My life is complete

The album came in a few weeks ago, but the poster came in about a week later. Nonetheless, I'm super duper contented about it. 

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Sooooooo, I finally signed myself up for drumming lessons at MyDrumSchool because I wanted to drum and get in touch with the drums again. 

After attending the first lesson which is on the 11 Feb (right smack in the mid of my exams), it's pretty good! The place was unexpectedly small though. The photos from the site made my expectations high and to be honest, I kind of inspected the area before entering as I thought I've gotten the wrong location. Also, the studio was just big enough for 2 drumsets but it works well with me. Anyway, for the first lesson, I got in touch with rudiments like paradiddle and some other rudiments I've never seen before, while playing patterns with the base drum and hi-hat. Some co-ordination problem there. 

(I used a scanner as my phone's camera sucks)

Also, I got to know more about the genre gospel and it's pretty cool! But that's pretty much it, since I can only afford 30 minutes per lesson. All in all, I look forward to my next lesson! Hahaha. 
Oh, and on my way back, I got myself some beauty products. I've no idea how am I gonna squeeze out time to take care of my skin but I guess it's better to start early, right?


On the day of my last paper which is 13 Feb, Shu Fei and I had a shopping date and we went to invade 313 Somerset, H&M, Scape and Cineleisure. And we got lots of clothing from F21, passport cover from the underground haven (I don't know if this is the right word but whatever) of Scape, and a hearty meal from 18Chefs at Cineleisure. WOOHOO. It's a day well spent.

But I still didn't manage to get a pair of shoes for the new year. I need to get one asap. :/


On Valentine's Day, the family and I went to my aunt's house, as usual, for the Lunar New Year gathering aka Reunion Dinner aka Gramp's Birthday Celebration. 3-in-1, we're one efficient group of relatives. Anyway, my aunt's house has never fails to surprise me. For instance, the last time we visited, my cousin had this arcade machine built by himself in his room which is totally awesome btw.

So this time round, they bought a solowheel. No idea what is that? Here's a picture:

It's basically a unicycle but without the seat and pedal, so just a wheel and two platforms for your feet. It's powered by electricity and it works by leaning forward or backwards or even sideways to turn. It's super amazing and fun to move in. Everyone should try it if they can! 

I made a silly face. Don't judge me.

The one which I rode on had training wheels so it's safer and easier for beginners like me. Hahaha. My little cousin called me slow because I was still uncomfortable riding this wheel. -.- Anyway, we had steamboat for Reunion Dinner and I went exploring the backyard. There, it has 2 swings and a treehouse!

This is the treehouse, it's not all that big or fancy or comfy but it does have a hamlet and it's built on a tree. Good enough. After that, it's time for some fun with the arcade machine. Hehehehe. And I also got to try some champagne and ciders. 

But we missed out on the birthday celebration because we were busy hitting the buttons on the arcade machine. All well.

;)

Why

I feel so lost. I have no idea what should I do. 
What's happening?!

Oh my god. Help. 

Busy

I'm really busy these few days and probably still will be for the days to come. Tests and presentations are coming at me one after another so I didn't have time to update. What's more, I was terribly sick during the last weekend because of food poisoning and I vomitted 3 times a day, thus ending up with no time at all to post. Also, since I'm in the planning committee for the ES FBC this year, it's been eating up some time from me too. So this is just a quick update of my life. Bye. See you after the exams (which is after Friday the 13th). 

Meanwhile, I wanted to add screenshots because Youtube decided to give me the opening song of the old animated Spiderman cartoon series instead of the usual ads but apparently I can't even upload any pictures from my computer and I think it's Blogger's fault. 

So, I managed to upload pictures. Woohoo.

 Pretty sure a spider should have 8 legs though.

Woman

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Women are a balancing act

Don’t eat too much, don’t eat too little. Don’t be fat, don’t be too skinny. God do you ever stop eating? Woah do you ever eat? The not-so-well-concealed looks of disgust, the not-so-well-concealed looks of concern.

Don’t be loud. Don’t be quiet. Have a voice in society, leave the talking to the big boys. You want something, speak up! No, no, when it’s your turn, sweetie. Ugh, she never shuts up, it’s obnoxious. Have you ever heard her talk? I don’t even know what her voice sounds like.

Make sure your skirt is long enough, but not too long. Don’t make yourself too available, but you don’t want to look like a grandma. Show off what you got, but if you do it’s your fault if anything happens. Was your skirt long enough? How is any boy going to look at you if you wear that?

Have sex, but stay innocent. Give us what we want, but we hate sluts. Virgins are so sweet. What do you mean you want to stay abstinent until marriage? Do you even live in our society? Life without sex is boring. Life with sex is disgusting. God, have you seen her? She’s banged every guy in the school. God, have you seen her? Still a virgin at her age.

Be smart, but not too smart. Boys like a smarter girl. Boys can’t stand it when you know more than them. Play dumb. Ugh, not that dumb, god, weren’t you even listening? They like a smarter girl. No, no, now you just look like a nerd. Girls don’t belong in the classroom, they have to take care of the kids. You want a well-paying job? Take some incentive and study. You can’t slack off because you’re a girl.

Do what you love, but don’t. Be yourself, unless it goes against what we say. Do you love to do your hair and makeup? Great, you’re good to go. Approved. Do you love videogames and guns? You’re faking it. You’re lying. You’re pretending. You’re wrong

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Balancing Act. A little piece I wrote because I'm tired of walking on the beam. (via bigsisterelsa)

Seriously. Set yourself free from this cycle of disapproval. Men will have no choice but to come around. (via flowisaconstuct)

From Tumblr

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Tattoo

Never too old for Henna.

There's NP Open House from Thursday to Saturday and since I had INNOVA project meeting on Thursday morning, why not take a look around after we're done. Anyway, we had to do the powerpoint slides for INNOVA from scratch and as a result, we couldn't finish them, much less plan for what we need to say. Let's just pray for the best this coming Thursday.

After the meeting was over, Shu Fei and I went to tour around the school as her being a year younger than me and I'm her tour guide for the day. We went to OurSpace hoping we could take the free goodie bag but to no avail, they just had to check our ez-link cards. Thankfully the CC are giving free popcorn and cotton candy to everyone. Hahaha. Such cheapskates we are. 

*I went Tumblr-ing and I totally forgot I'm halfway through a blog post.*

Anyway, after getting the free food, we took the tour bus to the School of Engineering, SOE, and just have a look around. They were giving out free Kacang Puteh. Hehehe. Some of the booths are interesting such as controlling a virtual airplane (from AE or AT, I can't recall) and also playing with a remote-controlled car (from ME)! However, there are some booths which aren't entertaining at all. For example, our course's booth, there's a double pendulum displaying chaotic behaviour but I don't think the students would be really into stuffs like this. I mean, sure, it's what we do but I think we can also put up something more interactive with the audience and fun. All well. I think we visited almost all of the schools except for BA because we didn't have enough time. At the school of LSCT, they have Pills Making and Henna Tattooing (hence the Virgo sign at my wrist) and they also let out the lab-rats-kind-of-mice for us to just touch them. They're so soft, omg. We also visited the HS area and they let us use the stethoscope and listen to artificial heartbeats & breaths. And we walked around just looking through the other booths and avoiding lecturers who are trying to give us more details about their courses.

And on the last day of NP Open House, I had duty at the Convention Centre to entertain any queries about my course for 4 hours, no chairs available. 

At first I thought it would be cool answering questions regarding my course and give them some of my insights and views, but I didn't think that there would be this little amount of people enquiring about Engineering Science.  It's like for the 4 hours I'm here standing like a statue, there's only 5/6 people who've come to ask about ES. 

I was sooooooo lonelyyyyyyyyyy. Why won't more people come and ask about ES though. It's a young course with a name that sounds cool and two pretty girls modeled for this course, you know. I didn't know 4 hours could last this long. Just standing there, holding an engineering course book, and looking at all those teens and parents around me with other lecturers and students was what I did most of the time. What a way to spend my time. I could have been finishing up my INNOVA slides, research up on the Fourier Series for my EG2 project and fangirl over Jonghyun. On the bright side, I get paid for that. When it finally struck 16:00 on my phone, I'm getting outta there. I considered doing the NP cheer for the free T-shirt since Yub did ask me a favour but hell am I gonna cheer alone to get a free T-shirt for him. So I decided to get an iced Milo before I head home while thinking how useless I've been for 4 hours. 

But when I was about to reach the Poolside Canteen. . .

"Excuse me", called out someone from behind which then followed by a couple of footsteps. I turned around and saw a guy who's wearing geek specs with a Malay lady. 

"Do you know where's The Coffee Bean?" asked the guy.

"Oh, it's at Block 58."

"Erm, where's Block 58?"

'Ohh, they are probably potential NP students next semester', I thought to myself. 

"I can bring you there."

"Really?!"

"Yeah, this school's pretty big so you might get lost if you two were to walk around alone.", is what I would have said if I was in a better mood but since I wasn't, I just nodded and started leading them there. While on our way there, I asked them questions like
"Are you two waiting for your O Level results?"
"Do you have any courses in mind?"
"Are you two a couple?" (I was just really curious, okay. They look so cute together.)
And the lady wanted to go to Aerospace while the guy wanted to enter Hospitality. Also, it seems like there an Aerospace workshop going on at Block 58. No wonder they wanted to head there. 

"Well, Coffee Bean is just straight ahead so just continue walking and you'll find it."

"Oh! Thank you!"

"No problem." I said while I waved them good bye and proceed in the opposite direction.




"What's your name?"

I stopped, and turned, surprised by the sudden question. I stared at the both of them, thinking for a split second whether should I reveal my name to them and finally, I smiled lightly.

"Rou Shan."

"Oh, okay! Bye!"



I walked towards the Poolside Canteen to get my iced Milo as planned originally and

'Wow, I feel so much better now.' I thought as I subconsciously let out a slight grin. My steps felt lighter and I'm not looking down at the ground anymore. 


Why didn't I feel like this after answering their enquiries at the CC though? I was helping them also, wasn't I? 

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Yeah, I'm happy with the results. 

I'm MATURE yo.