NEW(-ISH) PROFILE AND NEW JOURNAL HEADER!

Profile has been changed for like two weeks or so, but I just barely changed the journal header today!

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....god. I spent like this whole week on that journal header i had no freaking clue on what to do with all the empty space

...and because I STILL WANT TO GET BETTER AT MANGA COLORING HERE IS THE ORIGINAL COLORING. CRITIQUE ME!!!!1

Journal features Kon from Amatsuki and profile features Spain and Southern Italy from Axis Powers Hetalia

*:<*

I want to go to the concert on Monday.

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( Don't you see we're the same? Stop trying to fight it. )

I hate when animals get harmed. I think this is why they say the best balls for dogs are tennis balls. They can't swallow and there isn't this danger.

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Two weeks of school have already passed. It doesn't feel like it.

I've been exhausted from classes, but they've been REALLY fun, especially the geology ones. :D

Gonna go out later to get some fabric for my clothing construction class.

Oh, and I changed a class last week, so my schedule is different. ^^;;

Still trying to figure out where I'm going to end up transfering to. I'm still looking at colleges, and I've gotten a lot of stuff from several places. I guess I need to figure out what field of geology I want to go into. Problem is that I like so many fields. ^^;; Main ones I think I'm interested in, though, are Seismology, Paleontology, and Volcanology.

Problem with colleges is just that they're SO expensive. :/

Oh, well. I'll deal with that when I transfer. That's why I'm looking into scholarships and financial aid. ^^

( Updated schedule (including field trip dates) )

Also, I have some pretty cool projects for the clothing construction class. :D

( We're going to make: )

...and that's all I can think of right now. I'll probably think of something I wished I'd added, and make another post later. XD

I figured out how to auto friends lock twitter posts.

• Go to Email Mobile Post Settings. (Must be signed into LJ)
• Put this address as an Allowed Sender (noreply@loudtwitter.com).
• Do not check Send Errors.
• Make up a pin.
• Fill out the Journal Default settings.
• Click Save Settings.
• Go to Pin Examples.
• Copy the email address in "PIN in email address". (username+pin@post.livejournal.com)
• Go to LoudTwitter, make sure you are signed in
• Under all the setting options click Email Posting Setup.
• It will ask you for an email address. Put in the PIN email address LJ gave you.
• Click okay and then click Home at the top
• Under shipment preference it will tell you, "You have more that one shipment method configured, please select the one used for shipping daily"
• Make sure email is selected and hit set.

My delivery skipped a day but I did mine really close to delivery and I forgot the last set. It worked last night though.

Skewege at the IDW forum tells the AHM haters to STFU because, well, they're embarrassing. He points out the "Is anyone else thinking of dropping AHM" thread, (which, again, I must remind you, is on the publisher's forum where the writer, artists and editors cannot miss it) is "one of the dumbest things I have ever seen...(and) comes off as an attempt to get attention."
( Read more fail )

This is the last one for now. :D Now all of my adults have been posted. ^^

( More bred dragons )

( And more of them )

It should only take one or two more posts and I'll be done. :D

You know what?
I detest this group "Don't hate me because I'm Gifted."

This group is for the students of the Gifted Education Programme in Singapore.

All elitism and exclusiveness aside (honestly!), this group is meant to facilitate networking within the GEP community, as well as nurture stronger bonds. (i.e. if we delete you from the group, it's based on a very objective, rational and fair system: You is be GEP or not, larh.)

For more information on the GEP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifted_Education_Programme_(Singapore) Please note: In spite of facebook HTML skillz: Closing bracket of hyperlink included.

IMPORTANT: If you've been deleted from the group but really really are, you know, ONE OF US. Then let me (Sarah Ooi) know, please. Because some of you neh nehs don't let me access your profile without being your friend and in spite of what the general public thinks, we don't really have scary psychic skillz. And the prof won't let me use cerebro. And some of you have left the country and so don't show up in the usual networks and I really am sorry if this is the case, but, you know, purging has that sort of unfortunate side effect. Ya'll are the poor collateral damage. Apologies.

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The discrimination against GEPpers must end NOW.

I agree with the intentions of the group, but I question the integrity of the group as well as the integrity of the group members.

So the intention was to bring to light discrimination against GEPers and to eradicate it. Fine. But shouldn't it be opened to everyone who feels the same way instead of being exclusive and including only people from GEP? Is this not making people discriminate against non GEPers now by the use of the word "purge"? 
Are GEPers such an obnoxious bunch we have to set up a group, and announce that we are one of each other, purge people who are not in GEP, and accuse people of discrimination against us? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA. I am painfully aware of the existence of this group but I have NEVER joined it. Why? I am from GEP and I don't announce it in a pathetic way for all to see. "Oh, I'm Gifted, wow, I'm oppressed by the public! Yeap that's right, I'm Gifted! And I'm 1 percent of the cohort. No la, not elitist."
Seriously. Read the wall posts- they're all along these lines. e.g.
"GEPPERS AREN'T ELITIST, DAMMIT.
We are the ones being oppressed and discriminated against in primary school, hello?
It's terrible for our self-esteem."

I will rebut what she says- that we are not oppressed, or discriminated against and the self-esteem she is talking about is inflated. Not elitist and yet you broadcast to the world you're hated simply because you're gifted?

I have an issue with the word purging. With gleeful delight, members of the group single out people who deserve to be purged.


"Aye, I do see his point & I kinda anticipated that there would be a backlash of this kind. But hey, it was our fault for not having clearer info bit about the true intentions of the group. Which is why I requested to be allowed to put one up in the first place.
And I do see the reason, larh, woman. It wasn't meant to be serious. Relax. After being 'ostracized' and called names by the general public here in Singapore, when we use terms like 'Elitist' or 'Special' - we almost always mean it in jest. S'like, if everyone's having fun sliming us, why can't we join in, too?
No hard feelings, eh?"

In jest? Serious? Then why the "purging"? Why the accusing and purging of non-GEPers who join the group for attempting to be "part of something they aren't"? Please refer to the definition of purge above to understand the point I'm driving at. What a badly attempt at disguising an obviously elitist group under the veil of jest. Why the defending of your label of being in GEP, unless you want to be associated with the "intelligence" that comes with the label, and accuse other people of "sliming" you and calling you an asshole? 
Oh yes- sliming others just because others are sliming you does not make you a better person, I am sorry to say.

 "but haha isnt the top psle pupil always a geper - almost every year right!"
Do not compare yourself to the brightest pupils in Singapore. GEP does not correlate to academic intelligence and obviously, social as well. You being in GEP does not automatically make you as smart as the smarter pupils in Singapore. Stop taking their hardwork and making it into yours! When will people stop relating mutually exclusive events as being in GEP and getting the highest aggregate in Singapore to each other?

"Gottit. :P Hey, anyway, someone just messaged me with a GEP t-shirt suggestion. I'll be creating a thread about it soon.
We only have 19 or so batches? :\ That makes me from. Batch 15. Argh. Brain cannot compute. I just feel all the more like a test subject! I feel cheated! If I'm going to be all experimental and insane, WHERE ARE MY BIONIC LIMBS?! I should at least be 77% cyborg! >:O Where do I submit my compaint form? (Signed in triplicate!)
I also, I also! Geppers are damn gay, zomg, and I hate them all. High five, Isaac! :D:"

Her arrogance pisses me off. So does her sarcasm and her attitude. So you feel upset at being an experimental subject? Why would you, of all things, print a teeshirt to show that you're part of this experiment? Rhesus monkey! 
So from what I see in the description, the point of setting up this group is to bring to attention the "oppression" of GEPers who are actually sociable beings but the public chooses to alienate us- but yet the masterminds are printing teeshirts to announce that they're in GEP which is by the way, being removed by the government?

"Question! How do we draw the line between showing GEP pride on the shirt and coming off as elitist snobs ah?"
Oops, but NO WAY, my friend.
A question I'd like to ask. Why would you feel "pride" at being a GEPer? GEP was a programme (or those people would like to put it an "experiment") designed to educate the supposed "top one percent" of the cohort" (obviously our results don't reflect it sometimes) in a different way from the rest. But what if I told you you were merely selected for something "different", for the government to know more about a different way of teaching would result- would you still be "proud" of yourself? 

1. A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect.
2. Pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association: parental pride.
3. Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness.
4. 1. A cause or source of pleasure or satisfaction; the best of a group or class: These soldiers were their country's pride.
   2. The most successful or thriving condition; prime: the pride of youth.
5. An excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit.

Pride has both positive and negative connotations, but unfortunately, it is the negative.
If there is any sentiments we should feel, it should be GRATITUDE, not pride. Grateful and proud of the government and the common citizen for paying taxes to come up with an educational opportunity. Proud of yourself for making it into this programme? Shame on you, you elitist snob. So despite that comment looking as if the person who posted it had some shred of humility, it actually isn't.

"I'm not the only one with this problem right haha. Feel like people wanna stone me when i go out wearing the gep shirt"
HAHAHA And your GEP mind can't find out why. HAHAHAHA. 

The group and the members reeks of
HYPOCRISY.
They are obviously arrogant, faces no self esteem problems but an overload of it, and any discrimination against GEPers are caused by these people.

And I can't believe these people are from university. I really hope you can follow my line of arguments here. If you can't feel free to comment and I shall explain until you get it. This is extremely serious- I hate for Singapore to have a generation of people who like to create a social hierachy and then insist that they are not.

Don't think this entry will be very substantial. Can't wait for dinner, kimchi soup ftw! I love spicy kimchi soup so much I can eat it everyday. It gives me this huge kick, like I sweat so much when I eat it.
Going to run a bit later though my legs hurt from swimming yesterday! I never knew swimming could be so fun and the unfair advantage that guys have physically over girls is beginning to show as we grow older. Unlike playing monkey and freeze in primary school): Makes me wanna be a Sarah Connor :P

Watch this. Seriously.



HAHAHA

( Meme from cuzz just for fun.  )

im tryin to type this well..
greatttttttt night

first my RA sees me at a party and goes "u didnt see me here"
haha. i thought i was in deep shit but she was so cool about it

then 2 guys in the pizza place bet me 50 bucks (after checking me
and my friend out) if i can name who sings the song playing.
when i say "The Who", he and his friend hand me 50 bucks.

HOW FUCKIN AWESOME IS THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

i love stupid drunk boys who think they can trick drunk girls.
too bad i watch my CSI and my uncle loves The Who and I KNEW IT.

=]50 BUCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

This post is the first of the ones that I've been breeding. Probably not going to put the hatchlings/eggs up until they're grown and I've named them.

( Bred dragons 1 )

And I'm gonna do the rest tomorrow, because the Dragon Cave site is acting up on me. :/

( And here's #3 )

Next to come are the ones I've bred, and the one's that are the children. :D

And here's #2

( More dragons )

So...just because (and because there was someone wanting to see my Transformer-named dragons), I'm posting my adult dragons here.

( It's gonna take MANY posts to do this )

I hate repeating and I hope these are newer stuff ): Hmm but if you're a member of any of the magazine scans on LJ, there'll be four or more spreads where I took these images from so it might get boringgg. But these pictures all showed me a different side of things so... I like posting them. They're so inspirational and they teach you how to mix things without looking retarded.

( <50 pictures.  )

Fine! As in fee-nay. (: The End! 

Have you ever written something that while you're writing it you feel like it's the most brilliant thing you've ever written? But when you finish and read it over it becomes an ugly stepchild you need to hide under the stairs and never look at again?

It happens to me all the time.

I call it Ugly Stepchild Phenomenon. Or USP.

I hate it.

I think it was about two years ago I came out as bi here on LJ (you guys were the first told) and little by little, I started coming out to more and more to my RL friends, and ( TL;DR I JUST NEEDED TO GET SOME STUFF OFF MY CHEST )