A to Z

- attack ants - blow bubbles - caper with capers - drool on dogs -
- e-mail elephants - flash at frogs - gibber with granny - hanker for haggis -
- iodize ice-cream - jaywalk in the jungle - kick kibbles - leapfrog over lemons -
- mathematize music - nudity in numbers - outrage octopi - pet porcupines -
- queue at queens - roll a robot - sanitize shallots - tap dance on toads - unify umbrellas -
- vilify vermin - water the weasel - x-rated xylophones - yodel in yugoslavia - zip up zealots -

What I'd sell my book agent 2:

"Cool Pastimes for Bored but Cool People"

The title is long but pretty much self-explanatory hahahahaha. Had to add the "but Cool" factor because I remember Ms Lucy Barrock a.k.a Lucy-Susie a.k.a. my mama, telling me that only boring people got bored (when I was 6 and whining on a long car trip from Penang to KL..."Mommy I'm bored" "Mommy sing me a song" "Mooommmmmmmmmy when are we reaching?" "Mommy are we there yet?" "Mommy I'm bored").

SleepEatdon'tStudy

Been having lazy cat days. Have been sleeping and eating and sleeping and eating. Shucks, really should pull up my socks and start my revision proper. It's probably the effect of such a hectic sem. I now don't feel like doing anything and am actually more relaxed than stressed out (may not be saying this on the 3rd of May though haha).

Picked up my philo paper today. B+, not bad for a few hours work :))) though I won't lie that I pondered over my choice of topic for days and angsted around hall, -literally- climbed over railings and consumed enough chocolate to feed the fondue fountain at the Fullerton. It was tricky too, considering that Prof. H did write his own paper on Eternal Recurrence and my take on it was quite different. The risk was really because half my points were based on personal interpretations rather than established philosophy. The Nietzsche paper prima facie, ended up becoming an argument on how eternal recurrence rings true though it may not be true and was a very macrocosmic study of its theoretic application. blahblah i'm boring myself too haha

Miss the M.I.A guy, it has been over a month now. Heard from him recently though. T'was a real relief hearing him. The voice sounded rusty though, must be the effects of not talking for ages to anyone haha. But yeah, it was really Really REALLY good hearing him.
It really takes a lot to stay calm and collected, especially when others are on your case. It is not my place to explain these things. Privacy breaches really aren't my style. It also mildly bothers me that people assume I don't care. Argh!!! You don't have me opened to the right page, so don't make assumptions based on the blurps or the cover.
*channels some Lady Gaga* Can't read my, can't read my. No they can't read my poker face. P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face.
hahaha. Btw, she is Wicked! Loving her psycho-dress-sense and strange makeup (female Marilyn Manson anyone? Well, she still looks a fair bit better).














Oooooooh! I bought a pair of fireman red trousers. Cuckoo right?! Magpie tried to convince me to get the more sensible navy pair, but I really loved the crazy scarlet. Prolly going to burn holes in others pupils lol. It was probably a stress buy, but because it is SUPER comfortable, I am so wearing it. Anyways, my leaf green pants have been wrecked in the wash, so this is my new strange coloured pants for strange coloured days :))))

Spontaneity

Time: 12.27 a.m. (yup, after midnight)
Venue: Room D305, Eusoff Hall, National University of Singapore

Eva: Shucks, I really feel like eating Thosai.
Val: Hmmmm.... with dhal!
Eva: Eh, lets go to Little India.
Val: Serious?!
Eva: Yup *starts pulling on jeans*
Val: Okay *grabs wallet*

At heart, we really are brown girls. :)))

Yummy Pancakes

Are little caterpillars called kittenerpillars?

I don't want to forget

how you look, sound, smell, feel and taste.

What I'd sell my book agent:

"Prune Juice for the Brain"

A new spin on the Chicken Soup for the Soul series...
instead of inspirational stories, it should be scary stories that end procrastination and scare you shitless (mentally) so that you just start doing your work/ studying.

Ever lacked inspiration? Stopped working because you have no incentive to do so? Read a story and purge some of the best ideas your brain could produce. You might not even have ideas, but you'll still excrete something. ***

Prune Juice for the Brain, read it today.

***Do not read on empty brain. Side effects include mental dehydration and prolonged fatigue.

The Resurrection

HAPPY EASTER Y'ALL!

Which D3 Hot Babe are you most like?

yay! I'm a pretty rare breed :))) allow me to bask in my special and different from most people status (though "special" isn't always good, so maybe i shouldn't start gloating yet hehehe)
*crosses fingers* don't let anyone be me, don'tlet anyone beme, don'tletanyonebeme.
It is such a funny quiz lah. Love it! It was uber fun guessing whose response was what.
Btw, my brute became Jon Suen's brute's pupil. I didn't know records were kept and was in a self-lacerating mood, so i named her Stewpitt... shucks, now its stuck for good, unless I'm willing to start afresh and forfeit the 5 fights that Stewpitt won.
For more brute action, visit: http://jonsuen.mybrute.com


Rawr! I should be doing my work, not blogging/ brute-ing. Interview didn't happen today. Eli wasn't feeling well enough to do it. Poor dear, hope he gets better soon. Miss him a fair bit.

Put in a good couple of hours worth at the biz-library with my gorgeous-golden-neighbour, Miss JW. We then headed to Sheares and had cheese omelettes, porridge and yummy golden pancakes (with honey & chocolate... mmmmm) while watching American Idol.
The visually impared contestant was eliminated. He was not bad, but not as power as the rest. I remembered wondering if his condition would give him much of an edge at the prelim rounds. Guess not... America is fair/ meritocratic?
Was feeling pawsome, so I generously offered to pack for my floor and block mates and came back with cheezy fries, sambal fried rice, nuggets, chicken naan with cheese sauce, CCT (that's what they call the cold chrysanthemum tea lol) and whipped cream laden, chocolate sauce drowned Milo...the most decadent drink imaginable. I swear it tastes richer than the average milkshake. Maybe because the Milo is super tepu and they are uber generous with the whipped cream and chocolate sauce.

Lemme get back to my bone-tendon integration techniques. RAWRS!

workworkworkworkworkwork

And now, I am rotting at the central forum. Graaaaaaaawr! Can't find my organizer, so for now, I will blog my schedule before I lose the various scraps of paper with my appointments and deadlines.


Thursday (09/4):

1) Interview patient for ACL project.
2) Compile and edit Philo blog posts.

Saturday (11/4 ):

1) Complete report for ACL project.
2) Concentration, bone tissue integration.
3) Submit material for pamphlet.

Monday (13/4):

1)HR presentation (9 a.m.).
2) Submit Philo paper (10 a.m.).
3) Meet David and work on poster for ME project (12 p.m.).

Wednesday (15/4):

1) CS1101C Final Programming Lab.
2) BN3401 Term assessment.
3) Salvation Army tutoring
4) Meet Wayne and complete the powerpoint presentation.
5) Edit and settle the compiled report for ACL project.

Thursday (16/4):

1) Print and bind report.
2) Meet Prof regarding ME project.

Friday (17/4):

1) Assesment 3 for ACL project

Saturday (18/4):

1) Practice presentation for ACL project.

Tuesday (21/4):

1) Symposium for ME module, present project, poster and pamphlets.

Thursday (23/4): FINAL EXAM for HR2002.

Saturday (25/4): FINAL EXAM for CS1101C.

OMG! Might not have sufficient time to study for my Final papers that are in April.
Toot! Must work at the rate of completing all these things by deadline + 1 CS tutorial a day + I HR reading, if I want to complete stuff...is that even possible?!
I'll think about the May Final papers after the 25th...

This week.

I am not a nerd,
I am THE nerd!

To a week of chao-mugging and assignment rushing, mooooooooo you, mother farting week! Glad I'm done with the blog postings though :))))

P.S: Interesting article, http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/03.18/01-ptsd.html We were discussing this drug on the philo blog and guess who had loads to say hoho.

Eloisa to Abelard

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
-Alexander Pope

Oh but to forget.

Happy Birthday CheeCooCoo!

Yovi is 18 today. All grown up... but she's always going to be my cute baby sister hahaha. I couldn't get her on the phone. Wonder if she's changed her number again.

Kids, please don't change your numbers often, the old foggies *ahem clears throat ahem* can't keep up
Well, ickle CheeCooCoo, hope you had an awesome-pawsome 18th! Love you to bits, even though you're a naughty kitty. Happy Birthdaaaaaaay!

Monday (un)Blues

I actually like Mondays... I've always kind of liked them. Maybe it's the sense of having a whole week ahead to achieve stuff? No rainy blue Montags (of the non-Heidi variant) here.

Am pleased with progress yesterday... Heeehee shall gloat.

• Compiled and updated CV for summer internships and sent it out *crosses fingers*. Considering the yucky economy at the moment, I'm considering an unpaid internship, if it's a prestigious one. Does that make me overtly amenable? If that works out, I shall hope for my lottery success hahaha.

• Finished another blogpost. Yay! Only two more to go. Was pleased to note this morning that there 3 comments in response to my post. Jude Law is scrumptious in GATTACA.
  

• Watched Eternal Sunshine again. This time with an existential mindset.

• Read some random HR articles in prep for the Q&A portion (which didn't happen -_- ) of the poster presentation.

• Researched determinism to help with the GATTACA post.

Slept at an ungodly hour, but Val kindly woke me at 8 so I wasn't late for HR. Yay to having a roomie!

Today, our HR poster presentation was not bad. I'm so glad that I can at least depend on Ah Por in the group. She did an awesome job with the slides. The report however didn't get a great review. As a result, I spent 1.5 hours with the lecturer to figure out how to work things from here. Le sigh. If only everyone was accountable and had more similar expectations on achievement. Had to do the nasty and email them with the reasons why our project was less than successful. Kinda put it bluntly and told everyone to buck up. Yuck, why am I the evil-slave driving bitch of the group. Feeling distinctly ursala-ish... mean, moster, witchy.
I guess personal expectations have to be moderated? Raaaaaaaawr! This is precisely why group projects drive me mad... a dilution of your grade, the reflection of the averaged out value of your group.
Anyways, came back exhausted and had a 6 hour "nap". Such a piggy! The good thing though is that I'm refreshed and ready to tackle the day (night, I mean hahaha).

Et aujourd'hui:

1. Interview Rugby players with ACL injuries. Hurrah for Wayne's contacts in the team :)))
   
2. Finish one more blog post.
3. Settle philo outline. Have decided to stick to Eternal Sunshine... Love it too much to cave in and write the easier GATTACA and determinism paper.
4. Research bone-tendon integration.
5. Watch Fritz Lang's Metropolis... the awesome Sci-Fic silent movie from 1927. Hmmm... maybe should contrast it with Platonic philosophy for good effect, in which case
6. Read relevant bits of Plato's Republic. Could I use it for my blog post? *ponders*

Working weekends.

Today, today, with the widening void in my soul and its inverse proportionality to crunch times distance, I have reverted to the "one-thing-at-a-time" strategy. The void has little to do with stress this year, interestingly. It just has to do with the piece of me that walked away and forgot to come back. I have a sneaking suspicion I know where that piece is, but it is no longer within the grasp of even my shadow fingers. I almost wish it were a physical part of me... a few inches off the thighs? hoho.

Ah, but today, today... so far, so good. Done with my summer internship CV and a major blog post assignment. Just have to research the ACL, work out the mechanics of our balloon screw idea, schedule interviews with more docs and ACL patients, prep for the HR poster presentation, read the Grau paper and finalize if I'll do Eternal Sunshine or GATTACA and get down to the damn outline already.

I musn't make life sound that dreary... it really isn't all that bad. The painful things are not within my control and are major learning points.
Managed to attack and conquer the twin laundry peaks. Interestingly, if my sizable laundry basket isn't at least half full, there isn't enough space in the wardrobe for all my clothes. Should start bringing stuff back. I did pretty darn decently on the last Engineering Materials test (it's only 10% though... bummer!).

Got my place in hall again. Woot! 4 years of hall life. Too bad many awesome people didn't make it back. It's strange how we're losing most of the leaders in hall and the people who could contribute significantly in the sports and culture scenes. Don't mean to sound mean, but besides EHOC and some parts of DP, sports and culture people are kinda needed to a greater degree to sustain particularly inter-hall activities.
I'm not denying the importance of more admin-type people, but it's usually harder to come by a great athlete (and we will be losing a lot of the good ones with the A4, C4 graduations) or a talented dancer/ drama person (most of the choreos are graduating). Hmmmm... but that's just personally.

Okaaaaaaay, back to work!

Missing pieces.

Missing pieces.
Unaudited fragments.
They walked out with you.
Neither welcomed, nor rejected.
You didn't take them.
I didn't give them.
These things just happen.

If you're ever feeling blue

Then write another song about your dream of horses.

Random fact

The garbage disposal was originally called the "Electric Pig."

No pee nuts for me.

I would like my trail mix a whole lot more if it had no peanuts.

Better bet when it feels like a better betting day.

Today felt like a good day to buy lottery. So I did. It was pretty impulsive, but a very me thing to do. Walked over to West Coast Plaza, got a bubble tea (my 4th one in as many days) and bought 2 4D numbers and a ticket for the Singapore Sweeps.

T'was quite an experience since it was the first time I was trying it out. Noting my clueless face, the aunty at the counter helpfully gave me a couple of pamphlets with instructions. I decided to buy multiple permutations of my numbers *crosses fingers*
The Singapore Sweeps ticket was unintentional. At the counter, as I was paying for my 4D slip, I saw three red tickets. The aunty motioned to the Singapore Sweeps poster and told me each ticket was only 3 dollars. Heck it! Bought one randomly.

It was quite funny... the other people there were South Asian foreign workers, old chinese ah peks and tai-tai like aunties. There were also a group of little old ladies in beflowered cotton shirts who were loudly betting on horse racing. Guess that not too many uni students around the Clementi area buy TOTO/ 4D... Alex, why aren't you living here?! Then I would have a teman beli lottery.

Hmmm... can't wait for the results. My luck may be a little botched though. I stepped on a cat's paw when getting to the shop... I didn't see her, she was walking near me and was the same colour as the floor. Felt really nasty after that. Tried apologizing -to the cat, who couldn't understand english-, even the aunty who tsked in annoyance at my clumsiness smiled kindly and said, "aiyo, dia punya salah loh, dia blakang you mah." Ah well... still felt like an evil cat-paw-trodder.

Even if I don't get anything, at least I learnt how to buy a ticket and I love that the impulse was satisfied...so much for rationality (:

Two Lost Languages

"The world has forgotten the language of patience and forgiveness."

Amma's 1st Satsang in Singapore this year. She caught me with this line. Did I ever know either language?
I'm still at the beginners class and may have forgetten what little I have learnt. Let me revise and live life with greater compassion and peace.