so it's actually kind of late (well, not really, but since school hasn't started i hope to sleep early. haha) but just had something to say. i had my first driving lesson today! it was kind of freaky, really. got in and then he started asking me all sorts of things i didn't know and i was like. oops. okay. i suppose i must've appeared like i haven't driven before.. but i guess my dad teaching me illegally doesn't really count cos all i was doing was parking, mostly. it just is different.
anyway so the instructor started asking me all sorts of questions which i couldn't answer so he was like, u'd better go read the book properly. i guess he was wondering how i passed the theory test. haha. it is kind of different applying theory to practical though. and then i've never driven more than like 30km/h with my dad whereas the instructor was like faster!! faster!! 25mph/30mph/40mph/...!
it was good in a way though, made me try more stuff and be more confident since i didn't really have much of a choice. haha. funny how things work sometimes. he claims guys are better than girls at driving. maybe cos they're less scared/better coordination. weird theories, but watever.
and yay everyone's back! had dinner w yf n jh n shineik n jesley. as usual i'm like the only non-batchmate. makes me wonder if i'm being extra sometimes but oh well. isn't as bad as being the only undergrad among grad students though:p oh yes i must go visit tianai sometime.. and it was so funny, i was tabling with cs at bechtel and we met some of the grad students-who-came-from-cornell. in which i told yuanjun that christina said he's very funny so he should entertain me! i think they think i was mad. but i really was quite mad that day so hm. it would be justified.
so yeah jh was driving and i think shineik was slightly alarmed by the way he was driving sometimes, it was really funny.. cos he'd swerve while talking to us and stuff (okay not that often, but when he did..) and shineik'd be like "yeah, but not when u're driving" or something like that. rofl.
ahh. kinda miss having sean n joel around. or have i said that already? the happy-go-lucky seniors. well they did get stressed but they were still really chill mostly haha:p i guess after 3 years you tend to be like that.
oh and ser's poster (i.e. my bday present) arrived today!! haha its so pretty yay:) i shall stick it up on my wall soon.. i need to figure out where my bamboo-scroll-thing-from-chinatown (spore) will go though.
ahhhh! i'm in such a crazy mood (i.e. my senile moods i.e. those where i make weird noises and laugh at every single little thing) but there's no one here to be crazy with me! chuansheng just looks at me like i'm mad, which i am, but that doesn't help.. sigh. where's ser when i need her. i think jackie would also think i'm mad. hmm. sigh.
anyway i'm so excited! i think my birkis have arrived.. but i only got the email from the wilbur housing office AFTER they closed. :( cos i was sooo busy this afternoon if not i'd be happily wearing them by now! -sulks-. oh well.
ohhh!!! and i saw roomie today! ahaha. so funny.. she colored her hair too. but definitely more obviously than mine.. pretty funky. haha. she said she didn't recognize me. and also that she liked my hair. and that i looked more sprightly so summer break did me well! i'm like.. hahaha okay i'm super sleep deprived by now.. 3h45 on thursday night and 3h45 on sunday night.. and having to wake up at 7 today to go help freshmen move in.. oh! i met the people who're staying in my (last year) room! so exciting.. haha.
sometimes its so weird. i feel like i get my energy from other people. or actually, kind of mood-swingy. sometimes i'll be like taciturn and zoning out and watever.. and then sometimes i'll suddenly be (relatively) more chatty and smiley and etc. so after today morning's "speech" by dean julie and all i was like ooh, it's time to be nice and friendly to the freshmen. dunno if that's coherent, but it is something i noticed. and brings me back to last year's pledging.. social events, i get energy from seeing pple like vivian and christine so bubbly.