And then Sicheng came back

Awwww.
Fact 1: Eyebags are the same size as your eyes. This is because eyebags are direct reflections of how tired we are, so when the WHOLE eye is tired, we'll get eyebags, so eyebags are the same size as our eyes.

Fact 2: Pluto the ex-planet sunk into depression, and it's up to us to save it by shooting maltesers into space!

Fact 3: THIS, this is closer to turquoise than our class tee colour.

has the haze cleared?

It was lovelily cold last night. I was walking home with my mom from the mrt and we stopped at the bridge across the canal for ages and faced the wind.

It was better than ECP because it was cold.

If you didn't experience the cold or the wind last night, this is justification that Pasir Ris > Some Ulu Place.

It was cold just now, but now that the sun has risen higher it's not so cold anymore. If I reach my hand far out of the window, I still can catch the coolness.

I think the 烟雾 has released its clutches on Singapore. At least, for now. I can see pretty far, but still not the blurry skyscrapers all the way in the heart of Singapore.

I need to stop rambling.

HEY HEY YOU YOU

Smile, darlings,

because everything will be okay!

Whee Sunshine!

Life is exciting

I refreshed the page twice but the layout did not change even though Aletheia claimed she was changing it.

So I did the unexpectable.

I defied gravity and stood up.

nincompoop

Should I be disturbed? Yes I should. Did I expect better from ThinkOrange and Aletheia? Nope. Am I disturbed? Nope.

Perhaps you could say my brain has pooped out. It's probably because I'm pooped from EYAs and Class Matters and Japan Matters. Although I maintain that I'm not a poop.

Signing off now, my name is Sandra, bringing you the latest poop in the world of maltesers.

(If you are highly disturbed or confused, refer to the list of definitions Aletheia posted - if you need more help, refer to them in this order: 2b, 2a, 5, 4. If you are Aletheia or ThinkOrange, hi.)

P.S. I thought banana splits had vanilla/strawberry/chocolate flavours. Every banana split I've had in my life had those flavours. But then again I haven't eaten many splits. Or the only type I recall eating is Swenson's. I am reminded of the last time I ate Swenson's. (This is where I sink into an armchair and my eyes glaze over with sentimentality.) My cousin had 8 sundae vouchers that expired the next day. We ate four between the three of us and gave the rest to a family sitting besides us.

I know you wish you were sitting beside us on that day.

To Poop Is Serious Business

poop |poōp|1: noun (also poop deck);c the aftermost and highest deck of a ship, esp. in a sailing ship where it typically forms the roof of a cabin in the stern.2: verb [ trans. ] (usu. be pooped) informal; exhaust : I was pooped and just flopped into bed.poop out stop functioning : the analog tape fluttered slightly in pitch but didn't poop out.3: noun informal; excrement.verb [ intrans. ]: defecate.4: noun informal; up-to-date or inside information : what’s the latest poop from campaign headquarters?5: noun informala stupid or ineffectual person. (perhaps a shortening of nincompoop)
There. Ah, Sicheng. XDXD
Do not worry, for you are not alone. A little green eye-less alien with big feet and an antenna (LGELABFA) has not pooped today. This is very worrying, for newborns should generally poop a bit. Especially since the pressure in the poor thing is very high, with the amount of stuffing that went into it.Would you like to see the LGELABFA (pronounced 'l-gel-abfa')? Yes, you would! It is dying to see you, too. In fact, it's cells are so excited, they are now merely vibrating about their fixed positions! How exciting!
He's waving hello. See the toe?

Poop

In an attempt to savage the terrible state this blog is in (pardon the misuse of language my English cmi), I shall assume everyone cares to know about my glorious day and the mundane things I did.

1. We ordered a cake via internet for my sister. It was tough trying to choose the ice-cream flavours. I was skeptical about the flavour banana split. Isn't banana split a banana with tiny scoops of ice-cream beside it and was invented just so the big banana can fill the bowl and less ice-cream can be served? I can't imagine it being a flavour. My mom said it's probably just banana flavoured ice-cream but I would not settle for that.

In the end, after googling what is Rocky Road, we chose that and cookies n cream. Yes, exciting news.

2. I replied emails. They sort of just go to and fro and makes me feel like just calling the person up and talk, and I'm sure we talk faster than we type. We do, right?

3. I went shopping. I realized my legs are really really stubby and I really really need to exercise. And then I realized no amount of exercise can help slice off the layers of fats in my stubby legs so I spent 5 minutes mourning about my fate.

4. I read half a book, then decided I was way too busy to read a book and here I am.

5. So that this post will not go off topic, I did not poop today. Is that bad? Are we supposed to poop everyday? How can one person have so much poop? Wait is poop a noun or a verb? So do you say I pooped a poop?

I shall counter sandrasaidso's rather(?!) short post!

"In a desert plain in Tanzania, in the shadow of the volcano Ol Donyo Lengai, there’s a dune made of volcanic ash. The beautiful thing is that it moves bodily. It’s what’s technically known as a barchan, and the entire dune walks across the desert in a westerly direction at a speed of about 17 meters per year. It retains its crescent shape and moves in the direction of the horns. What happens is that the wind blows the sand up the shallow slope on the other side, and then, as each sand grain hits the top of the ridge, it cascades down on the inside of the crescent, and so the whole horn-shaped dune moves.

Steve Grand points out that you and I are, ourselves, more like a wave than a permanent thing. He invites us, the reader, to “think of an experience from your childhood — something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all, you really were there at the time, weren’t you? How else would you remember it? But here is the bombshell: You weren’t there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made. If that doesn’t make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, read it again until it does, because it is important.” "

, to quote Richard Dawkins quoting Steve Grand. I rather like it. Don't you?

It's like, 'oh. 8)'

I just finished The God Delusion! It took me ages and ages and ages to read, but :D

Reading Richard Dawkins is rather taxing, though, and even though I have finished it, my mind still feels busier than normal o.o It that strange? My mind working when I am not thinking? hem.

Go and read it, perhaps? Or something else by him, if you're a rather religious person.

hello

byebye

(I admit that was a very sad excuse for a post. But I am Lazy. There, I said it.)

dear kind souls

(I see we have branched out into Graphic Design from the moisturizers!) We should have a logo for our new brand of moisturizers! Or an advertisement. Or something. And I shall doodle something on paintbrush because gimp takes so long to load.

This can be the front! Lazy to include a background colour, because if there was, it'd probably have to be a variant of (shit) brown. So, no.

I will possibly design the back! Which I completely assure you will be as ugly.

Aletheia is a blur blob

I drew all these a while ago, before it occured to me revising for exams takes a really long time.

All things yellow evolved from one banana

New: Maltesers moisturizer

Combined with years of ground breaking research, secret and deadly technology and the support of many trees(they swayed along in agreement when the wind comes),

Introducing the Maltesers moisturizer. Colours in milk chocolate brown, dark chocolate brown, and shit brown.

Maltesers moisturizer is made of 10% maltesers extract and sunshine, after scientists found out that adding flakes of maltesers in moisturizer helps clog pores and result in breakout, allowing one to feel tired and oily. Use on eyes also causes stomata eyes(aka puffy looking pink guard cells).

What are you waiting for? Unleash the beast in you and purchase it from the buck-toothed auntie downstairs now!

Moisturizes with aloe vera & vitamin E

Best for baby. Best for you.

Enriched formulation with the skin enhancing the benefits of natural Aloe Vera and Vitamin E, with added moisturizer to provide relief to dry skin. Fast absorbing without greasy after-feel, leaving skin baby soft, baby smooth.

Directions: Pump onto palm and apply on body.

There you go.

Moisturizers

Brain whirls
Stomach whirls
Nose whirls
Skin whirls


Needs moisturizers


Moisturizer moisturizer

yeah I like iwh

I just have issues with iah and dh. But iwh's fine (:

I wanted to say something. But I forgot what I wanted to say. I'm getting old.

Why is having short term memory loss associated with getting old? I mean, I know when you're getting older, you tend to forget more stuff I guess. But young people forget stuff too. Like, they mug and cram for exams a few days before and forget everything immediately afterwards. Or they forgot what they ate for breakfast in the morning. (Occasionally, okay!) Or what they were about to say. It happens to everyone.

Poor old people.

teehee is :')

For some odd reason, whenever someone's loved one passes away (to me at least, ie. everybody), I feel sad. Like the crying tearing sad.

heh.

On a happier-ish (is it?) note,

IWA sounds kinda nice! Like ee-wah. I wanna eattttt -> eeeeewaaaaahhhhhhh. yes? Yes! :D

I think abbreviations don't really mean what they stand for. Like lol isn't really laugh out loud, and when I go haha I don't actually go haha. They have a life of their own!

Go forth, and reproduce, dear abbreviations. Do take note, that you have to obey the Rules Of Evolution, and never, ever have two vowels next to each other, or be too long, or be too short, or turn pink.

What's the point of abbreviations?

When people use CMI, I used to think "okay that means...-searches through brain-dictionary-cannot make it."
Next, my brain fits "cannot make it" back into the sentence.
Then, I think about the sentence and finally decides it's funny/agreeable.

But nowadays when people say CMI, my brain skip steps and associates CMI with this slight feeling of hopelessness which will be used to decide whether the sentence is funny/agreeable.

IMAGINE AN ABBREVIATION EVOKING FEELINGS. D: that's the first sign that they are going to take over the world.

Now don't say I didn't warn you.

bu- but think about it

Why IAH, DH or IWH probably won't work:

(For speaking purposes) Try saying them out loud. Try getting used to the feel of them. It sounds odd, no? Also, when one uses abbreviations verbally, they are often used as part of a sentence, for example, "______ sure cmi". IAH and IWH are independent clauses in themselves, and hence it makes you sound immensely retarded when you say them. DH, on the other hand, stands for 'damn hungry' which is a phrase. However, because it has two letters, it doesn't sound as fluent. Try saying "I'm DH!!!!!" Wait, let me cover my ears first.

(For writing purposes) Admittedly, there are abbreviations so frequently used that they are shortened, which are not meant to be spoken. Classic example: ikr. However, contrary to popular belief, phrases 'I am hungry' or 'damn hungry' or 'I was hungry' are not as often used. But for argument's sake, let's assume they are. Let's consider their impact versus their non-abbreviated versions:
"IAH ):"
"I am hungryyyyyy ):"
I'm sure you will agree that the latter sounded more sincere and impactful. This is because, unlike phrases like 'I don't know' or 'I know right', 'I am hungry' is used to make a point, and abbreviating it just ruins it.

A third reason, which I think applies to abbreviations meant for both speaking or writing, is that besides having three letters, is that they shouldn't have two vowels next to each other, like 'iah'. Think of all the abbreviations commonly used: idk, ikr, cmi, imo, fml, mmd, and so on. Few abbreviations manage to pull it off - the only one I can think of being lmao - and combined with the two minus points I'd mentioned earlier, IAH (and DH and IWH) probably cmi. (I realised this point is not very strong and that the only reason why two-vowels-together won't work is because we're not very used to them.

So anyway, that's why IAH, DH or IWH probably won't work. Although we should come up with more abbreviations! (Eh, ThinkOrange don't be sad D: )