Friday By Rebecca Black

Two days ago, I and my family went to Pulau Ubin for a one night stay at Celestial Resort. This is because my younger brother, Akashah won a lucky draw. The overall experience over there was very bad. It was not worth the stay even though the stay cost around 100 dollars. Now let's analyse why it was a bad experience for me.

Firstly, it was on a FRIDAY where I had school and I had a badminton session with Joshya from 5pm-7pm at Republic Polytechnic. So, I had to leave school at 12noon when school ended at 3.30pm and I had to cancel the badminton session with him even after all the trouble I've gone through to book the court. Adding on, my mother didn't tell me to bring my own clothes so I was bored over there, but not bored to death. I could have brought my monopoly board game, shower towel and laptop of course.

Secondly, I calculated our expenses and it totaled up to more than 50 dollars. 21 dollars on 5 packets of delicious mee goreng at haig road, 12 dollars on taxi, 6 dollars on bicycle rental, 20 dollars on boat trip and other minor expenses such as bus fare.

The boat only leaves when there's 12 people and I guessed we wasted about 30 mins on waiting for 12 people to and fro. Once we reached there, it was infested with dogs, full grown dogs but luckily they were tamed and scared of visitors. The pillow was hard for me and the air con was sort of faulty because there was no difference in 16 and 30 Degree Celsius, so I had to constantly switch the air-con on and off. The shower room on the top floor was bad because it was hard to operate the shower head.

In the morning, the hall was plagued with black ants that really packed a punch when they bite. It was plagued because of the mee goreng in the bin. I did not had the chance to explore Pulau Ubin because Aka cycled to Celestial Resort at about 5pm, so it was getting dark and those free to roam dogs makes it less enjoyable.

The thing I hated most about the trip was that my mother left the Pulau Ubin very late. I told her to shower at 6am so that I could leave early and see the Saint's Andrews Junior College open house where there were some of my friends. I really wanted to try out the Oreo truffles and fried Oreo, sounds interesting right?

At 9am, we went to have a breakfast at a restaurant and the waiters and waitresses over there provided us really bad service. As we had our breakfast was free, the treated us unfairly and they treated paying customers much better. So, going back to the jetty, there was already 10 people waiting and the boat drivers refused to take us but took 2 people that arrived later than us. As we waited for the next boat, little people came, thus, a Philippines couple paid 15 dollars instead of the usual 2.50 per person so that they could leave earlier.

If you're planning to go to Pulau Ubin, don't, just don't. As this is a bad experience, this post deserves a bad song for it's tittle. There is no justice that a girl like her, have the surname Black, it embarrasses someone like me who loves the color black very much

Black By Pearl Jam

Wow, it's been a very tiring fortnight and that's my "valid" excuse to be less active in blogging. I'm even slouching while blogging at the lecture theatre. This whole week was filled with talks and club meetings. Changing the topic now, many wonder why my nickname is Black Death and some have questioned how I came up with the nickname.


I think I came up with that nickname since 13 or 14 years old when I created my Friendster account. So, if there is anybody else that has the same nickname as mine, let's see who came up with that first.

I found the need to create a nickname for the main reason being that it is cool. Having a nickname is never blatherskite. Other reasons being that I needed a stage name just like Slash and Undertaker to brand myself so that it is easier to market myself, to show my creativity and also to have something to represent the other "me". I realise that I have split personalities. I behave differently outdoors and indoors. So, my nickname would represent the more bad, cool and sociable side of me and Nur Shah would represent the good-hearted and anti-sociable side of me. Just like how Gollum from Lord Of the Rings has split personalities.

My initial nickname was Black however this sounded racist so I needed to add another word to it. By a mere stroke of genius, I added the word death to it. Coincidentally, I found out that Black Death had a meaning. It was a plague that killed 450 million people in 1400 in Europe. To me, it means superiority because it killed a lot of people when they know nothing about it. It is silent and deadly. It attacks when people least expected it.


The word BLACK also has many meanings and almost all of the meanings are negative in nature and Death basically means the end of life. Nur Shah and Black Death have remained in the vicissitude for the past 4 or 5 years and we shall do so until we part.

Lastly, I've changed my playlist to the top 7 of my favourite bands and those songs are the top songs from each of those bands. This is because these songs best represents my musical taste and I don't care if the music is too loud.