Omg Liting just asked me to the Kris Allen concert later today but I had to turn her down cus it's at Zirca :( :( :(

OMG I LUVVV KRIS ALLEN I'M SO SAD!

No living like I'm dying then.. :(

♥1:03 AM

(I intended for this to be a short entry but life never goes as planned. Feel free to not read on.)

Last Saturday was Mr Mizar's wedding, Congrats Mr Mizar! He was my Sec 2 History teacher, plus he was always involved with us in some way. In sec 2 Cikgu Rozie made us write some song for Malay, and she made him judge it omg he was totally laughing about it or something during the next History class. Then there was HSSRP, which we did in place of RS. Wasn't that fun Arina/Izzah/Mary/Nurul/Husena? :) Then there was France trip in sec 4 which I'm sure he enjoyed especially after discovering that the juniors got drunk with the tourguide hahaha okay I'm evil hehe moving on..

I have never seen him so happy, ever. Maybe the last time he was so happy was when he found out he was mentoring both our groups for HSSRP HAHAHAHA Ok I kid. Bet he never mentored again after us haha, but we were really not that horrible. I think..

The best part of his wedding, was really... when we met Mr Ganesh haha anticlimax. But really, I didn't even get to talk to Mr Mizar, he was too busy being married/ happy/ going from hall to hall/ taking pictures with the sea of screaming rg girls. It felt like a teachers' day performance in the amphi or something to that extent.

Anyway, right, Mr Ganesh. How do I begin to explain how ecstatic I was when Nurul spotted him in the crowd of History/SS teachers!! (There was Bryden Chew, Azahar and assorted teachers we didn't really know so clearly Mr G wins)

Let me quote Nurul's blog here,

"Saw Mr Mizar, his wife, Mrs Anis, Mrs Mohammed, Bryden Chu and and MR GANESH! Totally made my day. Had a short reminiscing session where he remembered our 108 class. Seriously. Living up to his name man: Ganesh= Elehant God= elephants have very long memories."

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!!

Okay but I'm not sure about the elephants and all. Oh btw Nurul, Bryden Chew. There exists a Mr. Chu though, who has a first name which starts with A, which I know makes you cringe everytime I mention him and his memorable experience working at Macdonalds that he shares with everyone everytime we have some kind of leadership course. I know you really enjoyed your time in PB with him Nurul hehe :)

Before the wedding Nurul & I were hoping Mr Ganesh would be around. I don't know what's up with us & Mr G but you know, he's cool like that. Mr G was our Sec 1 form teacher, plus my first & last History teacher, i.e. Sec 1 & Sec 4. He must be like my favouritest History teacher of all time. ALL TIME. He has this sarcastic-ish demeanour which many of his students cannot stand. I guess I could empathise with that, but I totally appreciate his sarcasm because he is funny! Albeit mean sometimes.

I know a lot of people associate him with the thought of the Indus Valley civilisation haha apt I must say, since he thought many of us that in sec 1 and how he is Indian and all.. Just saying..

When we were in sec 3/4, he told us exasperatedly how he went back to teaching sec 1 (after a couple of years teaching upper sec) and he almost died when this sec 1 girl came up to him and said "Mr Ganesh, do we need to leave 2 finger spacing?" HAHAHAHA LOVE THAT GIRL.

Back in sec 1 we used to stay back hang around in our classroom that was right next to the Blk J staffroom and he'd pop by sometimes and have bitching sessions with us about his ex-students from his previous school!! Hahaha seriously, and we were only sec 1! I also remember him telling us that if we wanna break school rules (socks, belt, eating in class), just don't get caught. Haha he is the bombz.

So when Nurul spotted him, I literally stood up (in the midst of a million small rg girls cheering for Mr Mizar) and exclaimed "MR GANESH!!!" -waves hands about-

Picture that!

(Almost) Everyone turned to stare haha omg what have you done Amelina. I noticed Mr Azahar behind him laughing at me heh but whatevz!

Okay but in retrospect, that was actually rather embarrassing. Clearly I was in too much excitement to care.

He came over and we had a short 5 minute catch-up. So Not Enough! He asked us to visit him at rg sometime, I am all up for it haha. I actually really miss rg, but all my friends are all.. nyeh about rg haha so no one wants to go back with me. I know right, tragic. If anyone wants to go back to rg please ajak me!!

I'm really so glad we met Mr Ganesh on Saturday. It's like our lives are complete now hahaha. No but really, it's like something on an agenda. And when it's fulfilled there's some sense of accomplishment? Okay maybe not the best way to explain it but you get my drift.

Yay ok I'm finally done, I just really needed to blog about that heh good night world!

Labels: Retrospective RG

♥10:36 PM

I had one of the funnest weekends everrrrr :)

Saturday was kiteflying/evening picnic with Mary Nurul & Sadikin. Full of brownies, failed hopshots and desperate running-around attempts at flying our kite, but it was much fun nonetheless. Love you friends! We shall reunite to fly more kites after Sadikin gets transformed into a public good.


The rest of the photos hereeeeee.

Sunday was class lunch, and meeting an assortment of friends I've missed too much.


Pictures hereeeeee.

♥8:38 PM

Does anyone watch RenovAID?

I didn't watch for the past however long, but I caught last week's and today's. Today's being the finale, they did a recap thingy of all the families, and Michelle Chia revisited the families after 2 months.

I am so disgusted by the Malay family whose house was in a disastrous mess, again, 2 months after renovation! How ungrateful is that, like srzly. And they had guests over that day and the house was practically in the same mess, with better painted walls.

These people don't deserve makeovers. The problem is not their financial capabilities, their big families or their small flat. It's their lack of responsibility and sheer laziness, perhaps, and lack of the basic skill of cleaning up after themselves. It's the same old habits. You'd think they might just try to change the way the live now that they have a new house..

What a waste of Mediacorp's and their sponsors' money..

Thank god most of the families managed to maintain their homes. I'm just so so disgusted at that particular family. How obnoxious, and a slap in the face for Michelle Chia to see the disappointing state the house was in.

SIGH SIGH SOME PEOPLE NEVER CHANGEEEE~~

♥11:13 PM

CIKGU MELHAN'S KIDS ARE SO CUTE PLEASE LOOK AT HIS PHOTO ALBUM ON FB AND TELL ME YOU AGREE OMG I LOVE NAUFAL HE IS SO ADORABLE PLEASE DON'T GROW UP NAUFAL, NEVERRRRR!

I think I should ask Cikgu for a public link to his album full of cuteness hahaha this is the best I can give you for now I don't know if it works http://www.facebook.com/#/album.php?aid=100284&id=717366510&ref=nf CLICK.

Okay link doesn't work unless you're friends with Cikgu DAMNIT Oh but it's on Mary's page (we were swooning) so go be friends with Sitti Maryam Salleh, go!

♥1:41 AM

So today, or yesterday, I accompanied my sister to Ahmad's NIE Teacher's Investiture at NTU. Like a commencement of sorts, but waaaaaaaaay more boring cus everyone is so old and no one cheers for anyone on stage!! Hello, hallmark of boring. Of course I had to cheer for Ahmad and I did and apparently it's such an epic event my sister even had to blog about it. Old people..

(Read it here if you must, it's the lower part of the post. The first part of the post is about how she got into her second car accident in 2 weeks!! Poor poor car.)

Anyway I really do understand why adults don't do things like cheer, but really, they should.. Just cus you're old doesn't mean you must be boring, right? It's like how caucasians sometimes cheer when the airplane lands? How cool are they, and they are old!! Seriously Asians never do such things spontaneously cus we age to become boring people. What up with that y'all.

Okay so anyway, while we were there, the NIE prof bigshot guy gave his opening speech.


He closed his speech by quoting Lee Iacocca, former head of Chrysler Corporation, and he said
He only mentioned the bolded parts by the way, (and of course I'd scour the net to find the actual quote!), which makes it this:
HOW OBNOXIOUS SOUNDING IS THAT HAHAHA

He went on to say, "To the graduating teachers, I congratulate you for making the only decision that matters, and that is, to become a teacher."

Hahahahah icing on the cake.

Okay but I must say it's a nice quote that makes a lot of sense (respek, if you are a teacher), but geeeee he didn't have to make it sound so nasty! Like if you don't decide to be a teacher you are doomed and will live a sad life settling for something less. Not very nice especially when you're addressing a hall half full of teachers and half full of normal people who have apparently lead less fulfilling lives. How mean is that haha!!

But it's okay old man, I forgive you :)

Anywayz, photos from just now!


Ok thus conclude my post about Ahmad's investiture. Congrats btw, may you be a coolio teacher and please don't be so fierce and threaten to burn/cut your students hair just cus they were playing with it during assembly!! Kasi chance sikit ah hahaha. Oh btw, my offer about the TWG paper bag is always open hehehhehehe okay kidding. Kinda.

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I honestly intended to sleep after posting that. But I decided to go to the toilet.. Worst decision of the day!

There was some suspicious looking black capsule-like thing on the floor, so I picked it up and was about to toss it out the window. I was afraid it was one of those cockroach eggs that would unleash like a million tiny roaches ew ew ewwww~

This window. My sister & I decided to keep it close so that lizards and other assorted beasts wouldn't enter our toilet. But I smartly decided to toss it out the window, meaning I had to open it.

I had it open for like 2 seconds, and when I closed it, THERE WAS A LIZARD AT THE CORNER!!! OMG ARE YOU KIDDING ME FML.

I was so angry, there's no way I was gonna leave the toilet with a live (baby) lizard in the toilet. No one appreciates to waking up to take wudhuk in a toilet being watched by a lizard. Ew.

I knew it was my destiny to kill it, even though it was 230am. So I killed it the only way I knew how.

1) Lots and lots of water at high speeds, like from the hose thingy

2) Baygon
I love Baygon. It now has a nice-ish scent to it. And there is this marvelous yellow snout thingy. You might have seen it on my sister's blog, if you follow our killing-lizards-chronicles.

Let me show you what this fabulous yellow tube does..

BEST INVENTION EVER.

3) Perfume/Deo
My sister researched and apparently perfume helps kill lizards, while baygon takes a really long time. It doesn't really work though, I think it just makes the lizard a little more dazed?

I don't know, honestly I don't care. Like spraying stuff at the lizard is satisfying enough >:)

Thank you Darryl for this deo sorry I had to waste it on the lizard but it was the only one within my reach at that time hehe.

4) Spraying/Pouring whatever other chemicals and hope it ignites some form of chemical reaction with the lizard, Idk, Idc, JUST DIE LIZARD. PLEASE.


So I left the lizard drowning in layers of all the chemicals above. I hope it doesn't do anything bad to the tiles :/


I'm so angry now, cus I just scrubbed the floor!!! (See previous blogpost haha) Now it's covered in baygon and all those chemicals, so it's kinda all slimey and gross SIGH.

Oh if you're wondering, after we kill lizards, we just leave it there for my dad to clear it haha. None of us even want to get close to it, what more touch it ew ew, even if it's with tissue/plastic/wtv.

I'm leaving my dad this note on my door knob. Hopefully he sees it before he wakes us up for Subuh later, in like, 2 hours time heh.


Okay I'm just going to make sure the lizard is still dead in the toilet. It plays dead sometimes.. STEP.

I just messaged Haris to tell him my lousy fate. I'm sure he is going to laugh at me all the way from Tekong ): He is like the lizard-whisperer or something. Psychopath I so don't understand him.

Okay sleep, till next time, turrah friends! :)

♥3:06 AM

I went out for lunch just now with 4/10 of my fingernails painted haha. I peeled/scraped off the rest of them, there must have been some kinda chemical reaction between the nail polish and Mr. Muscle while I was cleaning my toilet yesterday. (I love Mr Muscle btw its like so effective really)

Anyway I realised peeling the nail polish off is so much better than using remover, okay although it may be less effective. The acetone plus whatever else in removers give my nails this dehydrated feeling/ texture, vv annoying. So yes, peel it! It's kinda fun and mm gratifying, especially when you get a big piece off hehehe.

I don't know why I do such socially unacceptable things sometimes, and blog about it.

Okay anyway I am really bored like I have nothing to do with my life. Not yet at least. I have decided to dedicate my time now till whenever teaching starts to work on my knee. My knee must feel like my knee by the end of 2010!! Okay that's a very long time to regain strength, but considering how lazy I am and how I'm not playing any sports or anything anymore ):

So yes I will frequent the gym until I'm bffs with the security guard aunty person who calls me Lina, with whom I always have a 2 minute debate regarding whether I am Chinese or Malay and why I am so fair/ not dark. Yes it happens everytime, it's like how we say hello.

Clearly this is as random as a random post can get. And since I haven't been posting any pictures, here's one, I owe Kak Myrah this, I think you read my blog once in a while yes yes? Nah ambik kauuuuu~~


Okayz I'm out turrah! :)

♥5:07 PM

hT[c] noise noise noise says:
anyway right during NS I found myself worrying that I would forget everything I learned
hT[c] noise noise noise says:
so one time while we were marching I was multiplying 2 and 3 digit numbers in my head heh
hT[c] noise noise noise says:
like 616 times 72

OKAY SRZLY, WHO DOES THAT?!?! GEEK HARIS, GEEEEEK!!

I really don't understand why he must be so strange sometimes..

We have a lot of pseudo army boy conversations now, like how to strip rifles haha all my platoonmates would know how I loveeeeee stripping/assembling rifles, totally kicked all the boys asses in my Specs course platoon for Trainfire (that sir still owes me a drink aha) thank you thank you haha yes I take a lot of pride in my M16 skillz once upon a time thanks thanks. Though M16 is ancient now but meh.. whatevzz.

Oh oh oh and loading/unloading rounds in the magazine I was freaking good at that!! Hahahahahaha k enough.

Wow I actually kinda miss all that!! Sharon if you're reading this please kick all the boys asses like you did in our heydays I believe in youu Companybest hahaha :)

♥8:28 PM

I bought 4 pairs of shoes today I NEED TO STOP SPENDING MONEY I DON'T HAVE ):

Stop shopping Amelina D:

♥11:07 PM

I must have had the most unproductive day of my life today. (yesterday?)

I slept at around 3 the previous day, so I woke up at 10/11ish. Ate and did mm, life things.. Oh I managed to catch Simon Cowell's E! True Hollywood Story on E!, he is one interesting man. So anyway, by 2pm, I was back in bed. I was awake for a grand total of 3 hours before sleeping again!!!! Woke up again at 7, in time to catch the second half of AI. Victoria Beckham is too fabulous.

I freaking hate cramps they are such a waste of emotions and energy, from all that rolling around in bed/floor/wtv.

And Mary, cikgu is either forgetful or dead because she has not called me even though she messaged me twice saying she'll call me tomorrow. Which was 2 yesterdays ago.

I need to find something meaningful to do with my life.

(Oh by the way, I went bedsheet shopping with my mum just now and we got matching ones with a Tread Count of 475!! My current sheets are only 300+TC and it's already so smooth and soft!! So exciting hehe!)

♥2:17 AM

Meet my platoonmates:


It's nice to know none of these people have really changed at all.

Adilah & Adeline are still in their telepathic little world, Jinning is still the loud auntie we know, Sharon is still off to change the world and be Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Al Gore and Leftenan Adnan at the same time (she's succeeding btw), Germaine still as smart as ever, Nurul still takes more than 5 seconds to match names to faces. We still make Jinning & Sharon do all the crap, like order food and get sauce for us hehe.

(Yikai & Jasmin couldn't make it but I'm pretty sure they didn't change either.)

Thinking about all the nonsense we went through together, the whole concept of it was stupid & ridiculous crap but that was kinda what our friendship was build upon. Apparently, it's some kinda strong powerful crap.

I love these people.

♥2:54 AM

I say this at the risk of being stoned to death by people who are actually in school right now, but damn I freaking miss school and studying and everything. The joy of getting new stationery and school stuff. I miss using my GC for cooler things, preferably not calculating the amount of money I've spent buying pretty things but oh my god. I think I kinda miss doing Stats too cus it was so fun and wannabe sophisticated with the GC LOVE ITTT but Math Math is fun too like it gets your blood pumping and makes you wanna pull your hair out but when you get it it's like I'M A FREAKING GENIUS!!

(So true right, you know I'm right.)

I'm so tempted to do some Prelim papers or something ha ha ha ha ha okay, enough psychotic geek talk for 1 night. Turrah.

♥3:13 AM

I've been reading some of my friends' mandatory new year ~reflective~ post (haha merkz), and I actually haven't found anyone who said they enjoyed 2009 and would relive it. Maybe the only exception would be Caleb, who's fb status read "Best year of my life yet". I salute you Caleb :)

On that note, I thought 2009 was awesome. I loved 2009, I'd relive it in a heartbeat. Perhaps I am far too optimistic for comparison but I honestly thought it was a great year.

I learnt lots of things about myself and what's important to me, even if it was by making horrendous mistakes and falling and picking myself back up, quite literally too.

This year felt extremely short, perhaps the shortest yet. Too many things happened too fast. School, class, lectures, trainings, touch, CTs, TSL, torn ligament, physio, physio, CTs, physio, physio, prelims, mugging ass off, As, prom, new year.

Perhaps what I regret most was how I seem to have drifted away from everyone, circling into my own bubble. I know it sounds pretty bad, like Gee Amelina has no friends Luzerrr, but it's not haha. Or I choose to believe not. Heh.

I admit to how I haven't spent much time this year with some of my bffs, like Aminahz. Especially them. Somehow the year flew by and I really didn't seem to have time. Or maybe I didn't make time, I apologise. I sorely regret that because things like these are unacceptable in bff tales. I still love the 5 of you a lot ♥

But a really wise red freddy once told me how the depth of any friendship is not measured by how much time you spend together. Which I have come to realise, is very true.

Then there are my teammates. Somehow everyone's under the impression that I spend the rest of my time with them, but truth is, I didn't. Especially after my injury, I couldn't meet them in the mornings at the canteen, I didn't train, didn't compete. It was only after awhile that I came to watch them train and watch them play, once I was comfortably off crutches and off physio. I did spend a lot of time with them, before and waaay after injury period cum mugfest with beloved library gang ha ha, but in between, I had a lot of time with myself.

I'd go home immediately after school, like in Primary school I know right how cool am I. Or I'd have physio. Mostly home, for reasons I know not. It was a good couple of months that I think I went into voluntary solitary confinement, like I needed to get myself together again or something. I'm really not sure what happened it's pretty much a blur now in retrospect, but that's what I meant by drifting away from everyone.

Not to forget my classmates. Needless to say the time spent in lectures and tutorials were inadequate, I really wish I had more time with them, this year especially. I'd like to blame my ligament but I take responsiblity for not being there sometimes. I really love my class, and even though sometimes we find ourselves divided in certain ways I shall not mention haha, I'm glad I can clique with every clan, or so I think hehe. But collectively, we're really quite cool people. RJ wouldn't have been half as cool without them.

It's rather unfortunate how I grew apart from friends I love, but it's a trade-off for time with myself. Time that I needed, actually. Which I choose to believe is good for me, in the long run. Allah works in mysterious way, I'd like to say this is one of them.

But still, I apologise. I know, or I think heh, people expect me to be some places with them sometimes. It's like different groups of people at the same time. It's like the typical-after-exams-scenario, all your different groups of friends want to go out, but which do you follow? Which is maybe why I tend to be a little here and a little there, then leading to people saying that I'm always absent. Also why sometimes I choose solitary confinement heh heh. The easy, gutless, simple way out. I'm a kid in many ways, really.

Okay so enough with the sad stuff..

I thought this year was a great continuation in my academic strides to success! It's like I start to see hints of my hardwork paying off. Sometimes it didn't, but I learnt to channel all that negative energy towards
a) strengthening my knee haha
b) working harder and ignoring the everlasting elitism and condescending attitudes of the sad sad rj kids around me. I have no respect for them, as smart as they may be.

I was jaded at the end of J1 because I never knew I could produce such obscene grades. But well, you fall but you get your fat ass back up right. My fat ass had really large inertia and extremely high activation energy, but I did it anyway. I know this is gonna sound cliche but I honestly learnt the value of hardwork and passion.

I learnt to love Physics & Econs, slowly and rather painfully actually, but we have a very promising relationship, even now! Rekindled my love for Chemistry, and not to mention my unwavering love for Math. Yeah it was a typical love story, started out as friends, we met way back when.. I love Katherine McPhee hahaha okay I digress.

As much as I like to say that "Grades are not everything, you are not defined by the grades you get..", I think I only claim that to comfort my disheartened broken soul because deep down I know my grades, as much as I hate the truth, will help me get on to the path of becoming that good person I hope to be. So I took it as just a means to an end, not the end itself. I think I only came to this revelation a few weeks before As, yea I know, wols. So yeah, whatever will be, will be, the future's not ours to see, que sera, sera.

Wow I am so dramatic!

Haha k moving on..

I also felt closer to God in 09. I found myself talking to Him, praying a lot more. Even though sometimes I take wudhuk to pray Isyak at 830 but only end up praying at 11. Heh. This is a bad bad habit I will stop in 2010. I made time to read the Quran more, and I develop a sense of emptiness everytime I neglect reading it for sometime. I hope to be a better muslim in 2010. It's about time and I think I'm ready for the rest of my life. InsyaAllah.

My family has always been there for me, and more so physically this year. As much as I totally enjoyed being injured and having surgery (no I really mean it, I really loved being in the OR and breathing the fresh oxygen they gave me and reliving and reenacting the moments before I was anesthetised), I know it was a tough time for my family. They so didn't share my joy for hospitals tsk. But I really did need their support back then, it was tough on me a lot of the times. It's nice and comforting to know they were there for me. They had to make a lot of selfless sacrifices which I really really appreciate. Thankyou I love you mzp dzp & kakak hehe kak you need to get yourself an acronym lembs.

It's probably pretty obvious by now how so much of my life in 2009 has revolved around my injury. Sad little torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament.


Painful like crap. It was quite a low in my life initially. I remember crying to Rach & Liting on the phone that night. Plus the abrasions under my arm that my crutches gave me did not help the situation at all haha.

Oh yes, picked up a new skill in 2009: Walking on crutches. Aha!

But I honestly thought, in retrospect, that it was one of the highlights of my 2009. And I really did like being in the hospital, so much so I asked my mum to let me stay there an extra day! Which I did by the way. Heh. I took a lot of joy in going for Physio too. It was really quite fun.

Maybe I am far too optimistic for my own good. I really loved 2009 despite how it was unkind to me many times. But that's what life's all about I guess. Getting your sorry ass out of whatever crap you're stuck in, but having fun in the mean time.

I'm young and foolish and sometimes I don't understand life, so I'll take whatever simple joy I can get. Whether it's in frolicking around on the Turfcity/YCK field or mud with my teammates, lepaking in Mary's crib & playing oldschool card games, annoying my sister & parents to death with my stellar annoying skills, indulging in the cough-syrup-like joys of Starbuck's Darkcherrymocha or reliving my surgery haha. The world is often too complex for my simple mind anyway. But it's cool, you make it work. Make it nasssstyyyy. (Love Amanda from Uglybetty!!)

Of course nothing is complete without pictures. Very random and disorganised though heh sorry.


Here's to a more fabulous, kickass 2010 :)

Labels: 09S06C, Aminahz ♥, The ACL Episode, Touch Rugby

♥12:50 AM