Yesterday was a really truly bizarre day. I smashed my racket when I was playing tennis; obviously it broke, not to pieces, but there's a crack there. Was getting so worked up over a point. Thought I'd be able to control my anger, but I guess I got into my volatile self again. Felt really good after smashing my racket, but then the guilt sank in not too long after.
We were supposed to go back to Singapore yesterday, but we missed our flight. I mean, seriously, missed our flight. The plane hadn't left yet, but the counter was already closed, so we couldn't check in. That was the first time ever I'd missed a flight, and the feeling wasn't good. Blame it on traffic jam around my house. We took 1 hour to get to a place where we'd have normally taken only 5 minutes. But then again, we started late from the house. We started like 1 1/2 hours before the flight, and nearing Christmas time, we should've known that there would be a really bad jam. Was quite tired after going to the airport and back again yesterday. Thank goodness we managed to get tickets for today's flight. So I'll be going back to Singapore later, and this time, we're going to set off 3 hours before the flight. Hehe.
Today's Christmas eve; obviously tomorrow is Christmas. Christmas really comes fast this year. I love Christmas; I love hearing all those Christmas carols. But it's really weird not to go to church during Christmas. Normally, if we're still in Jakarta, we'd go to the evening service on Christmas eve. Towards the end of the service, they'd switch off the lights and we would light our candles that had been given to us when we entered the church. I like that part the best. In Singapore, I think there's no service on Christmas eve, so we've to go to the one on Christmas itself. But since we've got to go early tomorrow, I don't think we can go to church at all. Oh well..
Anyway, I think I better finish packing my stuff now. Merry Christmas everyone!
Just checked my SAT scores online. Got 1390. Feel a little bit disappointed because I was hoping to get at least 1400. But I've to take it into perspective. At least I improved my score this time and I only missed 1400 by 10 points. So I should not be disappointed.
Anyway, I've only until Tuesday to finish all my school stuff. And I still have book review. How am I going to finish? Hmm..I'll think about that later.
I've been having weird dreams lately. Two nights ago, I had this dream about me and my brothers watching MU vs Chelsea match at Old Trafford, which is strangely located in Jakarta, not in Manchester. Chelsea, as we all know, had beaten MU 1-0 at Stamford Bridge last time round. The match started..and we could all see the players clearly..they were like so close to us, like right in front of our faces. We could see Keane, Nistelrooy, Lampard, etc. Anyway, I think Nistelrooy scored the first goal of the match to put MU 1-up. But then, Chelsea equalised before halftime. Not only that, they managed to put two more goals past Tim Howard, I think, to put Chelsea 3-1 up at halftime. I remember clearly that one of the goals were scored by Lampard. Anyway, right after the match resumed, Chelsea scored another goal. But then, MU equalised right away through Nistelrooy. Most of the goals were scored from really horrible defensive blunders. So they're like freak goals, but quite comical also. Anyway, after MU reduced the deficit, all of a sudden, Tim Howard was called out of the match. I think there was an emergency or something. So the match was suspended. He took quite a long time and when he returned, he told us that he had to go back to US. It was decided that the match would not be resumed. Howard also had a daughter, who magically turned out to be my friend. Of course I was sad to see her leave. She was giving me all her address and phone number and stuff in US so that I could still keep in contact with her while I just sat there crying. My mum also happened to know Howard and we were both quite sad to see them leave. Anyway, they left not long after. After a few minutes or so, I, for some reason, decided to go to the airport, as if I'd forgotten to say goodbye to them. If I'm not wrong, both Howard and his daughter were already quite late for their flight. So me and my mum had to speed to the airport. Apparently there was this shortcut to the airport. We got to this place and from this place, we could swim to the airport. Anyway, that was the first time I heard someone swim to the airport. But it wasn't swimming pool or anything like that. The place where we were supposed to swim was full of waterfalls, rapids and plunge pools. Not what I'd expect in a city like Jakarta. But anyway, the moment I started to swim, I nearly drowned. I was screaming for help and my mum was swimming towards me..and suddenly I woke up. Don't know what this dream means. Maybe I've been thinking too much of soccer or watching too much soccer or talking too much soccer with my brothers. I hope it won't be an ominous sign when MU plays Chelsea at Old Trafford.
The holidays have so far been quite enjoyable for me =). I'm right now taking driving lessons so that I can get my license. There are 7 lessons in total; had my first one yesterday. My mum decided that I should learn how to drive a manual car, and not an automatic one. I've had experience driving an auto car before, but driving a manual car is much harder because I've got to change gears and stuff. And it's really tiring, especially here where there're lots of traffic jams. Anyway, yesterday, the instructor told me to sit in the driver's seat right away and to drive out of the apartment. Was quite shocked cos I thought he'd drive to a quiet spot or something and teach me there. The street outside the apartment is very congested. I mean there are really lots of cars and I didn't know when to turn so that I can get out to the street. So it wasn't a surprise really that I crashed into a car. Fortunately for me, there was no dent on the other car. I don't know what would've happened if there was actually a dent. Oh well..felt really frightened, especially there were cars honking here and there and people staring at me...it certainly wasn't the nicest feeling. Driving is really quite tricky. I still haven't learnt how to change gears smoothly, so at times, the car would jump and the engine would get turned off and I've to stop to turn on the engine again. My mum decided to accompany me today for my second lesson. She was quite scared I'd crash again, which I nearly did. Since I still couldn't change gears smoothly, the car 'jumped' quite a few times. It was really funny..she was screaming telling me to slow down while talking on the phone at the same time. And my sense of direction isn't that good either, so... But driving is fun. It's quite exciting and I feel that somehow, I'm in control..
MU beat Stuggart 2-0 yesterday, but Arsenal also won. And my brother keeps on rubbing in the fact that Arsenal went from Champions League no-hopers to group winners, as stated in Soccernet. Honestly, all three of us thought that Arsenal wouldn't qualify for the second phase after they could only get 1 point from 3 games, but obviously we were so wrong. That's why my brother is quite gleeful now.
I'm totally addicted to TV (ok..as if I never was). But really..I'm like watching soccer programs on ESPN, soccer matches, replays of matches, music videos on MTV and Channel [V] and somehow, I seem to find a movie to watch every other night, be it on Cinemax or Star Movies or whatever. And obviously I've been slacking...Darn...Gotta buck up if I want to stick to my promise.
It's nice to be back home again. First thing I did when I reached here yesterday was to switch on the TV and there it was, ESPN, right before my eyes. Hehe. Anyway, I'm back to doing tutorials again today. I know SAT was only 2 days ago, but I've to keep on reminding myself that I must finish all the school homework and stuff before Christmas.
SAT was OK; at least it was better than the one I took in June. Thank goodness this time round the experimental section is Math and not Verbal. And some of the words I studied actually came out. Still, I left 5 blank, but I did the best I could. Only that during the exam, someone forgot to switch off his handphone and while I was reading a passage, his handphone suddenly rang. Oh well. Frankly, I'm just happy that it's all over. I should be able to check the result online in two weeks' time, so I'll just see then.
I've underestimated the difficulty of putting on contact lenses. I decided to try out wearing hard lens, and it took me 3 hours on Saturday just to learn how to put on and take off the lenses. Today, I decided to wear them but after 1 hour, my eyes were quite painful and I had to take them off. Sigh. Hopefully, it was not a mistake for me to try on contact lenses. They're quite expensive.
Anyway, I'm still happy that MU won 4-0 on Saturday night, while both Arsenal and Chelsea could only drew. Haha. Made fun of my brother. Well, who asked him to be an Arsenal fan?
I'm tired of listening to the songs on the radio. Perfect 10 seems to be playing the same songs over and over again, and I don't really like the songs now. Yet I'm also tired of listening to the albums I have. Most of the albums I have are pretty old, so I usually end up listening to the newer ones, hence listening to the few CDs over and over again. Sigh. My collection of CDs are rather pathetic. I'm quite unwilling to borrow my brother's CDs, since he has practically different tastes from me. I want to buy new CDs! There are quite a lot that I want to buy
1. Clay Aiken: Measure of a Man
2. Blue: Guilty
3. Westlife: Mandy (just realised I've bought all their albums so far)
4. The American Idol Christmas CD (I think I really am a fanatic of the series..but still..it's the Christmas season now..)
5. Busted - both their albums
6. John Mayer: Heavier Things and his first one
7. Michelle Branch: her two albums
8. a1 Greatest Hits album (never bought a single a1 album. thought i'll get this album cos they have quite a few nice songs..)
9. Evanescence
10. Good Charlotte
Can't wait to go back home and buy those CDs.
Anyway, SAT is just like..two days away. I've kind of given up on finishing the word lists. I'm just choosing random word lists to read through. I don't think I'll be able to remember all the words I've learnt..what more 3500 words. Oh well..at least I did try to learn those words.
THE VOICE WITHIN (Christina Aguilera)
Young girl don't cry
I'll be right here when your world starts to fall
Young girl it's alright
Your tears will dry, you'll soon be free to fly
When you're safe inside your room you tend to dream
Of a place where nothing's harder than it seems
No one ever wants or bothers to explain
Of the heartache life can bring and what it means
Chorus:
When there's no one else, look inside yourself
Like your oldest friend just trust the voice within
Then you'll find the strength that will guide your way
You'll learn to begin to trust the voice within
Young girl don't hide
You'll never change if you just run away
Young girl just hold tight
Soon you're gonna see your brighter day
Now in a world where innocence is quickly claimed
It's so hard to stand your ground when you're so afraid
No one reaches out a hand for you to hold
When you look outside look inside to your soul
(Chorus)
Life is a journey
It can take you anywhere you choose to go
As long as you're learning
You'll find all you'll ever need to know
You'll break it
You'll make it
Just don't forsake it because
No one can tell you what you can't do
No one can stop you, you know that I'm talking to you
(Chorus)
So Chelsea beat MU 1-0, through a penalty. Maybe I had already half-expected them to do so. But I'm still quite confident MU can defend their title this season. After all, they had also lost three games at this stage last season, and they still managed a comeback. So I'm quite hopeful.
How can I forget to mention the fact that my father and Clay Aiken share the same birthday? That's right..Clay celebrated his 25th birthday on Sunday, 30th Nov. Hehe. Oh well...
Studying for SAT freaks me out. It's like studying for Promos all over again. Just that Promos was more stressful. Never mind, I shall persevere. It's going to be all over come Saturday.
As of today, amount of homework completed: Zero. Most of the holidays has been spent doing CIP, studying for SAT and training that I can only start doing homework after SAT. That leaves me about 2 1/2 weeks, if I want to get everything done before Christmas. And that means, I'll have to do homework back home, which sucks. I'm supposed to enjoy myself back home, right? Since I barely spend time there. Which makes me wonder..what happens to the true meaning of a 'holiday'? Never mind..I shall stop complaining. Get homework done before Christmas, and I'll be able to enjoy Christmas, New Year..and the last week of holidays before school starts again..proper. Haha. My resolution.