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I is high on happy!

Found my iPod found it found it! I found it on my Xiaomin corner table this morning. Someone had put it there. I thought it was my housekeeper at first but then realized that my mother had borrowed my bag; so had taken out everything from the bag and placed it on the table. Including the iPod.

Funny thing is that I SWEAR I rootled through that bag at least four times in search of that iPod and I never found it inside.

I loves my mommy.

I has my iPod back!

And man I love teaching I love it. How lucky am I that I found something I love to do? I hope I keep loving it for the rest of my life.

I WATCHED IT FIRST I WATCHED IT FIRST!

Xiaobin gave me a great great pressie today :) We had our favorite dishes at Fish & Co and then…we went to catch Harry Potter on total impulse - we didn’t think we’d actually get tickets on short notice BUT WE DID WE DID AT LIDO WOO! THANKS BIN THANKS THANKS SO MUCH :D :D :D

But…the movie wasn’t great.

:(

SPOILER ALERT. Don’t read past this if you don’t want me to spoil the movie for you. Oh what the hell. The movie’s already spoilt, and not by me, but by a completely inefficient director and his incompetent screenwriters.

Actually, David Yates broke my frickin’ heart. The movie felt poorly constructed and rushed, like they were trying to get through all the specific plot points in a certain amount of time (i.e. not enough). The movie was hardly about the Order of the Phoenix; it should have been retitled ‘Harry Potter and the High Inquisitor’ because the movie was all about Dolores Umbridge.

Kreacher gets a two-scene cameo. Luna Lovegood was hardly loony (not a word from her about her father or anything really loopy, really), the kiss between Cho and Harry was brilliant but the rest of their relationship barely a blip on the radar. Grawp was an absolute teddy bear of a giant and not at all terrifying. Harry never got really upset about how he was being left out of everything (Ron and Hermione’s appointments as prefects have been cut out of the film).

In fact, Yates never made my emotions run high (except in the beginning; a delicious thrill and shock ran through me at the sudden appearance of the Dementors. I must say the movie started out very promising but degenerated rapidly into so much fluff) and the climaxes aren’t even worth mentioning because nothing rocked my world in this movie.

The Thestrals are beautiful yet when they ride on them to London, not one peep out of the rest of the gang about how THEY CAN’T EVEN BLOODY SEE THEIR MOUNTS, CAN THEY; Bellatrix Lestrange wasn’t given enough screen time because Helena Bonham-Carter could have done so much better. Cho is two-dimensional. The revelation that James Potter was actually a sneaky little bully back in Hogwarts is received by Harry by a perplexing amount of disinterest.

The prophecy gets about two seconds of screen time without anyone knowing quite why it’s so bloody important in the first place. Sirius’ death - eh, boring, and Harry doesn’t really look very upset. The movie ends abruptly and without any sense of closure, which didn’t really matter to me anymore because I was just feeling so bleh about the whole thing.

I did like some of the little sidenotes, like Ginny’s discernable jealousy when she turns back to watch Harry approach Cho, Ron’s jealousy when Grawp gives Hermione presents, and the interesting side headlines on the Daily Prophet.

Those and the fact that Daniel Radcliffe is all grown-up and purty now are the only plus points in the whole film.

Sigh.

That’s the sound of my heart breaking. They’ve done no justice to Rowling or the series and I’m just going to have to wait for my ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ and my owl plushie to repair the damage done.

Okay I have enough interested people! Hoho!

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You can tell I’m busy - last year on internship where I was happy taking two-hour lunch breaks I was blogging about twice or three times a day - now I barely have time to pick my butt up from the floor to blog at all.

I have lotsa photos! From Ying’s BBQ birthday thing! But I am also too tired to upload so wait awhile; I’ll get them up in a bit when I have time.

Jack and me went by the National Stadium tonight to take one last look at the grand old dame. Said my goodbyes and a prayer for Ishi; lots of precious memories at that place. Countless NDPs, military band competitions, Lions winning the Tiger Cup, etc… Felt a little sad thinking it’s going to get torn down but at least I got a last look at it before it’s destroyed (even if I didn’t manage to see KEWELL *SQUEE!* play in the grounds).

Been teaching quite a bit because my supe teacher is off giving O level English oral examinations so I get to take over the classes. I am quite annoyed with having to constantly confiscate rubber bands and also feel a bit guilty always scolding the same person for cutting up during class, because it’s his classmates that always tattle on him. Blah. Still, I’m really enjoying teaching and I’m glad I picked this.

And Mommy…thank you. For giving me peace of mind and your lovelovelove. I just wanted to make sure :) and it’s so good to know you’re proud of me. I always want to make you proud!

ANYWAY I have birthday parteeees this weekend yay!

And I got my elephant shelf from Jack! :D Thanks dear it’s pretty and I’m happy and my elephants fit! Aiyah screw the stupid wishlist lah anything you guys get I’ll be quite happy, just er Pea I don’t want mushroom bedroom slippers k :P

Okie yay bedtime. Feel like such a child - “It’s a school night, I have to go home early :/” roar! And sometimes feel a bit unglam with the rest of you guys talking about Mediacorpy stuff and PR stuff etc and feel like I’m just a kid teaching other kids…but it’s OK if I love my job right? You guys just have to keep me in the gossip loop…LIKE DID YOU KNOW THIS GAY ACTOR IS MARRIED TO THAT GAY ACTOR OMG SPASM I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THEY ARE GAY LAH SCANDAL OF THE YEAR!

Hehehehe all thanks to Miss Gossip Central aka I-have-no-quality-control-for-lame-jokes lah. You are the ultimate no one can win you. Heh.

OKAY SLEEP.

I can’t find my iPod.

I’m going to cry.

Free shipping worldwide for orders above US$30. One laptop sticker goes for only US$19.99 which is pretty decent so if anyone else wants, I don’t mind spree-ing for this. They have iPod stickers too but only for the video iPod; the website says that Nano podschtickers are coming in spring but uh isn’t it almost fall already? :/

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I’m just pissed off because it reflects badly on me - because I invited you to take part and because of our relationship.

Thanks a whole bunch to the rest who were well-behaved and professional and mature. I hope you guys enjoyed yourself and that it paid off for you! :)

Oh I am so exhausted. Don’t even have time to blog much anymore.

My eye rings are disgustingly dark. If Singapore Zoo needs a panda I think I can go audition.

So tired.

Fu: Sash wasn’t in heat then but NOW SHE IS and she’s driving me nuts again. That’s it. Next week she’s getting her womb removed.

Yawn.

Okay lah make things easier! Since so many people have been asking me about the wooden shelf…er ok I take it out because it’s hard to find one that I’ll really like. So never mind I’ll find that one myself but thanks boys for asking and trying :P

And added one! Because I’ve been lusting after those damn cute flats from Bata :P

1. A Liverpool jersey. I wear a kid’s size L, if I remember correctly. And I’d love the number 7 and BETH on the back :D
2. ‘The Wedding Officer’ by Anthony Capella, ‘Nineteen Minutes’ by Jodi Picoult, the latest novel by Khaled Hosseini (or Borders vouchers also can :D)
3. Manicure vouchers for The Good Earth Nail Spa
4. A pretty wrap or protective case thing for my iPod nano.
5. Little elephant statuettes that are just about small enough to fit into the hollow of your palm - about 2.5 - 3 inches across from trunk to tail. No more brown wooden ones please. :)
6. A pretty cardigan in black or brown.
7. Any one of these pairs of preeeeetty shoes from Bata - size 40! So cute!
   
   

Because I love National Day, Kit Chan, and most definitely Jimmy Ye, on whom I had the hugest crush on in primary school (I dreamed he was a prince who took me to his world, where I could fly and there were huge shopping bags floating in the sky that I could just take things from if I wanted - you can see where my priorities lay even when I was only 11 years old) but whom I now regretfully concede is a batter for the other team and who thus cannot participate (willingly) in the fulfillment of my dreams.

That was a long sentence.

I’ve walked the streets of Cairo & Bombay
I’ve seen the neon signs on old Broadway
I’ve climbed the Eiffel Tower
The Great Wall in one hour
Experience sweet and sour
But that’s OK
Seen Hollywood, the sunsets in LA
The London Bridge, Big Ben, The Thames, UK
I’ve crossed the River Kwai
Yet still I don’t know why
I think of you each night and every day

There’s no place I’d rather be
You’ll always be a part of me
And even though I’ve roamed the world
It’s still my home I long to see
This is where my family
And my friends grew up with me
So I’ll cross the skies and sail the seas
To be where I wanna be

There’s no place I’d rather be
You’ll always be a part of me
And even though I’ve roamed the world
It’s still my home I long to see
This is where my family
And my friends grew up with me
So I’ll cross the skies and sail the seas
To be where I wanna be

Cos there’s no place I’d rather be (more)