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Name:Rivali Dass
Age:16 :)
Birthday: 5th Oct '92
Class:~~1D '05~~, ~~2e '06 <33~~,~~3e '07~~, 4e '08
School: MGS
I <3: Family, My dogs, 2e, 4e, MORONS, painting, designing, writing weird stories, being generally weird, unsettling people...

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Thursday, January 24, 2008

8:23 pm

Hey, Hey!
I'm soooooo sorry that I haven't been able to blog for such a long time.

THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH BLOGGER, I SWEAR!

I never write a post straight out and then publish it straight away. I always save it, and add more stuff to it, right? And everytime I save a post, IT GETS DELETED. Its JUST BLANK when I return to it. And anyway, I don't have soooo much time to doggedly retype post after STUPID post, so like FIVE POSTS have gone totally down the drain. Anyway, I've reverted back to internet explorer instead of Mozilla Firefox, so maybe that will help? If it doesn't, the blogger staff will be added to my hate list.

I don't have a hate list, actually. Does anyone? It would be quite fun. But then again, I'd probably spend alot of time thinking about those people I dislike, and that's not a very happy thing to do. Hmmm...

IMCB Student Attachment Programme!!

It was fun- especially the people there. Alot of what we did was a recap of Sec 1 life sciences, so it was a good memory refresher? And we learnt alot of pathogens, it was really interesting. Only thing is, it was written on the form, that it was a student attachment programme, but it was more like haveing life science/biology lessons ALL DAY LONG ofr THREE whole days. Don't get me wrong, I love Bio. But I thought that we'd be shadowing real scientists, not doing prepared experiments. And the weird thing was, all the other kids ( most of them were in JC2) couldn't believe that I had done alot of the stuff in Sec ONE. Hahaha... Go MG!!

But the people I met there were seriously fun. I've heard alot of stuff about how different kids from neighbourhood schools are (racist, gangsters,etc), and how its impossible for someone from MG to even talk to them, but that is SERIOUSLY not the case. There were six groups of six people each for the IMCB thing, and group1 and group 2 (my group) got along so, so, SO well.

And it didn't matter that some of us were from RJC and Hwa Chong, and others were from Naval Base Secondary. It just didn't matter. I actually regained some faith in the Singapore system (though my conversation with Amrit today sort of destroyed that).. So.. pictures!

Joanne (Dunman High) and Me. She was my Lab partner, and was really funny. Like a mixture of ShuWei and Amrit. Go figure!

Joanne and Xin Hui (VJC)

Me, Yanni (VJ), Joanne, and Xin Hui.

It may seem really weird, but because the workshop was only for three days, we didn't bother to get to know each other's names.... initially.We called each other by school. A typical conversation went like this..

"Oi, MGS!"
"What lah, Meridian (MJC)?"

"Do we add 20 mil of PBS to the solution?"

"I think so... Or is it 10 mil? I dunno... Ask Hwa Chong."

"Ya hor.. Oi Hwa Chong! HWA CHONG!! Stop muttering to yourself in Chinese lah, I need to ask you a question.."

Yes, poor 'Hwa Chong'. His real name was Jeremy, but the fact that he was from Hwa Chong sort of overshadowed his personality initally. Everyone was making fun of him (lightheartedly though) because he came from a supposed Cheena School (I shall go back to this later). But honestly, he was one of the few people who actually spoke English almost all the time, even when he wasn't speaking to me.

I think its basic courtesy right? If someone doesn't understand a language, and everyone else does in a group, you don't speak in that language. It wasn't the students, but the scientists who actually kept on speaking in Chinese when I was there. Not all the time, but when you're explaining something to a student, everyone else is listening even if you're not speaking directly to them, right? So, if you had basic courtesy, you'd speak in English right? Apparently, that sort of reasoning still eludes certain people.

Certain unpleasant memories of primary school wafted back into my mind, but I pushed them out again. OLGC's gone. Fullstop. Nada. Zilch. Okay, enough of that. But I wish MGS had a JC though... :(((((

The twelve of us!

From left: Dr. Lee, Xin lei- I think (RJC), Wong Pann (NBSS), HOng En (RI), Guan Hua(standing) and Jonathan (MJC), Jeremy (HCI), Jasper (standing) from Bendemeer, MUA, Joanne, Yanni and Xin Hui (VJC) and Natasha (RJC).

All 36 of us.

Groups 1 and 2.

From left: Hwa Chong and Me.

Standing: Guan Hua and Jonathan.

The Guys. Hwa Chong, Jonathan, Jasper, Guan Hua and Wong Pann.

RI had scuttled away to his own RI clique. He seemed to be scuttling around alot. Like a crab.

Audrey! She was sitting opposite me..

By the way, the instructors told Groups 1 and 2 that we were the worst camwhores she had ever met. But we were a good group. We were on time, we did our work .. and then we camwhored.

For Naval Base, his real name was Wong Pann An. Everyone called him Wang Ba Tan. HAHA!! Since it one of the few Chinese words I knew, I was thrilled that I could understand!

And now, on to Hwa Chong.

The poor guy. Seriously. We weren't mean, but there was alot of good-natured teasing.

Me: Oh, I got this superfunny Hwa Chong joke!

Everyone: What? What?

Me: Hwa Chong, do you get offended by Hwa chong jokes?

Hwa Chong: (turns around and refuses to answer me.)

Jonathan (MJC): No, of course he doesn't. Carry on!

Most conversations went like this...

"Oi, you can speak English not?"

"Yes, ofcourse-"

"Ofcourse he can, he got 3 points in his O's"

"Okay, whatever."

"Do you all speak English in school? Or Chinese?"

"English!! Listen-"

"Shut up. Then why does your school have a cheena reputation?"

"I don't know- actually we're quite an Ang mor school and-"

"HAHAHAHAA. Yeah right. Go to hell. I mean (repeats 'got to hell' in Chinese). "

"Now you can understand right?"

(he refuses to answer)

"Aw, I guess he can't."

"YES I CAN, I'm just angry so I'm ignoring-"

"OH LOOK! He's speaking English!"

And it went on and on. Truth is, his standard of English was way better than most of the people there! Haha.

Anyway, it was a good experience. I had always wondered whether to go into molecular biology, or design when I grew up, and now I have the answer... and its NOT molecular biology. Sorry, but the scientists kept complaining about being OVERWORKED and UNDERPAID.

I'm running awaaaaaaaaay..

Rivali! :)

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

Saturday, January 12, 2008

12:50 am

Hello.

Its one o' clock at night and here I am, blogging. For no reason. I don't know, I've been feeling down since school ended around two. Kill me noooww :(

Okay, don't.
I have better things to do. But blogging isn't really one of them right now. LOADS of HILARIOUS things have happened this second week, and I'll post all the quotes and stories up soon, yeah?

For the sake of preventing this post from becoming some random emo thing, I shall talk about what I did during the holidays. See, HOLIDAYS= TIME= DOING THINGS YOU LOVE= HAPPINESS.
And I love drawing and painting. It may be kind of sucky compared to the art girls and all but thats what you get when you want to take art lessons, realise your mom won't allow that since its your O-level year, curse yourself for not doing it last year, and wait feverishly for the damn O's to be over. I'm just happy I got to do some stuff in the holidays, though I wish it were a year long affair, even if its this year, O-levels and all. Anyway, these are two of the paintings I got to do during the hols......

Acrylic-on-canvas.
(ignore the green blob in the middle)

This was a panoramic view, so I split it into two when I took the photo. The one below is the whole thing.

Watercolour.

Goodbye! I shall go to sleep now. I've been dreaming of a Faerie-cat alot lately. I wonder what that means?
Rivali.

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

Saturday, January 05, 2008

8:03 pm

Hi! I've decided that, instead of posting one superr long post every two weeks, I shall make my posts shorter, but blog more frequently.

So, the new school year has started, though I can't say I got to see much of school. On thursday, I started getting a really runny nose, and by the time I got home, it had progressed to a full-blown cold with a bitch of a headache. And sinus. I hate sinus. I shall call my new physics teacher sinus.
Anyway, I couldn't go to school yesterday. Not that I really mind. I remember in lower sec, it was like "Oh no, I'll miss out on all the crazyness in 1D/2E!" But in upper sec its like, blahh, whatever, lets die so we won't have to take O-levels..

Speaking of new teachers...

For English, we have Ms. Chuah! Yippee! More time to sleep/ draw/ throw stapler bullets at random people in class. I mean, English is more of practice, and listening to teachers lecture us on adverbs isnt exactly helpful, so I think that the best kind of English teacher to have is one you can really have fun with (ahh, fond memories of 2e surface- throwing fake cockroaches at Mr. Low and forcing Mr. Seow to answer weird questions... ), or a teacher that doesn't notice even when people are taking gulps of whiskey in her class (coughYankacough). Fortunately for 4e, we've been blessed with the latter, so here's to more drunk people in our class!

For E Math and A Math, we still have Mrs. Tee. She's quite nice, though Emaths can be a bit TEE-dious. Okay, lame joke. I love A Math though I don't see the point in it. Actually, I don't see the point in any of the subjects we're taking, but Cassandra would beg to differ, right? HAHA.

For Bio, we still have Ms. Lau. Poor thing, when she first walked into class, everyone noticed that she had done something to her hair, so we were all like "Oh, so she's not wearing a wig!" Her hair actually moved with her during that lesson, so the wig theory is out. Unfortch, me, Hilary, and a couple of other people kept on giggling for no reason, and I think she thought the class was a bit weird (or drunk, when it comes to- oh, nevermind). And she told us "4e, you know, last year you all were a very playful class- not that there's anything wrong with that- but please, I hope you've realized that its your O-levels this year." Don't worry, Ms. Lau, I'm sure there are people in 4e who'll pass the Bio O-levels. Like Lydia.. and Cassandra.. .and..er.... urm...er...

For Chem, its Limmy! She looked as tortured as ever when trying to explain redox reactions to us. Poor Limmy. I think she'd love to throw some of us straight outta that window. But I like Chem, so I pay attention in class generally. Though Amanda Soo would probably have some sarcastic retort to that...

For Physics we have.... SINUS. Didn't I say I'd call her that? Guess who she is..
a) She taught me in Sec 1.
b) She'd confiscate books I was reading under the table almost every lesson and give them back after she'd made sure I had to pay like a gazillion dollars worth of library fines.
c) Su-lyn despises _______ (refer to a certain story a few posts ago)
d) She wears sneakers and blue socks with white clouds on them. Paired with an A-line, knee length skirt. Pfffft.
After all of this, I can't exactly name her, because I'd get murdered by Salad, so you can ask me if you're interested.

Me: (sadly) Amrit, guess who my physics teacher is.
Amrit: Ms.... Bong?
Me: No! Ms. Bong teaches lit!
Amrit: Then who the hell is it? That old teacher you hated?
Me: No.. Its Ms. ___.
Amrit: WHAT? She taught us in Sec 1 right? GAWD HELP YOU! I'm sorry uh, Rivali, but I have to tell you -really sorry about it- but you're going to uh fail your physics O-levels and uh (blah blah)...
Me: (gritting my teeth) Thanks. Amrit. Kaur.

For Lit, we have Mrs. Thomsett! I think the majority of us are really happy about this. And I'm thinking back to sec 1, and I realised that I seriously had no reason to dislike Mrs. Thomsett then. Oh well. At lest I've realised that. :S We had our first lit lesson on thursday and though we didn't get started on the play, it was really interesting. Like there are groups and points and competitions. Last year, there was one session in January where the students became the teachers or something, and for the rest of the year, we just had to listen and take notes which is really really boring. Think: Edna mode, but there's no guarantee you'll even pass the subject, which many didn't, and by the way, I did by less than one percent. So, anyway, lit looks quite promising.

For Geog, its a new teacher called Mrs. Chan. She looks strict, but she has a lot of experience. Poor Tham Tham, I thinks she's celebrating the fact that she's not teaching us anymore.

For Social Studies, its Mrs. Chen. The class is TERRIFIED of her, though she seems quite nice. Like, on thursday, someone yelled "Mrs. Chen is coming!" and everyone rushed to their desks and sat down, with their social studies books on their desks. There was pin drop silence when she entered the class. Its a huge contrast to last years social studies, which was more fun though. But I really can't judge from the first lesson.

Oh, speaking of SS, MEERA "FO'SHIZZLE" RAJAH has managed to extract, from her new social studies teacher, on the very first lesson, the answer to a question she has been dying to know for months- "When is Mr. Seow coming back?" Yep, the answer is February, apparently, and Meera has been dancing around yelling the news to everybody. "Naw," she insisted, "I SO am not looking forward to it." But the light shining in her eyes, and the drool trailing from from her mouth to the floor tells a different story, y'all.

Multivitamin- Mineral formula.
Rivali

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

Thursday, January 03, 2008

6:43 pm

Happy Birthday, Amrit!

My dear best friend,
thanks for being one of the only ones who can cheer me up when I'm irreversibly depressed. I know there've been some kinks in our friendship in Sec 2, but we've sorted it all out, and I'm happy we have. Thanks for being the only one who can listen to me bitch about people for hours, and add in snide remarks to make it funnier. Thanks for telling me horrible racist jokes (which I dutifully pass on to Su-lyn) and making my life 10x funnier. Now, moving on to the things that make you a good person. . . . . Hah, just joking.
Though we're in different schools, you've been a great support when I came to some ~~godforsaken~~ Sec3/4 class, had to watch as horrible things that had happened in primary school replayed themselves all over again, got depressed (and didn't know why, like just now), etc. We've been best friends for three years now, and that's a 'f*cking long time, hoe' as you would say. And I hope we'll be best friends for many more f*cking years too, though that's probably not a very endearing way to express it....
Love, Rivali.

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

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

8:51 pm

Hey. Or as Deanna would say- "Hello wello jello."
I was just wondering whether all our teachers would be the same next year..

1)For English, I'm trying to spread the rumour that Edna Mode is dead, but no one except Su-lyn and Amrit agreed to help me. :(
2) For E and A maths, Mrs. Tee is still teaching us, so yay! cuz she's a great teacher and form teacher. :)
3) I hope Ms. Lau still teaches us Bio even though she keeps scolding me for sleeping in class (I'll try not to this year!). And also because I'd rather not have another certain teacher who allegedly got a nose job and draws whale boobs (I kid you not) on the board during class. LOL.
4) Mrs. Lim too, cuz she's a great Chem teacher.
5) I heard Mr. Yeong's gone. Awww, he looked like a teddy bear...Though everyone spent more time asleep in his Physics lessons, I think we all secretly tried to stay awake- but failed. I just hope Ms. Cheong- sorry, I meant Satan- doesn't return to take his place. Cuz I will be D-E-A-D if that happens.
6) For Lit. Erm.. er.. er.. hmmm.. If you're from 3E and you take full lit, you will be very happy to hear that Ms. Bong is back again... Erm, remind me of our class average for Lit again? :( Boo.
7) For Geog, I think Ms. Tham is the only Geog teacher, is it? Well, she's a good teacher anyway. But after getting A's for all the tests this year, I failed Geog EOYs. And after failing almost every single Social Studies test this year, I get an eighty-something, one of the highest in class. But combined together, the marks evened out.Le sigh... Anyways, Ms. Tham's probably not looking forward to having me and Sotong back in her class next year. We used to plan our future trek around the world using the map found at the back of our Geog books.

Me: Do you wanna trek through Ethiopia?
Xing Yi: Yeah.. but we could skip Rwanda and-
Me: ..And make our way to Egypt?
Xing Yi: (tracing our path along the map) So, we start at Madagascar, then we go up Africa, and-
Ms. Tham: (standing behind us) Girls, please! What are you doing?
Me and Sotong: Uh oh..
Ms. Tham: (shakes her head and walks away)
Me: So, where were we?
Xing Yi: Yeah, so we make our way up Africa...

8) For social studies, Mr. Seow is still away on course (Meera stop crying), and the MG website says that our new co-form is some Ms. Chia. Huiling was saying something about her being ulu. Only time (9 hours that is) will tell...

Muffin. <3

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

1:13 am

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

"New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions."- Mark Twain

" The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. "- P.J. O'Rourke

"New Year's Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." - Mark Twain

"New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive." - Jay Leno

New Year's Resolutions for Idiots:

1)Read less books. A little learning is a dangerous thing. Too much of it can really wreck your head.
2)Gain weight, at least 40 pounds. Didn't your mom always say you were bit skinny.
3)Cut down on exercise. Too much is bad for your health, it can even kill you.
4)Watch more TV. It's very educational. Catch up on all those programs you missed down the years.
5)Draw up a list of people who were nasty to you in the past year, get your own back on them in the next year!
6)Drink more. Wasn't it Benjamin Franklin who said, beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. So be happy.
7) Eat more nice things like candy, Big Macs, popcorn and ice cream. Eat less crap like fresh fruit, vegetables and soy nuts.
8)Work less. Take it easy. All work and no play can make you a dull boy or girl.
9)Play more computer games. Scientists say they're good for you and improve your visual skills. But you always knew that.
10)Take up some worthwhile new habit, like smoking - it helps keep tobacco workers in jobs.
11) Resolve to work with neglected children. (your own).
12) Balance your checkbook. (on your nose).

And sorry, but I cheated on this one. I had prepared this post in advance so I could just click the 'publish post' button and return to the party. But hey, its the thought that counts riiiiight? Yeah. So, Happy Hew Year! And remember, I hereby declare that the 16th of every month is Muffin Day!

Love, Rivali

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