[December 15th, 2009] anorexsick did anyone listen to today'd BBC global news podcast? they just covered two different interviews, one involving this pregnant woman and her view on US healthcare and insurance coverage by employer, the second about the mudslides that happened in venezuela ten years ago, and i found myself very annoyed and amused by them respectively! go listen! need to go for review session now so cannot elaborate reply

favourite quote by thucydides [December 15th, 2009] anorexsick "With the ordinary conventions of civilized life thrown into confusion, human nature, always ready to offend even where laws exist, showed itself proudly in its true colours, as something incapable of controlling passion, insubordinate to the idea of justice, the enemy to anything superior to itself; for, if it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice." - Thucydides (History of the Peloponnesian War) So powerful! STUDYING/SMOKING LIKE CRAZY. NO TIME TO SLEEP. I HAVE TO CONTINUE DOING THIS FOR A WEEK MORE. I CAN DO THIS I CAN DO THIS.

the past week [December 16th, 2009] lour_dess can't believe there's only two more weeks to school. kill me. Anyway, I wonder if there are underground supper clubs here in sg. i bet there is somewhere out there, and all i need to do is to google it online. It's nice meeting people for the first time under casual seating, where everyone enters in with the same open mindset of getting to know strangers better over a nice meal in someone's homely house. While i have to admit, i get intimidated by large crowds where people seem to know each other already, i rather get to know a small group of max 8 strangers better. To more much...naturally? I don't know if i'm even making sense. Some nice places visited the past week (courtesy of hui for the first two): 1) old brown shoe - finally I know how apple cider tastes like. Now i know why one of my collegues in MTI always have a bottle apple cider by this desk. 2) onceuponamilkshake.com.sg - omg the first strawberry flavoured ice-cream i actually love. 3) ang siang road - hahaha eh lu, ff! it changed quite a lot since we last went there 4) zirca - eh quite horrible music 5) $5 outing to habourfront and NUS PGP hostel checklist of holiday things to do: contacted more schools, but dammit. the progress is so slow To do up the b-plan to call up auntie to set up wix and domain etc to email out to more schools/other places National Geography photography contest: ngm.nationalgeographic.com/photo-contest/past-winners 2 read reply

Presents for Dad [December 15th, 2009] dotinabox My dad's Christmas present is settled! I don't know about everyone else but I generally find that guys are terribly hard to get things for. All the more so if they're old - what they need, they have. What they want, they have. How in the world are you supposed to get something they actually like that will be used? I know some of my past attempts for my dad have been a random assortment of toys and pretty but useless things (like, a decision maker.) that are good for a moment's laugh but that's it. This year I've given up on finding funky stuff and went down the old route - a tie. My dad loves his ties - like the way a woman loves handbags or shoes. I suppose it's the only exciting thing in an outfit of white shirt + dark pants (his usual work get up). He has built in, pull-out tie racks. Enough said. Thing about ties is that there are so, so many designs out there. I decided to get him one good one, rather than multiple not-so-good quality ties. He'd mentioned that he liked Zegna and Dunhill ties, so we headed to Paragon to look for one. I suppose service really made all the difference. In Zegna we were pretty much left alone, but when we stepped into Dunhill and the sales assistant saw us looking at ties, he immediately asked questions like "what colour shirts does he wear?" and "is he a conservative type?" and then proceeded to get us a white shirt and give recommendations, but was in no way pushy. The people at Dunhill then wrapped it up nicely and it's now sitting under our Christmas tree :) Hope dad'll like it! My mum still doesn't know I bought her earrings yet. I shall surprise her on the day itself hee. Whew I'm glad the two most difficult people in the world are settled! reply

haha twifart [December 15th, 2009] dri_zzle [ mood | giggly ] I saw this on Perez and laughed: And when asked if she'll be playing Victoria again in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Howard responds: I don’t want to give anything away, but Victoria has a life span. That’s all I can say about that. Duh! Of course she will. No she won't, doofus. She dies in Eclipse. HA. Is it sadder that I know this, or that I get such amusement out of it? I think taking the cake is Scott having watched New Moon with Alex and Ghanesh on Saturday. My boyfriend, Taylor Lautner's broad shoulders and delicious abs and... two other boys. Doesn't bear thinking about. reply

[December 15th, 2009] disconance On bad planning: ... I just had the most idiotic run ever. It was meant to be a nice, slow post-concert wind-down thing but omg. I totally fucked myself over.. think mental preparation for 3-4km (admirable enough, it's me okay) to find out the distance is more like 6 instead??! Haha. Running with no clue when you'll hit your destination: a really unpleasant feeling. I ended up stopping along the way for a drink (didn't bring a water bottle), after which I was too sian to continue so I defeatedly hopped on a bus.. to find out I was only one bus stop away from where I was going. Lol. And then it immediately started pouring and I ended up drenched and very cold. I'm finally home now, even more tired than ever. Blarrrghhh. I've also got nothing to do for the next two weeks. Exams and various rehearsals kept me so busy that I kept putting off planning the last two weeks of my holidays.. now it's finally here and facing me like this looming chasm, sigh. There are random social activities here and there but really.. no central activity or motivation. Really got to settle that soon or I'm going to go crazy. I don't why people keep telling me to relax and just "take time off".. I still have to do something with my time right. And I cannot bring myself to spend my holidays watching TV or playing WoW (COUGH kevin01yukee) and stuff like that, even though that's what everyone else seems to be doing. Such a bloody waste of time you guys!!! Haha. Tsk. Why didn't I plan all of this earlier... bleaurgh. I've got a vague idea of what I'm going to do over the next couple weeks (involves better-planned runs, dragging SX to the gym and a lot of music/books), but it's nowhere near as productive as it could have been. Maybe I really do need to relax and take it slow.. I might thank myself for it when the semester starts eh. 7 read reply

i'm bored [December 15th, 2009] dri_zzle [ mood | blank ] Bored. Scott and Lin are both working. Nad and FF are overseas. I've been stuck at home reading/ supervising the repairman fix our phone lines for the 32874127857857749497th time/ catching up on GG and UB, or being dragged around by my family as their laptop/ phone/ know-all slave to spend money that has an expiry date. Time's going by so fast! Definitely not looking forward to anything school-related happening:( The trip to England was great because it kind of made me forget I was in law school. Okay, I forget that every holiday, and occasionally during the school term too, but being further away made it seem even more remote, like some fuzzy nightmare. Holidays would be a good time to have a breather and take stock of your life but ever since uni started all I've been doing is forget about the minor calamity that is my academic career the second I've had a chance to and be dragged kicking and screaming once my free time is up. I guess, academically and otherwise, I've never really had to try much for anything I've wanted, so it's much harder forcing myself to try for something don't even want. Sian. And bogged down by lack of contentment generally.Aki and I had a HTHT (it sounds like an HTC phone model, srsly) commiserating with each other after lunch with us four (with boyfriends who attended at different times haha). Our education having dictated a similar ascension on the social ladder (though I suppose mine more drastically than hers), we find it hard to comprehend the, uh.. idiosyncracies of the privilleged people we now find ourselves classified with, even the nicest and most well-meaning of them. Some people have everything handed to them on a platter and their lives just go from easy to easier. Sigh. Okay mum bugging me to add London photos to FB. I should never have let her get FB. She spends all her waking hours on it now, reply

oh lordy [December 14th, 2009] morphine_moniza I finished all my module mapping and went to school only to find out my sep coordinator is on leave. Hurray. I don't even know if I have any of those modules because the woman who's supposed tp help me has not emailed me back. My account is apparently bouncing emails so maybe she can't even reach me. That could also be why my sep coordinator has not replied my email. My life is glorious. My parents are being very annoying about the fact that I'm going to newyork with a bunch of guys. The concept of homosexuality does not exist in their universe. gah. For the record, alisha and natasha are going on this trip with us. that's right. As is my very close friend helen. I'm so stressed. I'm going to take a shower and make a fairy. I must contrive to take a photo with Helen somehow. Instead of goig to all this trouble to study in a different geographical location, I could have just taken a fraction of the money and bought a brand new laptop, with a properly functioning microsoft word. I can't even imagine a world with a working microsoft word. It must be so heavenly. Anyway, I found time to get some shopping done today as well. Am fully furnished with toiletries, and have bought enough of the special products I use to last three months. Have also bought four more tights, three pairs of socks and two cardigans to layer. I have decided to ditch my cabin luggage for an unglam, but much more practical backpack. I need to buy the backpack and boots. And then I'll be done. I might just buy a woolen pullover if I find a nice one. Then the shopping will be finished. I must start packing. But first I'll make a fairy. oh god i have yet to procure special US-sized photos for the special US embassy, which I will have to stick on all the lovely special forms I've had to fill out. I hate visas. I don't think I'll club on wednesday. Clubbing will just contribute to my stress. Just too much on top of everything. I must refrain. I need my wits about me to survive the barrage of paperwork. It' s my own personal perfect storm. But if anyone wants to meet me for some nice sedate drinks, or possibly lunch, let me know. 1 read reply

PS. Cafe at Paragon [December 14th, 2009] dotinabox I seem to be on a quest to try out every brunch place on the map. And how could I go without my beloved eggs benedict? The one at PS Cafe uses shaved black forest ham, as oppose to the more common honey baked ham, and has an additional ingredient I've not seen in other eggs benedicts - jindi triple cream brie. Along with the poached eggs that were still nice and runny when broken into, it was delish. J. had a turkey and cranberry toast, which also came with a poached egg. Unfortunately, his egg was cooked till the yolk was hard and no longer nice and runny! I don't know if this inconsistency is common at PS Cafe, but I kind of miss Rider's Cafe, where the poached eggs have never failed before. The atmosphere's nice, though it gets very crowded and a little squeezy. Haven't been to the one at Harding Road but it looks nicer :) I think I might actually be running out of brunch places soon! Time to dig them out! 3 read reply

:( [December 14th, 2009] dri_zzle Disgraceful. I'm not watching BPL again till they win a match. This is getting embarrassing. 3 read reply

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