OMG.

The moment I used FACEBOOK, I swear my life is entirely RULED BY FACEBOOK.

Use it people! And make sure you add me yeah! (Only if you know me personally)

nathalie.fernandez@gmail.com
ADD ME!

I FOUND MY WALLET!

More like my wallet found me. Thank God for all the nice parishioners that exists.
My IC and EZ Link card are now safe (more like unsafe) in my hands again.


Anyway, so much for having a last week of school. I'm totally drained. And I feel so so so saturated with information.

I had an awesome time yesterday! Yesterday being the last day of exams before the holidays and all. And I also went down to Mediacorp studios for the recording to be aired on Sunday.
All weekend shows are PRE-RECORDED. I know, what a CHEAT!

Had an awesome time, although I thought I sounded weird. Haha. At least now I know I'm not cut out for deejay-ing. =P


Camwhored a bit la. Haha!


AND AND AND. Ross is HAWT STUFF okay. Like hot to the MAXIMUMZ. Tall too lor. I stand beside her and I feel short!! Maybe she's 175cm? I was wearing 1 inch kitty heels alr la.


Yeah, I managed to go into the 987 studios while sue was doing Say It With Music. WOAAH.




HER DRESS WAS UBER NICE. So tempted to just rip it off her and wear it!!!


And after a while, I was about to head home, depressed, because I wouldn't have a chance to take a picture with the MUTTONS. But guess what! It was 9pm and right outside the radio building, Ross saw Vernon A's car!!

SO... Ross called Vernon A to check if Justin was there. AND Yes! He was. Was about to go up when the MUTTONS said they would come down. So we waited and waited and waited, for about 10 minutes. I was bored, so I took a shot of Vernon A's car! :D :D :D

Looks like a BMW from the side, but it's a HONDA. Okay. Good nuff.


I was a lucky ass man.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE THE MUTTONS :D

Yeah, end of day. Came back tired tired tired. And I saw shan. He's a lot cuter real life.

CORRECTION:

Catch me on 987 Control THIS WEEKEND. (Not next weekend)
From 1 to 2pm!

Cya there!

Random photos of Nat for the past few weeks.
It's been long my camera.








Don't know what I was looking at.

BY THE WAY. MY FRINGE IS LIKE FINALLY LONG. Whoohoo.
And now that it's long, I want to chop it off. Oh, the temptation. RESIST RESIST.



Don't you think I look orgasmic in the 2nd and 5th photo? >.<


OHOHOH. By the way, this is really late news. But I got a fourth piercing on my left ear! That brings the count up to 4 on my left, 1 on my right.
I know... uneven.

AND! One more piece of exciting news! There's gonna be a long john's near my house soon! Long gone are the days where I have to go down to Toa payoh or town to have my all time favourite Long John's FRIES!

BAD LUCK.

I've the worst luck EVER.

Guess what happened today?? I was late for school again! =X
Stupid lift broke down in the morning, and I just had to be in it!!!


Yesterday: My wallet.
Today: Lift.
Tmr: ???

I wonder what will happen.


I feel like a walking jinx right now.
You think I'll fail all my papers too?? ):

I WANT A FOUR LEAF CLOVER. I want good luck.


BUT ANYWAY. A piece of GOOD NEWS :D
I'm going on 987 Control next weekend! So catch me on air!

MY WALLET IS GONE ):

I LOST MY WALLET!

OH St. Anthony, I know I've been a losing a lot of things, pleaseee, I really need my wallet.

That was pretty much what I told John. If you want to read it go ahead la.
JUST SAD NOW.


"first thing, i woke up at 6.
then i went down and waited for car pool
but while waiting i dropped my wallet.
but i didn't notice only until i was in the car
the car didn't want to turn back, so he dropped me off at sch.
at this time, my mom was attending morning mass, and she left her handphone at home. so i couldn't contact her to go the void deck to check.
desperate. i called my dad.
but he was sleeping.
so i was so super scared, and i was praying that God will help me by sending an angel who will help pick it up.
when i went back, checked my letterbox. no news. checked with my aunty neighbours, no avail..
die. so i ended up crying. at this time i was late for school alr la.
and i had a paper. HORRIBLE. oh no. i was super depressed.
and then when i entered school. my teachers were nice. they gave me tissue, and my eng HOD was like trying to comfort me. "dont cry, you cant do the paper if u cry."
at this point of time, i was like tear infested alr la. so i tried to stop. but couldn't.
i did my apper anyway.
and then after my paper, my teacher was damn pissed with me, cuz i attempted expository.
RAWR. just because they dont approve of expository doesn't mean i cant attempt it right. if not why the hell do they put it as one of their questions.
...."



Anway, regarding expository writing. I DO NOT SEE THE POINT IN FORCING STUDENTS TO DO SOMETHING AGAINST THEIR WILL.
I hate narrative. Period.
Not that I haven't got those creative juices juiced up. Just that... Ah, what's the use of explaining it here.

Can't they just let us learn the hard way? If we really suck at expository, then we'll fail the paper.
Somehow, I have a feeling they will deliberately fail me.
Oh well. We'll see soon.

IT'S NO SECRET I LOVE GAYS.

And I stumbled upon one of the hottest gays I've seen in my life on MYSPACE :D

I WOULD DIE TO DATE HIM. Except I'm not a guy. And, he's all the way in Hollywood. While I'm here in Singapore.

This is driving me nuts!!!! The hotness is just oozing out from him. And I don't care if his pictures are photoshopped or not. He's hot. Period.







While most of my batchmates are mugging away mindlessly to stuff unending propaganda (Social Studies) into that brain of theirs,
I'm here checking out gays. RAWR. I deserve to burn in hell for this.

=x

OH WELL.

Photo credits: http://myspace.com/gaygod
Maybe you should check out his space.

I THINK I'M IN LOVE.

With the Chinese McDelivery guy at Ridout. (:

I've been sick. For the past two days.
And I missed school. At least I did some constructive studying, so time at home wasn't wasted on just resting alone.

I JUST LOVE STAYING HOME :D


ANYWAY!!!

I got so many people to congratulate!

MOMMY :D For turning 54 yesterday!
Keith :D For winning Best Lasallian for NPCC!
Glen! For winning Skin Of The Day!


Haha, well well.
I've got a sudden urge to eat cup noodles, and I've also got a sudden urge to queue up for those Donuts at Raffles City. WHOOHOO.

Eng O Level Oral

English O Level Oral was yesterday (Hmmm, I always seem to be blogging around 1 am, and write about "yesterday"). Anyway, that point aside.
I thought I did well. But it better not turn out like Chinese. I thought I did well, and I ENDED UP GETTING A CRAPPY C5.


Today's topic was on "Modern Technology". And it was a REALLY good topic for me, since I love it so much.

I loved my examiners, they were very attentive, and they were INTERACTIVE. They responded how I wanted/expected them to.

I was just discussing with Deva during English lesson before our exam how I wanted to crack a joke with the examiners, and she said "YOU WOULDN'T DARE".

But hey man. I WANTED TO SO BADLY. It's not everyday to get to talk to people you don't know and they are obliged to give you their 100% attention (okay, maybe not 100%, but close to that figure).
A joke or two wouldn't hurt. Afterall, I was the 8th person, and they would probably have gotten a little tense listening to the same old passage and descriptions for 7 times before me.

I managed to get the examiners to laugh WITH me (not AT me) a few times. =D
Haha, it was constructive jokes la. And obviously, I did everything my English teacher told me to. So I should be getting the marks. IF NOT, nevermind. -shrugs.

The only thing I was pleased about was the fact that they were actually GENUINELY INTERESTED in what I had to say for the conversation. Because I passed time, like wayyyyy over.
And although I shouldn't be alarmed when the examiners asked me a question, I was alarmed by this question: "OH, THAT'S ALL?"
HAHA. I can prove that that statement showed they were interested in me.

Congrats if you made it to this line. You just lived through the crappiest all-about-me post ever.

I JUST FEEL LIKE RIPPING MY HEART OUT NOW.

I LOST MY PHYSICS FILE ):

How can this be. Prelims are coming.
St. Anthony, I pray for you to help me find it.

I LOVE BF :)

My weekends never fail to be filled with activities that keeps me entertained.
Well, was supposed to go for yet another BAND concert on Sunday, but Shelly wasn't performing last minute, so might as well not go.

Ended up going to Holland V with BF (:
I LOVE HIM MAN.
We actually did some productive studying. Considering that when you put both of us together, we can never stop talking!

OHOHOH. By the way, I had tau suan and WHITE carrot cake for dinner!
Two of my favouritest (okok, I know there's no such word) food items in the world!

We camwhored A BIT. AND I SWEAR ITS JUST A BIT. Like less than ten photos.
AMAZING. I felt in a non-camwhore mood today. This is the start of a new era for Nat eh?







BF was just bored.


Attempt ONE: FAILED.

Attempt TWO: FAILED.


And we got down to the serious studying. I manged to finish three HUGE chapters of MCQ for Chem TYS. Total of 253 MCQs.

Anyway, we were studying at Starbucks, and OMG, there was this bunch of bitchy older-than-us people. Shan't say too much, but they were saying we SHOULDN'T BE STUDYING IN STARBUCKS because it was not a library. =X
......ADULTS.


It's 1.30 am now. AND I SHOULD BE SLEEPING. But I had too much coffee from Starbucks. DIE. I can't sleep.

OKAY.
SS HERE I COME. D: *exasperated look.
I'm awesomely irritated in LOVE with SS.

Brrrrr. It's a cold cold nite. Since I stay on the 22nd floor and there's an endless supply of wind!

ANGRY = UGLY!!

I don't if it's me or the world.
Everyone seems to be so angry nowadays.

Did this an hour ago.
Don't you think being angry makes you REALLY UGLY??

SMILE. Because even though it's cliché to say that every minute that you are angry or sad, you lose 60 seconds of happiness, it's true.

I smile at having a brother to play with! Total gift from God!



Well, I'm still living my life happy. And I'm really glad about it. =D

As I was doing my drawing and eating ROTI PRATA (: just now, this sudden thought crossed my mind.
Why must I do my best?

But when I put myself in others' shoes (hope others' shoes smell good) ,
Why must the pilot do his best when he controls the plane?
Why must the cook cook his best when he prepares a meal?
Why must the doctor do his best when he prescribes medicine to us?

Rather rhetorical. So. Yeah.
I must do my best because we expect everyone else to too.


OH, (bimbo moment) and I just cut my nails. My fingers look rather stubby.
LIKE, eew.

I said the stupidest thing today!

Amirah: "So, tell me, what do you know about Russia?"

Nat: "ERM. The people there are called Russians?"

Right. =X
Once I relate the incident to you, it's NOT FUNNY ANYMORE. Tsk.

So this is Amirah. The HOTTEST MALAY CHINESE I've seen in my life.

OMG. I think if some GETAI thingy comes for English Oral topic on the 21st,
I'll curl up into a ball, roll on the floor and start laughing.



One of the previous days topics was "Do you think teenagers are self-centred now a days?"

What I would say.

I think that everyone is self-centred except myself. (PAUSE FOR ABOUT TWO SECONDS, then I'll continue) That in itself was an example of self-centredness.

Then I would continue on with my answer..
I KNOW IT'S LAME. But I just had to share it.

I'm so bored, I'm trying countless ways to squeeze my brain for more ideas to entertain myself.

And I thank God for my C5. IT DOESN'T SEEM SO UGLY ANYMORE.

It's times like these when I really miss having my BF around. I miss you.

EEEW. I got an ugly C5.
Then again, it's CHINESE. So I'm not expecting much.

I can speak it. =D
I can write it. =D
I understand it. =D

Thanks everyone.
And thanks to hansel, who reminded me that I did my best, and no one can take that from me!

And for the record, I'm not going to retake it. Unless my teachers threaten me with a demerit point.


YOU KNOW SOMETHING? I think my bro's sch has like the most all-rounded education anyone can get.
That wasn't random. Then again. It depends on the individual. How much do u want to benefit from the system.
No use being a LOUSY ASS in a good school.

AWWWW. Now I'm looking at my brother with green eyes.

Stress, Pictures from Philharmonic Youth Winds Concert!

I've yet to update this space properly for about a week now. But here goes.

I'm here on a Monday morning, unable to sleep because of the long weekend I just enjoyed. Sleep late, wake up late. AHH. I need to catch some sleep in school later.

Well, I did study during this four and a half day long weekend, but not much.

It really sucks to see the rest of your batch stressing over the preparation for the prelims, and realise that you are not feeling stressed at all.
But then again, I just can't put my finger down onto where all that stress that my batchmates are experiencing is coming from.
Expectations? Hmmm. But I have mine too.


***All the greyed text is just useless ranting that will not change the world. Therefore I give you full permission to skip it if you wish to.

From the time a Singaporean is born, to the time he dies, there is much in the social environment itself (what more can we say about the working/schooling environment) that generates stress within the individual.
THAT IS DEFINITELY A CONSTANT. The variable in the equation is how we deal with stress.

I think we'll have a shorter lifespan (so much for better healthcare) due to all the stress!

Don't you agree that the nub of the issue is the way we define success in Spore?
We have come to define success TOO NARROWLY.
It doesn't take a genius to know the way success is defined in Singapore means largely two things: ACADEMIC and MATERIAL achievements.
These are not bad in themselves, but they are too restrictive, simply too narrow.

Some forms of stress are bad, but we can't generalise can we?? Exceptions are everywhere (it prevails in CHEMISTRY).
Let's look at stress to be a pot of boiling water shall we?
Obviously, you wouldn't want the water to over boil, lest all the water becomes evaporated, and the initial intention of having hot water, is well, not materialised.
But don't we all know that without this heat, the water will never boil. Then we can NEVER EVER EVER have our awesome turtle soup. AWWW ):

Okay, enough about "Stress".



I had an awesome weekend. Just filled with angels to make it perfect.

Friday: Amplify Friday.
Had dinner with John before that. And got him into a little trouble with Shelly, punctuality issues. Sorry about that mate!
Well, yeah. Friday was good :D


Saturday: East Coast Park, SA Band Concert.
Went to East Coast Park in the morning with Min Lun. Made him wait for 40 minutes! AHHH. PUNCTUALITY NATHALIE!!!!!! You've definitely got punctuality issues.
Bladed for about 10km? Haha. It was a good workout!
Fell down, and Min Lun got a shot of me on the ground. UBER FUNNY. Too bad I didn't have my knight in shining armour to save me.

Entire Saints family put up items for the concert in the evening at Singapore Conference Hall. It was good, especially the Saints Alumni Band.
And there's this guy called Benjamin Thia if I'm not wrong. WHOAAAA.
He's like an awesome percussionist. Loved it.



Haha. TOO MUCH WORDS ALREADY.
Let's add some pictures from LAST LAST Sunday.
Thanks John for the pictures!


Shelly, Nat.


She left me too quickly ):
Check out all the good times we had man. REFER TO ABOVE PICTURE.
Whoo! Check out my double chin.




HAHA! He thinks he's scary.
Oh. Check out those cool nametags man. I think they belong to me.


The effects of eating fries with ALOT of mayo for supper.


I don't remember myself doing something like that (EEEEW), but hey, that looks like my hand!!!


Chinese results out in a while.
And I'm still thinking euthanasia man. The endless debate. Thanks Hansel. =X
Meanwhile, I'll just complete my Amath. And skip my sleep for today.

Bear with me. Second post of the day because I've many things to blog about. Then again, you can skip all of this.


I went for John's Band concert on Sunday. At Singapore Conference Hall. Philharmonic Youth Winds. It was VERY GOOD. They meet up and practice once a week, and the music they produce is WOW. Then again, most of them are Pros.

They played the Drum Concerto and OMG. It was SUPER DUPER DUPER NICE.
LOVEDIT.

Camwhored A LITTLE, and yeah, went for dinner. Sponsored by Shelly, since she received her $50 bucks!


MOVING ON to today.
National Celebrations was a blast, but I still regret going to school! Because I missed out on sleep.
Let's throw all this negativity aside and look at the bright side of things shall we!

This year's National Day theme song "Will You" has left a very deep impression on me. I just feel so proud to be a Singaporean. SO PROUD.
LOOK AT THEM. The people in the music video can sing so well! STANDARDS people. This is what I call good. Well, not that the previous years were not good. I just feel good watching "Will You".

Ah well. My sentences are not very coherent today. But HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE.
I really do appreciate what you've done for me. Although the govt does piss me off most of the time.

I GOT IN!

Here I am, on a Wednesday morning, totally thankful for what God has done for me in my life.

It seems that things don't go the way you planned them to be, but somehow, things fall into place quite perfectly I must say.

Take my education journey for example.
From an IJ school. I wasn't thankful for the Catholic education that was priceless.
I went on to a protestant environment. It was a real test of my faith. And I started to appreciate what I had lost. Something that money could never buy.

Now, you must be thinking, what's the big deal of a catholic education? It is a big deal, a HUGE DEAL in fact.

What are all the Catholics doing in ACSI? Don't they have SJI to turn to (Which is of similar standards in terms PSLE entry score)? What are all catholics doing in MGS/ SCGS, don't they have St. Nicks to turn to (and again, which is of similar standards).
Where's the support man!

Well, it's my turn to show some support of the Catholic schools in Singapore.
I've prayed about it in fact, and given my standards, I'm very sure I can get into JCs which are termed 'better' e.g. SAJC. I've got a calling in CJC? Yeah, and I went on with the DSA application.

It was amazing when I got shortlisted for the interview. It was even more amazing when I passed the interview. Because my DSA 'forte' was Leadership. And not many people get in through that as a CCA. Like erm Rugby, Track, Netball, more likely, the more useful ones.

Just want to thank God for all the things he's done in my life. If I had never gone to St. Marg's, I would have never proved myself worthy of this gift of leadership within a period of three to four months. If I had never gone to St. Marg's, I would have never appreciated a Catholic eudcation this much.


To all those who have not gone thru secular/protestant doors! Praise God for the wonderful education you have!

I'm just SO HAPPY LA NOW.
I'll step into those doors on 2 Jan 07.

P.S. I'm not mad. Just really appreciative.

Sean's Birthday Lunch

Woke up at around 12noon on Saturday and I was late for Sean's Birthday Lunch. WHOOPS.
So happy birthday Sean (in advanced of like TWO MONTHS).

Food was GOOD. But I didn't eat much. I have no idea why my stomach's growing smaller now a days ):
But I'm glad I still have the stomach to at least eat three meals a day.



Sean speechless about his surprise Birthday Cake. And I presume he sticks out his tongue every time he's speechless?




Sean, easily satisfied after blowing seven candles.


I have no idea how Sean cut the cake!
But the cake was TASTY all right!


Nice Skinny, Tan, Nice-teethed, Good Spoken English, Long-haired girls.
Put me beside them, and I look like a rebel!
Okayokay, I speak relatively well and I'm proud to say I've nice teeth. So maybe it's just the skinny and long-haired part that doesn't match.
Basically, I LOOK off beside them. But hey! LOOKS ARE DECEIVING.


Sean and Sam.

HELLO IAN.
Haha. NOTE TO IAN: If you ask me to remove this picture, NO I WONT. Trust me, you'll come to appreciate these pictures in time to come. Mwahaha.




Top: Sarah, Amanda, Nat. I like it because it seems like I'm the focus of the picture, but hey, that's not the point. LOOK AT THE HANDS.
Above: Michelle, Julian. IN THE SAME POSE. (LOOK AT THE HANDS AGAIN). How cute is that man!

I LIKE THOSE TWO PICTURES ALOT.
But it seems that everyone on Saturday was in the "I'm camera-shy" mood.
*Uses hands to cover face*

I missed out two people. Sandra and Jane. They left too early to camwhore!
Ah well. IT WAS GOOD FUN.
Thanks Sean!



Anyway, have a great week.

It's a MONDAY. It's 5.20 in the morning now! I've been studying since 12 midnight till about 4.50am until I decided to switch the machine on.

AND IT'S NATIONAL DAY THIS WEEK!
Five day weekend here I come! :D
And since I'm not going to school today, it's a 6 day holiday for me. Awesome time for me to catch up with my work.

I think my mum rocks.

She's always telling me cool stuff.

"Girl ah! Did you know that if you point your middle finger, it's more relaxing than pointing your pinky. Point your pinky, your whole hand very tensed."

WHOA.

I just love these two songs.

You have made the stars of the deepest night
Still you love me
You have called my name
I will follow you

JUST A RANDOM THOUGHT.

It's spelt CATECHISM, and not CATHECISM. Or however some people spell it!

I just don't like that word being misspelled. Maybe because I know the spelling of it.
RAWR.

This is one of those English days.

Hospi Meeting!

Well, this is a ONE WEEK LATE update. Mainly because I've been feeling very lethargic lately, and I couldn't bring myself to update when I'm in a terrible state. Don't want to compromise quality of updates.

Anyway, last sunday we had our ONCE IN A BLUE MOON hospi meetings. It wasn't so much of a meeting, more like a gathering, a chillax, just a random hangout.

This was the most fun I had with hospi, since.... Never maybe??
Sunday was a was just like any Sunday. Lunch, movie, supper. But what made it so special was all the heart to heart sharings we had.
It just totally affirmed one another of our existence in Hospi, and how we're called to this team for a reason.

Haha, it's just a lazy Sunday. And I kinda wish all sundays were like that. Just hanging out, not studying. And just fellowshipping. Ah well. Time, the master of all things, sadly doesn't permit.

Let's get on with the photos now shall we!


Cheryl and Wins! July babies of Hospi!


Lydia bought them Cake and quiche! (Cheryl had too much of cake for two whole weeks!)


Master Chef (Cheryl) and Master Eater (Lydia). Left: Lydia. Right: Cher


Finally! Winston didn't move.


Cher and Nat


BLOWWW!



Lydia's presentation time!


Haha, CHEEKY. Both of them are looking at each other with THAT LOOK.

End of AFTERNOON MEETING.

Afterwhich we caught THE SIMPSONS! It was funny crap! Like really crappy. The first time I LAUGHED OUT LOUD IN A MOVIE.
Two thumbs up for the creators of the movie man!

After the movie, we headed for SUPPER. Okay, supper makes you fat, but SO WHAT! :D
Lydia had her BLACK carrot cake. (I LIKE WHITE BETTER. But I ate it anyway! Cuz I thought it looked kinda nice.)






Talked a little bit more! And END OF DAY. Reached home at around 12 midnight. And tadah!
It was just awesome.