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Contemplating to fully lock up this journal...
Cos' i've been pretty much posting up all my personal feelings etc. in friends-lock or private...

Life is turning pretty fucked and sharing this with the world wouldn't make things any easier so yea.
I'll prolly do it, especially since not many read anyway..
Hmm?

Ah anyway, got wasted Sat night, grounded on Sunday, can'trememberwhathappenedonMonday, Tuesday was cockles day w/ Rach and Zt, and today is just cool cos' I misplaced my wallet but met a kind soul and got it back.

In concl: School's shit we shood all just quit.

Life's being its usual bitch, I should prolly get used to it anyway.
I am so tired of everything. Everything is so stressy I want a break.
I need to drop-dead and just let go of this load, you won't understand how much I am going through.

I really have too much weight on my shoulders and anymore of this fuckshit and I might really break down? Ha ha ha.


I'll tear this place down,
fuck it all.

And because nothing feels right.

Whatever it takes, I promised.

It's late into the night now.

Many would say that night time is the best time to think and to consolidate your thoughts, but I tend to think a bit too much.
Tonight is one of those nights, I guess.

I want to sleep on forever and never waking up to face the harsh reality and the mad race of life.
But then again, everyone goes through (almost) the same thing, and who I am to say that I'm not going to do it, and opt out of this whole deal because I'm dead tired of doing the same things day after day?

I.. guess I'm just sick of everything and lethargy kicks in.
I apologize for the crap above..

(Reality check: Who actually bothers about what I type in this space, manxz. No one reads this space anymore. ha ha ha.)

Bye.

Today's paper marked an end to my prelims.

I know I should be glad about it, but honestly, I can't.
Just cus' I know that I've flunked my papers. All of them.

Anywayz, many things happened during this two weeks of crazy paper takings and revisions.

1. I think that the learning hub is just a waste of money, like seriously. I mean, I've been there, for almost all my papers, and it's just a room with air- conditioning, and say, some furnitures that's enough for a class to take their papers, and other equipments that can be found in a normal classroom.
Sure, that place have been a great transformation from what I can remember it was like, before. Great job on that, I must say. But I really don't see the need for it, when we can easily find any other place, that's exactly like that, only without the air-conditioners, in the school.

2. I'm register number ten, so I'm like seated in the second row during papers, and I have people sitting around me, that's for sure. Not that I'm complaining that this person to my left is always sleeping or what cus' that person is not disturbing me at all (I mean, how can one be sleeping and disturbing me at the same time?). But that person actually made me think that I should work harder. I don't know why or how, but it just spurs me on to see this person sleeping, and I just had to take a deep breath and concentrate on my papers.
& today's F&N paper, Watt was like.. forever writing. And, people like this never fails to make me write more on my paper, even if i'm writing crap.

Oh. Please don't get me wrong that I'm looking at other people during examinations, but hey. The gap in between the rows are, super wide, and there's definitely no way that I can even peep at their answers, please.

3. Honestly, afternoon papers have their pros and cons. Pros would be that we'll have lotsa time to revise and mug before the paper, but then again. Waiting for FOUR (friggin') hours for the next paper is, never a fun thing to do, especially when you really cannot concentrate under that unbearable weather, due to global warming.

4. Some teachers can really invigilate my class, while some kenna bullied - to the max. No, I'm not pin-pointing at any teachers, and I honestly feel that those who came to invigilate my class are really those who're really great. I mean, our class got so famous by doing so many things that really causes displeasure to many. The problem is my class, not the teachers, and to this, I really salute those who came to invigilate us during the papers, whether willingly or not.

Tonight is one of the nights, I give myself a break by not studying, and is here typing my life away and living on the internet.
&On a lighter, and happier note, there's no school tomorrow!~


Goodnight, tillagain.

I know.
I know that I've said that I wont be so active for the rest of this month, but here I am, typing away.


Sometimes, I just want you guys to listen to what I'm saying, and pay attention to me, and try to understand what I'm trying to convey.
Just cus' the feeling of saying something and when people don't really understand, and you explain, they just go: huh? I don't understand, sucks much.

Another thing.
Can you stop adding my friends? I mean, adding and knowing friends is fine, but not to the extent of adding almost all my friends in my friends list.
It's kinda weird when I have friends coming up to me, every now and then, asking me if I know you, cus' they were being added, by you.

Things are always on my nerves (figure of speech, please!), everynow and then.
I guess, it's just me.

One last thing before I get back to my books;
Russell Ong feels that textbooks should be burnt as an alternative source of energy.
Thanks, Russell. That's a really good one.

Tillagain.

There're always some things that I always put them on my mouth, and keep repeating them to make myself feel better, and one very good example of this is: I will study.

Anywayz, this post is to somewhat hang up a sign, saying that I'm not going to be so active for the rest of this month, and for the next month, cus' I'm gonna be really busy with work, studying and more studying.

&This time, I'm not going to just put them on my mouth and repeat them. I'm gonna make it work.

Because I got to rant..
Some people just talk and comment on other people, not caring about how the person at the receiving end will feel.
So much for being friends, sometimes.

&I just remembered something:
I left a three marks question blank for Geography today.
Damnit! It wasn't on purpose can!

Tian ah!
Who can help me steal my geography paper back, so that I can fill in what's hydraulic action and abrasion?!
):

Kay, times' up. This' done in a short span of time, which I call it - the breathing time.
Back to more studying for tmrw's papers.

Tillagain.

I seem to be posting alot on friends-lock.

Life has been bullshit.
School gets tougher each and every day.
I feel as though i'm living a lie...
Straying away from friends, distancing myself from the people who used to be so dear to me.
I guess it's cos' I don't know the right words to say after everything has became this way.
Going to church is such a drag, cos' somehow I feel like i'm not able to face everyone there, cos' everyone is so normal, whilst i'm not?
They won't understand. No, not you either.

To give up would mean to give in to everything, to succumb to all this misery.
I'm not about to let myself go..

Sigh, i'm at my wits end.

Some people don't know how good they've got it...

You're the best lah, honest!

You're the only one whom I can trust completely, and tell you all my stuffs without having to think of what phrases can be used to replace the exact words in my mind to make things less obvious or whatsoever.
You're the one who always listen and never judge nor assume.
You're the only one who can make me laugh when I'm at my lowest.

Lubchooo lah! (&please don't unlease the inner XXX, please!)
And yesss, this whole entry is just for you, R.

&one more thing before I end this entry,
Goodluck for monday!

Tillagain.