Chillllldddrrrreeeeennnn'ssss Daaaaayyyy!

  Hello! :D I think I sounded crazy when I entered the title, but I just remembered and I'm sooooo happppyyyy because there's nooooo schoool tomorrow and I'm so happy because I get to wake up late :D

  So today was the Children's Day celebration in our Primary school, and I really loved today because all we have as homework is one Maths paper (which I admit now makes me kind of sad now :( ) but I'm not doing it today because really, who does a Maths paper on pre-Children's Day???

  Well, maybe some go-getter people would, and I respect that, but at least not anyone of my type - the homework-not-so-lovers - would do that.

  Anyway, back to the topic.

  So today, our teachers gave us our  gifts, and I really liked everything that they gave us; even though I was exempted, the Chinese teacher of the class that I stayed in during MT gave me a pen and a mini wafer! My form teacher gave us these awesome pencilcases - they came in around 7 different patterns, so not everyone's ones were the same - and nice pens and chocolates inside them, and my Maths and Science teacher gave us these really cute pencils with erasers on top, along with files that were equally, if not more, cute than the pencils. 

  So I guess I can safely say that my Children's Day was awesome. :)

  This post is going to be kind of short, but I really want to finish the plot and character development for my new story... Which I think I might be able to finish, because this time I'm fully writing out the plot and then doing chapter planning, so I'll know what to write for each chapter and I won't run out of ideas. Anyway, if I have the dreaded writers' block, I won't have to worry because I'm not going to put the story out in Wattpad or something until the whole book is finished. Then I'll upload chapter after chapter in intervals, and edit them if I have to. See, I just revealed my plan to you. :P Hey, maybe I'll post an attachment of my story here once - if - it's done, but my stories are like... So long that even my teachers want to freak out when they read my compositions. I hate my compos too because I have to labour hard and long by re-writing my story in green ink for corrections, but although I hate it, I just can't help but write superlong stories. Meh. I'm weird.

  So... Hey, this post wasn't that short after all. I guess I'll be going now, so that this doesn't get any longer. :3 See ya!

~ Kirsten

 

Saturday! :)

  Hey everyone! :) It's Saturday once again, so I can finally use the computer... And guess what? We're going biking later on! Ever since... I don't know, maybe a month ago? Anyway, ever since... then... My family and me has been crazy about biking. Well, maybe it's only me, but I dunno. My dad seems to love it too. :)

  Sooooo... How are you all? I haven't been doing much, just slouching away in my chair. But I really feel sad now because Taylor Swift is receiving so much hate because she dumped Harry Styles. To be honest, I was pretty much sitting on the fence because I like both One Direction and Taylor Swift (cue for the boys to make disgusted faces at the former) but when I read this e-book on Wattpad and the Wattpadders (that's what the Wattpad users are called) used very colourful language to describe Taylor, I felt really sad. Maybe I'm missing out on something, and yes, she has done some things that are wrong, but don't we all make mistakes? I mean, she's one of the only celebrities who hasn't had a scandal, and she's been in the industry for eight years... Yeah, she's had her ups and downs in her life, but she's extremely sweet and polite, and she's a wonderful person. You can go on and rant about her mistakes, but just remember that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones; and we're all living in glass houses - you, me, and everyone else, because no one is perfect, except for God. So don't throw stones at people, okay? And if you have done it in the past, please try to gather the courage and swallow your pride enough to apologise to the people who you've put down. 

  Hmm... That's one long chapter. And I'm sorry, but... Is it okay if I move on to another topic?

  Meh. I can't listen to your answers, and being the blabbermouth that I am, I want to talk more anyway. :P

  I think you all know by now, but my brother is going to be a teenager soon, and he needs to choose a Secondary school to go to. He hasn't decided yet and I think he's going to just go with the flow and choose a school when he needs to cross that bridge, but I've already decided what schools I want to go to. Honestly, I only have one... The Singapore school of Science and Technology(SST). I'm not a technology whiz, and I'm not a Science genius either, but I really love Science and nature and I love finding out how things work, so that's my first choice school. Plus, it's a really awesome school... But I'm worried about some things. For one, my Science marks haven't been perfect (they never were) and I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of Science-loving people out there, so I might not be able to get shortlisted to enter the school. See, the only way to get into the school is by DSA (Direct School Admission) where we submit our "resume" to the school, go for a face-to-face interview and take a General Ability test to see if we're fit to enter the school of our choice. Although I love talking on the Internet, I'm not so much of a social butterfly in the real world, and I tend to stutter a lot when a lot of pressure is put on me, so the interview segment might be a problem. Gah... I have to talk a lot more now. :/ 

  My second worry is about what I'll do if I'm not shortlisted. I'm not trying to be negative, but I've been brought up to hope for the best but to prepare for the worst. I think I'm slightly OCD in the fact that I have to be ready for anything, even if it's nonsensical. Let me give you a recent example... I was tidying up the study room the other day, and I had taped an unused compact mirror whatchamacallit and an isolated clay cover together to make a little wall to separate the markers and the pens in my family's stationery organizer. In the end, I didn't have to use the second-hand wall because my aunt found a small piece of cardboard that fit exactly into the organizer. After that, I had to put the little wall somewhere because I didn't need it anymore, but just when I was going to put it down in it's taped state, something occurred to me: what if Medusa came and I needed to use a mirror to make her turn into stone? Then this mirror would be taped up and I wouldn't have time to un-tape it and show her her own reflection, and it would be me who turned into stone. So I quickly took the wall back and took the tape off, and the mirror and clay cover remain separated to this day. (Dramatic ending)

  So yeah, I'm pretty weird in a lot of ways.

  Ohhhh nooo... This post is superlong. I'll end it now, before I make it a whole novella. See ya next time! :)

  - Kirsten :D

Adios, Amigos... :( (And Amigas)

  Hello... :( I'm sad today because it's going to be Monday tomorrow, and although there's no school, it's a weekday, so... I won't be able to blog anymore. :'( But I'll still have access to music, and I can wake up two hours later than I usually do, so... Still yay for me. :)

  Random news: my mom's baking CHEESECAKE! :D My whole family loves cheesecake, and to us, our mother makes da best cheesecake in the world. It'll take around 5 hours to be ready, though, and since it's 17 minutes to eleven o'clock now, we'll only be able to eat the delicious cake tomorrow. Ah well - it's delayed gratification, and the cake is well worth the wait. You're awesome, mom! :D

  See ya next time... If I'm done with all my stuff on Saturday, I'll try to blog and blabber again. Adios, amigos! :D (And amigas) (I don't know why I keep saying that) (And I don't know why I keep speaking like Dora even though I'm not Spanish) (And I'm not French either) (I should just shut my mouth now)

  Haiz. Bye!

  ~ Kirsten :)

September Holidays! :D (And others)

  Heya everyone! :) How are you? So... I finally got my exam results, and I guess I'm happy with them, and although my English needs improvement, I've resolved to be happy with my results, because I know that I've put in my best effort to make those results appear on that sheet of paper, and that I should try to reward myself for once instead of being Kirsten "Negative" Negapatan like I always am. 

  Guess what? I cut my hair again... X( / X) / XD I don't know whether people will stare when I get to school, but I definitely look like I'm 9 years old or something. I'll post a photo here:

Mini Cleopatra (Without the Egyptian history)

  See?!?!?! I look... Funny. *Agalegaga. Nevermind... I always look funny, anyway, so I guess this ain't anything different. But unless there's someone else in the picture, I never look at the camera, mind you. It's a little camera-shy thing of mine.

  Yaaayyyyy! :D The September Holidays are starting again! :) I've never been so happy for a one-week break in my life. I think. But anyway, the reason why I'm so filled with joy at the prospect of the short break is because, recently, my mom's come up with a schedule which binds us to study for a minimum of one hour every day. On days that I don't have after-school activities, I study for 3 hours, but I suppose that's the maximum number of hours that I can spend studying in a day. Yay, and no yay.

  But for the September Holidays, all I have to do is study from 2.00pm to 3.30pm, and the rest of the day is free. Add in the fact that I get to wake up at 8.00am instead of the usual dreaded time of 6.00am, and I'm already leaping for joy. 

  On another topic, who are your favourite artists? As in music artists, not art artists. But if you think about it, music is a kind of art too... But nevermind. My favourite female singer is Taylor Swift, and my favourite male singer isssss....... Ed Sheeran. :) I think that almost all of my female classmates like Miss Swift as well - there's Rachael and her best friends, me, all of my best friends... I guess Taylor has a lot of fans from Singapore, then.

  So... I guess I've run out of things to babble about. I still think that I've lost my flair for writing, but I guess I'll just keep trying to write and trying to clear up my writer's block. To be honest, I'm not sure when it's going to go away - it's been here for the whole of this year already. :(

  Sayonara, everyone, and if you're in Singapore, have an awesome September Holiday!

  ~ Kirsten :D

(P.S. In case you're wondering, "Agalegaga" is something that I say when I feel crazy... And Rachael's blog has this URL : Rachael's Precious Moments -> (preciousrachael.blogspot.com) )

Science Exam tomorrow! :( / :)

  Hey everyone! :D Right now I don't know whether to be happy or sad, because the Science exams are coming soon. On one hand, I love Science - it's my favourite subject - so I'm kind of looking forward to seeing the new challenges that the examination setters have in line for us (note: kind of), but on the other hand, I'm pretty nerveux because Science exams are generally unpredictable and I don't know what to expect. :( And... Well, in the study tips that my teachers gave us around one week prior to today, they told us to at least score 5 marks more than what we had scored for the last exam in SA1 (Semestral Assessment 1) and that's going to be haaaaarrrrdddd. :( 

  I'm sorry for not posting for a long time again. I know that I've promised more posts a lot of times, and that I've never been able to fulfill those promises, so... I'm sorry. :( I don't think I'll be able to post much at any time, but if you have some free time, maybe you could look at Rachael's blog...? I'll just ask her first. It's her blog, after all, and I don't have the right to do anything with her stuff unless she allows me to do it.

  UAJdhlkehr. :( I think I've lost my flair for writing... So I guess I'll go now. I've got some Science exams to study for. :)

  Au revoir, and a bientot! 

    Kirsten

 (P.S. I'm practicing my French... If you can't understand it, here are the definitions of all of the French words that I've used here along with some more that I can remember. #BadMemory :P)

  Au revoir -> Goodbye!

  A bientot -> See you soon!

  Nerveux -> Nervous

  En avoir marre -> Fed up

  Bon nuit -> Good evening!

  Salut -> Hello!

  

Exams "R" OVER!

  Hello, everyone! I'm so happy today because... Well, the exams are finally over! My Science exam passed today, and I think I might be able to hope for at least an A (75+) for this exam. The exam was really hard, but my Science teacher, Mrs Chua, was a fantastic explainer and I remembered the concepts pretty well. Oh, and I'm sure that her comment about not letting anyone who didn't highlight their work into the class scared everyone well enough to make people scramble for highlighters. :)

  So... Well, now I think I can blog everyday, and I'd like that very much because I think I'll be able to look back on all my blogs when I'm 18 and smile, saying proudly, "This is what I did during P3" and revisit all the old times and memories when life gets tough.

  Today, Trixie called to just have a fun little chat with me and I was really happy talking to her because Trixie is just about one of the best talkers and listeners in the world (other than my mom and my elder brother, of course) and she's a wonderful person to talk to. We just babbled on about trivial, random stuff like we hadn't a care in the world, but then Trixter had to go for her dinner and we said our farewells. Trixie promised to call later on though... I'm looking forward to it!

  It's finally Friday and I have the whole weekend to do my Art, Health Education and Social Studies homework... And frustratingly, all of them involve drawing and colouring and painting and watercolourpencilling (if there's such a word) and I have to admit that I am a bit lazy when it comes to art. When I get started on it, though... Let's just say that I do everything I can to make it unique and as different as I can, because that's my style (which is, simply put, Kirsten doing crazy stuff that people can laugh about because it's so silly). :)

  Yayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayay!!! I just can't stop feeling upbeat about the upcoming holidays. Last year, I didn't like the holidays as much as I do now because I absolutely loved school and I knew that I would miss lots of people there. This year, I still like school a lot and I will miss everyone who I know (except maybe T, J and A because I'll get to visit them over the hols) but I'm eager to get away from the more-stressful life of Primary 5. This year, we're learning about lots of different and very interesting topics like cells and the plant transport system, and many more, but my poor brain can't digest all of the information just yet. I'll try to catch up during the holidays, though. :)

  So... Yuppidoodledo, I have to go now to scavenge the other sites and get my art materials prepared to do all of my homework. I don't hate homework or anything - actually I suppose they're kind of good for the typical bored Singaporean youth - but it's just after the exams and my brain is still recuperating. But I have to hand in the posters anywayz... If I don't, I'm absolute dead meat. :(

  See ya!

  Sincerely,

Kirsten Clare

P.S. Tomorrow I'm going to visit the Old Folks' Home!!! I can't wait for it... I've never been to an old folks' home before, so this will be a really nice experience. I hope I can make some of the elderly there happy!

Science exam tomorrow!

  Hi everyone! There's a Science exam tomorrow, the last paper, and although I know from my previous results that this will be a problem, I'm oddly not nervous... And yesterday I was a total nervous wreck. Yep. :P So... Well, I've been prepping for this exam for the last three days, and although I know that I should have been preparing for this wayyy before now, I still feel more prepared than I was for my Mathematics paper.

  Tomorrow will contain the final-exam-is-the-hardest woes of the class and the cheers of joy when the paper is finished, but also another emotion, which is the nervousness and the anxiety that everyone will feel when my English teacher, Miss Lee, goes through the ENGLISH paper tomorrow. :( I really hope that I won't fail... Because now it's the SA1 time and I really can't afford to do badly this exam. But if I don't do well, I will know that I deserve it, because I don't think I spent barely enough time preparing for the exams.

  Well, at least I've learnt my lesson. I'm planning to study a lot during the June holidays and pick up two new languages, plus some other stuff... But I think that it will be a lot easier to accomplish then than now because I'll have much more free time. I'll be missing all my classmates a lot, though... So if any of my classmates or friends are reading this, I'll let you know that I'll miss you a lot for the June hols. And good luck for your Science paper! :)

I didn't finish my Maths paper...

  Hello, everyone... I'm just taking a quick break from my full-out study session for Science and I think that I've been motivated to finally study because, for reason number one, I wasn't able to complete my Mathematics paper today because I relied on the topics taught in school too much and didn't look for alternative solutions to the questions. And thus, I was stuck, and I lost 12 marks because I was not able to answer those questions.

  Because of this event, I'm determined to make up for my loss by doing my best in my Science exam and striving for an A*. I've just studied for 2 hours straight, so I'm just giving myself a short break before I study for another three hours with another break in the studying because of dinner and getting ready for bed. My Science exam is coming in three days, so I think I have just enough time to finish going through my two main topic textbooks and to read a bit of the all-topics-book that my mother bought for my elder brother last year. This year, it's mine, though, because now my brother has been promoted to a higher level and his taught topics are much more complex than the already difficult things we're learning now. Hang on there, big brother!

  Sincerely,

Kirsten Clare.

Found my hole-puncher!!! :)

  Heyo everyone!!! :) I'm so happy that I found my long-lost hole puncher... And I have no idea why. I guess it's because I can't file in my un-hole-punched stuff without it. Go figure.

  So... Yeah, I managed to recover my hole puncher, my stapler and my pair of scissors, and I've replaced my old set of highlighters with a new set of the three primary colours from a bookstore in SSC (Sembawang Shopping Centre). I don't know what it is about stationery, but I always feel prepared and... Well, ready, for the next day when I have a new pen or pencil set or eraser, and especially a new set of highlighters. I know I'm weird but... That's me! :)
  So now I have to go and take my nighttime shower. Tomorrow's the Mathematics exam... Yikes! Wish me luck!

  Sincerely,
Kirsten Clare

Portfolio Update

  Heyo everyone! I decided that I should have a portfolio update, just so that you'd know more about me, but I won't say too much, because... Well, I've been brought up to be wary of the internet, and I can't say that the advice isn't worth following, so I'll only tell you the tiniest bits of information.

Name: Kirsten Clare

Age: 11 years, 10 days

Birthday: 1st May 2002

Favourite Colour(s): Dark blue, white, green

Favourite Food(s): Fishball Noodle (soup), chicken rice

Hobbies: Reading, writing, daydreaming, rewriting the day's events into a story format when I have nothing else to do, thinking (a bit too much), blogging, procrastinating...

Likes: Wondering why things are the way they are, thinking about people, overthinking what I do, sitting on the couch in a comfortable position while I'm reading, making people happy, writing cards for special occasions with their favourite colours, eating snacks, listening to music, being cheerful, cute things, children...

Mildly dislikes: Swearing excessively, outrageous clothings/jewelleries, boastfulness, impatience, grumpiness, bursting out in a fit of rage, being too rude...

Wishes: That I could read minds, that I or someone else will find a way to get the ozone layer fixed and that someone will stop the burning of fossil fuels and the cars emitting too many dangerous pollutants and fumes, that everyone would be happy, that smokers would be able to quit smoking in the least hurtful or painful way possible or that drug addicts or cancer victims could be cured and made well again, that I would be able to visit poverty-struck villages and help them out, one by one, until the world was a bit of a better place to live in...

Best friends and very, very good friends (surnames will not be exposed): Akshaya, Jon, Trixie, Rachael, Vanessa, Ain, Chin Yi, Shruthi, Chuen Ling, Hazel, Snow, Samantha, Chloe, Kirsten (another Kirsten), Celest, Michelle, Jill, Lok Yan...

Favourite Teachers (Primary School): Mrs Lim, Mrs Thang, Wen Lao Shi (Chinese teacher for P2), Mrs Lee, Mdm Haryantie, Mr Wong, Mr Lim, Mrs Chua, Miss Lee, Miss H...

  So... Yup! That's my portfolio. Did I miss out anything? I hope not... And I really hope that you know me at least a bit better now! 

Sincerely,

Kirsten Clare :)

Saturday Blues

  Good day, everyone! Today is finally Saturday in warm Singapore, and I can't believe that it's still 3.45pm, especially since I've already been in and out of the house. Ah well... They do say that time flies when you're having fun, but today not everything has been all sunshine and butterflies. It all started as a normal day...

  Today, I woke up at 8.30am, and I had my breakfast and took my shower and went out of the house at 9.45am for my Catechism classes (they're religious classes for Catholics and Christians) which started at 10.45am. It seems pretty early to be heading out for something that's just a while away, but trust me, it takes a really long time for the bus to come once we're at the bus interchange. As a result of the bus's delayed appearance, we arrived at the church just 10 minutes before my classes started. 

  After my Catechism class, which ended at 11.45am, my brother, my father and I went back to the MRT station to visit Ang Mo Kio, where my mother worked. We stayed at the mall there for a while, trying to find a present that my brother would like, but being the gift-refusing kind of person that my brother is, our offers to buy him presents for his upcoming birthday were quickly turned down... And our moods were really dampened because my elder brother looked all gloomy. And that was the start of my Saturday Blues.

  When my parents decided that our time at the shopping mall was up, we headed back home, and I plonked myself in front of the computer as soon as I stashed my bag in the bags' corner and took out my waterbottle to make sure no traces of water would leak onto anything in that blue bag of mine. By then, my brother was in a really foul mood because I kept chattering to him on the way home about unimportant things like what I argued to my teacher about on Thursday (don't worry, it was just a friendly debate) and I think he got irritated, especially when I got bored and started singing "Three Blind Mice". I know because he looked at me with a Really, Kirsten? look when I ended my song, and he didn't look amused. At all. After that, I decided to shut my mouth, and when we had a bit of a petty argument over who should keep the umbrella and who should close the shoe cabinet's door, we were clearly not on speaking terms. And then I remembered that we were celebrating my brother's birthday today, and I silently took the green envelope that the card that I had written for him in it and I handed it to him. Then he read it and brought it to his room, and we haven't directly spoken since, although his voice became a tad bit less offensive after I gave him his card. So now, after this, we're going to hold a birthday party for my brother, and I hope that all the little kids will be happy with playing in the study room, because I'm pretty tired, although I will go and play with them once in a while. I'm not that anti-social... And besides, I've already met them before, so we're already friends.

  So... I guess I'll end the post now. I don't know if it's long or short, but I'm sorry if it's too long, and I'm equally sorry if it wasn't descriptive enough for you. 

  See ya next time!

Signing Off,

Kirsten Clare :)

Date Posted: 11th May 2013, 3.53pm (according to computer clock)

Vicious Exams

  Hello ev'ryone... I've just finished my hour-long revision on decimals and I just stopped by because I was fascinated by Rachael's awesome templates on her two new websites, one of which is called musicpleasetv.blogspot.com, and I decided that I wanted to change my blog template too. So now I chose a calming nature-like green... And by now I suppose that you might have noticed that I like nature a lot. It's so peaceful and calming... You can't even put a word against Mother Nature for sending hurricanes and cyclones and whatevernot to Earth, because nature does have to take its course, and we're the ones doing the damage to ourselves anyway.

  But the main reason why I wrote was to inform you of the stress-inducing exams which are storming my way, starting on the 13th of May (which is also my elder brother's birthday) with the English main paper and ending on Friday, 17th of May, with the Science paper. The Higher-Mother-Tongue pupils had their main papers today, and since I'm exempted, I got to sit in the corner seat with one of my other friends and watch the students do their papers. We even got sent to do some errands, which I admit was fun because otherwise we'd be cooped up in chairs for the whole 1 hour and 20 minutes of the paper. 

  So now it's my turn to suffer... Don't worry, I haven't been failing for my past practice papers, but I haven't been getting A*s, either. I don't want to push myself too hard, but I do want a bit of a challenge, so I think I'm going to go now and revise the leftover bits of my English file. And try to find that hole puncher which has mysteriously disappeared... Again. :P

  Cheerio, everyone... And have a great weekend! :)

 Sincerely, 

Kirsten Clare

(Founder of Kirsten's Blog)

Primary 5 is hard.....

  Heyo guys! Did you know that I'm eleven years old now? Well, I am, and if you're in Singapore, then you'll know that I'm in Primary 5. And what happens during Primary 5? That's right - we poor children get our sudden rush of hormones. :( That's really bad news for some people, and now P 5 is especially frustrating because of everything that the hormones are causing. 

  But I guess that maybe not everything that is stressing me out this year is caused by hormones.

  This year, it's the year before the Primary School Leaving Examination, which is, by my standards, the most important exam... At least for now. So the teachers are getting really stressed up about preparing us for this examination, and my brother is sitting for the examination this year, too! Not sure he feels the stress, though. :/ He's still as playful as ever... I'm not saying that he doesn't work hard - he really does - but sometimes I wonder how he can stand to be so relaxed when it's only three or four months to the first exam, which is the Oral test. He doesn't have any problem with oral either... But anyway, this year, the academics have become especially tough, and I'm getting lots of red X's on my papers. Since my brain, for some reason, has not yet registered that primary 5 is harder than P4, I'm feeling a bit depressed and I keep wondering why I get so many questions wrong. Posting here is actually a kind of way to de-stress myself, but then now that I think about it, I think that I de-stress way too much, because I read for hours (okay, maybe not really hours) on end and I do this and that and check my FB account and the yahoo news... And by the time I revise a bit and do all my homework, which by the way I always do before I do all of the de-stressing stuff, it's time for dinner. I suppose I can squeeze in an hour or two of listening to the teacher on Superstar Teacher, too, but that's mostly mundane and I feel like sleeping unless I actively participate in the lesson and do the questions along with the teacher. :(

  I know I sound like a really lazy person when I say that... But I guess that I kind of am. So to make up for that, I'm going to study now and I might not post until... Later. Anyway, I still have a bit of time to study before the exams, right?

  Oh, and the exams are starting in three days. :)

Signing off, 

Kirsten Clare

(Founder of Kirsten's Diary)

What happened to that comment?!?!?!

  Hey guys... I am absolutely puzzled. Today, when I visited the blog site, I saw that Rachael's comment on my most recent post had been "removed by the blog author". But I didn't do anything, I promise! Now I'm feeling a bit irritated because someone who's not the author of the blog removed Rachael's comment, and also because when I tried to remove one of my friend's other comments, and one that was hurtful this time, it said that the comment was "removed by a blog administrator". :( It's so confusing! Am I the author or the blog administrator??? I don't know... But if you see any comments removed by anyone, just assume that it was removed by someone who is not me and that I don't intend to delete any of your comments... And that I never will.

  Signing off,

Kirsten Clare.

Please ignore all the earlier posts...

Dear Readers,    

Hey again... I'm really embarrassed because I was just reading the posts that I had posted in the early days of my blogging, and they seem very insensitive, and I'm really sorry about how immature and... Very mean... They might seem. So I guess... Please just ignore all of the earlier posts that were from 2011. I wasn't as careful with my words as I think I am now, so my points are more bluntly put and they might have hurt some people. I don't think I can delete blog posts, so all I can say is that I'm so, so sorry about everything. I'll try my best to be more careful with what I say from now on... 

Sincerely Sorry,

Kirsten

Hamster's Gazette: Issue 2

The Hamsters' Gazette

Issue #2

Editor Missing From His Cage

    Hamsterville is absolutely devastated after a search for long-missing editor, Mr Winter Snow, does not end well. After a long and treacherous expedition to the human world, led by our most courageous hamsters, we have heard news of where he's gone, but it's not pleasant at all: Mr Winter Snow has gone missing.

    One of his owners, Miss Kirsten Clare, was speaking about him tearfully one night to her family members, and as we listened intently, we all heard about what had happened. 

    "It's so sad," she had said, in a barely audible whisper, "and I'll miss him. I know it's been a very, very long time since Wint's disappeared from his cage, but I'm still worrying about where he's gone. Now he's... Disappeared... And I've lost him, just as I've lost my two Sayfers. It's so sad..." She repeated.

    When Mr Winter Snow's closest friend, Miss Darkiette De Pauline, heard about this, she said that she was absolutely stumped by Mr Snow's disappearance, but she still had hope that perhaps her dear friend was still alive somewhere, perhaps in another town, thinking about all of the citizens in Hamsterville just as they were thinking about him.

Written by Mr Bernard Vacciete

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I'm back!

  Hey everyone! It's me again... And I'm really, really sorry for not posting for such a long time... Again. But now I'll add it to my list of "Homework", just so that I'll remember that I have something fun to do when things start to get boring.

  So how are you guys? I don't know if I know you very well, but I'm going to ask all the same. I think the last time I posted, it was about my lost Student Smartcard, and I'm still feeling really bad about that, although some of the guilt has washed away over time. Still determined not to lose the new one, though... But it's really a pity that I can't just look in my wallet and say, "Oh, look! That was me when I was in Primary 1.", because almost everyone's doing that this year. I suppose it's because of the hormones which are kicking in... Now all the boys want to see all the girls' photos and vice versa. And I so do not want to get caught in the middle of that.

  Okay. Let's slowly just move away from that topic, and...
 
  It's APRIL!!! :) You might be wondering why I'm so happy about that fact, but if you can remember, by birthday's happening right on the day when May comes to make her grand appearance and brings us all into her special month. So it's less than a month away, and one of the best things about it is that it's going to be a public holiday! Now everyone can sleep in and relax, and have time to de-stress themselves before they're launched back into the agonizing exam term. Notice how I said "back"? Well, the exams are coming up a bit earlier than usual for the students of our quaint little school, so that our year won't end a week late. That means that the exams are earlier... And the holidays are coming sooner than usual, too! It's finally going to be the June holidays... No school for one whole month. I know it's not as long as the three-month summer than the students in the United States have, but still, it's a break worth waiting for! Hmm... I can still remember when I nearly forgot how to sing the school song after a whole month of not singing it. Yikes... Hope that doesn't happen to me this year!

  So... Yes, I'm nearly turning eleven. Ripe, old age... And it's so close to teenagerhood, too. That's a bit sad... Soon, I'm going to be sent to do things on my own, and no one will be there to support me or guide me next time, either. That's one of the sad realities about growing up - if you listen to Taylor Swift's songs, then you'll know that, in her album entitles "Fearless", there's a song called "Never Grow Up". It's one of her very sad country songs, and I really like it, mainly because it's undeniably honest.

  I guess that's about it for now... Until next time, folks, and thanks for reading! :)

With the Warmest Regards,
Kirsten Clare.