okie it's belated merry xmas...and i didn't reallly celebrate it. i just went out to have pizza and saw a movie: the curse of the golden flower. it's not really nice. it's just a pirated version of lei yu. my mum said zhang yimou filmed that for the westerners. lol. my internet's acting up again. it's like damnnnnn slow. it takes 3 minutes to load one page. argh. dunno wadda hell happened to it. and my dad just updated the com. it's internet explorer v.7 now.

this tue, i went ice sk8ing again. by now, i've made a lot of frenz who are also learning ice sk8ing...cos i owaes see them there. i still can't do my left 3 turn nicely. i can do it but not well enough. by now these are the things dat i've mastered completely:
-mohawk turn
-right inside edge 3 turn
-snowplow stop
-forward crossover (R over L)
-backward crossover (L over R)
-two foot spin

stuff i'm still trying to do:
-left outside 3turn, right outside 3turn, left inside 3turn
-waltz jump

i flipped through last sat's straits times and saw a special report on world and peace. well according to that report and WHO...the figures on the ppl who died this year is horrifying.
STRIFE: 3.6 mil killed in war since 1990
POVERTY: 1.1 billion (the no. of ppl living on lesson than $1.50 a day)
CHILD VICTIMS: 8.4 mil children working as forced laboures or sex workers. 15 mil children orphaned by HIV. 11 mil children under 5 die each year because of poverty.
and it still goes on and on and on.

then, the reporter paid a visit to priest/nuns etc of catholic, buddhist, imam, tao, hindu and rabbi (the jews' religion) all the them said practically the same thing and that is we must have tolerance for other people and learn to accept their opinions. we must be caring and respectful to all people around us even if they do not treat us with the same respect. and they all believed that there's still hope even with all this saddening things going on bcos they believe that man can still make the world a better place for everyone to live in. BUT the thing is: Does the priviledged really know or care or have time to help the poor??? even thou i get depressed by the report, i can't do anything much about it cos i don't have the ability to. it's up to those millionaires to do it because it's them dat have all the money in the world. 2% of the world's population get 50% of the world's riches. while the rest of us, 98% have to spilt btw the 50%. how sad.

nowadays the kids in the world (myself included), don't realize how lucky we are to have both parents healthy, to have somewhere nice to sleep, to have good food, to get everything we ever need : clothes, toys, ipods, computers....we don't ever have to think about losing these things and we don't ever have to think about the poorer children in Africa. we complain about how naggy parents are sometimes (which they really are haha) and how irritating they are...but we don't think about how much money they spent on us to keep us nourished and happy. so sometimes, we have to really reflect.

ohh and do u know that we're going to have robots everywhere in the next 20 or 30 years? or maybe in the next 10 years. and scientists said dat we might even have sex with robots. eww. how disgusting can dat b?! bcos the robots' "skin" will be SIMILAR to human skin. and the robots are going to have their own rights once they get intellegient to a certain lvl....the way animal does. gosh...come to think of it, it makes me kinda sick. blerhs.

what a weird place i'm living in :/

this thurs went to ice sk8ing lesson again. suddenly i'm owaes gg ice sk8ing n i'm like so familiar to the rink already. i FINALLY mastered my back crossover but weirdly, i dunno how to do forward properly...i cant seem to make my leg stay crossed b4 bringing it over and kick off again. i owaes cross and then bring it over immediately. and forward crossies are STILL so shaky while my back crossies are smoother. weird. i tink i still never skate properly. i didnt transfer my weight. tink i'm going to have problem with my edges esp doing the 3 turns. so jealous of ah yan.....she owaes get it so fast! ): and we're owaes lagging behind her. last lesson i almost tot of giving up! cos it was SO HARD! and everyone seemed to be better than mi..they can do t-stop already and i still cant. and for the bunny hop and forward crossies, xy does it way better than me. basically she does everything better. orh and tmr we're going to the fuji rink to see the sk8 asia competition! i bet it will be amazing. but i promise i'll skate till the end. i cant just give up like that. giving up is cowardly and stupid. i also borrowed books on ice sk8ing from the library and also surfed numerous webbies on ice sk8ing. i hope i'll get my own pair of skates soon. currently i'm using a pair dat i borrowed from janice's aunt. it fits but it's still too tight at the toes. dad's afraid dat once my feet grows a little bit more, i cant fit into the skates already. so he's most prob going back to china to buy mi and pair (: i'll try to take note of wt transfer more whenn i go sk8ing!

i'm going the watch jin1 sha1 this sat and then my dad will go back to china for 2 wks. i've written down my list of things dat i want hime to buy. and it includes more than 8 movies and 3 albums. i want stuffies! but my dad being dumb definitely dunno wad kind of stuffies i want. when choosing stuffies, it must look cute, the colour must be nice n the most important of all, it must be squishy, huggable and soft to touch. my parents still didnt come up with a decision on whether to adopt a cat or not...cos the cat named baby in my last post was already adopted, i wanted to adopt another. i dunno whether to choose btw young cats of only a few months or slightly older cats of a few years. right now i've emailed the owner of Chloe, a beautiful white cat wif ginger stripes on its tail. i hope my parents will quickly give me an answer but actually i wont take no for an answer. i realllllllllly desperately want a cat. sigh. i want a pet that can cheer mi up just by looking at it instead of my hammy who's owaes asleep.