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Name:Rivali Dass
Age:16 :)
Birthday: 5th Oct '92
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

11:54 pm

Hello, wello, jello...

Ok, sorry. The last couple of days, my mood has been alternating between horribly happy and depressingly sad, so its been a bit difficult to update. :(

I'm quite happy with my results actually, and combined with my CAs they've exceeded my expectations. I won't put them up here because I can envision Salad laughing disdainfully and screeching "You think that's good?? HA!" then pulling out her own report card and kissing her 1293887319288723209 A1s.

Salad, that was just to piss you off. She's not like that people!

Amrit is.
I'm going to get a call from an angry Amrit soon.

Contrary to what's going on in your head right now, the title of today's post is not 'Woohoo! Let's see how many people Rivali can piss off in one post!' but something like that would be quite fun if I'm bored. I'm not bored now, but I am rambling so lets change the topic.

Today, we got our report books back. I think its really funny (NOT) that I got all As for languages, math and science, then got a B for combined humans. and a C for lit. My humantities SUCK, but Lit's my favourite subject (with A Math and Chem) so I shall work hard! I shall strive! I shall persevere!

Oh, another thing, my SA2 marks were mostly ones where I had just scraped a certain grade, or just missed a certain grade. And I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do pray, and for the past few days, I'd been really praying to God (my God, your God, anything)that my borderlines would either be pulled up to, or remain at an A1. And amazingly, every SINGLE thing I'd prayed for came true. I didn't even realize it when I first saw my report book, then later on I was drawing when suddenly, I was like "eh?" and just stared at my report book in disbelief.

But getting back report books always leads to the seemingly innocent question posed by my parents- "So... what do you want to do when you grow up?" a.k.a, "Become a doctor or die."
Yuck, NEVER!!
I know exactly what the two things that I want to do when I grow up are, and its not disreputable, its not dishonest, just because they're related to two subjects which are apparently useless in my parents' (and annoyingly nosy relatives') eyes, doesn't mean I can't do them. Both my parents went against their families' wishes when it came to their jobs, and they're perfectly fine now, they can't exactly expect me to listen to them when thats exactly what THEY didnt do.
Anyway, my friends are supportive enough, especially Amrit( thanks for the loooong talk ytd) and Su-lyn!

One last bit of report book-ness, my conduct has improved! In Sec 1 it was "Good," then in Sec 2, it became "very good" and I have maintained that in Sec 3!

Sec1
Me: I shall be responsible! I shall discard my heck-care attitude forevermore and-
Amrit: F*ck responsibility...
Me: ... okay!

Sec2
Me: Today is the day. I shall no longer use my math worksheets as ammunition to throw at Huiling. I shall complete them, and pass them up and-
Amrit: Oh no, not again... Do you really think you'll succeed?
Me: Yes, I will! I WILL okay! Oh look, there's Zhang Hui- lets set her hair on fire!! (runs towards Zhang)
Amrit: (pulls me back, and gives me The Look)
Me: Oh dear...
Amrit: Exactly.
Me: Well, I- I tried..
Amrit: Yes, you did! Great! Now where's the kerosene?

Sec 3's much better though.

I HAVEN'T GONE FOR DETENTION THIS YEAR!!!!

Congratulate me, people! :D

In other News, I think all of you will probably now by now that JK Rowling has announced that DUMBLEDORE IS GAY.
While I know that most members of the gay community have already blogged about this veryyyyyyy happily, I'd like to stress that I'm straight, yet am pleasantly surprised that such a controversial topic (in S'pore at least) has been incorporated into Harry Potter, of all things. But I also have to say,

I TOLD YOU SO!

For a long time, I'd always maintained my stance that Dumbledore and Voldemort were in a gay relationship. When Book 7 came along, I changed my opinion, and told a countless number of people that Grindlewald and Dumbledore must have been lovers.
Everyone thought I was talking rubbish, but well, it JUST GOES TO SHOW, RIGHT?
And who knows? Maybe Rowling will later announce that Voldemort hated Dumbledore so much because Dumby spurned his advances, and dumped him for Grindlewald. ~~And maybe Ms.Lau really is a robot cyborg from Xena1102...~~

Anyway, droppping a bombshell like this is a great (and maybe rather desperate?) way to ensure people don't forget Harry Potter. Its also came at the a rather interesting time, don't you think? Just when all this 377A controversy about legalising gay sex is going on in S'pore. Maybe JK Rowling secretly supports legalising the whole thing. ________ said that the next thing you know, Harry Potter will be banned here!

People have come up with rather interesting ways to cope with/express their feelings on the whole thing...

Damn funny!

Hahah!

Rivali

Labels: Books, Detention, Exams, Gays

YShe laughed. And laughed. And laughed yet again.;;

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

10:45 pm

The Ig Nobel Prizes.

[all info is gotten from http://en.wikipedia.org/]

The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the NobelPrizes and are given each year in early October — around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced — for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think." Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), they are presented by a group that includes genuine Novel Laureates at a ceremony at Harvar University's Sander's Theater.
The first Ig Nobels were awarded in 1991, at that time for discoveries "that cannot, or should not, be reproduced." Ten prizes are awarded each year in many categories, including the Nobel Prize categories of physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine, literature, and peace, but also other categories such as public health, engineering, biology, and interdisciplinary research.The Ig Nobel Prizes are for genuine achievements.

The awards are sometimes veiled criticism, as in the prizes in "science education" to Kansas and Colorado state boards of education for their stance regarding the teaching of evolution, etc. Most often, however, they draw attention to scientific articles that have some humorous or unexpected aspect. Examples range from the discovery that the presence of humans tends to sexually arouse ostriches, to the statement that black holes fulfill all the technical requirements to be the location of Hell, etc.

List of Ig Nobel Prize Winners

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST OF ALL!!!:
In 1994, the Ig Nobel Psychology prize was presented to Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore for his thirty-year study of the effects of punishing three million citizens of Singapore whenever they spat, chewed gum, or fed pigeons.

Other prizes include:

1991: Chemistry - Jacques Benveniste, prolific proselytizer and dedicated correspondent of Nature, for his persistent discovery that water is an intelligent liquid, and for demonstrating to his satisfaction that water is able to remember events long after all traces of those events have vanished.
1991:Peace - Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and first champion of the Star Wars Weapon system, for his lifelong efforts to change the meaning of peace as we know it.

1992: Biology - Dr. Cecil Jacobson, relentlessly generous sperm donor, and prolific patriarch of sperm banking, for devising a simple, single-handed method of quality control.

1993: Literature - Presented to E. Topol, R. Califf, F. Van de Werf, P. W. Armstrong, and their 972 co-authors, for publishing a medical research paper which has one hundred times as many authors as pages. The authors are from the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, France Germany, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.
1993:Mathematics - Presented to Robert W. Faidof Greenville, South Carolina, farsighted and faithful seer of statistics, for calculating the exact odds (860,609,175,188, 282,100 to 1) that Mikhail Gorbachevis the Antichrist.
1993:Peace - The Pepsi-Cola Company of the Philippines, for sponsoring a contest to create a millionaire, and then announcing the wrong winning number, thereby inciting and uniting 800,000 riotously expectant winners, and bringing many warring factions together for the first time in their nation's history.

1994:Literature - Presented to L. Ron Hubbard, ardent author of science fiction and founding father of Scientology, for his crackling Good Book, Dianetics, which is highly profitable to mankind — or to a portion thereof.
1994:Mathematics - Presented to The Southern Baptist Church of Alabama, mathematical measurers of morality, for their county-by-county estimate of how many Alabama citizens will go to Hell if they don't repent.

1995: Peace - Presented to the Taiwan National Parliament, for demonstrating that politicians gain more by punching and kicking each otherthan by waging war against other nations.

1996:Literature - Presented to the editors of the journal Social Text for eagerly publishing research that they could not understand, that the author said was meaningless, and which claimed that reality does not exist. (see Sokal Affairfor details)
1996:Peace - Presented to Jacques Chirac, President of Francs, for commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific.

1998: Biology - Presented to Peter Fong of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for contributing to the happiness of clams by giving them Prozac.
1997: Literature - Presented to Dr. Mara Sidoli of Washington, DC, for her illuminating report, "Farting as a Defence Against Unspeakable Dread."
1997:Peace - Presented to Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee an Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Shariff, for their aggressively peaceful explosions of atomic bombs.

2000:Economics - Presented to The Reverend Sun Myt=ung Moon for bringing efficiency and steady growth to the mass marriage industry with, according to his reports, a 36-couple wedding in 1960, a 430-couple wedding in 1968, an 1800-couple wedding in 1975, a 6000-couple wedding in 1982, a 30,000-couple wedding in 1992, a 360,000-couple wedding in 1995, and a 36,000,000-couple wedding in 1997.

2001: Peace - Presented to Viliumas Malinauskas of Grutas, Lithuania, for creating the amusement park known as "Stalin World."
2001: Technology - Presented jointly to John Keogh of Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, for patenting the wheel in the year 2001, and to the Australian Patent Office for granting him Innovation Patent #2001100012.

There are so many more, so read the full list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners

Labels: Informative, Prizes/Awards

YShe laughed. And laughed. And laughed yet again.;;

Monday, October 15, 2007

9:24 pm

Hey hey people! (I'm finally over the 'b*tch" phase)
Sorry for not posting for so long, as Deanna very *kindly* reminded me when I checked my tagboard just now.

3E PEOPLE: This is what we've come up with for the Ms. Kon thing.

Denise, Joycelyn and Yanka: This is what I've done. I know the original idea was for the dead MG girl to be lying under the monitor, but I just couldn't upload it properly to photoshop, and creating an image like that on photoshop is way beyond me. Hope this is okay though.

My photoshopping skills really suck, and this was the first time I've actually used photoshop, so go figure. I know its really messy, but I really spent alot of time to do this, and Joycelyn, Denise, Yanka and me met up twice to discuss ideas for it (and we spent AAAALLLL our time brainstorming didn't we? :D) so, yeah. :)

I shall now relate an incident which occured on the 5th of October (my birthday :D) after the bio exam. Since most of our exams were over, we were naturally high right? So this whole bunch of us 3E and 3M people decided to stay back and do the one thing that we do best: BULLY MEERA.

Ms. Rajah walked into 3M and began complaining about the bio exam. "Ohmygawd okay, then on question 22, I like totally broke a nail and stuff, and I asked Ms. Lau whether I could go out of the exam hall to get my personal, portable manicure set but she said no. I mean, how inconsiderate is that ? My daddy's gonna sue her anyways.. So then like there I am, trying to continue the bio paper, but that huge fugly broken nail is like STARING AT MY FACE. So, finally, I was like, screw y'all losers, and I just walked out of the damn hall. I mean, Ms. Lau tried ta' stop me and stuff, but I just kicked her outta the way and stuff.. and-"

Well, you get the point.

So, as Meera was talking, I decided to revert to the much -loved activity of Su-lyn and mine- Writing 'Meera loves Seow' on the board, with both of us writing at two different ends of the whiteboard, so Meera has to keep running up and down trying to erase it all off. Once, we even went to two different classes, so that she had to keep running up and down the corridor- but I digress. So, Su-lyn wasn't there, but there were plenty of other to er... assist me in my noble actions.

Deanna, Hilary, Marisa, Bat, Tricia S., Gwenisha, Krithika, Amanda Soo and me vs. Mei la la zha. (eh, I can't rmbr exactly who was there, so tell me if I left you out or whatever.)

Basically, we just filled up the 3E board with this:

Meera loves Mok Mok, Meera loves Hock Seng, Meera loves Martin, Meera loves Jonathan Tay, Meera loves Mr. Ong, and most importantly, Meera loves Seow.

And Meera was just running around and screaming outside the class, while Marisa and Bat helpfully held the doors shut and refused to let her in. When she was finally able to break into 3E she continued running around and screaming, while holding a duster and frantically erasing stuff on the board (which we replaced in seconds).

[Meera gesturing frantically]

Finally, she just sat down in the middle of the floor and refused to budge, while staring reproachfully up at us:

So, even though Tricia S. was writing more 'Meera loves ______' on the board at that very moment, we tried to persuade her to cheer up, patting her shoulder and all:

When that didn't work, we began dragging her around the floor for no reason. Woohoo!:

Aaaah, what an eventful day.

Love, Rivali

ps: EXAM RESULTS TOMORROW, EXAM RESULTS TOMORROW!!! AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH! :(

Wish me luck!

Labels: Chaos, Meera, Photoshop

YShe laughed. And laughed. And laughed yet again.;;

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

11:51 pm

No.

More.

Days.

HAHAHA. Sorry, I just went to Sarah's blog and saw her write "One. More. Day" but since I don't take mother tongue in school, I HAVE NO MORE EXAMS.

Just to illustrate my point further:

I DON'T HAVE ANYMORE FREAKING EXAMS, UNLIKE YOU, UNLESS YOU'RE NAOMI OR YANKA!

Woohoo! ~~Kiss ass, bitches.~~ HAHA. Yes, I haven't got out of that phase yet. Blame Yanka.

So, I refuse to be unproductive, anyhow. Today, I helped mark Rohit's (my p5 brother) English testpaper, and wrote an essay on Themes in 'The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" for Aditi's (my sister) lit exam tomorrow. Then i painted. Because all the sketches I've been doing have totally built up, cuz I never had time to sit down and paint them because of the exams. But now I can (DUH). :D

Sigh... *floats off dreamily*

Oh, I'm thinking of starting a new blog (I'm not abandoning this one though) and Sam told me to use wordpress because its more flexible. What is it exactly? (sheepish grin) Tell me if you know. :D

Oh, and today was AMath and physics. AMath was quite okay, but Physics sucked. I mean, I had left 5 chapters for the eve of the exam, so go figure. But I still can't believe that I found BIO better than PHYSICS. AAAHHH.

So, its in the middle of the exam, and I'm like "Rivali, why are you falling asleep in the middle of PHYSICS??" And thats when I realised that I wasn't falling asleep. I was just so... drained. I could literally feel my entire body drooping forwards and that when I was like "You know what? Screw this," and I realised that I couldn't really be bothered anymore. Then, I was of course, castigating myself for not caring.

My train of thought (I was attempting the various questions simulataneously): How can you not care... HOW CAN YOU NOT CARE?? Physics is an important subject you know and- is it really? I mean, you never wanted to take it in the first place, you wanted to take art. And what does physics make you into? [winces as Ms. _____'s hongky accent comes screeching over the mike, giving instructions] That? Or-wait!- Ms Cheong?? Yeah, you SO wanna be like her. Overly-meticulous, bitter, pessimistic, destructive.... woohoo. Okay, two minutes left for the exam.. TRY to finish the paper at least..... There.. DONE! Woohoo! Now screw eveyrone, I'm goin home.

I mean,

I studied.

That's one difference for this exam, as compared to other years. I began revision in August, and I know if I do badly, I won't have many regrets, becaus for the first time in 3 years, I walked in for 90% of my papers prepared. I won't think "if only you had not played so much computer" or "if only you had not tried to pelt your neighbour with garbage on the eve of the exam," etc,because I -well, didn't. So apart from Physics and to a small extent Bio, I have no regrets.

-End of long rant.-

HOOOOOkay.

Oh yeah, before I go-

Huiling: [walks by my class]

Me: (loudly) There it walks, thinking it's human. Does it think it deserves to be here? Does it think that for once, I'm even convinced that it is capable of human emotion? It-

Huiling: [walks up to me, and says in a bored voice, full of conviction] You shut up, ah. You full of crap. You rubbish. [walks away]

Dear, dear munmoo...

Oh, and salad booked me for wearing a blue bra yesterday... ~~It was not blue!!~~ Okay, it was. But seriously (those of you who know me will probably know what I'm about to say-) how will it affect me later in life? It won't. Look in my blog history and you'll find a couple of long speeches about the pointlessness of the prefect system, yadayadayada. I'm too lazy to get all worked up now. I don't think I'm going DC this year anyway, but I shall wait and see before properly celebrating.

For Salad:

Bye, y'all! (LOL)

Labels: Bookings, Bras, Detention, Exams

YShe laughed. And laughed. And laughed yet again.;;

Friday, October 05, 2007

3:02 am

~~'Sup bitches, I'm FIFTEEN!~~

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

This is, coincidentally, my 101th post.

Love, Rivali

05/10/2007

Labels: Birthday

YShe laughed. And laughed. And laughed yet again.;;

Thursday, October 04, 2007

8:19 pm

Hey hey y'all.

Stress makes me sound like Meera.

Anyway, as I mentioned in my blog post two days ago-

Sorry for posting it up so late; Its almost the end of the 4th of October, but I've just been so busy studying Bio for tomorrow. There are always subjects which you will focus on less, perhaps even negelct. to. a. certain. extent. especially.subjects. you. dislike. *Rips bio book in half*

Okay, I don't hate bio, but i don't exactly feel very loving towards the ~~bloody, effing, rotten, screwed-up redundant~~ subject at the moment. And anyway, I always do very badly on subjects that fall on my birthday (Birthday luck??).

Anyway, back to studies. :D

Few quotes first.

Me: Hey guys! How was the (maths) paper?
Su-lyn: (angrily) DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT THE-
Me: Okay (walks past her). Meera, how did you find it?
Meera: [splutters, clearly afraid to answer as she knows that doing so will result in her flying across the room when Su-lyn punches her]
Me: Yes?
Meera: Er.. I.. I..
Me: Eh wait, WHY ARE YOUR EYES GREEN???
Meera: SHHH!!!!

Mrs. Tee: I want all of you to pass up the travel forms to Shreyanka, and the GIRO forms to Rivali, and-
Cheryl S.: Mrs. Tee, what if we're still not sure where we're going for the holidays?
Mrs. Tee: Well, then when you're sure, I guess you can call up the office to inform them and tell them where you're going to go...
Me: (looks evilly at Krithika, who lives in Malaysia) Hey Kri! Why don't you call up the office everyday? Like "I'm going to Malaysia now- I'm going to Malaysia now-I'm going to Malaysia now" and tell them Mrs. Tee told you to do it?
Krithika: I could.... (sighs wearily)

And today was the E Math paper 1, followed by pure/elective history.

Krithika: I'm so lucky I didn't take history...
Lydia: I'm so happy! I'm going home now! Haha! Cos I don't take history!
Me: Me neither!!
[Lydia and me high-five each other..... and MISS.]

Oh dear.. I felt so dumb, like we were standing RIGHT IN FRONT of each other. -____-

Anyway, bye, ~~bitches~~!

My new favourite greeting for people is - 'sup bitches?!
Its quite fun to say it. :D

DO NOT TRY IT ON SALAD. (LOL!)

Labels: Bio, Exams, Myanmar

YShe laughed. And laughed. And laughed yet again.;;

Monday, October 01, 2007

9:08 pm

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you."
-Rita Mae Brown.

Hmmm... I don't have three best friends. But you could say the people I am pretty much closest to are Amrit, Su-lyn, Meera and Ding. While Ding retains some semblance of normalcy in her life, the other three are all nutcases. So am I.

God help us.

Anyhoo, today was the first day of the exams.

English was a bit worrying. I was memorising Social Studies right to the last minute, and found it REALLY HARD to just switch into creative-writing mode. On top of that, I'm better at writing stories (a fact that some of you would grimly agree with) not stupid factual essays. I finally wrote a recount for the first question (What was a memorable place you visited blah blah?) but i feel the ending was WAAAYYY to corny.

The letter was okay, but which one did you guys agree with? The Travel Package or Study Package? I agreed with the fact that she should go for the travel package and almost everyone I spoke to chose the other option. Still there's no hard and fast rules about which one you should choose, right? As long as you provide valid points which- shit there's the catch. The validity of the points. :S

Out of the chapters I studied for SS all three came out for essay questions. So, I was pretty much alright. Not only that, one of the questions I chose was almost identical to the one Ms. Chia had given us as an example, and the answer was the LAST THING i read before entering the exam hall. So, I got my questions for Social Studies, but since I have downright failed three out of the five tests this year... let's wait and see...

[Update]

SECOND DAY OF THE EXAMS AND I'M SURE I JUST FAILED GEOG.

This freaking sucks. I couldn't finish the paper, and already surely lost TWELVE marks out of 50 (including the ones I couldn't finish). I'll obviously lose like 20 marks more, so I'm pre-tty screwed. (starts slicing wrists frantically)

AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!

Oh well, shall concentrate on Lit to pull up my Humanities grade (but I'll probably fail that too)

Just to add something cheerful to this blog post.

Mommy, Mommy!, can I wear a bra now? I’m 14! Shut up Stanley.

Mommy, Mommy!, are you sure this is how to learn to swim? Shut up son and get back in the sack!

Mommy, Mommy ! When is the pool going to be ready? Shut up son and keep spitting.

Mommy, Mommy!, why are we pushing the car over the cliff? Shut up son or you’ll wake your father.

Mommy, Mommy!, the kids at school call me a werewolf! Shut up son and go brush your face.

Mommy, Mommy! Daddy’s on fire!Shut up son and get the marshmallows!

Mommy, Mommy!, Daddy’s going out! Shut up son and pour some more petrol on him.

Mommy, Mommy! I don’t want to see Niagara falls! Shut up and get back in the barrel!

Mommy, Mommy! What’s a delinquent child? Shut up son. Light your cigarette, drink your whisky and deal those cards.

Mommy, Mommy!, I don’t want to go to China! Shut up son and keep digging.

Mommy, Mommy!, why is Daddy running so fast? Shut up son and reload!

Mommy, Mommy! Can I play in the sandbox? Not until I find a better place to bury Daddy.

I can just imagine Amrit as the mum. HAHAHA! (joking)

And, one last note, go to http://www2.free-burma.org/index.php#join to support an online petition against the situation in Burma/ Myanmar.

Labels: Exams, Mommy, Myanmar

YShe laughed. And laughed. And laughed yet again.;;