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doctor suess is a wuss | ate his cat and slayed a moose
if you say so
maybe tomorrow i'll clear the mess. for now, i'll pretend there's nothing under the box about 20 cm away from me. box? what box?
yenfang, py and i rushed over to topshop after lect on friday to partake in the mid season sale. surprisingly, it was quite empty in the store when we arrived at 12 (9am- 1pm was the members' preview sale) and after some browsing, i realised that perhaps people were wise to not rush over after all; the things on sale weren't great and most of the new collection weren't enticing. nonetheless, yenfang and i bought some basic tops for the hell of it =) our jap lunch was great; only $10 each and we had 2 very tasty and satisfying set meals and some sushi to share. cabbed back to sch at 1 plus, satiated and refreshed to spend the rest of the day in sch. i helped out at prof ellinger's seminar in the evening, manning the reception table and chatting with the CLE ladies and lester. there was so much food left over from the reception at the end of the night which was good news for rui, ven and py, who were staying in sch till late as usual to do their assignment; supper was settled for them and ven cld guzzle a whole tank of coffee if she desired.
i am 3/5 free
increasingly, i find that i'm alright and life goes on quite well. i was once worried that i'd become manja but, in a way, i'm happy to realise that i'm still the same ol' stoic vacuum.
the school is giving me some extra pocket money because i'm working for them for various seminars/ helping profs etc. the rates are good but sadly the hours aren't long, so it will probably just finance 2 or 3 budget flights. the girls have been discussing our finances and allowances this week. all of us are very perplexed by how adrienne can get such a small fortune every month but still live hand to mouth, and how others work and give tuition like mad but still lack money (it's not even like they spend madly and buy alot of stuff). these times, i realise that i am quite lucky with regard to money issues; maybe it's because i find it damn horrible to spend unnecessarily or because i hardly go out shopping to begin with, but my accounts reveal that i have quite some $ to spend. that being said, there is still a deep seated urge to earn my own keep. the amount in the bank is from my parents and though it's technically mine now, i still feel quite guilty for spending their money. the upcoming eurotrip is a frivolous jaunt of my own. i want to finance myself and feel completely validated to buy a baguette or fish & chips on the streets. just a weird sentiment on my part, just as random as this post. I AM CLOCKING IN ZERO HOURS OF WORK THIS WEEKEND! stop wasting time now.
after all this time indeed! archives of memories, memories of times. while some part of me is urging me to study, i nonetheless cannot detach myself from this vantage position above, watching myself type away in my own private thought bubble. jolly gee, that Corrine May song is playing now but the sky in your corner of the world doesn't have any moon to look on at this moment. i will stand up to protest
See all photos HERE!
Friday of mid sem break already! wtf, how did 1 week fly away so fast! but i know the other law ppl are so gonna pelt me with old socks and their grandmother's dentures, but at least the impetus to work isn't that great for me, cos I've got 2 subjects shelved away already! nyah nyah. *chicken dance* omg, why am i gloating?! I still have so much evidence work to catch up on, and i have to research on IT law cases for my group presentation. plus, the school admin shit work that i have to do is turning out to be more tedious than I'd envisioned. but for $8 an hour, at least my frustrations are appeased to some extent. I went out with shloke yesterday, in a bid to celebrate her 21st birthday (a month early). it was a mini celebration of modest proportions at raffles' ahteng's bakery, where we had 2 cake sets- 1 glorious chocolate banana cake, and a cheesecake shaped like a very round boob, complete with a pistachio at the apex (see photo). hmmm... Not too surreptitiously, i bought her a zara top as her present. yes, so i made her pick out something that she approved of and model it for me, but at least i know that it's not going to be that kind of present that the recipient chucks at the back of her closet till Narnia gets to it. take care my dear friend; till jan 08 in UK!
everything in the new album HERE!
i guess ying is right that once you've got facebook, you don' really need to blog anymore, especially since most of my photos do the talking for me. but i think I'll still keep to this blogging business.
most of the friends have gone for their exchange already, and are enjoying their lives to various degrees. to those who have found the cheapest way to get from place A to B and know the locals by name, good for you; I'm glad that you're doing fine. for those who have yet to get their feet wet in the experience, i pray that you'll stay happy and optimistic that you'll soon learn to enjoy the chilly breeze in your new foreign home. life is good back in Singapore; school life is starting to grow on me. heck what am i talking about?! classes for 2 of my modules have ended and I'm going to sit for my exams this Friday and the next. now that give me the shudders because I'm absolutely not studying or panicking yet =(
last friday was another 7th; and I'm grateful that I had friends to help me spend the day fruitfully. After lessons, the girls and I attempted to mug for awhile and then we went for an exercise session which saw us playing badminton (which was more tiring that expected) and jogging around the NIE tracks. woohoo! Met up with adrienne and vanessa at night for dinner in din tai fung as a farewell for them, and then indulged in delightful ice cream blends at raffles creamery. *note: avoid putting gummy bears and chewy jellies in the mix; they freeze up in the ice cream and will cause trauma to the unsuspecting tooth that bites on to it. Yeap, it was a fulfilling day, but nonetheless, the Seventh has special meaning attached to it, and I missed You.
this week has flown away damn fast! i've been busy with my double trouble of intensives (4 articles to read every 2 days for lawgovdev), presentations, planning pro bono stuff/ law society awareness fair, meetings etc. suddenly i worry for my upcoming written assignment exams in mid september... it's the real deal, yet it seems like a trivial matter. in fact, i did a short presentation in lawgov class on wednesday, which did away 25% of my grade. it came and went, with only 3 days for preparation. for subjects in year 1 and 2, when it came to a 25% test, ppl wld be cramming and stressing out over it for weeks on end! academic life in year 3 has really turned on its head...
there's going to be the law awareness fair tmr at vivo. part of the exco will be there at 9 blardy am to partake in the opening festivities. my sleep deprived self groans in agony. but at least it's some form of networking and will gain exposure for the group. hope my good members of projects do a good job at the legal clinics in the afternoon! oh, and off to the airport i go at 4am to send kong off! Rui: don't cry...
*signing off:
You are confirmed on the following flight(s):-
Flight No. : SQ351
wooopie doop, i'm going for my first eurotrip in dec! but wtf, it's the heart of winter; not a good time to see grand new sights for the first time. cold, everything's white, no sunlight. hmmm, but then again, it's christmas season, so what better way to spend it than to have a white christmas? either way, it's definitely something to look forward to and i'm already wasting damn alot of time online sourcing out good-value hostels and ways to travel. on a more reflective note, this trip was made possible by my parent's kindness... i'd never planned to go for this trip in december since i'd be going in summer i.e. the proper time to tour. if it's gonna be so blardy expensive i'd better see the sights in proper light. but they assured me that costs shd be the least of my worries and that the trip would do me good since it'd give me something to look forward to. i guess they felt that i'd be lovesick. ah, so embarrassing, but still... through this episode, i tangibly felt their care and love for me. this is a rare display of my gratitude to my parents, but every since this happened, i consciously tried to be as nice to them as possible.
went for a spa session for a ginger therapy massage thing. i was assaulted by a piece of old ginger which was rock solid, with pieces that kept shedding off as she rubbed. my blood circulation definitely went around my body a few times. left the place smelling like a walking bowl of sweet potato soup. slurp. and yay jean just passed me my webcam as a belated birthday present. thanks to jean, rui, serene and huixin! but i shall hestitate to use it at home cos i'm damn lok-kok! some of the photos amassed during august days here!
sent off khel yesterday and i'm glad to say that i didn't use any tissue at all =) him, weihan and huishan all had severely overweight baggage and a bout of frantic repacking ensued. he had to throw out his slow cooker, so no soups for him. weihan, being a rice guzzler, still managed to bring a little rice cooker with him on to the plane =) a new phase of life begins... my mum told me in a tenderer-than-usual voice this morning "you gotta entertain yourself from now on...". i shall. me and my ASOB friends will do ok... rui and i are currently in flight booking doldrums; uncertain dates and seemingly fully booked SQ flights. arrrgg. i'm in khel's house now, spending some time with him before he leaves for copen tonight. have a good flight! and to all my exchange bound friends, i hope u all will be happy and safe. last evening, 4 people told me emphatically that i should make a trip to europe to visit him. i brushed them off, saying that i'd be ok and that traveling in winter is not worth my money. besides, i'll be going in may already. but back home, a chat with my mother convinced me that those are rubbish excuses and that it would do me good to visit, or at least, get to experience a white christmas for once. i slowly warmed up to the idea, found some cheap flights from STA and am now psyched up at the thought of going on a winter holiday! i think i can wait 4 months, yes, and with this new revelation in mind, my mood is so much more upbeat and i'm not even as morose as i'd expected myself to be now. but then again, the climate in the airport is somewhat more conducive to tear-flow... hopefully i don't embarrass myself utterly =( i have many many photos to upload, so there will probably be a massive photo update in the next post.
huiying's probably on a plane somewhere over a faraway ocean now. all the best babe! take care, be safe and enjoy yourself in amsterdam. don't take drugs and claim that the substance walked into your nose on its own accord =p take care, fare thee well, most importantly, i'll miss you.
it's been about a week of being a year 3 Senior. i do not like this new system of learning where classes are about 30 strong and start at strange hours when typical students should be on their way back home. but i must get used to it, and to this lifestyle where i don't have a usual bunch of people to hang out with or to look out for in school anymore. maybe ironically i have the strange lesson hours to thank, but i don't hang out much in the canteen anymore. all the better, since i don't really know who to jio to lunch with me these days. i mean, of course i have good friends still in school, but THE group that had been my staple canteen/ school hours fare is no more.
5 more days. 5 more days, and we'll still be having night time msn conversations. but you won't be typing to me from just about 10km away. nor will we be debating what to do in town the next day.
farrrkkk i am SO grossed out!
there was an annoying flying ant buzzing around my table just now, so as per normal, i took out my trusty bug catcher box to trap it underneath so that it would not fly around and irritate me anymore. a while later, i lifted the box and ARG i saw that it had disembowelled itself! its writhing body lay twitching by the side as its wings gathered at another spot. it was a "what the fark" moment for me and i quickly replaced the box over the gory scene, stomach churning. that was DAMN gross.
i just spent 2 hours watching "the maid" on tv; haha, i spent so much time on a... less than critically acclaimed flick. it was quite perverse, incredulous and sick, but perhaps still a better horror movie than silly american slasher flicks like Scream; with more boobs and bimbos than scares, and they're all doing frighteningly stupid things like venture into a dark room which practically had "Danger, keep out" on its front door. yes, i shall exonerate myself by believing that i deserve to catch a movie over the weekends, albeit at home, with the volume turned low (because i don't want my parents to laugh at me for watching the show. not because i'm scared. hrmph!)=p but perhaps my personal prop assignment enslaved friends would rather be in my shoes than at their study tables; the past week, the stress and pain that i've seen in ping, rui, ven, jolie etc have made me very worried for their welfare indeed. hang in there friends! monday is coming soon...
with 40% of my IT law2 grade settled, i now face a potentially hair tugging essay and the final evidence paper. the presentation on wednesday was an event of mixed emotions. i'm glad that it's over and compared to the other group, i think my group had it easy from prof. perhaps it was the late hour and he didn't wanna tekan us anymore. coupled with his subsequent remarks, i feel quite heartened by the outcome after all the annoyances (some people know who what i mean) and hard work leading up to it. however, on the other end of the spectrum, i was disgusted; grossed out by how some some people are damn childish. i understand that when people take a swipe at you, you'd want to strike back. i do that too, an eye for an eye! but it just saddened me to see how questions posed to the presenters turned into revenge's ammunition. the syllabus' aim was probably to get us to ask questions to test and gain knowledge. we SHOULD ask. but that day, questions were asked for the aim of putting the target in a tight spot and to quell one's own indignant fire. i do not profess to be innocent of such vengeful question asking, but at least i would have the courtesy to refrain from outwardly jubilant fist pumping and slashing/killing hand signals after i "score a hit". it's simply distasteful and screams "Ungentlemanly!"
if my cute friend in that group is reading this: this is not directed at YOU babe! as i also told u, i would be very pissed off with person S and want to hit back at her too. my displeasure here is only directed to certain individuals who took things too far.
i usually don't criticise people on public domains, but i'm willing to stick my neck on the line this time. next time, you're welcome to fight back for revenge, but remember to be more discreet. hah, i seem to be advocating secret deceit, but since when is publicising your vengeful nature a good thing to go public about?
All the photos HERE!
in 2 months more i'll be in the cold winters of europe. it didn't seem that long ago that i marked the calendar down as 3 months to flight day; yet, i know and register that time has passed me by and the past month has been eventful to some extent. the hostels/ flights/ buses have been mostly booked, my heart has stopped aching for untimely price surges and my eyes are probably weakened from late nights of staring at tiny photo thumbnails and currency conversions. still, the sense of achievement when i think i've netted a good deal is such a thrill, so much so that i think i would be much happier doing events planning or logistics than churning out contracts in law. hah it's quite heartening to realise that some childhood aspirations still exist.
i like coincidences. or should i call it fate or something more mystic:
1 am into saturday morning and i was reading someone's online journal. why was i trawling archives of a collection of entries that i generally remember already? when you have nothing else to remind you, you grasp at ends. a post ran: "Something happened on Sunday morning, 07/05/06, at 9.30am, but I shall not talk about it =)"
at that exact moment, i became aware of the words to Lifehouse's "Blind" playing on my itunes... "after all this time, i never thought we'd be here, never thought we'd be here. when my love for you is blind..."
POSTSCRIPT*
OH
it wasn't so bad after all...
i will not cower like a scared primary school child in the face of scary tee-chers
i will not let paper pushers conveniently place the blame on the lowest in the food chain
i will not be compromised
i will not shoulder unwarranted slurs on my name
i will not be the meek asian who defers to authority
i will not fear being blacklisted
i will believe that there is justice in law school
i will fight for my rights
Alison's birthday party will be at Mox later and according to her, the bar will be chockful of Martel VSOP courtesy of her father. wtf, we're so gonna be ah bengs playing cai1 quan2. jiemin's birthday is just as ridiculous; she's getting us to dress to the theme of "childish" since she's born on children's day. errrm, I'd stopped looking kiddy since the day i turned like, 14; i apologise in advance for not meeting her expectations. travel planning has been a bitch; the price might be right for 1 hostel, but then I'll find a review online that totally disses it. plus, the flight rates that I'd checked out seem to have increased substantially overnight. wtf argggg. khel says that we cld save money by camping out at the airport for those midnight/ early morning flights. judging by the way things are, i do foresee that happening; quite tangibly. -_-".
i was sitting in my parents' room waiting for my computer to boot up when i cast my eye on a little drawer that i'd not opened in years. yeap, let's open it to see how many dust bunnies have collected in there. oh so that's where my good color pencils are! and boxes of pretty pens in rainbow hues that were all the rage then (*collect them all in a set of matching neon/ pastel/ glittery colors now!*); all probably dried up by age. then there was a thin notebook with dog cartoons on its cover. it was my rgssb contact list book and phone numbers were hand-written in its pages. when was the last time you updated your phone book now that new friends are registered as entries in cellphones? a tattered postcard with scrawls of secondary school handwritings fell out; "bone-bone" and "claire-nut's" attempts to communicate during lesson time. we bitched about a teacher that i remember i detest, (embarrassingly) we waxed lyrical about seniors we called Gods, and the postcard carried wrinkles from being folded many times into a smaller piece, probably to facilitate passing or throwing across the room. do we care if the lecturer sees us talking now? oh wait, we don't have to; with laptops and msn, we talk more than we listen in class.
my sticker book! yes my painstakenly collected set of stickers (furry and perfumed varieties anyone?) and neoprints. omg, how many times did we slot in 4x$1 into those awfully pink machines with the high pitched voice telling us that we could choose from "monochrome, color or sepia! NEEOPRRINTO!" we traded those little stickers on a daily basis, the more you collect, the more popular you are. haha those were childish times, but have we stopped being shallow? we were so young! most of the stickers featured us in our IJ uniform. hmmm yes we did stake out the j8 of old a fair bit; i remember watching Stormriders there with edith, xiaoyun etc (aaron kwok was all the rage). i definitely wouldn't allow a 12 year old me to wander around toa payoh central and j8 after school; when your age features inversed digits, 12 year olds just seem helplessly clueless. but we thought we were quite cool then, didn't we? that we could handle anything.
when i was 12, i watched ch8 TV shows and thought that the actors frolicking around their university campus in lame love sagas were acting out stories of old ppl. technically an adult now, i guess 21 is rather old. shloke and i were musing over drinks just now about how we were probably quite irritating people in jc, and how we cannot gush over cute AC guys without feeling pedophilic anymore. long sigh... why time, why? but i can't say that life hasn't been colorful and generally satisfying thus far, chinese IP exam on friday aside. i wonder if i can say the same for myself after another 9 years, on a night of sudden recollection with a literal drawer of memories.
busy me
Passenger Name(s): MISS WEE MEIXIANPETRINA
E-Ticket Number: 6182110233674
Flight No. : SQ352
Aircraft : B777-200
From : Singapore(SIN - Changi Intl)
To : Copenhagen(CPH - Copenhagen)
Date : 13 December 2007
Departure : 01:00
Aircraft : B777-200
From : Copenhagen(CPH - Copenhagen)
To : Singapore(SIN - Changi Intl)
Date : 10 January 2008
Departure : 11:30
a silly ditty from my childhood days. it's so stupid that u can't help but smile =)
mag's birthday party photos from a week ago HERE!
stop being lazy, me, and start to get used to forming new allegiances and feel excited about changing my social network. now more than ever, i'm ashamed at how little i'd mixed around in the past 2 years, and i'm grateful for the chance to scrape beyond the surface of many whom i've usually never spoken to for more than 3 minutes, or at all. yes, this halved batch of fractioned groups will bond (to some extent), like skin stretches back over a painful gash.