I took this from Vanessa's blog. :D

Your view on yourself:
Other people find you very interesting, but you are really hiding your true self. Your friends love you because you are a good listener. They'll probably still love you if you learn to be yourself with them.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You are a true romantic. When you are in love, you will do anything and everything to keep your love true.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You are ready to commit as soon as you meet the right person. And you believe you will pretty much know as soon as you might that person.

The seriousness of your love:
Your have very sensible tactics when approaching the opposite sex. In many ways people find your straightforwardness attractive, so you will find yourself with plenty of dates.

Your views on education:
Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.

The right job for you:
You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success:
You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.

What are you most afraid of:
You are concerned about your image and the way others see you. This means that you try very hard to be accepted by other people. It's time for you to believe in who you are, not what you wear.

Who is your true self:
You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.

That's... pretty true. On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd say about 8 actually!

I really like the little guy. You should watch it based on that fact - because I like the machine. :D Don't you think he has the cutest, most expressive eyes?

Watched it with CChong yesterday, after our half day. I think I should take the chance to watch as many movies as possible in the next 1 year and 3 months of my life, since students get to watch at a cheaper price (approximately $4 less, which means I could buy a bag with the money save from watching 10 movies as a student). Then again, I only watch about 5-10 movies a year.

Promotional examinations coming up. Oh yay. I'm going back to reading Great Expectations for the third time. I sincerely hope you are better prepared than I am. (:

Image taken from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics).

Rachel is sad that the Olympics is over and that she will not get to come home everyday to watch some event or other on Starhub with her family in the living room. ): It was good while it lasted and the Closing Ceremony was great. :D

It's been awhile since I blogged... yet again. This is because I've been very conscientiously doing my homework (since last Tuesday) and I haven't actually been online for enjoyment since then. The only reason why I broke the internet fast today was because I had to do a Physics Online Quiz. Yes, I'll blame it on the quiz. (:

All the same, photos from last week's Colours Award and then some of my haircut! Who doesn't love photos right?

This is a dark one of Cherie and I right before we left her house. Couldn't use flash or the mirror would reflect. Cherie has a cool clock, no?


First photo of place. Diana looking at the programme.


Cherie and Avril! The sun was still up then. We waited 50 minutes before the thing started. Avril and I ate lots of peanuts on the way.


Nice, grand little ballroom. Ballroom B. Waiters/waitresses filing in the back.


Mr. Menon during his speech. Very natural. (:


VP doing his speech at the lectern. Not-so-natural.


Track girls singing.


Avril and Gimlim. Can't remember what she was giggling at.


Oh right, 5 people from Drama going on-stage to do a spoof of SYF.


She just looks retarded in this one. I think it was because Samarth was *cough* screwing up and she was so affected that she had to bite on the chopsticks.


That's a very, VERY earnest look for Cherie Chong. XD


Shooting people trying their VERY best to sing. I will always remember Akshay for his terrible rendition of "Ain't no MOOUNtain HIIIIIGHER!"


Another one of them.

Blurred because they kept moving about while singing. I have a video. It is a very amusing video. The only other person who has this video is Jolene as of yet. HAHA.


Drama SYF cast minus Shihui and I (acting cute).


Drama crew pretending to be superwomen!


Funny faces!


Avril and I. She obviously looks better. XD


Samarth the vampire feeding on Diana.


Oh, my orange juice! Heh.

So that's what I'm ending off with for Colours. I actually have at least 2 times more photos, but some of them are blurred (due to movement of the subjects) and others are just not very representative of anything that I want to say. I should steal photos from facebook. I like the ones where Gimlim goes "Fit! Fit!" and we all try to fit into the screen before the timer runs out. :D They turned out to be two of the best photos in the night (personal opinion).

And now for the haircut on Saturday with darling Chuyun. (:


That's her getting her haircut!


After my haircut. Yay me!

Head massages are great, by the way. They say that Arians like being touched on the head, so I suppose that much is true. Plus after all the shampoo(s) and conditioner(s) that they use, the hair ends up being three times smoother than usual. Considering that I don't have very rough hair, that's pretty cool.


That's Dexter (hairstylist!) with Chuyun. I think he looks like HZL.


Chuyun and I in the washroom after the haircut. I love taking photos right after haircuts. They turn out the best they could ever turn out.


This is just for comparison. Look at the length!


Look at the length again! I think I took off 6 months worth of hair. Don't particularly mind though. All that hair at the bottom was frizzing and fraying anyway.


Okay, so I was bordering on narcissistic after the haircut...

I have this one last photo of myself. It goes against ALL my values on phototaking so I'm not going to put it up here. You can uh... ask me for it if you like. (: Whether I give it to you is a different story. Hee.

Finished the book! :D

There it is, in all its glory. I like it very much. The twists were very interesting, some of which I absolutely didn't expect at all. When I figured out the part about Jacob's reason for staying in the 3rd section of the book before they stated it explicitly, I had a lot of fun laughing at it. 'Twas really amusing.

I also liked the circumstances under which Bella was transformed. While I was reading the first three books, I was wondering how this would be done and hoping that I would be satisfied by the outcome. I was. If it had been done any other way, it would have seemed somehow false, but that's just my opinion.

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I think I've been holding on to the Twilight Saga too tightly. It's a bit hard to let it go now that the series is over. Of course, I'd be reading Midnight Sun when it's out (Midnight Sun is Edward's version of Twilight), but that's just different. It's an interjection rather than a continuation. So anyway, I've been waking up to thoughts about Breaking Dawn, or the series in general (because I read Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse consecutively before reading Breaking Dawn). It's really as if I'm losing some part of me, which leaves a nice little burning hole of desire somewhere. From the looks feel of it, it's somewhere below the chest, above the stomach. It makes me feel as if I need to go into recluse.

This one's interesting. All the bands/singers you've heard of, not like.

I don't know why some are capitalized and others aren't. I'm not bothered enough to change them!

ALTERNATIVE

[x] weezer
[x] paramore
[x] panic! at the disco
[ ] october fall
[x] the academy is...
[ ] coheed and cambria
[ ] bayside
[x] yellowcard
[x] sugarcult
[x] the dresden dolls
[x] underOATH
TOTAL = 8

EMO
[x] hawthorne heights
[ ] halifax
[ ] forgive durden
[ ] from first to last
[x] senses fail
[x] something corporate
[ ] hit the lights
[ ] brighteyes
[x] simple plan
[ ] Dear whoever
[ ] saves the day
[x] matchbook romance
[ ] jamisonparker
[ ] houston calls
[x] the early november
TOTAL = 6

INDIE
[ ] the hush sound
[ ] eisley
[x] death cab for cutie
[x] dashboard confessional
[x] the killers
[ ] yeah yeah yeahs
[ ] hot hot heat
[x] the honorary title
[x] gym class heroes
[x] franz ferdinand
[x] modest mouse
[x] snow patrol
[ ] metric
[x] tegan and sara
[ ] the like
[ ] arcade fire
[x] the postal service
TOTAL= 10

POWERPOP/POP PUNK/PUNK
[x] hellogoodbye
[x] cute is what we aim for
[x] cartel
[x] the click five
[x] Fall Out Boy
[ ] lucky boys confusion
[x] good charlotte
[x] bowling for soup
[x] relient k
[ ] less than jake
[ ] the starting line
TOTAL = 8

POP
[x] teddy geiger
[x] ashlee simpson
[x] madonna
[x] avril lavigne
[x] pink
[x] daniel powter
[x] james blunt
[x] natasha bedingfield
[x] ryan cabrera
[x] the veronicas
TOTAL = 10

ROCK
[x] nirvana
[x] new found glory
[x] the all american rejects
[x] linkin park
[x] avenged sevenfold
[x] breaking benjamin
[x] my chemical romance
[ ] thrice
[x] anberlin
[x] brand new
[x] green day
[x] blink 182
TOTAL = 11

COUNTRY
[x] rascal flatts
[x] carrie underwood
[x] leanne rhymes
[x] garth brooks
[x] dixie chicks
[ ] kenny chesney
[ ] tim mcgraw
[x] faith hill
[ ] shania twain
[x] johnny cash
[ ] trace adkins
[ ] keith urban
TOTAL = 7

METAL
[ ] Disturbed
[x] Slipknot
[ ] chimaira
[x] Metallica
[x] Guns N Roses
[ ] lamb of god
[ ] Slayer
[ ] Fear Factory
[ ] hatebreed
[ ] Static X
[x] system of a down
TOTAL = 4

RAP
[x] ying yang twins
[ ] t.i.
[ ] paul wall
[ ] tupac
[x] jamie foxx
[x] ludacris
[x] lil jon
[x] 50 cent
[x] kanye west
[x] bow wow
TOTAL = 7

CLASSIC ROCK
[x] Led Zeppelin
[ ] Rush
[x] Pink Floyd
[x] The Beatles
[x] AC/DC
[x] Aerosmith
[ ] Journey
[x] The Who
[x] jimi hendrix
[ ] The Doors
[x] Rolling Stones
[x] Janis Joplin
[ ] Boston
[x] Queen
TOTAL= 10

81! That's not bad. :D

It was destined to be gone even before I started asking the question(s).

Shhh. No one knows this.

Not even you. (:

I went a little bit crazy over Death Note in the past 4 days. :D

I've finished all 37 anime episodes. Yes, it is possible to fall for anime characters, although the idea in itself is largely stupid since they're... well... drawings. All the same... :D Death Note! Anime... so unexpected for someone like me. O.o

I'll give you a few good shots of some of the characters.

There's one. Click to enlarge.

The one on the left is Yagami Light, the resident protagonist. The one on the right is L, his antagonist for the first arc. I'd give you more pictures, but I'm off to watch L: Change the WorLd on crunchyroll. (:

For the anime episodes, here's a link, if you feel like watching. Goes from Episode One all the way to Thirty-Seven. All with subtitles! You won't regret it, I swear. Except for those moments where you realise you really can't do anything else but watch the screen because you don't understand Japanese and can't depend on your auditory senses.

You do it because you bethink it noble.

Well, that takes away some of the nobility, doesn't it.

"We can't all be saints and martyrs".