Update 17|08|2014

I realised that I am getting lazier and lazier as the days pass..
Have to make sure to at least blog one post every two weeks.

So this is going to be an update, but it's not going to be as short as the last one.

On Monday during English lesson, we ( my classmates and I) were doing our homework whilst our teacher was explaining stuff that I can't remember because I wasn't paying attention. I think it had something to do with essays...? Anyway, because I was busy with my homework and didn't hear a word of the things my teacher was talking about, I was shocked when she suddenly called out my name. I looked up from my homework to see her looking back at me with a smile on her face. She told the class that she looked forward to reading my essays and that my essays were enjoyable to read. Upon hearing that, I did what any slow-witted people would do- laugh awkwardly. Yes, instead of saying "thanks teacher, I appreciate the compliment", I laughed awkwardly. That's totally not rude at all, nor is it what a normal person would do.

When I got back my essay, I was surprised to see that she had written the words " once again, another enjoyable essay " on my paper as she didn't usually do that. I mean, I've  been her student for one and a half years now and during that period of time, she has never written anything after correcting it so to see those words was a pleasant surprise.

To be very honest, I don't think my essays are enjoyable. Usually I write a bunch of bullshit, hand it in and hope for the best. As long as I don't get in trouble, I repeat the cycle every time we were asked to write an essay. The only time I'm serious when writing essays is either when I'm entering a competition ( hah that was a long time ago ) or when I'm sitting for my English test.

On Friday, we were to have rehearsals for this performance we were going to perform on our school's celebration of Independence Day during the last period which was also Add Maths period. When our Add Maths teacher found out about it, she said that she wanted to borrow our Physics period and use it to teach Add Maths instead. As we were kind of scared of our Physics teacher, we rejoiced when we heard her say that and encouraged her to do so. Our excitement earned us a look of confusion from our Add Maths teacher.

In the end, she succeeded in persuading our Physics teacher to lend her Physics period to her so that left us with one period of Physics and believe me, those 30 minutes were torturous. Our Physics teacher kept asking questions and torturing us as much as possible within the short time limit she was given. When her lesson finally ended, everyone was so happy. Our class monitor even made us say "thank you teacher" 2 times to which our teacher responded by saying "you guys are so happy that class is finally over aren't you?". Heh, indeed we were, teacher. 

During the last period, the performers had their rehearsals whilst the non-performers-including me- sat down and watched as they rehearsed.

Oh I almost forgot to write about my parcel! 
I'll save that for another post though because this is going to be a realllllllllllllly long story and this post is as long as it is already.
All I can say is that I received a notice from the postman saying that he failed to deliver my parcel to me on Thursday and that I was to claim it myself within 15 days or the post office will return my parcel to amazon.
I'll write about it once I do actually get my parcel. 
I think I would have to list that under the "rant" tag, hmm..

So there you go, those were the most notable events of the week! This week was quite an interesting week and I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't looking forward to the next one.
Till the next update (hopefully it'll be soon), bye! 



See this is why I say I suck at writing essays. I can't even write a proper ending..
Can someone tell me why my essays are enjoyable because they certainly aren't.

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"official" school supplies

Recently my school has announced that they were going to enforce new rules next year and that is that it is compulsory of us to buy and wear official school track pants and official school socks. The reason for this is to ensure that everyone wears the same track pants as well as make sure that students don't have an excuse for their uh, "short" socks. You know, those that sink into your shoes when you walk? Yeah, those. 

Although I can't help but think that these items are a COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY.

That's right school, I went there, so read on if you want to have the evidence to suspend me from school for a few days due to "inappropriate behaviour".

Official school track pants? So what do you expect us to do with the few pairs of track pants we have now? Just leave them in our drawers until we can no longer fit in them and bring them to the recycling centre? I doubt that many people in my school actually exercises and if they do, I doubt that they would wear track pants. They are uncomfortable to wear and the only reason we bought them was because the school board required us to wear them during gym class. 
You might ask, "why not buy the official one just to be safe in the first place?" well that's because the official one is a) unappealing and b) expensive. Maybe if the design wasn't as bad as it was and if you guys had lowered the price then maybe more people would consider to buy the official one.

Same goes to official school socks. What the hell am I going to do with my drawer full of un-official school socks?! I BOUGHT THOSE FOR SCHOOL, YET THE SCHOOL BOARD IS TELLING ME THAT I HAVE TO BUY NEW "OFFICIAL" ONES AFTER 3 YEARS IN HIGH SCHOOL. It would have been worth it if you guys had created this stupid new rule 3 years ago when I didn't have this many socks, but noooo, you decide to create it when I have 1 year left of high school and a drawer full of un-official socks. What's worse is that I have twin siblings who will be going to the same High School I'm in in 2016 which means that we will have to spend more money on buying these so-called "official school socks". 
Okay, I can't put all the blame on the school board for this one because the students are to blame too.A BIG THANK YOU to the people who conveniently decided to be hip and fashionable by buying "short" socks instead of school appropriate, ankle-length ones. Apparently the trend nowadays in my country amongst high-schoolers is to not expose your socks, which means that the lower your socks sink into your shoes, the more "fashionable" you are. Well thanks to whoever who created this idiotic trend, we now have to waste more money on buying official ankle-length school socks. This could have been prevented if the students were to cooperate, but that's not what they did now isn't it!?

And don't get me started on the official session tags that my school forced us to buy and wear on our uniforms this year. You see, high schools in my country have morning sessions and afternoon sessions. So, in order for dull-witted people to differentiate between the morning session students and the afternoon session ones, some genius decided to create the "session tags". For morning session students, our tags were a small, red circle tag with our school's logo on it whilst the afternoon session students' ones were the same as ours, only blue in colour rather than red. We were to either pin them or iron them onto our uniforms. ( Ironing them onto uniforms may leave a circular red/blue stain, so pinning is the better option).
So what other uses will this tag bring other than the one stated above? Absolutely none. It serves no other purpose.
Funny thing is that the headmistress herself does not make use of this, this tag. The one she herself forced us to buy and wear after 3 years of us not wearing them. Yeah, other high-school students in my living area had started to wear theirs many years before us so I guess my headmistress wanted to follow the "trend" this year. And I guess we were sort of lucky that this tag thing only started this year. 
Getting off topic here. I need to justify the reason I said what I said above.

On a Saturday morning, we had to attend school to replace our future lessons that we were going to skip due to the extension of our holiday period. During recess, my friends and I were sitting on a bench in the cafeteria, eating our lunches. Suddenly, the headmistress approached us hastily and demanded to know what session we were from. Mind you, every one of us was wearing our tags, and they were visible enough to be spotted from a distance. And if you were wondering, no, recess had not ended yet. After we told her we were from the morning session, she turned to walk away without saying anything. That event left me speechless. If the headmistress herself does not make full use of these tags then what's the purpose of us wearing them? 

Problem with the school board is that they have this mindset that everyone in the school is filthy rich. They admitted it themselves earlier this year actually.
They assume that we are all so filthy rich that spending a couple of bucks on these supplies won't put a dent in our parents' wallets. And maybe they're right, maybe it won't but I'd rather keep those couple of bucks than spend it on useless items which may not be re-used after graduation.

To conclude, I hope that the school board would quit enforcing new rules which require us to unwillingly dish out money. In addition, I also hope that they would get rid of their "everyone is filthy rich" mindset because no, not all of us are "rich", there are poor and middle-class students in our school too for your information.

Because I have not once disclosed the school's name on my blog, I don't think that my suspension would be justified if you- the headmistress - were to suspend me. Yes I have shown pictures of the school but I have not written the school's name and have not shown the school's logo. Plus this blog is really unpopular and I wouldn't promote it amongst my schoolmates so... any action taken from the school board will be again, highly unjustified. In addition, any commentary on this post during the school's weekly assembly will be ignored. That is all.

UPDATE: 17|08|2014 About the tags thing, before we were forced to wear our session tags, we already had coloured name tags stitched onto our clothers. For example: purple represents this age group, pink represents that age group etc. In other words, since 15-17 year olds were in the morning session, you'd be able to distinguish between them and the 13-14 year olds by simply looking at the colour of their name tags!  But no, people are too lazy to memorise which colours belong to which age group so they made us buy these useless session tags. That kind of defeats the purpose of the coloured name tags doesn't it? I mean wasn't the coloured name tag thing created so that we could be able to tell which age group belonged to which colour? IMO, as long as you know that which age group is in which session, which colour belongs to which age group, then you are good to go.
Might as well use black and white name tags if you're not going to make use of the colours am I right?

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Alone at the cinema.

Guess what? I went to watch TFIOS last Sunday! ( 3/8/2014 )

Originally I was supposed to watch it with my friends but we had to cancel our plans at the last minute for reasons I would rather not bring up ever again. So, after days of debating, I finally made the decision to go watch it alone.

And it was 95% awesome instead of 100% had it not been for the fact that I kept worrying over how something awful was going to happen to me whilst watching the movie. 

Here's how it went!

The day before I was to watch the movie, my family and I went to book my tickets because I was afraid that they were gonna be sold out the next day. It cost RM14! FOURTEEN. THAT IS SO EXPENSIVE. Tickets usually cost RM6 ( students' price ) on weekdays but since I was going to the cinema on a weekend, it cost more. RM8 more. Pfft.

Moving on, my family and I went back to the shopping mall the next day at 3.30pm and my movie was supposed to start at 3.45pm. After bidding them farewell, I proceeded to hall 7 alone with popcorn in my hands. I walked to my seat which was at the end of the row and sat down. I had chosen to sit there because I didn't like to sit in the middle plus I was alone so that meant that I had no one to wait for once the movie ends so I could just leave the hall asap. And uh.. I also didn't want to sit next to strangers whilst I was alone.

So before the movie started, I noticed that the people who were sitting a seat to my left were a couple. They were being all lovey-dovey and kept "whispering" sweet-nothings to each other which disgusted me as I am an immature teenager who loves to read romance novels but can't stand it when the scenes you find in romance novels are re-enacted in real life. I dunno, it feels awkward to be around couples. I felt like I was invading on their privacy by sitting only a seat from them. 

Then I took out my iPhone and begun to text my friend in order to calm my nerves because at the moment they were spiralling out of control. After a few minutes of texting, the female of the couple suddenly sprang up and sat next to me which triggered me into panic mode. I kept thinking "what the f*ck woman, your seat is over THERE, NEXT TO YOUR BOYFRIEND," and "please go back to your seat, please go back to your seat". Eventually she did go back to her seat, much to my relief and I texted my friend about that unnerving experience.

Movie starts and half a bucket of popcorn later, it reaches its climax. I could feel myself desperately holding in my tears as I wanted to see how far I could go without crying buckets of tears which was kind of stupid now that I think about it. The tears kept threatening to pour out of my eye sockets(?) as I continued to pity the lives of the leads in the movie screen in front of me. I think the time I started to hold my tears was when SPOILER ALERT: gus tells hazel his cancer had relapsed. It was a WTF moment for me because I totally didn't expect that to happen. Like I knew he would eventually.. you-know-what but I didn't know the reason for it.

And I did cry in the end. The first tear slid when Hazel was reciting the eulogy she had written for Gus at his SPOILER ALERT: "pre-funeral". I've forgotten when the second tear slid but it was definitely near the end. That's it. Two, single tears, both from the right eye.

It's not that I'm heartless or anything, believe me when I say I cry at the slightest things but to me, rather than the movie being a "sad" one like everyone makes it out to be, it was a happy one. I found myself smiling a majority of the time instead of crying. I think the reason for me not crying- besides me forcing myself to hold my tears- is that I sort of focused on the happy parts. Sure the ending was abrupt and sad but during that time all I could think about was what a great life Gus had that it made the ending seem less sad than it was. 

Think about it. If the movie hadn't made me smile, if Gus had a terrible life instead of the amazing one he had gotten the privilege of experiencing after surviving his terrible fate for a period of time, I'm pretty sure I would have balled my eyes out at the end. But that's not what happened now isn't it?

In the end, both the movie and the book are about celebrating life. If they were only made for the sole purpose of making their viewers cry then I don't think The Fault In Our Stars would be as successful as it is today.

Getting off topic here, ahaha. So once the movie had finished, I quickly ran out of the cinema and went to find my mum. Problem is that I was quite shaken up at the end due to.. you-know-wha- oh who am I kidding, you've probably already figured it out by now, due to Gus's death and how abrupt it was. Yeah at the time all I could think about was positive stuff but once that phase was over, I was left feeling like a deflated balloon. My smile was gone and all I could think about was the ending and Gus's death of course. I continued to sniffle once I had found my mum but she didn't seem to take notice of it.

And that's it! That is my experience of me watching a movie alone at the cinema. It's been 2 years since I've done this and I must say- as refreshing as it is, I still prefer going to the movies with a companion or 2 just to lessen my anxiety of being alone and also because I like to have people to accompany me on fun activities like this. Yay companions~!

Till next time, bye!

P/s: No, I have yet to read the book yet. I have it in my possession but I wanted to read it after watching the movie so that I wouldn't criticise the movie for leaving out my favourite parts of the book when I watch it.

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Goodbye, Mr substitute teacher

Was supposed to write this post last night but ended up sleeping instead ahaha.

So yesterday, my classmates and I had to say goodbye to our substitute teacher who was with us for about 2 months(?). I'd say it was a bittersweet experience though I can't speak for the rest of my classmates.

The first time we met him was in the beginning of the year during our civic class. Apparently our civic teacher took a hiatus from teaching so before she came back, we were stuck with a substitute teacher. Nobody took him seriously as he was only a few years older than us which makes him sort of like a senior rather than a teacher. It didn't help that he acted more like a senior than a teacher.

Over the lessons, we'd began to learn some things about our sub, like why he wanted to become a teacher, how he was coping in this new environment, his back-stories as well as get some insight on his life as a student in college. We also had the pleasure of witnessing how our sub struggles to speak English, how goofy he actually is and how similar he is to us, being only a few year older and a college student. I remember him saying how scared he was of the teachers here and how surreal it was to be in the teacher's lounge as a teacher as opposed to a student. He described the feeling as " a student trespassing on teachers' territory ". We all had a good laugh.

After a few weeks, our civic teacher came back and it was time for him to leave. However, we didn't send him off like we did yesterday because we barely spent any time with him ( we only had 2 civic lessons per week ) so there wasn't really any will to send him off since the connection between us and him was quite thin. Besides, he was still going to be on school grounds so it's not like we weren't ever going to see him again. 

Little did we know that a few months later, he would be back in our class again, this time substituting for our maths/add maths teacher who went into labour and was going to be away for 3 months. Ah, I still remember that day. When he came in, he told us that he was furious at his friend ( who was also a substitute at our school ) for going to Singapore thus leaving him with the task of teaching us maths and add maths. It was a funny sight to see because his goofiness was showing as he spoke. We couldn't help but chuckle.

Because maths and add maths were way more important than civic, we had more periods of them. So basically, we got to see our sub 4 days a week over the past month which is longer than the time he subbed for our civic teacher. 

Eventually, I think every one of us got used to the idea of seeing him every week that when the inevitable came, some of us were unwilling to see him leave, especially since our maths teacher is an uptight person who boasts about her intelligence at every chance she gets. Having him around was easy-going and fun, and it made the days at school more bearable. I'm pretty sure that once our teacher comes back, all of us will revert to our miserable selves all the while getting stressed over our teacher's incompetence at teaching properly. Seriously, the lady expects us to answer difficult questions after only teaching us the basics. 

And even though our sub is not as good of a teacher as our maths teacher, I still prefer him over her. I'm quite sure that I'd rather have a humble teacher than an arrogant one. Having to endure lessons with arrogant teachers is really distasteful and it also makes the learning experience quite unenjoyable. Also, I do attend tuition classes so it's not like I'm going to fail maths or add maths if I don't learn them at school.

Moving on, yesterday we had our first 2 periods and last period with our sub. We studied a little for the first 2 periods but during the last period, we pleaded with him to not teach and instead focus on saying goodbye. That's exactly what he did. Our last 30 minutes with our sub was spent with people giving him rainbow looms as farewell gifts and having a few pictures taken with his phone. 

When the bell finally rang, all of us stood united and said "thank you, teacher" to our sub for the very last time. This time, he was leaving our school, so it meant that we weren't going to see him on school grounds anymore. 

In conclusion, I'm truly glad and thankful that I was able to experience such a wonderful experience during my short period of time in this class. I have seen some teachers come and go with my old classmates but those experiences can't compare to the one I had the pleasure of experiencing yesterday with my new classmates. The atmosphere was lively and cheerful and I felt that we were all united as a class in contrast to when I felt really out-of-place during my previous experiences. I hope our sub enjoyed his time with us just as much as we had enjoyed our time with him. 



Goodbye, and good luck.

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Just because~

REALLY short update 

I had to include this in my blog because rarely do I see a boy read a novel- let alone a popular romance novel.

I'm sure judging by the colour of my font, the title of that popular romance novel must be popping up in your head already. Has it not? Well then, let me give you a hint.

Okay? Okay

No? Fine. It's "The Fault In Our Stars". 

My friend and I saw my classmate-who is a boy-read tfios in school yesterday, and it was a surprising sight to see. To say that he wasn't made fun of because of that would be of course, false.

His friends were teasing him about reading tfios but much to my amazement, he didn't give a shit. Nu-uh, the dude just continues reading on like nothing had happened once they finally left him alone. 

Now THIS is something I would like to see almost everyday. I mean, why can't there be more guys who would rather sit down and read a book-any book-than make noise and play around in class? Honestly, that would be a pleasurable sight to see.

I give my classmate two thumbs up for just being awesome~! :p

UPDATE 08|08|2014 Till now he hasn't finished reading the book yet, but the point is that he's still reading it! 

UPDATE: 17|08|2014: I heard two other boys in my class discuss about "The Fault in Our Stars" the other day. One of them was talking about how his eyes welled up with tears when nearing the end of the book but he didn't actually shed any tears. He kept insisting that he did not shed tears. 
Boys and their masculinity.

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The lost chance

I'm writing this post with gritted teeth because I still, CANNOT BELIEVE what my mum said to me last night. 

She started by saying "hey jo, do you know that movie, our fault in the stars?" and I replied "you mean the fault in our stars right? yeah".

"Well, I managed to win 2 free tickets to watch that movie tomorrow-"

*cue me looking all hyped and freaked out*

"-but I gave them away to my friend."

*face drops* "You... what? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?"

"Because I won't be able to watch it tomorrow."

"I COULD HAVE WATCHED IT."

"What makes you think YOU could have watched it?"


*cue me kicking things and muttering curses under my breath when my mum leaves the room*


Basically I'm still quite pissed over this. She could've chosen to keep this a secret from me but noooooooooooo, for some reason she decided to tell me this when in fact it not only managed to crush my hopes and ruin my night but it also didn't bring any benefit to me whatsoever. Pfft.

Anyway, it's 2:05 in the morning and we have to go to Penang tomorrow so I have no idea why I'm still up. I'll go now. Goodnight.

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A short update on my life 16|07|2014

Now things are finally starting to get interesting this week!

Tomorrow, lil' cousin bro ( he's only a year younger than me ) is going to come to our house, sleep over and then we'll head for Penang the next day. And yes, I am skipping school on Friday because I say so.

Once we reach Penang, I have no idea what we're gonna do. Hm.. sleep maybe. We're not staying at a hotel because we're going to stay at a homestay with the rest of the fam.

On Saturday, we'll be busy with the uh, wedding stuff. Pre-wedding dinner traditions, pre-wedding dinner preparations, the actual wedding dinner, ya' know, the usual. 

Andddddddddd we'll go home on Sunday. Huh, this really is a short update.

Oh and before I forget, my awesome friend decided to draw Death Note's L as a late birthday present for me~ She is awesome at drawing ( even though she's denied it every time it's been brought up ) and I believe she will not let me down. After all, L is my ultimate anime/manga bias and she knows it *____*. I realllllllllllllly can't wait to stick that drawing on my board!

That's it for this short update~ 

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