Let me tell you why i need a holiday, i'll tell anyone who'll listen. I went for summer courses, did the exams, and that was like last last friday. Immediately after that, i have to help out at the orientation stall all week, do the bluddy newsletter, attempt to update the SSA website, try to open a mac-formatted zip disk, design a ticket, enrol for my classes and probably a whole lot of shit i've forgotten to do.
and that was last week.
This week, school starts, and i don't know where half my classes are, i still haven't enrolled in some of my tutes, and thank goodness its only lectures this week. Because i spent the weekend finishing up the newsletter, finally sent it for printing yesterday. After that, i thought i'd be hugely relieved, but i got sick instead.
and i couldn't sleep.
and i still don't feel good.
And i just feel so tired and empty and drained.
So i cut my hair. I cut it myself not long ago, and it was rather uneven, but since i hardly ever let it down no one ever noticed. Anyhow, i had it fixed and trimmed and got this nifty flicked-out wispy thing at the ends. That was last friday.
Then yesterday, while i was ill and couldn't sleep, i decided to figure out my timetable. My timetable is a mess. I'm doing 25 hours a week, which is an average year2/3/4 load for science students, but not a light one nonetheless. The commerce bums are doing like 14 hour weeks. URGH. So two minutes later, i've gotten out the scissors, happily cutting myself a fringe.
I was inspired by uma thurman's hair in pulp fiction. I can be so stupid so often, but cutting my hair is really some inexplicable autonomic reaction to stress. Fortunately (in some warped way), i've been stressed so often that i've had lots of practice so it's not so bad. But still, uma thurman. Argh.
i went to school today and someone called me a china doll.
And it was a compliment. no goose.
sIGH.
want to see photos? hahahhahaahha. Digital Camera Power!!
The first one i like because it looks like my hair is shaped with some purpose. The wonders of angle shots. The second is more accurate, although i look like a stunned mullet whatever a mullet is. The third is me in normal mode. uncombed and messy.
Alright, i haven't updated this in aeons and i didn't feel like doing it, but now i remember why i do. Its great to publish a good whine. And complaining is just so much fun. Not to mention it relieves some of the pent-up need for pity people get when they fall ill.
Till next time then,
Back to the chocolate.
Ooh. craving for almond shortbread.
Cruel cruel cravings.
Oh and to update the update just below this, i passed my math! hahah!
seeee?? don't need to study can still pass!! hahah. just tempting fate
i know. No lah, i did try to cram, but my brain isn't formatted for math-compatible
functions.
| 16 February - !@#$.
Basically, Tomorrow is my first paper... friday is the maths, and i Cannot find my notes. Midway through the session i lost the first half of my notes, and NOW, like two days before the exam, i can't find the other half. I've searched my entire room 3 times and my mother recently did me the favour of just shoving Everything under my bed so that reallly helped. And then its SUCH a BLoody HOt Day. I am SO pissed off i tell you. SO PISSED OFF. Without those notes i have no idea how to do anything. I don't need to explain to you why that isn't so great. And remember i suck at math already. Expect
the next update next week. sometime well after i've compensated myself
for this hell.
11 February - later this night. Mausey wants to say something, so i'm adding on to the update below. Addendum. is that a real word? Hello, this is Mausey, and i'm here to tell you that email addresses are actually case insensitive. Yeah.. just in case... Hey I was going to say that ! You stole my punch line ! Hahah. Such a lame one anyway. Oh why does this song have so many 'f--ks' in it. Dunno. I don't like it. Lets switch radio stations. Okay. This one's playing Blondie. lets listen to this. You realise we're getting irrelevant to whoever's reading this. Oh yes, righto. This has been a Public Service Message From Mausey. * bzzzt * What was That? End-Off static. You know... bzzt... end of transmission, etc etc. oKay... lets end this properly... okay.
11 February - bwah wah wah.  you know what i feel like doing? i feel like painting my nails black, dressing up, going shopping, being decadent and getting my hair cut / colored / combed, and then partying! in a club! in boots and red lips and black pants. and vodka on ice. i want to come home and lie in bed for hours reading lovely books and listening to new CDs and i want to go cycling in the park everyday and have coffee under the veranda. i Don't Want to go to school!! *whine* This is such a perfect mood to have one week before the exams isn't it. (notice
how graphics-intensive this page has suddenly become. heheh.)
10 February - The digital image. It has occurred to me that maybe one of the best things about having a digital camera is that building up a collection of photos i actually like is alot easier. That is, where 'photos i actually like' usually mean photos that make me look like someone else. Another wonderful thing of course, is i get to do screen shots! of my monitor! heheh. so now i can show you what my homepage is actually supposed to look like. The
one on the left is a shot of my laptop with the browser open at my updates
page. The one on the right is made of two screenshots of the mangocentral
page. See how the pages were meant to look? Aside from the horrible colour
definition. i hope they're not too different on most desktop monitors,
although i've gone past caring already.
  9 February - My Day in MS PaintbrushTM.  8 February - Argh. It's getting too close to the exams. Effectively next week i have to find out what i'm supposed to know. I have this assignment too... and this test.. but that's tomorrow. Oh sHIt its tomorrow. Aiieeeee. But nevermind. i will survive. My entire academic life is based on the faith that no matter how little i study, at least i will pass. Someone (i think it was daniel.. mr kadinsky?) who asked me what would happen if one day i just relied solely on that faith that i'd pass without studying and then went and failed. In the words of a fellow believer, my good friend Yuexiang : "Hah". This is not for you to go 'i told u so' later on okay? i'm going to cram. later. next week. meanwhile,
i got out my digital camera and took a picture of the card/painting iswar
did for me. i mentioned it in the previous update. Here it is: Eels
in blue waters under a salmon pink sky. And orange gelatinous eel blood.
 5 February - day out A lovely day. Abit aimless, but i went to watch RENT again! *rave rave*. Now i want to see it a third time. Click here for the website. Went shopping too. What did i get with my new stash of cash? Straight out to get reading material. I'm so out of books i almost read my textbooks. Bought a not-so-well-known Tolstoy : Resurrection. Well maybe it's well known but i didn't know about it. Add to that 3 magazines, one thrashy UK published 'Party Issue' with the headline: totally IRRESISTABLE - the girl every man falls in love with. It was a fun read. Shamelessly thrashy, not like Cleo, or Cosmo, who like to think they have enlightened opinions. Hah. The second was a MAD Magazine. My father loves these too. And the third was a quarterly publication from Scientific American, on Intelligence. It had an article on giftedness and savants and that stuff interests me. heheh. I wonder why. Career aside, I think i shall pursue developmental psychology. New
CDs (bought today): Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band - Beatles
I also
watched a movie today: Life is Beautiful (La Dolce Vita ?). If it
goes to Singapore again (apparently it was there for the italian film fest
last year), u cannot miss it. Cannot. it was one of the most beautiful
movies i've seen in some time. you just fall in love with all the characters.
Its a bittersweet comedy. Very sensitive very funny and warm and sad and
you Have to watch it. It's won like 30 international awards, and was Best
Film (i think) at Cannes and so on. Go watch it.
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