i'm going out to orchard for christmas present shopping with shaojean tomorrow. and going out again on saturday with geelyn, joshua and sanpeng, but this isn't confirmed yet.

on monday, joshua was sharing with me the horrors of the escape theme park, and i am now proud to announce that i am thoroughly freaked out. i shan't go to the theme park anymore. even though there's a good fifty more years to my life.

i have nothing to do. i almost went to youtube.com when i slapped myself and asked 'what are you doing?'. really, my sister is so hooked onto youtube. it used to be serial dramas, regardless chinese or korean. but then, now it's animes. her computer time today was seven to ten. and let me tell you, at seven in the morning, i was still in bed, trying to sleep. and there she was, blasting the speakers of my laptop, happil laughing and watching her anime away.

worse. the anime's about some stupid cute toddler, who cries in almost every episode. like, what the? imagine this.

i sleep and dream. i dream about avril teaching me how to use the abacus (true.) and all of a sudden, i hear a loud crying noise in the dream. at first, i thought it was part of the dream. but then, i wake up.

and i freaking see my sister smiling to herself.

i woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.

urgh.

but honestly. there's nothing else to do. and no one is online for me to talk to. i wanna watch my korean drama (which i watched before. but it's one of my favourite korean dramas EVER. so i'm rewatching. :D) !!

only cheryl's blogging more than often. everyone else is dead.

oh and i took the hit counter off because 1) i forgot to add it in and 2) why bother? it's more depressing to see that nobody came to your blog since the last time you check. unlike maxine, my hit counter hardly moves at all. hers RUNS, like a hare. mine's a snail, tortoise, whatever.

on a side note, what does megapixels mean to a picture? the higher the megapixels, the sharper and clearer it is? i only know that a high megapixelled camera is good. except i don't know why. was just pondering about it because i have nothing better to do.

i'm just going to blog and stone at the computer screen until eight. and then maybe continue from ten to eleven. or i don't bother to continue at all. it's times like this that i suddenly wish i have a job or jacq&emily's back or i have a somebody to crap with.

sadly, i have neither of them.

---

Elites.
the dictionary describes them as: A class of people enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status.

According to sixteen years old like me, 'Elites' meant those super-clever-studious-students from prestigious schools.

And one of the negative things said about these so-called elites, is that alot of them are uncaring, proud people who looks down on people who are not as good as them.

About one year ago, i would have no problem with these elites. Majority of the people around me are normal, playful people who didn't care so much about whether their exam results are better than their friends or not. Nothing matters as long as we would not have to stay back and repeat the school year. Of course there was about three or four girls who cared alot about their studies and set very high expectations for themselves, but they aren't proudish or what at all. they studied their own things, leave us lazy bums as we are, and accepted us for what we are as friends.

it was till i got abit more active in using the internet this year, when i realised that the world isn't such a nice place afterall. Over the internet, i often see students from prestigious schools looking down and making snobbish remarks on people who attend neighbourhood schools. yes, i dont deny that they are talented, clever genius who can calculate 268 x 895 within afew seconds and they ought to be 'WOWed' by us for that, but.... so what?

im not targetting all elites out there. i know some are really nice, friendly people, but it's just afew black sheeps. they ought to know that not everyone puts academic studies as a first piority. i would very much rather spend my teenage years having fun with friends, get average scores for exams and be happy. if you were to put me into a school surrounded by elite friends who are so competitive that even the smallest class test also have to compete, i can confidently say that i would think life is miserable and boring. so what if i get better results than others? that doesn't ensure that i would be happy everyday.

those elites who tend to look down on less-intelligent people, think again. Maybe having super-good results is LIFE to you, but please do remember that other people might not think that way. Entering a prestigious school and getting the best exam score in Singapore is not very important to us. and our lives still go on peacefully without all that intelligence -.-

yes, those elites study alot and tend to get better jobs in the future. but if i have to waste my teenage years studying and studying all the time just to get a high job position, i prefer having fun in my teenage years, and have an average stable job in the future.

who cares about what others would think of me. what matters is that im happy with my life, isn't it?

p.s. this post has no offence to those elites out there & dun worry, i know studies are important and although they dont stand the first place in my piority list, i'll still take them seriously and try my very best in it :)

i took this from a random blog. i guess it's pretty well written, and since i consider mgs to be a prestigious school, and is a student in it, does it mean that i'm an Elite?

i don't care whether i'm an Elite or not, really. and i don't look down on neighbourhood schools. hey, i used to be in one myself. i just love mgs for the simplest reasons.
1) i love the school uniform and i never forget that it's the third coolest school uniform in Singapore. (sorry for the egoness.)
2) the dentist is nice, cleaning my teeth with no disgusted stares.
3) i have wonderful class, great teachers and lovely friends.
4) i feel accepted and loved.

i also feel that marks don't really matter to me. maybe enough to promote me to the next year? for major exams (like psle and o levels), i usually go for better marks. (my mother looks at marks alot. she's a... you know, kiasu mom. she wants 9 A1s for my o levels. i smile on the outside and laugh on the inside. how can I get 9 A1s?)

as for jobs, i just want one that has a salary which can support my lifestyle. i don't really want to be a lawyer or a doctor or any of those. maybe a employee in a shop of Cineleisure? something like that. i don't mind. really really, as long as i'm happy. call me naive. but for now, that's the furthest my eyes can see; that's the future for me.

i've blatered and may continue blogging tomorrow. i'll see if i will continue using laptop or not. seeya later, alligators! :D