My dad bought Sims2 and I'm so addicted. I've been playing in nonstop, with me and my sisters fighting for the comp, till my dad gets pissed and orders us to quit giving him a migraine. On top of that, he bought Fifa2005 for our Xbox. Cool bananas. Thank god my sisters aren't soccer fans or we'll be fighting over THAT too.
Mm, training today was.. relaxed. As usual. Paced with Xintian and Jasmin today. Really proud to see that Xintian has been improving so much in her K1. She didn't even cap today. Jasmin, being the first time in a K1, had trouble getting into her boat, she kept falling off and I had to help her empty her boat. Her rudder control was quite bad too, but I could tell that she was really trying very hard. I think they can only get better. I totally miss Michelle and Rachel though. It's a rare occasion that all four of us, (Xintian, Rach, Mich and I) can pace together for a training session, with Mich having National training and all.. it's usually only the three of us.
My mom and I were talking about sleeping in, since the holidays are here. She was saying that I inherited her sleeping genes. Both of us are so damn lazy, which brought us to the topic of a sleeping marathon. Just as I was rejoicing about sleeping in tomorrow, Chiteng sent me a msg informing me about a run at 730 tommorrow morning. Great. There goes my looooong sleep.
Vanessa Lim 1:04 p. m.
Today was just, shitty. Yeah, it's only 11am and the day has been crap so far. I left school early again. Saw no point in staying from 9.30-3pm doing nothing before my art lesson. so, yeah. Morning ball games was bad. I felt so off-form, and I made so many stupid mistakes, lost so many balls and conceded so many goals. Today's just not my day. Hopefully, tomorrow's training will be better.
Going for physio later with my mom. I hope she takes me shopping :)
Vanessa Lim 3:50 a. m.
Yeah, new layout, as promised. Header graphic done by me, and the template was based on one from Blogskins with quite a bit of personal modification. Thank goodness my Adobe Photoshop skills are still intact. If you can't tell, the theme's Halloween :) The words of the song are from Michael Jackson's "Thriller". I love that song.
THRILLER
It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes,
You're paralyzed
'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight
You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination
But all the while you hear the creature creepin' up behind
You're out of time
'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight
Night creatures call
And the dead start to walk in their masquerade
There's no escapin' the jaws of the alien this time (they're
open wide)
This is the end of your life
They're out to get you, there's demons closing in on every side
They will possess you unless you change the number on your dial
Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together
All thru the night I'll save you from the terrors on the screen,
I'll make you see
That it's a thriller, thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would dare to try
Girl, this is thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, diller, chiller,
Thriller here tonight
(Rap performed by Vincent Price)
Darkness falls across the land
The midnite hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'awl's neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller
I've been rotting a while now. Went to school for morning training, then submitted my S Paper form, got my statement of results, then went home. God, what a waste of time and beauty sleep.
Vanessa Lim 7:22 a. m.
After today's events, I'm just really confused now.. I honestly don't know what the heck is going on, and I'm hoping that it's not what I'm thinking. All I can say is, NOT AGAIN. Why am I always involved in stuff that I don't wanna get involved in? I don't go looking for trouble, mind you. Trouble somehow manages to find me. It's like as if I'm a trouble-magnet or something. Justin says
root of all evil? As much as I don't wanna believe it, I have to somehow admit that it's frigging true. Look at everything in the team. It's somehow linked to me, but I didn't do it on purpose, I swear. I just somehow get dragged into every little thing. Something goes wrong? VAN. Someone acting strange? Oh, no prizes for guessing, of
course it's cos of VAN!!
Feeling really ARGH now. I don't even know how to describe how I feel. Just ARGH. I need a thesaurus.
Vanessa Lim 3:16 p. m.
Results are out, and I qualify for History S Paper. Still in two minds about whether I should apply. Ms Suhaili tells me to give it a shot, but I dunno. Taking a History S would prolly boost my scholarship chances, but the main problem is whether I can handle the workload, what with Art, Canoeing and other subjects. I've got till Friday to decide though. I'll probably just apply and try my luck. There's no guarantee I'll get to take it anyway.
PW is the BANE of the earth, I swear. At least it'll all be over on the 9th of November. Our dry run today didn't go as smoothly as I hoped, but it was still relatively ok considering that our Powerpoint slides were done on the day itself. I'm looking to improve the slides though, there's still lotsa work to be done.
Canoe polo tomorrow! Finally something I can be relatively good at :)
Vanessa Lim 1:38 p. m.
I'm currently reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and to tell the truth, I'm horrified. Thong warned me beforehand - it's a morbid book. I was appalled at Huxley's Brave New World, even more so at The Destructors by Graham Greene, but none of them has actually affected me as much as LotF. The group of boys, barely reaching teenhood, displaying barbarism when away from civilisation.. just irks me. I have no idea why it's getting to me like that. I'm disturbed, but yet I've come across so many books exploring the negative aspects of human nature. I just don't know why LotF is affecting me so much.
Anyway, shifting away from all the morbidity, Liverpool plays Charlton tonight. I hope they win, since they've always been so inconsistent. Their form sheet says WLWLW. Which team is so inconsistent as to win and lose alternating games? It's really confusing, but I guess Rafa Benitez is still trying to reshape the team and find the suitable starting XI.
I'm honestly kinda bored now. Prolly gonna finish up on LotF and start on Orwell's 1984 - another social critique.
Vanessa Lim 1:45 p. m.
Kazaa is pissing the hell out of me. I can't find Bachelor Girls'“Buses and Trains” to download. Speaking of music, for those Singapore Idol viewers, most might agree with me that Maia's ouster was a waste of pure talent. Based on last night's performance, the person who ought to go would be (in my opinion) Leandra or Taufik. Based on consistency, I would say Chrissypoo should go, but blah. What's happened has happened, so yeah.
Training is unfortunately in the morning tomorrow, which means I can't go for physio (it closes at one and I can't get there on time). It's been two months and it's no better. Something tells me it's more serious that it seems, but my physio says it's no biggie. Scar tissue, she says, but I dunno. Does scar tissue take that long to recover? Plus it recurs, so.. it's odd. Ben gave it a rub today and I practically died of the pain. I was screaming bloody murder and trying to wrench my leg away. The pain was the worst I've felt in a long time.
I didn't manage to find Ms Champagne, so no grade. But Ms Yeo says I've“exceeded expectations” for my drawing paper, so I guess I'll be able to do ok. We'll just wait and see.
Vanessa Lim 2:12 p. m.
I swear, if this doesn't work then I'm giving up on blogger. Yeah most people don't know but I'm actually quite a tech geek, and I absolutely cannot figure out what's wrong with
this and why my entries aren't showing, but yeah, here I am with a new one.
So, uhm. Yeah I'm promoted. Da-dum. No Orientation 2005, thank the Lord. Prob History tomorrow, not too sure. Ms Champagne's released the Heart of Darkness marks already and I just have to
find her before I can get my grade for that paper. The drawing paper's prolly tomorrow too. Ah, just can't take the excitement. [sarcasm]
I'm kinda pooped. Gotta go charge my ipod then go to sleep. My eyes have been hurting a lot these few days. Dunno if it's my lenses or whatever. Maybe I need to sleep at 8pm everyday for them not to hurt anymore. Gah.
Vanessa Lim 3:39 p. m.
