):

Hahaha, was emoing away yesterday, and slept at 10.
Heee, but I think it sorta helped.
Better to study more today while my mind can concentrate, rather than yesterday, trying to cram when my heart's not even in it.



Was talking to alloy just now, and it was rather nice. :D
He might not have meant it.. He actually said I was d__. -.-
But it was still heart warming.
Nice to crap with him sometimes. xD



Won't sign in to msn today, coz I know that doing so might just make me sad again.


Positive thinking gogogo! (:

Depressed

I know full well that I should study.
I DO.
But I just feel like going to sleep now and sabotaging it.
What's the point of trying to stuff all these information into my head, when its already preoccupied with so many thoughts?
What use is there in writing all these notes, if I'm just gonna be copying blindly?


Somehow, its affecting me more than I thought.
Much more.
Am I not able to let go?
I guess everything just accumulates.




There are two options.
Just go and sleep, at least it will end my misery.
Tomorrow will be a bright new day.
Or drown myself in studies, maybe the only way to go is force.

I have never been this unmotivated to study for an exam before.
It is scaring me.

Moments '08

Oh yes, before I forget.

All the best to BBSS Concert Band for Moments '08!!! :D




Really wish I could be there, instead of fretting over exams here. ):

Macbeth Incursion

Just a quick post before I'm off to the wonderful land of studying.

Macbeth Incursion today.
There were only two people performing but it was nice!
Rather interesting to see it being acted out the way it is supposed to be.
Somehow, listening to the play was so much more comprehensive than reading it.
When we read it, we couldn't really imgaine the actors actually saying it out loud, since everything is in Shakespearean language, so it was rather monotonous.
I never actually imagined them shouting at each other!
And I never knew Lady Macbeth was so fierce.
That's more like it.
Instead of the one in the movie, where she was just kind of floating around, not really showing much expression.
Hehehehe.

The only thing was that they only acted out three major scenes.
But it was still goooooood. :D




Can't believe there's only two days left to exams!!!
OMG.
I shouldn't even be sitting anywhere near the computer.
But too bad, the computer's on the same table I study.
Lol.

Okay, time to go.
See you in mugging land. (:

Memories

The rush of emotions.


Each cutting deeper than the first.

I miss. I miss all those times we had. There's no way I can turn back time.
I'd do anything to have a chance to play,to play with you guys again.
But somehow, this has made it trivial.
Everything that we once experienced together is now nothing but a dstant memory.
I am just someone you once knew who moved far away.
I didn't even get a chance to be a graduated senior who visits, who comes back to play as alumni.
Not once.

A day in history

Today is a very important day.


Today marks one year since I took my last ever Chinese paper.
Exactly one year ago, I ceased to study Chinese.

Can't believe its been a whole year.

So much for having studied Chinese for 12 years.
Not that it was that great to begin with, but I think now, my level of Chinese has deteoriated to that of a primary school kid.
Maybe worse.
Sad.



From today onwards, I shall always use the English language properly.
That is, I shall use the capital letter when it is appropriate.
Though I don't think I can give up on the lahs and lehs.
It is too deeply ingrained in me.

Mrs Chan once said,
"When you take out the "H" in Habit, you still have Abit.
When you take ouy the "A" in Abit, you still have Bit.
When you take out the "B" in Bit, you still have IT."


Conclusion: Habits are hard to get rid of.

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

i donated 1000 grains of rice! :D



cheryl insisted that i should change the skin.
so i just found some random skin to make do with for now.
this is so plain that nothing can be any more plainer than this.
but with exams looming, i don't think i should be taking up the time hunting for a nice skin.


school is as boring as it can be.
revision sheets one after another.
still don't really understand what we're supposed to be doing for english persuasive.
msA still not making any sense, apparently, she has finished teaching chapters 11 and 12.
somehow, i don't seem to remember her explaining about the different reactions alkanes, alkenes and alkynes go through. neither do i remember her teaching about isomers. nor how to name hydrocarbons.
i can't name which part of chapter 12 she hasn't taught, because i don't even know what we're supposed to learn from chapter 12.



can't wait for 10th june. ):

just got a card from cheryl today! :D
lynn is happy.
THANK YOU CHERYL!!


and my aunty has also collected the cert and testimonial and yearbook from bbss.
hee, apparently, she says its very heavy and the cert is very high class coz it comes in a very grand clear folder?
(:

chem prac today.
supposed to make a rubber ball out of milk and vinegar.
and we failed.
not exactly fail, but it kept falling apart so i gave up and threw it away.
and for the theory part of the lesson, me and sheryl amused ourselves by trying to write in chinese with our left hands.
msA was going on about how to name hydrocarbons and it was so... pissing off la.
i wanted to strangle her.
she expects us to learn and practice how to name them when she's not even teaching us how to, nor is she giving us any examples.
she just gave us some random sheets and expect us to learn it without any explanation.
hello? we are not super kids.

and she named C2H5OH ethyl alcohol.
-.-
isn't is supposed to be ethanol??
naming it ethyl alcohol is like naming C2H6 ethyl alkane.
I WANT A NEW TEACHER. )':

taking a break from studying.

as much as i don't really like to sit still for hours and study, its kinda fufilling really.
yesterday i did the english practice essay on macbeth, and after i finished it, i feel so accomplished looking at the huge mass of words that i had written.
hehe.


went for a gathering thing today.
and i came back traumatised.
LOL.
practically everyone there were doctors.
and their children were equally pro.
there was one from Melbourne High, one 13 year old who was already in year 9, one who was studying medicine in uni, and a few, i think, who were in accerlerated programs.
and some other random people i didn't bother finding out about.
coz it might just make me faint there, thinking about all the super-brains that were present.



ooh tomorrow will be the olevel mother tongue paper!
all the best to all taking it! :D
heeee.
makes me think fondly of this time last year when i took my last chinese paper ever.
i was seriously freaked.
first time ever that i broke out in cold sweat just before an exam. lol.



okay time to hit the books again.
got to study for probability test.
cheers. (:

yes i succumbed to the temptation.
just couldn't stand it. xD
but i'm not using the one in my room.
so its okay. hehe.

but at least i lasted... half a day at home without turning it on?
wahahaha.
that's so not an acomplishment.
i used to be able to survive without using the com AT ALL.
think now, if i can't use the com for a week, i'll just wilt and die.
hahahahaha.


oh and its always nice to see so many tags!
:D
heee tyty!

just read the news.
apparently, the junta is finally letting all aid workers in.
yeah right.
who believe lor.
obviously, there must be some loophole around it.


it seems as if there's always a big hoo-ha about events in burma and everything, and in the end, what happens?
classic example, the "Saffron" revolution last year.
suddenly, there were thousand of monks marching on the streets and suddenly, it was big news.
it seemed as if something was finally going to happen.
but did it?
so yes, they shot them all down, and all the monks kinda just disappeared and the UN sent someone to talk, to negotiate with them and what happened?
not saying that they didn't try, but did anything happen?
no.
in the end, everything just sort of died down and nothing changed.
now again, the cyclone.
when it first happened, it was headline news.
many people rushed to donate and help seemed to pour in.
but what happened?
its already been 3 weeks, even IF they let all aid workers in and help finally reaches all the people in the delta, really, there would already have been initial suvivors of the cyclone itself, who have died.
from starvation. from diseases.



this time.
will the change that we have been waiting for for 40 years finally happen?



thank you all for donating to help.
cheryl even went for a flag day thing (?) to help raise funds.
really, thanks.

maybe, just maybe, help will finally arrive.

got back aquarium report today.

:DD


i'm sick of only posting about school stuffs.
so i shall not post anymore until exams are over.
its time to ban myself from the com until then.
they're just a week away!


and i shall not come online anymore.






okay we all know that won't happen.
i mean, the com is on the same table where i study.
and whenever i sit down to study, i always tell myself i shall not turn on the computer, i shall not turn on the computer.
but my hands get itchy and give in anyway.

its nicer to gaze at a lit computer screen than a black one. hee :D

rat disection wasn't really that interesting.
i mean, basically, we kinda just cut up the body and ooh-ed and ahh-ed at the liver and the heart and the lungs and the stomach and the large intestine and the kidneys and after that just threw it away.

its might also have been because i had sort of an over-imaginative mind and i had imagined blood spurting out and stuff.
but turned out that since it was dead, there was no blood pressure so there was no fountain of blood.
or any blood for that matter.
like you know how when we accidently cut ourselves the blood will seep out and flow non-stop?
that did not happen.
at all.

funnily, this prac seemed.. normal.
and not as hectic as other pracs that we have done before.
maybe its just because the rat was frozen, so it felt more like we're just cutting some ice block.
hahaha.
it wasn't as if we had to catch a rat that was running around the whole lab and kill it and cut it open.

the only thing was that the smell was apparently not very nice.
heh heh. i just caught the flu so my nose is like, blocked so i didn't really smell anything.
:D


anyway, so got back the mga test today.
one of the rare times i take a test and get it back the next day.
got the goat question right!
:D



oh yes.
apparently, as alloy so excitedly told me yesterday, today is trombone junior's birthday.
since he only joined the section this year, i don't know him, and he doesn't know me.
but whatever.

happy birthday (:



hahaha.
okay that was so lame.

mga test today was... challenging.
been a long time since and it was kinda... nice.
okay i sound like some mad and sadist person who actually likes difficult tests but.. its nice to have such tests once in a while. :D
the basic part was okay, but it was the last two analysis questions that caused so much problems.
i mean, there was this stupid question about some goat tied to something and we're supposed to calculate the area that the goat can move.
i actually sat there for ages thinking about how far the goat can actually move before it gets restrained by the rope.
-.-
as it turned out, when we came out of the room, mailinh, irene and i were talking about it and we realised that we all worked it out the same way, but all got different answers.
LOL.
well, now will be the time where we wait for our results in anticipation.


finally completed the last scene of Macbeth today.
and finished watching the whole movie too.
HAHAHAHA.
of course, the movie had its nice parts here and there, but the climax of the whole movie, the part where Macduff leads this whole battalion of people to fight Macbeth was kinda screwed up.
i mean, the whole movie lead up to this moment and in the end, it was kinda like an anti-climax.
i would have expected them to charge up to the castle and invade it or something .
but in the end, they just literally strode up to the castle and opened the doors and walked in.
???
it was supposed to be an invasion but it actually looked more like Macduff had been invited over for tea at the castle.
felt that Macbeth's sword fight with Macduff looked pretty staged.
and what's with the all the 10000 soldiers who just stood around doing nothing.
they didn't even do anything at all.
not when Macbeth was fighting Young Siward.
not when Macbeth and Macduff were in that sword fight.
i can't believe they actually showed so closely how Macduff really cut off Macbeth's head.
that was rather freaky.



can't wait for tomorrow's bio prac and monday's chem prac.
it seems as if my classes are always the last to do all the pracs?

OMG we will be disecting rats on thursday!!!


it sounds so... interesting, but i think i will freak out.

i have never exactly disected anything before.
because bbss only gave us one tiny chicken heart to cut up in that whole two years.
stingy. ):

to make up for my lack of studying for the last two days, today, i shall frantically try to complete 58 review questions for bio and cram 4 chapters of chemistry by tonight be a good girl and study.



it rained the whole day yesterday.
the kind of rain which stops and starts a million times.
not that i don't like rain.
rain is nice.
but it creates alot of problems for us when we are trying to hang our clothes dry.

imagine this scenario.
it is nice and windy, so we go out to hang our clothes dry.
even before half the water in the clothes have evaporated, it starts to drizzle.
so we take them back into the house.
barely two seconds later, the sun comes out.
so we go out and hang again.
and the story goes on.



hello sky. can you decide whether you want to rain or shine?

i am sad to say i failed miserably.
did not exactly do much today.
which is a sad sad thing because i actually had the whole day off.


heard that we are finally finally allowed to collect our testimonials and olevel cert and....... YEARBOOK!
omg have been waiting to look at it since ages ago.
the rest of the students' books have probably already either rotted at home, or collected a mountain of dust, but here we are, the grad students, only JUST getting them.
wow great efficiency man.



but i'm happily waiting for my olevel cert. (:
its my first internationally recognised cert la.
PSLE cert was.. useless actually.

MSN conversation i had with cheryl yesterday.
lol. we are both lame.
though i have no idea why we were talking in third person.
cheryl is green, lynn is purple. (:

"YAY
lynn WINS
YAY
throws confetti around
throws a pillow at your head.
how can you injure an innocent person
):
the pillow is SPIKED.
spiked with spikes
lynn flops.
KO
cheryl wins.

cheryl won by underhand methods
cheryl is disqualified
lynn wins!
lynn's KO-ed
continues throwing confetti
lynn is so not KO-ed
lynn throws eggs at cheryl
and tomatoes
CHERYL IS BLINDED BY THE EGGS AND TOMATO
YAY
lynn wins

cheryl flops.
lynn decides to be nice
lynn is charged with MANSLAUGHTER.
and sends cheryl to hospital
sentenced to 10 lifetimes in jail.
that's not manslaughter lor
lynn wins appeal
lynn is free
cheryl is sent to jail for slander
and destroying lynn's name
cheryl is stuck in jail.
LOL

cheryl takes a teddy bear and pretends it to be lynn. and pokes the bear.
*poke*
teddy bear bites cheryl's finger off
cheryl bites off the teddy's head.
tears it off
teddy and cheryl eats each other
scientifically speaking, how can we eat each other?
ahhh i thought you wouldn't realise that
cheryl is a genius.
teddy continues to eat cheryl
teddy wins
cheryl loses
overall, lynn wins

teddy was PRETENDED to be lynn. it doesnt count!!!
REFEREE KAYU!!!
*beep*
red card
referee sent off
cheryl kicked out of game
for bringing in third party
lynn wins
xD
lynn wins THE CRAZY PEOPLE GAME. therefore, lynn shall be known as THE CRAZIEST OF THE CRAZIES."

this, therefore, is the reason for her proudly announcing on my tagboard ALL HAIL LYNN, CRAZIEST OF THE CRAZIES.



curriculum day today.
another day off.
i'm gonna do my work today.
yes i will.
i won't spend my time pretending that exams are a month away.

was just talking with yc on msn.
and she sent me some of the work that she is doing in school.
looking at those powerpoints and worksheets that she is actually doing make me feel like i am so stupid.
suddenly, i feel like i have not achieved anything at all.
all these tests that i am taking in school are not really a fair test of what i have actually learnt this year.
i feel so guilty.
whatever grades that i have been getting, they are not an actual representation of how much i have studied or how much knowledge i have gained this year.
i don't deserve them.

bio test tomorrow again.
story of my life.


this morning, we were talking about natural disasters.
and i remembered that time last year when there were tremors while we were taking our prelim papers.
the one where they herded the rest of the school to the field-to safety-in case the building actually collapsed, but left us in the hall.

excerpt:
"i really felt the tremors.
i was doing the paper then suddenly felt my chair was shaking.
i looked around that nobody was responding so i thought maybe i'd imagined it or something.
then later there was this annoucement thing, although from the hall, it cannot be heard clearly.
so when i heard ppl screaming i was like what happened?!
did they dismiss everyone?

the school very good lor.
evacuate the rest of the students and leave us inside.
the school so old.
what if the building had collapsed?
everyone in the hall would have died."

somehow, it seems so long ago.
those times in bbss seem like a distant memory.


apparently, there is another cyclone brewing in the Bay of Bangal, and it looks as if its heading towards Burma.
oh no.
nothing is even done about that first one yet.
and there's another one coming.
):

natural disasters are scary.
the irresponsibility of the government just makes everything worse tenfold.


i just dug out my history text from last year.
and found a card from youngmin.
which, unfortunately, i had forgotten about until now.
sorry ym!
though i have no idea how a card that she gave me on prom night ended up in my history textbook, together with the invitation card for melissa's birthday, which i also found in the textbook.
lol.


from today onwards, i will officially be walking home from school everyday.
great exercise of 45 minutes a day awaits me.
how exciting.

didn't exactly study much last night.
but in the end, i don't think it would have helped if i studied anyway, because it was those kind of tests where you have to think and apply what you know.
not so much of memorising and vomiting everything back onto the paper.

anyway, so instead i watched a dvd last night.
it was called Shawshank Redemption.
actually, before yesterday, i had never heard of it before in my life.
its about this guy who was sent to jail for having apparently murdered his wife.
but actually, he was innocent, and had been framed.
the sad thing is, he only found out after about 20 years of staying in the prison.
and what's more, even when he could prove that he was innocent, the prison warden refused to let him have another trial.
so in the end, he escaped!
it was so cool la.
for that whole 20 years that he had been there, he had been slowly chipping away the rock from the wall, forming sort of a tunnel for him to escape from.

when there's a will, there's a way!
:D


and AND is it true that when a judge sentences a person to two life sentences, it actually means 40 years??
i didn't know!!
that guy was sentenced to two life sentences.
and i was thinking like, how can he possibly serve two lifetimes in jail??
and my dad laughed at me and said a life sentence means 20 years.
irene!! is it true?! (:

saw some photos in sm's blog.
):


i miss you all. so much.











i've now lost whatever tiny shred of motivation i had left in me to study for the test.
just leave me here to wallow in the sadness of life.

happy birthday richalynn! (:
though i don't think you'll see this, but anyway.
its the thought that counts! LOL. :D


i really should start studying for bio test tomorrow, but i hate that chapter so much.
its about the transport system in plants.
for some reason, i hated that chapter for Os, and now its still my most hated chapter for VCE (at least up till now).
its just.... boring. ):

anyway, so i was at the library during lunch, and Fredrick was sitting somewhere nearby,
and he just suddenly asked me "hey you are in my english class right? what's your name?"
i'm like, huh?
so i replied, and he continued, "where are you from?"
actually, normally when people ask me that, i say the whole story about how i'm from burma, but lived in singapore for 16 years but i just told him singapore anyway.
and he was like, oh i thought you're from jamaica.
jamaica???!
where did that come from??
first msK think i'm indian. and now he tells me he thought i'm jamaican.
HAHAHAHA.
this is so weird.


i find it so weird that no matter what topic we do in school, 80% of the time, the teachers will say "you should know. you have already done it before in year 7/8/9/10."
if we are already supposed to have learnt it, why on earth are we learning it again??
we even breezed through the whole chapter 8 for mga without him teaching at all, coz apparently, we have learnt it before.
if that's the case, why are they making us do everything again?

i actually dreamt that i took physics and was taught by Mr Quek.
omg.
and i got shouted at by him, which was pretty scary.

so the story went like this.
it was my first physics lesson.
and some random people and i were absent for it.
no, more like, we told him that we wanted to go toilet or something at the beginning of the lesson, then just never returned to class.
so when we finally returned, we were all so afraid to go back to class for fear of being shouted at.
in the end he came out and screamed at us.
its was so scary that i could remember the absolute "fright" that my dream-self felt the moment he appeared.
LOL.
is this considered a nightmare??
HAHAHA.
actually its kinda hilarious that i can actually deam something so stupid.

i don't really like this skin, but this will make do for now.
i got so sick of that random person's face.
it was like, smiling at me the whole time.

i passed out during methods test.





okay so i didn't.
but i freaked out anyway.
the moment i looked at the paper, i kinda blanked and couldn't process the information at all.
what makes it worse is that most of the paper, we are supposed to be finding the equations from all the information given.
and blanking out on these kind of questions is not exactly very helpful.

chem was hilarious today.
she was in a bad mood again.
and she was trying to fix a date for the test.
lol.
my class, for some reason, insisted on it being friday.
i was wondering why at first.
but realised that there was an obvious motive behind it.
there's no school on friday.
dots la.
she's gonna realise sooner or later anyway.

finally got back health outcomes today.
though it doesn't make a difference because it is not marked!
that paper that i handed in came back to me exactly the same, just that there was this tiny little paper attached to it with stating our grade, and some feedback about how we did.
like, oh i need to explain more for question 3.
??
i would rather it to be literally marked, with red ink all over it, then seeing it blank.
if its not marked, how do we know which parts are the one we lost marks in?

and she still insists on spelling my name LYNNE.
hello.
my name is LYNN. :D

happy birthday zihui!!! :D
yay my card reached in time.
heee.

suddenly i want to send letters to so many people.
but no money. ):


i just realised that chapter 11 for chem is ORGANIC CHEM.
OMG.
i hate organic chem.
i think i've forgotten half the things i learnt like mad last year.

haha yesterday saw youngmin online, and at first she told me that she "is going to Queenstown"
obviously, my first thought was that she was telling me that she is going to the Queenstown in Singapore.
then i was like huh? tell me for what?
HAHAHA.
then in the end she said it was the Queenstown in Australia!
and she said its somewhere below melbourne.
made me so happy for awhile, then found out that the Queenstown she meant was the one in Tasmania.

happy birthday agnes! (:


hee. okay so i finally realised the problem.
the thing is that i do not feel any urgency to do any homework until (most of the time) the night/day before it is due.
thus the frantic completing of the work at the very last minute.
i should really start doing the right thing, and do the homework on the day it is set.

found vv's photo on the school website.
nice shot la! xD
of course i won't post it up here, otherwise she might murder me.

anyway, so we got the exam timetables today.
compared to the really complicated timetables that we used to get in sec sch, where there's paper 1s and paper 2s, this is kinda simpler to read.
coz every subject is all the same, 1.5 hours long.
and the thing is, on the first day, they put CHEMISTRY to be the first paper, then two hours later, ENGLISH.
at first glance, i thought i would have to stone there for two hours simply waiting and doing nothing, when i remembered that i can study macbeth during that time.
though from experience, i think that last-minute-sorta-cramming doesn't really work.
but i think its kinda evil to have methods and MGA on the same day. ):
bio's the last paper, so i have like, 4 days to study bio and bio alone.

how great.

does anyone know that a very deadly cyclone tore through Burma on saturday?


most people don't even know Burma exsist.


now the whole city is in a wreck.
looking at the pictures of the state it is in is devastating.

i am pissed.

i am pissed at hypocrites.
i can't believe how someone can tell you that they hate someone else for doing whatever thing and act so pissed, and in the end, you find out that they did exactly the thing that they hate behind your back.
what the hell la.

i am pissed at bony fishes.
why doesn't its gas exchange mechanism have any disadvantages??!!
or is it just my inability to find the infomation that i need from the internet?
how hard can it be?
and i actually spent the whole day researching on bony fishes.
when i have a truckload of other work to do.

which leads me to my next point.
i am pissed at myself.
why did i have to procrastinate and let all the work accumulate and snowball until it seems as if everything is due tomorrow and nothing is done.

the internet connection had been unusually nice to me the whole day but just when i decide to post something, it dies on me - this is the second time i am typing this post. ):
now it is irritatingly connecting and disconnecting repeatedly.
making me unable to sign in to msn.
coz i will be even more irritating if i sign in and out a million times.

had sort of a weird dream last night
dreamt that i went back to singapore and met jy, yc, zh and dy.
those are the only details that i vividly remember.
then i can't remember what else happened.
lol.
so many people are going back to their countries this year!
tienyi and shireen are going back to malaysia in june, and irene, rachel and yih rue going back to singapore at the end of the year.
maybe i should get them to buy me all sorts of things.
heh heh. xD

HAHAHA.
now blogger says we can "pre-post".
like, i can type out a whole post that i want to "post" say, a week later.
then i can schedule it to automatically appear at that specific time and date that i have set it to appear.
appareantly, its for people with situations like they are going for a vacation and they won't be able to post anything for that period of time.
so this very clever idea of "pre-posts" allows them to type posts ahead of time and schedule,thus ensuring them an enjoyable holiday, without having to worry about not posting anything on their blogs during that time.
that's kinda stupid la.
and hilarious too.

okay the connection's getting worse.
even for that few minutes that it stays connected, its excruciatingly slow.
argh.

omg it hailed today!!!
heee.
though i didn't get to see the actual hailing.
we were having health lesson in the library then suddenly. there was this really loud sound of rain hitting on the roof.
well we thought it was rain but when we left the library after the lesson, we saw that there were alot of white little pebbles on the floor.
and we realised that actually it had hailed!!
lol i sound like some suaku.
but anyway, so sad that i didn't get to see it la!
i wanted to see the ice dropping from the sky. (:

on a very random note: i love the C6 classroom la!
we had our lesson there for the first time on tuesday.
its the most student-friendly classroom i've ever been in! hee. xD

just watched finish The Biggest Loser finale. :D
i must be one of the only people on earth to watch it, but it was not bad.
inspirational? (:

yesterday winnie found out that i can speak and understand and write chinese and was so amazed.
its just kinda amusing to see everyone's shock when they find out.
lol.

i feel so guilty.
exams are like in 4 weeks and i haven't exactly done much. ):
and i found out today that we are expected to finish the whole macbeth book for the midyears.
that's so depressing la.
i mean, last time, we did for like, 2 years.
now they want to finish the whole book in 2 months.
what's the whole point of doing it then?
):

this must be one of the most obscure and random post ever.
i'm sick of posting.
there's nothing to blog about anyway. ):