Spotlights: Homepage Spotlight 11/9/09 [November 09, 2009 @ 9:49am] lj_spotlight [ljspotlight] sixwordstories Whether you're in the mood for a creative challenge or you're short on time or attention span, this semi-addictive community is perfect for those who find flash fiction way long. Once you get the hang of it, you won't be able to stop. The prince turned into a frog. The girl ran home to mother. Tough to write. Easy to read. It's a double threesome of fun. Read (16) Comment

Spotlights: Homepage Spotlight 11/9/09 [November 09, 2009 @ 9:46am] lj_spotlight [ljspotlight] dailyfoodie Delicious, ambitious, and occasionally nutritious dishes make for an eclectic, all-you-can-eat feast. Whether you're searching for recipes for your next dinner party or you're jonesing for a late-night brownie fix, your cravings are sure to be well sated. A warm and inclusive community that welcomes all orientations, from carnivores to vegans, from gourmands to junk-food junkies. Guaranteed bias-free, food-positive, and pan-epicurian. Comment

[November 10, 2009 @ 12:04am] addysim the last presentation for the semester is finally over!! after 3 written assignments and 4 presentations and 1 discussion (which i didn't say anything at all hehehe) i can finally take a half day breather before starting on revision for finals. talking with my fellow chao keng kias (for lack of a better descriptor) have led me to conclude that i waste alot of time everyday doing nothing useful, especially when studying at home. i inevitably take a nap or watch tv or laze around reading a novel. then before i know it it's 7pm and i havent done anything. after dinner i sit at the computer to make notes but end up playing games online. therefore i conclude that studying in school is way better for me. productivity sky rockets. that's what i shall do. i shall locate a reclusive corner in the library and camp there from wednesdays till final starts 2 weeks from now. i will survive off tuna and raisin sandwiches from the library cafe and kopi from pick 'n' bite. i only want a B+ average. i think i cannot achieve that even. sian diao x1000 Read (1) Comment

wait forever and a day for you [November 09, 2009 @ 9:40pm] trybreaking_me [ music | Everybody in Love - JLS ] HAHAHA the fb application "Your next relationship will be with..." P6 FRIENDS GUESS WHO IT WAS . . . . . . . . . . MELVIN LEE HAHAHAHAHA omg I died I haven't talked to him in ages hahaha totally died laughing when I saw that. Also, fb's Social Interview (which I have been doing almost every day out of sheer boredom) just asked me: Question 6 of 25: If you were to give ______ ___ an award, what would it be titled? How about, Person I Waited for the Longest Time Ever. Quite out of the blue, just popped into my head. -shrugs- Long gone, anyway. *DISCLAIMER: if you can see this post, NOTHING IN THIS REFERS TO YOU. NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING REFERS TO YOU. I hereby absolve myself from all responsibility for misunderstandings that might or might not result from this entry. So much for free speech in this country. Random meme from Rachael's fb: ( meeemeeeee ) MEHHH MATHHHHHHH NVM ONE DOWN ALR:D:D:D geog sucked btw/ Comment

[November 09, 2009 @ 9:40am] injarsofclay 0 days left. Let us still live as though every day's our last, even though its the As now.  Comment

#135: Your grace is enough [November 08, 2009 @ 3:13pm] soozenn [ mood | calm ] [ music | Enough - Chris Tomlin ] Just got back from church. Went for large group + small group + church this week finally doing what I'm supposed to be doing yay.  Still feeling kind of :S about things in general but am feeling a lot better than I did a few days ago so it's all good.  All of You is more than enough for all of me for every thirst and every need You satisfy me  with Your love and all I have in You is more than enough  (:  I love this song so so so much! Go listen to it go go go.  Read (2) Comment

Losing my religion. [November 09, 2009 @ 1:58am] allylovesprada Thats me in the corner. Thats me in the spotlight. I think I thought I saw you change. But that was just a dream. ... Its 2am and I am so hungry I want to eat cup noodles although I am perfectly aware about how unhealthy that is. I'm also longing to do something absolutely crazy, to keep myself from thinking too much. Comment

[November 08, 2009 @ 11:34pm] injarsofclay The Disadvantages of an Elite Education "The first disadvantage of an elite education ... is that it makes you incapable of talking to people who aren’t like you. The first disadvantage of an elite education is how very much of the human it alienates you from.  The second disadvantage ... is that an elite education inculcates a false sense of self-worth" (nodding my head right now). "Getting to an elite college, being at an elite college, and going on from an elite college—all involve numerical rankings: SAT, GPA, GRE. You learn to think of yourself in terms of those numbers. They come to signify not only your fate, but your identity; not only your identity, but your value. It’s been said that what those tests really measure is your ability to take tests, but even if they measure something real, it is only a small slice of the real. The problem begins when students are encouraged to forget this truth, when academic excellence becomes excellence in some absolute sense, when “better at X” becomes simply “better. There is nothing wrong with taking pride in one’s intellect or knowledge. There is something wrong with the smugness and self-congratulation that elite schools connive at from the moment the fat envelopes come in the mail. From orientation to graduation, the message is implicit in every tone of voice and tilt of the head, every old-school tradition, every article in the student paper, every speech from the dean. The message is: You have arrived. Welcome to the club. (Deja Vu alert) And the corollary is equally clear: You deserve everything your presence here is going to enable you to get. When people say that students at elite schools have a strong sense of entitlement, they mean that those students think they deserve more than other people because their SAT scores are higher." - Sounds like uh, my school. By the way, club fees are $300+. High five hommie. "How can I be a schoolteacher—wouldn’t that be a waste of my expensive education? Wouldn’t I be squandering the opportunities my parents worked so hard to provide? What will my friends think? How will I face my classmates at our 20th reunion, when they’re all rich lawyers or important people in New York? And the question that lies behind all these: Isn’t it beneath me? So a whole universe of possibility closes, and you miss your true calling." - Sounds like me. Please change. "They are products of a system that rarely asked them to think about something bigger than the next assignment. The system forgot to teach them, along the way to the prestige admissions and the lucrative jobs, that the most important achievements can’t be measured by a letter or a number or a name. It forgot that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers." "The world that produced John Kerry and George Bush is indeed giving us our next generation of leaders. The kid who’s loading up on AP courses junior year or editing three campus publications while double-majoring (haha sounds like the friends in school Uni Apps freaks), the kid whom everyone wants at their college or law school but no one wants in their classroom, the kid who doesn’t have a minute to breathe, let alone think, will soon be running a corporation or an institution or a government. She will have many achievements but little experience, great success but no vision. The disadvantage of an elite education is that it’s given us the elite we have, and the elite we’re going to have." Conclusion: Finally, a logical argument against elitism... Not the conventional, familiar and stereotypical "us against the world", "everyone else against elites" idea our society cushions on i.e. the anti-elitists create the elitists IMO hehe... We hence need Faith + Brains if the Brains are God-given. If none are available, Faith will do. Press on guys. 1 day to As. Come on danny phantom. Comment

everybody in love/ put your hands up [November 08, 2009 @ 11:18pm] trybreaking_me Time waits for no one, not even As: LOVED IT. Frankly I thought she nailed it :D I usually don't think Stacy is awesome but I loved this performance. &LLOYD WAS SO CUTEEEEE<3 &I don't understand why Cheryl&Simon fight so much in this week's performance but they were really o.O &Danyl IS SO AWESOME NOW loved the way he talked to Cheryl about his hair :D:D was so natural and hardly the same guy he was last week. GO DANYL :D Alright last bit of geog COME ON COME ON ALMOST 1130 X.X <edit> NEW SONG OMGGGGG <3 NICENICENICE I'll wait forever and a day for you Wait up, wait up for you JLSSSSS <edit> Comment

Chocolates and strawberries. [November 08, 2009 @ 9:22pm] allylovesprada Are the things that interest me most in life right now. They are sweet and pretty and yummy. They wont hurt you, nor judge you. They make you happy, And everything is simple and uncomplicated. Because my life right now, is complicated TO THE MAX. Haha. Anyway, this was the first weekend in a million years that I just stayed home on my own, caught up on work, watched gossip girl, and spent time with myself.:) I guess it was a nice refreshing change, although I was quite bored at times. But I liked having the time and space to decide what I wanted to do (even though I didnt have plans haha) But I'm stronger and better than this, so I will survive life and conquer gravity. These past few days, I saw how caring and loving my friends really were and I couldnt be more grateful to have friends like these. Because i'm always afraid to share my problems with people lest they judge me, or feel overly-burdened with my problems. But i've learnt to let go and trust them and it felt so heartwarming to know people cared about my sanity :) THANK YOU TO.... Sumy! For driving all the way to my house to talk and listen and bring me back to school so that I wouldnt stay home and wallow in self-pity!! FOREVER EVERLASTING LOVE <3 Kevin..for obeying sumy's orders to not let me go crazy hahaha:) Leon..for just talking and listening, and encouraging and motivating me to never give up. MAOmaomao heehee my dearest maomao for playing badminton and listening to me bitch and whine and rant haha! Badminton with the sports school table tennis coach WAS AN INTENSIVE WORK OUT and boy did I have fun :) exercise/bitching buddies ftw! KLARA LEOW CJ...for coming all the way down to school to keep me company after tutorial even though I didnt know and hence scooted home after! AM UTTERLY SORRY but am nonetheless very touched by your very sweet gesture :) And to my 13B loves! For all your concern I COULDNT BE MORE GRATEFUL! I know everyone's going through shit too..be it in Singapore or overseas but HANG IN THERE PEEPZ because we can do this! We did it before, we can certainly do it again :) Thanks for all your sweet and encouraging messages :) Comment

PHUKETTTTTTT [November 08, 2009 @ 4:00pm] trybreaking_me BEECAWSE AI AM EGGSTREMELY BOARED, I went to look at old photos&&found these (: ( (: (: (: SMILES MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND! ) &here HAHAH GUANGZ XD   </div> Gosh what a load of photos. May this not cause your com to lag, friends :D <edit> Stupid LJ cut is not working properly. Aiyah wtv. <edit> Rihanna says: Eff love, love is blind. Always true to some extent. GEOG TMR AHHHHHH Read (5) Comment

[November 08, 2009 @ 11:11am] acyrrej   i woke up on a sunday morning and started occupying my brain with nonsense. thinking about things that won't happen again. somehow i wished i could get my brain out of this state so i can use it for more constructive purposes like studying for my test next week so i won't screw up my gpa so badly this semester. what's wrong with me. haven't i had enough already and all i do is to fall back into it fall back into it and fall back into it. ugh study. exams in 2 and a half weeks. Comment

[November 08, 2009 @ 12:34am] injarsofclay 2 days. This is real. I can't believe it.  Comment

huiwen says I sound like I am getting married o.O [November 08, 2009 @ 12:01am] trybreaking_me Like Tim always tells me, LIFE IS TOUGH, BUT I AM TOUGHER. &SO ARE YOU, FRIENDS :D COME ON FRIENDS As ARE HERE IZ EXCITING EXCITING EXCITING!!!!!!! We will all get through this in a month LETS GOOOOOO Lovely night air. Been raining like mad the last few days with the exception of today it didn't rain a single drop, which explains the unbearable heat at raja which drove us to outside the ri library. SIAN DISCOVERED THIS MUGGING SPOT TOO LATE RAWR RAWR RAWR IT IS SUPER NICE AND SUPER QUIET (okay maybe only today because there was hardly anyone in school) Am going to stay at home tmr and attempt math, and finish up geog in time for monday (: CANT WAIT FOR THIS TO BE OVER CANT WAIT CANT WAIT CANT WAIT CANT WAIT PHUKKKKKEEEETTTTT <3 I am attempting to write my ttml suff for Mr Sowden. I'm writing nonsense he's going to think I'm some sentimental softie//drama queen erps D: ohwell. Worse come to worse he'll just quote me to the following generations AND MY NAME WILL BE PASSED DOWN TO FUTURE RAFFLESIANS I am going mad. but at least I am happy&not too stressed (: Read (2) Comment

finalllssss [November 07, 2009 @ 10:36pm] cheriegirl [ mood | sick ] I think it still hasn't hit me just how soon finals are. The fear still hasn't sunk in and all I'm feeling now is panic and OMG my first paper is on the 23rd kind of feeling. But procrastinators usually get the memo late, you see. I can't wait to feel that pee-inducing fear so that I will work harder than I am now. I HATE PROJECTS. They suck up a huge part of my life and deprive me of my time to study. I just spent a good half of my in school compiling and formatting the arsed ACC project, which is totally not worth the time and effort we have put in. 180 marks for 15%?? Go eat pangsai! And group meetings are one time INEFFICIENT that I got so pissed off just now. On hindsight I feel bad showing temper, but seriously?! Stop being so slow and NUAAAAAAAA, like we need to chop chop because I want to get on with my life I don't care if you want to continue doing this for the rest of the sem - I AM NOT INTERESTED. Grrrrrr And I'm officially falling sick yay.  OMG WHAT'S WITH ANGST-DRIVEN NIGHT? Sucks. My only semblance of a life this week -  3 movies last night in the krub room with the best company ever. Saw VI is totally lousy and mild, (500) Days of Summer made me feel in love, and Zombieland was just - dots. The 3 of us snuggled up on the couch together and laughed and laughed at how completely messed up the show is.  Nice. Webcast and CCK beckons! BAI ): Comment

[November 06, 2009 @ 11:16pm] trybreaking_me 3 more days to As, life is getting simpler (and it will start again soon, very soon.) Or so I tell myself. Today while we were having lunch at the Hong Kong place at j8 there was this woman who suddenly yelled at some guy and the whole place went quiet for a while D: What on earth is wrong, I have been seeing people yell at each other BOTH yesterday and today. PLS DONT LET THERE BE ANYMORE TMR ): THREE DAYS TO As (and 19days to freedom LET FREEDOM RING - SO NEAR YET SO FAR) COME ON MICHELLE YOU CAN DO THIS LETS GOOOOOOOOOO Read (4) Comment

[November 06, 2009 @ 3:08pm] injarsofclay Until the poets run out of rhymeeeeeeee In other words...... Until I die Comment

Say hello to goodbye. [November 06, 2009 @ 11:29am] allylovesprada I used to think that as long as I set my heart on what I wanted, I could achieve it all. And nothing could undermine hardwork. But as the days go by and as Sem 1 of Law School is drawing to a close, I come to learn I am much mistaken. Once again, I never fail to feel even stupider and worse about myself after every lecture and tutorial. My life used to be so easy. But ever since I left Scgs, I felt like i've been running and trying to play catch up ever since. I find myself constantly in this rat race to do well, but no matter how hard I try I always find myself right at the back and I have no idea how to pick myself up with every disappointment that comes straight at me. I find it so unfair, frustrating, annoying, irritating that I always have to work doubly hard to achieve barely mediocre results. And every day I wonder what am i really doing with my life. Every momentary happiness I feel is always almost immediately replaced with defeatism. It seems irrational that we work so hard to give ourselves the best opportunities in life and yet having attained that goal, we are back at square one where we are miserable and struggling with the choices that we have made. I feel so tired living with this diminished sense of self-worth. This seems to be in accordance with all the choices that I have made in my life. I am the epitome of the jack of all trades and master of none. I give up and start running as fast as I can everytime something gets hard and I lose faith in myself. Just like how I gave up on brian. Who was easily the sweetest and most loving person guy I could ever date. Who showed me unconditional love no matter how shittily I treated him. How I always thought of myself first, and took out all my frustrations and anxieties on him. Yet he stood by me without complaint and showed me what love really was. But I have made this decision on my own accord and I dont regret the decision I have made because I dont think I have the energy and the strength to continue being strong for the both of us. All I feel like doing now is curling up in my bed and crying until there are no more tears left to shed. But yet I cant do that because the lingering thought of Torts and Contract is incessantly on my mind and I cannot put these away for the desire to indulge in self-pity and misery. Forever is over. All that is to be done is to pick the pieces of ourselves that we have left behind. Comment

LiveJournal Major Notes: Spam counter-attack, RSS feeds again, CSI Deadly Intent contest [November 05, 2009 @ 1:15pm] news [theljstaff] The empire strikes back In recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal. RSS feeds again If you're addicted to xkcd_rss, icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience. Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests! c_s_i If you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here. Enveloped in postcards Last week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be giving ten random users paid account credits. Photos of the week If you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too! ( Read more... ) Read (215) Comment

what would school be like without you all? [November 06, 2009 @ 2:06am] cheriegirl [ mood | happy ] [ music | "Remedy" - Little Boots ] I really can't imagine. I don't know since when I wake up in the mornings and look forward to seeing the bunch of them in the club room/lounge, think mugging in HSS with them is more fun than work, find lying on the couch with pillows and sleeping bags and talking total rubbish the highlight of the day.. Maybe it was since the day I joined the club, but I would like to think it was way before then. FOC, then Rag, then OWeek and all the random stuff in between.. I am SO glad that we're close to the 22nd (seniors) and although we call ourselves the Oldies and Young Ones, we're totally FRIENDS on the most equal terms ever. They are so can't-do-without in my life now I can't image life without my krub fwens <3<3 I know it might sound totally exclusive and elitist, but it's really the circumstances that make us as close as we are today. The countless nights spent mugging, talking rubbish in the krub room, htht-ing.. GOSH they are the reason I go to school. Seriously. Photo log again! Hahaha more and more thoughtless entries nowadays.. Terrible tsk!   what happens when you bring the slr out happy birthday dibs!  ( while you're watching me dance with the enemy ) Comment

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