The first thing I thought of when I saw today's Star Education's front page was, "Hey, it's Seri Bintang!"

There's been all this hype about Death Note being made into a movie recently. I'm going to be my usual pessimistic self and expect to be disappointed by it.
The articles I've read so far say NOTHING of Amane Misa and Rem. That was disappointing enough, really. All the exciting bits happened after she appeared; after a second note was introduced.
Then, Death Note is mostly text. For the most part, it was a battle of minds between Light and L. If all that text is going to be put into endless dialogue... ugh.

Another thing is that, from the reader reviews I saw on Anime-Source, people either LOVE Death Note, or hate it. The ones who love the story are those who can keep up with the plot. The ones who hate it are usually the ones who simply do not have the comprehensive skills to understand it, or are just too lazy to read through all the text/ideas/schemes put into the frames.
And these haters are usually the ones who prefer TV over reading (in other words, anime over manga.)
If this show is going to be as complicated as the manga, I'll expect a lot of TV-lovers to wail that they're too stupid to keep up.

(Even I don't like the second arc in the manga because it doesn't make sense to me. A battle between 2 minds was complicated enough, one between 3 minds just had me lost.)

There are boxes.
There are boxes EVERYWHERE.
I shall be disappearing from school from thursday onwards. If any teachers want my head, SMS me, don't call the house number.
I won't have an internet connection for some time, either. At least, not until we get our new phone line.
SO FROM THURSDAY ONWARDS, SMS ME IF ANYTHING URGENT COMES UP. DON'T WAIT FOR ME TO COME ONLINE.

EDIT:

I don't REALLY have anything to write here, but since someone actually remembered that I exist...

3 Hobbies
[x] Drawing
[x] Reading
[x] Vegetating in front of the computer

3 Things on my to-do list
[x] Physics PEKA. So it's not done, sue me.
[x] Pack up my room.
[x] Get my oral assesment done.

3 Unique traits
[x] I've been told I look like some innocent kid... until I open my mouth.
[x] -
[x] -

3 Favourite drinks
[x] Water
[x] Sprite
[x] .... Sprite.


3 Passions
[x] -
[x] -
[x] -

3 Awesome movies
[x] -
[x] -
[x] -

3 Good Bands
[x] -
[x] -
[x] -

3 Things I am anal about
[x] Almost everything.
[x] -
[x] -

3 Random men
[x] -
[x] -
[x] Johnny Depp (this is Nellie's answer, but since I think he's pretty, I'll keep it here.)

3 Bad habits
[x] I nibble my nails. Help.
[x] I mutilate my arms. Help.
[x] Help.

3 Painful experiences
[x] Not telling. 
[x] -
[x] -

3 Treasured memories
[x] The time.... no, not telling.
[x] 
[x] 

3 Goals before 30
[x] Half a million.
[x] Not telling the rest.
[x] -

3 Biggest Fears
[x] Insects.
[x] Having the truthful answers of last three points exposed.
[x] -

3 Favourite desserts
[x] Fruit.
[x] Baked cheesecake.
[x] Warm brownies + ice cream

3 People I tag
[x] Seeing that everyone seems to have done it with only one person remembering me, anyone else left out will do.
[x] -
[x] -

Some of you may know of how my cat shredded the new maid and how we sent her to the clinic and the doctor had to sew her up.

Well, now she's dead scared of Aries.

And he's taking full advantage of it by purposely pawing her every time he wants to get away with something. He probably finds the way she jumps away very amusing.

XD What a nightmare. I wouldn't want MY first working experience to turn out like that.

Mood: o.o

I DO wish Pn Shiamala would shut up. She has to realise sometime that we don't give two shits about being off-schedule for English. Not finishing the syllabus for Physics or Add Maths is a LOT more serious than not doing Hana's homework for her.

After screaming mental and written abuse at Hana (my display name still bears the burden) for about an hour, I dropped off to sleep... but not before laughing at her journal entry. Sensitive? My ass. She's only "sensitive" when she thinks she's made an enemy; otherwise, she can't care less. She, of all people, should know most that if you really tick me off, I can be heartlessly cruel to even my best friends. I can handle BSLs and being yelled at by my elders, but I do NOT tolerate being stepped on by my peers. 
I may be negative, but I don't suck up to teachers and put on that ridiculous act all the time.

As Little Miss STDs got her beloved English teacher to think that we weren't doing anything at all, and insisted that all the rubbish she made us do was handed in the next day, I was unable to see my mom again. For the second time this week.

And when I handed it in, Shiamala did nothing more than glance at it and tell me to photostat it for the rest of the group. To stick in their essay books. She NEVER WANTED the proposal! I wrote the ENTIRE thing with no more help than confused glances from my team members and Hana ordering me as to what to write, and we all get the same amount of credit anyway.

Somehow, when the only assignment was the proposals, I fully expected Little Miss STD to take the best and hand it to the Minister under her own name. Thankfully, that idea went busted when Shiamala insisted of having a mix of activities.

Miss Nur didn't like our cockroach. SCORE.

Pn Norisah pretended to insist that all the lisan presentations had to be done by yesterday, and had us all rushing to get our scripts fixed up. In the end, only one group presented.
And as we got the script written in HER notebook, SHE can jolly well type it out. Unfortunately, I'm not a teacher's pet, so I can't persuade any teachers to threaten to stick her up on stage and report her name to the principal/kementerian/PM/Queen of England.

So on the positive side, that's BM Oral down, a useless, pointless and totally stupid assignment down and half the EST project down. And I somehow got to go shopping my both my parents to get a birthday present for my brother. The last time we did that without exploding into an argument was when I was four. (Coincidently, my stepmom was in Indonesia... the place my mom was when the whole mess was flaming)

On the negative side, I only got to see my mom for 2 out of the 5 days she was here. (I would have gone out with her on Wednesday, but a certain someone decided to show off her fantastic teacher-sucking skills and I had to stay home and do a proposal that the teacher never wanted to see anyway. That same certain someone also got my typical full blast rage when she tried to dump the cockroach project on me on the same day.) 
I might see my mom again on december, next year, though. She might be too busy to even come over on my birthday, like she's been doing before. I'll probably fly there to see the universities.

Another negative point is that, while Nicole, Sam, Sheng and Jean are all great people, I will probably never find a friend who'll know what it's like to see my mom only once a year. The one person who I told about her being back in town insensitively tried to give me more work after school... I couldn't THINK of even having dinner with my mom. If she never wants to be friends again, I'll have no problem with it.

Mood: =_____________________=

I am very, very, very tired.

I wish Pn Shiamala would support our efforts in using technology instead of condemning it.

I wish Abu, Taufiq and Shiek would bloody get a clue about what our topic is about.

I wish they had given me something more about extinction than about these extremist ways to save animals. We're telling people to not support the killing of animals in the WILD, not to become vegans or to boycott zoos.

I wish they would read this properly and think, "Do I, myself, want to do that?".

I am certain that they're not going to give up beef rendang for veganism. After all, it DOES seem like their heads are filled with the aforementioned rendang...

I'm weird.

I don't care about the animals in captivity, I don't care about the animals that are bred. But I can't stand to see wild animals used to extinction. If you want to use wild animals, at least capture them and breed them.

We kill thousands of chickens every day for the benefit of humans*. But that's okay, since we breed chickens.

We kill(?) thousands(?) of albino rabbits every day(?). But that's okay, since we breed them But that's not okay, since they're cute But that's not okay, since they have lives Nevermind that the poor chickens have lives, too Forget it. Hell, if they want albino rabbits, I could have provided about twenty in three years between 97 and 00. Those damn things don't breed, they magically multiply.

*The Islamic version of slaughtering isn't exactly a quick death, either. They have to be kept alive so that their brains can tell the heart to pump more blood out, as blood is the main fluid that contains germs/white cells. Oh, for the benefit of humans.

I'm not leaving my Pringles.

Cik Rahimah says that the next item she'll teach will be the last item in Form 4 - the Income Statement and the Financial Statement.

Since that lousy replacement tuition teacher has already TAUGHT those... I suppose I can stop going to the class for the rest of the year. That selfish moron expands a 1 hour 15 minute class into 2 hours.

I don't want to stay at the tuition centre until 10pm just because someone can't keep his classes short and simple.

I don't want to stay at the tuition centre until 10pm to listen to someone ramble on and on about nothing.

I don't want to stay at the tuition centre until 10pm to watch someone do all the accounts a different way from all three of my other teachers.

Yes, surprisingly enough, I CAN put Cik Rahimah into a group with Cikgu Jaabar and Cikgu Marshirah.

One unfortunate thing, though.... for the last few weeks, only Diana, Farah and I have been showing up.
Last week, Farah dumped the class.
So this week, it's either Diana goes for private tuition with that freak, or no one shows up.

My dad hasn't given me my allowance yet. I'm broke.

~~A/L@D

Mood: O.O
Listening to: Chocobo Rock from Final Fantasy VIII

At first, I thought I'd just download FFX's Chocobo theme.

Then I heard the previews for the others.

I must have been mad to attempt resisting them.

.::~The Chocobo Maniac

Mood: BLAH

I censor my posts.

Why I do it, I don't know. It's a fact that no matter WHAT you say, SOMEONE will be offended. SOMEONE will say I'm a bitch (not denying that I am) and will start ignoring me. If you want proof, ask Jean.
And while I don't care about what others really think of me, talking to myself tends to get boring quickly.

But then...

~~~

I DO NOT LIKE:
- Boys who sound like girls.
I realised this while listening to Edward Elric having the extremely gay voice I never imagined him having when I read the GNs. Boys break their voices at 15-16. Romi Pak can eat glass.
And you know, while I do agree that the (some of the) songs sent to me were good, I'm not going to stop pretending that it's a girl singing. It makes me feel odd at the thought of a boy sounding like that.

- Fantards who sing along.
No, you cannot hit that high note you heard on High School Musical. No matter how much you repeat the same two dull lines, you WILL go flat half-way. Save us the noise pollution and shut up already.
Public transportation is not your private karaoke lounge. We DON'T want to hear your voice howling along. Personally, the only thing I'd want at the time would be the right to shove a sock down your throat.

- Hype.
It's ALL HYPE. It's extreme advertising, extreme merchandising and extreme hype. Unfortunately, there IS something to be learnt from it... one day, I can take a worthless product, and hype it up the same way because there will always be trend-followers who will happily lap after any hype that they think makes them look cool.
For now, I'll just laugh at the victims of hype and hope this will be over soon because the fantards are getting annoyingly noisy.
Knowing how current trends go, I give two months for it to die down.
Knowing how Disney goes, I give two years for the sequel to be released.

PS. I do not think Lucas Gabreel is handsome. I think his eyes makes him look weird. They're an odd shape. Don't rave to me about how handsome he is. Raves aren't fun unless everyone can rave along.

PPS. On asking today's Disney stars for their favourite movies, V.Hudgens answered "High School Musical". She's the only one who named a movie she starred in as her favourite.
That surprised me. She looked so decent, I didn't think she'd be a self-whore.

- People who can't pronounce after they've been corrected 20 times.
Puh-PIE-ruhs. Not "Pappy-rus", not "PIE-pee-ruhs". Puh-PIE-ruhs.

- Roselyn.
No, I don't like Roselyn. I'd rather Nadia, and everyone knows what my relationship with Nadia is like.
Some time ago, she permanently printed herself in my mind as a shallow, manipulating poser, not much better than than Farhana or Aneez. Even if she's changed, a nasty memory in my mind will always associate the word "shallow" to her, just like how it associates the same word to the cheerleaders.

I remember thinking how much I'd like her to get run over a bus some time ago, when someone tried to invite me to hang out with her.

- LimeWire
I swear, it's faster to download Malay songs off LW compared to FFX songs. It's so bloody weird.
And I wish I could find the "STOP TELLING ME TO UPGRADE" button.
AND IT STOPPED MY DOWNLOAD AT 97%.

it searches for parts of words, instead of whole words.

AND STOP TELLING ME TO UPGRADE.

~~~

I CAN NOW HANDLE:
- Football hype.
Even if it's noisy and i still don't see the point of watching a bunch of sweaty guys running after a ball.

- Era.fm
Yeah.

- Hana randomly throwing sex into every conversation.
You get used to it.

-Limewire
It's not WinAmp, and not Ares, but hey, it's managable once you figure out the search system.

~~~

I LOVE:
- Sheng Yi.
She doesn't mind if I don't like what she likes. I seriously wish I could be like that... just shrug over it.
She's always around for a spontaneous rave/rant.
She can talk about nothing with me. It has to be nothing, because I can never remember what we were so eagerly chatting away about 20 mintues after.

- My pencil.
Except for the time it betrayed me.
So I got a new pencil.

-  My Accounts tuition class.
It lets students out early if we can complete all the excercises and get it all correct.
It makes students stay back until they can understand and draft the accounts right.
This means that I can get out quickly and avoid the rush to get out of the room and its narrow paths.

OTHER than that, I wouldn't be able to do ANY accounts if not for that class. Cik Rahimah is understandable, but she's slow and it takes WEEKS for a 55 minute excercise to be completed.
And she taught Ledgers before Journals/Cashbooks, so the entire class is confused. Because of this, our midyear paper had a seperate ledger question and a seperate cashbook question, BOTH with long lists of transactions. The 55 minutes question is far easier to do, if only it was taught properly. It's frustrating.

This is turning ranty again.

- Game OSTs
They make me feel like playing the PS. I keep seeing traces of Blitzball and Luca whenever I play Yuna's Ballad.

- LimeWire
It comes up with nearly EVERY file I'm looking for, even if that particular file is ridiculously hard to find.
I even have Gackt singing his national anthem now.
What the crap.

~~~

If everything in the past didn't happen they way it did, right down to the milisecond, I would not exist.
Change one part of our history, and there might be another girl instead of me.
True, lives can be replaced so easily.
However, somewhere around the world, someone is born and someone else dies every second. In the end, they will be forgotten.

There's something else.

If someone important, or someone popular dies, they will be remembered for what they did. People will open the paper and gasp at the news of so-and-so's death. The radio station plays classical music all day. 
When it's some insignificant character among the millions of people, no one really cares except for the people closest to him.

I don't know what this tells other people, but it tells me that life itself does not hold any value. It's what one DOES in that life that holds value.

Put into another perspective, If Pn Rezan and Pn Ainun were so suddenly crash their cars into one another, we'd all probably feel more concerned for Pn Rezan. I pray that they do not ever come into this blog.

It is because I believe this, that I can just shrug at the news everyone else is crying their eyes out over.
Indonesia explodes.
Myanmar obliterates Christians.
Our First Lady passes away.
Children are abused in third-world countries.
13 dogs are shot.
A puppy is dunked in acid.
2 cats are squished under a meteorite.
10 cats are fried to a crisp in an SPCA fire.
2000 rabbits get dumped into the Pacific.
A hamster commits suicide.
I made the last few up in case people think I'm just being a cynophobe.

So... while there ARE many things I tend to make noise about, this particular topic isn't one of them.

This is why I am not a humanitarian.

~~~

I DO NOT LIKE:
- Baseless claims.
"if someone can be cruel to innocent animals, imagine what they would do to humans!"
While this statement somehow makes sense to most people, it does not make sense to me.
Bullies are cowards.
Bullies attack the weak.
Bullies attack animals BECAUSE they are weak.
They do not attack humans because humans tend to make a lot of fuss.

Someone who throws acid over a puppy would only do it because the puppy is the only real available victim. He cannot do it to humans because he is too afraid to.

If it has to be the above statement, only the reverse would be entirely valid: "if someone can be cruel to humans, imagine what they would do to innocent animals!"

"Cruelty towards animals leads to cruelty towards humans" makes more sense in comparision. In many legal matters, humans are a step up from animals. This is a fact, and this is the way most people see it. Saying that animal cruelty = human cruelty will not stir these people because they do not see it that way. Saying that animal cruelty becomes human cruelty will. Cheers to YH for knowing that, a slap to those who don't and wonder why nobody is listening to them.

.::~Almas

Mood: -
LT: Kimi o Nosete

It's the eighth of July.

WHERE THE HELL DID THE LAST SEVEN MONTHS AND EIGHT DAYS GO?

~~

You know, there's a chance that I was put as "tidak hadir" in the register for yesterday.
I lined up in BETA. When the classes went up, I didn't.
No one in Omega would have seen me!

And it turned out that Sheryl and Fatin DID come to school yesterday, but they just didn't go to the rehersal.
Which makes sense, seeing that all their friends are up in the classroom. All my friends are downstairs recieving prizes or performing. *_*

~~

The damned cheap school gave us Co-Op vouchers. WHERE'S MY CASH? How will people like Mazni or Amiratul use them? They don't go to SBU any more!
The crap la.

Mood: BLAA
LT: Cannon in Rock
Quote: "Cikgu bad mood hari ini. Pasukan cikgu kalah. Kita buat karangan!" ~Pn Norisah J.

HUR-KWAN IS AN OVERSIZED COCKROACH.

Only yesterday, we found out the Chem presentations will be going on this week. KP and KW already did the slideshow, and I (not having powerpoint myself) was supposed to present it. The other three members were in charge of the presentation of the model.
Which is 10% of our Assesment.
Which they did not do.

You get three guesses as to who had to do the model instead.

Today, we managed to get M and WH to help present the slideshow... somewhat.
But Hur-kwan just sat stupidly in his place. Half-asleep.

On the good side, Pn Norisah Kimia doesn't have the "it's group work" mentality. We complained to her yesterday about the lack of teamwork, and she seemed to have the "I-can't-potong-marks-because-it's-group-work" face.
XD Today, she asked us quietly for the names who didn't do anything. JUSTICE.

The only song by The Strokes I can handle so far is Last Nite. o_o I don't know why.

Mood: o.o

I'm not sure I prefer Cikgu Jesu over the new teacher or not. C. Jesu's calmer and quieter, but he's slooooow and he gets dull at times.

I know most of the class love the new teacher (I can't recall his name for the life of me) because he's more enthusiastic. Wish he would span the chapters over more than a few days, though.

But while the rest of the class keeps awake because the teacher is so awake himself, I have a different reason.

He is absolutely, amazingly, EXACTLY LIKE PN RASHIDAH.

I SWEAR.

They're both squat, enthusiastic, loud-voiced and eager almost to a fault.
But get this: They both speak with the EXACT SAME ACCENT.
And have the EXACT SAME type of problems when it comes to BM.
And give examples in the EXACT SAME WAY. SEJIBIK!

It's like there are two EXACT SAME people, but one male and one female.

And they BOTH teach Physics!

What are the ODDS?!

It's fucking amazing.

I wish I could bring a couple more of Pn Rashidah's students to that class. I wish I could bring Pn Rashidah herself to come teach with him. It'll be phenomanal.

On one hand, it's gets so amusing that I can't help but pay attention.

On the other, it's like having Physics at school with Rashidah and Physics at tuition with "Rashidah".

I can't plot my PEKA graph on Excel. Looks like I'll have to unlazify myself and plot it out manually.

~BLA