Learning to take the initiative.

HELLO HOLIDAYS! No, this is not some yay-we're-finally-free holiday post. Sorry to say, Form 5's will never be free till November. It's also not a Friendship Day post, but I lala-LOVE Jia Yee's!

My thighs and right arm muscles ache like crap! Every step I take is excruciating. Sitting down, standing up and climbing stairs is a nightmare. All that's a sure-fire sign that I've been playing badminton!

This is pretty random, but I really wished I'd had more initiative and taken part in more activities throughout my secondary school years. For a long time, I only wanted to join stuff if my best friends did too. Only now do I realize how stupid that was!

Now that I'm months away from graduating, I feel like I haven't had the chance to accomplish anything at all. Like I missed out on a part of the "high school experience" that I'll never be able to get back. And I know it's completely my fault, obviously not blaming anyone.

(If you're somebody younger than me who's bothering to read this, then don't make the same mistake. Go out there and try new things!)

Which is why, I'm now scrambling to do everything I can! Btw, I WANNA DANCE!!! Anybody who's gonna dance for school events, consider me k? :) I honestly don't care if I get boo-ed on stage by haters, it's just something fun that I wanna try out at least once, and they can't spoil it for me.

Plus, I'm a real fast learner!!! As Jan learnt on Wednesday during Badminton Interhouse tryouts. I was serving like shit while we played mixed doubles. Like literally, complete shit. I served so cincai and high that Darryl just continuously smashed every one of my serves. So fed up, I was hit by the shuttlecock countless times! T_T

Then, a little while later, after Darryl came back from the canteen, I was practising serving with Jan and Darryl's mouth was like a big round :O! "How did you make her do that?!? Just now it was like... -_-" man, every serve was a free point for us! Now her serve like perfect already. Got potential eh." Or something like that. HEHEHEH Dawwylkins admitted I have potential! ^^ And my serve got Jan's seal of approval too :D

Yeah anyway, it only took me like 5 mins to learn how to serve... magnificently, if I do say so myself :D HAHAH self-praise! Is that fast?? Cause I can't really gauge... it was easy, so I expect it must be quick for other people too. Maybe not so impressive after all and I'm just hao-lianing for no reason.

But Jan went back to looking hopeless after I told him I wouldn't be around to train and practice during the holidays. I was the only girl who turned up for the tryouts! Poor Jan, he doesn't have much choice... Poor MacDougall too, if I'm their only option, then HAHA, we're SCREWED!

Still, pick me, pick me!!! I'm very enthusiastic and will be 100% dedicated to training. I promise to go to the gym to run every day when I'm in Malaysia and even lift weights! To like build up my stamina and stuff? :S Jan, are you even reading this?? :(

By the way, I WANT TO LEARN HOW TO SMASH! Like really badly, even though my reason is sorta fickle...

It looks mad cool! Even when done by our cina ah beng national sporting hero who kinda looks like... a tree squirrel. Will I get banished from Malaysia for saying that? LOL 0=)

I know you all are thinking it... Lin Dan = so much better looking! He kinda looks like he could be in some Mandopop boyband... the long-lost member of F4!

AHHAHAHHAHA I find this picture so obscene and weird pls!!! Half-naked and got one racket there dunno doing what! o.O

I realize I never take advantage of the huge gym and 2 pools at my Penang condo? Over here people have to pay B$10 per visit to the gym -_-" I've even got so many tennis courts!! Be jelez tennis playing friends! Too bad I don't play tennis.

Hopefully I'll still have the chance to do sports and dance and stuff when I go to INTI next year. I aspire to be a super involved person! I can't believe by December I'll be permanently living in Malaysia and by January 2011, I'll probably be a college student with a driver's license already.

Does anybody else feel like this is all moving too fast? (I think I'm turning into a broken record on this subject.)

Okay, I should REALLY go pack now. I'm flying to KL tomorrow (today?) and I have to leave for the airport at 1 pm. Have not even touched my suitcase yet. Heck, I haven't even unpacked the stuff from my December trip! Now that's procrastinator for you.


P/S: Munsy <3 Aren't I shweet?

Saturday on the badminton court.

Done with my hour-long cold shower. Now I'm all nice and sweet-smelling! I feel so much better than I did before, but I'm starting to feel the ache in my arms and legs :(

Why, you ask? Me, Jia Yee, Jan, Molly, Goh Ci Hao, Vuili, Kevin and some guy from Maktab Sains named Adam, went to play badminton at Centrepoint this afternoon!

I followed Jia Yee home from school and changed baju and had lunch at her house, before going together with her to Centrepoint where we met Jan, and the others arrived later on.

I'm so out of practice and I wasn't fantastic or anything, but I'd like to think I was actually pretty good, not horribly sucky. Hahaha, I'm so smug! But if I want to make the school team with Jia Yee next year (her dream!) it's gonna take a LOT of practice. Not looking forward to that T.T

There was this little Chung Hwa boy who was so pro man! He looked like he was 10 years old or something and he was like, whoa! Halfway through the game, he accidentally smashed the shuttlecock into Kevin's head and it still rebounded of it and flew over the net. It made a super loud "thwack!" sound and you could tell Kevin was seeing stars for a while. So kasian!

And Jia Yee got pwned by this really young kid, he was maybe... 6?! Looks like it la. And half my size! But omg, he was so good. Made me feel totally embarassed. And remind me next time, NOT to wear light coloured clothes. When you sweat... gah!!

Naturally, me and Jia Yee brought along our cameras and camwhored all the way along! :D

Argh, I look so fugly in uniform after school -.-

Lambak Terunjing?

Jia Yee's house!

Jia Yee acting cute while retrieving her school bag from the boot.

I get a surprise from Jia Yee's adorable dog, Snowy, who's so friendly and keeps licking me. Omg, I miss being around a dog that likes me.

The Bae Yong Jun poster!! In case you don't know, Bae Yong Jun is the guy on the wall of the Face Shop store in the Mall who frequently gets mistaken for a girl xD

She has a handmade scrapbook BFF poster of her and Mar. So chio!

Jia Yee's acoustic guitar! *drools with envy* But it's blue loh...

Her cute rug in her room.

"No, don't take pictures of my bras!"

Strumming Jia Yee's guitar hantam-style while she was taking a shower. I really want one!

Guess who this is! No brainer, she still looks the same. When you show people pictures of me as a kid, they go "Who is the little boy in that photo?!" -.-" FML.

More versions of my retarded face.

Lunch was asam laksa. Quite spicy! Had to keep drinking water. And the fishballs and sausages oozed spiciness!

"Noooo, don't take photos of me with my pimples!"

Look what I found, a chio pink rambutan!! And don't you dare go say it's red. It's pink, I swear! You look properly at the hairy thingies.

Snowy in her sleeping position, according to Jia Yee.

After so many failed attempts, I finally managed to capture a photo of Snowy where she isn't a white blur! 'Cause she just wouldn't stop moving. Cute, no?

Jia Yee's Dell laptop with a chio pink and green laptop skin. I feel like sticking a skin onto my lappie and then zhnging the skin, rather than zhnging my entire laptop which is effing tedious! (Zhng = bling)

See, no glass!

Look what she has, old school Polly Pocket!Haha, we're so childish. I can hardly find anybody these days who owns them though. I've got a huge bag full of them at home <3>

Washing my hands before putting on my contact lenses for badminton.

Right eye.

Left eye.

"I have a little shadow, that goes in and out with me"

I like the lighting in this shot :)

I feel so much better camwhoring after I've put on my mascara and lipgloss.

Jia Yee calls my eyelashes "feline". Rawwrr! Have I mentioned lately how much I LOVE my Maybelline Cat Eyes mascara??

You know who's really feline? Garfield, that's who.

In the Centrepoint lobby, we found a huge mirror...

The Centrepoint lift that took us up to 7th floor badminton courts.

Tadaa! Ok la, it looks horrible in my photo. Blame my camera. I want a pink Cybershot!

My eyes are scarily huge!

I wonder what Jia Yee's digging in her big bag for...

And out comes her DSLR! :D A camera is definitely a blogger's best friend.

Giving the signature "I'm so cute" face. Hahaha.

Jia Yee modelling on court, and I don't think she noticed me take the photo.

Molly and Jia Yee when we were almost done playing. How come you can't see their sweat but I was sweating like a pig? I've never sweat so much before in my life!

This poor little shuttlecock was no match for one hard whack by Vuili.

Omg, I never knew this, but it turns out that if both you and a friend have Photobucket albums, there's an option to "copy to my album" and your friend's photo will be automatically saved to your album, at whatever size that your album photos are. So convenient!!

That's how I got Jia Yee's photos into my Photobucket album and resized to 320x240. All one in single, simple step! For the rest of them, go over to her blog. These are just the photos of me being all vain :D

This photo was actually a spontaneous candid shot which turned out surprisingly good. Jia Yee was photographing Jan when I randomly decided to jump in front of the camera.

I can't help but think that Molly and Goh make such a cute couple.

This is that Chung Hwa boy that I was talking about! Isn't he tiny??

You can tell from the photos that my hair is really getting extremely long and thick. Jia Yee said it looks like Megara, Hercules' wife's, hair. I've never watched that movie before, but obviously I know who she is. And I take it as a compliment 'cause I find her pretty hot! Hahaha.

But really, it needs a trim soon. I'm liking it long though, I don't want to go back to short hair again for a very long time.

I'm not gonna mousse it tonight because a.) I'm curious to see what will happen, b.) My arms ache to much to do it. Moussing my hair is like a 15 minute workout for my arms, and c.) I'm going to wash it again my lunchtime tomorrow anyway, so it'd be a waste of mousse.

And guess what I'm gonna be doing tomorrow! I'm so excited despite being deadly tired. I'm going to go plant trees with my friends just like an environment-loving, tree-hugger! For some reason the Captain Planet and Powerpuff Girl theme songs are ringing in my head.

Captain Planet, he's a hero, bring pollution down to the zero and...

Fighting crime, trying to save the world...

Oh, nostalgia.

And that's a wrap guys! Phew, I'm pooped. Zzz time!

♥ queen of babble