in econ lect just now i was wondering if i'd bitten off more than i can chew.
disregarding the need to digest the stuff after every lect, my current workload per week:
1 problem set for math
1 problem set for econ
1 essay for introsem
1 chapter of prof's book for introsem
variable number of articles (with varying number of pages) for introsem
2 stories (on average) for ihum
that's also disregarding time needed for other activities, which i still haven't decided on. as it was last night i went to try out chi alpha and it was like.. almost 2hrs.
am i complaining too much? hmm. introsem is supposed to be the lightest/most fun course but it can rival ihum. they're kinda similar; reading and responding. but i think ihum's harder, i'm out of practice with analysing texts.
and now that i have to read research papers i'm so thankful i did smp/terp in sec sch/JC cos at least i know what a research paper looks like and don't have -that- much problems reading it (as compared to if i were reading it for the first time)
i probably shouldn't have slept at 2.30 yesterday. so sleepy now. argh. back to reading the 12pg paper for introsem later.
went for aikido today. it's really different from back home. i kinda (as usual) miss alvin's teaching haha. i must email and tell him that.. and miss training w deborah/melvyn. anyway, the arrillaga family sports centre was so freaking far away (okay it wasn't that bad, but compared to where my classes were, it definitely was) plus i had to do TB test at vaden before that, so i had to skip lunch (poor me)
lots of brackets
anyway, i dunno if i'll go train with them, it's quite a tight fit trying to rush from there to math section in Gesb unless the bus decides to come on time (which it normally doesn't, in general cases) and well.. i don't know.
dance class was also different. she didn't focus on perfecting the basics as much as they did back home either. and went way faster.. which is good in a way cos we get exposed to more stuff, but well, working on basics is good too.
suddenly (as usual) i don't have as much to say as i thought i did.
there is so much work it's like the start of j2 all over again.. it's the 2nd week and i'm already behind on econ reading (which never seems to end) and i spent 4 hrs reading 40pgs for ihum. how sad is that! i didn't even realise it was 11pm already. groan. oh wait.. then that's 3 hours.. see i can't count somemore. ...
i'm still wondering wat to join. i think i always assumed i would end up in acappella. and even though stanford has a lot of grps, a lot of them don't appeal to me. on another note, i guess when it comes to college, CCAs are really different from what they used to be in pri/sec sch/JC. or maybe that's just my perception.
i can't remember if i said it before but i think what serene said to me on the night before i left was true. the sadness one feels is worth it for what you get to experience here. although actually what chris said is also right; there's so much work there isn't much time left to enjoy the non-academic parts of college life here (or there, in her case, in cornell. heh.) maybe it's the question of knowing how to balance. which i definitely haven't achieved, given that i feel really like a hermit.
ah. i am going to take my shower soon. but i decided i'd better blog before i forget wat i wanted to say (as usual).
i don't know why i find it so hard to read the econ txtbk. really very unused to reading the WHOLE chapter. usually i think i just skim and pick out more important stuff cos i've already read very-good-lecture-notes-frm-rj. haha. anyway, here's hoping i manage to finish everything i have to tonight, although that seems a tad impossible given that it's like 10pm. unless i sleep late (again). which isn't a very good idea cos i'll fall asleep during classes tmr again. sigh.
i don't remember exactly when it started appearing into my head, but i think at one time or other jesley's blog title was "an awfully great adventure" (frm peter pan!) and that phrase has just stuck for now. it comes to mind when i'm walking around white plaza in the morning, when i'm finding my way to classes/other places using the map (and i don't get lost k! yay for me! hah), when i first took the marguerite with jackie to stanford shopping center/walmart, and most recently, yesterday, on the way and in san francisco.
so yeah, i never saw myself spending the first weekend of school in SF frm 9.30am - 12midnight. nor did i foresee myself being rolled out of bed by the sophomores.
scenario:
-soft knock on door-
clar wakes up with a start and wonders if she's overslept and the rest have come to get her (reminiscent of last last thurs or sth)
clar checks watch. 7am !! !!!
clar closes eyes and hopes the knock wasn't on her door, and that the pple will go away
no such luck
clar vaguely hears someone telling another to wake me up while he went to get someone else. or something like that.
then, loud hammering on the door
clar vacates the bed with great haste and opens the door and complains
poor roommate is awakened
clar, daryl, jiun haur, shin eik walk over to alondra to roll out the next victim seihout.
and we had bfast at the oval. which was kinda weird. but well. it was nice seeing all the sophomores:)
alright i suddenly don't feel like saying watever it was that i had to say cos i can't really remember wat point i wanted to make. so that shall have to wait.
it's so hot in the afternoons! man. i think i may go do my laundry later.. oh wait jackie wants to go shopping. we shall see. so sad, no call backs. kind of expected though, sigh. so i shall have to go find something else to join tmr at activities fair. should be fun though!
i'm happily munching on krispies tt julie dropped by on monday.. so yummy. haha. they're really nice but i'm not sure i want to join them. oops. and she gave me grapes! which i have just discovered. munch munch munch.
come to think of it, i feel kinda isolated here cos we don't have much shopping here and i think everything on campus rips us poor students off. but again there's always the marguerite, which i haven't taken and may take later. okay, i am taking it later, thanks to jackie's determination.
oh yes, i get to stay in my introsem so that's gd.. i didn't bother going for the sociology class. and i went for greek mythology and disappeared half way cos it was so boring.. oh well.
i miss real japanese food. but jesley says we'll eat at a jap restaurant sometime! yay:) although i think i'm going to be quite poor after that. i already feel poor all the time cos i'm not working. weird huh. funny what 2 months of work can do to you. and given that that's my longest job so far.. haha.
right i probably should go read some econs, it's so hard to plough through the chapters.
yay i finally got a decent ihum section. such a nice surprise cos i thought they only posted changes at 8am and 8pm. but it worked out fine.. so now i just have to see about introsem.. i figured if she doesn't let me stay, i'll go take a socio class which looks quite interesting. will check it out tmr!
but first, i have to write that psych essay. bleah. and yay! i'm done with 1st-round auditions. now we have to see if anyone calls me back. sigh. i didn't realise tmr's thursday already.
oh something i wanted to say, during orientation when they (faculty) were talking to us, i felt so old. like. 25 or sth. rofl. i don't know why. i mean, in JC i never felt 17 or 18, nor do i really feel 18 (or going-to-be 19) now. i guess it's just that college is so new and on-your-own that it has such an adult feeling. i should really be writing that essay for tmr but nvm, just a few mins to blog this won't kill me.
so, i think it was just because of all the research and talking to faculty is good and drink responsibly and make full use of the opportunities stuff.. but well. i realised college is quite different frm JC. like, haha, no notes? i never used to read textbooks.. now.. i find myself having to plough through 1 chapter of econ each night (i'm already backlogged, what are the odds) and there are NO notes for math (or even slides). ihum is a bit like lit class but i've only been for lecture so it's like, lit lecture.
right, i just realised i missed my ihum section today cos i didn't know about the change until like 4plus. anyway.. i guess i'm pretty much done blogging since my train of thought derailed.
right, since kiat says he'll post it if i don't, here goes: my bank of america visa card got sent to singapore. yeah. i must have written the wrong address. i think these things only happen to me huh. oh well.
and !! everyone's been telling me that oh, if you go for introsems and stay and talk to the prof, they'll usually let you stay.. not in my case.. this prof is like, if the 2 pple who didn't come today don't come on thurs then u get to stay.. sigh. being no. 2 on the waitlist is not all that fantastic. she said there were 104 applications for that introsem though, heh. but now i have to go find backup class just in case
and i hope they give me a good ihum section cos i just petitioned to change it again (they gave me a 6pm one ! !!) sigh. hope it works out..
just came back from everyday people auditions, i'm wondering if i'll get called back for any group, really. there're so many people auditioning! sigh.
and i have quite a bit of homework to do, and no inclination to do it. serene where are you when i need you? haha. i've been slacking for too long..
okay this sounds quite melancholic, but start of sch isn't exactly very happy, i realised. heh.
oh i was going to blog about the first party i went to. tonight was kinda cold, dunno why.
anyway, there was O-show. I'm rather confused about which acapella group i prefer, actually. and i thought mixed company was good cos of the recordings i heard from their website, but today they certainly didn't sound that good.. maybe i thought they were the best cos they're the oldest co-ed acapella grp, but well. hmm. guess i'll do wat tomi suggested (that's my roommate), just audition and see who takes me. maybe i won't have to make a choice as usual! rofl. don't know if that'll be gd or bad. oh well.
uh, yeah. i finally finished class enrollment. sort of. the introsem app was such a headache. like, 2.5hrs, how'd u expect me to come up with something decent? okay i probably should've started thinking before coming, but well. oops. and there was this guy blasting music a few doors down. wanted to decapitate him. i don't mind, normally, if i'm not doing anything, but hi, i'm trying to write something here.
ah. then, the party. haha. my dorm mates claim that all the party-deprived people are there. anyway, there were people talking inside, people dancing (or trying to) outside. and the dancing outside.. was like pple rubbing against each other and watever.. your typical american tv scene? watever you call it. oh well. mom called so i disappeared inside to get some peace and quiet.
yeah.. tmr's quite free, which is gd, but also bad cos i don't know what to do with myself! well done. anyway yay i'm finally going shopping on sunday, meaning i hopefully get a kettle n comforter (yes, i will have survived a week without a comforter) and a bike. although it is a pain shopping for stuff sometimes, like how to get the best deal and blah blah blah.
i like my dorm pple though.. the seniors are really nice.. i went to disturb melissa just now, and complain about the height of the bed. (we're both short, and the bed's kinda higher than is normal in spore). so she was like, in her freshman year, she lofted the bed so the drawers could go underneath, so she had to practice jumping into bed.. like high jump? run a semi circle and leap into bed. rofl.
yeah. but i kinda miss the sporeans sometimes. and wanna meet up with the seniors again! it's different when we're all here.
like my PHE (peer health educator) said, it's when you listen to the dean/provost/whoever talk, that you remember how fortunate you are to be at stanford. if not it's just so easy to forget. and in the day when i'm walking around, it's just such a nice feeling to look around and say wow, this is such a pretty campus and i belong here! haha. and all the tourists with hats and such hiking around. hah.
oh and they really have a big thing about alcohol.. like a complete briefing on it and very detailed. stanford wants you to drink responsibly! but i think they got the point across. hopefully. and last night there was this play about drinking/sex/... rather explicit as compared to wat pple wud've done in spore i think. but just as propagandistic in a way.
today larry page (google founder) came to talk to us! way cool man.. i was just sitting there gaping. haha. he's quite funny.. and there was this music prof who created his own instrument out of various things.. and with the help of an amplifier or some other music equipment, he improvised this piece of music for us. and he tapdanced while playing the piano! i have NEVER seen that before.. a one-man show. so cute. but also so difficult.
yay!!! i finally set up my own computer, thanks to shuyee who dropped off my mac mini, and to my RCC who lent me a monitor! although i kind of need an extension cord for the monitor power cord, everything's great!
i shouldn't have stayed up trying to get the internet going though, it was SO slow and today it was so fast. heh. alright gotta run for orientation stuff soon
oh, i forgot, for pictures of the famous beautiful stanford campus, look at kiat chuan's blog.. you won't regret it! go look for his name under my links. since my monitor hasn't arrived, i still can't set up my comp so no photos yet. not that i've taken many to begin with.
yeah, i'm like always rather tired just after dinner. was falling asleep today during the meet-the-authors-of-the-summer-reading-books thing.
and nothing seems to end early! sigh. like today we ended book discussion at 10pm, yesterday the band run ended at 12midnight, the day before i think was still normal, can't remember wat's happening tmr. ahh. right i need to go check out other things.
cell phone: 650 796 6107
dorm phone: 650 497 3949
mailing address (USPS):
P.O. Box 15277
Stanford, CA 94309
mailing address (courier):
436 Mayfield Avenue
Loro 301
Stanford, CA 94305
wow, it's only been a couple of days and i remember everything so well. why? multiple bank accounts and telling family and ... oh well.
okay, i finally am blogging. this is only because i'm waiting for the rescomp website to load, hoping that somehow, i'll be able to register my stupid laptop for internet connection so it'll stop hanging on me. it's actually almost 1am, normally i'd be asleep by now, but we had some late night follow-the-infamous-marching-band-and-go-disturb-all-the-freshman-dorms thing and we only got back around midnight.
it rained today! ugh. i bitterly regretted wearing flip flops. haha. and i met my roommate. she's a black from boston, MA. and i met all the other freshmen in my dorm.. i don't know why but i get this feeling they don't like asians very much. or maybe i'm just paranoid. and it's so weird, all the other asians i'm meeting have american accents (or something like it), even though they're from asia. i guess they were from international dorms.
oh right i finally got my cell phone, but when the guy emailed me the numbers he didn't tell me which was whose number (we signed up for a grp plan) so i'm rather clueless now. oh well. will figure it out sometime.
uh. yeah. i haven't gotten a bike or comforter yet so i'm quite screwed. i REALLY need that comforter. why is stuff so hard to buy here? or maybe i'm just picky.
okay this doesn't sound like a very happy entry but it's just to let off stress. all this stuff is driving me nuts.. deciding which bank account to get.. blah blah blah. there're so many things to do i kind of regret not getting my parents to come along. haha. sigh.
somehow, when you're here, (dunno how many) miles from home, you don't think about home as much. the night before leaving i woke up in the middle of the night and was suddenly gripped by the horror of not being at home for so long and wanted to cancel my flight. quite crazy right. but that's me, capable of being totally obsessed about something for a while.
ooh i had a very good day today:)
unfortunately i have taken to the habit of leaving the house late. which makes me late for appointments: oops. but that was partly cos i was regaling melvyn with tales of my escapades in the heartland shops/wet-market.
i must detail my adventures at the above-mentioned places another time.. it's really quite amusing. although, of course, it wasn't exactly very amusing on monday, but the rest of the days when i was in a better mood, i could laugh at myself.
anyway.. today! lunch w lyd pam tinky kahli. in order of arrival, sort of. this is like the 2nd time i've done this.. walk into a restaurant telling the waiters/waitresses i'm looking for friends, wander around in search of them, realise with a start that they're not there yet! (or i've gone blind or sth, choy) and back out of the restaurant to call the pple who're supposed to be there. the first time it was with church pple for the twins' farewell dinner.
okay so we had a fun time.. pam's forever full of nonsense.. she and lyd were just itching to eat up kahli's share (kahli was rather late). there were a number of quotable quotes, but i'm lazy to go check my notebk.
ohh!! kahli and her pink beads!! haha. she didn't want to give lyd her "bubble things" cos -ahem- "these are taoist beads! i went to the temple to get them!"
when questioned on why they were pink, "i dropped them into a bucket of pink paint"
later, elaborating on the pains which she took to get these oh-so-precious beads, "i queued for 2 days on my knees at the temple"
pam "why not on your nephew? so biased!"
sigh.. but it was funny cos it was so silly:)
went to get my shower gel.. and marks n spencers to get stuff for tll pple. and birkenstocks to look at shoes! they're prettier than other comfort shoe brands, but more expensive.. like twice the price! sigh.
then to toa payoh to look for stuff.. was quite tired by then actually. wanted to sleep. haha. and it didn't help that the things i was carrying were all so heavy.. poor me.
and i finally decided to get my butt down to novena. was still looking around trying to find earrings for rachel/something whaley for christine. unfortunately it was to no avail, so they shall have to wait.
treading the familiar way that i've traced and retraced the past 2 months. comfortable in a way. but no, i didn't feel like pulling out the timesheet to ask fernn to sign haha. i was just kinda afraid it'd rain and then i wouldn't be able to walk to newton, but in the end i was late anyway so had no time to walk.
was anticipating shocked/surprised looks at my reappearance. no one at inner recept. pushed open the staff door.. ohh only debbie's there.. ey having class and wtc doing cover class. oh well. nvm at least i got to see zee later for a while heh. haha poor debbie's left all alone writing! maybe the choc biscuits will cheer her (and the rest) up though:)
oh phyllis' shocked look when she walked past and saw me was v funny:) then i popped into tlu to give rachel her pigs and tim-tam (which i had to go to cold storage for cos ntuc didn't have). eng seng was still around. when i look at him i think luohan. hahaha. christine's fault.
followed rachel to library. i'm kinda glad i don't have to tidy it up anymore. it got a bit boring after a bit. after returning the books, rachel decided that they were too lan4 to leave in the library so time to dump it in the lousy books box! ahaha.
pushed past the mirror door.. it was fun to see christine's and shang tyng's shocked looks:) and christine shout "have you packed?" at me thru the door. haha. so charlene opened the door for me and i gave them their choc rolls.
i really don't know how i managed to spend like 50mins there and not realise it. maybe cos of the interruptions of my phone (sms alert) and call from kai-lyn (whereby christine yelled "7pm!" and "newton!" and "dress nicely cos u're going out later!" at her when i was answering kai's qns). and call frm charlene upstairs (i can remember her extension by now, haha).
actually, i only realised i was late when christine and shang tyng asked me wat time i was supposed to go and !!! it was 6.55pm!! ahh. well done, clar. oh and i probably inconvenienced poor shang tyng quite a bit by koping her chair haha. oops.
anyway, time to go.. christine said she was going to trail me, i have no idea why. so i said byebye to debbie n phyllis and went out to paris 4 w cc to find wtc to take her dinner order. n after that byebye to christine and then to rachel.
and dinner! yumyumyum my stingray. haha. i was late. oops. a lot of hilarity, cheukka always says the funniest things. "are there cartwheels in ballet?"
kai-lyn hums part of waltz of flowers tune and -gestures- "cartwheel!"
rofl
oh and cheukka doesn't like chicken cos it comes with bones. something to that effect.
okay now i'm lazy to elaborate, shall go write my own diary.
this is very bad. i can't remember if it happened every night (okay maybe i'm in denial) but i know for certain, last night i was panicking about how many days are left and how my packing is still half-past six. at least today i got down to a little more packing since i stayed at home. and i started reading old school! i think i'm terrible at lit hmm, can't seem to analyse poems very well. or maybe i'm just too lazy (over-used excuse).
like i was telling darryl last night, sometimes i still wish i'd chosen to stay here, but actually i think once i get there i'll have a whale of a time (haha, whale). at least i certainly hope so. have so far remained blissfully ignorant with regard to career choices in the past few months after the state of no-scholarship-ness. weird to have to try to start thinking about it again. or start thinking about anything to do with school, actually.
i was going to visit rg and rj this week before leaving but well. inertia got the better of me? i know i'm too lazy to walk frm bishan mrt to rj. haha, this is why i need a gd pair of walking shoes which i have yet to get. and rg.. bit weird, i don't think i'll have anything much to talk about also except "how're u prepared? excited?". i guess i'll go back during first week of sch nxt year.
and i thought my nick was supposed to inform pple of my flight and all so i wouldn't have to keep telling pple 9.15am!! sometimes it still doesn't work. oh well.
yay i hope tomorrow will be a fun day:) seems quite promising anyway.
went out with rachel today! was good to see her:) there's nothing like seeing people in person. as compared to talking online or emailing or watever. i think i shall visit tll on thurs. though that also means i have to buy stuff before that.. maybe i'll buy after lunch w lyd pam tinky~
march of the penguins is cute! but the soundtrack is really annoying. esp the singer singing english songs! man. i wanted to get up and bash the speakers. anyway.. slightly-grown baby emperor penguins are cute! haha. so downy and fluffy. and they waddle around looking like puffs of fur. and penguins sliding around on their tummies and clumsily falling over and all.. haha. so amusing.
oh the penguins smacking each other with their flippers reminded me of the madagascar penguins! i love the madagascar penguins! they're hilarious. i want ALL the penguin clips. heh. not that i've bothered going to look for them, but nvm.
uh. lemme see. tcc is so lovely! but very expensive. sigh. the real food, that is. i guess one can go there and splurge once in a while.
and pool! rachel's actually not as bad as she claimed. i haven't played pool in a long time i think. the last time was probably with ser.
and last monday class today.. i think bruises are definitely going to appear tmr. i also think deborah's right (i -think- she was the one who said so), sufian is a bit hard on poor white belts like me. but he does teach quite well.
alright i guess i should go and do something constructive. oh introsem mailing came today! there's nothing like receiving mail frm stanford to make you feel more excited.. if not it kinda feels like you've been forgotten. haha. maybe i just like getting mail/sending mail.
I HATE PACKING!!!!!!!! ugh. i want to whine and whine and whine and whine but everyone's overseas already:( poor clar.
haha. anyway, i'm so tired, and it's not like i haven't slept enough. last night was like 0030 - 0700 (i'm still hoping by this week i can wake up later and enjoy extra sleep). then i took a nap just now 1700 - 1900. and now i'm very tired. this thing is taking a toll on me man.
had a really lovely surprise at church, bible class teacher(s) organised a sort of farewell party for me. suddenly i'm so dua pai haha. and the scrapbook was so sweet! even though i wasn't supposed to open it until on the plane, hmm. too bad. haha. i think i really don't see leaving as such a big deal until other people make a big deal out of it. then i start to realise.
maybe hk's right, i tend to be a buffer and make things less serious than they seem. gd and bad pts, of course.
well anyway, off to sim lim for MORE shopping. i realised the inadequacy of my previous research, given that i didn't know built-in mic doesn't equal to mic output coming out thru webcam cable, there usually is another extra cable. so we tramped all over trying to look for either 1. usb-sound stereo plug/jack-in/watever you call it converter or 2. usb headset+ mic or 3. webcam + inbuilt mic with all usb plugs.
bah in the end didn't buy anything, cos not sure if they're mac-compatible. i didn't know apple was so annoying. but bro says the trade-off for virus-free and crash-free computers is worth it. i guess so.
and later when we got home and i did more research, found out:
1. mac messenger doesn't support webcamming
2. iChat doesn't support usb webcam (i.e. must buy the iSight, which is US$149)
3. iChat uses AIM
4. basically, webcamming with macs is a whole lot more problematic than with pcs
so luckily we didn't get anything. i shall just get that logitech desktop mic.
okay i hope i'm still making sense.
then, i finally lugged my suitcase out. and started packing. i understand why siewjin and sarah didn't start packing that early. anyway, and to my horror! there is NO way i'm going to fit everything into one suitcase. that's the first problem. i suppose desperation will give me the ability to handle 2 suitcases of probably more than 50kg (combined weight).
2nd problem, jiunhaur has informed me there are NO lifts in the dorms! i'm dead. i'm hoping there'll be some very strong guys around to help me if not i'll probably be stuck sleeping on the grass. and i'm also hoping some nice singaporean can come fetch us from the airport. haha.
and i'm really so tired.
sleep.
i'm quite tired so just a short post to complain about unfair service:p
dinner w reggie! haha. it was fun:) one of the waitresses was so biased.. man.. not that i really minded or anything but it was rather amusing.. the water in our glasses would be at the same level, but the waitress only filled his glass and happily ignored mine.. actually i thought it was just a one-time oversight, but constant observation proved otherwise. so i was laughing while pointing it out to reggie and promptly collapsed into more laughter when it happened again for the 4th time the entire course of our dinner (and the 1st time after i informed reggie of this rather interesting fact).
oh we had a nice time browsing cds. so tempted to buy david lanz/latin or flamenco guitar but i don't know if i'll like it. even though i liked david lanz's finding paradise, i think his other cds might be along different lines. and i'm actually rather sick of shopping: bah. okie off to sleep.
okay, i woke up at 8 today. marginally better. i suppose it's gd to wake up early in that it gives me more time to do stuff (as compared to waking up at 11 and half the day is gone) but maybe i should sleep earlier then heh. would like to get nice 10hrs before i end up not-sleeping-at-stanford.
and i had a rather amusing time looking at photos of poor eng seng in the library and rachel scolding him. haha. christine is so funny.. but it made me miss everything, kind of. although i'm happy not being cooped up in a workplace, i miss annoying rachel in the library! aah. well.
anyway.. dropped by weiying's house to return her chem txtbk. then i went to nus and stoned for like 20mins waiting for M1 dna lect to end. finally fiona n candice appeared. n monmon n raphael! yay:) mini-class gathering. haha. lunch at coffee grounds. and met hweeying aft that. oh listening to raphael reminds me of all the bio lects when i wanted to strangle him due to the plethora of lousy jokes.
shuttle bus to visit candice's room.. it really looks like a condo la.. from the outside anyway.. i always liked those type of bricks.
it also has the most gorgeous view. candice says drunk international students go and wade in the fountain sometimes.
well yeah. her room was full of ikea stuff.. and not very full of stuff like my brother's. but i guess it's diff cos she gets to go home every weekend/anytime she wants.
uh. lemme see. sat around chatting. then went off to orchard to do my shopping. as usual, didn't accomplish everything i set out to do. i seriously underestimate the time needed for me to make decisions. this is why i go shopping alone. haha. even the most patient person would find it a sore trial to put up with me. the worst thing was the shoes actually. i think i spent at least 1 hr in total trying on all sorts of shoes. the salesgirl was very nice though. she got me a basket and asked if i was frm poly haha. and "isn't it boring to shop alone?" so i was like no, i take very long to decide (not that she couldn't tell that frm my indecisiveness/pickyness)
so, i figured if i'm not satisfied i shan't waste $$. at least i got the shorts n track pants at a gd price. but now i need waterproof track pants. also at a gd price. hmm. and gd cut. haha. oh and i found vacuum packed pillows! yippee. unfortunately my vacuum packed bolster has already expanded:( hopefully i can stuff it into the vacuum pack bags without much problem/deformation. and i couldn't decide which pillow was better, even though i surreptitiously glanced around before dumping them on the bed and trying them out. haha.
and i need a new wallet. i shall attempt to find one tmr or something. although i wish i'd found nice comfy walking shoes sigh. i am really too picky. i have this tendency to want to buy a lot of things which i may/may not use when i see 20% discount. haha.
anyway, then i walked (very quickly) down to borders to look for old school, but it was not to be! ugh. i can't believe it.. kiat went down to buy last week or sth, and this week they tell me they don't carry the book anymore.. saves me $$ i suppose. but really..
dinner at venezia with lijia and pam who was like 1hr late cos she severely underestimated the journey time for 67 from tampines and then ended up stopping 2 stops late, bcos i didn't tell her it was guthrie house. oops. that poor girl, i can totally empathise given that i took 67 frm bedok home. and lyd who was 2.5hrs late bcos she went to get her phone (so she could return me mine) and eat dinner w her mom. but it was fun.. and it reminded me of mugging days with lijia (and occasionally joon). they revamped the decorations though. so black now. hmm.
alright. now to think about what to do tmr. i am so not ready to go. haven't started packing, haven't finished buying stuff, haven't read my books, haven't packed my room, haven't haven't haven't. i had better make all those things "hads" soon, if not i'm done for.
i was in a very horrible mood because of all the wrong things i did today. (and the unbelievable amount of time needed to choose a new school bag/books to buy which i didn't buy in the end).
but i checked the mail and surprise! mag sent me a letter! so heartwarming:) cheered me up quite a bit at any rate. and the quote was so sweet. thank you dearie!:)
and my bill has finally arrived so dad can stop bugging me about it. it's not my fault stanford is full of idiotic things which drain money. i suppose they have the luxury of that as well as sending stuff late and pple will still go there cos of who they are. argh.
uh. oh.. something i forgot to say. i look around my room, think about the days left. so i'm supposed to leave in 11 days' time, live a different life for 4 years, and come back.
sigh mac mini is giving me problems. why does it not have an audio in??? i am so annoyed
oh i have remembered something else. on sunday i was at sim lim with my dad and bro trying to find keyboard/mouse/webcam.. it was rather surreal. now i'm drawn into the world of computer specifications and hunting down the best bargains in sim lim (which my dad totally adores) . and thanks to the mac mini not having an audio-in i'm trying to find out if there's a webcam with usb mic. all this i wouldn't be doing on my own in normal circumstances.
another transcript
cosmos - 18th sept, 0915. T2, SQ16. says:
oh!
cosmos - 18th sept, 0915. T2, SQ16. says:
it's 1am.
clar:] 2 weeks says:
well done
cosmos - 18th sept, 0915. T2, SQ16. says:
i thought it was still midnight
clar:] 2 weeks says:
you can tell time
clar:] 2 weeks says:
oh wait
clar:] 2 weeks says:
you can't
clar:] 2 weeks says:
oops
cosmos - 18th sept, 0915. T2, SQ16. says:
haha
cosmos - 18th sept, 0915. T2, SQ16. says:
i'm set on GMT +7
cosmos - 18th sept, 0915. T2, SQ16. says:
that's why...
clar:] 2 weeks says:
for wat??
clar:] 2 weeks says:
that's so silly
cosmos - 18th sept, 0915. T2, SQ16. says:
i'm just joking...
i'm too gullible. haha. anyway, that was an interesting conversation. who here thinks i act like a kid? rofl. i suppose i do sometimes, that's why rachel n christine are so amused. hmm. maybe it's a way of keeping the child within.
shopping tmr! oh i must go and check my bank account for my pay! yippeee haha
ahh. i just remembered something i forgot to say. on sunday bible class teacher was just asking the other girls how many guys will be left next year and then i just realised that we'll be moving out of the class cos we've been there 3 years already. and i still thought i just finished jc. it is rather unnerving how the year is almost over and i don't seem to realise it. maybe that is why we need to be more aware. instead of rushing along all the time. esp those working. "no time!" is the most common complaint. but so much has been said on that already anyway.
i shall go finish reading my books so i don't have to pay library fine:p
bah i still woke up at 7.30 today:( this is not gd. at least i finished writing my diary stuff and have started getting my act together. it's not very nice to look around my comfy room and think, 2 weeks left. oh well.
melvyn who likes to annoy me. and then claim that it brightens up my day. he says he is not photogenic and prefers to be photographed in a hakama and a bokken (so a more impressive image is created).
deborah the all-things-jap girl. we ate so much at sakae sushi today! it's a wonder we could still roll. haha. and i'm sure she must be a really gd hostess.. can just talk and talk and talk.. chatter-box deborah.