The Plane Post

I was totally bored on the flight so at some point I began writing a very random word doc which I decided would go okay on my blog. so here we go :)

(note: this might turn out to be very incoherent because I was just typing and typing and typing)

It’s 4:47 according to the clock and I’m writing this on the plane because there’s only so much one can sleep before

HAHA i tried writing it in french but doesn’t feel the same lolol. but okay, so there’s only so much one can sleep before you’re feeling so awake that there’s absolutely no way you could sleep anymore. and I’m not even halfway through this flight I think. Thank God we’re going to San Francisco and not Chicago because then I’d only be 1/3 of the way there. This ride’s supposed to be 11.5h. In many ways the flight’s not as bad as I imagined it would be because the seat’s sort of comfy, there’s legroom if i stretch reeeally far under the seat in front of me or I just stick my leg into the aisle and hope the stewards don’t trip. but now I’m fresh as a daisy and I don’t have all that much to do. Oh, plus the food was pretty good. hehe, I actually finished my greens and all. It was beef and potatoes.

oh damn I just realised that 1pm - 5pm is not quite 5 hours it’s 4 actually. so I’m not even halfway there yet. how now?

In a minute I’m going to start re-reading the book I brought along with me, Phillip Pullman’s Northern Lights. I hope that it lasts me a good few hours.. because what else am I supposed to do on this flight? There isn’t any internet so I’m typing this not knowing whether it’ll be an email to someone, or a blog entry, or whatever.

My neck’s kind of achy right now, as it has been since last night when I was packing and totally unable to sleep because it was such a frenzied day. and since I’ve got all the time in the world now, or a good 6-7 hours at least, let me talk about it to myself.

After DELF, which I truly madly deeply hope went well (because I’d kill myself if I failed dude I studied >:(), I met Jean for the first time in a long while just to walk and talk and talk and walk haha and we told each other what’s been going on in our meagre lives. I miss her so much. I haven’t seen so many of my friends in so long I think I’m going to email everyone once I get the time to when I arrive in Canada because this trips feels like such a long long thing. I hope it goes well. but ok, so I did some random winter-clothes shopping (i.e, just socks and keeping warm things. oh, thermal wear right!) and later at night mummy and I went for auntie jennifer’s hermès watch shop opening it was a pretty grand thing I’m so glad I sort of dressed up for it haha even went in little heels. I was so hungry that day though (this seems like a recurring pattern; why am I always hungry?) because I’d forgotten to eat when I met up with jean, we were supposed to have lunch but I ended up just having yoghurt instead.

omg it’s only 5:05pm I only took what, 13 minutes to write all this. shite.

alright I might as well write more then, if only just to pass the time. we’re sitting in the middle bunch with 4 seats. so there’s another random guy sitting with us. some ang moh, and my sis has the privilege of sitting next to him. so apparently earlier on while he was blowing his nose, his mucus splashed on her face HAHA total fml moment. but it wasn’t very nice, obviously, if it were me I’d be so freaking disgusted. ok so splashed isn’t the right word.. squirted? flew onto? you get the idea.. I’m so glad I’m seated at the other end.

and we missed our flight earlier on, because. NO TIME LA. anyway I already wrote about that earlier on at the airport haha. later on in San Francisco we’ve got a good 5 hours I think I can’t wait to just laze around maybe buy some books? but then the flight to Canada’s gonna be another 5hours. I don’t really mind, in fact I felt really relieved when we heard that we had to change our flight. time to laze around on the ground is sort of a good thing. :)

On another note my jacket was a pretty good decision, I was burning like hell in changi but now it’s cold up in the air and I’m still pretty comfortable. :) also, my pillow was v cool. haha my mom’s asking me if I’m done writing (but how? I’m so bored and there’s nothing to do?!) so I think I’ll end here.

I’ll be arriving at 2059h Canada time which means 0859h in Singapore. :o

I like to think of it as I’m flying back in time because Canada’s a day behind. hehe, interesting. and now my mom’s asking me to play a game. I told her I’d read my book but she asks me to be more fun. relax. lolol. why is everyone telling me to relax?

Mom: cos you’re boring.

but that’s what jean told me too. I asked if I should bring SATs over to Canada but she says please don’t I’m going to kill myself at this rate. so I accidentally-on-purpose did not pack the book in. :) I think I’ll relax now.

My White Christmas

So DELF B2 was finally over yesterday and I am bound for my white christmas in Canada.

At the moment we are at hong kong airport where we just missed our connecting flight. To be honest, the trip so far has been shitty. So many hiccups. I was so hungry because we took one hour at check-in and there was some silly little issue. and hungry jody = not v efficient jody.

at hongkong we had 1 hour. and now we have another 1 hour because we missed the flight by like.. 2 minutes. unintentionally. SUCKS. now we are going hk > san franscisco > toronto instead of hk > chicago > toronto.

Actually, I don't mind. because the flight's shorter and sounds less crazy. + we get to stop over at san francisco which sounds abit less scary than chicago. on the down side, we're going to be really really late in arriving in toronto.

& I also think I might freeze. the temperature's supposed to be around -15 to -20 and just imagining it makes me cringe and wither into the carpeted airport ground because being in airconditioned shopping centres in sunny singapore makes me shiver too.

and it's crazy cos now mummy wants to go shopping at the hk airport 20minutes to boarding time. if we miss this flight too i think we can head back home to singapore.

hmm, maybe missing our flight's not so bad. i feel less frenzied now. hehehe.

Crazy

I think we may all be addicted to this madhouse. I've graduated, I have, and yet my days have gone by in a blur and I don't feel any less stressed out or like I've left the school at all. It isn't registering because for the past 2/3 weeks I have still been studying like mad for DELF (the french proficiency test) ok fine 'like mad' is kind of relative.

but to me, any studying is studying like mad already (but ok to be fair I gave up watching HP7 with friends to do my french homework and prepare the next day + i was always prepared with printed worksheets and prepped work for class) and it has been insane my days were not so much excitement. of course, 18th nov was the last prep lesson for the test and I was like whoa. so i'm free? (no. i'm not supposed to be, anyway)

I also told my mom I'm not going to Japan with them on the 26th because I'm such a retard. but I decided that going to a totally -insert word that means the language is like shoomz away from french- place so close to the test is pushing the toeing the line thing a little bit.

but my days are so fantastically dry and so is my closet. It's like a little place in my room that hasn't been touched save the jammies and school uniforms. but of course, scattered like bread crumbs in between I have had some fun

1. talent vogue (this is slightly backdated 29/10/10 but wtv)
2. graduation
3. prom/fam
4. omg at this point i realise i haven't done much
5. oh right hcl o-levels.

but ok I will add more to this list when I think of stuff.

talent vogue was cool I had so much fun preparing for it and testing my guts (which had disappeared/are still non-existent) performing for the first and last time in rgs on my own, and the first time since I did star of the month (haha mini talent gig yo) in primary with claudia in primary 2. or 3?

idk the days are just breezing by in a breezy.. time warp thing.

and I remember having to drown in chinese and then french in a single day while preparing for higher chinese Os and not wanting to slack too much for french but at that point of time I listened to more of those 2 languages in a day than english and I wanted to die but anytime I used english I felt guilty. like right now, peut-être je devrais ecrire cet blog en français? (that was probably grammatically terrible too, I'm really sorry to whoever actually knows french who's reading this and cringing)

which reminds me

6. taking the entrance to h2 french for fun.

hahaha moment of sheer inspiration. I have absolutely zero intention of taking french up as an a-level subject and then jeopardizing my grades even further but I was curious.. and so I decided to take the test, which turned out to not be as bad as I thought and it was fun because I knew the results did not matter.

and now I wonder if I am addicted to test taking even though it fucks screws with my brain so much. along with my sanity. or maybe I've been brainwashed by the system and I am so kiasu I can't even help it. O levels for both french and hcl and then delf and SATs as well. and the unnecessary h2. but ok la wtv I have nothing else to do with my brain..

and now tuition has started. (this post is starting to seem extremely incoherent but I do think there's some form of a link anybuddy following? or still reading?)

but ok whatever now I put peetures down here for you to look at to thank u for reading (or if you skipped i don't like u).

life's good.

No mood

yes i have graduated and i realise i have been MIA for the longest time. i have lots of things to say and think and wow boy oh boy pain right now. incoherent. so no, not right now.

C'est un truc

Everytime I think I have time on my hands I realise (very unfortunately) that IT IS ALL A TRICK and I don't. because it feels like just yesterday I finished my exams and now I am just 3 days away from my math paper + french o-level orals. I am scared. well, no actually I'm not I think I'm supposed to though.

I am not feeling panicky I have been steadily doing math I don't think I'm very prepared but it's alright, fairly o.k. because my math is beyond rescue anyway. I don't even know how it ended up that way; must've slacked too much this year. I'm not stupid. :( but yes, time is not my friend.

sushi is my friend and companion. especially when i do work. but you can just about see how productive we were. 1) jean's sleepy face 2) joey n her leica 3) 20 pieces of sushi for myself after a smoked burger mistakenly gotten by joey (in terms of size o sushi) because I phrased myself wrongly... on a day we went to jean's place to do math. in the end it was good and i enjoyed myself v much.

in terms of my french I can only feel extremely inadequate because I am lacking in skill. but I am determined to improve that within T-2 days. How? dunno. I am appalled that I cannot function properly in another language (everytime I make this same realisation I thank God I can express myself in ONE language adequately, because goodness knows I need expression). Wouldn't it be great if there was a brain.google.com? or even better: translatejody.google.com. EXTREMELY HELPFUL, IN FACT. (if you're already thinking of all the possible controversies, please just.. don't go there.)

If that were possible though, imagine the amazing things we could do. maybe not websites. maybe just programmes. for a functional human brain.

(I am using myself as the template person, if you want to put your own name feel free to imagine)

JodyOS - with software updates

JodyCook 1/2/3/4/....n

JodySleepEarly, otherwise known as JoSE (haha José)

JodyMathBuster (ha ha inspired by my recent drowning in physics myth busters options)

JodyCT, critical thinker...

you get the idea.

The above were highly undeveloped thoughts I didn't even think of until the point were I typed it out. totally random brainstorming. not very fantastic, but whatever, you come up with something better.

Over the course of my mingling and chit chatting I have also realised I am not a very kind girl. I enjoy listening to racist jokes very much because I find them so hilarious and stereotypes on their own are already so funny, so stereotypes + jokes = zomghahahahahahahalaughfest

That is not to say I am racist. because I am almost certain I am not. I like the jokes, I do not hesitate making them (although I will watch myself here, and around people I am unfamiliar with - okay so I guess that means I do hesitate. but that's just what humans have to do to survive you know). I do not avoid other ethnic groups, in fact, I have many friends who are not chinese. and please, so many chinese jokes around as well (so funny.)

and and people need to appreciate the funny in life. because it is soooooooo~ :-)

I find I am blabbering incoherently because I am probably slightly (only very slightly) tired. I do not have school tomorrow because I have no options and no core lessons hurrah for paper checking. however, I will wake up at the normal time (or attempt to for 15 minutes and wave goodbye to my lovely sis and boyboy) to wish my sis and boy boy all the very very best for their PSLE which begins as of tomorrow. D: kids are very hardworking. these 2 of my favourite kids are extremely hardworking (o.k. boy boy tries) and I hope they find the papers a breezy piece of pie.

~

Last Saturday I went to Haji Lane with yoke because I have never seen the place and yoke wanted to learn how to navigate a dslr. It was good fun and I will put the pictures up another day because as I speak, my eyes are shutting and the world is disappearing.

Tomorrow I will go to toa payoh library and jean is going to join me (just like old times ;)) and we will do math.

really.

If you had only 24 hours left to live, what would you do?

Funny, I've been asked this before. I think some random stranger on omegle first time I was there. and he said he'd smoke weed while watching the world burn. or was that his answer to "it's the end of the world! what do you do?" ok nevermind. If I had 24 hours I would definitely ditch school and hang out with my family. we would take ten thousand gazillion pictures and I would write goodbye notes to people who mattered (writing notes for the first n last time in my life) and then I'd go on facebook during my last minute and update my status to "is dead" and fall dead clicking the button.

honestly, I don't know. I hope I never have to know when I die.

Ask me anything

I wanna do it again

Today it occurred to me that I am right-down-to-my-very-core kiasu. In fact, many of me (haha many of me) and my friends are. We sign up for every exam available, and I have no idea why. It's as if we want to get ourselves all stressed up and shit. but then again, with every exam being over we get another blast of sweet relief and I think it is this that makes everything worthwhile. The question of why we sign up for all sorts of shit (O levels SATs proficiency tests?!) remains unanswered but I think there are always nuggets of amazing experiences (however teeny) that make stress worthwhile.

On wednesday joey and I went over to jean's place for the first time and I enjoyed myself tremendously whilst all the while doing math. we had smoked burgers (which I adored and unfortunately gobbled down too quick for a picture) and sushi and sang loudly with ipods and phones plugged into a funtastic set o' speakers. I don't think I've ever enjoyed math more than that day.

:-) :-) :-) look three smileys with noses just to prove it.

today is/was children's day, something I am supposed to be too old for, and maybe that's true because I spent it at french class ho-oh. It was the final class oOo I'm glad I went because this marks the end of the 4 years I've been at MOELC learning a fun frisky fantastic fawesome french language. I wouldn't say I'm the best at I am still unbelievably careless and stupid when it comes to grammar but IT IS OK. because. well if I didn't read I'd be shit at english too because I know zero, zip, zilch about the RULES OF ENGLISH. Once again I am so grateful for my teacher because he is cool and does not look down on me (at least I don't think so) and I think I just might do OK for my O-levels!

~~and so I have been spending the past 2 weeks at options (reel reading, the american century, physics myth busters) which has resulted in me having a lot of free time, because my timetable is such that I have a killer monday (all 3 options, yo) a movie tuesday (Reel Reading yay. it's like, film study stuff extremely kewl and exciting) and an o.k. thursday with the other 2 options. I'm glad I did not let myself get influenced by other people because I am lovin' my options and I am getting to know new people; learning more about these people outside my circle.

I'm having so much fun.