UKBound party must have been the worst parties I've ever been to. Butterfactory was so hidden away, that sm and I didn't even know we were right in front of it. Kudos to its decor though. THe whole place was really tiny, and despite that, it was really empty too. I met sam ling, josephine and some other crescent girl there. All of us were bitching at how awfully boring it was. Soon, sm and I were so bored we went off to crazy elephant for a beer. This is the first time I went for a party and came home so early! I'm home even before the time usually go to bed. Let's hope next week's ntu hall bash would be tons more fun.

Another busy day tomorrow! GOing to vivo with fel to check out the heroes cast, followed by a stayover mugfest and shimin's hall! And sistic better be available by tomorrow cuz I really need to get my black sabath tics by tmr before the prices go up!!

Birthday photos! There aren't alot and all pretty ugly because of AUNTIE'S CAMERA.
I think my camera died. I need a new one:(.

I got the gay angmoh dude as my lit tutor! Hahah. All f us exchanged looks the moment he sauntered in, which was a pretty funny moment. But he's a nice guy so far, and no homework yet! Yay! During eurostudies, the coach (yes, that's what our lecturer likes to be called, and he wears a baseball cap all the time to emphasize his point) broke out in song again. Last week it was a french patriotic song, this time was a good old british nationalistic tune. Whacky dude who likes to end the elcture with "That's all folks! Be sure to stay tuned!" nd when we were getting to noisy, he'd say "Be quiet or I'll send Jack(the other lecturer) up there!" And all that jack would do is smile and wave and us. Hahah. It's all pretty entertaining in an otherwise terribly boring lecture in which I fell asleep halfway.

Dental appointment then off to kino to get my notebook! I realized that organizers are just too...organized. Everything is so rigid and neat. The weeks are all seperated, the days are marked, with the last few fages just lined to add extra notes for you. Each time I open it, I feel like my life is so scheduled and routined, my whole day planned out perfectly for me. It was jsut too suffocating, so I just had to switch back to my good old notebook. In which it's pages I could scribble whatever rubbish, whenever and wherever, with no lines or dates restricting me. I dictate the format and fill in what date it is and only have the date entry entered when I actually did something on that day itself!

Quizzes to ail a tired mind after being forcefed shovelsful of information on Nappy-olean, the great conquerer afraid of cats.

You Are a Carousel

You are young at heart and a truly playful person. No one would ever accuse you of taking life too seriously. You are definitely in things for the fun. You find joy easily, and you are often building up anticipation for your next adventure. In relationships, you tend to want to be babied and taken care of. And while you may be a bit high maintenance, you are incredibly loyal. Your life is simple and satisfying. Each day you treat yourself to something you enjoy. You have a lot of emotional attachments, and experiences are extra vivid to you. You tend to be nostalgic and sentimental. The past is important to you. Comfortable around all living things, you have a special connection to animals and children. At your best, you are whimsical, free spirited, and creative. Even if your schemes seem a bit strange, they usually work out wonderfully. At your worst, you are spoiled, demanding, and impossible to satisfy. You've been known to act like a brat if you aren't getting your way!

What Carnival Ride Are You?

You Are a Red Crayon

Your world is colored with bright, vivid, wild colors. You have a deep, complex personality - and you are always expressing something about yourself. Bold and dominant, you are a natural leader. You have an energy that is intense... and sometimes overwhelming. Your reaction to everything tends to be strong. You are the master of love-hate relationships. Your color wheel opposite is green. Green people are way too mellow to understand what drives your energy.

What Color Crayon Are You?

You Are 64% Emo

While you may not be completely emo, you have a sensitive, deep, troubled soul.

Are You Emo?

What Your Pizza Reveals

You have a hearty appetite. You are likely to complain if a restaurant has small portions. You consider pizza to be bread... very good bread. You fit in best in the Midwest part of the US. Your taste is rather complex and sophisticated. You consider yourself a gourmet - and a bit of a snob. You are generous, outgoing, and considerate with your choices. You are cultured and intellectual. You should consider traveling to Vienna. The stereotype that best fits you is emo. You think you're special... and you kind of are.

What Does Your Pizza Say About You?

You are Glass Sandals

Dramatic and unique You're sure to be wearing something no one else is And you're not telling anyone where you bought it!

What Kind of Sandal Are You?

My mum just discovered the bracelt I coveted for
was from miss sixty, not diesel. HAHHA.
OH WELL.

I only have one tuitorial this week, cuz the rest are on even weeks. Whoopee!
Thai was quite fun, as our teacher was really funny and she made it a very casual setting instead of rote learning by the book.
SIMENG, KHUN ?UAN MAI KHA

Timbre was great! I'm really happy my birthday was spent with the mugsoc at timbre. Music, drinks and food, the three essentials of life! The band was pretty good, apart from the drummer who was a little robotic. They could improve on the service though! Firstly, they didn't receive our reservation. Seondly, they kept rushing us to order our food VERY SUBTLY. I.e. three waiters came up to us in a span of like half an hour, asking what we would like to order, when one waitress finally complained to the manager/supervisor, who came up to ask and jokingly asked " So ladies, would you be ordering anything today? Just joking!" Like thanks alot dude! Hmph. At least the music made up for the service they provided.

Auntie! I want pictures!

18:01:49] sch :( says:
ooh i dun mind working in toy shop!
[18:01:50] sch :( says:
hahah
[18:01:56] sch :( says:
oh working in kino will be cool la!
[18:02:10] sch :( says:
but muz we need to learn a bit of jap tt kinda thing?
[18:03:34] sch :( joins conversation
[18:03:40] mirror kissers says:
DONT NEED LAH!!!!
[18:03:45] mirror kissers says:
OMG YOURE DAMN FUNNY

omg ky is so cute lah

I want to get blue streaks in my hair for my birthday.
I want a diesel charm winged bracelet.
But I don't want a big hole in my wallet for my birthday,
if not I would have to desire for a wallet too.

Yay! I got all my tutorial timings that I balloted for. They aren't the best timings, with HUGE breaks in between, but I guess it's the best SO FAR. Sigh, now I have to go read about Louis XVI and napolean which I have NO CLUE about.

Check -->this<-- out!

I'm not too sure if I can believe them or not as it sounds really very controversial.I'll just read it with a handful of salt.

Arts bash was pretty alright. Dxo wasn't as bad as what the others were saying, but the music was really bad at first. Like mambo? And mambo is only fun if everyone really does the silly actions instead of one mambo king standing on the stairs doing it and the rest of us struggling to follow. I kept making friends in the smoking area which is honestly, a very odd place t socialize really. But actually, I felt more comfortable there than with zi's og. I don't know, jst felt a little awkward among them.

Dajie! I'm sorry you got bored and was left sitting alone there. I got sian standing around in the middle of dancefloor too.

Walked over to xinwang for supper/breakfast, but I felt ill, probably from too much nicotine. Hahah after not smoking for like a month, the first stick felt so shiok that I just didn't really control myself. Need. to. abstain. for. a. while. Clear up the system yo! Next up is UKBound! I hope it would be more fun.

These few days has been really busy for me! Starting on wednesday, I went back to ikea with my mum to pick up more furniture for our little room, then off I went to NUS to buy my lit books. After queueing up forever(and gawking and a WHOA exchange student), I met banu to scour haji lane for school bags...which was a pretty fruitless trip. I did manage to check out the Alex+Chloe necklaces!The prices are a stake through the heart, but the workmanship was gorgeous. Hopped on over to town after that for banu to buy her laptop case, and as we were walking pass wisma, she suddenly stopped and was like "EH DESMOND." THinking it was one of her silly tricks, I patronized her by looking around and asking where. TO which she pointed him out and he waved, OH GOD, I panicked see his red streaked hair and was like fuck! and walked away. HAHAH. Embarrassingly hilarious.

Thursday was another fully packed day as after sociology lecture, I met up with oi to select our thai tutorial timings, which was first come first serve, and due to the terrible kiasu nature of my fellow schoolmates, by afternoon, only the slots with the oddest timings were left! Grrr. So now, we're stuck with have all three night classes. Tiring tiring. Oh yes, I met boss and loke shimin while waiting for oi. Pleasant surprises, pleasant surprises. Headed over to ntu to crash shimin and hl's hall. It was pretty fun as we did our usual embarrassing stuff. Like, deciding to play midnight bball, hence I had to go over to banu's hall and borrow socks as they ran out of socks to lend me. Not wantinhg to climb the stairs, I asked banu to throw it down, and thanks to her well trined aim, it landed right on the slopes of the steep hill. I endeavoured to climb down to get it, but I was in a skirt and shimin was just not helping. So the guy living on the first floor, climbed up to help me get it. As he was doing that, shimin was exclaiming " OMG! WHAT IS HE DOING! OMG HE'S HELPING US GET IT! OMG!" Hahah, I jsut wanted to run away and hide. LOL. Went up the adm building and ordered macs delivery (all the pizza ones were closed), and we called back three times to change the order. Hahah.

Today was th most hectic of all. I...went back home from ntu, bathed and balloted then scooted off to nus to get the bks from the snrs and my thai bks with oi. After which, I had lunch with liesel and leo at the deck, met another snr to get my eurostudies bk and off to heeren to hand zh her thai bk and meet banu for bag shopping again! THis time we were pretty successful as I bought this black saggy bag thing from muji. It doesnt sound very appealing, I know, but I really like its shapeless form. It reminds me of those hardcore hobo bags. The ones they wld tie at the end of sticks and trot through the countryside. HAHHA. I wanted to get a cream coloured one, but knowing how messy I am, it'd probably end up grey.

I finally got a printer! Yay. All theres left to do is wait for my tutorials, and settle into a lonely uni life.

I found this on my friend's facebook, and mean as it is, I just have to post it here. It's a comment written on her wall by someone else.

"Hi lah! So, I know you spent a good amount of time in Singapore lah. Is it really true that people there talk like this lah? I don't really understand it lah. How common is it lah? (It became a meme between my cousin and I while we were in Hong Kong and China...lah.)"

HAHAHAH can you imagine? and it was futhermore, followed up by this
"ok ._.

Did you speak like that?...and do they really need to type the "lah" when they are typing on the computer? >_>"

Omggg. These americans are just killing me. HAHAHHA.

Good news flash! I found a lecture buddy for eurostudies, my kindergarten, primary and sec schmate, Eileen! She could act as my tutor too. Hahah. The lecture was really hardcore into the topic, unlike the other intro lectures. I was furiously copying about 4 pages worth of notes, but two hours of rapt attention is hard to hold so I began spacing out after a while. It was quite interesting, but I got very very lost. It seems like you need a history background to study this module? If not, you would die a horrible death.

Walked on over to med fac to look for liesel and leo. Liesel was looking through my euro notes and asked me what bourgeosie meant.
Me: Oh, it means middle class.
Liesel: Oh... I thought it meant high class you know?
Me: Nah..there's the nobles above them.
Liesel: Well there were these bunch of bimbotic girls in my class in tj, and they called themeves the bourgeosie, thinking it meant nobility and all. Guess they got it wrong.
Me: HAHAHHAHA. OUCH.

The bidding nightmare is over! Oi and I are taking thai for our last module. WOOHOO!!! SAWADIKA!! HAHAH. Actually, we wanted jap, but the bidders just went crazy by afternoon, upping the points to 200 odd, thus we had to change to thai. It'll be cool. Now we can order in thai express by the names of the dishes instead of its numbers, and go to bangkok and bargain!

Lectures were pretty alright since they were mostly introduction and lasted only for an hour or so. In the morning however, it was sooo horrid. There was this huge traffic jam along the macritchie highway thing, and I was stuck there for half an hour! How panicked I was! Fancy being late for your very first lecture by half an hour! It was so embarrassing, as I hurried down the stairs luggng my macbook along, searching for Rhoda. I couldn't find her, well more likely couldn't recognize her anymore, so I just sat at any old seat to save myself from further humiliation. The lecturer ran through mostly the schedule and CA, which partially alarmed me as we needed to do a 30min presentation, a short film and there would be pop quizzes. Plus, aud told me most ppl s/u their singapore studies as its really really tough. SIgh. Half an hour later, the lecturer ended the class so as not to scare us on the first day. Half an hour of lecture. Interesting.

With so much time to spare, I went over to look for oi at the engineering block to bid with her, and disturb her group mates. Hahah. I think the guy was quite mortified at the perpectually increasing noise level we were making ever since I reached. Lit lect was very very very boring, but we would be doing the tempest and oedipus rex, s I'm a little excited! hahah nerd alert!

Eurostudies lect tmr, and I may go over to med fac to look for liesel and leo. Apparently, they are always having 3 hour breaks and only need to do 3 modules this sem! And I thought med was going to be very tiring. Hmph. Oh yes, I do need to check n the traffic reports along my bus route as they are really really very awful.

I'm on a rampage against the world today. Wtf is going on. How come no one tells me anything, or bothers to reply me when I ask them something. I dont get the help I need. Layer friendship it sure is. It's funny how much more helpful and supportive my friends whom I've known for a shorter time are, compared to those I have known for near a decade. Sometimes, I would just like to say fuck friendship. But then, it wouldn't be fair to those who have really tried to cheer me up and be encouraging, would it now?

Photos from the bbq at auntie's house!










And cors, i still hate you.

WHAT THE FUCKING HELL IS GOING ON

IM STILL ONE MODULE SHORT.

I was just checking the list of names and discovered I have two lectures in which I don't know anyone. Well, I do know rhoda, but I haven't spoken to her in a while. Heck, I hardly spoke to her in crescent when we were classmates! The thing is, it just had to be the two lectures in which projects and assignments are group work. I guess I could try making friends, but that's not my niche particularly. Oh well, I guess I can only bow my head down and just trudge through this sem!

I. desperately. need. to sleep.

For some godforsaken reason, I just can't fall asleep. Even though I didn't sleep a wink last night, and only caught a few in the morning, my mind is still whirring like a welloiled machine. Probably oiled on steroids. My eyes are burning and my head is spinning, yet I just can't seem to step into somnolence. Maybe I'm subconsciously not allowing myself the drift off, forcing myself to think and ponder, to let my imagination go off to lalaland, while my conscience stays grounded.

I was just thinking, as I lay in the dark. How roses have such a gothic charm. I am, very much obsessed with this flower lately. However, I do not perceive it as the gorgeous epitome of beauty and love. When I see a rose, I think of melancholy, bittersweetness and funerals. Yes, funerals. Don't ask me why but for some odd reason, roses have a very gothic beauty in it. The redness like fresh blood. The sadness as a young bride had just passed on and her bouquet of white roses dyed a gorgerous scarlet as the blood pools around her. The redness is so strong, so deep, so intense, it looks almost black. And the enigmatic block rose bouquet is surfaced, in time for her funeral.

I think. THe starbucks coffee is getting to me. Honestly.

I didn't manage to get one module, which was my gem. So currently, the modules I am allocated with is lit, socio, eurostudies and singapore film. Sigh, another day of torturous bidding to trudge through on friday yet again.

Anyway, yesterday I went to ikea with my mum to look for a bookshelf for our room. It was quite fun looking at all the furniture, but we couldn't agree on one so we're going back again tomorrow morning. After that, I went over to auntie simeng's house to join oi and her for a bbq! It was really quite fun with a whole bottle of red wine(which we polished off), ribeye steak, pork chop, salad with balsmic sauce and vinegar, satay, cuttlefish and the best part of all bbqs ever...SMORES! We camwhored a whole lot, which I do think was due to the effects of the wine and just stayed up sitting by the pool and drinking. After which, we proceeded back to her house to spy on people through friendster, oi and I were forced to sign up for facebook and of course, the best solution to boredom, youtube.

AUNTIE PLEASE SEND ME THE PHOTOS THANK YOU.

Five hours of sleep later, I had to wake up to stare at cors one last time before the bidding closes. After which, I went off to meet banu in town. We wanted to catch a flick but couldn't agree on one, so we just became mall rats and hung around the shops. At taka, we ended up at the better toys store and was so fixated on the diy jewellery sets we bought one each and sat outside taka to make them!







Dinner at subway. Then home. Leo was asking me to go mambo but I was too tired to oblige. Besides, I'm a little bummed out thanks to cors. It's really quite surprising, when the next min bid was 51 and I put 100, yet I could still be outbid. Sigh.

I've rejected the pgp room due to hidden costs.
One less thing to worry about

BOOYAH!




She looks real cute right? Such large eyes...

Nus is out to drive me crazy I tell you. I had just decided to check my email, and guess what I received. A LEETER OF ALLOCATION OF A ROOM AT PGP. Normally, I should be jumping for joy. The thing is, they sent me the email at 11.28 am this morning. I checked my email only an hour ago AND THE CHECK IN DATE IS TODAY. Now isn't that really smart of them? Plus, I don't even know if my mum stills et aside the money for it or not. Sheesh. This really caught me off guard, and I don't know if I should accept the room or not.

To top it off, this bidding system is really getting on my nerves. The no. of bidders just keep climbing, and for both the modules I bid for, the highest is 1000! I can't even meet the half way point. Sigh. I wish the bidding round would close RIGHT NOW.

Oh gosh...the nightmare of bidding is to commence n a few hours again. Im really quite worried after talking to partner and aud about it, as apparently the ss & gems are going to be really hard to get unless you are "richer". Hence, I went to scout around and most people are doing four exposure mods this sem, or three plus one language mod. Oh well, guess I would be damn screwed if I dont get my other two modules! Haha!

And I'm having a girl crush on the hana kimi actress. Not the taiwanese version mind you. The casting is just awful there. But the japanese one, that is currently still be aired in japan. The casting is TEN TIMES better, and the lead actress is so damn cute. Her eyes are HUGE.... reminds me abit of hello kitty or puss in boots. Oh whatever, she's just plain cute. And no auntie, I'm not swinging the other way, this is just purely for aesthetic appreciation purposes. AHHA.

Today has been a pretty good day for me! I just got home and the moment I turned on my mac, msges started pouring in regarding the bidding results! It was so scary. Thank god I managed to get all that I bid for((((:. I'm quite sad for nik, as she didnt get all her modules, but DON'T WORRY FELLOW DDC, THERE'S STILL A FEW MORE ROUNDS TO GO!

Mother and daughter time was well- spent today. Shopping at vivo was really fruitful as I bought loads of stuff that were on sale, which is VERY rare as they either don't have my size or the designs are just hideous. I bought a red collared tshirt from desigual, a summer knit top(way too big but I could always sue it as a sweater) and black sandals from river island, and these really cool shorts from zara. All for $130! Woohoo!

Went to eat at a teochew chinese restaurant in Chinatown, which made me want to open one in times square for some inane reason! Hahaha. The seafood was good(((:. Oysters, sea cucumbers and fish maw, and some fried platter. Contentedly satiated.WAlked around ann siang hill abit, and I was really liked all the stuff in the fred perry store! But the prices aren't too friendly with my wallet. Last stop was kino where I got a laptop folder thing from kino.

It's been a real good day. Yepp yepp((((:.

Each time I get close to a person and actually start thinking I can rely on them, I realize that they are pushing me away. I suppose I may seem a bother once someone really gets to know me. But it's really tough. Just when you think you can trust that person, you are shunned from their attention as you cry for help. And you wonder why I'm so withdrawn.

I just bid for my exposure modules a while back! The darn cors system was so nerver wrecking. At first, I couldnt log in to it due to some java error and my bro's comp just had to go wonky on me at that time! All my friends weren't home or were at camp, and so I was so scared I wouldn't be able to bid! In a moment of fluster, a little light bulb went off in my head and I tried using firefox to enter. Lo and behold! It did work! However, after that I had trouble figuring out the cors system as it kept saying no modules were available for me to bid and I thought they barred me or I missed the timing or something. Thank god xiangning came to my rescue.

I'm hoping to take:
.introduction to literary studies
.sense of society (sociology)
.making of contemporary europe(european studies)
.singapore film (for singapore studies)
.understaning our universe ( I figured I should take a science general mod since I'm from triple science eh, so of course I would pick physics. I really wanted forensic science but the bids are just way too high)

I really hope I do get the courses and the timings I want, though I do have some doubts. It'll be such trouble if I don't as I have to replan my whole schedule again. I dont really like this system. It's so indefinite and planning your own timetable is a major bitch. I really wanted to do philosophy, but it would clash with literature exams. French was a course I had in mind for AGES, but it'll just clog up my timetable and cause me to have non stop classes and lectures from TEN TO EIGHT on monday. I guess you have to learn flexibility and sacrfices in this system. Sigh.