Jasmine Teo

Oh. Darn.

2011-06-05T10:01:00.000+08:00

So I've been totally MIA mainly because of lack of motivation and time. :D

So here's something to entertain you.

I drew this :D

Tympoles, Tadpoles, Hell Holes.

2011-03-23T17:59:00.005+08:00

You're all probably wondering what the weird title is about. I'll get to that in a minute.

So recently, I've been watching Naruto Shippuuden online, since it's the holidays and I really don't want to study during my free time since there's tuition basically almost every day for the whole week of holidays. I've been following the manga every week, but anime isn't that easy for me to keep up with, since I hardly have the patience to sit down and stare at the screen during normal school terms.

Anyways, I've been having weird dreams consisting of Sasuke threatening to torture me with his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan if I don't upload on Fanfiction.net, but then I'll be throwing stuff at him, telling him it's not my damn fault that the server is screwed up and I can't upload anything. And then the ghosts of people who read my Naruto fanfiction will come up behind Sasuke and chase me down some dark hallway. Then Gaara will be at the end, and then he kills me by encompassing me with his (awesome) sand techniques and crushing me to death. Y'know, where my body goes KA-BOOM! and blood, flesh and organs splatter everywhere.

... Damn it, Fanfiction.net! It's your fault I've been having nightmares! Hurry up and fix that damn server error!

Speaking of nightmares, I had one last week too, after I had just gotten Pokemon Black and Pokemon White.

It was of...

TYMPOLE.

Bleh. A lot of you are probably thinking it's some adorable Ninja Turtle-esque tadpole mutant with a face, but I've ~~seen~~ dreamt horrible things about it.

I think it was because of some endorphin rush from finally getting to play the new versions of Pokemon.

I dreamt that I was just standing in the middle of some blank room, when suddenly a whole flood of those abominable, grotesque and eldritch anathema literally washed over me, plunging me to my demise in a deep, dark hell hole, where a colossal version of a Tympole was waiting to swallow me.

Since that nightmare, I've been wary of battling these.... these.... things in the games. I get goosebumps every time I see a picture of that evil tadpole mutant.

Is it me or do I happen to have more nightmares instead of dreams?

P.S. The latest chapter of the Rock Kitty is out! Check it out at www.thisiswhatiliketowrite.blogspot.com!

FINALLY!

2011-03-17T14:17:00.000+08:00

Finally.

The time has come.

After such long anticipation, the wait has finally drawn to a close.

I FINALLY GET MY COPY OF POKEMON BLACK AND WHITE!!!

Bet 'cha didn't see that one coming, now did you?

Heh.

Anyways, I'm in a slow process of playing the game, since I'm busy with schoolwork and tuition (BLARGH). Hopefully I'll have more time to appreciate the mechanics, aesthetics and new features of the games now, since the one-week holidays are finally here!!

And I'll finally be able to reunite with my PS3. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Excuse me for the excess of virtual hearts.

A-NY-WAY!

Of course, most of you were expecting the 'finally' thing to be about my other blog, www.thisiswhatiliketowrite.blogspot.com.

Guess what?

IT'S FINALLY DONE TOO!

I've finally finished rewriting every single chapter available and am in the process of writing the next one. So, if you're interested, you've gotta re-read the whole thing from the very first chapter now!

As always, thank you for your undying support for my ambition-hobby-dream to be a better writer!

www.thisiswhatiliketowrite.blogspot.com

is finally open!

Announcements.

2011-03-06T22:09:00.000+08:00

I figured I'd just tell everyone who reads my blog the few announcements I have that are of significant importance!

I'm officially fifteen (Well, have been for a few weeks now) and thus will from now on generate a slightly higher percentage of suspicious glares from people whenever I go shopping. Oh, and more sales assistant stalkers too.

And...

I AM CLOSING DOWN WWW.THISISWHATILIKETOWRITE.BLOGSPOT.COM

It's not you. It's ME.

Since I was thirteen, I've been heading the VERY inactive blog, because Audrey begged me. I haven't updated in almsot (Or maybe more than) a year, and a rude awakening came to me.

I have to close it down. So, to anyone who has been visiting it once in a while, thank you very much for your undying support! (Or boredom. Whichever comes first.)

So, a grand farewell to the most inactive second blog in the universe!

...Until I'm done revamping it, that is. MAKEOVER TIME!!!!! :D

I'll be closing it off to everyone but me until I'm done fixing up the aesthetics and stuff. I'll also be rewriting the chapters to better suit my current style of writing. (Yes, I have a style of writing. So bite me!)

SO BE SURE TO EXPECT SOME NEW READING MATERIAL!!!!!

That is all.

GASP. I'm OLD.

2011-02-16T16:53:00.000+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

I WANT A REAL-LIFE PICHU BADLY!

I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M FIFTEEN!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Happy Anniversary!

2011-02-16T16:50:00.002+08:00

Today marks the first anniversary since the day I met this particular individual. And I would like to say a few words of gratitude.

Strictly speaking, I strongly believe that you are pure awesomeness. Most people cannot bear to put up with my fickle attitude - some hate me for it, even. But you are different. You completely understand me. You don't complain about the way I rarely spend time with you, even if that's required for a healthy relationship, romantic or otherwise, and just wait until I decide to be with you for a while.

Because you realize that I'm a person who likes to be alone in a cold, dark room, so you don't grouse about the way I rarely visit you, either. I know we don't hang out a lot, but when we do, the time we spend together are the funnest above everything else.

So, I'd like to say Happy Anniversary to....

MY PS3!!!!!!

Allergies.

2010-12-29T12:19:00.000+08:00

Did you know I'm allergic to cleaning? Seriously.

I'm not kidding. Every time I clean out my desk, tidy my room, clean my closet, change my bedsheets and whatever else that involves cleaning, I sneeze the entire time I'm doing it. And when I'm done, I miraculously recover from my sneezing fit. Strange, no?

So my dad blew his top yesterday after my youngest brother (as usual) didn't listen to my ominous warning and ate his lunch in the living room and didn't bother to clean up because that's how bratty the second half of my family's children are.

ANYWAYS.

He ordered for me to move some of my books to the two shelves that he emptied of his books today, so I had to get up early, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed (Obviously metaphorically, because I don't really have a tail to speak of) to move my books. So did my sister, of course.

We spent an hour or two carting (Literally. We used our study chairs. :D) books back and forth and perching precariously on a flimsy chair/table/whatever to do so.

I've always thought I didn't have that many books compared to the painfully tiny library at school (Yes, my standards are very high), but my house is painfully tiny, so I don't have space for all my books. My sister and I took all morning to finish arranging everything in a way that could be potentially appealing to my father (Because I don't really want to die yet).

BEFORE PICTURES:

My book collection amassed since I was ten. Most of them are from the recent years, though. The majority of the ones from before I was twelve got packed up and sent to an orphanage.

Fine, I agree. It looks horrendously ghastly. There are actually piles of books hidden behind the books shown, which goes to show how terrible of a bibliophile I am.

AFTER PICTURES:

It looks deceptively well-arranged and not packed, but as it was before, there are rows of books hidden behind the ones plainly seen. And worse, I still have lots of more books inside the shelves in my room. And I still keep on buying new books once every few weeks. ;-;

It's really not my fault. It's just like how an alcoholic can't stay away from alcohol and how a shopaholic can't resist spending all their money on useless things. At least it's got good benefits, right? :D

P.S. I will do the compulsory blogging about my trip to Bali and Singapore. Soon. I'm just procrastinating for the fun of it. ;D

How To Be The Worst Friend Ever.

2010-12-24T14:25:00.001+08:00

Okay, this came up as a random epiphany, but I do believe I've compiled a complete(-ish) and comprehensive list of how to be the worst friend ever!!

HOW TO BE THE WORST FRIEND EVER.

Have a constitution prone to sickness. Your taking medicine during school and resulting in lethargy will be misread as aloofness and snobbishness, which will repel people from wanting to be your friend.
Silence. It is often misread in the social context as 'emoness', when, really, you just have nothing to say and want to read your book in peace, or because reticence is a part of your DNA. People don't like it because they assume that you think you're too good for them and they will detest your for it, so this is a good way too.
Have weird and childish interests that are regarded by your peers with unwarranted prejudice. (In other words, when they say, "OMG LAME!" with obvious disgust metaphorically dripping from their words after you've told them about the things that you like or interest you, it means you've hit the jackpot.)
Voice your opinion often. The chance of success when using this method will depend on the way you were raised by your parents. If the other person's opinions happen to clash with yours, it's a guaranteed 100%.
Disagree often. Many people do not like having a friend who doesn't agree with them. It hurts their pride.
Be friends with people who are also friends of the other person. The other person will have a 50% chance of sparking with unreasonable jealousy and the seeds of hatred will be planted. 'YOU STOLE MY FRIENDS!'
Refrain from starting conversations with the other party. Because you have nothing to say or because you assume the person wants to be left alone, the other party will misread this as you hating them for no particular reason all of a sudden and have started to boycott them.

There we go! Only seven, because Voldemort managed to nearly take over the world with seven parts of his soul. This means that the list can produce outstanding results because there are only seven things to adhere to.

I only wrote (typed, actually) this out of sheer boredom because...

Wait a minute while I try to come up with an excuse.

...................................................

Nah. No reason. Just boredom.

P.S. There's nothing personal about this post. It's just for a bit of fun.

Happy Birthday!

2010-12-24T12:30:00.001+08:00

Because we're not getting together for a little celebration this year, I've decided to make use of what skills I have to dedicate this post to a very special friend of mine! (Albeit the fact that this blog is not of much use or worth, but oh well!)

Never fear, for this is just a little virtual pressie made by yours truly with amateur skills that will, in the unforeseeable future, eventually hone into mastery after rigorously intent training. Your real present is safely tucked away in the one of the secret crevices of my humble little room, waiting to be opened by you!

(Ah, poetic excuses.)

Right, I'm just babbling nonsense now. Have a great day, Sandra! I love you lots 'cause you're a really awesome friend!

Natsu's Secret Move.

2010-12-19T13:55:00.000+08:00

I find taking screenshots entertaining.

Same old, same old.

2010-11-23T21:48:00.000+08:00

I've had a random thought.

You know Mario and Luigi? The two plumber brothers?

Yeah. Them.

Anyways, they're called the Mario Bros. , right? So one can surmise the fact that 'Bros.' is a shortened form for 'brothers', ergo I'm assuming this:

JONAS Brothers > Kevin JONAS, Joe JONAS, Nick JONAS.

Right? Right?

So...

MARIO Bros. > Luigi MARIO, Mario MARIO.

Am I right? Am I right?

(Ah, the bliss of being jobless with nothing better to do at home except read manga. -___-)

So lately, I've been trying to get rid of the rust on my photo manipulating skills. I haven't done any work since the beginning of October, so I'm pretty depressed to see that I've basically forgotten most of what I learned over the past few months since I started in July.

So!

I decided to dig up a few pictures hidden away in the many files in my computer and evaluate my abilities.

*stares* *mutter mutter*

Okay, so I've basically got a loooooooong way to go before I can call myself a master, but at least I've gotten back into my current standards. Yay me! :D

Moving on!!

A particular thorn in my side recently had his ninth birthday...

The cake was home-baked...

By my vision of loveliness~!!! <3

One of these days, I'm pretty sure I'll develop a creepy sister-complex of some kind if I keep worshipping her like this. x-x When I was resizing the pictures, I was half-tempted to brush on a bunch of hearts around her face.

Erm. I digress.

So, the la petit (Not so, but yeah) brat - He's not much of a smile-for-the-camera person, despite the vanity he inherited from AHEMAHEMOURDADAHEM - got a shiny new toy as usual...

But don't worry. I'm not into iPads. I still think my PS3's better. (And it is!!)

After six long months...

2010-11-08T20:59:00.000+08:00

I'M FINALLY DONE!!

I've toiled hard over them; bearing and getting used to the smell of the sharpie's ink, endured the evil 'YOU'RE SUCH A CREEPY GEEK' comments and etc. for THESE.

ORGANIZATION THIRTEEN-THEMED DESKTOP BACKGROUNDS!!!!!!!!!**

*wipes away tear* Sniff. Aren't they beautiful? Well, fine, they're not that great to the extent where they bring out tears of joyful sentiments at the sight of them. But I think they turned out pretty decent, since I royally fail at drawing. Like those snowflakes over there - they're a mess.

Anyways!

Half a year ago, when I got my own laptop, I wanted to make it personalized, since there's three identical ones in the house, including my own. So, I decided to grab a bunch of markers and pencils and draw my own desktop backgrounds!

This little epiphany also came from the random doodling I do during classes. (Yeah, yeah. I'm a horrible student. =_=) I was bored during one Bio lesson, and I doodled Axel's number (VIII) and drew a bunch of flames and his chakrams on my left hand.

IT WAS SO ISAAC NEWTON-ESQUE!!! (Well, that's how I like to think of it.)

Transitioning backgrounds! ***IMO, awesome-est Mac option. EVER. (Yes, I do have a simple mind when it comes to things like that.)

The process:

Scanning....

Resizing and computer-editing...

Tiling...

FINISHED PRODUCT!! :D

Yes. Roxas' one gets to be featured in the process because I'm completely biased for my favourite charrie in the ***KH games. GO ROXAS!!! ***FTW!

The clock-themed one (the first picture) sprung from a suggestion made by my lovely muse, aka my sister via text messaging!!!

"I FINALLY FINISHED THE TILES!!! :'D"

"Haha. :O Why not incorporate them into a single picture?"

***IRL Me: Single picture, hm? *taps keyboard, and checks iPod to see if it's time to collect baked scallops and sees the time* YES!! THE CLOCK!!

And Roxas gets the big-ass position once again, because he's awesome like that.

**I do know for a fact that Organization Thirteen actually has fourteen official members in uniform, but SCREW XION! *dark face* Bloody Mary-Sue...*mutter mutter*

***Shorthands (I find this necessary because I find myself at times struggling to understand cryptic shorthands left by other people. So, I feel for the shorthand-ignoramuses like me.) :

IMO - In my opinion

KH - Kingdom Hearts

FTW - For the win

IRL - In real life

This is What We Call an Epic Fail.

2010-09-29T22:21:00.000+08:00

Today at school, we were laughing and making fun of Zhi Jie for losing his pride and dignity in class. (Which, by the way, I have yet to let him live down.)

Me : Are you losing your touch or something, Mr. No Pride and Dignity?
Zhi Jie : You think it's very funny, huh? To embarrass me?
Me : Well, I believe you're the only one embarrassing yourself.
Bryan : Ooh! Got owned again! You've finally met your match!
Me : You sure are failing a lot today.
Edwin : You're an epic failer man!
The Rest :...O.O
Bryan & I: OMG EDWIN! EPIC FAIL!!!

As he was telling someone that he (the someone) was an epic failure, he too, became one in the process.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, readers of all nations, is what we call...

AN EPIC FAIL.

September

2010-09-23T17:06:00.000+08:00

There are two reasons why I absolutely LOVE Septembers.

One; Holidays!! Though they're a pettily short two weeks, we still don't have to wake up at an ungodly hour of five or six in the morning and be dragged to school!

And two; THE MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL!!

As some of you may know, I've got an extremely sweet tooth. I practically shun all sweets/desserts that do not meet the minimum level of sweetness in my standards. Hence and therefore, mooncakes are probably one of the top things on my list of favourite things to eat. The others are blue M&M's, marshmellows, mochi and cake!

I digress.

I turn into a monster when someone (hint hint) eats the mooncakes without yolks, because I. Hate. Eggs. That's a story I'll save for another day.

Anyways!

I also like playing with the paper lanterns, because they're really pretty when they glow against the tenebrous darkness. I always switch off the gate lights and the roof lights when I play with them alone, so I can just sit on the ground like a sad sop and stare at the lanterns like a psycho stalker as I bask in the emanated light from the lanterns.

I like the old-fashioned paper lanterns where the patterns are just plain oriental, but these lanterns are old ones that we bought like, a billion (Okay, so I'm exaggerating here) years ago. Ru Zheng and I quarreled over the hamster one, but then my mom found me the Pikachu one, so everyone got their pick. Well, except my sister. She was doing her homework. (Yeah, like I'd believe that.)

That's a kind of Teochew-styled mooncake. I'm not a big fan of this particular kind, since they're mainly filled with yam filling (Which isn't as sweet as I'd like them to be. Bleh.) and a large part of it is filled with the unjustly huge egg yolk. My fave kinds are prolly the Cantonese and other Teochew ones (WHICH ARE DEVOID OF EGG YOLKS! HUZZAH!). No, I'm not being biased just because my parents come from both sub-groups. The mooncakes are just awesome like that. :D

I'd continue on with the story on how mooncakes and the Mid-Autumn festival originated, but then it'd be pointless 'cause everyone knows it already or if they don't, they're not interested. If you are...

Google is your best friend.

Black & White.

2010-09-15T14:18:00.001+08:00

I was hit by an urge to, you know, write/type about something. Only...I'm not feeling very creative nowadays. My muse was fluttering about the sky, and got into a fatal accident with a speeding jet plane that didn't even have the inclination to stop and check who (or in this case, what) it hit.

Anyways!

As some of you may know, I, Jasmine Teo, am impatiently waiting for the eventual release of the newest generation of my favourite game series, Pokemon. The new pair is called Black and White. And so far, I have been 76% disappointed and the remaining percentage excited.

Don't get me wrong. I'm mostly excited - Black and White were given a perfect score of 40/40, so it's pretty much the most anticipated game of '10 (In my opinion anyway). I'm anticipating about a gazillion new features in the game, since I stalk Pokemon news as a daily online habit. But the new Pokemon are 50% okay and the other 50% retarded.

Say...

THIS ABOMINATION.

Okay, fine it's cute (in some way). But I disagree to the match-up. I mean, fire pig? PIGS AND FIRE DON'T MATCH! WHEN PIGS AND FIRE COME TOGETHER, THERE WILL ONLY BE ONE INEVITABLE RESULT.

And its Japanese name is unfortunate. Pokabu. Let me break down the molecule into an equation for you.

(Pok = Pork) + (Abu = Ash in Malay) = PorkAsh

Okay. It's unfair that I react like this, since Torchic's evolution line is based on a chicken, and fire and chicken don't match either. But at least they had the decency to make them look cool.

Does it scream, 'EAT ME! I'M A FAT JUICY PIG THAT CAN ROAST ITSELF!' like the first picture does?

Eventually, I got over the bloody initial shock of Pokabu. And then they had to release Pokabu's evolution.

Ken Sugimori, you suck.

A Few of My Favourite Things.

2010-09-09T20:25:00.000+08:00

Remember the Sound of Music? If you've never heard of it or seen the movie, you really should buy a copy and watch it. It's a really lovely musical with nice songs and stuff. :D

Anyways, I was bored yesterday, so I decided to make a collage of a few of my favourite things!! :D

BEHOLD....

A FEW OF JASSIE'S FAVOURITE THINGS!!!

Now you know me a little bit better.

I'M BACK!!

2010-09-08T20:51:00.000+08:00

I'm back!! Did ya miss me? I bet 'cha did. You did, didn't 'cha? It's okay if you wanna be secretive about it.

*is being extremely narcissistic right now for some strange reason*

Anyways!

I had tons of fun at the festival! Running back and forth like a mad person from one room to the other. I panicked during my first category, which ended really badly. But I managed okay in the other three though! I saw lots of lovely performances - everyone was really good! It made me want to practice my violin harder too. Y'know, the inspiration thing and all.

We stayed at three different hotels, which made my aunt feel like she was chaperoning a pair of celebrities. Heck yeah!!!

I really like the Sabahan structure of the Nexus resort. Gives it a really resort-y feel, y'know? It's really quiet and relaxing there. I used to go there for holidays all the time as a kid. Good times, good times.

Our room in Nexus! It's quite messy, as you can see, since we had to prepare for the festival and stuff.

My sister 'tried' to take a picture of me. I didn't keel to her demands, since I'm not much of a picture person unless forced to. *hints at sis and Aud*

Like, say....

This picture above. But we match!! :D And we totally look the same!!

The Novotel room is prolly the best in my opinion, because the breakfast buffet was awesome and the telly had good stations to keep me entertained!

My cousin, Ting Ting, has a penchant for Big Apple donuts for some strange reason. I can't comprehend why they're so popular, really. I don't like the donuts very much. But this really cool signboard with all the donuts they sell is pretty awesome though! The Periodic Table of Donuts!

They apparently have Dona-shi, a brand new line of donuts based after sushi. Lemme tell you, although it's cute, it tastes just the same as the regular Big Apple donuts. *Wanted to write 'just as bad' but it seems mean*

We went shopping too! I managed to buy a new hoodie (But no Converse D:) and some books that I've wanted for a long time now. Plus a lot of other stuff :D

It was a fun experience, but I really missed home. I'm glad to be back in good ol' Brunei. And not to mention this lovely new toy...

MacBook Pro Version 4.6!!!!

Good ol' papa.

MIA.

2010-09-02T23:13:00.000+08:00

Granted that I'm usually MIA during the holidays, this is a real MIA. Like, out-of-country MIA.

I'll be off experiencing new things!!!

P.S. The violin picture was edited by me. AWESOME RIGHT?

Heads Up!

2010-09-01T16:43:00.000+08:00

Isn't my new header PRETTY??

I painstakingly worked on it for an hour and I'm seeing results! When I first started using brushes, it was, quote, 'A TOTAL EPIC FAIL!', unquote. Wait. When I first started using GIMP it was, quote, 'A TOTAL EPIC FAIL!', unquote period.

Speaking of periods... (Somehow, that ended up sounding wrong.)

Aren't these cool? Cupcakes making up an entire periodic table!!

Actually, a month ago, I tagged along with my dad to the Fleur-de-lys in Kuilap, and I saw this huge Periodic Table (Now that I think of it, Adam still hasn't made the Table Mrs. N asked him to make. Talk about procrastination at its best!) framed and hung proudly against the wall. I found it really awesome, because it was a Periodic Table of Food. Now that's a table that I wouldn't mind staring at during Chem! (Only...it wouldn't be scientifically correct.)

So, I wanted to see if there were other pictures online, which resulted in my inevitable googling for various versions of the Periodic Table. Thus I found cupcakes! I got hungry staring at the pictures, and I even downloaded some.

I know. I'm a bloody masochist.

A Final Fantasy version also popped up, but it was too big to show here. D:

Sesame Street and the Muppets! I used to have an Elmo doll as a kid - it could talk! It said, "BIG TALK!!" just like the actual Elmo!! I like the Cookie Monster cupcake the best. THERE'S A REAL LIVE (not necessarily) COOKIE ON THE CUPCAKE!

*takes note to force sister to make Cookie Monster cupcakes*

I'm pro at making my sister bake things. I once jokingly mentioned that I wanted Pikachu cookies when she asked me what kind of cookies I wanted. The result?

.................

HANDMADE PIKACHU COOKIES GALORE!

Poor Pika. It's crying 'cos its ear got broken off.

Dust Bunnies.

2010-08-31T21:39:00.001+08:00

*grabs a rag and wipes down blog* That's a LOT of dust bunnies. I'm surprised this blog still gets more than a visitor daily. You must have unwavering faith in hopes that I will make the greatest comeback in leisure blogging history.

Um. Sorry to disappoint you.

Anyways! Assessments are over! This is probably where you'll want to insert a scene of me dropping onto my knees and screaming a primal, "I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"

(Is stressing and putting emphasis on the 'free' part by typing in a long chain of unnecessary 'E's.)

Yush. Now, I will make it my business to finish the last to drawings to complete my soon-to-be-epic desktop background. Also, I have an unfinished affair with my PS3, which I will rendezvous with later. Final Fantasy XIII, I am making my long-awaited return!!!

Have you ever wondered about what I do when I'm at home? I mean, when you think about it, only a few people actually have a general idea of my daily lifestyle of what I do when I'm MIA. I don't argue with the fact that yes, I am indeed an extremely private person. Why, enigma's probably my middle name after sarcasm. But then, it would completely defeat the purpose of sarcasm being my middle name. I digress. Moving on!

When they say the internet is a gray zone, they're not kidding. I'm basically a phantom graphics manipulator for various forums, because I find making stuff like this is fun. Never thought Jassie could do weird (but still cool, you gotta admit!) stuff like that, huh?

The program I use is a freeware, so I don't have to worry about pirated rubbish that comes with the hacked Photoshop software other people use. The internet is a glorious thing, no?

Anyways, on a more solemn note...

Very recently, one of my mom's closest friend had an accident that ended in fatality. I've never heard my mom sound so weak, tired and, well, it was as if she'd lost hope. I've never seen her cry like that, either. She and this friend had both worked together for many long years - they'd known each other longer than I'd been alive. I'm pretty sure she knew me as a wee infant, just as I knew her ever since I was old enough to comprehend my surroundings.

She was a person whom I can honestly say that I greatly admire. Helping orphans, volunteering, and one of the most devout Christians I know. She was the most unlikely person to encounter such a terrible fate.

Albeit the fact that I do not believe in God, if You exist, please know that You have a very special person with You now. If anything, make her an angel.

R.I.P. Auntie Jackie.

Trust.

2010-06-28T18:36:00.001+08:00

DEFINITION IN JASMINE TERMS: It is an intangible object, yet very brittle. It is sometimes easy to obtain; at other times, it is impossible to acquire it.

I've learn the hard way that I should never ever deal this card easily.

I've been told that I trust people too easily. Only recently, I find that yes, it's true. I am quick to trust people.

I'm always cautious when people first talk to me, only because I question their motives and reasons. Yet, before I know it, I'm confiding that person without a second's hesitation.

I've had my trust betrayed before when I was ten. Then again, when I was twelve. And it has, once again, happened recently.

It's a lesson that I've finally learnt the hard way. My dad was right.

NEVER EVER TRUST A PERSON COMPLETELY.

THEY WILL ALWAYS FIND A WAY TO LET YOU DOWN.

All Villains Have...

2010-06-25T13:06:00.000+08:00

Okay, so after watching Prince of Persia, I started to notice a trend in various movies, TV shows, books and games. Most villains share a similarity. I'll just give you a list of hints, 'kay?

EXHIBIT A. Obadiah Stane from Iron Man.

Nizam, the dude from Prince of Persia who loves eyeliner.

The Kingpin and Bullseye from the Marvel Comics movie, Daredevil. (No, they're not about to initiate a swooping kiss).

Guess the baddie!! It's the asthma dude from the Star Wars series, Darth Vader minus the helmet!!

Dr. Evil from Austin Powers!! The persona of all evil characters! *Tries to imitate him but colossal fail*

Master Xehanort from Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, a PSP and possible PS3 game that has yet to come out in English!

Superman's most nefarious enemy: Lex Luthor!

Piccolo Senior, the green Namekian from the Dragonball Evolution movie that totally destroyed all the good rep the original anime had!!! (The live-action movie can be described in two, simple words: It. Sucked. GOKU HAS BLACK HAIR, OKAY! AND HE DOESN'T FANTASIZE ABOUT GIRLS!!)

How could I forget our most beloved literary villain, ~~the Flat-Nosed Freak~~ Lord Voldemort?

Guessed it already? No?

BALD HEADS.

I totally had Nizam figured out in like, five seconds. I mean, the eyeliner, the creepy expression that makes him look like he's constipating, and not to mention the hairless head? Those were all dead giveaways.

I never did understand why creators make their villains bald. Must be very distinguishing or something.

Either way, I've come to the conclusion that they're too busy trying to take over the world and create chaos to look after their hair. Yeah. That must be it.

The Secret Closet.

2010-06-14T18:30:00.002+08:00

Standing on the brink of despair and insanity because you can't find the dress for a party? Frustration tearing at you because your friend has found a dress for prom and you haven't? Suicidal thoughts because you haven't a dress that could guarantee a good impression at a formal dinner??

Well, stress no more!! The Secret Closet is a simple solution to your troubles!! (Provided that you're willing to go along their terms, conditions and prices.)

Eh, so like, my aunt runs this blogsite, The Secret Closet. They sell absolutely lovely dresses that girls or their moms or aunts may love and want to buy!!

Okay. I'm not exactly good at this promotional thing. Creative writing is my forte. Deluding people to believe my characters exist is what I do. I, Jasmine Teo, do not have the flair to entice people to buy stuff.

Anyways!!

Go buy lah. You know you want to.

Any questions or deets that you want to know, go pin up a question at the tagboard at the site. I may or may not answer them here. Since I only have a vague idea on what they're planning to do. I usually shut myself up somewhere being a little geek. I'm just helping them promote.

Promote how? See that cool (not really, but still!) banner up there? Yeah, I made it. Helpful, right?

P.S. I've finally updated The Rock Kitty!! Go check it out!! www.thisiswhatiliketowrite.blogspot.com

P.P.S. Wtf is wrong with those weirdoes posting the comments in the comments section of my posts? Telling me shiz like man's value is blah blah blah. STALKURZZ!

Baby.

2010-06-14T18:07:00.000+08:00

Last week, my family just lost a very important member of our family.

Despite the fact that you were sometimes evil and misbehaved, you were the most lovable dog a person could have. Baby, we will miss you.

I've known Baby for six years now. He was born when I was eight. His mom was Tiger and his dad was Mocha. He was originally named Ralph, after Ralph Lauren. His siblings were Cowboy, Sumo, Gucci and Hugo.

He passed on very suddenly. I didn't even get to say goodbye. I haven't seen him since last month, when my grandmother brought him over after bringing him for a fur-cut. He was energetic, bright-eyed and excited. How could you leave us so suddenly?

I hope you enjoyed your very short years. I enjoyed the times I had with you. Bringing you on an early morning walk, watching you run around like a mad dog, skidding across the floor and playing with the kittens. You will always remain in my memories.

Why Did The Banana Go To The Hospital?

2010-04-27T22:36:00.000+08:00

Okay, so today, it so happened that...

-RECESS TIME-

Albert: Okay, girls, I have a question for the two of you.
Sis and I: *blinks* Okay?
Albert: Why did the banana go to the hospital??
Sis and I: Dunno. Why?
Albert: 'Cause it wasn't peeling well!!
Sis: OHMYGAWD ALBERT!! SO LAMEE!!!
Me: Uh, wha? *Thinks that the poor banana has a bad case of sunburn*

-TWO HOURS LATER-

*Sis and I walking down the stairs after school*
Me: OHHHHH!!!!!
Sis: What?
Me: Y'know the banana thingy that Albert told us right?
Sis: Yeah. What about it?
Me: I finally got the meaning!! When people go to the hospital, it's 'cause they're not feeling well right?? Well, the banana didn't have a bad case of sunburn. It was just a play of the words 'feeling' and 'peeling'!!!
Sis: ...What the heck mei!? So lagging!! Two hours at that!!

When I told my mom, she apparently thought that I was a moron too.

How I've Been.

2010-04-13T20:42:00.001+08:00

It's been a while since I last posted an update. I've been doing okay (Yes, I know this isn't necessary, but it IS a blog about MY life, so my well-being IS a necessary update). School, as usual, is as frustrating as usual. First day back from holidays and the teachers are all, "MYE COMING SOON! WE HAVE TOO LITTLE TIME!! WE SHOULD'VE STARTED PREPARING LAST TERM!!"

(Okay, the last sentence did not come out of any of my teacher's mouth, but I do tend to exaggerate)

Anyways, before I delve into my usual rantings and updates of my mediocre life, I have a few things that I'd like to say.

I'm sorry if I've ever offended any of you with my proclamation to not believe in God. I really do. I still don't, no offense intended. I know about 95% of my friends are Christians, and they love God like, to an extent that I think is greater than the love for their own selves.

I don't have any petty, personal reasons to be an Atheist. I just am. I don't believe anything that has not been scientifically proven. Yes, I know you may be like, "WTF!? BUT YOU'RE THE MOST HARDCORE ANIME JUNKIE EVAR!" But that does not mean I think they actually exist.

Next thing, I know there's a handful or more of you readers who only read this blog for the sole purpose to laugh, jeer and bad-talk on whatever I write/post here. I may post up pictures of the things in my everyday life or what interests me and you'll probably go, "HAH! Like, whatever lah! She's so kambang and whatnot! Think she so rich meh?"

Yes, don't lie. I know you think that.

May I remind you to look at the banner at the very top of this blog. Yes, seen it? Good. Heed those words. This is MY blog, so when I sub-wrote 'Bits and pieces of my life' I meant it. I'm not going to be obligated to write shit about reviews of stuff that have nothing to do with me. I am not a person who blogs to entertain others. I blog purely because I enjoy writing down my sentiments for the whole world to see. (Hence the reason why I don't blog often on a regulated schedule)

I have taken note of the traits of mine that I may understand why you may hate me for:

I don't believe in God.
I'm blunt and sarcastic.
I insult people (But that means I like 'em)
I use English that will lead people to believe I check the dictionary every time before speaking/writing AKA a pompous girl who thinks she's British. (I do not. On contrary, I'm far more Singlish than most of my friends)
I'm a proud person.
I don't care much for other people who don't mean anything to me.
I'm insensitive.
I tell the truth when I think I should. Which is, most of the time.
I listen to horrible music.
I watch anime.
I write fanfictions.
I play games.

So yeah. I think that's why a certain pair of people started flooding my Friendster comments box or whatever four years ago out of nowhere. I did not even know they existed.

You may be wondering why I'm complaining here, but the point is: I'm sorry if you have a reason to hate me. I don't hate you (Okay, maybe just a little ebb of angsty 'WHY!? WHY DO YOU HATE ME!?').

I bet Audrey is going to lecture me now.

On a lighter, more cheery note!

I finally got my hands on a copy of...

DUNDUNDUN!! POKEMON HEARTGOLD!!!

Yes, I still play Pokemon. I dunch care for people who ask me how old I am. My twenty-year-old cousin still plays it too. And he's a NUS student. So if you say stuff about how I'm going to grow dumber, I won't believe you.

I haven't tried it out yet, though. Honestly no time to start something that I may get addicted to. I may start one day soon. I always seem to break resolutions. But the PokeWalker thingy that looks like a Tamagotchi looks cool!!

My sister tried cooking a random dish she thought up of nowhere last week, partly inspired by me eating ice-cream loaded with almonds and blueberry sauce, since our parents were in Singapore/Johore for Old Soul's Day and we do not like the maid's cooking.

STIR-FRIED LAMB WITH TOASTED ALMONDS!!!

Now tell me, does that not make you drool with sudden hunger?

^.^V I gots to eat it!!

Anyways, most of my very little free time now is taken up by a mini-project I've imposed upon myself.

Because my dad got a new laptop, he decided to give me back the original MacBook (YIPEE!! Although I want the MacBook Pro since the keyboard glows in the dark, but my sister refuses to part with it T^T).

After the little mishap of deleting his whole music playlist which ended up with me re-installing ALL of his jazz music into his new laptop (That genre alone has 1000+ songs!! I shiver to think of his classical and chinese ones), I decided that the MacBook was too unpersonalized, so I decided to go about making a new background for it!!

Right now, it has an alternating desktop background of various Kingdom Hearts fanart that I leeched off the internet. On some days, Naruto. Cough.

So, I went ahead to buy various black markers - two of which I have named Artliner 100 and Effin' Sharpie as a tribute to the lyrics to a song I listen to, Fer Sure by the Medic Droid - to go about my hand-drawn background.

Yes people. The inartistic Jasmine Teo is attempting to create her own personalized desktop background.

The process will be a long one, seeing as how I have thirteen figures to draw and I really, really suck at drawing. My only artistic talent is in shading decently.

So far, I've only completed one, Numero VIII. If you've guessed by now what I'm trying to do, you're a winner!!

Anyways, have you ever eaten pocky before? I'm a huge pocky addict. It's awesome. :D My aunt got me this...

A GIANT BOX FULL OF GIANT POCKY!!

Well, no pictures of the huge box because I am too lazy to procure it for a picture. Instead this poor, individually-wrapped pocky stick that I have already eaten.

They have strawberry-flavoured ones, too. My sister has a box of 'em. :D

Nowadays, Ping Pong has been singing excerpts from various songs he's heard. Which is basically everything that has ever hit the top Billboard hits or whatever.

He's like a human iPod.

I discovered today that Jun Khang has good taste in songs as we were both ridiculing (well, I was. He was staring at Ping Pong) Ping Pong. He likes Daughtry!! :D

And now, Adam and I indulge in Sam-tertainment. It has to do with Sam saying weird things that can be interpreted quite wrongly. (Or rather, he says the wrong things) Today was:

Sam: Whose pencil case is that?

Me: Oh, it's Jo's.

Adam: (zips it up) HAH! You can't see it now!

Sam: Oh well, it's okay. I know she's clean.

Me: Yep. Councillor's clean.

Sam: No, actually, she's dirty. Very, very dirty.

Me:...ADAM!!!!!! (runs away)

Adam judged it as 'bad' Sam-tertainment though. =.=" Then Shaun started being so prasan and telling Adam about the 'Interrogating Jasmine on Who is the Hottest Guy in Class' conversation I had with him after the CNY holidays.

Once again, =.="

P.S. As you may have noticed, there's some new stuff in the sidebars. PLEASE CLICK ON THOSE IMAGES!! :D

This is how I spent my holidays.

2010-03-27T13:51:00.003+08:00

I've been lazy, no doubt about that.

I decided to blog today, mainly because of two reasons: A) Sandra asked me to update and B) Technically the last day of holidays, 'cause Sunday doesn't count.

It's no brain-teaser as to what I've done during the past week.

Obviously...

And...

As well as...

'Cause as my dad said, and I now quote, "Mei ah! Don't always let me find you sitting in front of the PS3 or playing your Nintendo DS when I come home ah!!"

So, I read. And practise.

But I definitely have not done this.

Granted that it's (my desk) always like this (Shush. I know Ima messy person. >:3), but I haven't studied at all since school broke for the holidays. But I have done my homework ('cept for the final accounts for the stall. Yikes. I dun wanna do it. T^T) and I fully intend to study Biology tomorrow for the test on Monday. :D

Anyways, things at home have progressed at a rather storyline pace. I found a few new songs to get addicted to, a few new games to burn my brain cells with, a few new anime DVDs to obsess over and a few new books to abandon my sleeping time for.

Oh, and a little update about my brothers:

Ru Zheng cut his hair and blamed it on my sis and I. He's as sissy as ever. His reason for cutting it is because apparently my comment on his hair was troubling his mind. "Your hair looks weird." How am I supposed to know he's that vain?

And I hid the PS2 memory card to lavish him going over to Audrey's place to get it back and come home crying to say that there's no PS2 memory card for him to claim. I still gave it to him anyway. Not fun anymore. :D

Ru Yang is still trying to be a 'cool gamer'. Every time we go out, he wears his hoodie and keeps the hood up. He purposely walks into me and makes me want to strangle him. He's attempting to get himself into games like Halo and Battlefront (Which, by the way, are attempts in futility). And yesterday, he suddenly stopped in the middle of the supermarket and...

Humped. The. Air.

I kid you not. He literally stopped as we were walking back to our parents and humped nothing in particular and resumed walking. My sister and I laughed like mental patients that had escaped the asylum.

Talking about the few new songs I found myself addicted to, here are a few vids.

And...

Just to inform you, if you don't like piano music, just skip the first one (But it's so damn good you have to listen to it!!!!) and I've had the song in the second vid on repeat for two whole days!!!

Anyways, I was clearing the memory card for the camera when I found some cute pictures of Nyx and one of my grandmother's dog. :D

That's Baby. Yes, I know. An all-too sickly-sweet endearing name for a dog. And yes, they dress him up all the time.

Nyxie!! She's finally made peace with Kit and Yondie. :'D They now play together like a happy family!

Since I had temporary custody of the family's camera, I decided to take a few pictures for my cousin.

It's like a life-sized PSP.

You can buy games online, but most of them suck. D:

You can surf the internet if you have an Ethernet cable or wireless !! This totally pwns the laptop.

Oh yes, and the controllers are now wireless. B)

Oh noes!! Boss fight!!

Thank you for putting up with the ridiculous amount of horrible pictures because I truly suck at taking them.

KTHANXBAI.

*runs off to PS3*

P.S. I've posted up Chapter 15 of The Rock Kitty!! Go check it out! www.thisiswhatiliketowrite.blogspot.com

Entrepreneurship.

2010-03-19T11:08:00.000+08:00

Well. This year was my first time participating so actively in something school-related.

It was fun, but laborious for a lazy person like yours truly. Even now my shoulders and back still hurt like crazy. I need to use the hot water pack my sister uses for her crippled back. D:

My sis, Aud, Jo and I baked for ten, long, freaking hours. (Rachel and Sandra C. so lucky go home at six.) From two in the afternoon 'till eleven close to twelve midnight. The only time we stopped was at seven for a quick dinner. No time for rest, or even a shower. DO YOU KNOW HOW TORTUROUS IS THAT FOR A HYGIENE-CONSCIOUS PERSON LIKE ME!?!?

Therefore, despite the fact that it was eleven forty-something and that I was obviously going to sleep, I took a nice hot shower and washed my hair twice thoroughly to make up for the usual six o'clock shower . I was a happy Jassie after that.

It was worth it, though. It's actually really awesome hands-on experience, and also in addition, my mom said that she was proud of me 'cause I don't like doing housework. Which is, sadly, true. I prefer to escape and leave the work to either my sis, mom or maid. 0:D

The stall was really busy until like, twelve then people started going into the hall only. D: I didn't leave the stall once, so I was really ecstatic that I could get my hands on one of the really awesome and pretty drawings by a F5 student.

Which, by the way, I am so going to beg my mommy to laminate for me. It's too nice to go to waste. :3

I'm so sorry to the people whom I promised to go to their stalls, because I didn't. >< I swear, I really intended to go, but no time. D:

Oh, and thanks to those who bought the cupcakes despite the fact that you didn't really want one but bought one anyway purely because of moral support. I really appreciate it!!

Now, if you excuse me, I shall be off to do my pile of holiday homework.

I'm back from the dead.

2010-03-06T18:50:00.001+08:00

Okay. I admit it.

I've been off the blogging radar for quite a while...well, not a while but a really, really long time.

I have my reasons. No, it's not because of studying for the exams. Au contraire, I still watched a bit of TV and played KH2, but don't get me wrong. I studied my butt off for it, okay?

The internet was down for about a week and more because the modem decided, "Ooh! Lookie! I've just had an epiphany that maybe I'd like to try living in Heaven!!"

Well lookie here now, you damn modem, because you're just a piece of plastic that will never reach the fiery pits of hell, let alone the pearly gates of heaven. MUAHAHHAHAHAHA.

...if you think I'm insane, you're probably right, but no, I've never been to see a psychologist, much less had the urge or intention to.

Today sucked a lot, 'cause well, test papers. Need I say more? The testing period itself was abysmal, because I didn't manage to finish my D Maths and Physics and blindly plowed through BM. It's hard stuff, okay? BM, I mean.

I guess I'd get decent okay marks for D Maths and Physics (I doubt Physics, but who am I to judge myself?) if, oh I don't know, there was more time??

Screw Father Time. Why'd you just pop a short amount of time for subjects like those into the minds of our teachers? Okay, maybe you'd rather be giving more time to maybe those poor-not criminals like Saddam Hussein to hide and run away instead of pitiful children/teenagers like us? Have it your way. I'm soooo telling Mother Nature of your twisted way of thinking.

But never mind. It's the first test I've ever done in upper secondary. The pressure's choking with the way it wafts off from the words from our teachers, but I'm cool. I'm used to pressure. (AS IF!!)

Anyways. I've had two bundle of joys come join my family recently.

Firstly, a little kitten about two to three months old as of recently.

CUTE RIGHT!?? Although I don't remember permitting my sister to use my blanket. D:<

Her original name is Tai (or was is Dai?) Ngan Mui. In Cantonese, it literally means 'Big Eyed Girl'. And hell yes, her eyes are big as well as intriguing. It's sometimes a shadowy-blue while other times it's pure silver.

A stray momma cat went into Mocha's (My grandmother's ex-dog) old kennel and gave birth there, and then she died. So, being the good ol' loving traditional Chinese woman she is, my grandmother decided to take in the kittens for a while, treating them like here guests. I'm not kidding. Her guests.

...I guess that's why my sis and I used to feed stray cats that wandered in front of our house. I vaguely remembered one that looked like a Siamese and my sister called it Sesame. Dumb, I know. I told her so, but what can I do?

She was all endearing with the name, it was kinda creepy, no matter how much she liked calling it Sesame, it was such a cliche name for a Siamese cat. Really, Sesame does sound a tad bit like Siamese. It was like naming a dog Fido or a cat Tabby.

We've (My sister and I) named her (the kitten. I digressed a bit there with the subject of good ol' Sesame) Nyx for simplification purposes. Nyx is named after the ancient, primeval Goddess of Night, Nyx, one of the very first Greek elemental gods. (I'm a sucker for Greek Mythology, okay?)

She is SO darned adorable. :3

And second bundle??

I got this for my birthday from my dad!! (Well, actually it's a joint present for my sis and I but she insists that its mine when speaking of ownership, so...)

I've only got three games, though, and they're also offer games, i.e. below $50. I shall one day claim prize on the Tekken game as well as Final Fantasy XIII when it comes out in English. FF XIII has the priority. :D

Well, if there's the rumored KH3 coming out, well, sorry FF XIII. Guess you'll have to wait a little longer. ^.^

Speaking of Kingdom Hearts...

I LOVE THIS GAME!!!!!!!

And I especially love Roxas!! :D

Usually, I'm not a big fan of people who're all, "FML FML FML. WHY DOES MY LIFE SUCK SO BAD!?" but Roxas's story in the game is sooo sad and for me, heart-breaking.

I mean, if you were a person who doesn't have a heart or feelings like Roxas, and people are always choosing the other you because he's real and the fact that you're not, it's really sad. His theme song is sad and melancholic too. Sigh.

In the game, Roxas said this to Sora. "WHY!? WHY DID THEY CHOOSE YOU!?" and later, "Oh, now I see..." and then he died. D:

SCREW IT!! I LOVE ROXAS!! HE SHOULDN'T DIE!! ROXAS FTW!!

Okay. I should stop here. If not, I'll be ranting about the game-writer's injustice to poor Roxas and eventually start planning an anti-Sora campaign.

Yeah. We don't want that.

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2010!!!

2010-02-14T22:20:00.000+08:00

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR TO ALL CHINESE PEEPS OUT THERE!!!

I like the tigers. They're so cool. Lucky tiger-born people. Me leh? A pig. Imagine that. A PIG. (Well, actually a rat, but because I was born on CNY's eve, which makes it effectively pig before rat).

I love CNY, because it's the only festive-holiday that my family celebrates properly. It's like how Christmas is the Christian's and Hari Raya is the Muslim's and so on and forth.

Okay lah, I won't say I don't love CNY because of the red packets, but in truth, ang pows are the best part of CNY for me! :D

Oh yes. Many, many ang pows.

There's a lot of reasons, really, like how my parents get really long holidays so I can see them, (But it's kinda unfair too, because us students only get two days. D:), firecrackers to be played, mandarin oranges galore, good food, I get to use my quilt instead of my eleven? twelve? year old Teletubbies blanket...(I've asked my mom countless times to let me change my blanket. But what do I get? "Aiyah, never mind one lah, mei,")

This kind of firecracker in particular is my second-fave (The first one being the ones that go 'boom! whoosh! boom! in the sky), because I get to see my daddy running away after lighting the fuse like a chicken. Oh, and the mess it leaves after it's done. Pretty, pretty pieces of ashy-smokey paper.

Okay, not that pretty lah. I especially don't appreciate them when my new shoes get dirty from the mess, since we can't use a broom or anything during the first few days of CNY.

And then there's my mom's friend's house on the second day. Every year, she has catering for laksa and beef rendang, but obviously I take the laksa lah, since my family doesn't do beef. This particular laksa is AWESOME. Well, for me, since it's the only time in the year I eat laksa. Yes, I know. A poor, deprived child who only eats an Asian specialty once a year.

...I don't know about the poor, deprived part, but I really don't mind, since I still get to eat, right? :D

Anyways, besides today being Chinese New Year, there's also another reason for some people to celebrate.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADAM!!

I don't know why I picked that picture, but I just think the topsy-turvey theme is cool.

I don't really know Adam that well, but I think he's a nice person to talk to and a good classmate. :D

Also, the suicide thing will forever be in my memories. It's just too funny to forget about.

Anyways, have a blast celebrating your fourteenth!!

And I shall have a blast myself, collecting moneh.

Yes, I'm a money-face. $___$

Belated Wishes.

2010-02-07T20:54:00.001+08:00

I've been evil and have had no time to greet various friends for their birthdays this past month. So, I'll just wish all of January's babies here.

5th January - Yao Yin and GEOFFREYY!!!! :D

6th January - JOOOOOOO!!!! <3333333

14th January - Zhen Qin aka koffchickenkoff. 0:D

18th January - MEEZAA!!! And my love, GAARA!! <3333

21st January - MINATO!!!! :)))))))

31st January - WEI XIONG!!!! Also known as Johnny B)

With that, my amendments are done!

Oh, yeah. A short note. The Rock Kitty has moved to...

www.thisiswhatiliketowrite.blogspot.com

RELINK!!!!

Suicidal

2010-02-04T21:58:00.000+08:00

Today was pretty interesting. I learnt that Justin (also known as Mount Mattie Luke) is two things:

1) He's gay for Johnny (Wei Xiong :D) and,
2) That's why he's suicidal (You know, with Wei Xiong being not gay and all...)

We now know why his group chose the topic of 'Teen Suicide' for a poster for the classroom's bulletin board. :O

Anyways, Adam and I were like reading 'Warning Signs of a Suicidal Teenager' or whatever the title is. We were mocking Justin, so we read each line then acted a small skit out. By the way, what I remember isn't exactly what we said, so I'm paraphrasing a few words here. :D

Example

Teen has attempted suicide before

Adam:...(Runs towards an open window and places a foot on the sill) I'M GONNA JUMP!!

Me: NOOOOO!!!!!

Another Example

Teen refrains from conversations

Adam: (Goes to sit in the teacher's chair and acts emo)

Me: ADAM!! SPEAK TO ME!!!! PLEASE!!!

Yes, I know. We're very bored people.

Anyways, since we had free period for Character Building, we (Jo, Shaun, Wei Xiong and I) pretended to be psychologists (Well, technically, Shaun was doing most of the psychological thing. The rest of us were like assistants) for the suicidal Justin.

Scene One

Shaun: So, Justin, you can tell us anything.

Me: He's looking at Wei Xiong with this...look.

Jo: (Writes down 'possibly gay' in a book)

Wei Xiong: Oh my God. (Inches chair away from Justin)

Scene Two

Wei Xiong: (He took over for Shaun 'cause he went to Bry's group for a while) What do you think when you see this picture? (Points at a picture of a salary man in the POA textbook)
Justin: Uhhhh...he looks like a prisoner.

Me: OHMYGOD!!! HE WANTS TO BE A CONVICT SO HE CAN DIE A DEATH SENTENCE WITH HAVING TO COMMIT SUICIDE!!!

Jo: OH MY GOD!!

Justin: What the hell? (Does the signature Justin-bewildered look)

Me: SEE?? HE KEEPS TALKING ABOUT HELL!! LIKE JUST NOW DURING RECESS!! (Btw, that's a reference to the suicidal warning thing)

Scene Three

Wei Xiong: (Points at a picture of a woman in the POA textbook) What do you think of this picture?? Who do you see in it??

Justin: I...

Jo: YOU THINK THAT WOMAN IS YOU!?? JAS!! HE SAID HE THINKS HE'S A WOMAN!!

Me: You see? That's why I told you he was gay!! (Gasps) OHMYGOD! WEI XIONG!! HE'S GIVING YOU THAT LOOK AGAIN!!

Wei Xiong: Oh my God!! (Moves chair away again)

Justin: What the h-

Me: AGAIN WITH THE REFERENCE TO HELL!!

We have decided to postpone the session to another day as the bell rang to end the period.

January's almost over.

2010-01-28T21:18:00.000+08:00

Holy mother of God, I can't believe it.

I have survived a month of school without lapsing into a random seizure or having a mental melt/breakdown.

This is awesome. I have the power. :D

Anyways, I can't wait for CNY!!!! Many new clothes to be worn!!!! Oh and not to forget, shoes!!!!

...what can I say? I'm a bimbo at heart. :D

And then all the yummy food (Talking about yummy food, I really should watch what I'm eating. D:), visiting friends and ahemangpowahem.

Oh right, I meant to post up some pictures of how my room now looks like since we sort of did a makeover to the whole room. We got a sofa-bed!! :D

When I got to school on Tuesday morning, what I said instead of the usual 'HI! GOOD MORNING!!', was 'HI!! I WENT TO IKEA WITH MY MOM AND DAD AND HER (Points to sister) YESTERDAY!!'.

I'm not sure why I said that though. No one really wants to know that I went to Ikea.

That's how the sofa looks like. :D We got it from Ikea last Monday. My mom wanted us to get one with black squiggly checkers on, but it was too big for our super-teeny-tiny compact room. Therefore, the five-foot sofa.

I am inclined to give the new sofa a name, but it's...weird. So I'll just call it...sofa.

And another thing I'm excited about (Well, besides the obvious that it's gonna be my birthday in a few weeks...OMGOMGOMG!!) is the KK Music Festival this August!!

I've always wanted to join it. There was a golden opportunity when I was eight, but tak boleh, because I was too young. D':

BUT NOW!!

My teacher says I can join, if my mom and dad will let me. Which is why I asked them to let me participate as a birthday gift for this year. To which my mom replied with, 'I didn't let you go the other years not because of the travelling costs but maybe you can't keep up with your studies'.

Because the festival might be in late August, I came up with a proposition. I said that I could keep up and that if the festival's right after the tests in August, I'd like to join it.

No answer. D:

But I'll keep trying!

For now, I'll just work on my exam/competition pieces.

Salon Day.

2010-01-23T19:10:00.000+08:00

So, today, I got my first. pedicure. EVER.

And it was quite awesome.

Okay lah, I admit that the part where the nice pedicure lady eliminated the effed-up in-growth from my poor toe wasn't the best feelings in the world, but if I leave that aside, pedicures are totally awesome.

You know, they should like, include a foot massage in a pedicure package. I think it would be so much more relaxing and stuff.

I'm not the biggest fan of going to the salon most of the time, but when there's hair-washing included, I LOVE IT.

I mean, have to experienced having your hair washed by hairdressers? It's heavenly and spine-chilling in a good way. It's like when the nice lady rubs her fingers against your scalp, she's removing the stress that wasn't even there before.

Yes, it's that amazing for me.

Oh, and after that, I had to cut my hair. I figured I should change my hairstyle a little, so I cut it short and got bangs.

......................I mean, real bangs. Not the weird fringe-bangs combo I used to have (a few hours ago)

I now look like this

Please don't laugh when you see me in school.

New Interests.

2010-01-22T21:51:00.000+08:00

I have some stuff that I'd like to show you.

Stuff that, really, are things that I have recently taken an interest in.

First, Bleach.

It is infinitely as awesome as Naruto and Fairy Tail. Which is the reason why they're all competing against each other for top Shonen manga.

Yep. Top Shonen manga.

I happen to love these two particular characters from Bleach.

Firstly, Toshiro Hitsugaya.

Okay lah, I know he's short and acts like a total kid, but...

He's awesome and quite hot if you pretend he's not four feet but six.

Oh, yes.

The other one is Ichigo Kurosaki.

Granted that his sword looks like an over-sized kitchen knife and that he's kind of a crazy nutshell in some point of the series, but that's 'cause of his hollow side. Some of you SAS students may have seen the last Ichigo image from above on the Chemistry Lab's preparation door, saying 'BEWARE'.

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Oh yeah, beware all right.

BUT HE'S STILL COOL LIKE TOSHIRO!! :D And a plus point is that he's six feet tall!!

He's not even real. Pardon me.

Next, a super-awesome-techno-band!!

HYPER CRUSH

PS The following neon font above is a tribute to their tendency to wear neon clothes most of the time.

See? This is what I mean by tendency to wear neon clothes.

Neon clothes, are like, their signature thing. It's quite cool, really. Oh, and Donny (The blondie) has this really cool robotic arm glove that glows and stuff. COOL SHIT.

Anyways, I chanced across Hyper Crush by one of my favourite iTouch apps, Tap Tap Revenge Three.

I totally fell in love with their song, Keep Up.

Which, they're in the process of making a music video. I think it has a...say, 60% chance of being a mainstream music video?

I like some of their other songs too.

Watch the music videos below, if you don't mind listening to 80's-techno.

Robo Tech

The Arcade

These are my new favourite things. :D

Oh yeah, by the way, yesterday when we went to Excapade for dinner...

I didn't notice it until I started making a joke about his corpulence. And his moobs.

He was wearing a shirt with 'A CUP' written across his upper chest.

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.................................

...Poor kid.

What I don't really like.

2010-01-22T11:39:00.000+08:00

I've never really liked Christmas songs, but...

...I am happy.

One month to...!!

2010-01-16T19:27:00.000+08:00

As much as it pains me to not blog in the best colour in the universe, that is, orange, Audrey says it's difficult to read in the glaring colours, 'specially when my new layout's colour is so...mellow (Which is totally unlike si moi). So now I have to blog in boring black.

I mean, really, black is such a dull colour. Which is really why I don't understand why like, 99.9% of the population LOVES the colour black. Amber-orange is the happiest colour on earth!!! (Well technically it's yellow). So therefore, people should come to appreciate the colour orange a bit more.

ORANGE FTW!!!

Anyways, I took it upon myself to blog today 'cause it's the sixteenth of January. What's so special about the sixteenth of the first month of a year?

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THAT'S RIGHT. THE SIXTEENTH OF JANUARY IS EXACTLY A MONTH AWAY FROM THE SIXTEENTH OF FEBRUARY. WHICH MEANS...

IT'S GONNA BE MY BIRTHDAY!!!!

I'M GONNA BE FOURTEEN!!!!

Not size fourteen lah.

By the way, the model is purdy, ain't she? Shit, I'm not even size twelve and I'm not pretty. )':

Age fourteen, obviously.

So the sole reason I'm blogging today is not to announce how old I'm getting (I think in about six years, I wouldn't even want to think about my age. Gah. Twenty. So old. *shudders*)

It's to show off my wishlist for this year!!! :D :D :D :D

What I, Teo Ru Yi @ Jasmine, would like for my fourteenth birthday, 16th February 2010.

Ouran High School Host Club Part Two (Funimation Version)

Geoff got me Part One for Christmas last year. KoffIwatchedthewholeDVDtwotimeskoff.

Posters of my favourite anime/anime characters/singers/bands.

I've always wanted some posters to put up on my side of the wall. I mean, I only have like, Golden Retriever posters, a Taylor Swift one and a Cobra Starship poster. Free ones lagi, you know. Not the super-high-quality glossy one you know.

Obviously, if (note the italic-ed 'if' there) I get posters for my birthday, I wouldn't put them up in such a distasteful and cluttered manner like the wall (I got it off google. Hee.) above.

Oh, and if you buy Jonas Brothers like the wall (I got it off google. Hee.) above, I will incinerate it and not talk to you. Forever.

Anyways, moving on.

I achieved something today. Today, I completed the Quest for The Nice Tuna^TM.

Gosh, I feel so all heroic, as if I were in an epic story or something. Like...Hercules! Yeah, Hercules!

Only, I don't have a weird swirl on a really really sharp chin and be able to have extremely huge bulging muscles and the same time having a waist that's less than five inches.

Anyways, I used to eat Ayam Brand Tuna (Singapore brand, you know. Veli, veli nice. Well, kinda.) with bread as a kid. I stopped eating it for a while 'till recently because of two reasons.

One, DOLPHINS! THEY WERE KILLIN' DOLPHINS AND PUTTIN' THEM INTO TUNA. (Well, now they don't.)

Two, suddenly, they started making more variations and every single one of them sucked. Well, 'cept for the original one.

Anyways, hence the Quest for the Nice Tuna^TM. They have like, two different tunas with the same freaking name. Mayonnaise Tuna. Chicken lah! They should've maybe put it like, Mayonnaise: The Original and Yummier One and Mayonnaise: The One That Sucks Like Hell.

Anyways, today, for lunch, my long, perilous quest has finally come to an end.

I have obtained the Nice Tuna^TM.

And have had my taste buds and tummy satisfied with just a single country grain sandwich with said Nice Tuna^TM.

Oh yeah.

Anyways, I learned that the mayonnaise one with the light-blue checkers is the Mayonnaise: The Original and Yummier One.

Oh, and the one with the dark-blue checkers?

Let's just say it's not going to be in my hands any time soon. (:

-Jasmine.

Ramblings.

2010-01-14T22:43:00.000+08:00

Dear me.

I haven't been a very good blog owner, have I?

I haven't even blogged since...new year.

Sometimes, I wonder why I even bother to blog. I mean, I don't lead the most exciting life on earth. I suck in English, have terrible taste when it comes to blogging about stuff and I think I'm the only one actually viewing my blog.

Yep. I am the exact opposite of Audrey: FAILED BLOGGER.

Whatever lah. I want to blog means I can blog, okay? (Actually I'm just keeping this blog because it would be painfully embarrassing to only have a blog that only has lame stories in it. I am thinking of changing the name and link. Pshh. The Rock Kitty. SO LAME. How much lamer can I get this year? I don't have much candor, that's for sure.)

Anyways, school's same as always, riotous when classes aren't in session, the occasional dyed hair (Why dye the hair? Highlight not enough meh?) and homework, homework and more homework.

Really. Can't they give our poor hands a break? Some people have violin teachers who can incessantly chew your head off if you don't play your concerto properly, you know. ):

Let's see. My year has so far been quite okay lah, no drama, no nothing. So happy. (:

Well, if telling Albert about my family's history is considered drama, then I had drama. I told him how that my sister and I were actually half-sisters that just happened to look the same. My dad has two wives; the first being my mom and the second being my sister's mom. But my sis was conceived first, and I very much later, but we happened to be prematurely born on the same day, and thus our uncanny similar appearances.

Believable, yes? My daddy praised me for stating he had two wives. I kid you not.

9Y, dubbed Nerd Class, isn't the least bit nerdy (Okay lah, I admit that I'm only saying that I'm not the nerdy one. In fact, I am far from nerdy. I am stupid). It's really like a normal class, only that people just think we're all nerdy and are 24/7 pushing glasses up the bridges of our noses and frantically reading page XXX of a random textbook XXX.

Speaking of textbooks. I am disappointed in the MOE this year. Or whatever printing company that prints all the textbooks for school. I mean, come on. The second week's already finishing and I still haven't gotten my POA, English and A. Maths textbooks.

Well, actually I was close to getting a POA textbook, but it was so goddamn freaking overpriced that my mom actually called Bismi's owner to talk about it (My mom. So powerful. Know so many people one. Compared to my dad...I think I inherited his anti-social genes.)

Anyways, we did composition today.

Yes, I know. Composition so boring, and normal. I LIKE IT OKAY?

Sorry. I started PMS-ing there for a moment for no reason. :D

We were supposed to write something that started with, 'My name is...', so everyone obviously wrote 'Myself'. Now that I think about it, I could written something like: My name is Don Flack. I am a detective who works closely with the NYPD Crime Lab, and Mac (Short for MacKenna) Taylor is my boss. I like to play b-ball with Danny, a crime lab detective who works in the lab as well. (Yes, I wrote as the police dude. He's hot. :D)

But I wrote about myself. So there. I think I wrote utter rubbish, as I wrote two to three lines on how common my name is (It is, by the way. Jasmine. So common.). Then I wrote an overall description of myself, what I like to do and my future plans. I really am a boring and uncreative person. Maybe that's why I never got an A for art in primary school.

My sister wrote about herself and also yours truly. She was like, "My sister has constructed four separate plans for her future..."

Optimistic much? On contrary, I believe the safest way is to have as many back-up plans as possible. :D

Speaking of utter rubbish, I sure am writing a lot of rubbish here. Well, I best be off.

-Jasmine.

Happy New Year 2010!!

2010-01-01T14:39:00.000+08:00

HAPPY 2010 PEOPLE!!!!!!

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Time for my resolutions!!

Resolutions for the year 2010

Be more attentive in class
Finish some of my writing projects
Stick to my daily running
Be nicer to my brothers

There! Simple and easy!!

Have a nice new year!!!

-Jasmine.

New Year's Eve

2009-12-31T13:07:00.000+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE PEOPLE!!!

Anyways, before 1 January 2010 comes, I'd like to go back to this year's ('09) resolutions I made.

RESOLUTIONS FOR THE YEAR 2009

~~I must put more time into practising my violin.~~ This, I definitely did.
I must put more time into revising my studies everyday. This one was a big fail, sadly. T^T
~~I must improve my handwriting.~~I must say, my small 'T's don't look like the Holy Cross no more. :D
I must finish reading all of Amy Tan's novels. This, I did not do. I just love to read some other books. Sigh.
I must not torture my brothers more than I should. I should have never put this as a resolution.
~~I must improve my Math and Science grade.~~ HEHEHEHEHEH.
I must buy less books thus not bankrupting my parents every time we go to Miri. This should not be my resolution for next year either.
~~I must take the Grade Five practicals.~~ I have Grade Six now. ):
I must try to keep my study desk neater. FAIL.
I must try to insult Audrey less and keep whatever rude insults I may say to her to myself. =P FAIL FAIL FAIL.
~~I must not obsess too much on what I'm obsessing on now.~~ This one was A O-Kay.
I must finish whatever I don't finish. TOTAL FAIL. Instead, I started more writing projects. Boo hoo. T^T
I must try to be less evil than I am now. EPIC FAIL.

Therefore, to sum it all up: I should not make so many resolutions for next year. I suck at keeping them.

Happy New Year!

-Jasmine.

Cosplay

2009-12-28T00:34:00.000+08:00

HI PEOPLE. I realized that I didn't do a Christmas post or anythin', but never mind that. I'm not even Christian anyway. (But pressies are definitely most welcome!! :D)

Yesterday, I watched Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, today was Avatar and tomorrow's gonna be Sherlock Holmes.

Yeah, I know. Even my dad said that was a lot.

Anyways, I'm not gonna write about them. I really suck at the reviews kind of thing, and I think people prefer to read the mindless stuff I usually write here (aka bits and pieces of my private life, since, well, 90% of the people I know hate me secretly so they can gossip about the stuff I write, but that's no secret really. Pardon the pun.)

Anyways, I saw a really interesting sight today. A couple of friends normally hanging out in cosplay!!!

Definition from Wikipedia:

Cosplay (コスプレ kosupure), short for "costume play", is type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea.

The term cosplay represents a contraction of the English words costume play. The term was coined by Nov Takahashi of the Japanese studio Studio Hard while attending the 1984 Los Angeles Science Fiction Worldcon. He was impressed by the hall and the costumed fans and reported on both in Japanese science fiction magazines. The coinage reflects a common Japanese method of abbreviation in which the first two moras of a pair of words are used to form an independent compound. Costume becomes kosu (コス), and play becomes pure (プレ).

Sorry, no pics. I didn't bring my camera. (Since I'm no hardcore blogger or anything like that.) But I did manage to recognize all of the characters that they were portraying. All the costumes were surprisingly detailed and accurate, 'cept the hair styles and colour, of course. I doubt you can easily find weirdly coloured wigs in Brunei.

There was the ever-popular favourite among girls: Sakura Haruno of Naruto.

No. As I said, no pics. But I did manage to salvage some off Google. :D

Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach.

And Zero Kiryuu from Vampire Knight.

Only three, though. No more. ): I'd have liked to see maybe a Gaara one, or even the Hitachiin Twins, maybe. :D

Surprisingly, this cosplayed Gaara looks quite...normal.Almost real as the 2-D one, in fact.

The Hitachiin Twins (Ouran High School Host Club) are tricky in cosplaying since they're exact identical twins (Well, in the anime anyway. They made a difference in their appearance in the latest chapters of the manga).

Cardcaptor Sakura!! My very first and one of my all-time favourite anime!! (Look, the girl's even got the cards!! SO COOL!)

Li Syaoran from Cardcaptor Sakura (Guy, but cosplayed but girl. Very common, since most guy-anime characters tend to be pretty-boys). :D

x3 x3 x3. Can't believe someone actually cosplayed Gray Fullbuster from Fairy Tail since the anime just started airing like, a few months ago. GRAY FO' LIFE!!

Ciel Phantomhive from Kuroshitsuji. He's usually most of the time cosplayed by girls since he's only 10/11 in the series and usually dresses fancy. The anime is a fantasy one, but they have a TV Japanese drama that's airing, so the cosplay looks fairly normal.

I admit I get a little bit excited when it comes to cosplay. It's like, my favourite anime characters coming to life!!! Although I do prefer the 2-D pictures rather than the 'real' thing.

Cosplaying is actually a popular hobby in other countries (heck, even your beloved USA). There are many big-scale cosplay conventions all around the world, and my sister told me that there was one recently in here. (Though, it was a small-scale one). It's a cute and normal hobby, really. It's not disturbing for me, but I guess all you anti-anime freaks (yes, freaks) out there think otherwise. (Just so you know, cosplay costumes are hellishly expensive. Just thought you'd like to know) (Really, I'm not trying to rub it in your face...or anything...)

Although, I can say I'll never do cosplay myself anyhow. I'm not too obsessed with anime to go to that extent, but I won't deny the fact I can recognize a fair amount of costumes with ease. If I were to cosplay, I'd probably dress up in a Sgt. Keroro suit. :D

Anyways, it's late. I shouldn't be blogging weird stuff like this. Also, I shouldn't be putting up weird pictures. (Just in case you wanna look at more weird pictures, go to this link>> www.cosplay.com)

-Jasmine.

Happy 14th Birthday Sandra!!

2009-12-24T09:47:00.000+08:00

Okay, I just wanna say a few words for this super-awesome BFF times infinity.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANDRA!!!!

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You're extremely nice, super-talented and smart, too. It's difficult to cope with a weird person like me who likes to make extremely lame jokes, but you somehow still consider me as one of your best friends, so I'm happy and thankful for that.

Whatever you want to do in the future, I'm sure you'll be able to accomplish it 'cause you're Sandra. Talented and hardworking. When you become a designer I'll be your number one fan, you can make sure of that. (That is, if I have the money to buy 'em. ^-^")

Anyways, I had fun at yesterday's party with the water-war and such. I won't really mind if you had another one. ;D

-Jassie.

MOVIES

2009-11-28T21:11:00.000+08:00

I finally watched 2012. So happy. :D

The movie was pretty epic. Epic shit. It was sooooo sadddd but at least it had a kind of happy ending.

I now know what to do when it's 2012. I'll have to make sure to go the China with a couple billion euro and buy tickets for everyone I know. Before then, I have to make sure I have a sexy, hot Russian pilot named Sasha working for me, and a big big auto-show unused cargo plane in Las Vegas.

I think that the movie was pretty realistic in the sense that humans are really selfish creatures. It was pretty sad to see true human nature when everyone was rushing to get into the ark. It really was. I especially hate that stupid bastard of a Russian businessman named Yuri. Well, at least he had the heart to save his two sons. I like Ceasar, though. :3

Watched New Moon yesterday.

It was a nice movie, not so bad as some people made it out to be. Taylor Lautner was incredibly hooooot. ALL the werewolves 'cept Quil and Sam were HOTTTTTTTTTT. I like Felix too, although he's a creepy Volturi vamp.

I loved Emmet's line. "Dating an older woman, huh? Hot."

And when Bella said something about Jake's age, he was like, "Age is just a number, baby. What are you, like forty?"

AHAHAHAHAH. He's so hot.

BADBOYS = HOTNESS = LOVE.

And Harry Clearwater was funneh. "Don't worry 'bout the bears, Bella. My Kung Fu is strong."

An agitated Jasper, is a HOT Jasper. I love Jasper. :D

So happy I decided to watch this. :D Can't wait for Eclipse. MORE JASPER SCREEN TIME!! <333

-Jasmine.

I'm not being arrogant or anything but...

2009-11-19T22:44:00.000+08:00

I can't help it. I can't help it.

It's been bugging me for such a loooooooooong time. I gotta get this outta my system. I know I hafta listen to what Ms. J and the teachers said, "Don't be arrogant and haughty and etc. etc."

BUT.

I can't help it!! I HAFTA LET IT OUTTTTTTTTTTT.

Not quite what you guys were expecting, yes?

I bet you were expecting me to gloat about what I got for SPE. But I ain't gonna. Cause I listen to my teachers. :D

But really, my anime collection is huge, ain't it? Well, the first few pics are of my original albums collection, but wellllll......

I got bored of waiting for my brothers to finish watching TV, but they seem to have endless channels to watch, so I took pics of my two most prized collections. I'll show you my other one next time on another rainy day. :D

-Jasmine.

Emo-ness of the Last Day

2009-11-15T19:14:00.000+08:00

You know I'm not really that into the touchy-feely, corny kinda stuff, riiiight?

So yeah. But okay lah, you all are understandably upset 'cause everyone's all separating an' stuff. Honestly, I think most of you are relieved to have me gone, since I'm super-annoying, bossy, annoying and just plain bossy. And not to mention, I admit my tongue takes a regular sharpening session some times. And also, I know more than half of you hate me for one reason or another, and I wanna say something: I don't hate all of you. Just one or two random people who shall not be named. But generally not all of you.

So, a bunch of stuff I wanna say to all my darling friends.

Jossie, Sister, Twin, Helpless Ex-Girlfriend or whatever you want me to call you...

I know. I'm gonna see you later in our room. But still, it's kinda fun to write emo letters to you for everyone to see, right? You're so totally awesome, 'specially during the first few considerably hard months earlier this year.

I had a really difficult time, but you helped me pull through it and I'm thankful for it. I'm sorry I've been a pain-in-the-you-know-what more than usual this year. It's you know..adolescence....and hormones kicking in... See? Aren't you prouda me for using a big words like adolescence!? :D

Anyways, you're uber mature for someone your age, and even though I'm your twin, we're mostly different, see? You're smart, I'm not; you cook, I can't and lots of other stuff. I've always marveled at your perfectness, but I know nobody's perfect. But to me, you're good, if not perfect.

Audrey, Dodo, Edward-lover...
Hi. You're the coolest same-age-cousin I've ever had (You're the only one). You PMS a lot, but that's you. You like to bimbo, which is cool 'cause that's what both of us do together. You enjoy doing the, "OMGHE'SSOHOT!" thing with me, and sometimes with Sandra as well, making my dear big sis an alien to our little girly world. (Not that I'm saying my sister's not girly...)

I don't understand what's so great about Rob P. but if you like him, like him lah. What can I do? I tried to save you, but I couldn't...Okay, just kiddin' ;p

Okay. See you when I see you.

Sandra, Sandie, David-loving-kinsperson...
HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII. We're gonna be meeting up a lot during the hols, but I miss you lots! You're amazing on how you're always to nice to people, people like me who tend to be quite...female dog-ish. You're quite the role model, just like my sister. Always ever so patient, funny, understanding, and also an essential personality quirk for people who associate with nutcases like Audrey and I, your bimbo-ness. I mean, I appreciate bimbo people who are nice. (:

You're so artistically talented, and I do hope you can really pursue your dream of becoming a designer of sorts. I have yet to convert you and Audrey into anime-guys-drooler-overs. OHSHC guys are hot, but there are hotter ones out there in the TV screen. You just hafta get the right DVD and pop it inside the player!

Jo...
I hope we're gonna be in the same class next year. I know we've had our past differences a really long time ago, but thank god we managed to overcome them, because if not, I'd have really missed an opportunity at a great friendship.

You're someone I can sometimes relate to when it's emotion-wise. Only sometimes, though, because I won't try to pretend and say, "Oh, how I understand you." or "I feel you!" 'cause frankly, I don't most of the time. After many years of knowing you, I'm still tryna decode (Decode! Geddit? As in, the Paramore song??? Okay, I know, lame.) you. I'm not sure what kind of relationship problems you have, but you know I'll always be here for you if you need some snarky or dumb comment from yours truly (:

Elle...
WHY!?? I have no idea why're you moving schools, and I still can't accept the fact that I won't see you next year in school. You're, like, a part of my everyday school-life. Not seeing you in school next year will be like I lost a limb or somethin'. Ima really miss you.

I know you're not really enthusiastic with me being an Atheist, because I know you love your religion and its God so much. Maybe one day I'll try to understand. I mean, I'm still young, and I have the ficklest of all fickle minds, don'cha think?

Shaun...
You don't read my blog. I know you don't. But I think you should have a public emo note from me, 'cause you're a really close friend of mine. We're not exactly super-uber-tight as some people make it out to be. We're close, but not so close. I appreciate what we have, though. You're straightforward, deadpan and well, sometimes I wish I'd never met you, with all the weird things you tend to do.

But nonetheless, I'm glad I met you. You're realistic in some points, but mostly idealistic. I mean, you're always thinking of something random and funny to do, and till now, you're still into your sweet-wrapper-tree project. Oh, and your morbid sense of humor seems to match closely with mine, so we're bosom buddies in that sense.

Geoff...
Short words for you. I'm sorry I haven't been writing emails as much as I used to, but that's 'cause I've been...occupied...with koffyouknowpokemonkoff. But you're such a cool friend, and although you're already in a different school, you deserve to have a place here in the Public Emo Notes. Oh, yeah, by the way, I still haven't gotten over the initial shock of you finally having your voice cracked.

Okay. That's all I wanna say. To the rest of my friends, hope you guys get what you want for next year's class placements and results!

-Jasmine.

Advertising

2009-11-09T22:16:00.000+08:00

Okay, I'm getting a special DVD three-in-one Kyou Kara Maoh! pack if my dad doesn't keep the promise that he's made with me. So hope that he doesn't.

...but the thing is, the promise is that he would buy the special DVD three-in-one Kyou Kara Maoh! pack this Sunday for me. So, see? It's a win-win situation for me, and a burn-burn situation for my dad's wallet.

Life as a teenager is sweet sometimes, you know? :D

So, I noticed that some of my dear friends have kindly advertised my other less-significant blog for me so that the whole teeny tiny world can see how weird I am. Anyways, I'd like to repay the favour.

So...

Fictions by LB by Audrey is the place for you if you love Edward Cullen and hot hire-for-a-day wedding dates.

MyStory by Sandra is safe haven for those of you who wanna taste some of life's bitter moments and some sweet romances along the way without hurting nothing except your emotions.

Thoughts Into Pixels by WRITINGMON, a place for girl-power-oriented people who wanna read about a short girl kicking tall guys' asses. Results may vary.

Jo Writes by Jo is perfect for those of you who like heart-wrenching poems and wanna read about high school hell.

Go to The Rock Kitty by the incredible moi if you like reading cliches about a girl meets boy band, girl joins them and chaos (kind of) ensues.

Well! Now that I look at it this way, I have really little story blog affliates. If you wanna advertise, please say so. I'm a nice person. (:

One last thing...

www.averagebutawesome.piczo.com

GO THERE!

GO THE FREAKING HELL THERE!

I'll be your friend if you do, kay???

-Jasmine.

I think...

2009-11-05T11:28:00.000+08:00

Heyyyy. Long time no see. Or blog. Or chat. Whatever. I realised today, that I have over 200 stalkers because of the unique visitor counter I put there in the column. Yeah. Thank you, 200+ stalkers, for stalking me. It's a real confidence boost. I think.

Just write in the shoutmix, will you? I need to know whether I'm blogging right or not.

So...I think every Year 8 blog has this, but whatever, like Audrey says, good reading material is good reading material.

SPE IS OVERRR!!

WOO HOOOOOOO!!!!

So, I've been thinking these past few days and I've created a list of 'I Think's.

Jasmine's I Thinks.

I think Pokemon is awesome. Seriously. It's like, my noblest hobby of all hobbies.
I think Ru Zheng might be actually gay. Seeing how gay he acts.
I think Vaughn is awesome and cute.
I think History is a bad subject to learn, because it breeds racism and racism breeds hatred, and hatred breeds war. See?
I think we should not learn Bahasa Melayu Brunei because we might incorporate those Brunei words into our karangan then we'll get bad marks for using slanguage (A word I made up. Cool, eh?)
I think you people should watch Sgt. Keroro. It's an awesome comedy anime. Sir, yes sir!
I think suffering from utter paranoia is stupid. But I suffer from it. It sucks ass.
I think I sleep late because of my paranoia.
I think people who say reading is lame are weird, because if reading is lame, then they're lame, 'cause they have the ability to read.
I think I'm going to watch Brokeback Mountain soon, because I'm bored of doing nothing at home and also because Heath Ledger the Hot is in it.
I think you people should listen to Brick by Boring Brick by Paramore. Awesome song.
I think my longest 'Don't talk to that person' time is with my brother, Dork. Two weeks.
I think my vocabulary is limited. I should learn more new words.
I think my dad is wrong when he says I should be a lawyer. I'm not a swindler.
I think I have good luck, but it's just applied to the wrong areas of my life.
I think it's weird that my parents both had lives before my siblings and I.
I think Norman is the awesomest snake on earth.
I think it's also weird that you guys actually read this trash.
I think using contractions save time.
I think you should read quickly ahead.
I think you should go to www.averagebutawesome.piczo.com if you're bored.

www.averagebutawesome.piczo.com

Mostly for girls, but if you wanna know how girls think, go there.

GO THERE!

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AH JUST GO THERE!!

Thank you. (:

-Jasmine.

Happy Birthday :)

2009-10-07T15:08:00.000+08:00

Kays. This is gonna be like, a really short post.

I just wanna wish my mom a happy birthday, even though you have no sliver of knowledge that I have a blog. Well, to be more precise, two blogs.

Well, anyways...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUMMY!!

I know I'm an insufferable pain-in-the-ass, 'specially when it comes to whining about annoying things i.e. my brothers Gay and Dork. And I know I've been very much disturbing lately 'cause of the jacket that I want.

Love you always.

Maybe I'll give you my blog link when I grow up. We'll see.

-Jasmine.

Being Straight is Not Good.

2009-10-06T14:46:00.000+08:00

Today, in class during Maths, we were all helping Hanif so he could understand the Positive-Negative rule thingie, 'cause he kept getting it all mixed up.

Jo: You know Ned's Declassified, right?
Hanif: Yeah.
Jo: So let's pretend you're Emo, which is Negative, and Jasmine's Happy, which is Positive.
Hanif: Uh-huh...
Jo: So, if Jasmine becomes your friend, she'll become Emo, which is Negative. So Negative-Emo and Positive-Happy is Negative-Emo! And if you and Akeem are both Emo, you'll be Happy because-
Jasmine: You'll be singing the Emo song!!!
Hanif: OH!! NOW I GET IT!!!!
Akeem: Dude, you can like think of it as guy and girl as well!
Hanif: Riiiiight.
Jasmine: So you say it's normal for guy-guy and girl-girl and it's bad for guy-girl?
Both boys: *Grin* Yeah!

So now I know the real reason why Romeo and Juliet never got approved.

-Jasmine.

Awesome book

2009-10-05T22:09:00.000+08:00

I finally finished reading that scary-as-hell (Not literally. It wasn't a horror book or anything) book two days ago.

I started reading it like, after the Mocks? and had a reading hiatus three days after I started it. And I don't read when I'm not at school. (Life is weird like that, is it not?) So, Miguel, if you're reading this (I don't know how you will, though, since you're dead and all) HAH! I FINISHED YOUR BOOK!

I actually thought I was gonna take YEARS to finish the book.

Okay, I haven't said the title of the book or anything. It's this Spanish classic, Don Quixote. It's actually Don Quijote in Spanish, but whatever. I think Quixote sounds way cooler.

And I've been reading the Norton Critical Edition, too. Which is waaaay confusing as hell at first, but the little notes translating the Spanish words helped a lot! It's also, I found out by chance from my dinky lil' trusty iTouch app, 1500+ Cool Facts, that Don Quixote is in every category of the Dewey Decimal Category. Don't know what that is? Google it.

Actually, I have no idea how the book came to be in my shelf. I was just arranging my books before the Mock exams as a way of 'relieving the unnecessary stress, 'cause no one wants premature wrinkles, now do they?', when I came across the book. Flipped through it, decided "Hey, why not? I read Jane Eyre and Gone With The Wind and they're totally awesome."

But Don Quixote is not just any tragic romance novel. Wait, scratch that. It's NOT a tragic romance novel. It's a sarcastically entertaining parody of a screwed-up old dude thinking he's Don Quixote de La Mancha. Ah, sarcasm is the joy of life.

You know, sometimes I feel like giving stupid Sancho a slap for being a total hypocrite for actually believing that Don Quixote is a real knight-errant, but ah well, it's a book. And 'sides, its author is long dead, so I don't see the point complaining, now would I? Okay, fine, if I could say something to the author, I'd say, "AWESOME BOOK! But Sancho's hubris when he was governor? Totally pissed the hell outta me,"

To which he'd probably reply with a blank look. I don't think Miguel de Cervantes ever understood English. I mean, I was reading a translated version of the book, so I may be wrong. And another thing is that I don't like the way male authors always poke fun at women for being so ugh, dumb? Guess that makes up for multiple insults that female authors make about men. I am now convinced that authors of all ages are sexists at heart. Hell, everyone's a sexist at heart.

'Kay. Sorry for boring you. I know I'm the only person who exists in our Year that actually reads dorky literature classics. I'm just so totally enthusiastic about actually finishing the book and finding out the ending to Don Quixote de La Mancha's adventures! (Which, was a sad ending. :/ He died all sad 'n broken. Guess he finally realized that there's a thin but definite line between reality and fantasy).

I must say though, this book has totally inspired me to make use of the little Spanish translations and try learning a random language. I mean, I can't even speak a single 'Apa khabar?' properly without sounding like a China Republican trying a British accent. (What? I thought it was a good metaphor.) So, the book is now dog-eared and has many pencil marks underlining words that I shall look up when I feel the need to.

Don't scold me for abusing my book. I don't care how the book looks like, as long as it's clean and readable. But no worries, if you want, I'll take care of your books like it's my cat/DS/iPod/Mac/Peanut Butter Sandwich when I happen to borrow any (This means you Jo! :D)

You guys should totally read this book. It's highly entertaining and hugely amusing. (If you like weird stuff...) 9/10 for this!

See ya. I gotta sleep. Like Mel, iDon't want iBags. :)

-Jasmine.

My Internet Pet Peeves

2009-10-02T00:38:00.000+08:00

Hi. As you can see, I'm blogging at approximately 10:47 at night. Because I just finished logging off my facebook account, and a list of pet peeves have formed in my mind.

Normally, being a 'I-don't-really-give-a-f***king-damn' kind of person, but a girl can only take so much when many things that annoy you to no end, start accumulating in a little unattended corner of your mind.

I've never considered anything to be pet peeves up until now, so here's the little list of things that irritate the hell out of me.

Internet Pet Peeves

#1. When people on Facebook send you multiple friend requests.

Okay. I admit it was a bit of my fault on the part where when I used to play Restaurant City in a hardcore manner (I was young and stupid then, but I grew up eventually. (: ), I blindly put in my email on the mass invite group. That was like, half a year or more ago. And today, while checking friend requests, I saw some requests which I thought I ignored oh, I don't know, maybe...THREE WEEKS AGO?

I don't get it. What part of the word 'ignore' do those people not understand? (Okay lah, I know some people might not speak or understand English, but still)

I IGNORED YOUR FRIEND REQUEST. IT MEANS I HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN BULLSH*T AROUND WITH YOUR DESPERATE PLEAS FOR INGREDIENTS. I DON'T CARE IF YOU SAY, "Please respect me and let me be in your Friends list for at least 48 hours, as I am a busy person."

IF YOU'RE BUSY, THEN WTH ARE YOU DOING PLAYING EFFIN' RESTAURANT CITY AND MASS-ADDING PEOPLE!?!? GO DO YOUR WORK OR JOB OR WHATEVER YOU CONSIDER TO BE SO HASSLING THAT YOU'RE TOO 'BUSY' TO ATTEND TO ACCEPTED REQUESTS.

I DON'T WANT YOU IN MY FRIENDS LIST. MOVE ON. THERE ARE MILLIONS OF OTHER PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT CAN TAKE MY PLACE.

#2. When people do the 'cute' baby talk thing and make already incorrect English even more wrong.

Okay lah. I admit that I do that too. Evidence of my weird, made-up vocabulary:

-awhsuhm (awesome)
-confuzzled/confuzzling (confused/confusing)
-omagowabashan (stateinshockohmygod)
-probbies (problems)
-kewl (cool)

Using made-up spellings are kind of okay when you only use them once in a while. But letting it become part of your vocabulary?

And I used to use other weird words until I got tired of them. This is the reason why many people fail English. Because they're so accustomed to using the 'cool' words until they stupidly write it into their English essays.

And what I reaaaaaaaally hate about deliberate wrong proclamations are examples like these:

HEYLOES!

HEWWOWWS!

HAWWOWWS!

WUB ME???

SOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

WEALLY?

FYI, you're not a toddler anymore. You're old enough to understand the fact that baby-talk? NOT IN.

And for people who use Singlish. Ah yes, Singlish. Well, all us SE Asians who speak English use Singlish. It's just like that.

Please, when you want to say the word 'love', SAY IT. Don't use twisted words like, "Woof" (YOU'RE NOT A DOG) or "Wub" or "Wove" or "Wav" or especially this VERY VERY VERY ANNOYING WORD.

LALA.

HOW CAN YOU LALA A PERSON!?!?

Unless, of course, you're trying to make that person into Lala the Tellytubby, which I highly doubt.

If you have the freedom to say the word 'love' without being killed, (unlike me) then USE THE CORRECT WORD. You don't have to sound like a freaking demented person who thinks like a three-year-old to tell someone you love them. Hell, I bet even a three-year-old can say the word 'love' without resorting to idiotic words like LALA or WOVE or WUVE and whatever.

Please don't spell 'bah' as 'bhas' and 'lah' as 'lhas'. Some people not so clever like you wan, you know? People like me very very lao ah ma dunno how to read wan you know?

And people who wanna say 'fuck' put it as 'park'. What if you go, "PARK LAHH." when you mean to say "FUCK LAHH." to someone? The person might think you're trying to tell him to park his fist into your face. Tempting? Not really.

And PLEASE, don't say, "Waddapark?". Please say it in clear English. It's WHAT THE FUCK. See? I was nice enough to write it out for you in capital letters. I even 'bold'ed it! Otherwise, people will think you're an idiot asking them what's a park.

#3. People who blog really bad English.

I'm not going to mention who, okay? Otherwise, I'll be flamed. And no one likes being flamed.

As I was saying, if you want to blog, please use English that we can understand. Don't just type in whatever and post it. It's stupid. The reason why we the internet browsers we use (in most of your cases, Mozilla. But I use Safari.) provides us with a spellchecker is to check your spelling.

Occasional wrong spellings are accepted. A whole blog post full of idiotic misspelt words? Please don't tell me that you're colour blind and can't see the red-underlined words. You wouldn't have colourful layouts if you were. Don't try to BS me.

Oh, and I know some of you aren't really familiar with English. I know you want to imply the quantity of stuff you have, but please don't use the word 'stuffs'. Or crap. One of the commonly used cuss word. It's 'crap', not 'craps'. CRAP AND STUFF ARE ALREADY PLURAL WORDS DAMMIT!

So this is where Microsoft Word comes in! Type, spellcheck, grammar check, and then TADA! You're done! A reasonable and readable blog entry! I know when you copy-paste from it you get HTML errors, but you all know HTML, right? After all, that's how you can beautify your dinky 'lil blog site! So delete the HTML errors. Easy right? Once again, don't try to BS me.

#4. People who use chatspeak on blogs.

I h8 it wen ppl use chtspk on blgs. its fkin stpid. i mean, srsly, im alrdy dying here usin chtspk 2 type dis. hw cn u do it!?!?

#5. People who try to create story blogs with a totally ripped-off or cliche plot and horrible English.

I forgave you for using Bad English to blog. But I don't forgive you for using Bad English to blog stories.

The most important asset for a writer to have is good command of the particular language which you are going to use for your story. But for some story blogs I've seen floating around the internet, that totally DOES NOT APPLY TO THEM.

As a reader, I don't fucking want to read stuff like, "But Suzy is feeling sad. It is the first time for her to feel the pain of heartbrake. She start crying as she see Tommy walked away and into Jessicas arms. She feel like dieing. She remember the first time she and Tommy kiss. It was magical. Tommy has his arms around her, and she feels like a princess."

Yes. I wrote that. I don't want to point out the crap I've seen around. But back to the main point, WHO FUCKING WANTS TO READ STUFF LIKE THAT?

You know, I remember once when some idiot moron totally ripped off my story blog. What, some bullshit about dreaming about black mamba snakes (by the way, Little Miss Writing, if you happen to still be alive and stalking my blog, please feel special 'cause I 'italic'ed the words for you. (: ) then waking up in sweat and some other random crap, THEN SHE STARTED RIPPING OFF ME.

And she certainly didn't do a good job. When I have perfectly eligible English on my story blog, why do you have to try to cover up your ripping by writing all that crap English!?!?!?!?!? DO YOU KNOW HOW EMBARRASSED I WAS!?!?!? I WAS MORE EMBARRASSED THAN I WAS MAD, DAMMIT! IT MADE ME SEEM LIKE I WAS THE ONE WITH THE ATROCIOUS ENGLISH!

I mean, it was bad enough people were already telling that moron that she was 'good at English' and had 'great imagination'.

Please. If you have no inspirations or whatsoever, and you people are creating story blogs because your other friends are doing it, I advise you to stop embarrassing yourself and DELETE THAT GODDAMN 'STORY' BLOG!!!! You don't need to create one because you feel like you have to. You create one because you want to share your stories.

One note: Thanks, Dodo, for pestering me to put up the story blog that day. I don't regret it.

#6. When people blog with ONLY PICTURES and NO WORDS.

I hate it when people do that ALL THE TIME. It's okay when it's once in a while. BUT WHEN IT'S ALL THE TIME!?? AND WHEN IT'S NOT EVEN ANYTHING WORTH LOOKING AT!?!?

This is outraged translation for, "Why the hell are you putting up pictures of yourself daily? Wanna be porn star (Thank you, Sandra, for telling me that porn stars do exist) issit!?"

Have you ever considered the fact that maybe people don't go to your blog because it's not that you don't update but because of the fact that you have ONLY PICTURES in ALL YOUR POSTS and EVERY SINGLE FUCKING ONE OF THEM ARE OF YOU!?

So please, don't type, "OMG SORRY I DIN UPDATEEEE!! I WAS BZ! But today, I blogged just for you, so enjoy!!" and cue the series of camwhore pictures. No one wants to see you do different poses with a hair brush. Or glasses. Or a teddy. Hell, even a Cola can. When we want an advertisement, we look at pro ones, okay? Not noob ones where you kiss the can. Euch.

#7. When people update their status on Facebook every single freaking hour.

This, is the reason why I like Twitter better than Facebook. I don't care if Twitter is what you say 'boring', but I like it. I don't have to look at a spammed page full of stuff I cannot relate to. In Twitter, I can look at spam by people whose spam I want to read. Not the crap on Facebook.

I don't want to know that you're "So lonely bcs I'm missin' you~~~~~~~~~". Please lah. Want to flirt with you LDR partner? Go get a chat room.

":)" as you status is probably the most fucking annoying thing to have existed. I know pictures speak a thousand words, but status is something to describe with WORDS. Not pictures.

#8. People who put pictures that are not them on Facebook.

I know. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "This Jasmine is so totally bitchy and conceited! And some more she thinks everyone is as vain as her! Some people not like her wan you know! Some people want to protect their identity!"

But have you ever wondered why they call it FACEbook?

Facebook.

FACEbook.

FACE.

Need more hints? Here's the last hint I'll give.

F A C E

It's a social network. Your profile stays private to those you don't know. So you don't have to worry about people stalking you, unless you are one of those people in my first pet peeve.

Unless you think are reaaaaaalllllly horrendously ugly (which I doubt, because every single human being has a vain bone in their body. Even my sister. *Please don't kill me*), you don't have to put pictures of, I don't know, the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Boys Like Girls, Daughtry, David Archuleta, David Cook, a random team Logo, a SHOE, a BAG, a LIPSTICK, a random picture, a random cartoon character or whatever.

Do you really want people to think you're insane because you think you're a shoe? I don't care if the shoe is from some well-known brand name. YOU'RE NOT THE SHOE DAMMIT. If you want the shoe in your album, then put it in the album. Don't put it as your profile picture.

#9. When people write in Poklenian.

DoN't u HaTe It WhEn PeOpLe TyPe LiKe ThIz??? It ToTaLlY gNaWs @ My PaTiEnCe 2 EvEn TyPe A sInGlE wOrD. n I aLsO hAtE iT wHeN pEoPlE uSe PoKlEn LiNgO lIkE, "sienxxxxxxxxxxxxxx." or "haizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz."

ESPECIALLY THIS PARTICULAR POKLEN WORD.

"WOOOOTSSSSSS/ZZZ/XXXXX!!"

I don't care if it's the most used word on the net. I find it stupid. Who even created it anyway? It's just about as stupid as the creation of exams. And that wasn't a compliment. It's a fucking overused word, and I don't even use it.

Anyways, those are my Internet Pet Peeves. Thank God no one hardly ever uses Friendster anymore. If so, I'd have more to say.

So, this is the end of my rant. I've blogged for nearly two hours. It is now midnight. What are your pet peeves?

-Jasmine. (I decided to change the log out part 'cause it was too long and stupid and overrated)