6 years. LOL! I enjoy killing my sims. I tried all the ways to kill them and I have to admit it, it is kind of fun. I am such a sadist. HAHAHA!

Update!!

2010-06-01T22:20:00.001+08:00

I decided to blog before I went out on Sunday, which was to my cousin's birthday party which was full of screaming little kids. It was so much fun! Hint hint. Sarcasm. But then, before I could finish this post, my parents were shouting at me to go downstairs because we were leaving. So when I got back from my cousin's birthday party to finish up this post, my internet died. For that whole night and the next day, which was a Monday. But it's working good right now and I'm so happy! :D

Holidays are starting at the end of this week and I'm psyched! During the holidays, I'm going to be practising on my house chores! IT'S GOING TO BE AWESOME! Hint hint. Sarcasm. My maid is going back for three weeks and I have to help my mom around the house. So I have to bathe the cats, feed them, attempt to fry their food, do the laundry, hang the clothes, take them down, fold them, attempt to iron them (I hope I don't burn any clothes), do the dishes, sweep, mop, and... fold plastic bags (I don't like folding them because my triangles always come out ugly and fat). It's going to be sooooo fun.

I told Brother #1 this and he said *quote* "Yay! You're finally going to learn to be a girl! :D" *unquote*. That's how mean my brothers are. And that's just the beginning.

Brother #2 is taking up some courses during his long holidays (Which is right now) and he's learning Japanese, which is so cool. He taught me some words yesterday. His MSN personal message is in Jap. HAHA! He seems very interested in it. Thank God, he's not learning Thai (If you are reading this, ko, DO NOT EVER LEARN THAI. It's a nice language and all... but I'm scared of it), because if he is and when he comes home and he speaks in Thai to me, it's going to be scary and freaky because after I watched Phobia 2 (WHICH IS A DAMN SCARY MOVIE FYI, PEOPLE!), hearing people talking in Thai is frightening. :S

Yesterday, I went out with my cousin, Yuki, to watch Shrek Forever After.

My favourite character is of course, Puss! Ahhh! And he's so FAT in this movie. He reminds me of my own Fatty.

Do you see the resemblance? HAHA!

And now who could forget those big, cute puppy eyes?

The movie was good! You should go watch it. It was very funny. It was the perfect epitome of the whole you-don't-know-what-you-had-until-you-have-lost-it concept.

I got this from Sheena's blog. I'm doing it to lengthen this post and also so that you guys can know a little more about me, maybe? Do this if you want to. :)

1. I woke up in the afternoon today.
2. I have at least three picture frames in my room.
3. My trash can is full.
4. I love snow globes, but I’d never buy one.
5. I use my regular phone more than my cell phone.
6. I’m single, but I love it.
7. My hair is layered. You can barely tell.
8. I hate the term “best friend” but I use it anyway.
9. I get along with my mom more than my dad.
10. I like making beaded bracelets.
11. I’ve never run for class president/treasurer, etc.
12. Most of my friends are white.
13. I have over 150 CDs in my collection.
14. I would rather listen to the radio than CDs.
15. I own whiteout, but I barely ever use it.
16. I’m very shy until you get to know me.
17. Some take my shyness as being mean/rude.
18. Most people probably don’t understand me.
19. I have a very random sense of humor.
20. I do not consider myself attractive.
21. I feel that I’m more mature than most people my age.
22. …But not all the time.
23. I used to pick my nose and wipe it on the wall.
24. I’d rather be cold than hot.
25. I always wait for that one person to sign on.
26. I’m probably online too much for my own good.
27. I am trying to lose weight and it’s not working out very well.
28. I own a LOT of chapstick. A LOT.
29. I love to buy paper… but I barely use it.
30. I write in my paper journal once a day or more.
31. I am an American, yet I find them annoying.
32. I’ve used binoculars the wrong way before.
33. I’m thirsty, but I can’t be bothered to go get something.
34. My best friend is that of the opposite sex.
35. My stomach hurts a little bit right now.
36. Sometimes I feel really, really sorry for myself.
37. Other times I feel really, really lucky.
38. I have a friend (or more) who creeps me out.
39. I have more than one shelf up in my room.
40. It’s sunny out today.
41. I don’t have a car.
42. I’m very picky with food.
43. I have a hard time with directions.
44. I am a little bit obsessive compulsive, I think.
45. I talk to myself in the mirror sometimes.
46. I don’t have that many DVDs yet.
48. I feel very sick if a movie is gory.
49. I have a lot in common with my best friend(s).
50. I believe in the theory that opposites attract.
51. I like someone who is at least four years older than me.
52. I’ve started a fire/explosion in the microwave before.
53. I’m worried that one of my pets will die soon.
54. I have cut myself before and sometimes still want to.
55. Never been THAT drunk, but it might be kinda fun.
56. Sometimes I act drunk even when I’m not.
57. It annoys me when people chew loudly.
58. And breathe loudly.
59. And click their pens like crazy.
60. I enjoy bold surveys, mostly ‘cause I have no life.
61. I’d rather have a popsicle than popcorn.
62. I’d rather do laundry than the dishes.
63. Someday, I will go to England.
64. I’d rather be in a dark room than a bright one.
65. My alarm clock annoys me very, very much.
66. When I was younger, I went to summer school for fun.
67. I was made fun of in middle school. That has scarred me.
68. I’ve never eaten sushi and never will.
69. I remember where I was when I first learned to whistle.
70. If Barney is on TV, I will still sit there and watch.
71. MySpace is annoying, but I’m pretty much addicted to it.
72. I hAtE iT wHeN pPl TyPe LyK dIs!!!11
73. When I talk to my crush, I basically stop breathing.
74. People have told me that I’m sexy before.
75. I never believe it when they do.
76. I love to write, but whenever I start something new I can’t finish it.
77. I love to read, but I can’t do it for a long time.
78. If I lay down and watch TV, I end up falling asleep.
79. I absolutely LOVE riding my bike.
80. I love to play badminton, but I don’t play often.
81. I have never been on a sports team before.
82. I’m in at least one advanced placement class.
83. I’m in the class of 2009.
84. Jacuzzis and hot tubs are very relaxing.
85. I have stood up and done something else during this survey.
86. I space out a lot, but that’s ‘cause I think too much.
87. I’ve made a shelf in a store collapse before.
88. I’m a big crybaby, and I know it.
89. I wouldn’t mind having a ferret for a pet.
90. I love to watch home videos.
91. I miss my childhood and wish I could go back.
92. I’d rather brush my teeth normal than use an electric toothbrush.
93. Dippin’ Dots are good, but not worth the money.
94. I feel like I’m more confident than I used to be.
95. My friends come to me for advice often.
96. I’ve had over five significant others in my lifetime.
97. I have cheated on one or more of them before.
98. Last year’s math class was completely useless.
99. I hate the fact that I’m growing up. I don’t want to.
100. I miss a lot of my old friends, but not all of them.

And to all you dear, dear readers out there, PLEASE comment. My tagboard is dying and there may be some dust and cobwebs in it. I value your comments and they are very much appreciated. AND REMEMBER! People who comment go to heaven! :D

Tomorrow's the Friendship Day event. Am kind of excited for it. I hope everything goes well. Good luck to everyone who's performing! :D

Love, Audrey
(10.10 PM)

P.S. First post for June!

P.P.S. This blog has 27k blog hits!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! I love you guys (Though how few you may be)!!!!!!!!!!. You guys rock! :D

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2010-05-27T21:56:00.010+08:00

I have NOT been blogging a lot. Maybe only like once a week now? I fail as a blogger. If I can still call myself that.

I got all my test papers back as of today, and my marks are very bad. Some are satisfying, some are just atrocious. There's going to be a BIG, FAT D in my report book and I'm really not happy about that. Spoiler mark. :(

Lee DeWyze is the winner of American Idol! And I didn't watch the finale, because I was at tuition. Congratulations to him! Because as I said before, it doesn't matter who wins to me, I don't watch it anyway. :)

Today was the Tug-of-War event. It was very... hot. Congratulations to all the houses! :D Macdougall and Hollis made it to the finals. I'm all for team spirit (Except that I don't join any sporting events because I will make Macdougall lose even more because I am hopeless in sports. I just give... distanced support) so I really want Macdougall to win so that we can have a higher chance of getting first place for Sports Day. :D

As I said in the previous post, I did start to play Kingdom Hearts again. I defeated Hades and won the Hades Cup, then I didn't know where to go. The walk-throughs on GameFAQs didn't help at all, so I went and started a new game.

I forgot how much I hate it when I can't complete a task e.g. in Deep Jungle where Sora has to swing from tree to tree using the vines.

That part is so frustrating, because I will always miss the next vine and will fall. Then I have to make the journey all the way up again. But I got through that stage so all's good. I moved on to the next world, but I now I'm back in Deep Jungle to complete the mini games to get items. Needless to say, I suck at those too. :/ Oh, and Deep Jungle is the Tarzan part of Kingdom Hearts.

I love it when I get a new keyblade and new equipments though. And when I level up and learn a new ability and new magic. Who doesn't? :D

That must have been boring for those of you who have no idea what I was talking about. Sorry about that.

So... my internet has been working like crap this past week. It still does. I keep disconnecting every 15-20 minutes and it sucks, especially when I'm chatting on MSN. It's annoying! >:(

Also, my air-conditioner has been leaking non-stop. I hate it because the water will splash onto my shelf underneath my air-con and water + wood = disgusting shade of colour/rotten wood. So that sucks and I turn it off most of the time now because the air-con repairman has yet to fix it. So at the moment, my room is hot and stuffy.

And you know another thing I hate? FLIES IN MY ROOM. They make this constant buzzing, annoying noise. And I have a fear of them going in my mouth or near me when I sleep. :S This is why I never leave my door open. Flies will come in and it's such a nuisance to chase them out. I spent 15 minutes this morning getting one out, and then another one came in in the process of getting the first one out. What is their deal anyway? It's not like there are any food in my room. Stupid flies. >:(

This concludes this week's update of my life. I'll try to blog more! But I need more ideas and content to make a blog post work. Will be brainstorming for ideas. Blogging is more like a chore now. :(

Love, Audrey
(11.39 PM)

P.S. This blog has 26k hits since 13th December 2008!!!!! YAY! THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYONE! You guys are fabulous. :D

P.P.S. TBBT and HIMYM season finales just came out (Actually they were out since last Tuesday)! Am devastated because I have to wait till September or sometime like that until new episodes are aired. :(

Random Post 8.0

2010-05-21T19:56:00.012+08:00

Exams were terrible.

I was so stressed and was studying until 12 and 2 in the morning.

I am sooooo glad that it's all over. Needless to say, all of the papers were difficult. I don't think I did any good in any of them. But I still have some hope left. No matter how small that hope may be. We're probably getting some of our papers tomorrow, so I'm very nervous. Good luck to everyone though! :)

On to a more brighter note...

The finale for American Idol Season 9 is going to be held next week. I gave up on it and haven't been watching it since March, mainly because I lost all interest in it when my favourite contestants went out. :(

But I'm definitely going to watch the finale! I want Crystal to win.

But Lee's alright too.

Simon announced that he won't be coming back for Season 10. I was devastated. American Idol is not American Idol without Simon Cowell. :S But then again, I don't watch it anymore. HAHA!

I'm getting really in to Kingdom Hearts again. I downloaded the OST and it is awesome! The songs are so good. I haven't even finished playing the first Kingdom Hearts game. Epic fail!

When I used to play it, I cheated. I used walk-throughs. And I also get so scared when I get into a boss battle, because I didn't want to die. So I would ask my brother to kill the boss for me. Pathetic, I know. LOL! I like the whole plot of Kingdom Hearts and the fact that they incorporated lots of Disney stuff into it. It's fun. And you know what? I think I'll try finishing up the game... and maybe start on Kingdom Hearts 2. :D

Love, Audrey
(9.20 PM)

P.S. 3OH!3 and Kesha make such good songs together. They should form a band. (By the way, if you haven't listened to My First Kiss by them, go youtube it. I am not kidding you, it's very nice.)

P.P.S. Season 2 of 90210 and Season 3 of Gossip Girl just ended. More TV Shows like How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory are going to have their season finale soon. They are premiering their new seasons only somewhere in September/October. D:

P.P.P.S. I'm running out of ideas on what to blog about. Big, BIG dilemma. :S

YAY!

2010-05-20T14:26:00.002+08:00

Finally! I'm back and the exams are over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

I'm supposed to be at my piano lesson right now but it was canceled.

So I'll blog more tomorrow. Thanks for still clicking on my blog even when I'm on hiatus! You guys are the best. :D

Love, Audrey
(3.58 PM)

Birthday greeting and hiatus

2010-05-02T18:23:00.007+08:00

To my Brother #1. :D

Happy 22nd Birthday, Brother #1!

When my hair was still short during November '09 when he was back for the holidays :D

In Melbourne! While walking to the Shrine of Remembrance.

In front of his used-to-be-apartment. Me wearing his beanie.

I miss him. He's awesome and I can't wait 'till November when he comes back for his holidays again! :D Have a blast there celebrating, ko! Did you get the card? :D Hope you like it! Study hard! I love you and take care!

Also, I am going to go on hiatus starting from tomorrow, because exams are just that important. See you guys on the 20th of May! Two weeks plus of studying. D: I can already feel the stress. Wish me luck! :) Good luck to everyone else too!

Love, Audrey
(7.20 PM)

Hello!

2010-04-30T22:41:00.005+08:00

After not blogging for... a week and a day, I'm back! It's like I'm only blogging once a week now. Terribly sorry. I have been very, very, very busy. Exams are coming up on the 13th and I haven't started studying yet! Blasphemy, yes, I know!!!

But I will start. Soon. Very, very soon.

So Brother #3 is back now. But he's leaving on Sunday. :( I'm going to miss him. Even when 7/8 of the time he is here, he's playing the PS3 he hijacked from Jas and Jos. But I am going to miss the fact that there is another kid in the house. It's not so quiet anymore when I come home from school because I will be hearing the Final Fantasy BGM playing in the study room or when I am about to sleep, I will hear the closing and opening of the doors. And he helps with my homework, though most of the time he goes, "I forgot how to do that. Ask your teacher." But I don't blame him. I will be like that too. Ahh... it's good to have someone around my age in the house. :D

I will be going on hiatus too, prior to the Mid-Year Exams. Will blog my official going on hiatus post soon. :)

Ooh! And this Sunday is a very special day for a very special someone! You know who you are. I hope the card arrives on time. :D

My brother playing FF now makes me want to go back to the old KH times when I just rush home from school and start killing some heartless. Good times, good times. :D

And Brother #2 is not coming back for his long holiday this June. I miss him. :( No one to help me when the printer goes crazy (It already has. It's in the shop now, hopefully getting repaired), or when I don't know how to solve stupid Maths problems or when I don't understand Science. >:(

So... I have been having reruns of...

How I Met Your Mother and...

The Big Bang Theory!!!!! (This show has nothing to do with Atheism by the way. It's not some documentary about the big bang)

I've watched all of the episodes already and I just watch them all again because I'm just that jobless, especially when they are not frequent with releasing new episodes every week. >:(

And as you must know, since January of this year, I haven't finished reading The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown.

It's not that I read the book every single day. In fact I haven't read it for the past 2 months. So don't blame me!! I will finish the book as soon as possible though. Because I can't wait to read The Devil Wears Prada!!!! Or or or... the Harry Potter series again!!! I still can't get over the awesomeness that is Harry Potter. :D

Pairama is going to be held tomorrow! Good luck to everyone! :D

Love, Audrey
(11.05 PM)

My new loves

2010-04-22T22:03:00.006+08:00

I have two new things to share with you! :D

The first is this.

This glorious green thing.

This masterpiece. This work of art.

It's sleek and thin and curvy. And glossy and shiny.

And it's just plain awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When this 5G iPod nano is compared with my previous 2G iPod nano, it really is a heck of a difference. Especially when my 5G one is a 16 gig and the 2G one is a 2gig. That's the main reason why I wanted a new one. :)

The 5G one is lighter, thinner and has a smoother finish. As you can see from the picture, the docks are on different sides too. The 5G iPod nano also has a built-in speaker. Which I find is very, very convenient.

The screen on the 5G iPod nano is longer and wider. The click wheel is smaller and more further south than the 2G one.

And it comes with a video camera!!! It can't take still pictures (Which sucks if you ask me), but it can shoot videos. I already have a camera so I'm not really bummed out about that. :D

For more info about my new baby, wiki or google it, since this blog is not a tech blog and I don't want any of you to get bored reading about this.

So moving on.

Item number two is...

THE BEST COOKIES EVER.

Marks and Spencer cookies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I challenge you to find another cookie brand which is as good as this, or even better.

It's baked to perfection. When the chocolate chip touches your mouth, it melts, oozing out that delicious chocolate taste. My favourite is the all butter chocolate chip cookie. It may look just like any other cookie but it's not!!! It's sooooo good. I tried the brazil nut one and it's very good too.

There are a lot of other different flavours. You have to try them all. They're all really good. I'm going to ask Brother #2 to buy them in Singapore and bring them back for me when he comes back at the end of the year. Because I don't think it's sold in Brunei. :( It's kind of sad really. People not ever knowing the taste the best cookies ever. T_T It should be a crime!

Speaking of brothers, Brother #3 is coming back this Saturday! Very excited to see him. I wonder if he grew any taller...

Love, Audrey
(10.34 PM)

P.S. Sorry about the decreasing amount of posts. I have been very busy. Mid-Year Exams are coming up next month. And I'm struggling with the syllabuses because I'm just plain stupid and I just don't get some of the stuff. :(

P.P.S. I promise that I will at least try to blog more. Promise!!!

P.P.P.S. I think papayas are delicious. This may seem random, but I'm eating papayas now. So it's not exactly as random as it sounds. LOL!

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2010-04-16T19:34:00.008+08:00

I'm here at Jas and Jos', using Josephine's Mac to blog, since they are busy having dinner downstairs and I have nothing else to do while waiting for them.

The number of readers on my blog dropped and I am sooooo devastated about that. I know what you're thinking now, that I just blog to get readers. And it's kind of true. I sometimes blog just for the satisfaction of the (very, very few) loyal readers that I have out there. When I see the number of daily clicks on my blog go up, I feel happy. Happy because people actually read this crap blog. Happy because people actually bothered to click on my blog url. It gives me a sense of accomplishment.

You may think that I'm superficial because I blog just for the readers. But the thing is, if you typed out the best blog post ever, with good content and overflowing with pictures, but if your blog doesn't have any readers, what is the point of blogging then? What is the point of constructing that brilliant post? It's like making the best, most delicious cake in the world and no one wants to eat it.

Digressing.

I haven't been blogging a lot recently. because I've been busy with project and school work. We just finished our BM project just now and I'm so happy about that. FINALLY! I never knew that we could pull it off but we did. Windows Movie Maker is actually VERY easy to use and THANK YOU SO MUCH, KOKO ZHEN YI! We couldn't have done it without your help 2000 kilometres away. :D

I got what I wanted from my parents!!!!! AND IT'S GORGEOUS AND SEXY AND CURVY AND THIN AND SHINY AND PRETTY. A lot of you know what it is already. But I'll fully introduce you to it most probably tomorrow or the day after.

I'm eating sour cream and onion potato chips now of some weird brand. It tastes good though. And I'm getting it all over this keyboard. And Jos is going to kill me when she reads this. But at least I'll die with a full stomach. :)

Love, Audrey

(8.42 PM)

P.S. Jas and Jos' place is my second home. (L)

P.P.S. I don't like the keyboard on this laptop.

P.P.P.S. GIANT POCKY IS GOOOOOD.

P.P.P.P.S. Glee is out!!!!! Downloaded and watched. :D

P.P.P.P.P.S. While editing this post, I realized that it looks so boring without pictures. So here's some pictures of me (and Jos. I need someone to cam-whore with!) so you won't forget how I (and she) look[s] like.

Jossie and I.

Josephine the one-eyed monster

Retard.

Coffee bean. I don't know. Jos says I look like coffee bean here. o_O

Retard #2

Colour pencil.

Comic book

Paris!!! And I'm apparently a giant. Look at those miniscule people there! :O

She loves me <3

Retard #3

Joined. :)

To infinity... and beyond!

Retard #4

Light tunnel

Advertising Dior Addict 2 by Dior. It makes you look like Edward Cullen. So glittery. I put it on my skin and I shine. :D

We were sad because Jasmine disowned us. :(

This is my new specs! Since March. I don't think all of you have seen it. So here it is! :D

Pictures were taken with Josephine's Mac. I like the effects. :D

Ribena can get you drunk

2010-04-12T18:39:00.013+08:00

So I went out with the girls last Friday. It was fun. We finally had a Girls Day Out since all of our parents are away in Singapore (Coincidence, much. Same flight again!). :D

We went to Capers in Kiulap first, to have the All-You-Can-Eat thing.

Needless to say, we ate A LOT. We finished two big jugs of Ribena and I was so bloated after wards and was walking drunkenly to Seri Q-Lap (Which is practically like a ghost town now. So empty!). We walked around there for a bit, and got bored of it so I called my driver to pick us up to bring us to The Mall. He did and we got less bored there.

Pictures:

FOOD

The lasagne. Sandra had to eat it because apparently the meat that they used was beef.

I forgot the name. Some pizza. It was nice though.

Penne lamb shank. I didn't really like it. Too much spices.

The Margarita (sp)! It was goooood.

The salmon linguine. It was alright. Wasn't my favourite or anything.

BUT THIS. THIS IS SO GOOD. BEST FETTUCCINI CARBONARA EVER! I didn't eat the beef though. But it was good anyway. :D

The tortellini or tortellaci or something like that. It has spinach inside. And it's good apparently, according to Jasmine and Josephine and my brother. I know you want this really really bad, koko. :D

Jas and Jos

Sandra and I

CHING CHONG!

Jos: Any last words? *Maniacal laughter*
Jas: LE` GASP!

Jas and I

Sandra and Jos

Jos and I. Bad lighting.

Jas and Sandra

Jos and I!

Jas looks so supermodel here. :D

I was ordering food when Sandra took this. Sneaky.

Last shot. Sandra and I in the toilet at the Mall.

So that was quite about what we did on that day.

My parents are coming back tomorrow. Can't wait!!! They called last night and they bought what I wanted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm elated. I'm ecstatic. I'm happy! :D

Love, Audrey
(7.24 PM)

P.S. The Man Who Can't Be Moved by The Script is nice. I know it's old and I only know about it now. Lagging. LOL! The lead singer is dreamy. :)

P.P.S. I watched Date Night (The one with Steve Carell and Tina Fey in it) with Pat yesterday. It's such a nice movie. VERY funny. :D

You should go watch it!!!

P.P.P.S. GLEE'S 14TH EPISODE IS OUT THIS WEEK! AM SO PSYCHED!

P.P.P.P.S. I don't know if some of you realized it or not but the daily stats counter on my blog didn't work for the last couple of days, because the site was down. But it's back to normal now. So all's good. :D

The clash begins

2010-04-02T21:18:00.023+08:00

(Warning: Spoiler alert!)

So I watched Clash of the Titans just now.

It was cool!!!!! You should go watch it.

I don't want to type out the plot for you, so just read it here if you want to. It has something to do with Greek mythology, so it is something like Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. The main characters are also named Perseus (Percy is short for Perseus). But in Clash of the Titans, Perseus is the son of Zeus and not the son of Poseidon (Like in Percy Jackson).

Here are some stills taken from the movie.

The scary-looking blue eyed guy and Perseus.

The witches. They have no eyes. So scary.

Medusa :O (She is on the left. The guy is not Medusa. LOL)

This reminds me of Pokémon when Ash and his friends go on journeys. LOL!

There were so many references to the movies. Like look-a-likes and all that. So it was pretty funny. It's like so many movies in one.

The main character...

looks like David Beckham!

Io (Aiyoh. HAHA!) looks like...

Arwen from the Lord of the Rings

The guy who is closest to the camera when this was taken, is Sheikh Sulieman (LOL. I was like wondering what his name was. So I searched and googled and imdb-ed until Aarik told me. They never really did say his name in the movie). He looks like...

Darth Vader from Star Wars; and

Yoshimitsu from Tekken. LOL!

Acrisius. He killed his wife and wanted to kill Perseus by throwing a casket with both of them in it into to the sea. Before he could throw it in though, he was electrocuted by Zeus' bolt (Should be). He still lived, but ended up looking like the picture above this. So anyway, Perseus didn't die when he was cast into the sea because he is a demi god. Acrisius looks like...

the Uruk-hai[s] from The Lord of the Rings

Zeus... (Isn't he supposed to have white hair?)

sparkles like Edward Cullen!!! I know it's because of his armor. But still!!!

There is also one part where Zeus is playing with a small figurine of Perseus. We were like, "OOH! Look! Monopoly tokens!" Then Phil was like, "Monopoly: Gods version." HAHAHA!

I always use the train when I play. I lost some of the tokens though. Well my set is already kind of old, so some of them were bound to get lost, one way or another. Like that token which looks like an overturned dustbin (It's actually a thimble. Jasmine corrected me. BUT IT STILL LOOKS LIKE AN OVERTURNED DUSTBIN TO ME!) and the wheelbarrow. And the telephone.

Then there is the sword that was given to Perseus. It opens up like a lightsaber.

Okay, moving on.

Medusa looks like...

the basilisk from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets! Only the tail part though. :P

The kraken in this movie does NOT look like

the kraken in Pirate of the Carribean: At World's End. The kraken in Clash of the Titans has eyes. And it does not have an octopus/squid-like structure. It also does not unleash itself and attack people at the command of Davy Jones, but at the command of Hades, God of the Underworld. And no, Hades does not have tentacles. :P The only thing the krakens have in common is that they kill people and they have a lot of teeth. And that they live in the sea.

The storyline is kind of interesting. So... GO WATCH IT!

Love, Audrey
(11.32 PM)

P.S. I should be asleep already. I have school tomorrow.

P.P.S. The reunion wasn't much of a reunion. Only twenty of us went and we were all only talking amongst ourselves, in our own groups. And the teachers weren't doing much about it either. But the food was good. :)

P.P.P.S. Almost Alice (The soundtrack album for Alice in Wonderland) IS SOOOO NICE! Favourite song would be... Follow Me Down by 3OH!3 featuring Neon Hitch. Tea Party by Kerli is nice too! :D

Un-R.I.P.

2010-04-01T22:45:00.006+08:00

I feel really bad typing this out.

At first I thought it would be funny. But now when I think about it, it's kind of mean.

But I have to do this, so that I can go back to blogging again.

So umm...

APRIL FOOL'S!!!

Yes, the post before this was an April Fool's one. And I reckon that all of you got fooled. I'm not going to quit blogging. Maybe some other day, but not today.

So I'm glad I got that over with. Now I hope everything's settled.

And once again, I am NOT going to quit blogging. At least not today.

Love, Audrey
(10.49 PM)

P.S. I actually thought of writing the post today, then telling you guys tomorrow that it's an April Fool's one. But I thought it would be weird because tomorrow's not April Fool's anymore. So I decided to write it yesterday then telling you guys today. Don't take it to heart! I would've believed it too.

P.P.S. So excited for the reunion tomorrow. :D

The last blog post

2010-03-31T19:50:00.005+08:00

I decided to quit blogging.

It has been a long journey, two years plus of on and off blogging.

It has been great, sharing my life stories with anyone of you who reads my blog. It has been a pleasure. I get very excited when I see a comment on my tagboard, or my daily stats rising. And the fact that you get the fun out of reading all this nonsense that I type out. You consider it as... entertainment, to put it in a way.

So now I have decided to quit blogging, because I have too much to do now and blogging is almost like a chore and not a hobby anymore. It sucks when you feel that you are obliged to blog because people out there are pestering you and wanting more blog posts from you. So you sit in front of your computer and rack your brains, trying to figure out what to type, so that you won't lose any readers.

It's also very hard to think of what to write. The content, the pictures, and whether it is interesting enough to attract readers to your blog and make it popular. I try to put myself in the reader's shoes and think like, "If I were a reader, what would I want?". So I get the ideas and begin typing out my posts. Nothing too serious like I'm typing out a report, nothing with a lot of abbreviations in case some of you don't understand what they stand for and nothing with a lot of symbols or 'poklen' language.

I'm getting out of topic here. Sounds like I'm giving out free blogging lessons, not that I'm qualified to anyway. This blog sucks.

So back to the topic.

There's also the fact that not everyone will agree with what you write, and you may get hate comments and people trashing your blog. That's not a very good image on your blog, though it may get you tonnes of blog hits.

My aspiration is to one day be a celebrity blogger! Like Xiaxue and Kenny Sia (Yes, my favourite bloggers! :D) Heck that will be so cool. But I'm light years away from that dream. :( Sadly that will never happen, because as I mentioned in the first sentence of this post, I am going to quit blogging.

You never know, I may just get back into blogging again, maybe some time in the future. But I'm making no promises!

So I will end my last post here. It has been a good, long, enjoyable run.

R.I.P. WWW.AUDREY-TEO.BLOGSPOT.COM

You made it to two hundred and forty-one blog posts with 22k+ blog hits to date from the 13th of December 2008. You were established on the 9th of December 2007. You made it longer than I expected, picking up a few loyal readers in the way. I love everyone of you who have read/still reads this blog! I really appreciate it. :)

And for the last time...
With LOTS and LOTS of love, Audrey
(8.26 PM)

Being able to lie is a talent

2010-03-30T19:14:00.010+08:00

(Warning: Spoiler alert!)

Very sorry for my broken and empty promises. I didn't blog yesterday.

BUT I'm blogging today so that seems fair. A day late. But you still get your post. I just decided not to blog about KK. But we did have a lot of fun. Bonded a lot with the councillors. :D

So I was at Jasmine and Josephine's just now after my piano replacement lesson and Jas and I watched Liar Game Season 2!!!!! I was SO EXCITED when I found out that there's a Season 2. More doses of Akiyama Shinichi. :D

It is originally a Japanese manga, which is then made into a television series. I don't like reading manga online, so I don't read the manga.

Why did they make Akiyama look so bleh in the manga? WHY?????

This is the synopsis.

Kanzaki Nao is an honest college student who receives a hundred million yen one day, along with a card saying she has been chosen to take part in the "Liar Game". The aim of the game is to trick the other players out of their hundred million yen. At the end, the winner gets the hundred million yen and the loser is a hundred million yen in debt. The next day, she receives notification that her opponent is her former teacher, Fujisawa Kazuo. She goes to him, seeking help, but ends up getting tricked into handing her money over. Desperate, she approaches the police for help, but they are unable to do anything. However, she is told of a mastermind swindler, Akiyama Shinichi, who is to be released from jail the next day. She goes to him for help.

(Copied from wiki.d-addicts until here)

After that, Akiyama agrees to help her because of her honesty and righteousness and the fact that she resembles a lot like his deceased mother. No one likes being in a Liar Game, it's either they accidentally opened the suitcase full of money (Like Nao did) or they are in desperate need of money and didn't know that the game would be this deceiving.

So everyone will try their best to get out of the Liar Game, but usually their tries are just in vain. Nao got out a few times, but the LGT (Liar Game Tournament) Officials keep finding her and forcing and tricking her to join the game again. She did join the game again somewhere in Season 1 because she thought that she could help save Akiyama, who was still stuck in the game (His purpose of joining the game is because he wants to perish the game into oblivion; and also because the person who killed his mother is in the game and he wants to perish him into oblivion too).

Nao believes in all the goodness in the world and she joins the tournament in Season 2 again to try to win it so that she can pay off all the losers' debts. In most of the games, she will come up with a solution that will help everyone win the game in the end. But usually the other players don't cooperate with her because they are blinded with greed.

Akiyama is always on her side and is also the mastermind behind all their plans. So they always win. He studied psychology so he knows how to break the opponent down and crush them (You can almost hear the evil laugh in the background). Akiyama will usually have like a rival in the game and you can see them competing to beat one another, like in Season 2.

There's also a person behind all of this. Like in Saw, you have that 'I want to play a game' guy. Don't know what he's called. I also don't want to google him. I HATE that guy. He is so scary and I hate watching Saw. Stupid, nightmare-inducing movie. The person in Liar Game looks like that Saw guy too. I don't know why but I find the Liar Game guy less scary than the Saw guy.

If you're wondering why the Liar Game guy made up this game in the first place, he claimed that it was because he wants to find the best liar. Seeing that it causes pain as people have to pay off their debts if they lose and that it has a lot of deceit and people betraying one another in it, maybe he's a sadist too.

There are different rounds with different rules and different game settings, so it's interesting to watch. It's also very, very entertaining to watch how they deceive their opponents and how their brilliant plans take into action. The creator of this manga/TV show is a genius.

Now after reading me going on and on about this AWESOME TV show, you SHOULD get up, go out there and get yourself a Liar Game DVD. Or google and download it! Either way, YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT.

Love, Audrey
(8.00 PM)

P.S. I don't know if you read this blog or know about this already, Brother #2, BUT THEY ACTUALLY DO HAVE SEASON 2. :D

I'M BACK!

2010-03-28T13:31:00.003+08:00

Yes, I'm back from KK.

And it was SO fun. :D

I'm not in the blogging mood right now and I really want to catch up on all the TV shows that I missed while I was in KK and go over to Jasmine and Josephine's to have our girl talk so I'll just blog tomorrow.

Speaking of tomorrow... WE'RE STARTING SCHOOL TOMORROW! Urgh. The thought of going back to school irks me. A new term of school means exams are coming. It was just like yesterday when we sat for the 1st Assessment Test. :(

So I shall bid you all a good bye and I promise that I will blog about the KK Trip as soon as I get all the pictures.

Love, Audrey
(1.38 PM)

P.S. I HAVE NEW SPECTACLE FRAMES! Everyone says it looks kind of the same though.

P.P.S. HAVE A HAPPY FIRST DAY OF THE SECOND TERM TOMORROW, EVERYONE! :D

Bye!

2010-03-23T21:29:00.004+08:00

(Warning: Somewhat spoiler alert!)

I'm rushing this post because I want to be done packing and go to sleep by 10 PM, and it's already 9.30 PM.

I'm going to KK tomorrow for the Councillor Trip. Am sooooo excited! :D

I will blog about watching Remember Me and KK when I get back, I promise!

Love, Audrey
(9.32 PM)

P.S. REMEMBER ME WAS AWESOME. GO GO GO WATCH IT. THE ENDING WAS SO SAD. :( But at least before he died (As in in the movie), we got to enjoy some of his hotness. Ahhh... Robert Pattinson. :)

P.P.S. I still have so much stuff to do! D:

P.P.P.S. I am also going to switch off my DST phone during the duration when I am in KK so don't bother calling/messaging.

P.P.P.P.S. I AM GOING TO MISS YOU ALL! You know who you are. <3

Entrepreneurship Fair 2010

2010-03-17T20:36:00.006+08:00

Today, we had the very anticipated Entrepreneurship Fair. It was... fun. :)

We earned like $200 plus. There were leftover cupcakes but that's alright. At least we made a profit, though how little it may be. We also sold cookies. They were sort of last minute. Didn't know until yesterday when we prepared the food. But we sold all of them. :D

Thank you to everyone who came and bought cupcakes and cookies (Hope you enjoyed them)! Especially those who came twice/thrice! LOL! :D And I am so sorry to everyone to whom I promised to visit their stall because I didn't. There were so many stuff to do at our stall. :(

During the 'rush hour', there were so many people until we couldn't keep track of who ordered what. And Jasmine, the poor money person, was trying to keep track of the orders. Everything was all over the place.

At one point, there weren't any frosting/icing left. So we had to make people wait. So sorry about that! It was so stressing to mix the frosting with colouring then fill the cling wrap (I HATE TEARING CLING WRAP) with it then put them all in the piping bag. Especially when the frosting is all melty and when it does not come out of the nozzle.

We baked all 200 plus cupcakes yesterday. From 2 PM until 11 PM. Nine full hours of non-stop baking. It was so tiring. The heels of my feet were so sore. By the time we were done, we were all so sick of measuring the ingredients then mixing them then putting them into the trays and etcetera etcetera. We did A LOT of batches, up to the point where we actually memorized the recipe. And there was this one batch that exploded in the microwave. No idea how that happened but Jos said there was too much baking powder. Well... not literally exploded. But the cupcake 'died'. Such a waste of good batter.

Tomorrow is the last day of the term. Then we're off to a 10 day break. We councillors are having a trip to KK and I am super excited about that!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Ooh ooh! And that temple ang pow thing is this Sunday (Correct name is unsure). They said that it's held at CHMS again, after what? Two or three years of not? I'm very happy about that because FINALLY. AIR-COND! It used to be held at CHMS a few years ago. Then they changed the venue because of some reason. So for that year, it was held on the 15th floor (I think) of this building beside the temple in Bandar. As we were happily enjoying our meal at that time, the floor collapsed or something. So then they changed it to this empty lot beside the same temple in Bandar (Which just happened to be air-conditionless and VERY humid). Then this year, it's back at CHMS again. So yay! :D

Sorry for the lack of pictures these days. As you have read, I have been very, very busy. But I will post pictures up soon enough. :)

Love, Audrey
(11.42 PM)

P.S. WE HAVE HOLIDAY HOMEWORK. :( I actually wanted to do it just now but I was too lazy. LOL. I'm crossing my fingers that we will not have anymore tomorrow.

Project Create-A-Cupcake

2010-03-15T20:01:00.009+08:00

As the title says, yup. This year for the Entrepreneurship Fair, Jas, Jo, Jos, Rachel, Sandra and I are opening a stall. As mentioned in the previous post, we're selling cupcakes!

We advertised and put up flyers around the school and in all the classes but I'm still blogging about it because I have nothing else to blog about. LOL. No lah. You all must be more informed about this. Not that a lot of you actually read this blog but whatever. :P

The flyer that I did using Microsoft Word. Omg. It's sooooo ugly. HAHA! (Advice: NEVER EVER USE MICROSOFT WORD WHEN YOU WANT TO DO A FLYER. IT WILL END UP LOOKING LIKE TRASH. EXHIBIT A ↑).

Making a flyer for our stall is bleh. It was a bit difficult to do everything. But Aarik did most of it. So thank you so much, Aarik, for generously helping me design the whole thing at 12 AM! :D I suck at Photoshop, yes I know. :( But still. Thanks a lot!!! And thank you too, Sam! For helping me find the pictures. :) Apparently my google imaging skills need some more practise too. OMG. THIS IS LIKE A TOTAL FAIL! I can't even google right.

So in the end, this is the final product of the flyer.

The flyer that Aarik did using Adobe Photoshop. Omg. It's so pretty. Compared to mine, this one is a thousand, million, gazillion times better. Well obviously. LOL. The venue and the price were not filled in yet because I was unsure.

BUT!!! The venue is now confirmed and our stall will be at the notice board beside the Biology Lab at the foyer (The area between the hall and the quadrangle in the secondary section). So specific right? So you better know where to go. :)

And also! The price is not confirmed yet. But if it's too expensive for your liking, please, please reconsider because our cupcakes are going to be huge and will be very filling. And we also provide frosting and toppings to add that extra flavour!

The flyers that we posted up in all the classes are all in black and white. Obviously the coloured ones are more attractive but hey, you don't expect me to print out thirty copies of beautifully coloured flyers which will most probably end up in the bin after the Entrepreneurship Fair is over (Unless someone happens to like it so much, then hey. I'm not stopping you. LOL).

So if you love or do not love either me, Jasmine, Jojo, Josephine, Rachel or Sandra Chin... PLEASE DO COME TO OUR STALL. WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT (This is our first time doing something like this and we are very nervous! And by we, I mean I)!!!!!!!!!! :D

Love, Audrey
(9.09 PM)

P.S. For further inquires, please comment on my tagboard on the left or click on the comment button below this post. Thank you! :)

Very late birthday greetings

2010-03-12T12:33:00.006+08:00

HAPPY BELATED, BELATED
14th BIRTHDAY TO TEE KAI YOONG!

Last day of school last year. :'( I miss 8G

I've known you for 2 and a quarter years now. It's been great. :) You're my BFF and you will always be my BFF, right BFF? LOL. But anyway. All the best and study hard, you dinosaur (Credits to Josephine)! :D

HAPPY BELATED 14th BIRTHDAY TO
JAMESXXxXzzZz GOH!

Also last day of school last year. :(

Seasons change, and so does your age! HAHAHA! You're fourteen already! And old! :P I'm still younger than you are, whatever you say. :D

Love, Audrey
(12.48 PM)

Random Post 7.0

2010-03-11T19:38:00.007+08:00

Another random post for you guys because I have no other specific topic to talk about.

So today I have to blog. Because I promised Sheena.

And now I'm just aimlessly typing in this text box, hoping that a sudden epiphany may just suddenly pop up in my head.

I don't have any pictures of us running at Bukit Shahbandar, so I googled 'cross country'. This came up and it was the only picture without innocent and sweaty runners. LOL.

Saturday's the Annual Cross-Country for SAS. Hopefully Macdougall will win this year (YEAH, GO MACDOUGALL!). Danson's been winning for quite a number of years in a row now and it's getting very frustrating. :( Good luck to all the houses, though! :D

Then there's the Entrepreneurship Fair (I finally learnt the spelling) on Wednesday. I bet lots of people are very excited about that. It's basically students setting up their own stalls (This makes it sound like a fish market, I don't know why. LOL.) around the school, selling stuff. So other students will go around and buy stuff and play games and those stall owners will make money and get lots of business experience.

Okay. Let me advertise my stall! It's sort of like a last minute thing. Josephine just asked me if I wanted to join like.. five hours ago, after piano lesson.

I googled 'cupcakes' and all of these came up. So pretty!!!

So judging by those pictures, you will definitely know what we're selling. Well duh. CUPCAKES! :D Our stall's called "Create a cupcake". It's not very fancy, or interesting. It's pretty practical since we're servicing exactly what our stall name says, creating a cupcake. Hopefully it'll be a big hit. :) SO MAKE SURE TO VISIT OUR STALL! No idea where our stall is going to be but flyers are going to be posted around school, (That's what Jos told me, at least) so be sure to look around! :D

The cupcakes are not that expensive, really. It's actually quite cheap for a cupcake with your favourite flavour and toppings on it. And also, it's homemade and not store-bought. It's very filling and I saw how big the cupcakes are going to be and heck yeah, you are definitely getting your money's worth! :D Also note that our cupcakes may not be as decorative and as colourful as the pictures above. But I can assure you that they taste just as great.

AND JUST TO LET ANYONE WHO'S A GOSSIP GIRL, 90210 OR MELROSE PLACE FAN KNOW (But if you're a real fan, then you would actually know about this already. Lol), AFTER THREE MONTHS OF AN EXCRUCIATING LONG WAIT, THE NEW EPISODES (As in, episode 13 for each of their current seasons) ARE OUT ALREADY. SO GO DOWNLOAD, DOWNLOAD AND DOWNLOAD! :D

And while these shows are starting to air again, the 2nd season of Leverage just ended. :( I hope the 3rd season comes out fast! Ooh, and there's this new show called Life Unexpected (Not really that new, but I just heard of it) that Jo introduced to me. The trailer looks good. I read the plot summary on Wikipedia and it looks promising. I'm downloading all 8 episodes (9th episode is out next week) of it one by one at the moment.

Love, Audrey
(9.25 PM)

P.S. I am very nervous about the cross-country thing. WHAT IF I AM DISQUALIFIED? WHAT IF I GO TO THE WRONG ROUTE? WHAT IF I FAINT HALFWAY? WHAT IF WHAT IF WHAT IF... D:

P.P.S. English mark = FAIL. I am so disappointed. :(