Tell Laura I Love Her

Ray Peterson - Tell Laura I Love Her

His race car overturned violently and the next thing he knew, he was flung out of the wrecked car, thrashing on the asphalt. His memories were drowning his senses, and he sees his life flashing before his eyes.

The first time their eyes met was when Tommy worked as a waiter in a café.

“Table 3!” the barista called and rang the table bell.

Tommy attempted to expertly carry a tray with cups of coffee to Table 3. Unfortunately, he tripped on a table leg and the contents spilled over, landing on the girl with the bright azure eyes and graceful ebony hair.

“I’m so sorry!” he chanted over and over again. “I’ll pay for the damage!”

At first, she was reluctant but soon she gave in to his incessant pleading.

He returned the jacket a few days later and they went for dinner that night. After getting to know each other more, they fell deeply in love with each other. Their love was bounded by fate and held together by their deep affection for one another.

Suddenly, another man came into the picture. Tommy realized that said man was jeopardizing his relationship with Laura. He couldn’t fathom the idea of her leaving him. Therefore, this prompted him to get a wedding ring and ask for her hand in marriage. But, he couldn’t afford it and participating in an illegal race seemed to be the only means of getting sufficient money to buy a ring….

The throbbing pain that seared through his head brought him back to reality. He called for Laura repeatedly and desperately wished to see her for the last time. Every breath he took edged him closer to death. He heard the cackling sound of high heels but blood was seeping out from the injury on his head and his sight was fading away. The blurry image of a woman hurrying to the crash site was the only thing that kept him clinging to his senses. Maybe it was an overactive imagination, but he was adamant that that woman was Laura. Mustering all his strength, he cried out before his last visage of life, “Tell Laura, I love her”.

- Joint creation of carmenc23 (me), redblueberrycheesecake (Zhi Le), “The Monk” (Jan Yang), and whatshisname (I really don't know his name) for English tuition assignment based on the above song.

- Lyrics for the above song “Tell Laura I Love Her”

The Chronicles of Narnia

Aslan: If the Witch knew the true meaning of sacrifice, she might have interpreted the deep magic differently. That when a willing victim who has committed no treachery, is killed in a traitor’s stead, the stone table will crack, and even death itself would turn backwards.

From: thebeautyofsolitude

Taekwondo Black Belt Exam

Yes, I have FINALLY taken my black belt exam. I've been doing Taekwondo since I was Standard 3 (9 years old) and I'm currently Form 5. Man, I'm slow.

First surprise:
I had to spar with four people. FOUR. FOUR. FOUR!
That's not normal. Vivien sparred with two and Feli sparred with one when they took their black belt exam. Colin and Eddy sparred with 3 people (granted, they're boys). So I thought, worst comes to worst... I would have to spar with three. But I sparred with FOUR, because they didn't have enough pairs to spar with. Do you know how tired I was?? I think that definitely affected my performance after that!

And I ended up totally bruised.


Yeah you can't really see that clearly because of the low lighting and horrible quality of the picture (and my leg hair). It's not only that leg. Other leg, hands, body... ouch. My whole body feels so sore and fatigued. I wish I didn't need to go to school tomorrow because I feel tired and in pain, but my mother didn't allow me to skip school .


Second surprise:
I could break wood! All four of them! FOUR. FOUR. FOUR!
This is a VERY pleasant surprise because I thought I'd never be able to break the wood. During practice, I tried many many times on the SAME block of wood and I still can't break it. I almost cried, seriously. But thank God I could break all four of them during the exam! With elbow, hand, backthrust and side kick :) Hooray!

My beloved broken wood <3 Yup, they let us take our broken wood back. If I could hang it on a wall, I would.


My secret?
Just be really really really angry at the wood even if it's an inanimate object. Lol, I cursed the wood in my head. I was so angry with it, I released all my anger on it. And it broke :)

So proud of myself.


Third surprise:
I had to stay there for like 4 and a half hours. Man, I wasn't expecting it to be that long.

Haha, and when the examiner asked all the red belts and Dan 1 to gather and sit down, I thought I was gonna get my results right there and then!! But he gave a really long speech about continuing our Taekwondo journey and applying Taekwondo in real life situations etc etc. Cheh! Well but I'm gonna know it very soon which is on Friday, not like piano exams where they let you know your results a few months later...

Here are some photos to let you see how a Taekwondo exam looks like:

The Dan 1s breaking their wood with their super cool moves.

Venukumar breaking his wood. The guy's good.


Eddy doing a double kick to break the wood!!


Felicity (Came to help Master [and me], but didn't in the end :P Well, at least she was there to give me moral support. Thanks Feli.) and Rosalyn (She is awesome. She was required to break wood, but Master didn't tell her. She didn't practice AT ALL. So she got so angry, she broke all the wood. HAHA girl, you rock.)

Lol yeah that's it.
I was too occupied with my own exam so I didn't take other photos.

All in all, I guess I'm kinda confident that I will pass (Wow, first time). I don't know... I think I tried my best, I literally beat the rest (as in sparring, not performance wise :P), my taegeuk was okay, I broke all my four blocks of wood, I sparred like a mad ganas girl... I should be able to pass :)

Me thinking I might pass doesn't mean you guys shouldn't need to pray for me. Pray that I WILL pass. Lol.

Rebecca Black explains the meaning behind her song's lyrics

LOL.

Friday Lyrics Analyzed with Rebecca Black from Rebecca Black