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lack of updates, apologies, as many may know, i'm in the midst of mocks, in the second week now, and blogging will not be part of the routine, but i just had to come here and type my fingers off, and to rant about my inability to sit comfortably on the couch all day while i watch micheal phelps, aaron piersol, matt greves, jason lezak, natalie coughlin, kristy conventry, leisel jones and all the other swimmers i have been following since 2 olympics ago. WHY DOES SWIMMING WEEK HAVE TO FALL ON THE LAST WEEK OF THE MOCKSS!! but looking on the brighter side, athletics will be on during school holidays. GO LIUXIANG, GO JEREMY WARINERR!!

i guess the whole world knows that micheal phelps is on his way for 8 olympic golds to break mark spitz 7 golds record, and yes, the event i was worrying about (200m freestlye) ended today, with a WR by phelps. luckily i didn't have exams in the morning, so i stayed home to give my tidal support, it is times like this i miss having my twin back home, cos the last olympics, we cheered and cried like babies for micheal phelps, ian thorpe and piersol was during our PMR trials (which i did so badly in), thanks to the olympics. today, i awas quite alone (which is why i'm blogging now). but limin kept calling from aussie, cos both of us like sharing out excitements. and LEZAKKK! you're the man, and it's so inspiring on how he chased the french swimmer during the 100m freestyle relay just so phelps wouldn't miss the 8th gold if they failed in the 100m freestlye relay. i quote lezak, "phelps came here to win 8, i'm glad to be part of it" and also a ironic quote by the cocky french swimmer, " the Americans? We're going to smash them, that's what we came here for" i think that is probably what pushed Lezak to swim the fastest 100m split in freestyle history, to shut the french swimmer upp.. fuckk, i can't wait for the medley relay.

tmr's exam finishes at 9.30am, english paper, and hell i'm gonna rush home to catch the finals at 10.00am, please dont make me miss the 200m butterfly finals! exams, you will not STOP me from watching the olympicss!! athletics next week! i can't wait. august will be a good month.

and happy birthday nadiya and yeeyaan!!

another week flew by just like that and yeay! it's the weekend, cept that I will be stuck here at home, finishing up assignments while min, xiu, hern, ric and nick attend the SRIKL charity fiesta in my ex high school. anyway, nick and his friends put up a HAUNTED HOUSE event in the fiesta and it costs 10 bucks per entry, and even i'm not there, i have a feeling that it's going to be a huge success to them as I, along with min and xiu were their guinea pigs yesterday. AND i can say that, it is one of the best haunted house i have ever been into! okay, i can't use that hypothesis because i haven been into many haunted houses in my life, thanks to my pussy-ish nature (i am afraid of the dark), but i would have pee-d in my skirt if i didn't hold on to the fact that i know all the "ghosts" in that house and that I have been in that hall for more than a 100times for school assemblies. but man! i was so impressed with their master piece and their ability to produce such a big scale event in a short period of time. you guys are seriously awesome!!

scariest part was when i mistook suyin for a hedgehog at the "cemetery", a really scary hedgehog in fact. thanks to my immense fright and my huge attempt to contain it, the neurons in my brain got abit screwed up. so yeah, suyin wasn't a hedgehog but some ghost-like figure. and there were so many sudden frights and there was one in particular where a "ghost" came right behind me to scare the crap outta me, and scare the crap outta me it did, resulting me to perform some kind of involuntary stunt which involved some kind of head jerk which jerked right into nick's face, causing his lips to bleed. SORRYY!!

twas so nice to see POOKS (waichung) too! and yeeyan and few other people i haven seen in a while. anyway, me and min went for a catch up session with the guys before heading to Srikl.. miss those assholes like crap.

late lunching @ tony romas, pyramid

aussie ppl VS msia ppl

my dear sister and my beloved twin sister

the melbourne peeps, my son and the botak, sorry bout your dog.

visiting SRIKL and the HAUNTED HOUSE

the "cemetery"

the power of 3 <33

the joy of reunion, miss you POOKSS!!! we hav to go swimming again.

part of the brilliant crew.

sorry for your bleeding lips

POOKSS!! the talented swimmmers

LI triplets <33

i effing love them!

weekend was a blast as we gathered together to celebrate the birth of 2 very special peeps, rah and lisajane. attended their birthday party and bijou montkiara and then clubbed at bar savahn.

so rah, HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! hope you like the present we bought for you and thanks for your constant companionship throughout these two years of our newly borned friendship, and still counting. oh, n thanks for accepting me for who i am, crazy as many would say; but i have never heard that come out from your mouth to describe my partially-retarded nature shaped by my lame jokes and bombastic laughs. but then again, i am crazy, and so are you.. we're isotonic like that.. along with meiling and limin. hope you enjoyed your party and also the afterparty.

haloween 07

d'haven 08

sutra sanctuary 08

pardon my over-dressing, i thought nick was going to bring me to some formal place, but i found myself being brought to somewhere not so formal, yet opulent in every way possible. thank you <3

my 19th surprise@ marmalade

a queue of hugs for me! <33 hugs are the best damn expression of love

high school budds.

my good friend who was born on the same day, all smiles

yummy cake nick bought, thanks

i look unready here, but everyone look so nice, so whatever.

part of the college buddies

part of high school budds. + eddy (natly's bf whom she calls labi labi)

my biased bestie. *inside joke*, i love you no matter wad.

chien the man, my distant ipoh-based bro my beloved son jin and their gorgeous gfs.

sister who brother hearts!! i know you're reading this, i miss you tho i just saw you yesterday!! & we contaminated the IB nerd at d'haven.

nicky can't stand the flash. afterpartying @ d'haven with my homies.

the loving thoughts that brought meaning to the 21st of june. i love every single one of them esp the personalised cards which never fail to curve my lips n work my cheek muscles. lots of clothes this year.

jeu, i know you realise that your present is the only still wrapped up. its because i couldn't open it okay!! you working in a gift shop really enhanced your already talented arty fingers. i couldn't bring myself to tear open your nice wrapping. but i love yours leong's and your mum's pressie!! all the way frm oz. mwah <3 btw, xiu biased n u're not. haha! love you bestie. oh and dad insisted that he read your card so i let him, hope you don't mind. cos he said " i want to read jo-ann's card". and i'm like, err?? yeah okay. bet he's gonna start talking bout how focused and determined you are the next time he lectures me again.

ziying and fongyou thanks for the ear rings. min passed it to me.

today we celebrated our 19th as a family, feels good to have everyone on the dinner table. love it when we walk into a restaurant n daddy signs the waiter with his 5 fingers to show that we're a 5 member family, we've been 4-ing for a while. dinner was awesome tho me n min were so red cos of the big glasses of long islands we were drinking.

hawtness is the definition of cam giganet. <33 damn.

anyway its the weekend!! and it was a great start, shopping with min and nick, tho we hardly bought anything but rah's present and then diiner with ric and jing and then sister dereck came to join us. small catch up and spent most our time choosing DVDs for ric since he had coupons.

internet is being so stupid, i can't upload any pics here.

cheers!

min's back and that'll be the reason for me going back to my blogging irregularity. and this post is to all those who made me feel special on my birthday. thanks for the wonderful+heart warming surprise party and thanks for all the nice nice presents and priceless cards. it's the second year without blowing a cake with min, so i'm still kinda new and slightly insecure when i stand by the birthday cake or stand in front of a crowd singing happy birthday to me! but i had chingo this yr! (happy birthday to you too) glad to have you by my side. and thanks ficky for knowing me inside out. <3 thank you everyone who took the time to come. appreciate it. best part is i had my college friends n high school friends on that special night. two different sets of friends made me realise how time is so damn ephemeral and that memories are what we hold on to. but i love you all so much and im glad everyone's doing well. :)

and mummy and daddy gave me and min a t-shirt with a picture of the twin towers because we're twins, i'm not sure what the relationship is, but i find it so sweet esp when mum and dad looked so excited to see our expressions. since min's back we're going to celebrate at hard rock cafe on saturday and we have to wear the t-shirt! so we decided to pair it with minis n heels. can't wait, first time to hard rock cafe.

okay, i'm off to look for min now. thanks again and to those who called or msg-ed, thanks, my phone kinda bailed on me.

and CHERISH! yes, i got your msg, today on the 25th. thank you dear!

so we won paramount hiphop and it was kinda ironic cos we were so unprepared for it. cos the IB students werent allowed to join the finals but dear Mr. Zac really wanted us to perform so he talked to Mr. Shaw for us, so they striked a deal that we can only perform our dance and come back to class. so when me and rah were at bio class, learning the mechanism of muscle contraction and the importance of sodium to initiate muscle contractions, drew comes busting in, telling us we were up next. so we ran to the hall, simultaneously watch the other group's performances while doing warm ups and concurrently trying to absorb what we were learning in biology class before. and LEON was allowed to dance with us, so we had the whole LeRogue team dancing tho leon is only in form 4.

the other teams were so impressive, costume wise and preparation wise. they had nice matchin costumes and make ups and also props! bummer, we didn't get to watch the other teams perform. we screwed up here and there but we had so much fun, which earned us the gold by 82 pts, second place was 67 pts so you do the math.

so now, its full force for mocks. gah! i need my 38 pts. give me strength.

sorry for being too heavy sham!! i have a big booty

rah says it looks like i have a fan blowing me up. haha!

this time of my life, i should be able to make big decisions, calculate weightage and except that reality is naturally flawed. everyone's off to unis, people i grew up with are going to unis and hell, my twin is alr in melbourne uni, and i should be heading off to uni next yr but i'm stuck. throughout my IB life, i was certain that I want to fly off to UK, hopefully on a sponsorship to ease my dad's burden, i'm still crossing my fingers that they will extend my current one. UK cos i wanna study law, but i know i have always been intrigued with the american education system, because they're more all rounded, and i have always find the UK edu system very dry and tedious. but i can't practice american law here, if i decide to do it. still not certain on that course yet tho. and if i were to apply to america, i still need to do SATS and also study for my IB in thiss 6 months, its so hardd!! why did i ever take IB or agree to take it, when i know i ain't that capable! its alr so hard to just maintain the scholarship, cos i have issues with my sloppy dressing (i don dress for school) and my inability to give good impressions. i was called into the office early this year cos ppl complained that Im always late to class and that i wore flip flops to school (guilty as charged), little do they know that i don't even go down for lunch, and i spend my days in class, so how the hell can i be late for classes. so i was under probation for attitude issues, jeez, but i'm sure they had their reasons.

i'm not here to complain bout my life, my life's good but i just wish i can be better, or be good in something and stop feeling like some incapable loser fearing that she won't make it to university. i want to fulfill my dad's dream. and i hope that's a good enough reason to push me hardd.