Update 24|04|2015

I realised that I haven't done an update in a while, otl... 

1. Exams are coming up but I'm not prepared for them yet. This time, it's going to last for 2 weeks.

2. My parents and siblings are going back to my dad's hometown for his alma mater's 100th anniversary on 30th of April. Unfortunately for me, it's exam week so I can't follow them back and I'll have to stay at my relatives house until they come back. Exams, ugh.

3. This Tuesday morning, I was at school, sitting in the open hall when 3 of my friends finally arrived and joined me. One of them said that her feet felt ticklish so she hit her left foot on the ground and said, in a calm tone I might add: "cockroach". Now, because I was paying attention to the tiny piece of cardboard on the floor next to where she hit her foot, it took me a couple of seconds to realise what was actually the cause of her ticklishness. Next thing my 2 other friends and I knew ( one of whom had the same thoughts as me and diverted her attention to that damned cardboard ), a small cockroach came flying out of our friend's shoe, back against the floor and struggling to get back on its feet(?). We were so shocked that we immediately backed away and watched as the cockroach slowly stopped moving and appeared to be dead. Just as we thought it was dead and sighed in relief, it started to wiggle its feet(?) again, as if to prove that it's not dead just yet. As we kept our distance, a few students whom were walking by us didn't seem to notice the struggling cockroach on the floor. Some of them almost stepped on it and after a minute or 2,  one of them eventually accidentally kicked it, enabling it to get back on its feet(?) again and scurry away in a hurry. We were so scared that we backed away the minute it got kicked. 

THAT'S NOT ALL THOUGH. When we decided to sit back down, it CAME BACK and climbed the pillar behind us and just stayed there. Not wanting to live in fear for much longer, we decided to leave the open hall to the assembly grounds. 

My friend said that the reason there was a cockroach in her shoe was because when she was in her house with the lights off, she felt something drop onto her neck. So, she brushed it off, not thinking much about it as her transport driver arrived at the exact moment. And the rest, is history. Needless to say, this experience has scarred me to the point when my foot felt ticklish in school today, I had to stop and check if there was a cockroach in my shoe or not. Turns out, it was a piece of rubber though I have no idea where it came from.

4. Extra co-curricular activities have become more and more dictatorship/military-like that it makes it hard for me to enjoy them anymore. Take last Wednesday for example. We had a singing competition during co-curriculum and normally it lasts for 3 hours but this time, a very very short-tempered teacher came and stop the competitors midway, screamed for us to go down to the open hall in the microphone or the competition wouldn't continue. When we were busy complaining, she screamed again, to the annoyance of a lot of students. We did leave, in the end, and were forced to sit in the open hall in order to let the people in charge take our attendance. 

In short, there have been a lot of restrictions lately that essentially spoils everyone but the higher-ups' ( teachers, principal etc ) mood and in my opinion, I don't think anyone would be surprised if the numbers of students attending extra co-curricular activities drastically decreases. School, get your sh*t together.


That's all that I can think of for now, my memory isn't that good ><

Till my next post.

Bye.

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Snack Review: Supreme Popcorn

Exams have finally ended so, now it's time for me to share my opinions of a snack that can be found in supermarkets but don't actually have a store of its own.

Introducing: Supreme Popcorn.

It's a caramel-flavoured popcorn and it claims to be a homemade recipe.

Just look at all that caramel-ly goodness.

My first impression of this popcorn was actually quite good. All of the popcorn were sweet and crunchy, unlike the ones that you would buy at the cinemas or the ones that have their own stores like "planet popcorn". It was soooo good that I ended up buying a second container, only to be disappointed by what I got. Whilst the first container's popcorn was sweet, the second container's popcorn was salty. You could say that it tasted like salted caramel popcorn. But that's not what I wanted to buy, and the word "caramel" was printed onto the container, not "salted caramel".

Sweetness of the first container's popcorn on a scale of 1-10:

★★★★★★★★☆☆

Second container's:

★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

1: Salty

5: Just right

10: Too sweet that I had to spit it out

Would I repurchase this? Maybe not. I'd rather spend my 14 bucks on popcorn that I know won't turn out to be salty and will stick to what taste it's supposed to deliver: a sweet caramel taste. Emphasis on the word "sweet". 

It really is a shame as I honestly enjoyed eating this the first time, but oh well.

Final thoughts: this popcorn would be perfect for people who are fans of salted caramel popcorn ( or maybe even caramel, depends on how lucky you are ). Though a bit pricey, it's definitely worth it if you don't mind the saltiness of the popcorn, unlike myself.  

UPDATE: When I ate the popcorn on the 2nd day after opening it, I discovered that the popcorn didn't taste as salty as when I ate it the day before. I don't know why, but the saltiness of the popcorn isn't as overpowering as it was before, making it sweeter and resemble the taste of the popcorn in the first container that I had eaten. So, because of that, I would recommend this to anybody who loves caramel popcorn and I would definitely re-purchase this soon because I've almost finished eating them.

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UPDATE 21 | 02 | 2015

I just keep getting lazier and lazier...

Happy Chinese New Year! 

So right now I am at my aunt's house in another state far away from home and the wifi here is terrible. However, for future me's sake, I am going to sit down, bear with this poor wifi connection and type out a post.

Hmmm, where should I start...

1. My exams have been postponed to 3rd of March ( thank goodness for that ).


2. My aunt- who lives in America - came to our house last Friday to join us on our road trip back to her and my dad's hometown. She bought lots of shirts for Em and I, but in the end she took 'em all 'cause I couldn't wear ALL of the shirts my aunt bought. The good thing though, is that I can wear the white shorts she bought for me. 

Other things my aunt bought include: golden oreos ( yummm.. ), Pop tarts, chocolate with fruits inside and Kipling bags.


3. My siblings and I skipped 2 days of classes 'cause why not.


4. On the first day of Chinese New Year, I had to wake up early to take a "shower" in a blanket-like cloth(?) in our front yard along with my other relatives. We weren't allowed to wear our shirts so everyone- including me, albeit reluctantly- was half naked. Early in the morning. Can you imagine how cold that was? 

So there was this huge bucket filled with water and everyone- from our grandma to the oldest sibling's family until the youngest's family had to line- had to line up, take the pails in the bucket, fill them with water and pour it over their heads 21 times. 

Overall, it was a fun experience that will never be repeated ever again because apparently this is a one-time only thing. Yes I was cold after the whole ordeal, but lucky for me, THE COLD NEVER BOTHERED ME ANYWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ( nah just kidding, I was just glad I got to try out something new ).


5. Angpaus, angpaus and more angpaus.


6. In the midst of writing this post, my mum called us kids to go downstairs to drink "bubur cha cha", a sweet drink that has carrots, yams and sweet potatoes in it.

Only 2 words is enough to describe the taste of the bubur cha cha: sickeningly sweet. It is so sweet to the point where I fear that if I drink another bowl I might end up with diabetes. After I finished my bowl of bubur cha cha, I immediately took out my water bottle to cleanse my palate. 

Unfortunately, the after-taste of the bubur cha cha still lingers.


WELL, that's it for now. Till my next post, bye!

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Update 30|01|2015

Sigh, my birthday month is coming to an end...




1. It is confirmed - my exams are on the 26th of February. Bruh, Chinese New Year ain't even over yet but I have to suck it up, study and sit for my exams. 

2. My friends, family and I celebrated my birthday on the 24th of January. Myself and my friends played a lot of games that involved popping balloons like pass the balloon with and without your hands, sit on the balloon until it pops etc. Funny story, because we didn't have a balloon pump at first, we had to blow the balloons which was no easy feat. I know that because I failed to blow a single balloon that night. So there we sat around the rectangular table in the middle of the room, blowing our balloons with red faces, occasionally gasping for air. It wasn't until my dad eventually went out and bought a balloon pump that we stopped blowing the balloons. Some of my friends called the balloons they blew their "babies" because they had a hard time blowing them which imo, was so ridiculously funny. 

The cake was awesome even though it didn't match the image I had pictured in my head. It had brown and white striped horizontal lines across it and on top of it was chocolate hipster glasses as well as the words "happy birthday jojo". As for the presents... WOW. The presents I received this year blew my mind away. There was a starbucks tumblr, a vintage bracelet, innisfree products, royce chocolates and many others. 

3. Last Tuesday, as the student in charge of everything related to History class, I had to collect money from my classmates because we had to pay for the modules our History teacher had given to us. As I kind of, sort of procrastinated, I was in a hurry to collect all of the money before first period- which was History- started. What I figured out at the last minute was that a boy who hadn't given me the money yet was one of the students to go on the school trip to Japan, thus making me unable to collect the full sum that day. However, not wanting to get in trouble with my teacher, I pleaded his friend to help him pay the sum first and take back the money from him when he comes back. At first his friend refused to help him pay, but he eventually agreed to it to which I was grateful for. 

Few days later, said friend came to ask me if I had collected any money from him to which I replied by reminding him to collect the money from his friend. "Oh, it was you," was his response. Today, when he came by to my desk to copy my answers for our English exercise sheet, I asked him if he had taken his money back. "No." was his answer.

... I hope he gets the money back soon though I did notice that his friend has been absent for quite a number of days this week.

4. Wednesday after school ended, my friends and I had about 45 minutes to eat lunch before we were to begin our extra co-curricular activities. We got to the restaurant relatively fast, sat down, ordered our food, then waited for it to arrive. For some reason, some of our food came early whilst some came when it was time for us to go back. As we weren't the type of people to ditch our friends to save our bums, we waited until they've finished their food before walking back to school. 

In the end we were 30 minutes late, but that's all right. We are seniors after all.




Well, I can't think of anymore things to write so till my next post, bye!

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My birthday!

As you might've already guessed from the title above, today is my birthday! Today is the day when I officially turn 17 years old ( physically of course, my mentality is still that of a 15 year old's ). Since today is such a special day for me, I thought I'd write a blog post on my day for remembrance :). The sad thing is that I can't seem to remember how I spent my birthday last year, so I hope that in a few years time when I come back to this blog, I'll be able to remember it, my sweet 17. 

So today before school started, I had to say goodbye to my friends who were going to Japan on a student exchange programme organised by the school. The reason I didn't join them was because the fees were too expensive, plus I've already been to Japan before... which is a shame because I loved being in Japan. Anyway, my friends and I hugged and bid our farewells, then proceeded to go out into the open hall to queue up according to our classes. My friends didn't forget to wish me happy birthday and I was so flushed that I didn't know how to respond. 

After coming back from the toilet, we went to our respective lines. Instead of sitting down, I opened my bag to take out a list of my classmates' names as I was in charge of collecting the money for our History modules. While rummaging through my files, I noticed that there was a particular file which looked familiar but didn't belong to me. I was so shocked that I thought I had accidentally taken someone's file without realising it. Either that or someone must've opened my bag to put it in, but why?

Few minutes later, we eventually went to class. When we reached our class, I could hear the sound of the bus' engine from below, the one filled with students who were bound for Japan in a few hours. Of course I couldn't help but feel a bit jealous, but the emotion was quickly shoved aside as I reminded myself repeatedly that I've been to Japan before so there was nothing to be jealous of. Most of us crowded around the windows to see as the bus descended the hill and disappeared below, some even saying "goodbye" to their friends even though they couldn't hear them.

The day went by quite smoothly although we couldn't help but notice the gaping hole my friends had left after their departure to Japan. Our circle felt... incomplete, After recess, when my friends stood around my seat, they suddenly started to sing "Happy Birthday" which completely took me off guard by the way. I was flustered to the point of burying my head on the table, lifting it up from time to time to look at them then burying it again. It was the first time anyone has ever sang happy birthday to me in school, and for that I felt touched. 

Then came the time for us to go home. At home, when I went to check my phone, I noticed that I received a whatsapp voice message from my friends who were supposed to be on a plan to Singapore to transit to Japan. Turns out that they recorded themselves saying and singing happy birthday to me on the bus ride to the airport. Upon hearing their voice message, I couldn't help but feel glad to have dorky-ass friends like them, I mean seriously they were so cute can you imagine like two girls singing happy birthday to a phone in a bus full of people, that's really cute. Anyway, a few hours later, I took out the file that I found in my bag as well as the present ( a lollipop ) my friend had given me earlier on to put in the fridge. Turns out that the file belonged to said friend and in it contained a drawing of my favourite drama character and also a birthday card. I eventually thanked her on Line minutes later.  

So this is where I have nothing else to write. Of course there's going to be a birthday celebration on a larger scale on Saturday, 24 | 01 | 2015 but for now, I'll just have to celebrate with my family members. 

That's it for now, till my next post, bye!

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Chocolate Review: Weisse Schokolade

So, I am planning on starting a new series of posts in which I would review all sorts of snacks. From cookies to chocolate, snacks you can find in supermarkets to snacks from Marks & Spencer's, I'll review them all! I hope that these posts will help others to decide whether or not they should buy the snacks I've reviewed as well as help myself keep track of which snacks I would re-purchase in the future. 

Without further ado, here's the review!

The first snack I'm going to review- as you could probably tell from the title above- is white chocolate! I was fortunate enough to receive this chocolate bar from my mum's European colleague/friend and although I do not know where my mum's friend is from, I'm pretty sure that this is a German brand. Please do correct me if I'm wrong.

The name of this chocolate is "Weisse Schokolade".

This is real white chocolate because it contains cocoa butter.

Every piece of chocolate has the letter "G" on it. As you can see from the pic above, it's quite thick.

Texture-wise, it glides down your throat easily and it doesn't hurt your throat on the first few pieces however I did notice that after eating 6 pieces of chocolate, my throat started to hurt so I had to stop eating it. It stopped hurting after I drank water. Also, I could taste a hint of hazelnut for some reason, I'm not sure if there are hazelnuts in there because I can't read German.

Sweetness on a scale of 1-10 stars:

★★★★★★★★☆☆

1: Bitter

5: Just right

10: Too sweet that I had to spit it out

Would I purchase this if I had the chance? Maybe not because it was a little too sweet for

my liking. 

Final thoughts: This chocolate was okay however in my opinion, there are better white chocolates out there that aren't as sweet as this one and have a lighter taste to them ( if that makes any sense to you ) so I would not purchase this in the future. On the plus side though, there are times when my throat immediately hurts after eating the first piece of white chocolates of other brands so this one is definitely 5 times better than those. I would recommend this for people who have a sweet-tooth only.

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First Day of School!

Ello ello there, I'm back to write the first blog post of the year! And it's gonna be about my first day of school as a Senior ( muahahahaha ).

On 12th January 2015, I woke up at 5.15am, had a shower, relaxed on the couch before finally going to school at 6.20am. I reached school approximately 15 minutes later. When I got there, I sat down, ate my breakfast and had a little chat with my friends before we headed to the assembly grounds at 7.10am. 

As you may or may not already know, after the results of the final exams came out last year, we Form 5s had to change classes according to our grades against our own will. You cannot appeal to stay in whichever class you were in the previous year nor can you appeal to move up a class. Well, I thought that this was a load of horseshit and that they weren't going to change a thing ( even though I saw the same happen to my seniors in the previous year ) until eventually the inevitable came after the assembly was over when the teacher informed us ( well, "us" as in the science stream students, that is ) of which class we were going to be in by reading off of a name list. I watched as some of the students from other classes, as well as mine stood up to form a new line, then walked off to their new classes. I also watched as some of the students from other classes came and join my classmates and I in our current line, all the while scrutinizing the fact that the teachers had taken it upon themselves to ruin the unity we used to have as a class.

When I got to my new class, everyone had already taken the best spots leaving me with the one nearest to the back door, though I can't complain much because of how convenient it is. The downside to it is that I can't see the words on the whiteboard quite clearly from time to time, but I'm confident I'll get past that in time. 

When classes have started, our class teacher was surprisingly, a no-show. It's surprising because she's the same class teacher as last year so I know how much of a perfectionist she could be. As there was no teacher in the class, everyone started to talk and the atmosphere quickly turned lively. Half an hour or so later our Chemistry teacher entered our class and started to talk about Chemistry-related things thus ending our minutes of freedom. He didn't start teaching because nobody bothered to bring their textbooks to school. 

The rest of the details are quite hazy due to my short-term memory, but I do remember hat happened during English class. Fortunately for me - not so for others - the teacher who taught us English last year is also teaching us English this year. She's always been very kind towards me since my days in Form 3, so I was quite elated to learn that she was gonna be my English teacher during my last year of High School. Anyway, my English teacher gave us an assignment when she came in- we were to group into a team which consists of 2 people and learn about the similarities and differences between us and our friends and write them down in the form of an essay. Needless to say that I had a lot of fun in the process of completing this assignment. We're supposed to write the essay in class tomorrow and hand it in as well.

So as my friends and I were writing down each other's differences and similarities, my English teacher comes over and says  "[my name]! How've you been? How was your holiday? Did you go anywhere?". " I went to Korea," I replied. She then remarks that I must like kpop, and immediately notices the word "Kpop" which I had written down as a similarity between my friend and I on the paper. After having said that, my teacher proceeds to walk away, only to be called back by me because I wanted to tell her about my essay getting an "honourable mention" in an essay-writing competition. She responded by congratulating me as well as asked if any of my classmates had an honourable mention too. "No, I'm the only one," I said, and she congratulated me again. Aaaaah, what a great way to start the first day of school. ( To be very honest, I have been aching to write an essay during the holidays so to have my wish come true is sooooooooooo good though I do feel bad for my peers who aren't as excited as I am ) 

The rest of the day was okay I guess, nothing too memorable. Our class teacher did come in during the last period but she didn't explain her being absent earlier on. After receiving RM100 each from our teacher, she started to assign roles to us, for example, the monitor, the co-monitor, the secretary etc. I thought that I was free of responsibility only to be picked to be in charge of everything related to our History period later on ;A;.

So, that's basically it I guess, nothing too exciting to blog about. It's 11.17 pm now so I'm going to head to bed. Til' my next post, bye!

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