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The Bucket List

I've been wanting to do this for a really long time, but I've just never gotten around to doing it. I'm way too lazy.

But, I decided. Today is the day to do it. You never know when you might just kick the bucket. Might as well get a head start on everyone and die with no regrets!

Here's my bucket list

-          Go to a movie in my pajamas

-          Go skinny-dipping

-          Dive in the great barrier reef

-          Record a song

-          Go skydiving

-          Go backpacking around the world

-          Go on a roadtrip

-          Make out with a random guy

-          Buy a vibrator

-          Have a friend with benefits

-          Get pissed drunk

-          Learn Japanese and actually use it

-          Stay in Japan for at least two months and survive

-          Tell someone the story of my life, sparing no details

-          Disappear from home for a while

-          Send a message in a bottle

-          Walk from one end of the park connectors to the other end without stopping

-          Be someone else for a day

-          Shower in a waterfall

-          Go up to a person a tell him he’s cute

-          Experience weightlessness

-          Write my will

-          Kiss the Blarney Stone

-          Go deep sea fishing and eat my catch

-          Write a novel

-          Slack at an empty beach for a whole day

-          Work at a major theme park, like Seaworld, Disneyland etc.

-          Find the one

-          Confess to someone to his face that I’m hopelessly, irrevocably in love with him.

-          Partake in a Japanese tea ceremony

-          Be technologically free for a day

-          Bury a time capsule

-          Plan an elaborate practical joke

-          Make my own pasta

-          Learn to cook Nyonya dishes

-          Sleep outdoors watching the stars

-          Brew my own beer

-          Slip a “You’re loved.” Note under someone’s door

-          Spend an hour in a lift

-          Watch the sun rise

-          Bake a cake, by myself

-          Be silent for a whole day

-          Write to my favourite author

-          Randomly kiss someone

-          Test drive a car I can’t afford

-          Go to Egypt

-          Go to the Galapagos islands

-          Take one of the tours on this website: http://www.incredible-adventures.com/

-          Visit the Harry Potter Theme Park

-          Go on a Harry Potter Tour

-          Draw a map of a non-existent space

-          Accidently get locked into a bookstore

-          Attend Comicon

-          Join a special camp, e.g. Space Camp, Fat Camp, some kind of camp

-          Be an extra on film

-          Stay out all night dancing and drinking

-          Tell all my past crushes that I had a crush on them

-          Convince 10 people to write their own bucket list

-          Save a soul

-          Go Christmas caroling

TAADAAA... So long winded. But I'm determined to do it! =D 

- wish me luck. -

I like...

Food/Drink
- Lemon Barley, water, biscuits from Popeye, fries from Long John's Silver, spaghetti, nachos, Milk Tea, Green Apple bubble tea, Fuji apples, bananas, durians, strawberries, Cadbury Black Forest Chocolate, mangos, ice kimos/shaved ice, cinnamon and apple doughnuts, apple pie, Table Water biscuits, fish and chips

Shows
- Grease, Bring It On, American Pie, Edward Scissorshands, The Simpsons, Friends, That 70s Show, Greek, Gossip Girl, House, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, Reaper, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Barney and Friends, Bananas in Pajamas, Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Wish Upon a Star, Susie Q, Power Rangers, Naruto, Gundam 00, Cardcaptor Sakura, H20, Supernatural, Pride and Prejudice (BBC), Pirates of the Caribbean, Singing In The Rain, Mary Poppins, Sky High, X-Men, Ugly Betty, Suju Full House, My Tutor Friend, Hana Yori Dango, Hanazakarino Kimitachihe, Hana Kimi, My Sassy Girl, Wind Struck, The Notebook, A Walk To Remember, Cruel Intentions, History Boys, Ballet Shoes, Little Miss Sunshine, Fifth Element, Hairspray, Step Up, Another Cinderella Story, Mr. and Mrs Smith, Stardust, Burn After Reading It, Batman, You Don't Mess With The Zohan

Books
- Harry Potter, Twilight, Aishling Grey Novels, Totto-Chan, The Chronicles of Narnia, Devilish, Aria of the Sea, Phoenix Dance, Stardust, Smoke and Mirrors, Grimm Fairytales, In Deep Voodoo, Water Trilogy, Eragon, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Anita Blake Novels, Song of the Lioness Quartet, Blow Me Down, Romeo and Juliet, The Cross and the Switch Blade, P.S. I Love You, Where Rainbows End, Mathilda, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Good Omens, The Little Prince, Charlotte's Web, The Gift, Charmed I'm Sure, Puzzle Books, Green Eggs and Ham, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Peter Pan, Lasher, Taltos, The Witching Hour, The Lives of the Mayfair Witches, A Place Called Here, The Last Mermaid, Selina Penaluna, Joy Luck Club, Henry Sugar, Skulduggery Pleasant

Other random things
- My guitar, my piano, music, my DVDs and VCDs, the internet, walking, the ocean, stars, hot pink, turquoise, teal, blue, black, white, swimming, cycling, DKNY Delicious, Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, God, children's church, my family and friends, sha-sha sound of majong, the sound of the sea, the smell of the sea, pine cones, sand, the smell of coconut suntan oil, Disneyland, Hard Rock Cafe, Edward Cullen, Harry Potter, Sirius Black, Kim Kibum, stars, the ocean, bedok reservoir, snow, writing, reading, fantasy adventure, cobwebs, boys who make me laugh, eyes, shoulders, hands, Japanese culture, lists, soft things, dreaming

- liking too many things isn't good -

Conversations With Myself

I was taking the bus to Phillip's house (I'm giving him tuition) and I forgot to bring my book, plus I've heard all my iPod music like a gazillion times, so I kinda had a conversation with myself. On the bus. It went like this:

(don't judge me okay. Everyone has a private monologue once in a while. At least I don't sing in the shower right!)

Me: I'm so bored. There's nothing to do! Greek's not out yet! WHY?! WHY?! Plus I've finished watching Gossip Girl and there's absolutely nothing for me to watch till frigging Thursday!

Sub- Conscious: KNN, Amanda you're such a couch potato

M: Huh? Who's that?!

SC: Me lah.

M: *gasp* God?!

SC: Siao. Honestly would God be so rude?

M: No... Whatever, technically, I'm not a couch potato. Seriously.

SC: Oh please, don't lie. Before you sleep at night you sit on your bed watching sidereel videos, youtube videos and writing crappy romances.

M: Oi! That's not all I do! I... I also... Think of what I'm going to do tomorrow!

SC: How... Intellectual. *sniffs*

M: Look! There goes an ang mor...

SC:Why are you so obsessed with ang mors?! Future sarong party girl is it?! Fail lah... You can't pull off a sarong.

M: Wah. You really know how to hurt someone man. I'm just amazed by the sheer number of ang mors who now currently populate our tiny, insignificant island.

SC: Oh please, stop trying to sound so smart. "sheer number..." HAHA v. funny, I know you're an ah lian at heart. You shop at This Fashion, like pink, have an A in Singlish and you're louder than a fishmonger.

M: Oi! I resent that! Are you supposed to be my sub-conscious?!

SC: Yep. Doing a good job huh?

M: NO! Why are you such a pessimist?!

SC: The truth hurts honey.

M: Oh. reach already.


- didn't anyone tell you the first sign of madness is talking to yourself? -

First Day of School

Back to that hell-hole of sorts today. I would love to say that it started off with a bang, but it didn't, like every other day of school, I walked to school, pass the long-kang and through biz park sweating oh-so-glamorously.

Nicole and I spent the first lecture stuck taking pictures on Bryan's photobooth - which by the way is freakishly awesome and has all these awesome effects, if i had to buy a laptop based on camera quality I'd buy that. hurhurhur... - It was multimedia, which was so mind-numbingly boring (like my post today) There's like giant-arsed projects for that and we have to be in groups of 6. 6 lei! How will I find someone who wants to take me in?! tsk. So tough.

That's not all, I took a copy of stop-press, and I found the article, which was MINE, was DISCREDITED. @%^*#%$$@&()! I'm freaking pissed. HELLO I need that! It's for my PORTFOLIO. MOTHERFATHERSISTERBROTHER. This calls for some murdering. I would go on, but I'm going to take it up to Selvan, so I gotta save my wisecracks for later.

The lecture was boring, but I'm praying that it'd be fun, dreamweaver and all that crap. WHY DID I DELETE DREAMWEAVER?! fail.

Anyways, it was cross-cultural later, bloody hell, second lecture of the term and I fell asleep. Like drool on table asleep. WHAT A BORE. The videos he showed were awesome, because of... KEVJUMBA!

Let me digress.

I love kevjumba. I think he's the hottest ABC ever with the voice that could melt chocolate. Aw.... So... Deep, and manly... Plus he's so funny. Who wouldn't want a man who can make you laugh? Plus he's a soccer player, which means he'd totally fit in with Singaporeans! - I mean, it's like our national sport or something -




As this video shows, he's in college. BOO. Which means he and I can never meet! He's happily settled into the American culture. *sigh*

Sorry. As I was complaining.

School, which I've been looking forward to for 3 days straight has turned out to be a crash and burn sitch.

The one thing I like, is Broadcast Performance. I totally don't regret taking it now. I really like Mrs Raimi (however you spell it), she's freaking nice, plus she has this totally strange laugh which is so funny. Plus, she knows her shite man.

We did breathing exercises today, diaphragm etc, so funny, when we lay on the floor and she made us breathe and stuff to make the book on our stomachs rise up and down we all look like fools on the God-awful carpet. I bet you a million bucks it was covered in pee and other unmentionables.

Then she let us have 15 odd minutes to lie down and sleep. Awesome! More sleeping time right? Right, until I found out that when I woke up, Nicole told me I snored. And Denise heard! She was three people away from me! OH MY GOD! What an ending to a freaky day. I SNORED. IN MY FIRST CLASS.

WHY GOD WHY?! Why torture me with snoring genes?!

- now no one's ever going to marry me -

Water Memory

Service was particularly interesting today.

Pastor Kong brought up this really interesting science experiment. (well, it's pseudoscience, but whatever, it's all greek to me!)

Dr. Masaru Emoto,

his surname by the way, totally fits this experiment, I'll explain later.

Dr. Emoto has found out that human emotion, vibration, thoughts, words, energy, ideas and music affects the molecular structure of water.

By the way, humans are made up of around 70% to 60% of water.
Plus water's kinda known as the cradle of life is it not? Plus, fetus-es (or fetai or whatever) are surrounded by water when in their mother's womb! Which shows just how important his discovery was!

Here's the official connection of water to his study (WARNING: very studious and yawn worthy!): Water is a very malleable substance. Its physical shape easily adapts to whatever environment is present. But its physical appearance is not the only thing that changes, the molecular shape also changes. The energy or vibrations of the environment will change the molecular shape of water. In this sense water not only has the ability to visually reflect the environment but it also molecularly reflects the environment.

Enough of the bore, basically it means that the environment affects water.
The Experiment

Dr. Emoto took pictures of frozen water under a microscope to look at the shapes of the molecules and this is what he found out.

Based on PLACE

Sanbu-ichi Yusui Spring water

Japan Shimanto River, referred to as the last clean stream in Japan

Antarctic Ice

Biwako Lake, the largest lake at the center of Japan and the water pool of the Kinki Region. Pollution is getting worse.

Now this is the coolest one ever.

BOTH ARE FROM FUJIWARA DAM

The water after a woman After the water was prayed over
had committed suicide

*gasp* how cool is that?! the water snowflake looks GORGEOUS after the prayer!

water affected by MUSIC

Heavy Metal Music

Beethoven's Pastorale

Kawachi Folk Dance









See! Even music affects the water. Isn't it pretty? I love the Kawachi one, looks like a flower.

Water affected by WORDS
You know what's the funniest thing about these? He didn't SPEAK the words, he just pour the water into a glass bottle and stuck the words around the bottle facing the water! So it was like he was letting the water READ it.

"You make me sick, I want to kill you"

"Arigato - Thank You"









Then there's this one which is pretty cool too! (plus I'm just posting the snowflake cause I think it's adorable)

Isn't that amazing!

In short, this shows how words can change a person. The environment around a person is really important don't you think? So next time when you're around a little kid, be all sunbeams and flowery.

If you're wondering why I'm talking like that, it's cause I'm feeling a bit depressed. So sunshine and happy thoughts are needed to keep me going.

Oh, did you catch the reason why Dr. Emoto's name suits the experiement?
ANSWER: because of the "Emo" in his name! EMOTION geddit? hahahhaha....

lame.

- 18 years of the panda and counting -

I want to be...

You know when I was younger I had tons of ambitions. Doctor... Pilot... and a ton of other crazy things.

So... Anyways, here's a list of what I wanted to become when I was younger, I even have dolphin on it.

(all in random order)

Pink Ranger


The one called Kimberly, the very first one. I even got my mom to call me Kimberly, all my kid books had the name Kimberly printed out neatly (or as neat as a 5 year old could make it) onto the bookplate. I totally admired the way could toss herself into the air and fight the evil Rita and the other alians. Plus she was soooo cute! She had this "protect me white ranger!" thing going on. So insane.

Ariel: The Little Mermaid


Hello. Who didn't want to be her? Who didn't want to be "part of that worrrlllddd". Please, she had freaking red hair (do you know women with red hair are considered one of the sexiest ever?) And she (ARIEL) could swim super fast and make really cool spirals with her freaking cool tail! See, i'm getting excited just thinking about it *sighs* she had a tail...
Oh the jealousy.

Dolphin


Like in the above, it lived in the sea. If you know me well enough, you should know that I love the sea, turquoise/teal/sea-green colours etc, starfish, stars blah blah, so dolphins were kinda like, duh, cause of the sea thing. I just think they are so cool. They are smart you know.

Singer


I think... That a lot of people had this ambition when they were young. Then, like me, they heard themselves via recorder. I get it, I can't sing. *sigh* good bye to rockstar career with screaming fans and free clothes. Now, only my close friends and karoke kakis hear my screeching. (at this place called the 10 dollar club, so cheesy right!) hahaha...

Cardcaptor Sakura


I wrote stories where I was the cardcaptor and created cards that totally helped Earth, like the music card (how it helps Earth, i dunno, but it did!) And Lee, was totally in love with me. It was awesome, I tell you, the first time I caught CCS on tv i fell in love with Anime then AXN got me addicted more, and soon, I became an anime otaku. (NOT LIKE THOSE PERVY DUDES THOUGH!) I'm totally clean OKAY! And beside, Madison totally gave her awesome costumes! I love the huge bell skirts and hats, but most importantly, THE WAND! AWESOMNESS~

Ninja


Once again, it's due to my anime-watching habits. My pals from school got me started on Naruto, and I was hooked. I was in love with Kakashi, a masked hero who was Naruto's teacher and was freaking cool! Plus they had SHEXY fighting moves! Seriously. HAWT STUFFS I wanted to throw the little shurikans and kick-ass like Tsunade-sama.

Eh. Shut up ah. I know I sound like a total dork. BUT I'M A COOL DORK!

Vampire Slayer


You don't need to say anything. I can feel the groan from a mile away. In case you are a totally Buffy-noobster let me update you on the might and feminist power this little blonde munchkin radiated from the curls of her perfectly coiffed hair to the toes of her stylish but reasonably priced boots. Like superman, Vampire Slayer is her Alter-ego, by day she's a wise-cracking C averaging student and by night she's a butt-kicking, wise-cracking champion of all the powers that be. Plus she could do a flips and handstands as though she was twirling a pen, not herself, around. HOLY CRAP SHE'S FREAKING COOL. A pop culture icon all on her own!

Wizard


Once again, I can feel the DUH from a country away. So what if I read Harry Potter huh! At least I have an obsession with something other than my nails! (glares at bimbos out there) haha not like i have nails lah. But anyways, Harry Potter was the turning point for me, I totally fell in love with Hogwarts and everything. I vow, if magic was real, I'd be Hermione's second.

Writer


Er, technically, this isn't crazy, because I'm still harboring the intention of becoming a writer. But now, I wanna become a novelist too. Is that crazy? Hoping too much? I write short stories for friends! But that's about it.

So anyways, hope you enjoyed my little monologue.

By the way, in case some of you don't know, I'm having a birthday thing. *TEEHEE*

- to see the world in a grain of sand -