hellooo I said I'd reply the tags! so here I am, finally got to use the computer from home whee. ahh I've been cut away from the cyberworld for 2 whole days, so I shall grab hold of every opportunity to blog from now on. so don't freak out if I have the class comp all to myself like every single day, haha

anyways, from all the nice tags that I got, I think I shouldn't brood over my block test results anymore! since there's a high chance that the rest of the unreturned papers were not very well done either. (I'm not being negative here!)

well I guess I should see this block test as a valuable lesson, because it's really a reflection of the amount of effort I put in and all that. think of it another way, if I got excellent Maths and Chinese grades this time instead, I might have thought that things are ok just the way they were, and that I'm good enough and that I'm fully prepared for whatever that's coming my way. Seeeee complacency is bad!

on the other hand, although the tests weren't very well done, at least I've got a clear picture of my weakpoints and everything now, so I know where I should work on. so.. this block test is sort of like something that stimulates me to better myself academically?

and I know I'm not someone who can actually maintain this positive "must study hard from now on!" attitude for long periods because of numerous past experiences which included me giving up and reverting back to my old self halfway, but I'm still going to give it a go anyways. I promise I'll try very very hard this time!

okok after all the ramblings, tag replies finally(:

ian: yup wireless! yay haha although now it's restricted to weekends only. sort of. :\

chenyi: HAHA I didn't look at your cousin at all! I recognized you right away, you looked like a muffinnnn haha! and the blog was simply gayness! your faultttt haha :D

ZOY BEAN / xy: I'm NOT zoybeaaan. you're zinny zinc. ahemmmmm that 156 thing was a coincidence! I know you miss him, though. it's okay, we understand! so don't worry about it 8)

quin: HELLOOOO :D

huifang & beef: yo! I'm not an evil pig! I'm so nice ok (: and huifang I was right beside you when you tagged that! hahaha. what ghostly presence huh elizabeth! haha

deborah: I may study hard, but I don't study SMART, so studying very very hard in a stupid way is actually useless if you think about it, so yup I shall learn to study smart (:

alina: HELLO ALINAAAAA (: thankyou! raaaahh I don't study hard at all ok, I didn't do my best for this block test at all and I feel very bad! but anyways thanks and you jiayou toooo!

melissa: hahaha, I think I'd want my life to be one of both achievements and without regrets! so I need to learn how to "study hard and play hard" so I can get a balance, because most of the time I'm only "playing hard".. I was still slacking about one day before the block tests! but nevermind, thankyouuu (: yup the la mian soup attitude, I shall psycho myself and make real efforts to fall in love with studying, and I believe I'll see the real 'joy' in it very soon!

beef: yup I've also wondered about it, like why do we need to know all the complicated maths concepts if we don't really get to apply them in our daily lives (maths sabbatical haha!) in future? we're not gonna become maths professionals anw. but I think I should see it as a 'requirement', like you NEED this good score to get promoted, it's a part of education, so if it's required, then I should try to do my best in it and do whatever I can to meet this requirement. after all it's part of the score that determines which college you go to and all that career stuff.. so yup, thankyou too! (:

Y!YAN: hello yan! haha yup, 90% recovered already, just some occasional coughs here and there. you recovered right! yay you did recover before me :D loves!

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before I go, just to share something our LA teacher gave us a few days ago. it's Romeo and Juliet written in simply hilarious modern day slang by Mike Harden! you may have seen this before, but it's just for a few good laughs.

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This is like a real super-sad play about this dude Romeo and this dudette Juliet. They had names like that 'cause it was like the real old days, before MTV. So, no one had cool names like Heather or Brandon or Shawna. They all had really geeky names like Benvolio and Tybalt and Mercutio.

Anyway, these two families, see, the Montagues and Capulets, really hate each other. I mean, they can't even walk down the street without thrashing on each other, 'cause, like, that's what happens right at the beginning.

This dude, Sampson, who works for old man Capulet, he sees this other dude, Abraham, who hangs with Montague, and he bites his thumb. I mean, like, Sampson bites his own thumb, not Abraham's thumb, which in the old days was like saying "Your mama!" And Abraham says, "Are you dissing me?" So they start beating down. But it gets broken up before anybody's really messed, you know. And the Prince—he's like the principal of this whole town—he says, "Yo, next time you people get in each other's face, I'm gonna twist someone's head around so their cap's on straight."

So then Juliet's old man decides he's going to have this party. But he has to send this servant out to tell everybody, 'cause, like, they didn't even have phones then. But this servant is like dyslexic or something, and he can't make out the names on the list, so he, like, stops someone to help him read it. Duh! It's Romeo.

So Romeo looks at the list, and there's all these names of dweebs freaks, jocks, stoners, nerds, goobs and motorheads. But then he sees Rosaline's name. She's this chick he thinks is really fly, so he decides to crash the party, which is like, easy, see, 'cause it's a masquerade party.

Meanwhile, Juliet's mom, she's trying to fix Juliet up with this guy named Paris. Is that a dorky name or what? I mean, I thought Dweezil arid Moon Unit were weird. But Paris? I guess he's lucky he wasn't born in, like, Fort Wayne.

Romeo goes to the party even though he's totally bummed because he loves Rosaline and thinks she, like, doesn't love him. But Romeo's homey, Mercutio, tells him, like, "Chill. Just go. Party down. There's going to be some fly babes there."

So Romeo gets to the party and starts checking out the chicks. He sees Juliet and he goes, "Who is that babe?'' And she goes, "Who is that hunk?" Which is bad, see, 'cause, like, Shakespeare already said they got "fatal loins," whatever that means and they're "star crossed," which means both of them are Aquarians, I think.

But that don't stop them. So Romeo starts hitting on her, and they hold hands for a while and, like, he goes, "O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do." And he kisses her, and it's, like, super-rad, I mean totally awesome for both of them. But then Juliet's nurse pulls her away, 'cause, like, in the old days they really had a cow if they caught you sucking face.

Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, sees that Romeo is trying to ease in on a Capulet, even though he's a Montague, so Tyb says, "Yo, hand me that sword." But Juliet's dad says, "Be cool."

Then it's curfew or something 'cause everybody has to leave, but when Romeo is heading for his pad, he says, "Check it out, dudes, I'm gonna bail," and he jumps over this big fence into Juliet's yard. He's like creepin' in the trees and he looks up at Juliet's bedroom and goes, "Who left that light on?" or something like that, and she goes, "O, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" And it's like, duh, 'cause he's standing right under her balcony. But maybe, like, she took her contacts out to go to bed.

So he goes, "Do you want to get married?" and she goes, "Yeah." So they do...only in secret.

But then, like, right after this, Juliet's pushy cousin Tybalt shows up again and starts getting in Romeo's face. See, he don't know they're married 'cause he didn't get an invitation or nothing. And, like, he should be happy, because he didn't have to buy an electric can opener or anything. He wants to kill Romeo. But Romeo won't fight him, so Tybalt jumps in Mercutio's face, and him and Mercutio start thrashing on each other. Mercutio gets killed, So Romeo kills Tybalt, which is, like, dumb, cause now him and Juliet ain't gonna get any wedding presents.

Then the Prince exiles Romeo, which is, like, being grounded but like in a whole nother state or something.

So Romeo and Juliet have to split for a while. Juliet goes, "O, think'st thou we shall ever meet again?" 'cause, like, some guys act like they like you a bunch at school but then they never call you up. You know?

Romeo leaves and Juliet is really bummin' cause her old man wants her to marry Paris. Duh! She's already married. But her parents are still planning a wedding, so it looks like she's going to get an electric can opener one way or another, or maybe even a microwave. But then this priest guy gives Juliet this stuff to drink so that everyone will think she's, like, dead until Romeo can get back from being grounded. But this stuff is so good that everybody thinks she really is dead, and they put her in this tomb thing, you know.

Then Romeo dreams Juliet has found him dead, and even though he's grounded in another state, he says, "Later. I'm outta here." He takes off to see Juliet, but he stops, like at a drugstore, for some poison. So he misses this letter that the priest sent that Says, "Juliet isn't dead. She's, like, sleeping."

But then Romeo sees Juliet and he goes, "Ah, dear Juliet, why art thou yet so fair?" 'cause, you know, if she was dead she ought to be green and starting to smell funny. And that totally bums him, so he takes the poison. Duh! Then you'll never guess this part. She wakes up and sees Romeo and goes, "O happy dagger!" and kills herself.

I mean, are these people serious or what?

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goodnight, people, don't sleep too late. sleep early so you can wake up early to make good use of the upcoming weekends! (:

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