CNY Edition blog : Part 1

Groundnut cookies.

All in all, can be categorised as a success. Groundnut cookies are easy to make. Just buy all the ready ingredients from the market, mix evenly and divide into little balls. Use cooking brush to gloss egg yolk over the top, then put in oven at 180 for 20 mins per tray. Can't go wrong.

However, my Grandmother and I had extremely conflicting ideas on how to apply egg yolk to the cookies. She thought (and still thinks) it was better to apply egg yolk all around the cookies. I thought it was better to just apply a little bit of yolk on top. She won that fight.

But just so I could get the last word in, I made three groundnut cookies a little 'differently'- one triangle shaped one, one square one and one that looked like the leaning tower of Pisa. Then when she was looking away, I put said three cookies on the tray and shoved tray into the oven. Needless to say, my Grandma was not happy.

Woohoo!

SPM is over!!

Finally, all that we've been waiting for for 5 years has passed.. And though I feel relieved, I feel weird as well... Its like, I have nothing to do except have fun now... Until college, that is... Today i found out that my job is gonna start in January.. So its fun fun fun til the end of December... :)

Puppies

As some of you know, my parents and I found some stray puppies and their mother at this shack-like area in Air Itam. We took pity on them cause their bodies were all mangy and they were all extremely thin(like, I-can-see-your-ribs thin). Since the shack is only a 5 minutes drive away from our house, we decided to go there 3-4 times a week to feed them and give them water.

The mother dog is thin and weak. Her puppies are all very young, probably only a few weeks old. I didn't want to call the SPCA because I know that if there wasn't enough space for them then they'd all be put to sleep, and I didn't want to be the person who brought that on. Anyhow, these puppies are so small, so cute, tottering about aimlessley, sometimes falling over for no reason at all (like Kelly). But unlike Kelly, they haven't been walking for long.. xD Sorry Kel.

The fact that they were born into a life like this just tears at me, but they don't seem affected at all. They're innocent. The other day, I caught one sleeping right smack in the middle of the road. Luckily, there were no cars and I managed to pick it up and carry it to safety. They play around and eat when we bring them food. When all the food is finished, they nip at each other and try to cajole their mother out to play with them. They're so happy and carefree, but imagine how tough life actually is for them.

It makes me think. Here we are, we have food, clothes, a roof over our heads, air-conditioners(I'm speaking for myself here), Playstations(I know most of you have this) and Ipods/MP3s(yes, most of you have this too). AND YET, we ask for more. More money, more things more bladebladebla. We aren't happy until we get all the material wealth that we want. How superficial it all seems, compared to the scenario I presented above, where hungry puppies just want someone to play with them.

Its sad that from 4 puppies now only 2 are left (I dunno where the other two went) but I really want to protect them from all bad influences. I can't, though. And I really wish they weren't born to suffer like this. But everything happens for a reason, I guess...

The car

As most people know it, there has only been one thing and one thing I have talked about recently, the stupid car. Because of this car, I have not been able to go out this whole week even though I planned NOT to stay at home a lot.

The car broke down on Thursday while my dad was fetching me back from Gurney. Luckily Sabs and Kel didn't follow me back, else we'd be stuck near Union High School in the pouring rain. My dad couldn't do anything about the car, cuz the rain was so heavy and he couldn't get out of the car to see what was wrong. So he decided to step on the clutch plate over and over again. Thankfully, after 15 minutes the car decided to move again. The journey back, to me, was the longest journey home ever. I kept worrying about the fact that the car may break down at any time and we'd be stranded in the rain. Luckily it didn't.

The next day (Friday) my dad sent it to the mechanic. He promised to have it repaired by 10 pm but then later he said he didn't have the parts and we had to wait until after raya before he could ask his supplier to send the parts he needed. So that was it. Monday and Tuesday = whole family grounded at home. Thanks to Sabs and her parents though, I got to go out on Tuesday while my parents stayed at home. (I feel so special) On Wednesday, my mum had to hitch a ride from her friend to go to work. My dad went out to get the car back( the workshop is just outside our house) but then the mechanic told us that the highway was packed and so the supply truck would not be arriving until 12 midnight. ( Meaning that we would only get our car back on Thursday). My dad was starting to get irritated but what could he do, right?

Yesterday, my dad went out to check on the car again. Now the mechanic told him that after repairing the car, he found something else that had spoilt or whatever. So, he said he needed another day to import the other part that was needed to repair the car and fix it. Hence, it is Friday and I am still grounded at home involuntarily. I feel sick to my stomach thinking of the fact that I've been having dinner at the same coffee shop (outside my house) for the past five nights, and will continue to do so tonight and maybe tomorrow night, if the car isn't repaired by then. I'm going to die of boredom!!!!

Okay, I've finished ranting now. You may stop reading, else I'm sure you'll die of boredom too.

My birthday

This year is the first time where my birthday falls on an exam day. Therefore, as predicted, it went by pretty uneventfully. I'm not going to name the people who wished me like Kelly did, but it doesn't mean I don't remember who you are. I have your names on a list stuck to my room door. (Everything that's important to me is stuck on my room door)

I would like to say thanks to everyone who got me a present. You know who you are. And this year, I was initiated into the 'My Little Pony' collector's gang, with a cute purple pony named Cherilee. Hahahaha, I know what you're thinking. XD

My parents got me an ice cream cake from Maxim's cake house. Delicious, but sinfully fattening. It was tiramisu with a HUUUUUUGGGGEEEE dollop of ice cream (i dunno what flavour but it wasn't tiramisu) right smack in the middle of it. Yum yum. Sorry I didn't offer any to you people, my dad finished it. (It was really good)

What I'm thinking about right now is the fact that SPM trials are OVER!!!!!! So freaking fun. It's the last, school based exam ever! (I say this because SPM itself is a government exam and isn't school-based). Of course, I promised myself that I would keep studying exams or not, so I'm going to try my very very best to stick to my promise. (TRY)

Hahahaz!. Tata for now.

Whoosh

Whoosh.. A flurry of events. Its the holidays again. And in about 11 days time, all the Fifth Formers of SGGS will be sitting for the SPM trial examinations. So while everybody else is going about enjoying htier holidays, we , the fifth formers, are stuck at home, studying. But it isn't because we aren't allowed to go out, cause I sure as hell am allowed to, its because, we only have 11 days to study.. 11 subjects.(this is me) AND we feel guilty that we haven't started with our revision, we KNOW that we should have started a long time ago, but we didn't. Why didn't we? Well, cause we're lazy-ass teens, and last-minute is our motto. In fact, if we ever do anything NOT last minute, the sky really is falling(go out and check). I don't ever recall myself studying for exams a couple of months in advance, I don't even recall studying for exams ONE month in advance. The only way I know how to study is : cram a week before exams. And that's exactly what's gonna happen now.

But then again, the reality is that SPM IS dawning on us. (yes, fifth formers, SPM is near. Less than 100 days now) o_O ( i know) .. And I know that cramming 7 days before SPM is NOT going to work. And I also know that SPM is the LAST exam I'll be taking before I leave secondary school. I know that SPM is my ticket to a good college, a good university. I KNOW all of that. And I DO want to do well.. But I just have no MOJO yo...

Everytime someone mentions the words SPM I think back to the start of form five, where everything was possible. I didn't do too well in form 4 but hey, maybe in form five i can score straight As... Then my hopes came crashing in the form of my report card, 12 As (incl. PJ and civics) BUT 1 C.. Stupid, stupid C (add math of course). Now I don't hate add math, but why oh why can't i do well?? And now I've gotten As for my three sciences, but will I be able to maintain that A? Not confident.. But I have faith.. In prayers. (Pray, pray, pray, pray) Lololz..

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Hang in There

When danger seems to lurk ahead
And everyone leaves you behind
Just hang in there

When people start to judge you
In your most trying times
Just hang in there

When all your dreams
Seem to fall apart at the seams
And you have no plan B
Just hang in there

When your friends don't understand you
Or don't even try to
When irritation seems to surface ever so often
Hang in there baby!

When its time to leave
To part ways
When goodbye really feels like its going to be forever
And you can't breathe
Hang in there
Smile and wave

Just hang in there
And take deep breaths
Cause tomorrow has to come someday
And maybe then everything will be all right....