I found a book! :D

Cocktail making is better than baking, well at least for me, since I have no oven at home. besides after that fiasco last year Christmas while baking with Rachel and friends, I shall never do baking unless its is absolutely necessary. But I like DIY. oh oh I would really want those cocktail cups. I think they're really nice. And I need a cocktail shaker, I cant use a blender right, it'll be like so heavy to carry.

gin and tonic

Ingredients
4 cubes ice
2 fluid ounces tonic water
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1 lime wedge

I decided to take breaks from my studying. :)

I'm really happy about something when I checked my mail like 5 minutes ago! wahaha. totally just made my day when I read it. okay its not something good to others, but I thought it was really excellent for me! hmm hmm.

I was called from Chapel today to help the teachers at some photo shoot. carrying fans. haha. grace fong and yiling, our new cover page models :D

xoxo, astrid.

I know this is random, but I really want a book on mixing cocktails or mocktails, since its not legal for me to drink yet. heh.

any books to recommend? Life of Pi is getting on my nerves. theres like, no plot. oh well. maybe I dont read deep enough.

umm, study hard everyone! one more week. arghh. so irritating.

xoxo, astrid.

These few days I've been so stressed. Its because of midyears. Everyone says I'm the most relaxed, but I do have a breaking point too.

(i) Its taking a toll on everyone's health. Mel's sick, we get headaches in school, everyone is coming down with "conjunctivitis". not really la, its just that our eyes are somehow itchy and sore and red all day. Its really annoying. Half of the time I cant open my eyes fully and I recently found this really prominent arteriole in my eye that is red and ends in a grey tiny clot. I hope its nothing serious. My sister says I'm mad. I think I'm hallucinating too. argh.

(ii) We still havent finished our syllabus. The teachers keep teaching, the students keep studying and guess what, its just 1 more week to midyears. Then we still have tests in the week. Doooode, give us some time to study for our midyears please?!

(iii) I've like 359105719075 things that I havent finished revising. And, I am NOT prepared for Midyears.

Most of all,

I DONT WANT TO TAKE O LEVELS MIDYEARS.

yesterday while realising that I forgot to study for E Math test I was like :O
I tried to think of ways how to stop the teachers from continuing to stress us and how to make next week a study holiday. Like, we could jump down. Its only the 2nd storey, we wont die. And we could put those really soft gym mats or something. If no one wants to, I volunteer myself. I'll just treat it like some Trust Fall activity, hahaha.

I dont want to go to school anymore next week. Yeah right, as if I can pon school and get away with it.

If only...

never mind.

Back to study, back to torturing my brain, back to bad health, back to being stressed,

This is Sec 4 life.

I promise myself to sleep early today so that tomorrow I can study hard for Bio SPA and HCL exam.

xoxo, astrid.

GEL - Excellence

some pictures of our "musical", thanks credits to Marisa! :D

Oh man I was so happy when we got 1st okay! After all that practice we did. We were like doing it for our own entertainment. After Total Defence I think 4G is like, immune to embarrassment. hahaha. I hope the video is uploaded! heh. after GEL on Friday we did our item again :D

This just reminded me that this is probably the last GEL thing that our class will ever do again. :( I'd just hate to say goodbye after this year ends.

Prefects Party was really fun! :D will upload pictures soon, haha. We had this popcorn machine and a hotdog machine and chocolate fondue oh man so goooooood :)

I want to watch Project A!! (not the Jacky Cheung movie) I saw it at a video shop at Jurong East just now and I really really want to get the whole series but then I have no time to watch it. aww man.

Today's worship in church really went well. I really like the 2nd keyboard now. I used to really dislike changing sounds but then after I got used to it for one song I can have up to 3 changes :) Im trying to be more experimental in my sounds. I hope I'm improving... I'm hopeless at 1st keys.

Fast songs can use Sync Pads/Choir
Rock Organ is nice

Message by Dean Kuan was very good. The closer you are to God, the more conscious you are of your unrighteousness. We all need to come back to the light and walk with God again.

Your Grace is Sufficient
Your grace is sufficient for me
Your strength is made perfect
When I am weak
All that I cling to I lay at your feet
Your grace is sufficient for me

Its a really nice song especially when you look at the lyrics. I realised that like, sometimes when you sing songs you dont look at the lyrics, but the lyrics are always the most important? haha. oh well.

I bought another Spongebob waterbottle again. I'm like collecting all of them or something, hahaha. :)

xoxo, astrid.

I went through 1 hour of depression today after Physics Spa. sounds so bad right? haha actually the whole thing wasnt that bad, it was just that something made me very depressed. 1 hour of depression sounds like the name for some show. oh well.

Then we performed our Gel Jingle twice for Laoshi and Miss Tan. I'm very proud of 4G's Jingle! I think its really really good. Yesterday we practised in the Auditorium for 2 hours :D

My shuqing essay today is very funny. I tried to feel very emo so I could write a good piece but I have a feeling my essay is all a bunch of mushy things.

My posts are getting shorter and shorter. It seems like my life is quite boring. hmm.

Oh yeah I've been eating quite alot these days. Im like stuffing myself with food. Thats not good. I have no time to go running so I shall do sit-ups at home.

Midyears is coming and I'm so unprepared, AHHHH! I declare that we should call the week before midyears a holiday. at least we get to be prepared right! ahhh.

mystery, mysterious.

xoxo, astrid.