Oh joy. Oh happiness. At comp studies now, and the wonderful nice kind teacher just showed the whole class the X2 trailer as a model trailer for us to learn from. Might I add that I was squeaking the whole time, bouncing on my chair and generally being an obsessed little fangirl. Oh, and I recited half the lines. I totally agree with the guy that the trailer is good and it makes good use of special effects and whatnot. X2 OPENS TODAY!
Muahahaha. I am going today to watch it with Natalie. MagnetoProfXYurikoOyamaWolverineStormJean SirynKittyRogueIcemanPyroCykie! *bounce bounce bounce poof*
The Phoenyx soared at 10:08 a.m. I am blogging a lot, but that's mostly because it's all rants. Like this entry.
This is going to be a good week for all Singaporean X-Men nuts like me. And me. And me and me and me. Oh, and Nat. Whee! *tears around room before calming down long enough to type* X2's opening on Wednesday, two days time. I'm watching it on Wednesday. And possibly on Thursday. Then X-Men Evolution Season 2 is finally, FINALLY being shown on Kids' Central on Saturday. Must stock up on my tapes, especially since I'm out on Saturday and need to tape it. How long have I waited for Season 2? Oh, maybe say two years, along with the rest of Singapore. The last season's ended in 2001 and right now America has its third season, while Singapore buffs read with mounting envy the episode guides and drool in rabid jealousy. But it finally came. I'd almost given up hope. Can't wait to see the new characters, especially Magma and Wolfsbane. And Wanda Maximoff, aka the Scarlet Witch. And Jean losing control of her powers. Oh, yes. *rubs hands in glee* And X-Men's on TV on Sunday. This is going to be a very good week, yes indeedy.
*faints from overdose of dizzy delirium* The Phoenyx soared at 08:48 p.m. Everywhere I go left right center I land myself smack in the middle of a flame war. There's one resolved, thankfully, over at Minty's blog, and another one just started at Yinqi's guestbook. And I recall a month back there was this person 'irritated' flaming every GEP person's blogs, probably got the linked from one page to another. Geez. Talk about poison pens. To the darling flamer at Yinqi's guestbook: Stop it. If you have something to tell her, tell it to her face instead of taking unfair advantage by hiding behind the privacy of the internet and screen names. Anonymous flamers are one of the worse type of cowards in this world. You flame, you run away, you come again under a different name to make it seem as if someone's agreeing with you. Anyway it's not as if you aren't bitchy yourself, dissing people in broad daylight and smearing their name all over.
*mutters* This reminds me of the feud between Sara and Sarah. Gah. Can everyone just stop it? It gets tiresome after awhile, not to mention draining.
To Jeanette: *hugs* It's okay it's okay it's okay. The Phoenyx soared at 08:40 p.m. *glares venomously at her layout* The html obviously refuses to WORK. The table refuses to lengthen no matter what I do. *huffs* It's only going to be up until May 1 at the very latest anyway in obviously eager anticipation of the X-Men 2 movie. After that, I have another X-Men layout waiting in the wings to be unleashed. Oh yeah. I so cannot wait for X2. What with all the new yummylicious characters and all. Lots of mutant goodness! *proceeds to list them all* Siryn Kitty Colossus Psylocke Gambit Nightcrawler Wolfsbane Pyro Iceman! Or at least according to the novelisation which I bought and devoured weeks ago. There's so much hype over X2 this time round, or maybe I just missed the publicity the last time because I wasn't a X-Men fan yet. They're splashed all over the magazines, and thanks to FiRST (a mag) I now possess five posters and six bookmarks, not to mention numerous drool-worthy scans. And the trailers! They're screening everywhere, on every channel. Even on TVMobile. You should see me in 105 in the mornings, everytime a X2 trailer comes up I squirm in my seat and attempt to get a better view. And I recognise all the scenes in the trailer. The things I do.
I think all the publicity is aimed at the Marvel fandom, and the moviemakers are relying on rabid fans to rake in the cash for profits. The first movie wasn't spectacular, but hey. In comic movies, you know if you're a true fan if, quote Nat, And the X-men have a ready-built army of fanboys who will watch it over and over, buy the dvd, buy posters, buy action figures and collectibles and tell the world it's their favourite movie even if it sucks. Because that's what a true believer does, always. Heck, that's me. Now to get a DVD player. And, *prods Famke Jansen* girl you had better portray Phoenix well.
Proceed countdown: 3 days to X2 The Phoenyx soared at 07:40 p.m. Friday>>
After that Kim, me, Dee and Fangying went to BK for lunch and yakked away about the loser stuff we've ever done. I could have died laughing, the way we were spasming around on the chairs in laughter. Eg Kim's hair in the soya bean milk and the dustbin thing and the wasabe. Wheehee! *bounces*
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Went for service after that, and Denise and I learnt interesting stuff about Pastor Khong. Like he's a fun-loving guy (of course, it's all a matter of opinion) and his favourite singer's Leslie Cheung and he thinks SIA is a trustworthy airline. Very interesting notes we took down. Sally was chirping half the time about where to go for dinner afterwards. We went Mos Burger, and she ordered fried prawn things which we waved around in each other's faces like a bunch of lunatics. The Phoenyx soared at 06:49 p.m. Mingwei just posted lots and lots of quiz things all done during Com Studies (which by the way is now oO) and they looked interesting.
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I should be getting higher than that. The Phoenyx soared at 11:28 a.m. Must be happier.
The PITs today finally decided they had enough of my class dodging all those bookings and walking around like a bunch of pai kias (which most of us, um, are) and unleashed their pent-up frustration full blast on us. *shudder*
During ACE me and Mich noticed two PITs loitering around outside the classroom and Asiyah acting funny. Then they came in and announced almost gleefully that they were conducting a spot check on the class. Poor Yinqi, couldn't pull up her belt in time. That's besides the point. Storming in, the duo then proceeded to instill terror into everyone by glaring at socks, fingernails and yanking belts. Ouch. I think about half the class got booked. I didn't! I just happened to be wearing my extra long socks and decided not to put on a safety pin on my belt. Just so happened. One of the PITs nearly booked me for my nails (which are really short, it's just that the cuticle thing ends early) but I produced a permission slip. Gotta love those things.
Outside Asiyah was spot-checking. I think about 10 people were doing some weird recycling thing when, according to Ruthster, Em was about to run into the class when she spotted the PITs, squeaked "PITS!" and zoomed off to the fourth floor, where she successfully avoided booking. So did Rachel Tan, I think. Ruth scuttled into the class, dumped incriminating evidence (a safety pin from her belt) on her table and raced out again, evoking loud laughs from us and I don't think the PITs noticed. Mwah. Most of those with really bad attire didn't get booked. But those who were really normal did. Sarah Sooh, for goodness sake! What were they thinking? Oh yeah. Pent up frustration.
I was warned! Harhar. Kind of, anyway. Grace (Lum) told me over MSN that the PITs might do that. And I told her I would be kuaikia for quite some time. So I guess I'll go back to pai kia since they're not going to do it again soon. I think. *evil smirk* The Phoenyx soared at 06:10 p.m. Warning: This is a rant.
Jillian Woon gave my class a good, long talk today about bucking up in our work and pulling up our socks. She went on and on about how she "knows that we are put off by teachers telling us that we're the worst class but honestly you know, girls, you are. This class is the sloppiest class in the whole of Sec 2 GEP. The answers you give are so skimpy!" And how 213 and 214 are the best. And how since we are GEPpers we should use our talents, cos we've got it but aren't using it. That she's really disappointed.
1. Yes, I know 212 isn't really the best class in Sec 2 GEP, that we really do have some of the worst people (no offence). But still, do you have to constantly keep reminding us? Keep in mind that Jillian Woon is the one who rubs it in, even though the other teachers don't really like us.
2. It is not our fault we're the worst class. Some genius came up with the idea that all the clever prodigies should go into 214 and 213, and the better people into 211. And that leaves 212 as the crap class. The trash class. So really, is it really fair to blame us if we do not do as well as 214 and 213 generally?
3. Don't rub it in. Do not. Rub it. In. I know some people are really trying to work hard and rise above this stupid cliche but it doesn't help that we have teachers telling us we're the worst. We don't have to be reminded.
4. It's not fair, to those people who are really clever. Eg Sabrina, Nicola, Asiyah, Anisha, Joey, Ruth etc etc. They're good, we all know it, and they don't deserve to be loaded with the general dislike of teachers.
Okay maybe we do deserve this, a little bit, but not all the time! So please please please Jillian Woon, kindly stop reminding us of this. It's called discouragement, and it isn't nice.
Whew. The Phoenyx soared at 05:46 p.m. I am off hiatus! Anyone missed me? Heh. Anyway I was on hiatus because I was fasting from blogging…not to blog until Easter (which is coincidentally over). Most of the cell people fasted from blogging too…it’s haaard. There’s so much stuff to blog about.
On Friday I went for cell, the first time in a long long while. Ended up spending about 8 hours out of the house. Sally was there. Sally was FUNNY. We went to Kim’s house and ended up laughing over her baby photos and not-so-baby photos and her brother’s stuffed gorilla who was mistakenly called her brother. And snacked our hearts out (maybe not). And then we went to Coffee Bean and sat around for one hour plus, talking about the state of worship in GB. Shall not comment on that. And I sat the bus home with Sally...she has a fascinating sense of humour. Quote Sally,
“You know what? I was thinking of doing something really interesting on the first day of school the year Mrs Chan became the VP. Borrow school uniform from the prefects and wear it, and then bounce into my form class. Then I would say something like “ wo shi yi ge lai zhi tai wan de xing xue shen. ni chi dao wo men de ji ren lao shi shi shui ne?” (I’m a new student from Taiwan. Do you know who our form teacher is?) And then I would mingle with them for about ten minutes and listen to all the gossip. Then I would stand up and go to the front of the class and start the lesson."
oO. Never trust a bouncy student. The Phoenyx soared at 09:14 p.m. On hiatus. The Phoenyx soared at 05:32 p.m.
Very eventful weekend. On Friday in the morning I was fretting (more like whining, for those who heard me) about not being able to attend dedication service after school due to makeup geog lesson. But I did! Yay Mrs Mohammed. She let those who attended a makeup lesson before skip this one, and I did, so I sprinted out of the classroom and slipped into the speech and drama room. It was heartening to see so many people there, and that the room actually looked quite full. No one I invited came. *looks pointedly at her mortal* Pauline Chia went, and I think she was (pleasantly) surprised to see so many Sec 3s...she said so herself. And she recognised me. Eeepers. I get this feeling she's going to scrutinise me for the rest of the year. And after the whole thing Kim or Denise stole Sally's watch and cracked corny jokes. Eg, "Sally, no time left! Oh no!" or "Save time, come eat with us". *winces* And they didn't return the watch. It's now with me and I'm supposed to keep it until Monday where I pass it to Kim. Muahaha.
Sally led worship in GB and the Powerpoint didn't work. Again. Which led to a scene, rather comical now on hindsight, of me and May Anne scuttling around the computer, banging frantically on the keyboard in a futile attempt to get it to work. It didn't. Ah well. And Yinghan or Heidi wrote the lyrics of a song on the board...wrongly. "Pastures green" -> "Pastors green". *grinneth* Recre was funn. The game was to do this continuous song thing, where one group sings at least a stanza of a song and the last word must be included in the song the next group sings. In the end it was a kind of showdown between Levites and Agapeans which we lost >< but do you know of a song that has the word "glistenings" inside? I remember Agape ended with "beauty and the beast" and for awhile we were squishing our brain juices trying to come up with something and our resident genius Cheryl told us to sing the Beasts of England thing from Animal Farm which we did. That was hilarious.
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The Phoenyx soared at 03:54 p.m. Fweehee! New layout for April. The jaguar one was getting a bit boring. Although this current layout is giving me quite a lot of trouble. Ah well. I am languishing at home and am quite bored. But I'd rather be bored than be loaded with stacks of homework. Hope they extend the no school period. =) But I miss cell.
EDIT: Oh no. I just realised my archives are really, really screwed up. Maybe I should remove my archive link. The Phoenyx soared at 02:43 p.m.