http://www.airliners.net/photo/Cathay-Pacific-Airways/Boeing-777-267/1632811/L/

Digitally enhanced in Photoshop but it's a moonshot nonetheless!

Yay! I'm photographing planes again! This time I'm using better gear, not the lousy point-and-shoot. Hopefully my 55-250 can deliver the goods and get me some shots on A.net.

Went out with XXK yesterday! She wanted to help me buy clothes for poly! She wanted to 'change my style', in other words, make me buy girly clothes...! I told her it was impossible. But what do you know...

That's it. I've had enough. I've had enough of the fucking Twilight series. I just finished New Moon, and I cannot continue anymore. I can't stand the mind-numbingly cheesy stuff that - fuck, I have difficulty typing out his name - he says. I've lost count how many times the word 'velvet' was used to describe his fucking voice. Or 'perfect', to describe his lips. And that bitch Bella annoying the hell out of me. So many times I found myself slapping myself on the forehead when I read about her 'pain' and 'anguish'.

... so little time! I thought that I'd have all the time in the world during the holidays to do what I had planned, but that's not the case! Let's see my to-do list again...

1) Learn Etude Op.33 No. 1 (not done)
2) Learn Etude Op. 33 No. 3 (somewhat done)
3) Arrange Symphony No. 1 Part 3 for cello and piano (not done)
4) Learn Etude Op. 39 No. 7 (not done)
5) Learn a bit of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 Part 3 (half done)
6) Learn Cello Sonata Part 3 on the cello (not done)
7) Brush up on La Campanella (not done)
8) Learn Prelude Op. 32 No. 13 (not done)
9) Learn Prelude (1891) on the cello (not done)
10) Learn Salut d'amour on the cello (not done)
11) Learn Prokofiev's PC 3 Part 1 (still stuck on page 10)
12) Learn Prokofiev's Toccata (not even a fifth done)

And there's more...
13) Go plane photographing every Sunday (so far I had only been to 2 really short photography trips)
14) Practice cello everyday (not doing that either)
15) Tutor my wayward cousin (see below post) from Monday to Friday every week, from 1 to 5pm (this new arrangement is better than her staying at my house, but it robs me of my weekday afternoons nonetheless)
16) Wash my Arsenal jersey (haven't washed it since I last wore it out for class gathering...)
17) Prepare farewell gifts (not saying what I'm doing, except that making them is really tedious and if you receive one, you'd better treasure it)
18) Manage my airline on Airline Manager (the most addictive application on Facebook since Know-It-All Trivia)
19) Read the Twilight Saga e-books (I'm just reading it to see how bad it is, really. So far, it hasn't disappointed.)
20) Visit anti-Twilight websites (here're some: http://www.twilightsucks.com/, http://community.sparknotes.com/index.php/2009/07/16/blogging-twilight-index-page/, http://applesparkles.wikia.com/wiki/Frozen_Apples, etc...)
21) Learn Russian (never got past the 'numbers' chapter - but I can still count to 10 in Russian!)
22) Learn Greek (can't count to 10 in Greek)
23) Learn the pronunciations of 30 languages (it's actually not that difficult, but I don't have the time for it!!!)
24) Read the whole Artemis Fowl series (I still have The Eternity Code and The Opal Deception)
25) Finish watching the Mythbusters episodes that my dad has recorded for me before he deletes them to free up space on his HDD recorder
26) Run 2.4 km every morning (my mum's fault)
27) There's more, but my mum's shouting at me for lunch, so bye!

I said a few months ago that the Gershwin concert I had attended would be my last for the year. But, weeks later, I search for Rachmaninoff's name on Sistic just for fun and found yet another Rachy concert. By the Singapore National Youth Orchestra. Which was held yesterday. On the programme were a Debussy piece, a Glazunov violin concerto and Rach's Symphony No. 3. Don't know what they were playing at, playing a piece composed by the guy who ruined the premiere of Rachy's first symphony. But I must admit that the concerto was not bad. No match for Rachy though!

There wasn't any encore by Kawasaki, the violinist. Which was a first for me. I clapped with all my might hoping for at least one but none came. Then it dawned on me that Glazunov might not have written songs for solo violin. Or maybe violinists don't even give encores.

Like every concert that I had been to, this one didn't disappoint. The superb orchestra was aided by the fact that the symphony itself was a masterpiece to begin with. Haha.

I attended the concert with my cousin, whose attendance was last minute. Because she failed her PSLE and I was - I used this word before but am forced to use it again because I can't find another word that conveys the same 'feeling' - relegated the task of babysitting her. Yes. Not only tutoring her. Reteach her PSLE stuff from the bottom up. But also playing counsellor, trying to change her mindset about studying. Because she hardly studied, spending all her time watching drama serials, on Facebook, SMS-ing and talking on the phone. It's no easy feat, trying to change her ways. A preliminary test of her English and mathematics yielded shocking results. Her grammar is atrocious, subject verb agreements and the tenses having thrown out of the window. Her grasp of phonetics is non existent too, which results in the wrong spellings of even the most common words (like eaten). Simple calculations are challeges to her, and she doesn't even know the 12 times table.

Die lah... I have to tutor her everyday for a month, if my mum were to be believed. There go my holiday and my freedom. I never thought that I'd be doing PSLE stuff after my O levels.

Yes...... It's accepted!!!!!! On my first upload!!!!!!

*hyperventilates*

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More uploads here I come!!!!!!!

Can't wait for the next full moon...

It was my first plane photography session, so I don't really expect to get any of these shots accepted. But I'm going to keep trying until I succeed!!

So we roamed Bugis Junction and I managed to get a shirt from Cotton On for ten bucks. And their receipt is effing long! I only bought one item and they gave me a scroll that is more than half a metre long -.-" They filled the whole receipt with their exchange policy, which most of us don't care about. Tsk tsk tsk, major paper wastage!

I won't bore you with our adventures in Bugis Street, but I emerged from there with three new shirts, yay! Then we headed off to Ang Mo Kio Central and XXK brought me to this shop that sells nice shirts at cheap prices! And that was when XXK succeeded in her 'mission'. Because I bought 3 shirts that were supposedly 'girly' - not the designs on them, but their cutting (is it the correct word to use?). But, to be honest, I didn't see anything girly about them... We bought matching 'Starbucks' shirts and are going to wear them for class gathering!

Haha, my first time buying so many clothes!

Examples:

"I was gripped in a sudden agony of despair as I considered that alternative. My mind rejected the pain, quickly skipping on to the next option." - The Cunts might be vamps! Should I heed his advice, and ignore him, or 'do nothing different'?