2012 is around the corner

Hey bloggers,

How are you all? How was christmas? During Christmas, my family and I were in a beach resort until a sudden rainfall had taken over so we couldn't head to the beach. We later on did get to play in the beach and enjoy the sun but as many people know Christmas is usually pictured with snow but mine instead was more rain than snow. You see the difference between these two words? Anyways, I have set up my Christmas tree which looks different compared to last year because there are lots more decorations.

I apologize for the quality of the picture but I didn't get time to take a better one so I hope you get the idea. Anyways, I hope you continue to have a nice holiday and a happy new year.


Bye!

Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!
Where are you all going for vacation during the break? Given 3 week break, I'm planning
to stay here and spend time with my friend who came from Dubai. It has been 2 days since our
vacation started but it feels like time is going really slowly. I don't know the reason why
it is like so. Anyways, we are really unlucky since exactly a week after vacation, we have
our exams, which means that we have to plan over the break. It is so frustrating to find time to
work on my study guides with people roaming around my house. I have to get used to it for another
for another 7 days.
Hopefully, you are having a better holiday.
Talk to you all soon!

Lord of the Flies

Hello everyone,
If you are wondering by the title, yes, it is about the book. During this month, in English class, we had read the book, 'Lord of the Flies' which talks about the relationship between the children who were stranded in the island as well as the change in society becoming savage. As a project, our class, had to make an island based on reading the book and finding quotes to fit our island. After doing so, I had worked on my project, in last minute of course. I had done it over the weekend and although it wasn't as good as many other people's, it still made the  mark to the good list (according to me). Hopefully, the grades turn out okay, and after all the hard work put into the project, the result should be good.
Today was the last day of school as people in our grade are leaving. Ajay, Faris and Isabelle from our class are leaving and I would like to give a shout out to them since they will be greatly missed in our school. It was truly difficult to say our goodbyes to these people but in the end, we had met with them and gave a good farewell to them all.
What is your favorite Christmas song at the moment?
Mine is:

SaveJapanDolphins.org

After watching one of the most dreadful and sad documentary called the Cove,  I thought of helping these dolphins in some way. Read the blogs below to know more or it would be even better if you watch the movie!
Blog: Killing Dies Hard in Taiji | SaveJapanDolphins.org
Blog: Goodbye to the Cove | SaveJapanDolphins.org

After reading this, if you want to make a difference, please donate!
http://savejapandolphins.org/donate/
Other ways you can help and take action:
http://savejapandolphins.org/take-action/taiji-town

Appetizer

Something that might or might not interest you! Enjoy

When the Sun Goes Down

Hola todos,
I know you must be wondering what is with me. First of all to explain the title of this post, which my friend came up with! Thanks Alana! Anyways, it was because finally we have a longer weekend that what we had before. We officially have a three day weekend. This means that I can catch up with all the shows and of course fit some homework between it now and then. I was thinking what I should do for the holiday other than that though. I had to apologize to a friend who had invited me to a movie night which is a Disney Marathon. How could I ever miss that? Well, I didn't have that choice. I had to play a tournament against extremely great players which is why I needed more practice so I missed this important moment.
http://selangortennis.org/Girls_16U.pdf
This has my name in it! ^
Anyways, back to the story. I was thinking that I should watch Breaking Dawn maybe but Im not sure because I wasn't a big fan of the twilight series except for some of the characters in the movie. If anyone of you have watched it, let me know. I made a promise to my friend Danielle that I have to watch it by the weekend so we can trash it or compliment it!
Thats basically all I had to say. I know this was a really different way to end the post. Let me ask you a question because I was wondering and it is in topic of the post (in a way).
What is your favorite Disney Movie? (write in the comment if you want!)
Mine is
1st: Hercules

2nd: Lion King

3rd: Little Mermaid

Apologies

Hello everybody,
I am not so good with this whole 'blog' idea as you can see. It has been a while since I have written to y'all.
Anyways, this week in school, the highlight event is the assembly that took place this Friday. Yes, I am also talking about the TCK's but if you guys want more on it, you should look at http://justbornlearningtolive.blogspot.com/
Well, coincidentally, I am also a third culture kid but I am not as funny and interesting the guest speaker who came to our school. Chris was an amazing speaker. I always wanted to improve my public speaking.

And I am happy to say that I will be blogging more often because I have a long 3 day weekend and would love to know what your plans are. Also I will keep you to speed.

Love you guys!
 Tag @ Meghna
While everybody was getting ready for the Semi-formals,
I helped some people get ready. Don't they look amazing? 

Happy Holidays

So everyone,
What are your plans for the holidays? Hopefully it will be better than mine. I have decided to sit home and catch up with all the shows that I have been missing out on. First of all, Pretty Little Liars which has been in my favorite ever since it started is a good thing to watch for the fall! I had introduced it to my friend Meghna who is now obsessed with it too. Hopefully they don't decide to stop it. If you haven't heard of this show, I recommend you to watch it since it is a mystery and a drama.

Season 1                                                           Season 2

Another show is The Lying Game which is a recently added show. This show is similar to Pretty Little Liars since both of these book based episode was written by Sara Shepard. This is similar but it is about these twins who were separated and later found each other. They try to find their 'real parents'.

Lastly couple of other shows that I watch is Hell's Kitchen, Project Runway, Gossip Girl. 

If you have any other shows to watch for the fall or the holidays, please leave your opinions!

Song of the week: HURT by Christina Aguilera (watch the whole video)

Catch up!

Hi everybody!
Sorry for not being in contact with y'all for a while but the problem is that these few weeks
I was very busy. It was difficult for me to find time and write to y'all but now that I do, I will write more, I PROMISE :) Just a quick recap of all that has happened that you have missed. First of all 2 to 3 weeks ago, we went to Gopeng for Malaysian Studies Trip. In the beginning, I have to admit, I was scared. Later, when I went there and tried repelling down a waterfall, it had changed everything. Not only that, we also had other parts which had forest and water as part of it.

Next it was test week where all the teachers decided to torture us on the same day so that we end up staying up very late. After all the recovery, I was finally able to write this to you all. All the people who are in my school, tell me if you are doing MKIS IDOL. I know Aquilah is, and I bet everybody (referring to my fellow classmates :) knows what song she is going to sing. Honestly, Rolling in the Deep was one of my favorites and would have lasted until she continuously sang that song. Same with Jar of Hearts although it wasn't something I like to listen to.

Spanish is a nightmare specially with a teacher like ours. In the beginning, I thought he was racist, but now I know that he is like that to everybody. Last class, he had great amount of mood swings yelling at all of us. I think he is naturally like that but I don't know because it might differ for other classes. Speaking of mood swings, a couple of days ago, I found out that my Business teacher suffers from it (Im assuming :). He yelled at one of my friends when she had turned off the air condition and then ended up reasoning it saying that he was teaching 'us a lesson' which is hard to believe. Now nobody dares to turn on and off the air condition. I know that it would be bad to get on his bad side. Anyways, I think that I should stop blabbering and give you good time to recover and get your sleep from reading this boring post about the month. 

Spirit week! Friday: Tiger Day

If you have anything in mind, tell me what your plans are for the weekend! We are going to have a week long holiday so I would love to read your thoughts below.

Enough with the blabbering! bye!

LoveQuotesRus

LoveQuotesRus

Adele

Hi everyone,
How many of you guys love Adele? She is my idol. Many people may think that she
has a slightly awkward voice but honestly you should hear her songs before you can make a comment.
And other people might think that she isn't pretty but that isn't true either.
Adele is such a good singer.


I have been in search for good music. So if anyone of you have any suggestions of songs, please let me
know. I'm open to new artists. :) 

One of the recent songs that I like is
Stereo Hearts: Gym Class Heroes ft. Adam Levine

You make me Feel: Cobra Starship ft. Sabi

ENJOY!

Im back!

Hi everyone,
Sorry for taking a long time to give you a message back! Well summer is over and now school has started. Usually people would be upset hearing school started but Im happy it started. School has been loads of fun. 3 weeks into school, we are getting to our school trip. Going to a waterfall, caving and rafting area has already started to minimize my amount of sleep (just joking). Im really nervous. I hope it goes okay.
How was your summer? (if you all could remember that it)
Anyways, my summer was joyful and we did lots of shopping in the US. I wish I could show it to you but I can't.  There is a three day break so we can get back into our schedule. I hope it is relaxing. Have nice Hari Raya break and Merdeka Day!
I will talk to you later.
And also, I wanted to say goodbye to a friend, Sneha who had left today. Im so sad. Im going to miss you so much, tennis buddy. I hope Dubai is good and the weather is nice ;)
Thats all! 

USA

Hey!

Im so exciting to be going to US and visiting so many different states. Where are you all going for holidays? I hope that your summer break doesn't turn out to be boring and bring you happiness.

I feel like Im sounding like a parent. Lets give up on that topic, ok? :P

So bored right now. My friends are moving so I have decided to hang out with them. I will 

put up the pictures soon! 

What is your favorite song right now? Song for the Summer?

Mine is changing between these two which are totally different from each other.

 

Enjoy listening to it! I'll talk to you all later! 

Oh, my friend Bethany wanted me to tell you all that if you want any summer looks of some sort go to http://www.youtube.com/user/Macbarbie07?blend=1&ob=5

Day 2- Meaning behind the blog title

I was reading my friends blog earlier and remembered that I had to start working on my 

Who I am challenge:

Well, if you guys haven't read my 1st ever blog post (which you should probably do), 

my friend came up with the title. So credits to her: Laila!! :D 

It was all because of my crazy for tennis so the ending of a match always

has a match point. So I came with this name to portray my love for tennis.

If you all were thinking there was a deeper meaning, its not true. It is truly very

simple idea to make a blog title like this.

I hope this helps with understanding the meaning.

Just The Way You Are

Just The Way You Are by ritika7 featuring metal shades

Back to June

Hi everybody,
Guess what? Yes, exams are over. Today I took my last exam and have finished them.
I no longer have to study until next year. For all the readers who are in US, Im coming there
this summer around July to Chicago and many other places. I am also taking SAT prep
classes there sadly which is totally annoying me because my mom had just mentioned
that I have to be studying there as well. What do you know. The day that I thought 
that I didn't need to study, I found out that it never ends. 
What are you all doing? 
Today is the French Open Semifinals:
Nadal vs. Murray
Djokovic vs. Federer
Psyched to watch it! Can't wait. I think now a days my blog entries are getting very
boring so I thought that I should start my own youtube channel so that I could make it
more interesting. I will inform you everything! All exclusive in this blog! :P


HAGS! (have a great summer!)
xoxo,
Ritika

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Exams

Hi guys,
In case you're wondering. I'm not sick anymore. I had
dengue but was lucky enough to notice early that I had it. Sadly
I wasn't there for the last bit of school but will be there for the 
exams next week. I don't want to take the exams. I don't 
think that I'm fully ready. Anyways I wish everybody luck
and hope that you guys don't end up procrastinating like me.
Thanks to all my friends who dropped by the hospital!
It meant a lot to me! :'(
See you guys soon or in school!

Shout out!

Hey bloggers,
I just wanted to give a shout out to all my garden friends for dropping
by and throwing me a suprise party! I will truly remember this for a long time.
You all must be wondering what I'm on about. Just to put you up to speed,
this Wednesday, I had the start of my fever. As you all may know,
flu is going around. Unfortunately, I was one of those people who caught it.
On Wednesday, I stayed in bed but continued to feel bad so I had to miss
school the next day. Sorry for ditching all my friends. And I was still
in bed the entire day and went to the doctor that following day. He took
a couple of injection shots. I felt better but later found out that I might hav
dengue so I had to skip school the whole week to be in the hospital.
Thanks to my awesome Garden International School friends, you guys
made my day! (Nice to shmell everyboday) :P thanks for the good tasting cake (thank god it wasnt coconut hahah)
Also a shout out to my sister whose birthday is tomorrow but I cannot
celebrate it properly until I have recovered. Sorry sis! Love you tons!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
I will catch up with you guys soon!!
Bye!

New look

Hi everyone, 
This is going to be a short post.
I just wanted to know what you think of the new look of the
blog. I was just experimenting with the program. 
Leave a comment below if you like this or if you have
any suggestions.

Truly a Sad Story!

Hi bloggers,
A lot of people are leaving our school this year and will 
not be with us anymore so I just wanted to say that we will 
miss you (all the people in our school to be more specific) and 
also one of these people who are leaving this year includes 
my friend kelly ( her blog: bluepointofview.blogspot.com) we 
are going to miss you more than anything in the world. You have
been an awesome and weird friend. I hope you have an awesome time
wherever you go. And I hope you keep hold of all the memories (I KNOW RIGHT,
TOO BAAAD, our making fun of each other, non-isulting week, PE,
lunch, all the classes, our amazing chocolate filled birthday, our birthdays
in general, FLOWEER, malaysian studies trips, OONK, All about him him him we
don't give a dang dang dang dang dang :P, many more songs and other stuff) from 
our school. Also I hope that you still remember me once you get 
famous and become a really good swimmer or a really smart person.
I'm going to miss you so much and Whisky (her dog). Whoever knows
her please leave a comment below so you can share you thoughts about this as well. Not only her but anyone else who is leaving, 

I hope you have an awesome time.

Pictures with Kelly and other people!!! (I hope you see this, Kelly for the memories)

Kelly's birthday at Times Square!

In the Car (SURPRISED)

At birthday, playing with water balloons!

Shangri la with all my friends!

Jump to the swimming pool!

Mrs. Ghazali (5th grade teacher) gift before leaving. It was a
dragon for dragon lady

 

Thanks for everything,
Farewell to everyone whose moving!!! 
BYE!


PS: Kelly keep in touch through you blog (please update it) it's been a while! :D :'(

Birthday and other stuff

Hi everybody,
First of all just wanted to say its MAY! Sorry I have not been 
keeping up with my blogging... Anyways I just wanted to say!
I want to wish happy birthday to everyone that I have missed saying to.
Tomorrow is my birthday but it feels like just another day. I don't
know what to do for my birthday yet but hopefully something
fun. I recently saw this video and I wanted to share it with you guys.
And no it is not Friday by Rebecca Black it is something else and 
more important.
ITS A REAL STORY about how a 15 year old boy stood up to bullies!!
If you want to look at it click the link below! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqPs4YBf__E&feature=youtu.be

I hope that you guys learn something from him. I support you Casey!

So many things to say

Hi bloggers,
There are so many things to say at the moment. First of all Meghna who is 
one of my friends, her hamster had passed away. RIP nibbles. We all love you!
Also to one of my other friends Shai, whose dog passed away. RIP lucky. 
You are awesome and so cute. We all love you!


Now with some happy things. Sorry for the sad news (above). :(
Anyways, for an English project, our job is to create a book or a web page
which shows different elements about ourselves but there are specific things that we
need to have such as a name poem, etc. So I have to start working on that.
Lastly yesterday I performed for the Fun Fair, as in sang along with my sister. 
We were both very nervous but once we started singing everything was good although
my sister messed up. Its okay though! We sang Pricetag by Jessie J. 
Thanks for all the people who came and supported us! 


Bye!

Its been a while

Hi everyone,

Its been a while since I have written to you. It was actually that I 

forgot I even had a blog. Anyways, now I will try to catch up on what has

happened. Well we have been having school and holidays are going

to come soon so before that we have to make sure we do well in school. I thought

this would be the perfect time to write to you all since I have finally made time.

Well about 2 months ago we had a SEASAC tournament for tennis where our

school played. We didn't get to travel since it was taken place here. Anyways

the girls came 7th out of 9 and I won 3 matches out of 5. While the boys

came last since in total they won only 3 matches. Oh well. We will do better next

year or atleast I hope. 

I will write again soon.

Have an awesome week!