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ha ha ha. just visited google's cache of the now-defunct amanda zain fansite. the fable amanda zain fansite that nobody could find. but I could only see a few pages; the rest of them are error pages. now... how would I be able to find the entire cache? I'm thinking of a solution. I laughed and laughed and laughed. :)
AMANDA ZAIN PLEGDE] heh. damn funny, though. not by me. by amanda zain fans. sine ranted on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 03:10 p.m. cny is a horrible festival. it's a horrible waste of time, effort, energy and money. what's the point? all it ever does is get mom angry, who in turn shouts at all of us and makes me cry. not in front of her, though; or she'll shout at me even more. this is so stupid. I don't even want to go back to bl00day malaysia to visit all those horrible relatives. it's a horrible country and a horrible place. all my relatives there are so stingy [here, have a $2 ang pao while my kid takes a $10 one from your parents], the toilets there are horrrid, and the food perpetually gives you food poisoning. when I grow up I'm never going there. not ever. the only southeast asian country I'm ever going to be found in is singapore. I know that's childish but I'm serious. it's seriously horrible over there, for anyone who hasn't been. I don't like it one bit.
and I'm also dissappointed and ashamed by some people who don't even know how to wear their school uniforms properly. you know who you are. some people just think that tucking out their shirts and yanking up their culottes looks cool. there were so many people who didn't turn up in school uniform, so why did you want to wear yours if you want to modify it? uniforms aren't meant to be modified, for your information. they are meant to be worn professionally. I'm very pissed as I type this. if you're so proud of your school as to wear the uniform, then wear it properly. don't you actually realise how stupid and silly you look? I know a lot of seniors do that, but in case you haven't noticed they look silly when they do that too.
third thing: one thing my sister told me before I started school was to take prefects seriously. I don't see anyone doing that. I just want to tell everyone that prefects in our school aren't the joke the prefects of our old school were percieved as. they have the authority and they use it to the best of their ability. in previous years when I was a prefect in primary school I used to say the prefects pledge like it was a joke, but now I am finding out how much those words actually mean to me. I'm not meaning to preach, but I don't want everyone to learn the hard way this year. it is possible to survive four years without getting booked- I know people who have done so. but all of those people actually respect the prefects and take the school rules seriously. it isn't just about saving your asses. sine ranted on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 01:23 p.m. pointless blog entries getting on your nerves, I can see. ha ha on you then. :) I am a pointless person and you cannot stop me...
on a more serious note, I feel like a redundant faliure.
ah. was I joking? was I? WAS I?
sadly, no. I feel horrible.
there are thousands of reasons for this, and I don't think you want me to list. oh, because this blog is not private and I'm too lazy to make a private blog because the private blog will become unprivate and we'll all die. and google can search pitas. I think. :)
wheeeeeeeeeeee! flop. flopflop. boink. ahhahahahahahahar! wahoo!
do I get anymore of those gory japanime dreams? no. but I get chasing after someone dreams. or being chased dreams sine ranted on Monday, January 19, 2004 10:02 p.m. argh life is weird. urban cynics are corny. so my corny essay about an urban cynic is corny. wow.
I can't blog a lot right now; have to cut 22 words from my essay to make it 700. but 705 is okay, so I have to cut 17 words. my, how comforting.
oh, people? next time someone insults you/your school/something related to you on their blog, don't overreact and flame immediately. it might be a misunderstanding, you know. :)
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sine sine ranted on Sunday, January 18, 2004 09:52 p.m. sine ranted on Sunday, January 18, 2004 09:52 p.m. red cross, coconut trees, and a hundred prawns. let me tell you a story of my sister's friend.
when she was an itsy sec one student, she joined the red cross CCA at her school (which is also my school right now). And it was quite fun as well.
one day, she didn't listen to her seniors during red cross.
this was bad for her.
you have to listen to your seniors, you know.
so they gave her something to do as a punishment.
she had to draw many, many still-life prawns and still-life coconut trees.
up till now, nobody really knows how that punishment really built character.
my sister's friend quit red cross and joined handbells soon after.
the end.
but the moral of the story is:
one: listen to your seniors
two: listen to your seniors
three: if you are joining red cross, learn how to draw and listen to your seniors
the REAL END. sine ranted on Saturday, January 17, 2004 10:12 p.m. red cross, coconut trees, and a hundred prawns. sine ranted on Saturday, January 17, 2004 10:12 p.m. on some advice from a certain group of people, I decided to enter "amanda zain" into the google search bar today during computer studies in search of the fabled fan site. (at this point in time, mental images of a freaky looking bright peenk coloured flower-filled website float before my eyes and I shrink back in horror- peenk is not really my colour when I'm online). The only things most of us horrible victims found were besotted/pissed blogs filled with horrible grammar mistakes. ha.
and so, as a reward (or would that be a consolation?) for my fruitless crusade, I decided that a trip to very very gay would be in order. It's a great website for laughing. of course, an amanda zain fansite would be great for laughing as well.
but not in the same way, if you have to think of it that way. And I don't think anyone should try looking for veryverylesbodotcom. it might not exist... or worse.
oh, nevermind
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sine sine ranted on Friday, January 16, 2004 10:19 p.m. I was poisoned by an egg and ham and cheese sandwich! aaargh! (puked it all out last evening). No wonder I was feeling so sick during jap class.
I hardly slept last night; kept waking up from feverish slumber to a splitting headache and a cup of water which made me want to pee. my highest temperature so far is 38.8 degrees celcius. then I woke up in the morning, lay in bed, and worried about MCs and missing strings and whether I got into ld. HELP! Either way this is going to be tough for me. if I don't get into ld I will end up feeling horrible. argh. if I get into ld I'll have to quit strings and spend the rest of secondary school life being hated by evil miss khoo. I have music lessons for aesthetics with her FOR AN ENTIRE MODULE!! how could this be happening to me??! how could I be so foolish as to turn up for the strings auditions? if I hadn't done so and waited for ld audition results to be released, if I don't get into ld I can just audition independently. and how the heck am I going to be able to produce multiple MCs to all my different teachers if I only have one??!
I apologize for my high stress problems.
this is horrible and it sucks.
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sine sine ranted on Thursday, January 15, 2004 04:26 p.m. I'm not really dying of embarrassment over here, but I am quite malluated about the impromptu part of the elds auditions. Imagine having to tell the vice head prefect and the other prefect in front of this whole other bunch of seniors that you are lesbo? Okay, so it was just acting. But it isn't quite delectable either. :) sine ranted on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 07:55 p.m. school is closing in around me. I don't want to appear kiasu or anything or super-slacker or really retarded. And I don't want to bore you people to death or allow other people to guess who I am. serious. So I'm not really going to blog extensively about my school life, unless it's REALLY REALLY something REALLY REALLY special.
okay. I've finally gotten that off my chest.
and I haven nothing else to say.
I know most of the people who frequent my blog have noticed that my entries are getting shorter. I'm sorry if you people like long entries, but I can't fit that in now that I'm going to start studying again. Or at least I think so. I'll do my best to blog regularly, but I can't promise that I can blog long.
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sine sine ranted on Monday, January 12, 2004 03:35 p.m. wanted to blog yesterday but went to bed. yawnnn. I need more sleep. =_=
I almost didn't sleep at all on friday night, due to muthu's snoring, and when I finally did sleep I had some really crazy, retarded dreams. My mom says I'm suffering from general fatigue due to lack of sleep and gigantic amounts of stress. I don't get stage fright when I have a performance or anything, but I always get really tired the day after. And this time I'm having it worse. sine ranted on Sunday, January 11, 2004 03:49 p.m. don't have much to say. just I HATE PACKING! It's so... strangely significant, like I'll be going somewhere all by myself. makes me feel really alone.
and now my fair ladie, i must go. sine ranted on Thursday, January 8, 2004 08:45 p.m. BUCKLE!! BUCKLE!! BUCKLE!!
yes, I know this is really juvinile, but YAY BUCKLE!
just showing some house spirit. ^-^ Have to go bathe now. goodbye. sine ranted on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 07:00 p.m. by some amazing twist in choices, life seems to have morphed into some horrible monster that is bent on taking my mind and my huuuuge self-esteem.
school is going to tear me apart all over again. bit by bit.
life's a bl00day bitch.
assinine imbicilic bitch. sine ranted on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 10:37 p.m. script... script... script... script... and as you can guess from my entry title, I'm still trying to think of a good start for the script... script... script... script... oh nevermind. the preliminary plotline is totally... weird? no, that's not a good word. predictable? nope, not a good word either. umn... not my style? ah, yes. not my style. too sappy. but nevermind; I'll try to do something ookay.
i. am. so. blooday. frustrated. eurgh.
have. to. start. writing. and. thinking. now. nothing. is. coming. to. mind. i. am. so. totally. dead. my. mind. has. cramped. up.
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sine sine ranted on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 08:10 p.m. I have a full week of school lying ahead of me. The first full week of school in the year. wow. *frowns* School isn't that bad, but I think I should sleep earlier from now on. was falling asleep in the hall during the subject talks by the HODs. They are seriously booring people. Argh. The lack of oxygen always does that to me.
on other things besides school, I have gotten three goldfish. wow. okay- one is black, so technically it's not a goldfish. nevermind. I will put up a website depicting the process of setting up a fish tank, but not today.
actually I'm supposed to have started studying right now, so I have absolutely no idea why I'm blogging here right now. shit- I haven't even bathed and I was supposed to be at my table ten minutes ago!? help! Oh crap. have to go and take a shower now. This wasn't a very productive entry.
umn... oh yeah- yellow is a nice colour. uh huh. must be loyal to my house. :)
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sine sine ranted on Monday, January 5, 2004 03:30 p.m. =_= need moooore sleeeeeep// conclusion: elijah wood is STILL very very gay. and NO. I am not telling you every single detail about my measly CCA innerstruggle. nooooo. (basically it involves me wondering very forlornly about whether to:
Wow. How wonderful. Argh- I'll think about it over the weekend.
[but just so you know, I have my audition piece already. Or have I said that earlier?]
moving on to more horrible things, I am feeling sleeepy. Veeery sleeeepy. Heh. looks like there's nothing new this year. :) Also cut my hair today. It's not fuzzy-short-short like the previous one, but is now fuzzy-medium-short. don't understand? well, "fuzzy" is to describe the overall look of the haircut, "medium" is to describe the length of my bangs, and "short" is to describe the rest of my hair.
but anyway, I hope my hair doesn't grow so fast. :)
after the haircut, my mom bought this seriously freaky shirty thingy for me. Well technically, I'm sharing with my sister. I think it was sown by the people at the shop, and it's really weird. like this thingy sown to this other thingy. Ick. it's too weird to describe.
met more seniors today. intimidated. they are either a)very happy b) very cheem c)very popular or d)all of the above.
conclusion: seniors are very very scary.
[and ALL of them bring back some not-so-nice memories, like throwing away amanda c's packet drink]
and no, I did it voluntarily, but it's still not-so-nice.
I have realized that my blog entries are getting increasingly boring, repetative, unoriginal, and vocabulary-less. If I flunk English it will be a testimony to my stupidity. am feeling quite bad. but no, I don't want to relive last year or the years before. it's all laid out in front of me now. ADAPTATION [nicholas cage].
this is horrible. have to go clear up my horrible desk. I feel stupider by the day.
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sine
p/s: quite a lot of you people guessed who the person in the picture on my layout was. Yup, you're right, it's ELIJAH WOOD
conclusion: elijah wood is very very gay. [favourite quote of the day. read previous entry to find out WHY] sine ranted on Saturday, January 3, 2004 08:36 p.m. conclusion: elijah wood is very very gay. and thus begins a new school year. I have one word for everyone who reads this blog and everyone who doesn't:
GAAAAAAH.
okay; that's beside the point. I actually went to school today, and upon arrival, spotted claire, who had agreed to meet legolas at the foyer with me at around seven.
legolas arrived at seven fifteen.
so we actually stood there feeling dumb. Reason for inferiority complex number one: we were supposed to go to the amphitheatre. we were standing at the foyer. Everytime someone we knew got off, they would come up to us and hang around, which meant that we were making more people look dumb. and then the whole bunch of us would get scolded for being dumb. Wow. and thus explains my theory of dumbness.
other than that, we were bored at school. Okay, so it was fine for me! It was completely okay. But seeing bored people is worse than seeing dead people. And seeing people moaning about silly things to moan about, such as the colour of our blooday nametags (which, I am glad to report, is a nice happy shade of yellow), is even worse than seeing both bored and dead people. Got my point?
I like chen laoshi. so far. I went home and told mom about her and she discovered that she was my sister's teacher as well! Yay! Must ask her on monday if she remembers her [ask chen laoshi, not my sister]. sister says she's nice, and yes, she will still be smiling even when she's scolding you. And my mom says that she's a good teacher.
so for the fourth year in my school life my form teacher is a chinese teacher. (which, as you should note, is a good thing. also heard from my sister that chen laoshi is a "jap freak". wow. wonder if it's true)
check out this site. Reasons to rebuff rumours that dom and elijah are gay. and this parody site with silly reasons why elijah wood is very very gay. It's really, really funny. :)
I might be joining strings after all. have to go check it out. But Mrs I has already prepared an audition piece for me if need be. allegro from the surprise symphony. played a simplified version on the piano before. I loved playing the "surprise" (was a loud banging chord in the middle, if I remember correctly).
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Sine sine ranted on Friday, January 2, 2004 10:05 p.m. had a great cello lesson. will talk about my cca aspirations after dinner.
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sine sine ranted on Friday, January 2, 2004 07:50 p.m. happy nuu year dudes! and dudettes. and pseudo-temporary preps like me. Just so everyone knows, Legolas (otherwise known as Al Nyam) has set up a blog. Click Here.
So I decided to be a bit corny in my entry title. Sue me.
The new year has come and I have decided that unlike a lot of other fellow bloggers, I will not include the sappy well-wishes and sentimental sentences in my blog. Of course, I should post my resolutions and wishes up here. And no, I am not putting them in point form.
One of the few things I really want to do right this year is study. Okay, so I didn't do so badly last year. But it wasn't good enough. I was slacking. Ooh... you shudder at the word. But I was slacking, no doubt about it. I hated math, made a lot of noise during english, sort of fumbled my way through chinese, spaced during science, and zoned out during social studies. Homework was half done (believe me, I still have this unfinished mock paper- math- that I hid in my drawer). I'll try my best not to do that anymore this year. My future is at stake. (wow!? Why didn't I say this last year??) Furthermore, I have more things to do this year, and I think if I remain like I was last year, I'll fall behind (I was already behind last year- I'm just a good faker). I'm serious, people. And if I really fall behind, smack me, okay?
Church. I want to become a better Christian. I am a lousy person. I read the bible every night for my family partly because I want to perfect my "drama-queen cate blanchett" voice. Selfish, small and shallow reasons. Now I feel bad. I will try and listen more in sunday school.
Aah. Next thing. I wasn't a very "musical" person last year. Yes, I'll admit it- my violin made me more frustrated. Or maybe it was because I was lazy and didn't practise. I'll do my best to love my cello Dominic (aah! now you know his name!), and my piano (not my piano teacher, mind you). And that means I should play both instruments regularly.
There's also that issue about fatness. I am fat. :) But I think I've been consistant. No more weight skyrocketing (other people are scared of mirrors; I'm scared of the weighing scale). Now I just have to work on getting skinnier.
I don't want to stop writing completely, but I think I'll just go very, very slowly with Orion. I just want to finish it once and for all, but the solution does not lie in sitting down for a marathon writing spree. It doesn't work that way for writing when it comes to me. I know Lois Sachar writes for two hours every day, while Orson Scott Card finished Speaker for the Dead in a month or so.
I don't wish to make their standard my standard. I take things as they go. But I will not cease writing. Because if I do that, I know I'll never start up again.
Chinese books. I don't want to sound like a cheena prick, but yeah, I want to know my roots better. My mom set me a challenge to finish Legend of the Condor Heroes this year, and I'm not sure if I'm up to it. But I'll try.
My inferiority complexes are irritating myself and the people around me. I won't say more.
The last one. I will blog with more depth. I sound shallow in my blog, and I know that. I am skimming over the surface of my life. Maybe a little more reflection would be in order. And I must hone my skills in being able to illustrate my life in a more colourful way. Kind of like gyoza, whose blog is a normal blog but is infinitely interesting and entertaining.
I know I have lots more resolutions, but I don't think I'll list them all down.
aaand, to entertain everyone after this horribly serious post, here is something I found on gyoza's blog, that he found somewhere online:
(disclaimer: NOT by me.)
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sine sine ranted on Thursday, January 1, 2004 11:44 a.m. aaand so, I've changed my layout again. This time, I wrote the lyrics myself, and not plucked them off some line in The Two Towers. I kind of like it, though. I really have fun doing this stuff. :)
Oh, yeah- I forgot. Anyone cares to guess who the person on the layout is? of course, if your place your cursor over the image you'll find out, but that would spoil all the fun, wouldn't it? Try to guess; I chose an obscure picture for this one. Actually, I had two others that I wanted. Click here, or here, and here and here. Oops. More than two, actually. :) And that's excluding that really, really cute one where he's sitting on a car.
you've guessed who he is, haven't you? argh. it's too easy. And you people are too clever.
watched the FOTR EE yesterday. brilliant; everything's much more fleshed out. But I'm afraid I'll probably not be able to see the special features until around the same time next year. My mom doesn't support watching movies during term time. But during the holidays- that's a different thing. that's when all is unleashed and we're all devouring movies like I eat chocolate. :)
I love movies. They're like magic. I've been watching them since I were a teeny weeny kid. I used to want to be an actress, but I gave up because 1) I figured I was too fat, and 2) You had to be white to be an actress. Yeah, I know, that's quite dumb, but I think I was quite a practical person for my age.
so, I wanted to be a director. that's the occupation that I've suppressed for so long. I didn't dare to tell my mom. Most directors are men, they say. I'd be a lousy director. Would probably go into hysterics halfway through pre-production. :)
I've always wanted to be an author, though. Something like George Lucas- wrote his own book, turned it into film. That kind of person. But I don't think I want to be a director. I don't think I'm cut out for that kind of hard work (orchestrating the entire thing? I'm wayy too lazy for that!).
Maybe the closest thing to the movies that I'm considering is scriptwriting. It's not fun as well, but it would be closer to my main and announced aim.
ah heck. I'll probably become some sort of weird accountant when I grow up, so... whatever. :)
my aspirations are truly boring, aren't they? But I am an ambitious person.
school starts the day after tomorrow. am I afraid of the new term?
I'm positively trembling.
:)
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sine sine ranted on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 02:37 p.m.
We, the faithful fans of Amanda Zain, pledge to be faithful fanatic fans of her's, forever and ever. We will stay faithful for as long as Amanda Zain lives. Long Live Amanda Zain!
[THE VISION]
to be Amanda Zain's fans of a better age
[THE MISSION]
to serve and promote Amanda her highness to the best of our ability
[THE GOAL]
to make Amanda her highness HaPpY :)
[THE MOTTO]
Amandino Zainioris Faevi
[THE AMANDA CODE NAME]
green and yellow
say, "i see green and yellow!" when you spot Amanda!
[THE AMANDA FASHION LINE]
white blouse, navy bloo skirt, green.black.grey tie, nametag wif "Amanda Zain" on it, "Head Prefect" badge, school badge, OP bloo and grey school bag
[THE OFFICIAL AMANDA COLOURS]
Green and Yellow
why?..green for Buckle, yellow for Lemons..
[THE OFFICIAL AMANDA FRUIT]
da LeMoN
why?coz she's zainy...like a lemon..and zesty..like a lemon..
[THE OFFICIAL AMANDA DRINK]
Just tea...
why?..coz itz GREEN..and it has LEMON in it...
[AMANDA's PROFILE]
name: Amanda Zain
address: summer gardens [according to Bonkie], near zihua [according to zihua]
height: 155cm [according to Bonkie]
hair colour: an assortment of colours [according to jermaine], red with streaks of gold [according to shu min]
birthday: 28th May
house: Buckle
cca: Choir, Soprano One
klass: 309
register no.: 1
jacket colours(she has 2 jackets): grey and beige-ish
fav. colour: green [according to sheeyin]
fav. food: Patato wif onion [according to sheeyin]
latest song addictions:Calling All Angels- Train[according to denise ng], Torn- Natalie Imbruglia and Addicted- Simple Plan[according to jermaine]
trivia: -her father owns a funky vintage car [according to Bonkie]
-she has a yellow elongated eraser which she loves to use..apparently..she lost it..[according to sheeyin]*so let's get her a NEW wan..
-she belongs to a busking group called Squiggles [according to Vaneh]
-she likes oldies..esp the Carpenters and Hey Jude [according to Nat]
-she wears braces [according to Rachel F.N.D]da silver wans wif no kahler!*how sad..now i can't change mine to da same kahler as hers...
-her school shoes are POWER brand*just like amanda! so POWER![according to Julee]
-she is Tara's Angel a.k.a she is dee Angel of Tara [according to a certain sec 2.. whahaha]
-her father is malay and her mother has nice red hair and is very chio [according to Rachel F.N.D]
-her house is dis kewl place wif 4 levels...itz realli organized! [according to atiqah]
-the area on da whiteboard in da prefect's room is too high up for her...[according to atiqah]*sumwan shood lower it.. we wouldent want amanda ta hafta crane her neck ta write dere..rite?
-she's lefthanded
-she has a grey and bloo OP bag *so let's all buy wan!
*aniwan wif more info abt Amanda her highness..pls tag da board ta tell me!.. hohoho! ..
[FAN CLUB INFORMATION]
haha.. heys..to join Amanda her highness' fan club, haha...tell me..by tagging da board or sumthing...yeah..but dere are interviews first!we need ta see if u are good enuff ta be Amanda's fan...
Amanda tee- $10
Amanda towel- $5
Amanda mug- $6
Amanda autographed calender- $40
*all proceeds go to the official Amanda Zain Fan Club...it will help us to achieve our goal[refer to goal]
a) take up the challenge and push myself harder and harder and harder by joining strings (impartial mom is slightly inclined towards this); or
b) reunite and bond with old and new but all very vibrant and nice and happy seniors in the elds
1. If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.
2. Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
3. The problem: How to get two pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.
4. Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite and you'll eat less.
5. If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves.
6. If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other?
7. Money talks. Chocolate sings.
8.Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger.
9. Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.
10. A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Isn't that handy?
11. If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can't eat all your chocolate, what's wrong with you?
