The Toot Adventures

anagrammatic anagrams

2006-08-05T06:31:00.000-07:00

hello! many thanks to laiweng, my wonderful junior, for this. :D

Another mystery of the English Language:

ANAGRAMMATIC ANAGRAMS

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters: DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters: BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:MOON STARER

DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters: THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters: HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE :
When you rearrange the letters:HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters: IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters: LIES - LET'S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:IM A DOT IN PLACETHE

EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters: THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters: TWELVE PLUS ONE

MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:WOMAN HITLER

how interesting, don't you think? sure makes you wonder if "anagrammatic anagrams" is another anagram. =) actually, "anagrammatic anagrams" doen't make any more sense than bubbling bubbles, reactive reactions, or nutty nuts. in fact, something like nutty nuts make more sense than that since i have nuts surrounding me in class which don't taste nutty at all. in fact, they don't even come close to the peanut flavour.

And the irony of it all is that all these rambling makes me sound like a nut! and are you wondering about how nuts sound? i'm not a hollow nut, i assure you. my kernel's absolutely delectable.

well, i'm going all nutsy and almondy now! (you know it happens whenever i start inventing words such as almondy) i shall leave you wondering about nuts, the principle of relativity, and more assorted nuts. bye!

-jiaying

P.S. ANYONE FOR WASABI PEAS?

P.P.S. oh dear i am seriously going insane.

P.P.P.S. SOMEONE BRING ME BACK TO EARTH! *MAKES STRAGGLING SOUNDS*

P.P.P.P.S on an afterthought, please don't give this blog address to any mental institutions, i don't want to get the co-owner of the blog into any trouble. =D

P.P.P.P.P.S but if i really wanted to, i could just sign off as irene.. HAHA. this must be too much insanity for you, dear reader.

firsts

2006-07-01T05:15:00.000-07:00

A List of Firsts for Concert

Firsts for NYCO

This is the first time in the entire history of NYCO that:

1. We're performing in SCH
2. We sold out (and oversold) all Eight hundred and eighty-two tickets
3. We're playing a total of FOUR concertos
4. We're having THREE different conductors up on stage, one who is from our section =)
5. We're having a total of SIXTEEN items (we've never had so many)
6. And we're going to do extremely well and WOW our audience

Firsts for CELLOBASS

This is the first time in the entire history of CELLOBASS that:

1. We're performing as an ENSEMBLE! =) (seriously, this has never happened!)
2. And playing not just ONE, but TWO pieces, one western, one chinese
3. We have SEVEN whole minutes on stage to ourselves
4. You will see a carbon fibre cello bow and a black bow-haired bass bow on stage! (ok that's really random)
5. Our mascot, the beloved rabbit, will be backstage rooting for us!

Firsts for myself

This is the first time in my entire life that:

1. I'm performing in a NYCO concert
2. I'm sitting second row, outer desk in a performance
3. I'm having a solo (GAHHH)
4. I'm thinking about something every other minute
5. I've felt so stressed over something that i hope will last forever
6. I've felt truly happy i'm part of the music.

A QUOTE FOR ALL NYCO PEOPLE:

"You are the music while the music lasts." -T. S. Eliot

Julian Beever's Chalk Drawings

2006-06-18T21:16:00.000-07:00

JIAYING:

JULIAN BEEVER'S CHALK DRAWINGS

Julian Beever is an English artist who's famous for his art on the pavement of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium. His chalk drawings hold an amazing 3D illusion.

A nice bottle of coke lying in the street.

It looks as if the concrete bends into a puddle, but actually you can't touch it.. the pavement is flat afterall.

People are actually trying to avoid walking into the hole!

Taken from the right angle. Note that in reality his foot would be flat on the pavement.

Same drawing from the wrong angle.

Politicians meeting their end. *EVIL SMILE*

An interesting sphere with a banner saying MAKE POVERTY HISTORY! you can see someone standing at the "Top of The World". (he's actually flat on the pavement.)

Same drawing from the side. Apparently it's 40 feet long. (how long is that in metres?)

Where did the pavement GO? aha. and now, for my favourite...

2006-06-05T05:30:00.000-07:00

If you want to kill off time, click here

http://www.mostfungames.com/invasion-of-the-space-invaders-from-outer-space-episode-1.htm

ABSOLUTELY HILAROUS. and the funny music makes it all the more funny.

an interesting paradox

2006-05-30T07:10:00.000-07:00

JIAYING (irene, can you please update too? HUMPH.) :

AN INTERESTING PARADOX

This says "NO TOUCH" in Braille. haha! I love such paradoxes. ;)

i tried to find one that said "DO NOT TOUCH" but apparently there weren't any..

33 more days to CONCERT! O.o that's

792 hours

47520 minutes

and

2851200 seconds more to go!

*CLUTCHES AT THROAT AND MAKES STRANGLING NOISE*

JOHN WILLIAMS

2006-04-30T23:55:00.000-07:00

JIAYING:

ANNOUNCEMENT

Jiaying's vivaldi craze has just passed on to the.. JOHN WILLIAMS craze!
HAHA! Not to worry, i still love vivaldi to bits.

AH i still can't believe i'm so dumb, i never realized John Williams composed the Harry Potter 1-3 soundtracks. O.o

Anyway i'm calling for:

1) ALL HARRY POTTER 1-3 soundtracks
2) ALL STAR WARS soundtracks
3) i'm not sure about this, but maybe memoirs of the geisha soundtrack too. i don't remember the music being really that significant (as compared to the above few) when i watched the movie. O.o

here's my seriously lacking and holey list of songs i have so far (don't send me these, i already have them)

1) Love theme (*****)
2) Battle of the Heroes (****)
3) Hedwig's Theme (*****)

1 and 3 are my absolute favourites at the moment! (vivaldi's 4 seasons are at the top too!) it's really a short list, but 1 & 3 are really, really, really good. TRUST ME. They're songs which you can't listen to when you do homework because you get so distracted by it you just want to sit there like a rock and listen forever. John Williams is a genius.

If you want to hear them (or experience sitting like a rock), just tell me and i'll send them to you. :)

THE WISHLIST (it's just the desperate list, all other tracks are equally welcome)
1) Imperial March
2) I can't believe i don't remember the name, but it's the ultra famous STAR WARS theme song.
3) Leaving Hogwarts

If you currently own any John William pieces, please send me!
All songs sent will be greatly appreciated (or perhaps worshipped)

The Atom Assumption

2006-04-21T23:14:00.000-07:00

JIAYING:

The Atom Assumption
I'm feeling rather sick thinking about the atom now. Whenever I think about all the discoveries and theories that have branched out from the existence of the atom- subshells, half-lives, Van der wall's forces, ionic and covalent bonds and many, many, more, i feel sick to the stomach.

All these were based on the simple assumption that the atom exists.

And what if the atom never did exist?

I could practically imagine my thoughts right after the downfall of Chemistry, wondering about how mankind has put in SO much effort to analyze the atom over and over again, only to find out that the atom never existed in the first place.

It would definitely not be the first time Man had a downfall because he assumed too much.

I'm pretty sure i'm going to wonder about the stupidity of man, making a mistake at the very first step. And a fatal one too. It reminds me of building sky scrapers on a foundation of rotting wood.

And i would probably wonder about the power of man. It wouldn't be easy to spin false theories and discoveries out of nothing and persuade others to believe it so that they can pass it on to other people,

and in the end, trick the whole world.

Well, I'll be watching when all the chemistry students glance at their chemistry textbooks with disdain and throw them into the dustbin.

10 reasons why i didn't go to school

2006-04-07T22:21:00.000-07:00

JIAYING:

10 reasons why i didn't go to school
(directed at the teacher)

1. "I was happily enjoying my honey stars for breakfast, and then the ALIENS from the honey star commercial INVADED my home and STOLE my breakfast. Well, i certainly couldn't leave without my breakfast so i waited at home till lunch came."

2. "TERMITE INVASION! could you BELIEVE it? my books brought the first few termites in, and during the night they (the termites, not the books) FEASTED on the house, and when i woke up i found that my bedposts were gone! the wooden staircase was GONE too, so of course i couldn't get down the second floor to go to school."

3. "Actually the day started alright and i even helped my mum to make toast! THAT'S where everything went wrong, i stuffed 3 slices into each toaster slot and it was smoking for a few minutes until my daddy asked what the hell was- whoops- what on earth was burning up such a stink and then we had to douse the toaster with lots of water and by then it was too late to go to school!"

4. "It wasn't my fault in the first place, it was my brother! He was experimenting with vinegar and baking soda and he dumped a whole gallon of each onto the floor and it EXPLODED, leaving a gaping hole in the middle of the living room that stretched from one wall to the other. You could fit the highest mountain in the world- mount ever something- into it! and it conveniently blocked our way to the front door! how was i supposed to get out?"

5. "Someone left the tap running in the sink last night and when i opened the bathroom door, an enormous 30-FOOT wave swamped into my bedroom and i hurriedly clambered onto my bed and floated on that island till the fire men came and carried me out through the window!"

6. "My mum was baking blueberry muffins early in the morning, and when i woke up and smelt them, i felt so intoxicated that i fainted and flopped back into my bed dreaming about blueberry muffins! i believe you'll agree, such a beautiful dream should be of more importance than school."

7. "Early this morning i recieved a mysterious phone call! When i held the reciever really close to my ear, i could hear heavy breathing sounds! It spooked me out so much that i dropped the reciever, and froze right there on the chair till my mother came home and defroze me with her iron."

8. "I was drinking leftover 7-eleven slurpees this morning, and it caused such a horrible brainfreeze that i just couldn't think of anything other than how my brain was frozen! I couldn't even make it to school!"

9. "Well it looked as if it was going to rain this morning so i decided to bring my hello kitty umbrella out and just as i was about to leave, the umbrella POPPED open! I'm sure you know how much bad luck it is to open umbrellas at home, so i just couldn't leave the house."

10. "I was playing with my darts this morning and one of the darts flew off the target onto my school uniform and pinned it to the wardrobe DOOR! i tried everything to remove the dart (and the uniform), i really did, but no matter how i pulled, my uniform looked as if it would tear into tiny fragments! i couln't go to school with a torn and tattered uniform!"

Singlish vs English

2006-03-17T05:27:00.000-08:00

Jiaying:

hello! i've recieved a really funny email showing some examples between English (Queen's) and Singlish, and here it is. (this is from marcus! thanks)

note how more "economical" Singlish is as compared to English and how much better proper english sounds. hahahahahaha the Singlish examples are HILAROUS. XD

When going shopping...
English : I'm sorry, Sir, but we don't seem to have the sweater you want in your size, but if you give me a moment, I can call the other outlets for you.
S'poreans: No Stock!

When returning a call...
English : Hello, this is Mr Bean. Did anyone page me a few moments ago?
S'poreans: Hello, who page?

When someone is in the way...
English : Excuse me, I'd like to get by. Would you please make way?
S'poreans: Lai, siam! Or Siam, hor! Or Skius!

When someone offers to pay...
English : Hey, put your wallet away, this drink is on me.
S'poreans: no need lah

When asking for permission...
English : Excuse me, but do you think it would be possible for me to enter through this door?
S'poreans: (while pointing at door) Can pass or Not?

When asking to be excused...
English : If you would excuse me for a moment, I have to go to the gents/ladies. Carry on without me, it would only take a moment.
S'poreans: Go toilet. Buay tahan ahh.....

When doubting someone...
Britains : I don't recall you giving me the money.
S'poreans: Got meh?

When disagreeing on a topic of discussion...
Britains : Err. Tom, I have to stop you there. I understand where you're coming from, but I really have to disagree with what you said about the policy.
S'poreans: Talk cock lah you!

When asking someone to lower their voice...
Britains : Excuse me, but could you please lower your voice, I'm trying to concentrate over here. S'poreans: Eh, Tiam leh!

When asking someone if he/she knows you...
Britains : Excuse me, but I noticed you staring at me for some time. Do I know you?
S'poreans: See what see?! BUAY SONG AH

OBS

2006-03-11T07:59:00.000-08:00

Jiaying:
SHACKLETONS GO!

YAY we rock. our instructor florence rocks too!

306 + 315 = SHACKLETONS!

and F.Y.I, there's no spelling error there, it never was SLACKERTONS, and never were we the Slackers.

WAHAHAHAHA!

this camp has really bonded us from 306 with those from 315! the 315 people are so ON. XD

anyway livingstone's our wonderful buddy watch (note that THEY'RE the stoners XD)

and we're having lots of fun together with Hillary and Tenzing too!

306 = Shackletons, Hillary, Livingstone

and all 4 groups form MOBILE ROUND ISLAND! (a.k.a OBS extreme killer)

hmm i wonder why it's "round island" when we don't go round the whole island. haha! but thank god we didn't really go ROUND the WHOLE island.

OH YES OBS is sexist! i bet everyone noticed that all the groups are NAMED AFTER GUYS. (let me digress for a moment..) does anyone know where Cook comes from? is it James Cook? hmm there are quite a number of unfamiliar group names! Shall look up Amundsen later on.

Anyway poor irene couldn't go, and i agree with sars, it really was kind of weird without that tooty irene. Don't worry irene you can have a chance to go OBS in June with the debaters and basketballers! XD

OH DEAR my train of thought is hopping crazily from one topic to another! I better continue with OBS! well i guess most people talk about how OBS had changed their life but i don't really want to mention it here. What had impacted me would have been so much different from someone else's, and afterall, they're my experiences, and i don't think experiences are something that can be shared. Better to keep it to myself. XD

Anyway here are some dedications for the Shackletons (cum silly incidents that i want to remember) ! XD

Eunice (315):

only other 203-er! she was my belayer for the inverse tower, and she & yuhsuan (315) were our rescuers for the capsize drill. super enthu and energized sea ex leader. we're tent mates for all 4 nights. both of us and rebecca were on this rotation basis to decide who would sleep nearest to the outside of the tent (the nearer you are the higher the risk that you will get bitten by SANDFLIES first) , and on the 3rd night eun slept on the outside and dreamt that she was bitten by sandflies and in her dream she saw all the bites dotting her face when she looked into the mirror! HAHAHAHA! (this dream must have been influenced by florence's comment that that particular campsite had sandflies)

on the 4th day both of us woke up with swollen lips. (urghh!)

eun: arhh my libs are swollen! jiayig are your libs swollen?

jiaying: arhh my libs are swollen doo! i can't Pronouce the ledder "P" ProPerly withoud any Pain! Dere's a sausage on my lib!

since the obs instructors have been handling out quotations by the doleful, here's one quote from me: You treasure your lips only after you burn them.

Rebecca (306):

lalalala my other wonderful tentmate! loves to tease people when they ACCIDENTALLY stick circular mosquito patches with printed smiley faces on the seat of their track pants. (rebecca passes by blog and bursts into laughter) oh god, my face is still glowing (not from the sun burn) but from EMBARRASSEMENT over that STUPID sadistic sardonic smiley face. (note the alliteration!) and EVERYONE from my watch and hillary THOUGHT that i wanted to keep sandflies off my beloved butt (another alliteration. The aforementioned another alliteration is another alliteration and SO ON! XD).

well, i was wearing it the wrong way the last time i wore it and so the smiley ended the wrong way round when it was the right way round. (reader stares at blog confusedly) wait, is embarrassement spelled wrongly? it looks kind of weird. oh nevermind.

anyway we had loads of fun together! this is weird but i feel that we've drawn a whole lot closer during camp. XD and i agree about the shell picking, it's really sad that everyone takes home the shells and leaves the beaches empty and the sea organisms without homes. :(

Ollivia (315):

enthu girl guides person! quite talkative and rather silly and very fun too! she jumped ship (or rather, tent) on the last night to join us. XD i was shaken awake at 4 am plus by her because she wanted me to accompany her to toilet so that she could poo. hahahaa! and she started telling me about how she woke up in the middle of the night with her leg numb and found out that both of rebecca's legs were sprawled over hers. (this sounds more sick than it really is) and guess what when we got back to the tent? rebecca had conveniently sprawled over my sleeping space. XD haha!

anyway ollivia is near IMPOSSIBLE to wake up. no matter how much you shake her and shine torch light into her face, she refuses to wake up. (but she responds to poking) and in the end we had to FLIP her over and attempt to drag her up. HAHA! XD but that last night was a horrible one for her, she kept getting squashed and couldn't sleep. i hope you got a good sleep! XD

Zhi Rui (306):

she's cute and cuddly! haha she really has very funny rabbit look. XD and she's sweet too. we kept bumping into each other and each time she saw me she smiled and waved back. little actions really do count. (PARDON THE PUN!)

oh we sang

LAUGHING IS CONTAGIOUS
AND ITS ADVANTAGEOUS
HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA HAA
HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH
HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE
HUUUU

at the top of our voices inside the store! ALL in a single breath!

it's a totally ADDICTIVE SONG!
LALALALALA!

oh yes when eileen and pearlynne were doing the spoof of zhi rui with her beloved *beep beeep!* in front of florence, florence started smiling at quekie's reaction and she told me: "she looks cute, she still has a child's face!"

(do not underestimate her, she's stronger than she looks! she managed to carry 2 extra groundsheets with all her stuff and still hurl a few waterbottles with eun! O.o and her voice is larger than her size too!)

(quekie SCREAMS and shatters computer screen of reader)

If you can read the following sentence, your screen had not been shattered.
wait, you shouldn't be reading this sentence, your screen SHOULD have been shattered. XD

OK that's 4 done! and 10 MORE TO GO! i seem to be getting sillier and sillier each post. This is a rather serious problem. HEH HEH if you had been paying attention you would have noticed the contradiction over there. XD good bye!

Capture the magic of photography

2006-03-04T04:44:00.000-08:00

Jiaying:

Is our world really too boring that there is nothing amazing or breathtaking surrounding us that we can capture?

Well, if you're thinking yes, then photography is what's going to solve your problem! The whole point of photography is to capture the essence of everything from the extraordinary to the ordinary, to discover what is hiding behind the most simple and ordinary scene. This is because extraordinary things can look amazing any way you take it- it's the ordinary, the essence of SIMPLICITY you capture that counts.

The moment you can find the shining point, the center of the soul of your scene, you can do anything. You can make even the simplest apple something that leaves a lingering image on someone's mind. You can make your audience feel as if they were right there beside you when you took your picture, looking up a simple flight of steps, and wondering what lay beyond. You can play with different points of view and show someone an everyday scene from another perspective, leaving them in awe and wonderment, questioning what it was that they had missed out in the first place.

Light and shadows are tools at your disposal. With them you mould your surroundings and shape your world with what you have at hand, and highlight its beauty into your work. Yet you change nothing, and take away nothing, but photographs and unforgettable memories.

You bring out the magic in our everyday surroundings that we are blind to because we are too hurried and busy with our lives to notice anything. The fruit of the photographer’s labour is what reminds them to slow down, and smell the flowers, and to realize that even the simplest things are not so simple after all.

203 DAY!

2006-03-02T07:28:00.000-08:00

HELLO!! TODAY IS 203 DAY! XD

hahahhahahahhahah i had such a SUPER DUPER time with all of you 203 people during lunch. i can't believe so MANY 203 PEOPLE TURNED UP! XD HAHA anyway ALL OF YOU made my day so special, THANK YOU!

RANDOM 203 THOUGHTS

1) 203- the BEST class in the world.

2) United through diversity! (remember the one "TREE"? XD)

3) we won the most books borrowed from library award. HEHE.

4) and received many times of the punctuality award, but never, NEVER, the cleanliness award.

5) OOHLALA! CROSSCOUNTRY CHAMPIONS! (enjoyed refreshing cup of milo after the run)

6) Yummy chicken wraps won the home econs thingum too! (peach mango sauce!)

7) "I'm in LA-LA land!" -officially coined by 203!

8) "don't COMPRAIN!"
i quote: "If you don't like it, change it. if you can't change it, change your attitude. don't COMPRAIN!"

9) "have a good THUMB!"

10) "Mrs ng would NEVER do that, she would _____/ Mrs ng would NEVER say that, she would _________"

11) We made the discovery of the 3 ways to get into a classroom.

- unlock door and walk through the proper classroom entrance/exit
-remove panes of glass in windows (mininum 3 panes), hike oneself up and through the window.
(note that a crowd is needed to block view the teachers have from the staffroom)
-have Eunice perform flying act over wall: run from a good distance away towards wall, leap so that one foot lands on door handle and both hands on the top of the wall. flip self over wall and leap down on the other side to let in impatient members of 203.

12) The Hair-twirling-on-a-finger action should be something that all of us RECOGNIZE too well.

13)
1 blue long pole
1 purple long pole
2 yellow short poles

have been found in the broom closet. these relics of 203 BOUND with our memories, DO NOT REMOVE.

14) We found out that water never shoots out of a syringe, but SOOOOOOOOOOOTS out! XD

15) "STOP GAPING AT ME LIKE GOLDFISH IN A BOWL!"

16) Resistance is futile..

17) "don't you dare HARH at me!"
and now no one from 203 harhs.

18) "I see the soul of the world when i look into your eyes" -on Mrs Ng's teachers' day cake.
(afterwards she got thrown at with cake. this is the point where she runs down the entire length of the corridor with a platter of cake to execute her final act of revenge. oh yes, karene had the honour of washing her hair! HAHA just joking.)

19) "socially inept" -another phrase coined by 203!

20) AND MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU! AND WITH US! AND WITH 203'05, THE BEST CLASS IN THE WORLD!

203 FOREVER.

-Jiaying 02/03/06 time: 11:59 pm

2006-02-27T21:54:00.000-08:00

“Try this one,” said Jack, “and I’ll say it just one time. Tell you what, we could a had a good life together, a fuckin real good life. You wouldn’t do it, Ennis, so what we got now is Brokeback Mountain. Everthing built on that. It’s all we got, boy, fuckin all, so I hope you know that if you don’t never know the rest. Count the damn few times we been together in twenty years. Measure the fuckin short leash you keep me on, then ask me about Mexico and then tell me you’ll kill me for needin it and not hardly never gettin it. You got no fuckin idea how bad it gets. I’m not you. I can’t make it on a couple a high-altitude fucks once or twice a year. You’re too much for me, Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch. I wish I knew how to quit you.”

.......

"The shirt seemed heavy until he saw there was another shirt inside it, the sleeves carefully worked down inside Jack’s sleeves. It was his own plaid shirt, lost, he’d thought, long ago in some damn laundry, his dirty shirt, the pocket ripped, buttons missing, stolen by Jack and hidden here inside Jack’s own shirt, the pair like two skins, one inside the other, two in one. He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack, but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands."

2006-02-27T17:11:00.000-08:00

YAY i feel cool.
no homework today and there's only physics test left and i didnt feel like studying SO i decided to fiddle around with html and see if i could upload a song and IT WORKED! sorry dudes if i jammed up your speakers. i'll take the song down soon, for now, let me bask in the glory of my own genius :D

the sky's beautiful. or rather, was beautiful. cant see much of it now, it's all grey. well in the morning till about 4 in the afternoon it was wonderfully blue and the clouds were white and puffy and it looked so open and so majestic. like, unmatched by anything we humans can ever make (: i wouldn't mind spending a whole day just lying in the grass (provided there aren't too many ants) and admiring the sky, it's a very calming thing to do (: AND, it beats looking at chinese compre questions. or any form of homework, for that matter.

irene

2006-02-26T20:24:00.000-08:00

(add-on to jiaying's post) BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN!
i think it's fantastic.
hey jiaying, it's below 21, not below 18.

you know, at some point in time while we were watching yesterday, i was looking at jiaying (was trying to get a few tortilla chips from her) when SUDDENLY, her whole face lighted up! and she started pointing at the TV screen and going "look! look!" and i looked and saw jack and ennis, naked, running off a cliff and diving into the water. heheheh. jiaying's so sicko!! :D:D so's marissa. whahahaha. and so am i.

and the 'all we have now is brokeback mountain' thing is really,really sad. it's stuck in my head and i cant stop thinking about it.

hmm, i shall find a way to get my parents to get me the original DVD when it comes out!! :D:D

oh yes and i do agree about the 'don't marry' thing. i think something like that happened to oscar wilde's wife (think her name's constance). well she had a horrible childhood and all, and then she met oscar and was really really in love with him and he actually asked her to marry her and she thought she'd found happiness at last, but then it ended up that oscar went off with gay lovers instead. i felt really bad for alma in the movie too. :(

Brokeback Mountain

2006-02-25T21:52:00.000-08:00

yesterday i went to irene's house! sars was there too. and we watched BBM together!

BBM ROCKS.

it really does. the whole story rocks. the soundtrack rocks.

and it's really sad. :(

(if you're below 18 you can't watch it. you can buy the pirated. SHHH! XD)

and that part where they quarrel and Jack says something like "we could have a good life together and then you had to go and now all we have is brokeback mountain" is so, so touching.

and after that Jack had to DIE and leave Ennis alone with nothing. :(

Gay love is really so cool. HAHA i'm not encouraging it, but i guess the complex love between them Jack and Ennis was something really different.

Oh yes. if you want to have gay love, please don't marry. It breaks the other person's heart.

2006-02-18T21:42:00.000-08:00

http://kevan.org/johari?name=jiatootdo jiaying's johari! :D:D

2006-02-16T16:26:00.000-08:00

A Love That Will Never Grow Old

Go to sleep, may your sweet dreams come true
Just lay back in my arms for one more night
I've this crazy old notion that calls me sometimes
Saying this one's the love of our lives.

Cause I know a love that will never grow old
And I know a love that will never grow old.
When you wake up the world may have changed
But trust in me, I'll never falter or fail
Just the smile in your eyes, it can light up the night,
And your laughter's like wind in my sails.

Lean on me, let our hearts beat in time,
Feel strength from the hands that have held you so long.
Who cares where we go on this rutted old road
In a world that may say that we're wrong.

a sad story

2006-02-11T21:50:00.000-08:00

HAHA oh well the authors were both me and irene! HAHA we were actually having lunch in Burger King and we decided to write a poem together. XD

(anyway no one came to us with the right answer so i get to keep the wasabi peas.)

For those who understood it i'm glad you liked it! XD but it's rather gross. and SARS, it does NOT refer to a dick.

OH everyone visit Claire's blog! she's the president of the TMN campaign. HAHA i shall not reveal anymore, just go visit! everyone is encouraged to join.

Valentine's day is coming! i found this rather sweet but sad story in my email:

A girl and a guy were speeding over 100 mph on the road on a motorcycle.

Girl: Slow down, I'm scared.
Guy: No, this is fun.
Girl: No it's not. Please it's too scary!
Guy: Then tell me you love me.
Girl: Fine I love you. Slow down!
Guy: Now give me a BIG hug.

Girl hugs him.

Guy: Can you take my helmet off and put it on yourself? It's bugging
me.

***

The following report was in the paper the next day:
A motorcycle had crashed into a building because of brake failure. Two people were on it, but only one had survived.

The truth was that halfway down the road, the guy realized that his brakes had broken, but he didn't want to let the girl know. Instead, he had her say that she loved him, felt her hug one last time, and had her wear his helmet so that she would live even though it meant that he would die.

So, if you love anyone this much....

Please let them know before it's too late.

2006-02-03T22:05:00.000-08:00

Treasure at hand

Open, close, open, close
The entrance to a secret Aladdin’s cave
Where hidden treasures lie
Undiscovered:

Swish, swish, black stalagmites
Bristling in the desolate wind; thorns
Dwelling, secluded
In darkness

A slender snake slithers into this
Unknown lair. What resides here?
What treasures will be unearthed?
No one knows.

Gradually, the serpent nears its destination
At last! It finds, encased among
Threatening raven needles, its long awaited
Pot of gold

Undeterred, persistent, the serpent gnaws
Slowly but surely, through
Deadly walls of thorns, determined to get
To its treasure

Finally, its work has paid off
The gold breaks free, and
The snake draws out and away;
Its Treasure at hand

Left, right, left, right, it glides,
Surveying the barren land one last time
Before making its proud retreat
It emerges victorious,

From

The

Nostril

guess who wrote this? guess correctly and a handful of wasabi peas from jiaying is yours to keep!

RANDOM!

2006-01-28T19:25:00.000-08:00

random facts that you may/may not know

#1 the only place you can sit on the bus and munch your egg and cucumber sandwich WITHOUT being seen is RIGHT behind the driver. it's true, you can go try it. when you look in the mirrors and you can't see the driver it means the driver can't see you! :D (jiaying holds up pointer and preaches to crowd of students "LIGHT TRAVELS IN STRAIGHT LINES!"

#2 the overhead traffic lights are arranged like this: GREEN YELLOW RED
i guess the red one is the most central to attract more attention!

#3 if you sprinkle salt onto a snail, it flips over and dies. HAHA lim peh told me this. apparently there's a delicate balance of water and salt in their bodies.
PLEASE DON'T GO TRY IT on those snails whom you see SQUISHING along the classroom block corridor.

#4 the teacher never calls on you in class if you know the answer, and calls on you when you don't.

#5 the word FAT is thinner than the word THIN;
the word TALL is shorter than the word SHORT

hmmm so all those who are vertically challenged and missing the horizontal resistance can rejoice! :)

#6 the word abbreviation is really long.

#7 the EZ link beeps are pitched a third apart. double G beeps for us and senior citizens, single B beep for the adults. that's why it sounds nice, because all major thirds sound pleasing to the ear. i guess it's just a fact of life, the way light travels in straight lines because it DOES.

#8 the language that is spoken by the most people around the world is chinese! but i guess everything is in english because the people using english are spread more equally across the world. most of the chinese are concentrated in china. so next time, don't say that english is considered the most popular language because most people use it! (HEY that really makes me wonder, who is it who starts all these popularity "contests"? like who says that english HAS to be the most universal?)

#9 random should be spelled randomly when you see it, because words would mean a lot more if they mean what they look like! (LOOK AT NAUGHTY ABBREVIATION =P)

#10 the thought of how infinite the world is really makes feel floaty and excited and filled with wonderment. and the word "infinite" is an understatement of how vast the world can be and how much there is that we don't know. people shouldn't think so much of how much they already know, but how much they still have to learn. =) still, it's difficult to always keep this in mind.

if you think about it, nothing ever increases or decreases in the world. this is because everything is a cycle, we don't really use up our resources, they just convert into something else. atoms don't "reproduce" and split into more atoms. they're just there, from the beginning of time to the end of time. maybe a carbon atom was once part of the wind, and then it became part of a dinosaur, and then it became part of an exotic plant, and now it's part of you. and it doesn't stop at you. it goes on and on and on, it is a most wondrous cycle.

i'm really inspired by the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds.

it's really magical, just think of how we can change the world if we learn how to convert all the waste back to how it once was! imagine god with all these atoms at hand, and from the simplest particles on earth, he moulds wonderful beings that roam the earth, he moulds everything from beautiful beaches to breathtaking mountains.

it all began with god and the atom.

Memo to all students:

2006-01-28T15:22:00.000-08:00

Memo to all students:

To: All Students
In order to assure the highest levels of quality work and productivity from students, it will be our policy to keep all students well taught through our program of SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TEACHING (S.H.I.T.).

We are trying to give our students more S.H.I.T. than anyone else. If you feel that you do not receive your fair share of S.H.I.T. on the course, please see your lecturer. You will be immediately placed at the top of the S.H.I.T. list, and our lecturers are especially skilled at seeing that you get all the S.H.I.T. you can handle.

Students who don't take their S.H.I.T. will be placed in DEPARTMENTAL EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION PROGRAMS (D.E.E.P. S.H.I.T.). Those who fail to take D.E.E.P. S.H.I.T. seriously will have to go to EDUCATIONAL ATTITUDE TRAINING (E.A.T. S.H.I.T.).

Since our lecturers took S.H.I.T. before they graduated, they don't have to do S.H.I.T. anymore, and are all full of S.H.I.T. already. If you are full of S.H.I.T., you may be interested in a job teaching others. We can add your name to our BASIC UNDERSTANDING LECTURE LIST (B.U.L.L. S.H.I.T.).

For students who are intending to pursue a career in management and consulting, we will refer you to the department of MANAGERIAL OPERATIONAL RESEARCH EDUCATION (M.O.R.E. S.H.I.T.). This course emphasizes how to manage M.O.R.E. S.H.I.T.

If you have further questions, please direct them to our HEAD OF TEACHING, SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING (H.O.T. S.H.I.T.).

Thank you,
BOSS IN GENERAL,
SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TEACHING
(B.I.G. S.H.I.T.)

i found this in my inbox today! credits to jolene who sent it me august 14th 2004! HAHAHA! it is really quite laughable :D

WARNING

2006-01-15T05:38:00.000-08:00

WARNING: THE C-VIRUS HAS COME TO NANYANG!

VIEWERS! we have arrived to bring you a piece of absolutely horrifying news. TRANSMITTERS OF THE C-VIRUS (more commonly known as the condom virus) has been found wandering around the grounds of NYGH! Here is some information of one C-VIRUS transmitter that has been identified:

WANTED: IRENE CONDOM HAN

This is how Irene looks like when she says "whatever..." when you tell her something stupid like "OH LOOK your NOSE IS GONE!"

And this one is when she decides to explain to you the secrets of solving quadratic equations!

OH DEAR! look at these pictures! this is certainly a very very familiar face of a condom named IRENE! she is currently living among us. So is the other condom married(then divorced) to her! BOTH of them are transmitters of the C-Virus. C-VIRUS is an extremely DANGEROUS virus that is hazardous to your physical, metal AND pyschological health.

All viewers, PLEASE be careful not to catch the C virus. IF YOU DO CATCH IT, there is no turning back... ...

Ways to catch the C virus

1) Talk to any C for more than 27 hours a day would expose you to possible risk of infection.

2) Agreeing with any C for more than 3528 times per conversation will weaken your mind so much that your brain turns NUMB, leaving you exposed to HIGH RISK of infection.

3) Anyone sharing more than 24 Cinnamon flavoured Aunt Annie's Pretzels with any C will instantly be INFECTED.

4) Throwing M&N's into the air then catching them in your mouth will not infect you UNLESS you throw in more than 13 packets worth of M&N's bought by any C. By then, you are beyond hope.

We hope that this piece of information will help ALL VIEWERS to learn the dangers of the C-VIRUS. In the meanwhile, stay tuned to find out more.

P.S irene: HAHA yay that photo's much better. wahaha! XD

TOOTACIOUS TOOT

2006-01-14T23:51:00.000-08:00

interesting toot facts.

though the origins of this extremely interesting species of tootacious toot are unknown, we are priviledged to have a few specimens in our midst. extensive studies of these toots show that... they own pink underwear! but that's not the point.

HERE ARE FUN FACTS ABOUT 'TOOT'!
1. the word toot is a very handy one. it can be used as a noun, an adjective, a verb and an adverb!
2. toot looks and sounds the same whether it is spelt frontwards backwards upside down or right side up!
3. though mostly used to describe things/pple that are obscurely funny and quintessencially just toot, the word (tooooooooooooooot) can mean just anything, like !*#($@#!*% or $!^& and many more!

(above above) a model toot. picture taken with an excited condom :D
(above) a rather nice-looking toot (JIAYING I HOPE YOU LIKE THIS ONE! ((((: )

Art Attack!

2006-01-09T19:57:00.000-08:00

JIAYING:

hello! it's tuesday morning and it's hari raya today! SELAMAT HARI RAYA everyone!

anyway yesterday i had a fabulous time during art! GAP rocks! (why does this sounds as if i love some line of clothing XD) our teacher is mrs teo and she's great. hahahaha now that i think of it i'm going to have her for 4 YEARS! o.O woah. haha there were three 2/3 people taking GAP!Karene, Bao and I form the arty trio!

ART ROCKS!

haha i'm going to retell my experience yesterday. we're doing portraiture and figure drawing! it's really fun. haha i was trying to draw benita's portrait and she tried to draw me and both of us ended up looking very funny! so sorry beni i drew your face too fat. haha i feel kind of sad because i can't capture the eyes of the people i draw. they seem to lack something, i don't know what. (reminds me i have to go look up HOW TO DRAW EYES) oh mrs teo showed us some of the coursework our seniors have done before and there was this girl who drew so many eyes! If i'm not wrong they get to choose their own topic, such as "defining happiness" and such.

Back to figure drawing! we're drawing using easels! XD it's a fun experience. Me and karene shared an easel! yay. haha the whole class formed a semi circle around the "model" whom we were drawing. since everyone has a different point of view(literally) all our drawings differed. guess who was our first model?

MRS TEO!

haha! she must be the most talkative model ever, she keeps telling us that she feels tired to stand without moving. hahaha because i stood at the very edge of the semi circle, i drew her side view. this is amazing but the class is just DEAD SILENT during the sketching, apart from all the pencil scratching. (oh yes erasers are BANNED XD)

haha that reminds me of this story i read.. it's about this principal of a school. he loves to be in his school during summer, because there is no one around! haha he feels that an empty school is the most peaceful. (which defeats the purpose of having a school in the first place) hmm but it certainly shows how impossible it is to quieten us. hahaha i wonder what's the fastest way to silent a whole school! XD any suggestions?

i am digressing from the topic again! anyway let's go back. so we were told to draw her whole figure. since she was leaning on the table i drew only half of her body. (the table blocked the rest) haha when we reached the end of the 15min she walked around the class, looking at all our sketches and started laughing really hard! it was really funny! HAHA!

she kept asking, "do i really LOOK like that?" and i guess it's because most of us did such an outrageous sketch of her. (well it's our 1st attempt) bao's sketch was shown to the class! because it was really proportionate compared to the rest of the sketches. XD some of our drawings were too large ( like mine), and some too tiny.

anyway it was time for ATTMEPT NO. 2! XD so who do YOU think was lucky model no. 2? tatatatatatata!( trumpet
fanfare)

it was...

BAO!

hahaha her shocked expression was really funny! she was kind of unwilling at first but she got dragged to the centre and mrs teo started arranging her and moving her arms around! at first it looked as if bao was going to be in a ballet dancing pose but in the end mrs teo decided that she should just stand naturally. hahaha she brought a pencil "onstage" so she held it and started twirling it! she was going to look like a statue, but her hands kept moving XD and so my sketch of her hands ended up looking like triple images of her hands. yay this time i managed to squeeze bao into the whole paper! (hahahah this sounds as if i'm drawing a steaming CHA SIEW BAO but no, i'm not.)

but while i was doing the shoes i had to half-kneel on the floor because the canvas was too large and the shoes were at the very bottom! i CLUNKED the easel with my knee! HAHAHA (i am just so CLUMSY) oops i kind of joggled our easel. HAHA sorry karene i hope i didn't cause an unwanted scar or mole on your sketch!

XD haha it was really fun sketching your own classmate. (bao one day you may have a future in modelling)

the art lesson was really really inspiring to me! haha i want to talk about salvador dali! i think i'll dedicate the next post to him. hey jolene thanks for loaning me the wonderful book on him! haha i can't stop thanking you, that book is really cool. here's some info on Surrealism! it's from
Artcyclopedia:

Artists by Movement:Surrealism

Europe, 1924 to 1950's

Surrealism is a style in which fantastical visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the work logically comprehensible. Founded by Andre Breton in 1924, it was a primarily European movement that attracted many members of the chaotic Dada movement. It was similar in some elements to the mystical 19th-century Symbolist movement, but was deeply influenced by the psychoanalytic work of Freud and Jung.

The Surrealist circle was made up of many of the great artists of the 20th century, including Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, Jean Arp, Man Ray, Joan Miro, and Rene Magritte. Salvador Dali, probably the single best-known Surrealist artist, broke with the group due to his right-wing politics (during this period leftism was the fashion among Surrealists, and in fact in almost all intellectual circles).The Magic Realists were American artists somewhat influenced by the Surrealists.

haha i wonder what's "right-wing politics". haha anyway here's a tempting picture of dali's work! it's his (possibly) most famous work, Persistence of memory.

haha this is my first post so please comment on it thank you! XD lunch awaits me so i have to go. byebye!

The SAGA-oops, i mean IRENE, begins

2006-01-07T23:17:00.000-08:00

EPISODE 1: the SAGA- oops, i mean IRENE begins!

WHO IS IRENE? where does she come from? WHAT is irene?
Setting: It is a sunny afternoon and the daily Goodie Yummy FOOD talk show is showing LIVE at channel 3838338!

*cue music starts*
HELLO ONE AND ALL!

Welcome to the Goodie Yummy FOOD talk show!

I'm sure all of YOU are eager to find out who we're interviewing today on the Goodie Yummy FOOD talk show. Well, we are interviewing an IRENE! An IRENE belongs to very rare species (Monuichues) and so we are very honoured to have her with us today.

As you know, all IRENEs have amazing sense of taste and a brain with go with that and so today we'll like her comments on the the newly designed SUPER meal by our very own Goodie Yummy FOOD chef, Miss IngdeHart. And here's a message from Miss IngdeHart, we should all put our hearts into what we cook.

(a cart is rolled onto stage and the camera ZOOMS in)

OH look everyone! It's a plate of heartless artichokes! Topped off with mayonaisse whipped with ketchup and mustard! It look absolutely fantastic!

well it looks good but i'm not sure about the taste.. anyway let's WELCOME the IRENE on to the stage to try this plate of heartless artichokes topped off with mayonaisse whipped with ketchup and mustard!

IRENE please!

(IRENE prances onto stage, sways around and hicks loudly)

*HICK*

interviewer: hello IRENE! Have a taste of this plate of heartless artichokes topped off with ETC ETC ETC! how do you feel about it as compared to the other SUPER meals from the previous episodes? i'm sure you remember the tantalizing Ham and cheese sandwiches without ham and cheese from last week! not to mention the custard jelly made from natural artifical flavourings from yesterday!

IRENE pokes the fork into the heartless artichoke. oh no! the heartless artichoke is stuck to the fork! i must say, that mayo looks more like white glue than mayo...

IRENE is cool and composed with the stuck artichoke and nibbles the side.

IRENE smiles.
well, your newly designed super meal is rather appealing.
smiles
hicks
sways on the spot
*POP*
she's gone!

Dear viewers, we apologize for the disappearance of our IRENE. It is unstable, as you can tell from the HICKS and the swaying. We believe she will return soon.

BOOOOOO

"IT?? "

IRENE's VOICE BOOMS ALL AROUND the room! yet there is no sign of her! OH NO, WHAT IS GOING ON????
*looks around, bewildered*

Viewers! We will be right back with news on the IRENE.

*theme music plays*

IRENE WHERE R YOU????

WHO IS IRENE?
THIS IS THE QUESTION OF THE CENTURY
millions crowd around their televisions to await the public broadcast of
WHO IS IRENE?
indeed, dont we all want to know?

5 million parents and their children are glueeeed to the screens!

but...

"we'll be back after commercials!"

5 million parents and their children make rude signs at the television.

at the very moment, a website is being created about this strange issue.

visit http://www.whoisIRENE.com

and articles are being written and sent for printing.

Their headlines shout:

WHO IS IRENE?

AND NOW, back to the commercials.

do YOU want to pronounce words correctly?

do YOU want to impress your boss with clearly prononounced words?

do YOU want to pour out love messages clearly articulated?

THEN WE"RE THE SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM!

CALL PRO-NUN-SEE-AYE-SHEN pronunciation services now!

note that each call is charged at $400 each, excluding GST.

5 million parents and children turn off their televisions angrily
5 million mothers say to 5 million fathers
"who is that IDIOT who came up with such a STUPID scheme?"
5 million fathers grunt and nod sagely
5 million children start sulking because they didnt manage to find out WHO IS IRENE?
so

tune in tomorrow, for the answer of the century.

5 million children repeat after their mothers, "

WHO ISH that IDOIT who CAME up with the STUPIT scheme?

5 million dads and mums turn to face their children and speak angrily:

"It's who IS that IDIOT who came up with that STUPID scheme!" dad says

5 million children look puzzled and ask,

"why are you stressING you words weirdLY?"

5 million dads sigh and 5 million mums pick up the phone and shout

CALL PRO-NUN-SEE-AYE-SHEN NOW!

repeating after the commericial!

they did not see the last line of the commercial.

HEH HEH.

5 million children call PRO-NUN-SEE-AYE-SHEN at the same time, and only 1000 get through, the rest were on call waiting for an hour before the phone lines cleared.

5 million children learn to pronounce IS, IDIOT, and STUPID properly.

1000 people handling the phone lines of PRO-NUN-SEE-AYE-SHEN celebrate with chocolate cake...

WHAT WILL HAPPEN? WHEN will IRENE save the day? Will PRO-NUN-SEE-AYE-SHEN continue to trick more and more innocent people? And HOW come this show is named the adventures of irene and jiaying? where is the JIAYING? in case YOU are wondering, TUNE IN TO THE NEXT EPISODE TO FIND OUT!

2006-01-01T18:40:00.000-08:00

THIS IS THE WEBSITE THAT WILL SHOWCASE THE MANY (toot) ADVENTURES OF JIAYING, IRENE AND COMPANY!!xDD

(be warned of extreme toot-ness)