NB: will try to fix up the blog so it looks SOPHISTICATED, both technologically and aesthetically.

almost as soon as it was born, girl-17.blogspot.com passed on. no, it didnt suffer from technological ailments, no, not ever. it faltered and failed merely because of my negligence.

i see no point of keeping two blogs - both on blogger too. girl-17.blogspot.com, well it was just a desperate act. now that cognitions.blogspot.com is here, the substitute will go.

just like how substitute teachers should never become permanent.

but that's another story - and a long one at that. i guess i dont mind now, but we'll see.

hum.

right now contemplating if i should watch Sleepy Hollow. i wonder if its very scary. if it is i will not watch. my nerves are too dear to me. plus i really dont like having to creep back into my room on tiptoes deep in the night, dashing the last say, 1 meter before jumping into my bed and swathing myself with the blue blankie.

now, all i need is for someone to tell me where i can download this year's SYF chinese orchestra mp3. i think we sounded good. heh.

ive decided to archive my archives, since the archive-links arent doing their job. im gonna ignore posts that consist of quizzes (and believe me, i've got TONNNS of those) and archive only the ones with text and/or pics. yupyup. that said,
first one up, JUNE 2002. go visit for a piece of history ;)

hiya my blog is back in working order!!

i cant seem to be able to PUBLISH. goddamn.

'sometimes what we remember is more real than what we see' - memoirs of a geisha

i couldnt help but wonder, as i read the last few pages of the book, if that was really true. have you ever visited a place where you once used to go when you were young and noticed how everything has changed? how you would think back and recall the times you spent in that place, where it was what it was?

our eyes might bring upon us images of cars busy honking, but in our minds we see even more clearly the clanking of the chains as the bicycles cut into soft sand. something like that.

its beautiful, in a nostalgic, sad way.

and how, your loved ones may some day depart, leaving you with nothing but the memories of the past. the little things, the way they moved, the way they spoke. the moments that you shared with them. would you look upon these memories and smile? or would tears roll down your face?

have you ever thought about how you would react when all these do happen? i try not to. for that'll only make me wish im gone first.

the importance of the cut and paste button.

i thought i did
and i really did
but now
i realize i shouldnt
should have never

perhaps you did
really did
maybe you still do
but now
i realize i dont
i shouldnt
i cant

dont you hate
how things do change
as time flies by
and all you can do
is stand there
powerless

i know i do
how about you?

ON HIATUS.

yeah.

in order to make up for the careless leaving-out of robbie's site in blogroll... here's a special notice!

VISIT CUBBIE'S PSYCHE TODAY!

just a note: I AM DOING WORK!!! i just kinda... diverted my attention a little. =)

currently listening to ICRT and today's topic is pre-marital sex.

i was just thinking perhaps the reason why so many girls get disillusioned by their 'firsts' is cuz they saw sex as a sacred gift of trust and love. of course then, if the relationship doesnt work out, they'd feel incredibly cheated and used. but assuming they all go out there and did it with purely a physical aim... i think they'd enjoy it alot more.

and i guess there isnt ever a RIGHT age to have sex anyho. it all depends on the individual. but obviously, the chances of you being more well-informed would (hopefully) increase with age. i guess that's all there is to it. hmm.

comments anyone?

AHHH!! sweet old, good old days!

TAIWAN TOUR 2001

a message to sharon:

oh dearie, where did you misplace your archives? i see that you've linked it to www.blogger.com. that's not going to work dear =) its just going leave your archives in oblivion while you pay blogger.com a tribute! hee. you gotta replace that link with your archive's link. and pray that your archives template are in good condition (mine are obviously not. they've gone to hell and got burnt) hopefully then you'll get your archives back.

till then, tata and happy mugging!

victoria the linguistic neanderthal.

ok here's the new deal. im going to update hmm. not quite so often anymore thanks to finals coming RIGHHHT up. its studying bigtime for me right now if i wanna get promoted. bleah. sucks but i gotta do what i gotta do. byebye blog and hihi coffee and late nights.

come to think of it, studying isnt too bad. it really isnt. i guess i could learn to enjoy it. =) i kinda like doing math tutorials now... hehe isnt that so weird? chemistry tutorials still bug me but that's cuz ive yet to understand stuff. hmm. i absolutely feel accomplished when i finish my tutorials and understand my work.

god im sounding like a major geek here but uhh well. its always good to get in the geek or nerd mentally when finals roll around. just think. 2 months of hardcore studying would equate to a year off junior college! how brilliant is that??

yay!

i dont understand. i think its my right to dislike a person. its the only way to go, to be vocal with it and let the putrid air out. out with the bad and in with the health. its not like im giving the person a bad reputation. i merely stated what i thought of her and why. that's my own perception. you're free to have your own.

its like shawn and his blueberry aloe vera drink. some people like peach and some blueberry. some people like her, some people dont. that's the way it is for everything! like lao tse said, there are two faces to everything. you have the blunt side of a knife and a sharp side. i know i need more philosophical words to explain this, but you get the gist.

so yeah, well as long as im not tarnishing her reputation in anyway. it wouldnt hurt. i dont try to please everyone or like everyone. that wouldnt work. you'd just drive yourself crazy.

yup. i have the liberty to feel whatever way i like towards any person.

feels good. muahahahah.

c'est moi, jieying and phyllis. SIA girls of the day.

magical word of the day (for no particular reason):

DETOX.

swear by it and you'll live to look like a ginseng.

uhm. yeah.

i want my archives. now.

no
naps, email, phonecalls

too busy
for reading, for shopping, for tv

there isnt time
for walks in the park, for morning air

why
caught up with work

how come
simply too much to do

doing anything about it
nothing.

books to read:

**Memories of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
**Video Night in Kathmandu - Pico Iyer
**Shopping - Gavin Kramer

i love being a librarian. kinda like rachel weiss in The Mummy. now i know where all the great books are. simply orgasmic. ;)

message to QR:

you can go to either:

1) Active Topic and get a chatbox like mine

or

2) Tag Board

3) Chatter

all you need to do, is to sign up for one, copy and paste the url into your template and voila, you're ready to rock and roll!

check back if you need anymore help okay?

have fun girl!

I took the fruity fruit quiz

made by rav-chan

Check out which fruit you are

okay so im dumb. whatever you say. you're just a quiz! heh.

note: i do not have a comment box. really like that concept but no dont have it. so dont go around clicking - you'll just be disappointed.

i have also decided to amend my no-links rule. huzzah.

oh man. i asked my hair to be layered... not entirely lopped off!!!!!!

ROAAWWWRRRR...

i want to go home. now.

*whines*

i wanna visit the smokey LAN gaming room with Lyon and watch his little man chop trees. and buy him drinks so he'll tell me about his playboy tendencies and his newest girl. i wanna go 'pa pa tsau' with him!

i wanna to go to shihpai to look for Alan and see for myself how he looks without his pretty hair. heh. listen to his furby voice and let him take the jimmy out of me.

i wanna attend university with Johnny and let him ride me around the campus on his moth-eaten bicycle. i wanna hear him talk about his sweet girlfriend and how i am so much like her. =) i want him to take me on a ride on his motorbike again, up the mountain. i wanna see the nightview up there and watch my breath fog in the cold winter wind.

i wanna see eric james and play his little barbie doll set with him. and watch him kill me with his baseball skills. i wanna walk him to NEHS and say hi to little vivian, the sweetest little girl! i wanna find the guabang thingamagig and watch him play with it. OH and i so wanna go to EastOcean University with eric too and both of us will have icecream. yum.

i wanna see wang wang!! and let her paw at my hand and lick my face =)

i wanna see linda god she's taller than me already!! and a model! damn! miss her so much! i've not seen her for like, 4 years!

i wanna see debbie. she's so pretty and so nice! i could never figure out her relation to me though. hmm. is it biao-i? i dunno. i just call her debbie. i hope she'll get married to my biao-shu. haha. they are so cute together!

damn.

i wanna see tina, wendy, jeff, ivy, gary....

but i cant. not now at least.

bleah.

malawan malawan malawan malawan malawan malawan malawan malawan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what you are seeing now, is a shadow of what was there.

ich mag Sie wirklich, die ich, sowieso. ich wei? nicht, wenn ich noch.

Sie entt?uschten mich, den ich nicht wei?, wenn ich Ihre Anzeigen überhaupt lesen kann, ohne sich zu wundern, wenn Sie es wirklich bedeuten.

ich denke nicht, da? ich mit Ihnen sogar sprechen m?chte, jetzt, das ich verletzt werde.

ich möchte nicht Ihnen dieses erklären. ich wünsche Sie nicht möglicherweise daß wissen, ich, möglicherweise ich nicht.

i hate powder coffee. it kills my stomach. but i have to take it. i need to stay awake tonight. i have to do my 8 math tutorials.

overheard, on Kids Say the Darndest Things:

"when my grandmother snores, i have to take alka-seltzer" - joey

indeedeedoo.

check out taiwan's water parks over HERE

drool!

listening to icrt now - its officially my homework channel! =) i love it! so much better than radio over here.. plus, its all about home! hehe

they're having their live broadcast from malawan today!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it sounds like so much fun!!! i wanna go there!!!! =) i didnt know taiwan had so many water parks!! damn, malabay water park is international standard! i dont care, im going to malabay water park (and the formosa taipei one) when i go back to taiwan again - hopefully the weather will be warm enough =/

who wants to join me???? we'll have fun!!!

ooh just read a few bloggers from NEHS -> lil cuz eric's school. its like, the only bilingual one in hsingchu (new bamboo hehe) i went and toured the school (plus helped out at their christmas showcase rehearsals) and its hecka hecka cool! everyone there speaks PERFECT english. delishh. hehe.

ARGH. i wanna go back to taiwan and study! now! now!

today is a bad day. for me. ive got a humungous cold which left me with a very blocked nose and a throbbing head. its like a migraine. think its partly caused by me practically not sleeping yesterday. i know i was lying in bed, but i dont feel like i fell asleep. know that feeling? yeah, thats it.

and i have the coffee to thank for that. it gave me hell of an uncomfortable stomach too. ugh. i think i'll stick to tea next time round.

school work's piling up. i have 8 math tutorials to complete, 1 biology tutorial, 2 chemistry tutorials and 1 comprehension passage. and 4 community involvement project minutes to cook up, 5 project work summaries and evaluations. there goes my weekend. not like i had any to begin with ever since the term took off. honest. i have had NO weekend wutsoever (spent all of it in school) for about 2 months.

and ive not started to study for my finals. i need a hecka high grade for math too.

so. clear off. dont mess with me.

i bite.