My Super Sweet 16

Finally! I'm 16 years and 2 days old.

Chemistry Pracs are over! I made a huge mistake by stating 2 anions instead of stating 1 anion and stating which test it's in. Oh, you'll Sec 4s will get it.

I'm currently doing something cool! I'm listening to music played 2 times faster! It's so funny, really! If you listen to Try Again by Aaliyah, you'll hear this weird freaky growling sound, like as if it's a sign that she's gonna die or something. Everything is like a remix! Now I know how they remix songs! Currently listening to We Belong Together. Yay! Mariah Carey is gonna release an album next year, babeh!

I'm currently addicted to songs by Jessica Simpson. Yes. Jessica Simpson. The song With You is stuck inside my head. But you know what song is annoying yet stuck inside my head?

The Tata Young song, Elle Ne-Yo or something like that!
You got my temperature rising like Elle Ne-Yo!

My Post-Hari-Raya Report

Stupid title, really. Only went out on the first day. Somehow I wasn't really excited about getting money. Really weird. Nothing spectacular happened on Hari Raya. Nothing to talk about, oh except for the fact that me and my cousins all raided my other cousin's room because he has practically every movie on DVD and it was like, some illegal den. I wanted to borrow Kill Bill, but couldn't find it. Great. I have to wait 2 years and 2 days.

Anyway, PHYSICS PRACTICAL! The questions were so bloody confusing, I tell you. I had to read the paper for 5 minutes.

I feel like going to the National Library.

Watch this: Tyra Banks gives away Vaseline and does a Tom Cruise.

Look closely and you'll realise that she has a teleprompter!!! Hahaha! And it's so contradicting that Tyra is like, "I'm gonna share my beauty secret!" and I'm like, "Yeah, sure! I'll avoid everything that you doing, because you looking like you on crack!"

My Crazy Dreams - Dream A Little Dream, Day 28, 29

Yes! Tomorrow is the last day, baby!

Anyway, I had the most weirdest dream, EVER! Ok, so I dreamt that I was in some sort of circus slash casino. You know, like there were slot machines and then there were elephants and whatnot. Then, I woke up in the middle of the night and it was raining and I couldn't sleep, so I decided to go to 7-Eleven, in the rain, without and umbrella. Then, I woke up and realised that I dreamt that I dreamt! No, seriously! That's so freaky.

Ok, gotta clean up the house.

My Untimeliness - Biology Practicals, Day 24, 25, 26, 27

Well, many many events occured since I last blogged. Firstly, the O Levels Bio Practicals are over! Ya, no more Benedict's solution. Anyway, we had onions and had to dip them in different solutions. Everybody had different results. Had to be quarantined in the AVT for 4 bloody hours! It was so horrible I tell you. Thank goodness there were people in the AVT that knew how to have a good time (i.e. play football on paper).

4 more days to Hari Raya. Wow!

Anyway, this week has been like poly. Seriously, you could either choose to go for extra lessons and ask the teacher or you could stay at home and study. I only went for the Geog lessons. Yesterday, I thought that Geog started at 10.45 but then to my horror, it started at 9.45 and I had to take a cab and waste $6. In the end Ms Neo was late. Then today I was late (again!). Seriously, I have horrible time management skills. Thank goodness Ms Neo was late again.

I have learnt to be thick-skinned. Oh and random stuff - a mosquito inspector from NEA came to my house. I was scared that he might be a fraudster and checked his ID card. Then, he went in to look in the balcony to check out the plants. Then, he went to the kitchen and checked to see if the bamboo pole holders were covered (they were). Then he gave a thumbs up. I was so cautious during the whole time I made sure that I knew how to grab his arms around his back or shove him to the ground and scream really loudly. In the end, he really was authentic.

My Crazy-People Encounters - Day 22, 23

Got to sleep in today, in other words - YAY! Anyway, had an hour-long shower which consisted of loud music and screams!

My goodness the haze today was really bad, it was like as if they were having this permananet fumigation or whatever the word is. Seriously, it's worse than the ozone hole! Seriously, Indonesia should be more aware of other countries' feelings. Just look at Marco. I think he's xenophobic or something. How stupid? A foreigner who's xenophobic.

Today went to NTUC with Adam, Nani, Izzati, Sham and Nuriman to buy vegetables for Bio drawing. But at the interchange, we saw the yellow-backpack Chee Ko Pek! Yes, he shall now be called the Yellow Backpack Backside-Peeker. Well, we saw him about a week ago and he noticed that we were noticing that he was noticing girls' cleavage and I actually waved at him at the interchange (last week). I think I mentioned him before in my blog, warning innocent girls. Cover up, girls! You're not promiscuous!

Ok, I'm digressing. Anyway, we saw the Yellow Backpack Backside-Peeker and Izzati suggested that we stalked him. Now this was a funny situation, because we couldn't even stalk like professionals. We made a huge ruckus out of it and Ruiqi appeared out of nowhere and followed us. I think her birthday present is the special powers of instant teleportation. So the Yellow Backpack Backside-Peeker kept on turning around and looking at us, so he obviously knew that we were following him. We were a disgrace to stalkers everywhere. Then, he disappeared without a trace. I hope somebody teaches him a lesson and rapes him or something.

Anyway, back to NTUC. We were about to pay the cashier and so, here's the situation; the cashier has already scanned everything and put them inside a plastic bag. I still had not paid him yet. Here's a dialogue to make it more dramatic:-
Adam: Umm... can we have 3 plastic bags?
Cashier: Sorry, I can only give you one.
Adam: Oh, is that a rule? [non-sarcastically]
Cashier: No [WTF right?]
[at this point, the cashier was scanning the next customer's items]
Me: Uh, excuse me, I still haven't pay you know... [getting a bit pissed]
Cashier: I can only give you one plastic bag.
[After waving my notes and raising my voice a little, he took 2 minutes to undo the mistake. Gave him my notes. Arranged my notes neatly so that they would be aligned perfectly. Might as well iron them so they can become crease-free crisp notes, right? Opened the register. Placed the notes neatly. Hari Raya came. Took two lifetimes to tear the receipt]
Nuriman: Thank you very much. [grinning at the thought of him being oh so sarcastic, but in fact it sounded so wrong that it sounded like as if he really was sincere. Seriously, he should learn from a pro like me]

My Caffeine Crave - Day 19, 20, 21

Firstly, I would like to give myself a slap in the face. Seriously, I got 19 for my L1R5! Can you believe it! It was all contributed to English and Combined Humans. I got C5 for English and B4 for Humans. I am totally shocked that I did horribly for my English. I thought that I was moderately OK for my English, you know 11 people got C for English while the rest got better grades. How demoralising! Urgh! If I got B3 for EL and A2 for CH, my L1R5 would drop to 15, maybe 14 if I had one more mark for Chem. Stupid society. If only I had a great voice, maybe I could like, do a duet with Mariah Carey and the song would be a hit!

Anyway, I wish puasa started one month earlier. I keep on craving for coffee in the mornings. Oh my god my salivating at just the thought of yummy coffee! Mmmm...

SUBJECTS THAT JUST NEED A LITTLE MAINTENANCE
E Maths
My only A1. Just need to do a couple of challenging TYS questions.

Biology
My only A2. Yay! A2 for Bio you know. Just need to memorise the basic answers to the usual questions that would usually come up.

SUBJECTS THAT NEED POLISHING
Chemistry
B4. Talked to Mrs Tay on Thursday to clarify my doubts. Did those numerous Chemistry Past-Year Papers. Need to know everything on Organic Chem!

Physics
B3. What the hell, right? I don't understand all the Sec 4 topics and am forced to depend on my memory and my Chemistry is worse than my Physics? Well, first thing is that I need to understand the Sec 4 topics, but I keep on reading the textbook and guidebooks and my notes and I still do not understand!

SUBJECTS THAT NEED MAJOR IMPROVEMENT
English
C5 man! I feel so embarrassed and humiliated. Ok, talked to Mdm Wan on Thursday. I have decided to do a paper everyday (that includes Paper 1 and 2). I need at least 2 grades improvement.

Combined Humanities
B4
Geog is OK. Just need to vomit out all the facts.
SS is horrible! I write down the irrelevant! I might want to ask Ms Neo to mark my essays and point out my mistakes.

A Maths
C5 moderated. F9 unmoderated. Three letters: Tee Why Ess

Suffer for one month, enjoy the rest of the year.

Ms Woon's comment on me: It's heartening to see the improvement in Humanities, Hakim. Continue to stretch yourself more to ensure that you can get into a JC of your choice.

Comments on Ms Woon's comment: Improvement in Humanities? I need to get an A first, then I would call it improvement! And I might consider going to a Poly and take up Biomedical Engineering or something like that, since I'm quite OK in Bio. JC makes you shorten your lifespan by 20 years.

Stupid Singapore education system! Can't we combine secondary school, JC and poly and make it into High School and spend 6 years there?

Don't worry. Just like Mariah Carey, I can make it through the rain!

My Hazy Week - Day 15, 16, 17, 18

Haven't been blogging much. Now my computer won't switch on, so I'm using my dad's comp. It feels so weird to type on the keyboard.

Anyway, this week has been hazy I tell you! I am so surprised that the MOE didn't close the schools or something. Apparently, the government makes sure that we get our proper education, even though we're having respiratory problems and we keep on having to rub our eyes.

Nothing much happening. Today Ms Woon was really weird. She was cracking jokes. Oh and yesterday Ms Woon forced me to go cut my hair because my hair "irritates her".

We had this photo-taking session for Grad Night and the photographer told me to open my eyes. What the hell lah! Then, I forced my eyes open like crazy. And they only took one miserable shot! So, it could either make you or break you.

After photo-taking, me, Nani, Shirley, Felicia and Shijie played this self-mutilating game which I do not know of, so I shall decide to name it "La Tortura". Anyway, if you win, you get to smack the person's hand. The more thumbs you guess that comes up, the more you get to smack each person's hand! In the end, my hand was red and swollen and I think some of my blood capillaries snapped.

My 300th Post - Day 13, 14

Yay! Post #300! I should do something celebratory, like give away cars to all my blog readers.

Anyway, I totally love my new battery! I keep on expecting it to die today but it's still alive.

Anyway, had Squidward for about 15 minutes in the hall. The subject was A Maths but I assumed that we could do anything we want, so I did my Chem June 2005 paper and Squidward was walking up and down the 4R aisle. I sit at the extreme back and sit next to Abhishek. So, he was standing in between Abhishek and I and after standing there for 5 minutes, I turned to ask Abhishek a question on Chemistry. I'll do a dialogue to increase the intensity.

Me: Hey, Abhishek, what's the atomic number of carbon?
Squid: Eh, you doing Chemistry is it?
Me: Uhh... Ya.
Squid: This is A Maths time. So you do Chemistry during Maths and you do Maths during Chemistry ah. [says some more stuff which I forgot]. Ok ah, do whatever you want.
Me: Ok [continues doing Chemistry]
Meanwhile, Squidward walks up and down the aisle. A few minutes later, he walks towards me.
Squid: What did I just tell you? Take out your Maths now!
Me: Oh, I thought you said that I could do Chemistry.

So I just had to take out my A Maths and had to pretend that I was having fun doing A Maths because he was still staring at me! Seriously, him staring at me is so freaky! I think he has some sort of personality disorder or something, no offence. He should spice up his life or something. Like, fall in love or something. At least fall in love with the TV lah. Watch situational comedy shows, like re-runs of Friends, not re-runs of the funerals of Princess Diana and/or Steve Irwin. Or Aaliyah.

Techno music seriously makes you write faster. I was listening to Everytime We Touch while doing Bio SEQ questions, and suddenly I was like, "WRITE FASTER! WRITE FASTER!"

Anyway, I had a very quick dream last night. I took a nap and dreamt that a girl from the cohort (I shall not name names) went in front of the school hall during an exam and she announced, "I'm pregnant!" Then I woke up and the words, "I'm pregnant!" rang inside my head. That was a freaky quick dream. It lasted for about 5 minutes.

I also dreamt that I went to the Singapore Idol Finals (my dreams are so outdated) and Hady Mirza was singing "I Still Believe" by Mariah Carey instead of the Through The Fire/Wire. It was really weird.

My Hall Blowout - Day 12

Quite a long post, as compared to my previous posts.

Well, today was quite a pleasant day. Learnt that some of our subjects are gonna get moderated. Hooray for moderation! Went a little crazy and sang One Sweet Day quite loudly. I'm so surprised nobody sang along with me.

I can't believe people are still in love with the Cassie song, "Me & U". I'm getting sick of the song. I discovered the song during the June holidays for goodness sakes.

Anyway, we had Combined Humans for our focus group so went to the hall and the teachers were telling us the mistakes. It was great and I was paying attention until Ms Neo left the hall for Comb. Hum. moderation (YAY!) and the Mr Whatshisname-mapreadingguy talked about Elec. Geog. Then, 4S was making a lot of noise, especially the two people sitting next to me (Genevive and Ashwin) and they kept on talking and talking! At first I tolerated them, but then somehow their voices were so loud! I mean, they're inches away from each other and they think that they're miles away! After about 10 minutes of being forced to eavesdrop, I was so pissed off that I said, "SHHHHHH!!!!" really loudly. This girl who usually touches this guy in the same class turned around and looked at me like I was some kind of freak. And I was like, "Shut up, bitch!" Ya, lots of people turned around too. Then, after 10 minutes, the two still KEPT ON TALKING!! I was like, so pissed, I tried giving them hints by staring at them for 2 seconds and giving the "tsk" sound, but then I got so fed up that I just turned my head and stared at Ashwin until he actually looked at me! Yay, I'm becoming fierce! I love it!

Anyway, during Maths, there was this teacher (I shall not name names, I might get sued). Let's just call him Squidward. Seriously, he's so grumpy and fun-hating. Thus, the name is derived from his personality. He expects us to be absolutely silent and we can't walk around the class. Then, the funniest thing happened! The Stomp people were like, doing the Stomp act and we also clapped! Hahahaha! It was so hilarious I tell you! Then after that, Mr Yong came to the rescue. Thank goodness we have him as our Maths teacher. See, I'm not an anti-teacher after all.

Bought new phone battery! Yay! No more bloated battery! Yay! Phone doesn't need to hang when somebody calls! Yay!

I'm happy! Yay!

My Irregular Periods - Day 11

Urgh! I totally hate my sleeping and eating patterns.

Now I sleep for 5 hours a day. Doesn't really matter if it's just for one day or a couple of days, but for one whole month! Hooray. And I would be really sleepy at school, which is such a drag these couple of days. Perhaps it's because I'm fasting and there's no "looking-forward-to-recess" and "can't-decide-on-what-to-eat" feelings.

Eating is another thing! Fast from around 0530 - 1900. By the time I finish eating after break-fast, I'll feel so full, I'd feel like puking. Would still feel full at midnight. Wake up at 5 in the morning and feel a little full. Eat a little before start fasting. Then, the cycle goes on.

Can't wait for after puasa AND O Level.

Oh and!!! Somehow everybody is talking about ANTM. Lots of people watched ANTM and especially Jade. OMG Jade needs a tight slap in the face. She's such a delusional bitch that it's so funny to see her humiliate herself on national TV. Oh, Jade! We love to hate you! You make great television!

My Photoshooot II - Day 8, 9, 10

Yesterday was like The Amazing Race. I rushed all the way home, changed my clothes, and rushed all the way to the studio. All thanks to my stupidity. Hooray! Now I wasted $10 because of cab fare.

I want school to end early!

Short post.

I'm gonna top up on coffee!

Yay!