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大家好。我叫李艳萍。我现在度假。我很 bored 到我想学写和读华语。一天学一点，then I will be less sien.

Sincerely,

Banana

Back with a Brand New Track

Hi baby :D I know you're reading. I love you sweet cheeks.

Alaaaaa

Aku malas lah....

Sunway!!!

College.... so many beautiful people. Hahaha....

Gosh....I still wake up at 6am to go for classes! I thought the 6am phase would be over once I'm out of school.

FACT: College toilets are much better than school's.

FICTION: College life is easy. (I'm not finding it easy!)

FACT: It's freer here in college.

FACT: Loads of cute guys and girls here.

FICTION: Easy to hook up!! (I'm only limited to the ones in my class since class schedule is so packed)

Ahem... hehehehe

Postcard Frenzy Pt 2

Look some more...

Postcard Frenzy

It's been some time since I last posted THE namecards... but really, I haven't been collecting any nice cards these days...

I love postcards though! Here are some cute white postcards I have in my collection. I guess it's the contrast between the white space and the subject that makes the postcard stand out more than the usual full-colour ones.

Neway, cut the yapping, on to the looking!!







Sorry for the bad photography!!!

Lollipop Style

I am very proud to introduce you to

LOLLIPOP STYLE

A trendy, stylish, modern fashion shopping blog created by my friend, Lynn!!!

(Atta girl!!! You rock!)

Go check it out, people. Great stuff there at even greater prices.
http://www.lollipopstyles.blogspot.com/

You won't even need to hit the stores anymore after you've visited Lollipop Style!

Bad Romance vs Poker Face

Maybe not everyone would agree with me, but I have an opinion.

Bad Romance sounds abit like Poker Face.

Okay, not exactly a ground-breaking or Nobel prize-winning revelation, but just thought I would like to share. I'll back up my statement with a juxtaposition of the lyrics.

Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
Roma-roma-mamaa!
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)

I want your ugly
I want your disease
I want your everything
As long as it's free
I want your love
(Love-love-love I want your love)

I wanna hold em' like they do in Texas Plays
Fold em' let em' hit me raise it baby stay with me (I love it)
Luck and intuition play the cards with Spades to start
And after he's been hooked I'll play the one that's on his heart

You know that I want you
And you know that I need you
I want it bad, your bad romance

Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh,
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got

I want your love and
I want your revenge
You and me could write a bad romance
(Oh-oh-oh--oh-oooh! )
I want your love and
All your lovers' revenge
You and me could write a bad romance

Can't read my,
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)
Can't read my
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got to love nobody)

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh-oooh-oh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance

Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh,
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got

Try sing it and hear it for yourself :D

Holiday To-Do

Since I've got a preeeety short break.

1. Learn to drive
2. Get a bigger, badder internet connection
3. Fix broken computer
4. Recompile CDs
5. Cut hair (done)
6. Register for college (done)
7. Get laptop
8. REALLY quit biting nails (susahlah)
9. New shoes, clothes, stuff (burst my budget for December)
10. Finish unfinished business
11. Complete abandoned jigsaw puzzle (50%)
12. Sort through books (done)
13. Sleep (doing it everyday)
14. Eat, sleep, dream, fart (see above bracket)
15. Prom dress (done)
16. Grow INWARDS! Not sideways or forward. Boobs excluded though.
17. Brush up Chinese
18. Do insurance blabla
19. Play, play, play PSP
20. Have sex?

I'll save the last for later larrrr okay?

Chemi Chem Chem

Chemistry Paper 3 experiment was a bit tricky. Too easy that it felt tricky. Is it thaaaaat easy? Is it a trick question?

Oh, I messed up the colour for the universal indicator. As it gets more acidic, the colour becomes redder.

Mine was the other way round. Whoops.

4 marks gone gua...


I'm gonna go to college! Whooopee!! I'm a freshman on 6th Jan!!!

Aaadum.

I'm addicted to Adam Lambert's If I Had You.


Yeah babe! You know that it's time for miracles!

OMG!!!

My Kunci Kira-Kira not balanced!!!

I can still remember saying to Wye Hong, "Hwaa...shit man, this paper damn hard. Thank God I'm not from Taman Sea."

(The paper mentioned was Taman Sea's accounts trial papers)

CRAP!!! SPM was as hard as that paper!!!

Some more I left out my Pemiutang... of all things to leave out! They're one the most friggin important people in the world of Form 5 Accounts and I left them out in the cold!!!

Fafafafafafafa....ck.

Oreo guilt

Oreo count since last post: 5
Twiggies count: 2


My mum bought 2 more packets of Oreo today, as a present for getting over Biology. She was from Arts stream back in the 1970s, so perhaps she didn't learn that:

When blood glucose level is high, insulin secreted by islet cells in the pancreas stimulates liver cells and muscle cells to break down glucose during respiration and convert glucose to glycogen to be stored in the liver, and ADIPOSE TISSUE TO CONVERT EXCESS GLUCOSE TO FAT!!!!

So now I know where the Oreos went.

Bio was okay. Didn't do my best, some crap flew out of my brain last minute, but overall okay. Hope the experiment hits the spot!!!!


Hah tembak, tembak!!!

Adam and Kris

I'm proud to announce that I haven't had an Oreo since the last post!

By the way, Kris Allen and Adam Lambert have released their albums one week from each other, so there's bound to be loads of comparison, right?


I've given each album a first listen, and shit, I really can't decide which stands out better. If it's edgy that you want, go for Glambert, who no offense, looks really blerrhh on the cover. Dude, are you a long-lost relative of Cher here?

Edgy yes, with thumping dance beats and electro synths zipping zapping about and his trademark guttural squeal-yell-shout-scream-bellow-WAAAAA.... , it's really hard to NOT tell that it's Adam Lambert turning it up for our ears. But I can't stop myself from having images of La Roux popping up in my head with every song? There's a notable similarity, because their stuff generally comprises dance pop numbers with retro influences.

Then there's the Ryan Tedder-penned song, which had me going "HAH!!" at the first listen without even referring to writing credits on Wikipedia.

Tedder has REALLY got to diversify his writing chops. I've been keeping a log of sound-alike Ryan tunes in my head since Halo... and it's relentlessly growing, I tell you.

Back to Lamby...

What we have here is a very sexed-up, pulsing, dance record. Sort of like a male Lady Gaga playing along to Maroon 5 lyrics. It's undeniably catchy, light-hearted at some point, sexually-charged ALL THE WAY but after song 6, I found it a tad too overbearing. One thing for sure, Adam doesn't hold back. Good or not, I'll tell you after Listen #7 (average number of spins for me to get acclimated to a whole album).

Kris, on the other hand, had chosen an overenthusiastically optimistic Live Like You're Dying as his first single (oh wait, second...No Boundaries, remember?). It is the first single anyway, since he unceremoniously dumped No Boundaries from the tracklist (No Hardfeelings DioGuardi!).

The first time I heard Live Like You're Dying, I swore I thought it was The Script. Like, crap The Script is tryna be Ryan Tedder, recycling the same songs again and again. Kris' delivery was so spot-on The Script. The voice, the intonation, the rambling, the soulful squeal-ish style of reaching the high notes. It was not until I Googled 'Kris Allen' to find out that oh, it was The Script who wrote the song.

So, if you're looking to start your music career on a solid ground, pick songwriters who don't sing, or don't write the same tune over and over again.


Kris Allen's album is easier to digest, thankfully. Very boppy, earthy, laidback - that's the first impression. I'll tell you more about it when I've reached Listen #5, cuz this one's baby food, easy to swallow (easy to puke? Hopefully not). It's more relatable to me, since I'm into singer-songwriter type of music (yeahhh boriiiiiing) and I know that I'll be recommending some of the songs to my sister. In terms of first impression, Kris' definitely bags it. For Your Entertainment sends a tiny jolt to your system, which is good for being memorable, but Kris' Kris Allen scores for likability.

This is written based on my FIRST spin of the albums. So basically I'm writing based on the very sparse snippets of melodies and lyrics I can recollect. Unfair, but in a world of MP3 gadgets and MTV, songs are devoured separately, singled out if catchy, trashed if otherwise.

So really, it's not that unfair. Back to Bio reference book now!

Ermm

I uhh... think SPM is making me fat?

I mean, all those hours studying and dreaming... boring kan? So I'd be popping in an Oreo or two, or three... and downing Nescafe or Milo...

Oh gosh...I refuse to get fat over SPM!!!

I know I'm already on the heavy side. So no more Oreos for me. Sobs...

Yay!! BM Over!!

Trivia:
1. 5 out of 6 people I asked woke up waaaaay before they were supposed to.
2. Having only 20 people sitting evenly apart in a classroom feels odd.
3. SPM question paper is really nice and smooth. The paper. Not the questions.
4. Everything is printed so very nicely, unlike the trials where I had to squint my eyes off.

Okay I know, brainless trivia.

BM BM... bee amm... bahasa melayu... bahasa malaysia...

It was really fun. Karangan was fun. KOMSAS was fun. Rumusan was fun. Novel was fun.

Tatabahasa no fun. I think I'm gonna do badly in this whole section. Great. There goes A+. Get A also damn happy di.

Sob sob sob...so hard!!!

Sejarah was okay. Could have done better, but kalau sudah ditakdirkan, biarlah...
Very important nugget to anyone reading (if...there's anyone)

DON'T FECKING CHANGE THE ANSWER YOU TEMBAK!!!

98% the first answer you tembak is correct. Seriously. After 5 years of tembaking correctly but itchy fingers go change to wrong answer, you guess I should have learnt from my mistakes and DON'T TOUCH THE TEMBAKED QUESTION but hey... it happened again.

3 FECKING TIMES. Very painful, very painful indeed.

Takpelah. My mom asks me to stop thinking about it. What to do, I kiasu... now I'm blogging about it some more.

Waiting...

I'll be really frank.

I can't wait to get out of school and go to college.

I can't frickin wait to get a car, even if it's an old Wira with a cranky clutch.

I can't wait to get P1 wimax and download all the shows I'm dying to watch.

I can't wait for SPM to be over.

I can't wait to be EIGHTEEN.

I can't wait to see how the SCOUT PAGE will turn out in this year's school mag.

I can't wait for sooooooo many things.

Gee..but really, WHY am I WAITING? Why am I NOT DOING?

Gotta trust my absorbent brain not to leak out any facts that I've so painfully stored. 2 years worth of shit, 2 weeks worth of hand ache and butt pain, then 1 whole month of FREEDOM then it's BACK TO THE SADDLE AGAIN!!! Get your sweet ass to college, Yen Peng. Intake's 4th January (FUCK!!!).

Randomness

Did you know?

There are a number of Macs in our Sejarah syllabus, namely Sir Harold MacMichael, Gerald MacBryan, Sir Malcolm MacDonald.

Malcolm MacDonald is also the name of a famous English footballer. (Yes, I googled it to check the spelling and whoa...footballer?)

Malcolm MacDonald was the son of British Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald.

Malcolm MacDonald is also a music critic, writing books about music.

Cool huh?

And don't you find it odd that tragic deaths of 12-year olds have been dominating the Star headlines for a few days now?

And why does Beyonce prefer going to Abu Dhabi than to come to Malaysia? What does this imply on Malaysia's policy towards foreign artists?

Is it possible that we all might have to go to Singapore just to watch foreign acts perform in the future?

Coming nearer and nearer...

Eeks long time no online...shall not remind myself how soon SPM is.

I'm having a lot of fun with Sejarah.

Eargh. 9 December.... 9 December... 9 December...Someone should invent a time machine that allows us to "skip" time. Just zoom through SPM and yeah, it's the 9th of December now. Fuss-free, no drama, just the perfect way to get away.

Too bad that's not the way things should go.

Reminiscing

Doesn't it feel so good to come to school just to laugh your ass off? Even in the thick of exams?

Thanks guys, for making me laugh everyday. And I hope I make you laugh too. Though for the wrong reasons.


Will miss those raucous guffaws when I leave school.

Oh gosh, all throughout my secondary school years I have been waiting to leave school and go to college, and now that I'm almost out of the school's gates, I don't want to leave.

And as much as I dreaded coming to Samad five years ago, I actually grew to love the school. Though it meant giving up certain opportunities (eg public speaking/debate clubs, the wah-you-from-Assunta respect, continuing the rich Assuntarian legacy of my family's female members, GOOD canteen FOOD, etc), I really love the chillax atmosphere of Samad, the tidak-apa attitude, the lax discipline, the very little homework, the spoon-feeding, the fact that Samadians are more serious with their koko instead of academics.

It's a lovely Samadian world of our own, protected by the ugliness of the real world.

Trials are over, means there's only one more boundary to cross before crossing the gates to pre-U. And damn, don't it look scary.

SPM - spam, SPERM?!