japanese ice cream

My mum changed her mind when we were at the tour agency. We're going to Tokyo and Osaka, because Hokkaido is rather... uh, scenery-centred, and the most exciting thing there is the Bear Ranch, which will probably be a whoop because it's winter and bears hibernate in winter.

There's a deer park in Osaka, and she says the deer there are really daring and will nudge you in the butt to get food.

Anyway I like Tokyo. The ice cream there is pretty cool. The last time we went there, there were these ice cream shops EVERYWHERE, and they all had this cute menu pinned up to the window. The menus were super pretty with all these colourful cones on them.

I was P3 then and couldn't read Jap, so I ordered ice cream based on either the colours, or the occasional Romanji printed under some of their better-selling ones, like, "sakura".

But now I'm equipped with a pretty good knowledge of hiragana/katakana, so YAY I am going back and ordering BASED ON THE FLAVOURS WHOOOOO!!!

Which is good in another way, because according to some research I did, there's lots of really strange flavours going around now, like jellyfish (with real jellyfish cubes! :O), corn and cheese, and... RAW HORSE :O

Gosh, what if I look at a random icecream and think that it's a nice colour, cos it reminds me of horses, and then I take a lick and "Oh damn! It IS horse!!!!"

Must brush up on katakana :O

HAHA OMG I was blogsurfing, and then suddenly I came across my Jap classmate's blog. She had one of those yay-thank-everyone-I-know posts on it and I was reading the section on her Jap classmates.

J2.16...

andre: the joker in J2.16...always made us laugh..and sensei
pissed(:
angus:twin brother of andre...the zai japanese..always
top.(exceptfor one ca)
zhuosheng:the anderson 2/1 guy...quite zai
too...
kitchong!:from p5 till now..same class for one sub?haha...you are a
super super nice guy...
zai in jap....always joking...and very funny..and yr
funny expression and actions all made a day for me!(;and all yr jokes and
sacarsm(:
hilary:the girl from anglican who goes xiao wang zi to
kitchong...you noe a lot of cat high guys from kitchong class eh...haha..stay
funny.. and pro in english too...
yingjia:a very sweet
voice...(:
melodi;nice name..and nice person..
kuiyan:sacarstic teck lee
and swati class mate...always there for me...though sacarstic.and
funny..
victoria;gd friends with joshua...helpful
angela:pon
japde?
joshua:dun care abt jap?
kimberly:nice name...nice
person...
yeqi:not familiar with you..but looks like a nice
person.
aloysious.:the one kana joked by andre most of the time....makes an
effort to be zai in jap??
tan sensei:the 'mean' teacher who doesnt give us
breaks...but his teaching sometimes very scary...PMS but funny and fun...(:he's
a nice teacher(:
haha(:

:O NO WONDER I thought she and Kitchong were, uh, in a BGR la! But hey it's a good start :D

But I can't believe that she couldn't think of anything more to say about me than "good friends with joshua", and well, "helpful" (:D). And I can't believe I even projected the image of being good friends with Joshng lor wth! D: I mean I kick his chair like all the time. And the only reason I always pair up with him for pairwork is because... uh, because he's the nearest person around?

HAHA anyway Joshng's comments are rather amusing. "Don't care about jap".

And she's partly right la. I don't make an effort to be zai in jap. ):

Gosh I can't wait for next year's Jap to start again.

lol quiz from xinyuan

Read the title.

A Long Meme -- from Xinyuan.
Instructions:
1. Do the "Letter MEME".
2. Tag no less than 5 other people.
3. Then copy the "How-to" Letter Meme, and finish your Journal entry.

Template:

Dear (the last person who text messaged you):
I don't really know how to tell you this, but (1). I think I realized it (2) (3) and I saw you (4) (5). I'm sure you're (6) enough to understand (7). I'm returning (8) to you, but I'll keep (9) as a memory. You should also know that I (10) (11).

(12),-Your name-

1. What's the color of your shirt?
Blue - Our romance is over
Red - Our affair is over
White - I'll join the monastery
Black - I dislike you
Green - Our horoscope doesn't match
Grey - You're a pervert
Yellow - I'm selling myself
Pink - Your nostrils are insulting
Brown - The mafia wants you
No shirt - You're a loser
Other - I'm in love with your brother

2. Which is your birth month?
January - That night
February - Last year
March - When your dwarf bit me
April - When I tripped on sesame seeds
May - First of May
June - When you put cuffs on me
July - When I threw up
August - When I saw the shrunken head
September - When we skinny dipped
October - When I quoted Santa
November - When your dog ran amok
December - When I changed tennis shoes

3. Which food do you prefer?
Tacos - In your apartment
Pizza - In your camping car
Pasta - Outside of Chicago
Hamburgers - Under the bus
Salad - As you ate enchilada
Chicken - In your closet
Kabob - With Paris Hilton
Fish - In women's clothing
Sandwiches - At the Hare Krishna graduation
Lasagna - At the mental hospital
Hot dog - Under a state of trance
None of the above - With George Bush and his wife

4. What's the color of your socks?
Yellow - Hit on
Red - Insult
Black - Ignore
Blue - Knock out
Purple - Pour syrup on
White - Carve your initials into
Grey - Pull the clothes off
Brown - Put leeches on
Orange - Castrate
Pink - Pull the toupee off
Barefoot - Sit on
Other - Drive out

5. What's the color of your underwear?
Black - My best friend
White - My father
Grey - Bill Clinton
Brown - My fart balloon
Purple - My mustard soufflé
Red - Donald Duck
Blue - My avocado plant
Yellow - My penpal in Ghana
Orange - My Kid Rock-collection
Pink - Manchester United's goalkeeper
None - My John F. Kennedy statue
Other - The crazy monk

(Sidenote: this question is mildly disturbing, and therefore I'm just going to pick the answer I think is the most amusing. It has absolutely no bearing on the, uh, colour of my underwear.)

6. What do you prefer to watch on TV?
Scrubs - Man
O.C. - Emotional
One Tree Hill - Open
Heroes - Frostbitten
Lost - High
House - Scarred
Simpsons - Cowardly
The news - Mongolic
Idol - Masochistic
Family Guy - Senile
Top Model - Middle-class
None of the above - Ashamed

7. Your mood right now?
Happy - How awful I've felt
Sad - How boring you are
Bored - That Santa doesn't exist
Angry - That your pimples are at the last stage
Depressed - That we're cousins
Excited - That there is no solution to this.
Nervous - The middle-east
Worried - That your Honda sucks
Apathetic - That I did a sex-change
Ashamed - That I'm allergic to your hamster
Cuddly - That I get turned on by garbage men
Overjoyous - That I'm open
Other - That Extreme Home Makeover sucks

8. What's the color of your walls in your bedroom?
White - Your ring
Yellow - Your love letters
Red - Your Darth Vader-poster
Black - Your tame stone
Blue - The couch cushions
Green - The pictures from LA
Orange - Your false teeth
Brown - Your contact book
Grey - Our matching snoopy-bibs
Purple - Your old lottery coupons
Pink - The cut toenails
Other - Your memories from the military service

9. The first letter of your first name?
A/B - Your photo
C/D - The oil stocks
E/F - Your neighbour Martin
G/H - My virginity
I/J - The results of your blood-sample
K/L - Your left ear
M/N - Your suicide note
O/P - My common sense
Q/R - Your mom
S/T - Your collection of butterflies
U/V - Your criminal record
W/X - David's tricot outfits
Y/Z - Your grades from college

10. The last letter in your last name?
A/B - Always will remember
C/D - Never will forget
E/F - Always wanted to break
G/H - Never openly mocked
I/J - Always have felt dirty before
K/L - Will tell the authorities about
M/N - Told in my confession today about
O/P - Was interviewed by the Times about
Q/R - Told my psychiatrist about
S/T - Get sick when I think of
U/V - Always will try to forget
W/X - Am better off without
Y/Z - Never liked

11. What do you prefer to drink?
Water- Our friendship
Beer - Senility
Soft drink - A new life as a clone
Soda - The incarnation as an eskimo
Milk - The apartment building
Wine - Cocaine abuse
Cider - A passionate interest for mice
Juice - Oprah Winfrey imitations
Mineral water - Embarrassing rash
Hot chocolate - Eggplant-fetishism
Whisky - To ruin the second world war
Other - To hate the Boston Celtics

12. To which country would you prefer to go on a vacation?
Thailand - Warm regards
USA - Best regards
England - Good luck on your short-term leave from jail
Spain - Go and drown yourself
China - Disgusting regards
Germany - With ease
Japan - Go burn
Greece - Your everlasting enemy
Australia - Greetings to your frog Leonard
Egypt - Fk off now
France - In pain

And hence, the story goes:

Dear Joshua Yeo,
I don't really know how to tell you this, but I'm in love with your brother. I think I realised it when your dwarf bit me with George Bush and his wife and I saw you sit on Manchester United's goalkeeper. I'm sure you're scarred enough to understand that we're cousins. I'm returning your ring to you, but I'll keep your criminal record as a memory. You should also know that I am better off without eggplant-fetishism.

Best regards,
Victoria.

OKAY. THIS IS BEYOND DISTURBING. And completely incomprehensible, too.

I don't tag anyone D: It's a free-for-all. Brrr disturbingggggg.

PLEEEEEASE spell properly

I honestly cannot cannot cannot stand it when people spell simple words wrong.

What is "sumg"?

S-M-U-G. Say it with me. S-M-U-G.

RARGGHGHHGHHGHGHGHHGHGGHGHGHHGH.

I.
I know what you did on the train,
the train before that,
and two trains before that.

I saw you the other day.
I asked for your number and smsed you a few hours later;
To you, I am but
"that guy from school"
To me, you should be but
"that girl from school".
But we, we are so much more

II.
We will take flight on gossamer wings,
drink nectar from the sweetest flowers
And partake in our shared passions
like meeting on the NEL,
reading Suchen Christine Lim
and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
You cannot ever leave me.
For when we are gone,
we will forever live on
entwined
in indelible ink,
immortalized today, yesterday, since forever

III.
But meanwhile,
I do know
That you read a book,
in the third from tail carriage
on the purple line towards Punggol
at 1806h
alone, but with me
earlier today.


--


Original poem taken from Crystal! :D

hello, ocd?!?!

OMG LOL this cannot go unblogged.

Sherman smsed me to ask for Crystal's number. And since he'd asked nicely and with perfect grammar, I gave it to him :) Her home number. I told Crystal and she agreed that I should have given it to him, since he'd made the effort to use ploper engrish.

Awhile later, after I'd forgotten all about it, he smsed back asking for her handphone number. I didn't memorise her number, so I had to ask her for it. And then because I was kaypoh but at the same time not wanting to appear despo, I said Crystal wanted to know why.

He replied something like, "I'll sms her directly! :D" and added his thanks as an afterthought.

Obviously I immediately told Crystal to play along, and then tell me because I'm super kaypoh. (: (Random side info: she insisted that she hadn't received anything for awhile, and then said she wanted to go to the toilet and asked if she ought to bring her phone along to check in the toilet. ._. Why is everyone so open about their... toiletary habits?)

Soon the reason was revealed though. He smsed Crystal to ask if she was on a train at 1806h this evening. Yes. Really. 1806h. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Crystal was super flustered. Because he always sees her but not vice versa.

And then she replied that with, "I suspect so. Which line?" and got "Purple towards Punggol, 3rd carriage from tail. =]"

Apparently she was furnished with the same opinion that I was, that is, SHERMAN IS ABSOLUTELY BORDERING ON OCD, and therefore smsed back something along the lines of "Do you write everything about your train rides down?"

Sherman, however, puts it down to: "Nope, I can remember some stuffs temporarily."

:O :O :O :O :O

Mister, you've got detail-orientedness times ten.

Grah it's people like Sherman who make me feel totally moronic. ):

OMG yay I realised I forgot to blog about what we did after finishing SDMA. Yay!

Obviously after finishing SDMA we were all in a post-SDMA induced state of euphoria, and since we couldn't express it by guzzling McFlurrys (they hadn't arrived) we decided to take it out on the ghastly iMacs!

Wenjing discovered that if you swoosh the mouse a certain way, it goes to another screen with a little red ball that you can bounce around, using your mouse. LOL ball games for techgeeks.

But our excitement at discovering that was soon overridden by something ELSE we discovered: the iMac's TRANSLATOR! Apparently it translates between English and Chinese, so being wuliao, we decided to input all sorts of shitty lines and see what it came up with. One of our favourites was: "gay is happy!"

It translated to: tong xing lian zhe shi yu kuai!

Then we translated it back to English, and got something like: homosexual is being happy

Chinese: tong xing lian zhe...

...

After a number of such cycles, we got this: the homosexuality is being excited

YAY! The homosexuality is being excited! :)

it rocks to be in av

I know I complain alot about how AVPA people have the short end of the straw, but it so owns to be in AVPA.

Operation Convince Mum To Suscribe To Cable was an absolute success. I showed my mum an episode of Phineas and Ferb on youtube, and she consented. Well, not for the same reasons that I did, which is that Disney Channel totally rocks and so does AXN, and Nickelodean, but because sitting at the computer wasn't doing anything much for my posture. :D

But well, same end anyway.

Then after awhile she got even more hyped about getting cable after she realised there was Discovery Channel (she'd watched a documentary on the cruise and totally loved it) and kept bugging me to go find out more about cable.

And so that's why today I went to meet her during her lunch break and we went to Starhub and YEY WE GOT CABLE! Yeah so the person was all, "Um, would you like to install the box yourself?" My mum decided to save the $32.10 and ask my dad to do it when he got back, but...

Hee. :)

Seriously it's not that hard :D I mean, RGAVPA is famous for... um, well, interesting methods of troubleshooting. *psst Sprite bottle psst*

And so when I called my mum to tell her that I'd singlehandedly installed cable for our house, she wasn't that surprised. Much.

Me: Hi mum! I installed cable!
Mum: What?
Me: I put together everything. Without waiting for dad. It was rather easy really.
Mum: Uh. Okay. Gosh are you a guy or a girl?
Me: An audiophile :)

SDMA darlings

Smile for the world dearies; 'cause it's quite so blithsome (:

WHY THE HELL DO I HAVE SO MANY WEIRD EXBATCHMATES?


Um, not weird in a good way, but weird in the "oh YAY someone invited me to a group I shall join it HEE HEE HEE even though I don't fufill the criteria!" kinda way.

HELLO, are all you P6'06 people brain dead or something? WE'RE FROM THE DAMN BATCH OF FRIGGING 2006, NOT 2007!

Plus even if she realised (at last) that we're actually one year older, THAT'S STILL NO REASON TO JOIN! The group name is still Primary 6 Cohort of 2007, and THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SEE!

Do you want the entire world to think you got retained or something?!

AND HOW CAN SOMEONE "FORGET" THAT THEY WERE FROM THE BATCH OF 06????

I mean, you forget to bring your textbooks. You forget to sign a form. You forget to call a friend. But you don't forget which batch you were in! Puhlease you barely graduated 2 years ago! You're not a cenetarian with Alzheimer's, for goodness' sake! And basic, bloody simple maths would tell you that 2008-2=2006!

So PLEASE, if you joined that idiotic group, QUIT. YOU ARE NOT FROM THE BATCH OF 07.

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

EEEEE DR D, PETER THE PANDA IS CUTE AND ALL BUT CAN'T YOU SEE, YOUR NEMESIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE PERRY ): YOU TWO WERE SO MEANT TO BE!

Ohmygawd Perry is so super cute cute cute cute squeeeee!

I made my MSN name Perry coloured to, um, honour him! :D Teehee it goes from Perrycoloured to Perrybillcoloured.

I want a secret agent platypus, too. ):

here i go

I don't care I HAVE to do this. I badly NEED to shave off at least 9 seconds, if I ever want to break the Singapore record, and trust me, there is nothing more that I'd like to do. 160's the mark to beat and damn, I'm not even making 100. But that's not going to stop me, oh no, I'm going to make it and hell yeah I'll do anything it takes, including learning a whole new method after I've been using the same one for 8 freaking years.

Embracing, expecting, executing change. Who knew it would actually come in useful.

that makes two

Actually, joshyeo, you're wrong!

(10:42 PM) Joshua Yeo:
i think i'll just wear a shirt

(10:42 PM) Joshua Yeo:
and jeans if i feel like it

(10:43 PM) ♥victoria!;:
._.

(10:43 PM) ♥victoria!;:
please tell me you're not going to show up bottomless

(10:43 PM) Joshua Yeo:
haha

(10:43 PM) Joshua Yeo:
YOU NEVER KNOW

Research and chatlogs ftw :)

epicphayle

I have just been invited to join the Facebook group "Rosyth School. Primary 6 Cohort 2007" by someone called Sarah Tan who I at first thought was Sarah my seatmate.

Well, two things. 1. The abovementioned Sarah Tan isn't anyone I know, and is most likely a weird Facebook stalker wishing to be like the Ben Tan everyone knows but no one actually knows. Hell, maybe they're related.

2. I am not from the primary 6 cohort of 2007. I was from the primary 6 cohort of 2006. And I should bloody know. I was the valedictorian.

Anyway, what is more disturbing than the fact that she invited us all to join a group which is obviously a misnomer, is that 3 out of 4 of the group members there are ALL FROM THE CLASS OF 2006.

The said 3 out of 4 people are actually people I know; namely Sherman, Jia En, and Josie.

JOSIE, I'M ASHAMED OF YOU! I THOUGHT YOU GOT PLATINUM IN SMOPS? Get this: If we graduated in 2007, we'd be Sec 1 now, not Sec 2.

And according to the group's homepage, the creator's email is manutd1994_9@hotmail.com . Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe people born in 1994 generally graduated from primary school in 2006? Unless of course she got retained. (Which, come to think of it, might actually be possible. Everyone knows that 2008-2007 is 1, not 2.)

So no, I shall not join that group. I'm from the batch of 06, and bloody proud of it. And please, if you're from the batch of 06 too, USE YOUR DAMN BRAIN. Do not be a sheep and click "accept" just because you see the words "Rosyth School" and your brain stops functioning. WE ARE NOT FROM THE BATCH OF 07. CLICK REJECT, PROUD AND STRONG!

<3 6GE06 aerodynamic elephants truckloads!

hsm3outing

I haven't been updating on perspicacious for super long, so since I have loads to say and it doesn't seem very... well, I dunno, it's just like I can't put it on anotherentrance because I already blogged about yesterday, and well I just plain don't want to.

Plus no one reads this blog, so it wouldn't really matter if I said anything extremely inflammatory that people could use against me for blackmail, like maybe that I'm a pedophile or something like that.

For the record, I'm not.

Oh and these stuffs are really random and I dunno exactly what to classify them under, so that's why it's not going on anotherentrace. ):

Damn, perspicacious is starting to feel a little bit like a reject blog. Like all the stuff that didn't make anotherentrance just goes straight to perspicacious. That's super sad. And it makes anotherentrance sound... elitist, if that can be used to describe blogs. Maybe I should just create an I-Hate-Victoria site or something. It'd probably get more hits than poor perspicacious.

Anyway I have conclusive and damnable evidence proving that guys are really weird. And all from the 1 hour or so that we spent walking around Vivo after HSM3 yesterday.

(Oh, speaking of HSM3, it was awesome. I laughed so hard at the emo Troy parts that I cried. I had to stuff my fist into my mouth to stop laughing, but that just made me tear. Jaslyn threatened to throw popcorn at me for that, but Joshyeo made a remark which made Joshng laugh, and Jaslyn decided to throw popcorn at them instead. I don't know what he said; I wasn't within hearing range and Jaslyn refused to repeat it. But anyway the whole show was so cliched and dumb. Take this for example:

Troy [holding Gabriella's hands tenderly]: "You may be ready to say goodbye to East High..."
Me: [rolls eyes, cheesy voice] "But East High isn't ready to say goodbye to you."
Troy: [sincere sounding voice] "...But East High isn't ready to say goodbye to you."

I laughed so hard I think I might have bust a blood vessel or something.)

Yeah well anyway after that Jaslyn and I learnt that we shouldn't eavesdrop, the hard way. We were trailing behind Joshng and Joshyeo, since Joshng apparently knew his way around the place and we didn't want to risk getting lost. And we couldn't help but hear one of them say, "Hey, Joshua, just now when you were peeing-"

We immediately dropped back and gave each other a :/ look. Because I don't think either of us were really interested (or wanted to know, for that matter :O) the sordid details of What Happened When Joshua Was Peeing. (I don't know which one. They both call each other Joshua.)

And then at the Kopitiam, Joshyeo showed Joshng a picture of something on his handphone, and they both started laughing hysterically. I tried peering over his shoulder to see what it was, but I couldn't make it out.

Jaslyn: "What was that?"
Me: "I dunno. It looked like a sandcastle wearing sunglasses."
Joshyeo: *shows picture to me*
Me: "What is it?"
Joshyeo: "Sheep balls."

And then they all started cackling while Jaslyn and I tried not to puke.

sketchie :D

Am rather pleased with how the sketch turned out. Too lazy to do the background though; I don't think I can handle loads of foliage and stuff like that when I just spent the better part of today trying to get the main focus right.

Didn't manage to capture the proper essence of the picture though, but I'll save that for another time if I ever get better.

May have unwittingly made the subject look rather fat though :/ oops.

Anyway Wesley said he'd show me his sketchbook or something. I dunno if I'm supposed to SKETCH the sketch or just look at it and ooh and aah or perhaps get inspiration. LOL the thought of a sketch of a sketch is somewhat amusing :D

little red riding hood

Crystal and I were totally sick of the cheesy morals at the end of the stories for Drama Night so we made up our own Red Riding Hood without morals!

-Mum sends RRH to Grandma's house with a basket full of heroin.
-RRH smokes a cigarette and drops it, setting half the forest on fire.
-RRH meets wolf, who wants to kidnap her and sell her to a brothel.
-RRH takes out AK-47 rifle from her basket and blasts the wolf to high heaven.
-Meanwhile, Grandma is playing strip poker with the wolf's accomplice.
-RRH arrives and Grandma helps her make pot brownies.
-They all get drunk and the wolf kills Grandma and sells RRH to the abovementioned brothel.

Gosh, AV people DO get up to weird stuff when we're bored and hungry.

Gosh I have a horrible headache and I really feel like puking.

Bloody pissed off that I can't break 18secs for 1 question. I need to halve the damn time.

ARGHHHHHHHHH I NEED MONEY.

...and panadol

alliteration

Click and read!

Anyway that's one person who eats, sleeps and dreams alliteration for sure ._.

japan

I know I've said I wanted to migrate to China previously, but after the melamine scare I decided against it, because I don't want to come back with some new rare disease again. Besides, who knows if I'm actually ingesting bits and pieces of, I dunno, cars or something with my curry puffs? (CAR-ry puffs hahaha)

Anyway, I have a new destination in mind.

JAPAN!

Of course it's not for some shallow reason, like their sushi is better than the sushi in Singapore (I still think sashimi tastes better cooked.) or anything lame like that. But it IS for my abacus AGAIN, because according to my teacher Japanese people are like super ownage at abacus and stuff. They hold the world record, despite the abacus homebase thingy being in Taiwan and all.

And because of the influx of annoying kiasu parents in Singapore, the sole purpose of abacus classes nowadays is to teach our whiny young how to count past ten without using their toes, and somehow, miraculously imbibe them with 23920520958293 IQ points so that they can all get into GEP.

(I hope all you readers got the catch 22 above.)

Which means that practically no one from Singapore competes at the international level, at least no one that I know of. In all my 8 years of learning this I've only seen 2 competitions organised: one Singapore-Malaysia one which I didn't want to go for, and one tentatively going to be organised next March. The tentative one is most probably based in Singapore, and thus all the exposure I'll ever be getting will probably be confined within this little red dot.

Since learning abacus has now been redefined into boosting our future generations' chances of getting into GEP, there is little, if none, competition training availible. Thus even if I DID have the talent, I wouldn't ever be able to make it big in the international arena because in Japan, Taiwan, and other parts of the world, there are fewer such FREAKING, KIASU, OPPORTUNITY-RUINING MOTHERS WHO THINK OF ABACUS AS A MERE STEPPING STONE TO THEIR KIDS GETTING SMART.

I really like my teacher, and she's totally nice and all, but I can't help thinking that if I moved to Japan, I'd actually be able to refine my technique and maybe get faster and better, something which I won't be able to do well in Singapore because of all these hindering parents who don't give a shit about how they're actually ruining other people's lives.

In Japan, the children start learning it from super young and thus they are all imba fast. And they keep on learning, and they STAY imba fast. There's no way I'd ever be able to compete with them, not with the facilities in Singapore. But if I could actually learn from the Japanese teachers... well, who knows? It can't be worse than the situation here.




I really wanted so terribly to be talented at something, but I guess I can't be.