TRAUMA TRAUMA TRAUMA TRAUMA

Guess who?? I'm back. And with yet another anecdote of yet another injury i have sustained to amuse you all in this time of stress! So go ahead, take pleasure in my pain. You officially have my permission to do so.

So tonight, after dinner, i was being nice and decided to bring my plate to the kitchen. However, the dear chair decided it hadn't caused me pain for a rather long time, (It usually does this every other day at least, so having refrained from doing so for about an entire half-week, is considered a quite an achievement) and felt it time to revert to its routine. I guess again, that you can guess what happened! But with encouragement from mu, i have decided to share my tragic experience with you. So, very predictably, i walked into the chair. Interestingly, i did not get any cut or bruise from this. But this, in turn, (i conclude) upset the chair, and so it became determined to cause me some misery. It toppled onto my poor toe! At first, it was kind of numb but after a while, the pain started to come and i started screaming and screaming! It was SOOO painful, i tell you. And this was the sharp edge of the chair, mind you. So much for being responsible and bringing my plate to the kitchen! Subsequent to my screaming, of course, as usual, nobody came to my rescue as they all think i'm crying wolf again! Huh! But they started to believe me when a pool of blood accumulated on my toe. I repeat, a POOL!! It was gigantic, almost the size of a five-cent coin! Yuck. And because so much blood was oozing out, it turned from light pink to light red to dark red to darker red, and eventually to an almost black! This was seriously gross. I would have fainted if i wasn't so experienced and used to the sight of my poor self bleeding (thanks to countless wounds, cuts, gashes, lacerations i have chalked up over the years).

After this, my mother, with good intentions of course, came and started dabbing it with a tissue. This sent me into immense agony. I shall kindly spare you the gory details. Next, i waited quite a long time and endured much pain, so that a clot would form or something, and after a while, i examined it, and deemed it time for me to start moving around again. BUT, as i started climbing the stairs, i hit the injured part of my toe on the edge of the stairs!! (The stairs again! Refer to previous traumatic post, regarding the ankle) What luck, you say! Yes i agree completely! Needless to say, the rather fragile clot, or whatever it's called, over the cut was broken and there was blood all over the stairs. Double gross. Okay, you get the picture. I shan't paint it all explicitly for you, or you'll all probably faint! (You're not as experienced as me, you see) And so i have obviously pulled through my hour of trauma with resilience and survived to finally hobble here to tell this little tale of my great misfortune tonight. See, i just provided you all with many reasons to be happy! 1) I'm not nicole. 2) I don't get injured like nicole. 3) Pieces of furniture and stairs don't hate me like they hate nicole. Oh, these are but three! Well, i guess you're all in luck, because i've got to go figure out a way to shower now, in order to suffer the least possible pain, and can't rant on and on and on and on and on...

Till next (traumatic) time,
Cheerio!
nic

PS. DID I SAY IT WAS THE SAME SIDE OF ME AS MY ANKLE?!!

TRAUMA TRAUMA TRAUMA

Hello everyone!

Hasn't it just been eons since i last wrote something here! Anyway, the reason I'm doing this now at this weird hour is because i'm at home! No, crystal, i'm not skipping Chinese again. I have turned over a new leaf! Actually, I'm at home because yesterday i sprained my ankle in school!! Oh the trauma! Let me amuse you (and maybe evoke a little sympathy) by recounting my terrible experience. It was this stupid lit classmate's fault, who i will kindly decline to name, because he was saying something at the top of the steps at the North Lodge and i was looking at him, instead of where i was going! I concede that perhaps i am a tad uncoordinated, but still! He should know better than to talk to somebody when they're going down a rather steep filght of steps, no?! So i guess you can guess what happened? I missed a step and, quite unglamourously, might i add, twisted my ankle! We're talking seriously twisted here. As in, I had the absolute horror of hearing my ankle bone crack! Please bear in mind, I am not exaggerating, although some of you are probably quite skeptical at this point. I promise you, it went C-R-A-C-K! I can't tell you how freaked out i was! Can you imagine, considering how my poor ankles are all the way down there and my poor ears are all the way up here, how terribly distraught i must have been to hear such a loud crack?? It was louder than any other bone crack i have heard throughout my 17 years of existence. Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

However, very unfortunately, nicole's misery did not end there! Oh no, it was not to be! Even after twisting my ankle, and hobbling very awkwardly for quite a distance, my dear good classmates still believed that i had sustained no injury whatsoever! Preposterous i say!! They called me the girl who cries wolf!! It was only after lit, and i said it really really hurt, that they started to have the slightest, remotest idea that maybe i AM injured! So one of my classmates, being ever so helpful, thought he was some exotic bone healer or whatever, and took it upon himself to fix my ankle. He took my foot and began pressing it at all places! This had, to his surprise (for he genuinely thought he was a professional), and my extreme unsurprise, aggravated it. So poor me was left to limp around school in agony for the rest of the day until my mum came to pick me up. Even then, i was not to be left alone to wallow in self-pity! My mother brushed it off like it was nothing at all and said it was a 'simple sprain'. Well, i don't know what's so simple about nicole (her only daughter, mind you) in pain! And the icing on my cake? My dad was laughing at my new way of walking and hopping around. Oh wait, there's a cherry on top! I was in the doctor's office for TWO short minutes, after which he concluded that it was nothing serious. I'll tell you about serious. Being stuck awake the whole night in bed, because you can't find a suitably comfortable position to fall asleep in! That's serious. Did i mention that i can't even move it now?

Okay i shall stop boring you with graphic details of my anguish. Moral of the story: nicole in the North Lodge is like a bull in a china shop. I just realised i wrote two huge chunks. It's like an essay. I bet i now hold the record for longest post! At least something good came out of it! Well, what do you expect me to do having noone to talk to all day except the maid, when i'm stuck at home? Actually, to be precise, i'm stuck in my chair since i can hardly go anywhere, thanks to my distressed ankle. If you've made it this far, you're either really concerned about me, or you take pleasure in my pain. Let's hope, for my sake and yours, it's the former. And if it is, heaven forbid, the latter, at least i've cheered you up! But then again, you all probably didn't make it till here. Anyway, i've got to go read Great Expectations now. See you guys!

Lots of love,
nic

i have smart friends!

eh sarah! howd you know, that i won't be the famous one when you grow up! there's time yet! hahahaha!
okay right, its more likely that i'll be famous for toppling over the campbells mushroom soup pyramid in cold storage than for anything credible like acting. however, i know MING MIGHT BE FAMOUS TOO! today she had her piano exam, oh, what a prodigy! haha. i don't know why though, but her examiners were trying to gouge each others eyes out with a blanko halfway through her piece hahaahha. okay anyway my point is, CONGRATS CHARRRRRRRRR! i'm so proud of you! which is more than i can say for myself, seeing that i topped math for the level, FROM THE BOTTOM! (probably)
moving on, LETS STUDY TOGETHERRRRRRRRR!:D:D:D somebody organize pls. and pick a day when nicole's not free, if not, nobody will get any studying done. hahaha, just kidding nic. you know we love you.
ITS ALWAYS BETTER WHEN WE'RE TOGETHER((O:
much love, mu
ps: YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT MING'S NEPHEW ONE DAY!! SOOOOOOO CUTE! be warned though. he tends to puke, when you least expect it.

WOW an A! CHARR!!! youre too prola
i always knew i'd grow old to know someone famous.. that would be YOU char! inventio was great by the way even though i was really sleepy and tired. good value for money. ten dollars to watch a STARRR perform!
hahahaha. hmm no one seems to update anymore. our blog went for a vacation. can we bring it back to life? actually the only reason im updating is to avoid reading my malay. eck.
and yes char, i suppose i kinda miss the exam period in mg. i think even if we do study together now that it wont be like before. sigh. that makes me sad. :(
my bio text book rocks too! its got nice nice messages and drawings of . ehem, stuff. ahah mostly by that eliza. i wonder where our quote book is. we should bring that back to life too.kinda hard to do since we're not in the same class anymore! GAH now im getting sad. :(

-sarah!

hey guys. wow no one has posted for so long.

anyway, i miss you guys. so much, you know. ): i just studied with debbie and jessie yesterday, and the fact that i was just hanging out with them made me so happy. when debbie was in the void deck and jessie eliza rachel wang ethel were all together for a while and i suddenly felt this surge of joy. cos.. its so rare for all of us, or even some of us, to be together. that makes me sad. thanks for coming for Inventio.. i hope you guys had a good time together. you guys must treasure these times okay.. exams are coming, and well i hope that we can use this to spend time together again. even if its just studying. i loved studying with ya'll last year. (: i remember how we'd stay in the canteen till late, or study in random places like Venezia or people's houses or something. and it was fun.. well i don't know about you, but whenever i think about the prelim/o level studying period, i remember it being fun. its like when i'm with you guys, i don't have to try, you know? i can be the most boring person in the world, i don't have to try and be interesting. and i can be quite boring hahaha ok but that's not the point. you know what. i think my favourite textbook from last year would be my bio book. haha. i spent so long on that book, trying to remember everything. wahlao. but anyway, its not cos i love bio, but cos in it there are so many scribbles from you guys. haha. they're all retarded. but i love them. (:

i know we all have new friends and stuff.. but we shouldn't forget each other and we should try. to me you guys still feel like home. i don't know if you guys want to try.. but i want to try. i hope some of you even come here, and read this.. and do something about it. but oh well. i give up our friendship to God. God does work. like for Inventio and my IS. (Individual Skill for DEP, we all need to have one for A levels.) my teacher, Mrs Creffield, told me i would do very well if i did straight (pure) acting. yup so i didn't have to be worried over whether i was good enough, or well i just didn't have to worry much about it, cos God gave me an answer before i needed to panic. and Inventio went well, i got an A! so that's almost like a guaranteed A for promos. so God will do His stuff.. and God will do something for us. like i said, i really miss you guys. i love you.

There's no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard
No song that I could sing
But I can try for your heart
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
Like a shoebox of photographs
with sepia-toned loving

Love is the answer
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Like why are we here?
And where do we go?
And how come it's so hard?
It's not always easy and
Sometimes life can be deceiving
I'll tell you one thing
It's always better when we're together

Mmmm, It's always better when we're together
Yeah we'll look at them stars and we're together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah it's always better when we're together

And all of these moments just might find their way into my dreams tonight
But I know that they’ll be gone
When the morning light sings
And brings new things
For tomorrow night you see
that they’ll be gone too
Too many things I have to do
But if all of these dreams might find their way into my day to day scene
I'd be under the impression i was somewhere in between
With only two, Just me and you,
Not so many things we got to do
Or places we got to be
We'll sit beneath the mango tree, now

Yeah It's always better when we're together
Mmmm, we're somewhere in between together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together

I believe in memories
They look so, so pretty when I sleep
Hey now, and when I wake up
You look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is not enough time
There is no, no song I could sing
And there is no combination of words I could say
But I will still tell you one thing
We're better together


- char.