alright, that definitely took me longer than i expected, esp when i should've been writing my philosophy paper. okok i will do it now. the writing tutor was so taken aback yesterday upon discovering i hadn't started yet and it's due monady. oh well. :| i really hate the way i do things sometimes. actually, many times. bleah.
yesterday's natalie macmaster concert was lots of fun! although i don't really know my dormmates so that was a little tough. but anyway she and her band are SO energetic! it's crazy.. they're really good too.
our RFs are really nice, they paid for all our tickets.. aww. i think that's a much better job than last year, i don't think patrick ever did anything for us except friday night movies. and the only time i got emails from him was when like there was some trouble in flomo. but i guess he was the RF for the entire westflo whereas brent and barbara are RFs for just lantana (i think). maybe castano too? hm. anyhow and their dog stogey is sooo cute!! it so reminds me of boxer (my illegal unlicensed labrador-cocker spaniel fr 1992-1997 or something like that, i forget the dates). anyway i also guess it's easier to do stuff when you've a family to support you? or something.
philo paper philo paper! aahh. i guess if i don't finish i won't go for sealnet beach retreat tomorrow. and it'll allow me to do my tutoring too.
i am really going to change my template, but jackie as usual has her very encouraging comments about my stuff.. i'm like watever, i'm gonna do wat i like. but anyway, besides that, i need to get past this crazy week first. actually it isn't all that bad, it's just that having econ pset due on tues afternoon is a HORRIBLE time. well okay, i didn't start on the pset that early but there aren't office hours on fri and he only sent out the qns on thursday.
and today was a mad rush. from lunch to improv class (yay!) to philo class to swc (which kinda forces me to start on my philo paper, thankfully) to leadership workshop to tutor observations. and then i somehow ended up going for bible study (very very late though) even i wasn't really planning on going cos i was so late and i have so much work to do. okay i guess i don't really, but some things are just overwhelming when they're not done and they all come crashing down like a LOAD.
but i'm glad to say while i was at lunch (meeting pledges, wat a weird feeling!) and in improv i could forget all that and enjoy the moment(s). the only highlights of my day, really. oh and seeing nathan at casa was nice.
unfortunately, now i think i've worked myself into a lather (i.e. nervous wreck) trying to finish this stupid econ pset (i had to drop the first one cos i didn't finish in time) and it doesn't help that the TAs are refusing to answer questions specifically about the questions. and also that ahhh! forget it. i shall stop this.
i'm such a bad person. so much work to do and i'm blogging. (and i also spent like 4 hours at chi alpha b/c i was playing keyboard and helping to pack up). anyway.. just had to mini-document my bday celebrations.. heh.
so sunday i went to memchu w the guys instead of my own church cos david (the guy who's giving me a ride) was gonna go for late service and they'd arranged bday lunch for me already. memchu was interesting.. and listening to the choir (and the reverberations in memchu) reminded me of choir italy trip.. also reminded me of why i love(d) singing in a choir. it's so weird to remember something that happened a while ago and all the feelings come back. kind of.
and then it was so funny, cos we met at tresidder for jh and shineik to drive us to my lunch place (some peking duck place recommended by cs) and then when almost everyone arrived (except for the late sheep wangning cs n jeslyn) there was this rather-large circle and then i acutely realized how i was the ONLY girl there. it was actually kind of funny though. like. one girl at her bday lunch and like 10+ other guys. maybe that's why i have more non-sporean girl frens (also since there aren't many sporean girls to begin with). dunno. gd n bad.
it was so sweet though, they got me a cake (with my name! haha) on it and everything. aw. and we took up two tables.. kind of sad though cos didn't get to mix with everyone. oh lisa and isaac (grad students) biked over. n yf was like u're like bai3 jiu3 xi2 like that.. haha.
um. well then skip the rest of the day.. till midnight and then there's a knock on my door and sealnet pple are outside! awww. haha. reminded me of sean and co. last year.. really acutely too. cos it was sort of the same and i was almost expecting to see a crowd of pple i didn't know! which is really really weird cos there's no reason why that would happen this year but yeah. the thai scholars (minus mod, i don't know where that boy goes! he's never with the rest of them) jh yf tu viet gina etc. and ryan n dian came later.. oh and tu got me a cake and strawberries.. so cute. she is so sweet. & jh was like i've seen you 3 times to celebrate ur bday already. haha.
and soo many facebook posts! and emails frm pam n yh aw:) ecards frm peiying n ser.. calls from jane n megan n my ex-roomie.. feel the love!
i guess there isn't anything i really want to talk about.. other than a sudden influx of chinese pop songs is making me happy:) haha. need to do work! and i'm so scared for consulting interview:| and that i'm not doing enough for akpsi. and oh.. i don't know. so many things i don't know if i can cope. so lost in philo, feel like dropping the class but i kinda want to learn the whole logic stuff.. don't like econ 52 (macroecon) and also feel like dropping it (tcher is so weird!). rather sad state of affairs huh. but i went to gym today and i think i got quite a bit of bio read (or maybe that's cos i knew much of it frm a levels, thankfully)
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.
ahhhh. it's 2am!:( i was definitely intending to sleep earlier to make up for my 7am day today (thanks to driving, man) and my 9am day tomorrow, but i ended up talking to jh for like. quite long. it was nice to have a good conversation though. although as we were discussing, wonder if that sort of connection can be made with americans. ponders. but again some sporeans end up marrying nonsporeans anyway so i'm sure sometimes these things must work.. ah well. probably depends on the person, i know a couple of americans who really like hanging out with asians and vice versa too.
oh it was really amusing listening to de wen after chi alpha too. augh i shall continue this tmr.
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.
augh i don't understand why some people can't understand that not everyone likes the same kind of music.. do you really have to blast out your songlist?! oh great. stopped! whee. :)
oohh i'm happy today:) albeit still kind of tired, having stayed up till 5am on friday morning to finish my analyst report [and i only really finished it after class] i did my written test today! so now i just need to get a couple more lessons and i can go for practical and get my license woohoo:) thanks for poor meng how who had to get up to drive me there:| i wanted to treat him to lunch but he refused. oh well.
and then i went to deliver the S@S flyer to i-center.. which was closed, oops. i really should've done it way earlier sigh. but anyway, then i saw mod! and art! and annie! and mac! in that order. haha. oh and i saw top yesterday when i was moving! yay for thai scholars who were on SEALNet trip. it was so nice to see them.. heh. i'm glad they're all pretty close by.. on east campus anyway. i realized how far lantana is from everything boo. flomo was really a pretty good location. ah well.
okay i really need to do my paper.. oh! i must say, lunch at tofu house was fantastic. made me even happier. hahaha. whee
i suddenly have a craving for pizza. to be exact, the bbq chicken pizza we had at prof shoven's house on sunday. it was sooo good. from spot, i think. forgot what its real name is.. but it is one fabulous bbq chicken pizza. haha. i decided when i get stressed, i eat. very bad, really. now i'll have to find more time to go to the gym or something. boo.
anyway, the reason i am stressed is because i only really started writing my analyst report on disney today. well i sort of glanced through the 5 reports i downloaded in the business library yesterday, but that isn't really really counted i guess? and yes, taadaa the report is due tmr morning at 10am. sigh. clar and procrastination. this whole course is kinda disastrous in that respect, so it seems. didn't read the books, now i'm doing my stuff so last minute as usual. and the paper.. is going to be quite a headache unless i can figure out what i'm going to focus on/how i'm going to do it.
and i also volunteered to present on monday, thinking that it'll force me to get my stuff done, but i conveniently forgot about having peer mentor training the whole of sunday afternoon. so.. that is going to be interesting too. and i need to do a good paper to make up for my not asking questions in class. i don't know, i just didn't know what to ask.. -frowns- or maybe i was intimidated by how the guys seemed to know a whole lot of stuff and i know next to nothing.
ah. watever. i shall finish the report soon so i can sleep.. and i also originally forgot about moving out tomorrow! it'll be nice to be in my real room.. and hopefully with more space. anyway at least i'll be able to decorate and stuff. not that i decorate a lot, but then i can put pics and stuff up. also got to figure out about my packages which haven't arrived, hope the housing service pple don't kill me:(
so, it doesn't seem like i'm going to be all that free before school starts.. again, conveniently forgot i was peer mentoring. oh crap! i still owe the tutoring people my bio and photo and ahhh.. okay, one thing at a time. i should stop working myself into a frenzy hm.
blah now i wish i'd done my driving stuff last year. for a huge variety of reasons, not excluding how i didn't get to drive the grand prix go-karts today thanks to my lack of a license! ah well. but we went to play mini golf, which was pretty fun.. i was pretty good at the beginning but zonked out at the end! sigh.. oh well:) it also kind of reminded me of how we went sentosa mini-golfing when the twins came to sg when they (and I) were little.
anyhow.. the bumper boats looked really fun too! haha. but kind of wet. so after that we headed to my prof's house for dinner (pizza) which was nice.. and he has a pool table at home! sweet. and a very nice garden.. although i think my psych introsem prof's garden is prettier. think she spends more time planting stuff.. or maybe it's prettier cos deer and weird wild animals don't trample through it. -shrug-
so, i think my prof must be quite the pool fanatic cos there's a mini-pool table in his office as well! haha. and another random fact: his car license plate is SIEPR, stanford institute for economic policy research for something like that.. sheesh. oh and then teresa was trying to figure out wat cars were in his garage.. there was a really nice looking sports car (convertible, i dunno wat make it was), a bmw (the SIEPR plate one), a lexus, and two more cars (one of which is a jeep-looking thing, okay i'm really bad at cars but watever).
when i think about how my bio introsem prof is living in this house which i think is pretty inexpensive and if i remember correctly, built for people who didn't have that high a budget for a house.. seems like the payscale for a finance prof and a bio prof differs quite a bit huh.
oh anyway, i won two pool games in a row (actually by default, cos the other side potted the white ball while trying to get the black in/potted the black prematurely), one of which was played with my prof as my partner so that was quite funny. he was like, i know how to pick my partner. rofl. i think i definitely play better when i'm not wearing high heels.
haven't been too good about blogging.. i get distracted by lots and lots of stuff:| anyway, my brother forgot to give me my camera cable so gotta wait till yf comes back next thurs to pass it to me.. but there're fun photos.. lala.
went to berkeley to visit chim n jane today! finally! after promising for a year! i am so proud of myself.. i think it is really quite hard to get down during the school year though.. it took like 2+hrs on public transport, and i'm sure driving isn't that much faster either. but it was sooo unbelievably good to see them:) although it's just been over a month since i've seen them.. and we were talking about some rg gep things. good times:)
jane's apartment is lovely and the building has some sort of rustic charm.. chim's house is homey and comfy.. i wish i had a house too! photos have to come later, unfortunately. oh chim's attic room is pretty cool too, besides wang ning's pointed comments about her having to go into yonghe's room to climb up to her room.. haha. and chim cooked pasta for us for dinner! she said it was idiotproof (as compared to pineapple-less pineapple tarts - 413ers? hehe)
yeah.. i don't really feel like saying anything else at the moment. trying to figure out how to achieve my aim of getting my license (actually now my new goal is like before sch starts haha) since the favorite driving instructor for singaporeans at stanford is on holiday till dec. augh.
blah. its 4:30am and somehow i can't get back to sleep.. maybe i shouldn't have taken a nap in the afternoon:| which also, incidentally, caused me to miss dinner. and then i suddenly started worrying about all sorts of things, like how i'm going to get to church and whether i really like this whole investing business because it doesn't really mean anything to me at the moment.
i have a single! hehe. quite fun.. just that it does allow me to be even more solitary which may not be such a good idea.. i have no idea where the other people disappear to, either they're off at their friends' dorms or they're in their rooms with the door closed. class is just from 10 - 12 and after that we're mostly free.. so need to figure out what to do. yay tmr stacey's feeding ponies so i can tag along!:) whee.
yeah i was also thinking about the people i hang out with on a regular basis (at sch) and decided there're really very few of them. but whether it's just me being unsociable or it being a normal state of things in general is something i still wonder about sometimes. i suppose i assume everyone here is really outgoing and spends their time hanging out and getting to know more people.
alright i shall attempt to get back to sleep.. hopefully will be able to finish skimming my books for tmr's lesson. augh. i really should've read the books.
i think my mom's right. i should've cut my hair earlier. i have a huge tendency to procrastinate and therefore now its a crazy rush (okay, i'm not rushing yet but i will be soon) to get everything done.. anyway the slanted fringe thing didn't turn out too well cos i only decided on a slanted fringe after she trimmed it straight so its kind of short. oh wells. and the red does tend to look quite bright in some sorts of lights. but it's still fun to have different coloured hair haha.
oh dear. i think i shouldn't have read selene's blog. or maybe i'm just blaming that cos its convenient. but anyway i suddenly feel rather melancholic! cos there're 3 days left. or less, actually. more like 2.. at least i did most of the things on my to-do list today.. alright i really should go and pack. more like, -start- packing. :|
at least we have the house to ourselves until after i leave. heh. ms jap girl is now at my uncle's house. but then my parents got into an argument (actually i guess it isn't all that rare) so they aren't speaking at the moment. so silly. i'm sure they'll be fine soon, but still.
actually i think i'll be fine once i'm back in school. it's just the thinking about the in-between that isn't very fun. blah alright time to go do something productive (like eat durians, :D)
heh been so busy. kind of. so let's see.. tuesday was meeting up with so3c girls.. and we met jm and amanda by chance! so funny.. so sarah sj chelsea (whom i haven't seen since results, i'm sure) fiona n candice n me had lunch at nana thai at far east.. pretty good price - student discounts! and then fried mars bars.. i tell u candice is hooked on that..
so since i promised rachel i'd visit learning lab i decided to get a lift from candice back to united square.. first time being chauffeured by candice!! haha. she has a cool style of driving man.. and a nice new car. heh. i told her she needed a convertible to complete her image:)
silly rachel didn't realize it was me.. thought i was a student [grr]. oh i saw chernise at the ben & jerry's downstairs but she was quite busy so didn't stay for long. so after entertaining rachel for a bit while she was doing her paris duty [which consists of sitting on a stool outside this sliding door place to ensure that students don't get hurt by the sliding door which is so cleverly concealed u don't realize it's a door until it opens and then if you're playing around there's a possibility of your hand getting chopped off] i went in to look for christine.. who as usual shrieked when she saw me and went on and on about how i'm still so small and cute. apparently i [surprise surprise] look even younger! she claims its the fringe and the mid-length hair.
then i met ms jap girl (her name is yumiko). i think her eyes might possibly be bigger than mine. or maybe its cos of the eyeliner/mascara. anyway her english isn't fantastic.. i'm not even sure how much of wat i'm saying she understands. oh well. we had dinner with my aunt and uncle and cousin.. lots and lots of food. actually since she came i've been eating a LOT. augh.
it's funny how when guests come, life becomes so much better. so since she's here, we get to use the car (instead of my bro) and get good food all the time, basically. i guess it sort of makes sense, yet it's ironic at the same time. i just had durians (the best, according to my dad, who doesn't want to admit how much he paid for them cos i think my mom'll scold him for spending so much. haha).
anyway. wed.. city tour and then ended up at chinatown. in which it started raining! so i was sloshing around in wet slippers.. reminded me of bangkok as i was telling jh.. and then i ended up buying this bamboo poster thingy. i was rather amused, she's the tourist supposed to be the one buying things and i'm the one who ends up spending $. but in the end she got something too. bargaining there was ridiculously easy, i was surprised.
shopping at marina square after that - i decided it was silly to try and walk around outside in the rain.. i saw this $10 dress, quite crazy. but then i also don't think i have anything to wear it to.. oh well. wish there was more occasion to wear my sec 4 prom gown, i really like it:) although i wonder if i can still fit into it -frowns-
today was sentosa.. was quite a bad day actually, kept raining and raining. my mom says i'll be expert at sliding when i'm done with this pair of slippers.. i think i'm quite pro already haha. but we got to see dolphins! although the las vegas show was better i think. or maybe i'm biased:p oh well.
and the musical fountain! it looked quite promising but turned out to be half good half bad. they had this ridiculously silly-looking emcee who was really quite a clown.. the only impressive thing was his cartwheel-plus-somersaults at the end of the show.. other impressive things include how he managed ot make a fool of himself. okay i'm really critical.. oh well. but his presence really detracted from the enjoyment of the performance, as did the presence of kiki the retarded giggling green monkey and his fantastic fish friends which were fantastic in their ugliness than anything else.
but i have to say the techniques of the laser show were pretty cool.. the 3d creatures looked very real. quite amazing. unfortunately.. there's the lack of style. i think they were trying to cater for kids.. thus the advent of kiki and his silly friends. bellagio fountains! ahh i wanna go to vegas. so it reminded me of wenzheng's flying to vegas (and grand canyon too i think?) maybe i should go get myself a pilot's license too! lala.
today's been such a long day. i don't know why i'm still at the comp.. trying to figure out if i should buy birkenstocks. haha. sigh. anyway, it was good meeting everyone.. haven't seen some people in such a long time! i doubt if i've seen lou since sec 4 man.. haha. maybe from time to time but still.
so ms jap girl is coming tmr.. i better clean up my room somemore. i think it's gonna be a pretty mad rush. it's so funny, she wants to go spa! and i haven't even been to one.. luckily lyd gave me some recommendations heh:)
i am so full. watching kahli and shan cook was quite interesting.. makes me wish i could too. but it does really take quite a lot of time i think. and yingling's so funny! heh. sometimes i really forget that she n kahli n i used to be in the same class/pri sch. seems like sec 3-4 was most memorable.
darryl never fails to amuse me.. maybe cos i have it permanently stuck in my head that he's silly.. so he'll always be silly to me whether he's grown up or not:p but again like i was saying, friends are to [in yf's words, sort of] talk nonsense to.
come to think of it daryl also never fails to amuse me. also another silly one. and both of them are so involved in church stuff. interesting.
i finally have my land before time dvd:) and it came with stickers!! haha. i think i'll bring it back to stanford to watch. hm. and that silly buddy! too lazy to write me a letter to go with it. grumbles. oh well.
aiyah i think i need to sleep. wonder how i'm gonna pack and all.. i think it's just easier not to think about things sometimes. cos the more you think about it the worse it gets.. taking things as they come and appreciating/revelling in wat u have at the moment is so much less painful. cos if i keep thinking about how i'll miss being home i'll just be miserable. whereas if i'm just happy while i'm home then i'm happy and that's good. and then when i go back to school i'll be happy at school (hopefully) and there you are.
so random, mrs kwan called me up while i was in the bus on the way to orchard (to meet wangning and his roommates and cs for dinner) to ask for chim's email to ask about emilyn. it was nice talking to her though half the conversation revolved around how US-spore communications work (skype and handphones and wat not). i think the tchers are kinda worried about us. wonder if they feel responsible since they taught us (and we're geps, so much $ spent on us and everything). i'm sure they really care about us, relationships built and all, but still wondering if a sort of duty sense comes into play.
oh and i saw jacelyn tay at kino after dinner. again very random cos i was trying to find some book and waiting at the information counter and this female was in front of me (all i could see was a curtain of hair) and i idly glanced down at the form she was filling up - i was wondering if that was a form to help the pple find the book or something but i guess it was probably an order form or something? and i saw "jacelyn tay" in caps and was wondering if that was really her or someone else with the same name. but yeah it was her.