Shut Up & Kiss Me By Orianthi

Finally, a post about something good. Something happy. Something positive. My beloved sister, Nur Shahzani Binte Anwar. Here's her Facebook to give you a better description, http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001555565753. She finished her PSLE about a week ago and I know she will get a good aggregrate.

Here's a brief description of her, she's afraid of insects that fly. She cries easily and when she cries, the skin beneath her eyebrows and her nose turns red. She likes to help so much that people might ask her for help but not appreciate it. She is careless and clumsy but hard-working. She loves singing and is the school choir

Compared to my other two siblings, I share the most similarities with her. We love playing board games, we love playing pokemon, we love swimming, we love watching Smosh, Niga Higa and Ray William Johnson on youtube and we love watching the same television programmes.

The things we do together are what makes us love each other very much. I love my sister so much. It's wrong to say this but I love my sister way more than I love my mother. If I loose her, send me the mental institution please because I'll go mad. The most fun we have is when we tease and disturb each other. Way back then, when EZ-links card weren't invented yet, my family tend to tease her baby "botak" which means bald baby because she had a patch of baldness at the centre of her head. Slowly the teasing evolved, from bald baby to "bhangla" which means Indian foreign worker. We would get our small dosage of physical "damage" from her for teasing her. As of now, my sister and I are playing this game where we slap each other's cheeks and then I or her would then tease the one who got slapped. I would also sort of tickle her or just speak things that doesn't make sense to her just to disturb her. Yes I am cheeky, but only to her.

After all the fun we've had, as the sun sets and she lays herself to bed, I would usually kiss her on the forehead as she sleeps. I can't tell her to SHUT UP & KISS ME because she doesn't like kisses.It's a sad thing because whenever I try to hug her, she doesn't seem to want it, and this makes me feel sad because I do not hug often and people say that when you hug, you experience this positive warmth of the person you're hugging, oh well.

Wasted Years By Iron Maiden

There are some things wrong with the Singapore Education System and also some things that can be improved upon.

Touching on the topic of schoole hours, school should be on every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday. This is so that they can refuel on Wednesdays and Sundays. The problem when you do not need to go to school during weekends is that you do not do much work and you tend to do your homework last minute. Secondly, 1 week holidays should be at the start of February, April, August, October, a fortnight holiday should be on June and a one month December Holiday. These one week holidays are designed in such a way such that students get to refuel themselves more effectively as there is a one week holiday after every month juxtaposed to a week holiday after three months. June holidays are minimised to just two weeks because a month is too long. Post end of year exams should not strecth from a Novembers to December because it is too long and it should just be December long. Primary 1 to Primary 3 students will take morning shifts because they do have a lot of homework. Secondary school students should start school at 9am so that hey get enough sleep and A Level students should start school at 10am because they have a lot to study and so not to cause traffic jams if it was to start at 9am. This especially helps Malaysians who commute to Singapore Daily.

Next we touch on the things that happen in school. Firstly, 2nd language should not be made compulsory because English is the main world wide language, it is not an important language because many employers do not look at what you got for your second language. Adding on, living in a multi-racial country, when we speak in our 2nd language, we tend to interact with our own race. Recess should be 45 minutes long because there's not enough time to eat and relax in 30 mins. Your teacher dismiss you forn recess 5 minutes late and you queue for about 5 minutes, 10 minutes gone in all. Physical Education should be 2 hours per week and an hour per lesson. Back in primary school, Physical Education was only 30 minutes long and we usually did some warm-up and back to class we walked sadly. Physical Education should not be erased when the exams are coming, in fact it is better to have Physical Education when the exams are coming so that we can de-stress ourselves.

This is how teachers should teach their students. Firstly, they would teach them the basics and the students would make notes out of it. Notes should be done on A4 and filed into a file so that it is easy to edit the information because you can just throw away the paper if it's too messy or there's mistake. Homework should be given to them where the questions in the worksheet are is ascending in level of difficulty and they should inform the students on what skills is used to answer the question. Skills are such as visualisation when it comes to geometry and explanation when it come to the comprehension section. After that you are prepared to do other school's exam papers to prepare yourself for your exam. And the whole process repeats itself over and over again.

Last of course is exams. Firstly, they should tell us what we got for each subject in numeral form and not grades. For example if a "B" grade is 70 to 75, it is unfair for person who got 69 for subject A and 74 for 7 subjects juxtaposed to that dude who got 70 for subject A and 71 for the other 7 subjects. Secondly, we should know where our mistakes in our PSLE, O levels and A levels are so that we can improve ourselves or also debate with the marker as to why you deserve a mark for that question. Adding on, there should be a proper guideline as to how to mark essays. You can write two completely same essays and give it to two teachers to mark it only to realise that two different marks are given. Lastly, we should not have our papers marked by Cambridge because it's expensive and we get it back months later. Even though Cambrdige papers are known world-wide, it is better if it's marked in Singapore so that Singaporeans find it hard to migrate, thus solving the problem of diminishing local talents. All of these would ensure that we do not spend WASTED YEARS in school

Foolin' By Def Leppard

There were a lot of memories that will be etched in my mind for the time I spent in Thailand.. These events are not in order so just bear with me. Let's start off with the cruise buffet, it was simply awesome! The best dining experience I've ever had. It was on a medium sized ship and the ship was moving while we were eating. The food was exceptional but the dessert was awesome. It was memorable because I had dessert on top of the ship and the view was awesome, the atmosphere was relaxing and the cool breeze just made you feel good. About an hour later, half of the group went onto the dance floor and danced along the hired band's rhythm and that was the most memorable of the whole trip because although I didn't dance, it was entertaining to watch them Foolin' themselves.

We headed for an orphanage in Singburi and I remembered giving a Mars chocolate bar secretly to an orphan because I was shy. I gave all the hotel stuffs such as toothbrush to the orphanage and I guess what I gave to them was the most unique of the bunch. We played soccer with the primary school kids on their field and we won the match of course. Oh yeah, and there was this boy who dressed as a girl and dance with the rest of the female dancers for us. I felt disgusted because how could the person in charge let such a thing happen.

At the Royal Pacific Hotel in Bangkok, I was disappointed because there wasn't enough time to swim and I also regretted not going to the massage because I wanted to try for the experience.

At the Grand Leo Hotel in Singburi, I remember bending down to shower because the shower hose was very short and the noodles, tom yum over there was bloody awesome. The chilli served at the hotel was very spicy unlike Singapore's and it also tasted more real.

There was this hot girl at Chulalongkorn University and her dance was seductive because her finger was at her lip and she was teasing us because it seemed liked she wanted to lick it.

On my flight towards Bnagkok, I lost my chain where my guitar pick was attached. It had no monetary but it had an emotional value to me. How disappointing. I watched the movie American Beauty on the flight back to Singapore only to be abruptly interrupted because the plan had touched ground. I continued watching it at home and that was a really awesome movie

because it teaches you beauty from another perspective. For example a plastic bag floating for 10 mins is beautiful.

I also visited the Royal Palace, Siam Niramit (a theater full of talented actors and actresses) and also a museum but there was nothing special about it.