Tuesday, March 17, 2009

OK.

I have OFFICIALLY MOVED to LJ.

Here it is: MY NEW LJ HOME


Rachel typed at 12:03 am

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

I have a very strong urge to MOVE..

From Blogger to Livejournal.

I don't know if I'll abandon this blog entirely, but I've already set up the other blog..

SEE IT HERE

(This is an impulsive move. I have no real reason for doing this)


Rachel typed at 9:51 pm

Friday, March 06, 2009




I can say that I am relieved.

And that I can finally move on in life.



AND A CONVO INVOLVING A CERTAIN PARANOID ANDROID

jamie says: (10:53:54 PM)
oh, i completely forgot to ask, how did you do by the way?

| rachel | The roar that lies on the other side of silence says: (10:53:57 PM)
ahaha

| rachel | The roar that lies on the other side of silence says: (10:53:58 PM)
i did ok

| rachel | The roar that lies on the other side of silence says: (10:54:00 PM)
ABB

| rachel | The roar that lies on the other side of silence says: (10:54:07 PM)
i got ABBs~

jamie says: (10:54:44 PM)
haha pretty awesome grades, congrats!

| rachel | The roar that lies on the other side of silence says: (10:54:56 PM)
ahaha thanks

| rachel | The roar that lies on the other side of silence says: (10:54:59 PM)
yeah

| rachel | The roar that lies on the other side of silence says: (10:55:05 PM)
B for gp though and C for cse

| rachel | The roar that lies on the other side of silence says: (10:55:09 PM)
but i'm cool with it

| rachel | The roar that lies on the other side of silence says: (10:55:14 PM)
so eayh. very relieved

jamie says: (10:56:41 PM)
haha i can imagine. like after waiting for so long for this - finally managed to get it over and done with

jamie says: (10:56:44 PM)
and cleared decently

| rachel | The roar that lies on the other side of silence says: (10:56:57 PM)
CLEARED DECENTLY?

| rachel | The roar that lies on the other side of silence says: (10:57:02 PM)
CLEARED DECENTLY??

| rachel | The roar that lies on the other side of silence says: (10:57:08 PM)
WTF JAMIE

| rachel | The roar that lies on the other side of silence says: (10:57:27 PM)
i have to copy and paste this part of the convo on my blog.


"Cleared decently" says the TOP ARTS STUDENT WITH STRAIGHT As.


Rachel typed at 10:01 pm

Friday, February 27, 2009

Random stuff I took off Loo's and Sofia's blog..

OK. This is gonna be tough because I don't think I know many things that start with R

1. What is your name : Rachel

2.A four Letter Word : rude, rape, rake, rile, reap, roar

3. A boy's Name : Richard, Rudolph, Rafael/Raphael, Russell, Randell, Rian, Ryan, Rudy

4. A girl's Name : Rachel, Raine, Rebecca, Reagan, Regina, Roxanne, Rose, Rowena

5. An occupation : Road Sweeper...grim Reaper, Racer (thanks to Tina for this idea)

6. A color : RED

7. Something you'll wear : Running shoes? (does this count?)

Where's no. 8??

9. A food : radish? Ravioli!

10. Something found in the bathroom: Rolls of toilet paper (I'm such a cheat)

11. A place : Redhill, Redang, Republic of China (Taiwan), Republic of Singapore (cheating a bit here..)

12. A reason for being late : having the RUNS

13. Something you'd shout : RUN! RATS!

14. A movie title : Resident Evil

15. Something you drink : Root Beer

16. A musical group : Rise Against, Red Hot Chili Peppers

17. An animal : Rooster? kangaROO (ok. Nvm)

18. A street name : Rochor Road

19. A type of car : Roadster!

20. The title of a song : a Rush of Blood to The Head (aahahaa)


And from Loo's blog... BBC says that this is a list of MUST READS (and I seem to have read very little)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X) Lit text!!
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (X)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ( )
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ( )
6 The Bible - ( ) Does reading parts of it count?
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte( )
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ( )
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (X)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens()
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ()
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy( )
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ()
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ( )
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ()
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ( )
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (X) AWESOME
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( )
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ( )
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ( )
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( )
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ( ) uh. Watched it...
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( )
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( )
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ( )
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ( )
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ( )
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ( )
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ( )
34 Emma - Jane Austen ()
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( )
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ( )
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ( )
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (X) Not a must read lah. Wasn't impressive.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ( )
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ( )
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X) BORING as compared to Angels & Demons
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving ( )
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ( )
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ( )
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ( )
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ( )
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding ( )
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ( ) I want to read this!
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( ) This too!
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ( ) This three!
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( )
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ( )
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ( )
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( )
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ( )
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ( )
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ( ) I never completed this book. I have no clue why.
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ( )
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ( )
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ( )
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ( )
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas ( )
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ( )
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ( )
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (X) CHICK LIT! ok lah. Is this really a must read?
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( ) I WANNA READ THIS
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ( )
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ( )
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ( )
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ( )
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ( )
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ( )
76 The Inferno - Dante ( )
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ( )
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ( )
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ( )
80 Possession - AS Byatt ( )
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ( )
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ( )
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ( )
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( )
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( )
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ( )
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (X) Primary school book... XD
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ( )
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( )
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (X) I LOVE THIS SERIES!!
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ( )
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ( ) To Loo: I missed this out!
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ( )
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ( )
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ( )
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ( )
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ( )
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ( )
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (X) Gotta love Roald Dahl!
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ( )

Ok. Have not read much of what's in this list. But most of it is not stuff I usually read anyway! There are only a handful of Fantasy books in that list! And where's Haruki Murakami? And Neil Gaiman? I realise what I've known all along.. I don't read many classics and I actually don't plan on reading most of them.. (save for stuff like 1984)


Rachel typed at 9:11 pm

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Ahahah. Quek used the same photo on her blog. But this photo is so CLASSIC A06, I can't help but use it too!

Can't wait for our A06 gathering @ Timbre on the Day Before DDay (5th March?)!!

And I can tell I'm not the only one who's excited! Everyone has been very cooperative with the planning and gathering of people, surprisingly. Cos it's a known fact that organising gatherings is a pain in the ass. But this time, my emails about this gathering was responded to with quite a lot of enthusiasm and people responded pretty fast.

If you are part of that chain of emails regarding this, you'll know that me, Em, and a few others have been spamming everyone with emails about alcohol, food and exclamation marks.

WOO HOO.

About a week to gathering! (If DDay is on the rumoured 6th March, that is)


Rachel typed at 8:35 pm

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

LIFT CONVERSATION

Woman: Where's the 5th floor (stares at lift buttons)

Man: This lift doesn't go to the 5th. How about go to the 6th and then walk a floor down?

Woman: Ok. *Presses lift button. But presses the 8th floor button instead*

Another Man: (in a friendly and slightly annoyed tone) Tsk. That's the 8th floor. Sigh. Make us stop an extra time

Woman: (also in a friendly tone) Well, I'm sorry. I''m just human right? And humans make mistakes. Don't you make mistakes?

Another Man: Yes, I do.

*Lift reaches 8th floor, Woman leaves*

Another Man: *speaks in Hokkien to his friends and then in English* Don't give me that bullshit.


I suppose underneath their friendly tones (not just the man's..the woman's as well) was really annoyance.


Rachel typed at 2:31 pm

Friday, February 20, 2009

Life has been kind of odd lately.

I feel like I've not be making full use of my voice box. There's not many to talk to in the office. Not much to talk about anyway. All other conversations are done virtually. I feel like I need to have some nice coffee time with friends and chat (anyone wants to have this nice coffee time at the Truong Nguyen Cafe?? My sis says its coffee kicks ass! And she's a Starbucks-hater!). And I feel like I need a good, long laugh.

Then when I come home, time passes too fast. And the odd thing is, I feel like I've done nothing during the few hours before sleep.

And it's odd how I enjoy crossing out days on the calender on my desk in the office. What kind of a cheap thrill is that? I devote a nice 20 seconds every morning to draw a nice, big, black cross on the date before. What's up with that? I even draw stars on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. What's up with that?

Everyday I spazz about one thing - my UK and Paris trip with Loo.

I realise that the one thing that really makes me happy is travel. I admit to spending time during work to surf on the Globe Trekker site - being very envious of the Travellers of the show. I think they have the most awesome job ever... a job I would love to have.

Many people say that it's good to work after the As. Earn some cash and feel what it's like to work. If working is like what it is, then people would really do anything for money. Cos working is quite a drag. But I think I'm only saying this because my job does not require much brain activity. I feel like I've been totally forgetting the use the brain.

I also realise that I should really get a job that lets me travel (and use my brain). It's painful to sit there everyday, counting down to June. And without occupying my mind - by actively using my brain - I've been also worrying about the you-know-what.

Thank goodness for Coldplay and Eurotrip spazzing.


Rachel typed at 11:29 pm

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