Two posts in a weekend. Clearly, I am procrastinating. Again.

But, never mind. There's a 1 hour 20 minutes break tomorrow ready to be taken advantage of. I have nothing better to do during breaks anyway. (Normally, I just go around bugging people to death.) Might as well enjoy my time at home now, and complete it during school tomorrow and save that time from going to waste.

If I am not wrong, this is my first public post, in... forever. I have no comments about that.

It is the end of another weekend. Usually, I try to have as much fun as I can during the weekends because I have no time to have fun during the weekdays. Welcome to my sad life. Although, I think I shouldn't be complaining, because I know people that work their asses off weekdays and weekends.

This weekend was pretty fun. I spent some time changing my stuff here on LJ. I changed the title, subtitle, and the friends-only banner thing - because I didn't feel like what used to be is like me at all. I have changed since I first posted in this LJ, and it's so scary that I fear looking through my entries right to the very first post. If anyone feels minutely inclined to, please don't. It's going to be embarrassing for me. I have thought about changing my LJ, but I am too lazy to set up everything again. I think my laziness is going to be the death of me.

I went shopping too. Bought a cute pair of headphones - which my sister said looked stupid on me but I am going to ignore her because I love that pair of headphones (and she tends to be quite mean nowadays) anyway - and a cotton 'save the environment' bag from Marks & Spencer for $10. I love it that it's cute and cheap.


Ah, yes. Mine is the white pair. I wanted the pink one at first, but then I realised white would be easier to match should I ever want to change my iPod or something. I'm still quite sore about the fact that I have to buy whatever important things I want (eg. handphones, iPods, headphones) by myself. And I can't and will not depend on my mum to get them for me, because she ends up having to face the 'boss' about the spending. Sigh. If and when I get married, it will be to a nice, kind and reasonable man.

I am really happy that I am getting along well with my mum nowadays - last time we used to quarrel a lot. She also seems to be really nice to me nowadays. Like, when I mentioned on Friday that I wanted to get a pair of headphones, she brought me out today to get them. (This happened the second time in a row - last week was this dress I wanted.) Granted, I paid for the headphones myself, but it's making me feel guilty because I know she's tired and all that. And she still has to tolerate my nonsense. Sad.

Wow. It's been quite a long time since I updated, hasn't it? It seems quite short to me, actually - proving that time is going by so quickly for me nowadays. Oh! And this is the first post of the year too! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Though I am not very excited for 2009... New year, new school, new friends, and I don't even want to think about the important results-getting-back-session this month.

NOT THINKING ABOUT IT. NOT THINKING ABOUT IT.

Anyway, I watched Australia the other day and I think it's pretty good! I love the scenery, the romance (of course), the plot, the horses, and Hugh Jackman. Teehee. My mum agrees with me on that. There are a few good scenes of his half-naked, and whenever they showed it, my mum would giggle. Goodness. Not that he doesn't have a nice chest - on the contrary, actually - but it was kind of... hairy. Erm. But... it was quite... a decent chest, I suppose. Er. Okay, enough of this topic, I don't know why I am talking about Jackman's chest anyway...

All right! Just thought I'd drop by to wish you all a Happy Belated Christmas and a Happy New Year! ♥

The Day the Earth Stood Still is an great, terrible, movie that has got me thinking about all sorts of strange things. Not that I have never thought about strange things, but the stupid movie made things bombard my head till I hardly could sleep. Needless to say, I am not happy about that.

My tutor, whom I have not seen since the exams ended, used to tell me how he believed that aliens walked among us. Also, he told me that he was one himself. It is doubtful, but now I am beginning to think that humans can't possibly be the only so-called 'civilised' species there is in the universe, and thus, there must be aliens - or something similar to that. Amongst these thoughts, I saw the news that day, and they were saying something about Mars having carvings of faces on the ground. I did some research, and combined with ideas the stupid movie has given me, I have come up with a couple of theories.

Of course, none of them are actually scientifically proven, and are just my theories. All are possible though, considering that the size of the universe to the Earth has the same ratio of the Earth to a coin.

I. There are aliens. Humans don't know it because while we think we are so clever, these aliens are smarter and are actually laughing at humanity's stupidity. You know what they say: Who are a little wise, the best fools be - John Donne, "The Triple Fool". Ignore the Literature stuck in my head despite exams being over. They think we are primitive, and all we do is to survive on a water-logged planet in the backwaters of some obscure galaxy - and so, they don't bother to even convince us of their existence at all.

II. They live among us. Now, this one is a little scarier than the previous. And they don't bother telling us that they exist because firstly, we'd try to kill them, secondly, they are peace-loving, and thirdly, they think we are too dumb to understand. So sometimes, when they get too poor and still want some place to go, they take a holiday to our humble planet, Earth. My tutor has his theories about how they live in the deepest parts of the ocean so that we cannot detect them.

III. Aliens used to be us. Now getting a little freakier, huh? Let me explain. You know how fish evolved into monkeys and monkeys turned into us? Yes, but what if we would one day evolve into aliens? Humans think that they are at the top of the food chain, but they are wrong, and actually, aliens are the ones that top us all - being more advanced and all, like how we are to our ape friends.

IV. We are the aliens. Based on my research, Mars shares many similarities to Earth, despite being smaller. Mars used to have the same climate as we have now, showing that it used to be able to support life. One day is 24 hours on Earth, and likewise, one day is about 24 hours on Mars too - due to things like the axis tilt and all that. So... what happened is that, we all used to live on Mars, and one day, because of the destructive natures of humankind, Mars dries up and loses it life-supporting capability. When it loses its magnetic field, we are dead because we would be open to solar winds and cosmic rays and all that. Since we are aliens, we decide to move to Earth, the next life-supporting planet. (Venus is inhabitable due to the high concentrations of sulphur and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.) Somehow, we forget who we were, and the others, who decided not to go to Earth, are now the aliens that we speak of. Also, something else to take note of is that history might be repeating itself. You know, global warming and all? Now we are killing Earth.

Oh my. My theories do not seem to be showing humans in a good light at all... Would that mean that we are destructive, violent, planet-murderers?

Aside from this, I think I am quite convinced that besides us, there are other living organisms in the universe. I mean, we can't be the only ones, right?

Inspiring music to listen to, especially helpful when one is in a bit of a struggle - namely, me getting so so annoyed with my sister that I cannot help but envision stabbing her with the fork during dinner. Of course I did not such thing, but it was incredibly tempting.

Yes, I do have my violent tendencies, but it's difficult to hold your temper in check when my sister is concerned. All I did was to ask her to wait for me before playing the movie, but no... Princess had to pretend I did not exist and happily play the movie. By the time I went out, half the movie had went past. What was most annoying, was when I questioned her, she pretended nothing happened. How amazingly infuriating.

So... Tomorrow is the last day of our one week break, and I am trying not to hyperventilate when I think of the week ahead of me. It is because, unfortunately, we are going to get back our results.

What I did during the short holiday was quite... well-rounded, if I do say so myself. I studied, wrote, made stuff, went out, and had fun. I even tried my hand at scrap booking - okay, that was because my mother was kind enough to offer to pay for the materials so that I could make a scrapbook commemorating (... I am not sure if that is the right word to use. Haha.) my last year before going on to college. And this is a reminder, if you have not heard of my appeal yet, that if you have any photographs of yourself/classmates, send them to me.

And, before letting my egoistic self take over and posting yet more pictures of my... err... beading stuff, I want to say that I really like this song - which is from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron - because it reminds me so much of life. I think it really encourages us not to give up no matter how wounded we are, because even if we have nothing left, we cannot afford to lose ourselves. Okay, I know this is not a Literature exam so I will stop here. XD


( Blame Likelihood for his influence. )

( And an interesting passage on what my name means... :/ )