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Saturday, March 04, 2006

i met Mrs Tan today
i realized how much i missed her

just the other day mummy was talking about her
how much i would've let her down if she knew how i was like now
she had pushed so hard to prove to the school that i was worthy of the role as cactus lady
and now?

well the other day when she brought it up,
i thought,
mrs tan doesn't care
the last time i had talked to her she said she was still cross with me over something or another
but today
she was so
so interested in what i'd been doing
if i'd been a good girl
i told her about the plays i wanted to do
Plays with Attitude,
that's what they're called
"that's so you, with an attitude"
she had said, laughing

yeaa
i really miss her
and looking at her again,
after so long,
i become that young, small( well i've never been small exactly)
sec1 who wants so desperately to prove that i am worth it
and that i won't let myself, God or the people around me down

yes,
meeting with mrs tan today was good
because it made me find once again,
that girl inside who did actually care.

why did i stop caring in the first place,
some might ask.
because people gave up on me too early

but maybe,
just maybe,
now i am
that girl again

- xoxo
charis loves you
2:17 AM

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only yours baby

i'm charis vera Ng,
i'm NOT a Singaporean, i was born in UK
but i spent most of my four years in scotland
i love alastair(:
i'm doing my best to live for God though i often fail miserably

ok,try this:
you're this girl who's flown over to this country when you're no more than four years of age
you resent your dad for it,
and it doesn't help when things between your parents don't work out either.

so you miss your home terribly,
you miss going strawberry-picking,
you miss eating boiled eggs out of egg-cups
and you miss warm and cuddly Uncle John and Aunty Esther.

instead,
you find yourself forced to change
and adapt in a horribly hot place
where in primary school,
you meet cold,heartless little kids who ignore you and don't let you play "family"
just cos your accent is different.
early on,
you get weird looks and you find yourself going for recess breaks alone.
your classmates complain to the class teacher when you call them stupid
because they don't understand what to you is simple english.
but they leave you alone when you call them an imbecile
because they don't know what it means.
your primary 1 & 2 class teacher takes joy in complaining to your mummy
because she detests you.
she detests you for constantly correcting her english grammer and pronunciation in front of the class
you soon realize that you can actually gain and keep friends upon them finding out your mother's an actress
but by that time you've more or less forced yourself to lose your accent which makes communication a lot easier anyway.

that was the little girl charis,
now,
on top of that,
i can be a total biotch sometimes, towards people.
and don't tell me you aren't sometimes please.
but i try my very best not to bitch about people.
im a dangerous shopper(=
i never know what i want or need til i see it.

i don't like television.
now that's a first innit?HAH.
bet you never knew someone who didn't like tv
well i don't
and i'm not trying to be different and difficult
it's noisy and boring
i like music:)
i find eating a chore but i love snacking
figure that out
i find certain kinds of pain addictive,
no, i promise i'm still sane.

which is actually pretty remarkable for someone living here,
in this time and place
where you normally get loads of homework,
tests with questions that look like they're in foreign language,
and where everything's a competition to be the best,
the prettiest,
the most popular,
the most hated,
the thinnest,
the fattest, the coolest
the list goes on.
one shouldn't try to be something you're not,
but everyone knows that's easier said than done.
like duurh.