I was humming Prettiest Friend by Jason Mraz and it suddenly became You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift. O wells.

I'm happy that I'm in ny! :)

Although happy is definitely not in the present moment, because I'm still feeling horribly bored. When you read this, tell me if you've ever felt so bored before.

Bored with things to do, how about that.

Is that the only thing you all can say to me, study?

This might be less stressful if I were the elder sibling. Seriously. BLAH.

I'm starting to feel that there's something extra there with me whenever I sit down. It's called my tummy. D: I'm putting on weight! It's like how garfield lay down and thought that there was somebody in there with him, who/which turned out to be his tummy. Eek.

Teachers' Day concert today was as usual awesome and really funny! Even though I've seen my teachers dance before I still can't get used to the fact that they do, and I think other people felt that way too, everyone was screaming in shock/excitement! hahah!
And Barbarella was absolutely funny! <3

But right now it's like the feeling after you get a high-- boredom and something like not knowing what to do next. Hmm.

Speaking of CmPS, I think school creates much of the generation gap. Because you spend most of your childhood and adolescence and school, so school actually forms a major part of your character and personality. And your parents don't attend school with you, so they can't experience what you've learnt from both your teachers and (of course) your (crazy) friends. And the schooling systems between one generation and another is also very different; see John Holt's essay and you'll know that your parents probably attended a school which was heavy on discipline, and on memory and technical work. But schools now are not like that.

So children and their parents have different ways of thinking and different approaches to family life. And sometimes it gets so bad that children and their parents speak on totally different wavelengths and that's how you get the extreme cases where parents don't talk much to their children and vice versa.

That's why children stick to their parents more when they are younger but drift apart from their parents as they get older, or as they spend more time with their friends.

Am I making sense or is it just that older children just want more time to be independent and all that? Or maybe it's both.

Of course in most cases, parents and children are reasonably close to each other. But you rarely see a parent and a child who are really close to each other right, like BFFs? o_o
But I just remembered a part in the Last Lecture, where the narrator (Randy Pausch) gets (really accurate) love advice from his parents. I guess a parent-child relationship on the best-friends-level would be quite unthinkable, but a relationship on the advisor-and-student level would be what all of us are going through now. Which is good.

Which is a sensible conclusion!

I'm going to copy parts of that and put it into OneXYGENeration's facebook group. Please join! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=125600147330&mid=1007aa0G23bf2f41G26c8159G6 There you go.

By the way, Jason Mraz is an awesome singer! I'm glad to be a fan of his. :)
And Taylor Swift isn't that odd after all. I thought she was kind of weird singing love songs all day(and I also thought Teardrops on My Guitar's MV was really odd), but now I think that her MVs are actually funny and her voice is good. :) Cheers to all singers out there! I'll always like music with vocals (i mean music with a voice. is that what you call it?) because I know that it's near impossible for me to have a singer's voice. Yay!

I think I'll miss NY more than I miss NYPS when I graduate next year. But that's not the point. I'll miss ny when I graduate next year! Because concerts are always a blast and the teachers are always very sporting! :D And I'll miss the friendly all-girl atmosphere too. Heheh. I don't know how to describe it. I'll probably describe this feeling better next year. Because right now it's this feeling coupled with feelings for work.

Eech. Okay. Bye bye!

I'm gonna listen to Abracadabra D: Please note that I only like the song! D:

I can't blog! The song kills my brain!

(wait.)

ARGH the video is incredibly disturbing!

(Are korean boybands inclined to act gay while girlbands inclined to act lesbian or something? o_o)

If these bands were singaporean bands I think the forum would be flooding with letters arguing whether these videos were bad for children, or would show a negative image of our country. Not a veiled criticism or anything, just a culture thing. Because I can't really see our olders (not elders) appreciating/accepting this kind of pop music. And we, some of us, would probably also find it weird (like me!) .

But I can't imagine how our local music culture will be like. Because a) I don't really listen to local music, oops and b) it's not really mature yet, right? Maybe we are more of the mellow type, like electrico (which is like coldplay! yay!) and dick lee who pens nice-feeling songs. (And weird bubblegum pop people like By2.)

My mood this week was not so good at the beginning and then good at the end! Weird. I can't figure out why. Don't mistake me for an emo kid!

But I guess contentedness/happiness is just an attitude away. Which is quite hard to achieve. Oh wells. Enough of these murky mood moments.

Wahahah. I think my mum and brother have been telling me things like "Why aren't you studying now!" and "Have you started revising?" and "You better study hard eh" everyday! (save for one or two rare days.)

Not complaining, because these jolting comments are good reminders...

THAT I SHOULDN'T SPEND TOO MUCH TIME HERE! ARGH.

Do we all lead single-tracked lives filled with school and nothing else much?

D:

Pardon this but I'm relaly feeling rather drained/numb/bored. And I'm trying to study Physics.

I mean, besides school, do we all have something else to stimulate our minds with? For me, well, there's nothing else much but surfing the net for random bits of information and listening to music. And reading books.

I hope I don't sound like a nerd who's stuck either at home or in school all day.

Hai.

Actually, that's what I am.

I should really go out somewhere to find someplace/something else to occupy my mind eh.

Rather than filling out precious seconds writing such a ___ post.

On second thought, all my posts have mostly been about school.

-.-

Speaking of school, is it possible to take both KI and GP in JC? I doubt it. But they are rather different subjects right? So why do they give us an either/or option.

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Minutes later:

Never mind, I think I've got the ansewr to my first question. The answer is to provide for your own entertainment and not wait for it to fall into your lap.

o_o...

Okay @pling's overseas scholarship convo:

that was kind of entertaining and I want to disagree because. Because for some subjects overseas education is definitely better.

And it's nice and weird at the same time to have that kind of conversation. Will we think like that in future? After jc? o_o

Hmm. I think that the blog of a teenager is generally either amusing or weird to stomach.

At least that's what I think of myself. But I think I'm more weird to stomach than amusing. Because I usually cannot place the finger on what exactly I'm feeling or thinking.

Anyway, a blog is not worth a day's recount unelss the day was especially special or exciting. But mine would be just your average school day, except that today was a little happier than yesterday, and tadah!

Comparing my schedule to my brother's, as well as reading both our blogs, I have come to realize that life's actually quite a breeze where I am. I probably should stop feeling bored/resentful/like a victim.

We get to be 16 only once!

Anyway, in hindsight, it is quite fortunate to have abundant resources around me so that I can keep learning.

(no matter how sleep-inducing the topic is.)

(but not all topics are boring, some are actually quite interesting)

Like China studies. (i.e. tier 3 culture lessons). They are actually quite interesting to know, with the minor drawback that the notes are written in extremely summarized form, so learning it is like trying to memorize a long shopping list.

Notes in paragraph form would probably be better. But no time to make notes now, test is tomorrow!