I'm fed up with dealing with T-shirts. I'm never gonna do it again EVER! Its so troublesome when everything just doesn't go as planned and I have to be responsible for everything after. Worst still, other people get inconvenienced by it. Sighh... This shall be all for my ranting today.

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Akane

First time doing Flag Day on Wednesday. It was a hell of an experience. --" Firstly, there is the Asian Financial Crisis... although I really doubt donating a simple 50 cents would make you broke. However, I've seen a number of weird and funny reactions when you ask people to donate money. Here are some of the most funny reactions (some are rather cute)

1. There was this guy in a working shirt and the conversation went something like that...
"Would you like to donate(...)"
"Is there a minimum fee?"
"No, its any amount you like."
(and then he took out a $5 note and put it into the bag)

2. There were people who automatically donated. People who donated when asked. People who gave you a black face, saying "Go away you annoying pest." It made me feel like telling them "Its not like I wanted to do this anyway, I could be at home doing whatever I want. I'm doing this out of goodwill." --" There were people who were even worst, they turn to one side completely ignoring. I wonder how difficult it is to even say a small "No, thank you."

3. There was this dramatic girl who shouted "I am broke" at us when we asked. She was probably feeling depressed or pissed off at that time. But that was the most dramatic reaction I have ever seen.

I don't really know how much I collected by I treated Wan Ting and I to Coffee Bean as we were tired from travelling from Tanjong Pagar to Orchard, Bugis and then to Douby Ghaut.

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Akane

Just came back alive after hibernating for the past 7 hours. I fell right asleep after returning from the class chalet at 12nn. So tired. The 2 days ago, I was reading 天使街 V until midnight. I met Jessie at her house so that her mum can send us down to Down Town East together. There we continued watching Bleach until the time and met everyone else at the food court. There we totally took a gigantic portion of the food court with 15 of us eating. From there we waited outside until we could check in.

We wanted to go bowling with all the free hours we were given from booking the chalet but it was overcrowded. We walked around and then decided to go cycling:D My very first time doing double biking (and I don't think I will be doing it again in the near future 'cause can't really do it) I'm sure Natalie was going "What the heck" at the back when I didn't even know how to get the bike going since it was so heavy. We had some problems with the number of bikes and they almost held back all our ezlink cards due to it.

Started BBQ with no problems (girl guides outdoor cooking power) and we all prepare the food. Jessie and I skewered the chicken wings which were so friggin' cold that my hand was half frozen by the time that we were both done. T_T. The food was not too bad for us doing this unsupervised. I ATE 6 scoops of peanut butter in one night just playing the number game. I wonder if I will put on weight! (others got it off worst than me *haha*) Played poker cards without gambling.

Some guys started drinking beer and alcohols. We freaked out, cleared everything up within 5 mins and locked ourselves (8 of us) inside the room with the television). We had quite a store of videos and movies to choose from. We left as a group to buy snacks then.
1. Princess Hours
2. Hana Kimi
3. She's the Man
4. 200 pounds beauty
5. The Borne Ultimatium

We fell asleep at 6am and at times those random guys drinking outside (or was it not) will bang and knock on our doors. In order to ensure everyone's safety, we came up with an emergency plan. -_-". Ate Mcdonalds for breakfast, packed up, went home and sleep :D

Thanks to Jessie's Mum who sent me to Tanah Merah MRT station!

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Akane

AFA`08 was just a place full of fun :D

I went there at 11am. My dad managed to send me to Suntec City on the way to Plaza Singapura. They all didn't go to church that day cause my brother left for Middle East (Dubai) on an school field trip the previous night and none of them slept till about 1am in the morning. Plus all the excitement from him not knowing the number combination of the lock made everyone super tired.

AFA`08 was held in exhibition 401 - 403 and I was the first one there. The entire Gundam Gallery was fascinating. Every single Gundam Model, or anime figurine could be found displayed there. COOL! :D I walked around the entire area, shopped, looked at the mangas, animes and goods sold there, collected brochures and saw the power ranges on the stage (meet and greet live session) --" I explored the area alone and looked through all the goods in the different stalls, saw the fan art and read the short stories. Jessie finally arrived and we went around taking pictures with the posters and the cosplayers who have started to arrive as the Cosplay Mania Competition was starting. We both took Hokkien Mee and went back in time to watch.

We had characters from the manga hit-man REBORN. A cute performance of Code Geass and disappearing plus hungry CC. A hilarious performance with mini house, a huge ONI and ULTRAMAN o_O The action was really funny and the ONI stepped on all the mini houses. We had another Code Geass performance with a live robot that had to climb the stairs. It took 10mins just to do that and the wings kept falling off. An assorted musical of Kingdom Hearts with a yaori pairing, an extremely cool performance of Trinity Blood, a no stunt man action pack fighting scene from hit-man REBORN and a super-sucky performance by Tifa and a random lolita girl.

Bought 4 manga books from CAT STREET (while Jessie bought Ouran) and found a free D-Gray Man poster on the floor. The quality was super good. I wonder what happened to the person who dropped it. If I could find the owner I would definitely return it though. Returned home exhuasted with Jessie :D

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Akane

Went to Jessie's house today. The last time I went there, some guy came to repair the internet connection. This time, Jessie's house was changing the television and the television was HUGE, well, bigger than my house one at least. The guy that came before the actual television came was hilarious. He only brought the television stand with him. --" Sam was there again and I fed him from my hand. I was afraid he would bite me, but apparently not! :D

I watched "She's the Man", a modern variation of the Twelfth Nightof Shakespeare's work. Its like a variation of Hana Kimi, with different reasons for disguising as a boy and an American version. The jokes were super hilarious and I couldn't help from letting a goofy smile from spreading across my face and laughing till me sides hurt with Jessie and her brother. We all had western lunch and Jessie gave me an hour lesson on Japanese and lent me her notes to memorise all the kranji characters. ARGH! Jessie's brother went off for Secondary 1 initiation camp... morever, PSLE reasults being released TODAY! ><

When he came back, we watched 不能说的秘密 by 周杰伦. It was pretty good although confusing at first. I enjoyed the film. I was about to leave the house at 5 when the rain suddenly started pouring super heavily and I was allowed to stay for another half an hour. We had Jessie's brother play the songs from 不能说的秘密and sang Ma Ma Mia (with accompaniment from her brother) plus many other Japanese songs.

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Akane

I SWEAR I'M NEVER GOING TO USE STARHUB INTERNET AGAIN! RAWR!><

I mean I don't mind if they are going to block all the hentai and ecchi websites on the internet to prevent children from looking at them. but there is no reason to block my manga websites! STUPID *Sorry if I don't censor the curses :(

Onemanga was block by them and I can't read from there anymore. I don't see what is the reason of blocking the english manga websites. Unless STARHUB can find a way for the translating companies to translate all the existing manga there into proper books in English do they have the right to block the websites. I know about patent rights, but making it available on the internet reaches out to a much larger audience. If everything is in Japanese... how do you expect us japanese illterates to read. ****! (btw, don't mistake this for the f word)

As it is, very few make it to be translated already. This is TRANSLATION. If they are so worried about money, then go translate it and we will happily purchase the manga. IDIOT>< STARHUB! I'm damn damn pissed off now... ruin my fun day with Jessie at her house. Will write about that later when my anger is calmed down.

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Elaine

Finished so many INUYASHA movies. I'm feeling really high although the ending is kind of like Ultraman. Always, Kagome shooting the arrow and Inuyasha doing his signature Bakuryha. However, I still enjoy the nice eye candy of Kawaii Inuyasha and the cool Sesshoumaru! :D The movies were really well produced looking at the animation and stuff. I feel like going on an animation film movie marathon... if one ever existed --"

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Elaine

Went out with Jessie and Cat yesterday. Cat actually agreed to come and she skipped training. ==" We met at Singapore Post Centre in Popular and set off for Bugis. Ate till I was super full at Pastamania, 10 pcs pizza and 2 pastas. Window shopped at Bugis to burn off the calories accumulated from lunch. We set off for Cat's house somewhere in Siglap in a cosy pent house, with 3 rooms and a guest room. We were half drenched as it was raining. Played monopoly (I won again! haha), the piano, watched some videos on youtube, studied maths(I'm serious) and read manga.

Updates:
SOLD OUT! (manga)
a story about a girl who falls in love with the manager of some posh store with a posh french name (I think) and applied for a job there for his sake. Other than the love part, it depicts the situations and experience of working as a sales person selling stuff and things about customer service.
Boku ni Natta Watashi (the drawings are okay)
a Hana Kimi (shorter version) but a bit sick (I was a bit surprised though) of a girl who is forced to enroll in a boy's boarding school by her warped mother as her brother went missing before that. She meets a guy called Itou, who is also her room mate and things start to happen. As usual, there is a homo character.
Asa mo, hiru mo, Yoru mo (11 chapters)
A girl with a hatred and deep fear for all boys as she was raped before. But she is especially afraid of this guy who has the same face as the guy who raped her. The two of them were put into the class counsel and he actually likes her. And the story goes on.
As the Death God Dictates (8 chapters)
A girl is dictated to die within 1 month... and she has a guy she likes.

Naruto ep 183

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Akane

WENT OUT WITH JESSIE TO TAKA TODAY. I think we were just plain mentally challenged (both of us) Apart from Jessie being 'chased' by a pervert, we totally got lost trying to get to City hall in circles. This is how the timeline probably went:

Jessie and I miss City Hall Station by 1 because we were busy talking. We alighted immediately on the next stop and crossed over.

Jessie and I nearly took that train all the way to Marina Bay --" but realised on time. We managed to find the right train and headed on our way back towards City Hall.

However, we thought that we could take that train all the way to Orchard and missed City Hall again. Ended up at Bugis.

Jessie and I finally got on the train to City Hall and alighted at the right station and was finally on the way to City.

I think we were like total idiots that went in a full circle. It has never happened before. HAHA! Elaine the ritard! Whatever.

Ate lunch at kopitiam at Sing post - another jap shop named Sakura. At Taka, we went to Kinokuniya and we headed over to the manga section. Jessie wanted to buy a few Japanese novels to read, but we looked at the mangas anyway. VK book 8 is officially out! (but its in the jap version). I bought my sister's Christmas present. Its a book entitled - "Don't kiss the Frog". I don't know why kids have these obessesion on princesses and princes. So this book is about unconventional princes who DO NOT NEED A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR TO SAVE THEM. I totally agree with this. Btw, this was a book that Jessie recommended and I agreed on.
Thanks to RGS, I have become a feministic fan... all hail to women who do not need those guy jerks (which most of them are e.g. playboys/ bullys/ girl teasers) to save them. As far as I know, I much prefer anime guys - ZERO! TSURUGA REN! and the akuma from Hanatsuki Hime. ALLEN and LAVI! :D Spent a total of $30...almost broke.

Akane

School Farewell Assembly was boring actually. It might not be for the graduating batch, but for all of us. it was quite boring until the fun portion whereby there were less long speeches made by every single CLE and Form teacher which were not meant for us. The Talent Vogue people MCed the performance and they were so hilarious.

"Why is Miss Goh Lee Kian the most popular teacher in RGS?"
"Cause she gets T-shirt proposals, camp proposals, P.E proposals..."

The Talent vogue winners performed their variation of the Dance Expressione III performance. There was Rihanna's 'Take a Bow' song by the SPICE girls aka the House Captains of 2008. All the Sec 4s took their bow literally. And Finale was a song composed by a few RGS students. It was not too bad. And everyone was practically singing and dancing to 'High School Musical' 'We Are All In this Together'. As much as I dislike the show, I think the songs are pretty good.

Drama Night was a total bomb, but not as good as last years'. Maybe because I was too high in Sec 1 --". Sec 201's Shakespeare in 5 mins rap was so good. I think I would like the lyrics. The Sec1's performance had was quite good, but it had nothing to do with the theme Kailedoscope. There was one on the Elf Factory with an evil Santa kidnapping children to make toys and - Jamie Blond. (A bad pun on James Bond). Another one on Rapunzel being the evil one (serve her right to get locked up) and the prince being fed up with rescueing her. In actual fact, the witch is in love with the prince. Lastly, we have A twist of Little Red Riding Hood. The wolf was super funny, and there is that 'forbidden love' between an animal and a human. I wonder how did everything become fairy tales! --"

The Sec 2s ROCK THE STAGE MAN! 204 had a great performance that was mainly serious. It gave a good 5 min overview but there was no humour. 208 had a wonderful musical starting with the Ma Ma Mia! song - "Money, Money, Money, must be funny in a rich man's world" It was hilarious, I love the way they incooperated the songs into their show. And the Prince Arragon was a joker with his 'ARHH... ARHG!!!" Lastly, 209 twisted the entire Merchant of Venice into Rabbits of Radish, with stupid puns about the fish scales to weigh the flesh. (just what an OM filled class would do) In the end they ended with another stupid but funny joke on "Where's my [james] BOND"

The entire thing ended super early, so Jessie and I went to Subway to eat. The guy was amazed to see us still in uniform. --" haha! And there was this irritating (eye sore) couple who were 'struggling' to kiss each other in the MRT. I know it sounds obscene but this is the best description I could give. so Jessie turned our backs against them. But in the end, Jessie sat next to them after I left at Paya Lebar. I wonder what happened... ...

Updates:
Kimi wa Petto ep 4
Lady's Revolution 麻雀要革命 I and II FINISHED! It was so damn funny - 金映明，麻秋秋，蒙太一

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Akane