School blues

School is starting next week...
I really don't want that to happen.
I feel as if there are so many things that need to be done, which is freaking myself out. Meanwhile, I was doing my UK Journal. I am still on Day 2, good job self.

I am currently contemplating whether I should go for dinner with my 4K classmates. Firstly, I am too lazy to go out. Secondly, reason that cannot be disclosed here, hahah. On the other hand, this is class outing, so I guess I should make an effort to go out right?
This is frustrating.

I also realised that things are made harder for my UK Journal because I need to come up with two or more creative product. I can almost hear the wicked cackling laughter from my literature teachers (though it's hard to imagine Mrs Vora like that, she's too nice). WHY WHY WHY.
I should have just been more hardworking and done my journal every night in UK -.- totally regretting it right now. See kids? This is what happens when you do not do what your teacher tells you to. And it happens all the time.

Anyway, I think the reason why I am taking so long with the journal is because I am trying to make it look nice, decorate it etc. If I just did not care about the prettiness of it all and just wrote whatever was needed, I bet I could be done with it very quickly. AND I REALISED WHAT A MISTAKE I MADE.
Remember the Green Fields poem I wrote? I could have plonked it onto my journal!!! BUT I already posted it on my blog so it's quite evidently not inspiration I got from UK huh. HMMMM.

SHOULD I OR SHOULD I NOT?? (to go for the outing, and to plonk the poem in or not??)
To be or not to be, that is the question. (At least that's something I got from my UK trip)

Meanwhile, I shall continue pondering.

Gosh, whatever, they only said creative product, but it need not be directly from the trip right????? Heh.

Oh, and I watched Prometheus with Huiyi, Sher and Dion. It was actually quite scary lololol. I think we were the only ones squealing in the cinema as frightening parts, hahah. Michael Fassbender acted damn well too :) The whole story is just really intriguing, but then there was practically no questions answered, which made the movie kind of useless actually if you think about it that way.

UK Trip

I am finally going to post about the UK trip after such a long hiatus :D

Okay, I am just going to do the summarized version, and pick out three really interesting (but not necessarily good) things that happened on the trip.

Basically UK was pretty fun. The scenery there was really nice :) Pictures cannot really make up for what a picture lacks as compared to when you see it with your own eyes. (Ain't that always true?) 

The food was actually okay for the first day. By the second day, it starts getting boring because the breakfast is always the same - bacon, sausage, eggs, sausage, bread, tomato or cornflakes and more bread. The food actually gets better towards the last few days when we get to eat food like yorkshire pudding (it's not really a pudding though) and pizza (yum!).

We also did a few walking tours where we visited parts of the town which had some connections to writers (literary places huh). It was really interesting to see the environment in which the writers grew up in. I guess life was also much more exciting for them then because most of them managed to gather inspiration from their own experiences and the environment around them! WOW. Pretty amazing uh. For example, there was this girl whose the friend of Jane in Jane Eyre who dies of typhus or TB (i'm not sure). It was a reference to Charlotte's sister, Anne, who dies due to the same illness. It is quite cool how subtle details all come together when you discover the history of the writers.

More places that I visited: Shakespeare's Globe theatre, Anne Hathaway's cottage (Shakespeare's wife, not the actress!), William wordsworth's home, Lake District, Beatrix Potter's Emporium, British Museum, British Library, BBC, Oxford University, Keswick School and London (where we watched THREE PLAYS)

Okay so, on to the three interesting things that happened to me:

1) Cheated by a scam

YES, I MEAN HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN. HAHAH, but the experience was actually pretty interesting and let me gain experience regarding these kind of things.

So I was walking on a bridge (crossing it) when this man (i think it was a man) who was wearing this UGLY UGLY HORRENDOUS mask comes walking towards me, with a hand outstretched. He wanted to shake hands with me. I immediately said no because, THE MASK WAS SO UGLY UNTIL IT WAS SCARY. I even shouted in that guy's face, "Damn ugly!" Then, Zixin was scared that he would feel rejected, so she asked me to take a picture with him. I said no at first, but finally relented and took the damn picture. Then, we wanted to go already, but he signalled that he wanted to take a picture with Zixin too. Zixin then took it with him. 

When we wanted to go, guess what? He pointed to his palm, asking for money! WTH. There was like this awkward silence when we realised that he wanted money. Zixin finally asked 'how much?'. He then signalled 'two' with his fingers. And Zixin asked 'two pounds?' AND THE GUY WITH THE STUPIDLY UGLY MASK NODDED HIS HEAD. 

So Zixin gave him two pounds, just like that. 

We immediately knew we had been cheated right after that. I mean, who gives two pounds (S$4) for two photos with a guy with an ugly mask?!

I really felt smacked in the face because I was so determined to avoid such incidents. But Zixin felt worse because she kept feeling it was her fault for asking me to take a picture with the guy. Haiz. Anyway, it was a good experience. 

Lesson learnt: Do not just take pictures with anyone, especially people with ugly masks -.-

2) Pranked
So I was staying with Elaine, Shermaine, Zixin, Joelle and Levi in YHA Coventry I think. We were in our hotel/lodge/inn (I don't know what to call it) when I heard someone knocking on our door. Thinking that it was someone from our school, or maybe the teachers, I opened the door. Just as I opened the door, a really scary mask of a lion (A MASK AGAIN!) appeared.
I literally screamed.
Then, I quickly bang the door shut. As I closed the door, I heard some people giggling in the doorway. I was really frightened because that was so unexpected. I really got the shock of my life! The others were asking me what happened and I told them. Just then, the door started rattling. Someone was banging the door from outside and we all knew that they were trying to open the door.
I think I knew why I was so scared at that time - it was because I thought it could be drunkards fooling around. I seriously did not want to mess with any drunk people because who knows what will they do?
It was only after we all thought it through then did we deduce that it could be the German students who were staying at the same place as us. (We saw them when we were eating dinner then. Some of us were even talking about how cute they were -.-)
We then asked Ms Eileen to come over. She came over and we told her what happened. She actually asked us why didn't we open the door and punch them or something. HAHAHAH. But seriously, that mask shocked the hell out of me. I mean, who opens the door and expects to see a mask staring right back at you?
Anyway, we decided to go downstairs and complain to the person in charge. After all, this could be considered as disturbance. While we were walking down the stairs, we saw some German boys standing around the staircase. As we were walking down, we could hear them laughing at us! Which just goes to confirm that they were the ones behind this whole thing.
When we reached the reception, Ms Eileen (the guide btw) started telling us about how she rushed down upon getting my sms. She was apparently, doing a facial mask when I smsed her. She took off her mask halfway through her facial 'spa' and rushed down to my 'rescue'. HAHAHAH. We were all laughing because we totally did not imagine her getting a mask spa now.
The next day, when we were eating our breakfast, we deliberately took a loooooonnnnggg time to eat so that the German students would not have any place to sit and eat. (we had a shared eating place) HAHAHAHAH. Serves them right x)

3) Exposed
We were watching a (remake of) Midsummer's Night Dream in an outdoor theatre. It was raining and cold.
There was this particular part when a woman (the fairy queen i think) was holding this man down because her eyes has been rubbed with a potion that makes her fall in love with the first person she sees when she opens her eyes. And she falls in love with this man whose head has been turned into a donkey -.-
So.... she gets her fairies (or whatever they are) to take that thing out of his pants. Yep. I mean, they took a tube out to represent that thing, but you get it. I ALREADY SOMETHING WEIRD WAS GOING ON AT THIS PART. Then, she started walking towards him and she started unhooking her corset. I really thought she would just stop there, but she didn't!
She exposed her top part.
Yeah, like her breasts. I MEAN LIKE, OMG. Everybody from our school just went, "WTS." There was this collective hush or gasp around me as she did it. THE THING WAS, NO ONE TOLD US ABOUT THIS. I mean, this could be RATED.
And then, she started having sex with the donkey guy. And then they had something like an orgy amongst the fairies, the donkey and the queen. HOW SICK IS THAT. GAH. That was totally unexpected.
Furthermore, she took her clothes off in the freaking cold??? I want more clothes and she wants none? wow.
And as I was looking around the audience later during the intermission, I saw some young boys, who were like 10 years old. Omg, their childhood has just been robbed away from them.

So there, REALLY INTERESTED RIGHT?!
I mean, at least there were these interesting things that happened in UK that would not have happened to anyone else :) Something special I guess!

Oh, and I stayed in the Downtown East chalet with my cousins over the last weekend.
We bbq-ed, cycled, and I swam. It was quite fun I guess :))
And my cousins are now all crazy over Micky from JYJ who acts in Rooftop Prince, hahahah :)

Going to watch Prometheus later (hopefully we can get in!)