Dread

Dread; what do you say?
I think I hear the slightest whisper
Of how you're filling things with decay.
But it's no cause for concern, you continue,
Because isn't this part and parcel of your day?
Now sing me something new,
I want to hear about the flowers and trees,
Of rollicking laughters,
And the trickling of streams.
Well there you have it,
You've reached your sanctuary.
What is your name again, I ask.
You answer, quite truthfully,
Anything but Dread.

Yada Yada

Alone at home again. Haha. How I love the feeling. There's absolute peace and quiet except for the comp speakers. With a family of six (including 3 pesky brothers who can easily get on your nerves when you're not in the best of moods), it's pretty hard to have some time to yourself. Then again having no siblings and feeling so very isloated everyday won't be my cup of tea either. Conclusion: I'm grateful for my big family. HahaZ.

Chem SPA at 1pm later. Suffice to say that I'm pretty confident about this. (Puh-leaze don't let anything go wrong!)

Worst-case Exam Scenarios:
1) You're late.

2) You forgot everything you've studied.

3) Your pen ran out of ink. (And you haven't any spare ones)

4) You can't seem to fasten your scripts together with the darned (short) string. You panic as the invigilator inches nearer and nearer and you break out in cold sweat. As if the paper hadn't stressed you enough! Now this?! (Haha! This is one of the worst!)

5) You can't get that loud jarring tune out of ya head. And the more you're stuck with a tricky problem, the more it amplifies itself inside ya mind. Where's the mute-control remote when ya need it?

Pretty lame stuff. Haha. But no. 5 really happened alot of times. I have this 'remixed sountrack' of Keane, Good Charlotte, Oasis, Jet etc etc playing constantly in my head. Time to ditch the mp3 player for a while. Bleah. As if I could bear to. Maybe everytime an exam nears, I'll halve my listening and downloading time.

K I'd better get going now for SPA.

Haiku-ed

It feels goooood to be in front of the comp! Haha. I've realised how I react to stress; I basically turn into an escapist. My procrastination's testament to that. Argh. I'm slack! (Drats did I just say the S word?) Nevermind.

I've been surfin' around for haikus, and here're my favs =) :

Silence--a strangled
Telephone has forgotten
That it should ring
Michael R. Collings

Faceless, just numbered.
Lone pixel in the bitmap-
I, anonymous.
Chris Spruck

The winds that blow -
ask them, which leaf on the tree
will be next to go.
Takahama, Kyoshi

Rustling of papers,
Caught up in a silent storm.
There I am-- midget
Me!

I've cooked up one of my own, for good measure. It sure takes my mind off studying!

Generally, Japanese haikus follow the rule of having 5, 7, then 5 syllables respectively for each line. But English haikus don't really follow that too strictly. Interesting form of poetry. HahaZ. Kay back to playing couch potato, then I'll decide if I'm clear-headed enough to continue mugging.

Books away!

Stressed with a capital S

Wow the week sure passed like lightning.
The A Level results were released yesterday. And when I heard the number of distinctions people can actually get (like, are they still human?) , I got thoroughly stressed out. It didn't help that my chinese result slip had a nine on it! *tears hair out* Grrrrr.

On a lighter note, I went to the SAJC band concert on Thursday. They were good. Not to mention lively. Or all fun and zaniness, I should say. Nah, superb would fit the bill most aptly. They had some outstanding soloists (of which, again, I'm reminded of my Hu. Moreover the concert's at SCH... what a dead ringer of SYF!) who wowed the crowd. Guess I'll have to build my confidence alot more. Herculean task! Anyway Steph was sooooo cute in her band uniform. Haha! The lot of us presented her with the roses and snapped a few pics. It was an enjoyable concert. =)

Ooh and my home theatre system's almost up! The projector came on thursday. We're still lacking the screen and surround speakers. My brother was just playing around with it, screening LOTR and Black Hawk Down. Can't wait for the whole thing to be set up! ^^

I have lots on my mind now, mainly how to finish all that math tutorials I'm lagging so behind at, or to finish memorising the ATP pathway for Bio. I'm. Going. Nuts.