Tuesday, November 29, 2005
je suis libre!
ah, c'est un bonne journee. ok. so i can't type accents here and i don't wanna bother to. anw french is done! yay. yest was horrible. the paper that i thought would be "okay" was really "disgustingly terrible". listening compre was more listen-and-stare-blankly-at-paper and less listen-and-understand. reading compre was still okay. and the essay. was. really. odd. i think i misinterpreted the question. which might mean out of point. which is bad. anw i didn't manage to finish copying it (for those uninitiated in french essay-writing, you aren't supposed to hand in a piece which is untidy - blanco marks, cancellations etc.. so you draft on a seperate piece of paper and copy the finished thing onto the answer booklet), since its really hard to write fast when your hands are frozen and you're shivering like you're in an ice cube (which really was how the room felt like, thanks to powerful air c-c-co-con-ditioning). but today's oral was quite okay. um. i died for the role-play part larh (i said many things that shouldn't have been uttered in the context, and ended up smiling at the examiner and smiling a lot but oh well.) but the rest was kinda okay. i hope i'll pass. heh. which i think i will.
on a side note, i am bored at home. and someone tell me why i'm listening to my Zen when i'm right in front of the computer.
stained with coffee at 1:42 PM
Sunday, November 27, 2005
woot.
hmmm. thanks to a really unexpected bout of good luck, i am now the proud owner of a sleek black Creative Zen 20GB. it really was quite an unexpected turn of events. just this afternoon, while i was attempting to read up on my french before tomorrow's B1 test, my dad walked in and asked "do you want an mp3 player? so you don't have to lug your cds all around.." and i'm like wtf? such an unexpected offer. i thought i'd actually have to save up and get one for myself.. after all my parents are hardly into buying high-tech stuff for me (look at my phone and you'll know). anyway after a short bit of staring at him with my mouth open in shock i asked him what prompted the question, whether there was something on offer or what. anw it's going for $399 now with some free kick-ass headphones. well. lucky day. i hope it lasts the next couple of days. frech B1 beckons.
stained with coffee at 9:39 PM
Sunday, November 20, 2005
cute.
stained with coffee at 1:23 AM
Friday, November 04, 2005
fare you well.
and so with much pomp and ceremony, secondary school life comes to a close. the race is over even though it seems to have just begun. we're all school-less now, jumped off one ship in another with just vague directions as to where to go from here. we look back and see everything just fade into the early morning fog - for it is true, what we face is only the early stages of our lives - hoping that there will still be something left when and if we choose to sail back to reminisce. but what's past is past, and we'll never be able to go aboard again, to re-live the days which we spent on the decks of that ship, sheltered from storms, sailing towards a new horizon.
it's been a great four years, for all it seemed as though it were just four heartbeats. each beat so full of the good times, the bad times, the challenges, the victories and the defeats, the successes and the regrets. oh, the regrets. but we can't turn back the pages of time, no more than we can recover water spilled into the sea, or sand poured out onto the beach. the most important is to really know what went wrong, and set your sails so that such problems will never trouble us again. what went wrong should not be dwelt upon, but must never be forgotten.
but why should i feel such sadness at the closing of this chapter, at the end of this page, where all words have run out and there leaves nothing to do but to turn to a new, fresh sheet? a fresh sheet, free of blemishes, all ready to document the next chapter of my life, the next phase in my journey towards the distant and unknown destination. what will i choose to fill it with now? where will this chapter lead me? to a happy ending? or will it end in a cliffhanger, with danger all around?
the four years in RI have been wonderful, with a great crew to guide me along, friends who shared everything with me, who cared for me, whom i often let down but who never give up on me. it's been great knowing all you guys, and i hope that we'll end up together again after our long vacation. secondary school life has ended. what will the future bring?
stained with coffee at 11:19 PM
