BARKERVIBE WAS A SUCCESS! It was awesome awesome awesome and I loved it loved it loved it. It's so sad, though, because it's all over. No more sneaking off to Barker after school every day. Haha. Like, after Barkervibe, all the Barkervibers (except Andrewpoopy, who couldn't make it) went to get food at Newton Food Centre. Megan, Val, Nauveed, Shakeer, Shabana and I walked there from Barker and almost got ourselves killed at the Newton roundabout. Then all of us Barkervibers sat around and ate a bit and talked a lot, then me and Gurion shared a cab home. That was an awesome night. 6 people gave me flowers! And Shimona showed up with Sharona and, oh God, everyone was there!! Oh, well. All good things must come to an end.
And once they end, bad things start. On Saturday morning, my maternal demon remembered about this parents' briefing thing at school, and she went. It was TOTALLY last minute. Anyway, then she came back and told me what the teachers had told her and stuff, and then she asked me whether I really had Chemistry the whole of last week, and she wanted to see my Chemistry notes. See, the thing is, I didn't tell my parental demons anything about Barkervibe. I told them I had to stay back for Chemistry and instead, I went for rehearsals at Barker. So anyway, when my maternal demon asked me about the Chemistry lessons, I just suddenly didn't feel like answering her, and I stopped talking to her altogether. That was 12.15pm on Saturday. Now it's 9.40pm on Sunday and I still haven't spoken a word to her. I wrote her and my paternal demon a letter telling them the truth about the past 2 weeks and Barkervibe and everything, and the letter had a whole lotta shit in it about how I feel and stuff. Like, yeah. I ended the letter off with "I'll start talking to you once again when I feel as though I'm your daughter and you're my mother and father." So I gave the letter to my paternal demon last night and went to sleep. This morning, he asked if I wanted my maternal demon to read it. I mean, DUH. Ugh. And it's like, he keeps asking me questions and expecting me to reply. It's a real pain. And it's more of a real pain 'cause... they're my parental demons and... yeah.
And I keep bursting into tears randomly. This can't be good.

posted by Aliya on 5:49 AM

Oh, wow. I mean, how long have I not written in? AGES!
I love Barkervibe and even though I'm really excited about it happening tomorrow, I don't want it to happen at the same time. It'll mean no more rehearsals. :( I love rehearsals! I've gotten to know such nice people through them. Like, the Katong convent girls (Siantzu, Aretha and Pansiri), though I'm not that close to them. And the Barker bimbos, like, Andrew, Kenneth, Adler, Gurion, Jon, Anthony, Timothy... They're the hottest and nicest bunch of doodies evarrr and they're so good at being bimbos, it's unbelievable! I love all -and I mean ALL- the Barkervibe dancers and it's going to suck once Barkervibe's over.
Bell just rang. Gilly's hands are freezing off. Must leave.

posted by Aliya on 10:01 PM

So this is what it comes to, eh? It's 2004 and I turn 16 in 3 weeks. Great.
I'm thinking I'll change this greenandblack theme to redandlightpink. My lava lamp pictures have disappeared as the site they were on has died. And, for some reason, my font seems to be huge, but being the uneducated thing I am, I don't know how to fix that.
Here're some of my new years' resolutions:
1. Study hard.
2. Be nice to my mother.
3. a) Stop making out with random guys.
b) Don't start making out with random girls.
That's about it for now, but I'm sure I'll think up some other stuff later.

posted by Aliya on 5:30 AM

I smoked up with my neice, Ryda, and her super cute neighbour, Ravi. He's super cute, he's my neice's neighbour, and I like him and will call him up tonight to make plans so we can hang out 'cause we're both bummed about the fact that we may not see each other when Ryda returns from India. She's coming back on the 24th and he's leaving for Malaysia between the 20th and 25th. So hopefully we'll meet up next week, just me and him.
I am in love with a Bangladeshi rock band called Black. I bought their first album last week. Their second album was recently released and I bought that, too, a couple of days ago. I want them to be played on radio in Singapore. They're cool and definitely deserve recognition. They're better than some English bands I know. In fact, when I first heard their music, I didn't know they were Bangladeshi. They're pretty damn good. They're COOL.
I watched Gattaca and Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill. Go Go reminds me of Stephadoody. Uma Thurman is SUPER DUPER cool.
I got to talk to my brother's girlfriend. She's sweet. They want me to go visit, stay with them and tour Sweden and the rest of Europe with them next summer. That would be super duper ULTRA cool.
My brother's entire 7" record got played on the snot-nosed Princeton radio station, which means that the snot-nosed Princetonian radio station DJ liked it. He played the whole 22 minutes of it in the daytime, which means a helluva lot of people must've heard it. My brother and his band are super duper ultra MEGA cool.

posted by Aliya on 12:26 AM

Bipu's right. Being my age now is the best thing ever. Like, the 15-16 period. We were talking about what age we'd all want to be forever, and I said I'd want to be either 1-2 or 18-20, and then Bipu made me realize that being 15-16 beats everything. It's like, everything excites us now. Clubbing, parties, alcohol, driving without a licence... Once we're 18, all that's going to be LEGAL. We won't ever feel the thrill of breaking a law or almost getting caught. From 18 onwards, almost everything we do will be right, not wrong. When we turn 18, we won't have anything to look forward to. Okay, maybe we'll look forward to turning 21, but at 21 not much is going to change. Now, at 15, we look forward to turning 18. If I could stay one age forever, 15 would be it. Sure, that would mean I'd never turn 18, but I'd think I would and I'd look forward to it, and that's the best part.

posted by Aliya on 9:52 AM

I'm in Bangladesh. I got here on Friday night. I spent Saturday morning talking to my aunt about my mother being mad, then I spent the rest of the day doing homework and hanging around with my cousin, Shipu. On Sunday, I went to my dad's side's place and hung around at his eldest brother's place till evening. Then I went to his second eldest brother's place and stayed over. I went and talked to my cousin, Afnan, from 11pm to 4am while his sisters and parents were sleeping. We were so bored and we couldn't sleep and there was nothing on TV, so we fought. Like, pillow fight and whatnot. So dumb. I hurt my wrist and elbow. Then today I came back to my mom's side's place and did some homework 'cause Shipu was doing his, then I went and got ready for later, 'cause his friend was supposed to come over. See, when I got here, I told Shipu to hook me up with a decent friend of his to pass the time while I'm here. You know what I mean. So he was supposed to come today. Stupid ass didn't. Couldn't. Parents. He's coming tomorrow, I think. Yay.

posted by Aliya on 9:52 AM