(I saw this on Debbie's blog and didn't really want to do it at first, but question 29!)

1. Nice to meet you, I'm:
Belinda. I like pretty things, and I like pretty Arsenal goals.

2. Okay, who was the last person who held your hand?
I think Yuh Chyi, who actually pulled her hand out of mine quite disgustedly (during triage). I'm quite insulted, actually.

3. Have you ever kissed someone with braces?
Nope, but there's this long-running joke in my family that if Bernice (who wears braces herself) decides to get a bit on tongue wrestling in with a boy/girl with braces, she has to create an SMS template saying, "I'm stuck, come get me at _____"

5. If you could change your eye colour what would it be?
I'd want Jean-Baptiste's eye colour!

8. How do you feel about babies?
Disgusting, drooling, noisy, wet things. Plus I don't see why everyone gushes on and on about them, they're not even pretty, they're usually ugly, wrinkly and bald. Oh yeah, and when they're first out of the womb, they're purple. How disgusting is that? (If you think that's hypocritical of me, I will be the first to admit that I was a disgustingly ugly baby, even if my parents deny it)

9. Is there someone you can't stop thinking about?
Saul Williams, or more specifically, how awesome his music is.

13. Who was the last person that made you laugh?
My sister. "You and your child will never have mother-daughter bonding time." (We're doing a crafty present for my dad now -- a windchime, hahaha)

14. Reveal two things about yourself.
(1) I think boys who look like girls and girls who look like boys are really gross.
(2) I secretly want to be Gunnersaurus when I grow up.

23. How did you get your last bruise?
I slipped on the porch and banged into the front gate. :)

26. Dogs or cats?
Horses

28. Do you have a hard time admitting you're wrong?
Depends on what it is. Sometimes it's v. clear whether or not you're right, but if it's important enough to me, I'll find it hard to admit that I'm wrong.

29. Do you know who Damien Rice is?
YES.

31. Does your mum make you wear a winter coat?
I wish I could wear a winter coat. I love coats! I admire coats the way people admire shoes. (I think shoes may even come in second to coats for me.) I'm currently really in love with this FCUK coat, which is $300 and which I have absolutely no use for. ):

38. What is your favourite number?
Orange!

40. What are you listening to right now?
Saul Williams -- The Ritual

41. What are your favourite colours?
Orange!

42. Have you ever thought your life was so bad you wanted to give up?
I've never wanted to give up on living, just what I was doing.

43. How many piercings do you have?
Sadly, 2 earlobes. Hopefully I'll be able to stretch them to 10ga soon! Apparently many people in Singapore aren't fans of the size, so it's nearly impossible to find 10ga jewellry.

47. If someone liked you right now, would you want them to tell you?
I know what I wouldn't want them to tell me. "Can I be your friend/get to know you?" Freaky. ):

48. Do you want someone you can't have?
C. Bale, Lars B., etc. etc.

49. Any plans for tomorrow?
I'm going hiking! (like real)

50. See your future or go back to your 'has been' life?
Neither. What if I find myself old, unloved and poor? ): Or what if I see myself as a prostitute or a go-go dancer? (shudders)

Obsession is unhealthy

I don't want to go to school tomorrow, because Games Day is a fantastic use of my time. Why can't we just study? Plus CCA resumes tomorrow, and we need to start work on our Chem project. I don't even know why the hell I signed up for the stupid Chem project in the first fucking place. I am so stupid.

But we get 3 days off after Games Day, which is always a good thing. Sadly we get our papers back on Tuesday. (sigh) I am not looking forward to getting my SS paper back.

Looking on the bright side though, I got my Smart TV back with the contents of the hard disk unaltered! This is so awesome, because it means that I can watch The Cheetah Girls 2 over and over and laugh till my stomach hurts.

Brenda thinks RVP is better looking than Jean-Baptiste Maunier

Every injury with RVP is a big one. In any case, if it is supposed to keep him out for a few weeks (predicted: 3 weeks, actual: 3 months), at least the first two weeks won't affect us.

(Score: Cesc 60, Robin -10)

Post-exam euphoria

In true post-exam euphoria fashion, my youngest sister decided that she wanted an iPod Nano. (I have this theory that the exams make you do crazy shit. For example, a lot of people were going to the Bird Park or the Zoo after the exams. Um, okay?) My mom, who indulges my younger sister as much as possible, decided that she would get it for her. (Usually we only get rewards from our parents after the results come out, but we all know that Beatrice gets spoiled needlessly.)

While we were at the Apple shop, we all saw the iTouch (that I've been lusting for) and my mom thought that it'd be better value for money. We vascillated between getting it and not getting it, the arguement for not getting contributed by me and my genius deduction that Beatrice only wants the games on it since she listens to ... nothing!, but in the end my mom caved and decided that she would get it after all. They ask for one, and the sales assistant says....

"We're out of stock."

Then the SA helped us to ring up 3 other branches, which were all also out of stock! Hahahaha it was so awesomely perfect. Even after my mom says yes to buying the stupid thing they don't have any to sell it to her! My sister is probably telling her friends that I am some major-ass bitch who sucks the joy out of people, but oh man, this is just too good.

After that we went to the Nike store, and the Arsenal jersey is $111. I suppose I'll wait till after my birthday to get it, in the vain hope that someone will buy it for me and I won't have to spend my money on it. In the meantime I'm going to decide whose name I want on my jersey.

Cesc? I think Cesc is awesome in almost every single aspect of his game (and using the celery to scratch his head!), but "I have decided to give my all to Arsenal and to give my maximum, I’d like to try and win more titles here, nevertheless we will see what happens next year" doesn't sound good. Although it will be a different story if we win something this year. However, thinking with the pessimism that only football fans can have, it will be extremely unfortunate if I get a jersey with his name on it and he leaves the club next season though.

Robin? Wonderful on form and uninjured, but is prone to long periods on the sideline. I might get weird questions from people who are non-Gooners like, "Who's v.Persie?" (pronounced un-Dutchly of course) "Is he some reserve player?"

Since there can't be an objective system of measurement without numbers, the score stands at (starting from 100):
Cesc 80, Robin 90

(you get 100 points if you know where that came from!)

I shall spend the rest of the evening reading Harry Potter, watching House and debating over random pointless things, like whether a tall or a grande Starbucks is more worth it.

A collection of random (or maybe not so random) thoughts and quotations, mostly about Arsenal

(1) My list of things to buy tomorrow is v. v. large. The Les Choristes DVD (the third part of my birthday present from my sister, since I already found out what the second part is -- we are so bad at presents), The Slip, jeans, a new wallet, Crush by Richard Siken, a new chair, macarons, (possibly) the current Arsenal home jersey, 10ga jewellry, lilac Chucks and Dunks!

(2) Bernice: My friend's parents put a parental lock on IE... So she switched to Firefox.

(3) Just before the Physics paper last week, Serene tell me, "Eh I watched the replay of the match yesterday." Since Serene is a ManUtd fan, I ask, "Which match are you talking about? The Arsenal v Porto match?" She says yes, so I go excitedly, "Did you see the...?" Before I can get the sentence out she continues with, "I didn't watch any of the goals. I watched the first 20 minutes and the last 20 minutes." (How do you even do that? It's amusingly amazing!)

(4) Brenda: Which club does your sister support?
Belinda: Arsenal lah, duh. I influenced her. I told you yesterday that she admires Robin, right?
Brenda: Maybe she just likes the player, not the club.

Also, Brenda was telling me that she was hoping that Liverpool would lose against Man City. She is now officially the coolest person I know in school. :D We're going to get our ICs done together!

(5) (I was moaning about how I didn't manage to get the cool gold CL font last season on my shirt, and I'm asking my sister why she didn't force me to get it.)
Bernice: You know who to get meh?

(6) Quite a long time ago, I was watching some football programme on the Football channel and someone brought up the discussion of whether players who injure other players should be out for the entire duration that the injured player is out for. Someone wrote in and said that it's a good idea because Eboue can dive and pretend that he's injured from a Ronaldo challenge, and stay "injured" for the whole season, and then both Eboue and Ronaldo will be out!

(7) I love the Les Choristes soundtrack -- I think I've listened to it at least 10 times in the past 3 days. Jean-Baptiste had such a beautiful voice, omg. Bernice and I love Vois sur ton chemin, but my dad loves Caresse sur l'Océan more and wants it to be his ringtone. He said, "I'll let the whole song play before picking my phone up", hahahhaha.

(8) I love The Cheetah Girls 2. It is possbily the best show ever -- it's so bad that it's good! The spazzy dance sequence near the end, the super bad but catchy songs, the terrible scriptwriting all added up gives you an awesomely terrible movie. Bernice says that Golan Yosef would be actually quite cute if he wasn't so spazzy in the movie. I think he looks like Robin... I don't even know if that has to do with the fact that they're both Dutch.

(9) Bernice: I can't open the stupid video, it says that it can't be played in our country! Can you try using the other computer?

(10) I wish I had some talent in singing and dancing. The only thing I can take comfort in is that Beatrice is much worse than I am in singing (she's completely tone deaf)... but she's also about 200 times better than me when it comes to dancing. I remember just passing dancing in Sec 1, although that might have had something to do with the fact that I told the teacher that her dance wasn't hip-hop, which was what it was billed as. In my defence, it really wasn't hip hop. The dance track was Blue, for goodness sake.

(11) And talking about school and hip-hop, Bernice tells me that the school is having some kind of music lesson where they teach the Sec 1 about hip-hop, and their example of hip-hop is Where Is The Love. Thank god my sister has me as an influence. My dad thinks that The Black Eyed Peas are called The Black Peppers. Other than proving that alcohol really does fuck with your brain (or maybe it's just that my dad isn't exactly the best person to talk to about pop culture), it's really super amusing. Oh, and just for laughs, me and my sister want to pretend that Vois sur ton chemin is hard rock. We tried to head bang to it... and failed, obv.

(12) My mom doesn't see why exposing your bra is fail.

(13)

So, so, so, so beautiful. (sighs)

(14)

Hmm, who is that I see peeking out of the left side of the picture? I think he's wears Arsenal colours now! Is his name Rozitsk -- oh no, it's Rosicky! I don't even remember the last time when he played a game at all. ):








"So ist auch die Achillessehnenverletzung passiert!" -- Metze.

I want to learn German, if only to be able to read their blog entries. Bernice agrees with me that Spanish will probably be easier than German though.

Starhub sucks

Why the hell would anyone play WBA v Fulham over any Arsenal match?

Oh, and what is this "BPL On Demand" thing they have on PPV (or VOD or whatever they're calling it now)? Are we going to have to start paying extra to watch our teams play?


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My heart is not strong enough to withstand watching Arsenal. A 1-2 defeat to Hull, followed by winning 4-0 quite convincingly against Porto, then draw 1-1 with Sunderland?

Guys wearing coloured skinny jeans scare me

It just occured to me that it would be quite tiring for Adebayor to carry Robin like that.

Adebayor also feels that Fabregas is the man behind the team gelling as a unit off the pitch, and is largely responsible for helping him develop an understanding with Van Persie.
"Sometimes we go out. We are not the best friends ever but sometimes it does happen that we go to a restaurant."
"Robin is in contact with Fabregas and sometimes he makes everybody sit together. We are quite close, quite good friends."
"We are players so of course we sit and talk. Sometimes you have to manage to find a solution and discuss what you have done good and bad," he added.

http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=892184

This passage confuses me. Is Robin or Cesc who's behind the team bonding activities? The first paragraph makes it sound like it's Cesc who's behind the team bonding sessions but then why say "Robin is in contact with Cesc"? Of course he's in contact with Cesc, they play for the same club! Unless they work together to get the team together or something, but then Adebayor says "sometimes he makes everybody sit together".

(please tell me it's not just me and that I'm not growing stupider)


But Van Persie told AD Sportwereld: "When you want to invite an international colleague, you do that by phone and then you can speak. If Wesley (Sneijder) had called me he would have been welcome. We could have had a fine talk. But I am amazed about the way Wesley handled it now. What is the use of such a talk if before it you tell the media and the audience what your problem is? I had expected more class and personality from him. Real personalities don't need a magazine or newspaper to make their point clear."

http://www.comeonboro.com/matches/08092730.php

I suppose I should be quite amused since I support die Nationalmannschaft and all, and I suppose I am, since Sneijder (whose name I cannot pronounce at all) is bringing this up months after Euro, but Robin is being a hypocrite. I don't see why he's talking to the media at all if he feels that Sneijder isn't handling it properly.

On the topic of Dutch pronunciation, I realise that I can't pronounce van Persie like how the Dutch say it, so I just stick to calling him Robin. It gets a bit confusing when you're talking to non-Gooners.

"Robin who? Robinho?"

The New Paper is extremely uncreative. Last season they ran this piece on our Robin titled "Fly, Robin, fly" and they quite recently ran one on Robinho which was titled (you guessed it), "Fly, Robin, fly". Is that all it takes to be a sports journalist? Repeating article names from last season thinking that no one will remember it?

Maybe I should be a sports journalist then. Bernice wants to be a referee. I told her that she'd be the most biased referee in the history of referees. "So what if he's rolling around on the ground? That doesn't mean that Clichy pushed him!" "Oi, why are you pushing Cesc like that huh? Red card!" She said that she'd be voted the best referee by the Gooners though.

I was just thinking about what Serene said the other day, about how Arsenal had the best looking footballers in the league. It's probably true. I just wish that we had the most consistent results as well. (sigh) But what I realised is that even if you add up all the Arsenal players (first team and reserves), their combined level of hotness wouldn't even come close to touching Lars' level of perfection.




See what I mean?

I have this theory that models are getting less and less good looking. The androgynous period at least yielded up some pretty good looking guys, like James R., Mathias and Jeremy, but now they're not as "pretty", just ... not that good looking. (Of course, when I'm talking about "good looking" I'm holding them up to the model standards. They'd be heartthrobs in any other field... just not in fashion.)

The only newish model I've seen so far that I actually think is good looking is Josh Beech.













I love the stretched ears and the tattoos, and it's probably also partly the bad-boy attitude, but it goes beyond that. Anyways, there's not really much use in trying to define why he's hot, might as well just enjoy it, right?

I want to stretch my ears. Nothing too dramatic, maybe 10ga. I just don't like the way 14ga looks. My parents are worried that I won't be able to stop and I'll end up have 2" lobes or something. Other than the pain, I'm also worried that I won't be able to find suitable jewellry for school and I'll have to stick multiple 18ga earsticks into my piercing, which looks weird.

Maybe it'll be a good idea to start going around to the piercing shops and see if they even have 10ga jewellry for sale in the first place. But that'll have to be after the exams, which will be over in another 4 days. I can already taste freedom! But today's SS paper was a fiasco. I wrote one of my answers on the wrong source, and didn't have enough time to re-do it, so I wrote a half-assed answer that will probably get me 2 marks out of 7, and it was just epic fail overall. ):

(sigh) But looking on the bright side, Bernice's review tests end today, and she's going to go out after school to buy my presents. :D She's getting me the Les Choristes soundtrack and something else which I don't know. I'm so crap at being patient, I've been dying to find out what it is. It's not the FCUK coat I was looking at the other day (too impractical, she says. When has fashion ever been practical?!), not an Arsenal jersey ("ask Daddy to buy that for you"), probably not the dinosaur Chucks that I've had my eye on since forever because she said that it's more expensive than an Arsenal jersey... Shit, you see what I mean? Haha.

Also, cute animals are well, cute. And looking at them being cute makes me happy, which relives the sadness of screwing up my SS paper.



I'd actually be kind of sad if I had to endure people staring at me the whole day.