wah i'm so tired. i think it must be the vaccine. haha. anyway, i slept at 3 last night, got up at 10.30. ate mango cake yay!!:) haha. and finally went to get meningitis vaccine done. (yay!)
then down to toa payoh to look for specs. again. yes. visited like 6 shops i think. very sick of trying frames. decided on one final one, but wanted to check out sth else i saw last week before i made my decision. arm starts feeling sore from vaccination like chris said.
home. sleep!! yeah..
then out to westmall for dinner. supposed to eat thai food but ended up mostly indonesian food haha. oh well. oh i saw my other pair of frames that i was considering and finally am almost decided. happily. and saw nice comfy shoes! yay. keds sneakers. am thinking abt whether to get those/scholl/track shoes i.e. nike.
k sentences are quite short n snappy and not formulated properly today cos i can feel my head going round and round already, telling me i desperately need sleep. gnite.
i think i was actually quite happy today until i came back and discovered my housing assignment. (yes, finally). maybe i should've checked my mail while at work. but again that would have made me lose even more concentration heh. anyway, christine gave me a very-pink-watch! hmm. i'm afraid i'm never going to wear it. it is really, really pink. i mean i like pink, but there are limits. oh well. i shall stand it on my desk so it can replace my mini clock which broke down a few months ago haha.
and then the up-pitching.. wah.. i think i'm too accustomed to summaries/down-pitching things for p1s, cos it was quite difficult to cheemify the clozes.. man. so didn't finish that much of it. or rather, not satisfied. maybe i'm too perfectionistic.
there was this baby crawling contest at united sq which was quite hilarious cos the babies refused to crawl to the finishing line, mostly, and had to be coaxed there with jangling of keys/food/etc.
then selene's farewell party.. rather surprising there weren't very many rg pple.. and i didn't even realise it was shan i was talking to on the phone haha oops:p but it was nice to see/talk to people i normally don't see (yingling, shan, hwying, anna, claire, emtok) and hadn't seen lijia in so long! and serene t. sigh. chris joon ser jane all gone. feels weird. even though i don't always see them.. but still. at least there was pam:)
and i don't know why i'm still awake. ohh.. right i don't have to wake up early anymore yay:)
anyway yes.. so i came home and found that i got posted to loro. which i didn't even know where it was.. so i had to frantically search for housing websites (and almost wanted to curse that i didn't bookmark the pages bcos it'd been such a long time since i surfed the housing websites)
and realised it was florence moore hall, which i thought was supposed to be sle-dominant.
in any case, i was at first rather annoyed i didn't get frosoco (even after writing that idiotic essay! !!! !!!!!). i mean, it does have a lot of perks. but i guess i didn't even pray specifically that i'll get it, because i wasn't sure it would be best for me (e.g. given the distance frm main campus). so well, shouldn't be complaining. i think i'm a terrible person. when i'm unhappy i just flare up at any little thing and usually my family gets the flak: sigh. actually i think it's mostly my mom. poor mommy:(
anyway, i hope everything else goes fine. i think i really need to sleep.
when i read blogs of people who're going away soon/have left, i'm profoundly grateful that it's not time for me to leave yet. it just heralds the start of a totally new phase. leaving a lot of things behind. a lot of things will change whether i want them to or not. and keeping in touch. can i do that? more like, can i do tt succesfully? can i make the most of uni? can i handle all that plus other various newfound responsibilities? i'm totally not ready for this.
heh. so much for wanting to experience all the independence and wat not. i think studying overseas held such allure for me because when i was small i used to love those boarding school books. like mallory towers, chalet school, etc. i also liked nancy drew and famous five and etc but that's another thing. read for the story. anyway.. so yes, these boarding school thingies sounded really fun and all.. i think that must be partly why i wanted to go overseas. and also cos my brother went. i think i'm very influenced by him, actually. mac-convert and all. actually i think windows seems easier to use, mac is just prettier (and virus-free).
anyway. yeah. i haven't packed, i don't want to, i haven't bought a lot of stuff, ... haven't done the meningitis vaccination! aah. ahh. and then i'll have farewell notes to write soon. which is good in a way because these notes will express something that i normally wouldn't say. not in a day-to-day conversation anyway. it's kind of like the end-of-X-years-of-sch appreciation-of-friendship note. to put it very bluntly.
today lesley was wondering at how i could write in such a young manner. (at least, i think that was what she said.) she said she can write but it takes time and her writing's quite dry. she was commenting on my oral reading passages, one of which was on a gal visiting the zoo, another one of a guy getting scolded by the discipline mistress for a crumpled shirt. i'm not sure if sounding young is such a good thing heh. for one, it might be that my writing's becoming juvenile. but again, maybe i just managed to slip into the what-p1s-would-like mode in these past few weeks.
and i was rather surprised when the teacher said she wouldn't give the p3s my cloze cos the language was trickier. i mean yeah there's also time constraint.. but i was still quite surprised. cos of all the 3 clozes, mine had the least hard words. as in, least number of difficult vocab words. ah well. and rachel's so fun to bully haha. miss her on mondays. today she was squishing my arm and telling me -i'm- nice to bully. hmph. it felt like the blood pressure machine, u noe, the one that squashes ur arm until you can't feel your arm. although she didn't squash me that hard. but still.
i think i must go and read some oscar wilde. or saki. suddenly miss their style of humour.
okay my blog entry doesn't sound particularly happy, i realised. but i had quite an okay day today.. was actually doing work most of the time rofl. and nowadays i do work until the last min b4 i leave. rather amazing. but i guess it's cos i'm the only intern in eru left so all the little things get dumped to me. ah well.
today's class was funny. melvyn's always so nonsensical. though i think not so ridiculous today la. and the first time i see him wearing hakama! hahaha so amusing. nvm. i wish deborah would come though, miss training with her. anyway, at least i think i didn't roll as badly as last mon: if not tmr cannot work again haha:p the other day i was reading some horoscope book and it said librans have an aggressive streak and thus will take to judo very well. i wonder... haha.
hais 9 - 7 tmr to make up for friday so i can go for selene's party! oh no.. friday ser n jane will be leaving. blah. anyway, it'll be gd to see selene n anna n hwying n etc:)
oh i met tiff in the morning at the mrt today! so coincidental:) it was nice to see her.. tt silly gal says she keeps falling asleep during briefings haha:)
i think i'm a conditioned pessimist, tend to think the worst then realise reality isn't so bad. which may or may not be gd, since i feel happier when things end up better than expected. haha. wat a weird way to think. just me.
this is so uncanny. suddenly, the lines+melody of "It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right. I hope you had the time of your life." became stuck in my mind. and i couldn't remember wat song it was.. so i yahooed it. and found that it was the song that chris quoted on her blog and i actually have the song! haha. i like the song. but when i saw the entire chunk of lyrics (okay not that it was that substantial to begin with), i felt very sad. chris this is all your fault. because it's all true for our rg class. at any rate, it is, for me.
was reading some books (koped frm tll library as usual:D) about americans writing about france and french customs. some of it's so true (even after 8 years) and even if the rest isn't (i think), it's still hilarious. maybe i should have gone to france to study. it'll save a whole lot of $$ at any rate. but there's no use thinking about "maybes". maybe i'll just spend a quarter in paris:) oops. i just said maybe again. nvm.
surprisingly enough i did quite a bit work at work today haha. in the morning, that is. maybe cos i had deadlines to meet so i actually did my stuff. but by the end of the day i was quite sleepy/tired/sian already. this is called burn out:p
and sleepy because i slept maybe 5 hrs last night. not good. which is partly cos of a loong phone conversation. i shall try my best to forget the contents. just rather horrifying to find out some things i suppose. and to dwell on them is even worse. please don't ask me wat i'm talking about. this paragraph is meant to be cryptic.
suddenly i can't decide wat sort of mood i'm in. so confusing. sad that everyone's starting to leave? unhappy/dissatisfied in general? not wanting to leave? knowing that uni life is not going to be easy? aargh. i wish they'd hurry up and send my housing stuff. grr. not even a confirmed date yet, and i'll still have to add 5 days to that date unless they fedex it.
oh, i just remembered something. while trying to write that oral reading passage this morning, i realised wat's gd abt my current job. it's kind of like interning at sph, you get to write stuff and it's printed, and you get recognition (in the form of your name printed as author). just that i think it's better here cos i don't have to do surveys:p and i get to write any sort of stuff i like as long as i stick to lesley's theme. yeah, and i get more authority cos i'm the only intern left in eru/helping out with library. so, in that sense, one feels more important/valued. i bet tinky felt even more powerful cos she was there for the longest time and dabbled in the most things:)
but well, that only goes when everyone (including myself) is satisfied with my work. which may not necessarily always be the case.