after a hectic week.. i'm suddenly feeling very free. just came back from gaieties.. it wasn't really that centred around cal-bashing. plus i didn't think it was very funny/impressive. but the lead singers were quite good. the girls anyway, i didn't really like the guy. reminded me of chicago on broadway though.. that was awesome!:) want to watch more broadways! haha. but i need $$ man. sigh. i'm so tempted to buy cat 1 seats for corteo with jane but i don't know if i should.. or whether cat 3 seats are that bad. blah.
the irony of it all; after the last (which also happens to be the first) ihum paper, i vowed to start earlier so i wouldn't have to stay up till 4.30am on thursday night (or friday morning) to write it, but no.. the same thing happened. i really don't get it.. maybe it's my tendency to procrastinate. or the idea that i can just keep thinking.. and thinking.. and thinking.. until it's too late and there's no more choice! ugh. anyway i'm surprisingly awake given that i slept at 3.45 and woke up around 7.40 (not by choice, i was planning to wake up at 8.40 but i woke up anyway, maybe cos my subconscious mind was telling me i needed to get that paper done) and when i tried to take a nap just now i didn't succeed. but now i'm a bit tired. time to sleep 10hrs!! yeahh..
uh. well. oh.. i've downloaded like half the soundtracks for kA.. i really like love dance! maybe cos of the harp. and the cello. i think those are my two favourite instruments. i want the CD though. US$19.50:| hmm. okay i think i shall go bathe and sleep.
am listening to jay chou's kai1 bu4 liao2 kou3 and it starts off with this airplane noise thingy.. reminded me of 17th sept.. the day before flying here. the day at sentosa, and ending up reaching home so late and going out for dinner and rushing to pack when i was SO tired. haha. and getting scolded for not packing earlier/going out even though i hadn't packed. and now i'm here already it seems almost comic (heh, wolff's favourite word when lecturing ihum) that i was so worried about forgetting to bring stuff.
and then not being able to sleep even though i was so tired (maybe the fatigue wore off) and then waking up with a horror of leaving my home. of not being around, even though it's only for 3 months. actually now that i think about it i still don't like the idea, especially when i'm not going home next winter, hmm. but anyway. it's easy to look back and shrug it off. but that terror was very real. ah well.
also reminded me of the tea/watever at marche with church pple.. when jason came back and was telling us about british slang and the oxbridge rivalry. i wonder wat i'll have to say about stanford-cal rivalry haha. today someone in my ihum section was trying to sell a shirt. it said "cal" in front. and at the back "stanford was too hard to spell" or sth to that effect.
anyway.. i was so amused (and bemused) by the appearance of this email entitled "our humble contribution" in my inbox, with 2 pictures of freezers. one with joel grinning from ear to ear. so, here is the much-loved, well-stocked freezer of the occupants of 2094 yale street. i must make sure i mention that this fantastic freezer of theirs contains "20 lbs of meat!" (not to mention guo1 tie1s and i assume, at one point in time, pineapple tarts)
this is the reason i was at their house yesterday. hahaha. oh.. should have sent me a pic of the shrine too. haha.
ahaha! i have just introduced my roommate to the wonders of hello panda. haha. she agrees it's addictive. i think i finished off 3 packets today. :| oh well. at least i'm not daryl who bought like 5 (rather huge) packets of bin bin. and then when we were at ranch99 yesterday daryl was like "i heard from sean you told him to go outside and wait cos u were going to take a long time" and i'm like !!! that guy.. i'm sure daryl heard something else too but i forgot wat.
lunch was good! haha. i have discovered the joys of honey walnut prawns thanks to sean too. joel was like "his three favourites: honey, walnut, prawns". and then i don't know how come they served us bubble tea, but then daryl was drinking his bubble tea and sucked too hard or sth cos suddenly a pearl shot out of the straw and ricocheted to the back of his throat and then he jumped slightly and looked very shocked. it was so funny la he's forever so ridiculous..
oh here's a pic frm yesterday's dinner
back (l - r): zhihui (i'm v sure she was tarbet mass dance capt or sth.. anyone find her familiar? i know she was an spsl though), sean, daryl, wenzheng, kevin, kevin's gf (i'm not sure how to spell her name), me!
front (l - r): xianyi with the two birthday boys joel and ruixiong
okay i really should be doing work not doing this but ahh.. i listed out the stuff i have to do. it doesn't seem like that much, but i know it's a lot. ugh. too unstressed for my own good
ohhh i just remembered sth else that happened yesterday/today thanks to kiat.
yesterday during dinner sean was in ecstasies over this bak chor mee place, and decided that we were going to lunch there today. so we went there and then found joel and daryl standing outside. cos the place closed down and there was another restaurant in place of it!
they (sean n joel) were so disappointed..
sean "brother.. the sun has set.."
joel "yes brother.. it is a dark day.."
and they went on in that line for a while.
then when we went to their house to visit and ailin came along with the most fabulous egg tarts i've eaten.. (from chinatown in SF! 1029 grant street! haha) and apparently she knew that place closed down but didn't tell them so they were complaining. and saying they should go into mourning; rend their clothes and put on ashes and sackcloth. it was SO funny.. oh and their freezer is very full of meat.
yesterday joel defined chicken and fish as vegetables, i don't know why.