Month: December 2002

Welcome 2003!

Happy New Year!

*Haha Andy Hui won the “my favourite male singer” award at 903. Soo soo soo happi for him! So even though sammi’s not going and probably not getting any awards I still have sb to cheer for. Haha apologies for the random pic…was trying to find a pic of the stadium now but I can’t. The website sux…not as good as last year when they had live clips and live photos.

I’m so proud of myself. My Premium’s gone but I can still make the background quite similar to what it was before. Took me bout an hour though, and I can’t make it exactly like b4, but a little change is good! I actually like it more now.

So I’m gonna post a song. I dunno if I remember the code to do it, so pls tell me if you can hear it! =) It’s a nice song. Sounds like a happy song but quite sad if you listen to the lyrics properly. “Unsavable” by Faith Hill. I also think it’s making my page rilly hard to load each time. If that’s the case and it’s deterring you from reading ma site pls tell moi!

Yesterday I went to countdown with my family and wanchai in tst. We went to sing karoke before that. In TST people we booing and stuff. I think sb fell into the water cuz there was a diving unit firetruck trying to drive in though the people. Caught up with some talking with Wanchai. The counter lights on the building was really cool. I haven’t been out on News Years eve before. A first time for me =). Haven’t revised much! So dead dead dead. Today my cousins from New Zealand are coming to visit so another day gone. =) V.To’s Xmas present was very good for the occassion, but now there is a bit of saliva stuck on the toy. Hmm.. Thanks V.To

Pics. (I’ll scan in sticker photos later! The sticker photos we took were nice!)

Hmph.

As expected. Rejected from Oxford.

Just like my dream. For those who don’t know about my dream, it involved getting a christmas card at school that was from Oxford. If you were rejected, you would get a “Merry Christmas” and if you were accepted, then it saids “Congrats on your offer”. I got a “Merry Christmas next to my name and I think two people got a “Congrats” in my dream. I won’t disclose who they are, but I’ll see if my intuitions were right. =)

I’m not that dissapointed, I guess, dun wanna go to Oxford anyway. I mailed Chicago and Penn apps just now, so I hope that I will get accepted by one of them la. I love them both, although I must say I favor Chicago over Penn. Slightly. If not then I’ll end up in Kings. Or UBC lor.

Got to finish apps and start revising! If I don’t get my BBC then even Kings won’t accept me! =p. G’luck to everyone else! Hey Oxford people tell me the good/bad news!~ =)

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My letter if you wanna read:

Dear Miss Lai,

I am writing to tell you, with regret, they we are unable to offer you a place at Corpus Christi College to read Biochem. Your application is, however, available to all other Oxford colleges until 31 Jan, and it is therefore possible (although I have to say not now likely) that another college will contact you before then; otherwise you should not expect to hear further from other colleges, even though you may have been interviewed by them. If you are not contacted, I am afriad that means your application to Oxford has been unsucessful.

The College will be writing directly to your school within the next few weeks about your application, unless you have already indicated that you do not wish a report to be sent. I am sure that your teachers will be ready to discuss with you any comments we make, if you wish.

I do realise how disappointing this will be, and I am sorry not to have better news about your application here. As you will know, competition for places at Oxford is extremely strong. I hope, however, that you will be sucessful in gaining admission to one of the other Universities to which you may have applied.

Yours sincerely,

(He signed in a GREEN!!!!! pen) wth.

Dr. Mark R Wormald

Tutor for Admissions.

I think my premium is going to run out these few days…I’m striving to understand the html properly so I can maintain a good-looking blog after the premium runs out (Yes Daniel, I got 1 month premium so I didn’t do much to make it look that way). Maybe this will be the last blog before my premium’s gone.

Hmm…well my apps are almost done, what a relief. Thanks everyone for your wishes and comments, I really appreciate them! *hug* Looking forward to the countdown on the 31st. These stupid apps have drained the life out of me. Sorry to all those I owe presents to! I promise I’ll go shopping!

I’m really very funny because my body is very hot but my feet are freezing cold. I guess I’ll have to get used to this weather because this is what it will be like if I get into any of these American Schools…only it will be even colder.

Skipped Tennis today cuz I stayed up to do apps and then I couldn’t wake up. Brr its so cold! 11:25 a.m. Sat. now. Better run to the post office and get it postmarked today so it will look better!. Cya!

Damn X 100. I forgot to give in the “Mid Year Report” form for Yale! Damn it I am so so screwed. At least its for postmark Feb 15 but what if Mr. R doesn’t do it for me! Sigh why was I so careless! Sigh why did I procrastinate? Sigh why didn’t I check properly? (I thought I did?)

*Sigh Sigh…as you can see, not a very good way to start a xanga (damn) and…this is going to another moaning edition.

Well I was meant to go out with ppl today but owing to the Bl**dy Ma fan US Apps I’m stuck at home again. I don’t know why I keep procrastinating – I tell myself if I can finish before Xmas than at least I can enjoy Christmas but then I end up taking overly long breaks from essay writing. I’ve sort of written everything for Cornell but is so crude and so crap. Why do I take these stupid breaks at home if I can party after I finish the applications? I don’t get me, so I don’t blame my parents for not getting me either.

Yesterday I took a small break. Went out with parents to watch movie. Its a rilly rare opportunity. The last movie we all watched together was the jackie chan movie 2001 summer. So more than a year ago. And my dad managed to fall asleep in the movie theatre and embarrass us. This time it was better. We watched µL¶¡¹D or “Mo Gan Do” or “Internal Affairs” or the movie with Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Eric Tsang, Anthony Wong, Sammi Cheng!!!!!!, Kelly Chen, Edison Chan, Shawn Yu, Elva Shao…etc. Yup. All the chinese ppl should know because its the hittest film out there now. Well, my dad did not fall asleep (thank the lord!) and the movie rocked. It was a brilliant play of dramatic irony. Really cool. And you get to see all those big stars in one movie. (Sammi!!!!!!) Yupyup. It was good. And it was only the 2nd time in my life that I watched a 9:30 movie. So that’s pretty cool. =) You guys should watch it. It’s cool.

Okay if you want to know more about how I feel about the US essays, read Daniel L’s xanga. He wrote everything and I can totally relate to that so I won’t bore you with the same stuff twice la.

Today’s going to be a photo edition – ^_^ Lotz of photos coming up!

Well the panto was ok I guess – the main plot was a bit messed up due to the immense cutting of lines (was too long). But everything else went fine.

Our parapara

Afterwards went home with miss B and took these year 7s to the Sports REgistration place. Hmm. Quite interesting. Then had lunch at grand century with people.

Hmm…then we watched Harry Potter…I did end up sitting with Mr. K in the end. Well the movie wasn’t as good as I thought it would be. Hmm. I think the book is much better. Anywayz, it was ok. Then to D’s party.

BTW vto and chris tang are in fact between kimbie and fern, so there are 6 people in the human stack. The food was great! Thanks Di! =)

—–More misc pics from these few days

Further MAths at Ameroni’s – Em and Mary at Grand Century

Daniel the Cow who tries to be a Mad Scientist – Biology with Mikey

* I love my camera! =) No problem of wasting film! =)

More when I have time! Really tired now! Good nite, have fun! +)

Haha Ng Peer Support Pic.

The ugly whit ghost like figure…would be me, yes. Zoom in…

Retarded V.To

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Yesterday was the Carol Concert! Wanchai came to watch! She’s so pretty now ~ Long hair, contacts, highlights…hmmm…people change so much over so little time. Hehe if my hair grows long enough I’m going to perm it and highlight it for the prom. Wonder how I would look like? Well Wincey bought me my first Country Music magazine and my Tim Mgcraw CD and Book. The Book was not as good as I thought it would be cuz there was no Faith Hill but the Album Rocks! I’m listening to it right now! Carol Concert was all right – the Junior Orchestra Mucked up big time – well at least I think they were a bit better in rehersal. According to Aunty Stephanie the Choirs were good…she liked Ding Dong Merrily on High the best. The Accapella was so cool!  The Christmas sprit was there, all the teachers were watching. Only one mobile phone rang in the whole concert and that happened to be my mother’s. *Eek! So embarrasing * Why can’t she turn her phone silent!!!!! Afterwards went to eat at Whampoa with my parents and Aunty Stephanie. =)

Today was party, party party~ The only proper lesson I had was with Mr. Arnold, where we did a chem prac. In English we watched Shrek (sooo cute!) and in Bio we watched the developement of guys in the documentary *teen species* while pigging out on food left over from the Y7 Peer Support Party a yesterday. Hehe sorry Y7s took your food! Thanks! The PS party was fun yesterday, played games, pass the parcel, etc. =)

Out Brilliant Class pic taken with my timer! Perfect Angle! Everyone’s smiling! So Happy! Hehe. Click here to enlarge! http://www.kgv.net/~klai/peersupport.jpg

Today for Pure we went to festive and ate Ameronis. Yum Yum! Fun Fun! Going to eat with Mrs. H is fun. She gave us Christmas cards and a present – of past P4 papers. Fun! However, I’m rilly sick of fattening food now. Too much chocs and chips and fried stuff. To my horror my dad bought fried fish and fried chicken for dinner tonight. *Sigh* Normally that would be my fav. Today I wanted to vomit. Only ate half a bowl of rice.

After Ameronis we went shopping for a bit – V.To + Daniel bought boxers for their recipients. Lol. Such wacky designs. Then Panto Rehersal. The survivor bit was kind of boring, but the dances were cool. Hope it will be better tomolo. We rehersed Para Para til 615! So tired!

Writing Xmas cards now. =) Don’t have time to write the long messages that I like to write! Plus I have no cards left!

Long Entry! Looking forward to Harry Potter tomolo! =)

After watching Titanic again yesterday I re-realised that it is such a good movie. I think a few years ago it was too cliched that noone wanted to watch it again. Now, after watching it for my second time, I’ve realised that it is really a true epic. Greatest love story of all time. I was crying in bed after watching it. *Sigh. Wonder if anything remotely as romantic will happen to me. (But pls, I don’t mean I want to die on my next boat trip.!!!) =) Can’t believe Mr. Potter hasn’t seen it b4!

Still procrastinating. Will promise myself to do work tomolo. And finish 2 essays by the end of this week ~ My weekly resolution.

Got an offer from LSE. BB, pass in the third subject and a in as english. I don’t really get it but yeh, not very hard to satisfy. This is for Maths and Stats btw. Meaning I have offers for all the unis except Oxford. Man, UK is so efficient and not that hard to get in. If I was aiming purely UK I would be so happy by now. No more work. Too bad I’m aiming for US. *Sigh. *Swear* US! Why do they have to make life so difficult!

Well, today was quite uneventful. I’m taking a break from writing my “dilemma” chicago essay. In da red cross course I sat next to this talkative bad breath guy (I know him) and he kept talking to me and I kept trying to look away but nonetheless breathed in quite a lot of bad breath. Feeling a bit sick and faint now. *Lol hope he doesn’t read this but I’m 99% sure he won’t* and on my other side I sat next to this guy who likes to diss people. I’m not that good at dissing ppl I don’t know that well but I managed to diss him about his bad taste of clothes. Hehe.

Ooh and yesterday we did da beep test. (argh. stupid rowell was meant to do it but then nightingale had to do it. luckily I didn’t eat lunch cuz of choir. I think that helped.) Anywayz I got a 9-10. So happiee! I was so dying at the end and I wanted to make it til 10. My target was 7-5 and when I got to 9-5 I wanted to stop cuz it was already way above the target. However I had visions of getting 10 so I went on. at 9-10 I had visions that level 9 was extra long and would go up to 9-16 or sth. So I quit. And becuz it was fri the 13th, of course, just after I quit, the casette said. “Start of level 10. Beep”. *Sigh. 10 sounds so much betta than 9-10.

Apologies for da bad grammar and structure but I always write on impulse.

Ooh and Wanchai’s baq today! Hip hip hooray!!!!! =) =) =)

Hello!

Haven’t written in quite along time. (In my standards) Neways, just rediscovered how good Lifesavers were! =) Yum yum yum. Finished da whole roll miself.

Life through a lifesaver?

Yupyup. So I need a lifesaver to save me. I’m drowing with everything. Bio, tests, mock, panto, maths!!!!, Uni Apps!!! Yeh. I want to sleep but I haven’t finished hw yet. I’m dead tired I need a massage! =( And Secret Santa. Trying to think up sth good to give my recipient.

Haha Coates Joke of the day. Rather bad to the other class though =) We asked him why he marked the other class’s practice paper but not ours, since most of us handed it in a quite a few of them haven’t. “Well their’s is easy to mark cuz there are more blanks left in them.” Sao man, sao.

I’m missing the panto rehersal on sat again. Why do things always turn up on saturday? I want to go to panto rehersal. ~_~. But instead I have to go to a red cross course. Red Cross again. *sigh.

Christmas spirit is here and I’m way too overspending. *Sigh I’m around 350 in debt. I owe my grandmother 200 and vto and pam and emily. *Sigh Sigh Sigh.

Will attempt pure and bio, but I doubt I’ll know how to do it. Then I’ll take a nice long bath. =) Strawberry bubble bath hehe.

Happiee Birthday to Dom and Fern!

And G’luck 2 the ppl who are getting Early D offers!