heh i'm suddenly feeling a bit weird. some of my dorm people are gathered outside in preparation to go for some party.. and my roommate was trying to tell people she didn't want to go cos she had to stay back and do her problem set but at the same time she wanted to go. and her friends from down the hall were forcing her to go. so after that she was like "why don't they ask YOU to party?" and i'm like, i don't party. which seems to be an anomaly here apparently. maybe it's just the freshmen, since my hpac happened to drop by and my roommate asked him to support her but he was like "go! freshmen should go out every week!" or maybe it's just my perception. but frankly, i see nothing very appealing about going to places packed with people either dancing/drinking/...
anyway for the first time in a month i can get up at 10.20am! haha. but man, chuan sheng woke up at 12.. oh well. but somehow today didn't feel particularly fruitful. or as i was telling kiat, "remarkably unproductive". i'm still puzzling over null spaces.
oh! i went to wilbur for dinner (on my own, cos every other sane person went to lag which is definitely nearer but it's so tiny!) and then went to daryl's room after that. his roommate was playing classical music. i think that's really rare. even i don't do that. haha. okay not that i'm a very classical person to begin with, but well. maybe he's one of those who really love it. anyway oh.. i just remembered i haven't listened to the mp3s wenyu sent. ooh. i love ravel. well anyway yeah it was a nice change to hear classical music, given my dormmates who like blasting rock/rap/watever you call that genre which they use at parties. it always conjures the image of some quiet high class carpeted luxurious place
finally i have time to upload photos! but not all of them, this is as much as i can take at one shot. i took a 1hr nap frm 12.30 - 1.30 and slept frm 4.30 - 8.00 in an effort to finish my very last minute econ problem set and ihum paper. i promise myself NEVER to let this happen again. man.
stanford has THE prettiest campus around.. these photos don't do it enough justice though.
entrance to the main quad
walkway in the main quad
inside the main quad
clock tower and hoover tower in the background
the claw!
pigott hall or something, engineering building, part of main quad
one of the entrances to the main quad
my side of the room again (sorry kiat i haven't figured out where to put the bear haha)
roommate's side of room before she arrived
my room a few days ago 
my roommate's side of the room before she arrived 
the corkboard a day (or so) after i arrived
the corkboard on my room door when i arrived
college is crazy. these past few days i've been feeling so tired i fall asleep without intending to (and therefore do not finish my work). for once i'm thankful my roommate wakes up early so i get the choice of getting up to do my work.
i wonder if it's cos i've been wasting time doing things i shouldn't be doing. it's crazy! i have to figure out a (sensible) question to ask later during ihum lecture and send it to my TF.. and my ihum paper is due friday (i've hardly started, only have some vague ideas) and we're supposed to bring the opening paragraph to class today to share.. i suppose at least that forces me to get started, since one can't write an opening paragraph without knowing what one is going to say in the rest of the paper, but ... i have 1.5hrs to do all of the above
and then i've hardly started on my math problem set, haven't even looked at econ (not to mention still being behind on econ reading) and i have to read two articles for introsem tomorrow. !! and the entire cycle is going to repeat itself next week unless i magically find extra days during the weekend to catch up on everything. groan. math midterm next week.
i need to review what i've been doing with my time.
okay i'm having a REALLY hard time trying to find "a person who has reached a high level of achievement in an area i value" so i shall give it up for a while. i suppose this essay shouldn't be that hard to write since it's more about facts than opinions. although that means extensive research, i mean, who's going to tell you how much effort they put in/how much natural talent they had?? ugh.
so anyway, happy birthday to me! haha. thanks to everyone who remembered my bday:)
sporean juniors/seniors who came to my room last night.. it was so weird cos i hadn't seen half of them before, but it was really sweet:)
got up for church (not without being annoyed by roommate's alarm clock, she changed the alarm to radio so it blasts like rock/rap music.. but i think it's more effective cos she switches it off faster, but still)
dennis came by to get me, thankfully, then i didn't have to walk to escondido turn-about. haha.
church was interesting. it was rather touching, i wonder why. anyway i'm going back to campbell next week to see if i really prefer them.
and max called! haha. that was sweet too:) i was rather amused.. he thought i was his mom! man.. and by his tag on my facebook..
back to room, agonised over hero to write about for introsem (am still agonising)
decided to take a nap, kept waking up cos i was afraid i'd wake up late for dinner.
so at 6.25 i went to tresidder and was wondering where in the world jesley was. (haha, where in the world is carmen san diego). and i thought we'd missed the bus but it was in the other direction, thankfully:)
caught the bus to palo alto transit centre (hah, they refused to believe me yest when i said midnight express didn't stop there) and walked to university ave. looked quite cool.
then jesley walked into this restaurant which didn't even look like a jap restaurant, i thought it was like american or something. but then there was jap food on the tables so hmm. and i was still wondering why she walked straight in, then i saw everyone and realised haha. it was a great surprise though. and huge bear! haha. which yf said was as big as me. hmm. i wish wang ning n daryl weren't videoing me though, i must've looked v idiotic.
had a HUGE dinner. oh in the middle the lights went out and some guys got up on their chairs and drank some sake bomb or sth.
and then after dinner, lights dimmed again and kiat came out with a cake! which jesley bought from le boulanger at stanford shopping centre.. that shop is awesome.. haha. and i guessed as much those were trick candles.. the sparks were crazy.. so yf blew them out for me but they relit themselves after a while.. was quite hilarious:p
and the waiters made me stand on the chair and drink 7-up! haha. i was quite sure it was sprite or sth but the rest were speculating whether it was sake haha. thankfully not, wat if i end up drunk -horror- but anyway they gave me a photo of it! so funny:)
definitely a very memorable evening.
and then when i got back, jamie knocked on the door. tomi refused to open the door and stared at me so i was like, weird, okay, and i opened the door. and it was just jamie, which was even weirder haha. but anyway in a while they flung open the door so hard it hit the recycling bin haha. and more cake! man.. i'm SO full now i feel like a ball.
philip's poem was hilarious.. but anyway it was really sweet too.. pple gathered in the hallway singing. haha.
it was a very nice bday! yay:)
and now i better go figure out the rest of my week, can't believe i have an IHUM paper due fri, it's crazy