can I be a lazy perfectionist?

Just finished what I think/I hope/had better be the very very last version of JAM #3. Haha, even in the folder “FINAL DESIGNS .PDF” I’ve got three subfolders, “One”, “Two” and “Three” because it seems like whenever we’ve finalised something there’ll still be stuff to edit. Grah.

So C:\Zi Yan\Church Stuff\JAM!\July 09 is 4.79GB big and contains 295 Files, 23 Folders. Created Monday, March 16, 2009, 1:23:49 PM. Okay haha doesn’t sound too impressive but tell me it’s a lot for a 32-page magazine! Hahaha.

Okay I’m tired, was supposed to sleep 3 hours ago. Byeeee.

philippians chapter one verse six

Today’s verse of the day:

Philippians 1:6 (New International Version)
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

or,

Philippians 1:6 (The Message)
There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears.

Well it seems I’m not too stressed out or anything now, and there’s no crisis or I don’t feel troubled or anything. But I hope this verse would serve as a reminder whenever anyone’s feeling really tired, that if God had put you to a good work He’d carry it on to completion. Not sure if that’s the context of the verse but anyhow it’s encouraging I guess. :)

after eleven hours of sleep, I’m still tired.

Just two days ago I was doing the Application Question in Issues and Ideas; how Asians benefit from the increased intermingling between Eastern and Western cultures or something like that. One of the takeaway points was that Asians are no longer looked upon with double standards, something like how this guy’s not just the best Asian English author, but how he’s the best English author, that’s that.

And well today when my dad told me that Ice Age 3’s animator is a Singaporean, I was wondering if it still applies. I mean, what’s so surprising that the animator is Singaporean? Is it any different than when the animator’s American or something? Why is it that when someone awes that the animator is Singaporean, there’s this tinge of meaning behind it that Singaporeans are less likely to make it big, and that’s why there’s an extra honour if you’re Singaporean and an animator of a big movie? Well I asked my dad that, and he said it is so because there’re less opportunities for us in places like America. After all, Dreamworks is a big studio and company and whatnot. Anyhow, I don’t know if my point is valid or if it’s even making sense, but if it is that I guess the benefits from intermingling the two cultures aren’t showing through as they were in the article, heh.

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Yesterdayyyy. After that break during which I last blogged, there was PW lesson which was totally slack-ish because the whole class except Cai Tong, Kim Yung, Jia Hua and me left the classroom to do EOM/PIP/whatever. So yeah ct ky and I just stoned around and laughed about in the classroom, it was pretty fun and nice. :)

Then there was Math Lecture; we went through the answer scheme for the Math paper. I really really tried not to doze off, and it took much effort to remain awake for at least 45 minutes of the time (the lecture lasted for around 50 minutes). Haha. There was Math Tutorial after that; Mr Loo returned us our scriptssss. Well I was expecting a 20/100 or something so I’m quite glad I didn’t get that, but to look on the whole I’m still below average and one of the lowest scorers in my class and all so I think there’s a severe need to work harder. =/ Bet I’ll forget that last line in 5 minutes. Haha.

CT Session was Class Contact Time, which was pretty alright I guess. And then school (finally) ended!

Comm meeting @ Salt Centre, outside the band room because we couldn’t get keys lol. Anyway I thought it was pretty neat, as in the meeting had a fixed agenda and went rather efficiently/on task/little sidetracking and all if you ask me. The meeting lasted 2 hours, with little sidetracking. That’s quite a bit of content ha. Which reminds me of how I’m still uncertain about the funds and all >( Haven’t had band prac in forever, I miss the random jammings especially.

Then it was home for dinner. Reached home at 8, had dinner/stoned till 9, bathed/lazed around (I’m seriously evolving into a pig) till 10, watched the television till 11, sleptttttttttttt till 10am. Wth lah I thought I’d sleep early to wake up early gah gah gah. Weirdly it didn’t feel too good to sleep in. Haha.

No combined today! Brass prac laterrrrr. :)

caitong says hi.

Hello I’m at the library now and I’m so tired. Slept at 3am this morning and it isn’t even the latest I’ve slept (it’s quite early for a late night actually) but I really had troubles waking up this morning and all. >(

Bioooo lectureeeee first thing in the morning; our cohord got lectured at. Haha, but anyway we’ve started on a new set of notes. Transcription and Translation stuff, heh the lecturer seems rather nice. :) Had problems keeping awake though, as usual.

GP was next, some stuff about new media and all. Pretty interesting if you ask me; some stuff never occurred to me before. Ha.

Okay after all this typing I’m still tired and I can’t wait to go home to sleep/play Sims 3/sleep. Haha bye.

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I’m so tired Idk why, I’m looking forward to the moment my head lands on the pillow.

But on a brighter note I’ve just finished Issues and Ideasssss.
And on a side note I must say I haven’t been satisfied with my stalking abilities recently, until today hahahaa. It helps when your target has quite high a profile. Haha okay I’m sprouting rubbish already, bye bye bye bye bye.

eyecandy

I’m drained.

If I sleep now (highly possible to happen at this moment) I’ll probably not wake up till tomorrow and thus lose all hopes of completing Issues and Ideas and whatnot tonight, so I mustn’t sleep now, but argh.

Today was the first day of school after those E-learning days; first day of lessons after more than a month. Reached school nearing 7 and lessons started at 750, so had quite a lot of time to stone in the morning.

In all PW remained the same (which means we get to do other work during the lesson), Chem remained the same (which means it’s still scarily amusing during the lesson) and Bio remained the same (except there was less copying today). 2 hours break, we went to high school to have lunchhhhh. First time we reached back to college side within an hour haha. Spent the next hour stoning in Fishtank, talking about storybooks we read as kids. Haha, Mr Men & Little Miss! And The Magic Tree House andddd Peter and Jane (lol) and all that. Val came and we went to the band room (urgh lock number changed again! >() and wrote on Mr Lee’s hugeee and really cute card before leaving for CCAB… In a cab! Haha. We were too lazy to bus down and walk all the way, through the track and all so we crossed the overhead bridge and cabbed down. :)

Prac was alright, but I’m seriously not improving at all. Not a single bit in pitching and in tone. I really know I was better in Sec 4, not like I was really good or anything then but I’m really bad now, sometimes I just feel like giving up because I know I’ll probably almost never make it to SNYO and all. And wth, everytime we’re asked to play individually (like, even just a tuning note) I’ll be nervous and all. Oh my goodness I don’t deserve to be in SNYS wth.

But we changed and then went to Suntec anywayyy, warmed up and had soundcheck and all and had foood hahaha and then stoned around before the actual thing. It was the 9th World Convention of the International Confederation of Principals or something. It was cool how there were people from all over the world, and apparently they said “see you in Toronto” at the end of the conference, man. Oh which reminds me of how Ros is at London now, ahh I want. :(

So much for that. Went back to CCAB and dad fetched after that. :) I’m tired I’m tireddd.

schoool blueesssss

Hello I’m feeling horribly lazy;

Lazy to go to school tomorrow morning,
Lazy to pack my bag wth! So long since I packed my bag for a proper school day and must remember to bring gown/heels/horn/whatnot because there’s performance tmrrrrrr.
Lazy to do Bio Tutorial; when Jason asked if I finished all my e-learning homework I happily said Yes, except Math. Wthhhh I forgot about this. And Issues and Ideas. But technically these aren’t e-learning homework haha.
Lazy to… I don’t know. I’m a pig lah, I keep eating oh my goodness damn fatttt. >(

But well holidays ended on a good note I guess (how can holidays ever end on a good note?). Went for SYF Band Presentation with HCHorns! Heh I was rushing like mad, I brisk walked all the way to Esplanade, took 6 minutes I think! Is that fast! Yes right. Hahaha. Halfway while walking past New York New York I was wondering if I missed the turn to Esplanade lol.

Met hornsssss and we went in and well frankly speaking I think Secondary School bands impress me more than JC bands do. Sure, the latter are definitely not lacking in terms of each individual’s competency, but as a band on the whole it seems as though secondary school bands make a more conscious effort to blend in together. Haha, personal opinion. I liked TKGS’ performance, Chai and Irene thought Xinmin did well but I think I lost concentration already oops.

SCHOOL TOMORROW :(

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Hello so I slept at 5 this morning, don’t ask me why I don’t know either!

Well I guess halfway through the night/morning I felt guilty so I decided to start on Vectors, and lost track of time on Fictionpress and all. And I wasn’t feeling tired anyway; the only reason why I went to bed is because I was afraid either of my parents would wake up (of which happened when I was about to go to my room, wth.) heh.

So I’ve pretty much got quite a bit left to do, no Sims today until I finish!

Byeee.

1, 2, 3, 4

Cheesy, but so sweet anyway. :)
Esp. that last line of subtitles heh.

Plain White T’s – 1, 2, 3, 4

1 2, 1 2 3 4-
Give me more lovin’ than I’ve ever had,
Make it all better when I’m feelin’ sad,
Tell me that I’m special even when I know I’m not,
Make it feel good when I hurt so bad, Barely gettin’ mad,
I’m so glad I found you; I love bein’ around you.

You make it easy, it’s easy as 1, 2- 1, 2, 3, 4
There’s only 1 thing 2 do 3 words 4 you- (I love you) I love you
There’s only 1 way 2 say those 3 words and that’s what I’ll do-(I love you)
I love you.

Give me more lovin’ from the very start,
Piece me back together when I fall apart,
Tell things you never even tell your closest friends-
Make it feel good when I hurt so bad, Best I that I’ve had,
I’m so glad I found you, I love bein’ around you.

You make it easy, it’s easy as 1, 2- 1, 2, 3, 4
There’s only 1 thing 2 do 3 words 4 you- (I love you) I love you
There’s only 1 way 2 say those 3 words and that’s what I’ll do- (I love you)
I love you.
(I love you) I love you.

You make it easy, it’s easy as 1, 2- 1, 2, 3, 4
There’s only 1 thing 2 do 3 words 4 you- (I love you) I love you
There’s only 1 way 2 say those 3 words and that’s what I’ll do-(I love you)
I love you.

the seventh night of july

If I hadn’t seen Val’s MSN personal message I would’ve forgotten that it’s the seventh night of July tonight. Haha I still don’t know the significance of this night (and am lazy to google it/whatever) but the significance of this piece is rather great, I guess. NYCB played it for SYF in 2005 when I was a Sec 1. We played it again… Did we play for any of the concerts? I’m not sure/forgot/don’t think so, but we played it for Noel ‘08 too. :D Haha I like the piece a lot!

Okay so today I woke up at 650+ and played The Sims 3 till 4+ or something. Heh I got rather frustrated at some point of time because of the switching of active household, causing loss of items in the inventory and such. Haha stupid stuff lah. And it’s kinda time-consuming and not really fulfilling playing The Sims, as I’d figured out ever since I wasted so much time on The Sims 2 in the previous years. I still don’t know what I like in the game, oh well I guess it’s just an addiction or something. S:

Napped for a bit, went to White Sands, had Sakae Sushi (yes, once again) for dinner :D :D Haha yum. Didn’t eat as much as the other day with Dee/ZP/Belle but enjoyed the food anyway, I like the salmon mango temaki thingum. :D

PW-ed when I returned home, it’s so boring rah I should get started on e-learning assignments soon. After my shower, bye.