weirdly i'm not as tired as i thought i might be.. maybe i'm still on an adrenaline high or something. but just now i really was quite tired. anyhow. i'm so glad the bbq went so well.. at least i think it did:) and yf & jh said it did. haha. and i'm sure a lot more people just that i can't remember at the moment. it was so surprising to see so many families though.. i'm wondering if they just came to stanford, or if they just decided to come cos of the national day msg emphasis on connecting back to singapore. but maybe i'm being too pessimistic and they came cos we did a good job of publicising. haha. ie daryl's flyer was very memorable:p
and it was so funny.. i guess i kind of suspected that they wanted to do something cos daryl was talking to viet n jh and i dunno who else and wanting me to go up on the balcony to thank pple for coming and stuff. but then after a while then i realized it was something to do with my bday cos they were being rather suspicious about it. so i refused to go up but daryl went up anyway and announced to the entire crowd of like 70+ppl that my bday's on monday.. slightly embarrassing to have the whole crowd singing happy bday to me but definitely memorable. haha.
i also know realize wat it's like to meet a TON of pple and then totally forget their names/faces a moment later cos i've met so many.. and then i feel bad about it too cos i wouldn't like pple to forget my name.. but there's only so much my poor brain can take. but i'm really glad so many pple came.. and organizing it with berkeley was cool. the guys and wenqi were all really sweet though, carrying stuff around and clearing up and getting everything done. am glad we've such a good team:) and the pple who crashed (tu and her roommate misha, daniel, yf's roommate ian, jh's roommate michael) were really nice and helped out with stuff too.. yay!
rush interviews in the morning were interesting. i had no idea wat to ask for the first interview.. and with kisha next to me asking all these really gd qns i was just like erh... haha. oh well. to learn. and then sitting in on the voting session later. makes me wonder wat they said about me last year. but again i also don't think i really want to know.. i heard tapiwa was really pushing for me, which i'm really grateful for too.
crepes at douce france were sooo yummy:) made me happy:) even with the driving-lesson-fiasco in the morning, which i shall not recount because it's nothing that i care to remember. i really really should sleep. i hope the berkeley guy took nice photos.. didn't get to talk to chim/other people too much, though.
sigh so its just the second week of school and i am so so busy. and rather stressed at points. i guess it isn't all that bad.. just crazy deadlines now and then.. anyway so very belated photos are finally here:
chim's cool attic room!
cute black dog i saw at berkeley.. its homeless though. or its owner is, i believe.
my soco room sign! cool huh.. apparently the company is some colgate something or other. symbol:CL
my soco room! yay for singles. although it was admittedly kind of small
my hair. although i think the photo wasn't too well taken, maybe i'll try again one of these days
anyhow. yes. lots of gripes but too tired/lazy to put them into words. its such a chore to tell people, even. haha. i'm getting ridiculously lazy.. really haven't done any work. and it doesn't help when jh instigates me to go over to kimball and slack at yf's room! but it was quite funny la. jokers. but it was raining! augh. yes. i was indeed very whiney about the rain.. do not like tramping around without any sort of cover when its raining! rained pretty hard.
so i kind of need to start figuring out wat i want to do i guess. the kiasu sporean mentality, when starting earlier will give you an edge. actually i think quite a number of pple here do that so it isn't all that edge-giving. haha. but really. how?? shelve that for the more pressing pset of the moment. ha.
sometimes i wonder what i'm doing in uni. i'm not really very interested in doing research papers or reading them, even. like. intellectual curiosity? i'm not exactly thirsting for knowledge the way my econ 52 prof seems to think we should be. i guess i just wanna have fun. epicurean? oh dear. maybe i'm just saying all this cos its late.
improv class is lots of fun though.. i laughed so hard in class today. haven't done that in a while besides talking nonsense with jackie about roasting ducks a couple of days ago. it's so interesting though, you've to accept offers to keep things going and in order to enjoy..
i am so exhausted. my mental faculties are completely dehydrated. and jackie says she's never heard of that line, but i quite remember reading it somewhere so either i'm so tired i'm spouting that much nonsense or i really did read it somewhere just that i don't really remember where:) ah well.
tutor institute was sort of a chore, but there were definitely useful things. and i totally didn't recognize ian, oops. i guess its somewhat like ben not realizing it was me at the sealnet table that day, since i hardly wear contacts (or dye my hair, haha). anyway it was kind of hilarious, i really didn't wanna do roleplaying for tutor institute but was forced to in the end, cos there's a grand total of 5 econ tutors and 4 of them are new and singaporean (zhihao the gambling guru, me, kiat, wangning). kiat left early and zhihao already roleplayed something. so it was like down to me and wangning. with richard and cs unsurreptitiously poking me, the person in charge (amy) was like "i see someone being volunteered" and of cos wangning didn't twitch a muscle so i was like i'll do it.. oh and it was a situation involving an econ tutor and a potential econ major whose math is very bad. so. had to be an econ tutor. ah well. i got an oreo + milk (which was nice).
oh sumo wrestling was hilarious too.. actually i really was not intending to do it.. but tet was quite on about doing it and while watching it was soo amusing so i figured, heck, it's not like i'll get to do this every day so just do lah. and of cos cs had to go back and get his camera so daryl can have more incriminating photos of me on the next eflyer. sigh.
speaking of which, so i've been bugging poor daryl to get the eflyer for fall bbq/mooncake festival out. so yesterday he finally sent it, and i didn't even realize until i opened my blinking adium window and jon was like "OH MY GOSH. he's done it again. HAHAHAHA". at first i was rather puzzled and was like "who?" then i guessed in a second and went "oh dear". jackie couldn't stop cackling when she saw it.. and said she would buy daryl a drink if he were the drinking sort. sigh. so i'm not sure, but friday at activities fair some masters sporeans recognized me (from the flyer maybe???) so it seems like my face is going to become unforgettable. well done. i think sometimes i feel somewhat like poor ser getting diaoed when we were back in rg/rj. haha. but in a different way.
alright i better sleep before i really conk out tomorrow.. still have so many things to do! and jackie was so amused at the way i exclaimed in tragic tones (upon seeing this email from my econ 102A prof) "i have homework! nooooo" apparently i provide a lot of entertainment somehow (with my batchmates, anyway), jackie's recording this list of "clar-isms" and has informed me that it's always on the top 5 list of word docs that she opens. photos next time.