Midori's World: Project Blook

And this is my new blog, which shall be used for Project Blook.

In case you don't know, Project Blook is, duh, a project, organised by Singapore's own Renaissance Publishing. http://www.renaissance.sg will give more details.

Right... I guess for my first post, I shall be egoistical and blog about me, myself and I. So. What about myself?

Unfortunately, today (23 June 2008) was the first day of school after a month long "holiday". (The inverted commas will be explained in a future post.If I can remember, or be bothered to anyway. ;p) And since it was the first day of school, my brain died from the sudden onslaught of homework, studies and an overview of the entire semester. Hence, I shall attempt to do my best.

I'm Natalie Wang (normally known as Midori or fukaimoriMidori online), a soon-to-be 15 year old (my birthday's on August 31, make a note of it! ^^) student from Tanjong Katong Girls' School. Yes, the school with the green pinafores ("veggies" has been the least insulting nickname I've heard). It's taken me some time, but I like my school uniform and I am proud to be a TKGian. So don't flame my school in front of me please.

I'm Literary Head of my school's Literary and Debating Society (LDS for short). It's a brand-new CCA, so it's pretty tough to be part of the committee, since we haven't got any seniors to learn from. I'm also one of the few students in Singapore lucky (or unlucky, depending whether you like it or not) enough to take Drama as my O level subject. Yep, I'm a DEP (Drama Elective Programme) student and proud of it too!

I'm one of the more active members of my CCA (well since it's new, it's considered to be pretty slack), and I'm on the second speaker of the school Debate team. We've only entered one competition before; Division III of the Julia Gabriel's Competition, and we were one of the eight (out of eighty) schools to enter the quarter-finals! (Did I mention that was our first debate competition?) And we're hoping to enter The Arena at the end of the year.

I just reread this entry, and I am horrified. I sound like some kind if preppy cheerleader. My apologies if I've been boring you. It'll get more interesting here on. (I hope.)

I have a reputation in school for being "morbid" and "violent". Morbid because they are too terrified to say "emo" to my face (I have to post on EMOism one day). That, and my writings over the past two years constantly have blood, gore, tears and death. Lots of death. I'm not one of those sentimental writers who just can't bear to kill off a character, no matter how much I've grown to like him/her.

An example of my "morbid" poems:

Sing a song of sad things, does it make you cry?

They won't stop tormenting me, why do they always lie?

The pain won't stop hurting, will it ever fade?

Why don't you save me, or is it too late?

And I'm called "violent" because the school population seem to be under the impression that I am. I'm not. Really. *crossing fingers behind back*

In fact, when I first came to TKG, there were a fair number of people who were intimidated by me. (Some still are...)

I have to say, being in the Drama Elective Programme has been one of my most life changing experiences. I really believe it has helped me to grow as a person, and shaped me to become what I am a year from now. (DEP only started in Secondary 2, I forgot to mention that.) And the school sent us to Outward Bound Singapore (OBS) at the beginning of the year. And yes, that was a life-changing experience too. (Which will be elaborated on. Someday.)

I've also got an account on DeviantART. Yes, I do draw, poorly... But since I have never been in an art class before... (Okay, so maybe I don't have natural talent in art, but it's sheer determination, or pigheadedness, that makes me draw again and again and again, until I got where I am today.)

Other than writing poems and short stories, I've written Xiaolin Showdown and Twilight (yes the one by Stephenie Meyer) fanfictions. All links are on my original blog (www.midoriislonely.blogspot.com ) I love photography; nature photography mostly, but I think when the situation calls for it, I can do fashion photography.

I'm taking guitar lessons at the moment. Acoustic, not electric guitar unfortunately. ( But then, I'm not a rocker type, even though I LOVE My Chemical Romance. Great band, they came to Singapore, I had a fun time at the moshpit last year listening to them. Go to Youtube and listen to them. NOW. XD )

And I should get back to working on my speech for tomorrow's Gavel Club meeting now. But first.

PHOTOS. Yep, of me.